#06/1945

[carbone14]

Parade en l'honneur du Général George S. Patton – Los Angeles – Californie – 9 juin 1945

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[myreia]

Sketches of Times Lost

ao3 | tumblr tag | my writing

short stories include spoilers from a realm reborn to endwalker. all stories are set in aureia malathar's canon. [❤] = fave entry/fic that I am proud of [g] = general (all audiences), [t] = teen (some language, more difficult themes), [m] = mature (implied sex, sensuality, strong language, and/or violence), [e] = explicit (mature themes, explicit sex scenes)

Week I

— 01. Steer | [G] Ryne x Gaia | 943 words — 02. Horizon | [G] Alisaie x Tesleen | 2298 words [❤] — 03. Tempest | [M] Sadu x Y'shtola | 1489 words — 04. Reticent | [G] Minfilia x Aureia | 964 words — 05. Stamp | [T] Fordola x Aureia | 1945 words [❤] — 06. Halcyon | [E] Igeyorhm x Iphigeneia (Azem) | 5424 words — 07. Morsel | [G] Alisaie x Tesleen | 967 words

Week II

— 08. Collapse [FREE DAY] | [T] Thancred POV | 1561 words — 09. Lend an Ear | [T] Aymeric x Aureia | 1617 words — 10. Stable | [T] Sidurgu x Aureia, Rielle | 2086 words [❤] — 11. Surrogate | [E] Thancred x Hilda | 2306 words [❤] — 12. Quarry | [G] Thancred & Ryne | 1408 words [❤] — 13. Butte | [T] Aureia & Avi'li | 820 words — 14. Telling | [T] Aymeric & Artoirel | 1600 words

Week III

— 15. Replacement [FREE DAY] | [G] Emet-Selch POV | 973 words — 16. Third-rate | [G] Lyse & Fordola | 1864 words [❤] — 17. Sally | [T] Rielle POV | 2200 words [❤] — 18. Hackneyed | [G] Thancred x Aureia | 1868 words — 19. Taken | [G] Thancred x Aureia | 1219 words — 20. Duel | [G] Alisaie & Aureia | 2189 words — 21. Shade | [M] Sidurgu x Aureia | 2015 words [❤]

Week IV

— 22. Threshold [FREE DAY] | [M] Aymeric x Aureia | 1273 words [❤] — 23. On Cloud Nine | [E] Aymeric x Aureia | 2504 words — 24. Bar | [E] Fordola x Aureia | 1522 words [❤] — 25. Perpetuity | [T] Hythlodaeus & Iphigeneia (Azem) | 1589 words — 26. Zip | [G] Thancred POV | 1294 words — 27. Memory | [T] Meteion & Aureia | 2135 words [❤] — 28. Deleterious | [G] Venat & Iphigeneia (Azem) | 1409 words — 29. Evaporate | [E] Thancred x Aureia | 2010 words — 30. Two Heads Are Better Than One | [M] Sidurgu x Aureia | 2795 words

[hannibal-or-maybe-just-rex]

Eddy Merckx, 17-06-1945

[superherobriefings]

Cosmo / Kosmo

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Creator(s): RLT

Alias(es): Cosmo / Kosmo

1st Issue w/Uniform: Rocketman #1

Year/Month of Publication: 1952/06

NOTE: Story panels re-purposed from (1945/09) Red Rocket.

[occhietti]

06/08/1945

La prima bomba atomica

fu sganciata su Hiroshima

Sono le 8,14. L'aereo è giunto su Hiroshima. La bomba denominata Little Boy precipita. Alle 8,15 la bomba esplode a poco meno di seicento metri d'altezza.

Un lampo, un ciclone di fuoco, un fungo gigantesco che saliva al cielo, poi un vento della forza di 1200 chilometri e la città scomparve dalla faccia della Terra, non con una morte nera ma con un abbagliante sole sceso sulla terra.

In 70 mila muoiono all’istante, spazzati via dalla potenza della deflagrazione dell’ordigno, come circa il 90% degli edifici presenti in città. Altri 100 mila moriranno nelle settimane e nei mesi successivi a causa delle ferite riportate e per l’avvelenamento da radiazioni. 

Vite umane liquefatte, ritornate atomi, calcinati i corpi, ustionati, piagati e contaminati dalle radiazioni dal punto zero fino a dodici chilometri di raggio. Fu questione di un attimo, per molti abitanti appena il tempo di percepire l’immenso lampo luminoso.

Nella zona dell’ipocentro la temperatura balzò in meno di un decimo di secondo a 3000-5000-50.000- 800.000 °C. Ogni forma di vita nel raggio di ottocento metri svanì in seguito all’evaporazione dovuta al tremendo calore.

Tutto è finito, arso, smaterializzato, tutto è ritornato in molecole, in atomi. In quel fungo rossiccio che si alza in cielo, ci sono gli atomi di migliaia di esseri umani.

Quando scompare la nuvola, di Hiroshima non resta più nulla. Una città con la cornice della morte.

La sera, il Presidente Truman annuncia la verità al mondo. Truman è felice.

"Con questa bomba noi abbiamo ora raggiunto una gigantesca forza di distruzione, che servirà ad aumentare la crescente potenza delle forze armate. Stiamo ora producendo bombe di questo tipo, e produrremo in seguito bombe anche più potenti."  (Comunic.Ansa, 6 agosto 1945, ore 20,45).

- web

"L'uomo ha inventato la bomba atomica,

ma nessun topo al mondo

costruirebbe una trappola per topi."

- Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein non partecipò mai attivamente alla costruzione della bomba atomica, ma la sua formula E= mc^2 fu indispensabile per sviluppare la bomba atomica perché implicava l’equivalenza tra massa ed energia generando una bomba a fissione nucleare, un’arma di distruzione di massa. 

Einstein si oppose all’uso militare del nucleare, ma aiutò la ricerca fiducioso del fatto che l’America non avrebbe mai usato le bombe per attaccare e distruggere ma solo in caso di difesa, qualora costretta. 

- InStoria,  Einstein e la bomba atomica

[linesandmarksonpaper]

Roy Crane - Buz Sawyer Sunday 06/10/1945

[margotfonteyns]

At The Christmas Ball: A Vintage Xmas Anthology

01 - At The Christmas Ball - Bessie Smith (1925) 02 - Santa Claus, Bring My Man Back To Me - Ozie Ware (1928) 03 - Papa Ain't No Santa Claus - Butterbeans & Susie (1930) 04 - It's Winter Again - Isham Jones & His Orchestra (1932) 05 - Jingle Bells - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra (1935) 06 - There's Frost On The Moon - Artie Shaw & His Strings (1936) 07 - I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm - Mildred Bailey (1937) 08 - Christmas Morning The Rum Had Me Yawning - Lord Beginner (1939) 09 - Winter Weather - Fats Waller & His Rhythm (1941) 10 - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters (1943) 11 - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Judy Garland (1944) 12 - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Connee Boswell (1945) 13 - Boogie Woogie Santa Claus - Mabel Scott (1948) 14 - Baby, It's Cold Outside - Pearl Bailey & Hot Lips Page (1949) 15 - All I Want For Christmas - Nat King Cole Trio (1949) 16 - What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? - The Orioles (1949) 17 - Midnight Sleighride - Sauter-Finegan Orchestra (1952) 18 - Silent Night - Dinah Washington (1953) 19 - White Christmas - The Drifters (1954) 20 - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer - The Cadillacs (1956) 21 - Warm December - Julie London (1956) 22 - Love Turns Winter To Spring - June Christy (1957) 23 - The Secret Of Christmas - Ella Fitzgerald (1959) 24 - The Christmas Song - Carmen McRae (1961) 25 - A Christmas Surprise - Lena Horne (1965) 26 - Santa Was Here - Lorez Alexandria (1968)

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[lesser-known-composers]

Eric Zeisl (1905-1959) : Requiem ebraico, per soli, coro e orchestra (1944/1945).

I. How good to give thanks unto the Lord II. I play on my strings on the psaltery [03:06] III. oh how great are thy works, my God [05:15] IV. Like the palm tree the righteous shall bloom [09:24] V. To show that the Lord is upright [13:15]

Deborah Riedel, soprano; Della Jones, mezzo-soprano; Michael Kraus, basso;

Rundfunkchor Berlin Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, diretti da Lawrence Foster.

[posttexasstressdisorder]

Monday, 11-25-24, 7pm Pacific

Welp, it has definitely been a Monday, hasn't it? Mr. Baggins here with some music to soothe your achin' nerves and help ease us all into a good night. Let's start the evening off with the music of Debussy, his "Nocturnes", L.91. No. 1 Nuages ("Clouds"), No. 2 Fêtes ("Festivals"), and No. 3 Sirènes ("Sirens") , performed by The Montreal Symphony, led by Charles Dutoit.

Now let's hear our Brazilian friend Guiomar Novaes, with her wonderful 1957 recording of the Op. 9 and Op. 15 Nocturnes from Book 1 of Chopin's Nocturnes.

Now we turn from Chopin to Haydn; we hear his Symphony No. 102, from a live recording made in 1971. Here is Lenny with The Vienna.

Let's hear them do Brahms' fourth and final Symphony, the Symphony No. 4, in E-minor, Op. 98, from a recording made ten years later, live, in 1981.

Next we hear the Beaux Arts Trio, with another of the Piano Trios of Beethoven. From a live performance, we hear them play The "Ghost" Trio in D Major, Op 70, No. 1. Splendid performance!

Next let's hear a unique performance of Schubert's String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, the "Death and the Maiden" quartet, in a version for string orchestra, performed by Seiji Ozawa, leading the Mito String Orchestra.

Next we have a real treat: the legendary Fritz Kreisler playing seven of his own works with orchestral accompaniment led by Donald Voorhees, recorded live for a radio broadcast in 1945! Here is Fritz Kreisler playing his own most popular works on The Bell Telephone Hour, the Complete Program from April 16, 1945. We hear his Concerto in the style of Vivaldi, Old Refrain, Liebesfreud, Liebesleid, Schon Rosmarin, Rondino on a Theme By Beethoven, Tambourin Chinois, and Caprice Viennois.

Now let's hear Fritz Kreisler, this time with Sergei Rachmaninoff at the piano, in their landmark 1928 recording of Grieg's Violin Sonata No. 3, in C minor, Op. 45., from a truly HISTORIC series of recordings the two made together on RCA Victor.

To wind things up this evening, I thought we might hear Elly Ameling, Soprano, Hans Deinzer, Clarinet, and Jörg Demus, Piano (made by Franz Rausch, Wien 1835), performing that glorious bit of Schubert known as "Der Hirt Auf Dem Felsen", or "The Shepherd on the Rock", Op.129, D.965., from their legendary recording made in 1965.

And with the dulcet tones of a young Miss Ameling, we bring this evening's program to a close. I do hope you've enjoyed the selections this evening, and maybe heard something new to your ear. This is Mr. Baggins signing off for this evening. I'll return at 8am Pacific with Morning Coffee Music.

Until then, dream sweet dreams, babies, dream sweet dreams.

Baggins out.

[mightyflamethrower]

So much for the idea that if women were in charge the world would be a much kinder and less violent place.

Peruse campus literature. Watch clips from university protests. Scan interviews with pro-Hamas protestors. Read the chalk propaganda sketched on campus sidewalks. Talk to raging students in the free speech area. And the one common denominator— besides their arrogance—is their abject ignorance. Take their following tired talking points:

“Refugees” 

We are told that the Palestinians after more than 75 years of residence in the West Bank and Gaza are “refugees.” If that definition were currently true, then, are the 900,000 Jews who were forcibly exiled from Muslim countries in the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia after the 1947, 1956, 1967 wars still “refugees?”

Most fled to Israel. Do they now live in “refugee” camps administrated by the UN? Are they protesting to recover their confiscated homes and wealth in Damascus, Cairo, or Baghdad? Do Jews on Western television dangle their keys to lost homes in Damascus a half-century after they were expelled?

How about the 150,000-200,000 Greek Cypriots who in 1974 were brutally driven out of their ancient homes in Northern Cyprus? Are they today living in “refugee” camps in southern Cyprus? Are Cypriot terrorists blowing themselves up in “occupied” Nicosia to recover what was stolen from them by Turkey?

Turkish president Recep Erdogan lectures the world on Palestinian “refugees,” but does he mention Turkey’s role in the brutal expulsion of 40 percent of the residents of Cyprus?

Are there campus groups organizing against Turkey on behalf of the displaced Cypriots? After being slaughtered and expelled, are the Cypriots a cause celebre in academia? Do the “refugee” cities of southern Cyprus resemble Jenin or Jericho?

For that matter, how about the 12 million German civilians who between 1945-50 were expelled, and mostly walked back from, East Prussia and parts of Eastern Europe, some with Prussian roots going back a millennium and more. Perhaps 1 million died during the expulsions.

Are any current survivors still “refugees?” If so, are they organizing for war to get back “occupied”  “Danzig” and “Königsberg” for Germany? So why does the world damn Israel and romanticize the Palestinians in a way it does not with any other “refugee” group?

“Apartheid”

Israel is said to practice “apartheid,” although since 2005-06 Gaza has been autonomous. Mahmoud Abbas runs in his fashion the West Bank. Like the Hamas clique, he held elections one time in 2005, and then after his election, of course, cancelled any free election in the fashion of the one election, one time Middle East. Who forced him to do that? Zionists? Americans?

At any time, Gaza could have taken its vast wealth in annual foreign aid and become completely independent in fuel, food, and energy, without need of any such help form the “Zionist entity.”

Gaza could have capitalized on its strategic location, the world’s eagerness to help, and the natural beauty of its Mediterranean beaches. Instead, it squandered its income on a labyrinth of terrorist tunnels and rockets. Today, it snidely snickers at any mention of following the Singapore model of prosperity–a former colonial city whose World War II death count vastly surpassed that of the various wars over Gaza.

Are the Israeli Arabs—21 percent of the Israeli population—living under apartheid?

If so, it is a funny sort of oppression when they vote, hold office, form parties, and enjoy more freedom and prosperity than almost anywhere else in the Middle East under Arab autocracies. Are those in sympathy with Hamas fleeing from Israel into Gaza or the West Bank or other Arab countries to live with kindred Muslims under an autocratic and theocratic dictatorship, or do they prefer to stay in the “Zionist entity” under “apartheid?”

Where then is real apartheid?

The Uyghurs in China, fellow Muslims to Middle Easterners, who are ignored by Israel’s Islamic enemies, but who reside in China’s segregated work camps to the silence of the usually loud UN, EU, and Muslim world?

How about the Muslim Kurds? Are they second- or third-class citizens in Muslim Turkey? And how about the tens of thousands of foreign workers from India, Pakistan, and other Asian countries who labor under the kafala system in the Arab Muslim Gulf countries, and are subject to apartheid protocols that allow them no free will about how they live, travel, or the conditions of their labor?

Are campuses erupting to champion the Uyghurs, the Kurds, or the subjugated workers of the Gulf?

“Disproportionate”

Israel is now damned as “disproportionally” bombing Gaza. The campus subtext is that because Gaza’s 7,000-8,000 rockets launched at Israeli civilians have not killed enough Jews, then Israel should not retaliate for October 7 by bombing Hamas targets–shielded by impressed civilians— because it is too effective.

Would a “proportionate” response be counting up all the Israelis murdered, categorizing the horrific manner of their deaths, and then sending Israeli commandoes into Gaza during a “pause” in the fighting to murder an equal number of Gazans in the same satanic fashion?

Does the U.S. lecture Ukraine not to use to the full extent its lethal U.S. imported weaponry since the result is often simply too deadly? After all, perhaps twice as many Russians have been killed, wounded, or are missing than Ukrainian casualties. Should Ukraine have been more “proportionate?” Has President Biden ordered President Zelensky to offer the Russian aggressors a “pause” in the fighting to end the “cycle of violence?”

Or did U.S.-supplied artillery, anti-armor weapons, drones, and missiles “disproportionally” kill too many Russians? Or does the U.S. assume that since Russia attacked Ukraine at a time of peace, it deserves such a “disproportionate” response that alone will lose it the war?

For that matter, the U.S. certainly disproportionately paid back Japan for Pearl Harbor, and the Japanese brutal take-over of the Pacific, much of Asia, and China—and the barbarous way the Japanese military slaughtered millions of civilians, executed prisoners, and mass raped women. Should the U.S. have simply done a one-off retaliatory attack on the imperial fleet at Yokohama, declared a “cease-fire,” and thus ended the “cycle of violence?”

Civilian casualties

Campus activists scream that Israel has slaughtered “civilians” and is careless about “collateral damage.” They equate retaliating against mass murderers who use civilians to shield them from injury, while warning any Gazans in the region of the targeted response to leave, as the moral equivalent of deliberately butchering civilians in a surprise attack.

So did protestors mass in the second term of Barrack Obama when he focused on Predator drone missions inside Somalia, Pakistan, and Yemen to go after Islamic terrorists who deliberately target civilians?

At the time, the hard-left New York Times found the ensuing “collateral damage” in civilian deaths merely “troubling.” No matter—Obama persisted, insisting as he put it, “Let’s kill the people who are trying to kill us.” Note Obama did not expressly say the terrorists in Pakistan or Yemen were killing Americans, but “trying” to kill Americans. For him, that was, quite properly, enough reason “to kill” the potential assassins of Americans.

What would the Harvard President today say of Benjamin Netanyahu saying just that about Hamas?

We have no idea how many women, children, and elderly were in the general vicinity of a targeted terrorist in Pakistan or Yemen when an American drone missile struck. Then CIA Director John Brennan later admitted that he had lied under oath (with zero repercussions), when he testified to Congress that there was no collateral damage in drone targeted assassinations.

Obama was proud of his preemptive assassination program. Indeed, in lighthearted fashion he joked at the White House Correspondence Dinner about his preference for lethal drone missions, when he “warned” celebrities not to date his daughters: “But boys, don’t get any ideas. I have two words for you, ‘predator drones.’ You will never see it coming. You think I’m joking.”

Did the campuses erupt and scream “Not in my name” when their president laughed about his assassination program? After all, Obama had also admitted, “There is no doubt that civilians were killed who shouldn’t have been.” Did he then stop the targeted killings due to collateral damage—as critics now demand a cease fire from Israel?

“Genocide”

Genocide is now the most popular charge in the general damnation of Israel, a false smear aimed at calling off the Israeli response to Hamas, burrowed beneath civilians in Gaza City.

But how strange a charge! Pro-Hamas demonstrators the world over chant “From the River to the Sea,” unambiguously calling for the utter destruction of Israel and its 9 million population. Are the Hamas supporters then “genocidal?”

Is genocide the aim of Hamas that launched over 7,000 rockets into Israeli cities without warning? What is the purpose of the purportedly 120,000 rockets in the hands of Hezbollah if not to target Israeli noncombatants? Is all that a genocidal impulse?

Do Hamas and Hezbollah drop leaflets to civilians, as does Israel, to flee the area of a planned missile attack—or is that against their respective charters?

Hamas leaders in Qatar and Beirut continue to give interviews bragging about their October 7 surprise mass murdering of civilians. They even promise more such missions that likewise will be aimed at beheading, torturing, executing, incinerating, and desecrating the bodies of hundreds of Jewish civilians, perhaps again in the early morning during a holiday and a time of peace.

Is that planned continuation of mass killing genocidal? Does the amoral UN recall any other mass murdering spree when the killers beheaded infants, cooked them in ovens, and raped the dead?

Perhaps students at Harvard, Yale, Cornell, and Stanford will protest the real genocide in Darfur where some half-million black African Sudanese have been slaughtered by mostly Muslim Arab Sudanese. Did the Cornell professor who claimed he was “exhilarated” on news of beheaded Jewish babies protest the slaughter of the Sudanese? Did the current campus protestors ever assemble to scream about the Islamists who slaughtered the indigenous Africans of Sudan?

Are professors at Stanford organizing to refuse all grants and donations that originate from communist China? Remember, the Chinese communist Party has never apologized for the party’s genocidal murder of some 60-80 millions of its own during the Maoist Cultural Revolution, much less its systematic efforts to eliminate the Uyghur Muslim population?

These examples could easily be expanded. But they suffice to remind us that the Middle-East and Western leftist attacks on Israel for responding to the October 7 mass murdering are neither based on any consistent moral logic nor similarly extended to other nations who really do practice apartheid, genocide, and kill without much worry about collateral damage.

So why does the world apply a special standard to Israel?

To the leftist and Islamist, Israel is guilty of being: 1) Too Jewish; 2) Too prosperous, secure, and free; 3) Sufficiently Western to meet the boilerplate smears of colonialist, imperialist, and blah, blah, blah.

[odin-02]

INFO POST

Hi yes this is @styxnbones back again with yet another version of Harper Matheson but this time we're WoD-ifying the actual og who was a somewhat unhinged Professional in a game of Monster of the Week.

Usual WoD warnings of "ooc is not ic" and "this is the world of darkness don't play morality olympics" apply. Also, Harper is a vitae-dependent Imbued who relies on the physical benefits while being protected from the mental influence by their Conviction. The book explicitly says things like this fall under ST discretion as to if and how they work. So, I would like to say that while characters are welcome to question Harper about it in any way you like, I will not be arguing game mechanics ooc.

Background info and pics under the cut

Name: Jakob Ginsberg

Known Aliases: Harper Matheson, Harley Eller, Odin2 (and variations)

Born: 10/29/1945

MEDICAL NOTE:

-Ginsburg's physical health is dependent on BB blood. Often refuses harm reducing safe transfusions. Does not present typical adverse psychological effects associated with consumption of this substance.

-See [Additional Documentation] for further details on Ginsburg's mental health. Primary diagnoses are PTSD and CPTSD.

-Ginsburg has sustained chemical burns on the right side of the face and right eye. Self-report and empirical tests prove no damage to vision. Option for cosmetic surgery was refused.

-Injuries sustained from an "animal attack" (suspected shapechanger) somewhat limit mobility and are a source of chronic pain. Option for physiotherapy was refused.

FIRSTLIGHT asset since [--/--/----] under same terms as previous arrangement under the FBI. Received a medical discharge from the United States Army on 06/03/1971. Operated illegally for an unknown period of time prior to their contracting with Special Affairs on 01/10/1981. Vitae addiction began May, 1982.

Known to frequent Helsing communities, online and in-person, including [anonymous-liberty.com] and it's successors. Self-identifies as a "Judge" among these groups. Has had multiple incidents being exposed as a government asset in these groups and cannot be reliably used as a covert plant.

Civilian identity as photojournalist "Harley Eller" was provided to Ginsburg on acquisition and all activities under that identity are monitored and recorded.

Ginsburg's personality has been noted as stubborn, moralizing, and sadistic, as well as caring, protective, and loyal. Ginsburg has repeatedly expressed strongly black and white thinking, and is nearly impossible to sway on any such issues. Importantly, among these issues is a staunch refusal to allow any children, or beings which appear as children, to come to any harm.

[carbone14]

Les soldats australiens Inglis et J. Pie de la 2e Compagnie du 8e Bataillon d'infanterie couvrent une attaque par le flanc des positions japonaises sur le mont Shiburangu – Campagne d'Aitape-Wewak – Campagne de Nouvelle-Guinée – Guerre du Pacifique – Wewak – Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée – 27 juin 1945

©Australian War Memorial - 093451

[gatutor]

Maria Rohm (Vienna, Austria, 13/08/1945-Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 18/06/2018).

[pinturas-sgm-aviacion]

1945 06 Nakajima Ki 44 II Shoki 70 Sentai Tai-I Yoshido - Shigeo Koike

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

Bob Marley - No Women No Cry (Original)

happy heavenly birthday 

born on this day feb 06, 1945

[wadbot]

amorte.wad: a Morte [15 maps - 3 Hubs] MAP04: BATTLE OF BERLIN (-1557, 2187, 224) Author: HexenMapper Date: 2016-06-30 Description: Berlin, 1945. Things are heating up and Inside an old church a cabal of Nosferati begin opening portals, looking for another realm to evacuate to. Unfortunately for them they come across an arachnid-infested mausoleum, where a hero awakens... Extensive Hexen mod with 15 new maps, spread over 3 hubs. New weapons, Enemies and Environmental Hazards. More info on the zdoom forum: http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=50891