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Text © Mireille Geurts & Magdalena Osborne
After the intermission, Kevin van der Perren returned with his old training mate; 12 year old Ruben Blommaert. Very fittingly they skated to "Yearnin', Learnin'" by Earth, Wind and Fire. The idea of this program was Ruben and Kevin showing off, trying to top each other with moves and footwork. They did it very well and at the end landed a side by side Axel.
Kevin then presented his own interpretation of the Matrix soundtrack, including all kinds of wicked sound effects. He started as a criminal with a gun, being chased by the police to the sound of sirens. He ran but in the end he was shot by... Ruben!
In the Sunday show things were changed a bit, showing more of the running and the backpack he was supposed to get rid of. Unfortunately, he also accidentally threw away his gun while taking the leather jacket off. Alas, no shooting the audience and the unarmed man went down on the ice. Luckily he got back up and he and Ruben had a little talk, where he asked if Ruben actually intended to shoot him and if he wanted to get rid of him, show your stuff! Ruben did just that and performed his program to "Lupin's Theme". This little guy has a lot of talent! Nice flow, great presentation and promising jumps. Could he be the next Belgian figure skating star on the horizon? Ruben was thrown a stuffed toy but didn't see it at the time, Miki Ando picked it up later.
Miki doing "Mickey" was an energy burst even without the pompons. It was evident she really enjoyed this cheerleading program and after the first successful jump she loosened up and started having fun. The supportive crowd clapped and helped her along and when Miki has fun, you can really see it, go Miki!
When "Don't let me wait long" by Seal started playing, Stefan Lindemann was back on the ice. He may not resemble a NBA player, but his body houses an amazing amount of expression! He skated with great conviction and showmanship and the audience loudly approved.
Nicole Bobek came back wearing another flattering dress in "Le Parole Che Non Ti ho Detto" by Andrea Bocelli, and she certainly had the attitude to go with this kind of music! She was again very elegant to watch and looked pretty enough but performed only double jumps.
The high point of the second act was without a doubt "The pirates of the Caribbean" performed by Margarita and Povilas, complete with pirate flag and swords. This wonderful program really is a must see! There was swashbuckling and action but also romance when Margarita changed from the pirate clothes to a white dress and the program ended in a lift. The audience loved it and went wild and the cheering was as loud as for Kevin, which was a sure sign of success.
Going from drama to fun, Takeshi Honda returned and skated to "Dirty Boogie". He really got into this program and it showed and he brought the audience right along in the fun. At one point he got down on the ice doing push ups, while naughtily flirting with the crowd, which indeed had the intended effect on some females in the audience. Takeshi showed he's not only a world's medalist, but a top class show act as well!
Maria Butyrskaya proved she's still in good shape in Snap's "The power". The music was upbeat and the performance energetic, Maria still has a lot to offer!
Barbara and Maurizio were next skating to "Killing me Softly". They made good use of a rope to perform some specific and very special moves in this breathtaking number which grabbed and held everyone's attention clear to the end. Another example of a fantastic must see dance program.
Oksana Baiul started her second program by entering the ice dressed as a funny looking swan. Flirting with the announcers and flapping her wings she began the program to the classical Swan Lake music, but it soon turned to hip hop and she swiftly lost the ugly swan outfit to reveal a sexy black swan with an attitude. What a switch from last year's white swan! The music was "Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice with an occasional return of Tchaikovsky. Making fun of her own old Swan Lake program and having a blast with the new music, Oksana is very entertaining!
The audience cheered as Ekaterina returned and skated to Alicia Keys' "Heartburn". She offered a much funkier program this time around and with nice effects of the red fringe ruffles on her dress during the spinning movements. This woman can truly skate to everything and pull it off every time, very impressive!
Ilia closed the individual part of the shows with his fast paced "Pick up the pieces". This program was joyous, fun and exciting and very appreciated by the audience. The footwork was incredible and people cheered loudly, but due to the poor ice he again had some problems gliding in the first show. On Sunday this was all gone and the program rocked the house!
The finale music was by Earth, Wind and Fire. It took a long time to put it together and required a lot of coordination and hadn't always been so perfect in practice and Lea Ann Miller probably held her breath. But when the spotlights came on it was great fun and portrayed a wonderful finale of a great show. All the cast lined up and took bows and received the well earned applause and part standing ovation. Well done, Stars on Ice!
It was exciting to learn from the IMG that the shows will return to Antwerp next year and that Proximus will stay on as the main sponsor. Great skating shows are not offered only in North America which is very good news to skating fans in Europe. See you next year!
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West Bengal: CBI Registers Nine Cases Related To Post-Poll Violence
A five-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court has entrusted the CBI with the investigation into alleged rapes and murders after the assembly polls in West Bengal earlier this year.
More cases are under the process of registration with some of them being handed over by the state government
2021-08-26T12:32:27+05:30 West Bengal: CBI Registers Nine Cases Related To Post-Poll Violence
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Published: 26 Aug 2021, Updated: 26 Aug 2021 12:46 pm
The CBI has registered nine cases related to post-poll violence in West Bengal. As per sources, all the four special units of the investigating agency tasked to probe the cases of violence have moved their units from Kolkata to crime scenes across the state.
More cases are under the process of registration with some of them being handed over by the state government, sources said.
The CBI has taken over the cases on the instruction of a five-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court that had entrusted the agency with the task of investigating the alleged murder and rape incidents reported during post-poll violence in West Bengal.
The High Court directives came after a committee of the National Human Rights Commission submitted a report on the violence in the state after Assembly poll results on May 2.
The Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress achieved an astounding victory humbling the BJP in a bitterly fought eight-phase electoral battle.
Passing a unanimous judgement on a batch of PILs seeking an independent probe, the High Court Bench also ordered the constitution of an SIT of state police officers to probe all other cases.
The SIT will include Suman Bala Sahoo, Soumen Mitra and Ranveer Kumar, all IPS officers of the West Bengal cadre. The bench will monitor the investigations by both the CBI and the SIT and asked the two agencies to submit status reports to the court within six weeks.
The bench said there are allegations that the complainants are being threatened to withdraw the cases and a number of cases of murder being claimed as natural death without recording FIRs and conducting probes according to the procedure established by law.
Noting that the West Bengal police have not properly responded to the allegations of inaction and tried to downplay them, the bench said, "It certainly needs investigation by an independent agency."
It said three months have lapsed since the matter was taken up by the court, but "no concrete action has been taken by the state, which could inspire confidence except filing affidavits and placing on record thousands of papers."
With PTI inputs
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When Freedom Cried Out
The Freedmen's Bureau in Texas
Charles F. Rand
Charles F. Rand Holland Land Office Museum Exhibits
Charles Rand, Medal of Honor
Photo of Grave site of MOH Recipient
Charles Rand- Genealogy Forum
Newspaper Abstracts: Batavia Daily
" Finally, after Charles F. Rand, Freedmen's Bureauqv agent and winner of a Presidential Medal of Honor for bravery in action during the Civil War, fled from the county fearing for his life in August 1868, a detachment of federal troops under Maj. George Starkley was stationed in Clarksville."
-Handbook of Texas Online
"On July 20 or 21, 1868, former Confederate soldier Private Ben Griffith was shot in the back by a United States officer / Freedman's Bureau Agent, Charles F. Rand, in Clarksville. Red River County, Texas."
-Pvt. Benjamin H. Griffith
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Bob Heitzman -- The 251 Town Birder
251 Town Blog
Towns Surveyed
Gallery of Vermont Scenes
Birds of Vermont Sampler
Cape May - May 2015
Iceland - May 2017
167-168-169: The northeast corner of the Northeast Kingdom
If you have ever travelled up to Canada from Vermont, and taken the interstate from Burlington towards Montreal, you've noticed that the Green Mountains drop away at the border. But if you travel to Canada towards Sherbrooke instead, you'll see that the mountains are your companion... all the way up into the Gaspe of Quebec. The northeastern corner of Vermont's "Northeast Kingdom" - aka Essex County - is a small wedge of the state between Quebec and New Hampshire. Follow VT-114 due north out of Island Pond, and when that highway gets to the border, it does a right-hand turn to the east; no sense giving that last stretch of highway a separate route number, eh? At that right angle is the junction with Vermont's shortest state highway: VT-147; it connects to QC-147 and is so short, I could throw a frisbee to the customs agents on the US side, roughly the distance to my across-the-street neighbor's house.
Saturday was cold and blustery, but partly sunny. Dressed properly, it was a wonderful day for winter hiking. The birding was minimal, but I found a couple of hiking trails that took me up into the woods, and away from the highway. I was never more than a mile from the border, which always adds an element of heightened awareness and anticipation for me; the border is not just a line on the map, it's a real thing you can see and touch... just don't cross!
Norton runs along the border for several miles, with Canaan continuing the frontier into that tiny nook where Vermont, New Hampshire, and Quebec meet at a bend in the river; Averill is a diamond-shaped town that meets the two towns at its apex, but is the only one with a significant body of water: Averill Lake. I found a nice side road that hosts camps along the western edge, so that was my longest walk. Towards its north end, there was a hiking trail which climbed the hill and then looped back down to the road further north. I was totally alone, but the tracks told me the area was busy with deer, chipmunks, rabbits, grouse, and a fox; as you can hint from my checklists, the most common sounds were those of chickadees and the wind.
Checklist for Averill:
Common Raven, Black-caped Chickadee, Blue Jay, Grouse tracks (Ruffed or Spruce)
Checklist for Norton:
Common Raven, Black-caped Chickadee, Blue Jay, Grouse tracks
Checklist for Canaan:
Mourning Dove, Black-caped Chickadee, Blue Jay
Averill Lake from the state boat landing. The ice was about 2 inches thick, but the winds were still strong enough to push the entire icy crust up onto shore... a bit.
I've been a life-long 'naturalist' -- interested in every aspect of the natural world. I began birding in the early 1990s, and have been a serious birder for over two decades.
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Help: The Russian Convoys (including PQ17)
GUEST 10 Nov 19 - 11:15 AM
Tattie Bogle 30 May 15 - 02:22 PM
Charley Noble 05 Nov 09 - 10:58 AM
SqueezeMe 30 Mar 07 - 09:13 AM
SqueezeMe 26 Apr 06 - 10:50 AM
GUEST,Wotcha 25 Apr 06 - 08:11 PM
GUEST,ccmcbride@tiscali.co.uk 25 Apr 06 - 06:24 PM
Phot 28 Feb 06 - 11:58 AM
GUEST,Katie Redhead 27 Feb 06 - 12:34 PM
Keith A of Hertford 22 Feb 06 - 03:44 AM
Jeri 15 Nov 05 - 05:57 PM
Santa 29 Oct 05 - 05:57 PM
GUEST,bruce_felknor 29 Oct 05 - 12:37 PM
GUEST,bruce_felknor@yahoo.com 29 Oct 05 - 12:32 PM
GUEST,Tom Fuller 17 Dec 03 - 05:53 PM
GUEST,Don Card don@gregorycard.fsnet. 17 Dec 03 - 09:44 AM
GUEST,John "Jock" Crawford 21 Oct 03 - 03:32 PM
GUEST,Ross 06 Oct 03 - 04:48 AM
GUEST,scotmac@bigpond.com.au 06 Oct 03 - 01:43 AM
Wilfried Schaum 10 Sep 03 - 02:19 AM
Billy the Bus 09 Sep 03 - 10:47 PM
Gareth 09 Sep 03 - 07:10 PM
Phot 09 Sep 03 - 06:33 AM
Gurney 09 Sep 03 - 03:03 AM
GUEST,Ross 08 Sep 03 - 12:08 PM
GUEST,Santa 08 Sep 03 - 10:08 AM
EBarnacle1 20 Aug 02 - 01:12 PM
HuwG 20 Aug 02 - 07:43 AM
Wolfgang 20 Aug 02 - 06:49 AM
Teribus 07 Aug 02 - 03:48 AM
Charley Noble 06 Aug 02 - 08:31 AM
Charley Noble 05 Aug 02 - 02:12 PM
Bilge Rat 03 Aug 02 - 02:54 PM
GUEST,HelenJ 02 Aug 02 - 03:14 PM
Les from Hull 02 Aug 02 - 08:03 AM
GUEST,Jan Christensen 02 Aug 02 - 12:29 AM
Gareth 01 Aug 02 - 07:23 PM
selby 01 Aug 02 - 02:55 PM
Les from Hull 01 Aug 02 - 02:41 PM
GUEST,Bruce, Melbourne Australia 01 Aug 02 - 10:00 AM
Subject: RE: Help: The Russian Convoys (including PQ17)
Date: 10 Nov 19 - 11:15 AM
My Grandad served on HMS Pozyrica (Artic Convoys) as a scribe also served on HMS Manchester (Malta Convoys) Petty Officer Robert Sears
Mudcat is brilliant! I just entered "Arctic Convoys" into the search box and up came this thread! Why was I looking? Well, during this year's Edinburgh Festival, the theme of one of the exhibitions in St Mary's Episcopalian Cathedral in Edinburgh will be the Arctic Convoys. My friends and I in Scots Music Group have been putting on a couple of concerts for the last 5 years, trying to play/sing anything that fits the theme of the year. We have a few ideas from current repertoire, and I have also been listening to Dave Roylance's "The Battle of the Atlantic" suite, but don't think we can match the full Halle Orchestra and choir + Lesley Garrett!
It would be great to use some of the songs above, if we can get the tunes.
I believe there was a presentation of medals to some of the surviving veterans of this wartime service, just in the last year or 2.
From: SqueezeMe
Count Luckner book has now found a new home.
Subject: RE: Songs about the Russian Convoys (including PQ
Quote: Lowell Thomas, a (U.S.) radio newsman and journalist and author of the 1920s to 1940s, published _Count Luckner, the Sea Devil_
I have 2 copies of this book. One is 1928 UK published with damaged covers but text and photos OK. Didn't sell on eBay for 99c, so if any one would like it for the price of postage, please PM me, though bear in mind I am in Australia.
Fascinating thread (and the creep too!!!) I had an uncle who died on Russian convoys. Not sure if he was RN or Merchant.
Subject: RE: Songs about the Russian Convoys (including PQ17)
From: GUEST,Wotcha
The "Old Red Duster" tips its hat to the merchant marine ...
I Sailed in the war, like me Uncle before
From Britain, right down to Bombay
With me little convoy bag
I sailed for the flag,
The glory, the medals ... and the pay."
"I was pulled from the poolR
I was nobody's fool
There was a jaunt up to Murmansk for me
But union said "NO" it's a fourth, you can't go
It's the union forever for me."
Subject: Russian convoys
From: GUEST,ccmcbride@tiscali.co.uk
My name is Colm McBride from N Ireland.
My father Alexander Anthony McBride served on the Ramillies during WW11. My two other uncles also served. They all joined up together as volunteers in 1938. I have a lovely photo of them in their uniforms.
Their names were Charles McBride (emigrated to Australia after the war) and Colm (whom I am named after and I found out was a nurse in Portsmouth and died during the war after contracting TB).
All these men are now deceased and as they discussed very little about these times in the Royal Navy, I would be grateful if any one has an idea how to research what ships they served with and what action they saw.
I think my father's ship was in the Russian Convoys and was involved in a battle in the med with the Italians
Thats all I have on the matter.
Thanking you all in anticipation
Colm
From: Phot
I'm glad this thread was restarted. After my last post, I was lucky enough to be tasked to cover the 60th anniversary of the Russian convoys for the RN. I sailed aboard HMS Sutherland (Type 23 Frigate) to Murmansk, where the ship stayed for a week and a half. The Russian people were most welcoming, and were really greatful for everything that the convoys did. It was a real privilage to meet the Men and Women of The North Russia Club, and the Artic Convoys Club, all of whom I have the deepest admiration for. Several cocktail parties were held for the Vets. The parade through Murmansk was somthing which will stay with me for the rest of my days, when we got to the Aloysha monument just about the whole city had turned out! I'm still getting requests for images now!
Cheers Shipmates!! Chris (Now a Bluenose too!)
From: GUEST,Katie Redhead
My Dad was also a bluenose and mentioned a certificate or badge but doesn't know what happened to it. He served o the minesweeper HMS Halcyon which fortunately, survived PQ17. I will ask him more about the Bluenose club when I see him tomorrow.
Katie :)
From: Keith A of Hertford
Beside the medal from Russia, all Russian convoys men can now apply for a British badge. A medal was refused.
If you still need help with applying for either I can get details.
Someone posted a message in the Help forum - here:
"My wife`s father was on the Murmansk runs, and my wife would like to get the Russian medal for him(Posthumately) how does she go about it .We heard about you from the T.V. Cenataph parade today"
I don't know if anyone here can help him out, but if you can, his e-mail address is peedof (at) supanet.com
From: Santa
Date: 29 Oct 05 - 05:57 PM
To correct one post well up the thread:
The Reuben James was a US destroyer sunk by a U-boat whilst escorting a Uk-bound convoy out of Canada, in the period before the US entered the war but whilst it was escorting convoys partway. I'm sorry I can't recall the hand-over point. I believe that the sinking became quite a cause celebre at the time, the song was written and sung by Woody Guthrie. Nothing to do with the Russian convoys, I'm afraid.
From: GUEST,bruce_felknor
erratum: In previous post I meant "translation _or_ biography. Sorry.
From: GUEST,bruce_felknor@yahoo.com
About Luckner's _Seeadler_: I don't remember whether this book is a translation of a biography, but Lowell Thomas, a (U.S.) radio newsman and journalist and author of the 1920s to 1940s, published _Count Luckner, the Sea Devil_ (Garden City [NJ, USA]: Garden City Publishing, 1932).
Might be findable on Amazon, certainly in US via Interlibrary Loan through any public library.
New subject: this is a gorgeous site. Wish I had found it before I published _U.S. Merchant Marine at War, 1775-1945_ (Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 1998.
Bruce L. Felknor
From: GUEST,Tom Fuller
I could be wrong, but I believe that the decision to disperse PQ17 was made by the Admiralty (Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, to be specific) and communicated to the Escort as a direct order. There are a number of accounts of this debacle, but for a seaman's eye view try a book called "Hearts of Oak" by Tristan Jones. According to Jones, who served on one of the "O" class destroyer escorts in PQ17, the crew came very close to mutiny when they learned of the order.
Thanks, Billy, for your link to Count Felix von Luckner's escape attempt, a truly fasinating man.
Charley Noble
From: GUEST,Don Card don@gregorycard.fsnet.
My father served on HMS Pozarica . He was killed 29th.January 1943. When the ' pozy ' was hit by an aerial torpedo.
I was just 5 years old. The computer has been amazing and Im collecting all the information possible. But was anyone on the 'pozy' and did you know of my father Ableseaman Brinley Card P/JX325100
From: GUEST,John "Jock" Crawford
Hello - If there are any fellow shipmates from any of the PQ or QP runs still around I would be grateful to hear from them. My name is Jock and I was on HMS Wilton from when she first set sail from the Clyde. I have so far contacted a few survivors, including some from Operation Pedestal (Malta).
PQ17 was, of course, the worst of the bunch, the cold was far more than your could ever imagine.
Hope to hear from some of you other old shipmates soon
John "jock" Crawford
From: GUEST,Ross
Date: 06 Oct 03 - 04:48 AM
Hi Gareth - there is a tune - I'm not very good at putting music to paper but I'll try & post the cords sometime
The reunion's this weekend at Lowestoft - service is at 11am at Sparrows Nest
From: GUEST,scotmac@bigpond.com.au
could someone help me my father was on the Russian convoythe PQ17 his name was Bill Mc Conalogue and was on a little ship the HARPALLION. i would love to find out anything about it he was also given a ribbon? he was also on the Malta convoy aboard the S.S OHIO and recieved the D.S.M these were lost in a house fire and iam trying to get replacements but need help Billy
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 02:19 AM
Search in the catalogues of the British Library, all British libraries (Copac) and Library of Congress found no English translation of Luckner's Seeteufel, only Dutch, Irish, and Italian.
From: Billy the Bus
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 10:47 PM
Here's an example of Luckner's Inhumanity to Mariners. What a man! He visited NZ in his yacht just before WWII - it may have been 'espionage'....
I'm creeping too much. Will button my lips until I see me old mate who was on the Convoys - a few weeks off..
Cheers _ Sam
Thanks for the refresh Gareth - a noble thread!
Major creep from WWII North Atlantic to WWI South Pacific. Count Felix von Luckner and Seeadler (mentioned above) are enshrined in New Zealand folklore, alas not in song. His capture in Fiji, internment in NZ, and subsequent brief escape in the scow Moa in 1917, made him a 'Folk Hero', despite being 'Enemy'. His chivalrous approach to prisoners may have helped. Anyway, here's a Yarn about the Moa incident.
Cheers - Sam
From: Gareth
Phot - Thanks yer comments.
Ross Again thanks - any tune ???
And the empty, wild Atlantic,
With the Convoys to and fro
Gareth, I picked up on this thread by chance, my father is also a Bluenose, having served on fishery protection vessels, also he served aboard HMS Caeser (I hope the spelling's right) which is a CA class destroyer, same as the Cavalier presvered at Chatham dockyard, as far as I'm aware they were the last of the open bridge design Destroyer types in the RN.
He went to have a look round the Cavalier a couple of years ago, it brought back a lot of memories, as he left he gave the old lady a pat, to quote Jethro Tull "Last of the breed at an honest days toil".
Great ships, greater men, and a glass and prayer raised to all those who gave their today for our tommrow.
Wolfgang's post of July 5:
Instead of Lederpäcken read: Lederpäckchen.
The meaning is leather parcel. Päckchen is German Navy slang for any kind of dress (parade, fatigue, battle &c.), and the protective leather parcel was worn by every submariner on board of his boat.
30 years ago 'The 23rd Flotilla Song' was one of Cyril Tawneys standards, and he naturally saw it from a RN viewpoint. I remember him introducing it by saying the Arctic convoys were one of the worst jobs in the war, the men always wet, exhausted, cold, despairing, and knowing that every merchantman that was lost meant that the escorts had to turn around that much faster to keep the pressure up.
Anyone pitched into the oggin had a 5min life expectancy.
In a (translated)German historical account of the war in Russia, I read that the Wermacht(sp?) were surprised by the sudden arrival of 'hundreds of tommy-gunners.' Those Thompson guns arrived via convoy, you can bet.
My Dad was in the Royal Naval Patrol service
They cleared the mines on trawlers & the like
Reunion is in Lowestoft on 11th October
Here's a song I wrote about them
Trawler-men go off to war
To clear the seas, defend our shores
Joined by the likes of you & me
Their names should go down in history
Chorus Well, they fought on the seas, while the seas fought back
And they never were far from hostile attack
They cleared all the mines, to keep ships free
And some know no graves, except the bottom of the sea
The year was 1939
And our ships were threatened, by sea mines
They looked to the likes of you & me
To brave all the dangers, and clear the seas
Chorus Well, they fought on the seas, while the seas fought back….
The Royal Naval Patrol Service
A name that doesn't mean so much
Who braved their lives for you & me
With a silver badge attached to their sleeve
In Sparrows Nest in Lowestoft
Lies a monument, with a ship on top
Engraved with names, like you & me
Whose ghosts can be seen, still protecting the seas
Try to remember, please don't forget
Those forgotten sailors, on their small ships
Ross Scrivener - 2003
From: GUEST,Santa
There is another Ron Baxter song: the Lord Middleton. Sung by the Taverners on their Windmills LP many years ago, concerning seeing the Lord Middleton being broken up in Fleetwood docks. The Lord Middleton was a trawler used as a rescue ship on the Russian convoys, including (IIRC) PQ 17.
There is a niggle that it might have been PQ18, and maybe the song was written by Alan Bell with inspiration from Ron - I'll check on the LP tonight. Any way round, it is relevant to this thread though not an actual wartime song.
As the Scapa Flow thread has prompted me to re read this one - refersh.
From: EBarnacle1
There are several books about von Luckner in English. They are probably available in any reasonable good library.
From: HuwG
Long-postponed postscript to my earlier posts on this thread, after re-reading my fading copy of "Convoy is to scatter" by Jack Broome, escort commander of PQ17.
The information available to Broome when he withdrew his escort was contained in the three admiralty signals:
"Cruiser force to withdraw to the westwards at high speed"
"Owing to threat from German surface forces convoy PQ17 is to disperse and proceed independently to Russian ports etc."
"Convoy is to scatter"
Because it wasn't directly addressed to him, Broome received the first of these only after the other two. The rising tone of panic of the second and third gave the impression that Tirpitz was only just over the horizon. Finally, due to navigational errors, the Cruiser force was in view (they should have been out of sight), and Broome could see them "treading on the gas". Unaware that they were withdrawing and under the impression that they were going to fight Tirpitz, Broome gathered his miscellany of destroyers and went with them.
Oddly, one factor which may have influenced his decision was not mentioned in his book. Before being appointed to command HMS Keppel and the First Escort Group, Broome had been Chief Staff Officer to Admiral Percy Noble, Commander of the Western Approaches Command. In this position, Broome must have been aware that the German Naval Enigma codes were being regularly cracked, and may therefore have placed more trust in the Admiralty's instructions than they warranted.
Broome's career didn't appear to suffer as a result of PQ17. He was promoted to Captain, commanded the escort carrier HMS Battler (I think - he doesn't say which) and collected a DSO. He left the Navy after the War; there were more senior officers than ships to command, and his habit of doodling acerbic caricatures of admirals made him some enemies.
Broome and Admiral Dudley Pound (the First Sea Lord who ordered PQ17 to scatter) met when HMS Keppel paid off, but neither man could apparently bring himself to broach the subject of PQ17.
From: Wolfgang
I don't know whether Luckner's autobiography 'Seeteufel' (Sea devil) has been translated into English.
The part of the story of the voyage of the 'Seeadler' that amuses and amazes me most is that the 'Seeadler' has been intercepted and searched five days after leaving Germany by a British aux. cruiser off Iceland. Luckily for Luckner, the British didn't see through the disguise as a Norwegian sailor and didn't find the entrance to the hidden part of the ship holding the ammunition and the only canon.
From: Teribus
Just got this from the local Portsmouth Paper:
"Whitehall blocks honour for convoy heroes
FIRST it refused to give them a medal. Now the government wants to stop our naval war heroes from receiving a medal from the Russians.
Whitehall does not want sailors who endured the worst conditions imaginable to wear campaign medals given by the Russian people.
The Russian government plans to honour hundreds of former sailors who served in the grim Arctic convoys, presenting them the same medal it awarded to Soviet heroes half a century ago.
But the British Government says the move would be inappropriate: it does not want British veterans to wear a medal meant for foreign soldiers.
Whitehall has already refused to cast its own medal to honour the Arctic sailors.
Livid convoymen say the latest move shows the government will stop at nothing to deny the 1,600 or so survivors their right to an award.
'These decisions are made by people who've never seen a shot fired in anger. They have no idea of the hell we went through,' said Commander Eddie Grenfell, from Havant, who survived the sinking of his ship in the Arctic in May 1942.
'We veterans are dismayed and disgusted by the government's ungrateful attitude. It's sheer bloody-mindedness.'
The Soviet government struck thousands of medals at the end of the second world war to reward its men and women on the fighting front, including the Defence of the Soviet Polar Region medal.
They want to give convoy survivors this honour as the Russian people realise more and more the importance of the convoys to saving their country from the Nazis.
Whitehall plans to put a spanner in the works. It has got wind of the Russian plans to hand out the 1945 medal.
In a letter to veterans, civil servant Richard Coney says that 'it is most unlikely that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, which is responsible for dealing with such requests from foreign governments, will recommend to the Queen that permission should be granted for British veterans to either receive or wear the medal'.
The government made an exception for wearing Russia's 40th anniversary victory medal and is happy for first world war heroes to wear the Legion d'Honneur given by the French decades after the Great War to honour their service in the defence of France.
But this time around it believes it would not be right for Britons to wear awards originally struck for foreign servicemen.
Furious Portsmouth South MP Mike Hancock is writing to defence secretary Geoff Hoon, saying the government's petty-minded attitude is a disgrace to war heroes.
'It's incredibly insensitive and crass. It denies these men even the honour from a grateful foreign nation. Most Britons would be horrified to know that our veterans are being treated in this disgraceful way.'
06 August 2002 "
What ever happened to - LEST WE FORGET.
What a shameful crowd of complete and utter tossers now mans the Commonwealth & Foreign Office of the United Kingdom.
The major stumbling block appears to be a decision by the late King George VIth in 1947 to draw the line under awards for WWII - The Queen and her Government could revise that ruling - my message to HM would be that - Liz, your dad was wrong, you have a unique opportunity to put the matter right. Please do so while the few remaining survivors of this conflict are still alive - It would mean much and cost little.
Well, it looks like we're on the same boat now with the same captain. Now I wish someone would point us to a good translation of Luckner's biography.
Much to Luckner's embarrassment, he and his heavily armed launch crew surrended to a group of unarmed policemen sent out in a small island steamer to investigate the "strangers."
Cheerily,
Thanks Charley,
After writing my post above I went and looked up the Seeadler and discovered my error. Luckner sank fifteen ships, with about 300 prisoners onboard Seeadler he captured the French Barque "Cambronne", removed sails to reduce her sailing performance and placed his prisoners onboard her so that they could sail to port slowly enough to allow Seeadler to clear the area.
Bill.
More drift alert!
There may be even more confusion about which ship is which, Teribus! The sailing raider I was thinking about was the former Pass of Balmaha, captured by a German submarine in 1915 and sent home to Hamburg. She was then converted into the sailing commerce raider S.M.S. Seeadler (Sea Eagle), commanded by Count Felix von Luckner, and set sail December 21, 1916. Luckner was able to make several captures in the South Atlantic, narrowly avoided capture himself rounding Cape Horn, making 3 more captures in the South Pacific. Unfortunately for Luckner and his crew, they stopped for reprovisioning at the remote coral island of Mopeha, part of the Cook Islands, and came to grief as their ship was swept onto a reef by a tidal wave. All aboard survived the ship wreck but Luckner and some of his crew were captured later near Fiji as they tried to capture another boat. The rest of his crew on Mopeha were later able to capture a small French schooner that stopped by, and then escaped east to Chile. This information is drawn from THE CRUISE OF THE RAIDER WOLF by Roy Alexander, Appendix II.
Teribus-
Always wanted to read more about the captain of the Zee Adler. Karl von Muller was captain of the light cruiser Emden in WW I, and also had a reputation of taking the greatest possible care to avoid casulties and look after prisoners. You may be confusing him with the captain of the Zee Adler.
Hi Jan C,
Slight thread creep, but as you are a fan of "unconventional" seafaring, you might be interested in the exploits of a Captain Mueller(Sp?). During The First World War he commanded a commerce raider named Zee Adler - a sailing ship. He survived the war having served his country faithfully and with some success. What was possibly unique and really remarkable was that during the entire course of his active service he never killed, or injured a single person. Having ordered crews off their ships, prior to sinking them, he would take them onboard Zee Adler with their lifeboats in tow then sail for the nearest port. He would then put the crews back into the boats and give them directions to that port.
Son of a fairly well off family in Hamburg, he ran away to sea when he was fifteen and worked his way up to command. He was a massive man whose party trick was tearing up telephone directories, first tearing them in half then doubling the halves together and tearing the halves into quarters.
From: Bilge Rat
Les, Many thanks for this! There was a posting from Charley Noble that mentions David Woodward's good book, "The Secret Raiders" (W. W. Norton & Company, 1955 - now, sadly, long out of print). Since I'm a fan of "unconventional" seafaring (piracy, smuggling, cruiser warefare, etc.), I saw it and grabbed it at a used book store in Downtown Brooklyn while I was on leave from jury duty some years ago. This book is where I first found the story of the 'Stephen Hopkins' and got me inspired to write a song.
The local chapter of the American Merchant Marine Veterans Association at Seamens' Church Institute in Manhattan (just north of South Street Seaport, where we hold our Monthly Chantey Sings) is named for Edwin O'Hara. There are two bronze plaques on the wall there that honor the Merchant Seamen and the the Naval Armed Guard who brought the ships through against so many odds. No matter what generation we are, we have to keep the memory of so many folks, from so many nations, who did what had to be done at a time when it needed doing.
I'm going to be posting a separate thread asking for more leads on the story of the 'Stephen Hopkins'. Jan C.
From: GUEST,HelenJ
My cousin sailed on the Murmansk 'run'.His name - Ray Pearson. He had an amazing run of luck. Each time he moved to a new ship, the one he had just left was torpedoed. I remember the name of one - the Fort Frederick - from Manchester I think.
Paradoxically - later on I was very friendly with a German POW from the Kriegsmarine who had been a crew member of a U-Boot. That's how it goes...
HelenJ.
Hmmmmm. Don't know if I dare contribute to this thread. There's the battle between the light Australian cruiser Sydney and the German raider Kormoran, 11/19/42, in which both ships were sunk. The Sydney came up close alongside the Kormoran assuming her to be a more innocent vessel, and was effectively ambushed with gunfire and torpedo; the Kormoran was also mortally damaged in turn. The grim details are described in THE SECRET RAIDERS by David Woodward.
Teribus, sorry you misunderstood what I was saying. Once a vessel is away from the quay and subject to sinking, the risks are there for all. Yes, cargo vessels were primarily targetted. None the less, if a target was there, a raider would sink it, if possible, whether it was naval of commercial. Danger was shared.
From: Les from Hull
Jan - get the book I mentioned earlier. The ISDN is 1-86176-158-9. It also mentions a privately published monograph by RJ Witt and PM Heaton 'The gallant ship Stephen Hopkins'.
I said earlier that Cadet O'Hara was of the armed guard, but I'm wrong. He was an engineering cadet, and became friends with Ensign Kenneth Willett who commanded the armed guard.
The battle also involved the Tannenfels, a German supply ship which was in company with Stier. The Tannenfels had a 6 inch gun.
31 days after the battle, fifteen survivors landed from their lifeboat in Brazil. Their epic journey and struggle probably deserves a song of its own!
The chapter I've noted gives all the detail you will need, and plenty of the names of the people involved.
Good luck, Les
From: GUEST,Jan Christensen
I'm the JBilgeRat who's writing the song about the "Stephen Hopkins'" encounter with the German raider "Stier" on Sept. 27, 1942. I'm going to be posting a separate thread asking for more information and details on the battle from anyone who can help. It's a story that needs to be told.
Re Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston: Have you read Jim Longhi's wonderful book, "Woody, Cisco and Me - Seamen Three in the Merchant Marine"? Jim Longhi sailed with Woody and Cisco on the North Atlantic convoys and it's a rollicking tale of their adventures on the high seas (including snatches of lyrics to songs Woody wrote).
The book came out about four years ago. Can't lay my hands on the copy I have so I can't give you the publisher or date, but the title is correct. (I had the honor to be part of a group of friends who played at a book-signing he had at Seamens' Church Institute in New York. Jim signed my copy, "Keep our memories alive, Kid." [I'm 54 now].)
If you can find it, grab it. You'll love it!
And a reminder, untill (I think) 1943 When yer ship went down, yer pay stopped.
Nice thought, the time yer spent clinging to a Carley Float was unpaid.
From: selby
Do you know that the largest troop carrying convoy was WS7 that went round by South Africa. Keith
I think that in most cases the main targets were merchant ships. Certainly in the North Atlantic and Arctic convoys. Sitting on 10,000tons of ammunition or aviation spirit wouldn't have been my idea of a peaceful or profitable war.
Let's hope that people never have to go through that sort of thing again.
From: GUEST,Bruce, Melbourne Australia
During WWII there was a lot of bad feelings between the merchant sailors and the Navy.
Most of it concerned things like pay and condition, on most merchant seamen were higher paid than their navy equal's and on top of that many received bonuses for completing a voyage, they also spent reasonable time in port between convoys and were not subject to rationing. Also they were able to make a extra quid by bring goods in for the blackmarket. Certainly many ships were sunk but also remember that by proportion to the total number of ships sailing they were in less danger than many others in WWII
While the sailors on the escorts were paid the mimimun the Government could get away with, spent very little time in Harbour, often just enough time to fuel and provision the ship and land mail. At sea they were four hours on four off, subject to constant call for action stations, the ships were target of first choice by the U-Boats, they were constantly wet, eating cold and poorly cooked food. Have a read of books like "ONS5 The Fiercest Battle" is see what the conditions were like.
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Michael Lewis’ The Big Short
Just to mix it up a little, I thought that today I would write about something I liked and would recommend to others. Over the weekend I read Michael Lewis’ latest tome, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine . It’s not bad. Good even.
The book tells the intertwined stories of a handful of investors who saw the subprime disaster coming and bet big accordingly. It is not a broad explanation of broader events. That sort of thing is not what Lewis does, and indeed the book’s prologue and epilogue, in which he tries gamely to put his yarn in a larger context, are the weakest portions of the book and might be skipped by the reader in a hurry.
But what Lewis does well, and in this case masterfully, is tell an interesting and entertaining microcosmic story that has wider implications and lessons. If the as yet unwritten full history of the Great Recession could be thought of as a large mural, The Big Short would be an exquisitely rendered corner of that larger, unfinished, painting. It does not actually cover much surface area, but it helps a viewer imagine what the whole work might someday look like.
Lewis’ heroes are a few misfits and eccentrics at the periphery of Wall Street who suffered all the scorn and derision you would expect people going against conventional wisdom to suffer before being vindicated by events and rewarded with great heaping wheelbarrows of money. Of course, the reader knows from the start how the story is going to end, but it is a gripping tale of David vs. Goliath nonetheless.
Yet, as entertaining as the accounts of the oddball characters Lewis profiles are, and they are indeed entertaining, the book oversells the lunatic fringe element. It is true that the mistaken beliefs that fed the housing and mortgage bubble were very nearly universal. To cause a bubble that size they needed to be. And it took a special kind of cynic to see through it all and put up real money to bet that it would all end very badly.
But the subjects of the book are not merely those that saw it coming and got rich, they are those that saw it coming, got rich, and were willing to talk to a journalist about it. That subset is indeed a peculiar, if not anti-social, bunch. And a colorful one. There’s Dr. Michael Burry MD, a misanthropic hedge fund manager with one eye and Asperger’s Syndrome. And Cornhill Capital, essentially a few disorganized and darkly paranoid guys with thin backgrounds in investing who started with $110,000 of their own money in a Schwab account in 2003. Five years later they were worth $135 million.
Along the way, the reader learns about the seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time mechanics of mortgage bonds, CDOs, and CDSs. And we get valuable clarity and detail about just what AIG did and why. It has been increasingly clear to those of us follow these things that AIG was not merely the single biggest victim of the financial crisis but also the single biggest cause, the unintentional suicide bomber of Wall Street. The Big Short filled in some blanks in my head about how that bomb was made and how it came to be strapped on by the world’s biggest insurance company.
Not to give away any of the plot, but the gist of it is not that AIG and the others who participated in building the bubble were evil or particularly greedy for fat bonuses they didn’t deserve. (Indeed, the book makes the case that some of the most culpable actors, the analysts at the ratings agencies, were the least well paid of all.) The bottom line is that this particular fiasco was not caused by malfeasance but by good old American incompetence.
In my experience this is usually the case with financial disasters. The first reaction of the public and media is that criminality must be the root cause of whatever has gone badly wrong. These things don’t just happen. The system works too well for that. There must be somebody who lied and cheated that caused this. In fact, the system has never worked that well, and for every evil-doer out there there are at least ten people who just don’t know how to do their jobs properly.
Michael Lewis is not one of those people, and his job is to tell the circumscribed story of what a few particular men and women did over a few years with regard to to a particular issue. His brilliance rests on generally resisting the temptation to draw larger conclusions from the events he describes, allowing his readers to think for themselves. There is just enough background information to allow you to follow the action and just enough personal information to allow you to appreciate the colorful characters. After that, you are on your own.
I do have a few quibbles with the book. It lacks an index, something particularly unforgivable in something destined to become source material for the research of others. And I caught enough factual errors on subjects I already knew about to introduce a seed of doubt about the discussion of topics less familiar to me.
Most of these errors were trivial, e.g. roulette balls are white and plastic not silvery and metal. But there are some significant ones. Lewis badly muffs the explanation of what 0.3 correlation between the returns of mortgage bonds means. That is not merely finance geek trivia, it is at the core of the mistake that AIG and others made about the risk of pools of those bonds.
But Lewis gets the general story straight, and that is what counts. This is, after all, not an attempt at a comprehensive textbook on what happened. That has yet to come, and Michael Lewis will not be writing it. The Big Short is a smaller, very readable and altogether worthwhile book.
Books, Housing | Frank Curmudgeon | March 22, 2010 11:59 am
By Kosmo @ The Casual Observer, March 22, 2010 @ 1:31 pm
Hmm. I liked Moneyball, so I might give this a read.
By Trent McBride, March 22, 2010 @ 3:29 pm
Interestingly, in his 60 minutes interview, Lewis had no problem drawing larger picture conclusions that were on shaky ground. Likely, though, that is just what they highlighted in their piece.
Your quibble about details is striking to me, because I have noticed this in Moneyball and Blind Side as well. When he is talking about things I know a lot about, he gets enough details wrong, and overstates his case enough that I am suspicious about other things, like this, where I know less.
By Adam, March 22, 2010 @ 3:50 pm
By Jay @marketfolly, March 29, 2010 @ 12:35 am
Hey, great site, just stumbled on to it. Second your thoughts on this book but definitely enjoyed hearing about some of the lesser known managers (Burry in particular)… fascinating stuff.
Also saw that you’re a hedgie and wanted to make sure you know of my blog: MarketFolly.com. We track prominent hedge funds via SEC filings, investor letters, etc etc. At any rate, pleased to make the acquaintance and look forward to reading your work more.
@marketfolly
PS – why a PF blog versus a market blog? was just curious. You definitely bring a different viewpoint to the PF mix online though so kudos for that.
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We recently showed that pomegranate fruit extract (PFE) possesses remarkable antitumor-promoting effects in mouse skin. In this study, employing human prostate cancer cells, we evaluated the antiproliferative and proapoptotic properties of PFE. PFE (10-100 μg/ml; 48 h) treatment of highly aggressive human prostate cancer PC3 cells resulted in a dose-dependent inhibition of cell growth/cell viability and induction of apoptosis.
Immunoblot analysis revealed that PFE treatment of PC3 cells resulted in (i) induction of Bax and Bak (proapoptotic); (ii) down-regulation of Bcl-XL and Bcl-2 (antiapoptotic); (iii) induction of WAF1/p21 and KIP1/p27; (iv) a decrease in cyclins D1, D2, and E; and (v) a decrease in cyclin-dependent kinase (cdk) 2, cdk4, and cdk6 expression. These data establish the involvement of the cyclin kinase inhibitor-cyclin-cdk network during the antiproliferative effects of PFE. Oral administration of PFE (0.1% and 0.2%, wt/vol) to athymic nude mice implanted with androgen-sensitive CWR22Rν1 cells resulted in a significant inhibition in tumor growth concomitant with a significant decrease in serum prostate-specific antigen levels. We suggest that pomegranate juice may have cancer-chemopreventive as well as cancer-chemotherapeutic effects against prostate cancer in humans.
Prostate cancer (CaP) is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths among men in the U.S. and many Western countries (1). For the year 2005, it has been estimated that 232,090 new cases of CaP will be diagnosed and that 30,350 deaths related to CaP will occur in the U.S. alone (1). Although the treatment of localized CaP remains controversial, there are potentially curative options such as radical prostatectomy or radiotherapy. However, once the disease is metastatic, the outlook for the patient is poor. Thus, developing new strategies to combat CaP has become an important mission. Chemoprevention, which refers to the administration of synthetic or naturally occurring agents to suppress, reverse, or delay the process of carcinogenesis, is being increasingly appreciated as an effective approach for the management of neoplasia (2–5). This approach is ideally suited for CaP because it is typically diagnosed in men >50 years of age, and thus even a modest delay in disease progression could significantly impact the quality of life of these patients (6). In this regard, several naturally occurring antioxidants for chemoprevention of CaP are being evaluated in cell culture and in animal model systems (2–6). Some of these agents are showing promise in human CaP patients (3, 6–9).
Pomegranate (Punica granatum, Punicaceae), native to Persia, is an edible fruit cultivated in Mediterranean countries, Afghanistan, India, China, Japan, Russia, and some parts of the United States. In ancient Greek mythology, pomegranates were known as the “fruit of the dead.” Pomegranate has been extensively used as a folk medicine by many cultures (10). Edible parts of pomegranate fruit (≈80% of total fruit weight) are comprised of 80% juice and 20% seed. Pomegranate fruit is a rich source of two types of polyphenolic compounds: anthocyanins (such as delphinidin, cyanidin, and pelargonidin), which give the fruit and juice its red color; and hydrolyzable tannins (such as punicalin, pedunculagin, punicalagin, gallagic, and ellagic acid esters of glucose), which account for 92% of the antioxidant activity of the whole fruit (11). The soluble polyphenol content in pomegranate juice varies between 0.2 and 1.0% (12). It has been shown that the antioxidant activity of pomegranate juice is higher than that of red wine and green tea (11), two dietary substances that are showing promise in preclinical CaP models and in CaP patients (6, 7, 13–19).
Pomegranate juice was also found to exert potent antioxidant capacity against lipid peroxidation, which may be a central link for the antiatherogenic effect of pomegranate on lipoprotein, macrophage, and platelets (20,21). Dietary supplementation of polyphenol-rich pomegranate juice to atherosclerotic mice was recently shown to inhibit significantly the development of atherosclerotic lesions (22). Schubert et al. (23) have shown that pomegranate wine may serve as a potent inhibitor of NF-κB in vascular endothelial cells. It has been shown that pomegranate seed oil and polyphenols in fermented juice retard oxidation and prostaglandin synthesis, inhibit breast cancer cell proliferation and invasion, and promote breast cancer cell apoptosis (24). More recently, we have shown that topical application of pomegranate fruit extract (PFE) prevents phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate-induced tumor promotion in 7,12-dimethybenz(a)anthracene-initiated CD-1 mouse skin (25).
We hypothesized that PFE may afford chemopreventive as well as cancer-chemotherapeutic effects against CaP. Here, we show that PFE, through modulations in the cyclin kinase inhibitor-cyclin-cyclin-dependent kinase (cdk) machinery, results in inhibition of cell growth followed by apoptosis of highly aggressive human prostate carcinoma PC3 cells. These events were associated with alterations in the levels of Bax and Bcl-2 shifting the Bax:Bcl-2 ratio favoring apoptosis. Furthermore, we show that oral administration of a human acceptable dose of PFE to athymic nude mice implanted with CWR22Rν1 cells resulted in significant inhibition of tumor growth with concomitant reduction in secretion of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in the serum.
cdk2, cdk4, cdk6, WAF1/p21, KIP1/p27, PSA, and androgen receptor (AR) antibodies were obtained from Santa Cruz Biotechnology. Cyclin D1, D2, and E antibodies were procured from Neomarker (Fremont, CA). Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP), Bcl-2, Bax, Bak, and Bcl-XL antibodies were purchased from Upstate Biotechnology (Lake Placid, NY). Anti-mouse or anti-rabbit secondary antibody horseradish peroxidase conjugate was obtained from Amersham Pharmacia Life Sciences. The Bio-Rad DC Protein Assay Kit was purchased from Bio-Rad. Novex precast Tris-Glycine gels were obtained from Invitrogen. The Annexin-V-FLUOS Staining Kit was purchased from Roche.
Preparation of PFE.
As described earlier (25), fresh pomegranates were peeled, and the edible portion was squeezed in 70% acetone/30% distilled water (1:20, wt/vol). The red extract was filtered through Whatman no. 1 filter paper, and the filtrate was condensed, freeze-dried, and stored at 4°C. This extract, PFE, was analyzed by MALDI-TOF MS and was found to contain six anthocyanins (pelargonidin 3-glucoside, cyanidin 3-glucoside, delphinidin 3-glucoside, pelargonidin 3,5-diglucoside, cyanidin 3,5-diglucoside, and delphinidin 3,5-diglucoside) and various ellagitannins and hydrolyzable tannins (25).
Treatment of Cells.
Human prostate carcinoma cells PC3 and CWR22Rν1, obtained from American Type Culture Collection, were grown in RPMI medium 1640 (GIBCO) and supplemented with 10% FBS/1% penicillin/streptomycin in a 5% CO2 atmosphere at 37°C. PFE dissolved in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) was used for the treatment of cells. Seventy percent to 80% confluent cells were treated with PFE at 10-100 μg/ml for 48 h in complete cell medium. The final concentration of DMSO used was 0.1% (vol/vol) for each treatment.
Cell Viability.
The effect of PFE on the viability of cells was determined by 3-[4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl]-2,5-diphenyl tetrazoliumbromide assay. The cells were plated at 1 × 104 cells per well in 200 μl of complete culture medium containing 10-100 μg/ml concentrations of PFE in 96-well microtiter plates for 48 h. After incubation for specified times at 37°C in a humidified incubator, 3-[4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl]-2,5-diphenyl tetrazoliumbromide (5 mg/ml in PBS) was added to each well and incubated for 2 h, after which the plate was centrifuged at 1,800 × g for 5 min at 4°C. The absorbance was recorded on a microplate reader at the wavelength of 540 nm. The effect of PFE on growth inhibition was assessed as percent cell viability where DMSO-treated cells were taken as 100% viable. DMSO at the concentrations used was without any effect on cell viability.
Protein Extraction and Western Blotting.
After treatment with PFE, the cells were incubated in ice-cold lysis buffer (50 mmol/liter Tris-HCl/150 mmol/liter NaCl/1 mmol/liter EGTA/1 mmol/liter EDTA/20 mmol/liter NaF/100 mmol/liter Na3VO4/0.5% Nonidet P-40/1% Triton X-100/1 mmol/liter PMSF, pH 7.4) with freshly added protease inhibitors (Calbiochem) over ice for 20 min. For Western blotting, 40 μg of protein was resolved over 12% polyacrylamide gels, transferred onto a nitrocellulose membrane, probed with appropriate monoclonal primary antibody, incubated with appropriate secondary antibody horseradish peroxidase conjugate, and detected by chemiluminescence and autoradiography. Densitometric measurements of the bands were done with digitalized scientific software program un–scan–it purchased from Silk Scientific Corporation (Orem, UT).
Apoptosis Detection by Fluorescence Microscopy.
The Annexin-VFLUOS Staining Kit was used for the detection of apoptotic and necrotic cells according to the manufacturer’s protocol. PC3 cells were grown to ≈70% confluence and then treated with 20-100 μg/ml PFE for 48 h. The fluorescence was measured by a Zeiss 410 confocal microscope. In a selected field, the cells stained with annexin V and propidium iodide and unstained cells were counted to ascertain the extent of apoptosis and necrosis.
ELISA for PSA.
The human PSA ELISA kit (Anogen, Ontario, Canada) was used for the quantitative determination of PSA levels in the blood serum of athymic nude mice according to the manufacturer’s protocol. The kit uses a technique of quantitative sandwich immunoassay for determination of PSA.
In Vivo Tumor Xenograft Model.
Athymic (nu/nu) male nude mice were obtained from NxGen Biosciences (San Diego), housed under pathogen-free conditions with a 12-h light/12-h dark schedule, and fed with an autoclaved diet ad libitum. We chose CWR22Rν1 cells for determining the in vivo effects of PFE based on the fact that these cells form rapid and reproducible tumors in nude mice and secrete significant amounts of PSA in the bloodstream of the host. CWR22Rν1 cells were harvested by trypsinization and resuspended in RPMI medium 1640. To establish CWR22Rν1 tumor xenografts in mice, 6- to 8-week-old athymic mice were injected s.c. with 1 × 106 cells mixed with 50 μl of RPMI plus 50 μl of Matrigel (Collaborative Biomedical Products, Bedford, MA). Twenty-four animals were then randomly divided into three groups consisting of eight animals each. The first group of animals received normal drinking water and served as controls. The animals of groups 2 and 3 received the same drinking water supplemented with 0.1% and 0.2% PFE (wt/vol), respectively. Water bottles were changed every other day. The 0.1% and 0.2% doses of PFE selected for feeding mice are based on the assumption that a typical healthy individual (70 kg) may be persuaded to drink 250 or 500 ml of pomegranate juice extracted from one or two fruits, respectively. Body weight, diet, and water consumption were recorded twice weekly throughout the study. Tumor sizes were measured twice weekly, and tumor volume was calculated by the formula 0.5238 × L1 × L2 × H where L1 is the long diameter, L2 is the short diameter, and H is the height of the tumor (26). Every week, blood samples were collected by the “mandibular bleed” and sera were separated from the whole blood and stored at -20°C until assayed for PSA by specific immunoassay.
Statistical Analysis.
All statistical analyses were carried out with prism (GraphPad, San Diego), and Pvalues <0.05 were considered significant. The Kaplan-Meier method was used to estimate survival, and differences were analyzed by the log-rank test.
PFE Causes Cell Growth Inhibition and Apoptosis in PC3 Cells. Our first aim was to investigate whether PFE treatment imparts antiproliferative effects against CaP cells. Therefore, using human prostate carcinoma PC3 cells, we first evaluated the effect of PFE on the growth of these cells by 3-[4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl]-2,5-diphenyl tetrazoliumbromide assay. As shown in Fig. 1A, PFE treatment (10-100 μg/ml for 48 h) of PC3 cells resulted in a dose-dependent inhibition of cell growth. To assess whether PFE-induced growth inhibition of the cells is mediated through induction of apoptosis, we first evaluated the effect of PFE on cleavage of PARP. As shown in Fig. 1B, employing immunoblot analysis, we found that the full-size PARP protein (116 kDa) was cleaved to yield an 85-kDa fragment after treatment of cells with PFE at 10-100 μg/ml for 48 h. The induction of apoptosis by PFE was also evident from the morphology of cells, as assessed by fluorescence microscopy, after labeling the cells with an apoptosis detection kit containing annexin V and propidium iodide (Fig. 1C). We used this method because it identifies the apoptotic (green fluorescence) as well as necrotic (red fluorescence) cells. As shown by the data in Fig. 1C, PFE treatment resulted in a dose-dependent apoptosis in PC3 cells. These data indicated that PFE treatment also resulted in necrosis of these cells, which may be a secondary event in the apoptotic process.
Effect of PFE treatment of PC3 cells on cell growth and apoptosis. (A) Effect on cell growth. The cells were treated with PFE for 48 h, and the viability of cells was determined by 3-[4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl]-2,5-diphenyl tetrazoliumbromide assay. Data …
PFE Induces Apoptosis Through an Induction in WAF1/p21/KIP1/p27 with Inhibition in Cyclins and cdks. Because our studies demonstrated that PFE treatment of PC3 cells resulted in apoptosis of PC3 cells, we examined the effect of PFE on cell-cycle-regulatory molecules operative in the G1 phase of the cell cycle. We assessed the effect of PFE on the induction of WAF1/p21 and KIP/p27, which are known to regulate the entry of cells at the G1-S phase transition checkpoint and induce apoptosis. Immunoblot analysis revealed that PFE treatment of the cells resulted in a marked induction of WAF1/p21 and KIP1/p27 in a dose-dependent manner compared with the basal levels (Fig. 2A). Using immunoblot analysis, we also assessed the effect of PFE treatment on the protein expressions of the cyclins and cdks, which are known to be regulated by WAF1/p21. PFE treatment of the cells resulted in a dose-dependent decrease in protein expressions of cyclin D1, cyclin D2, and cyclin E (Fig. 2B), as well as cdk2, cdk4, and cdk6 (Fig. 2C).
Effect of PFE treatment of PC3 cells on protein expression of WAF1/p21 and KIP1/p27 (A), cyclins D1, D2, and E (B), and cdk2, cdk4, and cdk6 (C). The cells were treated with vehicle only or specified concentrations of PFE for 48 h and harvested, and cell …
PFE Modulates Bax and Bcl-2 Protein Expression in PC3 Cells. Because Bax and Bcl-2 play crucial roles in apoptosis, we next studied the dose-dependent effects of PFE on the protein levels of Bax and Bcl-2 in PC3 cells. The immunoblot analysis exhibited an increase in the protein expression of Bax (Fig. 3A). In contrast, the protein expression of Bcl-2 was significantly decreased by PFE treatment in a dose-dependent fashion (Fig. 3A). In our study we also found a significant dose-dependent shift in the ratio of Bax to Bcl-2 after PFE treatment, indicating the induction of an apoptotic process (Fig. 3B). Furthermore, we assessed the protein levels of Bak (proapoptotic) and Bcl-XL (antiapoptotic). The immunoblots revealed a significant increase in the protein expression of Bak and a significant decrease in Bcl-XL expression by PFE treatment in a dose-dependent fashion in PC3 cells (Fig. 3C), thus further confirming the induction of apoptotic process.
Effect of PFE treatment of PC3 cells on protein expression of Bax and Bcl2 (A), Bax/Bcl2 ratio (B), and protein expression of Bak and Bcl-XL (C). The cells were treated with vehicle only or specified concentrations of PFE for 48 h and harvested, and cell …
PFE Decreases AR and PSA Expression in CWR22Rν1 Cells. Evidence suggests that androgens are also involved in the development and progression of CaP, where AR is the essential mediator for androgen action (27). In addition, PSA is a clinical diagnostic marker for monitoring the presence and progression of CaP in human patients (28). Because PC3 cells are androgen-independent, are devoid of AR, and do not produce PSA, we selected androgen-responsive CWR22Rν1 cells for these studies, because they express AR and also secrete PSA in the bloodstream of the host. To accomplish this work, we first established that, like PC3 cells, growth of CWR22Rν1 cells is also inhibited by PFE (data not shown). Then we determined the effect of PFE treatment of CWR22Rν1 cells on the AR protein expression and found a significant decrease in its expression in a dose-dependent manner (Fig. 4). At 80 and 100 μg/ml concentrations of PFE, 80% and 90% decreases in AR were observed, respectively (Fig. 4). Recent studies have shown that modulation in AR leads to alteration in androgen-responsive genes (29). One of the androgen-responsive genes is PSA, which is specifically expressed in prostatic tissue and at present is the most sensitive biomarker and screening tool for CaP in humans (29, 30). The CWR22Rν1 cells exhibit high protein levels of intracellular PSA, as evidenced by a 34-kDa band. The dose-dependent effect of PFE on CWR22Rν1 cells exhibited a significant decrease in PSA protein levels by 17%, 28%, 38%, 62%, and 67% at 20, 40, 60, 80, and 100 μg/ml concentrations, respectively (Fig. 4).
Effect of treatment of PFE to CWR22Rν1 cells on protein expression of intracellular PSA and AR. The cells were treated with vehicle only or specified concentrations of PFE for 48 h and harvested, and cell lysates were prepared. The data shown …
PFE Inhibits Growth of Human Prostate Carcinoma CWR22Rν1 in Nude Mice.
PFE given as the sole source of drinking fluid to the nude mice resulted in an inhibition of prostate carcinoma CWR22Rν1 tumor xenograft growth in nude mice. Eight days after cell inoculation, the appearance of small solid tumors was observed in animals receiving water as a drinking fluid. This latency period was prolonged to 11-14 days in animals receiving PFE in drinking fluid. PFE (0.1% and 0.2%) was administered orally ad libitum to these animals day 1 after tumor cell implantation. As shown in Fig. 5 A and B, tumor growth, as inferred by computed tumor volume, was significantly inhibited in mice receiving both 0.1% and 0.2% PFE, with higher inhibitory effects in animals receiving 0.2% PFE than in those receiving 0.1% PFE. In our experimental protocol, we killed the animals when the implanted tumor reached a volume of 1,200 mm3. Thus, as shown in Fig. 5A, in water-fed animals the average tumor volume of 1,200 mm3 was reached in ≈31 ± 3 days after tumor cell inoculation. At this time point, the average tumor volumes of the 0.1% and 0.2% PFE-fed groups were 776 and 558 mm3, respectively. The most effective tumor growth inhibitory response was observed in the 0.2% PFE-fed group, where the targeted average tumor volume of 1,200 mm3 was reached at day 47 ± 4 after tumor cell inoculation. PFE treatment of 0.1% was also found to be significantly effective where the average tumor volume of 1,200 mm3 was achieved in ≈39 ± 3 days after tumor cell inoculation. Tumor data were analyzed for survival probability by Kaplan-Meier analysis, which indicated that continuous PFE infusion to athymic nude mice resulted in increased survival (P < 0.0001, log-rank test), with a median survival of 39 and 47 days (0.1% and 0.2% PFE, respectively), compared with 31 days in water-fed mice (P< 0.0001, log-rank test) (data not shown).
Effect of oral administration of PFE on CWR22Rν1 tumor growth and PSA secretion in athymic nude mice. Approximately one million CWR22Rν1 cells were s.c. injected in each flank of the mouse to initiate tumor growth. Twenty-four hours after …
PFE Inhibits PSA, a Marker for CaP Progression. During the course of tumor growth in animals at day 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30 after inoculation, blood was collected through the mandibular bleed. Quantitative sandwich ELISA was used to determine PSA levels in mouse serum secreted by CWR22Rν1 tumor xenografts. In PFE-fed animals a significant inhibition of PSA secretion was observed at all time points examined (Fig. 5C). At 23 days after inoculation, secreted PSA levels were 7.9 ± 0.82, 2.5 ± 0.58, and 1.2 ± 0.97 ng/ml in water-fed, 0.1% PFE-fed, and 0.2% PFE-fed animals, respectively. At 30 days after inoculation of tumor cells in 0.1% and 0.2% PFE-fed animals, 70% (P < 0.001) and 85% (P < 0.001) reduced levels of PSA were observed as compared with the water-fed group, respectively (Fig. 5C). Thus, our data clearly demonstrated that PFE feeding to mice resulted in a significant decrease in the serum PSA of animals. Interestingly, the effects of PFE on PSA secretion were found to closely correlate with tumor growth inhibition (Fig. 5 A and C).
In recent years, naturally occurring antioxidant compounds present in the diet consumed by humans have gained considerable attention as cancer-chemopreventive and chemotherapeutic agents (2, 4, 5, 7). Recently, we have shown that topical application of PFE prevents 7,12-dimethybenz(a)anthracene-initiated phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate-induced tumor promotion in CD-1 mouse skin (25). Because pomegranate juice has been shown to possess remarkable antioxidant effect (25) and because some antioxidants are showing promise in prevention and therapy of CaP (6, 13, 31, 32), in this study we investigated whether the pomegranate-juice-derived PFE could be a beneficial agent for CaP in humans. We show that PFE possesses antiproliferative and proapoptotic effects through modulation of cyclin kinase inhibitor-cyclin-cdk machinery in aggressive human CaP PC3 cells. Our data demonstrate that PFE treatment of the PC3 cells resulted in (i) cell growth inhibition, (ii) alterations in the cell cycle regulatory molecules operative in the G1 phase of the cell cycle, and (iii) apoptosis in a dose-dependent fashion. These are important observations because regulation of cell cycle and apoptosis have become appreciated targets for intervention against cancer (33–37).
We and others have shown the involvement of cell cycle regulation-mediated apoptosis as a mechanism of cell growth inhibition by many dietary antioxidants (38–40). Therefore, in the present study we investigated the involvement of the cyclin kinase inhibitor-cyclin-cdk machinery during the induction of cell cycle arrest and apoptosis by PFE in PC3 cells. In eukaryotes, passage through the cell cycle is orchestrated by a family of protein kinase complexes (41). Each complex is composed minimally of a catalytic subunit, the cdk, and its essential activating partner, the cyclin (41). Cyclins D and E are involved during G1-S phase of the cell cycle. In controlled cell growth, association of cyclins D and E with cdk2, cdk4, or cdk6 leads to phosphorylation of Rb and its release from E2F, resulting in progression of the cell cycle and cellular proliferation. Any defect in this machinery results in an altered cell cycle regulation that may result in unwanted cellular proliferation, ultimately culminating in the development of cancer (41).
During the progression of the cell cycle, the cdk-cyclin complexes are inhibited via binding to cyclin kinase inhibitors such as the WAF1 and KIP1 families of proteins (42). Thus, we examined the effect of PFE on cell cycle regulatory molecules operative in the G1 phase of the cell cycle. Our data demonstrate a significant up-regulation of the WAF1/p21 and KIP1/p27 during G1 phase arrest and apoptosis of these cells by PFE (Fig. 2 A). In the absence of active p53 in PC3 cells, the observed induction of WAF1/p21 and KIP1/p27 by PFE appears to be independent of p53. It has been shown in many studies that exogenous stimuli may result in a p53-dependent, as well as a p53-independent, induction of WAF1/p21 and KIP1/p27, which may cause a blockade of G1-S phase transition, resulting in a G1 phase cell cycle arrest and apoptosis (38, 43). WAF1/p21 and KIP1/p27 are considered universal inhibitors of cyclin-cdk complexes; therefore, we assessed the effect of PFE treatment on the cyclins and cdks operative in the G1 phase of the cell cycle (i.e., cyclins D1, D2, and E and cdk2, cdk4, and cdk6). We found that PFE treatment of the cells resulted in significant down-modulation of all of these regulatory molecules, although to a different extent (Fig. 2 B and C).
The apoptosis of PC3 cells induced by PFE is important because it is a physiological process that functions as an essential mechanism of tissue homeostasis and is regarded as the preferred way to eliminate unwanted cells (4). This observation was verified by PARP cleavage and fluorescence microscopy (Fig. 1 B and C). Collectively, these results suggest that PFE inhibits the growth of prostate carcinoma cells through cell cycle arrest and induces apoptosis.
Members of the Bcl-2 family of proteins are critical regulators of the apoptotic pathway (44). Bcl-2 is an upstream effector molecule in the apoptotic pathway and is identified as a potent suppressor of apoptosis (44). Bcl-2 is found at inappropriately high levels in more than half of all human tumors (44). Bcl-2 has been shown to form a heterodimer complex with the proapoptotic member Bax, thereby neutralizing its proapoptotic effects. Therefore, the ratio of Bax/Bcl-2 is a decisive factor and plays an important role in determining whether cells will undergo death or survival. In our study, PFE treatment of PC3 cells for 48 h was found to result in a decrease in Bcl-2 protein expression with an increase in the protein expression of Bax (Fig. 3A). Importantly, in PFE-treated cells, the ratio of Bax to Bcl-2 was found to be altered in favor of apoptosis (Fig. 3B). Our results thus suggest that up-regulation of Bax and down-modulation of Bcl-2 may be another molecular mechanism through which PFE induces apoptosis.
To establish the relevance of these in vitro findings to in vivo situation, athymic nude mice were implanted with androgen-responsive CWR22Rν1 cells, which are known to secrete PSA in the bloodstream of the host. Oral feeding of PFE significantly slowed the progression of CWR22Rν1 tumor growth in nude mice (Fig. 5 A and B). Importantly, this tumor growth inhibition followed a significant decrease in the serum levels of PSA, a clinical diagnostic serum marker for monitoring the presence and progression of CaP in human patients (Fig. 5C).
The present study is the first report showing the effect of the fruit pomegranate in inhibiting human prostate carcinoma cell growth in an in vitro and in vivo preclinical model. The reduction in tumor growth with concomitant reduction in PSA levels observed in the xenograft model may have human clinical relevance. The outcome of this study could have a direct practical implication and translational relevance to CaP patients, because it suggests that pomegranate consumption may retard CaP progression, which may prolong the survival and quality of life of the patients. In summary, based on the present findings, it is tempting to suggest that the fruit pomegranate and its associated antioxidants may possess a strong potential for development as a chemopreventive and possibly therapeutic agent against CaP.
This work was supported by U.S. Public Health Service Grants R01 CA 78809 and R01 CA 101039.
This paper was submitted directly (Track II) to the PNAS office.
Abbreviations: CaP, prostate cancer; PFE, pomegranate fruit extract; PSA, prostate-specific antigen; PARP, poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase; AR, androgen receptor; cdk, cyclin-dependent kinase.
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Craig Clarke (right) is a superb piece of business for Connacht © Getty Images
The new season of RaboDirect PRO12 rugby is nearly upon us and despite seeing several top players leave the league and opt to take up a contract in the Top 14, the 12 sides in the Celtic competition have had a busy summer as they look to bolster their resources. Several top internationals have decided to give the PRO12 a shot and we have picked out a selection of eye-catching transfers in the latest Scrum Sevens.
Craig Clarke
Chiefs to Connacht
For us, this is the best piece of recruitment by any club in the PRO12. Any player who has managed to win back-to-back Super Rugby titles must be worth their weight in gold, and in Clarke's case, he captained the Waikato franchise to their memorable feats. You would have thought he could have had the pick of Europe's best sides, but Connacht flew under the radar to secure their man.
With Connacht now under the tutelage of Pat Lam, Ireland's ugly duckling of a side may cause a few surprises this year. They are still a team who seem to be doing their best off the scraps dropped from Leinster, Ulster and Munster, but Connacht are going about their business in an impressive fashion. We think Clarke's recruitment is inspired and could be the catalyst needed in Galway.
Matthew Rees
Scarlets to Cardiff Blues
He was in danger of becoming one of the forgotten men of Welsh rugby with Richard Hibbard, complete with his long flowing blonde locks, the number one No.2 for those to the west of the Severn. While Hibbard and co. flourished in Australia turning out for the British & Irish Lions, Rees would have watched on from his sofa reminiscing about his experiences from 2009 when he started the second and third Tests against the Boks.
Rees clearly felt his career needed a new spark and he has swapped Llanelli for Cardiff. He will line-up alongside fellow Lion Gethin Jenkins at the artificially turfed Arms Park this term and will give them a considerable physical presence in their front-row. That familiarity may also aid his international prospects as he looks to add to his 57 Test caps.
Zane Kirchner
Bulls to Leinster
How do you go about replacing Isa Nacewa? That must have been a constant conundrum for then Leinster boss Joe Schmidt last season. In the end, he opted for 24-cap Springbok fullback Kirchner. The Sideshow Bob-lookalike has the ability to tear up the PRO12 but Leinster, now under Matt O'Connor's tutelage, will have to work out the best way to utilise his talents.
Similar to James O'Connor, Kirchner's versatility sometimes works against him and with Willie le Roux the current darling of South Africa at No.15, Kirchner will just have Leinster to focus on this term rather than international honours. He should flourish at the Dublin side and if they continue in the same silverware-laden manner under O'Connor as they did Schmidt, then he will need to get an extra suitcase to carry all the pots, pans and gongs back to South Africa when he eventually returns.
Zane Kirchner has linked up with Leinster after leaving the Bulls © Getty Images
Kris Burton
Treviso to Dragons
Fly-half Burton has 21 caps for Italy and a wealth of experience at Test level. He is unlikely to do a lot of attacking with ball in hand, but on a wet and windy night at Rodney Parade, he will put the Dragons in the right areas of the field and will provide a level head at No.10.
He will vie with Jason Tovey for the fly-half shirt and for once, Lyn Jones and his Dragons side have real depth at No.10. They are unlikely to light up the Welsh regional scene in the same manner as Rhys Patchell, Dan Biggar or Rhys Priestland but they have plenty of big game battle scars to show and between them, the Dragons are in safe hands.
Jimmy Gopperth
Newcastle Falcons to Leinster
It would have been an unfamiliar feeling for Leinster fans when Jonathan Sexton announced his move to Racing Metro last season. They seldom see their best players leaving the club, let along Ireland's first choice fly-half. But even Ireland's premier charges are having their head turned by the huge piles of Euros on offer over the Channel.
Leinster have gone for the pragmatic approach in choosing their replacement for Sexton. Gopperth was superb for Newcastle Falcons during his four years at the club, but you cannot deny the No.10 wanting to have a shot at winning some serious trophies at Leinster. He should prosper at the RDS and alongside Ian Madigan, the Dublin side should have enough strength in depth to cover the sizeable void left by Sexton.
Jimmy Gopperth will hope to lift more silverware at Leinster © Getty Images
Gerhard van der Heever
Stormers to Munster
Big name and lucrative transfers sometimes fall flat on their face - think Stephen Donald's time at Bath, Gethin Jenkins' sojourn to Toulon or Chris Jack's move to Saracens. But if a Munster fan sat down and momentarily day-dreamed of how they hoped Doug Howlett's switch to Thomond Park would work out, they would have been deeply satisfied with how the try-scoring record holder for the All Blacks did for the Irish giants.
He was superb, but all good things have to come to an end and Van der Heever is the man chosen by the Munster hierarchy to replace the now retired Howlett. He has bags of ability and aged just 24, he has that youthful exuberance which could help him become a crowd favourite on that famous Cork turf.
John Barclay
Glasgow Warriors to Scarlets
For us, John Barclay's decision to swap Scotland for Wales was a slightly bizarre move. Barclay, you would expect, would have had a couple of options open to him in the Top 14 as he is one of the PRO12's most consistent back-rowers. But he chose to move south to the Scarlets.
For the Llanelli region, it is a brilliant signing while Barclay clearly hopes the move will reinvigorate his Test prospects with a number of players ahead of him in the Scotland pecking order. The days of the 'Killers Bs' - Kelly Brown, Johnnie Beattie and Barclay - from the 2010 Six Nations are now a distant memory but Barclay, aged just 26, still has a number of years left him at the highest level. He's a great signing for Scarlets and should complement captain Rob McCusker nicely in their back-row.
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New methods of measuring storms result in the discovery of vast 'megaflashes'
Advances in space-based lightning mapping have allowed scientists to measure flash extent and duration over broader ranges. The development has led to the discovery of 'megaflashes' – vast electrical surges that discharge over long distances and durations
Residents of Cordoba, Argentina, and Porto Alegre in southern Brazil, often see the sky ripple with dramatic storms. Some of these illuminate the sky with such stunning electrical force, that the term ‘megaflash’ has arisen – the rare phenomenon of single lightning flashes traveling hundreds of kilometres.
The World Meteorological Organization recently confirmed that on 31 October 2018, a single flash covering a horizontal distance of 709 kilometres across southern Brazil – equivalent to the distance between London and the border of Switzerland – set a new record for the longest reported distance of a single lightning flash. The megaflash more than doubled the previous record of 321 kilometres, which occurred on 20 June 2007 across the US state of Oklahoma.
Records for the greatest duration for a single lightning flash have also been extended: on 4 March 2019, a megaflash occurred for 16.73 seconds over northern Argentina.
Most lightning is formed when warm air is pushed upward during storms. As the water droplets in the warm air meet ice crystals in the cold air above they bump together and move apart, resulting in static electrical charges in the clouds. Over time, the bottom of the cloud gains a higher negative charge, which seeks to link up with the ground’s positive charge. As a flow of negative charges rush toward the Earth and positive charges flow upward, a strong electric current occurs – the bolt.
Megaflashes have some unique characteristics, however: ‘In storms, negative charge is often equalised to the positive charge of the ground, but in megaflashes, the equalisation happens with positive charges at the tops of other clouds,’ explains Randall Cerveny, professor of geographical sciences at Arizona State University and World Meteorological Organization’s rapporteur of weather and climate extremes. ‘Their cloud-to-cloud equalisation allows megaflashes to cover broad distances and to discharge for long durations.’
Some thunderstorms, termed ‘mesoscale convective systems’ (MCSs) provide the optimal conditions for megaflashes: ‘These storms are created by massive surface heating, rather than by frontal uplift, like the storms common in the UK. These hot-air based MCSs form in large open plains, like the plains of Argentina and southern Brazil,’ says Cerveny.
Before these recent record-breakers were detected, lightning was monitored using on-the-ground geolocation. However, advances in space-based lightning mapping have allowed scientists to measure flash extent and duration over broader ranges, allowing them to detect new extremes. ‘We are literally rewriting the definition of “lightning”,’ says Cerveny, who is passionate about the value of this monitoring. ‘Lightning has great importance to our basic understanding of the science of the atmosphere. As meteorologists learn more about how our atmosphere works, our ability to predict weather events improves. Knowledge of extremes helps engineers to design better planes and buildings. The records also draw attention to basic lightning human safety practices.’
While engineers, meteorologists and climatologists will be fascinated by the implications of ‘megaflashes’ for advancing knowledge in atmospheric science, Cerveny relates to the more elemental stirrings that lightning incites. ‘I’m told that announcements of these extremes draws the youngest generation of meteorologists into the field. It draws attention to the excitement of atmospheric science.’
Cerveny thinks that space-based lightning mapping technology will be increasingly important to detect the effects of climate change: ‘It’s like measuring a child’s growth by marking their height on a door. If you only have one measurement, you can’t say whether or not the child is growing. The more that we monitor climate and weather, in particular extreme events, the clearer picture emerges as to how our climate is changing.’
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The Advent of Indian Premier League
The daily fantasy cricket in India is now quite common amongst the cricket lovers. One of the most hyped and popular game is IPL T20.
The Indian Premier League changed the way cricket is played in India and also the online fantasy cricket. It has brought in huge scope for the entertainment industry as well. Twenty20 cricket became phenomenally popular after India won the Twenty20 World Cup in 2007 and the IPL has since then cashed on the craze. From then on, India’s involvement with IPL fantasy league has been rewarding and marvellous.
Initialized by the then BCCI vice-president Lalit Modi, the IPL launched in 2008 as a competitive response to the Indian Cricket League (ICL).
Following the same format as that of English Premier League and the National Basketball League (NBA) of the US, the maiden IPL tournament which Modi had conceptualized and idea was on the way to come on the forefront in 2008.
IPL works on a franchise-system
The IPL works on a franchise-system based on the American style of hiring players and transfers. These franchises were putting for auction, where the highest bidder won the rights to own the team, representing each city.
The auction for the same took place on January 24, 2008 and the total base price for the auction was $400 million. The auction went on to fetch $723.59 million.
The Mumbai franchise owned by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) was the most expensive franchise – fetching $111.9 million closely following Vijay Mallya’s United Breweries which paid $111.6 million for the Bangalore franchise.
Media house Deccan Chronicle won the Hyderabad chapter of the IPL for $107 million, while India Cements’ Chennai franchise cost $91 million.
Bollywood also made its presence felt with two of its leading stars bagging the ownership of their respective teams – Shah Rukh Khan and Juhi Chawla’s Red Chillies Entertainment buying out Kolkata for $75.09, while Preity Zinta and her beau Ness Wadia bought the Mohali team for $76 million.
Infrastructure development group GMR bagged the ownership of the Delhi team for $84 million and the Emerging Media, consisting of its CEO Fraser Castellino, Manoj Badale and Lachlan Murdoch and other investors won the rights for the Jaipur franchise for $67 million.
The maiden edition of IPL had eight teams comprising a minimum of 16 players each. The tournament lasted for 44 days and involved 59 matches.
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Royal Challengers Bangalore: Rahul Dravid named the captain and Venkatesh Prasad made the coach of the team.
Kings XI Punjab: Yuvraj Singh named the captain with Tom Moddy as the coach of the team.
Chennai Super Kings: Mahendra Singh Dhoni named the captain and Kepler Wessels became the coach.
Kolkata Knight Riders: Sourav Ganguly named the captain and John Buchanan became the coach.
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It is a cumbersome, lengthy and often depressing process. That is where we come in. We can still approach festivals directly on your behalf and also individual distributors. With more than on your behalf, we produce marketing materials (posters, trailers, prints etc.), book and pay for your advertising (depending on your resources this can be a vast expenditure or a single ad on the day of release in a major national newspaper). Our own specialist PR personnel ensure the national film press (print and online) see your film in advance and write about it/review it on the day of your release. Reviews are free advertising and a good one is a huge aid to getting your film into cinemas. We also help you out with the certification and classification of your film from the Censor Board.
Selling the film to cinemas can be a tough job. We need to convince the distributors that your film should be chosen over the other 10-15 or so releases opening every week. This is a combination of communicating what is great about your film, but also convincing exhibitors that your film will have the visibility it needs to find an audience. This visibility comes from advertising, festival exposure, reviews, word of mouth on preview screenings and is one of the hardest things to secure and to convince others.
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At IFS, we don’t just acquire rights to your film but we become your representative in order to find the largest possible audience for your film. In order to do that, we develop tailor-made strategies suiting your film’s need.
To get your film out front we've got the determination required to infiltrate the most influential programmers and platforms in the world.
We negotiate contracts on your behalf, seeking the best possible license fees in each individual market and working with distributors to find creative solutions reach wider audiences.
We negotiate contents directly and avoid aggregator. Our direct relationships with platforms like Netflix, iTunes, Amazon and more, allow us to present and prepare your content without a third party intervention in the process.
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Maple Leaf Second Story Addition: Seattle, WA
Maple Leaf Addition:
Contempory addition to a 1940's Bungalow
Incl. Kitchen, Dining, Office and M.BR Bath
This Second Story addition transformed a modest 1940's urban bungalow that lacked in space and design appeal into an attractive, family-centric home.
The lower floors were gutted and re-designed to feature a new kitchen, bath and family space. The upper floor houses a Master BR suite and second child's room.
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Nominees: Toys Battle for Hall of Fame Spot
Whimsical ode to a dozen classic playthings -- from paper airplanes to Hot Wheels -- contending for museum recognition (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, NY is home to the National Toy Hall of Fame, which to date has inducted 41 toys. Honorees include classics both generic (kite) and commercial (Raggedy Ann).
On the eve of the selection of three new permanent entrants, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle offers a lighthearted video ode to the dozen contenders. They range from the generic (paper airplane, playing cards, balls, sidewalk chalk, the toy tea set) to the commercial (Big Wheel, Cabbage Patch Kids, Game of Life, Hot Wheels, Nintendo Game Boy, Rubik’s Cube, and Transformers).
While this video lacks a narrative or even characters, its playful tone and style — and even the energized background instrumental music track — are perfectly suited for the subject matter. Because a toy must be at least 20 years old for consideration, the video also serves as an exercise in nostalgia.
CHANNEL: Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle
Video by Will Yurman
Toy Hall of Fame inductees to be chosen this week
A series of 60-second videos celebrate city sights and sounds, from a night of bikeracing to a day at the beach to practicing Parkour. (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
Seniors Share Their Stories, Hopes and Dreams
As they graduate, 26 students from five high schools reflect upon their parents' influences, career goals, and future lives. (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
Top musicians from around the world descend on Rochester, NY for its annual 9-day music festival. A series of multimedia portraits. (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
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Aged riverine particulate organic carbon in four UK catchments
Adams, Jessica L.; Tipping, Edward; Bryant, Charlotte L.; Helliwell, Rachel C.; Toberman, Hannah; Quinton, John. 2015 Aged riverine particulate organic carbon in four UK catchments. Science of the Total Environment, 536. 648-654. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.06.141
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.06.141
The riverine transport of particulate organic matter (POM) is a significant flux in the carbon cycle, and affects macronutrients and contaminants. We used radiocarbon to characterise POM in 9 rivers of four UK catchments (Avon, Conwy, Dee, Ribble) over a one-year period. High-discharge samples were collected on three or four occasions at each site. Suspended particulate matter (SPM) was obtained by centrifugation, and the samples were analysed for carbon isotopes. Concentrations of SPM and SPM organic carbon (OC) contents were also determined, and were found to have a significant negative correlation. For the 7 rivers draining predominantly rural catchments, PO14C values, expressed as percent modern carbon absolute (pMC), varied little among samplings at each site, and there was no significant difference in the average values among the sites. The overall average PO14C value for all 7 sites of 91.2 pMC corresponded to an average age of 680 14C years, but this value arises from the mixing of differently-aged components, and therefore significant amounts of organic matter older than the average value are present in the samples. Although topsoil erosion is probably the major source of the riverine POM, the average PO14C value is appreciably lower than topsoil values (which are typically 100 pMC). This is most likely explained by inputs of older subsoil OC from bank erosion, or the preferential loss of high-14C topsoil organic matter by mineralisation during riverine transport. The significantly lower average PO14C of samples from the River Calder (76.6 pMC), can be ascribed to components containing little or no radiocarbon, derived either from industrial sources or historical coal mining, and this effect is also seen in the River Ribble, downstream of its confluence with the Calder. At the global scale, the results significantly expand available information for PO14C in rivers draining catchments with low erosion rates.
particulate organic carbon, radiocarbon, rivers, soils
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Largs Sailing Club
The Club was founded in 1936 and was originally located within the old Marine and Curlinghall Hotel buildings in John Street - above the old stables/garage adjacent to Hill Street. It relocated from there across John Street to a "purpose built" property consisting of old stable buildings that were re-configured to contain a Galley, Bar, Dance/Social area and of course shower/changing areas. Ground to the immediate east of the building was used for members to work on their boats and as a temporary boat storage area (most members had their dinghies on a dedicated space on the Broomfields Esplanade, at Cairnies Quay, which was rebuilt and widened in the late 1960's). All this development work was dependent on a Scottish Office Grant, awarded in 1964. Offshore from Cairnies Quay were several mooring trots, which in their heyday had somewhere over 75 keel and motor boats swinging from them.
There are a few photos from Cairnies Quay here.
By the mid/late 90's, these buildings were becoming increasingly difficult to maintain, and keep water-tight and thoughts turned to moving into a new purpose built facility. By this time, most of the keelboat members had taken their boats into the Marina which had by then been open for more than 10 years. The services and facilities on the site had grown and the owners (Yacht Havens Group) were keen to have us relocate there and made several offers to encourage this move. After several proposals were evaluated and designs submitted, the RYA made an offer to support a Lottery application - if the Clubhouse was large enough to host large National and International dinghy regattas. After much discussion and votes, it was decided to sell the existing Clubhouse and build a brand new Clubhouse and dedicated slipway on the Marina site.
The New Club House
Work started in late 1998 and progressed through spring and early summer, with the substantial scale of the building becoming evident as soon as the foundations and concrete base were laid. There were problems with both funding and construction, as would perhaps be expected from any project of this nature. At the time, this Scottish Lottery project was second only to the Hampden Park stadium development in cost and facility. Some large measure of credit is due to all those involved in the development, which was not without a level of stress that tested our then Committee.
The building was completed in July 1999, being opened on a nice sunny day by Sir Chay Blyth. It was barely in time for our very first event, Celtfest 1999. Boats were here from all the Celtic population centres, including those from Brittany. This imposing building was put to the test right from day one. Since then, Largs has established and earned its reputation as Scotland's National Sailing Centre, well able to stage Regatta Events up to and including World Championships. The highlight (to date) being Host Club to the 2010 Laser Radial World Championships, which saw over 550 competitors from 57 Countries here over a period of 3 weeks. Thankfully, they were not all here at the same time!
The outlook views from our Lounge and balcony must be amongst the best in Scotland. Most visitor jaws drop when they walk past the Bar area and see the Isles of Cumbrae, Arran and Bute in panorama, right in front of them. With the main race area in the Largs/Cumbrae channel before them, they can keep half an eye on their family competitor - with the other half eye on the surrounding scenery. Bar and Restaurant facilities are also available, with members also able to use the facility for functions by arrangement.
Right now, there are no plans to relocate to any other place - why would we want to?
Article in local paper re founding of Largs SC in 1936 141.58 KB
LSC membership yearbook - 1970 1.77 MB
Some historic information, 1936 on 1.49 MB
Memories afternoon 25.10.16 - 80 years! 531.35 KB
Cairnie’s Quay History 537.39 KB
Largs Yacht Haven
Irvine Road
KA30 8EZ
Tel Office: 01475 670000
Tel Lookout Lounge: 01475 670022
Email: secretary@largssc.co.uk, or use the Contact Form
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Every May, party-loving Yale College seniors decamp en masse to South Carolina during the gap between finals and graduation. This year, the best estimate is that several hundred Yalies colonized North Myrtle Beach—the destination of choice—for a retreat of tanning and boozing.
Jessie Gladin-Kramer
Days were filled with beach time and the occasional dip in the hot tub. At night, it was greasy seafood at the Duffy Street Seafood Shack and dancing until 4 a.m. in the Spanish Galleon, a local club. (The Yalies, in homage to New Haven’s Toad’s, like to call it “Spoad’s.”)
For a few days, seniors partied and reminisced. Then it was back to New Haven for commencement—and on to whatever was coming next.
Vol LXXIV, No 6
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