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Edward John Emering is a noted author, military historian, actuary, photographer and adventurer. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries, Member of the American Academy of Actuaries, Certified Pension Consultant and an Enrolled Actuary under ERISA. He is also a member of the Orders and Medals Society of America, the Studiekring Faleristiek vzw of Belgium and the European Military Parachutist Association (EMPA). He is also a contributing author for Burke’s Peerage World Orders of Knighthood and Merit. He served in the U.S. Naval Security Group (NSG) as a “mustang” officer from 1963 until his honorable release on August 6, 1982. He is also a PADI Master SCUBA Instructor (retired) with over 49 years of diving experience including some of the world’s greatest ship wrecks, which he wrote about for SCUBA Times and Underwater Geographic magazines.
Ed is also the holder of two “flags” for exploration at the Adventurers Club. His photography has appeared in numerous books and articles both those authored by himself as well others, who he has generously assisted.
Education
He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Seton Hall University, a Master of Business Administration Degree from the University of Utah and a Master of Science Degree from DePaul University.
Awards
He is a Grand Officer of the Imperial Order of the Dragon of Annam, an Officer of the Order of the Star of Moheli by President Mohamed Said Fazul on August 7, 2005. He is also the recipient of four commendation medals and two literary medals from the Orders and Medals Society of America. He also holds the prestigious St. Michael’s Medal from the EMPA.
Published works
Emering has authored more than fifty articles in the field of orders and medals.
Selected Books
*Orders, Decorations and Badges of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam. Schiffer Publishing, 2000. ISBN 978-0764301438
*U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Campaign and Commemorative Medals. Schiffer Publishing, 1998. ISBN 978-0764303869
*Weapons & Field Gear of the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong. Schiffer Publishing, 1998. ISBN 978-0764305832
*Viet Cong: A Photographic Portrait. Schiffer Publishing, 1999. ISBN 978-0764307584
Selected Articles
Articles published in the
*"The Gold Star Order." Vol. 47, No. 8 (October 1996): 14-16.
*"Medals of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including Zaire, Katanga and South Kasai,” Vol. 55, No. 4 (Jul-Aug): 15-27
*“Medals of the 21st Century Afghanistan War,” Vol. 55, No. 5 (Sep-Oct): 2-16
*“Belgian Medals for Congo Service,” Vol. 56, No. 2 (Mar-Apr): 3-20
Articles published in the Greek Journal Collectible Chronicles
*“The Imperial Order of the Dragon of Annam,” No. 17, (July-August September 2004): 2-9
*“The Medals of Lebanon,” No. 18, (October-November-December 2004): 2-11
Additional writings have appeared in the Eng Leong Industries Newsletter in Singapore and in official publications of the SKF in Belgium.

Russell R. Crowell (April 23, 1919 - September 11, 2004) was a labor organizer and trade union reformer in the United States.
The 18th of 19 children, Crowell grew up during the Great Depression in Walthill, Nebraska, where his widowed mother supported the family by taking in washing. Hitchhiking to California as a teenager, he found work in a dry-cleaning plant, married, and started a family. As a young man he had leftist political sympathies, but these were moderated by his disillusionment due to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and he was known for the rest of his life as a "straight" trade unionist and a mainstream liberal Democrat.
After serving as an infantryman in the Pacific in World War II, he became active in his union. In the early 1950s, the Laundry and Dry-Cleaners union was a part of the corrupt Teamsters organization. Crowell attempted to reform the union from within, running for vice president against the Teamster-approved slate of candidates in 1957, but losing. In 1958, the union was expelled from the AFL-CIO. Crowell was one of the organizers of the new AFL-CIO Laundry and Dry Cleaning International Union formed as an alternative to the Teamsters union, with headquarters in Oakland, California. He was elected third vice president of the new union. During this period, he received death threats, and his hotel room was ransacked.
In 1962, Crowell was elected president of the new union, defeating incumbent Winfield Chasmar, and in the same year he was one of the union leaders who signed a pledge to voluntarily obey John F. Kennedy's executive order banning racial discrimination in labor unions. The president had no power to enforce the order, so voluntary compliance was required; many unions continued to practice racial discrimination despite it. Crowell was known as an energetic labor organizer, and unionized not only large laundry and dry cleaning plants but also many smaller neighborhood laundries.
Crowell remained president of the laundry and dry-cleaning international until his retirement in 1983, when he moved to Diamond Springs, California. He was active in the El Dorado County Democratic Party. He ran a Christmas tree farm, and did his own farm work until he was past the age of 80.

CINeSPACE is the name of a European Sixth Framework Programme research project going from 2006 to 2009. CINeSPACE aims at designing and implementing a mobile rich media collaborative information exchange platform, scalable and accessible through a wide variety of networks and therefore interoperable and location-based for the promotion of urban, film and cultural heritage resources.
Project partners
* : Project management, definition and cooperation in the development and evaluation of cinema professional scenario, Evaluation.
* The Lighthouse: Definition of software and hardware, new service design and rich media management and definition.
* Fraunhofer IGD: Geoposition, media streaming and collaborative rich media developments.
* VICOMTech: Interest oriented rich media serving, collaborative rich media experiencing development and coordination of laboratory tests. Member of the INI-GraphicsNet.
* Scottish Screen: City of Glasgow, definition, development and evaluation of citizens scenario.
* City of Venice: Definition, development and evaluation of film tourism scenario. Coordination of the scenario definition in San Sebastian and Glasgow.
* TRIVISIO: Development, prototypes manufacturing and evaluation of HMDs, coordinator of exploitation.
* Trabajos Catastrales, S.A.: Specification of the new service, assessment in the development, participation in the integration and evaluation, plan exploitation.
* VENIS: Support the Municipality of Venice in creating and maintaining the ICT infrastructures for the City of Venice.