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Speaking to a leading newspaper, Poonam Pandey confirmed that she will not be part of the Bigg Boss 5 show. The model said, "People are putting my name on the confirmed list. I am not on the show."
Adding that Rs 2 crore was too less to strip on national television, Pandey said that she might strip in a Hollywood film that she has bagged. The Producers of the movie apparently approached her after they heard that she would strip for the Indian cricket team. Poonam said, "I don"t mind stripping on screen."
One person who will be dejected on not getting to meet Poonam Pandey on Bigg Boss 5 will be the former South African cricketer Jonty Rhodes. Speaking to Hindustan Times, Jonty Rhodes had expressed his desire to meet Poonam. He said, "Let"s hope I get to see Poonam Pandey, but by all accounts she is still in hiding from the Indian cricket team."
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For the first time since he was in grade school, Kyle Crocker didn't play in a baseball game this spring.
The former Brainerd High School three-sport standout was a red-shirt infielder at the University of Minnesota and that's why he's itching to play games again, as a member of the Brainerd Lakes Area Lunkers, who open their Northwoods League season Wednesday night at home against the Alexandria Beetles.
"I'm excited for it," Crocker said of playing in front of Brainerd fans. "Hopefully we'll get a lot of people out to support us."
Crocker said he's tentatively slated to start at second or third base for the Lunkers as he sharpens his skills before returning to Minnesota in the fall.
"(Lunkers field manager Ryan Levendoski) called me a week or two ago and said that I would start out playing second base," Crocker said, "and if there's an opportunity to play third base, maybe I will, maybe I wont. We'll just play it by ear."
Levendoski expects to give Crocker plenty of at bats to prepare him for Big Ten baseball.
"Our expectations are for him to get reps at second and third base, and possibly outfield," Levendoski said. "One of his biggest assets is he's a pretty good hitter. In talking to (Gophers assistant coach) Rob Fornasiere and (head coach) John Anderson they said he just needs to work on refining his skills. We just want to get him in shape so he goes back to school ready to play."
Wood bats and long bus rides are two things Crocker will encounter in the Northwoods League, but he's looking forward to the challenge.
"The past couple summers I played with the Brainerd Bees, that's a wood bat league," he said, "so I got pretty comfortable hitting with wood. And, we hit with wood all fall down at the U. It's a big change from metal, but I like it.
"Bus rides always get long and boring, but if you've got something to do, keep busy, maybe sleep, you should be all right."
As a red-shirt, Crocker practiced with the Gophers, but did not travel or play in games.
"I did everything with the team, except travel, so for home games I would dress and take infield," he said.
When the Metrodome collapsed Dec. 12, 2010, the Gophers were forced to cancel 12 scheduled games. Fortunately, the Twins offered the use of Target Field being the Twins were out of town on those dates.
"It was pretty big because that's our home field," Crocker said of the dome collapse. "We struggled to try to find games and get games in. A lot of games got canceled.
"Target Field was great. (The Twins) let us play there. A lot of games got canceled on the road too because of the weather. It was just a weird year in general. We lost a lot of games, but we got a lot in, too."
Crocker said he didn't have an exit interview with Anderson following the season, but they talked by phone about his future.
"He said to get some at bats this summer, come back in the fall and we'll start your career here," Crocker said.
"The last half of the year I was working out at third base, but the third baseman there is pretty good," he added. "If he's still there, then he gets the nod. I'll just keep working hard in practice and hopefully good things will happen."
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Maria Theresia von Paradis
Maria Theresia Paradis (also von Paradies) (May 15, 1759 – February 1, 1824), was an Austrian musician and composer who lost her sight at an early age, and for whom Mozart may have written his Piano Concerto No. 18 in B flat major.
Early life[edit]
Maria Theresia Paradis was the daughter of Joseph Anton Paradis, Imperial Secretary of Commerce and Court Councilor to the Empress Maria Theresa, for whom she was named. The Empress, however, was not her godmother, as was often believed. Between the ages of 2 and 5 she lost her eyesight. Paradis was treated from late 1776 until the middle of 1777 by the famous Franz Anton Mesmer, who was able to improve her condition temporarily until she was removed from his care, amid concerns on the one hand of possible scandal,[clarification needed] on the other hand at the potential loss of her disability pension.[1] In either case, on this departure from Dr. Mesmer the blindness came back permanently.
She received a broad education in the musical arts from:
- Carl Friberth (music theory and composition)
- Leopold Kozeluch (piano)
- Vincenzo Righini (singing)
- Antonio Salieri (singing and composition)
- Abbé Vogler (music theory and composition).
By 1775, Paradis was performing as a singer and pianist in various Viennese salons and concerts. She commissioned various works to perform, most notably:
- an organ concerto by Antonio Salieri in 1773 (which is missing its second movement);
- a piano concerto (probably No. 18, K.456) by Mozart in 1784;
- a piano concerto by Joseph Haydn (HXVIII: 4), which was possibly premiered in Paris in 1784, but appears to have been composed in the 1770s, the original manuscript now lost.
On K.456, while this concerto is believed to be the one intended for Paradis, there are continuing questions concerning this. From Ruth Halliwell's The Mozart Family: Four Lives in a Social Context, we read:
It is not certain which concerto this was. Leopold [in a letter from Vienna] simply described it to Nannerl as a 'glorious concerto' and said it had been written for Maria Theresia von Paradis 'for Paris.' His description suggests that neither he nor Nannerl knew it already; if this is so, it must have been a later one than K.453, which seems to have been the newest they had in Salzburg at this date.
In any event, Paradis had an excellent memory and exceptionally accurate hearing, as she was widely reported to have learned over 60 concertos by heart, as well as a large repertoire of solo and religious works.
Touring Europe[edit]
However, Paradis did not stay confined to Vienna. In 1783, she set out on an extended tour towards Paris and London, accompanied by her mother and librettist Johann Riedinger who invented a composition board for her. In August they visited the Mozarts in Salzburg of that year, though Nannerl's diary seems to place this meeting in September. She played in Frankfurt and other German cities, then Switzerland. Paradis finally reached Paris in March 1784.[2] Her first concert there was given in April at the Concert Spirituel; the review in the Journal de Paris for it remarked: "…one must have heard her to form an idea of the touch, the precision, the fluency and vividness of her playing." In all she made a total of 14 appearances in Paris, to excellent reviews and acclaim. She also assisted in helping Valentin Haüy ("the father and apostle of the blind") establish the first school for the blind, which opened in 1785.
She traveled to London in late 1784, and performed over the next few months at court, Carlton House (the home of the Prince of Wales), and in the Professional Concerts at Hanover Square, among other places. She played Handel fugues to George III and later accompanied the Prince of Wales, a cellist. However, her concerts lost ground, being less well received and attended in London than in Paris. She continued to tour in Western Europe (including Hamburg where she met Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach), and after passing through Berlin and Prague, ended up back in Vienna in 1786. Further plans were made to give concerts in the Italian states and Russia, but nothing came of these. She returned to Prague in 1797 for the production of her opera Rinaldo und Alcina.
Compositions and later life[edit]
During her tour of Europe, Paradis began composing solo music for piano as well as pieces for voice and keyboard. The earliest music attributed to her is often cited as a set of four piano sonatas from circa 1777, but these are really by Pietro Domenico Paradisi, to whom much of her music is often mistakenly attributed. Her earliest major work in existence is the collection Zwolf Lieder auf ihrer Reise in Musik gesetzt, composed between 1784-86. Her most famous work, the Sicilienne in E flat major for piano quartet, is unfortunately spurious, as it is derived from a Carl Maria von Weber violin sonata (Op. 10 No. 1) and is believed to have been concocted by its purported discoverer, Samuel Dushkin.
By the year 1789, Paradis was spending more time with composition than performance, as shown by the fact that from 1789 to 1797 she composed five operas and three cantatas. After the failure of the opera Rinaldo und Alcina from 1797, she shifted her energy over more and more to teaching. In 1808, she founded her own music school in Vienna, where she taught singing, piano and theory to young girls. A Sunday concert series at this school featured the work of her outstanding pupils. She continued to teach up until her death in 1824.
When composing, she used a composition board invented by Riedinger, her partner and librettist, and for correspondence a hand-printing machine invented by Wolfgang von Kempelen. Her songs are mostly representative of the operatic style, which displays coloratura and trills. Salieri's influence may be seen in the dramatically composed scenes. Much of the stage work is modeled on the Viennese Singspiel style, while her piano works show a great influence by her teacher Leopold Kozeluch.
List of works by Maria Theresa Paradis[edit]
Stage works
- Ariadne und Bacchus, melodrama, 20 June 1791 (lost)
- Der Schulkandidat, 5 Dec. 1792, pt of Act 2 and all of Act 3 (lost)
- Rinaldo und Alcina, Zauberoper, 30 June 1797 (lost)
- Große militärische Oper 1805 (lost)
- Zwei ländliche Opern (lost)
- Trauerkantate auf den Tod Leopolds II, 1792 (lost)
- Deutsches Monument Ludwigs des Unglücklichen, 1793
- Kantate auf die Wiedergenesung meines Vaters (lost)
Instrumental works
- Pianoforte Concerto in G (lost)
- Pianoforte Concerto in C (lost)
- 12 Piano Sonatas, 1792 (lost)
- Pianoforte Trio, 1800 (lost)
- Fantasie in G, pf, 1807
- Fantasie in C, pf, 1811
- Keyboard Variations (lost)
- An meine entfernten Lieben, pf (lost)
- Various songs and lieder totaling at least 18 works, of which two are lost.
- IMSLP, including the famous Sicilienne in E-flat major for violin and piano.
Cultural references[edit]
The attempt to cure Maria Theresia by Franz Anton Mesmer is fictionalized in a short story called "Harmony" by Julian Barnes in his 2011 collection of short stories, Pulse.
She is mentioned in the director's cut of the film Amadeus. In the scene, Antonio Salieri tells Emperor Joseph II of a claim by Paradis that she was molested by Mozart during a lesson. This claim, in the film's context, is ultimately portrayed as a ruse by Salieri to hinder Mozart's appointment to a royal position (teaching the Emperor's young niece).
Playing Paradis (1994),[3] a musically self-accompanied solo play in two acts, text and music by Claudia Stevens, concerns Maria Theresia's relation to Mesmer, and blindness as metaphor.
Mesmer (1994), feature film starring Alan Rickman. Mesmer's treatment of M.T. Paradis is portrayed mostly accurately, with a few instances of artistic license.
See also[edit]
- ^ Thomas Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy (Anchor Press/Doubleday 1978), pages 54-58
- ^ Journal de Paris, 24 April 1784, pp. 504-505.
- ^ Claudia Stevens, Playing Paradis, video documentation, script, musical sketches and performance history, Claudia Stevens papers, Special Collections, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary http://scdb.swem.wm.edu/?p=collections/controlcard&id=8096
Further reading[edit]
- Michael Lorenz: Marion Fürst: Maria Theresia Paradis, Köln: Böhlau 2005 (ISBN 3-412-19505-7), Mozart-Jahrbuch 2007/2008, (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2011) Review online
- Rudolph Angermüller: Antonio Salieri. Dokumente seines Lebens. 3 Bde. Bock, Bad Honnef, 2002.
- Marion Fürst: Maria Theresia Paradis – Mozarts berühmte Zeitgenossin. Böhlau, Köln, 2005.
- Stanley Sadie (Hrsg.): The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. (2. Auflage) Grove Dictionaries, New York, 2000.
- Ruth Halliwell: The Mozart Family: Four Lives in a Social Context. Claredon Press, Oxford, 1998.
- Alexander Mell: Encyklopädisches Handbuch des Blindenwesens Verlag von A. Pichlers Witwe und Sohn, Wien, Leipzig, 1900, S. 576-578.
- Brian O'Doherty: "The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P.". Vintage, London 1992, ISBN 0 09 922371 6.
- BBI (Hrsg.): 200 Jahre Blindenbildung im deutschen Sprachraum. Wien 2004, S. 56.


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The Wave had to go to press early this week in order to celebrate the 4th of July holiday properly so there are no volleyball stories from Wednesday night nor are there updated standings. Next week we'll be back on track with both as the season finishes up week seven. We do have a few administrative items to throw at you, though.
Wednesday night was the first time that teams would have suffered forfeit losses if they had not handed in signed rosters. I sure hope you weren't one of those bad boys and girls. We'll know by next week when the penalty doubles for any delinquent teams.
When the standings printed in the Wave do not match your personal score sheet, you'll know why. It's amazing how many dogs have eaten homework and RBVL rosters!
This week's restaurant review will come next week when you will be treated to a double dose of culinary exposition. But thanks in advance to the Bay House in Breezy Point, who always do a terrific job for us.
Sean and his staff feed us well and usually have top-flight entertainment to go with the top-flight party animals of the RBVL.
And what's not to like about eating and drinking right on the beach. The Bay House always makes the trip into Breezy a real pleasure.
The spacing and locations of the net set-ups has been terrific under very trying conditions and now there are rumors that the piping plovers have flown the coop and we can reclaim our turf, at least on the left side of the boardwalk. However, our timing still needs to improve. We will be losing light each week and matches are going to conclude in the dark. Get off the boardwalk and set up your net. Then you can talk and kibitz (and imbibe) all you want.
The sooner we set up and start play, the sooner we finish and get to the party, which means we get next week's stories and quotes from the likes of TBG and Cement Shoes on time. See how it all fits together.The annual AVP volleyball tournament in Coney Island will be held Friday, 7/3 through Sunday, 7/5. Check it out if you are free. Also, the NYC Beach Volleyball Tournament will be held at Coney Island Beach on July 11 and 12.
The level of skill ranges from beginner to advanced and everyone is welcome to play. By the way, it is free. Divisions include; Women's Doubles - Open, AA, A and B; Men's Doubles - Open, AA, A and B; Boys' Doubles (under 18 years); Girls' Doubles (under 18 years) and Co-ed Fours (all ages). For more information about the tournament, go to www.nycgovparks.org. If you're interested, sign yourself up.
Now sit back and enjoy some photos from the first half of the season. As always, if you have any questions please call Patty at 917-613-0908. (Be sure to call between 10 a.m. and 9 p.m.) Or just check our website at www.rbvl. com.
You'll find the answers to most of your questions there, not to mention pretty pictures and funny stories.


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Oil in technical rebound
Crude oil prices rebounded overnight as the market approached range lows yesterday and bounced higher on a round of technical buying. The trading range I have been predicting for weeks remains in place even as most oil price drivers are currently biased to the bearish side. The evolving geopolitical situation with Iran has been the main upside price driver for most of this year especially after getting a boost with the announcement of the EU Iranian oil purchase embargo on January 23rd. With diplomacy continuing some of the immediate concerns that military action in the region was imminent have eased over the last week or so.
This year's newly added sanctions seem to be getting the attention of the Iranian government as well as the Iranian people. The Iranians have approached the first round of talks with a bit more of an open mind than how they left the last round of talks 15 months ago. In fact both sides were surprisingly pleased with the outcome to schedule another round of talks on May 23rd. Most analyst believe Iran's willingness to talk is primarily due to the impact that the sanctions are starting to have on the revenue stream in Iran. This round has targeted not only direct crude oil purchase via the EU embargo but they have attacked almost everything in the chain of buying crude oil from Iran. Just this week protestors surrounded the car of the President of Iran demanding an improvement in their economy. It seems to be getting to the population as well.
Overall the sanctions seem to be having their designed impact for now. In addition with the Iranian risk premium... which surged higher after the EU embargo announcement... has been receding over the last several weeks and is now less than half of what it was when it peaked early in February. In fact the EU has even postponed for several months when EU member states will review the embargo as for now there is no economic reason for changing the embargo according to a senior EU member as reported by Reuters this morning. Even Greece has indicated that they are not having any major problems in shifting away from Iranian crude oil use. So the pressure remains on Iran and for now the upward price push from geopolitics remains a secondary price driver.
The economy is now back in the forefront and acting as one of the main price drivers for the global oil complex. The biggest risk factor is the slowing of the global economy... in particular China. For the moment the oil market has been going through a major realignment of all of the spreads that are directly and even indirectly related to the Brent/WTI spread. The spot Brent/WTI spread is off about 45% or about $13/bbl since peaking in the middle of October of 2011. At the moment the markets are consolidating with another round of spread movement likely over the next several weeks.
Back in December and into early January the spot Brent/WTI spread seemed to be stabilizing between $8 to $11/bbl and then jumped strongly higher after the announcement of the EU Iranian crude oil purchase embargo. Over the last week or so the spread has receded and is now hovering about $5 to $6/bbl above the level it was at back in December/early January. Thus I expect that the realignment will continue especially with talks continuing with Iran and an early start to the Seaway pipeline.
Today's recovery in oil prices is partially driven by technical buy signals and partially driven by positive economic data out of Europe this morning as German business confidence surprised to the upside. The global equity markets have been in a bit of a recovery mode until yesterday's modest sell-off in the US but most Asian and European markets have not followed the US (so far) as shown in the EMI Global Equity Index table below. The Index is still higher by 1% on the week...certainly not a surging recovery but the markets are still in positive territory for the week. The year to date gain is well off of the highs made back in March and currently sits at 9.4%. The markets have been fighting a battle of macroeconomic data that have been indicating that most economies are slowing versus a modicum of optimism coming from better than expected corporate earning (so far) and the ongoing fact that the global financial markets are still being infused with a tremendous amount of liquidity as most Central Banks around the world continue to operate in an easy money policy.
For the moment the global equity markets are a positive price driver for the oil complex as well as the broader commodity complex. We now seem to be back in the mode of risk on, risk off trading with most risk asset classes highly correlated to the direction of the US dollar, Euro and the global equity markets. I expect this pattern to continue over the next several weeks at least.
I am keeping my view at neutral for oil as WTI remains within my predicted trading range of $102 to $107/bbl. At the moment the oil complex is going through a spread realignment driven by a reduction in the tensions in the Middle East and thus a receding of the Iranian risk premium along with a sentiment swing in the Brent/WTI spread due to the early start of the Seaway pipeline. I am more comfortable staying on the sidelines today for the flat price market.
I am still keeping my view at and bias at bearish. My overall view remains biased to the bearish side. The surplus is still building in inventory versus both last year and the five year average is going to lead to a premature filling of storage during the current injection season. As such for the short to medium term I doubt Nat Gas is going to reverse the downtrend it has been in for an extended period of time. We may certainly see times when short covering rallies take hold but I do not expect a sustained trend change.
Yesterday's inventory report came in as expected (see below for more details) and did not add anything new to the equation. Nat Gas is oversupplied, remains bearish as we inch closer to filling available storage capacity...likely much sooner than normal. The only solution that will stop the current downtrend is for the producing sector to make substantial cuts in production. I have seen comments from many analysts indicating how hard it will be for the producing sector to cut production due to the drill or lose clauses on leases, due to the high value of Nat Gas liquids, etc. The fact of the matter is simple. The industry is running out of places to put the Nat Gas that is being produced. Total storage is now at 61.2 of maximum workable capacity. It is difficult to say exactly when the infrastructure problems will begin to force production cuts but it will certainly be well before the end of the current injection season.
Until something emerges from the producing sector I still view Nat Gas as bearish and expect prices to continue to drift lower heading into the summer cooling season.
Currently markets are mixed as shown in the table below.
Best regards,
Dominick A. Chirichella
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In a game attended by President Barack Obama and the First Family, Akron defeated Oregon State 83-71 Sunday at the Stan Sheriff Center to advance to today's Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic semifinals.
It was the first time in five OSU games attended by Obama over the last four years that the Beavers — coached by Obama's brother-in-law Craig Robinson — were defeated.
Akron forward Demetrius Treadwell led the Zips (6-2) of the Mid-American Conference with 24 points and 10 rebounds. Akron seized control early in the second half after OSU (6-3) drew to within a point at halftime.
The Zips play No. 17 Iowa State at 11:30 a.m. semifinal. The Cyclones defeated George Mason 79-67 in the day's first quarterfinal.
Host Hawaii will play Boise State of the Mountain West Conference in the last quarterfinal of the day, starting at roughly 8:30 p.m.


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Many Americans visit Israel to tour holy sites, but for some, a bit of excitement is added to the tour package. For instance, Caliber 3 offers a 2-hour anti-terrorism training course for people of all ages. It even offers at its shooting range some extras, like paintball activities available for "families, friends, birthday parties" or other events.
The program is part of something called "Zionist tourism," a kind of tourism that The Times of Israel characterizes as "the hottest Israeli tourism trend of the summer," drawing in Americans who look forward to some "shoot 'em up" training.
Caliber 3 explains:
At our program we combine together the values of Zionism with the excitement and enjoyment of shooting which makes the activity more meaningful. The contact with real soldiers who have experienced anti terrorism fighting means that everything shown and taught is authentic.
Although not marketed as having "values of Zionism," terror-related tourism in Israel is nothing new. For instance, there's the "Ultimate Counterterrorism Mission to Israel" tour that Slate magazine described in a 5-day diary published in 2008. Earlier, in 2003, an article published in Hebrew at Ynet read in part (translated using Google translation):
New attraction: terrorism challenges
Guy Maytal
Posted: 03/05/03, 10:14
Five days of combat activity beyond the Green Line, the staple food, strenuous physical activity and life-threatening. Sounds like a horrible nightmare? 22 young Americans agreed to pay more than $ 1,000 per day for the experience "fun" this.
Two entrepreneurs from Gush Etzion, and Joshua J. Grinbld Oriental, decided to outsmart recession in tourism to Israel, and instead convince not dangerous here – offer the attraction of terrorism. Challenged tourism is not an Israeli invention: the climbing and sliding into the crater of an active volcano, diving with Great White sharks and swimming with crocodiles have been heard, but Israel can not offer those choices. So they decided to offer what we have here in abundance – the military, terrorism and attacks.
Assistance Yesha Tourism Association, marketed two American tourists package developers seeking thrills and action. Israelis heard "trip" more like a cross between Basic training for reserve duty: up at six in the morning, fitness training and Krav Maga, the rate of dismantling and assembling weapons, shooting range, visiting the outposts, helicopter flight over Hebron and Gaza, patrol and guard the settlements. "A tour along the perimeter of one of the settlements at night, knowing that there is a chance that instead of a battle unfolds, is an unforgettable experience to the world", explained the developers, who own the United States in recent years and live in the settlement of Neve Daniel.
It's not just Americans going on terror-related outings. In 2011, LiveLeak reported on picnic-like gatherings where Israelis watched watch military strikes on Gaza:


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The history of the V-22 used to bother Staff Sergeant Brian Freeman. He rejoined the Marine Corps after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, hoping to return to a CH-46 squadron, but his only option was an Osprey unit. "In the beginning, nobody wanted to fly on the Osprey," Freeman says. The 2000 Osprey crash had killed a friend of his from boot camp. "I went into the program not trusting the aircraft, and with the mentality that the MV-22 was going to have to prove itself to me. And through the years, it did." (To date, Freeman has logged more than 1,300 hours in the Osprey, one of the highest numbers in the V-22 program.)
Freeman is now convinced that the Osprey is safe. "I like that it tells you what's wrong with it," he says. "I like that once you understand how to use the computer system, the multi-function displays, the aircraft will give you information that as a CH-46 guy, you had to know what to smell, what to hear, and really have an intimate knowledge of the aircraft to diagnose. There's really nothing that I dislike about the Osprey. I used to love flying on the CH-46, until I flew the Osprey. There are lots of things I don't miss about the CH-46, because the Osprey's capabilities make that aircraft obsolete."
Major Larry Nichols came to the squadron after flying single-seat F/A—18C Hornets. "It's as if a CH-46 and an F-18 had a baby," he says. "I feel like I'm stealing when I fly the Osprey; it is a fantastic aircraft to fly, taking off like a helicopter and the [high] performance of it in aircraft mode."
He does think the cockpit design could be improved, and he also has a minor quibble with the software: "The number of keystrokes to get to certain menus is time-consuming and excessive. There are some real tedious steps to manage certain functions that are significantly simpler and more intuitive in a Hornet, specifically regarding communication and navigation."
Once -261's seven-month tour is complete, another Osprey unit will take its place—and learn from VMM-261's
experience. In Afghanistan, for instance, Captain Chris Meixell explains, "Many of us fly the initial leg of the spiral approach a little tighter, as the forward operating bases here are a little smaller than those in Iraq, where the spiral approach was first used for the Osprey."
Maintenance crews are also learning from the new environment. Sergeant Frank Mershon, an avionics technician, typically works 12 to 16 hours a day, seven days a week. (In addition to his primary job, Mershon is an aerial observer, so he often flies to aid a mission.) "Every day is different," he says. "We get certain gripes [problems or parts needing repair], and once we get our gripes, we go out and troubleshoot them." Mershon moved into -261 from a CH-46 squadron. He seems to thrive on the challenges posed by southern Afghanistan's austerity. "The V-22 is definitely more of a challenge, but it definitely makes you think to the next level," he tells me in the squadron's small chow hall, filled with cards and letters from squadron members' families. "The -46 was pretty simple, and the Osprey is brand new…. We're experiencing maintenance issues that the Osprey has never experienced before."
Perhaps the most powerful endorsement comes not from the Osprey squadron's pilots or maintainers, but from one of its passengers. "The grunts are the proving ground for the Marine Corps. What [the Osprey] does for the grunts is what its true capability is," says Gunnery Sergeant Morris. "Something may look good at the Miramar airshow, but what does it do for the infantry Marines? And that Osprey, in my opinion, closes the gap.... It is a huge push forward for the infantry."
At the end of my stay with VMM-261, I asked to visit a remote outpost on the shores of Helmand River. I'd be traveling by Osprey, but this time as an anonymous passenger, not a media embed given the privilege of sitting in the cockpit jumpseat. With the temperature dipping below freezing, I stood with a small group of Marines and civilians as four CH-53s and two Ospreys idled on the edge of the runway.
When given the word, we hustled up the Osprey's rear ramp, and I wrestled my backpacks onto my lap, crammed so tightly into the aircraft that I could hardly find my seatbelt. When we were all strapped in, the pilots taxied the aircraft onto the runway. By the anticipation on their faces, I could tell that most of the passengers had never flown in an Osprey before. The crew chief made sure everyone knew to hold on; once he'd answered the pilot's question—"Ready to go fast?"—we'd all shift toward the open rear ramp.