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In this series of posts, I will be delving deep into my game development journey and bringing you classic memories of some truly awful releases. But first a brief look at my childhood.

Early years

You see, while most kids were out playing football on the field next to my house, I would regularly spend that same time making games on my Amiga using Amos Professional (yesterdays equivalent of Xcode or Visual Studio). I'm pretty sure upon launching the application, a posh american lady literally says "Amos Professional". Perhaps my memory is letting me down, but that's how I remember it.

With the aid of sexy lady Amos, I was able to carve out some true classics such as:

Footy Manager

Footy Manager Italia 90

Bolton Wanderers Football Manager

Slick, Slime and Dirty Dime

School's Out

Of


During the First World War, Handley Page produced a series of heavy bombers for the Royal Navy to bomb the German Zeppelin yards, with the ultimate intent of bombing Berlin in revenge for the Zeppelin attacks on London. Handley Page had been asked by the Admiralty to produce a "bloody paralyser of an aeroplane". These aircraft included the O/100 of 1915, the O/400 of 1918 and the four-engined V/1500 with the range to reach Berlin. The V/1500 had only just entered operational service as the war ended in 1918.

In the immediate postwar years, Handley Page modified a number of O/400's to passenger use, which they flew on the London-Paris route as Handley Page Transport. The V/1500 was considered too large to be practical at the time, but anumber of design features of the V/1500 were later incorporated into an O/400 airframe to produce their first dedicated passenger design, the W.8. In 1924 Handley Page Transport merged with two other regional airlines to create Imperial Airways, the UK's first national airline service. Handley Page developed several large biplane airliners, including the luxurious Handley Page H.P.42, for use on Imperial routes to Africa and India.

Handley Page developed the Handley Page Slat (or slot, see slats), an auxiliary airfoil mounted ahead and over the main wing, which formed a narrow opening running along the leading edge of the wing to improve airflow at high angles of attack.[4] The leading edge slat was simultaneously designed by the German aerodynamicist Gustav Lachmann, who was later employed by Handley Page. The


design was so successful that licensing fees to other companies was their main source of income in the early 1920s.

In 1929, the Cricklewood Aerodrome was closed and a new one built at Radlett, where most aircraft were now to be constructed. However the construction of aircraft at Cricklewood continued until 1964 when the premises were sold to become the Cricklewood trading estate.

With the Second World War looming, Handley Page turned back to bomber design and produced the HP.52 Hampden, which took part in the first British raid on Berlin. In response to a 1936 government request for heavier, longer ranged aircraft, Handley Page tendered the HP.56 design powered by twin Rolls-Royce Vultures and this was ordered, along with what became the Avro Manchester. However the Vulture proved sotroublesome that – years before the engine was abandoned by Rolls-Royce in 1940 – the Air Staff decided that the HP.56 should be fitted with four engines instead. Therefore, before reaching prototype stage, the HP.56 design was reworked into the four-engined HP.57 Halifax.[5] The Halifax became the second most prolific British heavy bomber of the war after the Avro Lancaster (itself essentially a four-engine development of the Manchester). Although in some respects (such as crew survivability) better than the Lancaster, the Halifax suffered in terms of altitude performance[6] and was redeployed toward the end of the war as a heavy transport and glider tug, with several variants being specifically built as such, including the HP.70 Halton.

After the war, the British Government sought tenders for jet bombers to carry


the nation's nuclear deterrent. The three types produced were known as the V-Bombers, and Handley Page's contribution was the HP.80 Victor, a four-engined, crescent-winged design. This aircraft remained in service (as a tanker aircraft) well beyond the demise of the company which created it.

In 1947 Handley Page bought some of the assets of the bankrupt Miles Aircraft company. These assets include existing designs, tools and jigs, most notably for the Miles M.52 supersonic research aircraft, and the Miles site at Woodley, near Reading. The whole operation was Handley Page (Reading) Ltd, the company constituted to buy and operate the assets formed out of the legally alive but otherwise inactive Handley Page Transport Ltd. The most significant of the inherited designs was the Herald airliner. Designs coming out ofthe Reading site were shown by the initials HPR (from "Handley Page (Reading) Limited")

Unlike other large British aircraft manufacturers, Handley Page resisted the government's pressure to merge into larger entities. By the late 1960s, the British aviation industry was dominated by just two combines; Hawker Siddeley and the British Aircraft Corporation.

Unable to compete for government orders or with large commercial aircraft, Handley Page produced its final notable Handley Page design; the Jetstream. This was a small turboprop-powered commuter aircraft, with a pressurised cabin and a passenger capacity of 12 to 18. It was designed primarily for the United States "feederliner" market.

The Jetstream was too late to save Handley Page, and the company went into voluntary liquidation in March 1970 and was wound up after 61 years trading under


the same name. The Jetstream however lived on as a successful product, the design being purchased and produced by Scottish Aviation at Prestwick, continuing after the company was merged into British Aerospace from 1977.

Radlett Aerodrome was opened in 1929 as a grass aerodrome for Handley Page Civil Aircraft. Its runway was extended in 1939 to enable production of Halifax bombers. By the time of its closure the airfield had two runways:

03/21 approximately 7,000 feet (2,100 m)

15/33 approximately 2,500 feet (760 m)

Most of the towers, hangars and runways were demolished in the 1970s after the Company was terminated. The M25 Motorway now runs on the south side of the site, with Lafarge Aggregates now owning the remainder. The runway surface was removed and replaced with grass, but a shadowMr Hayden staunchly defended "special methods of questioning"

Gen Hayden said programmes such as extraordinary rendition produced what he said was irreplaceable intelligence.

Under the programme, terror suspects are transported to secret prisons in countries with less stringent interrogation rules.

Mr Hayden, speaking in Chicago, said the leads gained justified rendition.

"The irreplaceable nature of that intelligence is the sole reason why we have what I admit freely is a very controversial programme."

The CIA had produced thousands of intelligence reports from the "fewer than 100 hardened terrorists" detained since 2002, Mr Hayden told the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

'Water-boarding' controversy

His comments came as President George Bush's nominee for US attorney general came under fire for his position on interrogation techniques.

Michael Mukasey was grilled by the Senate Judiciary Committee

Nominee Michael Mukasey condemned one


The present invention relates generally to a frame for an infant swing and, more particularly, to a frame that provides unrestricted access to the infant positioned on the swing seat while providing an aesthetically pleasing and efficiently operable swing apparatus.
Baby swings are used extensively by infant caregivers to soothe and to comfort the children. An infant swing consists primarily of a seat that securely holds the infant in a position elevated off the floor and a frame apparatus that supports the seat and allows the seat to move in a reciprocal manner, typically in a forward and rearward direction though some infant seats provide a side to side swinging motion.
The first infant swings consisted of a seat suspended from a frame that was formed with a support structureU.S. Pat. No. 4,822,033, issued to Louis Kohus and James Mariol on Apr. 18, 1989, the overhead structural support has been eliminated to provide an open access to the child in the seat from above. However, the child can be capable of grasping either of the transversely opposing support legs, particularly as the child is swinging back and forth between the support legs. Contact between the swinging child and one of the support legs can result in injury to the child. Furthermore, the child can potentially grab one of the support legs and pull his or herself forwardly to become dislodged from the seat, particularly if the child has not been properly secured within the seat by a safety harness.
The aforementioned open top infant swing evolved in a


motor is convenient for the wiring of the power source to the electric motor, this arrangement has several disadvantages as well. Locating the placement of the dry cell batteries above the swing seat, exposes the child positioned within the seat to being impacted by a dropped battery when the caregiver is forced to change the batteries to replace depleted batteries with fresh ones. Dry cell batteries are manufactured with acid within the battery container. Sometimes that acid can escape from the battery which would also present an injury risk to a child positioned within the seat. The placement of the battery array within the same housing as the electric motor also increases the height of the center of gravity of the swing, thus increasing the possibility of theArizona Pony of the Americas Club Interbreed Competition Show

Everyone is invited to watch the Arizona Pony of the Americas (POA) Club Interbreed Competition Show on Saturday, September 6, 2014 from 8:00 in the morning until 4:00 in the afternoon. The event will be held at the WestWorld of Scottsdale, 16601 North Pima Road, Scottsdale, Arizona.

Attendees get to watch these little equines as they take pride in trail riding, driving, jumping, and dressage. Spectators will likewise get to marvel at these pint-size, gentle, and intelligent horses as they compete.

The Arizona POA Club showcases these horses through costume, lead line, pleasure classes, jumping, and reining to name a few. The POA can accommodate adults and youths thus making it the perfect family bonding. The youth can beam themselves in all


have the ability to properly vet
candidates. Tech staff was hired basically off of Craig's List with very
little interviewing. Tech was built and company got large enough to get a
couple contracts (heavily influenced by owners' existing personal
connections).

As you'd expect, tech stack started creaking under the load. At first tech
staff thought they had everything under control (strong Dunning-Kruger effect,
bolstered by early successes). Eventually tech staff realized how badly things
were going and started lying to management to cover for their own
incompetence.

Decent tech management was hired (I think by accident) and the tech staff saw
the writing on the wall. The entire tech staff just didn't show up to work one
day. Left without any notice or warning (the more intriguing stuff tangents
off here). New, more capable tech staff was hired (including me). AtThursday, March 3, 2016

Desperate Measures and a Bear's Test of Trust

"Prior William!" cried one of his men. "We can't go on. We must have food. We can't hunt in this blizzard."

The Bear could see all the men, and the two dogs that had not been eaten, but beyond was a curtain of snow. The Bear's legs were raw from the leg irons, and the iron muzzle dug into his face with every move. He was starving along with his captors. They had been feeding him such small scraps as could be accommodated by the muzzle, but even that had stopped a week ago. He would not be killed by this blizzard. But if all the men died, the Bear would slowly starve to death in chains and muzzle.

"It


meal. Perhaps these men were not as evil in their distress as they had been in conquest. Father Corbinian. What would he want Bear to do?
Presently, he began pawing the snow. When he was finished he stood looking at Prior William.

When the men stopped arguing, the Bear made the best noise he could make to get their attention. He looked from Prior William to the marks he had made with his paw.

"I'll be -- do you see what I see?" one of the men asked.

"Looks like a bear has dug around in some snow," said another.

Prior William stared at it, and held up a hand for silence. "Get your spears ready. Remove the muzzle." While the rest of the men threatened the Bear with spears, one of themtook a hammer and knocked out the two pins that held it closed. The Bear opened his mouth, painfully, and cleared his throat. Still, he said nothing. He looked at Prior William and shook the chains on his forelegs.

"Tell me what you want," Prior William demanded. "Are you saying what I think you're saying?"

The Bear looked him straight in the eyes and jangled his chains again. Then he curled up in the snow as if he were prepared to rest there for a very long time, all the while staring at Prior William.

"Damn you," Prior William spat. "Remove the chains."

"Prior," began one of the men, "need I remind you that this is a bear we have chained at our feet? He may not be in very good shape,


but spears or no, who is to say what will happen if we remove his chains?"

"He'll save our lives, you idiot," Prior William answered. "Look," he commanded, pointing at the snow disturbed by the Bear's paw.

The man took his hat off despite the cold and scratched his head. "I see what you're saying. Could be. Then again..."

"We don't have any alternative," Prior William said bitterly. "So chains. And pack."

Returned to his natural state, the Bear thought that while the men might not have any alternative, he had several. He could no doubt kill most of them right now, and the rest would scatter to cold, lonely deaths. He could fill his stomach and head to a lower elevation where he might find shelter and even a pony. Thatwas his Bearish instinct. He would especially take pleasure in Prior William's gruesome death. And, he would be in possession of Father Corbinian's black words.

Or, now that he was free, he could leave them to their fate, and save himself.

Ah, but against his animal instincts, stood everything Father Corbinian had ever taught him. When he always told the Bear to "be more man and less bear," he was not talking about these kind of men. He was talking about a man like Father Corbinian.

"Bear will search for shelter," he finally said in a voice raspy with disuse. "Then he will search for game. Do not move. Bear will be back."

"You're staking our lives on the word of a talking bear?" one of the men asked incredulously. He barked


a short laugh. "What's to keep him from just running off? It is certain he owes us nothing."

"I am staking our lives on a loyal pupil of Father Corbinian," Prior William stated calmly. "I do not believe this rational creature would soil the memory of his master."

"Bear has one master," he growled. And with that he turned and was quickly swallowed by white mystery. He was not certain just who that would turn out to be.

"I still don't see it," said the man who had not seen anything significant before.

"Look." Prior William bent over the Bear's design and traced it with a finger above it. "It's an ichthys. An early Christian symbol. To you, a simple fish. But to a bear, lads, it is food, whether fish orInvited article: design techniques and noise properties of ultrastable cryogenically cooled sapphire-dielectric resonator oscillators.
We review the techniques used in the design and construction of cryogenic sapphire oscillators at the University of Western Australia over the 18 year history of the project. We describe the project from its beginnings when sapphire oscillators were first developed as low-noise transducers for gravitational wave detection. Specifically, we describe the techniques that were applied to the construction of an interrogation oscillator for the PHARAO Cs atomic clock in CNES, in Toulouse France, and to the 2006 construction of four high performance oscillators for use at NMIJ and NICT, in Japan, as well as a permanent secondary frequency standard for the laboratory at UWA. Fractional-frequency fluctuations below 6 x 10(-16) at integration times between


reach. "Because of the fitness and skin-product boom, 30 is the new 20," says Susan Basow, PhD, a professor of psychology at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, who specializes in gender studies, "women are looking and feeling younger than ever and don't view themselves as age-bound."

There's another physical factor that may draw a woman to a slightly younger guy: the sexual perks. Sure, most women mature sooner than guys emotionally, but men have us beat in the sexual maturity department—at least by five to 10 years. "Most men reach their sexual peaks earlier than women because of testosterone and other physiological mechanisms," says Yvonne S. Thornton, MD, vice chairman of the department of ob-gyne at Jamaica Hospital in New York City.

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free man from lift

At around 9pm yesterday, firefighters were called to reports of a man being trapped in a lift at flats in Market Place, Reading.

A fire engine

The rescue crews isolated the electrics in the lift and slowly winched the lift down to the ground floor.

They then used specialists keys to free the man.

Watch Manager Phil Clark of Caversham Road fire station said the adult male in his thirties “was not in distress” as a result of the incident.

A crew from Caversham Road fire station attended the incident, along with back up from the crew based in Wokingham Road.

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Slow traffic heading into Reading centre

Traffic congestion on the A329 Oxford Road inbound from Tilehurst and Norcot to the centre of Reading. Travel time is eightof the white pickup. Ruiz departed and returned about an hour later.

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Upon his return, agents observed Ruiz remove more empty 5-gallon plastic containers from the white pickup and replace them with seven 5-gallon containers that appeared to be filled.2 Upon his second departure, agents followed Ruiz to 1045 Brigadoon, the residence of Enrique Diaz (Diaz). SDEA Agent Steve Hoek "walked a canal" behind Diaz's house and smelled alcohol. As a result, agents decided to seek a search warrant for the house.

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As officers subsequently approached the house from the front and rear, Agent Hoek saw Ruiz run from behind the garage, attempt to scale the back fence, dart across the lawn and scale a neighbor's fence. Agent Hoek also saw three more men exit the property.

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Ruiz was located hiding


under a truck on a neighboring property. Noriega was found at a nearby convenience store. Noriega was sweating, appeared nervous, and had twigs, sticks and dirt on his clothing. Agents also observed a white crystalline substance on Noriega's body and clothing. The substance tested positive for pseudoephedrine.

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Agents seized a key from Noriega that fit the garage door of the Brigadoon residence, where the meth was discovered. Noriega and Ruiz also possessed keys that opened both the interior and exterior garage doors of the Brigadoon property. Officer Manuel Corona interviewed the Defendants. Noriega told Officer Corona that both he and Ruiz had been at the Brigadoon residence and that he was in the garage watching television. Officer Corona noticed scratches on Noriega's arm and inquired about the injuries. Noriegaresponded that he had been pruning trees in the front yard earlier that day. Officer Corona walked to the area in the yard described by Noriega, but could not find any freshly cut tree limbs.

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Back at the Brigadoon residence, Agent Bill Pooley discovered one security camera underneath the carport area of the garage and another near the front door of the house. In the loft area, he saw two firearms on a couch with no cushions.

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Officer Scott Myers also saw two firearms on a couch in the loft area. He found two more firearms in the main part of the house. Several other firearms were located, including in the stairwell of the house and underneath a sofa cushion in the garage.

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Colon Cancer Screening (cont.)

Dennis Lee, MD

Dr. Lee was born in Shanghai, China, and received his college and medical training in the United States. He is fluent in English and three Chinese dialects. He graduated with chemistry departmental honors from Harvey Mudd College. He was appointed president of AOA society at UCLA School of Medicine. He underwent internal medicine residency and gastroenterology fellowship training at Cedars Sinai Medical Center.

Jay W. Marks, MD

Jay W. Marks, MD, is a board-certified internist and gastroenterologist. He graduated from Yale University School of Medicine and trained in internal medicine and gastroenterology at UCLA/Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Screening recommendations for individuals with average risk of colon cancer

The life-time risk for an adult American to develop colorectal cancer is approximately 6%. Fecal occult blood testsThis story first appeared in the April 5 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.

Visitors to West Hollywood's posh Soho House on March 21 could be forgiven for craning their necks. Amid a dining room filled with the usual mix of actors and agents on the 14th floor of the private club, two unlikely dinner companions commanded attention: NBC entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt and Jay Leno, the Tonight Show host whose status at the network had become a running joke of its own.

Leno's on-air ribbing of NBC and its ratings struggles had drawn the ire of Greenblatt, who had fired off an angry after-midnight email to Leno. The missive, which blind cc'd several NBC executives, led to a terse electronic exchange between Greenblatt and the longtime host. Shortly thereafter,


on March 1, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that NBC was planning an exit strategy for Leno, 62. Despite his status as the most-watched late-night host, he would be asked to hand over The Tonight Show to the network's 38-year-old Late Night star Jimmy Fallon, 24 years his junior, around the time Leno's current contract expires in September 2014. Sources say Leno, when he signed his most recent deal, expected it could be his last at the network. But he is said to have been upset by what he perceived to be an NBC leak to THR and by the prospect of another messy transition that would play out in the press.

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Indeed, news of the NBC plan prompteda media frenzy not seen in late-night TV since, well, the last time NBC attempted to dethrone Leno. That 2009 effort to install Conan O'Brien at Tonight and move Leno to a nightly 10 p.m. show backfired colossally. Within months, Leno reacquired his 11:35 perch and O'Brien left for a lesser-watched TBS gig and a $45 million payout. But while Leno remained mostly silent during the Conan debacle -- even as his rivals and the media pushed a Leno-as-villain narrative -- this time he fueled the flames of speculation. Leno and other hosts always have poked fun at their networks, but after the Greenblatt email conversation became public March 15, Leno launched a week's worth of pointed jabs at his employer, referring to NBC execs as "snakes" and


suggesting the network would send its top star on an ill-fated Carnival cruise. For NBC, the timing was terrible because it coincided with an embarrassing fifth-place finish during the February sweep (below Univision) and highly critical media coverage of its Today franchise that revealed a mishandling of the ouster of Ann Curry -- the kind of press NBC seems unable to finesse.

Sources say Fallon, fearing he could be painted as the guy who put TV's late-night king out to pasture, reached out personally to Leno. And the Greenblatt dinner, which had been rescheduled after the NBC exec canceled an earlier sit-down, was an attempt to mend fences. It is said to have worked. Leno is believed to have left Soho House with at least a temporary confidence thatof late night render a first-place finish less meaningful. Leno turns 63 in April and Kimmel, 45, has made inroads with younger viewers since his January move from 12:05 to 11:35. Fallon, at 38, is seen as able to lure both younger viewers, as O'Brien did, as well as the older crowd Leno is able to court. In fact, Fallon's median viewer age is 53.3, not too far from Leno's 58.1, suggesting the late-night talk format in its current broadcast network form might be aging out of existence no matter who the man in the suit telling jokes.


Black Warrior

Black Warrior, merchant steamer that plied between New York City and Mobile, usually stopping at Havana, Cuba. Her seizure on Feb. 28, 1854, by Spanish authorities at Havana and the imposition of a $6,000 fine on the grounds that she had violated customs regulations nearly caused war between the United States and Spain. The South, anxious to secure Cuba, was ready for war, but the North refused to support the idea, and after the Black Warrior was released the excitement subsided.TRENTON -- Ed Forchion, a pro-marijuana activist known as "NJ Weedman," has been indicted by a Mercer County grand jury on 11 drug charges related to his operation of a restaurant and adjacent cannabis church, acting Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo Onofri announced Tuesday.

File photo of Ed "NJ Weedman" Forchion (Michael Mancuso | For NJ.com)

Forchion, 52, faces multiple possession and drug distribution charges as well as counts of maintaining a narcotics nuisance and maintaining a fortified structure.

He remains free on bail and is scheduled to appear in Mercer County Superior Court on Aug. 11.

The indictment follows an investigation by the Mercer County Narcotics Task Force. Forchion was arrested April 27 along with 10 other people after a raid of his restaurant, NJ Weedman's Joint, and an adjacent cannabis church


A National Party No MoreOne of the best things about Tuesday's elections was that it was a repudiation of Zell Miller. Remember four years ago when Miller, a washed-up has-been who had been appointed to the Senate after Paul Coverdell died, became the darling of the right when he endorsed George W. Bush. Miler, a Democrat, proclaimed that the GOP was the wave of the future and that the Democrats were no longer a national party (I sure on the remainder tables of your local bookstore you can find a copy of Millers's 2003 manifesto A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat).

On Tuesday, Obama not only did well in the South, carrying Florida, Virgina, and North Carolina, but the last GOP member of theand settled law that the child of a U.S. citizen born abroad is a natural born citizen," Cruz told reporters in Iowa on Wednesday. "People will continue to make political noise about it, but as a legal matter it is quite straightforward and I would note that it has occurred many times in history."

Only natural-born citizens are eligible to serve as president under the Constitution. Anyone who is born to a U.S. citizen is considered to fall under that category.

Cruz was born in Canada to an American mother and Cuban-born father. He had dual citizenship before renouncing his Canadian citizenship after being elected to the Senate in 2012.

Trump has repeatedly questioned Obama’s eligibility to serve as president, channeling claims by so-called birthers that he was born in Kenya.

In


to the swirl chamber which is open in the downward direction, so that, when the nozzle is switched off, no liquid remains standing also in the inflow duct. The exterior surfaces of the nozzles can also be constructed such that impacting medium flows off toward the outside. In a particularly simple manner, the swirl chambers in the inflow area of the medium can also be constructed in a mirror-inverted fashion with respect to the center axis of the inflow duct so that a swirl compensation will then also be possible as in the known construction.Long before Tony Gwynn became Mr. Padre and Ray Kroc saved professional baseball in San Diego, the Padres thrived.

In fact, when the 2011 season mercifully ends Wednesday, the 75th anniversary of Padres baseball will also conclude.

The highlights of Padres, history, of course, are the 1984 and 1998 National League championships and the careers that carried Tony Gwynn and, eventually, Trevor Hoffman to the Hall of Fame.

But the history of Padres baseball didn’t begin with the National League granting San Diego an expansion franchise in 1969.

The story began in 1936 when Bill Lane decided to move his Hollywood Stars to San Diego, although the destination city didn’t have a ballpark. In two months, with the help of the Works Project Administration, Lane Field was constructed at the foot of


Broadway and Padres history was launched.

Three-quarters of a century later, old-timers still remember the “good ol’ days” at Lane Field and Westgate Park in Mission Valley. But the Padres of Pacific Coast League lore often struggled as mightily as their modern namesakes.

The truth is the major league Padres have been around for 42 seasons while the minor league Padres only played 33 – although many great players and some notable teams represented San Diego long before 1969.

Among the first Padres was a kid who joined the team while still attending Hoover High. The original Padres of 1936 included two future Hall of Famers in Williams and Bobby Doerr, who hit .342. Other future Hall of Famers who spent parts of their minor league careers in San Diego includedTony Perez, Larry Doby and Bob Lemon.

A year later, Williams helped the Padres win their first championship. Williams hit .291 with 23 homers and 91 RBI – the home run total standing as the franchise record for a decade.

The 1937 Padres won the Shaughnessy Playoffs in a four-game sweep of Portland.

Although the Padres wouldn’t win their next PCL title until 1954, the “Bay Bomber” teams of 1948-50 are fondly remembered as some of the more exciting in Padres history, according to Padres historian Bill Swank.

In 1948, outfielder-first baseman Jack Graham was on a pace to hit 80 home runs when he was beaned on July 25. He already had 46 HRs and finished with a Padres record 48 and 136 RBI.

The following year, Max West, who hit 43


homers in 1947, hit 48 homers with 166 RBI in a 190-game season. Luke Easter was hitting .363 with 25 homers and 92 RBI in 80 games when he was called up to Cleveland along with third baseman Al Rosen.

In 1950, the Padres finished second with a 114-86 record. Graham (136 RBI) and Harry "Suitcase" Simpson (156 RBI) both hit 33 home runs.

The PCL title finally returned to San Diego in 1954, which came at a time when the Pacific Coast League was considered “the third major league.” The 1954 Padres defeated Hollywood on a pair of homers by 1947 National League MVP Bob Elliott. The decisive game at Lane Field was the first Padres game to be telecast live in San Diego.Angiogenesis is essential in the female reproduction system and during development and wound repair. However, inappropriate angiogenesis can have severe consequences. Indeed, the proliferation of new blood vessels from pre-existing capillaries plays a key role in diseases, such as the pathological development of solid tumor cancers, solid tumor metastases, angiofibromas, skin cancer, retrolental fibroplasia, Kaposi's sarcoma, childhood hemangiomas, diabetic retinopathy, neovascular glaucoma, age related macular degeneration, psoriasis, gingivitis, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, inflammatory bowel disease, and capillary proliferation in atherosclerotic plaques. Because these serious diseases afflict several million people in the United States each year, considerable scientific effort has been directed toward gaining an understanding of the mechanisms regulating angiogenesis and toward developing therapies for such diseases.
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the money and buy back your stock."

The letter said the sector had already taken steps to protect itself from the catastrophic effects of the coronavirus -- which the International Air Transport Association estimates could wipe $30 billion in revenues from the books of global airlines.

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Over the past decade, the letter said, the industry had reinvested 73 percent of its operational earnings "in our personnel and our products."

But the letter added that the ability to renegotiate credits was waning amid the panic seizing he debt market, given the amplitude of the virus crisis.

The pandemic has had a devastating effect on air transport in the United States and elsewhere, as several countries have imposed far-reaching travel bans.

The US Congress has already passed two emergency rescue plans.

This weekend, it isCD Projekt have announced a title for their crazy-exciting cyberpunk RPG, based on the pen-and-paper game, er, Cyberpunk. That was set in 2020, a piddly eight years from now, but the Witcher devs' upcoming epic will take place around fifty years later, which is probably why they've decided to name it Cyberpunk 2077. While they were at it, CDP also set up a Cyberpunk blog , and revealed a few more details about the game.

As Rock Paper, Shotgun reports , the game's going to centred around the aptly named Night City (well, aptly named if you only go there at night), with locations including "the legendary Afterlife joint" and "the nostalgic Forlorn Hope". I'll be honest, those names mean nothing - Cyberpunk players, feel free to illuminate me


Licence Sentence Examples

Ordinary for his licence to serve the cure.

State prohibition had been defeated in 1881 by a vote of 100,000; in 1902 the Anti-Saloon League organized in the state; in 1903 the Watts Law enacted rural prohibition, giving towns local option, under which many of the towns voted " no licence "; and in 1905 severe police regulations were provided for towns in which saloons were licensed.

Theatres, music halls, concert halls and other places of entertainment are licensed by the County Council, except that the licence for stage-plays is granted by the lord chamberlain under the Theatres Act 1843.

He gained full licence to return in the spring of 1729.

The faculties of law confer the same degrees in law and also grant certificates of capacity, which enable theholder to practise as an avou; a licence is necessary for the profession of barrister.

There has never been in the history of English industry such licence as we find in certain directions in the earlier part of the 19th century.

By the charter of 1194 the burgesses received licence to hold a fair on the vigil, feast and morrow of the Annunciation, and this with the fair on St James's day was confirmed to them by Henry VII.

In the reserves the trees of commercial value can only be cut under a licence returning a revenue to the state, while unreserved trees can be cut by the natives for home consumption.

Net fisheries, worked by licence-holders in the principal rivers and along the sea-shore, are not nearly so profitable as the


closed fisheries - called In - which are from time to time sold by auction for fixed periods of years.

The government had option to purchase the company's provincial plant under the licence of 1884.

They began to make alkali by the ammonia-soda process, under licence from the Belgian chemist, Ernest Solvay, but at first the venture threatened to prove a failure.

The first grant of a market and fair is dated 1227, when the prior of Wenlock obtained licence to hold a fair on the vigil, day and morrow of the Nativity of St John the Baptist, and a market every Monday.

The Burmese are fond of stage-plays in which great licence of language is permitted, and great liberty to " gag " is left to the wit or intelligence ofthe actors.

C. 1721) and George McNish (1660-1723); in 1707 was imprisoned in New York City for preaching without licence, but was acquitted in 1708.

The National Telephone Company, working under licence expiring on the 31st of December 1911, had until 1901 practically a monopoly of telephonic communication within London, though the Post Office owned all the trunk lines connecting the various telephone areas of the company.

There are other ruby mines at Nanyaseik in the Myitkyina district and at Sagyin in the Mandalay district, where the mining is by native methods under licence-fees of Rs.5 and Rs.10 a month.

This was St Bernard's College, founded by Chicheley under licence in mortmain in 1437 for Cistercian monks, on the model of Gloucester Hall and Durham College for the southern and northern Benedictines.

His


war with the popular beliefs of his time is waged, not in the interests of licence, but in vindication of the sanctity of human feeling.

Here was established, by licence from James I., the so-called Milk Fair, which remained, its ownership always in the same family, until 1905, when, on alterations being made to the Mall, a new stall was erected for the owners during their lifetime, though the cow or cows kept here were no longer allowed.

An act of parliament enforced this in 1661; in 1684 Edward Heming, the inventor of oil lamps, obtained licence to supply public lights; and in 1736 the corporation took the matter in hand, levying a rate.

They must have a special ecclesiastical licence from the archbishop of Canterbury.

He increased his bodyguard to Boomen, all Frenchmen, who behaved with the greatest licence and brutality; by his oppressive taxes, and his ferocious cruelty towards all who opposed him, and the unsatisfactory treaties he concluded with Pisa, he accumulated bitter hatred against his rule.

Indultusn, from indulgere, grant, concede, allow), a, papal licence which authorizes the doing of something not sanctioned by the common law of the church; thus by an indult the pope authorizes a bishop to grant certain relaxations during the Lenten fast according to the necessities of the situation, climate, &c., of his diocese.

In 1481, three years after the Sixtine commission, a tribunal was inaugurated at Seville, where freedom of speech and licence of manner were rife.

This change of masters brought some relief to the unfortunate Cretans, who at least exchanged


the licence of local misrule for the oppression of an organized despotism; and the government of Mustafa Pasha, an Albanian like Mehemet Ali, the ruler of the island for a considerable period (1832-1852), was more enlightened and intelligent than that of most Turkish governors.

In the 15th century the manor was held by James Butler, earl of Ormond, after whose attainder it was granted in 1461 to Lord Hastings, who in 1474 obtained royal licence to empark 3000 acres and to build and fortify a castle.

Moreover Silva possessed a knowledge of stagecraft, and, if he had lived, he might have emancipated the drama in Portugal from its dependence on foreign writers; but the triple licence of the Palace, the Ordinary and the Inquisition, which a play required, crippled spontaneityand freedom.

The events of the year 1860, as well as of all the years that followed down to British annexation in 1877, show that licence rather than liberty, a narrow spirit of faction rather than patriotism, were the dominant instincts of the Boer.

Such curates, being not removable at the pleasure of the impropriators, but only on due revocation of the licence of the ordinary, came to be entitled perpetual curates.

In those cases in which the company's licence has been extended beyond 1911 (Glasgow to 1913, Swansea to 1926, Brighton to 1926 and Portsmouth to 1926) the Postmaster-General will buy the unexpired licence with allowance for goodwill.

In many parts the peasants and townsfolk, enraged by the licence of the French, hung on his flank and rear.

II., appeals to Rome


and original trials by papal delegates did go on, perhaps with the king's licence; for the statute 24 Hen.

They are not allowed to prescribe, nor the medical men to dispense, except under special licence, and then only in small villages, where the pharmacist could not make a living.

Despite strenuous opposition by the monastic orders, he obtained in 1528 a licence from the authorities to preach anywhere within the canton of Bern.

In 1635 the king granted the inhabitants of Halifax licence to found a workhouse in a large house given to them for that purpose by Nathaniel Waterhouse, and incorporated them under the name of the master and governors.

- To constitute the relationship of landlord and tenant in the mode under consideration, it is necessary not only that therebut even more galling than the amount was the manner in which these dues were exacted - the extortionate assessments of tax-farmers and excisemen, the brutal licence of the soldiery who were quartered on recalcitrant villagers.

In 1745, owing to his knowledge of Gaelic, he was appointed deputy chaplain of the 43rd (afterwards the 42nd) regiment (the Black Watch), the licence to preach being granted him by special dispensation, although he had not completed the required six years of theological study.

There are reasons to suppose however that the play had been in Colwell's hands some time before it was printed, and it may well be identical with the Dyccon of Bedlam for which he took out a licence in 1562-1563, "Diccon the Bedlem" being the first of the dramatis


may receive from the chief officer of police, or from any existing vendors of the substances to which the application relates."

We see that men of birth and wealth often allowed themselves a strange licence in dealing with their low-born fellow-citizens.

But Ortiz proved a friend and presented them to Paul III., who gave them leave to go to Palestine to preach the Gospel, bestowing upon them abundant alms. He likewise gave licence for those not yet priests to be ordained by any catholic bishop on the title of poverty.

In 1383 Bishop Fordham gave the burgesses licence to receive tolls within the borough for the maintenance of the walls, while Bishop Neville granted a commission for the construction of a pier or mole.

And a similar one was granted, while inwas often replaced by socialistic dreaming.

With a view to an ampler site for his college, Waynflete obtained on the 5th of July 1456 a grant of the Hospital of St John the Baptist outside the east gate at Oxford and on the 15th of July licence to found a college there.


a hole in his stomach after he drank a nitrogen-chilled cocktail in India.

He had to undergo major surgery where the damaged parts of his stomach needed to be removed.

In 2015, a 20-year-old was close to death after she consumed a liquid nitrogen cocktail. Surgeons had to remove her stomach to prevent her from dying.

Monkey Brains

Monkey brains may come across as unusual and many of us would not consider them as food.

However, eating raw monkey brain from a live monkey was an expensive dish in China. People purchased it simply to prove they were of the wealthy.

In modern day, the consumption of monkey brains is illegal but restaurants in the Jiangxi province are said to still serve it.

Monkey brains carry terrifying dangers to human health which are unimaginable.

People canThe turmoil within the Craven County Republican Party is a symbolic, localized representation of the nationwide struggle between limited-government forces and statist establishment types for the soul of the GOP.

Thursday evening, county party leaders met and made two bold decisions: (1) to bring charges against county party chairman Paul Hill (see details HERE, HERE , HERE and HERE) and (2) to issue a public rebuke of senator Richard Burr for his comments and actions during the effort to defund ObamaCare.

The unrest appears to have its roots in the May 2012 GOP primaries. State House speaker Thom Tillis and other establishment types from Raleigh were accused of meddling in local primaries and attempting to sabotage conservative candidates. Craven County GOP leaders responded by issuing a resolution of censure against


UFC will be holding its acclaimed "Fight Night" at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on June 17, marking the first live Asia event of the year, senior vice president of international business Joe Carr said at a Thursday media briefing.

The world's largest mixed martial arts (MMA) organization is returning to the Southeast Asian financial hub known as the Lion City after a three-year spell.

While no fighters have yet been announced, fans can expect to see "the sport's finest athletes from around the globe" competing in UFC's arena, known as the Octagon, according to the company. Tickets are due to go on general sale soon via Sports Hub Tix.

"Singapore is the home of our Asia headquarters and as such has always been a key market in our strategy to growthe UFC brand and the sport of MMA in the ASEAN region," Carr said.

UFC is no stranger to Asia, having hosted its first Singapore event in 2014, with additional bouts in Manila, Macau, Seoul and Tokyo.

"As the only UFC fight scheduled in Southeast Asia this year, this will pique the interest of a growing MMA fan base in this region," said Jean Ng, sports director at the Singapore Tourism Board.

UFC, the International Mixed Martial Arts Federation and Grapple Asia will be holding a series of activities and regional tournaments in Singapore in the run-up to the June event.

MMA, which has Asian origins, is popular throughout the region, reflected by the vast number of gyms dedicated to the violent sport.

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Algeria clears Islamic State-tied militants east of capital: sources

By Lamine Chikhi

By Lamine Chikhi

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian forces have cleared out Islamic State-affiliated militants from the mountains east of Algiers, two years after they kidnapped and beheaded a French tourist in the former al Qaeda stronghold, senior security sources said.

Algeria, emerging from a 1990s war with armed Islamists, has been carrying out operations to flush out remnants of militants from Jund al-Khilafa, or "Soldiers of the Caliphate", who had declared themselves allied with Islamic State.

Bombings and attacks are rarer in Algeria since it ended its decade-long war, but al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb is still active and a small group of rival militants tied to Islamic State also began operating east of the capital.

Algeria's clearing out Islamic Stateallies comes as the group battles to hold its North Africa base in the Libyan city of Sirte. Tunisian militants with Islamic State in the Libyan city of Sabratha were hit by a U.S. air strike in February.

Since Frenchman Herve Gourdel was killed in September 2014 in Algeria, troops have swept through the Kabilye region, a mountainous and heavily forested area once known as part of the "Triangle of Death" during Algeria's bloody 1990s war.

"The group has been dismantled, most of its commanders were killed or arrested. It is over," one senior security source told Reuters, asking his name not be used because he was not authorized to speak to media.

Mopping up Islamic State in the north will allow Algeria's army to focus on southern borders with Libya,


Mali and Niger where fleeing militants may try to slip across its frontiers, the source familiar with the operations said.

A second security source said Jund al-Khilafa has been militarily defeated over the past few months in regions including Bouira, Boumerdes and Tizi Ouzou, all the east of the capital.

Most of its commanders had been killed or arrested and its structure has been dismantled, the source said.

"Most of those killed or arrested in the northern regions of Algeria, including Tizi Ouzou, Boumerdes and Bouira belonged to Jund Al-Khilafa," the source said.

While security forces pursue Jund al-Khilafa, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has been little visible in the area east of Algiers in the past two years, leading to questions whether AQIM commander Abdelmalek Droudkel fled the regionusually considered his base of operations.

FORCES "CLEARING THE REGION"

Algerian forces killed 157 armed Islamists in 2015, and 99 were killed and 50 arrested in the first half of 2016, according to a defense ministry release which did not identify the groups to which those militants belonged.

The first leader of Jund al-Khilafa was Abdelmalek Gouri who was killed six months after the kidnapping of Gourdel. Gouri was a senior Algerian militant and later a fighter with Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb.

"We are now in the second phase that includes clearing the region, de-mining, opening roads so life can come back to normal," another senior security source told Reuters.

A resident near Tigzirt said people were returning to the area and construction was increasing as security had improved dramatically.

"Although Algeria may


not have defeated the Islamic State entirely, even the Islamic State is not claiming to have even a covert presence in Algeria," said Geoff Porter, with North Africa Risk Consulting. "AQIM remains the main threat in the country and even then it is hugely reduced."

Militants can still strike. In 2013, fighters allied to veteran jihadist Mokhtar Belmokhtar attacked the In Amenas gas plant, and 40 oil workers were killed in the attack and the siege that followed.

At least nine Algerian soldiers were killed when Islamist militants ambushed their patrol west of Algiers last year, and rockets were fired at another gas plant in the Sahara operated by BP and Statoil though no damage was caused.'Trojan Horse' hearings against teachers and governor cost £1.27m By Alex Homer

BBC News Published duration 17 August 2018

image copyright BBC/PA image caption The alleged "Trojan Horse" plot was to oust some Birmingham head teachers and make their schools adhere to more conservative Islamic principles

Misconduct hearings - most of which collapsed - against teachers accused in the so-called "Trojan Horse" inquiry cost £884,055, the BBC can reveal.

The case to ban from education the ex-chair of governors for three Birmingham schools that were investigated, Tahir Alam, also cost £387,444 in legal fees.

Witness statements from a prior inquiry had been "deliberately withheld" before the hearings were dropped in May 2017.

The government said it made "no apology for working to protect young people".

The BBC has fought a Freedom of Information battle since


April 2017 to reveal the costs, which succeeded when the independent data watchdog The Information Commissioner's Office ordered the Department for Education (DfE) to release the information after backing the corporation's public interest arguments.

The only teacher who was sanctioned - out of 14 against whom the DfE pursued hearings - was the former acting head teacher of Oldknow Academy in Small Heath, Jahangir Akbar.

Banned governor Mr Alam said the cases were a "total waste of public money" that achieved little.

image caption Tahir Alam was chairman of governors at Park View School in Birmingham from 1997-2014

Several schools in Birmingham were investigated amid claims of a Muslim hardliners' plot to control them, known as the Trojan Horse affair, which began in 2014.

The teachers' hearings stemmed from that investigation but weredropped when the professional conduct panel of the National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) found its own organisation withheld 25 statements that had been used in an an earlier inquiry led by former counter-terror boss Peter Clarke

The DfE said it was "looking carefully" at the handling of the cases, which were "led by an external law firm".

The teachers were not permitted to work while the hearings, which began in 2015, were ongoing.

Lawyers for two of the accused teachers, Monzoor Hussain and Lindsey Clark, had issued separate statements when the hearings were dropped saying both parties were relieved.

The alleged plot caused such outrage because the accusation centred on the claim children were being fed a one-sided education and view of the world.

Ironically the hearings collapsed when the NCTL


- which has since been replaced by the Teaching Regulation Agency - found it had not presented the whole picture of the accusations to the lawyers who were trying to defend the accused teachers' reputations and careers.

Mr Alam said he was depicted as an "anti-state enemy" during the affair and questioned what the inquiry achieved.

"It was completely unnecessary. Why did they put a banning order on me? I was a volunteer while I was a governor. No school had to appoint me," Mr Alam added.

He said GCSE marks at the schools where he was chair of governors had declined since the affair.

Mr Alam - who was a former Ofsted inspector, governance trainer for Birmingham City Council and school consultant - said the process had damaged his reputation, careerformer senior teachers who had been grouped together in one hearing before the process was halted were:

Razwan Faraz, former deputy head teacher at Nansen Primary

Arshad Hussain, assistant head teacher at Park View

Hardeep Saini, former head teacher at Golden Hillock

Lindsey Clark, executive head teacher at Park View

Monzoor Hussain, former head teacher at Park View

Those five had all worked for the former Park View Educational Trust, which oversaw the running of several schools in Birmingham implicated in the original allegations, including Park View, Golden Hillock and Nansen Primary.

image caption Arshad Malik said Park View went from "underachieving" to "overachieving" in the decade before the "Trojan Horse" affair

Lifetime bans handed to two other Park View teachers, Inamulhaq Anwar and Akeel Ahmed, had earlier been quashed

Mr Alam had been chair of governors


at that trust but was banned from involvement in schools , which was upheld on appeal in April 2018.

The tribunal then concluded "the Appellant [Mr Alam]... took no adequate steps to ensure that children were kept safe from extremist views".

Arshad Malik, who decided not to move his then 14-year-old son Imran from Park View to a different school when the affair began, said the school's staff had "been decimated" after "teachers left or were 'forced to leave' and new teachers had not wanted to come".

He said he had to "supplement" Imran's education by helping him at home himself and he believed there was a lot of "mistrust" in communities since.

Former acting head teacher of Oldknow Academy in Small Heath, Mr Akbar, was banned from teaching in all schoolsindefinitely after being accused of trying to "eliminate" the celebration of Christmas in school and "undermining tolerance" of other beliefs.

Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson, head teacher of Anderton Park Primary School in Sparkhill, said some of the legacy of the inquiry was healthy in prompting schools to teach more about the equality of the sexes, British values and law.

image copyright Getty Images image caption Park View was later renamed Rockwood Academy

The saga centred on the emergence of an anonymous letter in 2014 giving details of an alleged plot to oust some Birmingham head teachers and make their schools adhere to more conservative Islamic principles.

It stated parents could be encouraged to turn against the leadership team if they were told the school was "corrupting their children with sex education, teaching about homosexuals,


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An Indian MiG-21 was shot down earlier today by the Pakistan Air Force.

The Indian Air Force (IAF) has admitted loss of a MiG-21 Bison, shot down by the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) during an engagement over the ceasefire line in disputed Kashmir. The MiG-21 pilot was arrested.

The clashes come a day after IAF Mirage 2000s flew across the LoC (Line of Control) to carry out an air strike on terror bases in Balakot using Israeli SPICE 2000 EO/GPS-guided stand-off 2000-lb PGMs (Precision Guided Munitions).

How the aerial engagement unfold is still unclear.

According to some sources, the IAF MiG-21 were launched in response to PAF strikes earlier in the morning. Islamabad claims at least two IAF fighters crossed LOC and were both shot down by PAF fighters inside Pakistani airspace.

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The date of the sale of the business or stock of goods.

(3) The date the former owner's records are made available for audit.

The certificate may be issued after the payment of all amounts due under the Use Fuel Tax Law, according to the records of the board as of the date of the certificate, or after the payment of the amounts, including amounts not yet ascertained, is secured to the satisfaction of the board.

(d) ENFORCEMENT OF OBLIGATION. The liability is enforced by service of a notice of successor liability not later than three years after the date the board receives written notice of the purchase of the business or stock of goods. The successor may petition the Board for reconsideration of the liability within 30 days after service.Most of the information about Bowers comes from his social media, which is largely comprised of anti-Semitic posts.

Robert Bowers, 48, has been named as the suspect in the mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue that saw 11 people killed and six others injured, including four police officers.

Bowers is a resident of Baldwin, a borough south of Pittsburgh.

He was a user of Gab, a social media site that promotes itself as a bastion of free speech but has become popular with white nationalists, many of whom were blocked by other social media.

Anti-Semitism

According to screenshots of Bower’s Gab account, from where most information concerning the alleged synagogue shooter comes, he often wrote anti-Semitic posts.

Bowers’ profile description quotes a Bible verse, John 8:44, in which Christ says that members of the


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it topped a Sports Illustrated's fan poll to determine the most terrible stadiums in 2008. Writer
Nick Carbone notes that "it's not awful, but it's not great either." He
then lists the ownership's demands for upgrades in seating, concession stands, new windows and a Dallas Cowboys-grade scoreboard as reasons for its general shittiness, and caps it off with a statement that damns the team's fans.

"For Missouri's football fans who dealt with the pain of losing the Cardinals to Arizona in 1987, they don't seem too keen on wanting the Rams to stick around."

Listen, Carbone: At this point, the fans haven't been consulted on the matter. The CVC and the team are keeping the city in the dark. It's only because Attorneytotally from alcohol. "

Torvik said that, on average, divorced people drink more than married people. "To some extent, this is due to increased drinking after a divorce, but people who drink heavily also have a higher risk of experiencing a divorce, so heavy drinking likely interferes fundamentally with the quality of marriage."

Heavy drinking among women, however, appears to be more strongly associated with divorce than heavy drinking among men.

Ellinor Major, director of the institute's division of mental health, noted that heavy drinking among women is less acceptable than among men.

"A wife's heavy drinking probably also interferes more with general family life -- that is, the caring role of the mother, upbringing of children, etc.," Major said. "Perhaps the husband is more apt to the leave the spouse than


of hundred times since 1915, mostly focused around north-western Indian Ocean and close Java, Indonesia.They are not caused by dinoflagellates, but rather are believed to be the aftereffect of "bioluminescent microorganisms that have amassed in substantial numbers close to the surface", discloses to Dr Matt Davis, Assistant Professor of Biology, St. Cloud State University in the US, who has some expertise in bioluminescence.Reports by mariners throughout the hundreds of years have depicted smooth oceans as a nighttime whitish shine like a field of snow, yet researchers have had minimal opportunity to examine the marvel direct.In 2005, specialists examining documented satellite pictures found that smooth oceans could be seen from space and that one satellite had caught pictures of a colossal zone of sea that had shown the peculiaroff by extraordinary white sharks watching the oceans when they enter and leave the water.One examination in 2016 speculated seals swimming around evening time amid a full moon are at more danger of being eaten by a shark since brilliant moonlight outlining them against the surface makes them a simple dinner for predators prowling underneath.Be that as it may, most shark assaults on seals happen soon after dawn. Analysts behind the investigation, which measured shark assaults at sunrise, were astonished to discover seals were significantly less liable to be originated before during this season of day if there was a full moon.The analysts conjectured that lunar brightening joined with developing daylight may diminish the stealth capacity of the sharks and that the favorable position changed from sharks to


I-Pace emerged at the helm, just ahead of the Volkswagen Touareg, Audi A6, Peugeot 508 and Hyundai Nexo.

When presented the award, Porsche CEO Oliver Blume said: “We are very proud that we were able to convince this top-notch expert jury with the Taycan and were awarded the German Car of the Year 2020 Award for the best new car in Germany. The award, once again, confirms that we have taken the right path with our strategy of putting a real Porsche on the road, even with electric drive. ”

Incidentally, the individual results reveal that the Taycan convinced the jury above all with its design, as well as chassis and powertrain performance; it excelled in the area of the classic sports car criteria. Environmental aspects played a minor role.Despite a life-changing moment when he was knocked out of football on Nov. 29, 1992, in a collision with teammate Scott Mersereau that broke his C-5 vertebra and initially left him paralyzed from the waist down, Byrd today is an avid jogger and personally tends to his land.

But he also relives that moment when his life changed and he was knocked out of the game he loved in his fourth season. Even in Oklahoma, he hears about it often.
Byrd has recently come to embrace his place in team history, though.

In 2011, before the Jets played the Patriots in the AFC divisional playoff game, he sent coach Rex Ryan the No. 90 jersey that was cut off his back that November day, reconnecting with the organization for the first


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One day, they heard a knock at their door. It was a Castle Carrier with an invitation from the castle. Edderella took the invitation, and quickly closed the door. Just as he was about to open the envelope, Stepbrother Eddy snatched it from his hand. He starts to read the invitation.

It said:

"You are cordially invited to attend the summer ball at the castle, to beld on August the 8th. Beginning 8:00 RSUP required.

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A/N: My sister and I made these up at the local pool. We like to pretend that Bernie Bernstein is the director and we're shooting the movies. Then we decided to take the movies we made up and put them in a fanfic. Enjoy!:)

One day, the Eds were walking down the street slurping jawbreakers when theyran into Bernie Bernstein, the director from the Powerpuff Girls.

Bernie: "Hi there!"

Eddy: "What do you want?"

Bernie: "I just wanted to let you know that I'm releasing a series of three movies to celebrate the Summer. They're called...

Excerpt:
One Day, Edd Spied A Moving Van In The Cul-De-Sac.He Decided To Go Greet The Newcomers.He Went Over And Knocked On Their Door. A 12 Year Old With Short Red Hair, Wearing Glasses, Had Some Freckles, Greeted Him.The Look In Edd's Eyes Could Clearly State That He Was In Love.

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"And, cut!" Eddy yelled, waving a hand in the air to signal for Dry Rain to stop. The band members quit playing, and looked up at him expectantly.

"Thats all," he winked, and Edd sighed with relief.

"What an exhausting day!" he chuckled. "I didnt


realize staring in a music video would be so much work!"

It was a bright and beautiful Sunday afternoon in the cul-de-sac, which had been carefully reserved for the filming of Edds alternative band, Dry Rain, in their first music video. It had been a great idea by Eddy to sell copies of the video at the...One of America's most famous Army officers, Pershing was born in Missouri on September 13, 1860. He graduated from West Point in 1886 and served in the Spanish-American War, the Philippines Insurrection, the Mexican Expedition and was the overall American Commander in Europe during World War I. Following the war, he served as Army Chief of Staff. He died at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington on July 15, 1948. His funeral service, one of only a handfull ever held at the Memorial Amphitheater in Arlington National Cemetery, was attended by literally thousands of American citizens as well as by the leaders of government and the military. He was buried, as was his wish, under a simple white gravestone in Section 34 of Arlington National Cemetery, near


the gravesites of his "Doughboys" from World War I. His grandsons, Army Second Lieutenant Richard Warren Pershing, who was killed-in-action in Vietnam in 1968, and Colonel John Warren Pershing III, are buried beside him. PERSHING, JOHN J.

Brigadier General, U.S. Army

Commander

ecorations U.S. Army, Supplement V, 1941

Home Town: Laclede, Missouri

Date of Action: June 15, 1913 Citation: The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John J. Pershing, Brigadier General, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action against hostile fanatical Moros at Mount Bagsak, Jolo, Philippine Islands, on June 15, 1913. Brigadier General Pershing personally assumed command of the assaulting line at the most critical period when only about 15 yards from the last Moro position. His encouragement and splendid example of personal heroism resulted in a general advance and the promptcapture of the hostile stronghold.

5 August 2006:

Lookin' Back: Expectation of general's demise was premature

PAUL L. ALLEN

Courtesy of the Tucson Citizen In the World War I era, no American military figure was better known than Gen. John J. "Black Jack" Pershing. So it was no surprise that reporters gathered like vultures circling a fresh roadkill when word got out in 1938 that Pershing was dying at a sanitorium in Tucson. Pershing had accomplished the near impossible, whipping an ill-prepared American military into an effective, disciplined, 2 million-member fighting machine in World War I and then leading it to victory as its field commander. The late Reba D. Grubb, who compiled a massive, two-volume history - "Portrait of Progress, A Story of Tucson Medical Center" - collected details of Pershing's


presence in the Old Pueblo. He had been appointed chief of staff in 1921 and retired three years later as "General of the Armies." Thereafter, he resisted the temptation to get into politics and declined to make public strategy suggestions about the uneasy world of the 1930s and 1940s. Grubb wrote that the general and his sister, May, were "wintering" in Tucson in 1938, staying at the popular El Conquistador Hotel in February when he became ill. He was taken to the Desert Sanitorium of the Southwest, as TMC was known in its original incarnation. The retired general was given medication and ordered to rest, but he was hospitalized at the sanitorium on February 22, attended by Col. Shelly U. Marietta of the Army Medical Corps, a nationallyrecognized heart specialist flown in from San Antonio at the family's request. Pershing was reported to have suffered "acute damage" to his heart muscles, with blood pressure dropping and a fever rising. He became comatose, and EKG testing showed "progressive myocardial degeneration." In other words, Pershing, then 78, was dying. His son and other relatives were summoned, and as word spread, a horde of radio commentators, newspaper reporters, Army officers and others gathered, wanting to be the first to tell the world that the old warrior had died. The sanitorium's telephone system was overtaxed as calls came in, and more than two dozen newshounds hovered around the switchboard, hoping to assure themselves of an open line. They mooched cigarettes from each other and from visitors to the hospital


and relied on the charity of hospital employees who not only tolerated their presence, but also sustained them with toast and jam, coffee and milk. The intruders slept where and when they could, sitting in wheelchairs or sprawled on mattresses in the hallways and waiting room. The rugged old general, known as a strict disciplinarian, regained consciousness, then once again lapsed into a coma. A doctor's statement indicated Pershing's condition "appeared unfavorable." His kidneys ceased to function, and uremic poisoning set in. Anxious reporters were told "the end is approaching." Funeral arrangements were put in place, and a special rail car was waiting to transport his body to the East Coast. A World War I uniform Pershing wanted to be buried in was flown to Tucson. School wouldbe dismissed, an honor guard was arranged, and florists stocked extra flowers.

But the old soldier outflanked the vultures. He improved. On March 2, he sat up and had a breakfast of Farina, though his intravenous tubes remained in place. By March 15, he was allowed out of bed for a brief walk. He soon left for New York City, accompanied by a doctor. The following fall, fully recuperated, Pershing returned to Desert Sanitorium, bringing a retinue of servants and family members. He did so again in 1940, spending the winter season here. On July 15, 1948, General of the Armies John J. Pershing died at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. The overeager reporters who descended on 1938 Tucson had misjudged


his determination - and his demise - by a decade. Courtesy of Time Magazine

Photo Courtesy Of The Library Of Congress

Photo (c) Michael Robert Patterson, September 1999

Complete Biography of General Pershing Over a century has passed since Pershing's birth and more than fifty years since his death, yet his memory stands tall in the land and his name rings firm in the historical echo of his times. General Pershing is the First World War, and the proof of this lies in the fact that after over fifty years no other general's name comes readily to mind when that war is mentioned. Pershing was born into the opening fanfare of the golden age of Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Jackson -- four names that will stand linked forever before the factof the preserved Union. Pershing's earliest toddler memories were of Southern bushwhackers raiding his hometown and shooting up the village. He was five years old when Lee surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse. He grew to manhood and as a junior officer served under Generals Nelson A. Miles, Adna R. Chaffee, John M. Schofield, and William R. Shafter- - four men indelibly associated with the march of America across the shrinking plains, to Cuba and the Orient, while the 19th century wound its way out and the century of great wars came upon us. In the First World War, however, Pershing played his part without peer-standing alone in his time as history would have it, and with no one to share the fame. Pershing grew very old and lived on


to see the new men come to flower -- MacArthur and Eisenhower, Patton and Stilwell, all of whom he outranked by an active commission as General of the armies by Act of Congress as long as he lived -- but never once did he attempt to put finger in the New War pie. Like a wise old soldier, he spent the Second World War quietly fading away. In 1944, when Pershing was in Walter Reed Hospital, the Old Man was eighty-four years old, and he had been living up on top of the hospital in his specially-built set of quarters for the three years that the Second World War had been going on. The Old War was pretty far back in history by this time; yet it wasa mark of the stature of Pershing that his nurses scheduled receiving hours each morning for seldom less than three or four people who felt impelled, by right of past association and present desire, to call and pay their respects when passing through Washington. It was a mark of the gallantry that never dies in old cavalrymen, one supposes, that the comelier nurses would grin at times and rub themselves where they swore they'd been pinched. Of all men of his time, he seemed to have an unerring instinct for just where he fitted in the scheme of things. When age came upon him, he met it with the cool dignity that marked his intercourse with even his close friends. He made no effort to inflict his aging


mind on the nation as a senior citizen. He wrote no carping, critical books. He did not sell his retired sword to commerce. He was, in essence, a dirt soldier who came up the hard way, but who loved his profession dearly enough to continue the pursuit of excellence in it-- the hard way. So when his time came, he folded his cloak about him and quietly departed, almost a stranger to the new war that had come upon his country, but forever a part of the careful binding to meet threats that will bring victory once more when the time comes. Pershing's father, John Fletcher Pershing, was a boss tracklayer for the North Missouri Railroad at Warrenton, Missouri, where he met Ann Elizabeth Thompson. On 22 March1859, they were married. Soon after, they moved to a shanty on the farm of Judge Meredith Brown near Laclede. John Joseph was born there on 13 September 1860. When the Civil War began, John Fletcher moved to Laclede and bought Lomax's General Store. He bought two farms, one 80 acres, the other 160 acres, and a lumberyard. He also became the sutler for the 18th Missouri Volunteer Infantry, then quartered at Laclede. In 1865, a "select school for small children" was opened in Laclede. John and his brother, James attended this school. Between 1870 and 1873, John Fletcher lost the greater part of his land holdings in speculation, and in 1876 became a traveling salesman. During this time, John Joseph worked on his father's farm and attended


school, and later taught the Negro school at Laclede. Throughout this sometimes difficult period, the future General Pershing demonstrated the qualities which would always be paramount in his life: self-possession, competence, level-headedness, dependability, and the ability to see things through. In October 1879, Pershing became the teacher of the school at Prairie Mound, nine miles from Laclede. During the summers of 1880, 1881, and 1882, he went to the State Normal School at Kirksville, Missouri. In the spring of 1882, Pershing saw an announcement for a competitive examination for an appointment to West Point. He had no desire to become a soldier but he saw an opportunity for an excellent education. On the advice of his sister, he took the examination and won the appointment. Pershing was nota brilliant scholar. He graduated 30th in a class of 77. But the officers and his classmates at West Point recognized that he had a rare quality of leadership. General Merritt, then Superintendent of West Point, said that Pershing showed early promise of becoming a superb officer. He was elected president of the class of 1886. Each year he held the highest possible rank in the Cadet Battalion. Thirteen years before the Spanish-American War began, Cadet Captain Pershing commanded the Corps of Cadets when it crossed the Hudson from West Point to Garrison to stand at present arms while the funeral train of Ulysses S. Grant rolled slowly by. Pershing did not think much of army life in peacetime and during his furlough he expressed a desire to


take up the study of law. During his last year at the Point, he and four classmates formed a scheme for an irrigation project in Oregon, but nothing ever came of it. After his graduation from West Point, Pershing was assigned to Troop L, 6th Cavalry, Fort Bayard, New Mexico. He reported for duty on 30 September 1886. He scouted hostile Indians and commanded a detachment which set up a heliograph line 160 miles through the mountains. This latter accomplishment was no small feat. The detachment was out about a month and lived off the country, which was inhabited by hostile Indians. A group photograph of the 6th United States Cavalry, taken on the club steps at Fort Bayard, New Mexico, show among them the very junior SecondLieutenant Pershing, blue kepi cocked on his light blond head and a kid's grin on his face. For four years in the desert Southwest, he was on active service against the last of the Apaches. He served throughout the Santiago Campaign fighting at San Juan Hill, where he was cited for gallantry 1 July 1898, and for which he was subsequently awarded the Silver Star Medal. In the words of his commanding general, S. M. B. Young, he was "the coolest man under fire that I ever saw." In 1887, Pershing was transferred to Fort Stanton, where he took part in maneuvers. In 1889, he stood second in pistol marksmanship in the California and Arizona divisions of the Cavalry and 22nd in rifle marksmanship in the Army. In


1891, he stood second in pistol and fifth in rifle marksmanship. On 23 November 1890, the 6th Cavalry was ordered to South Dakota. It arrived at Rapid City on 9 December 1890. That winter, a most severe one, was spent in putting down one of the final Sioux uprisings. On 15 September 1891, Pershing took up his duties as Professor of Military Science and Tactics at the University of Nebraska. During the four years he held this post, he showed qualities of character that were prophetic of the way that he would acquit himself should the Army call him to a bigger role on a bigger stage. This statement is based entirely upon statements and letters contemporaneous with his service at Nebraska when he was still an unknownsecond lieutenant. Upon his arrival at Nebraska, Pershing found few men, the interest in the battalion weak, the discipline next to nothing, and the instincts of the faculty and the precedent of the University against the Cadet Corps. The sentiment of the community faculty, and student body (and, in fact, that of the whole nation) was pacifistic. No one thought that there would be another war. The accepted recipe for army-making which William Jennings Bryan made famous and which World War I proved utterly false, was that "A million men (would) spring to arms overnight." He could have drawn his pay and courted popularity by drifting with the tide, but he was not made that way. Here as elsewhere, Pershing was a strict disciplinarian. In 1892, the National


Competitive Drills were held in Omaha. Pershing, after much opposition, entered a company. Using Company A as a nucleus, he built up a drill company. It drilled from seven until nine in the morning and from four until seven in the afternoon. In the maiden competition, Company A won the Omaha Cup and $1,500. That same year, Chancellor Canfield requested that Pershing be permitted to remain at the University another year. This request was granted by the War Department. While at Nebraska, Pershing studied law and graduated with the class of 1893. On 1 October 1895, Pershing was ordered to join his regiment at Fort Assiniboine, Montana. He had been appointed a First Lieutenant in the 10th Cavalry. While on duty in Montana, Pershing was active in roundingup a large group of renegade Creeks and deporting them to Canada. In June 1897, Pershing was assigned to West Point as an assistant instructor in Tactics. He was not a popular officer there because the cadets thought his discipline was too strict. On 2 May 1898, after Colonel Henry of the 19th Cavalry had requested it and Major General Miles recommended it, Pershing was relieved from his duties at West Point and joined his Regiment at Tampa as Regimental Quartermaster. Pershing was mentioned in the report of LTC T. A. Baldwin, commander of the 10th Cavalry, to the War Department for his untiring energy, faithfulness, and gallantry. In this report he was also recommended for a brevet commission. On 26 August, Pershing was commissioned Chief Ordnance Officer


of volunteers with the rank of Major and was ordered to Washington for that duty. Unfortunately, he was suffering from malaria and was confined at home. On 10 March 1899, Pershing was placed in charge of the Division of Customs and Insular Affairs, a new division within the War Department. It was created to meet the emergency caused by the necessity of providing the military government for our new insular possessions: Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam. On 17 August 1899, he was ordered to Manila, the Philippines, to report to the Commander of the Eighth Army Corps for duty. On 1 December, he was assigned to the Department of Mindanao and Jolo. In cleaning up the Moro insurrectionists, Pershing, as Adjutant General of his Department, wasin active service from 27 November 1900 until 1 March 1901. He participated in the advance up the Cagayan River to destroy the stronghold of Macajambo. The expert handling of these expeditions was noted even in Washington: Secretary of War Elihu Root, the father of the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, in 1903 said on record to D. Avery Andrews: "If your friend Pershing doesn't look out, he will find himself in the Brigadier General class very soon." On 2 February 1901, Pershing was made a Captain and was transferred to the 1st Cavalry. In August of that year, it was ordered back to the U.S. Pershing applied for transfer to the 15th Cavalry, then taking up its station in the Philippines. The request was


granted, and he served in various departmental roles until 11 October, when he took charge of the post at Iligan. There, Pershing won the confidence of and made friends with a few Datos from the north of Lake Lanao. He learned the Moro language well enough to converse with the Moros. After LTC Baldwin had advanced to Lake Lanao, captured Fort Padapatan, and founded Camp Vicars (named in honor of LT Thomas A. Vicars, who was killed during the attack on the Fort), Pershing was sent to the camp. He acted as Intelligence Officer and on 30 June 1901, he succeeded LTC Baldwin as Commander of Camp Vicars, the Colonel having been made Brigadier General. On 28 September 1901, after numerous attacks had been made on the outpostsof Camp Vicars, Pershing began the first of a series of four campaigns against the Moros. On the fourth one, he completely circled Lake Lanao, a feat never before accomplished by a white man. After three and a half years of active service, Pershing was ordered home in June 1903. Before his departure, a movement was carried out among the officers of the Army to have Pershing made a Brigadier General as due recognition of his services and his demonstrated military ability. This movement was carried out by men best fit to judge Pershing's worth as a General Officer: Major Generals Davis, Summer, Murray, and Wood; Brigadier Generals Sanger, Burt, and Pandal. While in Washington, after his return from the Philippines, Pershing met Miss Helen Frances Warren, whom


he later married. Miss Warren's father was a Senator from Wyoming. When Congress met on 7 December 1903, President Roosevelt, in his message to Congress, mentioned Pershing by name. It was in connection with that portion of his message dealing with the promotion system of the Army. He said that when men render such a service as Captain Pershing did in the Philippines, it should be possible to reward him without at once jumping him to the rank of Brigadier General. This is one of the few occasions when an Army officer has been mentioned by name in the President's message to Congress. In 1904, Pershing was assigned to duty in Oklahoma City as Assistant Chief of Staff, Southwest Division. That fall, while on leave, he visited theWarrens at their ranch in Wyoming. On 31 October 1904, he was assigned as a student at at the Army War College and was ordered back to Washington. When Congress met in December, the Warrens were again in Washington, and Pershing was assigned as a military attache in Tokyo. This assignment brought his long courtship with Miss Warren to a close. They were married on 26 January 1905, and sailed for Tokyo the following day. Pershing spent most of his nine-month tour of duty in Manchuria observing the Russo-Japanese War. Shortly after Pershing's first child, Helen Elizabeth, was born, President Roosevelt promoted Captain Pershing to Brigadier General. However, Pershing's long years of service, his splendid record, and his achievements in the Philippines were all forgotten by critics. They


also forgot that three years had passed since the President had urged Congress to remove the necessity of such promotions to reward merit. Also overlooked were the precedents for this promotion. Major Tasker H. Bliss, Captains Leonard Wood, Frederick D. Grant, Frederick Funston and Albert L. Mills had all been promoted to Brigadier General, the latter just before Pershing himself. All of these promotions were made in the considered interest of Army efficiency at a time when the service was bound by passively entrenched rank, living on the inertia of seniority. The many critics remembered only that Pershing was the son-in-law of Senator Francis E. Warren, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs. "His promotion," they declared, "was a flagrant example of pull." In answer to suchcriticism, Roosevelt said, "To promote a man because he married a Senator's daughter would be an infamy; to refuse him promotion for the same reason would be an equal infamy." Shortly after his promotion, General Pershing was asked whether he would prefer an assignment in the Philippines or to command the Department of the Gulf. He replied that he preferred active service and would leave the assignment to the War Department. Unfortunately, the War Department had some trouble seeing a clear decision through all the red tape. Pershing was ordered to report to San Francisco for further orders. He left Tokyo and went to San Francisco. He had just arrived there when he was directed to go to the Philippines. He had to get special permission to go


by way of Tokyo to get his family and property. Upon reaching the Philippines, Pershing was placed in command of Fort McKinley, near Manila. On 24 March 1908, Pershing's second child, Anne, was born at Baguio, the summer capital of the Philippines. In the fall of 1908, war seemed imminent in the Balkans. Pershing was directed to proceed to Paris and, if war broke out, to go as a military observer. He and his family were in Paris for two months. When the hostilities in the Balkans died down in 1909, they returned to the United States. Meanwhile the Moro situation in Mindanao and the Sulu Islands had again become troublesome. Governor Smith of the Philippines recommended that General Pershing return, but due to complications arising from malariathat Pershing had contracted in Cuba and the Philippines, he was prevented from returning there. He requested that no one be permanently assigned to the post. On 24 June 1909, Pershing's only son, Francis Warren, was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Pershing's only child born in the United States. In October of that year, Pershing, now recovered from his illness, sailed for the Philippines to take charge of the Moro Province as Military Governor. Under his leadership, the hostile Moros were disarmed, by peaceful methods when possible and by force when necessary. Peace was gradually restored. On 20 May 1912, Pershing's fourth and last child, Mary Margaret, was born. Soon afterwards, the entire Pershing family was baptized into the Episcopal faith by Bishop Brent, a close friend of Pershing.


In 1913, General Huerta had seized the reins of the Mexican government. The United States refused to recognize the new government and diplomatic relations were severed. General Pershing, about to sail for home after four years of service in the Philippines, applied to the War Department for assignment to active service in the event of hostilities with Mexico. When Pershing arrived in Honolulu on 20 December 1913, he received orders to report to the 8th Brigade at San Francisco, the first Brigade on the roster in case of "hostilities." On 20 January 1914, Pershing, with the 8th Brigade, began patrolling the Mexican Border, leaving his wife and his four young children in quarters at the Presidio of San Francisco. After a year's stay at Fort Bliss, Pershing decidedto bring his family there. The arrangements were almost complete when a tremendous tragedy occurred at the Presidio on 27 August 1915: the quarters were destroyed by fire and Mrs. Pershing and the three little girls died in the holocaust. Only his son Warren survived. What this does to a man, no other can say. At best, a part of him must seal up forever, wherein the dead never grow up or grow older; only the broken heart that holds them in anguish does. This tragedy was a part of the great and natural dignity of Pershing, of which Heywood Brown once wrote: "They will never call him Papa Pershing." It was dignity that impelled only the long- service soldiers to call him "Black Jack" as a subtle


accolade, not in derogation. After the funerals at Cheyenne, Pershing returned to Fort Bliss with his son Warren and his sister Mae and took up his duties as commanding officer again. He sought and found solace in hard work. He finally regained mastery of himself, though it was feared for a while that he might lose his mind. On 15 March 1915, Pershing led an expedition into Mexico to capture Pancho Villa. This expedition was ill-equipped and hampered by a lack of supplies due to the breakdown of the Quartermaster Corps. Although there had been talk of war on the border for years, no steps had been taken to provide for the handling of supplies for an expedition. Despite this and other hindrances, such as the lack ofaid from the former Mexican government, and their refusal to allow American troops to transport troops and supplies over their railroads, Pershing organized and commanded the Mexican Punitive Expedition, a combined armed force of 10,000 men that penetrated 350 miles into Mexico and routed Pancho Villa's revolutionaries, severely wounding the bandit himself. There is a prophetic photograph surviving from those days: a picture taken at Nogales of Generals Obregon, Villa and Pershing. Behind Pershing and to his left stands First Lieutenant George S. Patton, Jr. On 3 April 1917, the United States declared war on Germany. On 7 May, Pershing was ordered to Washington, and later that month he sailed to Europe with the nucleus of a General Staff. The story of Pershing's appointment to the command of


the American Expeditionary Force is not generally known, for it is loosely assumed that he fell into it naturally after the death of General Frederick Funston. But this is not so. Newton D. Baker, Wilson's Secretary of War, had had no previous acquaintance with Army matters before his Cabinet appointment. The Chief of Staff in 1917 was Major General Hugh L. Scott, a distinguished and capable officer, but in his 64th year, faced statutory retirement in a matter of months. When it became imperative to select a field commander, Secretary Baker took home the complete records of all general officers and spent almost 48 continuous hours examining them minutely against each other. It is a testament to Pershing's greatness that when Secretary Baker announced his choice, he wascompletely certain in his selection of General Pershing; there was no second on the record. There was no American Expeditionary Force per se for Pershing to command at the time of his selection. The Regular Army had perhaps 25,000 men in 1917, and there was no divisional organization except for the hastily scratched-up 1st Division, elements of which were still landing in St. Nazaire in early July, three months after the declaration of war. There was no reserve as we know it today except the Officer's Training Camps of Plattsburg Movement. To attend one of these camps, prior to the declaration of war, a man had to buy his own uniforms, pay for his own food and incidentals, and transport himself to and from his home. He received


no pay, but he could get an Officer's Reserve Corps commission and wear ORC in bronze on his collar. The National Guard outfits in most states were separate companies that quite possibly had never trained in regiment. A long enough time had elapsed since the Spanish-American War that politics had crept back into the selection of senior officers, taking precedence over qualifications. Pershing was now entering upon the most difficult task of his career. He had the unenviable job of producing a completely organized army. It would take months, possibly a year, to get that Army into the field. Pershing soon found out that the English and French did not even want an American army; they wanted men. Nobody but the Regular Army ever trained progressively for warin the United States before World War I, and the regulars never trained on the massive scale that European armies had since the days of Frederick the Great. The prevailing American belief was that if war came, one just blithely sprang to arms overnight. Again, in the words of William Jennings Bryan, "never mind what arms you sprang to, or who fed you breakfast the next morning." Pershing's task was doubly difficult. Not only did he have to deny the men that the French and English needed, but he had to depend on those allies for supplies. The first divisions that arrived in France had been trained by the French, who expected this to be a permanent arrangement, and wanted the American troops to be brigaded with the


French, under command of French Divisional Officers. This Pershing absolutely would not allow. Pershing was not an "overnight springer." Having previously commanded four brigade-sized expeditions in hostile territory, he respected the supply and administration "which come before all glory and without which there is no military diversion of fighting a war." Furthermore, Pershing had spent many years training men. The two-sided maneuver, which later became Army doctrine, was modestly born in his unit at Fort Bayard, New Mexico, in 1886, when General Nelson Miles instituted "raiding games" wherein one cavalry troop took the part of the raiding Apaches and the others countered their efforts. Pershing carried on the method of the Philippines-- building training into pyramidal structure from the individual through units to combined arms--and employed physically opposedmaneuvers of two counterbodies of troops. Pershing was one of the leaders in the movement for the establishment of a Supreme Commander, as opposed to a Supreme War Council. He also demanded that the American Army (then still in the process of building) should be included in the agreement. Though they began randomly in the National Army of 1917- 1918 (some men were overseas two weeks after induction), the methods and training programs that Pershing inaugurated early in 1917 were the beginnings of the masterfully refined mobilization training plan of 1941-1945 that produced the finest, most far-flung army the world had ever seen. In spite of great pressure, official, diplomatic and otherwise, Pershing had been able to produce an integrated fighting force of two million men in 18