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US Marine Corps reports successful integration exercise onboard HMS Queen Elizabeth
11 Nov 2020 SaveTheRoyalNavy
"...Achieving genuine interoperability is far more complex than it may appear. A common language and operating the same aircraft is just the starting point. Officially the Pentagon describes interoperability as the ability to act together coherently, effectively, and efficiently to achieve tactical, operational, and strategic objectives, requiring the ability to exchange information through electronic communication. Even more importantly at the human level commanders need to understand each other's doctrine and tactics if they are to be able to go into combat together.
To some extent, this interoperability is a perishable skill that requires continual exercising together, communication, liaison and planning. Britain is fortunate to have such a committed partner and the regeneration of UK Carrier Enabled Power Projection would have been almost impossible without assistance from the US. There is also a significant political dimension to embarking USMC onboard HMS Queen Elizabeth. Potential adversaries are put on notice that the US would be directly in the fight if the carrier group was attacked. This significantly raises the stakes beyond what it would be if it were an entirely British force.
It is also interesting to note that the benefit of the integration of the two forces was in serious jeopardy when in 2010 the UK reversed its decision to buy the F-35B and go for CATOBAR carriers and F-35C. This decision put the USMC in a difficult position and for a short period, the Pentagon began to doubt the whole viability of the B variant. Fortunately for the USMC, the UK reverted back to the STOVL carriers / B variant in 2012 and the rest is history."
Source: https://www.savetheroyalnavy.org/us-mar ... elizabeth/
boff180
Reports in the press yesterday that the UK will be reducing its F-35 order to 69 aircraft from 138. That's a total F-35 fleet smaller than the carrying capacity of the two carriers.
It is part of an injection of funds into items such as a new Space Command in return for cuts elsewhere. Also expected is a 15% reduction in the army and mothballing of the entire fleet of Challenger II tanks.
Also announced yesterday was orders for 8 Type 26 and 5 Type 31 frigates plus research into a follow on Type 32.
Andy Evans Aviation Photography
www.evansaviography.co.uk
boff180 wrote: Reports in the press yesterday that the UK will be reducing its F-35 order to 69 aircraft from 138. That's a total F-35 fleet smaller than the carrying capacity of the two carriers.
Yeah, in 'The Sun'...
I'll wait til I hear what the RAF / RN has to say about it...
Cruise Britannia [SIX page PDF of article attached below]
Dec 2020 Alan Warnes
"The Royal Navy is back, with a few VIP friends. Alan Warnes reports on the debut of the UK's Carrier Strike Group as it gets ready for its first operational cruise in 2021....
..."You need to go back more than three decades to find the UK operating anything on this scale. The era of big deck, fast jet carrier operations is back" Royal Navy Commander Mark Sparrow, 617 Squadron..."
Embarked F-35B tail numbers
VMFA-211 Squadron
(All coded CF-)169620/00, 169621/0, 169587/02, 169588/03, 169589/04, 169607/06, 169608/07, 169610/08, 169614/09, 169414/25
617 Squadron
ZM146/012, ZM150/016, ZM151/017, ZM152/018
Source: AIR International Dec 2020 Vol 99 No 6
F-35B Cruise Queen Air International Dec 2020 pp6.pdf
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timmymagic
Like most have said the data from the MoD is not saying that, this is 'spin' from newspapers.
But getting 69 F-35B, which in reality is 66 when you exclude the 3 non-combt capable test aircraft, is better than it could have been. Just the initial 48 (of which 35 are actually contracted or delivered at present) was the lower end of most peoples estimates, with c70 being ok, with 90 as great....138 was seen as a fantasy figure that avoided the MoD having to do a U-turn.
beepa
Location: Aust.
SRVL into Gander just recently. Love the vortex from the lift fan.
https://youtu.be/jQr6DCV3i6E
https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/gandernl
I''m not a FACElooker so I cannot see that info. Please remember that the S in SRVL stands for SHIPBORNE. So we see the F-35Bs carrying out RVLs Rolling Vertical Landings either for practice/demo or because of the runway landing conditions.
Have a GANDER at this: F35B CYQX Nov30 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTUJXlFh_d8
UK progresses F-35B deliveries
01 Dec 2020 Gareth Jennings
"...The arrival [30 Nov 2020 RAF Marham] of aircraft ZM153, ZM154, and ZM155 brings to 21 the number of F-35Bs that the UK has received out of an order so far of 48. Of these, 18 are being flown operationally by 617 Squadron and for training by 207 Sqn Operational Conversion Unit (OCU) at RAF Marham, with three for test and evaluation purposes by 17 Squadron at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
The RAF's 617 Sqn is set to be joined by the Royal Navy's (RN's) 809 'Immortals' Naval Air Squadron (NAS) in 2023. Despite their separate RAF and RN identities, both 617 Sqn and 809 NAS will be operated as a combined Lightning Force, with a mix of service personnel and pilots (indeed, the newly installed chief of 617 Sqn, Commander Mark Sparrow, is an RN officer)...."
Source: https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news ... deliveries
Past news. What are they hiding? (I'm curious about.)
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news ... 72658.html
Critics 'would be quietened' if they knew of fighter plane's capabilities
UK News | Published: Oct 30, 2017
RAF Squadron Leader Andy Edgell, the UK's lead test pilot, has been putting the F-35 Lightning II through its paces.
Critics of Britain's new multimillion-pound stealth fighter jets would be "quietened very quickly" if they knew what they are capable of, the UK's lead test pilot has said.
Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Andy Edgell, a self-confessed "test pilot geek", has been putting the cutting-edge warplane with a top speed of 1,200mph through its paces.
When pressed on what he would say to the critics of the jets and those who question their price tag, the 37-year-old said he would ask them what their alternative option is.
"It would be utterly nonsensical to not purchase and design and develop the F-35 and have it as our core staple ingredient forming our air power," he told the Press Association.
"It is an incredibly, incredibly powerful aircraft and I am not talking about thrust, the capabilities it brings to the battle space – it is incredibly powerful.
"The disappointing thing is I can't share all the details… I do think a lot of the critics would be quietened very quickly."
"Some people like to talk about all the problems of the F-35.
"But the F-35 is going through developmental tests, it is a developing jet, it is not developed," Sqn Ldr Edgell added.
He said during the 2015 trials they realised the "models weren't quite finessed" enough, and following a change to the software for this year's testing it "worked an absolute dream".
The former Harrier Jump Jet pilot said flying the plane is a "pleasure" and that it is "incredibly simple" with an "enormous amount of thrust".
From TopGear. Interesting things are written. About the Cost of HMD/HUD. Advantages of HMD Centralized or HUD Less, etc.
https://www.topgear.com/car-news/future ... ightning#1
https://www.topgear.com.ph/features/fea ... 0627-lfrm2
What's it like to fly an F-35 Lightning?
We speak to a pilot of one of the few objects faster than a McLaren Speedtail
Stephen Dobie25 Jun 2020
If you saw TGTV series 28, you'll have seen the 250mph McLaren Speedtail lose a race. A race against a 1,200mph F-35 fighter jet, mind you. Very little shame in that.
Keen to know more, we headed to RAF Marham - where the UK's first fleet of F-35 Bs is based - to chat to Station Commander Jim Beck. He's flown F-35s more than anyone else on site, racking up 900 missions since 2014, 300 in the air and 600 on the simulator.
"I've been incredibly lucky," he says. "I've flown F-16s, Typhoons, Tornados - the whole plethora of jets. What you see here is a revolution of them. If you're a high jumper, this has gone up by feet, not inches."
Feel like more of a Goose than a Maverick? Click on for Jim's idiot's guide to flying an F-35…
1. Don't worry, there's a LOT of autopilot...
"The jet fuses all of its data together and only presents about one per cent of it to the pilot, when a human decision is required," says Jim. "The actual 'flying' is the easiest bit. You don't even think about it anymore. You ask the jet 'can I do something' and the jet will do it if it's safe to do so. There isn't a car like that out there.
"It won't let you fly into the ground or into another jet, it'll just say 'No! Now you go and do your human things you need to do'. It's just breathtaking, it really is. The controls only move for human comfort, to help us comprehend it. They're only really there because that's how pilots have always been trained."
2. ... especially when you're hovering in an F-35B
"Autopilot is a little smarter in the STOVL (short take-off, vertical landing) and hover modes. We've got numerous hover modes but the coolest is when the engine is just holding you up, you've got no lift off the wings. All 40,000 pounds of thrust is keeping you in the air. You're fully in autopilot at that point.
"We've actually got modes where it'll decelerate itself alongside the Navy's new Queen Elizabeth carrier, by analysing what speed the ship is doing. It'll come alongside and control its deceleration automatically. Returning to a boat is now actually quite a stress-free environment. Years ago, Harrier pilots would come back dripping in sweat thinking about STOVL or hover. We don't do that!
"Let go of the controls and it just stabilises. When you've finished a manoeuvre you've asked the jet to do, the safest thing is to just let off the controls and it'll right itself. It's probably the smartest autopilot in the world right now."
3. The F-35's greatest weapon is actually data
"The dogfight exists but in a completely different domain now. If we were to go against an adversary, I'm doing it in a dogfight, but I'm not doing it in the jet's physical domain. It takes place on the information spectrum now. And that information is shared between a pack of F-35s.
"Ideally we never want to get anywhere near our adversary. We want the battle to be done tens and tens of miles away, far enough that I won't even get to see him through the naked eye. We're talking ranges where our radars never used to see the opponent. I'm going to shoot you before you can even see me."
4. But it won't be knocked out by a cyber attack
"We've put so much energy into making sure it's not vulnerable to a cyber attack. At Marham I have a huge team – the cyberspace squadron – who are doing exactly that. It's 150 people, which is bigger than a frontline squadron. That's how seriously we take it.
"We can power the jet without its online systems if we need to. Its brain conducts a really clever thing called a VSBIT – a vehicle systems built-in test. The pilot presses a button just before he's going to take off and the jet looks at itself and asks 'am I fit to fly?'
"You're watching its panels fly everywhere, it's doing all this funky stuff, and then it comes back and says 'VSBIT complete'. So long as that's done, it doesn't matter what's happening on the outside world, the jet is good to go."
5. Humans still decide when to drop bombs
"The human still decides whether to fire a missile or drop a bomb," Jim assures us. "There is a morality around warfare and some ethical decisions. At the moment no machine will ever make those. That's why we're still in the cockpit.
"That is fundamental to the way the RAF and Royal Navy do business. But we've got there by getting smarter and smarter. I'm in a great position now where my uncertainty of what's going on is negligible. With certainty I know 'that's the enemy, I know he's doing a bad thing and I've got to make the decision to drop the bomb'.
"People think the move into fifth-generation jets is about stealth. It isn't. It's about information. Whoever has the most – which is of decision quality – will win the fight. It brings an ability to look at the area around the target. When you're dropping a bomb there's no such thing as a pure kill, but my god, we move heaven and earth to be as precise and proportioned as possible, and we've got weapons now where we 'dial down' the effects. In simple terms we reduce explosive capacity so its effects are minimised."
6. Most displays are through the helmet
"The helmet is awesome. Everyone talks about that fact it costs £250,000, but what you don't see when you go into the jet is a HUD (head-up display). Fitting a HUD in modern jets is so expensive, so complex, and it's really heavy. And we don't have that in the F-35. The helmet is arguably a tenth of the cost of a HUD. And I'm no longer constrained to seeing what's in each bit of the cockpit, I've got all the displays wherever I look.
"The shell is built in Britain and it's bespoke to the pilot, because the inaccuracies of the eyeball need filtering to the human. It's the ultimate suit, it just fits. It's very light, ridiculously comfortable and tuned to your eyes so your eyes aren't fighting the display. We don't have a problem with pilots coming here with motion sickness, they've had that beaten out of them at RAF Valley!
"As for the physical controls and displays, the team worked incredibly hard so it is incredibly intuitive. There are two sticks with 18 buttons each. It takes eight hours a day for eight weeks to learn it all to the point it's natural."
7. The simulator is more extreme than the real thing
"The worst thing we do is call it a 'simulator': we're actually fighting the jet more in there than we do in real life. We can do things in a highly classified simulator that we don't want other countries to see. So we keep those activities in highly classified sims and a lot of our actual flying is validating what we've been doing in a synthetic environment.
"We test the tolerances, push and do things we don't want to do in the jet itself unless it's a real emergency. We stress the pilots in the sim more than we do in the jet and they come out dripping in sweat, they really do. It's then muscle memory once they get up there in the sky."
9. The older stuff is a weeny bit more involving, mind
"There is a romance about flying a Tornado," says Jim. "I have to say I went back. I was commander of our test squadron over at Edwards Air Force Base in California where we were putting the F-35 through its paces, and I came back one Christmas and asked if I could go in the Tornado sim. You're manually flying it and I gave that jet the hardest landing it's ever had because it was really clunky.
"Let's say I offered you the keys to a Sixties 911 or a brand new Tesla, and it's a hot summer's day and you can drive one to France. I bet by Dover you'd be wanting to hand the 911 keys back. There is a bit of romance about flying older planes, but we're a professional force and it's more about what the jet can do. That's the difference between a 'pilot' and a 'fighter pilot'. It's pulling the wings off the jet, seeing what it can do, and pushing your body to its limits.
"I can talk about Tornados, where I've had wings stuck at night and our touchdown speed was about 230mph and I got out and I was buzzing. But then you get out and see pilots who've flown an F-35 in a Red Flag mission – 40 jets versus 40 jets, all fighting the highest-end virtual war possible in training – and they've 'killed' 20 jets and have utterly destroyed the environment. That's the ultimate buzz nowadays."
10. Those 'Red Flag' missions are quite something
"It's what I call the world cup of fighter pilots. It takes place at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada - the most iconic place in the world for fighter pilots – with 200 of the world's best sat in an auditorium. Suddenly half of them leave and you realise they're the 'enemy' that you're about to go and physically fly against in a single environment.
"There's every type of jet there – F-15s, F-18s, B-1s, F-35s, I've been on there with F-22 Raptors – and as you taxi out you're seeing hundreds of jets and they're getting airborne every second, all in afterburner. The sun's going down in Las Vegas, the air smells of aviation fuel and good god, if that doesn't excite a fighter pilot, nothing will.
"Then you go up and you fight the battle. The young kids think they've practiced it all, then they look at the congested air space and think 'oh my god, I've got to work out who's bad and who's good'. Over three weeks they go from literally doing 160bpm down to about 100bpm for the 90-minute exercise. They just grow."
11. It's quite an area to fly, full stop
"The Mojave desert is just brilliant. I was lucky enough to fly all the test missions out there. You get airborne from Edwards Air Force Base, which is where Chuck Yeager flew from. It's where the Space Shuttle did its recovery, it's where they did the first supersonic runs… as a pilot, that's as good as it gets. That's the Nou Camp of airports.
"Then you're at 15,000 feet and up into the ranges and there's just everything flying there. What was really cool is we were known as the Black Knights, 17 Squadron, and Virgin Galactic were doing their tests so I thought 'I'm going to do a bit of formation flying with the White Knight', which is what they call themselves. The air space is just immense. You turn around and go supersonic over Edwards, just because you can. So they're in their office at Edwards and the tiles are shaking and falling down because every jet goes supersonic above it.
"I like talking about the jet, it's my second favourite subject. What's the first? I'm a pilot…"
@byMBDA have delivered the first Meteor missiles for integration on the F-35. (3 x inert Environmental Data Gathering (EDG) rounds)
https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/ ... 8146003968
Interesting articles. RAF pilots are comparing Tornado and F-35's AoA.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/future-tec ... lf-almost/
Lockheed Martin F-35 Lighting II: The fighter jet that flies itself (almost)
With Top Gun: Maverick due to hit cinemas later this year, we went behind the scenes at RAF Marham to get up close to the new F-35, the first fighter jet that does (most of) the flying for you.
By Stephen Dobie 23rd July, 2020
"Well, a Tornado is your old push-button phone with the antenna coming out, whereas the F-35 is your iPhone."
Jim Beck is the station commander of RAF Marham in Norfolk, UK. Clearly identifying my scrambled brain, he's breaking down into the baldest terms just what a revolution the Royal Air Force's new F-35 Lightning II jets – which live at his base – represent.
"This jet fuses all the data it receives together and only presents about 1 per cent of it to the pilot, when a human decision is required. The actual flying of it is the easiest bit. You don't even think about it any more."
For those of us with wild fighter pilot daydreams fuelled by Top Gun clichés, these advances could be rather disheartening. Just as our smartphones are seldom used for actual voice calls, the F-35 will rarely find itself in a Bruckheimer-esque dogfight.
Not your traditional fighter jet
This fifth-generation fighter jet is designed to be so much more multi-faceted than all that's gone before it, and less likely to get itself into a confrontation in the first place.
It's more about acquiring targets than attacking them, using its super-stealthy coating to sneak undetected into enemy territory before painting a vastly detailed picture of the battlefield for a team of people who'll fire its weapons remotely. Or a gaggle of nimble fourth-gen fighters behind it that'll swoop in and do the dirty work.
"The human still decides whether to fire a missile or drop a bomb," Beck assures us. "There is a morality around warfare and some ethical decisions. At the moment no machine will ever make those. That's why we're still in the cockpit.
"That is fundamental to the way the RAF and Royal Navy do business. But we've got there by getting smarter and smarter. I'm in a great position now where my uncertainty of what's going on is negligible. With certainty, I know 'that's the enemy, I know he's doing a bad thing and I've got to make the decision to drop the bomb'.
"People think the move into fifth-generation jets is about stealth. It isn't. It's about information. Whoever has the most – which is of decision quality – will win the fight," Beck says.
How the F-35 uses data
With information the F-35's biggest weapon, it's something that needs sternly protecting. So Marham's 150-strong cyber team is on the clock 24/7. All of the jet's systems can be taken offline at any second, allowing it to function even if the cloud it usually connects to has been compromised.
The Lightning II's intelligence stretches to predicting its own needs, so after each flight its maintenance crew will plug it into the network, where the jet will advise what – if anything – failed during the flight or needs some attention in the near future.
I'm taken on a tour of Marham and spend an hour in the classroom. This is where the maintenance crew learn their trade, on something unemotionally named the Air System Maintenance Training (ASMT) system.
In short, it's a virtual fighter jet that you move an avatar around, with a bank of tools to drag in to help you learn every possible servicing or repair job before you're let loose on a real-life jet. It operates a lot like virtual reality, but without the discombobulating headset.
As well as reserving any rookie errors for a mock environment, the virtual system also saves the hours it can take to laboriously remove panels to get under a real F-35's skin. The fighter jet is so hard to get inside because the panels are often masked over so that no gaps or rivets break its sleekness.
The craft needs to be as smooth as possible so that it can evade radar and maintain its exceptionally high stealth levels. Not only is the removal of panels tricky, the resealing process once you've popped them back on is drawn out, too.
Next door to the ASMT room is the laboratory where students learn how to fix this 'low observation' surface of the craft. While this lab also has computerised processes, with its focus on fine craftsmanship it feels like more of a blast from the past.
There's even a paper sheet on the wall to help both trainers and trainees convert from the F-35's imperial measurements – betraying the aircraft's US manufacturer – into the metric they most likely know.
One big question looms large, though. Is the F-35 just too clinically adept to make its pilot a hero?
"Not when you're doing 'doggers', as we call them," Beck says. "We fly a thing called angle of attack [AOA]. While a Tornado could go 19AOA, we're going to 50AOA. We just keep going up, and the last person to stop going up will win that fight. And that's absolutely exhilarating.
"If I tried that in a Tornado I'd be in a parachute. There is a bit of romance about flying older planes, but we're a professional force and it's more about what the jet can do. The dogfight takes place on the information spectrum now.
"All the controls only move for human comfort, the jet doesn't need them to operate. They're about making it easier for pilots to comprehend. It's making me feel good by moving left. You ask the jet 'can I do something' and the jet will do it if it's safe to do so. It won't let you fly into the ground or into another jet, it'll just say 'no!' It's just breathtaking, it really is."
So there's little chance you'll end up in the disastrous flat spin that leads to Goose's galling demise in the original Top Gun, then.
"I like talking about the jet, it's my second favourite subject," concludes Beck, with a wry grin. "What's the first? I'm a pilot…"
Maybe there's a little bit of Maverick in him after all.
Looong article. (I'll just excerpt only part I'm interested in.)
https://www.naval-technology.com/featur ... ns-add-up/
The carrier strike equation: Do the UK's plans add up?
Harry Lye 22 September 2020
A recent National Audit Office report raises concerns about missing components in the Royal Navy's plans for carrier strike. Harry Lye investigates the strategic decisions, partnerships and politics surrounding the programme to find out whether the UK's carriers can achieve their full potential.
Power in numbers: why 48 F-35s are not enough
In its report, the National Audit Office (NAO) said: "The department [MOD] has not yet made funding available for enough [F-35] Lightning II jets to sustain carrier strike operations over its life. From 2015, it has intended to buy 138 Lightning II jets, which will sustain carrier strike operations to the 2060s. The department initially ordered 48 jets but has not yet committed to buying any more."
Beyond the numbers: range, protection and cooperation
Since choosing the F-35B, questions have been asked about its effectiveness as a carrier strike aircraft, in part due to its limited range. However, as the US has shown, this can be extended through tanking and some countries around the world are looking to develop their own F-35B carrying vessels.
The range of the F-35B has also led to some concern that carriers would have to operate too far from shore to be effective due to anti-ship weapons. However, carrier protection through a variety of techniques, including layered defence in a multinational context, has always been part of the concept, and is used by many carrier operating nations.
"Aircraft carriers, like all weapons systems, have their vulnerabilities, but they are certainly not the sitting ducks that some suggest," Childs said. "On the contrary, they have lots of assets, like their ability to move at speed and the escorts that they will have, that will make them extremely well protected.
"Obviously there are issues about the number of escorts that the Royal Navy deploys. However, against peer or near-peer opponents, the UK would be operating with allies, including allied aircraft carrier groups, and that would greatly increase both their strike potential and their protection."
From a UK perspective, a vessel such as HMS Queen Elizabeth would operate as part of a group containing at least one Type 45 destroyer, one Type 23 anti-submarine warfare frigate (due to be replaced by the Type 26), an Astute-class attack submarine, a fleet solid support ship and a fleet tanker.
It 's a crisis of reduction.
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news ... e-concerns
UK parliament requests F-35 updates due to Carrier Strike concerns
13 NOVEMBER 2020 by Gareth Jennings
The UK parliament has requested that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) urgently provide it with programmatic cost updates on the Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning procurement programme as part of wider concerns with a lack of funding for the Royal Navy's (RN's) Carrier Strike capability.
The request was made in a House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report titled 'Delivering Carrier Strike: 23rd Report of Session 2019–2021' that was published on 13 November. In the report, which addressed what it described as a failure by the MoD to provide the capabilities essential for the RN's two new Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers, the PAC outlined a series of concerns with regard to the number of F-35Bs that will be needed, as well as the United Kingdom's ability to pay for them.
"The [MoD] acknowledges that it will need more than the 48 Lightning jets it has ordered so far to sustain Carrier Strike operations through to the 2050s and beyond. It originally intended to buy 138 aircraft, but its assumptions for using the carriers have changed since [the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) of] 2015 and it failed to give us a clear answer on how many more jets it now needs," the committee said. The MoD regards Carrier Strike's full operating capability as being two UK Lightning squadrons of up to 24 jets operating from either HMS Queen Elizabeth or HMS Prince of Wales , which it aims to achieve by the end of 2023.
https://www.ft.com/content/28c19e39-8b6 ... 1bae1f0710
MPs bemoan 'debilitating lack of clarity' on Royal Navy carriers
Report flags shortcomings in ships' support vessels and number of F-35 aircraft
Helen Warrell in London NOVEMBER 13 2020
Britain's £6.4bn aircraft carrier programme risks being undermined by a "debilitating lack of clarity" over the availability of support ships and the number of F-35 fighter jets Britain is planning to buy, MPs have warned.
The two aircraft carriers — flagship assets for the UK armed forces — will not be used to their full capacity unless the Ministry of Defence backs its ambitions for the programme with a "clear funded plan", according to a report published on Friday by the House of Commons public accounts committee.
The warning comes just weeks after the chancellor Rishi Sunak decided to defer his multiyear public spending review owing to the economic ructions caused by coronavirus, in a move that prevents the MoD from planning its budget over the medium term.
The government's defence and security review, which was expected to set out Britain's future military objectives alongside the spending settlement, may also be delayed.
This debilitating lack of clarity threatens our national defences yet it's not likely to be resolved when the . . . defence review and the . . . spending review look likely to be out of step with each other
Meg Hillier, committee chair
While the committee recognised that the aircraft carriers were delivered on time and within budget, it said the Crowsnest airborne radar system had been held up by "poor contractor performance and inadequate departmental oversight".
The report also said the MoD lacked the support ships it needed to supply the carriers, which meant it cannot yet move people and goods to and from a carrier battlegroup.
"As things stand the UK has two world-class aircraft carriers with limited capability because the wider debate about the UK's strategic defence capability — and funding — has been repeatedly delayed," said Meg Hillier, committee chair.
"This debilitating lack of clarity threatens our national defences yet it's not likely to be resolved when the . . . defence review and the . . . spending review look likely to be out of step with each other."
The MoD, like all government departments, is only due to receive a one year budget allocation in Mr Sunak's spending review, but is lobbying the Treasury for an exemption to commit long-term funding for particular programmes such as the Trident nuclear deterrent.
At the same time, it is battling a £13bn "black hole" in the MoD equipment plan which is already threatening day-to-day operational capabilities.
Tobias Ellwood, chair of the Commons defence committee, said the public accounts committee's report demonstrated the urgent need for a clear strategy on defence and security, as intended in the government's integrated review.
"More guidance is needed on where the MoD should be focused on and what assets it needs in order to achieve that," he added.
One of the key questions raised by the public accounts committee was whether the UK will be able to afford enough F-35 Lightning II jets to sustain operations over the life of the aircraft carriers.
The MoD has so far ordered 48, and had originally planned to buy 138 in total, but has since refused to give a revised figure for the jets, which cost $100m each.
The committee also criticised the MoD's failure to oversee the delivery of its Crowsnest radar system, which leaves the carriers with less protection.
As a result, a battlegroup will have only a "credible baseline [radar] capability" when the Queen Elizabeth carrier embarks on her first deployment next year.
MPs raised further concerns that the Royal Navy was relying on one "elderly" ship, RFA Fort Victoria, to provide munitions and stores to the carriers as opposed to the three new support vessels which were planned and subsequently cancelled.
Justin Bronk, a combat air power expert at the Royal United Services Institute, said the government's failure to fund "credible" warfighting capabilities risked putting the carriers in "a difficult middle ground . . . expensive and inefficient against low-end military opposition but at high risk against forces with modern anti-ship missile and submarine capabilities".
A defence ministry spokesperson said the carrier and aircraft programme was a "complex challenge, which relies on a mix of capabilities and platforms".
"We remain committed to investing in this capability," added the spokesperson.
Crisis of reduction... But...
The fate of the F-35B number bets on Boris!
https://news.usni.org/2020/11/19/u-k-pr ... y-build-up
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson Pledges $32B Military Build-Up
By: Philip Ewing November 19, 2020
Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday committed the British government to an expansion of defense spending that confirms London's ambitions about improving the Royal Navy through the middle of the century.
The pledge of about £24.1 billion — or just under $32 billion — supports Johnson's vision of what he calls a freer and more independent "global Britain" following the United Kingdom's protracted divorce from the European Union via Brexit.
"Reviving our armed forces is one pillar of the government's ambition to safeguard Britain's interests and values by strengthening our global influence, and reinforcing our ability to join the United States and our other allies to defend free and open societies," Johnson told ministers in the House of Commons.
The defense review that prompted the expansion of spending is still technically underway, but Downing Street said the government already was satisfied about the need to affirm that programs are on track, including, within the realm of shipbuilding:
eight Type 26 frigates;
five Type 31 frigates;
new supply ships for the Royal Navy's two Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers;
and a "next generation of warships," Johnson said, including "multi-role research vessels" and a Type 32 class of frigate.
The expansion in funding also will underwrite other programs and reforms within the British Ministry of Defence, including new integration in its cyber operations, new capabilities to deploy drone swarms and others, the Tory government said.
Ruling the waves
The Tories' new vision for expanded British forces will extend the U.K.'s lead as the biggest spender on defense in NATO behind the United States and give London command of the most powerful naval force in Europe.
Johnson's remarks also answer a recurring question about British naval modernization in the 21st century: How committed to it would London remain?
The Royal Navy's force of two aircraft carriers cost more and took more time than once hoped, and they depend upon the most expensive tactical aircraft in the world today: the F-35B Lightning II. Those costs don't cover the escorts needed to screen a carrier against hostile submarines or defend it from air attack, nor the auxiliary supply vessels needed to feed, refuel and rearm a strike group while it's operating.
Johnson's statement and promise of additional funding put the government's stamp on a vision for the Royal Navy that includes these essential supporting vessels and capabilities. The concepts for the programs, especially the new frigates, have been under discussion for years, but the Tories' declaration of support appears to increase the odds they'll actually be built.
London also likely hopes its moves will buy credibility in the United States.
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'King of Comedy' Cedric The Entertainer not worried about returning to stand-up comedy in era of political correctness, eyes on Broadway return
On	August 20, 2019
In this climate of us vs. them, Cedric the Entertainer isn't worried about being Cedric the Uniter.
As one of the "Original Kings of Comedy," Cedric — who has shows in Brooklyn and New Jersey this weekend — is aware of how political correctness has had a major impact on comedians on the stand-up circuit. But the star of the hit CBS sitcom "The Neighborhood" — never known for down-and-dirty humor — is taking on the new terrain in stride, yet still being mindful about different audiences.
"It's so interesting that you find that there is also this kind of political-divide difference," he told the Daily News. "I mean, there are very really hard lines between red states, blue states, Republicans, Democrats, conservatives and liberals wherever you are."
"The idea if you say anything in your show that kind of comes off as against one thing, you're subject to, pissing a certain segment of your audience off," he added.
"I try not to worry about that," he continued. "I think it's important that I try to take the attitude that if they would pay to come see me, they've got to expect to get what they see, and sometimes after being on CBS for a year, it's this idea that people can feel like I'm a lot more of a safer comedian."
"It's tough," the former "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" host continued. "You do have to be weary of it, but most kind of comedians I know, we just kind of do our thing and just let the chips fall."
This weekend, Cedric joins fellow comics Deon Cole, Chico Bean and D'Lai for "Earthquake's Father's Day Comedy Show," which is scheduled to play Brooklyn's Kings Theatre June 15 and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center June 16.
For the past two weeks, radio listeners of WBLS-FM have been calling in to try to win tickets for the well-promoted comedy concerts.
The 55-year-old father of three is looking forward to bringing his brew of humor to audiences again after nonstop gigs in front of the camera; he also stars in Tracy Morgan's TBS sitcom "The Last O.G.," which has been renewed for a second season, and recently wrapped the civil rights era drama "Son of the South" portraying activist the Rev. Ralph Abernathy.
"I'm actually having a good time. I've been out on the road for a little bit during this spring already, just kind of doing our new material, and a lot more family stuff is going on," he said. "I got kids that [are] starting to grow up, and be out in the world but they're not really prepared to come from the generation where we come. I'm just having fun with that kind of talk."
The Jefferson City, Mo., native promised that fans will get more of the "music and theatrics" he's made his signature style as he rose to be fame more than 20 years ago. Alongside other popular "Def Comedy Jam"-affiliated comics Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley and the late Bernie Mac, the troupe who became jokester juggernauts in the 1990s. In 2000, Spike Lee chronicled the foursome's successful national arena tour for the Paramount Pictures film "The Original Kings of Comedy."
Cedric The Entertainer — born Cedric Antonio Kyles — has had a good run since then. He fronted the TV Land "Hot In Cleveland" spinoff "The Soul Man" for five years and starred in Ice Cube's "Barbershop" film franchise, among numerous other credits.
He's even braved Broadway, in the 2008 revival of the David Mamet play "American Buffalo."
"I've always been inspired by those comedians that can do great dramatic work," the hefty humorist said. "Richard Pryor was really good at it. So was the late Robin Williams, and Billy Crystal. Some of these comics have that ability, to produce really strong stuff. I like that and I would love to come back to Broadway."
"I saw Bryan Cranston do 'Network' and that actually had me re-motivated to think about looking for a Broadway play to do. I love the opportunity to be in New York in springtime," he added. "It may be something that we kind of look for next season."
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ACTOR-COMEDIAN CEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER LAUNCHES YOUTUBE CHANNEL IN PARTNERSHIP WITH GC STUDIOS
On 6 May 2020, Los Angeles at 18:00 PST – World renowned actor, comedian and host Cedric The Entertainer, is pleased to announce the highly-anticipated launch of his YouTube channel. With his brand new YouTube channel – built in partnership with GC Studios – the icon and Hollywood Walk of Famer will be beginning a new […]
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"When you're an entrepreneur, it's all about finding passion. It's all about finding what truly makes you happy in life." -Cedric The EntertainerForbes introduced Forbes8 last year – a streaming video service designed to help entrepreneurs become better versions of themselves. It engages audiences with business video programming to empower, educate, inspire and impact its global […]
"You should condemn them and let me be number one," the comedian told BuzzFeed News. Legendary comedian Cedric the Entertainer weighed in on comedy in 2019 and jokingly mocked his peers Dave Chappelle and Kevin Hart about their run-ins with "cancel culture." "I think it's perfect for them," Cedric said Friday on BuzzFeed News' AM to DM about whether the criticism […]
In this climate of us vs. them, Cedric the Entertainer isn't worried about being Cedric the Uniter. As one of the "Original Kings of Comedy," Cedric — who has shows in Brooklyn and New Jersey this weekend — is aware of how political correctness has had a major impact on comedians on the stand-up circuit. […]
The comedian is set to serve as an EP on "Meme Gods," a collaborative effort with Sean Flax and Bryan Black, and set to explore the internet culture of memes, are "an amusing or interesting item (such as a captioned picture or video) or genre of items that is spread widely online, especially through social media." The […]
The Neighborhood Season 2 release date: When does show come back on TV in fall 2019?
The Neighborhood is returning to CBS for Season 2 this fall. The sitcom series follows a white family from the Midwest, struggling to adjust after moving to a diverse neighborhood in Los Angeles. The show, which premiered on the network in October 2018, was renewed for Season 2 in January and will premiere in September.
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Check me out on November 22nd on CBS playing in the The Chef's Classic CBS . I was playing to raise money for the Rosetta Boyce Kyles Women's Pavilion and SSM St Mary's Hospital. The new pavilion is being built in honor of my late mother Rosetta Boyce Kyles and will be dedicated to women's […]
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Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan
Winter Soldier Hearings
By Aaron Glantz
10/03/08 "ICH" — – Get ready for the horrible, honest reality of the American occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan like you haven't heard it before. For four days, from March 13 through March 16, hundreds of U.S. veterans of the two wars will descend on Washington and testify in the "Winter Soldier" hearings about what they really did while they were serving their country in Iraq. And their experiences aren't pretty.
The event is inspired by the Winter Solider tribunal held in 1971 by Vietnam War vets, including John Kerry. The name comes from a quote from Thomas Paine, the revolutionary who rallied George Washington's troops at Valley Forge, saying: "These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."
Paine was trying to keep Washington's army from deserting in the face of a bitter winter and mounting defeats at the hands of the British. Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War say the same type of courage is needed to confront the evils unleashed by the U.S. occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Lawless Atmosphere
"The problem that we face in Iraq is that policymakers in leadership have set a precedent of lawlessness where we don't abide by the rule of law, we don't respect international treaties, argued former U.S. Army Sergeant Logan Laituri, who served a tour in Iraq from 2004 to 2005 before being discharged as a conscientious objector. "So when that atmosphere exists it lends itself to criminal activity."
Laituri explained that precedent of lawlessness makes itself felt in the rules of engagement handed down by commanders to soldiers on the front lines. When he was stationed in Samarra, for example, he said one of his fellow soldiers shot an unarmed man while he walked down the street.
"The problem is that that soldier was not committing a crime as you might call it because the rules of engagement were very clear that no one was supposed to be walking down the street," Laituri said. "But I have a problem with that. You can't tell a family to leave everything they know so you can bomb the shit out of their house or their city. So while he definitely has protection under the law, I don't think that legitimates that type of violence."
Not Just Numbers
Aaron Hughes, a former member of the Illinois National Guard who spent a year running convoys in Iraq, is getting involved too. "We're trying to create a space for veterans to speak out and change the rhetoric around the war," he said. "There are human beings on both sides. There are not just numbers. That's what missing in our culture."
Hughes grew up in a basement apartment in Chicago and joined the National Guard when he saw how successfully it provided relief during heavy flooding on the Mississippi River.
But after being sent to Iraq, he came to see the military in a different way. An art student at the University of Illinois at the time he was called up, Hughes went back over the photos he took while deployed in Iraq and altered them in an "attempt to interpret the posture assumed as a soldier/tourist in the surreal space of Iraq." Hughes' work was been shown at the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum in Chicago.
"I think it's wrong, looking back at it," he said. "How can you not perceive it as a step away from your humanity? They automatically start isolating you. They tell you your girlfriend or your husband is not going to be there. They tell you not to trust anyone but the military and they really start fostering that as your sole relationship in life."
Equally Criminal Wars
The veterans also want to stress the similarities between the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"The exact same units that are getting the exact same training and the exact same orders are getting sent to both Iraq and Afghanistan," explained Perry O'Brien, a former U.S. Army Medic who became a conscientious objector after his tour in Afghanistan. "What we're seeing is a lot of similarities between practices in both countries and both are equally criminal."
O'Brien even witnessed the abuse of dead bodies during his tour. "When a patient would die, we would hear over the PA system an announcement through the clinic saying 'Who wants to learn how to do a chest tube?' or 'Who wants to know what a human heart looks like?,'" he said. "Rather than giving the proper treatment of the dead, the body would become a cadaver for medical practice with no consent from the victim."


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94.3 The Wolf August 3, 2020 94 Second News Update
Even with online instruction, teachers can look for signs of child abuse or neglect
Teachers are the number one reporters of child abuse and neglect. That might be one of the reasons reports of such activity have decreased significantly since March, when students left the classroom and headed home for NTI.
"We see that coinciding with teachers not being able to see their kids face to face everyday," CASA of the Heartland interim executive director Natalie Cubbage said. "Calls to the state child protection hotline are down 19%, and that's from February to June of this year."
Cubbage says that even with students out of the classroom, there are still some signs teachers can watch out for, especially during online instruction this upcoming year.
Cubbage says that while not every indication may be abuse or neglect, she advises that if you see something, say something.
Beshear: 'Facial covering work"; virus cases become steady as July ends
Governor Andy Beshear continued to report steady numbers of covid-19 cases this weekend, with 572 on Saturday and 463 on Sunday. On Saturday, Beshear said that, in comparison to other states, the Commonwealth was doing well.
The state's positivity rate is expected to be updated later today. Beshear announced 2 additional covid-related deaths on Sunday.
While state numbers steady, local levels see increase
State-wide numbers might have become steady following July's rise in covid-19 cases, but local health officials say that's not the case within the region.
Lincoln Trail Health spokesperson Terrie Burgan says the rise in cases locally likely indicates a pocket, which is normal with an easily transmittable virus. Burgan says that the state as a whole has done well against the virus when compared to other states. While cluster data is not yet available, Burgan says it is being compiled, and should be available in the near future.
Breckinridge County changes Return to School date
After Governor Andy Beshear recommended schools not begin in person instruction until the third week of August, Breckinridge County Schools has made a change to their school calendar. The district announced Friday that students would now be returning on August 25th.
Superintendent Nick Carter says that the district will continue to monitor the COVID-19 situation as the beginning of the school year approaches, and will make adjustments if necessary.
Space X astronauts return from ISS
Yesterday, it was history in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida. For the first time in 45 years, a U.S. Space capsule landed in a splash down, this time returning home Space X astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Benhken. This was the completion of Space X's first full test flight to space. The two astronauts spent the last two months in space aboard the International Space Station. More missions to the space station are planned for the near future.
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Monastic makeover: offshore wartime torpedo station gets recast as monastery – The First News
Anne Chatham October 17, 2020
What the torpedo station could look like, according to the new design. Press materials
A new design could transform a former Nazi torpedo station off the coast of Poland into a monastery, replacing its aggressive wartime associations with a calm space for religious contemplation.
Located on the Baltic Sea, by the city of Gdynia, the torpedo station was built in 1942 in German-occupied Poland during World War II. It was built 300 metres from the shore, on sunken caissons that support the building. Since the war, the station has fallen into disrepair. Photographed from the shore, it looks like a ghostly, hollow shell.
The station was built by the Germans in 1942.Press materials
Now the neglected torpedo station has been reimagined as something completely different: a monastery for Franciscan monks. The idea takes the site, associated with the war and aggression, and turns it into a peaceful place where monks can live and worship.
The monastery was designed by Paweł Lisiak, a graduate of architecture from the Wrocław University of Technology. Lisiak's design came first in a competition for the best student project organised by the Association of Polish Architects, beating 25 other submissions from around Poland.
"The author responsibly dresses the brutal and technically degraded object in a new religious life, modest and austere," said the jury.Press materials
Justifying its decision, the competition jury wrote: "The rehabilitation of the abandoned place refers directly to the medieval formula in which monks transformed an abandoned place, giving it a new form and bringing new life into it.
"The author responsibly dresses the brutal and technically degraded object in a new religious life, modest and austere, but not devoid of sensitivity and feeling, giving respite, but also concentration, which is so needed during meditation," it added.
At the moment the station lies abandoned and open to the elements. Press materials
Pictures of the design show a white, minimalist interior without much adornment, including a chapel with simple wooden benches and rooms for the monks to sleep in. Large windows offer a view of the sea that surrounds the monastery.
The design has an environmental dimension: it would be built out of durable thermoplastic bricks made on site out of plastic bottles collected on the shoreline. The bricks would be resistant to humidity, wind and salt – very useful for a building situated right on the sea.
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Ask a Korean! Wiki: Books about Korean Art?
I am a 27 year old student of the arts; and a graphic designer by profession. Recently I started learning Korean, and also about Korean culture. I was wondering if you had some books to suggest or resources for me to look into about Korean art, and art history. I am also very interested in learning traditional calligraphy.
The Korean receives a lot of questions asking for book recommendations, and he always has the same problem: The Korean rarely reads any book about Korea in English. For him, it's just not necessary. Hopefully the readers can help here -- do you know any books in English about Korean art or art history?
Well, what kind(s) of art?
Young Yang Chung's Silken Threads: A History of Embroidery in China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam is biased towards China and Korea despite the subtitle. Lovely plates whether or not one likes the prose style, and she talks a bit about painting on silk alongside stitching, in case you meant "art" in the usual draw/paint sense.
Lots of great books at Seoul Selection. They ship to the U.S. too.
I would recommend going to museums like the Sackler Gallery in the Smithsonion, however expect to be bombarded with Chinese, Japanese, and Indian art with only a small section dedicated to Korea.
For contemporary Korean art, "Korean Eye," (Dae Hyung Lee) or "Your Bright Future" exhibition catalog (MFA Houston).
You can find the english-language two-volume set in most large bookstores in Seoul. It is a comprehensive pictoral encyclopedia of pre-colonial Korean Art, Military tech, architecture, handicrafts, scientific and musical instruments, costumes, decorative designs, historical sites etc.
Two afterthoughts. Some museum exhibitions publish books; those may be hard to track down but usually aren't very expensive. I saw one such (book, not exhibit) at the Linden Museum in Stuttgart, Germany; it had text in German and English, IIRC.
There's also a few books in English about bojagi. I saw the "Bojagi and Beyond" exhibition at San Francisco's Museum of Craft and Folk Art. Chunghie Lee, the curator, has a self-published book (though she is a scholar) by the same title, which I picked up; another book on bojagi was next to it in the museum's bookshop, and that one had good plates of bojagi on exhibit. I bet you could find the title by e-mail the MOCFA shop (store at mocfa.org, it says).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put out a weighty tome titled 'Arts of Korea' (ISBN: 0870998501) which is a great introduction to the history of the indigenous arts of Korea, from pre-Three Kingdoms to late Joseon (Chosun). There is also a wonderfully illustrated catalogue of a traveling exhibition called 'Auspicious Spirits' (ISBN: 088397049X) on Korean folk arts.
For premodern art, there's a series called the Handbooks of Korea Art. There's two on pottery, one on Buddhist sculpture and one on minhwa folk painting. They're both quite detailed and handy!
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's website also has a lot of integrated pictures and historical context information on Korean Art.
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Shhhh. Be wery quiet. We're hunting gwants…
tylerseguin–Uncategorized– December 3, 2012
So it's grant writing season again. Like a less fun version of hunting season. Both require patience, preparation and copious amount of beer. Both start in the fall. But when hunting game, I feel that if you know what you're doing and do it well you are likely to bring home dinner. Also, when you're hunting, once you've fired that shot you know more or less immediately whether or not you've hit something. With grants you don't find out until months later. So I guess it's more like hunting carrots, and the bullet is a seed. And you have to wait for it to grow. But that would make this a gardening analogy, which just doesn't capture the stress, violence and terror of grant-writing.
Full disclosure: I have never been hunting. I base my analogy entirely on fuzzy childhood memories of watching my dad go hunting with his buddies. And I don't think he ever took beer. That comes from Hollywood stereotypes of drunken rednecks shooting each other in the feet. I maintain that beer is absolutely necessary to get through an extended grant season, however.
To belabor my already exhausted metaphor, I should point out that it's the Theatre Creators' Reserve grants that are due which are sort of like the artist's version of a shotgun: you fire off a lot of small, scattered proposals and hope that one of the dozens hit hard enough to draw blood. Blood being analogous for money (in case you missed the earlier over-extended metaphor.) I would much rather get money from the arts council.
But that's the system. So for now, I'll hunker down in my blind, fire at anything that moves and try not to take off my own toe.
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BINUS Journal
Vol. 11 No. 3 (2020): Binus Business Review /
Economic, Socio-Cultural, and Environmental Impacts on Community Support for Tourism: A Case in Harapan Island, Kepulauan Seribu
Levyda Levyda Sahid University
https://doi.org/10.21512/bbr.v11i3.6348
economic impact, socio-cultural impact, environmental impact, community support, tourism
The research aimed to examine economic, socio-cultural, and environmental impacts on community support for
tourism in Harapan Island, Kepulauan Seribu. Data were collected using a questionnaire. The population was the
people of Harapan Island. Around 100 residents were selected as respondents through accidental sampling. Then,
data were processed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) version 3.2.8. Based
on the hypothesis test, economic and socio-cultural factors significantly influence community support. Sociocultural
factors have the most significant effect on community support. Meanwhile, environmental factors do not
affect community support. The research contributes to the model of community support for the development of
tourism on a small island. To increase community support, it is necessary to increase the income of the community,
job opportunities, security, protection of traditional culture, and welfare.
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Internationally-celebrated and multi-award-winning acoustic wizard Trace Bundy will be performing kung fu on the fretboard this Thursday, May 23, at The Loft Orpheum Theater in downtown Buena Vista.
Bundy has sold out shows in more than 28 countries, independently peddled over 130,000 records, and has performed everywhere from Italian music halls to isolated African villages. A viral YouTube sensation with more than 40 million views (and rapidly counting), Bundy has become a household name in the instrumental acoustic guitar world for his remarkably authentic brand of stringed sorcery.
Born in Austin, Minn. (the notorious home of SPAM), Bundy moved to Buena Vista, as a young boy and soon started dabbling in music.
"I started playing guitar when I was about 11 or 12 years old when my brother Greg and I both chipped in $5 to buy a $10 acoustic guitar from a guy named Herbie," Bundy recalls on his official website (www.tracebundy.com/bio/).
Unable to afford lessons, Bundy began teaching himself and learning everything from heavy metal to folk and blues. However, it was not long before he began discovering his own style and passion.
"I became very interested in why music sounds good and why different notes and chords seem to work together. The more music theory I learned, the more I started writing my own songs, trying to incorporate my new discoveries into my music," Bundy explains on his website.
Like pebbles that start a landslide, the floodgates began to open for Bundy.
Sponsorships began pouring in from famous guitar-makers like Breedlove and McPherson, stocking Bundy with some of the best acoustic guitars that money can buy.
In 2008, Bundy made his entrance on the national guitar scene when he was awarded "Most Promising New Talent" of the year by Acoustic Guitar Magazine. That same year, Bundy took home third place in the publication's "Best Fingerstyle Guitarist" competition without hardly breaking a sweat.
In 2014, ESPN recruited Bundy to participate in their international "SportsCenter Fan Jam" competition in which contestants were challenged to compose their best arrangement of the network's iconic "Da Da Da! Da Da Da!" theme song. Half a million votes were cast online, with Bundy gathering the most votes, taking the top spot with ease.
Over the course of a two-hour broadcast, Bundy played the jingle eight times to millions of viewers. In the most unlikely of ways, Bundy had sports fans talking about his guitar virtuoso while watching Lebron dominate in the paint.
Such displays of skill and prowess have solidified Bundy as the official "Acoustic Ninja", despite Bundy's unwillingness to brag.
Taken from the title of one of Bundy's popular songs, the nickname never really stuck until a Fort Collins publication the Rocky Mountain Collegian published an article on Bundy entitled "Attack of the Acoustic Ninja". All of a sudden, Bundy's nickname began proceeding him wherever he went.
Entirely self-taught, Bundy never had a sensei and can't break a board with his head, but his use of an acoustic guitar, pedal effects, and multi-instrumentalist are in a class entirely its own.
Doubling as a seasoned storyteller and comedian, Bundy often regales audiences with stories and laughs in between numbers, revealing the man behind the music. More than just a man with an acoustic guitar, a Trace Bundy show is a sensory experience.
Spending most of the year on the road, the chance to play a show in his Colorado hometown is a welcomed gift for Bundy.
"In Buena Vista, it's really special. It's surreal. For me, it's more of a celebration concert than anything else," Bundy beamed.
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OCOEE, Fla. - It's been 10 years since Tracy Ocasio vanished after watching an Orlando Magic game at a local bar and still, Ocoee police are looking for clues that could solve the case.
Ocasio, who was 27 at the time, was last seen May 26, 2009, leaving the Florida Tap Room bar in MetroWest with James Hataway, who remains the only suspect in the case.
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Lou Hickey (Musician): Independence Is The Way To A Better Future
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National Collective has today welcomed the support of vintage pop singer Lou Hickey, who in 2010 was Glamour magazine's "One to Watch" and Scotland on Sunday's "Most Eligible Woman".
Since her work with Jon Fratelli in the critically acclaimed Codeine Velvet Club, Lou has just finished her first solo album which is due for release later this year.
An impressive independent solo career already behind her, Lou has supported the likes of Martha Wainwright, Suzanne Vega and Imelda May, and has performed at the Connect Festival, Club Noir, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, as well as Scotland's largest music festival T in the Park.
Lou has joined National Collective and expressed her support for Scottish independence, saying it would allow Scotland to "nurture and support our own creative and talented minds."
I love Scotland. I love our many accents. I love our tartans. I love our quiet hillsides and our bustling cities. I love the fact we make some of the best whisky and gin in the world. I even love our ever-changing weather. Scotland has a unique cultural identity. We have so much to offer the world.
"I believe independence is the way to a better future for Scotland. We need to have control to focus on the issues that are top of our priority list. We need to be able to benefit from our country's assets. We need to be able to nurture and support our own creative and talented minds.
"From recent conversations, I am finding that people know very little about the benefits of Scottish independence. Their political views are often stuck in the past with family tradition. I have joined National Collective, as I feel it is a wonderful tool to help spread the positive opportunities independence could bring to Scotland.
"With nearly all our major newspapers and broadcasting tied up to British national companies, it is becoming increasingly difficult to positively promote Scottish independence and discuss it fairly. National Collective offers a great opportunity for creative voices in Scotland to discuss independence without any affiliation to political parties.
"Independence isn't just about the Scottish National Party. Once we have independence, we can have the government we choose. We could have new parties that properly represent the many voices of our nation. Maybe Scottish Labour could return to what it started out as; a working man's party.
"This is a huge decision for Scotland, and it must not be taken lightly. The people need to know the facts and not be steered by scaremongering, history or false propaganda. It's not about what happened in Scotland's past. Its about what our future could and should be."
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Results of 2232 International Fellowship for Outstanding Researchers Programme Announced
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England & Wales Published Wills & Probate Indexes, 1300-1858 volumes available
Exeter Consistory Wills and Administrations 1532-1800, Introduction to Original Volume
Cornwall Archdeaconry Wills & Administrations 1569-1799, Introduction to Original Volume
Wills and Administrations Exeter Principal Registry 1559-1799 (Devon and Cornwall) ans Wills and Administrations Archdeaconry of Exeter (Devon) 1540-1799, Introduction
Exeter Consistory Wills and Administrations 1532-1800 , Introduction to Original Volume
British Record Society volume 46
It will be desirable for those consulting this Calendar to refer to the Preface of the first volume of Devonshire Wills issued by the British Record Society, Limited, in 1908, and forming No. 35 of the Index Library, to understand rightly the intricacies of the various Calendars of Wills and Administrations now preserved at the Probate Registry at Exeter.
It is stated there that the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Exeter (which is the one now completed and printed in this volume) had jurisdiction over thirty-seven parishes in the counties of Devon and Cornwall which were Peculiars of the Bishop, as well as power to grant Probates of Wills per testes over the whole Diocese, when there were not bona notabilia within two or more jurisdictions within the Diocese.
The dates covered by this Calendar are between 1532 (the earliest date of any will now extant at this Probate Registry) and 1800. There is a chasm, as is usual in all provincial Probate Courts, from about 1652 to 1660, during which period all local wills were proved in London, but evidently copies of many wills within these dates were taken, probably for sake of reference, since in letter B there are wills in the years 1651, 1652, 1653, 1654, and 1655, and in other letters similar dates will be found.
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We have friends in India who are seeing large numbers of both high-caste Hindus and people from other religions become followers of Jesus. They use the sacred books of those religions to point to Christ. When they have clearly demonstrated Christ within those books, they can then point them to the Jesus of the Bible. They are contextualizing the Gospel in a way that makes it understandable to those they are trying to reach.
There are pointers to Jesus in every culture.
The book, Bruchko, describes the extraordinary story of 19 year-old Bruce Olson, who sought to bring the Gospel to a murderous tribe in the South American jungle. These people had no words in their language that could express some of the concepts of a belief in Jesus. Bruce used some remarkably creative ways to bring across these ideas.
For example, there was no word to express "faith" in the Motilone language. The Indians used to sleep on hammocks suspended from the rafters of their communal homes. The best word for faith that Bruce found was the word that meant to "tie in one's hammock." It beautifully expresses faith as suspending one's life from Christ and the people instinctively understood its meaning.
Some years ago we started a church in the low income housing projects. One day, a good friend from England, Norman Barnes, visited. He clearly demonstrated the efficacy of the blood of Christ in forgiving sins to our friends there. He had them each write down the things they had done that were bad, that they were ashamed of, or issues they dealt with like anger, onto a sheet of paper. When each one had completed their list, they put their papers into a pan. He covered it with a red cloth symbolizing the blood of Jesus. He took the pan outside, removed the cloth and set fire to the paper. Then he asked them to pull their sins out of the pan. Of course, they were just ash.
The kids talked about how the blood of Jesus dealt with their sins for weeks after that. Every time a person wore something red they would remind each other: "She's wearing red: do you remember how the blood of Jesus covers the things we've done wrong."
How can we contextualize the good news for the people we come across day by day? How can this be used to reach out to other cultures too?
I really like the ideas you're sharing here, Felicity.
Do you have any examples of applying this in modern Western cultures? Seems to me there's a great need for deep insights that will provide specific 'keys' that can unlock particular concepts for particular groups of people.
Once you start thinking along these lines it becomes obvious that Jesus did the same thing in his parables. He alluded to fishing, farming, cooking, storing wine, repairing clothes and much more.
Chris, I'm sure there must be many modern applications depending on the group we're working in. One that comes immediately to mind is the concept of networking/going viral (yeast in dough). And you're right. Jesus contextualized his message all the time, although I've often wondered why he didn't tell any carpentry stories.
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Q: find out if date with added interval of days lies in week Making it simple, I've got the following definitions:
DECLARE @referenceDate DATETIME
SET @referenceDate = '20171123';
DECLARE @intervalDays INT
SET @intervalDays = 30
DECLARE @weekMonday DATETIME
SET @weekMonday = '20171204';
DECLARE @weekSunday DATETIME
SET @weekSunday = '20171210';

Something important is happening at exactly these dates:
@referenceDate
DATEADD(day, 1 * @intervalDays, @referenceDate);
DATEADD(day, 2 * @intervalDays, @referenceDate);
DATEADD(day, 3 * @intervalDays, @referenceDate);

and so on.
I want to find out if this 'something important' will (also) happen in the specified week between @weekMonday and @weekSunday.
I've got SQL Server version 11.0.6251.0 Standard Edition, German localization. Thanks for your help.

A: I've found this solution with modulo:
IF (DATEDIFF(day, @referenceDate, @weekMonday) % @intervalDays = 0 OR
    DATEDIFF(day, @referenceDate, DATEADD(day, 1, @weekMonday)) % @intervalDays = 0 OR
    DATEDIFF(day, @referenceDate, DATEADD(day, 2, @weekMonday)) % @intervalDays = 0 OR
    DATEDIFF(day, @referenceDate, DATEADD(day, 3, @weekMonday)) % @intervalDays = 0 OR
    DATEDIFF(day, @referenceDate, DATEADD(day, 4, @weekMonday)) % @intervalDays = 0 OR
    DATEDIFF(day, @referenceDate, DATEADD(day, 5, @weekMonday)) % @intervalDays = 0 OR
    DATEDIFF(day, @referenceDate, DATEADD(day, 6, @weekMonday)) % @intervalDays = 0)
   SELECT @monday AS found

Maybe someone knows how to further simplify it? Thanks.

A: I am unclear exactly what you are looking for.
If in range:
DECLARE @referenceDate DATETIME
SET @referenceDate = '20171123';
DECLARE @intervalDays INT
SET @intervalDays = 30
DECLARE @weekMonday DATETIME
SET @weekMonday = '20171204';
DECLARE @weekSunday DATETIME
SET @weekSunday = '20171210';

SELECT
    CASE
        WHEN DATEADD(day, @intervalDays, @referenceDate) BETWEEN @weekMonday AND @weekSunday
            THEN @intervalDays
        WHEN DATEADD(day, @intervalDays + 30, @referenceDate) BETWEEN @weekMonday AND @weekSunday
            THEN @intervalDays + 30
        ELSE 0
    END AS [IsReferenceDatePlusIntervalDaysWithinTheDateRange]

How many days until range:
SELECT DATEDIFF(day, @referenceDate, @weekMonday) AS [NumberOfDaysBetweenReferenceDateToWeekMonday]

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