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What made Quest and the Sea of Cortez an Azamazing experience
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So, I have said a sad farewell to the Azamara Quest after a wonderful 12-day cruise to the Sea of Cortez that will remain long in the memory.
Not just for the occasional glimpses of whales and dolphins – I had hoped for more – and not only for the marathon excursion by train to the Mexico's amazing Copper Canyon, which I wrote about a few days ago.
After the initial disappointments of Mazatlan and La Paz, we visited some lovely ports of call. Loreto – where Quest spent two days – is a real gem, and Cabo San Lucas at Baja California's Land's End has something for everyone.
Topiary archways cast welcome shade over Loreto's principal pedestrian thoroughfare, and a recently-opened esplanade is a striking addition to the town's seafront. Unlike most developments in Mexico, it actually looks complete.
The town is the site of the first European settlement on the Baja peninsula and a Jesuit Mission was opened in 1697. At a time when Las Californias stretched from Cabo all the way to Oregon, Loreto was the capital for 80 years.
Devastated by a hurricane in 1829, it enjoyed a brief flirtation with fame and celebrity in the 1940s and 50s when it attracted Hollywood stars, but a plan by the Mexican government to develop it as a major tourist destination has so far come to little.
Thank goodness. Cabo San Lucas – which has benefitted from Government backing, an airport, and the construction of countless condominiums, hotel resorts and spas, is a fun hang-out but some of us prefer peaceful solitude to the manic action of Senor Frog's and $1-a-shot tequilas.
The real star of last week's show was Azamara Quest herself, and her amazing crew.
For the ship we must pass a hearty vote of thanks to the long-defunct Renaissance Cruises, who built eight almost-identical 670-passenger vessels in short order and then promptly went bust.
The ships live on, thank goodness. As well as Azamara Journey and Quest (originally R6 and R7), Oceania Cruises has three and Princess two. The final one in the fleet, R8, is P&O's Adonia, having also seen service as Minerva 2 and Royal Princess.
Despite being compact in size, the ships retain some of the grandeur of the so-called golden age of ocean liners. Screw your eyes up and squint, and the wrought iron balustrade of the Mosaic Café and the staircase down to the Deck 4 reception area could even pass for a miniature version of Cunard's QM2.
OK, for a ship offering a luxury experience at somewhat less than the highest prices, the cabins and especially the bathrooms are on the compact side.
But there is ample public space, both indoors and on the open decks. For much of last week's cruise the forward sun deck 11 was inexplicably almost deserted while chairs and loungers by the pool one level down were packed.
Food, in the Windows buffet and the Discoveries restaurant, was uniformly excellent; the two speciality dining venues, Prime C and Aqualina, were top class.
The crew were also out of the top drawer. Drawn from 40 nationalities, they worked together as a team and went out of their way to be helpful, considerate and friendly.
Following the trend of other luxury cruise brands, Azamara is all-inclusive when it comes to drinks – and that covers everything from bottled water to espresso coffees, to a beer at lunch and wine with dinner, plus basic cocktails and house spirits.
There's a bewildering array of extra-cost drinks packages available for those who simply must have Grey Goose vodka, Laphroaig whisky and Remy Martin VSOP brandy, but most of those bottles stayed behind the bar, gathering dust, while everyone drank the regular stuff.
And, of course, we experienced one of Azamara's trademark Azamazing evenings. The ship stayed in Cabo until almost midnight so we could travel a few miles from town to a grand beachside to watch an evening of myth and mystery, energetically put together and choreographed, and concluding with a breath-taking sequence of fire-juggling sequences.
As the show came to an end, with passengers in admiration of what to most had been a complete surprise, cruise director Russ Thomas Grieve asked for silence. We paused momentarily, only to be shocked again by a spectacular fireworks finale over the ocean.
What a night! And what an Azamazing cruise!
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Q: pandas dataframe in def I tried the below code to pass a df to a def function.
the first line works fine with df.dropna.
however the df.replace has issue as I found that it does not do the replace as I expected.
def Max(df):
    df.dropna(subset=df.columns[3:10], inplace=True)
    print(df)
    df.replace(to_replace=65535, value=-10, inplace=True)
    print(df)

    return df

anyone know the issue and how to solve it?

A: Your code works well. Maybe try this version without inplace modifications:
>>> df
       A      B      C   D     E   F   G   H   I     J
0      1      2      3   4   5.0   6   7   8   9  10.0
1     11  65535     13  14  15.0  16  17  18  19  20.0
2     21     22     23  24  25.0  26  27  28  29   NaN
3  65535     32     33  34   NaN  36  37  38  39  40.0
4     41     42  65535  44  45.0  46  47  48  49  50.0
5     51     52     53  54  55.0  56  57  58  59  60.0

def Max(df):
    return df.dropna(subset=df.columns[3:10]).replace(65535, -10)

>>> Max(df)
    A   B   C   D     E   F   G   H   I     J
0   1   2   3   4   5.0   6   7   8   9  10.0
1  11 -10  13  14  15.0  16  17  18  19  20.0
4  41  42 -10  44  45.0  46  47  48  49  50.0
5  51  52  53  54  55.0  56  57  58  59  60.0

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Byron – David A. Manering, age 59, died Monday, January 4, 2021 at Generations at Neighbor's in Byron, IL. He was born Sept. 23, 1961 in LaPorte, Indiana the son to Harrison and Crystal Manering.. He graduated from Valparaiso High School in 1979. David worked at Quality Metal in Byron for over 10 years. He loved to spend time with his daughter and grandchildren. In his spare time David loved to fish and go camping. He was predeceased by his sister. He is survived by his loving daughter Nicole Manering , step-sons; Justin and Nathan Klapp, step-daughter Amanda Swanson, and grandchildren; Mya, Miley, and Dawson Scheidecker all of Byron. Due to Covid-19 restrictions a private celebration of David's life will be held at a later date. A memorial fund is established in his name for the family.
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The Bantam White team attended the Hespeler Classic Tournament Nov 30-Dec 2 and were undefeated in winning the Championship. The team surrendered only one goal over five games outscoring the competition 21-1. It was a great weekend of hockey and fun for the team and parents alike. Congratulations to the team for a successful tournament.
The Bantam Black team went a perfect 5-0 last weekend to win the Aylmer HL/LL Silver Stick Qualifier. They outscored the competition 15-4 to claim wins against Aylmer, Grand Valley, and Belmont in the round robin. They then defeated the Thorton Tigers in the semi-final 13-1 before meeting and beating the Embro Edge 4-1 in the final. Congratulations to all the boys for their hard work. Next up, the HL/LL Silver Stick Local Finals in Pelham in January where they'll go up against tournament winners from 7 other tournaments.


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According to government statistics, in the United States there are more than 30,000 motor vehicle accidents that annually claim the lives of motor vehicle drivers. Of these, vehicle rollovers are the most devastating - and scary - types of accidents that can occur. Ever witnessed one? They're more than frightening. Unlike the rollover car accidents that people are exposed to in Hollywood action movies, in which drivers and passengers frequently walk away unscathed, in real life, rollovers are the cause of all types of terrible injuries - and deaths. Add to the equation the fact that there are now more oversized Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs) on the roads, and you have a manufactured formula for disaster.
It's a fact - SUVs are particularly prone to rollovers. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) estimates that fatalities among SUV drivers and occupants have risen annually for more than ten years. Safety studies indicate that more than half of the people who are killed in SUV crashes are involved in rollovers. For car rollover accidents, the percentage is 25%, and for truck rollover accidents, the percentage is 47%. The IIHS has noted that SUV rollovers frequently occur because when a driver loses control of his motor vehicle, it frequently falls to one side more easily than a regular sedan. This has to do with center of gravity issues with SUV's.
Two years ago, while driving home from a vacation on Cape Cod, my wife and I witnessed firsthand a car rollover accident on Route 3. It happened right in front of us on the highway - in fact, we were right behind the car that rolled, and we could clearly see the injured driver trapped inside the overturned car, in her seat, as stopped traffic backed up directly behind us. That's an image I will never forget. As a Massachusetts car accident attorney, I want to assure that anyone who suffers from such a terrible accident receives the best legal counsel - and the most financial damages for their injuries -- that he or she deserves.
If you or someone you know has been injured in a car/SUVrollover accident, you will need the expert advice of a qualified Boston, Massachusetts car rollover accident attorney such as The Law Offices of William D. Kickham & Associates, with offices in Westwood, Mass., and Boston, Mass. Our motor vehicle accident attorneys are among the best in the state, with the proven case results to show it.
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B's Mobile Food Truck is a business that will offer the convenience of serving foods to their customers from a traveling truck. The food truck will be located near businesses, which will allow the customers quick access to the service. Customers will have different food choices to choose. However, quick access to the food service cause the company to compete against such companies as gas station, restaurants, grocery stores, and smoothie juice restaurants. Each of these businesses offers the service of prepared and ready-to-go foods and healthy choices. Each also allows convenience service. B's Mobile Food Truck must realize these businesses will be in constant competition against the mobile food truck.
Gas station food has earned a bad reputation over the last 20 years for various reasons. Usually the only things to be found are old hot dogs, stale donuts, slushes, and tightly wrapped tasteless sandwiches that have some sort of gross cheese that most people could not identify. Several gas stations have gotten into a different range of foods, trying to expand on better choices to boost the income.


The Islamic State-claimed blast hit an education centre in an area of western Kabul where students were studying for college entrance exams.
Thursday's attack was also claimed by the Islamic State via their Amaq propaganda service.
In addition to the IS attacks, Taliban militants also delivered high-profile, demoralising blows in the strategic city of Ghazni — which they attacked last week, forcing security forces backed by US air power to struggle for days to push them out — and in Faryab, where they captured a northern base, killing at least 17 soldiers.
The week's violence has raised questions about their ability to hold off the resurgent Taliban.
But civilians have long taken the brunt of the violence in Afghanistan — especially in Kabul, a target of both the Taliban and IS — and Wednesday's attack on the school was branded a "war crime" by Amnesty International.
Amnesty warned it proved "beyond any doubt that Afghanistan and, in particular, its capital Kabul, are not safe", and said European countries must stop returning Afghan refugees to the war-torn country.
UNICEF, meanwhile, branded the attack "deplorable" and called for parties on all sides of the conflict to protect children.
Outrage was also growing on social media, where Afghans condemned the attack and angrily denounced those behind it — as well as the government for failing to protect them.
Facebook user Ramazan Ali Ramazan described the victims as an "asset" to the country.
"Death and hatred to this government and filthy terrorist that everyday they are killing innocent Afghans," he added.
"Everyday we are witnessing deadly attacks in Kabul and other major cities. So, I believe the Taliban do not believe in peace talks," said shopkeeper Shahenshah Shahin in Kabul.
"The Taliban will try to have an upper hand during talks, so we can't rule out more attacks until a ceasefire," said Taliban expert Rahimullah Yusufzai.


If you didn't read my previous blog posts on integrating Yammer and SharePoint, I encourage you to do so since I'm not going to repeat all the basic steps you need to undertake before going ahead. In this post, we're going to see how to surface SharePoint activities in Yammer using Open Graph.
First thing first, Open Graph is a protocol that is adopted by Facebook, Yammer and Linkedin. The goal of the Open Graph protocol is to render an object into a Social Media in a specific way using some specific HTML meta tags. When you share a link on Facebook and Linkedin, the system performs an HTTP request to the page targeted by the link and tries to render it in the Social Media. It will analyze in priority whether the page contains Open Graph meta tags or not. By default, it is intended to share anonymously reachable pages…However, since my post is about sharing pages from SharePoint online (SPO) to Yammer, anonymous isn't really an option here. Fortunately, Yammer's Open Graph will not try to read the target page if all the Open Graph data is transmitted when posting the activity. Therefore, it's still possible to share protected pages.
That said, in Yammer, the Open Graph API isn't only about rendering content in a specific way, it's also a way to surface custom and out of the box activities in the newsfeed. In this blog post, we're going to create a SharePoint provider-hosted App that registers Remove Event Receivers (RER) to a host web list named Calendar in order to surface the creation of the event into Yammer. As we did with my workflow example, we'll impersonate the SharePoint user to act on Yammer on his behalf. What happens under the hood is the creation of a new object in Yammer that has its own lifecycle and to which people can start attaching documents and have conversations about. For sake of simplicity, I will not handle all the events nor will I explain everything in detail about SharePoint stuff or I'd need to make a blog post of 10 pages..
Click on save for both. Don't worry if you see the turning wheel turning for ages…Once done, you should now have the spo:event object type and the spo:shedule action type defined. If you used another namespace, it will just be yournamespace:event and yournamespace:schedule.
we just trap the event type in order to launch the corresponding event. Remember that in AppInstalled, we will add our event receiver to the Calendar list which will basically register the same web service so that the same ProcessEvent method will be called later on whenever we add an item to the calendar.
This code is the bare minimum. Again, I'm not handling exceptions etc..to keep it as simple as possible. The important part here is the assignment of the ReceiverUrl property that points to the current service.
Once you have posted the new activity, Yammer responds to you with the object ID if you want to keep things in sync, such as reporting back this ID to SharePoint.
Note that there is a .NET SDK for Yammer but it's still at a very early stage with almost no documentation. Depending on what you need to do with Yammer, it might be interesting but don't forget that at the end of the day, it's only a matter of sending HTTP requests. The Yammer API documentation is pretty good and for the things you don't know, you can always monitor the network traffic from Yammer itself to identify endpoints/JSON feeds.
The code is ready, if you followed everything and enabled Service Bus debugging properly, you should be able to test it but don't forget to create the Calendar list in your SPO site up front.
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Janice Gregory was a Member of the National Assembly for Wales between May 1999 and April 2016. This was her biography at the time she left.
Janice Gregory was born in Treorchy, and is the daughter of Sir Ray Powell who was Labour MP for Ogmore from 1979-2001. She was educated at Bridgend Grammar School for Girls. She lives in Pencoed and is married with two children and two grandchildren.
Janice worked as constituency secretary and caseworker for Sir Ray Powell MP from 1991.
She was elected to the Assembly in May 1999 and was re-elected in 2003, 2007 and in 2011. She has been the Government Chief Whip since 2009.
Between 2007 and 2011 (during in the Third Assembly), Janice she was Chair of the Labour Group, Chair of the Communities and Culture Committee and sat on the Scrutiny of the First Minister Committee, Audit Committee and Legislation Committee No. 3.
Throughout her career as an Assembly Member, her roles have also included chairing the Social Justice and Regeneration Committee and the South Wales West Regional Committee. Her political interests include children, jobs, tackling poverty, health and regeneration.
Janice is a member of Unite the Union, USDAW, the Co-operative Party and the Fabian Society.


Truxx Factor has been created to host a new and exciting kind of Truck Festival weekend which stands apart from any other type of event. One that will appeal to families to attend to see the varied types of attractions on offer that weekend.
Its creator has over 30 years experience in operating and racing trucks which until recently has been channelled into helping British Truck Racing events grow & operate here in the UK. His efforts are now directed into creating & promoting new and fresh events in the truck world under the Truxx Factor brand going forward.
Silverstone Truck Festival was the premiere event of 2016 which saw 500 Showtrucks entered, a large trade & industry area supported by the manufacturers and attracted the largest number of visitors for many years at a truck racing event in the UK. This event was created and built to this high profile in only two years by the Truxx Factor team.
Static truck shows and truck racing events have existed now for many years with race trucks going to truck shows and show trucks attending truck race meetings but please do not confuse these existing events with the ethos that is Truxx Factor. For decades now championship truck racing has been out of the reach of many truck owners with the machines so expensive and complex only an elite few are able to take part in this type of motorsport!
We at Truxx Factor have built a series of events which are accessible to the ordinary truck owner or driver who can compete in a number of challenges with their truck at our festival weekends. Some BTRC Race truck teams are also invited to attend but whether it is drag racing or a timed pursuit sprint on a circuit the standard trucks can do the same track activity within their group. So for the first time there is an integration between Race Trucks and Standard Trucks out on the track not just parading, but actually competing.
Each event will include a " Live Arena" where demonstrations will take place both industry and Motorsport related so it could be a recovery demonstration one hour and a full blown Brisca F1 Stock Car demonstration the next.
Local primary school children from the area of the event are encouraged to submit truck artwork which is displayed at the event together with visitors truck artwork in the children's section at each event which includes face painting, kids entertainment.
Live music with bar and food on Sat eve adds to the festival feel and as the light fades the Showtruck village become the light with an awesome display of lights from the trucks.
Together with our customers, sponsors and partners we are working towards promoting Truxx Factor into a series of leading trucking festival weekend events in the UK which are assessable at an affordable level to ordinary truck owners / operators who wish to compete in static or moving competitions. Keep on Trucking and get that truck ready for Truxx Factor drivers.


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Andrija Opica Palmović (1847. – 1882.) je bio hrvatski svećenik i pjesnik.

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1871. je godine prošireno uredništvo časopisa Matice hrvatske Vijenca. Tako se omogućila veća kvaliteta književnih i znanstvenih priloga. Godine 1873. u uredništvu su Andrija Palmović, Đuro Arnold i Rikard Jorgovanić.

Književni rad
Dijelom je skupine hrvatskih književnika 19. st. kojima se u djelima pojavljuju motivi o Arapima: Preradović, Šenoa, Palmović i Arnold. Obrađuju ih bilo pod općim imenom Arapa, bilo pod imenom Beduina i Saracena. Posebnu skupinu sačinjavaju pjesme i pripovijetke o dodiru starije hrvatske povijesti s arapskim osvajačima.

Branko Vodnik Palmovića naziva "najvećim lirskim pjesnikom onoga vremena".

Svećeništvo
Bio je jednim od kapelana župe Uzvišenja Svetog Križa u Završju Netretićkom od rujna 1875. do prosinca 1876. godine.

Politički rad
Politički je po intimnom uvjerenju bio pravašem.

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Hrvatski svećenici
Hrvatski pjesnici
Hrvatski pravaški pokret

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This isn?t good. Even I realize that. In fact, if I ran my own company I would make vacations mandatory for everyone. I think they are healthy and essential to maintaining balance in your life and vibrancy and passion in your work.
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Friedler says some people use the excuse that they can?t afford to take a vacation, even though they are often comfortable financially. ?Many people drift into a lifestyle that takes every cent of their paycheck without ever considering whether that?s what they really want,? he says. ?Of course, you may well decide that the new car is more important than two weeks exploring America?s national parks. Hey, at least you?ll know it?s your choice.?
Some people let their egos develop a self-importance that convinces them that others can?t survive at work without them. Friedler says no one is that important and everyone can find time to take at least a short vacation.
?You may have to do some creative juggling and delegating, but if a vacation is a priority for you, you can make it work,? he says. ?Besides, if you?re truly the cog around which the rest of the company turns, all the more reason you need a vacation. They?ll just have to make do without you.?
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Sir William Walton, in full Sir William Turner Walton, (born March 29, 1902, Oldham, Lancashire, Eng.—died March 8, 1983, Ischia, Italy), English composer especially known for his orchestral music. His early work made him one of England's most important composers between the time of Vaughan Williams and that of Benjamin Britten.
Walton, the son of a choirmaster father and a vocalist mother, studied violin and piano desultorily as a boy and also sang, with somewhat better results, in his father's choir. He taught himself composition, although he received advice from both Ernest Ansermet and Ferruccio Busoni. In 1912 he entered the University of Oxford, where he sang in the choir of Christ Church. He put in the requisite four years of study but failed by one examination (Responsonions) to win a bachelor of music degree. At Oxford he had met the Sitwell brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell, by whom he was virtually adopted, and he spent most of the next decade traveling with them or living with them at Chelsea. During this period he composed Façade (1923)—a set of pieces for chamber ensemble, to accompany the Sitwells' sister Edith in a recitation of her poetry—as well as Sinfonia Concertante for piano and orchestra (1928; revised 1943) and Portsmouth Point (1926), which established his reputation as an orchestral composer.
Walton was influenced by some of his older contemporaries, notably Edward Elgar, Igor Stravinsky, and Paul Hindemith. Hindemith was soloist in the first performance of one of Walton's finest works, his Viola Concerto (1929). Walton also composed a number of scores for motion pictures, including Major Barbara (1941), Henry V (1944), Hamlet (1947), and Richard III (1954). His vocal music includes the oratorio Belshazzar's Feast (1931) and the operas Troilus and Cressida (1954) and The Bear (one act; 1967). The composer received a knighthood in 1951.
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There is room for liberals in the Catholic church
I have always considered myself to be a liberal. Instinctively, since as long as I was able to think for myself, I subscribed to what was known as the 'liberal agenda.' Though I was a committed Catholic, and came from a devout Catholic family, I had no time for theocracies. I believed in the separation of church and state. I believed that any church or religious institution that relied on the state to enforce its teachings was, by definition, a weak church or institution. I felt that an unhealthy codependency had developed between civil and religious authorities in the decades after Irish independence that would be detrimental to both of them in the long run.
The relationship between de Valera and Archbishop John Charles McQuaid, and the latter's interventions in almost every aspect of Irish life, seemed to encapsulate all that was wrong with church and state in 20th century Ireland.
When the ban on artificial contraception was being discussed in the 1970s and 80s, I was with those who wanted reform. It was the same when it came to divorce. I might personally subscribe to what the church teaches about the sanctity of marriage, but I didn't think it should be imposed on those who were not Catholic or who disagreed profoundly with the church's position. Similarly, when it came to legalising homosexual acts and to the vote on marriage equality, I was on the side of the reformers. I even wrote an op-ed piece for the Irish Times in support of marriage equality.
And many years ago, when I had just emerged out of my teens, I voted against the 8th amendment to the constitution, not because I was in favour of abortion, but because I thought the proposed wording was weak and was going to lead to a whole pile of trouble.
Meanwhile, I had joined the seminary straight out of school and so found myself in the difficult position where some of the views I held were at odds with the official teaching of the church. When it came to internal church politics I also found myself on the liberal side – favouring the ordination of woman and the introduction of optional celibacy, as well as a more compassionate approach to those who were gay or divorced and remarried. I identified strongly with liberation theology and the preferential option for the poor. I was enthused more than anything by the idea of a church and a clergy that stood alongside the oppressed and were willing to lose all in solidarity with them. An open, welcoming, inclusive church.
But the odd thing is that not only did I find myself in conflict with the Vatican over the years, and run into trouble with the authorities for my views, I found that many so-called liberals had no time for church people like me either. I remember being taken aback one time when Fintan O'Toole referred to me in his column as a conservative. I certainly didn't see myself as a conservative. Then I understood that in the eyes of many secularists, being a Catholic priest was synonymous with being a conservative. That if you were a card-carrying member of the clergy then, ipso facto, you had to be a conservative. And, therefore, an ogre and an obscurantist.
Given its arrogance and abuse of power in the past, I don't blame people for being angry at the Irish Catholic church. But what I don't like is the way in which everybody in the church is viewed through the same lens, how all clergy and religious are regarded as the enemy, and as opponents of all that is good.
Sure, the church as institution has much to answer for, but the church is not a monolith. There is diversity within and much goodness too. To deny that fact, or refuse to see it, as some liberals do, is to replace one form of arrogance and intolerance with another.
Author frommypulpitPosted on October 6, 2016 October 6, 2016 Categories UncategorizedTags Catholic Church, church, contraception, da Valera, divorce, Ireland, John Charles McQuaid, liberal, liberation theology, marriage equality, priesthood, priests, religion, VaticanLeave a comment on There is room for liberals in the Catholic church
Edward Daly reminded us of the church at its best, just when we needed it most
I didn't know him at all, but I feel as if I did. Tributes to the late Bishop Edward Daly of Derry have come from far and wide, from Catholic and non Catholic, believer and non believer. His death was a lead item on news bulletins in Ireland and the U.K., with commentators speaking of him with warmth and affection.
Of course, those of a certain age remembered him as the priest who waved the blood-stained handkerchief on Bloody Sunday, but he was more than that. He was a model, a reminder, of what a good priest, a good bishop, is like. It was an important reminder at the end of another difficult week for the Irish Catholic Church.
In fact, that was one of the contrasts that hit me most clearly these past few days: the same radio shows and newspapers and social media that feasted on the Maynooth crisis and the dysfunction in the church, leaving people to wonder if there is any such creature as a good or normal priest, then reported on the life and ministry of one good priest, reminding people that such creatures do exist after all.
And Edward Daly was one such priest.
He was unpretentious, without airs or graces, happy to be called 'Eddie' rather than 'Bishop' or 'My Lord.'
He was not ambitious, and had no desire for high office. He was shocked to be appointed bishop at just 40 years old.
He was an ecumenist, and knew the importance of extending the hand of friendship and solidarity across the religious divide.
He was a peacemaker, not afraid to stand up to the men of violence from whatever side.
He was a man of the people, who knew the smell of the sheep, and knew many of them by name.
He was a simple pastor, who for the last 20 years of his life, ministered to the dying and the bereaved. It must have been very consoling for them, whether or not they were people of faith, to have a bishop by their bedside at their end.
He gave witness to the faith, witness to what it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ. His life and example offer a good template for all bishops and pastors.
Author frommypulpitPosted on August 12, 2016 Categories church, Life, UncategorizedTags bishop, Catholic Church, church, desth, Edward Daly, example, Maynooth, model, religion, template, witness1 Comment on Edward Daly reminded us of the church at its best, just when we needed it most
The price of celibacy
I joined the seminary before I had my first shave. I joined without ever having had a girlfriend, or ever going on a proper date. I joined without giving much thought to girls or relationships or the implications of living a celibate life.
I was 17 years old when I decided to become a Redemptorist. I understood that if you wanted to be a priest or religious, you couldn't get married, that celibacy was part of the package. But I was young and full of idealism. Making vows of chastity seemed like no big commitment. It's how Jesus lived. It's how priests and brothers and nuns lived. It gave them the freedom to give themselves totally to God. They seemed to manage it well enough. So also would I, I was sure.
And, anyway, I was joining a religious order. I wasn't going to be a secular priest who, most likely, would end up living, isolated, on his own. I would be part of a community of priests and brothers living as one under the same roof.
And religious life has been good to me. I have received wonderful support from my religious brothers, especially when I ran into trouble with the Vatican and, later, when my health collapsed. I have not had to worry about supporting myself financially or getting the best medical care. I have been allowed the freedom to do as little or as much work as my health has allowed. I lack for nothing.
But there is one drawback to the celibate life that I have become acutely conscious of since I became ill – lack of physical affection.
I'm not talking about sexual affection or expression. I'm not talking about breaking the vow of chastity. I'm simply talking about the sort of physical contact that most family members or partners take for granted – a hug, an embrace, a stroke of the cheek, a gentle massage, a rub of the shoulders, holding hands. The warmth of simple human contact that nourishes, soothes, relaxes, gives life.
Much of it is my own fault. Unlike my father, I have never been a tactile person. When people would try to hug me I'd instinctively pull away. I was never good at demonstrating or receiving affection.
But we need human touch – hand to hand, skin on skin – to be fully alive. Since I've become ill, my tendency has been to want to withdraw even more from people, to curl up in my own pain-filled, self-pitying, shrinking world.
It's not the fault of the brothers I live with or my family or my friends. They all want what's best for me. I know I'm loved. But celibacy does have a price. It's just the way things are.
Author frommypulpitPosted on May 5, 2016 Categories Biography, church, Life, Pain, UncategorizedTags affection, Catholic Church, celibacy, hugs, illness, intimacy, religion, sexuality, tenderness3 Comments on The price of celibacy
The time a senior cleric forced me to leave Twitter
Three years ago, the Convention on the Constitution spent some time discussing Same Sex Marriage. It led to a wider debate about the nature and definition of marriage and whether "marriage" was the best word to describe such a partnership between two persons of the same sex.
Having listened to one such discussion, I fired off a quick tweet. I told my 500-plus followers: "I don't care what they call it, I'm in favour of marriage equality."
The downside of Twitter is that you can make statements in the heat of the moment that land you in hot water or that you later regret. And, after I sent it, I began to wonder and worry. Maybe I had been a little rash, maybe I should have worded it more carefully. Given that I'm a Catholic priest, I expected an instant response.
And I was right. A journalist spotted the tweet and thought it newsworthy enough to write a little story about it. The day the story appeared, my boss came to see me. He said that a senior cleric was annoyed about my tweet and had told him to instruct me to take it down. He didn't identify who the senior cleric was but I understood it to be a bishop.
I agreed to delete the tweet. I knew I shouldn't really have posted it given the trouble the Redemptorists were already in at the time.
But it was his next request that really took me aback. "Did you tweet something lately about mandatory celibacy being evil?" he asked.
I said I couldn't remember offhand but it sounded like something I would say. "Well, they want you to delete that tweet, too," he said.
I promised to do so.
And so I opened my Twitter account and deleted the statement from a few days earlier about marriage equality. Then I went searching for the tweet about mandatory celibacy. I scrolled back through what seemed like hundreds of tweets before I finally found it. It too was deleted as requested.
But I was shocked and angry. The tweet about celibacy had been posted five months previously. About 80 percent of my tweets at that time were sports related, roughly 10 percent were about politics, and the rest had to do with everything from religion to the weather. Somebody in an office somewhere had spent a considerable amount of time systematically ploughing through my tweets about Luis Suarez and Liverpool Football Club and the goings on in Dáil Éireann and Westminster in search of church-related statements of mine to be offended by.
I couldn't believe that they would go to all that bother, and that, with church attendance falling and abuse stories still surfacing, they had so little to be bothered about. There is nothing heretical in expressing a view on mandatory celibacy. It was not as if I was denying the creed.
I was so angry and upset that I decided to leave Twitter. If I couldn't tweet with integrity, if everything I said was being monitored from on high, if my statements were being censored, then I would not tweet at all. I decided to exit the medium quietly, and I did.
Eighteen months later I returned to Twitter. I missed being able to comment on current and sporting affairs (especially about Liverpool Football Club), but mostly I wanted to recover my voice.
Of course, silencing someone or making them retract a statement isn't going to make the victim change his or her mind. And so, just four days before the marriage referendum last May, I wrote an op-ed piece for the Irish Times advocating a yes vote. I found it amusing and satisfying that the sub-editor chose that deleted tweet of mine as the heading for the piece: "I don't care what they call it, I'm in favour of marriage equality."
I got to make my point after all, only this time to far more people than would ever have read the original tweet.
Author frommypulpitPosted on April 29, 2016 April 29, 2016 Categories Biography, church, Life, UncategorizedTags bishop, Catholic Church, celibacy, censorship, church, Irish Times, mandatory celibacy, marriage equality, religion, twitter6 Comments on The time a senior cleric forced me to leave Twitter


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Der Kupa e Kosovës () ist der seit 1991 ausgetragene Pokalwettbewerb für kosovarischen Vereinsmannschaften. Er wird jedes Jahr vom Kosovarischen Fußballverband veranstaltet und ist nach der IPKO Superliga der zweitwichtigste Titel im Vereinsfußball des Kosovo. Aufgrund des Kosovokriegs wurde der Pokalwettbewerb in den Jahren 1998 und 1999 nicht ausgetragen. Das Finale findet immer im Fadil-Vokrri-Stadion in Pristina statt. Aktueller Titelträger 2022 ist der KF Llapi.

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University of Valley Forge to Join Colonial States Athletic Conference in 2020-2021
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21 Jun University of Valley Forge to Join Colonial States Athletic Conference in 2020-2021
Posted at 16:58h in UVF News	by	Melea Fowler
The University of Valley Forge (UVF) has announced that the University has accepted an invitation to join the Colonial State Athletic Conference (CSAC) beginning in the 2020-2021 academic year. "We are very excited to partner with the CSAC where we feel our university aligns well with the current conference institutions and provides us with great competition," said University of Valley Forge president Rev. David S. Kim. "We are honored by the invitation and want to thank each of the CSAC members for extending us the offer."
This move is expected to enhance the overall student-athlete experience by aligning UVF with other small, private universities and colleges, and providing more balanced conference competition.
The University of Valley Forge will be the eleventh member of the conference which consists of Bryn Athyn College, Cairn University, Cedar Crest College, Centenary University, Clarks Summit University, The College of Saint Elizabeth, Keystone College, Notre Dame of Maryland University, Rosemont College, and Wilson College. Most CSAC schools are located in eastern Pennsylvania, with one in Maryland and one in New Jersey.
The CSAC was established in 1992 as the Pennsylvania Athletic Conference to "meet the needs of small, private, four-year colleges in eastern Pennsylvania." The conference changed its name to the Colonial States Athletic Conference in 2008. The CSAC embraces a "student-first philosophy by ensuring that institutions place the overall educational experience and successful completion of academic programs above all else."
"The University of Valley Forge is an institution that aligns well with the other 10 core members of the CSAC in regards to sport sponsorship, geographic proximity, and mission of the intercollegiate athletics program," said CSAC commissioner Adrienne Mullikin. "Many of our members currently compete against UVF in non-conference competition and I am excited about developing new rivalries within our conference."
"On behalf of CSAC and our members, we welcome and look forward to the Valley Forge Patriots competing as full members of the conference in 2020-21," said Notre Dame of Maryland University President and Chair of the CSAC Board of Directors Dr. Marylou Yam. "Their spirit of competition and dedication to the student-athlete both on and off the playing field are commendable and a great addition to CSAC."
The Patriots will participate in 10 of the 17 CSAC Division III sports, including men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, men's golf, men's and women's soccer, men's baseball, women's softball, and women's volleyball.
"On behalf of the University, I want to thank Commissioner Kelly Higgins and the entire American Collegiate Athletic Association (ACAA) for allowing UVF to call the ACAA home over the last few years. It is a unique conference that offers post season play for a majority of our teams, and we have enjoyed our time as a core member. Our move to the CSAC offers us an opportunity to be a part of a more localized conference with similar private institutions. We feel very blessed to be able to compete in the CSAC beginning in the 2020-2021 season," said Director of Athletics Gretchen LeVan.
The University of Valley Forge will conclude its final season in the ACAA in the 2019-20 academic year.
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Max Weber's Modern Vision: Selections from the National Gallery of Art and Related Collections
January 3 – April 2, 2000
West Building, Ground Floor, GS-1
Max Weber, Interior of the Fourth Dimension, 1913, oil on canvas, Gift of Natalie Davis Spingarn in memory of Linda R. Miller and in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1990.78.1
This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.
Overview: 26 works on paper and 2 paintings were displayed in this installation focusing on Max Weber's early years. The presentation contained works from the Gallery's collection, including the paintings Interior of the Fourth Dimension (1913), a gift of Natalie Davis Spingarn, and Rush Hour, New York (1915), a gift of the Avalon Foundation. Recent and promised gifts from Washington-area collectors Jack and Margrit Vanderryn were also featured in the exhibition.
Organization: Charles Ritchie, assistant curator of modern prints and drawings, was the curator.
Brochure: Max Weber's Modern Vision: Selections from the National Gallery of Art and Related Collections, by Charles Ritchie. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2000.


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We compare Fox TV talk show host Bill O'Reilly's ideas about the hurricane's aftermath with those of Ashley Nelson, an 18-year-old who lives in the Lafitte Housing projects in New Orleans, in one of the flooded neighborhoods. Among other things, she explains what it feels like to go without food and water for two days. (6 minutes) Ashley is the author of an amazing book called The Combination, about her neighborhood in New Orleans. Contact The Neighborhood Stories Project for information on getting a copy.


I am not one who subscribes to the popular notion that Millennials hold a corner on not wanting to work or on placing unrealistic demands on the workplace. My personal experiences with younger workers have been that they are a hardworking, dedicated group. Have they brought a different set of expectations to the workplace? Of course they have, and I would expect that. Do I agree with all of them? No. But if younger workers don't push the boundaries of existing employment practices, then who will? That's been the job of every emerging generation as it enters the workplace. If they didn't, we'd still be dealing with cash payrolls, eighty-hour work weeks, and ball bat management.
At the same time, I do think there are several crossroads that younger workers and older employers must navigate if they're going to work together. Let's start with the intersection of youthful idealism and the harsh realities of the workplace.
Graduating with a degree in 18th century French literature doesn't automatically guarantee a high, five figure income when entering the job market. And that essential oils business everyone said was such a great idea? It might take a little longer before taking hold and paying the bills. The marketplace has a way of introducing us to the realities of employment, and it's not always pleasant. While we might think we're worth every bit of $80,000/year, the market may feel differently and let us know it's only willing to pay us $30,000. Either way, the bills still come due, and sometimes we end up taking a job we didn't prepare for, or particularly like, in order to pay them.
This might cause some seasoned employers to gloat "I told you so," but I'm not sure it's a whole lot different than the crossroad of idealism and reality many of them experience. For some older employers, their idealism involves continuing to do things the way they've always been done, and it goes well beyond hiring workers. It can also involve embracing the use of new technology or mandated changes to workplace rules. Their harsh reality may be that their company gets sidestepped by competitors and turned down by customers because they haven't kept up with the pace of change.
Every generation of new workers and established employers have encountered crossroads at different points. I don't think today's situation is much different than forty years ago when my generation, the Baby Boomers, entered the workforce. I shudder to think what those job interviews must have looked like to older employers! While many younger workers today may have their heads in the cloud of idealism, many in my generation had their heads in a different kind of cloud. And we had just as many demands of our employers as Millennials do today.
All workers should understand that they'll encounter crossroads regularly throughout their careers. The key is to recognize them when they appear, and to keep our minds open to the opportunities each of them presents.


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Introduction: In the summer of 2017, John A. Drew, a Vietnam veteran, joined my tour to Poland, Slovakia, Austria, and the Czech Republic. While in Prague, a journalist from Novinky.cz, Alex Švamberk, conducted interviews with Mr. Drew about his wartime experience. The resulting article appeared on 23 December 2017, and within four days, the article had 122,739 individual visitors, and 3,854 people played video. The article appears at https://www.novinky.cz/zahranicni/svet/457636-jsi-vrah-deti-kriceli-doma-na-americkeho-pilota-ktery-pred-50-lety-ve-vietnamu-malem-zahynul.html. It includes photographs that Mr. Drew took in Vietnam.
The translation below is from the Czech article. The original text appears at the bottom of the page.
Fifty years ago, on December 23, 1967, a F-4B Phantom from the 122th Squadron of the US Marine Corps took off to attack the supply columns for the Vietcong, which was preparing an offensive at the time. Onto a steel bridge full of trucks, one of those who dropped the bombs was John Drew, whom an antiaircraft machine gun struck. The injured pilot returned his damaged plane to the Da Nang base, but his deployment in Vietnam ended. This year, during a visit to Prague, the 78-year-old pilot recalled the events for Novinky.cz.
Ah, and they could jump on their gun, and there he comes, and they look at the same area the other guy came, but I came round the other way, this way, right at 'em. And there they were. Boom, boom, boom. It wasn't my day.
Do you know how many shells hit your plane, or?
Ah, there were a few. I don't really know. Ah, the one was enough. And, uh, as I said before, they put a hole in the side of the airplane, missed my arm, and . . .
How long was it from . . . ?
It took me about . . . I was going pretty fast, actually, uh, not supersonic, as they say, because there was a hole in the side, but, um, just under 600 naughts, um, and it took us maybe 30 minutes, 40 minutes, which was a long time, um, particularly for the poor fellow in the back. He was rather worried whether or not I would, you know, be able to stay conscious and get back. And I, well, then I told him, I said, um, "Bill," Bill Simoni, I said, "Bill, uh, if I stop cursing, you know, it's time to get out." I got back to Da Nang, yea, where I was based, the big air field.
How long time did you recover from [your] wounds?
And, ah, but then I went off to, ah, they medevaced me to Clark Air Force Base [for] more surgery.
How did you get to Vietnam?
He had a badge with a half wings, so we asked him what were the half wings. He told me to call him. He was in pilot training.
For them, a private license was valid, but you had to sign up. And I said, "No, no, that means I have to go to Vietnam." They replied, "We'll pay you $15 a month." That was big money in 1959-1960. At the dorm, I had $15 a month from the sports department. That would be a total of $30 a month. I never earned so much. I said OK. I did it for the money. I signed up.
We all entered the military because of flying–to learn how to fly. We all got a pilot license. We had better training than civilian pilots, and when you earned your pension, you went to the airlines to make money and fly around the world. But, unfortunately, there's such a junkyard called Vietnam, and you have to go there first . . .
What happened on that fateful flight?
We descended to the bombing level, between 15,000 to 20,000 feet. It depended on the ordnance and the angle of the dive, and I had to fly below thirty degrees. The first kid, the Frenchman Jacques Naviaux, dropped down and flew along the ideal route down the river. He missed. I said, okay, I'm going into it. I heard, "Good hit, John." I then climbed along the slope. And the Vietnamese boys put down their rice balls–it was around lunchtime–and they went ra-ta-tat. It wasn't my day . . .
How many shots hit you?
Only a few, but that one was enough. A 50 caliber shell made a hole in the left side on the bottom of the fuselage, shot through near the throttle (providing thrust) and into my shoulder, then it flew into my seat. It tore [my shoulder], so I couldn't use it. I didn't know that. It missed my arm and my head. If it had hit my arm, I would have died.
It made a nice opening in the plane. I didn't see through half of my cockpit cover. It was completely in pieces; it looked like hamburger mix. I wiped it with a glove. There was a hole between me and the guy behind, the radar operator, Bill Simon. Pieces from my shoulder went through the hole and hit him in the face. Fortunately, he had a helmet with a mask. He wiped it and shouted, "John, John, are you all right?" I didn't answer him and just held the stick and increased thrust.
I added thrust, and the plane kept slowing down, even though it was supposed to go faster. It probably hit the engine. I looked down at the engine thrust levers, and my hand wasn't there. It was twisted behind me. I pulled my arm in front of me, but it was useless. It just was hanging. I looked at my shoulder. Horrible. Meat. Maybe I shouldn't say it. I usually don't talk about it. I added gas with my right hand and held the yoke with my knees. I was really angry about what had happened. I couldn't believe it.
I didn't want to eject. It was full of Indians down there.
How did you manage to return?
As I added gas with my right hand, we rose to 20,000 feet to avoid antiaircraft fire. We couldn't fly across North Vietnam because there were all those ground-to-air missiles. We had to return through Laos. There was a hole in the airplane. At 20,000 feet it was cold–it's perhaps 40 degrees below zero there. I think it saved my life. The cold stopped the bleeding.
We finally got to the sea. Bill Simoni had to call the Sea-Air Rescue (SAR), so a boat followed us. We saw how it followed us to see if we ejected. They asked me, "What do you want to do? Eject?" "No, there's my arm. I'm landing this damn thing." I landed with a long approach. I told Bill that if I do not answer him, then he should ask again, and if I still don't answer, then he should eject. Bill could have ejected but stayed with me. He was a good guy.
We landed, and where we stopped, a helicopter landed. I opened the cabin. Bill jumped out and unbuckled me. He helped me onto the steps. Two guys ran up and helped me onto the stretcher. Two minutes later, I already was in the field hospital in Da Nang. Four or five medics went after me with scissors and cut everything–my jump suit, inflatable vest, and boots.
How did the healing progress?
There were lots of operations. First, they had to stop the bleeding. After my operation, the doctor at the Da Nang field hospital came to me and said, "I don't know what it was, but we removed from your shoulder a lot of black balls, like small beans." My mother gave me a rosary, and it hit the rosary and scattered the beads.
How long did the convalescence last?
About a year and a half. There were a lot of operations. The wound healed, and you return for another operation. Eventually, they put me back together; they connected the damn things.
Did you return to flying?
Yes, but I had to go through all the tests: floating underwater, long-distance swimming in the sea, physical fitness tests to prove that I can fly again. Because of Vietnam they needed pilots. They did not produce pilots fast enough, so I went back to pilot training.
Insert: Newspaper article about the decoration of John Drew. Photo: John Drew Archive, Novinka.
Marine Captain John A. Drew, Mission Hills resident, was presented the distinguished Flying Cross by Major General Lowell E. English, Commanding General, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, and the Honorable Frank E. Curran, Mayor of San Diego, during a parade and review at MCRD March 7.
Captain Drew received the award for heroism and extraordinary achievement while serving with the Marine Fighter-attack Squadron 122 in Vietnam.
On December 23, 1967, Capt. Drew, as an F-4 Phantom pilot, was engaged in a mission on an assigned target. During his first attack, an enemy .50 caliber tracer round penetrated the cockpit, seriously injuring him in the shoulder. He disregarded his painful wound and maintained control of his aircraft. Although he could use only his right arm, due to loss of blood, he skillfully flew his aircraft back to Da Nang and executed a safe landing.
Capt. Drew is now a patient at U.S. Naval Hospital, San Diego and resides at 3952 Falcon St.
Protests took place during the Vietnam War. Did you notice them?
Yes, when I arrived in San Francisco at the hospital at Travis Air Base, they knew we were coming, so they stood there and screamed at me that I was the murderer of children. That doesn't give you a good feeling.
After the war, you moved from the United States to live in Sweden. Why?
I did not want to stay in the US because of the hatred of people. When they knew that you were in the military, you are a criminal. So, I was glad that I left those damned people. I worked as an instructor for a British company in Saudi Arabia.
How did you see the war in Vietnam?
I think Commander John Verdi best described it as one dark rainy night in the jungle. One guy said, "We're here to defend freedom, mom's pie, the flag, and America." The commander said, "Shut up! We're not here to defend the flag. We're not here for anything like that. You boys came here because you want to see history firsthand. You are here because you love excitement. You are here because of the exhilaration of flying and defying death. Live and fly on, and no more talk of patriotism. That's not what it is." And he was right.
And you were there for the excitement?
When you get back to the base, you're out of it. I knew that feeling of euphoria that today I escaped death and that I cheated death. It is better than marijuana but not as good as morphine.
When you get into a plane, when the wheels peel off and you're in the air, life changes forever, and you want to repeat that. But there are certain conditions you have to meet. You have to have a mind that is capable of adapting to all the information. You have to be a little smart, but what is most important, you have to have a romantic heart that is full of adventure.
When you bombed, did you realize you were killing people?
Yeah, we all did it, and we all thought about it. But mainly we Marines had to be damned sure we did not bomb our own boys. The Air Force did that often–bombed our own people–because they did not fly past them and because they did not fly low.
There were smoke grenades, but it was not clear whether they were the right ones or fake. On the ground, there also was a controller, a Marine pilot, who said: "I marked our position with a red smoke grenade." But among the bad guys on the other side, someone understood English, so they also lit a red smoke bomb. So, I had two reds. What to do? I have two reds. "So turn back. I'll mark our boys with blue." The blue appears and immediately afterward another blue. It's funny. So, I got turquoise, but already I positively had identified them and finally released the bombs on the bad guys. The Air Force only flew, released their bombs, and flew away.
John Drew (born 16 November 1939) fought in Vietnam at a time when the war was escalating and the Vietcong guerrillas undertook, with the support of North Vietnamese soldiers, ever increasing attacks on the territory of South Vietnam, culminating, in the beginning of 1968, with the encirclement of the Khe Sanh base and Tet Offensive. Already at the beginning of 1967, the Marine Corps had 21 of its 36 battalions, 14 of its 33 airplane squadrons, and half of its helicopters in Vietnam.
Drew, as a member of 122nd Squadron Crusaders, flew to Vietnam in September 1967. He participated in 13 missions, mostly close air support (CAS) of troops but also attacks on Vietcong supply columns. He also was involved in the Barrier Combat Air Patrol (BARCAP) fighter mission, offering cover to fighter pilots, but he did not take part in any air combat. The last mission he flew was during the winter monsoon, under difficult weather conditions, when he took off with zero visibility.
He was hit the day after his fellow soldier, Gary Fors, was shot down over Laos, was captured, and was killed during an attack on the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
In March 1968, they honored John Drew with the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC).
Drew trained in 1966 on the F-9F Cougar and then transferred to Phantoms with the 531st Marine Corps Gray Ghosts, which first flew Phantoms in 1965 in Vietnam.
When he recovered, Drew flew the A-4 Skyhawk fighter in the 103rd Training Squadron of Marine Corps.
After being discharged, he worked as an instructor in Saudi Arabia, and in Scotland, he flew for small airlines.
John's brother, Joseph, also fought in Vietnam. He died on December 27, 1966, in the fighting at Quang Nam.
Před padesáti lety 23. prosince 1967 vzlétly F-4B Phantomy 122. perutě americké námořní pěchoty k útoku na kolony se zásobami pro Vietcong, který v té době připravoval ofenzivu. Na ocelový most plný nákladních aut shazoval bomby i John Drew, kterého ale zasáhl protiletadlový kulomet. Zraněný s poškozeným strojem se dokázal ještě vrátit na základnu v Danangu, ale jeho nasazení ve Vietnamu tím skončilo. Letos při návštěvě Prahy 78letý pilot na tuto událost pro Novinky zavzpomínal.
It took me about . . . I was going pretty fast, actually, uh, not supersonic, as they say, because there was a hole in the side, but, um, just under 600 naughts, um, and it took us maybe 30 minutes, 40 minutes, which was a long time, um, particularly for the poor fellow in the back. He was rather worried whether or not I would, you know, be able to stay conscious and get back. And I, well then I told him, I said, um, "Bill," Bill Simoni, I said, "Bill, uh, if I stop cursing, you know, it's time to get out." I got back to Da Nang, yea, where I was based, the big air field.
Jak jste se dostal do Vietnamu?
Měl odznak s půlkou křídla, tak jsme se ho zeptal, co je to ta půlka křídla. Řekl mi, abych jim zavolal. Byl v pilotním výcviku.
Platili soukromou licenci, ale musel jsi se zaregistrovat. A já na to: "Ne, to ne, to znamená, že budu muset jít do Vietnamu." Oni otočili: "Zaplatíme ti patnáct dolarů za měsíc." To byly tehdy v letech 1959, 1960 velké peníze. Měl jsem 15 dolarů měsíčně od sportovního oddělení na koleji. To by bylo celkem třicet dolarů měsíčně, nikdy jsem si tolik nevydělal. Řekl jsem OK. Udělal jsem to pro peníze, upsal jsem se jim.
Jak probíhal ten osudový nálet?
Sestoupili jsme do hladiny pro bombardování mezi 20 000 a 15 000 stopami. To záleželo na výzbroji a úhlu klesání střemhlavého letu, měl jsem letět pod třiceti stupni. První kluk, ten Francouz Jacques Naviaux klesl a letěl po ideální trase dolů k řece. Minul. Řekl jsem si, dobrá, jdu do toho. Slyšel jsem: "Dobrý zásah, Johne." Stoupal jsem potom podél svahu. A ti vietnamští kluci odložili své rýžové koule, byla zrovna doba oběda, a udělali ratata. Nebyl to můj den . . .
Jen pár, ale ta jedna stačila. Střela ráže .50 udělala vlevo dole díru do trupu, proletěla u přípustí (tahu motoru), dál mým ramenem a vletěla do mého sedadla. Roztrhla ho, takže jsem ho nemohl použít. To jsem ale nevěděl. Minula mou paži i mou hlavu. Kdyby mě zasáhla do paže, přišel bych o život.
V letadle nadělala pěknou paseku. Neviděl jsem přes půlku mého krytu kokpitu, byl plný té fašírky, vypadalo to jako směs na hamburger. Setřel jsem to rukavicí. Mezi mnou a klukem vzadu, radarovým operátorem Billem Simonim, byla díra. Kusy z mého ramena prošly tou dírou a zasáhly ho do obličeje. Naštěstí měl helmu se štítkem. Setřel to a křičel: "Johne, Johne, jsi v pořádku?" Neodpovídal jsem mu, jen jsem držel knipl a zvyšoval tah.
Přidával jsem tah a letadlo pořád zpomalovalo, přitom mělo zrychlovat. Asi zasáhli motor. Podíval jsem se dolů na páky tahu motoru a moje ruka tam nebyla, byla ohnutá za mnou, vytáhl jsem paži před sebe, ale byla nepoužitelná, jenom visela. Podíval jsem se na rameno. Hrůza. Maso. Možná jsem to neměl říkat, obvykle o tomhle nemluvím. Pravou rukou jsem přidal plyn a knipl držel koleny. Měl jsem hrozný vztek, co se stalo. Nemohl jsem tomu uvěřit.
Nechtěl jsem se vystřelit, byla tam země plná Indiánů.
Jak jsem pravou rukou přidal plyn, vystoupali jsme do 20 000 stop kvůli protiletadlovému dělostřelectvu. Nemohli jsme letět napříč Severním Vietnamem, protože tam byly všechny ty rakety země vzduch. Museli jsme zpátky přes Laos. V letadle byla díra. Ve 20 000 stopách je zima, je tam možná 40 pod nulou. A myslím si, že to mi zachránilo život. Chlad zastavil krvácení.
Nakonec jsme se dostali k moři. Bill Simoni musel zavolat pátrací leteckou záchrannou službu (SAR), takže nás sledovala loď, viděl jsem, jak nás sleduje, kdybychom se katapultovali. Ptali se mne: "Co chceš dělat? Vystřelit se?" Ne, je tu ta moje paže. Já s touhle proklatou věcí přistanu. Přiletěl jsem s dlouhým přiblížením. A Billovi jsem řekl, že jestli mu nebudu odpovídat, tak se má ptát dál, a když nebudu stále odpovídat, tak se má katapultovat. Bill se mohl katapultovat, ale zůstal se mnou. Byl to dobrej kluk.
Přistáli jsme. A tam, kde jsme zastavili, dosedla helikoptéra. Otevřel jsem kabinu. Bill vyskočil a odpoutal mne. Pomohl mi na schůdky. Nahoru přiběhli dva kluci, položili mě na nosítka. O dvě minuty později jsem byl už v polní nemocnici v Danangu. Čtyři nebo pět zdravotníků ke mně přišlo s nůžkami, všechno rozstříhali, moji kombinézu, nafukovací vestu, boty.
Bylo to hodně operací. Napřed museli zastavit krvácení. Když jsem byl po operaci, přišel ke mně doktor v polní nemocnici v Danangu a řekl mi: "Nevím, co to bylo, vyndali jsme z ramena hodně černých kuliček, takových malých fazolek." Moje máma mi dala růženec a zasáhlo to růženec a rozprsklo to ty zrníčka.
Asi rok a půl, bylo to hodně operací. Rána se zahojí a vrátíte se na další operaci. Nakonec mě dali dohromady, pospojovali ty proklaté věci.
Vrátil jste se k létání?
Ano, ale musel jsem projít všemi testy. Plaváním pod vodou, dálkovým plaváním v moři, testy fyzické zdatnosti, abych prokázal, že mohu zase létat. Kvůli Vietnamu potřebovali piloty, necvičili piloty dost rychle, tak jsem se vrátil k výcviku pilotů.
Za vietnamské války se konaly protesty. Zaznamenal jste je?
Ano, když jsem přijel do San Franciska na leteckou základnu Travis do nemocnice, věděli, že přijíždíme. A tak tam stáli a křičeli na mě, že jsem vrah dětí. To ve vás nevyvolá dobrý pocit.
Po válce jste se odstěhoval ze Spojených států a žijete ve Švédsku. Proč?
Nechtěl jsem zůstat v USA kvůli nenávisti lidí. Když vědí, že jste byl v armádě, jste zločinec. Tak jsem byl rád, že jsem odešel od toho proklatého lidstva, pracoval jsem jako instruktor pro britskou společnost v Saúdské Arábii.
Jak jste vnímal válku ve Vietnamu?
Myslím si, že nejlépe to popsal jednu tmavou deštivou noc v džungli velitel peruti John Verdi. Jeden kluk prohlásil: "Jsme tu, abychom bránili svobodu, mámin koláč, vlajku a Ameriku." Velitel na to řekl: "Zmlkni! Nejsme tu, abychom bránili vlajku, nejsme tu kvůli ničemu z toho. Vy kluci tady jste se sem dostali, protože chcete vidět historii z první ruky. Jste tady, protože máte rádi vzrušení, jste tu kvůli vyčerpávajícímu vzrušení z létaní a oklamávání smrti. Žijme a létejme dál. A žádné další řeči o patriotismu, o tom to není." A měl pravdu.
I vy jste tam byl kvůli vzrušení?
Při návratu na základnu jsi v rauši. Poznal jsem, že ten pocit euforie, že jsem dneska unikl smrti, že jsem obehrál smrt, je lepší než marihuana. I když ne tak dobrý jako morfium.
Jak se člověk dostane do letadla, kola se odlepí a je ve vzduchu, život se navždy změní. A to si chceš zopakovat. Ale jsou tu určité požadavky, které musíš splnit. Musíš mít mozek, který je schopen přizpůsobit se všem těm informacím, musíš být trochu chytrý, ale co je nejdůležitější - musíš mít romantické srdce plné dobrodružství.
Když jste bombardoval, uvědomoval jste si, že zabíjíte lidi?
Jo, všichni jsme to dělali a všichni jsme na to mysleli. Ale hlavně my mariňáci jsme si museli být proklatě jisti, že neshazujeme bomby na naše kluky. Letectvo to dělalo hodně, shodilo to na vlastní lidi, protože si nad tím nepřeletěli, protože neslétli dolů.
Byly tam kouřové granáty, ale nebylo jasné, zda jsou pravé nebo falešné. A na zemi byl taky návodčí, taky pilot námořní pěchoty, který řekl: "Vyznačil jsem naše pozice červenou dýmovnicí." Jenže u zlých kluků naproti někdo rozuměl anglicky, tak taky zapálili červenou dýmovnici. A tak jsem měl dvě červené. Co dělat. Mám dvě červené. "Tak se vrať, vyznačím naše kluky modrou." Objeví se modrá. A hned po ní druhá modrá - legrační. Tak jsem dostal tyrkysovou a to už jsem je pozitivně identifikoval a shodil náklad a zlí kluci skončili. Letectvo jen přiletělo, shodilo náklad a odletělo.
John Drew (* 16. 11. 1939) bojoval ve Vietnamu v době, kdy válka vrcholila a partyzáni z Vietcongu podnikali za podpory vojáků Severního Vietnamu stále větší útoky na území Jižního Vietnamu, což vyvrcholilo na počátku roku 1968 obklíčením základny v Khe Sangu a ofenzívou Tet. Už na počátku roku 1967 měla ve Vietnamu americká námořní pěchota 21 ze svých 36 praporů a 14 ze svých 33 perutí letadel i polovinu svých vrtulníků.
Drew jako příslušník 122. perutě Crusaders odletěl do Vietnamu v září 1967. Účastnil se třinácti misí, většinou přímé podpory vojsk (CAS), ale také útoků na zásobovací kolony Vietcongu. Absolvoval i stíhací mise BARCAP, kdy poskytoval krytí bitevním letounům, ale žádného leteckého souboje se nezúčastnil. Poslední mise létal v době zimních monzunů za obtížných povětrnostních podmínek, kdy startoval za nulové viditelnosti.
Zasažen byl den poté, co byl při útoku na Ho Či Minovu stezku nad Laosem sestřelen jeho spolubojovník Gary Fors, který byl zajat a zabit.
V březnu 1968 vyznamenali Johna Drewa Záslužným leteckým křížem (DFC).
Na phantomy se Drew přeškolil v roce 1966 z letadel F-9F Cougar u 531. perutě námořní pěchoty Gray Ghosts, která jako vůbec první létala s tímto typem stroje ve Vietnamu už v roce 1965.
Když se vyléčil, létal Drew na bitevnících A-4 Skyhawk v 103. výcvikové perutě námořní pěchoty.
Po propuštění ze služby působil jako instruktor v Saúdské Arábii a ve Skotsku létal u malých aerolinek.
Ve Vietnamu bojoval jako příslušník námořní pěchoty i Johnův bratr Joseph, který padl 27. prosince 1966 v bojích u Quang Namu.


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