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Texas Republican Congressman Pat Fallon has filed articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, according to a new report published by Fox News. This guy definitely deserves to be booted from his position, especially considering the fact that immigration issues fall under his purview and he has done nothing at all to alleviate the crisis that is destroying border states and driving up crime rates.
According to the Daily Wire, Fallon introduced the articles of impeachment against the secretary on Monday, for “high crimes and misdemeanors,” which is also known as House Resolution 8.
“Since day one, Secretary Mayorkas’ policies have undermined law enforcement activities at our southern border,” Fallon commented in a statement provided to Fox News last week. “From perjuring himself before Congress about maintaining operational control of the border to the infamous ‘whip-gate’ slander against our border patrol agents, Secretary Mayorkas has proven time and time again that he is unfit to lead the Department of Homeland Security.”
“His willful actions have eroded our immigration system, undermined border patrol morale, and jeopardized American national security. He has violated the law and it is time for him to go,” Fallon continued.
The filing of the articles comes during the first week of Rep. Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, occupying the office of Speaker of the House.
McCarthy stated that if the GOP took control of the House away from Democrats, Mayorkas might end up facing impeachment due to his failure to resolve the border crisis, which has seen hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants crossing into the U.S. on a daily basis.
“If Secretary Mayorkas does not resign, House Republicans will investigate every order, every action and every failure and will determine whether we can begin impeachment inquiry,” McCarthy said to Fox News in November.
The Daily Wire reported, “The U.S. Border Patrol reported encounters with migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border in the 2021 fiscal year were more than quadruple the number of the prior fiscal year and the highest annual total on record, according to Pew Research.”
“The U.S. saw 2,378,944 encounters at the border in fiscal year 2022, excluding the nearly 600,000 known ‘gotaways’ who escaped custody altogether,” the article stated. “Fox News reported last week that Fallon’s articles of impeachment against Mayorkas would come in three sections.”
The first article of impeachment levels accusations that Mayorkas has failed to execute the “Secure the Fence Act of 2006,” stating that the law requires the secretary of DHS to “maintain operational control over the entire international land and maritime borders of the United States.”
The second accuses Mayorkas of being in “violation of his constitutional oath, willfully provided perjurious, false, and misleading testimony to Congress” for testifying that the southern border was secure when he appeared in hearings held on April 26 and November 15 of last year.
The last article that was filed by Fallon says the secretary “publicly and falsely slandered” border agents who were accused of whipping Haitian immigrants in Del Rio, Texas back in 2021. The accusations were eventually cleared.
“The 511-page report by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Personal Responsibility found ‘no evidence that [Border Patrol agents] involved in this incident struck, intentionally or otherwise, any migrant with their reins,’” Fallon went on to write, according to Fox News. “Secretary Mayorkas slandered his own Border Patrol agents and TXDPS Troopers involved in this incident, contributing to a further decrease in already-low morale among agents.”
The files have officially been referred to the House Judiciary Committee. Fallon promised to deliver the articles of impeachment he drafted before the 118th Congress was sworn in.
Mayorkas conducted an interview on ABC’s “This Week” news program Sunday where he said he would not be stepping down from his post over his handling of the border situation, going on to add that he would be prepared to undergo an investigation carried out by House Republicans.
“I do not,” Mayorkas replied when he was pressed by news anchor George Stephanopoulos to issue a response to McCarthy’s call for him to resign or if he had any plans to step down. “I’ve got a lot of work to do, and we’re going to do it.”
No thanks, I think the nothing you’ve done thus far has been more than enough. Please step down, walk out of your office, and don’t let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya.
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Barking and Dagenham Council is urging people to help the environment this year by signing up to its green garden waste scheme.
TV gardener Alan Titchmarsh has described it as "a little Shangri La in Dagenham".
Two Barking schools have taken home prizes for their green-fingered designs.
Christmas is traditionally a time of extravagance and a chance to spoil loved ones with gifts, great food and merry cheer. But can we enjoy the festive season sustainably?
A "people-powered" project aimed at sprucing up the site where a pub once stood has been launched with carol singing and solar-powered Christmas tree lights.
Barking and Dagenham is among the top 10 worst places for air pollution, a study shows.
People in Barking and Dagenham are being asked to shape the borough's future as the council opens consultations on the new Local Plan.
Volunteers have invited people to join them in planting a community orchard as part of their bid to tackle climate change.
Work on a new cycleway in Barking will begin early next year, TfL has announced.
Sixty neighbourhoods in Barking and Dagenham are among the 20pc most "deprived" in England, according to government figures.
Councils in east London have backed legislation that would give them more powers to combat air pollution.
Council bosses have been out getting their hands dirty to push the authority's new strategy to tackle litter in the borough.
An affordable housing development in Barking has stood empty since June after a key contractor went bust with £46million of debts.
Six pollution-busting trees have found a new home at the Barking Riverside development.
Opposition is stacking up against London City Airport's expansion with a scathing attack from the London Assembly insisting that people in the flight path are entitled to "have a weekend break" from aircraft noise.
The vast majority of robberies in Barking and Dagenham are going unsolved by police as figures reveal the borough's most crime-ridden streets.
Three men dumping bags on a residential street and two women using a pram to carry rubbish are among fly-tipping offenders to be caught on camera.
The public consultation deadline over controversial plans to expand flights at London City Airport has been put back, it has been revealed this evening.
City Hall's environment committee has called on airspace decision-makers to prioritise the health and wellbeing of Londoners over the commercial interests of City Airport.
A residents' association chairman has said forcing people to pay to park outside their homes is an attack on working people.
Thousands of households living under London City Airport's flight path are set to receive postcards as part of a campaign to prevent the weekend aircraft ban being lifted.
The council has voted to scrap the use of single-use plastics where possible after a unanimous vote by the borough's 51 councillors.
Seven hundred pupils demanded more be done to stop climate change as they took part in a school protest.
More than 4,500 noise complaints have been made across Barking and Dagenham since the start of 2018 - with a tiny cul-de-sac responsible for the most persistent rackets in the borough.
Balancing the needs of the economy and the environment a priority for Transport East
An exhibition about the River Roding has gone on display for the second time as part of an architecture festival.
A couple who hired a 'man with a van' to take away their rubbish have been fined for fly-tipping after he turned out to be an illegal dumper.
Meet the latest weapon in the war against dirty streets.
A cigarette tossed from a car has cost a Dagenham woman £689.
Plans to build three flood lit astro pitches and stands on Parsloes Park have been given the green light.
Barking and Dagenham is to receive a share of £6 million to tackle air pollution in the borough.
Three fly-tippers have been ordered to pay back more than £230,000 after they illegally dumped waste in a "highly-organised" operation in Barking, Havering and Essex.
Could you offer a new home to plants from one of the country's biggest flower shows?
Fines for fly-tipping in Barking and Dagenham will more than double from next month.
A £75,000 'grassroots' fund has been set up today by London City Airport for charities and organisations "making a difference" to east London's community life.
Mouse crossings and duck crossings could soon appear at schools and nurseries in east London as part of a new national road safety campaign.
A Dagenham car repair shop has been ordered to pay a total of £1,668 after failing to prove how it disposed of waste.
In an effort to clean-up a Barking road, the council, police and government officials have carried out a 'major operation' to crack down on illegal work practices and anti-social behaviour.
A Goodmayes diabetic with low blood sugar was trapped under a car for 15 minutes when a gust of strong wind blew a 15ft tree on top of him.
Barking and Dagenham is one of the worst boroughs in London for environmentally friendly vehicles, a new report claims.
The council has been counted in the top 20 per cent for electric vehicle charging, a BBC study revealed.
City Airport has been working with 300 female pupils from east London to hone their skills and show them what opportunities there are in aviation.
The man in charge of street cleaning has suggested people should sweep the pavements outside their homes to keep neighbourhoods tidy.
An anti-social behaviour hotspot has been turned into a communal garden thanks to the efforts of a group of volunteers.
Residents from Becontree estate were painted by the Dutch artist Wouter Osterholt from November 2017 to March 2018 as they came and went across the area.
Cauldron Foods' comedy night will give vegans the last laugh as Vegan comics dispel vegan myths.
To celebrate the launch of Connected Communities, Crowdfunder has teamed up with Trust For London to award £5,000 to five projects making a difference in Barking & Dagenham.
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RealStreetRadio Premiere – The D.I.T.C. crew is taking steps to usher in a new era and as part of that mission, they’ve welcomed newcomer David Bars into the D.I.T.C. fold.
To mark the occasion, Bars has announced his upcoming EP The Bar Code alongside a new single called “Beat The Odds,” which features and is produced by the inimitable DJ Premier.
“I be on some shit now and everything is lit,” Bars told RealStreetRadio. “No rubber bands. I need a hunnid bands just for a sit down.”
The Bar Code boasts production from Buckwild, Showbiz, Lord Finesse, Da Beatminerz and, of course, Preemo. Fat Joe and Cory Gunz contribute vocals to the project.
“David Bars brings back the joy of hearing lyrical skills and wordplay,” Preemo said to DX. “The competitive voice and confidence he presents makes it exciting to keep that foundation alive for the culture to live longer.”
The Bar Code is expected to arrive on November 15. Pre-orders are available here.


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1999-02-02 04:00:00 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- In other business Monday, the Board of Supervisors:
* TREASURE ISLAND: Approved the expansion of the board of directors of the Treasure Island Development Authority to include three members of the Board of Supervisors. Although they can engage in debate on matters before the governing body for Treasure Island, the supervisors will not be permitted to vote. Until now, the directors were appointed by the mayor. The legislation, authored by Supervisor Michael Yaki, also creates a 25-member citizens task force for Treasure Island. The move was made after voters last year acted to strip the mayor's control over the former military base, which The City hopes to develop for civilian use.
* COUNT ME IN: Heard Supervisors Mabel Teng and Tom Ammiano call separately for the creation of a special committee to work with the U.S. Census Bureau to assure that San Franciscans are accurately counted in the next census for 2000. The last census, in 1990, missed an estimated 22,000 city residents. Undercounting means less federal money for San Francisco and also affects representation in the state Assembly and Congress, which is based on population. The supervisors also called for stepped-up community outreach to ensure that people participate in the national count.
* MUNI YARD: Heard Ammiano ask for an inquiry into complaints of reportedly unsafe working conditions at a new Muni yard at 1399 Marin St. on the north shore of the Islais Creek channel.
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Mahler: Rejuvenating tired turf in autumn
There is a touch of fall in the air as brisk breezes abruptly whisked away weekend summertime warmth creating a sense of urgency to initiate a wide array of gardening projects. September is an ideal time to plant. Take advantage of warm, dry, workable soils and reliable moisture this month to divide and transplant perennials, plant bulbs, trees and shrubs, prepare new gardens and renovate lawns. Although air temperatures may become rather chilly in the weeks to come, soil temperatures drop more gradually and the roots of seemingly dormant plants continue to grow and absorb water and nutrients until the ground freezes.
Many plants growing in low areas of our yards are showing the effects of a perpetually damp season. Premature leaf drop, fungal diseases, and even the ultimate demise of formerly healthy trees and shrubs, perennials, and patches of lawns have resulted from soggy soils and root rot. This is an ideal time to lift some of these plants and fill in low spots and regrade uneven terrain to promote an even distribution of moisture and direct water away from buildings and plantings. Large areas of disturbed earth can then be transformed into new gardens or covered with loam and reseeded.
Autumn is the preferred time of year to rejuvenate lawns. Most lawns have fared rather well this season due to our persistent moist conditions but crabgrass and weeds are flourishing as well and diseases took their toll on many lawns especially early in the season. This is an ideal time to install new lawns or patch and renovate tired turf. Warm soil temperatures facilitate the prompt germination of grass seed without interference from a profusion of weed seeds and Mother Nature usually assists with the important task of providing consistent moisture.
Wet soils are readily compacted and it was nearly impossible to avoid walking on damp turf this season since it was continuously soggy. Aerating the soil at this time of year will produce a significant improvement in your lawn's future uptake of moisture and nutrients and will provide beneficial air to root systems reducing the potential for suffocation and rot during stretches of damp weather. An aerator that pulls small, round plugs of soil out of the ground is the most effective and is best employed when the lawn is damp. The unsightly plugs can be raked up and used to fill low spots or shredded with a rotary mower once they are dry.
Take a stroll across your lawn prior to your next mowing to analyze its current condition. Most lawns are a blend of several types of grasses but unsightly, weedy grasses often appear creating odd-looking patches in otherwise relatively uniform turf. Some varieties of perennial grasses may be coarse and grow taller than the predominant grass plants; others like creeping bent grass form a low dense mat with a different color and texture than typical lawn grasses. In addition to these random grassy invaders, annual and perennial weeds, clover, and crabgrass are prevalent this season. Elimination of large populations of these undesirable intruders, either by hand or with the aid of selective herbicides, is usually recommended prior to undertaking a major lawn project. In particularly weedy areas having very few desirable grass plants, a broad-spectrum herbicide, such as Roundup, which kills even the existing grass, may be the best course of action. If chemicals are used, be sure to read the label carefully, noting the length of time required for the herbicide to dissipate prior to seeding.
For established lawns, a vigorous raking should remove light thatch, but a large or neglected lawn may require heavier equipment to extricate a dense layer of matted dead grass plants that reduce the ability of the surviving grass plants to secure moisture and nutrients. While its removal can be rather alarming, creating huge heaps of dead grass and a sparse appearance, the end result will be worth the temporarily unsightly lawn. Once dethatching is complete, lime should be applied, thin areas of the lawn can be overseeded in conjunction with a starter fertilizer, and in November, a winterizer fertilizer can be spread.
For lawns that require a total overhaul, at least 4 to 6 inches of good loam should be present to grow healthy grass plants. Select grass seed mixtures appropriate for your light exposure and your anticipated usage of the area. There are formulas for sun or shade, mixtures that produce picture perfect lawns if they receive little traffic, or blends that provide a tough, resilient turf that can withstand considerable trampling. These latter formulas tend to contain fine-textured grasses that are not as easily crushed but may not give that vibrant, green carpet-like appearance that American homeowners seem to treasure. Inexpensive seed mixtures are rarely worth the time and effort it takes to spread them as the percentage of inert material or "other seed" can result in a sparse, weedy lawn that has to be reseeded in the spring. Read the labels.
Newly seeded areas should be watered lightly several times a day, if possible, to keep the soil moist without allowing large puddles to form which will cause the seed to float into low spots. Once a large percentage of the seed has sprouted, then longer periods of watering every few days are suggested. Early seeding will promote a sturdier turf that will better withstand the unpredictability of our New England winters.


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Trigger warnings for violence, rape, incest, sexual abuse, and human trafficking.
Sometimes families hide secrets behind closed blinds where monsters lurk; they may be your brothers, fathers, uncles or neighbors. Evil lurks and even bleach cannot cleanse it away. Unlike little pups ingested whole by their mothers, children are not protected. You may be in mourning from all the trauma, so severe as if coming back from Nam. Sometimes so demented, you’d rather be sold at a human auction or suffering the pain like the Passion of the Christ. Other times you cry out for your maid Coro or your neighbor Griselda. If adulthood is reached you may be as damaged as Miss Ali. If you can escape the dark suffocation, there is light and air on the other side.*
Have you ever read a book whose stories are horrifyingly wretched yet ones that kept you utterly engrossed? This is Ecuadorian María Fernanda Ampuero’s masterful collection of short stories Cockfight translated by Frances Riddle. Deftly written with spare, exacting prose, Ampuero has penned searing portraits of family life highlighting themes of violence and sexual abuse as a window into gender, class, and race analyses. In Ampuero’s world, families hide disturbing dark secrets, monsters lurk behind closed blinds, and yet the feminist stories indict patriarchy.
The stories reveal the weight of patriarchy and machismo in Latin America. Interestingly, the point of views shift in the second half of the book. Most of the early stories are told through a child’s perspective but the stories in the latter half are reflected through the lens of adult women. The book is a tour de force—I have never read something so disturbingly powerful.
The setting for many of the stories is on the surface banal; of the 13 stories nearly half center on family life. The façade of normalcy is immediately fractured starting with Auction an eerily haunting story about cockfighting. The malodorous scents wafting through an unknown warehouse location take a young woman back in time to her childhood when her father forced her to clean up gutted roosters after a cockfight. Her living nightmare has just begun as she is abducted during a routine taxi ride and human trafficked to the highest bidder. Subtle acts of defiance help the woman as her ultimate fate is revealed by the story’s end.
The extent to which family life is interrogated as a place where evil may reside rips through a number of the stories. Monsters tells the tale of two young girls raised by their nanny, a teenager named Narcisa. The young girls enthralled with watching horror movies such as The Exorcist and The Shining resort to acting out scenes from the movies with their collection of dolls. As the sun sets, the girls implore Narcisa to sleep in their room, but she admonishes them not to fear the evils of their nightmares but the real world. The message behind this story—and which runs through the whole collection—is that things are not as they appear. Revolting acts are often committed behind closed doors.
The point of view of many of the stories is told through a child’s perspective and this is one of ways the book shatters you. Early stories such as Monsters, Griselda, Nam, Pups, and Christ are told through children at varying ages. Some of the stories reflect violence against women (Griselda) but it the child who is aghast not at the brutality inflicted against her neighbor but at the loss of the neighborhood baker who had created the most sumptuous, elaborate children’s cakes for all of the neighborhood kids. The distance between violence and the child’s perspective packs a punch. It is as if Ampuero suggests a desensitizing to violence. It becomes second nature, thus is not terribly distressing to the neighborhood kids.
Stories such as Auction, Nam, and Pups center abuse of children whether physical, emotional, or sexual. This is what is so disturbing about the storytelling—the children in these stories experience horrific sexual acts. Some of the clues in the storytelling suggest the trauma suffered by girls once they become young women. For example, in Pups, a young woman has returned to her next door neighbor’s house, the site of her repeated sexual molestation by an older neighbor boy. The years of trauma have manifest as a woman who “always says yes to men.” In short, these girls become f---d up young women. And, it seems that by using the lens of a child’s perspective, Ampuero shows us varying responses to that abuse. The children are not as aghast as are we as observers of this trauma. Trauma begets trauma unspooled in later stories.
Then late in the collection, agency shifts just as the point of view shifts to older characters. Probably the most horrific collection in this astonishing book is a scene of graphic violence and rape in the story Mourning. In spite of the vile abuse the young women endure in this story, they exact revenge. One of the abused women sits at the head of the table following the demise of the abuser. Ampuero illuminates shifting agency through seating position at the dining table. The language is spare but the meaning is potent.
The final story in the book titled Other provides a glimmer of hope for women’s futures. The setting is a grocery store where a woman is purchasing her monthly foodstuff. The extent to which she is controlled by a dominating male, her husband, becomes painfully obvious in the list of exact products he requests. In the final scenes of the story, the woman has become fed up with her abusive husband and opts out of shopping for his precious sardines, passion fruit, and flank steak. She has decided to crossover to a life on the “other” side outside the control of her husband. But this action gives hope that women can find a way out of abuse and terror at the hands of men. In this regard, this feminist book shines a light on the power expressed in a patriarchy where emotional, physical, and sexual abuse rear its head like a Hydra.
María Fernanda Ampuero
Translated from the Spanish by Frances Riddle
120 pages. 2020.
* [Each of the boldfaced words in a title of one of the 13 short stories in Maria Fernanda Ampuero’s stunning debut collection of short stories Cockfight.]

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▪On Oct. 29, 1929, Wall Street crashed on ''Black Tuesday,'' heralding the beginning of America's Great Depression. Above is a scene from Wall Street on Monday
Today is Tuesday, Oct. 29, the 302nd day of 2013. There are 63 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On this date:
▪In 1618, Sir Walter Raleigh, the English courtier, military adventurer and poet, was executed in London.
▪In 1787, the opera ''Don Giovanni'' by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had its world premiere in Prague.
▪In 1923, the Republic of Turkey was proclaimed.
▪In 1940, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson drew the first number — 158 — in America's first peacetime military draft.
▪In 1956, during the Suez Canal crisis, Israel invaded Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. ''The Huntley-Brinkley Report'' premiered as NBC's nightly television newscast.
▪In 1979, on the 50th anniversary of the great stock market crash, anti-nuclear protesters tried but failed to shut down the New York Stock Exchange.
▪In 1994, gunman Francisco Martin Duran fired more than two dozen shots from a semiautomatic rifle at the White House. (Duran was later convicted of trying to assassinate President Bill Clinton and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.)
▪In 1998, Sen. John Glenn, at age 77, roared back into space aboard the shuttle Discovery, retracing the trail he'd blazed for America's astronauts 36 years earlier.
Ten years ago:A powerful geomagnetic storm walloped the Earth, knocking out some airline communications but apparently causing no large power outages or other major problems.
Five years ago: A 6.4-magnitude earthquake in southwestern Pakistan killed at least 215 people.
One year ago: Superstorm Sandy came ashore in New Jersey and slowly marched inland. It swamped lower Manhattan with a 13-foot surge of seawater, devastated New Jersey coastal communities and left more than 8 million people without power. The storm and its aftermath would kill more than 100 people in the United States.
Today's Birthdays: Bluegrass singer-musician Sonny Osborne (The Osborne Brothers) is 76. Country singer Lee Clayton is 71. Rock musician Denny Laine is 69. Singer Melba Moore is 68. Musician Peter Green is 67. Actress Kate Jackson is 65. The president of Turkey, Abdullah Gul, is 63. Actor Dan Castellaneta ("The Simpsons") is 56. Country musician Steve Kellough (Wild Horses) is 56. Comic strip artist Tom Wilson ("Ziggy") is 56. Actress Finola Hughes is 54. Singer Randy Jackson is 52. Actress Milena Govich is 37. Actor Jon Abrahams is 36. Actor Brendan Fehr is 36. Actor Ben Foster is 33. Rock musician Chris Baio (Vampire Weekend) is 29.


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Rowan Cos.'s RDC fourth-quarter earnings fell 21% as the offshore drilling company reported lower contributions from discontinued operations and higher costs.
Rowan, which operates a fleet of high-specification shallow-water rigs, been transforming itself into a purely offshore driller with the help from proceeds from asset sales. In September, Rowan sold its fleet of land rigs to Ensign Energy Services Inc. (ESI.T, ESVIF) for $510 million. In May, Rowan sold its manufacturing arm LeTourneau Technologies for $1.1 billion to Joy Global Inc. (JOYG).
Rowan reported a profit of $45.1 million, or 36 cents a share, down from $57.3 million, or 45 cents a share, a year earlier. The latest period included 9 cents in income from discontinued operations, while the prior year include contributions of 17 cents. The latest period also included $3.5 million in employee separation related expenses.
Revenue climbed 32% to $275.1 million. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters most recently projected earnings of 30 cents on revenue of $270 million.
Operating margins weakened to 11% from 24% including the employee-separation-related item.
Day rates increased 5.1% while rig utilization rose to 68% from 65% from a year earlier and 61% in the third quarter.
Average prices for oil were up 10% while average natural gas prices declined 12%.
Shares closed Monday at $35.53 and were inactive premarket. Through Monday's close, the stock is up 27% this year.


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I would like to be the air/that inhabits you for a moment/only. I would like to be that unnoticed/&
that necessary. ~Margaret Atwood
Everything that happens, happens
to ride the flutters of wingbeats,
eternally here. Fendered and pale,
the girl wears long beaten path
to water, fingers tune the air's tender
strings, dull eyes grind the sky into
breaths of a thousand oceans.
Carrying them on currents by which
she swirls the spent lagoon deep,
like sinuous turns of gossamer
veining in a glass jar, making dark
toss about the weightless silhouette.
Then she must be bold, moving
the way a wraith takes to haunting,
arrested so that she is a giver of light,
and life, in whispers, in invocations,
where each caress remains on her lips
as nocturne holding taut the world.

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Himalaya: Listen. Learn. Grow.
Perth city’s troubled racial past; the prohibited area against aboriginal people and a reaction that lead to a dance club for civil rights.
This episode is based on the oral history collections at the City of Perth History Centre. Produced by Barking Wolf for City of Perth Cultural Collections.

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Brief History of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
With how often the Atlantic Coast Pipeline has been in the news lately, it may be helpful to revisit the projects relevant history:
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline (“ACP”) is a 42-inch natural gas pipeline that will run 600 miles of underground pipeline through West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina. The Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC is the result of a joint venture between Dominion Energy, Duke Energy, Piedmont Natural Gas, and Southern Company Gas. Dominion Energy is the majority stakeholder in the joint venture. The finalized route for the ACP will begin in Harrison County, West Virginia, then it will travel through Virginia with a lateral connection extending to Chesapeake, Virginia, and then continue south into eastern North Carolina, ending in Robeson County. The primary purpose for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline will be to move natural gas from the Marcellus and Utica shale basins to provide energy security to Virginia and North Carolina; who’s demand for energy is projected to increase according to the developers of this pipeline.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is an independent agency, whose duties include reviewing applications for the construction and operation of interstate transmissions of electricity, natural gas, and oil as authorized by Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act. The building of liquefied natural gas (“LNG”) terminals and interstate natural gas pipelines are in the purview of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. When approved the agency will issue a certificate of public convenience and necessity sanctioning the building of the pipeline and granting the developer the power to use eminent domain. If the developer is unable to purchase the property owner’s land privately, then the developer can forcefully take a right of way easement using the power granted to it by the agency. In the case of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on October 13, 2017, issued a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the construction and operation of the project of the pipeline.
· Atlantic Coast Pipeline, About ACP, https://atlanticcoastpipeline.com/about/default.aspx.
· Atlantic Coast Pipeline, Why Natural Gas?, https://atlanticcoastpipeline.com/about/why-natural-gas.aspx.
Timeline of Recent Events
· August 6, 2018: U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, revoked two key permits, one from the Fish and Wildlife Service for the protection of endangered species and another from the National Park Service regarding crossing the Blue Ridge Parkway.
· August 10, 2018: FERC issues a “stop work order” on “all portions” of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
· September 17, 2018: FERC issues a letter resuming the construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
· STILL Pending Permits: Erosion and Sediment Control permit from the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality.
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Prior to the outbreak of the Second World War in September of 1939, the United States Army Air Corps, under the tutelage of General Henry ‘Hap’ Arnold, issued an urgent request to the American aircraft industry for more modern designs to replace obsolescing types currently in service. Though funds had not yet been allocated or authorized by the United States Congress for production, both he and President Franklin Roosevelt were convinced that only time separated the United States from its officially neutral position amongst the warring European factions to eventual involvement. Rapidly unfolding events would validate the wisdom of this decision with painfully alarming clarity.
The major manufacturers of the period (Martin, Boeing, Douglas, Lockheed, and North American) had all produced modestly successful bombers during the prewar Depression-era years. Many of these aircraft had pioneered the technological development of military aviation (all-metal stressed Duralumin skin, turbo-superchargers, power-operated gun turrets, retractable landing gear), but as early combat reports began to filter in from Europe, American designers, with an eye on maintaining technological supremacy, and with the earnest encouragement of the Army Air Corps, developed new designs which drew heavily upon the rapidly evolving doctrine of modern aerial combat.
Douglas developed the DB-7, a light bomber adopted by the Air Corps as the A-20 Havoc. They would serve with distinction in all combat zones from Alaska to New Zealand. Many were Lend-Leased to Great Britain (and the Commonwealth), the Soviet Union, and the Free French.
Lockheed scaled up its twin-engined commercial Electra into the A-29 Hudson which performed yeoman service as an ASW patrol aircraft during the early days of the Atlantic U-boat offensive. Many of these were also Lend-Leased to the Allied forces.
Boeing simply fine-tuned its Flying Fortress with a new tail assembly, multiple-gunned power-driven turrets and up-rated engines. Older C and D versions would see limited combat, but by the 7th of December 1941, B-17Es were rolling of the assembly line at Renton, Washington.
Martin’s contribution was the B-26 Marauder, whose high wing loading and commensurate approach/landing speed earned it the dubious sobriquet of "Baltimore Whore" (no visible means of support). Nevertheless, when flown by properly-trained aircrews, it was an excellent combat aircraft.
North American Aviation immortalized the medium bomber concept with its B-25, an adaptably efficient design whose length of active U.S. military service would nearly eclipse that of all its contemporaries combined. A few romantically produced motion pictures didn’t hurt its image either.
By 1941, after much objective analysis of current combat data, the engineers at Douglas began planning a new purpose-designed attack aircraft to be designated the A-26 Invader. Led by Ed Heinemann, they resolved to produce the fastest, lightest, most maneuverable and heavily-armed aircraft possible, using the state-of-the-art technology then extant.
By limiting the crew size to three men they reasoned they could hold airframe weight to a minimum. Less personnel meant less seats, less armor, less oxygen tanks, less everything supportive of the human element. Remotely-controlled gun turrets developed for Boeing’s B-29 were adapted to the new Douglas airframe, with a single gunner defending the aircraft’s dorsal, ventral, and tail approaches.
The airframe itself would be scaled-up from the A-20, offering excellent handling, with a new laminar-flow airfoil designed for maximum cruise efficiency. Double-slotted flaps provided low approach speeds and short landing roll-outs.
Pratt & Whitney R-2800 series radial powerplants were selected, with later variants featuring water injection which boosted output to 2370 HP in ‘War Emergency’. Variable-speed three-bladed Hamilton Standard props with full-feathering capability were fitted.
The large internal bomb bay had a 4000 lb capacity while external racks fitted on the wings outboard of the engine nacelles could mount an additional 1000 lbs each. Stub launchers for 5" High Velocity Aerial Rockets were later added, with earlier machines retro-fitted.
Initially, field-installable modular noses were envisioned with various machinegun, cannon, and howitzer combinations available, along with a glazed bombardier version. The Army Air Force, with an eye toward logistical commonality, standardized on the six- and eight-machinegun noses (the A-26B) and the glazed nose (the A-26C). Three .50 caliber guns were mounted in each wing of the B model, while both versions could carry additional .50 caliber weapons under the wings in twin-gun pods (four pods max).
Unforeseen teething problems delayed the Invader’s deployment to combat until late 1944. Perhaps the worst of these was the less-than-stellar cockpit canopy design. Flat, with minimal glazing, this unit provided poor visibility under most conditions while the small emergency escape hatch in the roof made it nearly impossible to egress the aircraft in all but the most optimal of circumstances. A later bulged, clam-shell design of blown Perspex cured both problems.
Though arriving late to the hostilities, Invaders performed admirably. Units assigned to the 9th AF supported Patton’s assault into Europe, while in the CBI, many squadrons traded their A-20s and B-25s in for the new Douglas machine during General Stilwell’s offensive to drive the Imperialist Japanese forces from the Asian mainland.
When war broke out on the Korean peninsula in June of 1950, A-26s (now redesignated ‘B-26’ as the Marauder had passed into ethereal oblivion) assigned to various 5th AF units once again answered the call to arms, providing the lion’s share of light strike and night interdiction capabilities to UN forces throughout the war.
Invaders continued to serve in various light bomber and tactical reconnaissance squadrons throughout the 1950s until replaced by newer types, principally Martin’s B-57 Canberra and Douglas’ own RB-66 Destroyer. Even though its front-line service was drawing to a close, many aircraft found new homes as drone carriers, target tugs, and squadron hacks,
During this phase-out many B-26s were refurbished and up-graded for export to friendly foreign governments under the Military Assistance Program (MAP). Invaders found their way to Central America, Cuba, the Belgian Congo, France and Southeast Asia, where they equipped the fledgling South Vietnamese Air Force (VNAF). During the conflict in Vietnam, the aging Invaders began to shed wings and empennage during high-G low-altitude operations against insurgent forces. On-Mark Engineering in Van Nuys, California totally rebuilt forty B-26 airframes, resulting in a new designation, the B-26K.
Initially, these aircraft were flown by the USAF’s 603rd and 609th Special Operations Squadrons based at NKP in Thailand. A diplomatic dispute with the Royal Thai government culminated with the provisional redesignation of the aircraft as the ‘A-26A’. In 1969 these planes were transferred to South Vietnam and subsequently handed over to the VNAF. Many other customers had their Invaders upgraded to B-26K standards, most notable the Central American superpowers, where they were employed with minimally paltry effect during the various "Soccer Wars".
In a wry twist of fate, during the Cuban ‘Bay of Pigs’ fiasco, Invaders owned by free Cuban insurgents based in Miami and flown by American pilots from the Alabama Air National Guard found themselves pitted against armed Lockheed T-33s of Castro’s communist forces. Due to President John Kennedy’s failure to provide previously promised jet fighter support via U.S. Navy carrier assets in the region, they were mercilessly and cruelly cut to pieces.
The Invader’s military career is now over but many examples have found their way into the civil aviation community. Some were converted into borate bombers for use by the U.S. Forest Service while several were reconfigured as executive transports. Sadly, at least one example was seized by DEA agents in Miami during a raid on a major cocaine-smuggling operation. A few can be found at air shows, restored as "Warbirds", as aficionados prefer to call them, resplendent in the reflective twilight of painted ladies and faded, but not forgotten, glory.
Monogram’s Invader was one of the company’s first all-plastic entries in the growing field of model airplane kits with an original issue date of 1957. The box contains 37 silver-gray parts, two clear canopies, and decals for one scheme. Typical of kits from this era, the surface detail consists of a gazillion over-scale rivets, raised Great Wall of China-sized panel lines, and embossed decal position indicators…a true classic. Control surfaces are delineated with recessed depressions and hinge lines.
The simplified moldings include a nose wheel/strut assembly integrally attached to one fuselage half, the wing guns similarly molded to the wing halves, and all eight nose guns preformed to the nose cap. The gun turrets are neither movable nor positionable, with the paired guns represented by U-shaped inserts.
Main landing gear struts, while generally correct in configuration, are devoid of most major details. The main wheels are much too narrow in width and the hub detail would do Rod Serling proud—totally fictitious. Three figures (pilot, peter pilot, and gunner) are furnished, with detail commensurate with the landing gear.
External ordnance is provided in the form of two napalm canisters (actually, F-80 tip tanks) and six 5" HVAR projectiles with launch pylons molded integral to the rockets. The two canopies are very clear with the framing correctly depicted.
The wings feature the aforementioned molded-in machine guns and oil cooler intakes on both the right and left side while a fictitious ladder is furnished to shore up the rear of this extremely tail-heavy model.
The engine nacelles sport pre-attached main gear doors on each of the four halves while the cowlings have the engine fronts molded to them in recessed relief. Two extremely well-detailed Hamilton Standard props are provided. Other than the rotating propellers, there are no operating features or assembly options.
The decals are matte-finished, on register, and feature a non-specific natural metal finished machine bearing the name ‘LIL-NELL’. Due to the apparent thickness of the carrier film, I am dubious of their ability to negotiate the overly heavy rivet and panel line detail.
I began this model by removing the major airframe components from the sprues and taping them together. Standard operating procedure for me, this exercise serves a three-fold purpose: (A) it allows me to check the model’s scale, proportions, and overall shape, (B) it gives me an opportunity to check the fit and structural integrity of the various subassemblies, and (C) I can get an idea of how much ballast to add to keep the model solidly perched on its landing gear when completed (more on this later).
With the mock-up solidly taped together, I flew the model around in my studio while noting the various areas in need of attention. Several sorties later I came to the conclusion that the only thing this model really needed was everything!!!
Interior details were non-existent, the landing gear was lamer than Robert Downey Jr’s alibi, the surface detail was time-warped straight from the Stone Age, and conspicuously missing details teemed in abundance.
On the plus side the proportions and lines looked good, with the scale approximating 1/67 (so-called ‘box scale’). Wing and empennage attachment points were straightforward and fit reasonably well, while the two-piece nacelles with their integral main gear doors would speed the assembly.
To check for needed ballast, I cut off the molded-on nose gear and placed the model on a quarter-inch wood dowel taped flat on my bench, with the contact area being the fulcrum point of the main landing gear. As I suspected, it was a tail-dragger of Guinness Book proportions. With a Burger King ketchup cup taped to the nose, I filled the container with lead sinkers. No dice, the tail did not budge. I attached a second cup behind the cockpit (but forward of the dowel) and filled it too. Still no joy. I taped a cup to each cowling and filled them as well. The model teetered .… Clearly, at this point I knew I’d have to go thermonuclear. I laid a quarter-ounce wheel weight, clandestinely purloined from Discount Tire and Wheel, on top of each engine nacelle and, voila, victory!
With my C/G calculations complete, I un-taped the airframe and began construction. Since the odd scale precluded using any off-the-shelf aftermarket resin goodies, I installed a scratch-built cockpit and gunner’s compartment. As the scale is small, only basic seats, control yokes, and instrument panels were required. In the gunner’s area I used thin (.010") sheetstock for bulkheads and floorboards to hold additional weight to a minimum. No nose gear well was provided so I added one via Evergreen sheet.
With the assigned lead ballast attached in the appropriate areas, I mated both fuselage halves and glued them together with CA. After sanding and dressing the seams I proceeded to remove the myriad of igloo-shaped rivets. With a razor saw, I removed the tip of the tailcone, filed and sanded the area flat, and bonded a chunk of clear polystyrene there. Properly shaped and polished, it would serve as the rear navigation light.
Under the nose, I drilled four rectangular slots to serve as shell ejection chutes for the noseguns. The guns themselves are #27 hypo needles, replacing the nose cap’s molded-on units. With the cap suitably stuffed with lead, it too was attached with CA and sanded to shape. The fit here was poor with repeated applications of glue required to act as filler.
With the basic fuselage completed, I fitted and attached the stabilizers via gap-filling CA. Prior to installation, I drilled a pair of holes in each of the locator tabs at the ends and used pre-bent brass wire as spars to cantilever the stabilizers to each other. In addition to maintaining the proper dihedral, they served to strengthen the stabilizer-to-fuselage joints as the tabs were undersized relative to their respective slots.
The cowlings were next. After opening up the carburetor scoops to give them more depth, I drilled a 3/32" hole through each ‘engine’ and installed a 1" length of 3/32" aluminum tubing there to serve as bearings for the propeller shafts. I crammed the remaining space inside the cowlings with lead shot and assembled both nacelles with the quarter-ounce wheel weights glued to the firewalls. After mating the cowlings to the nacelles, I re-carved the cowl flaps with an X-Acto knife to add some definition. With the powerplants completed I turned my attention to the wings.
The molded-on machineguns were removed and the holes in the lower wing halves for the external ordnance filled as I had other plans. Once the wings were assembled and sanded smooth, I notched the wingtips and installed navigation lights fabricated from red and blue/green Lexan. The actual aircraft had a retractable landing light mounted under each wing so I drilled a couple of 3/16" depressions to which I would later mount a pair of suitably-sized MV lenses.
At this stage I began rescribing the surface detail on the various subassemblies using the 3-view drawings in Squadron-Signal’s A-26 Invader In Action as reference. Verlinden’s photo-etched template set, a draftsman’s eraser shield, and a stainless steel engineer’s rule were used as guides, with a few difficult panels cut freehand. Drawn pencil lines were used to assist in these instances.
With the panel lines and other surface features restored, I mated the nacelles to their respective wings with CA. The fit here was atrocious with multiple filling and sanding necessary for an acceptable fit. Concurrently, I realized at this point that I had a very heavy model on my hands. I decided to beef up the wing/fuselage joints so, prior to actual installation, I fabricated two wing spars from 6" lengths of 3/32" square brass channel inserted into the wing roots and passed through the fuselage. While this added still more weight, the trade-off in additional structural integrity was well worth it.
With the wing fillets sanded smooth, I test-flew the completed airframe in vigorous fashion throughout the entire projected flight envelope with no deleterious effects noted. After RTB-ing to the workbench, I started on the remaining armament.
The slots for the kit-supplied guns were filled in each gun turret and new barrels made from #27 needles were installed. Wing guns were added in similar fashion. For the external ordnance I decided to use the kit’s napalm tanks and replace the HVARs with 260 lb fragmentation bombs. New racks were made from steel rod and 1/16" K & S square brass channel while bombs from the Airfix B-29 were used as stand-ins for the frag 260s.
I had decided early on to build the landing gear struts from metal as the weight of this model would definitely pose problems beyond the ability of polystyrene to support. Axles, knuckles, forks, and oleo struts were all made from various hand-massaged bits of brass, aluminum, steel, and piano wire. Torque links and oleo scissors assemblies were taken from spares-box struts carefully removed with a razor saw. I anchored the struts securely in each gear well with CA then searched for suitably-sized wheels and tires.
I had hoped to find something in the True Details line which I could adapt to this project, but due to the odd scale, nothing seemed appropriate. In the end, I used a Monogram P-51 main tire for the nose wheel, with the Mustang’s outer hubs installed on both sides for the proper effect. For the main gear I used a pair of Monogram P-47 tires with new hubs made from a pair of Revell F-14 main wheels—not quite correct but close enough for me. Hand-cut tread was added to all three tires via X-Acto knife.
Prior to installing the glass I sprayed the interiors with Modelmaster Interior Green (34151) then diddled about with a little drybrushing. Fit of the gunner’s canopy was excellent while the pilots’ greenhouse required some careful pre-fitting. I used Testor’s liquid cement initially and when fully dry, filled the gaps with CA. After sanding the seams smooth, I polished the canopies with jeweler’s rouge and a buffing wheel chucked into my Dremel tool.
A pitot tube fashioned from nickel-silver guitar string was added to the nose while a sheet brass VHF antenna mast was installed on the fuselage top. Monofilament line was used for the HF and marker beacon antennas. The ADF football (which I had removed prior to assembly of the fuselage) was re-attached along with a round fairing (strike camera?) behind the ventral turret. Two small, molded-on ventilation intakes on the right side of the fuselage (one for the pilots, one for the gunner) were removed and replaced with scratch-built units made from cone-shaped pieces of sprue, drilled out at the flat end, sliced in half, and attached with Testor’ liquid cement.
I fitted the propellers to the cowlings by means of 1/16" aluminum tubing shafts after removing the props’ plastic spindles and drilling out the back sides of the hubs. The shafts are a little long to ensure they would stay in the cowlings without retainers and to provide ample clamping space to hold them while painting.
The last pieces added were the nosewheel doors. I thinned them out and installed mounting pins made from the nylon bristles of an old hairbrush, two per door. With the pins solidly attached with CA, I drilled a pair of appropriately located holes in each of the nose well’s sidewalls as close to the edge as I dared and slid the doors into position. A little divergent angle provided enough of a friction fit to hold them firmly and at the proper angle without the need for adhesive. The assembly completed, it was off to the paint shop.
PAINT & DECALS
I had already decided that this model would be my tribute to the veterans of the Korean War who had put it all on the line fifty years ago, but I was less that thrilled with the prospect of just another silver airplane. True, a number of olive drab/neutral gray examples have been documented, but as much of the Invader’s ROK service was as a snoop-and-poop nightowl, I leaned toward an all-black scheme with enough individual unit color to provide for some interesting contrast.
The back cover illustration of Squadron-Signal’s In Action volume provided the inspiration for what would become a prototypical Invader of the period; an all-black airplane with medium blue wing, fin, and stabilizer tips and propeller spinners plus gaudy girlie artwork…just what the doctor ordered.
I started by spraying the gearwells and door innards in Interior Green (again, Modelmaster 34151). Since I’d built the struts out of metal, I merely cleaned the overspray off those items with lacquer thinner and a #1 sable brush, revealing the metallic color underneath.
Next, I shot the medium blue areas with paint I’d mixed for a previous Mustang project after first masking the navigation lights. To keep the blue as bright as possible I first undercoated with flat white primer. When fully cured, I masked all the blue areas along with the canopies, rear navigation light and gear wells then shot several coats of Testor’s Gloss Black (the generic kind in the small square bottles) over the entire airframe. I set the model aside for a couple of weeks, both to allow for a fully-cured finish and to give me time to look for decals.
The odd scale definitely kept me behind the eightball regarding decals. In the end it boiled down to an excellent (but 1/72 scale) sheet from Aeromaster (72-043), containing both borderless national insignia and red lettering of the proper font. After comparing the size of these items to the equivalent kit decals (presumably correct for the scale), I found the size discrepancy to be negligible.
I had inherited some White Wolf B-24 decals featuring some gorgeous pin-ups and decided to use some ‘artistic license’ in bringing my Invader to life. Mission symbols were taken from one of Microscale’s older B-17 sheets while stripes and tidbits came from who-knows-where.
As the paints were gloss enamel, I dispensed with any gloss overcoat and decaled directly onto the paint, using Microset and Solvaset when necessary. The hardest part of this exercise was applying all the yellow perforated emergency fire exit indicators—over one hundred individual pieces.
After the decals had dried I examined the finish. I was not thrilled with the gloss effect. In addition to orange peel in several key areas, the shine seemed to impart a toy-like appearance to the entire airplane. I decided to Dullcote it with Modelmaster lacquer both to seal the decals and provide a uniform matte finish. Thus applied, the Invader took on a more sinister, purpose-designed look.
The props were painted in the appropriate colors and set aside to dry. Concurrently, I installed the MV lenses underneath each wing with Elmer's white glue then attached the napalm tanks and fragmentation bombs to their racks with small drops of CA. With the model inverted, I painted the wheels and tires then mounted them to the struts with thin 1/16" aluminum tubing wafers serving as retainers.
The monofilament antenna wires were highlighted with a thin black wash then sealed with Dullcote. Lastly, I painted the engine gearbox covers aircraft gray and drybrushed the cylinder areas with gull gray to put some depth and detail into the cowlings. When dry, I removed all the masking, touched up a few problem areas, then installed the props.
By now, many are scratching their heads and thinking "This is wacky. There’s a couple of truly excellent 1/48 Invaders out there, and the old Airfix thing (for those inclined to Smurf-sized models). Why bother with this off-scale orphan?" Here’s why.
The last time I built this kit was on a Saturday morning in 1960. I’d bought it the day before, plunking down 98 cents of my hard-earned paper route money at Woolworths. I opened the box when ‘Johnny Quest’ came on and by the time the credits for ‘Fireball XL-5’ were fading to black I’d completed the thing. Maybe an hour and a half from start to inevitably mediocre finish (including paint, what little there was).
That afternoon the model was gleefully demolished. By surreptitiously acquired M-80s…or Daisy airgun…or lighter fluid and moth balls…I really don’t remember. I always felt guilty about it, especially in later years as my skills improved and I learned to appreciate the therapeutic value of scale modeling.
A few years ago, while cruising the swap tables at a contest, I came across this model again, buried under a stack of Tamigawa wonderkits and Star Wars reissues. It was boxed as one of those "Junior Modelbuilder Club of America" things, in plain cardboard with a boxtop photo of the build-up pasted to the end flap. Looking at the picture my mind recalled a time of Cub Scouts, Little League, Stingray Bikes, and the security of innocence and childhood that the period afforded. I thought to myself, what if…
The vendor wanted two bucks for it but cautiously confided that he’d take six bits (seventy-five cents for those not hip to the lingo). I bought the kit… Brought it home and stuck it in the hangar where it languished for a few more years. Other projects commanded precedence: Tying up the loose ends of a military career approaching retirement, honey-do’s around the old homestead, The ProMod F-84…
But I never forgot that Invader. Last year, disappointed that Monogram’s Sabredog was delayed (again), I got the kit out, opened the box, and deployed the parts on the workbench. Yes, they’re rude and crude. Yes, it’s a weird scale. Yes, the fit sucks. But temper those observations with this: The beauty and precision of the kits we have now would not have been possible without the first primitive efforts back then of those companies who ventured into uncharted waters.
I resolved to do this kit right, with as much justice as I could muster, to atone for my past sin. I had a lot of fun, my conscience is cleared, and the model…well, it sorta speaks for itself. Like the man said, "It ain’t the song, it’s the singer". Now where’s that Aurora Mig-19?
A-26 Invader In Action (#37); Jim Mesko; Squadron-Signal Publications
A-26 Invader In Action (#134); Jim Mesko; Squadron-Signal Publications
Air War Over Korea; Larry Davis; Squadron-Signal Publications
Mig Alley; Larry Davis; Squadron-Signal Publications
Air War Over Southeast Asia (Vol. 1 & 2); Lou Drendel; Squadron-Signal Publications
Fighting Colors-USAF Europe; Robert Robinson; Squadron-Signal Publications
Vietnam: The War In The Air; Rene J. Francillon; Arch Cape Press
The History Of The U.S. Air Force; Bill Yenne; Exeter Books
Air Force; Martin Caidin; Branhall House
Personal observations made at Pima Air Museum; Tucson, Arizona
Various Internet Websites
Ó January 2001 Roger M. Jackson
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I’ve said it before, I’m not the strongest crocheter – so when I complete a project that’s as cute as this one, I’m pretty excited about it!! All about the Crocheted Goat Pattern, and may contain affiliate links.
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Crocheted Goat Pattern
This pattern is from The Friendly Red Fox , called Gloria the Goat – I never attempted crocheting dolls before her patterns, but let me tell you, she makes it SO doable!! IF I can do it, you can! It was a great project to bring along as I traveled, and then I finished it up while my family was watching a football game.
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I am obviously no amigurumi expert, but adding details can sure take the project to the next level! First off, the flowers, SO CUTE!!
And then you can see in the photo below, the before and after, blush and eyelashes really make a difference! I just used real makeup – I didn’t really know what I was doing, but I think adding that touch of blush really put on the finishing touch.
Have fun making a Crochet Goat of your own!! Enjoy the Crocheted Goat Pattern, I know I did.
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