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James Irvin
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Simplicity doesn’t mean simple, certainly when to comes to music and the music of Gadsen, Alabama’s own Albert Simpson is certainly no exception. His Southern, funky folk sound and his rich Alabama accented voice are only the surface elements of the complex, honest and revealing songwriting that lies beneath the most recent addition to the Ten Ton Records roster. While having often been seen working in collaborative settings such as Highly Kind (who’s album Don’t Wake Albert stands as a landmark work for Allman Brothers and Widespread Panic producer Johnny Sandlin), as a member of Mobile’s Dead and guesting with (San Francisco Giant) Jake Peavy and The Outsiders for the “Can’t Stop the Train: A Tribute to Jerry Garcia” benefit concert that featured Grateful Dead legend Phil Lesh at the legendary Fillmore West in August of 2016. Albert tends perform solo but does so with all the bravado and musical complexity of a full band, delivering one of the most complete sounds from a solo artist you are likely to hear anywhere. More recently, Albert has released the new single "Pieces" and continues to tour largely in the Southeast, however Albert has constantly expanded his touring horizons to now include all three continental coasts and beyond so keep your eyes open and don’t miss this talented musician when we comes your way.
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Frozen finds in the Alpine
Artifacts of the caribou hunter
By Todd Kristensen, Tom Andrews and Darryl Bereziuk
The winds bode well for a small group of climbers high in the alpine on an August afternoon. They are peering down below at unsuspecting caribou that have clustered on a patch of ice to stay cool. The stench of caribou dung left by thousands of animals that have returned to this area over thousands of years is a nasal reminder of how caribou are set in their ways. On a daily basis during the summer months, the animals migrate upslope to colder heights during the hottest time of day only to return to the valleys at night. This ancient habit makes the caribou predictable. And so, as long as caribou have been gathering at ice patches in Alaska, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories for over 9,000 years, people armed with sturdy moccasins and stone-tipped weapons have followed them.
Archaeological research from Alaska’s Wrangell-St. Elias Ranges to the Mackenzie Mountains in the NWT has revealed rare and delicate tools preserved in high altitude ice that document a deep human history in some of the most remote alpine habitats on the continent. These artifacts were lost by ancient people such as the hunters described above, and have since been encased in a barrier of ice that climate change has recently unlocked. A race is now on to find frozen relics from the past before they, and the icy archives that house them, disappear forever. Also fading are the memories of this traditional practice among local indigenous groups. Elders still remember an age old mantra passed down for generations that may just as well describe the strategy of modern hikers: “Climb high and stay high”. The important point was to approach game from above. Archaeology and traditional knowledge combine to tell an amazing story of mountain climbs in ancient times.
The story of prehistoric alpine hunters owes its existence to modern biologists in the Yukon who discovered an odd piece of wood above the tree line in the Coast Mountains. The find was reported to local archaeologists who realized that it was a wooden tool lost on the ice thousands of years ago. Indigenous people across the North still remember stories of life in the alpine, but until that lucky Yukon find, archaeologists didn’t expect that much physical evidence of old activities would preserve in the harsh high altitude conditions. It is very rare to find intact wooden tools that are thousands of years old, so the artefact triggered a series of research programs that focused the eyes of archaeologists upwards on lofty peaks where they eventually found themselves down to their knees in slippery caribou dung.
A suite of research techniques is helping to uncover the technologies used by alpine climbers while radiocarbon dates are indicating when different weapons were used. The flurry of scientific methods in alpine research is an avalanche of acronyms to the uninitiated: GPR (ground penetrating radar), SEM-EDS (scanning electron microscopy-energy dispersive spectrometry), and our own invention HUMT-FT (hiking up mountains to find things). Scientists also rely on caribou radio-collar data, ancient DNA research, mountain range satellite imagery, and snow indices. The result is an impressive library of information about alpine life in the days before hiking boots, crampons, and Gor-Tex.
Archaeologists have learned that Indigenous people used three major weapons to kill caribou, sheep, ptarmigan, small mammals, and even bison in high altitude areas. The first and oldest is the atlatl and dart system (or spear thrower). Picture a lacrosse stick but instead of a basket on the end, a little spur or hole served as the seat of a small wooden spear. The spear or ‘dart’ was launched from the wooden stick like a javelin. When compared to a basic spear, the atlatl increased the length of the thrower’s arm and in turn increased the power, which drove the dart deeper into the target’s body.
Around 1,200 years ago, the atlatl and dart were replaced by the bow and arrow. Broken bow fragments from the ice patches tell of failed hunting expeditions while frozen arrows tell of near misses that were lost in the snow. The benefit of the bow and arrow was that hunters could stand still while firing as opposed to the running launch of the atlatl dart. Less hunter movement meant that animals didn’t notice their two-legged predators until too late. The bows were made of maple and willow wood (bendy but durable) while arrow/dart shafts were made of birch, spruce, and saskatoon. A traditional indigenous name of the saskatoon plant is ‘arrow berry,’ which reflects the ancient roots of a raw material used over 2,000 years ago.
Stone arrowheads were coated in thick, sticky spruce sap that glued the arrowhead in place on the arrow shaft. It was then tied tight with thread or “sinew” made from caribou back tissue. Sinew was also used to tie neatly clipped bird feathers to the ends of arrows. This is called ‘fletching’ and helped create drag that kept the arrows flying straight. Just as every old village in Europe had a blacksmith, every village had an arrow-maker, which explains the now common North American surnames of ‘Smith’ and ‘Fletcher’. Arrowmaker is also a common indigenous family name for this same reason. The ideal feathers for arrows were from hawks, owls, and eagles because it was hoped that their silent aerial hunting skills would be passed on to the flying weapons.
The last weapon system found in the high altitude ice was used to capture the notoriously ferocious ground squirrel and marmot. Rodent snares have been found in the Selwyn Mountains of Northwest Territories that are made of leather loops that were triggered by wooden trip pegs set outside burrows. Indigenous stories tell us that ground squirrel skins were stitched together to form beautiful robes and that up to 200 snares in a single alpine area could produce enough food to last for months. Add the supply of caribou, sheep, ptarmigan, and berries and alpine life from late summer to early fall was good.
The collection of preserved alpine tools in northern ice patches is truly unique in North America and they are broadening our understanding of prehistoric ways. For example, a 1,400-year-old moccasin from the Yukon Plateau region represents one of the oldest pieces of footwear found in northern North America. The moccasin was likely replaced by spares that hunters carried with them while hiking over hard and rocky mountains. As modern climbers know, the right gear (in this case new shoes) can be a matter of life and death. Moving around in the alpine was a critical thing, which is strongly echoed in indigenous stories. Living in the alpine meant knowing how to move through it, and, more importantly, how to properly treat a landscape that held the fate of one’s own life. People would regularly “pay the water” (offer gifts to spirits at water bodies), properly dispose of animal remains (to make sure the spirits could be re-incarnated), and “dream animals” (listen to the omens of alpine spirits that communicated to people through dreams). All of this helped maintain a healthy balance in which people took care of the land and the land took care of the people.
Over time, the caribou have seen it all, from atlatls to snares and bows and arrows to muskets (a musket ball was found on a Yukon ice patch). In addition to all that technological change, the caribou are now watching a novel impact of human industry, one that is having bigger effects on caribou populations than prehistoric hunting. Warming temperatures are eating away at the ice patches that caribou rely on to beat the heat. For an animal adapted to surviving frigid Arctic winters, it is the hot summers that may prove more dangerous to survival. Now, archaeologists and caribou are meeting eye-to-eye along the vanishing edges of alpine ice patches. While archaeologists eagerly recover ancient artifacts, caribou reluctantly clamour for pockets of cool snow. They are now laying on totally melted ice patches out of instinct, which is bad news because the exposed dark dung bands absorb solar radiation and drive up caribou body temperature. They are returning to cool down at ancestral resting spots that no longer exist.
Ice patches that lasted for over four millennia have vanished in the last 50 years. Jennifer Galloway of the Geological Survey of Canada studies changes in northern plant communities by inspecting ancient pollen and her research helps uncover the rate, magnitude, and direction of climate change over the last 10,000 years. She’s detected dramatic changes in the recent past and hopes to use that information to understand how regions like the mountains of the NWT may experience future changes if the climate continues to warm.
The causes of global warming are debated but the alpine effects are clear. It is ironic that as the ice melts it unlocks a story of prehistoric hunting while exposing those very clues of the ancient past to destructive high altitude weather. A book is opening and quickly closing. Much remains to be learned. If modern climbers find old bones, wood, or a potential artefact, please leave them in place and contact the authors with some photographs or map coordinates so we can continue to learn about the deep past of life in the alpine.
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Cigars are one of the most commonly used stylish types of fermented tobacco. It is rolled up and dried form of tobacco which you must have seen quite often in movies or TV shows when a gangster or a mafia lit up and smoke. It is considered to be highly priced and showcases wealth and business. In more simple terms it is a rolled up tobacco in which one end is lit with fire while the other is the opening by which smokes enter the mouth. The tobacco used in the cigar is also quite special and its flavor is considered to be rich and deep. It is grown in the countries like Mexico, Cuba and Brazil. The best varieties of cigars are Cuban cigars which lit a tight and large wad of smoke and leaves. Cuban cigars are considered to be highly priced and experts content that Honduran cigars are easily the rival of Cuban cigars.
How Cigars made?
Cigars are considered to be very expensive and usually confined to banquets where smokers are held. Choice of tobacco leaves makes a cigar. It is made with a combination of heat and shade. This serves to lower the leaves, water and sugar content without causes leaves to rot. Once it is dried, they are slowly processed to fermentation. With time, controlling temperature and humidity, the leaves ferment without rotting. In such crucial period, the flavor and aroma builds into the cigar. Once the process of fermentation is complete, the leaves are sorted to decide whether it will be used a wrapper or a filler.
The later on, the leaves are kept moist and handled. As soon as the leaves are sorted out, a cigar maker rolls them into a shape and then sold in market. The flavor of the cigar depends mainly on the wrapper and filler used for making it. The final color of the product could be very light in shade, more brownish and greenish and known as double claro or black grown in Cuba or Brazil. The color of the wrapper decides its color. Most cigars are made up of fillers where smoking tobacco leaves are bundled together by binders and some of them are mixed with various tastes in order to give different shapes and tastes.
Where to find best Cigars?
One can search online to find great source for Rocky cigars because of its taste and choice. Online provides a great source for Rocky cigars to choose your cigar type.
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Strategic Leader Seminars
June 27, 2015 September 7, 2015 Lee Vinson
Sue Sears, VP Global Diversity and Inclusion at Kimberly-Clark and Kris Ruedebusch, KCP Senior Sales Capability Leader lead panel discussion with U.S. Army Brigade Commanders at the U.S. Army, Command and General Staff College, School for Command Prep, Brigade Pre Command and Command Sergeants Major Course
Fort Leavenworth, KS/ March 03, 2014 / — Kimberly Clark Corporation (KCC) and Apex Analytics Group (AAG) introduced Sue Sears, VP Global Diversity and Inclusion at Kimberly-Clark Corporation as the keynote speaker for the U.S. Army, School for Command Prep, Pre Command Course, “Strategic Leader Seminar” (SLS) held March 02 – 06 2015. The course is held fourteen times per year at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, School for Command Preparation located on Fort Leavenworth, KS.
Senior industry leaders from Kimberly Clark Corporation, led by Sue Sears, VP Global Diversity and Inclusion and Kris Ruedebusch shared their insights and experiences with the U.S. Army Brigade Pre-Command Course, 15-04 during the Strategic Leader Seminar session.
The Kimberly Clark leaders discussed the story behind their award-winning people strategy and shared how it is driving critical cultural changes for Kimberly Clark to adapt and grow to a changing global environment. “K-C’s workplace diversity and inclusion are integral to our growth strategy, and we realized how greater diversity in the management team benefits the growth of Kimberly-Clark’s businesses and brands” explained Sue Sears, Vice President of Global Diversity & Inclusion at Kimberly-Clark Corporation. The Kimberly Clark representatives were truly value-added in the PCC course. Their discussions and corporate perspectives on leading change and creating a positive and successful corporate culture were outstanding.” – COL (R) Tom Guthrie
The classroom of over 50 Army Brigade Commanders and Command Sergeants Majors (CSMs) were engaged and quickly grasped the importance and relevance of K-C’s people strategy to their roles as strategic leaders. KCC executives highlighted K-C’s strategy of delivering measurable business results by embedding the belief that greater diversity of thought, experience and perspective fosters new ideas, identifies breakthroughs, and helps minimize risks in order to achieve goals. KCC’s insights resonated well with the Army officers and senior non-commissioned officers (NCOs) as they connected the strategy to messages from senior Army leaders. One commander’s feedback highlighted this linkage “Great case study on how a company self-corrected to maintain relevance”.
“It is essential to have leadership from the top. Our CEO, Tom Falk, champions Kimberly-Clark’s efforts to create a more diverse and inclusive management team. He models the behavior we want to encourage across the organization.” (Source: Sue Sears Q&A Interview, Huffington Post Blog, 8/9/2014) US Army Veteran Kris Ruedebusch described how KCC’s diversity strategy extends to their development of military and veteran talent through their SALUTE network group which focuses on professional development and support of over 500+ military and veteran employees at Kimberly Clark. “Exposure to diverse environments and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of partners is a key component of professional development at Kimberly-Clark. SALUTE and Kimberly-Clark recognize the great diversity that military veterans can bring to the organization.” Explained Ben Johnson, Sr. Brand Manager Global Intimate Care and Founder Kimberly-Clark SALUTE.
“We really appreciated the leadership perspective Sue Sears of Kimberly Clark provided to our Army’s future senior leaders. Sue’s insights on leading change, valuing diversity and her sharing of techniques to help shape the strategic direction of the firm were unequivocally value-added. This joint outreach initiative recognizes the importance of how seniors can continue to learn from others; it was a truly enriching experience.” – COL (R) Todd Ebel, Director of Brigade Command Development Programs
I know I speak for all our employees at K-C in saying that we consider it a privilege to be there to help our veterans in any way we can for all the sacrifices they and their families have made for us. I was inspired by being with such a talented group of professionals during the SLS panel and believe that these military leaders model leadership every day and those skills are very transferrable to the business world.
About US Army PCC, Strategic Leader Seminar at Fort Leavenworth
This strategic leader seminar series is delivered during each Pre-Command Course and CESL course by the Apex Analytics team in support of US Army senior leader development objectives. The objective of each seminar is to deliver operationally relevant leadership topics and insights through the lens of industry. The SLS executive panel was moderated by CGSC SCP Army instructors Todd Ebel and Tom Guthrie, and Northwest Missouri State University’s School of Business professor Ben Blackford.
The U.S. Army Mission Command Pre Command Course addresses a range of critically important themes in the area of Army senior leadership and strategy. The Apex team brings academia and industry together to deliver the Strategic Leader Seminar, and address similar leadership themes through the lens of industry. The seminar series identifies and invites leading industry organizations to exchange perspectives in strategic leadership with U.S. Army Brigade commanders and Command Sergeants Major as well as senior government civilian executives. Keynote speakers include industry corporate thinkers and leaders in their field, as well as papers and workshops delivered by university professors and industry practitioners.
Kimberly-Clark (NYSE: KMB) and its well-known global brands are an indispensable part of life for people in more than 175 countries. Every day, nearly a quarter of the world’s population trust K-C’s brands and the solutions they provide to enhance their health, hygiene and well-being. With brands such as Kleenex, Scott, Huggies, Pull-Ups, Kotex and Depend, Kimberly-Clark holds No. 1 or No. 2 share positions in more than 80 countries. To keep up with the latest K-C news and to learn more about the Company’s 143-year history of innovation, visit www.kimberly-clark.com or follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
About Apex Analytics Group
Apex Analytics focuses on delivering a valuable Strategic Leader Seminar series for the U.S. Army’s SCP, helping to ensure their success and shape the future of the Army through the Commanders, CSMs, and senior Civilian Executives attending the course. Apex Analytics’ mission is to provide operationally relevant and professional services to our clients.
For more details about the information provided in this release please contact: James Dowdy, Apex Analytics Group, 913.314.3802. jd.dowdy@apexanalyticsgroup.com
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Back in the days on "The Talk of the Town" 930 CJCA (when it was talk radio, not Christian programming), his morning highlight and possibly the only reason my father didn't commit suicide in the 1980s recession was "The Bill and Bill Show" with Bill Matheson (the infamous weather guy) and Bill Jackson.
Amoungst their many topics, the most polarizing (heh heh) of all had to be the endless discussions of "do the northern lights make noise". At least twice a month the topic would come up and you'd get insistant calls from people who'd live in the north their entire lives who insisted that they had never once heard the northern lights make noise, followed by falls from more people who had lived in the north their entire lives who insisted that they had always heard them make noise. Then somebody would call up and say they were a scientist and explain briefly why the northern lights had to make noise, followed by another phone call from another scientist who patiently explained how the northern lights couldn't possibly make noise.
Well, Wikipedia doesn't even mention the controversy, but does link to this page:
The main results of the thesis
The analysis shows statistically significant correlation between the sound power fluctuation and the geomagnetic activity.
The cross-correlations were performed at one-third octave bands with different delay values.
The delays between magnetic field activity and sound power fluctuation at the highest correlation values speak for a sound source relatively close to the measuring place (ground level). Thus the possible audio range sound source (infrasounds excluded) is not located at the aurora light source, 80-100 km above the ground level, but relatively close to the ground.
The same audio data revealed a clear correlation peak at the upper infrasound range (<20Hz) with a delay corresponding to the sound wave traveling-delay from the level of the aurora light source to the ground (this outcome confirms a known result published earlier).
The possible physical mechanisms behind these sound effects are not yet known.
The simultaneously measured local electric field signals (a VLF antenna 20m from the microphone) indicated very low correlation with the measured sound signals (at zero delay) which means that the local electric field cannot be the cause of the acoustic signals detected.
The acoustic measurements were done with a highly sensitive, low noise, measuring microphone (B&K) which is carefully shielded against ambient electric and magnetic field disturbances.
So there you have it citizens: the aurora borealis do indeed make noise, and 1/2 of the callers to the Bill & Bill Show were idiots. (This probably isn't a surprising statistic)
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Scheduled Appearances for Bill Rodgers
2/4 - Impact Melanoma Meeting, Concord, MA
2/16 -NIRSA Conference, Boston, MA
2/8 - 2/9 - Podcast with the BAA in Boston, MA
2/22 - 2/24 - Hyannis Marathon / Half Marathon & 10K, Hyannis, MA
2/27 - Middlesex Chamber of Commerce, Concord , MA
3/20 - Boston Marathon Banner Day w/ the BAA & John Hancock, Boston, MA
3/15 - The Metro West Community Breakfast, Sheraton Hotel, Framingham, MA
4/3 - Grab the Torch, Horace Mann School, Bronx, NY
4/11 - 15 - Boston Marathon, Boston, MA
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4/26 - 4/28 - Pro Football Hall of Fame Marathon, Canton, OH
5/3 - 5/5 - Run For The Cows, Redding, CT
5/16 - BBL Workforce Challenge, Albany, NY at the Corporate Cup
5/17 - John Hancock, Boston, MA
6/2 - Charlies Surplus 10 Mile, Worcester, MA (Charlie Epstein Dedication takes place at 2:30pm)
6/5 - 6/8 - Bellin Run, 10K, Green Bay, WI
6/13 - 6/16 - Shelter Island 10K & 5K, Shelter Island, NY
7/8 - 7/10 - ZAP Fitness Camp, Blowing Rock, NC
7/11 - 7/14 - Boilermaker 15K & 5K Road Race, Utica, NY
7/24 - 7/27 - Bix 7 Mile, Davenport, IA
8/16 - 8/18 - Falmouth Road Race, Falmouth, MA
9/25 - 9/26 - Thompson Island Outward Bound, 4K X-country race, Boston, MA
9/28 - 9/29 - Team Daniel 5K, North Hempstead, NY
10/8 - Warsaw, Indiana, Warsaw Schools
10/25 - 10/27 - Overton Park 5 Mile Classic, Memphis, TN
11/1 - 11/3 - NYC Marathon, New York City, NY
Bill will be appearing at the following locations during the NYC Marathon weekend:
Friday November 1st, 10am at "The Run Center" @ 320 West 57th Street.
Friday November 1st, 3pm at "Tavern on the Green" Central Park, W 67th St, New York, NY - meeting with NYC Marathon Streakers!
Saturday November 2nd, 11am at the Javits Center, NYC Marathon Expo, 429 11th Ave, New York, NY
11/21 - 11/24 - Philadelphia Marathon, PA
11/27 - 11/23 - Feaster 5 Expo & Race, North Andover, MA
12/6 - 12/8 - St. Jude Marathon, Memphis, TN
12/14 - 12/15 - Bill Rodgers Jingle Bell Run - 5K Somerville, MA
12/20 - 12/22 - Mt. Dora 5K & Half Marathon, MT Dora, FL
Click here to read a new article by Toni Reavis "BRRC: GONE BUT IRREPLACEABLE"
Bill won the Boston Marathon 40 years ago (in 1975) he broke the Boston record, the American record and it was the first sub two hour and ten minute time 2: 09:55 run at Boston. It was a race that when you look back at how he ran, nobody was going to beat him he stopped for water and to tie his shoes, which were Nike racing shoes that he got in the mail a week before the race from Steve Prefontaine. The shoes were a bit large and he would have to stop and tie them up for better support.
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Release of teachers' bonuses until Nov. 2 — DepEd
By Jade D. Miguel
MANILA, Oct. 13 (PNA) — The Department of Education (DepEd) is releasing the 2013 Performance Based Bonus (PBB) of teachers and other DepEd employees starting this month until early November, this year.
In an interview with the Philippines News Agency, DepEd Assistant Secretary Tonisito Umali said that the release is ongoing and will continue until Nov. 2.
According to DepEd, around 600,000 teachers and non-teaching personnel of DepEd would receive their bonuses within the said period.
An amount of Php5 billion has been allocated by the DepEd for the bonuses of all public school teachers and non-teaching personnel.
As for the delay of the PBB release, Umali said that the DepEd had to "check on all the ratings" of schools and teachers relative to the PBB criteria such as the school's drop-out rate, national achievement test (NAT) performance and the disbursement of school’s funds as the bases of school’s performance, which has also become the basis of individual teacher’s performance.
Aside from that, Umali said that the DepEd also "classified schools as small, medium and big" and computed the amount of bonus to be released for the teachers corresponding to the formula designed by the department prior to the release of teachers' bonuses.
The PBB varies from Php5,000 to a maximum of Php35,000 depending on the individual employee's and the agency/office's performance rating. It is one of two incentives under Executive Order No. 80 signed by President Benigno S. Aquino III in July 2012.
Another incentive signed is the productivity enhancement incentive (PEI) which amounts to Php5,000 and is given to all the employees and officials of the government.
Umali noted that previously, a one-time PEI amounting to Php10,000 is only given by the government to teachers and government employees, but with the said Executive Order, they can now receive more than Php10,000.
Meanwhile, DepEd Assistant Secretary Jesus Mateo said that all DepEd employees will receive their bonuses on the said period "depending on the completeness in the submission of requirements." For the school divisions, they are required to submit liquidation reports of the maintenance and operating expenses, national achievement test, and governance condition transparency.
“All DepEd employees will receive their bonuses between this month and next month depending on the completeness in the submission of requirements,” Mateo said. (PNA)
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2 Responses to “Release of teachers' bonuses until Nov. 2 — DepEd”
anpalz on October 22nd, 2014 3:39 pm
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhh….wag na ibigay yan….parang ayaw naman ibigay eh…
joseph on October 22nd, 2014 4:56 pm
all are false alarms..
laging nasa news pero wala nman..
ano bah. toh> nasaan nah ang pera?
Hardship allowance for MG teachers asan nah?
wala na rin?
or Ubos nah?
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Mighty Milton embarking on a two book adventure
BLM Team | November 28, 2018
We’re absolutely thrilled that Chicken House have acquired Milton the Mighty by debut writer Emma Read, a funny, quirky adventure with a uniquely lovable spider hero at its heart.
The novel was shortlisted for the 2017 Bath Children’s Novel Award. Barry Cunningham, Chicken House Publisher, acquired World Rights to Milton the Mighty and a sequel from Lauren Gardner. Line illustrations and cover have been commissioned from illustrator and picture book author Alex G. Griffiths.
Aimed at readers aged 7+, the story explores themes of fake news, phobia and friendship as Milton is falsely accused of being dangerous in the media.
When little spider Milton discovers he’s been branded deadly on social media – and is targeted by pest-killers BugKILL – he fears for his life and the future of his species. Alongside his BFFs, big hairy Ralph and spindly daddy-long-legs Audrey, he searches for a way to clear his name. But to succeed, Milton realises he must communicate with his house humans, a school-girl called Zoe and her arachnophobic dad … Is he mighty enough to achieve the impossible?
Emma Read has previously worked as a biologist, and now uses her transferable skills such as attention to detail, patience and fine motor skills to both write children’s books and extract Lego from under the sofa. She lives in Bath with her young family.
Emma said, ‘As Milton’s house-human, I’m thrilled to be sharing his adventures with the world. Working with Chicken House is a dream come true, and we are celebrating with a double-helping of fruit-fly flan.’
Illustrator Alex G. Griffiths said, ‘Collaborating with such a great publisher and author has of course been very exciting for me. Emma’s story is heart-warming, funny and filled with great characters, and has been such a pleasure to illustrate.’
Milton the Mighty will be publishing in July 2019 with the sequel to follow in 2020.
Barry Cunningham, Chicken House publisher and MD said, ‘Isn’t it exciting to find a whole world of wonder in those dark corners? Milton will change the way we feel about spiders forever – and I can’t wait to show how respect, love and fun are the really right feelings to have about our eight legged companions!’
Lauren Gardner said, ‘Emma and Milton captured my heart in their wonderful web from the very first submission, and I am delighted to have found them a publishing home with the brilliant team at Chicken House.’
Categories: Children's Tags: Barry Cunningham, Bath Children's Novel Award, Chicken House, Emma Read, Milton the Mighty
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ENGL 221 - Major British Writers I
Kyle Dickson
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Festive Comedy
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by Kyle Dickson | 10.13.09 | 221-Early Modern
Most students come to college with some familiarity with the plays of William Shakespeare, but often these previous experiences were with tragedies. What many of these students find surprising then is that the immortal Bard, the Sweet Swan of Avon, could also tell a joke. As a young playwright, Will was actually quite fond of them, writing almost as many comedies as tragedies and histories combined. He enjoyed laughing at the madness of love, puncturing self-conceit, and wordplay, lots of wordplay. Shakespeare's early comedies like A Comedy of Errors and Midsummer Night's Dream are light, airy confections dependent upon puns and mistaken identity; later in his career William began to develop more complicated, layered forms of comedy that balanced festivity with solemnity, young love with menace, light with shadow, but more on that later. For now, take a few minutes to read Susan Snyder's introduction to The Genres of Shakespeare's Plays (labeled “Session 1”) and then return to this assignment to complete the exercise below.
Shakespeare's Genres – Session 1
Genre in the Video Store Exercise
Even if you've never used the word “genre” outside of an English class, you've no doubt had passionate debates on the subject while standing in the aisles of a video store. You can't walk into a Blockbuster without overhearing the couple next to you discussing which movie they'll rent: he wants something with a car chase and she wants something sweet but not too sad. Questions of genre are a familiar part of video-store culture, influencing every part of the ritual down to the organization of the store itself.
Before class, list as many broad types of movie as you can, starting with the basic categories and then dividing this list into subgenres if possible. These categories are always just behind our first response to a new movie. When someone says they liked or didn't like the new Julia Roberts movie, they are silently comparing it to other films she has starred in or other favorite romantic comedies. To adapt Susan Snyder's observation,
In recognizing such habits as [improbable plots and witty dialogue in a romantic comedy] . . . we construct a notion of a [film's] modus operandi that in turn conditions our reactions as dialogue and action unfold. A sense of the norms of genre guides us through that unfolding: prompting sympathy or detachment, highlighting the significance of what we witness, and raising expectations about what is to come. The [screenwriter/director] may also at times invoke generic codes in order to play against them, refusing to fulfill the expectations he has aroused and thus pointing us in a marked new direction. (“Session 1” )
List 2 or 3 examples of recent films that raise expectations based on genre only to fulfill them or play against them. Then in 2-3 sentences, explain how the audience's understanding of these norms is used or manipulated. We'll return to this conversation in class.
Comic Genres Review
The term Shakespearean Comedy is deceptively singular. No single definition or narrowly-defined genre can contain the 14 plays listed as comedies in the 1623 First Folio, including plays as diverse as Much Ado About Nothing and The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest and Twelfth Night. Neither did Shakespeare draw on a single tradition or set of models, varying his methods as often as his material.
Return to Susan Snyder's The Genres of Shakespeare's Plays web-seminar and read “Session 4.” Pay special attention to descriptions of the festive (or festival) roots of English Comedy. You might list festive characteristics you can reflect on as you finish reading the play.
Reread Feste's clowning scene with Sir Andrew and Sir Toby from Act 2, scene 3 (1096-1100). Then watch the following clip from a 1996 film adaptation. You probably noticed the similarities between Feste's lyrics and the carpe diem tradition. If the enemy of love in carpe diem poetry is time, in Twelfth Night what are the enemies of comedy or the festive spirit? If specific characters come to mind, what values or ideas do they represent?
Present Mirth clip
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ENAMORED ARMOR
The Potency of the Female Figure
GLASSBORO, NJ – Rowan University Art Gallery welcomes guest curator Amie Potsic with this exhibition. Three women artists reframe the cultural construct of feminine as empowering in Enamored Armor. The opening reception and artist talk is on Thursday, November 29 from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. The exhibit is on display from November 29, 2018 – January 12, 2019.
Featuring work by Marjan Moghaddam, Mari Ogihara, and Tiantian Li, Enamored Armor includes references inspired by art history, cultural specificity, and contemporary society. The classical figure serves as a basis, as the artists investigate the multiplicity of ways in which women choose to present and redefine themselves in pursuit of potency and self-discovery. Through video, painting, sculpture, and Augmented Reality, their work spans a historical spectrum of millennia with a finger on the pulse of current artistic practice, the women’s empowerment movement, and emerging technologies.
Marjan Moghaddam is an award-winning and pioneering digital artist and animator who works primarily with 3d computer graphics, motion capture, and digital media for animation, post-internet art. Her work has been exhibited internationally, in addition to curated shows at the Armory Show in NYC and Art Basel Miami. In her digital female bodies, Marjan utilizes aesthetic styles as part of a figural vocabulary that explores the evolving nature of humanity. The figures represent the deconstruction of the organic, and its fracturing and fragmentation as it migrates from the physical to the digital.
Mari Ogihara’s work ranges from female figures to colorful biomorphic sculptures. She connects her understanding of how a samurai got ready for battle with the way women throughout history have prepared their physical appearance for sexual intimacy. Ogihara has held international residencies in France, Japan, Brazil, and Mexico in addition to multiple residencies in the United States.
Tiantian Li’s work has been shown in numerous Philadelphia galleries in addition to major art museums in China. In her watercolors she explores ideation of female intimacy and emotions expressed through portraits of her lingerie superposition with portraits of historical characters from the renaissance period, which represents a time of enlightenment and romantic expression. She is encouraging women to take a positive perspective on their bodies and female representation while giving themselves the attention, humor, and respect they deserve.
The Rowan University Art Gallery is located at 301 High Street West. Free 2-hour public parking is available in the Mick Drive Parking Garage across the street from the gallery. Admission to the gallery, lecture, and reception is free and open to the public. Regular gallery hours are Monday – Wednesday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Thursday – Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Directions can be found on the gallery website. For more information, call 856-256-4521 or visit www.rowan.edu/artgallery.
Support for programming at Rowan University Art Galleries is also made possible by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.
“Baisser in Mary Boone, in Glassish & Waxish Glitch“ from marjan moghaddam on Vimeo.
Thank you to Mary Salvante for the content of this post.
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UTSAV LAL & JESSE SPARHAWK
live at Fire Museum Presents
Indian Classical Ragas on the Piano
Philadelphia, PA, United States HOUSE GALLERY 1816
Time: Saturday @ 8:00 PM
Admission Free/Donation requested
Young Steinway Artist and Yamaha Jazz Scholar, creative pianist /composer Utsav Lal, often known as the ‘Raga Pianist’ has set a precedent with his innovative handling of Indian Classical music .
Jesse Sparhawk: is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser whose instruments include harp, guitar, and electric bass.
Seating is limited and is on a first come basis. For more info: steven@museumfire.com
HOUSE GALLERY 1816, 1816 Frankford Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19125 between Berks and Montgomery.
Transport: Closest septa stop is Berks St and you can cut across the school feed for a shortcut into Fishtown. Bus# 25 stops on Frankford Ave.
Raga Malkauns (Alap-Jod-Jhala) London – Utsav Lal (2018)
Ragapianist. Published on Jul 16, 2018, Live at St. Nicholas Church , Chiswick, London May 2018
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PGH Excavating Depends on Kenworth Vocational Trucks To Move Business Forward
Posted on December 5, 2019 by agibson
For Chris and Nick Thornhill, owners of PGH Excavating, moving dirt runs deep in their DNA. By watching their father own and operate a successful hauling business that served excavating companies, the two brothers learned how the industry worked at an early age.
Chris Thornhill of PGH Excavating and Kenworth T880S Dump
“When my brother Nick and I each turned 18, we went to work for our dad,” said Chris Thornhill. “I drove a Kenworth dump truck and delivered material to backfill jobsites. My brother helped contractors grade jobsites to create level surfaces. We learned so much through the years, we decided to start our own company.”
In 2007, Chris and Nick founded PGH Excavating. Before the Enumclaw-based company could haul its first load of dirt, it needed to acquire heavy equipment, as well as a few trucks and trailers. Chris and Nick’s first purchase was a Kenworth long-hood from their father.
“From the days of operating a Kenworth truck myself, I knew first-hand that a Kenworth would run for years,” said Thornhill. “My dad was a Kenworth customer for more than 40 years and he was keen on running equipment that would be reliable, while at the same time, offer drivers trucks they would be proud to drive.”
From left, Kenworth W990 and two Kenworth T880S models
Since that first purchase, the company has steadily grown its fleet to include 15 heavy-duty trucks, primarily a mix of Kenworth long hoods and vocational models. The company operates two Kenworth T880s and two T880S models equipped with PACCAR MX-13 engines rated at 510 hp. The company also has a W990, Kenworth’s new long-hood model.
“Kenworths have always been reliable. The performance we’re getting from our T880s is especially high,” said Thornhill. “In the past four years, our T880s have only missed two days of work. That speaks volumes to the quality of the PACCAR MX-13 engine. We’re a dependable company; minimal downtime keeps our drivers on the road, delivering for our customers and making money. It’s a win for us across the board, so we plan on adding more Kenworth T880S models with MX-13 engines.”
PGH Excavating fitted one T880 and one T880S with super solo dump bodies, capable of hauling 25 tons. The other T880 and T880S are equipped with Sturdy-Weld dump bodies that can haul up to 17 tons.
Kenworth T880S Dumps
The company’s T880s and T880S trucks deliver material to jobsites that require extra material for grading, or they can take excess straight to the dump site. PGH Excavating offers grading services at the locations where it removes material and can also deliver grading product fresh from one site to another.
“We’ll often drive up to 90 miles through the congested city streets in and around Seattle, so it’s important to us to maximize each payload,” said Thornhill. “Some jobsites will take a week or less to clear and grade. Others, like massive neighborhood developments, can take more than a decade. We’ll typically send our super solo trucks to areas with heavy traffic, so we don’t have to make as many runs to that area. The PACCAR MX-13 engine gives our trucks plenty of power even with the added weight.”
Kenworth T880S Dump
To transport the company’s excavating equipment to and from jobsites, PGH Excavating relies on their new W990 purchased through Papé Kenworth Northwest – SeaTac. So far, the truck has surpassed all expectations.
“When the W990 first became available, we wanted to be one of the first companies to own one,” said Thornhill. “We did our research and placed an order with Ray Lute, salesman at Papé Kenworth Northwest, who worked with our dad for a number of years. Since we began operating the W990 earlier this year, it’s been performing flawlessly.”
The Kenworth W990 is equipped with a 605 hp engine and an 18-speed Eaton Fuller manual transmission. The W990 pulls a 5-axle lowboy trailer; the company expects it will put on 60,000 miles in its first full year of operation.
“We get plenty of comments on how clean and beautiful our trucks look, but the W990 in particular, has received a lot of attention,” said Thornhill. “I’ve always been a fan of the traditional long-hood. As we phase out some of our older rigs, the W990 will replace them.”
High driver turnover can sometimes be an issue for fleets in the trucking industry. For PGH Excavating, driver retention has never been an issue.
“Many of our drivers have been with us from the very beginning,” said Thornhill. “Our driver retention is well above the industry average, thanks in large part, to the equipment we own. Our drivers really enjoy the enhanced comfort provided by the wide Kenworth cabs, as well as the enhanced visibility.”
Thornhill will be the first to admit that PGH Excavating doesn’t drum up new business from the looks of its excavation equipment. Its Kenworth trucks, however, are a different matter.
“People recognize us for the Kenworth trucks we have on the road,” said Thornhill. “They are a great marketing tool for us, and help us establish the image we want to portray to potential customers. We strive to put the best trucks on the road, and Kenworth continues to be that truck.”
Kenworth T880S dump (left rear) and Kenworth W990 (center front)
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No Ordinary Being: Starling Burgess (1878 – 1947)
Over the past thirty or forty years Llewellyn Howland III, the genial proprietor of Howland & Co Books in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts has written more than a few books and articles, mainly about maritime subjects. All have been meticulously researched, scholarly, written well in the simple but elegant style that one would expect of a former editor at the venerable Boston publisher Little Brown, and they are also literate and engaging as well as entertaining. You don’t have to be a world-class sailor or a naval history buff to enjoy Louie’s books as they are eminently readable, but it helps if you are interested in classic yachts and everything about them. When talking to Louie, or calling up to order a book from his ever seductive and informative catalogue, many friends and customers heard about his many years (decades really) of research into the life and work of W Starling Burgess. In the 1980s some of his findings were written up in a series of articles in Wooden Boat magazine. However, when asked about publication in book form, Louie was uncharacteristically vague. He would mention some new source, new interviews, newly discovered materials, and yet another good story. Several years ago, and with time ticking on, he was strong-armed by the folks at the New Bedford Whaling Museum into agreeing to proceed. With David Godine as publisher and in association with the Whaling Museum and Mystic Seaport Museum, which signed on, he was left with no further option for evasion. And thus No Ordinary Being (a reference to a quote by AJ Munnings of the Royal Academy in a letter to the Times of London about the designer of ENTERPRISE, ca 1930), W Starling Burgess (1878 – 1947) came into being.
The book, which has been printed in landscape ratio rather than portrait, is a hefty several pounds and runs to 455 pages; it is printed in soft grey tones on matte finished paper. Since there are numerous illustrations (prints, plans, images, sketches, and the like from throughout Burgess’s life) the horizontal shape, the gray tones and the matte paper suit the book and the material admirably. The book encompasses a deeply researched and carefully written narrative, an afterword, acknowledgments, list of yachts and other vessels designed by Burgess, aircraft designed by Burgess, notes on sources, bibliography and index. Louie once told me that there are over 200 illustrations, and I am sure there are.
The Burgess Schooner NINA
Now for some observations: W Starling Burgess was the son of the noted designer Edward Burgess whose designs for Gloucester fishing schooners and other vessels accomplished during a short life led to a series of handsome, fast, able and sea-kindly boats. During his somewhat longer life Starling was involved in several design offices (friendships with the Stephens Brothers – Rod and Olin, L Francis Herreshoff) and he was involved with numerous women, being married five times. During his life he endured tragedy (the suicide of his first wife and the tragic drowning of his elder son) and enjoyed triumph. His designs range from fishing schooners (COLUMBIA, PURITAN) to J-Class yachts (ENTERPRISE, RANGER) to Metre class boats (VARUA), the brigantine designed for William Albert Robinson to sail to the South Seas, the cutter BARNSWALLOW (a boat I’ve always admired and that someone needs to restore), many different power and cruising as well as racing boats, and of course, one of the greatest of all schooners NINA (lost with all hands in the Tasman Sea in 2013). In association with others he designed (and flew) early planes, was involved with Buckminster Fuller and the Dymaxion car and many other projects such as WWII anti-submarine work for the US Navy and Air Force.
Sir Norman Foster and his Dymaxion car
Many of Burgess’s designs plans are at Mystic Seaport Museum where they are accessible for the yachtsman to review. It is curious that with the growing fondness for classic yachts no one has engaged a boatyard to build one of his designs. Imagine a 6, 8, 10 or 12-Metre, or a P, Q, or R boat, or even a steam tug as designed by Mr Burgess! About the planes, the cars, and other inventions I cannot comment as they are beyond my ken but the idea of a Dymaxion car rather tickles my fancy and obviously it ticked Lord Norman Foster’s fancy too because in 2010, the British architect had one built.
The book will assuredly be the most authoritative biography of Starling Burgess for years to come, perhaps for all time. In his elegant narrative and gracious manner Louie Howland has written a narrative that does justice in full measure to the complex and complicated creative and personal life of a truly original American thinker, inventor, yacht and aircraft designer – an American genius and NO ORDINARY BEING – in what is no ordinary book!
Virginia Crowell Jones
Author: Virginia Crowell Jones
Filed Under: Beautiful yachts, classic yacht history, Great Designers, Reviews
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I Am Nigerian. I Am American. I Will Not Choose.
A.C.T. Master of Fine Arts Program alum Mfoniso Udofia is taking the American theater by storm. Her current project is the Ufot Family cycle, a series of nine plays exploring a family of Nigerian immigrants in America. The cycle has been workshopped at leading new-play incubators, including SPACE on Ryder Farm and Dr. Barbara Ann Teer’s National Black Theatre. Three of the plays—Sojourners, runboyrun, and Her Portmanteau—have been produced at The Playwrights Realm, Magic Theatre, and New York Theatre Workshop. Now, she is back at A.C.T. with Her Portmanteau. After 22 years apart, Nigerian-born Iniabasi Ekpeyong—bearing a worn portmanteau—reunites with her mother and half-sister in Manhattan. This coming together isn’t easy. The women must sort through their literal and figurative baggage as they uncover their personal and familial identities. We chatted with Udofia about the Nigerian American identity and the importance of having Black bodies onstage.
Scenic designer David Reynoso, playwright Mfoniso Udofia, and director Victor Malana Maog at the first rehearsal for Her Portmanteau. Photo by Elspeth Sweatman.
A big theme in Her Portmanteau is identity. It’s a tricky place to live, caught between multiple cultures, languages, and countries.
It is. Especially when the country you are from becomes more and more unlike the country you’re now in. The United States is a very individualistic society. Nigeria is more collectivist. Being a Nigerian in America, it’s always a fight between the “I”—“I want to succeed”—and the “we”: “This is what we have always done. This is what we need to do.” There’s always a struggle within second-generation offspring; I can look at my foreign-born parents and their culture that is also a part of me and understand it, but also look at American culture and ethos and understand that. As a playwright, I want to illuminate that intersection, because I actually live it. I am Nigerian and I am American and I will not choose. The more we see stories where we are living in this intersection, the easier it will be for those of us who live there.
How does your work tackle the misconception that all Africans are from impoverished war-torn areas?
Africans from those areas exist, and the plays that chronicle their lives can be illuminating and impactful. But if those representations become the only truths you see related to an African body, that’s problematic. The Africa that I know, and the Nigeria that I know, do not look like that. Did we have a cataclysmic, terrifying war? Yes. The first modern, African civil war—the Biafran War—happened in my ancestral homeland. But do we also barbecue at our house in Massachusetts? Yeah. It’s important to me that audiences see different kinds of Blackness in relation to each other. In TV shows or plays, you see only Nigerians in Nigerian stories, only African Americans in African American stories, Jamaicans in Jamaican stories; you never see us all interacting. My Ufot cycle wants to look at what happens when Africa and the African Diaspora do interact, and interact from a place of love.
Her Portmanteau—Udofia’s fourth installment in her Ufot Cycle—begins previews at A.C.T.’s Strand Theater February 15. Get your tickets here. And to read the full interview with Udofia, purchase a copy of Words on Plays, A.C.T.’s in-depth guide to mainstage productions.
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Auntie Winnie's Hands
Lolita has been on my mind of late simply because I happen to be reading The Annotated Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Edited with Preface by Alfred Appel Jr. As to why I am reading it my readers here may have to wait a couple more days for a full explanation.
I mention Lolita because the idea of an older man interested in young girls is an experience I have never had. When I was interested in 12-year-old girls I was 10 or 12. I have never felt much of an attraction for a woman much younger than I. And as I get older that gulf seems to get wider. The voices of the announcers of the young females on CBC Radio sound like Canadian variations of Valley Girls of yore. They don’t excite me. Give me Barbara Budd from As It Happens if you want to get any kind of a rise from me. I am not interested in re-gaining my youth through interaction with a young woman or a young girl. It seems that a young blonde girl (in combination with a bright red Mazda Miata) is supposed to give the aging man a sense of a new-found youth. I have never felt that. For me it has been quite the opposite.
Many years ago in the beginning of the 70s I was teaching a grade 12 class in a Mexico City private school. I would often say to my class, “I feel so young when I face you.” One day I was taken to task and one of my students said, “That must be because you are surrounded by youth.” My reply shocked them, “No, it is because I am surrounded by prematurely old people set in their ways who must practice all kinds of self-imposed regulations (particularly dress ones) to feel that they fit in.”
I have often wondered why politicians such as Winston Churchill became more conservative with age. I always thought that one could risk more when time is short. And yet there were people like Bertrand Russell and Linus Pauling who became more liberal and forward thinking as they aged. I mention this as one of my blog follwers sent me a missive suggesting that I was stressing much to much the "age thing". Quite to the contrary I want to point out all the advantages. About a month ago I lost all the data on a hard drive. It included a year's worth (2009) of plant scans and a Power Point presentation that my granddaugther Rebecca and I did at the World Rose Convention back in June. I was devastated. But I noticed that as days became weeks the sense of loss was diminishing to the point that I did not feel the loss at all. When John from Powersonic (in Richmond) called to say, "I have retrieved the data (including those plant scans and the Power Point Presentation) from that drive. It will cost you $600." I felt like saying, "John it is not important at all, anymore. Few things at my age are and that's good!"
It did not come as a shock to me when last week at a birthday party at an East Broadway Japanese restaurant honoring my friend Charles Campbell ( a sort of snobbish “I protest the Olympics” sort of party as it began at 7 pm the day of the opening ceremonies) when another friend Maja Grip told me, “For the first time I see that you are aging.” I felt like countering with a kind reply (kind replies come with age) in which I would have said, “For someone your age who never flaunted her charms you are showing today a fair amount of very attractive cleavage.”
It was about 5 years ago that I had a model that I have photographed many times during the years come into my studio. She was a beautiful woman who in the last 10 years has cut her lovely hair and worn clothing she would have never worn before. It is almost as if she wanted to hide her beauty to be accepted for who she is. I would argue that individuality is what makes us be me and not her and part of that individuality is how we look. A world of look-alike clones would be a most confusing one.
As I was adjusting my camera settings she looked at my hands and gasped. “What is it?” I asked. She said nothing. I knew that she had noticed my weathered/age/garden hands and suddenly noticed that I was a much older man. It could have been that my hands were an equivalent to looking at herself in the mirror.
Hands have always been important in my life. I remember my father’s strong but small and elegant hands stained by his Player’s Navy Cut cigarettes. I remember my mother’s beautiful piano hands with long slim fingers and immaculate finger nails. She also had beautiful feet which I inherited. Alas I did not inherit her hands but until that model had noticed my hands in the studio I had always bragged about my gentleman’s hands. They were hands that were soft and uniform in colour with nicely kept nails. I bragged that I didn’t have the hands of a ditch digger.
But garden work and particularly the caring for my beloved roses have changed that. Just the pruning of a viciously endowed rambler, Rosa ‘Albertine” a few days ago has left my hands with scratches, wounds and festering sores.
Rosemary cannot remember when it exactly happened that she stopped being able to trim the nails of her right hand. She comes over to my side of the bed (the left side) and sits on the edge so I can trim her nails (anybody out there, a small portable hand vacuum would make an excellent Christmas present).
I have few memories of my father’s older brother, my Uncle Harry and his wife Winnie. One involves a nighttime dinner at their Acassuso home in Buenos Aires. I could smell Uncle Harry’s predilection for tobacco and alcohol as I watched him whip up some Colman’s mustard. I may have been 7 or 8 but I did notice that he put in a teaspoonful of sugar into the mixture. His hands were big. They looked like a working man's hands. Last year my first cousin Willoughby Blew came to visit us with his wife from Florida. He watched me put sugar into my Coleman’s (now Keen’s) powder and said, “Just like Uncle Harry used to make it.”
It is the other memory of my Auntie Winnie serving us tea in her quintessential English dining room on a sunny afternoon when I noticed her disfigured hands. She could barely lift the tea pot to serve us tea. I have no other image of Auntie Winnie. Her face is a blur but her hands are as sharp in my memory now as the shock of seeing them as a little boy then.
That memory is reinforced every night when I sleep. I move around and my hands get caught under the pillow. My pinkies throb. I have arthritis. At my rate I will soon not be able to prune my roses as the secateurs will be unmanageable in my hands.
But I know for sure I will still be able to stir in that sugar into my mustard.
If anybody were to ask me precisely what my style is when I shoot my portraits I would answer, “I like eye contact with my camera and I always try to incorporate my subject’s hands. After our face, our hands reveal the most about us.”
Link to: Auntie Winnie's Hands
The Dithering Photographer And His Clones
About 10 years ago three photographers (I was one of them, and one of the others was a woman who also became one of my subjects) had a project which we repeated three times. It started at a downtown café called Subi’s. I told the other two that we would pick a fairly attractive female and bring her to the studio for a group shot. Then during a month each one of us would photograph her and make sure that none of us were aware of what the other was doing. At the studio I would plainly tell our subject, “If at any time any of us ask you to undrape you must do it. If there is any objection to this, tell us now.” Then we would have a one night show in my studio. One of our subjects Corrie Clark reneged on our instructions and I had a hard time (I succeeded in the end) in making her undrape.
It took me years to go through the normal channels of not knowing how to convey to my subject that I wanted her to take it all off. I had not discovered the direct approach nor was I aware that for every photographer that wants to have the model take it all off there is a large multitude of subjects who will readily volunteer if asked.
With one model in particular I was particularly indirect and obtuse. I dithered around taking pictures that were not satisfying me in the least. Finally my model said, “Is this what you really want?” and she lowered the straps of her slip and exposed her breasts. I blushed and took my pictures.
Since that one time I have learned to put my cards on the table. There was one young woman who told me, “You can only photograph 25% of this and you can only go as far down as here. I turned off my lights and told her that she could go.
In another occasion I had two very beautiful young women in my studio and to break the ice I told them, “I have two daughters who are both older than both of you. I am not in the least interested in you except as my photographic subjects. I prefer women my age and that is why I am attracted to my wife. I just want to take your pictures.” They looked at each other and walked out of my studio. Since then I have been ambivalent about being direct and in some cases I have chosen to say less and take more pictures instead.
Of late, without my studio, I have given the whole process some thought. I occasionally teach a nude portrait class at Focal Point and with my instructions my students become my surrogates and take pictures my style. This led to one of my students saying to me in the presence of my other students, “What you want to do is to turn us into little Alexes.” He got up and walked out and never did return.
It had all begun when my student had projected some pictures which we critiqued. One of our models had been slightly on the large size. I always tell my students that it is our obligation to make people as good as we can and if possible even better. A lot of this can be done with lighting and camera angles. The moving of the body can diminish neck folds (anathema!) and I tell my students I don’t want to look at armpit folds (double anathema!). The student in question did nothing to hide the model’s pendulous breasts. I pointed this out and was told that there was nothing wrong with pendulous breasts. I asked one of my female students if she would be happy with pictures that showed her breasts as being like that. She agreed that she would not be happy. To finish the argument my student said, “We pay the model. We can make her look anyway we want.” It is in such times that I feel like picking up sticks and moving to Trelew in Patagonia and learn to speak Welsh. But that is not a viable option at this moment.
I photographed María de Lurdes Behar three times. The third time she was one of my tub women for a show. The first time around I took pictures when I was still in the height of my dithering period. It was 1990.
After some exposures I finally came up with enough nerve and most of her clothes were discarded. Some of these pictures are extraordinarily beautiful. Because my intention was always to photograph the model undraped I never did look at the pre-undraped exposures with any interest, until now.
At my age I find my drive (that one!) is diminishing and my idea of what is erotic is more in the direction of subtlety. Clothed, is now suddenly much more interesting. I found a couple of pictures of María de Lurdes which I think are beautiful. I hope that anybody looking at them might just agree.
Link to: The Dithering Photographer And His Clones
The Last Intruders - By Sean Rossiter
NAS Whidbey Airshow … Rossiter… 15 August 94
Former Navy pilot Stephen Coonts is working on a follow-up to his novel Flight of the Intruder, from which Paramount Pictures derived the popular Vietnam action movie in which a Navy A-6 crew decide to buck the president’s bombing guidelines and attack Hanoi. Coonts’s novel contains some of the best evocations of military flying since Pierre Closterman’s WWII memoir The Big Show appeared in 1951. Both books remove the romantic veneer from the war in the air, at least partly because bombing is so much more dangerous and morally ambiguous than air-to-air combat.
The movie was distributed to carrier air groups during the Gulf War, when it might have been expected to boost morale. It was, after all, the first depiction of the nerd of carrier aviation, Grumman’s A-6 Intruder. To real-life A-6 flight and ground crews, though, the flyboy caricatures they saw of themselves were a grave slight. Like most aviation pictures, Flight of the Intruder is in trouble as soon as the action returns to the carrier deck.
Maybe Paramount will do better with Coonts’s new book The Intruders. The actual A-6 community is more complex is infinitely more interesting than director John Milius’ portrayal. Certainly more professional. Capt. John Schork’s bomber-pilot war stories are less about combat than accounts of the ongoing battle with fear of celebrations of sheer technique. Peace stories you might call them.
The Naval Air Station Whidbey Island’s executive officer, Commander Joe Nortz (think of the Tom Skerritt character in Top Gun but with fewer wrinkles), had promised us war stories. Not only would we hear war stories, but the guy telling them would be the base commander. NAS Whidbey’s CO, Schork flies more than a desk. He has flown the A-6 Intruder in three wartime situations, and he keeps himself current.
He told his first story with an arresting special effect: flames reflected in the left sides of his GI sunglasses. The explosives set off to simulate the effects of a pop-u bombing run by an A-6 had ignited the tinder-dry grass across from the air show flight line at NAS Whidbey’s annual Sea-N-Sky Festival last July. It was burning out of control.
The fireman supporting the A-6’s air show demonstration of bomb delivery techniques had put on a more impressive display than anybody had intended. Every once in a while a staff officer in immaculately-pressed dress whites would appear out of nowhere to whisper a firefighter’s progress report into Schork’s ear while he coolly offered his interviewer vivid reminiscences of two decades in the cockpit of the Navy’s deadliest combat airplane.
“The thing that really sticks with you is, we go out and fly low-level, high speed terrain-following through these mountains”- Schork makes an almost imperceptible motion with his right hand, past the fire raging 200 yards away, to the Cascade Mountains ---“and no matter how long you fly the airplane, you never lose the thrill….
“The only thing between me and the rocks and trees is good electronics and training. Every time I do it – and I’ve been doing it for 20 years – it is a thrill. There are few jobs,” he adds, quite unnecessarily, “where you get that kind of exhilarating feeling.”
Schork grew up in nearby Oak Harbor and is still among the most proficient A-6 drivers at the base. The Thursday before we met his name was spelled out on the base’s E for Excellence scoreboard as the current winner of the Norden Picklebarrel Award as the most accurate bomber pilot in attack squadron VA-128, NAS Whidbey’s training unit. (Norden is a maker of bombsights; a pickle barrel is what a good bomb sight enables you put your bombs into.) “I’m a little embarrassed, “Schork said, sounding pleased as punch. “The trophy is for the young guys, not old-timers like me.” Not only Schork was the most accurate pilot in its Replacement Air Group, Attack Squadron 128, But NAS Whidbey, his command, was the best installation in the Navy worldwide. He was having the month of his life.
Schork is a compact, thoughtful and intelligent man with a self-deprecating sense of humor who calls himself the worst quarterback in the history of Oak Harbor High. He has none of the professional warrior’s mannerisms. Maryanne Kilkenny, wife of VA-196’s executive officer, who returned from a six-month cruise aboard the carrier Carl Vinson last Sunday, calls Schork “a wonderful man,” an uncommon encomium in the military. (VA-196 “Main Battery,” by the way, is the outfit portrayed in Flight of the Intruder.) In every way except bulk he personifies the airplane. The two, man and airplane, have matured together since he first flew the A-6 in combat over Saigon the day the city was being abandoned to the North Vietnamese.
This year’s Sea-N-Sky Festival had an almost nostalgic undertone to it. NAS Whidbey exists as the largest naval air station on the Pacific coast – 9,000 on active duty and 2,500 civilians – because of the Grumman A-6 and EA-6b Prowler, its electronic warfare derivative. Working together with the lengthened, crew-of-four, EA-6B jamming enemy anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) and SAM radar, and the two-seat (pilot, bombardier-navigator) A-6 dropping bombs, the Intruder-Prowler team are the fleet’s sharp point. There is also a tanker version, the KA-6D. Several of NAS Whidbey’s squadron carry battle honors from the Gulf War and subsequent enforcement of the no –fly zone over Northern Iraq.
But there is no room in the Navy budget for further development of the Intruder/Prowler design. Thirty-four years after it first flew and a little more than three decades since it entered service, the A-6 is facing retirement. Three generations of naval aviators devoted their careers to it. Throughout its service life, they have celebrated it by pointing out that no other carrier-based combat aircraft could, as they put it, reach out and touch someone – anytime, anywhere. VA-196 is scheduled to be the last A-6 squadron in the Navy. It will be decommissioned in 1996.
Whidbey, identified as “Intruder Country” on one of its cavernous hangars, where the shriek of A-6s is thought of as “The Sound of Freedom,” wonders what could possibly replace the A-6. “It’s not so much the airplanes themselves,” says blonde and pregnant Kathy Roberts, even though her husband “loves it” and carries a picture of one in his wallet. “Does he carry a picture of you?” she is asked. “I don’t know!” she exclaims. “It’s not the airplane,” she says, “It’s the mission. It’s the whole responsibility of what he does.”
When it first flew in 1960, the A-6 was the smartest airplane in the fleet. An expensive airplane to begin with, 43 percent of the $25 million-a-copy (1990 dollars) Intruder’s cost was accounted for by its electronic equipment – an unheard-of proportion of brains to brawn. It had an onboard computer driving cathode-ray tube (CRT) displays for both pilot and bombardier-navigator, a feature introduced to commercial aviation on Boeing 757-767 airliners 15 years later.
Although the first four A-6 Intruders lost in combat over Vietnam were listed as having been downed by anti-aircraft artillery, aviation historians believe three of them were more likely to have been destroyed by their own bombs. The price of pioneering in warfare is usually high, and it was at least mitigated by excellent British Martin-Baker ejection seats that saved the lives of all eight crewmen, two of whom became prisoners of war.
One solution was to use explosives to actually blow the bombs off their racks under the wings. Another was to “pop-up” from the low-level run, climb to 2,000 feet, visually acquire the target by rolling the A-6 inverted, and then aim it at the target. A variation is to release the bombs while climbing vertically over the target. Doing a pop-up imposes a four-G load on the airplane and its crew, whose heads, burdened with helmets and breathing gear, become four times their normal weight. Then again, as the Sea-N-Sky Festival air show commentator, a Confederate Air Force Colonel from Arlington, Texas, explained over the PA, when you bomb while flying straight up, “You can be at home sipping a cold beer by the time the bombs go off.” The pop-up bomb run resolved the suicidal aspects of low-level bombing, which had become necessary because North Vietnam’s sophisticated SAM defenses made conventional high-level bombing out of the question. The technique also happened to create a sensational air show routine, “It looks pretty good from the inside, too,” Schork mentions.
There was an A-6 parked in front of Whidbey’s operations centre during the air show. Frank Silebi was putting in a long hot day in his polished black boots and khaki flying suit by the Intruder’s nose, telling anyone who would listen that he is part of a naval aviation milestone: “the last class ever for the A-6, “three pilots, one bombardier-navigator, doomed to become carrier qualified anachronisms. Silebi was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, but grew up from an early age in Pennsylvania. He can speak fluent Spanish. When Silebi was in flight t training, flying TA-4J Scooter on and off carriers, the withdrawal date for the A-6 was 1999. By the time he had his naval gold wings, the date had been moved ahead by two years. Flying the A-6 is Silebi’s reason for being in the Navy, and for a while he was afraid he might not be trained soon enough to do it. After all he says, “What’s better than flying low and flying fast?”
John Schork (43) and the airplane (34) came up together. Their careers are as one. Smart airplane, bright officer. The current Norden Picklebarrel Tropy holder put in three of his four combat tours with VA-95, the Green Lizards, celebrating 50 years of service last October. Schork’s Green Lizard tours have included his top-cover assignment over Saigon. It is now almost 20 years since John Schork made his combat debut ushering in peace over Vietnam in early 1975. The fire of his sunglass lenses lit up to the story as he described his first taste of the Real Thing, the thing he still wins awards training for: “I can remember orbiting Saigon. I could see Tan Son Hhut airbase burning. I can remember the tracer fire coming up against the gathering dusk, and the smoke, and thinking this was a historic evening. We were flying A-6s, loaded with bombs, as cover. Our helos (CH-53 helicopters) were circulating, evacuating people….” In other words, the A-6 was used over Saigon in a fighter’s role, able to fly safely in darkness. The concern was that if any helicopters were shot down that day, the vengeance impulse might extend the war. None were.
“It was a dependable airplane,” Schork says, lapsing into an early obituary for the A-6. “I’ve seen this thing come back with one of the horizontal stabilizers gone. It’s a forgiving airplane. It’s practically impossible to spin the airplane. I can take off at Whidbey and on-leg-it to Washington, DC. I have flown the thing trans-Pacific. We flew a strike from the carrier in mid-Pacific and flew 1500 miles to the Hawaiian Islands, at night, and flew back to the ship. That’s when you realize how big the Pacific is. Each of us had our own tanker. That’s you’re you realize what the airplane can do. “
There are plenty of guys at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island who feel the loss of their airplane will leave the world a less safe place. They don’t come out and say so. That would be unprofessional. Their wives are more straightforward on the subject.
I remember exactly when I fell in love with the A-6 myself. To me the Intruder and its genius brother, the Prowler, consisted of bulbous noses, bug-eyed and strong but sagging bellies: they were flying dump trucks, worthy of respect but hardly killer sex objects. Infatuation has a lot less to do with looks that with timing and circumstances.
It happened four years ago last Saturday. The air show in Abbotsford, British Columbia was over. The star was a MIg-31 Mach 2-plus turbojet dragster, seldom seen in the West until then. It had drawn audible gasps in the finale by flying low directly at the crowds, pulling up, lighting both afterburners, and climbing on twin sheets of flame, scorching the infield. A Mig-31 is fast but cannot turn, and the Mig Bureau’s celebrated chief test pilot, Valeri Menitsky, had wrung everything the big fighter had to give. The Cold War was already history in 1990, although the hour or so I had spent with the genial Menitski, conversing through a dour-faced interpreter, still felt like a handshake over a vast ideological gulf. After getting to know him beforehand, exchanging gifts, watching him muscle his fighter into turns that took him from the Fraser Valley out over the San Juan Islands and return from his routine soaked with sweat, it came as a distinct surprise to me that the A-6 is the mental snapshot I retain from that air show.
Perhaps the guys from NAS Whidbey felt a reply was in order. As we were packing our cameras and empty sandwich wrappers, a hard-edged rolling thunder directed our attention to our left. The A-6 in mottled grey war paint was maybe 30 feet off the runway and going to beat hell. Its wing appeared to be exactly at eye level, with its external tanks hung underneath in shadow, tangential to its potbelly. The red anti-collision strobe was blinking away underneath the cockpit. It was flying fast enough to generate white condensation in a vortex off its upper wing roots, an effect heightened by its unique tadpole shape and wide two-man canopy with its art deco windshield frame. In front of the canopy, the Intruder’s in-flight refueling probe stood up and pointed forward like some trans-sonic insect’s feeler. Nose down, tail up, all business, it looked lethal in a way it never did standing on its landing gear on the flight line. The bombardier-navigator saluted as it passed. The A-6 became a blur in front of our turning heads, pulled up, and in an instant was a T-shaped dot dematerializing through the cirrus.
Sean Rossiter is the author of The Immortal Beaver - The World's Greatest Bush Plane, The Otter & Twin Otter and The Chosen Ones - Canada's Test Pilots in Action
Sean Rossiter
Captain John Schork the Novelist
Link to: The Last Intruders - By Sean Rossiter
The A-6 Intruder - My Conflict With War Games
Alex Waterhouse-Hayward
5909 Athlone Street
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Dear Mr. Waterhouse-Price [sic],
Thank you for your letter of December 14, which reached me today via Simon & Schuster. I apologize for the delay, but sometimes they take a while.
When I looked at the photos I realized you have a rare gift. You are one hell of [frequently used by this author in his novels with the spelling helluva] a photographer. And you are on a good story, which is much bigger than the demise of the A-6. The aftershocks of the collapse of communism will affect many lives, not the least of which are those people who have made a career of the military. They are the most directly affected, but the devastation is just as total on the families of the engineers and technicians of the so-called military-industrial establishment who are also facing career death.
I would like to tell you this is something new, a phenomenon cause by the fundamental changes in the international scene that make the worlds a safer place for free people, but alas, that is not the case. This is the same process that occurred after the American Civil War, World War I, World War II and Vietnam. Downsizing. Institutional stagnation. Until the next crisis comes along--and it will, it always does—we don’t need or want you folks, nor can we afford you, so good-bye and have a nice life. But leave your name and telephone number just in case, okay? Now back to the problem of the welfare mothers.
Stephen Coonts
Back in 1984 I had read a new techno thriller called Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy. There was another novel (far more satisfying for me) also by Tom Clancy, and co-written with Larry bond, published in 1986, Red Storm Rising in which petroleum shortages usher in a scary and most believable WW III.
But it was Stephen Coonts' 1986 novel, The Flight of the Intruder, published, like Hunt for Red October (then considered quite odd) by the Naval Institute which I consumed in one night's reading. Its description on what must be the single most difficult job in the world, to land a jet aircraft on the pitching deck of an aircraft carrier at night, left me amazed. Coonts’(himself a former naval pilot) explanation on the workings of the pilot and his tandem seated BN (bomber/navigator) in the Grumman A-6 Intruder left me with extreme airsickness as I understood that the BN spent most of the time looking down on a radar screen and instruments. If I were to do that in a placid flight on a Boeing 737 I would be sick on the spot! Coonts' descriptions of A-6 Intruder night flights over flack and SAM infested North Vietnam was as realistic as the claustrophobia inducing The Boat by Lothar-Gúnther Buchheim, the cold and misery of Alistair MacLean's H.M.S. Ulysses and Nicolas Monsarrat's The Cruel Sea. The fear in the throat of Coonts' hero Grafton was as real and horrific as the fear and gore of Len Deighton's Bomber.
Since I am now a Canadian citizen I have like most Canadians not been a war mongerer or an enthusiast of war. But it is difficult to deny a childhood of playing with swords, cap gun replicas of Western .45s and waging war with toy soldiers on my mother’s lawn. It is difficult to deny the pleasure and awe with which I enjoyed in the 50s my uncle, Luis Miranda’s collection of war-time Life Magazine. I saw the picture of McArthur returning to Leyte there and ads for Buicks that proudly stated that Sherman tanks had Dynaflow automatic transmissions! It is difficult to deny the influence of four years of high school in Austin, Texas and of many trips to the nearby Bergstrom USAF. It was there that I first saw the towering Boeing B-52 and passed my hands on the sharp edged wing of a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter.
In the mid 60s while in the Argentine Navy I translated into Spanish the operation and maintenance manuals for the then recently purchased Douglas A-4 Skyhawks. I became intimate with these beautiful (for beautiful they are) airplanes and when the Falklands War happened I was more concerned on the loss of what I considered my airplanes than the death of the Argentine pilots who did well enough and died in equipment that had been obsolete back in my days at the navy.
It was difficult to reconcile and understand that my classmates at St. Ed’s in Austin, Texas, as Americans had been part of the Vietnam War that I remember as body count accounts on my weekly readings of Time Magazine. My room buddy John Arnold had been a US Marine who dangled from helicopter cables to save downed flyers in Vietnam. Others from my class died in Vietnam conflicts. My friend grade 9 friend John Straney with whom I had shared my interest in WW II German airplanes and tanks was in the US Air Force in 1967. Of late these classmates have put a face on the body counts and I feel conflicted particularly when I re-read (as I did last week) Coonts’ Flight of the Intruder and its 1994 sequel The Intruders. I cannot so easily dismiss the conservative beliefs of my Texan classmates who own many guns, target practice at least once a week and tell me of their exploits in 'Nam. Who am I to argue after two years of a desk job as a conscript in the Argentine Navy!
Steam catapults make modern Aircraft Carriers possible. Invented by the British during World War II, catapults freed designers from the necessity of building naval aircraft that could rise from the deck under their own power after a run of only three hundred feet. So wings could shrink and be swept as the physics of high speed aerodynamics required, jet engines that were most efficient at high speeds could be installed, and airframes could be designed that would go supersonic of lift tremendous quantities of fuel and weapons. A luxury for most of the carrier planes of World War II, the catapult now was now and absolute requirement.
The only part of the catapult that can be seen on the flight deck is the shuttle to which aircraft are attached. This shuttle sticks up from a slot in the deck that runs the length of the catapult. The catapult itself lies under the slot and consists of two tubes eighteen-inches in diameter arranged side by side like the barrels of a double-barreled shotgun. Inside each tube – or barrel - is a piston. There is a gap at the top of each barrel through which a steel lattice mates the two pistons together, and to which the shuttle on deck attaches.
The pistons are hauled aft mechanically into battery by a little cart called a “grab”. Once the pistons are in battery, the aircraft is attached to the shuttle, either by a linkage on the nose gear of the aircraft in the case of the A-6 and A-7, or by a bridle of steel cable in the case of the F-4 and RA-5. Then the slack in the bridle or nose-tow linkage is taken out by pushing the pistons forward hydraulically – this movement is called “taking tension.”
Once the catapult is tensioned and the aircraft is at full power with its wheel brakes off, the firing circuit is enabled when the operator pushes the “final ready” button.
Firing the catapult is then accomplished by opening the launch valves, one behind each tube, simultaneously, which allows superheated steam to enter the barrels behind the pistons.
The amount of acceleration given to each aircraft must be varied depending on the type of aircraft being launched, its weight, the amount of wind over the deck, and the outside air temperature. This is accomplished by one of two methods. Either the steam pressure is kept constant and the speed of opening of the launch valves is varied, or the launch valves are always opened at the same rate and the pressure of the steam in the accumulators is varied. Aboard Columbia, the steam pressure was varied and the launch valves were opened at constant rate.
Although the launch valves open quickly, they don’t open instantaneously. Consequently steam pressure rising on the back of pistons must be resisted until it has built up sufficient pressure to move the pistons forward faster than the aircraft could accelerate on its own. This resistance is provided by a shear bolt installed in the nose gear of the aircraft to be launched, to which a steel hold-back bar is attached. One end of the bar fits into a slot in the deck. The bolt used in the A-6 was designed to break cleanly in half under a load of 48,000 pounds, only then allowing the pistons in the catapult, and the aircraft, to begin forward motion.
The superheated steam expanding behind the pistons drove the length of the 258-foot catapults of the Columbia in about 2.5 seconds. Now up to flying speed, the aircraft left the deck behind and ran out into the air sixty feet above the ocean. When it then had to be rotated to the proper angle of attack to fly – in the A-6, about eight degrees nose-up.
Meanwhile, the pistons, at terminal velocity and quickly running out of barrels, had to be stopped. This was accomplished by means of water brakes, tubes welded onto the end of each of the catapult barrels and filled with water. The pistons each carried a tapered spear in front of them, and as the pistons reached the water brakes the spears penetrated the open ends, forcing water out around the spears. Water is incompressible, water got smaller and smaller, yet as the spears were inserted the escape openings for the water got smaller and smaller. Consequently the deeper the spears penetrated the higher the resistance to further entry. The brakes were so efficient that the pistons were brought to a complet stop after a full-power shot in only nine feet of travel.
The sexual symbolism of the tapered spears and the water-filled brakes always impressed aviators – they were young, lonely and horny – but the sound a cat made slamming into the brakes was visceral. The stupendous thud rattled compartments within a hundred feet of the brakes and could be felt throughout the ship.
Tonight as he sat in the cockpit of an A-6 tanker waiting for the cat crew to retract the shuttle, Jake Grafton ran through all the things that could go wrong with the cat.
The Intruders, Stephen Coonts, 1994
And in a later chapter that sheer bolt does break off prematurely which leads to some of the most exciting writing account on how Grafton is able to stop his plane before it rolls:
Sliding, turning left and still sliding forward…he felt the left wheel slam in the deck-edge combing, then the nose, now the tail spun toward the bow, the whole plane sliding…
And he stopped.
Out the right he could see nothing, just blackness. The right wheel must be almost at the very edge of the flight deck.
He took a deep breath and exhaled explosively.
His left hand was holding the alternate ejection handle between his legs. He couldn’t remember reaching for it, but obviously he had. He gingerly released his grip.
My fascination with The Flight of the Intruder led me to go to several air shows at the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station near Oak Harbor in Washington State. I went with my friend Sean Rossiter who like me is an airplane enthusiast. At Whidbey Island I thrilled at watching A-6 Intruders fly. And it was in July 1994, my last visit that I found out that the A-6s where being phased out and replaced by F/A-18 Hornet. I talked to pilots who told me that the thrill (and fear!) of piloting an A-6, very low (skimming the trees) at night and in bad weather could never ever be replicated by the Hornet. In fact to this day the Hornet can not match the Intruder’s range and payload. During its existence as an attack plane (A-6s were never used as fighters but to bomb, strafe military installations and ships) the Intruder could carry a bomb payload that was second only to that of the Boeing B-52.
My excitement at seeing the Intruders and taking photographs of the then base commander (who had flown Intruders) Captain, USN John Schork led me to propose to Rossiter that we collaborate on a story and to try to sell it to magazine. We never found anybody interested even though Coonts in his letter to me suggested a few venues. The story died even though Rossiter wrote it. In my files today I found two versions of Rossiter's 6 page story. I called him up for permission to run it. Permission has been granted (story will follow sometime today). Since 15 August 94 when Rossiter wrote his second draft he lost all records of it. The publishing of the story in the blog will be a pleasant and now anticipated surprise for him.
When I re read The Flight of the Intruder (all about Vietnam) and then its sequel The Intruders (no war) I was able to read the technical stuff with far more enjoyment. My ignorance of naval aviation is perhaps the only reason why in my Buenos Aires war games I was never a naval pilot!
The splotches of the pictures here are result of bad fixing of my prints. They are Ilford resin coated paper not known for being all that archival. My b+w negatives of these Intruder people are pristine. I like the look of the deterioration.
And would you believe it, Captain John Schork is now an author of aviation novels!
Captain John Shork
Not related but still within the subject Sukhoi
Link to: The A-6 Intruder - My Conflict With War Games
Patrick Marber's Closer At The Marble Arch
The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
is lust in action; and, till action, lust
is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust:
Enjoyed no sooner but despised straight;
Past reason hunted, and no sooner had
On purpose laid to make the taker mad.
Sonnet 129, William Shakespeare 1609
Sometime in spring of 2001 I was approached by Richard Wolfe and Tim Carlson of Theatre Conspiracy with an offer I could not refuse. They were going to mount a performance of Patrick Marber’s play Closer (June 7-16) and they wanted me to take pictures even before the rehearsals began. Wolfe was the director and Carlson the assistant director. The idea is that our pictures (in collaboration with Argentine painter Nora Patrich) would serve as special promotional photographs, as photographs to be used in the program and the photos and collaborations with Patrich (part sketches and part photographs) would hang the night of the opening in large frames.
The actors Kurt Max Runte (as Larry, seen here in a doctor’s smock) Steve Griffith, Michelle Harrison ( Alice seen here as the stripper) and Sarah Louise Turner ( Anna as the photographer) had not really met. Patrich and I put them into a room of the Marble Arch (we had read the script) and set up the shots. We were in the room for four hours. What was really amazing for me is that I had forgotten that actors can act, particularly on demand with short notice! I would give them instructions and they would do as told. I would only need to shoot one or two frames. Runte and Harrison posed in one of the real stripper booths of the Marble Arch. It felt authentic. The amount of emotion we were able to extract from these four was an experience I will never forget.
I have seen some excellent theatrical pictures in Vancouver through the years but just this time I will beat on my own drum to opine that these pictures are really special.
If you read the plot synopsis here you will understand the gist of the pictures and the reason for the camera, the doctor's smock, the mouse and Steve Griffith (Dan) in drag.
Anna. "She has one address in her address book; ours ... under 'H' for home."
Dan. I've cut that line.
Anna. Why ?
Dan. Too sentimental.
Dan. What do you want ?
Alice. To be loved.
Dan. That simple ?
Alice. It's a big want.
Larry. It's about you, isn't it ?
Alice. Some of me.
Larry. Oh ? What did he leave out ?
Alice. The truth.
Link to: Patrick Marber's Closer At The Marble Arch
Pluto Platters & Wham-O Blowguns
On February 13 I read in my hard copy NY Times:
Walter Fredrick Morrison, who at 17 sent the lid of a popcorn tin skimming through the air of a California backyard and as an adult remade the lid in plastic, in the process inventing the simple, elegant flying disc known today as the Frisbee, died Tuesday at his home in Monroe, Utah. He was 90.
I was not aware that Morrison’s invention before it was bought by the Wham-0 company in 1958 had been called the Flyin’ Cake Pan, the Whirlo-Way the Flyin’-Saucer and finally the Pluto Platter.
I read the obituary with nostalgic interest but I must clarify that I never did master the art of throwing a Frisbee. It may have been sometime around 1959 when the Frisbee arrived to St. Ed’s High School in Austin, Texas. The master of the sailing art was my friend (and now a successful dentist in Houston) Steve Burdick who tried his best to teach me. My expertise with wrist work involved the ping pong paddle. I was one of the best in school in that game. The Frisbee was never my thing and I remember young men throwing them in Kitsilano Beach here in Vancouver in the mid 70s. They often played the game with their dogs. I found the whole exercise kind of silly! My son-in-law Bruce Stewart plays something called Frisbee Golf.
While the Frisbee and I never did get along I had an early relationship with the Wham-O company in 1957 when I was a nerdish freshman at St.Ed’s.
Because I was an Argentine born boy who had lived in Mexico so that my accent was a blend of Argentine and Mexican I was considered an outsider by la Raza (those that were either Mexican of Mexican heritage) while the white Texan/Americans considered me a foreigner (even though I, too was white and spoke English). I was in between and part of neither camps. I was left to my own resources.
So I took advantage of the efficient American postal system and became a member of a “club” in which I purchased b+w glossies of airplanes including military fighters, vintage WWI and II plus the more recent jet fighters and bombers. The club also had a new section and I began to collect photographs of what they called guided missiles. I remember the BOMARC and the Nike.
I also constructed gadgets. My source of materials for these gadgets was an army surplus store on Congress Avenue that was very close to the Congress Avenue Bridge (before the bats settled in). It was at that store that I bought a special compass that I could adapt into a flying-saucer-spotter. The compass could be opened so I was able to put two electrodes on either side of North. The electrodes I connected to a buzzer that was battery-powered. At night I would position the device under my bed with the compass pointing north. The idea behind the gadget is that many in those flying saucer sighting days had read (as had I) Major Donald Keyhoe’s The Flying Saucers Are Real and Flying Saucers From Outer Space. We were thus aware that the proximity of a flying saucer would affect the magnetic field. This meant that a nearby compass needle would fluctuate. If I had built my gadget correctly the buzzer would sound!
What I was not aware until Brother Vincent De Paul, CSC punished me for waking up part of the dormitory one night was that large tractor trailers also modified the magnetic field. Brother Vincent commanded me to disconnect my compass.
I shifted my interests to potentially more destructive and dangerous endeavours.
I purchased a Wham-O sling shot. I remember when it arrived in a little brown package. You loaded the leather pouch with steel balls or copper BBs. I was soon practicing by the creek with glass beer bottles.
When I saw an ad for the Wham-0 blowgun I rapidly lost interest in the sling shot. It arrived in a longish box. It was partly collapsible in that you connected the rear part with the hand grips to a front part. It came with steel darts that were five inches long. The weapon was silent and I soon came to realize that it was dangerous and could be deadly. Do you think the Brothers of the Holy Cross would have taken it away from me? Absolutely not, as far as Brother Vincent was concerned my “toys” made no noise at night! For a while I practiced to see how much my darts would pierce plywood. But the weapon was useless with beer bottles.
I visited the army surplus store and bought a co2 cartridge powered air pistol. I also bought a Spanish American War vintage leather holster (used for carrying a .45 caliber automatic). While many of my classmates became members of the National Rifle Association and joined the Rifle Club run by Brother Stanley Repucci I was never tempted. I perhaps did not know then but I might have already been a liberal who believed in gun control and a Canadian type of socialized health care system. I did not have the credentials to ever be a Texan. But I did practice by the creek to see if I could unholster the gun as quickly as Matt Dillon.
Brother Vincent did not take away my air pistol. It was in the summer holidays before I returned to St. Ed’s for Grade 10 that I ran into my first and last incident with my toys. In Nueva Rosita, Coahuila where my mother taught school to the children of the engineers of the American Smelting and Refining Company, we lived close by to a our American bowling alley. I remember spotting the older man who ran it, Juan standing by the door. Without thinking I put a dart into my blowgun and blew. The dart penetrated the door, inches from his face. My mother took away the blow gun. I was too old for an old-fashioned paliza (whipping).
Addendum: My son-in-law, Bruce Stewart has informed me that he does not play Frisbee golf. "It is called disc golf because if you were to try to catch one of these it would break your fingers."
Link to: Pluto Platters & Wham-O Blowguns
Friday was indeed a sad day. I took Toby to the SPCA. I almost felt that Toby was apologetic when he soiled his plastic cage in the car. When Dr. Peter Lekkas saw Toby and noticed how far he had deteriorated after a previous visit a couple of weeks ago he looked at me and we both agreed on the course of action. I told Dr. Lekkas that while he dealt with Toby I was going to cross to the adoption side to see if some cat would appeal to me. That being the case I was going to adopt the cat, right on the spot, take him home and present Rosemary with a fait accompli. I did find a cat but I was not able to take him home.
The cat I saw was in a sterile quarantine section of the SPCA because many of their cats had suffered from respiratory diseases. They had all been kept apart just in case. In order to see the cats I had to slip into plastic booties and then stand for 30 seconds in a strong disinfectant. There was one cat I immediately noticed. He was a very large gray tabby with almost no markings, with strikingly large eyes of an unearthly yellow green. He was pleasant, low key and affectionate. His name was Kassy which was short for Kassynova [sic]. When I told the woman in charge that I was interested in Kassy she asked me, “Which cat is she?”
The folks at the SPCA told me that Kassy, 6, was a one cat household cat and that he was most definitely a house cat. That he was a house cat was evident as the 18 pound cat was certainly overweight. I was further told that he had never been around children. It seemed it was all stacked against me. I told them I wanted to take the cat anyway but I was denied. There is a new regulation that stipulates that if a person wants to adopt a cat in a two-person household the other person has to be there. Dr. Peter Lekkas tried to “fix” the situation by vouching that we were cat people and that I was not married and had no wife! I went home minus the cat.
Rosemary reluctantly told me that we would go the next day with the girls but she didn’t think she was ready for another cat just yet. I was thinking that as our financial fortunes diminish going from one cat (an eventually to none) might be our ticket if we plan to travel and or live in a small apartment.
Both Rebecca and her mother Hilary said I should get another cat that would be Rosemary’s, as Toby had been. Rebecca was precise, “Abi thinks that Plata (my female cat) is a bitch. She wants a cat of her own.”
So we went to the SPCA and all four of us crowded into the room wearing our plastic booties. Kassy sat on our lap, one at a time. He never hissed or in any way showed any inclination to be aggressive with the girls. I said nothing but Rebecca kept harping to her grandmother that this was indeed the cat that was going to be hers.
We left the SPCA with our cat. Both Lauren and I decided that Kassy would go back to his original name but spelled correctly. He would be Casanova and we would call him Casa for short. He is big as a house so the name fits.
During the whole two days Rosemary was so confused and worried about a possible adoption that she never really stopped to consider that I had returned Friday afternoon with Toby in a box. I opened the box in the garden to find a white towel that was wrapped almost in a ball. I could see Toby’s lovely white front paws sticking out. I had no heart to look any further. I dug the hole and put Toby in it. It began to drizzle as I covered the hole with leaves and dirt. As Rosemary said when I went up the stairs, “Toby is home.”
Plata did not know what to do when we arrived on Saturday with Casa. Casa was a bit shy and would hide under the bed (as cats so expertly manage to be in the exact centre so you cannot reach them). But by today Sunday Casa knows where the litter box is. He is friendly with everybody and allows himself to be picked up (if you are able to!) without any fuss. Rosemary had Casa on her chest while lying in bed. She is not too sure about Casa. She likes the traditional tabby cats with lots of markings on the body and those lovely white paws that Toby had. Rebecca pointed out that Casa is indeed a tabby as he has an M above the eyes.
I have a feeling that Rosemary and Casa, Casa and Plata, will be friends real soon. We will not forget Toby.
Today Rebecca called to say she, Lauren and their Nana wanted to pay us a visit so that Nana could meet Casa. We had hot chocolate and tea. I had the opportunity to take this Fuji instant print so that you can see Casa, at home.
Link to: Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!
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Tech N9ne Reflects On Lil Wayne & Discovering E-40 Is His Cousin
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Tech N9ne's "Like I Ain't" breakdown takes fans down memory lane.
Today, we're honored to team up with Tech N9ne for the latest episode of "Between The Lines." Off the bat, Tech breaks down a few of his early grudges, namely that old eternal foe: The Industry. Fans might recall Tech's previous singles like "FTI" and "The Industry Is Punks," drawing back to his heyday. As he so aptly points out, Tech has never taken to slacking on the mic, and those he once disavowed have been forced to take notice. He takes a moment to reflect on his journey, reminiscing on some truly wild concerts. "I used to kick hard," he laughs. "Fuckin ecstasy, shrooms, acid, the fans used to give it to me back in the day. New Year's Eve two years in a row in Seattle Washington back in the day!"
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Clearly, "Like I Ain't" is riddled with humble-brags, a testament to Tech's wide-ranging and impressive career. He takes a moment to pay homage to a fellow Worldwide Choppa, Twista, naming the Chicago rapper as the hierarchal figure of his craft. He reflects on director Nick Cassavetes happening upon his Absolute Power album and using Tech's music in "Alpha Dog." In fact, Cassavetes ultimately loved his music so much, he tasked Tech with scoring the movie alongside Aaron Zigman - despite Tech having never scored a film before.
"Did it like I wasn't a starter that was on Tha Carter," raps Tech, reminding ya'll that he once held it down in a pivotal role on Lil Wayne's Carter IV. "That was a big thing that Wayne made happen when I came up here to Rikers to visit him. He said 'when I get out it's going to be on.' When he got out, he called us and I went down and recorded "The Interlude" and he put Andre 3000 on it."
In a shocking hip-hop twist, Tech also reveals that he's related to E-40. "No wonder I like him so much," he laughs. He cites the time E-40 called him, and put Tech's younger cousin Christopher on the phone. "Whatchu doing with E-40?" he recalls asking, only to be told "that's our cousin, Dontez! We all connected!" Tech's stunned reaction says it all. In fact, his affable energy is a constant throughline, and you'd be wise to catch this interview before checking out N9NA tomorrow. Respect to Tech N9ne for this one!
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The Civil War Swamp Angel of Charleston Harbor
Fort Sumter fell to the Confederates on April 13, 1861. By the summer of 1863, Fort Sumter had been bombarded by Federal artillery for two years, but it still stood and guarded Charleston, South Carolina. At the entrance to Charleston Harbor is Morris Island, and Union General Quincy A. Gillmore and his troops were stationed there. Gillmore wanted to construct a battery on Morris Island so he could bombard Charleston directly, and force the city’s surrender, thus bypassing troublesome Fort Sumter and other forts in the harbor.
A big gun with the range to reach Charleston would allow General Gillmore to get to the meat of the matter, which was to force the Rebel stronghold of Charleston to surrender. The Swamp Angel is exactly what Gillmore needed.
This gun was huge. It was made at New York’s West Point Foundry and it weighed 16,700 pounds. With an 8-inch bore, its barrel had an 11-foot bore depth. Even the construction of the battery and parapet needed for the big gun was impressive. Merely getting this gun into place on the swampy, mushy, ground of Morris Island (with mud sometimes twenty-feet deep) in Charleston Harbor was a challenging engineering job. Construction began on August 2, 1863 and included:
13,000 sandbags weighing greater than 800 tons total
123 pine timbers, 45-55 feet in length and 15-18 inches in diameter
5,000 feet of 1-inch thick board
9,500 feet of 3-inch thick planking
The spikes, nails, and iron required to hold it all together weighed 1,200 pounds
75 fathoms (450 feet) of rope, 3 inches thick
All this would allow the Swamp Angel to use a 17-pound powder charge to fire a 200-pound projectile 7,900 yards into the heart of Charleston. To top it all off, the projectiles could be filled with “Greek Fire” an incendiary fluid, that would set Charleston ablaze. On August 17, it arrived at Morris Island. An awesome weapon of war was about to go to work.
Gillmore sent a message on August 21, to Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard, the commander at Charleston, demanding the evacuation of Confederate posts on Morris Island and Fort Sumter, or else shelling of Charleston would start. The Yankees had sighted the Swamp Angel in on the steeple of St. Michael’s Church.
Beauregard gave no reply to Gillmore’s demands. At 1:30 in the morning on August 22, the Swamp Angel began to roar with its first shot at Charleston. Following the first shot, bells, whistles, and alarms from Charleston could be heard on Morris Island. Before daylight came, fifteen more shots rained down on Charleston from the big gun, 12 of the shots filled with Greek Fire.
Charleston was receiving the wrath of the Union in the form of horrible huge shells filled with fire, shot from a huge monster of a cannon 7,900 yards away. On August 23, the Swamp Angel belched out 20 more shells into Charleston. It looked like the Confederacy would lose Charleston to surrender as the terrible gun rained its hellish shells full of fire down on the city.
But when the Swamp Angel fired its 36th shell on August 23rd, it did something cast-iron Parrott guns were known for, despite their distinctive wrought iron reinforcing bands placed around their breeches. On the 36th shot the Swamp Angel’s breech blew out and the gun’s barrel flew on top of the sandbag parapet.
Although it had suffered some damage and a few fires were set by the Swamp Angel, Charleston was now safe. The great big gun was dead. No further huge guns like the Swamp Angel were placed on the Union’s Morris Island battery.
The Swamp Angel’s military career was over, the fate of the great gun was for it to be sold as scrap iron. However, instead of being used as scrap iron and physically lost to history, the citizens of Trenton, New Jersey bought the Swamp Angel and made it into a monument.
If you visit Trenton today, you will find the Swamp Angel at Perry and Clinton streets. Even if it could still fire, and despite its might, the Civil War Swamp Angel could not reach Charleston from Trenton. People of Charleston, you may rest easy because the Swamp Angel is no longer a threat to you.
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Protests squeezing Hong Kong economy, tourism, leader says
Hong Kong's embattled leader Carrie Lam says the city's economy is being battered by months of increasingly violent protests
HONG KONG — Hong Kong's economy is languishing after months of increasingly violent protests, the city's embattled leader Carrie Lam said Tuesday.
Lam, addressing reporters after a long weekend of more turmoil, said tourism arrivals were down by half and that hotels and retailers were suffering.
Hong Kong's third quarter economic data will definitely be "very bad", said Lam, the semi-autonomous territory's Beijing-backed chief executive said.
Lam said she did not have the data with her. But empty streets and tourist attractions are evidence of the fallout from the protests that began in June over a now-shelved extradition bill that would have allowed some criminal suspects to be sent to mainland China for trial.
Initially, the protests caused little damage and were confined to an area near Hong Kong government offices. But they've since spread to many parts of the former British colony, which enjoys freedoms guaranteed to the semi-autonomous region of about 7 million people when Beijing took control in 1997.
The demonstrations have gradually escalated into a broader anti-government movement that has grown increasingly violent, with protesters targeting shops and banks.
The city's airport has been periodically besieged by protesters, and some train and subway lines and shopping malls have suffered significant disruptions from the demonstrations.
Lam warned that the Chinese military might intervene if need be but said she hoped to revolve the unrest at the local level.
So far, Hong Kong's stock exchange has kept steady, and the benchmark Hang Seng index gained 0.5% on Tuesday. Prices have been supported by ample demand since shares listed in Hong Kong are perceived as being relatively cheap, says veteran investment manager Francis Lun.
The city's monetary regulators say Hong Kong has ample reserves to weather bouts of hard times.
But tourism and retailing are languishing, and some investors are shifting money out of the city, Lun says
Analysts say the political turmoil and the risk of intervention by Beijing could undermine Hong Kong's status as a world financial hub.
"Unless it stops soon...it's really Hong Kong's survival at stake," he told The Associated Press.
Goldman Sachs has estimated that between $3-$4 billion has been moved to Singapore from Hong Kong since August, based on estimates from bank deposit information.
Economic growth slowed to 0.5% year-on-year in the April-June quarter from a 3% rate of expansion in 2018.
The government has forecast growth in full-year 2019 likely will slow to 0%-1%.
Protesters are demanding Lam's resignation even after she withdrew legislation that provoked the latest rounds of turmoil. They also want investigations into the handling of the protests by police.
AP Business Editor Elaine Kurtenbach in Bangkok contributed.
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On Buying a Sailboat
I'm typically drawn to technical pursuits (brewing, coding) so it wasn't surprising when I took up sailing earlier this year. It started with just my own curiosity- I'd pore over books, forums, blogs, videos, and just about every other piece of information available on the topic.
One thing I hadn't quite anticipated was just how slippery a slope it would become. I'd always wanted to buy a boat. I grew up on the water, and I spent my weekends on boats, snorkeling, jumping off rocks- enjoying all things water related. This interest in sailing, however, was a much more recent phenomenon - one which took me by surprise.
I'd always viewed sailors as a crew of posers, who liked to tie up dockside attired head-to-toe in Helly Hansen, pint in hand, never daring venture beyond the breakwater. Turns out there was more to it than this misconception..
The idea of a form of propulsion that didn't cost several hundred dollars per hour to run is very appealing! Even more appealing is the skill involved in trimming a set of sails to glean optimal performance based on current wind direction, velocity, tides and current. It's a multi-dimensional, complex polynomial equation to be solved which takes a lifetime to perfect. Never did I think that zipping along at seven-and-a-half miles per hour could be so exhilarating ..
Community Boating, Charles River, Boston
I started sailing at Community Boating on Boston's Charles River. For just $300/yr, I could take lessons & eventually sail their entire fleet. The season opens in April, when the frigid rivers of the Charles are incentive enough to avoid capsize. I joined first day, and between April and July I was sailing often 4 or 5 nights a week, graduating through their rating system.
Eventually, I had the sufficient cajones to take out their larger boats, and in heavier wind conditions too.
In parallel, I'd realised there was more to sailing than the Charles River Estuary - Boston Harbor has some of the best daysailing grounds in the United States. I'd applied to volunteer crew on racing boats on a number of boards, and eventually somebody took pity on me (thanks, Ryan!). I started crewing on a 26' Thunderbird, racing out of South Boston. Most courses saw us sailing in the lee of Thompson Island, and Boston Harbor turned out to be infinitely more exhilirating than the Charles River Basin. That was it - time to buy a boat!
The Criteria
I wanted something comfortable for myself and Katharine to sleep on for short periods, at a price point which wouldn't be dehbilitating were we to discover we didn't much like crusiing. This first lead to a trailerable 22' boat, but this was quickly ruled out for two reasons:
One: Interior accomodations were akin to a tent on the water. It'd be nice to be able to stand up!
Two: We'd have nowhere to store a trailer. The cost of summer storage, and the pain that would be launching for every use would be alleviated by just keeping a boat in the water.
A slippery slope, this boat buying business. At least this better defined what I wanted in a boat, and to this end I started scouring Craigslist with a rough criteria in mind:
Catalina 30 Interior
Easily single handed - because I want to eventually be able to sail solo evenings after work, and fitting an Autopilot would have cost thousands
At least one 6'3" berth - because I'm tall
A Reliable Diesel Inboard - yes, it's a sailboat, but I'd rather not be forced to moor under sail, and accidentally drift into the $500,000 catarman I share the anchorage with
Cost less than I'd sold my car for - because that way it was somehow an easier, more sensible purchase to justify. $11,000 was the budget.
Along with this criteria list, I had a checklist of items to check assembled from a few self-survey resources online. A time consuming process, this checklist consisted of about 2 hours of poking & examining.
I had every intention of having a professional survey performed - but I wanted to avoid this cost if I could identify "a lemon" (of which we encountered a few) before paying some $600 for a Survey.
We ended up viewing 8 different boats, settling on a Catalina 30 - the only boat which had any standing headroom for my 6'3" frame. Compared to other boats of its size, it feels huge down below.
While it's no bullet-proof blue water cruiser of the world's oceans, it suits our ambitions for the next few years just fine.
I made an offer, the owner countered, and we eventually settled on a price.
Boat on the hard
The boat was sitting on the hard at the owners house, so transport added both cost and stress - possibly why the boat hadn't sold despite being $5k below retail. The survey checked out, so I went ahead and arranged next-day transport for the boat 50 miles to the water south of Boston.
We launched, the boat didn't leak, and it spent a few days on a mooring at a South Shore yacht club before we sailed her back to Boston Harbor, where she now lives.
Now, the fun part - as with most of my blog posts, I'm happy to be an open book on the financials, since it's an interesting insight for anybody considering doing similar. What did all this cost?
One-time:
Base purchase price: $11,500 (yep, $500 over budget) Marine Survey: $590
Transport: $990 (50 miles, inc. splash & mast step)
MA Sales Tax: $718
Total cost: $13,768
Mooring in Boston Harbor: $2,800
Tow-US Membership: $175
Winter storage: $1590
Total yearly: $5,133 (plus maintinence - the big unknown!)
So far, we've had a few glorious sunset sails through Boston Harbor. I've also already been kneck-deep in projects - in the past 2 weeks since launch, I've had to tackle mold, remove wasp nests, drain & clean both water tanks, fitted an engine breather hose, rewired the nav lights, and fixed the autopilot.
Hopefully before the 2016 season ends we'll get to spend a night or two on the boat. Right now, the stretch goal is a trip to Provincetown, a 6 to 8 hour sail from Boston to the tip of Cape Cod - but let's see how a night at the mooring goes first..
More on that as I have it!
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(this article was first published in Green Building Magazine, Autumn 2010)
In Paris, after visiting the Eiffel Tower, Le Musée d'Orsay, Notre Dame, etc, go to the Musée des Egouts, a museum sited inside a working sewer with real Parisian turds floating by on their way to the sewage treatment plant. Now, I could be accused of bias in my choice of tourist trips as I have been down the London sewers, my grandfather worked in them, I own a t-shirt celebrating the alligators of the New York sewers, and, as a plumber, have cleared many a blocked drain. But even my partner (a psychotherapist) admitted it was quite interesting though, she wasn't too keen on the smell. So how is it possible to have a museum inside a Parisian sewer? In the London sewers all visitors would have to wear thigh-high waders and safety harnesses as they waded through sewage reading the information!
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The Paris sewer network was designed by Eugene Belgrand in 1850 and by 1878 the sewer network was 600 km long. The sewer is shaped like a button mushroom; the sewage flows in a channel (a cunette), and there is a walkway on both sides of the cunette. Maintenance of the sewer can be done from the walkway, using a variety of different methods. Access to the sewers is from the pavement, and an underground passage leads into the middle of the road where the sewer is. This is fascinating and what is even more interesting is the network of pipes running at high level within the sewers. The sewers were designed to carry two separate water supply networks, one for potable water (supplied into buildings) and the other for non potable water, used for cleaning the streets of Paris. It is a fabulous design. Any leakage can be easily identified and repaired, whilst street cleaning uses water fit for purpose and with a lower carbon load than if drinking water was used. In addition to the water mains the sewers now house telecommunication cables and even pneumatic tubes in some areas.
A history of sanitation in Pairs from the middle ages to the present day, plus actual exhibits of the different machinery used to clean the sewers inform the visitor. The information panels are somewhat water damaged as this sewer has flooded across the walkway to a height of about one metre, obviously following heavy rainfall, but that just highlights the fact it is a working sewer; as do the signs warning you not to touch the walls, to wash your hands when you exit, the noise and smell of the flowing sewage, and the staff, who are the sewer workers themselves. Don't miss it!
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A former spy with a dark secret and a past he can’t outrun. A mysterious cult that steals beautiful teenagers. A looming battle between the forces of light and dark, and the girl who drags them into the middle of it all.
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Copper and Brass Bands (strips) in Russia: Production, Market and Forecast
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This report is a study of the market of copper and brass bands (strips) in Russia.
The purpose of the study is to analyze the market of copper and brass bands (strips) in Russia.
The subject of the study are copper and brass bands (strips).
The work is a desk study. As sources of information, the data of the Federal State Statistics Service, the customs statistics of the Russian Federation, the site of foreign trade operations UNdata were used; materials of the branch and regional press, annual and quarterly reports of securities issuers, Internet sites of manufacturing enterprises and consumers of copper and brass bands (stripes), as well as data obtained from telephone interviews with representatives of manufacturing enterprises and consumers.
Chronological framework of the study: 2015-2017; forecast for the period 2018-2030.
Geography of the study: The Russian Federation - a comprehensive detailed analysis of the market.
The report consists of 5 parts, contains 86 pages, including 28 tables, 26 figures and 2 applications.
The first chapter of the report examines the production of copper and brass bands (strips) in Russia in 2015-2017. This section of the report provides statistical and estimated data on the volume of output of the products under consideration by manufacturing enterprises. Also here is given the characteristic of large producers.
The second chapter provides data on foreign trade operations with copper and brass bands (strips) in Russia in 2015-2017 - the volume of supplies (including by brand) in bulk and in money terms, the main suppliers and consumers are represented.
The third chapter is devoted to the analysis of consumption of the products in question in 2015-2017 The balance of production-consumption is given, the capacity of the markets is determined. Also in the chapter the main participants of the market are designated, the structure of consumption of each kind of production by branches, alloys, standard sizes is resulted. In addition, the characteristic of the main consuming industries (current state and prospects of development) is given.
The fourth chapter gives an assessment of the prospects for the development of the Russian market of copper and brass bands (strips). The forecast of production and consumption for the period up to 2030 is presented.
The fifth chapter identifies the most promising products (in the line under consideration). Market barriers to entry into the industry are estimated.
The appendix lists the largest machine-building plants in Russia, addresses and contact information of enterprises producing copper and brass bands (strips).
The target audience of the study:
- participants in the market of copper and brass bands (bands) - producers, consumers, suppliers;
- potential investors.
The proposed research claims to be a reference tool for marketing services and specialists who make managerial decisions on the market of copper and brass bands.
1. Manufacture of copper and brass bands (strips) in Russia in 2015-2017
1.1. Dynamics of volumes and structure of production
1.2. Brief description of the main manufacturing companies
OJSC "Kirov Plant of OCM" (KZOTSM)
LLC "New Technologies of Colored Metallurgy" (Noginsk, Moscow region)
LLC "Gaisky Zavod OTSM" (GZOTSM) (Orenburg region)
JSC Kamensk-Uralsky Plant OTSM (KUZOTSM) (Sverdlovsk Region)
2. Trends in Russian imports of copper and brass bands (bands) in 2015-2017
2.1. Import
2.2. Export
3. Consumption of copper and brass bands (strips) in the Russian Federation in 2015-2017
3.1. The balance of production-consumption. Determining the capacity and saturation of the Russian market
The market of copper tapes and stripes
Market of brass bands and strips
Total capacity and main trends in the development of the market for copper and brass bands (strips)
3.2. The main market participants
3.3. Structure of consumption
Structure of consumption by industry
The structure of consumption by types of products (alloys, standard sizes)
3.4. Analysis of the main industries that use copper and brass tapes (strips)
Manufacture of automotive radiators
Manufacture of electrical equipment and electronic equipment
Manufacture of capsules
Building sector
4. Evaluation of the prospects for the development of consumption of copper and brass bands (bands) to 2030
5. Identification of the most promising products (in the line under consideration). Estimation of market barriers.
Appendix 1: List of the largest machine-building plants in Russia
Appendix 2: List and address information of the largest instrument-making plants in Russia
Table 1: Main application areas of different grades and sizes of copper tape
Table 2: Main application areas of different grades and sizes of brass tape
Table 3: The main grades of alloys used by Russian enterprises in the production of copper and brass bands (strips)
Table 4: Production of copper and brass bands (strips) in Russia by enterprises in 2015-2017, t,%
Table 5: Production of the main types of products of OJSC Kirovsky OTSM plant in 2014-2017, t
Table 6: The main technical characteristics of copper and brass bands (bands) produced by JSC "Kirov Plant of OCM"
Table 7: Some financial indicators of OJSC Kirovsky OCM plant in 2012-2017, million rubles.
Table 8: The main financial indicators of LLC "New Technologies of Colored Metallurgy" in 2014-2017, thousand rubles.
Table 9: Production of the main types of products LLC "Gaisky Zavod OTSM" in 2014-2017, t
Table 10: The main technical characteristics of copper and brass bands (bands), produced by LLC "Gaisky Plant OTSM"
Table 11: Main technical characteristics of copper strips produced by JSC Kamensk-Uralsky Plant of OCM
Table 12: The main technical characteristics of copper and brass bands (bands) produced by LLC "Kaluga Non-Ferrous Metals Processing Plant"
Table 13: Geographical structure of Russian imports of copper and brass bands (bands) in 2015-2017, t
Table 14: The largest foreign suppliers of copper and brass bands (bands) in Russia in 2015-2017, t, $ / kg
Table 15: The largest Russian recipients of imported copper and brass bands and strips in 2015-2017, t, $ / kg
Table 16: Russian imports of copper and brass bands (strips) in natural (t) and value (thousand $) in 2015-2017
Table 17: Geographical structure of Russian exports of copper and brass bands (bands) in 2015-2017, t
Table 18: The largest Russian suppliers of copper and brass bands (bands) to the foreign market in 2015-2017, t, $ / kg
Table 19: Russian exports of copper and brass bands (strips) in natural (t) and value (thousand $) in 2015-2017
Table 20: The balance of production and consumption of copper tapes and strips in Russia in 2015-2017, t,%
Table 21: Balance of production-consumption of brass belts and strips in Russia in 2015-2017, t,%
Table 22: The balance of production and consumption of copper and brass bands (strips) in Russia in 2015-2017, t,%
Table 23: Structure of consumption of copper and brass tapes (bands) by main consumption areas and standard sizes in Russia in 2015-2017, kt,%
Table 24: Fields of application of stamped parts from various alloys of brass
Table 25: Production indices in industries consuming copper and brass bands (bands) in the Russian Federation in 2013-2017,% to the prev. year
Table 26: Growth in production of machine-building industries in 2018-2020,% to prev. year
Table 27: Forecast of volumes and patterns of consumption of copper and brass bands (bands) in the period up to 2030, kt,%
Table 28. Analysis of the level of competition in the industry (scheme "five forces of competition" M Porter) for recommended products
Figure 1: Dynamics of production of copper and brass bands (strips) in Russia in 2015-2017, kt
Figure 2: Dynamics of production of copper and brass bands and strips in Russia in 2015-2017, kt
Figure 3: Dynamics of the production of copper and brass bands and strips in OJSC "Kirov Plant of OCM" in 2015-2017, t
Figure 4: Dynamics of production of copper and brass belts and strips in LLC "Gaisky Zavod OCM" in 2015-2017, t
Figure 5: Dynamics of production of copper strips in OJSC Kamensk-Uralsky Plant of OCM in 2015-2017, t
Figure 6: Dynamics of Russian imports of copper and brass bands (strips) in 2015-2017, t
Figure 7: Structure of Russian imports of copper tape (strips) by application areas in 2017,%
Figure 8: Dynamics of Russian exports of copper and brass bands (strips) in 2015-2017, t
Figure 9: Dynamics of indicators of the Russian market of copper tapes in 2015-2017, kt
Figure 10: Dynamics of indicators of the Russian market of copper strips in 2015-2017, kt
Figure 11: Dynamics of indicators of the Russian market of brass tapes in 2015-2017, kt
Figure 12: Dynamics of indicators of the Russian market of brass bands in 2015-2017, kt
Figure 13: Dynamics of indicators of the Russian market of tapes from copper and brass in 2015-2017, kt
Figure 14: Dynamics of indicators of the Russian market of strips of copper and brass in 2015-2017, kt
Figure 15: Structure of the Russian market of copper and brass bands (strips) by enterprises in 2017,%
Figure 16: Structure of the Russian market of copper and brass tapes by enterprises in 2017,%
Figure 17: Structure of the Russian market of copper and brass strips by enterprises in 2017,%
Figure 18: Sectoral structure of consumption of copper-containing products in 2015-2017,%
Figure 19: Structure of the Russian market of copper tapes and strips by areas of application in 2017,%
Figure 20: Structure of the Russian market of brass bands and strips by application areas in 2017,%
Figure 21: Structure of the Russian market of copper and brass bands (strips) by brands (alloys) in 2017,%
Figure 22: Structure of the Russian market of copper and brass bands (strips) by size in 2017,%
Figure 23: Dynamics of transformer production in Russia in 2010-2017, megavolt-ampere (MV × A)
Figure 24: Forecast of consumption of copper tapes and strips in Russia in 2018-2030, kt
Figure 25: Forecast of consumption of brass tapes and strips in Russia in 2018-2030, kt
Figure 26. Groups of industry barriers
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Institute for PR: two recent reports on Future of Work and Bahavioural Science
Check out these two reports, recently launched by the Institute for PR.
2019 IPR Future of Work Report
Melissa Dodd, Ph.D., University of Central Florida
The report investigates the future of work and the impact of several factors on the changing nature of work, including a rapidly and continuously shifting technological landscape, the growth of globalization, and the juxtaposition of new and tenured members of the workforce. While some technological innovations have already made a significant impact on organizations, the future of work is more than just artificial intelligence (AI) and automation. The intent of this project was to investigate the three interlinked dimensions of an organization: the work (the what), the workforce (the who), and the workplace (the where). Each offers unique challenges and opportunities for organizational (internal) communication.
Some key insights:
The pace of change is more significant than the change itself
Internal communication resources are lagging behind
The contract economy will continue to grow, altering communications functions
The growing generational divide in the workforce offers challenges and opportunities
The most important element is the human element
A new work model includes agility, assimilation, development, connectedness
full report / infographic
What You Need to Know About Incorporating Behavioural Science into Public Relations: A Primer
Tim Li and Terry Flynn, McMaster University, IPR Behavioral Insights Research Center
This report helps organizations deliver more research-based, theoretical insights driven by behavioral science. Behavioural science aims to understand human behaviour and decision-making. It encompasses disciplines examining the psychological underpinnings of behaviour, such as cognition, neuroscience and social psychology, and how they intersect with fields involving behaviour, like economics, politics, and communication. Many of the strategies from behavioural insights are already part of the public relations repertoire. However, the behavioural sciences now provide the empirical evidence and frameworks for understanding why they work. This critical thinking approach can help public relations evaluate assumptions and become more effective in this ever-changing business environment.
This primer includes:
What is Behavioral Science?
Behavioural Economics and Nudges
Behavioural Insights and Public Relations
The Ethics of Behavioural Insights
Comparisons for Data Science
full primer
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East Side Highway
Environmental Assessment (EA) Study
Origin Destination Survey
Context Sensitive Solutions
Public Information Meetings
Focus Working Group
Land Use and Access Management Focus Working Group
Sustainability Focus Working Group (FWG)
Alternative Modes Focus Working Group (FWG)
Final Environmental Assessment
2009 Corridor Report
Stakeholder Involvement Plan
Purpose and Need
O-D Survey Memorandum
Alternative Evaluation Process
Joint Council Meeting
The fifth East Side Highway is available for download below:
Did you know ...
...McLean County was one of very few counties in Illinois where jobs continued to grow during the recent economic downturn. In 2010, it also had the lowest unemployment rate among metro regions in the State. (Illinois Department of Employment Security).
A Public Hearing will be held on October 19th, 2016 at the Central Catholic High School at 1201 Airport Road in Bloomington, Illinois. The meeting will be held from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM. For more information, click here.
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