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Wal-Mart is a nationally known "big box" bargain store. But last November 26, the store's Burell Township, Pennsylvania parking lot briefly became a hunting ground for a deer.
Archangelo Bianco, Jr., 40, came to the shopping plaza to do some banking, when he saw the 10 point buck running through the Resort Plaza Wal-Mart's parking lot. He allegedly fired several rounds at the deer, killing and bagging it on the other side of Old William Penn Highway. Bianco reportedly took the deer to a meat processor for butchering. (http://tinyurl.com/bp4q696), (http://tinyurl.com/cg5u9pm
A Pennsylvania Game Commission investigator entered a store surveillance video and a deer seized from the processor as evidence.
District Judge Jennifer Rega has scheduled a preliminary hearing on May 1. Among the charges Bianco could face are a misdemeanor count of reckless endangerment, and unlawful killing or taking of big game. Bianco's attorney, Jason N. Huska, has declined comment.
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The Life Project | Personal Finance
FIRE: The movement to live frugally and retire decades early
(Image credit: Anna Rajdl)
By Chris Stokel-Walker2nd November 2018
This feature uses a computer-generated synthetic voice. There may be some errors, for example in pronunciation, sentiment and tone.
In a world in which many people are working longer and longer, some people are managing to do the opposite. They are following a movement that enables them to retire in their 40s – or even sooner.
Barney Whiter's parents bought their home when he was starting secondary school in the UK in 1981. "They did the classic British thing," he says, "big house, big mortgage."
Soon after, a major recession hit and interest rates rocketed to 17%.
His parents had to cut back their spending to make the crippling mortgage payments. Holidays were cancelled, as was the paper delivery. Whiter's dad stopped buying beer, and brewed his own. And Whiter's attitude to money was forever changed. "I picked up on the idea that it was scary owing the bank a lot of money," he says.
He's spent his adult life making sure he wouldn't end up in the situation that his parents did.
For more than two decades, Whiter made sure to save at least half his salary every month for retirement
Whiter did an economics degree, trained as a chartered accountant, and he worked in finance for 20 years. But while his salary inflated from the initial £12,500, or $16,000, he got upon graduation, his lifestyle didn't.
Barney Whiter, now 48, cycled to the office every day to save money for early retirement. He was able to amass enough to reitre at 43 (Credit: Chris Mann)
For more than two decades, Whiter made sure to save at least half his salary every month for retirement. Any bonuses would be quickly squirreled away into savings. He cycled to the office rather than taking the Tube, and he cut back on drinking. Whiter, now 48, amassed a nest-egg that enabled him to retire at 43.
But it wasn't until a year before he retired that he came across Mr Money Mustache, a blog written by 44-year-old Canadian Peter Adeney, who was a veritable celebrity among early retirees. Whiter realised he'd subconsciously been part of a movement growing in popularity with younger workers around the world, called FIRE, which stands for financial independence, retire early.
The basic template of FIRE goes something like this: proponents live as frugally as possible, saving half their income or more during their 20s or 30s. The aim is to retire in their 30s, or their 40s at the latest.
The aim is to retire in their 30s, or 40s at the latest
The "retire early" part of this movement can be something of a misnomer. Many FIRE devotees don't plan to spend 50 years playing bridge, or taking leisure cruises. Instead, the focus is on financial independence. The aim is to save enough of a nest-egg, and live simply enough, so that the ensuing decades can be spent doing something other than chasing payrises and promotions at a corporate job, or worrying about owing the bank a large mortgage.
And although these ideas have been around for many years, online communities have allowed the FIRE movement to really take hold in the past decade.
It first gained popularity in the United States, and has its first real roots in a 1990s newsletter called The Tightwad Gazette. The paper newsletter printed its last edition in December 1996, but the thrift movement continued online – especially in the long, languid hangover of the 2008 financial crash.
From her home in Minnesota 28-year-old Gwen Merz hosts a FIRE movement podcast, Firedrill, on living frugally in pursuit of early retirement (Credit: Anna Rajdl)
Today, thousands of people across the world subscribe to podcasts and blogs, and they participate in discussion forums on how to live a parsimonious life. One podcast, Firedrill, receives more than 7,000 downloads per episode, and is in the top 100 for investing podcasts on the Apple's US charts. There are specialist forums on Reddit devoted to the FIRE movement in Australia, the UK, the Netherlands and India, where people swap tips and ask for advice.
These communities of young people obsessing over their retirement savings are bucking a broader trend, which is that most millennials aren't saving enough money for retirement.
In the US one report found two-thirds of millennials saved nothing for retirement
In the US, a report from the National Institute on Retirement Security found that two-thirds of millennials saved nothing for retirement. US Federal Reserve data shows 58% of under-35s don't have retirement accounts.
Helen Morrissey, a pensions specialist at Royal London, surveyed 1,500 UK millennials last year and found they were saving on average 4.6% of their income for retirement. "This is well short of current rules of thumb which suggest contributions of 12-15% of income are needed."
When Barney Whiter began saving to retire early, he did not realise we has part of the growing 'FIRE' movement'. With planning, he was able to retire at 43 (Credit: Chris Mann)
For adherents to the FIRE movement, that figure is low. Even at 12-15%, building a nest-egg big enough to live off usually takes decades. In order to retire much more quickly, most strive to save half their income or more, while spending as little as humanly possible.
Craig Curelop lives and breathes this lifestyle. The 25-year-old financial analyst adheres to a philosophy of "own everything, use nothing". He owns a car, but never drives it, renting it out on a site called Turo and riding a bike instead. "I did that and made a couple hundred more dollars a month," he says.
Curelop, who lives in Denver in the US state of Colorado, used to rent out his bedroom on Airbnb and sleep in the living room. "I decided to make a quasi-bedroom out of my living room by putting up a room divider and a curtain," he explains. "I lived like this for a year."
He was saving so much that as well as the duplex he bought in Denver in April 2017, he was able to buy another house in June this year. He lives in one room and rents out the others, all while collecting rental income on his original property. "Right now, I'm saving between $3,000 and $4,000 a month," he says. "All said and done, I've probably saved between $60,000 and $70,000 in the 18 months since I started my first house hack."
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This way of life isn't without its critics. Some worry the high savings targets of FIRE followers aren't feasible. "It seems to me like the extreme version of the Atkins diet," says Damien Fahy, a financial planning adviser based in London. "They have a lot of positives and some good roots in financial planning," he says. "But I do think it's an extreme version of it that isn't necessarily suitable for everybody."
Royal London's Morrissey agrees. "They must ensure they can also meet other needs," she says.
Another controversial aspect of the FIRE movement is this: just how much money do you need in order to retire in your 30s or 40s? Critics say FIRE followers vastly underestimate how much they need to save.
Many (though not all) in the movement follow the 4% rule: by withdrawing just 4% of an investment, your income will consist mostly of interest and dividends, and you won't eat in to the principal amount. The rule of thumb here is to save 25 times your required spending: for instance, for someone to draw £30,000 or $39,000 a year, they'd need £750,000, or $980,000.
If you retire in your 30s, you could be living for 70 more years – Holly Mackay
But this rule has its flaws, especially when applied to young people. It's generally used for those retiring in their 60s, who aren't likely to need money for more than 30 years.
The maths doesn't add up, says Holly Mackay, founder of consumer financial website Boring Money. "If you retire in your 30s, you could be living for 70 more years. I think there's a bit of naivety."
Putting a precise dollar amount on the amount someone needs to retire at 35 is difficult, she says. If someone wants £20,000 a year, they'd need 55 times that – reduced assuming there were investments. "But it's at least half a million, and then that only gets you £20,000 a year," she explains.
Living costs in the UK are much higher than that – the average annual spend for a family of four, according to the ONS, is £39,000 or $50,000. Using Mackay's rule of saving 55 times that amount, someone retiring at 35 would need £2.15 million or $2.75 million.
Those calculations assume someone retiring at 35 won't work at all once they "retire". That's not the case for most in the FIRE movement.
Gwen Merz is 28 and has $200,000 in assets (mostly in property, stocks and a little cash). The American quit her job in IT in March aged 27, and now hosts the Firedrill podcast. "I'm not retired," she says. "I still have to work but I have the freedom to choose something that I really enjoy that maybe doesn't pay so much."
She hopes her investments will provide a living income whenever she decides to stop working. And for her, FIRE isn't just about finances – it offers community and camaraderie. "There are more people to hang around with and don't look at you because you have a 13-year-old car," she says.
Minneapolis resident Gwen Merz, 28, drives a 13-year-old car to help her stash away money for early retirement (Credit: Anna Radjl)
Merz's old car is not the only way in which she cut back her lifestyle. She'd love a Nintendo Switch, but rules it unnecessary. She also eats out less than she used to, and doesn't travel that often.
Critics of FIRE have a common refrain, which is that this is all short-term pain for uncertain, long-term gain. How do FIRE devotees respond?
You should be able to live your best life, but that doesn't mean you're spending lots of money – Gwen Merz
"Those people are missing the point," Merz says. "If you're depriving yourself that much, you're not going to be happy, and you're not going to be able to maintain that." Merz advises cutting back unnecessary expenditure to the point that feels uncomfortable, then settle just above that level. "You should be able to live your best life, but that doesn't mean you're spending lots of money," she says.
Whiter agrees. "You don't need to go to an expensive, city-centre bar," he says. "You can have your mate round for some tinnies." That extends to his family. Before he retired, he realised his family of five could live well on £24,000 or $31,000 per year.
"We don't indulge rampant runaway consumerism by buying the kids the latest iPhone," he says. He describes his lifestyle as frugal, not deprived.
"There's no point living miserably for 20 years just so you can live miserably for another 20 years post-work," he says.
Despite the "retire early" part of the FIRE movement moniker, the goal for Merz and Whiter isn't to quit their jobs at 27 or 43, and do nothing until they die.
"We're not meant to sit around and drink Mai Tais all day," Merz says. "Humans have an intrinsic need to work. We need to feel like a valued member of society, and that's not going to stop because you have an arbitrary number in the bank."
Being in a position to retire early gives them the flexibility to do what they want. Some choose to travel – on a budget of course – while others simply pick and choose their work, rather than feeling trapped on the hamster wheel.
"I felt like I was beholden to the system," says Whiter. "I felt like I was in a prison camp, working to sustain a lifestyle I didn't actually want."
Now he's free. "A lot of this stuff is emotional and psychological," he says.
"You have to live through it to understand how powerful it is."

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All the new programmers soon learned how difficult Stella was to program. Programmers had to learn the quirks of the VCS to get as much power out of it as possible. There were few objects to work with, and and very little memory, so everything had to be done on the fly. A typical game would use the "Vertical Blank" (the time between refreshes of the TV screen display) to do collision detection, take input, compute game conditions and new graphics locations, and then use the "Horizontal Blank" to write everything to screen.cx It was a complicated process that forced programmers to count the computation cycles of every instruction to make sure they could fit their code into these small intervals.
"Writing the kernels that make up the game programs, is like solving acrostic puzzles with lots and lots of possibilities. There's a certain class of programmer that can deal in the microcode like that. If it were easier to program, we wouldn't have these programmers, because they'd be bored. The VCS is an absolute challenge." cxi - Steve Mayer
"In the early days, the extreme hardware constraints eliminated most obvious game designs. So, game concepts had to be developed with those constraints expressly in mind. After I came up with a concept that I thought would be fun and could be implemented, I wrote it up and discussed it with others in the group, like David Crane, Bob Whitehead, and Larry Kaplan."cxii - Alan Miller
The 2600 as designed was a hacker's machine. It was deceptively simple, but with enough "open" and explorable parts that more and more power would be squeezed out of it for almost 20 years.
"Most early VCS ROM carts were only 2Kbytes. Programmers had to put tremendous effort into implementing a decent game in that small space." cxiii - Alan Miller
To program the VCS developers had to "unlearn" good programming practices to get their code to fit within the bizarre hardware. Tricks were passed around by programmers, and new programmers would have to pick them up quickly if they were going to be successful. Joe Decuir developed the color-cycling routine of the VCS to help stop "burn-in" that was a complaint of the Pong systems, which also doubled as a feature in games. "Flicker" (objects flashing on the screen) was caused by a trick that let programmers get more objects on the screen than were allowed.
Atari showed the VCS at the Summer CES in 1977, and prepared it for release in October. They knew that had the best product on the market, but they did not know how to inform the public of that fact.
During the manufacturing process, they ran into some problems that delayed the release of the unit. The VCS was very difficult to produce and test. The design required two types of screws that were difficult for assembly line workers to distinguish. Also, the cases were created as two plastic parts that would warp if not used quickly after being manufactured. The multiple integrated circuits and reliance on both cartridges and a television made testing the 2600 units extremely difficult. Some supplier chips were not fast enough for production 2600's, but passed inspection because they worked fine in individual unit tests -- but not when the machine was put together. All of these things led to shipping delays and disappointed retailers.
By late November 1977, the Atari VCS shipped to retailers, including Sears who marketed their own version named the Sears Tele-Games Video Arcade. The system cost $199 and included the console, TV switchbox, two joysticks, a set of paddle controllers, and the pack-in game Combat. Eight other games were released with the console, most of which were conversions of Atari's most popular coin-op games from years past.
Combat was programmed by Joe Decuir, Larry Wagner. Larry Kaplan. It was based on the Tank! and Jet fighter coin-ops. It was the perfect pack-in game for the VCS. It displayed incredibly addictive two player action, and contained one of the best two player games ever designed, Tank Pong.
"The first time I saw Combat on display in the local Fedmart TV section, I was blown away. There were actual arcade games up on that screen." - Anonymous Atari Fan
Air-Sea Battle was programmed by Larry Kaplan. It was based on the Destroyer and Anti-Aircraft coin-ops.
"Air-Sea Battle was based on an Atari coin-op called Anti-Aircraft. In those days, we just ripped off anything we could make work."cxiv - Larry Kaplan


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Don't pack a hand grenade in your suitcase (or your carry on) when you head to the airport.
OK, so maybe that one seems obvious, but there are things the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will not let you bring on a plane that you might not have considered.
The TSA website has a long list of things that are banned on planes. Check it out before you go so the contents of your bags doesn't make you a target for more screening.
But don't try to bring a can of spray paint or a pool cue on the plane. You can check the cue, however.
Ice skates, if they fit in your carry on, will be passed through the security check point.
So, as you can see, it's not something you can just guess about. You need to have the list of prohibited items next to you as you pack if you want to be sure about what you can bring and what you can't.
Also, marijuana is prohibited even with a prescription, the TSA notes on their website. Though the TSA screens only for security threats, they can turn the matter over to law enforcement.
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They say never meet your heroes. Or in my case, never cower in the dark near other people meeting their hero - Scotty T. We've been huge Geordie Shore fans forever, we consider our weeks to be less exciting when we're in between a series. I think for oldies like us, it's the shock value, likability and living vicariously through people who appear to be having several people's fun at once. Anyway, to cut a long story short, we were invited to watch an X Factor style talent show featuring Scotty T - in that he was the judge, and many many talented young women were auditioning to play Snow White opposite his Prince Charming in an upcoming "pop up" panto in Leeds. When I say he was the judge, I mean that there were four professional judges and Scotty T was there to sort of bring the fun factor I think.
I was really shocked at the high quality of the performances. The would be Snow Whites had to act and sing - I mean, I used to think I could carry a tune and now I realise I am a terrible singer compared to these people.
After much deliberation and amazing auditions, 17-year-old Lucy Dures from Barnsley was chosen, after wowing the judges with her formidable singing voice, nifty dance moves and uncanny resemblance to Snow White herself.
Lucy has been performing since the age of 6, and honed her craft by attending Jill Brooke's Dance School, The RMC Theatre Company and the Pauline Quirke Academy. She said, "I have done many shows over the years but this is the biggest opportunity I have been given so far.
I am so excited to be playing the role of Snow White. I have loved Panto all of my life and to be playing the Leading Lady alongside Scotty T is incredible!"
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs will play out in a huge, purpose-built big-top tent in the grounds of the former Tetley Brewery from 8th December for three weeks. Guests will be welcomed by a host of fairytale characters, and be able to enjoy food, refreshments and pre-show entertainment.
For tickets, head over to www.whiterosetheatre.com or call the Box Office on 0113 870 7769. Tickets can also be booked by calling into Jumbo Records in St Johns Centre, Leeds
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Fall 2021 has been our first taste of export with great international showcases like Reeperbahn and FOCUS Wales bringing western Canada talent abroad once again. It's time to start thinking about export, so BreakOut West is bringing in the best industry professionals from around the world to help you strategize around exporting your music once again. Meet industry professionals from Australia, UK, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Singapore, and more.
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Alexis Onestas - Omax Capital
I'm Alexis Onestas. Founder of Omax Capital. Omax Capital is a venture capital firm on a mission to change the face of entrepreneurship by investing in 1,000 diverse founders over 20 years.
Hannah King - We Are Golden
Started off career as a score producer for feature films and drama (incl. BAFTA nominated Oliver Twist). Then worked at EMI / Sony / ATV Music Publishing for 13 years leaving the company as Global Creative Manager. After leaving she set up We Are Golden with Nathan Boddy + her own independent consultancy company Kitty and Bob. We Are Golden acts as music supervisors + composer managers working across advertising (having supervised D&AD award winning campaigns - clients include Audi, Nike, Adidas etc), TV (everything from large scale reality TV formats to feature docs including the recent documentary about Amy Winehouse) to feature films. We Are Golden handles all aspects of music supervision from creative research, score production, composer management, music licencing and clearance. We are based at Strongroom Studios in Shoreditch.
Kitty and Bob works on a consultancy basis with TV companies and music publishers and has worked on projects spanning business development in Mumbai, building a music supervision business in Shanghai, creating production music labels for music publishers and TV companies and management of sales and creative for production music labels as a UK sub-publisher.
I have a BMus + MA masters in music, MSc in Business + Management specialising in Creativity + Risk
Keith Tan - CD Baby / Slate Entertainment
Keith has over a decade of experience in the music business; spanning festival and venue programming and management, touring as well as artist management and development.
Some of his key accomplishments include producing festivals such as the Mosaic Music Festival (a 10-day music festival and one of the biggest music festivals in Singapore) and OVERDRIVE (which featured director/choreographer Wade Robson), developing the music programming at the Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay as well as conceptualising and launching TAB, one of the first-ever live music venues of its kind in Singapore (as well as Southeast Asia) in 2010 as well as a label services and music publicity firm in 2012 to fill that gap in the industry and to help independent artists and labels develop and grow their businesses out in Asia.
He founded Slate Entertainment in 2008 as a booking agency to serve as a trustworthy and strategic extension for international artists, management companies and booking agencies to grow their business in the Asia Pacific region. Some artists that he has worked with include but are not limited to Jason Mraz, N*E*R*D/Pharrell, Boys Like Girls, Joss Stone, Rachael Yamagata, Brian McKnight, KELIS, Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds, amongst many others. A management arm was added in 2012 to develop artists to prepare them for the global music stage.
He currently overseas market development in the Asia Pacific region for CD Baby (Downtown Music Holdings) and is excited to help the company in their quest to support and aid independent artists and labels in their creative journeys.
He has been invited to speak on panels at conferences locally and around the world like Going Global (New Zealand), BIGSOUND (Australia), Face The Music (Australia), Fluvial (Chile)…etc.
Keith continues to provide strategic counsel to private and public sectors for top-level industry initiatives. He is also active in the start-up space.
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Ruby is an Artist Manager and Event/Festival Programmer from Brisbane Australia. Ruby currently manages guitar-pop trio Bugs, next big thing Hope D, grunge wunderkinds VOIID, and co-programs BIGSOUND Festival with long time collaborator and business partner Dom Miller. She has also worked for Australian artist booking agency New World Artists and has taken care of bookings for a large number of Brisbane venues in her time.
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I am a big fan of supporting new artists and hope you are too. My agency, RajiWorld, had worked with a lot of artists I've discovered, resurrected, swooned over and most importantly shared with other fans. Please go see any of these great acts if you ever have the opportunity, you will thank me! Keep in mind that this is rock and roll and some bands may have broken up or traveled heavenward.
I began as a buyer at the University of Arizona in the late 80's through SUAB where I led booking for both Eat to The Beat with bands like (Red HoRed Hot Chili Peppers, Jane's Addiction, Billy Idol) and for Spring Fling (Jellyfish, Redd Kross, Posies, Paladins , some promoting at Counter Club and Club Congress (I brought the first El Vez show to Tucson, as well as the Ringling Sisters). I was also KAMP student Radio music director, and made a few trial national bookings for Green On Red and Giant Sand. At the time I was a Chemistry major, and going between the chemistry lab and my music office with a lab coat and a Motorola brick cell phone. My mother (also named Roggie) was in grad school at UA these same years so I changed the spelling of my name to Raji.
My booking agency, RajiWorld was named in 1991 to honor a great club and keep the name alive. Raji's was a rock and roll nightclub in central Hollywood, in the 1980s and early 1990s: one of the great affectionate sweaty smoke filled 'dives' of rock, which featured among others performances by bands such as Guns N' Roses, Redd Kross, Jane's Addiction, The Dream Syndicate, Tex and the Horseheads, Mary's Danish, The Miracle Workers, Social Distortion, the Mentors, GG Allin, The Nymphs, and Los Lobos, as well as out-of-town acts like Nirvana, Hole, The Pink Fairies, Pussy Galore and Kyuss. Top-draw local acts like Thelonious Monster, The Muffs, the Red Aunts, The Lazy Cowgirls, Beck, TrashCan School, Oiler, Butt Trumpet, Kill Buddha, the Sacred Hearts, Baby Girl English and many others found enthusiastic crowds as well. My first client was Rosie Flores. I booked her to play at the U of A, a conference in PHX, and a club show in Tucson. I worked the door at the club show and part-way through the night the bar owner collected the money so I wouldn't have to hold it. I trusted him. He passed out in the office and never paid us. I withdrew all my savings and gave her what I could. She later found out about it and asked if I would book her. I soon added Duane Jarvis and Buddy Miller, who were direct referrals and that was how it started. I am incredibly grateful.
In 1992 I moved to L.A. and dove into music in earnest. I worked for Concrete Blonde and directly with fans. It was at this point that I decided to focus on maintaining that connection (via booking). I had such a wonderful roster of founders and upstarts in the roots (now called Americana) world, including Howe Gelb, Friends Of Dean Martin(ez), Chris Cacavas, Chuck Prophet, Dan Stuart (for some Green on Red reunion shows), Glenn Clark,Pete Anderson, Russell Scott, DJ and Buddy, Rosie, …and as a radio promoter for Wylie and The Wild West Show. In 1994 I moved over to to Austin to work with Joe Ely in the studio, on the road and with his musical called Chippy, which played at Lincoln Center and had a long run in Philly that year. This allowed me to go on the road and meet all the venues and local press which has been invaluable in the years since. RajiWorld has been run between Tucson, L.A., and Austin which has made the quarantine easy to grow ideas and methods.
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Retrospective-type articles that touch upon a central topic or theme are useful for both the reader and author, especially within sites such as The Veteran's Collection as the pulling together of related content and subject matter can shed new light and expose facts that were overlooked or previously hidden. The negative aspects of self-promotion come to light when it is very obvious that authors have run out of ideas and, rather than to have aging content remain on the front or home pages of their sites, publish fluff in order to keep up the appearance of fresh content. Another reason could be to reflect upon old content while attempting to relevantly connect it to a current event.
If readers delve into the content of this site they would discover that navy-centric militaria outnumbers the articles published within this site the the better portion of those pieces focused upon a four ships bearing the same name. Within this author's collection are a handful of artifacts from one of the four – the second ship – to carry the name Vincennes around the globe and into war. Although my collection does encompass artifacts associated with a few other ships (those vessels aboard which members of my family served), this particular warship holds special meaning and thus is at the center of my collection focus.
Commissioned in 1937, the New Orleans Class heavy cruiser (classified as such due to her main battery consisting of eight inch guns) USS Vincennes (CA-44) plied the peacetime seas for more than four years before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Despite the elapsed time since she was placed into service, many of her crew at the start of World War II were plankowners (they were part of the original crew, present at the time of commissioning) though personnel turnover was occurring and a steady rate. New crew members were replacing veterans whose enlistments were ending or were rotating to different commands. Wartime manning requirements, impacted by combat operations, increased for many vessels by as much as twenty percent.
For the aging USS Arizona (BB-39), the near 2,300-man crew was proud that their ship carried the flag of Commander Battleship Division One, Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd. Arizona had been serving the U.S. Navy for more than 25 years having been placed into commission in 1916; though she never fired her massive 14-inch guns at an enemy target – not even during World War I. Three-and-a-half weeks after Thanksgiving Day in 1941, the losses of WWII would begin to touch American lives throughout the country.
In late March of 1945 in the small town of Le Roy located in McLean County, Illinois which lies just north of dead-center of the state (about 140 miles southeast of Chicago), the small farming town was feeling the economic effects of the war with rationing in full swing and a large percentage of the area's young, able-bodied men serving and fighting in far-off lands. Le Roy's lone celebrity, Broadway star Betty Jane Watson (cousin of Jean Stapleton of 1970s television's All in the Family fame) gained attention in the previous year playing the role "Gertie" in Oklahoma! and was now working as singer, performing (singing) with with bands in Chicago. Le Roy was a fairly quiet and peaceful town as families awaited word from their sons, fathers, brothers and uncles who were serving in the European and Pacific theaters, hopeful of good news.
Iwo Jima 1945 – the 3rd and 4th Marine Division Cemetery was beautifully laid into the volcanic soil. Though David Gaultney was laid to rest here, he (along with all of the Marines buried here) would ultimately be removed from the island and relocated (U.S. Navy photo).
PFC David Gaultney's Marine Corps boot camp photograph, taken in April of 1945 (image source: The Pantograph).
At the home of William Gaultney that March, things may have been quiet for the farmer-turned-road-construction worker's family as an ominous word arrived from the War Department. From an island that until February 19, 1945 very few, if any, Americans had ever heard of, word made its way to Mr. Gaultney, via the Secretary of the Navy that his second youngest son, Private First Class David J. Gaultney was killed in combat on Iwo Jima. Nineteen year-old David was serving with "A" company of the 1st Battalion, 9th Marines (Third Marine Division) having transferred to the unit weeks before (in January) as a replacement rifleman as the unit was rearming and refitting following their heavy combat operations on Guam in late July-early August of 1944. David J. Gaultney enlisted in April of 1944 and attended recruit training in San Diego that same summer before transferring to the Sixth Replacement Draft in preparation to serve in the Pacific. David turned 19 in October as he was training to fight in the Pacific but his life would be cut short four months later. David's father was left to grieve without his wife, Nellie who had passed away (at age 54), just 25 months earlier, afflicted by heartbreak due to the heavy toll her family had already suffered in the War.
Gunner's Mate Third Class Ralph Gaultney died from wounds sustained aboard the USS Arizona during the December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor attack (image source: The Pantograph).
For William Gaultney, the notification of David's loss on Iwo Jima was nothing new and one can assume that when the telegram arrived, the hesitation to open it eleven months after his son, David left for service in the Marine Corps was near-crippling for him, considering the two previous notifications that were sent to his home by the War Department, starting with word from Pearl Harbor in December of 1941. The scene portrayed on screen in the film, Saving Private Ryan as the U.S. Army car kicks up a dust cloud as it proceeds up the Ryan family farm road with Mrs. Ryan understanding what was coming; something terrible had happened to (perhaps her thoughts regarding) one of her sons. Instead, she is gripped with anguish, dropping to the porch as she reads the note handed to her by the Army officer telling her that three of her four sons had perished in combat. While the Gaultney family weren't hit with such a magnitude as was shown in the film. However, Mrs. Gaultney suffered through two losses in less than a year with her oldest son, succumbing to his wounds (on Christmas Eve, 1941) that he sustained aboard his ship, the USS Arizona (BB-39) on December 7.
Ralph Gaultney's ship, the USS Arizona shown transiting the Panama Canal some time before her 1930s modernization (M. S Hennessy Collection).
Ralph Martin Gaultney was the second of William and Nellie Gaultney's children to enlist to serve in the armed forces. Ralph joined the Navy on January 16, 1940, nearly two years before the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Following his training, Ralph reported aboard the aging battleship on the eve of Fleet Problem XXI (the 21st in the series of large scale naval exercises conducted since 1923 and shifted to the Hawaiian waters in 1925) and would serve aboard the ship during her overhaul (in Bremerton, WA) from late 1940 to early 1941 when Admiral Isaac Kidd hoisted his flag aboard the ship (Captain Franklin Van Valkenburgh assumed command of the ship in February). The last time that Gunners Mate Third Class Ralph Gaultney would put to sea with the ship was just days before the attack. Twenty one year old Gaultney would linger for two weeks his ship was destroyed, succumbing to his wounds on December 24. Though Ralph was oldest son (there were seven children; four sons and three daughters) and the first of the Gaultney boys to perish, he wasn't the first to join the military.
Steaming towards Guadalcanal in August 1942, the USS Vincennes (CA-44) dressed in her camouflage paint scheme, escorts the troop transports carrying the First Marine Division (M. S Hennessy Collection).
Initially listed as missing in action, Machinist Mate 1/c Leonard Gaultney perished when his ship, USS Vincennes (CA-44) was sunk on the night of August 8-9, 1942 near Savo Island in the Solomon Islands group (image source: The Pantograph).
Machinist's Mate 1/c Leonard Gaultney had been serving in the Navy since he enlisted on September 1, 1938. Following his training, he reported aboard one of the Navy's newest New Orleans Class heavy cruisers, the USS Vincennes (CA-44) while she was undergoing an overhaul at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in east San Francisco Bay. Having been in commission since February 24, 1937, most of the ship's company that were present with Gaultney had been there for two years and were plankowners. When Vincennes left Mare Island, she made her way back to the Atlantic Fleet (via the Panama Canal) to serve in Neutrality Patrols as well as to retrieve some of France's wealth (gold) for safe storage in the United States in anticipation of a German invasion. Leonard Gaultney's ship paid a visit to Cape Town South Africa to receive yet another large shipment of gold (this time as a payment) from the United Kingdom as compensation for arms in support of their war against Germany and Italy (WWII). When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, (then) Machinist Mate 2/c Gualtney's ship was escorting a British convoy to South Africa, arriving two days later. In March of 1942, Vincennes arrived in San Francisco to join Task Force 18 and would escort USS Hornet and USS Enterprise to Japan for Colonel Doolittle's air strike on Tokyo in April of 1942. With Japan still on the offensive, Leonard Gaultney would see action in the Battle of Midway as she screened the USS Yorktown, fighting off the Japanese air attacks. By August of 1942, USS Vincennes escorted the amphibious forces carrying the First Marine Division to the Solomon Islands. On the morning of August 7, Gaultney heard the main batteries of Vincennes commencing the shore bombardment in preparation for landing the Marines on Guadalcanal's beachhead. During the day, Vincennes' 5-inch and 40mm guns shot down a "Betty" bomber that was part of a Japanese air strike on the American ships landing the troops.
A grim reminder of naval warfare, this list of those USS Vincennes sailors who remained missing months after the ship was lost in the Battle of Savo Island, August 8-9, 1942. MM1/c Leonard Gaultney is listed among the MIA.
Sunrise in the waters between the islands of Guadalcanal, Tulagi and Savo would be MM1/c Gaultney's last along with 331 of his USS Vincennes shipmates. That evening, the group of ships protecting the northern approach to Tulagi and Savo Islands (consisted of USS Astoria CA-34, USS Quincy CA-39 and HMAS Canberra) were caught by surprise when a Japanese cruiser task force commanded by Vice Admiral Gunichi Mikawa came upon them in the dark of night (at 01:55 am). Highly trained and proficient in night combat, the Japanese attacked and within minutes had all four ships heavily damaged, burning and sinking after opening fire with guns and Long Lance (Type 93) torpedoes. Vincennes sustained massive hits from the Japanese cruisers setting her on fire and presenting an even easier target for the IJN torpedomen to aim for. Vincennes was struck by two Type 93 torpedoes near her main spaces and she began to take on water. Fifty-five minutes later, USS Vincennes disappeared beneath the waves (at 02:50). It is not clear whether MM 1/c Gaultney made it into the water or went down with the ship though the latter is more likely considering his work space was struck by one of the torpedoes. The resulting explosion and ensuing flooding made it nearly impossible for the men who managed the propulsion systems to survive the damage let alone escape.
Some time after receiving the official notifications from the Navy (or War) Department, Mr. and Mrs. Gaultney would have been presented with their sons' posthumous decorations (which were, most likely Purple Heart Medals). A third medal would have been presented to Mr. Gaultney in 1945 leaving him with three engraved medals – one for each son. Hopefully, all three medals have remained within the family, handed down and preserved to ensure that the memories of each of the Gaultney boys and the immense sacrifice made by this family is never forgotten. It wouldn't be unheard of for the family to have let go of the pain of terrible loss by divesting the reminders or simply tucking them away from sight. Under such circumstances, families have been known to give Purple Heart medals (PHM) away, sell or even discard them. It wouldn't be surprising to discover that the Gaultney medals are preserved as part of a militaria collection.
The boxed American Defense Service Medal and liberty card group from USS Vincennes (CA-44) survivor, Fireman 3/c Charles Henry Findlay.
USS Vincennes (CA-44) survivor, Charles H. Findlay, Fireman 3/c (image source: imthistory.org).
Collecting artifacts such as Purple Heart medals from service members who were killed in action is not something that interests many collectors due to the sensitive nature of the pieces and the pain and suffering (for both the one who was lost and their surviving family members) that is represented with the decorations. Though I have personal awards and decorations from sailors who served aboard the Vincennes, the pieces that I have are from two men who survived and the medals are not PHMs.
Several years ago, I was able to land a small group from a sailor, Fireman Third Class Charles Henry Findlay, who served aboard the heavy cruiser Vincennes from March of 1941 and survived its sinking. The two pieces in the group include one of his decorations, the American Defense Service Medal (ADSM) and a liberty card issued to the young sailor. One aspect of this group that collectors must keep in mind is that the ADSM is not engraved or marked with the recipient's name (they are never personalized) which makes this particular medal difficult to prove that it was specifically awarded to Findlay.
USS Vincennes crewman, F3/c Charles Findlay was issued this American Defense Service Medal with the "Fleet" clasp.
Showing the back of the Findlay ADSM
Signed by the executive officer of the USS Vincennes, W. F. Dietrich, Fireman 3/c Charles H. Findlay used this card to show that he was authorized to be on liberty and away from the ship.
This image shows the reverse of Fireman 3/c Findlays USS Vincennes-issued liberty card.
Listed among the survivors, Fireman 3/c Findlay made it through the battle and sinking and went on to fight the enemy, serving aboard the USS Santa Fe.
What became of Fireman Findlay after being rescued from the waters that would be dubbed, "Iron Bottom Sound?" He, along with more than 50 of his USS Vincennes shipmates, were assigned to the USS Santa Fe (CL-60), a Cleveland Class light cruiser that was commissioned in November of 1942.
Though the aged and worn Navy Good Conduct Medal (NGCM) has been long separated from its suspension, drape and brooch, this medal, awarded to Seaman First Class William John Wennberg in 1939 is a great piece for my USS Vincennes (CA-44) collection. Seaman Wenneberg enlisted into the Navy on October 8, 1935 from his hometown in Chicago, Illinois, though he shown reporting aboard the Vincennes on February 24, 1937 (which corresponds with the ship's commissioning date making him a plankowner), sixteen months after his navy career began. No muster sheets are available for Wennberg which makes his career path difficult to track until he shows up again as he reported to Receiving Ship New York on December 13, 1941, the day after he began his second enlistment. It appears that he spent a few years out of the Navy, living in New York (according to records discovered on Ancestry) and was married. Wennberg was assigned to another cruiser, USS Columbia (CL-56), the second ship of the Cleveland Class light cruisers. William Wennberg remained a seaman (equivalent to today's E-3) from 1937 until 1945 (except for his two year break in service) when he was serving aboard the new heavy cruiser, USS Bremerton (CA-130) when he was rated as a Ship's Serviceman Laundry 1/c.
Missing the brooch, drape and suspension, Seaman 1/c William J. Wennbergs Navy Good Conduct Medal shows the wear and aging.
Awarded and engraved) to Seaman 1/c William John Wennberg in 1939 while he was serving aboard the heavy cruiser, USS Vincennes.
An interesting aside, both Findlay and Wennberg served aboard Cleveland Class light cruisers following their time aboard the Vincennes. Though the coincidence isn't that significant, the Navy chose to return the name Vincennes to the Pacific as leaders re-named the under-construction USS Flint (CL-64) to USS Vincennes, the tenth light cruiser of the 27 Cleveland Class warships. "Vincennes" and hundreds of her survivors were surviving crew were back in the fight.
For the Gaultney family, the war was over with their notification of David's death on Iwo Jima though the grief from their terrible loss would never cease. In December of 2018, a pair of Illinois state republicans (state Senator Chapin Rose, R-Mahomet, and Representative Bill Mitchell, R-Forsyth) sponsored Senate Joint Resolution 65 which was to name the portion of I-74 that runs through Le Roy, Illinois the Gaultney Brothers Memorial Highway. The resolution passed unanimously in both the Illinois Senate and House, as reported by the Pantograph newspaper on December 31st.
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I have been blogging about Militaria since 2010 when I was hired to write for the A&E/History Channel-funded Collectors Quest (CQ) site. It was strange for me to have been asked as I was not, by any means, an expert on militaria nor had I ever written on a recurring basis beyond my scholastic newspaper experience (many MANY decades ago). After nearly two years, CQ was shut down and I discovered that I was enjoying the work and I had learned a lot about my subject matter over that period of time. I served for a decade in the U.S. Navy and descend from a long line of veterans who helped to forge this nation from its infancy all the way through all of the major conflicts to present day and have done so in every branch of the armed forces (except the USMC). I began to take an interest in militaria when I inherited uniforms, uniform items, decorations from my relatives. I also inherited some militaria of the vanquished of WWII that my relatives brought home, furthering my interest. Before my love of militaria, I was interested in baseball history. Beyond vintage baseball cards (early 1970s and back) and some assorted game-used items and autographs, I had a nominal collecting focus until I connected my militaria collecting with baseball. Since then, I have been selectively growing in each area and these two blogs are the result, Chevrons and Diamonds (https://chevronsanddiamonds.wordpress.com/) The Veterans Collection (https://veteranscollection.org/)
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Posted on January 11, 2019, in Decorations, Awards and Badges, Medals, Ribbons, US Navy, Warships or Vessels, World War II and tagged 1930s Navy Good Conduct Medal, American Defense Service Medal with Fleet Clasp, Gaultney Brothers, Illinois, Iwo Jima, LeRoy, Navy Liberty Card, USS Arizona, USS Arizona KIA, USS Vincennes CA-44, USS Vincennes KIA, USS Vincennes MIA, WWII. Bookmark the permalink.	6 Comments.
natuurfreak2 | February 9, 2019 at 12:03 pm
Wazt een verdriet moet daar ten huize gehangen hebben.Zoveel kinderen te verliezen aan een oorlog.Verschrikkelijk
SCLMRose | February 10, 2019 at 7:32 am
I feel an awful sadness for the Gaultney family. Losing a son is a terrible loss but three must be the ultimate sacrifice for the family. Glad that the town did something for the three boys to be remembered always. Thanks for sharing their stories.
VetCollector | February 10, 2019 at 8:42 am
As much as we know about the Sullivan brothers and other difficult losses suffered by American families in war, this one was such a hard one as it greatly impacted Mrs. Gaultney with tremendous grief. I can't imagine what Mr. Gaultney dealt with in losing his wife after two sons and then one more son. That would be pure heartbreak.
The Sullivan brothers' story is well known but the Gaultney boys' story had to be told and I'm glad you did that. As a mother of two boys, I can understand Mrs. Gaultney's grief. I can't imagine Mr. Gaultney's feeling after all these losses. Prayers for all of them.
Thank you for taking the time to read and share your thoughts.
SCLMRose | February 10, 2019 at 8:44 pm
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The Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander, Tetraevangelia of Ivan Alexander, or Four Gospels of Ivan Alexander (, transliterated as Chetveroevangelie na (tsar) Ivan Aleksandar) is an illuminated manuscript Gospel Book, written and illustrated in 1355–1356 for Tsar Ivan Alexander of the Second Bulgarian Empire. The manuscript is regarded as one of the most important manuscripts of medieval Bulgarian culture, and has been described as "the most celebrated work of art produced in Bulgaria before it fell to the Turks in 1393".

The manuscript, now in the British Library (Add. MS 39627), contains the text of the Four Gospels illustrated with 366 miniatures and consists of 286 parchment folios, 33 by 24.3 cm in size, later paginated with pencil. The language of the text is variously described as Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Slavonic, and Church Slavonic.

Contents and binding

The book contains the four Gospels and some other texts, so is a true gospel book rather than an evangeliary, but there are markings showing which passages were to be read in the liturgy, as well as a list at the end of the book. The bookbinding of red leather over wooden boards is original, but the elements of a metalwork treasure binding probably decorated with gold, gems and pearls on top of this have disappeared.  The nail holes where these were fixed on are evident, but it would not have covered all the binding, even on the front, as the leather is stamped with patterns and a griffin.

The last gathering, with ff. 276–284, is a later insertion with a smaller page size, containing a menology or liturgical calendar of feast days and the appropriate gospel readings for them, and a synaxaria or calendar listing saint's feast days.  There is also a short guide on studying the scriptures.  Before this, at the end of the original book on f. 273v, is a magic square of a grid with 625 squares containing letters, in which the name of the book, as "Io Alexander Tsarya Tetravaggel" is spelled out several times, a unique feature in such a manuscript.  The centre square contains the "Iῶ" from which all readings begin.  Folio 74, which probably contained a miniature illustrating the Last Judgment, has been cut and stolen in modern times.

Miniatures
The gospels are very heavily illuminated by the standards of the West European Late Middle Ages, following Byzantine traditions, going back to Early Byzantine luxury manuscripts of the scriptures such as the Vienna Genesis. Most pages have small "frieze" images in a landscape format taking the width of the written page.  These are interspersed in the text, with between none and three per page, the number and placement in the text depending on the story at that particular point. Other images are near-squares, with the text wrapping round them, and there are larger or whole page miniatures at a few key points.

Several scenes are shown more than once as they appear in the different gospels.  Many images contain more than one scene side by side, or sometimes one above the other. The images probably follow closely a lost Greek model, perhaps of the 11th or 12th century. The miniatures are mostly very close to those in a Greek manuscript made in the 11th century in the Monastery of Stoudios, the largest in Constantinople (now in Paris as BnF, cod grec 74), and were probably very largely copied from this or another Byzantine exemplar in the same tradition.

The colophon, unusually, refers to but does not name the artists (in the plural) who worked on the book, and the hands of three main masters can be detected, as well as other less competent stretches which were probably the work of less experienced trainees. All would probably have been monks. The main master, responsible for the royal portrait and other major scenes on a larger scale, has been claimed to be very innovative in his technique, while a second master partly followed his style, and the third was more conservative.  However non-Bulgarian historians regard the style as a somewhat conservative one which "adhered closely to Byzantine models". According to Robin Milner-Gulland, "All the painters use saturated colours, relish picturesque details and confidently handle a linear, basically twelfth-century Byzantine manner that is distinctly archaic by the standards of the fourteenth century."

The royal portraits

Folios 2v and 3r have a famous double spread miniature of the Tsar, his second wife, and his five children from both marriages, with his son-in-law on the far left, all identified by inscriptions. All wear crowns, have halos, and carry sceptres, and above the Tsar and his wife a double Hand of God emerges from the cloud to bless them.  But only the tsar and his eldest son, standing to the left of him, wear a form of the loros, the cloth strip embroidered with gold thread and studded with gems that was a key part of the imperial insignia of Byzantine emperors.  From the previous century this had begun to be shown in imperial portraits of other Orthodox rulers, such those of Serbia, Georgia and the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia.  The face of the tsar is very carefully painted and clearly attempts a realistic likeness.

There are a number of other portraits of the tsar; at the end of each gospel he is shown at small size in an arcade with the evangelist, and he appears in a large scene of the Last Judgement.  In the Paris Greek gospel book with similar images (see above) the equivalent images at the end of each gospel show the evangelist with the abbot.

History
The text of the manuscript was all written by a monk named Simeon in 1355–1356 on the orders of Ivan Alexander, probably for use in his private chapel. Simeon gives his name in the colophon on f. 275.  It is not certain whether Simeon also illuminated the Tetraevangelia or simply was a scribe and calligrapher, or indeed whether he devised the magic square. Probably at least three different artists worked on the miniatures, but as was usual no names are given. The handwriting of the manuscript shows definite similarity with that of the Manasses Chronicle (1344–1345), a product of the Tarnovo Literary School of the time.

After the fall of Tarnovo to the Ottomans in 1393, the manuscript was transported to Moldavia possibly by a Bulgarian fugitive, marking the last time for nearly half a millennium it would be in its native Bulgaria. It spent a number of years there and was later bought on the orders and with the resources of Prince Alexander I of Moldavia (also a "John Alexander"), which is evidenced by a red-ink marginal note on folio 5.  The later fate of the manuscript until its arrival in monastery of Agiou Pavlou (St Paul) on Mount Athos is uncertain, but the document was recorded as part of the monastery's collection in the 17th century.

The English traveller and collector Robert Curzon (later 14th Baron Zouche, 1810-1873), who visited the monastery in 1837, was given the Tetraevangelia as a present by the abbot. This was to his surprise and delight, according to his own account; Milner-Gulland describes it as "shamelessly cadged" from the abbot. This probably saved the manuscript from being destroyed by the fire that burnt down the monastery library in 1905.  Curzon released an inventory of his collection of manuscripts in 1849, the first time the Tetraevangelia was presented to the academic world. Direct work with the original was, however, impossible, which caused speculation, supposition and rumours related to the manuscript. His son placed his collection on permanent loan in the British Museum in 1876, and after her death, his entire collection was given to the museum in 1917 by his daughter Darea, 16th Baroness Zouche (1860–1917), which enabled more detailed examination of the book. When the British Library was created in 1973, the manuscript was transferred to the British Library.

In 2017 the manuscript has been added to UNESCO's Memory of the World register as a world heritage document.

See also
 Sofia Psalter, 1337
 Tomić Psalter, c. 1360

References

Sources
Dimitrova, Ekaterina, The Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander, 1994, British Library,
Evans, Helen C. (ed.), Byzantium, Faith and Power (1261–1557), # 27, 2004, Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, , Fully online from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (and see McKendrick)
McKendrick, Scot, in Evans, Helen C. (ed.), Byzantium, Faith and Power (1261–1557), # 27, 2004, Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, , Fully online from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Milner-Gulland, R.R. "Review of The Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander by Ekaterina Dimitrova", The Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Apr., 1996), pp. 302–304, Modern Humanities Research Association and University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, JSTOR

British Library Manuscripts Catalogue entry, and fully digitized with 579 images

External links

Biggs, Sarah J., British Library manuscript blog

Christianity in Bulgaria
Medieval Bulgarian literature
Athos manuscripts
14th-century biblical manuscripts
14th-century illuminated manuscripts
British Library additional manuscripts
Bulgarian art
Middle Bulgarian language
Agiou Pavlou Monastery

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Catalyst acquires UK portfolio for £13.15 million
Catalyst Capital, the European real estate investment and asset management firm, has acquired a portfolio of properties in the UK for £13.15 million.
Catalyst's new European real estate fund, Catalyst European Property Fund II (CEPF II), has purchased the portfolio of four properties from TH Real Estate. The net initial yield is 8% and the reversionary yield is 12%.
The properties comprise Units 2620-2650 at Birmingham Business Park, which total 52,735 sq ft and are 55% leased to a number of tenants; Building 1300 at Bristol Parkway North, which totals 30,175 sq ft and is 100% leased; a vacant 57,410 sq ft industrial unit on Eismann Way, Corby; and a 17,795 sq ft industrial unit on Stephenson Way, Newark, which is 100% leased.
Deloitte acted for Catalyst.
Guy Wilson, a partner of Catalyst Capital, said: "We are pleased to have secured this portfolio of four properties for our new European fund, which continues our current strategy in the UK of purchasing regional portfolios. The properties provide an opportunity for value enhancement through refurbishment and reletting".
Catalyst announced in June the first close of CEPF II, a real estate fund targeting €1.25 billion of investments, having raised equity commitments of €150 million from global institutional investors.
Catalyst has already deployed for CEPF II €125 million of equity – half of which was equity from the fund and half equity from co-investing parties - in five separate transactions in the UK and Europe. In the UK, CEPF II has purchased the Regatta and Eva portfolios, which total 34 properties, for a combined price of £93 million. In France, CEPF II in January this year acquired three high-quality office buildings in established business districts of Paris Ile de France for a total of €155 million.
CEPF II invests in the office and retail sectors and, geographically, in the countries in Europe where Catalyst has an established presence, which are the UK, France, Belgium, Germany and Poland, where Catalyst believes there is the potential to source attractive value-creation opportunities and capitalise on the market dislocation between prime and secondary assets. It is targeting a diversified portfolio of income-producing assets and development and refurbishment opportunities.
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Now, I'm In A Bad Moo-d Too – Evidently Our Navy Is Non-Essential
By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
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Well, I didn't think I could get any more pissed today, but I'm there. First, I hear that Obama has blocked the death gratuity for families of fallen Rangers. But, I was heartened to hear a private foundation stepped up to the plate to help:
After families of fallen U.S. military personnel were denied benefits due to the government shutdown, the Fisher House Foundation has stepped forward to help cover travel and funeral costs to help families receive the remains of their loved ones who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.
The Fisher House has been providing housing and travel assistance to military families since 199o, so this offer "is nothing new to us," Cindy Campbell, vice president of public affairs for the nonprofit organization, told TheBlaze Wednesday morning.
"What is new is the Fisher House stepping in to bridge the gap between when they get reimbursements from the government," Campbell said.
The Pentagon typically pays out $100,000 within three days of a soldier's death. But it says the shutdown means there is no authority now to pay the money.
"After losing a loved one in service to our nation, these families should not have to endure more pain as the result of political squabbling," Ken Fisher, CEO of Fisher House Foundation, said in a statement Tuesday. "For the last 20 years, Fisher House has been there to support our military families in their time of greatest need. We are now stepping up to honor the sacrifices that have been made, and to repay a debt that is truly unpayable."
I am deeply ashamed of the Progressives for doing this to our fallen heroes and their families. I am massively proud of those helping and doing the right thing. While scurrilous politicians are giving lip service to rectifying this egregious treatment of our finest, others are actually doing something — privately and without Big Brother.
But if that didn't make your blood boil, prepare to steam and roil. A friend sent this to me from Grumpy Elder:
I received a call from my 'Navy Son' last night. He called me from Japan where he's been stationed for the past two and a half years. It was great to hear from him. Until, of course, he told me why he was calling.
In hindsight, I should have known that the call would come. And I should have been better prepared to respond to it.
On September 30th, 2013 Congress sent a Bill to President Obama to assure the continued funding for Active Duty Military. It was signed. And then…
My son called me last night to tell me that on October 1st he had a 'pending transaction' for his Credit Union account. This, of course, was his 'normally scheduled' paycheck deposit. Except, for some reason, his 'normally scheduled' paycheck was NOT normal.
The following morning he awoke to find no deposit, no 'pending transactions', only the balance he had in his account on September 30th.
It wasn't just his son — anyone there in a Navy uniform got stiffed. I thought Obama said our military would continue to be paid? Grumpy Elder will do what any parent would that could, he will cover his son and make sure he has funds. Not everyone will be able to do that. Part-time employees at the base were told last week that they'd have to get 'loans' to pay their bills. But the full blown military was supposed to be paid – it was another lie in a very long string of damnable lies. This breaks my heart:
In this era of broken promises, broken dreams, and shattered hopes, why would I have expected any other outcome from the rolling tide of ineptitude which is the Obama Administration?
In the end, we all will get wet.
I guess that's why I'm feeling kind of 'soaked' lately. My face is particularly wet but I don't know if it's from tears of sadness or rage?
Probably a little of both, but I suspect more of one than the other.
While the lying Progressives in DC spread their bullcrap, all of America is now in a bad moo-d. Evidently, our dictator has decided that our military is non-essential. That cuts both ways you asshat – you are definitely deemed non-essential politically.
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Colin McAdam (Glasgow, 28 augustus 1951 – 1 augustus 2013) was een Schots voetballer.

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The Royal Armouries takes you on a journey through 3,000 years of military history.
Venues don't get more unusual than this. With a collection of 70,000 objects dating from the early Middle Ages to present day, there's plenty to talk about at The Royal Armouries.
Unique gala dinners can be held amongst the armour and weapons on show, ranging from the Tudor period, to intricate oriental designs. Look out for the only existing suit of armour built for an elephant and even the horned helmet that belonged to King Henry VIII.
Set in a £350million waterfront development, surrounded by bars and restaurants, the museum and attached New Dock Hall provide striking venue options. Halls, suites, a theatre, a gallery and a cinema are on hand for events of 20 to 1,500 people. Conveniently, there are 850 hotel rooms within five minutes' walk.
Home to one of the most famous ceramic collections in the world, The Wedgwood Museum offers a venue for a variety of corporate events and entertaining.
Reward achieved goals with a spectacular event in the stadium's executive boxes and events spaces.