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John de Trelony, MP | |
Also Known As: | "John de Trelawny", "Trelawney", "Trelawny" |
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Birthplace: | Cornwall, England |
Death: | Died |
Place of Burial: | Church at Pelynt, Cornwall |
Immediate Family: |
Son of William de Trelony and Joan de Trelony |
Managed by: | Jean Christine Wissmiller |
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About John de Trelony, MP
Family and Education
s. of William Trelawny by Joan, da. of Richard Doyngull. m. Maud, da. of Robert Menwenick, ?3s. John II* and poss. John III* and Richard*.
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Commr. of inquiry, Cornw. Nov. 1400 (piracy);1 array Nov. 1405.
That three members of the Trelawny family in successive generations were called John makes distinguishing between them largely a matter of conjecture. This MP, the eldest of the trio, was still a minor in 1382 when Sir Ralph Carminowe*, his guardian, presented an incumbent to Menheniot, a property which Trelawny had inherited from his maternal uncle five years previously. However, he had come of age by 1386, when he sold a tenement in Launceston to the local priory. At the assizes held in the same town two years later he was bound over, in sureties of 500 marks, to keep the peace, but he himself stood bail for Nicholas Broomford*. This may well have had something to do with a serious incident in which he and others, including Roger Menwenick* (no doubt a kinsman of his wife), had assaulted Sir Humphrey Stafford I* at 'Thurlaton', by shooting at him with a 'gunne'. Trelawny was often associated with Menwenick, who represented Launceston in the same Parliament he himself attended for Bodmin, and on the occasion of their election he was one of Menwenick's mainpernors. Moreover, in 1393, they had together been accused at the assizes of taking lands in 'Northbuketon' and 'Redaland' by force. Trelawny and his wife owned houses at Woolston, Trelawny and 'Tregarrick', and in 1400 they were granted an episcopal licence to have an oratory at each place.2
The date of this John Trelawny's death is not known, but he may have been the man whose interest in a third part of the manor of Tregondale in Menheniot was the subject of a settlement made in 1407, and who, in the same year, stood surety for John Hawley I* of Dartmouth.3 It is even possible that it was he and not his son, John II, who served as a knight of the shire in 1413.
Ref Volumes: 1386-1421
Author: L. S. Woodger
Variants: Trelauny, Treleweny, Trelouny.
- 2. Reg. Brantingham ed. Hingeston-Randolph, 37, 49, 80; CIMisc. vi. 376; JUST 1/1502 mm. 171, 171d, 189d; CPR, 1388-92, p. 134; C219/9/13; Reg. Stafford, 281.
- 3. Cornw. Feet of Fines (Devon and Cornw. Rec. Soc. 1950), 862; CCR, 1405-9, p. 247
John de Trelony was the son of William de Trelony and wife Joan Doyngull. He married Matilda (or Maude) Mynwenyck. He was succeeded by his son, Sir John de Trelony, Knight.
John received as a gift from his father, in about 1367 [40 Edw III], land in the ville of Trelawny and other property in Cornwall. He received the rest of the estate after his father's death, at which time he was knighted. He was mentioned in records dated c.1396 [19 Rich II] as being a married man. He and his wife Matilda are recorded as levying a fine in c.1407 [8 Henry IV]. From these bits of data we can determine he was born before 1347, married before 1396 and died after 1407.
Links to additional material
- The Baronetage of England, or, The history of the English baronets, and such Baronets of Scotland as are of English Families, by Rev. William Betham, published 1801 [available as Google e-Book]
- The English Baronetage: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Barnonets Now Existing: Their Descents, Marriages and Issues, Volume 2, By Arthur Collins, published 1741 [available as Google e-Book]
- The visitations of Cornwall: comprising the Heralds' visitations of 1530, 1573 & 1620, John Lambrick Vivian›, College of Arms, published 1887 [available as Google e-Book]
John de Trelony, MP's Timeline
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Cornwall, England
1388 |
Age 25
Cornwall, England
1393 |
Age 30
Cornwall, England
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Age 44
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The Japanese battleship Kongô, a ship with a magical name and an important history, was budgeted in 1910 and ordered from the British shipbuilder Vickers in January 1911. This was a significant act in an era of important shipbuilding. Britain itself was in a great arms race with Germany.
The Dreadnought of 1905, with its speed, size, and firepower, had made all earlier battleships obsolete. The Dreadnought had been inspired by the lessons of the great battle of Tsushima, the first real naval battle with modern warships, in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. That war itself had been fought in part because of the alliance that had been struck between Britain and Japan in 1902. The alliance had secured Britain's possessions in the Pacific, so that it could concentrate on Germany. The benefit for Japan had been to neutralize France and Germany, isolating Russia. At the end of the Sino-Japanese War in 1895, the "Triple Intervention" of France, Germany, and Russia had robbed Japan of some of the spoils of victory against China. Japan intended to deprive Russia what what seemed to it ill gotten gains. (No one, except China itself, the United States, and British Liberals, really cared at the time that such powers should be grabbing parts of China.)
At the Battle of Tsushima, after the Russian Baltic Fleet had sailed all the way around the world, the Russian Admiral Rozhestvensky opened fire at 7,000 meters (4.4 miles). Admiral Tôgô returned fire at 6,400 meters (4.0 miles). Previously, naval battles had been fought at close quarters, and many warships in the late 19th century had been built with rams. But in the same era guns with longer barrels and slower burning powder had been developed, which meant longer ranges. The Japanese, with faster ships, were able to determine the range at Tsushima, and Tôgô kept it about about 5,500 meters (3.4 miles). The fleets did not come to close quarters until the Japanese wanted to deliver torpedo attacks or until the Russian ships were sinking or surrendering. Of the eleven Russian battleships, some obsolete, in the battle, seven were sunk and the other four were surrendered. The Japanese only lost three torpedo boats. The Russians lost 4,830 men, the Japanese only 110. This was an international sensation, both that a non-white country should defeat a European Great Power, but also that gunfire had proven so decisive. Naval tacticians never thought about ramming for fleet actions again.
The Dreadnought was Admiral John ("Jackie") Fisher's answer to Tsushima. The ship's large size carried a main battery of large caliber (12 inch) guns. This made finding the range of the target easier than it had been with the pre-Dreadnoughts, whose main batteries of mixed caliber resulted in confusion about which guns had fired the shells that might be seen falling near the target. To greater size and firepower, Fisher also added increased speed, up to 21 knots from the standard 18 knots of the pre-Dreadnoughts. This made it possible to move in and out of range at will. Since the tradition of the Royal Navy had always been to seek battle -- poor Admiral Byng had been shot for not doing so ("Pour encourager les autres," according to Voltaire) -- superior speed would always keep that option open.
Fisher's love of speed, however, led to something more: the "battle cruiser." The Invincible class were larger, faster, nearly as powerful (a main battery of 8 rather than 10 guns), but more lightly protected than the Dreadnought. Such a ship would prove useful in that it could run down and destroy any ship smaller than a battleship. This is what precisely was done to the German cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in 1914. However, the visible power of the battle cruisers, as opposed to their invisible vulnerability, let to irresistable temptations to commit them against battleships. Speed, however, could not compensate for lack of armor when the large shells were aleady on their way. This meant tragedy at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, when several battle cruisers blew up catastrophically and sank.
The consensus of opinion seems to be that the "battle cruiser" was misconceived -- neither fish nor fowl: too much of a battleship to be relegated to cruiser tasks, but too little of a battleship to be hazarded in the line-of-battle. On the other hand, the battle cruiser, however flawed, was the unknowing ancestor of revolutions in naval warfare in World War II.
Although Britain had restarted its naval race with German by the innovation of the Dreadnought, the kind of thing that the Royal Navy had always tried to avoid, in 1909 it was on the verge of falling behind. Through the 1908 program, Britain had ordered 8 battleships and 4 battle cruisers. Germany, starting in 1906, had ordered 7 battleships, together with 2 battle cruisers. This set off a panic in Britain, resulting in the famous "We want eight" program of 1909. As Churchill put it, the hawkish Tories wanted 6 ships and the dovish Liberals 4, so they compromised by budgeting 8! Subsequently, 7 ships in 1910 and 5 each in 1911, 1912, & 1913, although a crushing expense, safely left the Germans astern. As it happened, the Germans, like the French many times before, were unwilling to hazard their fleet on a desperate battle, despite the fact that a victory would deliver England to their mercy and a loss, however grievous, would not greatly affect their strategic position. Thus, the majority of the German fleet, whose very construction had driven Britain into the arms of France and Russia, her previous traditional enemies, was in the end ignominously scuttled at Scapa Flow.
The Kongô was ordered by Japan as a battle cruiser. The Japanese had already been building their own battleships, but they wanted to study the latest British construction techniques before building sister ships to the Kongô in Japan -- the Hiei, Haruna, and Kirishima. The Kongô was to have 14 inch guns, larger and more conveniently arranged than in previous British battle cruisers, where a midships turret had been unable to fire directly fore or aft. The Kongô, indeed, was such an improved design that the Royal Navy followed suit by ordering the Tiger, similar to it in most respects, in the 1911 program. But the Tiger was the last battle cruiser until Fisher himself returned from retirement in 1914. Instead, the speed element of the battle cruisers was incorporated into proper battleships with the Queen Elizabeth class of the 1912 program. As the Kongô itself would in effect become, the Queen Elizabeth was a "fast battleship." With 15 inch guns, the Queen Elizabeths also carried the heaviest practical armament of World War I. Their worth both in enduring and in inflicting punishment was proven at Jutland.
The Kongô and her sister ships, like all armored cruisers, battlecruisers, and heavy cruisers, were named after mountains, yama, . Battleships proper were named for the old Japanese provinces, shû, , and light cruisers for rivers, kawa or gawa, -- though these terms are not part of the ship names (except on a map of Japan). Mt. Kongô, or Kongô-zan, , was a mountain not far south of the old capital of Japan at Nara. The word "kongô" was the Japanese pronuncation of the Chinese translation, , of vajra in Sanskrit. The vajra was originally the thunderbolt of the god Indra. Later in esoteric, Tantric, or "vajrayâna" Buddhism, the vajra symbolized supernatual powers that could be obtained through esoteric rituals. In the sexual symbolism of Tantrism, the "vajra" was also associated with the male organ. On the other hand, "kongô" could also mean a jewel or a diamond, or hard as a diamond -- in Chinese it is literally "metal [or gold] hard." So, appropriately, "Kongô" as the name of a ship could imply the great power of a thunderbolt or the hardness of a diamond.
The universally understood "lesson of Jutland" was that if a ship was going to fight like a battleship, it would have to be protected like a battleship. And if was also going to be fast also, then it was simply going to have to be very big. Britain incorporated these ideas in a program of four super battle cruisers for 1915. But of the four ships laid down, only the Hood was completed. When the United States began a program of war building in 1916, it ordered a total of six such battle cruisers, along with 12 more conventional (i.e. slower) battleships. Only three of those battleships were ever completed, the Colorado, Maryland, and West Virginia, with 16 inch guns. Japan itself conceived a large program, for which it had far smaller resources: 4 battleships and 4 battle cruisers were actually laid down.
What cut short all these ambitious programs was the end of the War and the sense that there was no useful purpose served by such an arms race. Britain, also, was all but bankrupt. Only the United States was in a position to complete its program in any kind of reasonable time, and neither Britain nor Japan really wanted that to happen. So the result was the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. Britain would finish the Hood and build two new battleships, the Nelson and Rodney (since so many others were now obsolescent). The United States would finish the three battleships, and Japan would finish two battleships, the Nagato and Mutsu. The ratio of captial ships would be 5:5:3 for Britain, the United States, and Japan.
This was a very bad deal for Britain. In the simplest terms, Britain had three oceans to defend, the United States two, and Japan only one. Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, although with a small number of ships themselves, were still essentially British defense obligations. The Washington ratio already put Britain at a disastrous disadvantage for the kind of war that World War II would be -- with both German and Italian fleets to contain, and with the whole Mediterranean hotly contested, the Royal Navy would have next to nothing available to devote to a war with Japan also, which meant that Australia and New Zealand were left in the lurch. The sense of betrayal was intense, especially after all the blood spilled by the ANZAC forces in the Middle East. Britain's formal "two power standard" of 1889, which was that the Royal Navy should be at least as large as any other two navies, was thus ended by the Washington Treaty. That would have produced an 8:5:3 ratio, which should have been more than reasonable. But now, all British battleships older than the Queen Elizabeth ended up getting scrapped. This meant all the contemporaries of the Kongô and her sister ships. The United States retained some older ships, but even the Texas and New York (of 1910 like the Kongô) would never see fleet action again.
Nevertheless, it might not have made much difference in the long run. The older ships really were obsolete, and veterans of Jutland like the Iron Duke probably would only have been sent against Japan to be sunk. What was worse, perhaps, about the Washington Treaty was that it ended the British alliance with Japan. This was disappointing and even humilating to the Japanese, where the Imperial Family and the Navy liked to feel a special affinity with Britain -- however much the army and the form of government had actually looked to Prussian models. In the struggle for the soul of Japan, the Prussian side received a boost. Adding insult to injury was the rejection by the Allied conference at Versailles of a Japanese proposal for a statement of racial equality -- however racist the Japanese would behave with their own neighbors, they were tremendously sensitive about disparagement from the white world. (Ironically, Nazi Germany would selectively overlook its own racism to embrace a Japanese alliance.) So, after insulting and slighting Japan, Britain then foolishly agreed to build no naval fortifications east of Singapore! This may have been seen as an act of good faith (or economy), but it would encourage aggression once Japanese isolation turned into real nastiness.
Deep in the Washington Naval Treaty was the hidden seed of the future. The United States and Japan would not need to completely scrap all the hulls they had been building. Instead, they could each use two of them to build aircraft carriers. This was a way to strike a balance with Britain. As it happened, when Fisher returned to the Admiralty in 1914, he immediately sought to indulge himself by ordering no less than five battle cruisers. Two turned out to be reasonable candidates to be used as battleships, the Repulse and the Renown (although the Repulse was ignominously sunk, with the Prince of Wales, by Japanese aircraft on 10 December 1941), but the other three were virtual parodies of Fisher's ideas, so over-gunned and under-protected as to be really useless. The real extreme was the Furious, which was given a main battery of two experimental 18 inch guns, whose rate of fire was so slow, and whose damage to the ship when fired was so great, that the ship was like the result of some awful experiment in inbreeding -- the "Hapsburg lip" of the Royal Navy.
Eventually something useful was found for the Furious and her sisters, the Glorious and the Courageous. They were reconstructed as aircraft carriers. The British did all the experimentation in that regard, but then when the war was over, the Americans and Japanese were ready to join the club. Hence the Treaty provision for aircraft carriers; and the candidate hulls, naturally, were from the incomplete battle cruisers, which would be the fastest ships. The American and Japanese battle cruisers, however, would be much larger ships than the Furious, etc. They were of the same generation as the great Hood, not of Fisher's strange 1914 experiments.
Thus, the idea of the battle cruiser serendipitously provided the platform for something very different. The two American hulls selected, the Lexington and the Saratoga even inaugurated the tradition of naming United States aircraft carriers after battles [note]. The nomenclature would be expanded, at different times, by the precedent of some of the other planned battle cruiser names -- the Ranger and Constellation -- though today many American carriers are named after presidents and other persons, given the precedent by which one of the Midway class carriers was named for President Franklin D. Roosevelt after his death.
The hulls selected by Japan were those for the battle cruisers Amagi and Akagi. Like the Kongô and her sisters, these were named after mountains: "Akagi," , as noted in the movie Die Hard (1988), means "Red Castle." "Amagi" means "Heavenly Castle." They were intended to carry ten 16 inch guns at 30 knots.
The Akagi was completed in 1927 as the planned aircraft carrier, with slightly better speed, at 31 knots. Until its catastrophic loss at the Battle of Midway, the Akagi was the flagship of the carrier Strike Force. The ship also had a very unusual feature. Like many early carriers, it was originally finished with no superstructure above the flight deck. This was inconvenient, and a superstructure was added when the ship was reconstructed in 1936-38. The British had worked out this kind of thing and always put their superstructures on the starboard side of the ship, on the understanding the gyroscopic forces on spinning propellers would tend to pull aircraft to the left. This became traditional, even until today, when there are few propellers; but the Japanese figured that the forces were not so great. They experimented with some port side superstructures, figuring that it could be put to advantage to facilitate signalling when ships where in formation under radio silence. The Akagi had one of the port side superstructures.
An odd thing happened to the Amagi on its way to being an aircraft carrier. The great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 so damaged the ship on its stocks that it was discarded in favor of the hull of the battleship Kaga. The Kaga, named as a battleship for a Japanese province, was completed in 1928; but as a shorter, broader ship, reflecting its origin, it could only make 28.5 knots. This certainly seemed fast enough at the time, but the Lexington and Saratoga, completed about the same time on hulls that were 40 feet longer than even the Akagi, set a standard of 34 knots which later fleet carriers would have to match. Like the two American carriers, the Akagi and Kaga might justly be called the first aircraft carriers that were truly capital ships, and they formed the core of the first carrier forces such as would come into their own in World War II.
Here the Kongô and her sisters reënter the story. No other Japanese battleships were fast enough to keep up with the carriers. The Kongôs were built to make 27.5 knots; and when reconstructed in 1933-34, they were brought up to 30 knots. This made them the fastest battleships afloat, except for the Hood (31 knots) and the later American Iowa class (33 knots), which essentially had the form of colossal cruisers. The reconstruction modernized them in several respects, also producing what the Allies would later call the "pagoda" superstructure.
Battleships had always required masts for spotting, range finding, and fire control, but the need for height increased as possible ranges of targets increased and eyeballing was replaced by heavy optical equipment. It had also been a problem how to do this with a sturdy enough structure to withstand the weight of the equipment and not vibrate when under way at sea. The United States navy had tried strange looking "cage" masts. Heavy tripods were also tried, which is what the Kongô had when completed, and what the Arizona had been given when it was sunk at Peral Harbor. The Royal Navy was the first to go simply for a solid superstructure, a "Queen Anne's castle." The Japanese tripods evolved into the equivalent, and the United States followed suit with the battleships built in the 1930's. So the "pagoda" was structurally nothing unique.
The Kongôs were fast enough to run with the carriers. This became a standard assignment for at least two ships at a time. Thus, the Hiei and Kirishima were with the Pearl Harbor Strike Force, and the Haruna and Kirishima were with the carriers at Midway. This created the pattern of the standard Task Force of the Pacific War, carriers plus screening ships and fast battleships. The slow battleships, like all the old American ships at 21 knots, were now hopelessly obsolete for fleet actions. The carriers set the pace.
Another thing, as it happened, that their speed enabled the Kongôs to do was run in under the cover of darkness, which for a long time meant the end of air operations, for night surface actions. And the supreme place for that came to be the waters off Guadalcanal. In this they were joined by ships that, after a fashion, were, like the aircraft carriers, their descendants: The heavy cruisers that began to be built in the 1920's.
Another provision of the Washington Naval Treaty was that cruisers could not be more than 10,000 tons or be armed with guns larger than 8 inches. This was somewhat larger and more powerful than existing cruisers and so left room for growth. But, having lost the battleships and battle cruisers they had planned on, the Japanese immediately began designing ships right up to the limits. This produced the classic "Treaty Cruisers." By 1927 Japan was planning such cruisers with no fewer than 10 guns. Britain followed suit, reluctantly (building larger and smaller versions), and eventually similar American cruisers began to be planned in 1929. These cruisers all began to look like miniature battleships and, indeed, it was they that had the speed and range to form lines of battle in most of the significant surface engagements of the Pacific War.
American Treaty cruisers were designated "CA's," which signified "armored cruiser," an old type that was really the conceptual predecessor of the battle cruiser. American armored cruisers had even been named after States, like battleships; but the American CA's were named after cities, like other cruisers. The Japanese Treaty cruisers, on the other hand, were now named after mountains, like battle cruisers and the old Japanese armored cruisers too. This, in effect, is what they would be.
By World War II, the Treaty cruisers of the Twenties would be called "heavy cruisers" all because the London Naval Treaty of 1930 had generated another type. That Treaty had limited guns on cruisers to 6 inches, without, however, limiting the tonnage. This, without regard to the tonnage, was then called a "light cruiser." The Japanese therefore immediately planned a class of ships, just as large as the "heavy" cruisers, but with fifteen 6 inch guns, in triple turrets, instead of ten 8 inch guns, in double turrets. Britain scaled down their "light" cruisers, but the United States emulated the Japanese with the large Brooklyn class, which also had fifteen 6 inch guns. When Japan repudiated the naval treaties, the 6 inch guns were replaced with 8 inch, turning the "light" cruisers into "heavy." The United States and Britain retained the type, scaling back the size of the battery.
Thus, in surface combat in the Solomons, the Kongô and her sisters mainly supplemented their Treaty Cruiser descendants. The most frequent task of such ships was the famous "Tokyo Express," the often nightly bombardment of the American airbase, Henderson Field, on Guadalcanal. The damage done by the cruisers, however, was often minimal; and the Japanese knew this. Thus the task was twice handed off to the Kongôs. The first time was in October 1942, in preparation for a serious ground assault against Henderson Field. Only two nights after the Battle of Cape Esperance, in which an American surface force inflicted serious damage on Japanese cruisers and destroyers, the Kongô and Haruna ran down to "Ironbottom Sound" off Guadalcanal. That was the night of October 13/14. In the most effective Japanese bombardment ever by either air or sea, the 14 inch shells from the battleships all but put Henderson Field out of operation [note]. Weakened American air defense then could not stop most of the Japanese troops from being landed for the offensive.
The October assault on Henderson Field failed. But the Japanese did not give up yet. A November attack was planned. This time with the Hiei and Kirishima doing the heavy bombardment. The Japanese force came into Ironbottom Sound on the night of 12/13 November 1942 and, very uncharacteristically for the Japanese, who often visually sighted American ships before American radar identified them, blundered into a thrown together American force. Whatever the cost, Admiral Halsey was not going to let Japanese battleships bombard Henderson Field again. A chaotic melee resulted, where the paths of the ships have never been properly reconstructed. The battleships were firing shells that evidently passed entirely through some thin skinned destroyers without detonating. This was the first night of the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. After the night was over, losses seemed about equal. A couple of Japanese destroyers had been sunk, against two American heavy cruisers damaged and the anti-aircraft light cruiser Atlanta, which should not have been there, sunk. The Atlanta's sister ship Juneau was then torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine while withdrawing from the battle, to the infamous loss of most of its crew, especially the five Sullivan brothers, for whom two ships (as The Sullivans) have subsequently been named in the United States Navy.
The next day, however, the Hiei was in trouble. Slowed by damage, it was overtaken by American aircraft and met its doom. Although the next night (13/14) Henderson was bombarded by the cruisers Suzuya and Maya, aircraft sank seven Japanese transports on 14 november. That night, 14/15 November, the Kirishima returned, to be met, however, by the American battleships Washington and South Dakota. The South Dakota was first targeted by the Kirishima, and between damage inflicted and problems attendant on being a new ship, it lost all power. The Kirishima briefly looked triumphant, but she had not noticed the battleship Washington behind the South Dakota. Admiral Willis Augustus Lee in the Washington opened deadly fire with his 16 inch guns, and the Kirishima was soon a wreck. The contest for Guadalcanal was effectively over. The next day four more Japanese transports were sunk, and too few troops would ever be landed to make a November offensive against Henderson Field possible. Although Admiral Yamamoto had told the Japanese Army that he would park the superbattleship Yamato off Guadalcanal if necessary, neither Japanese battleships nor cruisers would ever return to Ironbottom Sound. The last Japanese forces, starving and harried, were finally taken off by destroyers on the night of 7/8 February 1943.
The Japanese falsely believed that new ships could be finished in time to reverse the fortunes of war. Thus, capital ships were held back until the Battle of the Philippine Sea, 19-20 June 1944, when Allied landings on Saipan and Guam were to be contested. The result was disaster -- often called the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot" for the ease with which green Japanese pilots in now obsolescent planes were shot down. The old veteran of Pearl Harbor, the Coral Sea, and the Solomons, the aircraft carrier Shokaku, was sunk, and the new carrier Taiho, with an armored flight deck, was lost, in part because fumes from poorly refined aviation fuel exploded after a torpedo hit. That the War was lost was then obvious to all -- even to Prime Minister Tojo, who resigned. The only thing that kept was the War going was that surrender was still inconceivable.
There wasn't much that battleships like the Kongô and Haruna could then do. The Kongô was finally sunk on 21 November 1944 by the submarine Sealion, SS-315, in the waters off Taiwan. The Haruna was caught near the naval base at Kure by America aircraft on 28 July 1945. Sunk in shallow water, she was raised and broken up in 1946. The other Kongôs all lie on the floor of the ocean. Perhaps some day, after underwater explorers move on from the Titanic and Bismark, their graves will be discovered and examined. But, the last of their kind, the Kongôs are not quite the last of their generation. The class of 1910, when the Kongô and Hiei were planned, survives today in the battleship Texas, as strange to modern eyes as a dinosaur, on public view at the San Jacinto Battlefield, outside Houston, Texas. The Kongô, indeed, as we now know about dinosaurs, was a terrifying predator, neither slow, nor ugly, nor stupid -- although we may say that the cause in which she died was stupid enough.
Advanced Japanese Destroyers of World War II
A Guadalcanal Chronology, 7 August 1942 - 6 March 1943
Philosophy of History, Military History
Aircraft Carriers of the World, 1914 to the Present, An Illustrated Encyclopedia, Roger Chesneau, Naval Institute Press, 1984
At Dawn We Slept, the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor, Gordon W. Prange, Penguin Books, 1981
A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy (1941-1945), Paul S. Dull, Naval Institute Press, 1978
The Battleship Yamato, Anatomy of the Ship, Janusz Skulski, Naval Institute Press, 1988
Breaking the Bismarks Barrier, 22 July 1942-1 May 1944, the History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume VI, Samuel Eliot Morison, Little, Brown and Company, 1975
British Battleships, Oscar Parkes, Seeling Service & Co. Limited, 1973
Cartwheel: The Reduction of Rabaul, The United States Army in World War II, The War in the Pacific, John Miller, Jr., Historical Division, Department of the Army, Washington, D.C., 1984
The Complete Encyclopedia of Battleships: A technical directory of capital ships from 1860 to the present day, Tony Gibbons, Crescent Books, New York, 1983
Coral Sea, Midway and Submarine Actions, May 1942-August 1942, the History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume IV, Samuel Eliot Morison, Little, Brown and Company, 1975
Disaster in the Pacific, New Light on the Battle of Savo Island, Denis and Peggy Warner with Sadao Seno, Naval Institute Press, 1992
A Glorious Way to Die, The Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato, April 1945, Russell Spurr, Newmarket Press, New York, 1981
Guadalcanal Remembered, Herbert Christian Merillat, Dodd, Meade & Company, New York, 1982
Guadalcanal: The First Offensive, The United States Army in World War II, The War in the Pacific, John Miller, Jr., Historical Division, Department of the Army, Washington, D.C., 1949, 1983
Jane's Fighting Ships, 1906-7, edited by Fred T. Jane, David & Charles Reprints, 1970
Jane's Fighting Ships, 1931, edited by Fred T. Jane, Arco Publishing Company, Inc. New York, 1973
Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War, René J. Francillon, Naval Institute Press, 1970, 1979
Japanese Army Air Force Camouflage and Markings, World War II, Donald W. Thorpe, Aero Publishers, Inc., Fallbrook, California, 1968
Japanese Navy Air Force Camouflage and Markings, World War II, Donald W. Thorpe, Aero Publishers, Inc., Fallbrook, California, 1977
Japanese Warships of World War II, Anthony J. Watts, Doubleday & Company Inc., 1973
Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941, David C. Evans & Mark R. Pettie, Naval Institute Press, 1997
The Rape of Nanking, the Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, Iris Chang, BasicBooks, 1997
The Rise and Fall of Imperial Japan, S.L. Mayer, A.J. Barker, Ronald Heiferman, Ian V. Hogg, John Grayson Kirk, William J. Koenig, & Antony Preston, The Military Press, Crown Publishers, Bison Books, 1976, 1984
The Rising Sun, John Toland, Bantam Books, 1971
Stillwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45, Barbara W. Tuchman, Bantam Books, 1971, 1972
The Struggle for Guadalcanal, August 1942-February 1943, the History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume V, Samuel Eliot Morison, Little, Brown and Company, 1975
Submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Dorr Carpener and Normal Polmar, Naval Institute Press, 1986
U.S. Warships of World War II, Paul H. Silverstone, Ian Allan Ltd., 1977
Victory in Papua, The United States Army in World War II, The War in the Pacific, Samuel Milner, Historical Division, Department of the Army, Washington, D.C., 1985
Warriors of the Rising Sun, a History of the Japanese Military, Robert B. Edgerton, Westview Press, 1997
Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945, Hansgeorg Jentschura, Dieter Jung, and Peter Michel, translated by Antony Preston and J.D. Brown, Naval Institute Press, 1970
Warships of World War II [British], H.T. Lenton and J.J. Colledge, Ian Allan, 1973
World War II Airplanes, Volume 1, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, France, Czechoslovakia, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Yugoslavia, Romania, Belgium, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Greece, Hungary, Enzo Angelucci & Paolo Matricardi, Rand McNally & Company, 1978
World War II Airplanes, Volume 2, United States, Japan, Union of Soviet Socialists Republics, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, China, Brazil, Enzo Angelucci & Paolo Matricardi, Rand McNally & Company, 1978
Philosophy of History, Military History
My wife's late father, Marty Ehrlich (d. 1996), was on Guadalcanal at the time of the October 13/14 bombardment as a naval mine expert. One 14 inch shell detonated so close to him that the shock ruptured his diaphram. He had to be evacuated off the island. He recovered completely, but then volunteered to do his mine work on submarines! He spent the latter part of the War on submarine missions out of Fremantle in Western Australia. See the role this may have played in the loss of the destroyer Amagiri.
There were probably not many people in World War II who endured the horrors both of Guadalcanal on land and of submarines at sea. But he survived, and went on to get a Ph.D. in physics at the University of California at Berkeley, in the company of some of the great physicists of the 20th Century. And where my wife was born. An extraordinary life.
He was very good at telling stories about his adventures, but was not one for writing them down. I often thought about running a tape recorder when visiting with him, but never got around to doing it. Thus is a great deal of history lost. Museums with "oral history" projects can't get to everyone, and I should have known better than to let the opporunity pass. As it is, who knows what living memory remains today of the shells from the Kongô and Haruna detonating at Henderson Field?
I must reflect that I knew Beirut before the Lebanese Civil War, and that I walked among the ruins of Palmyra years before some of the best preserved were destroyed by the savage forces of ISIS. My own life has definitely had its features.
The Battleship Kongô, Note 1
U.S. Battle Cruisers with Aircraft Carriers of the Same Name | |
original ship | subsequent ship(s) |
Lexington CC-1, CV-2 | CV-16 |
Constellation CC-2, cancelled | CVA-64 |
Saratoga CC-3, CV-3 | CVA-60 |
Ranger CC-4, cancelled | CV-4 & CVA-61 |
Constitution CC-5, cancelled | |
United States CC-6, cancelled | CVA-58, cancelled |
The fate of the names of the other two battle cruisers is interesting in itself. No subsequent ship has been named the Constitution because the old wooden frigate Constitution, "Old Ironsides," berthed in Boston harbor, has been maintained since 1931 in Commission as an active ship of the United States Navy. There cannot be two commissioned ships with the same name at the same time. Waved onto the Constitution with other tourists in 2009, I noticed a young officer standing by the gangway. I asked him if he was the Officer of the Deck -- someone who should be there in a Commissioned ship. He was. Barring any accident, the name will thus not be available for the foreseeable future.
Post-War U.S. Aircraft Carriers |
Midway CVB-41 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt CVB-42 |
Coral Sea CVB-43 |
CVB-44, cancelled |
Valley Forge CV-45 |
Iwo Jima CV-46, cancelled |
Philippine Sea CV-47 |
Saipan CV-48 |
Wright CV-49 |
CV-50-55, cancelled |
CVB-56-57, cancelled |
United States CVA-58, cancelled |
Forrestal CVA-59 |
Saratoga CVA-60 |
Ranger CVA-61 |
Independence CVA-62 |
Kitty Hawk CVA-63 |
Constellation CVA-64 |
Enterprise CVAN-65 |
America CVA-66 |
John F. Kennedy CVA-67 |
Nimitz CVN-68 |
Dwight D. Eisenhower CVN-69 |
Carl Vinson CVN-70 |
Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71 |
Abraham Lincoln CVN-72 |
George Washington CVN-73 |
John C. Stennis CVN-74 |
Harry S. Truman CVN-75 |
Ronald Reagan CVN-76 |
George H.W. Bush CVN-77 |
Gerald R. Ford CVN-78 |
John F. Kennedy CVN-79 |
As it happened, the next ship, CVA-67, was named after the recently assassinated President John F. Kennedy. This was comparable to the naming of CVB-42 for a previous President who had died in office, Franklin D. Roosevelt, but, oddly, it initiated a departure from all the other traditions of naming United States aircraft carriers. Subsequent carriers have all been named for Presidents, for Fleet Admiral Nimitz (CVN-68), and for two United States Congressmen -- the Carl Vinson (CVN-70) and the John C. Stennis (CVN-74). The Carl Vinson was launched and chistened in 1980, while Vinson (1883-1981) was still alive.
In previous tradition, nothing larger than a destroyer would have been named for a Congressman, and no modern ship had been named after a living person. This extraordinary and perhaps unseemly exception was due to the political role, influence, and longevity that Vinson had on military, and especially naval, budget and policy matters in Congress (1914-1965). One might be tempted to see it as a partisan monument from a Democrat President from Georgia, Jimmy Carter, to a Democrat Congressman from Georgia; but the name was actually assaigned by Richard Nixon, probably as part of his "Southern strategy." It will be hard in the future to explain why a capital warship should have been named after a politician who never served in the military, led American forces in battle, or represented more than a Congressional district in either war or peace.
The closest that previous naming had gotten to this was the Forrestal (CVA-59), named after James Forrestal, who had been Under-Secretary of the Navy, 1940-1944, Secretary of the Navy, 1944-1947, and the first Secretary of Defense, 1947-1949. Forrestal's wartime role for the Navy and then his tragic suicide would have motivated this, but the departure it represented does seem to have established a dangerous precedent. Now we have also had capital ships named for Senators John C. Stennis (1901-1995) and Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson (1912-1983 -- the nuclear ballistic missile submarine, SSBN-730), both just because of their political influence, like Vinson, on behalf of the military.
While Britain has named many capital ships after great admirals (Anson, Rodney, Hood, Nelson, etc.), no such tributes exist in the United States Navy to Farragut, Dewey, or Halsey -- the Nimitz and the Spruance (DD-963) are the exceptions -- while instead we have monuments to civilian officials and politicians -- leaving about them a sense of political payoff. What did Carl Vinson, or even James Forrestal, ever say, let alone in the heat of battle, to compare in inspiration to, "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!" The newest aircraft carriers are named after Presidents again, the first one for, at the time of launch, a still living, though ill, ex-President, Ronald Reagan. The newest carrier is named after a living ex-President again, George H.W. Bush, who was at least a wartime leader, though not otherwise what many would think of as a particularly successful or inspirational President. Even as Presidents have replaced Liberty on the coinage, now they displace genuine war heroes on warships -- although at least they do represent the Nation better than Congressmen distinguished only for getting money to the military.
United States Battleships and Other Ships Named After States
Advanced Japanese Destroyers of World War II
A Guadalcanal Chronology, 7 August 1942 - 6 March 1943
Naval Aircraft Designations of Japan and the United States
Zen and the Art of Divebombing, or The Dark Side of the Tao
Philosophy of History, Military History
The fate of the empire rests upon this one battle (Kôkoku no kôbai kono issen ni ari).Let every man do his utmost (kakuin issô funrei doryoku seyo).
Admiral Heihachirô Tôgô, Battle of Tsushima, May 27, 1905
Armored Ships | |
Azuma |
Confederate Sphinx/Stonewall, bought by Shogun, turned over to Emperor, 1869, as Kôtetsu, renamed 1871, stricken 1888 |
Ryûjô | purchased by Prince Kumamoto, turned over to Emperor, 1870, stricked 1898 |
Fuso | ordered 1875, Battle of Yalu River, stricken 1908-1911 |
Kongô | |
Hiei | |
Heien | captured Chinese gunboat P'ing-yüan, sunk by mine off Port Arthur, 1904 |
Chin'en | surrendered Chinese Chen-yüan, Battle of Tsushima, stricken 1911 |
Pre-Dreadnoughts | |
Fuji | 1894 program, Russo-Japanese War, stricken 1922 |
Yashima | 1894 program, Russo-Japanese War, sunk by mine, 1904 |
Shikishima | ordered 1895, Russo-Japanese War, stricken 1923 |
Hatsuse | ordered 1895, Russo-Japanese War, sunk by mine, 1904 |
Asahi | ordered 1896-7, Russo-Japanese War, disarmed 1923 |
Mikasa | ordered 1896-7, Admiral Tôgô's flagship, Russo-Japanese War, memorial at Yokosuka 1926 |
Iwami | Russian Orel, surrendered at Tsushima, stricken 1922 |
Minoshima | Russian Admiral Seniavin, surrendered at Tsushima, stricken 1928 |
Okinoshima | Russian General Admiral Graf Apraksin, surrendered at Tsushima, stricken 1922 |
Iki | Russian Imperator Nikolai I, surrendered at Tsushima, stricken 1915 |
Hizen | Russian Retvisan, raised from Port Arthur, stricken 1923 |
Sagami | Russian Peresviet, raised from Port Arthur; returned to Russia, 1916, sunk by mine off Port Said, 1917 |
Suo | Russian Pobieda, raised from Port Arthur, disarmed 1922 |
Tango | Russian Poltava, raised from Port Arthur; returned to Russia, 1916, as Tchesma in White Sea |
Kashima | 1903 program, stricken 1923 |
Katori | 1903 program, stricken 1923 |
Satsuma | 1903 program, first battleship built in Japan, stricken 1923 |
Aki | 1903 program, stricken 1923 |
Dreadnoughts | |
Kawachi | 1907 program, sunk by explosion, 1918 |
Settsu | 1907 program, stricken 1923 |
Kongô | 1910 program, last Japanese battleship built by Britain, sunk by submarine Sealion, 21 November 1944 |
Hiei | 1910 program, sunk Battle of Guadalcanal, 13 November 1942 |
Kirishima | 1910 program, sunk Battle of Guadalcanal, 15 November 1942 |
Haruna | 1910 program, sunk at Kure, 28 July 1945 |
Fuso | 1911 program, sunk Battle of Surigao Strait (Battle for Leyte Gulf), 25 October 1944 |
Yamashiro | 1911 program, sunk Battle of Surigao Strait (Battle for Leyte Gulf), 25 October 1944 |
Ise | 1914 program, sunk near Kure, 28 July 1945 |
Hyuga | 1914 program, sunk at Kure, 24 July 1945 |
Nagato | 1916 program, surrendered 1945, sunk at atom bomb test, Bikini Atoll, 29 July 1946 |
Mutsu | 1916 program, sunk Hiroshima Bay by explosion, 8 June 1943 |
Super-Dreadnoughts | |
Yamato | 1937 program, sunk Battle of Okinawa, 7 April 1945 |
Musashi | 1937 program, sunk Battle of Subiyan Sea (Battle for Leyte Gulf), 24 October 1944 |
Shinano | 1937 program, completing as aircraft carrier, sunk by submarine Archerfish, 29 November 1944 |
The six pre-Droughtnoughts that were then built in Britain gave Japan the fleet necessary to meet Russia in 1904. Victory was no foregone conclusion, since these six Japanese battleships (with an ex-Chinese one thrown in), did not outnumber the Russian squadron in Port Arthur. The Russians lost one ship to mines, but the Japanese lost two. When the Russians finally came out in force, however, it was only in an attempt to flee to Vladivostok. In the following Battle of the Yellow Sea, 10 August 1904, although there were no decisive losses, the Russians were hurt enough to return to Port Arthur, except for the Tsessarevitch, which headed for a neutral Chinese port and was interned for the duration of the War. The remaining battleships were finally defeated by the Japanese Army, which bombarded them from land and then took Port Arthur, which surrendered on 2 January 1905.
With the Russian Baltic Fleet of eleven battleships on its way, the Japanese would still have no superiority, only the obvious advantage of fresh and reconditioned ships against a force weary and rundown from eight months at sea. There were other advantages too, however, and the Battle of Tsushima, 27-28 May 1905, turned out to be one of the more decisive naval battles in history, with most of the Russian fleet, including all the battleships, either sunk or captured. The Japanese can hardly be blamed for regarding themselves as protected by the gods; and the spectacle, before many international observers, of a non-European race, not long before living in mediaeval and nearly Tibetan isolation, with an arguably inferior force, annihilating the fleet of a European Great Power which had once humbled Napoleon Bonaparte, electrified the world -- noticed as much in Egypt and India as in London and Paris. Theodore Roosevelt paid the ultimate complement of the Era: the Japanese were the "Anglo-Saxons of the Orient."
The British now could congratulate themselves on the wisdom of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of 1902; but as Britain was drawn into alliance with France and Russia against Germany, Japan soon found herself on the same side as her former enemy and one of the Allies in World War I, with a destroyer group operating in the Mediterranean Sea. Only China was left to bully, as Japanese policy and behavior became increasingly ugly and brutal. Nevertheless, this was soon held in relative check, as the "better angels" of the Japanese nature were encouraged by the Allied victory in World War I, which evidently meant that democracy and liberal society were good, and successful, things.
Unfortunately, democracy and liberal society seemed increasingly in trouble as the years went on. To many, the Depression meant that only some kind of totalitarianism, Communist or Fascist, would be able to apply the needed medicine. Japan, with basically a Prussian constitution, but a semi-divine Emperor who believed in the British ideal of ruling by the advice of his ministers, became increasingly dominated by the Army, itself formed on Prussian principles. The Navy, with its British role model and its more cosmopolitan experience, although co-equal to the Army, nevertheless did not have troops on the ground. Admirals in the Japanese government tended to get assassinated, and finally the Army decided, since it wouldn't obey civilian ministers anyway, that General Tojo would be the best Prime Minister.
With war already underway in China since 1937, Japan, which had smarted under a racist snub from its erstwhile Allies at Versailles, ironically fell in with overtly racist Germany and its fellow Fascist Italy. The United States, and especially Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had a special romantic soft spot in his heart for China (and well informed about Japanese atrocities in China, which had even been protested by German diplomats), began making essentially war-like moves against Japan, like a scrap metal and then oil boycott. In retrospect, it is clear that the oil boycott meant war, since Japan would have to seize foreign oil fields (in Indonesia) or be rendered helpless in the face of any American demands.
Only the fast Japanese battleships, the reconstructed battle cruisers Kongô, Haruna, Hiei, and Kirishima, played any significant combat role in World War II. Most were sunk in futile throws late in the War, like the Battle for Leyte Gulf (23-26 October 1944), or in harbor, where American planes found them in 1945. An annihilation much like Tsushima was now visited on the Japanese themselves. The gods forsook their protection of Japan. The battleship Nagato even joined its late foe, U.S. carrier Saratoga, as a subject of atomic testing.
With changing tactics, thanks to the use of aircraft carriers, as developed by the Japanese Navy itself (in the Pearl Harbor strike), battleships were necessarily only in a secondary role, one for which, however, they were rarely used, since they were thought too valuable to risk, being held in reserve for the decisive surface battle that never did, and couldn't possibly, ever happen. Thus, the most power battleships ever build, the Yamato and Musashi, never fired a shot at any American surface ship larger than an escort carrier (CVE), while the battleship Kirishima, alone off Guadalcanal, had been destroyed by the detached American battleships South Dakota and Washington (15 November 1942). The only other time when American and Japanese battleships fired at each other was when old American ones sunk the old Japanese Fuso and Yamashiro in Surigao Strait (25 October 1944), during the Battle for Leyte Gulf.
With democracy and liberal society again in ascendency, a disarmed Japan threw itself into commerce with all the determination that it had earlier thrown itself into war. An international empire of automobiles, television sets, cameras, and multiple elecronic devices eventually carried the Japanese to conquests beyond only the wildest aspirations of their earlier imperalists. Yet, where in Britain a Sovereign Queen, a State religion (the Church of England), and various national symbols seem to pose no threat to freedom or democracy, Japan continues to live under the shadow of the crimes practiced in the name of the Emperor, the State religion (State Shintô), and various symbols. Thus, the sovereignty of the Emperor, his involvement with Shintô, and even an official flag and national anthem (Kimigaiyo), set off intense debate, recrimination, threats, violence, and soul searching. Officially, Japan is no longer an Empire (teikoku) but not yet a Republic (kyôwakoku) -- just "Japan" (Nihon). Neither the Japanese, nor their neighbors, are quite sure which "angels" still lurk in the nature of Japan.
Admiral Togo's flagship at Tsushima, the battleship Mikasa, became a war memorial at Yokosuka in 1926. After World War II, the Occupation Authorities required that it be disarmed and disabled as though it were a serious member of the Japanese military. It was subsequently restored to its pre-War appearance, with no less than the support and encouragement of American Admiral Chester Nimitz himself. Although only a minor tourist attraction, except for the Japanese, the Mikasa now has the extraordinary status of being the last of its kind, the last Pre-Dreadnought preserved above water anywhere in the world. Nimitz thus magnanimously understood that the Mikasa was a unqiue monument and artifact of military history and warranted the respect and attention of anyone with a concern for military science. Below, we see the Mikasa on 18 November 2009, in a picture taken by the author, in the characteristic dark gray of Japanese warships. A modern statue of Togo is visible in the foreground. The ship can be reached by a zig-zag walk through the streets of Yokosuka from the Yokosuka-Chuo train station on the Keihin Kyûkô Line.
Advanced Japanese Destroyers of World War II
A Guadalcanal Chronology, 7 August 1942 - 6 March 1943
Zen and the Art of Divebombing, or The Dark Side of the Tao
Philosophy of History, Military History


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2012-02-02, 19:09 | Link #61 |
My Girl ↓
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Update: Ortigas, Pasig, Phillippines
Age: 29
I knew this show is about breaking Shu right off the bat. And I expected that they will have to sacrifice everyone Shu loves to do it. Hare's death is a step forward to this goal.
But I don't think it's enough. *Gendo Ikari desk pose* "We need to kill more. Kill Haruka and Ayase next. Make sure Shu suffers until he breaks. All hail the king..."
2012-02-02, 19:11 | Link #62 |
The Dark Knight
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: From the deepest abyss in the world, where you think?
Age: 31
I don't get it.
Hare can heal anything organic or inorganic..... So why can't she heal Ayase's legs? I mean I would jump at that. And why was Inouri against Shu drawing out her void? They were getting massacred and there were times where she had to force him to pull out her void. |
2012-02-02, 19:22 | Link #63 | |
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Anyways... this episode made me sad... I can't believe those other idiots did something like that. It's also amazing how broke Shu is to the point that he finally just went and pretty much gave a beating lesson.
2012-02-02, 20:01 | Link #66 |
My Girl ↓
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Update: Ortigas, Pasig, Phillippines
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At least this evil King has a reason to fight, and it isn't about money, power or fame like many tyrants of today. This is about honor, revenge and the act to save the remaining people that means a lot to him.
2012-02-02, 22:27 | Link #70 | |
Waiting for more taiyuki!
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However, she was about to be killed so refusal shouldn't have been an option. I'm siding with Beserk Shu on this one.
2012-02-02, 22:38 | Link #72 | |
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That said, it's hard to say how critical Shu's condition was. And it's easy to see why Hare would prioritize his health, whether she theoretically had time to take care of herself first or not. |
2012-02-02, 22:40 | Link #73 |
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That whole scene was absurd and it ruined the moment. The military fighter neatly circumvents shooting open targets like Hare and Shu (who is glowing at this moment no less) to shoot a ribbon... What? (They even had orders to get rid of him...) Who hired these incompetent bozos. And why didn't Hare, at the very least, heal her own internal bleeding? If she died from hemorrhaging blood (and by golly was she loosing a lot, I don't even know how she remained conscious) before healing Shu, what would have been the point?
2012-02-02, 22:45 | Link #74 | |
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And that scene is absurd... Unless they know about voids already. If they do, it would be the best option to take, since the healer (Hare) dies and no one will heal Shu.
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Carpe Diem
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The best option? No, the best option to is to shoot everything, not fly away for no known reason, and observe the situation. Did they forget to refuel their chopper or something? Even if they know what Voids are, it still is not an excuse. They have no guarantee of anything because how would they even know what Hare's void does? Why not shoot everything to dust? What does it even matter if they know about Voids? Or healing... and if they know that she is healing him, then that's even more reason to pump the entire building full of rounds.
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I've been enjoying the series in spite of its shortcomings so far, but Hare's totally predictable death sequence was the tipping point for me. I really liked her character, and her death just felt like yet another cheap way to force the plot in the desired direction. It isn't her death that I object to, just that the whole episode felt like a stupid charade. It wasn't Shuu's kindness that killed Hare, it was serial stupidity on the part of multiple collaborators. First, introduce an unlikely dire situation, then have a convenient discovery of their senseless void ranking scheme, then rather than approach Shuu about it, Souta and friends go off on some hair-brained mission to prove something or other. It isn't clear what really, since their voids aren't appropriate to the situation. Finally, Shuu shows up, endangering more people who aren't appropriate for the situation, and have no hope of helping should they encounter trouble. Why even bother? It doesn't end with Shuu and Souta's irrational stupidity though, even Hare is in on it. With bullets flying every which way, the middle of the road is not the place to be, regardless of what Souta says. They have seen endlaves in action, and should know very well that escape in a car is impossible, and merely presents a clear target for them. Souta is the perfect example of how very stupid the void ranking system is: he is the lowest ranked, yet a number of them already owe him their lives, and he was crucial to an earlier mission. Shuu and Souta were even talking sense in the beginning of the ep, but by the end, the change in Shuu's character leaves me dreading the next episode. Hopefully this phase won't last long. Those expecting a version of LeLouche are going to be gravely disappointed. Lulu was not some mindless hard ass void of kindness, if anything, it defined him. Shuu's discarding even the precept of kindness is just going to result in everyone hating him, audience included. Even Gai was kind in his own way, just utterly determined much like Lulu. Everyone except Shuu could see that. Anyway, how disappointing--it could have been so much better. I love many of the characters when they are actually acting in character and not as mere plot devicers. |
2012-02-02, 22:58 | Link #79 | |
Keep on keeping on
Join Date: Oct 2011
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I had seen Hare's death coming; her confession scene only brought her death flag higher. Sad thing was, Hare's last words never reached Shu, and Shu ended up snapping. Him forcing Inori's Void out () and his expression at the end of the episode spells nothing but disaster...
On the other hand, turns out Shibungi is the one playing chess with Segai. I wonder who does he plan to meet. And I don't get the writers trying to link Daryl and Tsugumi... A rather solid episode with the intensity of episode 9. 9/10. I had to choke at the title of episode 16... Quote:
2012-02-02, 23:00 | Link #80 | |
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You know, having played some of the other MMOs where they restrict character gender to player gender (like Ragnarok Online and Maple Story), (1) people fake it anyway, and (2) the end result is that female characters get harassed that much more because people are reasonably sure there's a girl at the other end.
Why it would be considered a problem is beyond me. To me it's like a guy playing chess insisting that the queen be called a chancellor or some such.


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Jewish World Review Nov. 20, 2012/ 6 Kislev 5773 Governors take power as balance shifts inside GOP By Byron York
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With Mitt Romney's defeat and the loss of Republican seats in both House and Senate, the balance of power in the GOP has shifted. Republican governors -- the one group that actually increased its numbers on Nov. 6 -- believe they should take a bigger and more influential role in establishing the party's direction.
At their annual meeting in Las Vegas last week, Republican governors were quick to point out that they now preside in 30 states, with a population of about 180 million people. Idaho Gov. Butch Otter sat down to make a little chart and quickly discovered that if Romney had won just the states with Republican governors, he would have chalked up 315 electoral votes -- and we'd now be talking about a Romney electoral landslide.
So the governors feel a little ahead of the rest of the Republican pack. And while much of the press covering the governors' confab in Las Vegas focused on election post-mortems, the real story to emerge from the conference is the coming conflict between the GOP governors and the Obama administration. It could be one of the major stories of the president's second term.
The flashpoint, at least right now, is Obamacare. People might assume the health care plan, passed by Congress, signed by the president and upheld by the Supreme Court, will now simply go into effect. It won't be that simple.
Obamacare directs states to establish exchanges through which uninsured people can purchase coverage. If the states don't do it, the law says the federal government will step in and set up an exchange itself. The Obama administration has been trying to push the governors to say whether they will set up exchanges in their states. So far, many of the Republican governors seem inclined to say no.
They have several reasons. One, they believe the exchanges will cost their states a lot of money. Two, they believe the federal government will exercise ultimate control, meaning there will be little benefit for a state to do the heavy lifting to get the exchanges started. And three, some suspect the exchanges will be a disorganized and troubled enterprise, and when the implementation of Obamacare comes under criticism, the blame will lie with the administration, and not the states.
Some conservatives are urging the governors not only to stay out of the exchanges but also to reject Obamacare's planned expansion of Medicaid. That could be a crippling blow to the health care law. "If enough states do so, Congress will have no choice but to reopen Obamacare," Cato Institute health care scholar Michael Cannon wrote in National Review Online recently. "With a GOP-controlled House, opponents will be in a much stronger position than they were when this harmful law was enacted."
It's not clear precisely what the governors will do, but a large number of them, while conceding that Obamacare is now the law, seem uninclined to help it get going.
Other fights will come over energy policy. With new drilling techniques bringing huge supplies of recoverable oil and gas, the governors are likely to be at war with Obama's Environmental Protection Agency.
And then there is the federal budget. The governors don't control it, but they have balanced their own budgets, and many say they are ready to accept cuts in federal funds for their states. They'll be pushing the diminished Republican forces in Congress to keep cutting.
Finally, the governors want a greater role in the 2016 presidential process. While they speak well of Romney, his unforced errors in the campaign hung over the Las Vegas conference. Governor after governor bemoaned the damage done by the infamous "47 percent" video, and reaction was visceral when word came that Romney had attributed Obama's victory, in part, to the "gifts" the president handed out to key constituencies like blacks, Hispanics and young voters.
"It's like fingernails on the chalkboard," Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, the new head of the governors' group, said when asked his first reaction to Romney's words. "If we want to continue to lose elections, if we want to become a minority party, if we want to become less relevant to this national debate, we should just continue saying things like that."
The Republican governors believe now is their time. Amid GOP losses, with no clear head of the party, they believe their success at the polls gives them the clout to lead.
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Daniel W. Boothe studied conducting, composition and percussion before receiving his Bachelor of Music. While at RU, he was commissioned to compose the music for President Kyle's inauguration. Capt. Boothe is a U.S. Air Force Band Commander and Conductor. He has two notable accomplishments during his time as a U.S. Air Force Band Conductor. He is a winner of the highest international award for military bands – the Colonel George S. Howard Citation for Musical Excellence. He is also a finalist for the American Prize in Conducting, which recognizes and rewards the best orchestral, choral, band/wind ensemble, opera and musical theater conductors in the U.S.


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St. Petersburg ParadoxProbability puzzles require you to weigh all the possibilities and pick the most likely outcome.
You are offered a game to play with a single fair coin. It costs 20 dollars to play this game, but you can win much more than that. The way it works is that you continue to flip the coin until you get tails. For every heads you get before that, your payoff doubles. For example, if you get:
Heads Heads Tails, then you would earn 4 dollars. In other words, you get: 2^heads dollars after you play. The question is: would you come out with more or less money after you played this game an INFINITE number of times? Remember, each game costs 20 dollars! What Next?
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CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's interim president named an economist as prime minister Tuesday, ending days of deadlock as the head of the military pressured political factions to speed along the process, warning them that ''maneuvering'' must not hold up the transition toward new elections after the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi.
The appointment of Hazem el-Beblawi, along with the setting of a swift timetable for parliamentary and presidential elections early next year, underlined the military-backed leadership's determination to push ahead with their transition plans in the face of Islamist protests demanding the reinstatement of Morsi, Egypt's first freely elected president.
The new leadership got a boost Tuesday from Arab allies in the Gulf. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, both opponents of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, celebrated his ouster by showering the cash-strapped Egyptian government with promises of $8 billion worth of cash grants, loans and badly needed gas and oil.
In doing so, they are effectively stepping in for Morsi's Gulf patron, Qatar, a close ally of the Brotherhood that gave his government several billion in aid. During Morsi's year in office, he and his officials toured multiple countries seeking cash to prop up rapidly draining foreign currency reserves and plug mounting deficits — at times getting a cold shoulder.
The developments underlined the multiple pressures on the new leadership even with the country still in turmoil after what Morsi's supporters have called a coup against democracy.
The military faces calls, from the United States and Western allies in particular, to show that civilians are in charge and Egypt is on a path toward a new democratically based leadership. The nascent government will soon face demands it tackle economic woes that mounted during Morsi's year in office, including fuel shortages, electricity cut-offs and inflation.
And there are signs of discontent over the transition plan among those participating in the military-backed political process.
The secular, revolutionary youth movement Tamarod, which organized last week's massive protests against Morsi, criticized the transition plan Tuesday, in part because it gives too much power to the interim president, Adly Mansour. An Islamist party was unhappy that appointed panels — not elected ones — will amend the constitution.
At the same time, the country is deeply polarized, raising the threat of violence, particularly after more than 50 Morsi supporters were killed by security forces in clashes early Monday. The Brotherhood and Islamist allies say they are under siege by a crackdown from the military that has jailed five of their top leaders and shut down their media outlets.
The Brotherhood on Tuesday rejected the transition plan, as tens of thousands of its supporters massed for another day in a rally outside a Cairo mosque where they have vowed to stay until Morsi is restored. The crowds waved signs of the ousted leader and brought in coffins draped with Egyptian flags representing the slain protesters.
''This new declaration affirms that those who carried out the coup, the dictator generals, don't respect the will of the people,'' the Brotherhood said of the transition timetable in a statement. ''These are all rejected and void measures.''
Still, there was not the huge nationwide turnout Brotherhood leaders had called for in the wake of the killings. Also, for the first time since even before the June 30 protests began, Cairo's Tahrir Square — where Morsi's opponents were centered — was largely without crowds.
That could in part reflect the fact that people are starting to prepare for the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan on Wednesday, when Muslims will begin 30 days of fasting from sunrise to sunset. But it is not clear if the month will significantly calm the street. The fast cuts down on activity during the day, but the street rallies have been largely nocturnal affairs anyway. The Islamist camp will likely use the religious occasion to rally its base.
The interim president called for a reconciliation process called ''One People'' to begin in Ramadan, traditionally a period for Muslims to promote unity. It called for parties and movements to hold meetings. There was no sign the Brotherhood and its allies would attend, much like Morsi's opponents rejected his calls for dialogue, which were dismissed as empty gestures.
In an effort at outreach, the interim president's spokesman Ahmed el-Musalamani said that posts in the new Cabinet would be offered to the Islamist camp — including to the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party and the Salafi Al-Nour Party. He spoke to Egypt's privately owned CBC TV channel in remarks also carried by the state news agency.
The statement by military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi against political maneuvering underlined how the military — while it says it is staying out of politics — remains a powerful presence in a transition ostensibly being led by Mansour and a loose coalition of political groupings that backed the army's removal of Morsi.
''The people and, behind it, the armed forces don't want anyone to stray from the right path or deviate from the boundaries of safety and security, driven by selfishness or ... zealousness,'' the military said.
A spokesman of the interim president announced the appointment of el-Beblawi as prime minister and of pro-democracy leader Mohamed ElBaradei as vice president. El-Beblawi is to start forming a Cabinet on Wednesday.
The naming of a prime minister had been held up for days as the sole Islamist faction among them, the ultraconservative Al-Nour Party, blocked candidates from secular, liberal and leftist factions. Those factions have been determined to have one of their own in the post.
Last week, Al-Nour blocked ElBaradei from becoming prime minister then objected to one his close allies put forward as a compromise. It insisted it wanted a less political figure. The moves infuriated the secular and liberal factions. ElBaradei is considered one of the strongest pro-reform figures, but many Islamists vehemently oppose him, considering him too secular.
El-Beblawi is from the liberal-secular camp — albeit a less controversial, well-known or prominent figure than ElBaradei, who will now get a vice president post. Some of ElBaradei's supporters believe he will work to shape the government and political process from that position.
Gen. el-Sissi's statement, read on state TV, appeared to be a veiled warning to Al-Nour. But it suggests the military is ready to apply pressure on the politicians in the future, when multiple disputes are almost certain to emerge.
''The future of the nation is too important and sacred for maneuvers or hindrance, whatever the justifications,'' el-Sissi said.
An Al-Nour spokesman, Ibrahim Abaza, told AP that the party was not consulted on el-Beblawi's nomination but welcomes his appointment. But he underlined that ''our objections are not only about nominations but the dictatorship of the new president, who takes decisions unilaterally without consultations and with clear bias against Islamist current.''
El-Beblawi, 76, served as finance minister in one of the first cabinets formed after autocrat Hosni Mubarak was ousted in 2011 and the military stepped in to rule for nearly 17 months. But he resigned in protest in October 2011 after 26 protesters, mostly Christians, were killed by troops and security forces in a crackdown on their march.
A Sorbonnne-educated economist has been a professor in several Egyptian universities and served in the United Nations for six years in the U.N. Social Economic Commission for Western Asia. After Mubarak's fall, he was one of the founders of the Egyptian Social Democratic party, one of several secular parties in the liberal grouping National Salvation Front in which ElBaradei is a leading figure.
He called for dialogue between the new leadership and their Islamist opponents in the streets. ''Everyone in Egypt must sit together on the table for dialogue to solve current political differences, stop violence and bloodshed in the street,'' he told The Associated Press.
Late Monday, Mansour issued a declaration that included a temporary, truncated constitution and the timetable for the transition period.
But it quickly brought out the strains among the factions that have a seat at the table in discussions over the transition.
The anti-Morsi protest movement Tamarod, Arabic for ''rebel,'' said it was not consulted on the declaration. It said the declaration gave too much power to Mansour, including the power to legislate, since there is no parliament. A post-Morsi plan put forward by Tamarod called for a largely ceremonial interim president with most power in the hands of the prime minister.
It also complained that the process will involve amending the Islamist-drafted constitution passed under Morsi's administration instead of completely throwing it out and writing a new one.
''The people didn't have a revolution to bring back the Muslim Brotherhood constitution. We don't want a patchwork constitution. We want a new one,'' said one of Tamarod's founders, Walid el-Masry, who added that the group would meet with Mansour to press for changes to the declaration.
Under the timetable issued Monday, two appointed panels would draw up and approve amendments to the constitution, which would be put to a referendum within 4 ½ months from now. Elections for a new parliament would be held within two months of that. Once the new parliament convenes, it would have a week to set a date for presidential elections.
After Monday's bloodshed, authorities stepped up moves against Islamists.
The military accused armed Islamists of sparking Monday's carnage by attacking the headquarters of the Republican Guard. Morsi supporters say no such attack took place and that troops attacked their sit-in nearby, opening fire on them without provocation after dawn prayers. Along with 51 protesters, an army officer and two policemen were killed.
An Egyptian security official said 650 people were arrested, most during Monday's violence, for allegedly trying to storm the headquarters. The official said there were Syrian and Palestinian nationals among those arrested. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press.
The general prosecutor announced that authorities confiscated weapons, knives and home-made explosives and bombs from the sit-in site and that investigations found that armed men have used rooftops of residential and government building to fire at the Republican Guard forces.
Egypt also chided the Islamist-rooted governments of Turkey and Tunisia that criticized the army's ouster of the president. The Foreign Ministry summoned the Turkish ambassador to complain of interference in internal affairs after Turkish officials called for U.N. intervention.


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"I am an idealistic, naive, passionate, truth-seeking, spiritually motivated artist, unschooled in the science of law and finance." --Wesley Snipes
Friday, October 24, 2008
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y'know, I think I'm just going to sit here and wait for someone to ask me for a book of poesy. Yeah. That's the ticket.
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Assorted Set of 2 Beehive Boxes - Ballard Designs
Daily Obsesh - 'In A Nutshell' Trinket Box
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Get into the spirit of the season with this cute (but not cutesy!) 'In-a-Nutshell' Trinket Box from Anthropologie. The acorn shape perfectly matches the mood and weather of these next few months, and it's unique shape makes it a great counter piece for the bedroom or bathroom all year round! It's the perfect size to store small accessories and little knick-knacks, while being a fun little knick-knack itself! Subtly quirky, but not overly whimsical, this trinket box is a great way to add interest and just a hint of a rustic cabin vibe to your home decor. And at less than $20 each, grab a few to line a shelf and really go nuts!
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Computers used to be the size of a conference room and required so many extra steps to do a simple procedure that brain surgery seemed only slightly harder than writing a document. Technology has no doubt changed drastically over the years. Now we have a little something called the internet, as well as laptops and computers that can fit into the palm of your hand. It's only logical that with a society that now relies heavily on computer data and usage, accessories and other cute, functional items for your computer and laptops are popping up everywhere. The Russian Nesting Doll flash drive is one of the more interesting and randomly fun computer/ laptop accessories out there and with 2GB of memory, it allows you to save and share your work while giving your job or school projects a touch of whimsy. Plus, this cute Russian Nesting Doll flash drive is so unique and colorful, that you'll easily spot which is your jump drive amongst the usual, more boring flash drive selections!Price: $28.00Who Found It: idabone was first to add the Russian Nesting Doll Flash Drive to the Hive.


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The atmospheric Christmas market in Bernkastel-Kues is set against the historical backdrop of the old town with its medieval squares, narrow streets and magnificent town hall. Other highlights are a giant Advent calendar, swimming with flickering torches in the Rhine and St. Nicholas tours.
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Restrict AirPlay access to your Apple TV
To restrict access to your Apple TV through AirPlay, you can choose from two security settings. Go to Settings > AirPlay > Security and choose the setting that's right for you:
- To give access only to users in the same room as your Apple TV, choose Passcode or Onscreen Code. Each time someone with an AirPlay enabled device tries to connect to your Apple TV, their device asks for the passcode shown on your TV.
- To give access only to users who have your password, choose Password. Then any user who wants to use AirPlay on your Apple TV needs to ask you for your password. You might want to change your password periodically, because after someone enters it on their device, that device remembers the password forever.
Set up Device Verification
To set up a requirement for a one-time onscreen passcode for all AirPlay enabled devices, use Device Verification:
- On Apple TV (4th generation), go to Settings > AirPlay and turn on Require Device Verification.
- On Apple TV (2nd or 3rd generation), go to Settings > AirPlay > Security and turn on Require Device Verification.
Use Conference Room Display
Conference Room Display shows instructions for how to connect to Apple TV through AirPlay. Then everyone in the room can learn how to project the screen of their AirPlay enabled device to the display connected to the Apple TV.
Here's how to turn on Conference Room Display:
- Make sure that your Apple TV has the latest software.
- Go to Settings > AirPlay > Conference Room Display.
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He fills your horn of plenty with His abundant presence and provision. Up close and personal you hear His heartbeat of love and forgiveness. You fear Him because you love and respect Him. Closeness to Christ calms your soul and ignites your faith, so draw near to know Him. Sit next to the fire of His love to warm your heart and to melt your fears.
"Let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings." Hebrews 10:22a
Prayer and praise places you in the proximity of closeness to Christ. When you feel distant from God determine to praise Him even more. The Holy One is praised by His holy ones. Praise Him for His grand creation and glorious grace. Praise Him for the people in your life who love you, and for those who encourage you in the faith. Praise is a remedy for feeling remote from the heart of Christ.
Gratitude is another catalyst for closeness to Christ. Be an agent of appreciation to Almighty God. Thank Him often for all things good and bad. Be grateful for good things like health, children and work, but continue to praise Him when these same blessings become burdens. Hard times are meant to be a highway to Christ's heart. Drive there daily to be filled by His warm embrace and love.
"Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded." James 4:8, NKJV
What do I need to praise and thank God for even though it is a burden for me to bear?
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