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Mike Guerra
Fermin Guerra Romero
Born: 10 / 11 / 1912 at La Habana, La Habana (Cuba)
Died: 10 / 9 / 1992 at Miami Beach, FL (USA)
This article was written by Bill Nowlin
For as long as he could, Fermín "Mike" Guerra kept playing baseball all year around, in his native Cuba and in the United States. The two lands obviously had quite different cultures, baseball and otherwise, and Guerra even told Roberto Gonzalez Echevarría that he had been initiated into santería, the particular syncretic Afro-Cuban religion.1 Fermín Guerra Romero was born in Havana on October 11, 1912. His father and mother, Fermín Guerra and Cecilia Romero, came from a Spanish possession, the Canary Islands. His father worked as a commission merchant, which may or may not sound more grandiose a trade than it actually was. The phrase could apply to a street vendor.
His family were isleños, Canary Islanders who had come to Cuba looking for better opportunities, a group that also included the family of Cuban pitcher Conrado "Connie" Marrero. 2 Many of them were brought to Cuba as laborers to work on building the railroads and other infrastructure. Guerra was illiterate and raised in poverty. He may have attended primary school for six years, as he claimed on his player questionnaire for the Hall of Fame, or may not have attended school at all, as reported by Gonzalez Echevarría. He batted and threw right-handed and described himself as 5-feet-10 and 155 pounds. Gonzalez Echevarría says he began in baseball playing in the Cuban capital's empty lots, and then as a batboy at Havana's Almendares Park, working for the team he would later manage.
Most Cuban teams at that time were amateur. Rather than receive a salary, players were expected to cover their own expenses and not be paid for play. Guerra "could not afford the amateurs," he told Gonzalez Echevarría in an interview on August 8, 1991. As a small boy, he made his living selling "fruit and vegetables from a basket in the Plaza del Vapor, the huge Havana market" but fortunately found himself able to make a little something playing semipro baseball for Acción Cubana. Among the other teams he saw action with were Havana Electric3 and one named Chevrolet. 4
Baseball was played with a passion and at a very high level in Cuba; a number of Cuban ballplayers were signed to play in the United States. The two spheres – Cuban League baseball and organized baseball in the United States – co-existed rather well in the 1930s, and a number of American teams traveled to Cuba for exhibition games before the outbreak of the Second World War. Immediately after the war, the spring exhibitions resumed (the Red Sox, for instance, played some spring games in Havana) but rather quickly it became evident that a new accommodation or arrangement was necessary. The Pasquel Brothers of Mexico were active in trying to sign U. S. major leaguers to play in their Mexican League (they traveled to Havana and made lavish offers there to players such as Johnny Pesky and Ted Williams). The advent of integration in 1947 with Jackie Robinson, and others soon to follow, changed baseball in the United States. Underlying it all, there was also the return to action of hundreds of ballplayers – such as Pesky and Williams, and Robinson – who had been in military service during the war.
Guerra started his professional career well before the war, late in 1934 and after the first of the two revolutions which bracketed his baseball career. After a suspension of the Cuban constitution, and a couple of coups, including 1933's "Revolt of the Sergeants," the man wielding power from behind the scenes was Fulgencio Batista. Though he didn't take power personally until 1940, his firm rule truly began in January 1934, concluding a period of disruption. That November, when the 1934-35 Cuban League season began, with three ballclubs, Fermín Guerra was the main catcher on the Habana Reds (no political connotations to the color) ballclub. He had 99 at-bats in the 28-game schedule, batting .162 with one homer and seven RBIs under manager Miguel A. González. A fourth team, the Santa Clara Leopards, was added in 1935-36, with Martín Dihigo (11-2) leading the Leopards to first place. Guerra was the second catcher, behind Ramon Couto, collecting just 79 at-bats (.203) but having the opportunity to catch Habana's new pitcher, Luis Tiant, in addition to the established Gilberto Torres. Many years later, the left-handed Tiant's namesake son became a near Hall of Famer in the United States.
Legendary Senators scout Joe Cambria made Guerra among his first of many Cuban signings. Guerra trained with Washington in the spring of 1936, was transferred to Albany before the spring was over, had all of one at-bat, and then was with the last-place York White Roses/Trenton Senators for most of the '36 season (the York team moved to the New Jersey capital on July 2). Guerra hadn't helped much on offense; he batted just .161.
From 1934 through 1955, he played 20 seasons of Cuban League baseball, the only exception being the 1948-49 season when he served as manager of Almendares and did not play. Among the teams he played for in the league were (in sequence): Habana, Marianao, Almendares, Almendares, and Marianao, with one year of independent ball for Oriente in 1946-47. His average over all the years was an even .250. He managed from 1946-47 through 1960-61, the independent Oriente team first of all, and then Almendares for five seasons, Marianao for three, and Habana for three. He ranks fourth in the number of years played and fifth in at-bats, seventh in hits, and ninth in runs scored, ranking 10th in RBIs. 5
The reigning world champion New York Giants visited Havana 2½ weeks in late February and March 1937, and played a series of seven games against various Cuban teams – winning only two of them. Guerra caught pitcher Rodolfo Fernandez in the March 6 game, a 4-0 four-hit shutout administered the Giants. Guerra spent most of 1937 playing for Jake Flowers and the Salisbury Indians, a Class D team in the Eastern Shore League affiliated with Washington. He hit .296 with 14 home runs. Salisbury went from last place in 1936 to first place in 1937, took the pennant and the playoffs, and saw the "fleet-footed Cuban" Guerra named the All-Star catcher for the league.6 Planning almost three weeks ahead, Washington owner Clark Griffith announced that pitcher Joseph Kohlman, who'd won 22 games in a row, would start on September 19 and pitch to his batterymate, Fermín Guerra.
Kohlman's debut turned out not to come until one week later, on the 26th, but Guerra debuted with the Senators on September 19, 1937 – and then didn't play again in the major leagues until 1944. That first appearance came in the second game of the Sunday September 19 doubleheader against the visiting Chicago White Sox. The Senators won the first game in the bottom of the ninth, 5-4. Starting in the second game was pitcher Red Anderson, also making his major-league debut. Guerra was the catcher, batting eighth. Anderson couldn't get through the third, and by the time he was pulled, the White Sox had a 7-0 lead. They won the game, 9-1. Chicago's Vern Kennedy threw a five-hitter and Guerra was 0-for-3 at bat, striking out twice. He had three putouts (on strikeouts) and made one foolish error, throwing the ball wildly to second base (and into center field) in an attempt to cut down Mike Kreevich, who was running toward second. The problem was that Anderson had thrown ball four and Guerra's throw wouldn't have resulted in an out even if it had beaten Kreevich to the bag. The game was called after eight innings on account of darkness.
The Post's Shirley Povich called it "a downright horrible debut" and wrote that he doubted Guerra would be in manager Bucky Harris's plans for 1938.7
One imagines Guerra ran his debut game through his head for a long time. Had the ninth inning been played, Guerra would have been up fourth and might have had another chance at a hit. As it was, he had the one game and then six more years of waiting to return to the majors.
That winter, Guerra returned to Cuba, catching for Marianao and manager (and future Hall of Famer) Martín Dihigo, hitting .286. He was back with Salisbury, for 19 games, in 1938 and hit .323, plaing a couple of games in Class B with the Charlotte Hornets, too. In 1938-39, he was back with Almendares catching for Luque's team. More Americans were joining some of the Cuban teams. The catcher for Santa Clara that year was one Josh Gibson. One of Guerra's teammates was another Hall of Famer, shortstop Willie Wells. It goes without saying that this was first-rate baseball.
Guerra got in a much fuller season in 1939, in Class B South Atlantic League ball playing for the Greenville Spinners and hitting .321. Almendares won the Cuban League title, Guerra hitting .264. In March 1940, the Cincinnati Reds came to Havana and lost an 11-7 game to the Cuban All-Stars at Tropical Stadium. Three days later, in front of 12,000 fans on March 24, Guerra caught two pitchers of note, Adolfo Luque and Luis Tiant, as the Cubans battled the Reds to a 4-4 game. (It had to be called in the 10th so Cincinnati could catch their boat.) Then the St. Louis Cardinals showed up for some games, winning the March 28 game, 5-4. Three days later, in front of another capacity crowd at Tropical, the Cubans held the Cardinals to four hits, 4-2. A month after that, Mike Guerra was playing in Springfield, Massachusetts for the Eastern League's Springfield Nationals, earning himself a headline in the Hartford paper when he tore off his mask and went after Hartford manager Jack Onslow, accusing him of excessively riding one of the Springfield players. The two were separated quickly enough, but then Onslow got into it with the umpire and found himself ejected from the game. Guerra knew enough English to know what Onslow had been saying and take offense. 8
He was a tough cookie. On July 13, he stepped too close to the batter and was hit so badly by a bat that he needed X-rays – yet he played two games the very next day, both at second base. At another point umpire Cal Hubbard was working a game when Guerra's glove was knocked off by a batter during his swing and the umpire awarded first base for catcher's interference. "Me no play," Mike said, standing up and refusing to get back behind the plate. "Come on, Mike, act grown-up and let's get on with the game," pleaded Hubbard. "But all he says is, 'Me no play.' When he wouldn't budge, I have to wind up throwing him out, but it had been bothering me ever since. How can you throw out of a game a player who's refusing to stay in it?" 9
On October 5, 1940, Mike married Carmen Otero Gómez – the sister of Regino (Reggie) Otero, who played 14 games with the 1945 Chicago Cubs (hitting .391) and went on to coach eight major-league seasons with Cincinnati (1959-65 and the Indians in 1966). Guerra's wife taught him how to sign his name and how to read and write a little. 10 Carmen and Fermín had two daughters whom he named on his Hall of Fame questionnaire in 1977: Carmen and Ernestina. A very brief profile, seemingly written in 1944, said he was a big boxing fan and the father of three daughters. A press release from 1947 said he was father to "four pretty dark-eyed senoritas."
Yet another big-league club traveled to Cuba in the spring of 1941, and this time it was the Brooklyn Dodgers who learned first-hand that the Cubans could be difficult opponents. In the first of five planned games, the battery of Gilberto Torres and Mike Guerra held them to one run on five hits, winning 9-1. Durocher's Dodgers turned the tables two days later, 11-4; Guerra had to be carried from the field in the third when Pete Reiser's bunt went off his knee. 11 They split the series, two wins apiece and a tie. It was about a month before Guerra got back into action. He and Reggie Otero joined the Springfield Nationals for spring training at Anderson, South Carolina.
One month after that, he was called up to Washington, after they traded Rick Ferrell to the Browns in mid-May. He was ready to help, and it's not as though the team couldn't have used a kick-start from somewhere; from May 18 to May 30 the Senators lost 12 games without a win. Still, Harris was content to let Jake Early do the catching and didn't put Guerra into even one game. After dropping a doubleheader to the Athletics on Memorial Day, when the Senators boarded the train for Chicago, Guerra wasn't with them. It looked like he'd jumped the team: "He called for his pay check at Griffith Stadium yesterday and presumably headed for his native Cuba. During his five years with the Washington organization, Guerra has intermittently returned to Cuba A. W. O. L." 12 Guerra had appeared in 20 games for Springfield (.300) and later in another 31 for Greenville (.244).
Even so, the Senators still didn't cut ties. He played for Almendares yet again in winter ball and the Cuban team beat the Dodgers three games to two in an early March rematch. Guerra spent the summer with the Chattanooga Lookouts, Washington's Class A-1 team in the Southern Association, hitting .308 in 116 games. With World War II underway and teams training closer to home during the spring of 1943, there were no visits to the island by American players, but Fermín Guerra was once more the All-Star catcher in Cuban League play. He hit .275 for Almendares and this year his eight stolen bases led the league. Havana's Salvador Hernández was the choice for All-Star in 1943/44, but it was Guerra again in 1944/45. He'd not played in the United States during the 1943 season, but in 1944 it looked like Senators scout Joe Cambria's work was going to pay off for Washington. Cubans were – at least at first – not subject to the military draft while playing in the US. And Cambria (though Italian himself) had locked up much of the talent from Cuba. It looked like a strategy that might really pay off for Washington. Shirley Povich noted, "The Cuban with whom Cambria is most smitten is Fermín Guerra…'Guerra can do everything, and will make Washington fans forget Jake Early.'" 13
The fans were going to have to forget about Early, at least for a couple of years, because he passed his physical in February and was preparing for induction into the Army. Cambria promoted Guerra's cause once more: "He's an artist behind the plate and he can hit. And he's fast on the bases." 14 A snag seemed to crop up when six Cubans failed to show up in College Park, Maryland for the first week of spring training. Griffith was worried that one – or even all of them – might have decided to play baseball in Mexico instead. Manager Ossie Bluege was immensely relieved when the Cuban contingent turned up. Ten Latin players were depicted in a photograph which ran in the March 26 Post.
Rick Ferrell had come back from St. Louis by trade; he contended with "Cuba's Mighty Mite" (Guerra) for the catcher's job. Ferrell was an established veteran, heading into his 16th year of what was later recognized as a Hall of Fame career. Guerra, "a bantam model backstop," was making a name for himself with his bat and seemed sure to stick. 15 A hand injury to Ferrell in the early going gave Guerra more playing time, too.
There was a scare in mid-July when the Cuban players were deemed "resident aliens" and received instructions to register for the draft within 10 days; word was that some of them – including Guerra – were leaving the team. On July 16, Guerra quit (with Gil Torres and Roberto Ortiz) and returned to Havana, but it was only for a short period of time before it seemed somewhat safe to return. He'd meanwhile been offered a contract to play ball in Mexico, but Griffith wouldn't give him his release. Guerra registered for the draft, but not been called for a physical. He got into 75 big-league games in 1944, hitting .281 and otherwise posted stats similar to Ferrell's but marginally better.
In 1945, he joined the team in mid-March and again was Ferrell's understudy, but his average dropped off all the way down to .210. After the season was over, Gil Torres, Guerra, and others were warned not to participate in winter ball with other players whose status in organized ball was under question. The brothers Pasquel were approaching many of American baseball's biggest stars and offering large bonuses to play in Mexican League baseball, there was then question raised as to whether or not Cubans who played in the Cuban League would be subject to the same sanctions as Major League Baseball sought to preserve its monopoly status. To be banned from playing American ball would have been disastrous economically for a player such as Guerra, should alternatives like the Mexican League not prove viable. It's for this reason that he played the 1946-47 season for the Oriente ballclub (managing it as well) in the Liga de la Federación, a separate entity from the Cuban League.
Jake Early was mustered out of the service and re-signed with Washington in December 1945, but Rick Ferrell retired in February 1946. The Senators didn't know if Guerra was coming back or not for the '46 season. When Senators owner Clark Griffith was told that Guerra had been playing ball in Havana in November 1945, he said he had no information in that regard but alluded to unspecified "consequences" if that were true. 16 He'd reportedly been offered some good money to play Mexican League ball, and even taken a $2,000 advance from Jorge Pasquel. On March 13, however, the Los Angeles Times reported that Guerra had "reconsidered his Mexican contract and rejoined the Washington Senators." It was relatively easy – the Senators had come to him, and were back playing some preseason games in Havana once more, including a couple against the Boston Red Sox. Apparently, Guerra was reluctant to give back the advance to Pasquel without a pay raise from Washington.
It all worked out, but Al Evans got most of the work during the 1946 campaign, Early got second-most, and Guerra got into just 41 games, hitting .253 and only driving in four runs. He almost left the team in late July, "insulted" when Evans was asked to play both games of a doubleheader in Cleveland and he had to sit on the bench. 17
Playing in the U.S. wasn't always easy for Guerra. Even though he was of "white" ancestry, he was still Latino and a target of barbs from other ballplayers. He told Gonzalez Echevarría that "he was the object of quite a bit of bench-jockeying, much of it racial, but that he knew it was intended to make him lose his concentration and paid no attention to it." 18 He played hard, and in his tribute to Guerra after Mike's death, the sports editor of Miami's El Nuevo Herald, Fausto Miranda, played on his last name: "Llevaba bien puesto el apellido, Guerra. El siempre estaba en Guerra para ganar un juego." 19 On December 5, after nearly 10 years in the Senators system, he was sold on waivers to the Philadelphia Athletics, a last-place team two years in a row. Clark Griffith may have tired of him, saying, "We'll get another young catcher before the season opens." 20
In 1947, Mike Guerra hit .215 for Philadelphia, backing up Buddy Rosar. In 1948, he played in fewer games (53 to 72 the year before) and hit .211, again second to Rosar.
Before the 1948-49 season, an agreement had been reached between the Cuban League and Organized Baseball. 21 Guerra was the manager of Almendares in both 1947/48 and 1948/49, since Luque was still under ban, and ran a team which now contained a larger number of American ballplayers, including Don Newcombe, Chuck Connors, Jim Gilliam, Monte Irvin, and Sam Jethroe. For some, like Irvin, it was his second season of Cuban League ball. "Almendares' triumph was not only due to the superior team the owners put on the field, but also to Fermín Guerra's shrewd managerial mind. Aware that American pitchers slacked off toward the end of the Cuban season to reach spring training fresh, Guerra saved his native pitchers for the end of the campaign, because they would be more involved in the emotions of the championship." 22
It was time for the first Caribbean Series, and the flag-winners, Almendares, were the Cuban entry in the February 1949 contest between teams from Puerto Rico, Panama, Venezuela, and Cuba – that first series to be played in Gran Stadium, Havana. There were some Cubans on the other teams, but the Venezuelan team had no Americans on its team (not being a party to the pact with Organized Baseball in the U.S.) Fermín Guerra was the manager of the Cuban team. His outfield was almost exclusively American: Al Gionfriddo, Sam Jethroe, and Monte Irvin, with Santos Amaro getting four at-bats. Cuba (Almendares) was undefeated, winning all six of its games.
He had a much better year for the Athletics in 1949, hitting .265 in 98 games, the first-string catcher on the squad after Rosar suffered a shoulder injury. He'd shown up late to spring training for the third year in a row and miffed Connie Mack, who put him on waivers. There were no takers (though whether Mack would have pulled him back had someone claimed him is unknown.) Mike was happy to be playing baseball in America, he said in an August 22 story carried by United Press. "When play regular, see ball better and hit better. Everything better all around," he was quoted as saying. 23
Fermín Guerra was the Most Valuable Player for 1949-50 Cuban League baseball, as player-manager for the Almendares Blues, hitting .304 and helping lead his team to the flag. Guerra didn't start the season playing, but once the ban on U.S. major leaguers playing for Cuban teams was lifted, he assigned himself the role as the team's catcher.
The second Caribbean Series was held in Puerto Rico, in San Juan, in February 1950. Almendares represented Cuba once more, Guerra as manager, but it was Panama beating out Puerto Rico for the title. Guerra turned up late again – and an Associated Press story said, "The little Cuban catcher always waits until just before the start of the season to put in his arrival. By the time he gets into camp, the A's usually have forgotten he is on the club – but, by the end of the season, Guerra almost has caught the most games of any of the A's catchers." 24 Unsaid here, but noted in other accounts, was that because Guerra had usually stayed in shape by playing ball in Cuba, he needed less time to get ready than most American ballplayers. He had another strong year for Philadelphia, batting for a .282 average – his career-best in the majors.
On December 13, 1950, the Boston Red Sox sold catcher Birdie Tebbetts to the Indians and bought Mike Guerra from the A's. In February, the Red Sox bought Al Evans from the Senators. With Buddy Rosar on the team, it was like a reunion of sorts. Bucky Harris and the Senators were said to be hoping to buy Guerra from Boston. Having three Cuban pitchers (Conrado Marrero, Sandy Consuegra, and Julio Moreno) on his team, Harris could use the help in communicating with them. 25 Heading into spring training, the Red Sox weren't sure which catcher (Guerra, Evans, Rosar, or Matt Batts) would be Steve O'Neill's main backstop. "If O'Neill were to pick his man on defensive ability," wrote Ed Rumill, "he probably would lean toward the cat-like Guerra, who also has a stinging bat, but does not hit the long ball." 26 There was a minor squabble at the end of March over meal money, with Mike turning in his uniform, but things were worked out.
As it turned out, though, the Red Sox catcher for 1951 was none of the four. Instead, Les Moss, who came from the Browns on May 17, handled the lion's share of the work. Ten days earlier, the Senators snared their man, buying Guerra for $25,000 and rookie catcher Len Okrie. Mike had only appeared in 10 games for the Red Sox, hitting .156 with two runs batted in. Now he was back with Washington. "I'm more interested in his catching than I am in his interpreting, but he figures to help us both ways," said Harris. 27 This may have been more than a throwaway line; New York sports columnist Dan Daniel said Harris told him directly, "I simply have to get this Guerra to run my Spanish-speaking pitching staff." 28
1951 was Guerra's final season in major-league baseball. He accumulated 231 plate appearances and hit .201, with 20 RBIs. In all, Mike Guerra played in parts of nine season, hitting .242 (respectable for a catcher in his era) in 545 games and with 1,750 plate appearances. His career on-base percentage was an even .300. He scored 168 runs and also drove in 168 runs.
On the first day of 1952, Guerra got the job he wanted most, manager of the Havana Cubans, the Florida International League farm team of the Nats, taking over from Adolfo Luque. The job lasted just the 1952 season.
He wasn't finished playing baseball, however. For the 1952-53 Cuban League season, Almendares replaced him as manager, hiring an American manager, Bobby Bragan. Guerra became manager with the Marianao Tigers, and gathered another 173 at-bats (.220). He hit .255 in 220 at-bats in 1953-54, and started the season in 1954/55 again as manager, but was replaced in midseason by Napoleón Reyes. He'd had seven hits in 41 at-bats (.167). That was his last season as a player. Figueredo's Who's Who in Cuban Baseball 1878-1961 shows him with a career batting average of .250 in 20 seasons of Cuban ball.
In 1954/55, Fermín's brother-in-law Regino Otero had become manager for Cienfuegos. In 1956, the two came up against each other in the Caribbean Series, Otero and Cienfuegos being the winners, over a Venezuelan team that Guerra managed.
Guerra next turned up as manager for Habana for three seasons, 1958/59 through 1960/61. In his final season as manager (the final season of the Cuban League, given the advent of the Cuban Revolution), his winningest pitcher was Luis Tiant, Jr. In between, Guerra worked as a full-time scout for the Detroit Tigers, the appointment announced in November 1959. He scouted for the Tigers from 1960 through 1962.
In 1962, the first National Series after the revolution, Guerra managed Occidentales. Fidel Castro took some swings in the batter's box to open the series. Guerra's team went 18-9 to win the series, but Guerra himself "would soon fall from favor." 29 "[He] was later sent to pick potatoes in Camagüey because of his resistance to the regime."30 Guerra did get a second chance at managing in the Castro era, in the Sixth National Series (1967). Apparently he incurred the regime's displeasure by listening to Voice of America radio.31
Fermín Guerra was elected to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969, several years after the Hall was moved to Miami.
As late as 1977, Guerra was living on Calle Cristina in Havana, but no longer working for INDER, Cuba's Institute for Sports, Physical Education and Recreation. (The "retirado" he entered on his Hall of Fame questionnaire may have obscured a lack of employment due to political differences with the regime.)
Two days before his 80th birthday, after a long struggle with heart disease, Guerra died at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach. It was October 9, 1992. He was survived by his wife and daughters.
An updated version of this biography appeared in "Cuban Baseball Legends: Baseball's Alternative Universe" (SABR, 2016), edited by Peter C. Bjarkman and Bill Nowlin.
Bjarkman, Peter C. A History of Cuban Baseball, 1864-2006 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2007)
Figueredo, Jorge S. Cuban Baseball: A Statistical History, 1878-1961 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2003)
Figueredo, Jorge S. Who's Who in Cuban Baseball, 1878-1961 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2003)
Gonzalez Echevarría, Roberto. The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999)
In addition to the sources noted in this biography, the author also accessed Guerra's player file at the National Baseball Hall of Fame library, the online SABR Encyclopedia, Retrosheet.org, and Baseball-Reference.com.
1 Gonzalez Echevarría, Roberto. The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 41
2 Ibid., p. 117
3 Ibid., pp. 204 and 219
4 El Nuevo Herald (Miami), October 10, 1992
5 Jorge S. Figueredo, Who's Who in Cuban Baseball, 1878-1961, pp. 158-160
6 The phrase comes from the August 31, 1937 Washington Post, in an article reporting that five key players had been sold by Salisbury to the Senators.
7 Washington Post, September 21, 1937. There is a confusing item to note parenthetically here. In his March 3, 1954 column in the Post, Povich wrote of Guerra, "He didn't cotton to playing ball in the United States on his first trip with the Nats. They pulled out for Boston on the Federal Express one night and Guerra decided not to make the trip. He was homesick. They next saw him two years later." What this refers to is unclear. In 1937, there were only 10 dates remaining in Washington's schedule, during which they played 15 games. None of them was in Boston. All of them were home games except for the final series in Philadelphia, after hosting Boston. In an earlier column, in 1951, Povich told the same story but placed it in 1934, two years before Guerra is known to have been in the States, and during a year when Harris was managing the Red Sox.
8 Hartford Courant, April 27, 1940
9 Washington Post, December 6, 1955
10 Gonzalez Echevarría, op. cit., p. 406. A nice photograph showing both Guerra and Regino Otero appears on page 216 of Jorge S. Figueredo's Cuban Baseball: A Statistical History, 1878-1961.
11 New York Times, March 14, 1941
12 Washington Post, June 1, 1941
13 Washington Post, January 14, 1944
14 Washington Post, February 10, 1944
15 Washington Post, April 5, 1944. Povich said that Guerra had jumped the Chattanooga team late in 1943 to play ball in Mexico, but had been lured back by Joe Cambria.
16 United Press story dated November 19, 1945
17 Washington Post. August 3, 1946
18 Gonzalez Echevarría, op. cit., p. 270
19 El Nuevo Herald, October 10, 1992. "To say Fermín was to say 'War.' His last name suited him well. He was always in a war to win a game." Miranda also wrote, in English translation: "He did not know how to lose. He spoke the same language as Adolfo Luque: 'Defeats are not invented for winners.'"
20 Washington Post, December 3, 1946
21 Gonzalez Echevarría, op. cit., p. 67
22 Ibid., pp. 70, 71. Cultural differences often took a toll; the author adds that as many as 14 Americans had to be shipped from the Cuban League back to the States for one reason or another.
23 Hartford Courant, August 23, 1949
24 Chicago Tribune, March 29, 1950
25 Washington Post, February 4, 1951
26 Christian Science Monitor, March 1, 1951
27 Washington Post, May 8, 1951
28 New York World-Telegram, May 9, 1951
29 Peter C. Bjarkman, A History of Cuban Baseball, 1864-2006, (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2007), p. 241
31 Pascual, Andrés. "Una Anécdota de Fermín Guerra y Chito Quicutis." http://www.1800beisbol.com/baseball/Deportes/Beisbol_Cuba/Fermin_Guerra_...

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Family Judge Deeply Regrets Wealthy Ex-Couple's Inability to Compromise
Judges often plead with divorcing couples to bury the hatchet rather than subject themselves to the financial and emotional self-harm of litigation. As a High Court case showed, however, such good advice is sadly not always heeded.
The case concerned a couple who worked together in their construction business and, from small beginnings, built up an enviable property portfolio. They had three children and, more than a decade after their separation, they remained legally married. They had obtained a decree nisi but no decree absolute.
Two years after their relationship ended, they reached an amicable agreement by which they sought to divide their assets. The husband retained the business, which had since prospered mightily. The current position was that he had a net worth of £12,450,000. The wife, whose net worth was £1,625,000, launched proceedings seeking at least £5 million from him.
Ruling on the matter, a judge observed that divorce proceedings could not have got off to a worse start: the couple had been separated for over nine years when the wife petitioned for divorce without any prior warning to the husband. He suffered the utmost hurt and distress as a result of her unnecessarily aggressive conduct. The judge, however, ruled that she should not be penalised for that.
He acknowledged that, were it not for the post-separation agreement, the wife would have been entitled to a substantial capital sum from the husband. The equal sharing principle would have applied to the case, albeit focused on the assets at the date of their separation and heavily discounted to take account of the husband's post-separation success in expanding the business.
The existence of the agreement could not, however, be ignored and the judge was not prepared to agree with the wife's assertion that the husband had cheated her. Overall, he found that it would be fair and reasonable to require the husband to pay the wife a £600,000 lump sum, or to transfer to her assets of equivalent value. He could well afford such a payment and, after making it, he would remain very significantly richer than the wife.
The judge noted that, more than once during the case, he had implored the couple to settle their differences rather than press ahead with a six-day trial. He deeply regretted their failure to take that course. Although they had been well served by their legal teams, their inability to compromise had caused untold damage to the whole family. They had incurred legal costs of at least £500,000.


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Mar 1st The Book Is Out!
Rich with "14er Disasters" at Costco!
My friend of many decades sent me a pic of himself with a copy of Colorado 14er Disasters he found on sale at a Costco in Littleton, Colorado!
This is cool. My new publisher, the Colorado Mountain Club, is getting my book out there where it has not been before, I think this will give it a far wider audience. The book is already somewhat of a classic in Colorado, and this should make it more so.
These stories need to be told to the mountaineering community!
Posted in Colorado 14er Disasters by Mark with comments disabled.
Dec 31st 2016: Year of Adventure!
South Georgia Island, Antarctica
This is the last day of what turned out to be my most adventure filled year yet, and that's saying something. The abridged version:
Started out in early January by flying to Ushuaia at the southern tip of Argentina to begin a two-month Antarctic and New Zealand journey. Crossed the Drake Passage, visited Antarctica island and continent, interacted with more penguins and seals than is imaginable. Visited Shackleton's Elephant Island camp and then crossed to the incomparable South Georgia island where we again interacted with penguins, seals, did some hiking and visited Shackleton's grave. Hopped over to the Falklands, a confounding set of British isles, and then to Santiago.
From there I experienced the most violently turbulent flight I'd ever taken to finally arrive in Auckland, New Zealand. Drove from the northern tip of the north island to the southern tip of the south island. Did many treks along the way including volcanos, the Tongariro traverse, and the Milford track. Watched the Broncos win the Super Bowl in a sports bar in Rotorua. I came away from my southern hemisphere adventure with a new appreciation of the enormous efforts being done to preserve what are many vanishing species in this part of the world.
Waterfalls on Milford Trek, New Zealand
When I returned, we decided to give up the corporate life and begin a sailing adventure life. Gave away most of our possessions, sold our vehicles, sold our house and journeyed across the great midwest to the east coast. Visited many parks along the way, toured many sites from West Point, NY to Gettysburg and Antietam.
In Annapolis we came to Good Karma, our sailboat. Bought in August, began our southbound journey from the northern Chesapeake at the end of October, avoiding hurricanes Matthew and Hermine.
Sailed all the way down to Norfolk, VA, and took the Intracoastal Waterway through Virginia to North Carolina. We then made big jumps offshore, passing South Carolina, Georgia and half of Florida to end up at Vero Beach.
Other events: Released the second edition of Colorado 14er Disasters and was awarded my tenth patent for cyber security.
Pretty good year. Party supplies to celebrate pictured below! Tomorrow I start 2017 with a 5K race!
Posted in Colorado 14er Disasters, Journal, Sailing by Mark with comments disabled.
Sep 23rd They're Here!
Just Received My Copies!
The second edition of Colorado 14er Disasters has arrived! It contains stories in addition to the original, and many new photos. Should be in bookstores soon. For people in Denver, the Colorado Mountain Club bookstore in Golden has copies now. Of course you can always order it on Amazon as well.
Sep 15th New Edition of Colorado 14er Disasters
Has this hit the bookshelves in Colorado yet?
My publisher said it would probably be on bookshelves around mid-September. Curious as to whether anyone has seen this new edition yet.
Aug 31st The Fate of Harrison Fast
Speed Flying Can Be Dangerous
I was very peripherally involved in the search for Harrison Fast last spring. He was a young extreme sports enthusiast from Boulder who practiced the new sport of speed flying. This is when you get moving down a mountain slope on skis at a high rate of speed and then deploy a steerable parachute that lifts you up in the air to fly down the mountain. It looks to me to be extremely fun. And dangerous. Harrison disappeared near Jungfrau in Switzerland while speed flying with a group of companions.
After his companions lost sight of Harrison and he failed to contact them, they knew something needed to be done. However, they found themselves in a quandary: Harrison and his companions were doing something that is illegal in the park. This may have caused them to avoid reporting it to the authorities right away, although it is highly unlikely this made any difference in Harrison's fate. Authorities in Switzerland were reluctant to search in what was turning into marginal weather conditions for a helicopter, the only practical means of finding him.
His family and the Boulder company he worked for organized an extensive effort headquarted in Colorado to search for him, utilizing hobby unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) to search. They were able to acquire the drones and the people to fly them, and got them to Switzerland. Their search effort was both innovative and resourceful, though in the end they had no more clues than when they started.
Soon they ran out of time and funds and accepted the inevitable. It was a very sad ending for someone who was so obviously loved by many.
Jul 3rd Colorado Publisher Disaster
"Publishing can be evil!"
And I was a "victim of the game," at least until last Monday. That is when I finally got a settlement from the publisher of my book Colorado 14er Disasters: Victims of the Game, because they committed flagrant fraud (in my opinion). I won't mention them by name in this posting but they are a Boulder publishing company and their Big, Earthy name is easy to find simply by googling my book title.
What happened? Well, by contract they were supposed to pay me royalties every 6 months, something that they never did in the 6 years they had control of my work. They did pay me once in a while, but never on schedule. That was maddening enough, but what follows is worse.
The paperback version of my book was first printed in 2009, before ebook delivery systems like Kindle became popular. But ebooks were quickly becoming very popular. My contract with the crooked publishing company anticipated ebook sales and granted me a much larger royalty for ebooks, 40% vs 12% for the paperback. This makes sense though, it costs the publisher virtually nothing to "publish" an ebook. There are no materials to manage and no distribution to worry about.
I noticed a Kindle version of my book being sold on Amazon in 2010. I visited my publisher, sat in a chair directly across the desk from her and asked about the Kindle version. She looked me in the eye and said, "I don't know anything about it." I thus assumed that Amazon just converted existing books to ebook form and sold them on their own initiative, and that they would pay the publisher as they sold.
This was a bad assumption on my part. Amazon told me they never do that nor have they ever automatically published books on Kindle. The publisher had to take direct action to create a Kindle book.
My few and far between royalty statements never indicated ebooks being sold at all over the next couple years. I asked the publisher how much they were making on Kindle books and she told me, "I haven't seen any money from Amazon."
By 2012, I asked that my statement include ebook sales as they could no longer deny they were being sold. I have a statement from November, 2012 that shows two categories, paperback and ebook sales. Paperback sales were relatively good, ebook sales showed zero books sold. ZERO!
For the next two years I asked to be paid and was essentially told "the check's in the mail," even though it wasn't. Finally, at the beginning of 2015 we decided we'd put the hammer down and end this nonsense.
For three months, Shelly leaned on them, even going as far as showing up at their office and demanding statements. She got a bit of money and a statement, but not the full amount.
The statement showed they had been selling ebooks for more than five years!
I then filed a lawsuit demanding my back royalties (in the thousands of dollars range), interest and fees, and demanded that our contract be nullified. In mediation they thought about this for about one minute and agreed.
This publisher is still in business but they no longer are allowed to sell my book. There are still new paperback copies out there in the pipeline, and I'm sure used copies will be sold for a while.
I did republish on Kindle under my name and so the book is available there indefinitely. It's an improved version with color pictures rather than the black-and-white copies from the paperback format.
And because I own the title now, I'm thinking of publishing a new volume with follow-ups to the original stories and new material: Colorado 14er Disasters Redux!


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Former acting FBI director: Trump's 'own words' prompted counterintelligence investigation
By Laura Jarrett, CNN
Updated 9:52 AM EST, Mon February 18, 2019
Former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe outlined on Sunday the reasons top officials decided to open a counterintelligence probe and obstruction of justice investigation into President Donald Trump.
In an interview with CBS' Scott Pelley on "60 Minutes," McCabe said Trump had been speaking in a "derogatory way" about the Russia investigation for weeks, which they viewed as an attempt to "publicly undermine the investigation." He said officials were concerned by the President's "own words."
McCabe said officials looked at the following events:
Trump asked former FBI Director James Comey to drop the investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Trump asked Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to "include Russia" in a memo the President requested outlining reasons to fire Comey (which Rosenstein did not do).
Trump fired Comey.
Trump made public comments linking his firing of Comey to the Russia investigation on NBC.
Trump met in the Oval Office with Russian officials where Trump reportedly said that firing Comey relieved "great pressure."
When asked if Rosenstein was on aboard with opening the investigations into Trump, McCabe told Pelley, "absolutely."
McCabe's description of concerns closely track that of former FBI general counsel James Baker, who told congressional investigators last year that FBI officials were contemplating, with regard to Russia, whether Trump was "acting at the behest of and somehow following directions, somehow executing their will."
"That was one extreme. The other extreme is that the President is completely innocent, and we discussed that too," Baker told House investigators last year. "There's a range of things this could possibly be. We need to investigate, because we don't know whether, you know, the worst-case scenario is possibly true or the President is totally innocent and we need to get this thing over with — and so he can move forward with his agenda."
Even after the investigation was launched, McCabe said the President continued to praise Russia, and described an instance where Trump said he trusted Russian President Vladimir Putin in blatant contradiction with US intelligence.
McCabe told CBS that Trump didn't believe North Korea had done a missile test because Putin told him the rogue regime didn't have the capability or the missiles to carry out tests for missiles that could hit the US. McCabe said Trump said so during a White House intelligence briefing, which an FBI official who was present at the briefing relayed to McCabe.
"Intelligence officials in the briefing responded that that was not consistent with any of the intelligence our government possesses, to which the President replied, 'I don't care. I believe Putin,'" McCabe said.
McCabe said when he heard the President had said that, he thought it was "just an astounding thing to say. To spend that time and effort and energy and that we all do in the intelligence community to produce products that will help decision-makers – and the ultimate decision-maker, the President of the United States – make policy decisions. And to be confronted with an absolute disbelief in those efforts and an unwillingness to learn the true state of affairs that he has to deal with every day was just shocking."
The Washington Post first reported this anecdote from its inclusion in McCabe's book, "The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump," where it quoted Trump dismissing the launch during a July 2017 briefing as a "hoax."
When asked earlier in the week for comment about Trump's North Korea comments, the White House did not respond.
Press secretary Sarah Sanders did generally blast McCabe's book in a prepared statement, saying: "Andrew McCabe was fired in total disgrace from the FBI because he had lied to investigators on multiple occasions, including under oath. His selfish and destructive agenda drove him to open a completely basis investigation into the President."
"His actions were so shameful," Sanders continued, "that he was referred to federal prosecutors. Andrew McCabe has no credibility and is an embarrassment to the men and women of the FBI and our great country."
McCabe was fired by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions in March following an inspector general report that concluded he misled investigators about his role in directing other officials at the FBI to speak to The Wall Street Journal about his involvement in a public corruption investigation into the Clinton Foundation.
"There's absolutely no reason for anyone and certainly not for me to misrepresent what happened. So no. Did I ever intentionally mislead the people I spoke to? I did not. I had no reason to. And I did not," McCabe said on "60 Minutes" Sunday.
The Justice Department's watchdog has referred his findings on McCabe to the US Attorney's office in Washington for possible criminal charges. The case remains under investigation.
CNN's Kevin Bohn and Kate Sullivan contributed to this report.


Steven Summerfelt from the Conservation Fund is one of the authors in this article about the potential for Norwegian players abroad. Photo: Zhivko Illeieff.
Opinion article by Øyvind Fylling-Jensen, Nofima (Norway) and Steven Summerfelt, Conservation Fund (USA).
The past five years have created a near perfect storm of circumstances that has encouraged industry improvements and interest in indoor closed-containment systems. This is based on increased demand for salmon, demand for more environmentally friendly production systems and practices, and increased costs of traditional operations.
The U.S. is one of the largest markets for farmed Atlantic salmon. As a new generation of Americans becomes parents, they want to make the best choices for their families. This includes the food that they eat, where it comes from and how it is produced. Salmon farmed locally with focus on animal welfare in land-based, closed-containment systems fits into this. And increasingly, the farmed salmon expertise and new technology and production systems developed in Norway are positioned to meet American demand.
Traditional salmon production can be divided into two main stages: smolt, or juvenile phase, in freshwater systems on land, and a grow-out phase in the sea. The grow-out phase is challenging due to issues such as sea lice and escapees, which have impacts on both fish, ocean health and wild salmon stock. Ways to prevent these effects are to extend the parts of the grow-out phase that occur on land in freshwater, closed-containment systems in the sea, or offshore production systems. Other operations will keep fish in closed-containment throughout their life cycle. The potential of this type of production has been highlighted in a recent DNB Markets Report.
Closed containment aquaculture plays a role in both raising fish to market size in closed systems on land, and increasing the sustainability of traditional ocean operations. The mission of the Center for Research-based Innovation—CtrlAQUA—is to use and develop this technology to solve environmental sustainability issues in aquaculture. Here, the Research Council of Norway supports a team of 14 research institutions and industrial actors, including ourselves. The goal is to develop "off-the-shelf" closed-containment systems for salmon up to one kilo by 2023.
There is already collaboration both in science and industry between the U.S. and Norway. Now the train is on the platform, and Norwegian technology suppliers and even producers can choose to jump on.
We observe that the Norwegian stock market-listed Atlantic Sapphire is building the world's largest land-based fish farm in Florida. There they will raise salmon right up to the market size of 4-5 kilos. This will represent a paradigm shift in salmon farming. However, if Americans are to succeed in land-based farming on a large scale close to their own market, they must have professional partners. Norwegian research and aquaculture companies, and Scandinavian technology providers have tremendous global reach in intensive aquaculture and are serving ever-expanding roles across North America.
At the same time, the aquaculture industry in Norway is building land-based salmon plants to produce post-smolt up to one kilo. This restructuring requires the same expertise and technology as is needed in the United States, even though the Norwegian model is not intended to grow fish to market size. Increasing the size of salmon during their time on land is expected to reduce the time the fish must spend at sea, and therefore reduce the consequences of salmon lice and escapees. We see that well-run land-based systems can provide better health for the fish and shorter production time to market. However, it is currently very expensive and requires long-term R & D efforts.
In CtrlAQUA HYDRO, engineers and scientists at Nofima and The Conservation Fund's Freshwater Institute are working to overcome hydrodynamic challenges in huge culture tanks using computational fluid dynamics validated against data from working systems. These studies are intended to improve the farmer's ability to maintain a healthy and growth promoting environment for the fish, as production systems continue to increase in scale. In CtrlAQUA PHOTO, we are studying how to optimize photoperiod for Atlantic salmon post-smolt and market-size production in freshwater recirculating systems. CtrlAQUA findings are already improving Atlantic salmon production in both floating and land-based closed-containment systems.
Many of these findings were recently highlighted, when the Conservation Fund hosted the Aquaculture Innovation Workshop in Vancouver, Canada, and where nearly half of the speakers were Norwegian researchers, producers, bankers or suppliers of farming technology.
If industry moves rapidly and adjusts to the markets, it can create real opportunities for Norwegian players.
Steve Summerfelt. Photo: Frank Vena.


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Q: Getting Specific values from an xml using xsl I have an xml as below.
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A: This is a complete, yet short and easy transformation:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
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 <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
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 <xsl:template match="attributeName[.='salience']">
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and when applied on the provided XML document:
<attributes>
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    </attribute>
    <attribute>
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    <attribute>
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        <value>true</value>
    </attribute>
    <attribute>
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        <value>73</value>
    </attribute>
</attributes>

the wanted, correct result is produced:
<salience>73</salience>

A: Try this:
  <xsl:template match="attributes/attribute">
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P.S. Please format your post, as the XSL is not showing.

A: The main problem is this xsl:if statement
<xsl:if test="//attributes//attribute[(attributeName = 'salience')]">

At this point, the context is still the root node, so all this does is checking the existing of an attibute element, you are not actually positioning yourself on the node. Thus, when you do the xsl:value-of you are simply getting the first value in the XML.
Instead of using an xsl:if, you should probably try matching the attribute element, like so
<xsl:apply-templates select="attributes/attribute[attributeName = 'salience']"/>

The whole XSLT would be as follows
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
   <xsl:template match="/">
      <xsl:apply-templates select="attributes/attribute[attributeName = 'salience']"/>
   </xsl:template>
   <xsl:template match="attribute">
      <xsl:element name="{attributeName}">
         <xsl:value-of select="value"/>
      </xsl:element>
   </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

When applied on your input XML, the output is as follows:
<salience>73</salience>

Note the use of xsl:element
<xsl:element name="{attributeName}">

This avoids having to hard-code salience in your matching template, making it more generic should you wish to match other elements in a similar fashion.

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About H2O Surf
H2O Surf it's a brand about the passion of the founder: BODYBOARDING / SURFING. It started in 2015 as a blog in Puerto Rico and now it's have become a big surf brand with t-shirt designs only about surfing, beach and salty lifestyle.
The founder it's Natalie Báez and she is from Puerto Rico. She started to do bodyboarding when she was in college and since her first experience doing extreme sports she felt in love with the surfing sports. She started the H2O Surf project focused only in Girls and the brand used to be named H2O for Girls, but then she started to received inquiries from men and women from all over the world that loved the concept and would like to be part of the project. After a few years she did the brand for both Men and Women.
Her intention right now it's to bring all her passions together which combines all kind of extreme water sports, beach life, music and traveling.


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The pool is comprised of two parts. The first component is the lane pool. This end is 0.92 m deep and gradually goes to 1.1 m deep. At the end of the first component, you then enter the Deep End. The shallow end has a depth of 1.5 m, gradually sloping to the deep end where the depth is 3.35 m. There is also 2 diving boards (1 m and 3 m).
For over thirty years, swim enthusiasts from all around have been using the Melville Swimming Pool as their source of summer fun. This beautiful, outdoor, L-shaped pool becomes a hub of activity in the summer months. It has a grassy area for sunbathers, as well as one-metre and three-metre diving board for thrill seekers.
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Orchard CMS provides a nice module to import and export content items. You just need to enable the module called "Import Export". This will add a menu item in the left navigation sidebar. There you can export all content items of given types. This will create an XML file containing all exported content items. It also provides an import function where you can choose an exported XML file and have it imported.
In Orchard CMS cloning is using the same infrastructure as import/export. So please first read my previous post about cloning content items in Orchard CMS.
And when you import this, nothing happens (and the log files contain no error). If it is the case, you have the same problem I had and there is an easy fix.
The Identity part is useful to provide a unique identity to a content item that doesn't have a natural one. For example, pages are naturally identified by their relative URL within the site, or users by their user name, but widgets have no such natural identity. In order to enable importing and exporting of those items, the identity part can be added. It creates GUIDs that are used as a unique identity that can reliably be exchanged between instances of Orchard.
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Commercial Aviation MANPADS Defense Act of 2004 - (Sec. 3) Directs the President to pursue, on an urgent basis, further strong international diplomatic and cooperative efforts (including bilateral and multilateral treaties) in the appropriate forum to limit the availability, transfer, and proliferation of man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS) worldwide. Urges the President to continue to pursue similar efforts to assure the destruction of excess, obsolete, and illicit stocks of MANPADS worldwide.
Urges the President to enter into agreements with the governments of foreign countries that, at a minimum, would prohibit: (1) the entry into force of a MANPADS manufacturing license agreement and MANPADS co-production agreement (other than a manufacturing license or co-production agreement with a country party to such an agreement); (2) the export of a MANPADS, including any component, part, accessory, or attachment thereof, without an individual validated license, except pursuant to transfers between governments; and (3) the re-export or retransfer of a MANPADS (or any component, part, accessory, or attachment) to a third person, organization, or government unless the written consent of the government that approved the original export or transfer is first obtained.
Directs the President to report to the appropriate congressional committees on the status of such diplomatic efforts and of efforts by the appropriate U.S. agencies to comply with the recommendations of the General Accounting Office report GAO-04-519, entitled "Non-proliferation: Further Improvements Needed in U.S. Efforts to Counter Threats from MANPADS."
(Sec. 4) Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), as soon as practicable, but not later than, the completion date of Phase II of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) counter-MANPADS development and demonstration program, to establish a process for conducting airworthiness and safety certification of missile defense systems used to defend commercial aircraft against MANPADS. Directs the FAA, not later than 90 days after the first airworthiness and safety certification for a missile defense system for commercial aircraft is issued by the Administrator, and annually thereafter until December 31, 2008, to report to specified congressional committees on each airworthiness and safety certification issued for such defense system for a commercial aircraft.
(Sec. 5) Urges the President to pursue strong programs to reduce the number of MANPADS worldwide. Directs the President to report to the appropriate congressional committees on the status of such programs.
(Sec. 6) Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to report to specified congressional committees on DHS plans to secure airports and the aircraft arriving and departing from airports against MANPADS attacks.


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Chamber Cartel presented Anthony Donofrio's V:oratio secreta, at Erickson Clock on Saturday, September 27, 2014. Erikson Clock is a former factory building that has been repurposed into an art gallery/performance space. It is rich with wood and redolent of cedar. Its wall are of brick but its innards are wood everywhere. AMC highly recommends a visit and kudos to the Goat Farm for maintaining such an historic property.
AMC has included a bio on Mr. Donofrio and Caleb Herron's program notes on the work. AMC is a tad concrete so appreciation to Mr. Herron for attempting to put into words something so ethereal as this work.
The piece last fors 90 minutes, without break and apparently without sections or movements. AMC was a bit skeptical initially since the first part seemed to be random notes, each played with a crescendo. But as the piece emerged there was some beautifully lyrical moments for the flute (Matthieu Clave), clarinet (including the bass clarinet) (Corine Klemenc, and piano (amy O"Dell). The viola part (Katie Taylor) did not seem to have these focused lyrical moments, but nevertheless it added it rich, dark punctuations. The percussion was played by the Cartel's music director Caleb Herron. By the end of the piece, AMC was not in the room (figuratively, that is). V is one of those pieces that enables- no, encourages- reverie. AMC has always liked the minimalist style of composition because of its ability to support disconnection from formal reality to a more free association of thought. Well, Mr. Donofrio has managed to do the same with is work. For AMC it was as if focused consciousness was able to take a holiday. And for that, AMC is grateful because it is such a joyful experience. It was anxiety or tension-free listening.
There were about 40 people at the event. There was much going on concert-wise on Saturday night, but a few people had the good sense to join Chamber Cartel in this magnificent performance in this wonderful performing space. A Chamber Cartel concert attracts the hipster crowd and that is a good thing.
There were several extraneous sound events during the performance. A train passing by, loud autos, and enthusiastic revelers. But in the end, they didn't matter. By the strength of Donofrio's music and the Chamber Cartel performance these sounds flitted in and out of the music, but it did not matter.
Thanks to the performers, benefactors, and patrons that made this concert possible.
Labels: Anthony Donofrio, Caleb Herron, Chamber Cartel


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Banksy shredded painting, Love in the Bin's internal shredder deactivated.
The German museum displaying Banksy's painting that partly self-destructed at auction has "deactivated" the artwork's shredding device.
Love is in the Bin self-shredded in its frame immediately after selling for £860,000 ($1.12m) at Sotheby's auction house in London in October.
Banksy then uploaded a video suggesting the entire canvas was supposed to shred- not just two thirds of it.
The museum wanted to prevent the rest of the artwork being destroyed.
Henning Schaper, the director of Frieder Burda de Baden-Baden Museum in South West Germany, said they wanted to avoid a visitor setting off the shredder.
"We have opened the frame, we have all looked and we have seen that the mechanism has been deactivated," he said.
In front of press and photographers, white-gloved museum workers "slowly and cautiously" took apart the canvas on Monday afternoon to deactivate the device, before replacing the painting on the wall.
The woman who bought the painting decided to keep it, despite it being partially destroyed.
It is now on long-term loan to the Stuttgart museum and currently on display at Frueder Burda de Baden Baden for four weeks.
Banksy's video, posted a few weeks after the auction in October, shows the frame, complete with its shredder, being assembled in Banksy's studio.
It also shows footage from inside the auction room – including a clip of the button which triggered the shredding being pressed.
Alex Branczik, Sotheby's head of contemporary art in Europe, said that the auction house was not in on the stunt.
He said the reason the shredder wasn't detected by Sotheby's staff was that they had been instructed the frame was a key part of the work.
Speaking to The Art Newspaper, Branczik explained: "Pest Control [Banksy's authentication board] said very clearly: the frame is integral to the art work.
"Which it was, just not in the sort of way that we thought.