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Employee conflict…
Work ethic debates…
Loyalty issues…
Varying wants and needs…
If you are a manager, human resources professional, or business owner, you
are faced with these types of issues every day. But why?
Because currently, there are five generations in the workplace: Radio Babies
(born during 1930-1945); Baby Boomers (1946-1964); Generation X
(1965-1976); Generation Y (1977-1991); even some Millennials (1991 and
later). Each of them has a different perspective, based on their upbringing
and daily lives. The key to making encounters between the generations
successful is learning to understand the point of view of each generation and
respect their differences.
The individuals and organizations that do this will be the ones to succeed.
This book will show you how.
Authors Gravett and Throckmorton take a dynamic approach to the situation
by writing in two distinct voices—as a Baby Boomer and a Gen-Xer—using a
"point-counterpoint" approach to identify differences and similarities across
They share hands-on experiences, real-life cases, recommended solutions,
and ground-breaking research on how members of any generation can better
relate to minimize conflict, miscommunication, and wasted energy. You will
learn what each generation thinks of the others and how each wishes the
others viewed it.
Bridging the Generation Gap is filled with strategies and solutions you can
implement immediately to help build your own bridge between the generations.
Baby Boomer Dr. Linda Gravett, SPHR is a national speaker and human
resources consultant specializing in generational differences and workplace
ethics. Gravett has a strategic, big-picture approach towards understanding
age differences. Balancing her perspective is Gen-Xer Robin Throckmorton,
MA, SPHR, who specializes in competitive retention and recruitment
strategies in the workplace. Throckmorton has a practical, "tell it like it is"
approach towards tearing down stereotypes and building collaboration to
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The Orange County Aerial Photograph Collection (MS-R087) provides a unique bird's eye perspective of Orange County during the first half of the 20th century. The collection consists of approximately 721 black-and-white aerial photographs of Orange County, California produced in 1938-1949 and 1965. The photographs were produced for the USDA in conjunction with the Western Region Laboratory (1938), Agriculture Adjustment Administration (1942), Soil Conservation District of California (1952-1953) and Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service (1965).
Most of the photos measure approximately 9"x7"; however, the 1952-1953 and the 1965 series of photos measure 23"x23". Several of the photos include hand written notes on the pages indicating street names and land purposing. Some of the identifiable areas are Santiago Canyon, Costa Mesa, Anaheim, Santa Ana, and Newport Beach. This collection is open for research and may provide important contextual information regarding regional land use and development including its relation to national surveys and projects such as the development of the interstate highway system.


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Making this Summer Chia Pudding is kind of like doing magic. Add milk and a touch of sweetener to these tiny little seeds and voila, before you appears a big bowl of creamy pudding. Pudding that's jam-packed with antioxidants, fibre, protein and healthy fats. Top that off with fresh summer fruit and coconut, and you have yourself the perfect healthy summer snack.
This Summer Chia Pudding is incredibly simple to make and is a guaranteed crowd pleaser. Just pop the ingredients in a bowl the night (or even a few hours) before, so it's all ready to go when you need it.
I created this recipe for The Urban List Brisbane, which you can find here! Hope you enjoy! I've popped a printable recipe below too so you can enjoy it all summer long.
- ¼ cup chia seeds
- 1 & ½ cups plant-based milk of choice
- 1-2 tbsp maple syrup
- pulp of 1 passionfruit
- Toppings
- Mango
- Passionfruit
- Desiccated coconut
- The night before: Mix together the chia seeds, milk, sweetener and passionfruit pulp in a medium bowl. Let the mixture sit for 10 minutes, then mix well again. Place the pudding in the fridge to set overnight, or for at least 2 hours.
- Before serving: Stir the chia pudding well and divide the mixture between two jars or bowls. Top with mango, more passionfruit pulp and some coconut for crunch.


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(JTA) – A new partnership between dozens of Jewish community centers in 15 countries has yielded a pool of $1.6 million for joint projects through 2020.
The pool was created during the JCC Global World Conference in Tarrytown, New York earlier this month. It includes tens of thousands of dollars in subsidies for nine Jewish communities in poor countries, including India, Ukraine, Venezuela, Moldova and Greece. The pool is part of a three-year pilot program in which international JCCs are paired with one another for joint projects that aim to strengthen inter-communal bonds, according to JCC Global, an Israel-based umbrella group of Jewish community centers. Working in pairs, JCCs will pledge $15,000 each for the pilot program. JCC Global will also contribute $15,000, creating a fund of $45,000 for the two centers' joint activities. "However, JCCs in wealthier communities help subsidize those in lower-income areas, including three JCCS in Ukraine, one in Moldova, another in Russia, in addition to the JCCs in Venezuela and India," read the statement about the new partnership, which JCC Global calls "Amitim 2.0–Fellows – A Global Leadership Network."
In total, 53 JCCs around the world will fund $795,000 toward the partnerships, while JCC Global will fund $800,000, the organization said.
The initiative will bring "Jewish Peoplehood concepts and programs to 75 JCCs worldwide," according to the organization. Among the new partnerships formed at the conference was a pairing of the Akko Community Center in Israel with the Mid-Island Y JCC of Long Island, New York and the JCC Krakow, Poland with the JCC Manhattan. JCC Global's funds for the program come from a grant from UJA Federation of New York, private donors and from grants from JDC, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
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This trail can be found on the following signature ride(s):
Chute the Duck is typically ridden as a descending trail. It was first established by Trials motorbikes as an access trail into the upper Mountain Shadows trail system. Due to the nature of the very fast descent on this trail, one must be very aware of the potential for uphill motorized and non-motorized traffic, as well as, road crossings and trail crossings. Watch when crossing over Selkirk Slacker and then Reflection Lake Trail after that.[read more]
Chute the Duck starts in a logging cut block on an old road, and is best ridden from Huff n Puff or "Quentin's trails as a continuation heading down hill. The trail offers generally very fast and relatively smooth riding through forest cover. It crosses the BC Hydro Powerline road (often motorized traffic) and continues at a fast pace downhill. It will also cross a couple of other trails (Selkirk Slacker and Reflection Lake Trail) before plopping you out on the road. At the bottom turn right to head to the Reflection Lake Trailhead.
Along Chute the Duck, there are jump off points for Selkirk Slacker and Refection Lake Trail which offer alternative options to finish or extend your ride depending on where you want to end up.


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Devereux New Jersey Center for Autism
- Address: 286 Mantua Grove Road, Bldg. 4, West Deptford, NJ 08066
- Website: http://www.devereux.org/
- Phone: (856) 599-6400
The Devereux New Jersey Comprehensive Community Resources (DNJCCR) touches the lives of nearly 400 children, adolescents, adults, and their families with special needs, from outside the New York skyline to the Southern New Jersey shoreline. Individuals with emotional, behavioral, and developmental disabilities are served via a broad spectrum of treatment settings including community-based homes and apartments, vocational training programs, family care homes, and consulting services. DNJCCR also has a residential/educational center that serves individuals with autism spectrum disorders.
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A cosy, lined case covered in a pattern of tiny little bobbles. It is very thick and textured. For laptops, kindles, ipads or phones! The instructions are very detailed with lots of photos. The case I make in the instructions is to fit a kindle but general instructions are also given so it can be made any size. As always I use English crochet terms and include a conversion chart for American terms.
What you will need:
• 3mm hook
• Chunky yarn or thinner yarn (~dk) doubled up.
• Lining material
• 2, 3 (or 4 or more!) buttons of your choice
• Pins (to pin the lining to the case)
• Thread and needle for sewing on the lining and buttons
• Optional – extra wadding/padding to go between the lining and the crochet if you are making a large case, such as for a laptop.
You may sell items you make from this pattern as long as you credit my blog as the source of the pattern and provide a link to the page where the pattern can be purchased.
Fully illustrated, detailed instructions are available for £1 (that's about $1.60 at the time of writing). You can either buy now via paypal or purchase through Ravelry:
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IT in Mergers and Acquisitions – what should you concentrate on?
Here at Waterstons, our Mergers and Acquisitions team are kept busy for much of the time performing 'technology due diligence' projects. We spend time with buyers, and indeed sellers of businesses on deals often worth tens or hundreds of millions of pounds. Despite this, we're still aware of and surprised by, the number of deals which proceed without much attention being paid to the existing and planned technology and systems landscapes of the businesses involved. We think this is a situation that needs to change – as a minimum there are some things that are material to any deal. Every deal is different, but here are our top tips that apply to all:
1. Focus on the future state of the organisation
Design what your core systems and underlying infrastructure will need to look like for your future operations and move towards that. Put in place systems and technology that align with the 'to-be' business and don't get hung up on the 'as-is' state.
2. Understand the full systems picture early
Alongside the obvious – ERP, Finance, Infrastructure - what are the other key systems? Think of security and regulatory needs. Don't forget this is an opportunity to standardise, rationalise and modernise. Pay close attention to any bespoke systems, and any which are sub-licensed from the divesting parent company.
3. Get the people right
Your IT staff, and your third-party support contracts need to be able to deliver that future state and operate it well. Take the opportunity to review the current team, and don't overlook existing staff members when recruiting for any new positions. There may be stars waiting to shine!
4. During the transition
a. Do not neglect today's business
You may need trusted interim staff – CIO, desktop support or anywhere in between – to allow you to concentrate both on today and tomorrow. Hire them if you need to – but look inside the business as well. Make sure any interim staff integrate well with your in-house people. The cost is small compared with your business failing.
b. Be bold
Don't worry if you have to write off some obsolete kit or systems – make the case and get on with it. Any deal represents an opportunity to improve; you wouldn't be buying the business if you didn't see a future in it.
c. Prioritise key issues
There are always a hundred priorities. Focus on simple headlines like 'Can we despatch?' and 'Can we invoice?'. Identify those areas which simply cannot fail, and prioritise them over those that could create temporary issues if they do.
To read the other articles in the series, follow the links below:
Article 1 - Why do I need to be bothered about technology in my deal?
Article 3 - The deal is done. Transition advice to transition support
Article 4 - Tips for successful Business As Usual


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Harry L. Baker
Harry L. Baker, 90, of Lone Tree and formerly of Iowa City, died Monday, June 1, 2009, at the Lone Tree Health Care Center in Lone Tree.
Funeral services were held Friday, June 5, at the United Presbyterian Church in Lone Tree. Visitation was held June 4 at Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service in Iowa City. Interment will be at a later date in the Lone Tree Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made in Harry's memory to St. Mark's United Methodist Church of Iowa City. Online condolences may be sent through the web at www.gayandciha.com.
Harry LaVerne Baker was born Jan. 24, 1919, in Lone Tree, the son of Jacob W. and Jane A. (Leonard) Baker. He graduated from Lone Tree High School in 1938, where he excelled athletically. On Jan. 18, 1942, he married Phyllis L. James in Muscatine. The couple made their home in Lone Tree where they farmed for many years. Harry also worked for the University of Iowa in Recreational Services for over 21 years before retiring in 1989. In 1991 the couple moved to Iowa City where they resided until moving back to Lone Tree last year. While living in Lone Tree Harry was very active in the United Methodist Church, holding many offices and positions within the church. He was a member of the Lone Tree Board of Education, having served as its President; a past member of the Abner Masonic Lodge #535; officiated basketball for the Iowa High School Athletic Union; and a member of the former Johnson County Agricultural Committee. While he lived in Iowa City he was a member of the St. Mark's United Methodist Church. Harry has always been a sports enthusiast, especially when it came to the Iowa Hawkeyes! Harry's warm smile and caring attitude will be missed most by his family and friends.


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If you can sing the three note melody that starts of The Simpsons theme (The-Simp-Sons) then you are well on your way to understanding its similarity to this earlier iconic television show. In fact, when you hear this comparison you will probably realize that you've recognized this before and quickly forgot about it.
In the video below, Simpsons executive producer Matt Groening lets people in on a little secret about the show's iconic theme song:
Answer: The Jetsons!
"At the very beginning, when we were trying to figure out how the show was supposed to sound, I made a mix tape of my favorite cartoon music," Matt Groening explains. "I loved 'The Jetsons' theme the best. We hooked up with Danny Elfman of Oingo Boingo, who had just started to do his film composing … and he got it right away." – Matt Groening on choosing a vibe for the Simpsons Theme
This is what the two themes sound like back to back:
You can also try playing them simultaneously and watch how the visuals of the two sync up closely. In the following video I've taken out the Simpsons theme and left in the Jetsons theme; the effect is eerie. Watch how Matt Groening worked with his animators to mimic certain time codes from the Jetsons' opening theme.
Here are Danny Elfman's other two TV Theme Songs for your listening pleasure!
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Another week, another healthcare robot coming put of Japan (and this is generally a good thing). This new model, named Taizou [JP], is developed by the country's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and was unveiled today. Its purpose is to motivate the elderly to exercise more in order to prevent diseases and stay young mentally.
The 70cm-tall robot (weight: 7kg) may look like an ordinary stuffed toy, but Taizou is actually pretty sophisticated. He has a total of 20 joints in his body, each with 26 degrees of freedom. His servo motors enable him to perform around 30 different exercises (while standing or sitting on a chair). Taizou is also able to speak a few sentences and can understand if a human instructor talks to him through built-in speech recognition software.
Taizou is already being tested in a health facility in Japan. The makers plan to offer short-term rentals for the robot from April next year. They also aim at lowering Taizou's price, which stands at $8,000 at the moment.
Watch him make his moves in the video embedded below:
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at Cassidy's Pub
Robert Patrick's play Kennedy's Children was originally set in 1974 in New York. The current adaptation is set in Chicago in 1987, but that's the least of its problems. Poorly, and in some cases atrociously acted, with next to no direction at all, Kennedy's Children takes the stage in the back room of Cassidy's Pub, dead on arrival.
The play itself is pretty simple. In fact, it's just a collection of monologues. Five characters meet in a bar on Valentine's Day and reminisce about the 60s. There's a Viet-vet junkie, a gay actor, a schoolteacher with a Kennedy fixation, a commercial actress with a Marilyn Monroe fixation, and a lawyer who used to be an activist. There's a minimum of dialogue, just enough patter to either punctuate or set up each ensuing monologue. So, what have you got? A handful of has-beens and never-weres, only casually related to one another, ragging on and on about the 60s to anyone who'll listen.
Back in 1975 this play eulogized a decade only recently buried in a shallow grave. Certain things were said in order to get on with the business of survival. Now, in retrospect, it smacks of dated revisionism. As Carla, the commercial actress, says, "I hate the 60s. I hate everything that happened in them, and everything that didn't happen." The sad truth is that Carla's attitude seems far healthier than the overall tone of the play, which dredges up only cliches and propaganda from that era. To analogize, Maynard G. Krebs is to the beat generation as Kennedy's Children is to the 60s -- at least in this production.
Of course, it's in the nature of the play that the characters should be anachronisms, and the most obvious of these is Rona, the exactivist. Rona is unconvincingly played by Molly Reynolds, whose sole attempt to age her character has involved spraying some gray into her hair. Rona has done it all, from civil rights marches to People's Park to Cuba to the summer of '68. In the course of Rona's monologues, it would be hard to find a single, major countercultural event that she didn't attend. Yet there's little in Reynolds's characterization to suggest how she became a lawyer, how she feels about her present situation, or how she feels about her husband, Robby, whose life she has apparently destroyed. Why, for instance, would Rona say things like, "They jailed Huey Newton. They shot Martin and Bobby"? What's this "they" stuff? How could Rona be a lawyer in her thirties and still lump all the enemies of the revolution into an unspecified pronoun? Beats me, but had Reynolds risked even a glancing recognition of this anachronism, not only would her character have made some sense, but she might have shed some light on why this play takes a retrospective point of view.
The onus of worst characterization, however, goes to Brad Davidson, who plays Sparger, the flamboyant gay actor. True, his role is as bogus as any of the others. If Rona is the activist Everywoman, then Sparger is the gay Everyman. A cross-dresser, raped and beaten by sailors at the age of 16, adopted by a gay cabaret -- you name it, Sparger has lived it, and goes on to talk about it until it becomes just so much hoo-ha. Instead of finding some mote of credibility in his agitprop monologues, Davidson compounds the problem with an overaffected nasal simper, fey gestures and a performance that amounts to an insulting parody of the gay male. Davidson is trite, offensive, and unamusing except, perhaps, to homophobes who are amused by this sort of display.
The rest of the cast isn't as bad, but is by no means a source of relief. Steve Greer (as Mark, the Viet vet) plays the classic burnedout junkie, yet another stereotype that we could afford to live down. Mark's whole routine consists of reading from his Vietnam diary, during which Greer often forgets to look at the diary while he's reading. Then there's Carla, the commercial actress, played by Janyne J. Peek, who does little more than slink, stretch, and lock herself in the bathroom where she unaccountably bursts into tears. Carla takes 87 sleeping pills and expires, slumped over a table, at the end of the play. At least there won't be any more monologues out of her. The best performance is given by P.K. Doyle, as Wanda, a woman who idolizes JFK. But Doyle only manages to shellac a little persona over her role as a mouthpiece. Once again, you can see the character's obsession -- with pillbox hats, sex in the White House, and Camelot -- but still don't get any idea why Wanda is such a head case.
The question is, how do you resurrect such a dated and recalcitrant play? The few discernible choices that director Paulette Petretti made seem rather lame. First, by updating the play from 1974 to 1987, Petretti posed herself an incredible problem: how do you show the additional change and growth in the characters without rewriting the entire play? The few Additions of contemporary color -- a mention of Platoon, a passing swipe at near north yuppies -- only aggravate an overwhelming incongruity. Petretti also tries to breathe some sense of character relationship, some actual dialogue into this play, in order to alleviate the discontinuity caused by so many serial monologues. It doesn't work. Each character is inescapably sealed off in his or her own world, and propping one character up as a listener doesn't make a conversation. Eventually, in turn, each character winds up pontificating downstage center to the two-drink-minimum audience, and there's not much of a reception waiting down there either.
The 60s died a hard, lingering death. It started with media exploitation, and it finished with apathy and greed. All that are left now are corny souvenirs, thrift store clothes, and half-remembered ambitions broken by their own naivete. I can't speak for all of us who were there -- in the way that we used to speak for our generation -- but I personally prefer my own memories to Time magazine's version of that decade. Playwright Robert Patrick cheapens those memories. As Sparger says, "I'm having a memory hemorrhage." Well, as the Rolling Stones once said, "Let it bleed."


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ATHS Resources
Documents produced by the Australasian Telehealth Society:
A response to the ADHA Framework for Action.
A submission to the Australian House of Representatives Infrastructure and Communications Committee Inquiry into the role and potential benefits of the National Broadband Network, published in February 2011.
A policy statement issued by ATHS in September 2011.
A directions paper based on the outcomes of a workshop at GT2012, informing development of a national telehealth strategy for Australia.
Submission by Australasian Telehealth Society to Queensland Inquiry into telehealth services (May 2014).
A submission to the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) on a National Digital Health Strategy (January 2017).


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My Nonprofit Reviews
Review for Center for Children and Families, Inc, Norman, OK, USA
The Center for Children and Families, Inc. is an amazing organization. I was very priviliged to be a volunteer for four years. I was allowed to be a part of the many dynamics of this organization and gained much insight and experience. Not only did I receive professional experience, but being allowed to work with the wonderful people who serve through this organization changed my life.
I began as a work study student and soon understood why this organization is necessary and so successful. At CCFI every client was treated as an individual and their needs were what was important. Each person that passed through those doors for whatever reason entered a place of compassion, honesty, and love. I was able to see the differences client services made in the lives of children who had been abused and/or neglected.
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my personal and professional life. This organization paved the way for my career path. I changed my major in college and sought to work more closely with children to enable them to reach their full potential.
If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
find a way to offer more programs that were cut due to funding.
Would you volunteer for this group again?
For the time you spent, how much of an impact did you feel your work or activity had?
Did the organization use your time wisely?
Very Well
Would you recommend this group to a friend?
What one change could this group make that would improve your volunteer experience?
Help with other volunteer opportunities in other locations.
Did your volunteer experience have an effect on you? (teaching you a new skill, or introducing new friends, etc.)
I changed my college major and made life-long friends.
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Transport modes vary in different times. Horses and carriages represent the ancient tradition. Automobiles and trains represent the industrial times. Then the Airwheel eco-friendly electric scooters represent the modern times and even the future. Airwheel has opened a new era of a novel commuting style for modern people that are light-weighted, fashionable and safe, in accordance with modern aesthetic standard. Above all, Airwheel is a green product which produces zero pollutants.
The artistic and multi-functional product is very fit for short to medium-distance commuting like going to work or class, as well as for recreational purpose. The versatile Airwheel self-balancing electric scooter is a perfect incarnation of modern technology applied for the convenience of people. Airwheel, a modern transport has reinterpreted the intelligent electric scooter. An advanced built-in intelligent chip which employs the aerospace attitude control theory, fuzzy algorithm and gyroscope system to realize self-balance, simplifies the learning process. Riders could learn to handle it in short time.
If they choose Airwheel Z-series or E-series Smart Electric Bike, they don't even need to learn to ride. To ride Z5 foldable electric scooter or E3 backpack e bike, riders are to give an initial speed to get on, toggle the accelerator slowly and adjust the gravity center to find the comfortable riding posture. Other than that, Airwheel also gave a careful thought to the demands of female, making sure they could sit on the saddle with their feet reaching the ground, such models including A3, S6, S8 saddle-equipped scooters and Z-series or E-series.
In addition to meeting more different demands with various models, Airwheel has turned the once noble toys into affordable products for all. With good quality and affordable price, electric walkcars have become daily commuting vehicles for the wage-earning class. Reasonable price and happy commuting are Airwheel's original intentions. Airwheel mini electric scooters are born to serve the public majority.
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Split, Croatia
The ancient Romans built the seaside Croatian town of Split more than 1,700 years ago, and much of it has survived. Sign up for a guided walking tour or simply wander through the Old Town's labyrinth of cobblestoned streets that wind past churches, ancient temples, and town squares. The Riva, Split's waterfront promenade, is best for views, or walk to the lush Marjan Hill and discover several ancient churches, including the 8th-century St. Jure.
What We Love
Meštrović Museum: Many consider sculptor Ivan Meštrović Croatia's own Michelangelo. This sea-facing museum is housed in his former residence, and his public works include two life-sized statues just outside the palace gates.
Cravats: Croatia is the birthplace of the elegant neck scarves worn by 17th-century Croatian soldiers and adopted by the fashion-forward French who still fancy them; you can buy them in shops all over town.
Best Known For
The Fortified Mini City: In the late 3rd century, Roman Emperor Diocletian built a grand royal compound by the sea for his retirement years. The entire complex of ancient temples and colonnaded courtyards is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Climbing the Saint Domnius Bell Tower. Take the stairs all the way to the top of the 12th-century, 187-foot-high bell tower of the Cathedral of Saint Domnius and you'll be rewarded with amazing views of the city and the Dalmatian Coast.
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Who It's Best For
History Buffs: The city's layered history is exposed through Split's eclectic mix of Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque architecture. It's impossible to see it all in one day, but you'll have fun trying.
Families: Old Town Split is like a giant interactive museum, where kids can be fortified with pizza and gelato while learning about the ancient Romans.
Don't Say We Didn't Warn You
Summer Crush: If you travel to Split in July and August, it's going to be hot and crowded with lots of other visitors jostling to keep up with their flag-waving tour guides.
Heidi Sarna is a Singapore-based contributor to ShermansCruise who has also written for Condé Nast Traveler and USA Today.


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My basic plan is to grow one or two varieties from each distinctive group of garlic. But I also want to find the better growing garlics. Therefore I'm also growing what people recommend to me. That is more reliable than growing noname commercial garlic sets in the garden center.
Top row are my softnecks (from left):
Inchelium Red (1.year), Tanja's Tyrkiske Grønthandler (nickname, 3+years), Grethes Supermarked (nickname, 3+years), Lorz Italian (2.year) and Ydre Mongoli (nickname, 1.year)
Bottom row are my hardnecks:
Estisk Rød (3+years), Rebberger (3+years), Polish Hardneck (1.year), Metechi (2.year), Fraser Valley Roja (2.year), Martins Old Heirloom (2.year), Oregon Blue Hardneck (1.year) and Leningrad (1.year).
Estisk Rød is very reliable, and grow huge cloves with great flavor. We often slice it thinly and put a raw slice on a slice of tomato. It was aquired on a market in Estonia by the danish seedsaver Lila Towle.
Rebberger is also very reliable, but smaller and numerous cloves. It belongs to the rocambole group. It was traditionally grown on the wine mountains in the german speaking parts of the alps.
Tanja's Tyrkiske Grønthandler belongs to the artichoke group. For me it keep almost
as long as the two above. A chef spared a clove for me from a partikular large garlic they bought from a turkish greengrocer – she know my love for garlic.
Grethes Supermarked might belong to the silverskin group, as it never get any tiny bit of purple anywhere.
Inchelium Red was the surprice of the season. I have never grown a larger garlic in my
life. This was first season, will it be
able to keep up the great performance in the future?
Lorz Italian is doing slightly better in this second season, after a nearly devasting first
season – there is still a hope.
Ydre Mongoli: I only know, that a traveller brought it from a scoolteachers garden in
outer Mongolia to Denmark last year, and I was given 3 cloves. 2 have died, but I only give up after 3 seasons of failure, so hopefully it will recover and prove itself to be a great garlic for my garden.
Metechi seem to be a small Estisk Rød with yellow streaks on the leaves. I'm likely to
give it up for that reason. But it is an OK garlic.
Martins Old Heirloom I recieved from Martin himself. He grow it to enormous sizes in
heavy clay in Wisconsin, USA. It has potential.
Oregon Blue Hardneck is a Oregon Blue (softneck) line that produces hardnecks,
at least here in Denmark.
Chinese Purple I forgot to bring in with the other varieties, sorry.
It's a 1. season for me, and doing well.


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Yesterday Bishop Allan Kiuna turned 50 years old. That is definitely a milestone for anyone.
Rev Kathy Kiuna took to her social media to wish her husband a happy birthday.
To celebrate his birthday, the church held a huge ceremony where he was officially consecrated as a Bishop.
However there is something that got the tongues of many Kenyans wagging. The new Bishop was presented with a gift that only many would dream of.
While #BishopKiunaAt50 was trending among his church followers, everyone else was mourning the victims of 40 people who perished in the Naivasha tanker accident.
Bishop Kiuna was apparently gifted a private jet on his birthday, imagine that.
This did not please many people, check out the tweets below
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A Swedish foundation has selected former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Sudanese human rights lawyer Mossaad Mohamed Ali as recipients of the 2006 Olof Palme Prize.
The Olof Palme Memorial Fund announced Tuesday in Stockholm that Annan and Ali will share the prize of about $75,000 for their efforts to protect human rights, pace and security. The group said it will present the award in May.
The award is conferred for outstanding achievement in the spirit of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, who was shot and killed on a Stockholm street in 1986.
The Palme memorial fund board cited Annan's courage in defending U.N. principles and international law during his nine years of service, which ended in 2006.
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After enlarging her, I realized that she's going to be AWESOME in a large format. I haven't made many large-scale dolls aside from the mock-up I made of my thesis doll, and I have to admit that it's winning me over.
Large scale work is often daunting because details are blown up, which means possible mistakes are blown up. But it's very rewarding seeing something you've been working on it this large format.
Now, onto the art!
When constructing dolls, I do the sketches first, then enlarge/shrink them, and then lay out the body parts on tracing paper. I'll then transfer the parts onto watercolor paper and start the painting process.
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One of the best Instagram accounts I have come across belongs to Liz Prueitt of Tartine Bakery fame. Via her Instagram feed you can follow along with her as she tests and develops recipes which is pretty cool if you're interested in how that process happens and getting inside the mind of a chef. Most recently she's turned much of her attention to gluten free baking where she's been exploring GF twists on classics as well as new, creative inventions, comparing different substitutions and combinations. (She's got savory cooking projects going on as well). Some posts share the refined, end result of many cycles of testing, other times you get to see the trials and errors along the way. The very best part is that she often throws shorthand recipes onto her posts so you can cook along at home. And since she's sharing in real-time, her posts always reflect what's in season right now.
Just a few of Liz Prueitt's ideas from Instagram that I've tagged for my own experimentation:
- Roasted "cacio e pepe" chickpeas
- Hot fudge sauce ("many hot fudge trials – and finally a winner. I cant stop eating it and thinking of more things to do with it than top ice cream")
- Buckwheat galettes
- GF lemon cookies
- GF chewy chocolate snowcap cookies
- Cheese and stone-ground corn souffle
- Creamy broccoli soup with raw almonds (her secret ingredient)
- Her favorite quick pickle ("when you need a salty, vinegary, garlicky bite in your food", a versatile brine to pour over "any crunchy thing")
- A simple chicken salad with walnuts, celery root, apple, mustard seeds, cabbage,parsley, lemon and olive oil. Yay mayo-free! ("I made 15 pounds of chicken salad for 2 people – one of those more of this, more of that creations.")
Liz Pruitt's Healthy Flax Muffins (gluten free)
via her Instagram account, made about 10 regular sized muffins when we tried this recipe.
I regularly try out healthy muffin recipes, usually coming to the conclusion that I'd rather eat no muffin than a healthy, but "not great" muffin. This is one is actually really delicious, and is totally endorsed and approved by both my kids (Luca's 10/10 muffin rating below).
Liz says: "The moistest, best recipe for a healthy muffin I've ever created yet."
- Mix the wet ingredients:
- 4 ounces brown sugar
- 1 ounce molasses
- 3 eggs
- 10 ounce milk (coconut water or almond milk)
- 5 ounces ground flax seeds
- 1 cup grated apple, carrot (or a combination) — we used just granny smith apple
- 3 ounces olive oil
2. Mix the dry ingredients:
- 6 ounces whole oat flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
3. Fold the wet and dry mixtures together, then fold in the raisins. Pour the batter into a muffin tin lined with muffin papers.
- 6 ounces raisins (we used golden), plumped in hot water for 10 minutes, then drained
- we sprinkled our muffins with a little coarse sugar before baking, so as not to bee too healthy.
4. Bake at 350F for 20 minutes or until cooked through. Insert a toothpick into the center and it should come out clean.
Notes: ours took longer to bake, about 30-35 minutes, but we may have filled our muffin cups a little higher. Luckily there is a high moisture content, so you don't have to stress out too much about over-baking. These muffins keep well for a week in a sealed container, store longer in the freezer.


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Let's put the first week of May in the books with some super fun events! There are plenty here to choose from, see what catches your eye. In the meantime, we will see you on the radio! Listen in to hear all about more exciting things happening in the mitten.
Motown The Musical, May 2-7; DeVos Performance Hall in GR; www.broadwaygrandrapids.com
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, May 2-14; Fisher Theatre in Detroit; www.broadwayindetroit.com
Spring Fling Festival, May 4-7; Downtown Mason; www.masonchamber.org
Laup Fiesta!, May 5-6; The Shops at Westshore in Holland; www.laupholland.org
Mesick Mushroom Festival, May 5-7; Mesick; www.mesick-mushroomfest.org
NF, 7 pm May 6; 20 Monroe Live in Grand Rapids; www.20monroelive.com
Ramon Ayala, Ruben Ramos, 8 p.m. May 6; Soaring Eagle Casino in Mt. Pleasant; www.soaringeaglecasino.com
RFD Polka Tour, 8 p.m. May 6; Little River Casino in Manistee; www.lrcr.com
Cinco de Mayo Street Party on Wealthy, 4-10 pm May 6; Donkey Taqueria in Grand Rapids; https://www.facebook.com/events/1818110538515149/
Victorian Days, May 6-7; Grand Ledge; www.victoriandays.org
Spring Sip & Savor, May 6 & 7; Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail in Traverse City area; www.lpwines.com
Tulip Time Festival, May 6-14; Holland; www.tuliptime.com
Jimmy Eat World, 7 pm May 7; 20 Monroe Live in Grand Rapids; www.20monroelive.com
Imparables, Adrian Uribe y Omar Chaparro, May 7; The Fillmore in Detroit; www.thefillmoredetroit.com
Suckerfest, May 7, Adair; www.facebook.com/pg/Adairs-Suckerfest-183013041740780/about/?ref=page_internal
Kehlani, Ella Mai, Jahkoy, 7 pm May 8; The Intersection in Grand Rapids; www.sectionlive.com
Motown The Musical, May 9-14; Miller Auditorium in Kalamazoo; www.millerauditorium.com
Lil Wayne, 7 pm May 10; 20 Monroe Live in Grand Rapids; www.20monroelive.com
Olivia Newton-John, 8 p.m. May 10; FireKeepers Casino in Battle Creek; www.firekeeperscasino.com
Kehlani, May 10; The Fillmore in Detroit; www.thefillmoredetroit.com
Eric Church, 8 p.m. May 11; Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids; www.vanandelarena.com
Lil Wayne, 8pm May 11; Fox Theatre in Detroit; www.olympiaentertainment.com
Bela Fleck, Abigail Washburn, May 11; The State Theatre in Kalamazoo; www.kazoostate.com
Korn, 7 pm May 11; 20 Monroe Live in Grand Rapids; www.20monroelive.com


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Harry Ferrier grew up in Massachusetts and Connecticut. At age sixteen, he lied about his age to enlist in the U.S. Navy. Harry became an aviation radioman and joined his first squadron, Torpedo Eight, in September of 1941. At age seventeen, he flew his first combat mission. He later served with VT-3 and VT-8 again during the Battle of the Eastern Solomons and the defense of Guadalcanal. Harry married just as the war ended, raised two children, and made the Navy his career. He rose from Seaman 3rd Class to full Commander before he retired after the Vietnam War. I was fortunate to interview him in 2000, first over the phone, then in person in Washington State. Harry was one of those Americans who had overcome every imaginable adversity through the course of his life from the Depression and a broken home to crewing a torpedo bomber in the darkest days of the Pacific War when almost all his friends were lost in combat. Getting to know Harry was one of the most inspirational moments of my life.
At age thirteen, Harry Ferrier's childhood came to an abrupt end the day his father died of a heart attack. From then on, tragedy and hardship dogged Harry's young life, setting in motion a chain of events that led him into the midst of one of history's greatest naval battles.
His dad had been the rock of his family. A big, burly welder whose own father had immigrated from Scotland at the end of the 19th Century, Harry's dad had held his family together in the midst of the Depression with his unflagging work ethic. On the strength of his fourteen hour work days, he kept food on the table and the mortgage current for their tiny house in East Springfield, Massachusetts, despite the fact that he'd lost his right leg below the knee while jumping freight trains as a kid.
When he died, the family lost its primary source of income. Harry's mother, as devoted as she was to her four kids, simply couldn't pay the bills with the meager wages of her waitressing job. What little savings they had soon ran out. Eventually, they lost the house.
It was the spring of 1938, and Harry's family had become homeless in the depths of the Great Depression.
In desperation, Harry's mother farmed the kids out to stay with friends and relatives. Scattering the family at least kept them all off the street, but the pain of separation inflicted lasting damage on them. While his sisters were sent to live with an aunt and his brother stayed with another family, Harry moved in with his close friend, Dean Mosher. The Moshers kept Harry for the better part of the year in West Springfield while his mother sought to get back on her feet.
Tragedy struck the family again. This time, within a few months of his father's fatal heart attack, both of Harry's grandmothers died suddenly. Their deaths sent him reeling. He was just thirteen years old, unsure how to process such grief without his remaining family together to offer support.
Once affable and outgoing, Harry he withdrew into himself. He became solemn and serious and kept the rest of the world at arm's length.
That fall of 1938, his mother returned to get him. Harry was shocked by the change in his mother. At five foot one, she had always been a heavy woman, but in the space of about eight months, she'd lost 50 pounds. She looked gaunt and haunted.
Unable to make a good enough living for her children on her own, Harry's mom married a bartender named Tracy. When the family reunited, it was at his home in East Hartford, Connecticut. There, he discovered his new step-father had a son of his own, an older boy nicknamed "Stub." Stub was a bully who made Harry's life even more difficult. Fortunately, Stub stayed with them for only a short time before joining the Navy . Later, Stub would be dishonorably discharged after going AWOL during World War II.
Life never got better for Harry's family while in East Hartford. Tracy, a broad-shouldered, rough Irishman, had never amounted to much. He drank heavily and lashed out at his family. Verbal abuse was common. Later, he started getting violent.
Even when Harry's mom became pregnant with the first of four more children, the drinking and abuse didn't stop. Daily life, hard enough in those days when the country was still trapped in the Depression, became a struggle for survival.
Harry began looking for a way out; somehow he had to escape from his step-father and the sense of hopelessness at home. For two years, he endured and waited until he could finally make his escape.
At age sixteen, Harry finally settled on his getaway method—the United States Navy. Unfortunately, he couldn't join up until he turned seventeen, but Harry didn't think he could last another year at home. Things were getting so bad, he had to get out–or give in.
So he doctored his birth certificate, changing his date of birth from 1925 to 1924 with careful work at a friend's typewriter. Officially, anyway, he was now seventeen. He presented himself to the Navy recruiter, who gave him a small mountain of paperwork for he and his mother to fill out. Since he was not yet a legal adult, his mother needed to give her consent for him to join up. She signed the papers, perhaps knowing that this was indeed Harry's one chance to escape from their harsh existence. Also, with more babies on the way, his departure meant one fewer mouth to feed.
When Tracy found out what Harry wanted to do, he offered to help him gain some weight so he could pass his physical. At the time, Harry weighed less than 110 pounds, which barely qualified him for the Navy. To "fatten" him up , Tracy bought Harry a case of beer and ordered him to drink it.
A short time later, in February of 1941, he passed his physical and became a Seaman 3rd Class destined for aviation radio school in Jacksonville, Florida. He'd made good his escape—but what he had escaped to?
June 4, 1942
Midway Atoll
As dawn broke over Midway Atoll, Radioman 2nd Class Harry Ferrier sat in his assigned TBF Avenger torpedo bomber, 8-T-1, waiting for battle.
Harry watched the sunrise in contemplative silence. Two days before, Lieutenant Langdon Fieberling had called all the crews from Torpedo Eight together to tell them the gravity of the situation. The Japanese fleet—not some of it, all of it, was bearing down on Midway from the northwest. The Japanese planned to knock out Midway's defenses with air attacks, then storm the beaches with the Emperor's best troops—a brigade of Imperial Marines.
They had to be stopped. And to do it, the Americans had scraped together 52 combat planes and sent them to Midway's airfield. Off the atoll's northern beaches, three of the Navy's precious aircraft carriers now lay in ambush, counting on the element of surprise to make up for their lack of numbers.
The Japanese were coming with the fury and might that had laid waste to Pearl Harbor only six months before this calm spring morning. Admiral Chuchi Nagumo's four fleet carriers composed the heart of Japan's naval strength, for their 300 aircrews were the best trained, most experienced combat pilots in the world. And, in the Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero, those pilots had the best fighter aircraft in the Pacific.
Harry's squadron, Torpedo Eight (VT-8) possessed six new Grumman TBF Avengers. These aircraft had never been in battle before. In fact, back in February of '42, Torpedo Eight had been split into two groups. The main part of the squadron left Norfolk, Virginia aboard the USS Hornet, an aircraft carrier now somewhere to the north of Midway. The rest of the squadron—Harry included—remained behind at Norfolk to work up with the factory-fresh Avengers then just starting to arrive from Grumman's plant on Long Island. It was a sign of desperation that their six untested planes had been urgently ordered to Pearl Harbor in May, and then from there on to Midway. Harry's det reached the island on June 1st, just ahead of the coming onslaught.
Harry Ferrier was seventeen. He couldn't drink liquor, nor could he vote in his hometown elections. But here he was, ready to defend his country no matter how daunting the odds.
Next to him in the cramped confines of the cockpit, Jay Manning fidgeted restlessly. The wait was starting to get to him. Jay was only a little older than Harry. A twenty year old native of Washington, he had been trained to operate the Avenger's dorsal turret. It would be Jay's job to keep enemy fighters at bay while their pilot, Ensign Bert Earnest, made a wave top-level torpedo run on a Japanese warship. Harry would operate the plane's radio as well as man the single .30 caliber machine gun jutting out of the Avenger's belly just under the tail.
None of the men sitting in 8-T-1 had ever seen combat. Only a few weeks before, they made their first live torpedo drop off Rhode Island. From those practice runs, they had learned that delivering a torpedo took extraordinary skill. Bert Earnest would have to keep the plane under 200 mph and lower than 150 feet flying absolutely straight when he released the weapon from the Avenger's bomb bay. If those conditions weren't exactly met, the torpedo would porpoise or careen out of control. It was difficult enough to make a successful drop during their training runs, doing it while the Japanese shot at them was sure to be even more of a challenge.
Just after 0600 hours, a Marine dashed up to 8-T-1. Cupping his hands to his mouth, he shouted, "Enemy forces at 320 degrees, 150 miles out. Get going!"
Bert started the Avenger's enormous Wright-Cyclone R-2600 engine. All around them, engines turned over and sputtered to life as Midway's tiny air force scrambled to get aloft. Somewhere nearby, another Massachusetts native named Sumner Whitten was just starting his own VMSB-241 SB2U Vindicator dive-bomber. Whitten's Vindicator would be the last plane to take off from Midway before the Japanese attacked. Harry's would be among the first. The strike would be bookended by New Englanders.
The aircraft from Midway were supposed to attack in concert. Lieutenant Fieberling's six Avengers would coordinate their torpedo runs with four Army twin-engined B-26 Marauders. As they made their low-level attacks, the planes from VMSB-241 were to whistle down on the Japanese and deliver their bombs from a 70 degree dive. And, as the grand finale, a group of high-flying B-17 Flying Fortresses would pepper the Japanese ships with strings of bombs dropped from 20,000 feet.
The plan to fell to pieces almost the minute the mission began. In the mad scramble to get aloft, none of the squadrons joined up. Instead, each unit went out towards the Japanese fleet on its own. The attack would be made in drips and dribbles, instead of the single hammer-blow envisioned.
As 8-T-1 climbed away from Midway, a lone Japanese plane suddenly dropped down on them and went right through their formation. As it zipped away towards the atoll, a knot formed in Harry's stomach. Over the horizon, the Japanese were waiting for them.
From his dorsal turret, Jay Manning looked out behind them and saw Midway getting attacked by scores of Japanese planes. They had arrived over the islands just as Sumner Whitten began his take-off roll down the runway. The American strike group had missed being caught on the ground by only a few minutes.
They wouldn't have fighter cover. The lone fighter squadron on Midway, VMF-221, had flung its 25 obsolete Buffaloes and early-model Wildcats at the incoming Japanese air raid. Twenty-five Americans waded into just over 100 Japanese planes. It was a slaughter. In minutes, 19 of those 25 were falling in flames. Only Marion Carl's fighter was fit to fly after the attack ended.
Midway's bombers sped towards the heart of Japan's naval air power. It would be up to the young and inexperienced gunners to protect their planes from the most skilled fighter pilots in the world.
Since Torpedo Eight had taken off from Midway first, Harry's small group of friends now composed the tip of Midway's aerial spear. A few miles behind them cruised the Army's B-26's. Further back, the dive bomber squadron lumbered along, climbing above 10,000 feet. The dive-bombers would further fragment, dividing into two groups. Midway's planes were soon spread all over the sky. There would be no chance to coordinate attacks.
For an hour, the six TBFs flew along at 4,000 feet as the rising sun cast a reddish glow on the scattered clouds that now dotted the sky that morning. Through the trip, Harry sat deep in 8-T-1's belly, monitoring the radio. It was an isolated, lonely position. Above him, he could look up and see Jay nestled in his turret. To either side, a small porthole in the fuselage offered his only view of the outside world. With little idea of what was going on around him, Harry would have to rely on Bert and Jay. The feeling of helplessness would have overwhelmed a lesser individual.
Just after 0700, Harry's earphones crackled to life. Bert had keyed the intercom switch to announce, "I can see ships ahead."
They had reached the Japanese carriers. Ahead and below were stretched two battleships, three cruisers, and a dozen destroyers. They protectively huddled around the four vital aircraft carriers, of which Bert could only see two.
Torpedo Eight was about to make the first American attack on the Japanese Combined Striking Force. To date, only one other attack had ever been made against these ships. Back in April, while operating in the Indian Ocean, a squadron of British Blenheim bombers had found these same carriers. Desperately, the Blenheims attacked through clouds of flak and swarms of angry Zeroes. Not a single British aircraft survived. The Japanese ships weren't hit.
The intercom crackled again, this time it was Jay's excited voice shouting, "We're being attacked by enemy fighters!"
Bert slammed the stick forward and dove for a cloud some distance ahead of them. The other TBFs entered steep dives, hoping to evade the incoming Japanese Zeroes. It didn't work. Torpedo Eight had stumbled right into the fleet's combat air patrol. Twenty-nine Zeroes descended on the six Avengers.
Following Jay's warning, Harry swung around and crouched at his .30 caliber machine gun in the ventral window. As he moved to his battle position, he glanced out one of the portholes just in time to see a flaming aircraft plunge towards the sea.
Harry grasped his machine gun and searched for targets even as 8-T-1 sloughed and yawed wildly. It was all Harry could do to stay in position through all the crazy gyrations. Above him, Jay's single machine gun barked. Cordite fumes filled the compartment and Harry could hear the rattle of spent brass bouncing off the turret's floor.
Peering out from under the tail, Harry caught only fleeting glimpses of the raging air fight. Every few seconds, a Zero would slash through their formation, then wing past Harry's little window as it pulled off target, red rising suns burned hot on its white wings. With his .30 caliber gun, he couldn't do much damage, but he blazed away at every plane that crossed through his narrow view of the outside world.
Then they were hit. It was a terrifying sound, like huge hail stones striking a tin roof. The din was nearly deafening, and the TBF rocked from the impact as cannon shells struck home. They were taking hits everywhere. Bullets and shells tore great gouges out of the fuselage and wings, sending slivers of metal through the cockpit.
A cannon shell blasted the right side of Jay's turret into a spray of broken Plexiglas and shrapnel. The thunderclap noise the impact produced caused Harry to jerk away from the gun and stare up into the turret. Above him, he could see Jay hanging limp in his straps, the turret a mess of twisted metal and glass fragments. Blood and gore were spattered everywhere. Blood streaked down either side of the turret walls.
Bert had the Avenger right on the water now, and as Harry shakily returned to his gun, he could see the individual ocean swells, each punctuated by a crest of whitecaps. They were under a hundred feet now, charging desperately towards the Japanese fleet.
The Zeroes came again, relentless and brutally effective. As Harry searched for targets, another fusillade of bullets and shells ripped into the TBF. This time, the enemy fire shredded the hydraulic system. That caused the tail wheel to extend down right in front of the ventral gun. Alone in his tiny metal box under his crippled TBF, Harry lost his only means of fighting back. He was captive now in his own airplane.
A flurry of bullets scythed into the radio compartment and Harry's head was rocked by a hard blow. He spun away from his machine gun, feeling blood pour down his forehead. A moment later, he lost consciousness.
In the cockpit, Bert Earnest fought to keep 8-T-1 in the air. The other Avengers were going into the water all around him. One burning TBF pulled briefly alongside his shattered bomber, its pilot gesturing frantically at him. A second later, it was gone, a burning smear of wreckage on the waves below.
The Zeroes scored again, blowing away chunks of 8-T-1's aluminum skin. The stick shuddered in his hand as his control cables took hits. He pulled back on the stick slightly, but felt it go slack just as a cannon shell exploded through the canopy behind him. Shrapnel tore through the cockpit, and he felt searing pain in his right cheek as a sliver of metal clipped him just above the jaw line. Blood splattered the cockpit and his flight suit even as more bullets demolished his instrument panel.
Though dazed from the blood loss, Bert realized the carriers were still a long way off. And no a single TBF remained in sight. A glance behind had told him all he needed to know about Jay. His gunner was dead. Harry had probably been killed, too. He was attacking the most heavily defended fleet in the world and he was alone. The spear point of Midway's attack had been whittled away to just 8-T-1.
He couldn't make the carriers. No way; they were too far off. Settling on a what he thought was a cruiser, he lined up on its frothy bow and released the torpedo. Free of its cargo, the TBF leapt upwards for an instant, before sagging into a shallow descent. Bert played with the stick to correct his angle of attack, but got no response. The elevator cables had been shot away.
Unable to control the Avenger, he resigned himself to death. He waited for the end as the waves below surged towards him. Then, with about 30 feet left before impact, Bert unconsciously reached down to adjust the elevator trim. In a flash, he realized he could fly the plane with the trim tabs. Sure enough, as he played with the trim controls the Avengers nose rose sluggishly. Limping away northward, two Zeroes clung to his Avenger's tail even as he cleared the last of the Japanese ships. The two fighters flayed the Avenger with well-aimed fire, but somehow failed to bring it down. A few minutes later, they pulled off target and returned to the fleet.
In the radio compartment, Harry awoke slowly, his head throbbing with pain. At first, he became aware of sounds. The TBF's rumbling Wright-Cyclone brought him much comfort. At least they were still in the air. He opened his eyes and tried to focus. Through his blurred vision he could see his radio compartment was splintered with shadows, broken by shafts of sunlight shining through ragged bullet holes in the fuselage. As he looked around, he saw his radio had been smashed to junk by machine gun rounds.
Blood still streamed down his face, and when Harry became aware of that again, he reached up to find the wound. Gingerly, his fingers found a hole in his forehead. Stunned, he wondered how he could still be alive after getting shot in the head. Then he remembered he'd been wearing a cap. He took it off and examined it. The cap's bill and front were soaked in blood, while an entry hole had pierced it on the left front side. He let out a sigh of relief when he saw a similar hole in the back of the hat. That had to have been the exit hole. He'd only been grazed.
Feeling a little better, Harry crawled forward from the radio compartment into the cockpit seat behind Bert. When he got there, he saw the cockpit was a gory mess. The canopy glass had been punctured by many bullet holes, and now cool morning wind whistled through the cockpit, making an eerie sound that added to the nightmare.
With no instruments left, Bert flew back to Midway with luck and dead reckoning. En route back, they spotted a huge plume of black smoke on the horizon and turned towards it. Sure enough, that was Midway, black smoke boiling out of ruptured fuel storage tanks the Japanese bombers had hit earlier in the morning.
They came in to land, but men near the strip waved them off. Frustrated, Bert aborted the landing and staggered back into the pattern. They swung around again, only to be waved off a second time. Neither Bert or Harry had the patience for this game. When they wheeled around for a third attempt, Bert ignored the warnings from below and painted the TBF down on the runway.
Only one wheel had come down. The other remained locked securely in the wing. Neither Harry nor Bert realized this until 8-T-1 began slowing down. Suddenly, the wing dipped and struck the runway, causing the Avenger to tilt wildly and ground loop. The dying plane skidded to a halt, and as it did, Bert cut all the electrical switches.
For a moment the silence seemed overwhelming. Harry and Bert stared out around them as rescue crews rushed to their aid. A sense of utter desolation struck them. They were the sole survivors of their detachment.
Later, Bert and Harry learned just how bad things were. The rest of Torpedo Eight, flying outdated Douglas TBD Devastators had attacked the Japanese fleet from the Hornet about two hours after their fateful run. They went in without fighter cover as well, and the Japanese just shot them out of the sky. All 14 TBDs went down. Twenty-seven men died and only Ensign George Gay survived to be rescued from the sea by a flying boat after the battle.
Of 46 men Torpedo Eight had sent aloft that morning, only Bert, Harry and George Gay were left. Harry was the only surviving enlisted man.
And this was their first mission. Harry wondered how anyone was going to live through the war if this is what they would face every time they flew.
On the strip, the sights of disaster were evident everywhere. Sumner Whitten, the other New Englander among Midway's airmen, limped back to Midway in his SB2U Vindicator, but over half his squadron had been shot down. The fighter squadron had been wiped out—only a single F4F-3 Wildcat remained flyable. The B-26s that had trailed the TBFs into battle had been massacred. Two had gone down, and the other two came back so full of holes that they sat for days at the end of the runway, bleeding oil, hydraulic fluid and gas from dozens of gashes. One group tried to count the holes in one of the B-26s, but gave up after reaching 200 on one wing and part of the fuselage.
Harry's own TBF was pulled down towards the beach, where its gear was lowered. There it would sit for the next month like a forlorn sentinel waiting vainly for its comrades to return. A thorough engineering analysis was later done on it. At least 64 bullets had struck 8-T-1, along with nine 20mm cannon shells. The cannon shells probably obscured some other bullet holes, so the real count could never be firmly established.
Altogether, over half of Midway's aircraft went down in that one desperate rush at the Japanese carriers.
Harry spent the rest of the day and night of June 4th in the hospital at Midway, where his head wound was treated. Dizzy, his vision still blurred, he lay in his cot thinking of all the friends he'd lost. The stab of pain as he recalled each man forced him deeper and deeper within himself. He would never completely come out of his shell again.
The next day, he returned to Torpedo Eight's living quarters, which were tents clustered near the airfield. Carefully, he went through all the enlisted men's possessions, cataloging them and packing them up to be sent home to their families. It was the toughest task he ever had to do.
Midway, of course, turned into the most remarkable American naval victory of WWII. At 10:30 in the morning on June 4, several squadrons of Navy dive-bombers caught the Japanese carriers by surprise with their decks loaded with aircraft. With just a few bomb hits, three of the four were turned into raging infernos. The fourth would be destroyed later in the afternoon. In return, the US Navy lost the aircraft carrier Yorktown and 144 aircraft. Of the 48 torpedo bombers launched by the American carriers and from Midway that day, only six returned. The price was high, but in that single day, the Japanese lost their best ships and best aircrew. Never again would they be able to take the offensive in the Pacific.
Harry Ferrier left Midway shortly after the battle ended. He returned to Pearl Harbor, where the Navy put him up in the Royal Hawaiian Hotel for night before reassigning him to Torpedo Three. A month later, he set sail for Guadalcanal aboard the USS Enterprise.
Harry served with VT-3 through most of August, fighting in the third carrier clash of the war at the Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Just as he and his pilot were returning to the Enterprise after a mission, a Japanese bomb struck the ship. Harry's plane got caught up in the middle of the Japanese attack, and his pilot went barreling after several dive-bombers in hopes of shooting them down.
Following Eastern Solomons, he was sent up to Henderson Field at Guadalcanal while the Enterprise returned to Pearl Harbor to have its damage repaired. At Henderson, Harry ended up flying with a reconstituted Torpedo Eight. Miraculously, he drew Bert Earnest as his pilot. Together, these two comrades-in-arms endured the terrible living conditions, dreadful food, dysentery and Japanese shellings that came with the territory on Guadalcanal. Finally, later that fall, Harry and Bert were evacuated.
Fifty-five years after the nightmare at Midway, Harry Ferrier returned to the island as part of a team of underwater explorers who were looking for the USS Yorktown. Robert Ballard, the famous oceanographer who had located the Titanic and the Bismark back in the 1980s, led the team that would find the Yorktown. Two American Midway veterans and two Japanese aviators who fought in the battle accompanied the search team aboard the research vessel, Laney Chouest.
For Harry, the experience was a painful revisit with memories he had long ago thought he'd overcome. After Midway, he'd moved on with his life. He had stayed in the Navy after the war, working as an electronics expert on various atomic bomb test programs before serving three combat tours in Vietnam as an officer aboard a helicopter assault ship. He retired from the Navy as a Commander after rising from the enlisted ranks not once, but twice. Justly proud of his military career, Harry had overcome so much to succeed in his career and life.
On Memorial Day, the Laney Chouest's crew held a solemn ceremony on the water north of Midway where the two American and two Japanese veterans of the battle came together in a moment of friendship and reconciliation.
The ceremony aroused some long-suppressed demons. Harry had lost 43 friends and squadron mates on that terrible day in June, and as they rode the seas not far from Torpedo Eight's gallant charge, the faces of the men who'd died that day welled up to haunt him once again. How had he survived when so many had not?
Emotions long since held in check came flooding out. Allowing those feelings to flow free proved to be a catharsis, but at the same time, it left Harry exhausted and homesick. He had escaped to Midway for a second time. As difficult as it had been, this time, it had helped to heal him.


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Positive Psychology Through Art Therapy, Narrative & Psychodrama Techniques
Saturday, April 2, 2016 1:30-3:00 pm
74TH Annual Group Psychotherapy & Psychodrama Conference American Society of Group Psychotherapy & Psychodrama
Psychodrama and Group Work:Desert Oasis – Healing the Spirit Within
Sheraton Crescent
2620 W Dunlap Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85021
(602) 943-8200
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March 31-April 3, 2016
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Rebecca Wilkinson, MA, ATR-BC, LCPAT, Creative Wellbeing Workshops, LLC, Miraval Resorts and Spa; Gioia Chilton, PhD, ATR-BC, Creative Wellbeing Workshops, LLC, Sagebrush Treatment Facility
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Originally, yesterday was supposed to be deadline day for the Polish mobile networks to begin bidding on 19 blocks of LTE-compatible spectrum: five in the 800MHz band, and 14 in the 2600MHz band. But the country's regulatory body UKE has decided to postpone the auction, a move that has proved popular among the major operators.
The official reason UKE gave for delay was problems with official paperwork, however, the auction has been marred with controversy from the outset.
Two of the operators thought likely to bid, Polkomtel and P4, had significant reservations about the auction, expected to raise PLN 1.8bln (€450m). P4 was concerned about the documentation associated with the auction in general, while Polkomtel, the largest operator in the country in terms of subscriptions and so far the frontrunner when it comes to LTE in Poland , even sent an official protest about the auction to Poland's parliament, the Sejm.
Polkomtel's protest was based on what it saw as rival operators Orange and T-Mobile trying to carve up the market between them through a joint venture called Networks!, set up in 2012 to manage the two companies' combined infrastructure.
When the company was created, the two carriers behind it didn't reveal their intention to share their spectrum with each to competition watchdog UOKiK. Also, because they effectively share spectrum blocks through Networks!, Orange and T-Mobile can, in effect, dodge the spectrum caps imposed on the auction by the regulator, Polkomtel argues. The fact that parties already holding blocks in the 900MHz band can take part in the coming process also stings Polkomtel — the company argues that those 900MHz blocks weren't sufficiently considered when limits were set on how many blocks each operator can acquire during the bidding.
Whether Polkomtel's protest to the Sejm will be successful remains to be seen, as UKE has already delayed the auction on the grounds of a number of technicalities: clarifications on auction documents were published several hours too late, the organisation said.
Still, operators' concerns also played a part in the postponement, it announced: "The director of UKE's decision was made as the result of a desire to ensure stability and the certainty of the legal process, and to eliminate any formal and legal doubt that possibly accompanied the procedure."
The director herself, Magdalena Gaj, also said in the announcement that "the auction process itself and the documents accompanying it were prepared correctly and in line with all legal regulations."
So far, the cancellation has been well received, not only by P4 and Polkomtel, but even by Orange. "In truth a fast resolution would have been very much in our favour," writes Orange's head of PR Wojtek Jabczynski on the official company blog. "But paradoxically [the auction being] pushed back for some months should result in lesser controversy and less room for speculation for lawyers to cling to in order to delay or even block the frequencies being handed out."
The whole process will now start again, beginning with publishing documentation for interested parties. This also means UKE has room to make amendments to these documentations to appease any criticism the agency had to endure.


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Over the years, more than a few in the Eastern Sierra have reported sightings of UFO's, Unidentified Flying Objects. Some well-known, solid citizens have called us to report sitings but preferred to remain anonymous to the public. Another such incident took place this week.
A Bishop man, well-known, but who shall remain anonymous, reported to Sierra Wave Media that he was driving west on West Line Street just past Barlow Lane Monday night about 9:30 when he saw a very bright red light. The spherical object passed slowly over the road. The man said he saw that it was a sphere made up of a geometric assembly of very bright red lights that did not blink on and off. The man estimated the size of the sphere as no more than ten or fifteen feet in diameter. He described it as "a ball of closely-spaced red lights."
The man said he pulled off the road and rolled down the window and saw the sphere seeming to float in the air about a hundred yards away. He said he was struck by how evenly spaced the lights were all around the sphere, and as he watched the sphere drift south, he saw it suddenly accelerate, move up and disappear.
Through the years in the Eastern Sierra, similar reports have been made by ordinary citizens who prefer anonymity because of the remaining stigma for those who say they see UFOs.
In this case, the Bishop man said he was sober, wide awake and saw the incredible sight that he described as it unfolded over West Bishop.
The citizen did say he wanted to know if anyone else in the area saw anything like it. On the National UFO Reporting Center website, reports of floating and flying spheres were registered in the last two months from several California cities, including San Diego, West Hollywood and Fresno. Check it out at www.nuforc.org.
California leads the nation in UFO sightings and encounters, with over 5000 reported incidents from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries.