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Two former western-based school boys football stars, Brian Brown and Peter-Lee Vassell, both came off the bench to score for Jamaica in last Friday's CONCACAF Nations League game at the Montego Bay Sports Complex against Antigua & Barbuda. Jamaica won the game 6-0. Brown (#18) led Rusea's High to back- to-back daCosta Cup titles in the 2010 and 2011 seasons, while Vassell (#16) led Cornwall College to a record 12th daCosta Cup title in the 2016 season. (Photo: Paul Reid)
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Haftar’s rebranded Libya coups
Anas El Gomati
A few months after his April 4 surprise assault on Tripoli to unseat the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord, Khalifa Haftar, leader of the self-styled Libyan National Army, lost control of Gharyan on June 26. The LNA has since been steadily losing ground in heavy fighting in Tripoli’s suburbs against a variety of GNA-backed armed groups. Yet, on July 1, after “exhausting all traditional means” to capture Tripoli, Haftar rebranded the assault as a new counterterrorism effort, Operation “End of Treachery.”Haftar has a history of repackaging failed military coups as “wars on terror” to justify excessive use of force while gaining international legitimacy and political support in the process. As the campaign stalled in its first week, Haftar spoke to the U.S. president by phone. The call was initially viewed as controversial due to the breaking of diplomatic norms, as Haftar holds no official state post. Though it should be viewed in terms of how Haftar reframed his failed power grab. Haftar and Trump have discussed the “ongoing counterterrorism efforts and building democratic stability” within Libya. The U.S. has since threatened to veto calls for a cease-fire at the U.N. Security Council, hinting an endorsement of Haftar’s counterterrorism narrative. Likewise, France, a supporter of Haftar largely because of his anti-terrorism narrative, blocked a European Union statement opposing Haftar’s offensive. France did so citing the need for its own reassurances regarding the alleged “involvement of terrorist groups” fighting Haftar in Tripoli. Central to the international support is the belief that Haftar seeks to “save” Libya from terrorism and return it to long-term stability and security. However, recent history shows that Haftar’s counterterrorism narratives are not only poorly disguised authoritarian power grabs, but mask a precarious game of tribal divide and conquer. Far from fighting terrorism and delivering security, this approach exacerbates conflict and engenders long-term instability.
An often-repeated myth in Libya is that Haftar first emerged after Libya’s second elections, to fight against and save the country from Islamists who sought to “cancel the June 25, 2014, elections.” However, Haftar’s first coup took place well before Libya’s second elections, to which his rise is widely linked, on Feb. 14, 2014. Haftar announced the establishment of his own self-styled Libyan army, in the hopes that Libya’s plethora of militias would join him and remove Libya’s first democratically elected Parliament from power. The coup was so badly orchestrated that Haftar’s only success that day was to become the first person in history to launch a coup via YouTube. Yet, he captured the attention of the UAE government, which had supported a military coup months earlier in Egypt. On May 14, 2014, Haftar re-emerged with Emirati support in the form of airstrikes, and a rebranding of his coup as a war on terror in Operation Dignity.
Operation Dignity began with airstrikes against Ansar al-Shariah, a self-identifying militant group in Benghazi, eastern Libya. However, Haftar simultaneously struck revolutionary armed groups loyal to the elected government. Supporters of Haftar’s move believed all these targeted groups were behind two years of assassinations against activists and former military personnel in Benghazi. Critics point to the fact that these groups had previously fought Ansar al-Shariah, and tried to rescue the U.S. ambassador the night he was killed in Benghazi in 2012. The debate was short-lived as 48 hours later Operation Dignity allied groups stormed Libya’s Parliament in Tripoli, confirming suspicions of a power grab. Haftar declared these disparate political targets and military opponents to all be the same terrorist group.
Haftar’s counterterrorism narrative not only masks his intention to seize power by force, but his role in exacerbating the complex ethno-tribal power struggles between armed groups that emerged after the revolution. Moammar Gadhafi held a tight grip on Libya’s regions and cities through a complex authoritarian tribal-patronage system - integrating a select number of tribes into the regime security apparatus and army, leaving neighboring tribal competitors out. This tribal monopoly on power was the backbone of Gadhafi’s regime maintenance strategy but created rifts, and fell apart as protestors took up arms, forming new revolutionary armed groups that challenged the traditional power structures.
Behind Haftar’s military operations and counterterrorism narrative is an attempt to create his own authoritarian tribal-patronage system. Haftar co-opts loyalist tribes and their armed groups into the LNA making them the army while labeling their local tribal competitors terrorists. The LNA operations in Benghazi and Darnah are examples of this. Benghazi was largely divided between two feuding ethno-tribal camps, Bedouin tribes who lost patronage to the Gadhafi regime during the revolution, and civic tribes that had formed new revolutionary armed groups.
Haftar launched Operation Dignity in Benghazi by co-opting predominantly Bedouin armed groups into the LNA and launching simultaneous attacks against revolutionary armed groups (from predominantly civic tribes) and Ansar al-Shariah. Ideological nuance between Haftar’s targets was lost as they formed a military coalition - the Benghazi Revolutionary Shura Council - to defend themselves. Critics of Haftar claimed these groups only shared the same military front line and opposition to Haftar, not necessarily the same Salafi militant worldview as Ansar al-Shariah or Daesh (ISIS). Daesh referred to the BRSC as apostates for their belief and participation in democracy. Nevertheless Haftar insisted to international media they were all Daesh, terrorist groups and foreign fighters, while masking a dangerous local narrative. LNA leadership often described it in Arabic as a war to ethnically cleanse Libya from Turkish and Jewish tribes, a slur used by Bedouin tribes at the perceived lineage of Benghazi’s civic tribes. Haftar’s forces face investigations for war crimes for refusing safe passage for women and children in BRSC territory. Haftar’s spokesman pledged to “kill anyone [including noncombatants] above the age of 14 or extradite them to [Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan.” The U.N. estimates Benghazi’s displaced to be at least 100,000 civilians, whom the LNA has brushed off as families of terrorists.
In Darnah, Haftar’s second operation, the approach was almost identical. Darnah’s local population are predominantly civic tribes, with Bedouin tribes living in nearby towns. A military coalition formed by Islamist groups and Libyan army officers successfully defeated Daesh in 2015.
Yet, pro-LNA sources labeled them Al-Qaeda to legitimize the war despite their complex makeup, their defeat of Daesh and securing Darnah’s first democratic elections in 2012. Haftar repeated the Benghazi playbook, co-opting Bedouin tribes from the neighboring town of Ain Mara into the LNA to lead a “counterterrorism” operation and humanitarian siege Haftar claimed would “choke” Darnah. By the end of the campaign, a quarter of Darnah’s population were believed dead, injured or displaced. Upon leaving Darnah, Haftar’s army defaced road signs leading to the city, replacing Darnah with the name “New Ain Mara.”
Strong parallels are apparent in Haftar’s current campaign in Tripoli.
The LNA has described GNA forces in Tripoli as terrorists, despite the presence of armed groups who fought Daesh in a U.S.-backed operation in 2016. Since Haftar’s loss of Gharyan, the last LNA stronghold in the Tripoli offensive is the neighboring town of Tarhuna. Tribal dynamics between Tarhuna and Tripoli are complex. An estimated third of Tripoli’s population are from Tarhuna. Forces in Tarhuna aligned to Haftar include external forces who fought in Tripoli last September, but also armed groups displaced from Tripoli in a power struggle in 2016, eager to return for “revenge.”
Haftar will continue to exacerbate these tribal rifts and support one group over another in these complex power struggles. The danger in Tripoli is not only that the international community increasing believes Haftar’s counterterrorism narrative but concludes it will be a short war that will result in long-term stability. If the assault on Tripoli ends in the same way Benghazi and Darnah did, the resulting scars of war, appetite for revenge, tribal hatred and social polarization would make enduring peace unrealistic and stability almost unimaginable.
Anas El Gomati is the founder and director of the Sadeq Institute, Libya’s first independent public policy think tank, established in Tripoli 2011. This commentary first appeared at Sada, an online journal published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (www.carnegieendowment.org/sada).
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on August 02, 2019, on page 6.
The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the Arab Network for the Study of Democracy
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Rust, the eternal problem of eternal games, and the reality of life
Probably worth a longer post. But I wanted to note some immediate ideas to possibly expand on later.. Rust went out of early access and has since been receiving "mixed reviews". Even the positive reviews talk of the same thing. A well established community vs anyone who joins the game newly. The new person is going to have a bad time.
This is the problem with "eternal" games where you enter the world, and then just keep building up.
A fresh community starts up. Collaborates to figure out intricacies of the environment.
The community establishes itself, usually into a few strong factions and each strong faction has sub factions. These all protect and participate in warring efforts throughout the game.
Fresh players can't do anything but pick a side upon joining or die.
Admins will create a new server for people to join a "fresh world".
The cycle continues minus some of the intial figuring out of the mechanics.
The only remedies to this are to introduce game mechanics like what World of Warcraft does. For example, you can turn off your Player vs Player flag and then you cannot be attacked by a player of an opposing faction. There are a lot of intiricacies to this particular mechanic.
Eve online has a game mechanic called Concord and high security zones. If you are in a high security zone, you can't fire on another player, and if you do, you lose your ship at the hands of a Concord security ship. This happens even if you kill the other player's ship. There is no workaround this. While acting as a protection mechanism for new players, it introduces higher level gaming mechanics for more experienced ones. If you are carrying something extremely valuable, players with enough ships to spare will suicide those vessels in order to destroy precious cargo if the tradeoff is worth it.
But these are the exceptions. And they are hard to implement since they have to fit in with the lore and design of a game ideally. As such, most games have no concepts of natural protection mechanics for newer players and they instead embrace the cycle of rinsing and repeating across new servers.
This cycle mirrors human nature. It's the rise and fall of
At the same time, it fails to mimic the real world. Mostly because it would probably alienate newer players. And the mechanic of the real world that fails to be replicated so often can be categorised as the temporality of things.
Lots of these games have infinite resources or resources that grow back much faster than they would in the real world.
If the resources are finite, then there are other things that are infinite. You don't grow old and weaker for example. You can't fall sick suddenly. You can't have a heart attack. If you are using ships, then you might need to refuel but your ships probably don't need maintenance unless they get attacked.
Natural disasters are mostly unheard of. This is despite natural disasters being a historically huge reason for shifts in centralisation of power structures.
I can't see how devs would ever put natural disasters in. Can you imagine grinding for 10,000 hours and then an earthquake kills you just as you become the tyrannical lvl 110 player of an area? That's real life. Most people would ask for a refund in the gaming world. A game that could balance all of this really well would make for a fantastic thought exercise.
I could go on, and I probably will. But that's for a longer post.
Open AI has an update on it's Dota 2 AI
And they are calling it Open AI 5. Because, you know, 5 players per team.
Our team of five neural networks, OpenAI Five, has started to defeat amateur human teams at Dota 2. While today we play with restrictions, we aim to beat a team of top professionals at The International in August subject only to a limited set of heroes.
This really is a bit of an oversimplification. I don't want to rain on the parade here so I'll preface it by saying it's an amazing achievement what they've done so far. But I also believe their marketing machine is spinning its wheels in overdrive. I don't blame them. Realistic takes seem to draw more mockery than hopeful encouragement. Especially in the space of "AI trying to take on Humans".
So to expand on the above statement of marketing going over the top here. Here are the restrictions involved in the game:
Mirror match of Necrophos, Sniper, Viper, Crystal Maiden, and Lich
No warding
No Roshan
No invisibility (consumables and relevant items)
No summons/illusions
No Divine Rapier, Bottle, Quelling Blade, Boots of Travel, Tome of Knowledge, Infused Raindrop
5 invulnerable couriers, no exploiting them by scouting or tanking
No Scan
That is a good chunk of basic mechanics that have been taken out of the game. Warding and Roshan are not high level game play tactics. You'll find them happening with the noobiest of the noobiest random pub teams. This is not even touching on the fact that mirror matches are more a test of skill rather than strategy. Bots excel at skill by having access to much more precise information and calculations than humans do. No human will ever be able to assess the items owned by an enemy hero and how much damage will be done over time by Viper's ultimate skill in a single micro second. No human will ever be able to assess exactly how many seconds it will take for an enemy team to have heal and walk back from the fountain in a thousandth of a second. The only advantage a human team has over a bot team is in overwhelming complexity.
Not to say that the team hasn't done amazing work here. They have. And they've had a very clear vision in the order of building blocks they wanted to lay out. But for the time being, this is not ground breaking area just yet. It's extremely interesting and we should be watching this with a lot of curiosity to see what happens next. But what's happened so far is purely academically interesting. Nothing more.
Growing up Asian
Most, if not all, the people involved in this video are eastern asian, but a lot of the same rules apply to South Asian families.
We'd get beaten the hell up :'D.
Children with good marks were the pinnacle of family achievements.
Finishing food fast meant that you'd get more food served to you so you had to learn to eat slowly to avoid more servings.
There's also a segment in there about parents in their communities wanting to crush dreams of being artists because it wasn't a "real job" or a "real thing". This one resonated super strong with me because I was a serial doodler and I was basically banned from doodling. Up to today, I love design and artsy stuff, and I can't help but wonder whether that might have been my career if nature had taken its course. No regrets, no hard feelings. Just questions :)
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Dr. J. Gerald Lamoureux, M.D. geneolafgs 2017-02-17T07:26:47+00:00
Doctor J. Gerald Lamoureux practiced medicine in Woonsocket for more than 40 years. He was a general practitioner for six years. During that time he delivered an average of 400 babies per year! Doctor Lamoureux returned to Tufts University and studied Radiology, and practiced in that specialty for 36 years. He retired in 1993.
Doctor Lamoureux is one of five doctors who combined their efforts and founded Mercy Hospital to fill the need for a second hospital in Woonsocket. He later headed a capital
campaign to raise funds to expand Mercy Hospital to a new facility at Park Square in North Smithfield. It was renamed Fogarty Hospital in honor of its largest contributor, the late Rhode Island Congressman John E. Fogarty.
Doctor Lamoureux served an unprecedented three terms as president of the medical staff at Woonsocket Hospital. While president, he instituted new bylaws that are still in use today.
He was the head of the Radiology Department at Landmark Medical Center for many years and also served as the physician for the Woonsocket Police Department.
Doctor Lamoureux is extremely proud of his French-Canadian roots and has been a champion of the heritage for many years. He has been a member of Club Richelieu for 25 years and has served four separate terms as its president. He also served as vice president of the French festival Jubilé Franco-Americaine from 1995 to 2001, and is an active member of the Club Par-X, the Cercle Laurier and the LeFoyer Club.
Doctor Lamoureux also serves on the Woonsocket Housing Authority and is a member of the advisory board for the Diocese of Providence at the St. Francis Home.
He also plays a leadership role in his parish and serves as a member of the Precious Blood Church finance council. In that capacity he spearheaded the drive to raise $500,000 to repair the exterior of the church in 2000, and will soon begin another campaign to repair the interior of the church.
Doctor Lamoureux loves to travel and has been on several guided tours to France, England, Ireland, Italy, Israel, Greece and Turkey. He also enjoys gourmet cooking, and landscaping. At 85, Doctor Lamoureux still uses his treadmill regularly and began jogging in his early 40s to keep up with his teenage children on the ski slopes of New Hampshire.
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A few weeks ago, I had responded to a meme (here and here) posted by atheist Michael Sherlock that claimed, "Christianity did not become a major religion by the quality of its truth, but by the quantity of its violence." Sherlock has attempted to reply to one of my arguments, but I think he falls short in numerous ways. Two primary areas where he gets both history and the argument wrong are 1) the concept that Christians somehow solicited people for martyrdom in order to attract followers and 2) the argument that since Christians were the recipients of violent acts, it somehow justifies his meme. I will deal with the first today and tackle the second tomorrow.
Sherlock makes the claim, "We have records that testify to early Christian Church officials and fathers, encouraging many of their followers to provoke the Roman authorities and submit themselves to the violence of voluntary martyrdom, in the oft times realized hope that they might be martyred in public spectacles and thereby increase the popularity of the early Church."1That's a huge claim. Sherlock ascribes very specific and sinister motivations to the early church fathers; however he fails to produce a single document from antiquity that spells out such a plan or goal. His first stab at evidence is to quote Chapter II from The Martyrdom of Polycarp where the church fathers of Smyrna (Sherlock incorrectly attributes the passage to Polycarp himself) recount the pattern of prior martyrs for the faith and concludes:
And so like lambs, a number of the more gullible Christians of the ante-Nicene period, were sent out amongst the wolves to be slaughtered for their leader's ambitions, with the hope that the fires would be cool to them and that they, as willing martyrs for their unfounded and credulous faith, acting 'imitatio Christi,' would be afforded an opportunity to commune with Christ himself and attain a free-ticket into a non-existent heaven.2
Christians Did Not Solicit Martyrs
Sherlock's dogged misunderstanding of the text shows in many ways (you may read the passage here in context). First, this wasn't written as an appeal to action. The letter is entitled "The Martyrdom of Polycarp" and was written to explain just that. It seeks to place martyrdom in its proper Christian context and labels martyrs of that past as heroes of the faith. This is as natural as any nation reporting stories of those who laid down their lives for an ideal. But if Sherlock would have read just a bit further, he would have seen that the letter explicitly argues against promoting martyrdom for the sake of martyrdom. Just 115 words later in chapter four it recounts that a Phrygian man named Quintus who sought voluntarily martyrdom, but when he saw the fate awaiting him he apostatized instead. The letter then admonishes the Christians, "Wherefore, brethren, we do not commend those who give themselves up [to suffering], seeing the Gospel does not teach so to do."3 This statement is of course in direct contradiction to Sherlock's thesis.
Secondly, it wasn't "more gullible Christians of the ante-Nicene period, were sent out amongst the wolves to be slaughtered for their leader's ambitions." Polycarp was the one martyred! He was the leader of the church of Smyrna and therefore it would be hard pressed for his martyrdom tom result in his own ambitions somehow being met. The charge is wholly without merit and Sherlock offers not a scrap of evidence to corroborate his conjecture. It is fabricated out of whole cloth, and I do think using the epithets "gullible," "leader's ambitions," and "credulous" is simply Sherlock exercising the fallacy of poisoning the well.
Lastly, Sherlock seems to conflate his religions. Christianity in no way teaches that martyrdom provides any such favored status as a "free-ticket to a non-existent heaven." In fact, by Polycarp's own writings we see that he endorsed Paul's view of salvation as having already been received by the believer when he endorses Paul's epistle to the Philippians. In Chapter three, Paul spells out how no work of the flesh can gain one access to heaven, but only "that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith." Sherlock seems to think that Christian theology teaches something akin to Muslim beliefs, a position that is demonstrably false.
Sherlock's Own Sources Prove Christians Eschewed Voluntary Martyrdom
In hoping to justify his broader claim that Christians were trying to coax people to become martyrs in order to attract new followers, Sherlock quotes a few other sources, including the following passage from Henry Chadwick:
Voluntary provocative martyrs were easily engendered by promises of celestial joy. In the 190s Clement of Alexandria deeply disapproved of aggressive voluntary martyrs. Their attitude seemed to the emperor Marcus Aurelius, a Stoic defender of suicide, 'theatricality' in poor taste. Cyprian of Carthage under persecution in 250–8 also united idealized language about the martyr's crown with express disapproval of voluntary self-destruction.4
I believe that Sherlock is hoping one would read the first sentence and ignore the rest. Sherlock himself ignored the sentences just before his quote which places that paragraph in context:
Ignatius was writing in haste under difficult circumstances, and his language did not always convey precisely what he wanted to say. The language used would be surprising at any decade of the second century. The confrontation with imminent martyrdom profoundly affected him, and the impression can be given that a proper willingness to die in union with Christ has passed into a neurotic will to die.
Voluntary provocative martyrs were easily engendered by promises of celestial joy. In the 190s Clement of Alexandria deeply disapproved of aggressive voluntary martyrs. Their attitude seemed to the emperor Marcus Aurelius, a Stoic defender of suicide, 'theatricality' in poor taste. Cyprian of Carthage under persecution in 250–8 also united idealized language about the martyr's crown with express disapproval of voluntary self-destruction (emphasis added.)5
So here we have Chadwick explaining how Ignatius' letter may be misunderstood because of his duress and that he would disapprove of voluntary martyrs because other Christian leaders such as Clement of Alexandria and Cyprian of Carthage had also explicitly disapproved of such, too! Add that to the admonition in The Martyrdom of Polycarp cited above and we have a consensus in the sources that Christian teachers disdained unprovoked voluntary martyrdom. These are Sherlock's own sources, and they argue specifically against his point.
I'm certain that Christians being covered in pitch and lit on fire for to provide light to Nero's garden were not congratulating themselves. I'm certain that when Diocletian ordered the arrest and imprisonment of all bishops and priests, along with the confiscation or destruction of all church assets that these leaders did not benefit. Sherlock has taken small slivers of historical text and filled them with a 21st century new atheist viewpoint. There is real violence demonstrated in Sherlock's post; unfortunately, it is to history and to the texts themselves. Tomorrow, I will show how even if we grant Sherlock's first premise, it doesn't save his meme.
1. Sherlock, Michael. "Violent Christianity – Refuting the Christian Apologists at Come Reason Ministries." Web. 7-7-2014. http://michaelsherlockauthor.wordpress.com/2014/07/07/violent-christianity-refuting-the-christian-apologists-at-come-reason-org/ Accessed 7-8-2014.
2.Sherlock, Ibid.
3."The Martyrdom of Polycarp." Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 1. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1885.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. Web. http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0102.htm. Accessed 7-8-2014.
4. Sherlock, Ibid.
5. Chadwick, Henry. The Church in Ancient Society: From Galilee to Gregory the Great. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).67.
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In the context of Christianity, voluntary martyrdom makes no sense. Concepts such as the value of each individual life; salvation unattainable by works but offered freely; and the encouragement to live joyfully, accepting good gifts daily from a gracious God mitigate against such a practice. It seems the writer is building a very uninformed case.
Duska 12:13 PM
Excellent response. Thank you!
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The Tucker Mountain Schoolhouse was constructed in 1837 and served its local community until 1893, when dwindling student population led to its closing. It stands today in its original setting and location, in very good condition, looking much as it did when it was in active use.
It consists of a single room, measuring 16 feet by 18 feet. Attached is an “ell” or shed that serves as a weather-breaking entrance to the school building and also provides storage space for firewood. A small closet in the shed contains the two-hole privy. The building is of post-and-beam construction, using hand-hewn timbers fastened with trunnels, and sits on a foundation of unmortared granite stones. The walls are sheathed with vertical planks, covered externally with clapboards.
The pupils’ heavy plank desks stand bolted to the floor as they were. The floor slopes downward on two sides toward the center of the room, increasing visibility for the pupils in the back rows (a frequently-seen design detail in the schools of this time). The interior walls are covered with wide pine boards painted flat black to serve as chalkboards.
The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and now serves as a museum exhibiting details of an earlier way of education. The museum is open from 1 to 3 PM on the second Sunday of the month from June to October.
In 2010, a video reenactment was created of a day at the Tucker Mountain Schoolhouse in the 1800s. Inspired by an 1887 photograph, with local youth as the actors, the video lasts 10 minutes and can be viewed here.
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The Perseverance of the Hole-Filled Sky
Por Enza García Arreaza
mayo, 9.2016
Cinema | Enza García Arreaza | Literature | Love
Still from «Interstellar», by Christopher Nolan (2014).
You know this hole
originated long ago from the death of a star
Human associations based on feelings are often unfair. They demand a permanent agreement between what we know about people and what we expect them to be, they float on the arduous balance between reality and its ghost. Thus, parents and children ask each other to save the world and make it a blissful place for the other. Here lies the germ of a fairytale that harasses us through age: that first love is usually an irregular experience but we force ourselves to believe that it will be consummated in august satisfaction. We come to assume with artificial cultural zeal that having parents and having children is invariably illuminated by the same star, whether it is called sacrifice, self-denial, or survival of the species. But stars die or transform, there is a reverberation on the canvas of things, and singularity sleeps in the mouth of a ferocious and beautiful phenomenon: Murphy Cooper is the daughter of someone in Interstellar (2014)—the ninth feature film by Christopher Nolan—and claims to have a talkative ghost in bookshelves of her room, which is clearly the library of Cooper, her father. But what is a ghost? In The Road (2006), Cormac McCarthy offers a theory: «A person who has no one would do well to get a more or less passable ghost. Instill life into it and pamper it with words of love. Offer him phantom crumbs and protect it with their own body (…) When you have nothing else, invent ceremonies and infuse them with life.»
There has to be a hero, of course. Cooper’s enemy is the imminent collapse of the planet, which means his children are going to die. Worse still: while that happens, the family survives, doomed to seek their place in the dust, confined to the mediocrity of farmers without stars. Cooper is an emissary of the once-enlightened century; science must be its aristocracy, for its children to inherit the title of kings of the world. Someone has to teach us how to look at the sky with pride and greed. Then, his daughter, baptized under the law of whatever could happen, will happen, thanks to the ghost that inhabits her library, in a mystical turn, finds the geographic coordinates of NASA. Boom. Grab your nearest Wikipedia. In the next few minutes we will have to understand, with some effort, that this film also recreates the disturbing existence of wormholes, of space-temporal relativity and implacable black holes, issues that will turn the father and explorer into a hero without return who departs as Aeneas, at times indolent with his past, but in favor of a better future, whose sacrifices will be rewarded just like the exemplary Christian awaits eternal life. Cooper departs (that is, leaves his daughter) in a spacecraft, accompanied by a group of scientists, to visit another galaxy through a gravitational anomaly that someone opened near Saturn, hoping to find a second chance for the humans that have already destroyed one planet. Forty-eight minutes later, we discover that the epigraph of this film is a poem by Dylan Thomas in the voice of Michael Caine:
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had been forked in lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night
At this point, Christopher Nolan’s narrative vulgarities are of little importance (to me). Many people hated the film for various reasons, and they are right. But I am writing this perhaps because I am a weak and uncritical viewer, or perhaps because my cartography of meanings involves other orbits. I am interested in faith, that uncomfortable or neurotic issue that emerges when we evaluate our fairy tale of choice, and that determines some center of emotional gravity. Adalber Salas Hernández puts the icing on this cosmogonic cake: «Faith, as we understand it on this side of the world, is a notion rooted in a certain event that may or may not have happened. Its strict veracity is in fact irrelevant; what is important is the overwhelming symbolic potential of the story.»
In the end, Murphy, the daughter of the hero, is the one who saves the world.
To grow and save the world is to forgive someone who did not save us enough, and such fundamental loneliness, such prototype of primordial abandonment, is the philosopher’s stone that finally turns us into someone. The subversive in Interstellar is that at some point in its narrative, it decides to dispense with the allegorical effort and declares its reasoning with a bare line, by far cheesy and Hollywoodesque: that love is the most powerful force in the universe.
Is love the most powerful force in the universe?
I don’t know. But for some reason, we tell stories like these to ourselves, and we blush and even become outraged in high exegesis about them. Perhaps an unjust myth like that of love corrupts the social fabric, making it too hard an exercise, between breakups or parents and children whose relationships also break: we made love something too great, and we are often destined to fail when we try to consummate it. But there is a ghost, an insistent singularity that dwells beyond Murphy Cooper’s room. «We call ghosts—says Miguel Gomes—the happiness that is lost or not obtained; but also, without understanding it, the satisfied absences that accompany us in the shyness of the invisible. We are made of all this.»
Faith is the proud silence that insists. From here we cannot hear the rumor of the black hole when it is doing its work, and yet.
* About the author:
Enza García Arreaza (Puerto la Cruz, 1987) is an editor at Backroom Caracas, writer, and poet. She obtained the VII Cuento Contigo Literary Prize bestowed by Casa de América (Madrid, 2004) with «La parte que le tocó a Caleb». In 2007, she won the prize for unpublished authors hosted by Monte Ávila Editores with the book of short stories Cállate poco a poco (Monte Ávila Editores, 2008). In 2009, she received the III National University Literature Prize, hosted by Universidad Simón Bolívar, with the book El bosque de los abedules (Equinoccio, 2010). Her writing appears in the anthologies Cuento Contigo 2 (Madrid, Siruela, 2006), and Zgodbe iz Venezuele (Eslovenia, Sodobnost International, 2009); in the collections De la urbe para el orbe. Nueva narrativa urbana (Caracas, Alfadil, 2006); Joven Narrativa Venezolana III. Premio de Cuento Policlínica Metropolitana para Jóvenes Autores 2009-2010 (Caracas, Equinoccio, 2011); De qué va el cuento. Antología del relato venezolano 2000-2012 (Caracas, Alfaguara, 2013); Tiempos de nostalgia / Tiempos de saudade (Caracas, Ediciones del Instituto Cultural Brasil–Venezuela, 2013), and in Voces -30. Nueva narrativa latinoamericana (Chile, Ebookspatagonia, 2014). The book of short stories Plegarias para un zorro was published in 2012 by bid & co. editor. El animal intacto, her first poetry book, was published in 2015 by Ediciones Isla de libros.
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La casa sin sueño
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Correspondencias (II): Sylvia Molloy / Sonia Mattalía
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Incomprehensible are the relations between a man and a woman as earthly and celestial elements. Sun and Month, hard and pliable, as contrary and yet undivided sexes; taken together they make the basic theme of artworks of Kateryna Gutnikova.
Incomprehensible are the relations between a man and a woman as earthly and celestial elements. Sun and Month, hard and pliable, as contrary and yet undivided sexes; taken together they make the basic theme of artworks of Kateryna Gutnikova. Her artistic discourse is about problems of conscious and unconscious, about dramatic, agonizingly fine and bitter, and sometimes hateful connections between the worlds of a Woman and a Man, real and unreal in human life and senses. She embodies her meditations in artistically elegant compositions, the essence of which at first she puts through history and fiction, like through the lens, through the prism of aesthetics, play and carnival. In the meantime the artist makes skillful use of a guise, mask, persona in its antique understanding as a part of a person, which was shown to the external world, expressing and, simultaneously, hiding an authentic self, character, soul. The environment of her personages is made of histrionics, decorative poses and figures.
The works of Kateryna Gutnikova create a stage, where in oblivion some inspired performance. Splendid and wonderful attire stimulates thrust and relaxedness.
It is in flowers, grapes, fairy-tale melodies and, which is the most important, in love -headache you make it head off today... Today the author stages mostly one-theme performances, however under different names and aspects.
These complicated and rich compositions are inventively balanced, full of whimsical meanings and real life plots. Besides, there are landscape motifs and allegoric symbols. The Nature, flora and fauna from its entrails and are ready to flaw beyond the bounds of the drawing. The idea of a carnival, as a recreation of the essence of life with the help of figurative art means, is regularly actualized in the history of the world culture. In her works the moody and plotline carnival peripeteias become an important matter for philosophical reflection, psychological research and self-knowledge. Through her works, she strives to understand to major secrets: love and art. Perhaps, her quest is not in vain, as far as it brings forth one more secret: creative work of a young artist. Her creative manner is typical of the postmodern artist: reinterpretation of the age-old myths according to one's own painful questions. Private problems of the artist appear to be the problems of womankind, and mankind as a whole.
You can put her works on a par with palimpsests; only, to be precise, they do not block each other, but prop up. When you ponder over these artworks you come to understand that it isn't that easy to find the way out of the labyrinth of these themes, reminiscences, meanings and discoveries. This is the prime example of intellectual poetry created by means of graphic arts.
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Страна:Country: ГерманияGermany
Год:Year: 1932
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Heinkel He 64
Flight, September 1932
THE NEW HEINKEL HE 64
Уголок НебаAirwar
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Братья Зигфрид и Вальтер Гюнтеры после их перехода на фирму "Heinkel" в 1931 году первыми спроектировали деревянный двухместный моноплан для авиагонок "Europa Rundflug", которые планировались на август 1932 года. Самолет Heinkel He 64a с мотором Argus As 8R ДальшеMore>>> мощностью 150л.с. (112 кВт), пилотируемый генералом Гансом Зайдерманном, выиграл эти авиагонки, пролетев 7500-км маршрут за 31 час 17 мин со средней скоростью 240 км/ч. За серией спортивных самолетов He 64b с мотором Argus последовала серия He 64c с рядом различных моторов, включая Hirth HM504 либо 506 и de Havilland Gipsy III. Два прототипа He 64d построили с крыльями эллиптической в плане формы.
Heinkel He 71 впервые взлетел весной 1933 года. Он был по существу уменьшенной одноместной версией туристского самолета He 64. На прототипе, первоначально имевшем открытую кабину пилота и мотор Hirth HM60 мощностью 60 л.с. (45 кВт), позднее появился фонарь кабины и мотор Hirth HM4 мощностью 78 л.с. (58 кВт). На этом аэроплане с дополнительным запасом бензина для увеличения дальности полета до 2410 км немецкая летчица Элли Байнхорн совершила ряд полетов над Африкой.
By EDWIN P. A. HEINZE
ONE of the financially soundest aeroplane factories in Germany, and one of the busiest, too, is that of Heinkel at Warnemunde, on the shores of the Baltic. Yet this maker is relatively less known to the general public than most of the others, because he neither builds transport planes of a type used in Germany nor, up to the present, small planes such as the clubs and individual owners would purchase. The factory has specialised more in the production of school machines and catapult planes, and has occupied itself most extensively with the design of military planes for foreign powers. Hence it created a sensation when one day news leaked out that Heinkel was entering the light plane field, and that he intended taking part in this year's International Light Plane Competition on the Continent. The fine performance of the German officer Seidemann, with his colleague Witt as observer, in an Argus-powered Heinkel, during the air tour forming part of this competition Heinkel into the limelight of public interest.
Indeed, the new Heinkel machine appears to be what may be termed a "hit," which is all the more remarkable as this is the first machine of this type developed by the company that was founded in 1922 by Dr. Ernst Heinkel, already then an aircraft engineer of long standing, who for years had been the technical chief of other aeroplane factories in Germany, especially during the War.
The new Heinkel is a low wing cantilever monoplane built entirely of wood, with a long and slender fuselage of oval section, with which the wing stubs are integrally formed. The single spar wings are of trapezoid contour and are secured by universal joints and lever-operated bolts. The connection is so well worked that the small gap between the wings and stub wings barely measures one millimetre, so a special covering strip is not required. The bolt lever, however, permanently protrudes slightly on the lower wing surface. The maximum chord of the wing at the roots is 2 metres (6.56 ft.), and 0.8 metre (2.62 ft.) at the rounded tips. The wings are set at a dihedral angle of 4 1/2 degrees, and have a span of 9.8 metres (32.15 ft.). The over-all length of the machine, which has two seats arranged one behind the other, is 8.31 m. (27.26 ft.) and the greatest beam (i.e., horizontal diameter) of the fuselage 0.73 m. (2.4 ft.).
The wings are provided with slow-flying flaps and ailerons extending to and partially completing the rounded wing tips. The leading edge of each wing is additionally equipped with two independent Handley-Page slots covering the whole length of the wing. The outer slats, having the length of the ailerons (1.93 m. or 6.33 ft.), are of the automatic type, while the inner slats are connected with the slow-flying flaps. It is due to these means that the machine, which with the Argus 140/150 h.p. engine has a maximum speed of some 155 m.p.h., can actually fly without loss of altitude at 38.6 m.p.h., as was done, for instance, by Junck and Seidemann during the slow-flying tests at the international meeting above referred to. The wing area of the machine totals 155 sq. ft., including the ailerons, which each has a surface of 5.23 sq. ft.
The two cockpits are covered by a common, long cellon hood of streamline form, merging at the rear end into the top of the fuselage, which, as all parts offering air resistance, has been most carefully designed. The seats in the cockpits are adjustable for height and leg length. Dual controls are provided, those in the rear being so designed that they can be "switched off" literally instantaneously by a small lever within reach of the front pilot. The stick and pedals then move freely without affecting the plane's steering. This is an excellent feature for schoolwork. The controls can additionally be taken out entirely and replaced and connected within a few seconds. Otherwise the controls are wholly normal. Provision for the inspection of the cables, etc., is made by well-covered apertures in the fuselage.
The tail surfaces, i.e., stabiliser and elevator, are entirely made of wood and have a long oval form, 9.02 ft. in length and 2.88 ft. deep, the depth of the elevator being 1.34 ft. The area of the stabiliser is 10.37 sq. ft. and that of the elevator 8.63 sq. ft. The stabiliser is adjustable during flight to the extent of +3 and -8 degrees. The rounded rudder fin, which is braced by lateral wires against the stabiliser, has an area of 3.4 sq. ft., and the rudder is of 5 sq. ft.
The undercarriage is of the divided type, with Palmer brake wheels and combined hydraulical and pneumatic struts. The wheels are not provided with spats.
As already indicated, the machines are equipped with the new Argus engines of 140/150 h.p. maximum output. These inverted engines are well faired by an aluminium casing, which is easily detachable. A variable pitch propeller of 6.88 ft. diameter is employed (generally set to a pitch of 4.59 ft.). The engine is mounted on a steel tube frame attached to the fire bulkhead in the usual manner. Extensive use is made of rubber for engine suspension, so that vibration is considerably damped. The engine draws its fuel supply by means of two diaphragm pumps from two tanks, one of which is situated immediately behind the fire bulkhead in the fuselage, while the other is arranged in the bulging parts of the fuselage between the first and second seat. The oil tank forms part of the nose of the right stub wing, where it is effectively cooled by the slipstream.
The machine weighs complete with instruments and ready for flight, but otherwise empty, 990 lb., and will take a load of 660 lb., so the full flying weight comes to 1,650 lb. The wing loading amounts to 10.65 lb. per sq. ft.
Some Editorial Comment
The description of the Heinkel He.64 by our German correspondent, printed above, gives the main data, etc., of the machine. During the recent visit of the "weekenders" a number of Heinkels were seen and inspected, and a good opportunity to watch their behaviour was afforded. Moreover, on Monday of this week Handley Page, Ltd., arranged a demonstration at Radlett, at which three of the Heinkels were flown. Thus one is able, quite apart from Herr Heinze's description, to form a very good idea of the qualities of the He.64.
As a piece of workmanship the Heinkel is an outstanding example of German craftsmanship. The finish is such as is rarely seen anywhere, and the machines looked spick and span in spite of their strenuous time in the International Touring Competition.
Something should be added about the slot mechanism, which is of a more advanced type than has ever been seen on an aircraft in this country. The wings are slotted and "flapped" over their whole span, slots as well as flaps being divided into what may be termed lift and control devices respectively.
The inner slots, which extend from the wing root to the automatic wing tip slots, are automatic in action, and are so connected to their trailing edge flaps that when the slots open the flaps are pulled down to their full extent. The outer slots are also automatic, and are connected to the aileron flaps in such a way that as the slot opens the aileron drops a few degrees. After that, however, the aileron is free to operate in the normal way without interfering with its slot.
The lift slots can be locked in the "closed" position, when their associated trailing edge flaps are flush with the wing surface. They cannot, however, be locked in the "open" position, with the flaps down, nor do they have any intermediate position. Either they are fully closed or fully open. To us it appears that this is not the best possible arrangement, and that the automatic operation is of somewhat doubtful value. We believe an improvement would be for the lift slots and their flaps to be manually operated, or at any rate for them to be under the control of the pilot in such a way that any desired intermediate position between fully closed and fully opened could be maintained. In gusty weather there seems to be a tendency for the lift slots to slam about, and one of our photographs actually shows that it is possible for the lift slot on one side to be closed and the other open. We understand that actually Handley Page, Ltd., who designed the slots for the Heinkel machines, desired a torque tube to be incorporated so as to ensure the simultaneous opening and closing of the port and starboard lift slots, but that as wing-folding was an important feature for machines in the International Touring Competition, the Heinkel firm decided to do without this interconnection.
The Heinkels were flown, during the demonstrations, by the various German pilots, but it was Capt. Cordes, Handley Page's test pilot, who gave far and away the most impressive demonstration. Although he had flown the machine for only about two minutes before, he took off in a nearly vertical "zoom" for the benefit of our photographer, and afterwards flew about quite low down, with the machine at an alarming angle, but definitely showing that even at the largest angles the controls are effective. The demonstration was a credit to the Handley Page slots, but it was also a welcome reminder that Cordes is a pilot of more than average ability.
In trying to form an opinion of the Heinkel He.64 it is essential that one should remember that the machine was designed specifically with the International Touring Competition in mind, and that the International Touring Competition was designed to produce a useful type of aircraft for the private owner. The Heinkel very nearly achieved its object, but it is doubtful if the International Touring Competition did. As a competition machine, a collector of points for take-off and alighting, the Heinkel is very nearly all that a machine could be. As a private owner's machine it is not yet ideal.
From the point of view of the pilot, the Heinkel is undoubtedly an interesting machine, but during a short flight we cannot honestly say that we were impressed with its suitability as an aeroplane for the average private owner. It is true that a very low flying speed can be achieved without an undue sinking speed, which is only natural in view of the fully-slotted wing, but it did seem to us that it was necessary to use the engine if the full benefit of the slots was to be obtained. On the glide there was a distinct, and somewhat unpleasant, snatch when the slots opened, and we gather that normally the German pilots do not let the gliding speed fall below a fairly high figure, at which the glide was, as one would expect, very flat. The controls were efficient and reasonably coordinated, although the rudder of the machine we flew was distinctly heavy; this, however, we understand was due to mechanical friction in the hinges. This explanation would appear to be correct, as despite the length of fuselage the amount of control available was by no means excessive. It was definitely greater than that usually provided by German designers, but hardly up to the average English aeroplane. The ailerons were good, giving full control even when all slots were open and one was hanging on the engine, and it was in this manner that the competition landings were made during the Rundflug. Whether or not there is sufficient control without the engine for such short landings to be made in cases of necessity seems to us to be a matter for some doubt. At top speed the machine was comfortable to fly, and the controls were not unduly heavy, but for comfort on long journeys considerably more shoulder and head room would have to be provided for the pilot if it was proposed to sell the machine for private use; this is not, we understand, likely to be the case. The view forward is not so good as one is entitled to expect from an aeroplane with an inverted engine and a fuselage of such narrow cross-section; neither is the wind screen arrangement comfortable except when completely closed.
The take-off is straightforward, though at the same time the super slotted arrangement would seem to make extra care necessary, as side gusts might well open one slot before the other with possible difficult complications.
The undercarriage, as at present fitted, is very harsh, but presumably that is entirely due to competition desiderata.
The Argus 140 was disappointing, being rough without giving one the impression that one had 140 h.p. to play with; and in any case 140 h.p. would seem a lot to pay for this form of two seater, with a performance very little better than British designers obtain with cabin machines giving much greater comfort and seating capacity.
It can, we think, be said that the Handley Page slot has outstripped the technical development of the aircraft. The Heinkel He.64 will hang in the air at 38 m.p.h. or so, but at a very large angle. To alight at that angle would result in serious damage to the machine, as the tail skid would hit first, and the undercarriage then come down with considerable force, probably resulting in a crash. Consequently the speed at which the machine can safely be put down is considerably higher than the minimum speed at which it can hang in the air (with engine running). So long as that is so, there seems to be little point in all this slottery.
One demonstration which would have been convincing was not given: a landing with engine stopped. While the engine is running, the combined effect of the slipstream and the upward pull of the airscrew assist materially in making possible the remarkably low speed. With a "dead" engine, and of course no slipstream, the result would probably have been a good deal less impressive.
Before the fully-slotted aeroplane is a practical proposition, and before it adds materially to the safety of the average private owner, it will be necessary to incorporate not only a variable incidence but also an undercarriage capable of absorbing the shock of a landing at high rate of sinking. And even then, the reversal of controls necessary for flattening out may prove a stumbling block to some pilots.
THE HEINKEL He.64: This three-quarter rear view was taken at Heston shortly after the arrival of the Heinkels from Germany during the "Week-End Aerien."
Flight 1932-09 / Flight
GERMANY'S "WHITE HOPE": The new Heinkel He.64 ("Argus" engine) is characterised by a very slim fuselage and a longer lever arm for the tail than is usually found in German machines.
На фотографии показан единственный аэроплан He 64b. Один экземпляр He 64c испытывался в британском авиационном НИЦ (Royal Aircraft Establishment).
Мировая Авиация 155
A GOOD TRY: One of the Heinkel (Argus) monoplanes, piloted by von Massenbach, breaks the tape in a take-off test.
"EINE HEI(N)KLE SACHE": Capt. Cordes, Handley Page's test pilot, giving a take-off demonstration at Radlett. Note lift flaps down and all slots open.
GOOD BYE TO RADLETT: The three Heinkels leave in formation after their demonstrations. Note that on the leading machine the port lift slot is open and its associated flap down, while the starboard slot is closed and its flap up.
Fraulein Elly Beinhorn (left) arriving with Fraulein S. Mirow in one of the new Heinkel's.
На фотографии - персональный аэроплан He 71 Элли Байнхорн. Кроме полетов над Африкой она также летала на своем самолете по Центральной и Северной Америке.
Heinkel-Sport He.64
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Nearly seventy years ago, Alfred Hitchcock film his famously experimental film "Rope" with Jimmy Stewart and Farley Granger. The film was set in real time and shot using only a few very long, continuous shots that required the actors to spot lines and lines of dialogue at a time. It is said that the actors hated it.
The film won no accolades - with even Hitchcock declaring that it was a mistake - and actually disappeared for many years before being revived 30-years later by the great director's daughter. It was never noted for anything more than a technical stunt, quite possibly to save money because it was Hitchcock's first color film. It barely made a profit over the $2-million production cost...and that was mainly in recent video rentals!
Director Thane Economou is no Hitchcock having spent most of his career directing movie shorts. Nevertheless, he felt compelled to try his own continuous take film with "The Wedding Party".
Unlike Hitchcock, Economou didn't have a James Stewart to rely on for acting, instead he cast a bunch of b-list castaways and charged them with the task of not messing up. Why, because the film was recorded, also in real time using one loooooong shot.
So, much like "Rope", the emphasis is more on the technique than the story, which is a run or the mill story about a common wedding and the things that went wrong. The film opens at the ceremony with the idiot best man Colt (Brian Thomas Smith) getting the wedding ring stuck on his finger.
It then progresses around the ceremony to the reception immediately following with an interesting method of changing scenes, as it were. Perhaps the greatest challenge was making sure the majority of the talent hit their spots by the constantly moving camera - helmed by William Kamp III - got around to them. But his use of mostly wide angle shots reduces any moment of intimacy into set-ups for the next shot.
There is a feeble attempt to develop the various characters by creating romantic relationships and generic discovery moments between members of the wedding party, but truly the only semi interesting character was Brett Rice as Tobias - basically looking stoic and bored.
For Economou, perhaps he'll be using the film as a demo to show what he could possibly do if he had a bigger budget and a real screenplay.
"The Wedding Party" comes off advanced film school senior project. It is interesting in technique but dull and one dimensional in story; the professor would probably give him a C+. [VOD,DVD] -- GEOFF BURTON
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People. Places. Things.
Outdoors: Gearing up for cold weather
Better protective gear can help anglers catch more fish
By John N. Felsher
Some anglers love fishing during the winter. Here Jimmy Mason, a bass pro from Rogersville, Ala., bundled up to catch smallmouth bass at Pickwick Lake near Florence, Ala.
Faced with stinging temperatures – intensified by swirling winds driving snow flurries – most anglers would probably wait for a better day, or month, to go fishing. But proper protective gear can allow anglers to fish in relative comfort on days when most people would rather sit next to a roaring fire.
“I fished some really bad days, but one in particular stands out,” remembers Denny Brauer, a former Bassmaster Classic champion. “During one tournament, the ramp got so slick that people were almost launching their trucks along with their boats. All my rod compartments froze shut. I had to borrow my wife’s hair dryer to thaw the locks. We made a run to the lower end of the lake and pulled into a creek. I told my partner, ‘We’re going to be here all day. I’m not making another run.’ I actually caught a really good bag that day because I kept my bait in the water and didn’t want to run anywhere else in the cold.”
In the old days, many anglers wore army-surplus field jackets, bulky “long johns” under jeans, jumpsuits or maybe sweatpants and anything else they could find to ward off the chill. They topped that ensemble with heavy woolen shirts and jackets. In extreme cold, some put on down parkas. Not designed for fishing, these heavy outfits offered protection, but didn’t allow much mobility or relief from rain. Fortunately, manufacturers have made significant progress in protective gear technology.
“Back then, we wore so much that we couldn’t move or fish,” recalls Bernie Schultz, a professional angler. “It was so heavy that it wore us out. Today, an angler can buy stuff right off the shelf that is so much better than what we had years ago. Now, we layer ourselves in garments made of high-tech materials designed specifically for fishing. The cut is better, giving anglers more mobility.”
As it progresses, hypothermia, or a lowering of the core body temperature, can cause disorientation, slurring of speech and hamper one’s ability to make decisions. Wetness or wind rapidly exacerbates the effects of hypothermia. A person immersed in 40-degree F waters can lose consciousness in 15 minutes and die in 90.
Today, anglers can buy lightweight, waterproof products designed specifically to keep them warm, dry and comfortable in weather extremes. For starters, protect the head. Many anglers wear insulated or knit wool coverings to protect their heads, faces and necks on extremely cold days. Some wear beanie-type caps and might add wide coverings similar to sweatbands over the ears. Put a sweatshirt hood over this covering, followed by the hood on the outer coat to keep warm and dry.
The old adage, “dress in layers” still applies, but with modern garments, layers don’t need to make a person resemble a tire company logo. Most people start with ultralight Gore-Tex thermal undergarments and add a thick shirt or sweatshirt over them. Some wear thin, insulated waterproof pants over jeans or trousers. Others prefer bibs, which resemble overalls on steroids. On the outside, many anglers don waterproof all-weather coats or parkas to fight biting cold, block the wind and repel rain or spray.
Nothing makes a person more miserable in cold weather than wet socks and icy feet. Some people wear waterproof thermal socks to keep their feet dry. Some people wear battery-operated electric socks. Over those, add waterproof shoes or boots.
“It’s miserable all day if you step into a puddle or walk down to the boat and barely slip into the water at the ramp, getting the socks wet in the morning,” says John Cox, a professional angler. “Wearing waterproof shoes makes a huge difference for the rest of the day as long as I don’t step in water over my ankle. I like a waterproof shoe that feels like a sneaker, but keeps my feet dry. If it’s really cold, I’ll wear insulated waterproof boots, but I can’t move around in boots that well.”
Thick gauntlet-style gloves protect hands while running the boat, but anglers can’t easily turn reel handles with them. Many companies now make thinner insulated gloves that keep hands warm, but still allow anglers to better use their fingers. Some gloves come with small pockets to insert chemical air-activated hand warmers for additional comfort.
Before heading out to face the elements, start with a good, hot breakfast. Anglers who don’t want to stop fishing to eat lunch can nibble high-energy bars throughout the day. Also drink sufficient warm, non-alcoholic liquids. Alcohol can lower a person’s core body temperature and cause dehydration.
John N. Felsher lives in Semmes, Ala. Contact him through Facebook.
Cooking contest winner continues tradition
From left, Alabama Living editor Lenore Vickrey; first-place winner Mary Lyons; second-place winner Tif Smith; third place winner Jamie Davis; and Creative Living Center director Ann Ball.
Story and photos by Allison Law
Many folks say that cooking ability is in the genes, passed down from one generation to the next. For this year’s winner of the Alabama Living “Crockin’ It” contest at the Alabama National Fair, not only is cooking in the genes – so is winning.
Mary Lyons of Tallassee won first place in the October contest for her dessert creation, Alabama-made Praline Crock-Pot Bread Pudding. Lyons has entered the contest for the last four years, and two years ago she won third place with her Crockpot Tropics Sipper.
Her adult son, Levi, followed in his mom’s footsteps. That same year, 2016, Levi Lyons won second place in the contest with his Crock-Pot Spinach Sausage and Ricotta Shells.
Levi Lyons didn’t enter this year, but his mom continued to make the family proud.
The inspiration for her sweet dish came from Pinterest, the free online platform that allows users to discover and save ideas – everything from recipes to renovation projects to clothing.
The recipe she found on Pinterest was for regular baking, not for a Crock-Pot. It also didn’t feature an Alabama-made ingredient, which is one of the requirements for the Alabama Living contest. She decided to use Luverne-made Sister Schubert’s rolls, baking them first in the oven and slicing and soaking them in the egg mixture. She also used Alaga syrup and found vanilla flavoring that’s made in Birmingham.
The third place winner, Jamie Davis, is Mary Lyons’ friend, and she’s the one who suggested that Lyons enter the praline dish. Obviously, it was good advice!
Alabama-made Praline Crock-Pot Bread Pudding
Mary Lyons, Tallassee
1 package Sister Schubert’s rolls
¼ cup chopped pecans
Praline sauce:
½ cup butter
¼ cup Alaga cane flavor syrup
¾ cup brown sugar, packed
¾ cup heavy cream
Whipped cream:
1 small carton Borden’s whipping cream
Bake rolls as directed on package. While warm, cut into pieces. Arrange pieces in single layer on a flat surface; cool completely. In a large bowl, beat eggs; add half and half and sugar and mix well until blended. Add cut up rolls and mix well; let stand 15 minutes. Spread mixture evenly in slow cooker and press down slightly. Cook on high for two hours. Watch the sides for browning; take top off and allow top to brown for the last 30 minutes of cooking. Turn down to warm. Check center with a knife to make sure center is done; knife will come out clean. Sprinkle pecans over the bread pudding.
Sauce: melt butter in saucepan on medium heat. Add Alaga syrup and mix well. Add brown sugar and pecans and cook 2-3 minutes, stirring frequently. Reduce heat and slowly stir in heavy cream and simmer 2-3 minutes more, stirring constantly until it begins to thicken. Let stand 10 minutes. Pour over warm bread pudding.
Whipped cream: With a mixer on medium, beat whipping cream and gradually add sugar and vanilla. Mix until it forms a peak. Serve this cream on top of the pudding and sauce.
Pineapple and Pulled Pork Crock-Pot Baked Bean Camp Stew
Tif Smith, Montgomery
1 pound bacon
1 pound Conecuh sausage
1l arge white onion, chopped
128-ounce can baked beans in tomato sauce
116-ounce can baked beans
115-ounce can kidney beans, drained and rinsed
115-ounce can yellow corn
120-ounce can pineapple tidbits, drained
½cup Alaga maple syrup
115-ounce can chopped tomatoes
2 cups pulled pork
2 large bell peppers, chopped
½ cup ketchup
2 tablespoons Dijon
5 shakes Alaga hot sauce
½ cup barbecue sauce
Chop raw bacon and Conecuh sausage and fry over medium heat until crispy and done. Drain on paper towels. Drain grease, leaving about 2 tablespoons in the pan. Cook onion in grease until soft. Combine all ingredients in a large slow cooker and cook on high for four hours or on low for eight hours.
Crock-Pot Low Country Boil
Jamie Davis, Tallassee
1 bottle of Truck Stop Honey beer
¼ cup Alaga hot sauce
3 tablespoons Old Bay
1½ teaspoons salt
1½ pounds red potatoes (about 10-15 small)
10 small ears sweet corn (frozen or from the garden)
1 pound Conecuh sausage, cut into two- to three-inch links
2 pounds large shrimp, deveined
Optional condiments: cocktail sauce, additional lemon wedges, melted butter
In a six- to seven-quart slow cooker, combine water, beer, hot sauce, seafood seasoning, salt and cayenne pepper. Add potatoes, corn, sausage and lemon wedges. Cover and cook for 3 ½ hours on high. Add shrimp and stir until incorporated. Cover and cook an additional 30 minutes or until shrimp are pink. Spoon mixture into a large rimmed dish and serve with optional condiments.
Protein Packed
It’s an essential nutrient, so putting protein high on your priority list is a resolution you should make (and keep) this year.
Sausage, Egg and Cheese Bake
BY JENNIFER KORNEGAY
Food/Photography BY BROOKE ECHOLS
Makers of many foods (and those in charge of promoting certain agriculture products) like to slap the title “good source of protein” on their items as a way to entice an increasingly health-conscious public to buy and ingest whatever it is they’re selling. But is “getting enough protein” really that important or is the popularity of protein a fad? Yes to the first question; kind of to the second.
Protein is a macronutrient that is essential to our bodies’ daily functions. It forms the building blocks of our cells and is used to make and repair muscles, bones, blood and other tissues. It plays many other crucial roles too, making it a key component of a balanced diet. It is found in meats but also in dairy, eggs, nuts, seeds and beans.
Protein is also the focus of several “trendy” diets (like Paleo, Keto and Whole 30), but just because they’re “trendy” doesn’t mean they don’t work. These protein-rich eating regimens deliver impressive results for weight loss. Pounds are shed quickly, and thanks to protein’s ability to satisfy appetites, people on these diets usually don’t feel overly hungry or deprived. According to the Mayo Clinic, for most people, high-protein, low-carb diets are safe, at least when they’re practiced short term.
But if you’re loading up your plate with bacon and fatty beef, you could exchange unwanted fat for high cholesterol and other issues. Better protein-heavy choices are fish, lean meats, low-fat dairy and beans. In fact, this advice applies to everyone: Experts agree that many of us could be making better choices about the kinds of protein we’re eating.
If you’re considering one of the protein-packed diets or just need to add some additional protein to your menu (now that you know how vital to good health it is), you’re in luck. Check out these tasty and (mostly) healthy reader-submitted recipes.
Cook of the Month
Mike Rich, Sand Mountain EC
No-Bake Puffed Quinoa Peanut Butter Crunch Cups
1 1/2 cups puffed quinoa*
1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons peanut butter
1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons coconut butter
1 1/2 tablespoons pure maple syrup
Add the puffed quinoa to a medium-sized mixing bowl. Add the peanut butter, coconut butter, coconut oil, maple syrup and vanilla extract to a medium saucepan. Heat over low and whisk continuously for 4-5 minutes or until completely melted and smooth. Pour the peanut butter mixture over the puffed quinoa and stir to coat. Place 16-18 muffin liners on a baking pan. Drop heaping tablespoons of the quinoa mixture into the muffin liners and gently smooth out with a spoon. Pop the pan into the freezer for one hour to set. Once the cups have set, you can transfer them to the refrigerator to store.
Cook’s note: You can purchase puffed quinoa, but if you prefer to make your own, this is what I typically do: Heat a large stockpot over medium heat. Once the pot is hot, pour a small amount of pre-rinsed and dried quinoa over the bottom of the pan. Gently move the pan so that the quinoa swirls around as it pops (this helps prevent burning). Once all the quinoa has popped (a minute or two), pour it into a bowl and repeat until you have 1 1/2 cups. You’ll notice that the quinoa has a very quiet crackle rather than a popcorn-like “pop,” and its popped state is only the tiniest bit larger than its un-popped state.
Meathead Chili
2 ribeye steaks
1 package pork sausage
1 16-ounce can red kidney beans
1 16-ounce can black beans
1 16-ounce can pinto beans
1 16-ounce can petite-diced tomatoes
1 16-ounces tomato paste
1 tablespoon oregano
1 14-ounce can beef broth
Splash of sriracha sauce
Sear the steaks in a skillet 10 minutes a side. Brown the ground beef and pork together in a large pot. Cut the steak and add to a pot along with the chopped onion. After the onions cook down, add spices, tomatoes, brown sugar, sriracha sauce and beans. Pour in the beef stock and cook at a simmer for 30 minutes. Let chili rest for 5 to 10 minutes before serving.
Kirk Vantrease, Cullman EC
Healthy Peanut Butter Cup Puppy Chow
(Single serving)
3/4cup toasted wheat (or rice) cereal
2tablespoon PB2
(or any brand of peanut butter
powder)
1/4teaspoon Hershey Special Dark
Cocoa powder (or chocolate protein powder)
2packets Splenda or Stevia
Coconut oil cooking spray
Mix peanut butter powder, dark cocoa powder and Splenda or Stevia in a bowl. Place cereal in a quart sized Ziploc bag. Spray cereal with coconut oil cooking spray, tossing well. Use just enough to coat. Add the dry ingredients to the bag with the cereal and toss until they stick to all sides.
Kaci Cheeseman, Baldwin EMC
2 pounds bulk sausage (I like to use one hot, one mild)
1 package diced red, yellow and green bell peppers
1 cup half and half or milk
Brown the sausage with onion. Drain well on paper towels. Add the chopped bell peppers to the pan and sauté until tender. (You may or may not want to add a little oil or butter to the pan.) Add back in the sausage and onion mixture and stir until all ingredients are incorporated. Spread the meat/pepper mixture in a greased 9×13-inch baking dish or two smaller dishes. Sprinkle cheese on top. Whisk eggs, half and half or milk, garlic powder, salt and pepper together, and pour over the whole pan. I like to chill it overnight, but that’s optional. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
Allison Law, Alabama Living managing editor
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Snapshots: Snow Day
Adalyn Bellomy sledding at Aunt Patti’s house. SUBMITTED BY Patti Tidwell.
Clint Feemster enjoying a snow day with Ruff and Doc. SUBMITTED BY Anna Feemster, Fyffe.
Montana Kirkwood’s graduation December 2017. SUBMITTED BY Bettie Giles, Millry.
Our grandson, Beckham’s first snowman. SUBMITTED BY Jesse Pace, Wagarville.
Cleburne County December 2017. SUBMITTED BY Randy Stamps, Heflin.
Frank Mann on the tractor feeding Cherokee the horse. SUBMITTED BY Caroline Mann, Double Springs.
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Alabama Living writer will be missed
Ben Norman, a freelance writer for Alabama Living and other outdoor publications, passed away Nov. 15, 2018, after a long battle with cancer. Norman, a resident of Highland Home, was a longtime member of the South Alabama Electric Cooperative Board of Trustees.
Norman wrote several articles over the years for Alabama Living, says editor Lenore Vickrey. “It was always a pleasure to hear from Ben, who never failed to come up with interesting ideas for stories about the fascinating people and places of south Alabama,” she says. His most recent article, published in June 2018, was about a Brantley resident who made traps to catch catfish. Although his specialty was writing about the outdoors, he also wrote about local personalities, took many of his own photos, and in 2017, penned a feature on the popular Sister’s Restaurant in Troy, which helped draw many new patrons to the business.
Donations in Norman’s memory can be made to:
Sardis Cemetery Fund
c/o Donald White
15403 Montgomery Highway
Highland Home, AL 36041
Best of Alabama 2019: The votes are in!
By Allison Law
Alabama Gulf State Park and Lodge
We asked, you answered! For the sixth consecutive year, Alabama Living asked you, our readers, to tell us your favorite people, places and things about our great state as part of our annual Best of Alabama feature.
Hundreds of you responded to the ballots we printed in the September and October issues, which asked you to vote for your favorites in ten different categories. We accepted your responses via the mail and online, and one lucky respondent was randomly drawn to win a $350 prize! (See story, Page 16.)
It gets harder each year to come up with different categories for the contest, but it’s not hard to find the things we like about Alabama. From venues for live music to shopping to museums to restaurants, Alabama has it all. Read on to find out more about the winners.
Best new tourist destination:
Hurricane Ivan destroyed the old hotel at Gulf State Park in 2004, but the area will once again be a convention destination with the new Lodge at Gulf State Park, which officially opened in November to much fanfare. Gov. Kay Ivey called it a “world-class place to visit, and it will be the crown jewel of tourism.” The Hilton-branded hotel, new interpretive center, learning campus and state-of-the-art convention facilities will no doubt continue to boost state tourism.
Learn more at lodgeatgulfstatepark.com
Best museum dedicated to a famous Alabamian:
Ivy Green, birthplace of Helen Keller, Tuscumbia
Helen Keller (1880-1968) remains one of Alabama’s most admired native daughters. Keller became deaf and blind as an infant, but learned sign language from teacher Anne Sullivan at the water pump in the backyard of Ivy Green, her family’s home in Tuscumbia. She characterized Ivy Green and its garden as “the paradise of my childhood,” and the home and grounds today are dedicated to preserving her legacy of activism and literary accomplishment.
The home, at 300 North Commons St. West in Tuscumbia, is open to the public; learn more at helenkellerbirthplace.org
Best zoo/wildlife park:
Birmingham Zoo
From Trails of Africa to the Children’s Zoo and everything in between, the Birmingham Zoo features animals from all over the world. Signage throughout the park highlights their care, conservation initiatives, and species survival plans. With approximately 700 animals of 200 species from six continents, the 122-acre site is a great family destination any time of year.
The non-profit Zoo, at 2630 Cahaba Road in Birmingham, is open daily; learn more at birminghamzoo.com
Best music venue:
Flora-Bama, Orange Beach
Considered by locals and visitors alike to be the most famous beach bar in the country, the Flora-Bama lounge features live music every day of the year. This longtime honky-tonk straddles the state line between Orange Beach, Ala., and Perdido Key, Fla., and features good times and good music in five different entertainment areas. From country to rock to dance to beach music, there’s something for everyone at the Flora-Bama.
Learn more and see the musical lineup at florabama.com
The Wharf – Orange Beach, Alabama.
Courtland W. Richards – Photographer. Daphne, AL 36526, 251-379-8935
Best open-air amphitheater:
The Wharf, Orange Beach
Baldwin County boasts another winner in our poll this year. The Wharf Amphitheater opened in 2006 with a sold-out Hank Williams Jr. concert, and has continued to draw some of the biggest names in contemporary and classic music: Taylor Swift, Kid Rock, Jason Aldean, John Mayer, Eric Church and more have entertained audiences; this year, some of the big-name acts set to perform include Jimmy Buffett, Kenny Chesney and Hootie and the Blowfish.
For more information, visit alwharf.com
Best lake to spend the weekend:
Lake Guntersville Resort State Park, located along the banks of the Tennessee River in northeast Alabama, features golf, a beach complex, an outdoor nature center, fishing in Alabama’s largest lake, hiking and biking trails and weekly guided hikes. But one of its main attractions soars above the others: Eagle awareness programs both entertain and educate visitors about our national symbol (see story, Page 18).
For more information, visit alapark.com and click “find a park,” then “Lake Guntersville.”
Best Heisman Trophy winner from an Alabama school:
Bo Jackson, Auburn
Vincent Edward “Bo” Jackson of Bessemer is widely considered one of the greatest athletes of all time. At Auburn, he won the 1985 Heisman Trophy, annually awarded to the best collegiate football player in the country. His popularity in his home state continues, helped in part by his Bo Bikes Bama cycling ride, which he created to support victims of the 2011 tornado outbreak. (Jackson also won in our 2017 contest for “best football player to play in Alabama.”)
Learn more at bojacksonenterprises.com
The Tanger Outlet Mall for the GCCVB.
Courtland W. Richards – Photographer.
Daphne, AL 36526, 251-379-8935
Best shopping attraction:
Tanger Outlets, Foley
For many families, a visit to the Alabama beaches isn’t complete without a stop at the Tanger Outlets in Foley. These stores are owned and operated by brand-name manufacturers; the idea is that because you’re buying directly from the manufacturer, you’ll get big savings. The stores feature fashions and accessories for the whole family, jewelry, housewares, home décor, luggage, toys, food specialties and more.
Learn more at tangeroutlet.com
Best hometown restaurant or diner:
The Bullpen, formerly Kilpatrick Family Restaurant
This family-owned restaurant, located in the rural Kilpatrick community in DeKalb County, changed in both ownership and name just in the last several months. But one thing hasn’t changed: The community’s support.
“I’m just amazed how people have taken to us, and wrapped their arms around us, and are so supportive of us,” says Lori Magoon, who bought the restaurant in 2018 with her husband, Jason. Both work there, as do several family members, including a teenage daughter.
That support is no doubt why it won this category in the Best of Alabama poll. The restaurant, which is a member of Marshall-DeKalb Electric Cooperative, posted the ballot on its Facebook page and asked its customers to vote for it – and they did!
The restaurant serves up three meals a day, six days a week, and Lori says they’re probably best known for the “Big Momma’s Cheeseburger,” a hefty 10-ounce burger that was a holdover from the previous owner. But the Bullpen has added homemade biscuits as well as ribeye steaks on Friday and Saturday nights; they also remodeled the interior, which Lori says made it feel more homey.
The lunch service is mostly a meat-and-three selection, though customers can order off the menu. They do homemade desserts everyday and have added hand-dipped ice cream.
The restaurant’s address is 18657 Highway 68, Crossville, AL 35962; find their page, “The Bullpen Restaurant,” on Facebook. The phone number is 256-561-2170.
Best small college town:
“The loveliest village on the Plains” is of course best known for its namesake university, which is central to its economy. But a low cost of living, low unemployment and a variety of cultural and culinary opportunities continue to fuel the growth of the Lee County city. It ranks No. 25 on Forbes magazine’s list of the Best Small Places for Business and Careers.
Coming in a close second in this category was the city of Troy, home of the Trojans.
The eagles have landed
Majestic national birds are flourishing again in Alabama
Courtesy of Alabama Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources
When America adopted the bald eagle as its national symbol in 1782, the country may have had as many as 100,000 nesting eagles. Since that day, though, the American people haven’t always treated the national symbol with reverence.
Many people considered eagles nothing more than scavengers or predators to be exterminated. They almost succeeded. By 1963, fewer than 500 nesting pairs remained in the lower 48 contiguous states, none in Alabama.
“Historically, eagles were found everywhere in Alabama,” says Carrie Threadgill, the Nongame Wildlife Program coordinator for the Alabama Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries. “With the rise in some pesticide usage and other threats, the eagle population declined drastically in the early 20th century.”
Beginning with the Bald Eagle Protection Act of 1940, followed by an amendment including golden eagles in 1962, a series of laws began to protect eagles and other raptors. Finally, President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act of 1973, putting eagles on the Endangered Species List.
A year earlier, the nation banned DDT. The powerful agricultural pesticide washed into rivers and lakes where fish-eating birds like eagles and pelicans ingested it. The poison weakened eggshells so feathered parents could not incubate their eggs without crushing them. With federal protection and the DDT ban, eagle populations began to soar. To hasten this rebound, Alabama and other states began reintroduction programs.
“After the Nongame Wildlife Program was created in 1984, one of the first projects we did was the bald eagle reintroduction program,” Threadgill says. “In 1985, an eagle might occasionally migrate through the state, but there were no breeding pairs in Alabama at the time.”
Photo by John Felsher
Bringing eagles back
In what is called a “hacking” program, Alabama biologists took young bald eagles from Florida and put them in “hacking towers,” or large enclosed artificial eagle nests. The state built six towers along major river systems in Alabama. Once old enough to fend for themselves, the birds were released into the wild.
“At that time, bald eagles were doing fairly well in Florida,” Threadgill recalls. “The goal was to raise the babies without human interaction. Once we released them, we hoped they would become imprinted to that area, stay and breed. The first confirmed successful eagle nesting since 1962 occurred in 1991.”
From 1985 to 1991, the state released 91 eagles. By 1992, the U.S. bald eagle population grew to more than 100,000 with about half of them in Alaska. In 1995, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reclassified bald eagles from “endangered” to “threatened” and removed the birds from the Endangered Species List entirely on June 28, 2007, but eagles remain protected.
“Eagles are doing great in Alabama now,” Threadgill says. “We get eagle sightings in every county throughout the year. We have confirmed records of eagles breeding in 49 counties, but we are fairly certain that they are nesting in every county in Alabama. We have more than 200 resident nesting pairs in the state, but during the winter, many more birds migrate down from other states.”
The highest bald eagle concentrations in Alabama occur along the Tennessee River and associated lakes like Pickwick, Wheeler and Guntersville in the northern part of the state. But you may see eagles on other lakes or rivers across Alabama. Several nesting pairs live in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta near Mobile.
Golden eagles in Alabama
Bird watchers might also see golden eagles in Alabama. Golden eagles traditionally live in the canyons and mountains of western states and Canada, but some winter in the Southeast, including Alabama. Slightly larger than bald eagles, golden eagles sport a light golden “cape” on their heads and upper backs rather than the distinctive white top of their cousins. Many people mistake goldens for immature bald eagles that haven’t developed their iconic white headgear.
“We have a wintering population of golden eagles, but not a breeding population,” Threadgill says. “Over the past 100 years or so, we’ve had a handful of records of goldens visiting the state, but we are seeing more of them now. Goldens actually have two populations in North America, an eastern and a western population. The eastern population is more migratory. They breed in Canada and winter in the South. Some may even winter farther south than Alabama.”
Since 2012, Alabama has joined 15 other eastern states in projects to monitor golden eagle movements. Researchers put up game cameras in several locations to spot the eagles and trapped 12 of them in Alabama. The researchers fitted the eagles with radio-tracking devices and released them.
“The golden eagle population in Alabama is a lot higher than we first expected,” Threadgill says. “With the transmitters, we’ve tracked golden eagles to the northern provinces of Canada around Hudson Bay.”
Money for eagle research and other projects conducted by the Alabama Nongame Wildlife Program comes primarily from the sale of hunting licenses and excise taxes on guns and ammunition purchased by sportsmen. The federal government reimburses states a portion of those excise taxes collected based upon the number of licenses sold.
Want to see eagles in the wild or up close?
Eagle Awareness Weekends at Lake Guntersville State Park (alapark.com/lake-guntersville-state-park) offer people outstanding opportunities to spot raptors and other birds. The event runs over four straight weekends from Jan. 25 through Feb. 17. People may participate in many different activities and presentations or explore on their own.
“Winter is the prime time to see eagles in Alabama,” says Michael Ezell, the park naturalist. “We host some guided field trips. We also bring in experts to present programs on birds of prey, birds in general and other topics like reptiles and plants. Some experts bring in birds that have been injured and rehabilitated, but cannot be released into the wild so people can see them up close.”
All Eagle Awareness Weekends events are free and open to the public. The park offers a variety of lodging options from hotel-style rooms in the resort to camping.
“I can almost guarantee that people will see an eagle around Lake Guntersville at this time,” Ezell says. “We have two active nests in the park. During the 2018 Eagle Awareness Weekends, we had 66 eagle sightings in two days.”
For more on Eagle Awareness Weekends and a complete schedule, see alapark.com/Lake-Guntersville-State-Park-Eagle-Awareness-Weekends-2019 or call Ezell at 256-762-3417.
Alabama People: Jay Lamar
Directing Alabama’s Bicentennial
Jay Lamar is the executive director of the Alabama Bicentennial Commission, which was set up in 2013 to plan and coordinate events and activities celebrating the 200th anniversary of Alabama’s statehood. Appointed in early 2014, she previously worked at Auburn University in a variety of capacities. A native of Alabama, Lamar is also co-editor (with Jeanie Thompson) of The Remembered Gate: Memoirs by Alabama Writers. Of special interest to our readers is that Jay is the sister of Katie Lamar Jackson, our garden columnist. She is a very busy lady, but she managed to take some time to answer a few questions about this three-year long celebration of our state. — Lenore Vickrey
How did you get involved with the Alabama 200 project?
By sheer luck and good fortune!
Why is Alabama’s bicentennial spread over three years?
The Alabama Bicentennial Commission leadership took its cue from Dr. Ed Bridges, director emeritus of the Alabama Department of Archives and History. He pointed out that the state’s territorial period was relatively brief, beginning in 1817 and concluding with statehood in 1819. A three-year window for creating and making significant projects happen was just irresistible. One example of why this was a genius idea: Almost a thousand teachers and administrators in Alabama’s public, private, and home schools have been able to benefit from new curriculum, primary source materials, and high-level professional development to prepare them for making the most of a once-in-a-lifetime “teaching moment.”
It must take a lot of people to pull off a three-year celebration. How many folks are involved and how did it all come together?
The sheer number of agencies and organizations involved is astounding! The Alabama Department of Archives & History, the Alabama Tourism Department, Alabama Historical Commission, Alabama Public Television, Alabama Humanities Foundation…these are agencies that are deeply involved and have been from the beginning. The bicentennial really happens because of the staff and resources committed from them and other partners.
Why is celebrating the state’s bicentennial important to the average Alabamian?
Celebrating this anniversary is important for our state because it is a chance to learn about our history and the places and people and events that shaped it. We have so much to be proud of and so much to build on and I believe that at the end of the day the bicentennial is really about our future. The bicentennial will be enriching and inspiring—and FUN!
What are some of the big events planned for 2019?
All of our events are on our website at alabama200.org. They include events all over the state, from the State Camellia Show in Mobile Feb. 15-19, to the opening of the restored Alabama Constitution Village in Huntsville March 2, the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing July 15-20 in Huntsville, and the Poarch Creek Annual Thanksgiving Pow Wow Nov. 28-Dec. 1. There are events literally every week of this year!
WTD: Main Street Cafe
Main Street Cafe offers a glimpse into Madison’s past
Main Street Café is known for its homemade desserts including peanut butter pie, lemon icebox pie and strawberry pretzel salad.
Story and photos by Aaron Tanner
It’s not every day you get to dine inside a jail cell.
Main Street Café is a favorite gathering place for lunch on Main Street in historic downtown Madison
But that’s exactly what you can do at the Main Street Café, which occupies the space that once housed the town’s city hall and jail in historic downtown Madison. First-time visitors are often surprised about the opportunity to have a meal inside a jail cell that is now a private dining room. “They walk in and say ‘we hear you have jail cells; can we see them?’” says Cindy Sensenberger, who co-owns the restaurant with her husband, Tony.
On the flip side, Sensenberger has had customers tell them about spending time in the same jail cells that are now the café’s centerpiece. “I’ve had some come in and say they have been in the jail before, and after hearing they were coming I decided to paint over their initials,” Sensenberger says.
Although Madison’s population has grown significantly over the past few decades, Main Street Cafe retains its small-town atmosphere where customers dine on Southern comfort food in a more relaxed atmosphere. “It’s not stuffy,” Sensenberger says. “It’s like your neighborhood restaurant.”
Main Street Café co-owner Cindy Sensenberger.
Many of the entrees are from old recipes, including Poulet de Normandie (chicken and dressing topped with melted cheese and mushroom sauce); Cheesy Meatloaf with
Marinara Sauce; and a chicken salad plate complemented by an English pea salad and a slice of pumpkin bread.
There are also daily specials that change based on the seasonal recipes hand-selected by the chef.
Even though Sensenberger’s goal is to rotate the specials, she loves her customers enough to make exceptions. If a prior special is not on the menu, the restaurant will personally make the special order. “Sometimes we have to have the same special for the whole week because someone will not be able to come the day we make it,” Sensenberger says with a smile.
Desserts are another staple of Main Street Cafe. Although the delights include Peanut Butter Pie, Coca-Cola Cake and Hummingbird Cake (spice cake mixed with bananas, pecans, and pineapple with a pecan and cream cheese frosting), it is their Strawberry Pretzel Salad made with a pretzel base and topped with cream cheese, Cool Whip and strawberry gelatin that customers often choose for their after-dinner course. “It is the most popular dessert we have,” Sensenberger says. “It has a sweet and salty taste.”
Preserving a piece of Madison history
Sensenberger was born and raised in nearby Huntsville. In 1981, she was vacationing in Canada where she met her husband. After a long-distance relationship that lasted a year and a half, the two got married and she moved to Canada and opened her first restaurant. When her mother fell ill in 1991, the couple moved back to Alabama, and Sensenberger opened her second restaurant in an old renovated Victorian home in Decatur.
After her mother died, she decided to move closer to Huntsville. The couple landed in Madison, which was experiencing tremendous growth during the late 1990s and early 2000s.
The old jail cells inside Main Street Café now function as decorated private dining rooms.
While she and her husband were renovating several old homes and buildings in downtown Madison, Sensenberger heard that the old city hall and jail were to be torn down. “(The building) was an eyesore for the city,” Sensenberger says. She was eager to open another restaurant, and a contractor suggested using the old building as a cafe. “I had a gentleman come in and do a layout for me and said it would be perfect for a small, homestyle restaurant,” she says.
The chicken salad plate is one of the many favorite entrees on the menu
The Sensenbergers leased the property from the city of Madison and went to work to give the facility a second life. Extensive renovations were done on the inside of the building, including adding a walk-in cooler and freezer, kitchen, dining space and a bar while keeping the layout simple and convenient for future customers and staff. “There is not a lot of wasted space,” Sensenberger says.
After a year of renovations, Main Street Cafe opened to the public in December 2000.
Since opening, the community’s support for Main Street Cafe has grown, thanks to the revitalization of downtown Madison. During the Madison Street Festival, held the first Saturday in October, the restaurant serves as many as 400 to 500 customers. People can also rent out the entire building for private parties while the adjacent patio is perfect for watching trains pass behind the cafe.
Sensenberger enjoys talking with her customers, and those who visit for the first time eventually become regular patrons. Her goal is for those who walk into the door of her restaurant to feel at home no matter their status in life. “I treat everyone like one big happy family,” Sensenberger says.
Main Street Café
Hours: 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday-Saturday
mainstreetcafemadison.com
Growing history:
Celebrating 200-plus years of gardening
This photo, circa 1900-1909 and used with permission from the Alabama Department of Archives and History, shows students working in the garden behind the Fifth District Agricultural School in Wetumpka, which later became Wetumpka High School.
For thousands of years, gardens have been essential parts of our state’s life and culture. As Alabama commemorates its 200th anniversary of statehood this year, here’s a quick snapshot of our gardening history and the plants that have become part of our landscapes and lives through the centuries.
According to the Encyclopedia of Alabama, southeastern Native Americans — Alabama’s first gardeners — began growing crops of local plants (lambsquarters, sunflowers, other seedbearing plants and possibly squash) some 3,500 or more years ago to supplement their wild food sources.
During the Mississippian Era (1000 to 1500 AD), indigenous Alabama tribes started gardening and farming in earnest, a practice that may well explain our state’s name. Though historians debate the exact origin of the name “Alabama,” many credit it to the Choctaw words alba amo, which translate into “those who clear the land.” Clear the land these early Alabamians did, replacing forests with fields where they grew a variety of crops including monocultures and companion plantings of the “Three Sisters” — beans, squash and corn.
When the first European settlers arrived in Alabama in the 1500 and 1600s, they seized Native American cropland, and seized upon their cropping practices and plants. But they also brought with them an array of plants from the Old World. According to the late Montgomery County Cooperative Extension agent and Alabama garden historian George R. Stritikus, those introduced plants included oranges, oleanders, figs, peaches and possibly wisteria and canna lilies.
During the early 1700s, gardens became status symbols of wealthy Alabama plantation owners and businessmen who created the state’s first “fine” or “pleasure” gardens. These plantings typically contained both food and ornamental plants, many of which mirrored those of their homelands.
By the early 1800s — one of our state’s most tragic historical eras — the importation of slaves from Africa was under way. Along with the slaves came plants of their homelands including okra, kidney and lima beans, black-eyed peas, yams and watermelon.
About this time, those affluent landowners were also importing huge numbers of ornamental plants primarily from France and England, but they soon realized that many of these plants could not survive in the South’s climate. According to Stritikus, the need for new varieties suited for southeastern growing conditions kick-started Alabama’s still-thriving nursery industry.
The science of gardening and farming took a leap forward in the mid 1800s as Alabama developed its land-grant education and research system (Cooperative Extension and Agricultural Experiment Station systems), which helped identify the best plants and planting practices for home gardeners and horticultural professionals alike.
During this era, horticultural and garden societies were also forming. Among the first of these in the South and in the nation was the Chunnenuggee Ridge Horticultural Society, founded in 1847 near Union Springs in Bullock County. By the early 1930s, the Federated Garden Clubs of Alabama was also organized to conserve and expand the state’s woodland environment and increase awareness of landscape beauty.
Through history, our gardening practices and trends have changed — and continue to change — with each new generation of gardeners. As we begin our third century as a state, consider recording your own gardening history with a journal to chronicle your gardening successes and failures, and perhaps someday help add your own story to Alabama’s gardening history.
Garden history resources:
To learn more about the history of gardening, spend some time researching it on your own, or look to the list provided below.
The Southern Garden History Society (http://southerngardenhistory.org) is an exceptional resource for information on historic gardens, cultural landscapes and horticultural history.
The Alabama Department of Archives and History (www.archives.state.al.us) and other state archival resources offer gardening history records and also educational programs and exhibits on gardening history.
Many public gardens (a list can be found at https://alabama.travel/garden-trail) offer educational programs and resources on gardening history and practices.
A number of historical societies offer gardening histories and also tend historic gardens that are open to the public. Check with your local historical society to find out what’s available in your area.
Katie Jackson is a freelance writer and editor based in Opelika, Alabama. Contact her at katielamarjackson@gmail.com.
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NAS Alameda Units Home » History » NAS Alameda Units
We are continully working to preserve the history of NAS Alameda and her aviation predecessors at Alameda Point, and you can help by sharing information about the units, squadrons and ships stationed at NAS Alameda during your time of service.
Any old photos, news clippings, or documentation related to NAS Alameda is vital to our mission. We can digitally scan these items and return to you if necessary. Many former base personnel have spent time jotting down their recollections and forwarding in an e-mail. We’re not looking for award winning essays from polished authors. Just the things you remember from your days stationed at Alameda. Even a few paragraphs are valuable to us. Others, who have the capability to scan their photos, send us the digital images of themselves or the base during that same period. Please contact us at tellus_anam@aol.com if you are able to provide original photographs, images or artifacts.
CVWR-30 Carrier Air Wing Reserve
Carrier Air Wing Reserve THIRTY was established on 1 April 1970 at Naval Air Station Alameda, and was composed of an Air Wing Staff, two Fighter Squadrons, three Attack Squadrons, one Light Reconnaissance Squadron, one Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron, one Early Warning Squadron and one Aerial Refueling Squadron. They were: VA-303 “Golden Hawks” at […]
FIRSTPAC-1187 Fleet Intelligence Rapid Support Team Pacific
— provided by Mr. Robert M. Cieri
HM-15 “Blackhawks” Helicopter Mine Countermeasures
Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron FIFTEEN (HM-15) “Blackhawks” was established on 2 January 1987 at Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia. The first of two deployable, Airborne Mine Countermeasures (AMCM) squadrons to receive the Sikorsky MH-53E “Sea Dragon” helicopter. On 21 April 1987, HM-15 was ordered by the CNO to change duty stations to Naval Air Station […]
HM-19 “Golden Bears” Helicopter Mine Countermeasures
HM-19 was established at Naval Air Station Alameda, California on 9 January 1989 as the Naval Reserve’s second Airborne Mine Countermeasures (AMCM) squadron, flying the RH-53D Sea Stallion Helicopter operating under the control of Commander, Helicopter Wing Reserve. In January 1993, the Golden Bears began transitioning to the MH-53E Sea Dragon Helicopter. A transition to […]
HS-85 “Golden Gater’s” Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron
HS-85 was established as Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Eight Five on 1 July 1970 at Naval Air Station (NAS) Alameda, CA. In 1993, HS-85 moved from NAS Alameda to NAS North Island to assume the Target Launch and Target/Torpedo Recovery mission at Naval Auxiliary Landing Field (NALF) San Clemente Island, CA upon the decommissioning of Helicopter […]
PATSU-8 Patrol Service Aircraft Unit
Supported various patrol squadrons of PBMs, PVs, and PB4Ys that passed through NAS Alameda during the Pacific war.
SOSU-3 Scout and Observation Unit
Stationed at NAS Alameda: 1942 to 19?? — SOSU-3 supported the various aircraft assigned to the battleships and cruisers in San Francisco Bay. The unit functioned similar to a Carrier Service Unit (CASU), but serviced and trained personnel in the operation of catapult and scouting aircraft.
VA-303 “Golden Hawks” Attack Squadron
Attack Squadron (VA-303) was established at Naval Air Station Alameda on 1 July 1970. Disestablished on 31 December 1994. The first squadron to be assigned the VA-303 and VFA-303 designation. Chronology of Significant Events 1 July 1970: VA-303, a reserve squadron, established as part of a reorganization of the reserves intended to increase the combat […]
VA-304 “Firebirds” Attack Squadron
Attack Squadron (VA-304) was established at Naval Air Station Alameda on 1 July 1970. The squadron consists of twelve Ling-Temco-Vought A-7B Corsair II’s. VA-304 is a squadron of Reserve Carrier Air Wing Thirty (CVWR-30), also headquartered at NAS Alameda. Since its inception, the squadron has built a reputation as the performance leader in the Naval […]
VAQ-130 “Zappers” Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron
Dating from the Eisenhower administration, the Zappers of VAQ-130 have led the way in Navy electronic warfare for more than 40 years. Originally designated VAW-13, the unit is the longest serving carrier based electronic warfare squadron in Navy history, and has flown the Navy’s three primary tactical jamming aircraft into the heaviest, most threatening electronic environments ever […]
VAQ-131 “Hollygreens” Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron
VAQ-131 came into existence on 1 November 1968 when VAH-4 was re-designated. Homeport for the new TACELRON was NAS Alameda, California. The mission of VAQ-131 was to conduct electronic warfare and to provide air-to-air refueling in support of Attack Carrier Task Force operations. In conducting this mission, VAQ-131 utilized KA / EKA-3B models of the Douglas A-3 […]
VAQ-132 “Scorpions” Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron
Stationed at NAS Alameda: 1968-1971 — Formed 1 November 1968 when VAH-2 was redesignated. Detachments to USS Constellation (CVA-64). Combat cruises on USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) and USS America (CVA-66). Moved to NAS Whidbey Island, Washington 15 January 1971 and transitioned to EA-6B. Links http://www.vaq132.navy.mil/ VAQ-132 Unit Page (Military.com) — provided by Mr. Robert M. Cieri
VAQ-133 “Wizards” Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron
Established Mar 4, 1969. Deployments to Gulf of Tonkin on USS Constellation (CVA-64) and USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63). Stood down August 1971. Reactivated August 4, 1972 at NAS Whidbey Island, Washington with EA-6B. Links http://vaq133.ahf.nmci.navy.mil/ VAQ-133 Unit Page (Military.com) — provided by Mr. Robert M. Cieri
VAQ-134 “Garudas” Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron
VAQ-134 was originally commissioned on 7 June 1969 at NAS Alameda, California as the GARUDAS. Based on an old Hindu myth, the Garuda is the bird that took Wisnu, the God of War, wherever necessary in his quest to protect God’s creation from those evil forces that sought to upset and destroy it. The Garudas, flying the […]
VAQ-135 “Black Ravens” Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron
Activated May 15, 1969. Deployments and detachments to Southeast Asia on USS Coral Sea (CVA-43), USS Hancock (CVA-19), USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63), and to Mediterranean on USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVA-43), USS Forrestal (CVA-59). Transition to EA-6B July 1974. Links VAQ-135 Unit Page (Military.com) — provided by Mr. Robert M. Cieri
VAQ/VAK-208 “Jockeys” Tactical Aerial Refueling Squadron
When the Naval Air Reserve was reorganized in 1970 Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 208 was established on July 31 at NAS Alameda, California, as part of Carrier Air Wing Twenty. Equipped with KA-3Bs to support CVWR-20 operations, VAQ-208 also began providing air refueling and pathfinding for Navy and Marine tactical aircraft being ferried to Southeast […]
VAQ/VAK-308 “Griffins” Tactical Aerial Refueling Squadron
As a result of the overhaul of the Naval Air Reserve, at NAS Alameda, California on May 2, 1970, VAQ-308, under the command of CDR Gregory Bambo Jr., was the first squadron of the first reserve Carrier Air Group to be commissioned. Comprised of a unique complement of civilian reservists and active duty personnel, VAQ-308 […]
VAW-13 “Zappers” Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron
VAW-13 was born on Agana, Guam September 1, 1959. The planes assigned to the squadron were AD-5Q and AD-5W Sky Raiders, referred to by squadron personnel as “Queens”. The designation was changed several years later to EA-1F. The Tail Code was V R “Victor Romeo” and the call sign on the UHF Radio was “Robinson”. The Squadron […]
VMA-133 “Dragons” Marine Attack Squadron
VMA-133 was a U.S. Marine Corps reserve fighter squadron. Known as the “Dragons”, the squadron was part of Marine Aircraft Group 42 of the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing. The Dragons flew the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk. VMA-133 was deactivated in 1992. History: During WWII the squadron was known as Marine Torpedo Bombing Squadron 133 (VMTB-133) and originated […]
VR-55 Fleet Logistics Support Squadron
Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 55 was established in April 1976 at NAS Alameda. Calif., and was the first Naval Reserve unit to fly the C-9B Skytrain II. In 1993, the Minutemen transitioned to the C-130T Hercules, left, and today the squadron comprises approximately 275 personnel, including 35 pilots. The Minutemen provide global logistics support for U.S. […]
VSF-1 “Warhawks” Anti-Submarine Fighter Squadron
Stationed at NAS Alameda: 1965 to 19?? — VSF-1 was established on 1 July 1965. On 1 July 1966 VSF-1 was split in half — One half remained as VSF-1 and deployed on the USS Shangri-La CVS-38 to the Mediterranean and the other half was called VSF-1 Det Alameda which was later renamed VSF-3 Chessmen. […]
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Larry Hughes says:
I served with VP-19 (Patrol Squadron) from 1958 thru 1962 at NAS Alameda. We flew Lockheed P2V-7 aircraft.
ersel rust says:
larry.. i was transfered back to shore duty in feb 1963 to beeville texas while i was in vp19 i was a check crew chief and also flew with crew 10 in PE10 do you remember kenny stump? he passed a couple of years ago had retired from maint at the pentagon his wife stills lives in that area.i visited her a couple of yrars ago..when i left vp19 i was an ADJ2…ersel rust
Gilbert Morales says:
I served Marine Barracks NAS Alameda 1983-85 and did not find this Marine detachment as one of the units represented as one of the units on this base.
Dan Altmaier says:
Yes indeed! NAS Alameda was my first duty station in 1992. That was also the same year the MCSFco unit decommissioned as well (November or December 1992); then we had our choice of serving the rest of our Barracks duty commitment at either Bangor WA or Concord CA (I went to Bangor). Although the MCSFco unit was a small one at NAS Alameda, I also think it’s important to record our history, and not have it disappear in time.
Robert L Shaffer LCpl says:
I also served at the US Marine Barracks Alameda from 1985- 1986 and would like to connect with other Marines.
Bill Gray says:
I also served at Alameda 1963/64 why isn’t Marine Corps mentioned?
Floyd Angus says:
I notice the abscense of the c118 and vr 21 fleet tactical support and reconasse squadrenwe were home based in barbets polnt
hawaii and hsd a detachment at alameda.
Dan Carr says:
Do you have any data on VR-2 circa 1948-1952 ?
Roberta Dileo says:
While we do have an archive, the info is not cataloged, much less digitized for access. Our museum is more about showing what happened at the base and it’s relationship to the City of Alameda, through artifacts and displays. Good luck finding info.
Robbie Dileo, Secretary
Eugene Lombardi says:
There was also VMA-141 and a MAG plus a H&MS squadron assigned there. I can not remember what MAG was there.
Von Daniel says:
It was MAG-42, which consisted of VMA-133 and HMH-769. I served there at the the squadron level and also at the Paraloft from 1988-1992.
Jack E. Joynson Jr says:
Request assistance in obtaining a copy of COMFAIRALAMEDA Instruction 3310.5 (late 1950’s) containing “Sandblower” mission routes/checkpoints.
I am researching my fathers aviation career and I am specifically looking for information on the “Sandblower #12” mission route. Sandblower routes are identified in this instruction.
Ross Bogert says:
Why no VR-30 listed? The first squadron to receive the Navy’s first jet transport in April 1973, the C9B. They also deployed on the USS Hornet for Carrier on Board Delivery for the astronauts returning from space. VR 55 received the C130 in 1994 not 1993 and were at Moffett at that time.
Thanks for the all the work with the museum, I need to stop by and check it out, Thanks, Ross Bogert, VR-30 and VR55. 20 years Hanger 40
Thanks for the info. Will look into updating the website. I am new to doing changes and approving comments.
Thomas Morey says:
I see from looking at your site that you that you don’t have Commander Fleet Air Alameda (COMFAIRALAMEDA) listed. I served on Staff there from 4/67 to 5/69. COMFAIRALAMEDA located on the second floor of the Headquarters Building was the Senior Command over Naval Air Station (NAS) Alameda, CA; NAS Lemoore, CA; NAS Moffett Field, CA; NAS Fallon, NV and Aircraft Carriers: USS Enterprise (CVN-65), USS Ranger (CV-61), USS Coral Sea (CV-43), USS Oriskany (CV-34), USS Hancock (CVA-19) and others that were home ported in Alameda, CA. In 1967 or 1968 President Ronald Reagan then Governor Reagan visited COMFAIRALAMEDA Rear Admiral Frederick E. Bakutis.
Thanks for commenting. I am new to website replies and updating of information. Will look into including info.
I’m not sure were this information would be listed but I forgot to mention that the movie “Yours mine and ours” with Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball was filmed at NAS Alameda and on the USS Enterprise. A couple of COMFAIRALAMEDA’s officers, their children and myself were in the move filmed in 1967 and released April 24, 1968.
Allen Fintzel says:
Worked as bag boy/carry out (for extra pocket money on my days off) at the commissary when the movie commissary scene was shot. All of the bag boys were hustled out of the way so that movie extras could fill in! Stationed at the Fleet Weather center.
Nick Quattrociocche says:
I have the 1940 – 1980 NARF Alameda yearbook digitized on “Photobucket”. You may have access to it for photos etc. and photos for those now in the “Memorial” section of your website. Go to http://www.photobucket, login = paisan2u1 and password = hotdog4u. In the entire book, there is no identification of who produced, published or printed it, nor any copyright claims or statements, as the entire book and all pages are shown. I hope this may contribute to your site. Feel free to copy any/all. (Please do not make any additions, deletions or changes to the contents in my page)
Nick Quattrociocche
NAS Alameda, USN 1972-1976
NARF Alameda, 1977-1986
I guess you totally forgot 1955 thru 1957 Of ATG1 air group and the squadrons, . Especially VF111 the SUNDOWNERS.
i was stationed there in 1960.61 62 63 in vp 19 i was a check crew chief and flight crew plane captain flying #pe10 a p2v7 neptune transfered out when they went to the p3v orion and moved the
squadron to moffit field …
Roy Copeland says:
I’m trying to contact someone at the Museum to discuss the Seaplane Ramp conditions and hanger facilities for the Martin Mars. We have the 2 Mars here and are looking to store the Philippine Mars until it can be flown to NAS Pensacola. My contact number is 1-250-724-0584.
Daniel Campbell says:
Hi, I was stationed there from Dec. 68 to Sept. 70 to COMFAIRALAMEDS “DET A”. Does anybody have any information on this detachment and who was stationed with them. I’m trying to find my history with this Unit.
Mike Van Hollebeke says:
I was a nineteen year old airman in 1969. Was sent with my squadron VSF1 based in Alameda to Norfolk Virginia to the USS Independence.Went on a NATO cruise mostly in the north Atlantic,dropped the hook off Portsmouth England and during that time had the time of my life.Had my boot camp buddies there alsoRay, Don, and Roger.Worked on the flight deck as plane captain. Lots of hrs.What a great time!
charles h holder says:
I did not see the Naval Weather Service Facility listed as a NAS Alameda unit. I was an AK1 attached form February 1974 to August 1976. I believe they moved to Norfolk Va.
Sandra Cronin says:
Just curious if you knew my dad, Francis Cronin? He retired in 1978.
Walter L Martin Jr says:
I was assigned to VSF-1 “Warhawks” in 1967 after plain captain training, we were attached to the USS Independence CVA62 out of Norfolk, VA and deployed to the Mediterranean Six Fleet. After the cruise which included three aircraft carriers (service to the fleet) in the Mediterranean I was stationed in Norfolk, VA with the Joint Chiefs of Staff ” (CINCLANTFLEET) . I was releaved from active duty after 52 months in March 1971 as Yeoman Second Class with an honorable discharge in 1972. I enjoyed my enlistment and if I could do it over I would be proud to. I worked on the flight deck before I transferred to squadron office as yeoman. Great time proud to be a veteran of the United States Navy.
Walter Martin says:
I have some pictures and etc. for the time I was attached to VSF-1.
Any information on VR-21 Det 1964-1966
Richard Enriquez says:
I served with VP-9 1962-1963 P2V-7 , I also served in the following reserve units VR-874 C-54s, VR-51 C118s and VR-55 DC-9. All where based at NAS
Alameda, Retired from VR-55 1990, 30 years service 1960-1990
Terry E. Lee says:
I reported aboard as a 3rd class Electronics Tech, fresh out of “A” School in Millington, TN Dec 31, 1956 assigned to VP-19. While stationed there the squadron made 2 deployments Kodiak, AK in May 1957 and the second to Iwakuni, Japan. I was released from Active Duty Sep 1959. I was hired as Electronic Installer in Oct 1961 at NAS Alameda’s O & R assigned to Flight Test. I worked in the Production Control, Material Planning Br, Workload Planning Br. before retiring in 1988 as GS-12 Material Planning branch head.
Boerries Burkhardt says:
I miss the VR-30 at NAS Alameda. They were the first in 1966 who got the Grumman C-2A Greyhound. More at my C-2A page at http://www.c2greyhound.com Commander Robert E. Hunter Jr. of the VR-30 supported with his squadron also the VRC-50 Foo Dogs at NAS Cubi Point, Subic Bay, Philippines.
USMC not mentioned
John Harman says:
I was a Seabee assigned to the Transportation Dept and later to the Riggers Loft. There were a number of us there , though we did not comprise a “unit” as such. You might wish to include the Seabee logo as a part of the Alameda team even though we were not a separate recognized unit serving there.
Mel “Andy” Anderson says:
Served at the NAS Alameda Photo Lab 1968-69. Anyone else out there work in the photo lab?
Tom Anderson says:
Does anyone have any info on Fleet Tactical Support Squadron VR 871, we had the old C 118’s in the mid 60’s to early 70’s. I left in Feb. 72
Daisy Rotten says:
Hi, so, this is going to come off fairly strange but I’ll begin. My husband and I recently found out that his birth father is not who we believed him to be. Apparently his mom had a fling with someone who was stationed at Alameda in 1990 and 1991. His parents have passed on but he grew up with his grandparents. He was 21 at the time and his mom was 18. She says he worked on a ship that looked like an upside down cockroach.
The only names she could provide were “Jody Ogden” so please, if you are or know of this person, contact me.
Fantasys says:
Successful anti-submarine warfare depends on a mix of sensor and weapon technology, training, and experience. Sophisticated sonar equipment for first detecting, then classifying, locating, and tracking the target submarine is a key element of ASW. To destroy submarines, both torpedos and naval mines are used, launched from air, surface, and underwater platforms. ASW also involves protecting friendly ships.
I was there Jan. 69 to Sept.70 I was a aircraft escort in a unit called Comfaiealameda Det A Does anybody remember this unit? I need to find out stuff on this to help me out with a health claim. twodogs110349@yahoo.com Thanks
Mike Petersmarck says:
Sept. 1968 I came out of Aviation Support Equipment School at NATTC Jacksonville and sent to NAS Alameda as my first duty Station. I was assigned to AIMD servicing Yellow Gear for the squadrons. Arrived an E3 and left an E5 in late 1970. (new rate, fast advancement) Went to USS Independence that was on a Med cruise. Joined the ship in Athens
Lt. John Underwood says:
Stationed at NAS Alameda 1963-1966 VR-21. Flew the C-1A and C-131’s.
Robert Schupp says:
Lt. Underwood;
I reported to DVR 21 Hanger 40, NAS Alameda April of 65…I Believe you were Ltjg at the time and the Line Division Officer…I became Flight Crew PC and flew on C1A 031 with you…Cmd. Crawford was our CO at that time….
Bob Schupp AMS3
Leon Farster says:
Did you happen to serve with a flying chief Louie Szabo ADRC/AP
Does anyone answer or comment on any of the above request? Seems as though death ears prevails here. I haven’t heard any comments one way or the other. Is this time waisted? Thanks and with regards.
I remember few in my squadron VSF-1. However the ones I do remember were decent men LTJG Gerry Evens, LT Howie Fowler, LT A Lee Woodham, LTJG Steven Batory, YN2 Kenneth Strieble, PN3 ? Keith Callahan, Mike Medina, Mark Messinger and many more. I would like to exchange some thoughts and moments. I’m 73 years old now with only 40% of my hearing.
John Dubis says:
I was assigned to VSF-1 in September 1965 as a yeoman trainee. I remember Yeoman Chief Robert Baumer. Robert Waring was the commanding officer. In 1966 the squadron split and I was part of VSF-1 Det Alameda, then the name was changed to VSF-3. Served in Vietnam on the USS Intrepid CVS-11 in 1967. I am also 73 years old.
Leon Farster ADJ-3 says:
I transferred from VA_22 to VA113 det Q . Made a westpac on the USS Bennington . A great det with good shipmates.
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Around Town: Exhibit and Opening Reception: SYNERGY by Serge Hamad & Sepideh Vahidi
Sat, July 11, 2015 6:00 pm at Cafe Nadery
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SYNERGY by Serge Hamad & Sepideh Vahidi
Date: Saturday July 11th
Location: Cafe Nadery, 16 W 8th Street, New York, NY 10011
Cafe Nadery is pleased to announce the opening of our July Exhibition, Synergey: An Elaborate Collaboration between Serge Hamad and Sepideh Vahidi
Exhibit Ongoing from July 11th to July 31st
12pm to Midnight (Mondays-Fridays)
11am to Midnight (Saturdays and Sundays)
About SYNERGY
Serge Hamad, renowned French-Algerian visual artist and photographer, has taken visionary photos of his surroundings. Sepideh Vahidi, well-known Iranian singer and visual artist, has drawn scenes of her everyday life upon them. Through his camera lens and unique vision, Hamad found the precise scenes in which Vahidi’s drawings could live and absorb one in their spectacle.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: negin@neginsharifzadeh.com
Serge Hamad is a renowned French-Algerian visual artist and photographer based in New York. Hamad has created a diverse body of photographic and graphic art work exploring a range of subject matters, from Human Rights to figure studies, and his recent abstract photographs portraying distilled images of his surroundings.
His documentary work has focused on poverty, war crimes, censorship, and discrimination. He has exhibited extensively in the USA and internationally as part of solo and group exhibitions. He is well recognized for his series, Take a Stand, a poignant series of portraits reflecting on Iranian prisoners, women’s issues, and LGBT rights. Check below for more on Serge Hamad:
http://www.sergehamad.com/
Born in Tehran, Iran, Sepideh Vahidi studied Persian folklore and traditional Persian music under some of the finest masters of this art. Weaving the transparent layers of many emotions into a sound that could not be defined by the name of a land with borders became her tradition. However Sepideh’s vocals have deep roots in her Iranian identity, femininity, and very much influenced by Persian poetry. Living in America, Sepideh studied Fine Arts at the University of Michigan, once again using layers as her primary tool. Both in her vocals and her visual artworks, she folds and unfolds, twist and turns notes to express the happiness, pain, love, grief, hope, nostalgia, and memories that haunt her in life. Check below for more on Sepideh Vahidi:
http://www.sepidehvahidi.com/
Negin Sharifzadeh is a curator, animator, and artist based in Brooklyn. She is currently the Visual Arts Curator at Cafe Nadery in New York, where she has already mounted 9 shows. Her past curatorial and exhibition projects include shows for Alwan for the Arts, South Asian Women Creative Collective, and independent pop-up galleries.
Through her curatorial work, Negin creates spaces for dialog, conversation, and collaboration among artists from around the world. Her shows explore the intersection between personal artistic expression and collective social identities, offering audiences the opportunity to develop more nuanced understanding of diversity in culture and creation. She has built a particular focus on both bringing greater visibility to the work of women artists of color, and finding opportunities to make art more immediately accessible outside the bounds of formal gallery and museum settings.
As an artist herself, Negin approaches the work of curation as another artistic discipline, using the tools of selection, composition, arrangement, and installation, to create unique and compelling experiences based on the theme and the details of the physical location. Check below for more on Negin Sharifzadeh:
http://neginsharifzadeh.com/
SYNERGY, Exhibit by Serge Hamad & Sepideh Vahidi
Cafe Nadery
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16 Beaver Street
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© 2020 Alwan for the Arts
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Library Talk: Michael Bird – The New Perspective on Paul Debate for the Local Church
Dougald McLaurin, Michael Bird
Michael Bird, a lecturer in Theology and Czar of Postgradistan at Ridley College in Melbourne, and Dougald McLaurin, Reference Coordinator of the Library at Southeastern, discuss the New Perspective on Paul Debate for the local church as part of the Library Talk.
How do you prepare for ministry in ever-changing world?
D. A. Carson, Keith Whitfield
How should we prepare for ministry in an ever-changing culture, even post-Christian world? Dr. D.A. Carson and Dr. Keith Whitfield discuss this question in this edition of Exploring Hope.
Anna Daub, Chuck Lawless, Joe McKeever, Nathaniel Williams, Scott Slayton, Tami Gomez
At the Intersect Project, Nathaniel Williams shared about the beauty of a child’s enthusiasm for work.
“Dad, when I grow up, I want to drive a trash truck.”
My four-year-old told me this with a straight face. Upon further examination, I discovered that he didn’t want to drive just any trash truck. He wanted to drive a “flying purple trash truck.”
I love that his career aspirations are so broad; he hasn’t yet fallen prey to the lie that white-collar vocations are somehow better than blue-collar. But I also love that he’s so genuinely excited about work. On some days, he dreams of driving this elusive flying purple trash truck. Other days, he wants to be a teacher, or a choir director or a farmer. Just yesterday, he had papers, toys and craft materials strewn about a table. When I asked him to clean it up, he told me matter-of-factly, “Dad, this is my desk. I have to work here. My boss won’t want me to clean this up!”
There’s something beautiful about his childlike enthusiasm for work. To him, work is not an obligation. It’s not a chore. It’s not even about making money. To him, work is thrilling. The world is teeming with possibilities, and he can’t wait to get his hands on it.
At the Center for Great Commission Studies, Anna Daub shared some advice about engaging singles during the holidays.
When I was a child, my parents went to great lengths to ensure we had beautiful Christmas memories and fun family traditions. One tradition was that Christmas Eve was always an open invitation to people who had nowhere else to go. My mother would cook a Tex-Mex feast and invite the single professors from the university nearby, the elderly woman who lived alone, and the Muslim man who sold cell phones in the mall to join us. Most of the time, only one or two would come, but this tradition instilled in me a reminder to always look for those who had nowhere to go for the holidays.
In a post at the Intersect Project, Tami Gomez warned Christians about being cultural copycats.
“Engage the culture.”
It’s what Christians are continually being told we need to do more. We need to look to our culture and use it creatively to reach our lost friends, family members and society at large. After all, if we can make music as catchy as what’s on the radio or movies as spectacular as Hollywood’s, then we will have won the culture wars; people will come for the party, but stay for the substance. At least that’s been the theory. Unfortunately, this has only lead to “Christian culture” being a stuffy, retooled version of styles that used to be trendy. Christians need to stop thinking in terms of engaging an already-existing culture and start thinking in terms of creating culture.
In a post at his blog, Scott Slayton shared why we should live in the Psalms.
In our distracted and fast-paced world, many Christians struggle to gain depth in our spiritual lives. If our devotions happen, they are usually hurried, so we don’t often make the unhurried time that we need to soak in God’s word and linger before God in prayer that we so desperately need. The result is that we often evidence a weak and shallow Christianity. We may be able to fake depth for a while, but eventually, the hard times come and expose us for who we really are.
The Psalms provide a welcome antidote to our craving for shallowness. The Psalms, which seem so easy to understand on the surface, invite us to deep study and contemplation. They show the blessing of cultivating a deep and abiding trust in the Lord and beckon us to leave behind our life of distraction so we can know and love God more deeply.
Here five reasons that our hurried and forgetful hearts need to live in the Psalms for a while.
At the LifeWay Facts & Trends blog, Joe McKeever shared thirteen things a pastor should never say to a congregation.
In addition to the obvious no-no’s, such as profanity, heresy, racism, sexism, and the like, no pastor should ever be heard to utter any of the following from the pulpit.
At his personal blog, Chuck Lawless shared ten reflections of a formerly single pastor.
For the first ten years of my pastoral ministry (ages 20-30), I was unmarried. The Lord had called me to preach when I was 13 years old, and the first church called me as pastor at age 20. Here are my reflections on those years as a single pastor.
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