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Boeing 747SP
|Boeing 747SP
|Boeing 747SP of launch customer Pan Am
at London Heathrow Airport in 1978
|Wide-body jet aircraft
|Boeing Airplane Company
|First flight
|July 4, 1975
|1976 with Pan Am
|In limited service as governmental, charter or VIP aircraft, one in service as SOFIA.
|Primary users
|Pan Am (historical)
United Airlines (historical)
South African Airways (historical)
Iran Air (historical)
|Number built
|Developed from
|Boeing 747-100
The Boeing 747SP is a version of the Boeing 747 jet airliner which was designed for ultra-long-range flights. The SP stands for "Special Performance". The 747SP is similar to the 747-100 except for the shortened fuselage, larger tailplane, and simplified trailing edge flaps. The weight saved by the shorter fuselage permits longer range and increased speed relative to other 747 configurations[2] at the time.
Known during development as the short-body 747SB, the 747SP was designed to meet a 1973 joint request from Pan American World Airways and Iran Air, who were looking for a high-capacity airliner with sufficient range to cover Pan Am's New York–Middle Eastern routes and Iran Air's planned Tehran–New York route. The aircraft also was intended to provide Boeing with a mid-size wide-body airliner to compete with existing trijet airliners.
The 747SP first entered service with Pan Am in 1976. The aircraft was later acquired by VIP and government customers. While in service, the 747SP set several aeronautical performance records, but sales did not meet the expected 200 units, and production ultimately totaled 45 aircraft.[3]
The idea for the 747SP came from a request by Pan Am for a 747 variant capable of carrying a full payload non-stop on its longest route between New York and Tehran.[4] Joined with Pan Am's request was Iran Air; their joint interest was for a high capacity airliner capable of covering Pan Am's New York–Middle Eastern routes and Iran Air's planned New York-Tehran route.[5] (New York to Tehran may have been the longest non-stop commercial flight in the world for a short time, until Pan Am started Tehran to New York in mid-1976.) The aircraft was launched with Pan Am's first order in 1973 and the first example delivered in 1976.[6]
A shorter derivative of the 747-100, the SP was developed to target two market requirements.[6] The first was a need to compete with the DC-10 and L-1011 while maintaining commonality with the 747,[6] which in its standard form was too large for many routes. Until the arrival of the 767, Boeing lacked a mid-sized wide-body to compete in this segment. The second market requirement was an aircraft suitable for the ultra-long-range routes emerging in the mid-1970s following the joint request. These routes needed not only longer range, but also higher cruising speeds. Boeing could not afford to develop an all-new design, instead opting to shorten the 747 and optimize it for speed and range, at the expense of capacity.[2]
Originally designated 747SB for "short body", it later was nicknamed "Sutter's balloon" by employees after 747 chief engineer Joe Sutter.[7] Boeing later changed the production designation to 747SP for "special performance", reflecting the aircraft's greater range and higher cruising speed.[8] Production of the 747SP ran from 1976 to 1983. However a VIP order[6] for the Royal Flight of Abu Dhabi led Boeing to produce one last SP in 1987. Pan Am was the launch customer for the 747SP, taking the first delivery, Clipper Freedom, on March 5, 1976.[8]
The 747SP was the longest-range airliner available until the 747-400 entered service in 1989. Despite its technical achievements, the SP never sold as well as Boeing hoped.[6] Increased fuel prices in the mid-1970s to early 1980s, the SP's heavy wings, expensive cost,[6] reduced capacity, and the increased ranges of forthcoming airliners[6] were some of the many factors that contributed to its low sales. Only 45 were built and of those remaining, most are used by operators in the Middle East. However, some of the engineering work on the 747SP was reused with the development of the 747-300 and 747-400. In the 747SP, the upper deck begins over the section of fuselage that contains the wingbox, not ahead of the wingbox as is the case with the 747-100 and 747-200. This same design was used in the 747-300 and 747-400 resulting in a stretched upper deck.
A special 747SP is the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) astronomical observatory,[6] which had its airframe modified to carry a 2.5-meter-diameter reflecting telescope to high altitude, above 99.9% of the light-absorbing water vapor in the atmosphere. The telescope and its detectors cover a wide wavelength range from the near infrared to the sub-millimeter region; no window material is transparent over this whole range, so the observations are made through a 13 ft (3.96 m) square hole in the port upper quarter of the rear fuselage, aft of a new pressure bulkhead. A sliding door covers the aperture when the telescope is not in use.[9] Astronomers take data and control the instrument from within the normally pressurised cabin. Originally delivered to Pan Am and titled "Clipper Lindbergh", NASA has the name displayed in Pan Am script on the plane.
Apart from having a significantly shorter fuselage and one fewer cabin door per side, the 747SP differs from other 747 variants in having simplified flaps and a taller vertical tail[6] to counteract the decrease in yaw moment-arm from the shortened fuselage. The 747SP uses single-piece flaps on the trailing edges, rather than the smaller triple-slotted flaps of standard 747s.
The SP could accommodate 230 passengers in a 3-class cabin or 331 in a (303 economy, 28 business) 2-class cabin, and a maximum of 400 passengers in one class.
Forty-five 747SP aircraft were built between 1974 and 1989 with two more planned but never constructed.[10][verification needed]
Current operators[edit]
As of December 2016, there were 10 Boeing 747SP still in active service with 9 more stored and 1 preserved. The remaining 21 were either scrapped, otherwise destroyed or abandoned.[10][verification needed] In 2016, the last 747SP in commercial service was withdrawn from service by Iran Air.[11][12][13] As of 2017, the majority of the ten aircraft still in service are used for governmental or VIP transport.
- 2 Government of Saudi Arabia (painted in Saudia livery)
- 1 Pratt & Whitney Canada (used as an engine testbed)[14]
- 1 Ernest Angley Ministries
- 1 NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center
- 1 Government of Bahrain
- 1 Government of Oman
- 1 Government of Qatar
- 2 Las Vegas Sands
- 1 NASA/DLR (used as the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA)
Aircraft on display[edit]
- An ex-South African Airways 747SP nicknamed "Maluti" is on static display at Rand Airport in South Africa, where it is maintained by the South African Airways Museum Society.
Former operators[edit]
This list also includes organizations that used the aircraft temporarily, besides main operators.
- Aerolíneas Argentinas operated a single aircraft.[15]
- Air Atlanta Icelandic operated airframe MSN 21962 from 03/Aug/1997-23/May/1999. It was used on charter and adhoc flights.[16]
- Air China used the type for Pacific routes,[17] including to open its first route to USA: Beijing – Seattle. Later, the type was also used for service to Vancouver and New York from Beijing, the aircraft continued flying with Air China throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.
- Air Malawi flew one for a month on lease from South African Airways.[16]
- Air Mauritius using former South African Airways aircraft for nonstop long-haul routes such as Mauritius to Hong Kong and Mauritius to Paris, with onward sector to London Heathrow.[18]
- Air Namibia operated two former South African Airways aircraft during the 1990s, one each in their former Namib Air and current liveries.[19]
- Alliance Air a joint venture airline set up by South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda operated a single South African Airways aircraft during the 1990s.[20]
- American Airlines purchased two used airframes from TWA (N601AA and N602AA) in the late 1980s to begin their Dallas-Fort Worth to Tokyo service.[21] The aircraft had a premium configuration with 29 first class, 79 business class and 79 economy class seats, with two stand-up bars in the business class cabin. These aircraft were later moved to serve New York to London and New York to Brussels routes while AA awaited the deliveries of additional MD-11s.[22] One of the aircraft was sold to Kazakhstan Airlines and later scrapped, while the other was sold to the government of United Arab Emirates and then to evangelist Ernest Angley.[21]
- Australia Asia Airlines a Qantas subsidiary created to serve Taiwan, operated both Qantas aircraft during the mid-1990s.[16]
- Avia Airlines the short lived South African carrier operated a single leased SAA aircraft on the Johannesburg-London Gatwick route during the mid 1990s.[23]
- Braniff took delivery of 3 747SPs for their ultra-long haul routes in the Pacific and South America. They were fitted with 300 seats in a luxurious cabin and an all-orange exterior.[24] Of the three planes, as of August 2006, one has been scrapped and one is in VIP service with Yemen government. The third was formerly in VIP service with the Oman government, but was sold to the owners of Fry's Electronics, sometimes used to carry tours of Ballet San Jose.[25]
- Brunei Government Sultan's Flight operated three aircraft during the 1990s.[16]
- Cameroon Airlines operated one aircraft on lease from South African Airways in 1996.[16]
- Civil Aviation Administration of China, CAAC operating as China's airline disbanded in 1987 to form Air China who gained all the 747SP fleet.[16]
- China Airlines used the type on its non-stop routes from Taipei to Tokyo, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Los Angeles,[26] Johannesburg and to Australia via Melbourne and Sydney. In 1983, CI started its first European route: Taipei-Dubai-Amsterdam with B747SP.
- Corsair International using former South African Airways aircraft. The 747SP F-GTOM retired from Corsair on September 16, 2002, with a total 78,148h34 flight time; 80,1367h41 block/block in 14,983 cycles.[17]
- Global Peace Ambassadors of Christian Minister K.A Paul's Organisation Gospel to the Unreached Millions operated a 747SP also nicknamed "Global Peace One", it is now stored in Tijuana, Mexico.
- Iran Air was the only remaining public airline operator of the type worldwide and retired its last 747SP in June 2016 after 39 years of service.[27]
- Iraqi Airways operated a single aircraft for the Government from 1982 until 1990.[28]
- Kazakhstan Airlines operated a single aircraft commercially and for the Government.[29]
- Kinshasa Airways a defunct cargo airline, acquired a single aircraft from Sharjah based charter outfit Gulf Falcon in early 2000s, the aircraft remains stored in Sharjah and has never flown despite being painted in the airlines livery and undergone occasional engine runs.[30]
- Korean Air operated the type[5] on routes from Seoul to various destinations in USA and Europe.
- LAM Mozambique Airlines operated a single South African Airways Boeing 747SP-44 (ZS-SPF) for a while.[31]
- Luxair in cooperation with Trek Airways,[32] on the Luxembourg-Nairobi-Johannesburg route.
- Mandarin Airlines operated the 747SP aircraft on routes from Taipei to Australia in the mid-1990s.[33]
- Pan American World Airways the launch customer, took delivery of ten 747SP-21 aircraft between 1976 and 1979, operating them on trans-Pacific routes to Asia (Tokyo, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore) and Oceania (Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland), Johannesburg as well as nonstop New York-Bahrain service, the aircraft were later sold off to United Airlines.[34]
- Qantas operated two 747SP-38 aircraft from 1980 to 2004. These aircraft were originally ordered by Iran Air but export was banned following the Iranian Revolution and purchased by Qantas while still on the production line. They were used for flights between Australia and Wellington, due to Wellington's short runway but still able to meet passenger number requirements,[35] as well as service from Sydney to Johannesburg and Harare, Nagoya, stopping in Cairns, and transpacific service between Sydney and Los Angeles, during the mid 1990s they flew for subsidiary Australia Asia Airlines on flights to Taipei.[16] They were equipped with Rolls-Royce engines, unlike most other 747SPs. Both aircraft have been scrapped.[36]
- Qatar Airways operated one aircraft during 1996.[37]
- Royal Air Maroc had one ex-SAA 747-SP in use, namely the CN-RMS.
- Saudia received the first of two 747SP in 1981. One year later the airline received its second 747SP. On July 1, 1981, the first nonstop service was inaugurated from Jeddah to New York with its 747SP aircraft.[38] This service, along with the Riyadh-New York service introduced later. The aircraft now fly with Saudia Royal Flight division for the govt.
- South African Airways operated six 747SP-44 aircraft on flights from Johannesburg to London[5] and other European destinations during the apartheid years, when that airline's aircraft were not allowed to fly over African countries and were required to fly around the Bulge of Africa. The extra range allowed the aircraft to cover the additional distance nonstop. On April 1, 1977, South African Airways inaugurated the first direct 747SP flight between London[5] and Cape Town (flight SA 867), the return northbound flight SA 866 only stopping over at Ilha do Sal in Cape Verde. This route became a weekly service on Fridays and Saturdays. The sole remaining SAA 747SP – the "Maluti" – was decommissioned on September 30, 2006 with a final flight to Rand Airport where it remains on show to this day as a static display/museum aircraft. (This final transport flight was the aircraft's first flight in three years.)[39]
- Syrian Air had two aircraft, they were phased out of service in 2007 but were brought back and overhauled in 2010, they are now stored in Riyadh due to the Syrian Civil War.[40]
- Tajik Air operated a single aircraft for a short while.[41]
- Trans World Airlines operated three 747SP-31 aircraft[42] from 1979 to 1986. These aircraft were intended for long distance routes to the Middle East[42] which never materialized. Instead, they flew on regular red-eye flights between Los Angeles and Boston, as well as international flights to Paris. Two of these were purchased by American Airlines (see below); the third was purchased by the government of United Arab Emirates and later by Las Vegas Sands.[43]
- Trek Airways leased from South African Airways. Aircraft were re-registered in Luxembourg and rebranded as Luxavia for flights to be operated there [44]
- Union de Transports Aeriens operated one on a temporary basis for a month, sub-leased from Luxair.[45]
- United Airlines acquired the 747SP from Pan Am in 1986, and remained in operation until 1994, where they were used on United flights to London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.[46]
- United Arab Emirates Government the state operated a total of six 747SP VIP/Government aircraft, mainly belonging to Dubai Air Wing and Abu Dhabi Amiri Flight.[16]
- Yemen Government operated a single airframe (SN: 21786) purchased from Braniff in 2000 and was used as a VIP transport with Yemenia . The aircraft was damaged by gunfire in March 2015 [47] and was destroyed by fire in April.[48][49]
There were three significant commercial around-the-world record-setting flights flown by 747SP: two operated by Pan Am and the other operated by United Airlines with the aircraft being "loaned" to Friendship Foundation, in order to raise money for the foundation. Those flights are:
- Liberty Bell Express[6]—Flown from New York/JFK May 1–3, 1976. 2 stopovers at Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi and Tokyo-Haneda Airport. The round-the-world flight took 46 hours and 26 minutes over 23,137 miles.[6]
- Pan Am Flight 50—to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Pan Am. Flown October 28–30, 1977 from San Francisco/SFO, with a time duration of 54 hours, 7 minutes, 12 seconds. 3 stopovers at London-Heathrow Airport, Cape Town International Airport and Auckland Airport. Flight 50 flew over both the North Pole and the South Pole.
- Friendship One[6]—Flown January 29–31, 1988 from Seattle/SEA, to raise funds for Friendship Foundation. Two stopovers were made, at Athens Airport and Taipei-Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (formerly the Chiang Kai-shek International Airport). The record lasted less than a month, as it was beaten by a Gulfstream IV piloted in part by Gulfstream Aerospace CEO Al Paulson. The round-the-world flight took 35 hours and 54 minutes over 23,125 miles.[6]
Incidents and accidents[edit]
- On February 19, 1985, China Airlines Flight 006, a 747SP-09 (aircraft registration N4522V) with 274 passengers and crew on board on a flight from Chiang Kai-shek Airport to Los Angeles International Airport suffered an inflight failure on engine number four. While the flight crew attempted to restore power the aircraft rolled to the right and started a steep descent from the cruising altitude of 41,000 feet, pulling 4.8 G and 5.1 G on two occasions. The captain managed to stabilize the aircraft at 9,500 feet and the aircraft diverted to San Francisco International Airport which was 550 km (343.8 mi.) away. Two passengers were injured and the aircraft suffered major structural damage.[26]
- On October 5, 1998 a South African Airways Boeing 747SP-44 (ZS-SPF) operated by LAM Mozambique Airlines suffered an engine failure shortly after take-off from Maputo International Airport, Mozambique. The no. 3 engine suffered an uncontained failure – flying debris caused damage to the no. 4 engine and the wing. A fire broke out that couldn't be extinguished immediately, forcing an emergency landing. All 66 people on board survived. As a result the aircraft was withdrawn from service and scrapped.[31]
- During the Yemeni Civil War (2015-Present), a 747SP owned by the President of Yemen, 7O-YMN, was struck by gunfire on Thursday 19 March 2015. Subsequent photographs show that the aircraft was then completely destroyed by fire afterwards.
|Cockpit crew
|3 (2 pilots, flight engineer)[51]
|Seating capacity
|331 (28F + 303Y)[50] or 343 (30F + 313Y)[52]
|exit limit
|Overall length
|184 ft 9 in (56.31 m)
|195 ft 8 in (59.64 m)
|Wing area
|5,500 ft² (511 m²)[53]
|Overall height
|65 ft 10 in (20.06 m)
|Operating empty weight
|325,260–336,870 lb (147,690–152,780 kg)
|Maximum take-off weight
|696,000 lb (315,600 kg)
|Engine models (x 4)
|Engine thrust (x 4)
|PW 46,950–50,000 lbf (208.8–222.4 kN)
RR 50,000–53,000 lbf (220–240 kN)
|Maximum speed
|Mach 0.92 (542 kn; 1,004 km/h)[54]
|Cruising speed
|Mach 0.86 (493 kn; 914 km/h)[54]
|Service ceiling
|45,100 feet (13,700 m)[54]
|Maximum range
|5,830 nmi (10,800 km; 6,710 mi)[a][52]
|Max Fuel capacity
|50,360 USgal (190,610 l)
- ^ JT9D, 276 passengers
See also[edit]
- Related development
- Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and era
- Related lists
- ^ "747 Model Summary". Boeing. Retrieved December 29, 2010.
- ^ a b "The Boeing 747 Classics". Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Boeing. Retrieved 2009-01-23.
Boeing also built the 747-100SP (special performance), which had a shortened fuselage and was designed to fly higher, faster and farther non-stop than any 747 model of its time. \
- ^ Norris & Wagner 1999, p. 20
- ^ Eden, Paul. (Ed). Civil Aircraft Today. 2008: Amber Books, pp. 92–3.
- ^ a b c d Jenkins 2000, p. 76.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Eden 2008, pp. 96–7.
- ^ Sutter, Joe (2006). 747: Creating the world's first jumbo jet and other adventures from a life in aviation. HarperCollins. p. 218. ISBN 0-06-088241-7.
- ^ a b Norris, Guy (1997). Boeing 747: Design and Development Since 1969. Motorbooks International. p. 74. ISBN 0-7603-0280-4.
- ^ "NAS's new airborne observatory". Sky and Telescope. 120 (4): 22–28. October 2010.
- ^ a b 747sp.com – Production List retrieved 4 June 2016
- ^ Chini, Amin. "Iran Air Grounds Boeing 747SP, Suspends Kuala Lumpur Service (Jun 21, 2016)". AviationIran.com. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
- ^ "Production List – airframe 21093". 747SP.com. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
- ^ "Review: Farewell Iran Air B747-SP Tehran to Mumbai". Sam Chui Aviation & Travel. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
- ^ MRJ Geared Turbofan Starts Flight Tests On 747SP. Aviationweek.com.
- ^ Argentinas 747SP. Airliners.net (January 5, 2012).
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Operators". Boeing 747SP Website.
- ^ a b Jenkins 2000, p. 79.
- ^ Encyclopedia of African airlines – Ben R. Guttery. Books.google.com.
- ^ Air Namibia 747SP. Airliners.net.
- ^ Alliance 747SP. Airliners.net.
- ^ a b "Airfleets aviation – Airline Fleet, plane, airport : Boeing Airbus Embraer Atr Fokker Dash Beechcraft". airfleets.net.
- ^ "Vintage Airline Seat Map: American Airlines Boeing 747SP". Frequently Flying. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
- ^ Avia 747SP. Airliners.net (January 3, 2006).
- ^ http://www.braniffinternational.org/aircraft/747sp.htm Archived August 31, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Mercury Star News: Ballet's Head-turning Move, Fry's Owner Loans Decorated 747 For S.J. Dancers' Tour. Nl.newsbank.com (November 21, 2007).
- ^ a b Aviation Safety Network report – 19 February 1985 accident. Aviation-safety.net.
- ^ ch-aviation.com – Iran Air retires the B747SP from service 26 November 2014
- ^ Iraqi 747SP. Airliners.net (September 7, 2011).
- ^ Kazakhstan Airlines 747SP. Airliners.net (September 4, 1994).
- ^ Kinshasa Airways 747SP. Airliners.net (November 3, 2003).
- ^ a b "Boeing 747SP". Zap16.com. Retrieved December 30, 2010.
- ^ Trek Airways and Luxair. Trekairways.co.za.
- ^ Mandarin Airlines will make maiden flight to Australia. None.
- ^ 1977/78: PanAm Routes. Airline Route (December 19, 2008).
- ^ "Red, White And Q Farewell For Qantas Aircraft". Qantas. March 4, 2002. Retrieved 2008-06-04.
- ^ "QFOM – Qantas 747 VH-EBQ". Qantas Founders Museum. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
- ^ "Qatar Airways Fleet Details and History". planespotters.net.
- ^ Saudi Arabian Airlines – History of the 80's. Saudiairlines.com.
- ^ "Boeing 747SP Maluti ZS-SPC". SAA Museum. 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
- ^ Syrian Air 747s status at January 2012. Ch-aviation.ch.
- ^ Tajik Air 747SP. Airliners.net.
- ^ a b Davies 2000, p. 85.
- ^ Las Vegas Sands VP-BLK (Boeing 747 – MSN 21961). Airfleets.net.
- ^ The Boeing 747SP of Trek Airways. Trekairways.co.za (September 4, 1993).
- ^ UTA 747SP information
- ^ 1992/93: UNITED International Network. Airline Route.
- ^ "Soldiers loyal to Yemen's former president storm Aden airport". The Guardian. Associated Press in Aden. 19 March 2015.
- ^ Tommy Mogren (April 6, 2015). "Yemenia 747SP damaged during attacks". B747SP Website.
- ^ Gulf News (July 17, 2015). "Aden may tilt scales in conflict" (PDF). Gulf News.
- ^ a b "747 Airplane Characteristics for Airport Planning" (PDF). Boeing Commercial Airplanes. May 2011.
- ^ a b "Type Certificate Data Sheet" (PDF). FAA. February 27, 2015.
- ^ a b c "747-100/-200/-300/-SP" (PDF). Boeing. 2007.
- ^ "Boeing 747SP". Airliners.net.
- ^ a b c Gregory Maxwell (January 13, 2014). "The Life and Times of the Boeing 747SP".
Further reading[edit]
- Davies, R.E.G. (2000). TWA : an airline and its aircraft. McLean, Virginia: Paladwr Press. ISBN 1-888962-16-X.
- Jenkins, Dennis (2000). Boeing 747-100/200/300/SP (AirlinerTech Series, Vol. 6). North Branch, Minnesota: Specialty Press. ISBN 1-58007-026-4.
- Norris, Guy; Wagner, Mark (1999). Modern Boeing Jetliners. Osceola, Wisconsin: Zenith Imprint. ISBN 0-7603-0717-2.
- Baum, Brian (1997). Boeing 747SP. Miami, Florida: World Transport Press. ISBN 0-9626730-7-2.
External links[edit]
Media related to Boeing 747SP at Wikimedia Commons


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A Texas voter fraud highlight reel?
Monday, Oct 13, 2008, 05:54PM CST
By Crystal Hubbard
Texas Watchdog recently unearthed thousands of dead voters still on the rolls in Harris County -- including some who had cast ballots posthumously in recent elections -- and Richard Daley doppelgangers seem to have been conducting similar business across the country (see here and here). But the Lone Star State is almost as notorious for voter fraud as the Windy City—even now, the "Duke of Duval" remains legendary for his role in LBJ's victorious 1948 Senatorial bid.
Mounds of reporting have been done, largely in smaller communities, about suspicious mail-in ballots, politiqueras, and elderly pawns abused by political machines.
Consider this a Texas voter fraud highlight reel:
Ten people were indicted in connection with the 2005 McAllen mayoral race in what The (McAllen) Monitor referred to as "a landmark voter fraud case." (As of April, seven of the indictments had been dropped and one person pled guilty.)
The San Antonio Express-News reported in June of last year that "a review by Bexar County officials found that 41 noncitizens may have voted illegally in San Antonio" between 2001 and 2007.
In 2007, a Mercedes citizen alleged that some of the vote-counters for the city's municipal and school board races were steaming open mail-in ballots and changing votes. The same Monitor story also reported that two weeks prior to the steam-scandal, voters for the La Joya school board race were allowed to vote when they should have been given provisional ballots instead. (Normally, provisional ballots are held until a voter's address can be verified.)
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported in 2007 that elderly voters may have received improper help in completing their ballots for that year's District 5 City Council race; challengers in the race even filed suit against incumbent Frank Moss, alleging that "illegal votes" had been cast for him. Texas law requires an "Oath of Assistance" to be signed by anyone who aids a voter in filling out their ballot. According to the newspaper, there were no signatures on any of the votes cast by people who said they had been helped. Moss would go on to retain his seat.
And from Duval County itself, mail-in ballots for the county's 2006 primary outnumbered neighboring Karnes County 10 times. Using figures they compiled, the San Antonio Express-News found that of the 5,641 votes cast in that year's primary, 2,864 were mailed in. That 5,641 figure represented 57 percent of the county's population at the time; statewide voting for that year's primary was 8 percent.
Now, you may be saying that a few extra votes in small town America hardly impacts the course of things to come. But to men like Mister Johnson, they make all the difference.
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Far North District councillors have turned down a request by Mayor Wayne Brown for $3000 to travel to Canada to promote the district at the world's biggest mining conference.
Mr Brown put the cost of attending next month's conference as the Northland Mining Group's representative at $9000, which he had proposed splitting three ways between himself, the council and business development group Northland Inc.
The request was debated at yesterday's meeting in Kaikohe, with councillors torn between wanting to send the best-qualified person to the conference, promoting investment in the North and avoiding a conflict of interest - especially as Mr Brown has recently set up a prospecting company, Tai Tokerau Minerals, in which he has a 5 per cent stake.
However, revelations of a business card Mr Brown had had printed for the conference swung the debate against him. The card, printed via the council, named him as mayor but gave his private contact details instead of the council's. The vote was locked four-all when Deputy Mayor Ann Court used her casting vote to knock back the proposal.
Before he had to leave the chamber, Mr Brown told councillors an interest in mining did not amount to a conflict of interest. The government, not councils, issued prospecting licences and any mining was at least five years away, so he could not profit personally from the conference.
At last year's conference he was the only member of the New Zealand delegation promoting Northland, he said.
In Taranaki the petroleum and minerals industry had created 7500 jobs paying more than $100,000; just 1000 jobs like that in Kaitaia would transform the Far North.
Mr Brown said he had been prompted to take a small stake in a mining company after would-be investors from China asked him why he wasn't investing if the prospects in Northland were as good as he made out.
Tracy Dalton said the Far North could not afford to miss any chance to promote business or create jobs, especially with so many people leaving for mining jobs in Australia.
Tom Baker said the public would see a conflict of interest, whether that was true or not. The timing of Mr Brown's company had put the council in an awkward situation.
Monty Knight said Mr Brown was the best-qualified person to fly the flag for the Far North.
''Would you seek out someone who has no knowledge of the industry to sell our case at the conference? Wayne is controversial, but who else is going to represent us?''
Cr Knight said the mayor had been upfront by declaring his company in the council's interests register. If he was devious he would have waited until after the conference or given the company a name unrelated to mining.
Cr Court said no one was more passionate about mining and putting Northland on the map than Mr Brown, but the matter of the business card had blurred the lines between his council role and his private interests. The Auditor General had made it clear that public officials could not profit from their positions, she said.
''I don't think there's been any intention to deceive but his enthusiasm and business acumen has introduced shades of grey for us.''
The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada Conference is being held in Toronto on March 3-6.


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Tuesday, April 1, 2014
DeNA Team Holds Press Conference Announcing Seko's Comeback and Plans to Make 2020 Olympic Marathon
On March 30, the Tokyo-based DeNA corporate team held a press conference to announce new members Kenta Murozuka and Hiroki Sugawa. Team management also announced that legend Toshihiko Seko will make a comeback to competitive marathoning after a 26-year absence in hopes of making the 2020 Tokyo Olympics marathon team, switching roles from his current position as the team's head coach to becoming one of its twelve athletes.
With the start of the new fiscal year today the team's roster page was updated to include the new team members and reflected Seko's new position on the team.
Seko's athlete profile includes the following:
Born July 15, 1956 in Kuwana, Mie. During his career he won ten out of his fifteen domestic and international marathons. On the track he was also dominant, giving the Japanese national records a beating over an impressive range from 5000 m to the marathon and setting then-world records over 25,000 m and 30,000 m.
In April, 2013 he became head coach of the DeNA Running Club corporate team, but, resolving to "make Japanese marathoning #1 in the world again," he has chosen to return to competitive running. His goal is to make the 2020 Tokyo Olympics team.
Height, weight: 170.6 cm, 73.5 kg
Blood type: O
Favorite word: passion
Hobby: golf
Most redeeming characteristic: I'll be friends with anybody.
Message to fans: It's going to take a while, but please cheer me on over the long haul. I will definitely be ready in time for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
5000 m: 13:24.29
10000 m: 27:42.17
30 km: 1:28:52
marathon: 2:08:27
Ten wins in fifteen marathon starts
Four-time Fukuoka International Marathon winner, 1978-1980, 1983
Two-time Boston Marathon winner, 1981, 1987
Tokyo International Marathon winner, 1983
London Marathon winner, 1986
Chicago Marathon winner, 1986
Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon winner, 1988
Two-time Olympic marathoner, Los Angeles 1984 and Seoul 1988
Posted by Brett Larner at 8:36 AM
Labels: 2020 Olympics, DeNA, Toshihiko Seko
7 comments:
I like your work!
- April 1, 2014 at 5:15 PM
Good one! Question: Do Japanese do April Fools?
- April 1, 2014 at 5:46 PM
- Brett Larner said...
No joke on my part. This is translated as presented on the DeNA website.
- April 1, 2014 at 9:36 PM
- Jean-Benoit Jaouen said...
FANTASTIC !!! Running the Olympic marathon at 64 would be amazing. Just do it, impossible is nothing.
- April 1, 2014 at 9:54 PM
- TokyoRacer said...
Ha ha ha....
I guess that answers the question of whether the Japanese do April Fool's jokes.
- April 1, 2014 at 11:59 PM
- Anna Novick said...
Glad to see Japan Inc., maintaining some sense of humor :)
- April 2, 2014 at 8:47 AM
- Metts said...
And in Korea too. University students wore their old high school uniforms for April Fool's day.
- April 2, 2014 at 10:09 AM
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Anne Briggs - "Sandman's Song" (The Time Has Come)
English folk singer Anne Briggs made her name with unaccompanied renditions of age-old melodies. Originally released in the 1960s on Topic, subsequently compiled on A Collection in the 90s and recently reissued on double album by BoWeavil as The Complete Topic Recordings, these acapella recordings reveal Briggs as perhaps the most important revivalist singer of her generation. After hooking up with A.L. Lloyd and Ewan MacColls Centre 42 touring directive in 1962, Briggs quickly became one of the central figures of Englands burgeoning new folk music movement, shacking up for a time with Bert Jansch, performing in clubs throughout Britain, and periodically detaching from everything to head off into the country and lead the nomads life.
Folk aficionados rightly venerate Briggs for her freewheeling, humane approach to descanting melody. She has an innate grasp of both content and context and her delivery is unmatched, possessing grace more affecting for its almost artless roundedness, which nonetheless also admits to idiosyncrasy. Her voice is jagged [and] intense, as Karl Dallas would have it, and yet completely at ease with itself: The Wires Ed Baxter once hailed her directness and honesty. The acapellas recorded on Complete Topic Recordings are still considered Briggss most potent and historically relevant interventions, but The Time Has Come and Sing A Song For You in many ways make for more culturally interesting documents.
CBS originally released The Time Has Come in 1971; it has been reissued before, though this current edition, with liner notes from Andy Beta, is preferable. Documenting a clutch of Briggss own songs, it reveals Briggs as a fine songwriter within her tradition, transcending some of the starch of folks earnestness through humility, warmth and joie de vivre. The opening Sandmans Song unfolds a fable in ruminative fashion, with Briggs weaving through finger-picked chords as though shes chasing logic to its end and marshalling its forces on the rebound. There are several short instrumental pieces for bouzouki which break up the albums overarching melancholy, one of which is a piece of chase music for her pet dog, Clea. Yet the strongest cuts drip with pensive sadness: The Time Has Come and Wishing Well, the latter a co-write with Bert Jansch, weave an everyday profundity out of leaving and loss. Lal Knights (nee Watersons) Fine Horseman closes with a chilly, remorseful poise thats particularly potent given the innocent, ingénue enthusiasm of earlier songs like Fire And Wine and Ride, Ride.
Sing A Song For Yous provenance is less clear-cut. Recorded in 1973 with violinist Barry Dransfield and folk-rock group Ragged Robin, mere weeks before the birth of Briggss second child, the albums release was abandoned after Briggs refused to submit to a second photo shoot for the front cover. She took off to North West Scotland, and the project lay inert until Fledgling finally released the recordings on CD in 1996. Well, praise be for that - though its an unpopular position to take, this is my favorite Briggs recording, at least in part due to its sense of play. Rehearsed in one day, recorded the next, the joy that permeates Sing A Song For You bespeaks the pleasures of song-bound improvisation. In their liner comments, Lal and Norma Waterson praise Briggss real freedom, with the element of risk absolutely central, at once high praise from two of folks greatest vocalists and an observation that hits at the heart of the matter.
By swinging between either side, positioning herself as a revivalist yet taking up with the scruffy, likely lads in Ragged Robin, underlings performing in folk-rocks prime, Briggs collapses folk dogmatics. There are gorgeously unadorned renditions of Sovay, The Bonambuie and Bird In The Bush on this album, along with gentle, reflective acoustic melancholia on I Thought I Saw You Again and Travellings Easy, but the best performances, like the title song and Summers In, show group, vocalist and violinist swaying in consort. And while Briggss voice occasionally falters on the rowdy Summers In perhaps the source of her discomfort with her signing on this record the performance is most affecting due to the improvised nakedness of the setting.
Indeed, both The Time Has Come and Sing A Song For You are so powerful because theyre essentially recombinant records, documents of a questing, free spirit. From self-penned acoustic songs to traditional-cum-modernist folk-rock, from rambling, energetic bouzouki instrumentals to austere acapella, topped with a voice that stilled the air, for a period of ten years, Briggs had it all. The Waterson sisters say it best, though, when they hail Briggss firebrand spirit, her way of decorating a melody utterly original while sounding, at the same time, traditional - which is, of course, the essence of the thing.
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Your Truth, My Truth, The Truth
New York, NY —
A new play at Columbia University is the latest work from British theater director Peter Brook. The work explores the life and teaching of a West African Sufi master. WNYC's Judith Kampfner has more on the play, which is in French with English supertitles.
SOUND OF PLAY: Ta verite, ma verite, la verite
Your truth, my truth, the truth –the philosophy of this play is that the truth belongs to no –one.
The West African Sufi mystic Tierno Bokar believed that religious faith is a personal journey and no one path is right. He was born in 1875 and died in 1939 and spent most of his life in a small village in Mali. Bokar converted many people to an open and tolerant form of Islam.
Seekers came from far and wide to ask Tierno Bokar questions and he would reply by telling parables, drawing on the Koran and traditional West African storytelling.
Actor Sotigui Koyate is a long time member of Peter Brook's troupe and is originally from Mali.Tall and thin, he has a long face and doleful eyes. He moves slowly with grace and dignity and when he sits serenely on a straw mat on the bare stage–he's bathed in golden light. The director Peter Brook hopes that the audience will be touched by the moments of stillness.
BROOK: Now Tierno Bokar, you experience a quality through him and it's experienced by everyone together through silence. When you see a work of art like an icon or a Buddha, or a cathedral, something in you receives you experience a quality of silence, there is a moment when you are touched by that quality.
Bokar scholar Professor Louis Brenner says Brook has captured the contemplative essence of the sufi master.
BRENNER: The theater of Peter Brook is not so much an entertainment as an invitation to some kind of inner reflection.
Brook If coming to the theater one person goes away with their own wish to look beyond all the difficulties and understandable pressures and impossible stresses of material life. We're more than rewarded. Our job is not to convert anybody but to give a little nourishment
And that nourishment may be the reward for working hard to stay with the story. The set is austere and the super titles hang high above the stage. Not to mention, that Bokar's teachings are often enigmatic – it's an hour and a half of sheer concentration.
BROOK: We only want people to come who get an impression that this is something that could interest them. We are not fighting to entertain them.
The audience has to grapple not only with religious concepts, but a history lesson on French colonial Africa.
As the play unfolds the French colonial authorities take action against Tierno Bokar and his followers. His young disciple describes the atrocities and it's impossible not to make comparisons with Iraq
BROOK: One of the moments that in performances here have been so powerful, is when you hear the young African saying that he goes from post to post and at each one of them is a new general in charge and then they're described - that there's been torture and humiliation, pissing on one person handling them brutally, threatening them.
Despite the oppression, Bokar refuses to blame his enemies, in fact he embraces them. Professor Ousmane Kane from Columbiasays that shatters many prejudices against the Islamic faith:
KANE: What they can learn seeing this play is terror inspired by variants of Islamic fundamentalism is just one side of the Islamic story. Another side would be tolerant, open minded and even a mystical Islam who advocates believe there are so many paths to salvation.
By the end of the play, Bokar is under house arrest. He cannot go to the mosque, and lives out his last years impoverished and deserted by his followers who are frightened to be associated with him. Professor Brenner.
BRENNER: At the moment a Muslim dies, he should recite there is no god but god.. but if you can't recite then you can take your index finger and place it over your hears. Very slowly Tierno makes this gesture and you have this hint that the breath has gone out of him as he lightly gives way and dies in a very moving moment for me.. the image was very strong.
BROOK: For ten minutes there usually a marvelous silence at the end of the performance and people live with something of their own.
KAMPFNER: I felt a bit ridiculous but I ventured to tell Brook my own thought in that quiet time –a fervent wish to find a wise teacher and sit on a mat with him under a tree.
BROOK: I think that is marvelous. And for you then is to see that's an image. But that's not truly the essence of what you mean. You're turning it into a pretty picture. Now either you are satisfied with a pretty picture in which you'll find a wise man and sit on a mat or you do something much more demanding on yourself which is to come back to what in me is really yearning.»


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A couple of days after Pakistan released 151 Indian fishermen, India on Friday released 37 Pakistani prisoners, 32 of them fisher men, as a reciprocal goodwill gesture.
The prisoners, who were brought to the Attari border on Friday morning, were handed over to the Pakistani Rangers by the Indian authorities in the afternoon.
Of those released, 32 were languishing in Gujarat jails, three in Amritsar, one in Kolkata and one in Ferozepur.
Happy on being released, the Pakistani prisoners thanked the Indian authorities and requested that fisher men must be dealt with leniency.
Notably, after being invited by India to participate in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had announced the release of 151 Indian fishermen.


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On my first trip through Scott Pitoniak's latest book, Buffalo Bills Football Vault: The First 50 Seasons, I stopped reading after seven or eight pages.
That's certainly not meant as a knock on Pitoniak's work. Scott knows his stuff ¢ he's covered the Bills since the mid-'80s, after all ¢ and I've always enjoyed his writing style. Instead, I was having so much fun checking out all the reproduced memorabilia included in this gorgeous ōscrapbook,ö I began eagerly flipping through the pages like a kid on Christmas morning, impatient to see what was inside the next brightly-wrapped gift.
Here's how Whitman Publishing, which began the series with books on major-college football and basketball programs, describes the concept:
ōImagine being given the key to a vault in a bank where you can touch everything inside. With Whitman Vault Books, we have taken this dream one step further by delivering to you the treasures of your favorite team inside of our ultimate history books.
ōEvery book in the Whitman Vault series takes you back to the very beginning of a schoolÆs football or basketball program through a narrative provided by an author with detailed knowledge of the program while accompanied by vintage photographs from extensive campus archives. But what makes this book different than any other ever produced is that we include replicas of old collectibles and memorabilia that you can touch and actually remove from the Vault. That is why each book weighs almost 5 pounds!ö
In the Bills Vault, those reproductions, stored in protective sleeves on and between the pages of the book, include a 1961 season-ticket order form ($5 per game for sideline seats) ... copies of the ōBuffalo Bills Bulletinö newsletter ... a sideline pass from the 1964 AFL Championship Game ... postcards of gameday program covers and the famous Machine Gun Kelly poster ... Pitoniak's own Super Bowl press passes ... a ticket from the Comeback game ... and even, stuffed in behind a color photo of the 1964 squad, a miniature felt AFL Bills pennant. (There's more, much more, but I've given you enough spoilers for one review.)
Back to the book itself, which kicks off with a foreword from Chris Berman titled, ōWhy I Love Buffalo.ö Pitoniak's clear, concise writing, full of quotes and anecdotes, smoothly covers all the requisite high and low points of the team's first 50 seasons from Ralph Wilson's pre-Bills background all the way up through Chan Gailey's hire. The text is handsomely complemented by countless photos ¢ many which were never used in any previous Bills-related book ¢ and more memorabilia from both team and private collections; in his acknowledgments, Scott compared the hours he and Bills archivist Denny Lynch spent working on the book to a treasure hunt.
It's easy to see why he feels that way. ōBills Vaultö isn't inexpensive; the book retails for $50, although I pre-ordered my copy from Amazon.com at a discount. But to me, it's absolutely worth the price ¢ as much collector's item as reference source ¢ and would make an eye-catching centerpiece for any true Bills fan's bookshelf.
Well, the list of preliminary Pro Football Hall of Fame nominees has been released and several names familiar to all Bills fans appear. The usual suspects ¢ Steve Tasker and Andre Reed ¢ are on the list, but I thought I would take a moment to discuss the entire list, their qualifications and my opinion of what is going to happen.
Steve Tasker
Brief Bio: Tasker played 13 seasons for the Bills and was selected to seven Pro Bowls, making him the first special teams player to accomplish that task. He generated 204 special team tackles and blocked seven punts over his career. He was named to the Pro Football Hall of FameÆs All-Time Team in 2000 and was inducted into the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame in 2001.
My Opinion: This one baffles me. The definition of a Hall of Famer is someone who dominates at his position or is a trailblazer. Hall of Fame selector Rick Gosselin stated, ōYou can compare Emmitt Smith to Walter Payton, Brett Favre to John Elway and Michael Strahan to Lee Roy Selmon. But you canÆt compare Tasker to anyone.ö Sounds like a trailblazer to me. Either that or the selection committee has trouble understanding how to evaluate talent. Former special teams coach Bruce DeHaven stated, ōI never saw anybody use three guys to try to block a gunner on punt coverage until I saw teams start to do it against Steve Tasker. He forced people to do things that no one had ever done before on special teams.ö He made seven Pro Bowls and was the only special teams player to be named MVP. How can you say that he did not dominate? Tasker is probably not going to make it. The Hall of Fame selectors are more concerned with offensive and defensive players, and will ignore special teams. If, by some miracle, the selection committee elects a special teamer, it will be Ray Guy. Is Tasker deserving of the honor? Yes. Will he get it? Probably not. It is unfortunate that Tasker will not get the recognition that he deserves. You can thank the selection committee for that travesty.
Andre Reed
Brief Bio: A fourth-round pick for Buffalo in the 1985 NFL Draft, Reed went on to play 15 seasons for the team. Over that time, Reed was selected to seven Pro Bowls and retired as the all-time receiving leader for the Bills and third all-time in the NFL. His 941 receptions netted him 13,095 yards and 86 touchdowns.
My Opinion: Reed is going to have a difficult time this year. No other receiver on the list comes close to Jerry Rice, and the selection committee might ignore all other receivers in this class. If they put another receiver in, it will probably be Cris Carter. CrisÆ problem is his whining a few years ago about his induction and having a camera crew follow him around that weekend to capture his Hall of Fame moment. The selection committee seems to want to teach him a lesson, so he might have to wait another year for induction. They appear to want to put him in, but the selection committee has a history of acting petty and childish, so they may try to impose their will one more time. Reed was more dominant in the post season ¢ you know, when it counts ¢ but Carter is a member of the media, so the selection committee will give Carter the edge.
Kent Hull
Brief Bio: Kent Hull was one of the keys to the no-huddle offense run by the Bills during their Super Bowl runs. From 1986 through 1996, Hull only missed two games. He was selected to three Pro Bowls over his career.
My Opinion: Kent Hull is deserving of the honor, but with him going up against Dermontti Dawson, he will not be a later-round finalist. The Bills put Hull on the Wall of Fame in 2002. He deserved the recognition for his play.
Darryl Talley
Brief Bio: A second-round pick in the 1983 NFL Draft, Talley was selected one pick behind Jim Kelly. He played in 188 games over his twelve seasons with the team, generating 1,137 tackles, 38.5 sacks and two Pro Bowl berths.
My Opinion: Talley will not get in before some of the other linebackers on the list, namely Kevin Greene and Clay Matthews. Not that they are deserving of induction when you compare them to the best linebackers of all time like Butkis and Nitschke, but the selection committee has a habit of electing people with lesser qualifications.
Cornelius Bennett
Brief Bio: A mainstay at linebacker for the Bills, Bennett racked up 1048 tackles (142 assists) and 71.5 sacks over his career. Add to that, seven interceptions (one for a touchdown), 31 forced fumbles, and 27 fumble recoveries (including one for a touchdown) and Bennett earned his five trips to the Pro Bowl.
My Opinion: The same opinion I have with Talley, I have with Bennett. While he was a solid player for the Bills, he is not going to get the love from the selection committee. Other linebackers will go in and Biscuit will be left out.
Chuck Knox
Brief Bio: Knox was the BillsÆ head coach from 1978 through 1982. He also spent time coaching the Los Angeles Rams (two tours) and the Seattle Seahawks. His overall coaching record was 186-147-1, with a 37-36-0 record as the Head Coach of the Bills.
My Opinion: Next.
Fred Smerlas
Brief Bio: Smerlas was selected in the second round of the 1979 NFL Draft and played eleven seasons for the Bills. He played in 162 games and earned five Pro Bowl nominations as one corner of the infamous ōBermuda Triangleö of the 1980s (Jim Haslett and Shane Nelson were the other corners).
My Opinion: He really doesnÆt stand a chance against Charles Haley, Richard Dent and John Randle. He has no shot of becoming a finalist and I do not expect him to make it out of this round.
There are others who spent a short time with the team (Larry Centers, Mike Pruitt and Chris Spielman), but since their time with the team was brief, I will not focus on them.
A glaring omission from the list of nominees is Tom Sestak. He was a seventeenth-round pick in the 1962 AFL Draft who went on to play seven seasons for Buffalo. Over that span, he recorded 51 sacks and returned two interceptions for touchdowns. Sestak was named to the All-AFL team four times and was selected to be on the Bills Silver Anniversary Team in 1984. As one of the most dominant players at that position at that time, he deserves consideration.
Back in 1994, during the prehistoric days of this Internet thing, a friend put up a website dedicated to the Buffalo Bills. Having moved away from WNY well before that, the Internet opened a wide new window to follow our favorite team. It sure beat waiting until Friday's mail delivered the print editions of Shout! magazine.
On our little website we thought it would be cool to offer random musings on the Bills drawing from the still sparse tidbits that were collected from pioneer sports sites and other connected fans. The basic hobby turned into a weekly review of the games and major offseason events. Oblivious to how spoiled we were in the mid '90s by a Bills team of the ages, we allowed ourselves to forget the true history of Buffalo's football mediocrity interspersed with brief flashes of triumph.
Still, itÆs a shame that this Internet thing wasn't discovered sooner by us. By the time we began writing, the light was dimming on the franchise run, the offense sputtered and the run game stalled. But the team still played sound fundamentals and it was funny to see confusion on the sidelines and in the huddles of the opponents. And appropriately, most of the weekly game notes still poked fun at the other teamsÆ miscues in attention to detail, clock management and general incompetence.
A big part of that attention to detail, of course, involved respecting nature's elements that inevitably came up in the stadium previously known as Rich. It wasn't the BillsÆ coaches or players idea to put the playing field on a flat plane within a spitting distance of the lake with an unobstructed path for the winds, water, snow, ice, or whatever Erie felt like disgorging onto the 80,000 red, white, and blue revelers on its eastern edge. But the smart players and coaches knew and respected it. That's why it was always amusing to see visiting coaches stick to normal routine and ignore the main point that after October, you defend the scoreboard endzone in the fourth quarter, no matter what. Every 10-year old Buffalonian knew that, but somehow few of the opposing coaches picked up the local nugget of wisdom. Back then it was funny to laugh at Bill Parcells who stood stonefaced when Adam Vinatieri (yeah him) was short on a 30-something yard field goal. Funny stuff.
But as all good things must end, things started changing for us in 1997, as many other sites did a better job covering the Bills than we did, and the pros realized that this Internet thingy was not a passing phase. We took down the shingle from gobills.com, but still offered irregular commentary here & there, much like the Bills playoff runs in 1998 & 1999. But mostly we've been away from actively writing & reporting, again similar to the Bills being away from competitive football since 1999.
I didnÆt miss it that much, as in these 10 seasons, thanks to wall to wall coverage of Bills news on the Internet, NFL Sunday Ticket, ESPN and NFL Network, I've been able to get my Bills' fix. Year round. 24/7.
Of course, I wasn't the only one. It was great to watch BillsÆ away games in sunny climes and hear a huge roar from the visiting crowd when something good happened to Buffalo. When DirecTV surveyed its Sunday ticket customers this year, it found that Bills fans were among the largest and most loyal among the displaced fandom in the sunbelt. The Bills dispora is large and is everywhere.
Which brings us to today. Most of my Buffalo fandom soulmates grew up in the æ60s & æ70s, so following a losing team isn't unique to us. You can say itÆs part of character building, like being forced to clear the driveways and sidewalks from November to March.
So why was this season not like another season? What made this season and brief offseason particularly depressing?
It actually didnÆt sink in during the three game slide to hated division rivals, but in a meltdown on Monday Night in full view of a national TV audience. It wasnÆt just the loss, it was the way they lost it. They lost by ignoring the fundamentals of what it means to play in Western New York in the fall and winter. They ignored the basic tenets of the home advantage that the dark foreboding lake has on the out-of-townersÆ psyche as their airplane circles Orchard Park on the landing approach.
Following that game I fielded a few messages from the diaspora comrades. Somehow this loss was different. The messages were, ōIÆm finally out.ö The guys who were die hard fans, dedicating each fall Sunday afternoon to watching the team for over 30 years, were giving up. ōWhy should we bother to give up most of our Sundays,ö they asked, ōWhen the team obviously doesn't care.ö Their financial commitment isn't the same as flying to Buffalo and buying game tickets, but the time and emotional commitment is the same.
I couldn't respond, as I agreed. The emotion and attachment that I always associated with the team was suddenly gone. Why bother? There are better things I could be doing. Why bother with the nearly $300 Sunday Ticket sticker price shock, when the summation of the previous day's ineptitude is available online in real time? For a few moments on prime-time recap shows, the Bills highlights are indistinguishable from the Lions or the Browns. So the uniform color is different. So, what?
That suddenly empty feeling was later amplified upon hearing louder cheers for a Dolphins first down at a December "home" game. Otherwise, the Rogers Centre crowd elicited the sound of empty seats dressed up in US dollar green.
As the season ground to a merciful halt, it turned out that I had company. The feeling of disgust permeated the entire Bills fan community. Say what you want about these Internets tubes, they are wonderful feedback loops.
Suddenly the Sunday Ticket plans that are usually set for auto renewal, are on the backburner. Circling the Sunday dates on the 2009 calendar when the schedule is released in April, is no longer a given. Visits back to Buffalo will no longer happen only in football season (good thing for the rest of WNY economy).
Other franchises with large home bases may shrug off a temporary fan revolt.
Not Buffalo.
Not when it's an annual struggle to fill the stadium. Not when a good portion of the crowd has to travel over 100 miles to attend the game.
It would be easy to blame the economy for the fan apathy. But in a bad economy, there is more competition vying for a share of BillsÆ fans attention and spending cash. Chances are, the fansÆ money will follow those who don't skimp on the product nor insult their intelligence by taking them for granted. When the emotion is taken from the fandom, you have to compete on purely economic and entertainment terms. ThatÆs where Ralph WilsonÆs Bills lose.
Of course speaking in economic terms, Ralph Wilson probably did his math and if less than 7,000 fans walk out on the team next year, then he's a net winner with Dick Jauron's extended contract.
A net winner indeed.
So many thanks Mr. Wilson for all these years, but next year I think I'll stick to checking out the highlights on the Internet. For free. If time permits.
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WWF's Living Blue Planet Report on the health of the ocean finds that the marine vertebrate population has declined by 49 percent between 1970 and 2012. The report tracks 5,829 populations of 1,234 mammal, bird, reptile, and fish species through a marine living planet index. The evidence, analyzed by researchers at the Zoological Society of London, paints a troubling picture.
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Blue whales and many other marine animals will receive important new safeguards by Chile's declaration of two new marine protected areas (MPAs) along its southern coast.
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The good news, such as it is, is that Derjue will continue blogging here. Of course, DIY blogging tends not to pay the bills. But given the talent Derjue demonstrated during her BoMag stint, I'm guessing she'll catch on somewhere soon, shitty economic conditions notwithstanding. (How about it, Boston.com?)


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It is Adelaide's "must listen" half hour. From 8.30 to 9 a.m. each weekday, Matthew Abraham and David Bevan swing the spotlight on the hot button issues affecting South Australians. If you missed 8.30 to 9 this morning, then you can "reload" it here. Reload this mornings program to hear Matt and Dave speak with US Ambassador Jeffery Bleich who has been in Adelaide with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, then they jump into The Spin Cycle.
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This is directed specifically at Mr. Schwach: seems like you're batting a thousand lately! Your lack of sensitivity is despicable. Clearly you were absent the day that they handed out tact and empathy. The articles you have written recently have taken the literary form of the scandalous stories we read in pathetic gossip magazines whose stories hold no truth, sensitivity or knowledge.
I haven't been a fan of yours for a while, but your coverage of the O'Donnell tragedy really was the straw that broke the camels back. As far as this case is concerned, you should be ashamed of yourself. Your accusing tone in the first article was ridiculous. I, personally, did not know Deidre all that well, but those lucky enough to call her a friend knew she was a beautiful and inspiring person with a contagious and beautiful smile that could brighten anybody's day. You tarnished that memory of her in a fashion of almost mocking her, not taking into consideration how many lives were shaken the day that they lost her to something she had no control over. I am close with many people who knew her and your article caused them such emotional distress and pain that I feel that you owe them an apology. There was no need to cover this incident in an investigating manner; it was not the business of everyone in Rockaway. Apparently you didn't learn your lesson from all the angry e-mails, phone calls and office visits you got, because your second article about this 'mystery' was just as disgraceful. That, sir, was spitting in the faces of all who loved her.
In the July 16 edition, when you printed a follow up on the story of Deidre, you miraculously changed your tone! You finally used the word we had all been waiting for: "tragic." My guess is that because you wrote the other articles thinking you were Sherlock Holmes investigating a murder and it was finally indeed declared a suicide, you decided to change your tone. I guess you thought a sympathetic tone was enough of an apology to her family. Incorrect. Do us all a favor, and pass on any stories that need to be covered that require sensitivity and talent to someone else. Preferably to someone with a heart.


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Tiger Chris Anstey knocks Dragon Rhys Carter to the floor last night.
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THE South Dragons are one win away from completing a once fanciful journey from last year's wooden spooners to this season's National Basketball League champions after they last night hammered defending champions Melbourne Tigers 84-67 at Hisense Arena.
Their task could receive a further boost if Tigers leader Chris Anstey is cited for a clash with Rhys Carter that sparked a melee late in the third period.
Last night's result was a continuation of the trend of home-court advantage during this finals series with the Dragons in the box seat to snare the win at the Tigers' home court at the State Netball Centre.
Their charge was led by Donta Smith, who had a game-high of 18 points, 10 of those in the final period, and Tremmell Darden with 12 points.
Dragons coach Brian Goorjian was full of praise for his team. He said it had produced some of the best defensive performances of any he has been involved with in his career.
"To this point in time I've been involved in a lot of grand finals; I've never had a team play this defence for the extended period that we've had," Goorjian said. "They've moved to a level defensively that I haven't had a team play (at) and we've played some pretty good defence over the years. This team, to this point, has been exceptional as that goes."
Goorjian would not comment on the clash between Anstey and Carter.
"I'm not allowed to comment. There was a lot of emotion in the game. It was that one moment when I turned to get a drink and I turned back and two guys were flat on their backs," he said before adding, "it's officially on".
Tigers coach Al Westover said he thought Anstey had been hard done by and put the blame on Carter for being the instigator.
"He didn't do anything. What do you want? The league has to decide if if wants its big men to stay and play in this country or are you going to screw with them and make them leave," he said. "He's getting extra attention and that's fair enough because he's seven foot and he's Chris Anstey. It's up to the referees (and) I thought (they) let things get a little out of control."
With the finals series evenly poised at one apiece, the Dragons jumped the Tigers early last night and opened a 14-point lead mid-way through the first period, with the Tigers' only points in the early stages coming from two Ebi Ere three pointers. The Tigers were mired in poor shooting, making only 33 per cent, whereas the Dragons looked in complete control from the tip-off to go into the first break with a 28-16 lead.
Melbourne turned things around in the second quarter with the Tigers chipping away the lead in the first few minutes to narrow the score to 34-30. But with Ere failing to add to his nine first-quarter points and Anstey and David Barlow struggling, that was as good as it would get for the Tigers, leaving their cross-town rival to steady, and then again assert, its control to blow out to a 46-33 lead at half-time.
The Dragons held that lead for most of the third quarter and then blew the margin out to 19 points to take a 70-51 advantage into the final period with a simple lay-up miss by Ere summing up a night he and the Tigers would rather forget.
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Just got back from a flight - MCPX was a handful but the 450 was great
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Started in intermediate/normal mode and it was a really squirrely and I was fighting it but once I hit IU and DR1 it was better. Still a fight as the wind was making it pitch and yaw but I could fly it. Still quite nervous so I made the decision to land, grabbed a fresh battery and adjusted the TC to 90% in IU.
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KILLARNEY GOES ON THE AUCTION BLOCK; Its Lakes Have Been Held by One Family Since the Reign Of Elizabeth KILLARNEY GOES ON THE AUCTION BLOCK
By M.G. PALMERPhotograph Copyright by E. Newman, From Publishers Photo Service.Photograph From MacMonagic.Photograph Copyright by E.M. Newman. ();
August 03, 1930,
, Section The New York Times Magazine, Page 71, Column , words
DUBLIN. WHO will become the proud owner of Killarney's lovely lakes and fells? One of the most beautiful de mesnes in all Europe, immortalized in song, saga and story, the ...
August 03, 1930
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