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No axe to grind, food was tasteless, portions were small and the price was expensive, to me that calls for a poor review. We can't all like the same things.
Dino's corner of Homstead Ave great place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The food at Buon Appetito is just a bout as appealing as is the view of the front of the Restaurant. As a matter of fact, they should pick those weeds and serve them, they probably would have provided just as much flavor as the food we were served. I suggest going there if you're on a diet as they practice portion control. We left so hungry we stopped at the Pizza place down the street. I suggest you stay home and open up a can of Chef Boyardee which will far out distance the slop served by "MINO the GREAT"
As long as they keep winning more people will keep going and the prices will just keep going up. If they make the supply less and the demand is more it only ensures more expensive ticket prices.
Several years ago my Daughter wanted to go to see Miley Cyrus. I saw that the tickets went on sale on a certain date at 10am so I entered my order at 10 am and amazingly it was sold out at 10:01. I contacted Ticketmaster and actually got someone honest enough to tell me how this scam works.
Ticket Agents like Ace and Stub Hub hire groups of individuals to buy up large amounts of tickets. They also have software that allows them to access the sellers site long before the public can. Again I entered my order at 10am and found they were sold out yet at 10:02 you could have bought a ticket on Stub Hub or Ace for 10X's the face value.
My problem is more with the Sox, Pats, Celts and Bruins who do nothing to prevent this from happening. They enable these Ticket Agents to do this because they only care about THE MONEY they could care less about the Fans. It is legalized scalping. They will arrest you if you try to sell a ticket above face value outside of Fenway or the Garden but just across the street, Ace and Stub Hub can sell them with the blessings of the Sox and Celts at a far greater price.
Maybe it's time that the State Legislature enact a law to prevent this legailized scalping from taking place. If someone doesn't do something a REAL FAN will never be able to afford to take his family to see a team play. As it is now if you want to go see the Sox with your family you need to take out a Home Equity Loan and pays these PIMP Ticket Agents outrageous prices.
As long as the Sox are in bed with Ace Tickets you'll never see them do anything to stop this RIP OFF of their fans
Hey Larry were you in a coma while Pelosi presided over the most useless Congress with the worst approval rating in this country's history? The only jobs the Dems created were for Illegal Undocumented Immigrants. My Honor Student at Spfld College can't get a nickle in financial aid but if you're in this state illegally you can get FREE TUITION even if you can't spell ABC with a dictionary.
I know this is Massachusetts, a Democrats Utopia but you can't possibly believe that the Dems have YOUR BEST INTEREST at heart unless of course your here ILLEGALLY and you're a registered Democrat.
BOO HOO BOO HOO BOO HOO stop crying and MAN UP BONO. DA's and Defense Attorneys attempt to bully each other and witnesses every day in court, what are you going to do if (God Forbid) you're elected DA, run from the Courtroom crying? Of course had you spent more time in the Courthouse instead of the Statehouse you'd have known it's why they call it "ADVERSARIAL" You are such a PATHETIC TRANSPARENT KNOW NOTHING it's sickening. I see you got Olver to endorse you, did he also promise to step aside for you after you RUIN the DA's OFFICE? Saw you in Palmer yesterday, glad I was driving east so the sun glaring off your head didn't blind me.
What makes you think Buoniconti is playing stupid ? That's no act, he could have played both roles in Dumb and Dumber
Pinocchio Buoniconti is at it again. He started by deceiving the voters with empty promises of releasing his Tax Returns and reports from the Ethics Committee, now his latest ad promises that he will be holding Judges accountable if they impose lenient sentences. Hasn't Chief Scott been trying to do that for years without any success? and he isn't supporting you, is he? Last I knew, Judges were still appointed and answerable only to the Judicial Conduct Committee. You'd think someone whos been in the Statehouse and running for DA would know at least that much. So, Einstein Steve, enlighten us voters just what you're going to do to hold Judges accountable? or is that part of your secret plan that you'll unveil after the election along with those mysterious Tax Returns and Ethics Committee findings?
The only qualifications you lack to be a good DA are, Experience, Knowledge, Integrity, and the ability to tell the TRUTH other then that you're emminently qualified, not for DA but perhaps for West Springfields Animal Control Officer
Your nose is growing again Pinocchio!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Atty Mastroinanni continues to pile up powerful endorsements while Superficial Senator Steve can only pile up Kleenex from all the whining and crying he's doing about being treated unfairly. Hey Senator, you claim you did many important cases while you were an ADA, why don't you tell all of us about your most important case? You remember the case, the one in Chicopee where you did that HUGE FAVOR for your Fathers friend. I think the voters of Hampden County deserve to know just how much integrity you really have, don't you?
What an amazing turn of events. $stevie B was a freind of the Republican as long as they chose to ENDORSE HIM. Now that have seen the light and realized that the DA's position is too important to put into the hands of $tevie B, Stevie has the audacity to accuse them of a smear campaign against him. What a hypocrite and typical of an ego maniac like Senator $teve.
ps Maybe the Republican will take a look a the records of that last case you prosecuted in Chicopee, The one you did that favor for your Father when you prosecuted (ha ha ha) his friend. Remember that case $tevie? That NOT GUILTY VERDICT was such a nice gift for you to give to him.
How appropriate as we near Halloween that skeltons in Buoniconti's closet are starting to appear. Hey Stevie, I bet you're hoping nobody checks too deep into that last case you tried in the Chicopee District Court, that would not be a good thing for you would it?
I already said I wasn't there and thx for correcting my spelling mistake, it must be nice never to make a mistake. The Football comment was made because this is Football season and it's a contact sport. As for DOMINATING, if YOU'RE talking just about the Longmeadow game I'll give you that one but didn't I just read where Chris just scored 3 goals? I'd say scoring over a 3rd of your teams total goals is dominating. We can agree to disagree on the fairness of them playing. I won't change YOUR mind and you won't change mine. I guess if the Menard Brothers and the fans of South Hadley Field Hockey can sleep well with them playing that's all that matters.
Thx for making my point. By you pointing out that they play Hockey and Lacrosse and are skilled in the use of sticks only reinforces the fact that they have an unfair andvantage. It's foolish to try to justify that 2 males who are skilled in Hockey and Lacrosse would not be dominant playing against females. Perhaps they should go to school in Europe if as you say Field hockey is a predominantly male sport, at least they would be playing on a more level playing field. One last thing, in an earlier post you accused another poster of BULLYING the boys, I'm not that's a term you'd want to use to defend a SH athlete
I fully support Atty Mastroianni and think it would a catastrophic mistake if Buoniconti was elected DA. That being said, I DON"T for 1 minute believe Mrs Buoniconti is making any statements or policy decisions for $tevie. She appears to be too nice of a person to do so and with HIS EGO he isn't about to share the spotlight with her. Once again Senator $teve seems to have a memory issue. Of corse when you distort the truth as much as he does, it's hard to keep tract of what's fact or fiction.
To Romeo
1st let me say I'm not from Longmeadow or South Hadley so I have no Horse in this race. I do think you may have actually made Mr Coen's point in your criticisim of his opinion.
You state that a very talented Female player is having her accomplishments diminished and that is probably true. Why is that? Maybe it's because you have 2 BOYS who by all accounts are excellent athletes playing on YOUR TEAM and grabbing the headlines that should be going to the GIRLS.
As for your argument about the affluence of Longmeadow giving them an unfair advantage, that just doesn't hold water. I played Basketball against one of the best High School Basketball Teams this area ever produced and I can say without hesitation that the 1969 Commerce Team wasn't at all affulent they were just talented.
I'm not sure what valuable lessons these 2 players are learning about the opposite sex, the only one I can think of is they've learned that as Boys they can dominate a Girls Sport. Not to mention that their presence is probably costing some girls playing time or even a position on the team.
If Longmeadow did as you suggest recruit some of their better "Male Athletes" to play Field Hockey my guess is that you'd be screaming from the hill tops about the inequity of boys playing against girls. But as long as your team benefits, then that must mean it's the right thing to do.
I agree 100% with "rockinrich" that if you took the best Female Athlete in any High School and put her on the Football Team she would be physically overmatched. No different than a great Baseball Player wanting to play Girls softball.
I may be "Old School" but I can't think of 1 good reason why 2 accomplished Male Athletes would want to compete in a predominantly Female Sport. I can only guess, that they like the attention they're receiving or maybe they're hoping to get on ESPN.
IMO, they must be sorely lacking in self esteem or have giant egos that need to be filled to take pleasure in playing a sport against the opposite sex when it's clear that their size strength and speed does give them an unfair advantage.
You can try and justify their presence on the team by stating you're only following the rules of the MIAA but sadly the bottom line is it's not about rules or fairness but all about winning and doing whatever it takes to ensure your team is successful.
Hey Guys try moving over to the Football Field, if your as good an athletes as they say you are then that's where you belong.
The EL Cops must have gotten dizzy driving in a circle on the "Rotary from Hell" when they endorsed Senator Sleaze
Hey Stevie just how do you propose to straighten out these wayward kids? Maybe you could teach them about Honesty and Ethics. You know, show them how to prosecute a friend of their Fathers and get a not guilty verdict, just like you did in Chicopee for YOUR DAD's FRIEND rmember that case Stevie?
I wonder if anyone will ever look into the LAST CASE that ADA Buoniconti prosecuted when he was in Chicopee. You remember the case Steve don't you? It was the last one you did before running for State Rep. Remember? You prosecuted (LOL) your Dad's friend on that OUI charge and he was found not guilty, what a surprise. Buoniconti = Honesty and Integrity I don't think so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Senator Steve must have selective memory impairment he forgot to release his tax returns and he forgot to check with the ethics commission before taking that 100k job. Is that what we really want as our next DA?


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Corps of Engineers install Bayou Bienvenue gate
Thursday, March 24, 2011 1:02 PM
TED JACKSON / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Ralph Jannise, Superintendant with Manson Gulf and deck foreman Darryl Burnett command the precise lowering of the gate into position as U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Hurricane Protection Office lift and install the Bayou Bienvenue vertical lift gate, Thursday, March 24, 2011. Fabricated by Shaw Global in Delcambre, La. the 132 ton, 56-foot-wide, 34-foot-tall lift gate will allow vessels to pass through the surge barrier where it crosses Bayou Bienvenue.
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Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee: Your example consistently demonstrates that America's security concerns transcend party or politics. On behalf of the men and women who serve our country so faithfully and so well, we are indeed grateful for your support. I appreciate the opportunity to discuss with you today the Defense Department's perspective on stabilization and reconstruction efforts in Iraq.
Our Imperative—Winning the Peace in Iraq: The Stakes are Enormous
Just as the Department was committed to getting right the plan for military operations in Iraq, we are equally committed to getting right the process of helping Iraqis establish an Iraq that is whole, free, and at peace with itself and its neighbors. We are committed to helping Iraqis build what could be a model for the Middle East—a government that protects the rights of its citizens, that represents all ethnic and religious groups, and that will help bring Iraq into the international community of peace-seeking nations. Now that this goal is within sight, Iraq represents one of the first and best opportunities to build what President Bush has referred to as a "just and peaceful world beyond the war on terror."
Saddam Hussein was a danger to his people and a support to terrorists and an encouragement to terrorist regimes. His removal from power opens opportunities to strengthen governments and institutions in the Muslim world that respect fundamental human dignity and protect freedom, and that abhor the killing of innocents as an instrument of national policy. Success in Iraq will continue to demoralize those who preach doctrines of hatred and oppression and subjugation. It will encourage those who dream the ancient dream of freedom. In the last half century, those ideals of freedom and self-government have been the most powerful engines of change in the world. They give us hope for further development in the Muslim world, a development that will benefit every nation throughout the world and bring us important allies in the war against terrorism.
We cannot afford to fail. We cannot afford to allow Iraq to revert to the remnants of the Baathist regime that now range throughout Iraq in their desperate bid for influence and power—or, to see it vulnerable to other extremist elements. As the distinguished Chairman said as recently as Sunday at Notre Dame, "Iraq must not become a failed state and a potential incubator for terrorist cells." We cannot and we will not allow such a threat to rise again—nor can we dash the hopes of the Iraqi people. Make no mistake: recent efforts to destabilize Iraq represent the death rattle of a dying regime. We can defeat them. And we will. As Presidential Envoy Paul Bremer has told me, "If the Baathists have any staying power, let there be no doubt – we have more." We will not stop our efforts until that regime is dead.
Rebuilding Iraq will require similar time and commitment. Mr. Chairman, I've just returned from a visit to Bosnia and Kosovo, where my main purpose was to thank our American troops for their dedication and commitment and to assure the authorities in the region that the United States will see our tasks through to completion. To those who question American resolve and determination, I would remind them that we are still playing our crucial role in Bosnia eight years after the Dayton Accord, long after some predicted we would be gone, and we continue to be the key to stability in Kosovo and even in Macedonia.
The stakes in Iraq are even greater than in the Balkans. But if the stakes are huge in Iraq, there is no question that our commitment to secure a peaceful Iraq is at least equal to the stakes. Mr. Chairman, I have noted with strong agreement your statements about the need for America to stay the course in Iraq. I applaud your determination and appreciate your support and the support of this Committee in helping the American people understand the stakes that we have in success.
Mr. Chairman, today marks only day 67 since the start of major combat operations in Iraq. It is only three weeks since President Bush announced the end of major combat operations, and, as I will explain at greater length later, smaller combat operations in Iraq still continue. Even though the war has not completely ended, we are already started on the process of rebuilding Iraq. Several months before the war even began, we established the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance in order to be able to address that task.
As the title of the office implies, much of its early focus was on planning for two disasters that fortunately did not happen: First, to provide humanitarian assistance to a war-ravaged population, including the possible victims of large-scale urban fighting, and secondly, to halt the environmental damage that was anticipated from large-scale torching of the Iraqi oil fields and to begin the reconstruction of that vital national asset. Thanks to the speedy success of the military operation, the task we face has turned out to be very different. There is no humanitarian crisis in Iraq.
The humanitarian problems of war have been largely avoided, in no small measure because of the speed with which the campaign was carried out. However, a great deal of other work remains to be done, most of it anticipated in ORHA's planning and staffing, work such as restoring rapidly the functioning of the electric power in Iraq and restoring essential medical services. Most of these problems are not primarily a result of the war, but rather the result of decades of tyrannical neglect, where the wealth and treasure of the country was poured into creating palaces, building tanks and procuring weapons of mass destruction, instead of caring for the Iraqi people. That damage has been compounded by widespread looting in the aftermath of the Saddam regime, some of it clearly conducted by surviving elements of the regime themselves. The task before us is more about construction than reconstruction—the building of a society that was allowed to rot from within for more than three decades by one of the world's worst tyrants. The good news in all of this is that the Iraqi people will be able to notice improvements in their normal lives long before we have reached the full potential of this country—one of the most important in the Arab world.
The level of pre-war neglect and repression was as widespread and as systematic as Saddam's methods of terror. As the uncovering of mass graves is revealing to a world that should have known before, tens of thousands of Iraqis have been brutally executed by Saddam's regime. Families, businesses and even cultures were destroyed, as we saw in Saddam's brutal attempt to wipe out the Marsh Arabs, an ancient people with a remarkable culture in southern Iraq. The latter also represents a horrific act of ecological terrorism, which others are left to fix. The following list suggests the widespread neglect of what we consider basic services, but for Saddam many were used as instruments of control.
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Obviously, it will take time to reverse the effects of persistent, systematic neglect. But, if the task is enormous, even at this very early stage, there are many reasons for optimism. Deputy Commander of Central Command, LTG John Abizaid, who also commanded U.S. peacekeeping troops in Bosnia and in Kosovo, reported after a recent visit to Baghdad that we are already much further along in Iraq than we were in either of those two places at a comparable stage. Despite claims that there were no plans for peace operations in the wake of military operations, Presidential Envoy Bremer and Jay Garner are implementing plans drawn up long before the war to strengthen and rebuild Iraq. Assertions that we are already failing – reminiscent of similar assertions that the military plan had taken us into a quagmire just one week into the campaign – reflect both an incomplete understanding of the situation as it existed in Iraq before the war and an unreasonable expectation of where we should be now.
The situation in Iraq right now is difficult—it's very difficult. But, it was even more difficult a couple weeks ago, and worse yet a couple months before that. We continue to make progress in what was expected to be an extremely difficult situation. As press accounts continue to report what is wrong, I would say, we don't want less of these reports, we want more—because we are eager to see revelations in the press about what needs our attention. And we're interested in the opinions of a people who are newly free. If the situation in Iraq is somewhat messy now, it's likely to seem even messier as Iraqis sort out their political process. But, that is part of self-determination. We expected this period of uncertainty and our plans anticipated it.
However, there is also a great deal of good news, and it is important to report that also. I will be discussing some of it later in my statement, but first let me address what is unquestionably our most immediate challenge, and that is establishing secure and stable conditions throughout the country.
Security is Priority Number One
Our most urgent task in the post-Saddam Hussein era is to establish secure and stable conditions throughout the country. Secretary Rumsfeld reiterated recently, "security remains the number one priority in Iraq" precisely because security and stability are a fundamental prerequisite for everything else we need to accomplish in Iraq—to provide the basics of normal life and services, and beyond that, to create a climate where people can express political views in an atmosphere free of fear and intimidation, something that Iraqis have been unable to do for decades.
Much of what I read on this subject suggests a fundamental misunderstanding about the nature of the security problem in Iraq, and in particular, a failure to appreciate that a regime which had tens of thousands of thugs and war criminals on its payroll does not disappear overnight. The people who have created the mass graves that are now being uncovered in Iraq represent a threat to stability that was not eliminated merely when the statues came tumbling down in Baghdad. I have read recently that unnamed officials and experts say that the Pentagon ignored lessons from a decade of peacekeeping operations in Haiti, Somalia, the Balkans and Afghanistan. It seems to me that those speaking anonymously ignore the difference between normal peacekeeping operations and the kind of situation that we are now in.
In just the last 24 hours alone, in Baghdad the 3rd Infantry Division raided a Baath Party meeting and detained 9 Baathists. In Fallujah, which continues to be a hotbed of Baathist activity, some of it with connections to foreign extremists, an Iraqi vehicle attacked a checkpoint of the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment and two enemy were killed and one detained. In the same area, three Iraqi snipers engaged U.S. troops and, in a third incident, a Bradley was disabled by a rocket propelled grenade fired from a mosque. In Baqubah, again in just the last 24 hours, the 4th Infantry Division conducted a raid and captured seven Iraqis and seized 15 million dinars. In Al Kut, a patrol of the 1st Marine Division engaged 20 enemy, killed two, wounded one, and captured 11. There were no U.S. casualties in any of these incidents, but they illustrate the level of continued hostile activity, much of it apparently associated with elements of the old regime.
In short, while major combat operations have ended, American soldiers continue to be shot at almost daily. While we made substantial progress in catching the people on the black list, there is still additional work that needs to be done. We face in Iraq a situation where a substantially defeated enemy is still working hard to kill Americans and Iraqis who are trying to build a new and free Iraq in order to prevent Iraqi society from stabilizing and recovering. Bizarre as it may sound, their goal is to create nostalgia for Saddam Hussein. We cannot allow them to succeed. We need to recognize that this is completely different from Haiti, Bosnia or Kosovo, where opposition ceased very soon after peacekeeping troops arrived in force.
In those situations, we could successfully adopt a strategy that emphasized the intimidating effect of presence, rather than active combat operations. Indeed, the strategy in both those places was to minimize the extent to which we got involved in direct confrontation with any of the local forces. We do not have the choice in Iraq of avoiding confrontation with the repressive elements of the old regime. We have to eliminate them, root and branch. We will do so, but it will take time.
It's perhaps worth noting that the striking exception in that list of peacekeeping operations is the case of Somalia, where we, in fact, encountered the enormous difficulties of taking on armed elements without adequate force and preparation. This task requires more than just military policemen. There is a very difficult balance to be struck, particularly in Baghdad, between providing ordinary civil order forces on the streets – which we are doing – and being prepared to deal with snipers and armed bands. CENTCOM is making that transition. There are now 45,000 Coalition military personnel in the Baghdad area, approximately 21,000 of whom are actively involved in security operations. In just the last 24 hours alone, the 3rd Infantry Division has conducted nearly 600 patrols, secured 202 fixed sites, and manned 85 checkpoints. The total number of patrolling battalions in Baghdad has increased in just the last 24 hours from 22 to 29. Again, General Abizaid reports from his recent visit that we are already seeing much more commerce, many more people on the street, and much shorter gas lines. In Sadr City—the notorious Shi'a slum in Baghdad that used to be known as Saddam City—the people are already reporting that their conditions are better than before the war. General Pace will be able to comment on that in more detail.
We are making progress. In my most recent conversation with Presidential Envoy Bremer, he reports that, while the security situation is serious – and still imposes severe restrictions on our ability to move freely – Baghdad is not a city in anarchy—shops are open and the city is bustling with traffic. Let me offer some details about our progress in achieving law and order: In Baghdad, some 7,000 Iraqi police are on duty, and reports of looting, curfew violations and gunfire are decreasing. However, one of our principal challenges is that the old Iraqi police are much less able than we had planned. Their leadership was corrupted by the old regime and they were trained to raid people's homes at night rather than conduct street patrols.
It is also important to distinguish the security situation in different parts of the country. Most of the attention, appropriately, is on Baghdad, and there is no question that Baghdad is one of the keys to the future of the country. We would make a mistake if we saw it as the only one and overemphasized the importance of the capital. For example, the second largest city in the south, Basra, with a population of almost 1.3 million people, most of them Shi'a and overwhelmingly grateful to be free of Saddam's tyranny, is now stable.
In Nasiriyah, local police are now armed and the force has grown from 350 to over 600. In Diwaniya, 277 Iraqi police officers have been hired, and the coalition is installing two "911" emergency phone lines. A USAID DART team (Disaster Assistance Response Team) recently visited Karbala and according their recent cable, the "city is in the safe hands of the US Marines … who have succeeded in establishing a largely stable and secure environment." This is obviously a good news story, and we're working to replicate it throughout the country.
Perhaps the single most important factor in achieving a more secure environment is the active engagement and support of the people of Iraq. Members of local populations continue to come forward and provide information about subversive activities and weapons caches.
It is also important to recognize that the situation we face is in no small measure a result of the success of our military plan, which I will discuss in more detail, and the speed with which we were able to collapse the main structures of the regime.
In Northern Iraq, including the two large cities of Mosul and Kirkuk, with a combined population of more than 2.5 million, Major General Dave Petraeus and the 101st Air Assault Division have been largely successful in creating a stable situation. There remain some problems, most significantly those arising out of the property disputes created by Saddam's policy of Arabization – a kind of slow-motion ethnic cleansing – but we are taking measures to address that. We have already sent a study team led by former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq William Eagleton and including some distinguished experts from Poland, the Czech Republic, and Bosnia, which have had experience with these kinds of problems in the past – to come up with some recommendations about how these problems can be solved by peaceful legal means and discourage the use of force. It also remains the case that there still appear to be some active organized cells of old regime elements in those cities that are still working to attack us and defeat the coalition effort.
Finally, I would note a possibly very significant success story in the relatively smaller city of Karbala (population 500,000), whose significance far exceeds its size. As one of the two holy cities of Shi'a Islam, it has enormous potential for pointing the direction for Iraqi society. There, as already noted, the 3rd Battalion of the 7th Marines has worked effectively with local officials to create what are reportedly excellent conditions of law and order in this key town. A political officer from our Embassy in Kuwait visited Karbala recently and reported that, "With support from U.S. military forces, moderate reformers are engaged in audacious experiment aimed at building democratic rule in one of Shi'ism's two holiest cities. In cooperation with Civil Affairs Teams from 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, they have achieved notable successes." Karbala's infrastructure is largely functioning, although problems remain. Electricity service has returned to pre-war levels, and almost all homes have running water. The three local hospitals are open, though they lack many basic medicines and supplies. Marine engineers are busy repairing local schools, hospitals, and the water plant. The local television station is privately owned and relatively unbiased.
Most significantly, in addition to fostering the reestablishment of basic public services, the Marines have supported the emergence of a functional, competent provisional government in Karbala Province that advocates a secular democratic future for Iraq. Significantly, the leadership of this new secular and democratic local government is a religious figure, Shaykh Ali Abdal Hassan Kamuna. He is not only a Said or descendant of the Prophet Mohammed and the member of a prominent local tribal clan, but he is also a member of the local secular intelligentsia. The council elites contains other senior tribal figures, but also five other Saids and representatives of the secular intelligentsia and business world, including a university professor, civil engineer, a merchant, a retired army colonel, several lawyers, sociologists and an ophthalmologist. Religious intelligentsia is represented by a shaykh who endured 12 years in Saddam's prisons for his part in the 1991 Shi'a uprising.
The fact that a new day has dawned in Iraq was nowhere so evident as the recent Shia pilgrimage in the city of Karbala. For the first time since Saddam's regime, more than a million Shia pilgrims walked to that holy city without fear and without violence, something that had been illegal for twenty-six years.
It is worth noting the surviving elements of the Baathist regime target not only our troops but also aim at destabilizing Iraqi society. There are indications that some of the most serious looting that is continuing should more accurately be described as acts of sabotage. They seem specifically targeted at making it more difficult to repair those facilities such as power plants that are critical to restoring some of the basic functioning of society.
In judging the success or failure of the military plan for dealing with the aftermath of the collapse of the regime, one cannot judge it against a standard of unachievable perfection. There is no plan that could have achieved all the extraordinary speed of the plan and, at the same time, have been able to flood the country with 100,000 military policemen. Choices had to be made. I think that we made choices that saved both American and Iraqi lives, and prevented damage to the environment and to the resources of the Iraqi people.
It's also worth pausing for a moment to think about the alternative if we had simply waited for another decade or two until this regime collapsed. Setting aside the horrors the Iraqi people would have suffered in that time and the threat that it would have presented to us and our friends in the region, the eventual collapse of the Saddam regime would almost certainly have created a situation of some anarchy. The difference in what has happened is not only that we ended that threat and that horror sooner rather than later, but we are now in a position, working with our coalition partners and with the Iraqi people, to restore security and stability much faster and more thoroughly than would have happened in our absence.
Planning to Get it Right
Starting in January of this year, we recruited Jay Garner to stand up the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, the first time, to my knowledge, that we have created an office for post-war administration before a conflict even started. It was obviously a sensitive matter, because we did not want to do anything that would undercut the efforts to achieve a diplomatic resolution of the crisis presented by Iraq's defiance of UN Security Council Resolution 1441. For that reason also, we did not brief key members of Congress in as much detail as we would have liked. We should have ensured that Jay Garner had the opportunity to brief you before he left for the theater. We will work hard to do our best to remedy that situation, including arranging secure videoteleconferences with Presidential Envoy Bremer and Mr. Garner, as appropriate.
Having said that, let me also say that we picked Jay Garner because he had demonstrated at other times in his career, and most significantly when he was a commander in the extraordinarily successful Operation Provide Comfort in Northern Iraq in 1991, a capacity for putting organizations together quickly and energizing them and focusing on getting practical tasks accomplished. The magnitude of his efforts goes underappreciated, in part because so much of his energy was appropriately focused on preparations to handle large numbers of refugees and to put out extensive oil well fires – neither of which, fortunately, happened, in no small measure because of the speedy success of the military plan to which I have now referred several times. It is ironic, in fact, that we seem to be criticized not only for lack of planning but also for too much planning when people complain that we contracted with some corporations – to be able to take on these tasks quickly.
Let me give you further insight into the extent of our planning. An interagency Political Military Cell was formed in July of 2002; an Executive Steering Group was formed just a month later. We began planning efforts for Humanitarian and Reconstruction issues in the fall of 2002. This planning provided the basis for the creation of the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, which formally came into existence this past January.
Fortunately, a great deal of that planning turned out not to be needed. And that is, in some measure, because of the military plan. Allow me to briefly discuss the basis for CENTCOM's plan, and then I will address some of the crises that were averted precisely because of that plan.
Military plan: At the heart of the military plan was the imperative to defeat Iraq's major combat forces. The emphasis was on speed. We consciously chose to keep our force size relatively small, but packing a powerful punch, limiting the amount of people and materiel deployed on the initial thrust into Iraq. This plan gave great flexibility. These forces quickly plunged deep into Iraq, bypassing a good portion of the country in their push to Baghdad. Despite the fact that Saddam's regime had strategic warning of an impending attack, because of this swift attack, coalition forces were able to achieve tactical surprise. Beginning the ground war before the major air campaign was another surprise for the Iraqis, since it broke with the expected model of Operation Desert Storm.
In short, we began the war with a timetable the regime did not expect and we combined it with a speed that made it difficult for the regime to react and regroup. The enemy was never able to mount a coherent defense; nor was it able to blow up dams, bridges and critical infrastructure—or use weapons of mass terror—perhaps because it was caught so completely off guard.
In less than three weeks, we were in Baghdad, and, with the toppling of Saddam's statue, history's annals tallied another victory for freedom akin to the fall of the Wall in Berlin or the liberation of Paris. Our plan worked even better than we could have hoped. For example, in Baghdad we tried a few armored raids to probe and to shock the Iraqi Army. We hadn't expected to see resistance collapse in Baghdad completely as a result. When these armored raids actually caused the collapse of Iraqi resistance—before the larger force that was planned for could arrive – we capitalized on our success, and moved into the heart of Baghdad—a decision that testifies to the flexibility of the war plan as well as to its speed.
Not only did this plan achieve its military objectives, this plan saved lives—American lives and Iraqi lives. The unprecedented use of precision not only destroyed the intended military targets, but protected innocent lives and key infrastructure. And as a result, the Iraqi people stayed home; they understood military actions were directed against Saddam and his regime—not against them.
Crises averted: We can also judge the success of the military operation in Iraq as much by what didn't happen as by what did:
As we continue to study Operation Iraqi Freedom, we will note other important lessons. Above all, we can be confident that a remarkable plan combined with the bravery and skill of American Armed Forces contributed in very great measure to its overall success.
The costs of reconstruction in Iraq are difficult to estimate since many of the problems we face resulted from decades of the regime corruption, mismanagement and tyranny. Damage due to the war was relatively small-scale. There are a number of funding sources that can help Iraq.
First, there is $1.7 billion in formerly frozen Iraqi government assets in the US that the U.S Government vested by Presidential order. Second, about $700 million in state or regime owned cash has so far been seized and brought under U.S. control in accordance with the laws of war, available to be used for the benefit of the Iraqi people.
Third, once Iraqi oil exports resume, those proceeds will be available for the benefit of the Iraqi people.
Under the terms of the proposed UN Security Council resolution, assets from two additional sources would be placed in the Iraqi Assistance Fund. Other countries are called to place in the Fund any Iraqi government assets, or assets that have been removed from Iraq by Saddam Hussein or other senior officials of the former regime, held in their countries. And the remaining balance in the UN's "Oil For Food" escrow account is to be turned over to the Fund.
There have been public pledges from the international community of more than $600 million under the UN appeal and nearly $1.3 billion in other offers of assistance for the food, health, agriculture, and security sectors. We anticipate other contributions as well, including troop contributions to create Multi-National Divisions of peacekeeping troops.
Finally, Congress has appropriated approximately $2.5 billion for reconstruction efforts. There are also additional authorities that we can draw from if needed, such as the Natural Resources Risk Remediation Fund, which can be used for repairing damage to the oil facilities in Iraq.
Political situation
As I mentioned earlier, in the city of Karbala, because the presence of U.S. Marines has supported the emergence of a functional, competent provisional government in Karbala province that advocates a secular, democratic future for Iraq. That's good news—an indication, we hope, of more to come.
If such a sign at the local level is positive, there is cause for optimism on a national level as well. There has already been an acceptance of the idea of a unified Iraq among all Iraqis—Kurds, Arabs, Sunni and Shi'a and members of smaller minorities.
With Presidential Envoy Bremer's order last Friday that banned senior members of the Baath Party from positions of authority in Iraq, the people of Iraq can be assured that their way forward will not be blocked by remnants of the regime that terrorized them for decades. Baathist remnants and Iranian-oriented theocratic groups constitute, at present, our main concerns with respect to the political reconstruction of Iraq. To deal with these concerns, we must encourage the rest of the Iraqi population to become more politically active and organized. We are confident that neither group constitutes a large segment of Iraqi society – they may have a temporary advantage due to their greater degree of organization, but they can be marginalized as wider and wider swathes of Iraqi society become involved in the country's political life.
Iraqi Interim Administration: We continue work towards the establishment of an Iraqi Interim Administration, which will assume increasingly greater responsibility for the administration of Iraq. The IIA will draw from all of Iraq's religious and ethnic groups and will provide a way for Iraqis to begin immediately to direct the economic and political reconstruction of their country.
Over time, the IIA will take control of an increasing number of administrative functions. But the Interim Administration's most important responsibility will be to set in motion the process leading to the creation of a new Iraqi government, for example, by setting up local elections, drafting a new constitution and new laws. This is a process that foreigners cannot direct; it must be a process owned by Iraqis. Our task is to create the conditions in which they can formulate a process and then pick their leaders freely. An Interim Administration would be a bridge from the initial administration of basic services to an eventual government that represents the Iraqi people.
Iraqi government: In the final phase of our plan, an Iraqi government would assume sovereignty on the basis of elections in accordance with a new constitution. Our intention is to leave Iraq in the hands of Iraqis themselves as soon as we can. As President Bush has said, the United States intends to stay in Iraq as long as necessary, but not a day longer. To those who fear that Baathists and Iranians may intervene when we have left, our message is simple: while it is our intention to withdraw relatively rapidly from Iraqi political life and day-to-day decisions, we will remain in Iraq as an essential security force for as long as it takes. But I would also caution that this process will take time and is also worth getting right.
External political situation: international community, coalition and UN
That so many nations came together speaks to the enormity of the threat posed by a vicious dictator in possession of weapons of mass destruction. The coalition acted to ensure that a regime that places little value on the lives of its own people—or those of others—will no longer be able to possess and pursue—or export—the means of mass terror. A significant consequence of Saddam's removal is that an industrious, educated people have reason to believe that representative government is within their grasp. The men and women of our American and coalition forces performed their missions with incredible courage and skill, and we are enormously proud of them.
To help Iraq take its place among peace-seeking nations, the international community has a responsibility to ensure this vision becomes a reality. And the coalition is committed to working with international institutions. To date, coalition partners have contributed in great measure to the progress described. Currently, 24 coalition countries are providing military support—some of which is public, some of which is private. Thirty-eight nations have offered financial assistance that totals more than $1.8 billion. Here are a few examples of coalition support:
There are many other contributions, and they will be described in the future. Our continued progress will depend on international assistance, including that of the United Nations. To facilitate our goals, we advocate a Security Council resolution that will lift the sanctions from the Iraqi people, define the UN's role in Iraq, and encourage the greater international community to participate in building a free and peaceful Iraq. This support must be geared for the long haul for, as one Iraqi councilman in Um-Qasr has said, "it will take time. People need to understand that we cannot undo years of Saddam overnight."
Challenges and Successes
We knew that certain systems and services we take for granted here would not exist in a formerly totalitarian regime. And we also knew that we could not fully understand the scope of Iraq's needs until we were in the country and on the ground. One area that did surprise us, as I mentioned, was the extent of decay in Iraq's overall infrastructure. The coalition campaign went to great lengths to preserve Iraq's schools, mosques, hospitals, bridges, dams and roads. But, it has become clear that the Baath regime did not.
As with any plan, we were ready to readjust and recalibrate when we could carefully assess conditions. We are doing that, and have begun addressing Saddam's legacy of destruction and decay. We began by calling in civilian companies familiar with tackling vast rebuilding challenges. USAID is developing a contractual mechanism to permit immediate action by Bechtel for emergency repair of power facilities. Among other successes we can point to are the following:
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Energy infrastructure: One of the keys to getting Iraq up and running as a country is to restore its primary source of revenue: its oil infrastructure. As with many other facets of life in Iraq, this infrastructure had been allowed to decay to a surprising degree. Fortunately, the coalition plan averted the destruction of many of the oil wells. And a great deal of repair work is underway to ensure operations can safely resume at oil facilities. While the coalition will be involved at the outset, the goal is to have production and marketing responsibility in the hands of a stable Iraqi authority as soon as possible. Iraqi oil operations are now being run by an Interim Management Team, led by Thamir Ghadban, who was a senior Oil Ministry official under the former regime. Ghadban is advised by an American former oil executive and the former head of Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organization. The Iraqis have demonstrated in the past their skills in operating their energy infrastructure in the face of adversity. We are confident they will do even better now.
The resolution before the UN Security Council will also relieve shortages of gasoline and cooking fuel. The resolution envisions the resumption of oil exports, and provides that revenues be deposited in the Development Fund for Iraq, with transparency provided by independent auditors and an international advisory board.
Decisions regarding the long-term development of Iraq's oil resources and its economy will be the responsibility of a stable Iraqi government. The United States is dedicated to ensuring that Iraq's oil resources remain under Iraqi control. Iraq's resources – including all of its oil – belong to all of Iraq's people.
Mr. Chairman, let me close by thanking you for holding this hearing and thanking all the Members of the Congress for the outstanding bipartisan support that we've had since the beginning of this war. As I noted in my statement, we are still fighting a war at the same time that we are struggling to win the peace. And as you noted in your article today, transforming Iraq will not be quick or easy. And our victory will be based, as you put it so well, on the "kind of country we leave behind." The stakes for our country and for the world are enormous, and the continued commitment of the Congress and the American people is essential. I appeal to you and your colleagues for your continued support and leadership in this historic effort.


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Our menu is almost complete. Really, the last major thing that we need to do is add a rollover effect to add a little bit of interactivity to the menu. So I am going to be working with the vertical.htm from the 03_07 directory. And in order to create a rollover effect, we are going to have to create a new selector. So I'm going to scroll down in my vertical menu styles, and I am just going to create a new selector right below my last one here. Now, we've been using the pseudo-class selectors for a while now. So, the hover pseudo-class selector probably will come as no surprise to you that, that is what we need to use. So, I'm going to type in li a:hover.
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Will Kurt Warner be in St. Louis next year? If not, what team will he go to, and more important, what church will he join?
He will be here.
Is he gonna join a new church?
No. Religiously, he's not a free agent. God has him locked up for a lifetime contract. But, then again, he'd better check with Brenda.
You're a guy who likes to keep in shape. Why do you think so many sports journalists are lard-asses?
I've talked to most of their wives, and they say after sex, those guys smoke turkey.
[KTRS 550 and Fox Sports Net media personality] John Hadley could stand to get his fat ass in better shape, couldn't he?
My attorney has advised me not to comment on this situation anymore publicly. Or privately.
You allegedly said you could have killed Hadley after you used a "compliance technique" on him during an altercation in the parking lot at Rams Park. Hypothetically, describe the maneuver that you would have used to end Hadley's time on Earth.
Hypothetically, I never said that.
What sort of martial-arts maneuver would you use to cripple Jim Rome, your chief competition on the AM sports dial at 11 in the morning?
The Heimlich maneuver.
You Don't Know Dick
Last week the Gephardt campaign rolled out a television ad in Iowa, titled simply "Matt":
"Thirty-one years ago our two-year-old son Matt was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Our health insurance paid for experimental treatments that saved Matt's life. But in the hospital we met a lot of parents who didn't have insurance. I'll never forget the terror in their eyes. As president, I'll get rid of the Bush tax cuts to guarantee health insurance for every American. 'I'm Dick Gephardt and I approved this message because it's time we did what's right.'"
Dusting off a personal crisis to highlight the human side of an issue is a campaign staple, and rightly so. Which is why Unreal suggests a sequel that would allow Gephardt to exploit the struggles of his 30-year-old daughter, Chrissy, in light of the recent Massachusetts Supreme Court decision on gay marriage:
Years ago our daughter Chrissy was diagnosed with terminal homosexuality. Our family's life in the public eye precluded her from coming out of the closet for decades. But once our daughter decided to stop living a lie, we met a lot of parents who had homosexual children. I'll never forget the terror in the eyes of my political aides. As president, I'll sweep the gay issue back under the rug, where it belongs. 'I'm Dick Gephardt and I approved this message because it's time we did what's politically expedient for me and America.'"
Gerbergate, Round Two
Score one for Ruma's Deli in the battle over the naming rights of its trademark sandwich, the Famous Gerber (see "Gerbergate," in the October 8 installment of Unreal). The sandwich, singled out for "Best Use of the Worst Cheese" in the RFT's annual "Best Of" issue, has undergone a name change at DB's, the Soulard sports bar that garnered the aforementioned honor. Under legal pressure from Ruma's owners Patrick Stoll and Mark Zang, DB's menu now lists the Provel-and-ham sandwich as "DB's Famous."
DB's owner Johnny Daus says the situation could have been resolved a lot more cleanly had Stoll not been such an in-your-face vigilante.
"Instead of just coming in and talking about it, the guy was a total limp dick from day one," says Daus. "He called and cussed out my bartender and my night manager. He called my grandmother at like 8:30 in the morning on a Saturday. She calls me and says, 'Who is this idiot that's calling me about this sandwich?' He made sixteen phone calls to either my manager, me or my grandmother in three days. His lawyer finally sends my lawyer some papers. So we just changed it. We've been selling pretty many of 'em now, so I didn't want to take it off the menu completely. And I didn't want to get in a big pissing match with this guy. He thinks he got all his glory with that ["Gerbergate"] article -- apparently he's got it hanging up in his place. My lawyer said, 'Just change the name and don't worry about it.'"
With DB's out of the way, the Ruma's crew is focused on Smugala's in Sunset Hills, which still carries a Gerber on its menu. "We'll see whose legal bills pile up faster," says Zang. "I want to set some sort of precedent."
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Golden Hind
Replica of Golden Hind docked in St Mary Overie Dock, London
|Career (England)
|Pelican, then Golden Hind(e)
|Sponsored by:
|Queen Elizabeth I of England
|1578 – Pelican to Golden Hind(e)
|Disintegrated and broken up in late 1600s; two replicas exist
|General characteristics
|100–150 tons
|300 tons
|102 ft (31 m) on deck
|20 ft (6.1 m)
|9 ft (2.7 m)
|Sail; Wind
|8 knots (15 km/h)
|22 guns
|sail area: 386 m²
The Golden Hind was an English galleon best known for her circumnavigation of the globe between 1577 and 1580, captained by Sir Francis Drake. She was originally known as Pelican, but was renamed by Drake mid-voyage in 1578, as he prepared to enter the Strait of Magellan, calling her Golden Hind to compliment his patron, Sir Christopher Hatton, whose crest was a golden 'hind' (a female deer). Hatton was one of the principal sponsors of Drake's world voyage.
In 1577, Queen Elizabeth chose Sir Francis Drake as the leader of an expedition intended to pass around South America through the Strait of Magellan and to explore the coast that lay beyond. The queen's support was advantageous; Drake had official approval to benefit himself and the queen as well as to cause the maximum damage to the Spaniards. This would eventually culminate in the Anglo–Spanish War. Before setting sail, Drake met the queen face-to-face for the first time and she said to him, "We would gladly be revenged on the King of Spain for divers injuries that we have received."[1] The explicit object was to "find out places meet to have traffic." Drake, however, acted as a privateer, with unofficial support from Queen Elizabeth.[2]
He set sail in December 1577 with five small ships, manned by 164 men, and reached the Brazilian coast in the spring of 1578. Drake's flagship, Pelican, which he renamed Golden Hinde, displaced only about 100 tons.[3]
On 1 March 1579, now in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Ecuador, Golden Hind challenged and captured the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de la Concepción. This galleon had the largest treasure captured to that date: over 360,000 Pesos.[4] The six tons of treasure took six days to transship.[5]
On 26 September 1580, Francis Drake sailed his ship into Plymouth Harbour with only 56 of the original crew of 80 left aboard.[6] Despite his piratical conduct on his voyages, Queen Elizabeth I herself went aboard Golden Hind, which was lying at Deptford in the Thames Estuary, and personally bestowed a knighthood on him;[7] her share of the treasure came to almost £160,000: "enough to pay off her entire foreign debt and still have £40,000 left over to invest in a new trading company for the Levant. Her return and that of other investors came to £47 for every £1 invested, or a total return of 4,700%."[8]
After Drake's circumnavigation, Golden Hind was maintained for public exhibition in Deptford. This is the earliest known example of a ship being maintained for public display because of her historic significance. Golden Hind remained there for nearly 100 years before she eventually rotted away and was finally broken up.
A table, known as the cupboard (pronounced "cup-board"), in the Middle Temple Hall (in London) is reputed to have been made from the wood of Golden Hind, as is a chair in the Great Hall, Buckland Abbey, Devon. Upon the cupboard is placed the roll of members of Middle Temple, which new members sign when they are called to the Bar. The ship's lantern also hangs in the vestibule of Middle Temple Hall.
A replica of Golden Hind was constructed at Adventure Island (amusement park), Southend-on-Sea, Essex. It was constructed from 1947 and opened in 1949 together with a waxworks. Popular at first but by 1992 attendances had dropped, rising maintenance costs together with the need for major renovation to the wooden structure caused its closure in 1997. The ship was replaced by a replica of Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge. This ship was demolished in 2013.[9]
A replica of Golden Hind has been permanently moored in the harbour of the sea port of Brixham in Devon (50°23′48″N 3°30′46″W / 50.39667°N 3.51278°W) since 1963 following its use in the TV series Sir Francis Drake which was filmed in and around the bays of Torbay and Dartmouth. The replica ship used in the TV series cost £25,000 to construct and had no gallery.[10] The ship was destroyed in a storm in 1987, after which it was towed to Dartmouth and scrapped, and replaced with the current replica with a gallery.[11]
A full-size authentic replica of the ship, called Golden Hinde, was built by traditional handcraft in Appledore, North Devon, and was launched in 1973. Since then she has travelled more than 140,000 miles (225,000 km), a distance equal to more than five times around the globe. Like the original ship, she has circumnavigated the globe. She sailed from Plymouth on her maiden voyage in late 1974, arriving on May 8, 1975 [12] in San Francisco, to commemorate Sir Francis Drake's claiming of New Albion, believed to be somewhere in California, for Queen Elizabeth I. Having completed the filming of the TV series 'Shogun' the vessel lay moored in Taura Harbour, Yokohama for over six months. Starting in late 1979 she was sailed back to England via Hong Kong, Singapore, then across the Indian Ocean and through the Red Sea and Mediterranean in time to join the celebrations commemorating the 400th anniversary of Drake's triumphant return to England. Between 1981 and 1984, she was berthed in England and was established as an educational museum, but in 1984–1985 she sailed around the British Isles and then crossed the Atlantic to the Caribbean. In 1986, she passed through the Panama Canal to sail on to British Columbia for the World's Fair in Vancouver. In 1987, she began a tour of the US Pacific coast, visiting ports in the states of Washington, Oregon, and California. In 1988, she passed back through the Panama Canal to visit Texas. In 1989, she visited ports on the Gulf of Mexico. In 1990–1991 she entered a series of seaports on the east coast of the US, in 1992 returning home to tour the British Isles again.
The oceangoing Golden Hinde has been featured in four films, Swashbuckler (1976), Shogun (1979), Drake's Venture (1980) and St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009). Since 1996 she has been berthed at St Mary Overie Dock on Cathedral Street, in Bankside, Southwark, London, between Southwark Cathedral and Clink Street (51°30′25″N 0°5′25″W / 51.50694°N 0.09028°W). She hosts visits from schools in which children can dress up as Tudor sailors and receive living history lessons about Elizabethan maritime history.
The first replica in Brixham, 1968
The second replica in Brixham
Oceangoing replica's front view, cramped in between tall buildings in a small dock on the River Thames
Details of London replica[edit]
- Crew in the 16th century: 20 officers and gentlemen, from 40 to 60 crew, including a Master, Mate, Cook and 10 to 12 deckhands. The average height was 5'4" but many of the crew selected were taller to make more effective fighters. Francis Drake was about 5'6" tall.[13]
- Masts: 3
- Sails 6, 5 square sails and lateen
- Hull: wooden
- Hull dimensions:
- Length:
- Overall: 120 ft (36.6 m)
- Hull: 102 ft (31.1 m)
- Waterline: 75 ft (23 m)
- Breadth: 22 ft (6.7 m)
- Depth: 13.5 ft (4.1 m)
- Displacement: 300 long tons (300 t)
- Length:
- Beam: 20 ft (6.1 m)
- Height of mainmast: 92 feet (28 m)
- Sail area: 4,150 square feet (386 m2)
- Speed (sail): 8 knots (15 km/h)
- Steering: Drake used a pole attached to the rudder called a "whip staff". For safety, a conventional wheel is used in the two replicas.
- Capstan: used for hauling up the anchor, located in the armoury and gun deck
- Crew complement: 80–85
- Armaments: 22 guns
- 2 Peteras (small guns) on poop deck
- 2 Peteras on fore deck
- 2 Falcons (long range guns using two pound shot) in forecastle
- 2 Falcons in stern
- 14 Minions (guns using four pound shot) on gun deck
- Load: ca. 100–150 tons (100–150 tonnes)
- Maximum crew complement: 95
Other modern ships of the same name[edit]
|This section does not cite any references or sources. (September 2013)
For many years, a Great Lakes dry bulk carrier was named Golden Hind, in honour of the original ship. She was a steam turbine powered tanker built in Collingwood, Ontario, during 1951–1952. She sailed as Imperial Woodbend under the Canadian flag for Imperial Oil. Transformed during the winter of 1954–1955 when Imperial's need for her ended, she was converted to a 601.50' dry bulk carrier at Port Weller, Ontario. She resumed sailing for the Mohawk Navigation Company. Carrying primarily iron ore and grain cargoes, she sailed the Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence Seaway for many years until the downturn in the North American steel industry and changing patterns in the grain trade spelled her end. Laid up throughout much of the early half of the 1980s due to lack of cargoes, the veteran ore carrier was finally sold for scrap in 1986 after making a handful of trips for the Groupe Desgagnes fleet.
The first-produced example of the Short Brothers G-class passenger flying boats produced just before World War II, for Imperial Airways in mid-1939, bearing the civil registration G-AFCI, was named Golden Hind in honor of Drake's ship.
In popular culture[edit]
The onscreen symbol of Westward Television was a silver model of Golden Hind.
Golden Hind featured in the 1963 ITV television series Sir Francis Drake.
On the Firesign Theatre's albums Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers and Everything You Know Is Wrong, a character named Bob Hind hosts a travel programme called "The Golden Hind."
In the episode Hidden Valley of The Cisco Kid, Golden Hind was the name of the ship captained by George Challis.
The train operating company First Great Western operate two services a day named after the Golden Hind. One is a service in the morning from Penzance to London Paddington and the other is a return journey in the evening.
In the 1920 book The Airship "Golden Hind" by Percy F. Westerman, a dirigible that is attempting to circumnavigate the world is named the Golden Hind.
The Golden Hind was used in the 2009 film St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold, and was seen in the film to sail down the Thames in a pirate attack against the film's villain (with the use of CGI).
The Golden Hind is used as Drake's flagship in Elizabeth The Golden Age, (2007) during the battle against the Spanish Armada.
The Golden Hind was the first subject for an Airfix construction kit, first introduced in 1952.
The Golden Hind is a purchasable ship in the Pocket Gems game "Tap Paradise Cove" for iOS.
The Golden Hind is mentioned by a Daemon based on Drake in the iOS Zynga game "Ayakashi: Ghost Guild" for the May–June 2013 event "Dragon's Roar - Summer Breeze Superstar."
In Clive Cussler's book Inca Gold Golden Hind plays an important initial part in the plot of the story.
The Golden Hind is actively sailing the seas of the game "Traveler's Quest" for iOS, seeking treasure for the Captain and crew aboard.
See also[edit]
- Ship replica (including a list of ship replicas).
- Galleon.
- Bankside, for information about where the Golden Hind replica is moored.
- British Halfpenny coin, which featured a depiction of the Golden Hind from 1937–1967.
- University of Plymouth Coat of Arms.
- Ceryneian Hind, sometimes known as the Golden Hind.
- ^ "Sir Francis Drake" by Lord Simon Fitz Tomas
- ^ Kelsey, Harry, Sir Francis Drake; The Queen's Pirate, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1998, ISBN 0-300-07182-5
- ^ Cummins, John, Francis Drake: The Lives of a Hero, 1996, Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-312-16365-7
- ^ To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World (2004) Herman, A. Harper Collins, New York ISBN 0-06-053424-9 p.88
- ^ To Rule the Waves: How t Modern World (2004) Herman, A. Harper Collins, New York ISBN 0-06-053424-9 p.94
- ^ Turner, -Michael (2005), In Drake's Wake — The Early Voyages, Paul Mould Publishing, ISBN 1-904959-21-0
- ^ John Sugden (1992), Sir Francis Drake, New York: Simon Schuster, ISBN 0-671-75863-2
- ^ To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World (2004) Herman, A. Harper Collins, New York ISBN 0-06-053424-9 p.94
- ^ Hind, Golden. "Southend Timeline". Retrieved 15 July 2014.
- ^ British Pathe news 1964 http://www.britishpathe.com/video/golden-hind/query/Devon retrieved 7 January 2013
- ^ Wreck of the Golden Hind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz-4UlKsaH8 retrieved 30 May 2013
- ^ Spokane Daily Chronicle May 10, 1975
- ^ Rodger, N.A.M. The Safeguard of the Sea; A Naval History of Britain 660–1649. (London, 1997).
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Golden Hind (ship, 1973).
- Golden Hinde museum
- Mother Lode Musical Theatre: reenactments of the Drake-Miwok encounter in California
- The Sea Cadet Training Ship Golden Hind, Plymouth


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