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Lyrics: Charles Wesley
Music: Robert Williams
Hail the day that sees Him rise, Alleluia!
To His throne above the skies, Alleluia!
Christ, awhile to mortals given, Alleluia!
Reascends His native heaven, Alleluia!
There the glorious triumph waits, Alleluia!
Lift your heads, eternal gates, Alleluia!
Christ hath conquered death and sin, Alleluia!
Take the King of glory in, Alleluia!
Circled round with angel powers, Alleluia!
Their triumphant Lord, and ours, Alleluia!
Conqueror over death and sin, Alleluia!
"Take the King of glory in! Alleluia!"
Him though highest Heav'n receives, Alleluia!
Still He loves the earth He leaves, Alleluia!
Though returning to His throne, Alleluia!
Still He calls mankind His own, Alleluia!
See! He lifts His hands above, Alleluia!
See! He shows the prints of love, Alleluia!
Hark! His gracious lips bestow, Alleluia!
Blessings on His church below, Alleluia!
Still for us His death He pleads, Alleluia!
Prevalent He intercedes, Alleluia!
Near Himself prepares our place, Alleluia!
Harbinger of human race, Alleluia!
Master, (will we ever say), Alleluia!
Taken from our head to day, Alleluia!
See Thy faithful servants, see, Alleluia!
Ever gazing up to Thee, Alleluia!
Grant, though parted from our sight, Alleluia!
Far above yon azure height, Alleluia!
Grant our hearts may thither rise, Alleluia!
Seeking Thee beyond the skies, Alleluia!
Ever upward let us move, Alleluia!
Wafted on the wings of love, Alleluia!
Looking when our Lord shall come, Alleluia!
Longing, gasping after home, Alleluia!
There we shall with Thee remain, Alleluia!
Partners of Thy endless reign, Alleluia!
There Thy face unclouded see, Alleluia!
Find our heaven of heavens in Thee, Alleluia!
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Is Going Gray for You? 5 Ways to Tell
By Lois Joy Johnson, May 28, 2014 05:53 PM
Every woman age 50-plus who colors her hair is thinking about going gray. Maybe it's all the parade of steely icons like Jamie Lee Curtis, Helen Mirren, Christine Lagarde and Glenn Close. Maybe it's those annoying online slideshows of fabulous mature women gone gray. Either way, they're seriously psyching us up. But let's get real. The former are rich, famous and polished to perfection by beauty pros and designer duds. The latter are either black-and-white photos (with Photoshop help), creative "ex-model-y" types (with amazing style) or gray gone gorgeous (with great plastic surgery). Gray does work for some of us, but not all. Ask yourself these five questions:
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IS YOUR SHADE OF GRAY OK? Plenty of women go gray, then look (and feel) older or washed out. Colorist Brad Johns of the Brad Johns Color Studio at Samuel Shriqui Salon NYC says: "Gray either brightens your face or looks deadly. It depends on your skin tone and your shade of gray. Brilliant white, glossy platinum or shiny silver hair is pure genetic luck. It helps if your skin has warm golden undertones or is a rich color. When gray grows in dull, ashy or muddy, it needs help, especially if your complexion is ruddy, sallow or very pale. Throw in a few highlights to keep things authentic, but gain the essential color boost."
IS YOUR HAIR THINNING? Johns says, "Chemical color physically fattens your hair and builds up each strand. This is where hair color can be a real ally. Highlights alone can even boost texture and create a multitone effect so thin graying hair looks thicker."
CAN YOU TOUGH OUT A YEAR OF TRANSITION? Skip a month or two of color and use a washout, brush-on root touch-up like Color Wow Root Cover Up ($27, qvc.com). It'll be shocking at first. Then ease the contrast and grow out by adding lowlights (for dark gray roots/lighter dyed hair) or highlights (for white or light gray roots/darker hair) using the touch-up powder as needed. Think about going shorter. A tousled, layered bob or Judi Dench crop speeds things up.
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For more beauty and style tips for women 50-plus, check The Wardrobe Wakeup, Your Guide to Looking Fabulous at Any Age by Lois Joy Johnson ($15.22,amazon.com).
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Betty White's Secret to a Long Life? Vodka and Hot Dogs
Hollywood's 'Golden Girl' dishes in on the recipe to living a happy and long life.
Considered to have the longest running television career, by a female, of more than 75 years, Betty White reveals the tips and key ingredients to a longer lasting life.
"Enjoy life," the Golden Girl said in an interview with Parade on Friday (January 5). "Accentuate the positive, not the negative. It sounds so trite, but a lot of people will pick out something to complain about, rather than say, 'Hey, that was great!' It's not hard to find great stuff if you look."
However, when it came to the edible things that keep her golden glow, White says she vodka and hot dogs are the way to go.
"Probably in that order," the 95-year-old said.
White, who turns 96 on January 17, continued explaining how she has manages to thrive and live her best life for more than nine decades, emphasizing her trait of being an optimist has helped her get to where she is now.
"I know it sounds corny, but I try to see the funny side and the upside, not the downside. I get bored with people who complain about this or that. It's such a waste of time."


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Dear Kalena…
I just read your article on SEM careers at Pandia and I have a strong feeling that you probably are the right person that I can air my career-question to.
I am Raj from Hyderabad, India and I am an engineering graduate. I worked as a Software Developer and am planning to shift my career to SEM/SEO. I have been reading as many article as I possibly could on SEO/SEM but unable to get that first break. Could you please answer the following questions for me?
1. Is it possible for a newbie on SEM/SEO to work remotely (from home)?
2. Where does a newbie make a beginning and how?
Hi Raj
There's no reason why you can't start a successful career in SEO and/or SEM working from home. As you've already read my "11 Reasons" article, you'll know the benefits of gaining employment in the search industry.
If you need SEO / SEM training, there are plenty of options available these days, (including *cough* Search Engine College *cough*) but you should also start practising on your own sites and others as soon as possible. Hands-on experience is essential to competency in the field.
Once you feel confident with your newly acquired skills, offer to SEO sites pro-bono or for very little compensation, to help expand your experience. Charity or Not-For-Profit sites often need SEO services but don't have the budget to hire experts.
Monitor industry job sites such as our SEM Jobs Board and join sites like Elance to bid for projects to gain freelance SEM work. If there is an appropriate opportunity in your location, offer to be an unpaid intern for a SEM agency for a month. The knowledge you will gain will be invaluable. Likewise, you could offer to do some voluntary freelance SEO or SEM work online from home for an agency you respect that is not necessarily in your region.
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AUDIO PREVIEW: Guitar king Joe Bonamassa promises 'two hours of blues rock fun' at Sheffield Arena
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His popularity is exploding all over the globe as the blues rock singer-songwriter is becoming widely revered by critics and fans alike as the new guitar king.
AUDIO: Listen to Joe Bonamassa chat with Graham Walker about his forthcoming April 2017 UK tour - CLICK HERE.
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Hide AdBUY TICKETS: Tickets to see him at Sheffield Arena on Monday, April 24 are £57.75 to £84, including fees. Buy in person, call 0114 256 5656 or visit www.sheffieldarena.co.ukIt's not just how lightning fast his fingers fly effortlessly around the fretboard, which is truly jaw-dropping.
Beyond the technical skills and his incredible guitar virtuosity, his performances are full of passion and feeling. Bonamassa is the real deal.
And UK audiences will get the chance to see the magic for themselves when he embarks on a UK tour - full dates below.
In an exclusive interview - listen to it here - he reveals what fans old and new can expect, talks about his collection of 300 guitars and which one he would want with him on a desert island.
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Hide AdHe also tells how he started playing guitar aged four and how listening to British blues rock legends inspired him to do what he is doing today. But it was as a 12 year old, supporting late great blues legend BB King, that changed his life and made him realise his dream.
Joe, who tuns 40 in May, was born in New York and now lives in LA. He is as self-effacing as they come. Asked outright if he is the greatest guitarist of all time, he said: "No, no, no. I'm sometimes not even the greatest guitar player in the room."
To be fair, he is probably thinking about the night he was starstuck when his idol Eric Clapton joined him on stage to perform alongside him at London's Royal Albert Hall in 2009.
Joe added: "It's subjective. I've always said the best rock guitar player in the world would have to be Jeff Beck, who is able to reinvent himself time and time again to play blues, rock and forward thinking music
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"I performed for BB King when I was only 12. He took an interest in a kid playing blues and the rest is history. He was the king of the blues and is sorely missed. It changed my life."
He admits he is not sentimental about memorabilia - he hasn't kept his first guitar, But he does have a collection of 300 guitars and is always looking to add to it. So don't be surprised to see him browsing UK guitar shops.
His name has also sold thousands of Gibson Les Paul Joe Bonamassa signature guitars.
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If he was stuck on a desert island - with electricity - which guitar would he take with him?
He laughed: "If I was on a desert island with no electricity I think my guitar playing days would be pretty much over
"I would probably take a Fender Stratocaster because I can do anything with that. Oh and a couple of extra sets of strings."
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He said: "It will be two hours of blues rock fun."
"People in the UK have been very supportive of me. It all started in the UK and I've been very lucky that people have been following me for over a decade now like this."
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Figure 5.5 KnowledgeWorks Class Browser
The Class Browser is obtained by choosing Window > KnowledgeWorks > Classes . It is the same as the LispWorks Class Browser except that
Figure 5.6 Inspecting instances from the Class Browser
This raises an Inspector tool with a list of all the instances.
Figure 5.7 KnowledgeWorks Instances Inspector
Any of the instances displayed in the lower pane may itself be inspected by double-clicking on it.
Other options available in the Class Browser include:
Additionally the Classes menu contains a Browse Metaclass command which browses the class of this class.
Further details can be found in the LispWorks IDE User Guide .
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USGS Assessment Significantly Increases Afghanistan Petroleum Resource Base
The USGS and the Government of Afghanistan Ministry of Mines and Industry have completed the first-ever assessment of Afghanistan´s undiscovered petroleum resources and have determined that the resource base is significantly greater than previously understood. The assessment was conducted over the past two years, with funding provided by the U.S. Trade and Development Agency.
The estimates increase the oil resources by 18 times and more than triple the natural gas resources.
Undiscovered petroleum resources in the assessed region of northern Afghanistan range from 3.581 to 36.462 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of natural gas, with a mean of 15.687 TCF. Estimates of oil range from 0.391 to 3.559 billion barrels (BBO), with a mean of 1.596 BB0. Estimates for natural gas liquids range from 126 to 1,325 million barrels (MMB) with a mean of 562 MMB.
When presented with the resource assessment results, Afghanistan President Karzai commented, I am delighted that the work of the survey of Afghanistan´s mineral and underground resources is proceeding well, and that some very positive findings about our petroleum resources are being reported. Knowing more about our country´s petroleum resources will enable us to take steps to develop our energy potential which is crucial for our country´s growth. I thank the United States, the U.S. Geological Survey and their Afghan counterparts in supporting this survey, which I believe is a significant undertaking.
The country currently imports most of its energy, including electricity. The petroleum resource assessment provides Afghanistan with information needed for conducting future lease sales and is likely to be of interest to oil and gas exploration companies.
Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton commented, As President Bush´s recent trip to Afghanistan demonstrates, the United States highly values its relationship with the Afghan people. We are pleased to be able to assist their government in evaluating Afghanistan´s petroleum resources. By working jointly, we are helping Afghanistan lay the foundation for better understanding and managing their nation´s natural resources.
Much of the petroleum resource potential of Afghanistan and all of the known crude oil and natural gas reserves are in northern Afghanistan, located in parts of two geologic basins the Amu Darya Basin to the west and the Afghan-Tajik Basin to the east. Most of the undiscovered crude oil is in the Afghan-Tajik Basin, and most of the undiscovered natural gas is in the Amu Darya Basin.
The assessment follows the widely-accepted, standard USGS methodology and protocol. It is based on the geologic elements of a total petroleum system and data from detailed studies of geochemistry, petroleum geology, geophysics, and tectonics combined with historical exploration and production analyses were used to aid in the estimation of the number and sizes of undiscovered petroleum accumulations. The total area assessed is approximately 86,000 sq km.
Afghanistan is a land-locked country, bordering Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan to the north, Iran to the west and Pakistan to the east and south.
Results of the assessment can be found at: http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2006/3031/
For updates of this work, check http://energy.usgs.gov/
The USGS serves the nation by providing reliable scientific information to describe and understand the Earth; minimize loss of life and property from natural disasters; manage water, biological, energy, and mineral resources; and enhance and protect our quality of life.
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Part I
Can you believe it's the last weekend in 2007? This year has flown by and it seems like just yesterday I was celebrating my 1-year anniversary of starting 28 Cooks last January. As I mentioned in my last post, I've had so much to be thankful for this year.
There's nothing I love more than entertaining guests. I've always said that if I were to write a cookbook, I'd do an entertaining one full of recipes that would be perfect for serving at cocktail or tapas parties. I thought I'd take a look back at the year and highlight some of my favorite appetizer and nibbly recipes. Stop back by tomorrow for Part II!
*This is also part of the Best of 2007 round-up hosted by One Hot Stove. Be sure to visit the website for the official round-up and see the best of the food blogging world!
January's best nibblies were definitely the glazed nut trio. Although the Lemon Pepper Cashews were my favorite, the Chili Chai Walnuts and the Jasmine Tea and Ginger Glazed Almonds were right up there.
Lemon and Green Tea Granola was my favorite recipe of February. I love homemade granola, especially since I can control how much fat and sweetener I add to the recipe. This one is quick, easy, and tasty to boot! And although it isn't a recipe, this was the month of the "Behind the Apron" round-up which was a great opportunity to see the chefs behind some great food blogs.
A great recipe for entertaining are the Baked Potato and Cauliflower "Samosas" with Tamarind Mint Chutney. You can make a large batch of these ahead of time, freeze them, and then cook as needed for entertaining. The chutney is also fantastic, either served with these samosas or with anything else.
I love recipes that can be used a million different ways, like this Green Chile and Coconut Chutney. It's great served with tortilla chips and would probably make an excellent topper for a few other things. Another great snack food is the Micro-popcorn. I was so enchanted when I discovered that you can make popcorn this way. Although I think it's best with hot sauce, it's fantastic with almost any seasoning you throw in the bag.
What started out as a challenge ended in a fantastic recipe. The Plantain and Queso Fresco Puff Pastry Spirals would be perfect to serve at a cocktail party and aren't your normal pig-in-a-blanket. The roasted tomatillo and parsley cream is great served with the spirals, but is absolutely fantastic by itself. It's a great dip for chips or spread on a sandwich or wrap.
I'm in love with this Basil Habanero Pesto. I love all things spicy and all things pesto, so the combination of the two is perfect. Although it's not for the faint of heart, it's delicious if you're a lover of spicy foods. Another great nibbly to serve at your next party would be the Warm Cannellini Bean Bruschetta. It's full of flavor and has a great fresh taste. It's guaranteed to be a hit!
Tomorrow I'll be ringing in the New Year at a sushi making party. Although none of us have actually made sushi before, we're all fairly confident in our cooking abilities and are hoping it all comes out well. I'll let you know how it goes. If you are so inclined, leave me a comment with how you'll be spending the holiday.
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The Classic Fox 40 Safety Whistle is the original and still the standard choice for rescue professionals. Sometimes you have to be heard to be rescued.- The 3-chamber pealess design has no moving parts to freeze, jam or deteriorate.
- Easy to blow and cannot be overblown. The harder you blow, the louder the sound.
- Chambers are designed to self-clear when submerged in water.
- Sound will be heard up to a mile away.
- A whistle is vital for signalling above the sound of surf and whitewater.
- Remember, in most on-the-water situations a sounding device like a whistle is required by the Coast Guard.
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"The world has changed. You can too" – World Wildlife Foundation commercial.
I love this brilliant commercial. It highlights how drastically our society has changed in just 50 years. What was once considered the "norm" is now incomprehensible and even repulsive to our present day society.
It prompts one to imagine what the same video might look like 50 years from now. Will we look back on our present over-consuming lifestyles and feel shame? Or will we reminisce on the old days where we treated our planet so well?
The future is anything but certain.
Change in our society comes from either internal forces where social pressures change peoples' behaviour, or from external events where change is forced upon the society.
An example of an internally-driven change is smoking. Where smoking was once the "cool" thing to do, it has now been marginalized in North America and most people now consider smoking to be negative behaviour. Smoking has been banned in most public places in North America and lighting up during pregnancy has been unacceptable in our society for some time, where once it was considered normal.
Becoming educated about the harm that our actions cause is one of the main driving forces to this type of internal societal change, and it took several decades for smoking to become marginalized as it has now become.
Externally-driven changes are forced upon our society by factors beyond our control. Natural disasters and wars are examples of these types of change, as is the rising prices of oil that results from oil becoming more scarce. People will be forced to find ways to consume less oil as the price of oil rises.
In our present day society, I am somewhat marginalized by some acquaintances who think everything is okay with our current way of living. But given our history, this will most likely change when people realize the true extent of the damage precipitated by our current way of living.
We can all contribute to educating each other about the harmful effects of our actions and work together as a society to search for pragmatic solutions to these issues.
The bicycle is but one such pragmatic solution to many issues that we face in our present-day society. The bicycle is a healthy, fun way to transport ourselves while minimizing our impact.
The billboard hijacking that I wrote about last month is a great example of promoting an ideal that is drastically different from the status quo.
What looks odd now will perhaps seem normal 50 years from now (or so I hope).
Billboard hijacking photos by Dr. Paul Martin and Mike Rubbo / Situp-Cycle.com
You have a choice to either be one of the driving forces to create positive change, or you can react to external factors that force change upon you. The choice is yours.
The world has changed. And so can you.
James D. Schwartz is the editor of The Urban Country. You can contact James at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Related Articles:
- Barriers to Cycling: Debunking the Myths (Nov 2009)
- You're Welcome Mr. Motorist (Jan 2011)
- Enough Excuses: Cars Cause Death (Dec 2010)
- Billboard Hijacking To Promote Urban Bicycling (March 2011)
- Bicycle Culture Sells Condos (March 2011)


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[Memoryze] Find Evil in Live Memory (Memory Forensic Software)
Mandiant's Memoryze is free memory forensic software that
helps incident responders find evil in live memory. Memoryze can
acquire and/or analyze memory images, and on live systems, can include
the paging file in its analysis.
Mandiant's Memoryze features:
- image the full range of system memory (not reliant on API calls).
- image a process' entire address space to disk. This includes a process' loaded DLLs, EXEs, heaps and stacks.
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- enumerate all running processes (including those hidden by rootkits). For each process, Memoryze can:
- report all open handles in a process (for example, all files, registry keys, etc.).
- list the virtual address space of a given process including:
- displaying all loaded DLLs.
- displaying all allocated portions of the heap and execution stack.
- list all network sockets that the process has open, including any hidden by rootkits.
- specify the functions imported by the EXE and DLLs.
- specify the functions exported by the EXE and DLLs.
- hash the EXE and DLLs in the process address space (MD5, SHA1, SHA256. This is disk based.)
- hash the EXE and DLLs in the process address space. (This is a MemD5 of the binary in memory).
- verify the digital signatures of the EXE and DLLs. (This is disk based.)
- output all strings in memory on a per process basis.
- identify all drivers loaded in memory, including those hidden by rootkits. For each driver, Memoryze can:
- specify the functions the driver imports.
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- hash the driver. (MD5, SHA1, SHA256. this is disk based.)
- verify the digital signature of the driver (This is disk based.)
- output all strings in memory on a per driver base.
- report device and driver layering, which can be used to intercept network packets, keystrokes and file activity.
- identify all loaded kernel modules by walking a linked list.
- identify hooks (often used by rootkits) in the System Call Table, the Interrupt Descriptor Tables (IDTs) and driver function tables (IRP tables).
Mandiant's Memoryze can perform all these functions on live
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Donald Trump fan Dr Bond's timeline is full of potent Islamophobia, and he also attended Britain First's recent Dewsbury march, filming a video when he returned home, in which he claimed they were not a racist, far right group.
In his own shocking words, on an repetitive eleven-minute video rant, he claimed that Britain First are "not racist", but are a "loyalist movement to protect Queen and country. Racism has no bearing whatsoever.....", he repeated, boasting that his father is "the world's most devout Hindu", making a big show that he "has an English accent", before going onto rant that "genuine asylum seekers make up a very tiny number of the migrants coming forward". He talked about how he shook hands with BF leader Paul Golding and Jayda Fransen, bizarrely claiming that "Mahatma Gandhi would have been proud of Britain First", defaming Muslim anti-racist campaigners in Dewsbury, calling them a disgrace". He accused Muslims of "changing laws and culture", and tried to create division between Asian faith groups by distancing Hindus and Sikhs from Muslims
He also boasted on this video that he was responsible for a CRE enquiry into racism at Sheffield University, as if this made him immune from censure, and free to discriminate at his own free will, no matter how illegal this is.
Shockingly, when challenged on Twitter, Dr Bond insisted he wholeheartedly agreed with Britain First's policy of banning Islam from the UK: -
This is absolutely disgraceful, and both the GMC and the Sheffield Star should dispense with his services. Also, he needs to be reported to the necessary trade bodies for his illegal discrimination.
In the following video, he claims that 10 to 15% of Muslims are radicals, and defends Donald Trump's Muslim ban.
He also chats with an Islamophobic, EDL supporter, agreeing with Islamophobic content.
Last but not least, he regularly posts racist videos to his YouTube and Twitter account, including Islamophobic and anti-refugee material, some of which are as follows, behaviour totally and absolutely unbecoming of a registered practising doctor: -
One of these videos, is a white supremacist rant chillingly entitled "DEPORT ALL MUSLIMS....."
Please everybody, report Dr James Bond to the General Medical Council and the Sheffield Star.
Keep medicine free from racial and religious hatred. Report and share widely.....


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A down-to-earth story of the way in which the German thrust at the Bulge was halted
August 1957
Few of the Americans in Paris at Christmas time, 1944, were at all alarmed over the sudden German breakthrough. The French, who are pessimists from experience, were scared and thought the Bodies were coming back, but Americans are never pessimists and they never seem to have had any experience. The SHAEF public relations division called off its Christmas party in a bored gesture toward the biggest and most disastrous battle of the war on the Western Front. There was a curfew on because the Army was trying to catch the German parachutists in American uniforms who were thought to have infiltrated Paris in a plot to capture General Elsenhower; on account of the curlew you had to have a pass to be out after eight o'clock, so for once there were hardly any Americans in Hie night dubs. (1 know beta use my friends and 1 had passes.)
None of us knew then that less than a week earlier the Germans had been out in die open with practically nothing between them and Liege, which was the nerve (enter of the whole western defense at that point. This Belgian city, everyone thought, was the objective of the great German lunge, directed, we believed, by Gerd von Rundstedt. As it turned out alter the war, von Rundstedt had no faith in the plan and was sulking in his tent: the operational commander was Kield Afarshal Walter Afodel; the real objective was not Liége but the River Meuse and the great cities of Antwerp and Brussels. Whatever the final objective, however, the Germans had broken into the open, with a clear field before them.
What stopped them was nothing but a few handfuls ol boys in soldier suits who had never up to that time fired a shot at (he enemy. They were engineers, antiaircraft, and things of that sort—strictly rear echelon —and there were squads and platoons of them where there ought to have been divisions and corps. Of course they blossomed out later with Silver Stars and Distinguished Service Grosses, which seemed to surprise and embarrass them no end. Perhaps heroes arc always like that before the varnish is dry.
As war correspondent for a monthly magazine Ï met some of them after the SHAKK powers decided it was safe to let females get out of Paris and up with the First Army, a month after the Bulge battle started. Ky this time they were back at their old jobs, working sawmills and building roads around Malmcdy and Spn, and they were billeted in fussy Kelgian houses with big flowers all over the wallpaper and all over the bathroom fixtures, which were invariably out of order.
They had been working sawmills and building roads early on December 17, when they were ordered to drop what they were doing and go out and stop the German Army.
The order was so startling that they figured at first it was probably "a dry run," and they were half hoping it would be, half hoping it wouldn't. They had had no training since basic, and that worried them. Of course they had no tanks, no artillery, no mortars, even. They had hardly anything, in fact, except mines and ba/ookas and what Colonel Pergrin called psychology.
Lieutenant Colonel David E. Pergrin commanded the agist Engineer Hattalion, which later received a unit diution "lui action in and around Afalmcdy, December iy-aO, KJU." He was round-laced and wore glasses and looked like a youthful assistant professor. I drove around the ruins of Malmcdy with him in Uic dirty snow, and we visited Hic Trois Ponts crossroad a mile and a hall cast of town from which the fro/en bodies of 145, Americans, murdered by the SS on December 17, had been removed the day before 1 got there.
He said a company and a half of the at) ist had been running its sawmill near Malmcdy the morning of (he seventeenth, when a lieutenant who had been U]) Hie road brought back word that the Germans had broken through the ()()Ui Division at lîutgenbach. At almost the same moment they heard it from headquarters.
Colonel Pergrin ordered his men out to the east edge of town, where they tied little yellow packages of dynamite around some tree trunks which they felled across the road and set out some mines. This was known as a road block. With the road block in order, a sergeant and a private drove their jeep out a few miles, parked it, and looked over a hill. They counted 68 enemy vehicles coming toward them, yo of them tanks, before they concluded that enough was enough and got back to Malmcdy.
That was when everything in town started leaving —hospitals, ordnance units, all the rear-echelon odds and ends—in what would never be described as a panic-stricken (light because our side was engaged in it. At noontime the ?th Armored Division showed up and the %()ist felt much rosier, but the tank commander said: "Sorry, we're ordered to St. Vith," and they pulled out again. There was a replacement depot with $00 men in Malmcdy, and Colonel Pergrin tried to borrow some of them to put on his road blocks, but they too had business elsewhere.
About two thirty in the afternoon, alter everyone else had gone, he drove out himself to take a look-see eastwards. He had left his jeep and was walking along the high ground, trying to find a way to look over the Trois Ponts intersection, when he heard "an awful lot of noise" in the valley, and there ran and stumbled lour American soldiers, screaming. They were running away from the massacre of the 115 which had just taken place at the crossroad.
The 291st stuck in Malmcdy eight days and, as it turned out, nothing much happened except that they were bombed three days in succession by the American Air Force. The Germans kept throwing feelers at the road blocks in the shape of motorcycle and Volkswagen patrols and a couple of fairly stiff inlantry attacks, but the main pan/er lone bypassed Malmédy, having evidently concluded that the place was strongly defended. After a couple of days it was The 30th Division took over, and its CO greeted Pergrin with: " What! Do you mean to say you've been sitting here with only 185 men? Why the hell didn't you beat it?"
I asked Colonel Pergrin the same question, and that was when he said he guessed it was psychology. "What do you mean, psychology?" I pursued. It seemed that combat outfits moving up to the front had had a habit of yelling at the road-builders as they passed them: "You engineer so-and-sos! Why don't you come on up there and fight?"
All through the first two days of the battle this Malmédy pattern kept repeating itself along the route of both panzer columns. The vanguard of the column that bypassed Malincdy went on to a place called Stavelot, where 25 more men of the stjist were sitting on another road block. They had just finished laying a "hasty minefield," that is, scattering mines on top of the road, when three German tanks nosed along through the dark, which came in that weather about 4:30 P.M. The first tank was hailed by a boy named Goldstein from Brooklyn, who yelled "Halt!" because he thought it might be an American tank. It then ran over a mine and blew its treads off, which confused the oilier two tanks so that they turned around and went back. Goldstein and another private named Liparolla took after them in a jeep to see where they'd gone; they found out, and Liparolla was killed and Goldstein wounded. After thinking it over all night the tanks came back at Stavelot in the morning, but by that time some armored infantry was waiting for them.
The seemingly timid behavior of the panzers was due to their orders, which were to bypass opposition wherever encountered and keep on going, going, going toward the Meuse. But there was always opposition or the seeming of it. There were people like a Lieutenant Yeats of the 5ist Engineer Battalion, who had five trucks; and all one night he ran them up a hill with the lights showing and downhill again blacked out, so that they looked like a big convoy moving up. .And it was thanks to the 1581)1 Engineer Battalion that there ever was a siege of Bastogne and that General McAuliffe had a chance to say "Nuts!"
The southern prong of the panzers was approaching Bastogne on the morning of the seventeenth, when the ioist Airborne Infantry, which made that city immortal and vice versa, was still far away at a rest camp near Rheims. A movie called Saratoga Trunk, with Ingrid Bergman and Gary Cooper, was showing at the rest camp—I saw it myself in Rheims a couple ol nights later—and when Gary came up behind Ingrid and jnit his arms around her while she was blushing her hair or at some such point, the lights were turned on and an officer said: "You men are on your way."
Meanwhile, Lieutenant Colonel Sam Tabets, with Ii Company of the 1581!! Engineers, was ordered to chop down trees and lay mines and keep those tanks out of Bastogne until someone ol importance could get there. One of Sam's boys was a mild-appearing red-headed farm youth from Centerville, Iowa, who received the Silver Star for knocking out a German machine gun singlehanded; he had also attempted to stand off five tanks with a bazooka but it wouldn't go off. When I saw him his comment on all this was: "I never was much of a fellow to fight."
I gathered that the rest of them weren't either. On the night of December 18, B Company of the 1581!! was sitting on top of a road block, peering tensely into the dark, when the first German tank came rumbling and clanking along. It encountered Private Bernard Michin of Providence, Rhode Island, standing like a stone wall with a ba/ooka, a weapon which he had never fired in his life. No more had the rest of them. I he World War II ba/ooka, which looked like a sawed-off length of stovepipe and shot a weird projectile like a miniature V-a, was supposed to be good against tanks up to 150 yards, but Michin waited until his tank was only ten yards away before he fired. He wasn't trying to be a hero; he simply didn't want to hit an American tank by mistake.
The character of the ba/ooka, its violence and unpredictability, stood out impressively. Sometimes it didn't go off at all; sometimes it worked both ways. Michin had forgotten to put on the dark glasses which were supposed to protect the ba/ooka-man's eyes from the flash, and the tremendous explosion which finished the tank also seared his eyes so that he rolled into the ditch, temporarily blinded. It was eight hours before he regained his sight. I met him a month later in Huy, which was battalion headquarters by that time, and he was summoned in to meet me by a proud commanding officer and told his story for probably the fortieth time. Most of the others were still excited over their recent adventures and were reminiscent and fairly talkative, but Michin was a tall, sallow, spindly youth of the introverted or why-don't-they-let-me-alone type. A general had pinned the Distinguished Service Cross on him a day or two before, and you could see that between generals and women reporters he was sick of the whole hero business.
He couldn't remember how long he had lain in the ditch in great pain from his burned eyes. But Germany infantry were riding in with the tanks, and alter a while a German machine gun was firing toward him.
"I got kincla nervous," he said. So he threw a hand grenade, guided only by the sound, and knocked out the machine gun and killed most of the crew.
What worried all these green soldiers the most was the danger of killing another American, a danger much more solid and awful to them than death at the hands of the Germans. The fighting those first few days of the Bulge battle was total confusion, what with fog and early darkness, no communications, Germans infiltrating everywhere—including those notso-mythical parachutists—and nobody knowing where his own or anybody else's lines were. All this was rather prettily described in the SHAEF communiqués as "a fluid situation." To us correspondents back in Paris the situation was being expounded daily in the briefing room at the Scribe Hotel, witli the aid of a wall map and a briefing officer. Afterward we went downstairs to the bar and drank champagne until lunch time and bellyached because the bar didn't serve whisky.
The particular road block of the 1581!! which was defended by Private Michin and others was commanded by Lieutenant William O. Cotlmin, who, when he heard tanks moving through the pre-dawn darkness of December 18—and knowing that American tanks were also moving through that fog—stepped tip to the first one and got a good look to assure himself that it was a German Tiger. Then he called back to his men: "These are Germans." Someone said in English: "Yes, ve are supermen," and fired. Cochran. no superman but a quiet, bespectacled student from Carnegie Tech, filed back at the Hash and killed two ol them. This was the same tank that Michin knocked out a few seconds later. He had heard Cochran say it was German, but he wanted to be sure for himself.
This pan/er column, the southern one, was to have occupied Bastogne and then to have moved on tip to the main highway, to a junction with the northern column and so on to the Meuse. Hut because of multiplied incidents like the nervousness of Trivate Michin. it bent around Bastogne when it could have rolled on in. This was December 18, remember. At g r.M. on the nineteenth the ioist Airborne arrived to take up the defense of Bastogne which made history, and Lieu tenant Colonel Sam Tabets' iRo bovs on the road block were relieved by two battalions of paratroopers and an engineer company, or some 1,700 men. Sam said his boys were not very pleased about it. They wanted to go on stalking tanks with bazookas.
The Germans wanted certain broad highways, but these little units delayed them just enough. Their southern column hesitated at Bastogne, which straddled the red line on the map that was the ArlonBastogne-Liége highway. Their main northern column never reached the highway. Even in Paris we heard how the nose of it rested four or five days at a place called Habiemont, just east of the vital red line; and in due course it was cut off and liquidated by our ground and air forces—the fog having lifted by that time.
But we were never told in Paris how the column came to grief because of three privates and a necklace mine.
These particular tanks belonged to the same SS panzer division which had reached the gates of MaImédy on December 17. They were splitting and fingering off, as their custom was, but on the night of December 18 part of them again fell afoul of the 29ist Engineer Battalion, which was stretched out over sixteen miles. In other words the agist was, at this point, manning another road block at Werbomont, which was just beyond Habiemont and commanded the crucial highway. And Pfc. John Rondenell and two companions were out in front of the road block with a necklace mine, which was a chain of five or six mines fastened together.
So at 10 P.M. when they heard tanks coming, Private Rondenell pulled his string of mines across the road and blew up the first tank. And this destruction of the lead vehicle of the enemy column—but now I quote from the citation bestowed on the 29 ist- "marked the definite stopping of the enemy advance on axis Bullingen-Waimes-Malmédy-Stavelot-La Gleize Stoumont-Chevron-Werbomont, later learned to be the route designated for the First SS Panzer Corps."
I wanted to meet Rondenell, but he was no longer with the outfit by the time I got there; he was in the hospital. After they went back to road-building a section of Bailey bridge fell on him.
Following the night of December 18 the Allied Command recovered its poise, and from then on we had divisions where before there were only battalions and noncombat ones at that. The rollback started, and from there on the story is familiar. At the moment of the breakthrough the First Division was at Verviers, resting, its first time out of the lines since D-day. And it called off its Christmas dance but sent out the invitations to the "Belgique mademoiselles" anyway, with "Rain Check" stamped across the face. It moved up onto the north shoulder of the breakthrough gap at Waimes. The night of the eighteenth when First Army Headquarters was packing up to retreat out of Spa and was pretty gloomy—so a Ga officer there told me—First Division Ga called up and reported as follows: "We're here, we're set, all we want is four dozen sets of maps, and tomorrow we'll start teaching those SS bastards the lesson of their lives."
Anyone who remembers the First Division and its sense of destiny will realize that, in its own opinion, its arrival at the front marked the turning point of the war.
After that the sides of the thrust held firm, though the center kept pushing forward, and the fog lifted and the Air Corps got to work. On Christmas day some tanks barely reached the Meuse, but they were the last tongue of a spent lava flow. Why did the Germans miss their great opportunity? If they had known, even guessed, how little was out in front, no amount of psychology could have stopped them.
Stories floated around First Army Headquarters about the first two days and the small units who played Horatio at the bridge or the little boy with his finger in the dike. An ordnance detachment was repairing some tanks at Aywaille (pronounced EyeWally in American) far behind the lines, and when the Germans showed up the repairmen got into the tanks and drove out to meet them. Some antiaircraft batteries were borrowed from the gth Air Defense Command and tossed out to stem the oncoming tide. One of these batteries had not quite finished getting its go-millimeter gun into position beside a road when the first German tank appeared around a bend 300 yards away. One has often thought in reading about courage that it is a failure of the ordinary reflexes of the animal kingdom and the substitution of a much fancier set; these boys simply forgot to run away. Instead they sweated madly to finish setting up their gun, and by the time they saw the whites of that tank's eyes they were ready to fire.
I didn't have time to track down all the stories, but I caught up after a fashion with Battery C of the 143rd Antiaircraft Battalion and learned of the adventure of Privates Roland Seamon and Albert Darrago, which more than all the rest, it seems to me, illustrates the peculiar deadliness of innocence, even in war. Seamon was a tall, husky mountain boy from Shinnston, West Virginia; Darrago, his buddy, was from Maryland; and all they had done in the war up to now was to shiver in their gun pits near Liege and stare up at the empty sky, just in case. They had scarcely even seen an enemy aircraft, much less a real live kraut, except prisoners.
The night of the eighteenth and nineteenth, their battery was getting set up between La Gleize and Stoumont, under whistling small-arms fire, in the dark. All night they listened to the roar of motors and movement of vehicles going by on the road and learned to identify the German ones by the sound. It was foggy and cold and so intensely dark that when a German vehicle hit a mine and burned fiercely, it made only a dull glow through the fog.
There was a square brick house held by Americans at the crossroads, and in the early morning an infantry lieutenant came over to the AA gun pit and asked for volunteers to knock out a tank with bazookas. He said it was just sitting there, up the road. Neither Seamon nor Darrago had ever touched a bazooka, but they said they'd try. Upon reaching the house they were mildly surprised to find it full of infantrymen. Possibly the lieutenant had thought his own men were not expendable.
After showing them how the bazookas worked and explaining that it was no good to shoot at a Tiger except through the rear, he urged them to "go get the bastard." They crawled off across a field, rifle and machine gun fire whistling and zipping all around them, looked through a hole in a hedge, and saw sitting there not one, but four, of the finest, fattest German tanks ever seen, two of them Tigers.
The two boy scouts held a whispered consultation and decided not to go back for help for what struck me at the time as a nice reason—they were afraid the tanks might get away. They each picked one of the mediums, whose broad rear ends were toward them, poked the bazooka snouts through the hedge, and fired. There was a satisfying double explosion, or as Seamon said, "the biggest goddam noise I ever heard in my life," and both rear ends burst into flames. The boys crawled back across the field, under fire from several sources including the two Tigers, found the lieutenant in his nice, solid brick house and reported. His response had certain classic overtones. In effect it was: "Go back and tell those tanks they can't intimidate me." He directed them to go back and put in one more shot apiece to make sure of the kill.
With marked lack of enthusiasm but still obedient to orders, they again crawled across the field where they looked through the hedge and put two more rockets into the blazing tanks. They then crossed the field for the fourth time under fire from both sides and the rear, making the return without accident except that Seamon ripped his pants on some barbed wire.
Seamon and Darrago were awarded Distinguished Service Crosses. I have often wondered what the lieutenant got. He ought to have been a full colonel by V-E Day.


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By Tony Hope
Science and morality are often seen as poles apart. Doesn't science deal with facts, and morality with, well, opinions? Isn't science about empirical evidence, and morality about philosophy? In my view this is wrong. Science and morality are neighbours. Both are rational enterprises. Both require a combination of conceptual analysis, and empirical evidence. Many, perhaps most moral disagreements hinge on disagreements over evidence and facts, rather than disagreements over moral principle.
Consider the recent child euthanasia law in Belgium that allows a child to be killed – as a mercy killing – if: (a) the child has a serious and incurable condition with death expected to occur within a brief period; (b) the child is experiencing constant and unbearable suffering; (c) the child requests the euthanasia and has the capacity of discernment – the capacity to understand what he or she is requesting; and, (d) the parents agree to the child's request for euthanasia. The law excludes children with psychiatric disorders. No one other than the child can make the request.
Is this law immoral? Thought experiments can be useful in testing moral principles. These are like the carefully controlled experiments that have been so useful in science. A lorry driver is trapped in the cab. The lorry is on fire. The driver is on the verge of being burned to death. His life cannot be saved. You are standing by. You have a gun and are an excellent shot and know where to shoot to kill instantaneously. The bullet will be able to penetrate the cab window. The driver begs you to shoot him to avoid a horribly painful death.
Would it be right to carry out the mercy killing? Setting aside legal considerations, I believe that it would be. It seems wrong to allow the driver to suffer horribly for the sake of preserving a moral ideal against killing.
Thought experiments are often criticised for being unrealistic. But this can be a strength. The point of the experiment is to test a principle, and the ways in which it is unrealistic can help identify the factual aspects that are morally relevant. If you and I agree that it would be right to kill the lorry driver then any disagreement over the Belgian law cannot be because of a fundamental disagreement over mercy killing. It is likely to be a disagreement over empirical facts or about how facts integrate with moral principles.
There is a lot of discussion of the Belgian law on the internet. Most of it against. What are the arguments?
Some allow rhetoric to ride roughshod over reason. Take this, for example: "I'm sure the Belgian parliament would agree that minors should not have access to alcohol, should not have access to pornography, should not have access to tobacco, but yet minors for some reason they feel should have access to three grams of phenobarbitone in their veins – it just doesn't make sense."
But alcohol, pornography and tobacco are all considered to be against the best interests of children. There is, however, a very significant reason for the 'three grams of phenobarbitone': it prevents unnecessary suffering for a dying child. There may be good arguments against euthanasia but using unexamined and poor analogies is just sloppy thinking.
I have more sympathy for personal experience. A mother of two terminally ill daughters wrote in the Catholic Herald: "Through all of their suffering and pain the girls continued to love life and to make the most of it…. I would have done anything out of love for them, but I would never have considered euthanasia."
But this moving anecdote is no argument against the Belgian law. Indeed, under that law the mother's refusal of euthanasia would be decisive. It is one thing for a parent to say that I do not believe that euthanasia is in my child's best interests; it is quite another to say that any parent who thinks euthanasia is in their child's best interests must be wrong.
To understand a moral position it is useful to state the moral principles and the empirical assumptions on which it is based. So I will state mine.
Moral Principles
- A mercy killing can be in a person's best interests.
- A person's competent wishes should have very great weight in what is done to her.
- Parents' views as to what it right for their children should normally be given significant moral weight.
- Mercy killing, in the situation where a person is suffering and faces a short life anyway, and where the person is requesting it, can be the right thing to do.
Empirical assumptions
- There are some situations in which children with a terminal illness suffer so much that it is in their interests to be dead.
- There are some situations in which the child's suffering cannot be sufficiently alleviated short of keeping the child permanently unconscious.
- A law can be formulated with sufficient safeguards to prevent euthansia from being carried out in situations when it is not justified.
This last empirical claim is the most difficult to assess. Opponents of child euthanasia may believe such safeguards are not possible: that it is better not to risk sliding down the slippery slope. But the 'slippery slope argument' is morally problematic: it is an argument against doing the right thing on some occasions (carrying out a mercy killing when that is right) because of the danger of doing the wrong thing on other occasions (carrying out a killing when that is wrong). I prefer to focus on safeguards against slipping. But empirical evidence could lead me to change my views on child euthanasia. My guess is that for many people who are against the new Belgian law, it is the fear of the slippery slope that is ultimately crucial. Much moral disagreement, when carefully considered, comes down to disagreement over facts. Scientific evidence is a key component of moral argument.
Tony Hope is Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Oxford and the author of Medical Ethics: A Very Short Introduction.
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The Seattle Seahawks finally won a road playoff game Sunday, taking a 24-14 NFC wild-card victory over the Washington Redskins, who lost Robert Griffin III to another knee injury in the fourth quarter.
Marshawn Lynch ran for 131 yards, and Russell Wilson completed 15 of 26 passes for 187 yards and ran eight times for 67 yards for the Seahawks, who broke an eight-game postseason losing streak away from home.
Seattle will visit the top-seeded Atlanta Falcons next Sunday.
Lynch's 27-yard run with 7:08 remaining gave the Seahawks (12-5) the lead. On Washington's next series, Griffin reinjured the right knee he sprained about a month ago while trying to field a bad shotgun snap.
The knee buckled badly, and the Seahawks recovered the fumble and kicked an insurance field goal.
Kirk Cousins replaced Griffin, but Washington (10-7) was unable to come back.
RG3 three two 4-yard touchdown passes in his first career playoff game to give the Redskins a 14-0 lead before the Seahawks closed to 14-13 through three quarters.
Griffin capped the Redskins' only two drives of the first quarter against the NFL's top-rated scoring defense with short tosses to running back Evan Royster and tight end Logan Paulsen.
The Seahawks allowed 15.3 points per game this season and the 14-point deficit was their largest of the season.
The second quarter belonged to Seattle, with Wilson throwing a 4-yard TD pass to running back Michael Robinson and Steve Hauschka kicking a pair of field goals.
Hauschka's 32-yard field goal 2:55 into the second quarter made in 14-3 and his second kick, a 29-yarder as the half expired, pulled the Seahawks with a point.
The right-footed Hauschska was playing with a left ankle injury and limped off the field to the locker room.
Seattle maintained its offensive efficiency starting the third quarter, driving 69 yards to the Redskins 1, but Lynch fumbled and Washington's Jarvis Jenkins recovered.
After forcing a Redskins punt, Wilson moved the Seahawks to the Washington 28, but overthrew Doug Baldwin in the end zone. Wilson was sacked on the next play, moving the ball back to the 37. With Hauschka limited, Seattle punted.
Griffin was 10 of 17 for 84 yards, but after the first quarter he threw for only 16 yards plus an interception. The Redskins quarterback also ran three times for 12 yards.
On the Redskins' second drive of the game, the Redskins' sensational rookie quarterback fell awkwardly while backpedaling on a pass and came up limping. But he stayed in the game. He sprained his right knee in Week 14 and sported a brace for the third straight game.
Lynch rushed 14 times for 79 yards in the first half, including 41 on the drive which ended with his fumble. In the second quarter, he scooped up a Wilson fumble and raced for 19 yards, leading to the Seahawks touchdown.
Rookie Alfred Morris, the league's second-leading rusher, had 72 yards — 34 of them on four carries during Washington's opening drive that resulted in the TD pass to Royster.
Paulsen's touchdown catch finished off an 11-play, 54-yard drive in 5:58.
Washington's offense slowed in the second quarter with two drives resulting in a punt and an interception by Seattle Pro Bowl safety Earl Thomas.
Seattle was moving the ball in the first quarter, but a promising drive ended when the Redskins' Stephen Bowen and London Fletcher combined to sack Wilson on third-and-2. It was one of two sacks for the Redskins in the quarter.
The playoff meeting between the two teams was the third, but first outside Seattle. The Seahawks won 20-10 in January 2006, and 35-14 in January 2008. Those were the last two postseason games played by the Redskins, who entered the playoffs on an NFC-best seven-game winning streak.
Seattle came into the playoffs with a five-game winning streak, outscoring opponents 193-60. But they were 3-5 on the road and had lost eight straight road playoff games. Their only road playoff win came in their first postseason road game, Dec. 31, 1983, at Miami.
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UAE nationals accounted for 25.6 percent of total guests in the reference period – one million guests – with March seeing a thumping 112 percent growth in the Emirati hotel guests as compared to the same month last year. Dubai proved to be the preferred destination for Emiratis, followed by Abu Dhabi, Ras Al Khaimah, Fujairah then Sharjah.
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Yesterday was finally the big day where TenkaraUSA officially announced the new rods on their blog and made them available for sale.
Early last week I was also able to get my sticky greedy little fingers on both of them and I was honestly wow'ed by what I was pulling out of the standard green fiberglass TenkaraUSA rod tube. The first thing I thought was that they look and feel 'Japanese' - light and slim - a departure from TenkaraUSA's 'solid' design of rods.
While I haven't had a chance to fish either of them yet, I didn't want to hold back posting about my initial impressions.
This little rod is a triple zoom going from 270/8'10" to 297/9'9" to 320/10'6" and is designed for small, overgrown streams where you can fish it short when you things get tight and extend it when the stream opens up. It only weighs 2.1oz/59.5g and measures 21"/53.3cm when closed.
This is the 'bigger' sister of the Rhodo and it will appeal to the Tenkara Angler that looks for an 'all-round' rod that can handle most situations. If you were fishing with a 11' or 12' Iwana but wanted also a 13' Iwana, this is the one rod for you. Just like the Rhodo, this is also a triple zoom rood and can be fished at 330/10'8", 360/11'10" and 390/12'9". It weighs 2.6oz/73.7g and measures 22.75"/57.8cm when closed.
Other than the above, the rods have identical features:
'Keep your Plug' system (patent pending):
When you go fishing next time, instead of stowing the top plug in a pocket or fishing west (or lose it), you can store it in an indentation of the bottom plug. Why did not anybody else think of that before? The rods come with a spare plug, so you can leave one at home in case you should ever lose the other.
top plug safely stored in the bottom |
The wooden plug comes pre-drilled with a hole and a length of spare lilian threaded through it. If you opt not to store the plug in the bottom, you can attach it through the loop to a carabiner, vest or pack. And you have some spare lilian, just in case.
dark red finish with wooden top plug, pre-drilled and with spare lilian |
long enough lilian to add a knot yourself if you need one |
Bottom Plug:
A departure from previous TenkaraUSA rods is that the plug is now made of what looks like plastic to me instead of metal. The material choice is probably due to the 'Keep your Plug" system and to reduce weight. There is no drainage hole.
Finish & Blank:
The finish is a glossy black with dark red bands at the top of the sections, gold lettering/logo and winding check. The zoom sections are also labeled so that you can easily identify how far the rod is extended. The blank is made from higher modulus carbon to reduce blank diameter and weight. As a comparison, the Rhodo's diameter above the handle is 0.375" while the Sato's is 0.44". The Iwana 12' is 0.51" and the Iwana 11' is 0.44".
this shows how much thinner the blanks are from left to right: Ebisu, Rhodo, Iwana 11', Iwana 12', Rhodo, Ito |
The handle on both is of good quality cork (Rhodo 9", Sato 10.5" ) that is similar in shape to it's "older sister", the Iwana, but more pronounced (less hip and more top and bottom - I am trying hard not to do an inappropriate analogy here...).
the handles of the Rhodo and Sato have more "curvature".... from left to right: Ebisu, Rhodo, Iwana 11', Iwana 12', Sato, Ito |
Action & Feel:
TenkaraUSA decided not to label the rods with the commonly used 5:5, 6:4 or 7:3 action but if I had to categorize them, I would say they are a 'high' 5:5 to a moderate 6:4. That being said, they have a nice crisp action that promises accurate casting. I expect that the rods will perform best with a no. 2.5 level line to a no. 3.5 level line, depending on the line length.
Both rods sell for $215.
As mentioned, those rods look and feel unlike anything TenkaraUSA has released previously. The blanks are thinner, the rods are lighter and they feel very light in the hand, regardless whether in the shortest or longest configuration (in which the Sato just barely feels a bit top heavy but nothing like the Ito, TenkaraUSA's first zoom rod).
Since I haven't been able to fish with the rods yet, I recommend to also check out the rod's reviews on TenkaraTalk , Teton Tenkara and Discover Tenkara who were already able to put them in action.
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with TenkaraUSA nor did I receive any compensation to review the Sato or the Rhodo. Daniel of TenkaraUSA was kind enough to send me those two rods ahead of the official release date.


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July 14: Luxury Aesthetics has launched the non-invasive lifting and skin-tightening, anti-ageing treatment – Ultherapy, in Delhi; renowned actress, model, and Miss India International 2021 Ms. Zoya Afroz, graced the event and did the inauguration.
Ultherapy is the only non-surgical procedure US FDA cleared to lift skin on the neck, under the chin, and on the brow, specifically to improve the appearance of lines and wrinkles on the decollete. Ultherapy can help patients to achieve a fresher, more youthful look from the brow to the chest.
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An infection is due to harmful germs (bacteria, fungi, or viruses) in the baby's body. Infections can begin before, during, or after birth. All babies have immune systems that are still developing. This system's job is to fight germs. A newborn's immune system may not be ready to fight an infection. Premature babies are at an even higher risk of infection than full-term babies. This is because babies get antibodies (infection-fighting substances) from the birth parent when they are in the uterus. Preemies don't receive several weeks of antibodies since they are born early.
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Rinse. Let the water run down your fingertips, not up your wrists.