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Mike, Chris, Chigg, and Matt strive through an epic four segment show, bringing you news, reviews, and even a little insight. First, Mike and Chigg explore the concept of Love Beyond Death. Then Chris reviews the Demon Storyteller's Guide for Demon: the Descent. Mike also presents the Bunyip in a very special secret frequency. And finally, Matt dares the unknown to bring us the penultimate analysis of Night Horrors: Conquring Heroes.
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I'm glad you were able to adapt my game.ash to your purpose despite my oversight.
I'm glad you were able to adapt my game.ash to your purpose despite my oversight.
Okay, I have found Topmenu and have downloaded it.
It's quite nifty! How do I get rid of the florist and the clan raidlogs? My screen is not large enough to handle those AND the clan changer. (For some reason, the clan changer simply sits on top of those icons)
If you are comfortable with editing a script. (You are, aren't you?) then the simplest method would be to go to the svn directory and delete lines 297-305. (That only works for drop-down style. The link style is lines 239-247.) Then type "svn sync" into the CLI. Future updates will be seamlessly merged with that change.
If you're not comfortable with that, then I can see about adding a simpler method for you.
If people like my scripts, please send me stuffed Hodgmen.
Universal Recovery, OCD Inventory Control, CounterChecker, newLife, ChIT.
Bale, I find the addition of the second floor to the VIP room adds an extra click for most of my visits to the VIP room. I usually go the second floor to access the fax machine or shower, shoot some pool, or swim a few laps far more often than all that trendy stuff on the first floor. Do you plan any changes to the Top Menu script, such as changing the VIP link to go directly to the second floor, or adding a VIP2 link? If not, I think I can hack my own version, but thought I'd check with you first to avoid re-inventing the wheel or creating an unnecessary divergence. While we're on the topic, the links I miss most from Mr. Scipt's Top Menu are the hippie fruit stand and Doc Galaktik. Any thoughts about adding those? Thanks for this great script. It makes my KoL experience a lot better and was the script that finally helped me overcome my fear of relay scripts.
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I had not yet thought to do so. Most of my non-ascension VIP stuff is done from the mafia interface so it just hadn't occurred to me to do so.
I also don't dislike your other ideas. My main concern is that if I add too many features it gets way too cluttered. I'm a bit dubious about adding links to every shop in the game. I certainly can't imagine why anyone would need a regular link to the hippy fruit stand since mafia will just automatically go there when you want a pie or potion or whatever you make from those ingredients. I can see more merit to Doc Galaktiki although I never have to visit it although my automatic recovery takes care of that for me since not everyone likes recovery being automated.
Please tell me what elements on the second floor of the VIP room you need to visit directly instead of just using the KoLmafia interface which has buttons for that stuff in the Daily Deeds?
Sorry for the long reply. I realize my usage may not be typical so will understand if you don't care to implement any of these features, but thanks for considering them.
I'm glad you wanted to discuss it.
I'm definitely not going to add a link to the hippy farm. That definitely seems like a specialized use and sounds little different than adding a link to every NPC store. Doc Galaktik though... I may add a link to him, particularly since his remedies are now reasonably cost efficient for more of the game. I'll think about that.
As for the second level of the VIP room... All the things you mention are covered by the daily deeds panel, but it does seem like something that I need to consider.
I'll come to a decision tomorrow or the next day. For the ones I decide not to add, I am glad that SVN can merge your copy to make it possible for you to run a person modification and still get updates.
Fair enough. I look forward to your decision.
Committed code two days ago, but forgot to comment on it here.
I've added VIP2 and Doc to the topmenu per your request. Do you want any advice on adding the hippy fruit stand to the SVN copy or is it easy stuff for you?
Thanks to ckb, I have added a new override to this collection. If you are checking Dinseylandfill it will display your progress towards gaining each of the four keycards and killing Wart Dinsey. I expect to add some more information to this override soon since it should also inform you of which options you have unlocked in the maintenance tunnels.
Dinseylandfill: svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/bale/dinsey/code/
- Tracks your progress towards gaining each of the four keycards and killing Wart Dinesey.

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Hard Target & Cymple Man - Miley Cyrus
" Amazing lyrical flow, and great sound" - Brandon Harris - Ceo Underground Interviews
Hard Target and Cymple Man bring you yet another sick new song with great flow and base. Hard Target being a Florida native, whom has grown into a well known name doing music videos with names such as Sketchy Waze, and Marpo. This artist is building his career up with a lot of ew quality music and this song with Cymple Man."


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As talk of healthcare reform dominates the news, I'm going to tell another story: one about how Americans search for healthcare online. A new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project in partnership with the California HealthCare Foundation reveals 61% of American adults look online for health information. Among this majority group, people access online healthcare information in a range of ways. What follows is my look at some excerpts from the study about online behavior followed by an online marketing prescription.
Pew: 41% have read someone else's commentary or experience about health or medical issues on an online news group, website, or blog
Prescription: Offer a way for patients to share their stories about health or give feedback about hospital experiences. Is there a blog or other forum for patients to leave comments? Do you offer personal testimonials or case studies (written, audio or video) from real patients at your hospital? Make this information easy to find on your site.
Pew: 24% have consulted rankings or reviews online of doctors or other providers
Prescription: How do you stack up? See how well your hospital name or the names of your doctors stand up to Google scrutiny. Check the first couple pages of results for your hospital/practice/healthcare organization's name in Google, as well as its better-known doctors or other personalities. Do you like what you see? If you don't, there are ways to change this very public profile. This is one major facet of what is known as reputation monitoring or reputation management.
Pew: 24% have consulted rankings or reviews online of hospitals or other medical facilities
Prescription: Again, offer online feedback mechanisms for your patients/visitors. Actively refer them to popular general ratings sites or doctor ratings sites like Vitals.com and RateMDs.com to share their experiences with the broader health public.
Pew: 19% have signed up to receive updates about health or medical issues
Prescription: Do you offer opt-in email newsletters with information about your hospital's latest events? Does your site contain visible RSS feeds of your latest news or specialty health news by topic (e.g. spine surgery news, Lasik news, chiropractic news)? Give people a chance to subscribe to content that originates from you or to get the information they seek about a particular condition.
Pew: 13% have listened to a podcast about health or medical issues
Prescription: Simple: have you ever made an audio or video recording of one of your doctors or other health experts speaking about their areas of expertise? Do it more than once and you have a podcast. Audio podcasts (or vodcasts, video podcasts) are easy to set up. The only required equipment is a computer, a microphone, and basic audio-/video-production software. Get yourself in iTunes. With some time and a little luck, you can find a whole new audience eager to learn from your considerable authority … and trust your name/brand for years to come
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"Hey Siri" support and possibly wireless charging case alongside AirPower charging mat.
'Epic Zen Garden' Metal Demo Shown Off at WWDC Now Available for Download
The game, which was designed to show off the impressive graphic enhancement features possible with Metal, demonstrated an expansive world with a fully interactive environment. Users could touch a tree to send a cascade of leaves and cherry blossoms swirling to the ground or interact with a group of koi fish.
As of today, Epic Zen Garden is available for download, letting users see some of the things that will be possible in iOS games in the near future. The game supports a resolution of 1440 x 1080 at 30fps, and can display 3,500 butterflies at once. One of the major features of Metal is that it allows for more draw calls, letting a huge number of objects be displayed on the screen.
Epic Zen Garden is a beautiful graphical environment showcasing the power of iOS 8, developed by Epic Games with Unreal Engine 4. Tap to navigate this interactive oasis brimming unmatched detail on mobile. Swipe the Sakura tree to make thousands of cherry blossoms swirl in the air, graze the koi pond to summon leagues of fish, and rake the sand with your finger to create subtle designs. Touch the well to bring throngs of butterflies out of hiding.More information on how Metal works, Epic Zen Garden and the Unreal Engine 4 can be seen in the video below.
Epic Zen Garden can be downloaded from the App Store for free. [Direct Link]
(Thanks, Eli!)
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Why is this front page news?Probably to annoy you.
Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad Air, iPad Air Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini with Retina display, and iPad mini with Retina display Wi-Fi + Cellular. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
so which is it?
It requires the A7, so it's iPhone 5s and up. "optimized for iPhone 5" was introduced to indicate that the App is optimized for a 4" screen during the iPhone 4s to 5 transition. I think this information will be removed soon, and the wording is really misleading.
I've love to know, just what spec of 'PC' this graphical power is equal to.
The PowerVR G6430 is shipping in the A7. It has a peak output of about 115 GFLOPS. For comparison, the original Xbox GPU is about 6 GFLOPS, the Xbox 360 GPU is about 240 GFLOPS, and the Xbox One is around 1300 GFLOPS. The A8 was stated to be 50% faster, so we're talking around 170 GFLOPS, which is about 70% the speed of an Xbox 360. This is why they still have to fake a lot to get things running up to par visually. That all being said, I hope they limit 3D games on the iPhone Plus to 720p and crank up other things like the lighting effects, etc. The iPhone has twice the RAM of the Xbox 360, so you might be able squeak out some last gen games that look decent running at 720p. A fast motion game isn't going to look vastly different in your hand at 720p vs. native 1080p. Those differences are more noticeable on a larger TV. What is really interesting is the 6S. Assuming a similar 50% bump in GPU performance, it will slightly surpass last-gen consoles and will likely ship with 2GB of ram (well we also said that about the 6 so who knows). But still, 3D gaming on the iPhone is really going to come into it's own. And with Metal, we might be able to get more performance out of them by comparison to consoles.
iOS 8 GM - 5S - 32 - Crashes on launch. :p
That's where an extra 1 GB of RAM in the iPhone WOULD have been helpful, Apple! Take note.
damnit USA, you are always ahead.
We drive the boat Chief. :cool:
Why is this front page news?
It's the first "pure" iOS 8 game for A7 & A8 processors.. It's a tech demo for the next year of iOS gaming.
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Underwater Demolition Team
|Underwater Demolition Teams
Patch of the Underwater Demolition Teams.
|15 August 1942 – 1 January 1983
|United States
|United States Navy
|Amphibious warfare
|Fort Pierce, Florida, U.S.
Maui, Hawaii, U.S.
|UDT, The Frogmen
|Operation Overlord
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Okinawa
Operation Torch
Borneo campaign
Battle of Peleliu
Battle of Saipan
Battle of Tinian
Battle of Guam
Battle of Leyte
Invasion of Lingayen Gulf
Korean War
Vietnam War
The Underwater Demolition Teams (UDT) were an elite special-purpose force established by the United States Navy during World War II. They also served during the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Their primary function was to reconnoiter and destroy enemy defensive obstacles on beaches prior to amphibious landings. They also were the frogmen who retrieved astronauts after splash down in the Mercury program through Apollo manned space flight programs.[2]
The UDTs reconnoitered beaches and the waters just offshore, locating reefs, rocks, and shoals that would interfere with landing craft. They also used explosives to demolish underwater obstacles planted by the enemy. As the U.S. Navy's elite combat swimmers, they were employed to breach the cables and nets protecting enemy harbors, plant limpet mines on enemy ships, and locate and mark mines for clearing by minesweepers. They also conducted river surveys and foreign military training.
The UDTs pioneered combat swimming, closed-circuit diving, underwater demolitions, and midget submarine (dry and wet submersible) operations. They were the precursor to the present-day United States Navy SEALs.[3]
In 1983, after additional SEAL training, the UDTs were re-designated as SEAL Teams or Swimmer Delivery Vehicle Teams (SDVTs). SDVTs have since been re-designated SEAL Delivery Vehicle Teams.[4]
- 1 Early history
- 2 Naval Combat Demolition Units
- 3 Underwater Demolition Teams
- 4 After World War II
- 5 Korean War
- 6 Vietnam War
- 7 Birth of Navy SEALs
- 8 Badge
- 9 Unit awards
- 10 Fiction
- 11 See also
- 12 References
- 13 Further reading
- 14 External links
Early history[edit]
The United States Navy studied the problems encountered by the disastrous Allied amphibious landings during the Gallipoli Campaign of World War I. This contributed to the development and experimentation of new landing techniques in the mid-1930s. In August 1941, landing trials were performed and one hazardous operation led Second Lieutenant Lloyd E. Peddicord to be assigned the task of analyzing the need for a human intelligence (HUMINT) capability.[3]
When the U.S. entered World War II, the Navy realized that in order to strike at the Axis powers the U.S. forces would need to perform a large number of amphibious attacks. The Navy decided that men would have to go in to reconnoiter the landing beaches, locate obstacles and defenses, as well as guide the landing forces ashore. In August 1942, Peddicord set up a recon school for his new unit, Navy Scouts and Raiders, at the amphibious training base at Little Creek, Virginia.[3]
In 1942, the Army and Navy jointly established the Amphibious Scout and Raider School at Fort Pierce, Florida. Here Lieutenant Commander Phil H. Bucklew, the "Father of Naval Special Warfare", helped organize and train what became the Navy's 'first group' to specialize in amphibious raids and tactics.
Pressure to further implement human intelligence gathering prior to landings heightened after Naval amphibious landing craft were damaged by coral reefs during the Battle of Tarawa in November 1943. Aerial reconnaissance incorrectly showed the reefs were submerged deep enough to allow the landing craft to float over. Sailors and Marines were forced to abandon their craft in chest deep water a thousand yards from shore, helping Japanese gunners inflict heavy U.S. casualties.[3] After that experience, Admiral Kelley Turner, Commander of the 5th Amphibious Force, directed that 30 officers and 150 enlisted men be moved to Waimanalo ATB (on the island of Oahu) to form the nucleus of a reconnaissance and demolition training program. It is here that the UDTs of the Pacific were born.[5]
Later in war, the Army Engineers passed down demolition jobs to the U.S. Navy. It then became the Navy's responsibility to clear any obstacles and defenses in the near shore area.[citation needed]
A memorial to the founding of the UDT has been built at Bellows Air Force Station near the original Amphibious Training Base (ATB) Waimanalo.
In early WWII it became apparent that in addition to the Scouts and Raiders, the Navy needed a group of specialists to destroy obstacles, man-made or natural, for amphibious landings. In late 1942, a group of Navy salvage personnel received a one-week concentrated course on demolitions, explosive cable cutting and commando raiding techniques. The Navy Scouts and Raiders unit was first employed in Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa in November 1942.[6] During Torch, this unit cut the cable and net barrier across a river in North Africa, allowing Rangers to land upstream and capture an airfield.
In early May 1943, a two-phase "Naval Demolition Project" was directed by the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) "to meet a present and urgent requirement". The first phase began at Amphibious Training Base (ATB) Solomons, Maryland with the establishment of Operational Naval Demolition Unit No. 1. Six Officers and eighteen enlisted men reported from NTC Camp Peary dynamiting and demolition school for a four-week course.[7][8] Those Seabees were immediately sent to participate in the invasion of Sicily[9] where they were divided in three groups that landed on the beaches near Licata, Gela and Scoglitti.[10]
Later in 1943 the Navy decided to create a large dedicated force for such tasks: the Naval Combat Demolition Units (NCDU) consisting of one officer and five enlisted. A NCDU was to clear beach obstacles for an invasion force with the team coming ashore in an LCRS inflatable boat.[11] On May 7, Admiral Ernest J. King, the CNO, picked Lieutenant Commander Draper L. Kauffman USNR to lead the training. The first six classes graduated from "Area E" at NTC Camp Peary.[12] From there the NCDU training was moved to Fort Pierce. Despite the move, Camp Peary was Kauffman's source of manpower. "He would go up to Camp Peary and the Dynamite School, assemble the (Seabees) in the auditorium and say, 'I need volunteers for hazardous, prolonged and distant duty.'"[13]
The expansion of the force meant recruitment beyond the pool of experienced combat swimmers. Most of Kauffman's volunteers came from the Seabees (the Navy's Construction Battalions), the U.S. Marines, and U.S. Army combat engineers. Training commenced with one grueling week designed to "separate the men from the boys". Some said that "the men had sense enough to quit, leaving Kauffman with the boys."[14] It was and is still considered the first "Hell Week."
Kauffman's experience was at disarming explosives; now he and his teams were learning to use them offensively. One innovation was to use 2.5-pound (1.1 kg) packs of tetryl placed into rubber tubes, thus making 20-pound (9.1 kg) lengths of explosive tubing that could be twisted around obstacles for demolition.[15]
At the beginning of November 1943, six men from Kauffman's Naval Combat Demolition Unit Eleven (NCDU-11) were sent to England to start preparations for the Normandy invasion. Later NCDU-11 was enlarged into 13-man assault teams. Weeks before the invasion, all available Underwater Demolition men were sent from Fort Pierce to England. By June 1944, 34 NCDU teams were deployed in England. The NCDUs at Normandy were numbers: 11, 22-30, 41-46, 127-8, 130-42[16]
The Germans had constructed intricate defenses on the French line. These included steel posts driven into the sand and topped with explosives. Large 3-ton steel barricades called Belgian Gates were placed well into the surf zone. Reinforced mortar and machine gun nests were dotted along the beaches.
The Scouts and Raiders spent weeks gathering information during nightly surveillance missions up and down the French coast. Replicas of the Belgian Gates were constructed on the south coast of England for the NCDUs to practice demolitions on. It was possible to blow a gate to pieces, but that only created a mass of tangled debris spread along the beaches, thereby creating more of an obstacle. The NCDU found that the best method was to sever the key corner joints in a gate, so that it fell down flat.
According to the Allied attack plans, infantry supported by naval gunfire would make the initial landings, followed by tanks and troop carriers to clear any remaining German bunkers and snipers. The NCDU teams (designated Demolitions Gap-Assault teams) would come in with the second wave and work at low tide to clear the obstacles. Their mission was to open sixteen 50-foot (15 m) wide corridors for the landing at each of the U.S. landing zones (Omaha Beach and Utah Beach). Unfortunately, the plans could not be executed as laid out. The preparatory air and naval bombardment was ineffective, leaving many German guns in position to fire on the attackers. Also, tidal conditions caused many of the NCDU teams to land prematurely – in some cases ahead of the first wave. Despite heavy German fire and resulting casualties, the NCDU men planted charges and demolished many obstacles. As the infantry came ashore, some soldiers took cover on the seaward sides of obstacles that had demolition charges on them. They quickly moved onto the beach. The greatest difficulty was on Omaha Beach. By nightfall only thirteen of the planned sixteen gaps were open, and of the 175 NCDU men who went ashore there, 31 were killed and 60 were wounded. The attack on Utah Beach was much more successful. There, only four were killed and eleven wounded, when an artillery shell hit a team working to clear the beach.[5] Overall, NCDUs had 53 percent casualties.
NCDUs also participated in Operation Dragoon, the invasion of southern France.
With Europe invaded most of the NCDUs were sent to Fort Pierce and integrated into the UDTs for the Pacific campaign. However, the first NCDUs, 1-10, had been staged at Turner City, Florida Island in the Solomon Islands during January 1944.[17] A few were temporarily attached to UDTs.[17] Later NCDUs 1-10 were combined to form Underwater Demolition Team Able.[17] This team was disbanded with NCDUs 2 and 3, plus three others assigned to MacArthur's 7th Amphibious force, and were the only NCDUs remaining at war's end. The other men from Team Able were assigned to numeric UDTs.
Underwater Demolition Teams[edit]
The first units that were designated as Underwater Demolition Teams were formed in the Pacific Theater. Admiral Kelly Turner, the Navy's top amphibious expert, ordered the formation of nine Underwater Demolition Teams. As with the NCDUs in Europe, the personnel for these teams were mostly Seabees. UDT training was at Waimānalo, Hawaii, on Oahu under the aegis of V (Fifth) Amphibious Force. Among both instructors and trainees, there were graduates of the Fort Pierce schools (Scouts and Raiders, and NCDU men), Seabees, Marines, and Army soldiers. Under the direction of Marine Amphibious Reconnaissance Company, they hastily trained for the attack on Kwajalein on 31 January 1944.[6] The training made use of inflatable boats and included little swimming. The men were expected to paddle in, and work in shallow water, leaving the deep-water demolitions to the Army. Marine Reconnaissance units would conduct the hydrography from shallow water to inland while the accompanying UDT would conduct the demolition and hydrography from near-deep water to the shallows. At that time the men in the teams wore Navy fatigues with boots and helmets. They were lifelined to their boats and stayed out of the water as much as possible.
The UDTs were organized with approximately sixteen officers and eighty men each. One Marine and one Army officer were liaisons within each team.[18] It became apparent that a UDT assigned to the same beach as a Marine unit should be embarked in the same high speed transport (APD). The UDTs were deployed in every major amphibious landing in the Pacific with 34 teams eventually being established. The last teams created for the invasion of Japan were spared deployment by the dropping of the atomic bombs. When it was over teams 1-21 were the ones operationally used meaning that slightly over half of the operational UDTs came from the Seabees.
The invasion of Tarawa in November 1943 nearly met disaster due to obstacles in the surf. Tarawa lies in eastern Micronesia. The islands in this region have unpredictable tides and are surrounded by shallow reefs that block even shallow-draft craft, except at a few narrow channels or at high tide. At Tarawa, an unusual neap tide (a condition that results from the tide not rising or lowering as usual) occurred, leaving insufficient clearance for the Higgins boats (LCVPs) to get over the reef. The Amtracs carrying the first wave crossed the reef successfully. But the LCVPs carrying the second wave ran aground on the reef. The Marines had to unload and wade several hundred yards across the lagoon to shore while wearing full packs, under constant heavy fire from shore defenses. Many drowned or were killed before making the beach. The first wave, fighting without reinforcements from the second wave, took heavy losses on the beach. It was a painful lesson that the Navy would not permit to be repeated.
The next objective was Kwajalein and the original plan called for night reconnaissance. However, Admiral Turner did not want a repeat of Tarawa and wanted to know about the coral and any obstacles the Japanese may have emplaced. To find this out, UDT 1 was ordered to do two daylight recons.[19] In keeping with the Seabee traditions of: (1) doing whatever it takes to accomplish the job and (2) not always following military rules to get it done, UDT 1 did both. The missions were to follow the standard procedure with each two-man team getting close to the beach in a rubber boat, wearing full fatigues, boots, life jackets, and metal helmets, and then make their observations. But Team 1 found that the coral reef kept their craft too far from shore to be certain of the beach conditions. Ensign Lewis F. Luehrs and Seabee Chief Bill Acheson had anticipated that they would not be able to carry out the assignment following the Fort Pierce model and had worn swim trunks beneath their fatigues.[19] Stripping down, they swam 45 minutes undetected across the reef. When they returned with sketches of gun emplacements and other vital intelligence, they were taken, still in their trunks, directly to Admiral Turner's flagship to report.[19] Afterwards Admiral Turner concluded that the only way to get this kind of information was from individual swimmers, and he relayed those thoughts to Admiral Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet. The planning and decisions of Admiral Turner, Ensign Lehrs and Chief Achenson made Kwajalein a transition point in UDT history, changing both the mission model and training regimen. Seabees made up the majority of the men in teams 1–9 and 13. The Officers of those teams were primarily CEC[20] (Seabees). After Kwajalein, the UDTs created the Naval Combat Demolition Training and Experimental Base at Kihei, next to the Amphibious Base at Kamaole on Maui, expanding upon what had been learned from UDT 1. Operations began in February 1944. Most of the procedures from Fort Pierce were changed. They were replaced with an emphasis on developing strong swimmers, daylight reconnaissance, and training without lifelines. The uniform of the day changed to diving masks, swim trunks, fins and a Ka-bar, creating the image of the UDTs as the "Naked Warriors."
Peleliu, Philippines, Guam, and Iwo Jima[edit]
In April, Draper Kauffman was transferred from Fort Pierce to command UDT 5 and serve as senior staff officer, Underwater Demolition Teams, Amphibious Forces, and Underwater Demolition Training Officer, Amphibious Training Command.
UDTs 6 & 7 drew the Peleliu assignment while UDT 8 went to Angaur. The officers were almost all CEC and the enlisted were Seabees.[21]
UDT 10 was directly under the OSS[citation needed]. It had a secret base on Santa Catalina Island, California, before the Maui base was operational. When the team was being formed it was joined by five officers and 21 men who had been trained by the OSS. They were led by a Lt A.O. Chote Jr., who was made UDT 10's commanding officer.
UDT 14 was the first all-Navy team (one of three from the Pacific fleet).
The landings in the Pacific Theater continued. Kauffman led UDT 5 in a daylight recon of the defenses of Saipan and in a night recon of the defenses of Tinian. Two days ahead of the invasion of Iwo Jima UDTs 12, 13, 14, and 15 reconnoitered the beaches suffering only one man wounded. However, the next day a Japanese plane bombed UDT 15's APD, the USS Blessman. Fifteen men were killed, and 23 were injured. This was the single largest loss of life suffered by the UDTs. At Iwo Jima the teams not only did reconnaissance but on D-plus 2 were called upon to help clear the beaches of broached or damaged landing craft. The water's edge had become so clogged with debris that there was no place for landing craft to get ashore. Later UDT 15 reconnoitered beaches at Luzon in the Philippines.
UDTs also served at Eniwetok, Ulithi, Leyte, Lingayen Gulf, Zambales, Labuan, and Brunei Bay. The last UDT demolition operation of the war was on 4 July 1945 at Balikpapan, Borneo.
The largest UDT operation was in support of the invasion of Okinawa, in March 1945. Veteran UDTs 7, 12, 13, and 14, and newly trained UDTs 11, 16, 17, and 18 participated: nearly 1,000 men in all. Up to that time, all UDT missions in the Pacific had been in warm tropical waters. Now the forces moved north toward Japan where the waters around Okinawa were cool enough that long immersion could cause hypothermia and severe cramps. Since they wore no thermal protection at that time, the UDTs were at risk to these hazards during their operations around Okinawa.
Operations included both real reconnaissance and demolition at the actual invasion site, and feints to create the illusion of landings in other locations. Pointed poles set into the coral reef of the beach protected the landing beaches on Okinawa. UDTs 11 and 16 were sent in to blast the poles. After all the charges were set, the men swam clear. The explosions took out all of UDT 11's targets and half of UDT 16's. UDT 16 aborted the operation due to the death of one of their men; hence, their mission was considered a failure and a disgrace. UDT 11 was sent back the following day to finish the job, and then remained to guide the forces to the beach.
The UDTs continued to prepare for the invasion of Japan until Japan surrendered in August 1945, and their role in the Pacific came to an end. Within months of the war's end, the UDT teams were decommissioned and reduced to only two partial teams. This ended a trying but evolutionary time in the history of Naval Special Warfare.[5]
On 20 August 1945 the USS Begor embarked UDT 21 at Guam as a component of the U.S. occupation force heading for Japan[22]. Nine days later UDT 21 became the first U.S military unit to set foot on Japanese home soil when it reconned the beaches at Futtsu-misaki Point in Tokyo Bay[22]. The assessment was that the area was well suited for landing U.S amphibious forces. The next day the Begor took UDT 21 to Yokosuka Naval Base[22]. There the team cleared the docks for the first U.S. warship to dock in Japan, the USS San Diego (CL-53)[22]. The team remained in Tokyo Bay until 8 Sept when it was tasked with locating remaining Kamikaze and two man submarines at Katsura Wan, Uchiura Wan at Suruga Bay, Sendai, Onohama Shipyards and Choshi[22]. Orders arrived for the Begor to return the team to San Diego on 27 September[22].
After World War II[edit]
With the draw-down from the war two half-strength UDTs were retained, one on each coast.
Operation Crossroads Bikini atoll was chosen for the site of the nuclear tests of Operation Crossroads. "In March 1946, Project Y scientists from Los Alamos decided that the analysis of a sample of water from the immediate vicinity of the nuclear detonation was essential if the tests were to be properly evaluated. After consideration of several proposals to accomplish this, it was finally decided to employ drone boats of the type used by Naval Combat Demolition Units in France during the war"[23]. UDT Easy, later named UDT 3, was given the designation TU 1.1.3 for the Operation and was assigned the control and maintenance of the drone boats. On 27 April, 7 officers and 51 enlisted embarked the USS Begor (APD-127) at the Seabee base Port Hueneme, CA.[24] for transit to Bikini. At Bikini the drones were controlled from the Begor. Once a water sample was taken the drone would return to the Begor to be hosed down for decontamination. After a Radiation Safety Officer had taken a Geiger counter reading and the OK given, the UDTs would board with a radiation chemist to retrieve the sample[25]. The USS Begor came to have the reputation as the most contaminated boat in the fleet[26].
A huge issue afterwards was the treatment of the dislocated natives. In November of 1948 the Bikinians were relocated to the uninhabited Island of Kili however that island was located inside a coral reef that had no channel for access to the island or the sea[27]. In the spring of 1949 the Governor of the Trust Territories, Marshall Group requested the U.S.Navy blast a channel to change this[27]. That was given to the Seabees on Kwajalin whose CO quickly determined this was really a UDT project[27]. He sent a request to CINPACFLT who forwarded it to COMPHIBPAC[27]. All of this ended up sending UDT 3 back on a truly Civic action program that turned out better than politicians could have hoped. The King of the Bikinians held a send off feast for the UDTs the night before they departed[27]
Submersible Operations Even though no combat operations seemed likely, the UDTs continued to research new techniques for underwater and shallow-water operations. One area was the use of SCUBA equipment. Dr. Chris Lambertsen had developed the Lambertsen Amphibious Respiratory Unit (LARU), an oxygen rebreather, which was used by the Maritime Unit of the OSS. In October 1943, he demonstrated it to LCDR Kauffman, but was told there was no place in current UDT operations for this radically new device.[28][29] However, Dr. Lambertsen and the OSS continued to work on closed-circuit oxygen diving and combat swimming. When the OSS was dissolved in 1945, Lambertsen retained the LARU inventory. He later demonstrated the LARU to Army Engineers, the Coast Guard, and the UDTs. In 1947, he demonstrated the LARU to LCDR Francis "Doug" Fane, then a senior UDT commander.[28][30] LCDR Fane was enthusiastic for new diving techniques. He pushed for the adoption of rebreathers and SCUBA gear for future operations. But the Navy Experimental Diving Unit and the Navy Dive School (which used the old "hard-hat" diving apparatus) declared it was too dangerous. Nonetheless, Fane invited Dr. Lambertsen to NAB Little Creek, Virginia in January 1948 to demonstrate and train UDT personnel in SCUBA operations. This was the first-ever SCUBA training for Navy divers. Following this training, Fane and Lambertsen demonstrated new UDT capabilities with a successful lock-out and re-entry from USS Grouper (SS-214), an underway submarine, to show the Navy's need for this capability. LCDR Fane then started the classified "Submersible Operations" or SUBOPS platoon with men drawn from UDT 2 and 4 under the direction of LTJG Bruce Dunning.[28][31]
LCDR Fane also brought the conventional "Aqua-lung" open-circuit SCUBA system into use by the UDTs. Open-circuit SCUBA is less useful to combat divers, as the exhausted air produces a tell-tale trail of bubbles. However, in the early 1950s, the UDTs decided they preferred open-circuit SCUBA, and converted entirely to it. (The remaining stock of LARUs was supposedly destroyed in a beach-party bonfire.) Later on, the UDT reverted to closed-circuit SCUBA, using improved rebreathers developed by Lambertsen.
It was at this time that the UDT (led by Fane) established training facilities at Saint Thomas in the Virgin Islands.[32]
The UDT also began developing weapons skills and procedures for commando operations on land in coastal regions. The UDT started experiments with insertion/extraction by helicopter, jumping from a moving helicopter into the water or rappelling like mountain climbers to the ground. Experimentation developed a system for emergency extraction by plane called "Skyhook." Skyhook utilized a large helium balloon and cable rig with harness. A special grabbing device on the nose of a C-130 enabled a pilot to snatch the cable tethered to the balloon and lift a person off the ground. Once airborne, the crew would winch the cable in and retrieve the personnel though the back of the aircraft. This technique was discontinued for training purposes after the death of a SEAL at NAB Coronado on a training lift. The teams still utilize the Fulton Skyhook for equipment extraction and retain the capability for war if an extreme situation requires it.
Korean War[edit]
During the Korean War, the UDTs operated on the coasts of North Korea, with their efforts initially focused on demolitions and mine disposal. Additionally, the UDT accompanied South Korean commandos on raids in the North to demolish railroad tunnels and bridges. The higher-ranking officers of the UDT frowned upon this activity because it was a non-traditional use of the Naval forces, which took them too far from the water line. Due to the nature of the war, the UDT maintained a low operational profile. Some of the better-known missions include the transport of spies into North Korea, and the destruction of North Korean fishing nets.
A more traditional role for the UDT was in support of Operation CHROMITE, the amphibious landing at Inchon. UDT 1 and UDT 3 divers went in ahead of the landing craft, scouting mud flats, marking low points in the channel, clearing fouled propellers, and searching for mines. Four UDT personnel acted as wave-guides for the Marine landing.[33]
The UDT assisted in clearing mines in Wonsan harbor, under fire from enemy shore batteries. Two minesweepers were sunk in these operations. A UDT diver dove on the wreck of USS Pledge: the first U.S. combat operation with SCUBA.
The Korean War was a period of transition for the men of the UDT. They tested their previous limits and defined new parameters for their special style of warfare. These new techniques and expanded horizons positioned the UDT well to assume an even broader role as the storms of war began brewing to the south in Vietnam.[34]
Vietnam War[edit]
The Navy entered the Vietnam War in 1958, when the UDTs delivered a small watercraft far up the Mekong River into Laos. In 1961, naval advisers started training UDT in South Vietnam. The men were called the Liên Đoàn Người Nhái (LDNN), roughly translated as the "soldiers that fight under the sea."
The UDT also carried out hydrographic surveys in South Vietnam's coastal waters.[35]
Later, the UDTs supported the Amphibious Ready Groups operating on South Vietnam's rivers. UDTs manned riverine patrol craft and went ashore to demolish obstacles and enemy bunkers. They operated throughout South Vietnam, from the Mekong Delta (Sea Float), The Parrot Beak and French canal AO's through I Corps and the Song Cui Dai Estuary south of Danang.
In the mid-1950s, the Navy saw how the UDT's mission had expanded to a broad range of "unconventional warfare", but also that this clashed with the UDT's traditional focus on swimming and diving operations. It was therefore decided to create a new type of unit that would build on the UDT's elite qualities and water-borne expertise, but would add land combat skills, including parachute training and guerrilla/counterinsurgency operations.[36] These new teams would come to be known as the US Navy SEALs (which stood for SEa, Air, and Land). Initially there was a lag in the unit's creation until President John F. Kennedy took office. Kennedy recognized the need for unconventional warfare, and supported the use of special operations forces against guerrilla activity. The Navy moved forward to establish its new special operations force and in January 1962 commissioned SEAL Team ONE in NAB Coronado and SEAL Team TWO at NAB Little Creek. UDT-11 & 12 were still active on the west coast and UDT-21 & 22 on the east coast. The SEALs quickly earned a reputation for valor and stealth in Vietnam, where they conducted clandestine raids in perilous territory. In May 1983, the remaining UDT teams were reorganized as SEAL teams. UDT 11 became SEAL Team Five and UDT 12 became Seal Delivery Vehicle Team One. UDT 21 became SEAL Team Four and UDT 22 became Seal Delivery Vehicle Team Two. A new team, SEAL Team Three was established in October 1983. Since then, teams of SEALs have taken on shadowy missions in strife-torn regions around the world, stalking high-profile targets such as Panama's Manuel Noriega and Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and playing integral roles in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.[37] [38]
For those who served in an Underwater Demolition Team, the U.S. Navy authorized the Underwater Demolition operator badge in 1970. However, the UDT badge was phased out in 1971, a few months after it appeared, as was the silver badge for enlisted UDT/SEAL frogmen. After that, SEAL and UDT operators, both officer and enlisted, all wore the same gold Trident, as well as gold Navy jump wings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Warfare_insignia
Unit awards[edit]
The UDTs have received several unit citations and commendations. Members who participated in actions that merited the award are authorized to wear the medal or ribbon associated with the award on their uniform. Awards and decorations of the United States Armed Forces have different categories, i.e. Service, Campaign, Unit, and Personal. Unit Citations are distinct from the other decorations. [39]
Naval Combat Demolition Force O (Omaha beach) Normandy
- Presidential Unit Citation Normandy
Naval Combat Demolition Force U (Utah beach) : Normandy
- Navy Unit Commendation : Normandy[40]
- Navy Unit Commendation : Korea[40]
- Navy Unit Commendation : Guam[40]
- Navy Unit Commendation : Leyte[40]
- Navy Unit Commendation : Okinawa[40]
- Navy Unit Commendation : Marianas[40]
- Navy Unit Commendation : Western Carolinas[40]
- Presidential Unit Citation : Okinawa,[41]
- Presidential Unit Citation : Bruni Bay, Borneo,[41]
- Presidential Unit Citation : Balikpapan, Burneo, [41]
- Navy Unit Commendation[41] 1966
- Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation[41] 1968
- Navy Unit Commendation[41] 1969
- Presidential Unit Citation : 1969
- Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation[41] 1969
- Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation[41] 1969
- Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation[41] 1970
- Republic of Vietnam Civil Actions Medal Unit Citation[41]
- Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with Palm Unit Award[41]
- Coast Guard Meritorious Unit Commendation[41]
- Presidential UnitCitation : Iwo Jima,[42]
- Presidential Unit Citation : Okimawa[42]
- Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation Vietnam[42] 1967
- Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation Vietnam[42] 1967
- Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation Vietnam[42] 1968
- Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation Vietnam[42] 1968
- Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation Vietnam[42] 1969
- Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with Palm Unit Award[42]
- Operation Eagle Pull
- Operation Frequent Wind
- Humanitarian Service Medal[42] 1979 Boat People
- Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation Vietnam[43] 1969
- Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with Palm Unit Award [44] 1970
- Navy Unit Commendation : Luzon[40]
- Navy Unit Commendation : Iwo Jima[40]
- Navy Unit Commendation : Okinawa[40]
- Navy Expeditionary Medal [45]
- Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation Vietnam[45]
- Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation Vietnam[45]
- Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation Vietnam[45]
- Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation Vietnam[45]
- Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation Vietnam[46] 1969
- The Frogmen (1951). This film starring Dana Andrews and Richard Widmark was based on the UDT teams. The film was set in World War II, and contemporary UDT members appeared in several sequences.[citation needed]
See also[edit]
- United States Naval Special Warfare Command
- Former United States special operations units
- Underwater demolition
- Seabees
- United States Navy SEALs
- United States Special Operations Forces
- Republic of Korea Naval Special Warfare Flotilla
- ^ "Commemorating The Birthplace of UDT-SEAL Teams: Waimanalo, Hawaii | National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum". Navysealmuseum.com. 2013-11-11. Retrieved 2014-05-12.
- ^ "SEAL History: Before the First Mercury Splashdown | National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum". Navysealmuseum.com. Retrieved 2014-05-12.
- ^ a b c d Cunningham, Chet (2004). The Frogmen of World War II: An Oral History of the U.S. Navy's Underwater Demolition Teams. Pocket Star. ISBN 978-0-7434-8216-5.
- ^ "Navy SEAL History". Retrieved 25 January 2008.
- ^ a b Meyers, Bruce F. (2004). Swift, Silent, and Deadly: Marine Amphibious Reconnaissance in the Pacific, 1942–1945. Naval Institute Press.
- ^ Blazich, Frank A. (12 May 2017). "This Week in Seabee History (Week of May 14)". Seabee Online. Navy Facilities Engineering Command. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
- ^ a b Blazich, Frank A. (6 June 2014). "Opening Omaha Beach: Ensign Karnowski and NCDU-45". Seabee Online. Navy Facilities Engineering Command. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
- ^ pp. 30-31 Dockery & Brutsman
- ^ p.34 Dockery, Kevin & Brutsman, Bud Navy SEALs A History of the Early Years Berkely Publishing 2001
- ^ "Naval Combat Demolition Units". SpecWarNet.net. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
- ^ Erickson, Mark St. John (3 December 2017). "Training the Fighting Seabees of WWII at Camp Peary". Daily Press. Newport News, Virginia.
- ^ Hornfischer, James D. (2017). The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944–1945. New York: Bantam Books. p. 44.
- ^ "World War II Era Beach Obstacles and Hedgehogs from Original NCDU School | National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum". NavySealMuseum.com. Retrieved 2014-05-12.
- ^ REPORT ON NAVAL COMBAT DEMOLITION UNITS in OPERATION "NEPTUNE" as part of TASK FORCE 122, Submitted by: Lt.(jg) H. L. Blackwell, Jr. D-V(G) , USNR, 5 July, 1944.[1]
- ^ Commander, V Amphibious Corps to CinCPac, report, Underwater Demolition Teams, Recommendations Concerning-Based on Experience in Flintlock (Kwajalein), 2 June 1944, declassified from secret.
- ^ a b c Hoyt, Edwin P. (1993). Seals At War. New York, New York: Dell Books.
- ^ Blazich, Frank A., Jr. (September 12, 2016). "This Week in Seabee History". Seabee Online. Navy Facilities Engineering Command.
- ^ This Week in Seabee History, Sept 10-17, for Sept 12, Seabee Magazine online[2]
- ^ a b c d e f USS BEGOR (APD-127) veterans webpage[3]
- ^ Operations Crossroads, DNA 6032F, prepared by the Defense Nuclear Agency, p.189-90[4]
- ^ Operations Crossroads, DNA 6032F, prepared by the Defense Nuclear Agency, p.189-90[5]
- ^ USS BEGOR (APD-127) Veterans webpage[6]
- ^ USS BEGOR (APD-127) Veterans webpage[7]
- ^ a b c d e U. S. Naval Special Warfare Archives, After Operation Crossroads – Kili Island, Mack M. Boynton, December 21,2013, [8]
- ^ a b c Butler FK (2004). "Closed-circuit oxygen diving in the U.S. Navy". Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine. 31 (1): 3–20. PMID 15233156. Retrieved 18 March 2009.
- ^ Hawkins T (1st Quarter 2000). "OSS Maritime". The Blast. 32 (1). Check date values in:
- ^ Vann RD (2004). "Lambertsen and O2: beginnings of operational physiology". Undersea Hyperb Med. 31 (1): 21–31. PMID 15233157. Retrieved 18 March 2009.
- ^ Vann RD (Spring 2000). "The evolution of diving in UDT from WW II through Korea". Fire-in-the-Hole (Official publication of the UDT-SEAL Museum).
- ^ "Cmdr. doug fane navy udt leader". Retrieved 6 December 2009.
- ^ "SEAL History: Underwater Demolition Teams in the Korean War | National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum". Navysealmuseum.com. Retrieved 2014-05-12.
- ^ "Navy UDT-SEAL Museum:History, Korea". Retrieved 25 January 2008.
- ^ "SEAL History: Vietnam-The Men With Green Faces | National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum". Navysealmuseum.com. Archived from the original on 10 November 2014. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
- ^ Boynton, Mack (2010). A Founding Father of the Navy SEALs (PDF).
- ^ Altman, Alex (Apr 27, 2009). "A Brief History of: The Navy SEALs". TIME Magazine. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
- ^ Mack Boynton (4th Quarter 2007). "SEAL Story of - SEAL Teams". The Blast. UDT-SEAL Association. Retrieved 6 December 2009. Check date values in:
- ^ List of Award Abbreviations, Chief of Naval Operations, 2000 Navy Pentagon, Washington, D.C. 20350[9]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Naval History and Heritage Command website, Part 2 - Unit Awards, Published:Mon Aug 31 14:01:11 EDT 2015, p. 22 [10]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l US Navy Awards, Chief of Naval Operations, 2000 Navy Pentagon, Washington, D.C. 20350[11]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i US Navy Awards, Chief of Naval Operations, 2000 Navy Pentagon, Washington, D.C. 20350[12]
- ^ US Navy Awards, Chief of Naval Operations, 2000 Navy Pentagon, Washington, D.C. 20350[13]
- ^ US Navy Awards, Chief of Naval Operations, 2000 Navy Pentagon, Washington, D.C. 20350[14]
- ^ a b c d e US Navy Awards, Chief of Naval Operations, 2000 Navy Pentagon, Washington, D.C. 20350[15]
- ^ US Navy Awards, Chief of Naval Operations, 2000 Navy Pentagon, Washington, D.C. 20350[16]
- ^ OPNAV NOTICE 1650, MASTER LIST OF UNIT AWARDS AND CAMPAIGN MEDALS,DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS, 2000 NAVY PENTAGON, WASHINGTON, DC 20350-2000, 18 September 2002,[17]
Further reading[edit]
- Best, Herbert. The Webfoot Warriors; The Story of UDT, the U.S. Navy's Underwater Demolition Team. New York: John Day Co, 1962. OCLC 1315014
- Fane, Francis Douglas, and Don Moore. The Naked Warriors: The Story of the U.S. Navy's Frogmen. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1995. ISBN 1557502668 OCLC 33007811
- O'Dell, James Douglas. The Water Is Never Cold: The Origins of the U.S. Navy's Combat Demolition Units, UDTs, and SEALs. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 2000. ISBN 1574882759 OCLC 44764036
- Young, Darryl. SEALs, UDT, Frogmen: Men Under Pressure. New York: Ivy Books, 1994. ISBN 0804110646 OCLC 31815574
External links[edit]
- Navy UDT-SEAL Museum
- NavyFrogMen.com U. S. Naval Special Warfare Archives
- Pritzker Military Museum & Library
- "TNT Divers" Popular Mechanics, November 1945, pp. 72–73, one of earliest articles on WW2 UDT units.


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Tag Archives: Broadie
Spaghetti & Marshmallows
We had lots of fun making 3d shapes with spaghetti and marshmallows!
Jade: "Me, Abass & Ian we were making a pyramid out of marshmallows and spaghetti. It was the best because it was fun."
Yousif: "Me, Connor & Alfarabi we tried to make a tent out of marshmellows and spaghetti sticks. We tried to stand the tent up and it was fun."
Gow: "I liked doing marshmallows. We tried to make a shape. We make it with marshmallows and sticks. I liked it."
Tevi: "It was difficult to get it to stand up on its own but we tried to lose lots of spaghetti and marshmallows and then it stood up. We couldnt stand up a square but then we broke it up and made it a pyramid."
Broadie: We didnt make the biggest so we made the longest. We used heaps of spaghetti and marshmallows. We done rectangles and pyramids and we made a walkway."
Kofi: "We were making a double cube it was a little challenging and then near the end when there was 2 minutes left we made it a different shape and it was joined up together."
Nyachuot: "The block that we were making was hard and we were struggling and we couldnt make it stand by itself. But then when we did it as a pyramid it was able to stand by itself. we werent struggling anymore and it was really good. It felt groovy."
Jasmine: " Tevi and Yanni and me we were doing a marshmallow and spaghetti challenge. We tried to make a cube stand up by itself but then we tried to make a different shape. It was really fun it was like a triangle but 3D."
Connor: "Me, Yousif & Alfarabi we didnt know we could make it because we thought it would be hard but it was easy and we didnt give up and we liked it."
Today in La on the computers some boys worked with scratch.
Broadie "I put a boy and a lion and a bird they all move when I click the arrow."
Alfarabi "I've been making speech bubbles and lives for the aliens and trying to make the aliens move."
Zakeem "I was going to make it bounce on the trampoline but I forgot how to make a photo movie."


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Thanks again for checking out my blog and, hopefully, reading my posts for hours and hours. I have graduated with a Journalism and French degree.
Currently I am hoping from country to country making videos and writing about my time in this beautiful places.
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In His Scandalous Heir (Mistress to Wife #2) by Julia James, Cesare di Mondave and Carla Charteris had a whirlwind romance until he broke her heart. Determined to pick up the pieces of her life, she makes some terrible decisions until she discovers she's pregnant. However, when Cesare discovers her secret and proposes, will Carla finally be able to let go of the fact that he hurt her, so they can have a chance at forever after; or will Carla and Cesare go their separate ways?
"There's only one way to do this, darling girl. Only one! When a man does to you what that…that swine…has done to you, there is only one thing to do!" She sat down on the sofa, patted the seat next to her. "Sit down, Carla, and let me put something to you."
Just like the first book of this series, I had trouble getting into the storyline and the characters with the heroine acting all naïve and immature when her relationship with Cesare first falls apart. Why did she have to make some wrong decisions like she did; decisions that had consequences? Yet, in saying that, I did find the main characters won me over in the end and I did like the way this story started with introducing us to the heroine and what she does for a living.
As for the dialogue, it was intense due to the main characters back stories and everything this couple go through on their journey to happy ever after. Really, there's plenty of emotion throughout that had me sympathizing with the heroine. There's jealousy and anger because of the decisions both make that hurts their growing bond, yet I enjoyed how Cesare was determined to make things right and make their bond stronger than ever, especially once he learns the truth about something that will change everything for him. Moreover, the hero is arrogant in believing everything should go his way when it comes to the women he wants, but I'm glad that Carla didn't make things easy for him once he learns of her secret. Why should Carla give him her trust again after what he does that tears them apart? While the heroine, she's hard-working and I liked how driven she was to do her job to the best of her ability. Yet, in saying that, I struggled with reading how self-destructive the heroine was when her and Cesare's relationship went awry. How could she think her mother's advice would be good to follow after what happened between her mother and father?
He poured a shuddering breath. Poured all that he was into his next words. "The choice is yours—it always will be—but if you feel…if you can feel even a fraction of what I feel for you, will you accept my hand, my heart, my life, my love?"
Overall, Ms. James has delivered a read that I did like in the end, but not enough to give it more than three stars, even if in the beginning I didn't feel the connection between the characters, but by the end their chemistry was strong and had me glad that everything turned out the way it did for the pair. I would recommend Carrying his Scandalous Heir by Julia James, if you enjoy the enemy to lovers trope, second chance romances, or books by authors Susan Stephens, Michelle Conder, Kate Hewitt and Tara Pammi.
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Publication: November 21st, 2017 | Harlequin Presents | Mistress to Wife #2
Pregnant with the Italian's child
Aristocratically arrogant Cesare di Mondave dazzled Carla Charteris when he swept into her life. It wasn't long before the brooding Italian stole her innocence, and her heart. Realizing she'd never be more than a mistress was devastating, but Carla couldn't deny herself one last night in Cesare's arms…
When Cesare discovers the shocking consequences, a thrill of possession runs through him. To claim his heir, it's imperative Carla accepts his proposal–but she defiantly refuses! Now Cesare must use every sinfully seductive skill he has to convince Carla he wants her in the bedroom and at the altar!


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Bigger Steps (Sessions 5-9)
Overview of Lessons for Bigger Steps
Bigger Steps involves learning what I call "Million Dollar" chord progressions. Song writers get a lot of mileage out of progressions like Pachelbel's "Canon in D" and other predictable chord changes. When these are programmed into our fingers in different keys, we'll have a tool that is very useful. Perhaps you've played these progressions without giving them much thought. If your work includes teaching, these training videos will facilitate your efforts to equip others for the use of these chord patterns in different keys and styles. (Bigger Steps includes one DVD).
Bigger Steps includes:
- Pachelbel's "Canon in D"
- Succession by 5ths
- Ascending Bass Progression
- The Changing Function of a Repeated Pitch
- Secondary Dominant Chords
The musical examples are also included as both Powerpoint and PDF files on the enclosed CD-R, along with MIDI files and MP4 video files which can be transferred to your flash drive, I-Pad, or other mobile device. For a preview and a free lesson in Beginning Steps, Bigger Steps and Advanced Chords, click on the tabs at the bottom of my home page.
Bigger Steps (CD-R)
- Canon in D Progression
- Succession by 5ths
- Ascending Bass Pattern
- Changing Function of a Repeated Pitch
- Secondary Dominant Chords
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Getting Started with the Mortgage Process
The Mortgage Process
Getting Started
The first step begins by completing your mortgage application. You may hear this referred to as a Uniform Residential Loan Application (URLA) or a 1003. The mortgage loan application captures important information about you, your finances, and all of the details of the loan you are applying for. Part of the loan application process includes reviewing your credit history. Your credit report will be generated at the time you apply for your loan. BCU offers you several convenient ways to complete your application. You may apply over the phone with one of our Home Loan Consultants at (800)-388-7000 ext. 8167 or you may apply in person at one of our many Service Center locations. BCU even gives you the ability to apply online from the comfort of your own home! You may qualify for an "on the spot" pre-approval on your purchase or refinance application.
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- Tax Returns if Self-Employed
- Bank Statements
- Insurance Agent Contact Info
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Simply put: If you are afraid that interest rates are on the rise, protect your monthly payment and buying power by locking in the rate at the time you apply for your loan. If you believe that rates could drop during your loan process, you might decide to take a risk and let your rate "float". This means your rate is NOT locked and you must let us know when you are ready to lock your rate. You can sign up and take advantage of BCU's "Rate Tracker" to receive an alert when rates are at the level you are looking for. But be careful! Rates are tough to predict, much like the stock market. They may not reach the low that you are hoping for and, if you choose to float during your loan process, there is a chance they can increase. Also, keep in mind the term of your rate lock. Be sure to tell us when you anticipate to close your loan. Remember that if you are purchasing a bank owned property or are refinancing a property with needed repairs, your loan may take longer to close. Make sure your rate lock period allows enough time for your loan to be processed. We're here to help you with your rate lock questions!
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Ask your BCU Home Loan Consultant about our current products and rates! You may even choose to "buy down" your rate or "roll in" your closing costs. Let us help you decide! Looking to refinance to take advantage of a lower rate? Don't want to increase the remaining term of your loan? Ask us about our customized Fixed Rate Loan Terms to fit your individual needs!
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Aamir Khan is unstoppable with his latest film Dangal. A expected, the movie has entered the 100 crore club in just 3 days. This is an outstanding achievement, especially when Dangal is not an entertainment film but a serious portrayal of wrestling.
Dangal brought in whooping 42.35 crore on Sunday (3rd Day) to make the grand total of 106.95 crore. The numbers are astonishing and they are only going to increase from here.
These are the 1st weekend day wise collections of Dangal:
Friday – 29.78 crore
Saturday – 34.82 crore
Sunday – 42.35 crore
Total – 106.95 crore
This biopic has received great reviews from critics and the audience is also giving a huge response to the film. Dangal also has a repeat value which is helping its collections even more. The weekdays for the movie will be important as it still has many days available at box office as no other film is releasing this Friday. Being a Christmas and New Year holiday season, the weekdays are going to bring more moolah.
It will be interesting to see if Dangal enters the 200 crore club or not, more so, if it also goes beyond that. It is directed by Nitesh Tiwari.


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Chocolate Hazelnut Torte Recipe
When most of think of Valentine's Day, we think of chocolate. (Some of us think of chocolate all the time. . .) And thank goodness science has finally confirmed what some of us have known for years: dark chocolate is good for us. It has antioxidants. It makes us feel happy. It's even good for our hearts.
That said, this dessert qualifies as one of the most decadently delicious chocolate indulgences ever: a moist chocolate torte coated with a glossy dark chocolate glaze. Make it for someone you love this Valentine's Day.
1/2 cup hazelnuts
6 ounces fine-quality bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped
1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
2/3 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
5 eggs, separated
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar
9 ounces fine-quality bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped
3/4 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature, cut into small pieces
1 1/2 tablespoons light corn syrup
12 hazelnuts
To make the torte:
1. Preheat oven to 375F. Butter and flour a round 9-inch springform cake pan.
2. Spread the 1/2 cup of hazelnuts in a single layer on a baking sheet and toast in preheated oven around 6 minutes, until fragrant and lightly browned. Remove nuts from oven and rub them while still warm with a kitchen towel to remove most of their skins. Set aside.
3. Place chocolate and butter in the bowl of a double boiler over simmering water, stirring often, until chocolate melts, then remove from heat.
4. In a food processor, pulse toasted hazelnuts and sugar until finely ground. Add this to the melted chocolate mixture and stir until blended. Allow to cool. When cooled, add egg yolks one at a time, beating well after each addition.
5. Sift flour and cocoa together into a bowl, then stir into chocolate mixture. In another bowl, using an electric mixer, beat egg whites with cream of tartar until stiff peaks form. Fold one-fourth of the whites into the chocolate mixture with a rubber spatula to lighten it. Fold in remaining egg whites, combining until no white streaks remain. Pour into prepared pan.
6. Bake 35 to 40 minutes in preheated 375F oven until a cake tester or skewer inserted in the center comes out clean. Allow to cool, still in the pan, on a wire rack.
To make the glaze
1. In the bowl of a double boiler over simmering water, combine chocolate, butter, and corn syrup, stirring often, until chocolate melts. Remove from heat and stir until smooth, then allow to cool, stirring occasionally, for 15 minutes.
2. Invert the torte on the rack set over a baking sheet and lift off the springform pan. Pour on the glaze, tilting the torte so the top and sides are completely coated. Allow the glaze to stop dripping. Place the 12 hazelnuts decoratively around the top of the cake. Transfer the torte to a serving plate.
Serves 10.
Inspired by Winter: Recipes Inspired by Nature's Bounty, by Joanne Weir (Time Life Books, 1997).


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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Vertebra
Class: Biologae
Order: Environales
Family: Professororus
Genus: Zimminus
Species: Annoingus
Common Habitat: Underwater, mud rooms, creeks, and tops of landfills.
Behavior: erratic, elusive, and can be found kissing jellyfish
After breakfast it was off to a lecture about fish identification. We then got to test our skills as we went out to the water with our gear and some sun screen. The view in Mandy's eel garden was amazing. After lunch, a large group of us kayaked around the lagoon of the island and visited with the dolphins a little. Nothing like marooning yourself in turtle grass, right Amber? Then at about 2 pm we took off for our second dive. More beautiful than the first, we all enjoyed the fish schools in Fish Den.
Here is the group in action
--Dive Crew on the bottom
--Snorkel crew from below
--Moray eel and Grey angel fish
--Coral Pillar
--A view of the reef
The night will end with two lectures from RIMS staff, mainly Jennifer, about the dolphins.
More updates to come!
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A new wave of drilling activity in the hydraulic fracturing sector has kick-started demand for water management solutions in a sector that was lagging less than a year ago. With a rebound in drilling activity underway, energy company spend on U.S. water management is forecasted to rise 47% by the end of 2017, according to Bluefield Research's new Market Insight, Water for U.S. Hydraulic Fracturing Market: Competitive Strategies, Solutions, and Outlook, 2017-2026.
"Oil prices are up 62% from last year, and the impact on water demand is following in step. This turnaround, from the industry's collapse, has thrust upstream oil & gas into a new phase, one in which water services are even more critical at US$50 per barrel of oil," says Bluefield President Reese Tisdale.
Over the last six months, the stabilization of oil prices and new drilling techniques has created a surge in drilling activity, reversing the downturn in water management spending for hydraulic fracturing from previous years. According to Bluefield's analysis, energy companies will spend more than US$136B from 2017 to 2026 on water management- including water supply, transport, storage, treatment and disposal.
Exhibit: U.S. Water Management & Services Spending by Activity, 2017-2026
From 2017 to 2026, more than 20 billion barrels of water will be required to serve the U.S hydraulic fracturing market at today's rig count. Cost of water transport, rather than availability, has become the primary concern for most energy companies. ???Transportation will represent the lion's share of spending, totaling US$75.8B from 2017 through 2026. "There are a number of ways companies are addressing the cost of transport, including water pipelines new business models, such as alternative water supply contracts, and mobile treatment," says Tisdale.
These market shifts are also influencing the competitive landscape- both in energy and water. The debt-laden energy sector has experienced over 110 bankruptcies in recent years, but those remaining will benefit from a more experienced sector. A heightened focus on water has also led to an emerging group of midstream water service providers. Several firms, including Antero Midstream, Noble Midstream, Rice Midstream, NGL Energy, are poised to benefit from their production companies' energy positions. At the same time, a number of private equity backed firms are positioning to address the sector's water challenges through pipelines, treatment, and disposal.
"The value of water has clearly taken on greater financial importance for exploration & production companies. Cost reduction, efficiency improvements, and risk mitigation to water stress are a high priority," says Tisdale. "However, there is not a one-size-fits all approach to water management. High disposal rates and salinity levels are an issue in Marcellus, while seismic activity in Oklahoma is prompting tighter regulatory controls on disposal wells. Whatever the case, the signs are positive for water services companies."
About Bluefield Research
Bluefield Research provides data, analysis and insights on global water markets. Executives rely on our water experts to validate their assumptions, address critical questions, and strengthen strategic planning processes. Bluefield helps key decision-makers at municipal utilities, engineering, procurement, & construction firms, technology and equipment suppliers, and investment firms advance their water strategies. For more information, visit www.bluefieldresearch.com.
SOURCE: Bluefield Research
BY: News | June 7, 2017
LINK: https://www.wateronline.com/doc/surge-in-hydraulic-fracturing-drives-water-management-spend-toward-us-b-0001


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Detectives investigating a robbery in a Doncaster shop have released a CCTV image of a man they want to trace.
A man entered a shop in King Edward Road, Balby, at 8.50pm on Tuesday, December 8 and threatened staff with a rock before stealing some alcohol.
Police believe the man in the CCTV image could hold vital information about the incident.
Anyone with information should call South Yorkshire Police on 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.


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I'm currently on maternity leave and have just joined my husband in Singapore while he works on a project. I have 2 young children and am looking for someone that for the next Protected content can be with me during the day to help out (e.g go with me to the zoo, parks, aquarium, shopping, toddler playgroups, etc.) . Does anyone have advice on the best way to secure short-term help or if you have someone to recommend that would also be perfect.
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2) Driving a 4WD makes you feel like you're at monster trucks. It is far too excellent for real life. My mum leant me her 4Wd so I could pick up an aviary and a couple birds who needed a home and I can't give it back. i've used it to move rocks, churn up grass, intimidate people who seem nice. It's like I'm Queen of the Road. I will have to give it back. It hurts to be just one of the people being intimidated by silly big monster trucks on the road again. I want my own truck. But I don/t. what do I want? Maybe not to have ever known the power and not to have driven into a Highbury Park'N'Shop and yelled 'Run, save yourselves tiny minions!'.
no wonder those Malvern/Burnside oldies are such bad drivers. I've always wondered what the crash rate is at the Burnside Village (i.e. inside mall with no lighting - Crappy suburban mall crammed with chain stores anyone?). village... I've never known a village to have so many shops selling outsized lady/man shirts with 'fancy' collars and cheese.
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"Thanks for joining us today, Kayla. I know that—" pauses as a volcanic tremor shakes the ground beneath their feet; a pocket of sulfur-reeking steam bursting from a nearby rift, "O-o-okay! Moving on then! Can you tell us a little something about your childhood that influences your work today?"
"Well, as a child I was interested in the paranormal and magical. I believe it was fourth grade that three of my friends and I all wanted to know more about witch craft, so we went to the library and I checked out a book on witch craft. I took it home with me and I remember my mom finding it and being horrified because there was some nudity in some of the images, and she didn't really like the thought of witch craft either. I didn't ever get a chance to read that book and I can't remember the title. My mom took it back to the library that night as she muttered things about irresponsible librarians. I wanted to know how witches came about and what spells they could cast, but without the book all I could do is make up my own."
"I don't suppose you ever pursued the actual witchcraft further than that, did you? Don't get me wrong, it definitely lends an"—clears throat—"enchanting element to your work, but it'd be comforting to know that I had some power on my side if the... uh" feels another quake beneath his feet, "If the time calls for it?"
"Besides the occasional sleepover 'Light as a feather, stiff as a board' trick, I don't think anything ever worked, but that doesn't mean the witches in the Mystic Stones Series aren't super powerful. They are the ones you don't want to mess with."
"I see. In that case, which of the Mystic Stones witches would you say is the most powerful?" Bites his lip as the smell of sulfur grows stronger. "Would you say they're... er, helpful in dangerous situations?"
"In the soon to be released Moonstone, you'll meet Tallia. She is the most powerful witch in the series so far. Unfortunately, at the moment she's sailing the world with her vampire and human friends. There is Sarah, but it's doubtful that she would help us. She's not exactly on the side of good. She is the one who cursed Jesse in Obsidian to turn to stone every night, after all."
Frowns, "So we're pretty much on our own in an active volcano!? Okay… well if the witches can't help, is there anybody else that could—and would—help us?"
"Hmm. Let me make a phone call," Kayla smirks as she pulls a cell phone from her pocket and rapidly dials.
"I… uh, I don't know how good your reception's gonna be. We are in a volc—"
Kayla perks up as the line is answered: "Yeah, I'm up at Mauna Loa with a friend and it's getting a little hot. Could you cool us off a bit? Great! How is Ava doing? Just graduated high school? Wow! Okay. Take care!" she hangs up and beams up at Nathan, "It should be here any second now."
Still stupefied that the call went through, Nathan stammers, "Uh… What should be here any second now?"
A slow smirk grows on Kayla's features, "The tidal wave that will carry us out of here. I hope you can swim!"
Suddenly, a massive tidal wave comes up on the horizon, a little yellow life raft bouncing about the peak. As the water splashes down on the two, Kayla swiftly boards the raft while Nathan, still gawking at the spectacle, is swept off his feet.
*The Literary Dark Emperor has been lost at sea since this interview. Police have recently called off all search attempts*
Author Bio:
Kayla Curry lives in North Platte, Nebraska with her husband and two children. She likes spending time with family and friends when she's not writing or planning out her conquest of the world. Her other hobbies include reading, metal detecting and research of local history. You can visit her website at http://sites.google.com/site/kaylacurryauthor/ to keep up on her progress in the Mystic Stones series.
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by Kayla Curry
Obsidian Blurb:
Ava Tanner finds herself in a world without satellite technology in a time of GPS, Smart Phones and Tablets. When she discovers that a corporation headed by vampires with a sinister motive is to blame, her world is turned upside-down. After a narrow escape, she learns a mystical secret about herself that could aide her in her fight against the vampires. Unfortunately, the vampires see her either as a valuable asset or a target for destruction.
When the world is on the brink of complete social and technological devastation, one must ask themselves: Would I give up my blood for the modern ideal way of life, or will I wage war with the overlords of chaos?
Moonstone Blurb:
At a hotel in Richmond, Virginia a chance meeting occurs between Aila Myles and Dorin Dimir. Aila sees Dorin as a hansom foreigner with charming ways. Dorin sees Aila as his next meal.
The only problem? Aila wears a protective ring that keeps her safe from monsters she didn't even know existed—monsters like Dorin. Unfortunately, the curse he shares with his brother makes it even more difficult to take blood from unsuspecting prey, but as Dorin pursues Aila, he finds that he's having strange feelings for the first time in over one hundred years.
Dorin and Aila's affair isn't as private as they thought. It's also the concern of his brother and the powerful Vampire Emperor. Can Dorin have his cake and eat it too? Or will Aila prove to be more than just a menu item?
Kayla is giving away Ruby: A Mystic Stones Jewel for FREE until July 31st on Smashwords. Ruby is a companion short story for Obsidian and can be read before or after Obsidian.
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Speaking Practice B3
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Students will turn in their student books during the speaking exam on December 13. I will grade them and they will be available in my office, Room 313 of the KILC Building, from December 15. Students can make an appointment to pick up the books or just stop by at their convenience. The homework grade is worth 10% of your final grade.
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My Comedy Hero: Jonny & The Baptists pick their faves
- Brian Donaldson
- 5 May 2017
Musical comedy duo choose Victoria Wood and Mark Thomas as their comic icons
As musical comedians Jonny & the Baptists (aka Jonny Donahoe and Paddy Gervers) take their Eat the Poor around the nation, they reveal the funny folk who have inspired them.
Jonny Donahoe
At five years old, it would never have occurred to me that comedy could possibly be a male-dominated, misogynistic profession. Men aren't funny. They're distant. They're cruel. Women are funny. They laugh all the time. They've got time for you. Men? They don't laugh. They scoff. That's not comedy.
My aunts were funny. My mum could make you laugh by putting on a hat and doing a face. Even my nan was hilarious. She would always answer the question 'how are you, nan?' with 'Me? I'm old'. Then I found Victoria Wood.
The first stand-up I saw was An Audience with Victoria Wood on ITV in 1988. Wow. There it was. Being funny and warm and kind could be a job! I wouldn't have to be a postman or a milkman or a spaceman anymore. I devoured her books of sketches, and her bittersweet tragicomedy Pat and Margaret. I performed her song 'Freda and Barry (Let's Do It)' once at school. I forgot most of the words and nearly fell over at one point. But it still worked, of course: the song is that good.
When she died last year I was sad in a way I'd never been about someone I hadn't met. When someone mentions her now, I still go silent. I love you, Victoria Wood: you made comedy, and the world, a better place.
Paddy ('The Baptists') Gervers
When I was 12, my drama teacher collared myself and a handful of other kids and introduced us to comedy. I think he'd noticed we were struggling to fit in, and effectively said 'there's another way'. He played me a tape of Mark Thomas' TV show, Comedy Product, and the floodgates opened.
Mark became my hero. Not just in comedy but in humanity. Most people are better at talk than action, especially comedians: we're not quite as lazy as the stereotypes, but we're not far off. Mark's bite was as bad as his bark. Whenever he said, 'isn't this fucked up?', a split-second later it'd be, 'so this is what I did about it'. When I started making shows, I always wanted them to be about what was going on in the world and how we could make it better; it's what drives a lot of Jonny & The Baptists' work, even at our silliest.
Unbelievably, a decade or so later, Mark is now someone I'm proud to call a friend, and he's never treated me with anything but love. He's always got an idea on hand, a protest to invite you to, or something probably more akin to a 'scheme' or 'caper' that will inevitably get you in trouble. But then he'll be the one to get you out. Thank you Mark. I love you.
Jonny & The Baptists: Eat The Poor is on tour until Sat 27 May.


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Squier fans can now get the great look, sound and playability of Fender's pro-level Dimension basses in the form of the Squier Deluxe Dimension™ Bass IV. With a comfortable offset body, fast maple neck, single high-output humbucking pickup with three-band EQ, and a solid Fender® Hi-Mass bridge, it delivers ultimate bass sound and performance with all the terrific value Squier players have loved all along.
This product was on display in our retail store and has been additionally discounted.
Squier Deluxe Dimension Bass IV Crimson Red Transparent 4-String Electric Bass Features:
- Contoured Heel
- 5-Bolt Squier Engraved Neckplate
- Rear Mounted Quick-Release Battery Compartment
- Knurled Flat-Top Control Knobs
- Single Disk String Tree
Squier Deluxe Dimension Bass IV Crimson Red Transparent 4-String Electric Bass Specifications:
- Model Name: Squier Deluxe Dimension™ Bass IV, Maple Fingerboard, Crimson Red Transparent
- Model Number: 0301402506
- Series: Deluxe Models
- Color: Crimson Red Transparent
- Body Material: Basswood
- Body Finish: Gloss Polyester
- Body Shape: Dimension Bass™
- Neck Material: Maple
- Neck Finish: Gloss Polyester
- Neck Shape: Modern "C"
- Scale Length: 34" (864 mm)
- Fingerboard: Maple
- Fingerboard Radius: 9.5" (241 mm)
- Number of Frets: 21
- Fret Size: Medium Jumbo
- String Nut: Synthetic Bone
- Nut Width: 1.625" (41.3 mm)
- Position Inlays: Black or White Dot
- Bridge Pickup: High Output Humbucking
- Controls: Volume Control, Active 3-Band EQ with Treble Boost/Cut, Middle Boost/Cut, Bass Boost/Cut
- Bridge: 4-Saddle Fender Hi-Mass
- Hardware Finish: Chrome
- Tuning Machines: Standard Open-Gear
- Pickguard: 3-Ply Black/White/Black
- Control Knobs: Knurled Flat-Top
- String Gauges: NPS, .045-.105