Most of the recipes are relatively easy to make, and call for ingredients that you can find in just about any grocery store. The recipes vary wildly, from various international cuisines, some gluten-free (all are gluten-free since June 2009!) or vegetarian, and some are "good ol' home cooking." Many can be made in a weeknight, although I do have some that are more of a "Sunday afternoon" type of meal. A few are adapted or inspired by friends, family, websites, some of the blogs I regularly view, or magazine articles. If you have a recipe you'd like me to try and then post on this blog, by all means, send it my way! The more we share, the better we all eat, right?
Since June 2009, Tasty Eats At Home has been gluten-free, and will continue to be gluten-free. You see, I made a decision to eliminate gluten from my diet in an effort to eliminate a lot of the symptoms I had been experiencing for years. (Read more about this here) Since I have eliminated gluten from my diet, most of these symptoms have disappeared entirely. And even now, so soon after this change, if I eat the smallest amount of gluten, those symptoms return in a flash. I'm elated to have found the "enemy". In brief moments of weakness, I get a little sad when I consider that I cannot enjoy some of the baked goods that others can enjoy without remorse; but then I remember – I know my way around a kitchen. Although I am not a professional, I can figure out how to make a cake, bread, cookies, and other delicious treats gluten-free! So, a time of trial and error has begun. My goal is to share with you delicious, gluten-free food that can bring your heart joy and nourish your body, one recipe at a time.
Hi! I have to leave a comment about your hair 🙂 It is so cute and what I want to do with mine. I may print off your photo next time I get mine cut.
Your food looks awesome too!
It's great to have another gluten-free, southern blogger! Thanks for sharing your recipes and positive attitude about gluten-free living.
Next time I'm in Big D, we must meet! Thanks for the great comment today about breakfast foods over at hollyhickman.com. 😉 You are always so insightful.
By the way, that is a fine and fetching photo of you. You exude happy. Me likey.
Nice to meet you Alta, we have almos the same name, he, he.
Thanks for your comments. I'm looking forward to reading more of your posts.
I came across your great blog and recipes on FoodBuzz today. I am a Registered Nutritionist and Nutritional Practitioner in Canada and would love to do a large layout post on my blog on gluten free recipes and info. All of your recipes sound lovely, and I would love to feature a couple in my layout….mentioning you, your blog, and linking back to you of course!
So many of my clients are battling celiac disease, I'd love to show them some unique and flavorful gluten free recipes like yours.
Just came across your site, and I love it! Really beautiful photos and recipes. I look forward to reading more from you.
Alta, my husband and I treat children with autism. As you may know, many parents who have children with autism choose to put their children on gluten-free diets. I added a link to your site on our business site. So, I'm hoping that once I alert them to the links, you'll start getting some hits from there. As always, I adore your posts!
I love your blog and photos! What camera do you use?
With your permission I'll add you to my blog roll.
notimeforcooking – of course you can! Thank you.
i I just wanted to thank you for the great book I won in your giveaway. I received it 2 weeks ago and have enjoyed several receipes from it. Thanks so much for your generosity.
I just wanted to thank you for the great book I won in your giveaway. I received it 2 weeks ago and have enjoyed several receipes from it. Thanks so much for your generosity.
I can't wait to check out some of your recieps! WE have very similar food philosophies, esp. about every one having the time to eat LESS processed foods and MORE homemade foods!
Hi Alta. I had a friend send me a link to your best brownies in the world recipe about a year ago. I have to admit I love them to bits. Been making them ever since. I am going to tweak it a bit for some extra chocolatey goodness. My question for you is would it be okay to post your original link in my blog for those interested in trying yours out? I'll post my own version but would like to include you as my inspiration. I thought I would also include the link to Hepburn's brownies as well. Let me know what you think.Thought the evolution of a recipe idea might be interesting.
Also admire you for going gluten free. Been contemplating it myself. I have IBS and a sensitivity to gluten. Good to know you can still enjoy cooking without sacrificing taste.Kudos to you.
Hi Alta, I just found your blog this morning through "adopt a blogger." I'm pritty new to blogging, but I'm looking foward to trying some of your recipes. I was also suprized to learn that your from North Dallas since I live in Irving.


what is kNN? how it works, and what's its important applications. by Devin Soni. 5 min read.
This article aims to solve this problem by briefly discussing the RL setup, and providing an introduction for some of the well-known algorithms. by Steve Huang. 15 min read.
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Q: translate pseudocode palindrome I have this pseudocode that I need to translate:
Prompt the user to enter a string and call it s.
Let l be the length of string
For i from 0 upto l-1:
    print s[0:i]
For i from 0 upto l-1:
    print s[i:l]
Print a closing statement

This is my translation:
 def main():

        s=(input("Please enter a string: "))
        L=len(s)

        for i in [0,L-1]:
            print (s[0:i])

        for i in [0,L-1]:
            print(s[i:L])

        print("This program is complete!")

    main()

However, the code isn't printing correctly. Can someone help me find my error? Thank you.

A: You say for i in [0,L-1], but [0,L-1] is a list with two elements: 0 and L-1.  What you want instead is range(0, L) or range(L):
def main():

    s=(input("Please enter a string: "))
    L=len(s)

    for i in range(L):
        print (s[:i])

    for i in range(L):
        print(s[i:L])

    print("This program is complete!")

main()

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Posted on April 12, 2012 June 8, 2014
Couldn't give ATos and the DWP Staasi have been AT IT again!
Grayling – you are SUCH A LIAR!
This article titled "Private sector medical staff assessing benefit claimants told to sign Official Secrets Act" was written by Shiv Malik and Amelia Gentleman, for guardian.co.uk on Thursday 12th April 2012 16.33 Europe/London
The private healthcare company that performs controversial sickness benefit assessments has confirmed that it makes all its medical staff sign the Official Secrets Act.
Atos Healthcare admitted that doctors and nurses are asked to sign a document which sets out the basic terms of the Official Secrets Act even though much of the company's taxpayer-funded work is not bound by the terms of the Act.
Two doctors who work for Atos raised their concerns with the Guardian and online political blog Liberal Conspiracy after the company asked them to sign a document pointing out their obligations under the OSA.
Both doctors believed that signing the document would hinder people in the organisation from blowing the whistle on patient safety and issues around whether medical assessments were being carried out appropriately.
Though it would be highly unlikely for medical staff to be prosecuted under official secrets legislation for speaking out on patient safety issues, doctors are concerned that signing the document would itself make staff more reluctant to come forward.
Atos, a French-owned healthcare and IT company, is being paid more than £100 million a year to carry out the controversial work capability assessments for the government, which help determine whether claimants are eligible for sickness benefits.
The process has been dogged by controversy since it began to be piloted under the last government and complaints snowballed once the system began retesting all Incapacity Benefit claimants last April, to assess whether they should receive the new Employment and Support Allowance.
One doctor who joined Atos last summer said that all medical health professionals, MHPs as they are referred to within the organisation, are required to sign the document.
The doctor, who spoke to the Guardian on condition of anonymity, said. "I could not have been more surprised when I was told that everybody had to sign the OSA."
"There's something very sinister, cloak and dagger about it. It's weird that it would be used in the context of our work; it's not the same kettle of fish at all."
Signing a statement outlining their obligations under the act would make staff "reluctant to bring matters of concern to the attention of the wider public", the doctor said because of the potential "threat of sinister, treason-like charges".
"Mild mannered healthcare professionals would all be twitchy about speaking out."
The doctor added that there were already strict rules about disclosure of patient details so there was no need to invoke such draconian legislation. "You would have thought we would be covered by our professional codes of conduct. The GMC and the Nursing and Midwifery Council would take a very dim view of if we disclosed personal details."
A second Atos doctor also working on sickness assessments said he had concerns about the ability to speak out about systemic problems. "There is no justification for a healthcare practitioner assessing a person suffering from back pain or depression to sign this kind of document."
Atos has said that it has contracts with other public bodies including the Ministry of Defence which require its employees working with those bodies to sign the OSA.
Atos added that it has one blanket security policy across the company and this was why doctors working with the Department for Work and Pensions' assessment process were also being made to sign a statement saying they were aware of the terms of the Act.
"Atos Healthcare provides services to a number of clients and in line with our best practice security policy, we ask employees who handle confidential information as part of our work with public clients to sign a set of security compliance forms including the Official Secrets Act declaration form."
In a parliamentary answer to a question from Tom Greatrex, the Labour MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West, in February the employment minister, Chris Grayling said his department did not require Atos employees to be bound by the terms of the OSA or extra provisions which bring further penalties for disclosing government information protected under the Act.
In response to a further parliamentary question, Grayling added: "No Atos Healthcare employees have been prosecuted for breach of confidentiality rules … from 2008 to date."
A Department for Work and Pensions spokesperson told the Guardian that the department was not aware that Atos employees were being made to sign the OSA.
Greatrex said: "If it is the case that Atos medical staff are required to sign the Official Secrets Act then this is an extraordinary development. This would prevent the possibility of problems with the system coming to light.
"It is only through transparency and accountability that real improvements to the work capability assessment can be made. When Atos is in receipt of millions of taxpayer money, it is unacceptable for a culture of secrecy and cover-up to prevail."
Concerned about continuing problems with the accuracy of the Atos-administered work capability assessment, Greatrex recently asked the National Audit Office to investigate whether the company provided taxpayers with good value for money. The NAO is conducting preliminary inquiries to establish whether to investigate.
Atos is understood to be tendering for new contracts to carry out more health tests for the government, and details will be announced next month.
A DWP spokesperson said: "We are satisfied that the Atos arrangements meet the confidentiality requirements specified in our service agreement."
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hossylass says: 11 years ago
A smart move from Tom Greatrex getting the NAO involved.
Anyone who has had contact with the NAO will confirm that these people are vigilant down to the last detail.
Mo Stewart says: 11 years ago
Catch up: UNLESS the Official Secrets Act has changed since I was in the military, this is a GOVERNMENT document, it CAN'T be handed out by a private company (!!) unless this gvt sub-contrator is REQUIRED to hand it out by orders of gvt. A MEDICAL assessment does NOT require the level of secrecy implied by the OSA and this may just be an own goal by Atos as even more doctors will refuse to work for them.
The NAO needs to wake up as the DWP have already confirmed in writing that the £100million per annum contract with Atos has NEVER been audited by the DWP 🙂

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Most U.S. stock market indexes achieved a notable record by late January, having amassed nearly 400 days without a measurable pullback of more than a few percentage points. Such a long period with no measurable declines is unusual and had lulled many into a distinct aura of complacency, a disconcerting place, as we wrote warningly in last quarter's column. Wait... stability is disconcerting? Yes, in that it's not a normal state of affairs for economies or markets to be in.
When markets are steady for a very long time, it can lull investors into believing this abnormally benign period can go on forever. In classic "It's all good" mentality, time horizons can lengthen and worries can be minimized. However, when investors "wake up" after such a period and reassert their right to worry, the initial response can be abrupt. As the quote above reminds us, smooth markets don't change the fact that underlying economic fundamentals are necessarily lumpy--ebbing and flowing with changes in weather, time of year, natural disasters, demographics, geopolitics, and a host of other things. Underlying almost every function of our economy are individual human decisions. And those, as we well know, can be anything but smooth, rational, or predictable.
The key when dealing with markets in general and individual investments in specific is to keep one's focus squarely on the basic relationship between underlying fundamentals relative to what investors are paying for those fundamentals and to ignore the swings. In fact, volatility and mispricing create opportunity and are not to be feared for those with a long-term time horizon.
Take the trading on February 2, 2018, for example, when the Dow dropped more than 650 points and most other major indexes declined in similar fashion. The downturn seemed especially sharp because we had become so used to markets moving only in one, northerly direction. The pullback was attributed by many to be fear over rising rates spawned by stronger economic numbers, specifically related to wage growth.
Let's reevaluate this reasoning: 1) Isn't faster wage growth a good thing? 2) Won't faster wage growth in the long run lead to employees with more purchasing power? 3) Isn't a bit higher rate of inflation a good thing, in that it allows companies some pricing flexibility? Getting from where we were to the new "normal" is likely going to be a lumpy process, but in the end it should result in more people with jobs, more consumers, and a country in a much healthier and sustainable place.
The jobs numbers have been improving as we've clawed our way out from the double-digit unemployment rate recorded just after the financial crisis of 2008. Competition for workers has been fierce, and incentives (in the form of hiring and retention bonuses, expanded leave policies, and other benefits aimed at attracting workers) were occurring even before the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was passed in December 2017. With a number of states, companies, and municipalities raising their minimum wage on January 1, 2018, is it really that surprising there has been a bit of upward pressure on wage growth?
We have a new tax law whose implications are still being worked through by both corporations and individuals. Between changes to tax rates, overseas earnings, changes in debt deductibility, and even such things as legal expenses and the ability to absorb some longstanding employee perks (such as parking or bus passes) on a pretax basis, no one is quite sure until hundreds of scenarios are run what the net impact will be. Companies are noodling all sorts of different combinations to maximize their businesses under this new tax regime in an attempt to find the optimal combination of actions--increasing wages, enhancing training, increasing dividends, installing new technology--that will yield them the best total stakeholder response. While tough to predict with specificity, it would seem only common sense to presume that upward wage pressure will continue as 2018 progresses.
Among the few claims we as prognosticators can lean toward, then, are directionality and that economic activity seems to be on a more upward-sloping trajectory than we've experienced over the past 10 years; and odds are the new tax law will support that uptick, at least on the margin. As companies contemplate where to put new production lines, whether or not to do a capital-intensive acquisition, or how to retain workers, the tax law seems to be helping sway many of those decisions into investing in the U.S. and its workforce.
We understand there are a lot of "ifs" and "unknowns" in the mix, and in that murkiness lies investor angst. So although we believe that underlying fundamentals remain solid and the direction of economic activity is likely to move ahead, there is plenty to keep an eye on to ensure timing and progress remain directionally appropriate.
The extent to which markets continue to swing more widely provides ample opportunity for investors to deploy sidelined cash, rebalance regularly, and take advantage of market swings that are out of sync with improving long-term fundamentals. Watching those fundamentals and the host of critical potential bottlenecks or crossover points will keep us all busy as the year plays out--most likely with a higher degree of volatility than we have become accustomed to.
Carol M. Schleif, CFA, is deputy chief investment officer at Abbot Downing, a Wells Fargo business that provides products and services through Wells Fargo Bank and its affiliates and subsidiaries. She welcomes questions and comments at carol.schleif@abbotdowning.com.
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Cyan rolls out 16-bit flash controller for embedded applications
By Semiconductor Business News
February 7, 2002 (4:08 p.m. EST)
CAMBRIDGE, U.K. -- Cyan Technology Ltd. here announced its first product--a 16-bit, RISC-based flash microcontroller that the company positions as a low-power communications engine.
The chip, dubbed the eCOG1, is based on a 16-bit core that was developed by Cambridge Consultants Ltd. Formed in 2000, Cyan is a spin-off of Cambridge Consultants, it was noted.
The eCOG1 is also based on a compact Harvard RISC architecture. The chip also consists of an assortment of IC peripherals, enabling it to support embedded applications in the communications space, according to the Cambridge-based company.
It supports several serial and communications interfaces, such as dual UARTs, dual USARTs, SPI, and IrDA. It also consists of a 16-bit real-time clock timer, 24-bit long-interval timer, two 16-bit clock generator timers, and two general-purpose event counter timers.
The eCOG1 also includes a memory management unit (MMU), a dynamically adaptable exter nal memory interface capable of managing SDRAM, and analog I/O support with an on-chip temperature sensor and supply voltage monitor.
"The embedded communications market has come of age, opening up a wide range of new end applications that require high-speedconnectivity," said David Griffiths, CEO of Cyan. "When developers attempt to solve these problems with traditional microcontrollers, they are forced to compromise power, performance, and time to market," he said.
"With the launch of eCOG1, Cyan Technology delivers a device that will find its place in many consumer products ranging from PDAs and smart-card readers to intelligent sensors and next-generation, Internet-enabled appliances at a price that is appropriate for mass-market applications," he added.
Price of the chip was not disclosed, however.
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It's easier than you think to create incredible positive change in the world. We've seen significant strides made in ending hunger and poverty just in the last 20 years. And research shows that when investments are made in the world's 2.6 billion small-scale farmers, agriculture can make twice the impact on poverty as growth in other areas.
If we can help increase the productivity of these small farms, our farmers will be the ones feeding the world. But these small-scale farmers need support in more areas than just on their land. That's why we work to provide access to education, improved sanitation, better water sources—things that will provide better health, more income and, ultimately, a clearer path out of poverty. The improvements in these areas are undeniable.
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X-Men: Evolution foi uma revista mensal de histórias em quadrinhos da Marvel Comics, baseada na série animada homônima.

Publicação

A revista teve 9 edições, a primeira edição foi publicada entre Fevereiro de 2006 e Setembro de 2006.

Edições

No Brasil

Foi publicada no Brasil pela Editora Panini entre agosto de 2002 e janeiro de 2003.

Inicialmente programada para sem 3 edições, com lançamento entre agosto e outubro de 2002, a publicação ganhou mais um número em janeiro de 2003. Quando iniciou sua publicação, em agosto de 2002, foi um dos títulos a inaugurar a linha econômica da Panini, na primeira leva de lançamentos após a Panini começar a trabalhar com os títulos Marvel em janeiro de 2002, sendo a primeira minissérie da editora a participar da linha econômica.

A série foi inteiramente publicada no "formato econômico" da Panini (15 cm x 24,5 cm).

Publicações

X-Men: Evolution (#01-#04)

Edições

Ver também
Editora Panini
Lista de publicações de quadrinhos da Editora Panini

Ligações externas

Panini Comics
X-Men: Evolution
Títulos dos X-Men

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The massive 4 million square foot Phoenix Market City will open its doors in Mumbai on Thursday.
The four level shopping complex is erected at the heart of Mumbai, in the suburb Kurla. Built by Offbeat Developers, Phoenix Market City will house international and domestic retailers.
Pheonix Market City will feature 10 department stores, 362 boutiques and small format stores, a 14 screen Adlabs megaplex cinemas, 15 mini-anchors, six fine dining restaurants, two food courts, 23 variety restaurants, a hypermarket spread across 200,000 sqft and a parking area which can accommodate 3500 cars.
"We are delighted to introduce Phoenix Market City (PMC) mall to Mumbai. The mall boasts international styling and design with the largest collection of Indian and international brands under one roof," said Shishir Srivastava, CEO and joint MD of Phoenix Mills.
"PMC at Kurla is the extension of our vision to cater to all premium lifestyle requisites. A city in itself, PMC will be Mumbai's new landmark destination for high-end shopping, offering a completely secure, relaxed, and unique mall environment in India," added Srivastava.
"Currently, around 200 brands have already been confirmed for the mall, out of which some would be the first ever in India/Mumbai. We have Nara Camicie, Rossini, CEX, and Luxury Boulevard to be the first ever stores in India, whereas Kalmane Coffee, L'Occitane, 7 For All Mankind, and Bebe are venturing in Mumbai for the very first time with PMC, Kurla. We have around 26 categories of retails shops, strategically spread throughout the mall to get an excellent retail experience," said Srivastava.
Spanish fashion brand Zara will also open its largest store in India at Pheonix Market City. Other international brands are also inquiring about rental space at PMC.
In its aim to bring vibrance, PMC will also offer an 80,000sqft leisure and entertainment precinct which will accommodate gaming zones, fashions shows, television events, promotions and other multiple events.
PMC's water-landscape courtyard will offer domestic and international visitors with a picturesque retreat.


An ancient, 3-foot-tall (0.9 meters) human whose diminutive stature has earned it the nickname "hobbit" has puzzled evolutionary scientists since its little bones were discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores. Some have suggested the individual was a Homo sapien with some miniaturizing disorder.
Now, teeth from the hobbit suggest it belonged to a unique species rather than a modern human with a growth disorder. The new research also suggests hobbits may share a direct ancestor with modern humans.
The 18,000-year-old fossil remains of the hobbit were discovered in 2003. Since then, scientists have suggested that the hobbit, which had a brain about the size of a grapefruit, was a unique branch of the human lineage Homo, dubbed Homo floresiensis. However, other researchers have argued the hobbit was really a modern human with microcephaly, a condition that leads to an abnormally small head, a small body and some mental retardation.
The researchers found hobbit teeth were as small as those from short modern humans. However, other features of these teeth looked completely dissimilar from those of modern humans.
The hobbit teeth displayed a unique mosaic of primitive traits seen in early hominins mixed with more-advanced traits seen in later hominins, the researchers said. For instance, the canine and premolar teeth looked primitive, whereas the molar teeth looked advanced, or as if they had emerged later in the evolution ofHomo sapiens, the scientists said.
These findings contradict earlier claims that hobbits possessed teeth entirely like those of modern humans. The results also suggest hobbits were not just modern humans with severe abnormalities, the researchers said.
The researchers found that the hobbit's primitive dental features are most similar to specimens of Homo erectus, the earliest undisputed ancestor of modern humans, from the Indonesian island of Java. However, H. erectus was about as tall as modern humans. The scientists suggest that on isolated islands, the ancestors of the hobbit underwent dramatic dwarfism, with their bodies shrinking from about 5.4 feet (1.65 m) to 3.6 feet (1.1 m), and brains dwindling from about 52 cubic inches (860 cubic centimeters) to 26 cubic inches (426 cubic cm).
"For me, this work will turn the tide about the question of evolutionary origin of H. floresiensis," study lead author Yousuke Kaifu, a paleoanthropologist at Japan's National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo, told Live Science.
While the human lineage generally evolved larger bodies and brains over time, the hobbit suggests that isolation on islands could substantially reverse this evolutionary trend, Kaifu said.
The scientists detailed their findings online Nov. 18 in the journal PLOS ONE.


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She has a heart baby at home and the Riley team "in her back pocket"
As part of Riley's cardiology home-monitoring program, 5-month-old Adriel Hernandez is able to be home with his family while a care team follows his progress virtually.
Adriel Hernandez had a rocky start to life.
Before he entered the world, doctors told his parents, Josue and Glenda Hernandez, that their unborn child had a serious heart defect that could require multiple surgeries to fully repair.
Glenda tried not to let that news weigh her down as she continued with her pregnancy. She knew she had to be strong for her two older children, and she wanted their holidays to be extra special because once Adriel was born, he would need to be hospitalized for several weeks.
Adriel was born at IU Health Methodist Hospital on Jan. 4 and was quickly transferred to Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, while his mom stayed behind at Methodist recovering. (When the new Mother-Baby Tower at Riley opens later this year, that difficult mother-baby separation between hospitals will no longer be necessary.)
Five months later, Adriel is home and doing well, even if he is on the small side at 12½ pounds.
Turns out the preterm diagnosis of hypoplastic left heart syndrome, where the left side of the heart is critically underdeveloped and can't pump blood effectively to the body, wasn't entirely correct.
Riley heart surgeon Dr. Mark Turrentine discovered in surgery when Adriel was a week old that one of the infant's two ventricles could be repaired to improve blood flow. Babies born with HLHS typically have only one working ventricle.
"When they took him back for surgery, the plan was to do the Norwood procedure," Glenda said, which involves building a new aorta (the main path from the heart to the body), forcing the right ventricle to pump blood to the body through the new aorta.
"When they opened his chest, they realized the right side of his heart was working a little better than they were expecting."
The surgical team was able to open up his existing aorta a little wider to get blood flowing better and close an opening between the two major blood vessels leading from the heart.
Adriel went home to Nappanee, Indiana, a month after his birth, but the Hernandez family hasn't been on its own the past four months. They are part of Riley's Department of Pediatric Cardiology home-monitoring program, headed by nurse practitioner Dana Hartman.
Adriel is one of 17 heart babies currently being monitored in the program, Hartman said. Typically, single-ventricle babies treated at Riley are enrolled in the program, which monitors a child's oxygen levels, weight and other vital signs via an iPad and connects parents with a nurse – in this case, Hartman – who helps troubleshoot concerns.
While he has two working ventricles, Adriel was considered fragile as doctors were concerned about the squeeze of his heart. The peace of mind his parents feel by having Hartman a phone call away can't be overstated.
"The home monitor program really has been a lifesaver because I do feel secure," Glenda said. "I feel like I have the Riley team in my back pocket."
She acknowledges being nervous at first, but as she has gotten to know her son and his needs better, it has gotten easier.
She describes 5-month-old Adriel as a happy baby who is pretty chill until he gets hungry. Unlike a lot of babies with serious heart ailments, Adriel takes all of his nutrition orally; he doesn't require a feeding tube.
That's one of the reasons Hartman keeps close tabs on his calorie intake and weight gain. She wants to make sure his weak heart isn't compromising his growth. It's unclear yet if he will require another surgery, but it remains a possibility.
"His growth is a little slower than we like, so we want to make sure he's out of the woods," Hartman said. "But he's getting close to graduating out. He'll tell us basically when he doesn't need us anymore."
Meantime, she speaks with Glenda regularly and makes sure that she and all of her parents in the program know that she is a phone call away. That means the world to Adriel's mom.
"We absolutely love Dana! She is amazing!"
Adriel was in to see his cardiologist, Dr. John Parent, in April and returns for a follow-up later this month. The physician reported a slight improvement in his Echo, which was a relief to his parents.
"We are still not out of the woods," Glenda said, "but we are headed in the right direction."
Photos submitted and by Mike Dickbernd, IU Health visual journalist, mdickbernd@iuhealth.org
Dana M. Hartman, NP, MSN
Related Health Information
Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS)
Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) is a congenital heart defect where the left side of the heart isn't fully developed. See how the Riley Heart Center helps diagnose and treat this condition.
Children with congenital heart diseases require specialized care. Learn how our providers treat and manage these conditions.


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The business judgment rule (Rule), the most prominent and important standard of judicial review under corporate law, protects a decision of a corporate board of directors (Board) from a fairness review ("entire fairness" under Delaware law) unless a well pleaded complaint provides sufficient evidence that the Board has …
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Shareholders' Rights Shareholders have the right to inspect a corporation's articles of incorporation and bylaws, but only limited rights to inspect accounting books and no right to inspect corporate communications and contracts.
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The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck (1908)
by Beatrix Potter
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137759The Tale of Jemima Puddle-DuckBeatrix Potter1908
JEMIMA PUDDLE-DUCK
THE TALE OF
"The Tale of Peter Rabbit", &c.
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A FARMYARD TALE
RALPH AND BETSY
WHAT a funny sight it is to see a brood of ducklings with a hen!
—Listen to the story of Jemima Puddle-duck, who was annoyed because the farmer's wife would not let her hatch her own eggs.
HER sister-in-law, Mrs. Rebeccah Puddle-duck, was perfectly willing to leave the hatching to some one else—"I have not the patience to sit on a nest for twenty-eight days; and no more have you, Jemima. You would let them go cold; you know you would!"
"I wish to hatch my own eggs; I will hatch them all by myself," quacked Jemima Puddle-duck.
SHE tried to hide her eggs; but they were always found and carried off.
Jemima Puddle-duck became quite desperate. She determined to make a nest right away from the farm.
SHE set off on a fine spring afternoon along the cart-road that leads over the hill.
She was wearing a shawl and a poke bonnet.
WHEN she reached the top of the hill, she saw a wood in the distance.
She thought that it looked a safe quiet spot.
JEMIMA PUDDLE-DUCK was not much in the habit of flying. She ran downhill a few yards flapping her shawl, and then she jumped off into the air.
SHE flew beautifully when she had got a good start.
She skimmed along over the tree-tops until she saw an open place in the middle of the wood, where the trees and brushwood had been cleared.
JEMIMA alighted rather heavily, and began to waddle about in search of a convenient dry nesting place. She rather fancied a tree-stump amongst some tall fox-gloves.
But—seated upon the stump, she was startled to find an elegantly dressed gentleman reading a newspaper.
He had black prick ears and sandy coloured whiskers.
"Quack?" said Jemima Puddle-duck, with her head and her bonnet on one side—"Quack?"
THE gentleman raised his eyes above his newspaper and looked curiously at Jemima—
"Madam, have you lost your way?" said he. He had a long bushy tail which he was sitting upon, as the stump was somewhat damp.
Jemima thought him mighty civil and handsome. She explained that she had not lost her way, but that she was trying to find a convenient dry nesting-place.
"AH! is that so? indeed!" said the gentleman with sandy whiskers, looking curiously at Jemima. He folded up the newspaper, and put it in his coat-tail pocket.
Jemima complained of the superfluous hen.
"Indeed! how interesting! I wish I could meet with that fowl. I would teach it to mind its own business!"
"BUT as to a nest—there is no difficulty: I have a sackful of feathers in my woodshed. No, my dear madam, you will be in nobody's way. You may sit there as long as you like," said the bushy long-tailed gentleman.
He led the way to a very retired, dismal-looking house amongst the fox-gloves.
It was built of faggots and turf, and there were two broken pails, one on top of another, by way of a chimney.
"THIS is my summer residence; you would not find my earth—my winter house—so convenient," said the hospitable gentleman.
There was a tumble-down shed at the back of the house, made of old soap-boxes. The gentleman opened the door, and showed Jemima in.
THE shed was almost quite full of feathers—it was almost suffocating; but it was comfortable and very soft.
Jemima Puddle-duck was rather surprised to find such a vast quantity of feathers. But it was very comfortable; and she made a nest without any trouble at all.
WHEN she came out, the sandy whiskered gentleman was sitting on a log reading the newspaper—at least he had it spread out, but he was looking over the top of it.
He was so polite, that he seemed almost sorry to let Jemima go home for the night. He promised to take great care of her nest until she came back again next day.
He said he loved eggs and ducklings; he should be proud to see a fine nestful in his wood-shed.
JEMIMA PUDDLE-DUCK came every afternoon; she laid nine eggs in the nest. They were greeny white and very large. The foxy gentleman admired them immensely. He used to turn them over and count them when Jemima was not there.
At last Jemima told him that she intended to begin to sit next day—"and I will bring a bag of corn with me, so that I need never leave my nest until the eggs are hatched. They might catch cold," said the conscientious Jemima.
"MADAM, I beg you not to trouble yourself with a bag; I will provide oats. But before you commence your tedious sitting, I intend to give you a treat. Let us have a dinner-party all to ourselves!
May I ask you to bring up some herbs from the farm-garden to make a savoury omelette? Sage and thyme, and mint and two onions, and some parsley. I will provide lard for the stuff—lard for the omelette," said the hospitable gentleman with sandy whiskers.
JEMIMA PUDDLE-DUCK was a simpleton: not even the mention of sage and onions made her suspicious.
She went round the farm-garden, nibbling off snippets of all the different sorts of herbs that are used for stuffing roast duck.
AND she waddled into the kitchen, and got two onions out of a basket.
The collie-dog Kep met her coming out, "What are you doing with those onions? Where do you go every afternoon by yourself, Jemima Puddle-duck?"
Jemima was rather in awe of the collie; she told him the whole story.
The collie listened, with his wise head on one side; he grinned when she described the polite gentleman with sandy whiskers.
HE asked several questions about the wood, and about the exact position of the house and shed.
Then he went out, and trotted down the village. He went to look for two fox-hound puppies who were out at walk with the butcher.
JEMIMA PUDDLE-DUCK went up the cart-road for the last time, on a sunny afternoon. She was rather burdened with bunches of herbs and two onions in a bag.
She flew over the wood, and alighted opposite the house of the bushy long-tailed gentleman.
HE was sitting on a log; he sniffed the air, and kept glancing uneasily round the wood. When Jemima alighted he quite jumped.
"Come into the house as soon as you have looked at your eggs. Give me the herbs for the omelette. Be sharp!"
He was rather abrupt. Jemima Puddle-duck had never heard him speak like that.
She felt surprised, and uncomfortable.
WHILE she was inside she heard pattering feet round the back of the shed. Some one with a black nose sniffed at the bottom of the door, and then locked it.
Jemima became much alarmed.
A MOMENT afterwards there were most awful noises—barking, baying, growls and howls, squealing and groans.
And nothing more was ever seen of that foxy-whiskered gentleman.
PRESENTLY Kep opened the door of the shed, and let out Jemima Puddle-duck.
Unfortunately the puppies rushed in and gobbled up all the eggs before he could stop them.
He had a bite on his ear and both of the puppies were limping.
JEMIMA PUDDLE-DUCK was escorted home in tears on account of those eggs.
SHE laid some more in June, and she was permitted to keep them herself: but only four of them hatched.
Jemima Puddle-duck said that it was because of her nerves; but she had always been a bad sitter.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1926.
The author died in 1943, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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The clever thing about this outfit is that it can be worn every single day – same artfully scruffy trainers, same artfully rolled up corduroy jeans – the only components changing being the £45 vintage designer rugby top/fleece and the £35 vintage baseball cap. Vintage Manboy knows this, and so in preparation for university tactically stocks up on these items spending a cool £1k+ on variations of the exact same outfit, paying no mind to the expense. It's worth it, he tells himself. This will secure my new cool and aloof university personality.
Very probably called Toby and very probably studying Philosophy or History of Art, Vintage ManBoy will ask you for rizla and filters in the smoking area on your first fresher's night out and will not stop doing so until the day you graduate.
These people can afford to buy designer clothes. You, I'm afraid, cannot. You may think you are fairly good with money – you had that job in sixth form, didn't you, you saved up a bit before you came to uni, you might have even set yourself a weekly budget – but I am here to tell you that you are not. You are terrible with money and will never in your life be able to afford designer clothes. By the end of fresher's week you've hit your overdraft best case scenario, maxed it out worst case scenario. The Incredibly Wealthy International Student does not have this problem. They can wear Louboutin trainers to walk, in the mud and the rain, to Tesco to buy some cereal without even flinching.
Accept financial defeat now, tiny fresher, and try to do some food shopping once in a while instead of spending your entire student loan on UberEats.
People still do sports now you're a grown-up, this is a sad fact. Despite finally escaping PE and the cold dread followed by meticulous faking of vague faint aches and pains to successfully avoid doing any strenuous exercise that wasn't ping-pong during school, the sporty people – people who actively sought out the thrill of competition and inexplicably seemed to remain at a relatively normal skin shade playing football instead of instantly turning bright red and remaining that way for the rest of the school day – still exist, and you will be living with one in your first year.
You will meet them once properly when you move in, already somehow wearing full colours for an unnamed sport at your chosen university, a somehow graceful and decorative sheen of sweat accessorising their pristine trainers, the weird fluorescent ones Nike makes for doing specific Proper Sports, and from that point onwards they are like a weirdly competitive ghost in your flat, leaving endless hockey sticks and water bottles flung akimbo around the communal living area.
This girl could be failing at every single aspect of life – I mean she could literally be on bail from a prison sentence – but you will still feel constantly inferior to her because every day she appears to be wearing an entirely new vintage designer Very Branded outfit courtesy of Depop, alongside a headband – there is for some reason always a headband – and infinite pairs of new trainers. She doesn't appear to have a job and you will never truly know how she has the ability to live inside a cloud of Dior monogrammed headbands, hoop earrings and Moschino, but some nights you will find yourself lying awake wishing you were her. If you ever catch yourself seething in jealousy the best advice I can give you is to put on some passably clean clothes, walk to Primark and buy yourself a nice £2.50 necklace. Void = filled.
"Close your eyes", he says, his phone rigged up to some heinously expensive speakers with an aux cord, "and imagine, yeah, just imagine me opening a set with this fucker." You close your eyes, still unsure as to how you ended up in this boy's halls bedroom at 3:30AM and even more unsure as to why you're actually closing your eyes on demand, and a samey-sounding thudding noise fills the room.
You open your eyes and watch him Get Very Into This Song in a very intense way, sitting there in his zebra-print bootcut jeans and pristine trainers, and amongst fleeting wishes of home, of your own bed and a radiator that you know how to work and a shower that doesn't resemble a dribbling baby, your main priority is escape.
Escaping Techno DJ's bedroom at that exact moment is a good decision. These people will only become useful later in university life when you decide that you're having a party and you desperately need someone for the music who has aggressive opinions about Berlin nightlife.
Everyone has at least one ill-fitting zip-up hoodie, this is a fact. Maybe you splashed out £39 when you left school for one with 200 tiny names printed onto the back of it, or maybe you bought it in sheer panic whilst camping in the rain after discovering that your tent wasn't waterproof and all your clothes were irreversibly soaked through, but you definitely have one and so does everyone else. Around Day #6 of fresher's week all your fellow freshly-released-from-home miniature grown-ups will also not understand how the grimy card operated washing machine system in your accommodation works and resort to wearing this hoodie, leaving their stylistically fresh but physically quite dirty garments in identical IKEA washing baskets mum bought for them in the big pre-uni shop.
Everywhere you turn you will see a grey hoodie with white zips – possibly stained with foundation around the neckline, possibly not – with a tired and terrified looking face peeking out. Smile, be kind to each other, for you are now all in this together: whether it's your First Proper Comedown or you're Actually Really Into Drugs And Have Been For A Good Few Years Now Haha. The grey hoodie is the leveller. Embrace the community of this horrible garment and accept your awful awful running-across-the-courtyard-in-the-rain-at-2AM £5-per-wash-and-dry-cycle fate for the next year.


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But there is no denying these problems have been frustrating.
We are in a Gasser frenzy. Demand for Gassers among collectors has never been higher. The '55 Bel Air is in high demand, as are previously released models like the Mercury Comet Cyclone, and '63 Nova from the Drag Strip Demons line.
And that goes for the '66 Super Nova. The Super Nova has only been released once before, as an RLC exclusive in gorgeous GORGEOUS mirrored gunmetal. This Rewards model is its second release, with a third RLC Selections model coming later this year. So for a model delayed and delayed, it is crazy that it hits now. Demand is high.
But most people that want them should be able to get them. 10200 were made based on the number of orders by members. The Reward Model is made for RLC members to purchase with RLC points, which are awarded with every purchase during the year. I had enough for five, so that is what I ordered.
And with multiples like that, it means there should be a good number hitting ebay , so if you want one, now is the time.
And it is worth. Clean as clean can be, and super sharp with the white roof. It looks good packaged, but even better opened. Gasser fever ain't going anywhere.
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Edit: Technically we are still in the 2016 Membership year.
Technically, the smoke/gunmetal Super Nova was not an RLC exclusive; it was an HWC exclusive. It was not an immediate sell out and didn't sell out until the holiday sale either that year it was offered or the following year.
Man between this and the horrible HWC board overhaul (I'm still bitter about that), does anyone even go on HWC anymore? I probably haven't visited in over a year.
I might be out of the loop, but I joined the HW's RLC the 1st time around the start of 2014. So my question.. who exactly received the '66 Gasser Nova and how?
It was the 2014 Rewards car (see the front of the card) which means you could order it in around Oct 2014. It was not for sale. You had to use the rewards points that you accumulated throughout the year from your others purchases. 9 pts. got you a Super Nova gasser. If you had more points, you could order multiples.


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Published by: Avon Books-An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Synopsis: "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." So the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter remembered the chilling events that led her down the turning drive past the beeches, white and naked, to the isolated gray stone manse (mansion) on the windswept Cornish coast. With a husband she barely knew, the young bride arrived at this immense estate, only to be inexorably drawn into the life of the first Mrs. de Winter, the beautiful Rebecca, dead but never forgotten…her suite of rooms never touched, her clothes ready to be worn, her servant-the sinister Mrs. Danvers- still loyal. And as an eerie presentiment of evil tightened around her heart, the second Mrs. de Winter began her search for the real fate of Rebecca…for the secrets of Manderley.
Excerpt: "Why is the buoy there in the little harbor place?" I asked.
"The boat used to be moored there," he said.
"Her boat," he said. A strange sort of excitement was upon me. I had to go on with my questions. He did not want to talk about it, I knew that, but although I was sorry for him and shocked at my own self I had to continue, I could not be silent.
"What sort of size boat was it?" I asked.
"What made it capsize?" I said.
"It can be squally in the bay," he said.
I thought of that green sea, foam-flecked, that ran down channel beyond the headland. Did the wind come suddenly, I wondered, in a funnel from the beacon on the hill, and did the little boat heel to it, shivering the white sail flat against a breaking sea.
The story is slow to start but catches pace quickly, gripping the reader's attention. You will nearly be as curious as the lead character to know the mystery of Rebecca. The story is also mysterious in a way that the female lead's name is never disclosed throughout the book. Remarks are passed about how it is so unusual and beautiful, that I had this urge to call up the author and ask her what name she had in her mind!
This book is a complete must read. One of the best books the author wrote.
The book also has a movie based on it. But I haven't seen it so I can't comment on it.
okay this goes to my wishlist specially coz i didnt hear about the author til now.
So what genre is it? Romantic thriller or something like that?
P.S| we rate outta 5. so this gets 4 stars right?
@Freelancer: its not a thriller exactly...a romantic mystery rather...and yeah i forgot..it get a 4 :)and its awesome! you should read it!
are u talking part in the blog challenge??
@freelancer: that's me malavika!logged on to my mom's accnt by mistake!


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From "Uncovering Soviet Disasters", by James Oberg
Random House, New York, NY, 1988
Chapter Three: "The Bloody Border" (pages 32-49)
(excerpt starting on page 42)
Almost twenty years later, on April 20, 1978, another tragic shooting incident occurred in the same area when an errant Korean Air Lines 707 strayed over the Kola Peninsula and was attacked, arguably without proper warning, by Soviet jets.
No satisfactory explanation for the course deviation of Flight 902 has ever been produced, the result in no small part of the Soviet refusal to release any of the recovered data, such as flight recorders and the pilots' and navigator's logs (the Soviets even refused to allow the pilots to make photocopies before leaving Moscow for home). Years later the Soviets released a map (almost certainly based on analysis of flight recorder data) which showed that the aircraft had begun a wide right turn soon after reaching Iceland on its Amsterdam to Anchorage over-the-pole route. Such a turn was too gradual to occur manually, and the on-board guidance equipment would have equally been unable to match it deliberately, so a plausible explanation involved a drift in the aircraft's inertial platform or the manual keyboard entry of an incorrect correction factor for Earth's rotation (the apparent path would have been followed if the sign of the correction factor had been reversed).
Soon after entering Soviet airspace, the airliner was met by a Soviet jet. The pilot of Flight 902, Captain Kim Chang Ky, reported that when he caught sight of' the Soviet jet -- off the right side, not the left as specified by International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO, pronounced eye-kay-oh) standards -- he reduced speed, lowered his landing gear, and flashed his navigation lights on and off, all specified in procedures as signifying willingness to follow the Soviet fighter. His calls on 121.5 were recorded by a Finnish air traffic control tower at Rovaniemi, which also noted the lack of any Soviet calls
on the same frequency.
Despite the existence of the Finnish tapes, a Soviet spokesman
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later still declared: "The Soviet Union did everything possible to land it at an airfield but it would not comply." At that point the Soviet jet fired a missile which blew off part of a wing and showered the fuselage with shrapnel, killing two passengers. Pravda later called it a "warning shot."
American intelligence units in Europe had been able to eavesdrop on the Soviet air-to-ground communications as they occurred via some new high-tech eavesdropping facilities, according to a recent book by Seymour Hersh. At first the Russian pilots were convinced by the size of the radar blip that the incoming aircraft was a Boeing 747 and thus obviously a civilian airliner. But then at one point one of the pilots correctly reported that its silhouette was that of a Boeing 707, the same design as the RC-135 intelligence aircraft. The pilot was then ordered to attack and destroy the target.
Remarkably, the pilot argued with his ground control, on the basis of a closer view which showed the Korean Air Lines logo on the aircraft's tail. For several minutes he protested that the airplane was not a military one. Hersh's sources reconstructed the conversation as follows:
CONTROLLER: Do you see the target?
PILOT: Roger, it is a civilian airliner.
CONTROLLER: Destroy the target.
PILOT: Did YOU understand me!
PILOT: [Swears], do you understand what I told you?
GENERAL: [Identifies himself], do you know who I am!
PILOT: Yes.
GENERAL.: Force down that plane.
The Soviets evidently decided that the markings were false, painted onto a spy plane for-just the purpose of confusing their pilots.
One eavesdropping American, recalling the tone of the pilot's voice, later described the conversation as "one of the most dramatic things I'd heard in years.... I could see the guy shaking his head and saying 'We don't shoot down civilians.' " But he followed orders. His first missile did not detonate but his second blew up against the airliner's left wing.
Following the air-to-air- attack came the most embarrassing part of the incident, as far as the Soviet air defense forces were
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concerned. With air streaming out through holes in his fuselage, the Korean pilot pushed his jet over into a steep dive to get to a lower altitude with breathable air density. In doing so, he vanished into a low-lying cloud bank and dropped below Soviet radar coverage. The pursuing jets overshot him and were unable to spot him when they circled back. The Soviet radar screens were masked with ground clutter. The target had eluded them!
For more than an hour Captain Kim flew at an altitude of only several thousand feet across the snow-covered peninsula, seeking a safe landing place. The Soviets had no idea where he was. He had aborted several approaches to possible sites when he spotted obstructions at the last moment. Finally, after nightfall, he found a frozen lake bed, just west of Kem, and let down smoothly, skidding in to a safe landing.
Meanwhile, both overhead and at ground control points, the Soviets frantically sought out the escaped target. Hours later, responding to a phone call from a nearby Soviet settlement, Russian militia officials with a ladder knocked at the side of the airliner. The target had been found, no thanks to high-tech air defense equipment.
The incompetent performance of the air defense technology scandalized the Soviet government. Little concern seems to have been wasted on the two dead passengers. Instead, the fear was that American spy planes or even bombers might be able to utilize similar techniques against Soviet weaknesses to penetrate defenses. The air defense forces underwent a severe reorganization, and in the shakeup many leading officials had their careers terminated.
The result of the 1978 shakeup may have been a military organizati6n much more eager to shoot to kill at the earliest opportunity lest their marginal technological capabilities not allow them a second chance at any future "target." With more confidence in their ability to find and track intruders, Soviet military leaders might have been less trigger-happy. But after 1978 all the officers of the air defense forces must have been grimly determined not to let the next intruder slip away so easily.
The Soviet failure to cooperate with international investigators in 1978, and Moscow's refusal to turn over the necessary data, also clearly laid groundwork for later tragedy. Commen-
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taters at that time warned about precisely such a danger. "If even deadlier incidents are to be avoided," wrote Anthony Paul in Reader's Digest, "the Russians owe it to the world to make the [flight] recorder available, and to publish a full, factual account of what they believe happened." Soviet failure to comply with ICAO standards in investigating the 1978 incident were a direct contributory precursor to the later tragedies.
At the other end of the Soviet Union, along the Pacific coast, American patrol aircraft had also been doing their share toward making Soviet border defense forces jumpy. Regular patrolling for decades, including airspace violations both planned and unplanned, had been punctuated by occasional shooting incidents. As early as October 22, 1949, an RB-29 over the Sea of Japan was attacked (no injuries). On October 7, 1952, an RB-29 was shot down by Soviet fighters six miles north of the Hokkaido coast, killing all eight crewmen. Another RB-29 was destroyed on July 29, 1953, killing another sixteen crewmen. On September 4, 1954, a U.S. Navy (USN) Neptune reconnaissance aircraft was attacked by a Soviet Mig-15, allegedly fifty miles off the coast, and on November 7 of the same year a U.S. Air Force (USAF) B-2S equipped with photoreconnaissance gear with eleven men on board was shot down "near Hokkaido" (ten men survived on parachutes). Subsequent shooting incidents resulted in no additional deaths.
There was one unusual case in which the Soviets did admit they made a mistake. On June 23, 1955, a U.S. Navy aircraft was attacked over international waters near the Bering Strait. Three crewmen were wounded. The Soviets admitted the error and offered to pay half the damage cost. The United States accepted. By today's official Soviet accounts, the last such mistake they made was thirty years ago.
Hersh's 1986 book on the 1983 KAL 007 tragedy provided information on a hitherto secret incident on April 2, 1976, near Sakhalin Island. A fully marked Japanese P-2V Neptune patrol plane inadvertently penetrated a few miles into Soviet airspace and was pounced on by a Soviet Sukhoi 15 jet, whose pilot reported to the ground that he had "visually sighted the target." He was ordered to attack and subsequently fired two air-to-air missiles. Both fortunately missed, and the Japanese aircraft was not damaged.
All these incidents were only preludes to the worst air-
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tragedy of the Soviet borders, the destruction of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 on September 1, 1983, with the loss of 269 lives. Although the Soviets claimed complete justification, while many Western groups saw it as a deliberate Communist atrocity, careful reconstruction of the incident makes it appear instead to be the worst foul-up of Soviet air defense technology in USSR history. The ultimate guilt is unavoidable: The Soviets shot to kill, all right, but irresponsibly they weren't careful to determine at whom they were shooting. All their expensive equipment and operators never provided data sufficiently convincing to dissuade them from their original instinctive (and wrong) judgment that the blip was an "American aggressor."
The bare facts of the September 1, 1983, KAL 007 disaster have been established, despite attempts by the Soviets and some assorted Western conspiracy enthusiasts to deflect responsibility. As with many airliners before and since, Flight 007 went off course through some unlikely but plausible combination of human errors and equipment problems. Tragically the accidental course deviation put it over Soviet territory.
The Soviets had numerous opportunities to identify the "bogey" as a lost civilian airliner but were unable to fulfill their responsibilities. As the airliner crossed the Kamchatka Peninsula, Soviet interceptors failed to reach it and make visual contact. Later, over Sakhalin Island, the Soviet pilots also nearly missed their intercept. When they finally caught up, there were only minutes remaining before the plane exited Soviet airspace.
In the rush the Soviet pilot let off a burst of cannon fire from a position behind and below the "target," where it was physically impossible for the Koreans to see it. No radio calls were heard by anyone in the area on the specified distress frequency of 121.5 megahertz. At one point the Russian pilot was abreast of (and a bit below) the airliner, but despite earlier experience with American RC-135s, he failed to notice -- or report -- the obvious visual differences (mostly in the running lights). This was especially true since the airliner's lights were flashing brightly, hardly the behavior of a stealthy intruder (to refute this obvious deduction, the Soviets later merely lied about the plane's flying "without lights").
With the border approaching and without ever having performed a proper communications procedure, the Soviets fell into the same routine as they had with the lost Argentine
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airliner two years earlier. The pilot, call sign "805," followed in the tradition of Kulyapin, Vegin, Yeliseyev, and nameless others. When in doubt, attack to kill. Don't let the "enemy" escape.
And that, horribly, is just what happened. Amazingly there were many people in the West who were surprised. Predictable, too, were the impassioned pronouncements that the Soviets must have known they were killing innocents when another appalling interpretation was that they didn't know--or care--at whom they were shooting, even though they should have been able to determine the aircraft's innocence. Presumption of guilt is easier and safer, at least from the Soviet point of view.
With KAL 007 and the other incidents, a pattern of Soviet claims is apparent. How is a dispassionate observer able to gauge the reliability of Soviet accounts when its side usually has the only surviving witnesses?
Survivors of Flight 902 over the Kola Peninsula in 1978 did provide firsthand accounts that were markedly at variance with the official Soviet descriptions. And another recent border incident gave a similar opportunity to compare and contrast Moscow's accounts with the recollections of non-Soviet witnesses.
In July 1983 the Greenpeace antiwhaling group sent its ship Rainbow Warrior to a Soviet whaling station on the Chukchi Peninsula at the far eastern edge of Siberia. Several of the group landed by small motorboat and were distributing literature to Soviet whalers when military units arrived. One American headed back to the ship in the motorboat, carrying the camera with exposed film showing the group's activities.
The official Soviet TASS dispatch on July 21 claimed that the main ship fled at once and "made dangerous maneuvers, deliberately creating a shipwreck situation. ... The small boat ... capsized as a result of such irresponsible actions. The possible tragic consequences were averted by Soviet frontier guards which raised a helicopter into the air and saved the drowning man."
This official Soviet scenario is a self-serving series of lies from beginning to end. As recounted by Greenpeace participants later, the helicopter itself was chasing the man in the motorboat as he tried to reach the ship. After making several menacing swoops, it lowered a line into his boat, "inviting" him aboard.
Quickly he removed the film from his camera and left it in the boat, then put the boat's tiller hard over as he let himself be hauled up into the helicopter. Others aboard the Rainbow Warrior saw the motorboat running in circles and steered toward it; one man was injured when he successfully managed to jump on board, bring the boat under control, and retrieve the film. The Rainbow Warrior headed out to sea without interference, leaving several of its crew in Soviet custody.
The photographs retrieved from the boat were widely published around the world. The photographs showed the illegal whaling station the Russians had insisted did not exist. They showed the outdoor boilers for rendering the whale fat. They showed Greenpeacers handing out antiwhaling leaflets to puzzled and resentful Russian workers. The existence of the photographs was documentary proof of the falsity of the Soviet account (none of the Greenpeacers taken into Soviet custody was allowed to keep any exposed film). The captives were treated well and were turned over to Western authorities a few days later.
The number of times the Soviets have resorted to deadly force after botching intercept and communications attempts is appalling. In fact, the last "successful" (that is, nonfatal) intercept of an intruding aircraft seems to have been in 1968, when a chartered Seaboard World Airways DC-8 was diverted to a Soviet field in the Kuril Islands (the pilot still maintains he wasn't in Soviet airspace but prudently went along with the fighters off his wing).
Regarding disasters on their borders, the Soviets showed unusually extreme levels of falsification and fabrication of events, more so than in other kinds of disasters. Presumably the shrill tone of these is to justify the actions of their military forces. Secrecy has always been much more rigid when related to military than to civilian disasters. As for how effective glasnost will be in any future military border disasters, only time will tell. So far Western analysts believe that the Soviet military has not responded enthusiastically to glasnost or any other Gorbachev reform.
However, since these tragedies there has been one encouraging event. One airliner did cross the Soviet border in an unscheduled manner recently and was not shot down. In late 1986 a Kuwaiti airliner, en route from Damascus to
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Teheran, safely made an emergency landing in Yerevan when a sudden storm shut down all airfields in Iran. The Boeing 727 had turned around and was headed back west but was too short of fuel to reach any airfields in Turkey. The crew desperately radioed to the Soviet air traffic control facility in Armenia. Once permission had been granted, the airliner crossed the Soviet border near Dzhulfa (less than 100 miles from where the Argentine airliner had been destroyed six years earlier) and made a safe landing at Yerevan. The plane was serviced and fueled and took off the following morning.
Full details never became clear, and several reports described how the airliner had crossed the border while being pursued by unidentified jet fighters. There must have been dfficulty in the civil air traffic control officials contacting military air defense officers on such short notice. But the bottom line was that an airliner abruptly entered Soviet airspace, bet its life on Soviet radio technology, and this time survived.
Whether this was a fluke or a softening of the traditional bloody border policy, the future will reveal. When Mathias Rust flew his borrowed Cessna 172 from Finland to Moscow's Red Square in May 1987, he apparently owed his life to indecision and reluctance to fire on the part of at least two Soviet interceptor pilots who had shadowed him. The most tragic aftermath of Rust's stupid stunt would be a rebirth of Soviet border paranoia and trigger-happiness, ensuring that the next airborne intruders, either innocently lost or gleefully copycatting Rust's exploit, will pay with their lives. In terms of secrecy, the issue may boil down to whether the West notices the shootdown (particularly if there are Western citizens aboard) at all; if not, the Soviets can be counted on to try to keep such bloody border atrocities secret, or failing that, to creatively rearrange reality to fit Soviet preconceptions and propaganda needs.
On the border, that's the lesson of the past and the trend of the future.
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