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'Mind-blowing' day with Marsalis and Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
April 25, 2017 by Michael D Harris
When the world's most renowned trumpet player brings the world's most celebrated jazz orchestra to campus, that's big. When the performers take the time to hear students play, give critiques, field questions and share their wealth of experience, that can be life-changing.
Composer, band leader and advocate for the arts Wynton Marsalis visited UNCG with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) last Thursday as part of the University Performing Arts Series. In the afternoon before the big performance, Marsalis held a public conversation with Interim Director of the UNCG Jazz Studies program Chad Eby in Taylor Theatre. Marsalis spoke about his life and music training, jazz history, what it takes to play the music of Duke Ellington and his general view of the world.
Prior to the talk, UNCG music students had the exclusive opportunity to work with members of the orchestra in clinics throughout the Music Building. Students formed jazz combos to play for the orchestra members, and the student musicians heard critiques and encouragement from some of the best jazz players in the world.
"Those cats can play, and they made me want to dance," said freshman jazz studies major and piano player Sean Mason. "Dan Nimmer (JLCO pianist) was a cool guy, and so were the other members of the group. I think those are connections that I'll keep for a lifetime."
"A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," said Mason's combo-mate, music performance graduate student and vibraphone player Chris Thompson. "It's always humbling to get a critique from those who are leading the way."
The UNCG students also impressed the orchestra members.
"They were swinging, they had a good idea about the music, they knew their tunes, they were receptive," said JLCO trumpet player Tatum Greenblatt. "I wish we had another 45 minutes with them."
"Fabulous" was JLCO trumpet player Marcus Printup's assessment of the UNCG student musicians. "I knew they'd be killing it, because Chad and Steve (Haines) and Brandon (Lee) are here," he said, referring to several UNCG faculty who teach in the jazz program.
"I asked the students who they listened to. The piano player said Wynton Kelly and Bill Evans. The tenor player said John Coltrane and Coleman Hawkins. They know the traditions."
JLCO saxophone, flute and clarinet player Alexa Tarantino added, "I don't often go to a school and have students give 110 percent right away. I could tell when they were playing they were just digging into it and giving their best, and there was no hesitation."
Ariel Kopelov, a junior jazz studies major and tenor saxophone player, especially appreciated being able to work with Tarantino, a female jazz performer she has long admired.
Kopelov summed up the experience in one word: "mind-blowing."
In the evening, the orchestra, led by Marsalis, gave a thrilling two-set performance to a packed house. They played original pieces by Victor Goines and Vincent Gardner, as well as tunes by Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie. Throughout the performance, Marsalis, Goines and Gardner explained the historical contexts or the traditions that inspired each dynamic piece of music. UNCG faculty member Brandon Lee, who is a previous member of the JLCO, played with the band, giving solos on several of the tunes. After the performance, many of UNCG's jazz students had the opportunity to spend more time with Marsalis and the rest of the orchestra.
The students who met Marsalis remarked on the way he took the time to speak with each student individually.
"It was definitely a life-changing experience," said Thompson. "The entire day was a moment of reckoning. If nothing else, I know for sure there is one thing Thursday's experience confirmed for me: I am heading to the practice room."
Story by Susan Kirby-Smith
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Family of Frederic Thornton Peters — Part Four: brother John Francklyn "Jack" Peters	Family of Frederic Thornton Peters — Part Six: brother Noel Quintan Peters
Family of Frederic Thornton Peters — Part Five: brother Gerald Hamilton Peters
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clockwise, from top left: Gerald at right with Helen, Bertha, Jack and unidentified man; Gerald at top left beside Jack, with Noel and Helen in front; and Gerald top left, beside Jack, and Noel bottom right. (McBride Collection)clippings in Prince Rupert Empire newspaper and (bottom right) Victoria Colonist
Gerald Hamilton Peters and fraternal twin Noel Quintan Peters were born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island on November 8, 1894 – exactly 48 years before the Oran harbour battle where their elder brother Frederic Thornton "Fritz" Peters won the Victoria Cross and the U.S. Distinguished Service Cross.
Their parents were Premier Frederick Peters and Bertha Gray, daughter of the P.E.I. Father of Confederation John Hamilton Gray. Other children in the family included sister Helen, born in 1887, and brother Jack, born in 1892. A younger sister Violet Avis Peters was born in 1899 after the family moved to Victoria, B.C. where their father established a law partnership with Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper.
clockwise, from top left: Gerald with his mother Bertha; Gerald (right) with Bertha, sister Helen, brother Noel and the family dog; Gerald as a recently-commissioned lieutenant in 1916; and Gerald and Helen in the backyard of their Oak Bay home. (McBride Collection)
Gerald was the intellectual among the children, preferring to read poetry and watch plays rather than participate in marching and rifle practice. Noel was handicapped with a moderate — though noticeable — mental disability that made his life miserable in an era when there was little understanding of or allowance for such handicaps. Bertha felt no qualms in openly treating Gerald as her favourite child and Noel, her least favourite.
At 6'1½", Gerald was thin and gangly, and his expanded chest did not meet the standard. Gerald was sensitive, intellectual and, quite literally, a mama's boy who would not choose army service in normal times but felt compelled to do his part in the war emergency. Perhaps to avoid the same examiners who assessed him in B.C., Gerald traveled to Montreal for a second try at enlisting. This time, he passed and was admitted as a private to the Royal Victoria Rifles 24th Battalion.
Gerald — who had told his sister Helen that he hated serving in the trenches of "Blasted Bloody Belgium" as a private with the Royal Victoria Rifles 24th Battalion through the winter of 1915–16 — got some good news in early 1916 when he was accepted into officer training. In April, he began as a lieutenant with the same 7th Battalion Jack served in, although few remembered Jack because of the almost complete turnover after the horrific casualties in the spring of 1915. Articles in the Prince Rupert Empire reported that Lieut. Gerald Peters was training to expertly analyze captured German documents. The information was mailed by Bertha to her husband Fred. He took it to the newspaper editor, who was eager to run stories about a local boy fighting in the Great War.
His mother Bertha had been in England since the summer of 1915 because she wanted to be close to her boys fighting in the war, particularly Gerald, with whom she was extremely close. She rented a cottage at Hythe on England`s southeast coast, near where the Channel Tunnel of today goes underground, so she could meet with Gerald on his leaves from service.
TOP: Gerald`s attestation for service in First World War; BELOW, army file.
On June 2, 1916, Germans surprised the Allies with an attack that captured Mount Sorrel east of Ypres from Canadian forces. Success like this was unusual in the Great War because defenders usually had the advantage in any attack. The new commander of Canadian forces, General Julian Byng — later to be a hero in the great Canadian victory at Vimy Ridge and serve as Governor General of Canada — felt Canadians must immediately launch a counterattack to get the high ground back from the Germans before they could establish strong defences.
According to the orders in place for British generals, Byng likely would have lost his command if he had not attacked. As a result, Gerald's unit was part of a hastily-planned advance on June 3rd which never had any real chance of success. As happened so often in the war to troops on both sides, Gerald went over the top of his trench towards the enemy expecting to die, and he did. As Fritz noted later, without coordinated artillery support the offensive was doomed.
Below is the transcript of one of 22 letters from Gerald in the Peters Family Papers.
Gerald to his father Frederic Peters November 30, 1915
I have now been in and out of the trenches several times. Things are very slack, and I have seen very little excitement. However, we shall no doubt get plenty of it later on. The life seems to be doing me good, at least everyone tells me I am getting fat on it. Of course, everything is made easy for the second contingent, we have no hardships to endure as did the first. So far I have witnessed one fairly good artillery bombardment, which we began and the Germans answered, and occasionally we have been under fire while on working parties etc. But as a rule there is little danger or excitement.
TOP: letter from Sgt. Major who witnessed Gerald`s fatal charge; memorial in B.C.; Prince Rupert Empire article based on the letter.
I went down to the place where Jack's company is billeted about a week ago. It is some distance from here. Unfortunately most of the men were away. I saw one fellow who had known Jack at Salisbury. But he wasn't near him at Langemarke. However, he promised to make enquiries and I left my address with him. At least so far we have not heard of anyone who actually saw him killed. I think there is a strong possibility of his being wounded and a prisoner in Belgium.
Well, it isn't much use my wishing you the usual Christmas wishes this year. We can only hope that next year we will be a less scattered family again. I would like to see old Prince Rupert again. The muskeg would be a welcome change from the appalling mud here. Please give my respects to Mr. Broderick and my best wishes to the other fellows there.
You certainly were a prophet when you said that the war was far from finished.
Your affectionate son
plaque in St. Peter`s Anglican Church in Charlottetown (McBride Collection)
Gerald`s army files


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Lord of Andúnië and father of Elendil. Though an Elf-friend, he was for many years a friend and counsellor to King Ar-Pharazôn. Dismissed by Sauron, he sailed into the West to seek the pardon of the Valar for the misdeeds of the Númenóreans; his fate is unknown.
Amandil's actual birthdate is not recorded. The date of approximately II 3029 shown here is an estimate based on a typical Númenórean generation of ninety years, counting back from the birth of Amandil's son Elendil.
There are two dates given for Amandil's final journey in volume XII of The History of Middle-earth. The other is II 3310, but the date of II 3316 given here seems to represent Tolkien's final intention.
Or 'ama'ndil'. The position of the stress here depends on the interpretation of the 'nd' in Amandil's name: in English, it is a double consonant, and so the stress goes on the second syllable. In Elvish writing, however, 'nd' was a single consonant, which would place the stress on the first syllable.
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use common::util::ConfigurableProgram;
use common::util::ProgramFragment;

use std::option::Option;

pub struct CompileBuilder{
    is_verbose : bool,
    is_archive : bool,
    module_path : Option<String>,
    output_path : Option<String>
}

impl CompileBuilder {
    pub fn new() -> CompileBuilder {
        CompileBuilder {
            is_verbose : false,
            is_archive : false,
            module_path : Option::None,
            output_path : Option::None
        }
    }
}

impl ConfigurableProgram<CompileRunner> for CompileBuilder {
    fn set_flag(&mut self, name:&str, value:bool) -> &mut Self {
        match name {
            "verbose" => self.is_verbose = value,
            "archive" => self.is_archive = value,
            _ => ()
        };
        self
    }
    fn set_arg(&mut self, name:&str, value:String) -> &mut Self {
        match name {
            "module" => self.module_path = Option::Some(value),
            "output" => self.output_path = Option::Some(value),
            _ => ()
        };
        self
    }
    fn config(&self) -> CompileRunner {
        let module = match self.module_path {
            Some(ref value) => value,
            None => panic!("Incorrectly configured CompileRunner, missing 'module' def")
        };

        let output = match self.output_path {
            Some(ref value) => value,
            None => panic!("Incorrectly configured CompileRunner, missing 'output' def")
        };

        CompileRunner {
            is_verbose: self.is_verbose,
            is_archive: self.is_archive,
            module_path: module.clone(),
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impl ProgramFragment for CompileRunner {
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}

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Officials: When the victim started to scream, the subject - a male black, 20-25 years of age - fled the scene on foot.
A composite drawing (above) of the suspect in a Robbery and Assault that occurred on Saturday, July 1, in Hempstead.
Hempstead, NY - July 4, 2017 - The Third Squad is investigating a Robbery that occurred on Saturday, July 1, 2017 at 1:30 am in Hempstead.
According to detectives, a female victim, 26, was at the Hempstead Bus Depot when she was approached by an unknown male subject. The victim started to walk away, but the subject followed.
The subject then grabbed the victim choking her to the point that she passed out for a few seconds. When the victim awoke the subject punched her in the face and grabbed her handbag. When the victim started to scream the subject dropped the handbag and fled the scene on foot.
The subject is described as a male black, 20-25 years of age, dark complexion, thin muscular build, black short hair, wearing a gold chain around his neck.
Detectives request anyone with information regarding the above crime to call Nassau County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-244-TIPS. All callers will remain anonymous.
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Commander Echo is a wireless portable evaluation system bringing advanced levels of sophistication and versatility to outcome assessment equipment. It is a modular system providing the ability to purchase only what you need and the option to add on later.
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Wireless console is independent of the testing device, allowing the tester to review the data during active testing without influencing patient effort.


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the second of two public gatherings designed to pull together ideas on what residents would like to see done in their city.
Apparently, a lot of them like it just the way it is, at least those who showed up Saturday and were the loudest.
About 45 people showed up for the outdoor presentation by city officials and a group from Washington State University's Rural Communities Design Initiative, made up of Washington State University's Assistant Professor Kathleen Ryan and three students.
The WSU group had assisted Soap Lake when that city developed a project just south of Grand Coulee.
At one point Saturday, police were called because Electric City resident Mike Lowry had become disruptive. They told him to stop the shouting. Others were just as loud, turning what was supposed to be an informational meeting into a shouting match.
Deputy City Clerk Russell Powers tried to explain to the group that nothing was cast in stone and that any trail - the rub of the meeting - was not decided on yet. The Star had published a draft document illustration of one of the suggested trail routes, and many in the crowd thought that it had already been decided on.
One resident, who was disruptive, kept shouting to put the trail on the other side of the lake. When asked how people would get to it from Electric City, he didn't have any solution. One person yelled, "swim," but that didn't get anyone's attention.
The fear expressed by several was that the proposed trail system would go by their homes and that all kinds of bad things would occur.
The first meeting held in May had been designed to gather ideas from the community on what they would like to see in the future. The WSU group took those ideas and projected them forward, and returned Saturday to continue the effort. They hardly had a chance, as about a dozen people kept yelling at the presenter.
So the WSU group is back to the drawing board, trying to come up with a plan that will muster enough votes on the city council to become a reality.
Powers explained a number of times that nothing is cast in stone and that there will be several public meetings along the way. Individual projects that come out of the planning sessions would also require public comment periods.
The city has set aside $400,000 of its lodging tax money for tourism promotion to provide matching money for the project to get underway.
The public meetings were more for a revitalization of the city than just a trail system. Two parks are involved, one behind the fire department building, and the other near the arsenic treatment plant. Both plans call for restrooms, and the new park behind the fire department would feature picnicking and a children's play area.
At the park close to the arsenic treatment plant, a near full-sized outdoor basketball court is suggested.
Sidewalks, ways to promote the area's Ice Age history, a possible mammoth sculpture featured at an entry to the city, and many other ideas have been expressed.
Tourism was also a feature of the revitalization plan. Saturday, those yelling the loudest were against trying to lure visitors to the area.
Powers said that the city will likely have one more community meeting before a plan is finally drawn.
A community committee, named by the council, will look at plans put together by the WSU group and make recommendations to the full council.


Pride, conceit, arrogance–no matter what you call this sin, it is always with us, ready to take a thousand different situations in life and turn them into an excuse for believing that we are better than others. The Apostle Paul had spent long years savoring an inflated self-image as a Pharisee.
That temptation to see himself as superior because of his heritage or life did not come to a complete and sudden end when Paul became a Christian. That sense of pride he had so cultivated years ago could easily take the new, spiritual, Christian Paul and blow him up into some sort of little god at whose feet everyone should fall down in worship and respect. Paul needed something to keep him humble.
If we dig into our own lives, we find that pride is just as capable of taking any quality we have and using it to convince us that we are so much better than everyone else. You can become conceited because you look pretty, because you're smart, because you're a good athlete, because you make a lot of money, because you drive a cool car, because you make friends easily, or because you take great care of your body. Or you can become conceited because you go to church every Sunday, because you work hard, because you sacrifice yourself to take care of others, because you read your Bible and pray for hours, or because you accept people who are different than you. You can become prideful in the fact that you are conservative or progressive, open-minded or unbending, contemporary or traditional. The possibilities for our pride are endless. No sin is more spiritually deadly than pride.
So God confronted Paul's potential for pride with a unique preaching of his law. God gave Paul a "thorn in the flesh." We don't know exactly what this was. Some people have suggested that he might have had an eye-problem, or suffered from recurring malaria, or struggled with a speech impediment.
What we do know is that everything about this thorn in the flesh seemed wrong, even evil to Paul. He calls it a "messenger of Satan." That's not just a colorful way to talk. The Lord might well have allowed Satan to make life miserable for Paul with this thorn. Of course, Satan meant it only as a temptation. No doubt Satan was whispering in his ear, "You see, God doesn't really love you." But the Lord was using this for Paul's good to battle his pride. So we see that even Satan himself must serve God for our good.
Every once in a while, when talking about someone whose life is a mess, I or someone else will comment, "He really needs Jesus." Of course, that's true of everyone one of us. I really need Jesus. We really need Jesus. Paul really needed Jesus.
And that was God's answer for Paul. "But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness'" (2 Cor. 12:9). He didn't make the problem go away. He gave him a Savior. The Lord set his heart upon Paul, laid down his life for him, forgave all his sins, preached the gospel to him, brought him to faith, made him a dear member of his own family, gave him a new life, reserved a place in heaven for him, and guaranteed him an eternity of endless joy. In short, he made Paul the object of his grace–his unending, unequaled, unconditional love. And that was enough.
Note what the Lord is saying. He didn't say, "My grace is sufficient to solve your problems and take away your pain." He said, "My grace is sufficient for you." God's grace is the big thing, the one great need we have. We become so obsessed with our lives in this world that we tend to overlook God's grace. We take it for granted. We don't value it as highly as we value our cheap junk.
If the problems we suffer help us to see God's grace for what it is–the single, sufficient gift of God for our lives–then thank God for the thorns!


President Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani told Laura Ingraham in an exclusive interview that if Special Counsel Robert Mueller writes a flawed or "unfair" report about President Donald Trump, he is "ready to rip it apart."
Giuliani, a Republican who served as New York City mayor for eight years, said Mueller's probe is "doing damage to our country" and should be finished as "soon as possible."
He said Mueller's team likely has enough facts to write a conclusive report on their findings.
"If you're going to write a fair report, fine, write it. If you're going to write an unfair report, write it and we will combat it! We are ready to rip it apart," Giuliani said.
He added that he's concerned the Mueller probe and accompanying federal investigation of Michael Cohen and others are hurting the United States.
He lamented the investigators' "unwillingness to recognize the damage this does to our country -- all over the world... This was engineered by [former FBI Director] James Comey."


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Buildings can be vulnerable to climate change. In the future there may be an increase in the risk of collapse, declining state and significant loss of value as a result of more storms, snow or subsidence damage, water encroachment, deteriorating indoor climate and reduced building lifetime. The European Commission aims to increase the climate resilience of infrastructure, including buildings. New and existing buildings need to be assessed for resilience to current risks and future climate changes, and planned or upgraded accordingly. A key policy used to support the resilience of buildings is the Cohesion Policy (also referred to as Regional Policy). In addition, the European Commission's EU strategy on adaptation to climate change includes a Staff Working Document that provide guidance in adapting the EU´s infrastructure.
Moreover, buildings also need to cope with temperature extremes, guidance is given under Directive 2018/844 amending Directive 2010/31/EU on the energy performance of buildings and Directive 2012/27/EU on energy efficiency.
The European Commission is revising infrastructure development standards. The aim is to take better into account the impacts of climate change in building investment decisions. On the request of the European Commission, European Standardization Organizations as CEN and CENELEC are fostering the integration of climate change adaptation in standardization of the construction/building sector since 2014.
Within the regulations on Environmental Assessment Guidance (Directive 2001/42/EC and Directive 85/337/EEC), climate change is one of the aspects for infrastructure, including buildings. Environmental Assessment of individual plans, public infrastructure plans or programs ensures that all environmental implications of a project are considered before decisions on infrastructure are made. The project should be assessed on its impact on climate change and their vulnerability to climate change. Practical Guidance for Integrating Climate Change and Biodiversity into Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Procedures was published by the European Commission in 2013. The Strategic Environmental Assessment is undergoing a revision.
Urban areas are at the core of the Europe 2020 strategy. The EU Urban Policy portal lists numerous European urban initiatives, and the EU Urban Agenda process attempts to better coordinate these. Among them, several are relevant for supporting urban adaptation including buildings, in particular Mayors Adapt that is now part of the Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy. The Climate-ADAPT Urban webpage is specifically dedicated to urban adaptation.
Furthermore, green infrastructure policies promoted by the European Commission, are suitable to support resilience in urban areas and the built environment. Green infrastructure includes among others green corridors, green urban areas, trees in cities as well as green roofs and walls. Buildings can be protected by integrating green infrastructure in urban planning, as well as to use nature based solutions in built environment.
As a part of the climate action within the 2020 European Green Deal, the Renovation Wave Communication, launched in October 2020, aims at doubling renovation rates in the next ten years and making sure renovations lead to higher energy and resource efficiency. While lacking a specific coverage of adaptation issues, the Communication has implications on the adaptation options for buildings, as it points out, among other things, to the need to review the standards for heating and cooling in buildings. Moreover, the envisaged priority areas of the initiative cover the buildings for most vulnerable people offer options to improve the readiness of society towards the effects of heatwaves.
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The IPCC special report on global warming of 1.5 °C has addressed climate change impacts and adaptation options in the building sector that can contribute to limiting warming to 1.5ºC.
The Eurostat Urban Audit provides indicator-based information on the adaptive capacity of cities including infrastructure and buildings. The Urban Adaptation Map Viewer provides indicators, e.g. soil sealing and green urban areas. The JRC has furthermore developed a framework to assess resilience of critical infrastructures in technological and in economic terms.
Within the European Commission's Research and Innovation programme Horizon 2020 knowledge for adaptation to climate change in building infrastructure is one of the topics covered in the work programme. Relevant projects are, e.g., RESIN and EU-CIRCLE. The RESIN project will help cities to come up with robust adaptation strategies on their most critical infrastructure. EU-CIRCLE project will develop a Union-wide framework to support vital infrastructures to be prepared to natural hazards, including climate change.
Some research and Interreg projects focussing on green infrastructure in climate change, also covering the protection of the built environment, are for example the Ramses Project, Future Cities and Grabs. Many more projects on nature-based solutions in urban climate resilience are being set-up within the scope of H2020 and Interreg.
Further knowledge on urban adaptation is being provided on the Climate-ADAPT Urban page.
Supporting investment and funding
The EU funding to support infrastructure resilience is mainly organised by the Cohesion Policy, more specifically, via the Regional funds.
Other types of EU funding adaptation in the infrastructure sector are grants from the European Investment Bank. The European Investment Bank actively promotes climate resilience in the financed projects.
The EU Solidarity Fund intervenes in case of emergencies, after damage has been incurred. Climate change related events may be financed as well.
Insurances aim to financially compensate damages of disasters, which are expected to increase in occurrence as a consequence of climate change. Insurance cover is a very important instrument of adaptation to climate change in the infrastructure sector, including buildings. Among other activities the European Commission developed a Green Paper on the prevention and insurance of disasters in 2013 in order to appropriately support the development of insurance for climate change related damages. The Commission completed a study in 2017 on the insurance of weather and climate related disaster risk. The study has increased the knowledge of insurance as a tool in adaptation and disaster risk reduction, by mapping the national insurance markets in 12 Member States.
EU funding for adaptation is supported by the Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020, which ensures that climate adaptation actions have been integrated into all the major EU spending programmes. Further information can be found here.
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THE SECRET CODE-BREAKERS OF CENTRAL BUREAU: How Australia's Signals Intelligence Network Helped
Win the Pacific War
by David Dufty
Scribe, Melbourne
Price: AUD$49.99
Reviewed by Chris Rule
At the Canberra Writers festival in August this year, David Dufty, the author of The Code-breakers of Central Bureau: How Australia's Signals Intelligence Network Helped Win the Pacific War, was asked why he had written the book? Dufty replied that he heard, in 2012, that the British government intended awarding Central Bureau (CB) veterans awards for their activities during World War II.
He wondered what they had done to deserve this and why the Australian Government hadn't already done so. He began to do some research and eventually contacted some CB veterans. After speaking to them he felt a moral imperative to tell their story because he believed they deserved recognition.
What was Central Bureau, I hear you ask? According to a plaque at the front of Nyrambla, a house located in the suburb of Ascot, Brisbane, and used by CB during World War II, it was "an organisation comprising service personnel of Australia, USA, Britain, Canada and New Zealand".
Their work consisted of providing signals intelligence (SIGINT) from "intercepted enemy radio messages" which made a "decisive contribution to the Allied victory in the Pacific war".
Dufty defines SIGINT as the "science of understanding an enemy from its messages". Exploitation can be through cryptanalysis, which is attempting to decrypt coded/enciphered messages; and traffic analysis, which is the obtaining of intelligence by studying the externals of the traffic. For example, looking for message numbering systems, preamble address groups (that is, groups which help in determining who the traffic is to and from and any other intended recipients, call-sign and frequency usage). All this can help in maintaining continuity on targets.
One shouldn't forget the part played by the intercept operators: those who intercepted the traffic that made the work of the analysts possible.
In a nutshell, this is the story of the birth of Australia's SIGINT capability and how it contributed to the Allied victory in the Pacific.
As Dufty says, when the war started, Australia's SIGINT capability was virtually non-existent; Australia was a "backwater in the international espionage game". By the end of the war there were "several signals intelligence organisations based in Australia" of which CB, based in Brisbane, was the largest and most active and it had "tentacles across northern Australia, the Pacific Ocean, and South-East Asia and as far as Luzon in the Philippines".
Other SIGINT organisations that worked with CB were the Australian Special Wireless Group, Fleet Radio Unit Melbourne, Special D Section and Section 22. Also, there were organic Army, Navy and Air Force units.
Dufty acknowledges the major contribution of both the British and the Americans in the development of our SIGINT capability. The Allied cooperation in SIGINT during World War II became the basis of the UKUSA agreement, which was formalised in 1947. The Australian Signals Directorate, formerly the Defence Signals Directorate, which is a participant in UKUSA, is the successor organisation of CB.
Although there was some involvement by an Australian SIGINT unit, Four Special Wireless Unit, in Greece, on Crete, in the Middle East and North Africa, Australia's SIGINT capability was mainly involved in the war against Japan.
This book takes us through the whole gamut of the war in the Pacific – Pearl Harbor, the fall of Singapore, the fall of the Philippines, the movement of General MacArthur to Australia, Burma, Malaya, Thailand, the New Guinea campaign, the battles of Midway and of the Coral Sea, the killing of Admiral Yamamoto, the gradual pushing back of the Japanese until MacArthur fulfilled his pledge to return to the Philippines, the dropping of the atomic bombs; and, finally, peace in the Pacific.
SIGINT's achievements were many. It was instrumental in preventing the invasion of Port Moresby from the sea; and in the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway. This was possible because the Allies were reading the Japanese naval code, JN-25, sufficiently well to know what the Japanese were planning. Traffic analysis also played its part, along with another element of SIGINT, electronic intelligence, which came into play in the Coral Sea; the USS Lexington's radar detected the Japanese fleet 70 miles away.
Another major success was the interception of an itinerary of Admiral Yamamoto, Commander in Chief of the Japanese Navy, in which he was to visit Rabaul and the island of Ballale. The U.S. Navy intercepted a partially readable JN-25 coded message, which tipped them off that Yamamoto would be at Ballale on April 18, 1943.
This message was transmitted from the Japanese Army signals office at Rabaul to the Japanese garrison commander on Ballale, using an army air-to-ground code, as that garrison didn't have access to the JN-25 code. This was intercepted by an Australian intercept operator and, as it was fully readable, the whole of Yamamoto's itinerary was obtained. This enabled the Americans to intercept the plane on which Yamamoto was travelling and shoot it down, killing the admiral.
There was controversy about this because the Americans claimed the credit for having intercepted the vital message, when, in fact, it was an Australian who had done so. A former colleague of mine who has read the book said he was "delighted" that Dufty had "really nailed the Yamamoto message and the crucial part played by the OZ interceptors".
One can also claim an Australian connection with the breaking of the particular code, as it was Eric Nave who broke it in early 1943.
There were also SIGINT failures, one of the most serious of which was at Biak where the Americans, on the advice of CB, seriously underestimated the size of the Japanese defenders. It was estimated that there were 1,000 Japanese on the island. However, the real figure was closer to 11,000. Although the Americans eventually took Biak, casualties were much higher than anticipated.
At the Canberra Writers Festival Dufty was asked who were the most interesting characters in his book. He mentioned four: Eric Nave, Florence McKenzie, Alastair "Mic" Sandford and Stan Clark.
Eric Nave, probably the most famous Australian "siginter", was a naval officer who became involved in SIGINT with the British in the 1920s. He had initially joined the Australian navy and transferred to the Royal Navy in 1923. He then joined the British Government Code and Cipher School (GCCS).
Nave had studied the Japanese language, including two years in Japan, in the early 1920s, when he was attached to the British Embassy. Eventually he went to Hong Kong, where he established Britain's first SIGINT operation in Asia. In 1927, he became the first person to break a Japanese military code. He was, effectively, Australia's first "siginter".
Florence McKenzie was a qualified electrical engineer who had formed the Women's Emergency Signalling Corp (WESS). She trained over 1,200 women in receiving and transmitting Morse code.
Though WESS was not a military organisation, McKenzie offered her trainees to the military authorities to help meet the shortage of signals operators at the time. Her offer was initially taken up by the Australian Navy; the Army and Air Force followed. The work she did was for the good of Australia; she received no pay.
Mic Sandford was trained by the British in Egypt. He was flamboyant and fearless. He went to Crete as an intelligence officer for the Australian Four Special Wireless Section. He was also the Ultra (that is, SIGINT) Liaison Officer to General Freyburg, the New Zealand officer in command of the defence of Crete. Eventually he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
Stan Clark joined Four Special Wireless Section in 1940. According to Dufty he demonstrated a "natural flair" for SIGINT, particularly in the field of traffic analysis.
Dufty shows a good understanding of traffic analysis and what it could achieve. However, as a former traffic analyst, at times I found myself asking, "how do they know that"? For example, the Japanese used three-letter abbreviated codes beginning with R to refer to place names in New Guinea. Dufty said that the traffic analysts knew that RZP was used to indicate Port Moresby. However, he doesn't explain how they knew that. He also talks about how the traffic analysts could estimate Japanese troop numbers but doesn't explain how they could.
When writing about how Hiroshima had been determined to be water-transport HQ, which led to it becoming the target for the atom bomb, he writes: "Decrypted messages, and above all comprehensive traffic analysis of the code pointed …. to …. Hiroshima."
The code he is talking about is the water-transport code and I think he should have said, "comprehensive traffic analysis of the communications of the users of the code".
Dufty, according to his publisher, is a "Canberra-based writer and researcher" who has a psychology degree; he is not an historian. That has not stopped him writing a very good book. It is interesting both from the perspective of the development of Australia's SIGINT capability and also from the perspective of the history of the Pacific war and the part SIGINT played in it. It is very readable and I particularly liked the Antony Beevor-like style of short, pithy chapters. I recommend it.
The reviewer worked for Defence Signals Defence/Directorate, now Australian Signals Directorate, for 33 years.
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Beginning his working life in the aviation industry and trained by the BBC, Tony Gosling is a British land rights activist, historian & investigative radio journalist.
Over the last 20 years he has been exposing the secret power of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and élite Bilderberg Conferences where the dark forces of corporations, media, banks and royalty conspire to accumulate wealth and power through extortion and war.
Tony has spent much of his life too advocating solutions which heal the wealth divide, such as free housing for all and a press which reflects the concerns of ordinary people rather than attempting to lead opinion, sensationalise or dumb-down.
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There is little democracy left in the UK, according to Toni Gosling, investigative journalist. David Cameron's policy is influenced by Washington not directly, but through the City of London, part of the same organization as Wall Street, he told RT.
RT:Almost 70 years ago Winston Churchill called the relationship between the UK and the US a special one. Is it still a special relationship between these two countries? And do other nations also see it like this?
Toni Gosling: Well, it certainly is still a special relationship between Britain and America and I think the French more than anybody else sees it like that. Charles de Gaulle, the French President, back in the 1960s was so annoyed by the fact he saw the Britain as a Trojan horse for the United States in Europe that he actually blocked Britain's membership at the European Economic community, using the French veto to stop Britain coming in. Because basically he saw, and I think quite rightly, Britain at that time as a cat's paw for the United States really just doing everything the US wanted. Let's not forget, you know, back then, and still to this day, we've got a large contingent of American forces here. They came over to Britain during World War II and ten thousand of them are still here in Britain. So for many people including the Brits and including other Europeans they see the special relationship is still very strong because the UK seems to do almost anything the US wants.
RT:What does Great Britain have in return?
TG: Well they give supposedly military support in return. But actually we don't really need that. Nobody is threatening to invade Britain so really there is nothing that we get in return. It's very difficult I think to fathom for ordinary folk why we are in such a close relationship, but the fact of the matter is I think most see through the threats and menaces because the United States is so economically powerful with oil and petrodollar. From after WWII the dollar has been incredibly powerful and the US has been using that power ever since. We had a big agreement after the WWII, the Marshall Plan with the United States in order to get Britain back on its feet after WWII. And of course anyone that is borrowing money from somebody else knows - you have to be nice to the person that you borrowed the money from and that's been a situation with Britain. Really as a dying empire we have had to go cap in hand to the Americans for a long time for both military support and financial support.
But I think Britain actually could and should reassert its independence and actually some people in the House of Lords agree with me because this time a year ago, back in January 2014, the House of Lords ordered a thorough review into the US troops' presence here in Britain. Roughly 10,000 US troops in Britain and yet there is very little regulation of them. So they do what they want behind the barbed wire fences in the US military bases. And the reason that Lord Hodgson, as a conservative peer put his name to this review, is very simple: it's because we now have evidence that there are war crimes going on behind those bits of barbed wire, not just American barbed wire but possibly British too, particularly with those drone strikes, illegal drone strikes, possibly illegal under international law and so this has been a thorough review into that so-called special relationship ordered by the House of Lords
RT:What can you say about David Cameron's policy?
TG: Well David Cameron's policies are influenced by Washington, but I don't think directly, I think through the City of London, because the big financiers in the big banks in the City are really part of the same organization as Wall Street and actually the same in many ways as the Swiss and the European Central Bank. These financiers have a very different view of the world to ordinary people. They are the financial elite. So they have very little contact with most of the rest of us and those are the kinds of people that are really telling David Cameron what his policies should be. We have very little real democracy left in Britain, because most of the top ends of all the political parties now have been bought by this closely-knit financial center. The finance people and the military though do get together and they lobby politicians right across Europe not only in Britain.
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.


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DVD Review - Birds, Orphans and Fools (1969)
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Philippe Avron, Jirí Sýkora, Magda Vásáryová, Vtackovia
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In order to find happiness and freedom, Yorick, Andrej, and Marta retreat into their own fantasy world, intent on escaping the real world's absurdity in Juraj Jakubisko's long-suppressed Birds, Orphans and Fools. The central ménage à trois evokes Truffaut's Jules et Jim and Godard's Bande à Part, with the Godardian influence further extended through the inclusion of a cinematic self-consciousness manifested in the director's introduction of himself at the films beginning, speaking through the voice of a child and a woman, and his showing the film crew at work. Cinematic comparisons abound throughout with the mad, surrealist universe recalling the worlds' of both Buñuel and Fellini with the most relevant comparison being the far reaching irreverance it shares with Věra Chytilová's Daisies, the image of a naked Marta surrounded by strategically placed vegetables reminding one of the infamous 'food orgy' scene condemned by Czechoslovakia's National Assembly because food should not be seen to be wasted. Sergei Paradjanov's controversial explorations of regional identity also spring to mind when watching Birds, Orphans and Fools, with Jakubisko frequently flouting the Communist rule banning references to ethnicity through his inclusion of Slovak national symbols and his continued referencing of Slovakia's national hero Milan Štefánik. The film was made in the immediate aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, an invasion which brought to an end the Prague Spring of that year and its liberalisation of the country. The invasion had long lasting ramifications on Czechoslovak cinema with the banning of many films. Jakubisko's Birds, Orphans and Fools was one such film, banned for being 'decadent and harmful art' and remaining unseen in its country of origin until 1990, shortly after the Velvet Revolution ended Communist rule. The films defining scene seemingly aware of the suppression that was to come with the characters announcing "Watch out! The New Wave!" as they symbolically set fire to a mountain of celluloid strips.
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Being Jamie Baker by Kelly Oram- Entirely new and incredibly entertaining!
More Than Jamie Baker by Kelly Oram - Oh my gosh, the ending. The ending!!
The Scorpio Races (audiobook) by Maggie Stiefvater - Seriously, this story just gets better and better. The narrators are fantastic, too!
Skippyjon Jones Lost in Spice by Judy Schachner - Oh, Skippyjon Jones. Too much cuteness.
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card - We read this for our book club and I was pleasantly surprised by how much I loved it!
Dream Girl by S. J. Lomas - A really interesting idea, but I wish it had been executed a little differently.
I genuinely enjoy reading those cute little kids books!


One person has been taken to hospital with unknown injuries following a four-car crash on Howard Avenue Wednesday morning.
Crews responded just after 9 a.m. to Howard south of Tecumseh Road East.
The accident caused congestion near the intersection but was eventually all cleared around 10 a.m.


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Ladies First showcases progressive messages that celebrate a new notion of what it means to be a lady in 2015. Ideas of constant evolution, setting your own path, and not being defined by a specific style were key themes.
I believe that it's good to be a lady because we love to empower and inspire each other. :) A lot of women are in the history books for this and even as ladies of the new generation, we still continue to evolve and grow.
The Keds 'LADIES SUPPORTING LADIES PROGRAM' features its Fall/Holiday Collection.
"It's not a running shoe, it's a run the world shoe"
Keds has paired up chosen ladies with experts and local influencers in their dream career path for a one-day mentorship. This program aims to give ladies the opportunity to learn hands-on from leading ladies - ladies who are constantly changing and moving while blazing their own trails.
The four leading ladies are not just good at what they do but also goal oriented, multifaceted and style driven. Like Sassa Jimenez, Camille Co, Stephanie Zubiri and Joyce Pring.
So ladies, what are you waiting for? Wake up today and take charge of your style and career!
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Keds is really a brand I love having because its very durable. I have seen new designs during our Christmas gift shopping. If I get some extra money left, I'm definitely buying myself a new pair.


Reading, studying, and growing in understanding of God's Word is not just instrumental, but necessary for Spiritual growth and development. Faith Fellowship's Christian Education Ministry is committed to providing programs for children and adults which allow for focused study of the Scriptures, supplemented by group activities and discussion.
Faith Fellowship hosts Sunday School programs for children and adults at 8:45 a.m. every Sunday prior to worship, children's church during the morning message, a nursery program for infants and toddlers, and additional Bible studies throughout the week. Children within the church and surrounding community are also invited to attend FFCPC's Vacation Bible School, a summer program offered and staffed each year by the Christian Education Ministry and individuals within the church.
The Christian Education Ministry is overseen and maintained by the Christian Education Committee, which consists of dedicated members within the congregation and a representative Elder to the Session. Currently, the Committee is undergoing an evaluation process of its current programs to see where improvements can be made to foster the Spiritual growth and development within the congregation.


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Building a Recovery High School in Central Virginia
Stas Novitsky (second from left) with Recovery High School students at a forum. Novitsky started the Recovery High School at the McShin Foundation in January 2016. They hope to expand the program to serve 60-80 youth in the coming years. McShin Foundation
Four hundred youth between the ages of 15 and 24 died from opioid overdoses in Virginia between 2010 and 2014, according to data from the Virginia Department of Health. An alternative treatment model - recovery high school - seeks to help young people who are addicted. In WCVE's ongoing series Facing Addiction, Virginia Currents Producer Catherine Komp reports.
Learn More: Find resources at the McShin Foundation and read about the Recovery High School model.
In a bright, air roomy on the third floor of a church, a group of youth are in the middle of their day at Recovery High School. They've already done some studying and now it's time for group discussion. Led by an adult in recovery, the teens suggest talking about humility and relationships.
Teen: My relationships are alright, they're better than they were but whenever I get around my family, a lot of my character defects come out...
Recovery High School is an adaptable model that combines academics with services to support teens with substance abuse issues. Fifteen-year-old Chris heard about the program from a friend. Eighteen-year-old Jordan was referred here by his principal.
Chris: I was smoking marijuana and then I tried lots of different pills, like amphetamines and opioids but I really had a problem with benzos like xanax and klonopin and I was abusing that a lot.
Jordan: I was doing cocaine, I was doing oxy, I was at a point where I wanted to try heroin, I was on benzos a lot, did pretty much anything that came my way that would get me high.
The students say the drugs - even buprenorphine pills used to treat addiction - are easy to get in high school. There's a "scene" of teens using and selling.
Chris: There's only so close relationships you can get in the whole drug scene but I was close with a lot of people and they would give me drugs for free, so if I was hanging out and they would be like, "Yeah, I have some oxy" or even stuff that would make you throw up like Suboxone, I would be like, oh okay, it's going to get me really high so that's going to be awesome and I'm going to have a great time. It was when I started doing that stuff and feeling awful weeks after and my brain was not there, that's when I really just kind of surrendered to the program.
The teens say leaving that environment and being surround by others in recovery, youth and adults, inspires them to work hard in their treatment. And, they're not skipping school anymore' they want to come here.
Stas Novitsky: It's just been a blessing to be able to be in recovery and help these individuals in their lives as well.
Stas Novitsky started the Recovery High School program at the McShin Foundation where he's Director of Youth and Family Development. They went from one student last January to nine this Spring. No on has gotten new criminal charges; seven have not relapsed and two that did are still in the program. Some students are here for about 12 hours a day. Teachers from Henrico County come in to work with the students one-on-one or in small groups.
Novitsky: It's very tough for youth to give up their friends, because they think that's all they have and they think everyone is doing it, "If I'm doing it and all my friends are doing it that means the world this is doing it," -- all they know is that little bubble that they're in. So by taking them outside of that and giving them a safe space at our facility where they can do their instructional work, they can do recovery groups, they can learn life skills, job skills, everything-- we create a better community for everyone involved.
For Jordan and Chris, Recovery High School has helped with their grades - Jordan's on track to graduate after summer school. It's created new and healthy social networks. And it's put them in close proximity with people who pursue recovery with the same energy they used to put into getting drugs.
Chris: It doesn't matter if they were nine months or a year clean, they still remember the time when they were right where I was and they were working hard, going through it all. It's an ongoing process that I'm going to be dealing with for the rest of my life, but it's awesome that here, I know that all the people in my class I can count on, I can call anytime.
Jordan: Here, people are like, being sober is cool. That's what the difference is here, it's so admirable to see somebody who's changed their life completely by just never using no matter what and it's just an absolutely amazing environment to be in and it's one of the greatest things that's ever happened to me.
There are several dozen of these schools operating across the country, according to the Association of Recovery High Schools. Here in Central Virginia, Novitsky and the McShin Foundation hope to expand their program, with the goal of serving 60 to 80 students in the next three to five years. For Virginia Currents, I'm Catherine Komp, WCVE News.
Photos courtesy of the McShin Foundation.
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