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A majority of our callers tonight weren't that concerned with speeding drivers. Several said the potholes keep them in check. But they were ready to see a crackdown on reckless bicyclists and pedestrians. If you watched tonight's program, you would get the sense that New Yorkers feel jaywalkers and couriers need the most policing.
The next phase of the Vision Zero traffic safety initiative is here. Officials from the Department of Transportation and the NYPD launched a "slow zone" to reduce dangerous speeding along nearly eight miles of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. The program will soon expand to 25 corridors across the boroughs throughout the year.
Starting today, the speed limit along Atlantic Avenue will be lowered from 30 to 25 miles per hour. In addition, traffic signals will be timed to discourage speeding and there will more enforcement by the NYPD. The goal of Mayor de Blasio's Vision Zero initiative is to reduce traffic-related fatalities to zero in the next ten years.
Do you welcome these slow zones to New York City? Will timed red lights and more enforcement serve as an effective deterrent? How frequently do you see speeding drivers in New York City? What steps would you take to make the roads safer for pedestrians, cyclists, and motorists?
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I didn't respond while the show was on tonight, out of anger & frustration. The sidewalks and roads we have in New York City are not properly maintained-nor representative of the growing population. As someone who has had knee surgery, the worn leaning sidewalks shifting either to the right or left, actually create joint & ligament damage for any pedestrian on the street. Too many people, drivers and non drivers are also addicted to their cell phones. This culture of ignorance has allowed technology to flourish, amid the worst offenders.
Michael in Woodside
In manhattan: It's a game of chicken. Peds jump in front of cars when the ped crossing light turns green. Peds jump into bike lanes without looking if anything is coming. Bikes ride recklessly against traffic, crossing res lights, weaving between clueless tourists, etc. car drivers block intersections, bike lanes and cross walk. And somehow, every caller is so self righteous.
I'm seeing more and more garbage cans in deep potholes. I have to always be on the lookout for more potholes. Major damage to a lot if cars
Chris from Brooklyn
I think there should be a "slow zone" on the sidewalks in NYC especially for tourists and people who are not mentally in New York City but in a countryside somewhere. Move it people! I can't guarantee getting annoyed while rushing to wherever I'm always rushing to in the city because someone is taking a sweet stroll.
Lee from queens, NY
Vincent in Grammercy and Fernando in Washington Heights couldn't have said it better. Where I used to live on 1st Avenue cyclists--including those who used the bike lane--ignored the flow of traffic. I've run into them before, on foot. Pedestrians aren't looking for traffic both ways on a one-way street; Cyclists are using a vehicle and should be held to the same standards. Its a danger to the pedestrians, it's a danger to themselves.
--Zo, Lenox Hill
I want to mention that The Red Light Cameras I feel are just another tax on regular people. They lower the speed limit to an illogical level (even the politicians will not follow it I bet) and then make the yellow light too short and time the lights so you stop every 2 blocks frustrating drivers and then place cameras to ticket them. It is a money making tax that will bring millions in to be spent badly and line politician pockets.
thanks for hearing me out
When I was a child, right of way of pedestrians was not an issue. It was drummed through our heads that when you cross the street you look both ways and let the car go first. With the light or against the light is not so much an issue as looking both ways and waiting for the cars to clear. Whenever I am a pedestrian or a bicyclist I basically yield the right of way to the cars and I get around. I average about 2-3 miles a day as a pedestrian and have never had a problem. I see a lot of people that see a car coming and walk right into it with the hopes that they get hit so they can sue. Very rare to do see people actually stop to look both ways and wait for the road to clear. People don't do that anymore.
I don't know what the hold up (in Albany) is regarding the installation of more traffic cameras throughout the city. I'm practically dying for one to be installed at the exit from the Queensboro Br. at 1st Ave. & 62nd St. I was nearly runover just last weekend as I was crossing at the crosswalk (with a greenlight) by the driver of a Buick Sedan that made a turn onto 1st as if I wasn't even there. If cameras were more widely used to ticket drivers that run red lights, the city would reap a huge windfall, and over time you would reckless driving reduced.
NYC Dep't of Transportation should try fixing the "Grand Canyon-sized" potholes that are scattered throughout NYC before they concern themselves with additional pedestrian safety measures. Everyday I see drivers veering and swerving to avoid potholes the size of moon craters. How dangerous is this for other motorists and pedestrians? Shouldn't drivers be focused on the road in front of them instead of road hazards? Most streets in Queens have no clearly painted lines separating lanes. When NYC improves its' streets above the level of a third world country, less pedestrians will be killed by drivers who are able to focus on the road in front of them.
Thanks,Josh in Astoria.
The delivery people who ride bikes the wrong direction! And talking on cell phone while doing it! I've seen motorcyclist doing it also speeding down Atlantic Ave a block from Criminal Court.
Crystal -Red Hook
Hi John,
I think the slow zones on Atlantic Avenue are a good idea because it's a very busy street, and we need them on more busy streets and intersections where accidents are likely to occur. However, I also think that pedestrians need to be A LOT more responsible, meaning they shouldn't text while crossing the street. They should also be looking both ways and have common sense not to jaywalk, especially on busy streets.
Alison, Midtown East
Just as John Washington heights said.. It's not always the drivers There must a concerned effort to stop jaywalkers... I'm pretty sure if there was a study done you would see that jaywalking is a common cause of people getting hit by cars.... So now with the cars slowing down They think people will not be hit as often .. Wrong .. There should a push by the police to ticket jaywalkers...
I think that continuous enforcements will make New Yorkers be more aware about pedestrians and the people crossing. However, they are not very careful and are wild. I live in Queens and the roads aren't safe. Manhattan is worse and should have more improvement in the streets.
There will always be reckless drivers, lowering the speed limit doesn't do much to address that. The problem is there are more reckless pedestrians than ever in our history because of technology. Everyone is looking down at their phones and often with music blasting in their ears simultaneously. They have no idea of what is going on around them! That is a recipe for disaster on busy city streets. TeresaUES
More attention & responsibility needs to be given to the jaywalkers & rogue bikers. People who stick out like a sore thumb on street corners paying no mind to on coming traffic. I see more irresponsible arrogant & naive pedestrians than drivers.
~Nina Williamsburg, Bklyn
Our new Mayor, Blind Vision de Blurio fails once again to make sense. Few drivers if any will pay attention to reduced speed signs. They pay little or no attention now, what makes de Blurio think they will just because he says so? That's Zero Vision for you.
JoePort Richmond, SI
The problem is not lowering the speed limit. The problem is the Jay-Walkers. Many fatalities on Queens Blvd and especially the Grand Concourse in the Bronx include Jay-Walkers that cross the street without looking and don't even make an effort to get out of the street fast, thus making it hard for drivers to stop or slow resulting an injury and/or fatality. The N.Y.P.D. must ficus on jay-walkers as well. Just like they started in New Jersey in 2011.
John in Washington Heights
its a drag (no pun intended) but with the pathlogical dumbed-down popular culture and the recklessness of New yawkers its necessary. The SUV is even worse; we also need drivers that are capable of conceptualizing the right of way. Its not rocket science or neuro surgery but its absolutely essential.
Hi John, I'm glad they got started on this new venture being called Vision Zero. As was mentioned on last evenings show by a listener that the Bronx is always ignored and wouldn't you know they are going to start in Brooklyn on Atlantic Ave. For years Queens was always in the forefront about how bad it was on Queens Blvd accident wise whether it be a car or a pedestrian. I can always remember that The Grand Concourse in the Bronx was never mentioned and that was known as death row. So whatever topic comes up the Bronx is never really recognized. In any case I do hope that we will get a better outcome with the trial run of this project but cars still drag on the Avenues as though they were drag racing and when they pass over the speed bumps that are on my block in front of my school then they take off-really gunning it and trying to make the light on the corner with the cell phone in hand.
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Hi John; Vision Zero does not go far enough. Police Officers should be writing red lights, failure to yield to pedestrian, blocking the box, and cell phone summons" along with using cameras to catch speeders. When a motorist gets a speeding summons from a camera, there are not points. The camera cannot prove who was behind the wheel; therefore, the motorist can pay the fine and go on his merry way. Pollice Officers in my neighborhood rarely write summones for safety violations. The intersection of East 52nd Street and 1st Avenue is an accident prone location. I stopped counting how many pedestrians have been struck in the exact same crosswalk. 17th precinct officers respond to these incidents (I don't want to call them accidents because "accident" implies that the motorists are not at fault. When you speed up to "make" the light as it turns red and hit a pedestrian in the crosswalk, you are at fault.) There is a disconnect at the precinct level that results in no enforcement at this intersection.
Instead of picking one avenue in NYC t he entire NYPD be put on patrol for :"all-out" days; Unannounced. People comply with laws when they think they know they will get a summons. katemidtown east
Hi John
I welcome the slow zones, more law enforcement and timed traffic signals, i just hope the motorists will follow the rules of the road. The price of the summons should be raised to the maxium like $200 that'll teach the motorist not to speed. the NYPD should crack down on the delivery people that ride their bikes on the sidewalk they go so fast, the elderly and handicapped people cant move that fast to get out of the way
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Sports Writer Seizes On The Murder Suicide of an NFL Player To Call For the Repeal of the Second Amendment
How many young people have to die senselessly? How many lives have to be ruined before we realize the right to bear arms doesn't protect us from a government equipped with stealth bombers, predator drones, tanks and nuclear weapons?
Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenage boys bloodied and dead.
In the coming days, Belcher's actions will be analyzed through the lens of concussions and head injuries. Who knows? Maybe brain damage triggered his violent overreaction to a fight with his girlfriend. What I believe is, if he didn't possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.
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I saw this on the Fox sports site earlier.
This particular 'writer' is notorious for a perpetual case of cranial-rectal inversion but it is typical of the banal , uneducated understanding of the constitution ,it's founding principles and in particular the reason for the second amendment that you see in our media-fronted culture.
This perfectly represents Obama's America-the remnants of a once great Republic.Noteworthy Comment +24
Guess I shouldn't tell him I just bought a new conceal/carry holster for my Glock, huh?Noteworthy Comment +12
He's right, he should give up his right to bear arms. And he should self-deport to wherever the hell he wishes. Take every liberal with you. Make it a fun trip !
Do people feel they MUST live in the USA? Who keeps telling them that ?!?!
Buh bye !Noteworthy Comment +25
Those damn guns. They'd be alive if it wasn't for guns.
And while we're at it, knives…get rid of 'em.
And blunt objects…ban 'em.
And rope…gone.
And hands…punching, strangling…cut 'em all off!
Asshats.Noteworthy Comment +31
If he thinks things will be safer if guns didn't exist then he hasn't studied ANY history.
What would bad people fear? Not much.
Nature is and always will be "survival of the fittest". The gun is an equalizer of over matched conflicts.
What would he do if a group of large guys decided to take over his apartment complex and kick him out of his apartment? Or rape his wife/GF? Not much if he wanted to live.
It would become a land of gangs and the police would only be one of them.
Anti gun morons do not even realize how much they are protected by them in the hands of the public.+7
Given this moron's logic,the military doesn't need weapons because they might kill foreigners in wars.I think people know we can't kill tanks and planes and missles with rifles,shotguns,and handguns but we certainly can kill the people that have them,I don't care if some stupid jock shoots himself because his girlfriend is a bitch.+5
OH! DAMN! I love love tuna salad…now it will be banned.
Deputies: Mail carrier poisoned husband's tuna fish sandwich, tried to kill him
http://www.clickorlando.com/news/Deputies-Mail-carrier-poisoned-husband-s-tuna-fish-sandwich-tried-to-kill-him/-/1637132/17608784/-/1527emo/-/index.htmlNoteworthy Comment +10
Living proof of just how stupid some people are. Is he trying to say that this NFL football player couldn't kill his girlfriend with his bare hands or maybe a knife? Only a gun can kill? I think perhaps this idiot is the one with brain damage.Noteworthy Comment +15
The dude was about 4 times her size. He did not need a gun to kill her. She would still be dead and the killer would still be alive and in prison if he didn't have that gun. Would this kind of suicide be better Mr. Whitlock?
maybe we should outlaw cars?Noteworthy Comment +14
"… if he didn't posses/own a gun, he and Kassandra Perkins would both be alive today." This man must be an idiot. So he believes that a man as big as an NFL linebacker who was angry enough at his girlfriend to shoot her dead, wouldn't have just killed her with his bare hands even without a gun?Noteworthy Comment +10
Gang members want the exact same thing. They wish no one had guns so these law abiding thugs could finally prosper with free reign and terror.
Hey numbnuts, maybe he had a mental disorder, or maybe the culture innercity thuggery glorified by rappers is what caused him to do it.
I'm sure someone or something caused him to pull the trigger, couldn't be his own fault or upbringing.Noteworthy Comment +13
Again, the illogic of liberals, particularly black liberals, is simple stunning.
So let me get this straight…because the government now has drones, tanks, nuclear weapons, we should completely disarm the American public because of the gubmints superior firepower?
By that logic, obsidian head, a musket was no match for a canon or a naval fleet "back in the day", either.
But we should trust our loving, beneficent government implicitly, correct, because they would never harm us, right?
How's that logic working out for the black community? See, you're folks are so bought and paid for that you can't even perceive the level of your loss.Noteworthy Comment +20
What if he only had a hammer?
Frankly Mr.Whitlock, I do not care what you believe.
If someone is going to murder themselves and or someone else they will find a way!
STOP blaming guns, put the blame squarely where it belongs,ON THE ONE DOING THE MURDERS!!!!!Noteworthy Comment +11
What if a knife was used? COME ON!!+6
I know…several grammar boo boos!0
You and them first bozo.+1
When all weapons are outlawed, I am going to use a cast-iron skillet for home defense. While away from home I will carry an innocent looking notepad.
Better not mess with me- I'll give you a nasty paper cut!+8
I'm with Nutjob on this one. I believe a significant number of players bring a "thug culture" with them to the NFL. But this writer can't have that as then the responsibility wouldn't be on an inanimate object.+8
I'd rather get rid of the NFL.Noteworthy Comment +12
Nicole Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman might argue with this idiot about the gun, but they can't because they were nearly beheaded by an NFL running back with a KNIFE.Noteworthy Comment +16
Anal vision. Pay no to a asshole that thinks Jeff George deserves another chance+1
This guy was a savage animal, plain and simple. It's a shame we don't live in a civilized society anymore, the kind where an NFL owner might say, "Sure, he can throw a stupid football, but he's a savage thug and I only hire civilized people on my team."
Imagine if his girlfriend's mother had said, "dear, the last thing you want to do is have sex with a savage thug in the first place."Noteworthy Comment +14
This is what is supposed to pass for an informed citizen-what a GD shame he even lives in my country-1,000,000-1 this assface voted Obama-the Constitution??? We don't need no stinkin' Constitution.
Thank the fucking NEA for the nightmare we're in now-they are the No. 1 menace we face.
Irony Curtain is dead on when he says it's a shame we don't live in a civilized country anymore-it's country where flash mobs rob 7-11s and Macys, where gangs of blacks target whites only in downtown Denver and our douchesac Mayor(now Gov) refuses to allow that info out and black on white crime outnumbers the opposite by over 39 times!!
As long the NEA is ramming PC down the throats of our youth and they are seeing it reenforced by our sewer culture, than I believe I have a lot more to be wary of walking among us than I do of a drone dropping one on me.
I'll just keep my weapons bub and you can kiss off-fair enough?+6
Let me be perfectly clear – I don't want guns banned.
But if we're going to travel down that hypothetical road, then maybe we should ban football players from having firearms. Or people with anger issues. Or maybe people over 250 lbs. Or maybe black men. Ruh roh I went too far with that last one didn't I? Even if crime and prison statistics back up my comment. Ah well, facts be damned.
Liberals don't understand that Genie can't be put back in the bottle. You'd think that their pet project, street drugs, would have shown them the difficulty of banning specific behaviors and substances. Then again, logic's not a liberal strong point either.+4
Maybe the no necked football player who most likely was on some enhancer was just an out of ghetto thug, incapable of controlling his on field rage off field.+5
How many young people have to die senselessly?Concussions are dangerous…when are we going to get over this football culture?+5
And maybe if she owned a gun she would still be alive.+9
"How many young people have to die senselessly? How many lives have to be ruined before we realize the right to bear arms doesn't protect us from a government equipped with stealth bombers, predator drones, tanks and nuclear weapons?"
Perhaps he could explain Afghanistan to me?
Maybe we should really ban uneducated steriod hopped hulks who have been told sine middle school that pure silk comes out of their asses and every bad thing they do can be fixed.
This guy ran into one thing he couldn't fix: his own character flaws and bullying cowardice.
I carry a weapon every day; never once have I shot someone or even really wanted to, although I see mankind at its lowest level.
What second ammendment foes are really admitting is that our education system, lack of morals and personal reponsibility, and self respect stealing welfare system has succeded in "dumbing down" people to the point they can't handle life.
Enough with the sympathy for this S.O.B.; he's a murderer, plan and simple.
Good luck in Hell….+9
Well, he's not very much of a sports writer is he. The man feels he has to defend the sport and the player at the expense of the constitution. I guess he's not so different from those liberal MSM types that defended Clinton(s) and Obama against all those nasty Americans that sought the truth about their sordid beginnings and criminal actions while in office. God, what I would give for a handful of journalists who remember that they are Americas's defense against despotism and are willing to do uncover and print the truth.+7
Tengo un pistole en mis pantalones para Jason Whitlock.+2
I read this guy a lot, only because once he wrote a good one. (Why NFL owners and Coaches were trying to draft white players instead of black players.)
Some Whack Job in Wyoming just killed himself and two others with an edged weapon, I don't see anybody trying to ban steak knives.
For clarity, consider this. 300 pound plus athlete, spend countless hours in the gym, probably on a couple enhancers. Scarey strong guy. He didn't need a weapon to kill the 130 pound girl friend.+4
This idiots column is proof that one needn't take advice about Constitutional matters from a "sportswriter".+3
If he hadn't had access to a gun, he'd have found another way. There was a multiple homicide in North Texas recently where an estranged husband came to his wife's parents' house, killed both her parents, her, and was about to kill her sister and her sister's child, but they hid in a closet and called 911. He did all of this with a knife, but someone with a gun could have stopped him.+5
another day , another…
J-Tard gets paid fat jack to write and say provocative things to – like the Ohole- further the division in America
he used to be on the radio 5 days/week and did the same shitt – talk about fanning the flames of race-baitin+1
As long as the guberment is on the path it it's on I will keep my weapons.+2
Only reason that jackass sports writer is still running around free is because we are still armed.+3
We should outlaw wars. And shoot anybody who engages in wars. Wait….; that would make us bad if we shot them….; let the bad people shoot the people who engage in wars, … yeah, that'll work….; the people fighting wars and shooting people should just shoot each other so we won't have to do it and end up bad like them.
So wars are now illegal, and anybody caught engaging in war will be shot by somebody engaging in war. Shit, I'm a genius!!+1
Hey – Fat Fuck!
Ya' gonna ban "The Hunger Game" movie, after the numbnut killed his dad and his shack-up in Wyoming with a crossbow?
YOU'D better hope MOOCHelle doesn't ban ALL-you-can-eat BUFFETS there, ALBERT…+2
From Wikipedia: Linebacker Jovan Belcher earned his degree in "Child development & Family Relations". He also would travel back to his hometown in NY to give motivational speeches to youth. Sorry I can't make this shit up.+3
Anonymous pegged it. I wish his girlfriend had a gun, then she would still be alive.+1
I was enjoying the threads on this post, but Dano, you really screwed me up with that avatar. My tongue is still hanging out.0
I say it's time to ban the NFL,civilized people don't engage in barbaric sports for a living,besides that,lawsuits are going to kill the NFL so lets get ahead of the curve and make all our kids learn how to play soccer or some other pussy "sport".0
I think we should just ban blacks…especially the ones who've been beat over the head their whole lives….0


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Jammer's Review
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
"The Jem'Hadar"
Air date: 6/13/1994
Written by Ira Steven Behr
Directed by Kim Friedman
Review by Jamahl Epsicokhan
Hoping to spend some quality time with his son, Sisko takes Jake on a survey of a Gamma Quadrant planet. Quark and Nog come along—Nog as a friend and partner in Jake's science project, Quark to suck up to Sisko in a poor attempt to convince the commander to let him sell merchandise on the station monitors. The pairing of Sisko and Quark is at the very least lively, and some of the Federation/Ferengi polemics that arise are actually relevant.
While on this planet, Sisko and Quark encounter and are promptly imprisoned by the Jem'Hadar—the menacing foot soldiers of the nefarious Gamma Quadrant organization called the Dominion. Apparently, the Dominion considers ships coming through the wormhole as violation of their territory.
"The Jem'Hadar" is "comic book DS9" in many ways. This isn't nearly as substantive as most of second season DS9. The Dominion is large and foreboding, and the plot consists of mostly action scenes and a prison-break premise. But this is good comic book DS9. It's fun, but it's also pretty intense at times, especially when a Jem'Hadar soldier visits the station and supplies Kira with a list of ships the Dominion has destroyed—along with news that they have decimated the New Bajor colony in the Gamma Quadrant. (Nana Visitor's performance sells the scene more than anything else.)
Meanwhile, Jake and Nog attempt to pilot the Runabout back to the station themselves, with little success. The idea of "teenagers flying the ship" is utilized for some great comic payoffs—Jake and Nog have always been fun to watch when they get in over their heads. The episode ends with the best battle scene the series has attempted to date. A Jem'Hadar kamikaze that destroys the Galaxy-class USS Odyssey is quite visceral. The episode is mostly high adventure and comedy, and it works well. (And stuff gets blowed up real good, too.) With the introduction of the Dominion, the series adds yet another element to its canvas which will fuel many stories to come.
Previous episode: Tribunal
Next episode: The Search, Part I
34 comments on this review
The suicide run by the Jem'Hadar ship on the Odyssey blew me away when I first saw it. I remember reading about the fan reaction in Sci-Fi magazines, and people were already putting the Dominion on the level of the Borg. At the time, they had no idea that the Dominion storyline would become such a huge part of the show.
But I do agree that when I saw the Jem'Hadar ship destroy the Odyssey as a kid, it did leave me feeling a little ill as I thought it could have been the Enterprise. But that episode and that scene was a really good way to introduce a genuine threat to our characters.
But I guess the series just wouldn't have been as exciting if our heroes were babysitting a wormhole they couldn't use.
I, for one, am surprised that the Federation just didn't collapse the wormhole after the events of "The Jem'Hadar" to keep the peace.
Weyoun would have been ridiculous with it.
Not on my watch!
Gosh wont I look silly then.
Then he & his ship get blown to bits and, next season....we see traffic going through the wormhole again.
Am I the only one who finds this odd?
"The point Phil Farrand misses in his nitpick is that they also destroyed the colony... New Bajor was it. Probably others. You just slink back to the Alpha quadrant and close off the wormhole after innocent people have been wiped out.
Not on my watch!"
So, you wouldn't close the wormhole, thus ensuring that the Dominion couldn't wipe out any more people on your side?!?
You MUST be one of those gung-ho types.
"He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious." -Sun TZu
Yes, the federation took a ridiculous chance by not closing the stupid wormhole. I know this is entertainment, but for every Braveheart, there are thousands of over-matched underdogs who LOST.
lol no. I'm pretty placid. It was supposed to be a light hearted comment.
Common sense says collapse the wormhole.
The Federation are often inconsistent with thier common sense though.
There should have been one line of dialog, either in this episode or in one of the next several involving the Dominion, that said that the Federation agreed to stay out of Dominion territory but not the Gamma Quadrant as a whole. That would have been a reasonable Federation stance -- which the Dominion might not have accepted, leading to the war.
As for collapsing the entrance to the wormhole, Sisko et. al did show willingness to do it in "The Search", but only in the fake scenario created by the Dominion's experiment. When the characters woke up and returned to the station, they probably figured they still had time to devise another solution, because the Dominion was still in the Gamma Quadrant.
Over the next couple season, Sisko became more engaged with the Prophets, to the point where killing them by destroying the wormhole was probably not an option. It's worth noting that Kira is not in the Dominion's fantasy scenario in "The Search", so no one of Bajoran faith was around to object to collapsing the wormhole.
By season 5, when Sisko et. al opt to seal the wormhole, not destroy it, in anticipating of a Dominion invasion. Kira objects, but is overruled. When the Dominion sabotages Sisko's attempt to seal the wormhole, it occurred in a way that made sealing the entrance impossible (hence mining the entrance in "Call to Arms").
Also, I suppose the writers needed a way to explain why Sisko went back to Earth for 3 months (coinciding with the 3 month summer intersession between Season 2 and Season 3) in his attempt to obtain the Defiant.
I loved the character interaction between Sisko/Jake, Sisko/Quark and Jake/Nog in the jungle. The Jake/Nog scenes with piloting the shuttlecraft were funny, but I think it seemed slightly inappropriate and took away from the seriousness of the episode.
Lastly, the visuals of this episode were fantastic. Seeing a Galaxy-Class starship that looks identical to the beloved Enterprise D destroyed is a crazy feeling. Also, it was great to see an atypical Star Wars-like battle between the runabouts and the Jem Hadar warships.
My rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
I liked the scene where Quark points out to Sisko the dark chapters of Human history for which the Ferengi have no analog. Sisko's startled reaction to the word "slavery" was particularly noteworthy. EXCELLENT performances from both actors.
Recall that this episode aired 3 weeks after the TNG finale. If it looked & felt like Enterprise blowing up, as Comp625 (and Jayson, years ago) said, well... the symbolism wasn't lost on me. (Nor on Phil Farrand, who points it out in his Nitpicker's Guide.)
re: nitpicking
The conflict is not so much with this episode, given that the Federation could (and evidently did) choose not to recognize the Dominion's territorial claim. (Farrand's main nitpick is that this is inexcusably arrogant and provocative.) No, the conflict is with the following episode, which so effectively portrayed how dangerous the Gamma Quadrant had become. For two years, we had strolled through the woods, la-di-da, and then we learned that a bear lived there. "The Search part 1" re-entered those woods with a well-placed sense of dread. But as the months and years went by, it's as though we forgot about the bear.
In season 3, they still have the good sense to bring their warship in "Meridian" and "Destiny." But by season 4's "Hippocratic Oath," they're comfortable in a runabout.
At issue is whether the Federation respects sovereign borders (it does) or crazy claims about sovereign borders. As established in later episodes, the Dominion does not control the entire Gamma Quadrant. I wish a DS9 character in this episode or early in season 3 had made that distinction.
If that had happened, everything that followed in seasons 3-7 could have been basically the same. One of the key points about the Dominion was that the Founders felt their duty was to bring order to a chaotic universe. An interesting dramatic point could have revolved around the Federation staying out of Dominion territory but the Founders still deciding they needed to bring order to chaos. It could have showed how uncompromising the Dominion could be.
An exciting story episode. Great way to end the season.
Where did she go? Did she beam all the way back to the Gamma Quadrant? An absurd notion, but if so, shouldn't the wormhole have opened? Otherwise, how could she have?
"She'll be back" is insufficient explanation.
A Dominion ship in the Alpha Quadrant?
I don't think any ever had come across by this point. And even if one had, DS9 would have been the first to know, because, again, the wormhole would have opened.
Remember, that the Jem Hadar third in this episode seems to have a lot of information about the Alpha Quadrant. So, it's likely that some Dominion spies stowed away or otherwise got passage to the Alpha Quadrant.
Then, finding a shuttle or somewhere that Eris could have beamed to -- we later learn that Dominion transporters have an operating distance of like 3 light years -- wouldn't have been THAT hard.
Also, the Vorta woman wasn't handled well by Sisko. So Quark takes him aside and tells him that she's a traitor. What does Sisko do? He immediately confronts her, despite the fact that she doesn't know he's found her out. He could have milked the deception further and got more information, but instead just pulls out his phaser and watches her leave. Not the best way to handle that, Sisko.
Couple interesting takeaways for me.
#1 as Nissa states above, I agree. Sisko botched this one. What better way would there be to get insight on the Dominion? What better way to misinform the Founders?
#2. I thought the Sisko/Quark growth part of this episode was great. I also liked how committed Jake is to helping his friend succeed.
#3. It was interesting that the Jem'Hadar soldier that was present on DS9 didn't recognize Odo as a founder (neither did the Vorta). I know they couldn't give it away then, but you'd think the brainwashed Vorta would have at least noticed.
Good closer to season 3. A sign of good things to come on DS9.
3 of 4 stars for me.
"Then, finding a shuttle or somewhere that Eris could have beamed to -- we later learn that Dominion transporters have an operating distance of like 3 light years -- wouldn't have been THAT hard."
In that case, I would think the crew would be VERY interested in figuring out just where that shuttle might be, rather than just a "She'll be back"
I read in memory alpha that the dominion already knew of the federation and odo was part of the plan, b4 the wormhole was found out. The wormhole changed the first contact invasion dynamic. FederTion would never be contant with staying in their own galaxy, they need to push their ideas on others...


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Let me see if I have this straight. Israel is demanding international
action against the Austrian government because its new governing
coalition includes the Freedom Party, which is led by a man who
has made "racist" statements. That's the same Israel,
of course, that officially discriminates against Arabs and that
bulldozes the homes of Palestinians who refuse to live crammed into
apartheid-like settlements.
How's that for bald-faced hypocrisy?
Likewise, European Union nations have been issuing threats and
devising sanctions against Austria for the same reason. Those are
the same EU nations that are filled with former communist party
members, who have leading Green movements that are epitomes of left-wing
intolerance and nuttiness, that have any number of politicians who,
in the observation of The New York Times, "have made
excuses for Stalin or other dictators."
Not to be outdone, the Clinton administration-two words that have
become synonymous with hypocrisy-is joining in the fray, issuing
dire warnings about the rise of Austrian extremism. Yet, unlike
some other well-known country, the Austrians haven't bombed anyone
in recent months, haven't imposed a policy of child-killing sanctions
on any nation, haven't deprived any foreigners of badly needed medicines
because their leader can't tell a legitimate pharmaceutical plant
from a terrorist-run chemical weapons facility.
Whatever. Anti-Austria hysteria isn't about a rational examination
of the political scene on distant shores. It is about, well, hysteria.
Apparently, leftists are so afraid of any dissent, and so unable
to offer rational arguments for their positions, that they must
depict any opponent as a Nazi.
Those of us who are libertarians or conservatives routinely are
called Nazis by liberals, even when the policies we promote (noninterventionism,
free markets, limited government) are the very opposites of the
programs the Nazis promoted. So I know from experience that the
ultra-far-right charges don't always hold up under scrutiny.
Still, when I first heard the news reports about Joerg Haider's
Freedom Party getting 27-percent of the vote in recent Austrian
elections, and about its inclusion last week in a center-right governing
coalition, I thought that, perhaps, someone like Russia's notorious
anti-Semite Vladimir Zhirinovsky had gained power.
But I kept reading the news accounts about the neo-Nazi, Nazi-sympathizing,
far-right, ultra-far-right, ultra-super-duper-exceedingly-far-right
Freedom Party, but could not find any supporting information. Surely,
if Haider was such a Nazi-lover, then he would have on the record
at least as many inflammatory quotations as Jesse "Hymietown"
Jackson or Al "rip your lungs out" Gore.
The main charge against Haider is that he supported Hitler's employment
policies. But how much checking would it have taken for the Associated
Press, the network news stations or any other media establishmentarians
to find out or report on the context of that support?
Thank goodness for the Internet. Here is an account by Justin Raimondo
from his recent column on the antiwar.com Web site:
"This is the old cut-and-paste school of character assassination,
in which single sentences are lifted out of context and presented
on their face; in Haider's case, it is a single phrase, a fragment
of a sentence uttered in the heat of debate on the floor of the
Austrian Parliament. . [I]n answer to Haider's proposal that welfare
recipients, both native and foreign born, be strongly encouraged
to find private sector jobs under threat of a cut-off in benefits,
the socialists replied that Haider's proposal would be a return
to the policies of the Third Reich! Overcome by such hypocrisy,
the intemperate Haider replied that, unlike the Social Democrats,
the Nazis had actually increased employment …"
Kind of takes the wind out of the "Springtime for Haider in
Austria" hysteria, doesn't it? On Sunday, The Washington
Post ran an extensive story titled "Haider Plays on Fears
of Foreigners." Although it contains the typical far-right
this-and-that hyperbole, the story at least printed some of the
things this fiery racist actually said.
At the worst, Haider said "The Waffen SS was part of the Wehrmacht
[German military] and hence it deserves all the honor and respect
of the army in public life." Sounds pretty bad, but, as
Toronto Sun columnist Eric Margolis pointed out this week, "Some
Waffen SS units committed atrocities. The majority of Waffen SS,
however, were courageous soldiers who fought ferociously in a bad
cause." Which, he notes, isn't that different from what Ronald
Reagan said during a controversial trip to a German cemetery.
The Post's section of Haider quotations on Jews included nothing
even interesting let along incriminating. Just the typical statements
about the horror of the Holocaust, about the fact that "It
is known in my 20 years in politics, I never uttered a single anti-Semitic
remark." And he bragged about his close relationship with Jewish
Austrians one of whom is his top adviser. Had Haider said anything
inflammatory about Jews, I'm sure it would have been splashed across
the headline. If that's all the Post could dig up, then there's
precious little linking the man to Nazism.
What's going on here?
Haider is opposed to open borders, fearing that waves of low-paid
immigrant labor from Eastern Europe will flood into the country,
driving down wages and harming the Austrian way of life. I don't
share his immigration views, but since when is it a sign of Nazism
to oppose open borders?
Furthermore, the Freedom Party champions the privatization of industry,
tax cuts, rooting out corruption as well as some questionable policies
for increasing welfare for families. But, by and large, his program
is pretty mainstream stuff. You may not agree with that brand of
conservatism, but it has nothing to do with Nazism or fascism. To
suggest otherwise is slanderous, illogical and Nazi-like in its
totalitarian desire to paint opponents as pure evil, worthy of any
But the Post article touched on the real reason the establishment
is so alarmed: "[W]hat scares many EU governments is that his
views may send a negative signal to prospective members and nurture
doubts among their own populations about the wisdom of its eastward
expansion. The EU is holding, or about to open, talks on prospective
membership with 12 candidate countries, including four of Austria's
neighbors Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic."
In other words, the Euro-socialists and other Third Way governments
fear that their uniform plans for the world are imperiled if anyone
resists. And they are dangerously expanding an economic union into
a political one-which is what the "extremists" always
said would happen. So the real fear isn't anything Austria might
do to its minorities or its neighbors, but that Austria will complicate
European unification — which is a big part of the global progressive
If that's the case, then go get 'em Joerg Haider and let's hope
that other pockets of resistance emerge elsewhere.
10, 2000
Greenhut is an editorial writer at the Orange County Register
in Santa Ana, Calif.


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Dedicated and long-time Calgary Public Library volunteers, Diane Valcourt (left) and Mary Mooney, have been bringing the gift of books and reading to the residents of Southwood Care Centre every week for over 20 years!
Libraries in Residence is a unique program that brings large quantities of library books into senior care centers across the city to provide access to seniors who may not normally be able to visit the library. Every week at Southwood Care Centre, Mary or Diane wheel a cart of large print books around from resident to resident, distributing books and visiting with seniors along the way. Mary's favourite part of volunteering with the program is "the pleasure of visiting and discussing books with so many varied people. The residents are genuinely appreciative and many don't have much pleasure in their lives".
It's obvious that Diane and Mary care a lot about the program and the residents it serves, taking the time to ensure each resident who would like a visit and a library book (or many!), receive one of each every week. They both believe it feels good to help others especially those who may not have the mobility needed to go outside and do the things they used to do. The time and care that Mary and Diane contribute are much appreciated not only by the residents and staff at Southwood Care, but also the Calgary Public Library who is proud to have such dedicated, long term volunteers!
Lillith is a friendly and welcoming volunteer for the library-in-residence program at Colonel Belcher Care Centre. As a resident, Lillith has been volunteering with library programs in the building for the last decade.
Colonel Belcher Care Center is one of four residences that the library brings a collection of materials to for the residents to select from and check out as part of our senior outreach programs. Colonel Belcher has an average of 35-40 residents each month who eagerly await the unveiling of the new library materials that have arrived. Lillith assists the staff in getting the materials out on the tables and set up and encouraging residents to enjoy the experience, even those who are sight impaired.
Lilith pays special attention to those who have physical ailments that might prevent them from perusing the library collection at length and assists them in seeking out materials that they like and bringing them to the residents who are unable to fully navigate the room. Often sight impaired residents ask for her assistance in reading the back covers of audio books so that they can make sure they've not heard the book previously.
Lillith is a constant activist for library programs and encouraging residents to keep reading or listening to audio books to keep their minds active.
Thank you Lilith!
We would like to recognize both Ana Mullen, a learner in the Reading Advantage Program, and her mentor Reading Advantage volunteer Peter Cutting: Ana was the winner of the Literacy Alberta Stepping Stones Scholarship recognizing outstanding achievement and ongoing efforts of an adult learner; while, Peter was a nominee at the Volunteer Calgary Leadership Awards for the "Heart of Calgary" category for all his work in the Reading Advantage Program. Congratulations to you both!
Norma High, 35-year volunteer in the Libraries in Residence program was recognized as a nominee at the 2009 Outstanding Calgary Seniors Awards hosted by the Calgary Chapter Alberta Association on Gerontology. Congratulations Norma!


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'Law of the stomach' as traditionBy Juan L. Mercado
"It is honored by tradition," Sen. Edgardo Angara stressed. He meant Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile's "Christmas cash gifts" of P1.6 million each to 18 "friendly" senators, including Angara. At year's end, Enrile ladled "maintenance and other operating expenses" (MOOE) savings. Why did it ignite today's brawl?


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What We Know.
Fordow has become 'Iran's most heavily fortified facility', officials say. AP
Reza Kahlili reported Friday 25 that there had been an underground explosion at the secret Fordo nuclear enrichment facility in Iran. The details included the closure of a major roadway nearby following the event. The report also mentioned many technicians trapped underground, perhaps more than 200. Reza Kahlili and I then discussed the report earlier in the week of an emergency meeting in Ahmadinejad's office in Tehran. We reported on Wednesday evening 23 January that the meeting in Tehran was in anticipation of a covert operation by Israel or the US at Iranian nuke facilities. But then on Friday we reasoned that perhaps the meeting on Tuesday was to assess the damage of the explosion. We spoke at length at approximately 18:40 of the Friday 25 January podcast.
What Happened Next.
A number of European and Israeli publications reported on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 that Reza Kahlili had reported a Fordo explosion. The most significant of these reports was the Die Welt report on Saturday. I am told that Die Welt is associated with intelligence, and it is fair to assume that the entry is a confirmation. Then again, the London Times reported in its Monday 28 edition the same explosion. This report mentioned the Israeli government as well as "Israeli intelligence." I am told that the London Times is associated with significant intelligence sources. How to interpret these reports? The intelligence analysts have moved collaboratively in order to confirm Reza Kahlili's report.
All Eyes Only.
The days ahead include learning many more details of the event. I am speaking to Reza Kahlili Monday 28 on-air in order to provide a summary of the story so far. The concern now is for expected retaliation against Israel. The concern also is for the scale of the damage to Fordo. How badly does this set back the Tehran regime's campaign to consolidate its regional hegemony? Unknown. At the least, it is a blow to the Tehran regime's plan to strike a Grand Bargain with the US while at the same time preserving its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile capabilities. My measure after many conversations with Reza Kahlili and much correspondence with informed others is that there will be many more sudden turns. There is need for great care in the reporting. The Tehran regime is on a dark road, and it is doomed; however history teaches that the end of predatory regimes is not quick and comforting as in a bloodless coup but rather drawn-out and dangerous as in the defeat of Grendel.
Report to Kudlow (below)
Am told the explosion was so catastrophic that the underground cavities have collapsed and that the rescuers believe there is radiation contamination throughout the facility, all three levels. Am told that the explosion was timed on Monday morning 21 January Tehran time while a delegation of North Korean military men were visiting the facility. Am told that Israel is anticipating a retaliatory strike along its northern border. The event at Fordo is profound and may well change the calculus of the United Nations Security Council in negotiation with Tehran.


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Emporio Armani Diamonds Black Carat for Him by Giorgio Armani is a Woody Spicy fragrance for men. Emporio Armani Diamonds Black Carat for Him was launched in 2011. The nose behind this fragrance is Jacques Cavallier. Top notes are bergamot and sichuan pepper; middle notes are benzoin and cacao; base notes are vetiver, guaiac wood, oakmoss, cedar and amber.
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Love the opening...the dry down really close to the skin and nothing else special happening
Black Carat is a perfect dupe of Kokorico by JPG.
They are both woody juices with similar spicy edge and rich sweet cocoa note lingering in the background.
Very versatile – perfect for an office day if applied sparingly, as well as an evening for two if applied with a more generous hand.
Black carat lasts ages and has highly detectable silage.
It is truly addictive, I simply cannot stop myself from sniffing my wrist and a blotter.
Even though I personally do not mind wearing male fragrances – I would stay clear from Black Carat as to me, the fragrance feels essentially and exclusively masculine, it screams A MAN that is A MAN – powerful, confident, strong, ambitious.
I hope my man will love it.
I certainly will, on him.
Money well spent, that's for sure.
black carat definitely reminds me of the diamonds version but only in the opening though sweet bergamot with pepper give it a sweet vibe but suddenly changes into something I cant describe the cacao and benzoin middle notes gives it something I cant describe spicey sweet?? I guess.. but pleasant, drydown a bit of woodiness and still sweet mixed, amber definitely noticeable definitely a lot darker than the original and better composition over all from top to buttom a love for me on this one a very versatile fragrance daytime or night my rate.
longevity solid 6-8 hours 8/10
projection/sillage moderate 7/10 I don't understand the voting for heavy but just moderate imo.
overall smell a solid 8/10 for even 8.5 solid composition.
uniqueness 7/10 nothing very unique it will remind you of the original but indeed better.
price vs quality this is were this fail I got mine for 50us bucks 50ml and that very pricey well all with Armani frags 5/10 on this one
versatility night or day preferred cold weather but I think a good summer nights frag as well.
I dislike how most fragrances that are most suited for the winter, automatically gets put in the ''nighttime-wear'' category as well. I just got this discontinued gem in the mail, and this is no doubt the first scent i've come across, that i would dare to categorize as a ''daytime'' scent best suited for a cold climate
the original diamonds pour homme dna is present in this only this is mor deep and of better quality than the original it feels more like a new and improved rather than a original new fragrance as if it should have been an intence version none the less this is quality juice worthy of anyones money definarly a autumn winter fragrance that opens with a intence zesty choclaty vibe that stays pretty consistant throughout and a real nose pleaser to both sexes longivitys very good projection is also good but in a soft mellow way verdict 9/10 get it while its still around
Diamonds is a unique usage of bergamot. It's quite fruity and only mildly bitter. There's a bit of smoke in here. Enough to smell it, not so much as to turn off most consumers. To me this is more about benzoin than chocolate. I get it, faintly, but I don't see it as a cacao bomb. More like capitalizing on a trendy note.
I think this is nice, if not terribly unique. I like it better than the majority of newer men's fragrances I've tested recently, but I don't feel a need to own it.
I'm really into the Original Diamonds, liked the summer flanker as wel but this is my faveourite of them all, better longevity, projection and a deeper, woodier and mature smell. This is so classy it's unreal.
I had the original Diamonds pour homme which I enjoyed but never fell in love with. This latest audition to the line gives me all the things that I felt were missing from the original composition. The woodiness and the cocao have been amped up giving this more depth, class and masculinity over the original.
For those that haven't yet wrapped their nostrils around this, it opens with a sweet citrusy/strawbery like opening which eventually gives way to the cocao and the woods. It is a fairly rich fragrance more suited to cooler weather or nights in my opinion.
I haven't worn it long enough to comment on projection or longevity but it seems reasonably strong.
All in all a good bottle of juice. Shame Armani fragrances cost so much. I can only assume the juice contains the blood of unicorns and fairy dust to warrant such a steep price. Honestly I'm considering just smelling like sweat from now on. It is far cheaper. Alternativly I might start wearing Drakkoir Noir. You can pretty much get an 800ml bottle of that for £1.56 these days.
Smells good and kinda classy, very similar to the original Diamonds but a bit darker. Longevity is way better on my skin, at least 6-7 hours although it doesn't project much. Good for every day use I'd say, but works for nights out too.
I love the composition of this perfume.
Must be nice.
If this fragrance has a good longevity and projection can be here a very interesting scent.
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I'd like to point out something I've noticed about older cartoons: Crows are almost unanimously represented as African-American, and vice versa.
The best example I can think of is Walt Disney's Dumbo. In the film, Dumbo and his little mouse friend wake up after a night of drunken revelry in a tree, and can't figure out how they got there. After climbing out, (if I remember correctly) the mouse hypothesizes that Dumbo used his huge ears and flew into the branches. This concept is suddenly and loudly cat-called by a gang of crows on a fence. These crows speak in an urbanized dialect, are dressed everywhere from snazzily to shabbily, and loud. In an especially poor showing of sensitivity, I believe the leader was named "Jim." As in Jim Crow. (For those of you that were educated by the public school system, "Jim Crow" is the nickname given to segregationist laws ratified in the Southern states after the Civil War and during the Reconstruction.)
The crows are the typical late-vaudevillian stereotype of blacks: raucous, like-minded, and quick to gang up on isolated non-blacks. The crows have a good laugh at Dumbo, reiterating over and over how stupid the very idea of a flying elephants is and making jokes at Dumbo's expense ("An elephant, fly? I dunno 'bout that… but I seen a dragon fly!" "I seen a horse fly!" "Well, I seen a house fly.") And naturally, because they're "black," they sing a song and do a little dancing. But then, I must say, Disney surprises me.
The crows suddenly seem to warm to the little elephant, and are actually instrumental in his mastery of flight. This would make them seem to be protagonists in a film heavily populated with antagonists. Very odd. Because of that, I have surmised that the "Black Crows" of Dumbo are in no way malicious portrayals, but are simply presented for their comedic value, and augment the film with plot development and a few cheap laughs. Besides, the time period in which this film was created is not renowned for it's accuracy in racial representation.
Far less tactful is the use of "Black Crows" in the Ralph Bakshi film Fritz the Cat, based on the cartoons of Robert Crumb. Here, the crows are are regarded with a mix of contempt, fascination and mystique. They are shown as stiff competition for pretty young women, frustrating a horny Fritz, and alternately shown as quick lay for the cat, no less in a scrap yard. Not exactly complementary. Then again, Fritz later initiates an orgy in a bathtub with a number of women, none of which are crows. (There is something lacking in general in the treatment of women in Bakshi films, but that's a whole different rant.)


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My husband I traveled to Sevierville, Tennessee over the weekend so I could attend the Mountain Arts Quilt festival. We have been to Pigeon Forge a couple of times, usually staying in a cabin. I recommend staying in a cabin to enjoy the birds, flowers and evergreen trees. My sister and her husband bought a house nearby and so we stayed there this time. We drove into the congested tourist area and had fun knowing we didn't really have to fight the crowd unless we chose to do so!
I have only been back to work one day and my niece just texted me to check out the pictures posted on her account at www.photobank.com. Thinking I would be seeing happy pictures similar to the ones of their wedding (they were one of the first I knew of who used wedding photo booth rentals that their guests were encouraged to use). I have since partaken in this fun reception activity using photo booth rental Dallas, and other venues.
I'm sorry, I went way off topic! Anyway, I opened her account to see pictures of the devastation because of a fire in the cabin area of Pigeon Forge. I am at a loss of how to describe my feelings. What a difference 24 hours makes. Pictures of helicopters pouring water over the area were not what I expected. Helicopters were having difficulty dropping water on the poorly contained fire because of the wind. They use a lot of propane tanks to heat the cabins and from what I have read online, the tanks have been exploding. I hope no one is hurt or killed. Pigeon Forge is such a beautiful area and it would be awful if it weren't saved. Positioned on the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains, the resort area is one of my favorite vacation spots.


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Okinawa Invasion, April 1945
LVT amphibious tractors move past USS LCI(G)-809 (center), bound for the Okinawa landing beaches, 1 April 1945.
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