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Events 8.14 (after 1930)

1933 – Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn; destroying 240,000 acres (970 km2) of land. 1935 – Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired. 1936 – Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States. 1941 – World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims. 1947 – Pakistan gains independence from the British Empire. 1948 – Beaver drop a Idaho Department of Fish and Game program to relocate beavers from Northwestern Idaho to the Chamberlain Basin in Central Idaho. The program involved parachuting beavers into the Chamberlain Basin. 1959 – Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League. 1967 – UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act 1967 declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal. 1969 – The Troubles: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland as political and sectarian violence breaks out, marking the start of the 37-year Operation Banner. 1971 – Bahrain declares independence from Britain. 1972 – An Ilyushin Il-62 airliner crashes near Königs Wusterhausen, East Germany killing 156 people. 1980 – Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards. 1994 – Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured. 1996 – Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is shot and killed by a Turkish security officer while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus. 2003 – A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada. 2005 – Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew. 2006 – Lebanon War: A ceasefire takes effect three days after the United Nations Security Council’s approval of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, formally ending hostilities between Lebanon and Israel. 2006 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sixty-one schoolgirls killed in Chencholai bombing by Sri Lankan Air Force air strike. 2007 – The Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 500 people. 2013 – Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi. 2013 – UPS Airlines Flight 1354 crashes short of the runway at Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport, killing both crew members on board. 2015 – The U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba re-opens after 54 years of being closed when Cuba–United States relations were broken off. 2021 – A magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes southwestern Haiti, killing at least 2,248 people and causing a humanitarian crisis. 2022 – An explosion destroys a market in Armenia, killing six people and injuring dozens. 2023 – Former U.S. President Donald Trump is charged in Georgia along with 18 others in attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election in that state, his fourth indictment of 2023.

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Holger Czukay

(March 24, 1938-September 5, 2017)

What can I say about Holger Czukay? Bassist, multi-instrumentalist, pioneer, innovator, producer, bandleader, you name it. As bassist and tape editor of seminal Krautrock outfit CAN, it was Holger whose rocksteady bass and musical mind anchored the controlled chaos of one of rock’s most seminal groups. In the process, he would contribute early innovations such as sampling, ambient, and world music.

Holger was born in the Free City of Danzig (present-day Gdańsk, Poland), from which his family was expelled upon the end of World War II. As a result of the turmoil, Holger’s primary education would be limited, but one pivotal experience for him would be when he worked at a radio repair shop in his teens. It was here that he became enchanted with the aural qualities of radio broadcasts as well as learning the basic mechanics and engineering of shortwave radio and transmitters. Holger would also develop a greater interest in music, aspiring to become a composer and conductor. Of course, his ideas proved to be a bit much for many people’s liking, with one jazz festival kicking him off the bill for being “too radical” and Berlin’s Musical Academy similarly expelling him for artistic insubordination. Fortunately for young Holger, he’d soon find a sympathetic figure in legendary composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, who would soon take Holger under his wing as a student. Through his lessons from Stockhausen, Holger would develop and refine his craft, allowing him to grow as an artist and composer as well as leading to him to become a teacher in his own right.

By the time he became a teacher, Holger remained passionate about classical and avant-garde music as well as the burgeoning electronic music that Stockhausen had been a pioneer in. There was also a thing called rock and roll that Holger couldn’t see all the fuss about; that was, until student Michael Karoli exposed him to artists like The Rolling Stones and particularly the Beatles, whose single “I Am The Walrus” particularly caught Holger’s ear. Far from the typical three-chord ditty in four, this was a song with an ever shifting chord progression and structure as well as the odd blasts of radio transmitters much like what had captured his younger self’s imagination all those years ago. Now Holger had a hunger for this kind of avant-rock and pop, leading him to bands like The Velvet Underground and The Mothers of Invention. With a whole new medium to explore, Holger would join forces with his student on guitar along with fellow Stockhausen alumni Irmin Schmidt (keyboards) and David C. Johnson (winds), with the lineup being rounded out by jazz drummer Jaki Liebezeit. Though Johnson’s involvement would ultimately prove short lived, the remaining four soon formed the nucleus of the band soon to be known forever as CAN.

Across four studio albums, Can made its name on a strange brew of rock and roll, avant-garde, jazz, funk, and psychedelia. With the off kilter vocals and lyrics of either American sculptor Malcolm Mooney or Japanese busker Damo Suzuki on vocals, the expressionistic guitar work of Karoli, the trippy keyboard work of Schmidt, and the tribal drumming of Liebezeit, Can was already pure dynamite, but anchoring all of this sonic madness was Holger's bass playing. Moody, groovy, contemplative, filling in the spots that Jaki hadn't, Holger's work was stark and minimalist. The push and pull he and Jaki created gave Can a sense of tension and suspense, as well as providing Can with the rare ability to meld the funky and the cerebral.

While a great bassist, where Holger truly excelled was in his recording and arrangement. He was able to take the extended improvisation Can laid down live or in the studio album and then craft it into fully formed compositions, his attention to detail truly remarkable. Holger was sampling long before it became common place, and he was among the early explorers of both ambient and world music. He possessed a knack for taking things apart and reassembling them in ways few would have ever thought possible. As far as Holger was concerned, anything was possible, all you needed was to look at it from another angle.

After Damo left in 1973, the band would continue sporadically for the remainder of the decade, with Holger soon moving over to transmitters and soundscapes upon bassist Rosko Gee’s arrival before leaving altogether by 1978. As talented as Rosko and percussionist Rebop Kwaku Baah were, Holger’s absence simply left too big a hole for CAN to recover from, and the band would ultimately not last much longer, with two more studio albums before ending together. The band would reunite for 1989’s Rite Time, with the return of original vocalist Malcolm Mooney to boot, but overall, this particular chapter of Holger’s life had firmly concluded.

Never one to lay resting on his laurels, Holger continued to write and create. Having already crafted Canaxis 5 in the late sixties with Rolf Dammers under the name of the Technical Space Composer’s Crew, Holger would begin his solo career in earnest with 1979’s Movies. Though featuring Jaki on drums, plus Rebop playing organ on the opening track “Cool In The Pool” as well as Irmin and Michael playing grand piano and guitar on “Oh Lord, Give Us More Money”, the album was otherwise a one-man band affair on Holger’s part, not only doing his thing on bass and recording and engineering but also showing himself to also be a talented multi-instrumentalist, adept at guitar, French horn, harmonica, keyboards, synthesizers, and percussion. This would continue on subsequent albums such as On the Way to The Peak of Normal, Der Osten ist Rot, Radio Wave Surfer, and La Luna, his dada sensibilities as strong as ever.

I’d be remissed not to mention his work with other artists as well. From contemporaries such as German producer Conny Plank, Cluster, and fellow maverick Brian Eno as an artists with mutual respect, to many younger artists who Holger had inspired. PiL’s Jah Wobble would cite Holger as one of his biggest influences on bass and would collaborate with him on records like Full Circle and Snake Charmers-the latter also featuring The Edge on guitar. Ex-Japan frontman David Sylvian would utilize Holger’s talents on his first two solo offerings Brilliant Trees and Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities, where Holger would contribute his French horn and guitar work and most notably utilize the dictaphone as his means of playing back samples. The two would subsequently do two album-length collaborations in Plight & Premonition as well as Flux+Mutability and remained closed friends for years afterwards. Holger would also play on Eurythmics’ debut album In The Garden as well as working with the likes of ambient techno artist Dr. Walker, German new wave group Trio, Phew, Phantom Band, former bandmate Irmin Schmidt, and singer Ursa Major, or U-She. Holger and U-She would marry in 1989 and collaborate on many multimedia pieces until U-She’s death in 2017, with Holger himself following less than two months later.

Holger was an artist who was truly ahead of his time, somebody we’re still catching up with even decades later. As sad as it is that he’s not here with us anymore, his legacy is one for the ages, and we’ll continue exploring his creations for years if not decades to come.

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Raymond Dokpesi: biography, AIT owner, cause of death, net worth, age, wife, children

Raymond Dokpesi, a prominent Nigerian businessman and media mogul, was born on October 25, 1951, in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. He is the founder and chairman of Daar Communications PLC, a media conglomerate that owns and operates various Nigerian television and radio stations. Raymond Dokpesi Biography & Profile Summary Name: Raymond Dokpesi Born: October 25, 1951 (age 71) Died: May 29, 2023 Place of Death: Abuja Political party: People’s Democratic Party Alma mater: University of Gdańsk Website: raymonddokpesi.com Raymond Dokpesi Age At the time of his passing, Raymond Dokpesi was 71 years old. Raymond Dokpesi Education & Early Career Dokpesi received his primary and secondary education at Loyola College in Ibadan and continued his studies at Immaculate Conception College (ICC) in Benin City, where he even founded a dance/drama troupe. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in marine engineering from the University of Benin in Edo State and a master’s degree in marine engineering from the University of Gdańsk in Poland. Notably, his education was supported by Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, demonstrating his belief in Dokpesi’s abilities. Dokpesi’s career was marked by his visionary approach to the Nigerian media landscape. He founded DAAR Communications, which grew to become a major player in the mass media market. Under DAAR Communications, Dokpesi established Africa Independent Television (AIT), Nigeria’s first private television network, transforming the country’s media landscape. He also founded Raypower FM, Nigeria’s first privately owned radio station, and the Nigerian Compass newspaper. Dokpesi’s involvement extended to Nigerian politics, where he was an activist for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and held various positions within the party structure. The AIT and Daar Communications Plc In 1989, Raymond Dokpesi founded Daar Communications Plc, a media conglomerate that has become one of Nigeria’s leading media organizations. Daar Communications owns the Africa Independent Television (AIT) network, one of Nigeria’s prominent private television stations known for its extensive news coverage, entertaining programming, and thought-provoking documentaries. Raymond Dokpesi Family Raymond Dokpesi is a devoted family man, and his family has played a significant role in his life. He is married to Angela Dokpesi, and together they have several children. His children, including Regina Dokpesi, have established themselves in their respective fields, carrying on the family legacy of excellence. Regina works as an on-air personality for DAAR Communications Plc. Raymond Dokpesi’s marital situation has been complicated due to internal family conflicts, leading him to enter into polygamy, which he now considers one of the biggest mistakes of his life. He had been married to several women, with his second marriage resulting from family issues. As a devout Catholic, Dokpesi admits that he did not desire polygamy but was forced to accept it due to circumstances. Despite this, he has a deep affection for his first wife, a Polish immigrant, with whom he hoped to spend the rest of his life. They were physically separated as she needed to be with her parents in Poland as their only child. Raymond Dokpesi Philanthropy Raymond Dokpesi has shown his commitment to philanthropy by building community schools and providing scholarships to prospective students for tertiary education. Raymond Dokpesi Criticism and Controversy In 2010, Dokpesi was arrested for his alleged involvement in an Abuja car bombing but was released after nine hours in detention. He later filed a lawsuit against the country’s secret police for alleged wrongful imprisonment. On November 11, 2015, Dokpesi issued a public apology on behalf of the PDP party for the mismanagement of Nigeria under PDP governments, acknowledging that mistakes were made and expressing a sincere apology. Raymond Dokpesi – Health Challenges and COVID-19 Survival Dokpesi has faced health challenges, including a stroke in 2017 that required extensive medical care and rehabilitation. He demonstrated tenacity and determination in his recovery. In 2020, Dokpesi and some members of his family tested positive for COVID-19. Despite the severity of the virus, he survived and used his experience to raise awareness about the impact of the pandemic. Raymond Dokpesi Cause of Death According to family members, Dokpesi passed away while receiving treatment at a hospital in Abuja. He had a stroke after fasting during Ramadan and was in the process of recovery. Unfortunately, he suffered an electrocution during a routine gym session, leading to a stroke and, ultimately, his demise. Raymond Dokpesi Net Worth Raymond Dokpesi’s contributions to the media industry and his entrepreneurial ventures led to his financial success. He emerged as one of Nigeria’s wealthiest businessmen, with an estimated net worth of $50 million. Read the full article

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HAUSER

HAUSER ANUNCIA UNA SEMANA ESPECIAL DE LANZAMIENTOS MUSICALES PARA CELEBRAR EL DÍA DE SAN VALENTÍN

Mira los vídeos AQUÍ

La estrella internacional del violonchelo HAUSER  inicia una semana especial de estrenos musicales a diario que culminará con un nuevo álbum visual de su disco de larga duración THE PLAYER,  líder de las listas Billboard, ya disponible en Sony Music  Masterworks (escúchalo aquí). El viernes, como parte  de la semana de celebración del amor, HAUSER estrenará un nuevo single: "It's  Not Unusual". El nuevo tema es una versión fresca y alegre del éxito  de 1965, que Tom Jones convirtió en un clásico atemporal. En los  videoclips de esta semana se incluyen cuatro inéditos de la colección THE  PLAYER, entre ellos "Quando, Quando, Quando", que sale hoy, "Señorita",  el 14 de febrero, "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White", el 15 de  febrero, y "La Isla Bonita", el 16 de febrero. Conéctate al canal  de YouTube de HAUSER todos los días a las 10:00 AM EST para ver los estrenos AQUÍ.

Admirado  en todo el mundo por su innovador repertorio y sus asombrosos directos,  HAUSER, que apareció recientemente en el número anual de "Los  hombres vivos más sexys" de la Revista People, ha  adquirido fama gracias a su característico estilo al violonchelo. HAUSER ha  actuado en más de 40 países (incluidos lugares históricos como el Radio City  Music Hall de Nueva York y el Royal Albert Hall de Londres) y junto a  artistas de la talla de Andrea Bocelli, Red Hot Chili Peppers y Elton  John.  Incluso ha actuado en el Vaticano y ha aparecido en una  amplia gama de programas de televisión, como The Bachelorette, Today Show,  Good Morning America, Ellen, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, CNN  en Español, así como en retransmisiones deportivas como la NFL y la  UEFA.

Para más información sobre HAUSER y entradas  para los conciertos visita hauserofficial.com.

CALENDARIO DE ESTRENOS DE HAUSER:

13 de febrero de 2023 - “Quando, Quando,  Quando” (Music Video)

14 de febrero de 2023 - "Señorita"  (Videoclip)

15 de febrero de 2023 - “Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White”  (Videoclip)

16 de febrero de 2023 - "La Isla  Bonita" (Videoclip)

17 de febrero de 2023 - "It's Not  Unusual" (Nuevo single)

CONECTA CON HAUSER:

SITIO WEB | FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM | YOUTUBE |  TIKTOK

 HAUSER  - FECHAS DE LA GIRA REBEL WITH A CELLO:

8  de octubre de 2023 - Burdeos, Francia - Arkéa Arena

10 de octubre de 2023 - Barcelona, España - Palau Sant  Jordi

11 de octubre de 2023 - Madrid, España - WiZink Center

12  de octubre de 2023 - Lisboa, Portugal - Altice Arena

15  de octubre de 2023 - Dijon, Francia - Le Zénith

16  de octubre de 2023 - Zúrich, Suiza - Hallenstadion

18  de octubre de 2023 - Assago, Italia - Mediolanum Forum

20  de octubre de 2023 - Roma, Italia - Palazzo Dello Sport

21  de octubre de 2023 - Firenze, Italia - Foro Nelson Mandela

22  de octubre de 2023 - Jesolo, Italia - Palazzo Del Turismo

24  de octubre de 2023 - Belgrado, Serbia - Štark Arena

25  de octubre de 2023 - Zagreb, Croacia - Arena Center

27  de octubre de 2023 - Praga, Chequia - Tipsport Arena

28  de octubre de 2023 - Múnich, Alemania - Olympiahalle

29  de octubre de 2023 - Ámsterdam, Países Bajos - Ziggo Dome

31  de octubre de 2023 - Berlín, Alemania - Mercedes Benz Arena

2  de noviembre de 2023 - Viena, Austria - Wiener Stadthalle

3  de noviembre de 2023 - Cracovia, Polonia - Tauron Arena

5  de noviembre de 2023 - Gdańsk, Polonia - Ergo Arena

7  de noviembre de 2023 - Oberhausen, Alemania - Rudolf Weber Arena 

8  de noviembre de 2023 - Amberes, Bélgica - Sportpaleis

9  de noviembre de 2023 - Hamburgo, Alemania - Barclays Arena

11  de noviembre de 2023 - Manchester, Reino Unido - O2 Apollo

12  de noviembre de 2023 - Londres, Reino Unido - The O2

14  de noviembre de 2023 - París, Francia - Accor Arena

Para ver las fechas de la gira y comprar  tus entradas, haz clic AQUÍ.

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further floyd diaries:

i ran out of pink floyd to listen to so i’ve ventured into the outer limits of their solo material. i think most floyd fans would argue they’re better together and that their solo efforts only offer a fragment of what was great about floyd and a whole lot of other stuff you don’t want or care about. the only early floyd solo record that sounds like the band it came from is richard wright’s wet dream from 1978, a mostly-instrumental slow drift through moods; david gilmour’s solo debut is an excursion into arty blues rock, which sounds like a description of pink floyd if i look at it from far enough away, but the sound is completely different; i’m not even sure how to describe a song like “there’s no way out of here,” which i first heard as a cover at the most recent afghan whigs show i saw, and which to me is clearly the best floyd solo song ever, a haunted house:

even so, my favorite gilmour record is 2006′s on an island, which is the closest thing to a division bell follow-up i’ll ever get, and which probably sounds better on live in gdańsk, where it’s given a full playthrough with wright on keys. (btw both of gilmour’s solo live albums are completely freakin awesome.) gilmour is sometimes the most boring rock songwriter on earth but it’s so clear to me that all of floyd’s atmosphere comes from him and wright playing together, and sometimes atmosphere is enough.

as for roger waters, who i thought was just so brilliant in high school... well, i heard the pros & cons of hitch hiking for the first time yesterday and aside from two songs toward the end found it utterly repulsive. sure, it was the kind of repulsion that made me want to work out why i found it so repulsive, so i’ve heard the record like four times now, but this has yet to mutate into anything like fascination or enjoyment. what if you were stuck in a repetitive, recursive nightmare where you were either hearing the gentle hiss of traffic or the aggressive caterwauling of roger waters? i’m sure there are people out there who think of this record as hell. thank god he lost his voice afterward because radio kaos and amused to death are much easier to get through. still, you know when a guy is technically right about everything but he’s being the biggest braying asshole about it? (of course you do, you live on the internet.) that’s roger waters. that’s the vibration all of his records give off. the one i like the most is the one he recorded with nigel godrich and beck’s band a few years ago, is this the life we really want?, and it’s not coincidentally the only waters solo album where he tries to access the atmosphere of classic floyd again.

finally, nick mason put out a dope experimental post-punk jazz(?) album with carla bley and robert wyatt called fictitious sports. it sounds nothing like pink floyd or, as far as i know, any other music:

somebody help i can’t stop listening to pink floyd

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Znowu. Kobiety ciężko pracujące.

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Echa Wielkanocy...Zapraszam do wysłuchania audycji w Radio Gdańsk S.A. Niezmiennie, płyta dostępna w sklepiku!

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Ezkaton es el sexto EP d la banda polaca de Black/Death metal Behemoth este trabajo fue lanzado en Norteamérica a través d Metal Blade Records el 11 d noviembre d 2008 y en Europa a través d Regain Records el 20 d noviembre d ese mismo año. El EP cuenta con siete canciones, las cuales incluyen un nuevo tema titulado Qadosh, una nueva versión d Chant for Ezkaton 2000 e.v., versiones en vivo de From the Pagan Vastlands y Decade ov Therion y finalmente con dos covers; uno d Master's Hammer d l canción Jama Pekel y el otro de Ramones d l canción I'm Not Jesús. Las primeras cuatro canciones fueron grabadas durante la sesión d grabación del álbum The Apostasy en el Radio Gdańsk Studios desde noviembre dl 06 hasta marzo d 07. Las otras 3 canciones (q están en vivo) fueron grabadas en Leeuwarden, Países Bajos en octubre d 07 durante la gira European Apostasy tour.

Ezkaton también tiene una edición limitada q incluye cuatro 7-inch picture disc. La edición viene con un tema extra, Devilock (cover de The Misfits) en l tercera pista

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Polar bear hunting a reindeer caught on tape for first time | Science

In August 2020, biologist Izabela Kulaszewicz was settling in for a lazy evening at the Polish Polar Station, Hornsund, on Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, when a message came over the radio. Two researchers had just spotted a polar bear. Having wanted to see one all summer, Kulaszewicz, of the University of Gdańsk, and a handful of other scientists rushed outside.

About 100 meters away, a chubby female polar bear was sniffing the air and walking toward the coast. Soon, she disappeared into a dip in the tundra, only to emerge seconds later, galloping toward several reindeer on the shoreline. She went after one bull and chased it into the sea (see video, above). Less than 25 meters offshore, the predator sunk her claws in the reindeer’s back, bit its neck, and forced it underwater. The reindeer was dead within 1 minute.

The cook at the research station caught everything on film, making it the first video evidence of polar bears hunting and eating reindeer—something that had long been assumed, but never clearly seen.

“I was shocked,” Kulaszewicz says. “I thought reindeer were good swimmers, and the bear would have a bigger problem catching the reindeer. But it was totally different.” After dragging the carcass ashore, the bear ate more than half of it in one sitting.

Polar bears haven’t always hunted reindeer. Their favorite dish is seal—which they catch through holes in the ice far offshore. The blubber from one adult ringed seal can help a polar bear survive for more than 10 days. If they eat enough blubber, they can fast for months.

But as climate change melts sea ice earlier in the year, more polar bears are forced to spend their summers foraging on land. Polar bears have been seen eating bird eggs, rodents, and even trash at landfills. “If it moves, or even doesn’t move, there’s a good chance they’ll try to eat it,” says polar bear biologist Andrew Derocher of the University of Alberta, Edmonton, who wasn’t involved in the new study.

Kulaszewicz and her colleagues describe the remarkable hunt in a paper published earlier this month in Polar Biology. The paper includes at least 12 other reports of bears pursuing or eating reindeer, suggesting these events are becoming more frequent, they write. But whereas previous reports don’t always note whether the reindeer were killed or scavenged, the new report shows polar bears can successfully hunt reindeer, Derocher says. “We don’t see these sorts of events very often. We quite often see the aftereffects.”

The study’s senior author, Gdańsk ecologist Lech Stempniewicz, says he finds it extraordinary that the hunt took place in the sea. Reindeer can swim and run well over long distances, but “in a triathlon consisting of sprinting; swimming in shallow waters with uneven, rocky bottoms, skerries, and ice floes; and wrestling, the bear is second to none,” Stempniewicz, who has worked in the Arctic for more than 50 years, wrote in an email.

Individual bears like this one can learn unique behaviors, Derocher says, and they latch onto whatever works. “I would bet that that bear comes back year after year to the Polish station at Hornsund and will keep trying to do the same thing,” Derocher says. Sure enough, researchers saw the same bear at the water’s edge with another reindeer carcass 1 day after the first hunt. Seemingly still stuffed, it left most of the second kill for the foxes and gulls.

Having evolved without predators, the approximately 20,000 reindeer that live on Svalbard are enticing prey. Polar bears could supplement their diets with reindeer in the summer when sea ice is low, Stempniewicz says.

“We could view this as a little piece of good news, at least for the local polar bears,” says Steven Amstrup, chief scientist at Polar Bears International. But he stresses that new hunting behaviors on land will not make up for the loss of the sea ice habitat where polar bears evolved. “It’s a really interesting observation, and it may have some near-term value for some number of bears,” Amstrup says, “but in the long run, I can’t imagine that it’s really going to be the salvation of polar bears.”

New post published on: https://livescience.tech/2021/10/24/polar-bear-hunting-a-reindeer-caught-on-tape-for-first-time-science/

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Events 8.14 (after 1900)

1901 – The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21. 1914 – World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive. 1917 – World War I: The Republic of China, which had heretofore been shipping labourers to Europe to assist in the war effort, officially declares war on the Central Powers, although it will continue to send to Europe labourers instead of combatants for the remaining duration of the war. 1920 – The 1920 Summer Olympics, having started four months earlier, officially open in Antwerp, Belgium, with the newly-adopted Olympic flag and the Olympic oath being raised and taken at the Opening Ceremony for the first time in Olympic history. 1921 – Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia). 1933 – Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn; destroying 240,000 acres (970 km2) of land. 1935 – Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired. 1936 – Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States. 1941 – World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims. 1947 – Pakistan gains independence from the British Empire. 1959 – Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League. 1967 – UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal. 1969 – The Troubles: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland as political and sectarian violence breaks out, marking the start of the 37-year Operation Banner. 1971 – Bahrain declares independence from Britain. 1972 – An Ilyushin Il-62 airliner crashes near Königs Wusterhausen, East Germany killing 156 people. 1980 – Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards. 1994 – Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured. 1996 – Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is shot and killed by a Turkish security officer while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus. 2003 – A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada. 2005 – Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew. 2006 – Lebanon War: A ceasefire takes effect three days after the United Nations Security Council’s approval of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, formally ending hostilities between Lebanon and Israel. 2006 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sixty-one schoolgirls killed in Chencholai bombing by Sri Lankan Air Force air strike. 2007 – The Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 500 people. 2013 – Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi. 2013 – UPS Airlines Flight 1354 crashes short of the runway at Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport, killing both crew members on board. 2015 – The US Embassy in Havana, Cuba re-opens after 54 years of being closed when Cuba–United States relations were broken off. 2021 – A magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes southwestern Haiti, killing at least 2,248 people and causing a humanitarian crisis. 2022 – An explosion destroys a market in Armenia, killing six people and injuring dozens.

[wexhappyxfew]

OKAY LAST ONE LOL :) How about Kaja? I just love her 🥺 - coffee bean 💜💜

HEY KRYSTA!!!! you’re the first one i’ve gotten to of these and since it’s specified for Kaja, i figured i’d do my landslide ones before my FFTB ones!!!

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Kaja Wozniak is featured in Landslide, my 3rd Band of Brothers fic, a Polish-Jew from Gdańsk, Poland, one of the oldest cities in Poland, as well as a port city, settled on the Baltic Sea. Her early childhood was a fairly good one, despite the little amount of food and money her family was able to provide for her 6 siblings. They made by with worship in the local synagogues along with keeping up in their studies.

Her later childhood years were spent with long nights with her family at home, learning of the rapid antisemitism that was growing during the Great Depression at the time, not only in Poland, but in Europe. Food was scarce and the increasing fear of what was occurring in Germany was enough to send her father nearly mad.

Kaja, with her gentle, caring and tender nature, tried more to find ‘the beauty in the ruins’, the light in the little things, trying her best to keep her siblings minds off of whatever occurred in the outside political and real world and rather on finding a bit of joy in all the chaos.

But when Poland was invaded, there was a ghetto for the Jewish population of Gdańsk that was set up in 1940 where her family would eventually stay for a year and a half before deportation to Stutthof, one of the civilian war prisoner camps turned concentration camp. She ended up losing all her family in that camp, being the only survivor from her family. But being the oldest Wozniak sibling and still fit enough for work, she was transported to the Mauthausen camp, 20 km east of Linz, Austria.

This is when Kaja started being sent out to work in the Schloss Klessheim of Wals-Siezenheim, Austria, where she worked as one of the cooks in the back, or serving drinks to the Imperial guests. During this time, Ryzshard Filipski had worked his ranks into the Third Reich, and Natia’s resistance group was developing a plan for Ryzshard to help her escape. He had previously gotten documentation on her from a filing cabinet he’d stolen in the Schloss Klessheim - and knew she could be of extreme aid to the Polish Resistance.

Featured in The Teasing of Death’s Claws, Kaja’s escape is shown through Ryzshard Filipski’s eyes through Agent Legio’s [Ryzshard’s SOE Agent Name] undercover work in the Third Reich under the name ‘Henri Scholtz’ [name used within the Third Reich].

After the escape, Kaja became one with the Polish Resistance, performing duties of not only her knowledge of concentration camps and what occurred there, but coordinate intelligence and map intelligence which was more than useful to the Resistance. With her aid, she became Klimeck Filipska’s second, the one with the map and the notebook as well as working closely with Felicjan Marowski on radio work for communications.

Now, her fate just like the rest of her friends lies in jeopardy - with Natia presumably dead (even though she’s with Easy) and the Warsaw Uprising raging yet drawing slowly to a close, little help is still seen for the band of resistance fighters in Warsaw. And their life is on the line - all of them.

{ ask about and meet my OCs! }

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• MV Wilhelm Guftloff

MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German armed military transport ship which was sunk in January 1945 by Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea while evacuating German civilian refugees from East Prussia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Estonia.

Wilhelm Gustloff was constructed by the Blohm & Voss shipyards. Measuring 208.5 m (684 ft 1 in) long by 23.59 m (77 ft 5 in) wide, with a capacity of 25,484 gross register tons (GRT), she was launched on May 5th, 1937. The ship was originally intended to be named Adolf Hitler but instead was christened after Wilhelm Gustloff, leader of the National Socialist Party's Swiss branch, who had been assassinated by a Jewish medical student in 1936. Hitler decided on the name change after sitting next to Gustloff's widow during his memorial service. After completing sea trials in the North Sea from March 15th to 16th, 1938 she was handed over to her owners. Wilhelm Gustloff was the first purpose-built cruise ship for the German Labour Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront, DAF) and used by subsidiary organisation Kraft durch Freude (KdF) (Strength Through Joy). Her purposes were to provide recreational and cultural activities for German functionaries and workers, including concerts, cruises, and other holiday trips, and to serve as a public relations tool, to present "a more acceptable image of the Third Reich". She made her unofficial maiden voyage between the 24th and 27th of March 1938, carrying Austrians in an attempt to convince them to vote for the annexation of Austria by Germany. On March 29th, 1938 she departed on her second voyage carrying workers and their families from the Blohm & Voss shipyard on a three-day cruise. On April 8th, 1938 Wilhelm Gustloff under the command of Captain Carl Lübbe departed Hamburg for England where she anchored over three miles offshore of Tilbury so as to remain in international waters. This allowed her to act as a floating polling station for German and Austrian citizens living in England who wished to vote on the approaching plebiscite on Anschluss (Union of Austria with Germany).

After undertaking a further voyage on April 14th to 19th, 1938, she went on an Osterfahrt (Easter Voyage) before her actual official maiden voyage, which was undertaken between April 26th to May 6th, 1938 when she joined Der Deutsche, Oceania and Sierra Cordoba on a group cruise to the Madeira Islands. Between May 20th, to June 2nd, 1939, she was diverted from her pleasure cruises. With seven other ships in the KdF fleet, she transported the Condor Legion back from Spain following the victory of the Nationalist forces under General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War. From March 1938 until August 1939, Wilhelm Gustloff took over 80,000 passengers on a total of 60 voyages, all around Europe. From September 1939 to November 1940, she served as a hospital ship, officially designated Lazarettschiff D. Beginning on November 20th, 1940, the medical equipment was removed from the ship, and she was repainted from the hospital ship colours of white with a green stripe to standard naval grey. As a consequence of the Allied blockade of the German coastline, she was used as an accommodations ship (barracks) for approximately 1,000 U-boat trainees of the 2nd Submarine Training Division (2. Unterseeboot-Lehrdivision) in the port of Gdynia, which had been occupied by Germany and renamed Gotenhafen, located near Danzig (Gdańsk). Wilhelm Gustloff sat in dock there for over four years. In 1942, SS Cap Arcona was used as a stand-in for RMS Titanic in the German film version of the disaster. Filmed in Gotenhafen, the 2nd Submarine Training Division acted as extras in the movie. Eventually she was put back into service to transport civilians and military personnel as part of Operation Hannibal.

Operation Hannibal was the naval evacuation of German troops and civilians as the Red Army advanced. Wilhelm Gustloff's final voyage was to evacuate German refugees, military personnel, and technicians from Courland, East Prussia, and Danzig-West Prussia. Many had worked at advanced weapon bases in the Baltic from Gdynia/Gotenhafen to Kiel. The ship's complement and passenger lists cited 6,050 people on board, but these did not include many civilians who boarded the ship without being recorded in the official embarkation records. A German archivist and Gustloff survivor who extensively researched the sinking during the, concluded that Wilhelm Gustloff was carrying a crew of 173 (naval armed forces auxiliaries), 918 officers, NCOs, and men of the 2 Unterseeboot-Lehrdivision, 373 female naval auxiliary helpers, 162 wounded soldiers, and 8,956 civilians, for a total of 10,582 passengers and crew. The passengers, besides civilians, included Gestapo personnel, members of the Organisation Todt, and Nazi officials with their families. The ship was overcrowded, and due to the temperature and humidity inside, many passengers defied orders not to remove their life jackets. The ship left Danzig (Gdańsk) at 12:30 pm on January 30th, 1945, accompanied by the passenger liner Hansa, also filled with civilians and military personnel, and two torpedo boats. Hansa and one torpedo boat developed mechanical problems and could not continue, leaving Wilhelm Gustloff with one torpedo boat escort, Löwe.

Against the advice of the military commander, Lieutenant Commander Wilhelm Zahn (a submariner who argued for a course in shallow waters close to shore and without lights), Wilhelm Gustloff's captain Friedrich Petersen decided to head for deep water which was known to have been cleared of mines. When he was informed by a mysterious radio message of an oncoming German minesweeper convoy, he decided to activate his ship's red and green navigation lights so as to avoid a collision in the dark, making Wilhelm Gustloff easy to spot in the night. As Wilhelm Gustloff had been fitted with anti-aircraft guns, and the Germans did not mark her as a hospital ship, no notification of her operating in a hospital capacity had been given and, as she was transporting military personnel, she did not have any protection as a hospital ship under international accords. The ship was soon sighted by the Soviet submarine S-13, under the command of Captain Alexander Marinesko. The submarine sensor on board the escorting torpedo boat had frozen, rendering it inoperable, as had Wilhelm Gustloff's anti-aircraft guns, leaving the vessels defenseless. Marinesko followed the ships to their starboard (seaward) side for two hours before making a daring move to surface his submarine and steer it around Wilhelm Gustloff's stern, to attack it from the port side closer to shore, from whence the attack would be less expected. At around 9 pm (CET), Marinesko ordered his crew to launch four torpedoes at Wilhelm Gustloff's port side. The three torpedoes which were fired successfully all struck Wilhelm Gustloff on her port side. The first torpedo struck Wilhelm Gustloff's bow, causing the watertight doors to seal off the area which contained quarters where off-duty crew members were sleeping. The second torpedo hit the accommodations for the women's naval auxiliary, located in the ship's drained swimming pool, dislodging the pool tiles at high velocity, which caused heavy casualties; only three of the 373 quartered there survived. The third torpedo was a direct hit on the engine room located amidships, disabling all power and communications.

Reportedly, only nine lifeboats were able to be lowered; the rest had frozen in their davits and had to be broken free. About 20 minutes after the torpedoes' impact, Wilhelm Gustloff listed dramatically to port, so that the lifeboats lowered on the high starboard side crashed into the ship's tilting side, destroying many lifeboats and spilling their occupants across the ship's side. The water temperature in the Baltic Sea at that time of year is usually around 4 °C (39 °F); however, this was a particularly cold night, with an air temperature of −18 to −10 °C (0 to 14 °F) and ice floes covering the surface. Many deaths were caused either directly by the torpedoes or by drowning in the onrushing water. Others were crushed in the initial stampede caused by panicked passengers on the stairs and decks. Many others jumped into the icy Baltic. The majority of those who perished succumbed to exposure in the freezing water. Less than 40 minutes after being struck, Wilhelm Gustloff was lying on her side. She sank bow-first 10 minutes later, in 44 m (144 ft) of water. German forces were able to rescue 1252 of the survivors from the attack, figures from research make the loss in the sinking to be "9,343 men, women and children". Many ships carrying civilians were sunk during the war by both the Allies and Axis Powers. However, based on the latest estimates of passenger numbers and those known to be saved, Wilhelm Gustloff remains by far the largest loss of life resulting from the sinking of one vessel in maritime history. About 1,000 German naval officers and men were aboard during, and died in, the sinking of Wilhelm Gustloff. The women on board the ship at the time of the sinking were inaccurately described by Soviet propaganda as "SS personnel from the German concentration camps". Before sinking Wilhelm Gustloff, Alexander Marinesko was facing a court martial due to his problems with alcohol and for being caught in a brothel while he and his crew were off duty, so Marinesko was thus deemed "not suitable to be a hero" for his actions. Therefore, instead of gaining the title Hero of the Soviet Union, he was awarded the lesser Order of the Red Banner.

[buzz-africa-media]

Constance Nigerian Idol: Biography, Age, Date of Birth, State of Origin, Instagram

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