I'm EMEA channel director for Nimble Storage.
Being part of a small but very enthusiastic team who want to make a difference.
My dad drove me to be independent, and work hard to reach a goal, and my mum taught me to care.
Think whether you want to be part of a small start-up or a large enterprise, and what role you would like to play within that organisation as they are two completely different animals.
Work, shopping and weather apps, nothing particularly exciting.
A lot of resellers are going to find it very difficult to continue as they are in the current climate; predominantly based on margins due to competition. Resellers have gone from being loyal to one vendor, to offering a wider portfolio of solutions. I believe they will revert back to being more single vendor focused.
I recently completed my PPL (Private Pilot's Licence).
Make the perfect sponge cake!
Well I had a 10th hand car, with a different colour door, it was a Nissan Bluebird I think, but not all blue obviously!
A cat because they can do absolutely nothing for a day, and not feel guilty about it.
Probably the pole vault, because I have always wondered how you transport the poles around the world.


As soon as I heard that this year's American Kyudo Seminar was going to be held in South Carolina, I scheduled my days off from work and started to prepare for the seminar. It has been about two and a half years since I started practicing Kyudo and this was my second time attending the seminar. At my first seminar, which I attended last year, everything seemed new and fresh and I learned Kyudo from a lot of different perspectives. During these seminars, I hoped to learn as much as possible from the Hanshi Senseis and all the other Kyudo members. Attending a seminar gives individuals a great opportunity to increase Kyudo knowledge by communicating with different people with unique viewpoints; especially individuals like myself, whom usually practice within small groups.
On the first day, I reunited with many faces I had remembered from the previous seminar held in Davis, California. I instantly recognized the people whom I had taken the Shinsa exam with last year. I was amazed by how quickly I was able to flash back to the memories from the last Shinsa exam.
A typical day during the seminar starts with a morning assembly and observing the Senseis' Sharei. The rest of the day consisted of shooting practice, Taihai practice, a lunch break, and right back to more Kyudo practice. Three days were packed with Kyudo. We individually received direct advices about shooting techniques and Taihai from the different Senseis each day. In the evening on the first day, I participated in the Taikai competition, and got to experience competitive Kyudo. At the banquet the next day, people were dressed up nicely and it was unusual to see everyone in clothes so different from regular Dougi. After dinner, our Seattle Kyudo club members had time to meet the Senseis. It was an honor to have the opportunity to talk with the Senseis amongst our Seattle group. Also during the seminar, we had the chance to practice shooting at the official length of 28m, almost every night. The seminar ended, followed by the exam, and we left South Carolina. I slept well on the plane ride home, after such a wonderful experience.
I learned a lot about Kyudo from various Hanshi Senseis and felt very glad that I participated in the seminar. I will try to apply everything I learned at the seminar to my daily Kyudo practice. An example of something I thought was very important was to think about spreading both arms instead of just rotating the bow when in the Kiza posture right after standing the bow. Also, Sensei explained to separate the Yatsugae motion into four single motions. I realized that these thoughts that I had not paid attention to during daily practice really matter for one to shoot cleanly and accurately. Although I currently have a non-Yugaeri Tenouchi, Sensei told me that Tsunomi is already there so I will eventually have a Yugaeri. Now I try not to care as much. I also was concerned about bruising myself on my left arm because I did not know many who did that at my Dojo. However, I found several people with the same issue and gave me some relief.
I heard that the next seminar will possibly be held in Paris, and I would love to go but it may be difficult to travel so far. I plan to work hard to practice Kyudo with Seattle Kyudo club members until then.
I would like to thank all the Hanshi Senseis, Kyudo people from all around the world, friends who were in the same Tachi during the exam, and members of Seattle Kyudo club. I was able to enjoy the seminar this year, thanks to all the people there to support each other.


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Q: check if row updated or not in sqlite? I am using sqlite database in my iphone app.
I am writing code for update record on certain condition. While my query is correct how can I detect that any row is updated or not..
I had tried SQLITE_DONE but it shows that query executed or not... What to use..
Here is my code..
const char *sqlStmt = [strQuery UTF8String];
    if (sqlite3_prepare_v2(database, sqlStmt, -1, &compiledStatement, NULL) == SQLITE_OK) {
        isSucceed = sqlite3_step(compiledStatement) == SQLITE_DONE;
        //isSucceed = YES;
    }

what will be in place SQLITE_DONE

A: I think you're looking for sqlite3_changes().

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Over half million Model 3 reservations, Musk warns of 'manufacturing hell'
A Tesla Model 3 sedan is seen in this undated handout image as the car company handed over its first 30 Model 3 vehicles to employee buyers at the company's Fremont facility in California, U.S. on July 28, 2017. (Tesla/Handout via REUTERS)
SAN FRANCISCO – Shares of Tesla dropped 3 percent on Monday after Chief Executive Elon Musk warned that the electric carmaker would face "manufacturing hell" as it ramps up production of its new mass-market Model 3 sedan.
At a launch event on Friday, Musk said customers had made over half a million advance reservations for the Model 3 as he handed over the first 30 cars to employee buyers, setting the stage for a major test of Tesla's strategy to become a profitable electric car maker.
Tesla is counting on the Model 3 to help turn the cash-losing company into a profitable one and transform it from a niche player to a heavyweight in the automobile industry.
The interior of the Tesla Model 3 sedan is seen in this undated handout image as the car company handed over its first 30 Model 3 vehicles to employee buyers at the company's Fremont facility in California, U.S. on July 28, 2017. (Tesla/Handout via REUTERS)
Investors already skeptical of Tesla's aggressive growth targets focused on a warning by Musk that early production would be challenging.
"We're going to go through at least six months of manufacturing hell," Musk told journalists ahead of the event. He later made similar comments on stage.
Investors may get an idea of how "manufacturing hell" will affect Tesla's rate of cash burn when the company posts its quarterly results on Wednesday. The Palo Alto, California company has spent over $2 billion in cash so far this year ahead of the launch.
Tesla's stock has gained 53 percent in 2017, although it is down from a record high in June.
The $35,000 Model 3 is designed for easy production, with output targeted to reach 20,000 per month by December. Tesla's last launch was the luxury Model X SUV in 2015 which had several production problems and a price tag starting around $80,000.
Tesla has promised to boost total car production to 500,000 vehicles next year, close to six times its 2016 output, a target that many auto industry experts believe is unrealistic. It sold 76,230 cars last year.
At the event, Musk said the price of a Model 3 with all of available options could reach $59,000. That level could scare off potential Tesla customers, wrote Barclays analyst Brian Johnson in a note to clients.
Tesla's stock was down $10.63 at $324.44 at mid-afternoon.

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In the first few verses of Luke 8 (vv. 1-3), the evangelist makes mention of the twelve apostles, along with three women, Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Susanna, who were with our Lord as he "went through every city and village, preaching and bringing glad tidings of the King of God." The significance is there was always a crowd following Jesus. Rarely was he alone.
On the Sunday of the Parable of the Sower, (October 19) we are reminded once more of our Lord's far reaching preaching and teaching. He was, in effect, always sowing seeds. Occasionally, some followers embraced the word of God with a good heart, kept it, and bore fruit with patience. These men and women produced a bumper crop.
More often than not however, those who received the word fell away. Even in the time of Jesus Christ.
How much of the seed Christ sowed still ended up as bird seed? Plenty.
On a smaller scale, when he raised Jairus' daughter, the house was full and there was chaos. The New Testament is full of other example of the multitudes who heard the Word of God.
Yet on the day of Pentecost, the evangelist Luke records there was just 120 present (Acts 1:15).
Looking back, it can be said with certainty that our Lord never forces anyone into a relationship with him. God always respects the freedom he created each person in.
We are all called to share the Word of God, to sow seeds. Yet, we refrain, offering perhaps we don't have the education or skill level necessary to do so, or concerned perhaps of our failed efforts in the past. Our days are filled with to-do lists, yet rarely on those lists is the need or desire to establish better human relationships. Witnessing to Christ's resurrection is a powerful witness, prophetic, and often unbeknownst to us, helps to sow seeds.
The success rate of sowing God's word won't always be successful. It doesn't mean we don't put forth the effort though.
The message of the today's gospel lesson is simple: Get Busy, Start Sowing.


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Obama, Clinton among targets of suspected bombs ahead of US election
None of the packages detonated, and nobody was hurt. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
FILE: Former US President Barack Obama delivering the 2018 #MandelaLecture in Johannesburg on 17 July 2018. Picture: Twitter @ObamaFoundation
US Midterm Elections
Bomb scare
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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK – Former US President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were among the targets of suspected package bombs delivered to several high-profile Democrats and CNN in what New York officials on Wednesday branded an act of terrorism.
The suspicious parcels, at least five in all, were intercepted before any reached their intended recipients, including Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder, and former Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan, the FBI said.
But news of the threats heightened tensions in a nation deeply polarised ahead of elections on 6 November that will decide whether Democrats take control of one or both houses of Congress from Republicans and deny President Donald Trump the majority his party now holds in both.
President Donald Trump told a political rally in Wisconsin that his government would conduct "an aggressive investigation."
"Any acts or threats of political violence are an attack on our democracy itself," Trump said. "We want all sides to come together in peace and harmony."
But he said the media has a responsibility "to stop the endless hostility and constant negative and oftentimes false attacks and stories."
FIVE PACKAGES
The first package, which turned up on Monday, was addressed to billionaire financier George Soros, a prominent Democratic Party donor and frequent target of right-wing conspiracy theories.
The parcel intended for Holder ended up rerouted to the return address that had been printed on all five packages - the Florida office of US Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who formerly chaired the Democratic National Committee, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
"It is possible that additional packages were mailed to other locations," the FBI said in a statement on its website.
US Representative Maxine Waters, a veteran Democratic congresswoman from Los Angeles, said her Capitol Hill office also was the target of a suspicious package that "has been referred to the FBI."
The five other packages confirmed by the FBI in its statement were all described as consisting of a manila envelope with a bubble-wrap interior containing "potentially destructive devices." Each bore a computer-printed address label and six "Forever" postage stamps, the FBI said.
Other officials said the devices contained in the envelopes were all similar to one found in the mailbox of the Soros home and later detonated by police.
The US Secret Service intercepted packages addressed to Obama at his Washington home and to Clinton, the 2016 Democratic nominee for president, at her home in New York state.
The CNN bureau in New York also received a package addressed to Brennan, who has appeared as an on-air CNN analyst, leading police to evacuate the Time Warner building in a busy Manhattan neighborhood near Central Park.
"So far the devices have been what appeared to be pipe bombs," John Miller, the New York City police deputy commissioner for intelligence and counterterrorism, told a news conference.
"This clearly is an act of terror attempting to undermine our free press and leaders of this country through acts of violence," New York Mayor Bill de Blasio told a news conference.
'WORDS MATTER'
All of the targets are frequently maligned by right-wing critics. Trump has repeatedly criticized CNN as "fake news" and disparaged the mainstream news media as an "enemy of the people."
"There is a total and complete lack of understanding at the White House about the seriousness of their continued attacks on the media," CNN President Jeff Zucker said in a statement that was read on CNN. "The president, and especially the White House press secretary, should understand that their words matter. Thus far they have shown no comprehension of that."
US Democratic leaders in Congress said Trump's call for unity rang "hollow" because of his past statements condoning acts of violence.
"Time and time again, the president has condoned physical violence and divided Americans with his words and his actions," Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and House of Representatives top Democrat Nancy Pelosi said in a statement.
Last week, Trump, who has joined other Republicans in accusing Democrats of encouraging "mob" tactics, heaped praise on a Montana congressman who assaulted a reporter in 2017.
"Any guy that can do a body-slam ... is my guy," Trump told supporters at the rally.
Brennan at an event in Austin, Texas on Wednesday also faulted Trump for frequent inflammatory rhetoric, saying the president "too often has helped incite some of these feelings of anger, if not violence, when he points to acts of violence."
"He should not be beating the tom-toms of anger and animosity and war," said the former CIA chief, whose security clearance was revoked by Trump after he criticized the president's summit earlier this year with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The package to Clinton was found late on Tuesday while the one addressed to Obama was recovered early on Wednesday, both during routine off-site mail screenings, the Secret Service said. Obama and Clinton were not at risk, they said.
The package sent to CNN also contained an envelope of white powder that experts were analyzing, Police Commissioner James O'Neill said.
Trump at the Wisconsin rally called attention to "how nice I'm behaving tonight."
"Have you ever seen this? We're all behaving very well and hopefully we can keep it that way, right?"
Austria raises alarm about 'dramatic' femicide plague
'Extensive damage' in tsunami-struck Tonga
Martin Luther King's family joins call for US voting reform
Djokovic could be barred from French Open by vaccine pass law
Hlophe: Order to admit Zandile Mafe for psychiatric evaluation was unlawful
ANC, EFF withdraw from election of chairs during City of Joburg council meeting
First for Africa: UP study shows COVID can be transmitted from humans to animals


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Q: SharePoint Online Global Navigation Levels I'm using Term Store for use with Managed Metadata. I have four levels of navigation. On a modern page the navigation shows all levels from the term store, but on a classic page (which there are quite of few of) only shows 3 levels. Note the differences between the two below. Can someone clarify - is this just the way it works when using a classic page in SPO? It's not some sort of configuration setting I'm missing right?  Thanks.
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A: Yes, classic pages supports term navigation upto 2 levels only so definitely   you are not missing any configurations here.
The only possible way I know to allow Navigation for more than 2 levels is customizing the Master Page by following the below steps:

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*In SharePoint site, find out which master your site is using. In the site, go to Site Settings, then choose master page under look and feel section. Check which master page is selected in each drop down.

*Open SharePoint designer, navigate to Master Pages and select the used master page from step 1.

*Click edit file and find the maximumdynamicdisplaylevels value and change the number to as per your requirement.

*Save the file, refresh the browser and see if you get other levels of terms in navigation.

I hope this helps.


I've been searching for a nice holiday shirt I can dress up or wear to a casual party. I totally lucked out with this green Jacob bow t-shirt from the Salvation Army Thrift Store. The shirt looks great with a pair of jeans or heals and a skirt.
I wanted to show a great outfit that could work for a day to night look. I also found this faux leather skirt at the Salvation Army Thrift Store and have loved incorporating it into my fall wardrobe. This skirt looks great with a sweater or a blouse and is so comfortable.
During work I wore this outfit with my favorite wool sweater jacket, giving it more of a classic look and then in the evening wore a leather jacket for a more chic look.
Let's break it down this fun holiday outfit.
I know I talk about living your best life on a budget and post all of my amazing thrift store finds from the Salvation Army Thrift Store but sometimes there are investment pieces. Occasionally I'm lucky enough to find these at the thrift store but if I'm not I need to look elsewhere. $70 boots might not be budget for some, but when I bought these I looked at them as an investment. They had a good sole, nice leather boot and I knew they would last. I've had these for over two years now and they still look new.
All the money I save shopping at the Salvation Army Thrift Store allows me to save for more expensive pieces like boots or jackets. What's a great holiday find you discovered at the Salvation Army Thrift Store?


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Woman Says She Put Baby In Bag To Steal Her From Hospital
Published May 7, 2018 at 12:41 AM EDT
A woman convicted of stealing a newborn from a Florida hospital decades ago described how she did it Friday during her sentencing hearing, testifying that she put the infant in a bag and worried with every step that she would be discovered.
Gloria Williams, 52, faces up to 22 years in prison for kidnapping and interference of custody. The judge said she would announce her sentence on June 8.
Williams testified that when she stole the newborn Kamiyah Mobley in 1998, she had lost custody of her two other children and was in an abusive relationship that led her to miscarry about a month before. After the loss of her pregnancy, she drove to Jacksonville from South Carolina.
She said she had no plans to kidnap a child.
"I felt like I was on autopilot. My life was out of control, I lost everything," she said.
But she had the presence of mind to wear scrubs into a Jacksonville hospital and pose as a nurse to persuade a new mother to hand over her baby. She put the newborn into a bag and left.
"What I remember is I was running, I was walking and at any time someone could grab my arm and say 'What do you have in the bag?'" Williams said.
Williams raised Mobley — who grew up as Alexis Manigo — in South Carolina until her arrest in 2017. She didn't tell her of her true identity until the girl discovered she couldn't get a driver's license because she didn't have a valid birth certificate or Social Security card.
Kamiyah told a friend about it, but not police. Eventually, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received an anonymous tip about Kamiyah's whereabouts, and authorities were alerted.
Williams apologized Friday to Shanara Mobley, the birth mother, who a day earlier testified that Williams should receive a death sentence.
Kamiyah showed up in tears at the first hearing after Williams' arrest. She has spent time with her biological parents since then, but still supports the only mother she knew.
Williams told the girl she abducted that she still loves her.
"I will always love you, always," Williams said to Kamiyah, who was in the courtroom gallery. "But you're not mine. Your mother and father are sitting right here."
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4/08/2016�� It seems that we'll be able to change Oricorio's forms after all. From the official site: "Oricorio changes its form by sipping the nectar of certain flowers.
Said to change between each of its four forms by sipping nectar of certain flowers, and with four different islands in the Alola Region, it seems that a different form of this Pokemon is on each island. Oricorio's four forms are each different and are described differently because of so.
27/11/2016�� The unique theme that Oricorio seems to explore is of dancing, an art form that is at the roots of cultural identity. In specific, Oricorio draws influence from the Spanish Flamenco (Baile), Hawaiian Hula (Pa�u), American Cheer-leading (Pom Pom), and Japanese Buyo (Sensu).


When you design an outdoor patio, deck, yard, garden, or walkway, there are 2 distinct categories of work that you'll see: hardscape design and landscape design. Don't worry; you can get both from a single contractor. But what's the difference between professional landscaping and hardscape design in Suwanee? Which should you prioritize? Most importantly, which area of expertise does your property need most?
Landscaping is exactly what most people assume it is: the design and implementation of plant life, from trees and shrubbery to flowers and grass. The soft, living components of your property, designed for optimal beauty and ornament, are the stuff of landscape design. Landscape design typically involves planting, pruning, and improving the plant life around your home or business so that your modern amenities include the right touch of soothing nature.
Hardscaping, meanwhile, deals with the "hard" materials in your yard, including walking surfaces, retaining walls, natural rocks, and patios and other foundations. Hardscapes include the use of natural stone, like smooth limestone, or manufactured products like concrete and manufactured slate veneer. Hardscape ideas can be more creative than landscape concepts, mostly because it's easier to manipulate hard materials than living plants. Landscapes can be groomed. Hardscapes can be sculpted.
There's no set rule on which should take precedence over the other: landscapes or hardscapes. Some homes might prefer to install a large deck and patio hardscape, then accessorize them with beautiful plant life, whereas other homes might prefer a natural, immersive garden experience with restrained uses of hardscape, like gently sloping walkways. You, as the owner of the property, get to decide what appeals to you most. Either way, balance is key. A paved yard needs greenery to give it life, but a verdant lawn needs hardscapes to make it look artful and welcoming.
Landscape and hardscape designs require different techniques and approaches. While landscaping is more scientific, requiring a nature lover's green thumb for active plant growth and to treat regional challenges to creating a healthy lawn, hardscaping is more artistic. You need professional knowledge of hardscape materials, from the manmade and engineered to the natural and quarried. You also need to know how to match the house on the property, while also introducing different color schemes and textures. A hardscape designer should even understand how you'd be inclined to move through a property and create surfaces that allow you to best experience your yard. But both landscaping and hardscaping require creative, unique design for successful results.
Therefore, it's important to work with a contractor experienced with both landscape design and hardscape design in Suwanee. Expertise in these distinct areas culminates in the installation of a balanced property that's usable, but beautiful, as well as both impressive and easy to maintain.


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Central Banks Are More Interested in Blockchain Than You May Think
By Benjamin Powers
Bitcoin was created in reaction to the financial crisis to circumvent centralized control of financial systems and money itself. Now, in an ironic twist, it looks like centralized banks are embracing the technology designed to kill them. More than 40 central banks worldwide are exploring or experimenting with central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), according to a recent report from the World Economic Forum. Beginning in 2014 with the Bank of England, there are now 60 research papers and numerous pilots exploring CBDC, with central banks also examining decentralized ledger technology for at least 10 different use cases.
According to the report, many of the pilots feature the central bank issuing digital tokens on a distributed ledger that represents, and can be redeemed for, central bank reserves in the domestic currency. People with access to these permissioned blockchains then use the CBDC to make digital transfers that are validated on these blockchains. (A quick refresher: Bitcoin and Ethereum are on permissionless blockchains, allowing anyone to participate and have full transaction transparency.)
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One of the central banks cited in the report is the Bank of Lithuania, which is planning to issue a Digital Collector Coin to test blockchain on a small scale, while also sponsoring a blockchain sandbox called LBChain. Another is the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, which is looking at the long-term viability of a DLT-based Eastern Caribbean currency to "pursue multiple goals such as advancing economic growth, payments system resilience and financial inclusion." Meanwhile, the Swedish central bank (Sveriges Riksbank) is exploring a blockchain-based "e-krona" to serve as a digital form of bank-issued money, as physical cash usage continues to decline in Switzerland. However, Sveriges Riksbank has not yet determined whether it will use DLT for this project.
The most extensive example the report identifies is the Bank of Cambodia, which seems to be jumping headfirst into CBDC and DLT. It will be implementing blockchain in the second half of 2019 for use by consumers and commercial banks in its national payments system. The goal is to achieve better financial inclusion, as well as system efficiency in the banking industry. A large portion of Cambodia's underbanked citizens use cash and various mobile-payment apps, so implementing a blockchain-based payment service is, according to the report, "designed to operate both with private mobile payment applications and commercial bank accounts, facilitating interoperable retail payments between citizens and businesses and encouraging citizens to adopt bank accounts, which support savings and financial stability."
The coming years will give us a better indicator of who is likely to follow through on these projects and who will be forever "exploring."
The report also raises the risks that must be addressed before moving full-speed ahead with these kinds of projects. The potential for financial exclusion is under-discussed in current research on CBDC, the report says. Any policy implementation must include outreach to underbanked people, so that they can participate in any new digital currency plans. Obstacles, particularly for countries with underdeveloped financial systems, include the usability of the products, access to them, and insufficient identity documentation. Given how wealth inequality has swept the world, it's not hard to imagine policy pitfalls when it comes to ensuring underbanked people's participation.
Another risk the report identifies is that if people come to see CBDC as more secure and viable than a commercial bank, they'll remove their money from these institutions. That could cause commercial banks to be more volatile and to negatively impact their lending activity.
Even so, some experts believe we could see CBDC create alternative systems that exist outside of dominant models, and counterbalance private sector payment tools that dominate many countries. In many ways, these systems would make sense where traditional, unreliable payment methods can be displaced relatively easily. The coming years will give us a better indicator of who is likely to follow through on these projects and who will be forever "exploring," but these use cases continue to show both the ways that blockchain and cryptocurrencies have altered the parameters of our financial world—and that there is interest in doing so further.
JPMorgan and BofA Lead Race for Blockchain Banking Supremacy
JP Morgan, America's Largest Bank, Is Launching a "Cryptocurrency"
Bank of England Poll Shows People Want Digital Currency More Than Cash


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US Sanctions China Over Purchase of S-400 Air Defense Systems, Su-35 Fighter Jets From Russia
The Trump administration imposed sanctions on the Chinese military this Thursday. The Chinese government demanded the sanctions be withdrawn.
By Franz-Stefan Gady for The Diplomat
Credit: Chinese Internet
The U.S. Department of State said on Thursday that it would immediately impose sanctions on China for purchasing Russian military hardware in breach of the congressionally mandated Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) which came into effect in January 2018 and which decrees the imposition of mandatory economic sanctions on countries importing Russian military hardware.
In detail, the State Department stated that it, along with the U.S. Department of the Treasury, would impose sanctions on the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) Equipment Development Department (EDD), which is part of the Chinese Military Commission and charged with research and development as well as the procurement of defense equipment for the PLA, for the procurement of S-400 Triumf air defense systems (NATO reporting name: SA-21 Growler) and Sukhoi Su-35S (NATO reporting name: Flanker-E) fourth generation, twin-engine, multirole fighter aircraft.
"We took these actions because China took delivery of 10 Sukhoi fighter aircraft, specifically Su-25s [sic], in December of 2017 – of course, after the CAATSA statute came into force," a senior Trump administration official said on Thursday. "And it also took delivery of a batch of S-400 – sometimes known as SA-21 – surface-to-air missile systems or related equipment in January of this year." Notably, China is being sanctioned for taking delivery of these systems and not for the conclusion of the sales contracts with Russia as both countries signed the $2 billion contract for 24 Su-35 fighter aircraft already in November 2015 and the $3 billion S-400 deal in March or April 2015.
The sanctions imposed on EDD and its director Li Shangfu entail the denial of export licenses and a prohibition on transactions with the U.S. financial system, among others.
"China expresses strong indignation at these unreasonable actions by the U.S. side and has already lodged stern representations," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters in Beijing on September 20. "We strongly urge the U.S. side to immediately correct the mistake and rescind the so-called sanctions, otherwise the U.S. side will necessarily bear responsibility for the consequences," he added. The PLA is in the process of inducting its first regimental set of S-400 and has been testing it over the summer. Su-35 have already participated in a couple of military exercises including long-range aerial patrols over the Bashi channel and the island of Taiwan.
Meanwhile, the U.S. and India are continuing to discuss the latter's intended procurement of five S-400 regiments and a possible CAATSA sanctions waiver. This year's U.S. National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) grants the Trump administration authority to waive mandatory sanctions under CAATSA in certain circumstances pertaining to Russian legacy military systems that costs less than $15 million. The S-400 contract between China and Russia is expected to be signed during a summit meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin scheduled for October 5.
Given that the delivery of the S-400 systems is not expected for many years, the Trump administration may choose to ignore the conclusion of a sales agreement between the two countries next month and postpone any political sensitive decision that may detrimentally impact India-U.S. relations for the time being. The senior administration officials also did not specifically name India during the conference call on September 21.
"As to other potential recipients of the S-400, we haven't made any determinations yet with respect to what to do about those, but you can be confident that we have spent an enormous amount of time talking about prospective purchases of things such as S-400s and Sukhois with people all around the world who may have been interested in such things and some who may still be," the senior administration official said on September 20. "We have made it very clear to them that these – that systems like the S-400 are a system of key concern with potential CAATSA implications."
China-Russia S-400 defense deal
Russia-China S-400 contract
S-400 Triumf advanced Air Defense Systems
SU-35 deal
Sukhoi Su-35
Chinese PLA Personnel Complete Training for S-400 Air Defense System in Russia
About 100 PLA servicemen have completed a training course in Russia for maintaining the S-400 air defense system.
Russia Kicks off Delivery of China's Second S-400 Air Defense Regiment
Delivery of the second S-400 regimental set has begun, according to a Russian government source.
China Makes Progress in Induction of Second S-400 Air Defense System Regiment
Chinese servicemen are conducting a technical inspection of the second batch of S-400 air defense systems.
Russia Sends New Missiles for S-400 Air Defense System to China
The new missiles are a replacement for those damaged on a Russian ship that got into a storm in the English Channel in 2017.


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Rina Hajra also holds a degree in Theatre (BA) and Justice Studies (BA), and has completed a 2-year Sanford Mesiner acting program.
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She graduated from Arizona State University with a Bachelor's degree in Theatre and a Bachelor's degree in Justice Studies. She completed the 2-year Meisner program with Kevin R. Phipps (2018) in addition to taking courses with Wayne Dvorak in Los Angeles (2016). Her play "Puhiza and Lisi" was showcased as a workshop and in a women's playwriting festival at the Phoenix Center for the Arts. She used these opportunities to organize fundraisers for refugees and families living in poverty.
Rina Hajra has a special place in her heart for creating social rights themed projects. As a former child refugee, her journey to the United States instilled in her a deep desire for social justice. Her film, My Sekret War, is currently in the festival circuit.
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Memorable characters with consistently funny dialogue
Mesoamerican influences are brilliantly remixed within the framework of a film-noir plot
Jazzy soundtrack and Art Deco-inspired art style is incredible
Voice acting is the best I've ever heard in a video game
Point-and-click interface improves the single major flaw in the original game
The occasional puzzle is frustrating
Minor technical glitches
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Growing up in the southwestern United States, where the cultural fabric has been heavily influenced by the Mexican-American community, I've always found it amusing that the first thing I associate with Day of the Dead, or "Dia de los Muertos," is Grim Fandango, despite having only brief exposure to the game myself. The legacy of this LucasArts classic truly runs deep, and in light of this legacy I jumped at the chance to review the remastered version of Tim Schafer's comedy-noir adventure. This release has been updated with an intuitive point-and-click interface, mildly-enhanced graphics, and optional in-game "director's commentary," but clearly Double Fine Productions was determined to preserve all the elements that made the game great in the first place, while fixing the few elements that dragged down the original.
I knew beforehand that Grim Fandango was influenced by film noir, but I came to the game with almost no preconceived notions whatsoever about the story and its characters, having somehow avoided major spoilers over the years. I was excited by the prospect of finally seeing what the fuss was about, but I honestly expected much of the praise to be based on rose-tinted nostalgia: a great game, perhaps, but nothing close to the Holy Grail status it seemed to hold among those who had played it. However, after becoming absorbed in the lush Art Deco environments, twisting, well-paced plot, and a laugh-out-loud script bolstered by gloriously memorable characters, it became apparent that I was witnessing the rebirth of a very special moment in adventure game history.
Those who have made this trip before may want to skip a few paragraphs ahead, but for those new to the series like me, Grim Fandango's surprisingly complex plot revolves around Manny Calavera, a grim reaper-like "travel agent" working for the Department of Death (DoD), a bureaucratic organization that sells travel packages to recently-deceased souls for their journey through the Land of the Dead. Manny gets a commission for every package that he sells, but his office rival, Domino "Dom" Hurley, seems to always get the most virtuous clients for himself, thus robbing Manny of any chance at making enough money to escape his dead-end job (ha!) and make the journey to the Ninth Underworld himself. Early in the game, Manny intercepts a message intended to let Dom know about a new client, Mercedes "Meche" Colomar, a woman who qualifies for the most expensive package offered by the DoD, and he attempts to reach her first.
His plan backfires, naturally, causing Meche to lose her place on the Number Nine Express, a train that would have whisked her to the afterlife in four minutes. This dooms her to walk the Land of the Dead for four years, a punishment usually reserved for only the most sinful of souls. Facing punishment of his own at the hands of the Department of Death, Manny sets out on a journey to find Meche and hopefully right his wrong. In doing so, he begins to unravel a far-reaching conspiracy that threatens the eternal souls of everyone in the Land of the Dead.
With its themes of revenge and redemption, the noir-inspired plot is intriguing, if a bit predictable in the broadest strokes, but in Grim Fandango the delight's in the details. The story takes place over a four-year period, and over the course of the game there are plenty of twists and turns that leave players wondering where they will be off to next, and what they will see when they get there. The melding of Mesoamerican art and lore into a Casablanca-style film-noir makes for a fun round of spot-the-inspiration for those who know something about the subject, and a good way to gain whimsical exposure for those with less in-depth knowledge.
The most obvious influence is the skeletal appearance of the dearly-departed souls that populate the game, an homage to "La Calavera Catrina," a lighthearted figure popularized by Mexican artist Jose Guadalupe Posada in the early twentieth century. There are other references that players may recognize over the course of the game, some obvious and others deviously clever. Getting shot, for instance, is referred to as "being sprouted," resulting in flowers growing from the victim's remains – a sly, remixed reference to the floral motif often seen on traditional Day of the Dead grave decorations. The juxtaposition of such macabre elements with comedy feels quite natural to the world of Grim Fandango, rather than feeling forced in for effect, an impressive feat that came as a very enjoyable surprise.
The brightest spotlight, though, belongs on the characters, where none, it seems, is throwaway or lacking in personality. The main characters are all as memorable as one could hope: Manny is a jaded, down-on-his-luck salesman trapped by circumstances he can't control, and the friendly animal spirit Glottis, Manny's companion on his quest, is loud, excitable, and lives to drive and tinker with fast cars. Dom, Manny's office rival, is slick, hard-driving, and obnoxious, while Meche is a saintly woman who's angry at being stiffed out of her destiny by Manny's bungling efforts to save himself from the doldrums of the afterlife.
And these are just the characters you'll encounter in the first hour or so. Schafer could have slacked off with the numerous minor characters and still had more than enough material to keep players entertained, but what absolutely blew me away was that when the game was over I could still remember every character I'd encountered along the way, like Membrillo, the creepy "Gardener" (the Land of the Dead's version of a coroner) who waxes philosophic about his job, or Bogen, Rubacava's Chief of Police who has a penchant for gambling. Each character has their own unique personality and sense of charm, even those who show up only once or twice to play their part in the proceedings but are otherwise not central to the action.
Much of the credit for this goes to the script, a comic masterpiece where even the weakest joke is still worth a chuckle, but just as much credit (if not more) goes to the voice-over cast and direction. Almost every line was pitch-perfect to my ears, and injected even more life into an already captivating world. Adventure games are notorious for hit-and-miss voice acting, but Grim Fandango features the best acting I've ever heard in a video game, bar none.
Graphically the game is stunning, a wonderfully-inventive mix of the sweeping curves and bright color schemes of Art Deco architecture and the traditional art forms and motifs of Aztec and Mexican culture. For example, the building that houses the Department of Death is very reminiscent of the Empire State Building, complete with eaglehead gargoyles lining the rooftop. But the interior's hallways contain Mesoamerican touches, such as statues of ancient Aztec gods. This same technique is employed throughout the game, but each locale manages to feel unique, even though they often have the same general themes. The Blue Casket, an absolutely gorgeous dock-side nightclub with a blue-and-aqua glass facade, is perhaps my favorite location in the game, but many others are worth noting, such as a high-roller's casino with a unique feline theme, an Aztec-style temple, and an industrial mining complex that proves that Art Deco flourishes can coexist with heavy machinery. Really, I never grew tired of the art, though I must admit to being biased, since Art Deco is one of my favorite styles. Cutscenes convey complex scenes effectively, especially during some of the more dramatic moments peppered throughout.
As for how the graphics fare in this "remastered" edition, they really haven't been overhauled so much as subtly enhanced with higher-resolution textures and new lighting effects. Now when Manny takes a smoke break, the soft orange glow of his cigarette flickers on his body, light streaming through window blinds casts shadows on characters' faces, and the character models are more detailed and lacking the stair-step aliasing present in the original release. The game is presented in a third-person, quasi-3D style, with characters moving across static backgrounds, and the environments have apparently not been modified from their original versions. This seems like they might run the risk of looking antiquated when compared to the updated character models, but that is not the case at all due to the high level of detail already present. Overall, there's nothing dramatic in the changes, but I'd call that a good thing. There's just enough of a difference to make the visuals feel fresh and new, without completely altering (or worse, ruining) the atmosphere. It's a conservative change that results in a slight improvement to an already beautiful game.
Being a title from the late 1990s, Grim Fandango was made for square 4:3 monitors, which raises the issue of how to present the game on now-standard widescreen displays. Double Fine has included three choices in Remastered, accessible from the options menu: 4:3 with borders, which places decorative vertical bars on either side of the screen; 4:3 with no borders, which leaves blank the unused screen real estate, and 16:9 mode, which stretches the image out to cover the entire screen at the expense of horizontal distortion.
Music throughout the game is perfectly executed and enhances the atmosphere immensely. Nightclubs are lively with jazz numbers, dramatic moments (usually in cutscenes) are accentuated with orchestral compositions, and the sounds of flutes and trumpets echo up from a Day of the Dead street festival taking place outside the Department of Death, just to name a few memorable examples. Although music of some variety plays in almost every scene, I never found it tiresome or overpowering, and more often than not the soundtrack was catchy, sticking with me long after I had quit playing. Sound effects, such as the roar of a vehicle's engine, the ambient call of a bird flying overhead, or even the quiet sound of Manny lighting a cigarette, also do their part in bringing each locale alive.
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This should be a 5 star review... but I'm deducting a star for the remaster. I don't think it was really worthwhile. The graphics are subtly better. And I do appreciate having mouse controls - in my original playthrough... I don't remember how long it took...
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Battle of Tarawa
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Coordinates: 1°25′37.00″N 172°58′32.00″E / 1.42694°N 172.97556°E / 1.42694; 172.97556
Part of World War II, Pacific War
Lt Alexander Bonnyman (4th from right) and his assault party storming a Japanese stronghold. Bonnyman received the Medal of Honor posthumously.
November 20 – 23, 1943
Betio, Tarawa Atoll
United States victory
United States Empire of Japan
Julian C. Smith Keiji Shibazaki †
35,000 troops 2,619 troops,
1,000 Japanese and 1,200 Korean laborers
1,696 killed
U.S Marine Corps:
1,009 killed[1]
2,101 wounded[1]
U.S Navy:
USS Liscome Bay (CVE-56), sunk 23 November 1943
687 killed[1] 4,690 killed
17 soldiers captured
129 laborers captured
Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign
Marshalls–Gilberts raids
Makin raid
Eniwetok
Map of Tarawa Atoll
Map of Betio, Tarawa Atoll
The insignia of the 2nd Marine Division "Follow Me".
Combat transports at Tarawa
The Battle of Tarawa (US code name Operation Galvanic) was a battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II, largely fought from November 20 to November 23, 1943. It was the first American offensive in the critical central Pacific region.
It was also the first time in the war that the United States faced serious Japanese opposition to an amphibious landing. Previous landings met little or no initial resistance. The 4,500 Japanese defenders were well-supplied and well-prepared, and they fought almost to the last man, exacting a heavy toll on the United States Marine Corps. The US had suffered similar casualties in other campaigns, for example over the six months in the campaign for Guadalcanal, but in this case the losses were suffered within the space of 76 hours. Nearly 6,000 Japanese and Americans died on the tiny island in the fighting.[2]
2 The battle
2.1 November 20
In order to set up forward air bases capable of supporting operations across the mid-Pacific, to the Philippines, and into Japan, the U.S. needed to take the Marianas Islands. The Marianas were heavily defended. Naval doctrine of the time held that in order for attacks to succeed, land-based aircraft would be required to weaken defenses and provide some measure of protection for the invasion forces. The nearest islands capable of supporting such an effort were the Marshall Islands, northeast of Guadalcanal. Taking the Marshalls would provide the base needed to launch an offensive on the Marianas but the Marshalls were cut off from direct communications with Hawaii by a garrison and air base on the small island of Betio, on the western side of Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands. Thus, to eventually launch an invasion of the Marianas, the battles had to start far to the east, at Tarawa.
Following the completion of their campaign on Guadalcanal, the 2nd Marine Division had been withdrawn to New Zealand for rest and recuperation. Losses were replaced and the men given a chance to recover from the malaria and other illnesses that weakened them through the fighting in the Solomons. On July 20, 1943 the Joint Chiefs directed Admiral Chester Nimitz to prepare plans for an offensive operation in the Gilbert Islands. In August Admiral Raymond Spruance was flown down to New Zealand to meet with the new commander of the 2nd Marine Division, General Julian Smith, and initiate the planning of the invasion with the division's commanders.
Located about 2,400 miles southwest of Pearl Harbor, Betio is the largest island in the Tarawa Atoll. The small, flat island lies at the southern most reach of the lagoon, and was home to the bulk of the Japanese defenders. Shaped roughly like a long, thin triangle, the tiny island is approximately two miles long. It is narrow, being only 800 yards wide at the widest point. A long pier was constructed from the north shore from which cargo ships could unload out past the shallows while at anchor in the protection of the lagoon. The northern coast of the island faces into the lagoon, while the southern and western sides face the deep waters of the open ocean.
Following Carlson's diversionary Makin Island raid of August 1942, the Japanese command was made aware of the vulnerability and strategic significance of the Gilbert Islands. The 6th Yokosuka Special Naval Landing Force arrived to reinforce the island in February 1943. In command was Rear Admiral Tomanari Sichero, an experienced engineer who directed the construction of the sophisticated defensive structures on Betio. Upon their arrival the 6th Yokosuka became a garrison force, and the unit's identification was changed to the 3rd Special Base Defense Force. Sichero's primary goal in the Japanese defensive scheme was to stop the attackers in the water or pin them on the beaches. A tremendous number of pill boxes and firing pits were constructed with excellent fields of fire over the water and sandy shore. In the interior of the island was the command post and a number of large shelters designed to protect defenders from air attack and bombardment. The island's defenses were not set up for a battle in depth across the island's interior. The interior structures were large and vented, but did not have firing ports. Defenders in them were limited to firing from the doorways.[3]
The Japanese worked intensely for nearly a year to fortify the island.[4] To aide the garrison in the construction of the defenses, the 1,247 men of the 111th Pioneers, similar to the Seabees of the U.S. Navy, along with the 970 men of the Fourth Fleet's construction battalion were brought in. Approximately 1,200 of the men in these two groups were Korean forced laborers. The garrison itself was made up of forces of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The Special Naval Landing Force was the marine component of the IJN, and were known by US intelligence to be more highly trained, better disciplined, more tenacious and to have better small unit leadership than comparable units of the Imperial Japanese Army. The 3rd Special Base Defense Force assigned to Tarawa had a strength of 1,112 men. They were reinforced by the 7th Sasebo Special Naval Landing Force, with a strength of 1,497 men. It was commanded by Commander Takeo Sugai. This unit was bolstered by 14 Type 95 light tanks under the command of Ensign Ohtani.
A series of fourteen coastal defense guns, including four large Vickers 8-inch guns purchased during the Russo-Japanese War from the British,[2] were secured in concrete bunkers and located around the island to guard the open water and the approaches into the lagoon. It was thought these big guns would make it very difficult for a landing force to enter the lagoon and attack the island from the north side. The island had a total of 500 pillboxes or "stockades" built from logs and sand, many of which were reinforced with cement. Forty artillery pieces were scattered around the island in various reinforced firing pits. An airfield was cut into the bush straight down the center of the island. Trenches connected all points of the island, allowing troops to move where needed under cover. As the command believed their coastal guns would protect the approaches into the lagoon, an attack on the island was anticipated to come from the open waters of the western or southern beaches. Kaigun Shōshō Keiji Shibazaki, an experienced combat officer from the campaigns in China relieved Sichero in July 20, 1943 in anticipation of the coming combat. Shibazaki continued the defensive preparations right up to the day of the invasion. He encouraged his troops, saying "it would take one million men one hundred years" to conquer Tarawa.
Marines alongside an LVT-1 "Alligator".
Marines seek cover amongst the dead and wounded behind the sea wall on Red Beach 3, Tarawa.
The American invasion force to the Gilberts was the largest yet assembled for a single operation in the Pacific, consisting of 17 aircraft carriers (6 CVs, 5 CVLs, and 6 CVEs), 12 battleships, 8 heavy cruisers, 4 light cruisers, 66 destroyers, and 36 transport ships. On board the transports was the 2nd Marine Division and a part of the army's 27th Infantry Division, for a total of about 35,000 troops.
As the invasion flotilla hove to in the predawn hours, the islands four 8 inch guns opened fire on the task force. A gunnery duel soon developed as the main batteries on the Colorado and Maryland commenced a counter-battery fire. The counter-battery proved accurate, with several of the 16 inch shells finding their mark. One shell penetrated the ammunition storage for one of the guns, igniting a huge explosion as the ordinance went up in a massive fireball. Three of the four guns were knocked out in short order. Though all four guns fell silent, one continued intermittent, though inaccurate, fire through the second day. The damage to the big guns left the approach to the lagoon open. It was one of the few successes of the naval bombardment.
Following the gunnery duel and an air attack of the island at 0610, the naval bombardment of the island began in earnest and was sustained for the next three hours. Two mine sweepers with two destroyers to provide covering fire entered the lagoon in the pre-dawn hours and cleared the shallows of mines.[5] A guide light from one of the sweepers then guided the landing craft into the lagoon where they awaited the end of the bombardment. The plan was to land Marines on the north beaches, divided into three sections: Red Beach 1 to the far west of the island, Red Beach 2 in the center just west of the pier, and Red Beach 3 to the east of the pier. Green Beach was a contingency landing beach on the western shoreline and was used for the D+1 landings. Black Beaches 1 and 2 made up the southern shore of the island and were not used. The airstrip, running roughly east-west, divided the island into north and south.
U.S. Coast Guardsmen ferrying supplies pass an LCM-3 which has taken a direct hit at Tarawa.
The Marines started their attack from the lagoon at 09:00, thirty minutes later than expected, but found the tide had still not risen enough to allow their shallow draft Higgins boats to clear the reef. Marine battle planners had not allowed for Betio's neap tide and expected the normal rising tide to provide a water depth of 5 feet (1.5 m) over the reef, allowing larger landing craft, with drafts of at least four feet (1.2 m), to pass with room to spare. But that day and the next, in the words of some observers, "the ocean just sat there," leaving a mean depth of three feet (0.9 m) over the reef. (The neap tide phenomenon occurs twice a month when the moon is near its first or last quarter, because the countering tug of the sun causes water levels to deviate less. But for two days the moon was at its farthest point from earth and exerted even less pull, leaving the waters relatively undisturbed.)
At 0900 the supporting naval bombardment was lifted to allow the Marines to land. The reef proved a daunting obstacle. Only the tracked LVT "Alligators" were able to get across. The Higgins boats, at four feet draft, were unable to clear the reef.[6] With the pause in the naval bombardment those Japanese that survived the shelling dusted themselves off and manned their firing pits. Japanese troops from the southern beaches were shifted up to the northern beaches. As the LVTs made their way over the reef and in to the shallows the number of Japanese troops in the firing pits slowly began to increase, and the amount of combined arms fire the LVTs faced gradually intensified. The LVTs had a myriad of holes punched through their non-armored hulls, and many were knocked out of the battle. Those 'Alligators' that did make it in proved unable to clear the sea wall, leaving the men in the first assault waves pinned down against the log wall along the beach. A number of 'Alligators' went back out to the reef in an attempt to carry in the men who were stuck there, but most of these LVTs were too badly holed to remain sea worthy, leaving the marines stuck on the reef some 500 yards (460 m) off shore. Half of the LVTs were knocked out of action by the end of the first day.
Colonel David Shoup was the senior officer of the landed forces, and he assumed command of all landed Marine Corps troops upon his arrival on shore. Although wounded by an exploding shell soon after landing at the pier, Colonel Shoup took charge of the situation, cleared the pier of Japanese snipers and rallied the first wave of Marines who had become pinned down behind the limited protection of the sea wall. During the next two days, working without rest and under constant withering enemy fire, he directed attacks against strongly defended Japanese positions, pushing forward despite daunting defensive obstructions and heavy fire. Throughout Colonel Shoup was repeatedly exposed to Japanese small arms and artillery fire, inspiring the forces under his command. For his actions on Betio he was awarded the Medal of Honor.
Several early attempts to land tanks for close support and to get past the sea wall failed when the landing craft carrying them were hit on their run into the beach and either sank outright or had to withdraw while taking on water. Two Stuart tanks eventually landed on the east end of the beach but were knocked out of action fairly quickly. Three medium Sherman tanks were landed on the western end of the island and proved considerably more effective. They helped push the line in to about 300 yards (270 m) from shore. One became stuck in a tank trap and another was knocked out by a magnetic mine. The remaining tank took a shell hit to its barrel and had its 75 mm gun disabled. It was used as a portable machine gun pillbox for the rest of the day. A third platoon was able to land all four of its tanks on Red 3 around noon and operated them successfully for much of the day, but by day's end only one tank was still operable.
By noon the Marines had successfully taken the beach as far as the first line of Japanese defenses. By 15:30 the line had moved inland in places but was still generally along the first line of defenses. The arrival of the tanks started the line moving on Red 3 and the end of Red 2 (the right flank, looking south towards the island), and by nightfall the line was about half-way across the island, only a short distance from the main runway.
Colonel David Shoup's command post on Red Beach 2.
The communication lines the Japanese installed on the island had been laid shallow and were destroyed in the naval bombardment, effectively cutting commander Keiji Shibazaki off from command. In mid-afternoon he and his staff abandoned the command post at the west end of the airfield to allow it to be used for wounded and prepared to move to the south side of the island. He had ordered two of his Type 95 light tanks to act as a protective cover for the move. A 5" naval high explosive round exploded in the midst of his command outside the central concrete command post, resulting in the death of the commander and most of his staff. His loss complicated Japanese command issues.[7][8]
As night fell on the first day the Japanese defenders kept up a sporadic harassing fire, but did not launch an attack on the Marines clinging to their beachhead. With Rear Admiral Shibazaki killed and their communication lines torn up, each unit was essentially acting in isolation, and had been since the naval bombardment had commenced. The Marines brought a battery of 75 mm Pack Howitzers ashore, unpacked them and set them up for action for the next day's fight, but the bulk of the second wave was unable to land. They spent the night floating out in the lagoon without food or water, trying to sleep in their Higgins boats. A number of Japanese slipped away in the night, swimming out to a number of the wrecked LVTs in the lagoon, and to the Niminoa, a wrecked steamship lying west of the main pier. There they laid in wait for dawn when they would fire upon the US forces from behind. The long night dragged on, but without direction the Japanese were unable to coordinate for a counterattack against the toe hold the Marines held on the island. The feared counterattack never came and the Marines held their beach. By the end of the first day, of the 5,000 Marines put ashore, 1,500 were dead or wounded.
A Marine fires on a Japanese pillbox.
With the Marines holding a thin line on the island, the focus of the second day was for the forces on Red Beach 2 and 3 to push inward and divide the Japanese defenders into two sections, expanding the bulge near the airfield until it reached the southern shore. Those forces on Red 1 were directed to secure Green beach for the landing of reinforcements. Green beach made up the entire western end of the island.
The effort to take Green Beach initially met with heavy resistance. Naval gunfire was called in to reduce the pill boxes and gun emplacements barring the way. Inching their way forward, artillery spotters were able to direct naval gunfire directly upon the machine gun posts and remaining strong points. With the major obstacles reduced, the Marines were able to take the positions in about an hour of combat with relatively few losses.
Operations along Red 2 and Red 3 were considerably more difficult. During the night the defenders had set up several new machine gun posts between the closest approach of the forces from the two beaches, and fire from those machine gun nests cut off the American forces from each other for some time. By noon the U.S. forces had brought up their own heavy machine guns, and the Japanese posts were put out of action. By the early afternoon they had crossed the airstrip and had occupied abandoned defensive works on the south side.
Around 12:30 a message arrived that some of the defenders were making their way across the sandbars from the extreme eastern end of the islet to Bairiki, the next islet over. Portions of the 6th Marine Regiment were then ordered to land on Bairiki to seal off the retreat path. They formed up, including tanks and pack artillery, and were able to start their landings at 16:55. They received machine gun fire, so aircraft were sent in to try to locate the guns and suppress them. The force landed with no further fire, and it was later found that only a single pillbox with 12 machine guns had been set up by the forces that had been assumed to be escaping. They had a small tank of gasoline in their pillbox, and when it was hit with fire from the aircraft the entire force was burned. Later, other units of the 6th were landed unopposed on Green Beach, north (near Red Beach 1).
By the end of the day, the entire western end of the island was in U.S. control, as well as a fairly continuous line between Red 2 and Red 3 around the airfield aprons. A separate group had moved across the airfield and set up a perimeter on the southern side, up against Black 2. The groups were not in contact with each other, with a gap of over 500 yards (460 m) between the forces at Red 1/Green and Red 2, and the lines on the northern side inland from Red 2/Red 3 were not continuous.
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Two Marine flamethrowers clear an enemy strong point on Tarawa.
The third day of the battle consisted primarily of the consolidation of existing lines and the moving onshore of additional heavy equipment and tanks. During the morning the forces originally landed on Red 1 made some progress towards Red 2 but at some cost. Meanwhile the units of the 6th Marines landed on Green to the south of Red 1 formed up while the remaining battalion of the 6th landed.
By the afternoon the 1st Battalion 6th Marines was sufficiently organized and equipped to take the offensive. At 12:30 they started and were soon pursuing the Japanese forces across the southern coast of the island. By the late afternoon they had reached the eastern end of the airfield and formed a continuous line with the forces that had landed on Red 3 two days earlier.
By the evening, U.S. forces clearly had the upper hand. The remaining Japanese forces were either pushed back into the tiny amount of land to the east of the airstrip, or operating in several isolated pockets near Red 1/Red 2 and near the eastern edge of the airstrip.
Realizing this, the Japanese forces formed up for a counterattack, which started at about 19:30. Small units were sent in to infiltrate the U.S. lines in preparation for a full-scale assault but were beaten off by concentrated artillery fire, and the assault never took place. Another attempt was made at 23:00 and made some progress.
At 0400 the Japanese attacked Major Jones' 1st Battalion 6th Marines in force. Roughly 300 Japanese troops launched a banzai charge into the lines of A and B Companies. Receiving support from 1/10's 75mm pack howitzers and the destroyers USS Schroeder and USS Sigsbee, the Marines were able to beat back the attack but only after calling artillery to within 75 meters of their lines.[9] When the assault ended about an hour later there were 200 dead Japanese soldiers in the Marine front lines and another 125 beyond their lines. At 0700 navy fighters and dive bombers started softening up the Japanese positions on the eastern tip of the island. After 30 minutes of air attack the pack howitzers of 1/10 opened up on the Japanese positions. Fifteen minutes later the navy kicked off the last part of the bombardment with a further 15 minutes of shelling. At 0800 3/6 under the command of Lt. Col. McLeod attacked, Jones' 1/6 having been pulled off the line after suffering 45 killed and 128 wounded in the previous night's fighting. Due to the narrowing nature of the island, I and L Companies of 3/6 formed the entire Marine front with K Company in reserve. The Marines advanced quickly against the few Japanese left alive on the eastern tip of Betio. They had two Sherman tanks (the Colorado and the China Gal), 5 light tanks in support and engineers in direct support.[10]
I and L Companies advanced 350 yards before experiencing any serious resistance in the form of a number of connected bunkers on I Company's front. Lt. Col. McLeod ordered L Company to continue their advance, thereby bypassing the Japanese position. At this point L Company made up the entire front across the now 200 yard wide island, while I Company reduced the Japanese strong point with the support of the tank "Colorado" and attached demolition/flame thrower teams provided by the engineers. As the I Company Marines closed in the Japanese broke from cover and attempted to retreat down a narrow defile. Alerted to the attempted retreat, the commander of the Colorado fired in enfilade at the line of fleeing soldiers. The near total destruction of the Japanese soldiers' bodies made it impossible to know how many men were killed by this single shot but it was estimated that 50 to 75 men perished. While 3/6's L Company advanced down the eastern end of the island, Major Schoettel's 3/2 and Major Hay's 1/8 were cleaning out the Japanese pocket that still existed between beaches Red 1 and Red 2. This pocket had been resisting the advance of the Marines landing on Red 1 and Red 2 since D-day and they had not as of yet been able to move against it.[11]
1/8 advanced on the pocket from the east (Red 2) while 3/2 advanced from the west (Red 1). Major Hewitt Adams led an infantry platoon supported by two pack howitzers from the lagoon into the Japanese positions to complete the encirclement. By noon the pocket had been reduced. On the eastern end of the island 3/6's L Company continued to advance, bypassing pockets of resistance and leaving them to be cleared out by tanks, engineers and air support. By 1300 they had reached the eastern tip of Betio. 3/6 killed roughly 475 Japanese soldiers on the morning of D+3 while only losing 9 killed and 25 wounded. Back at the Red 1/Red 2 pocket there was no accurate count of Japanese dead. There were an estimated 1,000 Japanese alive and fighting on the night of D+2, 500 on the morning of D+3 and only 50-100 left when the island was declared secure at 1330 D+3.[12]
Disabled U.S. LVTs and a Japanese Type 95 light tank on Tarawa litter the beach after the battle.
For the next several days the 2nd Battalion 6th Marines landed on Bairiki, moved up the remaining islands in the atoll to clean up, completing this on November 28. Portions of the 2nd Marine Division started leaving soon after and were completely withdrawn by early 1944.
Japanese prisoners of war.
Of the 3,636 Japanese that made up the garrison, only one officer and sixteen enlisted men were willing to surrender. And of the 1,200 Korean laborers that had been brought to Tarawa to construct the defenses, only 129 survived. All told, 4,690 of the island's defenders were killed.[13] The 2nd Marine Division suffered 894 killed in action, 48 officers and 846 enlisted men, with another 84 of the survivors later succumbing to their wounds, of whom 8 were officers and 76 were enlisted men. A further 2,188 (102 officers and 2,086 men) men were wounded in the battle. Of the roughly 12,000 2nd Marine Division marines on Tarawa, 3,166 officers and men became casualties.[14] Nearly all of these casualties were suffered in the 76 hours between H-hour+10 Minutes, 0910 20 November, and the island of Betio being declared secure at 1330 23 November.[15]
Empty helmets and spent artillery shells mark the graves of Marines who fell at Tarawa, March 1944.
The heavy casualties suffered at Tarawa sparked off public protest in the United States, where headline reports of the high losses could not be understood for such a small and seemingly unimportant island.[2][16] The public reaction was aggravated by the unguardedly frank comments of some of the Marine Corps command. General Holland M. Smith, commander of the V Amphibious Corps who had toured the beaches after the battle, likened the losses to Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg.
Long range aircraft at Hawkins Field on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) March 1944.
Back in Washington newly appointed Marine Corps Commandant General Alexander Vandegrift, the widely respected and highly decorated veteran of Guadalcanal, reassured Congress, pointing out that "Tarawa was an assault from beginning to end." The New York Times ran an editorial in the 27 December 1943 issue praising the Marines for overcoming Tarawa's rugged defenses and fanatical garrison, and warned that future assaults in the Marshalls might well result in heavier losses. "We must steel ourselves now to pay that price."[2]
Writing after the war, General Holland Smith, who was highly critical of the Navy in his biography, commented:
Was Tarawa worth it? My answer is unqualified: No. From the very beginning the decision of the Joint Chiefs to seize Tarawa was a mistake and from their initial mistake grew the terrible drama of errors, errors of omission rather than commission, resulting in these needless casualties.[17]
A number of commanders involved, including Admiral Chester Nimitz, Admiral Raymond Spruance, Lt General Julian Smith and Lt Colonel David Shoup disagreed with that assessment.[2] Said Nimitz:
The capture of Tarawa knocked down the front door to the Japanese defenses in the Central Pacific.[2]
Nimitz launched the Marshalls campaign only 10 weeks after the seizure of Tarawa. Aircraft flown from airfields at Betio and Apamama proved invaluable. Of greater significance to success in the Marshalls were the lessons learned from the battle itself.
The losses at Tarawa resulted from a number of contributing factors, among which were the inability of a brief naval bombardment to weaken the defenses of a well entrenched enemy, the miscalculation of the tide and the height of the obstructing coral reefs, the operational shortcomings of the landing craft available, and the difficulties of coordinating and communicating between the different forces involved. It was the first time in the war that a United States amphibious landing was opposed by well entrenched, determined defenders. Previous landings, such as the landing at Guadalcanal, had been unexpected and met with little or no initial resistance. At the time, Tarawa was the most heavily defended atoll invaded by Allied forces in the Pacific.[18]
All told nearly 6,000 Japanese and Americans died on the tiny island in 76 hours of fighting.[2] In the aftermath of the battle, American casualties lined the beach and floated in the surf. Over a hundred were never repatriated.[19] Staff Sgt Norman T. Hatch and other Marine cameramen were present obtaining footage that would later be used in a documentary.[20] "With the Marines at Tarawa" contained scenes of American dead so disturbing that the decision of whether or not to release it to the public was deferred to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
The lessons learned at Tarawa would be applied to all subsequent amphibious assaults as the United States worked its way across the Central Pacific. Following the battle the 2nd Marine Division was shipped to Hawaii, leaving the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment behind to clear the battlefield of ordnance, provide security for the Seabees rebuilding the airstrip and aid in the burial detail. The 2nd Marine Division would remain in Hawaii for six months, refitting and training, until called upon for its next major amphibious landing, the Battle of Saipan in the Marianas in June 1944.
Last week some 2,000 or 3,000 United States Marines, most of them now dead or wounded, gave the nation a name to stand beside those of Concord Bridge, the Bon Homme Richard, the Alamo, Little Big Horn, and Belleau Wood. The name was Tarawa.
—Robert Sherrod, Time Magazine War Correspondent, 6 December 1943 [21]
Japanese 8 inch gun emplacement on Tarawa.
An M4 Sherman rests in the lagoon.
United States Marine Corps portal
USS Tarawa, for U.S. Navy ships named for the Battle of Tarawa
With the Marines at Tarawa, a 1944 short documentary directed by Louis Hayward, which won the 1945 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject.
^ a b c Wright Tarawa 1943 p. 93
^ a b c d e f g Alexander, Joseph, Col. USMC (Ret) (1993). "Across the Reef: The Marine Assault of Tarawa". http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/USMC-C-Tarawa/index.html.
^ Intelligence Bulletin (March 1944). "Defense of Betio Island". http://www.lonesentry.com/articles/jp-betio-island/index.html.
^ Wright Tarawa 1943: The Turning of the Tide p. 10
^ Rice Strategic Battles of the Pacific p. 53
^ Russ Line of Departure: Tarawa p. 102
^ Masanori Ito; Sadatoshi Tomiaka; Masazumi Inada (1970). Real Accounts of the Pacific War, vol. III. Chuo Koron Sha.
^ "Japanese Armor". Tarawa on the Web. http://www.tarawaontheweb.org/japtank.htm.
^ Johnston Follow Me! p.146
^ "Japanese Casualties from The Battle for Tarawa, USMC Historical Monograph". ibiblio at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/USMC-M-Tarawa/USMC-M-Tarawa-C.html. Retrieved 2010-03-23.
^ Johnston Follow Me! p. 164, 305
^ "Marine Casualties from The Battle for Tarawa, USMC Historical Monograph". ibiblio at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/USMC-M-Tarawa/USMC-M-Tarawa-B.html. Retrieved 2010-03-23.
^ Smith Coral and Brass pp. 111–112
^ "Chronology of Events at Tarawa from The Battle for Tarawa, USMC Historical Monograph". ibiblio at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/USMC-M-Tarawa/USMC-M-Tarawa-D.html. Retrieved 2010-03-23.
^ "Return to Tarawa". The Tokyo Reporter. 2009-09-14. http://www.tokyoreporter.com/2009/09/14/return-to-tarawa/. Retrieved 2010-04-22.
^ "WWII Combat Cameraman: 'The Public Had To Know'". NPR.org. 2010-03-22. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124631492. Retrieved 2010-04-22.
^ Time Magazine. 6 December 1943.
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Jacki Zehner's Mission to Mobilize Unprecedented Resources for Women and Girls
August 30, 2018 December 1, 2017 by Jenn
"We have this crazy and audacious mission, which is to mobilize unprecedented resources for the advancement of women and girls."
Jacki Zehner is a community builder. Through Women Moving Millions, she, along with a group of 300 women, have provided more than 1 billion dollars in funding for the causes that impact women and girls around the world. As one of today's most influential voices on women, money and changing the world, Jacki reframes the notion of power to be inclusive, collaborative and empowering.
About Jacki Zehner
Jacki Zehner has been recognized as one of the 50 most powerful women in U.S. philanthropy, dedicating her time and resources toward the advancement of women and girls. She's the founding president of Women Moving Millions- the largest philanthropic network in the world, of women funding women.
Prior to her philanthropic focus, Jacki was a Partner and Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, where she was the youngest woman, and the first female trader, to make partner. As the President of the Jacqueline and Gregory Zehner Foundation, Jacki funds and champions a wide variety of projects and organizations, with a particular focus on women's rights, women's entrepreneurship, philanthropic movement building and social issue media. In addition to her work with Women Moving Millions, Jacki serves on a number of boards and advisory communities, and is an active writer, speaker and consultant on topics relating to women and wealth, philanthropy and leadership. She has been recognized for her leadership with many awards, including being named to the 2015 and 2016 Economist Global Diversity List, as a Top 50 Diversity Figure in Public Life and has been profiled for MAKERS.
"Women supporting women leaders surrounds everything we do."
"I trace that "Ah-hah" moment back to personally realizing that my future was not in my hands, but in the hands of someone who was treating me differently because I was female and in a highly inappropriate way, and that my destiny was not mine and the reason it was not mine, in this particular situation, was because of being female. So that really ignited me."
"I feel like my whole world is circling around this core concept of what it means to be in community with one another. And by 'community' I mean surrounded and part of something bigger than yourself, sharing values with people for which you have responsibility and they have responsibility back to you, to support each other in what's right."
"If we do not support each other and protect each other and inspire one another and, more even concretely, resource one another, then change won't happen."
"I think this movement to say 'Fund women and girls' is really a bigger and more complicated message and purpose, which is to have greater accountability of philanthropic capital, to serve the needs of the people that were given the mission by nature of a philanthropic status to serve."
I feel like so much of the work of feminism and the women's movement has been reacting to the forces of the patriarchal structure that of course exists, and has dominated for the entire of human history. So part of where my head is going, which is really shifting my energy away from this idea of incremental change, into leapfrogging into a completely different place, is that change of mindset which is to say "Let's imagine the world not as it is, but what is possible under a set of assumptions where women are in their power."
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Lorna Hawkins
Nice Jacki, I do understand being in that Ah-hah moment and recognizing that. Female first and being a strong black woman also makes that ah-hah moment double for me !