Roughly half of this welfare assistance, or $462 billion went to families with children, most of which are headed by single parents.

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Grant is a broad term that refer to the various ways the U.S. government redistributes resources to eligible recipients.

This article delves into various types of grants for single moms in the United States.

There is a plethora of grants for single mothers — the likes of TANF cash assistance, food stamps, WIC, CCAP, etc that have all played an important role in supporting single mother families in times of economic challenge.1

Grants such as the Pell Grant is a unique need-based grant that helps neediest students pay for college.

In particular, low-income students and students of color — groups that disproportionately include single parents.

Eligibility for this grant is based on one's demonstrated financial need and the applicant is required to complete a FAFSA form each year to qualify — and it's FREE.

In addition, there are grants in the form of tax credits for low-income families and the Medicaid, which subsidizes health insurance.

For many low-income single mothers, this may be the only option for coverage.

Whether you're a single mother "going back to school" or need help paying for bills, listed below are some, if not all, "grants for single moms" — most of which are administered at the state level.

Though it isn't a guaranteed entitlement, they are freely awarded on the basis of economic hardship — meaning priority is given to those with "the absolute highest levels of need".

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The Pell Grant program is the America's largest student aid program.

It provides grants of up to $6,200 to the neediest students to attend college.

In 2017 alone, over $28.2 billion in Pell Grants were awarded to nearly 7 million students nationwide.

This need-based grant offers one way for single mothers of limited means to "go back to school" and re-enter the workforce.

And it's free money that does not need to be repaid.

The first step in applying for a Pell Grant is to complete a Free Application for Federal Student Aid.2

The deadline for submission is June 30 each year or as early as October 1 preceding the year for which you need aid.

### Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant

Similar to the Pell Grant, FSEOG is a type of supplemental grant that is awarded to students with "the utmost need" for financial assistance as determined by the FAFSA.

Priority is given to those with "the absolute highest levels of need" — those with the lowest Expected Family Contribution (EFC) and those who are also Pell Grant recipients.3

Eligible students may be awarded supplemental grants anywhere between $100 and $4,000 a year based on the gravity of their needs and fund availability.

Federal Work-Study (FWS) is a federally subsidized financial aid program4 that gives single-parent students a way to earn money by doing part-time work on or off campus, often in their chosen field of study.

Students may work up to twenty (20) hours a week and receive a monthly paycheck based on an hourly wage, which they can use for educational expenses.

However, this "earn-while-you-study" option will work only if you have minimal living expenses and have family support to meet your child care needs.

For single mothers "going back to school" who need more assistance beyond Pell grant, student loans — either subsidized or unsubsidized — are often offered as part of a total financial aid package.

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Although the least desirable form of financial aid, federal student loans allow you to borrow money for college at interest rates that are lower than most private loans.

And you may be able to defer interest payments until after you graduate.

As with most federal student aid, you will first have to complete and submit a FAFSA.

To be considered, you need to check "yes" in the section of your FAFSA that asks about your interest in student loans.

While grants to pay for college are readily available, government grants for single mothers starting a small business remain very limited and are often extremely competitive.

If you are up for the challenge, you may start looking at Grants.gov.

To view grants specifically for small businesses, filter the results on the left side of the page under "eligibility."

If you can't find any grants that fit your profile, the Women's Business Center also has branches around the country that might connect you with local resources.

Some private organizations and businesses offer national grant programs for small-business owners.

FedEx, for example, awards over $200,000 in cash and prizes to 10 small business owners every year.

### Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)

TANF is the essential part of the safety net for very low-income families.

Its primary aim is to help these families achieve self-sufficiency through a combination of short-term financial assistance and work opportunities.

The two types of TANF grants are known as "child-only" and "family" grants.

Child-only grants, designed to consider only the needs of the child, are usually smaller than family grants, about $8 per day for one child.

The second type of TANF grant you may be eligible for is a "family grant."

It provides a small cash amount on a monthly basis for food, clothing, shelter and other essentials ― for up to a period of 60 months, although many states adopt shorter time limits.

These cash grants is often referred to as "welfare" and the conditions under which you can receive it largely depend on where you live.

States with larger African American populations, all else equal, have less generous and more restrictive TANF policies.5

An unemployed single mom, with children under the age of 19, is eligible for assistance under TANF.

However, the recipient is required participate in work activities for a certain number of hours each month.6

Diversion Cash Assistance (DCA), often known as Emergency Cash Assistance, provides alternative assistance for single mothers in times of emergency.

It is generally offered as a one-time payment in lieu of extended cash benefits.

Families who qualify may receive a one-time grant of up to $1,000 to deal with an emergency or minor crisis, but may vary depending on the severity of the financial crisis.

### Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

The aim of SNAP — formerly the Food Stamp program, is to provide affordable and healthy meals to the neediest families, many of whom are low- to no income.

It is one of the most important components of the U.S. safety net.

For many of the poorest Americans, SNAP has become the only form of income assistance they receive.7

SNAP, the nation's largest anti-hunger program, helped over 40 million low-income Americans to afford a nutritionally adequate diet, with children under the age of 18 being the largest recipient.

The assistance comes in the form of a debit card (EBT) which the recipient can use to purchase grocery items in any participating store within their locality.

To apply for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), you must fill out an application and return it to a local SNAP office, either in person, by mail, or by fax.

### Women, Infants and Children Program (WIC)

WIC is a federal-funded nutrition program that provides free healthy foods to pregnant women, new mothers and children under 5 years of age who are considered to be "at nutritional risk".

It is designed as a short-term program, with eligible recipients usually receiving benefits for six (6) months to a year, at which time they must reapply.

The monthly WIC benefit package can provide a child between the ages of 1 and 5 with a dozen eggs, 16 quarts of milk, and $6 in vouchers for fruits and vegetables, among other foods.

Eligibility is determined by nutritional risk and incomes that fall below 185% of the poverty level8 but in most states, priority will be given to TANF recipients.

### Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP)

Funded by the Child Care and Development Block Grant, CCAP is a state-administered program that helps low-income families pay for child care while working, searching for a job or attending school or training.

Most states require families receiving child care assistance to contribute toward their child care costs based on a sliding fee scale that is designed to charge higher co-payments to families with higher income.

Eligibility guidelines vary state to state but in most cases, your income must not be greater than the income limit set by your State in which you reside.

Click here to see what program is available in your state

### Child Care Access Means Parents in School Program (CCAMPIS)

The Child Care Access Means Parents in School Program, known as CCAMPIS, is the only federal grant program dedicated to providing campus-based child care for low-income parents in postsecondary education.

In 2017, the program is said to have served approximately 5,000 student parents across 86 institutions.9

CCAMPIS is intended to support lower-income student parents who need child care assistance in order to remain in school and graduate with a college degree but most will have to get on a waitlist.

Both Head Start and Early Head Start are federal programs designed to promote "school readiness" of children from birth to age five.

Early Head Start serves children from birth to 2 years old, and Head Start serves children 3 to 5 years old.

Eligibility is based on family income at or below the poverty level.

Other factors that affect eligibility include homelessness, children in foster care, or receiving certain types of public assistance.

Pregnant women may also be eligible for Early Head Start.

It provides a wide range of services — from free medical and dental care, child education to health and nutrition to even parental involvement in the family.

You must apply for a Head Start or Early Head Start program in your community, closest to where you live.

Use a Head Start locator to find a Head Start program nearest you or call 1-866-763-6481.

Section 8 is a federal housing program assisting the neediest families to afford safe and decent rental housing.

The program provides vouchers to very low-income families, the elderly, and the disabled to cover a portion of their rent.

If you're eligible, you will receive a voucher that funds 70% of your rent and utilities, but as the renter it becomes your responsibility to pay for the remaining 30%.

For example, a single mother of two renting an apartment for $700 and working 30 hours a week at the minimum wage may receive a voucher worth about $440 a month.10

The Section 8 program has historically been oversubscribed and waiting lists can run into the years.

To find out about wait times in your area contact your local PHA serving your community.

Public Housing is one of the nation's three main rental assistance programs, along with "Section 8" vouchers and project-based rental assistance.

Unlike Section 8, public housing allows eligible low-income families, the elderly, and the disabled to live in public housing units, at a rent they could afford.

Most tenants pay no more than 30% of their income for rent and utilities.

The program generally serves families with incomes up to 80% of the median income for the county or metropolitan area in which they choose to live but may vary area to area.

To apply for public housing, you must submit an application to the local housing authority (HA) in the city or town where you wish to reside.

If the HA determines that you are eligible, your name will be put on a waiting list.

### Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)

LIHEAP offers one-time financial assistance to qualifying low-income households who can't afford to pay their utility bills.11

In almost all cases, LIHEAP pays only a portion of the monthly bill, and the family pays the rest.

It is intended for those who are truly vulnerable: the disabled, elderly, and families with preschool-age children.

Grants are paid directly to the utility company.

No grant shall be made payable to the recipient.

To be eligible for a LIHEAP grant, the household income must not exceed the greater of 60% of the median income in the state or 150% of the poverty level AND no less than 110% of the poverty level.

If you need help paying bills or are in danger of being without heat, you can contact the National Energy Assistance Referral (NEAR) via telephone at 1-866-674-6327 to find out where and how to apply for LIHEAP.

### Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP)

The Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) enables low-income families to reduce their energy bills.

In most states, priority is given to the elderly and families with children.

One of the primary factors affecting eligibility is income.

Depending on what state you live in, you are eligible for weatherization if your income falls below the 200% poverty level.

To apply for weatherization assistance, find your state on the map on the Weatherization Assistance Program Technical Assistance Center (click here) and contact the agency listed.

### Medicaid: Health Insurance for the Poor

For those with no medical insurance, Medicaid provides medical benefits to eligible families whose financial situation would be characterized as low income or very low income.

Medicaid isn't the same thing as Medicare.

While Medicaid is for the poor, Medicare pays for medical services for people aged 65 and older, and the disabled.

If you are a single mother who meet specific income criteria, Medicaid may be the option you need to get the much needed medical care — even if you're unemployed.

Federal poverty levels are used to determine eligibility for Medicaid as well as the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

If your state is expanding Medicaid, you'll probably qualify if you make less than 133% of the poverty level — about $28,000 for a single mother of two.

Each state operates its own Medicaid program within federal guidelines — each with a different income level required to qualify for the same, higher in some and lower in others.

### Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)

CHIP provides health insurance to uninsured children (up to age 19) in families with incomes too high to qualify for the state's Medicaid, but can't afford private coverage on their own.

In 2017, over 36.8 million children were enrolled in Medicaid — the primary source of coverage for low-income children and another 9.4 million were enrolled in CHIP.

It covers children for everything they need — doctor visits, vaccination, dental, and vision.

Others will pay low monthly premiums, enrollment fees and co-pay for some services.

Like Medicaid, CHIP is administered independently by each state, with rules of its own and is operated either as a Medicaid expansion, a separate program, or a combination of the two.

The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program provides monthly cash assistance to people who are disabled, blind, or elderly.

Since its launch in 1974, SSI has guaranteed a minimum level of income to those who qualify.

The current basic monthly SSI benefit is $771 for an individual and $1,157 for a couple.12

SSI recipients may also get non-cash forms of assistance.

In most states, anyone who receives SSI benefits is automatically eligible for Medicaid.

While the SSI is designed for a wide range of people like the blind or the elderly, the benefits also apply to children with disabilities whose parents have very little income or resources.

For many single parents with disabled child, SSI often represents their only source of income.

But eligibility criteria are complicated and the application process time-consuming.

If you plan to apply for SSI, you can complete the application online at www.ssa.gov or call toll-free at 1-800-772-1213 to ask for an appointment with a Social Security representative

### Title X: The National Family Planning Program

Title X — pronounced Title Ten — is the federal program dedicated solely to providing low-income families with comprehensive family planning and related preventive health services.

It provides funding to family planning clinics, so that low-income women who do not have health insurance can get care at reduced rates, or in some cases, free.

Services include but not limited to, breast and pelvic exams, Pap smears and other cancer screenings, HIV testing, pregnancy testing and counseling, and affordable birth control.

For years, Title X, along with Medicaid, has been an important of source of primary health care for millions of women from low-income families.

### National School Lunch Program (NSLP)

NSLP provides free lunches or discounted meals to eligible students whose family income falls below certain "poverty guidelines" — making it possible for schools to serve nutritious, inexpensive lunches to students each day.

Children from families with incomes at or below 130% of the poverty level are eligible for free meals.

Those with incomes between 130% and 185% of the poverty level are eligible for reduced‐price meals.

If you're already receiving food stamps, your child automatically qualifies for the free lunch program.

Even if you do not, your child may qualify for free or reduced price lunches.

The easiest way to apply is to contact the school any time during the school year to fill out a school meal application.

School Breakfast Program provide free or reduced-price, nutritionally balanced meals on school daysSummer Food Service Program offers free, healthy breakfasts and lunches to kids over

summer breakSpecial Milk Program provides milk to kids at schools and childcare centers that don't offer the national school breakfast and lunch programs

### The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP)

TEFAP is a federal grant that provides food to low-income Americans, regardless of age, both directly to families for home consumption and to emergency food providers like food banks, pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters.

Eligibility criteria may include participation in existing food (SNAP) or other assistance programs (TANF) for which income is considered as a basis for eligibility.

Families that participate in the following means tested programs are also TEFAP eligible: Food Stamps/SNAP, TANF, WIC, Medicaid, Supplemental Security Income, Head Start, Fuel Assistance or Veteran's Aid.

Since this program is administered at the state level, it's best to contact your State Distributing Agency for more information about TEFAP.

For starters, food bank isn't a grant per se.

It is a place where food is contributed and made available to those in need.

It exists to help families who may not qualify for other welfare programs.

If you find yourself struggling to put food on the table, you can dial 2-1-1 on your telephone to locate a local food pantry or food bank in your area.

Feeding America has a network of over 200 food banks nationwide that provides food to more than 46 million people facing hunger, including 12 million children and 7 million seniors through food pantries and meal programs.

Start by finding your local food bank here.

Established in 1985, the Lifeline program has been around since the Reagan Administration as a means of helping low-income families afford connectivity and gain access to a "lifeline" of emergency services like 911.

The program provides a monthly phone or broadband internet subsidy to low-income individuals or families but limited to $9.25 per household per month.

Lifeline subsidy isn't restricted to "welfare recipients" only.

Although qualification criteria can vary from state to state, in general, it is made available to those who are trying to subsist on less than 135% of the federal poverty guidelines.

You may apply for Lifeline discount through a provider in your state or designated state agency.

Lifeline provides a handy tool to check for participating companies near you.

The Department of Labor provides weekly compensation to the unemployed who lost their jobs through no fault of their own — for up to 26 weeks.13

These benefits vary from state to state — from $235 in Mississippi up to $795 in Massachusetts.

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Massachusetts$795Weekly BenefitsWashington$749Weekly BenefitsMinnesota$717Weekly BenefitsRhode Island$707Weekly Benefits

For out-of-work single mothers who struggle to make ends meet, these benefits help make the pain of unemployment less of a burden by temporarily replacing part of their wages while they look for work.

To begin a claim, you must apply through the state unemployment agency.

In many states, you are able to file a claim online or over the phone.

America does not guarantee new mothers paid leave.

Although there are 12 weeks of job-guaranteed available under the Family and Medical Leave Act, it is unpaid and employers with fewer than 50 employees are exempt.

Only three (3) states in the country, California, New Jersey and Rhode Island, offer up to six (6) weeks of paid family leave to employees to bond with a newborn baby or provide care for a seriously ill family member.14

New York will join them effective Jan. 1, 2018, after passing the Paid Family Leave Benefits Law during the 2016 session — starting off at 8 weeks and 50% of pay in 2018, and reaching 12 weeks and 67% of pay in 2021.15

D.C.'s and Washington's law will take effect in 2020.

Meanwhile, San Fransisco is only city in the nation that guarantees paid leave for new parents.

Eligible employees may receive up to $850.00 per week in Rhode Island, $650 per week in New Jersey and as much as $1000 in California and Washington.

However, paid family leave (a.k.a Family Leave Insurance) isn't an entitlement.

Rather it is an income replacement insurance that employees contribute to through a small deduction from their paycheck every month.

EITC, the Earned Income Tax Credit is a tax benefit designed primarily to help low- to moderate-income working parents whose earned income falls below a certain limit — particularly those who owe little or no income tax.

The EITC is "refundable", which means claiming it lowers the total amount of taxes owed and can result in a refund if the amount of the credit exceeds the tax liability — up to $6,431 for a family with three or more children.

The Child Tax Credit, on the other hand, reduces tax liability for families with children that may be worth as much as $2,000 per qualifying child depending upon your income, of which $1,400 can be claimed for the Additional Child Tax Credit.

Click to explore other tax-saving benefits.

### Grants for American Indians and Alaska Natives

If you are a member of a Native American tribal entity searching for federal grants or benefits, there are a variety of federal financial assistance opportunities specifically for American Indians and Alaska Natives.

While Grants.gov only posts grant opportunities designed to benefit organizations, your best bet to find grants that benefit you personally is NativeOneStop.gov, where you can browse a list of resources that you or a family member may be eligible to receive, including, but not limited to,

Tribal Temporary Assistance for Needy FamiliesNative Employment Works ProgramIndian Child and Family EducationUrban Indian Health Program

If you're one of those who earn "too much" to qualify for benefits like food stamps, but "too little" to get by each month, you may, in times of crisis, contact your local churches, charitable organizations, and community agencies to find out whether they can offer some form of temporary assistance.

You may also dial 2-1-1 for help with food, housing, employment, health care, counseling or whenever you need help paying your bills.

The 2-1-1 service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Remember, most of these grants are temporary in nature, you should not rely solely on them — you should rather ensure that you strive to become self-sufficient so that you can provide for your family on your own.

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parents are required to participate in work activities for at least 30 hours per week.

One in five SNAP households lives on cash income of less than $2 per person a day.

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Currently about $876 a week for a family of four.

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assistance includes energy-related home repairs, weatherization, and energy crisis assistance.

SSA, SSI Federal Payment Amounts for 2019Only two (2) states offer more than 26 weeks: Montana (28) and Massachusetts (

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It encourages states to require some sort of employment search in exchange for providing funds to individuals, and imposes a five-year lifetime limit on cash assistance. In FY 2010, 31.8% of TANF families were white, 31.9% were African-American, and 30.0% were Hispanic.
 According to the U.S. Census Bureau data released September 13, 2011, the nation's poverty rate rose to 15.1% (46.2 million) in 2010, up from 14.3% (approximately 43.6 million) in 2009 and to its highest level since 1993. In 2008, 13.2% (39.8 million) Americans lived in relative poverty.
 In a 2011 op-ed in "Forbes", Peter Ferrara stated that, "The best estimate of the cost of the 185 federal means tested Welfare programs for 2010 for the federal government alone is nearly $700 billion, up a third since 2008, according to the Heritage Foundation. Counting state spending, total Welfare spending for 2010 reached nearly $900 billion, up nearly one-fourth since 2008 (24.3%)". California, with 12% of the U.S. population, has one-third of the nation's welfare recipients. In FY 2011, federal spending on means-tested welfare, plus state contributions to federal programs, reached $927 billion per year.


On January 25, 2019, it was announced that Annett would be driving the No. 1 Chevrolet with the points from the No. 5 car going over to the No. 1 car.

# JR Motorsports Reshuffles Team Car Numbers Entering 2019

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JRM announced today a reshuffling of our team's car numbers for the upcoming 2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series season, as well as our driver lineup.

With a new season on the horizon, JR Motorsports is off to a fresh start.

Today, through a video from team owner Dale Earnhardt Jr., the team announced the restructuring of its car number lineup in the NASCAR Xfinity Series.

Most notable is the news that the organization will add the iconic No. 8 Chevrolet to its stable, a number long associated with the Earnhardt family.

Ralph Earnhardt, Dale Earnhardt and Dale Earnhardt Jr. each competed with the No. 8 at times in their respective storybook careers.

"Everybody remembers the number on the side of the car," said Earnhardt Jr.

"The No. 8 is very special to me and to JR Nation.

There's a lot of history with the No. 8 in my family and in NASCAR.

It's time to write some new stories and continue to add to the number's rich heritage."

· Rookie Noah Gragson, previously announced as driver of the No. 1 entry, transitions to the No. 9 Chevrolet.

JR Motorsports has three titles in the NXS, all with rookie drivers in the No. 9.

· Michael Annett, who has carried the No. 5 since he joined JRM, will drive the No. 1 Pilot Flying J Chevrolet.

The No. 1 is significant to the Annett family, as sprint-car racing legend Sammy Swindell drove that number to great success in a car owned by Michael's father, Harrold Annett.

Points from the No. 5 team will carry over to the No. 1.

· Justin Allgaier and the No. 7 BRANDT Professional Agriculture team remain unchanged by the announcement.

Allgaier will look to defend his regular-season championship from 2018, a year in which he scored a career-best five wins.

· The No. 9 entry will now race with the familiar and popular No. 8.

The team will inherit points from the No. 1 team.

Its driver roster currently includes Zane Smith, Jeb Burton, Ryan Truex, Spencer Gallagher and Ryan Preece.

The only thing changing on the teams are the numbers themselves.

The previously announced crew chief and roster lineup will remain with their respective drivers.

"Things will look a little different for team JRM when we unload at Daytona," said General Manager Kelley Earnhardt Miller.

I think anytime you make changes like this, it's exciting.

The No. 8 will always be a fan favorite and we take a lot of pride in being able to run that number."

The driver schedule for the No. 8 is currently as follows:

· Gallagher will make his JRM debut at Daytona International Speedway (Feb. 16) and serve as the team's restrictor-plate racer.

He'll also drive the car at Talladega Superspeedway (April 27) and the return event at Daytona (July 5).

· Preece will compete in races at Atlanta Motor Speedway (Feb. 23), Auto Club Speedway (March 16), Pocono Raceway (June 1) and Watkins Glen International (Aug. 3).

· Smith, a NASCAR Next alum, will make his NXS debut at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on March 2.

He will also compete at Bristol Motor Speedway (April 6), both Richmond Raceway events (April 12 and Sept. 20), Dover International Speedway (May 4 and Oct. 5) and Iowa Speedway (June 16 and July 27) events.

· Truex will drive for the organization at ISM Raceway (March 9), Las Vegas Motor Speedway (Sept. 14), Charlotte Motor Speedway (Sept. 28) and Kansas Speedway (Oct. 19).

· Burton will drive at both Texas Motor Speedway events (March 30 and Nov. 2), Charlotte Motor Speedway (May 25), Chicagoland Speedway (June 29) and Homestead-Miami Speedway (Nov. 16).

Taylor Moyer will be the crew chief for the No. 8 all season.

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Further evaluation showed that Annett had dislocated and fractured his sternum, requiring surgery; Aric Almirola replaced Annett in the No. 43 for the Dollar General 200 at Phoenix International Raceway, with Reed Sorenson subbing after that. Annett backs in Charlotte in May, and recorded one top 5 and 4 top 10s, finishing fifteenth in the points standings.
 On November 4, 2016, Annett announced he would be returning to the Nationwide Series – now known as the Xfinity Series – in 2017, driving the No. 5 Chevrolet Camaro for JR Motorsports on a full-time basis.
 In his first full-time season with JRM, Annett scored 1 top-5 and 7 top-10 finishes.  His best finish was 2nd at Road America.  He finished the season 9th in points.  Then in 2018, Annett had a dismal season, scoring only 3 top-10 finishes withe the best result being a 7th place scoring at Bristol. This led to a 14th place finish in points.


On January 5, 1971, fellow Manson Family member Catherine "Gypsy" Share gave birth to a son while in jail awaiting trial; she later revealed that Grogan was the father.

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Charles Montaldo is a writer and former licensed private detective who worked with law enforcement and insurance firms investigating crime and fraud.

In 1969 Charlie Manson emerged from his prison cell onto the streets of Haight-Ashbury and soon became the leader of followers who became known as the Family.

Here is a picture gallery of many of the Manson Family members with brief descriptions of their roles as Manson followers.

Manson wanted to get into the music business, but when that failed his criminal personality emerged and he and some of his followers became involved in torture and murder.

Most notably were the murders of actress Sharon Tate who was eight months pregnant and four others at her home, along with the murders of Leon and Rosemary LaBianca.

On October 10, 1969,Barker Ranch was raided after investigators spotted stolen cars on the property and traced evidence of an arson back to Manson.

Manson was not around during the first Family roundup, but returned on October 12 and was arrested with seven other family members.

When police arrived Manson hid under a small bathroom cabinet, but was quickly discovered.

On August 16, 1969, Manson and the Family were rounded up by police and taken in on suspicion of auto theft (not an unfamiliar charge for Manson).

The search warrant ended up being invalid because of a date error and the group was released.

Manson was originally sent to San Quentin State Prison, but was transferred to Vacaville then to Folsom and then back to San Quentin because of his constant conflicts with prison officials and other inmates.

In 1989 he was sent to California's Corcoran State Prison where he currently resides.

Because of various infractions in prison, Manson has spent a considerable amount of time under disciplinary custody (or as prisoners call it, "the hole"), where he was kept in isolation for 23 hours a day and kept handcuffed when moving within the general prison areas.

Manson was denied parole 10 times, and died in November 2017.

Bobby Beausoleil received the death sentence for the August 7, 1969 murder of Gary Hinman.

His sentence was later commuted to life in prison in 1972, when California outlawed the death penalty.

He is currently at the Oregon State Penitentiary.

Davis was convicted of murder for his participation in the murder of Gary Hinman and Spahn's Ranch hand, Donald "Shorty" Shea.

He is currently at the California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo, California and has been a born-again Christian for several years.

Joined the Manson Family in 1968 Catherine Share aka Gypsy.

Catherine Share was born in Paris, France on December 10, 1942.

Her parents were part of an anti-Nazi underground movement during World War II.

Catherine was sent to an orphanage after her natural parents killed themselves in act of defiance against the Nazi regime.

She was adopted at the age of eight by an American couple.

For the following years Share's life was fairly normal until her mother, inflicted with cancer, killed herself, leaving Share to care for her blind father.

She met her obligations until he remarried then left home, dropped out of college, married, divorced and began to wander around California.

Catherine "Gypsy" Share was an accomplished violinist who dropped out of college just short of earning a music degree.

She met Manson through Bobby Beausoleil and joined the Family in the summer of 1968.

Her devotion to Manson was immediate and her role was as a recruiter to others to join the Family.

During the Tate murder trial, Gypsy testified that Linda Kasabian was the mastermind to the murders and not Charles Manson.

In 1994 she recounted her statements, saying she was forced into perjuring herself after Family members dragged her behind a truck, threatening her if she did not testify as they directed.

In 1971, eight months after giving birth to her and Steven Grogan's son, she and other Family members were arrested after participating in a shoot out with police during a botched robbery at a gun store.

Share was convicted and spent five years at the California Institute for Women in Corona.

She is now living in Texas with her third husband and is said to be a born-again Christian.

Sherry Cooper and Barbara Hoyt fled from Manson and the family after Hoyt overheard Susan Atkins talking about the Tate murder to Ruth Ann Morehouse.

When Manson found out the two girls had run away he was described as being furious and took off after them.

He found them having breakfast in a diner and gave them $20 after the girls told Manson they wanted to leave.

It is rumored that he later ordered select family members to go get them and bring them back or kill them.

On November 16, 1969 an unidentified body was found which was later identified as possibly being family member, Sherry Cooper.

aka Little Patty and Linda Baldwin Madaline Joan Cottage.

Madaline Joan Cottage, aka Little Patty and Linda Baldwin, joined the Manson Family when she was 23 years old.

Not much is written to indicate she was part of the closer Manson web like Kasabian, Fromme and others, however on November 5, 1969 she was with "Zero" when he supposedly shot himself in a game of Russian roulette.

She gained some notoriety in the Family when others who entered the room after the gunshot, reported her response to Zero's death was, "Zero shot himself, just like in the movies!"

Cottage left the family not long after the shooting incident.

Dianne Lake was one of the tragedies of the early 1960s.

She was born in the early 50s and lived much of her childhood at the Wavy Gravy Hog Farm commune with her hippie parents.

Before turning 13, she had participated in group sex and drug use including LSD.

At the age of 14, she met members of the Manson Family while visiting the house they were living in at Topanga Canyon.

With her parent's approval, she left the Hog Farm and joined the Manson group.

Manson named her Snake and using the excuse that she sought a father figure, subjected her to several beatings in front of the other family members.

Her experience with the Family included her regular participation in group sex, drug use and listening to Manson's constant pontifications about Helter Skelter and the "Revolution."

During the Spahn Ranch raid on August 16, 1969, Lake and Tex Watson avoided arrest having left days before to Olancha.

While there, Watson told Lake he had killed Sharon Tate, under the orders of Manson, and described the killing as "fun."

Lake kept silent about Watson's confession even after being strongly interrogated after her arrest at the Barker Ranch raid in October 1969.

She continued her silence until Jack Gardiner, an Inyo County police officer, and his wife entered her life and offered her friendship and parental guidance.

In late December, Lake disclosed to the DA what she knew about the Family's involvement in the Tate and LaBianca murders.

The information proved to be invaluable to the prosecution because Watson, Krenwinkel and Van Houten had confided their participation in the murders to Lake.

At the age of 16, Lake suffered from LSD flashbacks and she was sent to Patton State Hospital to undergo treatment for behavioral enhanced schizophrenia.

She was released after six months and went to live with Jack Gardiner and his wife, who had become her foster parents.

With the professional help she received and the fostering of the Gardiners, Lake graduated from high school then college and is said to be living a normal happy life as a wife and mother.

aka Yellerstone Ella Jo Bailey aka Yellerstone.

In 1967 Ella Jo Bailey and Susan Atkins were living in a commune in San Francisco.

It was there that they met Manson and decided to leave the commune and join the Manson Family.

During that year she travelled around the southwest with Manson, Mary Brunner, Patricia Krenwinkel and Lynne Fromme, until they moved to the Spahn Ranch in 1968.

Not much has been written about Bailey, other than it was Bailey along with Patricia Krenwinkel who were hitchhiking in Malibu, California when picked up by Beach Boys' Dennis Wilson.

This meeting was the jumpstart in the Family's relationship with the famous musician.

Bailey stayed with the Family up until murder became part Manson's agenda.

After the murder of Donald "Shorty" Shea Bailey left the group and later testified for the people during the Hinman murder trial.

"He (Charles Manson) stated that he had words with Mr. Hinman, and they had a heated argument, and then it became necessary for him to quiet Gary Hinman down, and he stated that he used a sword and cut Gary Hinman from his left ear down to his chin.

"He also said that he had quieted Gary down, and the girls put Gary in bed, and that Mr. Hinman asked for his prayer beads and after that he said that he had left Bobby to finish up.

"He said that two or three shots had been fired at the house.

He also said that Bobby was foolish to ever let Sadie hold the gun on Mr. Hinman."He said that all they had gained from going to Gary's house were the two vehicles and around $27."

Steve Grogan was convicted and sentenced to death in 1971 for his participation in the murder of Spahn ranch hand, Donald "Shorty" Shea.

His death sentence was commuted to life when judge James Kolts decided Grogan was "too stupid and too hopped up on drugs to decide anything on his own."

Grogan, who joined the family at the age of 22, was a high school drop out and viewed by some family members as having been borderline retarded.

He was a good musician however, and easy to manipulate, two characteristics which made him of value to Charles Manson.

In prison Grogan eventually renounced Manson and voiced his regret for his actions while in the Manson family.

In 1977 he provided authorities with a map to the location to where Shea's body was buried.

His remorse and his excellent prison record won him parole in November 1985 and he was released from prison.

To this day, Grogan is the only Manson family member convicted of murder who has been released from prison.

Since his release he has kept away from media and it is rumored he is a law abiding house painter in the San Francisco area.

Catherine Gillies, aka Cappy, was born August 1, 1950 and joined the Manson Family in 1968.

It was not long after she joined the group that they all moved to her grandmother's ranch in Death Valley which sat next to the Barker Ranch.

Eventually the family took over both ranches which became infamous after the Barker Ranch police raid in October 1969.

It is alleged that Manson sent Gillies and other family members to kill her grandmother in order for her to get an early inheritance, but the mission failed when they got flat tire.

During the sentencing phase of the Tate and LaBianca murders, Gillies testified that Manson had nothing to do with the murders.

She said the real motivation behind the murders was to get Bobby Beausoleil out of jail by making it appear that the Hinman murders and the Tate and LaBianca murders were racially motivated by a group of black revolutionist.

She also said the murders did not upset her and that she had volunteered to go, but was told she was not needed.

She also admitted that she would murder in order to get a "brother" out of prison.

On November 5, 1969, Gillies was in a Venice house when Manson follower John Haught "Zero" allegedly killed himself during a game of Russian roulette.

She is said to have never completely denounced Manson and after the Family broke up, she joined a motorcycle gang, married, divorced and had four children.

Juan Flynn was Panamanian, working as a ranch hand at Spahn Ranch during the time the Manson family lived there.

Although not a family member, he spent a lot of time with the group and participated in turning stolen cars into dune buggies, which became a regular source of income for the family.

In return, Manson would often allow Flynn to have sex with some of the female family members.

During the Tate and LaBianca murder trial, Flynn testified that Charles Manson had confided in him and admitted he was "doing all the killings."

The Oldest Female Manson Follower Catherine Share aka Gypsy.

Share began doing small roles in low-budget movies, mostly porn movies.

During the filming of the porn movie, Ramrodder, she met Bobby Beausoleil and Share moved in with Bobby and his wife.

It was during this time that she met Manson and became an instant follower and family member.

aka Katie Patricia Krenwinkel aka Katie.

In the late 1960s, Patricia "Katie" Krenwinkel became a member of the infamous Manson family and participated in Tate-LaBianca murders in 1969.

Krenwinkel and co-defendants, Charles Manson, Susan Atkins, and Leslie Van Houten were found guilty and sentenced to death on March 29, 1971 and later automatically commuted to life in prison.

The Murders Patricia Krenwinkel aka Katie.

Manson selected specific family members to go to the Tate and the LaBianca homes to commit murder.

According to testimony later given during the murder trial, his instinct about Krenwinkel (Katie) being able to handle murdering innocent people was correct.

When the butchering began at the Tate residence, Krenwinkel fought with houseguest, Abigail Folger, who managed to escape out onto the lawn, but was chased down and stabbed numerous times by Katie.

Krenwinkel said Folger pleaded with her to stop by saying "I'm already dead."

During the murders of the LaBiancas, Krenwinkel attacked Mrs. LaBianca and stabbed her repeatedly.

She then stuck a carving fork into the stomach of Mr. LaBianca and pinged it so she could watch it wobble back and forth.

This picture was taken after Krenwinkel spent several years in prison and had long denounced Manson.

Some believe, however, that in this picture she is giving a subtle hand gesture similar to those Manson's followers outside the courtroom used to show solidarity and honor to their fallen leader, Charles Manson.

Patricia Krenwinkel separated herself from Manson fairly quickly once in prison.

Of the entire group, she seems the most remorseful about her participation in the murders.

In an interview conducted by Diane Sawyer in 1994, Krenwinkel told her, "I wake up everyday knowing that I'm a destroyer of the most precious thing, which is life; and I do that because that's what I deserve, is to wake up every morning and know that."

She has been denied parole 11 times and her next hearing is around July, 2007.

Larry Bailey (aka Larry Jones) hung around Spahn's Ranch but was never fully accepted by Manson because of his black facial features.

According to reports, he was the person who gave Linda Kasabian a knife on the evening of the Tate murders.

He was also present when Manson told Kasabian to go with Tex Watson to the Tate home and do whatever he told her to do.

After the trails were over, Bailey stayed involved with some of the lingering family members and allegedly participated in conspiring ways to get family members out of prison.

In October 1969, the Manson family was arrested for auto theft and Squeaky was rounded up with the rest of the gang.

By this time, some of the group members had participated in the infamous murders at the home of actress Sharon Tate and the murders of the LaBianca couple.

Squeaky had no direct involement in the murders and was released from prison.

With Manson in jail, Squeaky became the head of the family.

She remained dedicated to Manson, branding her forehead with the infamous "X".

aka Mother Mary, Mary Manson Mary Brunner.

Mary Brunner had a Bachelors degree in History from the University of Wisconsin and was working as a librarian at UC Berkeley when she met Manson in 1967.

Brunner's life changed drastically once Manson became part of it.

She accepted his desire to sleep with other women, started doing drugs and soon left her job and began traveling with him around California.

She was instrumental in helping entice people they met to join the Manson Family.

On April 1, 1968, Brunner (age 24) gave birth to Manson's third son, Valentine Michael Manson who he named after a character in Robert Heinlein's book "Stranger in a Strange Land."

Brunner, now mother to Manson's child, grew even more loyal to Manson's ideas and to the growing Manson Family.

On July 27, 1969, Brunner was present when Bobby Beausoleil stabbed and killed Gary Hinman.

She was later arrested for her involvement in the murder, however received immunity after agreeing to testify for the prosecution.

Her dedication to Manson remained after his incarceration for the Tate-LaBianca murders.

On August 21, 1971, not long after Manson was sentenced, Mary along with five other Manson family members, participated in a robbery at a Western Surplus store.

The police apprehended them in the act after an exchange of gunfire.

The plan for the robbery was to obtain weapons, which could be used to hijack a jet and kill passengers by the hour until authorities released Manson from prison.

Bruner was convicted and sent to the California Institute for Women for a little over six years.

It is said that after her release she cut communication with Manson, changed her name, regained custody of her son and is living somewhere in the Midwest.

Susan Bartrell joined the Manson family after the Tate-LaBianca murders, but before arrests in the case were made.

She was arrested during the October 10, 1969 Barker Ranch raid and released.

She was present when Family member John Philip Haught (aka Zero) supposedly committed suicide while playing Russian roulette with a fully loaded pistol.

Bartrell stayed with the family until the early 1970s.

Watson went from being an "A" student in his Texas high school to being Charles Manson's right-hand man and a cold-blooded murderer.

He led the killing spree at both the Tate and LaBianca residences and participated in killing each member of both households.

Found guilty of killing seven people, Watson is now living his life out in prison, he is an ordained minister, married and father of three, and claims he feels remorse for those he murdered.

At age 22, self-proclaimed Manson family member, Leslie Van Houten, took part in the 1969 brutal murders of Leon and Rosemary LaBianca.

She was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder and sentenced to death.

Because of an error in her first trial she was granted a second which deadlocked.

After spending six months free on bond, she returned to the courtroom a third time and was convicted and sentenced to life.

aka Linda Christian, Yana the Witch, Linda Chiochios Linda Kasabian.

A one time Manson follower, Kasabian was present during the Tate and LaBianca murders and gave eye-witness testimony for the prosecution during the murder trials.

Her testimony was instrumental in the conviction of Charles Manson, Charles "Tex" Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten.

Manson, 74, is currently at Corcoran State Prison in Corcoran, about 150 miles from Los Angeles.

This is his most recent mug shot taken in March 2009.

The night of August 10, 1969 he rode with members of the Manson family. Tex Watson, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten were dropped off at the house of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, but Grogan, Manson, Susan Atkins and Linda Kasabian continued to Venice Beach where Manson sent Grogan, Atkins and Kasabian to kill actor Saladin Nader, but Kasabian led them to the wrong apartment and the plan was aborted.
 Grogan later helped Manson, Watson and Bruce M. Davis kill Spahn ranch hand Donald "Shorty" Shea. The jury returned verdicts of life imprisonment for Manson and Davis, but death for Grogan. However, on December 23, 1971, Judge James Kolts stated that "Grogan was too stupid and too hopped on drugs to decide anything on his own" and that it was really Manson "who decided who lived or died" and reduced Grogan's sentence to life imprisonment.
 Grogan later assisted the authorities and drew a map to where Shea's body was buried. In prison he was head of the prison's program to deter juveniles from a life of crime and kept away from fellow inmate Manson. Grogan was released on parole from prison in 1985.


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Vice President of the Academy of Science of South Africa and DST-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics, Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria

Brenda Wingfield holds the DST-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics and is a Professor in the Dept. of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology at the University of Pretoria.

She served as Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at UP for seven years and was acting dean for seven months during that time.

Her research over the past 20 years focused on the global movement and evolution of fungal pathogens and recently she expanded her research focus to study fungi at the population level.

She has supervised and continues to advise a large number of postgraduate students working on plant pathogens.

As programme leader at the Centre for Tree Health Biotechnology (one of South Africa's first six centres of excellence identified by the Department of Science and Technology and the National Research Foundation) during the first five years of its existence she played a leading role in the centre's development.

She is also one of the founding members of the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) and has played an active role in building the reputation and global footprint of this institute since its establishment.

She received the Achiever award for Excellence of the University of Pretoria for ten consecutive years.

She has received numerous other significant awards, the most recent being the Harry Oppenheimer Memorial Fellowship and the South African Society of Microbiology Gold Medal 2018 (first female recipient).

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His mother moved the family back to the United States, and in 1954 when Janklow was 15, they settled in her home town of Flandreau, South Dakota.

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Janklow, right, in 1978 during his first run for governor.

He is shown with his running mate, Lowell Hansen.

Bill Janklow grew up in the 1950s in Chicago, and came to love the rock and roll revolution that was breaking all the traditional rules of music and dance.

To this day he's a whiz at early rock trivia.

The family spent time in Germany, where his father prosecuted Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials.

Soon after, his mother moved the family to her hometown of Flandreau, South Dakota.

Janklow only lived there a short time, but is linked to the town forever.

As he admitted during a press conference a few years ago, he soon developed a reputation.

"I was a kid from the streets of Chicago who moved to Flandreau.

And in those days, they hadn't made all the modern advances in chemistry, so the chemistry was a little rugged.

I ended up getting in my share of trouble," Janklow recalled.

Janklow was accused of assaulting a 17-year-old Flandreau girl.

Many years later, during his first political campaign, Janklow said it wasn't rape.

Janklow said charges were dropped and he didn't appear in court.

It was the first of several brushes with the law in his hometown.

While still in high school, Janklow was caught shooting a gun at a water tower.

A judge gave him two options -- reform school or the military.

"I grew up in the Marine Corps," Janklow said.

"I learned that I wasn't as smart as I thought I was, or as tough as I thought I was, or a lot of things as I thought I was.

I learned that ... if you're going to win, you've got to do it as a team.

I think it was an important juncture in my life."

Janklow didn't stay humble for long, though.

After the Marines, it was clear Janklow was more the hard-driving drill sergeant than the order-taking grunt.

Without a high school diploma, he talked his way into the University of South Dakota, and then went to law school.

His first job was as a legal aid attorney on the Rosebud Indian Reservation.

Janklow said he defended 30 indians charged with murder or manslaughter.

All were either acquitted, or convicted of a lesser charge.

Janklow liked working for the little guy -- he said it gave him purpose.

Sioux Falls lawyer Jeremiah Murphy first met Bill Janklow while testifying at a legislative hearing.

"He looked like he was driving a road grader, because he had on this flannel shirt and jeans -- and he gave wonderful testimony.

But soon everyone in the state would know who he was.

Janklow, the defense lawyer, switched sides and became a prosecutor.

Running on a "get tough on crime" platform, he was elected South Dakota's attorney general in 1974.

In 1978 he won his first term as governor.

After two terms, Janklow left politics to practice law.

In 1994, after then-Gov. Mikkelson died in a plane crash, he announced he had decided to run for governor again -- because South Dakota needed him.

The voters agreed, and gave him two more terms.

I think most people that go to prison are losers.

Like I tell them, 'You can't even succeed at crime.

Even at crime you're a failure -- you got caught and you got convicted.'- Bill Janklow in 1998

During his years as governor, he pushed for tougher criminal penalities.

In 1998, he said he had no respect for lawbreakers.

"I think most people that go to prison are losers.

Even at crime you're a failure -- you got caught and you got convicted,'" Janklow said.

After he left the governor's office, Janklow was elected to the U.S. House in 2002.

That term has been cut short by his car crash and resignation.

Janklow ran as a Republican, but often questioned the party line.

He trusted his own judgment over anyone else's.

Roger Damgaard, a former law partner, says in some ways, Janklow had his own political party, and he was the only member.

"I think Bill Janklow defies categorization or definition when it comes to politics, or a whole lot of other things," says Damgaard.

"People like him only come along maybe once every 500 years.

Bill Janklow is Bill Janklow is Bill Janklow.

Damgaard says that's his way of learning about an issue.

But once Janklow makes up his mind about what he wants, he's a driven man.

Support him and ride an unstoppable steamroller.

Oppose him and he will roll right over you.

Roger Damgaard says Janklow doesn't care what people think, he just wants to win.

"That kind of attitude wins things and gets things done, but it also bruises people along the way," says Damgaard.

"If Bill Janklow thinks you're a bad guy or you're doing something wrong, he's going to say what he thinks."

Indian activist Russell Means has felt Janklow's heat.

Means was a leader of the American Indian Movement, known as AIM.

AIM is best known for its 1973 armed takeover of the tiny village of Wounded Knee.

The South Dakota attorney general made Janklow a special prosecutor for AIM cases brought by the state.

Janklow, the former defense attorney who represented Indians, now went after certain AIM members.

Means says Janklow did it for political purposes.

"He's the consummate lawyer, dedicated to his client.

I saw that once he became a South Dakota politician, his constituency are the white people of South Dakota," says Means.

"He didn't come out so much anti-indian, as he used AIM to play on the prejudices, the ingrained racism of South Dakotans."

Janklow's team convicted Means and he spent a year in prison.

But as if to prove it was all about politics and nothing personal, Janklow pardoned Means just before he left the governor's office.

Janklow's aggressive style made many political enemies.

One of the most damaging incidents of his career took place in the small South Dakota town of Plankinton.

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Janklow was born in Chicago, Illinois. When Janklow was 10 years old his father died of a heart attack while working as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials in Germany.


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As Armstrong and Aldrin took their famous walk on the moon, a third member of the team sat alone in the mothership plagued by terrors of returning to Earth alone.

Michael Collins, command module pilot of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission.

It was the secret terror that gripped astronaut Michael Collins throughout the Apollo 11 project 40 years ago.

As his spacecraft, Columbia, swept over the lunar surface, Collins - the mission's third and largely forgotten crewman - waited for a call from fellow astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to say their lander craft had successfully blasted off from the Moon.

The message would banish Collins's deepest fear: that he would be the only survivor of an Apollo 11 disaster and that he was destined to return on his own to the United States as "a marked man".

The realisation that the normally icy-cool astronaut was so obsessed by such an outcome puts a fresh perspective on the celebrations that will, this weekend, absorb the United States as it commemorates the moment, on 21 July 1969, that an American first walked on another world.

Apollo 11 will be presented as a flawless technological triumph at jamborees across the nation, including a special reception at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, which all three Apollo 11 astronauts are scheduled to attend.

Yet at the time, worries that the mission would end in disaster consumed nearly all of those involved in the programme - despite their apparent calm.

And no one was more stressed than Collins, it appears.

In his case, the astronaut was obsessed with the reliability of the ascent engine of Armstrong and Aldrin's lander, Eagle.

It had never been fired on the Moon's surface before and many astronauts had serious doubts about its reliability.

Should the engine fail to ignite, Armstrong and Aldrin would be stranded on the Moon - where they would die when their oxygen ran out.

Or if it failed to burn for at least seven minutes, then the two astronauts would either crash back on to the Moon or be stranded in low orbit around it, beyond the reach of Collins in his mothership, Columbia.

All three astronauts believed there was a real chance such a disaster would occur.

Armstrong thought his prospects were only 50-50 of making it back to Earth.

And so did Collins, the pilot of Columbia and one of the world's most experienced aviators.

Richard Nixon, then US president, had even prepared a speech that he would deliver in the event of the Eagle's engine failing.

"Fate has ordained that the men who went to the Moon to explore in peace will stay on the Moon to rest in peace," it ran.

"These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery.

But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice."

Thus Collins - alone in Columbia as the world focused on Armstrong and Aldrin walking on the lunar surface - fretted about his two companions below him on the Moon and revealed, in a note written at the time, that he was now "sweating like a nervous bride" as he waited to hear from the Eagle.

"My secret terror for the last six months has been leaving them on the Moon and returning to Earth alone; now I am within minutes of finding out the truth of the matter," he wrote.

"If they fail to rise from the surface, or crash back into it, I am not going to commit suicide; I am coming home, forthwith, but I will be a marked man for life and I know it."

Then Armstrong and Aldrin prepared their lander for its launch.

Armstrong pressed the engine's firing button and Eagle soared perfectly above the lunar surface towards the waiting Collins.

His worst fear had not materialised and he returned safely to Earth in the company of Armstrong and Aldrin, unmarked by the experience.

He would not suffer a fate of global notoriety.

Today most people still know the names of the two first men on the Moon and recall the words, delivered by Armstrong, about taking a giant leap for mankind.

But the name Michael Collins is rarely recalled, despite his critical role in the historic flight of Apollo 11.

In fact, he was - in many ways - the unsung hero of the Apollo 11 mission, a point that was underlined at the time by the great American aviator Charles Lindbergh.

He wrote to Collins, not long after his safe return, to tell him that his part of the mission was one of "greater profundity ... you have experienced an aloneness unknown to man before".

It is an intriguing remark and an apposite one, it turns out - a point that can be appreciated by looking at the very set-up of the mission.

Apollo 11 consisted of a spindly lunar lander, Eagle, and an orbiting mothership, Columbia, that were both blasted into space on a giant Saturn V rocket on 16 July 1969.

For three days, Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins cruised towards the Moon inside Columbia and spent their time gazing "out the window at the Earth getting smaller and smaller and checking the spacecraft", according to Aldrin.

Then, on 20 July, Armstrong and Aldrin crawled into Eagle and flew it down to the Moon's surface.

"Keep talking to me, guys," radioed an initially panicky Collins as the pair drifted away from his ship.

Minutes later, Columbia swept behind the Moon and Collins became Earth's most distant solo traveller, separated from the rest of humanity by 250,000 miles of space and by the bulk of the Moon, which blocked all radio transmissions to and from mission control.

He was out of sight and out of contact with his home planet.

"I am now truly alone and absolutely alone from any known life.

Lindbergh's remarks were certainly accurate.

Such solitude would have unnerved most people.

He says the emotion that he experienced most during his day alone in lunar orbit was that of exultation.

And certainly he appears to have relished his time as the loneliest member of his species.

He also emerged from the post-Apollo years relatively unscathed.

Aldrin lapsed into alcoholism and depression, while Armstrong became a virtual recluse.

By contrast, Collins - shaded from the glare of publicity - has avoided such personal traumas and is still with his wife, Patricia, whom he married in 1958.

The couple have three grown-up children.

Collins was born in Rome on 31 October 1930.

His father, Major-General James Lawton Collins, was then serving overseas with the US army.

Collins later graduated from West Point and joined the US air force.

An early assignment was to the 21st Fighter-Bomber Wing at George Air Force Base, where he learned how to drop nuclear weapons.

He joined the astronaut corps in 1962 and flew on one of America's two-man Gemini capsules with veteran astronaut John Young, who flew on a later Apollo mission.

After his return to Earth, Collins gave up space travel and pursued a career in bureaucracy and business.

He was director of the National Air and Space Museum until 1978, before being appointed vice-president of LTV Aerospace in Arlington, Virginia.

He resigned in 1985 to start his own business.

Today he remains cheerful about his role on Apollo 11, although he describes himself as becoming increasingly grumpy.

"At age 78, some things about current society irritate me, such as the adulation of celebrities and inflation of heroism," he said last week.

"Heroes abound, but don't count astronauts among them.

We worked very hard, we did our jobs to near perfection, but that is what we had been hired to do."

He describes himself today as moderately busy, "running, biking, swimming, fishing, painting, cooking, reading, worrying about the stock market and searching for a really good bottle of cabernet for under $10".

As to his claim to fame, that was simple fate, he added.

Buzz Aldrin was born in 1930, and Mike Collins, 1930.

We came along at exactly the right time.

We survived hazardous careers and were successful in them.

"But in my own case at least, it was 10% shrewd planning and 90% blind luck.

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Just before he reached the far side on the third orbit, Mission Control informed Collins that there was a problem with the temperature of the coolant. If it became too cold, parts of "Columbia" might freeze. Mission Control advised him to assume manual control and implement Environmental Control System Malfunction Procedure 17. Instead, Collins flicked the switch on the offending system from automatic to manual and back to automatic again, and carried on with normal housekeeping chores, while keeping an eye on the temperature. When "Columbia" came back around to the near side of the Moon again, he was able to report that the problem had been resolved. For the next couple of orbits, he described his time on the far side of the Moon as "relaxing". After Aldrin and Armstrong completed their EVA, Collins slept so he could be rested for the rendezvous. While the flight plan called for "Eagle" to meet up with "Columbia", Collins was prepared for certain contingencies in which he would fly "Columbia" down to meet "Eagle". After spending so much time with the CSM, Collins felt compelled to leave his mark on it, so during the second night following their return from the Moon, he went to the lower equipment bay of the CM and wrote:
 In a July 2009 interview with "The Guardian", Collins revealed that he was very worried about Armstrong and Aldrin's safety.


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## Dominican Priory of St. Michael the Archangel

The Dominican friars opened some eighteen houses in major English towns during the first twenty years after the arrival in England in 1221.

The priory in Cambridge, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was founded either in or shortly before 1238.

In that year the King, Henry III, gave oak trees to help with its construction.

The site (now occupied by Emmanuel College), was out beyond the Barnwell gate, away from what was then the town centre.

The success of the early preaching mission may be gauged by the friars' piecemeal acquisition over the next few decades of surrounding properties to create a site covering some ten acres.

By 1296, through the generous benefaction of Alice de Sanford, the Countess of Oxford, the friars were able to enlarge greatly their original buildings.

Cambridge was already a growing university centre of study and learning.

A group of scholars had moved to the town from Oxford in 1209, and in the early 1230s they had found recognition both from the pope and the king.

The latter had required Cambridge students to be registered with recognised Masters, and in 1233 Pope Gregory IX granted the Chancellor and his scholars the right not to be sued outside the diocese of Ely.

Every Dominican priory contained a 'school' where there were daily lectures on the Bible for the friars, other interested clerics and lay people, but the Cambridge Priory would interact with the nascent university to become a more advanced theological school.

By 1260, several friars were acknowledged lectors in the university's Theology Faculty

In perhaps 1314 the Cambridge Priory was made into a 'studium generale' for the Order, one welcoming the brightest student friars from different countries.

It long continued in this role until the house was dissolved by King Henry VIII in 1538.

The most famous medieval Dominican to teach in Cambridge was probably Robert Holcot.

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"When it's over, when it's done, when we're standing at the gates/Will we see that all along, we're a different kind of same?" sings Morris, accompanied by some chilly synth chords and a primitive, metronomic beat.

Carlile gets her own verse and adds some chorus harmonies, the two singers pushing the song toward a cathartic finish that emphasizes how we may be all more alike than we're capable of admitting.

The singer debuted the song live onstage during Carlile's Girls Just Wanna Weekend last week.

Both Morris and Carlile are among the most nominated performers at the 61st Grammy Awards, with Carlile leading among women with six total nods including Album of the Year (By the Way, I Forgive You) and Record of the Year ("The Joke").

Morris is up for five honors, including Record of the Year (for the Zedd and Grey collaboration "The Middle") and Best Country Song ("Dear Hate").

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# The 10 Most Fun 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' Episodes

They're not the best, but they're the ones we can't help but watch again and again.

This is not a list of the ten best episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

You can find many such rankings highlighting the top moments aboard the USS Enterprise-D.

These are the fun episodes, the ones we fire up on Hulu when we need 45 minutes of comfort television in the 24th century.

"The Chase" is a love-it-or-hate-it episode.

The Cardassians, Klingons, Romulans, and Federation are all on the hunt for the same object, each trying to outsmart the next.

But —SPOILER ALERT—the object in question turns out to be a recording revealing that the humanoid races of the Star Trek universe were all intentionally seeded by an ancient humanoid species.

This is a cheeky attempt to explain one of the fundamental problems with making sci-fi movies and TV—that the aliens usually look humanoid since they must be portrayed by human actors.

On Star Trek, Klingons and Humans could have a child together despite arising several dozen light years away from each other.

In reality, most astrobiologists find it unlikely that aliens will look much like anything on Earth, let alone like humans.

In other words, "The Chase" is an attempt to handwave a massive flaw in Star Trek and in wider science fiction.

That said, there's a thrilling mystery-adventure element to this episode of pseudoscientific gobbledygook that eventually adds up to an inconsistent but exciting whole.

At least its understanding of biology is more advanced than the one where Barclay becomes a spider and Worf a de-evolved rabid wolf.

One of the marks of a good plot twist is that it ultimately makes the show or movie leading up to it more watchable, not less.

Think of a great one such as The Prestige—once you know the ending, it's almost more fun to rewatch how the rest of the film hints at the conclusion.

This episode of Star Trek isn't quite The Usual Suspects, but it's pretty damn good for sci-fi TV.

"Clues" starts out as a classic "Why is Data acting so weird" plot (one of several plot devices TNG reused liberally).

The slow reveal about his odd behavior is the show at its best, raising fun philosophical and sci-fi questions about when it's okay for a machine to deceive for the greater good.

And hey, you don't usually end an episode rooting for the crew to get fooled again.

TNG, especially the early seasons, loved to tease that Riker's ambition would lead him to the captain's chair on some other ship, only to have his loyalty to the Enterprise bring him back to the role of Number One.

"Future Imperfect" has some fun by finally following through on all the build-up, putting Riker in charge of the ship—albeit in a fake future.

This episode is more than the fan service of showing us Admiral Picard, Captain Riker, and the return of Minuet the Holodeck minx.

It's a clever slow build that's ultimately about when not to believe your eyes.

Especially when they show you something that's too good to be true.

What's true about the Trek movies is true about the show itself.

Nothing breathes a little life into the proceedings like having Capt. Picard, galactic diplomat and intellectual heavyweight, put down the tea and throw a few punches.

In "Starship Mine," Jean-Luc acts out a kind of Air Force One in space, the lone commander crawling around his ship to save it from bad guys.

The Enterprise-D is undergoing a "baryon sweep" that supposedly cleans the hull of built-up radiation.

While the ship is deserted (because the sweep kills organic matter), villains sneak onto the ship to steal material from the warp core that could be used in a weapon.

But, you guessed it, they're found when Picard has to return to the ship, and he spends the rest of the episode playing cat-and-mouse with the crooks.

It's a race against intergalactic terrorists and against the clock.

"Parallels" is one of the few episodes that can qualify as "best" and also "most fun."

It starts out with a common premise—someone comes back from shore leave and something is wrong!—but escalates from there.

Worf returns from a bat'leth tournament to an Enterprise that's juuuust a few steps off from the one he left.

Gradually things get stranger and stranger.

Worf seems to step into new reality after new reality, whether that means Riker is his captain, Troi is his wife, or Bajorans really hate the Federation.

The temporal madness culminates in the Enterprise rupturing a time-space anomaly, causing nearly 300,000 versions of the ship to converge at once.

A bit of hand-wavey psuedoscience fixes the issue eventually, but leaves us with thousands of scenarios to think about—especially one where a harried Riker from another reality refuses to go back to a losing battle against the Borg.

In some ways, it's the perfect TNG episode: time travel, treknobabble, multiple timelines, "I'm the only one that knows something is wrong" tropes, and a character-focused episode.

In this case, it's nice to see Worf step away from an episode about Klingon honor and into a more original and rich story that rounds out his character.

It's also much more interesting than "Frame of Mind," a thematically similar Riker-oriented episode.

This is the one that sees Troi baked into a cake during Data's fever dream.

Cellular peptide cake with mint frosting, to be exact.

As part of the android's quest to be more human, Data creates a dream function.

However, it breaks down and he begins experiencing nightmares.

The "cellular peptide cake" is just the beginning of a jargon-heavy, horror-influenced episode that draws a bizarre "is this real or all just a dream" element to the show to varying degrees of success.

But it's the visual cues that make "Phantasms" far too strange to ignore.

Troi as a cake the rest of the crew is eating.

Data with an old-timey telephone in his chest cavity.

You may not end up liking this late entry in the series, but any time it's on, our guess is that you won't be able to turn away.

•The Indiana Jones or National Treasure-in-space plot line, where our modern heroes are fascinated with—and then nearly done in by—tricks and booby traps built centuries ago

• The less-is-more reversal to save the ship.

As Star Trek is fond of reminding you, 24th century technology can't solve all your problems.

• Geordi's totally bizarre intellectual partnership/love affair with a hologram, the only woman on the ship who gets him.

It saves the ship, but my goodness is it uncomfortable.

Would you rather be invisible, or have the ability to fly?

I always suspected that people who answer "invisible" to this age-old question share a common desire to go where they are not supposed to, to be a fly on the wall in rooms they normally cannot enter—and I think that's part of the weird appeal of "Timescape."

Returning from an academic conference full of long, unbroken sentences moving from topic to topic, Picard, Troi, Data, and Geordi find the Enterprise … frozen, apparently right in the middle of a battle against a Romulan warbird.

Beaming aboard both ships to investigate the incident, they walk among mannequins trapped in time.

In addition to indulging the voyeuristic appeal of visiting a Romulan bridge, "Timescape" also goofs with the idea of time and space interacting in weird and interesting ways, such as "temporal fragment" that makes Picard's fingernails grow an inch in what seems like a moment.

Time episodes tend to be fun episodes, and this one might be the best.

Besides, who doesn't love the smiley face?

To be clear, "Conspiracy" is a very bad episode of Star Trek.

It is a Stuart "Reanimator" Gordon ripoff with Starfleet uniforms.

That said, the entire first season of TNG is largely a failure, but this is one of the few episodes that allows itself to cut loose and get really weird.

The surreal horror elements give way to the goriest Star Trek entry on this side of Klingon Pepto Bismol blood.

"Conspiracy" could have resulted in an interesting story arc.

The episode introduces the idea that Starfleet has been infiltrated by an alien parasite that takes over the brains of several higher-ups in the organization.

Lower officers who are on the trail get killed, leaving Picard to face off against a group of possessed admirals.

It has all the markings of horror movies of the era.

There's a gruesome, disgusting meal, bizarre mannerisms, paranoia, and splatter.

There's also an ominous cliffhanger ending that more parasites are coming, leaving the doors open to a later sequel.

Poor reception of the episode may have called off this idea, or it may have metamorphosed into one of the best antagonists of the series—the Borg.

How many Sherlock Holmes plots do you really need?

Sure, it's a good way to allow Picard to dress up like a private eye or Geordi to become Dr. Watson.

If you're going to be silly you might as well go all the way.

"A Fistful of Datas" takes the broadest possible premise—going to the Old West—and makes it impossibly fun.

In "Fistful of Datas," Marina Sirtis seems like she's actually having fun playing Troi, who gets to dress up like a badass cowgirl named Durango.

A not-very-amused Worf steps into the straight man role.

And while his boy Alexander was often a grating presence in the series, he serves a good grounding force in this episode.

It's one of the least serious episodes of TNG, one that takes all the spaghetti western tropes and churns out a spectacularly goofy episode that doesn't need a hamfisted manifesto on the ethics of holodeck life or whatever to arrive at a conclusion.

Plus, you get to see a Klingon dressed up as a cowboy.

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 In 2017, "Radio Times" ranked "Starship Mine" the 3rd best episode of "Star Trek" for rookie trek watchers. The episode has been compared to the 1988 American action film ""Die Hard"".
 In 2018, Tom's Guide rated "Starship Mine" one of the 15 best episodes featuring Picard.