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Teen killed in camp accident
SUNSET — A Florida teen died Monday after falling more than 100 feet from a rope course swing at a youth camp in northern Pickens County.
Olivia Paige Grimes, 16, of Lakeland, Fla., was pronounced dead at the scene of the fall at Carolina Point Young Life Camp, Pickens County deputy coroner Gary Duncan said.
According to Pickens County Sheriff's Office chief deputy Creed Hashe, Grimes was attached to a large pendulum swing with two other participants as part of a camp event called "Freebird" when she became unattached and fell 100-120 feet to the ground. No one else was injured, although several other camp participants witnessed the fall.
Hashe said the ride was supervised by two staff employees at the time of the accident.
Carolina Point officials told sheriff's office investigators the "Freebird" course will remain out of operation pending the outcome of the investigation and a complete inspection of all equipment.
The camp, which is located on Sassafras Mountain at the border of South Carolina and North Carolina, offers a weeklong program targeted to teens and provides various team-building exercises throughout the week, including courses involving ropes and rides through wooded areas along the mountainside.
Carolina Point officials issued a statement on the camp's website Tuesday.
"All of us at Carolina Point and across Young Life grieve with this young woman's family and friends," the statement read. "We do not yet know how this occurred. At the moment, our focus is on those grieving over this tragic accident. This is a very sad day for all of us. The safety of campers and guests is our highest priority at Young Life Camps."


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Q: MATLAB: function point_cloud Question:
Write a function called point_cloud that takes one scalar as an input argument (the function does not have to check the format of the input) and has no output argument.
If it is called like this, point_cloud(100), then it plots 100 points. Each point has a random x coordinate and a random y coordinate, each of which is gotten by a call to randn, which uses a normal distribution with a standard deviation equal to 1. The range of the plot axes should be −5 to 5 in both the x and y dimensions. The grid should be turned off. The points should be plotted and displayed one at a time by calling plot with only one point specified and, following the call of plot, by a call of drawnow, which causes the point to be plotted immediately. The command hold on should be included so that all previous points are retained when a new point is plotted.
Figure 2.41 shows an example view of the plot after point_cloud(100000) has completed its point-by-point plotting on a Mac. (Note that on Windows the points are much larger. Also note that it takes a long time to plot this many points with drawnow. Finally, try zooming in the middle.)
Figure 2.41
My Code:
    function point_cloud(N)

    hold on
    grid off
    axis([-5,5,-5,5])
    for ii = 1:N
        plot(randn(ii));
        drawnow;
    end

I know this is wrong, but I'm not sure how to solve this problem. Can someone help?
Solved code:
    function point_cloud(N)

    figure
    hold on
    grid off
    axis([-5,5,-5,5])
    x = randn(N,1);
    y = randn(N,1);
    for ii = 1:N
        plot(x(ii),y(ii),'b.');
        drawnow;
    end

A: You do not need the for loop at all. And drawing the plot each iteration is very time consuming. How about rather using the scatter function.
figure
hold on
grid off
axis([-5,5,-5,5])
x = randn(N,1);
y = randn(N,1);
scatter(x,y,'b.')

This will be a lot faster.

A: To add to the other answer, here is the code as a function, with the added functionality that the points are one pixel on Windows as well:
function point_cloud(N)
    f = figure;
    x = randn(N,1);
    y = randn(N,1);
    scatter(x,y,1/36,'b.');
    f.GraphicsSmoothing = 'off';
    grid off
    axis([-5,5,-5,5])
    axis equal
end

The size of the markers is set with the third parameter of scatter: 1/36. The graphics smoothing of the figure needs to be set to 'off' as well, to make sure that the pixels don't become blurry or lighter.
Here's a 3D version:
function point_cloud3D(N)
    f = figure;
    x = randn(N,1);
    y = randn(N,1);
    z = randn(N,1);
    scatter3(x,y,z,1/36,'b.');
    f.GraphicsSmoothing = 'off';
    grid off
    axis([-5,5,-5,5,-5,5])
    axis square
    view(3)
end

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Q: How to make 2 characters be seen as one letter? I'm creating a game which will be in the Welsh language. Purpose of the game is to help children learn to spell certain words. So basically when a word is spoken out, they have to spell the word by clicking the correct letters on the screen.
The challenge I have is comparing the characters of the word to the letter they've chosen. They will obviously have to choose the letters in the correct order. As the Welsh alphabet contains 8 letters that have 2 characters each i.e. Ch, Dd, Ll etc, the compiler will read them as separate characters i.e. 'C' instead of 'Ch'. An example would be the word 'Gwallt' (hair in English). The compiler will think the L's are 2 separate occurrences of the letter L. In fact it's one letter in Welsh.... So when the user clicks 'Ll' on the screen for its spelling it would throw an error.... how could I avoid this? Is there some rule I could set up? I have all the various words being stored in an array. Hope the above made any sense?

A: A split with a Regex may help you.
//ch is the first element, ll an other char or any char from a to z
//Ignoring case and multi line
private Regex tokenizerRegex = new Regex(@"(ch|ll|[a-z])", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Multiline);
//split your input string
//split returns an array of strings
var tokensText = tokenizerRegex.Split("channel");
//print results
tokensText.ToList().ForEach(i => Console.WriteLine(i.ToString()));

Result:
> empty string
> ch
> empty string
> a
> empty string
> n
> empty string
> n
> empty string
> e
> empty string
> l
> empty string

A: I think the problem is with the character encoding. I would advise using the correct Unicode code point for the specific digraphs
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Annie Wauneka was visibly angry when she met with a reporter for the Associated Press on March 1, 1969.
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"The federal court has no right to tell the Navajo Tribal Council who should be allowed to come onto our reservation," she said. Two days before that meeting, a federal court judge in Phoenix, Walter Craig, ruled in Ted Mitchell's favor, telling the tribe they had to allow him back on the reservation so he could continue his duties as director of DNA-People's Legal Services, the legal aid agency on the reservation.
Three months before that ruling, the Council had banished Mitchell from the reservation for showing disrespect to Wauneka, a delegate of the Council. Wauneka claimed he had laughed at her while she was making a speech in the Council Chamber. When she heard him laugh, she stopped her speech, walked up to him and slapped him in the face. Mitchell later claimed that he was laughing at something one of his associates said and not at Wauneka.
The incident resulted in the Council passing a resolution the following day claiming that Mitchell was a dangerous person and, per their rights under the Treaty of 1868, they can ban dangerous people from the reservation.
During the next three months, Mitchell continued to direct DNA attorneys, first from his motel room in Gallup and then from a trailer set up at Tse Bonito, New Mexico, on the other side of the state line from Window Rock.
The Navajo Times has covered the story better than any other newspaper in the area, writing two or three stories a month as well as printing more than 20 letters to the editor, most of them saying the Council exceeded its authority. When Craig's ruling came down, the Times not only published a long front-page story but it set aside five whole pages to print the entire ruling because of the interest shown by readers about the subject.
The ruling did not give Mitchell all he wanted. Craig denied the request for $10,000 from the tribe to pay for his expenses because he was forced to get a motel room in Gallup during the time he was banned from the reservation.
Harold Mott, the tribe's general counsel, also objected to the ruling, saying it was a "serious blow to tribal sovereignty." He said he would appeal the decision. The ruling did establish new legal perimeters on what the tribe could and couldn't do regarding non-Indians living and working on the reservation.
Craig said that because of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, non-Indians have the same rights as Indians on the reservation. In fact, he ruled that non-Indians have the same rights as members of the tribe to "express views" on the wisdom of actions taken by tribal governing bodies. And any attempt to take action against a non-Indian requires that that person be given a judicial trial.
Craig's ruling took note of the fact that members of the Council had criticized Mitchell on a number of occasions during the year before they took their action to ban him from the reservation. The Council was upset at DNA attorneys who filed suit against the tribe or got involved in school board disputes, saying that these kinds of cases cost the tribe money to defend themselves.
This ruling, for the most part, ended the matter since the appeals court upheld the district court decision. But it didn't prevent the tribal government from banning non-Indians from the reservation.
Over the next 30 years, there were at least two other occasions when a non-Indian was banned from the reservation, one of them a non-Indian who was living with a Navajo woman who claimed he abused her repeatedly and the other a government worker who was accused of abusing children. In both of these cases, however, the tribe went through judicial procedures to get the removals approved.
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The story centered around a study done by three delegates of the Council who went to the school and found a lot of problems, including drinking on campus and illegal use of peyote. The Council delegates recommended the replacement of the school's director and other staff who were in charge of student conduct. The students objected, saying the staff at the school was doing a good job and understood the needs of the student body. Bringing in new personnel would only create more problems, they said.
The students admitted that the problems mentioned in the article are occurring but pointed out that all boarding schools operated by the BIA were experiencing the same problems and were trying to deal with them. To single out Intermountain was unfair, they said. The solution, in their opinion, was for the tribal government to work with the school staff to address these issues and give them support, not criticism.
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Why Human Life? The Biggest Unanswered Question of All Time
by Sam Kneller | Aug 24, 2017 | > Read Origin otU online, 2. Sacred Books | 0 comments
Why Human life? It's an enigma that humankind is too scared to ponder. We don't know the answer. Yet this is fundamental knowledge–essential to understanding how we function.
Why Human life? It's an enigma that humankind is too scared to ponder. We don't know the answer. Yet this is fundamental knowledge– essential to understanding how we function.
This post covers questions from Inventory of the universe chapters 7-10: Human Life > Human Body > Brain/Mind > The Human/Animal Dilemma. Keep in mind why we're exposing these questions: Because we are searching for answers, coherent completeness where all the answers fit together to give us a clear understanding of the why of the Universe, Earth, and Humankind. A tall order, granted, We're looking for a book that contains these answers.
(Origin of the Universe chapter 2.3)
These questions need answers that create coherent completeness and explain the why of the Universe. Click To Tweet
Remember that at the end of Audit of the Universe, we realized that Leaders, Philosophers, Scientists, and Religionists had not given us this coherent completeness. In other words, humankind, of and by itself, cannot figure out the equation.
We've therefore turned to Theology to try and see if there's some sacred book authored by a s/Source that is 'beyond humankind.' At this point, The Explanation is not saying there is such a s/Source. I'm presenting the issues, and it'll be up to you to see whether these arguments lead to coherent completeness.
Below is a lengthy list, including many why questions for which we need reliable answers. You can NOT get proper what / how answers UNLESS you know WHY! And they relate to the most fundamental query of all, why human life?
As an example: How should we treat employees? You can answer, but you can't give a complete solution–unless you know why humankind exists; this might sound disproportionate, but an employee, no matter where they are in the world, is a human being. You can't know what they need, how to keep them productive unless you understand why that human life is in your employ. You might think you're just dealing with a bunch of 'employees' that have a 'job to be done.' but sooner or later, there'll be discontent because you've overlooked the 'human life' aspect of the question.
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We're going deep, deep, deep to search for a sacred book with a s/Source, beyond humankind, that can throw light on this primordial subject.
How can you have total worldwide peace and prosperity if you don't have it first on an individual level? (page 164)
We recognize that DNA has a top-down approach to transmitting information that orchestrates the notes of the biological chef-d'oeuvre in distinctive, unique directions; this is where we witness chronobiology at its supreme. What do I mean by that? Think of DNA as having internal clocks, each set to the life cycle equivalent of what time it is in Paris, Rome, New York, Hong Kong, or Tokyo. These timers help juggle the millions of elements in a DNA chain, with instantaneous and meticulous exactitude, to produce various types of RNA that in turn, combine the amino acids into the lengthy folded proteins that are propelled to the four corners of your body to keep life running. (page 165)
Our disturbing question comes up time and again: which came first? For instance, proteins produce amino acids while already having amino acids as part of their structure. In a flowchart or organizational chart, which do you put first? (page 166)
When bonded together, these molecules form about five hundred chains called amino acids, of which only twenty are the building blocks of proteins. Why only that many? Why those specific ones? Why human life has the composition it does?(page 170)
"Do you know where the amino acids come from?" asks Galacti. "Various sources. They can come from our food digested (metabolized) into amino acids that join the pool of amino acids in our bloodstream, or these amino acids can be built from scratch, from simpler molecules, by other processes." (page 174)
There are many fascinating aspects of protein synthesis, but this practically instantaneous folding into thousands of elegant 3-D geometric figures. Why these specific shapes? (page 177)
However, one cell can't be important to human life—or can it? (page 178)
What else, exactly, goes on inside a cell? (page 181)
Only specific cells in specific places expire, while those directly adjacent are transforming into various skin cells, each with its specific functions. How is all this governed? (page 188)
Such cells have an internal self-destruct mechanism that takes them out of the normal cell circuit. "Is it too harsh to call that suicide?" Galacti asks. "Or is it more like a machine that shuts down? (page )
The question we want to ask is this: how can one fertilized cell know how to become which one of the approximate four hundred diverse cell types we have in our bodies? (page 190)
Move our hands, prick our fingers, or breathe, and we know that cell processes and the elemental atoms in DNA are at work right now, as are the vital elements of life, including the oxygen we breathe. The question is, how. Are genes the answer? (page 191)
Remember, scientists, are awakening to the real purpose of the about 80 percent of DNA that was considered junk. "In that case," adds Galacti, "what surprises might the remaining 20 percent hold for us? (page 194)
With such interplay of nature and nurture, how can the species of humankind be so distinct? (page )
Why do transposable elements jump? How do they know where to insert themselves? (page 195)
With both addition and suppression of transposable elements, specific human functions and characteristics can be activated, silenced, or diseased. Since 80 percent of our genome is biologically active, it could go awry. Why are we in particularly good health? (page )
How Many Genes, Chromosomes, and DNA Base Pairs Do Other Organisms Have? (page 202)
Why does a rare flowering plant in Japan called Paris japonica have the largest genome of any living organism that we have measured? (page 203)
Does a larger genome indicate a more sophisticated organism? (page 204)
What about the rudimentary, irregularly shaped Amoeba dubia that contains 670 billion base pairs of nucleotides, the blueprint for everything from its irregular one-celled shape to its tentacle-like pseudopodia that help amoebas move? How can amoebas possibly have a larger genome than we do? (page 204)
How do the base pair combinations in the DNA alphabet of a dog, which differ from a worm's, produce the ears, nose, fur, and wagging tail of a specific dog breed, as well as the blood cells that differ from human cells? (page 205)
Or how do the genes control the specific head and thorax configuration of the fruit fly? (page 205)
Exactly how and why do the genomes and DNA produce the variations around us? (page 205)
Bodies Alive
We wonder at the history of speech. When were the first syllables or words spoken? Were they spoken by the ancient Chinese or by Indus Valley dwellers? (page 219)
How is it that the body contains the right amount of these minerals to make the spine and other bones strong? (page 222)
How is it that the lower bones are strong enough to keep us upright while the other bones, such as the pectoral girdle and the bones in the arms and hand, work together to do the daily tasks of living? (page )
Why do women have breasts? Why are women uniquely equipped to have children, making eggs fertilized with sperm cells? Why do men have more hemoglobin, the composition of red blood cells, than women? (page 231)
Another difference is the body fat that provides women with curves and full hips; we wonder about the origin of these differences. Is it merely in the hormones? Is it in the DNA, or as doctors suggest, the brain? (page 234)
The control center is called the cerebral cortex, and it is how we can reach answers to our main questions: Are humans equipped to perceive, think, and reason? Even more importantly, if the answer is yes, then why human life is equipped to reason? (page 238)
Can the structure of the brain truly explain why we do what we do, how we think, why we love what we love, and why we fear what we fear? (page 240)
Wouldn't it be nice if we all decided to practice positive associations? (page 254)
How do infants learn? How do they learn which number is larger, for example, or how to recite a nursery rhyme? How do they learn to do those things on command? (page 255)
Why should babies be able to read lips, and why does the freshness of their minds allow them to learn two languages (such as Spanish and English or French and German) more easily? (page 258)
Despite infant's large brains, however, their neuronal structure is like a sensory library waiting to be filled, and their brain maps are only blueprints. Why is this so? (page 259)
It's no secret that teenagers' brains work differently, but why don't they have the same advantage as young children, whose brains contain about 60 percent more neurons than the teens'? Is there some significance to teen brains developing in some areas, but challenged in others, such as the circuits that control judgment, emotional control, and reasoning? (page 263)
Why do those bright, innocent, neuron-filled brains keep asking Why? Why? (page 263)
Is there an underlying message we should be getting? Is the universal brain telling us something that we haven't grasped yet? (page 265)
Why do all brains experience identical critical periods despite differences in sex and race? Why is it that the woman next to me, raised in Malaysia, has the same lifelong patterns of brain processing? You might well say that we think different thoughts in a sense because our experiences are different, but we are alike in cognitive activity. Is it because we are all humans? Surely, but is there something more at work? (page 265)
We are all pondering the fact that we think. What exactly does that mean? (page 266)
What exactly is the mind? We can see the brain on our scans with the neurons firing. However, can we detect the mind in those pictures made of particles? (page 266)
Which comes first: a thought or brain activity? (page 268)
Could we one day "see" thoughts (we're hungry, we're thinking about home, we're in love) in our tangle of "computer wire" neurons as those neurons fire? (page 270)
It means that there's a crucial point to address. How can the mental practice of thinking affect physical activity? (page 271)
There must be some interface. Wherever that immaterial thought is, what process causes it to take physical action that lights up the brain scan? (page 271)
Those three-week-old kittens and ducklings we spoke of earlier have reappeared in the lab, courtesy of Galacti. We watch them, and we wonder: Do they think? Do their brain maps change? (page 274)
During our amazing journey, we've discovered many conundrums summed up by that unanswerable question: which came first, the chicken or the egg? Did amino acids come first, or did the proteins that contain and produce amino acids? Science and humankind still have much to discover, but can we answer such a question? Can we go beyond that? For instance, the common question is, "What was there before the Big Bang?" Another common question is, "Where did that initial explosion come from?"
Let's ask another: "We know that the expansion of our universe is accelerating, not decelerating. What implausible force is behind such a venture?" And another: "Since our universe is composed of space and time, and since it's inflating, into what is it expanding? What's out there beyond the extremities of our universe, that is becoming a part of it, at a rate of billions and billions of square kilometers per second?" Galacti has put on his kiddie cap and is asking his "why" questions: "Why does this universe exist? Why are humans on Earth? Is there a point to life?" (page 278)
The Human /Animal Dilemma
There are philosophical questions like why are we here? Some say, "Who cares? Does it matter?" but others either offer ideas or are looking for answers to such questions, whether the answers are scientific, philosophical, or spiritual. And the ultimate satisfaction would be to have the solutions satisfy the scientific, philosophic, and religious minds. Is this possible? (page 279)
Do animals demonstrate kinship as we understand it, or is it merely survival instinct? (page 281)
Animals kill to eat or in self-defense. They do not perform wanton, wholesale destruction, nor do they kill for fun. Somehow, this vast arena has established a living equilibrium. Can we say the same for humans? (page 296)
The broad question is how each of these subjects, or pieces of the puzzle, relates to bringing peace and prosperity to Earth. The primary query is this: Do animals have a role to play in this? Can they participate in the discussion via clues and input? (page 302)
"Can man answer the question of how to attain peace and prosperity? (page 302)
Who would have ever thought a 3-D printer was possible? Yet man invented it. (page 306)
What Is an Animal? What Is a Human? (page 309)
However, when we look at the world today, who are transforming it? Who is at the heart of all, and I mean all the changes, modifications, and revolutions that have historically taken place and are reordering society at a seemingly speedier pace today? (page 309)
Why is it that a blind piglet can find its way to its mother's nipples and begin suckling for its livelihood seconds after birth, while a newborn human baby would die if it did not have the nipple placed in its mouth? (page 312)
Why is it that colts and fillies can get to their feet, wobble, and walk around within minutes after their birth? While a baby lies on its back for months before even starting the process of turning over, getting up on all fours, crawling on all fours, standing, and finally taking its first steps around ten months after birth? Why is it that animals with smaller brains and lesser intelligence become independent quickly, while babies with a vast potential of intelligence take about eighteen years before we declare them adults? Why is it that animals are operational within seconds, minutes, or days and can eat, hunt, swim, fly, navigate, hibernate, and adapt to their environment? While children have to go through a lengthy process of years of education to learn the fundamentals of how to live and how to earn a living among many, many other things? Why do these capacities originate and manifest themselves in these ways? (page 312)
When seven billion people are playing with the same puzzle (of the Universe and Earth) according to their own different rules, can it resemble the original one for long? (page 321)
Can the puzzle's masterpieces retain their perfect fit, each filling its position, functions, and responsibilities properly within the entirety of that intricate puzzle? In what shape is our puzzle? Is it still recognizable? How much sincere interest is there in trying to understand the original form? Is there a limit to how far humankind can go in breaking off the edges of the puzzle pieces before the puzzle falls apart? What is the state of our universal heritage? Do we have peace and prosperity? Is it attainable for all? If so, how? (page 322)
There you have it, All those puzzling why questions touching on every aspect of our Universe, from Space to Human life with our extraordinary minds. Next week we'll have the final questions for the a/Author of this much needed sacred book that will lead us to coherent completeness.
This blog post is from chapter 2.3 of Origin of the Universe.
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Edgar Hutchins, Sr.
Full Name: Edgar Hutchins, Sr.
Date of birth: August 2, 1905
Date of death: September 14, 1967
H 40 Jan 12, 1943 - Jan 9, 1945 48th Democrat Greenville / Hunt Hunt
H 40 Jul 25, 1942 - Jan 12, 1943 47th (1) (2) Democrat Greenville / Hunt Hunt
(1) Edgar Hutchins, Sr., in special election 7/25/1942, succeeded George C. Morris, resigned 6/11/1942. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
(2) In Senate, George C. Morris, in special election 7/21/1942, sworn 8/24/1942, succeeded Claude Isbell, resigned 3/1/1942. In House, Edgar Hutchins, Sr., in special election 7/25/1942, succeeded George C. Morris, resigned 6/11/1942. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
61st Legislature, R.S., HSR 458. Edgar Hutchins, Sr. Relatives: Edgar Hutchins, Sr. - father, Edgar Hutchins, Jr. - son (both of Greenville). Resolutions - Memorial.
Memorial, May 1968, p. 424. Texas Bar Journal.
Edgar Hutchins, birth date 8/2/1905, death date 9/14/1967 in Greenville. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976.
Photograph. Edgar Hutchins, 48th Legislature, State Preservation Board
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Frequently Asked Lasting Power of Attorney Questions
Below is a list of commonly asked Lasting Power Of Attorney FAQs.
A Power of Attorney is the only legal way for a person to appoint someone to act on their behalf to make financial decisions should they lose mental capacity at some point in the future.
What decisions can an Attorney make?
Under a Property and Financial Affairs Power of Attorney. Attorneys can make decisions about buying/selling a Donor's property. They can access the Donor's bank accounts and claim the Donor's benefits and pensions.
Under a Health and Welfare Power of Attorney. Attorneys can give/refuse consent to particular types of health care, decide whether the Donor stays in their own home or moves to a care home. And choose the right care home for the Donor.
How can I check if a Power of Attorney is registered?
You can contact the Office of the Public Guardian which keeps a register of Lasting Powers of Attorney.
What if my Attorney dies?
Before registration: you can make a new Lasting Power of Attorney and choose a new Attorney. But only if you have the capacity. After registration: If you only have one Attorney and no replacement Attorneys your Lasting Power of Attorney becomes invalid. If you have a replacement Attorney then they will take over.
Can my Attorney charge for acting for me?
Your Attorneys do not have to be paid however you can decide an amount to pay them. If you have multiple Attorneys you can choose to pay them differently. Attorneys can claim reasonable out of pocket expenses incurred when acting on your behalf.
Can a Property and Financial Affairs Attorney Decide About Where I Live?
No a Property and Financial Affairs Attorney can only make decisions about your finances and property.
Can I stop being an Attorney?
You can choose to stop acting as an Attorney at any time. If the Lasting Power of Attorney is registered you will need to complete form Lasting Power of Attorney 005 disclaiming your appointment and send this to Office of the Public Guardian.
Who will replace me if I stop acting as Attorney?
A replacement Attorney if the Donor has specified one in the Lasting Power of Attorney
Can another Attorney be added once the Power of Attorney is registered?
No. However if the Attorney still has the capacity to cancel the existing Lasting Power of Attorney, they can do so and create a new Lasting Power of Attorney appointing a new Attorney.
Do I need to let the Office of the Public Guardian know I'm acting as a Replacement Attorney?
Yes. You must return the Lasting Power of Attorney to the Office of the Public Guardian with a note of the change so that they can update the Lasting Power of Attorney register. If this is not done the Replacement Attorney may be unable to act.
If the Power of Attorney becomes invalid can the Donor make another one?
Yes but only if they still have the capacity to do so.
What happens to the Power of Attorney when the Donor dies?
The Lasting Power of Attorney will be terminated. As Attorney, you should send the LPA and a Death Certificate to the Office of the Public Guardian. The Office of the Public Guardian will not give advice on how to deal with the Donors estate.
What if there is an objection to me being appointed as an Attorney?
The Donor, the people to be told or other Attorneys can object to the registration of a Lasting Power of Attorney.
Other people can object to registration but to do so they must pay a court fee. Objections by a person to be told or an Attorney must be made on factual grounds.
The Office of the Public Guardian can be asked to stop the registration through an objection if:-
The Donor is bankrupt or interim bankrupt (Property and Financial Affairs LPA only)
The Attorney is bankrupt or interim bankrupt (Property and Financial Affairs LPA only)
The Attorney is a Trust Corporation and is wound-up or dissolved (Property and Financial Affairs LPA only)
The Donor is dead
The Attorney is dead
There has been a dissolution/annulment of a marriage/civil partnership between the Donor and Attorney (except if the Lasting Power of Attorney provided that such an event should not affect the instrument)
The Attorney(s) lacks the capacity to be an Attorney under the Lasting Power of Attorney
The Attorney(s) have disclaimed their appointment
Objections to the Court of protection against registration of the Lasting Power of Attorney can only be made on the following grounds:-
That the power is not valid as a Lasting Power of Attorney, for example, the person objecting does not believe the Donor had the capacity to make the Lasting Power of Attorney
The power no longer exists, for example, if the Donor revoked it at a time when they had the capacity to do so
Fraud or undue pressure was used to induce the Donor to make the power
The Attorney proposes to behave in a way that would not be in the Donor's best interest
The Office of the Public Guardian requires appropriate evidence to support any factual objection raised.
What if I want to register my Property and Financial Affairs Power of Attorney but don't want my Attorney to act until I lack capacity?
You can include a restriction stating how the Attorney must demonstrate this. For example "my Attorney(s) must not use my Lasting Power of Attorney until they have obtained medical evidence that I have lost mental capacity".
If the Donor requested that the Power of Attorney is only to be registered upon loss of capacity, does medical evidence need to be supplied to the Office of the Public Guardian on the loss of capacity?
No, the Office of the Public Guardian will not need evidence. But as happens with all Lasting Power of Attorney registrations they will notify the Donor on receipt to give them an opportunity to object to the registration.
Are two separate fees payable if I am registering both types of Power of Attorney?
Yes, you must pay a registration fee for each power o attorney you apply for.
What if the Donor or Attorney(s) can't afford the registration fee?
The fee is usually paid from the Donor's assets but if you can't afford the fee you can ask to postpone or waive payment.
Where can I get extra copies of the registered Power of Attorney?
The Office of the Public Guardian can supply office copies of the original Lasting Power of Attorney document and may charge a fee.
Can I still register with the Office of the Public Guardian if the original Power of Attorney is missing?
The Office of the Public Guardian won't usually accept an application to register without the original Lasting Power of Attorney form. They may, however, consider registering a 'certified' copy – a copy signed on every page to show it is a true copy and not tampered with in any way. It is usually possible for the company who prepared the Lasting Power of Attorney to certify the copy. When sending a certified copy it is also required to send a written statement explaining how the original was lost.
Who is a certificate provider?
Someone who can confirm the Donor has the full mental capacity and understands what giving Power of Attorney means. A certificate provider can be someone the client has known for at least two years. Or someone with relevant professional skills to assess their capacity such as a Doctor, Nurse, Financial Adviser, Will Writer or Solicitor.
As a certificate provider can I discuss the Power of Attorney with the Donor with Attorney present?
If at all possible you should discuss the contents of the Lasting Power of Attorney with the Donor not in the presence of the chosen Attorney(s) in order to form your opinion. The Donor must be able to communicate with you freely.
What happens if the Power of Attorney cannot be registered?
If the Donor does not have the capacity to make another Lasting Power of Attorney, the Attorney or another relevant person can apply to the Court for an Order covering the decisions that need to be made on the Donor's behalf.
Can the registered Power of Attorney be cancelled or revoked?
Yes, the Office of the Public Guardian can cancel the registration on factual grounds. For example (Bankruptcy of the Attorney) and the Court of Protection can terminate the Lasting Power of Attorney for other reasons. For example (the Attorney not carrying out duties correctly). Or if the Donor still has the capacity they can revoke the Lasting Power of Attorney. They must advise their Attorney(s) and the Office of the Public Guardian of the revocation so the Lasting Power of Attorney can be removed from the register.
What is the Power of Attorney register?
A searchable database containing the details of all registered Lasting Powers of Attorney. Once a Lasting Power of Attorney is registered certain personal information will be available to anyone who applies to search the register.


September 18—24th is National Surgical Technologists Week, and the Surgery Department at Divine Savior Healthcare gives you a closer look at what it means to be a Surgical Technologist.
Computer vision syndrome (CVS) or digital eye strain, can affect anyone who spends three or more hours a day in front of a computer, tablet, e-reader or cell phone. Many individuals are at risk, including those who "cannot work without a computer." And that's not counting the millions of children, adolescents and adults who spend many hours a day playing screen-based games or using e-readers. The average American worker spends seven hours a day on the computer, either in the office or working from home.


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Witchstone Review
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Reiner Knizia is one of the most famous and prolific board game designers of all time. His work encompasses '90s classics like Ra and Modern Art, all the way to modern hits such as The Quest to El Dorado and My City. So when his name appears on a new game such as Witchstone, which he co-designed with Martino Chiacchiera, you sit up and take notice.
Beneath the big fold-out board lies a plethora of colorful components. There's a selection of wooden witch and owl tokens and two different shapes of plastic crystal in each of the four player colors. Plastic can look cheap, and we know it is cheap, but cut gemstones can't help but to retain a certain allure even when they're not real.
The board itself adds to the visual theme by depicting a big crystal ball alongside other items of magical paraphernalia including a wand and a pentagram. There's a deck of cards, too, although the art is functional and nowhere near as lavish as that on the box and board. Several sheets of cardboard sprue round out the components. These are serviceable enough and include a cauldron board for each player and a whole stack of tokens.
Rules and How to Play
Each turn in Witchstone starts with the player placing a tile from their hand into their cauldron. These tiles are double hexagons with a symbol on each end, and the two symbols indicate which actions you can take that turn. If you can place a symbol against a matching one already in your cauldron, you can take that action twice, or more if you're increasing the size of a group of icons.
Right off the bat, this is a smart, shifting puzzle to enjoy. You're caught three ways, between the tiles in your hand, the actions you want to take right now, and setting up symbol groups for the future. If you play this puzzle well, these groups can allow you to take large numbers of actions late in the game. Such big combo turns can often trigger further actions inside them, making them demanding, exciting and game-swinging all at the same time.
Right off the bat, this is a smart, shifting puzzle to enjoy.
One such action is to migrate crystal tokens. These start in your cauldron and block tile placement spaces, so it's good to get rid of them. If you can move them to the lip of the cauldron you'll get one or two bonus actions depending on where, exactly, they end up. You also have a special black crystal at the centre of the cauldron which nets you double the effect if it reaches the edge.
This highlights two things about Witchstone. The first is the way in which all the mechanisms tend to cross over, as in the way crystals are bound up with your cauldron strategies. The second is that the rules are unintuitive, awkward and peppered with irritating exceptions.
You see, although Witchstone has all the trappings of a game about magic with its crystals, witches, and owls, it's not actually about anything. It's an abstract draped in a sorcerer's cloak, an excuse to combine a wide range of play styles and mechanics. And while that marriage gives the game a lot of depth and variety, it means the rules don't relate to any real-world activities and are hard to internalize.
Let's explore some of the other actions to illustrate these points. Energy actions let you take possession of links between board spaces. These lean into witch actions that mean you can move your pieces onto the main board and move them around. First into particular spaces gain tokens that can be cashed in for bonus actions. Again, you see how the game interlinks its mechanisms and again there are various rules exceptions, which we won't detail, to learn.
Although Witchstone has the trappings of a game about magic… it's not actually about anything.
The next two mini-games are the pentagram and the magic wand. The pentagram action lets you move your token around the five points of that board symbol, gaining points or tokens. These can either be cashed in for bonus actions or placed in your cauldron to make bigger symbol groups. The wand is a race for bonus actions, as the first person to reach a given point on the wand track gets double the reward.
All of these action also have the potential to score you points, which is how you inch toward victory. Given the circular nature of how these various routes interlink, you might imagine Witchstone makes it hard to find a starting place to build a strategy. But it has a clever solution in its final action, the scroll, which lets you take a card from a face-up selection. Some of these give you action bonuses but others earn you substantial extra points for doing well at particular mini-games. These make an excellent starting point for your strategizing.
Between them, the effect of these disparate mini-games is to make Witchstone cross a number of genre boundaries. Pooling action combos in your cauldron feels a bit like an engine builder. Jostling for space on the crystal ball gives you a sense of area control. The wand and pentagram are races, where early leaders get bigger rewards. It's a good mix, offering tidbits to lots of different tastes while retaining plenty of depth from the way the mechanisms interlock.
However, as the old saw goes, Jack of all trades is master of nothing. It's satisfying to snatch a route away from another player but there's nowhere near enough direct interaction to stop it being mostly a heads-down affair, for example. And without a unifying theme to tie the whole thing together, it can feel fragmented despite its smart overall design. This is especially true when the game runs long, as it will with more players, and while you're still getting to grips with its mishmash of unintuitive rules.
The further you venture into the game, though, the more engaging it becomes. The rules become familiar and the increasing power of each of your turns spirals into some real excitement. Toward the end, when your cauldron tiles run out, you can be bagging big combos for huge point swings. Of course, so can all the other players, leading to lots of fun flip-flops over the lead as the game closes out.
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No felony charge for Brooklyn assemblywoman accused of beating son; Diana Richardson still faces 1 year at Rikers
By CHRISTINA CARREGA
Prosecutors dropped an assault charge against Assemblywoman Diana Richardson, though she still faces a misdemeanor count for allegedly beating her son over grades. (Jesse Ward/for New York Daily News)
Brooklyn prosecutors dropped a felony assault charge against a state politician accused of beating her pre-teen son with a broomstick.
Assemblywoman Diana Richardson was arrested on Nov. 5 when her 12-year-old son walked into the 71st Precinct to complain about his mother, who allegedly left his arm bruised after the beating.
Richardson, 33, was initially charged with felony and misdemeanor assault charges, but after "careful consideration" and speaking to the child's father, prosecutors dismissed the top offense.
Her son's name is being withheld.
Despite having the felony assault charge dismissed, Richardson still faces up to a year on Rikers Island for the remaining misdemeanor charges.
Richardson declined to comment outside of court after the brief appearance.
"This is still a stressful situation for her, but she's moving forward," Richardson's attorney, Joyce David, said outside of Brooklyn Supreme Court on Tuesday.
Richardson, who represents Brooklyn's 43rd Assembly District, also has a modified order of protection through family court and is allowed to see her son during unsupervised visits at the child's father's home.


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Srinagar: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Friday held a condolence meeting at Government Medical College (GMC), Srinagar to mourn the sad demise of noted pediatrician Dr Daljit Singh.
He was operated 20 days back at Artemis Hospital Gurgaon for brain tumor and was shifted to Naryana Hospital Jammu where he breathed his last today at 11 am. He was 79.
Paying rich tributes to the deceased, DAK President Dr Nisar ul Hassan prayed for eternal peace to the departed soul and expressed heartfelt sympathies to the bereaved family.
Saddened over the death, DAK President said it is a great loss to the medical fraternity and his death has resulted in a great void in the field of medicine.
"Born in Dardapora Kreeri area of Baramulla,Dr Daljit was a man of impeccable integrity," he said.
"A medical luminary, Dr Daljit graduated from Indore Medical College and after completing his post graduation joined GMC Srinagar and became Professor of Pediatrics," Dr Nisar said.
"He underwent fellowship in neonatology at United Kingdom and established the department of neonatology at Pediatric hospital. He was instrumental in shaping the neonatal care services in Kashmir Valley," Dr Nisar stated.
"His commitment to the welfare of people of the state was commendable. He rendered his services to the people of the state at a time when many doctors left them to fend for themselves," Dr Nisar said.
"His contributions in the field of pediatrics will be remembered for all times to come. He was a compassionate and empathetic doctor because of which he was very popular among patients. He will be sorely remembered by everyone whose lives he touched," Dr Nisar further said.


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Monumental Sports & Entertainment today announced Groupon as the official and exclusive Daily Deal sponsor of the NBA's Washington Wizards, NHL's Washington Capitals, WNBA's Washington Mystics and Verizon Center. As the official Daily Deal sponsor, Groupon will offer team and arena offers to hundreds of thousands of local Groupon subscribers at http://www.groupon.com. Groupon will also receive signage throughout the interior and exterior of the arena including in-game signage during Capitals, Mystics and Wizards games.


Back to 1962 with US Astronaut John Glenn's Stopwatch: Piloting an F1 racing car or a sailing boat in the America's Cup requires precision instruments of the highest calibre. How about when piloting a spaceship?
An independent researcher has presented conclusive evidence that US astronaut John Glenn was wearing a Heuer stopwatch when he piloted the Mercury-Atlas 6 "Friendship 7" spacecraft on the first manned U.S. orbital mission. This means that Heuer now named TAG Heuer was the first Swiss watchmaker in space! Prior to Glenn's historic flight, the only watch to pass beyond the stratosphere was the Russian-made chronograph that Yuri Gagarin wore when he orbited the earth in 1961.
The evidence, presented by space and watch enthusiast Jeff Stein, is based on flight records and NASA documents and several archival photographs.
The stopwatch, a "standard Heuer stopwatch, Reference 2915A," with 12-hour capacity and 1/5 second accuracy, was fitted with elastic bands to be secured onto the sleeve of Glenn's spacesuit. It is now owned by the Smithsonian Institute and currently on display at the San Diego Air and Space Museum. Stein includes this quote from the display: "After the failure of other brands on the earlier flights of Alan Shepherd and Virgil "Gus" Grissom, the TAG Heuer was selected by NASA due to its ability to withstand the high G-forces created by liftoff."
The launch from "Cape Canaveral" later renamed for President Kennedy, in Florida on February 22, 1962, saw John Glenn successfully orbit the earth three times, reaching a maximum altitude of approximately 162 miles and an orbital velocity of approximately 17,500 miles per hour. The mission lasted almost five hours, requiring the use of Heuer's well-proven 12-hour timer.
According to Stein, the Heuer stopwatch strapped to Glenn's wrist over his space suit served as the "backup clock" for the flight.
"Measuring time has been a critical factor in men's journeys into space," writes Stein, "as it was also critical in man's early journeys across the oceans or the continents by railroad. Whether executing precise maneuvers or navigating the journey, it has been critical for space travelers to be able to time events and to know the time of day (in a realm in which there are no days). Conditions demand timepieces that will be rugged, reliable and precise, and easy to read and operate."
"I am happy to introduce the TAG Heuer name -- with its rich history and reputation in sports and scientific timing -- into this discussion (or perhaps we should call it the "space race"), and to present the information and images that I have gathered," writes Stein on his excellent vintage Heuer website - OnTheDash.com.
John Glenn's adaptation of a Heuer stopwatch allowed him to keep time reliably with the utmost accuracy throughout the flight. Today, the astronaut would have no shortage of high-quality TAG Heuer chronographs to choose from! Today the brand is also famous for creating avant-garde movements, housing these in leading-edge chronograph cases, and equipping them with highly flexible bracelets of unparalleled durability, comfort and elegance.
The leading maker of precision-driven sports watches and chronographs since 1860, TAG Heuer is grateful to Jeff Stein for his research and proud to be associated with John Glenn's historic achievement.
Gee... that's pretty cool, but looking at the close ups of his watch in the article, it looks more like it was preset to the 15 second mark than the 20 second.
By the way, which watch was worn by Alan Shepard?
Shepard probably didn't wear a watch as there really weren't any time critical elements to his ballistic flight, like time to retro fire.
On the question of whether Shepard and Grissom wore watches during their flights (stopwatches, watches or chronographs), I have studied a lot of photos, and it seems fairly certain that they were NOT wearing watches on their Mercury flights. Backup clocks are also not mentioned in the transcripts for their flights.
The watches are clear in the Glenn, Carpenter and Schirra photos, but missing from the Shepard and Grissom photos.
There is a mistake on the Tag Heuer site and in the article. Gagarin was not wearing a chronograph into space.
It was a handwound Sturmanskie with central seconds complication and a hacking feature that allowed the watch to be precisely stopped and synchronized with a given time signal.
The Sturmanskie Gagarin wore into space had a highly finished (including Geneva striping!) 17 jewel, shock protected movement. The movement was housed in a chrome plated, two-piece case measuring 33 mm across, 12 mm high, with a 16 mm lug size and had a stainless steel screw back.
I'd like to learn more about the Sturmanskie brand. I haven't found any website talking about it on the web, even on Russian times.
Does anyone have a good resource about it?
John Glenn wore a stopwatch on his right wrist, during the MA-6 mission. I think it was a Heuer. Anybody out there with any more info?
Well I have Gagarin's watch.
Not the flown one but a "Commander's" watch issued by Chistopol watch factory and awarded to Gagarin 1965 by Kuznetsov, Head of Cosmonaut Training. Gagarin obviously had enough watches as next year he gave it to his brother. It is inscribed "To brother Boris. Yu. A Gagarin, 1966".
Not sure if he ever wore it (a photo would be a fantastic find), nor am I sure if it has any intrinsic value as a watch but it's certainly a prized possession.
I heard that Scott Carpenter asked Breitling to make a 24 hour version of the navitimer. Anybody know anything about this? I first saw photos of it dated Nov. 1961. It would be an interesting topic, if someone wanted to write about it.
Indeed Carpenter did fly with a modified Breitling Navitimer with a 24-hour movement dubbed the "Cosmonaute". I have corresponded with Scott and Kris about this timepiece some time ago in an effort to find its' whereabouts.
Unfortunately, Scott's chronograph was submerged in seawater during his recovery and was not very watertight. It was returned to Breitling for repair following the flight and, in a nice gesture, they replaced it with a pristine model.
Of course, today his flown watch would be very valuable, but that was not appreciated at the time. He was happy to get a replacement. The original has never been seen again, even after efforts by Breitling to track it down recently.
Scott didn't have too much luck with his personal gear on MA-7...his Randall survival knife, engraved with his name, also went missing from his kit. Bo Randall ended up making him a new one of those, too.
Two people somewhere in the world have some very nice flown items.
Breitling still makes the Cosmonaute today, but don't be fooled. It has a completely different automatic movement, unlike the original hand-wound Venus his had. At one time, they were fitted with a Lemania-based movement similar, if not identical, to the 861 caliber Omega Speedmasters. I'd look for one of those if I were shopping for one.
Takes a little time to get used to looking at a 24-hour dial, after recognizing the hand positions on a standard one all your life.
Ah, yes. The Breitling. Speaking of which, can anyone identify this watch, visible in the foreground on Carpenter's left wrist?
Is it a Bulova Accutron? Who is that little girl in the background? (ha-ha-ha). Could it be someone we heard of on cS?
More importantly, what's for lunch? Sandwiches and Fritos?
Great eyes, Lou- that certainly is a Bulova Accutron, considering the content of this page, most especially.
Yes. I asked the Dynamic Pioneer™ on Saturday morning. It was a Bulova Accutron, which he thought he might still own. He smiled remembering the circumstances, recalling that it was Gordo who brought the watch to Project Mercury in exchange for a semi-formal endorsement of the Accutron.
"Gordo got kinda mad at me," Carpenter explained, because his endorsement of the watch wasn't wholehearted enough at some point for Bulova's purposes.
It was a nice watch, he said: "one of the first" with a quartz movement (or something). The problem was, as far as the DP was concerned, that the Bulova used "a little tuning fork." With that watch still on his wrist, beneath his pillow at night, trying to get to sleep, Carpenter could hear the little tuning fork. It was a little noisy for one Mercury astronaut's comfort.
Do you have any pics of DP wearing the Breitling? As an owner (the Datora, not the Cosmonaut) and enthusiast, I occasionally visit the Breitling forums and this topic comes up every now and then.
Kevin, there are a few images, but not anything like those of the Accutron.
Recall that he received the reconfigured Breitling Navitimer just a few days before his flight--so on perhaps one of the Bill Taub photographs of Carpenter's capsule ingress on May 24, 1962, you can see the watch around his space-suited wrist.
You can also see what I assume is the Breitling around his wrist for his postflight arrival at Patrick AFB. But he returned it to Breitling HQ to fix some water damage in the week or so after his flight. The story he tells is that Breitling sent him a replacement watch, named the Cosmonaute.
What I believe to be the first flown watch,* therefore, may be in a vault somewhere. The question is where, and whose vault? It likely has a serial number that would date its manufacture to some time in April or May 1962. Breitling has changed hands since 1962.
*By "flown" I mean flown in US orbital spaceflight at the very least. Glenn wore no watch. Did Shepard or Grissom wear watches on their suborbital flights? Does anyone know? Did Gagarin or Titov wear watches? AFAIK, Carpenter is the first documented wearer of a timepiece, a Breitling timepiece, in space.
I think the research confirms that Shepard and Grissom did not wear watches on their flight. Carpenter wears the Breitling and then Schirra wears the Omega Speedmaster for MA-8. Cooper wears the Speedmaster and also brings along an Bulova Accutron on MA-9. NASA does their watch testing between the end of Mercury and the beginning of Gemini. Gemini 3 is the first crew to be issued the venerable Omega Speedmaster as standard equipment.
Brock is right on the money there.
KC... you may remember that you and I exchanged some emails last year, and I ended up sitting next to a Breitling VP on a flight one night. We talked about this subject for a long time, and he got interested in looking into it.
Well, he went to the big annual watch show at Basel, and was met with alot of shoulder shrugs and funny looks. If there were such a vault, it was likely cleaned out long ago during one of the mergers/buyouts.
Breitling disassembled the watch for cleaning and perhaps testing.
Breitling disassembled the watch and, not recognizing its' historic importance, returned parts or the whole watch to stock.
Someone at Breitling retained the watch as a personal momento and it remains in private (and very quiet) hands today.
I think the likelyhood of seeing it publicly again ranks right up there with finding Buzz's Speedmaster. But, if the owner(s) of said timepieces happens to be a lurker here, I welcome the opportunity to be proven wrong.
As an aside, Bulova has announced that they no longer produce replacement parts for the old tuning fork Accutron, so if anyone plans on acquiring one of these, beware that it may have a very limited lifespan.
The current Accutron Astronaut, which ironically, Buzz endorsed and allowed the use of his signature on the case, is fitted with a modern quartz movement and date window.
Thanks, Brock and 328KF, for advancing the story. And, yes, 328, I well remember our excellent correspondence about the Breitling. It's a fascinating story.
In fact, I saved the notes I took for you during my informal interview with Carpenter and was able to share them with Rolex researcher, Jake Ehrlich, who has been pursuing another watch mystery.
Listen to the podcast here (also linked on ScottCarpenter.com) of Jake's September 2008 interview with Carpenter. Although his primary interest was the Rolex Sea-Dweller (he publishes some nice photos of Carpenter's Sea-Dweller), you can hear the audio of the two men discussing (among other things) the development of the Breitling for spaceflight and the likely fate of the flown watch after its May 1962 journey.
Now, there is a watch just exactly like I want here in Boulder. It is stainless steel, non-magnetic, shockproof, waterproof, dustproof, and has a sweep second hand, minute hand, hour hand, and numbers that are coated with radium so that they shine at night... [on page 2, closing] I will repeat, I would like to have a watch that is everything-proof plus a radiumated sweepsecond hand and minute and hour hand. Then I can tell the zero hour at night to the very second.
I'm curious. What could this watch possibly be? Young Carpenter tells his father he saw it at a Boulder jeweler's store. C.U. Boulder was then awash with military officers training on campus, creating a demand for high-performance watches. What watch would a jeweler carry in order to meet this insatiable demand?
About the Accutron. After posting that LIFE magazine photograph and hearing cSers chime in on the scene, I thought to add more information about the setting of the lunch scene, since a lot of this is mid-20th-century cultural history (folkways).
I walked home this April day in 1962 from my first-grade classroom to have lunch with my dad, home from the Cape for a rare visit. Yes, those are Fritos. We are probably having bologna sandwiches with Miracle Whip and iceberg lettuce leaves. [[Oh, and on edit, how could I possibly forget the slabs of Velveeta that my mother added to this unforgettable midday meal?]] Ralph Morse, the photographer, has captured me copying my dad, who was in the habit of inserting several Fritos into his sandwich. I'm putting Fritos into my sandwich, just like my dad.
This scene is the kitchen of the Carpenter home on Eagan Street which was lined with identical houses that comprised officers housing at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia. The Coopers lived next door and likely had an identical kitchen. It was an amazing place to be a kid.
About the Accutron, I remember often asking to hear the tuning fork in my dad's watch. It was a really interesting sound. I had no idea how it worked, or why. But it was pretty cool.
The Rolex blog is a great site with lots of pictures...I really think that "Space Dweller" is kind of cool! I will have to listen to Scott's interview later this evening.
"Rolex has also been the choice of NASA Astronauts to be worn on the Moon, on the Space Shuttle and onboard the International Space Station."
I don't where they got that from, but otherwise a great discussion of your Dad's influence in these fine watch designs as he pursued the exploration of multiple frontiers.
I would also note that near the end of the article, he shows a cropped pic of Cooper and Conrad on the ship after GT-5. He says that Cooper had converted to the Speedmaster by that point in his career. On the contrary, both GT-5 crewmen wore both the Omegas and their own personal Bulova Accutrons.
So it would appear that Cooper had convinced several of the Mercury/Gemini guys to try the Bulova. Conrad wore it once more, along with two Speedmasters, on GT-11. You can never have too many watches in space, I guess.
The only other time I saw The Accutron used on a space mission was, believe it or not, in 1983, when Norm Thagard wore his on STS-7.
Thanks, Kris, for taking the time to share some of this amazing history with us.
Thanks, 328. I read your post with interest.
About Jake's photograph of the vintage Breitling, posted on his blog, I myself did not supply it and can't vouch for its accuracy and of course have no expertise in the matter.
The only photographs we Carpenters have of the reconfigured Breitling Navitimer are those taken by chance--and by chance showing his left wrist--by NASA photographers in the days before and just after the flight.
I think the only Carpenter-supplied watch photographs in the blog linked upthread are those of the Sea-Dweller--still trying to nail down the date it came into Carpenter's possession. He linked it with Sealab II.
But, interestingly, it appears that on the Rolex blog Dee O'Hara is suggesting (in her inscription of that photo with Carpenter) that Carpenter is showing her his new Breitling!
The Navitimer "Cosmonaute" performed flawlessly during Aurora 7 with the exception of a the seawater damaging the movement during the recovery phase. Of all the watch brands out there I think that Breitling is the most closely associated with aviation/aerospace. If I remember correctiy NASA selected several chronographs from different brands bought of the shelf at Corrigan's Jewelers in Houston. I think we know that Omega, Rolex and Longines were part of the competition. However I don't think Breitling was part of the testing. Anyone care to comment on this? I would find it odd that after Carpenter wore the Navitimer on his flight NASA never chose to test that brand. The story of NASA cooking, dunking, shaking, freezing these watches is a story in and of itself.
Kris, I imagine that at one time or another your father wore an Omega Speedmaster given to him by NASA. If that is the case I was wondering what his thoughts were on the Speedmaster compared to his Navitimer and other watches he owned.
Kris, you mentioned your father wanting a really tough watch in 1943. I am guessing that the Hamilton Watch Company was all the rage during WW2. It has a rightfully proud history of supplying watches to the services during the war. Hamilton was everywhere in those days. Lots and lots of pilots in the USAAF wore Hamilton for their durability. A complete guess on my part.
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328KF, thank you for sharing your kind words about my online Rolex History Magazine.
You suggested my statement was "Inaccurate" when I said "Rolex has also been the choice of NASA Astronauts to be worn on the Moon, on the Space Shuttle and onboard the International Space Station."
This is a fact and there is a great deal of direct evidence I dug up that comes directly from the NASA archive to support this. You can find links to the Rolex watch Moon stories which I included in my article and interview I did with Scott Carpenter.
It is a fact on Apollo 14 that Dr. Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Roosa wore Rolex GMT's to and on the moon. Also Alan Shepard of Apollo 14 wore a Rolex GMT.
Jack Swigert wore a Rolex GMT on Apollo 13. This is a well established fact, but Omega fans typically don't recognize this?
Many other NASA Astronauts wore Rolex watches including Wally Schirra, and John Glenn.
Even Wernher von Braun wore a Rolex, not an Omega.
I have nothing against Omega, but I believe as you will soon learn things were definitely not what they appeared to be.
It is also a fact Rolex has been worn on many Space Shuttle missions and on the International Space Station by many NASA Astronauts including Commander and Dr. Leroy Chaio who I wrote an article about and did a podcast interview with which you can also find a link to in Scott Carpenter's article.
You also said "I may be wrong, but it looks like the vintage Cosmonaut pictured has "Scott Carpenter" photoshopped into it." I don't know for certain. I found the images on the web and simply included them for historical reference. Scott Carpenter told me the story about the Breitling watches. I don't know anything about Breitling, except that John Travolta is in many magazine adds for Breitling that look super-photoshopped to me.
As far as the pic of Cooper and Conrad on the ship after GT-5, I simply repeated the story as it had been relayed to me by Scott's daughter, Kris. I don't know anything about Bulova Accutron watches either, except that Elvis wore one on a black leather wristband in his 1968 comeback special concert.
Despite being passionate about timeless Rolex design, my only objective is to find and publish the truth about watches in Space and I have gone to great lengths to do so. I think the Omega Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch is a cool watch and it was the official choice of NASA, but many of the NASA astronauts personally chose Rolex for obvious reasons. Omega is the "Official" James Bond watch today because Omega was willing to "pay" to make it so and Rolex refused, despite the fact Ian Flemming wrote that it was Rolex in the original James Bond novel. Same thing in my mind with NASA.
Somebody at NASA got paid to make the choice of Omega over Rolex -- just like with James Bond. I have heard and explored the stories about NASA going to the Houston Jewelry store and the supposed tests, but it appears as if that was fabricated as an urban legend. I have a pretty rock-solid expert witness who will remain anonymous for now who tells me Omega "paid" to be the official watch just like they did with James Bond.
I have a pretty rock-solid expert witness who will remain anonymous for now who tells me Omega "paid" to be the official watch just like they did with James Bond.
Like yourself, I take pride in collectSPACE treating history with the respect. Exceptional claims require exceptional evidence, so I would encourage your witness to step forward.
Regarding Mitchell's use of the Rolex on the surface of the Moon, do you plan to interview him as you have Scott Carpenter? The photos you present paint the picture that the Rolex flew on the mission, but I do not know if we can go so far as to say it was on his wrist while out on the surface.
As to Rolex being "the" choice of NASA astronauts, I would respectfully suggest it may certainly have been "a" choice, but not the only one (or even perhaps the most popular). I know quite a few former astronauts who span the Apollo to ISS programs who continue to wear Omegas, not because they are paid to, but because they prefer the Speedmaster.
My expert source is rock-solid and they have already gone on the record with me in a podcast interview which I have not published yet.
Yes I plan to interview Dr. Edgar Mitchell as I have Scott Carpenter.
I have seen significant evidence that suggests Dr. Mitchell wore his Rolex on the longest moonwalk in history and I will be sharing it in a future article I am working on.
On Jake's Rolex Watch Blog I say "Rolex has also been the choice of NASA Astronauts to be worn on the Moon, on the Space Shuttle and aboard the International Space Station." I said this and I stand behind it 100%.
It is an indisputable fact that Rolex has flown on the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station.
From the research I have done it appears as if the Rolex watch and Omega watch communities are littered with misinformation and made-up stories. My intention is to separate the fact from the fiction -- once and for all.
Thanks, Brock, for the additional information on the Breitling and for your thoughts about the ubiquity of the Hamilton watch in World War II service.
I hope to follow up with my father on Monday regarding some of these watch identifications and will alert him to the good questions raised in this thread.
Jake, as I stated, your article was a great read. I certainly look forward to seeing what you come up with in the future, and please do keep us posted here.
Harold Johnson, one of the STG engineers, came to our office one day with eight wristwatches-one for each of us and one he would wear. They were analog watches with numbered dials, but the numbers went from one to twenty-four. Six o'clock in the morning appeared as three to anyone who had used an everyday watch; noon was six, and midnight twelve.
Johnson said we'd better become accustomed to these watches, because the world-wide tracking network was soon to go on twenty-four hour time. They were confusing to say the least. They were also completely unnecessary, since on our spacecraft clocks we would be reading digital time, as would the flight director and his crew in Mercury Control.
The seven of us, by the numbers, unstrapped the Johnson watches, as we called them, and placed them on our desks. We would not wear them, and that was that. There was no discussion, and Johnson beat a hasty retreat.
LeCoultre wristwatch with 24 hour dial & lizard & metal wrist band worn by Schirra during his early Mercury 7 training. Excellent working condition. Letter of authenticity signed by Wally Schirra indicating that this came from his personal space collection. (1994 Cert by Wally Schirra).
I had a chance on Monday to discuss the Breitling (and other) watches with my dad, after showing him this interesting thread.
He had a couple of reactions. I'll relate them in no particular order and apologize in advance for any repetition of information supplied in previous posts. This was his ca. October 2008 recollection reacting to this cS thread, which contains some new information.
Carpenter smiled and said, "I forgot that John wore that stopwatch," when we looked at the TAG Heuer link with its great pictures. He disagreed with the interpretation of the transcript, which at 00 00 23 has Glenn discussing the backup clock. He says Glenn is not referencing his stopwatch.
Carpenter also smiled to hear me read aloud Wally's written account of "the Johnson watch" and saw the beautiful picture of the Le Coultre watch posted upthread and said aloud "La COLT-er." Not squinting to see the small type.
Then Carpenter tried to explain that communication and navigation were his specific responsibilities for Project Mercury. Timekeeping was an essential subset of these.
So when he met the RAAF pilots who introduced him to their Breitling Navitimers in September 1961, when he was in Muchea for MA-4, he took the initiative to write to Breitling, telling Breitling that timekeeping was his specific responsibility and toward this end he wanted the reconfigured Navitimer to retain the circular slide rule and to delete the tachymeter in order to make room for the 24-hour dial.
Carpenter concedes that he proceeded in this direction without developing a consensus among the 7. "I held my ground maybe in defiance of the pressure of the group but in the belief I was right."
What was the design principle involved in the 24-hour dial, I asked? "NASA needed to conform its practices," he explained, "to the ways of the future and anticipate the pressures exerted by changing technology" in the environment of space. My sense was, at root, Carpenter believes that pilots "want to be able to say what they read. Nowhere on a 12-hour dial," he finally expressed with satisfaction, "does it say '8 PM'."
The photograph of him and Dee O'Hara, Carpenter says, is right before his flight at the Cape. And he is showing Dee his Breitling, he says. He remembers that the one they sent him did say "Cosmonaute" on the face. This name presented a bit of an ideological affront, he recalls, given cold war tensions but he reasoned that Breitling was just being "European."
And I wonder now, as an aside, that this francophone linguistic faux pas on Breitling's part may have cost them the NASA contract. I mean, they could have made Cosmonaute 24-hour and 12-hour versions of the watch in an effort to appease the 12-hour dial aficionados. Most importantly, they could have named it The Astronaut.
About the WWII Hamilton, Carpenter said he couldn't remember the brand, but Hamilton "sounded right." "It was a big American watch," he said. "A regular chronometer with a radiumated sweep second hand."
Oh, and the timing of the Carpenter in Muchea contact with the Navitimer preceded by about three weeks GIlruth's announcement to the 7 that Glenn-Carpenter would be the prime-alternate team for the first US manned orbital flight. That took place on October 4, 1961, in Langley.
This is the great part of being on this forum. Thanks for that Kris!
I found this image of Alan Shepard on the cover of Life on May 19, 1961 just after he got back from his Mercury flight. It appears as if he is wearing the LeCoultre 24 Hour watch just like Schirra's.
That photo of the "vintage" Cosmonaut is definitely photoshopped. The "Scott Carpenter" certainly has been added, probably in place of the AOPA wings that Breitling was using in that period (see the advert a bit higher in the blog). The problem with identifying these early ones is that some had the wings, some had the "B" logo, some said Navitimer, some said Cosmonaut, and others had both (or neither!).
As for Breitling's association with aviation, it wasn't until the original Navitimer came out that the company started pushing that angle and the flying public made the association. Sure, their previous watches were useful to aviators, but have you ever tried to use that slide rule in-flight? Eek.
Interesting that Carpenter had them delete the tachymeter for the 24-hour dial because the Speedmaster retained the tachymeter instead of something like the sliderule, which again is nice, but really not practical, especially for gloved hands.
One last bit. I would be stunned to see definitive documentation that NASA (or someone at NASA) was paid off to use the Speedmaster. I have spoken with many of the Crew Systems Division people, including some who were in charge of the area responsible for stuff like watches. I would find it highly questionable if someone suggested they were somehow paid or forced to use a particular brand.
In fact, I have documentation to the contrary.
Correspondence from the Astronaut office, under Deke Slayton's signature, details what happened. According to him, 4 Speedies were procured in October 1964 for astronaut (non-flight) use. In April 1965, he recommended that "we purchase only the Omega Speedmaster," because, for one "It is unanimously preferred by all astronauts over all chronographs that have been used throught the Mercury and Gemini programs... [it] was also highly preferred by the GT-3 and GT-4 crews who participated in an operational evaluation of chronographs (Omega Speedmaster, Rolex GMT Master, Longine Wittnauer 235T) which met the basic configuration requirements as specified in an RFQ distributed to all known watch manufacturers on September 24, 1964." Note that he didn't include Breitling in his final list, probably because of the lack of water resistance as mentioned.
As you can see, the Rolex wasn't as popular as the blog might suggest, at least for "preflight training and during Gemini missions" as Slayton describes. He goes on with a detailed comparison, noting that the Speedy was more accurate, readable under all light conditions, easy to wind with spacesuit gloves on, more reliable, and performed better in environmental testing.
He knocked the Rolex for being impossible to wind with gloves on, it stopped running under various tests, and the hands warped during the environmental tests.
The Longines popped its crystal (ironically, so did the Speedy during one of the Apollo missions, as I recall).
He concludes, "An extensive investigation of all domestic and foreign chronographs revealed that the Omega Speedmaster Model No. 6049 best satisfies the above requirement, and is the only chronograph tested that definitely does not cause a possible hazard to flight safety during both normal and emergency space flight environmental conditions."
Slayton recommended buying 17 watches to start from J. Lechenger Jeweler, Inc. of Houston for $82.50 each and getting stainless steel straps made by J.B. Champion from Levit's Jewelers, also of Houston. I have no idea if they actually went through with either of those purchases.
For Apollo, Crew Systems initially contracted with Hamilton Standard Division (the prime suit contractor) to provide a wrist watch for the suit under the 9-3535 development contract, but deleted that provision in early 1965.
All these documents are official NASA memos out of the National Archives in Ft. Worth. Seems like a lot of trouble to go through to make up that stuff if Omega just made a deal with the NASA administration (or whoever) to be the official watch company. So please, post the podcast or at least give us the name of your source.
Kevin, I looked closely at the image you reference and I agree it looks photoshopped -- poorly, I might add. I did not catch this detail because I was so busy writing, and researching as you can imagine.
When Scott Carpenter first told me about how Breitling made a Scott Carpenter Cosmonaut I was naturally curious and I went on the web to see what it looked like without the intention of including it in the article. I later added the two images for simple frame of reference.
I wandered into this site where I sourced the image in controversy.
After close examination, I have decided the image does not belong in Scott's article and I will remove it in the future. I will leave the image up for a week or two so that everybody has the ability to confirm that what I say is true.
I would also like to address the issue of NASA being paid to use the Speedmaster. Before, I specifically address this issue I want to make something crystal clear. I like Rolex design very much, but as a historian I have no bias toward Rolex or any other brand. I am only committed to pursuing the truth. In the future, as previously mentioned, I will publish all my findings on this issue.
I must say I was shocked when I went through the NASA archives and found photos of Apollo astronauts wearing Rolex watches to the moon including Jack Swigert, Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Roosa.
I naturally sought to understand what all these Apollo Astronauts and more were doing wearing Rolex GMT's. Here is a photo of Eugene Cernan during Apollo 17 training and he is wearing a Rolex GMT on velcro outside his suit. What is a NASA astronaut doing wearing a Rolex GMT on the outside of his space suit when Omega is the official NASA watch? I have no idea?
So I want to by crystal clear that I have no bias and I am only interested in the truth, so much so, I plan to write a super detailed article that covers every watch in space.
Kevin, you say "I have documentation to the contrary."
You go on to say "Correspondence from the Astronaut office, under Deke Slayton's signature, details what happened. According to him, 4 Speedies were procured..."
Could you please provide links to all the documents you cite or the specific source of your cited documents that your refer to when you say "I have documentation to the contrary?
I ask about your sources not because I challenge or dispute anything you say, I would simply like to review the specific documents you cite.
Thanking you in advance for your kind assistance in this matter.
Jake, the watch-related documents I have were all taken from either the NASA JSC archives now at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, or from the MSC/JSC materials transferred to the National Archives in Ft. Worth. I came across them in doing extensive research on spacesuits. Unfortunately, that means they're intermingled with all of that material.
I did locate the one by Slayton from which I quoted extensively in my previous post. If you'd like, I can scan it and e-mail you the pdf. I also have the NAS9-3535 contract that mentions the requirement for a watch to be developed, but that's a big document and a point not really in dispute. I could also send you the TWX that mentions deleting that provision from HSD's contract if you care, but again not really in dispute.
Somewhere, I have the test results from the actual (earlier) CSD testing of various watch brands, but I was unable to locate it after a bit of digging last night. I'll see what I can do to find it, but as I said, all my quotes came from the document I did unearth and I'll be happy to share it. How about I'll send you my document if you send me the name of your source?
I think my only point of disagreement with you is related to the "official" status of the Omega watch and Omega being paid to be that. As you may know, as a government agency, NASA can't endorse, or be paid to endorse, anything. This isn't the NFL. It never claims anything is it's "official" whatever and it maintains strict standards on how such claims are made and how its logo is used to suggest its endorsement.
In the case of the watches (no pun intended), NASA needed to find a timepiece that could work in space, so it put it through the same paces as anything else going into the spacecraft and on the EMU. Sure, as your article and others point out, this process was haphazard and done as an afterthought in the early days, but when it came to using equipment on EVAs and on the moon, they had to make sure the watch met standards. The Speedmaster did this, it was popular at the time, the astronauts liked it, so they stuck with it.
Obviously the "official" status of the watch was a little lax because, as you've pointed out, other brands made it into space on at least one occasion. How would that happen if Omega was paying good money to be the "official" watch of NASA?
Perhaps the story of Omega paying NASA is something else, like having to pay some sort of royalty after it started marketing itself as the "Moon watch"? But I have seen no evidence to suggest the company had any influence on the selection process. I am very curious to at least know who your source is. But as someone who has done quite a few interviews with a lot of NASA pioneers, I should caution that any claims made in such interviews should always be corroborated with documents, or else they're only good for stories... or debates like this.


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