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Bringing Down
the House
Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, Eugene Levy
Director: Adam Shankman
Distributor: Buena Vista
Home Entertainment
Date: August 5, 2003
Review posted:
August 5, 2003
Spoilers: None
Reviewed by
Dennis Landmann
Sanderson (Martin), a divorced,
straight-laced, uptight, workaholic attorney, meets
a brainy, bombshell lawyer
in an online chat room and
they make a date.
Expecting his soul mate, he opens the
door and finds himself
face-to-face with Charlene (Latifah) -
a wild and crazy soul
sister who's just escaped from prison and
wants Peter to clear her
name. But Peter wants absolutely nothing
to do with her, and that
prompts Charlene to turn
Peter's perfectly ordered life totally upside down. Hysterical
complications abound and Peter
soon finds out he may need Charlene just
as much as she needs
I remember
seeing Bringing Down the House in theaters after its
first week of release. The attendance was rather large and most
of the audience appeared to be Caucasian. An interesting thing
happened about 30 minutes into the film. A family of four behind
me got up and walked out, with the mother stating something to
the effect of, "this is awful." After the film was over I agreed
with her. Bringing Down the House is awful because it
relies so heavily on racial jokes and stereotypes of all kinds
that it ends up nowhere near being funny. In fact, the film is
downright offensive and unfunny. It's too bad the woman wasn't
around after the show, because we could've talked for an hour
discussing the bad points of the film.
Martin gives an inspired performance, but where does it come
from? The material is far from inspiring, and makes Martin's
Peter Sanderson a complete fool. Sure, he's got problems, his
wife and work, but hardly anything makes him interesting, save
for Steve Martin who injects a little life into the weak
character. Queen Latifah plays Charlene with a lot of energy,
but most of it is wasted on stupid material. Her talents are
completely wasted here, although Bringing Down the House
boosted her film career as she is attached to more than just a
few projects. Eugene Levy is Steve Martin's sidekick more or
less, falling in love with Charlene and talking unbelievably
funny hip-hop jive, or at least his talk is supposed to be
funny; it's Eugene Levy after all. Director Adam Shankman makes
a halfhearted impression, and screenwriter Jason Filardi's
script is downright bloated with unfunny moments and offensive
really is no point in discussing this film further. I admit the
story is at times amusing, but the execution of it is simply
careless and offensive. Bringing Down the House is just
not funny, that's all. Martin and Latifah share hardly any
chemistry, and Levy comes off as just a little too horny—I
understand his obsession exists for comedic effect, but it
doesn't work. One last thought, if this unfunny and offensive film can break the $100
million barrier, what does that say about moviegoers? If
Larry King calls it "one of the funniest movies ever," you can
rightfully assume something terrible is amiss.
The Video
Vista presents Bringing Down the House in 2.35:1
anamorphic widescreen. The colors here are quite extraordinary
and clean. The palette shows off some warm and bright colors,
which makes color detail look pretty good. Interior scenes
contain enough light and vibrancy to create a warm, smooth
atmosphere. The print is clean as well, as there are no lines or
scratches on it. Compression artifacts are also not present.
Dark tones and black levels are mostly consistent, yet there is
some grain present during the night scenes. Despite that, the
rest of Bringing Down the House looks as bright and
healthy as can be.
Vista presents Bringing Down the House in English 5.1
Dolby Digital Surround Sound. Dialog is clear and easy to
understand. The soundtrack is located predominantly in the
front, although some of the songs in the film give off a loud
experience. That is, while there are not many sound effects, the
music soundtrack gives way to some good bass and all that. The
rear speakers hardly ever come alive, and therefore remain quiet
for most of the time. This film is essentially not designed to
show off its auditory quality, but the sound is nevertheless
clear and good enough to make for a decent presentation.
You can
also choose to view the film in French Dolby Digital Stereo.
Commentary – Director Adam Shankman and Screenwriter Jason
Filardi have some good times talking on this track. They joke
about the production, themselves, and other things. They keep
their dialogue conversational, but hardly interesting. If you
like the film you might get something interesting out of this
commentary track, but other than that this is unproductive and
generally weak.
Down Bringing Down the House (~17 mins) – There is not
much making-of stuff in this featurette. Most of the time it's
just congratulatory praise or happy talk as it is also known.
The interviews are conducted and structured in a way that allow
just enough praise to go out to every major person involved with
the film. There is enjoyable behind-the-scenes footage, but
overall this is not very interesting.
7 Deleted
Scenes (~8 mins) – I'm glad these aren't in the film, because
there is no need to have them in the film. These scenes don't
add a whole lot and they are basically redundant. There's a
little fun in them, but really nothing exciting. A commentary is
not available; not that one is necessary, of course.
Godfather of Hip-Hop (~4 mins) – Eugene Levy, aka U.G.-Dub, is
the focus of this brief featurette that explains through
interviews and on-set footage how he is the man behind hip-hop
(not to mention it's his middle name, too). The introduction
here is kind of funny, but the rest is just odd.
Rounding out
the extras is Queen Latifah's "Better Than the Rest" music
video, and a 4-minute gag reel, which isn't funny at all—it's
just a montage of a variety of mishaps cut to a funky music
beat. You also get the film's Theatrical Trailer, plus bonus
trailers for The Lion King DVD, Freaky Friday,
Shanghai Knights, and Chicago. On a side note, while
there are enough extras here to satisfy any DVD aficionado, the
quality and enjoyment of these extras is somewhat unsatisfactory.
You can
select to view the film with optional English subtitles. The
DVD's menus are somewhat animated, in an interesting way,
although if you leave the main menu running for too long it
becomes annoying very quick. The 105-minute feature is organized
into twelve chapters.
The film
is unfunny, offensive, and uninspiring in its material. Buena
Vista offers a very fine/decent video and audio presentation,
respectively, and there is a good amount of extras available.
Bringing Down the House is not worth buying in terms of
the film, but perhaps one can seek out a rental for the sake of
the DVD presentation.
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Geography whiz kids vie for the 2012 National Geographic Bee title and $50,000 in college scholarships. The 2012 National Geographic Bee airs Monday, May 28, 2012 at 5 p.m. on WXXI-TV/HD (DT21.1/cable 11 and 1011). These ten young people will battle it out for the championship prize of a $25,000 college scholarship and lifetime membership in the National Geographic Society. Second- and third-place finishers will be awarded college scholarships of $15,000 and $10,000. Additionally, the national winner will travel (along with one parent or guardian), all expenses paid, to the Galápagos to experience geography firsthand through up-close encounters with the wildlife and landscape of the islands on an expedition aboard the National Geographic Endeavour.
This year's top 10 national finalists as well as next year's top 10 may be eligible for selection to the three-person team that will represent the United States at the international National Geographic World Championship in 2013, to be held in St. Petersburg, Russia.


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In June 2010, OS sponsored the 27th Aerospace Science Institute in conjunction with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Kennedy Space Center in Titusville, Florida. The Space Center is responsible for NASA's Shuttle Launch Services, human space flight program, and planning and implementing the human exploration and development of space. Twenty-five elementary, middle and high school teachers from Department-assisted overseas schools attended the Institute. Each participant received a stipend from OS to cover housing and incidental costs.
The Aerospace Science Institute enables educators to stay abreast of NASA's technological and scientific advances and educational resources that can be used in school classrooms. The Institute provides an intensive experience encompassing many aspects of aerospace science and technology and their practical applications. Teachers attend briefings, participate in group discussions, visit sites, take field trips and develop curricular and instructional materials that can be replicated or built upon in their classrooms. At the 2010 Institute, a variety of topics was covered concerning the human exploration and development of space focusing on the International Space Station and the Constellation Program and roll-out of the shuttle replacement vehicle scheduled for 2012. In addition, participants were given information on the Space Shuttle Program, strategies/plans for lunar and Mars exploration, aeronautics principles, rocketry, space environment, astronaut training techniques, living and working in space and life support systems, including the growth of plants in space for long-duration flights. In addition, participants are offered a series of enrichment activities including visits to the Kennedy Space Center's Saturn V Complex. Teachers also received detailed instructions on using the Internet to access NASA educational information and were given a CD-ROM containing text materials, photos, brochures, teacher guides and videos.
The University of Central Florida continues to grant three semester hours of graduate credit to teachers who choose to take the Institute as a graduate education course. A total of 850 teachers and administrators from Department-assisted overseas schools in 85 countries have attended the Institute since its inception in 1984.


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|My Little Angel raising funds for annual toy drive
|Written by Chris Lee
An initiative that began last Christmas to provide toys to numerous children throughout the county is continuing with the hopes of increasing the number of children to benefit from the program.
My Little Angel organizer Josie Murray said they purchased toys for 70 children last year and are hoping to increase that number to 125-150 this year.
The toys only go to children in Phillips County. Murray said this is a strong point the group likes to stress. Toys aren't being shipped to children in other cities and everything stays local. My Little Angel personally shops for the children off wish lists they create.
This all began after Murray and husband Brett lost baby Ethan on the same day he was born Jan. 29, 2009.
Murray felt it would be a good idea to give gifts to children in Ethan's name and so the My Little Angel initiative began to provide gifts for children in Phillips County. Brett grew up in Holyoke.
Other families who lost children at young ages joined with the Murrays to build the My Little Angel effort.
In other fundraising efforts, a life-size Candy Land game was held during Dandelion Daze in June.
My Little Angel also recently completed a project with the family clinic and donated a basket full of DVDs and books to keep children and their parents entertained while in the waiting room, according to Murray. She also noted they are planning on a similar idea with the hospital.
As part of ongoing fundraising efforts, My Little Angel will be giving away a grill and accessories.
The "Ultimate Backyard Give-a-way" is a raffle for a brand new stainless steel grill, grilling tool set, grilling cookbook, 25 pounds of ground beef, approximately 24 steaks and a grill cover.
The grill is currently on display at First Pioneer National Bank where tickets may also be purchased.
The event will wrap up with a Chamber of Commerce hot dog days at the Lions Club Park Wednesday, Aug. 4. Cake, balloons and candy will be available and the drawing for the grill and prizes will take place at 1 p.m.
All proceeds from the raffle will go towards the toy drive.
Backyard give-a-way sponsors are Holyoke Marketplace, First Pioneer National Bank, Hassler Crop Insurance, Holyoke Community Federal Credit Union, Highline Electric Association and Holyoke Chamber of Commerce.


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San Diego jobless rate down to 5.8%
A surge in summer tourism hiring in May and broad-based job growth over the last year combined to push San Diego County's unemployment rate below 6 percent for the first time in nearly six years.
Last month, the county's jobless rate fell to 5.8 percent, down from a revised 6.1 percent in April, the state Employment Development Department reported Friday.
In May, county employers added a net 5,100 nonfarm payroll jobs, 3,900 of which came in leisure and hospitality. While seasonal hiring in May played a part in pushing the jobless rate down to its lowest point since June 2008, over the last year the county has benefited from payroll employment increases in middle-class sectors like construction and high-paying fields like life sciences.
"San Diego, Orange County and the Bay Area have more dynamic economies than the rest of the state, and they should outperform over time," said Esmael Adibi, economist at Chapman University.
In February, San Diego County recovered all of the payroll jobs it lost during the Great Recession. Job growth, however, has slowed over the past two months, from gains of around 10,000 in February and March to around 5,000 or fewer in April and May. When adjusting for seasonal factors, such as May tourism hiring, the county actually lost 200 jobs last month.
"San Diego's jobs picture was a little cloudy in May, especially if you try to correct for the normal seasonal ebbs and flows during the month," said Lynn Reaser, chief economist at Point Loma Nazarene University. "Most of the gain came in tourism, especially restaurants, that largely reflected the normal pickup of business leading into the summer."
Alan Gin, economist at the University of San Diego, was not concerned about the recent slowdown and said it could be a leveling off from the big gains earlier in the year. He noted that the nation's gross domestic product was negative in the first quarter because of a particularly harsh winter back East, but now the country's on the mend.
"Nationally the economy now is rebounding from that tough first quarter, so that should benefit us here in San Diego," he said.
Despite the past two months, over the past year county employers have added 29,300 jobs, for an annual growth rate of 2.2 percent. That's a little slower than California 2.3 percent but it outpaces the nation's 1.8 percent job growth. Also, in the last year the unemployment rate dropped from 7.3 percent for reasons economist like to see: the labor force grew, albeit by a slight 1,400 people, while the number of unemployed persons dropped 20 percent to 92,100.
"On balance, San Diego's economy continues to move forward, but the strength of its forward momentum is still in question," Reaser said.
Annually, the tourism industry had about 3.7 percent more employees in May 2014 than it did in May 2013, reflecting greater expectations of consumer spending from visitors and locals at restaurants, Gin said.
The other field that added triple digits in May was construction, which rose by 1,000 workers. It continues a trend of growth for the sector, which creates an economic ripple effect: a newly built home requires furniture purchases and other appliances.
In the last year, the county's construction field has expanded by 5,100 workers, for 8.5 percent annual growth. The new jobs probably have something to do with San Diego County on pace to issue more than 10,000 residential building permits for the first time since 2006, the late stages of the housing bubble that led to the Great Recession.
Gin noted that the county's 65,200 construction workers are still about 30,000 below the peak level of employment.


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Baseball Announces 2013 Team Award Winners
Oct. 1, 2013
AMHERST, Mass. - UMass baseball head coach Mike Stone recently announced the team's 2013 award winners at the program's annual golf outing. Senior captain Ron Wallace was named the recipient of The Dennis DellaPiana Memorial Award and assistant captain Rich Graef earned the Coaches Award for most improved.
Wallace won The Dennis DellaPiana Memorial Award for exemplifying courage, determination, and sportsmanship. First instituted in May of 1966, the award honors the memory of Dennis DellaPiana, who was truly a great student-athlete at the University of Massachusetts in the mid 1960's, but died in April of 1966 during his senior year after a long battle with Hodgkin's disease. His courage, determination and sportsmanship were outstanding. DellaPiana's nephew, Dennis Cataldo, and sister, Diana Cataldo, presented Wallace with the honor.
Wallace served as a key reliever in the Minutemen bullpen in 2013 as a senior. The right-hander went 2-1 with one save in 23.1 innings pitched over 12 appearances. A four-year letterwinner for the Minutemen, Wallace allowed the fewest amount of walks on the team with 11 and struck out 20 batters in his final collegiate campaign.
Graef led UMass with 30 runs scored and was one of two players to start all 45 games for the Minutemen. The senior recorded a batting average of .261 with 15 RBI and went 13-for-18 on stolen base attempts. He also notched 12 multi-hit games, four multi-RBI games and ended his collegiate career on a five-game hitting streak.
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CHARLOTTE � Investigators say a Charlotte man has been killed by someone who carried a grudge after a fight.
Police said 28-year-old Terrance Mingo died Saturday morning, about nine hours after he was shot at a home in east Charlotte.
Investigators say Mingo was killed by a man who came to the home after the men had a fight in a different location. The suspect drove away in a Chevrolet Impala after shooting Mingo.
Police are trying to identify the suspect and looking for any witnesses to the shooting.
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In case you're somehow unaware of the epic Grammy performance last night in which 33 straight and gay couples got married on stage as Macklemore & Ryan Lewis sang "Same Love" (and Queen Latifah and Madonna joined in), you can click here to watch it. Once you have, here's 10 reasons you should definitely feel uneasy.
Straight allies are essential to gay causes. And as a male feminist, I can empathize. But there is a fine line to tread, and all privileged people with platforms, but especially straight white men such as Macklemore, should surely understand that there are some circumstances where there is value in raising other voices above their own - in this case, identifiably queer ones. Instead, we got...
I'm not here to dictate what Queen Latifah should or shouldn't say in public about herself or anyone else's sexuality, and I respect her refusal to discuss her own just as much as she clearly respects other people's right to celebrate theirs. And it's not like I'd prefer her to simply stay quiet on the matter of gay rights. This just seems a rather thorny way to wade into a discussion she has long avoided, and one that risks confusing or distracting from whatever message such a stunt aimed to promote.
8. The general warped agenda
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|Producer from 'Heaven is for Real' to give behind-curtain look at movie
|Written by Wauneta Breeze
|Wednesday, 04 December 2013 20:23
By Jan Schultz
The Imperial Republican
One of the executive producers on the set of the movie version of "Heaven is for Real" will be in Imperial Sunday.
The public is invited to hear Derrick Williams speak at Crossroads Wesleyan Church Sunday at a special 10:45 a.m. service.
Todd Burpo of Imperial, who co-authored "Heaven is for Real" about his son Colton's near-death experience as a four-year-old, is pastor of the church where Williams will speak Sunday.
Burpo said the service will include Christmas carols, a showing of the just-released "Heaven is for Real" movie trailer as well as personal testimony from Williams.
The service will then include a question-and-answer interview format as Burpo and Colton ask Williams questions about the making of the movie.
There may also be time for questions from those attending, Burpo said.
Burpo said he tried to get someone from the set here to help "unwrap the complex process" of making a movie such as "Heaven is for Real."
"They see the finished product but do not see all the steps to carry it along," Burpo said. "It's a complex process."
Their goal with Sunday's program is to give a "behind-the-curtain" look at the movie-making process.
"And the only way to do that was to bring someone here," Burpo said.
Williams' promotional efforts have included "The Pursuit of Happyness," "Not Easily Broken" and "The Karate Kid" (remake).
Williams was also involved as a marketing expert in such movies as "Jumping the Broom" in 2011, has marketed several urban musicals and managed the careers of Gospel and R&B artists such as Fred Hammond, Karen Clark-Sheard and Wynton Marsalis.
Working closely with T.D. Jakes Ministries the past 17 years, Williams has facilitated all aspects of Jakes' entertainment division including producing feature films, TV productions, stadium conferences and more.


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Yesterday Tomorrow
June 17th, 1939 (SATURDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: Minesweeping trawler HMS Ellesmere launched.
FRANCE: Eugene Weidman is the last man to be guillotined in France in public after being found guilty of six murders.
Minesweepers FS Annamite, Chevreul, Gazelle and La Surprise launched.
U.S.S.R.: Soviet Submarine USSR SC-424 renamed one more time to SC-424.
U.S.A.: Destroyer USS Hughes launched.
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June 17th, 1940 (MONDAY)UNITED KINGDOM:
RAF Bomber Command: 4 Group (Whitley). Bombing - oil plant at Gelsenkirchen - Mining River Rhine.
10 Sqn. Seven aircraft 'W' bombs in Rhine. Four aborted, three bombed. Three aircraft to Gelsenkirchen. Flak intense. All bombed.
51 Sqn. Seven aircraft to Gelsenkirchen. Flak intense. All bombed. Four aircraft 'W' bombs in Rhine. Three aborted, one bombed.
58 Sqn. Ten aircraft to Gelsenkirchen. Nine bombed, one FTR.
77 Sqn. Nine aircraft to Gelsenkirchen. Two returned early, seven bombed.
London: "Let us brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that if the British Commonwealth and Empire lasts for a thousand years men will still say, This was their finest hour." With this inspirational peroration Winston Churchill today ended a speech in the House of Commons. It was later repeated in a broadcast to the nation. The Prime Minister faced up squarely to the chance that Britain might now have to fight alone and he told MPs: "Our professional advisers of the three services unitedly advise that we should continue the war and that there are good and reasonable hops of final victory."
The Prime Minister said that it was not yet certain that Frances military resistance to the Germans was over. Britain had not felt able to release the French from their treaty obligation not to make a separate peace. But whatever happens, he continued: "We will fight on, if necessary for years." The Battle of Britain was about to begin and Hitler knew that he "will have to break us in these islands or lose the war."
Mr Churchill said that 1,250,000 men are now under arms in Britain. Behind them are 500,000 Local Defence Volunteers, and soldiers from the Dominions have also arrived. These forces include seven out of every eight soldiers originally sent to France, while many of the remainder are still operating alongside French forces with considerable success. As for the immediate future, the Prime Minister reminded the House of Commons that Britain has home defence forces which are now expanding rapidly, with "very large additions" to their weaponry expected soon. He then said that the survival of Christian civilisation as the well as the continuity of British life must depend on the outcome of the Battle of Britain. He warned the United States that, if Germany wins, then the whole world, including America, "will sink into the abyss of anew dark age". The Commons decided to go into secret session before the end of the week for further discussion of the dire military situation. Churchill told MPs that the scope of the debate would not be too restricted. He was insistent that the service chiefs are prepared for enemy parachute landings and other ingenious invasion tricks, including, he said, help from a "fifth column".
FRANCE: St. Nazaire: Operation 'Aerial': The Cunard White Star liner 'Lancastria' (16,234 GRT, Captain Rudolphe Sharpe, Master) is sunk off Saint Nazaire with the loss of nearly 3,000 men. Five aircraft from KG30 (Kampfgeschwader 30) flying Do-17's, using the SC-500 high-explosive ordnance, dive-bombed and machine-gunned the liner as she lay at anchor. Survivors claimed later that the Germans had continued to fire after the ship had sunk and men were struggling in the water. The liner had been converted into a troopship. Most of the passengers were troops from the BEF and the RAF returning to England. In addition there were Church Army workers and a number of French people fleeing the German occupation. The horror was not over with the sinking.
The Luftwaffe aircraft continued to circle. Diving out of the sky, the planes strafed the survivors in the water and on the sinking ship. Some aircraft dropped incendiaries into the water in an attempt to light the free-flowing oil which leaked from the doomed LANCASTRIA".
This is Britain's worst maritime disaster. She arrived off St. Nazaire at 0400 on 17 Jun and anchored in the Charpentier Roads. Destroyers and other craft were used to ferry people out to the troopship. An estimated 6,000 servicemen and a number of civilian women and children when onboard, although some reports indicate that as many as 9,000 people may have been in the ship when it was hit by four bombs as approximately 16 -00. One bomb was a direct hit, which went down the ship's large single funnel and exploded in the engine room. The ship capsized at 16 -15 and sank soon afterwards. The bomb explosion in the engine room ruptured one of the ship's bunkers and flooded the sea with heavy fuel oil, making rescue operations extremely difficult. Fewer than 2,500 people survived. The large liner Oronsay (20,000 GRT) was also bombed but she remained afloat and reached port safely. News of the disaster was suppressed by the British Government because of the impact it might have had on the country's morale. It was announced over a month later. Captain Sharpe survived the sinking and went on to become the master of the liner Laconia (19,695 GRT). He was with her when she was sunk on 12 Sep 42 by U-156, Kptlt Werner Hartenstein, CO, off the coast of West Africa. Captain Sharpe was among the more than 2,000 lost in this event, making it the second worst British maritime disaster. See http://www.lancastria-association.org.uk
Brooke continues supervising the embarkation of his forces using the French telephone system to talk with subordinate commanders. This afternoon he learned learns from London that a French-German armistice might be concluded at any moment and the he and his troops might be interned under terms of that armistice. In the evening at St. Nazaire he, and his party of 14, embarked on H.M.T. Cambridgeshire which was to be part of a convoy escort. (Jay Stone)
Guderian reaches Pontarlier almost to the Swiss Border. German forces reach Brittany, Loire and Normandy.
Dijon is captured by elements of Hoepner's XVI A.K. (mot.) (Jeff Chrisman)
With German forces pouring through the Maginot Line, Petains government sues for peace.
The 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 8th French Armies are cut off in the Maginot Line and fighting on two fronts.
GERMANY: U-206 laid down.
U-106 launched.
MEDITERRANEAN SEA: The French sink an Italian submarine off Oran in Algeria.
This sub was the Provana, the first Italian submarine to be sunk in the Mediterranean, which went down after being rammed. Five more Italian boats would be lost in the Mediterranean before the end of June (and four more in the Red Sea), making it a tough month for the Italian "somergibili." (Andy Etherington and Mike Yaklich)
U.S.S.R.: Moscow: Stalin sends troops to occupy Estonia and Latvia in order to "pre-empt joint defence measures against the USSR."
FRENCH INDOCHINA: Japan starts a blockade to cut off military supplies to China.
U.S.A.: The French surrender raises concerns in the U.S. about the French fleet but French Minister for Foreign Affairs Paul Baudouin advises the Deputy U.S. Ambassador to France that the fleet "would never be surrendered to Germany."
The Chief of Naval Operations asks Congress for the money to build a two-ocean Navy.
ICELAND: The 146th Brigade arrive to reinforce the 147th Brigade of the British occupying forces. (Dave Hornford)
ATLANTIC OCEAN: SS Elpis sunk by U-46 at 43.46N, 14.06W.
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June 17th, 1941 (TUESDAY)UNITED KINGDOM: RAF Bomber Command: The RAF bombs Cologne, Duisburg and Dusseldorf.
ASW trawler HMS Polka commissioned.
Destroyer ORP Kujawiak (ex-HMS Oakley) commissioned.
FRANCE: Corvette FS Alysse commissioned.
GERMANY: Hitler decides on June 22, 1941 for the invasion of Russia, Operation Barbarossa.
This evening the British public was let into the secret of radio-location (also known as RDF, or radar) for the first time. Air Chief Marshal Sir Philip Joubert, who last week took over RAF Coastal Command, paid tribute to Robert Watson-Watt, the scientist who pioneered the system which did much to help win the Battle of Britain. He gave no technical details, but he did say that it was a system of rays "which are unaffected by fog or darkness. Any aircraft or ship in the path of this ray immediately sends back a signal to the detecting station." Watson-Watt himself, who has been made a CB and Fellow of the Royal Society, insists: "I am just an ordinary man."
FINLAND: Helsinki: Finland today ordered general mobilisation of its armed forces, effective in three days time. Notices on street corners order all reservists up to the age of 44 to report for duty.
Tension is running high here as rumours that Hitler is preparing to march on the Soviet Union sweep the city. There is no doubt that if the Germans do attack Russia the Finns will fight alongside them. The bitter memories of the "Winter War" in which the Russians crushed Finland despite its gallant defence run too deep for any other course; there are reports that the 10,000 German troops who arrives in Finland recently, ostensibly on their way to northern Norway, are still in Finland preparing for a joint thrust with the Finns at Leningrad.
The Finnish army, with its knowledge of the country and ability to use the terrain, would also be able to hold the Russian army in the north while the Germans launched a Blitzkrieg towards Moscow. Many in Britain will be sad to see the Finns allying with Hitler, but hatred of Russia outweighs all other considerations.
EGYPT: Cairo:
A grim faced Commander-in-Chief flew in from the Western Desert today and dictated a cable to London which began: "I regret to report the failure of 'Battleaxe'." General Wavell's first major counter-offensive has ended in defeat, with 91 British tanks destroyed against German losses of 25. On London, Churchill - who had sent a fast convoy of reinforcement tanks under the code name "Tiger" and had high hopes for Battleaxe - took the news calmly. He has already decided to replace Wavell.
Wavell, too, had been optimistic, although he had grave doubts about the mechanical capacity of many of his tanks. He had not allowed for Rommel's intelligence which forewarned of the attack; or the devastating use by the Afrika Korps of the 88mm "ack ack" gun as an anti-tank weapon. With armoured support, Indian troops fought hard to take the Halfaya Pass; but a hastily improvised Panzer counter-attack was the decisive factor.
The British forces by now are 30 miles east of the position they started out from three days ago and morale is low. Although losses are not large, less than a thousand men killed, wounded and missing, 91 tanks had been lost and 80% of the British tanks were out of action. The Germans lost 12 tanks.
LIBYA: Halfaya Pass: In the evening the Germans advanced upon the British forcing them to retire, firing as they left. Within 15 minutes the 2nd RTR had only five tanks left and they were unable to hold the rapid advance of the Germans. With the enemy occupation if Sidi Suleiman the action ended.
SYRIA: Concerned that the French counter-attack may swing westward and cut off 7 Division in the mountains of Lebanon, Lt-Gen Lavarack orders 21 Brigade (Brig Stevens) to halt the coastal advance and detach a battalion to reinforce Jezzine. On the Eastern axis 2nd Bn Queens attack from Deraa and drive French forces out of El Quneitra. An initial thrust by Free French Senegalese against Ezraa is repulsed but a second attempt drives out the French forces and take 160 prisoners. In the central sector the French again attack Jezzine but are driven off by elements of 25 Aust Bde. 70 weary and hungry Vichy Senegalese troops are taken prisoner. 2/2 Pioneer and 2/25 Bns under Brig Berryman attack Merdjayoun but are driven back by fierce French resistance. (Michael Alexander)
CANADA: Minesweeper HMCS Lockeport laid down North Vancouver.
Lt Denis James Patrick O'Hagan RCNVR awarded George Medal.
United States and Canada set up Joint Economic Committees. (" . . .to study and to report to their respective governments on the possibilities of (1) effecting a more economic, more efficient, and more coordinated utilization of the combined resources of the two countries in the production of defence requirements (to the extent that this is not now being done) and (2) reducing the probable post-war economic dislocation consequent upon the changes which the economy in each country is presently undergoing"
Destroyer HMCS St Clair is heavily damaged in a collision with the oiler Clam soon after joining the Newfoundland Escort Force. St Clair is diverted to St. John's for repairs that will last until 2nd December 1941. It is highly unlikely that Clam and St Clair were engaged in underway refuelling at the time of the collision. Clam was used for 'afloat tankage' and for shuttling fuel to St. John's from Halifax. Fuelling was done alongside the oilers while they lay either at a berth or at mooring buoys. This was also the RN practice at Greenock.
Corvette HMCS Rosthern commissioned.
U.S.A.: Washington:
President Roosevelt">Roosevelt has ordered all 24 German consulates in the USA to shut by 15 July and all consular staff to be expelled. Diplomats in the embassy here are not affected.
Although US-German relations are deteriorating generally, the administration complains that the consulates are not being shut down for that reason but because they were being used for espionage and fifth-column activities "wholly outside the scope of their legitimate duties." The reason why the administration did not take this step sooner is that it is bound to lead the Germans to close US consulates, which are useful listening posts inside Europe.
In the U.S., baseball star Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees extends his hitting streak to 30 games in a row in a game against the Chicago White Sox. This breaks the team record held by Roger Peckinpaugh and Earl Coombs.
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June 17th, 1942 (WEDNESDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: Minesweeping trawler HMS Gweal launched.
Minesweeper HMS Shippigan commissioned.
U.S.S.R.: (Sergey Anisimov)(69)Baltic Fleet, Ladoga and Onega Flotillas: Shipping loss. GB "Volga" - by aviation, at Kopellaht bay.
MEDITERRANEAN SEA: Tug HMS Vixen
lost in the Mediterranean.
NORTH AFRICA: The British 4th Armoured Brigade loses 30% of its tanks in an attack on Sidi Rezegh.
JAPAN: American diplomatic staff today board the Asama Maru at Yokohama. They have been interned in the US embassy compound since the outbreak of war. They had access to the Japanese media and one small radio, until being allowed to leave today.
39 year old Park Soowan is killed by police during an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Tojo Hideki. Later Ken Inukai is arrested and charged with financing and abetting the assassination attempt. (Lois Shapley Bassen and Sharon Domier)(132 and 133)
TERRITORY OF ALASKA: In the Aleutians, a Kiska Harbor bombing mission by the USAAF's 11th Air Force is cancelled due to weather as is a patrolling mission by heavy bombers.
CANADA: Fairmile HMC ML 080 commissioned.
Ordered, CT TANAC tugs, a total of 265 of these vessels ordered in Canada during WW II, all were completed including those underway when the war ended. There were two distinct styles, 35 wooden hulled and the other 230 were welded steel. They were all diesel powered and fitted with a variety of engines, Fairbanks Morse and Vivian being the most common. At first the British Government ordered them direct but most were in fact ordered and paid for by Canada under the 'Mutual Aid Board' concept. Deliveries started in January 1943 and some stragglers were completed in early 1946. The builders were: a. Central Bridge Company, Trenton, ON, 156 steel units. b. Canadian Bridge Company, Walkerville ON, 69 steel units. c. Russell Brothers Industries Ltd, Owen Sound, ON. 5 steel units (see below) d. Smith and Rhuland, Lunenburg NS, 10 wooden units. e. Industrial Shipping Ltd. Mahone Bay, 25 wooden units. TANAC units built were: a. Canadian Bridge built #1 to 30, 51 to 60, and 101 to 129. b. Central Bridge built 31 to 45, 51 to 60, 66 to 85, 130 to 250. c. Russell Brothers built 46 to 50. (They were to build 51 to 60 but these ten units were later transferred to Canadian Bridge allowing Russell to concentrate on Glen and Ville class tugs) d. Smith and Rhuland built 96 to 100 and 261 to 265. e. Industrial Shipping built 61 to 65, 86 to 95 and 251 to 260. The tugs were sent all over the world, about 38 served in the RN, (last one in naval service No.83, sold Aug 79) The TANAC tugs ended up in just about every Port you can think of. The last 50 vessels ordered were not completed at the end of the war. They were all completed and sold by the War Assets Disposal Corporation. Fifteen were sold to China and most of the balance remained in Canada. The wooden tugs were somewhat different in size, being longer, at 67.7'x 16.5'x7' and generally about 57grt. The wooden tugs also varied in size between the two building yards by a few inches in one direction or another. Wooden vessels are a lot harder to hold to standard dimensions than steel. The steel tugs also changed somewhat over the years in which they were built. The last group of 50 (35 steel and 15 wooden) had a reduced registered depth, at 6.5' in depth and 50 grt versus the 7.8' deep, 65grt versions. The change only seems to apply to the steel versions. It is not thought that the hulls were actually different on the outside but the measurement of tonnage is taken to the top of the floors in a vessel so deeper floors would in fact reduce the registered depth and hence the tonnage. It doesn't make sense but that is how it was done. They were actually given a slightly different name convention, (TANAC V 222 as an example. The V meant a Vivian engine was fitted versus the Fairbanks Morse engines fitted in the earlier hulls. The Vivian engined required deeper floors to get the engine high enough in the hull to maintain the shaft line and this triggered a reduction in the calculated tonnage. Vivian engines are a 4-cycle engine and have a greater height dimension than the Fairbanks-Morse engines, which are 2 cycle. Both engines have the same piston stroke, but the Vivians cylinder heads are higher, because of the valve mechanisms in the head, the Fairbanks-Morse had no valves in the heads, because of their 2-cycle design. Which may account for the different deck levels and registered tonnage. TANAC tugs prenamed "LAC" were actually some of the earlier ones built and they were all originally registered in England, then brought back to Canada years later. McKeil Marine had 4 of these tugs in service, although they have been modified and repowered. They are (1) LAC COMO (ex HALIFAX), (2) LAC ERIE (ex TANAC 74), (3) LAC MANITOBA (ex MANITOBA), (4) LAC VANCOUVER (ex VANCOUVER). The Irving Company at one time had the IRVING ALDER (ex TORONTO) and the IRVING POPLAR (ex TANAC 42). DOT had the TANAC V 222. Others were COLINETTE (ex LAC OTTAWA) owed by Waterman's Services Ltd, Toronto, still more LAC St LOUIS (ex HAMILTON), LAC QUEBEC (ex LAC MICHIGAN). A Capt J.E. McQueen had a contract to deliver CT tugs to different ports, during the WW.II. They would have a crew on each tug and would follow the leader to New York (via the ErieCanal) or to Chicago and down the Mississippi River. Then were then loaded on ship's and sent all over the world
U.S.A.: Japanese, German and Italian diplomatic staff today left the US on board the Swedish liner Gripsholm. They have been on board since June 11th. Prior to that they were interned at Greenbrier, a luxury resort owned by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia. They enjoyed access to US media and each other.
The development of Pelican, an antisubmarine guided missile, was undertaken by the National defence Research Committee with the US Navy's Bureau of Ordnance sponsorship. This device consisted of a glide bomb which could automatically home on a radar beam reflected from the target.
The U.S. Navy awards a contract to Goodyear for the design and construction of a prototype model M scouting and patrol non-rigid airship with 50 percent greater range and volume, 625,000 cubic feet (17,698 cubic meters) than the K Class airship. Four model M airships were procured and placed in service during World War II.
The German submarine U-202 lands four German agents/saboteurs at Ponte Vedra Beach south of Jacksonville, Florida. These agents are part of the team that landed on Long Island on 13 June.
YANK, the weekly magazine for the U.S. armed services, begins publication.
The War Department announces that it will not "accept for service with the armed forces, Japanese or persons of Japanese extraction, regardless of citizenship status or other factors". (Gene Hanson)
Minesweeper USS Staff launched.
Destroyer USS Mervine commissioned.
ATLANTIC OCEAN: After parting company with convoy HG.74, the British destroyer HMS WILD SWAN is damaged in an air attack by Ju.87's and sinks after colliding with a Spanish fishing vessel (three of which also sank after being hit by aircraft) south of Bantry Bay 49 52N, 10 44W. (Alex Gordon)(108)
A mine, laid by U-701, sinks the US merchant ship SANTORE, a collier, off Virginia, killing three of the crew. At 1348, the Santore struck a mine laid on 11 June by U-701 in the Chesapeake Bay. The ship was manoeuvring into her position in Convoy KS-511 when a explosion occurred on the port side and extensively damaged the #1, #2 and #3 side tanks and the #1 and #2 holds. The vessel was quickly flooded, developed a list of 90° to port and sank rapidly. The eight officers, 29 crewmen and nine armed guards (the ship was armed with one 4in, two .50cal and two .30cal guns) abandoned ship on one raft and by jumping overboard because no lifeboats could be launched due to the sharp list. Three crewmen were lost. The survivors were picked up after 30 minutes by US Coast guard vessels and landed at Little Creek, Virginia. The wreck of Santore was sold in August 1954 for scrapping.
About 1300, the unescorted Moira was hit by one torpedo from U-158 off Corpus Christi and was then sunk by gunfire after the crew had abandoned ship. One crewmember was lost and three were injured. The survivors in two lifeboats were found by a fishing boat the next day and towed to Port Isabel, Texas. On 20 Aug 1942, the master, William Thorsen, took over the command of the Frontenac, which was torpedoed and badly damaged by U-436 on 27 Oct 1942.
At 0450, U-158 fired two torpedoes at the unescorted San Blas, the first missed the stern but the second struck at the port quarter. The explosion destroyed the stern, blew away the #4 hatch cover and the mainmast, stopped the engines and caused the ship to sink by the stern with a heavy starboard list after four minutes. The master, 26 crewmembers and three armed guards of the 39 crewmembers and five armed guards on board were lost. The survivors had no time to launch any lifeboats and abandoned ship on four rafts. They were picked up on 29 June by a US Navy Catalina flying boat in position 28°01N/96°02W and landed at Corpus Christi. The master Anders Weesgaard had already experienced another sinking when his last ship, the Ontario was sunk by U-507.
U-129 sinks an armed US freighter off the north coast of Cuba. At 2303, the unescorted Millinocket was hit by one torpedo from U-129, while steaming on a nonevasive course at 9 knots off La Isabela, Cuba. The torpedo struck between the #4 and #5 holds above 12 feet below the waterline. The explosion opened a large hole in the hull, blew some men overboard and killed the chief gunner. The ship sank rapidly on even keel within three minutes. No distress signals were sent and the guns were never manned (the ship was armed with one 6pdr and two .30cal guns). Only one lifeboat and two rafts were launched, while some men had to jump into the water to escape. Witt questioned the second assistant engineer about the name of the ship, tonnage, cargo, origin and destination. He also gave them a first aid kit for the wounded men when the engineer asked him for one. The master, three officers, five crewmen and two armed guards of the seven officers, 22 crewmen and six armed guards on board were lost, most of them by drowning. The survivors were picked up by a Cuban motor boat and two Cuban fishing boats about 13 hours later and landed at La Isabela and taken to Sagua La Grande, where the eight injured were treated at the hospital. (Dave Shirlaw and Jack McKillop)
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June 17th, 1943 (THURSDAY)UNITED KINGDOM: The first units of supporting naval forces sail for the invasion Sicily, Operation Husky.
The BBC warns civilians in occupied Europe to evacuate the vicinity of all factories working for the German war effort.
No. 186 Squadron RAF flying the Hawker Hurricane MK IID makes the first rocket attacks against targets at Flushing in the Netherlands. (22)
Escort carrier HMS Campania launched.
Minesweeping trawlers HMS Lindisfarne and Skomer launched.
Destroyer HMS Terpsichore launched.
ITALY: The RAF bombs Naples.
PACIFIC OCEAN: During the night of 17/18 June, four B-24 Liberators of the USAAF's Seventh Air Force take off from Funafuti Atoll, Ellice Islands at 2-hour intervals to bomb Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands. One aborts and another fails to find the target. The two B-24s bombing the target hit runways, silence an AA battery, and blow up an ammunition dump. The raid is a diversion in support of the first night photo-reconnaissance mission by the VII Bomber Command, during which three B-24s photograph Mille Atoll in the Caroline Islands and nearby waters in the Marshall Islands.
U.S.A.: Minesweeper USS Dextrous launched.
Frigate USS Coronado launched.
Light fleet carrier USS Monterey commissioned.
ATLANTIC OCEAN: HMT Yoma sunk by U-81 at 33.03N, 22.04E.
An RAF 206 Sqn Fortress damaged U-338, killing one and wounding three.
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UNITED KINGDOM: London: Germany's long-threatened pilot-less planes or flying bombs are now falling thick and fast on London and south-east England. They first arrived four days ago, but a full-scale attack was only announced yesterday by Herbert Morrison, who claimed that damage was "relatively small". No so: it is now becoming severe. According to figures issued at 6am today, 18 people have died and 166 have been injured in flying-bomb explosions since the first six casualties in Bethnal Green, in London, on 13 June. Yesterday 73 fell on Greater London, and today 24 people died in a single blast in a London pub.
The new weapon, today christened "V1" (V for Vergeltungswaffe - Reprisal Weapon) by Hitler, is a low-flying bomb launched from the Pas-de-Calais, fitted with stubby wings and a primitive pulse jet engine which is programmed to cut out over London. The V1 then nosedives silently to earth in 15 seconds with its warhead of nearly a ton of explosive. The damage can cover a quarter of a mile in radius, mainly by blast. Windows are shattered, and debris lacerates anyone upright in the vicinity. Many are buried alive. The most demoralizing factor is the moment when the engine cuts out. People stare in silence and then fling themselves flat to wait for the explosion. The V1s are being called "doodlebugs" or "buzz bombs" for the drone of their engines.
The USAAF's Eighth Air Force in England flies three missions against targets in France, primarily airfields; two B-17 Flying Fortresses are lost; fighters fly 1,027 sorties during the day and destroy 15 locomotives, train cars, trucks and other vehicles.
Mission 418: 232 of 332 bombers attack targets in FRANCE:
1. Of 174 B-17s, 52 hit Monchy-Breton Airfield, 31 hit a railroad bridge at Noyen, 18 hit Chateaudun Airfield and 18 hit Villiers/L'Eveque Airfield; two B-17s are lost; escort is provided by 43 P-38 Lightnings, 39 P-47 Thunderbolts and 90 P-51 Mustangs; they claim 1-0-0 Luftwaffe aircraft; one P-51 is lost.
2. Of 158 B-24s, 28 hit Laval Airfield, 26 hit Guyancourt/Caudron Airfield, 18 hit Le Mans/Arnage Airfield, 17 hit Bretigny Airfield, 12 hit Brunnelles, one hit Melun Airfield, one hits Dreux, one hits St Valery and one hits a target of opportunity; escort is provided by 87 P-47s and 170 P-51s; they claim 2-0-1 Luftwaffe aircraft in the air and 3-0-0 on the ground.99 P-38s fly fighter-bomber missions against railroad bridges at Corbie and Peronne; four P-38s are lost.
Mission 419: Of 312 B-24s dispatched, 80 hit Angers Airfield, 75 hit Laval Airfield, 55 hit Tours Airfield, 38 hit Essay airstrip, 25 hit Lonray airstrip and one hits LeMans; one B-24 is lost; escort is provided by 122 P-47s and 148 P-51s; a P-51 is lost. 49 P-38s and 39 P-47s, escorted by 47 P-38s, make fighter-bomber attacks on Corbie-Peronne railroad bridges; two P-38s are lost.
Mission 420: Nine B-17s drop leaflets in France during the night.
The USAAF's Ninth Air Force in England dispatches 265 B-26 Marauders to attack fuel dumps, a bridge and a railway line south of the battle area; 1,300+ fighters fly escort and top cover, and strafe and bomb troop concentrations, military vehicles, bridges, gun emplacements, tanks and other tactical targets.FRANCE: Rommel, Rundstedt and Hitler meet at Soissons in the underground bunker built for the Führer in 1940, when he talked of invading Britain. Hitler was pale and haggard; hunched on a stool, he fiddled with his glasses as Rommel said that the struggle was hopeless against Allied superiority in the air, at sea and on land. At least, Rommel argued, they should pull back out of range of the Allies' devastating naval guns. The Führer would have none of it. He blamed the two field marshals for the success of the Allied landings, and dismissed Rommel's complaints that fuel shortages and enemy fighter-bomber attacks ruled out a major German offensive.
They talked from 9am to 4pm, with a lunch of rice and vegetables, which Hitler wolfed down with an array of pills. The Führer promised that the V-1's will force Britain out of the war. There were "masses of jet fighters" on the way to drive the enemy out of the sky. At this point, Hitler was interrupted by Allied planes passing overhead. And then, shortly after von Rundstedt and Rommel departed, Hitler was shaken by a huge explosion. One of his own V1s had misfired and hit the bunker roof.
The US 9th Division reaches the west coast of Normandy.
FINLAND: In the Karelian Isthmus the Finnish troops start their withdrawal to the third line of defence, VKT-line. Their mission is to delay the enemy on their way, in order to gain time to transfer troops from the other parts of the Fenno-Soviet front. The 4th Division (Maj. Gen. Aleksanteri Autti) and 3rd Brigade have already arrived and are attached to Lt. Gen. Taavetti Laatikainen's IV Corps, and the 17th Division (Maj. Gen. Alonzo Sundman) and 20th Brigade (Col. Armas Kemppi) are just disembarking from trains near Viipuri. From Maaselkä Ishmus Maj. Gen. Einar Wihma's 6th Division starts its transfer to Karelia.
However, the aggressively advancing Red Army is not complying with the plans. The Finnish units, lacking the weapons to fight the heavy Soviet tanks, occasionally panic. On the southernmost part of the front, the 10th Division, which was already battered on the first days of the Soviet offensive, and the Cavalry Brigade experience great difficulties, and the enemy breaks through their defences. Finnish 10th Division and Cavalry Brigade receive new commanders. Col. Kai Savonjousi [Col. Kai Savonjousi was the first student of the Military Academy (established in 1919) to receive a divisional command. Another example of a succesful commander who made his career in summer 1944 was commander of the 2nd Division Maj. Gen. Armas-Eino Martola. He became a corps commander in July, and retired a lieutenant general after the war. He war promoted to General of Infantry in retirement in 1982] (one of the resourceful and successful commanders who rose to the occasion) replaces Maj. Gen. Jussi Sihvo as commander of the 10th Division, and Col. Urho Tähtinen replaces Maj. Gen. Lars Melander as commander of the Cavalry Brigade, which at the same time is subordinated to Col. Savonjousi's 10th Division. He managed to infuse the battered units under his command with new spirit, and only few days later it was Col. Savonjousi's men who repelled the first Soviet attempts to advance west after the capture of Viipuri. They start a disorganized retreat, and units of the Armoured Division are sent to reinforce them. On the left flank of the IV Corps the 3rd Brigade and 4th Division are fighting in Summa, the famous battlefield of the Winter War.
One veteran later remembered the impression made by Col. Savonjousi. At the time he was a private in the Infantry Regiment 1 of the 10th Division, a unit that had been in the center of the Soviet assault on the first days of the offensive, and suffered greatly in the retreat accross the Isthmus. Col. Savonjousi arrived to inspect the unit during the days when battles after the loss of Viipuri raged. After walking past the assembled men, he held a speech. As reported by the veteran 38 years later: "From here on we won't retreat, he said, because we can't. On the next line there are our mothers, sisters, children and parents, whole open heart of Finland. Here we die. I have come here to die. We are through with running, my good men. Now it's again time to be a Finnish defender of [one's] country. If someone tries to run, I will myself be there holding him, that's my lot." It impressed the men. "It was no militarist speaking, but a soldier and sensible realist, a sober man, who had been given a mission." After the war Savonjousi had a succesful career, rising to the rank of lieutenant general (a very high rank in a peace-time army where there's only one four-star officer in active service at a time).
To the north, on the southern shore of Lake Ladoga Lt. Gen. Hjalmar Siilasvuo's III Corps has so far been spared the full fury of the Soviet offensive. Now it also starts to withdraw towards the VKT-line. Its 18th Division (Maj. Gen. Paavo Paalu) has been transferred to act as reserve near Viipuri, and it had received Maj. Gen. Armas-Eino Martola's distinguished 2nd Division, which had just repelled three days of Soviet attacks in Siiranmäki. Unlike its neighbour, the III Corps's withdrawal largely goes as planned, though the 2nd Division has to fight fierce delaying actions on its way.
Oberstleutnant Kurt Kuhlmey's Stukas and Fw 190's start arriving at the Immola airfield in southern Finland. The unit has been formed out of units in Lapland and Baltic region, and consists of 32 Stukas and 30 Fw 190 fighter-bombers.
ITALY: The French 9th Colonial Division lands on the island of Elba.
KURILE ISLANDS: 12 B-25s fly three air missions for a Naval Task Force on withdrawal, following the shelling of Kurabu Cape installations on Paramushiru Island.
MARIANAS ISLANDS: After heavy preliminary bombardment by the US Navy yesterday, the US V Amphibious Corps (Marines) has stormed ashore on the Japanese-held island.
With an armada of 535 fighting ships and transports carrying 127,000 US soldiers and marines, the Marianas operation is the biggest amphibious assault of the Pacific War. Coming within two weeks of the Normandy invasion, it highlights the enormous combat resources now available to the Allies.
The marines headed for the beaches of Saipan at 7am on 15 June. They went ashore in a four-mile long phalanx of 600 amphibious craft. Facing them were 32,000 Japanese troops, but by tonight the beach-head was secure and the US forces are consolidating their position. Japanese leaders realize that defeat here is inevitable, but pride compels them to carry on to the bitter end.
Today, the 165th mounted three attacks and reached the edge of the airfield by dusk while the 105th Infantry Regiment and the 27th Infantry Division headquarters came ashore.
IJN aircraft mount several attacks against U.S. shipping in the Marianas:
At about 1750 hours local, five torpedo bombers, Nakajima B5N Navy Type 97 Carrier Attack Bombers, Allied Code Name "Kate," and one night fighter, a Nakajima J1N1-S Navy Type 2 Gekko, Allied Code Name "Irving," from Truk attack landing craft east of Saipan. One infantry landing craft (LCI) is sunk while three "Kates" are shot down by AA fire.
Between 1850 and 1912 hours local, 17 Kugisho D4Y Navy Carrier Bombers Suisei, Allied Code Name "Judy," 31 Mitsubishi A6M Navy Type 0 Carrier Fighters, Allied Code Name "Zeke," and two P1YN Navy Bombers, based on Yap, attack Task Force 52 escort aircraft carriers The carriers scramble 46 FM Wildcats but give them the wrong vector taking them out of the action. AA fire from the ships down several D4Ys and both P1Ys. The escort aircraft carrier USS Fanshaw Bay (CVE-70) is struck by a bomb that penetrates the after elevator and explodes in midair above the hanger deck, killing 14 and wounding 23. Fire breaks out and the fire main is ruptured, flooding several compartments aft. In just under an hour, the damage was brought under control, but the ship is listing 3 degrees to port and settles 6-feet (1.8 m) by the stern.
After controlling the fires, the ship sets sail for Pearl Harbor and battle damage repairs.
Japanese air attacks against U.S. naval ships supporting the invasion of the Marianas Islands commence today. At about 1750 hours, five Nakajima B6N Navy Carrier Attack Bomber Tenzans, Allied Code Name "Jill," and one Nakajima J1N1-S Navy Night Fighter Gekko, Allied Code Name "Irving," based on Truk Atoll attack landing craft east of Saipan; one LCI is destroyed and three B6Ns are shot down. At about 1830 hours, 17 Yokosuka D4Y Navy Carrier Bomber Suiseis, Allied Code Name "Dot," 31 Mitsubishi A6M Navy Type 0 Carrier Fighters, Allied Code Name "Zeke," and two Yokosuka P1Y Navy Bomber Gingas, Allied Code Name "Frances," based on Yap, damage an LST and then begin an attack on the escort aircraft carriers of Task Force 52 between 1850 and 1912 hours. The carriers launch 46 Eastern Aircraft FM Wildcats but they are given an incorrect vector and miss the Japanese aircraft.
Gunners on the ships shoot down several "Dots" and both "Frances'" but a bomb seriously damages USS Fanshaw Bay (CVE-70), At 2115 hours, a US submarine reports that a large force of Japanese ships is headed east toward the Marianas.
The USAAF's Thirteenth Air Force dispatches 41 B-24s to bomb Truk Atoll, hitting targets on Eten and Dublon Islands.
PACIFIC OCEAN: Allied CINCPAC COMMUNIQUÉ NO. 53, United States Marines supported by elements of an Army Infantry division have improved their positions on Saipan Island, and are driving forward toward Aslito airdrome.
Harassment of our beachheads by enemy mortar fire has been considerably reduced.
On the night of June 14 (West Longitude Date) enemy torpedo planes launched an attack against our carrier force, but were repulsed without damage to our ships. Our heavy surface units bombarded Guam Island on June 15.
Liberators of the Eleventh Army Air Force bombed Matsuwa, Paramushiru and Shimushiru on June 14. Five enemy aircraft were airborne near Matsuwa but only one attempted to attack our force, and did no damage. Fourteen enemy fighters appeared over Paramushiru and several made attacks causing damage to one of our planes. One enemy fighter was probably shot down and an enemy medium bomber was damaged. Ventura search planes of Fleet Air Wing Four also bombed Paramushiru and Shimushu on June 14. Fifteen enemy fighters attacked our force, causing minor damage to several of our aircraft.
Shimushiru was again attacked by Eleventh Army Air Force Liberators on June 15.
Army, Navy and Marine aircraft of Central Pacific Air Forces bombed objectives in the Marshall Islands and Eastern Caroline Islands on June 13 and 15 (West Longitude Date.)
United States Marines and Army troops advancing east across the southern portion of Saipan Island, made gains averaging 1500 yards during the night of June 15-16 and on June 16 (West Longitude Date).
The area now held by our forces extends from a point just south of Garapan for a distance of approximately five and one half miles to Agingan and extends inland two miles at the point of deepest penetration. Our forces have captured Hinashisu due east of Lake Susupe.
Our positions were under sustained enemy fire during the night of June 15-16, and before dawn on June 16 the enemy launched a determined counter-attack. This attack, which was broken up, cost the enemy heavily in lives and destroyed more than 25 enemy tanks.
Early in the morning of June 16 our troops launched the offensive which resulted in general advances. Some of our forward echelons penetrated the Naval air base at Aslito Airdrome but were later withdrawn under severe enemy fire.
During the action on June 16 our aircraft bombed and strafed enemy positions, and during the night of June 15-16 enemy strong points were shelled by our ships.
On June 15 one of our destroyer transports encountered five enemy coastal cargo ships and sank them. Twenty-nine survivors were rescued and made prisoners of war.
CINCPAC PRESS RELEASE NO. 448, As the South Pacific has become relatively quiet, Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr., U. S. Navy, has been relieved of command of the South Pacific Area and the South Pacific Force. He will henceforth command the Third Fleet which will operate in the Pacific Ocean in the same way that the Fifth Fleet is operating under command of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, USN. (Denis Peck)
CANADA: Corvette HMCS Cobourg arrived Halifax from builder Midland Ontario.
Patrol vessel HMCS Grizzly paid off.
Corvette HMCS Belleville launched Kingston, Ontario.
U-737 set up an automatic weather station on Bear Island.
Destroyer escort USS Robert F Keller commissioned.
Destroyer escort USS French launched.
ICELAND declares full independence and became a republic.
ATLANTIC OCEAN: U-423 (Type VIIC) is sunk northeast of the Faroes, in position 63.06N, 02.05E, by depth charges from a Norwegian Catalina aircraft (Sqdn. 333/D). 53 dead (all crew lost). (Alex Gordon)
Two crewmembers of U-853 were killed in an attack by aircraft from USS Croatan.
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June 17th, 1945 (SUNDAY)
CHINA: Japanese troops start withdrawing between the Yellow and Yangtze rivers.JAPAN: The US continues to make advances in the Kunishi Ridge area of Okinawa.
Okinawa: Admiral Minoru Ota, the commander of the Japanese naval base, commits suicide.
25 Twentieth Air Force B-29s mine Shimonoseki Strait and waters around Kobe, Japan; 2 others mine alternate targets.
US bombers start a series of raids on civilians, targeting 58 secondary cities.
The USAAF's XXI Bomber Command in the Mariana Islands flies one mining and four incendiary missions against Japan during the night of 17/18 June.
Mission 205: 25 B-29 Superfortresses mine Shimonoseki Strait and waters around Kobe; two others mine alternate targets.
Mission 206: 117 B-29s attack the Kagoshima urban area and one hits an alternate target; 2.15 sq mi (5.57 sq km) are destroyed; one B-29 is lost.
Mission 207: 116 B-29s hit the Omuta urban area and three hit alternate targets; the was the heaviest attack of the four incendiary missions but only 0.217 sq mi (0.56 sq km), 4.1 percent of the city's area, are destroyed.
Mission 208: 130 B-29s hit the Hamamatsu urban area; 2.44 sq mi (6.32 sq km) are destroyed.
Mission 209: 89 B-29s attack the Yokkaichi urban area; 1.23 sq mi (3.19 sq km) are destroyed.
33 P-47s from Ie Shima Island bomb and strafe shipping, the airfield, villages, a bridge and radar and radio facilities on Amami Gunto Island and Tokuno, Japan. During the night of 17/18 June, two P-61 Black Widows from Ie Shima Island fly an unsuccessful (due to weather) intruder strike over Amami Gunto and Kyushu, Japan; this begins a campaign of night and day intruder missions over Kyushu and the Ryukyu Islands by the night fighters (12 more are flown during June).
KURILE ISLANDS: Aircraft of the Eleventh Air Force and Fleet Air Wing Four (FAW-4) fly several missions to the Kurile Islands. Four North American B-25 Mitchells attack ships at Kataoka Naval Base on Shimushu Island while four other B-25s fly an anti-shipping strike between Shimushu and Paramushiru Islands sinking one ship and setting another on fire. Two B-24s attack two ships west of Paramushiru Island and one is shot down. Five B-24s bomb Shimushu Island damaging an ammunition dump while three other B-24s off Shimushu sink and unescorted vessel and slight damage two other vessels.
Two Lockheed PV-2 Harpoons of FAW-4 bomb shipping in Paramushiru Straits using radar and two others bomb Suribachi Air Field on Paramushiru Island.
CANADA: Corvettes HMCS Cobalt and Long Branch paid off Sorel, Province of Quebec.
Corvette HMCS Eyebright paid off and returned to RN at Belfast.
Trawlers HMS Anticosti, Ironbound, Liscomb, Magdalen, Manitoulin and Miscou paid off and returned to RN at Belfast.
Fairmiles HMC ML 060 and ML 064 paid off.
U.S.A.: General of the Army Henry H "Hap" Arnold, Commanding General US Army Air Forces, requests of Lieutenant General Albert C Wedemeyer, Commanding General US Forces in China, that Lieutenant General George E Stratemeyer replace Major General Clare L Chennault as head of USAAF units in China.
Submarine USS Cubera launched.
Destroyer USS Kenneth D Bailey launched.
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I have a subtotal field for a calculated column that I want to hide when my report has not ran yet because on days with no data it shows up as
NaN on the report.
I have tried two methods but neither are working and I am sure it is almost correct. I just don't know what is wrong with the expression.
I tried hiding if my dataset had no rows.
I also tried making a calculation
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I was going to start by saying that Steve comes from an unusual background as a Microsoft researcher but as I travel around the company, and around Microsoft Research (MSR), it's clear that there is no such thing as an unusual background.
Steve's first degree was gained in Computer Science with Electronic Engineering, from University College London, and his Ph.D. is from Cambridge University's Engineering Department in the area of Robotics and Computer Vision. With that hardware oriented background, Steve brings the perfect mix of skills and experience to his role in managing the Sensors and Devices group at MSR Cambridge in the UK.
He's worked for Microsoft for about 8 years and before arriving was Technical Director of the Cambridge Auto-ID Lab where he worked on developing an RFID-based successor to the barcode for tracking goods through supply chains. MSR isn't his first stint at a research lab, having also worked as a Research Engineer at the Olivetti and Oracle Research Lab (which later became AT&T Laboratories Cambridge) where he helped to create the Active Bat ultrasonic indoor location system. He also worked at Xerox Research Centre Europe at Cambridge (formerly known as EuroPARC).
I caught up with Steve on the final morning of CES recently when his voice was hoarse after excitedly showing and talking about KinectFusion for three days straight as well as participating in a panel on Evolving User Interfaces. This wasn't my first encounter with Steve. Several years ago during my time with Microsoft's UK partner team, I visited MSR in Cambridge to film Steve, his team and some of the projects they were working on. The projects included a "Harry Potter clock" and a fascinating one called SenseCam which started as a wearable camera project and turned in to a commercial product known as the ViconRevue that has helped many patients with debilitating memory disorders.
Given his history with research labs it seemed logical then to start by asking Steve why come to Microsoft and what was different about MSR to other labs.
His answer didn't differ much from any other researcher I have asked this question of. Steve explained that at MSR, your ability is limited by your own potential, creativity and enthusiasm. He revels in the fact that you don't need to have someone give you permission to explore an area you may be interested in researching. Sure, if it's not the right thing you'll get the appropriate feedback, but if it's interesting you get a ton of encouragement to explore. That's the beauty of basic research and Steve commented that the remit of MSR is to hire smart people and push forward the state of the art. It makes for a compelling place to work.
Cambridge itself isn't a bad venue either and it's no accident that the UK outpost of Microsoft Research is based here. The collegial nature of MSR blends well with the world famous university that dominates the city. The area has become known as Silicon Fen as it's home to companies such as Cambridge Silicon Radio and ARM. The MSR lab in Cambridge is home to over 130 research staff and Steve's group has around ten members – it fluctuates based on interns and postdocs – with skillsets spanning electronics, optics and mechanics. They all have a common passion for combining software with hardware and it's a good time to be at Microsoft with this combination as we seek to build seamless experiences that span hardware and software.
Despite the blue sky, basic nature of MSR, I'm always interested in the transfer of technology into products and it's something Steve is passionate about too – he encourages his team to think about the impact their work can have beyond the research. His group has a long history of "tech transfer," the phrase used in MSR to describe the journey from lab to product. One example Steve calls upon is the work his team did several years ago that was coined "Mouse 2.0". It looked at novel input devices that combine the standard capabilities of a computer mouse with multi-touch sensing and ultimately resulted in the Microsoft Touch Mouse.
Another project was ThinSight, a forerunner in some ways to Surface 2.0 which was also on display in our CES booth this month. A glance at Steve's personal page on the MSR website shows he's involved in some of the most cutting edge hardware and software research.
KinectFusion is a fine example of that – the work is led by Shahram Izadi in Steve's group and it's testament to the Kinect Effect taking hold inside of Microsoft as well as outside. Steve is noticeably excited about KinectFusion and enthusiastically demonstrated it to anybody that came by our What's Next booth at CES. I got the treatment as did the BBC and many others.
It's clear to me that what most excited Steve and his team is the power of the $150 Kinect sensor that is now in the hands of millions around the world and we're only just beginning to realize is potential.
One other project that Steve is excited about and showed to a handful of CES attendees is .NET Gadgeteer – a rapid prototyping platform for small electronic gadgets and embedded hardware devices. When Dean Kamen came by for a demo of KinectFusion, Steve whipped out a .NET Gadgeteer kitbag and the two were then carried away by their joint passion to get kids involved in science and technology by engaging them in "building stuff". When you see a few hundred dollars' worth of modules laid out and see how quickly they can be combined to make a touch screen camera, it's almost impossible not to start building. For Dean and his work with FIRST, it holds real potential.
Our time was running out so I asked Steve about the CES panel and we talked about our common passion or Natural User Interfaces (NUI). As you may expect at CES, there was a view that NUI will sound the death knell for mice and keyboards and given Steve's background, he's well placed to offer an educated view on this. He disagreed with that notion, arguing as Bill Buxton does that some interfaces are perfect for one thing and awful for another – it's all about using the right tools for the job.
As I switched off my recorder, and we got ready for the last few hours of demos in the booth, Steve finished with perhaps my favorite quote on NUI so far:
The keyboard and mouse are going to become obsolete just like the pencil did.
This profile was written using a keyboard and a Microsoft Touch Mouse


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20-6 Michigan over Iowa.
Originally Posted by cyrocksmypants
CG. No one knows what you're talking about.
Originally Posted by cowgirl836
Ya know...think about this...(BCS scenario)...
I was rooting for Iowa. Because...
Michigan gets one loss. Then, Michigan beats OSU later in the year. ND defeats USC. Louisville takes down West Virginia. Rutgers takes out Louisville. West Virginia kills the Rutgers perfect season.
Only undefeated team? Boise State. And they're not in the BSC top 2.
Total BSC implosion. And through the first 3 quarters of the Iowa-Michigan game, it looked possible. I don't see Michigan losing to Northwestern, Ball State or Indiana.
Rats. It could have been fun.
ISUfan22 that would be wild! I personally though don't want Boise State or any Mid Major in the BCS games... I guess i have a personal grudge....
I want to see a mid-major team play a major powerhouse...not like Utah and Pitt (I think it was Pitt), where Pitt was ranked in the 20s.
Boise State vs. USC...let's see what happens.
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Manute Bols son. Lives down in Kansas City. We might need to start looking at this kid.
Manute Bol's son is now a 6-5 seventh grader
Nobody but HB knows for sure. You pretty much know nothing....like Knownothing would like to say.
Did we go after his nephew?
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Manute Bol lives in KC??? Awesome.
Manute Bol died a few years ago. After the NBA he became a politician in his native country, Sudan.
Originally Posted by DistrictCyclone
Manute Bol lived in KC??? Awesome.
My wife met him at a restaurant a few years back. She said he was one of the nicest guys she had ever met. I believe he did a lot of charitable stuff in Africa too.
As a side note, she said he could put his palms flat on the floor as he was sitting in a chair at the restaurant.
Personally, I'm wondering if we've kept in touch with Cato's son, Xavier..
Go Cyclones!
Peter Jok is somehow related to bol and luol deng. Not sure how. Manutes aunts were lime 6'8 and 6'9. There whole tribe in sudan averaged over 7 feet and that included the women
Originally Posted by Aclone
Personally, I'm wondering if we've kept in touch with Cato's son, Xavier..
How old is he?
Originally Posted by BuffettClone
How old is he?
I think early to mid teens. Not going to go closer than that here.
Manute could knock down the threes. His son would fit right in CFH's system.
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Originally Posted by whirlybirds
Manute Bol died a few years ago. After the NBA he became a politician in his native country, Sudan.
While he dealt with a number of politicians trying to do things for the people of Sudan, he really wasn't a politician. He literally gave his life trying to help his war-torn country's people to a better life. He moved to KC after his NBA career because of the large Sudanese immigrant settlement there. Des Moines also has a settlement, and he did a lot raising support in Iowa as well. He used all the money he made in the NBA for projects in his home country. On one visit he contracted a disease that he needed to get back to the U.S. for treatment, but delayed leaving to ensure a project was getting done. As a result he couldn't overcome the disease and died from it. This was a very great man. I'd be proud to have his son as a Cyclone, even if it was "just" for an education.
"One of the top 5 prospects of the 2018 class"
7th grade class rankings seem creepy to me.
Originally Posted by Knownothing
Manute Bols son. Lives down in Kansas City. We might need to start looking at this kid.
Manute Bol's son is now a 6-5 seventh grader
Manute Bol's nephew is also named Bol Bol, he is one of my employees, as he is working PT while going to school. He isn't playing basketball, however, an absolute great guy. I have met Manute's Bol Bol, huge kid,
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Keira slams dog show OscarsKeira Knightley has hit out at the Oscars - comparing them to a fancy "dog show".
The stunning actress - who was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in 'Pride and Prejudice' - says she hates the way celebrities' outfits and jewellery are scrutinised at the star-studded event, rather than their acting ability.
Keira - who looked at over 100 frocks before selecting a merlot-coloured Vera Wang gown to wear to the event last month - stormed to Britain's You magazine: "It's a bit like being in a dog show.
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Do you have an employment contract stating that you can only be terminated for cause?
Ok. Two issues here.
The fact that you may be having an extra martial affair does not really fit the definition of "hostile work environment." The Supreme Court gives us the definition of that, which requires severe harassment based on a person's race, religion, gender, age, disability or FMLA use. So, if you were having an affair AND demanding that all women in the office also engage in sexual relations with you, then we'd be talking about a hostile work environment.
That being said, without an employment contract you are an "at will" employee. That means that, legally speaking, they don't need a good reason to fire you or request your resignation. So, to address just your question "can they ask me to resign?" yes they can, but it really has nothing to do with whether or not you may be having an extra-marital affair. It has more to do with that fact that they can ask you to resign anytime they want.
All that said, don't resign. Make them fire you so that you get unemployment. An extra-marital affair outside of the office is not considered misconduct sufficient to block your unemployment.
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It may have been the best December for the Indian equity market in terms of fundraising, but for the investment banking fraternity, 2012 didnt really end on a high. Bonuses were next to nothing as deals were far and few between.
According to investment bankers, the payouts at the end of 2012 were marginal, considering that the year did not see many mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and only a handful of initial public offers (IPOs), which offer thin margins due to tough competition.
Further, while the government has been able to tap the market with a couple of successful stake sales, the deals do not net any commission to the bankers as the fees are near-zero.
Even if someone got, say, around 8-10% of their CTC as bonus, he should consider himself lucky, said a banker with a foreign entity. There were hardly any notable deals this year and, so, income was subdued. The only saving grace was the large number of blocks that got us a decent amount of commissions, he said.
Interestingly, 2011 had seen investment bankers pocketing a large share of their income through block trades. The year 2012 saw some foreign institutional investors (FIIs) and private equity players making exits from banking stocks through block trades.
Meanwhile, 2012 saw only 11 companies hitting the capital market with IPOs, out of which two were withdrawn. Bharti Infratel and the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) were the two large issues of the year, but the sheer number of bankers involved in each of the offer ensured that any single banker did not pocket a huge fee.
It is not that there is no bonus payout. But, it is nothing when compared to the period between 2006 and 2009, said another banker wishing not to be named.
The business is getting overcrowded, fees are dropping and there is cut-throat competition in the market. Work has increased two-fold, while fees have halved. It is like putting 4x the effort, he added.
Market players add that investment banks backed by broking firms and non-banking financial corporations (NBFCs) may not give better incentives to employees as some of the key business verticals had a tough time throughout the year. Also deal-related losses could impact the quantum of bonuses.
Bonuses purely depend on the performance of the institution, team and an individual. Bonuses will vary across different companies and countries. While Indian banking entities are expecting better payouts this year, the