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Colleen Hanabusa
Colleen Wakako Hanabusa (花房コリーン若子, Hanabusa Korīn Wakako, born May 4, 1951) is an American politician who served as the U.S. Representative from Hawaii's 1st congressional district from 2011 to 2015 and again from 2016 to 2019.[1] She is a member of the Democratic Party and ran for her party's nomination for Governor of Hawaii in 2018, challenging and losing to incumbent Governor and fellow Democrat David Ige.
from Hawaii's 1st district
November 14, 2016 – January 3, 2019
Mark Takai
Ed Case
Charles Djou
11th President of the Hawaii Senate
January 2, 2009 – November 6, 2010
Robert Bunda
Shan Tsutsui
Member of the Hawaii Senate
from the 21st district
January 20, 1999 – November 6, 2010
James Aki
Maile Shimabukuro
Colleen Wakako Hanabusa
Waianae, Hawaii, U.S.
John Souza (m. 2004)
University of Hawaii, Manoa (BA, MA, JD)
Before her election to the United States House of Representatives, Hanabusa was a member of the Hawaii Senate.[2] She served as the Senate Majority Leader before being elected Hawaii's first female President of the state senate in 2007.[3][4] On August 24, 2011, she announced her intention to run for reelection to Congress.[5]
On December 17, 2012, after the death of Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, it was announced that Inouye had sent a letter shortly before his death to the Governor of Hawaii, Neil Abercrombie, stating his desire that Hanabusa be appointed to the seat. Abercrombie decided against appointing Hanabusa and selected Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii Brian Schatz instead.[6][7][8] Hanabusa announced a Democratic primary challenge to the incumbent Schatz in the 2014 special election, but lost in a close primary contest.[9]
In 2016, Hanabusa announced her intention to run in the 1st congressional district special election to fill the remaining term of Representative Mark Takai, who died in July 2016, and she won the Democratic primary for the race on August 13, 2016.[10] Hanabusa also won the election on November 8, 2016, and was sworn in on November 14.[11]
In 2017, Hanabusa announced her decision to run for Governor of Hawaii in 2018 rather than run for re-election to the House. She challenged incumbent Democratic Governor David Ige in a primary. Ige defeated Hanabusa in the primary, and subsequently won re-election to a second term as Governor.
A fourth-generation American of Japanese ancestry, Colleen Hanabusa grew up in Waiʻanae with her two younger brothers, her parents, and her grandparents. Her parents Isao and June owned a gas station.[12] Her maternal grandfather was confined at the Honouliuli Internment Camp on Oahu during World War II.[13] In 1969 she graduated from St. Andrew's Priory. She received a B.A. in economics and sociology in 1973 and an M.A. in sociology in 1975 from the University of Hawai'i and in 1977 received a J.D. from the University of Hawai'i's William S. Richardson School of Law.[14]
Law careerEdit
Hanabusa is a labor lawyer with almost 30 years of experience, and a corporate officer in a family-run corporation. She has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America, Woodward and White, Inc., served as a delegate to the Hawai`i State Judicial Conference, and was noted in Honolulu Magazine as one of Hawai`i's A+ Attorneys in 1993 and subsequent years.
Hawaii SenateEdit
In November 1998, Hanabusa was elected as the state senator from the 21st District. The 21st District includes Wai'anae, where her family has resided for four generations, as well as Ko Olina, Kahe Point, Nanakuli, Ma'ili, Makaha, Makua and Ka'ena Point.
One of Hanabusa's first acts upon being elected was to organize senators to vote against the second-term confirmation of Hawaii Attorney General Margery Bronster.[14]
Hanabusa served as Senate Majority Leader before being elected the first woman President of the Senate in 2006 – making her the first Asian American woman to preside over a state legislative chamber in the United States.[3] In 2003 she was named one of Hawaii's "top ten political power brokers", along with the state's governor and two U.S. senators, by Hawaii Business Magazine.[15]
Hanabusa ran unsuccessfully in a special election held in January 2003 to replace the late Patsy T. Mink as U.S. Representative from Hawai'i's 2nd congressional district, losing to Ed Case, a Blue Dog Democrat.[16] In 2006 she ran for the same seat after Case retired to unsuccessfully challenge Senator Daniel Akaka in the Democratic primary. Hanabusa was again unsuccessful, losing in the Democratic primary to former Lieutenant Governor Mazie Hirono by 844 votes.[17]
Leadership positionsEdit
Serving the Leeward Coast as State Senator since 1998
State Senate President since 2007
State Senate Majority Leader since 2007
Chair, Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs Committee
Co-chair, Joint Senate House Task Force on Ice and Drug Abatement
Senate's first statewide hearings on Rice v. Cayetano
United States Supreme Court decision Co-Chair, Joint Senate House Investigative Committee: Felix Consent Decree
2001 Vice Chair, Senate Ways and Means Committee
Vice President, State Senate
Chair, Senate Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs[4]
Key legislation introducedEdit
3 R's program for repair and maintenance of schools
Repeal of the Van Cam Law
Tax credit to enable construction and jobs at Ko Olina
Bill to reform election contributions
Bill to pay the awards of the Individual Rights Panel-DHHL
Bill to require community notice prior to establishing a halfway house
Bill for a ceded land inventory Education Initiatives[4]
ControversiesEdit
In 2002, when in the State Legislature, Hanabusa emerged as the leading advocate for legislation authorizing $75 million in tax credits for Ko Olina Resort, a move she declared necessary to spur development for the Leeward area, but which others saw as a reward for a close associate and political backer, Ko Olina developer Jeff Stone. When Governor Ben Cayetano vetoed the tax credit bill, Hanabusa took the unprecedented step of suing to overturn the veto.[18][19]
Within months, Hanabusa's then-fiancé John Souza received a preferential deal in purchasing one of Stone's homes in Ko Olina. In February 2005, less than two years after Souza bought the home, he sold it for a $421,000 profit, according to real estate records. Souza and Hanabusa, who were engaged at the time and married in 2008, then bought a $1-million home in another Ko Olina subdivision developed by Centex Homes of Texas.[20]
When State Rep. Glenn Wakai introduced legislation to prevent the eating of dogs and cats, Hanabusa refused to hold hearings on it in the State Senate Judiciary Committee, preventing it from passing.[21]
The Ko Olina tax-credit legislation, intended to promote development of a "world-class" aquarium at the resort, expired after plans for the aquarium were abandoned. Ko Olina Resort eventually returned the tax credit, but the Lingle Administration and Hanabusa disagreed on how to use the returned funds.[22]
While in Congress, Hanabusa was called a "loan shark" by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington for abusing her position to pay herself excessive interest payments to settling her campaign debt. Hanabusa's spokesperson stated these interest payments were merely repayment of a bank loan.[23]
In January 2013, Hanabusa appeared on The O'Reilly Factor, where she criticized a derogatory comment O'Reilly made toward Asians. O'Reilly condemned her for not watching the very program in which he made his statement, even though his comment was still widely considered as offensive. O'Reilly had previously commented on various social issues in Hawaii.[24]
U.S. House of RepresentativesEdit
Hanabusa at the Aloha Floral Parade in 2010
After House GOP leader John Boehner (R-OH) pledged to give incumbent Congressman Charles Djou a seat on the Appropriations Committee, Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI) stated that Democrats would also name Hanabusa to Appropriations.[25] However, House Democratic leadership instead appointed her to the Armed Services and Natural Resources committees.[26]
Hanabusa was the third Buddhist to join the United States Congress, preceded by Hank Johnson of Georgia and Mazie Hirono of Hawaii.[27] Hanabusa's election made Hawaii the only state with a majority non-Christian House delegation. She is a member of the New Democrat Coalition.[28]
She left the House at the end of the 113th Congress to run for US Senate in 2014, losing in the primary. After regaining the seat in 2016, she chose to run in the Democratic primary for Governor of Hawaii in 2018, leaving the House again after the 115th Congress.
ElectionsEdit
Main articles: 2010 Hawaii's 1st congressional district special election and United States House of Representatives elections in Hawaii, 2010 § District 1
Hanabusa ran unsuccessfully in the May 22, 2010, special election to serve out the remaining months of former Representative Neil Abercrombie's term; then-City Councilman Charles Djou was able to defeat her without winning a majority of the votes under the rules of the all-party election that split the Democratic vote between Hanabusa and rival Ed Case, a moderate Democrat.[29][30]
U.S. Senators Daniel Inouye and Daniel Akaka supported Hanabusa's special election campaign and backed her again in the September Democratic primary. Some in the national Democratic Party indicated a preference for Case, who previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives before an unsuccessful U.S. Senate primary challenge to Akaka in 2006. The national Democratic leadership remained officially neutral.[31][32]
On May 30, 2010, Case, citing his third-place showing in the special election and to avoid a rift among Democrats that could lead to Djou's winning the November election, announced his withdrawal from the race and gave his support to Hanabusa.[33] That placed Hanabusa as the top Democratic candidate in the September party primary, which she then won.[34] Hanabusa subsequently challenged Djou for the same seat and on November 2 won the general election by a 53.2% to 46.8% margin.[2][35][36]
Main article: United States House of Representatives elections in Hawaii, 2012 § District 1
Although there was some speculation that she would run to succeed retiring Senator Daniel Akaka, Hanabusa opted to run for reelection to Congress.[5] She faced Djou again, and defeated him with 54.6 percent of the vote.
Main article: United States Senate special election in Hawaii, 2014
On December 17, 2012, the second-longest serving U.S. Senator in history, Daniel Inouye, who had represented the state of Hawaii since it became a state in 1959, died of respiratory complications.[37] Shortly before his death, Inouye sent a letter to Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie requesting that Hanabusa be appointed to his seat for the remainder of his term. Hanabusa submitted her name for consideration to the Democratic Party of Hawaii,[38] which then included her on a list of three candidates for Abercrombie's consideration.[6][7][39] Abercrombie then chose to appoint Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii Brian Schatz to the seat.[8][40] On December 26, 2012, Schatz was sworn in by Vice President Joe Biden. On May 2, 2013, Hanabusa announced she would challenge Schatz in the 2014 Democratic primary. She said "Brian was not elected. He was appointed, and I don't think the people have really had an opportunity to weigh in on who they want to represent them in the United States Senate."[41]
In May, Hanabusa was endorsed by Inouye's widow, Irene, who said, "Shortly after she was elected president of the Hawaii State Senate, Dan recognized that Colleen was more than capable of succeeding him and he began to mentor her. His last wish was that Colleen serve out his term because he was confident in her ability to step into the Senate and immediately help Hawaii."[42] Hanabusa's campaign hired many of Inouye's staffers.[43] Polling throughout the campaign was controversially mixed, with each campaign releasing different poll results.[44] In the end, Schatz won a narrow victory (115,401 to 113,632).
Main articles: 2016 Hawaii's 1st congressional district special election and United States House of Representatives elections in Hawaii, 2016
Hanabusa being sworn in by Speaker Paul Ryan
In May 2016, Hanabusa's successor in the House, Mark Takai, announced he was not running for reelection that year due to pancreatic cancer. Hanabusa subsequently announced that she would once again run for the seat.[45] Prior to his July 20, 2016, death, Takai had endorsed Hanabusa to succeed him.[46] Two weeks after his death, on August 3, Hanabusa announced that she would also run in the special election on November 8, 2016, the same date as the regularly-scheduled election, to finish Takai's term in the 114th United States Congress.[47] On August 13, she easily won the Democratic primary for the general election.[48] On October 24, Hanabusa resigned from her position as Chairman of the HART Board.[49] She won both the special and general elections with more than 60% of the vote.
LegislationEdit
As a Representative, Hanabusa sponsored 14 bills, including:[50]
112th Congress (2011–2012)Edit
H.R. 3320, a bill to increase funds for grants to U.S. owned Pacific islands to offset costs resulting from the residency of people from a Compact of Free Association (COFA) member-state, introduced November 2, 2011. Hanabusa introduced a similar bill, H.R. 1222, in the 113th Congress.
H.R. 912, a bill to allow for Medicaid to provide care to people lawfully residing in a U.S. owned Pacific island who are from a COFA member-state, introduced February 28, 2013
H.R. 2225, a bill to change Memorial Day from the last Monday in May to its previous date of May 30, introduced June 3, 2013
In addition to the bills listed above, Hanabusa sponsored several bills relating to Filipino World War II veterans that would, among other things, recognize their efforts in World War II and provide veteran benefits to them.
Committee assignments (115th Congress)Edit
House Armed Services Committee (HASC)
Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces
Subcommittee on Strategic Forces
House Committee on Natural Resources
Subcommittee on Federal Lands (Ranking Member)
Subcommittee on Indian Insular, and Alaska Native Affairs
House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
Subcommittee on Environment
Caucus membershipsEdit
Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus[51]
Inter-Congressional careerEdit
After leaving Congress in January 2015, Hanabusa continued with her labor law practice. In June 2015, Hanabusa was appointed by Honolulu mayor Kirk Caldwell to the board of directors of the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation (HART), the operator of Honolulu Rail Transit,[52] to replace Carrie Okinaga. She became its chairperson in April 2016 and resigned from it in October 2016.[53] She has served on the board of directors for Hawaii Gas since June 2015.[54]
2018 gubernatorial electionEdit
Main article: 2018 Hawaii gubernatorial election
Hanabusa decided not to run for re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018 and instead ran for statewide office, this time for Governor of Hawaii. She challenged incumbent Governor David Ige in the Democratic primary. Based on polling as late as May 2018, she was favored to defeat Ige in the August primary.[55] However, on August 11, 2018, Ige defeated Hanabusa 50% to 43%.[56] Fellow Democrat Ed Case ran for and won Hanabusa's house seat, and took office in January 2019.
Women in the United States House of Representatives
List of Asian Americans and Pacific Islands Americans in the United States Congress
^ As pronounced by herself in "Obligation".
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Q: Can bounded arithmetic prove prime factorization? I have a simple question.  Can a bounded arithmetic, say $S^1_2$ prove prime factorization?  I think this is an open problem, because if $S^1_2$ can prove prime factorization then prime factorization is $P$, which is open.  But I have a vague recollection that some paper or textbook says prime factorization can be proven by a bounded arithmetic, yet it does not entail prime factorization is $P$.
Is this just my incorrect memory or do you know a reference?

A: A similar theorem is Cook and Nguyen, exercise VI.4.4, which is to prove in the system $V_1$ that every binary-encoded integer $X \geq 2$ can be written as a product of primes. This result is from Jerabek's thesis, where he gives a detailed proof in what I take also to be $V_1$.
Part of the exercise is to explain why this doesn't yield a $P$ solution, but to be truthful I am drawing a blank today.

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Intellectural Arithmetic, Upon the Inductive Method of Instruction
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County man sent to prison for rape
By Sentinel-Tribune Staff
A Wood County man who pleaded guilty to two counts of rape will spend nearly two decades in prison.
Christopher B. Wyant, 54, Luckey, appeared Tuesday in the courtroom of Wood County Common Pleas Judge Joel Kuhlman.
He had pleaded guilty in October to two counts rape, both first-degree felonies.
Three additional first-degree rape charges and two third-degree sexual battery charges were dismissed.
According to the March indictment, the rape charges were one per year from 2008-13. He was accused of engaging in sexual conduct with a Jane Doe who was not a spouse, who was 8 years old in 2008, 9 years old in 2009, 10 years old in 2010, 11 years old in 2011 and 12 years old in 2012.
Wyant pleaded guilty to the charges from 2008 and 2009.
He also was accused of sexual battery during calendar years 2013 and 2014 involving a Jane Doe to whom he was a guardian.
Kuhlman sentenced Wyant to a definite minimum of 10 years and a possible maximum of 15 years for the 2008 charge, and eight years for the 2009 charge. The sentences will be served consecutively for a minimum of 18 to a maximum of 23 years.
Wyant also must register as a Tier III sex offender, which will require him to register every 90 days for the rest of his life.
As of Saturday, Wyant was still in the Wood County jail awaiting transfer to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.
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I've been in two very different meetings this week and have been trying to clarify in my own mind what I believe the next steps for me are. The first meeting I was in was one for team leaders and I sat through that meeting feeling fairly uncomfortable by the mismatch between my vision of what team leadership could be and the reality of what we are expected to do or be. I definitely agreed with the sentiments expressed by one of my colleagues in the meeting that what we really need as leaders of our teams is empathy with those in them. Change is not easy and many are struggling. For me I find change exhilarating, but I know that others find it stressful. While I understand that as leaders we set a certain tone, so shouldn't walk around complaining about things, it's also no use being overly upbeat and negating the feelings of others.
The second meeting made me feel totally different. In this meeting I was discussing my goals for the year. This year I'm focusing on coaching, on empowering all our teachers to take on the ownership of technology. I feel a sense of urgency in this as I know I only have a few more months until I leave and I want to give our teachers the confidence and skills to go forward by themselves in empowering students to use technology. As this feeling is at the base of almost everything I am doing these days, it was good to talk about how this could happen. I know that for many teachers, the year they decide to leave is a fairly "dead" year with very little of their energies invested in a school whose future they will no longer be a part of. In my case I feel totally the opposite. I feel a total commitment to the teachers that I work with. As my time with them is getting shorter, I'm investing more and more into what I do with them. I'm trying to make every single day count.
Only a couple of weeks ago I was reflecting on one grade level this year that didn't yet have class blogs. Yet during the past week, three of these teachers have started blogs and have independently posted student work on them and designed them in ways that uniquely reflects them and their classes. I'm really excited by this. I'm really proud of them.
Getting back to my goals: since technology is now at the heart of our daily lives, I'm concerned that students will miss out if technology isn't effectively integrated into all aspects of teaching and learning. Students need to be prepared to be productive and responsible digital citizens, they need learning experiences that will encourage collaboration, creation and innovation. My goal this year is to support teachers to design technology-rich learning environments. In the past I've tried various methods of professional development, from techie-brekkie sessions, to scheduled classes and drop-in sessions, but it's very clear to me that the most powerful form of professional development has happened one-on-one, in the teachers' own classrooms, during the school day. The majority of staff have moved forward with a simple explanation or demonstration by me, and then me just sitting back, encouraging and watching them use the tools. After that I need to give them time to play and experiment with technology and practice their new skills and then I need to come back and check to see how they are doing. Do they need some reinforcement or a recap, do they need to be taken further to the next level? This form of professional development is powerful and leads to lasting change. It gives teachers ownership of the learning opportunities for themselves and their students.
At the end of the year, when I'm actually at the point of saying my goodbyes and leaving, how will I measure success? First of all I will know I've achieved my goal by seeing teachers using the technology they have as effective tools for their own professional learning - learning they will carry on with independently regardless of whether I am there or not. I will be seeing teachers making choices to use technology to improve student learning. I will see them connecting with other teachers in professional learning networks to share their ideas and to get new ideas to take student learning forward.
At my goals meeting this week I was given a lot of support and ideas for how to move forward, and also resources to help me. One of these was started me thinking about the difference between self-focused leadership and people-centred coaching. I'm sharing these now and reflecting on them.
Leaders often want to do things their way - they are the boss and their way is the right way. All too often I've heard the expression "if you don't like where the bus is going, then you need to get off the bus."
Coaches often want to support others to do things their way but do them better. They are more willing to listen to others' perspectives, or perhaps to move people forward at a more individual pace.
Leaders are often very task focused and tell people what needs to be done.
Coaches often ask people what needs to be done and try to get everyone aligned to the vision.
Leaders are often very competitive which means they may keep a lot of things to themselves.
Coaches are more likely to share best practice and to collaborate.
Leaders often have the answers and don't like being questioned.
Coaches often encourage others to come up with their own solutions by using questioning techniques.
I'm not sure all of the above are true - or maybe it's only true of poor leaders! However throughout much of my teaching career I've been lucky to work with wonderful leaders. When I think of these people they were definitely more like coaches. I've been blessed to have been mentored by great leaders who have been supportive and encouraging, who have actively questioned what they were doing and the direction the school was moving in and invited others to question it too. These leaders are the ones who have made me into a better teacher. If I'm going to be a leader, these are the people I'd like to model myself on. But if I'm in a school where the leadership style is one that I don't want to emulate, in those cases I want to be a coach.


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Q: Is there a contiguous locus of the equality $a = b$ in $\zeta(\rho + \varepsilon)=a + î b$ in the near of a root? This is just by an accidental couriosity:
In the near of a root $\rho$ of the Riemann's zeta - can there be a continuous line starting from $\zeta(\rho)=0$ to $\zeta(\rho + \varepsilon_j)=a_j + î  b_j $ with always $a_j = b_j$ (or, equivalently, $\operatorname{arg}(\zeta(\rho+\varepsilon_j))=\pi/4$ for a connected set of $\varepsilon_j$) ?
When I tried to think about this, I imagined a circle with some radius $r=|\varepsilon|$ enclosing the root and I feel tempted to think there must occur an equality somewhere on the circle -and thus by expanding continuously the radius of the circle from zero to some extent creating a continuous curve-  but I'm sceptic about this and there might exist a real easy/obvious argument against it.
[update 2] By my own exercises it seems likely that such continuous lines exist. Now my question should be extended for the case, that this is indeed true: How would I formalize the argument, that there is indeed such a continuous line?
By a simple binary search I found for instance for a $|\varepsilon| = 0.01$  the value
$ \qquad  \qquad \varepsilon \approx 0.00807689199924 + 0.00589608477150 î \qquad $ giving
$ \qquad  \qquad \zeta(\rho_0 + \varepsilon) \approx 0.00559286683116 + 0.00559286683116 î $
and for a $|\varepsilon| = 1$      the value
$ \qquad  \qquad \varepsilon \approx 0.548969374675 + 0.835842464624 î \qquad $ giving
$ \qquad  \qquad \zeta(\rho_0 + \varepsilon) \approx 0.468005713605 + 0.468005713605 î $
[update 1]
Here is a picture of the (interpolated) locus of the equality for $\operatorname{arg}(\zeta(\rho_0+\varepsilon))=\pi/4$ where $\rho_0$ is the first nontrivial root of the zeta:

and here the detail of $\varepsilon$ alone:

[update 3] This image shows three "equi-tangent"-zeta curves, but where I do not yet know how they proceed furtherly to the left:
$arg(\zeta(x))=1/8 \pi , \qquad arg(\zeta(x))=2/8 \pi , \qquad arg(\zeta(x))=3/8 \pi$

I find this image especially interesting because it suggests that it might be unreasonable to assume two nontrivial roots on a short distance besides the vertical line z=1/2 with the same imaginary component , because if we have thus two nearby blue curves, then the magenta line of the one root and the green line of the other root should cross each other but which would then give a contradictory description for that matching point (but of course I'm not going to try to formalize this hypothesis) ...


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Katalyst Data Management Releases Subsurface Data Search Engine for Oil, Gas Industry
Hart Energy Staff
Thu, 12/03/2020 - 08:37 AM
Katalyst Data Management has launched a new subsurface data search engine on Dec. 2, powered by Elasticsearch, in the latest release of their iGlass data management solution. The new release, named iGlass Portal ES, gives oil and gas companies the ability to use freestyle text searches on their seismic and well data volumes. This release marks the first time that Elasticsearch technology has been applied to an E&P subsurface data management solution.
Similar to search technology used for online shopping and searching, iGlass Portal ES harnesses the power of Elasticsearch, allowing users to search the entirety of their subsurface catalog with a simple textual search. Just like online searches return results from multiple websites, the Elasticsearch technology within iGlass Portal ES searches across multiple data domains, returning all results associated with the search text. Users can quickly find the seismic and well data they need without having to know specifically where to look within their subsurface database.
"This is game-changing technology for our iGlass platform; think about a Google-like search for all of your subsurface assets," Steve Darnell, Katalyst president and CEO, said. "Users across the oil and gas industry have come to expect the ability to perform textual searches when they consume content, and we're thrilled to be the first company to fully leverage Elasticsearch for subsurface data management with iGlass Portal ES."
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The secret to successfully losing weight is to look into all its parameters and then tailor them to our measures. That's how to be effective. And there are several ways to do so.
At the beginning of each New Year, following a holiday period of minor or major excesses, many seek way(s) to restitute and detox. They try their luck with diets dominated by juice consumption or specific foods, or even food supplements and medication.
After the summer has ended we may find ourselves a bit on the plus side, plus a few pounds that is. Once more we switch onto lose-weight mode, while reminiscing about our holidays. Despite some melancholy this doesn't need to be overly difficult.


my new DIY topquilt is done!
I finished my new DIY climashield top quilt the other day and I am so stoked! It is argon 90 inner and outer with 6.0oz climashield throughout with an additional 2.50z in the footbox area (I hate cold feet). I used kam snaps and drawstring to close the footbox. The drawstring has the Dutch springless cord lock , the Darth Vader, on it and that thing is nifty. All in all a fun build and I only had to rip and re sew a few seams. I made the shell first with the channel and grosgrain for the snaps, then cut and attached the climashield. Also used 2in scrap pieces on top of the insulation to keep it from catching in the foot of the machine (thanks for that idea Sarge) and held the whole thing together with clothes pins while sewing. Sewing the shell first was an extra step, but made wrangling all the pieces much easier to handle. Got to use it the other day for a nap and it kept me nice and toasty. Granted it was only in the low 60's, but just the same it worked well.
Re: my new DIY topquilt is done!
Thanks Sarge. The idea for the kam snaps came from your Costco no sew underquilt. Man I love those things now. I'm running around trying to figure out what to use 'em on. I'm thinking my pluq may become a light weight summer top quilt next. The suggestions and advice that you and others offere made this build much easier.
Very nicely done. Those snaps sure are handy, aren't they!
kev137 wrote: Thanks Sarge. The idea for the kam snaps came from your Costco no sew underquilt. Man I love those things now. I'm running around trying to figure out what to use 'em on. I'm thinking my pluq may become a light weight summer top quilt next. The suggestions and advice that you and others offere made this build much easier.
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Kathryn Geismar
Other Paintings
My first solo show, The Myth of Gravity, will be taking place at Bromfield Gallery in March. Opening will be Friday, March 1 6:30-8pm. I am excited to have all of the pieces from this on-going
Aftermath series in one space, communing with one another.
The Moon is Watching Over Me, from the Aftermath series, will be on display at the Members' Prize Show at Cambridge Art Assocation. Opening reception, at University Place Gallery, will be on Thursday 2/7 6-8pm (and I will not be able to be there, unfortunately).
The painting, Somersault, is currently on view at Concord Art Association as part of their Members Juried I show.
Opening reception for "All You Need Is..," at Bromfield Gallery is this Friday, 2/1 at 6:30pm. This is a group show of Bromfield artists. I will have five collages in the show.
In November several paintings from the Beautiful Disaster series and the Aftermath series will be part of a show called Fairy Tale, Scary Tale at the Brickbottom Gallery.
I have 11 pieces hanging in the Upper School gallery of the Glen Urquhart School in Beverly Farms. The show is called Legends and Myths and will up through the first week of December. The school is not open on the weekends, but anyone is welcome to drop by to see during school hours. The show is curated by Dawn Southworth, former owner of the Clark Gallery in Lincoln. I will try to add some photos once I have a chance to go back and photograph the show.
The Myth of Gravity (see Aftermath Series) is on view now through October 14th at Concord Art Association as part of their 19th Annual Roddy Competition.
I am creating a couple of series' of limited edition prints to sell of in the coming months. There will be some of the wave paintings, some jumper paintings, and some of the new collages. Please contact me through the contact page on the website if you are interested in knowing more about any of the prints.
A Step Away, one of the collages from the Aftermath series, is being exhibited at Galatea Fine Arts in SOWA until September 2nd in their 9th New England Collective show.
My painting, I Am Not Alone was selected to be included in the show "Up Close and Personal" at the Bromfield Gallery, SOWA, Boston.
I will have my studio open for Somerville Open Studios May 5th and 6th 2018, 12-6.
I Am Not Alone, one of the newest paintings from the Aftermath series was selected as a prizewinner at Concord Art Association's Member Juried II. The juror was Abigail Ogilvey.
My work will be featured in the small group show "Bodies of Knowledge" at the Kathryn Schultz gallery at 25 Lowell Street, Cambridge through the month of March. Opening on Saturday March 3 from 6-8. Other artists are Anthony Apesos and Elizabeth Menges.
Opening of the Members' Prize Show at Cambridge Art Associations University Place Gallery 2/9/18. Juror was Joseph Carroll of Carroll and Sons Gallery. Crash was selected to be part of the show.
My wave paintings are currently on view at Christopher's Restaurant, in Cambridge MA through the month of February, 2018.
The Queen was selected for the 17th Annual Roddy show at Concord Art and won the Roddy Prize.
Vernon Street Open Studios will be the weekend of December 3rd and 4th this year. My studio (6 Vernon Street, studio number 20) will be open from 12-6 both days.
Group Show at Sloane Merrill Gallery, Boston. 4 paintings were included in the Sloane Merrill Gallery's ESCAPE: A group show, on exhibit from 9/15/16-10/12/16 (Lighthouse, July Morning, Surge, and Approaching Storm).
For more information see http://sloanemerrillgallery.com
Lighthouse, was chosen as part of the Red Biennial at Cambridge Art Association. November 8-December 21. Juried by Joseph D. Ketner II, Henry and Loise Foster Chair in Contemporary Art, Emerson College, Boston.


Only those who have known the love of Jesus would ever call His entry into Jerusalem that Sunday triumphant. He entered on a young Donkey to fulfill kingly prophecy from Zechariah, yet it wasn't a throne that He was to ascend. They hailed Him as the one who came in the name of the Lord but this was the same crowd who, by the end of the same week, cried "Crucify Him!" There wasn't anything triumphant about this King's entry unless you know that this King isn't like any other king in history. Earthly Kings are served by their subjects. Jesus served up His life as a ransom for the sins of His subjects.
It was Jesus' arrival into Jerusalem and it began the last week of His life. It is what we call Holy Week or Palm Sunday. Jesus was unquestionably claiming to be King, but He was claiming to be a different kind of King. He was claiming to be the King of Peace, the only King whose kingdom is truly not of this earth.
Jesus was deliberate in going to Jerusalem to suffer and die (v.28).
Jesus claim to kingship was deliberate (v.29-35).
Jesus was hailed as King by the people (v.36-38).
Nothing about Jesus death was accidental. Jesus was always headed to Jerusalem to the Cross. Only on a Cross that the savior of the world could die with His arms outstretched to receive us. It was only on a Cross that our savior could die a death truly accursed to show how much we are truly loved.
Christ has proven Himself faithful and that is the proof that compels our hearts to have faith in Him! He wraps us in love that draws faith and love and adoration out, like a spring poured into us that erupts back out in praise!
Jesus was driven to die for man but it is important that we don't think of this only as a legal transaction. It's a love transaction. If a man kisses his wife only because he thinks he's legally obligated on the basis of a contract, well, that'll be a passionless marriage, if not a loveless marriage. It's that way with God.
And it's far more than that. To think of justification and salvation only as a legal transaction, which the Church has often done throughout the ages, is to satisfy the mind with doctrine but miss the heart with the spirit and love.
That's the classic view of the atonement; the purpose of the passion and the Cross. That is wondrous but it alone isn't enough to change our hearts and to draw us into knowledge, real existential experiential, knowledge of God. Bushnell, in my estimation, articulated in his day an idea inherent in the work of the Cross that had perhaps just not previously as clearly spelled out.
The best of all religion and moralizing can do is build structures in attempts to climb up to God. Anything other than the purest expression of salvation in Christ alone can never connect us to Christ at all – not in the deepest parts of our being. Any religion that starts with man's effort, even if unwittingly, will start with hunger for God and end in starvation of the soul. Even if that soul is justified by faith in Christ, it will never know the joy of that salvation!
This is Martin Luther learned. The great reformer was troubled in his soul.
Illustration: Little Girl climbing down trusting me / the other girls climbing up on their own.] Bushnell says, "If anything defines a Christian, it is one who seeks and finds his righteousness in God." Ours is a known righteousness. It isn't an idea. It's not a doctrine alone. He is our savior. He is to be experienced and known. I'm praying for you today to stop climbing. Look up… Amen.
 4 Points from The Preacher's Outline & Sermon Bible – Luke.
 Horace Bushnell, "The Vicarious Sacrifice," Scribner's 1886, (accessed via archive.org), p. 434.


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Joseph Macé-Scaron est un journaliste, essayiste et romancier français, né le  à Paris.

Biographie

Jeunesse

Né le  d'un père aventurier, un temps légionnaire, qu'il a très peu connu et d'une mère vendeuse, Joseph Macé-Scaron est élevé par sa mère dans un milieu petit-bourgeois. Par celle-ci, morte lorsqu'il a une trentaine d'années, il est le petit-fils du pilote automobile franco-belge José Scaron.

À l'âge de , il rencontre Bertrand Renouvin et devient compagnon de route de la Nouvelle Action française pour laquelle il rédige des critiques de cinéma et cofonde le Lys rouge. Cette expérience lui donne la passion de la politique. Par le biais de Renouvin, il rencontre à l'âge de  Maurice Clavel qui le forme à son tour.

Études
Après son baccalauréat, il entreprend des études de lettres, d'abord comme élève de classes préparatoires aux écoles normales supérieures (hypokhâgne du lycée Pasteur de Neuilly-sur-Seine, khâgne du lycée Jules-Ferry de Paris), puis à la faculté des lettres de l'université de Nanterre, d'où il sort licencié en histoire. Il entre ensuite à l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris, où il côtoie Nicolas Sarkozy, puis Jacques Barrot (dont il devient l'assistant parlementaire) et François Bayrou. Il est à cette époque .

Carrière journalistique
Il devient journaliste : il est membre du GRECE de 1978 à 1985 dont il a été permanent au sein de la cellule presse, reporter au journal Magazine Hebdo (1983-1985), chef adjoint du service politique du Figaro (1985-1995), grand reporter au Point (1995), rédacteur en chef au Figaro en tant que responsable des pages « Idées », puis directeur de la rédaction du Figaro Magazine (2003) dont il est démis quelques mois après l'arrivée de son nouveau propriétaire Serge Dassault.

Il rejoint Marianne en 2006 et dévient directeur de la rédaction du Magazine littéraire à partir de 2007.

Le , Joseph Macé-Scaron indique avoir été contraint de démissionner du Figaro pour avoir refusé de céder à des pressions venant de Nicolas Sarkozy. Face à l'avocat Rodolphe Bosselut qui prend la défense du candidat présenté par l'UMP à l'élection présidentielle de 2007, Joseph Macé-Scaron dénonce les menaces qui sont selon lui exercées par Nicolas Sarkozy sur l'ensemble des journalistes politiques.

Il collabore à diverses revues ainsi qu'à de nombreuses émissions audiovisuelles : sur RTL, en tant que polémiste régulier dans l'émission de Marc-Olivier Fogiel On refait le monde, chroniqueur au Grand Journal de Canal+, animé par Michel Denisot, débatteur dans Le 22 h 30 > 00 h 30 : La Grande Édition d'i>Télé, etc. En , il devient chroniqueur dans l'émission C à vous où il remplace Nicolas Poincaré, parti sur . Quelques jours plus tard, il arrête sa collaboration avec l'émission d'Alessandra Sublet, invoquant ses multiples activités.

Il fut producteur d'une émission de critique littéraire sur France Culture, Jeux d'épreuves de 2006 à 2011.

En , il prend la succession de Laurent Neumann à la tête de la rédaction de l'hebdomadaire Marianne.

En , il publie le contre-pamphlet La Panique identitaire en réponse à l'essai Le Suicide français d'Éric Zemmour. Marianne et Le Point en font une critique élogieuse.

Dans le cadre de la campagne électorale pour l'élection présidentielle de 2017, Le Canard enchaîné affirme que Joseph Macé-Scaron participe comme salarié de l'entreprise  d'Anne Méaux à la rédaction des discours du candidat Les Républicains, François Fillon. Il infirme pour sa part le fait qu'il soit salarié de l'entreprise  mais reconnaît avoir participé à des discours de François Fillon (, précise-t-il) et d'en être fier, rappelant toutefois ses divergences assumées avec le candidat LR sur le mariage homosexuel et l'euthanasie et dénonçant un  de la part de  à son égard.

Autres activités
En , Joseph Macé-Scaron rejoint la société de conseil en communication , fondée et présidée par Anne Méaux.

Vie privée
Joseph Macé-Scaron a deux enfants issus d'une première union. Il s'est séparé de sa compagne en 1998 et s'est pacsé avec un compagnon en 2008.

En 1986, il est entré dans l'Église orthodoxe.

Accusations de plagiat

En , l'association de critique des médias Acrimed révèle que, dans son roman Ticket d'entrée, Joseph Macé-Scaron avait repris des passages de la traduction française de American rigolos : chroniques d'un grand pays de Bill Bryson sans citer l'auteur et en maquillant l'emprunt par la substitution de certains mots.

Pour se défendre, Macé-Scaron invoque alors la notion d'intertextualité et prétend que tous les écrivains seraient coutumiers du fait. Il reconnait néanmoins le plagiat le , sur le site Arrêt sur images. Il en parle comme « [d']une connerie » et précise : « Je prends habituellement en notes sur un cahier des éléments que je lis, qui me semblent intéressants ou drôles. A l'origine, je ne pensais pas me servir de ces extraits, (...) je pensais les retravailler plus tard. » Arrêt sur images et Acrimed relèvent au moins « quatre exemples d'emprunts quasiment textuels ».

L'Express signale un cas similaire pour Trébizonde avant l'oubli ; cette fois, la source est le livre d'Ernst Jünger Premier journal parisien, 1941-1943. De son côté, Le Monde, reprenant un article paru en 1999 dans Le Canard enchaîné, fournit un autre exemple datant de 1998 pour Le Cavalier de minuit. L'Express reviendra d'ailleurs  à la charge en  et mentionnera des « emprunts » faits également par le journaliste Macé-Scaron à divers critiques littéraires.

Télérama, où Fabienne Pascaud avait publié deux mois plus tôt, en , une critique élogieuse de Ticket d'entrée, présenté comme une « chronique corrosive de nos mœurs médiatiques et politiques », résume la polémique en rappelant la défense « maladroite » des plagiaires et conclut que Macé-Scaron « rejoint la longue liste des "écrivains" plagiaires, d'Alain Minc à PPDA ».

Publications

Romans
 Trébizonde avant l'oubli (Robert Laffont, 1990).
 Le Cavalier du minuit (Julliard, 1998), a reçu le prix du Livre d'aventure.
 Ticket d'entrée (Grasset, 2011).
 La Surprise du Chef (Éditions de l'Observatoire, 2021).
 La Falaise aux suicidés, Presses de la Cité, 2022

Essais
 La Galaxie Barre (La Table ronde, 1988) puis Les Politocrates (Seuil, 1993), couronné du prix du Livre politique.
 La Tentation communautaire (Plon, 2001).
 Montaigne, notre nouveau philosophe, prix de la Maçonnerie française 2003 dans la catégorie « humanisme » et prix Charles-Oulmont de la Fondation de France.
 L'Homme libéré (Plon, 2004).
 Le Mississippi : Du Golfe du Mexique à la Nouvelle-Orléans, le voyage de Joseph Macé-Scaron, éditions Belem, 2005.
 Ticket d'entrée (Grasset, 2011), prix La Coupole 2011.
 La Panique identitaire (Grasset, 2014).
 L'Horreur religieuse (Plon, 2016).
 Éloge du libéralisme (L'Observatoire, 2020).
 La Surprise du chef (L'Observatoire, 2021).

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Journaliste français du XXe siècle
Journaliste français du XXIe siècle
Écrivain français du XXIe siècle
Romancier français du XXIe siècle
Essayiste français du XXIe siècle
Personnalité de la Nouvelle Droite
Collaborateur du Figaro
Étudiant de l'université Paris-Nanterre
Collaborateur de Marianne
Collaborateur du Point
Naissance en mars 1958
Naissance à Paris
Collaborateur du Magazine littéraire
Personnalité ayant fait son coming out

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On December 1, the SEC announced enforcement actions against three advisory firms and six individuals as part of the Commission's new initiative whereby the Commission's Asset Management Unit uses proprietary risk analytics to evaluate hedge fund returns. Performance that appears inconsistent with a fund's investment strategy or other benchmarks forms a basis for further scrutiny. The enforcement actions allege that the firms and managers engaged in a wide variety of illegal practices in the management of hedge funds or private pooled investment vehicles, including fraudulent valuation of portfolio holdings, misuse of fund assets, and misrepresentations to investors about critical attributes such as performance, assets, liquidity, investment strategy, valuation procedures, and conflicts of interest.
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Damage to overhead wires disrupts Thameslink rail services
Thameslink advised people not to travel at this time.
Thameslink train at Kings Cross station in London (Jonathan Brady/PA)
By Padraig Collins, PA
October 2 2019 5:30 AM
Damage to overhead wires between London St Pancras International and London Blackfriars has meant all Thameslink lines are blocked.
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/damage-to-overhead-wires-disrupts-thameslink-rail-services-38554733.html
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"Train services running between these stations may be cancelled or delayed," Thameslink has said in a statement.
Disruption between London St Pancras International and London Blackfriars is expected until 11am.
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Disruption between London St Pancras International and St Albans is expected until 10am.
A speed restriction over defective track between West Hampstead Thameslink and St Albans is causing disruption to trains between these stations.
Trains may be delayed or cancelled, with disruption expected until 10am.
"Due to multiple incidents at City Thameslink and Blackfriars, the power has been switched off to the line between St Pancras and Blackfriars in both directions," the company said.
"Trains are unable to run in either direction."
Thameslink advises people not to travel at this time as they cannot guarantee a train service through London St Pancras International, Farringdon, City Thameslink and Blackfriars.
Another rail company, Great Northern, has tweeted in reply to a customer: "We are experiencing severe congestion on the line due to damage to the overhead wires in London Blackfriars which results in late notice cancellation of services."
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The Urantia Book, published in 1955, explains the cosmology of the Universe, the ascension plan for mortals in the time and space worlds and the true story of the Jesus incarnation. It was presented by various authors in the spiritual hierarchy and our United Midwayers, who share the planet. Click on the book graphic to open a pdf file of the book.
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From the 2,196 pages of the Urantia Book, Robert Sarmast has written and developed a significant document that synthesizes much of the book's advice. Thanks to Paula Thompson at the Urantia Fellowship for sharing, and thanks to Robert for this exemplary work. Well-known and respected in the Urantia movement, Robert has led two research expeditions into the Mediterranean Sea in search of the second Garden of Eden; a third expedition is being planned if donations can support it. Urantia Philosophy of Living PDF
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URANTIA history includes a dynamic relationship with Vern Grimsley, a global radio personality and orator, who established the Spiritual Renaissance Institute in Clayton, CA, with a strong Urantia-based Jesus message. Here is a document relating to his broadcasts and lectures. (7)
Grimsley was strongly attacked in 1983-84 by a clique within Urantia for receiving 'messages' related to a possible nuclear strike. The threat was actually real. This was said to be a threat to the image of Urantia as a 'doomsday cult' inflicted by New Age fantasy. He was also accused of bootlegging the book by not mentioning it in his Jesus of Urantia sermons. Turrmoil ensued within the Family of God volunteers at the Institute and it eventually dissolved. Here in 1984, Grimsley explains his support of the "no publicity" Urantia policy to explain why the book itself was not touted from the podium. (2)
A letter from Grimsley to Clyde Bedell in November, 1984, explaining the realities around the messages controversy over the past year. (3)
Vern celebrates his many years with the Global Broadcasting Network in 1989. (4) He preached the values of the Urantia Book throughout his career.
The GALILEAN, an essay from Vern in 1993, on the incarnation of Jesus on our planet, shared with Mo Seigel, a Urantia Foundation trustee and founder of Celestial Seasonings Tea. Mo supported Vern in Boulder, CO, and once noted that there was room for all residents in their civil defense shelters. (5)
The Urantia Book and the Principles of Practical Psychology, an academic paper. (6)
The Vern Grimsley Information Packet
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Consideration of Some Criticisms of the Urantia Book, by Bill Sadler
Bill Sadler Jr. answers criticisms of the Urantia Book, one by one, in 1958, three years after publication. Includes the book's 74 previously-unknown revelations.
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Introduction to The Sherman Diaries
Square Circles publishing introduces the final volume of The Sherman Diaries. Visit the site also for a host of new, illuminating historic documents from the first decade of the Urantia Book's publication.
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The Mother of All Drones
These days, when one thinks of drone aircraft, one conjures up an image of a sinister, beluga-shaped monster, whispering along at 20,000 feet on a moonless night over Iraq or Afghanistan. Inside its featureless head, synthetic aperture radar and unblinking infrared eyeballs whir, rotate, scan below and beam information to someone in an air-conditioned building in middle America.
Down below, beamed to the other side of the world in infrared, creeping Orwellian voyeurism, a group of Taliban fighters lope across a sandy plain like spectral ghosts. As they move, the silent, red, watching eye 20,000 feet above follows them. They cannot feel its stare as it is inanimate. A continent away, a controller, wearing military clothing and unit patches, selects a high magnification and the Taliban jump into focus as they enter a compound through a break in a dirt wall. Radio communications whip back and forth across the world, permissions are sought and granted, voices chat calmly. Then a white flash obliterates the images on the screen.
The image can't help but make one cringe just a bit, despite our distaste for the terrorists below. The removal of the human from the close delivery of death leaves a strange feeling in the heart. The voices of the controllers don't have the high pitch of someone whose very life is threatened in the execution of a war. They speak in tones one would imagine a crane operator or ferry captain might use as he or she goes about a technical, workman-like job. Even the very name of "drone" itself brings to mind a mindless animal doing the bidding of a master somewhere.
The drone now occupies an ever-growing space on the battlefield. Its utility is undeniable. The high-tech, Terminator-like image of drones belies a history that goes back nearly 100 years, to the earliest days of powered flight and even before.
As early as 1849, the Austrian ship Vulcano attacked the besieged city of Venice (then a republic) by launching unmanned balloons carrying explosives. The Viennese newspaper Die Presse reported in advance of the impending aerial bombardment, stating "Venice is to be bombarded by balloons, as the lagunes prevent the approaching of artillery. Five balloons, each twenty-three feet in diameter, are in construction at Treviso. In a favourable wind the balloons will be launched and directed as near to Venice as possible, and on their being brought to vertical positions over the town, they will be fired by electro magnetism by means of a long isolated copper wire with a large galvanic battery placed on a building. The bomb falls perpendicularly, and explodes on reaching the ground."
The first attempt was an abject failure and Time magazine reported an account of the event (much later of course): "The balloons appeared to rise to about 4,500 ft. Then they exploded in midair or fell into the water, or, blown by a sudden southeast wind, sped over the city and dropped on the besiegers. Venetians, abandoning their homes, crowded into the streets and squares to enjoy the strange spectacle. … When a cloud of smoke appeared in the air to make an explosion, all clapped and shouted. Applause was greatest when the balloons blew over the Austrian forces and exploded, and in such cases the Venetians added cries of 'Bravo!' and 'Good appetite!' " Reading these two passages now, one realizes that not much about the unmanned aerial weapon concept has changed, except the efficiency of it all.
When the 20th Century rolled around and brought with it the emergence of the powered flying machine, it wasn't long before the unmanned concept was dabbled with once again. The First World War sped the development of machines, training, tactics and anti-aircraft systems. There were situations in which pilots were at greater risk when attacking. Delivering a torpedo, for instance, required a flight path of unflinching constancy for minutes at a time (in the First World War at least), while newly designed and specialized gun platforms focused on the oncoming and lumbering threat. Flying deep into enemy-held territory to deliver a bomb put pilots at great risk where air superiority was in the hands of the enemy.
One of the first and best known of the very early powered and unmanned flying machines was the Kettering Bug, a small biplane flying "torpedo" which flew in a set direction... up to 120 kilometres from its launch point. It raised many possibilities but was too unsophisticated and too late to have made any impact on a war where new technologies were emerging weekly.
The Kettering Bug, designed to deliver a nasty mix of phosphine gas and high explosives, had many design flaws and by the time the weapon had achieved even a modicum of success, the war had ended and production was never begun. Click here to see the Kettering Bug's development comical failures and eventual but erratic flying success. Photo: US Army
Further development of pilotless aircraft continued, albeit weakly, after the First World War in both America and Great Britain, but it was the British Royal Navy and Royal Air Force that truly pushed the technology to its first true successes. The Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) and the Navy teamed up in 1925 to produce and test the world's first "cruise missile" known as the RAE Larynx (a contraction of the words "Long Range Gun with Lynx Engine"). Larynx aircraft, looking decidedly modern compared to later pilotless aircraft, were launched two years later from a cordite-fired catapult on the forward deck of the Royal Navy destroyers HMS Stronghold and Thanet. Conceived as a long-range anti-shipping weapon, the Larynx was powered by a 200 hp Armstrong Siddeley Lynx engine and, with its 200 mph top speed, was faster than contemporary fighters. Only seven were launched during the test program, and the aircraft never saw production.
Two views of the Larynx pilotless and radio-controlled aircraft on the forward deck of HMS Stronghold, showing its high visibility paint scheme designed to keep it in view as long as possible. The first launch ended in disaster with the Larynx crashing into the Bristol Channel after only a few minutes. The second flight was far more successful, with a Larynx flying more than 100 miles before it was lost. The third flight went 112 miles and came down just five miles from the intended target—a promising result. Photos via AirWar.ru
In 1932, the Royal Navy saw the need for a realistic anti-aircraft gunnery target for anti-aircraft training—one that could take off, fly back and forth in front of the gunners and then be recovered and reused if not destroyed. At that time, flying targets were usually towed by piloted aircraft requiring a somewhat restrained approach to shooting to avoid hitting the tow aircraft. A pilotless aircraft would present a much more realistic target.
The first attempt by the Royal Navy to create a radio-controlled pilotless aircraft capable of taking off, flying and landing was the Fairey Queen, a decidedly unmilitary name. The Fairey Queen, a variant of the Fairey III reconnaissance biplane, was to be used by Royal Navy warships as a gunnery trainer... an expendable target. The Queen had an increased dihedral over the standard Fairey III, designed to improve her lateral stability for remote control. Only three were built and all were launched from HMS Valiant. The first two, including the one pictured below, set to launch from the stern of Valiant in April 1932, were lost when they crashed immediately into the sea (their flights were 18 and 25 seconds respectively). The third was successful and was recovered on the sea after its flight in September 1932. It was hoisted aboard Valiant and launched again in January of 1933 at Gibraltar whereupon the Home Fleet fired away for two hours, failing utterly to even damage the Queen. It landed safely on the Mediterranean after all ammunition was exhausted. The following May, the gunners of HMS Shropshire dispatched the Queen in just 20 minutes at Malta.
The limply-named Fairey Queen aboard HMS Valiant is cocked and ready for launch from her stern. While somewhat of a failure, the Fairey Queen led directly to the de Havilland Queen Bee, the mother of all drones. Photo: Royal Navy. Reference: Fairey Aircraft Since 1915 by H.A. Taylor
The experience with the Fairey Queen, while limited, led to the need for a production target aircraft for anti-aircraft gunnery training and eventually the development of the de Havilland DH-82B Queen Bee, the first full production, full-sized, reusable, pilotless aircraft. To the casual observer, the Queen Bee looked almost exactly like a de Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth, but in truth it was a mash-up aircraft using the lighter, more buoyant wooden fuselage construction of the DH-60 Moth combined with the higher dihedral wings of the Tiger Moth. The aircraft could be operated remotely by another pilot or controller sitting in another aircraft, on a warship or from a control panel on land. It could operate from runways or be shot from catapults, to be recovered on floats.
The control panel utilized a simple rotary dial, using which, the controller could "dial in" a radio-transmitted command. Numbers on the dial represented commands such as "turn left, turn right, pitch-up," etc., while additional controls operated ignition and throttle. While the control panel was relatively small, the radio transmitter itself was the size of a delivery van. The front cockpit had these same controls, enabling a test pilot to check the pilotless functions of the aircraft at altitude. The radio commands operated a series of pneumatic servos housed in the space once occupied by the rear cockpit. The design did not allow for coordinated flight using the ailerons and rudder, so the ailerons were always locked in the neutral position. Controllers used only the rudder, elevator and throttle controls.
The Queen Bee represented a major step forward on many fronts, not the least of which was radio-control. One of its immediate, if disappointing, benefits was that it revealed shortfalls in the skills and efficacy of Royal Navy anti-aircraft gunners and systems. It was not uncommon for a Queen Bee to parade up and down in front of an entire warship squadron for over an hour while they pounded away at it, only to be commanded to land without a scratch. There is even an account of the King witnessing a demonstration of Royal Navy gunnery prowess using the Queen Bee, during which the gunners were unable to hit it. One high-ranking officer was seen to turn to his subordinate and whisper "For ***** sake, tell the operator to dial SPIN", at which point the Queen Bee dove into the sea, seemingly the victim of the gunners. The Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force would utilize the Queen Bee to great extent to improve gunnery results, but the Navy soon turned to new technologies such as radar range finding and primitive computers to make warship anti-aircraft weapons the equal of modern dive and torpedo bombers.
Two photographs of de Havilland Queen Bee K4227, one of the first 10 production models (Number 7), at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough. We can clearly see the ram air turbine mounted on the port side of the fuselage aft of the engine, which powered the pump that provided compressed air to the remote control system housed in the space where the instructor pilot would have sat in a Tiger Moth. These views give us a good idea of how the early aircraft were configured for pilotless flight. Tonneau covers help streamline the cockpits, which were still required to do factory test flights and delivery to launch sites. It is believed that these early production models were painted overall in silver. Photos: Royal Air Force
A photograph of an early example of a Queen Bee. This is quite possibly K4227, the early production Queen Bee featured in the previous two photos, but her serial numbers are hidden from the photographer. K4227 was very much in the public eye in June 1935 as she put on a flight demonstration at Farnborough, taking off, flying, manoeuvring and landing, all under remote control. The British Air Ministry did not allow pilotless aircraft to fly over populated areas, so test pilot Flight Lieutenant C.M. Vincent, DFC had to sit in the cockpit throughout the entire flying demonstration to guarantee control in the event of a loss of radio control. Researching the de Havilland Aircraft Production lists in the web, it is stated that K4227 crashed on 17 July 1935, just a couple of weeks after it was successfully displayed at the Farnborough Air Show. Photo via Gloucestershire Transport History
The same aircraft as in the previous photograph has now attracted some airmen. Photo: RAF
I believe it is fairly likely that the de Havilland DH-82B got its name partially from its progenitor, the Fairey Queen, for their developments were linked. Geoffrey de Havilland was a passionate amateur entomologist, and liked to name all of his early aircraft after flying insects (Tiger Moth, Fox Moth, Mosquito, and Dragonfly), so likely chose its Queen Bee name for the connection to the Fairey and to the fact that it was the "B" model of the DH-82.
The Queen Bee was certainly the first truly successful pilotless aircraft with nearly 400 being manufactured over several years. The Queen Bee's ability to fly without a pilot was indeed high technology at the time and it was demonstrated for dignitaries on many occasions. In 1936, Admiral William Harrison Standley, the US Navy's representative at the London Naval Conference, was witness to a demonstration of the Queen Bee during a live-firing exercise. Upon his return to the United States, he set in motion revitalized American research into remotely flown aircraft like the Queen Bee, which could be used as a training device in the same manner.
Shortly thereafter, the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics (BuAer) tasked Lieutenant Commander Delmar Fahrney to lead a project to develop the system. Within months, two Curtiss N2C-2 Fledgling and two Stearman training biplanes were equipped with similar equipment to the Queen Bee. Soon, the word "drone" began appearing in documents related to the American project. According to accounts, Fahrney himself coined the term drone as a deliberate nod to the de Havilland Queen Bee.
It is not known for sure if the drone naming is fact, but it is likely. Certainly, it is an appropriate name, conjuring armies of identical, mindless animals whose sole purpose is to do the bidding of a Queen Bee mother. Regardless of the source of the new name, it stuck like honey to a picnic blanket! Before the arrival of the Queen Bee, there were certainly other attempts at birthing the remotely flown aircraft, but they were largely aborted, miscarried, stillborn or short-lived. The Queen Bee produced nearly 400 offspring and generations upon generations of evermore capable aircraft flown by operators who stand off a world away. Today, drones can do almost anything from delivering pizza to occupying the nightmares of terrorists everywhere. Any one of us can own one. They range in size from mere inches to 150-foot wingspans. They can fly for days on end and for thousands of miles. They present complex moral conundrums about the sanitized delivery of death, about who is a combatant, and many more. One thing for sure is that, as the presence of drones on the battlefield grows, the need for heroes diminishes. Using drones, the execution of a war now requires less from a country. Fading fast are the simple values of duty, honour and above all sacrifice. Of all the efficiencies, capabilities and benefits found in the modern combat drone, one of them is NOT the ability to inspire.
While much has developed, not much has changed in the 80 years since the development of the delicate contraption known as the Queen Bee. She is indeed the Mother of all Drones.
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A Royal Air Force corporal demonstrates the controls of a de Havilland DH-82B Queen Bee, while an officer pilot looks on. Flying the Queen Bee at such a low altitude using the control panel required considerable skill. In this photo we can see the wind generator or Ram Air Turbine (RAT) attached to the port fuselage just aft of the engine cowling. The turbine powers a pump which provided compressed air in flight to the pneumatic servo actuators in the fuselage, which in turn moved the controls. Photo: RAF
Though Tiger Moth Queen Bees had been in use for some time, Prime Minister Winston Churchill visited a launch site at the Weybourne Anti-Aircraft Artillery Range on the Norfolk coast on 6 June 1941 with Secretary of State for War David Margesson (behind). Here, the unpiloted Queen Bee L5894 is readied for launch from a steam catapult. Navy gunners were unable to or perhaps did not attempt to shoot down this particular drone during the demonstration, for L5894 was listed in de Havilland production logs as having been shot down off Weybourne 12 days later. Churchill made two visits to the range in 1941. During his first visit, a demonstration of projectile firing was carried out, but the result was most unsatisfactory. The Prime Minister gave the commandant just seven days to improve the standard. On the second visit, each demonstration repeatedly ended in failure until finally, a Queen Bee target aircraft was shot down and crashed close to the VIP enclosure. Local history has it that all the senior staff were replaced the following day. Photo via Imperial War Museum
An aerial view of Weybourne today, showing her grass runways where, 75 years ago, Queen Bees were flown in for launching either from the grass or from the steam catapult shown in the previous photo. There are several such coastal artillery ranges where anti-aircraft gunners were trained using both towed targets and unmanned Queen Bees—Watchet, Somerset; RAF Manorbier, Pembrokeshire; Burrow Head, Scotland; Aberporth, Wales; RAF Cleave, Cornwall; and many more. The circular concrete pad at centre left is one of two round bases for the Queen Bee steam catapults used at Weybourne. Photo: Daniel Nicholson
A profile drawing of the very same de Havilland DH-82B Queen Bee as used in the demonstration for Winston Churchill. Note the red undersides of the upper wingtips—applied to later production models and used to help gunners see the angle and direction of flight at a distance. A steam catapult was used when the aircraft was launched on floats. Image via WingsPalette
A restored de Havilland Queen Bee LF858 in England, the only flying example. Note the red undersides of the top wing tips, designed to assist controllers better visualize the flight of the aircraft—the pilotless aircraft had to remain in sight of the controllers to be effectively flown. The aircraft is now operated by Captain Neville's Flying Circus. The website for this operator explains the history of this Queen Bee: "This Queen Bee, RAF Serial No. LF858, civil registration G-BLUZ, is one of about 70 machines built under licence by Scottish Aviation in Glasgow in 1944. It saw service in the Second World War at RAF Manorbier in Wales, and after the war changed hands several times before being involved in a landing accident at Old Warden, Bedfordshire, following which it was stored there by the Shuttleworth Trust for many years. In 1983, it was sold to Barrie Bayes of Cranfield, who over the course of the next four years undertook a full restoration of the aircraft, including a full rebuild of its de Havilland Gipsy Major engine. The rear cockpit has now been fitted with dual flying controls. This particular aircraft is believed to be now the world's only airworthy example of its type. The Queen Bee is currently based at RAF Henlow in Bedfordshire, and has since 1995 been owned and operated by a six-man syndicate known as 'The Beekeepers' flying group". Photo by Adrian Pingstone
Many of the same technologies and techniques are still employed by drones today including catapults and the painting of wingtips and control surfaces in bright red or orange to assist controllers in visualizing the orientation of the aircraft. Here we see the old Queen Bee paint technique applied to a QF-100 Super Sabre pilotless target drone at top and recently to the QF-16 Fighting Falcon target drone. Photos: USAF
The Queen Bee also utilized an automatic landing system, designed for when radio control was lost. This system employed a long trailing and weighted wire antenna which sensed when the aircraft was near the ground or water. If control was lost, then the aircraft would fly on until it ran out of fuel. Then it would glide to earth, sense when it was close and the onboard automatic system would take over, shut off the magnetos if they were still operating, select an elevator position for a landing flare and land the Queen Bee. Here we see a Queen Bee that has landed automatically at RAF Cleve in 1940. This aircraft (P-4700) survived this difficult landing and was eventually shot down into the sea at the gunnery range at RAF Manorbier on 5 March 1943. Photo via No2 A.A.C.U. at The Aviation Forum
A Queen Bee on floats sits in the cradle on the steam catapult roundtable at the Burrow Head Anti-Aircraft Artillery range in Scotland. The catapult could be rotated to point the Queen Bee directly into the wind. This particular Queen Bee, serial number N1837, crashed into the sea off Burrow Head on 20 July 1939. Photo by Roy Eldridge
The catapult at Burrow Head, used for launching Queen Bee pilotless target aircraft. The ram air turbine, used for generating power for the pneumatic pump, can be seen clearly on the port side of the fuselage. Photo by Roy Eldridge
A dramatic photograph of a pilotless de Havilland DH-82B Queen Bee rocketing from the steam catapult at Burrow Head. From July 1939 to April 1942, a total of 46 Queen Bees were launched at Burrow Head, the bulk of them flown off the grass strip at nearby RAF Kidsdale. Photo: Roy Eldridge
Another pilotless Queen Bee (L7723) leaves the cradle of a steam catapult at a firing range. Many of the Queen Bees were flown more than just the single time, some operating for months. It is hard to tell where this is, but L7723 was lost when its floats collapsed at Malta on 24 October 1939. Photo: everythingexmoor.org.uk
The only remnant of the Queen Bee program at RAF Cleave in Cornwall today is the concrete base upon which the catapult was rotated into the wind. Image via derelictplaces.co.uk
There are few photographs extant of Queen Bees in operation from the 1930s and 40s. The best ones seem to have been taken during formal visits of politicians to military facilities where the radio-controlled aircraft were employed, as in the previous image of Churchill and Margesson at Watchet. This photograph of Queen Bee N1841 was likely not taken during the demonstration put on in August of 1938 for Leslie Hore-Belisha, Secretary of State at the War Office. Hore-Belisha was accompanied by British military brass, 16 mayors of London boroughs and some 50 Members of British Parliament, a testament to the notion that the Queen Bee was considered leading edge technology at the time. For an amazing newsreel video of another Queen Bee (K6664) being launched for Hore-Belisha and shot down, click here. The anti-aircraft artillery gunnery range at Watchet was along the Somerset Coast, a few hundred metres to the east in Doniford. The gunners at the Doniford gun park shot at targets towed by aircraft flying out of RAF Weston-Zoyland and Queen Bee aircraft shot from the catapult shown in this photograph. At first, the Queen Bees were launched from the cruiser HMS Neptune anchored off Watchet, but were later catapulted from the Doniford range and could be flown remotely to avoid being hit. However, when hit they would crash into the Bristol Channel, there to await wreckage recovery by SS Radstock, operating from Watchet harbour. Queen Bee N1841, pictured here, was eventually shot down by gunners a year later on 7 June 1939. Photo/information via www.watchetmuseum.co.uk
A de Havilland Queen Bee launches from the waist catapult of the Leander-class light cruiser HMS Neptune, which participated in tests and exercises in the Bristol Channel. Photo: Royal Navy
HMS Neptune launches another Queen Bee. Note the sailors congregating on her decks to watch the launch as well as her quick-firing 4-inch Mk IV guns along her sides and trained aft. It is not known whether these guns were employed against Queen Bees, but they were highly capable naval, coastal defence and anti-aircraft guns—capable of reaching aircraft at 28,000 ft. Photo: Royal Navy
The old Bristol Channel coastal steamer SS Radstock was employed at Watchet, recovering both the wreckage of downed Queen Bee drones as well as those that landed safely on the water. Here she ties up at Watchet with a recovered Queen Bee resting on her cargo deck. HMS Neptune could also recover her own Queen Bees directly with her own cranes. Photo: watchetconservationsociety.co.uk
A Queen Bee takes off along a coastal scene that seems somewhere other than Great Britain. The Royal Navy operated Queen Bees from Royal Navy Air Yard (RNARY) Fayid on the Suez's Great Bitter Lake, RNARY Dekheila near Alexandria and Ta Kali on Malta. Photo via topwar.ru
With the relative success of the early Queen Bees, Airspeed Limited designed the lovely Airspeed AS.30 Queen Wasp in 1937. Only five prototypes were built and, although intended for both Royal Air Force and Royal Navy use, the aircraft was fated not to go into series production due to lack of expected performance. She may have been too lovely to shoot down. Photos via Wikipedia
Radio-controlled pilotless aircraft were under development in more than just Great Britain. Some of the "early adopters" included the United States and Nazi Germany. The Germans investigated and eventually produced a number of small un-piloted target and reconnaissance aircraft called the Argus As292. Here a dozen or so of the more than 100 German-built mini-aircraft sit on a hangar floor. The type was fitted with a Zeiss cine camera for reconnaissance work and, when the mission was over, a radio signal shut the motor off and deployed a parachute to allow them to descend to earth. Photo: luftarchiv.de
Pilotless aircraft seemed to draw dignitaries in every country, perhaps due to the science fiction-like qualities. Here a group of Luftwaffe and Nazi big wigs, including First World War ace Ernst Udet, standing at centre, look rather unconvinced as they stare down at a diminutive Argus robot airplane. One would love to know what the great pilot thought of a future without him. Today, Germany is one of the great producers of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or Drones, as we have now come to know them. Photo: luftarchiv.de
Jet-powered Firebee target aircraft are stored inside a Teledyne-Ryan service hangar in 1984. By this time, pilotless aircraft used for targeting and reconnaissance were now called "drones". The Ryan Firebee was a series of target drones developed by the Ryan Aeronautical Company beginning in 1951. It was one of the first jet-propelled drones, and one of the most widely used target drones ever built. In the late 1990s, Teledyne-Ryan configured two Firebees with cameras and communications equipment to feed real-time battlefield intelligence for targeting and damage assessment. In an ironic twist, these drones were named "Argus", possibly as a nod to its diminutive German predecessor, the Argus As292. Photo: USAF
Typically, Firebee target drones were released near the firing range from motherships like this US Navy DC-130A Drone controller, capable of carrying four underwing Firebees. The US Navy's Herc motherships operated from the Southern California Operating Area, flying missions from NAS North Island and Point Mugu. The DC-130 could launch, track and control the Firebees in flight. Photo: PHCS R.L. Lawson, USN
Two shots of Royal Canadian Air Force drone carriers hefting two Firebees at a time in operations at Cold Lake, Alberta. Photos: top: RCAF, bottom: RCAF via Bill Ewing
Today, the pilotless aircraft (a.k.a. Drone, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), and Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA)), dominates the battlefield, the press and moral arguments with scores of designs providing attack platforms, stealthy reconnaissance, air quality monitoring and a myriad of uses from pizza delivery to Arctic sovereignty monitoring and firefighting. They range in size from 10 inches and a hundred dollars to the 130-foot wingspan, $130 million RQ-4 Global Hawk (above) from Northrop Grumman. Photo: Northrop Grumman


700 Hoboes and then some!
The Flickr group has finally reached its goal of illustrating all 700 Hoboes. Give all of the artists who worked hard on this a big hand. Also, thanks to John Hodgman for the wonderful inspiration for this project.
But wait, the counter at the bottom of this page says that over 700 hoboes have been illustrated. That's because in the paperback edition of Areas of My Expertise, Mr. Hodgman has included a list of 100 additional hobo names (if you count Nick Nolte twice). Check the gallery for the latest additions and the master list for all of the new hobo names.
800 of 700 hoboes have been illustrated.