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How Humans Sank New Orleans
Posted byCityFella March 17, 2020 March 17, 2020 Posted inHistory, NATIONAL, Natural Disaster, UncategorizedTags:Engineering, New Orleans
Engineering put the Crescent City below sea level. Now, its future is at risk.
Downtown New Orleans and the Mississippi River, with the French Quarter in the foreground and the West Bank in the distance. Lorenzo Serafini Boni / Emily Jan / The Atlantic.
By: Richard Campanella/The Atlantic
Below sea level. It's a universally known topographical factoid about the otherwise flat city of New Orleans, and one that got invoked ad nauseam during worldwide media coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its catastrophic aftermath in 2005. Locally, the phrase is intoned with a mix of civic rue and dark humor.
It's also off by half. Depending on where exactly one frames the area measured, roughly 50 percent of greater New Orleans lies above sea level. That's the good news. The bad news: It used to be 100 percent, before engineers accidentally sank half the city below the level of the sea. Their intentions were good, and they thought they were solving an old problem. Instead, they created a new and bigger one.
In the spring of 1718, French colonials first began clearing vegetation to establish La Nouvelle-Orléans on the meager natural levee of the Mississippi River. At most 10 to 15 feet above sea level, this feature accounts for nearly all the region's upraised terrain; the rest is swamp or marsh. One Frenchman called it "Nothing more than two narrow strips of land, about a musket shot in width," surrounded by "canebrake [and] impenetrable marsh."
For two centuries after the establishment of New Orleans in 1718, urban expansion had no choice but to exploit this slender ridge—so much so that many patterns of local history, from urbanization and residential settlement geographies to architecture and infrastructure, spatially echoed the underlying topography.
New Orleans and its vicinity in 1863. The developing city tightly hugs the ridge nearest the Mississippi River. Photo from Wells, Ridgway, Virtue, and Co. / Library of Congress.
This might seem paradoxical to anyone who's visited the Crescent City. What topography? In one of the flattest regions on the continent, how can elevation matter so much? But that's exactly the point: The lower the supply of a highly demanded resource, the more valuable it becomes. Unlike most other cities, which may have elevational ranges in the hundreds of feet, just a yard of vertical distance in New Orleans can make the difference between a neighborhood developed in the Napoleonic Age, the Jazz Age, or the Space Age.
Understanding how these features rose, and why they later sank, entails going back to the end of the Ice Age, when melting glaciers sent sediment-laden runoff down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. Starting around 7,200 years ago, the river's mouth began pressing seaward, dumping sediments faster than currents and tides could sweep them away. The mud accumulated, and lower Louisiana gradually emerged from the Gulf shore.
Areas closest to the river and its branches rose the highest in elevation, because they got the most doses of the coarsest sediment. Areas farther from the river got just enough silt and clay particles to rise only slightly above the sea, becoming swamps. Areas farthest out received scanty deposition of the finest particles amid brackish tides, becoming grassy wetlands or saline marsh. The entire delta, under natural conditions, lay above sea level, ranging from a few inches along the coastal fringe to over a dozen feet high at the crest of the Mississippi River's natural levee. Nature built lower Louisiana above sea level, albeit barely—and mutably.
Native peoples generally adapted to this fluidity, shoring up the land or moving to higher ground as floodwaters rose. But then European imperialists came to colonize. Colonization meant permanency, and permanency meant imposing engineering rigidity on this soft, wet landscape: levees to keep water out, canals to dry soil, and in time, pumps to push and lift water out of canals lined with floodwalls.
All this would take decades to erect and centuries to perfect. In the meantime, throughout the French and Spanish colonial eras, and under American dominion after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, New Orleanians had no choice but to squeeze their booming metropolis onto those "two narrow strips of land" while eschewing the low-lying "canebrake [and] impenetrable marsh." Folks hated every inch of that backswamp, viewing it as a source of miasmas, the cause of disease, and a constraint on growth and prosperity. One observer in 1850 unloaded on the wetlands: "This boiling fountain of death is one of the most dismal, low, and horrid places, on which the light of the sun ever shone. And yet there it lies under the influence of a tropical heat, belching up its poison and malaria … the dregs of the seven vials of wrath … covered with a yellow greenish scum."
Only later people would learn that it was not miasmas but the invasive Aedes aegypti mosquito, brought in by transatlantic shipping, that caused diseases like yellow fever; that it was urban cisterns and poor sanitation that enabled mosquitoes to breed and feed on human blood; and that the "dismal, low" terrain actually aided the city by storing excess water, be it from the sky, the Mississippi River, the bay known as Lake Pontchartrain, or the Gulf of Mexico. It was not "horrid" but propitious that nobody lived in the backswamp, and that the technology to drain it was not available. And most importantly, that the "yellow greenish scum" lay above sea level.
Understandably, given the incompatibility of natural deltaic processes with urbanization, New Orleanians began erecting embankments along the river and digging drainage ditches within a year of the city's foundation. One colonist described how settlers in 1722 were "ordained [to] leave all around [their city parcel] a strip at least three feet wide, at the foot of which a ditch was to be dug, to serve as a drain." Outflow canals were excavated to speed drainage back toward the swamp, and in nearby plantations, ditches were dug to control soil water or divert river water to power sawmills.
Gravity was the main source of energy for these initial water projects, but in the early 1800s, steam power came into the picture. In 1835, the New Orleans Drainage Company began digging a network of urban ditches, using a steam-driven pump to push the runoff back out of Bayou St. John—with limited success. A similar pumping system was attempted in the late 1850s, only to be disrupted by the Civil War. In 1871, the Mississippi and Mexican Gulf Ship Canal Company dug 36 miles of ditches, including three major outfall canals, before it too went bankrupt.
It was becoming clear that draining New Orleans would best be stewarded by the public sector instead. Municipal engineers in the late 1800s cobbled together the extant network of gutters and ditches and, with the propulsion of some steam-driven pumps, were able to expel up to one-and-a-half inches of rainfall per day into surrounding water bodies.
That wasn't nearly enough to drain the swamp, but it was enough to begin permanently altering the New Orleans's land surface. We know this because in 1893, when the city finally got serious and funded expert engineers to figure out how to solve this problem, surveyors set out to map local elevations as had never been done before. The resulting topographical map of New Orleans (1895) would inform the engineering of what would become a world-class system.
Contour map of New Orleans, produced as part of the city's 1895 effort to finally solve the drainage problem. Courtesy of the New Orleans Public Library.
The 1895 map also revealed something curious: The rear precincts of one downtown faubourg had, for the first time, dipped slightly below sea level. The sinkage would not bode well for things to come.
What was beginning to happen was anthropogenic soil subsidence—the sinking of the land by human action. When runoff is removed and artificial levees prevent the river from overtopping, the groundwater lowers, the soils dry out, and the organic matter decays. All this creates air pockets in the soil body, into which those sand, silt, and clay particles settle, consolidate—and drop below sea level.
Construction of the new drainage system began in 1896 and accelerated in 1899, when voters overwhelmingly approved a two-mill property tax to create the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board. By 1905, 40 miles of canal had been excavated, hundreds of miles of pipelines and drains had been laid, and six pumping stations were draining up to 5,000 cubic feet of water per second. System efficacy improved dramatically after 1913, when a young engineer named Albert Baldwin Wood designed an enormous impeller pump that could discharge water even faster. Eleven "Wood screw pumps" were installed by 1915, and many are still in use today. By 1926, over 30,000 acres of land had been "reclaimed" via 560 miles of pipes and canals with a capacity of 13,000 cubic feet of water per second. New Orleans had finally conquered its backswamp.
The change in urban geography was dramatic. Within a decade or so, swampland became suburbs. Property values soared, tax coffers swelled, and urbanization sprawled onto lower ground toward Lake Pontchartrain. "The entire institutional structure of the city" reveled in the victory over nature, wrote John Magill, a local historian. "Developers promoted expansion, newspapers heralded it, the City Planning Commission encouraged it, the city built streetcars to service it, [and] the banks and insurance companies underwrote the financing." The white middle class, eager to flee crumbling old faubourgs, moved into the new "lakefront" neighborhoods en masse, to the point of excluding black families through racist deed covenants. And in a rebuke of two centuries of local architectural tradition, new tract housing was built not raised on piers above the grade, but on concrete slabs poured at grade level. Why design against floods if technology has already solved that problem?
Design plans for a Wood screw pump. U.S. Patent 1,345,655.
The change in topographic elevation was more subtle, but equally consequential. A city that had been entirely above sea level into the late 1800s, and over 95 percent in 1895, had by 1935 fallen to about 70 percent above sea level.
Subsidence continued even as more and more people moved into subsiding areas. While the vast majority of New Orleans's 300,000 residents lived above sea level in the early 1900s, only 48 percent remained above the water in 1960, when the city's population peaked at 627,525. That year, 321,000 residents lived on former swamp, over which time they dropped into a series of topographical bowls four to seven feet below sea level.
The average New Orleanian of this era perceived being below sea level as something of a local curiosity. Then as now, most folks did not understand that this was a recent man-made accident, or that it could become hazardous. But streets increasingly buckled and buildings cracked. When Hurricane Betsy ruptured levees and flooded the bottoms of four sunken urban basins in 1965, the curiosity became more of a crisis.
Soil subsidence made frightful headlines in the 1970s, when at least eight well-maintained houses in a suburban subdivision exploded without warning. "Scores of Metairie residents," The New Orleans Times-Picayune reported, "wondered whether they are living in what amounts to time bombs." The affected subdivision, low-lying to begin with and positioned on an especially thick layer of peat, had been drained just over a decade earlier. With so much "wet sponge" to dry out, the soils compacted rapidly and subsided substantially, cracking slab foundations. In some cases, gas lines broke and vapors leaked into the house, after which all it took was a flicked light switch or a lit cigarette to explode.
The emergency was abated through ordinances requiring foundational pilings and flexible utility connections. But the larger problem only worsened, as gardens, streets, and parks continued to subside, and those neighborhoods that abutted surrounding water bodies had to be lined with new lateral levees and floodwalls. Many of those and other federal structures proved to be under-engineered, underfunded, and under-inspected, and all too many failed in the face of Hurricane Katrina's storm surge on August 29, 2005. The rest is topographic history, as seawater poured through the breaches and filled bowl-shaped neighborhoods with up to 12 feet of saltwater. Large-scale death and catastrophic destruction resulted, in part, from New Orleans having dropped below sea level.
A LIDAR elevation model of New Orleans shows areas above sea level in red tones (up to 10 or 15 feet, except for the artificial levees) and areas below sea level in yellow to blueish tones (mostly ranging from -1 down to -10 feet). Photo from Richard Campanella / FEMA.
What to do? Urban subsidence cannot be reversed. Engineers and planners cannot "reinflate" compacted soils if city dwellers have built lives upon them. But they can reduce and possibly eliminate future sinkage by slowing the movement of runoff across the cityscape and storing as much water as possible on the surface, thus recharging the groundwater and filling those air cavities. The Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan, conceived by a local architect, David Waggonner, in dialogues with Dutch and Louisiana colleagues, lays out a vision of how such a system would work. But even if executed fully, the plan would not reverse past subsidence. This means that greater New Orleans and the rest of the nation must be committed to maintaining and improving structural barriers to prevent outside water from pouring into "the bowl."
To a degree, those resources arrived after Katrina, when the Army Corps of Engineers fast-tracked the design and construction of a unique-in-the-nation Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk-Reduction System. Costing over $14.5 billion and completed in 2011, "The Wall," as folks call the sprawling complex, aims to keep those living inside secure from flooding from storms computed to have a 1 percent chance of occurring in any given year—not the level of security needed, but an improvement nonetheless.
Yet, history shows that "walls" (that is, levees, embankments, floodwalls, and other rigid barriers) have gotten New Orleans into topographical trouble, even if they have also been essential to the viability of this 300-year-old experiment in delta urbanism. The city cannot rely on them alone. The biggest and most important part of assuring a future for this region is to supplement structural solutions with nonstructural approaches.
Louisiana's coast has eroded by over 2,000 square miles since the 1930s, mostly on account of the leveeing of the Mississippi River and the excavation of oil, gas, and navigation canals—not to mention rising sea levels and intruding saltwater. Slowing that loss requires tapping into the very feature that built this landscape, the Mississippi River, by diverting its freshwater and siphoning its sediment load onto the coastal plain, pushing back intruding saltwater and shoring up wetlands at a pace faster than the sea is rising.
Restored wetlands would serve to impede hurricane storm surges, reducing their height and power before reaching "The Wall," and thus lessening the chances that they break through and inundate "the bowl." A federally backed state plan by the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority is now complete and approved, and some projects are underway. But the larger effort is a moonshot, costing at least $50 billion and possibly double that. Only a fraction of the needed revenue is in hand.
Meanwhile, inhabitants will have to raise their residences above base-flood elevation (a requirement to qualify for federal flood insurance). If finances allow, they might opt to live in the half of the metropolis that remains above sea level. Collectively, they might consider advocating for the Urban Water Plan, supporting coastal restoration efforts, and understanding the larger global drivers of sea-level rise.
They can also forswear draining any further wetlands for urban development. Let swamps and marshes instead be green with grass, blue with water, absorptive in the face of heavy rainfall, buffering in their effect on storm surges—and above sea level in their topographic elevation. When it comes to living being below sea level, New Orleanians have little choice but to adapt.
Richard Campanella is a geographer at the Tulane University School of Architecture. He is the author of Cityscapes of New Orleans.
This article was originally published on February 6, 2018, by The Atlantic, and is republished here with permission.
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Copeland District
Statistical comparisons will be made with Birmingham (change comparison)
Total Population 1801 to 2011: Population grew from 23,970 in 1801 to 70,603 in 2011.
Age Structure, in 5-year bands, from 1861 to 2011: In 1861, only 5. per cent of the population were aged 65 and over, but by 2011 18.91 per cent were.
Changing Industrial Structure 1841 to 2011: In 1841, 28.3 per cent of all workers worked in consumer services, but in 2011 this had fallen to 18.33 per cent.
Precentage of workforce with degrees 1951 to 2011: In 1951, only 2.523 per cent of occupied males had stayed in education past age 20, but in 2011 21. per cent of the population had degree-level qualifications.
Over-crowded housing, from 1911 to 2011: In 1911, 27.07 per cent of people were living in households with over 1.5 persons per room, but in 2011 this had fallen to .23 per cent.
Copeland District, Cumberland
COPELAND Preferred English Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics)
16UE Code: Office for National Statistics English Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics)
We know of no associations with other units.
NORTH WEST Government Office Region Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics)
CUMBRIA Modern (post 1974) County Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics)
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Mars in Capricorn is helpful for specifying a target, enthusiastically prepping for future challenges, or revitalizing ambitions. If you want to get to the mountaintop, adequate preparation is required like gathering essential supplies/resources and physical conditioning. So yes, some effort is needed, but nothing pays like the satisfaction of knowing you're primed and well adapted.
In the midst of the earth element influx (Mars in Capricorn, Virgo Sun/Grand Trine), efficient strategies prevail, but more innovations are coming soon. In looking back since Mars turned retrograde in late June, how has your trajectory/target been altered? More alternations are likely in the latter half of Sept. via the third Mars/Uranus square. The Mars retro narrative continues. Set up a stable foundation for your initiatives now so they'll withstand the unexpected.
But some potent Mars-like vigor is surprisingly available to all, even those who might feel exhausted. For anyone that has been running on pure adrenaline, the now waning Moon will assist in calming down. In two weeks time, the New Moon in Virgo is a rest/destress milestone, so adjust your schedule accordingly.
Mercury's third square to Jupiter can feel a little redundant. As was the case earlier this month, watch for ideologically charged ego battles, or inflamed debates over who's right or wrong. Question all positions, assumptions, and dogmas, even your own. You can constructively refine beliefs, theories, and opinions in light of knowledge previously concealed from view. However, now that Mercury is direct, big ideas have greater impact and outreach.


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Q: How to select Echarts.graph highlighting by clicking I have an Echarts graph (similar to a network graph), which has many nodes and edges. When I put the mouse on a node, the adjacent edges and nodes will be highlighted, but how can I move the mouse The highlighting of these nodes is still maintained after leaving. In other words, I want to trigger and cancel the highlighting by clicking, rather than hovering over the mouse.

A: In your tooltip chart options, add the option trigger:
tooltip : {
  triggerOn : 'click'
}

A: in my case using click, mouseout, highlight event worked.
I can't find way to avoid default mouse hover event. so set click and mouseout event callback.
When click event occur, save the node 'dataIndex'. And when mouseout event occur, emit 'highlight' event with 'dataIndex' (use dispatchAction api)


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Denby miss out on first victory by a whisker
Published: 12:41 Updated: 12:43 Monday 04 June 2018
Determined Denby failed by a whisker to pull off their first win of the season after an exciting thriller against fellow strugglers Wirksworth and Middleton.
The teams might be occupying the bottom two slots in the Premier Division of the Derbyshire County League at the moment, but there was no shortage of quality on view as Denby fell just three runs short in their run-chase.
Denby bowler Harry Wanford in full flow against Wirksworth and Middleton. (PHOTO BY: Anne Shelley)
In pursuit of Wirksworth's 218-8, the visitors slid to 94-5 and 149-6, but were hauled back into it by an unbeaten 48 (three sixes and five fours) from Ameer Ahmed and a patient 37 from skipper Daniel Burgoyne.
Burgoyne perished on 187, one of three scalps for home bowler Joe Greenhalgh (3-58 in ten overs), and two more late wickets fell before Denby finished on 215-9 for a losing draw and 12 welcome points.
Earlier the hosts had recovered from losing both openers with only one run on the board. Captain Ben Perry-Taylor led by example with a fine knock of 68, which contained five sixes and six fours, and he shared a key fourth-wicket stand of 113 with Jack Allen, who compiled a measured 42 (six fours).
Greenhalgh weighed in with 33 (one six and six fours) and Michael Jefferiss with 32 (two sixes and three fours), but Denby's bowlers kept plugging away, most notably Harry Wanford (3-58 in ten overs) and James Parkin (2-36 in 12 overs).
In reply, the away team lost opener Chris Fletcher for a duck and struggled to get into a rhythm, despite 33 (five fours) from Kudzai Oliver Maunze (33, five fours). It took skipper Burgoyne to steady the ship, initially with a stand worth 55 alongside Parkin (31, five fours), and then with the help of Ameer.
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The Auto Show & Mark Cinco Part 1
By DudeStang May 5, 2019
I attended the Washington Auto Show a few weeks ago, for the fourth year in a row. For me, going to the auto show is like being a kid in a candy store, except all the candy I want costs at least $50k. My unfulfilled garage dreams aside, it's a great way to spend a few hours. This year in particular was exciting for me because of the debut of the new Toyota Supra and Shelby GT500. Everything else was pretty much just a bonus in addition to seeing those two vehicles in person.
The newest Supra has generated a lot of buzz for the fact that there hasn't been a Supra since 1998, but also because the last iteration of the Supra is regarded as one of the legends (I'm trying to avoid using the word iconic here, for fear of seeming unoriginal) of the 1990s sports car scene and Japanese sports cars in general, and like any new iteration of something with such a strong fan base, there's been a lot of skepticism. I like to think that MKIV Supra owners/purists were a little bit spoiled with the combination of styling, power, and reliability that car provided for its time frame but I understand some of the criticisms of the new version – more on that in a little bit.
The legendary status of the MKIV Supra (1993-1998) has been confirmed recently with some of the crazy auction prices they've been going for. For folks into the import sport compact scene, the Supra was one of those cars you dreamed of owning, comparable only to the Skyline GTR, which was never made available in the United States. Even many of the folks who are exclusively into American muscle have a healthy respect for the MKIV Supra if only for the number of hearts it broke on highway roll races across the country. The use of a MKIV Supra in the first Fast and the Furious movie undoubtedly helped the car reach an even wider audience.
Rumors of a new Supra have been floating around for years and when Toyota finally announced they'd officially be bringing it back, a lot of people got understandably excited, myself included. When the final design was confirmed, it left a fair amount of folks disappointed. I didn't have a strong opinion but I thought it looked promising and reserved final judgement until I could see one in person. After seeing the Renaissance Red 2.0 (not sure what happened to 1.0) Supra on display at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, I can say that I am a fan of the styling. The curves are much easier to appreciate in person than in any photos I had seen previously. In particular, I really enjoy the slope from the roof to the "ducktail" style spoiler that you can see here:
While the looks impressed me in person, I still have two major complaints about the new Supra, based on all the available information. I understand that a lot of the Toyota purists are upset about the Supra sharing a drivetrain with BMW, since Toyota currently doesn't produce an inline six cylinder engine, but BMW does make some pretty impressive vehicles. I think folks should reserve their criticism of the drivetrain until the vehicle is available and being tested in the real world. My first complaint, or I suppose I should call it more of a concern, is that the Supra is only going to have 330 horsepower. That's only 10 more horsepower than the MKIV Supra in stock form and while I understand that horsepower isn't everything, there are a few great performing cars with significantly more power you can buy for less than the starting MSRP (this is part B of my first complaint) on the new Supra – Camaro SS 1LE, Mustang GT Performance Pack 2 or for close to that price – Corvette, Shelby GT350. Some folks would argue that these cars aren't necessarily targeting the same customers but personally I'd have a hard time paying $50k or more for the 330 HP Supra knowing I could get some of those cars for the same price or less. This all being said, I was actually pleasantly surprised that the price on the new Supra was "only" $50k, given the astronomical prices on other Japanese super cars like the modern Nissan GTR (starts at $99k) and Acura NSX (starts at $157k).
My second complaint is that as of yet, there don't appear to be any plans for an available manual transmission in the new Supra. I get that (unfortunately) this is the way the market is moving, at least in the U.S. but there are plenty of incredible cars still available with a manual transmission (Mustang, Camaro, Challenger, Corvette, various iterations of the 911, the Boxster and Cayman, etc.). I do have hope that Toyota can be pressured into bringing a manual option sort of like Porsche was with the 911 GT3. Again, much like part B of my first complaint, I'd have a hard time selecting a 330 HP, automatic Supra over a 455 HP manual Corvette or even a Porsche Cayman with less power but proven handling and an available manual (if I could fit my 6'5" frame into the Cayman of course).
I have more thoughts (and pics) to come in part 2 but I'm impatiently waiting for the production car to go on sale so journalists and new buyers can test the performance and share first hand perspectives. To be continued in part 2…
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UFO foi uma série televisiva do Reino Unido do gênero ficção científica criada e produzida por Gerry Anderson e Sylvia Anderson. Reg Hill participou da produção e a distribuição ficou a cargo da ITC Entertainment de Lew Grade. A série foi ao ar em 16 de setembro de 1970 e o último episódio (de um total de 26, com duração de 50 minutos cada) em 24 de julho de 1971.

O casal Anderson ficara conhecido anteriormente pelos seus diversos programas nos quais utilizavam marionetes no lugar de atores (Stingray, Thunderbirds e Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons). Em 1969, realizaram o filme para o cinema chamado Doppelgänger, com o título alternativo de Journey to the Far Side of the Sun.

Os temas da série não tem muito a ver com os do universo infanto-juvenil explorados nos programas das marionetes, sendo próprios de uma audiência adulta. Os episódios abordam assuntos tais como adultério, divórcio e uso de drogas. O elenco era formado por atores contratados do estúdio Century 21 e o protagonista, Ed Bishop, trabalhara como dublador em Captain Scarlet and The Mysterons.

Ed Bishop e Michael Billington morreram em junho de 2005, numa diferença de cinco dias dos falecimentos de um e de outro.

No Brasil, a série estreou em 26 de outubro de 1973, uma sexta-feira, na TV Record, Canal 7, no horário das 21hs, substituindo outra série, "Os Insociáveis".

Personagens
UFO tinha um numeroso elenco com os atores indo e vindo durante o curso do programa, principalmente George Sewell e Gabrielle Drake, pois deixaram a série durante o hiato na produção que ocorreu quando houve uma mudança de estúdio de gravação. Os personagens da agência SHADO tinham posições rotativas e ocasionalmente desapareciam — alguns retornando mais a frente em cargos diferentes. Apenas Ed Bishop apareceu em todos os episódios:

Comandante Ed Straker (Ed Bishop)
Piloto da Força Aérea dos Estados Unidos e originariamente um astronauta. Nascido em Boston,Massachusetts, ele organizou a agência SHADO após uma série de ataques de OVNIs (UFO, no original em inglês) em 1970. Straker disfarça suas operações aparecendo como o líder do Estúdio de Cinema Harlington-Straker. O Quartel-General da SHADO localiza-se bem abaixo das instalações do estúdio.

Ele se casara com Mary Nightingale em 1970, mas se divorciaram após o nascimento de John, filho do casal. Presume-se que o casamento tenha terminado conforme um flashback do episódio "Confetti Check A-OK". Mary registrou o filho como John Rutland, nome de seu novo companheiro interpretado por Philip Madoc. John ficou gravemente ferido num acidente de carro e Straker, contrariando suas próprias regras, usou um aircraft da SHADO para voar até a América em busca de antibióticos para o filho. Porém, o segundo-em-comando, Coronel Freeman, quis que o voo fosse desviado para investigar alguns relatos de aparecimentos de OVNIs na Irlanda e o senso de dever de Straker o levou a aceitar a missão. As drogas chegaram tarde ao hospital e John veio a falecer (episódio "A Question of Priorities"). Em outras séries de ficção científica, os problemas são todos resolvidos ao final do episódio. UFO contrasta com essa proposta e fica claro que Ed Straker sacrificou completamente sua vida pessoal em prol da organização que comanda e que aprendeu a viver com isso, embora não esqueça dos sofrimentos que causou as pessoas que ama. Agindo de acordo com as circunstâncias, Straker se mostra tenso e infeliz, tornando-se um personagem complexo e simpático e que não se enquadra nos padrões estereotipados do gênero.

Curiosamente, Straker se recusa a beber álcool, mesmo existindo um grande bar no escritório da SHADO. Nos primeiros episódios sugere-se que ele fora um alcoólico no passado. Mas quanto aos cigarros, Straker não tem a mesma atitude e é visto fumando em alguns episódios. Straker sofre de claustrofobia, doença conhecida apenas pelo médico da SHADO, o doutor Alec Freeman. Esse personagem foi um co-piloto no episódio "Sub-Smash".

Outra característica é que a voz do personagem soa diferente da do ator na vida real, pois os episódios foram gravados na velocidade de 24 quadros por segundo mas na televisão a exibição é feita com a velocidade de 25 quadros por segundo.

Coronel Paul Foster (Michael Billington)
Piloto de testes que teve o avião danificado quando um veículo aéreo da SHADO interceptou e destruiu um OVNI nas proximidades do espaço onde ele voava. Ao cabo de uma persistente investigação do incidente, ele colocou em risco o disfarce da SHADO e Straker chegou a pensar em matá-lo. Mas acabou por ficar impressionado com o rapaz e convidou Foster para ingressar na organização. Foster aparece algumas vezes como um protegido de Straker, assumindo diferentes postos a cada episódio. Ele algumas vezes é o comandante da Base Lunar (em substituição a Tenente Ellis) e tem posições de autoridade dentro do quartel-general da SHADO. Foster se disfarça como um dos produtores cinematográficos de Straker e manteve um breve relacionamento com a coronel Virginia Lake. Foster tem a distinção de certa vez ter sido amigo de um alienígena que acabou morrendo nas mãos da SHADO; sua atitude se tornou bastante cínica após esse acontecimento (contado no episódio "Survival").

Tenente Gay Ellis (Gabrielle Drake)
Na primeira metade dos episódios ela aparece como comandante da Base Lunar. A tenete Ellis ocasionalmente sofre de falta de autoconfiança. Ela foi temporariamente afastada da SHADO quando se sugeriu que tivesse um envolvimento romântico com o piloto interceptador Mark Bradley (episódio "Computer Affair"). Por vezes ela aparece atraída por Ed Straker.

Coronel Alec Freeman (George Sewell)
Foi o primeiro oficial e médico da SHADO até a terça parte da série. O ator deixou a série com a mudança dos estúdios. Um mulherengo com cerca de 40 anos de idade, é o braço direito de Straker e as vezes age como seu guarda-costas. Amigo de todos na SHADO, Freeman assume uma atitude mordaz diante dos conflitos de Straker para manter a SHADO em funcionamento e protestou uma única vez contra uma decisão, oferecendo sua renúncia (episódio "Computer Affair"). Melhor amigo de Straker e padrinho do seu casamento, Freeman foi o primeiro operativo recrutado para a SHADO por Straker (visto no episódio "Confetti Check A-OK").

General James Henderson (Grant Taylor)
Oficial superior de Straker, Henderson lidera a Comissão Internacional de Astrofísica, a fachada da SHADO, e é responsável pela obtenção de fundos e equipamentos governamentais para manter a agência em operação. Straker e Henderson discutem frequentemente sobre as necessidades da SHADO e a realidade econômica.

Coronel Virginia Lake (Wanda Ventham)
Virginia Lake aparece pela primeira vez no episódio de abertura ("Identified"), como uma cientista da SHADO e uma conquista romântica de Alec Freeman. Durante o último quarto da série, Lake retorna para, ironicamente, assumir o posto de primeiro oficial da SHADO em substituição a Freeman. Uma especialista em computação, ela também serviu como comandante da Base Lunar. Ela esteve envolvida romanticamente com Paul Foster durante um tempo. Manteve inicialmente uma relação de trabalho tensa com Straker mas no último episódio é vista próxima e o confortando ("The Long Sleep").

Capitão Peter Carlin (Peter Gordeno)
No início da série, Carlin é o comandante do submarino SkyDiver e piloto da nave de interceptação Sky One. Em 1970, Carlin e sua irmã encontraram um OVNI e foram atacados; ele foi baleado e ficou ferido, enquanto sua irmã desapareceu. Ele entrou para a SHADO na esperança de descobrir o que aconteceu com a irmã ("Identified").

Tenente Nina Barry (Dolores Mantez)
Uma das primeiras recrutadas para a SHADO, Barry trabalha na Base Lunar e no último episódio substituiu a tenente Ellis como a oficial-comandante. Ela também serviu a bordo do Skydiver  ("Sub-Smash"). Uma das muitas mulheres atraídas por Straker, ela é a segunda personagem mais frequente da série, aparecendo em 23 dos 26 episódios.

Capitão Lew Waterman (Gary Myers)
No início era um piloto interceptador baseado na Lua. Waterman mais tarde foi promovido para capitão e substituiu Peter Carlin como o oficial comandante do Skydiver e piloto do Sky One. Ele ficou amigo próximo de Paul Foster (sugerido em "Ordeal").

Tenente Keith Ford (Keith Alexander)
Entrevistador de TV que entrou para a SHADO e se tornou o principal oficial de comunicações. O ator Keith Alexander deixou o elenco após a interrupção da produção e o personagem desapareceu no último terço da série.

Tenente Ayshea Johnson (Ayshea Brough)
Uma oficial do quartel-general da SHADO na maioria dos episódios. Inicialmente fazia diferentes tarefas –sentada diante de um computador, ela é a mulher na tela que sorri para o Coronel Alec Freeman na abertura; mais tarde tornou-se oficial de comunicações da SHADO trabalhando com o Tenente Ford. Em sua última aparição, Johnson está na Base Lunar ("Mindbender"). Altamente observadora, ela dá a informação crucial no episódio "The Cat with Ten Lives."  O nome completo da personagem é falado apenas no episódio "The Sound of Silence". Nos créditos ela é identificada apenas como Ayshea (nome real da atriz).

Dr. Doug Jackson (Vladek Sheybal)
Psiquiatra da SHADO e oficial de ciências.Uma figura sinistra que algumas vezes parece ter seus próprios propósitos, Jackson serve em diferentes funções na SHADO, inclusive atuando como oficial de acusação na corte-marcial de Paul Foster. Quando Foster fugiu da detenção após ser falsamente acusado, Jackson foi bem-sucedido em convencer o General Henderson a ordenar aos guardas o uso de dardos tranquilizantes. Doug Jackson não é o nome de nascimento do personagem, pois ele fala com um forte sotaque do leste europeu. Suas origens, contudo, nunca foram exploradas.

Tenente Joan Harrington (Antonia Ellis)
Outra trabalhadora da Base Lunar, Harrington foi uma das primeiras recrutadas para a organização (visto em "Confetti Check A-OK").

Senhorita Ealand (Norma Ronald)
Operativa da SHADO disfarçada de secretaria do estúdio cinematográfico de Straker. Ela é a primeira da linha de defesa contra qualquer intromissão do quartel-general da SHADO, protegendo a saída de Straker pelo elevador do escritório. O personagem não é visto na maioria dos episódios pós-mudança de estúdio, tendo sido substituída em dois episódios pela Senhorita Holland (interpretada por Lois Maxwell).

Tenente Mark Bradley (Harry Baird)
Piloto interceptador caribenho, baseado na Lua. Ele foi envolvido romanticamente com a Tenente Ellis durante um tempo, e assumiu postos temporários no Quartel-General terrestre da SHADO e no comando da Base Lunar. Baird deixou a série após participar de quatro episódios, mas apareceu em cenas filmadas anteriormente, em vários episódios.

Personagens menores
Uma das mulheres anônimas em cenas da Base Lunar foi interpretada por Shakira Baksh, que mais tarde se casaria com o ator Michael Caine. O produtor Gerry Anderson mais tarde confessou que perdera a paciência com ela várias vezes durante as filmagens.

Steve Phillips, um dos pilotos interceptadores, foi interpretado pelo grande ator britânico Steven Berkoff.

Tramas
A premissa básica do programa é o futuro próximo – uma versão ficcional de 1980 (uma data indicada na abertura dos créditos) – quando a Terra é visitada e atacada por alienígenas do Espaço vindos de um planeta desértico e os humanos são capturados e com os órgãos retirados para uso dos extraterrestres. Os principais personagens da série são membros de uma secreta, altamente tecnológica e internacional agência empenhada na defesa Terra, no estudo e na luta contra os misteriosos alienígenas.

OVNIs
As naves espaciais invasoras podem cruzar a vasta distância entre o planeta dos alienígenas e a Terra mas com o seu tamanho carregam apenas um ou dois tripulantes. A equipe na base é limitada: os alienígenas sobrevivem poucos dias na atmosfera da Terra, antes dos corpos começarem a deteriorar e finalmente, explodirem. As naves alienígenas podem permanecer grandes períodos debaixo d'água; em um dos epísódios, "Reflections in the Water", é descoberta uma grande base alienígena submersa, com um dos OVNIs voando direto para um vulcão extinto que seria uma entrada, descrita por Straker como "uma porta dos fundos para o Atlântico". Uma especial versão de OVNI subaquático aparece em "Sub Smash". Em voo ele emite um ruido eletrónico característico   (produzido pelo compositor da série Barry Gray através de Ondes Martenot). As naves são armadas com raios laser mas podem ser destruídas com armas de guerra convencionais. As armas de uso portátil dos alienígenas são rifles de assalto. Nos últimos episódios os alienígenas são vistos usando outras armas, como um paralisador.

Alienígenas
Notório na ficção científica, nunca é dado um nome aos alienígenas, tendo sido referidos simplesmente como "os aliens". De aparência humanoide, a autópsia do primeiro alien capturado revela que seus órgãos internos foram transplantados de humanos abduzidos. Os rostos são afetados por um líquido oxigenado da cor verde, o qual se acredita ser usado para conter os efeitos da extrema aceleração dos voos; esse líquido é contido dentro dos capacetes. Os olhos são protegidos por lentes de contatos opacas com pequenos furos para possibilitarem a visão. Na sequência de abertura é mostrada a cena de lentes de contato sendo removidas de um olho real com o uso de uma pinça — mas a lente nunca foi mostrada em contato com o olho.

Não mais do que dois alienígenas são mostrados a cada vez. No episódio Ordeal, quando Foster é capturado por dois aliens, um dos dois está sempre fora da cena na que Foster aparece.

As roupas espaciais dos aliens foram feitas de lycra vermelha. No começo da produção as roupas eram ornamentadas com detalhes prateados. Mais tarde foram substituídos por partes prateadas. Os riscos verticais nos lados do capacete, são respiradouros para os atores.

SHADO
Para a defesa contra os alienígenas, uma organização secreta chamada SHADO (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organisation ou Supremo Quartel-General da Organização contra os Alienígenas) foi fundada. O nome em inglês remeta a "sombras", já que a organização funciona sem o conhecimento do público em geral. Operando sob o disfarce dos Estúdios Harlington-Straker de cinema na Inglaterra, a SHADO é liderada pelo Comandante Ed Straker, piloto da Força Aérea Norte-Americana, coronel e astronauta que aparece publicamente como o chefe executivo do estúdio.

Na verdade, isso foi uma maneira encontrada pelos produtores para reduzirem os custos – as cenas do estúdio usavam as próprias dependências de onde a séria era filmada, primeiramente o Estúdio Britânico da MGM, depois o Estúdio Pinewood, apesar de que o escritório do Harlington-Straker era na verdade o Neptune House – um prédio do British National Studios, em Borehamwood, de propriedade da ATV. Os prédios do Pinewood e as ruas internas foram usadas extensivamente nos últimos episódios, particularmente em "Timelash" e "Mindbender". Em um episódio, Straker sofre alucinações que o fazem acreditar que é um ator numa série de TV e todos os seus colegas da SHADO são atores como ele.

Típica das produções dos Anderson, a ideia do disfarce do estúdio era para cortar custos. Assim, não tinham a necessidade de mostrar uma custosa aparência exterior das bases da SHADO.

Outra característica dos Anderson era o conceito de mecanismos de transporte como os tubos do  Stingray e os dos veículos Thunderbird. Em UFO, isso aparece no compartimento secreto do escritório de Straker, com um elevador que o leva até o centro de controle da SHADO, localizado no subterrâneo do estúdio. Os pilotos interceptadores no espaço e do jato "Sky One" fazem uso de rampas de lançamentos. Os interceptadores partem de um hangar que possui uma plataforma elevatória para o lançamento, disfarçada de uma cratera lunar.

Equipamentos da SHADO
A SHADO possuia uma variedade de veículos e equipamentos high-tech. Os primeiros alertas dos ataques dos alienígenas vinham do SID (Space Intruder Detector ou Detector de Intrusos do Espaço), um computador instalado em um satélite que constantemente monitorava as incursões de OVNIs. A linha de frente era a Base Lunar que tinha três naves interceptadoras, armadas com misseis nucleares. A segunda linha de defesa tinha o SkyDiver, um submarino que lançava sob o mar a aeronave interceptadora Sky One, que atacava os OVNIs na atmosfera da Terra. A última linha defensiva eram unidades no solo que incluíam as armas e veículos de Infantaria (IFV) equipados com lagartas. Os efeitos especiais, como em todos os programas de marionetes dos Anderson, foram supervisionados por Derek Meddings, enquanto os veículos foram desenhados por Meddings e seu assistente, Michael Trim.

Ambientação

O conceito do programa era muito sombrio para a época: a premissa básica era a de que os aliens invasores abduziam os humanos e os faziam doadores involuntários de órgãos. Em "The Cat with Ten Lives", é usado um roteiro sinistro que sugere que os pilotos dos OVNIS não são aliens humanoides mas humanos que haviam sido abduzidos, e que agora eram controlados pela inteligência extraterrestre, ideia sugerida (como em Captain Scarlet) a partir de uma fala do Dr. Jackson, "que os seres não existiam como matéria e por isso precisavam de um invólucro, um veículo, nossos corpos."

O programa tinha realismo, relações factíveis entre os personagens humanos, indo além de uma convencional série televisiva de ficção científica, demonstrando influências de programas como The Twilight Zone e Star Trek e séries de ação britânicas tais como Danger Man. Um dos primeiros episódios, "Computer Affair", traz um romance interracial entre dois personagens regulares (incomum na TV britânica da época), enquanto em outros há personagens cometendo enganos, alguns com consequências fatais. Poucos episódios da série tinham finais felizes ou satisfatórios para os personagens.

O episódio "Confetti Check A-OK" é quase inteiramente calcado na derrocada do casamento de Straker. Em outro, "A Question of Priorities", Straker faz uma angustiante escolha de vida-ou-morte. Duas cenas-chaves: O filho de Straker agonizando e sua ex-esposa declarando que não o queria ver novamente – as cenas foram repetidas em flashback em dois episódios posteriores: "Sub-Smash" e "Mindbender", sugerindo que Straker permanecia sofrendo emocionalmente com aquilo.

Em outro episódio, "The Square Triangle", uma mulher e o amante planejam assassinar o marido dela. Quando ele acidentalmente mata um alienígena, a SHADO intervém e ministra drogas de amnésia no casal (décadas antes de Men in Black). Straker acha, contudo, que as drogas não teriam efeitos em motivações básicas e ao fim dos créditos a mulher é vista visitando a cova do marido e logo após caminha em encontro ao amante.

Havia um misto de sombrio drama humano e aventura de ficção científica que fez com que a série fosse cultuada. Na época houve confusão nas redes televisivas dos Estados Unidos e da Grã-Bretanha, que foram incapazes de definir se a série era um programa para adultos ou crianças - a série foi exibida nas manhãs de sábado na Inglaterra - e contribuiu para o seu cancelamento.

Efeitos especiais
O supervisor Derek Meddings era um dos maiores profissionais daqueles dias, capaz de fazer com que recursos limitados não interferissem na qualidade da produção.

Os refinados efeitos especiais subaquáticos desenvolvidos em Stingray apareceram melhorados na série, como um visor de dupla face dos capacetes dos alienígenas que continham um líquido de cor verde. Quando filmados no ângulo adequado, trazia uma ilusão convincente de que a cabeça submergia no líquido.

Segunda série e Space: 1999

Dois anos após os 26 episódios terem sido finalizados, a série foi distribuída nos Estados Unidos e a boa audiência levou a feitura de uma proposta para a ITC de realização de uma segunda temporada. Como os episódios em que aparecia a Base Lunar eram os mais populares, a ITC insistiu que nessa nova série a ação tomasse lugar na Lua. Gerry Anderson apresentou um formato em que a Base Lunar  SHADO aumentasse de importância e se tornasse o quartel-general da organização e a pré-produção UFO 2 começou com grandes recursos e novos desenhos para a renovada Base Lunar. Uma trama secundária que tinha sido mostrada em "Kill Straker!" mostraria Straker negociando com os financiadores da SHADO os fundos para a construção de mais bases lunares no período de 10 anos. Mas os distribuidores americanos largaram o projeto após o término da exibição da série no país e a ITC cancelou a continuação. Anderson não queria perder a pré-produção e em seguida ofereceu a ITC a ideia de uma nova série, na qual a Lua sairia da órbita terrestre mas com os ocupantes da Base Lunar conseguindo sobreviver a essa catástrofe mas sem condições de retornarem a Terra. Essa ideia geraria a série Space: 1999. Quando foi ao ar, não havia ligações no roteiro desse novo programa com a série precursora.

Visual futurista
 Nunca foi explicado porque as mulheres da Base Lunar usavam perucas púrpuras e muita maquiagem nos olhos. Gerry Anderson disse que essa roupa era melhor para ser filmada com as luzes brilhantes e Sylvia Anderson disse que acreditava que de fato as perucas viriam a compor os uniformes militares dos anos de 1980. Quando as mulheres da Base Lunar visitavam a Terra (como Ellis e Barry fizeram certa vez), não vestiam seus adereços lunares.
 Ed Bishop, que tinha cabelos escuros na vida real, inicialmente branqueou-os. Mais tarde começou a usar uma peruca platinada quando a pintura começou a danificar os cabelos. Bishop, até pouco antes da sua morte, guardara uma das perucas e a usava nas convenções de ficção científica e programas de TV que participava. Ele também guardou seu relógio Certina, criado especialmente para o seu personagem.
 Os pilotos do submarino Skydiver e da Base Lunar, deslizavam para seus veículos através de tubos. Isso foi uma alusão às primeiras séries dos Andersons, tais como Thunderbirds.
 O carro com turbinas de Ed Straker, que lembrava o Citroën SM 1970 foi montado na verdade num chassis de um Ford Zephyr.
 Os paineis de controle luminosos e futuristas dos computadores da SHADO, reapareceriam em vários outros programas dos anos de 1970, como Doctor Who, Timeslip, Doomwatch, The Tomorrow People, The Goodies, The New Avengers, Star Maidens e Blake's 7, bem como em filmes para o cinema tais como Diamonds Are Forever, Carry On Loving e Confessions of a Pop Performer. A vestimenta espacial dos alienígenas apareceu em Kadoyng.
 Os futuristas carros com asas usados por Ed Straker e Paul Foster foram originariamente construídos para o filme de Anderson Doppelgänger. Durante a exibição da série, David Lowe e Sydney Carlton buscaram fundos para fundarem uma companhia chamada "The Explorer Motor Company", que deveria produzir em massa esses carros. Um protótipo de plástico do carro de Straker chegou a ser feito mas a companhia nunca conseguiu decolar.
 Ed Bishop e Michael Billington comentaram que os carros futuristas eram impossíveis de guiar  (principalmente por causa do volante, que era vistoso mas sem funcionalidade). As portas com as asas não abriam automaticamente, como visto nas cenas.
 No episódio "Survival" foi dito que a Base Lunar localizava-se na Mare Imbrium, ou numa parte a nordeste dali, de acordo com um mapa que Foster e um alien analisam. O mapa é real.
 O Trimphone, um modelo de telefone com projeto britânico usado na década de 1960, aparecia com frequência na série.

Antevisão
UFO foi filmado entre 1969 e 1970 mas muitas de suas previsões sobre a vida futura se tornaram realidade. Algumas das inovações previstas na série:
 Telefones em carros
 Portas automáticas com asas nos automóveis (na verdade houve um modelo pioneiro com essa ideia, o Mercedes-Benz 300SL, mas que não era lembrado em 1969.)
 Nave espacial lançada de uma aeronave.
 Problemas com o detrito espacial
 Uso extenso de computadores na vida cotidiana
 Impressão digital eletrônica digitalizada e mantida em um banco de dados.
 Sistema de identificação de voz.
 Satélites-espiões.

Episódios

Episódios foram editados em 1980 para formar um programa chamado Invasion: UFO, que foi distribuído para as redes americanas e europeias. Tinha a duração aproximada de 30 minutos e uniu Identified, Computer Affair e Reflections in the Water, finalizando com The Man Who Came Back. Segmentos curtos de ESP e Confetti Check A-OK foram usados como pontes nos saltos de continuidade.

Histórias de UFO em outras mídias
Duas novelizações baseadas na série foram publicadas no Reino Unido e nos Estados Unidos.
Nos quadrinhos "Countdown" e "TV Action"; episode guide.
Entre 1991 e 1999 a Entropy Express de Brighton, Austrália publicou 7 revistas em um periódico chamado Flightpath, contendo 39 textos no cenário de UFO. Inclui um crossover com a série Bergerac e o filme Predator.

Referências

Ligações externas

Guia dos episódios UFO de Fanderson - Site oficial da Gerry Anderson Appreciation Society
Mais guias detalhados de episódio
Home Page da série
SHADO Library
Guia de episódios das tiras de Countdown e TV Action
Eagle Transporter Forum - Discussão sobre os equipamentos de UFO e Space 1999.
Website de fãs do ator Michael Billington
UFO-TV-Serie (Página alemã de fãs)

Programas da ITV
Programas de televisão do Reino Unido que estrearam em 1970
Programas de televisão do Reino Unido encerrados em 1971
Séries de televisão de ficção científica do Reino Unido
Séries de televisão de ficção científica da década de 1970
Séries de televisão de aventura do Reino Unido
Séries de televisão de aventura da década de 1970
Séries de televisão de drama do Reino Unido
Séries de televisão de drama da década de 1970
Séries de televisão de suspense do Reino Unido
Séries de televisão de suspense da década de 1970
Lua na ficção
Programas de televisão em língua inglesa
Séries de televisão sobre aviação

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Our Guide to the Cyber Threat Intelligence that is Important to Organisations
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A criminal case was registered against BSP candidate Indra Pratap Tewari on Sunday for intimidating voters at gunpoint and assaulting them in his constituency Goshaiganj of Faizabad district. Tewari, also known as Khabbu Tewari, has also been accused of assaulting some voters. A mafia-turned-politician, Tewari is a listed criminal. The officer in-charge of Maharajgnaj police station said that the complainant – one Arvind Chaurasia – reported that he along with some of his associates was returning home on Sunday afternoon when Tewari and his men intercepted them near Benipur village of Maharajganj police station. They asked Chaurasia and his men whom they would vote? When they said that they would vote for SP, Khabbu ordered his goons to beat them, Chaurasia has written in his report.


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KKR vs Rajasthan Royals
High on confidence after tasting victories in their tournament openers, both Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals will look to extend their winning run when the two teams square-off in the Indian Premier League match here on Monday.
While the defending champions KKR beat Delhi Daredevils comfortably by six wickets in a low-scoring match in the tournament opener, the Royals eked out a five-run win over the same opponents in their first game.
The Royals, who have looked awry since their inaugural edition feat, will take confidence from the fact that they had beaten KKR by 22 runs at the same venue exactly a year ago in previous edition of the cash-rich event.
Add to it, their last outing against the Daredevils when skipper Rahul Dravid struck a 51-ball 65 and Stuart Binny chipped in with quickfire 40 off just 20 balls to help the team, would also give them an edge.
However, the fact that they were lucky to have scrapped through against a depleted Delhi-side and were unable to tighten the noose at crucial moments, will play in their mind.
Both openers Ajinkya Rahane (28) and Kusal Perera (14) got starts but failed to convert them into big scores.
Despite Dravid, Rahane and Binny in good nick, Royals were unable to give necessary thrust to their innings.
The hosts, however, would be bolstered by the presence of explosive Australia all-rounder Shane Watson at the top of the order, who is expected to take the field tomorrow at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium.
But the team might just have a fitness worry with 40-year-old Dravid pulling a calf muscle on Saturday and did not field for the better part of Delhi run-chase.
The former India captain though had assured that he would try his best to play against the KKR.
"It was severe bout of cramps. I will do everything to play the next match (against KKR) but I need to see that how I get up tomorrow and if there`s any stiffness," Dravid had said after the match against Delhi.
Royals` bowling also lacked the penetration and it was left to Kevin Cooper (three for 30) to restrict the opponents who needed only nine runs from the last over.
The team will be hoping for Shaun Tait, S Sreesanth, Samuel Badree and the likes to come good with the ball.
KKR, on the other hand, with their allround strength will be looking to avenge their last year`s defeat. And they would certainly fancy their chances against the Royals.
Even though the Knight Riders chased down a modest total of 129 against Delhi, skipper Gautam Gambhir, Jacques Kallis, Manoj Tiwary, Eoin Morgan and Yusuf Pathan -- all showed their potential and the visitors would hoping to dominate Royals` not-so-impressive bowling lineup tomorrow.
As far as KKR`s bowling is concerned, their `mystery` spinner Sunil Narine, who with his brilliant figures of four for 13 had kept the Daredevils under tight leash, will be a force to reckon with.
The West Indian had scalped 24 wickets in the last edition of IPL to finish as the second highest wicket-taker behind Morne Morkel.
Besides, Australian veteran Brett Lee, who has doubled up as a bowling mentor in absence of Wasim Akram, will spearhead the pace attack.
Adding variety to the attack will be Laxmipathy Balaji and all rounders Jacques Kallis, Rajat Bhatia and Laxmi Ratan Shukla.
They all had a good outing against Delhi and would look to fire in unison once again.
Rajasthan Royals will have to raise the bar if they want to thwart the defending champions.
Meanwhile, the Rajathan Cricket Association curator Taposh Chatterjee feels that the wicket will be ideal for a Twenty20 game but dew might play a role in the later part of the evening.
"We got the ground a bit late but with the kind of equipment at our disposal we could have ground and wicket in good shape. We have the resources to minimise the affect of dew," he said.
Rajasthan Royals: Rahul Dravid, Ajinkya Rahane, Shane Watson, Ajit Chandila, Ankeet Chavan, Ashok Menaria, Brad Hogg, Brad Hodge, Dishant Yagnik, Fidel Edwards, Harmeet Singh, James Faulkner, Kevon Cooper, Kumar Boresha, Kushal Perera, Owais Shah, Pravin Tambe, Rahul Shukla, S Sreesanth, Sachin Baby, Samual Badree, Sanju Samson, Shaun Tait, Sreevats Goswami, Siddharth Trivedi, Stuart Binny, Vikramjeet Malik.
Kolkata Knight Riders: Gautam Gambhir (captain), Brad Haddin, Brett Lee, Debabrata Das, Eoin Morgan, Iqbal Abdulla, Jacques Kallis, James Pattinson, Laxmipathy Balaji, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Manoj Tiwary, Manvinder Bisla, Shami Ahmed, Pradeep Sangwan, Rajat Bhatia, Ryan McLaren, Ryan ten Doeschate, Sachitra Senanayake, Sarabjit Ladda, Sunil Narine and Yusuf Pathan.


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Posted by The Argonaut | Apr 15, 2010 | Marina Del Rey, News - Features | 0 |
Gloria Giumarra dies at 78
Gloria Giumarra, a 35-year resident of Marina del Rey, has died. She was 78.
Giumarra passed away Saturday, April 3rd in Santa Monica with her loved ones by her side after a courageous four-and-a-half-year battle with cancer.
She was born November 11th, 1931 in Los Angeles as the second of three children to Sunday and George Giumarra. She lived in Los Angeles until 1949, when her family moved to Bakersfield.
Giumarra married John Murray in 1954 and the couple was married for 20 years. When Giumarra's sons were grown, she returned to the Los Angeles area and settled in Marina del Rey, where she lived for 35 years.
One of her greatest joys was her spectacular view of the Marina and Pacific Ocean, family members said.
Giumarra is survived by her son Gregory Murray, his wife Heliana, and step-granddaughter Deanny; son Mark Murray, his wife Laurie and their children Monica, Alexander and Matthew; brother George Giumarra and his wife Marcia; nieces Machelle Louderback, Connie Jansen, Janelle Giumarra and nephew Jeffrey Giumarra; many other family members and special family friend, Faud Najjar.
Family members say Giumarra was a loving, generous and devoted mother, nana, aunt and sister who will be sorely missed. Per her request, Giumarra's ashes were scattered at sea.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to: John Wayne Cancer Institute, 2200 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, 90404, or to another charity.
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