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Ayden: I'd borrow the family jet and take her to Paris.
Blake: Bring me back some ribs!
Ayden: Not Texas! Paris, France. We'd get there early so I could take her on a shopping spree on the Faubourg Saint-Honoré which houses designers like Versace, Hermes, Chanel, Christian Doir, and Yves Saint Laurent. She'd get all decked out in some of her new clothes and we'd take a luxurious boat ride on the Seine River. Afterwards we'd head up to the top of the Eiffle Tower and enjoy a romantic dinner at Le Jules Verne. We'd stay up all night exploring the City of Lights, have a delicious breakfast in a quaint cafe then hit the best chocolatiers in town to stock up for the ride home.
Ayden: You're really milking that dark, brooding thing.
For seventeen-year-old Aurora Lahey, survival is a lifestyle.
DEMONIC DESTINY. Aurora has the crappiest superpower on the planet. And it's just unleashed a hit squad from hell. Demons are on the hunt, salivating to carve her carcass into confetti.
CHARISMATIC KILLERS. The Hex Boys—mysterious, hunky, and notorious for their trails of destruction—have the answers Aurora needs to survive. But their overload of deadly secrets and suspicious motives makes trusting them a potentially fatal move.
LETHAL ALLIES. The battle to save her family, herself, and stop demonic domination may cost Aurora everything worth living for, and force her to reveal her own dark secrets. But no worries. She needs the Hex Boys to pull this off, and, chances are, teaming up with these guys will get her killed anyway.
Available in ebook for $2.99 at Amazon and Barnes and Noble, and $10.99 for the paperback at Amazon. And check it out on Goodreads.


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Temperatures could subsequently cool down if carbon dioxide is somehow removed from the air later in the century, the document notes. But that prospect is questionable at the massive scales that would be required, it observes.
The 31-page draft, a summary of a much-anticipated report on the 1.5 degrees Celsius target expected to be finalized in October, was published by the website ClimateHome on Tuesday, which said the document had been "publicly available on the US federal register over the past month." Last month, several news outlets including Reuters quoted from the draft but did not publish it in full.
The 1.5 C target is crucial to small island nations worried about rising seas, and other nations particularly vulnerable to warming, and was explicitly included in the Paris climate agreement as the more ambitious of two climate goals, the other being 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).
The draft document states that there is a "very high risk" of the planet warming more than 1.5 degrees above the temperature seen in the mid- to late 19th century. Maintaining the planet's temperature entirely below that level throughout the present century, without even briefly exceeding it, is likely to be "already out of reach," it finds.
Jonathan Lynn, spokesman for the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is producing the study, cautioned that the draft is a work in progress.
"The text is highly likely to change between this draft and the final approved summary for policymakers," he said.
Duke University climate expert Drew Shindell, who is listed as one of the drafting authors of the document, also noted that the draft summary was a very early version of the full report.
"It's much rougher and much more preliminary than even the underlying document," he said.
Although worrying, the conclusion will not be surprising to those who have followed a growing body of research on just what it would take to stop warming short of 1.5 degrees Celsius. The planet has already warmed by 1 degree Celsius or more.
In some places, the report notes, the temperature increase has already exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius. In general, warming is more intense over land than over the oceans and is already particularly intense in the Arctic.
The document finds that a warming of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) would pose substantially larger risks in many respects than 1.5 degrees C — but it also finds that some severe risks will be present at 1.5 degrees, too.
A serious risk is already emerging to highly sensitive marine ecosystems, such as coral reefs, the document states, and 1.5 C may already be too much for them. Reefs "are at risk that at 1.5 C and at 2C they will no longer be dominated by corals," the draft report notes.
The chance that Greenland or the West Antarctic ice sheet will tip toward irreversible retreat is present at both 1.5C and 2C, the study finds — but at 2C, the likelihood of commitment to major sea level rise grows larger.
What's most striking is the radical nature and rapidity of the changes that would be required to somehow preserve a world below 1.5 degrees.
The document finds that the world has only 12 to 16 years worth of greenhouse gas emissions left, from the start of 2016, if it wants a better than even chance of holding warming below 1.5 degrees.
Two of those years have already elapsed, as of this writing. A third will have nearly elapsed by the time the draft report is finalized and released in October. (In December in Poland, it will feed into a broader United Nations deliberation about the adequacy of countries current promises to cut emissions.)
And once this "carbon budget" for 1.5 degrees Celsius is used up, emissions would have to plunge to zero to preserve the 1.5 degree goal — something that would almost certainly never happen, as it would sharply impair the world economy.
Since such rapid and severe cuts aren't likely, the report notes that it's virtually unavoidable that the planet will "overshoot" 1.5 degrees Celsius. To cool the Earth down afterward and avoid staying at dangerously high temperatures for long, it would then be necessary to remove carbon dioxide from the air at a massive scale — but that, too, is highly problematic.
Carbon removal scenarios generally involve reforesting large amounts of land, or growing trees or other plants on that land and using it for energy, and storing the resulting carbon dioxide emissions underground. But "increased biomass production and use has the potential to increase pressure on land and water resources, food production, biodiversity, and to affect air quality," the draft notes. "Therefore, the scale and speed of implementation assumed in some 1.5C pathways may be challenging."
"Avoiding a 1.5C warming would be very, very difficult without a significant overshoot," said Princeton University climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer, noting that he was commenting solely on the state of the science itself, rather than the leaked document. "Such a warming would cause increased bleaching and perhaps destruction of living coral reefs at some locations although at other places, reefs would probably survive a warming closer to 2C."
"Some of the high level messages I think come as no surprise, in that we are not on track anywhere near towards 1.5 C, and getting there would require enormous changes," added Shindell, noting that he was not speaking as an author of the draft report or on behalf of the IPCC, but simply as a scientist with expertise in the matter. "That basic conclusion, I think it's OK to say that it's not a surprise to anybody. Any climate scientist would have told you that even without the report."
The document's leak has become a standard affair for major United Nations climate science reports, because they are seen by so many reviewers.
In 2013, a leaked draft of part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's fifth assessment report helped lend credence to the questionable idea that global warming had slowed down or "paused," based on a brief passage suggesting that the rate of warming had declined somewhat between 1998 and 2012. The final draft addressed the issue with more nuance, largely undermining the notion of any significant slowdown.
The authors have until May 15 to include any new published material in the report. Still, it's unlikely to change the fundamental conclusion that there is too little time to avert 1.5 C degrees of warming — barring some massive technological intervention.
"There is ... no documented precedent for the geographical and economic scale of the energy, land, urban and industrial transitions implicit in pathways consistent with a 1.5C warmer world," the draft report notes.

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Welcome to Living Safer magazine, the consumer's guide to all things safety.
Living Safer magazine is your guide to all things safety. From nutrition, health and wellness to home, family and day-to-day living, our magazine is dedicated to providing a wealth of useful tips, information and in-depth features to ensure you live your best life.


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After graduating with a business and economics degree from California Western University in California, Lee Carroll started a technical audio business in San Diego that flourished for 30 years.
As an award winning audio engineer, where does channelling and Indigo children fit into all this? As Lee tells it, Spirit had to hit him "between the eyes" to prove his spiritual experience was real. The year 1989 was the turning point when finally came together, after some years earlier a psychic told him about his spiritual path and then three years later the second unrelated psychic told him the same thing! Both spoke of Kryon… a name that almost nobody had ever heard.
Timidly, the first writings were presented to the metaphysical community in Del Mar, California, and the rest is history – with a total of sixteen metaphysical books being released in a twelve-year span. There are now almost one million Kryon and Indigo books in print in over twenty eight languages worldwide. Lee continues to visit other countries regularly – see it here.
Lee and his spiritual partner, Jan Tober, started the "Kryon light groups" in Del Mar in 1991 and quickly moved from a living-room setting, to a Del Mar church. The Kryon organization now hosts meetings all over the globe with audiences of up to 3,000 people. In the beginnings of the Internet, Kryon had the largest consistent New Age folder in the history of America Online. Now, you are looking at the Kryon web site with a multitude of interesting pages and a registry of over 20,000 visits a day to the audio page alone. This audio page is a FREE PAGE where you can listen or download hundreds of free MP3 audio of past and current channellings.
In 1995, Lee was asked to present Kryon at the United Nations (U.N.) in New York City before a U.N.- chartered group known as the Society for Enlightenment and Transformation (S.E.A.T.). The meeting was so well accepted that they were invited back six more times, in 1996, 1998 then in 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2009. These meetings are held upstairs in the working areas of the UN building, not far from the General Assembly. Only delegates to the UN and guests of the society may attend.
Lee is the author of fourteen Kryon books, and co-author of The Indigo Children, An Indigo Celebration, The Indigo Children Ten Years Later. (17 books total). These Indigo books introduced the world to the term "Indigo Children" in 2000, spawning many follow-up books by various authors, a movie, a documentary, and lots of interest worldwide regarding our changing kids! The Indigo books have sold almost half a million copies world-wide in the twenty four languages listed above.
But wait, there's more! :-)
Check out the four (4) KRYON companion books by author Monika Muranyi, HERE.
These subject-driven books feature KRYON channelling with explanations, and Q&A with KRYON!
UPDATE: July 2012:
During a trip to McCaysville, Georgia, at Delphi Metaphysical University, Lee was surprised with an honorary doctorate degree of Science, Trans personal Psychology, & Metaphysics! The award indicated: "For his extraordinary contributions of love, wisdom, and spiritual understanding."
UPDATE: Watkins:
The prestigious WATKINS "Mind, Body, Spirit" magazine from the UK, has listed Lee Carroll as one of the "100 most spiritually influential living people" in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018. You can see the others in that group HERE.
Lee continues to write and travel from his home in San Diego, California.
Website: www.kryon.com Kryon Audio Channellings: www.kryon.com/k_freeaudio.html


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Rebecca Black, Kreayshawn + More Audition to Be Reality Show Judges
News of Jennifer Lopez's potential departure from 'American Idol' may have inspired the latest Funny or Die clip, 'U Be Da Judge,' in which reality show judges pick a new singing competition judge.
Hosted by Judge Dredd, 'U Be Da Judge' pits Kreayshawn, Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell and a clumsy Warren G against one another in an effort to become a judge on a singing competition show. They're going meta!
The judges — who are judging the contestants' ability to be judges (are you following this?) — explain that in order to be a reality show judge, you need to be one of three types: "The mean one, the pushover or the Randy Jackson."
Perry Farrell appeals to the panel as being the rock n' roll voice. "You always need a rocker judge," he offers. "I could do what Steven Tyler's doing." Farrell then launches into Tyler's signature vocal histrionics, but doesn't impress them. Kreayshawn (who looks a lot better with black and pink long hair than the blonde and black mess she sported until recently) tells the panel, "I'll show you how good of a judge I am." She does this by, well, judging the judges. Warren G's buzzer-slamming skills were moving enough to earn him a pass to next round.
Debbie Gibson's audition was by the far the most brief (and pretty hilarious), and she was followed by Natalie Imbruglia, a former judge for Australia's 'X Factor'. "If you want to be a reality show music judge, you have to be able to dispense vague, parting wisdom to contestants." It's a much trickier skill than you'd think.
Serj Tankian of System of a Down was next, and he waxed philosophically instead of doing what most presumed he was there for, and was followed by Rogerwaters (not to be confused with Roger Waters) dismissing a whole slew of others in rapid succession. Rebecca Black was the next to get a pass, as she "knows a lot about judgment" following her release of the most viral and worst song ever. Who were the finalists picked for the panel? Watch below and chuckle!
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David Letterman gave a heartfelt tribute to Robin Williams Monday.
"The Late Show" did not tape any new episodes in the days after the 63-year-old actor committed suicide, so Letterman assembled a touching 10-minute package that featured memorable clips from Williams' appearances on the program. The host also said he'd been friends with the "Birdcage" star for 38 years.
"Many things come to mind in a situation like this, and of course, more questions are raised than can possibly be answered," Letterman said. He then recalled meeting Williams at The Comedy Store in L.A., saying, "In those days, we were working for free drinks--some were working for more free drinks than others. What you would do is you would go on stage, you would do your little skits, and you would come off stage. And if there was a new guy coming on, you'd want to stick around and make fun of the new guy, because we were all worried that somebody else was coming in who was really funny."
PHOTOS: Comedians who died too young
From the get-go, Williams was a force of nature. "They introduced Robin Williams, and for some reason in the beginning he was introduced as being from Scotland. They said he was Scottish. So now we're stumped...All of a sudden he comes up on stage and you know what it is. It's like nothing we had ever seen before--nothing we had ever imagined before. We go home at night and are writing our little jokes about stuff, and this guy comes in and we're like morning dew--this guy's like a hurricane. And now, the longer he's on stage, the worse we feel about ourselves. Because it's not stopping!" Letterman recalled. "He finishes and I thought, 'Oh, that's it, they're gonna have to put an end to show business because what can happen after this?' We get to see this night after night after night and we didn't approach him because we were afraid of him. Honest to God, you thought, 'Holy cap, there goes my chance at show business because of this guy from Scotland!'" Not long after, Williams booked a role on "Happy Days".
Williams was given a spinoff, "Mork &Mindy," and went on to become a major movie star. It wasn't until later that Letterman got to know the captivating comic. "He was always so gracious, and we would talk about the old times, and never did he act like, 'Oh, I knew you guys were scared because I was so good.' It was just pleasure to know the guy," Letterman, 67, recalled. "He was a gentleman and delightful."
Letterman interviewed Williams more than 50 times. "People were drawn to him because of this electricity, this whatever it was that he radiated that propelled him and powered him," he recalled.
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PHOTOS: Stars we've lost in 2014
The host then introduced Williams' highlight reel.
"Beyond being a very talented man and a good friend and a gentleman, I am sorry I--like everybody else--had no idea that the man was in pain and that the man was suffering," he said. "What a guy."
If you or someone you know needs help, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).


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VMware will offer virtual desktop services for Google's Chromebooks, allowing them to run Windows applications on the pared-down laptops based on the Chrome OS.
Organizations could save as much as $5,000 per computer by using a combination of Chromebooks and VMware managed services, Google has estimated.
VMware desktop virtualization could also provide organizations an easy way to migrate from Windows XP, which Microsoft will stop supporting in April.
"Many customers want to take advantage of thin client computing but want a bridge back to the old world where they can run Windows applications," said Sanjay Poonen, VMware executive vice president and general manager of end user computing.
VMware customers using version 5.3 of Horizon View can already run virtual desktops and applications on Google Chromebooks. The pending VMware service, however, may be appealing in that organizations will not have to manage back-end infrastructure for running the virtualized environments, Poonen said.
The service, which will be offered both by VMware and selected partners, will go live within the next few months, Poonen said.
With this service, organizations can access their applications or full virtual Windows desktops by using a number of different VMware virtualization technologies.
VMware Horizon can stream desktops using VMware's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), or stream applications using Remote Desktop Services (RDS).
Users can also access applications, data and desktops through a browser, using VMware's Blast streaming software.
Google and other hardware manufacturers now currently offer Chromebooks starting at $179.
Using Chromebooks as thin client computing devices along with the VMware service could save organizations money in a number of ways, said Caesar Sengupta, Google vice president of product management for Chrome OS. Besides the typically low cost of the devices, money could also be saved by reducing the number of software licenses needed and cutting the administrative costs typically associated with managing individual PCs.
Google and VMware announced this service at VMware Partner Exchange 2014 conference, being held this week in San Francisco.


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In October 2005, just a few months after we had our first daughter, I leased an industrial space near our small apartment. It was a pretty big decision for Jennifer and I, it was another bill (several) and another responsibility for us- already under pressure with a two month old baby!
It ended up being the right move- I'd been working on our kitchen table or driving across town to work in my parent's garage. We had moved into a two room apartment but there was still no room to work. I found a nice 1000 sq/ft industrial warehouse type shop with a small office in front. I got the idea from seeing the Clayton Brother's studio a few years before. The place was big enough, versatile and had plenty of storage space, with large walls, a roll up door and high ceilings. It was perfect, and I got right to work.
I'm a little sad to leave when I look back at all the exhibits and paintings I worked on at this space, not to mention how my life has changed the past six years. It's been a pretty cool/strange/awesomely/fucked up/rad six years!
Now I've moved into a great new space with friends. The new studio has everything the old one has with more support and camaraderie. Gonna be a new adventure and I'm hoping to get many years of great work accomplished here. But I'll keep in my heart my little studio which helped me get off the ground!!


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Compassion Sunday is an annual event that provides sponsors and donors across the United States a chance to speak to their churches on behalf of children in poverty. The purpose is to draw the attention of the Church to the needs of the world's poorest children.
Each year, dedicated volunteers present Compassion in churches across the country, and tens of thousands of children are sponsored through their efforts.
This year Compassion Sunday is April 18, but if you ever want to host a Compassion Sunday at your church you can choose any date that works best for you … and your church, as Debbi did.
My name is Debbi Akers. I have been an Advocate with Compassion in north Alabama for nearly 1 1/2 years.
As soon as I completed my Advocate training, my first thought was to host a Compassion Sunday at my church. I was on fire, passionate, and thought that was the obvious next step. I was wrong.
Even though the administration at my church was very welcoming of my passion and the ministry of Compassion, their calendar was already set in motion for the holidays and then for the beginning of the year.
Of course, once the first of the year rolled around, Compassion Sunday got pushed back on the church calendar again and again.
If you have ever been told "no" or "maybe next year," please do not be discouraged. Time that you commit to God for His glory and for His kingdom is never wasted.
As I waited for a later date for Compassion Sunday, the passion God had given me for the least of these and for His ministry through Compassion could not be squelched. I felt that if I did not "speak up for those who could not speak up for themselves," the rocks would start crying out for those who were suffering! So, I spoke.
I spoke to Sunday school classes, women's groups, combined classes — anyone in my church who would give me a opportunity.
While doing all this speaking, I was blessed to have about 30 families sponsor me to go on an Advocates tour to Guatemala. After that life-changing trip, I spoke even more.
The beauty of having so many people support me financially on the tour was that they felt they "owned" me when I returned, and I had a duty to speak to their classes and groups and share about my trip!
God's time was not wasted. He used what I initially perceived as rejection as a time of planting. Seeds were planted throughout my church, and my heart learned to trust Jesus like I probably had not done in a long time. I started to remember what it felt like to rely on Him again as He prepared the fields for harvest.
During that time of planting seeds, I made a chart. It was a simple chart where I kept the name, contact information, child name and reference number for each new sponsorship associated with my efforts. This has proven to be one of the most effective things I have done as an Advocate. As new sponsors came along, I simply add to this chart.
By the time I actually held my Compassion Sunday (Nov. 29, 2009), the list had grown to close to 70 sponsors — one child at a time!
In planning Compassion Sunday, I remembered something Wess Stafford once said about the reason many people do not get involved with charity organizations. He said they do not know where to begin and they do not know who to trust.
Well, having a Compassion Sunday shows people where to begin, but I needed to focus on showing my congregation that Compassion was an organization they could trust.
I pulled out my handy, dandy chart of sponsors. If my congregation could see that the leaders and many longtime church members were trusting Compassion, it might make a difference.
I called Compassion and gave them the reference numbers from my chart. Compassion was able to provide me with a digital picture of every sponsored child connected to my church.
I made a simple slide show with those pictures. Each slide had the face of the child and his or her name alongside of the sponsor's name. Our adult and children's choirs sang "He Knows My Name" as the slide show was presented. My congregation felt like those children were "their" children.
We were then abundantly blessed to have Miguel Figueroa speak, as a Compassion alumnus and now Leadership Development Program graduate attending Moody Bible Institute.
None of these things could have taken place if the dates I had initially requested had been granted. God's timing brought about a harvest that surpassed what I had prayed for.
We now have close to 200 sponsors at our church, and the sponsorship table is still up! Each week someone stops by to either ask about sponsoring, pick up some information, ask questions about a current sponsorship, or tell me about a letter received from a child. It is my act of love to sit at that table each week. To Him be all of the glory!
The little chart with sponsor information did not end once the numbers grew. It took on a life of its own. My trip to Guatemala left me with a passion even greater than the one I already had for finding sponsors. It is a passion for getting those sponsors engaged in the lives of the children they sponsor.
With the contact information in hand, I have been able to establish a monthly newsletter for the sponsors in my church. In addition, this past month I offered six different opportunities for members to attend a Compassion 101 class where they could come together and learn how to set up an online account at compassion.com, learn about letter-writing, gifts, trips, blogs and more.
Also, if there is a crisis in a country such as we just experienced in Haiti, I immediately know which sponsors to connect with. Or if there is a blog post that pertains to one of our sponsoring family's child development centers, I can let them know. Basically, anything that I can do to advocate for the continuing relationship between the sponsor and child is made possible through a simple task of record keeping.
So my fellow Advocates and precious sponsors: Pray. Trust His timing. Pray. Take every opportunity, especially the seemingly insignificant ones, to speak up. Pray. Keep some records if you can. Pray. Enjoy His harvest. And give Him all of the glory.


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USS Alabama (BB-60)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
USS Alabama (BB-60), 1 December 1942, in camouflage. Note trunked tower foremast and funnel, similar to that used in the design of the later Iowa-class battleships.
|Laid down:
|1 February 1940
|16 February 1942
|16 August 1942
|9 January 1947
|Museum ship
|General Characteristics
|35,000 t
|680 ft (207 m)
|108.2 ft (33 m)
|36.2 ft (11 m)
|27.5 knots (51 km/h)
|1,793 officers and men
|9 x 16 in (406 mm) guns, 20 x 5 in (127 mm) guns, 24 x 40 mm machine guns, 22 x 20 mm machine guns
The third USS Alabama (BB-60) was a South Dakota-class battleship of the United States Navy.
Alabama was laid down on 1 February 1940 by the Norfolk Navy Yard, launched on 16 February 1942, sponsored by Mrs. Lister Hill (wife of the senior Senator from Alabama) and commissioned on 16 August 1942, Capt. George B. Wilson in command.
After fitting out, Alabama commenced her shakedown cruise in Chesapeake Bay on Armistice Day (11 November) 1942. As the year 1943 began, the new battleship headed north to conduct operational training out of Casco Bay, Maine. She returned to Chesapeake Bay on 11 January 1943 to carry out the last week of shakedown training. Following a period of availability and logistics support at Norfolk, Alabama was assigned to Task Group 22.2, and returned to Casco Bay for tactical maneuvers on 13 February 1943.
With the movement of substantial British strength toward the Mediterranean theater, to prepare for the invasion of Sicily, the Royal Navy lacked the heavy ships necessary to cover the northern convoy routes. The British appeal for help on those lines soon led to the temporary assignment of Alabama and South Dakota (BB-57) to the Home Fleet.
On 2 April 1943, Alabama, as part of Task Force 22, sailed for the Orkney Islands with her sister ship and a screen of five destroyers. Proceeding via Little Placentia Sound, Argentia, Newfoundland, the battleship reached Scapa Flow on 19 May 1943, reporting for duty with TF 61 and becoming a unit of the British Home Fleet. She soon embarked on a period of intensive operational training to coordinate joint operations.
Early in June, Alabama and her sister ship, along with British Home Fleet units, covered the reinforcement of the garrison on the island of Spitzbergen, which lay on the northern flank of the convoy route to Russia, in an operation that took the ship across the Arctic Circle. Soon after her return to Scapa Flow, she was inspected by Admiral Harold R. Stark, Commander, United States Naval Forces, Europe.
Shortly thereafter, in July, Alabama participated in Operation Governor, a diversion aimed toward southern Norway, to draw German attention away from the real Allied thrust, toward Sicily. It had also been devised to attempt to lure out the German battleship Tirpitz, the sister ship of the famed, but short-lived, Bismarck, but the Germans did not rise to the challenge, and the enemy battleship remained in her Norwegian lair.
Alabama was detached from the British Home Fleet on 1 August 1943, and, in company with South Dakota and screening destroyers, sailed for Norfolk, arriving there on 9 August. For the next ten days, Alabama underwent a period of overhaul and repairs. This work completed, the battleship departed Norfolk on 20 August 1943 for the Pacific Ocean. Transiting the Panama Canal five days later, she dropped anchor in Havannah Harbor, at Efate, in the New Hebrides, on 14 September.
Following a month and a half of exercises and training, with fast carrier task groups, the battleship moved to Fiji on 7 November. Alabama sailed on 11 November to take part in operation "Galvanic", the assault on the Japanese-held Gilbert Islands. She screened the fast carriers as they launched attacks on Jaluit and Mille atolls, Marshall Islands, to neutralize Japanese airfields located there. Alabama supported landings on Tarawa on 20 November and later took part in the securing of Betio and Makin. On the night of 26 November, Alabama twice opened fire to drive off enemy aircraft that approached her formation.
On 8 December 1943, Alabama, along with five other fast battleships, carried out the first Pacific gunfire strike conducted by that type of warship. Alabama's guns hurled 535 rounds into enemy strong points, as she and her sister ships bombarded Nauru Island, an enemy phosphate-producing center, causing severe damage to shore installations there. She also took the destroyer Boyd (DD-644), alongside after that ship had received a direct hit from a Japanese shore battery on Nauru, and brought three injured men on board for treatment.
She then escorted the carriers Bunker Hill (CV-17) and Monterey (CVL-26) back to Efate, arriving on 12 December. Alabama departed the New Hebrides for Pearl Harbor on 5 January 1944, arrived on the 12th, and underwent a brief drydocking at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard. After replacement of her port outboard propeller, and routine maintenance, Alabama was again underway to return to action in the Pacific.
Alabama reached Funafuti, Ellice Islands, on 21 January 1944, and there rejoined the fleet. Assigned to Task Group 58.2, which was formed around Essex (CV-9), Alabama left the Ellice Islands on 25 January to help carry out Operation "Flintlock," the invasion of the Marshall Islands. Alabama, along with sister ship South Dakota and the fast battleship North Carolina (BB-55), bombarded Roi on 29 January and Namur on 30 January; she hurled 330 rounds of 16 inch (406 mm) and 1,562 of 5 inch (127 mm) toward Japanese targets, destroying planes, airfield facilities, blockhouses, buildings, and gun emplacements. Over the following days of the campaign, Alabama patrolled the area north of Kwajalein Atoll. On 12 February 1944, Alabama sortied with the Bunker Hill task group to launch attacks on Japanese installations, aircraft and shipping at Truk. Those raids, launched on 16 and 17 February, caused heavy damage to enemy shipping concentrated at that island base.
Leaving Truk Alabama began steaming toward the Marianas to assist in strikes on Tinian, Saipan and Guam. During this action, while repelling enemy air attacks on 21 February 1944, 5 inch (127 mm) mount No. 9 accidentally fired into mount No. 5. Five men died, and 11 were wounded in the mishap.
After the strikes were completed on 22 February, Alabama conducted a sweep looking for crippled enemy ships southeast of Saipan, and eventually returned to Majuro on 26 February 1944. There she served temporarily as flagship for Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher, Commander, TF 58, from 3 to 8 March.
Alabama's next mission was to screen the fast carriers as they hurled air strikes against Japanese positions on Palau, Yap, Ulithi, and Woleai, Caroline Islands. She steamed from Majuro on 22 March 1944 with TF 58 in the screen of Yorktown (CV-10), On the night of 29 March, about six enemy planes approached TG 58.3, in which Alabama was operating, and four broke off to attack ships in the vicinity of the battleship. Alabama downed one unassisted, and helped in the destruction of another.
On 30 March, planes from TF 58 began bombing Japanese airfields, shipping, fleet servicing facilities, and other installations on the islands of Palau, Yap, Ulithi and Woleai. During that day, Alabama again provided antiaircraft fire whenever enemy planes appeared. At 2044 on the 30th, a single plane approached TG 58.3, but Alabama and other ships drove it off before it could cause any damage.
The battleship returned briefly to Majuro, before she sailed on 13 April with TF 58, this time in the screen of Enterprise (CV-6). In the next three weeks, TF 58 hit enemy targets on Hollandia, Wakde, Sawar, and Sarmi along the New Guinea coast; covered Army landings at Aitape, Tanahmerah Bay, and Humboldt Bay; and conducted further strikes on Truk.
As part of the preliminaries to the invasion of the Marianas, Alabama, in company with five other fast battleships, shelled the large island of Ponape, in the Carolines, the site of a Japanese airfield and sea lane base. As Alabama's Capt. Fred T. Kirtland subsequently noted, the bombardment, of 70 minutes' duration, was conducted in a "leisurely manner." Alabama then returned to Majuro on 4 May 1944 to prepare for the invasion of the Marianas.
After a month spent in exercises and refitting, Alabama again got under way with TF 58 to participate in Operation Forager. On 12 June, Alabama screened the carriers striking Saipan. On 13 June, Alabama took part in a six-hour preinvasion bombardment of the west coast of Saipan, to soften the defenses and cover the initial minesweeping operations. Her spotting planes reported that her salvoes had caused great destruction and fires in Garapan town. Though the shelling appeared successful, it proved a failure due to the lack of specialized training and experience required for successful shore bombardment. Strikes continued as troops invaded Saipan on 15 June.
On 19 June, during the Battle of the Philippine Sea, Alabama operated with TG 58.7, providing antiaircraft support for the fast carriers against attacking Japanese aircraft. In the first raid that approached Alabama's formation, only two planes managed to penetrate to attack her sistership South Dakota, scoring one bomb hit that caused minor damage. An hour later a second wave, composed largely of torpedo bombers, bore in, but Alabama's barrage discouraged two planes from attacking South Dakota. The intense concentration paid to the incoming torpedo planes left one dive bomber nearly undetected, and it managed to drop its load near Alabama; the two small bombs were near-misses, and caused no damage.
Alabama continued patrolling areas around the Marianas to protect the American landing forces on Saipan, screening the east carriers as they struck enemy shipping, aircraft, and shore installations on Guam, Tinian, Rota, and Saipan. She then retired to the Marshalls for upkeep.
Alabama - as flagship for Rear Admiral E. W. Hanson, Commander, Battleship Division 9-left Eniwetok on 14 July 1944, sailing with the task group formed around Bunker Hill. She screened the fast carriers as they conducted preinvasion attacks and support of the landings on the island of Guam on 21 July. She returned briefly to Eniwetok on 11 August. On 30 August she got underway in the screen of Essex to carry out Operation Stalemate II the seizure of Palau, Ulithi, and Yap. On 6 through 8 September, the forces launched strikes on the Carolinas.
Alabama departed the Carolines to sail to the Philippines and provided cover for the carriers striking the islands of Cebu, Leyte, Bohol and Negros from 12 to 14 September. The carriers launched strikes on shipping and installations in the Manila Bay area on 21 and 22 September, and in the central Philippines area on 24 September. Alabama retired briefly to Saipan on 28 September, then proceeded to Ulithi on 1 October 1944.
On 6 October 1944 Alabama sailed with TF 38 to support the liberation of the Philippines. Again operating as part of a fast carrier task group, Alabama protected the flattops while they launched strikes on Japanese facilities at Okinawa, in the Pescadores and Formosa.
Detached from the Formosa area on 14 October to sail toward Luzon, the fast battleship again used her antiaircraft batteries in support of the carriers as enemy aircraft attempted to attack the formation. Alabama's gunners claimed three enemy aircraft shot down and a fourth damaged. By 15 October, Alabama was supporting landing operations on Leyte. She then screened the carriers as they conducted air strikes on Cebu, Negros, Panay, northern Mindanao, and Leyte on 21 October 1944.
Alabama, as part of the Enterprise screen, supported air operations against the Japanese Southern Force in the area off Surigao Strait then moved north to strike the powerful Japanese Central Force heading for San Bernardino Strait. After receiving reports of a third Japanese force, the battleship served in the screen of the fast carrier task force as it sped to Cape Engano. On 24 October, although American air strikes destroyed four Japanese carriers in the Battle off Cape Engano, the Japanese Central Force under Admiral Kurita had transited San Bernardino Strait and emerged off the coast of Samar, where it fell upon a task group of American escort carriers and their destroyer and destroyer escort screen. Alabama reversed her course and headed for Samar to assist the greatly outnumbered American forces, but the Japanese had retreated by the time she reached the scene. She then joined the protective screen for the Essex task group to hit enemy forces in the central Philippines before retiring to Ulithi on 30 October 1944 for replenishment.
Underway again on 3 November 1944, Alabama screened the fast carriers as they carried out sustained strikes against Japanese airfields, and installations on Luzon to prepare for a landing on Mindoro Island. She spent the next few weeks engaged in operations against the Visayas and Luzon before retiring to Ulithi on 24 November.
The first half of December 1944 found Alabama engaged in various training exercises and maintenance routines. She left Ulithi on 10 December, and reached the launching point for air strikes on Luzon on 14 December, as the fast carrier task forces launched aircraft to carry out preliminary strikes on airfields on Luzon that could threaten the landings slated to take place on Mindoro. From 14 to 16 December, a veritable umbrella of carrier aircraft covered the Luzon fields, preventing any enemy planes from getting airborne to challenge the Mindoro-bound convoys. Having completed her mission, she left the area to refuel on 17 December; but, as she reached the fueling rendezvous, began encountering heavy weather. By daybreak on the 18th, rough seas and harrowing conditions rendered a fueling at sea impossible; 50 knot winds caused ships to roll heavily. Alabama experienced rolls of 30 degrees, had both her Vought Kingfisher float planes so badly damaged that they were of no further value, and received minor damage to her structure. At one point in the typhoon, Alabama recorded wind gusts up to 83 knots. Three destroyers, Hull (DD-350), Monaghan (DD-354), and Spence (DD-512), were lost to the typhoon. By 19 December, the storm had run its course; and Alabama arrived back at Ulithi on 24 December. After pausing there briefly, Alabama continued on to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for overhaul.
The battleship entered drydock on 18 January 1945, and remained there until 25 February. Work continued until 17 March, when Alabama got underway for standardization trials and refresher training along the southern California coast. She got underway for Pearl Harbor on 4 April, arrived there on 10 April, and held a week of training exercises. She then continued on to Ulithi and moored there on 28 April 1945.
Alabama departed Ulithi with TF 58 on 9 May 1945, bound for the Ryukyus, to support forces which had landed on Okinawa on 1 April 1945, and to protect the fast carriers as they launched air strikes on installations in the Ryukyus and on Kyushu. On 14 May, several Japanese planes penetrated the combat air patrol to get at the carriers; one crashed Vice Admiral Mitscher's flagship. Alabama's guns splashed two, and assisted in splashing two more.
Subsequently, Alabama rode out a typhoon on 4 and 5 June, suffering only superficial damage while the nearby heavy cruiser Pittsburgh (CA-7O) lost her bow, Alabama subsequently bombarded the Japanese island of Minami Daito Shima, with other fast battleships, on 10 June 1945 and then headed for Leyte Gulf later in June to prepare to strike at the heart of Japan with the 3d Fleet.
On 1 July 1945, Alabama and other 3rd Fleet units got underway for the Japanese home islands. Throughout the month of July 1945, Alabama carried out strikes on targets in industrial areas of Tokyo and other points on Honshu, Hokkaido, and Kyushu; on the night of 17 and 18 July, Alabama, and other fast battleships in the task group, carried out the first night bombardment of six major industrial plants in the Hitachi-Mito area of Honshu, about eight miles (13 km) northeast of Tokyo. On board Alabama to observe the operation was retired Rear Admiral Richard Byrd, the famed polar explorer.
On 9 August, Alabama transferred a medical party to the destroyer Ault (DD-698), for further transfer to the destroyer Borie (DD-704). The latter had been kamikazied on that date and required prompt medical aid on her distant picket station.
The end of the war found Alabama still at sea, operating off the southern coast of Honshu. On 15 August 1945, she received word of the Japanese capitulation. During the initial occupation of the Yokosuka-Tokyo area, Alabama transferred detachments of marines and bluejackets for temporary duty ashore; her bluejackets were among the first from the fleet to land. She also served in the screen of the carriers as they conducted reconnaissance flights to locate prisoner-of-war camps.
Alabama entered Tokyo Bay on 5 September to receive men who had served with the occupation forces, and then departed Japanese waters on 20 September. At Okinawa, she embarked 700 sailors - principally members of Navy construction battalions (or "Seabees") for her part in Operation Magic Carpet. She reached San Francisco at mid-day on 15 October, and on Navy Day (27 October 1945) hosted 9,000 visitors. She then shifted to San Pedro, California, on 29 October. Alabama remained at San Pedro through 27 February 1946, when she left for the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for inactivation overhaul. Alabama was decommissioned on 9 January 1947, at the Naval Station, Seattle, and was assigned to the Bremerton Group, United States Pacific Reserve Fleet. She remained there until struck from the Naval Vessel Register on June 1, 1962.
Citizens of the state of Alabama had formed the "USS Alabama Battleship Commission" to raise funds for the preservation of Alabama as a memorial to the men and women who served in World War II. The ship was awarded to that state on 16 June 1964, and was formally turned over on 7 July 1964 in ceremonies at Seattle. Alabama was then towed to her permanent berth at Mobile, Alabama, arriving in Mobile Bay on 14 September 1964.
Alabama received nine battle stars for her World War II service.
In recent years, Alabama has been occasionally used as a hurricane shelter. During Hurricane Katrina, Alabama suffered damage which resulted in a eight degree list to port, and shifting at her permanent anchorage. According to the operators, the Battleship Park site is expected to be closed til Veterans Day of this year with an estimated three million dollars of damage to the park.
External links
- Maps and aerial photos
- Street map from MapQuest or Google Local
- Topographic map from TopoZone
- Aerial image from TerraServer-USA
- Satellite image from Google Local or Microsoft Virtual Earth
This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
|South Dakota-class battleship
|South Dakota | Indiana | Massachusetts | Alabama
List of battleships of the United States Navy


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Operation Guide 3751
About This Manual
· Depending on the model of your watch, display text
appears either as dark figures on a light background or
light figures on a dark background. All sample displays
in this manual are shown using dark figures on a light
· For the sake of simplicity, the sample displays in this
manual do not show the analog hands of the watch.
· Button operations are indicated using the letters shown
in the illustration.
· Each section of this manual provides you with the
information you need to perform operations in each
mode. Further details and technical information can be
found in the "Reference" section.
Timekeeping Mode
World Time Mode
Countdown Timer Mode
Stopwatch Mode
Alarm Mode
Hand Setting Mode
General Guide
· Press C to change from mode to mode.
· In any mode, press B to illuminate the display.
This watch features separate digital and analog timekeeping. The procedures for
setting the digital time and analog time are different.
· In the Timekeeping Mode, you can press D to change the display format as shown
PM indicator
Day of the Week
Month Day
Hour : Minutes
Digital Time and Date
Use the Timekeeping Mode to set and view a digital display of the current time and date.
When setting the digital time, you can also configure settings for summer time
(Daylight Saving time or DST), your Home City code (the code for the city where you
normally use the watch), and the 12/24-hour format.
· This watch is preset with a number of city codes, each of which represents the time
zone where that city is located. When setting the digital time, it is important that you
select the correct city code for your Home City. If your location is not included in the
preset city codes, select the preset city code that is in the same time zone as your
· Note that all of the times for the World Time Mode city codes are displayed in
accordance with the digital time and date settings you configure in the Timekeeping
· After you correctly set your Home City time and date, you can set the watch up for
timekeeping with a different city code simply by changing the Home City code in the
Timekeeping Mode.
To set the digital time and date
1. In the Timekeeping Mode, hold down A until the
seconds start to flash, which indicates the setting
2. Press C twice to move the flashing to the Home City
code setting (see the illustration below), and then use
B and D to select the code you want.
· Make sure you select your Home City code before
changing any other setting.
· For full information on city codes, see the "City Code
3. Press C to move the flashing in the sequence shown below to select the other
Home City Code
12/24-Hour format
To do this:
Reset the seconds to 00
Toggle between Daylight Saving Time (ON) and
Standard Time (OF)
Change the Home City code
Change the hour or minutes
Toggle between 12-hour (12H) and 24-hour
(24H) timekeeping
Change the year
Change the month or day
Do this:
Press D.
Press D.
Use D (east) and B (west).
Use D (+) and B ().
Press D.
Use D (+) and B ().
4. When the setting you want to change is flashing, use B and D to change it as
described below.
5. Press A to exit the setting screen.
· See "Digital Time Daylight Saving Time (DST) Setting" below for details about the
DST setting.
Digital Time Daylight Saving Time (DST) Setting
Daylight Saving Time (summer time) advances the digital time setting by one hour
from Standard Time. Remember that not all countries or even local areas use Daylight
Saving Time.
To toggle the Timekeeping Mode digital time between DST and Standard Time
1. In the Timekeeping Mode, hold down A until the seconds
start to flash, which indicates the setting screen.
2. Press C once to display the DST setting screen.
3. Press D to toggle between Daylight Saving Time (ON
displayed) and Standard Time (OF displayed).
4. Press A to exit the setting screen.
· The DST indicator appears to indicate that Daylight
Saving Time is turned on.
Setting the Analog Time
Perform the procedure below when the time indicated by the analog hands does not
match the time of the digital display.
To adjust the analog time
1. In the Timekeeping Mode, press C five times to enter
the Hand Setting Mode.
2. Hold down A until the current digital time starts to
flash, which indicates the analog setting screen.
3. Press D to advance the analog time setting by
20 seconds.
· Holding down D advances the analog time setting at
high speed.
· If you need to advance the analog time setting a long way, hold down D until the
time starts advancing at high speed, and then press B. This locks the high-
speed hand movement, so you can release the two buttons. High-speed hand
movement continues until you press any button. It will also stop automatically
after the time advances 12 hours or if an alarm (daily alarm or countdown beeper)
starts to sound.
4. Press A to exit the setting screen.
· The watch will automatically adjust the minute hand slightly to match its internal
second count when you exit the setting screen.
· To return to the Timekeeping Mode, press C.
DST indicator
Operation Guide 3751
City code
Current time for the
selected city code
World Time
World Time digitally displays the current time in 27 cities
(29 time zones) around the world.
· All of the operations in this section are performed in the World
Time Mode, which you enter by pressing C.
To view the time in another city
In the World Time Mode, press D to scroll eastwardly
through city codes.
· The city code is displayed for about one second, and then
it is replaced with the current time for that city code.
· For full information about city codes, see the "City Code
· If the current time shown for a city is wrong, it probably
means there is a problem with your Timekeeping Mode
time and/or Home City code settings. Go to the
Timekeeping Mode and make the necessary
To toggle a city code time between Standard Time and Daylight Saving Time
1. In the World Time Mode, use D to display the city code
whose Standard Time/Daylight Saving Time setting you
want to change.
2. Hold down A for about two seconds to toggle between
Daylight Saving Time (DST indicator displayed) and
Standard Time (DST indicator not displayed).
· The DST indicator is on the display whenever you
display a city code for which Daylight Saving Time is
turned on.
· Note that the DST/Standard Time setting affects only the
currently displayed city code. Other city codes are not
· Note that you cannot switch between Standard Time
and Daylight Saving Time while GMT is selected as the
city code.
DST indicator
Countdown Timer
The countdown timer can be set within a range of one
minute to 60 minutes. An alarm sounds when the
countdown reaches zero. The countdown timer also has
an auto-repeat feature and a progress beeper that signals
the progress of the countdown.
· All of the operations in this section are performed in the
Countdown Timer Mode, which you enter by pressing
Configuring the Countdown Timer
The following are the settings you should configure before
actually using the countdown timer.
Countdown start time; Auto-repeat on/off; Progress
beeper on/off
· See "To configure the countdown timer" for information
about setting up the timer.
When auto-repeat is turned on, the countdown automatically restarts from the
countdown start time when it reaches zero. If left running, the countdown is repeated
a total of eight times, after which it stops automatically.
When auto-repeat is turned off, the countdown stops when it reaches zero and the
display shows the original countdown start time.
· Pressing D while an auto-repeat countdown is in progress pauses the current
countdown. You can resume the auto-repeat countdown by pressing D, or you can
press A to reset to the countdown time starting value.
Countdown Timer Beeper Operations
The watch beeps at various times during a countdown so you can keep informed
about the countdown status without looking at the display. The following describes the
types of beeper operations the watch performs during a countdown.
Countdown End Beeper
The countdown end beeper lets you know when the countdown reaches zero.
· When the progress beeper is turned off, the countdown end beeper sounds for
about 10 seconds, or until you press any button to stop it.
· When the progress beeper is turned on, the countdown end beeper sounds for
about one second.
Progress Beeper
When the progress beeper is turned on, the watch uses beeps to signal countdown
progress as described below.
· Starting from five minutes before the end of the countdown, the watch emits four
short beeps at the top of each countdown minute.
· 30 seconds before the end of the countdown, the watch emits four short beeps.
· The watch emits a short beep for each of the last 10 seconds of the countdown.
· If the countdown start time is six minutes or greater, the watch emits a short beep for
each second of the final 10 seconds before the five-minute point is reached. Four
short beeps are emitted to signal when the five-minute point is reached.
To configure the countdown timer
1. While the countdown start time is on the display in the
Countdown Timer Mode, hold down A until the current
countdown start time starts to flash, which indicates the
setting screen.
· If the countdown start time is not displayed, use the
procedure under "To use the countdown timer" to
display it.
2. Press C to move the flashing in the sequence shown
below to select other settings.
Start Time
Progress Beeper
Start Time
Progress Beeper
Button Operation
Use D (+) and B () to change the setting.
· You can set a start time in the range of 1 to 60 minutes in
1-minute increments.
Press D to toggle auto-repeat on (
displayed) and off
Press D to toggle the progress beeper on (ON) and off
3. When the setting you want to change is flashing, use B and D to change it as
described below.
4. Press A to exit the setting screen.
· You can also perform steps 1 and 2 of the above procedure whenever you need to
view the current auto-repeat and progress beeper settings.
To use the countdown timer
Press D while in the Countdown Timer Mode to start the
countdown timer.
· The countdown timer operation continues even if you
exit the Countdown Timer Mode.
· Press D while a countdown operation is in progress to
pause it. Press D again to resume the countdown.
· To completely stop a countdown operation, first pause it
(by pressing D), and then press A. This returns the
countdown time to its starting value.
The stopwatch lets you measure elapsed time, split times,
and two finishes.
· The display range of the stopwatch is 59 minutes,
59.99 seconds.
· The stopwatch continues to run, restarting from zero
after it reaches its limit, until you stop it.
· The stopwatch measurement operation continues even
if you exit the Stopwatch Mode.
· Exiting the Stopwatch Mode while a split time is frozen
on the display clears the split time and returns to
elapsed time measurement.
· All of the operations in this section are performed in the
Stopwatch Mode, which you enter by pressing C.
To measure times with the stopwatch
Elapsed Time
Split release
Split release
Split Time
Two Finishes
First runner
Display time of
first runner.
Second runner
Display time of
second runner.
Alarm number
Alarm time
(Hour : Minutes)
On/Off status
You can set five independent Daily Alarms. When an
alarm is turned on, the alarm tone sounds when the alarm
time is reached. One of the alarms is a snooze alarm,
while the other four are one-time alarms.
You can turn on an Hourly Time Signal that causes the
watch to beep twice every hour on the hour.
· There are six screens in the Alarm Mode. Four are for
one-time alarms (indicated by numbers from
through AL4), one is for a snooze alarm
(indicated by SNZ), and one is for the Hourly Time
Signal (indicated by SIG).
· All of the operations in this section are performed in the
Alarm Mode, which you enter by pressing C.
To set an alarm time
1. In the Alarm Mode, use D to scroll through the alarm
screens until the one whose time you want to set is
· To set a one-time alarm, display one of the screens indicated by an alarm number
from AL1through AL4. To set the snooze alarm, display the screen indicated
by SNZ.
· The snooze alarm repeats every five minutes.
2. After you select an alarm, hold down A until the hour setting of the alarm time
starts to flash, which indicates the setting screen.
· This operation automatically turns on the alarm.
3. Press C to move the flashing between the hour and minute settings.
4. While a setting is flashing, use D (+) and B () to change it.
· When setting the alarm time using the 12-hour format, take care to set the time
correctly as a.m. (no indicator) or p.m. (P indicator).
5. Press A to exit the setting screen.
Operation Guide 3751
Alarm Operation
The alarm sounds at the preset time for about 20 seconds, regardless of the mode the
watch is in. In the case of the snooze alarm, the alarm operation is performed a total
of seven times, every five minutes, or until you turn the alarm off.
· To stop the alarm tone after it starts to sound, press any button.
· Performing any one of the following operations during a 5-minute interval between
snooze alarms cancels the current snooze alarm operation.
Displaying the Timekeeping Mode setting screen
Displaying the SNZ setting screen
To test the alarm
In the Alarm Mode, hold down D to sound the alarm.
To turn an alarm on and off
1. In the Alarm Mode, use D to select an alarm.
2. Press A to toggle it on (ON displayed) and off
(OF displayed).
· Turning on a one-time alarm (AL1through AL4)
displays the alarm on indicator on its Alarm Mode
· Turning on the snooze alarm (SNZ) displays the alarm
on indicator and snooze alarm indicator on the Alarm
Mode snooze alarm screen.
· In all modes, the alarm on indicator is shown for any
alarm that is currently turned on.
· The alarm on indicator flashes while the alarm is
· The snooze alarm indicator flashes during the 5-minute
intervals between alarms.
To turn the Hourly Time Signal on and off
1. In the Alarm Mode, use D to select the Hourly Time
Signal (SIG).
2. Press A to toggle it on (ON displayed) and off
(OF displayed).
· The Hourly Time Signal on indicator is shown on the
display in all modes while the Hourly Time Signal is
turned on.
On/Off status
Hourly time signal
on indicator
Alarm on indicator
On/Off status
Snooze alarm
World Time
Countdown Timer
Hand Setting
Graphic Area A
Timekeeping Mode seconds
Timekeeping Mode seconds
Countdown time minutes
Stopwatch time seconds
No indication
No indication
Graphic Area B
Timekeeping Mode minutes
World Time Mode minutes
Countdown time seconds
Stopwatch time 1/10-second
No indication
No indication
This section contains more detailed and technical information about watch operation.
It also contains important precautions and notes about the various features and
functions of this watch.
Graphic Areas
The following describes the information indicated by the two graphic areas in each
Graphic area A
Graphic area B
Auto Return Feature
If you leave a screen with flashing digits on the display for two or three minutes
without performing any operation, the watch automatically exits the setting screen.
The B and D buttons are used in various modes and setting screens to scroll
through data on the display. In most cases, holding down these buttons during a scroll
operation scrolls through the data at high speed.
Initial Screens
When you enter the World Time or Alarm Mode, the data you were viewing when you
last exited the mode appears first.
· Resetting the seconds to 00 while the current count is in the range of 30 to 59
causes the minutes to be increased by 1. In the range of 00 to 29, the seconds are
reset to 00 without changing the minutes.
· With the 12-hour format, the P (PM) indicator appears on the display for times in the
range of noon to 11:59 p.m. and no indicator appears for times in the range of
midnight to 11:59 a.m.
· With the 24-hour format, times are displayed in the range of 0:00 to 23:59, without
any indicator.
· The year can be set in the range of 2000 to 2039.
· The watch's built-in full automatic calendar makes allowances for different month
lengths and leap years. Once you set the date, there should be no reason to change
it except after you have the watch's batteries replaced.
World Time
· The World Time Mode times are calculated from the current Home City time setting
in the Timekeeping Mode, using the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) differentials
associated with each city code.
· The GMT differential is a value that indicates the time difference between Greenwich
Mean Time and the time zone where a city is located.
· GMT differential is calculated by this watch based on Universal Time Coordinated
(UTC) data.
Backlight Precautions
The backlight uses an EL (electro-luminescent) panel that causes the entire display to
glow for easy reading in the dark. In any mode, press B to illuminate the display for
about two seconds.
· The electro-luminescent panel that provides illumination loses power after very long
· The illumination provided by the backlight may be hard to see when viewed under
direct sunlight.
· The watch may emit an audible sound whenever the display is illuminated. This is
due to vibration of the EL panel used for illumination, and does not indicate
· The backlight automatically turns off whenever an alarm sounds.
· Frequent use of the backlight shortens the battery life.
City Code Table
*Based on data as of June 2004.
Pago Pago
Los Angeles
San Francisco, Las Vegas, Vancouver, Seattle/Tacoma,
Dawson City
El Paso, Edmonton
Houston, Dallas/Fort Worth, New Orleans,
Mexico City, Winnipeg
New York
Montreal, Detroit, Miami, Boston, Panama City,
Havana, Lima, Bogota
La Paz, Santiago, Port Of Spain
Rio De Janeiro
Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Brasilia, Montevideo
Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Dakar, Abidjan
Milan, Rome, Madrid, Amsterdam, Algiers,
Hamburg, Frankfurt, Vienna, Stockholm, Berlin
Athens, Helsinki, Istanbul, Beirut, Damascus,
Cape Town
Kuwait, Riyadh, Aden, Addis Ababa, Nairobi, Moscow
Abu Dhabi, Muscat
Mumbai, Kolkata
Jakarta, Phnom Penh, Hanoi, Vientiane
Hong Kong
Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Beijing, Taipei, Manila,
Perth, Ulaanbaatar
Seoul, Pyongyang
Melbourne, Guam, Rabaul
Port Vila
Christchurch, Nadi, Nauru Island
Other major cities in same time zone


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It's the arbitrary sorting mechanisms, stupid
Imagine that you're in a random group. You have never met these people. What can you expect from them? Skill and persistence are things that you cannot measure at all, just by inspecting them, unless maybe they're in whatever the latest and greatest hardest gear is at the time, in which case you can expect a boring, trivialized run. Unless they're a DPS and you're the tank, in which case you can spend the entire time feeling inadequate at your inability to hold aggro. Unless you're playing post-Viagra patch in which tanks can always keep up their aggro, regardless of experience or interest. Ahem.
How can we sort out these people a bit? Simple: Make them run through some hoops. Make it take time, for no apparent reason, to get to the instance. In other words, remove teleports. Now if you're in a group you can at least know that the people you're with care enough to run over. The exact amount of time is up for debate, but for a start, I think we can mostly agree that going from Ironforge to Zul'Farrak was a bit ridiculous, so less than that.
But maybe this isn't enough. Add more arbitrary problems. For one, remove the "tank, healer, three DPS" auto-formation system. Instead, put players in a giant pool and let them sort it out. If somehow they end up with a shaman or warlock tank (I've been both) and stick around, then they are either so ignorant that they see no problem or they can handle a bit of challenge in their day. In my experience, groups that did not instantly disband under circumstances like this tended to be the most fun. They were not particularly efficient in terms of gathering gear, but if the ultimate goal is fun, why not cut out the middle man?
While we're at it, bring back attunements. Not crazy attunements like Black Temple, which were less of a burden on an individual as on an entire guild/raid. But Karazhan, that was a good one. Perhaps a bit long for the very first raid (the attunement, not the raid).
Is this elitist? Hardly. It's kindness. Let's all think of who we want in our groups, pretending that friends don't count, because that's cheating. Do you want someone who has acted before this very moment to prepare for the activity, or do you want someone who randomly got the idea to join a group, not really caring where? Consider who is going to drop group the moment anything goes wrong. The first person is more invested, not merely by time, but by motivation. They chose to be there.
It's also about managing expectations and counter-intuitively, saving time. The player who leaves at the first sign of trouble will have had some sort of expectations, which are then crushed when they wipe on the first boss. He will have wasted his time as well. If he were instead to leave right after group formation, then he would save his time, and that of the group.
There is a glaring flaw, of course: by-the-book groups will still be formed most of the time and these will do no filtering. People may queue for instances right next door to their questing, and will not be filtered. In other words, this does not catch all the impatient people. And there is the question of where they go. Even if I don't want to group with them, I don't particularly want them to quit either, so they must find groups, assuming they want to. But the only groups that are suitable are the well-formed, smoothly-running groups.
Those would be guild runs. Organized groups. 'Bad' players should be in guilds while good players should be in the chaos of the PUG. But this is the opposite of what happens. Guilds try to keep out the bad players while good players avoid PUGs. Good and bad aren't really the terms I want here. Maybe adventurous and patient vs. conservative would be better. But those don't quite work either. Well, the point remains, the players best-suited to handling the chaos of randomly-formed groups are the least likely to be in them.
I suspect I am the exception, in that even when I was in guilds, I tended to run with PUGs. Part of it was that the LFG tool made it easier to just click a button than ask people. But part of it was that I liked seeing what I'd find. PUGs were how I found guilds and guild members.
To conclude: This entire post is useless, because the sorting mechanisms of arbitrary barriers to content will be overshadowed by the social sorting mechanisms.
But they should still bring back the attunements for Onyxia.
11 comments:
- Kring said...
Love this.
Unfortunately it's all wrong because it didn't work. They only got 11 million subscribers with this concept which is why they had to change it...
- September 7, 2011 at 7:40 AM
- Hugh Hancock said...
Really, really good post! I couldn't agree more.
There's also the separate issue that adding hoops adds flavour and realism to the world. Currently, Ogrimmar feels like a game lobby, not part of a larger world.
We're featuring this post on the Pot today along with a couple of other great posts looking back at older-school design. Thanks!
- September 7, 2011 at 12:39 PM
- Syl said...
hey, I figured it out too - only I kept it much shorter! :P
Back to teh rootz!
- September 7, 2011 at 2:04 PM
- Klepsacovic said...
@Kring: With this concept I think they had more like 8 million, or whatever it was around when LK came out. But close enough! I wonder how sustainable the model is, what effect it has on new player retention.
@Hugh Hancock: No, thank you! I'm looking forward to that pot.
@Syl: "When you arrive faster at treasure and glory, where do you go from there? And just how much have you missed on that shorter journey?"
- September 7, 2011 at 2:19 PM
- Syl said...
LMAO! - you are not allowed to use my words against me!
hey, I never said mine was somehow better - I merely stated that it was shorter, lalalala!
- September 7, 2011 at 3:10 PM
- Tesh said...
Seems to me that better matchmaking might be more useful than imposing time sinks. If the problem is incompatible players, why not work on making compatibility better?
- September 7, 2011 at 3:13 PM
- Klepsacovic said...
@Syl: So what you're saying is, you wrote the dumbed down version for noobs. ;)
@Tesh: Matchmaking is the issue, but not between players. Instead, the problem is one of matching players and content.
- September 8, 2011 at 9:31 AM
- PopeJamal said...
Very well disguised "QQ Baddies!" argument. This is hilarious because what you're essentially saying is that "baddies", "lazy people", and people that you just don't like for whatever arbitrary reason should be ostracized.
That would actually work except for the fact that this isn't a high school social club, it's a business venture. The sub money Blizz makes from "baddies" buys fancy cars just as well as everyone else's sub money.
In fact, probably more so, because I'm sure most of the "11 million" people who play WoW aren't awesome, infallible god-men like you.
- September 8, 2011 at 10:22 AM
- Klepsacovic said...
You have so much straw, have you considered sending any to Texas?
- September 8, 2011 at 1:26 PM
- Tesh said...
Perhaps, but it seems like the complaints come up when we're talking about dealing with people who don't match up with our expectations. In other words, I don't mind that there's this groups of players who don't match up with the "perfect" content as long as I can find like-minded players to play the way I like.
- September 8, 2011 at 2:15 PM
- Klepsacovic said...
Tesh, that is definitely a source of complaints. They person who really wants to do heroics and is new and dying a lot doesn't fit well with the person who had run them a million times and knows the exact pattern of ever single patrol and is sick of being there. They should not be in the same group.
But two things: First, that second guy shouldn't be in that instance at all! Remove him, get him into his own content, and that conflict is gone.
Second, the first guy isn't the problem player I'm looking at. Instead I'm thinking of the guy who doesn't want to be in a heroic, but it's easy enough to get into one and maybe if it's easy enough he'll do it, but it's not really where he wants to be. He shouldn't be in there either. Maybe MMOs aren't his game. Maybe the content he does enjoy has been getting shortchanged.
- September 8, 2011 at 2:22 PM
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How is the technology being received in the marketplace (e.g., OEMs, channel, etc.)?
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If you do the same math for our competitor, it's not as compelling, and it costs them the same amount of money. And just because our competitors are a consortium, there is no difference in the amount of money that is spent. If you look back at how much it cost IBM, HP, or Seagate to come up with their version of LTO, they're all in the same ballpark, relative to what it cost us to come out with Super DLT. And you have to stay on that curve. Customers are going with you not only because they want to see this product, but because of what they want to see one, two, three, etc., years from now.
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Backward-compatibility is a key issue. How important is maintaining backward-compatibility through a tape family?
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A-CA-OO-MAH-CA-YE (Ac ko mok ki, Ak ko mock ki, A'kow-muk-ai, known as Feathers and Old Swan), Blackfoot chief; d. 1859 or 1860.
During the later years of the 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries there were at least three leaders of the Blackfoot tribe who bore the name of Old Swan. With the Blood and Peigan Indians, the Blackfeet were loosely united in the Blackfoot confederacy which occupied the western Prairies south from the North Saskatchewan River to the Missouri River. In 1795 Duncan McGillivray*, North West Company clerk at Fort George (near Lindbergh, Alta), noted that Old Swan, the earliest known leader with that name, had once been the greatest chief of the Blackfeet and "was respected and esteemed by all the neighbouring tribes; his intentions towards the white people have been always honest and upright, and while he retained any authority his band never attempted anything to our predjudice." Because of his advanced age Old Swan had relinquished the chieftainship to Gros Blanc, "a man of unbounded ambition and ferocity" according to McGillivray. Old Swan died in January 1795 and by the turn of the century his son, the Feathers, had become chief. He adopted his father's name.
In temperament, the second Old Swan was much like his father and was well regarded by his people as an effective leader and peacemaker. In 1801 and 1802 he drew maps for Peter Fidler*, Hudson's Bay Company surveyor at Chesterfield House on the South Saskatchewan River, where he was a regular visitor. These maps, which bear his name, indicated the geographical areas known to the Blackfeet, and information from the first of them was instrumental in the drafting of Aaron Arrowsmith's 1802 map of North America, used by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in their exploration up the Missouri in 1804. Old Swan was respected by the traders as a friend of white men and recognized as a peacemaker in the relations of his tribe with the Gros Ventres, Northern Arapaho, Cree, and Assiniboin Indians. In 1814 he was shot and killed by a Blood Indian, and a feud broke out between the Blackfeet and the Bloods, two normally friendly tribes.
The leadership of what continued to be identified for some time after the tragedy as "Old Feathers' band" was probably assumed by a son or nephew, the subject of this biography. Known also as the Feathers, he was described in the HBC's Chesterfield House journal in 1822 as "a Blackfoot Chief (much attached to the whites)," and like both of his predecessors he earned a reputation as a peacemaker. When he visited Edmonton House (Edmonton) in the spring of 1828, for instance, he stated that his people had become troublesome while he had been ill, but that he was there to negotiate a peace treaty with the Crees. Some time after 1828 the Feathers took the name of Old Swan and was thenceforth known by that name. In 1854 he prevented the shedding of blood during a drunken altercation between Blackfoot and Blood Indians at Rocky Mountain House (Alta) by coolly ordering both factions back to their camps; he then forced the traders to destroy the supply of liquor on hand. Henry John Moberly, HBC apprentice clerk in charge of Rocky Mountain House at that time, described him as "a Blackfoot of great authority, aged but still active," and in gratitude for the intervention of the chief gave him one of his best horses. "Not that it meant much to Old Swan," he observed, "he had three hundred of his own."
By the early 1850s the leadership of the Blackfoot tribe was shared by three chiefs. The most influential of these was the third Old Swan, whose personal following, known as the Bad Guns band, consisted of about 400 persons. The other two chiefs were Nato'sapi (Old Sun), leader of the All Medicine Men band, and No-okskatos (Three Suns), leader of the Biters band. In 1858 Old Swan was listed as one of the principal chiefs of the Blackfoot tribe by Dr James Hector of the British North American exploration party under John Palliser*. Palliser was apparently highly regarded by Old Swan, who called him his grandson, and in July 1859 he accepted the chief's invitation to visit his camp on the Red Deer River (Alta). "This very large camp was in many ways a novel sight," said Palliser, "even to us who had seen so many Indian camps. We now found the Blackfeet here numbering about 400 tents." When Palliser's party left the camp the following day, Old Swan and a number of his soldiers accompanied them back to the safety of their expedition.
Shortly after Palliser's visit Old Swan died, either late in 1859 or early in 1860, and his chieftainship was taken by a man named Omukaiee (Big Swan). Whereas Old Swan had been a friend of the traders, his successor despised them. William Francis Butler* described him as "a man of colossal size and savage disposition, crafty and treacherous." Big Swan died of tuberculosis in 1872 and the leadership of the tribe passed to two chiefs from other bands, Nato'sapi* (son of Chief Nato'sapi) and Crowfoot [Isapo-muxika*].
PAM, HBCA, B.34/a/4: f.18; B.60/a/13: f.3d; B.60/a/25: f.55. W. F. Butler, The great lone land: a narrative of travel and adventure in the north-west of America (7th ed., London, 1875). HBRS, 26 (Johnson). Duncan McGillivray, The journal of Duncan M'Gillivray of the North West Company at Fort George on the Saskatchewan, 1794–5, ed. and intro. A. S. Morton (Toronto, 1929). H. J. Moberly and W. B. Cameron, When fur was king (Toronto, 1929). The papers of the Palliser expedition, 1857–1860, ed. I. M. Spry (Toronto, 1968). H. A. Dempsey, Crowfoot, chief of the Blackfeet (Edmonton, 1972).
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