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TERRELL'S TUNEUP: SONGS FOR THE SEASON
Ten years ago this week, I wrote in this column a list of my Top 10 favorite Christmas songs, which may have been based on a previous version that was published about a decade before that.
Everyone's tastes change a little through the years, but looking over that list, I'll stand by those selections. I still play those songs at home and on my radio shows every year.
But there is lots of great Christmas music out there. So here's a new list of my favorite Christmas songs that I cherish almost as much as the ones on the old list.
1. "Santa Doesn't Cop Out on Dope" by Sonic Youth. The band made up of Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, and Steve Shelley has never been known for its humor. So it's not going out on much of a limb to declare that this is hands down the funniest song they ever recorded. It's a Martin Mull tune, originally recorded by the singer-comic in the mid-'70s as a parody of smug moralists trying to use "hep lingo" to rap to the youth about drugs and such. Sonic Youth adds a few layers of absurdism, not to mention crazy noise.
2. "All For Gloria" by Elastica. This is a rock 'n' roll reimagining of "Gloria in Excelsis Deo" by a predominantly female band that burned out way too quickly in the '90s. The recording is from a John Peel BBC Christmas show, which ended up on an album called Elastica: The Radio One Sessions. But I bet most American fans first heard it on Just Say Noël (on which it was called "Gloria") — the same 1996 Geffen Christmas collection that featured the Sonic Youth song mentioned above. On Radio One, Elastica also does a pretty cool version of "We Three Kings" called "I Wanna Be a King of Orient Aah."
3. "Must Be Santa" by Brave Combo. Bob Dylan took Combo's crazy pumped-up polka arrangement of this old kiddie song for his Christmas album last year (and made a hilarious video that was an internet sensation). I like the original better.
4. "White Christmas" by Otis Redding. Nobody should have even attempted to sing this Christmas chestnut after Redding worked it over. Like he did with practically everything he ever recorded, the man just sang his guts out.
5. "Eggnog" by The Rockin' Guys. The Guys are a punk band from Conway, Arkansas, which I never would have discovered except for the goodwill of a former colleague who's an Arkie expat. The song is a tender reminiscence of the singer's "poor old peg-leg pappy" and how the family would get together at Christmas and "decorate his stump."
6. "Blue Christmas Lights" by Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen. Buck Owens co-wrote and recorded this sad Yuletide honky-tonker. But Hillman & Pedersen, who covered it in the '90s, make it haunting with their harmonies.
7. "Christmas in the Trenches" by John McCutcheon. This is a touching ballad about the famous 1914 Christmas truce during World War I. British and German troops spontaneously laid down their arms to sings carols and celebrate the holiday before getting back to the serious work of killing one another the next day.
8. "Can Man Christmas" by Joe West with Mike "The Can Man" Burney. Burney — who collects aluminum cans around the Lone Butte area for recycling — narrates a couple of anecdotes involving his Santa Claus suit as West and his band play a slow, sad melody.
9. "Star of Wonder" by The Roches. Unaccompanied, sisters Maggie, Suzzy, and Terre sing otherwordly harmonies on this tune written by Terre.
10. "Christmas Boogie" by Canned Heat with Alvin & The Chipmunks. Yes, a melding of two great bands. Guitarist Henry "The Sunflower" Vestine is amazing, even in a weird novelty like this. And Bobby "The Bear" Hite learns not to call chipmunks "mice."
In the spirit of Christmas recycling, here's my December 2000 Christmas Top 10.
1. "Little Drummer Boy" by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. Jett wasn't the first rocker to do this song. Remember David Bowie's duet with Bing Crosby? I don't think Der Bingle would have attempted this version.
2. "Merry Christmas From the Family" by Robert Earl Keen. A lovable if somewhat dysfunctional family — with all its addictions, prejudices, and stepchildren — sits down for a hilarious Yuletide feast.
3. "Fairytale of New York" by The Pogues with Kirsty MacColl. A saga of a love gone wrong: a boozy Irish immigrant lands in the drunk tank, haunted by the curses of his fed-up wife ("Merry Christmas, my ass. I pray God its our last!") and the carols of a police choir.
4. "We Three Kings of Orient Are" by The Beach Boys. The Beach Boys' Christmas Album, recorded in the early 1960s, contains some raw dreck, but the boys' trademark harmonies on this tune are near-mystical.
5. "Old Toy Trains" by Roger Miller. This song, written for his son Dean, who was a toddler at the time, is a rare public glimpse of Miller's sweet side.
6. "2,000 Miles" by The Pretenders. The grand finale to Learning to Crawl, the group's last great album, "2,000 Miles" is a sad but beautiful winter song.
7. "Father Christmas" by The Kinks. Santa, bring me some class warfare!
8. "Santa Can't Stay" by Dwight Yoakam. On one level this tune is hilarious: a drunken father dons a Santa suit and barges in on Mama and her new beau as the mystified children look on. But any divorced guy who can remember his first Christmas after the split-up can't help but feel pangs of horror listening to this.
9. "Merry Christmas Baby" by Elvis Presley. "Blue Christmas" is much better known, but this is Elvis at his bluesy best.
10. "The Chipmunk Song" by David Seville and The Chipmunks. Dang, I can actually remember when this first came out one Christmas season in the late 1950s. It was the very first single by Alvin and his brothers, and it has a certain youthful innocence lacking in the group's later work. After all, this was when The Chipmunks were young and hungry — before they sold out.
* The Steve Terrell Christmas Special: Hear a bunch of these songs and so much more at 10 p.m. to midnight Sunday, Dec. 19, on KSFR-FM, 101.1 FM.
* Enchiladas roasting on an open fire: More music to ruin any Christmas party! Hear my podcast Xmas special HERE
Blog Bonus: Here's three short reviews of recent Christmas music I reviewed for Pasatiempo which have been published, or will be published this month.
Angry Johnny & The Killbillies
Bang Bang Baby Bang Bang Merry Christmas (Pete's Pig Parts)
From the darkest backwoods of Massachusetts comes Angry Johnny with a sleighfull of songs about all those things that make Christmas the most wonderful time of the year — Santa Claus, drinking, snow, depression, shopping, gunplay, jingle bells and homicide.
In other words, all the elements of a good Angry Johnny album — plus all the Christmas wrappings.
Killbilly cultists have known for a long time that the Angry one had a soft spot for the holidays. Several years ago he released a free MP3 on his Web site of a song called "Six Bullets For Christmas." That classic is included on this album.
The basic theme of "Six Bullets" — killing a loved on Christmas Day as payment for infidelity — is revisited here on the title song. But this time there's a twist, a happy ending of sorts, at least for most of the characters involved.
Of course, Christmas is for the children. Therefore it's appropriate that the opening tune, "Shootin' Snowmen" is about innocent, if dangerous youthful Yuletide tradition. "Christmas carol from both barrels and the snowman is history ..."
With songs like "Slaughter in a Winter Wonderland" and "Santa Gets His," this album is not for the squeamish. But for those who get tired of holiday fluff, this is more fun than swatting a sugarplum fairy.
The Polkaholics
Jingle Bells, Schmingle Bells (Self released)
It's Christmas time in Crazytown and who better to provide the soundtrack than that polka-powerpunk trio,The Polkaholics. No, this isn't your grandfathers polka band. No accordions, no tubas. Dandy Don Hedeker, Jolly James Wallace and Stylin' Steve Glover play frenzied guitar rock with a hopped-up oom-pah-pah beat.
With this 7-song EP, the boys infuse some holiday classics with polka culture, adding references to beer, kishka, Old Spice, sauerkraut, kielbasa and more beer. Thus we have "Yakov the Polka Reindeer" (guess why his nose is so shiny), "White Christmas" redone as "Polka Christmas" and, instead of "Jingle Bells," The Polkaholics sing "Sausage Balls."
And if the genre-blending isn't enough with the polka, punk and Christmas music, "The Polkaholics Are Comin' to Town" starts off as a surf rocker. There are other musical non sequiturs, such as the guitar riff from "Day Tripper" opening the song "Drinkin' With Santa." And "In Excelsis Polka" is a wild polkafied mash-up of Bach, Van Morrison, Patti Smith and — for reasons I'm still trying to understand, "Sympathy for The Devil."
The entire EP is only 20 minutes long. But dancing to it provides quite an aerobic work-off — the better to work off all that beer and sausage.
Good news! You can download all seven songs for free until Dec. 31 RIGHT HERE!.
Crazy For Christmas (Surfdog)
Old smoothie Dan Hicks has been Christmas music for decades. He's part of the San Francisco-based Christmas Jug, whose song "Somebody Stole My Santa Suit" appeared on Rhino Records' wonderful Bummed Out Christmas compilation CD back in 1989. He re-recorded that one, a reimagining of "Somebody Stole My Gal" for this album, though jug fans probably will prefer the original.
Longtime Hicks fans will have a flash of familiarity when they hear the first song, "Christmas Mornin'" on this album. It doesn't become obvious until he starts singing, but it's a funny re-write of an already funny Hicks standard, "Where's the Money?"
There's plenty of Christmasizing old songs here. Louis Jordan's hit "Choo Choo Ch' Boogie" becomes "Santa Got a Choo Choo," while the jugband chestnut "Beedle Um Bum" — a song Hicks performs in concert — magically transforms into "Santa Workshop," a story of an elf named McGerkin.
And there's some covers of Christmas classics here — "Here Comes Santa Claus," "I Saw Mommy Kissin' Santa Claus," Chuck Berry's "Run Run Rudolf" — done in the acoustic swinging Hot Licks style. My favorites of these are is "Carol of the Bells" sung scat style by Hicks and his Lickettes (The kazoos sound pretty snazzy here too) and "Cool Yule," a song written by Steve Allen and made famous by Louis Armstrong.
Hicks make Yule sound cooler than ever.
Here's a Hicks video featuring singing squirrels and aliens
Danny Cabeza de Calabazo 10:24 AM
I nominate Stan Freberg's "Green Christmas"...
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The Mysterious Case of Jim Sullivan
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This extremely rare and original motorcycle has been the subject of a full ground up professional restoration. The engine (which rebuild includes the correct caged roller-bearings) bears the number 42XA1020 meaning this was the 20th off the production line. Harley Davidson only ever manufactured about 1000 XA's and as a result they rarely come up for sale, especially one in such mint condition.


Pamela Witter is the author of Five Strategies to Increase Annual Fund Revenue: Groundbreaking Fundraising Solutions for Nonprofits (CharityChannel Press).
Pamela is the founder of Seed Planters, which she describes as "a business with a purpose," where she offers limited consulting and speaks nationally on motivation topics as well as on fundraising, leadership, and communications.
She also serves as the Vice President for Development and Community Engagement for Trocaire College in Buffalo, NY where she oversees marketing, communications, fund raising, grants, and alumni, community, and government relations.
Pamela's award-winning work is widely recognized. She is the recipient of the 2014 Citizen of the Year Award from the Allegany Pomona Grange, 2012 Alumna of the Year award from Leadership Cattaraugus, 2011 Buffalo Business First "40 Under Forty" honoree, and 2012 Outstanding Achiever Award from the Greater Allegany County Chamber of Commerce. She was named an Athena Young Professional Finalist by the Buffalo Niagara Partnership in 2016.
In the essay "More Than Normal, But Believable," comic book genius Stan Lee wrote, "A superhero is a person who does heroic deeds and has the ability to do them in a way that a normal person couldn't." To be a superhero, he concluded, you need an exceptional power and must use it to accomplish good. Yet, most superhero stories start on shaky ground—family issues, childhood trauma, evil triumphing over good. As a result, these seemingly normal humans morph into something extraordinary.
This article originally appeared as "More Than Normal, But Believable," in the October, 2018 issue of Advancing Philanthropy, published as a member benefit by the Association of Fundraising Professionals.
This notion reminds me of a concept I embraced while studying for my MBA. True North author and Harvard business professor Bill George spoke of great leaders who often face "crucibles" in their lives — issues that challenge their very will, severe trials in which different elements interact, leading to the creation of something new.
However, these fracturing moments do not break them. Those who achieve true followership, longevity, and success take time to do an "inner work," George says. They look at their life story, pull it apart, and examine it. They figure out who they are and what makes them tick. Once they put those experiences into context, they move forward authentically, creating trust with those they lead.
I think there's a reason I love superhero stories. Like many of them, my own backstory was marked by pain and rebirth. That may be the very thing that launched me into leadership and my first fundraising executive role at the age of 37.
My first memory of being physically assaulted is from when I was around eight years old. I later learned I was hurt before that, but my conscious memory of suffering began as a little girl, playing on the living room floor. An argument with a family member over a toy escalated. I looked up from the figurine in my hand to see the look in his eyes. The usual playfulness was replaced by a dark stare. "Run," my mind reacted. "Run!" As the adrenaline overtook me, I leapt into action, sprinting out the door and across the lawn to the sidewalk.
As my feet carried me toward the neighbor's house where my mom was cleaning, tears stung my eyes. He was faster and older. His legs were stronger. Moments from the front door, I yelled, "Mom," just as his hands connected with my back, launching me across the cement onto my face.
This set the stage for years of violence that grew severe. I laughed it off for years as normal kid stuff. I acted out eventually, becoming the "troubled kid" at school. No one knew what I had gone through, save a couple friends in similar circumstances, and none of us told anyone. The traumas piled up.
This was my crucible. It changed the way my brain responded to stress, fear, even small things like perceived disappointment and everyday anger. This crucible had the power to unhinge my leadership ability and prevent me from reaching my full potential. Who wants to follow someone who is always reacting? Who responds to conflict with aggression?
Fortunately, I was also endowed with a superpower! At the same young age, I became aware of something inside me, seemingly beyond my control yet compelling enough to make me want to engage it. Sitting in the living room of our modest apartment, my fingers tingled. "Write," my brain shouted. "Write!" I didn't know then that my compulsion to write would become an entrée into doing good all my life or raising millions of dollars for nonprofit missions. At eight, I simply listened to my body. I found the deepest, darkest closet in the house and pushed myself into its back corner. I barricaded myself in with piles of old board game boxes and books, flicked on a flashlight, and wrote.
As I sat there surrounded by 1980s pop culture products and wearing my Wonder Woman Underoos, I wrote everything—letters to pen pals, descriptions of my surroundings, poems, and eight-year-old memoirs. When I shared my creations, people smiled and laughed. Eventually reading accompanied the writing, and I became a devout learner, consuming everything I could at the library and at school. It made me feel strong and determined. My power generated happiness, but like most superheroes, life would challenge me before the gift could be fully realized.
Pamela H. Witter is the author of Five Strategies to Increase Annual Fund Revenue: Groundbreaking Fundraising Solutions for Nonprofits (CharityChannel Press).
Driving down the winding back road to my country home one evening, I watched the lush green trees lining the creek bed pass by. It had been a good day at my job in the city. My team consisted of passionate and talented marketers, fundraisers, writers, and designers. In a few years' time, we'd achieved amazing wins—a total divisional reorganization, regional and national awards, an institutional rebrand, the launch of a new website, a revival of the alumni association, the formation of giving societies, approval for a campaign, and growth in philanthropy. I'd also published my third book, an industry text on annual funds. I was proud of my career. It gave me purpose.
Yet something inside me remained unsettled. In fact, if I'm being honest, I just wanted to run. Some days, the urge overtook me. Like the time my heart had been aching for weeks. I prayed feverishly for relief. In an attempt to get away, I flew my daughter and I to Taos, New Mexico, on the opposite side of the country. To say the trip felt like my own painful pilgrimage would be an understatement. I visited a place called El Santuario de Chimayo, a little compound in the New Mexico mountains dating back to the 1800s. Soldiers and sailors subjected to the Bataan Death March made it an annual pilgrimage to give thanks for their deliverance from the war and to memorialize their suffering after returning home.
The sanctuary was brilliant. Adobe walls. Rounded archways. Outdoor worship areas. Trees and fences covered by hundreds of rosaries. A stark silence. Serenity. I made my way to the inner chamber of the healing room. A perfectly round hole in the ground contained dirt said to be blessed. I picked it up, closed my eyes, and cried out a prayer for deliverance. When I walked away, I hoped to leave my pain on the dirt floor. Not much happened in that moment, and frankly, I missed home. I knew I couldn't run from my mind anymore, but what I did not know was that something would be waiting for me—a profound rock bottom and hope for a new beginning.
It's funny how sometimes the most socially adept adults can experience the worst inner aloneness. I would say I spent the vast majority of my adult life feeling alone inside, save the time I spent with my daughter, who was now growing up and seeking her own independence. When I returned from my pilgrimage and one of my close family members experienced a relapse and figuratively disappeared, the loneliness overtook me. J.K. Rowling once wrote, "Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life." I crawled forward as if I were crawling out of that chamber at the sanctuary with nothing but a handful of dirt and some hope.
Like the superheroes in my favorite childhood stories, I had fallen apart. However, I still had my superpower, one I had nurtured since I was eight, even in the most difficult times. I was a learner, a writer, a reader, and a student of life. I put that power into practice. The rebuilding process I committed to would transform my life. My journey included joining ACA (Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families), starting counseling for trauma, and coming out of isolation in regard to my inner feelings.
Over the subsequent eighteen months, I learned things about myself. I learned I had Complex PTSD from childhood trauma, and I frequently dissociated from my feelings and memories. I began connecting the dots of the past to the present, learning how the physical violence and fear I experienced as a little girl led to disorganized attachment in relationships. I learned about the myriad triggers in my life. I engaged in therapies to help rewire my brain's response to stress. I met people just like me and learned to trust my fellow traveler. I made friends and began to experience communion with another human being on a daily basis—real, deep, vulnerable communion. Through a key recovery relationship with my now best friend, I began to see that my inner child or true self was safe, had a voice, and could even play and have fun in life.
I also learned why I made so many bad choices, choices I was mostly able to cover up. Why I found myself a single, pregnant woman on welfare at the age of 25. Why I had a string of broken relationships. Why I could never stand up for myself or exercise my voice under stress without becoming angry. Why with certain personalities, I grappled with severe codependence.
So what does any of this have to do with work or leadership or fundraising?
I have two answers to that. First, by finally doing the inner work Bill George suggested, I put my life story into context and became a more authentic, consistent, and trustworthy boss, employee, and coworker. I hear from peers on the executive team that they see the change in me. Coworkers I engaged in frequent conflict with transformed into partners working toward a shared strategic plan. I handle conflict better. I'm not as scared of conversations about accountability with team members.
Second, once freed from the guilt, shame, and blame of my past, I began to make healthier choices. Through my inner work, I shed my fears regularly and operate out of passion as opposed to perfectionism and distraction. I have greater empathy and a sense of calm, and can balance that with a less chaotic view of getting to the goal.
If you're reading this, your inner work may look totally different from mine, but in all the interviews Bill George conducted for his book, he found a consistency. Great leaders with sustained success did their own inner work and then maintained a relationship with at least one other human being with whom they could be vulnerable. As a result, they became focused, trustworthy leaders.
Nowhere is that more in demand than in the nonprofit industry. Fundraising is a vocation marked by communication and relationship-building. It's about connecting donors' passions to mission opportunities. I can do that better when I'm not a mess inside, when I'm confident and comfortable in my own skin and therefore more connected with others. This simple step toward better self-awareness is the foundation on which we build organizational relationships that lead to astounding growth and innovation. Ultimately, those wins lead to a strengthened institution and enhanced ability to serve our community. Isn't that why we do what we do?
As fundraisers and nonprofit leaders, we engage in acts of service every day. Yet one of the greatest acts of service we can ever do is to care for ourselves. By committing to a lifetime of inner work, you nurture your own spirit. Only then can you offer your very best self to the work you've been called to do.
What a fantastic touching blog. Thank you Pamela for sharing. Definitely a universal story of resilience, empathy, compassion and love.


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Richard Relhan (ur. 1754 w Dublinie, zm. 28 marca 1823) – angielski botanik i mykolog.

W 1767 r. został stypendystą King's Scholar w Westminster School, a 7 maja 1773 r. został przyjęty na stypendystę w Trinity College w Cambridge. Trzy lata później otrzymał licencjat, a w 1779 r. uzyskał tytuł magistra. W 1781 rozpoczął nauczanie w King's College. W 1783 r. botanik Thomas Martin przekazał Relhanowi swoje rękopisy. Korzystając z nich i uzupełniając je własnymi badaniami naukowymi Relhan w 1785 roku opublikował swoje główne dzieło, Flora Cantabrigiensis. W latach 1786, 1788 i 1793 wydano dodatki do tej księgi, w 1802 i 1820 dzieło to zostało całkowicie przedrukowane i rozbudowane. W 1787 roku Richard Relan został wybrany na członka Royal Society of London. W 1788 został jednym z członków nowo powstałego Towarzystwa Linneuszowskiego w Londynie. W 1791 został mianowany rektorem Hemingby College w Lincolnshire.

Przy nazwach naukowych utworzonych przez niego taksonów standardowo dodawane jest jego nazwisko Relhan (zobacz: lista skrótów nazwisk botaników i mykologów).

Przypisy

Ludzie urodzeni w Dublinie
Brytyjscy botanicy
Brytyjscy mykolodzy
Urodzeni w 1754
Zmarli w 1823

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Hollowmen
"When are we going to leave?" I asked.
"Um … one more day," Boden replied.
I turned away from the window to face him. They'd found a deck of cards, and Boden, Clark, Serg, and Max were sitting around a battered table playing poker. They were using pennies from a huge jar they'd found in the girl's bedroom.
"One day should be fine," Clark said, and there was an authoritative undercurrent to it.
Boden sat up straighter after Clark spoke, and it occurred to me that Clark was his boss. Boden believed in the army and the order of it, so that meant that in Boden's eyes, Clark was in charge now.
"Are you sure we should wait that long?" I asked, and Boden glanced over at Clark instead of answering me.
"One more day should be fine." Clark smiled at me, but there was something condescending about it. "There's some scotch in the kitchen. Will you be a sweetheart and get me a glass?"
"Really?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.
Boden bit his lip and looked over at me, his eyes wide. He was actually pleading with me not to say anything, so I sighed and decided to just go with it.
"Fine," I said. "Does anybody else want a glass?"
"I'll take one," Serg said cautiously, as if he was afraid I would snap at him.
I went to the kitchen and poured two glasses of scotch. We'd really lucked out with this house. It didn't have anything in the way of food, other than a few bottles of alcohol, but it was otherwise untouched by marauders or zombies.
Almost all the furniture was still here and in good shape. It even had a fireplace and a wood-burning stove, so we could stay warm and actually cook our food. Plus, with the snow outside, we could collect the snow from outside, and boil it down to fresh, pure water.
It was a nice setup, and it would be a shame to leave. But we were still too far south. It was early spring, so there was snow now, but it was already warming up and melting. If the cold really did work to keep the zombies away, it wouldn't be cold enough for much longer to do that.
"Two glasses of scotch," I said when I walked back into the dining room. I set the scotch down in front of Serg and Clark. Serg politely said thanks, but Clark reacted differently.
"Thank you, sweetheart." Clark put his hand on my waist and tried to rub or grope me or something, but I stepped quickly away from.
"Sir, it's your turn," Boden said sharply, trying to draw Clark's attention back to him.
Since Clark was acting gross, I went to see what Daniels and Stella were up to. I found them in the pink room, playing dress-up with what the little girl had left behind. Stella's teddy bear was in a pretty new frock, and Daniels was wearing a sparkly veil. Stella thought that was hilarious, and she kept giggling at him.
"Hey, guys," I said, leaning on the doorframe and smiling despite myself.
"Hi." Daniels grinned at me, without any hint of shame at wearing a little girl's tiara. "We're playing pretty princess. Care to join us?"
"No, I think I'll just watch." I came in the room and sat down on the bed behind them.
"Here!" Stella handed Daniels a necklace covered in giant plastic jewels. "Put this on."
"Anything you say, Princess." He dropped it over his neck, and that only made her laugh harder.
"See, Remy." She pointed at him and turned to look at me. "He's a pretty princess!"
"Yes, he's very pretty indeed," I said, and Daniels laughed at that. "But you look even prettier. What do you have on there?"
Stella stood up and twirled around so she could show me. It was a pink costume, the kind little girl's got from the Disney Store to play dress-up in. She'd put it on over her sweater and pants since it was rather cold upstairs.
"Very pretty," I said, sounding dutifully awed. "You know what would make you even prettier?" She shook her head. "If you let me do your hair."
Since I'd met her, Stella's hair had been a mess of knots and tangles. Even when Bishop and Nolita had attempted to clean her up, her hair had never gotten untangled. That was probably because nobody carried a brush.
"Can I do your hair?" I asked her. "I make the prettiest princess braids you've ever seen."
She thought about it, and then nodded. "Okay."
"Come here."
I patted the bed in front of me, and Stella came over and hopped up. I leaned over and grabbed the brush from the bedside table and started the arduous process of carefully brushing through her hair.
"So what are the rest of the guys doing downstairs?" Daniels asked. He leaned back against the wall behind him and took off his tiara and veil.
"Playing poker still," I said. "How come you're not playing with them?"
"I don't really like poker." He shrugged, but I felt like he was leaving something out.
"Did you know Clark?" I asked, and he looked up at me. "It seemed like you knew him when he first got here. You said his name."
"I didn't know him well," Daniels clarified. "But he was the general. Everybody knew of him around the quarantine."
I'd hit a snarl in Stella's hair, and she winced so I apologized. She was actually taking it pretty bravely, considering how knotted her hair was.
"What did you know about him?" I asked.

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L'Unterseeboot 978 ou U-978 est un sous-marin allemand (U-Boot) de type VIIC utilisé par la Kriegsmarine pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

Le sous-marin fut commandé le  à Hambourg (Blohm + Voss), sa quille fut posée le , il fut lancé le  et mis en service le , sous le commandement de l'Oberleutnant zur See .

Il capitula près de Trondheim en  et fut sabordé en .

Conception
Unterseeboot type VII, lU-978 avait un déplacement de  en surface et  en plongée. Il avait une longueur totale de , un maître-bau de , une hauteur de  et un tirant d'eau de . Le sous-marin était propulsé par deux hélices de , deux moteurs diesel Germaniawerft M6V 40/46 de  en ligne de  à , produisant un total de  à  en surface et de deux moteurs électriques Brown, Boveri & Cie GG UB 720/8 de 375 cv à 295 tr/min, produisant un total , en plongée. Le sous-marin avait une vitesse en surface de  () et une vitesse de  () en plongée. Immergé, il avait un rayon d'action de  marins () à  (;  par heure) et pouvait atteindre une profondeur de . En surface son rayon d'action était de  nautiques (soit ) à  ().

LU-978 était équipé de cinq tubes lance-torpilles de  (quatre montés à l'avant et un à l'arrière) et embarquait quatorze torpilles. Il était équipé d'un canon de 8,8 cm SK C/35 (220 coups), d'un canon antiaérien de  Flak et d'un canon 37 mm Flak M/42 qui tire à  mètres avec une cadence théorique de 50 coups/minute. Il pouvait transporter 26 mines TMA ou  TMB. Son équipage comprenait  et .

 Historique
Il reçut sa formation de base au sein de la 5. Unterseebootsflottille jusqu'au , puis il intégra sa formation de combat dans la 3. Unterseebootsflottille. À partir du , lU-978 fut transféré la 11. Unterseebootsflottille.

Entre août et , lU-978 effectue plusieurs escales dans divers ports norvégiens. Sa première patrouille débute le  au départ de Bergen pour l'Atlantique Nord et la Manche. Le  à , lU-978 opère au large de Barfleur lorsqu'il attaque et endommage un navire marchand américain, traînard du convoi TMC-44, alors qu'il était escorté par le chalutier armé britannique HMS Fidget. L'attaque fait 18 morts parmi les 68 membres d'équipage. Le navire endommagé a été remorqué par le navire américain USS ATR-3, puis échoué aux Grand Roads au large de Cherbourg où il fut déclaré irrécupérable.

Étant continuellement sous la menace d'une attaque aérienne, l'''U-978 a effectué 68 jours de patrouille en immersion grâce à son schnorchel, ce qui en fait la plus longue patrouille sous-marine de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Lors de son voyage vers l'Argentine, lU-977 a quant à lui navigué 66 jours en immersion au schnorchel.

Au cours de cette mission, Günther Pulst est promu Kapitänleutnant le .

Il quitte Bergen le  pour sa deuxième patrouille dans l'Atlantique Nord. Le submersible patrouille en mer de Norvège jusque dans la zone des îles Féroé, sans succès. Il atteint Trondheim après 55 jours en mer le .

LU-978 se rend aux forces alliées le  dans le , près de Trondheim, en Norvège.

Le , il est transféré au point de rassemblement à Loch Ryan en vue de l'opération Deadlight, opération Alliée pour la destruction de la flotte de U-Boote de la Kriegsmarine.

LU-978 est torpillé le  par le sous-marin HMS Tantivy, à la position géographique .

 Affectations
 5. Unterseebootsflottille du  au  (Période de formation).
 3. Unterseebootsflottille du  au  (Unité combattante).
 11. Unterseebootsflottille du  au  (Unité combattante).

 Commandement
 Kapitänleutnant  du  au  (Croix de fer).

 Patrouilles

Note : Oblt. = Oberleutnant zur See - Kptlt. = Kapitänleutnant

 Navires coulés
LU-958'' a détruit 1 navire de marchand de  tonneaux au cours des 2 patrouilles (133 jours en mer) qu'il effectua.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Liste des U-Boote de la Seconde Guerre mondiale
 Bataille de l'Atlantique

Liens externes

Unterseeboot 978
Unterseeboot type VII
Bateau lancé en 1943
Navire construit à Hambourg
Sous-marin allemand de la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Navire coulé en 1945
Épave de l'océan Atlantique
Navire coulé comme cible


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NY Bike Jumble: The Saga of the Coney Island Velodrome
NY Bike Jumble ( @NYBikeJumble ) Unearths Lost History of New York's Last Bicycle Racing Track
Strong Backs and Weak Minds: The Saga of the Coney Island Velodrome
New York's Last Commercial Bicycle Racing Venue, 1930 -1955
BROOKLYN, NY. NY Bike Jumble, New York's premier organization dedicated to the preservation and continuance of cycling culture across the five boroughs, and The Old Stone House, a vibrant community center dedicated to the history of Brooklyn, announce the opening of 'Strong Backs, Weak Minds: The Saga of the Coney Island Velodrome', a new exhibit detailing the history of New York's last commercial velodrome in Coney Island.
There's more from the press-release below.
The Coney Island Velodrome opened on July 19, 1930, as the world slipped toward the Great Depression and war. Already, the popularity of cycling, having peaked in the early 1920's, was waning and the construction of a 10,000 seat bicycle racing arena was an act of supreme optimism. Regardless, the track became the last velodrome in America offering the thrills and chills of motor-paced racing, where riders raced behind motorcycles to attain speeds in excess of 50 miles per hour. Many of the people who became instrumental in promoting cycling in New York in subsequent years cut their teeth on this track, and the Coney Island Velodrome was the last time in the city's history where cycling was a indispensable part of daily life.
Until today. As cycling has made an incredible comeback, this exhibition connects the past with the present, reminding New Yorkers that cycling has always been a fixture of our urban fabric.
The exhibit features bikes that were raced on the track, as well as photos, programs, tickets and other ephemera, including a special 'Stayer' bike for motor-paced racing and New York-built track bikes from long-forgotten builders. This is the first exhibit to focus on this recreational and entertainment venue that was integral to the lives of thousands of New Yorkers. "At one point, New York had multiple velodromes that drew ten of thousands of spectators," says NY Bike Jumble Founder and curator Harry Schwartzman. "Cyclists today are not recent additions to the public consciousness, but are continuing a rich tradition within New York City's history."
The exhibition, which runs through June 30th is open to the public, with a suggested $3 donation to The Old Stone House.
Thursday, April 8 – 7:00pm
The Old Stone House
336 3rd Street (at 5th Avenue)
Sundays, 11 am to 4 pm/call or check www.theoldstonehouse.org for additional public hours.
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The Universal Life church offers quick, free ordinations online that allow someone to officiate at a civil wedding. Can a Catholic obtain such an ordination?
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Britney Spears Reaches $15M 'X Factor' Agreement
"Womanizer" singer Britney Spears reaches agreement, after turning down $10 million offer
Sharon Waxman & Tim Kenneally | April 11, 2012 @ 2:50 PM
Britney Spears has reached an agreement to serve as a judge on Simon Cowell's "The X Factor" — and the payday is really something to sing about.
The "Womanizer" singer will collect $15 million overall for the gig — approximately $13 million to judge music-industry aspirants alongside Cowell and record executive L.A. Reid, and the rest as a bonus for performing on the show, an individual with knowledge of the deal told TheWrap.
Also read: Britney Spears Rejects $10M Bid to Judge "X Factor" — She Wants $20M! (Exclusive)
The deal has been agreed upon, but has not yet been signed. Spears is still under a conservatorship following her mid-2000s breakdown, with her father, Jamie Spears, serving as her guardian.
Fox had no comment for TheWrap on this story, and a spokeswoman for "The X Factor" refused to confirm that the show is in talks with Spears. Spears' manager has not yet returned TheWrap's call for comment.
As reported exclusively by TheWrap in March, Spears rejected a $10 million offer to judge on the show, and instead was seeking $20 million for the gig.
Though Spears won't be getting exactly what she was hoping for, the singer's payday does compare favorably to her soon-to-be peers in the music-competition arena: Christina Aguilera is raking in upwards of $10 million to mentor the current second season of NBC's "The Voice." And Spears' "X Factor" predecessor, Paula Abdul received a relatively paltry $2.5 million to judge on the first season.
The individual told TheWrap that, as of Tuesday night, the "X Factor" and Spears camps were still weeks away from a deal, with "X Factor" looking for ways to trim its budget so it could present a more favorable offer for Spears. However, reports Tuesday night that the two sides had already reached a deal spurred the parties to come to an agreement earlier.
Also read: "X Factor" Shakeup an Admission of Failure: Enter Mariah?
Following its first season, which failed by a long shot to perform up to Cowell's predictions, "The X Factor" went into full meltdown mode, firing judges Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger, along with host Steve Jones. Cowell has said that the second season will feature two judges, preferably a male and a female.