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Tom Challenger – tenor saxophone
Dan Nicholls – piano
Tom Farmer – double bass
Jon Scott – drums
Dice Factory – the name taken from Luke Rhinehart's classic novel "The Dice Man" – started life in 2009 as a series of exploratory sessions: playing music from their early influences – ranging from alt rock band Deerhoof to NYC pianist Vijay Iyer. Through this they developed their collective vision of challenging compositional frameworks being transcended by fiercely interactive group playing. This group of key young musicians are already giving shape to the creative direction of a new jazz generation with wider cultural interests, as members of the Loop Collective, Outhouse, Empirical and Kairos4Tet. Their eponymous debut album (Babel Label) was launched to great acclaim in 2012, and they are now beginning to make a name for themselves on the European scene.
"Powerful thematic development, clarity of ideas, precision playing, rhythmic and dynamic variety – what more could one want from music?… a near flawless and constantly engaging series of musical episodes." 5 Stars
Mark Gilbert, Jazz Journal
"A very impressive debut."
Stephen Graham, Jazzwise
"a highly effective fierce interactiveness that promises much from live performance"
Chris Parker, LondonJazz
"excellent ensemble playing, solos which dart off in various directions but never so far as to lose touch"
Bruce Lindsay, All About Jazz
Dice Factory have emerged as one the London Jazz scene's most forward thinking units of recent years, with a commitment to co-operative practice alongside an ever-expanding compositional and improvisational palette.
Made up of Tom Challenger (Saxophone), Dan Nicholls (Piano), Tom Farmer (Bass) and Jon Scott (Drums), They released their debut album in 2012 and have since gone on to appear at various major festivals around the UK, whilst also playing in Europe.
All members are involved with a wide array of other European-based projects either as contributors or sidemen. This wide field of activity manifests itself within the bands sound – characterised by ensemble interplay based on rhythmic and melodic forms that have been generated from the processes the band employs when writing.
At times playful, at times texturally diverse and at times thematically rich, Dice Factory stands as a forward thinking unit unique to the UK scene.
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package org.incode.module.communications.dom.impl.commchannel;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

import com.google.common.base.Predicate;
import com.google.common.collect.Iterables;
import com.google.common.collect.Lists;

import org.incode.module.base.dom.TitledEnum;
import org.incode.module.base.dom.utils.StringUtils;

public enum CommunicationChannelType implements TitledEnum {

    POSTAL_ADDRESS(PostalAddress.class),
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    private CommunicationChannelType(final Class<? extends CommunicationChannel> cls) {
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    public static List<CommunicationChannelType> matching(final Class<? extends CommunicationChannel> cls) {
        return Lists.newArrayList(Iterables.filter(Arrays.asList(values()), new Predicate<CommunicationChannelType>(){

            @Override
            public boolean apply(final CommunicationChannelType input) {
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Retiring and replacing the MV Tustumena with a vessel that is equally, if not more, versatile and seaworthy will provide reliable marine transportation service well into the future for the communities, residents and businesses in South Central, Kodiak Island and Southwest Alaska. A conceptual drawing of the replacement vessel can be viewed through the following link.


The Eleventh (11th) Annual Bimmerfest was held May 22, 2010 at The Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
For the fifth (5th) Consecutive year, BSP Principal Member Travis Hawley, with the qualified team of BlueStar Parking associates, managed all parking and crowd control logistics for the festival.
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John C. Mackey was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Detroit College—now known as the University of Detroit Mercy—for two seasons, from 1900 to 1901, compiling a record of 6–5.

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Steve Fossett
American businessman, record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer
Fossett in February 2006
James Stephen Fossett
(1944-04-22)April 22, 1944
Jackson, Tennessee, U.S.
September 3, 2007(2007-09-03) (aged 63)
Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, U.S.
Garden Grove High School
setting a large number of world records as an adventurer, sailor and aviator
James Stephen Fossett (April 22, 1944 – September 3, 2007) was an American businessman and a record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer. He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixed-wing aircraft. He made his fortune in the financial services industry and held world records for five nonstop circumnavigations of the Earth: as a long-distance solo balloonist, as a sailor, and as a solo flight fixed-wing aircraft pilot.
A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers Club, Fossett set more than one hundred records[verification needed] in five different sports, sixty of which still stood at the time of his death. He broke three of the seven absolute world records for fixed-wing aircraft recognized by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, all in his Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer.[1] In 2002, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Aero Club of the UK,[2] and was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2007.
Fossett disappeared on September 3, 2007 while flying a light aircraft over the Great Basin Desert, between Nevada and California. Extensive searches proved unsuccessful, and he was declared legally dead in February of the following year.
In September 2008, a hiker found Fossett's identification cards in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, leading shortly after to the discovery of the plane's wreckage. Fossett's only known remains, two large bones, were found half a mile (800 m) from the crash site, probably scattered by wild animals.[3][4]
1 Early years
2 Business career
4.2 Balloon pilot
4.3 Sailor
4.4 Airship pilot
4.5 Fixed-wing aircraft pilot
4.5.1 GlobalFlyer
4.5.2 Transcontinental aircraft records
4.5.3 First trans-Atlantic flight re-enactment
4.5.4 Glider records
4.6 Cross-country skiing
4.7 Mountain climbing
4.8 Other accomplishments
4.9 Previous attempts at records
5 Scouting
6 Awards and honors
7.1 Disappearance and search
7.2 Search and rescue costs
7.3 Recovery of wreckage and remains
7.4 NTSB report and findings
Early years[edit]
Fossett was born in Jackson, Tennessee and grew up in Garden Grove, California, where he graduated from Garden Grove High School.[2]
Fossett's interest in adventure began early. As a Boy Scout, he grew up climbing the mountains of California, beginning with the San Jacinto Mountains.[5] "When I was 12 years old I climbed my first mountain, and I just kept going, taking on more diverse and grander projects."[6] Fossett said that he did not have a natural gift for athletics or team sports, so he focused on activities that required persistence and endurance.[7] His father, an Eagle Scout, encouraged Fossett to pursue these types of adventures and encouraged him to become involved with the Boy Scouts early.[5] He became an active member of Troop 170 in Orange, California. At age 13,[5] Fossett earned the Boy Scouts' highest rank of Eagle Scout.[8] He was a Vigil Honor member of the Order of the Arrow, the Boy Scouts' honor society, where he served as lodge chief.[8] He also worked as a Ranger at Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico during the summer of 1961.[9] Fossett said in 2006 that Scouting was the most important activity of his youth.[5]
In college at Stanford University, Fossett was already known as an adventurer; his Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity brothers convinced him to swim to Alcatraz and raise a banner that read "Beat Cal" on the wall of the prison, closed two years previously. He made the swim, but was thwarted by a security guard when he arrived.[7] While at Stanford, Fossett was a student body officer and served as the president of a few clubs.[5][which?] In 1966, Fossett graduated from Stanford with a degree in economics.[10] Fossett spent the following summer in Europe climbing mountains and swimming the Dardanelles.[7]
Business career[edit]
In 1968, Fossett received an MBA from the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where he was later a longtime member of the Board of Trustees.[11] Fossett's first job out of business school was with IBM; he then served as a consultant for Deloitte and Touche, and later accepted a job with Marshall Field's. Fossett later said, "For the first five years of my business career, I was distracted by being in computer systems, and then I became interested in financial markets. That's where I thrived."[5]
Fossett then became a successful commodities salesman in Chicago, first for Merrill Lynch in 1973, where he proved a highly successful producer of commission revenue for himself and that firm. He began working in 1976 for Drexel Burnham, which assigned him one of its memberships on the Chicago Board of Trade and permitted him to market the services of the firm from a phone on the floor of that exchange. In 1980, Fossett began the process that eventually produced his enduring prosperity: renting exchange memberships to would-be floor traders, first on the Chicago Board Options Exchange.[7][12]
After fifteen years of working for other companies,[5] Fossett founded his own firms, Marathon Securities and Lakota Trading, from which he made millions renting exchange memberships.[2][10][13] He founded Lakota Trading for that purpose in 1980.[14] In the early 1980s,[5] he founded Marathon Securities and extended that successful formula to memberships on the New York stock exchanges. He earned millions renting floor trading privileges (exchange memberships) to hopeful new floor traders, who also paid clearing fees to Fossett's clearing firms in proportion to the trading activity of those renting the memberships. In 1997, the trading volume of its rented memberships was larger than any other clearing firm on the Chicago exchange.[7] Lakota Trading replicated that same business plan on many exchanges in the United States and also in London.[5] Fossett later used those revenues to finance his adventures.[2][10][13] Fossett said, "As a floor trader, I was very aggressive and worked hard. Those same traits help me in adventure sports."[7]
Fossett said he did not participate in any of the "interesting things" he had done in college during his time in exchange-related activities: "There was a period of time where I wasn't doing anything except working for a living. I became very frustrated with that and finally made up my mind to start getting back into things."[5] He began to take six weeks a year off to spend time on sports and moved to Beaver Creek, Colorado in 1990. Fossett later sold most of his business interests,[2][15] although he maintained an office in Chicago until 2006.[5]
Personal life[edit]
In 1968, Fossett married Peggy Fossett (née Viehland), who was originally from Richmond Heights, Missouri.[11] They had no children.[14][16] The Fossetts had homes in Beaver Creek, Colorado and Chicago, and a vacation home in Carmel, California.[7][11][15]
Fossett became well known in the United Kingdom for his friendship with billionaire Richard Branson, whose Virgin Group sponsored some of Fossett's adventures.[2]
Records[edit]
Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer arriving at Kennedy Space Center in 2006, piloted by Fossett
Steve Fossett was well known for his world records and adventures in balloons, sailboats, gliders, and powered aircraft. He was an aviator of exceptional breadth of experience. He wanted to become the first person to achieve a solo balloon flight around the world (finally succeeding on his sixth attempt, in 2002, becoming the first person to complete an uninterrupted and unrefueled solo circumnavigation of the world in any kind of aircraft). He set, with co-pilot Terry Delore, 10 of the 21 Glider Open records, including the first 2,000 km Out-and-Return, the first 1,500 km Triangle and the longest Straight Distance flights. His achievements as a jet pilot in a Cessna Citation X include records for U.S. Transcontinental, Australia Transcontinental, and Round-the-World westbound non-supersonic flights.[17] Prior to Fossett's aviation records, no pilot had held world records in more than one class of aircraft; Fossett held them in four classes.[5]
In 2005, Fossett made the first solo, nonstop unrefueled circumnavigation of the world in an airplane, in 67 hours in the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, a single-engine jet aircraft.
In 2006, he again circumnavigated the globe nonstop and unrefueled in 76 hours, 45 minutes in the GlobalFlyer, setting the record for the longest flight by any aircraft in history with a distance of 25,766 statute miles (41,467 km).[2]
He set 91 aviation world records ratified by Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, of which 36 stand,[18] plus 23 sailing world records ratified by the World Sailing Speed Record Council.
On August 29, 2006, he set the world altitude record for gliders over El Calafate, Argentina at 15,460 metres (50,720 ft).[19]
Balloon pilot[edit]
Spirit of Freedom balloon gondola on display at the National Air and Space Museum
On February 21, 1995, Fossett landed in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada, after taking off from South Korea, becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.[20]
In 2002, he became the first person to fly around the world alone, nonstop in any kind of aircraft. He launched the 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom from Northam, Western Australia on June 19, 2002 and returned to Australia on July 3, 2002, subsequently landing in Queensland. Duration and distance of this solo balloon flight was 13 days, 8 hours, 33 minutes (14 days 19 hours 50 minutes to landing), 20,626.48 statute miles (33,195.10 km).[20] The balloon dragged him along the ground for 20 minutes at the end of the flight. Only the capsule survived the landing; it was taken to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., where it was displayed.[21] The control center for the mission was in Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis.[22] Fossett's top speed during the flight was 186 miles per hour (299 km/h) over the Indian Ocean. The trip set a number of records for ballooning: Fastest (200 miles per hour (320 km/h), breaking his own previous record of 166 miles per hour (270 km/h)), Fastest Around the World (13.5 days), Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon (20,482.26 miles (32,963.00 km)), and 24-Hour Balloon Distance (3,186.80 miles (5,128.66 km) on July 1).[23]
While Fossett had financed five previous tries himself, his successful record-setting flight was sponsored by Bud Light.[21] In the end, Fossett actually made money on all his balloon flights. He bought a contingency insurance policy for $500,000 that would pay him $3 million if he succeeded in the flight. Along with sponsorship, that payout meant that in the end Fossett did not have to spend any of his money other than for initial expenses.[5]
Sailor[edit]
Fossett was one of sailing's most prolific distance record holders. Speed sailing was his specialty and from 1993 to 2004 he dominated the record sheets, setting 23 official world records and nine distance race records. He is recognized by the World Sailing Speed Record Council as "the world's most accomplished speed sailor."[2]
On the maxi-catamaran Cheyenne (formerly named PlayStation), Fossett twice set the prestigious 24 Hour Record of Sailing. In October 2001, Fossett and his crew set a transatlantic record of 4 days 17 hours, shattering the previous record by 43 hours 35 minutes; an increase in average speed of nearly seven knots.
In early 2004, Fossett, as skipper, set the Around the world sailing record of 58 days, 9 hours in Cheyenne with a crew of 13. In 2007, Fossett held the world record for crossing the Pacific Ocean in his 125-foot (38 m) sailboat, the PlayStation, which he accomplished on his fourth try.[7][15]
Complete Summary of Sailing Records[24]
13 Outright World Records:
Round Ireland	44 h 42 min 20 s	Sep 1993
Hawaii-Japan	13 d 20 h 9 min	July-Aug 1995
Pacific Ocean East to West	16 d 17 h 21 min	Aug 1995
Newport-Bermuda	1 d 14 h 35 min 53 s	Jan 2000
Miami-New York	2 d 5 h 54 min 42 s	May 2001
TransAtlantic	4 d 17 h 28 min 6 s (25.78 kn)	Oct 2001
Isle of Wight	2 h 33 min 55 s	Nov 2001
Fastnet Course	35 h 17 min 14 s	Mar 2002
Plymouth-LaRochelle	16 h 41 min 40 s	Apr 2002
TransMed (Marseilles-Carthage)	18 h 46 min 48 s	May 2002
Round Britain & Ireland	4 d 16 h 9 min 36 s	Oct 2002
TransAt-Discovery Route	9 d 13 h 30 min 18 s	Feb 2003
Round the World	58 d 9 h 32 min 45 s	Feb-April 2004
2 Singlehanded World Records:
Pacific Ocean (Yokohama-SF)-World	20 d 9 h 52 min	Aug 1996
Newport-Bermuda-World	40 h 51 min 54 s	Jun 1999
9 Race Records:
Long Beach-Cabo San Lucas	3 d 2 h 59 min	Nov 1995
Swiftsure	14 h 35 min 29 s	May 1997
Windjammers (SF-Santa Cruz)	4 h 41 min 2 s	Aug 1997
San Diego-Puerto Vallarta	62 h 20 min 11 s	Feb 1998
Newport-Ensenada	6 h 46 min 40 s (18.45 kn)	Apr 1998
Chicago-Mackinac	18 h 50 min 32 s	Jul 1998
Pineapple Cup (Ft Lauderdale-Montego Bay)	2 d 20 h 8 min 5 s	Feb 1999
Round St. Martin (Heineken)	2 h 4 min 23 s	Mar 2003
Singlehanded Race Record:
California-Hawaii(Singlehanded Transpac) - Race	7 d 22 h 38 min	July 1998
World Records set but later beaten:
Isle of Wight	3 h 35 min 38 s	Sep 1994
Transpac	6 d 16 h 7 min 16 s	July 1995
Pacific Ocean Record (Crewed)	16 d 17 h 21 min 19 s	Aug 1995
24 Hour Record	580.23 nmi (24.18 kn)	Mar 1999
24 Hour Record	687.17 nmi (28.63 kn)	Oct 2001
Cowes-St. Malo	6 h 21 min 54 s	Dec 2001
At the time of his death a submarine, DeepFlight Challenger, was under construction to enable Fossett to be the first solo submariner to reach the Challenger Deep.[25]
Airship pilot[edit]
Fossett set the Absolute World Speed Record for airships on October 27, 2004. The new record for fastest flight was accomplished with a Zeppelin NT, at a recorded average speed of 62.2 knots (115.2 km/h; 71.6 mph). The previous record was 50.1 knots (92.8 km/h; 57.7 mph) set in 2001 in a Virgin airship. In 2006, Fossett was one of only 17 pilots in the world licensed to fly the Zeppelin.[5]
Fixed-wing aircraft pilot[edit]
Fossett at NASA Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility seated in the GlobalFlyer cockpit
GlobalFlyer[edit]
Fossett in 2006 before his record-breaking flight
Fossett made the first solo nonstop unrefueled fixed-wing aircraft flight around the world between February 28 and March 3, 2005. He took off from Salina, Kansas, where he was assisted by faculty members and students from Kansas State University, and flew eastbound with the prevailing winds, returning to Salina after 67 hours, 1 minute, 10 seconds, without refueling or making intermediate landings. His average speed of 342.2 mph (550.7 km/h) was also the absolute world record for "speed around the world, nonstop and non-refueled." His aircraft, the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, had a carbon fiber reinforced plastic airframe with a single Williams FJ44 turbofan engine. It was designed and built by Burt Rutan and his company, Scaled Composites, for long-distance solo flight. The fuel fraction, the weight of the fuel divided by the weight of the aircraft at take-off, was 83 percent.[26][27][28]
On February 11, 2006, Fossett set the absolute world record for "distance without landing" by flying from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, around the world eastbound, then upon returning to Florida continuing across the Atlantic a second time to land in Bournemouth, England. The official distance was 25,766 statute miles (41,467 km) and the duration was 76 hours 45 minutes.
The next month, Fossett made a third flight around the world in order to break the absolute record for "Distance over a closed circuit without landing" (with takeoff and landing at the same airport). He took off from Salina, Kansas on March 14, 2006 and returned on March 17, 2006 after flying 25,262 statute miles (40,655 km).
There are only seven absolute world records for fixed-wing aircraft recognized by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale and Fossett broke three of them in the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer.[1] All three records were previously held by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager from their flight in the Voyager in 1986. Fossett contributed the GlobalFlyer to the Smithsonian Institution's permanent collection.[29] It is on display at the Udvar-Hazy Center of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.[30] Fossett flew the plane to the Center and taxied the plane to the front door.[31]
Transcontinental aircraft records[edit]
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Fossett set two U.S. transcontinental fixed-wing aircraft records in the same day. On February 5, 2003, Fossett and co-pilot Doug Travis flew his Cessna Citation X jet from San Diego, California to Charleston, South Carolina in 2 hours, 56 minutes, 20 seconds, at an average speed of 726.83 mph (1,169.72 km/h) to smash the transcontinental record for non-supersonic jets.
He returned to San Diego, then flew the same course as co-pilot for fellow adventurer Joe Ritchie in Ritchie's turboprop Piaggio Avanti. Their time was 3 hours, 51 minutes, 52 seconds, an average speed of 546.44 mph (879.41 km/h), which broke the previous turboprop transcontinental record held by Chuck Yeager and Renald Davenport.
Fossett also set the east-to-west transcontinental record for non-supersonic fixed-wing aircraft on September 17, 2000. He flew from Jacksonville, Florida to San Diego, California in 3 hours, 29 minutes, at an average speed of 591.96 mph (952.67 km/h).
First trans-Atlantic flight re-enactment[edit]
On July 2, 2005, Fossett and co-pilot Mark Rebholz recreated the first nonstop crossing of the Atlantic which was made by the British team of John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown in June 1919 in a Vickers Vimy biplane. Their flight from St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada to Clifden, County Galway, Ireland in the open cockpit Vickers Vimy replica took 18 hours 25 minutes with 13 hours flown in instrument flight conditions. Because there was no airport in Clifden, Fossett and Rebholz landed on the 8th fairway of the Connemara Golf Links.[5]
Glider records[edit]
The team of Steve Fossett and Terry Delore (NZ) set ten official world records in gliders while flying in three major locations: New Zealand, Argentina, and Nevada, United States. An asterisk (*) indicates records subsequently broken by other pilots.
1,000 km Out-and-Return World Record* 166.46 km/h (103.43 mph), December 12, 2002.[32]
750 Kilometer Triangle World Record* 171.29 km/h (106.43 mph), July 29, 2003.[33]
1,250 Kilometer Triangle U.S. National Record 143.48 km/h (89.15 mph), July 30, 2003. Exceeded world record by 0.01 km/h.[34]
1,500 km Out-and-Return World Record* 156.61 km/h (97.31 mph), November 14, 2003.[35]
Out-and-Return Distance (Declared) World Record* 1,804.7 km, November 14, 2003.
Out and Return Distance (Free) World Record* 2,002.44 km, November 14, 2003.[36]
500 Kilometer Triangle World Record* 187.12 km/h (116.27 mph), November 15, 2003.[37]
1,500 Kilometer Triangle World Record 119.11 km/h (74.01 mph), December 13, 2003.[38]
Triangle Distance (Declared) World Record* 1,502.6 km, December 13, 2003.
Triangle Distance (Free) World Record* 1,509.7 km, December 13, 2003.[39]
Distance (Free) World Record 2,192.9 km, December 4, 2004.[40]
Fossett and co-pilot Einar Enevoldson flew a glider into the stratosphere on August 29, 2006. The flight set the Absolute Altitude Record for gliders at 15,460 metres (50,720 ft).[41] Since the glider cockpit was unpressurized, the pilots wore full pressure suits (similar to space suits) so that they would be able to fly to altitudes above 45,000 feet (14,000 m). Fossett and Enevoldson had made previous attempts in three countries over a period of five years before finally succeeding with this record flight. This endeavor is known as the Perlan Project.
Cross-country skiing[edit]
As a young adventurer, Fossett was one of the first participants in the Worldloppet, a series of cross country ski marathons around the world. While he had little experience as a skier, he was in the first group of 'citizen athletes' to participate in the series debut in 1979. And in 1980, he became the eighth skier to complete all 10 of the long distance races, earning a Worldloppet medallion. He has also set cross-country skiing records in Colorado, setting an Aspen to Vail record of 59 h, 53 min, 30 s in February 1998, and an Aspen to Eagle record of 12 hr, 29 min in February 2001.[5]
Mountain climbing[edit]
Fossett was a lifelong mountain climber and had climbed the highest peaks on six of the seven continents.[7][13] In the 1980s, he became friends with Patrick Morrow, who was attempting to climb the highest peaks on all seven continents for the "Seven Summits" world record, which Morrow achieved in 1985. Fossett accompanied Morrow for his last three peaks, including Vinson Massif in Antarctica, Carstensz Pyramid in Oceania, and Elbrus in Europe.[5] While Fossett went on to climb almost all of the Seven Summits peaks himself, he declined to climb Mount Everest in 1992 due to asthma.[5] He later returned to Antarctica to climb again.
Other accomplishments[edit]
Fossett competed in and completed premier endurance sports events, including the 1,165-mile (1,875 km) Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, in which he finished 47th on his second try in 1992 after training for five years. He became the 270th person to swim across the English Channel on his fourth try in September 1985 with a time of 22 hours, 15 minutes.[5][7][20] Although Fossett said he was not a good enough swimmer "to make the varsity swim team", he found that he could swim for long periods.[5] Fossett competed in the Ironman Triathlon in Hawaii[11] (finishing in 1996 in 15:53:10),[42] the Boston Marathon, and the Leadville Trail 100, a 100-mile (160 km) Colorado ultramarathon which involves running up to elevations of more than 12,600 feet (3,800 m) in the Rocky Mountains.[7][10]
Fossett raced cars in the mid-1970s and later returned to the sport in the 1990s.[5] He competed in the 24 hours of Le Mans road race in 1993 and in 1996,[12][13] along with the Paris to Dakar Rally.[7]
Previous attempts at records[edit]
A 1998 attempt at an around-the-world balloon flight by Fossett, Richard Branson and Per Lindstrand ends in the Pacific Ocean on December 25
Fossett tried six times over seven years for the first solo balloon circumnavigation. His fifth attempt cost him $1.25 million of his own money; his sixth and successful attempt was commercially sponsored.[5] Two of the attempts were launched from Busch Memorial Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri. Washington University in St. Louis served as control center for four of the six flights, including the record-breaking one.[11]
In 1998, one of the unsuccessful attempts at the ballooning record ended with a five-mile (8 km) plummet into the Coral Sea off the coast of Australia that nearly killed Fossett;[29] he waited 72 hours to be rescued, at a cost of $500,000.[11][43][44] The first attempt began in the Black Hills of South Dakota and ended outside Hampton, New Brunswick 1,800 miles (2,900 km) later. The second attempt, launched from Busch Stadium, cost $300,000 and lasted 9,600 miles (15,400 km) before being downed halfway in a tree in India; the trip set records at the time for duration and distance of flight (with Fossett doubling his own previous record) and was called Solo Spirit after Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis.[7][11] Fossett slept an average of two hours a night for the six-day journey, conducted in below-zero temperatures. After taking too much fuel to cross the Atlantic Ocean and circling Libya for 12 hours while officials decided whether or not to allow him into their airspace, Fossett did not have enough fuel to finish the flight. That year, Fossett flew farther for less money than better-financed expeditions (including one supported by Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson) in part due to his ability to fly in an unpressurized capsule, a result of his heavy physical training at high altitudes.[7] The Solo Spirit capsule was put on display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum across from the Apollo 11 command module.[7]
Scouting[edit]
Fossett grew up in Garden Grove, California and earned the Eagle Scout award in 1957. He credited his experience in Scouting as a foundation for much of his later success. "As a Scout, I learned how to set goals and achieve them," he once said. "Being a Scout also taught me leadership at a young age when there are few opportunities to be a leader. Scouting values have remained with me throughout my life, in my business career, and now as I take on new challenges."[9] In his later years, he was described as a "legend" by fellow Scouts. As a national BSA volunteer, he served as Chairman of the Northern Tier High Adventure Committee, Chairman of the Venturing Committee, member of the Philmont Ranch Committee, and member of the National Advisory Council. He later became a member of the BSA National Executive Board, and in 2007, Fossett succeeded Secretary of Defense Robert Gates as president of the National Eagle Scout Association. Fossett previously had served on the World Scout Committee.[5]
Fossett was honored with the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award in 1992. In 1999, he received the Silver Buffalo Award, BSA's highest recognition of service to youth.[8]
Awards and honors[edit]
In 2002, Fossett received aviation's highest award, the Gold Medal of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) and in July 2007, he was inducted into the Aviation Hall of Fame.[2] He was presented at the ceremony by Dick Rutan.
In 1997, Fossett was inducted into the Balloon and Airship Hall of Fame.[5] In February 2002, Fossett was named America's Rolex Yachtsman of the Year by the American Sailing Association at the New York Yacht Club.[15] He was the oldest recipient of the award in its 41-year history, and the only recipient to fly himself to the ceremony in his own plane.[15]
He received the Explorers Medal from the Explorers Club following his solo balloon circumnavigation. He was given the Diplôme de Montgolfier by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale in 1996. He received the Harmon Trophy, given annually "to the world's outstanding aviator and aeronaut", in 1998 and 2002. He received the Grande Médaille of the Aéro-Club de France, and the British Royal Aero Club's Gold Medal in 2002. He received the Order of Magellan and the French Republic's Médaille de l'Aéronautique in 2003.[5]
The White Knight Two VMS Spirit of Steve Fossett[45] was named in Fossett's honor by his friend Richard Branson in late 2007.[46][47] Following his disappearance, Peggy Fossett and Dick Rutan accepted the Spread Wings Award on Fossett's behalf at the 2007 Spreading Wings Gala, Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, Denver, Colorado.[48]
In 2010, Fossett was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air & Space Museum.[49]
Disappearance and search[edit]
Champion 8KCAB Super Decathlon
At 8:45 a.m. on the morning of Monday, September 3, 2007 (Labor Day), Fossett took off in a single-engine Super Decathlon light aircraft from the Flying-M Ranch private airstrip, near Smith Valley, Nevada. When he failed to return, searches were launched about six hours later. There was no signal from the plane's emergency locator transmitter (ELT) designed to be automatically activated in the event of a crash, but it was of an older type notorious for failing to operate after a crash.[50]
It was first thought that Fossett may have also been wearing a Breitling Emergency watch with a manually operated ELT that had a range of up to 90 miles (140 km), but no signal was received from it. On September 13, Fossett's wife, Peggy, issued a statement clarifying that he owned such a watch but was not wearing it when he took off for the Labor Day flight.[51]
Flying-M Ranch
Bodie Hills
Crash site identified in 2008
Search area on the borders of California and Nevada
Fossett took off with enough fuel for four to five hours of flight, according to spokesperson Major Cynthia S. Ryan, Public Information Officer with the Civil Air Patrol (CAP).[52] Searchers with CAP were told that Fossett had gone out for a short flight, possibly including the areas of Lucky Boy Pass and Walker Lake. At one point it was suggested that he might have been out scouting for potential sites to conduct a planned land speed run.[52] A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spokesperson noted that Fossett apparently did not file a flight plan and was not required to do so.[53]
On the second day, Civil Air Patrol aircraft searched but found no trace of wreckage after initiating a complex and expanding search of what later evolved into a nearly 20,000 square miles (52,000 km2) area of some of the most rugged terrain in North America. On the first day of CAP searching, operations were suspended by mid-day due to high winds, according to Ryan. By the fourth day, the CAP was using fourteen aircraft in the search effort, including one equipped with the ARCHER system that could automatically scan detailed imaging for a given signature of the missing aircraft.[54]
By September 10, search crews had found eight previously unidentified crash sites,[55] some of which were decades old.[56] The urgency of what was still regarded as a rescue mission meant that minimal immediate effort was made to identify the aircraft in the uncharted crash sites,[57] although some had speculated that one could have belonged to Charles Clifford Ogle, missing since 1964.[58] About two dozen aircraft were involved in the massive search, operating from the primary search base at Minden, Nevada, with a secondary search base located at Bishop, California.
On September 7, Google Inc. helped the search for the aviator through its connections to contractors that provide satellite imagery for its Google Earth software. Branson said he and others were coordinating efforts with Google to see if any of the high-resolution images might include Fossett's aircraft.
On September 8, the first of a series of new high-resolution imagery from DigitalGlobe was made available via the Amazon Mechanical Turk beta website so that users could flag potential areas of interest for searching. By September 11, up to 50,000 people had joined the effort, scrutinizing more than 300,000 278-square-foot (26 m2) squares of the imagery. Peter Cohen of Amazon believed that by September 11, the entire search area had been covered at least once.
Amazon's search effort was shut down the week of October 29, without any measurable success.[59][60] Major Cynthia Ryan later said it had been more of a hindrance than a help.[60] She said that persons purporting to have seen the aircraft on the Mechanical Turk or have special knowledge clogged her email during critical days of the search, and for even months afterward. Many of the ostensible sightings proved to be images of CAP aircraft flying search grids, or simply mistaken artifacts of old images.
Psychics flooded the search base in Minden with predictions of where the aviator could be found. Ryan got the majority of these calls personally, often at her home, in the middle of the night. One man from Canada was particularly persistent with daily calls to Ryan, interfering with her press briefings. Ryan asked her Incident Commander to issue a cease and desist order, backed up by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) if necessary. Ryan noted that every message, letter, or phone call was taken seriously, which swamped the USAF specialists assigned the task of reviewing every one of them without regard to apparent plausibility. In retrospect, the crowdsource effort was "not ready for prime time", according to Ryan.
On September 12, survival experts speculated that Fossett was likely to be dead.[61]
On September 17, the Nevada Wing of the Civil Air Patrol said it was suspending all flights in connection with its search operations,[62] but National Guard search flights, private search flights and ground searches continued.[63]
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) began a preliminary investigation into the likely crash of the plane that Fossett was flying.[64] The preliminary report stated that Fossett was "presumed fatally injured and the aircraft substantially damaged", but was subsequently revised to remove that assumption.[65] Branson made similar public statements.[66]
On September 19, 2007, authorities confirmed they would stop actively looking for Fossett in the Nevada Desert, but would keep air crews on standby to fly to possible crash sites.[67] On September 30 it was announced that after further analysis of radar data from the day of his disappearance, ground teams and two aircraft had resumed the search.[68]
On October 2, 2007, the Civil Air Patrol announced it had called off its search operation.[69] Ryan later noted that the search was the largest, most complex peacetime search for an individual in U.S. history.
On August 23, 2008, almost a year after Fossett disappeared, twenty-eight friends and admirers conducted a foot search based on new clues gathered by the team. That search concluded on September 10.[70][71]
Search and rescue costs[edit]
On May 1, 2008, the Las Vegas Review-Journal attributed to Nevada State Governor Jim Gibbons' spokesman, Ben Kieckhefer,[72] the Governor's decision to direct the state to charge Steve Fossett's family for the $687,000 expense of the search for Fossett.[73] Kieckhefer later played that early report down, when he told the Tahoe Daily Tribune that Nevada did not intend to demand an involuntary payment from Fossett's widow, but that such a payment would be voluntary: "We are going to request that they help offset some of these expenses, considering the scope of the search, the overall cost as well as our ongoing budget difficulties."[74] Hotelier Barron Hilton, from whose ranch Fossett had departed on the day he went missing, had previously volunteered $200,000 to help pay for the search costs.[73][74]
In his later comments to the Tahoe Daily Tribune, Kieckhefer denied outright that a bill for the family was being prepared. Kieckefer said, "It will probably be in the form of a letter",[74] which he indicated would include a financial outline of the steps taken by the state, the associated costs, and a mention of the state's ongoing budget difficulties.[74]
Days prior to this announcement, state Emergency Management Director Frank Siracusa noted that "there is no precedent where government will go after people for costs just because they have money to pay for it. You get lost, and we look for you. It is a service your taxpayer dollars pay for",[73] although he conceded that legally any decision would rest with Gibbons.
At an April 10, 2008 Legislature's Interim Finance Committee hearing, Siracusa indicated that he had hired an independent auditor to review costs incurred by the state in searching for Fossett, but added, "We are doing an audit but not because we are critical of anybody or suspect something was done wrong".[73][75] Chairman Morse Arberry queried Siracusa as to why, since they lacked funds, had the state not billed the Fossett family for its search costs, to which Siracusa did not directly respond.[73][75]
In a later interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Siracusa stated that his comments to the Committee may have given the false impression that he had hired an auditor for the purpose of later challenging the state's financial burden incurred on its behalf by the National Guard during the search operation.[73] Upon interview regarding reports that the state would seek payment, Arberry was recorded as stating that he was glad to hear steps were being taken to try to recoup some of the costs.[74]
The Nevada search cost $1.6 million, "the largest search and rescue effort ever conducted for a person within the U.S." Jim Gibbons asked Fossett's estate to shoulder $487,000, but it declined, saying Fossett's wife had already spent $1 million on private searching.[76]
Recovery of wreckage and remains[edit]
Aerial view of the crash site, 2010
On September 29, 2008, a hiker found three crumpled identification cards in the eastern Sierra Nevada in California about 65 miles (100 km) south (186 degrees) of Fossett's take-off site. The items were confirmed as belonging to Fossett and included an FAA-issued card, his Soaring Society of America membership card and $1,005 in cash.[77][78]
On October 1, late in the day, air search teams spotted wreckage on the ground at an elevation of 10,100 feet (3,100 m), about 750 yards (690 m) from where the personal items had been found. Later that evening the teams confirmed identification of the tail number of Fossett's plane.[79][80]
The crash site is located on the western side of a ridge (Volcanic Ridge)[81] whose orientation is northwest/southeast.[82][83] The site is about 300 feet (91 m) below the crest of the ridge. The steep terrain was sparsely forested with Ponderosa pines averaging 40 feet (12 m) to 60 feet (18 m) tall. Numerous boulders and rock outcrops surrounded by grassy areas covered the ground.[82]
The crash site is on Volcanic Ridge, part of the Ritter Range. Volcanic Ridge is shown here, in the left foreground.
The crash site is within the Ansel Adams Wilderness in Madera County, California. Other named places near the site include Minaret Mine (2,000 feet (600 m) west), Emily Lake (0.7 miles (1.1 km) northeast), Minaret Lake (1.8 miles (2.9 km) west-southwest), the Minaret peaks (3 miles (5 km) west), Devils Postpile National Monument (4.5 miles (7.2 km) southeast), and the town of Mammoth Lakes (the nearest populated place, 9 miles (14 km) east-southeast). The site is 10 miles (16 km) east of Yosemite National Park.[83]
Over the next two days, ground searchers found four bone fragments that were about 2 by 1.5 inches (5 by 4 cm) in size.[79][84] However, the bones were found to be either not human or too small for DNA tests.[85]
On October 29, search teams recovered two large human bones that they suspected might belong to Fossett. These bones were found 0.5 miles (0.80 km) east of the crash site. Tennis shoes with animal bite marks on them were also recovered.[85][86][87]
On November 3, California police coroners said that DNA profiling of the two bones by a California Department of Justice forensics laboratory confirmed a match to Fossett's DNA. Madera County Sheriff John Anderson said Fossett would have died on impact in such a crash, and that it was not unusual for animals to drag remains away.[86]
NTSB report and findings[edit]
On March 5, 2009, the NTSB issued its report and findings.[82][88] The report states that the plane crashed at an elevation of about 10,000 feet (3,000 m), 300 feet (90 m) below the crest of the ridge. The elevation of peaks in the area exceeded 13,000 feet (4,000 m). However, the density altitude in the area at the time and place of the crash was estimated to be 12,700 feet (3,900 m).
The aircraft, a tandem two-seater, was nearly 30 years old and Fossett had flown approximately 40 hours in this type. The plane's operating manual says that at an altitude of 13,000 feet (4,000 m) the rate of climb would be 300 feet per minute (about 1.5 m/s).[82]
The NTSB report says that "a meteorologist from Salinas provided a numerical simulation of the conditions in the accident area using the WRF-ARW (Advanced Research Weather Research and Forecasting) numerical model. At 0930 [the approximate time of the crash] the model displayed downdrafts in that area of approximately 300 feet per minute." There was no evidence of equipment failure.[82]
The report stated that a postmortem examination of the skeletal fragments had been performed under the auspices of the Madera County Sheriff's Department. The cause of death was determined to be multiple traumatic injuries. The ELT was destroyed by the crash.[82]
On July 9, 2009, the NTSB declared the probable cause of the crash as "the pilot's inadvertent encounter with downdrafts that exceeded the climb capability of the airplane. Contributing to the accident were the downdrafts, high density altitude, and mountainous terrain."[89]
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Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere
December 1999 , Volume 29, Issue 6, pp 563–591 | Cite as
Clay Catalysis of Oligonucleotide Formation: Kinetics of the Reaction of the 5'-Phosphorimidazolides of Nucleotides with the Non-Basic Heterocycles Uracil and Hypoxanthine
Kunio Kawamura
James P. Ferris
The montmorillonite clay catalyzed condensation of activated monocleotides to oligomers of RNA is a possible first step in the formation of the proposed RNA world. The rate constants for the condensation of the phosphorimidazolide of adenosine were measured previously and these studies have been extended to the phosphorimidazolides of inosine and uridine in the present work to determine if substitution of neutral heterocycles for the basic adenine ring changes the reaction rate or regioselectivity. The oligomerization reactions of the 5'-phosphoromidazolides of uridine (ImpU) and inosine (ImpI) on montmorillonite yield oligo(U)s and oligo(I)s as long as heptamers. The rate constants for oligonucleotide formation were determined by measuring the rates of formation of the oligomers by HPLC. Both the apparent rate constants in the reaction mixture and the rate constants on the clay surface were calculated using the partition coefficients of the oligomers between the aqueous and clay phases. The rate constants for trimer formation are much greater than those dimer synthesis but there was little difference in the rate constants for the formation of trimers and higher oligomers. The overall rates of oligomerization of the phosphorimidazolides of purine and pyrimidine nucleosides in the presence of montmorillonite clay are the same suggesting that RNA formed on the primitive Earth could have contained a variety of heterocyclic bases. The rate constants for oligomerization of pyrimidine nucleotides on the clay surface are significantly higher than those of purine nucleotides since the pyrimidine nucleotides bind less strongly to the clay than do the purine nucleotides. The differences in the binding is probably due to Van der Waals interactions between the purine bases and the clay surface. Differences in the basicity of the heterocyclic ring in the nucleotide have little effect on the oligomerization process.
Oligomer Montmorillonite Uridine Inosine Apparent Rate Constant
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1.Department of Applied ChemistryOsaka Prefecture UniversitySakai, OsakaJapan
2.Department of ChemistryRensselaer Polytechnic InstituteTroy
Kawamura, K. & Ferris, J.P. Orig Life Evol Biosph (1999) 29: 563. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006648524187
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TENORS OF ROCK Return to Las Vegas 1/19
BroadwayWorld.com Jan. 20, 2017
Last night (Jan. 19, 2017), The Strip's newest high-powered headliners, TENORS OF ROCK celebrated the opening night performance of their first-ever resident production in the Showroom at Harrah's Las Vegas. The five burly Brits, backed by a shredding band and a bevy of beautiful dancers from famed Sunset Strip burlesque troupe, Little Miss Nasty, were met with countless standing ovations from the packed theater throughout the evening, as they delivered reimagined renditions of the most beloved rock anthems and biggest songs of all time.
"This has been our dream, and you guys are making it happen here tonight," shared band member and longtime West End veteran Jonny Williams while greeting the full house. The larger-than-life production features dynamic and harmonically complex reimaginations of celebrated classics ranging from the '60s through today, including Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child O' Mine," Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Music of the Night," and many more. A stunning 36'x20' LED wall with vibrant graphics, impressive lighting design and cutting-edge sound technologies epically complemented the group's high-energy vocals and charismatic personalities.
TENORS OF ROCK is now bringing audiences to their feet inside the Showroom at Harrah's Las Vegas Wednesday through Sunday at 8 p.m., with no shows on Monday or Tuesday. For tickets and more information, visit TenorsOfRock.com, and connect with the show on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram - @TenorsOfRock.
About TENORS OF ROCK
Get ready to rock like never before with an all-new, redefined concert experience that transcends generations. From thousands of sold-out arenas and festivals around the world, to earning instant acclaim while competing on The X Factor UK, TENORS OF ROCK brings reimagined versions of some of the most beloved rock anthems and biggest songs of all-time to life in a fresh twist on the traditional rock show at the heart of the Las Vegas Strip at Harrah's Las Vegas. Powered by five burly British frontmen backed by a full band and masterfully choreographed dancers, the production features dynamic and harmonically complex renditions of classic songs ranging from rock anthems like "Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns N' Roses, to power ballads like The Eagles' "Desperado," to Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Music of the Night" and everything in between. Tight harmonies and wide-ranging vocals are flawlessly deployed on the greatest sing-out-loud songs from the '60s through present day, and displayed in a high-octane rock show setting with stunning sets and all of the showmanship that made the songs famous. For more information, visit TenorsOfRock.com and connect with the show on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
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With more than 2,500 hotel rooms and suites, Harrah's Las Vegas is an affordable, welcoming resort where guests can break away from their daily routine in a playful atmosphere. The newly renovated Valley Tower features 672 modern rooms with warm tones of gray and purple accents, as well as dark wood furnishings. Harrah's Las Vegas features 87,000 square-feet of casino space, a modern Race & Sports Book offering both live gaming and sports betting, and more than 25,000 square-feet of meeting and convention space. Six restaurants encompass everything from Toby Keith's 'I Love This Bar & Grill,' which offers an all-American menu and live music nightly, to the chef-driven Fulton Street Food Hall, to the upscale setting of Ruth's Chris Steak House, a romantic venue with breathtaking views of the Strip. Harrah's outdoor bar, Carnaval Court, brings high energy to the Las Vegas Strip with live music and some of the world's top flair bartenders who juggle and pour to perfection. A wide variety of entertainment options include rock and roll headliners The Righteous Brothers featuring Bill Medley with Bucky Heard, Tenors of Rock featuring the best male rock voices in the UK and the comedy-magic of Mac King. For more information, please visit harrahslasvegas.com or the Caesars Entertainment Las Vegas media room. Find Harrah's Las Vegas on Facebook and follow on Twitter and Instagram.
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We French love a good play on words. Toque is the French word for the traditional white chef's hat, and the Rock'n Toques group gets together to invite you to appreciate the art of those who wear it. The next gathering is at the Art Rock festival from May 18-20th 2018 for a voyage of cooking discovery in the street in front of live bands.
A young generation of chefs wishing to invest themselves in the dynamism of the town, the group first got together for the 2008 Art Rock festival. The particular skills of our chefs are emphasised as is the diversity of local cuisine on the occasion of this festival which the inhabitants have embraced enthusiastically. Last year the group of star-holding chefs, restauranteurs, wine merchants and crêpiers delighted festival-goers with over 16 000 meals !


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Home The CARVE campaign flights are conducted aboard a specially instrumented NASA C-23 Sherpa aircraft from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va. Most of the time, the CARVE scientists fly the plane "down in the mud," at about 500 feet (152 meters) above the ground. The low altitude above the Arctic surface allows the scientists to measure interesting exchanges of carbon taking place between Earth's surface and atmosphere. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) The CARVE campaign flights are conducted aboard a specially instrumented NASA C-23 Sherpa aircraft from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va. Most of the time, the CARVE scientists fly the plane "down in the mud," at about 500 feet (152 meters) above the ground. The low altitude above the Arctic surface allows the scientists to measure interesting exchanges of carbon taking place between Earth's surface and atmosphere. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
The CARVE campaign flights are conducted aboard a specially instrumented NASA C-23 Sherpa aircraft from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va. Most of the time, the CARVE scientists fly the plane "down in the mud," at about 500 feet (152 meters) above the ground. The low altitude above the Arctic surface allows the scientists to measure interesting exchanges of carbon taking place between Earth's surface and atmosphere. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)


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Senior Research Associate's presentation unites Oromo people's difficult past with a hopeful future
Prof Asafa Jalata, a Director of the Board of the OSA, Dr Sandy Shell, Senior Research Associate and Prof Asfaw Beyene, Chair of the Board of Directors of the OSA
Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University's Cory Library, Dr Sandra Rowoldt Shell, recently spoke at the 33rd annual Oromo Studies Association (OSA) conference, which was held on 'home ground' for the first time in history.
Dr Shell's interest in the East Cushitic Oromo people led to her doctoral thesis topic: "From Slavery to Freedom: the Oromo Slave Children of Lovedale, Prosopography and Profiles". This later culminated in her book, "Children of Hope: The Odyssey of the Oromo Slaves from Ethiopia to South Africa", which was the basis of her OSA conference presentation.
Over the past two years, three editions of the book have been published in three different countries including a US (Ohio University Press) edition in 2018 and a South African edition (UCT Press/Juta), published earlier this year. Shama Books (Ethiopia) also published an edition this year with an initial print run of 1 000 copies.
"Shortly after registering for my doctoral thesis, I discovered the OSA through references to articles in the Association's Journal of Oromo Studies, which kept cropping up in my readings. So I joined up and have been a member for more than 12 years," Dr Shell explained.
She says the Association promotes research and scholarship across the full range of Oromo studies. "In all the 33 years of OSA's existence, we had never been able to hold our annual general meeting (AGM) on home ground [Ethiopia]. Meetings were instead held in the diaspora, usually in the United States," she said.
Despite being the most populous of all the groups in Ethiopia, the East Cushitic Oromo had been marginalised internally since the 1890s and suffered oppression as a political and economic minority. They were deprived not only of their expropriated lands, their freedom through enslavement and their identity, they were even deprived of the right to speak their own language. In Ethiopia, the history of the Oromo people was effectively written out of the national narrative.
"Under successive regimes, protesting Oromo people were increasingly subject to widespread repression, arbitrary arrests, detention without charge, enforced disappearance, torture and even death. Like all authoritarian regimes in the past and present, the authorities sought to silence protesters, initially targeting the intellectuals, the journalists and the students. And, of course, all exiles, international commentators, media representatives and human rights movements were denied entry to the country, including the OSA. Social media and the internet in general suffered almost total blackout to limit communication leaking to the international media. I was personally advised by the former Horn of Africa representative of Human Rights Watch that I would not be allowed to enter Ethiopia should I try to travel there for my research," Dr Shell explained.
Dr Shell felt the steady intensification of the protests in Ethiopia were the start of big changes to come. The most significant change came in the form of the election of Dr Abiy Ahmed, himself an Oromo, to the position of Prime Minister of Ethiopia in 2018. "He opened the doors of Ethiopia to the Oromo in exile, some of whom had not seen their homeland for 40 years or more, and whose children had never been allowed to set foot on Ethiopian soil. Even the Oromo Liberation Front operatives were given the green light to fly back into the country and were able to march through the main streets of the capital Addis Ababa/Finfinnee to a rousing welcome," Dr Shell said.
Although Dr Abiy Ahmed is a man of peace, Dr Shell believes he is still faced with the profoundly difficult task of uniting his own deeply-divided nation. "Despite his having made peace with Eritrea within weeks of his appointment and having been awarded the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize recently, these are still early days. We know there are still rumblings and there have been some disturbing, major eruptions. Ethiopia is a large and complex country comprising many disparate peoples with long, jagged histories of enmity for one another. However, like the Oromo children of this study, we can but hope," she said.
"When I finished my presentation, there was dead silence followed by big applause, but when the Conference Chair and President of OSA, Dr Kulani Jalata, called for questions, she could not see any hands raised, even though there were 1 000 delegates present," said Dr Shell.
Although she was initially distressed, thinking that her presentation may have been negatively received by her audience, she soon discovered this had not been the case at all. "Many people came up to me afterwards to hold my hand in both of theirs, or to take me in their arms in a tight embrace, with tears pouring down their cheeks," she recalled.
One delegate told her, "I couldn't ask a question as I was crying all through your presentation."
Another said, "I wanted not so much to ask you a question as to ask all present to join me in standing in appreciation of what you have done to forever destroy the denials and myths about the Oromo past, and to acknowledge what you have done to lay the foundation for our future. Our true history is in the public arena at last. The Oromo Children of Hope have spoken to us, the Oromo people, across the centuries!"
Following the conference, Dr Jalata wrote to Dr Shell: "Did you know that many people were emotional watching your talk and hearing the personal narratives? I heard this from many and also saw it in the audience faces. It was a moving historical and personal narration of the lives of two people forcibly detached from their motherland - a reminder of a nearly buried history, but also a comparison to current but different forms of forced detachment taking place. It really touched people."
Dr Shell emphasised that without the archives of the Lovedale Institution (where the Oromo children were shipped for their welfare and education) held by the invaluable Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University, she would not have been able to write her book. "The Cory Library is where it all began," she stated.


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