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North Carolina's World War I Aviators
Mike Sistrom
"James R. McConnell (14 March 1887-19 March 1917) and Kiffin Yates Rockwell (20 September 1892-23 September 1916) were the first of the scores of North Carolinians who served with the France air force during the war. McConnell and Rockwell were part of the Lafayette Escadrille, an all-American squadron of forty-eight pilots within the French air force. The other North Carolina aviators in France were among the 228 Americans assigned to various French units. They were known collectively as the Lafayette Flying Corps. Hundreds more aspiring North Carolina pilots trained with the Navy and Army air corps in the United States but never saw active duty. In addition to pilots, many other North Carolinians worked as ground support for aviation camps or with observation balloon crews that floated above the frontlines. (As historian Thomas Parramore has observed, the unfortunate loss of service records makes it impossible to pinpoint the exact number of wartime Tar Heel flyers.)
It is fair to say, however, that North Carolinians helped lead the nation in the development of aviation before and during World War I. Since the days of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, the flying bug had bitten hundreds of Tar Heel engineers and amateur pilots. The outbreak of World War I in 1914 accelerated the Europeans' development of the airplane as a weapon. The United States military lagged far behind other nations in the development of air power, but several North Carolinians forged ahead. They included inventors of aerial bombs, giant aircraft, and antiaircraft guns. The later was the brainchild of William D. Polite, an African American waiter in Wilmington. Polite won a patent for his invention, but it was never developed.
In 1913, Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels, former publisher of the Raleigh News and Observer, pledged to develop a Navy air corps. The Army began its tiny air wing in 1909, but seven years later, it had only twenty-five planes and twenty-three pilots, including a few North Carolinians. In 1916, McConnell and Rockwell were already flying combat missions in France.
McConnell and Rockwell became close friends. They each had an adventurous spirit, which led them to volunteer for the French army and then head into the skies as pilots. James McConnell was born in Chicago in 1887. As a teen, he grabbed headlines for driving a car from Chicago to New York. He entered the University of Virginia in 1908 but was more interested in pulling pranks, socializing, and founding the college's first aviation club than in his studies.
McConnell left school in 1910 to join his family, who had moved to Carthage, North Carolina. He worked for a local railroad and the board of trade, where he excelled in writing promotional literature for the region. Restless, he yearned for more, however. Soon after war broke out in Europe in 1914, he volunteered for the American ambulance corps in France. At the same time, he wrote war dispatches for North Carolina newspapers and for national magazines. McConnell won awards for gallantry, but ambulance service was not thrilling enough for him. In 1916, he transferred to the recently formed Lafayette Escadrille, an all-American squadron within the French air corps.
Kiffin Yates Rockwell, who had co-founded the Lafayette Escadrille with another American flyer in March 1916, seemed to have found his life's purpose. Born in the mountains of east Tennessee in 1892, he moved to Asheville in North Carolina in 1906. Stories of Confederate gallantry on his mother's side of the family inspired in the teenage Rockwell a desire for military service, but his wandering spirit soon got the better of him. At age sixteen, he enrolled in the Virginia Military Institute. Within a year he received an appointment to the Naval Academy. Rockwell declined the appointment, however, and left VMI to join his brother Paul at Washington and Lee College.
Paul was training as a journalist, and Kiffin dabbled in this pursuit, while gaining a reputation as a charming ladies man. Kiffin dropped out of Washington and Lee, however, and drifted from San Francisco, to Asheville, then to Atlanta pursuing various careers. Both Kiffin and Paul shared an admiration of French culture. Within days of Germany's declaration of war against France, the Rockwell brothers were headed for Europe to volunteer in the French Foreign Legion. Paul was soon injured and spent the remainder of the war as a correspondent. Kiffin fought in the trenches for another year, before he too was injured in 1915. (For a more extensive, reverential treatment of Rockwell's youth, see R. B. House's biography, pp. 151-3.
It is worth interjecting that R. B. House had an abiding interest in World War I. During the war, he served as an infantry lieutenant. He later became the Collector of War Records for the North Carolina Historical Commission, in which capacity he collected over 100,000 official and personal documents. House went on to edit the North Carolina Historical Review as well as important public papers and government reference works. House is best known, however, for his long career at the University of North Carolina, where between 1926 and 1962 he served variously as executive secretary, dean of administration, chancellor, and a professor of English.
Meanwhile, as Kiffin recovered from his wounds in 1915, he met William Thaw, a fellow American, who was also a pilot. Thaw was trying to form an American air unit. Though Rockwell had no flying experience, he quickly signed for the romantic adventure. At first, the French authorities showed little enthusiasm, but they relented when Rockwell and Thaw convinced them that the well-publicized exploits of a group of Yankee flyers might help galvanize public opinion back in the United States on behalf of American entry into the war. On March 3 1916, Rockwell, Thaw, and five other Americans formed the Lafayette Escadrille. Over the course of the war, the unit grew to forty-eight men, including McConnell.
Paul Rockwell became the unit's publicist, writing many dispatches for American papers about the pilots' heroics. He also published several of the memoirs of the Escadrille pilots, including McConnell's Flying for France (1917) and the posthumously released War Letters of Kiffin Yates Rockwell (1925.) Readers thrilled to the heroism of the dashing young men. During the war, Americans were almost as likely to be familiar with the idealized picture of war presented by the small number of American flyers than they were with the horrors of combat and daily hardships experienced by over one million average American infantrymen. (For more on this, see the introduction to The Soldiers' Experience/Personal Narratives.)
Kiffin Rockwell was a favorite of both the Americans and French. In part, this was because he was the first American to shoot down an enemy plane. He also earned hero status for his reckless style of fighting. In his memoir, McConnell boasted of his friend that "Rockwell. . .attacked so often that he has lost all count, and . . .shoves his machine gun fairly in the faces of the Germans." Rockwell engaged in a record 142 aerial battles before he was shot down and killed on September 23, 1916. McConnell recalled the fateful day in some detail. Rockwell was First North Carolinian to die in the war and the second member of the Escadrille to perish. At his funeral, circling planes showered his body with flowers.
The French government also showered Rockwell with awards, including its highest honor, the Medaille Militaire (the Croix de Gueree with four palms and a star.) Rockwell biographer R. B. House later lionized his subject as the "Aristocrat of the Air." House also made Rockwell the embodiment of American democracy and invisibility. "But with all his love for France" House wrote, "he retained his sense of responsibility as an American. 'I am paying my part of America's debt for Lafayette and Rochambeau,' [two French generals who aided the Americans during the War for Independence] was his expression that has been echoed and re-echoed by American fighters from private to General Pershing. His attitude towards death was a triumphant assertion of immortality."
James McConnell did not have Rockwell's record of success or heroic status, but he was the most well-liked member of the Escadrille. His memoir was widely read and is the most candid and thorough of all of those produced by American flyers. In it, he provides an exciting account of aerial acrobatics, as well as a birds eye view of the savage British and German ground battles at Verdun and the Somme. McConnell also recounts the posh life of the American pilots, living in comfortable hotels, enjoying the best French food and wine, and socializing with the French elite. Young male American readers might have expected a similar adventure when they joined the army after the U.S. entered the war in April 1917. What naiveté and optimism had not been drilled out of the draftees during boot-camp was demolished when they hit the trenches of France and Belgium.
The fact that McConnell wrote his volume while recuperating from a crash in August 1916 is proof that simply flying the flimsy wooden biplanes was a tricky enough task, to say nothing of engaging German fighters in dog fights. He never shot down a German plane or even engaged in much combat. Instead, he wrecked his plane twice when his motor misfired. He was also shot down twice after his own guns jammed. McConnell's second engagement with German planes on March 19, 1917 proved fatal. Four days later, French troops recovered McConnell's body. He received a hero's funeral in Paris.
Aerial combat made pilots like Rockwell and McConnell famous, but the main utility of aircraft in WWI was as bombers or artillery spotters, rather than as fighters or pursuit aircraft. Robert Hanes, a North Carolina captain with the 113th Artillery Regiment, mentions in his diary entry on September 1 the first time he used aerial observation to direct his battery's fire. Airplanes also routinely shot down the manned-observation balloons that floated above the lines. Hanes recounts such an attack on September 27th.
Troops on the ground learned to listen for the sound of an approaching aircraft and to distinguish the noise of German motors from that of the French planes, which the Americans flew. Both Allied and German commanders usually ordered their men not to fire on the planes, knowing that doing so would draw attention to their positions on the ground. At times, however, men could not resist the temptation to shoot at the low flying, slow moving targets. Antiaircraft guns were not widely used, so the pilots usually escaped the rifle volleys unharmed, although several American planes were hit by misdirect American fire. (Arthur Fletcher's History of the 113th Field Artillery and John Walker's History of the 120th Infantry both contain several scattered references to "aeroplanes" and "planes.")
In addition to McConnell and Rockwell, scores of other North Carolinians flew with either the Royal Air Force, French squadrons, or the U.S. Navy during the war. At least sixteen of these aviators died. Tar Heel pilots may have downed over one hundred German planes, but only one of them, Robert Opie Lindsay, a native of Madison, North Carolina, earned the designation of "ace", being officially credited with six kills. Combat victories had to be confirmed by ground observers to be officially counted. Rockwell claimed to have shot down forty or fifty German planes but was credited with only five.)
After the war ended in November 1918, North Carolina retained a close connection with combat aviation. In 1919, the Army Air Corps opened its first base in North Carolina, at Camp Bragg, near Fayetteville. The Army soon named the air base the Pope Field in honor of Harley Pope, a pilot who had accidentally crashed into the Cape Fear River. Pope pilots soon became fixtures at local air shows and army recruiting drives. Many of North Carolina's pilot-veterans remained in the Air Corps, while others bought surplus military planes and launched local aviation businesses. Belvin Womble Maynard, a Baptist preacher from Sampson County, never saw combat in France, but he became North Carolina's most famous veteran-pilot when he won two transcontinental air races in 1919.
Work Consulted: Thomas C. Parramore, First to Fly: North Carolina and the Beginnings to Aviation (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.)
Flying for France. With the American Escadrille at Verdun by James R. McConnell (James Rogers), 1887-1917
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National flag and coat of arms
The National Flag of Malta is defined in the Constitution and consists of two equal vertical stripes, white in the hoist and red in the fly, with a representation of the George Cross, edged with red, in the canton of the white stripe; the breadth of the flag is one and a half times its height. It was adopted when Malta became independent from the United Kingdom on 21 September 1964. The George Cross decoration was awarded by King George VI for collective gallantry in 1942. Malta remained the only collective awardee of the decoration until it was awarded to the Royal Ulster Constabulary of Northern Ireland in 1999.

The current emblem of Malta is described by the Emblem and Public Seal of Malta Act (1988) as a shield showing an heraldic representation of the National Flag; above the shield a mural crown in gold with a sally port and eight turrets (five only being visible) representing the fortifications of Malta and denoting a City State; and around the shield a wreath of two branches: the dexter of Olive, the sinister of Palm, symbols of peace and courage to victory traditionally associated with Malta, all in their proper colours, tied at base with a white ribbon, backed red and upon which are written the words  in capital letters in black.

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In current use

Historical Flags

Knights' Flag (1530-1798)
The original flag of the Knights Hospitaller consisted of a white Maltese Cross on a black background, however this was never used in Malta. The only flag used in Malta in the time of the Knights consisted of a white symmetrical cross on a red field with the cross having a width of 1/5 the height of the flag - similar to the flag of England, colors reversed with a proportion of 5:3. The flag is still used by the Knights' modern successor, the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

Colonial Flags (19th century-1964)

Several flags were used by the British Colonial administration of Malta prior to independence in 1964. Between 1798 and 1813, the Neapolitan flag and the Union flag were used in Malta. After Malta became a Crown Colony a new flag was adopted, having the colours of the Order of Saint John, but with different proportions and defaced by the Union flag.  Later flags consisted of the British blue ensign defaced by the coat of arms of Malta.

Standard of the Queen of Malta (1967-1974)
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What's fuelling the mental health crisis in young people? Here are four key stressors
By Robert CribbStaff Reporter
Giulia FiaoniInvestigative Journalism Bureau
Charlie Buckley
Sat., Nov. 28, 2020timer10 min. read
updateArticle was updated Nov. 30, 2020
On most Monday and Wednesday mornings in 2011 and 2012, psychiatrist Juveria Zaheer would ride the subway from her North York home to the downtown offices of Ontario's chief coroner.
Once there, she would take the elevator up to the records room, where for 18 months, the CAMH researcher and emergency clinician would spend entire days reading the final notes left behind by Torontonians, including teenagers, who died by suicide.
"In psychiatry we think of suicide as a risk to be managed," said Zaheer, who was pregnant with her first child at the time of the research. "I think what the notes taught me is that it's a pain to be understood."
In the amalgam of those hundreds of notes, Zaheer and her colleagues found several connective tissues that were finally published in 2018. The notes' authors blamed themselves for unsuccessful psychiatric treatments. They voiced a need to assert themselves through suicide. And they wrote of exhaustion after years of battling an illness many referred to as a dark force in their lives that they couldn't overcome.
Of particular poignance were the many notes authored by young people, she said.
At the time of her research, Zaheer had siblings who were in their late teens and early 20s.
"When I'd open it up and see that there was a 16- or 18-year-old with a note, my heart would catch every time."
Amid a generational explosion in mental health demands, a question lingers in every statistic on youth depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation: why is this happening?
Zaheer is among an army of experts across Canada searching for answers.
Many cite reduced stigma surrounding discussions of mental health as a reason for the surging numbers of youth coming forward to seek help.
"Young people are, in a sense, leading the push towards de-stigmatization," Zaheer said. "That activism and moving forward is incredible, but it also illustrates this gap between the awareness rising at a rate that is faster than the services are available."
While today's young people are the most willing in history to broadcast their struggles with mental health, they also face new and unique stressors: Constant self-comparison; unattainable social media lifestyles; climate and pandemic threats; and, economic shifts undermining job security and career stability for millions.
Today's young people face what a growing body of research and experts call an emerging public health crisis.
Researchers point to social media as a factor accelerating the mental health crisis among youth.
One paper published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal in February implicates smartphone and social media use in the increase in "mental distress, self-injurious behaviour and suicidality among youth."
In Ontario alone, the proportion of teenagers reporting moderate to serious mental distress increased from 24 per cent in 2013 to 39 per cent in 2017, the study reported. During the same time, the percentage of Ontario's teenagers who reported spending five or more hours a day on social media increased from 11 per cent in 2013 to 20 per cent in 2017.
Dr. Ilan Fischler, 45, chief of psychiatry and medical director of the Scarborough Health Network's mental health program, said his young patients in the emergency department are increasingly impacted by conflicts over screen time, social media bullying or the challenges of social comparisons online.
"The impact of social media and the degree to which it plays a role in their levels of distress, this didn't exist when I started in practice."
The heaviest social media users among 19- to 32-year olds had "significantly increased odds of depression" compared to lighter users, found a 2016 study by the Center for Research on Media, Technology, and Health at the University of Pittsburgh.
Social media offers an around-the-clock stream of curated lives, leading to a constant stoking of insecurities that has adverse mental health effects, research shows.
The Star and IJB journalists interviewed more than 150 post-secondary students in Canada and the U.S. who self-identified as facing mental health challenges. Their responses shed light on stressors youth face.
Jessica Chiriboga, a first-year student at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, said she developed an eating disorder in Grade 7 that was exacerbated by social media use.
"I was obsessed with working out and it just became very compulsive and fed into the images of different people and wanting to look like them, wanting to have a six pack and wanting to get super strong...it was sort of like a drug."
Chiriboga remembers working out anywhere from four to six hours a day and spending up to seven hours a day on social media websites.
"When you're sitting in bed and the lights are all off and...you're staring at Instagram for hours and not doing your homework and you're seeing all these people have these amazing experiences — oftentimes it just made me feel like, what am I doing with my life?"
For the next four years, Chiriboga suffered from major depressive disorder, resulting in suicidal ideation in February of her Grade 10 year at high school in Glendora, Calif.
After another student reported her post on Instagram describing an attempted suicide, she said she was immediately called into the counselling office at school the following day.
She said social media are a double-edged sword. If it wasn't for social media, she said she would not have received the proper on-campus support she desperately needed at the time, but social media also exacerbated her mental illness.
Of the 152 post-secondary students interviewed for this investigation, 49 per cent listed "existential angst" over such issues as climate change and future economic stability as a mental health stressor.
While the daily pressures of work, school and relationships can take their toll, many of the students said they were distressed about the world they are primed to inherit.
"You just have to talk to them and they'll tell you about their concerns about the sustainability of the planet," said Santa Ono, president of the University of British Columbia.
"It used to be that people would go to university with the hope that they would get a job and the odds were good that their lives would be better than their parents. That's certainly not what people believe today. Students don't have hope for their futures."
Eco-anxiety is the subject of a growing body of research describing a pervasive and disruptive emotional state brought on by a "chronic fear of environmental doom."
"It's this feeling of anxiety, depression, powerlessness, that people feel when it comes to issues that are so overwhelming, with respect to ecological disasters," said Pamela Schwartzberg, president and CEO of Learning for a Sustainable Future (LSF), a non-profit organization working to integrate climate change and sustainability learning into schools.
Young people, who often haven't fully developed emotional coping skills, are especially susceptible.
"[Students] don't feel that we're going to be able to solve the problem, which is a great concern," said Schwartzberg. "They don't have the confidence in humans to make the changes necessary to stop climate change."
COVID-19 and the threats of a global pandemic
Bryton Luxton has lived with serious mental illness for most of his life, including suicidal ideation that began at age 11 and a week-long hospitalization for depression last year.
His instinct, when he is depressed, is to self-isolate. With COVID-19 restrictions, he is terrified that he may not notice the warning signs that he is withdrawing from the world, said the 26-year-old recent graduate of the University of Regina.
"I definitely experienced more anxiety. And I also had a bit of separation anxiety from day-to-day life, because being somebody that experiences depression, that's so isolating...It's one of the worst things that you can do because you're just spending more time in your own head."
In the months since the virus appeared in Canada and the United States, online counselling services have seen an enormous jump in demand. Reported feelings of hopelessness and anxiety have risen sharply among young people, and researchers warn that a spike in suicides could be on the horizon.
Each year, approximately 4,000 Canadians die by suicide. An August study from researchers at Toronto's University Health Network predicts anywhere from an additional 400 to more than 2,000 suicides could occur over the 2020-2021 period.
The majority of youth reported that their mental health is "somewhat worse or much worse than it was prior to the implementation of physical distancing measures," Statistics Canada reported in July.
Students interviewed by this investigation describe the pandemic as an upheaval affecting many aspects of their lives, from school to relationships to their daily struggle with mental illness.
Economic Instability
This generation of young people may be the first in modern history not to do as well as their parents.
Shifts in the economy, the nature of work and long-term employment, as well as the destructive blows of environmental and health crises have devastated youth expectations for their lives in ways their parents and grandparents might not recognize.
In a 2019 American College Health Association survey of 55,000 Canadian post-secondary students, 37 per cent of respondents described career-related issues as traumatic, and 44 per cent said the same of their financial situation.
Lizette Roman-Johnston, a student at Saint Mary's College of California and one the 152 students interviewed for this story, said young people are facing guilt and shame rooted in generational economic hardship.
"I think a lot of people my age have a lingering fear that their parents would be disappointed and feel like they failed as parents because their children aren't able to have a similar life like they did," said Roman-Johnston, 24, who is pursuing a graduate degree in creative writing.
Her university expelled her after she attempted suicide, saying she had an 'inability to self-regulate.' Now she is fighting back
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The kids are in crisis — and COVID-19 is making it worse. In Canada, deteriorating youth mental health is leaving a generation in distress
In both Canada and the U.S., fewer young people own houses compared to their parents' generation.
Graduating in a recession can have lingering effects, as research has found 2.5% wage reductions even 15 years down the road for graduates who joined the workforce during an economic downturn, as well as a lesser capacity to secure employment and career advancement.
Last year, Ontario's government collected employment statistics on 2016 university graduates. Only 45 per cent of those employed two years after graduation reported that their job was "closely related" to their program of study. The birth of the gig economy has introduced another added stressor for many young people.
Since the global pandemic forced governments to shut down almost all non-essential businesses, there have been more than three million Canadian jobs lost this March and April alone, an unprecedented collapse in terms of numbers and speed.
Currently in her final months of graduate school, Roman-Johnston often finds herself making decisions that prioritize affordability.
She recently moved in with her boyfriend of a few months, in hopes of better affording rent in Berkeley, Calif. She said they even considered getting married for economic security—to share insurance benefits that would help her pay for medication and therapy.
"The fact that I am researching this stuff and thinking about it seriously—it's just never how I would have imagined marriage happening," she said. "It's kind of crazy that it has to get to that point...it's a sign of the times."
Eight years after devoting many of her days to reading suicide notes, Zaheer recalls it as both profound and emotionally draining.
She would work alone, in silence, exhaustively examining case files, medical records and suicide notes for clues about the subjects' thought patterns, perspectives and personal circumstances.
Among the countless traumas she read in the notes, there remained warmth — and guilt — throughout.
"They love their family members; they don't want their family members to be upset...It's so heartbreaking."
The experience changed her, she said.
She takes extra care to say "I love you" to her family.
She understands the importance of talking to her two daughters — aged 7 and 2 — about mental health, and even suicide.
"I remember those notes and I just wish that as a society, as kids are growing up, we could say, 'Sometimes people get really sad, and scared, and sometimes it's hard to shake those feelings and it can feel like they're going to be there all the time, and nothing's going to get better. And sometimes people can even feel so sad that they don't want to be alive anymore,' " Zaheer said.
" 'Some day, this could happen to you, and we love you so much. And if it ever does, we're here, and we're going to figure it out.' "
Robert Cribb is a Toronto-based investigative reporter for the Star. Reach him via email: rcribb@thestar.ca
With files from Kevin Taghabon/Ryerson School of Journalism and Declan Keogh/Investigative Journalism Bureau
A yearlong investigation from the Star and the Investigative Journalism Bureau has found one in five young Canadians is struggling with mental health. For more in this series visit thestar.com/generationdistress
This series examining youth mental health is part of a cross-border investigation involving the Toronto Star, the Investigative Journalism Bureau (University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health), NBC News, the National Observer and journalism faculty and students from the following universities: Stanford University, Temple University, University of Missouri, Syracuse University, City University of New York, University of British Columbia, Ryerson University, Carleton University and the University of King's College. See the full list of contributors here.


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WNBA President Lisa Borders Has a Message for Men
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By Shalayne Pulia Updated Sep 18, 2018 @ 1:00 pm
In 2009, Lisa Borders ran for mayor of Atlanta, and lost. Today, she's presiding over a different kind of constituency, as president of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
Borders is focused on building the WNBA fanbase and making sure young girls have a seat at the table in the sport. Moving forward, she wants to expand female athlete equality, pushing more leagues to embrace female athletes. "This is about enabling, empowering, and inspiring women," she says. "We want to be an example for other sports to bring women into the arena."
In the video above, Borders talks about learning from failure, and details the plans she has for the future of her league. "Failure is not fatal, it's feedback," she says.
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Hoop history: "The WNBA was formed and founded in my home city in Atlanta in 1996," Border says, explaining her connection to the sport. Though the WNBA has already made history as the first and longest-running professional league in the world, Borders wants to emphasize the importance of not making it the last. "We can be the first, we can be the longest, we should not be the last," she says. "We want to endue for centuries and be equally, if not more successful than our male peers," she says. "Hear that, men? We're coming for you."
BAW Lisa Borders
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Best advice: Borders says that she's had plenty of people in her life not see her full potential, which is why she works so hard to make sure her players see potential in themselves. "I'm a girl, I'm a person of color, and nine times out of 10, I've been underestimated," she says. "The way to overcome that is to deliver results."
And deliver she has for the WNBA, which has recorded unprecedented attendance since she took over in 2016.
The grind: Though it's necessary, Boarders says that dishing out discipline is the toughest part of her job. But, she says, "adversity is very much like the agitator in the washing machine: it beats the heck out of the clothes, but they're clean when they come out."
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Failure feedback: "It was very difficult to embrace the fact that I didn't win," Border admits of her political loss in the 2009 Atlanta mayoral race. "But, in retrospect it was absolutely the right thing to happen [because] here I sit today as the president of the WNBA: the longest running women's professional league in the history of the world." Borders adds that she's exceptionally proud of her league, noting that she feels her position is even better than being governor.
Sweet home Atlanta: Atlanta may have been the capitol of the "New South," but it was also heavily segregated in the '50s and '60s. Borders says her paternal grandfather's involvement in the civil rights movement shaped her drive for social justice. "It really instilled in me a sense that fairness is important, opportunity is important, rules are important," she says. "It really made me amp up my game from a very young age."


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Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Orders Review of City's Video Integration Center
Post Date:10/29/2020 2:48 PM
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ATLANTAThế giới cá—Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms issued an Administrative Order directing a full assessment of the operation, location and coverage of all cameras integrated into the City's Video Integration Center (VIC) in coordination with the Atlanta Police Foundation (APF). The VIC was launched in 2007 as part of Operation Shield—a collaboration between the City and private partners to harness technology to enhance emergency preparedness, better provide Atlanta's first responders real-time situational awareness and further enhance Atlanta Fire Rescue Department (AFRD) and Atlanta Police Department (APD) response times.
"As the City pushes for progress in modern policing, the leveraging of technology must be part of the dialogue," said Mayor Bottoms. "Knowing the full scope of available resources is expected to shorten firefighter, police and emergency medical personnel response times and provide real-time information during emergency situations."
Thế giới cáThe Administrative Order directs:
The Chief Operating Officer to coordinate with the interim Chief of Police and the Atlanta Police Foundation to conduct an examination of the operation, location and coverage of all cameras integrated into the CIV; and
Calls for an assessment of the technical relevance of all VIC integrated cameras, including a review of the operational status of each camera owned and operated by the City of Atlanta, and a review of all outstanding VIC integration memoranda of understanding.
You can read the Administrative Order at this link.
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Barcelona is prepared to beat Real Madrid to the signing of La Liga attacker Fabian Luzzi from Rayo Vallecano as the Camp Nou outfit is getting closer to complete the deal than their rivals.
Luzzi is considered as one of the best prospects in Spain, the attacker just turned 16-year-old in May having made four appearances for the nation's Under-16 squad.
Luzzi scored a brace during December's 3-3 international friendly draw against England and according to report in Marca, La Liga heavyweights Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid all vying for his services.
However, Barcelona is close to the signing of the teenager and upon the completion of his signing, he would represent the second Real Vallecano player signed by Barcelona recent month after the signing of 22-year-old left-back Sergio Akieme in September 2019 for a paltry £270,000.
Akieme has made 24 appearances for Barcelona B, providing five assists and his display has enticed manager Quique Stein to name him among the substitutes for their Champions League clash with Napoli and La Liga tie with Eibar.
Barcelona is also interested in the service of Rayo Vallecano 20-year-old centre-back Martin Pascual, the defender has made 11 appearances for the club in all competitions.
And looks to have a bright future, but could be available on a free transfer with his contract set to expire on June 30.
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Phil Zimmerman and Cy, displaying an ocean-to-ocean relay sign
Call Number: B Zimmerman, Phil *2
Unit ID: 226756
Summary: Phil Zimmerman ("Zim") and a man identified only as "Cy" appear on horseback in this photo, possibly taken in the fall of 1912. Displayed prominently across their legs is a sign bearing the messages "Ocean-to-Ocean Relay: All The Way" and "Hagstrom Spark Plugs." The latter refers to a product of the Hagstrom Brothers Manufacturing Company in Lindsborg, Kansas. Zimmerman, on the right, worked for Hagstrom's at the time. In the photo, he also holds an umbrella advertising Good Year motorcycle tires. The photo carries a handwritten inscription: "'Cy' and 'Zim' -- in a hurry."
"Ocean-to-Ocean Relay" refers to a transcontinental motorcycle relay which was planned by the Federation of American Motorcyclists, but did not take place. The first riders in the relay were to leave New York City on October 20, 1912 carrying a "special message from the War department." The message was to be delivered through a succession of motorcyclists in "record-breaking time" to a destination in San Diego. Just days before the relay was to start, the federation announced that it was cancelling the event because of poor road conditions. A later news report suggested that internal conflicts over a proposal to award sponsorship to a single motorcycle manufacturer also contributed to the decision. Plans to reschedule the relay for the spring of 1913 apparently did not materialize.
The president of the Federation of American Motorcyclists at the time was Benjamin J. Patterson, a physician and avid motorcyclist from Pratt, Kansas. Two years earlier, in 1910, Patterson founded the Short Grass Motorcycle Club while still a resident of Rexford, Kansas. The Short Grass club enjoyed a measure of national prominence, largely because of several long-distance tours it sponsored into Colorado and Wyoming between 1910 and 1915. Phil Zimmerman was the club's secretary-treasurer.
Title (Main title): Phil Zimmerman and Cy, displaying an ocean-to-ocean relay sign
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More hiking in the mountains. Another green forest, another little river, and more tired legs. This time at least we got to go swimming at one of my favorite swimming holes. Midnight hole is filled with beautiful deep clear water and is surrounded by big boulders you can dive from. The water is COLD though, but after a day of hiking it can be really refreshing jump in for a few minutes. We also made it to Mouse Creek Falls, which is along the same trail.
Photos from Max Patch. Max patch is a naturally-occurring bald mountain on the border of North Carolina and Tennessee. The Appalachian Trail crosses over the top of the hill, and there are beautiful clear views of the surrounding mountains. We were lucky again and found huge patches of juicy ripe blackberries on the hillsides.
Oh yes, Heinzelmännchen! What is a Heinzelmännchen? If you are reading in German, maybe you already know. Otherwise, I will only tell you that Heinzelmännchen is a very funny little brewery in Sylva, North Carolina. My mom was very excited to bring Lena there to try the beer and test if it was a real German Beer. The beer was good, but the owner who claimed to have grown up in Germany seemed really confused when Lena spoke to him in German… so was he a fake German then?
Lena holding up her bags full of ripe Blueberries.
The Blue Ridge Parkway is a road which runs from Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina to the West, to Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, 450 miles to the East. We drove from Maggie Valley to Graveyard Fields, where years ago a fire burned all the trees and left a clearing in the forest. Here, wild blueberries have grown all over the hills and were ripe much earlier this year than usual. So, we spent the afternoon picking blueberries for our special batch of blueberry pancakes which we wanted to make the next morning.
Sunday afternoon, there was a small music festival in Asheville, the nearest city to my mom's house in the mountains. We decided to get out of the woods for a day to give Lena's little feet a rest, and to see what the big city had to offer. Lena got her first root beer in an American diner, and her first Mardi Gras beads (even though we were 1,000 miles from New Orleans) all in the same day.
Just a few random photos from North Carolina… Nice views.
I think in this moment, Lena is beginning to wonder why we brought her to the woods.
A few photos from hiking in the Appalachian Mountains in Smoky Mountains National Park, near Cherokee, North Carolina. It was a beautiful walk through green forest, along a small creek. We wanted to swim, but the water was so cold. It felt great on the aching feet towards the end of the hike though. We made Lena walk 7 miles that day, and she started getting a little cranky. But she made it in the end, all the way back to the car.
Nachdem man nach einer langen, beschwerlichen drei Tages Reise endlich in North Carolina angekommen war, wurde erstmal geschlafen! Zwar nicht besonders lange (Jason hatte vier Stunden nach unserer Ankunft einen Zahnarzttermin in der Zahnarztpraxis, in der seine Mutter arbeitet), aber ausreichende vier Stunden Schlaf, um wenigstens wieder aufrecht auf zwei Beinen stehen zu können. Ich bin dann am Nachmittag mit zur Praxis gekommen, da von Annies Arbeitskollegen eine kleine Willkommensparty organisiert wurde. Mit ausreichend Bloody Marys (mal ganz abgesehen davon, dass ich wirklich kein Cocktailtrinker bin, finde ich die Idee mit Tomatensaft einen Cocktail zu mischen, ziemlich befremdlich!) während Jason mit offenem Mund im Zahnarztstuhl lag.


Combine the melted butter, breadcrumbs, onion and seasonings. Drain the oysters, saving ⅓ cup of the juice. Put a layer of oysters in the bottom of a buttered baking dish. Top with a layer of buttered crumbs, then another layer of oysters. Pour oyster liquid and cream over the three layers, then top with remaining crumbs. Sprinkle with paprika and bake in oven at 375° for 25 to 30 minutes, or till the crumbs are browned.


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The New Macbook Brings Death To Multiple Ports And Right-Clicks
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Yesterday, Apple announced its newest Macbook: it's thinner, it's lighter, it's gold! What more could you ask for?
Quite a bit, actually, if you're in the camp of people screaming at the changes being made. Change, after all, is always hard to stomach. But here is Apple breaking all the rules that the tech community has set through the years, with rules like "the more ports the better" and "our mouse needs more buttons". So if you do get your hands on the brand new Macbook, you may be screaming your head off from the frustration that it doesn't work the way it should, or rather, the way you believe it should.
Let's take the single multi-purpose port. This is a revolutionary move, if you really think about it. While the tech world has always created multiple types of ports for various uses — from transferring information, to connecting external tools, to a charging port — Apple has decided that it's way too much. You only need one port, and that port should be able to do everything.
But is one port really enough? The world doesn't seem to think so, as less than a day since the release, people are already touting their new-fangled multi-port dongles at a whopping $79, made specially for the new Macbook and its big problem.
But is it really a big problem? It was considered a big problem when the first Macbook Air was released without a CD port, and the world went nuts trying to look for an external drive to put our precious CDs into. But fast forward to today, and hardly any of us even use CDs anymore. Our music and movies are all bought digitally, and our thumbdrives and cloud systems have replaced the clunky blank CD storage system. I don't even remember the last time I used the CD drive in my Macbook Pro.
Which brings us to Force Touch. Other than the dubious choice of name (is it a Jedi reference or a threat to women?), it is the technology that is going to make the single-button trackpad possible — a vision that Steve Jobs had years ago, back when the first Apple Pro Mouse came out.
But despite that, there has always been a stickiness to the idea of the right-click, which Apple has continually incorporated into its products — from the Control-Click, to the double finger click, it has always been hidden somewhere, behind the seemingly single-panel trackpad that all Macbooks have been blessed with.
With Force Touch, the pressure-sensitive tap-enabled trackpad doesn't give room for the right-click, because there is room for so much more. Its tactile function is in itself intuitive, closing the gap between human and computer interaction. Sure, some people may grumble and pull out their non-Mac mice to avoid touching that annoying keypad. But what they're missing out on in the process is a bigger experience that could — in a few years time — be the new norm. After all, using more than one finger on a trackpad at a time was once weird too.
Ultimately, we won't know how some changes will work until we truly integrate it into our lives, which at this point will be in a month and a half. So if you're grumbling over the new changes, it's time to clamp up, and talk after you've tried it. Unless you're complaining about the death of Magsafe, in which I completely agree.
RIP Magsafe.
[Breaking] Apple Releases New Macbook: Thinner And Lighter Than The Macbook Air
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The inspiration for this gorgeous shoot came originally from the Anna Marguerite Couture headpieces which felt "Greek-esque" in their design. The team wanted to expand on the theme by bringing in a beautiful and majestic white horse, incorporating the Greek goddess Epona known as protector of horses. The collaboration of this team including the stunning florals by Holly Viles Design and planning by Olive & Nine, they bring just the right element to help create the romantic vibe to this shoot. And lucky for us Lauren Brandon Photography was there to skillfully capture every perfect moment.
This shoot was inspired originally by the beautiful Anna Marguerite headpieces in a dainty entwined olive branch pattern. We felt like these looked a bit "greek-esque" and wanted to expand on this theme. Epona is the Greek goddess and protector of horses, renowned for her fertility and sensuality. She rides a white mare as Epona is known as the "Great Mare" and is adorned in crowns and roses. So we wanted to incorporate touches of Greek elements you can see in the blue ribbons, the stone vessel, the white horse, roses and olive branch headpieces. And we just went from there, with a beautiful garden elopement fit for a goddess.
The subtle themes of Greek culture are entwined with a beautiful mix of light and lux elements. The couple is a real couple and is so in love, it was difficult to get them to look away from each other between shots! They met and fell in love from opposite sides of the county and were inseparable immediately.
Lastly, the horse used in this shoot is from the sweetest older couple who are known for breeding beautiful Arabian horses here in Texas. This is their oldest mare, and their first baby on the farm. They were hoping that she would produce a line of horses with her beautiful white color, however, after 20 years, she never had a white foal, making her the one and only. The only white horse is actually the "Great Mare" that is Epona's namesake.
Styled Shoot at The Grove from Brad & Monica on Vimeo.
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Surprise Discovery Shows 'Artificial Atoms' Rapidly Self-Assembling Into Complex Structures
A new front opens in materials science.
by Michael Byrne
Aug 1 2017, 12:00pm
Humans have been building things out of other things since the Stone Age, but it's really been the past 200 years that things have gotten wild. Just think of all of the alloys, plastics, rubbers, silicon substrates, liquid crystals, and hacked DNA molecules. It would have been easy enough to just declare ourselves gods of materials science and take a vacation, but researchers want to go deeper. As deep as it gets, really—hacking together atoms themselves and then making entirely new sorts of structures from those meta-atoms.
And that's where we're at. Really, we've been in the midst of a metamaterials revolution for about the past decade—with atomically thin graphene at the heart of much of said revolution—and it likely hasn't even peaked. Consider a new paper out Monday in Nature describing the rapid crystallization of superlattice nanostructures from engineered "artificial atoms." While growing such materials from the ground up has usually been understood as a prohibitively slow process, the new work speeds things up by orders of magnitude—from days to seconds.
Depending on the composition, superlattices can offer properties ranging from incredible strength to finely tunable conductivity. Some superlattices are good venues for observing and exploiting quantum effects.
An artificial atom isn't one specific thing so much as it is a loose term to describe an assemblage of particles that together behaves a lot like an atom. In particular, artificial atoms should be able to combine with other artificial atoms into structures resembling molecules. Here, the artificial atoms take the form of tiny crystals of palladium, a rare silvery-white metal. Each nanocrystal/artificial atom consists of only 100 to 10,000 actual atoms, which is still small enough to experience quantum effects.
A superlattice is basically just a crystal where proper atoms have been swapped out for artificial atoms. Like normal crystals, superlattices can be grown over a period of time as nanocrystals in a solution, lose energy, and fall into the ordered patterns of the crystal structure. It's been assumed that this period of time must be fairly long, but what the researchers behind the current paper discovered is that this is not necessarily the case at all.
This was more or less an accidental discovery. All the researchers wanted to do was watch how the crystals form, which they accomplished by adding an observation window to a small tangerine-sized reaction chamber. What they saw—with help from a probing X-ray beam—was that the superlattices were self-assembling in a matter of seconds. Where the beam should have reflected back a specific pattern representing mostly individual particles, the actual pattern returned indicated the presence of full-one lattice structures.
"So something weird is happening," the pair of grad students conducting the experiment texted their advisor, according to a press release.
"Once we understood this system, we realized this process may be more general than we initially thought," Liheng Wu, first author of the study and a chemical engineering researcher at Stanford University, offered in a statement. "We have demonstrated that it's not only limited to metals, but it can also be extended to semiconducting materials and very likely to a much larger set of materials."
In other words, it may be possible to make lots of exciting new materials using the same rapid process.
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## supported sensors
All sensors and auctuators are tested on Beaglebone Black.

### Sensor setup
 * Requirement
   * Network (Wired or Wireless) connection

 * VDD 5V vs. SYS 5V
   * VDD_5V
     * 1A
     * VDD_5V is the main power supply from the DC input jack. So this voltage is not present when the board is only powered via USB
   * SYS_5V
     * 0.25A

 * Sensors
   1. [ds18b20 (1-wire)](http://www.ermicro.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/picaxe_11.jpg)
     : Temperature
     * VDD_3V3
     * DGND
     * GPIO 2
     * 4.7K Pull-Up Resistor (between VDD_3V3 and DGND)
   2. [DHT11 Sensor V2](http://www.dfrobot.com/wiki/index.php/DHT11_Temperature_and_Humidity_Sensor_V2_SKU:_DFR0067)
     : Humidity
     * SYS_5V or VDD_5V
     * DGND
     * GPIO 27
   3. [htu21d (I2C)](https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12064)
     : Humidity
     * VDD_3V3
     * DGND
     * I2C2_SCL
     * I2C2_SDA
     * Address: 0x40
   4. [photocell (I2C)](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10611294/reading-analog-in-on-beaglebone-avoiding-segmentation-fault-error)
     : Light
     * VDD_ADC
     * GDNA_ADC
     * AIN0
     * 10K Pull-Down Resistor (between AIN0 and DGND) / (sensor : between VDD_ADC and AIN0)
   5. [BH1750FVI](http://www.dfrobot.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=531)
     : Light (digital)
     * VDD_3V3
     * DGND
     * I2C2_SCL
     * I2C2_SDA
     * (Optional) ADD : if ADD is HIGH then address will be changed to 0x5c from 0x23
     * Address: 0x23 (0x5C)
   6. [magnetic switch]
     * DGND
     * GPIO 46 or 61 or 115
   7. [motion detector]
     * SYS_5V or VDD_5V
     * DGND
     * GPIO 46 or 61 or 115
   8. [noise detector]
     * SYS_5V or VDD_5V
     * DGND
     * GPIO 46 or 61 or 115
   9. [RGB]
     * DGND
     * GPIO 67
  10. [power switch](http://www.dfrobot.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=64)
     * SYS_5V or VDD_5V
     * DGND
     * GPIO 67
  11. sensorTag
     * TI sensor tag over Bluetooth LE
     * Bluetooth LE network generic support is under way.

## Example

This example code is to access sensors: ds18b20 and dht22/dht11. ds18b20 uses 1-wire network and dht22/dht11 uses GPIO port thru proprietry protocol.

```js
var sensor = require('./sensor/');

var targets = [{
    driverName: 'ds18b20',  //  temperature sensor over 1-wire sensor network
    options: {},
  }, {
    driverName: 'dht',      // temperature/humidity sensor over GPIO
    options: {model: 'dht22', macAddress: 'xxxxxx'},
  }];

targets.forEach(function (target) {
  var props = sensor.getSensorProperties(target.driverName),
      sensorId;

  if (props.discoverable) { // discoverable over sensor network
    sensor.discover(props.supportedNetworks[0], function (err, foundIDs) {
      if (err) {
        console.error('err=', err.stack);
      } else {
        if (foundIDs.length > 0) { //discovered
          sensorId = foundIDs[0]; // pick 1st one from the discovered IDs
          var snsr = sensor.createSensor(target.driverName, sensorId, target.options);

          // listening sensor data at the recommended interval
          snsr.on('data', function (data) {
            console.log('data=', data);
          });
          snsr.listen(props.recommendedInterval);
        }
      }
    });
  } else { // not discoverable
    var snsr = sensor.createSensor(target.driverName, null/*sensorId*/, target.options);

    // listening sensor data at the recommended interval
    snsr.on('data', function (data) {
      console.log('data=', data);
    });
    snsr.listen(props.recommendedInterval);
  }
});
```

## sensor/actuator properties

Ds18b20 example:
```js
  supportedNetworks: ['oneWire'],  // working over 1-wire network
  sensorType: 'temperature',
  onChange: false,            // polling type sensor(not interrupt type)
  discoverable: true,         // discoverable thru 1-wire network
  recommendedInterval: 10000, // recommended data gathering interval
  maxInstances: 7,            // max # of sensors to be attached
  model: 'ds18b20',
  maxRetries: 8               // max # of retries on error

```
## sensor data format

### ok example

```json
{
  status: 'ok',
  id: 'dht22-xxxxxx',
  result: {
    temperature: 26.9,
    humidity: 51.5 } ,
  time: 1377605409847 // optional
}
```

### error example

```
{
  status: 'error',
  id: 'dht22-xxxxxx',
  message: 'Error: Command failed'
}
```


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A scorched survivor recalls the day that still lives in infamy
By David Lesjak, World War II Magazine
The forward magazines of the battleship Arizona explode after being hit by a Japanese bomb, 7 December 1941. Frame clipped from a color motion picture taken from on board the hospital ship Solace. (National Archives)
Bored with life in a small Nebraska town during the Depression, Donald Stratton was just the sort of youngster the U.S. Navy was looking for prior to World War II.
Stepping into the local post office in 1940, Stratton was all ears when a recruiter began what became a successful sales pitch. The recent high school graduate traded his civvies for blues and eventually found himself reporting for duty at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard to board his first ship — the battleship Arizona (BB-39).
On Dec. 7, 2014, four of the then-nine remaining survivors from the battleship Arizona came together in Hawaii. Donald Stratton, left, Louis Conter, John Anderson, and Lauren Bruner, toast in honor of fallen shipmates and service members of the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese attack at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. (Navy)
World War II: Commissioned in October 1916, the battleship Arizona was a 31,000-ton behemoth that was home to more than 1,700 men. It must have been a remarkable sight for someone from Red Cloud, Nebraska. What was your first impression of the ship?
Stratton: They were working on it at dockside. There were so many hoses…saltwater hoses, welding cables, everything all over the decks.
They brought us aboard and assigned us to different divisions—we were standing fire watch pretty near every night when the welders were working on board. I remember thinking at the time, "Oh boy, this [isn't] really what I anticipated."
But the chaplain [Captain Thomas L. Kirkpatrick] came around and said, "This isn't always the way it is….My friend, when we get out to sea you'll notice quite a bit of difference."
And sure enough, we did. After a few days in the shipyard, they put her in dry dock. We had to go over the sides and scrub it down and paint it. To an old flatlander like me, when I saw the battleship out of the water it was quite a sight. I was awestruck.
WWII: To which division were you assigned on the ship? What were its responsibilities?
Stratton: The 6th Division. That was a boat deck division on the port side.
In the Navy, the starboard side is always assigned to the odd-numbered divisions; port, the even ones. Most of our time was spent scraping and cleaning some of the boats. We had to holystone the decks and keep everything shipshape.
We had two 50-foot motorboats, two 40-foot launches, whaleboats, the captain's gig and the admiral's barge on the boat deck. That was a deck behind the smokestack. I was assigned to clean up the foremast. The stack was right there, and when they blew tubes the smoke would gather on the paint in the yardarms and the foremast, and we'd have to scrub it down.
WWII: The refit on your ship was completed in January 1941, and you set sail for Hawaii on Jan. 23. Were you excited about going to Pearl Harbor?
Stratton: Sure, it was an experience. I'd never been there before. A lot of people had never been there, and it was just something you could talk about.
WWII: Keeping a battleship in fighting trim was a constant job. The entire crew must have been kept pretty busy on the voyage to Pearl Harbor.
Stratton: Yes. We had our usual duties, but I also had a chance to become familiar with some of the ship's armament.
It had a 5-inch .25[-caliber] anti-aircraft gun that I was assigned to. We practiced loading and firing. We actually didn't fire, just practiced loading. The shells were all fixed ammunition, and they weighed probably 70 or 80 pounds.
The loader had to load them into the breech and then the rammer had to ram them home. My job was as a sight setter for the gun. My battle station was in the director [room] on the foremast.
WWII: With the threat of war, the U.S. Pacific Fleet was moved from San Pedro, California, to Pearl Harbor in May 1940, representing the greatest concentration of military might the United States possessed at that time. Eight battleships, three aircraft carriers and countless cruisers, destroyers and other smaller craft were anchored at Pearl. It must have been quite a spectacle.
Stratton: It was very impressive. Almost the whole crew was topside as we came in. The place was lush and green, and with memories of the Dust Bowl still pretty vivid I remember thinking that the folks back home just wouldn't believe this.
View of the parade ground at the Pearl Harbor Marine Barracks, between 0930 and 1130 hrs. on 7 December 1941, with smoke in the background rising from burning ships. Note armed Marines at left, awaiting the possible return of Japanese aircraft. (U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command)
WWII: Did you ever consider the possibility of war with Japan?
Stratton: I don't think anyone really thought about it. I think the first inkling we got was when we went on maneuvers for a couple of months or so and they only allowed us five gallons of water every day. We figured something must be up because they were seeing what would happen if they did [have to] ration the water.
WWII: Duties on board ship started pretty early, even on a Sunday. How did your day begin on Dec. 7, 1941?
Stratton: My quarters were in what they called the casemates, near where the 5-inch broadside guns were. There were four of these quarters on the port side, and that is where I was when reveille was sounded. After cleaning up a bit, I went for breakfast around 7 a.m. Most of the crew was wearing shorts and T-shirts. That was the uniform of the day, except for the Marines and the boat crews.
After breakfast I [headed] to the sickbay to visit my friend, Harl Nelson.
Editor's note: Harl Coplin Nelson, seaman first class, was among the 1,177 to die on board Arizona that morning.
WWII: What sort of relationship did you have with Harl?
Stratton: He was just another sailor in the 6th Division. He and I had been working on the incinerator. Everyone was temporarily assigned these sorts of duties. It usually lasted for three months. Harl and I met burning garbage.
WWII: Were you able to visit Harl before the attack started?
Stratton: No. I had just stepped out of the mess area near the casemate on the bow of the ship when I could hear sailors yelling and hollering.
I took a look and they were all pointing at Ford Island. We could then see all sorts of planes. Then I saw either the dive tower or the water tower on Ford Island go over. The planes would peel off, and we could see their Rising Sun insignias and then we could see bombs bursting.
I asked myself, "What the hell is going on?"
WWII: It was just after 8 a.m. when the Japanese attack began. When you realized this was no drill, what did you do?
Stratton: I made an about-face and started for my battle station, which was one deck above the bridge. First I went up the ladder to the radio shack, and from there took another ladder to the bridge and finally a third ladder to get up to the sky control platform. I must have been quick because I was already there when General Quarters finally sounded.
WWII: You were finally facing an enemy in earnest. What was happening at your battle station?
Stratton: There was a gunnery officer up there. There was a port on top of the director where you could look out to get a visual picture and try to set the range and flight path of the target.
My job was to crank whatever the gunnery officer would say into this gauge I had in front of me and send the estimated coordinates to the gun crew below. Once the coordinates were set, the crew would switch the gun to automatic so it would point to wherever the director told it. I was responsible for four of the 5-inch guns.
WWII: There were a tremendous number of guns on the ship. How many of you were spotting up there?
Stratton: There was a starboard director on the other side with the same amount of men. It took about eight or nine men to man the inside of my director, and they had all kinds of sailors with binoculars sighting planes coming in. The big gun director was on the same level for the 14-inch guns. There were probably at least 50 men in the port director and a similar number on the starboard side.
WWII: Did you go right into action?
Stratton: Yes. It was all happening very quickly and I didn't have much time to think. We were firing. There were only 50 rounds of ammunition in the ready box behind each gun, and I could see that some of the crews had to break the locks off the boxes to load their guns.
We were firing at the planes — more or less at the high altitude bombers. We knew that the torpedo bombers and the dive bombers would be covered by the .50-caliber machine guns.
We worried about the high altitude bombers, [but] we couldn't reach them. Our shells were bursting before they ever reached their altitude.
The battleship Arizona ablaze, immediately following the explosion of its forward magazines, 7 December 1941. Frame clipped from a color motion picture taken from on board the hospital ship Solace. (National Archives)
WWII: At approximately 8:10 a.m., Arizona was hit by an 800-kg armor-piercing bomb just forward of No. 2 turret. The bomb penetrated the ship's deck and went off a few seconds later in the forward powder magazine. The subsequent blast gutted the ship, and the foremast and forward superstructure began to collapse. What do you remember of this blast?
Stratton: We were hit once before — aft on top of No. 3 turret — and it bounced over the side. One went through the afterdeck and didn't explode. Then one hit up above on the starboard side — it was big. It shook the ship like an earthquake.
Then all at once there was a big explosion, which just raised the ship pretty near clear up out of the water and then back down. There was a ball of flame that went about 500 to 600 feet in the air, and it just engulfed the whole foremast up there where we were and the whole bow of the ship.
WWII: What happened inside the director at this point?
Stratton: It just rattled us around like we were inside of a tube or something. As soon as I came to my senses, I tried to hide under some of the equipment to keep away from the blaze, but I still got burned. The fire came right into the director.
WWII: Did you or anyone else try to escape the fire by going outside onto the platform?
Stratton: No, we stayed in there for a little protection. A couple of the people in the director jumped out and I never did see them again.
WWII: How long was it before you went onto the platform?
Stratton: When the fire kind of squelched down a little bit. There was a little sea breeze that blew the smoke away. The fire control director and I got out on the platform. All the deck…inside of the charthouse and the ready boxes: Everything was red-hot. We couldn't lay or sit down.
WWII: From your director, you were one of only two survivors of the blast. Were you injured?
Stratton: Yes. I knew I had been burned and was in terrible pain. My legs were burnt from my thighs clear to my ankles. My T-shirt had caught on fire, and my back, both my arms and left side were burned pretty bad — so was my face.
All the hair on my head was burned off, and part of an ear was gone.
WWII: Could you see what was happening below you on the rest of the ship?
Stratton: [Pause.] I'm not going to say anything. That was so terrible I don't even want to say anything about it.
The battleship Arizona sunk and burning furiously, 7 December 1941. Its forward magazines had exploded when hit by a Japanese bomb. At left, men on the stern of the battleship Tennessee are playing fire hoses on the water to force burning oil away from their ship. (National Archives)
WWII: With your injuries and the condition of the ship, it is something of a miracle that you survived. How did you get off the ship?
Stratton: Vestal was tied up alongside and we got this sailor's attention [Jon Georg]. He threw us a heaving line and then attached another heavier line to it so we could pull ourselves across to safety.
I was all burned to hell, and I remember that as we got ready to leave I grabbed the skin on my arms and just pulled it off like a big long sock and threw it on the deck.
WWII: Crossing over to a ship like that must be difficult, even under the best of circumstances. How did you do it?
Stratton: Well, you know, you're 40 feet in the air and the water below you is on fire. It was about 60 to 70 feet across to Vestal. I didn't have much choice, so I just started pulling myself hand over hand. I had to have a lot of help from up above, the good Lord. It was quite a feat, especially when your hands were as raw as mine were.
WWII: Do you know if any others on board the ship used this lifeline to reach safety?
Stratton: I think there were only six of us. I was either the third or fourth to go over. Two of the others who crossed died of their wounds that night.
WWII: Do you remember how long it took the group to get across?
Stratton: No. I would have no idea at all. Vestal was lower than we were as a ship, so we were going kind of downhill a little bit. You have to realize that Arizona sank to the bottom, too, and was at about 18 feet. That brought us down a little bit to the level, but still going downhill a little bit. When you get to the middle of a line going across like that, with the weight you start going back uphill again.
The last 10, 15 or 20 feet were the hardest.
WWII: What happened once you finally made it aboard Vestal?
Stratton: Nothing really. We just kind of all huddled together for a little while. They were trying to figure out how to get us off the ship to a hospital on shore. We were there for quite a little bit. Finally a shore boat came alongside. We were loaded on and taken to the pier.
WWII: When the shore boat arrived at the pier, what did you do?
Stratton: We had to get up on the dock, which was kind of a chore because the tide was down some. We reached up and grabbed with our hands—burns and all—to get ashore. Then they put us in an open-air truck and took us to the…naval hospital there on the island.
WWII: Up to that point, it seems as if, despite your wounds, you were looking out for yourself. Did the situation improve at the hospital?
Stratton: It was kind of chaotic, but the staff was pretty well organized. They were doing a good job when they finally got to us. There was a lot of damage to a lot of people; a lot of things going on.
WWII: What was the extent of your injuries, and what type treatment did you receive?
Stratton: Over 70 percent of my body was burned. I got the best treatment they could provide for such injuries. There were lots of sulfa drugs and morphine.
One problem was that we were so badly burned the nurses and orderlies could not tell who had been given a shot of morphine and who hadn't. Finally, some nurse figured out to use lipstick to mark us.
They'd put an "X" on you once you had been given a shot and then put down what time it had been given. There were so many people in my condition, it was hard to keep track of all of it.
WWII: How long was your treatment at the hospital?
Stratton: Not long after we had first been treated, someone came into the room and said, "Some of you people are going to go to the States."
"I'll go," I called out.
"No," he answered, "we don't think you can, you're not in good enough shape to make it. You probably wouldn't survive the trip."
WWII: So did you stay?
Stratton: No. I told the man I could make it easy.
"Well," he said to me, "if you can stand up while we change the linen, we'll think about it."
So I stood up while they changed the linen. I didn't get up for a long time after that. They sent me back to the States. I arrived on Christmas Day and was taken to a burn unit at Mare Island Naval Hospital [California]. I was glad to be back in the States. All of us were.
I think we had peas and other stuff for our Christmas dinner.
The destroyer Shaw exploding during the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor. (National Archives)
WWII: What was your treatment like at Mare Island?
Stratton: They gave me a lot of antibiotics. After a while they decided saltwater baths would help. They would put double sheets under me and take me to the bathroom. Then they would get four corpsmen, one on each corner of the sheets, who would pick me up and set me down in this tub of saltwater. It seemed to help.
The first time was a little rough, but after two or three you'd start to look forward to it. It was still tough. I couldn't move. I couldn't feed myself. I couldn't do anything. They had a canopy over my bed to keep me warm, but no sheets or blankets; all the burns were left exposed to the open air.
WWII: How many men were in that burn unit? Were they all from Arizona?
Stratton: I don't know how many beds there were, probably 20. They were all full. The guys were from different places, though, not just my ship.
WWII: How long were you in the burn unit?
Stratton: For about nine months. Then I was transferred to Corona, California, where the Navy had taken over a hotel for convalescence. It was nice. We had a golf course, swimming pool and mineral baths. It was very enjoyable once I could stand up and get around.
When I first got on a scale, I weighed 92 pounds. I had weighed 165 or 170 on the morning of the attack.
WWII: Were any of your family able to visit you while you were at Mare Island or Corona?
Stratton: No. The fact is I didn't want them to come out. They knew I had been burned. Some of the nurses would write letters for us.
It had been pretty rough on my parents. First they got a notice that I was lost, and then they finally got one saying I was in the hospital but had been badly burned.
WWII: Did you return to service after your convalescence?
Stratton: I was medically discharged in September 1942. My whole left side was kind of disabled. My left arm was in pretty bad shape, and my left leg as well.
After being back home for a little over a year, though, everything was in pretty good shape, so I decided to go back into the Navy. The only way I could get in was through the draft.
I had a couple of friends on the draft board and they signed me up, and the Navy sent me to Omaha.
WWII: Why did you want to get back into the Navy?
Stratton: There was just not a lot going on at home and, you know, it wasn't any different from 1940 when I graduated, as far as jobs were concerned. There may also have been a little bit of wanting to get revenge, you know. I went to boot camp in January 1944. I did well at the camp and they wanted me to stay there, but I wanted to go back to sea.
After graduation they sent me to Treasure Island, where I was when they received a request from USS Stack [DD-406] for gunner's mate third class. The destroyer… needed crew. I was picked and eventually reported aboard.
WWII: Like most ships that fought in the Pacific, Stack stopped at Pearl Harbor en route. What was it like for you when you passed Arizona's remains?
Stratton: Well, it was just one of those things. I welled up a little bit; I still do even now when I think about it. It's quite a memory — a sad memory.
WWII: You were headed for a war zone. Given what you had already experienced, were you at all worried about that?
Stratton: I don't know that I thought a lot about it. It was just one of those things you did when you're in the Navy, the Army, the Marines. I participated in quite a few of the landings. I was part of the invasions of New Guinea, two in the Philippines and at Okinawa.
WWII: Does anything in particular stand out in your mind regarding your time on board Stack?
Stratton: We had submarine contact several times while I was on board. One time when General Quarters sounded, I jumped out of my bunk, and just as I got topside there was a big flash right in front of my face. My first thought was, "Oh man, we're hit again." It was like a flashback. It was kind of spooky. Once I calmed down, I found out it was an impulse charge that had launched a depth charge over the side.
WWII: The U.S. destroyers were pretty busy during the Okinawa operation, supporting the landings and providing pickets for the fleet. Several ships were attacked by kamikazes. How was it for you?
Stratton: We were on picket patrol between Okinawa and Japan for quite a number of days. We were losing quite a few destroyers to kamikazes. We had radar and would make contact with the planes coming in and contact for other ships and tell them what was on the way. We survived, but I remember they got four or five destroyers one night.
WWII: How did it all end for you?
Stratton: In October 1945, I was transferred to electric-hydraulic school and was discharged on Dec. 4, 1945. Given everything I had seen, I probably should have been more excited, but I seem to remember it as just one of those days.
Nothing more to do — the war was over, so let's get out of this United States Navy and do something else.
WWII: You had quite a remarkable experience during nearly four years in the Navy. Although it has been more than 60 years, do you still think about it?
Stratton: I think about it every day. I have no animosity against the Japanese people, but I can't forget what happened.
When I go to these reunions and there are Japanese pilots there that were doing the bombing, they ask if I'll get up there and shake hands with them. I don't do that. I never will do that.
You have to understand my position. There's a thousand men down on that ship that I was on and I'm sure they wouldn't do that, and I'm sure they wouldn't want me to do it. I know that I'm very fortunate to be here. I just can't help but think people should be more aware of what happened that day and how many lives were taken. How many of those sailors and Marines on board that ship right now don't even know what happened to them or why it happened or who it was? It seems like an awful, awful waste of life for something that people are going to forget about.
We have so many people [today] who don't appreciate their liberty and wouldn't fight for it. A total of 1,177 men were lost when Arizona sank on the morning of Dec. 7. Many of the 334 crewmen who survived were ashore when the attack began.
Donald Stratton is one of only six men on board the doomed ship still alive to tell his story.
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By Thomas W. Cutrer and T. Michael Parrish, World War II Magazine
David Lesjak writes the "WWII Today" column for World War II magazine. For further reading, see Battleship Arizona: An Illustrated History, by Paul Stillwell. This Q&A originally appeared in the December 2006 issue of World War II, a sister magazine to Navy Times. To subscribe, click here.
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Neve a "video" és a Wiki szavak összevonásából született, arra utalva, hogy a wikialapú weboldalakhoz hasonlóan önkéntesekkel dolgozik a tartalomkezelés területén. A cég 2011 januárjában elnyerte a Crunchie-díjat a legjobb nemzetközi startup vállalkozás kategóriában.

Története
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2011 augusztusában a weboldal 14 millió egyedi megtekintést regisztrált és az év októberében 20 millió dolláros támogatást szerzett a Greylock Partnerstől, az Andreessen Horowitztól és a BBC Worldwide-tól.

2013 szeptemberében a céget megvásárolta a japán Rakuten 200 millió amerikai dollárért.

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2011 szeptemberében a cég iPhone alkalmazást adott ki Viki On-The-Go néven, amely lehetővé tette a tartalom okostelefonon való elérését. A Samsunggal közösen androidos alkalmazás is készült.

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