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Marianne Faithfull's incredible Mojo interview with Sylvie Simmons.
Wooed by Dylan, ripped off by Jagger, too hardcore for Burroughs. A drug addict who recovered to make grainy, dramatic music rife with sex and cigarettes. Meet Marianne Faithfull.
There's a pack of cigarettes on the coffee table, a copy of Dylan's autobiography and a cup of milkless English tea. Outside the open window the police sirens have not stopped wailing. This is San Francisco's Tenderloin district and Marianne Faithfull's voice, low and drowsy, almost as deep as a man's, is barely audible above the din. Except when she's being imperious—a magnificent if terrifying thing to witness—or when, more often, she laughs, an expansive, dirty guffaw that ends in a smoker's cough.
It's mid-afternoon and Marianne, who has just got up, is in her pyjamas. Every night after her performance—as the Devil—in The Black Rider, the William Burroughs/Tom Waits/Robert Wilson musical play, she'll receive a gaggle of celebrated fans backstage (from the film and music world: Francis Ford Coppola, Ronnie Wood, Sean Penn, Neil Young) then walk the three blocks back through the winos to her humdrum apartment-hotel, take a mild sleeping tablet, turn on the TV in her bedroom and watch Will & Grace.
If you think that paints a vulnerable picture, you've not seen Marianne in her pyjamas. She's topped them with a flashy, blue satin wrestler's dressing gown with the words "Wonder Woman" stitched on the back. She may be a thoroughbred but she's also a slugger. Takes a licking, keeps on kicking. As in 1969 when she woke up in intensive care in an Australian hospital room after a six-day coma, the result of OD-ing on 150 barbiturates, sustaining no real damage apart from "when I went into the coma I could speak French. When I came out I couldn't. I lost it all. But I live in Paris now, so I'm re-learning it." As Dylan called her, in equally damaged French, in his autobiography, she's a "grand dame". With one of the most remarkable lives in rock.
What happened to the plans to film your autobiography?
Marianne Fathfull: I put a stop to it. I hated the script. I've living on the streets, a junkie, and then they put in a scene that wasn't in the book where I go off as a prostitute to earn money for drugs, and the camera pulls back, and there's my seven year old son, Nicholas, watching me. I didn't understand—very naïve of me—how they could just make something up. I had a long talk with Carrie [Fisher] and said, "You'd think in real life I had degraded myself quite enough." Carrie, who is very grand, said, "You might think you were degrade enough but believe me, not nearly enough for Hollywood." I never had to be a prostitute to get money fro drugs. I was so charming that they gave them to me. I'm still great friends with some of my coke dealers, and I have $20,000 credit with them, if I wanted to. I don't want to. And I've not kept close friends with my heroin dealers at all.
The Black Rider is all about making deals with the Devil and paying the price.
Marianne Fathfull: I once discusses that with William [Burroughs]. I said, "Why, when I read the Naked Lunch, did I feel, despite my disgust, that the most honourable thing to do was go and be a junkie and live on the street?" Bill did understand my disgust with humanity, but he said, "Your way of showing was a bit extreme." Of course I worshipped the Beats—and DeQuincy and Baudelaire. I over-romanticised. When you're young you don't care, you feel immortal. I only realized much later how lucky I was. I could have come out a vegetable.
Do you feel a bitterness that this grim part of your life became grist to the Marianne myth?
Marianne Fathfull: (Imperious) Well they should damn well know that it's a risk not worth taking, and I took it for them.
You're Jesus? Marianne Fathfull: Yes (laughs). I did all that for you.
There are so many myths. Let's start with one from when you played Ophelia opposite Nicol Williamson's Hamlet in 199. Allegedly you shot up smack in the intermission.
Marianne Fathfull: No, I snorted. Shooting up came later. I was still "chippying around with the devil's bullets"—it's all The Black Rider.
Where you're playing the Devil—a very un-Ophelia role.
Marianne Fathfull: Yes. I've gone from a passive victim to an active being. I made a conscious decision that if it was the last thi8ng I did I was going to change that—and I did that, I guess, with Broken English. But I'm offered shocking, humiliating things by casting agents. There was a TV series by Lynda LaPlante [Prime Suspect] and they wanted me to play—this is how they think of me!—a woman who had been beaten up and completely degraded. Hah! I'm sure the English would like to see me in a role like that on television!
The predominant mood on your new album, Before the Poison, is dark and fatalistic. An overspill from the play?
Marianne Fathfull: No. I'd finished recording before I took the job. Nick [Cave] wanted to make a very dark record—and we're particularly good at that [laughs]. One of our jokes, me a Polly {Harvey}, was "who is in fact the queen of doom and gloom?" Polly says, "Me." And I say, "Pipsqueak, you don't know anything about doom and gloom yet." The way to make your life OK is to bring into the work. Making this album was a very happy experience.
You love songs are the darkest, most fatalistic of all. Are they written about specific people?
Marianne Fathfull: Experience in general. "Crazy Love" is written about my boyfriend, but I don't sleep around. The songs, I suppose, are an expression of my real feelings, which I don't often express except in a song.
I doubt I'm alone in finding it fascinating that your two main collaborators were once deeply in love and now don't speak to each other.
Marianne Fathfull: They didn't need to speak to each other. They were with me. One is one thing and on is the other and I am the connection. With Polly I was in the studio for around 10 days and then later on I was in the studio for about five days with Nick and The Bad Seeds. Nick didn't even hear the Polly stuff—I gave it to him but I don't think he listened. The only area that was difficult was that they didn't want to be seen in competition with each other. Polly came to me and we worked in Paris—on a woman would do that. All my life when I've worked with men I've had to do the traveling. They've got more ego.
Your music career started at that famous 1964 London party where you met Andrew Loog Oldham, who got you signed to Decca, and the Stones. What did you think of his description: "an angel with big tits".
Marianne Fathfull: A really dreadful thing to say. He should be ashamed. And if you read Andrew's book, that's not at all how he saw me. He saw me like a Grace Kelly person. But to Andrew's credit he's always stuck with me. He flew out to see me in The Black Rider, and I said to him, in a sort of jokey way, "If I had never met you, Andrew, you would never have had the chance to ruin my life." To be so young and so beautiful—I was 17 years old, a convent schoolgirl—and to be thrown into that shark world was really too much. Sexualised in a very unpleasant way, and unable to say, "No, I won't do that." I don't know why, because at that time I was no different to how I am now.
Growing up in England, did you identify more with your Euro-aristocratic mother or your English colonel/World War II spy father?
Marianne Fathfull: Neither. I am Marianne Faithfull—I know who I am. I think now I'm beginning to realize my stamina and my strength and my ability to go the distance, and that might be something to do with that childhood. I have Jewish blood; I'm not really English, I'm European. That's why Kurt Weill is very me. Do you know how many people who have tried to climb that Brecht-Weill mountain and failed? But because of my background I understood it intuitively, that he was using the scales from the temple. I am very English and proud to be English, but I can't live there. I live in Paris. I used to live in Ireland, in Shell Cottage, but they kept raising the rent. They wanted to turn it into a golf course, I would have been in the way.
If you had not started your recording career with a song the Stones wrote for you, As Tears Go By, and gone on the become Mick Jagger's romantic partner, would you have had it easier as an artist?
Marianne Fathfull: I was a little schoolgirl, it was my first song, and I was really lucky to be in at the making, the writing, of all those great Rolling Stones records when I was with Mick—but boy was he lucky to have me around. He had access to my mind, to my world, to my views, to my reading list, my conversation. He had all that, and he did write some of his best songs in that time.
We all know about Sister Morphine, but what other Stones songs did you play a part in?
Marianne Fathfull: Sympathy for the Devil is the big one. I got Mick to read [Bulgakov's] The Mast and Margarita and out of that, after discussing it at length with me, he wrote that song. I was more subtle with Mick than Yoko [was with John], but I opened up a new world for him. We had a very, very respectful relationship.
He was slow in acknowledging your role in writing Sister Morphine.
Marianne Fathfull: Well finally I got it, a few years ago. The Stones never share writing credits, they jost don't. I'm not the only person this happened to. I really like what Anita [Pallenberg] says about this. She said, "My dear, we were light years ahead." I think we were.
An interesting aspect of your relationship with Jagger is class. He was a lower-middle-class boy who wanted to be aristocratic, and you were sophisticated.
Marianne Fathfull: Naturally very sophisticated. I was born like that. And highly educated. I remember looking down on him when I first met him. I thought he was a spotty yob, Keith too. I'm not sure I ever believed that thing about social climbing, though. What I heard, which I do believe, is that what he really wanted was Julie Christie and when he couldn't get her he picked on me. So it was a type. And I don't think he knew, when he fell in love with me, when we fell in love together—and he didn't catch me for another three years—how much we had in there. Slowly he began to find out. I really was probably giving too much to the Stones. The acting was something I could do really well that wasn't competing with him. We had a very domestic existence, but the tragedy was that it wasn't enough for me—to marry Mick and have a lot of children would not have been enough. There was going to be a moment where I had to leave and get on with my life.
Of the many Marianne myths, the most enduring is the Mars Bar episode. Is that something you can laugh off?
Marianne Fathfull: Well it's like a dirty old man's fantasy. I've been through millions of versions of who made it up—and it was made up. At one point of intense fury I even decided Mick made it up, but I've really got over that now.
He didn't do much to bury the story.
Marianne Fathfull: Well Keith came through. He said, "She's much too classy to do that." The whole thing of an orgy anyway is ridiculous, because nearly everybody there was gay. But it never goes away. Once when I was in Shell Cottage with Sandra [Bernhardt, actress] who is a great friend of mine, and her lover, my fucking agent called and said I'd been offered a lot of money—a really lot of money—to do a Mars Bar advertisement. I said, "OK, you're fired." I've never had an agent since.
There was a point when that ethereal, folky, English voice of your early records vanished and this new, distinctive voice emerged.
Marianne Fathfull: My voice became my instrument. I learned a lot from Mick and Keith there, all those blues records they played. It all went in, but it took a long time to filter through. About five years. When I left Mick I went back to my mother's, which was terrible hard to do, and I took with me my baby, a Persian carpet, a few Ossie Clarke dresses—I thought I was going to wear them in the country!—and a few records. It was James Brown, Otis Redding, who had a huge effect on me, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and some Bob Dylan, and that's what I listened to. Bob has had a great influence, right to this day. I see him quite often. Bob told me to go to Mark Howard for Vagabond Ways [1999]. He actually said to me—I was so proud—"You know, Marianne, people like us with funny voices, we have to be very careful who we let produce us."
I understand you're not happy with the production on Broken English, the album widely considered your masterpiece.
Marianne Fathfull: It's overproduced. I had a copy of Broken English before it was overproduced and that was a masterpiece. I lost it. I was married to Ben (Brierly, The Vibrators), we were living in that basement, and then I left England. I said, "I've had it, I'm leaving this country and never going back."
You Married Ben the year you made Broken English. Was your association with punk purely marital?
Marianne Fathfull: Oh no, I knew Johnny Rotten. He liked me. He always like older women! I knew Malcolm [McLaren]—I still see Malcolm. I knew a lot of people in that world. The essence of the punk thing was anyone can go and do it if they want to, and you don't have to be incredibly rich and grand, you can just do it. And I think that that helped me a lot. I gave myself permission to make a record that I'd wanted to make for a long time. I thought I was going to die, that this was going to be my last chance to make a record. That is the thing about Broken English, it's this sense, this energy, that "Fucking hell, before I die I'm going to show you bastards who I am." That's what it is. It has a lot of attitude. And of course that's why I can never do that again. I can't repeat Broken English. Because I actually realized, obviously I'm going to die but not yet.
It took attitude for you to record Working Class Hero. Did you ever hear John Lennon's opinion?
Marianne Fathfull: I sent him a copy, I never got a reply, and then he was shot. He didn't really have very long to reply, did he? But he did listen to it and he told Yoko that he really loved it. And every time I see Yoko she never ever fails to tell me how much John really loved it. There were people who said to me, "How dare you do this song, you're not working class." But it's not about that. It goes beyond that. I have every right to sing that song. I would say our lives were pretty parallel, me and John. I didn't actually have as many tragedies in my childhood as he did, but John got exactly what I was doing.
Lennon went into psychotherapy, primal scream. Did you?
Marianne Fathfull: I just went to this really great doctor when I came out of Hazelden [the drugs rehabilitation centre]. I went for five days a week for three years and it helped tremendously. I would recommend it. But the English think it's some deep shame.
Which do you consider your overlooked albums?
Marianne Fathfull: I've done incredible things that people don't even know about—the record I made with Hal Willner and Gregory Corso [Die on Me, 2002] a week before poor Gregory died is beautiful. So out there. It's worth looking for—though I don't even have a copy. A Secret Life [1995], which I made with Angelo Badalamenti, is a beautiful record, though I don't like the title—I wanted to call it I'm Not in Love Any More. It was made at a bad moment when all my friends were dying. And a Child's Adventure [1983], that's beautiful, and it was really my cry for help. I was trying to say, "Help me!" and finally I had to yell it in the lyrics. I think the Kurt Weill stuff is wonderful. Kissin' Time [2002] was an experiment which didn't really work, but it had some fabulous songs and fabulous people. Too many people, probably. Not everything I do works as well as I like, but every record I make I really truly try to make the best possible Marianne Faithfull record ever, and pretty often I do. I think my new record may be one of my best. And it would be very nice if people bought it, because I need the money.
Marianne Fathfull: Touring is the only way I've made money, and I'm nearly 60. I won't be able to go on touring like this forever. I don't want to retire, but it is hard work. And I never really made money from my records. I got a royalty cheque from Island in 1979, a big one, and I've never had one since, and I left Island 10 years ago. They put everything on your bill—a tuna sandwich, a coffee, everything—and with me there were a lot of other expenses, like rehab. And they have to stop bringing out these terrible "Best Ofs" because it really is bad for the back catalogue. The records are beautiful as they are. It's just wrong. I'll tell you, the only people who paid me are Mick and Keith, and [former Stones manager] Allen Klein raised my royalty rate from two per cent to something a bit better.
Lack of good financial advice aside, do you have any regrets?
Marianne Fathfull: Of course I have regrets, but they're not the ones that people really would expect. I wish I'd been nicer to my parents. I wish I'd been able to not have Nicholas taken away from me—I think that was a big mistake. And I wish I'd really understood, earlier, or accepted my destiny, as a worker. As a person who works and creates and makes records and performs. I resisted it for so long. Living on the street, being a junkie, had a lot to do with that—it was me trying to retire myself, make myself unemployable. A very passive-aggressive way to do it.
Did anything worthwhile come from that part of your life?
Marianne Fathfull: I began to believe in people for the first time—that's what I got. Because the people I met on the street were so good to me. I lived my life on the absolute razor's edge, but with a sort of light around me that never let anything really bad happen. Part of it was that I had really bad anorexia at the time so I got very thin, so thin that I actually believed I was invisible, and that way nothing bad could happen. But everybody took care of me. The little Chinese restaurant that said I could take all my clothes there and they would put them in the washing machine and give me a blanket until they were dry. The street people watched over me—you know I never got raped once, or anything. And even the cops looked after me. Once, when I was clean—or cleanish; I wasn't on heroin—I went with a friend to Chez Victor's. One of the cops on the Soho beat bumped into me and freaked out. He said, "Oh no, you're not back, we're going to have to look after you again" (laughs). So from that I got a feeling that the world was not such a bad place—for the first time in my life.
What brought you back?
Marianne Fathfull: I missed my world, my friends. I missed Bob [Dylan], I missed going to their shows. I missed what I suppose you could say was my rightful place, as part of the incredible artistic group of people.
You saw what Dylan wrote about you in his book?
Marianne Fathfull: I did. It was very nice.
Especially since you spurned him back in the '60s…
Marianne Fathfull: Well I didn't spurn him exactly. We were on tour together and he was at the typewriter and I dared to ask, "What are you writing?" He gave me a burning look and said, "A poem. About you." I told him I was pregnant with Nicholas and about to get married and he tore it up. But we're still close friends—probably closer than we would have been if we did fuck. No, actually I think I'm going to rewrite history. I didn't spurn hum. We did, actually, and he was one of the best fucks in my life. Let's put that. He'd be so pleased, you know what these guys are like. Ha ha ha!
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Although he can hardly believe what he saw, McCoy dutifully calls the ship to report it. Kirk smilingly accepts the report before dismissing it out of hand, assuming it to be a practical joke on McCoy's part. Spock approaches Kirk with news of a crewmember who is displaying signs of stress and poor performance. Kirk orders the person to take a break on the planet, only for Spock to reveal that he is talking of Kirk himself. The Captain beams down with Yeoman Barrows for a little R&R. However, we see that somehow, a pistol has appeared on the surface. Kirk meets up with McCoy, who has found paw prints confirming his rabbit. Kirk signals the Enterprise and orders them to hold off on beaming down their crew for shore leave. Suddenly shots ring out in the distance; the officers race over to find Sulu shooting the pistol, enthused at the antique which is as good as anything in his collection. Spying the footprints again Kirk orders Barrows and Sulu to follow them whilst he and McCoy check out the glade. As they head there an antenna pops up behind them, apparently scanning them.
As they walk Kirk muses about his academy experiences, where he was tormented by an upperclassman called Finnegan. Kirk was often the butt of Finnegan's practical jokes. They separate, McCoy following the rabbit prints whilst Kirk follows the girl's footprints. As he walks through the fields Kirk is astonished to encounter Finnegan, who jovially challenges him to a fight. After a little taunting Kirk begins to accept, only to hear screams in the distance. He breaks off and runs, meeting McCoy on the way. They find Barrows crying, her uniform torn. She reports being attacked by a mysterious man who she compares to Don Juan - a fictional character she was just thinking about. Kirk leaves McCoy with Barrows and chases off after Sulu, who had pursued the character. As he runs he fails to notice another antenna scanning him...
Kirk can't find Sulu but he encounters somebody even more startling - Ruth, an old flame of his. He is contacted by McCoy, but shrugs it off. Another member of the landing party, Rodriguez, reports that he saw a flock of birds - on a planet that is not supposed to have any animal life. Kirk orders everyone to assemble at the glade to compare notes and reluctantly leaves Ruth behind.
Spock signals with reports of a power source on the planet. It is a highly advanced source, indicating large scale industrial engineering of some sort - and worse, it is draining power from the Enterprise. The oddities continue to pile up. Barrows is commenting on the fairytale surroundings and how a girl should be wearing flowing gowns here, only to find exactly those clothes nearby. McCoy's urges her to change into the dress, promising not to peek as she changes. He gets a call from Esteban to head for the rendezvous, though communications is rapidly failing. Matters are further complicated by Esteban having to hide from a tiger!
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Barrows blames herself for the death, but Kirk forces her to snap out of it and focus on their work. Sulu examines the knight only to find that it isn't a real person, but rather some sort of non living dummy. Spock scans it and finds that it is some sort of mechanical contrivance, a manufactured object - as are all the plants around them. Apparently everything on the surface is a mere artificial creation.
Nearby, Esteban and Angela Martine see an early aircraft flying around - something he was just talking about recently. The aircraft strafes them, killing Martine. Back in the glade the officers find that both McCoy and the knight have vanished. Spock thinks he has an answer, albeit an unlikely one. It appears that whatever people are imagining is coming to life before their eyes. He proves the point by asking Kirk to remember what he was thinking about earlier, only to see Finnegan pop up again. Kirk chases Finnegan down and demands to know what is going on, and the two engage in an extended fight. Kirk is finally victorious. Spock appears to reveal his theory; their thoughts are being read by whatever machines exist on the planet, and whatever they think of is being manufactured instantly and presented to them. Kirk and Spock race to the glade, dodging tigers and aircraft and Samurai along the way. Kirk assembles everyone and puts them to attention in an effort to focus their thoughts and prevent more things from appearing.
A strange man appears and announces that he is the caretaker of the place. He apologises for what has happened, saying that he has only just realised that they didn't understand what was happening. The whole planet was built for his race as an amusement park, a place where people could come and have absolutely anything they imagine appear, live out any fantasy or wish. Kirk is still angry about the deaths... but McCoy arrives with a chorus line girl on each arm to announce that nobody has died! He was taken to the subsurface support machinery and patched up, good as new.
The caretaker tells Kirk that he doesn't think the Federation is ready for contact with his people, but he does offer to let the Enterprise crew beam down and enjoy themselves on the planet for a while. Kirk agrees, telling the ship to prepare everyone to have the best shore leave of their lives. As Ruth reappears, he also decides to stay himself.
A while later everyone returns, having had a great time on the planet and looking much more relaxed for it. They ship heads out of orbit to resume their mission.
|The Doomsday Machine
|Decker's stunt double
|The Enterprise has discovered a series of solar systems in which every planet is gone, apparently destroyed by some unknown force. Whilst investigating they pick up a distress call and find the USS Constellation, a Constitution class starship like themselves, adrift and wrecked. Kirk beams over to the ship with a landing party, and they set about investigating the damage and trying to determine what happened. The Captain, Commodore Matt Decker, is found catatonic in the auxiliary control room, apparently the only member of the crew on board. He mutters about something attacking the ship, something he refers to as "the devil".
The Constellation's logs reveal that Decker had investigated the break up of a planet only to be attacked by some sort of alien device, a massive roughly conical spacecraft of immense power. The ship attacked but was crippled and Decker beamed his crew down to a habitable planet to save them, remaining behind as the last man aboard. Unfortunately the alien machine disabled the transporters and then attacked the planet, destroying it and the crew completely. Spock theorizes the device smashes planets into rubble which it then consumes to fuel itself, leaving a trail of utter destruction behind it as it moves through the galaxy. Back projection of its course shows that it probably originated from beyond our own galaxy, whilst it is shortly to arrive in one of the most densely populated regions where it will cause an unimaginable holocaust.
Kirk theorizes that the device is a weapon, a "doomsday machine" which was deliberately built to be so powerful that if it was ever used in a war it would destroy both sides completely - something like the old hydrogen bomb on Earth was intended to be. Probably intended to ensure that a war would not happen, in reality the doomsday machine was unleashed, annihilating both it's creators and their enemies and then continuing on its way to destroy everything else in it's path. The hull of the device is composed of neutronium, making it invulnerable to Federation weapons, whilst its own weapon is a pure antiproton beam which can penetrate Federation shielding systems with ease.
Kirk sends McCoy back to the Enterprise with Decker whilst he and Scotty remain on the Constellation with an engineering party to try and get the ship in condition to move. However the doomsday machine arrives, blocking communications via an interference effect. Decker comes to the Enterprise bridge and, as the ranking officer present, forces Spock to relinquish command of the ship to him. He proceeds to attack the doomsday device, determined to destroy it despite the fact that their weapons are completely ineffective.
The Enterprise is quickly damaged and caught in a tractor beam, dragged towards the machine's massive mouth. On the Constellation Kirk and Scotty manage to get a degree of maneuvering power and a phaser bank working, and attack the device to draw it away from the Enterprise. The two ships between them manage to beat a retreat, each luring it away from the other in turn.
Clear of the interference, Kirk calls the Enterprise and orders Spock to relieve Decker of command regardless of regulations. Spock complies, sending Decker to sickbay for a medical examination so that McCoy can determine whether he is officially fit for command or not. However on the way down Decker overpowers his escort and steals a shuttlecraft, escaping the ship. Desolate with guilt over his failures, he commits suicide by piloting the shuttle directly down the throat of the doomsday machine.
Sulu's sensors detect a tiny drop in power in the machine afterwards, and Kirk wonders if perhaps the explosion of the shuttle had caused some minor damage since it had bypassed the invulnerable hull by being swallowed up. He suggests repeating the trick with the Constellation itself, sending it directly into the machine and detonating the impulse engines within the device. Scotty rigs up a simple self destruct and beams back to the Enterprise as they fly the ship towards the machine - unfortunately the transporter malfunctions due to battle damage, leaving Kirk stranded. With the machine approaching Kirk calmly awaits his fate, and at the very last moment Scotty manages to beam him off the ship. The Constellation explodes inside the doomsday device, leaving it as an inert hulk.
Back on the ship, Kirk notes the irony that Earth nations once used the same kind of doomsday philosophy in an attempt to stave off war, using hydrogen bombs to threaten mass destruction - ironic because here they used a similar hydrogen explosion within the impulse engines to disable the doomsday machine. Kirk wonders if this may be the first time such a weapon has been used for constructive purpose.
|The Apple
|Native stunt double
|The Enterprise is visiting the planet Gamma Trianguli VI. A landing party finds the planet to be a paradise, with a planetwide warm climate. However, a call from Scotty on the ship brings trouble - the ship is experiencing a minor problem with the antimatter pods, possibly related to abnormalities in the magnetic field of the planet itself. Spock's tricorder detects underground vibrations coming from all directions, vibrations which he thinks are artificially produced. As the landing party scouts around they detect a life form nearby, apparently somebody watching them.
They proceed towards a nearby village, but along the way the planet offers up a few surprises. A rock explodes when tossed to the ground; a plant fires poison darts; a freak storm suddenly blows up and Spock is struck by lightning. It appears that Gamma Trianguli VI is not so pleasant a place after all!
Meanwhile on the Enterprise, the problem becomes worse - the antimatter pods have become completely inert, as if some external force had extinguished them. Without main power the ship is all but helpless and unable to beam the landing party up.
They reach the village, although two of the landing party are killed on the way by the planets strange dangers. Kirk manages to capture the native who is watching them, and they demand to know what is going on. The man claims to be the "leader of the feeders of Vaal." They continue on to the village with the man, who is named Akuta. He agrees to take them to Vaal - which proves to be a giant stone head reminiscent of a reptile. The head is surrounded by a powerful forcefield, making any approach impossible. They go back to the village to rest. Kirk notes that there are no children there - prompting confusion from the natives, who apparently have no idea what children are. Vaal, they say, has forbidden men and women to touch one another, and there is no reproduction allowed - much to McCoy's disgust. The Doctor scans the people and finds every one of them to be in perfect health, without any sign of ageing amongst them.
Vaal calls the villagers, and they bring supplies of food to place inside the head - the forcefield apparently allowing them in to feed their god. Kirk ponders whether Vaal might become weaker if it is denied the regular influx of food. Kirk and McCoy seem determined to destroy Vaal, claiming that it is stifling the right of the natives to a "free and unchained environment" and any chance to grow and develop as a culture. Spock warns that they are simply applying human standards to a culture which they may not apply to - the villagers surely have the right to choose a system that clearly works to provide them with long term stability.
Scotty reports that they are detecting a steady decrease in Vaal's power readings, possibly a result of the food being used up. He is working to boost the output of the ship's impulse engines, though this will take a good eight hours to accomplish. In not much longer than that the ship will fall into the atmosphere and burn up.
In the village, two of the natives observe Chekov kissing one of his female comrades and become curious as to what it is like. This apparently angers Vaal, who communicates with Akuta to tell him to kill the landing party. Vaal provides instructions on how to use violence, and the natives mount an attack. However, although one of the Enterprise crew is killed the natives are quickly defeated.
Scotty manages to complete his modifications and boost the ship into a slightly higher orbit, but he only gains an extra hour or so. Kirk decides to starve Vaal in an attempt to weaken it, and then orders the ship to direct a phaser barrage at the force field around it. Vaal is forced to expend its remaining energy to defend against the attack, and becomes inert. Without the field affecting the ship, full power is quickly restored.
Kirk tells the natives that the Federation will provide them with assistance until they can cope with life on their own. Although Spock expresses some concern with their actions the Captain is happy at the outcome, and the ship proceeds on course.
|I, Mudd
|Norman's stunt double
|Spock and McCoy encounter a recently arrived crewmember, Crewman Norman, in the Enterprise corridors. McCoy notes that something bothers him about the man. Not only is he avoiding a medical exam, but he seems unemotional and detached from the rest of the crew. Spock, taking this as a jibe against himself, dismisses the complaint.
Norman goes to the auxiliary control center, overpowering the personnel there and taking control of the ship to lock it onto a new course. He rapidly goes to the emergency manual monitor and engineering, effortlessly defeating multiple crewmembers and resetting the ship's systems to lock out any change in the course he has laid in. Finally he proceeds to the bridge where he points out that his alterations have connected the matter-antimatter pods to the main navigational bank with a trigger relay, meaning any attempt to change course will destroy the ship. He also opens a panel in his stomach, revealing that he is an android.
The ship spends four days at Warp 7 heading for an unexplored Class K planet. Norman remains dormant throughout, standing motionless on the bridge. On arrival he demands that Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Uhura and Chekov to beam down, threatening to destroy the engines if they refuse. They beam to a facility on the surface where None other than Harry Mudd reveals himself to have been behind their kidnapping. Mudd declares that he is now Emperor Mudd the First, and that the crew of the Enterprise will remain on his planet for the rest of their lives and there is nothing they can do about it. Mudd is accompanied by multiple robots, many of them identical to one another. He reveals that after his last encounter with the Enterprise he managed to escape from prison and engaged in further petty crime, including reselling patents. He was caught on Deneb V and sentenced to death, but again managed to steal a ship and escape. After wandering for a while he chanced on this planet and explored it, finding the facility there along with androids running it. The facility is equipped with fantastically advanced technology, capable of building massive numbers of androids to any specification, along with almost anything else one could want. Mudd, of course, stocked the place almost entirely with hundreds of female androids.
Although it seemed like a paradise at first, Mudd soon grew bored with the planet. He decided to leave, but the androids are so determined to serve him that they refuse to allow him to leave the planet. Mudd eventually told the androids about the Enterprise and asked them to capture the crew so they would have other Humans to serve, and so allow him to leave. He tries to convince Kirk that it won't be so bad, demonstrating some of the pleasant aspects of the place - including an android replica of his own wife who nags him specifically so that he can have the pleasure of yelling at her to shut up. The androids reveal that they were built by a species from the Andromeda galaxy which is now long gone.
Spock conjectures that the androids do not operate independently, but must function via some kind of control control system which guides them all. He tries to quiz them on the subject but they politely decline to answer his queries.
The androids begin trying to tempt the officers to remain. They tell Uhura that an android body will last for some half a million years. Since a human brain can be installed in one, this would give the person almost perpetual youth and beauty. Chekov finds himself enjoying the prospect of being surrounded by beautiful female androids, whilst Scotty is intrigued by their incredibly advanced engineering technology. Meanwhile the androids have forcibly removed the crew from the Enterprise, putting an android crew aboard to run the ship. There seems to be no way to stop them.
Kirk is increasingly annoyed by the situation, and when an Alice series android promises him that they will do anything to make him happy he states that he cannot be happy without his ship. Alice seems confused by this and asks Norman to "coordinate" a response, before leaving.
Mudd prepares to depart, but the androids refuse to let him leave despite their earlier deal. They reveal that they plan to export vast numbers of androids to all Human worlds, giving them the same life of complete luxury as exists on their planet - along with the same lack of freedom.
Spock notes that there are hundreds of each model of android on the planet, with the exception of Norman. There is only a single Norman as far as anybody knows. This, combined with the way the Alice asked Norman to coordinate a response when she was confused, makes Spock speculate that Norman may be the control system he spoke of earlier. Since illogic seemed to confuse the Alice, they wonder if they might not be able to overload Norman's ability to command the androids if enough strange and inexplicable behaviour is presented to the androids.
Reasoning that the androids will expect an escape attempt the crew stage a mock one, with Uhura turning traitor and telling the Androids about it so that they can foil the plan. Now hoping to have them at their ease, the crew begin their real campaign. They each challenge the androids with surreal behaviour, spreading confusion and illogic amongst them. Spock informs two of the Alice series that although he loves one of them, he hates the other - stating that he responds to them so differently because they are identical to one another. The illogic of the statement causes both androids to shut down.
The crew begin to target Norman directly, making him more and more confused until Kirk finally informs him that Harry Mudd is a liar, and everything he says is a lie. Harry then informs Norman that he is indeed lying - prompting Norman to realise that if that is a lie then Mudd must be telling the truth, but that if he is telling the truth then he must be lying. Finally overwhelmed, Norman shuts down and all of the other androids shut down with him.
With the crew back aboard the ship and control restored, Kirk decides what to do with Mudd. He will be left on the planet, stranded with the androids to look after him. Mudd is pleased that his imprisonment will at least be pleasant - until he finds that Kirk has had at least 500 copies of his nagging wife constructed, all of them designed so that they will ignore any order to shut up. Harry is thus left to indefinite imprisonment under the eternal nagging of the woman he most hates.
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Lebanon Population: 4,131,5835 VISITORS FROM HERE!
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|Following World War I, France acquired a mandate over the northern portion of the former Ottoman Empire province of Syria. The French demarcated the region of Lebanon in 1920 and granted this area independence in 1943. Since independence the country has been marked by periods of political turmoil interspersed with prosperity built on its position as a regional center for finance and trade. The country's 1975-90 civil war that resulted in an estimated 120,000 fatalities, was followed by years of social and political instability. Sectarianism is a key element of Lebanese political life. Neighboring Syria has long influenced Lebanon's foreign policy and internal policies, and its military occupied Lebanon from 1976 until 2005. The Lebanon-based Hizballah militia and Israel continued attacks and counterattacks against each other after Syria's withdrawal, and fought a brief war in 2006. Lebanon's borders with Syria and Israel remain unresolved.
Nahr el Litani is the only major river in Near East not crossing an international boundary; rugged terrain historically helped isolate, protect, and develop numerous factional groups based on religion, clan, and ethnicity
|Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Israel and Syria
|Geographic coordinates:
| total: 10,400 sq km
land: 10,230 sq km
water: 170 sq km
Size comparison: about 0.7 times the size of Connecticut
|Land Boundaries:
| total: 454 km
border countries: Israel 79 km, Syria 375 km
|225 km
|Maritime claims:
|territorial sea: 12 nm
|Mediterranean; mild to cool, wet winters with hot, dry summers; Lebanon mountains experience heavy winter snows
|narrow coastal plain; El Beqaa (Bekaa Valley) separates Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon Mountains
|Elevation extremes:
| lowest point: Mediterranean Sea 0 m
highest point: Qornet es Saouda 3,088 m
|Natural resources:
|limestone, iron ore, salt, water-surplus state in a water-deficit region, arable land
|Land use:
| arable land: 10.72%
permanent crops: 12.06%
other: 77.22% (2011)
|Irrigated land:
|1,040 sq km (2003)
|Natural hazards:
|dust storms, sandstorms
|Current Environment Issues:
|deforestation; soil erosion; desertification; air pollution in Beirut from vehicular traffic and the burning of industrial wastes; pollution of coastal waters from raw sewage and oil spills
|International Environment Agreements:
| party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: Environmental Modification, Marine Life Conservation
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| noun: Lebanese (singular and plural)
adjective: Lebanese
|Ethnic groups:
|Arab 95%, Armenian 4%, other 1% note: many Christian Lebanese do not identify themselves as Arab but rather as descendents of the ancient Canaanites and prefer to be called Phoenicians
|Arabic (official), French, English, Armenian
| Muslim 59.7% (Shia, Sunni, Druze, Isma'ilite, Alawite or Nusayri), Christian 39% (Maronite Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Melkite Catholic, Armenian Orthodox, Syrian Catholic, Armenian Catholic, Syrian Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Chaldean, Assyrian, Coptic, Protestant), other 1.3%
note: 17 religious sects recognized
|4,131,583 (July 2013 est.)
|Age structure:
| 0-14 years: 22.1% (male 467,416/female 445,352)
15-24 years: 17.5% (male 368,097/female 353,518)
25-54 years: 42.4% (male 844,217/female 906,795)
55-64 years: 8.7% (male 165,271/female 193,312)
65 years and over: 9.4% (male 178,080/female 209,525) (2013 est.)
|Dependency ratios:
| total dependency ratio: 41.8 %
youth dependency ratio: 29.5 %
elderly dependency ratio: 12.3 %
potential support ratio: 8.1 (2013)
|Median age:
| total: 30.9 years
male: 29.7 years
female: 32.1 years (2013 est.)
|Population growth rate:
|-0.04% (2013 est.)
|Birth rate:
|14.79 births/1,000 population (2013 est.)
|Death rate:
|6.73 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)
|Net migration rate:
|-8.48 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2013 est.)
| urban population: 87.2% of total population (2011)
rate of urbanization: 0.86% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
|Major urban areas - population:
|BEIRUT (capital) 1.909 million (2009)
|Sex ratio:
| at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 0.93 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 0.86 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.86 male(s)/female
total population: 0.96 male(s)/female (2013 est.)
|Maternal mortality rate:
|25 deaths/100,000 live births (2010)
|Infant mortality rate:
| total: 14.81 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 14.98 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 14.64 deaths/1,000 live births (2013 est.)
|Life expectancy at birth:
| total population: 75.46 years
male: 73.86 years
female: 77.13 years (2013 est.)
|Total fertility rate:
|1.75 children born/woman (2013 est.)
|Contraceptive prevalence rate:
|58% (2004)
|Health expenditures:
|7% of GDP (2010)
|Physicians density:
|3.54 physicians/1,000 population (2009)
|Hospital bed density:
|3.5 beds/1,000 population (2009)
|Drinking water source:
| improved:
urban: 100% of population
rural: 100% of population
total: 100% of population (2010 est.)
|Sanitation facility access:
| improved:
urban: 100% of population
rural: 87% of population
total: 98% of population
urban: 0% of population
rural: 13% of population
total: 2% of population (2000 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
|0.1% (2009 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
|3,600 (2009 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - deaths:
|fewer than 500 (2009 est.)
|Obesity - adult prevalence rate:
|27.4% (2008)
|Children under the age of 5 years underweight:
|4.2% (2004)
|Education expenditures:
|1.7% of GDP (2011)
| definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 89.6%
male: 93.4%
female: 86% (2007 est.)
|School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
| total: 14 years
male: 14 years
female: 15 years (2011)
|Unemployment, youth ages 15-24:
| total: 22.1%
male: 22.3%
female: 21.5% (2007)
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|Country name:
| conventional long form: Lebanese Republic
conventional short form: Lebanon
local long form: Al Jumhuriyah al Lubnaniyah
local short form: Lubnan
former: Greater Lebanon
|Government type:
| name: Beirut
geographic coordinates: 33 52 N, 35 30 E
time difference: UTC+2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October
|Administrative divisions:
| 6 governorates (mohafazat, singular - mohafazah); Beqaa, Beyrouth (Beirut), Liban-Nord, Liban-Sud, Mont-Liban, Nabatiye
note: two new governorates - Aakkar and Baalbek-Hermel - have been legislated but not yet implemented
|22 November 1943 (from League of Nations mandate under French administration)
|National holiday:
|Independence Day, 22 November (1943)
|23 May 1926; amended a number of times, most recently in 1990 to include changes necessitated by the Charter of Lebanese National Reconciliation (Ta'if Accord) of October 1989
|Legal system:
|mixed legal system of civil law based on the French civil code, Ottoman legal tradition, and religious laws covering personal status, marriage, divorce, and other family relations of the Jewish, Islamic, and Christian communities
|21 years of age; compulsory for all males; authorized for women at age 21 with elementary education; excludes military personnel
|Executive branch:
note: following the resignation of Prime Minister Najib MIQATI and his Cabinet on 22 March 2013, the government is in caretaker status until a new prime minister is named and a new cabinet is formed chief of state: President Michel SULAYMAN (since 25 May 2008)
head of government: Prime Minister Najib MIQATI (since 7 July 2011), Deputy Prime Minister Samir MOQBIL (since 7 July 2011)
cabinet: Cabinet chosen by the prime minister in consultation with the president and members of the National Assembly (For more information visit the World Leaders website )
elections: president elected by the National Assembly for a six-year term (may not serve consecutive terms); election last held on 25 May 2008 (next to be held in 2014); the prime minister and deputy prime minister appointed by the president in consultation with the National Assembly
election results: Michel SULAYMAN elected president; National Assembly vote - 118 for, 6 abstentions, 3 invalidated; 1 seat unfilled due to death of incumbent
|Legislative branch:
| unicameral National Assembly or Majlis al-Nuwab (Arabic) or Assemblee Nationale (French) (128 seats; members elected by popular vote on the basis of sectarian proportional representation to serve four-year terms)
elections: last held on 7 June 2009 (next to be held in 2013)
election results: percent of vote by group - March 8 Coalition 54.7%, March 14 Coalition 45.3%; seats by group - March 14 Coalition 71; March 8 Coalition 57; seats by party following 16 July 2012 byelection held to fill one seat - March 14 Coalition 72, March 8 Coalition 56
|Judicial branch:
| highest court(s): Court of Cassation or Supreme Court (organized into 4 divisions, each with a presiding judge and 2 associate judges); Constitutional Council (consists of 10 members) judge selection and term of office: Court of Cassation judges appointed by Supreme Judicial Council, headed by the chief justice, and includes other judicial officials; judge tenure NA; Constitutional Council members appointed - 5 by the Council of Ministers and 5 by parliament; members serve 5-year terms
subordinate courts: Courts of Appeal (6); Courts of First Instance; specialized tribunals, religious courts; military courts
|Political parties and leaders:
|14 March Coalition: Democratic Left [Ilyas ATALLAH] Democratic Renewal Movement [Nassib LAHUD] Future Movement Bloc [Sa'ad al-HARIRI] Kataeb Party [Amine GEMAYEL] Lebanese Forces [Samir JA'JA] Tripoli Independent Bloc 8 March Coalition: Development and Resistance Bloc [Nabih BERRI, leader of Amal Movement] Free Patriotic Movement [Michel AWN] Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc [Mohammad RA'AD] (includes Hizballah [Hassan NASRALLAH]) Nasserite Popular Movement [Usama SAAD] Popular Bloc [Elias SKAFF] Syrian Ba'th Party [Sayez SHUKR] Syrian Social Nationalist Party [Ali QANSO] Tashnaq [Hovig MEKHITIRIAN] Independent: Democratic Gathering Bloc [Walid JUNBLATT, leader of Progressive Socialist Party] Metn Bloc [Michel MURR]
|Political pressure groups and leaders:
|Maronite Church [Patriarch Bishara al-Ra'i] other: note - most sects retain militias and a number of militant groups operate in Palestinian refugee camps
|International organization participation:
|ABEDA, AFESD, AMF, CAEU, FAO, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, LAS, MIGA, NAM, OAS (observer), OIC, OIF, OPCW, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNRWA, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO (observer)
|National symbol(s):
|cedar tree
|National anthem:
| name: "Kulluna lil-watan" (All Of Us, For Our Country!)
lyrics/music: Rachid NAKHLE/Wadih SABRA
note: adopted 1927; the anthem was chosen following a nationwide competition
|Diplomatic representation in the US:
| chief of mission: Ambassador Antoine CHEDID
chancery: 2560 28th Street NW, Washington, DC 20008
telephone: [1] (202) 939-6300
consulate(s) general: Detroit, New York, Los Angeles
|Diplomatic representation from the US:
| chief of mission: Ambassador Maura CONNELLY
embassy: Awkar, Lebanon (Awkar facing the Municipality)
mailing address: P. O. Box 70-840, Antelias, Lebanon; from US: US Embassy Beirut, 6070 Beirut Place, Washington, DC 20521-6070
telephone: [961] (4) 542600, 543600
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Lebanon has a free-market economy and a strong laissez-faire commercial tradition. The government does not restrict foreign investment; however, the investment climate suffers from red tape, corruption, arbitrary licensing decisions, complex customs procedures, high taxes, tariffs, and fees, archaic legislation, and weak intellectual property rights. The Lebanese economy is service-oriented; main growth sectors include banking and tourism. The 1975-90 civil war seriously damaged Lebanon's economic infrastructure, cut national output by half, and derailed Lebanon's position as a Middle Eastern entrepot and banking hub. Following the civil war, Lebanon rebuilt much of its war-torn physical and financial infrastructure by borrowing heavily - mostly from domestic banks - saddling the government with a huge debt burden. Pledges of economic and financial reforms made at separate international donor conferences during the 2000s have mostly gone unfulfilled, including those made during the Paris III Donor Conference in 2007 following the July 2006 war. The collapse of the government in early 2011 over its backing of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and unrest in neighboring Syria slowed economic growth to the 1-2% range in 2011-12, after four years of 8% average growth. In September 2011 the Cabinet endorsed a bill that would provide $1.2 billion in funding to improve Lebanon''s downtrodden electricity sector, but fiscal limitations will test the government''s ability to invest in other areas, such as water.
|GDP (purchasing power parity):
| GDP (purchasing power parity): $64.22 billion (2012 est.) $63.27 billion (2011 est.) $62.34 billion (2010 est.)
note: data are in 2012 US dollars
|GDP (official exchange rate):
|GDP (official exchange rate): $41.35 billion (2012 est.)
|GDP - real growth rate:
|1.5% (2012 est.) 1.5% (2011 est.) 7% (2010 est.)
|GDP - per capita (PPP):
| GDP - per capita (PPP): $16,000 (2012 est.) $16,000 (2011 est.) $16,000 (2010 est.)
note: data are in 2012 US dollars
|Gross national saving:
|17.7% of GDP (2012 est.) 22.2% of GDP (2011 est.) 13.5% of GDP (2010 est.)
|GDP - composition, by end use:
| household consumption: 81.5%
government consumption: 15.2%
investment in fixed capital: 32.9%
exports of goods and services: 19.2%
imports of goods and services: -48.8% (2012 est.)
|GDP - composition, by sector of origin:
| household consumption: 81.5%
government consumption: 15.2%
investment in fixed capital: 32.9%
exports of goods and services: 19.2%
imports of goods and services: -48.8% (2012 est.)
|Agriculture - products:
|citrus, grapes, tomatoes, apples, vegetables, potatoes, olives, tobacco; sheep, goats
|banking, tourism, food processing, wine, jewelry, cement, textiles, mineral and chemical products, wood and furniture products, oil refining, metal fabricating
|Industrial production growth rate:
|2.1% (2012 est.)
|Labor force:
|1.481 million note: in addition, there are as many as 1 million foreign workers (2007 est.)
|Labor force - by occupation:
| agriculture: NA%
industry: NA%
services: NA%
|Unemployment rate:
|Population below poverty line:
|28% (1999 est.)
|Household income or consumption by percentage share:
| lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%
| revenues: $9.396 billion
expenditures: $13.32 billion (2012 est.)
|Taxes and other revenues:
|22.7% of GDP (2012 est.)
|Public debt:
| 127.5% of GDP (2012 est.) 133.2% of GDP (2011 est.)
note: data cover central government debt, and exclude debt instruments issued (or owned) by government entities other than the treasury; the data include treasury debt held by foreign entities; the data include debt issued by subnational entities, as well as intra-governmental debt; intra-governmental debt consists of treasury borrowings from surpluses in the social funds, such as for retirement, medical care, and unemployment
|Fiscal year:
|calendar year
|Inflation rate (consumer prices):
|Inflation rate (consumer prices): 6.4% (2012 est.) 5.1% (2011 est.)
|Current account balance:
|-$7.85 billion (2012 est.) -$4.163 billion (2011 est.)
|$5.662 billion (2012 est.) $5.386 billion (2011 est.)
|Exports - commodities:
|jewelry, base metals, chemicals, miscellaneous consumer goods, fruit and vegetables, tobacco, construction minerals, electric power machinery and switchgear, textile fibers, paper
|Exports - partners:
|South Africa 16.9%, Switzerland 10.7%, UAE 8.7%, Saudi Arabia 8.5%, Syria 6.4%, Iraq 4.4% (2012)
|$20.38 billion (2012 est.) $19.3 billion (2011 est.)
|Imports - commodities:
|petroleum products, cars, medicinal products, clothing, meat and live animals, consumer goods, paper, textile fabrics, tobacco, electrical machinery and equipment, chemicals
|Imports - partners:
|US 11.2%, China 8.3%, Italy 7.8%, France 7.4%, Germany 5.4%, Turkey 4.7%, Egypt 4.1%, Greece 4.1% (2012)
|Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
|$52.5 billion (31 December 2012 est.) $48.14 billion (31 December 2011 est.)
|Debt - external:
|$29.02 billion (31 December 2012 est.) $24.88 billion (31 December 2011 est.)
|Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:
|Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:
|Market value of publicly traded shares:
|$10.16 billion (31 December 2011) $12.59 billion (31 December 2010) $12.89 billion (31 December 2009)
|Exchange rates:
|Lebanese pounds (LBP) per US dollar - 1,507.5 (2012 est.) 1,507.5 (2011 est.) 1,507.5 (2010 est.) 1,507.5 (2009) 1,507.5 (2008)
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|Electricity - production:
|12.98 billion kWh (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 87
|Electricity - consumption:
|12.34 billion kWh (2009 est.)
|Electricity - exports:
|0 kWh (2010 est.)
|Electricity - imports:
|1.155 billion kWh (2009 est.)
|Electricity - installed generating capacity:
|2.314 million kW (2009 est.)
|Electricity - from fossil fuels:
|87.9% of total installed capacity (2009 est.)
|Electricity - from nuclear fuels:
|0% of total installed capacity (2009 est.)
|Electricity - from hydroelectric plants:
|12.1% of total installed capacity (2009 est.)
|Electricity - from other renewable sources:
|0% of total installed capacity (2009 est.)
|Crude oil - production:
|0 bbl/day (2011 est.)
|Crude oil - exports:
|0 bbl/day (2009 est.)
|Crude oil - imports:
|0 bbl/day (2009 est.)
|Crude oil - proved reserves:
|0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - production:
|0 bbl/day (2008 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - consumption:
|106,700 bbl/day (2011 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - exports:
|0 bbl/day (2008 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - imports:
|102,300 bbl/day (2008 est.)
|Natural gas - production:
|0 cu m (2010 est.)
|Natural gas - consumption:
|0 cu m (2010 est.)
|Natural gas - exports:
|0 cu m (2010 est.)
|Natural gas - imports:
|0 cu m (2010 est.)
|Natural gas - proved reserves:
|0 cu m (1 January 2012 est.)
|Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy:
|15.24 million Mt (2010 est.)
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|Telephones in use:
| 900,000 (2011)
country comparison to the world: 82
|Cellular Phones in use:
|3.35 million (2011)
|Telephone system:
| general assessment: repair of the telecommunications system, severely damaged during the civil war, now complete
domestic: two mobile-cellular networks provide good service; combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular subscribership roughly 100 per 100 persons
international: country code - 961; submarine cable links to Cyprus, Egypt, and Syria; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean and 1 Atlantic Ocean); coaxial cable to Syria (2011)
|Broadcast media:
|7 TV stations, 1 of which is state-owned; more than 30 radio stations, 1 of which is state-owned; satellite and cable TV services available; transmissions of at least 2 international broadcasters are accessible through partner stations (2007)
|Internet country code:
|Internet hosts:
|64,926 (2012)
|Internet users:
|1 million (2009)
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| 8 (2013)
country comparison to the world: 160
|Airports (paved runways):
| total 5
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
under 914 m: 1 (2013)
|Airports (unpaved runways):
| total 3
914 to 1,523 m: 2
under 914 m: 1 (2013)
|1 (2013)
|gas 88 km (2013)
| total 401 km
standard gauge: 319 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 82 km 1.050-m gauge
note: rail system unusable because of the damage done during fighting in the 1980s and in 2006 (2008)
| total 6,970 km
(includes 170 km of expressways) (2005)
|Merchant marine:
| total 29
by type: bulk carrier 4, cargo 7, carrier 17, vehicle carrier 1
foreign-owned: 2 (Syria 2)
registered in other countries: 34 (Barbados 2, Cambodia 5, Comoros 2, Egypt 1, Georgia 1, Honduras 2, Liberia 1, Malta 6, Moldova 1, Panama 2, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2, Sierra Leone 2, Togo 6, unknown 1) (2010)
|Ports and terminals:
|Beirut, Tripoli
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|Military branches:
|Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF): Lebanese Army ((Al Jaysh al Lubnani) includes Lebanese Navy (Al Quwwat al Bahiriyya al Lubnaniya), Lebanese Air Force (Al Quwwat al Jawwiya al Lubnaniya)) (2013)
|Military service age and obligation:
|17-30 years of age for voluntary military service; 18-24 years of age for officer candidates; no conscription (2013)
|Manpower available for military service:
| males age 16-49: 1,081,016
females age 16-49: 1,115,349 (2010 est.)
|Manpower fit for military service:
| males age 16-49: 920,825
females age 16-49: 941,806 (2010 est.)
|Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
| male: 36,856
female: 35,121 (2010 est.)
|Military expenditures:
|2.5% of GDP (2012)
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|Transnational Issues
|Disputes - International:
|lacking a treaty or other documentation describing the boundary, portions of the Lebanon-Syria boundary are unclear with several sections in dispute; since 2000, Lebanon has claimed Shab'a Farms area in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights; the roughly 2,000-strong UN Interim Force in Lebanon has been in place since 1978
|Refugees and internally displaced persons:
|refugees (country of origin): 436,154 (Palestinian refugees (UNRWA)) (2011); 6,516 (Iraq) (2012); 739,823 (Syria) (2013) IDPs: at least 47,000 (1975-90 civil war, 2007 Lebanese security forces' destruction of Palestinian refugee camp) (2011)
|Illicit drugs:
|cannabis cultivation dramatically reduced to 2,500 hectares in 2002 despite continued significant cannabis consumption; opium poppy cultivation minimal; small amounts of Latin American cocaine and Southwest Asian heroin transit country on way to European markets and for Middle Eastern consumption; money laundering of drug proceeds fuels concern that extremists are benefiting from drug trafficking
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By Venessa Nunn, PH Caregiver
As an adoption and foster care worker for the Cabinet for Health and Family Services in the state of Kentucky, I receive calls on a daily basis from people who are looking to complete their family. Many of the calls are from couples who cannot conceive for medical reasons. Many people with chronic illness worry that they will be denied the opportunity to be an adoptive parent solely based on their diagnosis. The truth is, chronic illness makes the adoption process more difficult but not impossible.
When a pulmonary hypertension patient is considering adoption, there are many health-related factors to consider. First, you must think about the implications of your illness during different stages in a child's life. Will you be physically able to lift an infant or toddler? Will you be able to keep pace with a child learning to crawl or walk? Will you have the energy to keep up with an older child and get involved in their activities and school functions? These questions are difficult but worth discussing in a candid conversation with your partner and PH specialist.
Once you've determined that adoption is right for your family, the adoption process requires that you present proof that you're in stable health to begin the process. A physical exam by your doctor is required, and PH patients usually need a special letter from their PH doctor confirming that you are physically capable of raising a child.
Depending on where you live, state adoptions can offer the benefit of financial assistance. In Kentucky, the state agency pays adoptive families $1,000 to cover attorney fees, along with a monthly subsidy and a Medicaid card for the child's healthcare costs until he or she turns 18. College assistance is also available for children adopted through the state agency. Financial assistance varies from state to state. Other options include adoption through a private child care agency, independent adoption, relative adoption and international adoption. Most of these adoptions require fees for attorneys and agency services. Again, these options vary from state to state, so the best place to begin is by calling your state's public adoption agency.
Choosing adoption is not an easy decision or an easy process. However, if this is something that you feel strongly about, seek out resources that can help you make this decision. The National Foster Care & Adoption Directory is a searchable database of adoption and foster care resources by region.
Venessa Nunn is the spouse and caregiver to a PH patient. She has been employed as an adoption and foster care worker by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services since 1996.
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Flames begin creeping up a pyre of pallets Sunday night toward an outhouse recording the scores of Princeton's football victories over Harvard and Yale. The bonfire tradition, dating to the late 1800s, is renewed each year the Tigers defeat the Crimson and the Bulldogs.
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Bonfire celebrating Princeton football victories lights up cold November night
Posted November 24, 2013; 10:26 p.m.
Princeton celebrated football victories over Harvard and Yale by lighting a bonfire Sunday that sent flames and smoke curling skyward on a frigid evening.
"A raw, cold November night like this one always puts me in the mood for a bonfire," President Christopher L. Eisgruber said as he stood on platform behind Nassau Hall and faced a cheering circle of Princetonians ringing Cannon Green.
"We're going to have a bonfire tonight because of this very special team," said Eisgruber, pointing to the football players, who finished the season with an 8-2 record. The Tigers earned the right to a bonfire, a tradition dating to the late 19th century, by sweeping the Crimson and the Bulldogs.
The team "brought home an Ivy League championship to this campus, where it belongs," said Eisgruber, wrapped in a long orange and black scarf.
"I want you to look out there at all these students and alumni and faculty and staff and University and town coming together because of what you did," Eisgruber said. "Thank you for beating Harvard. Thank you for beating Yale. Thank you for letting us light this bonfire tonight."
After remarks by Ford Family Director of Athletics Gary Walters, Charles W. Caldwell Jr. '25 Head Coach of Football Bob Surace and students and team members, players escorted by firefighters touched torches to the base of the pyre by the cannon on the green. The pyre, topped by an outhouse recording the scores of the Harvard and Yale games, took a few minutes to catch fire. Soon, flames swirled and wood crackled. The crowd roared as the outhouse was consumed and its framework toppled into the pile.
Students, bundled in heavy coats and layered in hooded sweatshirts and jackets, snapped photos and took videos with their cameras and mobile phones. For sophomores, juniors and seniors, it was a second consecutive fall celebrated with a bonfire. While students in 2012 collected funds for victims of Hurricane Sandy, this year they collected donations to benefit relief efforts for victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.
As the day began, there was some question whether the fire would be lit because of high winds. University and town of Princeton officials monitored forecasts and conditions during the day and by early evening decided to proceed as planned. Only a mild breeze was blowing as the ceremony began shortly after 7 p.m. The temperature was a brisk 25 degrees.
Members of the band huddle for warmth in Chancellor Green before heading out into the cold, 25-degree air.
Athletic Director Gary Walters, flanked by defensive coordinator Jim Salgado (left) and head football coach Bob Surace (right), leads the football team on the march to Cannon Green.
With the brass section blaring, the band enters Cannon Green while playing "Going Back to Nassau Hall." The band played for about an hour during the bonfire ceremony.
Students bundled against the cold pose for a photo with the Princeton tiger mascot.
President Christopher L. Eisgruber salutes the football team from a platform behind Nassau Hall.
Members of the Tiger football team whoop and cheer as they are recognized for their victories over Harvard and Yale that earned campus Sunday's traditional bonfire.
Princeton students ring Cannon Green on Sunday, Nov. 24, as a bonfire roars in celebration of the Tiger football team's victories over Harvard and Yale. The temperature was a chilly 25 degrees, but the flames warmed up the crowd.
A Princeton firefighter chats with students raising money to aid relief efforts in the Philippines, where people are recovering from the devastation of Typhoon Haiyan.
Students and others ring the fire circle at Cannon Green and watch the bonfire blaze.
After the pyre burned near to the ground, Princeton firefighters move in to extinguish the bonfire.


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This wiki provides a list of resources within the NEEShub related to hybrid simulation (HS) and real-time hybrid simulation (RTHS) for earthquake engineering. These technologies are enabling researchers to conduct a wide array of experiments to examine the behavior of structures under realistic loading conditions.
To join the hybrid simulation group and be pointed toward resources and discussions about hybrid simulation, please go to: Hybrid Simulation Workshop and click on the big "Join Group" button shown in orange on the left.
HYBRID SIMULATION (HS): Hybrid simulation is a cost-effective experimental technique to evaluate the dynamic performance of large or full scale civil structures. In hybrid simulation, the rate-dependent behavior of a civil structure, including inertial and damping effects, is simulated numerically while the displacement-dependent behavior is evaluated through experimentation. Furthermore, through the technique of substructuring, a structure (total or reference structure) can be partitioned into, (1) a physical (or experimental) substructure, which usually includes the more complex components and (2) a numerical (or computational, analytical) substructure, which usually includes well-understood behavior that can be captured by numerical models. The coupling between the two substructures is achieved by enforcing equilibrium and compatibility at the interface using a transfer system such as servo-hydraulic actuators.
REAL-TIME HYBRID SIMULATION (RTHS): Advances in embedded systems with hard real-time computing capabilities have facilitated the use of real-time hybrid simulation methods. Compared to HS, RTHS offers the capability of accurately representing the rate-dependent behavior of the physical components while examining the global performance (the reference structure) and local performance (the physical substructure). In RTHS, the interface interaction between the substructures is enforced by servo-hydraulic actuators or a shake table which act as the transfer system. A transfer system must be controlled to ensure that all interface boundary conditions are satisfied in real time. Performance of RTHS are functions of four major factors (1) the overall dynamics of the total structure (2) the accuracy of the numerical substructure (3) how the total structure is partitioned into numerical and physical substructures (4) how well the interface boundary conditions are achieved by the transfer system.
A typical RTHS system consists of cyber and physical components.
A. Cyber Components: These components execute user programmed digital functions (numerical model and transfer system motion control scheme) and while communicating with the physical world through I/O and analog sensing and actuation systems. A real-time kernel is included to meet the time scale constraints of RTHS. Cyber components include,
• Numerical Substructure: Portion of the total structure included in the numerical model.
• Transfer System Control: Digital controller is included to enable synchronization between numerical and physical substructures.
• Visualization and Control Dashboard: User interfaces and data logging components facilitate operation and visualization results during a hybrid experiment.
B. Physical components: This term refers to the portions of the reference structure that are present in the laboratory, as well as the sensors and transfer system that are used for performing the experiment. In RTHS, measured responses are fed back to the cyber components in real time. Physical components include,
• Physical Substructure: Portion of the reference structure included in the physical specimen.
• Sensing System: In RTHS, sensors, e.g. accelerometers, LVDTs, force transducers, etc., are used to measure the restoring force and local response for transfer system control feedback of the physical substructure and monitor the performance.
• Actuation System: The interface interaction between the substructures is enforced by servo-hydraulic actuators or a shake table which acts as a transfer system.
List of Resources
- Behavior of Braced Steel Frames With Innovative Bracing Schemes – A NEES Collaboratory Project
- Real-time Fast Hybrid Testing Steel Frame Test
- Hybrid Simulation and Shake-Table Tests on RC Buildings With Masonry Infill Walls
- International Hybrid Simulation of Tomorrow's Braced Frame Systems
- Semiactive Control of Nonlinear Structures
- Advanced Servo-Hydraulic Control and Real-Time Testing of Damped Structures
- Performance-Based Design and Real-Time Large-Scale Testing to Enable Implementation of Advanced Damping Systems
- Development of a Real-Time Multi-Site Hybrid Testing Tool for NEES
- Collapse Simulation of Multi-Story Buildings Through Hybrid Testing
- Development and Validation of a Robust Framework for Real-time Hybrid Testing
- Real-Time Hybrid Simulation Test-Bed for Structural Systems with Smart Dampers
- Performance-based design of squat concrete walls of conventional and composite construction
- EAGER: Next Generation Hybrid Simulation, Evaluation and Theory
- Framework for Development of Hybrid Simulation in an Earthquake Impact Assessment Context
- Real-time Hybrid Simulation Benchmark Study with a Large-Scale MR Damper
- Comparison of 200 KN MR Damper Models for use in Real-time Hybrid Simulation
- Evaluation of Structural Control Strategies for Improving Seismic Performance of Buildings with MR Dampers Using Real-Time Large-Scale Hybrid Simulation
- A Tracking Error-Based Adaptive Compensation Scheme for Real- Time Hybrid Simulation
- Servo-Hydraulic Actuator Control for Real-Time Hybrid Simulation
- Accommodating MR Damper Dynamics for Control of Large Scale Structural Systems
- Real-Time Hybrid Testing of an MR Damper for Response-Reduction (Dissertation)
- Hybrid Simulation Evaluation of Innovative Steel Braced Framing System
- Increasing Resilience in Civil Structures Using Smart Damping Technology (Dissertation)
- Evaluating Modeling Choices in the Implementation of Real-time Hybrid Simulation
- Model-Based Framework for Real-Time Dynamic Structural Performance Evaluation
- Development of a Robust Framework for Real-Time Hybrid Simulation: from Dynamical System, Motion Control to Experimental Error Verification (Dissertation)
- Development and validation of a real-time computational framework for hybrid simulation of dynamically-excited steel frame structures (Dissertation)
- NEES Vision Report on Computational and Hybrid Simulation (Committee Report)
- Development and Validation of a Robust Actuator Motion Controller for Real-time Hybrid Simulation Applications
- Development and Validation of a Computational Tool for Real-time Hybrid of Steel Frame Structures
- Hybrid Testing in NEESR Projects
- Hybrid Simulation Survey Report, July 2013
- Hybrid Simulation Workshop Report, September 2013
- Primer and Dictionary for HS and RTHS, March 2014
- CU/NEES Fast Hybrid Testing Workshop
- Hybrid Simulation Workshop at NEES@Berkeley
- Advances in Real-Time Hybrid Simulation Workshop at NEES@Lehigh
- NEES@Berkeley project highlight: NEES TIPS Seismic Isolation Hybrid Simulation
- NEES@Berkeley project highlight: International Hybrid Simulation of Tomorrow's Braced Frame
- NEES@Berkeley project highlight: Hybrid Testing of Squat RC Shear Walls
- Pseudo-dynamic Hybrid Simulation of a Six-Story Building with Self-Centering Energy Dissipating (SCED) Braces
- Small-scale Hybrid Simulation
- Non-contact Instrumentation (CABER)
- UI-SimCor
- Multi-Site Soil-Structure-Foundation Interaction Test
- Hybrid Simulation of Semi-rigid Frames
- Controlled Rocking of Steel Frame
- CABER – Hybrid Simulation of a Curved 4-Span Bridge under Complex Earthquake Motion
- Large-Scale Real Time Hybrid Simulation for Validation of Advanced Damping Systems
- NEES@Illinois MUST-SIM Facility: Physical Test and Hybrid Simulation Capabilities – Expanding the State of the Art webinar


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– A business incubator should be established in Oxford.
– The incubator should be established as a hub facility; satellite facilities in the region should be added. The network would be operated with a single management team.
– The hub incubator should be weighted to technology and commercialization of research but also include innovative start-up businesses based on non-technical products.
– A working committee should be formed representing the Economic Development Foundation, University of Mississippi, local governments and business community.
– A building of between 35,000 and 40,000 square feet should be built or otherwise acquired.
– The incubator should be operated as a not-for-profit corporation backed by grants and gifts.
– Investing sponsors should have authority to appoint a governing board of directors.
Source: Oxford-Lafayette County Small Business Incubator Feasibility Study, Stacey and Associates, Mobile.


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Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 4:17 PM GMT on August 15, 2009
Tropical Storm Ana was born this morning, when the remnants of Tropical Depression Two made a comeback and organized into the first tropical storm of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season. Ana is the latest first named storm of the season since Hurricane Andrew got its name on August 17, 1992. The two storms have some similarities, as Andrew formed in the same part of the ocean, and also struggled in its early days with high wind shear and dry air. Let's hope the similarities end there.
Ana is struggling this afternoon. After an modest burst of heavy thunderstorm activity prompted NHC to upgrade Ana to a tropical storm early this morning, Ana has run into strong upper-level winds from the west that are creating high wind shear. This shear was not forecast, and it is not clear how long it will last. The shear has acted to drive dry air into the core of Ana, destroying almost all of Ana's heavy thunderstorms. The low-level center of the storm is now exposed to view, something that often foreshadows the death of a storm. It is possible the shear will destroy Ana, and several models (the GFS and ECMWF) forecast this may be the case. However, the shear forecast calls for shear to drop into the low range, 5 - 10 knots, tonight through Tuesday. If the shear does drop as forecast, Ana should be able to moisten the atmosphere around it sufficiently to protest itself from the dry Saharan air that surrounds it (Figure 1). SSTs are 27°C today, and will increase to 28°C by Sunday. By the time Ana moves into the Bahamas, total ocean heat content rises steeply (Figure 2), and rapid intensification of Ana is possible, if the shear and dry air haven't disrupted the storm. The intensity forecast models, for the most part, predict a steady intensification of Ana to the threshold of hurricane strength five days from now. The HWRF model is on the strong side, predicting a Category 2 hurricane. The GFDL predicts a weak tropical storm five days from now, but that is because the model has Ana passing over the rugged terrain of Hispaniola, something the other models do not predict. In summary, the intensity forecast for Ana has higher than usual uncertainty, and I give equal chances that the storm will be a hurricane--or non-existent--four days from now.
Figure 1. Water vapor image from this morning showing the large area of dry, Saharan air surrounding Ana, and lying to the north of Tropical Depression Three. Image credit: NOAA/SSD
Tropical Depression Three forms, could be Bill later today
QuikSCAT data from this morning and satellite loops revealed that the tropical wave (90L) in the middle Atlantic has finally developed a well developed surface circulation and can be classified as Tropical Depression Three. Recent satellite imagery suggests that TD 3 may already be Tropical Storm Bill. Water vapor imagery (Figure 1) shows that TD 3's center consolidated a few hundred miles south of the dry air of the Saharan Air Layer (SAL). Thus, the storm should not be affected by dry air and dust as much as Ana has been. Ana may also act to moisten the atmosphere in front of TD 3, helping protect the storm from the SAL as it edges farther north over the the three days.
Figure 2. Heat content of the ocean, in kJ per square cm. Oceanic heat content steadily increases for Ana and TD 3 as they approach the Lesser Antilles Islands. Oceanic heat content levels of 90 kJ per square cm are frequently associated with rapid intensification of hurricanes. Image credit: University of Miami.
Wind shear is moderate, 15 knots, but is forecast to fall to 10 - 15 knots on days 2 - 5. Sea Surface Temperatures are about 27.5°C, and will remain in the 27.5 - 28°C range the next five days. The combination of low wind shear and sufficiently warm SSTs should allow TD 3 to intensify steadily, and I expect the storm will be at hurricane strength by Wednesday, when it will be near the northern Lesser Antilles Islands. Most of our reliable intensity models strengthen TD 3 into a hurricane by Wednesday. Oceanic heat content (Figure 2) increases sharply just before the islands, so TD 3 could be intensifying rapidly as it moves through or just north of the Lesser Antilles on Thursday. TD 3 consolidated farther south than expected, so the track models calling for a more northerly path were probably incorrect. In particular, the ECMWF model, which had TD 3 turning sharply northwestward and missing the Lesser Antilles Islands, was probably much too far to the north in this morning's 00Z run. TD 3 will probably pass very close to the northern Lesser Antilles islands on Wednesday and Thursday.
I'll have an update Sunday.
Jeff Masters
The views of the author are his/her own and do not necessarily represent the position of The Weather Company or its parent, IBM.
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather