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Poe Dameron est un personnage de fiction de l'univers Star Wars. Il est interprété par Oscar Isaac.

Biographie
Poe Dameron est un pilote de chasse et leader d'un escadron de la Flotte de Défense de la Nouvelle République en profond désaccord avec le refus du gouvernement de prendre au sérieux les menaces du Premier Ordre. Recruté par la  Résistance, Poe gravit les échelons rapidement jusqu'au grade de commandant.

Le Réveil de la Force
Poe Dameron a la réputation d'être le meilleur pilote de la Résistance. Il combat le Premier Ordre à bord de son X-wing, en compagnie du droïde BB-8.

Lors d'une mission sur Jakku, il rencontre Lor San Tekka, qui lui remet une partie d'une carte permettant de localiser Luke Skywalker, le dernier des Jedi, parti en exil depuis des années. Lorsque les terribles Stormtroopers du Premier Ordre, avec à leur tête Kylo Ren, débarquent sur Jakku, Poe Dameron cache la carte à l'intérieur de BB-8. Lor San Tekka et les villageois sont tous massacrés par les Stormtroopers. Poe tente de riposter mais est stoppé net par les pouvoirs de Kylo Ren. Il est fait prisonnier et emmené sur le vaisseau-mère.

Sur le vaisseau du Premier Ordre, il est torturé dans le but de trouver la carte tant recherchée. Il parvient cependant à s'échapper, avec l'aide du Stormtrooper FN-2187, qui a refusé de tuer les villageois sur Jakku. Ils s'échappent ensemble à bord d'un chasseur TIE. Lorsque Poe lui demande son nom, le Stormtrooper dit qu'il n'a qu'un matricule. Poe le nomme alors Finn. Leur vaisseau s'écrase sur Jakku. Finn se réveille plus tard et croit que Poe est mort lorsque le vaisseau a été aspiré par des sables mouvants.

Poe réapparaît finalement sur la planète Takodana. Avec son escadron, il sauve ainsi Han Solo, Chewbacca, Rey et Finn. Il participe ensuite à l'assaut de la terrible arme du Premier Ordre, la base Starkiller, et réussit à la détruire.

Les Derniers Jedi
Poe Dameron, dans son X-wing, fait face, seul, au blocus planétaire imposé par le général Hux. À la suite d'une brève transmission dans laquelle il raille Hux, il se lance, seul, dans une attaque frontale afin d'infliger des dégâts tactiques à la flotte ennemie et offrir l'occasion d'un assaut de plus grande envergure. Il réussit, comme escompté, à détruire l'armement d'un des vaisseaux du Premier Ordre et crée ainsi une brèche dans leur blocus. Malgré un plan audacieux, Poe assiste, impuissant, à la destruction d'une grande partie des vaisseaux de guerre de la Résistance. Leia le dégrade ainsi de commandant à capitaine à cause d'un excès de zèle et pour avoir ignoré les ordres.

Plus tard, lors d'un affrontement avec le Premier Ordre, la générale Leïa Organa est grièvement blessée. Tandis qu'elle est hospitalisée, la vice-amiral Holdo prend le commandement, c'est alors qu'elle annonce une stratégie que Poe désapprouve ouvertement. Voyant cette manœuvre comme inefficace et lâche,  il décide, accompagné d'un petit groupe de Résistants, de monter une opération officieuse : recruter un « pirate informatique » dans l'optique de neutraliser le vaisseau mère du Premier Ordre.

Afin de pouvoir mettre son plan à exécution, il destitue la vice-amirale Holdo ainsi que ses partisans. Il est toutefois neutralisé par Leïa au moment crucial. Le groupe partisan de Poe Dameron, trahi par le « pirate informatique », se retrouve capturé par le Premier Ordre, et le plan initial d'Holdo est découvert. C'est à ce moment-là que Poe Dameron se rend compte qu'il a commis une erreur de jugement et que s'il avait suivi les ordres, la stratégie d'Holdo aurait très certainement fonctionné. Holdo choisit alors de se sacrifier pour permettre à la flotte de se mettre à l'abri et passe en vitesse lumière avec le vaisseau amiral de la résistance afin d'entrer en collision avec le titanesque destroyer stellaire de Snoke, ce qui l'endommage sévèrement.

Très affaiblie, la flotte rebelle se pose sur Crait et investit une ancienne forteresse dans l'optique de pouvoir rallier des renforts, mais c'est sans compter sur la pugnacité du Premier Ordre, qui assiège rapidement les lieux. Après une offensive désespérée, un atout pour le moins improbable fait irruption, laissant le temps à Poe Dameron ainsi qu'aux derniers résistants de prendre la fuite.

L'Ascension de Skywalker

Notes et références

Annexes

Bibliographie

Liens externes

Personnage des films principaux de Star Wars
Soldat de fiction
Pilote de fiction
Personnage de fiction créé en 2015
Personnage de film de science-fiction


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Colorado Springs, Rockies extend PDC
By Kevin Reichard on August 20, 2010 in Minor-League Baseball, News
The Colorado Springs Sky Sox (Class AAA; Pacific Coast League) and the Colorado Rockies have extended their Player Development Contract through the end of the 2012 baseball season, team officials announced today. "The Colorado Rockies Organization is very pleased to extend our contract with the Sky Sox, and we are proud to remain a part […]
Brewers, Helena extend PDC for two more years
The Milwaukee Brewers announced today a two-year player development contract extension with the Helena Brewers of the rookie Pioneer League through the 2012 season. "We are very pleased to extend our player development contract with the Helena Brewers," said Brewers Executive Vice President and General Manager Doug Melvin. "The Pioneer League provides a competitive experience […]
Everett, Seattle agree on two-year PDC extension
The Everett AquaSox and the Seattle Mariners have agreed to a two-year extension to the Player Development Contract, binding the team's affiliation through the 2012 season. The agreement was finalized Wednesday afternoon. "We are excited to extend our great partnership with the Mariners," said AquaSox Executive Vice President Tom Backemeyer. "It's a perfect fit on […]
Tacoma, Seattle extend PDC
No surprise here: the Tacoma Rainiers and the Seattle Mariners announced an extension to their player-development deal through 2014. "We are thrilled to continue our partnership with the Mariners, especially as we open a newly renovated Cheney Stadium in 2011," said Rainiers President Aaron Artman. "They have been terrific partners, since ownership purchased the […]
Round Rock expected to shift affiliation to Rangers
By Kevin Reichard on August 18, 2010 in Features, Minor-League Baseball
With Nolan Ryan now an owner of the Texas Rangers, it's widely expected that the Texas Triple-A affiliation will shift to the Round Rock Express from the Oklahoma City RedHawks. Technically, MLB and MiLB teams cannot be discussing affiliation shifts until the end of the year. And we're not suggesting that anything formal has been […]
Tides, BaySox, Keys re-up with O's through 2014
The three eastern teams controlled by Ken Young extended their player-development deals with the Baltimore Orioles through 2014. The Norfolk Tides (Class AAA; International League), the Frederick Keys (High Class A; Carolina League) and the Bowie BaySox (Class AA; Eastern League) all extended their existing player-development deals. "We are extremely excited to continue our partnership […]
Drillers, Rockies extend PDC
By Kevin Reichard on July 18, 2010 in Minor-League Baseball, News
The Tulsa Drillers and the Colorado Rockies are extended their player-development deal through 2014. "The Drillers are extremely pleased to be able to continue our affiliation with the Colorado Rockies," said Drillers President Chuck Lamson. "We joined their organization at the right time in terms of their focus on player development, and we have seen […]
Kannapolis, White Sox extend PDC
The Kannapolis Intimidators (Low Class A; Sally League) have extended their player development contract with the Chicago White Sox and will remain their Single-A affiliate through at least the 2014 season. The White Sox and Intimidators have been together since the 2001 season when the affiliation switched from the Philadelphia Phillies. "We are so excited […]
Power, Pirates extend PDC
Andy Milovich, Executive Vice President of West Virginia Baseball, LLC., announced today that the West Virginia Power will extend the Player Development Contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates through 2014. "Prior to last season we made the change in affiliation and joined the Pittsburgh Pirates minor league organization. We were very excited about the new affiliation […]

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Located in the north of Yanggu county, with a total planned area of 25 square kilometers, Yanggu Xiangguang Ecological Industrial Park was jointly approved by the State Environmental Protection Ministry, the Commerce Ministry, and the Science and Technology Ministry to create a national eco-industrial park in 2013 February, and it becomes the first national model eco-industrial park among countys' industrial parks and non-ferrous industrial parks. At the end of the 12th Five-year period, the park can produce 900,000 tons of copper cathode , 600,000 tons of deep processing copper products, 20 tons of gold, 600 tons of silver, and has capacity to dismantle 350,000 tons of used copper. With the main income of more than hundreds of billions, and profits and taxes tens of billions, the park will develop into the most influential copper industry base of northern <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />China, featuring eco-efficient, the whole industry chain and the circular economy.
Construction of smelting workshop, wire drawing workshop, enamel bag workshop, valve processing workshop, installation workshop and ancillary facilities of 140,000 square meters, and the introduction of the world's advanced electromagnetic wire, copper foil technology and auxiliary equipment 1,200 units (sets), test equipment 186 units (sets), gas valve special equipment 174 units (sets), CNC lathe 95 units (sets). Annual production of 200,000 tons of special frequency electromagnetic wire, 20,000 tons of copper foil, 10 million vehicle gas valve, and 20 million high pressure gas valve.
In the social and economic rapid development today, frequency electromagnetic wire, copper foil, valves and other copper processing products in the production of the project are needed by the petrochemical industry, electric power departments, the communications industry, metallurgical industry departments, the transportation departments, the chemical industry and the urban construction industry whose demand of electronic materials, composite materials, the wire and cable industry grows, promoting demand of electromagnetic wire, copper foil, valves of the companies. Thus products have huge potential.
Total investment of the project is 11.2 billion Yuan.
Once it is put into operation, annual sale amount can reach 30 billion Yuan, whose tax and profit amount will be 3.1 billion Yuan.
A national research&development center with the construction area of about 40,000 square meters; Copper museum with the consruction area of 30,000 square meters; Copper Capital Fengqiwan residential area with the construction area of 1 million square meters; community buildings with the building area of 1 million square meters; vocational and technical schools covering an area of 240 mu; primary and secondary schools with the building area of 40,000 square meters; the health care complex covering an area of 500 mu; the commercial entertainment complex with a construction area of about 200,000 square meters; Gold and silver jewelry city covering an area of 1,000 mu and the building area of 800,000 square meters; Sports park with a land area of 100 mu; The farmer's market with the land area of 120 mu; Copper Capital square with the land area of 62 mu; Hospitals with 1,000 beds, and other infrastructures.
Adhering to high standards to plan and a high starting point, Jiangbei Copper Capital Yanggu New City Complex has entered the stage of orderly installment construction. After the completion of the project,Yanggu New City will have a rational layout,complete facilities and functions and good environment and will improve the urban and rural residents' living conditions,and accelerate the process of urbanization greatly.
The total investment of the project is 10.6 billion yuan,including:International R&D Center with investment of 350 million yuan, Copper museum with investment of 100 million yuan, Copper Capital Fengqiwan residential district with investment of 3 billion yuan, the community construction with investment of 3 billion yuan, primary and secondary schools with the investment of 30 million yuan, vocational and technical schools with investment of 200 million yuan, the hospital with investment of 200 million yuan, a health and fitness complex with investment of 200 million yuan, the commercial entertainment complex with investment of 400 million yuan, the gold and silver jewelry city with investment of 2 billion yuan, sports park with investment of 40 million yuan, the farmers' market with investment of 30 million yuan, Copper Capital square with investment of 50 million yuan, and the infrastructure construction with a total investment of 1 billion yuan.
The project covers an area of about 1,370 mu, including the proposed construction of a gold processing area, a silver processing area, a precious metals exhibition hall, precious metals museum, a gold processing production base, a gold foil processing production base, a commercial complex,a theme park, an international field and academic exchange center about the precious metals processing, a precious metal handicraft production exhibition sales area, logistics center, etc.
At present, China's gold and silver production are the fourth in the world, and the consumption is now among the world's highest. With the increasing living standards, the demand for gold and silver and other precious metals and their products is growing rapidly, promotes the unprecedented prosperity of precious metals consumer market, and provides the precious metal products production and management with a broad market space and generous profits in return. At present, the park has reached a production capacity of an annual output of 20 tons of gold,and 600 tons of silver.Thus,the construction of precious metal handicraft processing tourist area has a unique advantage.
6、Project Investment Budget:The total investment of this project is 10.6 billion Yuan.
According to the result of power balance analysis of Shandong Province, Shandong Power Grid have power shortfall of 24638 mw in 2015 , Liaocheng Power Grid have electricity shortfall of 445 mw to 1095mw in 2015. After the completion of 2 x600mw generator thermal power plant project, the project will satisfy the economic and social development electricity growth needs in the "twelfth five-year" period of Shandong province, and most of the power can be approached in Liaocheng Power Grid .
6、Project Investment Budget:The total investment of this project is 12.8 billion Yuan.
Once it is put into operation, the annual sales value can reach 24 billion Yuan, whose tax amount will be 3 billion Yuan.
Yanggu photoelectric information industry park is located in Xihu town in the west of Yanggu County, with Beijing-kowloon railway in the east, and Deshang highway in the west, along the provincial highway JiNa (S324) distribution with a planning area of 3 square kilometers. On the basis of Shandong Pacific cable co., LTD., Nexon (Yanggu) Xin Rihui co., LTD,Yanggu Cable Group co., LTD., and on the advantages of the brand, technology, market, grasp the investment, the project, build perfect industrial supporting system, and built the national well-known photoelectric information industry park. The optical communication industry, wire and cable industry, copper rod processing industry are the leading industries of the park.On the base of the traditional optical cable production, the park increases the high value-added special cable, photoelectric composite cables, fiber drawing, nuclear cable, optical fiber preform, irradiation crosslinking, ultra-high pressure fittings and photoelectric devices, alloy round bar products so as to extend the industrial chain.
As for the construction of the new project in the park, will drive the rapid growth of all economic activity in the park - especially for nearly three years, as the optical fiber preform nuclear cable, optical fiber cable industrial chain and irradiation crosslinking cable, ultrahigh pressure joints and photoelectric device products such as construction and put into operation in succession, will drive investment growth to 5.71 billion yuan.It is predicted that up to 2015, the leading industry to realize the business income of more than 10 billion yuan, the economic growth rate will reach 58%. At the same time, it will provide a large number of employment opportunities for people, driving the development of the third industry.
Tel:160 million yuan, low pressure, medium pressure, high voltage cable project investment of 600 million yuan, the special cable project investment of 300 million yuan, and alloy round bar project investment of 700 million yuan.
By 2015, the photoelectric information industry park sales income will be over 10 billion yuan, profit tax will be over 1 billion yuan, and tax delivery will be more than 400 million yuan.


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Q: Can't get private key with openssl (no start line:pem_lib.c:703:Expecting: ANY PRIVATE KEY) I have a .key file, when I do
openssl rsa -text -in file.key
I get
unable to load Private Key
140000419358368:error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line:pem_lib.c:703:Expecting: ANY PRIVATE KEY

Also I have a .cer file and when I do
openssl x509 -text -in file.cer
I get
unable to load certificate
140387178489504:error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line:pem_lib.c:703:Expecting: TRUSTED CERTIFICATE

But if as pointed here I run the command like:
openssl x509 -text -inform DER -in file.cer
I get
Certificate:
    Data:
        Version: 3 (0x2)
        Some more information
        ...
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIEdDCCA1ygAwIBAgIUMjAwMDEwMDAwMDAxMDAwMDU4NjcwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEF
...
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

But that doesn't seem to work with the key, because when I run
openssl rsa -text -inform DER -in aaa010101aaa__csd_10.key
I get
unable to load Private Key
140004844304032:error:0D0680A8:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_CHECK_TLEN:wrong tag:tasn_dec.c:1337:
140004844304032:error:0D06C03A:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_D2I_EX_PRIMITIVE:nested asn1 error:tasn_dec.c:849:
140004844304032:error:0D08303A:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_TEMPLATE_NOEXP_D2I:nested asn1 error:tasn_dec.c:769:Field=version, Type=RSA
140004844304032:error:04093004:rsa routines:OLD_RSA_PRIV_DECODE:RSA lib:rsa_ameth.c:115:
140004844304032:error:0D0680A8:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_CHECK_TLEN:wrong tag:tasn_dec.c:1337:
140004844304032:error:0D06C03A:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_D2I_EX_PRIMITIVE:nested asn1 error:tasn_dec.c:849:
140004844304032:error:0D08303A:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_TEMPLATE_NOEXP_D2I:nested asn1 error:tasn_dec.c:769:Field=version, Type=PKCS8_PRIV_KEY_INFO

How can I get the private key and its certificate?

A: You need re-encrypt the ssh key file with the -m PEM option.
ssh-keygen -p -f keyfile -m PEM

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Detail:
This issue is caused by the some version of ssh-keygen generated encrypted file format which is not openssl wanted.
I had same issue when I used ssh-keygen -p -f keyfile to encrypt the key file, the result will be like
-----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----

then I encountered this issue: openssl rsa < keyfile does not work with  same error as the questioner.
The other day I happened find that another encrypted key file was like
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED
DEK-Info: AES-128-CBC,xxxxxxxxx..

and this file could be decrypted by openssl rsa < keyfile.
It turns out that different ssh-keygen generates different encrypted format, and need respective openssl version to decrypt.
It seems for modern openssl (mine is 1+), it need the latter format.
So I ended up with following solution: re-encrypt the ssh key file with the -m PEM option.
ssh-keygen -p -f keyfile -m PEM

then enter for old password and new password.
The -m PEM option will generate
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED
DEK-Info: AES-128-CBC,xxxxxxxxx..

Then I can use the openssl rsa < keyfile to decrypt the file later.
(Of course if you enter empty password in the above ssh-keygen command, you will also get decrypted result, but that is probably not what you want because you don't want save a decrypted key file on disk).

A: On my execution of openssl pkcs12 -export -out cacert.pkcs12 -in testca/cacert.pem, I received the following message:

unable to load private key 140707250050712:error:0906D06C:PEM
  routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line:pem_lib.c:701:Expecting: ANY
  PRIVATE KEY`

Got this solved by providing the key file along with the command. The switch is -inkey inkeyfile.pem

A: My two cents:
came across the same error message in RHEL7.3 while running the openssl command with root CA certificate. The reason being, while downloading the certificate from AD server, Encoding was selected as DER instead of Base64. Once the proper version of encoding was selected for the new certificate download, error was resolved
Hope this helps for new users :-)

A: I ran into the 'Expecting: ANY PRIVATE KEY' error when using openssl on Windows (Ubuntu Bash and Git Bash had the same issue).
The cause of the problem was that I'd saved the key and certificate files in Notepad using UTF8. Resaving both files in ANSI format solved the problem.

A: It looks like you have a certificate in DER format instead of PEM.  This is why it works correctly when you provide the -inform PEM command line argument (which tells openssl what input format to expect).
It's likely that your private key is using the same encoding. It looks as if the openssl rsa command also accepts a -inform argument, so try:
openssl rsa -text -in file.key -inform DER

A PEM encoded file is a plain-text encoding that looks something like:
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
MIGrAgEAAiEA0tlSKz5Iauj6ud3helAf5GguXeLUeFFTgHrpC3b2O20CAwEAAQIh
ALeEtAIzebCkC+bO+rwNFVORb0bA9xN2n5dyTw/Ba285AhEA9FFDtx4VAxMVB2GU
QfJ/2wIRANzuXKda/nRXIyRw1ArE2FcCECYhGKRXeYgFTl7ch7rTEckCEQDTMShw
8pL7M7DsTM7l3HXRAhAhIMYKQawc+Y7MNE4kQWYe
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

While DER is a binary encoding format.
Update
Sometimes keys are distributed in PKCS#8 format (which can be either PEM or DER encoded).  Try this and see what you get:
openssl pkcs8 -in file.key -inform der

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Ancient Rhodes by Frantisek Kupka
by Tony Hisgett
published on 19 March 2013
An oil painting representing the ancient city of Rhodes by Frantisek Kupka (1906 CE). Probably a realistic representation of the Colossus of Rhodes which was a gigantic bronze statue, 32 metres high, of the island's patron god Helios, the Sun god. The statue was sculpted by Chares of Lindos, c. 304 BCE and was toppled by the earthquake of 228 or 226 BCE. (Centre for Modern and Contemporary Art, Veletrzni Trades Fair Palace, Prague). Also depicted is a large quadriga or four-horse chariot associated with the god.
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Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini earn two victories on Thursday in Sydney.
Bolelli/Fognini Book SF Spot In Sydney
ATP Staff
Dodig/Melo advance in Adelaide
Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini did double duty Thursday as they won two matches at the Sydney Tennis Classic to reach the semi-finals.
Firstly, the Italians upset fifth seeds Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares 7-6(3), 4-6, 10-6 in two hours, before they won 86 per cent (37/43) of their first-serve points en route to a 7-5, 7-5 quarter-final victory against Fabrice Martin and Jonny O'Mara
Bolelli and Fognini will face Andreas Mies and Kevin Krawietz in the last four after the sixth seeds moved past Facundo Bagnis of Argentina and Hans Hach Verdugo of Mexico 6-4, 6-3 in 68 minutes.
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Earlier in the day, second seeds Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah reached the quarter-finals with a 6-4, 7-5 victory against Jiri Vesely and Szymon Walkow. However, the Colombians were unable to follow in the footsteps of Bolelli and Fognini and win two matches in one day, losing to Alexei Popyrin and Matt Reid.
The Australians fired seven aces as they earned a 7-6(4), 3-6, 10-7 victory. They will meet John Peers and Filip Polasek after the third seeds saved two match points in the Match Tie-break at 8/9 and 10/11 against Aleksandr Nedovyesov and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi to advance 3-6, 6-3, 14-12 after 84 minutes.
Dodig/Melo Move Through In Adelaide
Second seeds Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo clawed past Santiago Gonzalez and Andres Molteni 3-6, 6-4, 10-8 to book their spot in the semi-finals at the Adelaide International 2.
The Croatian-Brazilian tandem will next play Wesley Koolhof and Neal Skupski after the third seeds moved past Oscar Otte and Benoit Paire. The German-French pair were forced to retire after 41 minutes when trailing 4-6, 0-1.
Tomislav Brkic and Nikola Cacic defeated fourth seeds Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen 6-2, 6-3, while Ariel Behar and Gonzalo Escobar beat Australians Aaron Addison and Thomas Fancutt 3-6, 7-5, 10-6. Brkic and Cacic will next meet Behar and Escobar.


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Unalaska Bay is a waterway of Unalaska Island in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is situated below the eastern slopes of Makushin Volcano. Composed of seven individual bays, Unalaska Bay opens onto the Bering Sea.

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Unalaska Bay is the general name of the indentation making in to the north end of Unalaska Island between Cape Kalekhta and Cape Cheerful. Commercially, it was the most important bay in western Alaska in the beginning of the 20th century. Its shores are generally mountainous with precipitous sea faces. Amaknak Island lies in its southern end. Westward of the island the water is deep, but there is no good harbor in this part of the bay; eastward of the island are the important anchorages of Dutch Harbor, Iliuliuk Bay, and Iliuliuk Harbor. The channel to Iliuliuk Bay and Dutch Harbor is free from dangers except along the shores. Iliuliuk Harbor is obstructed at its entrance by ledges.

Cape Cheerful, the western point at the entrance to Unalaska Bay, is made up of bold, very high headlands, rounded on top, and intersected by deep, grassy valleys. The shore is free from dangers and has deep water close-to. A cascade, 125 feet high, south of Cape Cheerful, is a conspicuous mark from the vicinity of Cape Kalekhta, and is useful in thick weather when only the lower part of the land can be seen.

Ulakhta Head, 900 feet high, the north end of Amaknak Island, is, in clear weather, one of the best landmarks for fixing the position of Unalaska Bay. In appearance it is like a pyramid with the top cut off. The top shows perfectly flat, and there is no other headland or mountain in this vicinity that has this feature. It is not as high as the background, but shows up well against it, and can be made out at a long distance from the bay. From its northwest point a reef extends off | mile, marked by Needle Rock, similar in appearance to Priest Rock, but not so large. From its northeast point a long, narrow sand spit extends to the southward l£ miles; its southern end, called Spithead, is marked by a beacon, about 15 feet high, standing close to its southern shore.

Princess Head, 2 miles from Cape Kalekhta, is a large square-headed rock that projects from the shore far enough to be distinctly observed, even in thick weather, in following along the east shore.

Constantine Bay, about 4 miles from Cape Kalekhta, is obstructed by numerous rocky ledges, many of which are only evident from the attached kelp. It is of no importance and should be avoided by all vessels.

Summer Bay, the large, shallow bight, 3 miles from Constantine Bay and opposite Ulakhta Head, is shoal, and its shores are lined with kelp-marked rocks and ledges. At its southern headland is Pinnacle Rock, about 60 feet high. This bay is an excellent place to seine for salmon. The bay should be avoided by vessels.

Iliuliuk Bay extends from Pinnacle Rock and Ulakhta Head to Iliuliuk. To the northward of Spithead there is a ridge extending across the bay, having a least depth of 10 fathoms. South of this ridge the depths increase to 16 and 19 fathoms. There is anchorage anywhere in the bay. The usual anchorage is at the head in 14 to 16 fathoms, muddy bottom, where, even with northerly winds, the force of the sea does not seem to reach home. At the head of Iliuliuk Bay, behind the village, there is a distinct ravine or break in the mountains, which extends through to the water to the southward. This is a useful guide for entering the bay and inner harbor.

The portion south-southwestward of Amaknak Island is the long narrow inlet of Captains Bay. There is a narrow passage from it to Iliuliuk Harbor. On the western side of Unalaska Bay are Nateekin Bay, Broad Bay, and Eider Point Anchorage.

Sailing directions
When bound for Unalaska Bay from any part of Bering Sea, it is recommended to shape the course for Cape Cheerful. In thick weather it is better to fall to the westward of Cape Cheerful and then round it than to fall to the eastward of it and get down among the passes. Makushin Volcano, 5,474 feet high, can generally be seen in clear weather, and is very prominent. An extinct crater,

2,314 feet high, back of Cape Cheerful and west of Eider Point, gives a distinct point for which to steer until close enough to distinguish the surrounding features. On getting close to the island, when the fog hangs over the land but leaves a clear space just along the water's edge, Wislow Island forms a good landmark. It is a very small, rounded island, regular in shape, and stands off far enough from the land to be distinctly seen as not a part of the main island. To the westward, under similar conditions, Makushin Cape can be seen at times. The land slopes gently to the cape from Makushin Volcano, and ends in a small, peak-like formation at the end of the cape. From the eastward the cascade south of Cape Cheerful is also useful. Strangers, when in the vicinity and uncertain of the identity of the bay and its landmarks, should endeavor to pick out Ulakhta Head. Looking into the bay, its flat top breaking off abruptly to sloping sides presents an appearance unlike any other in the vicinity, and shows up well against the background of mountains.

Dangers
Navigators should avoid the kelp, which invariably indicates a rocky bottom. A large cluster of rocks, mostly awash, and usually marked by breakers, extends nearly  to the westward of the south head of Constantine Bay. Pinnacle Rock is surrounded by reefs, awash and under water, for a distance of . Between Pinnacle Rock and a point opposite the entrance to Dutch Harbor the east shore is lined with rocks, and should not be approached closer than . The spit has a kelp-marked shoal on its east side which extends its whole length; at its middle point the shoal extends  from shore. Spithead is bold-to, and may be safely approached as close as . There is a beacon, about 15 feet high, standing close to its southern shore. Rocky Point has a kelp-marked reef which extends toward Spithead about ; eastward of the point shoal water makes out about  with little kelp. The northern extremity of the reef is marked by a buoy painted white. From Rocky Point south, the shore of Amaknak Island should not be approached closer than . Iliuliuk Reef consists of a ledge of rocks, portions of which are always exposed, extending in an east and west direction for . From the eastern dry rock a ledge, marked by kelp, extends south by east-southeast . The southern extremity of this ledge is sometimes marked by a buoy. Tuscarora Rock, marked by kelp, lies about  south-southeast by east. from the southern extremity of Iliuliuk Reef. It is small and generally marked by an iron barrel buoy. These buoys were maintained by the Alaska Commercial Company.

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DVD Smith
1281334. Sun Apr 15, 2018 11:03 am
British soldier Major Alexis Casdagli spent four years of the Second World War in a German prisoner of war camp, where he spent his time stitching a quilt. When this quilt, which featured swastikas and black German eagles around the edge, was finished, the Nazi guards were so impressed by it that it was put on display in the prison, and then at the three other PoW camps where Casdagli was held over the course of the war. They even got him to give stitching classes to other prisoners.
The text reads "This work was done by Major A.T. Casdagli. No. 3311. While in captivity at Dossel-Warburg Germany. December 1941".
What the guards didn't realise was that, in addition to the obvious text, stitched repeatedly around the border of the quilt in Morse Code are the words "God Save the King" and "Fuck Hitler".
("God Save the King" is the inner border, "Fuck Hitler" is the outer border.)
Another piece he created featured a Union Jack in one corner. Because displaying national flags was banned in the camp, he sewed a flap over it with "do not open" written on in German. When any inspecting officers would open the flap, the way that Casdagli got away with it was to say "I'm not the one showing it, you are".
Sources: [1] [2] [3]
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Feralcat
1281357. Sun Apr 15, 2018 11:22 pm
Oh that is clever and amusing and thank you so much for sharing. I had wondered at his choice of emblems.
Wasnt there a case where POWs had to salute or acknowledge the Germans to get mail or food or something, and managed to convince the Germans that something insulting was a great honour, so that each man would solemnly insult very happy and smug Germans?
1281880. Fri Apr 20, 2018 6:02 pm
There were also quilts used to message fellow pows after Singapore
Women pows with children, separated from husbands and older sons in a different POW camp asked to send quilts to their husbands
The first was inspected closely by the Japanese, was innocuous and had scenes of Japanese tradition but more that followed were signed so men knew who was alive and they would send messages with embroidered cosy sitting rooms and 'sailing for home', etc
One POW who participted was a Mrs Ennis
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And then there is the Aids Memorial Quilt
It weighs about 54 tons.
History of the Changi quilts
Background: Changi Prison
The making of the quilts
Subject matter and style
The fate of the quilts after the war
When Singapore fell to the Japanese, on 15 February 1942 , thousands of Allied troops who had either been part of the Singapore garrison or who had retreated down the Malay peninsula in the face of the Japanese advance surrendered to the Japanese. Japanese military code assumed that its soldiers would fight to the death (which explains why so few of their soldiers were captured alive before the final months of the war), and they were totally unprepared for the task of housing and feeding so many prisoners. In the event, they used many of the prisoners as slave labour on the construction of the Burma-Thailand railway, on airfields and dockyards, later shipping them to Japan to work in the mines and in ship-building. The prisoners were poorly fed and generally had no medical supplies, although their own doctors were able to improvise some drugs and equipment. The International Red Cross supplied both food and medical parcels to the prisoners, but with a few rare exceptions these were stockpiled by the Japanese for their own use or were simply not distributed. A third of prisoners of war died in captivity, although the death rate varied widely in different camps. The main causes of death were disease and starvation, which were the results of Japanese neglect.
Also interned in Singapore were civilians (non-Malays/Chinese) who had not been able to obtain shipping berths in time to escape, or who, in some instances, had made a decision not to leave. The majority were associated with the British colonial administration of Malaya and Singapore or with the colonial (white) administration of plantations and tin mines. Many of them had wives and children, and although most of these had been evacuated by the time Singapore fell, a group of about 400 women and children remained at the time of the surrender.
Together with the civilian men, the women and children were crowded into Changi Prison, a building designed to hold about 600 inmates and now accommodating about 2,400. The women and children occupied one wing of the building until 1944 when they were moved to another Singapore camp at Syme Road. For the purposes of the Japanese administration, children were deemed to be all female children of whatever age and male children up to the age of twelve. Twelve year old boys were automatically transferred to the male section of the prison whether or not they had relatives there. Internees were permitted to run schools for the children during the first few years of captivity although the subjects were limited. The teaching of history and geography was not allowed.
The internees were, in some respects, fortunate to be housed in Changi Prison. It was a modern (6-year-old) "model" prison building, which boasted an efficient sewerage system and flushing toilets. Its main problem was that it was expected to house three times the number of people for which it was designed. Because of this, hygiene and sanitation were always matters of concern. Dysentery was a problem among the internees, as was malaria, because of the lack of mosquito nets. Drugs were available to treat these two diseases, but they were not supplied by the Japanese. During the first year of captivity at least (when the quilts were made), food was adequate if basic, by Asian standards but probably not by European ones. The overall death rate of civilian internees was not high but increased as the years went by due mainly to malaria, conditions of over-crowding, and the effects of malnutrition which caused, or gave pre-disposition to, diseases such as beri-beri and tuberculosis.
Male and female internees were able to see each other but were not allowed to communicate. The Japanese, however, allowed the two groups to give concerts to each other and in this way family messages could be passed in "family code" through a play script or a song.
The women in Changi Prison were a diverse group. The majority came from the British colonial administration of Malaya and Singapore, as wives of officials, or as teachers, missionaries and medical personnel. There were also a number of Eurasian children of white fathers, and even some of their Asian mothers. The British were the major group represented, but there were also women from the Netherlands colonial administration of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia ), Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States. There was even a Spanish circus performer.
The immediate problem faced by the women, food and shelter of a sort having been provided by the Japanese, was how to administer themselves. In most non-labour camps the Japanese left administration and organisation to the internees or prisoners of war themselves, and with the exception of spot checks for illicit items such as radios (possession punishable by death) and diaries, liaised with only a few prisoners who were nominated or elected by the camp inmates. The work of a camp administrator was often arduous, and, in the case of the Changi women, required enormous tact and strength in dealing with a diverse group of women from different social backgrounds (many of the "upper class" British wives felt it was beneath their dignity to take their turn cleaning drains or queuing for food, and had been accustomed to being waited on by "native" servants). The administrator also needed to have a good head for politics and negotiating with the Japanese.
During 1942, mainly between March and August, three signature quilts were made by the women interned in Changi Prison (these are referred to as the British, Australian, and Japanese quilts). The making of them was the idea of a Canadian internee, Mrs Ethel Mulvany, who had been a Red Cross representative in Singapore and had been chosen to be the camp Red Cross representative for the Changi women. Judging by the quilt squares that Mrs Mulvany made, she was also a skilled embroiderer. (Mrs Mulvany later claimed that the British quilt had actually been made for the Canadian Red Cross, but research into the labelling of the British quilt has not revealed any evidence of a prior label relating to Canada. By the time she made the statement, she was seriously mentally disturbed as a result of her captivity, and making claims about her role in personally saving all the wounded of Singapore, together with claims of atrocities committed by the Japanese in Changi Prison which cannot be substantiated in any way).
The making of the quilts was designed to alleviate boredom, to boost morale and to pass information to men in other camps that the women and children were alive. Mrs Mulvany's initial idea was that only the wives of soldiers should contribute squares because their husbands were not interned in Changi Prison with the civilian men and could not know the fate of their families. She was herself the wife of a British soldier. However, there proved to be too few military wives in the prison to make up enough squares for even one quilt and so it seems that all the women were given the opportunity to contribute a square, some contributing more than one.
In a shrewd political move, Mrs Mulvany secured the permission of the Japanese commandant to pass the quilts - ostensibly made for the "wounded" as stated on the back of each quilt - to Changi hospitals, by making a quilt for the wounded Japanese. In the event, the Japanese quilt, also containing the signatures of the women who had made it, was passed with the other two to the hospitals and eventually given to an Australian medical officer.
Each woman who wanted to make a square was given a piece of plain white cotton (provided from various sources including flour bags and bed sheets) and was asked to put "something of herself" into the square, together with her signature. From the evidence of Sheila Allen, who made the map of Australia square on the Australian quilt, it seems that it was possible to nominate the quilt on which the square was to be placed. This may explain why there are no Australian names on the British quilt, for instance, and why some of the names on the Japanese quilt are duplicates of those on the other two quilts (not enough women may have volunteered to contribute squares for the Japanese quilt).
While the Japanese tolerated the word "gaol" (the commandant may not have been familiar with the word), the "V" for victory, and the "thumbs up" sign on the squares, the word "prison" was not acceptable, so that when Mrs Mulvany and a Dutch internee came to assemble the squares they had to unpick this word. This can be seen clearly on two of the squares on the Australian quilt. The squares were machine-stitched together and the edges then over-embroidered in red. Very few of the contributors saw the completed quilts.
The work of nine known Australian women is represented on the Australian quilt: Dr Margaret Smallwood, Sheila Allen, Judy Good, Helen Latta, Vera McIntyre, Betsey Millard, Nea Barnes, May Watson and Eunice Austin-Hofer. It is likely that a quilt was made for the Australian Red Cross not because there were many Australian internees but because Mrs Mulvany assumed that the Australian Red Cross would play a major part in supplying aid to Singapore, and to prisoners of war in Asia generally. The aid was supplied but the Japanese blocked the distribution of Red Cross parcels from Australia.
The design and sewing skills shown on the quilts are varied. Virtually all women in this period would have been taught embroidery skills, whether or not they had any aptitude for it. Many brought embroidery threads and patterns with them into the prison, and during 1942 Mrs Mulvany was allowed by the Japanese to spend a day each month outside the prison to obtain supplementary supplies of food, drugs and materials, if she could find them in Singapore.
Some of the squares are obviously the work of skilled embroiderers, while others are quite crude, consisting, for instance, of a flower cut from a piece of floral print fabric roughly applied with button-hole stitch. Some of the embroidery has clearly been copied from commercial patterns. Examples of these can be seen in the images of characters from the two pre-war Disney feature cartoons, Snow White and Pinocchio. Many of the contributors put a lot of themselves into their squares, while others confined their efforts to more traditional floral motifs. The meaning of many of the messages that are obviously included in the squares is now lost to us. Some would have been private messages only comprehensible to the couples themselves. Squares showing small children and children's toys such as bears probably refer to children in the camp. Mrs Uniake's Dungie and Dungetta (on the Australian quilt) refer to her son and daughter in prison with her. The British quilt shows a mother rabbit with a baby rabbit wearing a blue ribbon collar to indicate that a son had been born in prison. The dogs on the Australian quilt may refer to "Judy", a small terrier who was a pet in the prison for some time. Other women have embroidered the "address" of the cell they were occupying and a representation of its appearance.
In contrast, the quilt made for the Japanese contains very little of the personality of the makers and no messages. The designs used on the quilt were chosen to appeal to the Japanese and include a greeting in Japanese ("Banzai!" - possibly supplied by the commandant, although two Japanese women married to Englishmen were interned in Changi), floral motifs, representations of the rising sun, Mount Fuji, a Japanese bridge, and a tea ceremony.
Although many of the squares appear to have messages, there were, as previously stated, not many women who had husbands in the military camps to whom the messages could be passed. A large number of the female internees came from the Colonial Nursing Service and were single, although some may have had romantic connections with soldiers before the fall of Singapore. Many of the contributors may not have been trying to pass on a message but simply used the opportunity of making the square as a way of passing time and producing, in some cases, a patriotic statement. The making of the quilts was a carefully considered and co-ordinated exercise and there is no evidence that they were made as objects of resistance. Every effort was made by Mrs Mulvany and the few women who assembled the finished quilts to ensure that they would be acceptable to the Japanese so that they could be passed to outside camps. It would also appear that Mrs Mulvany hoped that the quilts would be preserved in the longer term, as the back of each quilt has embroidered instructions recommending that it be dry-cleaned.
The quilts for the Australian and Japanese wounded eventually came into the possession of a British medical officer, Colonel Collins. There is no evidence that they were ever really intended for, or used by, the wounded. Collins in turn passed them to an Australian medical officer in charge of the hospital at Kranji, Lieutenant Colonel R. M. W. Webster, of 2/9th Field Ambulance.
Webster brought them back to Australia : he presented the Australian quilt to the Australian Red Cross, as requested on the back of the quilt, and gave the Japanese quilt to his wife. Mrs Webster donated this quilt to the War Memorial in 1968. The Australian quilt has been permanently lent to the Memorial by the Red Cross, so that it can be properly preserved. The quilt for the British Red Cross was taken to England after the war and can currently be viewed at the British Red Cross UK office at Moorgate, City of London.
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1283970. Sun May 13, 2018 7:13 pm
Was browsing the Welsh Newspaper Archive when I found this article from 1895, about a quilt made by Queen Victoria for wounded soldiers that they later came to believe to be cursed.
During the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882, Queen Victoria and her daughters decided to knit quilts to send to the returning wounded soldiers at Netley Hospital. (Depicted in a painting here.) Queen Victoria was quite fond of Netley hospital and visited there several times, including in 1898 when she had to be taken round in a wheelchair. (This experience is recorded by Victoria in one of her letters, dated Dec 3rd 1898. She recalls meeting several soldiers including one who had "lost the left side of his nose" - an oddly localised injury.)
The quilt that Victoria made herself was embroidered "V.R.I." in one corner, and it was decided by hospital staff that whichever soldier was the most severely wounded would get the honour of sleeping under the Queen's homemade quilt. However, because the most severely wounded would also often be the most likely to die, the soldiers quickly began to associate the quilt with imminent death, and so would consider it an "evil omen" if the quilt was given to them. (A bit like Oscar the cat, who had the same effect on residents of a nursing home in New York.)
If you can't read the newspaper article at the link above (the website seems to be a bit temperamental), here it is in full, taken from the 1893 British Medical Journal:
As of 2013 the quilt was on display at the National Army Museum in London:
Images taken from this page, which has lots more information about Victoria's various visits to the Netley military hospital.
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Another funny thing I found from browsing the Welsh Newspaper Archive:
A popular tradition that arose in the 1800s was the making of "signature quilts", also known as "autograph quilts" – patchwork quilts where each segment had been signed by relatives or celebrities, either as keepsakes or as a fundraising tool. [1] [2]
When Andrew Dickson White was US ambassador to Germany (1879-1881) he received many odd letters from Americans, his favourite of which was a letter from an old lady who enclosed in her letter four squares of white linen. She explained that her church was having a Christmas charity fair and she was making an autograph quilt for it, and demanded of the ambassador:
"I want you to get the autographs of the Emperor, the Empress, the Crown Prince, and Bismarck, and tell them to be very careful not to write too near the edge of the squares, as a seam has to be allowed for putting them together." [3] [4]
And now I'm sitting here wondering how much that quilt would have gone for at that church fair, had White actually fulfilled her request and sent this old lady the autographs of the entire German royal family and chancellor!
crissdee
1283984. Mon May 14, 2018 2:54 am
DVD Smith wrote:
Queen Victoria was quite fond of Netley hospital and visited there several times, including in 1898 when she had to be taken round in a wheelchair.
Sadly, too late to have met Dr Watson, who went there to take "the course prescribed for surgeons in the army"!
She recalls meeting several soldiers including one who had "lost the left side of his nose" - an oddly localised injury.)
In a time when the sword was very much part of combat, not that odd at all.
I suppose, although I'm still struggling to picture how it would get sliced off by a sword, given you'd have to cut the nose on more than one side to slice only half of it off, otherwise the nose would be split but still attached. (I don't want to look for graphic pictures, so I'm just imagining a Harvey Dent scenario.)
However I am amazed to find that British Army infantry officers are still issued with a sword to this day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1897_pattern_British_infantry_officer%27s_sword
Oh yes, it is one of the great ironies that the British Army approved probably the best fighting sword it has ever issued (Pattern 1907/1912 Infantry sword) just as the sword was becoming obsolete in combat. Many men went to the Western Front encumbered with a sword that was never used in anger.
1291724. Thu Aug 02, 2018 5:35 am
In the 19th Century, quilt-making was encouraged by the British Army as a healthy masculine hobby for men to take up, to discourage them from other "unsavoury" activities such as drinking and gambling.
During the wars of the 1800s, British Army soldiers produced some truly stunning geometric quilts, which baffled historians as they couldn't understand how the soldiers could accumulate either the material or the skill to make them.
Originally the belief was that the quilts were made by soldiers recovering in hospital from injuries, but now it's believed that they were made by bored soldiers during downtime on the battlefield (in India, it was said that only 5% of the soldiers' time was spent in combat).
The soldiers reportedly used material from uniforms to make them. In the 1800s camouflage was less important, and so military uniforms were much more colourful, meaning that the quilts that resulted were also made up of many colours.
The quilts were also used as propaganda for civilians back in Britain, to give the impression that the wars being fought overseas were going well and not as catastrophic as rumours would suggest.
This all comes from a brilliant Atlas Obscura article from June 2018, and a blog post on Quilts.com. The quilt in the picture above is described here.
1291755. Thu Aug 02, 2018 1:42 pm
I suppose, although I'm still struggling to picture how it would get sliced off by a sword, given you'd have to cut the nose on more than one side to slice only half of it off, otherwise the nose would be split but still attached.
Have you considered the idea that it might have been the "front" half, i.e just the tip?
1292210. Tue Aug 07, 2018 10:41 am
(The following story is more about blankets/sheets than quilts, but it's too good not to share.)
Just found this post on Reddit's Today I Learned page.
In May 1921, the US Navy submarine R-14 ran out of fuel and battery power approximately 110 nautical miles southeast of Hawaii. Fortunately, the submarine was surfaced when this happened.
With no response to their radio calls for help, the crew decided to sail for the Hawaiian port of Hilo. Using bedsheets, blankets and hammocks, the crew constructed three sails, hanging one from the radio communications mast and two from improvised masts made of bunk bed frames, which gave them a sailing speed of around 1 knot (1 nautical mile per hour).
After 64 hours of travelling under wind power alone, the crew were able to get the batteries started and complete the journey under battery power. They made it to Hawaii after five days, with four days' food supply left.
Sadly, the reference on the submarine's Wikpedia page is an extract from the submarine's logbook, which doesn't appear to be available online anywhere - and most other sources quote the Wikipedia article. However, the existence of the photograph, and the few other sources I could find (including a few newspaper articles from the time) lead me to believe that the story is legitimate.
Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] (requires subscription)
And to answer the question of "how did they charge the batteries?" there is this comment on the original Reddit thread:
It's a diesel/electric sub, so it ran out of fuel while charging the batteries. They didn't have enough battery power to make it all the way home, so that's why they rigged a sail to get them close enough.
edit: they also charged them during the sailing trip, so yeah, the screws must have been turning as they sailed along.
1292813. Tue Aug 14, 2018 8:47 am
Another use for Quilts!
During the Cold War—despite the absence of direct fighting—quiltmakers, such as the Boise Peace Quilt Project, made quilts related to the conflict. They aimed to end the conflict by changing attitudes and attracting attention to a worthy cause.
Conceived by Anna Hausrath and Diane Jones in the early 1980s, the Boise Peace Quilt Project began with one quilt to express solidarity with the women of the Soviet Union against nuclear weapon proliferation. It has expanded since to remind and reward public figures about issues ranging from environmentalism to child advocacy.
The group appropriated the quilt's symbolism of comfort, femininity and joining of disparate pieces to protest the resurgence of Cold War rhetoric. Concerned with the possibility of being labelled communists, they described themselves as "crazy housewives" and as politically naïve while drawing upon the rhetoric of motherhood used by reformers at the turn of the century.
This group walked a politically precarious line by choosing a protest medium that pulled from traditional notions of womanhood and incorporated modern concepts of feminism and activism.
http://worldquilts.quiltstudy.org/americanstory/engagement/peaceprotest
http://worldquilts.quiltstudy.org/americanstory/identity/feminism
This is the first Boise Peace Quilt was made during the cold war as a gesture of friendship to the people of Lithuania, USSR, from 35 Idahoans, depicting scenes of Idaho and of Peace. It was hung in a peace museum in Vilnius, Lithuania.
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The 9/11 Peace Story Quilt, designed by the artist Faith Ringgold and created in collaboration with New York City students ages 8 to 19, exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from August 30, 2011- January 22, 2012, to commemorate the tenth anniversary of 9/11.
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In the same vein there's the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
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I Love It When Sonic Amy and Shadow are all together!!
good job shadow haha now that rocks!!!
go one shadow telling amy wre sonic is walking and amy said i don't have to walk home alone.
ah!shadow is quite a heart braker!!!!!he never really liked sonic when he was with amy!!you know sometimes I think shadow is just hitting on amy to get her away from sonic!heh heh!boys will be boys!!!heh!
Idk what Shadow's happy about. Sonic's got a girl that's obsessed with him on his arm while Shadow's got nobody.
Haha poor Sonic. Nice one Shadow. And love on Amy!
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Sonic should've walk on his own without Shadow then he wouldn't notice that he could walk with Amy alone.
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Ohioans honored for valor in military hall of fame
Holly Zachariah The Columbus Dispatch @hollyzachariah
The class of 2019 includes four Medal of Honor recipients, three Silver Star recipients, three Distinguished Flying Cross recipients, 10 Bronze Star with valor designation awardees, and two men who received a Commendation Medal with valor. They came from all over Ohio, and represent the Army, Marines and Air Force. Nine were inducted posthumously.
Bonnie Bonnell sat among a crowd of about 400 and blinked back tears as she watched Ohio's governor place a medal around her husband's neck.
In 54 years of marriage, she has lived through war with Ken Bonnell out there on the front lines and she knows well the stories of the courage and bravery he summoned so many times to save others.
Still, she struggled to keep her emotions in check as she listened to one such story recounted again — from the hours on June 4, 1969, when then-Army Capt. Bonnell engaged in a perilous helicopter recovery mission on the Rach Ong Keo River during one of his two tours in Vietnam. Even after he was wounded, he refused to be evacuated and instead directed fire from a river patrol boat that he boarded.
"It never gets any easier," she said. "It just doesn't, to hear what they all went through."
Bonnell, who retired in 1990 as a lieutenant colonel after spending a career as an Army airborne ranger, infantry officer and company and battalion commander, was one of 22 war veterans inducted Friday into the Ohio Military Hall of Fame for Valor. Now in its 20th year, the hall of fame honors veterans and active duty personnel who were awarded medals of valor for specific acts of bravery and heroism in combat.
The class of 2019 includes four Medal of Honor recipients, three Silver Star recipients, three Distinguished Flying Cross recipients, 10 Bronze Star with valor designation awardees (including Bonnell), and two men who received a Commendation Medal with valor. They came from all over Ohio, and represent the Army, Marines and Air Force. Nine were inducted posthumously.
Gov. Mike DeWine told those attending the standing-room-only ceremony in the Statehouse atrium that the veterans' actions were all remarkable.
"We commend their demonstration of strength and courage during difficult times," the governor said. "Each of the inductees, each one has a story and when you hear them you are in awe of what they did."
DeWine called special attention to Army Cpl. Milton Blickensderfer, a Civil War Medal of Honor recipient who captured a Confederate flag in April 1865 during action in Petersburg, Virginia. Blickensderfer died in 1916, but his only surviving grandchild, 91-year-old Norma Haglock, accepted on his behalf Friday.
It was, she said, such a special moment.
"My Dad would always tell stories about Grandpa Milt, but for me to still be around to see this day come? That's a real honor," said Haglock, of Dover in eastern Ohio.
In addition to Bonnell, other central Ohio inductees were the late John Barber, of Columbus' Northwest Side, who as an Air Force first lieutenant earned a Distinguished Flying Cross with valor while in southeast Asia in 1972; Howard Deel, of Delaware, who as an Army staff sergeant was awarded the Silver Star while serving in 1967 in Vietnam; and Christopher Orr, of Pataskala, who as a Marine first lieutenant serving in 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom earned a Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with valor.
Orr, who at 38 was perhaps the youngest honoree on Friday, said hearing the other men's stories read aloud served as a reminder to him. "Technology changes, but the nature of war doesn't," he said. "War is war. You never know when the day comes that will be your day to engage."
For his part, Bonnell, a 74-year-old sheep farmer and veterans services commissioner from Marysville, said he agrees with his wife about the day's honor: It does not, in fact, ever get easier to remember the battles.
Nevertheless, he said, he was humbled to still be recognized for something that happened 50 years ago.
"To, me it still seems almost like yesterday," Bonnell said. "What happened then is still just as poignant to me today."
For more information on the Hall of Fame for Valor, visit www.ohioheroes.org.
Holly Zachariah is a staff reporter for The Columbus Dispatch.
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2012 marks the 7th anniversary for Music Matters and this is the 2nd time Singapore is hosting this event.
The 2-day conferences focused on a wide spectrum of topics from Artist & Relations, Music Publishing & Licensing to Events & Festival Promotion. It was an information overload, in a good way of course.
As an artist & events planner in Tokyo previously, I was extremely happy to reconnect with my Japanese counter-parts and had looked forward to the updates in the J & K-Pop markets.
The highlights of the conferences were the keynotes speakers, Troy Carter and Bob Ezrin.
Troy Carter shared with us many interesting insights to his managing of Lady Gaga. He feels that Lady Gaga is like a 200 pound toddler and still has much room to grow & develop.
Music Producer Bob Ezrin shared with the audience at Music Matters his discovery process of KISS, Nine Inch Nails, Lou Reed, etc. Bob recounted the excitement he felt when he saw KISS perform and how it led him to the make the bold decision to sign them despite being put on an mission by his boss to 'drop them'.
My personal fav was American artiste, Marty Friedman's in-depth interview on 'J-Pop Phenomenon' with Sony Music Publishing Executive Director's Ken Ohtake. It was outsider giving an insider point of view and differences in American & Japanese music writing. It was a must-attend for any song writers/artistes out there who wishes to venture into the Japanese market.
Music Matters 2012 was enriching & diversified but I would have preferred for the panel discussions and keynote addresses to be organized by topics; for example: Day 1 for Artiste & Producers while Day 2 for Music Business. Sessions could also be divided according to territories. This would reduce the waiting time between sessions of relevance to your interest/profession. Also, perhaps delegates should be given different color tags to identify if they're an artiste, producer, eventers or publisher etc for easier networking.
Since most business agrees that Asia is an increasing important market, I look forward to seeing more Asian participants next year.
Finally, big thanks to the organizers who arranged for the free buses to shuttle guests to Clarke Quay for Music Matters Live on Thursday cos it is quite hard to get a cab in Singapore during rush hour. Haha!


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Q: ORDER BY apenas dia sem hora No MySQL tenho uma coluna timestamp chamada dia_cadastro (2016-06-21 11:27:32), na consulta quero dar um ORDER BY apenas no dia, e desconsiderar o horário. Ou seja, se tiverem produtos cadastrados no mesmo dia, depois ele da um ORDER BY RAND()
Tinha feito assim:
ORDER BY produto.dia_cadastro DESC, RAND()

Mas aí ele considerara o horário também.

A: É só usar a função date():
ORDER BY date(produto.dia_cadastro) DESC, RAND()

A função pega apenas a parte da data sem o horário.
Só como curiosidade, se quiser só o dia do mês (esquisito) aí use day():
ORDER BY day(produto.dia_cadastro) DESC, RAND()

Coloquei no GitHub para referência futura.
É raro precisar ordenar só pelo dia, talvez para gerar estatística de dias de maior maior movimento.


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Grant to Drumgor Detached Youth Work Project 09 Feb 2017
Through personal development, community engagement and work readiness programmes this youth intervention project will support marginalised young people, building relationships and encouraging engagement in education and training.
Amount: £96,614
Funder: BBC Children in Need
Recipient: Drumgor Detached Youth Work Project
Region: Northern Ireland
District: Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon
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This project will provide community support to children and young people affected by domestic abuse. They will be more able to keep themselves safe, increase their self-esteem, and be better able to manage their feelings.
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This smooth and shiny cup has one of the most frequently encountered designs in Japan. This type of decoration with a blue brushed background and white patterns representing bamboos has been interpreted in many ways. This type of decoration is supposed to bring calm and serenity. The inside is white like the bottom of the cup.
Sasa is the name of a species of thin bamboo commonly found in Japan.
Ce produit est très raffiné, son design est élégant, la prise en main est agréable. Une très jolie tasse!


Looking to travel more meaningfully and experience unique stays even on a budget? Our friend Michelle Chang of IntentionalTravelers shares details about her new book, An Intentional Travelers Guide to Unconventional Budget Accommodations, a book sharing creative ways to save money like free accomodation in exchange for work. (without sacrificing your travel experience). This book is now available on kindle or paperback on Amazon.
There are many different ways to travel. Personally, we like to spend time getting to know a place, its people, and its culture. We aim to keep our costs low and stretch our dollar to create meaningful experiences. Whenever possible, we try to stay active as we travel; and we're always looking to learn something new. This is one of our best travel tips for anyone that wants to travel on a budget without sacrificing the experience.
Work for accommodation is an opportunity for travelers to stay with a local host and give a few hours of help per day in exchange for free room and board. A strong emphasis is put on cross-cultural exchange and helping travelers get an authentic experience of the place they're visiting.
The primary online networks for work exchanges include: Help Exchange (helpx.net), Workaway (workaway.info), and World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (a.k.a. WWOOFing - wwoof.net). These all have online listings of hosts willing to offer accommodations and sometimes meals, in exchange for a few hours of volunteer work.
Terms of the exchange and living arrangements vary by host. WWOOF exclusively lists organic farm stays and you pay a fee for each country listing you want access to. Help Exchange and Work Away include more diverse opportunities – from construction to nannying to receiving guests at a B&B. Both networks have a very reasonable fee that gives you access to all hosts around the world for two years.
The first time we used the Help Exchange online network, we arranged a free stay at a chateau in the French countryside for two weeks. It was a way to extend our trip and have a unique stay in France for no added cost.
Our first work exchange with Help Exchange!
Several months before our trip, I searched the Help Exchange host profiles for rural placements in France that would take couples. There are hundreds of farm/garden hosts in the French countryside, and quite a few of them run part-time B&B's or vacation rentals. I sent out messages to a few of the hosts that looked interesting and had positive reviews on the site.
We ended up connecting with a host who lives in a 15th Century chateau in the Loire Valley. They do ongoing repairs and restoration to the castle, maintain 9 acres of land, host events, and run a part-time Bed and Breakfast. In exchange for six hours of work, five days per week, they put us up in an apartment on the property and provided all our meals so we received free rent in exchange for work.
Once we dipped our toes in the world of work exchange, doors opened. We realized that we could also use other methods - our personal network and online communities - to find opportunities around the world.
We've arranged our own work exchanges for varying lengths and using different skill sets.
Every summer, we stay in nice homes in Oregon's beautiful Willamette Valley for absolutely free. Actually, sometimes we get paid to stay in the homes, when there's a dog involved. Pet-sitting is another way we save money on accommodations, while enjoying the destinations we want to be in.
I know that money can be an obstacle when it comes to travel, and lodging is one of the biggest trip expenses. You probably won't find the strategies I've mentioned in this article in a guide book or budget travel magazine. So much "budget travel" advice out there today is either not that affordable or it's geared toward the young backpacker who doesn't mind sleeping in dorm rooms. Hostels aren't necessarily bad, but there are way more unique stays out there that most travelers overlook.
We have an unconventional way to travel, but the strategies apply to anyone - whether you're taking a week's vacation or heading out on a longer journey.
Our unconventional budget accommodation strategies not only save money so you can travel more, but they also gives you a richer experience.
They help you dig deeper into each place and enjoy authentic local experiences.
There wasn't a good resource available about all these unconventional accommodation strategies, so I decided to write one! And you can buy your copy here!
Looking for more stories about unconventional, and unique stays? Find more ways to use the sharing economy to save money and travel more meaningfully here.
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Printer Reviews- Photosmart D5360 uses two inking ink systems. You use a black and three-color cartridge for standard printing. HP offers an optional photo ink cartridge for six-color photo printing and a gray cartridge (to replace the color cartridge) for finer black-and-white prints. Black and color cartridges come in standard and XL versions. Standard black costs $15, standard color cost $18. The XL versions $30 and $35, respectively, cost. Using the XL versions, we estimate a black and white page costs about 4 cents and four color costs about 10.7 cents. Both values are reasonably reasonable for the low-cost inkjet printer.
The boat features of Photosmart D5360 are minimal. You can print photos from a memory card, but not a PictBridge USB device or USB storage device. To print from the card, place it in one of the memory slots. Because the screen is too small for a multi-picture view, the single view option is to see the photos at once. If you press the print your photos button without selecting a picture, it prints the photo that appears on the screen.
Or you can pass the images and choose as you go. Always increase the number of single prints when you press the OK button for a specific image. There is no way to select all the photos or a specific date range. However, you can select all the photos that you want to print before you start the print job. If you print more than one photo at a time, the printer prompts you to print 1-up or 3-up. Prints one image per page first, and the second prints three images per page.
When you print without your computer, the only editing option is to remove the red eyes. Everything else should be done through the included Photosmart Essential Software. Here you can import, edit, and print images, or share them (email or snapfish, HP online photo sharing service). Treatment options include pruning, turning, rotating, sizing, using color and light tools and adding extra effects.
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RIFTing with a Guild
July 24, 2013 ~ Jenny Griffith
Ok, so I don't often write about gaming. In fact, this blog is so little used I bet most of you forgot that it existed.
But I am a gamer, at least casually (don't judge) and so there is occasionally something I have to say on the topic.
It feels like Psyn and I have been drifting through various games over the last year and a half. We used to play WoW pretty solidly for a couple of years, until SWTOR came along and wooed me with fantastic personal story lines. Not long after my smuggler reached max level, Guild Wars 2 was released & the chance to play a pretty game (I have previously said I am drawn to such) without having to pay monthly for it, pulled me in for a while. The world story wasn't enough to really pull me in longterm and besides being able to be in higher zones, I didn't really feel like my character progressed as she leveled. A couple of months later the new WoW expansion was released and I wanted to explore all the pretty new zones. Again, it wasn't long before the charm and freshness wore off and we started dabbling back in the other games that we had played off and on for 18 months (with several months of non-gaming thrown in).
You see, we wanted to play, but had a hard time finding something that really engaged us.
Enter the RIFT Free-to-Play announcement
A little history now. We had played RIFT for about a month after release. In fact, it was the game that inspired my first ever gaming blog post. Since we were subscribed to another game at the time, we decided that would couldn't afford to be subbed to two at once. We pretty much decided to stick with our other game because that's where all of our friends were at the time. Besides, as much as I loved chaining rifts the night I spoke of in my first post, when I came back to that lower zone on a new character a few weeks later, I was behind the pack that formed at release and hated it. The zone was pretty empty and when I tried to tackle rifts with the one other person that was on, we were slaughtered. I determined that the rifts and invasions were too imbalanced for someone who prefers to spend their time in leveling zones. We moved on.
So, back to this drifting between games time. I actually hadn't really paid much attention to the F2P announcement from RIFT. Psyn did, though, and decided to update the game on his computer to see if much had changed. He talked to me about it and I decided to install it on my computer (we had played when I had a previous computer) to give it a go. We had a blast! Apparently we also both had strong cases of beginner's luck. Psyn looted a purple Gulanite Hellbug mount from the first rift we closed together (I got a pet) and then I picked up an orange Deeps' Lock Box just outside Sanctum while questing. The orange one can offer the highest level rewards if opened at max level, including epic gear.
Something was definitely different this time around. The zones were packed due to the F2P announcement, but everything also felt so much smoother and balanced. The rifts no longer seemed overpowering to the people available to fight them. They were still definitely a challenge, but we found we could 2-man some rifts and even solo them if we took things slow. The first time we had played, all the soul choices had overwhelmed me. This time I used a premade role and only started deviating from it when I was comfortable. We went mad with crafting and gathering (always a good sign if we're willing to invest time/energy in these) and just continued to have a fun time.
Social Creatures
I mentioned on Google+ that we were having a fun time with the game and my friend Belghast over at Tales of the Aggronaut invited us to join a chat channel so we could chat while playing. Until this point, we'd pretty much been on our own, the two of us tackling all the things and tearing them up. We are inherently social people, though. The thing that pulls us into a game more than anything is that sense of community and friendship. We were getting a bit lonely. So, we chatted away in the channel whether anyone else was there or not.
But apparently something else was going on with the people whose guild we would eventually join. A group of friends and gamers who had banded together through several games and were existing as a guild within a guild were at a point where a decision would need to be made about where and how they were going to have a permanent home. The overwhelming response was that they wanted their own guild again, even if it meant building it from the ground up. As prospective members, we were asked to vote and we were 100% behind the small but close-knit guild plan. The guild was formed while we were on vacation, but we were quick to join once we were home on Monday night.
What a world of difference the right guild makes
Within minutes of joining the guild and logging in to their mumble server, a large portion of the guild had mentored down to my cleric's level and were tearing rifts apart for an invasion in Freemarch. Together, we destroyed the guild quest to close 100 rifts and it felt incredible to be a part of something. Could they have closed rifts in higher level zones? Yeah. The rewards would have been the same (thanks to RIFT's very well balanced mentoring system) but they chose to come hang out with the newbie. Even last night, while playing my higher level (dinged 40 last night!) mage of the opposite faction, a guildie found us and mentored down to clear an invasion in Moonshade (I think that's the name of the zone).
I suppose what this has taught me is that the people really do make all the difference. Sometimes game features or mechanics push people away. Sometimes it's just not your cup of tea, like how I felt about TSW. But if two games are created equal (or close to it, because let's be real, no game is exactly like another) in terms of fun, but one has a community where everyone is out for themselves and another encourages helpful behavior, I know which one I am choosing. Especially if you have a chance to be in the kind of guild I found. It's a guild where everyone who joins is the friend or family of someone who is already there. It's a guild where the rules are simple, but if followed leave you with a home, a community and a family instead of just a guild tag. Can the guild accomplish great things together? Of this, I have no doubt. But being a part of close, tight-knit group, whose goal is just to have fun and enjoy the game?
Yeah, this is the home for me.
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belghast says:
I could not agree more with your sentiments. This is the thing that I have learned over the last two years of bouncing around from game to time. It is the people you play with that really make the difference. Unlike so many games… Rift seems to go out of its way to make sure you can continue playing with your friends and even gives you good reasons to do so. I am so happy to know you guys are enjoying this as much as I am 🙂
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Lady JessLady Jess says:
Go House Stalwart! I'm just starting Rift, but I've played swtor with Bel and House Stalwart, and loved it:)
rowan says:
I know we haven't been on much, but Scooters and I are delighted that you've joined in. I was in on that same vote as a "prospective." 🙂
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A lot of people skip their dental appointments. Many people have not seen the dentist for years and most of them tell us the same stories: They have dental fear.
Unfortunately there are a lot of people with dental fear. Normally it is experiences in the past which build up the high anxiety. They remember a treatment as a child which was painful or felt like an abuse and they'll do anything to avoid that same experience. Not until the pain is too much they will see the dentist. Unfortunately waiting will not make the treatment any easier and most of the times it will also get more expensive.
We have seen many patients with dental fear who after treatment by us are more confident and secure to come back. Sadly, when the fear is deeply rooted it almost never completely vanishes. However, at TandCity we can make it easier for you with different treatment options.
First of all we always work calm and gentle in a pleasant environment. We explain and prepare you for every new step. Whenever you feel too stressed or scared we pause or terminate the treatment. Some days are better than others, we know that. We are here to help you; if the anxiety is overwhelming we will not proceed. If you just want to talk we promise not to start treatment. You decide no matter what. We can always give you an estimate of the price and the time you need to spend. For most patients it all comes down to trust and we need to establish a good relationship. Tell us about your fear. Is it the fear of pain? The feeling of being powerless? Or do you fear losing your teeth? The more we know the better we can help you, and remember – dentists are also humans! Even though you don't like us we would love to give you the best treatment.


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One would generally expect a device running on a Pure Android (Stock Android) to be boring and unattractive since it won't be coming with any preinstalled app but amazingly, that is not the case.
Google actually does have some amazing features you might not notice if you don't look closely and I would discuss one of such features in this article.
Google Lens is an image recognition mobile app developed by Google. First announced during Google I/O in October, 2017. It is designed to bring up relevant information using visual analysis. What this means is simple, instead of typing a word in the space bar, you use the device camera to do the search.
When directing the phone's camera at an object, Google Lens will attempt to identify the object or read labels and text and show relevant search results and information. For example, when pointing the device's camera at a Wi-Fi label containing the network name and password, it will automatically connect to the Wi-Fi source that has been scanned. Lens is also integrated with the Google Photos and Google Assistant apps. The service is similar to Google Goggles, a previous app that functioned similarly but with lesser capability. Lens uses more advanced deep learning routines, similar to other apps like Bixby Vision (for Samsung devices released 2016 and after) and Image Analysis Toolset (available on Google Play); artificial neural networks are used to detect and identify objects, landmarks and to improve optical character recognition (OCR) accuracy.
Google officially launched Google Lens on October 4, 2017 with app previews pre-installed into the Google Pixel 2. In November 2017, the feature began rolling out into the Google Assistant for Pixel and Pixel 2 phones. A preview of Lens has also been implemented into the Google Photos app for Pixel phones. On March 5, 2018 Google officially released Google Lens to Google Photos on non-Pixel phones. Support for Lens in the iOS version of Google Photos was made on March 15, 2018. Beginning in May 2018, Google Lens was made available within Google Assistant on OnePlus and Infinix Note 5 devices, as well as being integrated into camera apps of various Android phones. A standalone Google Lens app was made available on Google Play in June 2018. Device support is limited, although it is not clear which devices are not supported or why. It requires Android Marshmallow (6.0) or newer.
It is not rocket science, as all you have to do is simple!
STEP 3: The Camera launches and a message is displayed at the bottom of the screen "Tap on objects and text". This simply means you point the camera on the object or text you want to find out about and tap on it.
STEP 4: Once you tap, the message "Looking for results" displays and a result is later displayed. Then the name of the object or text it captured.
A one of a kind feature.


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Back Country Out of a resort area.
Carve Digging into the snow with the edge of the board, used to turn.
Edges The strips of metal usually made hard steel, on the outer edges of the running surface of skis or snowboards.
Face Plant Where one's face meets the ground before any other part of one's body.
FreeStyle Any type of snowboarding which includes tricks and maneuvers.
Goofy Riding with the right foot forward on the snowboard.
Grab A trick where the rider reaches down and grabs the board with their hand while the board is in the air.
Grind A trick where the rider reaches down and grabs the board with their hand while the board is in the air.
Halfpipe A channel cut into the snow that looks like the half of a pipe.
Kicker A small lip in the snow, used for jumps and tricks.
Powder White freshly fallen fluffy snow, which has not yet been flattened.
Quarter Pipe 1 curved wall used to ride up and usually is used to do tricks off of.
Rail Metal to grind on.
Regular Riding with the left foot forward on the snowboard.