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Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad
Map of D&RGW and WP routes (ca. 1914).
Reporting mark
DRGW
Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico
Dates of operation
Southern Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific Railroad
Previous gauge
and gauge
The Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad (reporting mark DRGW), often shortened to Rio Grande, D&RG or D&RGW, formerly the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, was an American Class I railroad company. The railroad started as a narrow-gauge line running south from Denver, Colorado in 1870. It served mainly as a transcontinental bridge line between Denver, and Salt Lake City, Utah. The Rio Grande was also a major origin of coal and mineral traffic.
The Rio Grande was the epitome of mountain railroading, with a motto of Through the Rockies, not around them and later Main line through the Rockies, both referring to the Rocky Mountains. The D&RGW operated the highest mainline rail line in the United States, over the 10,240 feet (3,120 m) Tennessee Pass in Colorado, and the famed routes through the Moffat Tunnel and the Royal Gorge. At its height in the mid-1880s, the D&RG had the largest narrow-gauge railroad network in North America with 2,783 miles (4,479 km) of track interconnecting the states of Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah.[1] Known for its independence, the D&RGW operated the Rio Grande Zephyr until its discontinuation in 1983. This was the last private intercity passenger train in the United States until Brightline (now Virgin Trains USA) began service in Florida in 2018.
In 1988, the Rio Grande's parent corporation, Rio Grande Industries, purchased Southern Pacific Transportation Company, and as the result of a merger, the larger Southern Pacific Railroad name was chosen for identity. The Rio Grande operated as a separate division of the Southern Pacific, until that company was acquired by the Union Pacific Railroad. Today, most former D&RGW main lines are owned and operated by the Union Pacific while several branch lines are now operated as heritage railways by various companies.
Baldwin's Montezuma, 1871, The first locomotive built for the Denver & Rio Grande. The Montezuma's design was used on the #4 locomotive at Disneyland, the Ernest S. Marsh, in addition to the four locomotives at Tokyo Disneyland.
D&RGW logo used 1908-1921
The Denver & Rio Grande Railway (D&RG) was incorporated on October 27, 1870 by General William Jackson Palmer (1836-1909), and a board of four directors. It was originally announced that the new railroad would proceed south from Denver and travel an estimated 875 miles (1,408 km) south to El Paso via Pueblo, westward along the Arkansas River, and continue southward through the San Luis Valley of Colorado toward the Rio Grande.[2] Closely assisted by his friend and new business partner Dr. William Bell, Palmer's new "Baby Road" laid the first rails out of Denver on July 28, 1871 and reached the location of the new town of Colorado Springs (then the Fountain Colony) by October 21. Narrow gauge was chosen in part because construction and equipment costs would be relatively more affordable when weighed against that of the prevailing standard gauge. Palmer's first hand impressions of the Ffestiniog Railway in Wales buoyed his interest in the narrow-gauge concept which would prove to be advantageous while conquering the mountainous regions of the Southwest. Eventually the route of the D&RG would be amended (including a plan to continue south from Pueblo over Raton Pass) and added to as new opportunities and competition challenged the railroad's expanding goals.[3]
Feverish, competitive construction plans provoked the 1877-1880 war over right of way with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Both rivals hired gunslingers and bought politicians while courts intervened to bring settlement to the disagreements. One anecdote of the conflict recounts June 1879 when the Santa Fe defended its roundhouse in Pueblo with Dodge City toughs led by Bat Masterson; on that occasion, D&RG treasurer R. F. Weitbrec paid the defenders to leave. In March 1880, a Boston Court granted the AT&SF the rights to Raton Pass, while the D&RG paid an exorbitant $1.4 million for the trackage extending through the Arkansas River's Royal Gorge. The D&RG's possession of this route allowed quick access to the booming mining district of Leadville, Colorado. While this "Treaty of Boston"[3] did not exactly favor the purist of original D&RG intentions, the conquering of new mining settlements to the west and the future opportunity to expand into Utah was realized from this settlement.
By late 1880 William Bell had begun to organize railway construction in Utah that would become the Palmer controlled Denver & Rio Grande Western Railway in mid-1881. The intention of the D&RGW (aka the "Western") was to work eastward from Provo to an eventual link with westward bound D&RG in Colorado. This physical connection was realized near the Green River on March 30, 1883, and by May of that year the D&RG formally leased its Utah subsidiary as previously planned. By mid-1883, financial difficulties due to aggressive growth and expenditures led to a shake up among the D&RG board of directors, and General Palmer resigned as president of the D&RG in August 1883, while retaining that position with the Western. Frederick Lovejoy would soon fill Palmer's vacated seat on the D&RG, the first in a succession of post Palmer presidents that would attempt to direct the railroad through future struggles and successes. Following bitter conflict with the Rio Grande Western during lease disagreements and continued financial struggles, the D&RG went into receivership in July 1884 with court appointed receiver William S. Jackson in control. Eventual foreclosure and sale of the original Denver & Rio Grande Railway resulted within two years and the new Denver & Rio Grande Railroad took formal control of the property and holdings on July 14, 1886 with Jackson appointed as president. General Palmer would continue as president of the Utah line until retirement (due to company re-organization) in 1901.[3]
Royal Gorge Route
The D&RG built west from Pueblo reaching Cañon City in 1874. The line through the Royal Gorge reached Salida on May 20, 1880 and was pushed to Leadville later that same year. From Salida, the D&RG pushed west over the Continental Divide at the 10,845 feet (3,306 m) Marshall Pass and reached Gunnison on August 6, 1881. From Gunnison the line entered the Black Canyon of the Gunnison River passing the famous Curecanti Needle seen in their famous Scenic Line of the World Herald. The tracks left the increasingly difficult canyon at Cimmaron and passed over Cerro Summit, reaching Montrose on September 8, 1882. From Montrose, a line was laid north through Delta, reaching Grand Junction in March 1883. The line continued building west until reaching the D&RGW close to present day Green River which completed a narrow-gauge transcontinental link with the Rio Grande Western Railway to Salt Lake City, Utah.
The line from Pueblo to Leadville was upgraded in 1887 to three rails to accommodate both narrow-gauge and standard-gauge operation. Narrow-gauge branch lines were constructed to Chama, New Mexico, Durango, Silverton, Crested Butte, Lake City, Ouray and Somerset Colorado.
The route over Tennessee Pass had steep grades, and it was not uncommon to see trains running with midtrain and rear-end helpers. In 1997, a year after the D&RGW/SP merger with Union Pacific, the UP closed the line. Although it has been out of service for nearly two decades, the rails are still in usable condition, though many of the signals have been ravaged by time and vandals. In 2011, under a federal Beautification Grant, a private contractor removed and scrapped the railroad's overhead signal pole lines.
Unlike other lines with open observation cars for non first class passengers, the D&RGW operated theirs for an additional 25 cent charge. The cars were available during the summer months on both the Royal Gorge and the Black Canyon (Shavano) routes.
D&RGW train #1, The Royal Gorge, pictured on the 1960 timetable cover.
D&RGW's Royal Gorge at the bottom of the gorge with the suspension bridge above.
The train in the shadow of Colorado's highest mountain, Mount Elbert.
San Juan Extension
DRGW Alamosa Roundhouse, June 1967.
The D&RG also pushed west from Walsenburg, Colorado over La Veta Pass (now "Old La Veta Pass") by 1877. At the time the 'Uptop' depot on Veta Pass, rising over 9,500 feet (2,900 m) in elevation, boasted the highest elevation for a narrow-gauge railroad. The railroad reached Alamosa by 1878. From Alamosa, a line was pushed south through Antonito eventually reaching Santa Fe, New Mexico (the Chili Line) and west as far as Creede, Colorado. A line containing one of the longest tangent tracks in U.S. railroading (52.82 miles or 85 kilometres) also linked Alamosa with Salida to the north. From Antonito a line was built over 10,015 feet (3,053 m) Cumbres Pass, along the Colorado-New Mexico border, reaching Durango, Colorado in August 1881 and continuing north to the rich mining areas around Silverton in July 1882. A line was also constructed in 1902 as a standard-gauge line, perhaps in anticipation of possible standard gauging of the entire line, south from Durango, Colorado to Farmington, New Mexico. Originally hauling mainly agricultural products and serving as a deterrent to the Santa Fe building up from the south, the line was converted to narrow gauge in 1923,[4] and later delivered pipe and other construction materials to the local oil and natural gas industry into the 1960s.
Portions of the Alamosa-Durango line survive to this day. The Walsenburg-Alamosa-Antonito line survives as the standard-gauge San Luis and Rio Grande Railroad, with passenger excursion trains service provided by the Rio Grande Scenic Railroad. Two narrow-gauge segments survive as steam railroads, the Antonito-Chama line as the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad and Durango-Silverton as the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad.
Tennessee Pass
D&RGW train at Tennessee Pass, circa 1910s or 1920s.
The D&RG built west from Leadville over 10,240 feet (3,120 m) Tennessee Pass in an attempt to reach the mining areas around Aspen, Colorado before its rival railroad in the area, the Colorado Midland, could build a line reaching there. The D&RG built a line through Glenwood Canyon to Glenwood Springs, reaching Aspen in October 1887. The D&RG then joined with the Colorado Midland to build a line from Glenwood Springs connecting with D&RG at Grand Junction. Originally considered a secondary branch route to Grand Junction, the entire route from Leadville to Grand Junction was upgraded to standard gauge in 1890, and the original narrow-gauge route via Marshall Pass became a secondary route.
Denver & Rio Grande Western
The D&RGW Business Car 101, originally built as a passenger car was converted to a business car at the Burnham shop in 1929 and is now restored as the Abraham Lincoln
The original Denver & Rio Grande Western Railway built a narrow-gauge line from Ogden, Utah via Soldier Summit, Utah to Grand Junction, Colorado. The railroad became the Rio Grande Western Railway in 1889 as part of a finance plan to upgrade the line from narrow gauge to standard gauge, and built several branch lines in Utah to reach lucrative coal fields. It was the railway which Gustaf Nordenskiöld employed to haul boxcars of relics from the Mesa Verde, Colorado, cliff dwellings, in 1891, en route to the National Museum of Finland. In 1901, the Denver & Rio Grande merged with the Rio Grande Western, consolidating in 1908. However, the railroad was weakened by speculators, who had used the Rio Grande's equity to finance Western Pacific Railroad construction. The United States Railroad Administration (USRA) took over the D&RG during World War I. In 1918 the D&RG fell into receivership after the bankruptcy of Western Pacific. The Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW or DRGW) was incorporated in 1920, and formally emerged as the new re-organization of the old Denver & Rio Grande Railroad on July 31, 1921.[5]
Moffat Road
A portion of a DRGW gondola car showing the Royal Gorge/Moffat Tunnel logo in 1943.
In 1931, the D&RGW acquired the Denver and Salt Lake Western Railroad, a paper railroad subsidiary of the Denver and Salt Lake Railroad, (D&SL) which had acquired the rights to build a 40-mile (64 km) connection between the two railroads. After years of negotiation, the D&RGW gained trackage rights on the D&SL from Denver to the new cutoff. In 1932, the D&RGW began construction of the Dotsero Cutoff east of Glenwood Springs to near Bond on the Colorado River, at a location called Orestod (Dotsero spelled backward). Construction was completed in 1934, giving Denver a direct transcontinental link to the west.[6] The D&RGW slipped into bankruptcy again in 1935. Emerging in 1947, it merged with the D&SL on March 3, 1947, gaining control of the "Moffat Road" through the Moffat Tunnel and a branch line from Bond to Craig, Colorado.
"Fast Freights" and the California Zephyr, 1950-1983
Rio Grande Industries logo, used 1948-1967
Finally free from financial problems, the D&RGW now possessed a direct route from Denver to Salt Lake City (the detour south through Pueblo and Tennessee Pass was no longer required for direct service), but a problem still remained: for transcontinental service, the Union Pacific's more northerly line was far less mountainous (and, as a result, several hours faster). The D&RGW's solution was its "fast freight" philosophy, which employed multiple diesel locomotives pulling short, frequent trains. This philosophy helps to explain why the D&RGW, despite its proximity to one of the nation's most productive coal mining regions, retired coal-fueled steam locomotives as quickly as new, replacement diesels could be purchased. By 1956, the D&RGW's standard-gauge steam locomotives had been retired and scrapped. The reason for this was that unlike steam locomotives, diesel locomotives could easily be combined, using the diesels' multiple unit capabilities, to equip each train with the optimum horsepower which was needed to meet the D&RGW's aggressive schedule.
The California Zephyr pulled by D&RGW locomotives along the Colorado River in Western Colorado.
The D&RGW's sense of its unique geographical challenge found expression in the form of the California Zephyr, a passenger train which was jointly operated with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q) from Chicago to Denver, the D&RGW from Denver to Salt Lake City, and the Western Pacific Railroad from Salt Lake City to Oakland, California (with ferry and bus connections to San Francisco). Unable to compete with the Union Pacific's faster, less mountainous route and 39-hour schedules, the California Zephyr offered a more leisurely journey - a "rail cruise" - with ample vistas of the Rockies. Although the California Zephyr ran at full capacity and turned a modest profit from its 1949 inception through the late 1950s, by the mid-1960s the train was profitable only during the late spring, summer, and fall. In 1970, Western Pacific, claiming multimillion-dollar losses, dropped out. However, the D&RGW refused to join the national Amtrak system, and continued to operate its share of the Zephyr equipment as the Rio Grande Zephyr between Denver and Salt Lake City. By 1983, however, citing continued losses in revenue, the D&RGW decided to get out of the passenger business altogether and join Amtrak. With this move, Amtrak rerouted the San Francisco Zephyr to the Moffat Road line and rebranded it as the current incarnation of the California Zephyr.
Loading gold ore concentrate into freight cars, Ouray, Colorado, 1940
Even as the D&RGW exploited the best new standard-gauge technology to compete with other transcontinental carriers, the railroad continued to operate the surviving steam-powered narrow-gauge lines, including the famed narrow-gauge line between Durango and Silverton, Colorado. Most of the remaining narrow-gauge trackage was abandoned in the 1950s and 1960s. At the end of 1970 it operated 1,903 miles (3,063 km) of road on 3,227 miles (5,193 km) of track; that year it carried 7733 ton-miles of revenue freight and 21 million passenger-miles.
Two of the most scenic routes survived in operation by the D&RGW until they were sold to tourist railroad operators. The Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad assumed operation of the line between Antonito, Colorado and Chama, New Mexico in 1970. The last D&RGW narrow-gauge line, from Durango to Silverton, was sold in 1981 to the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, exactly one hundred years after the line went into operation.
Consolidation with Southern Pacific
In 1988, Rio Grande Industries, the company that controlled the D&RGW under the direction of Philip Anschutz, purchased the Southern Pacific Transportation Company (SP). The D&RGW used Southern Pacific's name with SP due to its name recognition among shippers. In time, the D&RGW's fast freight philosophy gave way to SP's long-established practice of running long, slow trains. A contributing factor was the rising cost of diesel fuel, a trend that set in after the 1973 oil crisis, which gradually undermined the D&RGW's fuel-consuming "fast freight" philosophy. By the early 1990s, the combined Rio Grande/Southern Pacific system had lost much of the competitive advantage that made it attractive to transcontinental shippers, and became largely dependent on hauling the high-quality coal produced in the mine fields of Colorado and Utah.
D&RGW locomotives retained their reporting marks and colors after the consolidation with the Southern Pacific and would do so until the Union Pacific merger. The one noticeable change was to Southern Pacific's "Bloody Nose" paint scheme. The serif font on the sides of the locomotives was replaced by the Rio Grande's "speed lettering", which was utilized on all SP locomotives built after the merger.
Merger with Union Pacific
D&RGW 5384, patch-renumbered into UP 8637
On September 11, 1996, Anschutz sold the combined D&RGW/SP system with the parent company Southern Pacific Rail Corporation to the Union Pacific Corporation, partly in response to the earlier merger of Burlington Northern and Santa Fe which formed the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway. As the Union Pacific absorbed the D&RGW into its system, signs of the fabled mountain railroad's existence are slowly fading away. D&RGW 5371, the only original D&RGW locomotive in full Rio Grande paint on the Union Pacific, was retired by UP in December, 2008. As previously promised by UP, the D&RGW 5371 was donated to the Utah State Railroad Museum at Ogden's Union Station on August 17, 2009, and will reside in the Eccles Rail Center at the south end of the building. The museum is located at 25th Street and Wall Ave in Ogden, Utah. Many other Rio Grande locomotives still run in service with Union Pacific, but have been "patch-renumbered," with a patch applied over the locomotive's number and the number boards replaced. This method allows the locomotives to be numbered into the Union Pacific's roster but is cheaper than fully repainting the engine into UP Armour Yellow.
In 2006, Union Pacific unveiled UP 1989, an EMD SD70ACe painted in a stylized version of the DRGW color scheme. This unit is one of several SD70ACe locomotives the UP has painted in stylized colors to help preserve the image of the railroads it has merged; the others are Missouri Pacific Railroad, Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, Chicago and North Western Railway, Southern Pacific Railroad, and Western Pacific Railroad.
Denver & Rio Grande depot in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The following people served as presidents (or the equivalent) of the D&RGW and its predecessors.
William Jackson Palmer, 1870-1883
Frederick Lovejoy, 1883-1884
William S. Jackson, 1884-1887 (receiver, 1884-1886)
David H. Moffat, 1887-1891
Edward Turner Jeffery, 1891-1912
Benjamin Franklin Bush, 1912-1915
Henry U. Mudge, 1915-1917
Edward L. Brown, 1917-1918
Alexander R. Baldwin and Edward L. Brown, 1918-1921 (receivers)
Joseph H. Young, 1921-1923 (receiver, 1922-1923)
Thomas H. Beacom 1923-1924 (receiver)
John S. Pyeatt, 1924-1935
Wilson McCarthy and Henry Swan, 1935-1947 (trustees)
Wilson McCarthy, 1947-1956
Gale B. Aydelott ("Gus"), 1956-1977
William J. Holtman, 1977-1992
D&RGW passenger train at the Colorado Railroad Museum. The F9 A&B diesel electric locomotives (1955) were used for the California Zephyrs and Rio Grande Zephyrs.
California Zephyr headed by D&RGW locomotives passes through the Colorado Rockies in winter.
D&RGW locomotive on the next to last run of the California Zephyr, March 21, 1970, at Salt Lake City.
This is a partial list of D&RGW passenger trains. Westbound trains had odd numbers, while eastbound trains had even numbers. Many of the trains were named and renamed as well as being re-numbered. There are over 180 names on a complete list of all the railroad's named trains.[7]
Train numbers
1/2 Scenic Limited Denver-Salt Lake City (via Royal Gorge) 1906-1946[8]
1/2 Royal Gorge Denver-Grand Junction (via Royal Gorge) 1946-1967[8][9]
3/4 Colorado Eagle St. Louis-Denver 1942-1971[10]
5/6 The Exposition Flyer Chicago-Oakland 1939-1949
7/8 Prospector Denver-Salt Lake City/Ogden 1941-1942; 1945-1967
9/10 Yampa Valley Mail Denver-Craig 1949-1963[11]
9/10 Yampa Valley Denver-Craig 1963-1968[11]
17/18 California Zephyr Chicago-Oakland 1949-1970; 1983-Present (operated by Amtrak)
17/18 Rio Grande Zephyr Denver-Salt Lake City 1970-1983
19/20 Mountaineer Denver-Grand Junction-Montrose 1936-1959
115/116 San Juan Express (previously called the Colorado and New Mexico Express) Alamosa-Durango 1937-1951[7]
315/316 Shavano Salida-Gunnison 1937-1940
461/462 The Silverton Durango-Silverton 1947-1980 (summer only)[12]
Special Ski Train Denver-Winter Park 1940-2009 (operated by ANSCO after 1988), 2016-present (operated by Amtrak)
The Union Pacific acquired all D&RG owned assets at the time of the merger. The UP operates the former D&RGW main line as part of its Central Corridor. However, several branch lines and other assets have been sold, abandoned or re-purposed. These include several presently operating heritage railways that trace their origins to the Denver & Rio Grande Western.
Still-active and rebuilt features
Active rail assets tracing their heritage to the D&RGW that are not part of the Union Pacific network today include:
California Zephyr - formerly operated by the D&RGW, is still active, but today operated by Amtrak.
The Amtrak depots used for the California Zephyr in the cities of Helper, Green River and Glenwood Springs are the original depots built by the D&RGW. The Amtrak depot in Grand Junction sits next to the abandoned D&RGW depot.
FrontRunner - a commuter rail service in Utah. The portion between Salt Lake City and Provo is a parallel track built alongside the former D&RGW main.
Red Line of the TRAX light rail system in Salt Lake City - The southern half of this line uses the rebuilt right of way of an abandoned DRGW spur for the Bingham Canyon mine
Rock and Rail LLC
San Luis and Rio Grande Railroad
S Line - a streetcar line in Salt Lake City that uses the rebuilt right-of-way of D&RG's former Sugar House branch.
Utah Central Railway
Heritage railways
Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad is a remnant of the San Juan Line (now isolated from the national rail network) that operates scenic trips over this route between Antonito, Colorado and Chama, New Mexico.
Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, which has been operating since 1881, provides scenic day trips from Durango to Silverton, along an isolated remnant of the San Juan line.
Heber Valley Historic Railroad provides scenic trips through the upper portion of Provo Canyon. The track was a branch of the D&RG main at Provo, but is today isolated from the national rail network.
Rio Grande Scenic Railroad is a heritage train on a still active branch of the former D&RG.
Royal Gorge Route Railroad operates over a 12-mile (19 km) portion of the intact, but otherwise disused Royal Gorge/Tennessee Pass line.
Re-purposed assets
D & RG Narrow Gauge Trestle - A trestle from the abandoned Marshall Pass line.
The portion of the former D&RG main between Salt Lake City and Ogden, Utah, abandoned after the merger with the Union Pacific, is now a Rail trail.
Similarly, the portion of the Thistle-Marysvale branch through Marysvale Canyon is today a rail trail, which includes several tunnels.
The largest collection of surviving California Zephyr equipment can be found at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum at Portola, California, although this museum focuses on the Western Pacific Railroad, rather than the Rio Grande.
Museums that focus on the D&RG include:
Colorado Railroad Museum
Western Mining and Railroad Museum in Helper, Utah
Union Station (Ogden, Utah)
Museums using former D&RG depots as buildings include:
Denver and Rio Grande Depot (Montrose, Colorado)
Denver and Rio Grande Western Depot (Salt Lake City)
Trains portal
Colorado portal
List of Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad lines
List of Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad locomotives
Narrow-gauge railroads in the United States
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The 1910 Heavyweight D&RG Business Car 101 now the Abraham Lincoln
Rio Grande Scenic Railroad
Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad & Museum
Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
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[Read Book] The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad: Rebel of the Rockies (Regents Restoration
D&RGW 1960 - "Last Narrow Gauge RR" - Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad
All Aboard - The Chama Turn
Trains americains et locomotives a vapeur de la Denver and Rio Grande Railroad - Une video de Pilentum Television - Modelisme ferroviaire, trains miniatures, maquettisme et chemin de fer
Royal Gorge Route Railroad
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Cumbres and Toltec Steam Freight Train
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Luke graduates first F-35A initial qualification course
The first F-35A Lightning II initial qualification course pilots take a moment for a photo during the graduation ceremony at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., Aug. 5, 2017. The pilots spent eight months completing over 300 hours of academics, 46 simulator events and 48 sorties to complete the training. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Pedro Mota)
Lt. Gen. Darryl Roberson, the Air Education Training Command commander, speaks at the first F-35A Lightning II initial qualification course graduation Aug. 5, 2017, at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz. The pilots spent eight months completing over 300 hours of academics, 46 simulator events and 48 sorties to complete the training. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Pedro Mota)
By Airman 1st Class Pedro Mota
56th Fighter Wing Public Affairs
LUKE AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. (AFNS) -- The 61st Fighter Squadron made history graduating the first F-35A Lightning II initial qualification course Aug. 5, 2017. After eight months of tremendous teamwork from across the 56th Fighter Wing, Luke Air Force Base produced six F-35A fighter pilots ready for the combat Air Force.
During the ceremony, Lt. Gen. Darryl Roberson, commander of Air Education and Training Command, spoke to graduates.
"This is a history making moment," said Roberson. "From my perspective there will be people 20 to 30 years from now who will remember that you were in the first (F-35A Lightning II initial qualification course). It is really important for you to know that the F-35 is the future."
During the course, Lockheed Martin instructor pilots taught the academic phase of training, consisting of more than 156 events totaling 308 hours. Academics focused on learning the basic aircraft systems, emergency procedures, local area procedures, mission systems, weapons and tactical employment.
Prior to the first flight in the Lightning II, each student completed 16 simulator events. The F-35 simulator provides a highly realistic and immersive experience that prepares each pilot for their first sortie in an aircraft.
"Each student flew at least 48 sorties totaling 77 hours," said Lt. Col. Rhett Hierlmeier, the 61st FS commander. "Starting with the basics of taking off and landing, continuing across the full spectrum mission sets, and culminating in our Capstone phase of high-end employment. Along the way, our students dropped inert and live laser-guided GBU-12s, refueled from a KC-135 day and night and flew low-altitude step-down training."
During the graduation, the six pilots were presented several awards including the Academic Award, presented to 1st Lt. Brett Burnside. The Academic Award is presented to the student with the highest average test score over five tests taken throughout the course.
"For B-Course graduates, you are going to be the one that everyone turns to," said Roberson. "It won't be long for the B-Course group to turn to you to find the answers about that airplane. You need to be the ones that step up and know the answers on a higher level. Don't be shy, we need you to push the envelope on how to fly the F-35. We are teaching you everything we know about the F-35, you're going to take us to another level."
Hierlmeier gave a charge to the newly minted pilots as they move forward in their careers.
"I salute you for your hard work and commitment to excellence," said Hierlmeier. "You have earned the title 'F-35 fighter pilot,' and you make us proud. You represent the hard work of the 56th Fighter Wing and (Luke AFB Airmen). Continue to learn and sharpen your sword, for there will likely be a day, sooner rather than later, when you will be tested. As you move on to your operational assignments remember that you wear our brand. Stay humble, fly, fight and win!"
F-35 Air Force pilots Air Combat Command Lightning II Luke AFB AETC AF Air Education and Training Command ACC graduation 56th Fighter Wing Air Force Base 56th FW initial qualification course 61st Fighter Squadron 61st FS

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Have you ever walked into a snooty boutique only to be ignored by the even snootier staff? Have you ever found yourself at a party where you don't know any of the guests? If so, then you know how uncomfortable it is to feel out of place. Unfortunately, this can also happen when choosing a college or university. No two schools are the same, and while one may make you feel at home, the other may make you feel like you just landed on an alien planet.
The key to picking the right school is to take the time to do some self-reflection. Many prospective students skip this step and jump ahead to picking a college based on the school's glossy brochure or website. But before you even look at schools you need to take a long, hard look at yourself and ask some serious questions about what you want. Not only will this greatly improve your odds of ending up at a school that's right for you, but it will also come in handy when you need to express these feelings in your applications and admission essays.
So let's take the first step to picking the perfect college by uncovering what you really want.
When you were in high school you may have taken a career assessment test. This was the exam in which you used a number two pencil to bubble in page after page of questions about what you enjoy, your strengths and desires for the future. Then, depending on how long ago you went to school you either used the answers to sort through a bunch of index cards or simply waited a few days to receive the results by computer. In either case what you ended up with was a list of careers that supposedly fit your personality and talents. Based on your results, you were declared fit to become an accountant, attorney or even long-haul truck driver.
While these tests sometimes produced interesting answers, the idea behind them is sound. It's important to analyze your strengths, weaknesses and goals to figure out what you want out of college before you start applying to a bunch of schools. As you've grown older (and immensely wiser) you've probably realized that life is complicated and there are few cut and dry answers. Otherwise, we would all have followed the results of those career assessment tests, and some of us would be driving tractor-trailers instead of writing books.
Therefore, our test to help you find the right college is not multiple-choice. At the end of the test we won't give you the names of three perfect colleges. Life is just not that simple. However, we do promise that by taking our test you will discover what you are looking for in a college and what aspects of a school are important to you. With a clearer understanding of what you want, it will be much easier to pick a school that satisfies your needs. So sharpen that number two pencil and take our test to help you figure out what you want. And you thought you only have to take tests after you get into college!
By going back to school, do you hope to advance in your current career or to change careers all together?
If getting more education will help you advance your current career, what specific knowledge and/or degrees do you need to get the promotion you desire?
If you are planning to enter a new career, what are your motivations for doing so, and how much education do you need to realistically get a job in this new field?
How will going back to school help you achieve either of these career goals?
For your career field, how much does the academic reputation of the college or university count?
What specific classes or subject areas must you take for your career objectives?
In order to achieve your career goals, is it necessary to receive a bachelor's or advanced degree, or do you just need to obtain certain skills or update your skills with a certificate program?
In talking to people already in your desired career, what recommendations do they have about the type of education required to be successful?
Is it important that your college be in an area where there are work opportunities such as internships related to your career?
Are you sure more education wil help you achieve your desired career goals?
Where do you see yourself in your career in five years? Ten years?
What academic areas interest you?
What would you like to major in?
How sure are you about this major?
What if you end up hating this major? What would you study instead?
How will your major help you achieve your career or personal goals for returning to school?
In what kind of environment do you learn best? Smallseminars? Large lectures? Interactive discussions? Lectures?
Do you have any previous college experience? Will you be finishing a degree that you started? Is it important that credits from previous courses can be transferred?
How much interaction with other students and professors do you want?
How well will you be able to work with students younger than you?
Can you put in the necessary study time to be successful in-school? Do you have a place in your home that is conducive to studying?
Is academic reputation important to you?
How much time do you have to dedicate to your studies? In other words, can you afford the time to be a full-time student? Consider not only the time that you will spend in classes but also time for commuting and studying.
How will your class schedule fit with your other commitments such as family, work, socializing, etc.?
Will you be able to spend the time that you need with your family if you attend a full-time, part-time, evening or distance learning program?
Will you be able to find childcare if you need it?
Are you willing to move to attend a school?
Can you afford to quit your job to go to school, or do you need to hold a part-time or full-time job?
Are you willing to make major financial sacrifices to pay for college? Is your family?
How much money have you saved to pay for college?
What tangible goods (i.e. new car, home improvement) will you have to postpone to pay for college?
Are you willing to borrow money to pay for tuition? How much debt are you willing to incur?
Is now the best time to return to school?
Since you'll be in school for anywhere from a few months toseveral years, what future commitments may conflict with youreducation?
Are you ready to be a student?
Are you willing to do homework, take tests and attend lectures?
Do you have a support network of family and friends who can encourage you through your studies as well as assist you duringbusy times?
Put your pencils down. This is the end of the test. Not all of these questions can be easily answered, but by forcing yourself to think about these issues you should have a much clearer idea of why you want to return to school, what's important to you and what kind of program will match your goals.


Would it be possible to get a sort by name or by item type for the craft skills, saves me searching through all recipes, Would be nice to be able to group them.
Or recipee tree already sorted. And a scroll bar please.
Plus one for a scroll bar. Recipe sorting by name would also be very nice.
When clicking requirements in the recipe, automatically switch to that recipe in your list. Many times, I need twine, but I need string to make twine. When viewing twine recipe, left click the icon for string and it jumps to the string recipe.
Now that I have 40 recipes in one craft, it is a paaaaaain to click all the way up to make leather straps, and I know some people probably have 100s by now.
Would be nice if the recipe list could be sorted and filtered. For example if I want to make leather pants I could get a list of just pants, or I want to make a complete set I could get a list of just that set.
It would also be nice for the system to not reset the list back to the beginning when you learn a new recipe.
I think its becoming a must, as a toolcrafter i have almost 60 recipies with toolcraft skill of 40 and the list is getting a bit too long to have to click to scroll down for a min or two to get to the recipies near the bottom of the list. We need recipies sorted into their own catagories acessable via explorer-like window or just under different tabs, and in alphabetical order. And devs, while your work on this at least add scroll bars to all scrollable windows forgodsake!
I was "scrolling" through the different things I could craft, under the Toolcraft category, and after scrolling through 40+ objects, it starts to become a bit tedious looking for a single entry in the list.
It would be nice if we could filter or sort our recipes, or even have some kind of " search " function if we're looking for one particular object.
Alphabetically, by type ( Forager's, Scrapper's, etc ), or ..any sort of filtering process, honestly.
It would also be nice if there was a sidebar, somewhat like a website, that we could manually scroll up and down with -- although this becomes less needed with filtering / sorting.
Also, if this has already been posted, my apologies. I only browsed through the top few pages before posting this.
Was suggested some time back during beta. But yes, it would be great to have some sort of filter.


In the US, a child goes missing every 40 seconds. You never think it will happen to you. Until it does. Alone and scared, Karla Dyson is unwilling to leave the fate of her son's life in someone else's hands. When she catches a glimpse of the abductors speeding away, she decides to fight back. In a heart pounding race against time, Karla begins a high speed pursuit and will stop at nothing to save her son's life.
"Okay, God, I know I never pray to you unless somebody is sick.
Or somebody's dying or in an airplane.
Do you remember "The Call" from a few years ago, with Halle Berry as a member of a 911 call center who was constantly talking to the victim of a kidnapping case. A victim who was locked up in the trunk of the kidnapper's car. It was a story full of nonsense but it was terribly exciting and unnerving. Here it's about something similar. Only now, Halle Berry is the one whose son is kidnapped by an unknown, after which she starts to chase the kidnappers with her car. Ultimately, this film is nothing more than one long car chase with Karla driving her burgundy red SUV. I can already tell you this. It's also a thrilling movie. But unfortunately, it's also full of nonsense and irritating developments.
Yes, it's exciting. But it's even more annoying.
"Kidnap" is not only about kidnapping innocent kids, but it's also about the desperation and perseverance of a mother. Halle Berry shows that she wants to rescue her son out of the hands of the kidnappers at any cost. But that's also the only positive thing. The way she demonstrates that it's better not to mess with a raging mother who protects her child frantically. Furthermore, it was simply a terribly annoying film. I already mentioned that it can be exciting sometimes, but unfortunately these exciting moments were ruined by totally nonsensical events. I've never looked at a screen so many times with disbelief and saying "Oh come on" to myself regularly. Even my wife tried to calm me down and prepared a soothing tea for me.
I wouldn't be so gentle.
Admittedly, I guess the main characters just needed to follow the script. The subject is fairly straightforward and leaves little room for improvisation. Kidnapping a child is the central theme and that's it. The course of the story therefore is already predetermined. That's self-evident. But the denouement being so predictable, was a bit too much. But what really pissed me of, was the behavior of Halle Berry. I'm sorry, but if my son was in that car I was chasing, I wouldn't be driving like a stressed out grandmother. And believe me. If I had the chance, those kidnappers would see tire marks on their foreheads even weeks later. And if someone from a police force drives past you, wouldn't it be smart to ram the alleged car of the road? Sometimes it annoys me what people do in a movie. In "Kidnap", it was the other way around. Here I was annoyed about what she didn't do. I'm not blaming Halle Berry. I guess she was just following the script.
Is "Kidnap" a movie you'd love to see?
So, you want to see a not so very intelligent film which sometimes seems exciting? A film with virtually no interaction between the different characters? And the protagonist constantly performing monotonous monologues as she pursues the perpetrators. You don't mind if the intervention of the police forces seems so indifferent while the motorway is being recreated into a junkyard? And finally, you don't have kids yourself? Well, that means "Kidnap" is something for you. Fortunately I didn't bother to watch it on the big screen.
PS. One last warning. Are you a fan of action-packed, lightning-fast car chases? Well, forget about that here. It's perhaps a mega-long chase, but this one is at snail's pace. It looks like a road-rage-course for seniors.


This story follows the journey of four gay boys in the Southern Baptist Church as they try to create a world of love and acceptance in the churches and clubs of Dallas, Texas, while desperately trying to find a place to put their own pain and rage.
Talkbacks will be held directly after the performance on Sunday, Sept 16th and Friday, Sept 21st.
Discussions will feature the direction team, cast, and community religious leaders.
Southern Baptist Sissies will be performed on the Evjue Stage.
For more information on this event as well as audition information, visit stageq.org.


Small beach huts in Eckernförde in Northern Germany.
I'm sat typing this blog post at the start of week 10 in Ribe Denmark – yes TEN WEEKS since we left our comfy home life to live full time in a motorhome as a family of 5 (plus a small Jack Russell dog) and this is only the 4th proper blog post I have done in that time!
Hopefully though if you are still reading this then you are happy to carry on reading my occasional ramblings via here, click on links to things I find interesting via the above social media accounts as well as look at the pictures I take and share too.
Also I think it's only fair to let you know that I never had any grand plans or thankfully pressure to use this site to earn £XXXXs by selling YOU the reader 'the dream' via online courses or affiliate links to travel gear etc in order to be able to feed my family as by being self employed for many years previously I was able to bring existing work on the road with me. What Nomadic Dad and this adventure so far has allowed me to do though is take a step back from all the distractions of suburbia and my life of mild routine and slowly piece together what I think is the best way to navigate modern life in order to be healthier, happier and more content.
I really do try to share any pearls of wisdom I come across via the above means and have had some amazing feedback sent to me from my limited output so far such as linking out to the great online article How to Be Happy – 26 Strategies Backed by Research that was really helpful for me last year but I would HATE to come across as some know it all that was trying to ram what is working for me down your throat!
However seeing as you are still here – I'm finding the more I'm travelling again and the more time I have to be with my family and the 3 amazing children we have created the more I am grateful for the little things in life. Haha you say, you mean like having a few hours to yourself at the pub with your mates every so often and yes there are of course also downsides to all being together most of the time 7 days a week BUT honestly the positives FAR outweigh the negatives at this stage of the journey. For instance today I have rode a horse with my eldest daughter across miles of Rømø beaches before we got to let the horses go paddling. This was intermixed with trotting and cantering across the beach with several others (mostly Germans) who were also on the ride and certainly not a bad way to start a Monday morning!
If I was doing this all properly as 'a thing' I could / should write a blog post about how each of the children's skills and interests are developing in ways we hadn't expected, how much healthier they are all looking being outdoors 90% of the daytime etc. I think the main reason I don't write about this here is that we are also using a closed Facebook group alongside here for close friends and family to both share their learning journeys and any questions they have along the way. Another large reason for keeping this side of things a bit more private was that both the kids and us felt sharing ALL this sort of information online seemed a little too personal given once something is on the internet it's pretty much on there forever – internet security / privacy homeschool lesson ticked!
I also think if I was really looking to attract more readers here maybe I could do some keyword research and write some practical tips for families on how we find the best camp sites or how we (in reality my wife!) cook in the motorhome etc but even at this early stage of our trip as this is our new normal trying to write such posts seem a bit ridiculous to me. I mean in our old life back home I would NEVER write a blog post about how to find the cheapest car parking spaces etc so why would I try and write about all these things we do everyday now as part of this new normal life we have created?
Please don't interpret the above as I don't value other AMAZING travel related blogs out there, many of which INSPIRED us to break free from our old lives for this adventure. All I am saying is their rankings and followers are safe as Nomadic Dad is not going to be competing with them anytime soon and I will continue to just link to such sites in order to let them do what they do best.
Like a lot of things in life, the hardest thing about making a change, kicking a habit etc was making that initial decision to do all this in the first place! Once we made that decision and worked on a plan to achieve that goal the travelling side of things has just opened up before us. I'm truly grateful that I'm able to travel so many miles both physically in Lightning our motorhome and internally with my thoughts this year and looking forward to several more months of us all continuing our journeys.
I love hearing your thoughts Andy – you set mine a-stirring!! Thank you and keep doing what ya doing!
Loving hearing about your adventures.


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ISIS scumbag: "We will raise the flag of Allah in the White House." Major glitch in his plan – he's dead!
by Thomas Madison
Oh, no! Don't tell me the Amish have turned on us!
The Islamic State spokesperson who threatened the United States by pledging to "raise the flag of Allah" over the White House has been killed.
According to the US State Department, Islamic State rep Abu Mosa was killed in Syria during an attack at the Tabqa Airbase. This battle apparently involved forces under the Syrian government of Bashar Assad, which is in the midst of a deadly civil war that has raged for three years now.
The self-proclaimed Islamic State, a radical extremist group composed primarily of hardline Sunni Muslims, first came to prominence in Syria as various rebel forces launched a campaign against Assad. Since gaining strength, the organization – also known as ISIS or ISIL – has pushed into Iraq and other countries.
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"An #ISIS leader and press officer both killed in Tabqa Airbase attack in #Syria," read a tweet by the State Department's @ThinkAgain_DOS account, which is intended to report "some truths about terrorism"and deter individuals from joining violent Islamic groups.
The account did not specifically name Mosa as the deceased press officer, but it did attach an image of him, linked below….
https://twitter.com/ThinkAgain_DOS/statuses/502449737011068928
Ex-Army officer and stone-cold patriot, Thomas Madison is on a mission to contribute in any and every way to the restoration of and strict obedience to the United States Constitution, that divinely-inspired, concise, intentionally and specifically broad (wrap your head around that oxymoron) blueprint which has gifted the world with the concept and realization of individual liberty and unlimited prosperity. We, as a nation, have lost our way. We have spent the past one-hundred years attempting to fix what was never broken. As with building anything, when you can't figure it out, consult the blueprint. So too with rebuilding America, the blueprint for which is the United States Constitution.
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Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by texasbeachbum, Mar 29, 2006.
Say I got a new smoker (Char-Broil Silver Series) Now it is all assembled. What do I need to do to season it? Do I use vegtable oil or mineral oil? How hot of a fire do I need? How long do I keep it burning?
Thanks If I think of anything else I will post up.
I have one of the same type cookers. I'm sure there will be several thoughts, but with mine, I simply sprayed it lightly on the inside of the cooking chamber with veg. oil. I then built a fire with charcoal and let it get hot. I then put chunks of wood (I used hickory) on the coals and let it smoke for about two hours. It really turned out to be longer than that because I didn't put the fire out. I just left it and let it cool down by itself. Hope you enjoy the smoker!
By the way, there are some modifications you will probably want to do to your smoker. They help tremendously with equalizing the temp in the cooking chamber. I strongly recommend them. Dutch has a great reference site that describes the mods at WWW.bbqinstitute.com/smokermodifications.pdf One more thing I'd suggest and that is to raise the fire grid and/or definitely plan to occasionally remove the ash. It tends to suffocate the fire with long duration smokes.
Does it matter what kind of wood you use in the seasoning stage??? I have lots of hackaberry from Rita. I am going after lots of oak and masquite this weekend.
Bobby, I would use whatever you have on hand. As you won't be cooking any food while seasoning the grill it's not that important. You can also use whatever oil you have on hand, we used veg. for ours.
Thanks for the replies. I am seasoning it as I type.


How Can I Think More Creatively?
As Creative Director at Polleni, much of my day is spent trying to effectively turn creativity 'on' and 'off'. If we have to work on a strategy-heavy brand concept or logo design first thing, then I need to get that hat on and deliver effectively between the hours of, say, 9am and 11am. Or it might be between 3pm and 5pm (those times are killer).
The point is, that being 'creative' is not necessarily a permanent state of being. It could be seen as a skill — which, with training and practice — you can rustle up and flex when you need to. You can hone it, master it and grow better each day at it too. I like to call this 'creative mindfulness'. By training your mind to think creatively as and when you need it to, you can use time on / off more effectively too. Truly original inspiration might strike when you're doing something more mundane and not necessarily associated with a creative task, and you are more likely to avoid creative burnout too.
Greenery. Surround yourself by plants — or even just pop a pet cacti on your desk. Studies have shown that plants help reduce stress and increase productivity and creativity. They oxigenate the room and green has a relaxing and calming effect on humans. Apparently even just one plant per workspace can produce a huge uplift in spirits.
Music. At Pollen Place we try and have non-offensive music playing on our speakers during the day — trip hop or a Spotify playlist of mellow beats. We found several coworkers said that sitting in a silent room actually made them more uneasy, and less productive, so we have tried to get a balance where people can enjoy it if they want or pop some headphones on if they want to listen to something more personal.
Art. Surround yourself with things that make your eyes smile. Seeing beautiful things on a daily basis, makes your mind more receptive to beautiful thoughts too. At Pollen Place we place heavy emphasis on the art we hang on the walls of our studios — it is all very carefully considered. We particularly like limited edition screen-prints from contemporary illustrators and print-makers like Lucie Sheridan, Tom Pigeon and Paul Farrell; alongside quirky one-off pieces of fine art too.
Walk. Have you ever thought about how often you walk around during your working day? I should do it far far more often! I get sucked into the trap of thinking that if I sit glued to my desk, I'll be more productive. But actually the opposite is true. Also try walking around during meetings. Yes, your colleagues might eyeball you — but it really does help with concentration and creative flow!
Time. The early bird does indeed catch the creative worm. So if you want to get the best creativity out of yourself, it is always best to give your brain a bit of a leg-up: start working on creative ideas earlier in the day.
Of course there really is no formula to this, just a few things that might be good to keep in mind. Ultimately, as with most of life, it is about balance. The time you spend giving your brain a 'rest' can be just as valuable as when you are putting it through its creative paces.
So if you're working on a creative project, try to not let it consume you — at work or at home. Let it simmer. Leave it at the door when you get home. But by all means pick it up again if you want when you go out for dinner with your friends or partner — my husband and I have some of the best creative breakthroughs over a glass of wine.
Which takes me to my last point… relax. Creativity can be summoned, but it doesn't like to be forced. The only way you can make it work for you is to work with it, and not take it too seriously. The best thing is to enjoy the process of working creatively — in a creative environment — and the rest will take care of itself. Promise.


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Catastrophe in College Station
Alabama softball hits a low point, losing two of three to the league doormat.
By CB969@CB969onRBR Apr 24, 2022, 5:43pm CDT
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The second ranked Alabama softball team put up an inexcusable pathetic performance in College Station. The series was already a failure after losing Game 1 to Texas A&M. But then the Crimson Tide got run-ruled by the last place Aggies. This debacle is right up there with the men's basketball team giving Georgia their one SEC win of the year.
GAME 1: TEXAS A&M 6, ALABAMA 4 - Faceplant I
Just when we thought Montana Fouts had righted the ship and got back to her old self, comes another Jekyll and Hyde performance. The fifth pitch that she threw in the game was deposited on the other side of the left center field wall for an early 1-0 deficit. She then struck out four of the next five batters she faced.
Patrick Murphy came out with yet another lineup card combination. The most notable change was Jenna Lord batting second behind Ashley Prange. The pair both singled in the third inning. An error loaded the bases for Kaylee Tow who singled in two. Megan Bloodworth followed suit with a two-run single of her own. However up 4-1, the Tide quickly traded their bats for wet noodles and slathered up their gloves with suntan lotion.
In the bottom of the inning, a Prange throwing error and a two out muff by Tow at first in which she dropped a good throw resulted in two Aggies runs.
✌ errors by Bama gives us 2⃣ runs back in the 3rd!
: SEC Network+ pic.twitter.com/DaoUgtHEqA
— Texas A&M Softball (@AggieSoftball) April 23, 2022
Three fifth inning hits and a walk would give TAMU a 6-4 lead.
Alabama would record only two hits after the third. Ally Shipman, Bailey Dowling, Jenna Johnson, Kat Grill, and Dallis Goodnight all went hitless with no walks. Not a good way to start a series against a last place team.
GAME 2: TEXAS A&M 9, ALABAMA 1 (5 innings) - Faceplant II
It took only five innings for the SEC doormat to dispatch of the Crimson Tide. And it only took until the bottom of second inning of Game 2 for Lexi Kilfoyl to implode. After TAMU loaded the bases with one out, Kilfoyl gave up three consecutive singles followed by a three run homer to left field. It is hard to believe that this is the same pitcher who had a perfect game against Georgia just a few weeks ago. Alex Salter had to come in to get the last two outs.
Salter herself lasted until the fourth inning when she started to fall apart as well. A single, a walk, and a double plated an eighth run and Jaala Torrence was called from the bullpen.
It wasn't until the fifth inning that Alabama recorded their second and last hit of the day when Jenna Lord singled in pinch-hitter Savannah Woodard who had walked three batters earlier.
Maybe Patrick Murphy was trying to light a fire when he started substituting: Abby Doerr for Ally Shipman, Woodard for Dallis Goodnight, and Jordan Stephens for Jenna Johnson. The ploy did not work out too well. After a two out walk, Aggie Makinzy Herzog hit a single to Stephens which was booted and allowed a ninth run and the walk-off run-rule victory for TAMU.
JO EVANS: FULL SEND. pic.twitter.com/qWg4eH6yGO
— Jen Schroeder (@jen_schro) April 24, 2022
GAME 3: ALABAMA 4, TEXAS A&M 2
Alabama barely salvaged the series with a getaway game win on Sunday. Again Montana Fouts was not at her best and again the offense was meh. At least the Tide defense made only ONE error this game.
As the second batter of the game for Alabama, Jenna Lord put a charge into a ball and sent it over the left field wall and off the scoreboard for her second round-tripper of the season.
Off the scoreboard
https://t.co/GCmajov6LH#Team26 #RollTide pic.twitter.com/HKOw80pPDP
— Alabama Softball (@AlabamaSB) April 24, 2022
TAMU put together some singles to knot the score at 1-1 in the second frame. A Savannah Woodard walk and a Ashley Prange double put the Tide right back on top 2-1. A solo shot by Aggie tied it up again in the fourth. But Prange (the only consistent hitter over the last two weeks) took the lead right back with an absolute bomb OVER the scoreboard.
How about OVER the scoreboard?!
https://t.co/GCmajov6LH#Team26 #RollTide pic.twitter.com/SB09AMFbQQ
A sac fly RBI from Woodard in the sixth added an insurance run. The Tide loaded the bases in the seventh but could not produce a run. Bama left ten runners on base in innings three through seven.
Fouts (20-4) was not spectacular but good enough to earn her 20th win of the season while throwing 140 pitches. She allowed six hits and one earned run whilst walking a pair and whiffing eight Aggies.
*** Lollipop unicorn rainbow chasers, stop reading here lest ye get your feelings hurt! ***
I'm going to get a lot of whiny hate with this one, but if you want sugar-coated B.S. shoved up your youknowwhat, there are plenty of sunshine pumpers out there to choose from.
It bears repeating that Murphy made a colossal mistake by not signing a elite pitcher for 2022 (or 2023). I don't want to hear the whining about how difficult it is to get such talent. Alabama is a destination college for softball. If you don't believe that notion, just check out the attendance numbers for Bama road games.
As we have seen from opponents all season, deep pitching staffs and freshmen hurlers in particular bring an energy of competition and a newness to a team. Have Fouts, Kilfoyl, and the coaching staff become complacent? Is it boredom and tedium?
We have all talked about this in past seasons. It is way past time for a change in the coaching staff. I'm not talking about Murphy. It is time to encourage one or both of his assistants to seek head coaching positions. Both would be quite desirable. If this program wants to get back to the top of the mountain, something needs to change. If you need proof, just look across campus at the football offices.
After a disastrous weekend, Bama (39-8, 14-7) has squandered a commanding lead in the SEC to Arkansas (35-8, 14-4) who swept #9 Florida this weekend. The Tide likely takes a big dip in the national rankings as well. Don't be surprised if Virginia Tech, UCLA, Florida State, and Arkansas all leapfrog the Tide. Keep playing like this and they will see themselves on the road if they can get to a Super-Regional.
Without pouring over schedules for the last 26 seasons, this is probably the first time Bama lost two regular season games in a row to an unranked team with a losing SEC record.
Bama committed five errors in the three games. Tow muffed throws in both Games 2 and 3.
Aubrey Barnhart started as designated hitter for Saturday's fiasco and whiffed in two at bats. Mark that as an 'L' for The Gut®.
On Sunday, Woodard earned her first SEC start since April 2. She was 0 for 1 with 2 walks, but scored a run and converted a sac fly into an RBI. It was a better performance than many of her teammates.
Jenna Johnson pulled another 0-fer (0-7, no walks, 0 runs, 0 RBI, 2 K). She has one hit (vs. Alcorn) over her last 26 at bats. Her last SEC hit was against UGA on April 4. In that span, her batting average had plunged from .370 to .299.
Also pulling 0-fers was once-catalyst Shipman (0-8, 1 BB, 0 runs, 0 RBI, 1 K), Doerr (0-2, 0 runs, 0 RBI, K), and Grill (0-3, 0 runs, 0 RBI, 1 K).
The team batting average has dipped below .300 by one point. Team ERA is up to 2.30.
Bloodworth extended her hitting streak to seven games and has reached base in eight straight games.
Friday's game set an attendance record for TAMU of 2,231 fans. It was topped on Saturday with a count of 2,455. Sunday's crowd fell to 1,777.
WEEKEND MVPs
LORD - 4 for 10 (.400), 2 RUNS, 2 RBI, 2B, HR, BB.
PRANGE - 4 for 10 (.400), 2 RUNS, 2 RBI, 2B, HR, BB.
BLOODWORTH - 3 for 5 (.600), 1 RUN, 2 RBI, 3 BB, HBP, 0 K.
UPCOMING ALABAMA SCHEDULE
Alabama will have a lot of time to think about the awful showing they had in Texas. They have one road game on Wednesday against WKU which was most likely put on the schedule to honor Kaylee Tow who hails from nearby Madisonville, Kentucky. Then it's a week off to relearn how to hit and play defense.
Wednesday, April 27 at Western Kentucky 4 p.m. CT
Friday, May 6 vs. Missouri 6 p.m. CT
Saturday, May 7 vs. Missouri 1 p.m. CT
Sunday, May 8 vs. Missouri 1 p.m. CT
#Team26 #RollTide
Potential Offensive Coordinator Candidates For Alabama Nick Saban has a tendency to make out-of-the-blue hirings.
Jumbo Package: MVP! Kind of click bait. But Jalen Hurts will forever be in our heart.


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71% think IRS destroyed e-mails to hide guilt. Americans lose confidence in all branches of gov't
Most voters think it's likely the IRS deliberately destroyed e-mails about its investigations of Tea Party and other conservative groups to hide its criminal behavior. Two-out-of-three now believe IRS employees involved in these investigations should be jailed or fired, and most suspect the agency of targeting other political opponents of the Obama administration.
A new Rasmussen Reports poll finds that 53% of Likely U.S. Voters believe that the Internal Revenue Service broke the law when it targeted Tea Party and other conservative groups. That's up from 49% earlier this year.
Gallup reports that Americans' confidence in all three branches of the U.S. government has fallen, reaching record lows for the Supreme Court (30%) and Congress (7%), and a six-year low for the presidency (29%). The presidency had the largest drop of the three branches this year, down seven percentage points from its previous rating of 36%.
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Despite the fact that daily life remains impacted by the ongoing pandemic, Audacia Group, with all its companies, continued to grow steadily in 2021. The continued growth of digitalization and e-commerce, which has been strongly accelerated by the Covid crisis, has enabled each of the group's brands to seize a number of excellent opportunities. Audacia currently owns 15 e-commerce websites or online platforms, serves more than 1.8 million customers worldwide and delivers to 25 countries, turning over more than 45 million Swiss francs in 2021.
During last year, the workforce at Audacia Group grew bigger and the business hired new employees to work both on-site and remotely. Furthermore, a new internal organizational structure was established, which meant changes to both the top management and human resources departments. They were necessary changes: going forward, they will lend better support to the development of the entire group, and also better facilitate acquisition and integration of all new companies more easily and efficiently. Last spring, the team at Satina, the company operating the two platforms IdealVoyance and Manticus, also moved into Audacia's offices in Sion (Switzerland). The group currently employs the equivalent of more than 50 full-time staff and hires an additional 20 people during peak season.
Throughout the past year, Audacia Group acquired several new e-commerce companies: Joujou.ch, an online shop specializing in adult toys, brands that are part of Hong Kong-based MTK Digital group, which sells products like Sweet Plaids and customizable necklaces, and Tattoo4days, an online shop specializing in realistic temporary tattoos.
For 2022, Audacia Group's objectives are to continue to grow organically and to acquire other promising e-commerce companies. "We will also try to improve our processes and above all, with the expected end of the restrictions linked to the pandemic, start doing business in new countries and markets", says Alexandre Bonvin, founder and CEO of Audacia.


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Nightly Lodging, Vacation Rental Homes, Short-term Rentals, B&Bs: whatever the term, the Seward Code is being reviewed for revision by the Seward Planning and Zoning Commission with a series of public work sessions and meetings.
The first public work session on July 18 was very informative but poorly attended.
Community Development Planner Jackie Wilde noted that there are many illegal nightly lodging businesses in city limits. These businesses are operating without a city and state business license, do not get inspected for fire and life safety, may not be operating in a permitted zone, and likely are not paying the required bed and sales taxes needed to support our city and borough services.
Services have sprung up on the Internet that can search across multiple booking websites to locate and provide information on nightly lodging businesses that are not in compliance. Both the city and borough can then pursue enforcement that can result in payment of past unpaid bed and sales taxes plus penalties.
Mrs. Wilde also noted that all nightly lodgings are considered commercial businesses because money changes hands. Regular homeowner insurance may not cover all types of nightly lodgings; a home rental policy with an endorsement for short term rentals or commercial liability insurance is needed. Nightly lodgings, as a commercial use, would also be charged a higher rate for utilities (electric, water, and sewer) than a residential use.
Commissioner Seese noted that if you have a nightly lodging business in your home, such as a B&B, homeowners 65 and older are no longer eligible for the Kenai Peninsula Borough property tax exemption as the home is no longer considered a residence but a business.
City Building Inspector Stefan Nielson explained that according to the International Residential and International Commercial Codes, nightly rentals without a permanent resident are considered a commercial use, even if it is in a regular single-family house or duplex. Monthly rentals or owner-occupied single-family homes and duplexes are residential, meaning permanent occupancy in nature.
He noted some of the differences between residential and commercial construction such as a sprinkler system, different rise-run stair design, hand railings, deck rails, etc such as a hotel would require.
It was a short work session that raised many issues and generated many more questions.
Afterwards, I researched commercial liability insurance for nightly lodgings and found recommendations for Proper Insurance, CBIZ Insurance, and Umialik Insurance. I'm sure there are other options to consider. Homeowner insurance generally does NOT cover nightly lodgings, so be sure to check your policy.
The next Planning and Zoning work session will be Tuesday, August 21 starting at 6 pm at City Hall Council Chambers. The work session will also include a presentation on "Subdivisions and Assessment Districts," another topic regarding Seward's housing situation.
If you operate a nightly lodging business in city limits, or are thinking about it, please come to this and subsequent work sessions. Your input is needed for any revisions to the Seward Code.


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Members register their details and those of the property or properties they want Northies Real Estate to sell for them.
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A specially prepared profile and information pack for your property.
Members for 1 month receive a 5% discount.
Members for 2 – 3 months receive a 10% discount.
Members for 4 – 5 months receive a 15% discount.
Members for 6+ months receive a 20 % discount.
Sign-up online or simply call Ian to help. Your details will be checked with you, then you will be entered into the membership register and your programme will begin!
You are not held to the proposed sale date. It is to assist in the planning of your membership programme.
The address of the property intended for sale is needed so that we can check different aspects of the property together and to ensure the discount is off the right sale.
The awareness sessions are held to get to know all about your property, and you to get to know all about the selling of it.
The discount will not apply if you ask Northies to share commission with another company.


Baahubali 2 6th Weekend Box Office Collection. Still Going Strong.
Baahubali 2 Hindi has collected an approx 3 crore nett in 6th Weekend at Indian Box Office. Film started well on 6th Friday and then showed good jump through 6th Saturday and 6th Sunday. Collection on 6th Sunday looks even better considering there was a big cricket match.
Baahubali 2 Hindi total collection at the end of 38 days is approx 504+ crore nett. All Language total collection currently stands at approx 1050+ crore nett. Film has simply shattered all box office record by mile. Only Baahubali 1 that also from all language have managed to touched 400 crore nett in India. Rest all films are still fighting hard to touch 400 crore nett. Such is the impact of Baahubali 2 has made at box office India.
6th Weekend - 3 crore nett (est).
Total - 504.15 crore nett [approx].


Digital Government: Managing Public Sector Reform in the Digital Era presents a public management perspective on digital government and technology-enabled change in the public sector. It incorporates theoretical and empirical insights to provide students with a broader and deeper understanding of the complex and multidisciplinary nature of digital government initiatives, impacts, and implications.
The rise of digital government and its increasingly integral role in many government processes and activities, including overseeing fundamental changes at various levels across government, means that it is no longer perceived as just a technology issue. In this book Miriam Lips provides students with practical approaches and perspectives to better understand digital government. The text also explores emerging issues and barriers as well as strategies to more effectively manage digital government and technology-enabled change in the public sector.
Digital Government is the ideal textbook for postgraduate students on courses in public administration, public management, public policy, political science and international relations and e-government. It is also suitable for Public Service managers who are experiencing the impact of digital technology and data in the public sector.
Miriam Lips is Professor of Digital Government and Programme Director of the new e-Government Master's programme at Victoria University of Wellington's School of Government, New Zealand.


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The app includes the free, open source graph library built by Appstuh Mobile. We needed a compact and high-performance graphing library, so we built one.
You can view the source code at our GitHub account (http://github.com/Appstuh/Libraries) for the library. The app's source code will be up soon.


We were tasked with creating an annual sales campaign for DISH Media Sales, which provides advertisers with intelligent solutions to efficiently maximize exposure to audiences across DISH and Sling TV. The project, an evolution of the previous year's successful "We Get People" campaign, would play an instrumental role in driving the group's annual sales revenues of over $250M.
With the convergence of traditional and digital TV, we needed to move fast to position ourselves as an industry leader.
Like any sales organization, their frontline staff were the lifeblood of the business. The living and breathing heart of the brand itself.
Dealing with clients on a daily basis, their salespeople were not only our brand mouthpiece, but our creative sounding board, too. The cornerstone of their toolkit was an interactive sales presentation, fronted by a sizzle video, which set the tone for meetings by speaking to the changing viewing habits, consumer perceptions, and trends in TV. It was supported by a refresh of their corporate website, media kits, case studies, product videos, and other collateral.
The campaign was warmly received by executive leadership and sales team alike, with many seasoned veterans claiming it was the best sales-support effort they'd ever seen. This was a testament to our ability to listen to key stakeholders, address their unique needs, and deliver a campaign that empowered individuals with the tools to succeed at every level of the organization.


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Approximately 50% of phones pass in this service due to bad outstanding balances with the account, under 90 days of activation, lost/stolen, & or Blacklisted.
If phone is good and everything paid off, it should pass.


I wrote about SEG last year, and about our new program (based on SEG's approach) a couple of months ago.
Joseph Poulshock has now written a great post on a high school student lesson he observed at SEG. I think it captures the atmosphere well, and is well worth a read.


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After Bellingen Shire Council voted to move the 2019 Australia Day Awards Ceremony to Friday January 25, the evening before the traditional date, the Courier-Sun asked general manager Liz Jeremy if council planned to have any kind of event on Australia Day, and in particular, when the citizenship ceremony would be held. She replied: "Citizenship Ceremonies can be held by local government on Australia Day,  as outlined by the Australia Day website and Australian Citizenship Ceremonies Code, however this is dependent upon various considerations including whether there are any requests received." The stated reason for holding the awards on Friday is to increase the number of people attending, given that this year Australia Day is part of a long weekend. "It is hoped that by changing the date that the event will attract greater attendance, allowing the community to enjoy the long weekend and support other events throughout the shire," the business paper for last week's council meeting said. The question of whether the event will be permanently relocated to a date other than January 26 is one that will depend on "the success of the 2019 ceremony" and "a thorough consultation process to understand community sentiment around the date of the Australia Day Awards Ceremony". In their discussion, councillors said the awards ceremony deserved a bigger audience and this was the motivation for moving it. Cr Jennie Fenton said when she first started attending a few years ago, she loved the community vibe. "It's a chance to celebrate great things happening and those who work tirelessly who often don't get put on a stage and clapped," she said. "This motion isn't anything political, it's come out of frustration that the ceremony often happens in front of a small crowd." Cr King said he had his own personal view about Australia Day celebrations but that was not why the timing of the awards ceremony was being changed. "It tends to be only those getting awards and their families who attend. Some of those making the most noise about Australia Day don't even come," he said. Cr Fenton said the  most important part of the motion was the bit about community consultation, in order to find out why people weren't showing up and how to fix it. "To argue for something that you love but not engage with it is disingenuous," she said.
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All smiles: 2018 Australia Day Ambassador David Bitton with Young Citizen winner Katelyn Beaumont from Dorrigo High School and Mayor Dominic King
After Bellingen Shire Council voted to move the 2019 Australia Day Awards Ceremony to Friday January 25, the evening before the traditional date, the Courier-Sun asked general manager Liz Jeremy if council planned to have any kind of event on Australia Day, and in particular, when the citizenship ceremony would be held.
She replied: "Citizenship Ceremonies can be held by local government on Australia Day, as outlined by the Australia Day website and Australian Citizenship Ceremonies Code, however this is dependent upon various considerations including whether there are any requests received."
The stated reason for holding the awards on Friday is to increase the number of people attending, given that this year Australia Day is part of a long weekend.
"It is hoped that by changing the date that the event will attract greater attendance, allowing the community to enjoy the long weekend and support other events throughout the shire," the business paper for last week's council meeting said.
The question of whether the event will be permanently relocated to a date other than January 26 is one that will depend on "the success of the 2019 ceremony" and "a thorough consultation process to understand community sentiment around the date of the Australia Day Awards Ceremony".
In their discussion, councillors said the awards ceremony deserved a bigger audience and this was the motivation for moving it.
Cr Jennie Fenton said when she first started attending a few years ago, she loved the community vibe.
"It's a chance to celebrate great things happening and those who work tirelessly who often don't get put on a stage and clapped," she said.
"This motion isn't anything political, it's come out of frustration that the ceremony often happens in front of a small crowd."
Cr King said he had his own personal view about Australia Day celebrations but that was not why the timing of the awards ceremony was being changed.
"It tends to be only those getting awards and their families who attend. Some of those making the most noise about Australia Day don't even come," he said.
Cr Fenton said the most important part of the motion was the bit about community consultation, in order to find out why people weren't showing up and how to fix it.
"To argue for something that you love but not engage with it is disingenuous," she said.
This story Australia Day awards to be held the night before first appeared on The Bellingen Shire Courier Sun.


Can I run 2 apps simultaneously on iOS?
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Who is jumping ship from BlackBerry or Android TO Apple now with today's Announcement?
Finally got my 5S! Some observations.
I'm a happy new owner of a5S !!!
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Okay, it's official. I have a thing for Trashy Diva. My wishlist has become suddenly and alarmingly full, but can you blame me? With their chambray, their gingham, their seersucker, oh my! What's a girl supposed to do, really, other than develop the urge to put everything into her cart?
So many of their pieces have a lovely southern flare, evoking hot, lazy summer days spent sipping lemonade and sheltering in the shade, even for those of us who only know of these things from books and movies and daydreams. After recently buying and loving their Seersucker Apple Tart dress, I was itching to choose my next purchase. Enter the dress of my chambray dreams, Trixie.
I've pined over many a Trashy Diva piece for a long time. Their price ranges are a little higher than my typical repro purchases from brands like Pinup Girl Clothing and Unique Vintage, so ideally I've always hoped to try one on before I took the cash-thrashing plunge. I've never been able to find any of the pieces I've wanted stocked in the UK, though, so I just tried my best not to expose myself to TD too frequently to lessen those keenly sad unrequited feels.
But, you know, I turn 30 this year, and I enjoy any excuse to spoil myself, so when I made some extra dough recently from selling pieces from my wardrobe that were going unworn, I decided to treat myself to my first Trashy Diva piece. I umm'd and ahh'd over which direction to go–dress or skirt? Chambray or gingham? Oh, or seersucker? Eventually, I settled on the first ever TD piece I had fallen in love with: the Apple Tart dress.


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The Lagos State Government has reiterated its commitment to teachers' excellence, just as it inducted 1,775 probationary teachers into the Post Primary Teaching Service.
The newly employed teachers are to undergo a five-day induction programme as approved by Governor Babatunde Fashola.
The opening ceremony of the programme held on Thursday at the Public Service Staff Development Centre, Magodo, Lagos.
Addressing the new teachers, the Director-General of the centre, Mrs. Olabunmi Fabamwo, said the induction programme was designed to introduce the teachers to the ethics, norms and values of public service.
She said, "We believe that given the way we have worked with our collaborators on this project, these new teachers would start their career with the necessary impetus for growth."
In his own remarks at the occasion, the Permanent Secretary, Teachers' Establishment and Pensions Office, Mr. Ojora Adejiyan, said there had never been a unified formal induction training for newly employed teachers in the state. Hence, it was a demonstration of government's renewed commitment to the training of teachers and learning outcomes in schools.
While emphasing the importance of education in nation building, he urged the participants to be hardworking and to take advantage of the opportunity offered by the training.
Edo teachers to shun proposed competency test
Lagos rules out proficiency assessment for educators
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