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University of Illinois at Springfield Norris L Brookens Library Archives/Special Collections Nick J. Fanale, Sr. Memoir F212. Fanale, Nick J. Sr. b. 1916 Interview and memoir 1 tape, 54 mins., 26 pp. SANGAMON ORDNANCE PLANT PROJECT Fanale, a Riverton resident, discusses his employment as supervisor at the Sangamon Ordnance Plant in Illiopolis during WWII, and recalls accidents at the plant, transportation, buildings, plant employees, working hazards, storage igloos, and plant security. Interview by B. David McCarthy, 1989 OPEN See collateral file Archives/Special Collections LIB 144 University of Illinois at Springfield One University Plaza, MS BRK 140 Springfield IL 62703-5407 © 1989, University of Illinois Board of Trustees Preface '!his manuscript is the product of a series of tape-recorded intel:views cxn:iucted by B. David McCarthy for the Oral History Office, Sarga.l\¥:m state university in the fall of 1989. M8J:9aret Reeder also transcribed the tapes ani Kay Johansen edited the transcripts. Nick J. Fanale, Sr., was hom October 13, 1916 in Riverton, Illinois where he has lived his entire life. Mr. Fanale recently closed his grocery store in Rivertal ani is retired. He remains active in carm.mity affairs ani serves on l'1Ul11erOUS boards of directors for area banks. Our~ lt:rld war II, Mr. Fanale was a supervisor at the 8an;;lanD'l Onmanoe Plant near Illiopolis, Illinois. B. tavid ~wasbom ani raised in central Illinois, where he eamed a BA in history in 1976 fran western Illinois University. He has been errployed as a teacher at Illiopolis am #12 since his graduation. Mr. McCarthy recently oc:arpleta:i his MA degree at Bargamon state university in history. His thesis topic was the 8argamon onmance Plant. He is married ani the father of three children. Readers of the oral history memoir should bear in mind that it is a transcript of the spoken wom, an:i that the interviewer, narrator am editor scnght to preserve the infonnal., conversational style that is inherent in such historical sources. 8argamon state university is not responsible for the facblal aocuracy of the memoir, nor for views expressed therein; these are for the reader to judge. 'lhe manuscript may be read, quoted ani cited freely. It may not be reproduce;i in whole or in part by arti means, electronic or mechanical, without permission in writirg fran the Oral History Office, 8argamon state university, Sprin;Jfield, Illinois 62794-9243. Table of contents Plant Enployment • • • • • 1 Accidents. • 2 Transportation • • 4 Procedure for Buildin;J Shells. 6 'lhe water System • • 7 Plant Employees. 8 Food ani Entertainment • 9 <llal'9! in Family .10 HousfniJ. .11 Health Hazards .12 Black Troops ani mack Euployees .14 Plant Security • .15 How the Shells worked. .18 Igloos • .19 Procluction Line wall Construction. .20 Northside Accident • .21 Nick Fanale, Sr. November 15, 1989. David McCarthy, Interviewer. Q: we'll be ta.1kin;J about the San:Jana'l Ol:dnance Plant at Illiqx:>lis.Nick, oould yaJ. tell me when the plant was opened? A: Boy, YOJ.'ve got me. Q: D:> you remember when you first became aware of it ani how you got on there? A: Yes, I went to work in 1942. I was work:i.rg at the bakery, so I quit the bakery ani I had to go sanewhere and I went up there and started worki.n;J on Line A. Q: What did they make on Line A? A: 75 Millimeter shells. We poured 'lNT in them ani assembled them in the east etxl of the plant, it was about nine tenths of a mile lorq, the building was. Q: Is that .buildin3' still there, do you know? A: No, they tore them dc:7tm, the stacks are there. I don't knc::M if you've ever noticed them gofn3' by there, all the stacks are there. There was four lines. Q: What were those stacks for, was that power for the line? A: For the line yes, heatfn3' plant. Q: so each line had it's am heatfn3' plant? A: Yes, had it's own. 'lhey conveyored the sblff with a chain conveyor. 'lhey'd pit them on cart and the old chain wall.d take themright an up to the assembly. Q: ltlat were the workfn3' oon:titia'lS like in yoo.r line? A: Real good for I worked in the final assenbly myself. I was foreman up there. DJwn in the 'INl' it was real ~'people gotsick frcm that 'lNT down there. In fact I even turned yellow there for awhile fran it. But workin;J corrlitions were good on the north side, I mean on the east side. Down in the drill and booster and pouring 'INl' was real hard work. Q: What about the lightfn3' and heating, was that satisfactory? 2 A: Ch yes, it was real good heatirg and ligh.ti.n;J. Even the ramps were not too cold when "We'd. walk up them ramps. '!hey were abalt dam near about half a mile apart, the build.in;Js were. Q: HoW did. you qet fran the parki.r.g areas to the lines? A: walked. We had to walk fran the pa.rking into where they checked. us in then we walked the ramp all the way up. Q: Now what kin:i of pn:x:uiure did. they use to check you in? A: <h they had guards that checked. you in at the gate there on Old. 36 and then they checked. you in as you got into check-outs. I mean theyreally checked. us good. Q: Did you have to have an ID? A: We had a badge, a regular bad;Je. If we ever lost our badge we had to qet a hold of the office and then they had to give us a new one. Q: Ikl you kn.cw whether they ever had a:rrt security problems cut there? A: No, not that I kn.cw of. Q: 'lbere was probably a conce:m about possible spyin;J and such? A: Yes, but we never did have a:rrt that I kn.cw of. we had one explosion While '\Ne was there, killed one fell<Jiil. Q: Was that on your line? A: Yes, up in drill and booster. Q: J:k) you happen to kn.cw heM that occurred? A: Yes, they was playin;J attmld.. See what they dane, they'd qet the shell and crimp the~to it. Well they got to playin;J around and taJ.kir.g and screamirq at one another ard he had one in the C'l1amber ard he shoved. another one in there am boy it just busted him right upagainst the wall. 'lb.ere was nct:h.irg left to him. 'lbat happened about ten miDJ:tes before I got there. I was on the night shift at that time. But outside of that we never had too much trouble. Q: Ikl you kn.cw who the man was that was killed? A: No, I did then but I oouldn't tell you who it is now, that's :been quite awhile. Q: Arxi that's the only serious injury you recall? A: '!hat's the only one, on the northside, now on the southside I don•t knew what happened there but we had one on the northside. Q: Now the northside, was it originally called the Bang'a11lon ordnance Plant or was it the oak Ol:dnanoe Plant. 3 A: oak, '\\'ell 8angamon was down on the southside. It was oak all the way, Johnson ani Johnson owned it ani that's who cont.rolled it. Q: Ani the southside, do you know' who owned it? A: Re.min:.Jton RaM. Q: Was there a consolidation of the two plants? A: Not that I know of. I know I was there for four or five mcnths after the plant closed. 'lhey kept us there, I don't know why but they did. Q: Just the supervisors? A: Yes, supervisors only. Q: What were you doi:rr;J du.rin;J that period? A: Not.hi.nq, not a tl1.in!,;r to do. In fact I quit ahead of time. I oouldnIt just starx:l around doin:] noth.irg• Q: Had they started to dismantle anyt:hirr;J durin;} that time? A: No, nothing While I was there. 'lhey did:n•t even take the loaders, we had loaders ani things ani they didn't even take them out. Q: Del you have a rough idea of about when that was that you are ta1Jd.nq about there? A: I would say about a year ani a half after I started there. Q: so you 'WOrked at the plant about haw len;;(? A: About a year and a half was a:bcut all. Q: What experience did you have that you had a supe.tVisor jab? A: '!hey had to have saoeone, that was it. weu there was about twenty of us picked and beinq I'd 'WOrked. in the bakery I was kin:i of a boss there ani I think that helped sane. I was Ilf;{ own boss and. I drove some of the fellows. Ooltside of that I didn•t k:nc:M anythin:;J a:bout 'lNI', it was all new to me. Q: I.b you think the experience at the plant helped you in Y'C"llr later 'WOrk after you left the plant? A: No, I went into the liquor business, I went into a tavern and then I got into a grocery store. No, it didn't help me a bit. I could have went with Johnson ani Johnson. we had a fellOW' that lived here by the name of Bob Sharp and he's with them right now. Q: so you had an offer to take a job with Johnson and. Johnson, what would you have been doin;J with them? A: I don't 1a'lc:M. But he's up there quite a ways, he has an airplane, don't know if he does f'lt.':M, but when he used to go see his :aart ln Aub.trn, the ccmpmy plane would take him d.atm there. Bob was all business, he was no layirg a.rcun:i al::lout him.. Yes, he took the chance of goin.;J. Q: NOW' you mentioned they picked. about twenty of you to l:le supervisors, we:t'9 all those men? A: Yes. Q: Do you know of any women that were any supervisory p:JSitions out there? 'Well nan: of them had gone to the Amy. A: I think Dora welch was the only one I knew. Q: were there a lot of women that llllDrked as employees? A: Oh yes, I'd say eighty percent of them 'Were wcmen. Very fw men, Q: You lived in Riverton while you lii!Drked at the plant? A: Yes. Q: were there a lot of others fran Riverton that went to the plant? A: Oh yes, quite a fa~. Q: I supposed there were people fran all aroun:i this area? A: Riverton, 'Well I would say at least twenty-five fran Riverton. Q: HeW' did you get fran here to the plant? A: I d:rt:Ma. Q: Is that the way that :DJSt of the pecple qat there? A: Yes, that was the only way to get there. '!he interu:.tban was running that way but I dan•t think nane of them took that. see since then, they cut that out. Q: SO the interu:.tban maybe brought people in fran sprirgfield an::l Decatur an::l went to the plant? All of your experiences at the plant was on the one line? A: No, th.inqs was slOW'irg dawn, so they had me pick out the ones that I would get rid of and they went on ahead and picked. them and sent them to line #3, they'd shut down line #4, so they sent them to line #3, I er.ded up with them.. It didn't last very lon;J and then they shut that one dawn. (pause) Q: At the time that you were employed, do you recall What your salarywas? 5 pretty 1lllCh stay on the eveninq shift the whole time you were there? A: I think it was aJ::CIJI'rl a luJrdred and five dollars a week. Q: was that for a forty-halr week? A: Yes, forty hours. Q: You mentioned earlier that you worked the evenirg shift. Did you A: No. Cl1 about two or three DDnths is all that I worked evenin;;rs and I went back on days. Q: was there any difference between the night shift and days. A: No. Q: Just general characteristics, anyt.h.inq that you preferred a1e or the other for? A: well the only reason I liked days was I had riders and at nights I was drivirg by myself. 'lhat was about the only thirg, outside of that there was no difference. Q: Were you granted sane k.ini of special ration card that you could get gas since you worked at the plant? A: No. Q: Gettirx;J gas wasn't a problem? A: It wasn't no problem, no. Q: Besides the lines that you worked on can you tell me sane of the other products that were made at the plant on different lines? A: No, Line #3 they was just assemblirg the shell we did on Line #8, so that was about the only thirg that I knew of. Q: Do you recall about 'What prcxiuction you had for say a given shift at the plant for your line? A: Cl1 I've forgot all that, we'd fill a l:xJxcar in about four days.We'd crate them and ever:yt:h.irg and in about four days we • d fill a l:Joxcar. Q: Hew l.azge a shell were these that you were loading, 75 millimeters you said? A: 'Itley were about that lorq. Q: About two feet la:g? How l11llCb would. they weigh a pieoa l:'OI..I;Jhly? A: <b, I'd say about fourteen or fifteen~. Nick Fanale, Sr. 6 Q: OJuld you go into detail fran begir'n'lin} to erd how a shell was made? A: well to start with in the melt roan they'd melt the 'lNI' ani then they'd pour it in the shell base~ '!hen as soon as it cooled off, they drilled it out, drill it so the threads would show' an:l then they'dship it up to our place arxi we had the bottan part that shells theman:l pxt ~in them ani the next assembly they'd put them together.I think I might have one of them here if I'm not mistaken. How in thehell I ever got it I don't know to this day. (pause) Q: Wc:W.d that have been a live shell? A: No, it was empty. Q: In the meltin:f process for the 'INI', was there any danger of explosion? A: Yes, yes see everything was rubber, even when they 'WOUld brirq itout they'd melt it into a rubber tub ani then they'd pour it into theshell, it was dan;erous. Q: It was made out of rubber so there watidn•t be an friction ani sparks? A: Yes. Q: '1he gunpoiNder that you menticmed at your end of the line, what didit go into? A: '1he base part, it's aluminum, well I said aluminum it's a brassbase, they'd fill that up an:l then we'd crin'p them together with a crin'ping machine. Q: 'Ihe part that the 'lNI' -went into, what part of the shell was that? A: 'lhat was the steel. Q: 'lhat was the war head or the en:1 that A: Yes, the tcp part, the part that wcu.l.d be where you'd put the fuseto. Yes, the brass bottan of that was about that big. Q: Abc:ut. a foot lon;j? A: Yes. Q: '1he part with the 'INI' in it watid be then the part that exploded on .inpact? A: Right. Q: What about priln:i.n;J, when it was pxt into the artillezy piecewould there be a prilner in the brass base? A: Yes, they'd have a regular prilller like in that brass, yes. 'lhe fuse is what made it explcx:ie actually0 Q: Did you ever have arrJ knowled:Je of where the shells you were maJdn;J e:rxied up? A: No, scmeone tells me sane of them never left the countt:y. 'Well a lot of them were stored over in them igloos, I don't know if you've ever seen them. '!here were a lot of them stored aver there. 'Ihey had rails goinq over there, I don't lalow if they've p.llled that stuff out or not, did they? am I'm not sure about Bomens. I knc:Jw the area where the Bord.ens' Q: Yes. A: or that oaul.d have been the city , Illiopolis was on the ball. Q: Of cc::JI.lrSe same of the buildin;Js l'lC7II are utilized by DeKalb, P!izer chemical plant is is ~of what the plant included but I don•t know that they have air:f buildin;Js or anyt:hi.rq that were used by the plant. A: Oh, Illiopolis is still buyin;J water fran Borden aren't they? Q: I'm not certain, I know that there is an arrargement one way or another that Illiopolis utilizes the wells that were drilled for the plant I believe. Do you know anyt:hi.rq about that? A: Yes. Q: How :many wells were there, do you kna.rl? A: I think there was foor. see and they had their own fire department up there too. Ani Illicp:Jlis didn't ern up with air:! of them fireplugs or anything. I can't figure it out. Q: Do you know where the plant had it1s own sewer system? A: '1hsy had it but rrM it was further south. I think there•s am where Bordens are at I think they all went into one big sewer plant. Q: '!here's a structure just off the Mt. Pulaski blacktcp about where I.ogan county line is, just off to the east side of the Mt. Pulaski blacktop and it looks to me like it might have sane function as a holdirg tank or sanet:hirg. Do you know What that would have been? A: 'lbere wasn't any there when I was there. Because we sanetiJnes went out that way to care out up here at 54 fran Illiopolis am I don't rememb=>.r anyt:hi.rq em that. see there's foor lines up there all of them were nine tenths of a mile long I think it was. Q: What were the names of those lines? A: Line A, B, C, an:i D. Ia.l was em line A. Q: were those lines all for the manufacture of artillezy shells? 8 A: Yes. Q: Did you ever get to go on the south side of 36? A: No. Q: Yaur security clearance or whatever was just for the north side. A: You cc:W.dn't get in on the south, no. Q: Am they couldn•t get in on the north? A: No, neither one. Did you ever talk to Dorothy? Q: I'm acquainted with her, I didn't realize that she had worked there. A: Yes, she worked there. Q: NC711, see her ard her husbard1s lard • • • A: She never did get married. Q: 'Ibis n:ust be someone else then. Jack was who I was thirik.in;J of. A: Jack, that aint' the same outfit. Jack is related to Ikn:'othy but he didn't work there. Q: His lard was part of it. A: I don't think Jack had any fam up there. Q: Maybe it was after the war that he had the lard because he definitely fanned it. A: It was Adam Welch ard them but Ikn:'othy, well Jack might have had sane grcur.d. But he didn't work at the plant. Q: What were you goixg to say about Dozothy? A: She worked there, on line #A. Q: What was her pcsition? A: Just a regular, down at the drill and booster, where they pan:ed the 'lNl'. Add.!~ Agnew, she worked down there too. Q: WhereIS she fran? A: Riverton. Q: Is she still alive? A: Yes, in fact I talked to her t:oaay. She had a bunch of books, she said she just burned. them. But she worked there. Merle Burcb she died. I.ew'is, he was a foreman out there. He was a foreman on whe:re they melted 'lNl'. Q: Wer:e there a lot of minorities that worked at the plant? A: No. Q: were there arrJ minorities that wrked at the plant? A: Not that I lcr'lcM of. Q: What kin:i of facilities did they have for the mployees, if any? A: well I don't know' what yaJ. mean. Q: Did they have a cafeteria? A: at, w had a helluva big cafeteria. Q: What was it like? A: It was real gocxi, they served hot ll.'eal.s. Q: Now did you have to leave your line to go to that cafeteria? A: Down a ranp that led yaJ. right to the cafeteria. Which it was off of the ranp that w wa1ksd in, so I guess if it exploded or saneth.inqit wouldn't qet them. Blit they p.It out a real good meal ani then a1 holidays ani stuff, they'd always have scae Jd.rXl of entertainment for us. Q: Do you 1'el'lleDiber arrJ big name stars that came fran the plant? A: No. Q: 'D1e en:t.e:rtairmle was mainly just local talent? A: Yes, local, right. Guy by the :name of Sh.inski, he was a boxer, he put on a colored fellCIW by the name of Jcimson. Q: What about other facilities, did they have medical facilities? A: at, yes, they had a real good, they had blo or three nurses ani a Cloctor that was there all the time. Each line had their own. Q: How many people WJJ:'ksd on a line? A: at, I'd say about blo 1:lun:ired ani sane on each line. Q: Each shift? A: Each shift, yes. Q: Did they usually n:m blo shifts or did they n:m three saoetimes? .. 10 Nick Fanale, Sr. A: n~o shifts. 'lhe had a rough time qettirg enc::JU9h for two shifts. see 11.01t of the :people were gone. Q: At anytime did you ever krlc:M how many people worked in the whole plant, both sides? A: No. Q: was there ever aey llDV'E!lDel'1t "tc7tlard a fm:ma.tion of a union for the employees? A: It was never mentioned. Q: Why do you suppose that was? A: Cll, I couldn't figure it out, I suppose everybody t:llolJ:3ht it was scmathing for the country am they didn•t care what went on. Nobody ever said anyt:hi.rJ;J about -worki.n;r cxniitions. Q: I:b you think that the salaries were high enc::JU9h that they weren't interested in tcyin3' to get m:>re? A: '!hey were high, yes. It was good pay. A union was never mentioned in all the time I was there. Q: What do you feel the .i:npact of the plant airl the war in general had on family life? A: well I don't know, I really couldn't tell you on that. Q: What about the mnnber of wanen that left the haDe am went into the workplace, many of them for the first time. Did you see aey oonoerns with that? A: I think it wasn't a very good idea because the kids were rll1'U'lin:1 loose am a lot of them kids got into traJble, I remember that real plain. '!here was nobody at h.aae when they'd get hane fran school am it wasn't a very good idea• Q: Did they have aey daycare facilities at the plant for the wanen workers? A: No. Q: How about aey recreation for the E!Dployees? A: No recreation. Q: was there a softball league? A: we didn't have any. Q: was there any housirq on the plant? Nick Fanale, Sr. A: Ch, yes for the main officials only, like on the northside up there let's see, where 'Wall.d that be f'Oit? '!hat would he • • • Q: WOUld he on Dye Road? A: Yes, they was oh I'd say al:xJut twenty hanes. Q: Who lived there? was that officers am the war department? A: Yes, officers. Q: People that worked on the line didn't live in that h.alsin;J? A: No, well two of the big shots, but they never worked d.own the line, they were in the office. '!he rest of them were all the big shots, Al:my outfit ani evecyt:hin;J. Q: Did they have any doJ::mitories on the northside? A: No. Q: was there overtime work? A: Yes, there was a lot of overtime. Q: WOUld that be four extra hours or • A: JUst regular time, there wasn't no overtime, like if you worked forty-four hours, you'd get paid for forty-four hours. Q: I mean hew :much per day, if instead of the eight hour day would you work a twelve-hour or a si.x'teen-hour day? A: A twelve-hour day. Q: So you'd work an extra half a shift. Bei.rg a supervisor was that your official jcb title? Did you have much paperwork to do? A: No. Q: Mainly you were involved with the direct supervision? A: 'Ihat's right. Q: were you responsible for trainirg the new ercployees? A: I'd always have saneone, yes, I'd get saneone to do it for me you krlow. We didn•t get too many new aleS. I knc::M I didn•t have over ten or twelve new aleS in all the tiJne I was there. 8eemed like they all stu.ck it cut ani they all 'WOrked eveeyday too. Q: So there was very few people that quit? A: Right. Nick Fanale, Sr. Q: And absenteeism was nat a problem? A: No. Q: was the general health of the workers good? A: Yes, real good. Q: NC7.r1 you mentioned with the cxmtact with the 'lNI', do you know what problems could be caused by that over-exposure to it? A: Cb, sane people got it in their blood. I know~ lOOther-in-law, her man had it in her blood and she had a rough time. Q: was it sanet:hi.n:J that eventually went away? A: Yes. Q: Was there medical treatment for it? A: No, there was not:hirg they could give them for it. Q: If you got that prd:>lem did you have to leave the plant? A: No, they kept workin;J, it didn't stop then. Hell they -were as yellC7.rl as this paper. Q: What was the synpt:at&, other than the yellowness? A: '!hat was about all. Q: '!here wasn•t any nausea? A: No, nobody ever got sick or anyt:hirg. Q: In tenus of the plant management, you -were in charge of a line? A: Part of a line. Q: '!ban how many supervisors would there be on a line? A: Dawn in reoeivin;J I think there was two and in drill and booster it was four, up to the final assemly there was two and out in the boxcars there was two. '!here wasn•t too many. Q: And you -were the a'll.y one in your section? A: Right. Q: '1ban aver these line supervisors in the individual stages, was there an overall supervisor? A: No. Q: so the line was actually nm ·by the people there in the workplace. Nick Fanale, Sr. A: 'lhe main office fellows, they never did cane down. Q: What about the militaey, did they make inspections of the line? A: Not while I was there, I never did see any cane in. Q: Never saw any militaey people, what about war department employees? A: once in awhile you'd see one, yes. Q: OJ you remember any awaros that were 'Won by the plant employees for their efforts? A: No, I think down in drill ard booster I think they did, they had BaDe kirxi of a prize for puttirq out so many shells a day ard then they cut it out because it was darJ;JeralS because they was hyi.rg to hurry ard they CXJUld have blowed. up the whole place ard they cut it out right away. Q: Where was the 'INI' stored at? A: sane of that was stored in the igloos, I ilnagine Il¥:lSt of it was. Q: was that brought in by rail or tJ:uck? A: Rails, I don't even remember big trucks oc::mi.rg in there. Q: All of the outpit of the plant was shipped by rail? A: EveJ:yth.i.rq came in by rail ard went out by rail, yes. Q: '!hey had a lot of spJr lines that ran off of the main tracks? A: Yes, quite a few. Q: Were you out at the plant in the years before it got into operaticn ard it was umer construction? A: No. Q: Did you ever drive by there? A: No. Q: OJ you hava tm:f knowledge of how the lard was acquired for the plant? ArtJ stories of farmers who lost their fanns? A: Welch, they lost their farm with the lll'Kierst.an:i that after the war was aver with ani they dismantled, they got it all back. 'Iha.t was the cmly people I knew ard I knew them real good. Q: What about the attitude of the CCil'll'llll1ity of Illiopolis, do you know of anythi.n;, did you get into town ard talk to any of the people there duri.rg your tilne at. the plant? .., 14 Nick Fanale, Sr. A: I used to go up there and eat but nobody ever did say anything. Q: What effect do you think the plant had on Illiopolis? A: It didn't help it any. 5cared a lot of people, they were scare:l. Q: BecaUse of the ~of the 'IN!'? A: Yes. Q: What about growth? A: It didn't grt711 at all, I don't think it's doin;J that tcday, I don't know' if you've been arc:mxi there lon;J enough to see what's going on. What few hanes they built oa:nin:J in off of 36 or 72 :now is about all they built up there. I don•t know' of anything else, I was up there about a m:mth. ago to a wake up there and that's the only hanes I've seen up there. Q: Had you been to Illiopolis before you started workin;J at the plant? A: Ch yes, I bought tires off of • • • Q: GraVes? A: No before Graves, Henjricks. Q: was that the Ford dealer in Illiopolis? A: Yes, he was right upt:a,m there. (pause) Q: Nick, I wanted to ask about the preserce of sane black militaJ:y t.roqs on the plant for about a week or two 'Weeks, they were involved in a shell han:lling operation where they were learnin:J to safely han:ile live anm.mition, do you recall that? A: No, nat while I was there, nat:hin;J like that went on. Q: It's possible that it occurred on the southside? A: Yes, it oould have been. Q: I did research that and fini evidence that there were sc:ane black troops actually bivouacked on the plant grourDs, but again it could haVe been the southside. I've been trying to fin:l sc:anebody that knows about it. A: I don't think a:rt:f of them fran Rivertcn worked on the southside. Q: we•ve talked about security earlier, was the plant fenced in? A: Ch yes. Q: What type of fencin;J did they use? Nick Fanale, sr. A: Real high, with barbed wire fence, you knc:Jw. Q: were there security patrols? A: Ch yes, they had them, quite a few of them. Q: Haw did they get arcRll'Xi the plant? A: car. Q: Did you ever see a:ey horseback 1'ID.D'lted security? A: Yes, they had sane. Q: 'What about guam dogs? A: No, not that I krlc:w of. Yes, they had plenty of guan1s around there. Q: Do you remember a:ey p.Jblicity at the national level that the Illiopolis plant received? Were there nany reporters that came to the plant to tour the facility? A: Not while I was there, no. Q: What about government officials? A: sane, very few. Q: o:n;,ressman? A: No. Q: state officials? A: No, just officers, army officers. Q: so there -were no politicians that toured the plant that you krlc::M of? A: No, you'd have a helluva tiioe tcyirx:J to get in that place, they was pretty strict. Q: Do you have a:ey experiences of thirx:Js that happened to you that you1d like to relate? Any stories, anusirx:J or thirx:Js that you feel were of interest? A: No. Q: WCUl.d you characterize the· jab then as all business? A: '!hat's it. '!hey scared you into that when you got hired in. No playirx:J arcR.D'Xi, it was all business. If you didn't krlcM when you'd nake the wrorg nove, you c:x:W.d kill a bunch of pecple that way. No, Nick Fa:nale, Sr. 16 it was all business. I krxw it was with me am I was glad. to get outof there I '11 tell you. Q: Do you know' of anya1e that had any difficulties of copin;J with thestress? A: No. Q: What kini of safety t.rainin:J did the employees receive? A: '!here wasn't too DlllCh.. well the main thirqs they give you there was no playin;J aram:i, that was the main thirg ani you had to be careful every m:we you made, outside of that there was nothi.rg else. Q: Did you have to wear unifcmns? A: Yes. Q: What did that consist of? A: White coveralls-like. Q: Were you :responsible for laumerin:J those? A: No, they did, they done all that. Q: so they had a lal.ll'rlry facility? A: Oh yes, they had a nice one there. '!hey signed them cut to us ani we signed them back into them. Q: What kini of mrale boostin;J was done by the plant management? A: we didn•t get to see them. Q: Did they have any type of lxni sale carrpaigns where you could p.JrChase 1::Jcnjs or anythirq? A: No, they never did do that. wait a minute I bought sane :bonjs upthere. '!hey had a sheet goin;J arouni for anybody that wanted them, yes, I l:'eiiiBlb!r that l'lCM am I bought sane out of there. Q: What about posters arxi t.hin;Js that were there for boostin;J mrale ani ~safety, do you remember seein;J a lot of that? A: Yes, safety stuff. Q: NCM was that on the line itself or was that in the cafeteria? A: In the cafeteria ani when you clocked in they had them in therebut nothi.rg down the line. Q: was there DDJ.Ch anti-GenDan arxt anti-Japanese prc:paqar.da-type posters? Nick Fanale, Sr. A: No, not that I knc:M of. Q: so they didn't really need them? A: No. (pause) Q: Nick, what were the security procedUres when you left the plant? A: well when you clocked cut, you'd drive cut the gates ani they would check your car. 'lb.ey'd cp!Tl the trunk of your car ani look in ani see if there was anythin;J you'd took. 'lb.ey caught a lot of them. Q: What happened if you were caught? A: I don't know what they ever done with them. Q: were they fired? A: Cll yes, they were fired l:ut that was one un:1erst.an:iin that I had with the guys that rode with me, l'lOthin:J. It got to the p::~int they krlew when I came by that they 'Wel.'el'l't too strict with us because I wculdn't let them pit l'lOthin:J in their pockets. Q: Mostly pecple ta:Jdrq tools ani thirJ;Js? A: Mostly tools, I've heard of them even ta:Jdrq drills hane, these big drills, take them apart ani take them piece by piece. '!here was a lot of stuff, I'd like to have in 1'ID'J.eY what they stole up there which they dale. '!hey couldn't keep up with them guys, especially when -we were clockfn:J cut ani -we'd go dCMl there about twenty cars behind us they'd tey to be real close 1:ut they oouldn't. Q: so the main thing you think they were chec:ki.rg for was the steali.rq of various tools ani thirJ;Js like that, not the cmm.mition itself? A: Mostly tools ani stuff because there was saoe valuable tools up there. Q: Do you think there were many people that tried to get any live ammunition out of the plant? A: Not that I know of, I don't know what the hell they wculd do with it. Q: seans like that would l:e a dargerals practice. I just woniered if there was many that tried. What ·kin:l of tools did you have anyway? A: Ch, they had electric drills, they had electric saws ani all, there was a maintenan:::e crew workirJj up there all the tilne. All durirq the tilDe -we was workirJj there, there was always sc:methi.rq had to be dane. Yes, they had saoe real good tools. Q: Now' the line that you worked on, what tools were used in the step of shell.maki.nq that you were involved with? Nick Fanale, Sr. 18 A: Nale of our own stuff. Q: SCIDe type of machine that TNCUld cr.inp the shells? A: Yes, just the big crin'pers is all. Q: What kin:i of crates did they pack these shells in? A: Wooden crates abrut two ani a half inch wood ani they'd have two eJXIs on them. You could see the shells, the crates wasn't solid. Q: A: Well we didn't prt: the fuse on it. Q: It was separate? A: Yes, then later on they'd cane up p.Itt.in;J the fuse on am then we lost a safety spri.rg on them ani we had to brirg back two or threeboxcars that didn't have that safety sprirg ani fran then on they wenton ahead and pushed them through a:rrjWay. Q: Did you ever find the me that didn•t have a safety sprin;J? A: No. Q: What would have ha.l:Pened if that was used? A: If saneone WOJl.d have hit it sane way it would have blew the wholedamn th.in3' up. Q: But when it was used by the soldiers in the artilleey then? A: 'Ihey1d Pll.l the sprirg out of it. Q: So it walldn•t have affected the use of it, it would have justbeen in transportirg and such. so withcut that safety spr~ thenthey would have been ~.As lorq as the safety spr~ was inthere was there 1lllCh. darqar that they could they explode? A: No that fuse couldn't do anyt:hin;J without that pin pll.led out. Q: So if they were hit or anyt:hin;J it wouldn't do anyt:hin;J as lorq as the Safety sprin:J was there. What part of the shell was that safetysprirg in? A: In the fuse. Q: ArXl that went on top? A: Right on the nose of it, yes. Q: 'Ihat would be the catalyst for ignitin;J the 'lNl' ani the projectile? A: Right. Q: Is this artillery shell saoewhat similar to a rifle bullet or a rifle cartridqe in the sense that it had brass with powder in it and. a primer and. then the bullet fran a rifle 'WOUld not explode, blt these artillery shells 'WOUld explode, is that right? A: Yes. Q: was the:r:e art:/ effort to caution the erployees a1::x'lut secrecy? A: No, not that I know' Of. Q: You cruld 90 out and. say pretty lllllCh whatever you wanted to anybody? A: I guess you ccW.d. Q: You never had anybody tell you not to? A: No. It did seem funny that we ccW.d. 90 out and. if w wanted. to talk about it we cruld do it. You wculd never know' who you were taJ.ld.rg to. Q: 'lha.t seems st.ra:r:J:1e in the sense that the iqloos, -we:ren't theycamcuflaqed? A: Yes. Q: What do you suppose that ca:na.tflagin;J, the main :purpose of it was? A: 'Ib keep saneone fran bombin;J it. Q: Flyin;J over and. bombirr;J it? Do you suppose the way that those igloos were C8.11Dlflaged rardered. them urdet.ect:able fran the air? A: P.r."abably was, yes. Q: Have you ever flC'.IWll over the a:r:ea of the plant? A: No. Q: Ma:r7¥ of the igloos am still C811Dlf1aged., blt there are a fa~ that have had all the dirt and. veqetatiat stripped. off of them. A: I know' welch, they USE!Cl it for hogs and. stuff. In fact he offered me cna of them to p.rt:, like I ccW.d have bought a.wies pretty cheap. see the ta•r;ature I t.hink was ally about eight or nine degreesd.iffera:x:a summer and. winter. 'lbey really built those tl:rl.rgs.I've fatgOtten hew 1IIJC:h money each cna of them CXlSt the qcwemment. Q: Do you have an idea? A: No. . ""';.·~ ' . Nick Fanale, Sr. 20 Q: was it hundreds of thc:usan:ls? A: Oh yes ani I think two or three boxcars of shells oculd store in them. Yes, it cost them quite a bit bit I've forgot heM much it was. Q: How thick are the walls on those? A: '!hat I oculdn't tell you. I never did get close to one. I wanted to go up to one when Adam welch talked to me about them bit I never did. see the government give them all their groun:1 back. Q: Hew' thick were the walls in the assenhly line that you worked on? A: Assembly line? I wcW.d say there about twenty-four inches protection. Q: was that concrete? A: Yes, all four, they are still up I think. Q: were there a:ey walls that separated the various stages of production that in case an accident. oocurred in one the workers mightbe protected? A: Yes, each one of them had their am wall protection. Q: so the interior walls were twenty-four inches and what about the exterior walls. A: 'Ihey were not:hinq bit masonite. Q: Was there a:ey effort made to direct an explosion in the sense if an explosion occurred it wcW.dn't hann anymore workers than was necessaey? Ern of Side One, Tape One Q: we were ta1k:inj' about the walls ani the oonstruction of the buildin;J. A: 'Blat was masa'li.te. Fach bui1din;;r had a ranp that you'd cane up to yours drill ani booster an::l you'd go onto a ranp. Oh I'd say it was four ln.1rm'ed feet maybe more than that and then you'd cane into final assembly, they had big twenty-four inch walls. In fact when this bullet went off it didn't even tOuch that wall at all, it justsplattered that fellow up against it is all. Q: so the only person injured was the man right there with the shell? A: Right, it just shove that shell right in there. Q: were there other workers in the same department with him? A: Yes, let's see there was six, ah there 'WOUld be al:Jout fourteen of them in here. Q: Were there any injuries besides his? A: No, that was the only one. Q: Seems like that would be a pretty loud explosion am you say youjust mjssed. that by ten minutes? A: Yes, I wasn't wor~, I came in on the sec::x:nj shift, ani this happened right before quittirq time. Q: You wouldn't have been in that particular c:::cupartment aeyway because that was a different section? A: No, that's the section. Q: Oh, the section you supervised. A: Yes, that was it. Q: Who was the supervisor of that section in the ather shift besides the one you had, do you know who he was? totally his mishanllhg of the shell? A: No, I don't know. Q: Did he retain his jab after this accident? A: It was just horseplayin; arourrl is what they done. Q: so the blame largely was placed on the man who was killed'? It was A: 'Ihey had been told about playhg arouni an:l talkin:J because you never know when you are goi.rg to ·do sanet.hin:J like that and it happened. '!hat's the only fellC711 we lost. Now south I think lost SCIDB. Q: so they basically didn't want you to talk at all? A: Well you had a jab to do ani that was the thirJ;J. You had one girlcheck to see if the safety sprirg was in there and all that stuff like that. Q: By the way how did they detect that that safety sprin;J was missirg? A: '!bey fourxi it down on the floor. 'Ihat happened a1 the day shift. We had to :r;:W.l air stuff back in instead of shiR.Jin;J it azt. '!hey had to take them out of the boxcar ani brin;J it back in am uncrate them. '!hat was the only way they could check them was uncrati.n;J them. Q: Did you have sare kim of breaks, like a fifteen mimite coffee break durirq the work shift? 22 A: Yes. Q: Did you take it on the line or did you leave the line? A: 'lhey'd go down to the cafeteria. BaDe of them 'Wt:W.dn't go down to the cafeteria, they'd go outside. IJllere is doors about every twentyfeet I think it was and you ccW.d go Qltside, out there in the grass or whatever you wanted to do. Q: Was the're llll1Cb ~of arw fire da.'D)er fran an explosion or would it just mainly be the shrap1el? A: 'Itlere was none. Q: No fire da:r:ger? A: No. 0awn in whel:e they melt the 'lN1' I :i.magine that wall.d havebeen. If you'd ever get that t:hi:rq l:lumin;J you'd be in plenty of t.:ralble. Q: Do you knc::w whether they limited the anamt of 'lN1' they oculd havein the melting area at one time? A: No. It was quite a bit I'd say and I :lmaqine they'd hold abc:nt twenty gallons, rubber tubs, they were en wheels. Q: SO a twent:y--gal.lon rubber tub, hew' :many of those rubber t:u:bs wculd they have? A: I'd say at least fifteen or twenty of them. up there at all times,pc:m-in} than. Q: Now if that SCiliBhow had been ignited. 'WD.lld that have bla.m thetmole build.irq up? A: '!bat I oculdn't tell you really. It blms. Q: so it walld have been a fire rather than an explosion you think? A: Yes. Q: Haw did they melt this 'lN1'? A: In vats, they had steam vats. Q: '1be.re wasn't any fire directly r:ear it? Nozml.ly 'lN1' oaaes in a solid state? A: Yes. Q: Atx1 by heatirg it with the steam that would liquify it? A: Yes, in these vats that they had. Q: '!batf s so that they oculd pour it into these Shells? 23 Nick Fanale, Sr. A: Yes. Q: Is there anyt:h.inJ else that you would like to say about your experiences at the plant, or anyt:h.inJ that you recall that you'd like to tell? A: Not that I knc:M of. Q: I awreciate your time ani you have told me sane t.hin3s that I can use in rey research. '!hank you. Erxi of Side Two, Tape One
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|Fanale, Nick J. Sr. - Interview and Memoir
Sangamon Ordinance Plant, Illiopolis (Ill.)
World War, 1939-1945--Homefront
|Fanale, a Riverton resident, discusses his employment as supervisor at the Sangamon Ordnance Plant in Illiopolis during WWII, and recalls accidents at the plant, transportation, buildings, plant employees, working hazards, storage igloos, and plant security.
|Fanale, Nick J. Sr. b. 1916
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|Oral History Collection, Archives/Special Collections, University of Illinois at Springfield
|McCarthy, B. David [interviewer]
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|Oral History Collection of the University of Illinois at Springfield
|Nick J. Fanale, Sr. Memoir
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|© Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. For permission to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise use this material, please contact: Archives/Special Collections, University of Illinois at Springfield, One University Plaza, MS BRK 140, Springfield IL 62703-5407. Phone: (217) 206-6520. http://library.uis.edu/archives/index.html
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Nick J. Fanale, Sr. Memoir
F212. Fanale, Nick J. Sr. b. 1916 Interview and memoir 1 tape, 54 mins., 26 pp.
Fanale, a Riverton resident, discusses his employment as supervisor at the Sangamon Ordnance Plant in Illiopolis during WWII, and recalls accidents at the plant, transportation, buildings, plant employees, working hazards, storage igloos, and plant security.
Interview by B. David McCarthy, 1989 OPEN See collateral file
Archives/Special Collections LIB 144
University of Illinois at Springfield
One University Plaza, MS BRK 140
Springfield IL 62703-5407
© 1989, University of Illinois Board of Trustees
'!his manuscript is the product of a series of tape-recorded intel:views cxn:iucted by B. David McCarthy for the Oral History Office, Sarga.l\¥:m state university in the fall of 1989. M8J:9aret Reeder also transcribed the tapes ani Kay Johansen edited the transcripts.
Nick J. Fanale, Sr., was hom October 13, 1916 in Riverton, Illinois where he has lived his entire life. Mr. Fanale recently closed his grocery store in Rivertal ani is retired. He remains active in carm.mity affairs ani serves on l'1Ul11erOUS boards of directors for area banks. Our~ lt:rld war II, Mr. Fanale was a supervisor at the 8an;;lanD'l Onmanoe Plant near Illiopolis, Illinois.
B. tavid ~wasbom ani raised in central Illinois, where he eamed a BA in history in 1976 fran western Illinois University. He has been errployed as a teacher at Illiopolis am #12 since his graduation. Mr. McCarthy recently oc:arpleta:i his MA degree at Bargamon state university in history. His thesis topic was the 8argamon onmance Plant. He is married ani the father of three children.
Readers of the oral history memoir should bear in mind that it is a transcript of the spoken wom, an:i that the interviewer, narrator am editor scnght to preserve the infonnal., conversational style that is inherent in such historical sources. 8argamon state university is not responsible for the facblal aocuracy of the memoir, nor for views expressed therein; these are for the reader to judge.
'lhe manuscript may be read, quoted ani cited freely. It may not be reproduce;i in whole or in part by arti means, electronic or mechanical, without permission in writirg fran the Oral History Office, 8argamon state university, Sprin;Jfield, Illinois 62794-9243.
Table of contents
Plant Enployment • • • • • 1 Accidents. • 2 Transportation • • 4 Procedure for Buildin;J Shells. 6 'lhe water System • • 7 Plant Employees. 8 Food ani Entertainment • 9
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Thinking is like waves on the surface of consciousness, and the question is to know the depth. You can go on chasing the waves, you will not attain to anything. Your life will be a sheer wastage.
But why does man go on thinking? When it is a question of getting into one's own being, why does he keep clinging to the surface? It is out of fear; depth needs courage. You will have to dive deep. Who knows what there is in the depth? You may disappear, you may not be able to come back again, you may melt. And the depth is dark, very dark. On the surface there is light, and on the surface there are many people just like you; you are not lonely. In the depth you will be alone. The deeper you go the more alone you will be. At the very center of your being there is just aloneness and nothing else. There you cannot take your friends, crowds, people. Unless one is ready to go on this lonely pilgrimage, one continues thinking.
Thinking is a substitute, a substitute for something which is totally different -- deepening. Thinking needs talents, deepening needs only courage. In the world of thinking you can prove your ego very easily. If you are articulate, a little logical, cunning, clever, calculating, you can become a great man.
But in the depth no talent is needed; all that is needed is immense courage to be alone. [….]
We remain on the periphery, and the center is not far away, and you have not to travel long to reach the center. It can happen this very moment -- because it is your center. You may be keeping your back to it; just a hundred-and-eighty-degree turn and it is there. It has always been there, but you have not yet gathered enough courage to face yourself. So you get involved in so many things: in relationships, in business, in power politics, in ambitions. You go on getting involved in something or other just to avoid one single fact -- and that is you. This creates a double-bind. Because you are avoiding yourself you start creating a false self. One cannot live without a self; at least a nominal self, a nominal center is needed, otherwise you will fall apart, into pieces. Because you avoid the real self you have to create a false self; that is the ego.
The ego is a make-believe illusion, but very utilitarian. It gives you some idea of your being centered, although that idea is very chaotic. The ego cannot really give you the idea of being centered, although that idea is very chaotic, the ego cannot really give you the feeling of being centered. In the first place it is only a combination of many opinions that have been expressed about you by others. Somebody has said you are very great and somebody has condemned you. Now both the ideas are there. Somebody has said you are beautiful and somebody has said that you are ugly; now both the ideas are there.
Your ego is a patchwork: all the opinions that have been expressed about you, good and bad, favorable, unfavorable, are collected there. Out of these ideas you have created a kind of person in your mind, an image: "Who am I?" This image is very hodge-podge; that's why your life remains a chaos, a mess. And because this image has come from the outside, from people who don't know your center -- can't know your center, because even you don't know your center, how can they? it is always something which is opposite to your real center -- you become two persons instead of one. You become a duality. You are something and you believe yourself to be something else. You do one thing; you think you are doing it because of this motivation, but there is some other motivation of which you are completely unaware. You can never become integrated. You will go on becoming more and more schizophrenic.
I have heard...
There is a story about a spinster who had a habit of checking under the bed to see if it was safe to go to sleep. For years she went through this ritual of checking to make sure nobody was hiding there. After many years of doing this, one day she looked and, lo and behold, there was a man hiding under her bed.
She screamed from excitement and said, "So finally you are here! "
On the surface you are one thing, in the depths just the opposite. On the surface you may be a saint, in the depth a sinner. On the surface you may be very moral and deep down you may be carrying all kinds of immoral desires. On the surface you may look always very happy, smiling, and deep down you may be just despair and nothing else.
This distance goes on growing and becomes bigger and bigger as you grow in life and in experience. By the time you die you don't die as one man, you die as a crowd. The child is born as a single individual, but by the time he is eighty and ready to die, certainly he will be two persons. More possibility is that he will be more than two -- three, four, five, six, ten -- nobody knows. He can be a crowd.
You just watch yourself and you will not find a single self in you but many selves. You are multi-psychic, you have many minds, and each mind is fighting with your other minds. There is great competition inside, continuous quarrel. And in that quarrel, in that conflict, you are dissipating energy; and when you dissipate energy in constant civil war you lose zest for life. You lose all possibilities to be ecstatic, you lose joy.
The Secret, # 70
Truth has to be discovered by everybody in his own being. You are truth! "[….] But how can you declare this unless you have reached to the very core of your being? Because we ask such questions, we are supplied with answers.
There is one economic law: wherever there is a demand there will be a supply. Ask a stupid question and you will get a thousand and one stupid answers. [….]
The only right and religious question is one: that is, who am I? Because nobody can answer it, that's why it is the only valid question -- only you can answer it. Nobody can say who you are, only you; and you too only when you go deep into yourself, beyond all the labels that are sticking on your surface: that "I am a doctor", that "I am an engineer", that "I am a businessman", that "I am a professor"; that "I am a Christian", that "I am a Hindu", that "I am a Catholic" or a communist, socialist; that "I am Indian", or German or Japanese.
When you start penetrating all these labels that have been stuck on you -- they are many, layers upon layers; if, you throw away one layer of labels you will find another layer of labels there -- you will have to peel all these labels off. Man has become almost like an onion: you have to peel all the layers off, and then only one day you reach to the center. That center is nothingness. Sufis call it fana: all is gone, all that you had believed in, all that you had trusted in, all those labels gone. You are no more a Hindu and no more a Mohammedan. You are no more a communist, no more a socialist. You are no more this or that -- neti-neti, neither this nor that. You have abandoned all those labels. You are not even a man or a woman, because consciousness cannot be man or woman. You are neither white nor black, because that is only the pigment in the body. You are not the body either. Why? -- because you can be conscious of the body. I can see my hand; that means the seer must be separate from the seen. I can observe my thoughts, so I am not my thoughts. I can watch my feelings, so I am not my feelings either. You go on, "I am not this thing, I am not that thing." You go on and on, then a moment comes: all things have been dropped. You are a no-thing; that means nothing.
Nothing is not a state of emptiness. Remember, nothing is not a state of emptiness, nothing simply means no-thing. You are a consciousness, not a thing. And the consciousness cannot be reduced to anything whatsoever. It is irreducible. The consciousness cannot be made an object, it always remains your subjectivity. The deeper you go, the deeper you will find it is standing beyond and beyond and beyond. It is always the beyond, the transcendental.
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SFI interviewed a number of current and former employees of the firm for informational purposes and then analyzed the emails of the employees of interest as part of its investigation to identify the author of the anonymous letters. During the review, SFI found several noteworthy emails that indicated that a former employee of the firm had an extreme dislike for a certain department head. The emails further revealed that the former employee had non-public knowledge of a current medical condition of the target of the emails. Using patented software, WarmTouch, which is available exclusively at Stroz Friedberg, SFI was able to assess the intentions, personality characteristics, psychological state, decision-making preferences, and risk posed by the author, based on the electronic communications. This investigation of the suspected author enabled us to determine the threat level to the target. Upon conclusion of the threat assessment, SFI interviewed the former employee, who provided a full admission to SFI, including her explanation for sending the anonymous letters. SFI's evaluation of the author determined that the target of the letters was not in any physical danger. The author of the anonymous letters agreed to cease sending any further correspondence to the target and, as of today, has kept to her agreement.


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This weekend, three videos showing gameplay from a developer build of Battlefield 3 on Xbox 360 were leaked to YouTube. While the videos were quickly pulled by EA, developer DICE has spoken out about the leak.
"When we show our games we are very proud of what we're doing. We always want to show it in the best light. We want to show the product as good as possible," DICE general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson told Eurogamer. "Watching the game in crappy 320x200 resolution on YouTube is not the way that we want people to experience the game."
To date, the only footage DICE has released of the console build of Battlefield 3 was shown on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon back in June.
"We always want to show a platform that we have chosen to be our lead platform. In this case we did choose PC as the lead platform; it's the one that has been, mostly, driving development forward," Troedsson said. "People shouldn't worry. We play the 360 and the PS3 version every day in the office. I don't expect people to be disappointed by this."
When footage of the game running on a console is ultimately released, Troedsson would rather have gamers see it through official channels.
"Wait for us to show it in its real HD glory," he said. "There are a lot of hard hours that have gone into this from the team, and naturally we're disappointed [by the leak]. But, yeah, things happen."
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Having been a solo woman traveler already, I realize that my fears for this second attempt are actually quite different that the first time around.
The first time I was getting on the road, I feared for my safety.
But… I learned that people in the world are predominantly friendly, safe, and helpful. I realized I had been brainwashed by all the violent and fear-filled entertainment coming from my TV and other media. That fear was an illness that I had to shake off. I was angry that I had been so duped!
The first time, I also feared for my comfort. I was afraid to be out of my quiet, separate, and climate controlled home.
But… I learned that being warm when it is warm and cool when it is cool connects me with the world in a way that energizes me.In my house, I slept with a box fan to obliterate any disturbing noises. In my RV, I woke up early to the sounds of bugs chirping in the darkness… only to slowly quiet down as I'd hear the beginnings of birds singing with the rising of the sun. (I miss those morning sounds the most!)
This time, I fear different things.
The first time, I was leaving the conventional world to live on the road, among other nomads.
This time, I am still going to eschew materialism and conventional housing, but remain embedded in the conventional world with my work, my school, and my social life.
I am not afraid for my safety. I am not afraid of being exposed to the vagaries of the natural world.
I am afraid of what people will think.
Kind of sad, huh?
I am afraid my potential employer will wonder about my strange van. I am afraid my family, with the half-million dollar houses, will be embarrassed by me. I am afraid people will question my competence as a mother.
I've made my decisions and know what I want and need to do. I need to opt out of this crazy, rat-race materialism.
But I am still afraid!
It surprised me when I realized that today.


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A. Microsoft released a capacity planning tool that's an actual utility installed on the Hyper-V server. It lets you enter certain pieces of information such as the source server, target server, and virtual machines (VMs) to replicate with Hyper-V Replica. The tool will then run tests, and once complete will give a report with details on the impact of using Hyper-V Replica, such as network impact, storage IOPS, memory, and processor.
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Many Bay Area residents seem to encounter the same frustrating situation in their outdoor space: A concrete slab where a garden ought to be. Breaking up all the concrete, having it removed, and so on can be a big and expensive proposition, so what's an aspiring gardener to do? In yesterday's Chronicle, garden writer Carolyn Said shared how she and local landscaper Julie Gordon set about to tackle the problem...
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Late to the Twitter-game
I've finally caved in and created a Twitter-account today, you can follow me at http://twitter.com/haugern!
Copy Source As Html for Visual Studio 2008
Posted by haugern in blog, tools, visual studio on July 22nd, 2008
I have been "stuck" in Visual Studio 2005 for a while, but when we now jumped to Visual Studio 2008 recently, I missed a tool I've been using to blog my code. As the heading states, this is Copy Source As HTML. They have not released an updated version, but Guy Burstein comes to the rescue with an updated addin.
Reading the comments it can seem to be some different "opinions" about where to put it, but I just made an Addin directory under Visual Studio 2008 in My Documents in Windows XP and extracted it there.
//And it works like a charm!
Happy new year!
And good luck with that. 2007 was a great year overall, and I'm hoping 2008 will be just as great.
I'm starting the year adding my blog to the Technorati community. Do place my site in your favourites if you like what you read.
I also have a new year resolution regarding this blog; there will be a post at least once a week.
Phuh… then I'm saved the first week
Tuning my writing expectations
I have a writers block. After a couple of blog posts I have a writers block. Isn't it just sad.
Well, it's just partially true. I'm not out of ideas or drafts, I have several 90% there. But I'm reluctant to finish and publish them, I've come down with what I think is a serious lapse of self confidence.
The last months I've been reading up on a lot of .NET related issues. I have found great blogs, written by people I think is the front figures in today's .NET world (you can see them in my blog roll). These have inspired me to share what I know and to start my own blog, but now I'm being discouraged by the same people because I can't write like them (yet)!
For a blog to be interesting, the person writing it must know what to write about or how to write about it. If the person knows their way around both issues, you have a blog superstar.
Jeff "Coding Horror" Atwood is one of those superstars, and he recently wrote a blog post about how you shouldn't be a commodity blogger. I'm certainly not an expert in any field, nor am I a wizard with words, so where do I start?
Atwood says it in the end, it takes an effort. Another superstar and a personal favorite of mine is Joel Spolsky, and from this article I quote:
Writing is a muscle. The more you write, the more you'll be able to write.
Because if I want to get better, I have to practice. Practice makes perfect is an old proverb that certainly fits the bill. And to practice I have to write this blog, even though it still is a commodity.
The main problem is to live up to expectations, my expectations.
I'm putting myself out there, no filter applied, and I'll try to speak my mind. I'll have to face my fears.
And for the rest of you trying to blog about something, Chris Garrett gives us a pat on the back with this post.
Phew… It helped writing this. Maybe one of the other below average posts will reach the public as well after this.
The agony of registrar change (A registrar change cookbook)
Posted by haugern in annoyances, blog, internet, security on July 10th, 2007
To get this blog up and running I finally took the step of ordering a web hotel. I have long planned to host it myself, but I can't seem to find the time to assemble the machinery, nor do I find the machinery (in my basement) suitable for the task at hand.
The history so far…
So, last week (Wednesday June 27th) I was browsing the web to find a proper host. I originally wanted a windows host, so I could make my pages in ASP.NET as this is my natural habitat. I had also been looking at some blog-applications for ASP.NET, like Subtext, but it seemed to require a SQL database for storage. And you're not going to get SQL hosting for free.
The simple solution had to prevail. My one requirement was really that it could host this blog, my technical preferences set aside. Maybe a good chance to brush up my PHP skills, or possibly take a look at Ruby (on Rails)?
OK, so lets get back to the headline. I found a host, www.one.com, which was cheap and seemed to have what I needed. I ordered the smallest solution, got the receipt and I thought I was on my merry way to blogging-land in no time, no time at all….
The steps to change my registrar (for later reference)
The first thing I had to do was getting the authorization code from my current registrar. As of October 29, 2006, you have to get this for all .COM and .NET domains from your current registrar.
So I log in to my current registrar, navigate my way through to a link called "Get Authorization Code" and click once. Ouch. I can't do that. Or at least that's what I'm told, and it is rather cryptic as to why I'm not able to do so.
Scratching my head some, and reading the FAQ tells me that I can try to UNLOCK my domain (did I ever LOCK it?). So I unlock the domain and voila; the "Get Authorization Code" link works. I take the code and enter it into the new registrars system.
After a couple of hours I receive two (seemingly) identical emails from my new registrar telling me to confirm I want to transfer the domain. Looking like it's a mistake sending me two (still seemingly) identical emails I just reply to the first through a link in the email, confirming I want the transfer to continue. It gets rather late that first evening so I go to bed confident I'll be able to blog some the next day.
The next day I'm trying, waiting, and trying again to see if the domain has transferred, but it does not seem to have been updated. There's no indication or status on either registrars, so I turn to the online help at my new registrar.
He asks me if I have confirmed the email from the day before, and even if I had, he couldn't see the status. As I was leaving, I told him about the mistake with the identical emails. "That's not a mistake" he proclaims, "if you are listed as both Registered Name Holder and Administrative Contact, you will have to confirm both emails!"
So please make a bigger difference in the emails than just the link to confirm! A simple line saying which role the email was to, or how about telling me so in the topic!
And then I waited for the transfer to really go through (in my imagination anyway), because nothing happened. Ever. Until Sunday, three days after I confirmed the transfer. And what do you know, it's a INVERSE CONFIRM email from my current registrar. Yet another security instance!
The polite email from my current registrar provides med with a link if want to cancel the transfer. And if I don't, it will automatically be transferred in 72 hours…. read my lips: 72 HOURS. Hey, where's the transfer now link?
Well, at least I knew what I was waiting for this time around.
The happy ending
Well, you're reading my blog now, so the transfer must have gone through one of these days. It took exactly one week from I ordered the transfer until it actually got through.
On a positive note I should mention that I do appreciate that the security surrounding the domain transfer is thought of, but there's always the classic trade-off between a great user experience vs great security.
Below is a sequence diagram detailing what was going on and in what order. I'll remember to take a look at it the next time I'm transferring a domain!
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Hi, I'm your host Morten, and I'll be sharing my thoughts on development with you. There might be some other topics as well, allthough I'll try to keep them technology and/or internet related.


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As the name suggests, Satan's Hollow isn't a place you're going to find the high pitched pop tones of Akiba Idols. It's not long until show time and a crowd is gathering around the circular dance floor that seconds as tonight's stage. Suddenly out of nowhere, a wall of sound rushes towards the audience as CRYSTAL LAKE launch into Prometheus.
Every member launches into an animated blur and the intimate setting is used to its fullest, with each musician taking every opportunity to climb on the speakers, stare down camera phones, and in the case of singer Ryo, wrap his arms around fans on the other side of the barriers and scream in their faces — with several of them screaming back, clearly fans of the band.
As one song rolls into the next, CRYSTAL LAKE show no signs of slowing down, announcing each track with hardly a moment to catch their breath, until halfway through the set when Ryo addresses the crowd with a question, "Do you like Limp Bizkit?" For what will be the only time tonight, the response is a little lacklustre from the fans, but in playing what seems like an unusual choice of cover for the electro-metallers it doesn't take long for their signature extra-heavy version of the song to get people moving again.
And so it continues, with another 30 minutes of constructed noise played to perfection. To the untrained ear the heavy distortion might mask the intricacies of the music, but tonight this is a band with smiles on their faces, feeling the energy from a dedicated crowd.
As the end of the night approaches, it's a wonder Ryo has any air left in his lungs to talk. In a heartfelt "thank you" message to the crowd, his perfect English starts to crumble as he can't find the words to fully express his gratitude, and he reverts to native Japanese with a huge grin and a bow. Then, after taking a few seconds to compose himself, with head lifted high he screams, "This is our last song, OMEGA!"
The crowd explodes one last time for the night, and it's fair to say that when CRYSTAL LAKE return, they've already got a faithful following in Manchester.
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01. Prometheus
02. Matrix
05. The Sign
06. New Romancer
CRYSTAL LAKE at Satan's Hollow, Manchester
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I don't need to be jostled from sleep by Sonny and Cher; judging by the "Phil Murray" and "Punxsutawney Phil" Twitter trends, it's February second. How many more days of winter? I live in LA; don't hate; there's plenty of sunshine, yes, but smog, ebb-less traffic, and unrelenting crowds of people live here too. I'm not worried about the fate of winter; but, being in online marketing, I am interested in link building processes. If you operate a business, tips on link building should have you 'walking on sunshine,' because it's no secret of success – link building improves authority, rankings, and exposure.
I read an awesome post today by Neil Patel, receiving ten insightful tips related to seeking and acquiring link opportunities. Does your brand want to brook more time within a winter of 'dissed' content or do you want your content to gain more attention? I don't need to wait for a reply or a groundhog (I'm definitely not waiting for a 'PR Panda') to rear its head to know your brand is ready to spring into action regarding link building. However, you should wait before composing your next piece and consider the following; if you release your content without some pre-consideration, you may find no one's popping their head out of their respective days' work to give your content a look, prolonging the winter of dissed content.
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Okay, you wrote some good content. Now, it's time to give it a social nudge. Which social sites is your brand leveraging? Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, all of the above? Go ahead and push them through… Oh, you've done that before but didn't see much traction? Let's consider some "social" things you could do before you compose a piece.
Rand Fishkin suggested contacting 'influencers' in your field before composing a piece. An 'influencer' is a 'big fish' in your industry (CEO, popular blogger, etc), one who can augment the piece's immediate exposure. If more people see the work, it's likely you'll attract more links. In addition, as Dr. Pete advised on his Twitter account, building relationships with influencers far exceeds a one-time, link building purpose. If you can get influencers and industry cohorts to recognize your brand delivers quality and wants to add to the ongoing conversation, that social connection is priceless.
What are the hot topics going on right now in your industry? It's important to voraciously read sources of information. It may be popular newspapers like the New York Times or niche bloggers, aligned with your industry. While writing upon currently-popular topics is a good way to attract attention, make sure you pay attention to timing; understand with each passing moment, tons of other brands could be generating similar content; you need to 'get there' first. However, as Neil suggests in his post, you could find a 'window' of opportunity, making the hot topic 'your own' by adding something 'new' to the ongoing conversation. You can do it; get creative.
Your brand is looking for more links and exposure. While your copywriting team is entrenched in deep discussions with each writer's respective muse, your savvy link building team member is contacting several other brands and bloggers, asking if one or more team members could inspire readers via a guest blog or column. If your brand is seeking more exposure then maybe copywriting endeavors could 'hit the road' in search of new hosting destinations. Does the process sound like a good idea? It is; that's why Ethan Lyon wrote a post on how to use Twitter to secure more guest blogging opportunities.
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I was reminded recently of how complex and yet how important Active Directory (AD) is as I tried to explain AD basics to a group of circulation and marketing people. I think they got it, but I'm glad I didn't take them deeper into the forest—we would have had to scatter breadcrumbs to get them—and me—out safely. At the least, I hope they have a new appreciation for what admins are up against. I definitely have a new appreciation for admins after talking with the folks from Imanami, a company that specializes in group lifecycle solutions in AD and Microsoft Exchange.
A solution just for managing groups? Talk about drilling down into the particulate matter of AD. But although managing groups in the AD/Exchange management area is typically a mundane task, it's also one that's too important to delegate. Groups need to be accurate or you're going to have problems—and yet, you can be on top of group management and still, as Imanami's CEO/CTO Robert Haaverson says, "The minute you update a group, it's out of date."
In the case of mergers and acquisitions, as companies attempt to merge multiple AD forests, "the group becomes a nightmare," adds Edward Killeen, Imanami's director of sales and marketing. "You get 'group glut'—no one focuses on exiting the groups from the directories." He added that seventy percent of companies don't do anything and of the remainder that do act, twenty percent use a manual approach—an end user calls and requests a change. Why is this a problem? Security, for one thing. And the drain on IT staff time.
Imanami offers solutions that work together to ease several challenges of group management. Imanami SmartDL reads AD, applies a query, and builds groups. To make that solution work, AD has to be accurate. Enter another Imanami solution, Directory Transformation Manager, which keeps AD updated and automatically synchronizes changes.
Imanami's market is "anyone who has AD and Exchange," Killeen says, with anywhere from 250 users to thousands of users. The price of the solutions varies; some can run $5 to $20 per user. Imanami will be announcing more product news at Microsoft TechEd in June. To learn more about Imanami, go to imanami.com.