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Another family member said: “We have hardly slept and are just trying to understand and process what has happened.
BOSTON — The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba returned to their homeport in Boston yesterday after a 54-day deployment in the Caribbean.
During the patrol, the Escanaba's mission was to detect and interdict vessels suspected of narcotics trafficking in the waters south of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic in support of Operation Unified Resolve. The Escanaba, in conjunction with Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma, a 270-foot cutter homeported in Kittery, Ma...
Prior to the patrol, the Escanaba crew completed Tailored Ship's Training Availability at Naval Station Mayport, Florida, which included 134 drills and exercises spanning five warfare areas: command and control, engineering, damage control, seamanship, and weapons.
The Medium Endurance Cutter Escanaba has a crew complement of 100: 14 officers and 86 enlisted. The Escanaba was commissioned into Coast Guard service on Aug. 29, 1987.
JOHN Langdon, who has died aged 75, was a remarkable musician whose skill at the organ console was unsurpassed. Sunday by Sunday for half a century he led worship, catching the various mood and cadences of the Christian year with a sensitivity which meant that he struck exactly the right mood, whether at a baptism, a w...
His skills as an organist and musician transcended his post in Hyndland Parish Church in Glasgow. To hear him play was to discover a new dimension to the meaning of Church music whether classical or modern.
He was born at Minehead, Somerset in 1943, the oldest of Harold and Madeleine Langdon’s three children. Aged eight, he took to the organ console in Worcester Cathedral under the tutelage of the late Sir David Willcocks. His rapidly developing skills meant he was much in demand in the parish churches in the villages sur...
Unfortunately at a young age John contracted tuberculosis which, in those days, meant a prolonged spell in hospital. David Willcocks gave John 48 fugues and preludes composed by Johann Sebastian Bach and told John to work them up. He did – every last one of them – using the hospital organ. There is, almost certainly, l...
Aged 18 John became organ scholar at Kings College, Cambridge as well as a John Stewart of Rannoch scholar in sacred music. He was a Bachelor of Music and a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists.
In 1968 following the death of the late Purcell Mansfield, John became organist and choirmaster in Hyndland Parish Church in Glasgow where no note, stop or pedal, in its Willis organ was left idle.
His appointment to Hyndland coincided with the beginning of what was to develop into a distinguished career in the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama now The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
John was, for 16 years, lecturer in harmony and counterpoint, followed by 20 years in the brass department, 11 of them also as co-ordinator of the academy’s innovative early music course.
Underpinning all of that was a man who was a tireless and inspirational encourager of anyone with even a modest interest in music. He offered his supreme skills whether in the context of voluntary charitable work, encouraging novices or accompanying internationally recognised professional musicians with generosity of t...
His expertise on the organ was recognised worldwide. He made many recordings with international soloists and local choirs alike.
Wherever he played, he brought the same exceptional quality to his music and this was recognised by the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama when, in 2005, he was honoured with a fellowship. Subsequently in 2014 he was awarded a Companion Emeritus of the Royal Scottish Conservatoire, then in October he was appoint...
Close friend and colleague Professor George McPhee says of John that he deputised for him on many occasions at the organ in Paisley Abbey and was in many ways his unofficial assistant and he continued, "John was phenomenal talent, I’ve never known anyone like him. He had more influence on music in Scotland than anyone ...
John’s contribution was immense. He was involved in TV and radio broadcasting, he played at many, many concerts including, in February 2006, the first large scale choral concert in the newly refurbished City Hall. His international career spanned the globe. Outside the RSAMD he worked extensively as a keyboard player w...
John made a remarkable recovery from a stroke in 2005. I remember him playing The Messiah in Greenock some 10 years ago. It was an amazing achievement and to my ear sounded perfect.
But John had another side to him. He never, ever refused to play a hymn I had chosen for Sunday worship. Even modern hymns some of which, to be honest are not very good.
John Langdon was a man of strong faith having grown up in the Anglican tradition. His move to Hyndland saw him slowly being absorbed into Scottish Presbyterianism, becoming a communicant member of the congregation of Hyndland Parish Church in September 1991.
He was uniquely modest about his professional skills and talents, carrying them lightly which absolutely complemented his gracious and generous personal life, best summed up by a former student who wrote, "He has become one of the most important figures in the classical music scene in Scotland, known and loved by every...
John Langdon will be remembered long and well – he deserves no less. To have known John Langdon as a man and as a musician has been an enormous privilege and those who did are richly blessed by the memories. That blessing will continue in his music preserved when any of his many recordings are played but just as import...
He is survived by his sisters Anne and Margaret and nephews David, Philip and John.
Jen Hollingsworth has been named Chief Operating Officer of the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group effective immediately, it was announced today by Motion Picture Group Chairman Joe Drake.
She previously served as EVP of Strategic Planning and Operations, where she oversaw worldwide deal analysis, operational management and strategic planning for the studio’s film slate, including Lionsgate’s Summit Entertainment, Good Universe and Pantelion Films. Hollingsworth first joined Lionsgate in 2007 at VP, Fina...
Hollingsworth will lead Lionsgate’s finance department, manage a strategic planning and analysis team and control daily ops. She will also engage in cross-company initiatives designed to capitalize on Lionsgate’s film assets, working in partnership throughout the entire Lionsgate 360 Entertainment Ecosystem to ensure e...
“Jen is one of the most exceptional and talented motion picture business strategists working in our industry today. She knows this Company inside and out, is skilled, experienced and is the ideal Chief Operating Officer. She has spearheaded many of Lionsgate’s successes within the Motion Picture Group and is the best a...
“I am enormously excited about what is happening within the Motion Picture Group, from the outstanding filmmakers we are partnering with to the innovations we are pioneering with the Lionsgate Data Center. Our Data-First Strategy approach and the effective impact it has throughout the Company is especially dynamic, and...
Enough already. Nowhere does the objective meet the subjective with greater fear or envy than at the annual sporting awards, and everyone keeps saying we’ve never had a year quite like this one.
Pity the poor athlete or team who wins anything in December. Sorry, all sold out, try again next year. Truth is medals are still part of the objective of the Irish team at next weekend’s European Cross Country in the Netherlands, so watch this space.
It the meantime it’s been hard enough trying to distinguish what counts or matters most within one chosen sport. Points or goals? Medals or times? Height or distance? The sort of conversations and debate Ayn Rand could have written another very long book about.
Some have it easier than others, especially when little else is required other than a fast pair of legs and a good set of lungs. And medals typically count and matter in the public eye, something shiny and tangible and better still when presented with a green and gold ribbon – which is why no one was surprised when Tho...
The real fun starts when they’re all bundled together and everyone gets to have their say – as with the 23 contenders for the 2018 RTÉ Sportsperson of the Year award, to be named on December 15th. Barr is the mix there too, along with Dublin women’s captain Sinéad Aherne, boxer Kellie Harrington, rower Sanita Puspure, ...
Not everyone can kick a ball like Johnny Sexton, throw a punch like Katie Taylor, ride a bike like Dan Martin or hurl like Cian Lynch. But everyone can run or jump or throw, or at least think they can, which is why athletics award winners are usually more objective than subjective.
The latest example of that comes at the Le Meridien Hotel in Monaco next Tuesday, at the 2018 IAAF awards, and particularly with the Male Athlete of the Year award.
There are five nominees: American sprinter Christian Coleman, who ran a world indoor 60m record of 6.34 seconds, and won the 100m Diamond League; Armand Duplantis from Sweden, the gifted 19-year-old who won the pole vault at the European Championships, breaking eight Under-20 world records; Kevin Mayer from France, Wor...
And then there’s Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya, who last April in London won his eighth consecutive major marathon (including the Rio Olympics), then came out in September in Berlin and ran a world marathon record of 2:01:39. He took one minute and 18 seconds off the previous record, set in 2014, when fellow Kenyan Dennis ...
Kipchoge’s time was thus the first sub-2:02, the biggest improvement on a men’s marathon world record in 51 years, when Derek Clayton, born in Cumbria, raised in Northern Ireland, and running for Australia, took it down by two minutes and 37 seconds in 1967 when clocking 2:09:36.
On closer inspection Kipchoge ran every 400m in 68.8 seconds; his average pace per mile was 4:38.4; his average pace per 5K was 14:24.9; he covered 30km in 1:26:45, also the fastest time ever recorded for that distance; he passed halfway in 61:06, and ran his second half marathon 60:33. Anything else?
His average speed over the 26.2 miles was 13 miles-per-hour, and the people at Runner’s World magazine had an interesting stall at the Chicago Marathon Expo, setting up a large treadmill and running it at Kipchoge’s world record pace of 13 miles-per-hour. The results were hilarious, most of those who tried to last the ...
Kipchoge’s 2:01:39 in Berlin also reopened the conversation around the sub-two-hour marathon, the last great “barrier” of athletics -–if not sport itself. Along with the sub-four-minute mile, and later the 10 second barrier for 100m, it represents a sort of Everest of human endeavour, the only one that has yet to be co...
Much has been written about Kipchoge’s attempt at that barrier, at the staged Nike Breaking-2 project in Monza last year. Using every possible legal advantage and ignoring most of the IAAF’s criteria on where and how marathon world records can be broken, Kipchoge ran 2:00:25, and for all the debate around that run – in...
Kipchoge has us believing in the impossible again – only in the believable sense too. My first sight of his potential was at the 2003 World Championships in Paris, when he arrived from the proverbial nowhere, aged only 19, and upstaged Hicham El Guerrouj from Morocco and Kenenisa Bekele from Ethiopia to win the 5,000m....
Not every athlete coming out of Kenya can be trusted these days, but Kipchoge’s graph and trajectory is about as constant as they come by modern sporting standards.
This might be the most open and shut award of the year, the easiest of the lot, because in running 2:01:39 Kipchoge is in a class and on a level of his own, the best athlete of 2018 bar none, doing what no one else on the planet can do right now – and that’s being perfectly objective and subjective about it.
Or do I have to admit defeat and accept that it is an objective fact that an album by Lily Allen is better, or, in the immortal words of Cheryl Cole, more cool, contemporary and relevant, than all of the above ? Or, perhaps, Lily is just more likely to appear in such a list, which ultimately seems the most important qu...
In that sense, all of these current magazine talking point lists are perfect, and accurate, as expert surveys of mainstream musical taste, because they are typically packed with exactly the sort of albums that are currently expected to appear in such a list, extremely post-90s, filled with the correctly measured out am...
It's not so much that just because I say so that all of the above should be in these current decade round-up lists – although all of them are in the list I have not compiled because lists, summing ups, instant categorising, reviews, previews, helpful guides and the general reassuring tidying up that ensues are getting ...
Perhaps it is pointless to get too worked up about what in the end is a shopping list, although the very idea that they are really just shopping lists, an ultimate example of the commodification and corporate co-opting of music, rebellion and experimentation, is enough to get me worked up, being of a certain age with a...
Such lists exist simply to mark out what area of business and play the supplier of the list operates in, so that the music customer can swiftly decide whether they are in the right place and purchasing the correct guide. The list says, to some extent, that, that's right, you are in Q, Uncut, the NME, the Guardian, the ...
In my end of decade top 50 list, which I am not compiling as a forlorn protest about lists and their stubborn stranglehold on how we respond to, and consume music, there would be Damons Albarn and Gough, both of them moving through the decade from being 30 to 40 years old, which is a story in itself, how pop stars have...
Fast zoom – You can zoom in/out quickly by pressing the right mouse button and dragging up and down. NOTE: I find it annoying that the direction of motion is the opposite from the behavior of the zoom gadget (up is out, down is in for the mouse zoom).
CTRL arrow keys – you can move your view like with the “look around” gadget by pressing CTRL and using the arrow keys on your keyboard to move your view.
Middle Mouse Button – if you have a 3 button mouse, use your middle mouse button. Click and hold the middle button – you now get a marker for the place you clicked and you can hold the button down and use your mouse to tilt and rotate about that point. This is a little different than in previous versions of Google Eart...
Reset your view – to get your self re-oriented quickly – click in the 3D window and then hit the “r” key on your keyboard. This resets to “straight-down, north-up” viewing.
New shortcuts – Here’s some other tips on shortcuts for navigating from the new user guide.
Also, read the official GE User Guide on navigation (as linked above).
1. I like the way the right mouse button zooms in/out. I think of my screen, at the top of the mouse pad, as the earth, and I’m either pushing myself away from it (moving the mouse up/toward the screen) or pulling myself toward it. What I don’t like is the default action of the wheel. I always turn on “Invert Mouse Whe...
2. Does the Middle Mouse Button you refer to behave the same as clicking the wheel? From your description of its action, I think it’s the same. My wheel-click action is the same as it’s always been. The only difference is that now there’s a “pivot point” displayed onscreen. When I don’t have my 3D Connexion, I’m always...
Oops! I spoke too soon. The pivot point in this version (when you click the middle mouse button / wheel) does indeed work a bit differently. Before, the pivot point was the center of the screen. Now, the pivot point is where your mouse cursor (hand) is when you click that middle button.
BTW, I always used a screen center crosshair overlay to show me where that pivot point was. The crosshair serves other purposes too, so I’ll keep using it.
Thanks for the information. I think this way it is much more comfortable. Just my three mouse buttons and the CTRL key to do everything without once moving my cursor to navigation gadgets.
I found it difficult in this new version to zoom to an exact altitude, in other words, to get a round number in the scale legend. I always did that with the slider in the upper right screen corner, but the new slider seems to also rotate the viewing angle when zooming in. Using the right mouse button is kind of an alte...
Oops! I found out that in “options” you can easily turn off the “automatically tilt when zooming”-feature. Problem solved!
I have a weird problem with the new controls: the mouse wheel in my mouse now behaves inconsistently. Most of the time it rotates the view, but now and then it will zoom in or out for a couple seconds. I really miss zooming with the scroll wheel, and I can’t find a way to lock the wheel into zooming. I don’t think it’s...
I really dislike the new “middle mouse button” pivot point. I was VERY used to clicking on the upper or lower sections of the map, and rotating as I wanted.
Can we PLEASE make an option to disable this feature (options).
In the previous version of Google Earth I used to use CTRL and UP to zoom in. This feature is no longer available and I find it less comfortable to use the mouse or the page up/down keys instead.
Well this explains why my Ctrl-arrow keys no longer zooms like I am used to. The other features seem good, however, I like having my pans, tilts and zooms all with the arrow keys. Instead now, I’m having to shift up to zoom in and out, and then back to the arrows for the tilts.
How does one eliminate the crosshairs so a tour recording can be just the terrain view?
If a Chatham man charged in connection to being in possession of more than $2.6 million worth of opioids and other drugs wants bail, it will be up to him to convince the court.
If a Chatham man charged in connection to allegedly being in possession of more than $2.6 million worth of opioids and other drugs wants bail, it will be up to him to convince the court.
Jonathan Toornstra, 35, made a brief appearance via video in a Chatham courtroom on Monday. He is facing 18 drug and weapon-related charges after Chatham-Kent police made the largest drug bust in the municipality’s history on the evening of April 10 after raiding an apartment.
Officers seized cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, marijuana, hydromophone, GHB, ecstasy, morphine and fentanyl, along with an electronic digital scale, packaging materials, and $52,000 in Canadian currency. A 9mm handgun and ammunition were also seized in the raid.
He added the Crown will not be consenting to Toornstra’s release in this matter.
Typically, the Crown has the responsibility of providing reasons why an accused should not be granted bail when facing charges that are before the court.
Toornstra told the court he hasn’t had a chance to retain a lawyer yet and asked for the matter to be put over until Thursday.
He scheduled to appear via video in bail court at 10:30 a.m. Thursday.
Head coach Jim Harbaugh of the San Francisco 49ers reacts to a play in the first quarter against the Baltimore Ravens during Super Bowl XLVII at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on February 3, 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
I don’t know about you, but sometimes I forget to miss Jim Harbaugh. His hyperbole (“Attack each day with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind.”) His team-building stunts (remember the 49ers’ blue collar work shirts complete with name patch?) His occasional “What’s your deal?” moment.
I mean, who does unintentional humor better than the former Stanford and 49ers head coach? Nooooo-body!
As he proved this week.
Harbaugh, like most football coaches, hates, hates, hates when his players fumble. So he recently endeavored to provide some ball security inspiration to his charges.
We pause for a question: Any reason you can’t locate the changing table in the baby’s room? Asking for a friend.
Having ensured the complete eradication of fumbles for the coming season, Harbaugh turned to an even tougher task — bringing Chris Webber home.
Webber, along with the other members of the Fab Five who made Michigan an NCAA basketball powerhouse in the early 1990s, were forced to disassociate from the school for 10 years as part of an NCAA penalty. Unlike his teammates, who have returned to campus since the ban was lifted, Webber has remained estranged. It’s co...
Recently Harbaugh appeared on a radio show and invited Webber to be an honorary captain for a football game on campus next season. Larry Brown Sports reports that Webber has accepted. He’s coming back to Ann Arbor.
What could be better? Letting Webber call the first time out, it says here.
The BEE III is now available in a K-band version!
Everything You Need in a Speed Trailer - and LESS!
MPD Acquires Kustom Signals, Inc.
The DragonCam Captures Identifiable License Plates at Distances up to 450 ft.
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Black Box Buyout Fails to Work Magic : Technology: The company loses $34 million on sales of $107 million despite layoffs.
In the fall of 1988, when Odyssey Partners led a highly leveraged $334-million buyout of Micom Communications, the plan, predictably enough, was to pare down the Simi Valley high-technology company, selling off divisions to pay back creditors, and making the remaining businesses profitable again.
Less than two years later the company, renamed Black Box, looks like a leveraged buyout that hasn't worked according to plan. One problem is that Black Box suffers from a crushing load of debt. As of March 31 the company's short-term debts were $192 million, and Black Box's liabilities were greater than its assets by $...
Another problem is that the company has also been unable to sell its ailing Micom Communications Corp. (MCC) division, which makes devices that allow computers to "speak" to each other.
And even after a painful round of layoffs at MCC--and the sale of some other divisions for $82.4 million--Black Box lost $34 million on sales of $107 million in the year that ended March 31, 1990. One reason for the loss was that Black Box paid out $26.7 million in interest alone.
So Black Box's new strategy is to lower its hefty debts by raising money through a stock and securities offering, then splitting the company in two. The current owners would keep control of the ailing MCC division, while the rest--chiefly the company's healthy Pennsylvania-based Black Box division, which sells a variet...

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