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THE CO. DURHAM POLECAT
JAN EDWARDS WRITES: This is the location the polecat was found. It is close to Heights Quarry on the A 689 – the main road through Weardale. There is the river Wear, just 100 yards away to the south – near the tree-line across the road. The quarry is about a quart-mile up hill and to the north of the junction where the animal was found.
DATE FOUND: 28th Sept 2011 (been frozen since then apart from photos.)
TIME FOUND: Approx 8:40am, and the body was still warm to the touch, indicating that death had occurred recently.
WHERE FOUND: On the junction between the A689 and Heights Quarry , DL13 1PF, Side of the road nearest the river (IE south)
And this is the polecat. Blood and grime are leaching into the preservative, so we will wait for it to precipitate out before changing the medium...
(The chicken wire is to old it in place pro tem)
Many thanks to Jan Edwards for securing us this irreplaceable specimen, which is, as far as we are aware, the first wild polecat specimen from Co. Durham in many years, possibly since WW1....
Labels: jan edwards, polecat
THYLACINE GENETIC DIVERSITY STORY
I find this fascinating; not just the latest claims that the thylacine had particularly low genetic diversity, but that this story has proliferated across the Internet in a remarkably short time, with all sorts of different spins being put upon it...
Thylacine DNA reveals lacks of diversity
ABC Online
Tiny gene pool The Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, had very limited genetic diversity before it died out, according to a new study, which suggests a similar fate for the Tasmanian devil. Hunted to the brink of extinction, the last known thylacine ...
Scientists find Tasmanian Tiger limited in genetic diversity
MARK COLVIN: A team of international scientists has found that the Tasmanian Tiger, or Thylacine, had very limited genetic diversity before it became extinct. The scientists isolated DNA samples from museum specimens that were up to 160 years old.
Lack Of Genetic Diversity Put The Tasmanian Tiger In Danger
The Tasmanian tiger, also known as the thylacine, was as large as a medium-sized dog that roamed across both Australia and Tasmania and had no natural predators. It was one of only two marsupials, along with the water opossum, to have a pouch in both ...
Study Confirms Limited Genetic Diversity in Thylacine
Sci-News.com
An international team of scientists has confirmed the Tasmanian Tiger or thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) had limited genetic diversity prior to its extinction. The Tasmanian Tiger, Thylacinus cynocephalus (Benjamin A. Sheppard) "The latest study ...
Cautionary tale in tiger DNA study
The team combed the world's museums for thylacine specimens, testing 12 different tasmanian tigers for genetic diversity. Scientists extracted DNA from bone, pelt and tissue samples, with some almost 160 years old. They found significant parts of the ...
Research Reveals Low Genetic Diversity of Thylacine
French Tribune
Named as thylacine, it is believed that it might have died in 1936. For the research, it was claimed that genetic fragments from the 14 Tasmanian tigers were collected in order to check their genetic diversity. "If we compare this same section of DNA, ...
Scientists Confirm Limited Genetic Diversity in the Extinct Tasmanian Tiger
Science Daily (press release)
ScienceDaily (Apr. 18, 2012) — A team of international scientists including from the University of Melbourne have discovered the unique Tasmanian Tiger or thylacine had limited genetic diversity prior to its extinction. The results published April 18 ...
Tasmanian tiger suffered low genomic diversity
Credit: Photo courtesy of The Tasmanian National Museum and Art Gallery The enigmatic Tasmanian tiger, known also as the thylacine, was hunted to extinction in the wild at the turn of the 20th century, and the last one died in a Tasmanian zoo in 1936.
Tassie tiger study sounds warning
Ninemsn
Professor Marilyn Renfree, who was part of a team that cloned a thylacine gene in 2008, says the result supports an earlier finding that the Tasmanian devil is also of limited genetic stock, a factor that may be making the fight against its facial ...
Thylacine DNA reveals lacks of diversity | High technology News
Share Print News in Science › Environment and Nature Thursday, 19 April 2012 Liz HobdayABC Despite the lack of genetic diversity, a bounty on.
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The Prince of Amber | ecocides: The thylacine (Thylacinus...
ecocides: " The thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus, Greek for "dog-headed pouched one") was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times.
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Extinct Tasmanian Tiger Subject of Study
HispanicBusiness.com
The unique Tasmanian Tiger, also known as the thylacine, had limited genetic diversity prior to its 20th century extinction, Australian scientists say. Researchers at the University of Melbourne analyzed the genetic health of the thylacine before it ...
Tasmanian Tiger may have been victim of inbreeding
The last known Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, died in captivity in 1936 but specimens of Australia's carnivorous marsupial are preserved in museums around the world. It was even the subject of a 2011 movie, "The Hunter," in which Willem Dafoe plays a ...
Island living may have been a death sentence for the Tassie tiger: is the ...
However, the island of Tasmania stands out from this record: it has not lost a single mammal species since the demise of the Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine. The Ireland-sized island has long acted as a refuge for its platypuses, echidnas, devils, ...
Life Science Log :: Thylacine DNA reveals lacks of diversity
TINY GENE POOL: The Tasmanian tiger had very limited genetic diversity before it died out, according to a new study.
www.lifesciencelog.com/cluster621707220/
BIG CAT NEWS: From around the world
Rarest leopard making comeback
[Photo/China Daily]
"Thanks to (China's) enormous efforts to protect forests and crack down on poaching, the big cat appears to be rebounding in China," said Jiang Jinsong, an official from Jilin provincial forestry department.
Urban sprawl blamed for Squamish cougar encounters
The witness who reported the big cat believed it had recently killed a dog, but conservation officers have not confirmed that. Officers were unable to locate the cougar during a search of the area and local trails have been closed, although many hikers ...
Backyard mountain lion habitat
myfoxny.com
But De Rosa says he doesn't have a zoo; he has an educational program called Ghost Cat Habitat Center. He has a state license and gives educational tours. He gave us one as well. De Rosa says he wanted to educate kids about the big cats that used to ...
BIG CAT NEWS: Hale, and Gloucestershire
The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived in some way by us, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in.
It takes a long time to do and is a fairly tedious task so I am not promising that they will be done each day, but I will do them as regularly as I can. JD
Big cat-like animal spotted in Hale
Messenger Newspapers
A FATHER and son got a shock when they caught sight of a mystery cat-like animal in Hale. Mark Jackson was driving home from a party with son Jay, aged 14, when he saw the creature on Belmont Road. The 43-year-old described the brown-coloured animal as ...
The first report this time is one an animal with a 'hooked tail' near Manchester, but soon we go back south to Gloucestershire, where Rick Minter neatly plugs his book whilst answering claims that these big cat reports make the locals seem like yokels.
Gloucestershire big cats: Reports don't make us rednecks
This is Gloucestershire
RICK Minter, author of BIG CATS – Facing Britain's Wild Predators, considers Gloucestershire's big cat reports. "THE big cat reports make us look like yokels," read a comment on the TIG website recently. But far from being rednecks, people who report ...
And, yes, there are more Gloucestershire reports...
New A38 big cat sighting
BIG cat sightings in Winchcombe have prompted one man to reveal he had a similar experience near Tewkesbury. Following Echo stories earlier this month about a panther-like beast having been spotted in Winchcombe, Cheltenham resident Ian Nicholl said he ...
I'M THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN
A Happy Saturday to all of you out in bloggoland. We have some jolly good stuff for you, but first apologies for yesterday. It turned out that the Jon Anderson video that we linked to should not have been let out of its cage, so we withdrew the link. There will be another one up in a day or so.
Today's goodies lead off with Graham Inglis getting massively enthusiastic about the new Hawkwind album:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/04/hawkwind-onward.html
We have a link to a great review of the Atkins/May Project:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/04/link-good-review-of-atkinsmay-project.html
And another one to a great review of Wally:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/04/link-wally-review_20.html
We have news about the movie of 'Round Ireland with a Fridge' which is now streaming online:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/04/tony-hawks-round-ireland-with-fridge.html
And a link to a eulogistic account of an evening with Martin Stephenson:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/04/link-blogpost-on-martin-stephenson-and.html
Not bad for a chilly saturday morning in the latter half of April...
Does the Thylacine Still Live? — New evidence unearthed by Lars Thomas...
Bigfoot in Oklahoma — Report on the Cross Timbers Creature Conference...
Croc comes the raw prawn with fisherman — Amateur angler snags a crocodile..
The Observer Tree - fight to save a Tassie forest — Miranda's arboreal home...
From CFZ New Zealand:
Flight of a Kakapos key to survival — A critically endangered NZ parrot...
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DALE DRINNON: Neanderthals, and news from Tyler and Benny
New at the Frontiers of Zoology:
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2012/04/commercial-neanderthal-reconstruction.html
Which harmonizes with the next installment coming up at Tyler Stone's blog as well:
http://cryptoanimals.blogspot.com/2012/04/neanderthals-eastern-bigfoot-and_20.html
Benny also has a new posting up on his blog:
http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2012/04/cover-girl-thelma-todd.html
And the problems at Gmail have led to a major disruption of my business I would have transacted this week. With the result that three or four deals I needed to hear back on are still in limbo there. The fate of Cedar and Willow hangs on one of those, so I am most anxious that the email problem be sorted out ASAP.
HAUNTED SKIES: John and Pru launch the revamped Volume 4
http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2012/04/john-hanson-and-prudence-launch.html
http://hauntedskies.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/daily-express-71167.html
On this day in 1934 the Surgeon's photograph depicting the Loch Ness Monster was published in the Daily Mail for the first time. It was officially revealed to be a hoax many decades later.
Wail, Chuck, Snort: Rock Hyraxes Sing Complex Song...
How Gravity Messes with Honeybees' Waggle Dance
The Fish That Nearly Sank Isaac Newton's Career
New zoo could open in Diss in time for the summer
Nantes' theme park economics at Machines de L'Ile
Can Behavior Be Controlled by Genes? The Case of H...
Scientists Regenerate Damaged Mouse Hearts by Tran...
Iberian lynx returns to the wild in Spain
'Workmen Find World's Biggest Dinosaur Eggs' - vi...
Jellyfish On the Rise in World's Coastal Ecosytems...
Green-Glowing Fish Provides New Insights Into Heal...
Deadly Cat Disease: Effective Treatment for Bobcat...
Tasmanian Tiger Was Genetically Doomed
New 'Bumblebee' Gecko Species Creates Buzz
Stuff of Nonsense!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISCxThLFbgQ
"IS THIS THE LOCH NESS MONSTER?" asks The Daily Mail
CRIPTOZOOLOGIA EN ESPAÑA: Traces of wild man in Aralar, Basque Country, 2011?
Right from the Spanish cryptozoology blog, Criptozoologia En España:News in Criptozoología en España :
Traces of wild man in Aralar, Basque Country, 2011?
All information in :
http://criptozoologos.blogspot.com.es/2012/04/huellas-de-hominidos-en-aralar.html
Best regards!!
Javier Resines
Criptozoología en España
http://criptozoologos.blogspot.com/
JON'S JOURNAL: The history of Cultratus
Our cultratus have bred again. It is the first time for 18 months, and is yet another twist in the saga of these peculiar little fish at the CFZ.
We first bought them at the livebearers' auction in Redditch during June 2010. Me, Max and Dave B-P had a jolly day out and came back laden with livebearers. Somehow, through the magic of mobile phones, Dave had also acquired a girlfriend during our 12-odd hours away from base, but that is another story entirely.
As I am sure Max will tell you, I bought the cultratus by accident. I thought they were something else, and when I heard the words livebearer, and £3 in the same sentence I shoved my hands in the air and bought them. They are angular, gun-metal grey little fish that I always think look like miniature porbeagle sharks and they live in a two-foot tank on my desk so that I can commune with them on a daily basis.
They bred for the first time in the autumn of 2010, but just before Christmas disaster struck. There was a power cut and something went wrong with our heater. The temperature plummeted and my nascent colony of cultratus, together with two nannacara cichlids died. I was devastated. Then the two largest female cultratus swam out from a hitherto overlooked hiding place. I was still devastated; even at Christmas virgin births are not something that an aquarist likes to count upon. But it happened. Nine tiny babies, much smaller than the conventionally produced cultratus were soon to be seen in my tank. I nurtured them. Oll made infusoria, I purchased special livebearer feed, and slowly the babies grew. But for the last 18 months they hadn't bred. I was wondering if – because they appeared to have been produced parthenogenetically. I was beginning to wonder if the babies had been born sterile.
But no. They were just late starters.
Of course parthenogenesis is not the only explanation. I believe the females of some livebearer species can store sperm inside their bodies for some considerable time before choosing to become pregnant. This sounds like the ultimate feminist ideal, and it may be what happened here.
It could be that the female cultratus were pregnant and that the gestation period was far longer than I had imagined. But my personal inference, particularly as the babies were so much smaller than either of the clutches that were born before or since, is that Alfaro cultratus can – under certain circumstances – reproduced parthenogenetically. It would be interesting to find out what the trigger mechanism would be for this. I imagine that there would be some chemical changes to the water when all the male population gets wiped out at once, and this may well be the trigger mechanism. I am presently trying to devise some experiments to test this hypothesis, but without killing off all my precious males. They have been through enough already.
FLIGHTLESS TIGER BEETLES OF HONG KONG
Thank you to everyone who got to work on identifying these for me and Richard Muirhead...
Particular thanks to Robert Schneck who really got the bit between his teeth and wrote:
The Hong Kong Entomological Society responded; they are a kind of tiger beetle! http://insectavaria.com/cicindelidae-table/Tricondyla_pulchripes.html
Could you do me a favor and credit the Hong Kong Entomological Society with the answer and provide a link to their site? It is: http://hkentsoc.org/
I have to congratulate myself a little bit; I thought they looked like tiger beetles but assumed they drank blood, which of course, would leave out tiger beetles.
The important part, however, is that they are identified, which makes me ridiculously happy.
DALE DRINNON: Neanderthals, and news from Tyler an...
HAUNTED SKIES: John and Pru launch the revamped Vo...
"IS THIS THE LOCH NESS MONSTER?" asks The Daily Ma...
CRIPTOZOOLOGIA EN ESPAÑA: Traces of wild man in Ar...


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Team GB's swimmers will produce bigger medal haul at Rio Olympics than they did at London 2012, says James Guy
James Guy thinks Team GB will produce improved Olympic display in Rio
British swimmers won just three medals in the pool during London 2012
However, they collected nine medals at 2015 World Championships
By Matt Mcgeehan, Press Association
Published: 06:22 EST, 15 May 2016 | Updated: 06:23 EST, 15 May 2016
World champion James Guy believes Great Britain's swimmers can emulate the success of Kazan at the Rio Olympics this summer.
Britain won nine medals at the 2015 World Championships, with freestyle swimmer Guy and breaststroke ace Adam Peaty emerging as individual gold medallists.
As hosts, Britain won just three medals in the pool at the London 2012 Olympics - two bronze medals for Rebecca Adlington and a silver for Michael Jamieson - but Guy is confident of a significant improvement four years on.
James Guy believes Team GB's swimmers can emulate the success of Kazan at the Olympics this summer
Britain won nine medals at the 2015 World Championships and are hoping for a similar haul in Rio
Freestyle swimmer Guy and breaststroke ace Adam Peaty emerged as individual gold medallists in Kazan
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GB TEAM FOR RIO OLYMPICS
James Guy, Adam Peaty, Max Litchfield, Jazz Carlin, Siobhan-Marie O'Connor, Andrew Willis, Hannah Miley, Ben Proud, Chloe Tutton, Ross Murdoch, Stephen Milne, Robbie Renwick, Duncan Scott, Craig Benson, Fran Halsall, Molly Renshaw, Chris Walker-Hebborn, Tim Shuttleworth, Aimee Willmott, Eleanor Faulkner, Georgia Coates, Camilla Hattersley, Georgia Davies, Cameron Kurle, Ieuan Lloyd, Daniel Wallace.
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'There were a lot of veterans there, a lot of old people retiring and finishing,' said Guy, who this week will be competing at the London 2012 Aquatics Centre in the European Championships.
'Now we've a lot of young guys coming through. This time will definitely be a lot better than London. No question.
'We won nine medals at the worlds. If we can replicate that in Rio that'd be brilliant. Hopefully we can do it.'
Guy takes confidence from his victory in the 200 metres freestyle and silver in the 400m freestyle in Russia, but knows the successes count for little in Rio.
The 200m is, arguably, the blue riband event in the pool, with Pieter van den Hoogenband, Ian Thorpe, Michael Phelps and Yannick Angel winners in the last four Games.
Michael Jamieson was the best performing British swimmer at London 2012, winning a silver medal
Rebecca Adlington claimed two bronzes four years ago and an improvement is targeted this time around
Rivals in Rio are expected to include China's Sun Yang, Germany's Paul Biedermann, Cameron McEvoy of Australia and Ryan Lochte of the United States.
'Last year's dead and buried now. No-one can change that,' added Guy, who is set to race in the 400m freestyle in London on Monday.
'Racing the big names in Kazan has given me confidence. Everyone knows I'm a hard racer.
I don't see it as a big event. I just see it as a normal meet, with guys I race who have the same passion as me. A fight to the finish line.
James Guy on the Olympic Games
'Everyone's talking about Rio, so I'll be the best prepared I can for that.
'It should be cool. I'm looking forward to going head to head again.
'There's a lot of big names in the 200m and it's going to be a head to head and a scrap to the finish line, for everyone.'
Guy, who trains at Millfield School in Somerset, is unfazed by the swimming schedule - dictated by United States television - which means the finals begin at 10pm in the evening.
'I can sleep anywhere. It doesn't really bother me,' he added.
When at rest, he may recall his childhood, growing up dreaming of Olympic success - in the 200m butterfly event Phelps has made his trademark.
'When I was a young boy I always wanted to go to an Olympic Games,' he added.
Guy is looking to fulfil a childhood dream of an Olympic gold medal and a world record in the 200m freestyle
'I always wanted to do 200m fly. That was my goal when I was 10 or 11. Olympic gold and a world record in the 200m fly.
'I'm going for the 200m free, so not quite the 200m fly, but maybe...
'I don't see it as a big event. I just see it as a normal meet, with guys I race who have the same passion as me. A fight to the finish line.'
With Rio in mind, Britain's swimmers will train through the European Championships, rather than rest and race.
On days when he is not racing, Guy will undergo double training sessions, swimming up to 6km per session.
He added: 'It's preparation really. Not backing off in the pool. It'll be a normal week.'
Team GB swimmers will produce bigger medal haul at Rio Olympics than at London 2012, says James Guy
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GHAZIABAD: A man was shot at and injured while attempting to scale the wall of high-security Hindon airbase on the outskirts of the national capital close to midnight on Tuesday, the police said.
Sujeet, a 25-year-old man from Pratapgarh in Uttar Pradesh tried to enter the Air Force base at around 11 pm on Tuesday.
As he ignored the warnings by security personnel to stop, he was shot in the left leg in order to immobilise him, senior police officer Rakesh Kumar Singh said.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, an official said there was an Intelligence Bureau alert about a possible attack by some terrorist outfits on the airbase.
Sources said it is being ascertained whether the man has links with terrorist outfits.
The security has been beefed up at the airbase.


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- SeriousEats.com Article - on "Food Deconstructed"
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- MSNnow.com Article - on "Food Deconstructed"
http://m.now.msn.com/cheeseburger-ice-cream-sundae-video
- Live Segment on "Access Hollywood Live"
-Yahoo Interview
http://voices.yahoo.com/food-deconstructed-host-raul-adrian-bustamente-on-11854979.html
-Dara on the Radio Interview
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/411voices/2012/09/18/artsentertainment-and-the-business-of-it-all
-Shane Wow Radio Show Interview
http://50.16.227.8/wowshaneradio/2012/08/16/interviewing-hollywood-film-star-adrian-bustamante
- Banana Fusion Magazine
http://www.bananadesigns.ca/adrian-bustamante/
- TTN HD INTERVIEW With Katie Uhlmann
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD-86uJ7HpQ
- The Arts and Entertainment Magazine Interview
http://www.eeriedigest.com/wordpress/2012/06/taem-interview-with-actor-adrian-bustamante/#more-7608
- Interview with Josie Passantino of the world famous Josie Show
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/josieshow/2012/06/02/e135-cassie-jordan
- Video Interview with Siggy "Dealz" Jackson of Jackson Truth Radio
- Cocktails and Conversations Radio Interview
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/cocktailsandconversation/2012/04/14/the-divas-chat-with-anita-paul-and-adrian-bustamante
- Radio Interview with Tim Lewis of The Idaho Morning
http://www.eastidahonews.com/2012/04/a-new-face-in-hollywood-on-imn-with-tim-lewis/
- My interview with Funimation on there new segment "Friends of Funi"
http://www.funimation.com/rojas/blog/friends-of-funi-adrian-bustamante/2490301
- John Simon Daily write up of one of the Lounges I attended at the 2012 Sundance Film festival
http://johnsimondaily.com/2012/01/sundance-2012-day-1-recap-gen-art-7-fresh-faces-bertolli-meal-soup-chalet/
- NY Castings.com Sundance Film Festival Interview
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http://www.nycastings.com/dmxreadyv2/blogmanager/v3_blogmanager.asp?post=sundance
http://www.nycastings.com/dmxreadyv2/blogmanager/v3_blogmanager.asp?post=audition-blunders
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-Curvewire Magazine Interview
http://curvewire.com/posts/blog/interview-actor-adrian-bustamante
-LA Splash Magazine Interview
http://www.lasplash.com/publish/686-New-Talent/adrian-bustamante.php
- Radio Interview with Cyrus Webb of Conversations Radio
http://tobtr.com/s/2479105
- VARIETY Article on Adrian Bustamante for "Take the Money and Run."
http://weblogs.variety.com/bltv/2011/08/take-the-money-and-run-and-act-naturally.html
- Take the Money and Run Article in the NY POST
http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/hidden_money_3xD57tKw0Zta8etPjL2JzH
- Celebrity Dialogue Interview
http://www.celebritydialogue.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=385:adrian-bustamante-one-of-the-stars-in-qtake-the-money-and-runq&catid=43:any&Itemid=117
- Social Hollywood Magazine Interview
- ABC News Interview for "Take the Money and Run."
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=8272839&syndicate=syndicate&section
- Aspiring Hollywood Interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEU2nPupzc4
- TTMAR Blog Interview
http://ttmar.tumblr.com/post/8571767294/how-to-win-ttmar-almost-interview-with-raul


I have a child. What are my chances finding a host family?
"the applicant is not allowed to be accompanied by any dependents".
This is no statement about you having children or not. It simply states that you cannot be accompanied by any dependents.
Now think of the situation you working as an au pair in a foreign country whilst your child is at home being brought up by someone else during this time. Is that what you really want?
And think of the host family. They are looking for an au pair who is staying with them for the agreed period of time. With having a child back home the chances increase that you are leaving the host family ahead of time due to something that might occur with your child back home.
Working as an au pair with having children or being childless, this is a topic which cannot be generally answered but should be looked at from all different point of views and after that everyone - esjpecially you as a "prospective au pair" - has to decide on his / her own.


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Katy Perry: 'I picketed Madonna's concerts'
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Big Bang star's hilarious royal encounter
Furious Caitlyn Jenner blames Ellen DeGeneres for 'alienating' her from the LGBTQ community
14 Apr, 2017 5:00pm
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Caitlyn Jenner thinks Ellen DeGeneres "alienated" her from the LGBTQ community.
The 67-year-old American television personality - who was formerly known as Bruce Jenner before she underwent a gender reassignment - admitted to the talk show host that she had been hesitant to accept gay marriage in the past during an appearance in 2015, prompting the blonde star to describe her guest's views as "confusing" in a later interview with radio presenter Howard Stern.
In her memoir, The Secrets of My Life, which has been obtained by Radar Online, Caitlyn says Ellen, 59, asked in a "friendly voice" to discuss her her views on marriage equality has "progressed over the years."
Caitlyn wrote: "I believed, as anyone would, that that was exactly what she wanted to talk about my progression in terms of changing attitude over the years."
"I am for it. I did not initially understand why marriage was so important, influenced not doubt by my own personal experience. Now I do, and it's a wonderful thing to see."
"This discussion further alienated me from members of the LGBTQ community. Ellen's appearance on 'The Howard Stern Show', where in my mind she even more emphatically took what I said out of context, made it go viral."
The I Am Cait star - who has six children and has been married three times in the past - had admitted during her interview with Ellen that she was a "traditionalist" who never used to approve of same-sex marriage, but her attitude had changed in recent years.
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She said: "I have to admit that I remember 15 years ago, 20 years ago, whenever it was that the whole gay marriage issue came up, I was not for it."
"I am a traditionalist. I mean, I'm older than most people in the audience. I like tradition and it's always been between a man and a woman and I'm thinking I don't' quite get it.
"But as time goes on, like a lot of people on this issue I've really changed thinking here, to I don't ever want to stand in front of anybody's happiness. That's not my job. OK. If that word marriage is really, really that important to you I can go with it."
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When Ellen then accused her of being "still a little not on board" with the idea, Caitlyn replied:
"No I'm on board. It's going to be pretty much the law of the land. So I still feel like yeah, I'm OK with it. I don't want to stand in front of somebody's happiness."


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Q: Is it possible to add text to every image path on hover using CSS? I'm wondering, I have alot of image on my website that behave depending on the class. I was wondering if it would be possible using CSS to do this for example.
   .willReactOnHover.class1{ background: url('../images/image1.png');}
   .willReactOnHover.class2{ background: url('../images/image2.png');}

And then, on hover
   .willReactOnHover:hover{
        background: /*Here, .class1 would be .image1-hover.png AND
        .class2 would be .image2-hover.png */
    }

I don't know if it's possible to just had a suffix -hover to all the existing path even if different... I know in javascript I could but I'd love a pure CSS solution else I'll have to create the hover event for every class but since it's the same task for each class I don't know if there's a way it'd be optimal. Or maybe is there a CSS selector that I could use to achieve this?

A: before CSS-3 people often used background-position along with a image-sprite so you could use the old-horse background-position , like so :
.willReactOnHover.class1{ background: url('../images/image1.png');}
   .willReactOnHover.class2{ background: url('../images/image2.png');}

.willReactOnHover:hover{
        background-position:-10px;
    }

A: Unfortunately this seems to be impossible with pure CSS at the moment. If you use a prepocessor, like LESS, you could use a loop to accomplish what you want very easily:
Example CSS
@url: "../images/image";
@ext: ".png";
@hover: "_hover";

.generate-images(5);

.generate-images(@n, @i: 1) when (@i =< @n) {
  .class@{i} {
    background-image: url("@{url}@{i}@{ext}");
  }
  .class@{i}:hover {
    background-image: url("@{url}@{i}@{hover}@{ext}");
  }
  .generate-images(@n, (@i + 1));
}

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A: It seems that you could define a CSS rule for each class that you need.
Perhaps the following may be helpful.

.willhover.class1 {
  color: blue;
}
.willhover.class2 {
  color: green;
}
.willhover.class1:hover {
  background-color: yellow;
}
.willhover.class2:hover {
  background-color: beige;
}

Class 1

Class 2

However, you still need to create specific two types of CSS rules, one for pointing to the non-hover image and the other pointing to the hover image.

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Rabat – In February, King Mohammed VI called on the government to recruit 10,000 Moroccans into mandatory military service in 2019, to be increased to 15,000 in 2020.
Minister of the Interior Abdelouafi Laftit announced on Monday that the government has finalized the list of draftees who will be obligated to fill out the census form for 2019 military service. The government will require those called to serve for 12 months, under penalty of sanctions.
On February 7, the Council of Ministers adopted two draft decrees which established processes for identifying, selecting, and enlisting those subject to compulsory military service.
This draft will affect men between the ages of 19 and 25. Women and Moroccans Residing Abroad (MREs) are exempt but encouraged to voluntarily enlist. Parliamentarians and members of the government are also exempt from military service.
Those people who are on the list of draftees will receive a notification. They must complete the census form on tajnid.ma website within 20 days of receiving that notification.
In the form, draftees must enter their first and last name, CIN number, personal name of parents, and census number (included in the notification) before completing the rest of the form.
Even if no notification is received, anyone can check whether they are subject to military service by going to tajnid.ma and filling out the form with everything but the census number. If their name appears, their census number will load automatically, and they can continue completing the form.
Those not called to military service can still choose to voluntarily register by completing the census form. They must do so before the end of the census period on June 7 to be taken into account. The government especially encourages women and MREs to voluntarily register.
If there are problems accessing the site or completing the form, the government encourages draftees to reach out to local administrative authorities. These administrations have computers connected to the website and can aid in filling out the form.
After the form is complete, a receipt should be printed and emailed to the person. The receipt informs the conscript that they can file an application for temporary or definitive exemption.
In order to file for exemption, a conscript must submit an application within 20 days of completing the census form. The application is to be submitted to local administrative authorities who will transfer the request to the prefectural commissions which make decisions about exemption applications.
There are four main reasons a person can receive an exemption, and each requires the person to submit supporting documents in the application.
For reason of physical or medical incapacity, a person must support with a medical report from public health services. For reason of family support, a person must submit a certificate issued by the governor of the district or province providing the status of family support. For reason of continuing studies, the person must have a certificate issued by an authority in the relevant sector proving continuation of studies in educational or vocational training institutions, public or private.
The final reason for receiving an exemption is the presence of a brother in service as a conscript or the presence of one or more brothers and sisters who can be summoned simultaneously for military service. This case can be confirmed with a document from the military confirming the relationship.
People over 25 who receive an exemption can be called until the age of 40 if at any point the reason for the exemption no longer stands.
On June 7, the recruiting office of Royal Armed Forces (FAR) staff will prepare a recruitment order to summon conscripts. Anyone who receives a recruitment order will also receive a specific date and place where they must report to the prefectural commission. The commission, which includes a military doctor, examines the conscript's health. If found to be healthy and able, FAR will register them for service.
According to the FAR Morocco Forum, the military has created three new training centers, including one in El Hajeb, between Rabat and Fez, and one in Kasba Tadla, in central Morocco. Each of the training centers have an annex for female staff.
The army created the centers with the goal of improving living conditions of conscripts to move away from "cliches and bad ideas that surround the military service." Additionally, the army created supervision commissions to oversee improvements in living conditions and to assure equality in the treatment of conscripts.
Basic training will last four months and include both general and military training. General training includes national education and civil and military history while military training includes military regulation, general discipline, and physical education.
At the end of four months of basic training, conscripts will receive an assignment in either a combat, support, or logistics unit, which lasts for the duration of their service. Once assigned, they will undergo an eight-month period of specialized training. The first month involves technical military training which is followed by apprenticeship training which promises the development of skills in no less than 25 trades.
Those with an academic background will have a shorter period of basic training. They will be assigned positions based on their previous qualifications. For example, a conscript who studied medicine would be assigned to a FAR hospital or other medical structure.
All conscripts will receive salaries based on rank. Per month, soldiers receive $109, non-commissioned officers receive $156, and officers receive $218. All conscripts sent to the southern provinces will get a bonus of $31.
Conscripts will also get tax-exempt allowances which include free clothing, accommodation, and catering. Medical benefits include medical coverage, death and disability insurance, and free medication in military hospitals.
Those who do not comply with the draft will face sanctions. Those subject to military service who do not answer the call will face one to three months in prison and a $210-520 fine. A punishment of one month to one year in prison and a $210-1,040 fine will be applied to those who do not respond to an individual or general conscription form as well as those who hide a conscript or forbid them from military service.
Since Morocco's ministerial council reinstated compulsory military service last year for the first time since 2006, there has been a great deal of discussion about the policy.
There have been some concerns from the public about the draft being applied unequally, especially across social classes. The King attempted to assuage the fears by assuring the public that the law will apply to citizens from all social classes.
In August 2018 the Royal Cabinet said that the compulsory "military service aims to promote patriotism among the young, within the framework of the correlation between the rights and responsibilities of citizenship." In this regard, the law is seen as a way to encourage loyalty to the state among young people.
Others see the expansion as a way to limit protest movements. They see the conscriptions as a way to widen the military's reach and to recruit youth who have been involved in protests such as those in the northern Rif region.
Some see the conscription as an opportunity for youth who have had trouble finding jobs. Others would rather the government invest in education as the policy of compulsory service will cost $52 million, according to Minister Delegate for National Defense Abdellatif Loudiyi.


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Anton Hansen Tammsaare właśc. Anton Hansen (ur. 30 stycznia 1878, zm. 1 marca 1940) – estoński pisarz, z wykształcenia prawnik.

Był głównym przedstawicielem realizmu w literaturze estońskiej. Początkowo tworzył naturalistyczne opowiadania z życia wsi. W późniejszych utworach, zwłaszcza w cyklu powieściowym Tõde ja õigus (t. 1-5, 1926-33), zawarł panoramiczny obraz estońskiego społeczeństwa przełomu XIX i XX wieku. Był też autorem fantastycznej satyryczno-groteskowej powieści Nowy piekielnik z Czartoryi oraz utworów dramatycznych i publicystyki.

Pochowany na cmentarzu Metsakalmistu w Tallinnie.

Bibliografia
 Pisarze świata. Słownik encyklopedyczny, wyd. PWN, 1999

Przypisy

Estońscy prozaicy
Pochowani na cmentarzu Metsakalmistu
Urodzeni w 1878
Zmarli w 1940

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"I ain't a killer, but don't push me."
January 18th, 2011 by david brothers | Tags: daas, makaveli, rap, tupac
The Damon Albarn Appreciation Society is an ongoing series of observations, conversations, and thoughts about music. Here's the second:
Let's talk about The 7 Day Theory , even though everyone just calls it Makaveli. It's twelve tracks long, just shy of a full hour, and his best record.
1) "Intro/Bomb First (My Second Reply)" – I learned recently that Tupac would record his vocals three times and layer all of those on the track. This was so that if he missed a word in one take, he'd probably get it on the second, and maybe do it better on the third. I don't know the term for this ("wall of sound"?), but it makes Makaveli sound very full and very, very messy. It's overflowing with Tupac, basically. You can sometimes hear the differing takes floating below the final track, like ghosts.
You can even hear it on this intro. The church bells, the news report, heartbeat, and the dense background noise all stack up. It's intense, and what really blows my mind is the transition from introduction to the actual song around 1:20. Everything builds to a crescendo before dropping out in favor of the church bells, and then the song comes in. The heartbeat becomes part of the beat, becoming a more traditional drumbeat, and then a gunshot heralds the arrival of Makaveli the Don. Tupac's flow is fast, but he puts so much emphasis on every word that you can't help but keep up.
2) "Hail Mary" – The church bells make a return, providing continuity between "Bomb First" and "Hail Mary." This time, they stick around, and are accompanied by light keys.
There aren't many rap songs with a better first two bars than "Hail Mary." "I ain't a killer but don't push me/ Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin pussy" is top 5 dead or alive material, and when you consider that "Hail Mary" is about being damned, it takes on new meaning. This isn't about killing your enemies and glorying in your victory. It's about being hopeless because you stepped on a path and you couldn't get off it if you tried. It's not a prayer so much as a confessional, and the lines between traditional Catholicism and the black family twist and blur over the course of Tupac's verses.
When he says, "Institutionalized, I lived my life a product made to crumble/ But too hardened for a smile, we're too crazy to be humble, we balling" he's talking about how playing a role can remove you from happiness. It's the price of fame–you get what you want, but you can't even enjoy it. You revel in it, and you ball out of control, but you can't smile any more.
The Outlawz go in on this, but Young Noble almost steals the song. "Peep the whole scene and whatever's goin on around me/ Brain kinda cloudy, smoked out feelin rowdy/ Ready to wet the party up, and whoever in that motherfucker" The flow is on point, and he's just the personification of what Tupac is talking about. He's lost and he knows it.
3) "Toss it Up" – Tupac took a sex song that was intended for a K-Ci & Jojo album, added another verse dissing Dr. Dre and an outro manhandling Puffy, and put it on Makaveli. That same trio had rocked "How Do U Want It" earlier, and what's funny is that he did the same thing there. He dissed Bob Dole and C Delores Tucker in verse two and talked about his demons in verse three, and bam, out.
But really, that was Tupac. He could spit something grimy over a smooth beat, and it would all work. Something for the thugs and something for the ladies, all in one song. It shouldn't work, but it's that "understandable smooth shit that murderers move with." You want to know where 50 and Ja Rule got their style from? This song right here.
4) "To Live & Die in L.A." – This is one of four love songs on Makaveli, and the first of two dedicated to inanimate objects. But really, "To Live & Die In LA" is like Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince's "Summertime." It's just a smooth joint you put on at a cookout or when chilling and reminisce. It's about belonging somewhere, loving your people, and repping for your home.
What I like is that Tupac isn't even from LA. He was born in Harlem, lived in Baltimore, moved to Marin City as a kid, repped the Bay Area for years, and then he made his way south as an adult. LA is his adopted home, but it's clear he loves it anyway. That's a good feeling, I think.
5) "Blasphemy" – There are a lot of references to God and religion throughout this album, from the provocative cover art down to "Hail Mary" and "Blasphemy." It's usually pitched from a position of mistrust or confusion. He constantly blurs the line between God and a father, absentee or present, and rather than being a comfort, religion is something that's unknowable and scary.
Tupac often dealt with fatalist themes, and this song just might be the peak of it. If you turn this one up, you can hear Tupac harmonizing in the background, just below the bass. It sounds sad,
6) "Life of an Outlaw" – "The shit you heard ain't do me justice–got a death wish, bitch!"
The reason why Tupac clicked with so many people probably comes down to a few things. He wasn't the most lyrical rapper, and Biggie definitely wins on that front, but Tupac was a guy who used charisma, rhythm, and emotion to pull you in. Tupac understood the importance of playing a role and acting in rap music. He could mix something deeply personal with something that was straight up false, and it would still come off true.
It wasn't about faking, or exploiting a lifestyle you didn't belong to. It was more like he wanted to represent every aspect of black culture so that he could reach as many people as possible. So he had the songs dedicated to death obsession, screwing women, loving women, guns, and black power. He talked about pain and fame in equal parts, and it worked. Everybody loved him, "from the hood to the burbs." Tupac, to an extent more than probably any other rapper, represented us. He ran up and down the spectrum of black experiences in his songs, and he did it in a way that everybody kept the volume knob turned all the way up.
7) "Just Like Daddy" – Love song number two, and the only one that's just a straight up traditional joint. This is Tupac and the Outlawz in a "Dear Mama" mode. It's sweet and protective, but also apologetic. There's this strain of guilt that runs through Tupac's library, and it tends to go hand-in-hand with loyalty.
It's about sticking by your people, especially through the rough times. It's about knowing better, but falling short, and getting another chance to do things right. Tupac's verse is about a woman sticking by her man while he's in jail and him promising to stick by her.
The sweetness is all in the chorus. Do people still call into radio shows to dedicate songs to their girls? This is more "Summertime" music.
8) "Krazy" – One of the illest, and most true, lines on 36 Chambers came from Deck on "CREAM." "Though I don't know why I chose to smoke sess/ I guess that's the time when I'm not depressed/ But I'm still depressed, and I ask what's it worth?/ Ready to give up so I seek the Old Earth/ Who explained working hard may help you maintain/ to learn to overcome the heartaches and pain."
It's a verse that I think represents a lot of what I feel like it's like to be black in America. Tupac's "Krazy," then, takes those six bars and blows them out into a full-blown song. Every single line is rings true, from trying to escape from real life with drugs or drink, trying to do right by your mom, and, no matter what, feeling like you don't belong. Bad Azz drops the best verse of his career…
"Krazy" is one of the most melancholy songs I know. It's just about getting by. Life goes on.
9) "White Man'z World" – Love song number three, this time to his people.
On "Bomb First," Tupac talks about how he's down to "murder motherfuckers lyrically, and I'm not gon' cry." When he's talking about love, black people, or his family, he cries. He says, "Dear sister, got me twisted up in prison, I miss ya/ Cryin lookin at my niece's and my newphew's picture." On "Krazy," he mentions crying for weeks after getting a letter from his sister Sekyiwa.
Crying doesn't really fit the media narrative of Tupac. You'd think he was Alpha Male Plus if you judged him by the papers. To them, he was the guy who came through and wrecked New York nearly singlehandedly, in between preying on women and running wild in the streets. But no, that really wasn't it. This song alone puts the lie to it. Tupac was raised by Black Panthers. He knows what he's talking about, and there's been a strong pro-Black theme running through most of his albums.
This is another one of those songs that's both universal and personal. That second verse is lethal.
"Proud to be black, but why we act like we don't love ourselves?/ Don't look around busta (you sucka) check yourselves!/ Know what it means to be black, whether a man or girl/ We still struggling, in this white man's world."
10) "Me and My Girlfriend" – Love song number four, this time to his pistol.
This one is just an eternal banger, from Lady of Rage to the hook to the concept.
This is where the layered vocals come back in a big way. If you turn this one up loud with some good earphones, you can hear the vocal tracks slipping and sliding up against each other, particularly on the chorus. You can hear these alternate Tupacs behind every line, sometimes synchronized, sometimes off just a little bit, and sometimes just emphasizing a single word.
It makes "Me and My Girlfriend" sound like a ghost story, like Tupac is haunting his own song. It makes a song that's just dope into something that's real, real creepy. There's a reverb (or reverse?) effect around some of the lines and chorus, too, which only adds to the effect. Tupac's earnest personification of the gun as the only girl he loves and the implications of the hold it has over him is powerful stuff.
What's more is the fact that, alongside guilt, the idea of being trapped is something that has been deep inside Tupac's lyrics, ever since the beginning.
11) "Hold Ya Head" – This pro-black joint is like "Krazy," but even more obvious in its meaning. It's also another price of fame song, as Tupac relates how going hard at all times and making money cost him friends and happiness. He knows that people would lock him up forever if they could, but he also knows that he couldn't stop if he wanted to.
It's as much an encouragement and advice to others as a message to himself. His advice at the end, about how no matter how hard it gets, you need to do whatever you need to do to hold your head, are all things he did himself.
12) "Against All Odds" – "Hit 'Em Up" was nice, but "Against All Odds" is the nail in the coffin. Mobb Deep, Jay-Z, and everyone else are treated as less than potholes in Tupac's path in "Against All Odds". He's left the buckshot blast of hate that was "Hit 'Em Up" behind in favor of something new: "Plan, plot, strategize, and bomb first." It's an updating of his THUG LIFE (The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody) and NIGGA (Never Ignorant, Getting Goals Accomplished) credos. You think it through first, and then you destroy whatever stands in your way.
This song puts every major figure in New York on blast in a such an amazing way that its only competition is "Ether" or "Takeover", and those are a distant, distant second and third. This is just a straight up, no frills diss song–"this is why you're wack." He calls Nas out on biting Rakim's style before dissing and dismissing Mobb Deep in two lines. He creates what is hands down the best line in a diss song ever when he says that De La Soul is "looking like Larry Holmes, flabby and sick."
Makaveli began with church bells and ends with the sounds of war. There's something meaningful lurking behind that, isn't there? I don't know.
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3 comments to ""I ain't a killer, but don't push me.""
The 7 day theory is building on the traditional 7's used in all of his songs, and most of his videos. Take note of some of the videos, the clocks say 7, in 'hit it up' his badge number was 511 5+1+1=7, the apartment number was 7, all eyes on me was released 7 months to the day of his attack. He lived for 7 days, and died at 4:21 am. Again the 7's. I mean it might be just me but in hail mary, at 3:11 if you listen to the back ground close enough, you hear someone say, 'He's Alive, He's Alive'. I might be hearing things. But most of his records have something to do with his life. But the number 7 is always there. I don't know why. You can look it up on line and read about what all the 7's are in. I have given you a few that I know of for a fact. Makaveli with the letters moved around, and a space put in – the k (used as the space, says I'm Alive.) Makaveli was a poet, who said that the best way to win the war was fool your enemy, by doing this, you fake your own death. Perhaps there's something to that, Perhaps there a lot to the things that happened following his death, I don't know. The last person besides the person who killed him, was killed at his apartment in 2000 before he could talk to police. He was gunned down in the hall way of his apartment, and never got to go on record to tell the real story of what happened to Tupac. Which is sad, I loved and still do Tupac, I believe a lot into his music, it teaches. We look into everything for answers, he provides them. If you go to Las Vegas and ask to seep the official public record, and police records, and autopsy reports, you won't be able to, as it is still an 'open and on going investigation with no leads.' His reported 72 million dollar life insurance policy still sits uncollected. Perhaps these events should be taken into consideration…perhaps not, you decide!
by Matt January 24th, 2011 at 13:21 --reply
Can't believe this only got one (very good) reply. Awesome post.
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Best song on Ed Sheeran's Divide Album? Round 1 Match 3 Shape of you or Galway girl?
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Also, how can you judge if he's good or not if you don't listen?


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Book Review: "Command and Control" by Eric Schlosser – posted 5/25/2014
May 25, 2014 jonbaird Leave a comment Go to comments
The safety of nuclear weapons is not a topic that typically pops up in everyday conversation. At least in my house, that is true. The existence of nuclear weapons has long been a background fact of life. We all know these weapons are there and we hope and pray the weapons are being safeguarded so there will never be any inadvertent accidents or mistakes (or use).
In his book, Command and Control, Eric Schlosser takes a hard look at how the United States has done both with keeping nuclear weapons safe as well as preventing accidental nuclear war. I wish I could say the results are reassuring. They are not.
Although we have not had any accidental nuclear explosions which has to qualify as a form of success, Schlosser shows that there have been many close calls.
In reading Command and Control, I have been genuinely surprised at how little we know about the history of nuclear weapon safety over the last sixty or so years. Considering the importance of these weapons to ultimate life and death on the planet, much more discussion is merited. Secrecy and national security concerns should not have vitiated awareness to the degree it has.
Schlosser did tremendous research and the thoroughness of his story is impressive. I certainly did not know about many of the incidents he recounts. It is hard not to think we have been very lucky in escaping a nuclear accident in the U.S. Here are a few of the vignettes captured by Schlosser:
In 1961, a B-52 bomber loaded with two 4 megaton hydrogen bombs had a refueling accident while refueling with a tanker over Greensboro, North Carolina. Fuel started leaking from the plane's right wing. The pilot could not get fuel to drain from the tank inside the left wing. The B-52 went into an uncontrolled spin.
The two H-bombs both fell from the plane after centrifugal forces pulled a lanyard in the cockpit. The lanyard had been attached to the bomb release mechanism. When the lanyard was pulled one bomb responded as though released by a crew over a target. The crew had bailed out. Almost all the safety systems failed but the bomb did not detonate. If either bomb had detonated, North Carolina would have been a memory. Both bombs were far more powerful than the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was determined that a single ready/safe switch which was in a safe position when the bomb dropped saved the day.
In 1958, a B-47 bomber carrying a nuclear weapon crashed shortly after taking off from an air force base near Abilene Texas. The fireball from the crash caused detonation of the bomb's high explosives. The detonation created a crater 35 feet in diameter and 6 feet deep. Fortunately the detonation did not produce a nuclear explosion.
Also in 1958, there was an accident in Mars Bluff, South Carolina when a crew member on a B-47 inadvertently grabbed a manual bomb release for support. This resulted in a nuclear weapon dropping out of the plane. The bomb landed in a garden. A high explosive detonation destroyed a nearby house and created a crater 50-70 feet in diameter and 25-30 feet deep. Fortunately the explosion only caused minor injuries to people who lived in the house that was destroyed. Again, there was no nuclear explosion.
I am only giving a couple examples. Schlosser recounts numerous situations where bombers carrying nuclear weapons crashed and burned. Then there were the situations where nuclear weapons have been lost or were missing. Schlosser recounts a 1966 incident over Palomares Spain when a B-52 bomber carrying 4 nukes collided in mid-air with a KC-135 tanker. Three of the bombs were accounted for. The fourth bomb fell in the ocean. The accident set off a huge search that lasted 80 days before the nuclear weapon was located. For anyone who remembers the James Bond movie Thunderball, there is a bit of a similarity to Ian Fleming's plot. (Thunderball actually was written before this crash.)
Schlosser also describes a series of close calls with accidental nuclear wars. On November 9, 1979, the computers at the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) outside Cheyenne Mountain said the U.S. was under attack. The military command computers at the Pentagon received the same message. Screens showed missiles being launched from submarines and also from sites inside the USSR. It appeared the attack was massive. It was projected missiles would begin to hit American targets within five minutes.
The military quickly arranged a threat assessment conference. Tensions between the superpowers were not high at the time but the pattern of the attack conformed to Pentagon assumptions about the Soviet war plan. NORAD contacted radar and ground stations which had sensors that could detect launches. The sensors showed nothing. Still bombers and fighter interceptors scrambled and took off to look for signs of an attack.
It turned out the cause of the alarm was an error where a technician put a wrong tape into one of NORAD's computers. The tape was part of a war simulation training exercise that simulated a Soviet attack on the U.S..
Another time, in January 1995, then President Boris Yeltsin mistakenly believed Russia was under attack by the U.S. He turned on his nuclear football, retrieved launch codes and prepared to retaliate. After a few scary moments, the Russians realized they were not under attack. Norway had launched a weather satellite to study the aurora borealis. They had previously advised the Russians about the rocket but the Russians still believed it was a real attack. There have been quite a few incidents of this nature where one side believed the other side was launching its missiles.
A good part of the book describes a 1980 accident and explosion with a Titan II missile that occurred in Damascus Arkansas in 1980. The Titan II had a 9 megaton warhead. The story is a great illustration of how a trivial accident can wreak havoc with complex technology. Schlosser shows how dangerous systems have difficulty when standardized responses are impossible and creative action is required. The technology is so tightly coupled and interactive that margins for error are narrow.
I think there is a good and bad news aspect to Schlosser's narrative. The good news is that we survived a bellicose and scary period that made Dr. Strangelove not too far from the truth. People were debating winnable nuclear wars. Remember the phrase "launch on warning". It does seem that most of the really bad accidents happened over 30 years ago. The end of the Cold War and the improvement of safety procedures did lessen danger.
I did want to say a couple things about Dr. Strangelove. I recently saw the movie again and Schlosser deals with the central issue of the movie: the safety of command and control systems. In the movie a crazy out of control right wing general authorizes a nuclear attack by his fighter wing on the USSR. In spite of the best efforts of the President (played by Peter Sellers) to recall the planes, one bomber cannot be recalled. It gets through Russian military defenses. Unknown to the Americans, the Russians installed a doomsday machine where technology takes over once there is an attack. The movie was dead on and so prescient.
The bad news is the large number of nuclear weapons that remain as well as the proliferation of the weapons to many countries. Schlosser states that the U.S. has 4,650 nuclear weapons. Russia has about 1740 deployed strategic weapons and perhaps 2000 tactical weapons. He says France has 300 nuclear weapons; the U.K. has about 160; China is thought to have 240. Then there is Israel, Pakistan, and India.
Instead of the big war between superpowers, there is much more potential for regional wars or civil wars like in Syria or the Ukraine. We live in a vastly different era than the Cold War. Nuclear weapons are useless for these type conflicts. Despite their uselessness, the weapons have not gone away. The most common nuclear nightmare now that typically shows up in action/adventure novels is the threat of Al Qaeda or other jihadis getting their hands on a nuke and then trying to detonate it in a large American city. That scenario does reflect the twisted reality of how nukes can come back to bite us.
Rational self-interest should move all sides toward elimination of these weapons. Even if elimination is not possible, there is no good reason nuclear arsenals should not be greatly reduced. Majorly reducing numbers of nukes would greatly reduce risk to life on the planet.
Schlosser's book makes me think of a famous quote from Albert Einstein: "The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."
Categories: Uncategorized Tags: accidental nuclear war, command and control, Dr. Strangelove, Eric Schlosser, nuclear weapon accidents, nuclear weapon safety, nuclear weapons
Pat Dawson
Great blog – well thought out, as usual! Sounds like an interesting book. A couple of thoughts came to mind as I was reading –
While there don't appear to be the kinds of accidents Schlosser writes about happening now, who really knows? Because we don't have the strong investigative journalism from the press that we used to, it's easy to imagine all sorts of narrowly-averted disasters taking place that we might never hear about.
I seem to recall reading a few articles a year or so ago about the danger presented by the deterioration of the world's existing nuclear arsenals. There was lots of discussion about the need to reduce the number of weapons all sides were holding onto, especially since so many of them were breaking down due to age. These older weapons needed to be decomissioned, but I don't recall reading anything more about that. What becomes of the nuclear material once it's removed from the bomb? Where does it get placed – and how do we ensure that waste doesn't further deteriorate? I got the sense that these issues were a more imminent threat than the possibility of terrorists obtaining nuclear material and delivering the oft-threatened dirty-bomb attack.
Sadly, I am not convinced the idea of a "survivable nuclear war" has receded from the minds of all supposedly intelligent people. Remember the talk during the Iraq war – the bunker busting bombs that would go deep within the earth, supposedly then minimizing the collateral damage? All it takes is a few fools to spin that and who knows where we'll end up.
Lots of questions, not many answers. Certainly none that are simple and straightforward.
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Two years ago Jack Morgan - the head of the renowned worldwide investigation firm Private - was in charge of security for the World Cup. During the championship match, the action nearly spilled from the field into the stands. Fortunately, Jack and his Private team averted disaster on soccer's biggest stage. Now he has returned to Rio to secure the Olympics. But before the torch is lit, the threats come fast and furious when Jack discovers that someone in Brazil will stop at nothing to sabotage the games.
Not even Emmy's ex-boyfriend, field agent Harrison "Books" Bookman, will believe her that hundreds of kidnappings, rapes, and murders are all connected. That is, until Emmy finds a piece of evidence he can't afford to ignore. More murders are reported by the day - and they're all inexplicable. No motives, no murder weapons, no suspects. Could one person really be responsible for these unthinkable crimes?
I would definitely recommend this - it was a great listen.
I realize there are already quite a few reviews and this will probably be at the bottom but for anyone who makes it down here, for what it's worth, this is my opinion!
I thought this book was absolutely fabulous. The protagonist, Emmy Dockery's twin sister dies in a fire. Police call it a horrible accident. Emmy calls it a homicide. She's an analyst with the FBI. It take her over a year to convince others at the FBI that they have a serial killer traveling the country.
The serial killer is a really twisted character. This person mercilessly tortures the victims and then sets an "accidental" fire to cover up what was done to them. There is obviously some forensic knowledge. The killer is also keeping a diary of sorts for the police.
I really liked the way the perspective in this book went back and forth between Emmy and the killer. For Emmy the dialogue sounded normal. For the killer the self dialogue was really warped and kind of creepy (but in a good way for a work of fiction). If this were a real person I'd be putting bars on my windows!
The co-narrating with January LaVoy and Kevin Collins was excellent.
This is crime/thriller writing at its best. Won't repeat what others have said better. I've found Patterson disappointing last few years. NOT THIS TIME. The Master is back.
One of his best. The narration and performance was excellent and had a hard time taking off my headset. The ending superb. Can't wait for his next one!
Does a serial killer exist if no one knows?
This audiobook is Narated by January LaVoy and Kevin Collins. This book is a true suspense thriller. The narrative between the serial killer and the FBI tells parallel stories that keep you on the edge of your listening seat. LaVoy and Collins crest unique voices for each character and you can feel the tension as they present the written word.
As much as I like James Patterson's series I like his stand alone books as well as any other thrillers. As a former Research Analyst (RA) I love the inclusion of the data collection and evaluation of clues by the RA's. Sorting through the haystack to find the needle takes a special skill and patience.
This is a story about a killer who doesn't exist, crimes that don't link, victims with no connection, in essence it is about the invisible. One victims sister is an RA for the FBI. As a twin she knows her sister was murdered. There seems to be no evidence so the hunt begins with a single RA looking for clues.
The twists and turns throughout this book keep the listener guessing until the final chapter. This is a quick listen worth every second.
I purchased this book for my own pleasure and for review. It was a great choice.
sensational book from the beginning to the end.
Would you consider the audio edition of Invisible to be better than the print version?
I believe book would be great in print and auduio. By it being in audio you can truly visualize a movie unfolding.
What does January LaVoy and Kevin Collins bring to the story that you wouldn't experience if you just read the book?
The mere description of the killers personality.
It made me want to listen all the time.
Read or listen for self you like detective stories.
I don't know if I've read a James Patterson novel recently; I like David Ellis. So this story I wanted to listen to. Two narrators, I like that, I've had that before. This one going on concurrently. The "bad guy" was very creepy, Kevin Collins did an excellent job. So excellent, I wondered if I could get through the rest of the book without listening to the bad guy chapters! The evil was a little too sick to what I'm used to. I started to cringe before the next chapter started in case it was the bad guy's chapter. HOWEVER, if you are as sensitive as I am, don't give in - you really need to listen to both sides of the story. I couldn't stop listening, this is a hold your breath, heart stopping, brilliantly crafted story. Genius bad guy, genius good guys. Makes me want to be a research analyst for the F.B.I.
This was an exciting book, and the narration by January LaVoy is GREAT!!! The ending is a very nice twist that I didn't see coming at all. I great listen, and I highly recommend it.
I was POSITIVE I had the ending figured out and even then still couldn't stop listening. I've already recommended the book to every book reading friend I have that like this genre.
It got me questioning what I was hearing. Why the bad guy was doing this or that. Is what the FBI knows right or planted to make them think it is.
Which character – as performed by January LaVoy and Kevin Collins – was your favorite?
Just what the title is.
Even though I figured it out who the killer was before the story told me I still liked the story. I don't normally like books that I can figure out before the end but not this one.
A Great Stand Alone Book!
I finished this book in two sittings. Typical Patterson... it flowed along fairly quickly. It was great to meet new characters and not be held down by a series. If you do not know Patterson's other series, and I'm not familiar with all, this is a great introduction to his writings.