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California Council for the Humanities
California Stories Initiative
Years of Valor, Years of Hope
Tulare County and the Years 1941-1946
Tulare County Library
The Friends of the Tulare County Library
And the Tulare County Historical Society
Interviews in 2003-2004
Santa Monica, California
Tulare County, California
Personal Reactions to War
Home Front Family
CP: I have an interview with Louis Murphy and my name is Colleen Murphy Paggi and today is Sunday, September 14, 2003. Mr. Murphy is being interviewed at his home and this is for the oral history project for Tulare County World War II during the years 1941 – 1946. The name of this project is Years of Valor, Years of Hope. So I'd like to start out with you giving me your name and your date of birth. Could you do that?
LM: Yeah. Louis H. Murphy. September 26, 1922.
CP: So what does the H stand for?
LM: Harold.
CP: Do you know where your parents came from?
LM: My mother was born in Missouri I think, and my father was born in California.
CP: Could you tell me the names of your mother and father?
LM: Harold Murphy, William Harold Murphy and Martha Marie Strickland.
CP: So where did you grow up?
LM: Tulare most of the time. Let's see, I left Tulare when I was in the second grade and went to Salinas and I came back to Tulare when I was a freshman in high school and went Tulare Union.
CP: What year did you graduate from high school?
CP: So that was the same year as Pearl Harbor, the year you graduated from high school?
LM: Yes.
CP: So how old were you when World War II began?
LM: When it began?
CP: When Pearl Harbor broke out?
LM: Eighteen.
CP: So prior to the war you were going to school.
LM: That's right.
CP: Did you work at that time?
LM: At odd jobs, off and on. I worked for the railroad. I forget what they called it now…the Southern Pacific. And then I worked for Railway Express.
CP: How long did you do that?
LM: Quite a while.
CP: All through high school?
LM: Oh, no, no, no. I done it in the summer time after I got out of school.
CP: At the time the war broke out, were you married or single?
LM: I was married when the war broke out . . . no excuse me, no, I was single.
CP: Do you remember what year you got married?
CP: What was the full date of your marriage?
LM: October 11, 1941.
CP: So Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941. So you must have been married at that time, correct?
LM: Evidently.
CP: Did you have any children during the war?
LM: No.
CP: Now we're going to go on to a little bit about your personal reactions to WWII. Do you remember any events that stand out before the war?
LM: Well, events are just…
CP: Anything that really stands out in your mind?
LM: We went from the desert, Bouse, Arizona to New York. I can't remember the name of the place we went to, but I know we had to do calisthenics out on the beach. And I didn't know the beach froze, but there was ice all over.
CP: Well, this is going to be before your war service, if you can remember any event that happened in particular in Tulare County before you went into the service.
LM: Oh, before. Yeah, there was three of us boys that went to work for Douglas Aircraft in Santa Monica, California.
CP: How long did you do that?
LM: Not very long, probably four or five months.
CP: What type of work was it?
LM: It was on aircraft. They were building airplanes there. My job was to put shelves in where they the put the bombs in them.
CP: Where were you and what were you doing when Pearl Harbor was bombed?
LM: In the theater room.
CP: You were at the theater? Which theater was that?
LM: Tulare Theater.
CP: Were you watching a movie or where were you?
LM: Watching a movie I guess. I couldn't remember the name of the movie, but the place was full of Rankin Cadets. So they got up on the stage and announced that war had been declared and so all the Cadets had to go back to Rankin.
CP: What exactly are you saying when you say Rankin?
LM: It's Rankin Aircraft School for Army Cadets.
CP: Where was that located?
LM: Oh, about 8 miles southeast of Tulare.
CP: So what happened in the movie theater when that happened?
LM: Well, everybody left.
CP: Left the theater?
LM: When the cadets had to leave, there were a lot of cadets there, well, everybody just got up and left with them or went outside, you know.
CP: Did they close the theater?
LM: No.
CP: Did they keep showing the movie?
LM: Yeah.
CP: How did it make you feel to think that Pearl Harbor was bombed?
LM: You really didn't know what the reaction was because you didn't know what to think or how bad it was. We hadn't heard anything other than it had been bombed and that was all. And later they started telling about the casualties and what have you.
CP: Did you know anyone that was stationed at Pearl Harbor?
LM: No.
CP: Was there anyone you knew from Tulare County stationed at Pearl Harbor or even who happened to be on one of the ships that was bombed in Pearl Harbor?
LM: I don't think so. There was one person who was killed during the early part of the war, but I don't know if he was on a ship or on the ground. That was Francis Donahue.
CP: Francis Donahue,he was from Tulare?
LM: Yes.
CP: Is there one event during World War II that really stands out in your mind over all the other events that took place during that time? I'm sure there were a lot of events.
LM: Yes, I'm just trying to think which one. Well, my partner, Andy Ellison, he was a T-4, had to go to Malmedy to pick up supplies for our vehicles. When we pulled into Malmedy we could hardly believe what we saw. It was just flattened out. Civilians had drug the dead people out into the middle of the street and laid them toe-to-toe. And that was kind of upsetting 'cause we had been going in there at least once a week to pick up supplies.
CP: Well, we'll get back to some more questions.
LM: There was more of those events than that.
CP: Right now I was trying to get some personal reactions to the war
itself. We'll get to that about your
actual time in the service. I'd like to
get your opinion right now about what you thought when the atom bomb was
dropped on
LM: Everyone was thankful that they done it. We didn't want to have to go to
CP: What are your general feelings about World War II?
LM: Well, I…
CP: During World War II? What were your feelings then?
LM: Well, I felt sorry for the civilians over there. We had so many airplanes over there and other countries had them over there too dropping bombs. You could see poor little kids running around. It was kind of pathetic because they didn't have anything to eat.
CP: Have your feelings changed any at all about World War II over time, which is fifty some years now?
LM: Well, I hated to go over there, but after I got over there I'm glad I did. I'm glad I was able to be some help to those people over there and do my regular duty.
CP: How about your friends that were here in Tulare County? Were their feelings different than your feelings about the war or do you think everyone thought about the same?
LM: I think everybody thought about the same except there was a few of them that I knew that . . . what did they call them . . . they were objections . . . there was a name for them . . . .
CP: Was it isolationists?
LM: No.
CP: They were objecting to the war possibly?
LM: Yes.
CP: Conscientious objectors?
LM: Yes, that's it. Conscientious objectors. There was a few of those, not many. When we were in training out in Arizona we had three or four that they had to put in the hoozgough (jail).
CP: I wanted to ask you what your opinion was on if you think World War
II is a just war. Once the
LM: Yeah, I do. If you could have seen what that country looked like when we got there. And we made it look a lot better other than where the bombs fell when we first got over there. The people were eating better, the kids were happier, able to go to school.
When we got there it was just a rat race.
CP: Where were you when the war ended?
LM: Weisbaden, Weisbaden,
CP: How did you hear about the end of the war?
LM: At that time they had what they called a point system, and as you
had so many points they would send you to an area and your outfit would be
shipped out at a later date. We took our
equipment when we got notice that we were going to be sent home. After we took our equipment to the coast, I
guess it was in
CP: What kind of equipment was it?
LM: Everything, from clothes to mechanics' hand tools to artillery. All kinds of weapons, everything you used in a war. And they just bulldozed and pushed it out into the ocean.
CP: This wasn't done the minute the war had ended?
LM: No, it took a while. We
were told that it would cost more to send this stuff back to the
CP: Really.
LM: I've seen mechanics' hand tools in toolboxes that had never been opened. There was cosmoline all over them.
CP: There was still what all over them?
LM: Cosmoline. It keeps the moisture out.
CP: Like Vaseline?
LM: Yes, but it was thicker. They had it on the guns too, rifles. But everything was just pushed out. And there was a lot of black marketers there too.
CP: For the guns?
LM: For anything you had in your truck. They offered you . . . they offered me $25,000 for what I had in my truck.
CP: You're kidding!
LM: I turned them down. I was afraid to do it because there was MPs on every corner. And we were warned about them.
CP: Was this after war had ended?
LM: Yeah.
CP: Were you happy when you heard the war was over?
LM: Yes.
CP: How long did it take you to get shipped back?
LM: Quite a while. I'd say three or four months anyway, after we found out.
CP: Really. That long.
LM: Yeah.
CP: Did you notify anyone at home?
LM: I probably wrote my mother (Marie Strickland Murphy) and my wife (Mamie Sue [Turner] Murphy) that our outfit was being …what's the word?
CP: Disbanded?
LM: Disbanded . . . that's a good word. As you know, in the Army it takes forever and a day to do anything, so we will be home.
CP: Did you get any letters from them afterward saying they got the news that the war had ended?
LM: Yes, I'm sure I did, from my mother and my wife.
CP: Do you remember anything about that?
LM: No, not really.
CP: What year was it that you went to war? That you left Tulare County?
LM: 1942, I believe. First I went to Monterey and there we had to take a physical and a written and oral test. During the time we were in Monterey we were given all kinds of tests, like vocabulary, typing tests, to see where they put you, you know, what outfit you belonged in. I guess I went from Monterey to Fort Knox, that's in Louisville, Kentucky. That's where I took my basic training.
CP: Oh, your basic training was in Louisville, Kentucky?
LM: Uh-huh.
CP: Well, you said you graduated from high school in 1941 and then you went into the Army in 1942?
LM: I think so, yeah.
CP: So that's just one year.
LM: Uh-huh.
CP: Do you remember what it was like in Tulare during that one year before you went in?
LM: It was kind of weird because gasoline was rationed. A lot of foodstuff was rationed. It wasn't very nice.
CP: Just in one year?
LM: Yeah, because I remember my Dad, (Harold Murphy) had that truck stop and he had everybody come in there to get gas or diesel, car or truck. They had to have stamps to get fuel.
CP: Where did they get stamps from?
LM: From the
CP: Do you remember how much they were allowed to get, since they were rationed?
LM: You weren't allowed very much. It depended on what you done, what you used your vehicle for.
CP: Such as if you were a farmer?
LM: Or a trucker. You know, you had a truck.
CP: You would get more gasoline?
LM: Yeah, yeah.
CP: As opposed to somebody who had a desk job or something.
LM: Like me. I didn't get hardly any gas at all because I just drove from East Kern to my Dad's place on J Street so I only got probably 5 or 6 gallons a week.
CP: Five to six gallons a week? That's not very much, is it?
LM: I had a Model A.
CP: Did the Model A get good gas mileage?
LM: Yes it did. I could go a whole week on five gallons of gas. Of course we never went out of town.
CP: Did the housing situation change much during that time between Pearl Harbor and when you left? Either in Tulare, at your mother and dad's house, or at your home, was there any sort of change or for anyone you knew?
LM: Well, I didn't have a home. We rented a duplex. Mother and Dad's place didn't change much and my parents or my grandparents didn't change much. The only thing, there was a lot of things rationed that you couldn't get. Lumber was hard to get a hold of for one thing.
CP: Lumber? Why do you suppose that was?
LM: Because it was going to the war effort. They were using a lot of lumber in these defense plants.
CP: Did anyone outside your family live with either you and your wife or your mother and father or your grandparents during this time frame before you went to war?
LM: No.
CP: Did anyone ever live . . .
LM: Well, I think there was a few of those people who didn't really live there but might come and spend a night at my mother's house.
CP: Where were they from?
LM: All over the
CP: Were these Cadets from Rankin Field?
LM: No, but probably some of them were. A variety from all different places close by.
CP: Did she open her home . . .?
LM: Yeah.
CP: How did she find them?
LM: I think you got all that stuff down at the Post Office where you fill out a form and send it in that you can take care of a few people.
CP: That's a great thing to do. Did your grandparents do it?
LM: I don't think so. They were getting along in years.
CP: Since we spoke of your grandparents, what were their names?
LM: Last name?
CP: Complete name.
LM: Louis Strickland and Nanny (Nancy Kinder) Strickland, married names.
CP: How about the economic circumstances of the people in Tulare? I'm sure it was more difficult for everyone. How did it change your economic situation here in Tulare, besides the rationing?
LM: Some of the people who were in business for themselves were making a killing, but yet maybe the guy next door was starving to death, depending on what they were doing, like some of the farmers were making good money, but then there were some starving to death.
CP: Was there plenty of food in Tulare?
LM: Oh yeah, there was enough food. But it was all rationed.
CP: Food was rationed?
LM: Yeah.
CP: What about clothing? Was it rationed?
LM: I don't think it was rationed, but there wasn't too much of it in the stores, you know.
CP: Was there any sort of black market in Tulare County?
LM: Sure.
CP: Well, how would they do that?
LM: Like the veterans, say myself for instance, were entitled to go to some of these places. The people in charge of the surplus would stop things, but I was entitled to go over and get what I needed and there was a small charge on it.
CP: You're talking about after the war. Now I'm talking about . . .
LM: During the war.
CP: Or before you left, because it was wartime.
LM: No, I didn't know of any.
CP: Do you remember, were there any sort of war bond campaigns in Tulare?
LM: Yes there was.
CP: Did you attend any of those?
LM: No, because I didn't have any money in those days.
CP: Did the rest of your family buy war bonds?
LM: Yes, I think my Dad did.
CP: What was a war bond?
LM: I don't know.
CP: I don't either.
LM: I really don't. It seemed like to me they cost $25.00 and you gave them $25.00 and they put a war bond in your name and they would keep it for you and it would draw interest and they'd keep it as long as you wanted them to and you could sell it anytime you wanted to.
CP: Do you remember any things that happened in Tulare that involved different efforts to support the war, things that happened in Tulare itself? Were there rallies or anything at all that happened at that time to support the war?
LM: I don't remember anything. Probably was.
CP: How do you think that the war affected the dating and courting and relationships of men and women during that time?
LM: I think the males and females kind of separated.
CP: In Tulare?
LM: Any town that was in the war. 'Cause the males were going to camp someplace and the females were working like in the war effort so some of them were going to the shipyards and working.
CP: What about wartime romances? Were there a lot of those in Tulare County?
LM: Hell, I don't know.
CP: You don't know?
LM: No I don't.
CP: Do you think the dating patterns changed because of the war?
LM: You mean boy and girl dating?
CP: Yeah.
LM: Well, I'm sure it did, 'cause see, every month or every two weeks, something like that, there was a bus that came down and picked up the draftees that were going to camp.
CP: Say that one more time.
LM: There was a bus that came to Tulare; I believe it was every 10 days to two weeks, that picked up draftees that were scheduled to go to camp.
CP: Was everyone drafted?
LM: Well, the ones that could pass the physical and were eligible were drafted, yes, unless you enlisted.
CP: Did you enlist?
LM: No, I was drafted.
CP: Do you suppose the majority of the people were drafted?
LM: I think so.
CP: Was the draft initiated after Pearl Harbor was bombed?
LM: Yeah, you see, I was working down there in Douglas Aircraft and I had a 2-B deferment. That meant I was six months. I had my application in at the Southern California Edison Company, so they notified me that I had a job, so I guess I called them and told them I had a deferment and they said, "Well, you do here too." So I quit my job down there and come back up here.
CP: To the Edison Company?
LM: Yeah, worked for the Edison Company.
CP: How long did you work for the Edison Company?
LM: You had to work for a year to be on steady, and I was on steady, so I don't know how much I worked over the year I worked, but . . . .
CP: Is that where you were working when you went to war?
LM: Uh huh. When I went to Monterey.
CP: Were there a lot of people from Tulare County who enlisted after Pearl Harbor?
LM: Oh, I don't know how many enlisted, but I know there were a lot of draftees. Because like I said, every couple of times a month there was a bus that came and took them to various camps.
CP: Do you remember if there was any type of neighborhood organizations where you lived before you left for the war?
LM: No I don't.
CP: Were there any blackouts in Tulare?
LM: I don't think so.
CP: Were there any businesses affected by the shortages?
LM: Oh sure, a lot of them.
CP: What type of businesses were those?
LM: I remember some of those were lumber shortage, fuel, for gas and diesel. What else? Probably a lot of food stuff was kind of rationed out.
CP: Tell me what you think about the race relations during the war.
LM: Well, as far as I'm concerned, our outfit was all white
people. Sure there were Mexicans,
Spanish people, Orientals that were born in the
CP: Did everyone get along pretty well?
LM: Yeah. You know, the usual bit of violence, but not much.
CP: Were there Japanese in your outfit?
LM: Not in ours, no.
CP: Tell me, what was your reaction to the Holocaust when you found out about it?
LM: The what? What was that?
CP: That was when they found out what Nazi Germany had done to the Jewish population.
LM: People my age and in my group didn't think much about it.
CP: What was your reaction to it when you found out about it?
LM: I don't know.
CP: When did you find out about it?
LM: I can't answer that. I can't remember.
CP: Was it during the war when you found out about it, or the end of the war?
LM: Probably the end of the war because I can't remember anything about it.
CP: Okay. Did you get much news about the war before you left?
LM: No, only what was in the local newspaper and radio.
CP: Was it pretty . . .
LM: It was pretty grim at times.
CP: I wanted to ask you about the movies you might have seen before you left for the war.
LM: I went to the theater every night just about 'cause my wife worked there.
CP: Did any of the movies reflect what was going on at that time?
LM: No, not really. No.
CP: Weren't there a lot of war movies at the beginning?
LM: No. Didn't even see Frank Sinatra.
CP: What was your impression of the military and political leadership at that time?
LM: Well, I thought the military was pretty good. Political,I don't know, I can hardly voice my opinion on that. We didn't know a great deal about them because when you go to basic training you don't hear much from where you would hear, you know, politicians talking.
CP: Who was the President then?
LM: Who was it? Hell, I don't know.
CP: Franklin Roosevelt was President during the war.
LM: I thought he died . . . he died after the war.
CP: No, he died before the war was over, but most of the time . . . what did you think of him?
LM: Oh everyone thought he was wonderful because he was a cripple and he was a ladies man along with it.
CP: What did you think about when he died? Do you remember when he died?
LM: Well, everybody knew he was going to die.
CP: Why?
LM: Because of the disease he had.
CP: What did he have?
LM: Hell, I don't know. He was a . . . what do you call it . . . para . . . paraplegic . . . polio.
CP: Who were some of the military leaders?
LM: There was MacArthur. He was
a four star general. He was over in the
CP: Did you ever meet any of the military leaders that were over in Europe?
LM: Our company, we had one company that was a military escort for General Bradley. All of us met General Bradley.
CP: You did?
LM: Yes, but it was one of those military deals where you stood at attention and he'd come along and shake your hand.
CP: So you got to shake Bradley's hand. Did you have any attitudes at that time during WWII towards the Germans or Japanese or the Italians and the Russians, and why?
LM: The Japanese. This was because of Pearl Harbor, I imagine. We didn't like them. The Germans we didn't like and the Russians were really our allies, but we didn't like them. Who else?
CP: How about the Italians?
LM: We never had anything to do with them. It was out of our district, or whatever you want to call it.
CP: Were there any war parades in Tulare or Tulare County that you can remember?
LM: I can't remember any war parades.
CP: One of the main questions that we are really interested in for this interview I'm going to give you right now. They are really important questions. I'd like to know how you think World War II years in Tulare County affected you personally? What did it do to your life?
LM: I was awfully young. It prolonged me for a couple of years.
CP: Prolonged what?
LM: My doings. What I had planned on doing because I was overseas and I had to do something else that I hadn't planned on doing.
CP: Well, I'm not going to say this correctly . . . but your family probably got started later than you thought it would get started because of the war interrupting it?
(Door knocking ,interruption. No answer from Mr. Murphy)
CP: All right, we had a little bit of an interruption and we were talking about the World War II years in Tulare County and I have another question for you. How do you think World War II affected the way Tulare County is now? Did it change Tulare County,World War II?
LM: I can't answer that. I don't think it did.
CP: You don't think it did at all?
LM: No.
CP: What about the economics of Tulare County? Were they better?
LM: During the war when everything was rationed, the economics suffered a little bit. But then after the war, then everything went back to normal.
CP: Do you think it was better after the war economically as opposed to before the war?
LM: Oh, I think it was about the same. Yeah, it was about the same.
CP: How about housing? Was it more readily available to veterans as opposed to non-veterans?
LM: Well, I can't answer that because I had my own house. We had our own where we lived when I went into the service.
CP: Did you own your own home?
LM: No, no. I think it was that one on Inyo, wasn't it?
CP: When you came back from the service, did you purchase a home?
LM: No, not for a long time.
CP: Well, I have just a few questions left about the war itself. I wondered if you could tell me when you entered the Armed Forces.
LM: I can't remember those dates now.
CP: Do you remember what year it was?
LM: 1942, I think.
CP: I might have asked you this already. I'm not quite sure, but I think I did. The reason I think you answered it is, I asked you what year you graduated from high school and what was that answer?
CP: So did you go into the military the same year you graduated from high school or later?
LM: Later.
CP: So it would have been 1942. Were you drafted?
LM: Yeah.
CP: What did you think about being drafted?
LM: Well, I knew I was going to get drafted because I was in the category called B and that prolonged your drafting for six months, so I knew. I think I was working for the Edison Company at that time and I was classified as B, so I knew it would only last six months and then I'd have to be drafted.
CP: So you knew ahead of time you were going to be drafted.
LM: Yes.
CP: Which branch of the service were you in?
LM: Armored Infantry.
CP: So that would be the Army?
LM: Yeah, the Army.
CP: And when you first got drafted, where did you go?
LM: Well, first we went to Monterey and took our physical and they gave us shots. Then from there we went to Fort Knox, Kentucky and took our basic training there.
CP: What kind of experiences did you have in basic training? Was it a lot of people you were with?
LM: Yeah, it was a platoon.
CP: How many people are in a platoon?
LM: Oh, I don't know. Probably twenty-five or thirty. And we just went through the routine of becoming army personnel or army first class, whatever you call it.
CP: What was the kind of living conditions there?
LM: We lived in barracks.
CP: So you had your own bed?
LM: Had our own beds. And if I remember right, it was two stories, so there was a lot of GIs in the building.
CP: Were you on the top or the bottom?
LM: I was on the top.
CP: Well that's good. So where did you end up serving? What happened after basic training? Where did you go?
LM: We went to the desert,Arizona.
CP: What was the name of the place in Arizona?
LM: Bouse.
CP: What did you do there?
LM: We trained. We were attached to a tank division and we were trained. This is a long story . . . we were attached to this division that had high candle-power lights that they were going to use on D-Day when the troops went across. So that's what our training was in Bouse,was to go between a row of tanks and they would throw a shadow where you couldn't see us and we were trained to stay in that area where they couldn't see us. Then up ahead was…just ahead of us was the tanks that had these high candle-powered lights and they were flicking them back and forth, and then way up, there was some 105 and 155 millimeter guns actually loaded with ammunition that were firing at us. But, on account of the lights, they could not get the distance that they were shooting at. The lights were blinding them.
CP: Was it live ammunition?
LM: Sure.
CP: For practice?
LM: For practice.
CP: Did anybody get killed?
LM: Nope.
CP: Well that's pretty unbelievable that nobody got killed. How long were you in Bouse?
LM: Probably six months.
CP: Where did you go from there?
LM: We went to New York and shipped overseas.
CP: How did you get to New York?
LM: Train. We took our tanks with us and they were all boarded up on flat cars. I think there was two soldiers guarding each tank and each car.
CP: So after you got to New York . . . and how long did it take you to get from Bouse to New York?
LM: It was a long time.
CP: Weeks?
LM: A week to ten days.
CP: And then what did you do once you got to New York?
LM: When we got to New York the ship was waiting and we loaded the tanks onto the ship and then when the convoy got ready we took off.
CP: How long did that take?
LM: God, I can't remember that now. It probably took a couple of weeks anyway.
CP: To get across?
LM: No, to get into the boats that we were going in.
CP: Oh you mean, you spent two whole weeks in New York?
LM: I imagine, yeah.
CP: And then how long did it take you to cross the ocean?
LM: Well, we had a problem. One
of the tanks broke loose and we had to go into
CP: Do you remember the name of the liberty ship?
LM: The only thing I can remember is that convoy. As far as the naked eye could see, you could see ships.
CP: Oh my gosh.
LM: I don't know how many rows of them there were.
CP: So once you got to
LM: Not very long.
CP: Just long enough to get that tank secured?
LM: Yeah.
CP: Then where did you go?
LM: We joined the convoy again. We had to catch up with them.
CP: And where were you headed to?
CP: Where in
LM: We ended up in . . . what the hell's the name of that place . . .
CP: How long did you stay in
LM: Quite a while. That's when they wouldn't let us get on the boats to get across this bay or across the channel because of the way the weather was. They were afraid we would all get killed over there because the Germans had set up defense positions on the shore. So we stayed there quite a while.
CP: So when you left
LM: Well it was 17 miles to where we were going. Was it Cherbourg?
CP: That's in
LM: Yeah, and I think that's where we went. One of those places. It wasn't right where . . . the D-Day was here and I want to say south, but I don't know if it was north or south of where we landed. You could still see the results of D-Day.
CP: How many days after D-Day was it?
LM: I think it was three.
CP: What were the results of D-Day that you saw?
LM: Oh lord. Bodies lying all over the beach.
CP: Were there any enemy around?
LM: We didn't linger long on the beach. We headed for the . . . what do they call
that . . . where they had these hedgerows and we set up camp in between this
hedgerow. In
CP: How big are hedgerows?
LM: Like a big hedge like we have in the
CP: Are they thicker?
LM: Yeah, you couldn't walk through them.
CP: So once you got there, what happened to those tanks and those candle-lights?
LM: Well, somebody, some lady in the Stars and Stripes announced over the radio about these tanks that we had before they were ready to use them, so they canceled the deal.
CP: What a waste.
LM: Yeah, it was a waste. They took the tanks back to the proving grounds or whatever you call that and they used them one time when they were crossing the Rhine. Just a few of the tanks. That was the only time they were used.
CP: What did they do with all those tanks?
LM: I imagine they drove them into the sea just like they did everything else.
CP: That seems like a waste too. Did you learn any skills from the war?
LM: They put me in charge of the tire department and I already knew all about that already.
CP: You probably showed them a thing or two.
LM: Well, yeah, I sure did. I made corporal right off the bat because I knew how to change a tire and this and that.
CP: Was it easy to adapt to the routines of military life?
LM: Yes, for me it was. It didn't bother me any bit.
CP: Probably because you weren't really in armed combat. You were pretty lucky really.
LM: Oh yeah. We had several companies that were in armed combat. In fact we lost B Company. That company had like 250 people in it and after one skirmish there was only like 50 left, so we lost a lot of soldiers in that.
CP: When you were overseas and you were stationed in…well I guess it
was in various parts of
LM: Oh yeah. I got letters all the time from my mother and my wife.
CP: What that important?
LM: Oh yeah, sure.
CP: Did you write very many letters?
LM: Yes, I wrote Sue and mother all the time.
CP: What do you suppose happened to all of those letters?
LM: I don't know, probably burned them.
CP: Well, why would you burn them?
LM: Well, I don't know. What good would they be?
CP: Well, I'd like to read them. What did you do when you had time off? Did you have time off?
LM: No, not very often. We had
. . . one time we got a three day pass to Liege,
CP: Oh, buzz bombs.
LM: Yeah, buzz bombs. They started sending those in there, so we spent our whole three days in a bomb shelter.
CP: Oh, doing what?
LM: Nothing.
CP: What did you eat?
LM: Well, they fed us.
CP: Who fed you?
LM: The people that ran the shelter. They fed us K-rations and C-rations. Army stuff.
CP: Do you like K-rations and C-rations?
LM: Well, if that's all you've got to eat, you like it. (Laughter)
CP: Is there anybody from the war years that you remember really well that stood out in your mind?
LM: The one that was with me on my parts truck deal, Andy Allison. I was a sergeant and he was a corporal and he was older than I, but we got along real good and I thought a lot of him and he was from San Francisco, and he was the manager of a big restaurant in San Francisco before he went into the service.
CP: Did you stay in contact with him after the war?
LM: Well, yes and no. We did for a while. I don't know what happened to Andy. I really don't. We quit communicating and I never did find out what happened to him.
CP: After the war did you get any medals or pensions?
LM: No, I got a combat infantry badge. That meant I was in combat.
CP: Where is that?
LM: In
CP: No, where is it now?
LM: I still have it.
CP: Where would that be?
LM: Hell, I don't know. Wherever that stuff is. (Sue Murphy in background,I don't have any idea.) It was in my writing desk, but it's in a sack of some kind.
CP: What about pensions? Did you receive a pension?
LM: Yeah.
CP: Do you still receive it?
LM: Yeah.
CP: What was that for?
LM: Well they discovered I contracted ulcers when I was in the service so they . . . at one time I was 40 percent . . .
CP: 40 percent what?
LM: 40% disabled, and I can't remember how much money I got, but it wasn't very much.
CP: But you're still receiving that?
LM: Yeah.
CP: When you got back home, did you have a job waiting for you?
LM: Yes and no. I had a job with the Edison Company, but I didn't go back there. I went to work for my dad instead.
CP: Doing what?
LM: Working in the truck stop.
CP: Did you like that?
LM: Oh, it was all right.
CP: Did you attend school at all when you came back?
LM: No.
CP: So you didn't take advantage of the GI Bill?
LM: No.
CP: Did you ever belong to any veteran's organizations?
LM: The AMVETS.
CP: You were overseas; did you meet any German or French people or
LM: No, sure can't.
CP: When you were in, I guess it was
LM: That's where we were staying, yeah.
CP: You stayed in an apple orchard.
LM: Yeah.
CP: Where were you sleeping then?
LM: Well, we dug down in the ground and made ourselves bunks with our shovels.
CP: In an apple orchard. Was there a farm house nearby?
LM: I don't know. I didn't see one.
CP: Really. Wasn't there an episode about finding an apple brandy called Calvados?
LM: Yeah.
CP: Where did you find the Calvados?
LM: Well, some old German was in charge of a hunting lodge and he gave us this Calvados.
CP: A German?
LM: Yeah. I guess he was a German. He could have been a Frenchman, I don't remember now.
CP: Why would it be a German?
LM: Because the Germans took over that country, you know, he was managing their hunting lodge.
CP: Did you drink any of the Calvados?
LM: Yeah, one night we all got drunk, so we didn't drink anymore. It like to have killed us.
CP: Did it taste good?
LM: Lord no.
CP: Have you drunk any since?
LM: No.
CP: I think that about ends our interview. And I thank you very much for letting me ask you all of these questions.
LM: I didn't answer many, did I?
CP: Okay, thanks a lot.
LM: You're welcome.
Colleen Paggi /Transcribed JC 2/11/04/editor JW 5/04/04
Words in italics were added during a phone interview with Colleen
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Yeah, makes my seven day weekend seem like a good idea. How ever, everyone tells me seven day weekends are not allowed. Well, I never listen to much more than R n R.
I met Billy back back in the day.He was a lovely man with the looks of a matinee idol.Great to hear Chinese Rocks all the way through..
every time i start missing Billy i find myself back here listening again.
hey man ya got some really cool shows im a musician from Tucson,Az .
shopping my record now/trying to find weller's old label connect "yup" rock if im spelling it right.Anyhow loved you're Flamin'Groovie interviews and lived in N.Y.C. 80,81 and played with alot of folks . thank you for shows
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Yep Rock is the label in the USA I think. Nick Lowe's label there too. Thanks for the good comments man, appreciated.
so that's where they got the riff, the yardbirds! . . . great interview
I remember playing with you, before I found out you were famous. Wow, this was really great!!!
love it
what a great show - I do a radio gig too and I gotta say this is very good, quite apart from the fab music - the 'missing Heartbreaker' has his say, not before time - could you 'Lure' Waldo over? He still plays a hot guitar.... thanks for an hour very well spent
Who do I have to kill to get that whole Muggers show?
Superb show...keep 'em coming!
Great interview, really enjoyed this.
its cool your still out there playin,also with steve dior....RESPECT
Henry, u did a great job!!!! LOVE IT :)
Cracking show - love the alternative mixes of pipeline and the hb's tunes. I will spread the word and the link too Henry! Cheers.
yes boys, keep it coming....rid the world of all that is naff! Daz
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DIMOCK, Pa. (AP) -- Three years after residents first noticed something wrong with their drinking-water wells, tanker trucks still rumble daily through this rural northeastern Pennsylvania village where methane gas courses through the aquifer and homeowners can light their water on fire.
One of the trucks stops at Ron and Jean Carter's home and refills a 550-gallon plastic "water buffalo" container that supplies the couple with water for bathing, cleaning clothes and washing dishes. A loud hissing noise emanates from the vent stack that was connected to the Carters' water well to prevent an explosion -- an indication, they say, the well is still laced with dangerous levels of methane.
Recent testing confirms that gas continues to lurk in Dimock's aquifer.
"We're very tired of it," says Jean Carter, 72. Tired of the buffalo in their yard, tired of worrying about the groundwater under their house, and tired of the fight that has consumed Dimock every day since the fall of 2008.
Like everyone else here, the Carters are eager to turn the page on the most highly publicized case of methane contamination to emerge from the early days of Pennsylvania's natural-gas drilling boom. Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., the Houston-based energy firm held responsible and fined hundreds of thousands of dollars for polluting the groundwater, is just as anxious to resume drilling in a 9-square-mile area of Dimock that has been placed off-limits to the company until it repairs the damage.
State regulators blame faulty gas wells drilled by Cabot for leaking methane into Dimock's groundwater. It was the first serious case of methane migration connected to Pennsylvania's 3-year-old drilling boom, raising fears of potential environmental harm throughout the giant Marcellus Shale gas field. Drilling critics point to Dimock as a prime example of what can and does go wrong.
Methane from gas-drilling operations has since been reported in the water supplies of several other Pennsylvania communities, forcing residents to stop using their wells and live off water buffaloes and bottled water. Though gas companies often deny responsibility for the pollution, the state has imposed more stringent well-construction standards designed to prevent stray gas from polluting groundwater.
Dimock's long quest for clean water may finally be reaching a critical stage.
After a series of false starts, Cabot, one of the largest drillers in the Marcellus, said it has met the state's Oct. 17 deadline to restore or replace Dimock's water supply, installing treatment systems in some houses that have removed the methane.
Residents who have filed suit against Cabot disagree, saying their water is still tainted and unusable. Another homeowner claims the $30,000 treatment system that Cabot put in failed to work.
Ultimately, it will fall to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to decide whether Cabot has fulfilled its obligation to the residents, whose story was highlighted in last year's Oscar-nominated documentary "Gasland."
If regulators sign off, the company plans to resume work on a dozen gas wells in Dimock. And, in a move sure to infuriate the residents, it will also stop paying for water deliveries to the Carters and several others whose wells were tainted with methane and, some say, toxic chemicals.
It's not clear how DEP will respond to Cabot's bid to restart operations, but spokeswoman Katherine Gresh said the agency is not under any deadline.
"DEP will continue to require Cabot to do this work until we are satisfied that the methane migration problem has ceased, regardless of how long it takes," she said via email.
An odorless, colorless, tasteless gas, methane is commonly found in Pennsylvania groundwater. Sources include swamps, landfills, coal mines and gas wells. Methane is not known to be harmful to ingest, but at high concentrations it's explosive and can lead to asphyxiation.
Despite company assurances of clean water, testing reveals that methane persists in Dimock's aquifer.
A Cabot contractor who sampled the water in mid-September found an extremely high level of gas in the enclosed space of a water well owned by Craig Sautner, who is among the plaintiffs suing Cabot. Test results supplied by DEP indicate that five more homes had levels of dissolved methane that exceeded the standard set by a December 2010 agreement between DEP and Cabot -- the same agreement whose conditions Cabot says it has met.
The latest results, Sautner said, prove that nothing has changed. He said Cabot also tested his well on Sept. 1, drawing water that resembled coffee with cream.
"I don't know why Cabot says there aren't any problems in Dimock," said Sautner, 58. "If they're going to say that our water's fine, I want them to be the first guinea pigs and drink it. Nice, big, tall glass of water."
Cabot spokesman George Stark did not have details of the Sept. 1 test at Sautner's house, but said any well that hasn't been used for a while will produce murky, stagnant water and require purging. He characterized the mid-September methane spike as an anomaly and said the big picture is that Dimock's water supply has been fixed.
"The water is clean for the families inside that area," he said.
Questions also remain about the integrity of gas wells that Cabot has already drilled.
As recently as May, DEP said nearly half of Cabot's wells in the Dimock area -- 20 of 43 -- continued to leak methane, including 14 that DEP said were of the "most concern." In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, Craig Lobins, regional manager in DEP's oil and gas program, wrote to Cabot that the leaking wells indicate faulty construction and that Cabot had "yet to achieve full compliance" with DEP mandates.
Cabot disagreed with DEP's assertions about its gas wells, and has been supplying documentation to the agency showing that all the wells are safe, Stark said.
He said Cabot fully expects to be given permission to drill five new wells and hydraulically fracture seven existing wells in Dimock, a tiny crossroads in the heart of one of the most prolific gas-bearing regions of Pennsylvania.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is the technique that's allowed Cabot and other drillers to harvest previously unreachable gas from the Marcellus and other deep shale formations around the United States. Fracking involves the high-pressure injection of millions of gallons of water, along with sand and chemical additives, to crack open shale deposits more than a mile underground and free the gas locked inside it.
The gas industry, as well as Pennsylvania environmental regulators, say the process has been used safely for decades. Environmental activists and some residents contend it can pollute groundwater. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is analyzing whether fracking diminishes the quality of drinking water -- with Dimock as one of several case studies.
Some Dimock residents say their water wells were fouled not only with methane that DEP said migrated from improperly cemented Cabot gas wells, but possibly with toxic chemicals that Cabot uses in the drilling process. The company denied responsibility, suggesting a nearby auto repair shop was to blame for the presence of toxins that a consultant working for the plaintiffs found in the wells last year.
Victoria Switzer, whose water was found to be contaminated with toluene and ethylene glycol, doesn't believe Cabot's explanation.
The 58-year-old retired schoolteacher lived in a trailer for several years while her husband, also a teacher, built their dream home on seven wooded acres. She planned to live in it a long time, to host children and grandchildren. Even after methane contaminated her water, Switzer felt she could deal with it as long as the gas could be vented.
But chemicals are another thing.
"I want to live in this home, but I have to have drinking water," she said. "I have to have water that doesn't freak me out with wondering what's in it today."
Along with Sautner, who's appeared at countless gas-drilling forums with a jug of brown water drawn from his well, Switzer has traveled widely to talk about her experiences and warn audiences about what she see as the dangers of drilling and fracking.
In response to their assertions and activism, Cabot publicized its own test results showing that their well water met federal drinking-water standards. Switzer responded that well water quality can be highly variable, appearing fine one day, foul the next. As recently as a few weeks ago, she said, her water was foamy and smelled bad.
The problems in Dimock, a rural township about 20 miles south of the New York state line, first arose in September of 2008, a month after Cabot started drilling in the area. The water that came out of residents' faucets suddenly became cloudy, foamy and discolored, and smelled and tasted foul. Homeowners, all of whom had leased their land to Cabot, said the water made them sick with symptoms that included vomiting, dizziness and skin rashes.
After a water well exploded on New Year's Day 2009, a state investigation found that Cabot had allowed combustible gas to escape into the region's groundwater supplies, contaminating at least 18 residential water wells.
Cabot asserts the methane in the residents' wells is naturally occurring. It denies polluting the water -- with methane or anything else -- even though DEP has said its tests confirmed the gas migrated from Cabot's wells. Cabot itself signed off on two consent agreements with DEP, in November 2009 and April 2010, in which the company acknowledged polluting Dimock's water supplies with methane and spilling chemicals into a creek.
The contamination helped fire a national debate over the unconventional drilling techniques that brought Cabot to Dimock in the first place. It also created a deep rift among Dimock's citizens that may never be healed, especially after residents who are suing Cabot refused to accept a DEP-brokered deal with the company.
"People are mad because we took a stand. They think we should cave in," Sautner said.
Cabot casts Dimock, population 1,400, as a community held hostage by a small group of residents who are impossible to please. The argument has gained traction. Many homeowners living in the moratorium area are anxious for Cabot to start drilling again so they can begin receiving royalties on the land they have leased to the company.
Dimock landowner and tax collector Esther Rayias, 57, part owner of a 180-acre farm that's been in her family for four generations, said she favors "safe and responsible drilling." Cabot built a pad on her farm but hasn't been able to drill.
"We don't want this land destroyed. We don't want to be ravaged. But from what we've seen, Cabot has not done any of that," said Rayias, who wrote to Pennsylvania Environmental Secretary Michael Krancer over the summer to urge him to lift the drilling ban.
The company has plenty of support in Dimock and the rest of Susquehanna County. In July, Cabot drew several thousand people to a community picnic. One of the 18 Dimock homeowners whose well was polluted with methane, Loren Salsman, recently posted a column online accusing the plaintiffs of being more concerned with money than water. "I know contamination, and there's none in Dimock!" wrote Salsman, who accepted a Cabot treatment system and said he drinks his well water.
Stark, the Cabot spokesman, said it's time to break the logjam and get on with business.
"Everyone will have their day in court. But at the same point, I think there is the ability to say what we are doing in Susquehanna County is safe, we meet the standards. You don't get to be one of the largest drillers in the commonwealth doing things haphazardly."
But it was precisely due to Cabot's haphazard approach to Dimock that residents suffered the loss of their water supply three years ago, state regulators found.
After finding that Cabot failed to live up to the terms of two previous agreements to fix Cabot's water, DEP announced in September 2010 that it would force the company to pay nearly $12 million to connect the homes to a municipal water line 6 miles away. Residents cheered the move as a permanent solution to their problem. But opposition from Cabot and many other residents and local elected officials -- who viewed the water line as a costly boondoggle that taxpayers would ultimately get stuck with -- forced DEP to scuttle the plan.
Instead, the environmental agency struck a bargain with Cabot last December under which the company would pay each of the affected residents twice the value of their homes, a total of $4.1 million, and provide a treatment system to remediate the gas. Then-Environmental Secretary John Hanger said the settlement would help the residents put their lives back together -- and send a strong message to the industry that pollution would not be tolerated.
But the 11 plaintiffs who qualified for the deal, none of whom were consulted beforehand, saw it as a betrayal. None of them took the money or a treatment system, and appealed the consent agreement to the state's Environmental Hearing Board. The appeal is pending. "One day you're saved, the next day you're lost, and you never get any resolution," Switzer said of the scuttled water line.
A half-dozen homeowners, though, did take the money and request the systems. One couple, Michael and Suzanne Johnson, who are not among the plaintiffs suing Cabot, said recently that it didn't work.
The Johnsons wrote in late August that the system "has not fully restored the water to Primary & Secondary Drinking water standards," making the assertion in a court brief they filed that sought to quash a subpoena from the plaintiffs' attorneys.
Suzanne Johnson declined to talk about why they believe their system failed to treat the water. Test results obtained by the AP show their well water had a high level of ethylene glycol, but Cabot's Stark said the lab acknowledged it was a false positive. Tests before and after turned up no ethylene glycol in the well.
The Johnsons' well has also recorded high levels of aluminum, iron and manganese, all of which can affect the taste, smell and color of water but do not generally pose a health hazard. DEP believes methane can elevate levels of all three metals.
Cabot's agreement with DEP, though, does not make the company liable for any chemicals or metals that have turned up in the residents' water -- nor does it require the company to treat the water for anything other than methane.
"Cabot does not have to provide a system that treats the water to safe drinking water standards," confirmed Gresh, the DEP spokeswoman. Instead, she said, the residents are supposed to use the settlement money from Cabot to remediate any other problem they have with their water.
Another resident who accepted the treatment system, Jessica Hein, said the water that comes out of her faucet is clear. But she still doesn't drink it and probably never will, preferring instead to use bottled water for drinking and cooking.
"It's not a risk I'm willing to take. Too many chemicals were used in the fracking process," said Hein, a 38-year-old nurse who moved to Endwell, N.Y., with her husband and two elementary-age children shortly before Cabot's arrival. The family kept the house in Dimock as a getaway but doesn't go there much anymore.
Switzer, who lives next door to the Johnsons, said their experience has convinced her that Cabot's system is not the way to go.
"It looks like a fourth-grade science experiment gone insane, gone wrong," Switzer said. "I don't want one of (Cabot's) chicken sheds in my yard." She said she might be willing to take a system of her own choosing so long as Cabot pays for it.
Cabot doesn't agree with Switzer's characterization, saying the treatment systems they've provided do what they are supposed to -- remove methane. Indeed, test results show dramatic reductions in wells with the systems.
And that's where the heart of the disagreement lies. The company says that if there are chemicals, metals or any other contaminants, it had nothing to do with putting them there. The plaintiffs believe Cabot, with the state's help, is escaping responsibility for what it did to them -- and that environmental regulators, once so gung-ho on holding Cabot accountable, have lost interest in Dimock's plight.
Sautner said Scott Perry, DEP's oil and gas program chief, told him that Cabot would never have agreed to pay for a more elaborate system that removes additional contaminants from well water.
Perry said, "You have to pay for that yourself," Sautner recalled. "I said, 'I'm not gonna pay for water that somebody else destroyed.' He said, 'What do you think that (settlement) money was, an early retirement present?'"
Perry also predicted to Sautner that the plaintiffs would never win their suit against Cabot because "you don't have enough evidence against them," Sautner recalled.
Through Gresh, Perry denied Sautner's account.
"This is not how Scott recollects any of his conversations with Mr. Sautner," Gresh said. "Scott has made it clear to him that the (consent agreement) obligates Cabot to the treatment systems, and that the other funds are available to address whatever issues the homeowner sees fit."
Perry and Krancer, the DEP secretary appointed by first-year, pro-drilling Gov. Tom Corbett, declined interview requests.
Jean Carter, who lives a few hundred feet from a pair of gas wells, said she and her husband have spent countless hours worrying about the water. Cabot asserts their supply is fine, pointing to test results that show an insignificant level of dissolved methane in the Carters' well water.
Yet the hissing noise from their disconnected well persists. It's a cause for yet more worry, but the Carters said they're trying not to let it get to them.
"We have this water problem. They've got to do something, sometime. I don't know when that's going to be, but in the meantime we have to go on with our lives and not let it consume us and make us miserable," she said. "Because we are only hurting ourselves."


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Director Anish Yohan Kuruvilla's upcoming movie Ko Ante Koti audio was released at a star-studded function held at Hitex in Hyderabad on Saturday evening, December 8. Actor Ram Charan Teja, who was the chief guest at the event, and Srihari unveiled the music album CDs of Sharwanand-Priya Anand starrer film and gave them to others on the stage.
Ko Ante Koti, which is produced by Sharwanand, has five beautiful songs, and Shakti Kanth Karthik has composed the music for them. BRK, Sreshta and Vasistha Sharma have penned the lyrics, while Suraj Jagan, Naresh Iyer, Haricharan, Priya Hemesh, Harini, Shakti Kanth Karithik rendered their voice for them.
Besides Ram Charan Teja and Sri Hari, the music launch of Ko Ante Koti witnessed the presence of Shekar Kammula, B Gopal, KS Rama Rao, S Gopal Reddy, Manchu Manoj, Sandeep Kishen, Deva Katta, Siva Balaji, Veerabhadram Chowdary, Shashank, Navdeep, Kamal Kamaraju and others.
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The more polite sectors of society might frown upon alcohol consumption before 5 p.m. But what if you combine it with physical exercise and an essentially green activity? That kind of virtuousness cancels out the points you lose for the day-drinking, right? Good thing we have the Beer Snob Bicycle Pub Crawl, an occasional Saturday group ride, usually through South Beach and downtown, that cancels out the perils of drinking and mass commuting in one fell swoop. Join your fellow two-wheeled warriors from the afternoon to early evening for a tour of fine establishments that are not only bike-friendly but also wallet-friendly. Stops on the circuit have included sudsy SoBe staples such as Zeke's Roadhouse on Lincoln — where everything is $4! — and the Abbey, as well as newcomers on the mainland, including the DRB, Elwood's Pub, and the Filling Station. Zip past all the car-driving losers burning gas, stuck in traffic, and blowing money on parking, and use the cash you save for an extra brew. And hey, let's be real — there's a lot less of a chance of getting a pesky DUI. Still, the organizers of this informal jaunt would rather the complete scofflaws stay at home. If you want to get down on this ride, you'll have to drink responsibly, bring a bike light, and obey all traffic laws — this isn't Critical Mass, so there's no corking of traffic. Other than that, sip and enjoy. Check the Miami Bike Scene blog for upcoming dates.
The scene: A messy Harvard dorm room. A young, drunken student chugs beer at his computer.His handsome, dark-haired best friend wanders in.
"I need you," the first young man says.
"I'm here for you," his friend replies earnestly. "No, I need the algorithm you wrote to rank chess players."
"Are you OK?" the friend asks.
"We're ranking girls," the drunk at the computer answers.
And so Facebook was born — at least according to The Social Network, the Oscar-nominated film that took American theaters by storm last fall.
That drunk at the computer, of course, was Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's brash, oft-criticized founder. His handsome friend, played by heartthrob Andrew Garfield, was none other than Eduardo Saverin.
The lesser-known half of Facebook's founding duo has had a breakout year thanks to The Social Network, a film largely based on Saverin's version of the website's founding — and his acrimonious split with Zuckerberg — as told to author Ben Mezrich.
Long before Saverin was fighting Zuckerberg for Facebook's billions, he was growing up in the Magic City, the son of Brazilian immigrants from São Paulo. Before heading to Harvard, Saverin cut his teeth at Miami's Gulliver Prep.
Now everyone knows the rest of his story: founding the business end of Facebook, getting screwed out of his shares by the devious Zuckerberg, and eventually getting the last laugh by winning an estimated billion-dollar court verdict against Facebook and literally writing the book on the website's incredible inside history.
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Only in Miami could a billionaire with an empire of auto dealerships be the underdog. But that's exactly what happened when 78-year-old Norman Braman took aim at Carlos Alvarez. The Miami-Dade mayor never saw it coming. How could he? Considering that — unlike most of his predecessors — he didn't break any obvious laws, Alvarez was probably already designing the statue of himself to go up in Little Havana. But when the South Florida economy tanked, each Alvarez mistake became a stone in Braman's ever-growing arsenal. With all of that ammo, Braman couldn't miss. He announced a recall campaign against the mayor and pumped more than a million bucks of his own money into the effort. When the results came in, it was a victory of biblical proportions for the billionaire: Almost 90 percent of voters decided to oust Alvarez's ass. But like any other Banana Republic coup, it left everyday citizens wondering which despot is next.
Unless you support terrifying cyborgs sent from the future to eliminate state government with just their laser eyes (cough, cough, Rick Scott) or count yourself a member of the Marco Rubio Tea Party Pretty Boy Army, the past 12 months have been a dismal time to be a South Florida voter. A terrible year, that is, with one bright, sequined, outrageously colorful-hat-wearing exception: Frederica Wilson, Miami's newest rep in the U.S. Congress, is pretty much the bomb. Wilson made a name for herself by winning unlikely battles: first as a Miami principal who closed a fume-spewing plant near her school, then as a state representative and senator taking down everything from high school dirty dancing to HIV testing for prisoners. Now in Washington, she has brought some much-needed visibility to a Democratic freshman class overshadowed by the boisterous GOP, earning a cover photo on the Washington Post Magazine, and backing controversial legislation, such as a ban on cell phones while driving. Down with the cyborgs! Up with blinged-out cowboy hats!
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It has been awhile since I wrote anything. Things have been really crazy in my rl. One of the best changes is Jazzy. She is my new service dog. She is really wonderful. She is a rescue.
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Here's a great article by the Psychic, Linda Lauren, about Vito and Dogland. I am posting it here, and will give a link at the end. Meet The Dogfather of Dogland: A Visit with Vitolo Rossini Article by Linda Lauren SL Enquirer 9/18/13 There is something about the virtual community of Second Life that makes you want to mirror your everyday real life. People do that by creating avatars to look like themselves, or as much like themselves as technically possible. Admittedly, we…Continue
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SALT LAKE CITY – Facing one of its most daunting opening games in years, Pitt made a spirited fourth-quarter rally before falling to Utah, 27-24, in overtime in front of a packed Rice-Eccles Stadium.
Joe Phillips kicked a 21-yard field goal in the first overtime as Utah won its 18th consecutive home game and improved to 8-0 against Big East teams.
Pitt (0-1) had erased a 24-13 deficit with less than eight minutes to play, forcing overtime on kicker Dan Hutchins' 30-yard field as time expired.
But Tino Sunseri underthrew Mike Shanahan and was intercepted by true freshman safety Brian Blechen on the first play of the first overtime. Utah (1-0), starting at the Pitt 25 as per NCAA overtime rules, drove to the Pitt 4, where Phillips ended Pitt's comeback hopes.
Pitt forced three turnovers and blocked a punt, but the Panthers committed 12 penalties for 75 yards and settled for two field goals after having first-and-goal in the second half.
Sunseri finished 16 of 28 for 184 yards and one touchdown and interception. Dion Lewis rushed for 75 yards and one touchdown on 25 carries.
Pitt's other All-America candidate, Baldwin. caught four passes for 71 yards, including a 44-yard touchdown with 7:11 to play that got Pitt back into the game.
Utah sophomore quarterback Jordan Wynn completed 21 of 36 pass attempts for 283 yards and three touchdowns. DeVonte Christopher caught eight passes for 155 yards and one 61-yarder.
Trailing 24-13, Pitt got back to within three points with a 44-yard touchdown pass from Sunseri to Baldwin and their ensuing two-point conversion to make it 24-21 with 7:11 to play.
Pitt's defense held – despite a controversial pass interference penalty call on Panther defensive back Ricky Gary on third-and-10 – and got the ball back at midfield after Utah punter Sean Sellwood's 25-yard punt with 2:39 to play.
A 20-yard catch by Mike Shanahan from Sunseri moved Pitt to the Utah 14 with 40 seconds to play. After a pair of incompletions and a 1-yard run by Dion Lewis, Hutchins overcame some mind tricks by Whittingham to kick his third field goal of the game to force overtime.
Whittingham called two timeouts just as Hutchins kicked – the first one Hutchins made, the second one he missed wide left – before the second-team all-Big East kicker booted a clean 30-yarder for make it 24-all.


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Meteorologists have long known that summer thunderstorms and heavy rains are difficult to predict. They pop up quickly and disappear within a few short hours. But after looking at large numbers of radar images spanning four years, NCAR scientists have discovered a systematic pattern of rainfall across North America. That knowledge should make the rainiest summer thunderstorms more predictable.
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The analysis of 50,000 summertime radar images showed that the movement of blocks of enhanced rainfall from west to east, from the Rockies toward the Appalachians, is an identifiable pattern, even when traditional weather maps show none of the typical triggers, such as fronts or low pressure systems.
These eastward-moving blocks of enhanced thunderstorm activity still include individual storms that pop up quickly and disappear in a few hours, but it appears that the older storms give birth to new storms as the activity moves across the country. Thus, there is a much greater chance that a particular location will feel the effects of a thunderstorm when one of the activity areas is passing by, rather than either before or after it.
Heavy rain from thunderstorms is hard to predict because these storms are mostly local, dont last very long, and exhibit chaotic behavior in their evolution, says Richard Carbone, an NCAR senior scientist and lead author of a paper that appeared in the 1 July issue of the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. But our work shows some clusters of storms actually spawn new clusters of storms. If we can follow this pattern, we may be able to greatly improve our predictions of where the new storms will develop.
Carbone and NCAR colleagues John Tuttle, David Ahijevych, and Stanley Trier analyzed vast quantities of radar data for summer thunderstorms between 1997 and 2000. By compiling the images, they found a distinct pattern of old storms generating new storms downstream.
We can track the signal associated with afternoon thunderstorms in the west to new thunderstorms across the country more than 500 miles [800 kilometers] on a typical midsummer day, adds Carbone. Some of these storms, or episodes, span up to two days and 1,500 mi [2,400 km], even though ordinary thunderstorms last about an hour and organized groups of thunderstorms three to ten hours.
Mountains and storm-created atmospheric waves are the main factors kicking off these episodes, says Carbone. We havent discovered the silver bullet yetwhat ties these sequences of storms togetherbut weve got some ideas. Ongoing research by Carbone and his collaborators includes looking more deeply into how these episodes of enhanced thunderstorm activity form, as well as wavelike mechanisms and other factors that may control the speed at which they propagate. If the underlying mechanisms can be brought to light, that information can be used to improve forecasts of thunderstorm activity in the summer months.
What the models say
Carbones thunderstorm research was funded primarily by the U.S. Weather Research Program. Related work on modeling is being carried out elsewhere at NCAR, with NSF funding, as part of the centers initiative on the water cycle across scales. Aiguo Dai has been examining the diurnal cycle of precipitation across the globe and, in particular, across North America. The central United States and the lee of the Tibetan mountains are among the places where land-based thunderstorms appear more likely to occur at night than in the afternoon. Dai is now evaluating the performance of the Community Climate System Model in reproducing these and other diurnal patterns in precipitation.
In most regions, models tend to generate showers and thunderstorms too early in the day, says Dai. And no model has yet been able to accurately simulate the summertime march of storms across North America analyzed by Carbone. I think its very much an interaction across scales, says NCARs Kevin Trenberth, who has worked closely with Dai on precipitation analyses. Trenberth, Dai, and colleagues will soon be addressing the problem in a study using a hierarchy of models that range from cloud scale to global scale.
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Undefeated Cluster of Stars puts her six-race win streak on the line as a formidable 2-5 favorite in the $150,000 Iroquois Stakes for New York-bred fillies and mares Oct. 19 at Belmont Park.
Undefeated Cluster of Stars puts her six-race win streak on the line as a formidable 2-5 favorite in the $150,000 Iroquois Stakes for New York-bred fillies and mares Oct. 19 at Belmont Park.
Nine sprinters have been entered in Laurel Park's 22nd running of the $350,000 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash Sept. 21, including local star Ben's Cat.
Defending champion Saginaw squares off against the up-and-coming Saratoga Snacks Aug. 1 at Saratoga Race Course in a contentious renewal of the $100,000 John Morrissey Stakes for New York-breds, 3 years old and up.
Drawing Away Stables' Saginaw turned in another remarkable effort in the $98,000 Affirmed Success Handicap, overcoming early trouble and a tepid pace before shoving his way out at the head of the stretch.
Drawing Away Stables' hard-knocking Saginaw is back to defend his title in the Affirmed Success Stakes June 1 at Belmont Park.
Hall of Fame trainer Jerry Hollendorfer threatens to have grade I winners on both coasts April 6 as he ships Sahara Sky to Aqueduct Racetrack for the $400,000 Carter Handicap (gr. I).
Smith Farm and Stable's New Jersey-bred Javerre won his first graded- stakes race Feb. 18, taking the $250,000 General George Handicap (gr. III) at Laurel Park.
Trainer Bob Baffert and Brigand will go back to the Laurel Park well Feb. 18 in the $250,000 General George Handicap (gr. III), where Brigand is the 9-5 morning-line favorite.
Apprentice jockey Jose Ortiz won the first three races and brother Irad Ortiz Jr. took races 4 through 7 to give them a sweep of the first seven races Jan. 20 at Aqueduct Racetrack.
Brigand, shipped to Laurel Park from New York by trainer Bob Baffert, responded with a front-running one-length victory in the $104,000 City of Laurel Stakes Dec. 8.
Versatile grade I winner Willy Beamin will stick to route racing when he faces an expected five other 3-year-olds in the Discovery Handicap (gr. III) on Nov. 17 at Aqueduct.
Politicallycorrect, rallying way wide through the homestretch for Kent Desormeaux, caught favored Willy Beamin in the final few strides to post an upset in the $400,000 Oklahoma Derby Sept. 30 at Remington Park.
Recent grade I winner Willy Beamin is part of a 10-horse field that includes fellow shippers Prospective and and Daddy Nose Best on the biggest day of the season at Remington Park Sept. 30.
Bouncing right back from a restricted stakes romp just three days earlier, Willy Beamin closed with a rush to capture the $500,000 Foxwoods King's Bishop (gr. I) in his graded stakes debut Aug. 25 at Saratoga Race Course.
Trinniberg and Currency Swap, two of the nation's best 3-year-old sprinters, square off once again in the $500,000 Foxwood King's Bishop Stakes (gr. I) Aug. 25 at Saratoga Race Course.
The Lumber Guy enjoyed the cutback to a mile in the $200,000 Jerome (gr. II), as he fended off pressure all the way around the track to score by 2 3/4 lengths April 21 at Aqueduct Racetrack.
The Jerome drew a field of seven, four of them entering off failed Derby prep efforts. Trainer Bob Baffert, a two-time winner of this event, will send out of a pair including Sunland Derby third-place finisher Stirred Up.
Giant Ryan stole the show at the New York Thoroughbred Breeders' annual awards banquet April 2, winning top honors as 2011 New York-bred Horse of the Year, champion older male, and champion male sprinter.
Alpha is the heavy favorite for the $200,000 Withers (gr. III), which replaces the Whirlaway Stakes as the first of three New York preps leading up to the Triple Crown. The Feb. 4 race is now at two turns on the inner track.
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Odds-on choice Creative Cause staked his claim as Southern California's top juvenile colt when he galloped to a 1 3/4-length victory in the Best Pal Stakes (gr. II) at Del Mar Aug. 7.
Seven juvenile colts, led by a pair from the prolific Bob Baffert barn, look for a first stakes victory in the $150,000 Best Pal Stakes (gr. II) at Del Mar Aug. 7.
Odds-on choice Majestic City improved to three-for-three in his young career when he ran down a pair of Bob Baffert-trained colts to win the $100,000 Hollywood Juvenile Championship (gr. III) going away July 17.
Precocious Majestic City heads the field for the Hollywood Juvenile Championship Stakes (gr. III) while Acclamation stands out in the Sunset Handicap (gr. IIIT) as the Hollywood Park spring/summer meet ends July 18.
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A top state official for foreign investment is seeking new networks and promoting the state's "EB-5" projects to crowds of investors in China on a two-week trip.
Brent Raymond, who directs the Vermont EB-5 regional center, told VTDigger that he's mainly promoting two already approved EB-5 projects in the state: the DreamLife retirement resorts project, signed off by Lawrence Miller, the state's secretary of Commerce and Community Development, in November 2012, and Bill Stenger's well-known $600 million Jay Peak Resort expansion.
Raymond left Wednesday to attend the Invest in America 2013 Summit and Exhibition from March 15-18 in Shanghai, a major convention which focuses on foreign investment in America and real estate development, mostly in the context of the EB-5 visa program.
Started in 1990, the federal EB-5 program grants green cards to foreign investors who inject $500,000 or more into the nation's economy and create 10 jobs.
"It's about marketing the regional center," said Raymond, referring to Vermont's position as maintaining the only state-owned and administered body helping foreign investors and Vermont businesses connect over the EB-5 program.
"The 2012 World Wealth report states that the Asia-Pacific geographic region surpassed North America and Europe in high net-worth individuals," said Raymond. "So it's just a no-brainer to go over there and market for the projects."
Since Stenger and DreamLife's principal Phil Mooney will attend themselves in person. "Obviously, they're looking to make very direct connections," Raymond said.
Jay Peak co-owner Stenger told VTDigger that he'd be in China in person for eight full days. He hopes to meet 400 to 500 people along the way, from attorneys and immigration representatives to investors.
Although Jay Peak will shell out about $40,000 in total for the trip, Stenger hopes to identify and benefit by drawing at least 100 possible investors.
"About 20 percent of our investors come from China," said Stenger, referencing his planned $600 million expansion in the Northeast Kingdom. "It's a big trip and I think it's going to be very effective for us."
Raymond's travel costs will be borne by DreamLife and Jay Peak. Stenger called the reimbursement a common practice, reasoning that conservative fiscal times made it appropriate for him to pay for the trip, since both the state and Jay Peak benefit from the "good partnership."
A project less publicized than Jay Peak, DreamLife DreamLife Retirement Resorts plans to build luxury housing for the elderly, in towns across Vermont. Each building complex would cost $24 million; the company plans to build 10 in the state, according to the DreamLife website.
It's not clear when construction by DreamLife will start, or in which towns. State officials have mentioned previous hiccups and stretches of silence from DreamLife leaders, as Seven Days' Paul Heintz reported in April 2012.
Raymond doesn't have a target dollar figure he'd like to secure in promised investments. He said the Invest in America 2013 Summit is more about making a first impression on investors and holding initial meetings prior to rigorous background checks on investors and the source of their funds.
"The Chinese represent 90 percent of EB-5 investment in the nation, followed by South Korea, Taiwan, Iran and Venezuela," said Raymond. "The Vermont regional center is well-known in China, but still, we're competing against a couple hundred other regional centers and need to continue to market. This is a group of people we need to be in front of."
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Eureka! Restaurant Review: Anyone who appreciates craft beers and spirits will find the mother lode at Eureka!, and the menu strikes a nice balancing act between gastropub and basic, but very good, bar food. Examples include the osso buco riblets tossed in spicy aïoli, the Fresno fig burger with fig marmalade and goat cheese, and the roasted beet salad with walnuts and arugula. For dessert, pair up the chocolate espresso soufflé coffee cupcake with a nice stout or porter. The restaurant can get pretty loud during peak hours, and the too-small bar area fills up quickly once happy hour rolls around. But overall, it's a nice alternative to the college town bar scene. Other locations throughout California.
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I follow Burt and Stirton (1961:37) in treating Diphylla ecaudata as a monotypic species.
Other references to the monotypic genus have consisted only of a listing of the name or of its inclusion in a key.
In all, 27 kinds (subspecies and monotypic species) of the order Megachiroptera are known from the Solomon Islands.
Three are monotypic and the fourth has three subspecies, making a total of six taxa.
The only endemic for which the geographic history cannot be adequately explained is the monotypic Pityriasis gymnocephala.
It is easy to see how natural selection can bring about monotypic evolution, but how can it have effected polytypic evolution?
Most of the species not studied are monotypic and have restricted geographic ranges.
It is evident, then, as Romanes claims, that natural selection alone tends to monotypic evolution.
Until more material from critical areas is available for study, I continue to recognize angustapalata as a monotypic species.
Prior to 1935 caurinus was considered to be a monotypic species.
Having a single form or member, especially containing no more than one taxonomic category of the next lower rank. A monotypic genus contains a single species, while a monotypic species consists of a single population that is not divided into subspecies. Compare polytypic.


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