Variations in duration and composition of the excitable gap around the tricuspid annulus during typical atrial flutter.
Differences in the duration of the excitable gap along the reentry circuit during typical atrial flutter are poorly known. To prospectively evaluate and compare the duration and composition of the excitable gap during typical counterclockwise atrial flutter in different parts of the circuit all around the tricuspid annulus. The excitable gap was determined by introducing a premature stimulus at various sites around the tricuspid annulus during typical counterclockwise atrial flutter in 34 patients. Excitable gap was calculated as the difference between the longest resetting coupling interval and the effective atrial refractory period. The duration of the excitable gap, the effective atrial refractory period and the resetting coupling interval differed significantly along theclaimants. The parties agree that the homestead exemption statute provides for retroactive application.

Conclusions Of Law
The issue before the Court concerns the constitutionality of the homestead exemption statute. It is InterFirst's and American's contention that Section 41.001, et seq., of the Texas Property Code Annotated violates the Contract Clause of the United States Constitution. They argue that the retroactive application of this statute affects and impairs the enforcement of their notes against Donald Lee Barnhart and destroys their vested property interests in the Barnhart's homestead. It is their position that when the loans were reduced to judgments and abstracted, their liens became vested property rights. American and InterFirst seek to share in a pro-rata basis with the mortgage lienholder and the home improvement lienholder, United Savings, in the non-exempt


portion of the Barnhart's lot. The Barnharts argue that the one-acre homestead exemption is constitutional, and, therefore, that InterFirst and American must satisfy their judgment liens from the property in excess of the one acre exemption after the United Saving's liens are extinguished. The Court is in accord with the arguments presented by the Barnharts and, hereby rules for the Debtors.
The bankruptcy courts must resort to state law for interpretation of state exemption rights in homesteads. COLLIER ON BANKRUPTCY, VOLUME 3, ¶ 522.23 (15 ed. 1984). In Texas, a homestead is defined and prescribed by Article XVI, Section 51 of the Texas Constitution. It sets forth the applicable Texas homestead exemption and provides in pertinent part:

*280 "The homestead, not in a town or city, shall consist of notmore than two hundred acres of land, which may be in one or more parcels, with the improvements thereon; the homestead in a city, town or village shall consist of a lot or lots amounting to not more than one acre of land, together with any improvements on the land." Tex.Const. Art. XVI, Section 51.
Article XVI, Section 51 of the Texas Constitution was amended in 1983 as a result of House Joint Resolution 105 passed by the Texas House of Representatives on April 14, 1983, and approved by the Texas Senate on May 1, 1983. It was approved by Texas voters on November 8, 1983. The 1983 constitutional amendment of the Texas homestead exemption was codified in the recently enacted Texas Property Code. Texas Prop.Code Ann. § 41.001


(Vernon 1984). That codification is a result of the passage of House Bill No. 2006 amending Article 3833(a) from a $10,000 exemption provision for urban homesteads to a one acre exemption, including any improvements. A significant change provided by Section 41.001 of the Property Code is that it authorized the application of the one acre homestead exemption "to all homesteads in this state regardless of the dates they were created". Tex.Prop.Code Ann. § 41.001 (Vernon 1984). The plain language of Section (c) of Article 41.001 of the Texas Property Code clearly provides for retroactive application of the one acre homestead exemption to all homesteads in Texas whatever the date of homestead designation.
InterFirst and American argue tht the retroactive application of the one acre exemption to all homesteads, regardlessof the dates they were created, is violative of Article I, Section 10 of the United States Constitution. To support their position, they refer the Court to two United States Supreme Court cases, Gunn v. Barry, 15 Wall 610, 21 L.Ed. 212 (1872) and Edward v. Kearzey, 6 Otto 595, 96 U.S. 595, 24 L.Ed. 793 (1878). These two cases involved state legislative and state constitutional enactments that increased homestead exemptions in Georgia and North Carolina, respectively. In each case, state laws exempted from sale, under execution, part of the debtor's property which was not so exempt at the time the debts were contracted. The Supreme Court held, in both cases, that Georgia and North Carolina by increasing the homestead exemptions impaired substantial rights in pre-existing contracts, violated


"vital interests of its citizens". Clearly, the Simmons Court established that the state has the ability to modify contractual obligations provided that it is consistent with the fair intent of the constitutional limitations of that power. To the extent that the amendments to the Texas homestead exemption protects the vital interests of citizens of this state, is remedial in nature, has a broad basis of underlying public policy and is consistent with the tradition of liberal construction of Texas exemption laws, the Simmons case supports the retroactive application of the 1983 homestead amendment and establishes that such retroactive application does not run afoul of the Contract Clause of the United States Constitution.
InterFirst and American refer the Court to a recent United States Supreme Court case, United States v.an amendment expanding the homestead exemption was not violative of the Contract Clause of the United States Constitution. In re Wenner, 39 B.R. 288 (Bankr.W.D. Wash.1984). In Wenner, the trustee sought to deny enforcement of a judgment lien against the debtor's homestead and to apply the recently enacted Washington homestead law that provided retroactive and automatic declaration. In that case, the court found that the new homestead amendment was remedial legislation and that if retrospective application supported the remedial purpose, it was not violative of the Contracts Clause of the United States Constitution. Id. at 293. The remedial purpose of any homestead exemption being the protection and provision of a shelter for each family residing within the boundaries of the state. In reaching its decision, the court distinguished


Quadrigeminal cyst management by cystoperitoneal shunt in a 4-year-old Persian cat.
Quadrigeminal cysts represent intracranial cystic accumulations of cerebrospinal fluid within the arachnoid mater at the level of the quadrigeminal cistern. Quadrigeminal cysts are rare in cats, with only one previous report in the veterinary literature. A 4-year-old, male-neutered Persian cat was presented with a 1-year duration of initially episodic, but later progressive, obtundation and collapse. Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain revealed a quadrigeminal cyst with marked compression of the adjacent neural structures, cerebellar herniation and obstructive hydrocephalus. Cystoperitoneal shunt placement was performed after the cat became refractory to medical therapy and this resulted in return of normal neurological status. The improvement in the neurological deficits following placement of a cystoperitoneal shunt in this case appeared to beNew York center Joakim Noah would like more playing time. Knicks coach Jeff Hornacek would rather not give it to him. He’ll apparently even physically hold him back if he needs to.

According to the New York Daily News, during an argument last month between Hornacek and Noah, the two got into a shoving match that was allegedly started by the coach. It’s just the latest twist in what has been an unending drama lately for New York basketball fans.

Noah has appeared in just seven games with the Knicks this season, logging an average of 5.7 minutes per contest to the tune of 12 points and 14 rebounds total. This comes after a season in which Noah averaged 22 minutes, five points and nearly nine rebounds per game. So


Michael & Louise Flick

Re: Michael & Louise Flick

Wow! These clippings are phenomenal. Thank you so much. I never knew how Christoph died, and I had given up finding Mike's and Christoph's sister, Elizabeth, and you found her for me. It also appears Christoph may have married again. His first wife, Barbara, died around 1910, and his second wife, Anna, died in 1926 according to the tombstone in Regina Cemetery. There is another Anna Flick there but I didn't know who she was. She died around 1955. All I knew about Elizabeth was she had married a man named Schmidt and had one son, John. How can I ever thank you! May I ask how you were able to find these articles?of Brown's friends emerged from the store, and a general melee ensued. At some time during this encounter, Brown produced a knife, cutting one man across the chest and slashing the victim's throat. The victim was severely injured, requiring extensive surgery and approximately three weeks in the hospital. The victim testified that he did not know Brown, that he had never met him, and that he took no part in the fight until he was attacked by Brown's friends.
Brown testified and acknowledged that he stabbed the victim, but he insisted that it was accidental. According to Brown, he saw Koolaid and the victim emerge from a van and approach him slowly. Brown told his friends to leave because he believed that Koolaid and the victim were going to


attack him. He took his knife out because he thought they were armed. Koolaid then attacked him, and the victim attacked one of Brown's friends. Brown stated that in the confusion he was unable to put his knife away. More men emerged from the van, the knife fell out of Brown's hand when he hit someone, and as he tried to retrieve it, he was set upon by "about fifteen" people and knocked to the ground. As they were all hitting him, he "came up swinging" and accidentally struck the victim with the knife. Brown also testified that his life had been threatened by Koolaid and some of his associates.
A police officer testified concerning statements made by Brown after he voluntarily came to the police station and wasgiven Miranda warnings. Brown told the officer that he was attacked by Koolaid and the victim, that he had taken the knife out "to get ready" as he saw them approaching, and that he "just started punching ... not remembering or not realizing that he had the weapon in his hand." According to the officer, Brown told him that he and Koolaid had quarreled over a girl, that they were in rival gangs, and that Koolaid had threatened to kill him. Brown, however, denied that the altercation was gang-related, insisting that he and Koolaid merely had quarreled "about some girl."
In essence, Brown attacks the credibility of the testimony against him, asserting that in light of the threats against him he acted in self-defense. But
[a]n appellate court does not


the trial court had the obligation to prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, and once again we consider the general grounds despite this misapprehension of the law.
Construed to support the verdict, the evidence shows that the victim was walking home from a church function when he was approached by a group of teenagers. They punched and kicked him and threw him into a ditch before fleeing the scene when someone turned on a porch light. He continued toward his house, and three of the assailants returned, including Brown and Sanders. They attacked him again, punching and kicking him. At some point, the victim realized that he was "all bloodied up" and saw Sanders with a bloody knife in his hand. The three assailants told him, "Go aheadget up now," and let him go. Brown followed the victim for some distance and told him, "We let you live so I don't want you telling on my boy, now. Because we know where you live, we know where your mother lives."
While the victim initially told the police that he did not know who attacked him, he explained that he was reluctant to talk to the police because Brown had threatened his mother. The victim's mother testified that she tried to convince the victim to identify his attackers but that he feared for her life. After yet another confrontation between the victim and Brown, Brown was stabbed, and the victim was charged and ultimately pled guilty to aggravated assault. After this, the victim testified, he decided to


President Donald Trump has approved the construction of a new U.S.-Mexico pipeline that will go "right under" the controversial border wall.

According to The Hill, the New Burgos Pipeline will carry up to 108,000 barrels per day of refined petroleum products per day and cross the border between McAllen, Texas and Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The project is a joint venture between NuStar Energy LP and PMI, an affiliate of Mexico's state-owned oil and gas company Petroléos Mexicanos.

Trump made the remarks during his speech at the Department of Energy's "Unleashing American Energy" event on Thursday. Vice President Mike Pence, Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke, Energy Sec. Rick Perry and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt also stood on stage with the president.

"[The pipeline] will further boost American energy exports, andthat will go right under the wall, right?" Trump said, as he glanced over to his cabinet members and made a swooping motion underneath the imaginary structure with his arm. Some in the audience clapped and laughed at the gesture.

"We have to dig down a little deeper under that section," he added.

Trump's 17-minute speech centered around the theme of America's "energy dominance." But as Newsweek reported, he did not once mention the rapidly growing renewable energy sector, not even his now-infamous "solar" border wall proposal. Rather, he touted "clean, beautiful coal," reducing restrictions on natural gas, and expanding offshore oil and gas development. He dismissed concerns about fossil fuels as "a big beautiful myth" and "fake."

Additionally, POTUS touted his executive order to push the Keystone XL and Dakota


"Selling off our seas for short-term profits is a bad deal for Americans, wildlife and our changing climate."

Lena Moffitt, senior director of the Sierra Club's Our Wild America Campaign, had similar sentiments.

"Expanding drilling off our shores would put our coastal communities' health, economic well-being, and environment at risk, and continue to ignore the impacts of climate change across the nation," Moffitt said. "Opposition to this administration's polluter-friendly agenda will only grow as they take yet another step to prioritize oil and gas industry profits over the health and safety of the American people."

Greenpeace USA's senior research specialist Tim Donaghy said, "Trump is kidding himself if he thinks opening up the Arctic and Atlantic to offshore drilling is going to be easy."

"People in this country demanded that President Obamaagency need police powers without the attendant accountability? As the Globe and Mail editorialised, the bill enables CSIS and law enforcement to target anything its political masters label behind closed doors as a threat. Indeed, Greenpeace even pointed to a leaked RCMP report that called anti-pipeline activists as "anti-Canadian petroleum movement". Moreover, CSIS' own documents reveal that they now deem "sympathisers" as threats as well.

The radical restructuring of CSIS into a "kinetic" service while its oversight has been dissolved or starved of resources is troubling. A core maxim of national security is "trust but verify". Given the powerful and secretive nature of the entities involved, this is an almost impossible task as it is. As retired former CSIS chief of counterintelligence, Geoffrey O'Brian, noted, "fundamental changes are occurring


are most required, the general public is all the more willing to sacrifice liberty and fundamental rights in pursuit of security.

An interesting footnote, most of the people polled acknowledged that they had only heard about the bill. Certainly, hearing about it does not make an informed voter.

As Supreme Court Justice William J Brennan noted, after each perceived crisis ended, Americans remorsefully realised that the civil liberties violations were unnecessary, but proved "unable to prevent itself from repeating the error…"

It may be worthwhile for Canadians to ponder on this as the bill continues through the legislative process.

Faisal Kutty is an assistant professor at Valparaiso University Law School in Indiana and an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in Toronto.

The views expressed in this article area political rival for payback? That's not just petty, it's a stupid act of hubris.

Political culture, like office culture, is determined at the top.

Perhaps it is time to examine bullying at its granular level and admit that there are certain types that are more palpable and forgivable than others.

We didn't mind Steve Jobs being a bully. He was legendary in his verbal violence, lobbed at any employee who didn't measure up to his intellectual firepower. He belittled. He condescended. He rarely showed appreciation or compassion. He was what I call a Yell-ow Bull. Unless you were thick-skinned and confident in your abilities, working for him would be a form of daily torture.

But the Apple entrepreneur was given a pass -- at least by the public -- because he


felt toxic but wasn't universally life-threatening -- except, of course, for Christie's political career.
For a long time, many didn't mind Gov. Christie's forceful personality and the way he threw his considerable weight around New Jersey. It was always packaged as a speak-from-the-gut ethos. At press conferences, he fired back rebuttals that weren't polite but pulverizing, as a Mother Jones reporter revealed in a compilation of clips. Christie even called a former Navy SEAL an idiot for criticizing his education policies.
The problem with the bully debate over Gov. Christie is that his bullying was compared to Republican politics and not the generally accepted standard of fair behavior.
I have often thought that Christie was the Lou Costello of the Republican party, bullied and dismissed by the more polished debonair Abbott,American TV going out of business

MILWAUKEE -- American TV has announced the closing of all of its locations across southeast Wisconsin. The store chain will have a going out of business sale starting February 20th.

American TV has filed for Chapter 128, a move that would protect the company from its creditors. The company says they gave advanced notice to their 989 employees working at their eleven locations. The majority of employees will continue working through the chain's closing process.

In their statement, American pointed out all extended warranty policies purchased by customers will remain valid through a third-party company.

During their going out of business sale, American says they will honor gift cards and provide refunds to customers who cannot redeem them. The company also said it will either deliver


longitudinal and transverse imaging planes of the common carotid artery 8 mm proximal to the bifurcation, at the height of the flow divider. Intima media thickness was measured at end diastole as the distance from the leading edge of the second bright line of the far wall (lumen-intima interface) to the leading edge of the second bright line (media-adventitia interface); for the near wall, the best estimate of the IMT is the distance between the trailing edge of the first bright line and the trailing edge of the second bright line. Values used for statistical analyses were defined as the average of near and far wall measurements of both the right and the left common carotid arteries. Thus, average IMTs represent the mean from all individual measurements. Study participantsConstruction takes place on a 32-metre high statue of the late Chairman Mao Zedong in his youth

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Construction takes place on a 32-metre high statue of the late Chairman Mao Zedong in his youth, in Changsha, central China's Hunan province on November 3, 2009. China recently marked the 115th anniversary of the birth of revolutionary Mao Zedong, commemorating the 'Great Helmsman', who founded the People's Republic in 1949 and served as China's leader until his death in 1976.

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who was just 15 at the time, was brought to Desjarlais by her concerned mother who thought he might be able to help her work through various emotional issues stemming from a childhood sexual assault, court was told.

Instead, Desjarlais began preying on the girl by forcing her to remove clothing and submit to various sexual acts under the guise of trying to help her. Desjarlais told the girl that "something bad would happen to her" if she told anyone what happened. She was described as "intellectually challenged" in court and appearing and acting much younger than her age.

The teen eventually disclosed the abuse to friends, who told her mother. Police were contacted and Desjarlais was arrested and charged with sexual assault and sexual interference.

Desjarlais has always maintained hisTHREE PEOPLE WERE stabbed at a Swedish House Mafia concert in the southern English town of Milton Keynes last night.

The incident happened during the concert at the Milton Keynes Bowl just after 6pm yesterday according to local police and came exactly a week after violence marred the electronic dance group’s performance in Phoenix Park.

A total of 11 people were stabbed, and two people died from drug overdoes at the group’s concert in Dublin last weekend with dozens arrested during the course of the day.

In a statement Thames Valley Police said that it appeared a fight broke out in the main arena at 6.15pm with three people receiving stabbing injuries.

One of the men, 23, sustained a punctured lung and is currently in hospital. Another, 24, received a cut to


Silesian Association of Native Culture (Schlesische Gesellschaft für Vaterländische Cultur) and, until 1945, it was housed on Tamka Island, Wrocław. It developed independently from the other botanical collections, but following the Second World War, it was merged with the main part of the herbarium.

Many distinguished botanists have worked in the WRSL herbarium (Museum of Natural History, University of Wrocław, Poland, in Polish: Zielnik WRSL), including the directors or curators of Wrocław's botany collections, for example, Ludolf Christian Treviranus (1821--1830), Christian Gottfried Nees von Esenbeck (1830--1852), Heinrich Robert Goeppert (1852--[@B7]), Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler (1884--1889), Ferdinand Cohn (1884--1893) and Ferdinand Pax sen. (1893--1927). The Herbarium Silesiacum was curated by Julius Milde (1865--1870), Gustav Wilhelm Körber (1871--1885), Rudolf von Uechtritz (1886), Theodor Schube (1890--1929) and Emil Schalow (1930--1944) ([@B28]).

Professor H.R.Goeppert expanded the botany collections and established the Botanical Museum (Botanisches Museum) in 1853 ([@B26]). The first known catalogue of the Museum ([@B7]) included 26 different collections, including the Herbarium of the World, the Herbarium Silesiacum, the Herbarium Mycologicum, a wood collection and several fruit and seed sets. Goeppert also opened another museum in 1878 -- The Museum of the Botanical Garden ([@B16]). In 1888, all these several botanical collections belonging to the University were moved to a building that is today located at 6/8 Kanonia Street. However, they still consisted of two separate collections (the Botanical Museum in charge of Prof. Cohn and collections of the Herbarium and the Museum of the Botanical Garden in charge of Prof. Engler). Due to the efforts of Prof. Engler, a


private Silesian plant collection assembled by Rudolf von Uechtritz was purchased at this time and M. Winkler donated his herbarium to the Museum, which he had compiled for 30 years ([@B28]).

At the end of nineteenth century, Ferdinand Pax (the elder) merged all the University botanical collections under the name of the Botanical Museum. His own collections were also included in the Museum at this time. Before merging, von Uechtritz's herbarium of Silesian plants was handed over to the Herbarium Silesiacum (then still independent) on his initiative. In exchange for Uechtritz's herbarium, the Botanical Museum later received the Herbarium Henschelianum (part of the Herbarium Silesiacum) with ca. 100,000 sheets.

As a result of these mergers and gifts, the Wrocław herbarium had acquired an extensive and significant collection of specimens fromEurope (especially the Mediterranean) and the rest of the world. These were collected by botanists such as Hubert Winkler (a student of F. Pax the elder) in East Africa, Cameroon, Java, Sumatra and Borneo. In 1938, a collection of ca. 50,000 herbarium sheets (including numerous types) was donated to the Museum by Carl Adolf Georg Lauterbach, who travelled extensively in New Guinea and Melanesia. By 1914, the Herbarium had 540,000 sheets which, by 1939, had grown to ca. 600,000 sheets ([@B28]; [@B26]). The oldest and most valuable collections of the Herbarium Silesiacum were those made by H.G. Mattuschka (1776 and 1779), A.J. Krocker (1787, 1790, 1814, 1823), A. Henschel (1830), a herbarium of fungi assembled by W.G. Schneider and an old herbarium of Paolo (Silvio) Boccone, a Cistercian


monk, who moved to Wrocław in 1694 and donated his herbarium that consisted mainly of Mediterranean plants ([@B25]; [@B19]). This herbarium is not mentioned by [@B22], but is the oldest plant collection of a scientific nature in Poland. In 1935, the Herbarium Silesiacum housed over 80,000 sheets ([@B26]).

In autumn 1944, during the Second World War, German authorities evacuated all university botanical collections from Wrocław. The Herbarium Generale (combination of the various merged herbaria) was then located in Piotrowice castle near Kąty Wrocławskie (ca. 43 km S.W. of Wrocław), the Herbarium Lauterbachi in Siedlęcin near Jelenia Góra (ca. 95 km W. of Wrocław) and the other botanical sets in the garrison church in Oleśnica near Wrocław (ca. 27 km N.E. of Wrocław), which were unfortunately lost in a fire.The Herbarium Silesiacum was lodged, in turn, in the attic of one of the primary schools in south Wrocław (in the Tarnogaj district); however, it was not protected from destruction and the dusty and damp collection was rediscovered after the war unbound, mixed together with litter and broken glass ([@B28]; [@B26]).

Shortly after the war, Polish authorities failed to discover traces of herbarium sets in the dilapidated buildings -- these were found in the Piotrowice castle, Siedlęcin and south Wrocław only in 1946--1947, but only the Herbarium Lauterbachi was salvaged undamaged. The recovered collections were entrusted to Prof. Józef Mądalski, who was invited to Wrocław from Lviv (former Poland, now in the Ukraine). The war had damaged many of the specimens and repairs were successfully undertaken by Polish botanists.


[@B19] assessed the war damage in both herbaria (i.e. Herbarium Generale and Herbarium Silesiacum) as, after the war, only 200,000 herbarium sheets were discovered out of 600,000 that belonged to the University in 1939, together with 30,000 herbarium sheets from the former Herbarium Silesiacum which, in 1939, housed 80,000 sheets (it was confirmed then that the oldest Silesian flora sets of H.G. Mattuschka and A.J. Krocker had been destroyed).

Currently, the collections are estimated to contain over 515,000 sheets, including ca. 410,000 vascular plants, 27,000 bryophytes, 38,400 fungi and myxomycetes, 27,000 lichens and 12,600 algae ([@B15]; K. Świerkosz, pers. comm., 2019). The herbarium WRSL has had a turbulent history and has enormous importance in the botanical history of Poland.

The aim of this investigation was to assess the value ofisolated Hibbing home via the knobs and dials of his radio set. When he began playing in the 1950s, rock and roll was his thing, Little Richard was his idol, and live covers of Jenny, Jenny, Ready Teddy, and Lawdy, Miss Clawdy were the order of the day. When he arrived in Minneapolis, essentially to attend college, he quickly traded his electric guitar for a Martin acoustic and set about learning to play every traditional, blues and Woody Guthrie number he could unearth. This material would become the cornerstone of live gigs during his apprenticeship around the folk clubs of New York’s Greenwich Village, and it was from these songs that his own greatest compositions would be born.

Using Barker’s words as evidence, one could easily deduce that Dylan


the “artwork…filled with inspiring political messages, surrealistic flourishes, and deeply moving meditations” but that certainly does not entitle him to authorship over this work of spellbinding original art.

It is well-known that the gifted Dylan is a difficult and controlling public persona so one cannot help but wonder if his endorsement of the unique project came at the cost of overshadowing the artists involved in the creation of the book, keeping the focus entirely centered on the man and his lyrics.

As much as I admire Dylan—his music forms a virtual soundtrack to my life—this promising book reeks of a vanity project that seeks to downplay the artistic contributions of others while further promoting an artist who needs no further promotion and who most certainly did not arrive at his"(DOOR OPENS)" "(JAZZ MUSIC)" "(WOMEN SCREAM)" "Chet Baker." "Come on." "Give us a smile." " (EXCITED CHATTER)" " Are you coming to the show?" "Who do you like better, me or Miles Davis?" "MC:" "We're proud to present the man voted number one in the nation for both trumpet and vocals." "All the way from the sunny shores of California." "The James Dean of jazz, the Prince of Cool." "The man Time magazine credits with inventing West Coast swing." "(APPLAUSE)" "That's right, folks." "And he's here playing a double bill with our very own" "Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie!" "(APPLAUSE)" "Making his Birdland debut, Chet Baker and his quartet!" "(CHEERING)" "It's going to be great." "It's going to be great." " How do I look?" " Perfect." "(CHEERING


Sunday, October 30, 2016

There are 69,470,686 registered Catholics in the United States (22% of the US
population) as of 2015, according to the American bishops’ count in their
Official Catholic Directory 2014. A Pew Forum report counted only
50.9 million adult Catholics as of 2014, forming about 20.8% of the U.S.
population. This is down from 54.3 million and 23.9% in 2007 (Note, this survey
did not include children under 18). How does one account for the discrepancies
between the Pew survey and the bishops’ tally? Certainly the bishops counted
children under 18 in their statistics, which comes from a census done in most
parishes every October, the so-called October count. I have never known a
priest to under count the house.

When
considering the closing of churches, most of us assume that to lose population
in a parish isto be at risk. The survey also found that the Catholic
population is aging. There is a higher percentage of the elderly than the
young. In addition, young people who are raised Catholic are much more prone to
leave the Church than are the elderly, Hispanics are particularly prone to
leaving the Church when they migrate to this country, abandoning it not for
atheism, but for Evangelical and Pentecostal forms of Christianity. In 2007,
58% of Hispanics in the United States identified as Catholic.

In
2015, less than half of Hispanics (48%) in the US identify as Catholic. These
numbers are pretty grim. My own take is far grimmer than that of the Pew
survey. People who self-identify as Catholics divorce and re-marry at the same
rate as non-Catholics. They abort the child in the womb at the same


Common Good in
order to organize Catholic opposition to Church teaching, particularly about
gender issues and abortion. Apparently these faithful Catholics think that the
Church oppresses women. One of these liberators of women from the shackles of
Catholic medievalism is one Eric McFadden. Allow me to quote the Catholic news
agency:

Dublin,
Ohio, Jan 14, 2009 / 09:22 pm (CNA). -

The
former director of the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives for the governor of
Ohio was arrested Wednesday for his involvement in an online prostitution ring.
Eric McFadden, who has also formerly served as the president of the
organization Catholics for Faithful Citizenship and spokesperson for Catholics
in Alliance for the Common Good, will face seven prostitution-related charges
tomorrow in court. Eric McFadden, 46, the former head of the Office of
Faith-Based Initiatives for Governor of Ohio, Ted Strickland, was arrested this
morning andup in a
suburb that is now rather elegant, but when I was a child it was almost the end
of the train line to downtown. It wasn’t quite rural, but Groucho Marx and his
brothers once had a chicken farm there and we did go picking sweet corn in the
next town over, which has also become a rather pricey place to live.

Life was as it was always meant to be. We would
sit on our front porches on hot summer days, because those days were pre-air
conditioning and some of them even pre-TV! At night we would quite literally
“watch” the radio.There was one
telephone in the front hall. It was black. There was one car in the garage. It
was old. In summer, all the kids would rush out of the houses after breakfast
and


room and perhaps going outside after a big Sunday dinner to
play “ghost tag” in the twilight and maybe even catch lightning bugs.

The war had been over for a decade, but we
worried about the godless communists. Life revolved around the parish and
things deemed to be the way they were supposed to be. They were the way they
had been before the wars and the way they would always be. I had no idea that
the civilization that so valued friends, faith and family, had died 30 years before
I was born and I was just enjoying a memory, a ghost of a world that may once
actually have existed, but was now evaporating like a morning mist.

Europe and her colonies committed suicide in the
first and second world wars. The monarchs and the potentatesthrew it all away
out of greed and arrogance. Women lost their unique dignity as mothers and
teachers to become industrial wage slaves as their husbands went off to kill
and die for the glory of the cause, the nation, and the wars to end all wars. Certainly
there were sweat shops cotton mills and rural poverty and the dignity of woman
had been assailed, but what was new was that the masculinization of the world
was now a virtuous thing. The enslavement of women by the industrial revolution
was made virtuous by war. After all, everyone had to do their part for the war
effort, and mother dearest became Rosie the Riveter. The violence of a century
of war made the domestic virtues of peace seem obsolete.

Masculinity was in. Femininity was out. Women are
and always have


around 2050, it is quite possible that
the population of the world will begin to shrink, and to do so irretrievably.
When there are no children there is no economy. Economies are what allow people
to do things like eat and live in buildings. Like the pied piper of Hamlin, the
lure of wealth and power, the lure of war, and masculine aggression have stolen
all the children leaving a dying civilization of old people.

We in the Church are living in as much of a
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Petri Purho – The Amazing Flying Brothers

One of the makers of Rogue-like physics sandbox Noita, Purho is the creator of many clever experimental games. Here he remembers one he made in under a week, way back in 2007.

“One of the games I’m most proud of making is The Amazing Flying Brothers, mostly because I still enjoy playing it. It is a relatively simple game, played with one button in which you play a trapeze artist, jumping between bars, performing tricks and failing. Seeing your ragdolls face-plant is one of the simple pleasures of life. A few years later Dennis Belfrage and I made a two-player version of the game called Men On The Flying Trapeze.”

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A Sequim man faces a traffic citation and probably a lot of teasing after rear-ending a Sequim Police car in the Ninth Avenue roundabout on Thursday, Jan. 21.

The Washington State Patrol was called to investigate because a Sequim Police officer was involved.

The patrol car was driven by Sgt. Dave Campbell, who had slowed to yield the right of way to another vehicle in the roundabout when it was struck from behind, said Washington State Patrol spokeswoman Krista Hedstrom.

The driver of the other car, 70-year-old Samuel Smith, of Sequim, faces a traffic citation for following too closely, she said. No one was injured and the vehicles were not damaged, Hedstrom said.

Blood drive scheduled

A blood drive will be held from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 3,faced Commonwealth champion Scott Harrison in March 2001 with both titles at stake; Wenton was stopped in the fourth round, and subsequently retired from boxing.

He went on to work as an electrician in the gas and oil industry. He also acted as UK coordinator for the World Boxing Foundation.

Richie's brother Nigel was also a professional boxer.

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Latest news on the Children Act 1989 (Amendment) (Female Genital Mutilation) Act 2019

Following agreement by both Houses on the text of the Bill it received Royal Assent on 15 March. The Bill is now an Act of Parliament (law).

Summary of the Children Act 1989 (Amendment) (Female Genital Mutilation) Act 2019

A Bill to amend the Children Act 1989 to state that proceedings under Section 5A of, and Schedule 2 to, the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 are family proceedingsCarlton Reid, who recently published his book Roads Were Not Built For Cars, will speak about some of his historical findings at the Houses of Parliament next month, with his talk making some history of its own; the event will be jointly hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Motor Group (APPMG) and the All-Party Parliamentary Cycling Group (APPCG) – the first time that has ever happened.

Reid, executive editor of the trade website BikeBiz.com, will be speaking in the invitation-only event on 19 November about parliamentary attitudes towards motoring prior to 1905, a time when motoring had yet to become widespread.

As his book recounts, there were very close links between cycling and many early motoring pioneers, including a number of firms that would later become household names for manufacturing cars


starting out in the bicycle business.

He also highlights how many early motorists having a background of riding bikes – far removed from the depiction of “two tribes” of road users often reported nowadays.

Among parliamentarians who were early adopters of the car was John Scott-Montagu, Conservative MP for the New Forest and subsequently the 2nd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu – the family seat where his son would later establish the National Motor Museum.

Scott Montagu was the first MP to drive to the House of Commons, but previously had ridden there by bike. In 1903, he said that motorists “only wish to be included as part of the public who have the right to use the roads … No motorist has ever expressed a wish to monopolise the highways.”

The multimediaiPad edition of Reid’s book reached number one in the History category on Apples iTunes Store at the weekend.

The secretariats of both the APPCG and the APPMG are industry-funded – in the case of the former, by the UK Cycling Alliance, and the latter by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, Motorsport Industry Association and the RAC Foundation.


scene at the UN Security Council, while doing what they do best: blame any incident on “Russian aggression”, and creating yet another diplomatic stalemate in the UN, allowing jihadists to continue expanding their violent enclaves.

RT confirms that Moscow has officially thrown down the gantlet to the US:

“Russia’s Defense Ministry has cautioned the US-led coalition of carrying out airstrikes on Syrian army positions, adding in Syria there are numerous S-300 and S-400 air defense systems up and running.

Russia currently has S-400 and S-300 air-defense systems deployed to protect its troops stationed at the Tartus naval supply base and the Khmeimim airbase. The radius of the weapons reach may be “a surprise” to all unidentified flying objects, Russian Defense Ministry spokesperson General Igor Konashenkov said.”

The massacre of 106 Syrian soldiersmedia trumpeted lies around the world. The liberal democrat media trumpets lies around the world.

World order now is being torn apart by the liberal democracies. This was made explicit by Condoleeza Rice during the George W. Bush presidency when, spelling out the national security policy of her country, she said the US would not respect the sovereign rights of countries where they did not deserve to be respected in the opinion and in the interests of the US. Well, the US never did respect the rights of other countries when it did not want to respect them but here was the reality being spelled out, arrogantly and openly, for the world to hear.

The 17th century Treaty of Westphalia, guaranteeing order in the European world and still a foundation


of hope for global order, was torn up in a second. We have seen the results: countries destroyed and drone missile attacks ordered on the basis of authorization signed by the US president. What international law might say is irrelevant because this is the exceptional state.

Syria may as well not be a country with borders, sovereign rights and represented at the United Nations by the government in Damascus. There might as well not be a UN as far as Syria is concerned. It has done nothing to save Syria from this tempest of destruction and everything to enable it, in the same way that the feeble League of Nations failed to protect Spaniards, Ethiopians and Chinese from the onslaught of the fascists. There might as well be nointernational law as far as Syria is concerned.

The only country with the right to position military forces in Syria is Russia. All the others are engaged in the most tremendous violation of international law. Even distant Australia was part of the air attack outside Deir al Zor. The government apologized for the ‘mistake’ and moved on while the real story for the media was not this violation of international law, ending in the killing of 106 Syrians, but the domestic problems of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

The arch villain is the United States. It’s record as an international pirate is seamless. It lives in a permanent state of war with someone, as if this is an existential requirement. The wars began with the wars against the North American


Indians, moved on to the war against the colonial British master, then the war against the slaves, then the continuing war against Afro-Americans, then the wars exported around the world, as if the territory of the US was not big enough to contain its inherent violence, as if the belt around a bulging waistline had to be loosened. Wars shipped to Latin America, Southeast Asia and the Middle East: invasions, coups, assassination, economic destabilization and the sponsorship of theft and occupation by the Zionist colonists of Palestine. In the past decade alone the US has torn Iraq and Libya apart and is now trying to finish off Syria.

The attack outside Deir al Zor was not accidental. It was planned, it was deliberate, it was preceded by drone reconnaissanceup the pickup trucks speeding across the desert. The clouds of dust whirling up from their wheels would have been enough to give them away. The US turned a blind eye, and was therefore complicit in the seizure of these cities by the ostensible terrorist enemy. Furthermore, the attack on Syria has been in the works for decades, planned by the neo-conservatives, including Israel’s American Zionist implants, and honed and refined ever since.

Several times now, at the precise point the Syrian military was poised to liberate those areas of Aleppo infiltrated and occupied by terrorist groups, Russia and the US have declared a ‘cessation of hostilities.’ Each one has been violated by the US and its allies. This repeated disruption of an ongoing military operation has had to


be extraordinarily frustrating for Syria and its allies, Iran and Hezbollah. They either know or have to assume that as part of the greater game these are moves Putin has to make. In July he warned that the world was being pulled in an ‘irreversible direction’ by US/NATO war preparations against Russia. It is a sign of the demented state of world politics that a nuclear war can even be regarded as possible. But Putin’s conclusions would seem to be confirmed by the behavior of the US and its allies, recently manifested by Samantha Powers when she walked out of the UN Security Council just as the Soviet ambassador was about to speak and demonstrated also in the statement just released by the foreign ministers of France, Italy,equals but subjection to the US-directed world political and economic order.

The collapse of the USSR was one great victory (by default) and the incorporation of a westernized Russian satrap into the US world system would be another. Russia already has a corrupt capitalist economy, fed off by oligarchic parasites, but it also has its own history, culture and identity and as much as Putin will try to accommodate the US, these are red lines he is most unlikely to allow himself and Russia to be pushed over.

In the meantime, while this deadly game is being played out, Syria bleeds every day of the week. Its ability to resist this onslaught has been astonishing. Government, people and army have held together against the most intense attempt to destroy an


Arab government in modern times. Iraq was fatally weakened in the air war of 1991. It never recovered and was quickly knocked over when the US attacked again in 2003. Libya had no chance and had the US succeeded in getting another fig leaf from the UN Security Council, Syria would have been subjected to a far more devastating aerial attack.

Instead, frustrated and angry, the US had to settle for a war of attrition fought by Takfiri contras funded by the Gulf States and pouring into Syria from Jordan and Turkey. This has resulted in further frustration, anger and more openly expressed belligerence as with Russian help the Syrian military has slowly turned the Takfiri tide. Now only open intervention will save the grand plan, this time notjust against Syria but Russia.

In the name of its own security, having undermined Syria’s security and paving the war for the rise of the Syrian Kurdish drive for autonomy, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sent the Turkish army into Syria. This is not an ‘incursion’ but an invasion which Syria cannot resist because it is too hard pressed on too many other fronts.

The Turkish army has occupied 900 square kilometers of Syrian territory and Erdogan is talking of increasing this to 5000 square kilometers, stretching from the east to the predominantly Kurdish city of Afrin in the west. The army is also moving towards Al Bab, on the road to Aleppo.

Erdogan has asked parliament to authorize additional military action in Iraq, where his ambitions would rest on Mosul, claimed


no respect for human life, no remorse, no regrets, no morality and no ethics, just the drive to get what they want irrespective of the harm they do to other people.

We are back in the ‘devil’s decade’, Claud Cockburn’s description of the 1930s.

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Jeremy Salt taught at the University of Melbourne, at Bosporus University in Istanbul and Bilkent University in Ankara for many years, specializing in the modern history of the Middle East. Among his recent publications is his 2008 book, The Unmaking of the Middle East. A History of Western Disorder in Arab Lands (University of California Press).

Three hours of power-packed talk radio covering top news stories of the week from 21WIRE and across the media spectrum, featuring in-depth analysis and long-form interviews with guests from around theon the 23rd floor of World Trade Center Building 7, just across Vesey Street from the Twin Towers, the center — dubbed by local press at the time as “Giuliani’s bunker”– included reinforced, bulletproof, and bomb-resistant walls, its own air supply and water tank, beds, showers to accommodate 30 people, and three backup generators. It could be used to monitor all of New York’s emergency communications frequencies and was staffed 24 hours a day.

And yet, remarkably, on the morning of 9/11, neither Mayor Giuliani nor any other city personnel or police or fire department officials were in the bunker after the Twin Tower strikes.

BARRY JENNINGS: “As I told you guys before it was very, very funny. I was on my way to work and the traffic was excellent,


much to the chagrin of some of the people in the room, Lorie (Van Auken) asked some very poignant questions. “Would you have any Saudi-Amercian clients that you would like to tell us about?” and he was very uncomfortable kind of twisting and turning on the couch and then she asked, “whether he had any clients by the name of Bin-Laden?”, and he just about fell off his couch.

NEWS REPORTER: Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, stepped down from the position Friday.

Kissinger was dethroned and the commission went ahead under chairman Thomas Kean and vice chair Lee Hamilton. But while Kissinger’s appointment and resignation received all the attention, the White House was busy slipping another agent into the commission through the back door.

In January of 2003, just weeksafter Kissinger stepped down, it was quietly announced that Philip D. Zelikow would take on the role of executive director. As executive director, Zelikow picked “the areas of investigation, the briefing materials, the topics for hearings, the witnesses, and the lines of questioning for witnesses.” In effect, this was the man in charge of running the investigation itself.

So who was Philip Zelikow? The commission’s press release announcing his position described him as “a man of high stature who has distinguished himself as an academician, lawyer, author and public servant.” Although they noted his position at the University of Virginia and his previous role as executive director for the National Commission on Federal Electoral Reform, curiously missing from this brief bio are the multiple conflicts of interest that show


over the commission and began working on the predictive outline of the final report, is that he had in fact written about 9/11 and its eventual aftermath in 1998, three years before September 11th.

In an article entitled “Catastrophic Terrorism: Tackling the New Danger,” written for the Council on Foreign Relations’ Foreign Affairs in November 1998, Zelikow and co-authors Ashton Carter and John Deutsche ask readers to imagine a catastrophic act of terrorism like the destruction of the World Trade Center. “Like Pearl Harbor, the event would divide our past and future into a before and after. The United States might respond with draconian measures scaling back civil liberties, allowing wider surveillance of citizens, detention of suspects and use of deadly force. More violence could follow, either future terroristIn the year 2000 alone, NORAD scrambled fighters in response to “unknowns”–pilots who didn’t file or diverted from flight plans or used the wrong frequency–129 times.

Perhaps even more remarkable, however, is that Eberhart and NORAD offered not one, not two, not three, but four separate timelines of their complete lack of response that morning. The first, offered by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers just two days after the attacks during his confirmation hearings in the Senate, claimed that not a single fighter was scrambled to intercept any of the airliners until after the incident at the Pentagon. One week later, NORAD released a partial timeline that indicated they had in fact received advance notification about three of the planes with as much as 20


The Palestinians are the problem.”

Their official story: they were just Israeli tourists working for a moving company who had heard about the first World Trade Center strike and rushed to get a better view of the events.

BERNICE STEGERS: “They told interrogators they were working for Urban Moving, a shipping and storage firm run by an Israeli businessman, who often employed Israeli students without work permits. The men say there was an innocent explanation for what was found in the van. and their behavior on 9/11. They were, they say, ‘simply on a working holiday.’”

PAUL KURZBERG: “We heard in the news that one of the plane was crashing down the buildings and we thought it was an accident at the beginning. So, we went up to the roof ofchoose to call it), in Syria, Iraq, Libya or anywhere else.

And the super-conservative Wahhabi Islam, that outdated, freak Saudi mutant, would remain in the religious schools of the ultra-regressive Kingdom, instead of gaining ground all over Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

Secular Islam

But the West embarked on a brutal, Machiavellian path: it decided to destroy socialist Islam – that (historically) moderate, compassionate and progressive religion. It smashed once secular Egypt; it overthrew the government in socialist Iran and then in near-Communist Indonesia, implanting in all these places horrifically degenerate and fully outdated religious concepts. It used extremists to destroy healthy patriotism and socialism. Like the Brits in the 19th Century (“You can control people’s brains, while we will control your natural resources”), the West embraced Wahhabi teaching,


because it was able to guarantee full obedience, dictatorial (pro-Western) governance and oppressive feudalism.

Islam has been used and abused, manipulated and virtually stripped of its essence. The process has gone so far that two leading Iranian scholars, during my visit last-year to Tehran, declared to me: “In so many parts of the world, the West created an absolutely new religion. We don’t recognize it, anymore. It has nothing to do with Islam.”

“If the West in general and the United States in particular, left the Arab and Muslim world alone and in peace, we would most likely never see all those terrorist attacks, which are rocking the world from Indonesia to France…”

Correct. Like a naughty, spoiled and heartless child, the West, after destroying the Soviet Union, painstakingly constructed itsnew enemy – “militant Islam” – so it could continue indulging in its favorite activity, which is perpetual conflict, endless wars and plunder.

It is as simple as that.

The greatest oppressors of the Muslim people, those in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Indonesia have all been closely allied to the West. The most terrible terrorist “Muslim” organizations, from Al-Qaida to ISIS, have been created, armed and supported by the West and its cronies.

In Europe and in the United States, the “fear of terrorists” is fully exploited by the Western regime — a global class alliance of plutocrats, in actuality, with headquarters in Washington, where the main military and media muscle reside. It still clings to power mainly thanks to such fear implanted in the brains of ‘ordinary people’.And what about


the “War on Terror”? Yes, there really is such war, but the West is not the one who fights it. As this goes to print, the war against terrorism is being fought by Russia, Iran, China, Syria, Hezbollah and their allies!

The West is still closely collaborating with the terrorists. It miraculously ‘avoids targeting them’ when ‘fighting wars against them’; it financially supports some and trains others. It criticizes and antagonizes those who are actually fighting the extremist militant groups.

Extremists have been unleashed, like Rottweiler fighting dogs, against almost all progressive governments in the Middle East, but also against China and Russia. Extremist Muslims, extremist Christians, even extremist Buddhists!

In turn, the politicians in the United States are regularly supported, financially, by the regimes (including those of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain,and to the Clinton presidential library in Arkansas.

Bill Clinton agreed to the release of the list after President-elect Barack Obama nominated Hillary Clinton to become Secretary of State.

The governments of Kuwait and Qatar are also on the list, as is Saudi businessman Nasser Al-Rashid, who has close ties to the Saudi royal family. Saudi Sheikh Mohammed H. Al-Amoudi, reputed to be one of the richest men in the world, is among the donors as well. Both Saudis contributed in the $1 million to $5 million range. A group called Friends of Saudi Arabia and the Dubai Foundation appear in the same category.

As recently as on August 20th, 2016, The New York Times wrote something similar, essentially reconfirming the validity of the earlier reports, while adding many more details


been an intermediary between the former Secretary of State and pro-Saudi interests. She also negotiated financial support for Ms. Clinton from Mr. Chagouri and other individuals, organizations and businesses originating from the Middle East.

The accusations and evidence keep coming in, from different media outlets, both left wing and right wing. On August 1st, 2016, the conservative Breitbart News stated:

“Khizr Khan, the Muslim Gold Star father that the mainstream media and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have been using to criticize Donald J. Trump, has deep ties to the government of Saudi Arabia—and to international Islamist investors through his own law firm. In addition to those ties to the wealthy Islamist nation, Khan also has ties to controversial immigration programs that wealthy foreigners can use to essentially buyKagame, the Rwandese ‘butcher of Congo’, with the blood of some 10 million people on his hands. Democrat and ‘moderate’, Bill Clinton, was also responsible for the criminal bombing and destruction of socialist Yugoslavia. And so it goes…

But under Barack Obama’s rule, the last hope for an independent Middle East and the Arab world has virtually evaporated. Libya has been destroyed; the Syrian civil war was launched from Washington, London and Paris. Saudis bathed rebellious Yemen in blood using UK and US produced weapons. Virtually all ‘Arab Spring revolutions’ were infiltrated and diverted. And in Bahrain, the Shi’a majority was literally raped by Saudi Arabia and its own ruthless rulers, with British advisors standing-by.

The US and Europe have kept selling arms to the Gulf, building new military bases


Trump is now described as ‘Russia’s agent’.

This game – it is all self-serving: nothing to do with the interests of the world, or even the interests of the common ‘American people’.

For as long as the general political trend of the West does not radically change, or for as long as the West is not stopped by outside forces, perpetual wars will continue. Monstrous genocides in Africa, the destruction of entire states and regions in the Middle East, all this could easily spread to other parts of the Planet.

It is clear now that if provoked and confronted, countries like China, Russia and Iran would not hesitate to fight back. They also may fight for others – for their tortured allies.

The Western implants and their buddies, Mujahedeen/Al-Qaida, have already destroyedThe title "Carrying Fire" is taken from Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men,in which Sheriff Ed Tom Bell talks about his own father. “I had two dreams about him after he died. I don’t remember the first one all that well. But the second one it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin through the mountains of a night. Goin through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and there was snow on the ground and he rode past me and kept on goin. Never said nothing. He just rode on past and he had this blanket wrapped around him and he had his head down and when he rode past I seen that he was carryin fire


in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. About the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there.”

Sunday, February 1, 2015

My Parent's Marriage and WWII

Just engaged

My father and mother first met in Los
Angeles in the fall of 1940. Twenty three-year old Donald R.
Christensen had recently returned from a Mormon mission to Denmark
where he had been evacuated by ship just as Germany invaded that
country in 1940. Back in California he began living with his brother
Earl’s familyin Glendale and working at a defense plant for
Lockheed Aircraft in nearby Burbank. Nineteen-year-old Jocile
Ursenbach had been home from France and Belgium for about two years
where her parents had presided over the Mormon mission there. In
1940 she was living with her parents in Los Angeles and working in a
woman’s clothing store. Their two large families had each arrived
in the Los Angeles area in the mid-1920s. The Ursenbach’s had come
from Utah, Idaho, and most recently Alberta, Canada, where Jocile was
born in 1921, the youngest of eleven children. The Christensen’s
had come from Colorado by way of Utah. Don was born in Salt Lake
City on September 3, 1917, the youngest of thirteen children and the
only one not born in Manassa, Colorado.

Both families were part of what some
have dubbed a “Mormon Diaspora,”


a fairly large scale migration
of second and third generation Mormons from the mountain west to
Southern California beginning in the 1920s and ‘30s. By the 1940s
the Mormon “colony” in the Los Angeles area was growing rapidly,
but was still close-knit enough for widespread and common
acquaintances, especially among young people. Both Don and Jocile
being from large, prominent families from within that community, and
both being active in Church functions, it was almost inevitable that
they would meet.

Jocile describes their first meeting:
“My parents and I came home from Belgium in 1938; a year after Don
went to Denmark. I was singing in the South Los Angeles Stake Chorus
with Zelma and Melba [Don’s sisters] who kept telling me they
wanted me to meet their brother when he came home from his mission.
In the fall of 1940 theretime he was living in Glendale and we didn’t see
each other for almost a year.”

The next summer they met again and
began their whirlwind courtship. Jocile continues, “In July 1941
there was a dance and I went with some friends and Don was there
without a date. He asked me to dance and we ended up dancing
together most of the evening. Then he asked if he could take me
home. We found we had both mellowed and changed. After a long
courtship—I think it was three dates—we became engaged. Don
moved back to Huntington Park so we could see more of each other.”

They were married on October 27, 1941.
Life seemed full of promise during those halcyon days in Southern
California. The Depression was ending and jobs were plentiful,
particularly in the burgeoning defense industry. There was


talk,
concern and anxiety about war in Europe and Asia and whether United
states would get involved. Some of their friends were already in
active military service, but war still seemed remote for the
newlyweds. Don and Jocile settled into a little apartment in
Huntington Park near family and friends, and he continued to make the
long drive to work at the Lockheed plant in Burbank. They had been
married only five weeks—were virtually still on a honeymoon—when
news came of the attack on Pearl Harbor. On Sunday, December 7th,
they were attending church as Jocile recalls, “It was announced
that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor and all servicemen were to
return to their bases. This was a shock. Many of us didn’t even
know where Pearl Harbor was. We soon learned.”

Baby On Board

Suddenly, the future which had seemed
sobright and full of promise was filled with uncertainty. Young
men, including many of their friends, rushed to enlist in the
military, while others were drafted. With rumor and fear that the
Japanese might attack California, Japanese-American citizens, some of
whom were their acquaintances, were rounded up and moved to
interment camps far-removed from the coast. Food and gasoline
rationing went into effect, as well as mandatory nighttime blackouts.

Within a few months Don began talking
about leaving his defense job at Lockheed and joining the Los Angeles
police department. He knew that the Lockheed job was not permanent,
and he wanted a better career opportunity. Besides, the long daily
drive from Huntington Park to Burbank and back was a wearisome chore.
His oldest brother Leonard Christensen was then Commander of West
Los Angeles Detective Division of the LAPD, and assured


him
acceptance on the force. Jocile, however, was strongly opposed. She
felt police work was too dangerous, and knew he might lose his draft
deferment if he left Lockheed. “I had visions of him getting shot
or something. Then one day he came home from work hurt. Someone had
thrown a hot rivet and it had gone wild and hit Don on the side of
his head. It barely missed his eye and grazed clear back on the side
of his head. I decided he would be just as safe as a policeman.”

As soon as Don was accepted to the
Police Academy he quit his job at Lockheed, lost his draft deferment
and was classified 1A. Even though police work was considered an
essential wartime occupation, that draft exemption did not apply to
trainees. He needed six weeks atthe police academy and six months
probationary duty to assure him a place on the force after his
military service. He was granted a draft induction delay to fulfill
these requirements, and at the same time he applied for and was
accepted by the Army Air Force. Jocile writes, “He had to go to
the Police Academy for six weeks. I went to stay with my folks as
our first child was due. At the end of his third week of training we
had to call him home to take me to the hospital. After a long labor
Donald Mark was born September 18, 1942.”

Born nine months after Pearl Harbor, I
have always felt that World War II and I began together, and that my
story and my identity are integrally bound up with that time, that
conflict, and


the music of that era. Tunes like "Moonlight Serenade" or "We'll Meet Again," or a movie like "12 O'Clock High" can still put a lump in my throat. After more than 70 years I
remain haunted by WWII, my memories, and the loss of my father in that war.

Lt. Donald R. Christensen

About Me

"This is a tribute to my father's life and his war. His name was Lt. Donald R. Christensen and he was a B-17 pilot with the 8th Air Force in England during World War II. He was stationed with the 398th Bomb Group at Nuthampstead. England, and was a member of the 603rd Squadron. He and all but one of his crew men were killed on March 2, 1945, when the tail was shot off of hisaircraft by enemy fighters the plane crashed near Slany, Czechoslovkia (today's Czech Republic.) Tail gunner Selmer Haakenson was the sole survivor. I was two and a half years old.

I have been haunted by the loss of my father all my life, and after 70 years I still grieve. For the last 25 years or more I have been sporadically combing through old papers and photographs, military records, books relating to the 8th Air Force, and talking with many veterans of the 398th BG. I have been wanting to tell his story for a long time, and the 70th anniversary of his death seems like an appropriate time to get off my duff and honor his memory in words and pictures."

My Mission

I am a World War II researcher and


my mission has been mainly to find out about my father. His name was Lt. Donald R. Christensen and he was a B-17 pilot with the 8th Air Force in England during World War II. He was stationed with the 398th Bomb Group at Nuthampstead. England, and was a member of the 603rd Squadron. He and all but one of his crew men were killed on March 2, 1945, when the tail was shot off of his aircraft by enemy fighters the plane crashed near Slany, Czechoslovkia

I have been been on this quest most of my life, but more seriously in the last 25 years or so. Now I'm ready to write about it.

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Perhaps the biggest -- or at least the most instantly noticeable change -- is the look of the interface. The general layout to the home screen looks similar, but keyboards, the notification center, and a new control center all take on a clean, almost transparent look.

Messages, calendar, phone, Safari and game center all received similar refreshes, taking on the new iOS's airy appearance.

Software vice president Craig Federighi got a huge ovation for comprehensive multitasking, a feature iDevice users have clamored for since the iPhone's introduction.

"Smart" multitasking balances power


iOS 7, will debut this fall for iPhone and iPad.

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With a history of reliable reporting dating back to 1907, today's UPI is a credible source for the most important stories of the day, continually updated - a one-stop site for U.S. and world news, as well as entertainment, trends, science, health and stunning photography. UPI also provides insightful reports on key topics of geopolitical importance, including energy and security.Erdogan, was detained in Romania on May 20 when authorities learned his Turkish passport had been revoked. He returned to the United States on Sunday.

On Monday in New York, Kanter lashed out at Erdogan at a news conference, calling him the "Hitler of our century."

The 6-foot-11-inch center was traveling on a charity and promotional tour. He holds a U.S. green card that allows him to live and work in the country on a permanent basis.

Criticism of Erdogan has intensified since an April referendum made constitutional changes that gave the Turkish leader new powers in a move some called an authoritative power grab. On May 17, a street brawl erupted in Washington, D.C., between protesters and Turkish security personnel during Erdogan's visit to the U.S. capital.

Turkey blamed the violence


on demonstrators, while the Washington police called it a "brutal attack" on peaceful protesters.

Turkey and the United States are close allies, cooperating in the fight against the group Islamic State.

The Sabah newspaper said on Friday that Kanter was named a "fugitive" by a Turkish court for his support of U.S-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999. Erdogan is seeking Gulen's extradition for his alleged role in a failed coup last July, something Gulen has denied.

A representative of the prosecutor's office in Istanbul declined to comment and Turkey's Ministry of Justice was not available to comment. Officials with the Turkish embassy in Washington could not immediately be reached for comment.

The investigation of Kanter was reportedly coordinated and carried out by Istanbulprosecutors. The court's ruling had determined Kanter was allegedly a user of ByLock, a secure communication application for smartphones that was used by an organization in support of Gulen and supposedly during a failed coup against Erdogan last July, Sabah reported.

The court said Kanter was sharing messages praising the organization on social media and said he was called to testify multiple times but refused, making him a fugitive, according to the Turkish newspaper.

The prosecutor's office requested that the Justice Ministry contact officials to issue a red notice for Kanter, which would prevent him from traveling, Sabah reported.

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of a strain of influenza that is primarily a swine disease that can allow the virus to strike humans, said Dr. James Averill, Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural
Development Animal Industry Division director and state veterinarian.

The
child's diagnosis was the first first case of Influenza A H3N2 Variant
detected in Michigan in 2013, health officials said in a news release
Thursday, Aug. 29.

Because that strain had been diagnosed in Indiana and Ohio earlier in the summer, Michigan fairs were on heightened alert, Johansen said.

"For the past few years we have had signage about this very issue," warning people to wash hands and avoid bringing food into animal barns, he said. "So nothing is dramatically new" in prevention even after the diagnosis was confirmed, he said.

So far, it appears the disease has148k/50pp.)This book contains a delightful and inspiring collection of anecdotal stories retold by an American monk (Phra Ajaan Thanissaro Bhikkhu) who lived under Ajaan Fuang's tutelage for the last decade of Ajaan Fuang's life. These anecdotes reveal a teaching style that adapted readily to the particular needs of the listener at the moment. Collectively they bear the unmistakable mark of a masterful teacher with a profound grasp of Dhamma, offering valuable lessons for newcomers and experienced practitioners alike

Right Attitude. In order to succeed at learning a new skill, one must first muster sufficient respect for oneself, the subject under study, and one's teacher. In this essay Phra Ajaan Thanissaro Bhikkhu points out that the same holds true when approaching the Buddha's teachings -- the ability to learn depends


Kids these days have a lot of stressors, and learning to deal with them effectively is the main focus of Oskar and The Last Straw!,’ the latest production by TheatreWorks, geared specifically for school-aged kids.

The script, the third in a series written by playwright Prince Gomolvilas, was co-commissioned by Palo Alto Unified School District and TheatreWorks of Silicon Valley, with input from Project Cornerstone (YMCA Silicon Valley), Steps to Success, and Project Safety Net.

Locally, many elementary schools in Fremont and Milpitas recently had the opportunity to see the theatrical presentation, touring the Bay Area from February through April 27. By utilizing humor and engaging their audience, the performers hope to spread the show’s message of resiliency while demonstrating useful and relatable coping mechanisms for K-5th grade students.

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Keith is one of the fastest rising comics from Delaware. He's a high energy performer who's quick wit, style, and fast pace humor makes him a hit and personal favorite of audiences young and old. He performs at Comedy Clubs across the country and has appeared on Television and in Movies. He was a winner in the Howard Stern "Kill or Be Killed" Comedy Competition and was the Philadelphia


Regional winner in the Sierra Mist Next Great Comic Comedy Competition. Keith has had appearances on Last Comic Standing and is gaining the reputation as the next rising star. So watch out America, he's coming your way....be prepared....he's armed with Laffs!!!!!William B. Franklin's VI Corps. Slocum's division had not crossed the river by the start of the battle, held up by McClellan's concern about an impending attack on Franklin's front.

Lee's offensive plan for June 27 was similar to that of the preceding day. He would use A.P. Hill's and Longstreet's divisions to pressure Porter's corps as it withdrew, while Stonewall Jackson, augmented by D.H. Hill (Jackson's brother-in-law), hit Porter's right and rear. The combined effort of all of Lee's force was destined to be the largest Confederate attack of the war, about 57,000 men in six divisions. Lee traveled to Walnut Grove Church to meet with Jackson and describe the plan, which called for Jackson to march toward Old Cold Harbor, and then south beyond Porter's flank. Unfortunately,


attack, Brig. Gen. George E. Pickett's brigade attempted a frontal assault and was beaten back under severe fire with heavy losses. Pickett himself took a bullet to the shoulder, putting him out of action for the rest of the summer; Col. Eppa Hunton of the 8th Virginia assumed command of the brigade. Confederate President Jefferson Davis was among the party witnessing Pickett's failed attempt.

Ewell began his attack immediately, around 3:30 p.m., without waiting for his entire division to come on line. General Lee's instructions were to advance along the same axis used by the brigades of Gregg and Branch, to maintain the momentum of the attack. He sent in his lead brigade, Louisianans under Col. Isaac Seymour, commanding in Maj. Gen. Richard Taylor's absence for medical reasons. Seymour wasthat." Jackson replied.

Lee's assault at 7 p.m. was conducted by 16 brigades, about 32,100 men. Porter had about 34,000 men to defend the line, but many of these were worn out from the previous attacks and command cohesion was hampered by feeding isolated reinforcements into the line to fill gaps. Nevertheless, they had the advantages of good defensible terrain and superiority in artillery. The Confederates were not able to advance simultaneously in a neat battle line over the 2.25-mile front, but rushed forward and were repulsed intermittently in smaller unit actions. On the Confederate left, D.H. Hill sent in his entire division except for Ripley's brigade, which had been badly mauled in the fighting at Beaver Dam Creek the previous day, but they encountered stiff resistance from George


Thursday, October 30, 2008

Yankees in the South

Bill and I are northerners by birth who have chosen to live in the south because of its moderate temperatures and warm people. At this point, I have lived in the South for a total of 12 years and Bill, 8 years. I was Bill's translator for our first year of southern living when we made friends with Ann and Greg, our Mississippi friends, among others. Over the years some of our southern-born friends have given us books on "speaking southern". Today has been one of those beautiful blue-sky days in which we have thoroughly enjoyed living in Georgia.

We took a drive through horse and farm country today to visit Washington, GA. It's a charming town with a beautiful downtown square, andas we discovered, some history.

Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, carried out his last business as President in Washington, GA before the South surrendered at Appomattox.

Not far from Washington was the Watson Mill Covered Bridge which is still used as a one-lane bridge.


ATT 1st PrepCom: Working on a picture of the ATT

July 12 2010, 4:51 PM by Ray Acheson, Reaching Critical Will of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

At the end of the last open-ended working group on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in July 2009 and during the UN General Assembly First Committee that October, divergences of opinion of the objectives, feasibility, scope, and parameters for a potential ATT were apparent. While member states reached near-consensus on the need for such a Treaty, the specifics are still widely contentious. The first Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) toward negotiating an ATT is aiming to reduce those divergences and find solutions to states’ concerns, which primarily relate to what some states perceive as a potential infringement on their right to selfadherence, national implementation,” arguing that states should be responsible for implementing the Treaty. However, many delegations (including Nigeria, Morocco, also emphasized that other international arrangements would need to be respected, such as UN arms embargoes, existing regional and international agreements on the arms trade, and military cooperation agreements.Several delegations, including Norway and Nigeria, called for the future Treaty to include a provision on international cooperation and assistance, so that states could assist each other in developing the national mechanisms necessary to implement the Treaty. The vast majority of delegations also emphasized the importance of transparency, arguing that both sides of a transaction has to be transparent. Australia suggested confidential information sharing would be necessary at the operational level.

While a few delegations, such as the Republic of Korea, said


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Some twenty years ago, the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys gathered in Stratford-Upon-Avon for
its Annual Conference. Delegates were (with varying degrees of apprehension enthusiasm) looking ahead to 1st April 1996 when OHIM would officially open for business in Alicante and when WIPO would accept Trade Mark Applications from the UK under the Madrid Protocol. And in my luggage was my first (brick-size) mobile phone.

At the end of 2014, the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys held a Reception in Edinburgh. In my pocket when I took the train south (from Edinburgh to Windermere) was a newly-acquired Vodafone Smart 4. Why?

I wanted a phone that could use 4G and (because I'm a serial loser of mobile phones and careful about money) I wanted to start by using PayAsYouGo / seetwo things. One is that Royal Mail requires five days' notice to redirect so (in my case) redirect wasn't going to happen until Friday 19th December 2014. The other is that the on line service works through postcodes – and my new office isn't listed as a building, but by reference to the businesses in the building. I'm still waiting for the people who purchased on 17th December 2014 to forward the few items of post that arrived on 18th / 19th December 2014, but the redirect service has been brilliant notwithstanding the local postman having to deliver post for four people and for my office to a very small (domestic) postbox. The only attempted“gone astray” I know of so far is a letter sent by courier to


complaint was filed by Hubert C. Reynolds as a class suit in behalf of himself and 262 other colored principals and teachers in the public schools against the Board of Public Instruction of Dade County, and James T. Wilson, the Superintendent of Public Instruction in that County. The allegation is that the defendants, acting for the State of Florida, have "a policy, custom and usage" by *755 which they pay the white principals and teachers of the County higher salaries than they pay the colored principals and teachers, "solely because of their race and color", contrary to Article XII, Sects. 1 and 12 of the Florida Constitution, which provide for a uniform system of public free school in which colored children shall be taught in separate schools fromwhen they brought suit. The district judge, however, held there was an actual controversy, and the parties here argue only the merits of the case, so we consider only the merits.
The position of appellants is that the discrimination openly practiced before their petition was presented to the Board has been covertly continued since; or as their brief states it, "that the various systems of rating and grading were evolved for the purpose of lending credibility to defendants' claim of non-discrimination, when as a matter of fact they are a sham and a subterfuge behind which to hide a fixed and determined intention of discrimination". That fact issue was tried by the district judge and his finding is: "At the time of the institution of this action substantially lower


Education, for seven years past, and of Dan J. Conroy, Supervisor of Negro Education, which seem later to have been excluded, but both appeared as witnesses for the defense, and testified in great detail. They were both on the Rating Committee, which was composed wholly of professional teachers. No member of the defendant Board, elected by the people, was on it except that Wilson was ex officio a Board member. Their evidence, as also that of others who testified for the defense, fully and without contradiction supports the above quoted fact-findings. Complainant's only other evidence is the schedule of present salaries, which still shows that on an average and as a group the negro teachers and principals are not paid as high salaries as the white. This factas capable a man as a white man. That has not prevailed in Dade County, and it does not *757 prevail in Dade County at the present time. I say it with all tolerance and great sympathy for the problem which we face." It was pointed out also that the negro colleges from which teachers come are not yet the equal of the white colleges, and that negroes who had graduated in the northern white colleges proved better equipped than others. There was also a much narrower field to select the negro teachers from, for their applications were not numerous. On the other hand Miami was overflowing with high grade white teachers attracted there by the climate, so that in the last school year, notwithstanding the war conditions,


Danish photographer freed after 13 months in Syria

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish freelance photographer who had been held captive for 13 months in Syria has been released and has been reunited with his family, officials said Friday.

Denmark's Foreign Ministry said Daniel Rye Ottosen, 25, had been held since May 17, 2013, in Syria where he went to photograph the conflict and the civilian population's conditions.

Rye Ottosen was freed Thursday and is in good condition, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ole Egberg Mikkelsen said Friday, but gave no details of where or by whom the photographer was held. He declined to comment on press reports that Rye Ottosen had been detained by members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

Egberg Mikkelsen declined to say whether any ransom had“Moana” Star Auli‘i Cravalho Opens Up About the Oscars and “Drama High”

HONOLULU Magazine gets the scoop on the Moana star’s new TV pilot and about that Academy Award hit.

By Don Wallace

Photos: Phil McCarten / Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Auli‘i Cravalho, the breakout star of Disney’s Moana, has been having a fantastic couple of weeks. First there was her sublime performance at the Academy Awards—complete with a flag swipe to the back of her head that barely fazed her—followed by a flurry of TV appearances and interviews coinciding with the Moana DVD release. Next came the news that she’d been signed to a new NBC pilot, Drama High, about a group of high schoolers transforming their community through theater. Instead of heading home, she flew straight to


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TARGA FLORIO, PALERMO, SICILY, 26 APRIL 1964

The weather is warm and dry on this spring morning in Sicily and fans begin lining the public roads of the towns and winding mountainous stretches surrounding the city of Palermo. The 48th running of the legendary Targa Florio is only minutes away, and it is proving to be yet another glorious battle of man and machine against the clock and the elements of surprise that make motor racing purely a sport for the most daring gentlemen drivers in the world. This is, after all, the oldest sports car race in the world, and victory here is more than a fleeting moment of glory – it is a matter of national pride and a global contest that pitsthe racing teams from Italy against those of the U.S., Germany, England, and France.

The challenges for drivers are seemingly endless – elevation changes, blind corners, switchbacks, and of course, the danger of thousands of spectators standing mere inches from the road as sports racing cars roar by at well over 100 mph. But in merely seven hours and 10 laps of the 72-km road course, the winner of the Targa Florio will be crowned and, with him, the all-important points toward the International Championship for GT Manufacturers will be awarded.

The starting grid is a veritable who’s-who of star drivers: Dan Gurney, Phil Hill, Bob Bondurant, Masten Gregory, Innes Ireland, Jean Guichet, Hans Herrmann, Joakim Bonnier, and Graham Hill. But the Italian fans have arrived to disappointment as Scuderia


Ferrari has recused itself from the race while Carroll Shelby has arrived in force with four competition Cobras, serious backing from Ford in Detroit, and his sights set on the Italian Prancing Horse. Not to be discounted by any means, Stuttgart’s Porsche army was sent to Sicily by Huschke von Hanstein with five Works cars, 904/8s and 904 GTSs, purpose-built for precisely this type of endurance race.

Ferrari, of course, is the defending victor, having won the International Championship for GT Manufacturers in both 1962 and 1963 in the over-two-liter category, thanks to the stunning force of the GTO. But for the 1964 season, the FIA made further adjustments, such that the resulting classes amounted to “under two liters” and “over two liters,” the latter of which now includedsuch privateer. An entrepreneur, engineer, and future owner and president of the Naples football team, he is in his early 30s. In December of 1963, before the start of the season, he purchased chassis 3413, a 1962 Ferrari GTO with successful hill climb history and Series I bodywork. In January, three months before his first race in the car at the Targa Florio, the car was sent by the factory to its official coachbuilder at Scaglietti on Via Emilia in Modena, where the GTOs of course were all bodied from the outset. This car was upgraded to Series II coachwork with no rear spoiler. This implemented the latest development in the GTO’s design and signified an improvement aerodynamically for the model, and owner/drivers certainly desired the latest technological


revised tipo 539 chassis was improved with lighter tubing, stiffer springs, and dual Watts linkages that stabilized the rear suspension. A new five-speed gearbox was fitted to provide maximum acceleration and top speed. While the early 1962 examples featured bolted-on rear spoilers, starting in 1963 the spoiler was formally integrated into the coachwork. For 1964, of course, the Series II bodywork that was adopted was applied to the final three GTOs built, referred to as GTO/64, and retroactively upgraded to four Series I cars as referenced earlier.

CHASSIS NUMBER 3413

This car is just the third production GTO built, completing factory assembly in late April 1962. It was the first GTO example to feature Series I coachwork details such as a small radiator intake, narrow brake ducts, hood fasteners, andsail-panel vents. Scaglietti’s coachwork also featured a bolted-on rear spoiler and turn signal lamps below the headlights. Fitted with a tipo 168/62 competizione V-12, the GTO was finished in rosso cina, and the interior was trimmed with traditional blue cloth upholstery.

In the first week of May, the Ferrari was driven by the legendary Phil Hill as SEFAC Ferrari’s official practice car for the upcoming Targa Florio. By this time, of course, Phil Hill’s importance to international American motor racing and indeed the Ferrari factory was well established. Not only had he already won Le Mans multiple times, he was also the first American Formula 1 World Champion and, quite indisputably, one of the world’s most talented and highly respected racing drivers. His presence behind the wheel of 3413


is a rare honor few cars in the world enjoy.

A few days later, the GTO was officially sold to Mrs. Arnalda Colombo, who purchased the car on behalf of her husband, the famed Italian privateer Edoardo Lualdi-Gabardi, one of the most charismatic and successful privateer drivers of the era and a personal friend of Enzo Ferrari who very consistently received the finest, special cars from the factory.

Born in Milan in 1931, Edoardo Lualdi-Gabardi began racing at the age of 19 with a Fiat Topolino in the 1950 Mille Miglia. In 1953 he began campaigning a Vignale-bodied Ferrari 166 MM spider, mostly in hill climbs. A year later his connection with Ferrari deepened when he began racing a freshly acquired 212 Export. He soon drove the first 250 MMberlinetta in competition, and a personal highlight was his triumph over champion racer Armando Zampieri’s Mercedes-Benz 300 SL.

In 1956 Lualdi-Gabardi acquired the first of four Ferrari 250 GT ‘Tour de France’ examples he would own, and it increasingly became his weapon of choice during an aggressive competition campaign from which he emerged as the 1956 Italian Hill Climb Champion. By the early 1960s the privateer was campaigning 250 GT SWB examples (including one of the rare SEFAC hot rods), and he later owned two GTO examples (including the featured car). Having purchased many Ferraris during this period, Lualdi-Gabardi soon found himself on Maranello’s preferred client list, and he apparently lunched with Enzo Ferrari frequently over the years. A crash in 1972 eventually forced the hill climb champion to


permanently retire from racing, but not before he had triumphed (or earned class wins) in no fewer than 116 races, a remarkable feat by any measure.

Lualdi-Gabardi immediately began campaigning 3413 with great success in Italian hill climbs, starting with a victory at the Coppa Citta Asiago on 13 May. This was followed by a slew of class wins during the next month at hill climbs at Bologna-Raticosa, the Coppa Consuma, Bolzano-Mendola, and Trento-Bondone. The GTO then achieved several outright victories, starting with the Trieste–Opicina hill climb on 22 July, followed by the Trofeo Sarezzo-Lumezzane and the Coppa Faglioli in September, and the Coppa Autunno at Monza in October. Lualdi-Gabardi experienced such success in 3413 that at the season’s conclusion, he was declared the class champion for the 1962Italian GT Championship.

In early April 1963 the GTO experienced a final overall victory with Lualdi-Gabardi at the Stallavena-Bosco Chiesanuova hill climb, and four days later the car was sold to its second owner, Gianni Bulgari, the scion and eventual president of the Bulgari watch company, who was no stranger to the race track and actively campaigned sports cars in period alongside the greatest gentlemen drivers. Bulgari first entered the Ferrari at the Targa Florio on 5 May, during the third round of the 1963 International Championship for GT Manufacturers, and achieved immediate success finishing 1st in class, 4th overall, with Maurizio Grana as his co-pilot. Six months later he won the Coppa FISA at Monza.

In merely its first calendar year, the feats of success that 3413 achieved are


virtually unbelievable – feats of victory that speak not only to the talents of the drivers behind the wheel, but also to the world-class engineering at Ferrari that placed the GTO miles ahead, developmentally, of its competition on the track. One must consider the competition against which the Ferrari entered these races. Whether on the most legendary race tracks in Europe or local hill climbs in Italy, the GTOs were virtually on another level entirely, repeatedly and aggressively beating the competition. These were indeed the years in which the indelible image of a V-12 front-engined sports car, liveried in racing red with an iconic prancing horse became the international symbol of Ferrari’s racing dominance.

All these successes transpired before 3413 was driven to class victory at the Targa Floriothe year after by Taramazzo and Ferlaino, at which point of course Ferlaino had commissioned the upgraded GTO/64 coachwork. Ferlaino raced the 250 at least three more times in 1964, earning a class win at the Bologna-Raticosa Hill Climb in late May and 3rd overall at the Mugello 500 KM a month later.

Shortly thereafter, 3413 was acquired by Dan Margulies, a dealer residing in London. At some point prior to December 1965, the front coachwork around the nose was slightly modified, with twin vertical vents for brake cooling added in place of the prior rectangular driving lights. In late December 1965, the car was entrusted to Maranello Concessionaires driver David Piper for the Redex Trophy at Brands Hatch where he claimed an outright victory, fittingly in 3413’s final