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We are so lucky to have such great neighbors. THANK YOU to Radiance Cuisine, who supplied our June 11th Lights On! volunteers with delicious food! Radiance Cuisine is located inside the Open Secret Bookstore, right next to Youth in Arts. It serves local, organic vegetarian cuisine. Don't miss it!
Starting Monday, August 1, 2011 Youth in Arts' Store will be open for business! Come by Monday through Friday from 11 am—2 pm to purchase Italian Street Painting Festival t-shirts and cards, 'Til Dawn CDs, Mentor Artist original artwork, and more.
Congratulations to the new Youth in Arts' Store Manager, Erik Peerand!
Twelve years ago Erik met Youth in Arts through volunteering at the Italian Street Painting Festival. He was assigned the job of touting thousands of pounds of water throughout the festival grounds and was quickly dubbed "The Ice Man."
Erik is thrilled to be the Youth in Arts' Store manager. As Erik will tell you when you come in, he's a gleaming example of a successful adult living with autism. Through AmeriCorps Vista and the Special Hope Foundation, four years ago Erik started volunteering in the Youth in Arts office. During that time he has assisted in Special Day classrooms and with professional development trainings for Special Education Teachers at Marin County Office of Education.
VSA Director Nydia Gonzalez says, "As a child, like many special education students Erik was well aware of the low expectations set for him by adults. His message to those adults and teachers working with kids on the autism spectrum is to believe that those kids can achieve a high-functioning independent adult life, working and succeeding in accomplishing their goals."
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Fiestas and Fauna!
Ballet Folklorico at Laurel Dell
With help of a generous grant from the California Arts Council and the Laurel Dell PTA, the students of Laurel Dell and Hamilton Elementary were treated to a unique opportunity this Spring.
The multi-part program in Ballet Folklorico was inaugurated with an assembly performances by the Ballet Folklorico Netzahualcoyotl at Laurel Dell, and Ensembles Ballet Folklorico at Hamilton. The troupes performed dances from several regions of Mexico including La Danza de Los Viejitos, which is an allegory for respecting your elders, and Las Amarillas, which shows the beautiful movement of birds. Students learned about each dance and joined along in movements and song!
At Laurel Dell School, Maestro Netza chose to teach the students dances from the Son Jarocho because working with each grade level, he was able to help students share and learn about the diversity of Spanish, Mexican and African Rhythms in Mexico. Netza explained how Africans brought to Mexico as slaves contributed to the styles and rhythms of Son Jarocho. The Jarocho genre evolved from a combination of influences: European, Indigenous and African; making it a Mestizo art form.
The students of Laurel Dell shared the stories of their ancestors from all over the Americas, and through the dances of Son Jorocho, were able to learn more about their own family backgrounds. During their time with Maestro Netza, each grade level learned one of these traditional Sones Jarochos:
Kindergarten: Maria Cirila, About a girl who makes Chocolate
1st Grade: La Guacamaya, about the Macaw bird
2nd and 3rd Grades: La Iguana, Mimicking the movements of the Iguana
4th Grade: El Colas, About a popular boy named Nicolas
5th Grade: La Bamba, The traditional version of the popular song.
The teachers at Laurel Dell also received professional development sessions with Mentor Artist Nydia Gonzalez in which they learned the historical and cultural context of the dances; dance steps; and, how to sing and play instruments to accompany the student performers. This enabled teachers to continue practice when the artist was not there, as well as further integrate the content into academic lessons.
At Hamilton School, YIA Mentor Artist Zenon Barron focused his dance program on the Flowers and Fauna of Southern Mexico, specifically the states of Tabasc, Oaxaca, Veracruz, Puebla and Guerrero. One of the goals of this program was to emphasis the importance of preserving our natural habitats and earth's animals that are celebrated through traditional dances: Los Quetzales (Colorful Birds), El Zopilote (The Buzzard), La Iguana (The Iguana), Pajaros Azules (Blue Birds), and El Patito (The Little Duck). This process inspired students to explore the imagery and imagine how these animals would move to the rhythms as they learned the steps to the traditional dances.
Each of the students took part in making their own costumes by creating a design sketch and applying their color choices depending on the animal they were depicting in the dance. Each of them transferred the idea to material, creating their costume. This was a theatrical approach, allowing students to further explore the animal movements and attributes.
Students learned to breathe deep, and stretch and strengthen their muscles through some Yoga techniques. A few children commented to Maestro Zenon that they liked learning how to stretch and breathe. One student said that he felt like his heart beat better afterwards. Through dance techniques and floor exercises, students learned to follow choreography creating squares, circles and triangles as a group, and how to move within the limits of the stage space. They also learned how to create the intricate percussive rhythms with their feet, which play a large part in the Folkloric dances of Mexico.
Students at both schools (and some of their teachers!) performed their dance at their school-wide Fiestas, where students were able to compare and contrast the stories, styles, and music of each dance performed, and community members enjoyed the colors and sounds of their festive dances!
Thank you to the California Arts Council for helping us to provide this wonderful program to our community!!
Making Music at Marindale
Dancing to the Music!
YIA Mentor Artist Hannah Dworkin spent 10 weeks working with students of differed abilities at Marindale School, a campus that serves pre-school age students with Special Needs, providing them with necessary services including physical and occupational therapy.
Hannah worked for 10 weeks multiple teachers: Laura Becker, Susan Wilkinson, Collette Macowan and Carla Echevarria.
An example of Hannah's work is how she worked in Collette Macgowen's speech-delayed class, teaching language development through music. The classes followed a distinct agenda with visuals to accompany a variety of activities:
The "Goodmorning" song in which each student was greeted by the class, emphasizing good eye contact, interpersonal skills and welcoming facial expressions. The chorus was danced and the movements were selected through the use of a "choice board.
Students also learned multi-syllabic food-related words that were associated with musical notation. For example, group of four sixteenth notes were chanted as "pepperoni" and two eighth notes were chanted as "pizza." This activity helped students to pronounce difficult sounds, increased musicianship levels and helped to coordinate sounds and body movements.
Chilren enjoyed singing songs and moving throughout the classroom, often learning traditional folk songs from various cultures such as "Fly Little Bluebird" and "Martarile." Students used a variety of manipulatives and musical instruments for these songs such as scarves, drums and shakers.
The classes were concluded with a sung penny game that developed visual tracking and predictions skills and a goodbye song helping to transition students back to their other activities.
During culminating events teachers invited peers from other classrooms to share an afternoon of music, dance and playing with scarves. The celebrations began with singing "Hello" to each student which was followed by interactive songs designed to develop social skills as well as hand eye coordination. The students' favorite part of the afternoon was playing and dancing with scarves.
Hannah and the teachers she worked with found the residencies to be very successful in that each student participated to the extent that his/her abilities allowed. The biggest challenge was adapting music/movement classes to the varying abilities of the students. Some students were verbal and mobile, others were mobile and non verbal and others were limited in their movement and language.
We met this challenge by partnering students able to perform tasks well with those who were more challenged as well as strategic help from the class' amazing educators. Hannah and Youth in Arts look forward to serving these amazing teachers and students again next year!
Our June 11th Lights On! Exhibit highlighted the work of fifth graders from Willow Creek Academy. This final project combined their skills in collage, writing, and photography to communicate their internal thoughts, hopes, and dreams.
The young artists have been thinking about what might be going inside the mind of Molly, the main character in their language arts book, Indian Captive. With their classroom teacher, Nathania Jacobs, they did an Open Mind Project in which they explored Molly's interior world. Ms. Jacobs prompted them with questions like, What are her deepest thoughts about life? What does she imagine for her future? What does she wonder and hope for? What does she wish and dream about?
Youth in Arts' Exhibits not only showcase the final product but aim to reveal parts of the learning process. Here, student photos, prompts, and a description of the project help viewers to understand the art making process.
Working with Mentor Artist Brooke Toczylowski the students were then asked to ponder these same questions about themselves and to use their art skills to ENVISION and EXPRESS their own inner world. Explorations in photography and collage throughout the year-long residency with Brooke served as scaffolding for this final collage project displayed here in the inaugural Youth in Arts exhibition. This integration project is part of a larger Who Am I? curriculum being created by Youth in Arts, which uses art to link students' personal voice to social studies and language arts standards.
During the Light On! Opening Mentor Artist Brooke Toczylowski was available to facilitate a hands-on component. Viewers were invited to use the fifth graders work as inspiration and then to take their own photograph and create a personal collage. The walls in the art making studio below outlined the steps in the project and offered ideas and advice.
The hands-on component was extremely popular, with parents getting just as involved as their students. One of the priorities of the Youth in Arts Gallery is to provide and inspire these art making opportunities that are designed in conjunction with the gallery exhibit.
A parent and her pre-K child work together to create a piece of art during the inaugural Lights On! Exhibit in the Youth in Arts Gallery.
'Til Dawn Member, Chloe, proudly displays her collage.
During a reflection, this young artist said he was thinking about shapes and architecture while creating his artwork.
Shadow Puppet Performance
First Graders in Ms. Duran and Ms. Jackson's class at Willow Creek Academy studied the rainforest all year using a project-based learning approach. The culminating performance consisted of large murals, shadow puppets, and a rainforest musical!
Working with YIA Mentor Artist Brooke Toczylowski in art class the artists learned about plants and trees from the rainforest and created large murals that highlighted their discoveries about science and color mixing. See the previous blog post entitled How Can I Be a Scientist AND an Artist? to check out the process.
After an INSPIRING Teacher Professional Development with Daniel Barash, a shadow puppet master and the Director of the Shadow Puppet Workshop, the rainforest musical took on a shadow puppet form. Kids created shadow puppets out of simple materials and got excited about practicing their performance. For a packed house they sang songs and bounced their shadow puppets across the three stages.
Behind the Scenes Ms. Duran directs students using their shadow puppets and singing the musical
The set included three shadow puppet stages surrounding by the students' rainforest murals


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El Festival de Cine Internacional de Orense (OUFF - Ourense Film Festival) es uno de los eventos cinematográficos más relevantes de Galicia (España), se celebra habitualmente en el último trimestre del año y aspira a convertirse, después de 23 ediciones, en uno de los cinco festivales de cine más destacados del panorama español. La edición número 24 tendrá lugar entre el 27 de septiembre y el 5 de octubre de 2019.

Desarrollo
Desde su primera edición en 1996, el OUFF se ha ido consolidando como muestra de las producciones más destacadas del cine independiente de todo el mundo, como punto de encuentro para los profesionales y como plataforma promotora del audiovisual de todo el mundo.

Definido como un festival que intenta ofrecer una plataforma de actividad y desarrollo al cine y audiovisual independientes, el Festival de Cine Internacional de Orense pone su acento en tres objetivos:

Dar visibilidad, sirviendo como plataforma promocional ante el público y los profesionales, a las obras cinematográficas y audiovisuales más innovadoras y controvertidas producidas en Galicia y en todo del mundo que contribuyan al entendimiento mutuo de todas las culturas.
Servir como punto de encuentro en Galicia entre Europa, Iberoamérica y el resto del mundo, para la formación, desarrollo, coproducción y distribución del audiovisual gallego e internacional.
Ofrecer una plataforma de trabajo para el desarrollo y difusión de la cinematografía y el audiovisual de ámbito gallego / lusófono con proyección europea e internacional.

El impacto del Festival en los medios de comunicación no solo se debe a la proyección de las películas de la competición, presentadas por sus creadores, directores, productores y actores, sino también a la participación de destacados expertos que se dan cita en mesas de debate dedicadas a la formación, coproducción y mercado: las denominadas "Conversas OU", espacios diseñados para la reflexión y el impulso de la actividad cultural / industrial de lo audiovisual.

Convocatoria OUFF 2019
La 24 edición del Ourense Film Festival se celebró en Orense del 27 de septiembre al 5 de octubre. En ella se rindió homenaje al actor francés de origen gallego José García, que recibió la Calpurnia de Honra Internacional, y a la productora de cine con sede en A Coruña Vaca Films, a la que se hizo entrega de la Calpurnia de Honra. Además, se programó un ciclo especial con algunas de las mejores películas de la productora, entre las que se incluyen "Celda 211", "Mientras duermes" o "Quien a hierro mata".

Convocatoria OUFF 2009

El 14 Festival de Cine Internacional de Orense se celebró del 10 al 17 de octubre de 2009, con el lema "Celebrando la Creatividad y la Innovación" recibió un total de 1245 filmes procedentes de 81 países de todos los continentes. De ellos 570 fueron cortometrajes, 331 documentales, 125 largometrajes, 152 de animación y 67 en la categoría de nuevos media.

Durante sus ocho días de duración, sus 10 salas proyectaron 238 películas (106 de ellas en competición y 129 en sus secciones temáticas paralelas). Los jurados premiaron a los siguientes filmes entre los finalistas que competían en las cinco secciones oficiales de su Concurso Internacional

Largometrajes de ficción (60 minutos o más)

 Gran Premio Calpurnia a la Mejor Película (18 000.- Euros): Pescuit Sportiv (Pesca deportiva / Hooked) (Rumanía, Francia) Director: Adrian Sitaru
 Premio del Público a la Mejor Película (5000.- Euros): Absurdistán (Alemania, Azerbaiyán) Director: Veit Helmer
 Premio "Carlos Velo" al Mejor Director (4000.- Euros): Arno Diericks (Holanda) por "Bloedbroeders" (Hermanos de sangre / Blood Brothers)
 Premio Especial del Jurado (3000.- Euros): El regalo de la Pachamama (Japón, Bolivia) Director: Toshifumi Matsushita
 Premio "Cidade de A Coruña" al Mejor Guion (2000.- Euros): Tomislav Radic (Croacia) por Tri price o nespavanju (Tres historias de insmonio / Three stories of sleeplessness)
 Premio a la Mejor Actriz (1500.- Euros): Birgit Minichmayr (Alemania) por Alle Anderen (Todos los demás / Everyone Else)
 Premio al Mejor Actor (1500.- Euros): Miguel de Lira  (Galicia) por Pedro e o Capitán (Pedro y el Capitán / Peter and the Captain)

Además, el Jurado de Largometrajes otorgó menciones especiales a los filmes Trefa (Novatada / Prank) de Hungría y Polvo nuestro que estás en los cielos (Masangeles) de Uruguay, Bélgica, Suiza, Chile y Cuba. También Mención a la actriz española Rosana Pastor por su actuación en Tres historias de insomnio.

Documentales (cualquier duración)

 Gran Premio Calpurnia al Mejor Documental (5000.- Euros): Intimidades de Shakespeare y Víctor Hugo (Shakespeare and Victor Hugo's Intimacies) (México) Directora: Yulene Olaizola
 Premio "Cidade de Vigo" al Mejor Director(2000.- Euros) Ander Horsgbro Ostergaard por Burma VJ: Reporter I Et Lukket Land (Birmania VJ: Reportando desde un país cerrado / Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country)
 Premio a la Identidad / Diversidad Cultural (*)(2000.- Euros): Mein herz sieht die welt Schwarz  (Amor y guerra en Kabul / Love and War in Kabul)(Alemania) Directora: Helga Reidemester

Cortometrajes de ficción (menos de 60 minutos)

 Gran Premio Calpurnia al Mejor Cortometraje (5000.- Euros): Loftet (La promesa / Milo's Wheels) (Dinamarca, Suecia) Director: Anders Osterballe
 Premio del Público al Mejor Cortometraje (2000.- Euros): Loftet (La promesa / Milo's Wheels) (Dinamarca, Suecia) Director: Anders Osterballe
 Premio al Mejor Director (2000.- Euros): Rick Ostermann por Still (Quietos) (Alemania)
 Premio a la Mejor Actriz (1000.- Euros): Eleonor Hendricks por Ten:Thirtyone (10:31) (Estados Unidos)
 Premio al Mejor Actor (1000.- Euros): Tom Green por The Ground Beneath (Con los pies en el suelo) (Australia)
 El Jurado de Cortometrajes otorgó una Mención Especial a La canción de los niños muertos  (The Dead Children' Song) (México) Director: David Pablos

Animación (cualquier duración)

 Gran Premio a la Mejor Película de Animación (2000.- Euros): Germania Würst (Un poco de historia de Alemania / German History in a Bite) Director: Volker Schlecht
 Menciones Especiales a Varmints  (Bichos)(Reino Unido) Director: Marc Craste y a Dossie Re Bordosa  (El expediente Ré Bordosa / The Re Bordosa Dossier) (Brasil) Director: Cesar Cabra

Nuevos Media
Producciones audiovisuales, instalaciones, creaciones de video-arte, filmes para móviles, TDT, etc. de cualquier duración que, utilizando formatos y/o técnicas no tradicionales, exploren nuevas maneras de creación y comunicación)

 Gran Premio a la Innovación en Nuevos Media (*)(2500.- Euros): This is JO3 (Éste es JO3) (Reino Unido) Directores: Rory Lowe y Tom Shrapnel
 Mención Especial a Ceremonia (Ceremony) (Argentina) Director: Pablo Pedroso
 Se otorgó, además,  el Gran Premio Eixo Atlántico, dotado con 5000.- Euros, al mejor filme producido en Galicia o Portugal que concursara en cualquiera de las categorías anteriores. Este galardón recayó en O pintor de ceos  (El pintor de cielos / The Painter of Skies) (Galicia) Director: Jorge Morais

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Drea D'Nur's Divine Mission
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by Matt Bauer
Calling Drea d'Nur a renaissance woman is a vast understatement. The Buffalo-born singer, songwriter, filmmaker, and community activist has been on a divine mission with her multimedia stage show "The Spirit Of Nina" and its offshoot "Dear Nina" to celebrate, give gratitude to and manifest the spirit of the incomparable Nina Simone.
"I first heard her s o n g "Strange Fruit" and I was very moved by her sound and her ability to bring the words to life," explains d'Nur of her first encounter with Simone's music. "I felt that I could see the image of the words in the way that she delivered. I felt a deep connection to her because as a singer my strength is in moving people so she was the first person I could really relate to."
That connection has evolved into a spiritual , and you might even say, preordained voyage that has taken the nickel citybased mother of five on three European tours and has also seen d'Nur emerge as a film director (she's helmed 2 of a projected 10 short documentaries on Nina) stage producer, artist with counsel from Simone herself.
"People think I'm crazy but I know that I saw her in a dream and she was kind of floating and staring at me but I could here her talking and she walked me through this entire process. I have a painting of her that sits on my piano so I see her when I practice. I have a painting of her home on my wall. So she's all around me. I don't need anybody to tell me that they understand why I'm doing this. I know this is what Nina wants me to do and that assurance allows me to move forward with a sense of confidence but also a sense of grace because I know I'm doing it for her. She's my ancestor, she's my spirit guide." Simone's uncompromising life has also informed d'Nur's community activism and her idea of art as a force for social change.
She basically sacrificed, if you will, the image of success in order to sing protest music and some of her songs like "Four Women," Mississippi Goddamn" were banned from the radio at a time that she was highly in demand and that hurt her career. Ultimately she left America because of the injustices, especially when they killed Dr. King. She was doing well musically but she sacrificed everything to use her voice to speak about what was happening to Black people at the time. As an artist, it is an artist's duty to reflect the time. You should be reflecting what's happening at the time and painting about it and writing about it at all costs because art has a way of speaking up for injustices in a way that no other entity is able to do.
"Also I learned the power of community coming together. In order for her to take her piano lessons the whole community came to pay for those lessons in a time that the community was highly segregated. I actually went to her hometown last year and I developed a relationship with a man that knows everything about her .I did a documentary there and went to her home, just knowing how the community operated, how small it was and how segregated it was it still came together because of her heart. She was so professional as a classical pianist that they believed in her. We need to look to our children and set aside our differences."
A sense of community and a thank you to Simone was definitely fostered recently at the Albright-Knox Gallery with "Dear Nina" which featured d'Nur accompanied by a string ensemble from Rootstock Republic which paid homage to Simone's roots in classical music and black excellence. "It was very intimate, you could hear a pin drop almost •West African Drumming Ensemble with Diaspora Drum and Dance, Tuesday, April 10, 7:30 p.m. Rockwell Hall, Buffalo State College, 1300 Elmwood Ave. Tickets available Rockwell hall, 2nd Floor or by phone 878-3005 Drea d'Nur 's Divine Mission through the entire night. There were two standing ovations. I did "Ne Me Quitte Pas" for the first time, it went over very well. We did "Wild Is The Wind" and "Strange Fruit" with dancer Jessica Hutchison (Buffalo-born) who did an interpretive dance."
Drea will be releasing new music within the next three months which will include short stories to accompany the music. "I have a passion for telling stories," she says. If Drea d'Nur's life thus far, is any indication, she'll certainly have many more chapters to share.
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How often should we partake of THE LORD'S SUPPER?
All About WATER BAPTISM
Is This The End Time?
All TW 1972 thru 1969 1972 1971 1970 1969
A World at War
David Jon Hill & J Orlin Grabbe
It was Jesus Christ who prophesied of the end of this age. It was the Messiah who said the advance notices of His imminent return would be telegraphed ahead by WARS, FAMINES, PESTILENCES and EARTHQUAKES — which would grow in magnitude and eventually reach out to affect the lives of EVERYONE! (Matt. 24:6.) The DAILY NEWS reports that at least 30 wars, conflicts, and insurgencies are in progress today. Ten are in Asia, ten are in Africa, five are in the Middle East and five in Latin America.
YOU'RE LIVING in the prophesied "time of the end," and that's not religious speculation. No one willing to face the solid facts of the DAILY NEWS can deny it — regardless of his spiritual bent or church affiliation. Great signs reach out to tell him (if he understands) that humanity is rushing rapidly toward unbelievable calamity — even human extinction.
And no one can overlook, ignore, or set them aside, regardless of who he is, where he lives, what he reads, or what his private beliefs are. Pick up a copy of a current nationwide best-seller, Future Shock, turn to page 17 and read this:
"This lifetime is also different from all others because of the astonishing expansion of the scale and scope of change. Clearly, there have been other lifetimes in which epochal upheavals occurred. Wars, plagues, earthquakes, and famine rocked many an earlier social order. But these shocks and upheavals were contained within the borders of one or a group of adjacent societies. It took generations, even centuries, for their impact to spread beyond these borders.
"In our lifetime the boundaries have burst. Today the network of social ties is so tightly woven that the consequences of contemporary events radiate instantaneously around the world."
We didn't write that. But it sounds like Matthew 24 in expanded and modern language. We are living in a world where no one can, or will, escape the cumulative impact of the world's wars, famines, pestilences, and earthquakes. And you find their effects everywhere you look!
These things are the real PROOF this is the "end-time" — proof that isn't limited to the musty tomes of forgotten library stacks. It's not mystical testimony contained in the secret lore of Tibetan lamas, or exegetical ramblings confined to classrooms in comparative religion. It's not speculatory evidence circulated in "insider's letters" for select groups of prominent statesmen, or hidden in the book of Jasher. Rather, it's right out in the open — all around you.
And there's certainly no doctrinal argument or theological debate involved one way or another.
Let's look at headlines concerning just a couple of these signs. Let's take stock of just two areas — war and pestilence.
WAR!
That's the red horse of Revelation 6:4 to whom "power was given... to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword."
"War? In these days of post-1945 peace?" you might ask. But there's been no peace since 1945. The world lives by war. "'At a conservative estimate,' says Geoffrey Kemp, of the arms control project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, about ONE-QUARTER of the sovereign states on planet Earth were engaged in interstate or intra-state conflict involving the use of regular armed forces as the 1970s began.
"'Add to this impressive figure those states that have used military power either to enforce or to protect their interests over the past decade, and those that are preparing for highly probable conflict in the near future, and the total number of countries rises to over 70, or more than half the sovereign states in the world.'
"Kemp guesses that as many as 700,000 people have been killed in the internal wars of China in the past decade... and 250,000 in the Nigerian-Biafran civil war" (James Reston, The London Times, June 1, 1970).
The official U. S. figures on the Vietnam war record an even more grisly toll — over 44,000 Americans killed, 11 7,000 South Vietnamese, and over 680,000 enemy troops. There are no figures on the civilian dead.
Another bloody picture is in the Sudan, where the struggle of Negroes against Arabs has produced half a million casualties and dispossessed many more.
James Reston comments, "Most nations do not even count their dead. The United Nations cannot make even the wildest guess at the carnage, and few intelligent people are informed about the number of wars and other uprisings now taking place" (ibid.).
Peace since 1945? "100 Wars and Other Conflicts Since World War 11," reads an article title in the UNESCO Courier of November, 1970. The article lists more than 100 incidents ranging in scale from outright international wars and major civil wars to ones with differing degrees of conflict.
Then there's the bomb — ever ominously looming in the background, unconsciously or consciously affecting our very life-style. The bomb is real — it's not just a tenet of religious reasoning.
Jesus said there would be war. He said that "if that time of troubles were not cut short, no living thing could survive..." (Matt. 24:22, New English Bible). The DAILY NEWS says that "throughout the world men dread the spectre of an annihilating nuclear war — yet the arms race goes on and the prospect of controlling it grows dimmer with each year. Historically, arms races inevitably end in war....
"If we continue to rely on the traditional forms of international security arrangements which have always failed us in the past, the odds are in favor of a major war within the next two decades..." (Dr. Jerome Wiesner of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and science adviser to three Presidents, in Seattle Post-lntelligencer, January 22, 1967).
Another observer states that "the United States has more than 15 times as many thermonuclear warheads as it needs to devastate the U.S.S.R....
"The Soviet Union has more than 8.5 times as many thermonuclear weapons as it needs to devastate the United States. [And other estimates run as high as a 50-power cumulative overkill!]
"So both sides are overkillingly armed to the teeth. Yet, both sides probably will expand their respective thermonuclear arsenals. For the arms race now feeds on itself" (Irving S. Benglesdorf, Los Angeles Times, Jan. 13, 1970).
An AP release of January 19, 1970, matter-of-factly mentions that "for the first time in history, human beings hold the power to destroy mankind.... There are no precedents in political science or in history to guide men who command modern power."
Jesus foretold it nearly 2000 years ago. Now war dominates your daily news. And you're living in that "time of the end." It is impossible to hide the fact or keep it out of the news headlines.
Isn't that a problem of bygone ages? Don't disease epidemics only occur way off somewhere in Asia? Surely they couldn't occur in modern Britain or America, could they?
Jesus Christ said the time of the end would be rife with pestilence. Of course some people think "pestilence" is restricted to wildly raging bubonic plague or similar diseases. But other parts of the Bible tell what forms "pestilence" would take — what types of disease the pale horse of Revelation 6:8 actually represented and what specifically Jesus meant. Notice Deuteronomy 28 where God said our national sins would "cause pestilence to haunt you... afflict YOU with wasting disease and recurrent fever, ague and eruptions... [strike you] with tumours, scabs, and itches... strike you with madness, blindness" (verses 21-28, New English Bible).
So just for the moment let's skip the massive cholera threat in Asia, the Middle East and Africa (cholera appearing south of the Sahara for the first time in history). Let's skip leprosy in Africa, rabies in Europe, dysentery in Latin America, and globe-girdling diseases like malaria, trachoma, and schistosomiasis which affect almost one quarter of the population of the earth.
Instead, let's look at the English-speaking people, theoretically so cozily divorced from the spread of disease such as among more primitive societies.
Here are "highlights" from the daily news of 1970.
"Venereal Disease in U. S. Called Pandemic," read a recent headline. Venereal disease presently affects 14 MILLION Americans and has reached "pandemic" proportions in the United States, according to the American Social Health Association. (Pandemic means everywhere epidemic.) Reported new cases of gonorrhea last year came to two million. Dr. James McKensie-Pollack, ASHA medical director, estimated the new cases of syphilis at 250,000. An even greater number of cases are believed diagnosed but not reported (UPI release, Los Angeles Times, November 16, 1970).
Hospital-associated infections affect about 1.5 million Americans each year, said Dr. Alexander D. Langmuir, the Public Health Service's retiring chief epidemiologist in August (The New York Times, August 9, 1970).
The Federal Center for Disease Control reported that pneumonia-influenza deaths have climbed slightly above the epidemic level in New England and the Midwest (UPI release, Los Angeles Times, December 13, 1970).
"Astonishment of heart," your Bible foretold. The daily news states that more than one million Americans died of cardiovascular disease in 1967 (the most recent year for which data is available) (Family Health, March, 1970).
"Wasting disease?" Degenerative afflictions? A clinical professor of medicine at Loma Linda University School of Medicine said the United States is facing an "epidemic of cancer." One patient dies of cancer in the United States every minute — about 1400 a day and about half a million a year (Los Angeles Times, February 20, 1970).
Multiple sclerosis affects some 500,000 Americans (Catholic Digest, February, 1970).
Arthritis afflicts more than 40 million Americans. Almost everyone over 50 gets it. It robs U. S. industry of more than 12 million man-days of work a year, costs over $4 billion in medical bills and lost wages, and cripples nearly one million people in the U. S. to a point where they cannot work (Business Week, April 25, 1970).
Perhaps you noticed the two-part series in Today's Health (0ct.-Nov., 1970) by renowned author Philip Wylie, entitled "Who Killed Mankind?" The story is based on material from an "imaginary history" of the next 50 years which Mr. Wylie has "in the works." The author sees mankind decimated by a series of pollution-catalyzed disease epidemics between now and the year 2000 — with only one tenth of a peak population left to face the new millennium — Philip Wylie said that!
And on go the reports, endlessly chronicling the tempo of today, eliciting the inescapable facts that show now is the "end time." It isn't just an idea that can be left to clerical speculation. Jesus said such a time would come to pass. And your daily news proves you're living in that very time — the "time of the end"!
Tomorrow's World Magazine February 1971 Vol III, No. 02


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All Out live was a major grand slam
Posted by Matt Bishop | Sep 6, 2021
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. — The forbidden door has firmly been kicked open.
If it wasn't clear before, it is now: All Elite Wrestling has the professional wrestling world feeling some type of way.
All Out on Sunday saw the roof blow off the building with the promotional debuts of Bryan Danielson, Adam Cole, Ruby Soho and New Japan Pro Wrestling's Minoru Suzuki as AEW made a major statement in front of more than 10,000 rabid fans at NOW Arena in suburban Chicago.
As time goes on, All Out will be remembered for these big debuts, but from top-to-bottom, this should go down as one of the greatest shows in the history of pro wrestling.
To put it lightly: AEW hit a grand slam.
After the show went off the air, Danielson grabbed a mic and delivered a powerful message to the fans. He started by talking about how he loved working for WWE, drawing boos from the crowd, before noting the three reasons he signed with AEW. First, the talent, new and old in AEW. He mentioned how appreciative he was for those who paved the way in the company, both the established stars like Chris Jericho and Jon Moxley and the younger stars are well. Second was the AEW fans and third is he is a wrestler. He noted he used the term in WWE when he wasn't supposed to and "I am here to goddamn wrestle!"
Then, to send the crowd home very happy, Danielson exclaimed, "so, AEW, let's f—-ing go," to a thunderous ovation.
The crowd was festive from the very beginning with the Buy In 10-man tag match and all the way through the show. However, it was the steel cage match for the AEW World Tag Team Championship between the Young Bucks and the Lucha Brothers that tore the house down. The Bucks have been so dominant and so obnoxious for so many months now that the crowd was trying to will the Lucha Brothers to victory. This match was a go out of your way match to see with so many innovative moves and a truly wonderful match that went by in a flash. The arena exploded when the Lucha Brothers captured the titles.
In the first of many surprises, Suzuki challenged Moxley after Moxley's win over Satoshi Kojima. The two had the crowd eating from their hands as they walloped each other in the center of the ring. Ruby Soho was beloved as the surprise entrant and eventual winner of the Casino Battle Royal.
By the time CM Punk entered the arena for his match with Darby Allin, the crowd was ready to explode for its hometown hero. Punk's first match in seven-plus years certainly delivered. He did not appear to show much rust and even broke out some new offense and was even able to play the role of the power man against the diminutive Allin. When Punk vanquished Allin with a second GTS, the crowd shouted with glee and gave Punk a proper send-off after the win.
Overall, it cannot be understated how monumental of a show this was for not only the fans, but those inside the ropes as well. Everyone, from the crowd to the wrestlers, were on fire, the performances were off the charts and the show delivered one of the best top-to-bottom events in history. What a time to be a professional wrestling fan.
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Jakarta EE 8 release – the future is now!
September 10, 2019 Dominik Mohilo
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Jakarta EE 8 is finally here! It heralds a new era for Enterprise Java, as finally the community can look forward to the platform's faster development. To celebrate, we sat down with Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, Mike Milinkovich to talk about the first release of Java EE under the umbrella of the Eclipse Foundation.
Yes, today is a truly exciting day for Java enthusiasts. We have not one, but two releases on the way! We're excited for JavaFX 13 as well, but for now let's concentrate on enterprise Java with Jakarta EE 8. So with no further ado, let's get down to celebrating Jakarta EE 8's release with Mike Milinkovich!
JAXenter: Hi and thanks for taking the time for this interview. After many months of hard work, Jakarta EE 8 is finally released. It is feature identical with Java EE 8, but this does not mean that this release is in any way unspectacular. Can you please elaborate on how big the impact of the publication of Jakarta EE 8 really is?
Mike: In a word, huge. It's honestly hard to overstate the impact of a diverse community of vendors, hundreds of dedicated community members, and Foundation staff all coming together to deliver the Jakarta EE 8 specifications for the Full platform and Web profiles, TCKs, and Eclipse GlassFish 5.1 fully certified as a Jakarta EE 8 compatible implementation. All of this was done under the Jakarta EE Specification Process, an open and vendor-neutral process that leverages and augments the Eclipse Development Process. That's an incredible accomplishment.
With Jakarta EE 8, the community now has an open source baseline to collaborate on advancing enterprise Java and enabling the migration of real-world workloads to a world of containers, microservices, Kubernetes, service mesh, and other cloud native technologies that have taken off in industry interest and adoption.
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JAXenter: Jakarta EE 9 will possibly include some new functionality, but until that is going to happen, another decision has to be made by the community: How to deal with the namespace problem. Will it be the big bang or the incremental approach?
Mike: That's a great question and this is something that is still under active discussion. The entire community was invited to provide input and that conversation is going on as we speak. So far, we have more than 300 responses. Overall, we've seen a slight preference for the Big Bang approach from the community. Regardless of which approach we take, we need to ensure that binary compatibility is taken care of.
JAXenter: Which one would you prefer?
Mike: I think a clean separation and fresh start would be in the community's best interests, so I'm a fan of the Big Bang approach.
SEE ALSO: Jakarta EE & Eclipse MicroProfile – two names, one family?
JAXenter: When can we expect to have a clear and definitive answer on how to proceed?
Mike: Sometime in the next few months. The community has been heads-down delivering Jakarta EE 8, so after everyone catches their breath, release planning is top of the agenda. We expect all of the vendors in the Jakarta EE Working Group to certify their Java EE 8 compatible implementations as Jakarta EE 8 compatible, so there will be a lot of work to be done around that.
JAXenter: With the namespace problem out of the way, a new era of enterprise Java will be open for exploring. Are there any ideas for features yet that will likely be implemented in Jakarta EE 9 and beyond?
Mike: There is certainly a "wishlist" from the community and I have no doubt that we will work on implementing some of these items, but nothing has been set in stone just yet. I can definitely say that things like CDI alignment, modularity, and support for reactive streams are popular. There is also a lot of interest in greater support for microservices and Kubernetes-native deployments.
JAXenter: There is a new Process for determining new specs for Jakarta EE that replaces the Java Community Process (JCP). Can you explain how it is different from the JCP we all know and hated?
Mike: The Jakarta EE 8 specifications were developed under the Jakarta EE Specification Process and Eclipse Development Process, which are open, community-driven processes that replace the JCP for Java EE.
I think that the biggest change is that there is no longer a Spec Lead which has special intellectual property rights under the JCP. Historically, the Spec Lead also usually exerted strong control over the output of the expert group. The Jakarta EE Specification Process is a level playing field in which all parties are equal, and collaboration is a must. Some of the other significant differences include a code-first approach, rather than a focus on specifications as the starting point. You can also expect a more fully open, collaborative approach to generating specifications, with every decision made collectively by the community. All documentation related to the specifications, as well as the TCK will be based on the open source model of community generation. You also won't see reference implementations but rather multiple, compatible product implementations, as well as a process of self-certification, rather than something run by a single organization.
SEE ALSO: Jakarta EE & Eclipse MicroProfile – ongoing discussions
JAXenter: Another thing that is not yet decided is the release schedule for the upcoming Jakarta EE releases. Will it be a regular and continuous process like Java (SE) has now or will it be more like in the olden days, when Java "was done when it was done"?
Mike: As a community, we are still working through the release cycles, so we can't commit to a particular cadence just yet. That said, there is a strong commitment by everyone at the table to significantly increase the pace of innovation. Obviously, we need to strike a balance between factors like stability versus the pace of innovation, but the fact that a diverse community of vendors, developers, and enterprises will be discussing these issues in an open and inclusive manner that will help drive the success of Jakarta EE.
As you know, the broader Eclipse community has a track record of shipping large, complex software releases on time, to the day, for 15 years now. Last year, we moved to a quarterly release train for the Eclipse IDE and the maturity of our processes and our people have continued to deliver. In other words, the Eclipse community and staff have the maturity of process to support whatever release cadence the Jakarta EE community decides is in its best interests.
JAXenter: What are the next steps that have to be taken care of, say, until New Year's Eve?
Mike: We're definitely going to be planning for Jakarta EE 9, as well as helping the entire community transition to our new processes. And that should be plenty to keep us occupied until the New Year. Stay tuned though. We will have plenty to talk about between now and then.
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2020 Race, Press Release
Double-handed to Dana Point…
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Rod Woods has just a little experience with racing offshore: he reckons on average he raced his Olson 30 over 38 weekends a year for many years, and he has completed some 33 Newport to Ensenada races. So at age 79 he's ready to throttle back just a little yet still be part of the race action in this year's 73rd annual NOSA event.
"I suppose with this many miles raced already I don't have to prove anything again by going overnight," he said. "A nice cruise down the coast is more my speed now."
So along with his step-daughter Tamara, Rod has been the first this year to enter the Newport to Dana Point Race (N2DP), the shortest of the three race options in the N2E event. Their entry is on their Hunter 33 Pillow Talk, which they plan to double-hand in the PHRF non-Spinnaker Class, a class they won last year in the same division.
"Its really just a relaxing sail down the coast," he said. "Mostly its a comfortable headsail reach which is the perfect length. We all start together, and we watch those with spinnakers go off fast but then have to sag east towards the shore where there's no wind, and we often watch them sit there and park until they give up and motor out. Our strategy is to stay away from the coast, about 5 miles out, and stay in the breeze, then turn in towards the finish. This has worked out well."
Rod and Tamara hope to repeat their win from last year, and encourage others to enter too. Maybe even try, as they do, doing this casual race double-handed.
"This race is a great way to participate and have fun if you don't have the time to race all the way to Ensenada. I recommend it highly."
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The Executive Committee of COVA (Confederation of Voluntary Associations) which constituted an 'External Inquiry Committee' to inquire into allegation of 'sexual harassment' by female rights activist and writer against Mazher Hussain, the Executive Director of COVA, gave him a clean-chit.
Chandrayangutta: The Executive Committee of COVA (Confederation of Voluntary Associations) which constituted an 'External Inquiry Committee' to inquire into allegation of 'sexual harassment' by female rights activist and writer against Mazher Hussain, the Executive Director of COVA, gave him a clean-chit.
According to Varghese Theckaneth, the Secretary of COVA, responding to the allegations of sexual harassment made by Mari Marcel Thekaekara based in Tamil Nadu against Mazher Hussain, which was published in newspapers, a 3-member external inquiry committee comprising Prof Vasanthi Nimushakavi (Chairperson), Professor, NALSAR University of Law, advocate Shireen Sethna Baria, and Dr Md Khaza, a journalist, was constituted.
The committee conducted sittings, called for explanations and evidences from both the parties and examined the versions, evidences and witnesses of both the parties. By a majority decision, it rejected the allegations of Mari Marcel Thekaekara as unsubstantiated and recommended closure of the case. "The executive committee of COVA at its special meeting held on March 19 studied the report of the external inquiry committee and accepted the same," he explained.
The executive committee decided to ask Mazher Hussian to join duty with immediate effect. It may be mentioned here that in the month of October when the #MeToo movement was at its peak in India, Mazher Hussain was accused of sexual harassment, when both the activists were on a flight in 2001.


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El Servicio Marítimo de la Guardia Civil, también conocido por su acrónimo SEMAR o, extraoficialmente, como Guardia Civil del Mar, es la unidad de la Guardia Civil dedicada a la vigilancia de las aguas territoriales españolas. Se constituyó por un Real Decreto de 22 de febrero de 1991. Desde 1997 se integra en él la Unidad de Actividades Subacuáticas (UAS), cuyo origen se remonta a 1981.

Organización

Se organiza en una Jefatura, ubicada en el mismo complejo de edificios que alberga la Dirección General del Cuerpo, en Madrid; y 24 Servicios Marítimos Provinciales, que abarcan todo el litoral español, aparte de una Unidad de Actividades Subacuáticas que comprende una Unidad Central de Actividades Subacuáticas y 18 Grupos Especiales de Actividades Subacuáticas. Al frente se halla el Coronel Jefe del Servicio Marítimo de la Guardia Civil.

Misiones

Las misiones que tiene encomendadas son de seis tipos:
 Judicial: prevención e investigación de delitos.
 Gubernativo: custodia de costas y puertos y prevención de la inmigración irregular.
 Fiscal: Resguardo Fiscal del Estado, prevención y represión del contrabando.
 Administrativo: protección de la naturaleza y el medio ambiente en el medio marino, control e inspección pesquera y protección del patrimonio arqueológico submarino.
 Militar: las que le encomienden el Gobierno y el Ministerio de Defensa.
 Varias: misiones de paz en el extranjero, colaboración con la Sociedad de Salvamento y Seguridad Marítima (SASEMAR) en auxilios y remolques.

Historia

El SEMAR se constituyó por un Real Decreto de 22 de febrero de 1991. En 1997 se integró en él una unidad previamente existente, cuyo origen se remonta a 1981, la Unidad de Actividades Subacuáticas (UAS).

Las primeras cuatro bases que se crearon fueron las de La Coruña, Barcelona, Santander (Cantabria) y Cartagena (Murcia), a las que se destinaron las primeras patrulleras de que se dispuso, cuatro Rodman-55M y dos Bazán-39. Posteriormente se fueron abriendo el resto de las bases a medida que se recibían nuevas embarcaciones. La última fue la del Servicio Marítimo de Guipúzcoa, en Pasajes, en el año 2017, con la que se completó el despliegue en todas las Comandancias con demarcación litoral.

La tripulación de las primeras embarcaciones fue formada entre sargentos, cabos y guardias, tras pasar una oposición, en la Escuela de Maniobras de la Armada en La Graña (Ferrol) y en la Escuela de Máquinas de la Armada, en la misma ciudad. El primer curso fue apadrinado por Juan de Borbón. También realizaron diversos cursos impartidos por la Dirección General de la Marina Mercante en Madrid y en la Escuela de Formación Especializada de Can Padró (Castellbell y Vilar, (Barcelona), así como prácticas en distintos buques de la Armada, en Rodman Polyships en Vigo (Pontevedra), en la entonces Empresa Nacional Bazán —actualmente Navantia— (Cádiz), SASEMAR y las embarcaciones propias de la Guardia Civil, obteniendo los títulos de patrones, marineros y mecánicos. Las posteriores promociones se fueron formando en el Centro de Seguridad Marítima Integral Jovellanos en Gijón (Asturias).

La primera embarcación, denominada GCX-01, sirvió inicialmente para efectuar prácticas de las futuras tripulaciones y posteriormente destinada a Cartagena (Murcia). A continuación fue destacada para participar en la seguridad de la Expo-92, en Sevilla. Así mismo las dos primeras embarcaciones clase Bazán-36, la prototipo GCL-01 y la GCL-02, tras ser recepcionadas en la E. N. Bazán, en San Fernando (Cádiz), empezaron su singladura en el río Guadalquivir, teniendo como base Sevilla, con motivo de la Exposición Universal Expo-92. En el viaje inaugural embarcaron desde San Fernando (Cádiz) a Sevilla el Almirante Jefe del Grupo Alfa de la Base Naval de Rota (Cádiz), el Comandante Jefe del Portaeronaves Príncipe de Asturias (R-11), el General Subdirector de Operaciones de la Guardia Civil, el Delegado del Gobierno en Cádiz y el Director General de la E. N. Bazán, junto con la tripulación.

Las primeras cuatro unidades de la Clase Rodman-55, tras navegar a Barcelona, donde sus tripulaciones realizaron prácticas en las mismas a fin de tomar contacto con las patrulleras y adiestrarse en el manejo de las mismas y su instrumentación, fueron destinadas a cada una de las cuatro primeras Bases de los Servicios Marítimos Provinciales de; La Coruña, Barcelona, Santander (Cantabria) y Cartagena (Murcia).

Desde la creación del Servicio Marítimo de la Guardia Civil, se han desarrollado infinidad de servicios, en aguas nacionales y en el extranjero, con motivo de misiones internacionales, tanto en denuncias por múltiples infracciones, rescates de personas y embarcaciones, actas de aprehensión de contrabando, lucha contra la inmigración ilegal, etc., siendo acreedora de la Medalla de Oro del Mérito al Trabajo.

En 1993 realizó su primera misión en el exterior, desplegando durante tres años, hasta 1996, a la patrullera clase Rodman-55M GCM-07 en el Danubio, en el marco de una misión de la Unión Europea Occidental (UEO) para hacer cumplir el embargo que impuso la ONU contra Serbia y Montenegro con motivo de la Guerra en la antigua Yugoslavia, utilizando como bases los puertos de Ruse (Bulgaria) y Galaţi (Rumanía). El primer contingente estuvo formado por 38 guardias civiles, entre miembros del Servicio Marítimo, Grupo Especial de Seguridad (GES), Unidad Especial de Intervención (UEI), así como personal de transmisiones, operadores, intérpretes y de mando. En sus misiones de vigilancia para impedir el contrabando de armas y combustible, la GCM-07 estuvo acompañada por una patrullera de la Guardia di Finanza de Italia y otra de la BGS de Alemania (Bundesgrenzschutz).

Bases

El Servicio Marítimo dispone de unidades en todas las provincias costeras de la península, incluidas las del País Vasco y Cataluña, ya que ni la Ertzaintza ni los Mozos de Escuadra tienen competencias en la materia; y en Baleares, Canarias y Ceuta. Los puertos donde tiene sus bases, 26 en total, son:

Medios

Actualmente cuenta con 103 naves de patrulla, además de embarcaciones menores, como lanchas semirrígidas.

Patrulleras ligeras

Patrulleras clase Bazán Saeta-39

Conocidas en el SEMAR como Egeo. Doce unidades adquiridas, de las que quedan en servicio cinco. Las patrulleras de esta clase no tienen nombre asignado. Sus características son: 12,00 metros de eslora, 3,80 de manga y 0,70 de calado. Su desplazamiento es de 14 toneladas, alcanzando una velocidad máxima de 38 nudos. Este modelo se ha exportado a Portugal, Argentina y Uruguay. La GCL-01, ya dada de baja, fue el prototipo de la clase, siendo ligeramente más pequeña que los ejemplares de serie y teniendo un puente de diferente de diseño, así como una motorización distinta, más potente que el resto. Tanto ella como la GCL-02 realizaron su primer servicio en misión de vigilancia y seguridad en la Expo-92 de Sevilla. La GCL-03 fue retirada tras sufrir un accidente frente a las costas catalanas. Dos fueron donadas en 2006 a la Gendarmería Mauritana, junto con otras dos de la clase Rodman-55M en el marco del denominado proyecto Atlantis de lucha contra la inmigración ilegal.

Patrullera clase Rodman 46

Una única unidad con una eslora de 14,7 m. y 3,8 m de manga pudiendo alcanzar una velocidad de hasta 50 nudos, transferida en enero de 2016 desde la Casa Real en labores de escolta al Servicio Marítimo de Ceuta.

Patrullera clase Duarry Megatech 12 cabin

Desde 2009 se han adquirido seis unidades. Tienen una eslora de 12 metros y una manga máxima de 3,90 metros. Están propulsadas por dos motores de 440 caballos acoplados a hidrojets y pueden transportar un máximo de 12 personas.

Patrullera clase Aister RAL-850-ZSF

Está diseñada y fabricada por la empresa viguesa Aister Aluminium Shipyard. Tiene una eslora de 8,50 metros, manga máxima de 3,20 metros (2,70 en el casco, sin contar el flotador perimetral) y puntal de 0,84 metros. Está propulsada por dos motores fuera borda de 600 caballos, que le permiten alcanzar una velocidad de 45 nudos.

Patrullera clase S-18

Se han recibido 19 unidades cofinanciadas por el Fondo Europeo para las Fronteras Exteriores y el Gobierno de España dentro del Programa de Solidaridad y Gestión de Flujos Migratorios de la Agencia Frontex de la Unión Europea. Fabricadas totalmente en aluminio por Auxiliar Naval del Principado, del grupo Astilleros Armón. Tienen una eslora de 10,70 metros y 3,5 de manga, y están equipadas con dos motores de cuatro tiempos de gasolina con 300 CV.
A partir de la unidad S-29 se reciben cabinadas.

Patrullera clase Aister RAL-1000-ZSF

Está diseñada y fabricada por la empresa viguesa Aister Aluminium Shipyard. Se trata de un barco de vigilancia de 9.70 m de eslora y 3.45 m de manga, con un calado de 0,53 m con casco y cabina construidos íntegramente en aluminio. La propulsión de este barco de aluminio está formada por dos motores fueraborda, Yamaha 200 HP, de gasolina y cuenta con dos tanques de 750 litros cada uno. tiene una autonomía superior a 300 millas a velocidad de crucero aunque la velocidad máxima que puede alcanzar es de 31 nudos.

Patrullera clase Aister RAL-1100-ZSF Open

Están diseñadas y fabricadas por la empresa viguesa Aister Aluminium Shipyard. Se trata de un barco de vigilancia de 10,8 m de eslora y 3 m de manga y construida íntegramente en aluminio de alta resistencia. Puede alcanzar velocidades por encima de los 50 nudos.

Patrulleras medias

Patrulleras clase Rodman-55M

Designadas internamente como Báltico. Se adquirieron catorce unidades. Las patrulleras de esta serie no tienen nombre asignado. Sus dimensiones son: 16,50 metros de eslora, 3,80 de manga y 0,70 de calado. Su desplazamiento es de 17,5 toneladas, alcanzando una velocidad máxima de 35 nudos. Las cuatro primeras unidades realizaron sus primeros servicios en la seguridad de las Olimpiadas de Barcelona '92. Una de la clase Rodman-55M presta servicio en la Casa Real con el código Omega Uno. La M01 se hundió en 2002 en aguas del estrecho de Gibraltar. Dos patrulleras de esta clase fueron donadas en 2006 a la Gendarmería Mauritana, junto con otras dos de la clase Saeta-39 dentro del proyecto Atlantis. Una tercera, la M11, fue donada a Senegal en 2007. Cinco ejemplares de este modelo fueron adquiridos por la Armada Paraguaya y otros tantos por la de Surinam.

Patrulleras clase Rodman-55HJ Canarias

Dos unidades recibidas, costeadas por la Consejería de Agricultura, Ganadería, Pesca y Alimentación del Gobierno de Canarias. Sus características son: 17,40 metros de eslora, 3,80 de manga y 2,10 de calado. Potencia 2 × 1200 CV a 2300 RPM. Su desplazamiento es de 19,24 toneladas, y alcanza una velocidad máxima de 40 nudos.

Patrulleras clase Rodman-55HJ Río Arba

Hay 16 unidades en servicio de 17 adquiridas de estas patrulleras de alta velocidad, las más rápidas entre las de casco rígido de toda la flota del Servicio Marítimo con sus 50 nudos de velocidad punta, y que así mismo han sido adquiridas por el Servicio de Vigilancia Aduanera, en el que son conocidas también como clase Cormorán. Sus dimensiones son: 17,33 metros de eslora, 3,80 de manga y 2,10 de calado, con un desplazamiento de 20 toneladas, 2600 caballos de potencia y autonomía de 350 millas.

La M18 Río Caudal resultó gravemente dañada el 21 de mayo de 2005 al ser embestida por una semirrígida de unos contrabandistas. El choque rompió el puente y la superestructura, aunque no causó heridos. Trasladada a Rodman para evaluar los daños, en un primer momento se pensó que habría que darla de baja, pero finalmente se consiguió repararla y regresó al servicio en julio de 2006. Por su parte la M28 Río Alfambra sufrió el 5 de febrero de 2011 un incendio en la sala de máquinas a 27 millas de la bahía de Palma, al comenzar a arder uno de los motores, incendio que se vio agravado por la alta combustibilidad del material con el que está fabricada la patrullera, fibra de vidrio, lo que hizo inútiles los intentos por sofocarlo de sus 4 tripulantes, que tuvieron que escapar en la lancha neumática de la propia embarcación, y acabó por provocar el hundimiento de la patrullera.

Patrulleras clase INTERCEPTOR AISTER 60 HS

Se van adquirir inicialmente un total de 5 unidades en dos contratos; el primero compuesto por dos unidades por valor de 4.598.000 euros a entregar en 2023 y el segundo se ha licitado por tres unidades por un presupuesto de 7,5 millones de euros aproximadamente. Son construidas por el astillero Aislamientos Térmicos de Galicia (Aister). Sus características son 18 metros de eslora y 4 de manga, con dos motores diésel de 1.800 cv cada uno con propulsión por medio de dos hidrojets, pudiendo alcanzar una velocidad superior a 60 nudos. Cuentan con un equipamiento de: un radar de navegación, un sistema de comunicaciones por satélite o un proyector de luz con un alcance de 1.200 metros y estarán armadas con un lanzagranadas automático de 40 mm.

Patrullera clase Rodman-58

Una única patrullera. Basada en Marín (Pontevedra), está asignada al parque nacional de las Islas Atlánticas de Galicia. El Servicio de Guardacostas de Galicia tiene dos embarcaciones de esta clase, la Punta Festiñazo, I.P.600, basada en Mugía (La Coruña), y la Punta Roncadoira, I.P.601, basada en el puerto de Cillero, Vivero (Lugo). La Consejería de Agricultura, Pesca y Medio Ambiente de la Junta de Andalucía tiene otras dos, la Isla de Tarifa, basada en Cádiz, y la Punta Polacra (Almería), entregadas en 2005, mientras que otros dos ejemplares fueron vendidos a Yemen, entregados en 2006 y registrados OMS 1801 y OMS 1802.

Patrulleras clase Rodman-66

11 ejemplares. Sus dimensiones son: 20,50 metros de eslora, 4,90 de manga y 1,40 de calado. Su desplazamiento es de 36 toneladas, alcanzando una velocidad máxima de 30 nudos y cuentan con una dotación de 16 tripulantes. Están construidas en poliéster reforzado con fibra de vidrio y pueden navegar entre 450 y 550 millas sin tocar puerto, siendo capaces de manejarse en temporales de hasta fuerza 6. Van equipadas con medios infrarrojos para visión nocturna, GPS y sistemas de comunicación vía satélite. Cuatro unidades de esta clase fueron adquiridas por la Armada Española, que las emplea para instrucción de guardiamarinas en la Escuela Naval Militar de Marín, mientras que Gabón compró otras doce.

Patrulleras clase Alusafe 1500 Mk.II

Cuatro unidades recibidas. Sus características son: 15,65 metros de eslora, 4,48 de manga, 1,10 de puntal y 0,72 de calado. Su dotación es de tres tripulantes -un patrón y dos mecánicos-, alcanzando una velocidad máxima de 36 nudos. Han sido fabricadas por el astillero Auxiliar Naval del Principado, S.A. o AUX NAVAL, S.A., perteneciente al grupo Astilleros Armón, en Puerto de Vega, parroquia del concejo de Navia, Asturias. Su diseño se basa en el de las embarcaciones clase Salvamar (Alusafe 1500 y Alusafe 2000) de la Sociedad de Salvamento y Seguridad Marítima (SASEMAR), construidas por la propia Auxiliar Naval del Principado bajo licencia de la compañía Maritime Partner AS, de Ålesund, Noruega. Su casco es de aluminio y la superestructura de fibra. Los motores son dos MAN de 700 CV cada uno, que accionan dos propulsores por chorro (hidrojets) Hamilton 364, con un consumo de 150 litros de combustible a la hora. La autonomía es de 250 millas a una velocidad de crucero de 22 nudos. Su diseño y su bajo francobordo (38 centímetros) facilitan el trasbordo desde y hacia la embarcación, mientras que su también reducido calado, de 72 centímetros, le permite navegar en aguas de escasa profundidad. Están diseñadas para llevar a cabo misiones de vigilancia contra el narcotráfico y la inmigración ilegal además de para la protección del medio ambiente. Aparte de insumergibles son autoadrizables, es decir, en caso de poner la quilla al sol (vuelco), la nave debe dar la vuelta por sí sola. Van dotadas con un sistema de detección con un equipo integrado de radar, GPS y plóter. Su equipo de comunicaciones le permite enlazar con otras embarcaciones, centros terrestres, así como con aeronaves de salvamento. Cuenta con el sistema GMDSS (sigla en inglés de Global Maritime Distress Safety System, Sistema Mundial de Socorro y Seguridad Marítimos). Su coste unitario es de 875.000 €.

Patrulleras clase Alusafe 2100

Versión de mayor tamaño de las Alusafe 1500 Mk.II, fabricadas igualmente por Auxiliar Naval del Principado. Se han adquirido un total de 8 unidades en distintas fases. Tienen una eslora de 21,19 metros, manga máxima de 5,50 metros, calado de 1 metro y puntal de 1,51 metros.

Patrulleras clase Gondán-21

Fabricadas por Astilleros Gondán en sus instalaciones del Muelle de Vegadeo - Castropol (Asturias). Se encargaron dos unidades en verano de 2014 y la primera fue botada el 17 de abril del año siguiente. Posteriormente en 2018 se realiza un segundo contrato por otras tres unidades gemelas. Con una eslora de 20,5 metros y una manga de 5 metros, son construidas exclusivamente en fibra (PRFV). Desarrollan una potencia de 2200 caballos capaces de alcanzar una velocidad superior a 36 nudos impulsadas por hidrojets. Disponen de una autonomía de 700 millas náuticas.

Patrulleras de altura

Patrullera clase Bazán IVP

Una sola unidad recibida. Sus dimensiones eran de 22,20 metros de eslora, 5,99 de manga y 1,80 de calado. Su desplazamiento era de 81,8 toneladas, y su velocidad de 20 nudos. Ex Seriola Primero y Bazán-312, en 2003 se le alargó el casco para facilitar la operación desde ella de una lancha semirrígida (o RHIB, sigla en inglés
de rigid-hulled inflatable boat, embarcación inflable de casco rígido). Entre 2016 y 2018 fue desprovista de todos sus sistemas y posteriormente desguazada.

Patrulleras clase Rodman-82

Tres unidades.

Patrulleras clase Rodman-101

Quince unidades compradas, de las que quedan en servicio catorce. Su coste unitario es de 4 millones de €. Son usadas también por el Servicio de Vigilancia Aduanera, en el que son conocidas como clase Gerifalte (11 patrulleras), mientras que la Marina Real Marroquí adquirió 10, al igual que el Gobierno de Filipinas, Nicaragua cuatro, tres Surinam, otras tantas Omán, dos Camerún (Jabanne y Akwayafe) y una el Servicio de Guardacostas de Galicia (Paio Gómez Chariño, IP-700).

La Río Duero, A15, estuvo destacada en Mauritania durante largo tiempo, tras lo cual que pasar 11 meses en Puerto Naos  (Arrecife (Las Palmas)) para ser reparada de los graves daños estructurales sufridos durante esa misión y luego una revisión de motores en Santa Cruz de Tenerife, habiendo estado a punto de hundirse cuando regresaba a Fuerteventura a causa de una vía de agua.

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|+ Patrulleras clase Rodman-101
! Numeral
! Nombre
! Código de llamada
! Año de entrada en servicio
! Año de baja
! Base
! Observaciones

|-
|A05
|Río Palma
|ECAD
|2002
|2008
|Los Cristianos (Santa Cruz de Tenerife)
|Encallada el 9 de enero de 2008 en las proximidades de la Punta de Rasca (Arona  (Santa Cruz de Tenerife)). Sustituida por la Pico del Teide.
|-
| A06
| Río Andarax
| EADT
| 2003
| En servicio
| La Coruña
| Cedida por el Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación

|-
| A07
| Río Guadalope
| EBVJ
| 2003
| 2023
| Marín (Pontevedra)
| sustituida por la A-25 Río Luna
|-
| A08
| Río Almanzora
|
| 2003
| En servicio
| Almería
| Durante un tiempo estuvo pintada en un esquema experimental de baja visibilidad de color gris claro
|-
| A09
| Río Nervión
|
| 2004
| En servicio
| Santurce (Vizcaya)
|
|-
| A10
| Río Guadalaviar
| ECGB
| 2004
| En servicio
| Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
|
|-
| A11
| Río Cabriel
|
| 2004
| En servicio
| Estación Naval de Puntales, Cádiz.
| Destacada en Senegal

|-
| A12
| Río Cervantes
| ECGH
| 2004
| En servicio
| Estación Naval de Portopí, Palma de Mallorca (Baleares)
|
|-
| A13
| Río Ara
| ECGI
| 2004
| En servicio
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
| Inicialmente destinada en Barcelona, ha sido destacada a Senegal Tras su período en África, la Río Ara fue trasladada a Santa Cruz de Tenerife para ser reparada de diferentes daños estructurales y mecánicos, siendo finalmente incorporada al catálogo del Servicio Marítimo Provincial de Tenerife, en el que actualmente presta servicio.

|-
| A14
| Río Adaja
|
| 2005
| En servicio
| Valencia
|
|-
|A15
|Río Duero
|
|2005
|En servicio
|Santa Cruz de Tenerife
|Estuvo destacada temporalmente en Mauritania
|-
| A16
| Río Guadiana
|
| 2006
| En servicio
| Huelva
|
|-
| A17
| Río Francolí
|
| 2006
| En servicio
| Torredembarra (Tarragona)
|
|-
| A18
| Río Guadalete
| EAIX
| 2009
| En servicio
| Algeciras (Cádiz)
| Cedida por el Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, y Medio Rural y Marino (Secretaría General del Mar)

|-
| A19
| Cabaleiro'| EAIW
| 2008
| En servicio
| Marín (Pontevedra)
| Bautizada en memoria del guardia del Servicio Ramón González Cabaleiro, fallecido durante una operación de rescate.
|}

 Patrullera clase Río Segre

Una única patrullera por el momento, fabricada por astilleros Asfibe con eslora de 30 m., manga de 6,7m. y un calado máximo de 2,85 m. Su motorización la componen 2 Caterpillar 3512E, su desplazamiento es de 85 tn. con una tripulación de 10 efectivos. Recibida en 2010.

 Patrullera clase Guardamar

Fabricada por astilleros Armón en Burela (Lugo). Con una eslora de 35 m y una manga de 7,80 m, es la mayor patrullera de altura en servicio en el SEMAR. Destaca su sistema de propulsión híbrido diésel-eléctrico. Recibida en 2019 la primera unidad, dos en diciembre de 2022 y otras dos en enero de 2023.

 Patrulleros oceánicos

El SEMAR comenzó a operar patrulleros oceánicos (según su propia denominación) en el año 2007. Los dos primeros fueron buques de circunstancias, el Río Miño, un antiguo pesquero cuya velocidad apenas sobrepasa los 10 nudos y el Río Tajo, igualmente escaso de velocidad y construido como buque de apoyo a plataformas, luego transformado para misiones de salvamento en buque de seguridad de plataformas. Su adquisición (y posterior remozamiento) constituyó simplemente una medida de emergencia ante la avalancha de cayucos cargados de inmigrantes ilegales que se estaba dando en las costas de Canarias. Estos buques, que recibieron fuertes críticas por su escasa idoneidad y el estado no muy bueno en el que se encontraban, fueron por tanto una solución provisional hasta que se pudiera disponer de un patrullero propiamente dicho y de nueva construcción. Este, el Río Segura, fue adjudicado a la empresa Astilleros Gondán en diciembre de 2008 y recibido dos años más tarde, en diciembre de 2010.

Tanto el Río Miño como el Río Segura'' disponen de cubierta de vuelo para un helicóptero de tamaño medio, aunque no de hangar. Los tres operan frecuentemente además en conjunción con los aviones de patrulla marítima CN-235-300 MP Persuader del Servicio Aéreo de la Guardia Civil.

Varios

Aparte de las mencionadas, el Servicio Marítimo posee también otras embarcaciones de menor porte, como lanchas semirrígidas -algunas de ellas cabinadas-, lanchas neumáticas y otras embarcaciones auxiliares.

Véase también

Embarcaciones del Servicio Marítimo
 Clase Alusafe 1500 Mk.II.
 Clase Río Segre.
 Clase Rodman-55.
 Clase Rodman-58.
 Clase Rodman-66.
 Clase Rodman-101.
 Patrullero Río Miño.
 Patrullero Río Segura.

Guardia Civil y otras unidades de la misma
 Guardia Civil.
 Grupo Especial de Actividades Subacuáticas (GEAS).
 Grupo de Acción Rápida (GAR).
 Grupos de Rescate e Intervención en Montaña (GREIM).
 Servicio de Protección de la Naturaleza (SEPRONA).
 Servicio Aéreo de la Guardia Civil (SAER / SAGUCI).
 Unidad Especial de Intervención (UEI).
 Agrupación de Tráfico.

Otros organismos marítimos relacionados
 Sociedad de Salvamento y Seguridad Marítima (SASEMAR).
 Servicio de Vigilancia Aduanera.
 Armada Española.
 Servicio de Guardacostas de Galicia.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Página oficial.


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The book was interesting, it did not offer too many technical details, the action was good and the scenes moved at a decent clip. The series is touted by Lukeman based on the lead pair Nick Carter & Selena Connor, it is more involved in its characterization as based on different members of THE Project team.
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When Barack Obama handed off to his successor the presidency of the United States, he impressed upon Donald Trump that his greatest worry was North Korea.
The intervening months have made clear why – with dictator Kim Jong-un's incessant ballistic missile tests of ever-more-formidable weapons, his sixth underground explosion on Sunday apparently of a thermonuclear weapon and his escalating threats, which now include explicitly an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on America's vulnerable electric grid.
Even before the North Koreans' latest intercontinental missile launches, nuclear test, and threat of an EMP attack, Mr. Trump and his senior subordinates have properly signaled that the era of strategic patience is at an end. Unfortunately, in the absence of urgent course corrections on several fronts, the period now dawning is likely to be one of strategic blackmail.
An EMP attack: the nightmare scenario.
Try to contemplate what would happen were you to lose all electricity, and even most things that run on batteries would simply not work. What would happen to your life? What would your world look like after a week of zero electricity? A month?
This is a standard in the genre. The author, who's got game, has written two sequels.
There are quite a few now that explore the impact of an EMP. One series, the Perseid Collapse, by Steven Konkoly, starts with a pandemic and then moves to an EMP scenario.
Just for a start, in case you aren't anxious enough already.
What, I wonder, would Gaffney have wanted Obama to do? Bomb North Korea? I think the South Koreans would have had something to say about that.
Truth be told, there are no good options with Korea.
Obama was a terrible president, but let's not blame all the world's problems on him. If it comes to that, why was North Korea still a problem when Obama came into office? Because no previous president had solved the problem either.
The civil unrest alone resulting from such an attack doesn't bear thinking of. No lights at night anywhere – no streetlights, no flashlights, no emergency lights. I've been out in the middle of nowhere, where on a moonless night, it was so dark outside that it seemed that the trees, the cars, the buildings, the road, the ground you stood on, had all been swathed in heavy black velvet. Completely helpless without a flashlight. But with the pulse, not even a flashlight. A bad business indeed.
Most of our towns, neighborhoods, and homes aren't set up such that it's possible to function without electricity for long.
My best bet, I suppose, would be to try to make my way to Lancaster Co., Pa., and see whether the Amish were taking in refugees. They would have coal or wood fires that don't have electric ignition that you can't bypass, as many of our gas appliances have. So they could stay warm without gathering wood and building a campfire night after night. And they would have lanterns.
But that would be an option for only a tiny handful. Not an answer.
And now we come to the threshold of the warnings from heaven, especially through Our Lady's approved apparitions. Consecrate Russia. This is not the time of peace that Our Lady promised us if we did what she (at Fatima) had requested. It will be interesting to see what happens by Oct 13, 2017. We have been shouting and it has landed on deaf ears.
I don't know what to do about it except pray for my grandchildren.
Showed this to the kids.
The prep for this possibility should include GO TO CONFESSION.
Why don't we pre-e.ptively EMP blast North Korea? They don't run electricity at night anyway. We could neutralize their nuclear control electronics and no harm the populace all that much since they are already loving in the 1860s.
Wow. Excuse the mispells. Even after I correct them my phone seems to autocorrect some of them back to the wrong word if I'm not careful.
However, as the seriousness of an actual EMP attack on this country is nothing to name call about, I agree with you that finger pointing at this late date also avails nothing. One suspects that pressure brought to bear on the Chinese, of what kind I know not, may be salutory. Pax Christi.
Somber news report. In the worst case scenario various nations will be annihilated.
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The grid is not as vulnerable as frequently advertised. Equipment manufacturers already design equipment to withstand events that far exceed the energy an EMP would generate. Indeed, EMP like events occur every single day in the grid during power system faults. Ask the manufacturers yourself.
The article from Breitbart provides no support for the claim that there is a "vulnerable electric grid." There is a link to a WSJ article, but even that is short of facts and is full of conjecture. Notably, it assumes that because electronics misbehaved in 1962 and 1989 that we are in the same boat 30+ years later. Equipment is hardened. Lightning strikes induce EMP events orders of magnitude larger than what North Korea can inflict.
I work in the utility industry, and I agree with Schweitzer. The grid is a whole lot tougher than claimed.
Suudy, I hope you are right. We don't have to worry about two weeks, two months, two years after such an event. If a community's drinking water is dependent on electrical pumps, everyone dies in three or four days. I will share my last bottle of water with my priest in the confessional.
Yatzer: Good point, prayer is the place to start. May I suggest sending some care packages to the grandkids/parents.
In a post-EMP no-electricity situation there will be many casualties from: drinking unclean water, poor hygiene, infection, disease, malnutrition, and starvation.
For improving hygiene: Fels-Naptha soap (most grocers carry it), laundry powder, toothpaste/brushes and dental floss, large antibacterial wipes for improvised bathing.
Water purifying: plain household beach (no additives) eight drops to a gallon, water filters, WaPI (a wax gauge) to pasteurize water to 149 degrees (saves fuel compared to boiling).
Cuts and scrapes: alcohol wipes (there's a lot of handy stuff in the first aid and cold section of local grocers), antibacterial ointment, Band-Aids, large gauze pads, Ichtammol Drawing Salve (abcesses), Tea Tree Oil (skin ailments), Clove Oil (tooth and other uses).
Diet: multivitamins, extra Vitamin C and Calcium, metal trash can (keeps the little critters out) containing bags of rice, beans, soy flour (high in protein).
No doubt you know this better than me, but the grandkids would appreciate board games, baseball stuff (yep, I'm biased with that suggestion), frisbees, and books (Bible, Catechism, MR, hymnals, Tolkien etc., and homeschooling textbooks from a Catholic publisher). A few items for your local priest.
Odds and ends: Your grandkids' parents could fill a box or two with glue, strong tape, boot and shoe laces, nails, laundry line and clothes pins, extra underwear and socks, and Paracord.
As Marion Ancilla Mariae noted in her comment above, civil unrest could make things a bit rough at times. Perhaps the adults should consider bear spray, pepper gel, and for nighttime use a tactical strobe flashlight.
One could always add to this list (books on home medicine, farming, gardening, medicinal and edible plants; a Faraday cage (anti-EMP) with radio; an axe and safety glasses, etc.).
Hope this helps. And to return to prayer, may I suggest topping off each care package with a couple of rosaries.
Wow it sure is nice to not be living in the center of a bulls eye. I am so happy we left the former USA.
First, the Breitbart article that you quickly dismissed actually has links to, among other things, the Congressional EMP Threat Commission. The Breitbart article's author, Frank Gaffney, Assistant Secretary of Defense under Reagan, is no slouch in these matters.
You promoted instead a WSJ Letter to the Editor. We're straying into strawman territory with that Letter. No one here said the electrical grid could not withstand an EMP "disturbance." The issue here is North Korea, an EMP attack, its effectiveness, and its consequences.
The National Review article discusses Super EMP and cyber attacks against the grid. (Physical sabotage of HVTs such as the "Metcalf sniper attack" will take us too far afield here).
James Woolsey, also no slouch in these matters, has been quoted in several places as saying that the design for a Super EMP leaked to North Korea years ago.
You raise a good point about utility companies managing lightning strikes. And I want to pause here and thank the fine folks at our utility companies for their dedication.
There is, however, a unique problem with an EMP attack- whether or not that attack is Super or enhanced with a cyber attack and physical sabotage.
An EMP attack involves three waves, E1, E2, and E3. The FutureScience website goes into detail. Basically, E1 lasts nanoseconds (this fast-rise pulse might be stopped by special surge protectors), E2 lasts up to a second (E2 might resemble lightning), and E3 can last up to several minutes by "heaving the Earth's magnetic field." E3 might also resemble a Coronal Mass Ejection (see Carrington Event). Overall, it appears that both EMP and Super EMP differ from a lightning strike. In other words, it appears that resistance to lightning is not resistance to EMP or Super EMP.
My two cents: the power grid is definitely vulnerable.
Every recent president has dealt with this, Republicans and Democrats. Only one president has proven to be crazy enough to light the match under Kim Jong-un.
etc. They were probably laughing at Carter/Clinton behind their backs as they agreed to the deal. I think the same is true of the Obama/Kerry deal with Iran. Since North Korea and Iran are allies I would think Iran learned a few things about dealing with the Chamberlain" Peace for our time" Democrat administrations. It was all about buying time for North Korea obviously and it worked.
They got everything they wanted and needed.
If you do not remember history you are doomed to repeat it.
FWIW, if a nuclear detonation occurred at high altitude, it would disrupt electricity for a time, we don't know for sure how long. For all that this would be ghastly inconvenient, I don't know if it would be automatically deadly. We should all be prepared for natural disasters anyway. Many of us have candles, camp stoves, solar ovens, water purification gear, and lanterns.
I see the greatest threat being directed toward the elderly and infirm for whom electrically operated machines must help them keep on. Perhaps someone should look into how such means might be adapted to operate without electricity.
An EMP attack certainly would create communications and refrigeration problems. Such CAN be dealt with if we have prepared ourselves decently and avoid panic.
…*sighs* Being prepared with a rifle, pistol, ammunition for both, a saber, and training to use them well would also be helpful.
You mention the letter, but apparently missed the link to technical papers from the same company. The letter was from the CEO and founder of a utility equipment manufacturer who know the grid very well. He's no slouch either.
But back to the technical points. The paper specifically addresses E1, E2, and E3 waves. And it indicates none are concerns to intelligent electronic devices (IEDs)–aka relays–the very equipment claimed to be the most vulnerable. Of the waves E3 is only an issue due to currents induced in long conductors, not to the equipment itself.
I haven't read any commission reports. But if the very manufacturers posting technical papers that show hardening against these events, the threat is elsewhere. I personally think communication networks are far more at risk than the grid. That should be the focus.
Let me read through the commission overviews and I can provide more detailed rebuttal.
Suudy: I stand by my comment.
Fine. But the paper specifically details handling of E1, E2, and E3 waves and how IEDs are hardened against those effects. So I stand by my comments.
It is unclear who and what you are referring to when you write that "only one president has been crazy enough to light the match." Take a closer look at the actions and words of the NoKo regime. The NoKo regime is the problem. Pax.
A Time to Betray by Reza Khalili.
Mantle of the Prophet by Roy Mottahedeh. The 1-star comments on Amazon are best ignored. This book is a slower read and more focused on Iranian society than A Time to Betray, but worth the effort. Given their ages, your kids may be only interested in the early chapters, which are about an Iranian boy's experience, and difficulties, with Iranian culture, schools, friendships, bazaars, mosques, etc.