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CLINTON — The romance of the Romanov dynasty — in odor so like certain over-evolved orchids — has been affiliated, aptly enough, with fragile accessories forever. One thinks, above all, of the products of the House of Fabergé, but more generally of the decorative arts (particularly porcelain) produced specifically for the Romanovs between the 18th and early 20th centuries, when the dynasty came to its bloody and unambiguous end.
The Museum of Russian Icons in Clinton is currently hosting a show called "The Tsar's Cabinet: Two Hundred Years of Russian Decorative Arts Under the Romanovs" that's filled with porcelain, as well as glass, lacquer, enamel, and other luxury materials.
Drawn from the private collection of consultant Kathleen Durdin (who, according to a biographical note in the show's catalog, used to collect magazine advertisements that featured the Forbes Fabergé collection), the show summons the rich history of Romanov rule.
It comes to Clinton at the end of a five-venue tour of Canada and the United States. It was organized by the Muscarelle Museum of Art, which is on the campus of the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Va., in collaboration with International Arts and Artists, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C.
The show is dense with text, most of it typed on object labels that sometimes seem to take up more space inside the glass cases than the objects themselves. But labels and objects together open up a fascinating period in history, and the show gets more compelling the further into it you advance.
Why the emphasis on porcelain?
A taste for fine Chinese and Japanese porcelains had developed in European courts in the 17th and early 18th centuries. It wasn't until Johann Friedrich Böttger at Meissen, in Saxony, cracked the secret to making it (basically, kaolin clay baked at very high temperatures) that European courts were gradually relieved of the great expense of importing it in quantity, and instead began to compete with each other to produce their own porcelain products.
Elizabeth I of Russia was at the forefront of this push. With crucial technical breakthroughs imminent, she established a porcelain factory in 1746, and two years later, it began producing the real thing.
Grand banquets celebrating marriages, military victories, coronations, and diplomatic visits were regular occurrences at the time. Dining ware — especially porcelain services — played a leading role in establishing prevailing tastes, as well as communicating courtly magnificence and, not incidentally, national pride.
The story told by the various objects in this show is in large part a story of the Russian court's seesawing sibling rivalry with its more sophisticated confreres in Europe. Under first Elizabeth I, then Catherine the Great, Alexander I, Nicholas I, Alexander II, Alexander III, and finally Nicholas II, Russia was nothing if not fickle in its affections for European culture, and many of the objects in this show express an ambivalence that continues to this day. (Hello, Ukraine).
Catherine the Great commissioned services (sets of matching dishes and utensils, often running into the hundreds or thousands) to accompany lavish meals cooked by French chefs, their designs and decorations clearly in thrall to the latest European styles (particularly classicism). But under succeeding czars these European styles alternate with proud reassertions of a unique Russian identity.
Nationalist pride came to the fore under Alexander I after the defeat of Napoleon. It's hard to associate the image of Napoleon's horrifically ragged retreat with gorgeously painted soup tureens, but one result of Russia's defeat of the invaders was a surge in plates, tureens, salts, and chargers all proudly painted with Russian scenes, including views of St. Petersburg, and all manner of military images.
Nicholas I, his successor, had it both ways, commissioning new editions of old services in both Russian and European styles. And so it went — albeit with steadily diminishing returns. Alexander II, having lost the Crimea, and conscious of having inherited an empire in financial distress, showed little interest in porcelain. His son Alexander III and his successor Nicholas II commissioned only three services between them.
In many cases, it's difficult to distinguish between designs that signify European cosmopolitanism and those that assert a more nationalist viewpoint, because the stylistic waters are constantly muddied by the Romanovs' ambivalence, and trumped, moreover, by a more brutal prerogative — the glorification of Romanov power.
Many of the later objects, even as they conjure that power, are almost heartbreaking in their delicacy: a porcelain Easter egg painted with a red cross that was produced in the middle of the Great War (and one year before the Bolshevik Revolution); a lacquer cigarette case studded with small diamonds; a Fabergé cigar case in gilded silver and shaded cloisonne enamel, and inscribed with the words, "Dear Sasha from the person who loves him very much Leekee 1916."
The show comes to an abrupt end with a porcelain plate produced by the Meissen factory in 1950, several decades after the Revolution. It's painted in blue with a scene of revolutionary soldiers storming the Winter Palace in 1917.
Nothing ambivalent about that.
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A couple of weeks ago, Canada's federal and provincial justice and public safety ministers met in Vancouver for two days of meetings.
They talked about delays in the criminal system and reforms to the Criminal Code over mandatory minimum sentencing provisions. About changes to the bail system and simpler and faster court proceedings.
They talked about national security legislation and the safety of Canadians, about the legalization of marijuana and the nuances of home cultivation, and the health and safety effects of the drug, both on adults and the particular risks for young people.
There was discussion about changing the rules on drunk driving to make it easier for police officers to require drivers to submit to breath testing, and on and on.
Heck, the news release on the meeting alone ran to 1,293 words.
Tuck away deep inside that release? These words: "Federal ministers provided an update on cannabis and impaired driving legislative initiatives …"
Right now, the federal government is looking at changing the Criminal Code to give police officers more tools to try and catch the expected increase in impaired drivers stemming from the legalization of marijuana.
At this point, the federal government hasn't rolled out how it expects to measure marijuana in drivers, nor what the legal threshold for marijuana impairment in drivers will be. It hasn't established a rationale for whether there could be different levels needed for medical marijuana users with a higher threshold for impairment. There have already been a significant number of drivers arrested for being under the influence of drugs, while marijuana is still illegal.
Realistically, there's a lot of work left to be done.
And when it comes to the most immediate impact of marijuana legalization, drugged driving is likely to be the quickest where the rubber — and broken windshield glass, and radiator fluid — meets the road.
It's bad enough that we haven't been able to control the variety of impaired drivers that are already on our roads.
You can't walk any distance to work and back without seeing at least a half a dozen drivers texting on their smartphones with what seems like a virtual impunity from being charged, even though their distracted driving causes a significant number of collisions in the Atlantic provinces.
Police departments issue daily reports of drunk drivers that they catch still travelling on our roads — let alone the number who manage to avoid arrest. And that's despite ever-stronger laws at both the federal and provincial level penalizing drunk drivers, while at the same time other laws make it easier for police to pull over and test suspect drivers.
To throw drug-impaired drivers into a system that seems unprepared to address the issue looks like a clear recipe for disaster.
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Increasingly, your company's applications need to be available beyond the intranet, and accessible via internet.
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Kate is a junior from Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania. She is majoring in Business Management and is a member of the WAC Field Hockey team, the Skeet and Trap Club, and the Wall Street Program. This is Kate's second year working with the GIS Office as the Social Media Intern. She works to update and maintain social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and LinkedIn for the GIS Program as well as the Upper Shore Harvest Directory and Upper Shore Regional Council. Kate works to represent the GIS Program by posting pictures of office events, updates on projects, and relevant news about the Washington College while driving traffic to the sites. Check out her work on Facebook and Twitter.


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It's hard to believe that American Idol has been on the air for over 10 years. Around season eight, the American Idol judges started to change, which, in my opinion, changed the focus of the show. Sadly. It became more about the judges and less about the contestants.
Clay Aiken, the season two runner-up, recently shared his thoughts on the American Idol judges. When asked if he will return to the show to celebrate the 10th anniversary of his appearance on the show that gave him his big break, Clay said, "I don't know that I would commemorate it on the show. I don't know that they did it with Justin Guarini and all those folks."
Clay added, "But Idol back in those days was about the contestants. Kelly [Clarkson] and Justin and Tamyra [Gray] and Nikki McKibbin, they were all the stars of the show. And when I was on, Ruben [Studdard] and myself and Kimberley Locke were the stars of the show."
Definitely not shy about his opinion, Clay concluded, "Now Idol is about the judges. I don't even know if they remember there are contestants anymore."'


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reviewing the work of the committee. It is also desirable that these audit committee members be independent directors, not part of the management team. The audit committee is going to be dependent on the internal auditor, in any event, for much of the information it seeks. The internal auditor should report to the committee as well as to the CEO. The external auditor will The primary responsibility for developing, implementing, and monitoring a system of internal controls lies with management. Many companies have formed an internal audit function to act as a management surrogate in monitoring compliance. In other words, they have created a vehicle to see if their rules are being followed. That is looking at it from the management level. When you are looking at it from the board level, in the broadest corporate sense, the internal audit function becomes part of the internal control system. Then, who should be the surrogate of the audit committee or the board? Mr. Sommer would say primarily the internal auditor, and I think we might have a small disagreement on that particular point. We at Touche Ross say the principal surrogate for the audit committee should be the external auditor. He should be the one that gathers and evaluates evidence of what the company and the company's internal auditor have done. And the external auditor should be the one to present this evidence to the audit committee-with an evaluation and appropriate recommendations. also assist the audit committee in overseeing internal controls. The last major point is that an audit committee report should be presented at every board meeting. Its chairman should report the current status of internal controls. If nothing meaningful has come to the committee's attention since the last board meeting, it may have no report. In this fashion, I like to draw the analogy that the external auditor serves as the diagnostician. You go to a doctor, who performs an examination, and he says, I think you should come in for some elective surgery. And he offers the reasons for it. But it is you who evaluate the reasons—you may even get a different opinion—and it is you who make the decision. In the area of internal control, it is the board which makes the final decision. At Touche Ross, we also believe that the external auditor has a responsibility to play more than a passive role in evaluating internal controls. That is, when the external auditor comes before the audit committee, he needs to do more than simply respond to questions: yes, no, maybe, never. The external auditor has the responsibility to assess whether or not the audit committee is evaluating the basic systems and has been informed about the primary areas of risk and what the basic controls are to protect against those risks. Now, the fact that the audit committee should look to the external auditor as the primary surrogate does not preclude it from also looking to the inter-board members not on the audit committee can carry out their monitoring responsibilities required by the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. & A. A. Sommer, Jr., a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, was Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1973 to 7976. nal auditor—or any other source that the committee believes can provide facts that would help in making its evaluation. The same analogy holds true for the external auditor. Although he is primarily responsible to the audit committee, he should also have a working relationship with management on a day-to-day basis. I make these points in response to the furor over some of the remarks by SEC Chairman Harold Williams, in which he discussed to whom the internal auditor should be responsible. I think that, in substance, I am in accord with what Mr. Sommer has discussed here. To review, the internal auditor is primarily responsible to management; it is the vehicle management uses to evaluate systems and check for compliance. Whereas the external auditor is primarily responsible to the board or to the audit committee. In the final analysis, however, this distinction isn't really that important, since the audit committee should have access to internal audit whenever it desires, and management should always have free and open contact with the external auditor. & Who Is Responsible to the Audit Committee? by W. DONALD GEORGEN/Vice Chairman, Board of Directors, Touche Ross 17
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My ex 9550 (which had this problem when i had it, and now went to my brother), gives me the error from the title.
its a verizon unlocked storm 2, on a GSM argentinian carrier.
i guess its the exact same thing as:
i post this here just in case the CDMA phone has some extra weird thing..
this happened on .320, hybrids older than .428, and now on current hybrids
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New App offers culture, language tips
PENSACOLA, Fla. (NNS) -- A new application for mobile devices designed to support Navy personnel and their families stationed or deployed abroad with cultural awareness and language resources became available for download, Feb. 3.
The app initially provides material for six fleet concentration areas: Bahrain, Italy, Japan, Spain, the Republic of Korea, and the Philippines. The Navy Center for Language, Regional Expertise, and Culture (CLREC) plans to continue adding resources on language, history, geography, people, ethnic groups, religious institutions, societal norms, behaviors, etiquette, and culturally-appropriate behaviors for more additional countries as resources allow.
"Whether you are stationed overseas or visiting another nation during a port call on liberty, cultural understanding and familiarization with the language are keys to being a good ambassador," said Chris Wise, CLREC director. "International engagement is something the Navy does and has always done. This app makes it easier than ever for our Navy team and family to access material that will help prepare them to be ready and successful abroad."
User-friendly information on the "CLREC Navy Global Deployer" app includes operational cultural awareness training (OCAT) videos, culture cards, etiquette guides, common language phrases, and guides which provide suggestions for how to go about learning a language.
The OCATs, CLREC's flagship products, are narrated videos providing in-depth information on a country's history, language, social norms, culturally-appropriate and taboo behaviors, and more. The culture cards are guides for a specific country summarizing much of the information presented in the corresponding OCAT. Most include a guide to each country's naval rank structure and insignia. The etiquette guides offer everything from meeting and greeting to cultural values, to the significance of common nonverbal gestures.
The U.S. Navy Sea Warrior Program (PMW 240) produced the app and Tracen Technologies Inc., a company which specializes in integrated mobile and web solutions, was the software developer.
The CLREC Navy Global Deployer mobile application is available for download from the iTunes and Google Play online stores. To find the free app, search key words such as "CLREC" and "Navy global deployer" in the app stores or a web browser. Sailors can also find this app and many other Navy apps at https://www.applocker.navy.mil..
The Navy's CLREC delivers foreign language instruction and training on foreign cultures to prepare Navy personnel for global engagements to strengthen ties with enduring allies, cultivate relationships with emerging partners, thwart adversaries, and defeat enemies. Part of the Center for Information Warfare Training, CLREC is located at Naval Air Station Pensacola Corry Station.
Additional CLREC training materials and information continue to be available on Navy Knowledge Online at https://www.nko.navy.mil/ under learning and language resources.
For more information, visit www.navy.mil, www.facebook.com/usnavy, or www.twitter.com/usnavy.
For more news from Center for Information Warfare Training, visit www.navy.mil/local/cid/.
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We like making our own flour mixes in our kitchen. But we're weird. I don't mind the flour flying onto my black pants as I measure it out onto a bowl balanced on a scale. I like playing with new flour combinations every week — maybe we should go back to sorghum? I feel like a bit of a mad scientist when I mix almond flour and buckwheat, millet and sweet rice. This crazy process is something I truly enjoy.
But I can't imagine everyone likes doing this or has the time. After all, making food in our kitchen is what we do for a living. And now that we have two kids instead of just one, I understand even more keenly why people might not want to spend part of their Sunday afternoon mixing flours into a cambro and giving it a big shake. It makes sense that the more occasional baker would just like to buy a mix of flours.
We've tried all the gluten-free flour mixes on the market, and one of our absolute favorites is Better Batter. We're happy to announce Better Batter as our latest sponsor.
Better Batter is intended to be a cup-for-cup replacement for wheat flour. It's not a whole-grain or high-protein flour mix. Instead, it helps you to make your grandmother's chocolate chip cookies, gluten-free. This all-purpose flour mix works well for making pies, cookies, cakes, muffins, and quick breads. If you need to be gluten-free, but you don't love to bake and play mad scientist in the kitchen making up new recipes? We think you would love the Better Batter all-purpose gluten-free flour .
Their seasoned flour mix is great for making fried chicken and fish, onion rings, or anything you wanted battered before you fry it. The Better Batter pancake and biscuit mix makes Lucy's favorite pancakes of the moment. The Better Batter brownie mix makes fudgy, lovely brownie mix. And the Better Batter yellow cake mix and Better Batter chocolate cake mix make fluffy, moist cakes. If you have a gluten-free birthday party coming up, or you want to make a batch of cupcakes so your kid doesn't feel left out at birthday celebrations, these are truly wonderful.
(Note: the Better Batter mixes do contain xanthan gum. I can only tolerate xanthan gum occasionally, so these worked for me when we were testing them. Those of you who cannot tolerate xanthan might not be able to use these regularly.)
These are, in our opinion, some of the best gluten-free flour mixes on the market today.
We encourage you to click those links and buy some Better Batter through Amazon, which is the best way to find them. We also wanted you to hear more from our sponsors. Their story is part of the reason we love this company.
What compelled you to create Better Batter?
We began our gluten-free journey because my child was dying – literally. Teeth loose, bowels even looser, shedding intestinal tissue – he was a mess and a half! I was 100% committed to giving him a normal diet, and so I began to look for gluten free alternatives. When my younger son and I were also diagnosed with celiac… and then my sisters and father (!)… I knew gluten free would be a permanent part of my cooking.
Back then, there weren't any gluten free products consistently available (2003) and the recipes that were out there just weren't great (boy have things come a long way!!) and even more than that I couldn't make the foods my family made. My dad is a retired executive chef, as is my granddad, so that was seriously traumatic. I was tired of making "other people's food" – I wanted to make MY mom's pie, not someone else's.
Better Batter itself (the flour) was dreamed up, on a night after I quite sincerely cast up a prayer to heaven to have some kind of solution to my problem, so I can't take much credit for the initial creation of the product, except to say it's been a literal God-send, but the urge to help other people to live a normal life and the urge to give charitably is what compelled me to create Better Batter (the company) and what continues to compel me to create new products.
Why do you think Better Batter works as a gluten-free flour mix?
Well, as you have told your readers many many times, it's about getting the mix of starches, binders, proteins etc into the right combination. I call these bodifiers, modifiers, starches, and binders, and we have a combination that is similar enough to real gluteny flour to work in real gluteny recipes, when measured properly.
Can you tell us the story of a customer(s) pleased by Better Batter?
Sure! We have a customer who has a child with both celiac disease and autism. They were really struggling because their son was extremely self limiting in what he would eat. At the time, he was only eating a popular orange powder brand Mac-n-Cheese and breaded chicken fingers. She was at her wit's end, because the sensory issues that come with autism made it next to impossible for her to feed him alternatives.
She came to us to ask for help, and fortunately, I was able to be there for her in a very real way because my older son (who also has autism) was very self limiting, at first, too. We decided to switch to a great brand of gluten free pasta elbows and use the powdered cheese from the company and to make homemade chicken fingers using our flour. It worked! She couldn't believe he would actually eat the alternative, and I explained that if the taste and texture is perfect – and it has to be perfect – you *can* make substitutions.
Fast forward a few weeks: Her son randomly grabbed strawberries from the table and tried a bite. The next day, he grabbed some breakfast cereal (also gluten free). And the food list started to expand for him. As his body healed, his ability to tolerate different foods increased. As a result of better nutrition, he grew a great deal (about 8 inches) and his neurological function improved dramatically, to where he became very high functioning. He was able to communicate enough to help her realize that he loved playing the piano, and now he's pursuing that with passion.
Sort of a long, roundabout story – I guess she's happy with our product because it gave her hope and her son a chance to have a healthy, productive future.
Here's a story straight from the horse's mouth (so to speak!) from one of our customers at Amazon.com:
Those types of people, and those stories are what keep me doing this and why we sell our products.
What do you hope Better Batter brings to people's lives?
In one word: life.
I want our products to give people their lives back – their recipes, their memories. I want people to be able to bless their gluten-free relatives without having to relearn everything they know about cooking. I want gluten free folks to feel normal, for their kids to be able to have what all the other kids have. I want holidays to be less stressful, for menus to satisfy the whole family, and for budgets to reflect real savings. I want a world where to eat gluten free isn't to feel weird or different or to have to accept mediocrity.
I want our company to give people life to the fullest. I want people with autism to have therapies they need and advocacy when they need it. I want the poor, the orphans, the widows, and the oppressed to have justice, clean water, good food, shelter, and education. I want to change the lives of people who don't have the means to change their circumstances.
Most of all, I want people to partner with us as we pursue this dream, because I want them to experience how rewarding it feels to leave a legacy for future generations.
Naomi Poe
Founder and CEO
Better Batter
The good folks at Better Batter would like to offer a sampler pack — one of every mix they make — to two readers of this site. Please leave a comment here about why you would like to win one of these sampler packs. Comments will be closed after Sunday, May 18th. Winners will be chosen at random and notified by email, so please leave a working email address with your comment.


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Spoon River Valley Scenic Drive
The Spoon River Valley Scenic Drive Associates invite you to come to Fulton County, Illinois and enjoy the natural wonders of the Spoon River Valley. Spoon River has carved a wide scenic valley through Fulton County as it flows from London Mills to the south and east where it joins the Illinois River near the southeastern corner of the county. The Spoon River became nationally known from the work of Edgar Lee Masters, author of the noted Spoon River Anthology. Come on out the first two full weekends in October. There are over one hundred miles of scenic routes on the Spoon River Valley Scenic Drive to be enjoyed on this driving tour with beautiful fall colors. There will be food, arts, crafts, entertainment and flea market. Visit 17 villages and historic sites!


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Michigan Public K-12 School Rankings are based on data from the Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) provided by Michigan Department of Education. There are two sets of rankings:
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Team Viewer 7 Brings Better Multi-Monitor, Performance & Meeting Support
Team Viewer is perhaps one of the most widely used desktop remote sharing, control and collaboration application, which is used by not just system administrators for remotely controlling servers, but also by entrepreneurs, employees of small and medium size companies and even common users who require help regarding technical issues from their friends. Earlier, we covered features and enhancements in Team Viewer 6, and the iPhone and iPod version of Team Viewer. Recently, Team Viewer 7 beta was launched with improved remote control and meetings features. In this post we will provide you with a list of the new Team Viewer enhancements.
Team viewer 7 now provides faster file transfer via drag and drop. Instead of using the top toolbar, you can simply drag an item from your desktop to the remote screen, in order to quickly transfer files and folders.
Now you can utilize multiple monitor screens more efficiently by displaying multiple "remote monitors" simultaneously, without having to switch monitor screens.
Team Viewer 7 allows saving individual connection settings for each computer, which can be organized in separate groups to instantly launch a connection.
Team Viewer has also included a number of enhancements for meetings including scheduling, meetings, starting meetings with a single click using Start instant meeting button, connection support for upto 25 participants in a single meeting and mobile participation using an iPhone, iPad or Android app.
Team Viewer 7 also comes with some under the hood changes, such as optimization of data packets and display settings for preventing lags. During testing, I found Team Viewer 7 to be more responsive than previous version. The new features have added more convenience, and will help speed up remote control and collaboration.
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Lamar Alexander's wind claim: Is it for the birds?
For Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander, there are lots of reasons to loathe wind power. The East Tennessean loves his unobstructed mountain views and much prefers the consistently reliable power output from nuclear reactors. And lately he has been claiming that wind turbines lead to a yearly slaughter of birds. His claim about turbines being "a Cuisinart in the sky" for birds reflects at least one estimate, but others show lower numbers. And there's this -- among manmade hazards, wind turbines play a tiny role in bird deaths.


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How to Install and Use SVN on CentOS 6
Subversion or SVN is a name for Apache Subversion, an extremely popular version control system (VCS). SVN free or open source software and is licensed through Apache. SVN is a common component for software and website development. SVN can also be used to control software when there are many collaborators so that changes aren't lost.
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For these commands to work, you will need to be logged in as the root user. To install SVN and its dependencies, we will use yum.
After this installs, you will be able to use subversion on your system.
The following commands will convert a
./my-test-directory/ containing files into a working copy of a newly-created repository:
Committed revision 1.
Checked out revision 1.
At revision 1.
Congratulations, if you made it this far then you have successfully installed SVN and created your very first repository.


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By Lucie Paterson, National Services Te Paerangi
30 June 2009
On Thursday Donna Williams, Chief Audience Development Officer from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York spoke at Te Papa about how the Met is diversifying their audience.
Here are the main points I teased out of the talk:
Relationships is the key word
The Met started the Multicultural Audience Development Initiative with a diverse committee of people who are involved in and believe in the arts.
Pick people from organisations with the right criteria to work with you. Listen to these people so you know what you are doing right and wrong. Listening to what they think should be part of your museum's strategy.
Friendraising to make your museum work
Make everyone feel like they are a friend of your museum. Approach and welcome new and diverse communities, multicultural and multigenerational groups to be a part of your museum's fibre.
- With other museums.
- With your staff members. They are the best ambassadors for an initiative like this internally as well as externally.
- With your museum's trustees. They are just as interested in diversifying the museum's audience as you are.
Celebrate all communities
Acknowledge and celebrate all heritage events. The Met celebrate Martin Luther King Day, Diwali, Womans History month, Latino Espanic holidays, and have a gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender community group who enjoy special events in the Museum as well.
Don't be afraid to ask people
Get out in your community and ask people to be part of your museum. Ask people to help you. Celebrities in New York have started doing public services announcements and interviews about the museum on TV for free!
Get out there!
40% of Donna's time is spent out there in the communities, letting people know they are all part of the same story and the same museum family. Do what ever you can to find out about relevant events you can tag your museum onto.
Media outreach
Make sure you are in the community papers as well as the main paper. Most people read both. By getting your presence in both, it shows you care.
Local outreach
Reaching out to the local community is even more important now in this economic climate. Don't just target the international visitors, you have to get the people at your own back door to come more often. Make it attractive to them.
Diversity in programming
Acknowledge different communities celebrations at your museum. Through exhibitions, lectures, gallery talks, receptions, education programmes the Met recognises Native American Heritage, Hispanic/Latino heritage, Asian heritage, South Asian heritage, African America heritage, Women's heritage, social justice etc.
Branching out
Mentoring programme for college students. These are potential future staff members. All communities should be represented. The Met are able to help students go forward in their careers. They are able to come and work at the Met for 10 weeks and receive a stipend. One of their most successful initiatives was a toga party that attracted over 3000 young people into the Museum.
In addition there is a College Advisory Group at the Met for 18-23 year olds. This age group is often forgotten about. 25 students from all over New York strategise about how to get their age group to the Met.
Family programming
The Met has visitation programmes that cover a entire life time:.
– Starting with programmes for parents with babies
– Met then has family programmes which attract 500,000 students per year
– Visitors can then move onto the high school internship programme
– Then the college group at the Met
– Then adult membership…
Everyone needs to be able to find a spot in the museum circle.
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Crew Soccer Academy Wolves product Ahinga Selemani and CSA midfielder Ben Swanson are included in U.S. U-18 Men's National Team Head Coach Javier Perez's 18-man squad that is headed to the Copa del Atlantico in Spain, U.S. Soccer announced on Tuesday. Swanson is one of just eight players born in 1997 on the roster.
The U.S. will square-off against the likes of Spain, Argentina and the Canary Islands in the tournament. The Copa del Atlantico starts on January 30 and finishes up on February 8.


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We went on a long road trip to St. Louis to visit Kamron's mother and grandparents.
The grandparents have a great park right next to their house.
We had Sadie's best friend Alexis over to play almost every afternoon and they did a lot of carrying Miles around in a basket.
We met up with my dear friend Sandy and let our kids wear themselves out jumping on the bouncers and playing mini golf. They used to be our next door neighbors and I miss walking across the back yard for gossip like nobody's business.
We took Miles for more repeat blood work. We got smart this time and sent him back with a child therapist instead of me going to the procedure room with him. Worked SO much better! So Noah and I waited in the waiting room and our time there literally made him climb the walls.
We spent several afternoons killing time at Target in the toy department. Playing with fun stuff for free totally rocks! Lucky for me, my children have not yet figured out that they can actually ask to buy stuff here. Wonder how much longer we can pull that one off.
This pretty, little lady had to have a cavity filled. Boo.
We went to go visit Papaw Gary after he had surgery. Thank you Lord that he is recovering well and that none of the crazy kids kicked him in the stitches!
We went to the zoo with my Granny Sadie and our cousin Julia. We all had a ball! Aren't Noah and Julia so cute holding hands walking through the zoo?
And somehow over the last two weeks, Miles managed to get even cooler than he already was.
It's been a wonderful couple of weeks. I am so grateful for all the time we've gotten to spend with our amazing friends and family. But I am tired and ready to spend a few days just doing nothing! Come on weekend- you can't get here soon enough!
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The San Francisco Giants rode another virtuoso pitching performance to blank the Detroit Tigers 2-0 on Saturday and move within one victory of their second World Series title in three years.
San Francisco have a commanding 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven series and could claim the championship with a victory at Detroit's Comerica Park yesterday.
"It's a good situation, but there's nothing been done yet," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. "It's a number, just like I said about two. Now it's three, but that's not the series. So you have to keep going about your business as usual."
Giants starter Ryan Vogelsong allowed the Tigers just five singles over 5-2/3 innings, before giving way to relievers Tim Lincecum and Sergio Romo, who did not surrender a hit.
The Giants scored both of their runs in the second inning on an RBI triple by Gregor Blanco and a run-scoring single by Brandon Crawford.
Those early runs drained the enthusiasm from a sellout crowd of 42,262 desperate to see the Tigers make a move in their bid to capture their first championship since 1984.
Defeat left Detroit, shut out in the past two games, on the ropes and manager Jim Leyland said there would be no pre-game motivational speeches for his team yesterday.
"They can count," Leyland said. "We know they're down three games to zero, there's no secret formula or message for them. They're big guys, they know what the situation is, and they know we have to come out tomorrow [Sunday] and obviously win a game. It starts with that. You don't think about the four, you think about one, and that's basically what we were thinking about tonight."
Vogelsong, who has been magnificent in the post-season, was aided by two inning-ending double plays in the first three innings.
Then in the fifth, the Tigers had the bases loaded with one out, but Quintin Berry struck out and Vogelsong got Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera to pop out to short.
Cabrera this year captured the first Triple Crown in the majors since 1967, but the 29-year-old seven-time All-Star has just two hits and one RBI in the series.
Vogelsong, who is 3-0 in the playoffs while giving up just three runs in 24-2/3 innings, breathed a sigh of relief after retiring Cabrera, calling him "the best hitter in the game."
"The way we were playing defense, I was really just trying to get him to put a ball in play somewhere, because I had a good feeling we were going to catch it if he did with the way these guys were all over the field tonight," Vogelsong said. "I was just trying to make a pitch, and I was able to do that and he popped it up."
The Tigers' other big gun, Prince Fielder, has one hit and no RBIs in the series.
"I don't make excuses," Fielder said. "We are just not getting it done. We have to play it one game at time. Makes the series one game, all we can do is play hard."
Detroit, desperate for offense, lost the opener 8-3, scoring two give-away runs in the ninth after the game was all but decided. The next game they were blanked 2-0 on just two hits.
Sanchez took the loss for the Tigers on Saturday, despite pitching well, giving up six hits and two runs, while striking out eight.
Tigers right-fielder Andy Dirks conceded Cabrera's bases-loaded pop-up was a missed opportunity, but added: "You have to create more than one situation a game to win."
"It was a big situation and it is not always going to happen," he said. "It's baseball. The best hitters in the game, they succeed one out of three times. You just have to keep trying to put pressure on the other team as much as you can and maybe get lucky."


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Backyard Beehive & Starter Kit
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Backyard beekeeping brings health and vitality to your garden and natural raw honey to your kitchen. Getting started is easy with this essential set from one of the world's leading beekeeping suppliers. It contains a three-box, eight-frame beehive along with basic protective clothing and tools you'll need for establishing your hive.
- Custom-designed beehive with 19 3/4" x 14" 6 5/8" wood hive boxes, each filled with 8 high-quality assembled wooden frames complete with beeswax-coated Rite-Cell® foundation. Peaked roof is copper-colored anodized aluminum. Wood construction is hand stained for weather protection.
- Adjustable vented helmet with pocket veil: Cool and lightweight polyester/nylon with a built-in sweatband. Veil has a drawstring bottom and tightly woven netting that works well against gnats and mosquitoes, too.
- Large gloves: Soft cowhide leather with sturdy canvas sleeves.
- 9" stainless-steel hive tool: A must for beekeeping, this mini crowbar is used for lifting, prying and scraping.
- 14" wooden bee brush: Long, soft bristles to gently brush bees away from frames and clothing.
- 4" x 7" stainless-steel smoker: equipped with a guard and easy-pump bellow.
- Entrance feeder: Allows you to use your own mason jar or #5 round jar for feeding syrup or supplementing water.
- Includes an entrance reducer, used to adjust size of hive opening from large to small as weather gets cooler in fall and into winter.
- Bees not included.
- Hive is made in USA.
- A Williams Sonoma exclusive.
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- Beehive overall: 25 ½" x 18 ½ x 31"high.
- Helmet with veil: 13 3/4" x 11" x 5".
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- Bee brush: 14" x 3 1/2".
- Smoker: 11" x 9" with 4" x 7" barrel.
- Feeder: 5 1/2" x 3".
- Helmet, brush and feeder: made in USA.
- Veil, hive tool and smoker: made in China.
- Gloves: made in India.
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- Hand wash helmet, veil, hive tool, brush and feeding in warm water and mild detergent; rinse and dry.
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Rated 1 out of 5 by Bee Happy from pretty but impractical The hives are beautiful. If you're looking for a nice yard decoration, they're lovely. We purchased three. We were new to beekeeping and quickly discovered several significant problems: (1) the bottoms are solid wood; in the last few years since these hives were built, it's become standard to use mesh bottoms (with removable solid insert) to help address mites and keep hives cleaner and cooler; (2) they are smaller than standard boxes which is nice that they're lighter weight but it also means you can't purchase additional layers or other accessories at any beekeeping vendor; nothing else fits; (3) I don't mind going directly to the original the manufacturer but sadly they're out of business so you can't purchase additional supplies/accessories anywhere; huge problem for long-term maintenance!Date published: 2017-06-29


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(CNN) – Fresh off his re-engagement to Bristol Palin, the Associated Press reports that Levi Johnston is set to appear in an R&B music video in which he will play a young man driven away from his love interest by the young woman's mother.
Johnston, the fiancé of Bristol Palin, has agreed to appear in the video with Brittani Senser, an R&B artist.
"He's looking forward to doing it," Johnston's attorney told the Associated Press on Friday. "It will give him an opportunity to act a little bit in front of a camera. He's done a commercial before, but something like this is a little more involved."
Johnston and Bristol Palin announced their plans to become re-engaged earlier this month, shortly after Johnston issued a public apology to the Palin family, saying that some of his comments about the Palins in the wake of the 2008 presidential campaign are not totally true.
Bristol Palin is the daughter of former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Johnston is the father of Britol's son Tripp, born in the months after the 2008 presidential campaign.
The couple told Us Weekly that Sarah Palin did not know about their plans until after their engagement.
The Palin family issued this statement after learning of the engagement:
"Bristol, at 19, is now a young adult. As parents we obviously want what is best for our children, but Bristol is ultimately in charge of determining what is best for her and her beautiful son."
How sad for those young people who have been studying drama, voice, dance, etc. and can't even get a break........I'm glad I don't watch R&B music videos, because this one would make me very angry.
John McCain chose a token female for the ticket base solely on her good looks. No one could call the man out of touch. Though he lost the election, the phenomenon he created has been cursing and poisoning this country's political scene and culture ever since.
That America remains just this enamoured by this ludicrous pack of hillibillies is its own fault. We never tire of an ambitious yet failed beauty queen and the exploits of her trash family and their awful associates.
You're a shallow and ignorant society, America. And that this comedy persists is your proof. At first, one could have thought "Shame on John McCain." But we could have discarded out national embarassment whenever we wanted. Apparantly, we still do not. Shame on us. The world laughed at us when W made believe he was in charge. Thanks our own self-denigrating lack of taste, they still do.
I've got to hand it to Levi for planning to marry Bristol anyway. Sarah Palin will make even Endora from Bewitched look benign. I hope you and young Bristol and your child have a wonderful future and good luck to the three of you. Sarah: Let the kids alone and let them live their lives.
senator McCain should be held responsible for this horrible families sudden "popularity" and media coverage. We would have never heard of them at all had it not been for him.
Why do we reward moronic behavior ? Bristol is no better than any other young american woman who caught caught in a delicate position. After Levi trashed the Palin family as he was some wounded animal, he makes nice and tells her he loves him. That was one too many trips to the Palin breadbox for this opportunistic mercenary. After all, Bristol was already the governor's daughter when Levi made his move.
There's no shortage of gall in any of the Palin bunch. But guess that's the American way, take the money when you can get it and run. The public is fickle and will soon tire of them, hopefully.
He should do a great job then, but hopefully he won't have that many lines.
Actually when I read this, I was hoping that it wasn't on *The Secret Life of the American Teenager* Bristol was horrible on that, but that show has writings that would make a person choke too death watching it.
never mind he's not worth a comment.L L L L
Looks like Levi finally wised up and figured out "which side his bread should be buttered on".
And no one thinks this was, in someway, planned. How ironic is the "acting" task at hand. .. driven away by the Mother. HAHAHAHA
Anything to keep that trash "family" in the limelight, huh, Sarah?
Thankfully we haven't sent the invitations out yet.
Dumb as a rock, but hot Hot HOT! 😉
We are in a recession and individuals who have paid their dues by staying in school and getting a good education, cannot find jobs, and a great number of them are even losing their jobs. Yet, this guy who who has done nothing to achieve a higher education is being rewarded with an acting gig. There is definitely something wrong with this system and it also makes you wonder if education is really rewarded.
He is a bigger joke than Sarah (THE BIMBO) Palin. And we know how stupid she is.
He is the epitomy of a L O S E R !!!
As is the entire PALIN FAMILY! What a disgrace they all are!!
It's so sad that these kind of jerks even exist!!!
Just another insignificant, nobody special from nowhere special looking to cash in on his 15 minutes, just like his halfwit, attention starved, future bimbo in law..........Birds of a feather they say!
Please tell me why did John McPain bring these people into the light
Why is this a political story?
Dont be so lazy
Levi cashing in on his "celebrity". Sounds like he'll be the perfect son-in-law for the white-trash Palin clan.
I can't wait... not.
This guy is such a blatant and truly pathetic opportunist. This whole affair will play out as such a sappy soap opera. How unfortunate that children such as Tripp will need to grow up living an unintended circus life.


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Revision 18
8 December 1941: The
Attack on Pearl Harbor:
Kure. Returns to Kure. Exchanges signals with the battleships of BatDiv 1, departing Hashirajima.
16 December 1941:
Battleship No. 1 is completed and registered in the Kure Naval District as YAMATO. Captain Takayanagi is the Commanding Officer.
12 February 1942:
Departs Kure. Arrives at Hashirajima. The flag of the Combined Fleet's Commander-in-Chief Admiral (Fleet Admiral, posthumously) Yamamoto Isoroku (former CO of AKAGI) is transferred from battleship NAGATO to YAMATO.
March 1942:
Inland Sea. Training and gunnery practice.
27 May 1942:
YAMATO is deemed operational.
29 May 1942:Operation "MI" - The Battle of Midway:
At 0600, YAMATO departs Hashirajima with the First Fleet, Main Body: BatDiv 1, light carrier HOSHO, seaplane/submarine tenders CHIYODA, NISSHIN, DesRon 3's light cruiser SENDAI, nine destroyers, Supply Group No. 1. The Main Body remains 600 miles behind the Carrier Striking Force.
30 May 1942:
The Japanese intercept, but cannot decode, a report by USS CUTTLEFISH (SS-171) returning from patrol near Saipan. Around midnight, the IJN's 6th (Submarine) Fleet at Kwajalein also reports monitoring messages exchanged by two American task groups located 170 miles NNE of Midway, moving westwards.
Aboard YAMATO, Admiral Yamamoto suggests that the information be relayed to the First Air Fleet's flagship, carrier AKAGI, but senior staff officer Captain Kuroshima cautions not to break radio silence.
5 June 1942:
0015: Admiral Yamamoto orders the night engagement cancelled.
0255: Yamamoto orders Operation MI cancelled.
9 June 1942:
The Chief of Staff of the First Air Fleet, Rear Admiral (later Vice Admiral) Kusaka Ryunosuke (former CO of AKAGI) and staff officers Captain Oishi Tamotsu and Cdr (later Gen/CINC JSDF) Genda Minoru arrive aboard YAMATO from light cruiser NAGARA.
10 June 1942:
1200 miles SE of Tokyo. After sunset, an unidentified submarine fires two torpedoes at YAMATO about 100 miles NNE of Minami-Torishima (Marcus Island). YAMATO and the other ships in the Main Body turn to port and both torpedoes miss.
14 June 1942:
At 1900, arrives at Hashirajima.
20-21 June 1942:
A staff conference is held aboard YAMATO regarding the changes in the current IJN shipbuilding policy. Many high-ranking officers of the Naval General Staff and Navy Technical Department (Kampon) participate.
14 July 1942:
NAGATO and MUTSU are reassigned to BatDiv 2. YAMATO remains in BatDiv 1.
5 August 1942:
MUSASHI is assigned to the First Fleet, BatDiv 1 with YAMATO.
17 August 1942:
Yamamoto and his staff depart Kure for Truk with the Main Body: YAMATO, escort carrier KASUGA MARU (later renamed TAIYO), DesDiv 7's AKEBONO, USHIO and SAZANAMI.
28 August 1942:
Near Truk. YAMATO is attacked by LtCdr (later Vice Admiral) Glynn R. Donaho's USS FLYING FISH (SS-229). Since Donaho's ONI 41-42 "Recognition Manual" does not include the unknown YAMATO-class, he identifies her as a "KONGO-class" battleship. Donaho fires four Mark 14 steam torpedoes and thinks that he sees two hits, but they are premature explosions. YAMATO launches at least one E13A1 "Jake" floatplane to counter-attack. FLYING FISH is bombed and depth-charged by four escorts, but makes good her escape.
1 November 1942:
Aboard YAMATO, a festive dinner is held for all skippers stationed at Truk to celebrate the IJN's victory at the Battle of Santa Cruz.
17 December 1942:
Captain (later Rear Admiral) Matsuda Chiaki (former CO of HYUGA) assumes command from Rear Admiral Takayanagi who is reassigned as CoS, First Fleet.
11 February 1943:
Truk. After one year's service, Admiral Yamamoto's Combined Fleet flag is transferred to YAMATO's new sister-ship MUSASHI.
3 April 1943:
Admiral Yamamoto and his staff depart Truk for Rabaul on two Kawanishi H8K "Emily" flying boats to supervise Operation "I-GO" from 7 to 14 April. They are expected to return to MUSASHI on 19 April.
18 April 1943:
Acting on codebreaker's "Ultra" deciphers and as authorized by President Roosevelt, 18 Army Air Force P-38s of the 70th and 339th Fighter Squadrons of the 347th FG takeoff from Henderson Field, Guadalcanal and intercept and kill Admiral Yamamoto over Bougainville while his Type 1 Mitsubishi GM4 "Betty" bomber is enroute from Lakunai airfield, Rabaul to Ballale Island. A second Betty carrying Yamamoto's Chief of Staff, Vice Admiral Ugaki is also shot down. Ugaki, although hurt in the crash, survives.
23 April 1943:
Truk. In the evening, a flying boat arrives carrying the ashes of Yamamoto and six of his staff officers. Yamamoto's ashes are transferred secretly to the Admiral's sea cabin under the supervision of senior staff officer Captain Kuroshima Kameto.
25 April 1943:
Truk. At 1500, Admiral (Fleet Admiral, posthumously) Koga Mineichi (former CO of ISE) arrives on an Emily from Yokosuka, ostensibly for an inspection tour. It is not made public that he is the new CINC of the Combined Fleet until Yamamoto's state funeral in Tokyo the next month.
1 May 1943:
Captain Matsuda is promoted to Rear Admiral.
8 May 1943:
Departs Truk for Yokosuka.
13 May 1943:
Departs Yokosuka for Kure.
21 May 1943:
Drydocked for inspection and repairs.
30 May 1943:
12 July 1943:
Kure. Drydocked. A Type 21, Mod 3, air and surface search radar is installed. Twelve new (4x3) 25-mm AA guns are fitted on the weather deck. YAMATO's total 25-mm. AA suite is now 36 guns. Her 155-mm. wing mount guns are provided with coaming armor and their barbettes with 28-mm of additional armor. YAMATO's fuel storage is reduced and her main and auxiliary rudder controls are improved.
17 July 1943:
16 August 1943:
YAMATO, loaded with troops and supplies, departs Kure with FUSO, NAGATO and DesDiv 16's AMATSUKAZE and HATSUKAZE. Stops at Yashima anchorage that night.
17 August 1943:
YAMATO departs Yashima via Yokosuka for Truk in a task group: battleships FUSO, NAGATO, escort carrier TAIYO, CruDiv 4's ATAGO and TAKAO, DesDiv 7's USHIO, DesDiv 10's AKIGUMO and YUGUMO, DesDiv 16's AMATSUKAZE and HATSUKAZE.
23 August 1943:
The task group arrives at Truk.
7 September 1943:
Captain (later Rear Admiral) Ono Takeji (former CO of SUZUYA) assumes command from from Rear Admiral Matsuda who is reassigned to the Imperial General Staff.
18 September 1943:
Truk. The fleet sorties to Brown Island, Eniwetok in response to raids on Tarawa, Makin and Abemama Atolls launched by Rear Admiral (later Vice Admiral) Charles A. Pownall's Task Force 15's carriers LEXINGTON (CV-16), PRINCETON (CVL-23) and BELLEAU WOOD (CVL-24).
Vice Admiral Ozawa Jizaburo (former CO of HARUNA), in tactical command, leads the fleet's first section: BatDiv 1's YAMATO and NAGATO, CarDiv 1's SHOKAKU and ZUIKAKU, (followed by ZUIHO on 19 September), CruDiv 5's MYOKO and HAGURO, CruDiv 8's CHIKUMA and TONE, light cruisers AGANO, NOSHIRO and destroyers. Vice Admiral Kurita Takao leads the second section with his Advance Force: CruDiv 4's ATAGO, TAKAO, MAYA and CHOKAI.
Admiral Koga, CINC, Combined Fleet, remains at Truk in the fleet's flagship, MUSASHI with BatDiv 2's FUSO and BatDiv 3's KONGO and HARUNA.
25 September 1943:
No contact is made with Task Force 15. The fleet returns to Truk.
5-6 November 1943:
Rear Admiral (later Vice Admiral) Alfred E. Montgomery's (former CO of RANGER, CV-4) Task Force 14's carriers USS ESSEX (CV-9), YORKTOWN (CV-10), LEXINGTON (CV-16), INDEPENDENCE (CV-22), BELLEAU WOOD (CVL-24) and COWPENS (CVL-25) launch raids on Wake and the Marshall Islands.
17 October 1943:
The Japanese intercept radio traffic that suggests the Americans are planning another raid on Wake Island. Admiral Koga sorties from Truk to intercept the enemy carriers with BatDiv 1's YAMATO, MUSASHI, NAGATO, BatDiv 2's FUSO, BatDiv 3's KONGO, HARUNA, CarDiv 1's SHOKAKU, ZUIKAKU and ZUIHO, CruDiv 4's ATAGO, TAKAO, MAYA and CHOKAI, CruDiv 7's SUZUYA and MOGAMI, CruDiv 8's CHIKUMA and TONE, light cruisers AGANO, NOSHIRO and OYODO and destroyers.
19-23 October 1943:
Arrives at Brown Atoll, Eniwetok.
23 October 1943:
Departs Brown and sorties to a position 250 miles south of Wake. Returns after no contact is made with enemy forces.
26 October 1943:
The fleet arrives back at Truk.
12 December 1943:
Departs Truk with CarDiv 1's SHOKAKU, DesDiv 4's TANIKAZE and DesDiv 10's AKIGUMO and KAZAGUMO covering troop transport operation "BO-1".
17 December 1943:
Arrives at Yokosuka. Loads supplies and the 2nd Battalion of the IJA's 1st Independent Mixed Regiment a 4,131-man organization mobilized on September 22.
20 December 1943:
Departs Yokosuka for Truk escorted by DesDiv 4's YAMAGUMO and TANIKAZE.
25 December 1943:
180 miles NE of Truk. At 0440 (K), LtCdr (later Rear Admiral) Eugene B. McKinney's USS SKATE (SS-305) is running on the surface at 10-13N, 150-27E. McKinney, acting on an "Ultra", picks up YAMATO at 27,300 yards. He dives and tries to close, but is unsuccessful until YAMATO turns towards him. He passes down her starboard beam, turns and at 0518 (K) fires his four stern tubes at her at 2,200 yards at 10-05N, 150-32E.
25 January 1944:
Captain Morishita Nobuei (former CO of HARUNA) assumes command from Rear Admiral Ono.
3 February 1944:
25 February 1944:
Kure. BatDiv 1's YAMATO and MUSASHI are reassigned from the First Fleet to the Second Fleet.
Drydocked. Two beam triple 6.1 inch (155-mm.) turrets are removed and replaced by six (3x2) 5-inch (127-mm.) HA AA mounts. Twenty-four (8x3) and 26 single 25mm. AA mounts are added. Shelters are also added on the upper deck for the increased AA crews. Type 13 air search and Type 22, Mod 4, surface search/gunnery control radars are installed and the main mast is altered. Two 150-mm searchlights are removed and later installed ashore at Kure.
YAMATO is fitted with Type 2 infrared (IR) Identification Friend-or-Foe (IFF)/signaling devices mounted midway up on each side of the bridge. The system may have been based on the German Seehund IR device. It is built around a telescopic sensor that receives light-waves in the IR range and registers a readout in the radio shack. The system also includes a pair of 20-mm. binoculars coaxially mounted with the transmitting IR lamp on the bridge so that another ship can use the IR detector for elementary signaling or as a formation light for station keeping.
About this time, YAMATO is also fitted with multiple E27 radar detectors copied from the German FuMB 1 Metox R.600.
18 March 1944:
11 April 1944:
Departs Kure for trials in the Iyo Nada; returns to Hashirajima that evening.
17 April 1944:
Returns to Kure to load supplies.
21 April 1944:
Departs Kure for Okinoshima. Loads troops.
22 April 1944:
Departs Okinoshima with cruiser MAYA, destroyers SHIMAKAZE, YUKIKAZE and two other destroyers.
28 April 1944:
Arrives at Manila, unloads troops and supplies, then departs.
1 May 1944:
Arrives at Lingga (near Singapore).
3 May 1944:
Lingga. Designated the flagship of Vice Admiral Ugaki Matome's (former CO of HYUGA) BatDiv 1.
11 May 1944:
Steams with Vice Admiral Ozawa Jisaburo's (former CO of HARUNA) Mobile Fleet from Lingga to Tawi Tawi.
14 May 1944:
Anchors at Tawi Tawi.
May-June 1944:
Tawi Tawi, YAMATO and MUSASHI participate in joint gunnery drills at ranges of almost 22 miles.
7 June 1944:
Bongao, Tawi Tawi. YAMATO receives fresh provisions replenishment from supply ship KITAKAMI MARU.
Shortly after departure, a periscope (perhaps HARDER's) is sighted and a submarine alert is given. All ships quickly execute "hard left-rudder," but MUSASHI turns too late. She closes on YAMATO just ahead. On YAMATO's bridge, near panic reigns! Captain Morishita takes over the helm himself and carries out an evasive turn, but the situation remains critical. Then a lookout reports that the "ship behind us has stopped." All aboard both super-battleships are relieved that a collision between them has been avoided on the eve of battle.
12 June 1944:
The U.S. Invasion of Marianas begins. Operation KON is "postponed". Ugaki's force arrives at Batjan where they are joined by CruDiv 5's HAGURO and MYOKO and destroyer ASAGUMO.
13 June 1944:
At 2200, Ugaki's force departs Batjan to rendezvous with the Mobile Fleet.
15 June 1944:
E of Mindanao. The YAMATO group is sighted and reported by Cdr (later Captain) Slade D. Cutter's USS SEAHORSE (SS-304).
17 June 1944:
Refuels from the 1st Supply Force's oilers, then joins the Mobile Fleet. Later, the Mobile Fleet is sighted by USS CAVALLA (SS-244) in the Philippine Sea.
19-23 June 1944: Operation "A-GO" - The Battle of the Philippine Sea:
Vice Admiral Kurita's Second Fleet steams about 100 miles ahead of Vice Admiral Ozawa's carriers.
At 0920, YAMATO's lookouts spot aircraft approaching at 13,125 feet. This is the fighter unit of Air Group 601's second strike. Admiral Kurita has received no information about a friendly overflight. Cruiser TAKAO fires four starshells meaning "identify yourself", but no reply is received. The planes keep approaching.
At 16,400 yards, YAMATO and the other ships execute a turn to port and open fire. YAMATO's main guns, loaded with "Sanshiki-dan" shells, are fired in anger for the first time - but at friendly forces! Four Mitsubishi Zeke fighters are damaged. Another ditches. YAMATO may have damaged some of the planes. MUSASHI's lookouts correctly identify the planes and she is the only ship that does not open fire.
The Mobile Fleet's aircraft attack U.S. Task Force 58 off Saipan but suffer overwhelming losses in the "Great Mariana's Turkey Shoot". YAMATO remains undamaged and retires northward with the Mobile Fleet.
22 June 1944:
The Mobile Fleet arrives at Nakagusuku, Okinawa. Refuels destroyers, then departs.
24 June 1944:
The Mobile Fleet arrives at Hashirajima.
29 June-8 July 1944:
Departs Hashirajima for Kure with BatDiv 1's MUSASHI.
8 July 1944:
Kure. YAMATO and MUSASHI load 3,522 men and materials of the IJA's 49th Division's 106th Infantry Regiment then depart Kure for Okinawa with Group A's CruDiv 4's ATAGO, TAKAO, MAYA and CHOKAI, CruDiv 7's KUMANO, SUZUYA, TONE and CHIKUMA, DesRon 2's light cruiser NOSHIRO and destroyers accompanied by Group B's KONGO NAGATO, CruDiv 7's MOGAMI, DesRon 10's light cruiser YAHAGI and destroyers.
10 July 1944:
Group A detaches from Group B. Departs Okinawa for Lingga (S of Singapore) to join the Mobile Fleet.
16 July 1944:
CruDivs 4, 7 and DesRon 2 are detached from Group A for Singapore. BatDiv 1 and its escorts continue to Lingga Roads.
17 July 1944:
Arrives at Lingga. Remains in the vicinity for three months conducting training with MUSASHI and other fleet units.
15 October 1944:
Captain Morishita is promoted to Rear Admiral.
18 October 1944:
Black deck camouflage, intended for the night breakthrough in the San Bernardino Strait, is hastily applied to both YAMATO and MUSASHI. The main component is soot from YAMATO's stack.
18-20 October 1944:
The fleet departs Lingga for Brunei Bay, Borneo to refuel.
22 October 1944: Operation "SHO-I-GO" (Victory)
- The Battle of Leyte Gulf:
YAMATO receives Mitsubishi F1M2 "Pete" aircraft from NAGATO. Sorties from Brunei towards Philippines with Vice Admiral Kurita Takeo's First Mobile Striking Force, First Section, Force"A" (Center Force) BatDiv 1's YAMATO, MUSASHI and NAGATO, CruDivs 4, 5 and DesRon 2.
23 October 1944: The Battle of the Palawan Passage:
Two American submarines attack Force A. Cdr (later Captain) David H. McClintock's USS DARTER (SS-227) sinks Kurita's flagship, cruiser ATAGO. Kurita abandons ship and is picked from the water by destroyer KISHINAMI. Ten hours later, he transfers to YAMATO and resumes command of the First Diversion Attack Force. Cdr (later Captain) Bladen D. Claggett's USS DACE (SS-247) sinks cruiser MAYA. DARTER also damages cruiser TAKAO.
24 October 1944: The Battle of the Sibuyan Sea:
0810: Three enemy scout planes are sighted, bearing 10, range 31 miles. Speed is increased to 18 knots.
1026: YAMATO opens fire on enemy aircraft, using her main guns and Type 3 "sanshikidan" rounds.
1032: Attacked by two Grumman TBF "Avengers" from USS CABOT (CVL-28). No hits are scored.
1047: From this time on, lookouts on YAMATO, MUSASHI, CHOKAI, NOSHIRO and KISHINAMI report periscope and torpedo wake sightings. Several false sightings delay the fleet reforming.
1331: YAMATO opens fire on aircraft from TG 38.3.
1350: A Curtiss SB2C "Helldiver" dive-bomber from USS ESSEX (CV-9) drops two AP bombs that damage the port bow abreast of main gun turret No. 1.
1413: Lookouts sight aircraft from ESSEX approaching. Vice Admiral Kurita's fleet orders the Force to increase speed to 22 knots.
1430: Attacked by four Grumman F6F "Hellcat" fighters and 12 SB2C dive-bombers. They drop five 1000-lb AP and seven AP bombs. The first bomb penetrates the anchor deck, demolishes the port chain locker, explodes below the waterline, blows out a side plate and holes the bow. The mess deck is wrecked. Two bombs hit turret No. 1. One blows a hole above the waterline. Another bomb penetrates through the top deck to the crews' quarters.
YAMATO ships 3, 000 tons of seawater and takes on a five-degree list to port. Damage Control counterfloods and reduces the list to one degree. YAMATO is down by the bow and maintains a 2-ft, 8-in. bow trim.
Force "A" continues on course through the Sibuyan Sea. During the day, the Force endures raids by over 250 U.S. carrier aircraft. MUSASHI is hit by numerous aircraft torpedoes, bombs and sinks in the Visayan Sea. NAGATO takes two bomb hits. HARUNA is damaged by near-misses.
1530: Admiral Kurita orders the Force to reverse course back through the Sibuyan Sea.
1715: Force A again reverses course.
2330: Force A enters the narrow San Bernardino Strait hours in single file.
25 October 1944: The
Battle off Samar:
0335: San Bernardino Strait. Force A exits the strait and proceeds eastward.
0400: Off Samar Island. Force A changes course due south towards Leyte Gulf.
0523: YAMATO's Type 13 radar picks up enemy aircraft.
0544: Enemy carriers sighted on the horizon, hull down, bearing 60 to port, range 23 miles. They are misidentified as six fleet carriers, escorted by three cruisers and two destroyers.
0545: YAMATO opens fire on enemy planes.
0558: Force A opens fire at escort carriers of "Taffy 3": USS ST. LO (CVE-63), WHITE PLAINS (CVE-66), KALININ BAY (CVE-68), FANSHAW BAY (CVE-70) (F), KITKUN BAY (CVE-71) and GAMBIER BAY (CVE-73). Carriers screened by destroyers USS HOEL (DD-533), JOHNSTON, (DD-557), HEERMANN (DD-532), destroyer escorts USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS (DE-413), DENNIS (DE-405), RAYMOND (DE-341) and JOHN C. BUTLER (DE-339).
Both of YAMATO's forward turrets open fire at a distance of 20 miles. Of her six forward rifles only two are initially loaded with AP shells, the remainder with Type 3s. YAMATO's F1M2 "Pete" spotter plane confirms that the first salvo is a hit. The carrier starts to smoke. Three six-gun salvos are fired on the same target, then the fire is shifted to the next carrier. It is concealed immediately by a smoke screen made by the American destroyers.
0606: YAMATO continues on an easterly course, firing her 155-mm (6.1-inch) secondary guns.
0651: A charging "cruiser" emerges from behind the smoke. YAMATO engages her from a distance of more than 10 miles and scores a hit with the first salvo. The target is seen burning before it is lost sight of.
At 0654, destroyer HEERMANN fires three torpedoes at HARUNA. The torpedoes miss HARUNA, but head toward YAMATO whose crew spots their tracks to starboard. YAMATO turns away to port, steams northward for 10 miles until the torpedoes run out of fuel. Although the maneuver avoids the torpedoes, it puts YAMATO and the Force's commander, Vice Admiral Kurita out of the battle.
0755-0910: Force A sinks GAMBIER BAY, HOEL, ROBERTS and the JOHNSTON. Kurita orders all ships to head north, but at 1020 he reverses course southward and again heads towards Leyte Gulf.
0910: Nine Mitsubishi A6M "Zeke" fighters led by Lt (Cdr posthumously) Seki Yukio of the 201st Naval Air Group's Shikishima-tai kamikaze squadron group fly over Kurita's fleet in search of the U.S. carriers.
1020: Kurita orders the course reversed to southward. The Force again heads towards Leyte Gulf.
1030-1320: CHOKAI, CHIKUMA and SUZUYA are disabled by battle damage, drop out of formation, and are subsequently lost. Force A reverses course northward and at 2100 retires through San Bernardino Strait.
26 October 1944:
0800. Tablas Strait off Panay. Force A is attacked by about 30 Grumman TBM Avengers from the USS WASP (CV-19) and USS COWPENS (CVL-25).
0834: The Force is attacked by about 50 Curtiss SB2C "Helldivers" and "Avenger" torpedo planes from USS HORNET (CV-12). Two bombs hit YAMATO. The first penetrates the forecastle forward and to the right of the main breakwater, demolishing nearby crew's spaces. The second bomb causes slight damage to the side of main gun turret No. 1.
1040: About thirty 13th Army Air Force Far Eastern Air Force B-24 "Liberators" of the "Long Rangers" based at Morotai attack the Force. Bomb fragments wound Rear Admiral (later Vice Admiral) Koyanagi Tomiji (former CO of KONGO), Chief of Staff, Second Fleet and about 60 others. YAMATO and NAGATO open fire with their main armament using Type 3 sanshikidan shells. Their gun crews claim several bombers shot down.
1100: Sixty aircraft from Task Groups 38.2 and 38.4 attack the Force. Light cruiser NOSHIRO is sunk.
27 October 1944:
No attacks. Twenty-nine YAMATO crewmen killed in action buried at sea.
28 October 1944:
Force "A" arrives at Brunei and refuels from oilers.
6 November 1944:
Carrier JUNYO and light cruiser KISO, escorted by DesDiv 30's YUZUKI and UZUKI arrive at Brunei from Sasebo with ammunition resupply for Kurita's force.
8 November 1944:
YAMATO sorties from Brunei to Pratas Islands to avoid air raids with NAGATO, HARUNA and KONGO and escorts. JUNYO, cruisers TONE and ASHIGARA, light cruiser KISO and DesDiv 30 follow. Later, JUNYO, TONE, KISO and DesDiv 30 are detached to Manila. The remainder of the task group makes a feint through the Balabac Strait, then returns to Brunei.
11 November 1944:
The YAMATO group arrives at Brunei.
15 November 1944:
BatDiv 1 is disbanded. YAMATO is assigned as the flagship of the Second Fleet.
16 November 1944:
Departs Brunei for Kure with KONGO, NAGATO and escorts.
21 November 1944:
The YAMATO group is attacked by USS SEALION II (SS-215). KONGO and destroyer URAKAZE are sunk.
23 November 1944:
Arrives at Kure.
25 November 1944:
Kure. Drydocked. Begins battle damage repairs and refit. Twenty-four older 25-mm AA single mounts are removed. Twenty-seven 25-mm AA guns (9 triple mounts) are fitted in their place. YAMATO's final AA complement is 152 25-mm AA guns (50 triple mounts, 2 single mounts).
Captain Aruga Kosaku (former CO of CHOKAI) assumes command from Rear Admiral Morishita.
23 December 1944:
At Kure. The former Vice Chief of the Naval General Staff, Vice Admiral (Admiral, posthumously) Ito Seiichi (former CO of HARUNA) assumes command of the now diminutive Second Fleet. Vice Admiral Kurita is reassigned as President of the Etajima Naval Academy.
1 January 1945:
YAMATO, HARUNA and NAGATO are assigned to the reactivated BatDiv 1, Second Fleet.
3 January 1945:
15 January 1945:
Moves from Kure to Hashirajima.
10 February 1945:
BatDiv 1, Second Fleet is deactivated for the last time. YAMATO is reassigned to CarDiv 1.
13 March 1945:
Hashirajima. Mistakenly, YAMATO fires on 343rd NAG Kawanishi N1K2-J Shiden Kai "George" fighters on patrol from their base at nearby Matsuyama airfield.
March 1945:
Returns to Kure.
19 March 1945:
Vice Admiral (later Admiral) Marc A. Mitscher's (former CO of HORNET, CV-8) Task Force 58 carriers USS ESSEX (CV-9), INTREPID (CV-11), HORNET (CV-12), WASP (CV-18), HANCOCK (CV-19), BENNINGTON (CV-20) and BELLEAU WOOD (CVL-24) make the first carrier attack on the Kure Naval Arsenal.
More than 240 aircraft (SB2C Helldivers, F4U "Corsairs" and F6F Hellcats) attack the battleships HYUGA, ISE, YAMATO, HARUNA, carriers AMAGI, KATSURAGI, RYUHO and KAIYO and other ships.
YAMATO, underway in the Inland Sea, sustains minor damage from a hit on bridge by a Helldiver dive-bomber from INTREPID.
The fleet is defended vigorously but unsuccessfully by 54 "George" fighters of Captain (later General and CINC, JSDF*) Genda Minoru's (of AKAGI at Pearl Harbor) 343rd NAG. The pilots, led by Lt Oshibuchi Takashi, claim 52 aircraft shot down against 14 fighters lost and one Nakajima C6N1 Saiun "Myrt" that collided with a Hellcat. Japanese flak claims five more planes.
28 March 1945:
Tokuyama Navy Fuel Depot, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Tanker MITSUSHIMA MARU arrives from Singapore. YAMATO takes on about 1,000-tons of fuel oil from her. MITSUSHIMA MARU unloads 9279-tons of crude oil at the depot. At 1730, that same day, the Second Fleet departs Hashirajima for Sasebo.
1800: Vice Admiral Ito's fleet is recalled after Headquarters, Combined Fleet receives a report about a TF 58 raid on airfields in southern Kyushu.
29 March 1945:
At Kure. Awaits sailing orders. YAMATO takes aboard a full supply of ammunition: 1,170 rounds for her 18.1-inch guns, 1,620 rounds for her secondary guns, 13,500 anti-aircraft rounds and 11.5 million for smaller caliber guns. YAMATO receives fuel from the destroyers HANAZUKI and ASASHIMO. Light cruiser YAHAGI receives fuel from destroyer HATSUSHIMO.
2 April 1945:
1000: YAMATO departs Kure for anchorage at the Mitajiri Bight.
3 April 1945:
0918: The Second Fleet receives an order from the Commander-in-Chief Combined Fleet Admiral Toyoda Soemu (former CO of HYUGA) alerting it about a sortie to Okinawa.
4 April 1945:
Three Mitsubishi A6M Zeke fighters of the 332nd Kokutai from the nearby Iwakuni Air Base fly very low over YAMATO to act as targets for gunnery training for the ship's new and untrained AA crews.
5 April 1945: Operation "TEN-ICHI-GO" (Heaven Number One):
1359: A detailed order is received: "The Surface Special Attack Unit is ordered to proceed via Bungo Suido Channel at dawn on Y-1 day to reach the prescribed holding position for a high-speed run-in to the area west of Okinawa at dawn on Y-day. Your mission is to attack the enemy fleet and supply train and destroy them. Y-day is April 8th."
1500: Captain Aruga informs his assembled crew about the sortie.
1730: Sixty-seven naval cadets of Etajima class No. 74, who arrived three days before, are sent ashore. Then a farewell party is held aboard YAMATO.
6 April 1945:Operation
TEN-ICHI-GO - The Attack on American Invasion Forces at Okinawa:
Mitajiri anchorage. In the early morning, Vice Admiral Kusaka Ryunosuke (former CO of AKAGI), Chief of Staff of the Combined Fleet, accompanied by Cdr Mikami Sakuo of the Combined Fleet Staff arrive by a float biplane from Kanoya to confer about the mission with Vice Admiral Ito, Commander, Second Fleet and staff.
The sick and some older sailors disembark. YAMATO departs Mitajiri for the Tokuyama Oil Depot. YAMATO takes on 3, 400 tons of fuel oil. The destroyers also refuel.
1520: Departs Tokuyama escorted by DesDiv 43: HANAZUKI, KAYA, MAKI as far as the Bungo Suido where the destroyers detach for port. Vice Admiral Ito leads the Surface Special Attack Force: YAMATO, DesRon 2's light cruiser YAHAGI, DesDiv 17's ISOKAZE, HAMAKAZE and YUKIKAZE, DesDiv 21's KASUMI, HATSUSHIMO and ASASHIMO, DesDiv 41's FUYUZUKI and SUZUTSUKI. Earlier, two Nakajima A6M2-N "Rufe" float planes and six submarine chasers are dispatched to search the area.
1830: The Attack Force negotiaties the western channel of Bungo Suido at 22 knots when a patrol plane radios YAMATO that it has sighted an enemy submarine ten miles from Tsukudajima. The Attack Force changes course to 140 degrees and assumes an anti-submarine formation. To avoid a submarine in the Hyuga-nada, the force changes to a westerly course. The escorting destroyers move ahead and the whole group begins zigzagging. A lookout on ISOKAZE spots submarine USS THREADFIN (SS-410) on the surface.
2100: The Attack Force swings to the south to avoid a possible torpedo attack.
2144: THREADFIN radios a detailed sighting report of the Attack Force's presence in the Bungo Suido to COMSUBPAC at Guam. The report is intercepted by YAMATO. Later, USS HACKLEBACK (SS-295) also sights the Attack Force and reports, but neither submarine is able to close the range for an attack.
7 April 1945:
0200: The Attack Force, zigzagging at 22 knots on a southerly course, passes the Miyazaki coast and reaches the entrance to Osumi Kaikyo Channel. Speed is slowed to 16 knots.
0600: YAMATO launches her Aichi E13A1 Type 0 "Jake" reconnaissance floatplane.
0630: Six Mitsubishi A6M Zeke fighters of Vice Admiral Ugaki's 5th Air Fleet's 203rd Naval Air Group arrive to provide air cover. For the next three and one-half hours, a total of 14 Zekes from the Kasanbara air base on Kyushu, provide cover in small groups. YAMATO's "Jake" returns to Kyushu.
0657: ASASHIMO begins lagging behind the force with engine trouble.
0832: The Attack Force is sighted by a searching Grumman F6F Hellcat from USS ESSEX (CV-9).
0840: The Attack Force briefly sights seven "Hellcat" fighters, but they are not seen by the escorting Zekes.
1014: The Attack Force sights two large Martin "Mariner" PBM flying boats. The Japanese also spot HACKLEBACK trailing the Attack Force.
1017: YAMATO turns towards the planes and opens fire unsuccessfully as does cruiser YAHAGI. While YAHAGI jams their sighting messages, YAMATO receives a report from a Japanese scout plane that Task Force 58 has been located east of Okinawa, 250 nautical miles from the Attack Force.
1018: The aircraft are lost behind the clouds. Both ships cease firing.
1022: The Attack Force turns towards Sasebo.
1107: YAMATO's Type 13 air search radar operator reports contact with a large aircraft formation at his set's maximum range of 63 miles. He reports the formation at bearing 180, heading north, and splitting into two groups. All ships increase speed to 25 knots and commence a simultaneous turn.
1115: A report that had been delayed for 25 minutes by ransmission and decoding, is received finally. It says that the Kikaigashima Island lookout station saw 150 carrier planes heading northwest. Just then, eight F6F Hellcats appear and begin circling over the force to maintain contact until the main formation arrives. YAMATO and YAHAGI open fire, increase speed to 24 knots and commence a series of sharp evasive maneuvers.
Air search reports two groups of aircraft, range 44 miles, closing at high speed. The sky is still overcast and visibility is poor. Then radar reports the closing aircraft have turned towards the force. The Attack Force resumes zigzagging.
1129: The Attack Force turns to course 205, towards Okinawa.
1222: A lookout spots three Japanese troopships on bearing 0250 heading for Amami-Oshima.
1232: A lookout spots American planes 25 degrees to port, levation 8, range 4,375 yards, moving to port. This is the first wave of 280 aircraft (132 fighters, 50 bombers, 98 torpedo planes) from Task Group 58. 1's USS HORNET (CV-12), HANCOCK (CV-19), BENNINGTON (CV-20), BELLEAU WOOD (CVL-24) and SAN JACINTO (CVL-30) and from Task Group 58. 3's USS ESSEX (CV-9), BUNKER HILL (CV-17), BATAAN (CVL-24) and CABOT (CVL-28).Lagging behind the main force, destroyer ASASHIMO is attacked and sunk by aircraft from SAN JACINTO.
1234: YAMATO opens fire with her two forward main turrets and AA guns.
1235: YAMATO stops zigzagging and increases speed to 24 knots. Her nine 18.1-inch guns firing Sanshikidan beehive shells, twenty-four 127-mm. AA guns and one hundred fifty-two 25-mm AA guns all open fire. The American planes release their bombs and torpedoes and strafe the bridge with machine-gun fire.
1240: YAMATO is hit by two AP bombs. Smoke rises from the vicinity of the mainmast and a bomb explodes in the same area. The aft secondary battery fire control, secondary gun turret and the air search radar are knocked out.
The Attack Force changes course to 100 degrees. Helldivers from BENNINGTON and HORNET attack from port. At flank speed, YAMATO commences a right turn but two 1000-lb AP bombs hit her. The first explodes in the crew's quarters abaft the Type 13 radar shack. The second penetrates the port side of the aft Command station and explodes between the 155-mm gun magazine and main gun turret No. 3's upper powder magazine. It starts a fire that cannot be extinguished and rips a 60-foot hole in the weather deck. One Helldiver is shot down, another is damaged badly.
1243: A section of five low-flying Avengers from HORNET start a torpedo run from the port, bearing 70 degrees. YAMATO, at 27 knots flank speed, heels to starboard in evasive action. The Avengers drop three torpedoes. One strikes her port side near the forward windlass room. One Avenger is shot down.
The YAMATO ships 2,350-tons of water. Damage Control counterfloods with 604-tons of water. Fourteen F4U Chance-Vought Corsairs from BUNKER HILL strafe and rocket YAMATO but cause only minor damage.
1245: Thirty-four Hellcats, 22 Helldivers and one Corsair attack YAMATO's escorts. DesDiv 17's HAMAKAZE takes a near miss on her starboard quarter that disables her starboard shaft.
1247: A torpedo strikes HAMAKAZE starboard, aft of amidships and she jackknifes. SUZUTSUKI takes a 500-lb GP bomb hit to starboard, abreast her No. 2 gun mount. Two dud rockets hit FUYUTSUKI.
1250: The first attack wave retires. Destroyer SUZUTSUKI wreathed in black smoke, burns furiously. Light cruiser YAHAGI, without headway, drifts helplessly behind the main force. YAMATO, despite hits by two bombs and one torpedo, maintains flank speed.
1300: YAMATO changes course to 180 degrees, due South.
1302: Her remaining air search radar reports the approach of a second attack wave. The Attack Force changes course due south to 180 degrees.
1302: Fifty aircraft from ESSEX and BATAAN are sighted approaching from the SSW, range 18.5 miles.
1322: YAMATO increases speed to 22 knots. A Corsair from ESSEX drops a 1000-lb GP bomb that hits the superstructure in the port bow area. Twelve Helldivers claim several hits near the bridge and main gun turret No. 3. Five Helldivers are damaged by AA fire.
1333: Another 110 aircraft from Task Group 58. 4's YORKTOWN (CV-10), INTREPID (CV-11), LANGLEY (CVL-27) engage the Attack Force. This time all the attacks are concentrated against the battleship. Twenty Avengers make a new torpedo run from 60 degrees to port. YAMATO starts a sharp turn to port but three torpedoes rip into her port side amidships. Her auxiliary rudder is jammed in position hard port.
YAMATO has taken a total of four torpedo hits. She ships about 3,000-tons of seawater. She lists about seven degrees to port. Damage Control counter-floods both starboard engine and boiler rooms and almost entirely corrects the list.
YAMATO starts a turn starboard to course 230 degrees. One of her lookouts spots the tracks of four torpedoes approaching. The first torpedoes pass by harmlessly, but the remaining two strike her port amidships. She takes on a heavy list to port and her speed drops to 18 knots. Armor-piercing and other bombs make a shambles of her upper works.
1342: YAMATO turns hard to port. She continues to throw up a screen of desperate flak fire. One Avenger is shot down but her barrage is largely ineffective because each AA battery fires independently without coordination. The escorts cannot defend the flagship either.
1402: Three bombs explode port amidships, five minutes later a torpedo hits her starboard side amidships. Ten minutes later, two more torpedoes strike her port side. YAMATO's list increases to about 15 degrees and her speed slows to 12 knots.
Executive Officer Nomura Jiro reports to Captain Aruga that his damage control officers are all dead and that counter-flooding can no longer correct the list. He suggests the order to abandon ship be given. The Fleet Commander, Vice Admiral Ito, orders the mission cancelled and directs the remaining ships to pick up as many survivors as possible. The Emperor's portrait is removed.
1405: Light cruiser YAHAGI, hit by 12 bombs and seven torpedoes sinks exactly one minute after the last bomb hits. LtCdr (later Captain) Herbert Houck, the leader of 43 TBM Avengers of VT-9 from YORKTOWN, detaches Lt Thomas Stetson's six Avengers in a final torpedo attack from the ship's starboard side. Stetson's crewmen reset their Mark 13 torpedoes' running depth to 20 feet. Listing heavily to port, YAMATO's exposed hull is hit by several more torpedoes. She rolls slowly over her port side on her beam ends.
1423: YAMATO's No. 1 magazine explodes and sends up a cloud of smoke seen 100 miles away. She slips under followed by an underwater explosion. YAMATO sinks at 30-22 N, 128-04 E.
Vice Admiral Ito and YAMATO's skipper Captain Aruga and 3,055 of 3,332 crewmen are lost. 276 men are rescued including Rear Admiral Morishita Nobuei, Chief of Staff, Second Fleet (and former YAMATO skipper). Aruga receives a rare double promotion posthumously to Vice Admiral on the request of Admiral Toyoda. Later that day, battered destroyers ISOKAZE and KASUMI are scuttled and sink. 1,187 crewmen of DesRon 2's light cruiser YAHAGI and the four destroyers are also lost.
The Imperial Japanese Navy ceases to exist as a fighting force. The Americans lose 10 aircraft and 12 crewmen.3 May 1945:
31 August 1945:
Removed from Navy List.
1 August 1985:
A Japanese team in deep research submersible PISCES II locates YAMATO 1,410 feet deep in the East China Sea. The wreck is in two pieces. Its forward section is on its starboard side, while the aft section is bottom up.
24 January 2009:
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