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What Went Wrong
Fire Aboard La Diva
Dockwalk magazine's regular column, What Went Wrong by Kelly Sanford, highlights a different marine accident each month, focusing on the lessons learned. We've received feedback that some readers would like to comment on it. So we're republishing it in the forum so you can have your say.
The October 2010 column recounts a story of motor yacht La Diva, which was lost in a fire in West Palm Beach.
Early Sunday, June 27, 2010, 911 emergency operators in West Palm Beach, Florida, received an urgent phone call from the captain of M/Y La Diva. Battalion Chief Kevin Green with the West Palm Beach Fire Department's Training, Safety and Special Operations Division, says, "He was very clear about the situation and fire/smoke conditions on the vessel. He was also very clear about the vessel being at the north end of Rybovich Marina and the need to get firefighters there as soon as possible."
Earlier that morning, members of the crew said they had noticed an exhaust leak in the engine room as they were arriving in Palm Beach from The Bahamas. By the time the vessel was secured at Rybovich Marina, the engine room was on fire and the crew realized they needed to evacuate the vessel. Green says that the crew's decision to voluntarily evacuate the vessel was the right decision. When firefighters arrived on the scene, there was no "immediate life safety risk."
Green explains that fires aboard boats are the outliers for local fire departments and always present firefighters with dangerous, difficult circumstances. In a house or building, Green says, firefighters don't typically face complicated firefighting hazards like thousands of gallons of fuel, watertight doors, complex interior layouts and superstructures that become extraordinarily toxic once on fire. Complicating matters, "With the La Diva fire, there was eight hundred feet between our trucks and equipment and the fire," Green says.
In fighting the La Diva fire, several experienced firefighters were injured and/or hospitalized. "Two were injured in a flashover event (sudden engulfment of fire) inside the yacht during the initial entry to locate and extinguish the fire," Green says. Despite a day-long effort to fight and contain the fire, the vessel was a total loss.
The fire department was unable to determine the exact cause of the fire.
"The vessel burned for many hours and possible fuel leaks occurred,"Green says. "To determine the exact cause and origin of the fire…would have been nearly impossible. The duration of the fire consumed nearly all combustible materials on the vessel."
Because boat fires are rare in the grand scheme of land-based firefighting, each event brings new opportunities to learn how to better manage these incidents. The collective departments of South Florida try to share information and develop safe strategies for firefighters called upon to extinguish the next boat fire, which inevitably will come.
Green offers these preventative tips. "Ensure that the captain and crew fully understand all of the built-in fire suppression systems, including their operation, use and maintenance. [Make sure] the systems are kept up to date through inspection and certification. [And] conduct regular fire [and evacuation] drills with passengers and crew." He continues, "The best solution for stopping a fire on a vessel is a built-in fire suppression system. It is critical that fires on vessels are extinguished in the earliest stage to prevent the fire from growing."
Green also reminds crew that an equally important priority is the elimination of what firefighters call a "life safety risk." Before any members of the crew decide to play the hero to save property, they should carefully consider that their decisions may very well put their own lives and the lives of others at risk.
In land-based firefighter communities, a majority of firefighters never set foot aboard a yacht prior to entering one that's on fire. Imagine if on your first day on a yacht – green as can be off the docks – you were asked to don a SCBA and bunker gear and then find the engine room while blindfolded. "Fighting a fire on a yacht is very different than fighting a fire in a building – which is what we train for and do day in and day out," Green says.
WPBFD's Chief Fire Prevention Officer, Michael Carsillo, says, "The yachting community should embrace the efforts of land-based firefighters and support their efforts.They should invite firefighters to perform pre-incident planning activities of their yachts, develop response plans and actively train with land-based firefighters."
Green explains that this type of planning serves the dual function of providing the crew with valuable training advice and guidance and also gives firefighters the ability to envision fighting a fire aboard a vessel and adapt their frame of reference under a controlled environment.
When asked if the crew of La Diva could have done things differently, Green says, "Not sure if [they] could have done anything different. The fire was contained [to] the vessel and all crew were safely off [when firefighters arrived]… The boat captain and crew met the fire captain on the dock and tried to convey sufficient information to guide the firefighters…[WPBFD] cannot speculate as to the cause of the fire. Everything was so badly burned that we have only the word of the captain and crew to go by. It's up to the insurance company to determine if circumstances warrant further investigation."
Anonymous, Good questions, both of them. Regarding What Went Wrong, I think the ultimate lesson here in terms of what went wrong, is that often we never get to find out what exactly went wrong. I know that sounds like a lame answer, but it is an important one. Many times in this forum people will ask why I don't site a flag state or port state report, or why the captain was not held accountable or why the licensing agencies don't do this or that, and the harsh reality is that flag states and port states almost never investigate or document non-fatal incidents aboard pleasure registry vessels unless their own resources are dispatched at the time of the accident. This means that many times, investigations into even these seemingly major incidents are very cursory, which leaves only the Pandora's Box of speculation for any opportunities for the collective yachting community to learn from.
The industry is divided on the merits of speculation after the fact (or in absence of fact). Some people feel that it is a good learning exercise to theorize on maybes, and others believe that is taboo. That is the purpose of this forum: to let the yachting community have a platform for discussing these things at their own comfort threshold. Something WPBFD did not come right out and say, but repetitively implied is that there was an issue with the fire suppression system in the engine room. Regrettably, I have no more information than that.
I'm glad you asked your second question – a great one by the way. I did ask WPBFD the same question about whether a boat should come to the dock or stay out at sea if it is already on fire and because of word count limitations could only address it peripherally in the text, so here's the verbatim Q&A.
Q) Is the coast guard better prepared for fighting a fire on board a vessel? If the crew can safely abandon ship and the vessel does not pose an immediate threat to navigation, are vessel fires at sea easier to manage than a vessel fire at the dock?
A) "Generally, a boat fire at sea is easier to manage because there is nothing around it to burn. Once the crew is off the vessel, there is no life safety hazard. Fires on yachts at sea usually end the same... significant damage or total loss. A fire at the dock allows for land based firefighters (local fire departments) to fight the fire. But unless EVERYTHING goes perfectly, the results are generally the same... or possibly worse; firefighters killed or injured trying to save property. Firefighters are aggressive as a rule and will do whatever it takes to extinguish a fire. Unless a fire department is extremely disciplined, when arriving to find a "smoke showing" (no visible fire) situation, they will attempt to locate and fight the fire by boarding the vessel and initiating an interior fire attack.
The best solution for stopping a fire on a vessel is a built-in fire suppression system. It is critical that fires on vessels are extinguished in the earliest stage to prevent the fire from growing. These types of fires are very dangerous for occupants as well as municipal firefighters. Fighting a fire on a yacht is very different than fighting a fire in a building - which is what we train for and do day-in and day-out. Our frame of reference is fighting fires in buildings.
As for the Coast Guard, locally, they are not prepared to fight fires on boats. I can't speak for their firefighting ability in other areas of the state or country. To the best of my knowledge, they do not board vessels and initiate interior fire attacks. If they have a properly equipped vessel, they may operate in a defensive/exterior mode. Currently, the only fire department in Palm Beach County that has a fire boat is Boca Raton. But realize that once a fire boat begins operations, it is generally a defensive operation, meaning that the boat will most likely suffer significant damage or be a total loss".
THis week saw the supply vessels in exercising drills of the fire fighting hoses and cannons and it's impressive how far, strong and precise that water goes. I suppose that obviously it could send foam also, maybe not so far!


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HELLO GLASTONBURY! Yes, it's that time of year again, when every five minutes someone stood on a stage can be found hollering those two words at a Worthy Farm audience. People then go WAHAHA-KRRRRSSSHHH-WOO! each time they say it. Meanwhile, the BBC are there capturing these moments and making a HELLO GLASTONBURY montage. Whilst shooting this annual art piece, the beeb also have their cameras pointed at six of the festival's stage, and here are some highlights from Friday 27th June 2014.
Oh and before we lose you to the wonders of digital stream, you should join in the Glastontelly chatter over on our forum here to find out who to watch live online and what was good and what confused Gemma Cairney today....
Those New Yorkers in black have a new album on the way and they performed new song 'Anywhere' during their contender for set of the weekend, which you can watch in full here.
Arcade Fire
Their set live on BBC telly last night "trended" on Twitter and whatever you might thing of their hulking Mercury Rev gone Talking Heads they didn't half put on a headline show (although Win, we're not sure you needed to paint on those sunglasses!). You can watch their full set on the iPlayer here, see our In Photos gallery and watch 'We Exist' by bashing the play button below.
Wild Beasts
Don't they grow up quick? Doesn't seem that long ago Wild Beasts were a new band that we didn't shut up about, now they're doing this. Watch Wild Beasts full set on the iPlayer.
Manic Street Preachers
Ahead of their set tonight (which you can stream online over on the BBC site) James Dean Bradfield popped into the BBC Music teepee to play an acoustic version of 'Walk Me To the Bridge'.
Four Tet
Keiran Hebden "killed it" last night. You can watch the full Four Tet set here on the iPlayer, but this clip of 'Parallel Jalebi' will give your whistle a whettening:
If they got you in the mood to dance, here's 'Recover'. Full Chvrches set on the iPlayer here.
Now that you're dancing on your bed/sofa, here's 'Chain My Name'. Full Polica set on the iPlayer here.
Courtney Barnett
She's become a bit of a sensation, hasn't she? 'Out of the Woodwork' isn't one of her best tracks, so maybe watch the full set.
Parquet Courts
And we leave you with the clattering Pavement gone 'Marquee Moon' of Parquet Courts.
1) For more tracks and full sets head over to bbc.co.uk/glastonbury or if you're not in the UK check out the BBC's YouTube channel.
2) Glastontelly 2014 forum thread.
3) Check out In Photos galleries from Glastonbury 2014.

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Also, people in the US gladly pay about $9.60 a gallon for Dasani bottled water, an amenity that comes almost free of charge from something lost to the test of time called a "tap" or "faucet," but when gas gets to 3 bucks it's intolerable. I don't understand people.
Sam is basically right, he's just cranky.
a "tap" or "faucet,"
Vivec, you're the best forum member ever.
All I'm saying is with my budget a $99 PS2 and a couple budget games for under $150 bucks is doable. The XBOX 360, hell no. I'm not going to buy into Microsoft's 360 degrees of hype.
So will you not be getting a PS3 or Revolution at launch either? How will you feel when the PS3 is priced similarly or even higher as some journalists/analysts have suggested? Will you wait until the price comes down?
I find it odd I was willing to pay $1,500 for a computer, that's twice as much as my car cost me, But I'm not willing to even think abotu buying an Xbox 360.
Look at games as a whole. Anyone who is serious about gaming knows that good games appears on all platforms thereforth is worth owning all if possible. If not possible, do not bash what you don't understand.
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Well, not after her next one, anyway.
Gwen Stefani - wife, mother, musician - is to turn her back on her successful solo career following the release of her second album, The Sweet Escape, next month. She'll return to fronting popular funk-rockers No Doubt.
No Doubt, together since 1986, haven't released an album since 2001's Rock Steady; Gwen, meanwhile, put out the hit album Love Angel Music Baby two years ago. Of her decision to return to the band, she commented to The Evening Echo:
"I don't think I will make another [solo album]. I can't predict anything, but I don't plan on making one of these solo dance project records, I definitely feel myself going back to No Doubt after this to do a new album."
Good news? Bad news? Do-you-care news? I know one thing: I'm feelin' hella good about having some lunch...!


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I was surfing the web aimlessly when I came across this sad news:
Swedish mountaineer and professional skier Fredrik Ericsson died Friday while trying to summit K2 in Pakistan, his friend David Schipper told CNN in a telephone interview.
The incident occurred between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. as Ericsson was attempting to become the first man to ski from the summit to base camp, said Schipper, who said he learned of the accident on the world's second-tallest peak in a satellite call from fellow climber Fabrizio Zangrilli.
Ericsson, along with his climbing partners Trey Cook and Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, had begun the summit push between 1 a.m. and 1:30 a.m. in low-visibility weather.
After several hours of climbing, they approached the bottom of the bottleneck. At this point, Cook returned to Camp 4, leaving Kaltenbrunner and Ericsson to continue their ascent.
As Ericsson was attempting to fix ropes to the snow and ice along the route he "lost his purchase and was unable to arrest his fall," Schipper said.
Ericsson's body, resting at about 7,000 meters, will remain where it fell, Schipper said on Ericsson's website.
"His parents have requested it remain in the mountains he loved," he wrote. "Retrieval would be exceptionally dangerous."
Such incidents are of course not uncommon — many climbers die similarly each year. The comment thread to this news report was also fairly predictable. One user wrote: I never understood poeple that would do a suicidal activity then call it sport! Another was full of scathing sarcasm: At least he died for a cause. Oh thats right he didn't!
But what really caught my eye was one particular comment that I post below. It was in response to the derisive "Oh that's right he didn't" comment, and it is the reason why I am writing this post. It expresses exactly what I feel about such activities and says all that's needs to be said to those who don't get it.
"He didn't even die for a cause"…
Yes he did; he died doing what he loved. He died pushing himself to his personal limits. He was in better shape than all of you combined. He didn't rant on web sites, he was living life to the fullest for… (God forbid), HIMSELF. How many of you will die for a "cause"?
Ericsson isn't a martyr. He isn't a hero. He is just a man who went ahead and pursued his particular passion. How would the world look like if everyone else did the same?


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Duchess Catherine Has Another Major McQueen Moment at Prince George's Christening
The new mum selects an all-white look by one of her go-to designers for Prince George's christening.
Last time we saw Duchess Catherine in all-white Alexander McQueen was at her royal nuptials to Prince William. This time, it's for another royal occasion — the christening of her 3-month-old son Prince George.
While George was dressed in an elaborate replica of the royal christening robe, Middleton took a slightly more modern approach, wearing a custom ivory Alexander McQueen coat dress featuring ruffles down the front. Simple drop earrings and coordinating L.K. Bennett cream pumps completed the look.
And of course, she topped her famously gorgeous hair with a coordinating bespoke Jane Taylor "sinamay beret" featuring netting and a flower appliqué. (See a similar style by the milliner — for more than $1,200! — here.)
Prince William (not pictured) selected a navy suit and blue tie for the affair and was all smiles as he held his son at the 35-minute private ceremony led by the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby at the Chapel Royal in St. James's Palace in London.
While we love Kate decked in her classic "Sunday best" (so to speak), we also love her casual style. What do you think of her coat dress? How cute is George in his christening robe? Share your thoughts below!
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Many travel for business. Some travel for fun. Food people travel to eat. We asked our favorite eating enthusiasts the question "When you travel to eat, where do you go?" The delicious responses follow:
Chef Bill Kim owns Chicago restaurants Urban Belly, Belly Shack and BellyQ. A native of Seoul, Korea, he hosts periodic Chef Karaoke Throwdowns at BellyQ.
- "I go to Ito City, Japan to eat soba. First they serve chilled noodles with a dipping sauce, then they pour the soba cooking water into the sauce to make a soup that totally blows me away. It is not starchy, and tastes like ramen broth."
- When you go: Relax in one of Ito's onsen (natural hot springs). Says Kim, "I felt like a soft poached egg in ramen."
Sarah Grueneberg, a "Top Chef" finalist, is executive chef at Splaggia in Chicago.
- "I would fly to Hong Kong just to eat the roast goose at Yat Lok. It is super caramelized, rendered beautifully -- it's better than pork and when I ate this goose I swore I would never eat duck again!"
- When you go: There will be lines out the door and the menu is only in Chinese. Order roast goose with rice, or with noodle soup, or just a roast goose leg.
Jonathan Mayers co-founded the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival 12 years ago. His company Superfly Presents also produces the GoogaMooga Festival, coming to Chicago Aug, 24-25.
- "My favorite place is New Orleans. When I land there I go straight into an eating marathon. The Camelia Grill is a legendary place in Uptown, a classic diner serving throwback food. I get a chicken sandwich and a chocolate freeze."
- When you go: Stop for a roast beef po-boy at Domilise's.
Karen Nicolas is a Food & Wine Magazine Best New Chef 2012, who hails from State College, Penn.
- "When I travel just to eat, I head to San Sebastian, Spain to snack at the most refined and creative pintxo (snack)bars Spain has to offer. One of my favorites is called La Cuchara de San Telmo, where I can devour pintxos made of foie gras, sweetbreads and bacalao."
- When you go: Drink Txakoli, the local fizzy white wine that pairs perfectly with a summer evening of pintxo bar hopping.
Greg Hall is the founder of Virtue Cider, a Chicago-based company that produces craft hard cider in Fennville, Mich.
- "I like to go to Paris in September or October and get a roast chicken served with a bag of new potatoes drenched in hot chicken fat and a wheel of Normandy Camembert at the Marche Monge in the Latin Quarter. Pick up a half kilo of ratatouille too and an apple or pear while you shop."
- When you go: Be sure to procure one of Eric Kayser's Baguettes Monge to accompany your treasures.
Bob Weston is a record mastering engineer and musician in Chicago, and expert in the art of scoring great food on the road while touring with his band.
- "When I travel to eat, I go to Kernersville, N.C., and get Eastern-style barbecue. It's a vinegar-based shredded pork sandwich, and I get hush puppies and collard greens on the side."
- When you go: "Make sure you ask for the Eastern-style barbecue. The Lexington-style sauce has tomato (ketchup) and who would want to eat that?"


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Your p.m. roundup for Oct. 12, the day we learned what happens when hurricanes catch fire. Photo, which is from Norway, via Reddit. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors.
What we're watching (all times EDT, unless noted): Versus has Bruins-Hurricanes in an NHL game that started at 7:30. TBS has Game 3 of the NLCS between the Cardinals and Brewers at 8. And ESPNU has a women's college volleyball doubleheader, with Tennessee-Kentucky at 8 and Hawaii-New Mexico State at 10.
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The endurance of Willem de Kooning on the occasion of his ongoing retrospective at MoMA: "During the '50s de Kooning became the most influential painter of his day. 'He was an artist's artist,' says Richard Koshalek, director of the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum, which has one of the largest collections of de Kooning's work. 'He had a great impact on a very wide range of artists.' Brice Marden, a painter who was the subject of a 2006 MoMA retrospective, agrees: 'You were brought up on de Kooning. He was the master. He was the teacher.' To many he was also a romantic figure with movie-star looks and an existential swagger, as he drank at the Cedar Tavern in Greenwich Village with Pollock and moved from love affair to love affair. Despite his success, de Kooning eventually paid a price for his unwillingness to follow the prevailing trends. His ever-changing art-especially his raucous depiction of women-was increasingly slighted by critics and art historians during his lifetime. It did not, Elderfield suggests, 'fit easily with those works thought to maintain the familiar modernist history of an increasingly refined abstraction.'" [Smithsonian]
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Reporter fights! "The best media fight I ever witnessed took place in 1995 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where I was covering the New York Yankees at spring training. There was a large crowd surrounding manager Buck Showalter in the dugout, and a cameraman put his hand on New York Post beat writer Joel Sherman's shoulder and pushed down, hoping to clear himself a better shot. Sherman took offense and started wailing on the guy, much to Showalter's amusement. (I wrote about it in passing in my AP story that day, and Sherman didn't speak to me for the next six years)." [Sheridan Hoops]
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Former Bear Jim McMahon credits football for dementia, suicidal thoughts
CHICAGO — Jim McMahon would leave home and forget how to get back.
Sometimes, he would stay in his room and lie in the dark because the pain in his head was so excruciating. And at his darkest moments a few years ago, when it was just about too much to handle, the former Bears quarterback thought about killing himself.
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"I am glad I don't have any weapons in my house or else I am pretty sure I wouldn't be here," McMahon said. "It got to be that bad."
McMahon opened up about his struggles with early onset dementia and depression, issues he believes were caused by the beating he absorbed playing football, in a gathering with a small group of reporters on Tuesday. He is scheduled to be honored Wednesday in Chicago by the Sports Legacy Institute, a Boston University-based group that has been studying the effects of brain trauma in athletes and others.
While his suicidal thoughts are a thing of the past thanks to treatment for a fluid blockage in his neck, the fight with dementia continues. The "Punky QB" who once helped the Chicago Bears shuffle their way to a Super Bowl championship is also digging in for another battle, this one with the NFL that could have major consequences for the league.
McMahon is one of several players identified by name in a federal lawsuit filed in California last month accusing teams of illegally dispensing powerful narcotics and other drugs to keep players on the field without regard for their long-term health.
He is also a party to a concussions-related class-action lawsuit in which the NFL agreed to a $765 million settlement without acknowledging it hid the risks of concussions from former players. A federal judge has yet to approve the settlement, expressing concern the amount is too small.
While McMahon wouldn't discuss the most recent suit, he did talk about the troubles he has faced in recent years, issues he believes took root when he was getting battered on the field.
McMahon said he had three to five diagnosed concussions and who knows how many more that went undiagnosed. That's in addition to injuries to the kidney, broken ribs, an addiction to painkillers and a broken neck that he said team doctors and trainers never told him about. He believes that happened when he was with the Minnesota Vikings in 1993.


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I once saw a girl beaned in the head with a Bible.
Her attacker was a well-muscled star of our middle school football team, so his throw was hard, accurate, and had a bit of a spiral.
To be fair, the weapon wasn't a full Bible, neither was it large. Someone in this guy's group of cronies had procured a box of those miniature New Testaments kids are given in Sunday school, and brought them in his backpack with the intention of evangelizing—through force.
I noticed something was up that morning in the gymnasium, where the buses unloaded and students lounged in the bleachers waiting for the bell to ring so we could go to homeroom. With only one teacher—usually a distracted gym coach—on duty, it was easy to get away with mischief, and many of the students, hormonal and restless and facing another day of Algebra and cafeteria food, had mischief in their hearts.
Usually this manifested in mostly benign ways—spitballs, lewd shouts, or dropping someone's clarinet case beneath the bleachers, so the unlucky student had to navigate the sticky darkness beneath to retrieve it. But on this morning it transformed into something more sinister.
From my seat across the basketball court, I noticed a few students stand up and begin moving at once. Without realizing at first what was happening, I watched as a pack of good old country boys surrounded a bunch of black-haired Goth kids—eyes heavy with liner—like a pride of lions might surround a herd of gazelles. By the time the prey raised their eyes, it was too late: they had been accosted by the words of Jesus.
Afterwards, whistles were blown and the ensuing fight broken up, but on my way to first period I saw a girl, walking alone, on the receiving end of a long pass. I knew little about her except she had dark hair that hung to her waist and a fascination with vampires. The Bible hit her in the back of the head and she whipped around in shock, blood drained from her face, tears pooling in her eyes.
Rumors spread throughout the day of assaults that continued across campus when no adults were around to see. I witnessed no others myself, but after lunch I found a few loose pages from the gospel according to John, with gold-rimmed edges lying in the mud. The words spoken by Jesus were printed in ink the color of blood.
About a year ago I was trying to write an essay on evil for an arts journal, and as I began, this story was the first one that came to mind.
In the evangelical community where I was raised, evil wasn't an abstract concept. It was all too real, and was embodied in the form of the devil. The devil, like God, was everywhere, actively trying to thwart Christians from doing the work of the Kingdom.
Obviously thieves, murderers, rapists, and adulterers had succumbed to the devil. We were told, however, that his influence might be more subtly veiled.
For instance, the devil might break your carburetor, which could frustrate you so much that you might yell at your child or forget to invite your coworker to church. Or the devil might tell you it's okay to sleep an extra thirty minutes in the morning instead of rising early for prayer or a devotional reading.
We were told that the devil was seductive, and beautiful, and could come to us disguised as light. We must be diligent and guard ourselves against him, girding ourselves in spiritual armor, and clothing ourselves in righteousness. Tying our shoelaces so tight that they are on the verge of breaking, but don't.
In high school I saw students welcomed into class late without rebuke because they had been leading prayer meetings where exorcisms were performed. I dated a guy who prayed over the television set in his brother's room because he thought it was a gateway for demonic activity.
As I grew older I experienced new communities and my worldview broadened. I began to believe that cars break down because they aren't well maintained, or for any number of other reasons, none of which have to do with spiritual warfare. I began to see televisions as hunks of wires and plastic broadcasting only what man-made signals they receive.
Still, I found there was something I missed about having a clearly defined foe, a personification of evil I could battle against in prescribed ways. More than that, I missed feeling that there was another agent who was ultimately responsible for my own sins, someone who had tricked or beguiled me into wrongdoing.
I still believe in good and evil, and I believe that both reside in the hearts of men and women. I believe that both reside in my own heart, and that I have within me the capacity for both types of action. That I have manifested both. That I will manifest both in the future.
I still, too, ask God to help me embrace goodness and act on it. I still believe the stakes are high.
That day in middle school, I wasn't hit with a Bible, nor did I throw one, but I feel that in some ways I've experienced both since then, that I've been both victim and assaulter. That day, though, I picked up the pages I found, wiped off the mud, put them in my pocket, and carried them with me until I got home, hoping they were a guard against threat from without or within.
This post originally appeared on "Good Letters" on February 20, 2013.
The Image archive is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Written by: Dyana Herron
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Thank you for posting your thoughts and sharing about your experience . These are difficult things to "grapple' with ,I know. I go back and forth with my understanding with evil and the Devil sadly depending on which theological circles I am influenced by at the time. Immature of me but true .
Thank the good Lord He has our backs regardless of our understanding !
Blessings Always,


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David's personal interests include classic cars and vintage rallies. He takes part in these when time allows it. He also enjoys travelling and, as a passionate sailor, likes being on water the most. And the keen bassist naturally has lost nothing of his old love for music. He is still the heart and soul of the very popular Adam Hall Company Band.
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Parallel to his first professional positions, Andreas Modschiedler completed his Executive MBA at the chair of business informatics at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg in cooperation with Boston University. He consolidated his product manager and consultant experience in the IT and telecommunication industries. At T-Systems, Andreas took over project responsibility for outsourcing, innovation and development projects. As Business Partner Manager, he broadened his management experience in telecoms IT before joining the Kion Group IT management team as Demand and Key Account Manager.
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Last Man Standing
Posted by Rot at 6:55 AM
Labels: i am legend, last man on earth, vampires, youtube.com
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- Necropolis said...
That image is infinitely creepier than any current zombie flick has ever made. Maybe it's just the black and white getting to me.
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- September 14, 2010 at 10:42 AM
- FoolishCop said...
After watching the opening scene, I went to Netflix and using the Watch Instantly feature, just finished watching the movie.
Obviously different from today's movies, but entertaining nonetheless. Thanks for the link!
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Three racetracks operated by Penn National Gaming, Inc. (PNGI), the largest operator of harness racetracks in North America, will be active participants in the United States Trotting Association's (USTA) "Back to the Track" program over the next month.
The "Back to the Track" program is an initiative to encourage on-track attendance at harness racetracks across the country through promotions and interactive events. More information on the program can be found at http://backtothetrack.ustrotting.com/.
"Back to the Track is a great way to bring new guests to our tracks and also say 'thank you' to our loyal customers as well," said PNGI Vice President of Racing Christopher McErlean. "Plainridge, Freehold and Rosecroft each have come up with some unique events and activities for their guests to enjoy," he added.
Plainridge Racecourse in Plainville, MA, the newest member of the PNGI racing family, will be hosting a full weekend of events and live racing on August 23 and 24. On both days the Hambletonian Trophy, Harness Racing's most prestigious prize, will be on display. The trophy was won by the locally owned and trained Royalty for Life in 2013. On Saturday, barn tours will be conducted from 12 noon to 2 p.m. with all participants to be entered in drawings to announce a post parade on either day, ride in the starting gate car and participate in an exhibition race on Sunday with top Plainridge drivers. Plainridge drivers will participate in a meet and greet on both days and serving customers in a special cook out area during both afternoons. Drivers will also give out commemorative "Back to the Track" t-shirts following each race.
A free scratch off ticket will be given to all guests Sunday with a $50,000 grand prize. The "$50,000 Match and Win" promotion is sponsored by Mom's Motorcycles of Foxboro, MA. Post time Saturday, August 23 is 4 p.m. Post time on Sunday, August 24 is 1 p.m. Admission and parking is free at Plainridge every live racing day. For more information go to http://www.prcharness.com/.
Freehold Raceway in Freehold, NJ will be hosting "Back to the Track" events on Labor Day, September 1 during its afternoon live racing program. All guests will receive a free "Back to the Track" baseball cap with the purchase of a Freehold live racing program (while supplies last.) Drawings throughout the day will be conducted for "Back to the Track" t-shirts and Season Parking passes. Fifty-cent ($.50) hot dog and soda specials will be offered as well as a driver autograph session. Post time Labor Day is 12:30 p.m. and admission is free. For more information go to http://www.freeholdraceway.com/.
Rosecroft Raceway in Fort Washington, MD will celebrate "Back to the Track" as part of its summer-fall meet opening night on Saturday, September 13. The first 400 guests after 6 p.m. will receive a free "Back to the Track" t-shirt and guests will have a chance to enter losing tickets all evening for "Second Chance" drawings after races 5, 7 and 9 for $50 betting vouchers.
In addition, a popular Asian Festival will be held all day Saturday, September 13 in the Rosecroft parking lots. Post time on September 13 is 6:4 0 p.m. with free admission and parking. For more information go to http://www.rosecroft.com/.(Penn National Gaming)


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Days after a Holocaust survivor visited students at Newport Harbor High School in California, authorities discovered ten flyers with swastikas plastered around the school. Eva Schloss had visited the school to share her stories of the horrors of the Holocaust after an earlier act of anti-semitism - photos had gone viral that showed a group of students doing a Nazi salute and playing beer pong with the cups arranged in the shape of a giant swastika at an off-campus party.
Officials discovered the flyers and police were called to remove them. Newport Beach Police are investigating, though posting the flyers is not a crime. If students are found to be responsible they could be punished by the school.
The school's principal, Sean Boulton, issued a statement condemning the anti-semitic flyers.
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SNOW HILL – An Ocean Pines man was arrested this week on several serious charges after police were able to identify him as the suspect in an attempted armed robbery at a store in the community on Dec. 15.
Shortly after 8 p.m. last Tuesday, Ocean Pines Police officers and Worcester County Sheriff's deputies responded to the Walgreen's store on Manklin Creek Rd. in Ocean Pines for a reported attempted armed robbery. The investigation revealed a suspect entered the warehouse area of the store and accosted a female employee. The suspect is being described as an Hispanic or Asian male, wearing a dark-colored hooded sweatshirt or jacket, camouflage pants and a dark-colored bandana covering his face.
The suspect, armed with a knife, demanded the female employee take him to a cash register inside the main store. Once inside, the employee was able to flee the victim, who gave up the effort and fled on foot. Worcester County Sheriff's Deputies, including a K-9 unit, conducted an extensive search of the area but failed to immediately locate the suspect.
However, Worcester County Bureau of Investigation (WCBI) detectives took over the investigation and were able to identify the suspect as Patrick William Self, 18, of Ocean Pines. Charges including armed robbery, first- and second-degree assault and reckless endangerment were filed against Self last Sunday and he was taken into custody. After a bail review on Monday, Self was released after posting a $25,000 bond. A preliminary hearing has been set for Jan. 15 at District Court in Snow Hill.
Significant Pot Bust In Berlin
BERLIN – A Berlin man was arrested on serious drug charges including possession with intent to distribute illegal narcotics in a school zone last week after a raid on his residence turned up over three pounds of marijuana.
On Dec. 10, the Worcester County Sheriff's Office Criminal Investigation Team served a search and seizure warrant on a residence on West Street in Berlin after an ongoing investigation. The property owner permitted police to a search of the residence, which resulted in the discovery of over three pounds of marijuana in a pillowcase in a hiding spot under the floor in one of the bedrooms. Detectives also found three electronic scales, an alleged drug-dealing ledger, plastic bags and a significant amount of cash.
As a result, the occupant of the room where the drugs and assorted paraphernalia were discovered, identified as Joseph Tyler Shanahan, 22, of Berlin, was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana, possession with intent to distribute marijuana and possession with intent to distribute marijuana in a school zone because the residence on West Street is located within the prescribed 1,000-foot perimeter of two Berlin schools, Buckingham Elementary and Worcester Preparatory.
Shanahan was taken into custody and was ordered held on a $15,000 bond. He was later released after posting bail. The possession with intent to distribute in a school zone charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and/or a $35,000 fine.
Speeding Leads To Weapons Charge
NEWARK – A Berlin man was arrested on a weapons charge last week after a loaded rifle was found in his vehicle during a routine traffic stop.
A little after 8 a.m. last Friday, a Worcester County Sheriff's deputy on routine patrol stopped a vehicle on Route 113 near Newark for going 68 mph in a 55 mph zone. When the deputy made contact with the driver, identified as Cody H. Phillips, 18, of Berlin, the officer noticed a loaded 30-30 rifle partially concealed between the driver's seat and the driver's door next to his left arm.
Phillips was subsequently arrested and charged with possession of a concealed deadly weapon. He was take before a District Court Commissioner and later released on his own recognizance.
More Jail Time For Auto Theft
SNOW HILL – A Berlin man arrested on auto theft charges in October pleaded guilty last week to an unauthorized taking of a motor vehicle charge and was sentenced to 18 months in jail with all but six months suspended in favor of probation and a fine.
Richard Lee Huffman, 20, of Berlin, was arrested in October after police were able to connect him to two reported auto thefts in the Ocean Pines area over a period of two weeks. The first incident involved the unauthorized taking of a vehicle from a residence in Ocean Pines on October 1. The second involved the theft of a motorcycle from a residence in Ocean Pines on October 13. Ocean Pines Police were able to connect three suspects to the two theft incidents.
Ashalom Johnson, 20, was connected to both incidents. He was arrested and charged with one count of unauthorized use of an automobile and one count of auto theft. The disposition of his case is not known. Huffman was charged with one count of auto theft related to the taking of the motorcycle on October 13. In addition, a 17-year-old juvenile was also arrested in connection with the October 1 theft of an automobile.
Last week in District Court, Huffman pleaded guilty to unauthorized taking of a motor vehicle for his role in the motorcycle theft and was sentenced to 18 months in jail. One year of the sentence was then suspended, leaving with a six-month stretch to serve. He was also fined $300 and placed on probation for three years.
For Huffman, the conviction last Friday in the Ocean Pines auto theft case was just the latest in a series of recent run-ins with local law enforcement. He had just finished a 30-day stretch for swiping a dirt bike in September and crashing it in a ditch in an attempt to elude police.
On Sept. 18, a Berlin police officer on routine patrol observed a small dirt bike on Seahawk Rd. with no front or rear lights illuminated. The officer attempted to stop the dirt bike, but the rider, later identified as Huffman, continued to drive down Seahawk Rd. and away from the officer, who continued the pursuit.
When Huffman reached the intersection at Sinepuxent Rd., he lost control of the dirt bike and crashed in a ditch. The investigation revealed the motorcycle was reported stolen in Pennsylvania. Huffman was arrested and charged with theft, fleeing and eluding and driving without a license. The motorcycle was not street legal and could only go 40 mph.
In November, Huffman pleaded guilty to driving a motor vehicle without the required license and authorization and was sentenced to 30 days in jail. With his conviction last week on a separate auto theft charge, he is going back in for another six months.
Fine For Paraphernalia
SNOW HILL – A Pittsville man arrested in July for drinking and driving and a drug charge in Ocean Pines pleaded guilty last week in District Court to possession of paraphernalia and violating a license restriction and was fined a combined $260.
On July 26, Ocean Pines police pulled over Ronald James Davis, 18, of Pittsville, for traffic violations. Davis was ultimately arrested for driving while intoxicated. A search of the vehicle turned up an undisclosed amount of marijuana and paraphernalia and additional charges were tacked onto Davis and his passengers.
Davis was charged with driving while intoxicated, possession of marijuana and possession of paraphernalia. Last week in District Court, Davis pleaded guilty to possession of paraphernalia and was fined $200. He was also found in violation of a license restriction and was fined an additional $60. As a result of the plea agreement, the charges related to the alleged driving while intoxicated were not prosecuted.
Pot Plea Nets Fine, Probation
OCEAN PINES – A Fork, Md. man arrested on drug charges in November at a party in Ocean Pines, during which 16 other individuals were cited for underage drinking, pleaded guilty last week in District Court to possession of marijuana and was fined and placed on probation.
On Nov. 24, Ocean Pines police responded to a residence in the community to investigate a complaint about a loud party. Upon arrival, Ocean Pines authorities discovered a party and cited 16 individuals for underage drinking. Pines police arrested a suspect, later identified as Jeffery Jones, 18, and charged him with possession or marijuana, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and possession of paraphernalia.
Last week in District Court, Jones pleaded guilty to possession of marijuana and was granted probation. He was placed on probation for one year and fined $400.
Three Escape Fire
NEWARK – Three people escaped without injury from a fire in Newark this week caused by a fuel-fire space heater.
Shortly after 3 a.m. on Monday, a fire was reported at a residence on Route 113 in Newark by a passing Worcester County Sheriff's Deputy. Firefighters from Newark, Berlin, Snow Hill and Girdletree in Worcester County all responded, as did the Powellville Volunteer Fire Company from Wicomico County.
First-arriving crews reported fire extending from the two-story structure. The dwelling was occupied at the time of the fire, but all three occupants escaped without injury.
Firefighters were able to bring the fire under control fairly quickly, but remained on the scene for about three hours. The Worcester County Fire Marshal's Office responded to investigate the incident and determined the fire originated in the living room/dining room of the residence. The fire was caused by a fuel-fire space heater.
The American Red Cross is assisting the displaced occupants of the residence. Anyone with further information about the fire is urged to call the Worcester County Fire Marshal's Office at 410-632-5666, ext. 2.
OCPD Needy Drive A Success
OCEAN CITY – The annual Ocean City Police Department Needy Drive was once again a huge success with dozens of families in the area tended to with generous donations from the department and the community last week.
With a volunteer crew of over 50, OCPD Chief Bernadette DiPino and her staff tended to more than 70 families including over 150 children last Saturday at the Public Safety Building. The OCPD Christmas Needy Drive was started by DiPino's grandfather in the Baltimore Police Department many years ago and her father continued the tradition for several years after it first began.
DiPino continued the tradition in Ocean City and the drive is now in its 14th year in the resort and it has grown each year. This year, the OCPD was fortunate to have had over 20 bicycles donated by Harborside Refrigeration and Atlantic Physical Therapy. In addition, hundreds of toys and monetary donations came from several sources around the community including the Delmarva Condominium Managers Association, Fager's Island, the Greene Turtle, the Ocean City Hibernians, the Ocean City Elks, the 1st State Detachment Marine Corps League, the Caine Woods Association, the Red Knights International Motorcycle Club and countless other groups and individuals too numerous to mention.
The OCPD Christmas Needy Drive volunteers not only helped families load toys and boxes of food for the holidays, but also assisted with transportation to some who would have otherwise had to take the bus. DiPino and the department took the opportunity this week to thank the volunteers and donors for their support of the annual program.
"Every year, our community seems to be more generous than ever," she said. "I was truly overwhelmed by the donations we received on behalf of the Ocean City Police Department and the families who received these wonderful gifts. I cannot thank our community enough."


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Acer Chromebook 13 and Chromebook Spin 13 Will Support Linux Apps on Day One
Acer's recently announced Chromebook 13 and Chromebook Spin 13 appear to be the first Chromebooks to ship with support for Linux apps out-of-the-box at launch.
Google already announced that it worked on implementing support for Linux apps on Chrome OS during the Google I/O conference last month, and the first Chromebook to run Linux apps is Google's Pixelbook, as expected, and the functionality was later discovered to be available on the Samsung Chromebook Plus as well.
Why Open Source Needs Marketing (Even Though Developers Hate It)
ASIFA-Hollywood Continues Commitment To Open Source Animation Technology
"The last few years, there have been incredible advancements in the quality of open source software solutions for artists," says Danny Young, ASIFA-Hollywood board member. "Open Source software development is more than ever serving as a counterweight to put fantastic free technology in the hands of anyone who is curious enough to explore it. By supporting ASIFA-Hollywood, you make projects like this possible. So, thank you, ASIFA membership!"
Collabora Office 6.0
Today we release Collabora Office 6.0 – the Migrator's Choice with great features to smooth our customers' migration to an Open Source office suite as well as a hugely improved set of features and enhancements.
BrowserStack Announces Enhanced Open-Source Program, EU's Web Censorship Plan, Qt for Python Now Available and More
BrowserStack this morning announced its enhanced open source program, which offers free testing of open source software on the BrowserStack Real Device Cloud. The press release states that "BrowserStack is doubling down on its support for open source projects with full and unlimited access to the BrowserStack platform and its capabilities. The goal is to empower open source developers with the tools and infrastructure necessary to test with speed, accuracy and scale." See the BrowserStack blog post "Supporting Open Source to Drive Community Innovation" for more on BrowserStack's commitment to open source.
Locks in the classroom – 2018
For the sixth year now, our grade nine students have been doing 3D modeling using Blender. We ran late this year, but the final locks were finished a couple of weeks ago, and they're finally ready for publishing.
CVE-2018-3665: Lazy State Save/Restore As The Latest CPU Speculative Execution Issue
The latest speculative execution vulnerability affecting modern CPUs has now been made public: Lazy State Save/Restore, a.k.a. CVE-2018-3665.
This vulnerability concerns saving/restore state when switching between applications. The newly-disclosed vulnerability exploits lazy-state restores for floating-point state when context switching, which is done as a performance optimization, to obtain information about the activity of other applications on the system.
AI Is Coming to Edge Computing Devices
Very few non-server systems run software that could be called machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). Yet, server-class "AI on the Edge" applications are coming to embedded devices, and Arm intends to fight with Intel and AMD over every last one of them.
Cortex-A76, Mali-G76, and ML chip designs pump up AI
Arm's Cortex-A76 design offers speed/efficiency improvements including a 4x boost in AI performance, and is paired with a new Mali-G76 GPU that is also said to aid AI. Meanwhile, Arm revealed more details on its upcoming ML co-processors.
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Here is a video taken from a BBC program called, "The Truth About Knife Crime". It's a graphic video which shows real violence resulting in the death of one person and the serious injury of another.
The reason I wanted to share this is because it shows the reality of a knife attack. It involves an unanticipated attack followed by repeated stabbing of one person (who lives) and a single stab to the chest of the person who dies.
The "martial myths" of telegraphed attacks at a distance are soundly refuted. There is no "skill" exhibited here. What we have is a lethal mix of ambush, simplicity, brutality and a total lack of morality. This is the reality of things.
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The 33rd century BC was a century which lasted from the year 3300 BC to 3201 BC.
- Major climate shift possibly due to shift in solar activity. Glaciers expand, covering plants. Atmospheric temperatures fall.
- Sahara changes from a habitable region into a barren desert
- Ancient Egypt begins using clay, bone and ivory tags to label boxes, possibly an example of proto-writing
- Indus Valley Civilization (also known as Harappan civilization) begins in Harappa
- c. 3300 BC: Harappan script is developed in Indus Valley
- c. 3300 BC: Pictographs in Uruk
- 3300 BC: to 3000 BC: Face of a woman, from Uruk (modern Warka, Iraq) is made. It is now in the Iraq Museum, Baghdad (stolen and recovered in 2003).
- c. 3300 BC: The Red Temple, the first phase of the Monte d'Accoddi sanctuary in Northwest Sardinia, is built.
- 3300-3000 BC: Evidence of proto-Thracians or proto-Dacians in the prehistoric period. Proto-Dacian or proto-Thracian people developed from a mixture of indigenous peoples and Indo-Europeans from the time of Proto-Indo-European expansion in the Early Bronze Age
Inventions, discoveries, introductions[edit]
- The Bronze Age begins in the Fertile Crescent (Roux, 1980)
- Cattle introduced to the Nile valley
- Egyptians domesticate the wild ass of North Africa (Clutton-Brock)
- c. 3250 BC – Potter's wheel in use in Ancient Near East
Significant people[edit]
- Ötzi the Iceman, a mummy discovered in the Austrian/Italian Alps in 1991


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Decide.com Says It Will Accurately Predict Prices or Your Money Back
Decide.com helps eliminate buyer's remorse by predicting whether the price of products will rise or fall. Now it is confident enough about some of its deals that it's offering a money-back guarantee.
Starting today, Decide.com will choose 10 deals that it is so sure about that if its prediction proves wrong and the price drops within two weeks of purchase, Decide will automatically alert the buyer and pay them the amount of the price drop (up to $200).
The new feature is being launched today by the Seattle company, which is the brainchild of the folks behind Farecast.com. Like Decide.com, Farecast predicted whether it was the right time to buy an airline ticket. Farecast is now part of Microsoft's Bing. Unfortunately, Farecast never had a guarantee.
In a statement, Mike Fridgen, president and CEO of Decide, said: "We want to show our users this isn't just lip service — we're actually willing to put our money behind our data-driven recommendations."
The guarantee will be applied to 10 designated deals on the site every day, from consumer electronics to refrigerators and videogames.
Today's deals include an HP 14-inch laptop for $500, representing a 23 percent savings; a 55-inch HDTV from LG that costs $1,199, representing a savings of 37 percent; and the Haier 1.7 cubic-foot refrigerator for $80, representing a 20 percent savings.
If any of those products become cheaper over the next two weeks, a buyer needs only to submit a photo of themselves with the product, and then Decide will send the money via PayPal or check.
While it sounds generous, the program probably pencils out financially, too. Of course, Decide hopes that its predictions are correct, but if they aren't, the company has some buffer, because it earns a commission on the sales it generates.
To be clear, the company is not partnering with the retailer on these deals, but it does earn a referal fee or commission from the retailer if it generates a sale. Some of those rates are hefty; Amazon, for example, pays 4 percent on electronics product referrals.
Since launching last June, Decide says it has served up more than seven million recommendations, which have resulted in an average savings of $87 per product.