Volcanic Sand Bath Experience ★ ONLY in JAPAN
VOLCANIC SAND BATH? YES!! Welcome to Ibusuki, Kagoshima!
In this episode, John travels to Kagoshima prefecture on the bottom of Kyushu to visit this unique style of onsen. It's call “suna mushi onsen” (砂むし温泉) in Japan. This style of Volcanic Sand Bath is only in Ibusuki, Kagoshima.
There are several health benefits associated to suna mushi onsen.
★ Good for the skin
★ Improves blood circulation
★ Increases your metabolism
★ Relaxation
The sand is on average 50 to 55 degrees Celsius (~122 F) and that heat can be adjusted for children (cooler) -- or hotter for those who can take the heat.
The recommended time limit in the sand bath is 10 minutes although I like to stay under for 15 minutes. You can stay as long as you like but to be honest, you can't stay over 15-20 minutes because your skin and body just can't manage it.
After the sand bath, you rinse off, return to blue yukata robe and soak in an onsen if you like.
The whole experience is only 1080 yen.
A small towel is 120 yen. Lockers and a yukata are included.
Getting to Kagoshima:
Flight: I flew SKYMARK airlines for 9,800 yen but ANA and JAL also fly to Kagoshima from Tokyo as well as Osaka / Kansai.
Train:
Kagoshima is now linked by the Shinkansen like from Tokyo but it takes about 7-8 hours with a change of trains in either Hakata (Fukuoka).
Bus: There are night buses from Osaka, Fukuoka and Tokyo.
I recommend flying though.
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This show has been created and produced by John Daub ジョン・ドーブ. He's been living and working in Japan for over 18 years and regularly reports on TV for Japan's International Channel.
How to Stop Translating in Your Head and Start Thinking in English [9 Tips]
Think in English. Stop translating in your head and speak fluent, natural English without hesitation. In conversations and other situations where you need to be able to process information quickly and respond immediately, translating in your head is a big problem. It slows you down. It makes you hesitate. At times you’ll completely miss out on the conversation because your chance to jump in has come and gone and you’re still trying to translate.
On top of all that, a lot of slang, idioms and phrasal verbs can be difficult to translate quickly — if at all! It’s really best for your fluency if you stop translating in your head and learn to start thinking in English.
Thinking in English is very important to developing your fluency in English… so let’s go! Here are my nine tips for thinking in English.
DO DAILY ACTIVITIES IN ENGLISH
Can you change your phone settings to English? How about talking to your pet in English when you’re going for a walk? If you commute to work by train or bus could you buy your fare in English?
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Your brain is so amazing that it will begin to recognize patterns and want to follow them too!
TRY GUESSING OR PLANNING WHAT ENGLISH SPEAKERS ARE GOING TO SAY
When you predict the conversation based on experience, you’ll be more confident and ready to respond.
Imagine the conversations that you want to have in the future and create them before they happen so you feel more prepared. It may not go word-for-word how you plan it, so be ready for change. You could write the conversation down and practice it a few times.
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The PHENOMENON BRUNO GROENING – documentary film – PART 1
The first part of this extensive documentary film examines the events around Bruno Groening in 1949. Included are the dramatic developments in Herford, the sensational mass gatherings at the Traberhof in Rosenheim, and the scientific investigations in Heidelberg.
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The sensation of 1949
In the year 1949 great excitement develops around a man, Bruno Groening, who is known in the media as a miracle healer. It all begins in Herford, Westphalia, with continual reports about new, unbelievable healings. Even people diagnosed as incurable swear by his power to heal. But Groening‘s activities are prohibited by the authorities. He withdraws to Bavaria, yet some journalists are able to locate him even there and disclose his whereabouts to the public. Within a short amount of time, up to 30,000 people per day make the pilgrimage to the Traberhof in Rosenheim. And again, with increasing reports about unbelievable healings, Groening becomes the center of public attention.
Still very significant today
The PHENOMENON BRUNO GROENING has already been shown in cinemas or public presentations in about 100 countries – nearly 13,000 times. Now you can also watch it on YouTube. The premiere will take place on January 18th 2019 at 7pm CET (Central European Time). From January 19th, for three weeks, all three parts will be made available on YouTube.
The film is meticulously researched and aims at bringing these events back to public awareness. It features 50 eyewitnesses, many photos, documents and some film footage from that time, to bring the events and the phenomenon Groening to life in front of your eyes. Wherever original footage was not available, re-enactment scenes supplement the film.
An extraordinary historical documentary – now on YouTube in full length
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Sangoku Hime 2 - Enjutsu 01
Meet Enjutsu. Well, she's about 80% similar to Miu. And meet Kirei... nah, don't mind her, actually, yet. She has her own events, unlocked after this one is cleared, but I'll get to them later. At any rate, while Enjutsu has barely any events (second one is already an H-scene and with barely any prequel to it), she gets tons of co-events with others. She has quite a lot of story scenes in Go route (obviously), has a few story and character events with Enshou, has a hot spring event with Enshou, Kayuu and Kousonsan. That doesn't change the fact that she's completely useless game-wise. Her stats are all 1 even you level her up. But at least she's an archer. And her skill is... mildly useful. So I'll still use her for a few battles. Also, there should be new Gi event coming next, which happens when I attack the next zone. And I already have two squads in position. After that, I'll probably switch to Koihime again. I suppose I'll shuffle it like: Shin Koihime H-scenes translation, Moeshouden, Sangoku Hime 2.
Let's Play Yakuza Kiwami - #7 | Return Of A Fighter
Holy shit that thing I enjoyed but had to spend like three hours on is back in this game too!
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Kazuma Kiryu is back! Returning to Kamurocho after 10 years in prison, the city and the Yakuza have changed. And it’s up to Kiryu to punch and empathise his way into the hearts and faces of everyone in the town.
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Lots Of Laughs | Random Talk With DW13!!
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My guest DW 13 is in the house & he brought lots of laughs!! Also Please think before u do things to someone, u never know how it can affect them, especially someone that u call family/friends!!
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5 Feature: VISIONS of GOD & HEAVEN/Isaiah 6/Daniel 7/Throne of God/Ezekiel’s Vision/New Jerusalem
★ VISIONS of GOD & HEAVEN. What do HEAVEN - GOD - SERAPHIM - CHERUBIM - The THRONE of GOD - look like according to the BIBLE? The Holy of Holies, The Ancient of Days, The Throne of God, Ezekiel’s Vision, New Jerusalem. 5 Feature animated short films from John8thirtytwo Publishing.
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★ The Holy of Holies - Isaiah 6:1-8
Experience Isaiah’s vision of God and Seraphim, the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies (Most Holy Place). Witness Isaiah’s call and grand commission, all of which takes place within the walls of the glorious temple that King Solomon built.
★ The Ancient of Days - Daniel 7:9,10
Experience Daniel’s vision of God, the Ancient of Days, on His throne of judgement. Surrounding Him are 12 judges and thousands and thousands of angels. Before Him is a river of fire and a crowd of ten thousand times ten thousand people.
★ The Throne of God - Revelation 4 & 5
Take an awe-inspiring journey as the apostle John describes the magnificent vision of heaven, including the throne of God and accompaniment of holy angels, creatures, 24 elders and the Lamb.
A depiction of the Apostle John’s vision of the throne of God in heaven as described in the Bible at Revelation chapters 4 and 5. Depicted is the throne of God, emerald rainbow, the Lamb, the 24 elders, 4 living creatures, thousands of angels, 7 lamps of fire, the sea of glass and the scroll with 7 seals.
★ Ezekiel’s Vision – Ezekiel 1 & 10
Take an awe-inspiring journey as Ezekiel’s vision of God is brought to life in all its glory. All narration is quoted directly from the Holy Bible, which details the magnificent vision of God, the cherubim and the whirling wheels.
A depiction of Ezekiel's vision of God and the cherubim as described in the Bible at Ezekiel chapter 1 and 10. Depicted is the throne of God, the 4 living creatures, 4 whirling wheels, crystal expanse, sapphire throne and the burning coals of fire.
★ New Jerusalem – Revelation 21 & 22
Take an awe-inspiring journey through the structure, dimensions and beauty of the Holy City, New Jerusalem. All narration is quoted directly from the Holy Bible, which details the magnificent exterior and interior of the City.
A depiction of New Jerusalem, the Holy City, as described in the Bible book of Revelation chapters 21, 22 (and 7b). Depicted is the interior and the exterior of the Holy City, the 12 foundations, 12 pearl gates, great high wall of jasper, the angel, river of water of life, trees of life and the street of gold.
Narration: All scripture quoted from King James Version, The World English Bible, The Webster Bible, American Standard Version, Young’s Literal Translation, Darby Translation.
WHAT does NEW JERUSALEM from HEAVEN look LIKE? Revelation 21 & 22. New Heaven New Earth, Holy City
What does GLORIOUS New Jerusalem Descending from Heaven look like? A depiction of New Jerusalem, the Holy City, as described in the Bible book of Revelation chapters 21, 22 (and 7b).
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Copyright 2013 All Rights Reserved-John8thirtytwo Publishing, Canada - #J832. Scripture quoted from King James Version, The World English Bible,The Webster Bible, The Darby. I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation,and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ,was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God,and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day....One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls,who were laden with the seven last plagues came,and he spoke with me, saying, Come here. I will show you the wife, the Lamb's bride.And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the Holy Jerusalem,descending out of heaven from God, prepared as bride adorned for her husband.Having the glory of God:and her light was like to a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone,clear as crystal.The city was pure gold, like pure glass.The city had a wall great and high,and the building of the wall of it was of jasper.And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones.The first foundation was jasper,the second, sapphire,the third;a chalcedony;the eighth,beryl;the ninth,a topaz;the tenth a chrysoprasus;the eleventh,a jacinth;the twelfth,an amethyst.The great high wall had twelve gates. The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each one of the gates was made of one pearl.And at the gates twelve angels;and names written on them,which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.On the east three gates;on the north three gates;on the south three gates;and on the west three gates.He who spoke with me had for a measure a golden reed to measure the city,its gates,and its walls.The city lies foursquare, and its length is as great as its breadth.He measured the city with the reed,twelve thousand stadia.Its length,breadth,and height are equal.He measured its wall,one hundred forty-four cubits,by the measure of a man,that is,of an angel.He showed me a river of water of life,clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,in the midst of its street.And the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life,bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month.The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.I saw no temple in it,for the Lord God,the Almighty,and the Lamb,are its temple.The city has no need for the sun,neither of the moon,to shine,for the very glory of God illuminated it,and its lamp is the Lamb. There will be no more night,and they need no lamp light, neither sunlight for the Lord God will give them light.They will reign forever and ever.And there shall be no more curse:but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:And they shall see his face;and his name shall be in their foreheads.And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day:for there shall be no night there.And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying,Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men,and he will dwell with them,and they shall be his people,and God himself shall be with them,and be their God.And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death,neither sorrow,nor crying,neither shall there be any more pain:for the former things are passed away.And he that sat upon the throne said,Behold, I make all things new.And he said unto me,Write:for these words are true and faithful.He said to me,It is done!I am the Alpha and the Omega,the Beginning and the End.I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.He who overcomes,I will give him these things.I will be his God, and he will be my son. Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have right to the tree of life,and that they should go in by the gates into the city.There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, ....
Das Phänomen Bruno Gröning – Dokumentarfilm – TEIL 1
Der erste Teil dieses aufwendigen Dokumentarfilms zeigt die Geschehnisse um Bruno Gröning im Jahr 1949. Die dramatischen Ereignisse von Herford, die aufsehenerregenden Menschenansammlungen am Rosenheimer Traberhof, aber auch die wissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen in Heidelberg.
Die Sensation von 1949
Im Jahre 1949 entsteht ein großer Rummel um einen Mann namens Bruno Gröning, der in den Medien als Wunderheiler bekannt wird. Alles beginnt in Herford in Westfalen. Immer wieder hört man von neuen unglaublichen Heilungen. Selbst als unheilbar Diagnostizierte schwören auf seine Heilkraft. Doch Gröning wird dies von den Behörden untersagt. Er zieht sich nach Bayern zurück. Einige Journalisten finden ihn jedoch auch dort und machen seinen neuen Aufenthaltsort publik. Innerhalb kurzer Zeit pilgern täglich bis zu 30.000 Menschen zum Rosenheimer Traberhof. Und wieder werden unglaubliche Heilungen bekannt. Gröning wird zum Mittelpunkt öffentlichen Interesses.
Heute wieder hochaktuell
In etwa 100 Ländern wurde DAS PHÄNOMEN BRUNO GRÖNING bereits im Kino oder in öffentlichen Vorführungen gezeigt – fast 13.000 Mal. Jetzt ist er auch auf YouTube zu sehen. Die Premiere findet am 18. Januar 2019 um 19 Uhr MEZ statt, und ab dem 19. Januar sind dann alle drei Teile auf YouTube abrufbar.
Der sorgfältig recherchierte Film soll das Geschehen von damals wieder in das Bewusstsein der Öffentlichkeit bringen. 50 Zeitzeugen kommen zu Wort, viele Fotos, Dokumente und einige Filmaufnahmen aus der Zeit lassen das Geschehen und das Phänomen Gröning vor Ihren Augen lebendig werden. Schauspielszenen ergänzen dort, wo Bildmaterial aus der damaligen Zeit fehlt.
Ein außergewöhnliches Zeitdokument – jetzt in voller Länge auf YouTube.
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The Vietnam War: Reasons for Failure - Why the U.S. Lost
In the post-war era, Americans struggled to absorb the lessons of the military intervention. About the book:
As General Maxwell Taylor, one of the principal architects of the war, noted, First, we didn't know ourselves. We thought that we were going into another Korean War, but this was a different country. Secondly, we didn't know our South Vietnamese allies... And we knew less about North Vietnam. Who was Ho Chi Minh? Nobody really knew. So, until we know the enemy and know our allies and know ourselves, we'd better keep out of this kind of dirty business. It's very dangerous.
Some have suggested that the responsibility for the ultimate failure of this policy [America's withdrawal from Vietnam] lies not with the men who fought, but with those in Congress... Alternatively, the official history of the United States Army noted that tactics have often seemed to exist apart from larger issues, strategies, and objectives. Yet in Vietnam the Army experienced tactical success and strategic failure... The...Vietnam War...legacy may be the lesson that unique historical, political, cultural, and social factors always impinge on the military...Success rests not only on military progress but on correctly analyzing the nature of the particular conflict, understanding the enemy's strategy, and assessing the strengths and weaknesses of allies. A new humility and a new sophistication may form the best parts of a complex heritage left to the Army by the long, bitter war in Vietnam.
U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger wrote in a secret memo to President Gerald Ford that in terms of military tactics, we cannot help draw the conclusion that our armed forces are not suited to this kind of war. Even the Special Forces who had been designed for it could not prevail. Even Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara concluded that the achievement of a military victory by U.S. forces in Vietnam was indeed a dangerous illusion.
Doubts surfaced as to the effectiveness of large-scale, sustained bombing. As Army Chief of Staff Harold Keith Johnson noted, if anything came out of Vietnam, it was that air power couldn't do the job. Even General William Westmoreland admitted that the bombing had been ineffective. As he remarked, I still doubt that the North Vietnamese would have relented.
The inability to bomb Hanoi to the bargaining table also illustrated another U.S. miscalculation. The North's leadership was composed of hardened communists who had been fighting for independence for thirty years. They had defeated the French, and their tenacity as both nationalists and communists was formidable. Ho Chi Minh is quoted as saying, You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours...But even at these odds you will lose and I will win.
The Vietnam War called into question the U.S. Army doctrine. Marine Corps General Victor H. Krulak heavily criticised Westmoreland's attrition strategy, calling it wasteful of American lives... with small likelihood of a successful outcome. In addition, doubts surfaced about the ability of the military to train foreign forces.
Between 1965 and 1975, the United States spent $111 billion on the war ($686 billion in FY2008 dollars). This resulted in a large federal budget deficit.
More than 3 million Americans served in the Vietnam War, some 1.5 million of whom actually saw combat in Vietnam. James E. Westheider wrote that At the height of American involvement in 1968, for example, there were 543,000 American military personnel in Vietnam, but only 80,000 were considered combat troops. Conscription in the United States had been controlled by the President since World War II, but ended in 1973.
By war's end, 58,220 American soldiers had been killed, more than 150,000 had been wounded, and at least 21,000 had been permanently disabled. According to Dale Kueter, Sixty-one percent of those killed were age 21 or younger. Of those killed in combat, 86.3 percent were white, 12.5 percent were black and the remainder from other races. The youngest American KIA in the war was PFC Dan Bullock, who had falsified his birth certificate and enlisted in the US Marines at age 14 and who was killed in combat at age 15. Approximately 830,000 Vietnam veterans suffered symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder. An estimated 125,000 Americans fled to Canada to avoid the Vietnam draft, and approximately 50,000 American servicemen deserted. In 1977, United States President Jimmy Carter granted a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all Vietnam-era draft dodgers. The Vietnam War POW/MIA issue, concerning the fate of U.S. service personnel listed as missing in action, persisted for many years after the war's conclusion.
Strictly Personal: Women's Army Corps Training - Hygiene, Health and Conduct (1963)
The Women's Army Corps (WAC) was the women's branch of the United States Army. It was created as an auxiliary unit, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) on 15 May 1942 by Public Law 554, and converted to full status as the WAC in 1943. Its first director was Oveta Culp Hobby, a prominent society woman in Texas.
United States Air Force Basic Military Training (also known as BMT or boot camp) is an eight-and-a-half-week rigorous program of physical and mental training required in order for an individual to become an Airman in the United States Air Force, United States Air Force Reserve, or Air National Guard. It is carried out at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. BMT is designed to be both mentally and physically challenging, as well as requiring the individual to quickly adjust psychologically to an unfamiliar way of life.
Those wishing to become officers will attend the United States Air Force Academy, Officer Training School, or Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps.
Prior to arriving at basic training, all prospective trainees undergo a physical examination by a doctor at their local Military Entrance Processing Station or MEPS. Trainees receive their initial weigh-in when they arrive at Lackland. If the trainee is under or over the height and weight standards, the trainee is placed on double rations if underweight (known colloquially in BMT as a skinny), or in a diet status if overweight.
All trainees receive three meals a day, also known as chow time. These are either served at the dining facility (DFAC, also known as the chow hall), or as a Meal, Ready-to-Eat during field training. Meal time may last 30 minutes or less, depending on the order the flight arrives at the chow hall. Trainees are mandated a minimum of 20 minutes to consume each meal. However, trainees usually receive less than five minutes to actually eat their meal, kindly referred to as Sit, Eat, and Get Out. Much of the 20 minutes may be spent waiting in line, trainee water monitors reporting in the chow hall, and removing, properly storing, and re-donning any carried equipment.
Trainees that sustain injuries or illnesses that disrupt their training are transferred to the Medical Rehabilitation Flight of the 319th Training Squadron. Once they are again medically fit, the trainee will generally return to their prior training squadron as part of a flight currently at an equivalent place in the training cycle that they left.
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CIA Covert Action in the Cold War: Iran, Jamaica, Chile, Cuba, Afghanistan, Libya, Latin America
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The following persons are known to have participated in covert operations, as distinct from clandestine intelligence gathering (espionage) either by their own admission or by the accounts of others:
Robert Baer
Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš, Czechoslovak British-trained agents sent to assassinate one of the most important Nazis, Reinhard Heydrich, in 1942 as part of Operation Anthropoid.
Aaron Franklin, World War II US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) officer who created a fake group of the German Army, made up of POWs, with the mission of killing Hitler. As a colonel, he was the first commander of United States Army Special Forces.
Charles Beckwith, US Army colonel who was an early exchange officer with the British Special Air Service (SAS), and created the Delta Force (1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta) based on the SAS.
Gary Berntsen, CIA field officer and team leader during Operation Enduring Freedom
Wendell Fertig, United States Army Reserve officer who organized large Filipino guerrilla forces against the Japanese in World War II
Virginia Hall, American who first worked for the British Special Operations Executive, then for the American Office of Strategic Services in German-occupied France. Only U.S. woman to receive the Distinguished Service Cross.
Eric Haney, one of the founding members of Delta Force.
Michael Harari, Israeli Mossad officer who led assassination operations (Operation Wrath of God) against PLO members accused of the 1972 Munich Massacre.
Bruce Rusty Lang, commander of a mixed United States Army Special Forces & Montagnard (Degar/Bru people) commando Recon Team (RT Oklahoma) of Command and Control North, Studies and Observations Group. Previously served on Project 404, U.S. Embassy Laos, Assistant Army Attaché (Secret War in Laos 1970).
Edward Lansdale, United States Air Force officer (and eventually major general) seconded to the CIA, and noted for his work with Ramon Magsaysay against the Hukbalahap insurgency in Philippines during the early 1950s, and later involved in Operation Mongoose against Cuba.
T. E. Lawrence, British Lawrence of Arabia who organized Arab forces during World War I.
Alain Mafart, French DGSE officer convicted, in New Zealand, for sinking the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior.
Richard Meadows, United States Army Special Forces officer known for many operations, including the POW rescue attempt at Son Tay, North Vietnam, and for deep operations in support of Operation Eagle Claw.
Richard Meinertzhagen, British officer who engaged in deceptive operations against Turkish forces in World War I, although falsifying later operations.
Ramon Mercader, NKVD operator who assassinated Leon Trotsky under the direction of Pavel Sudoplatov.
Omar Nasiri
Noor Inayat Khan, Anglo-Indian Special Operations Executive radio operator in World War II Occupied France, killed in Nazi captivity with three other SOE agents, Yolande Beekman, Eliane Plewman and Madeleine Damerment.
Chuck Pfarrer, former Navy SEAL.
Dominique Prieur, French DGSE officer convicted, in New Zealand, for sinking the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior
Richard Quirin, German World War II saboteur landed by German submarine in the US, as part of Operation Pastorius. Captured and executed. ex parte Quirin was a Supreme Court case challenging the constitutionality of execution of unlawful combatants.
Ali Hassan Salameh, chief of operations of Black September.
Mike Spann, CIA field officer and the first Agency operative to be killed in action during Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.
Gary Schroen, CIA field officer who led the first CIA team into Afghanistan during the opening stages of Operation Enduring Freedom.
Otto Skorzeny, German commando who led the rescue of Benito Mussolini, and operated in US uniform during the Battle of the Bulge.
Pavel Sudoplatov, major general in Soviet state security (under many organizational names), with roles ranging from assassin to director of field operations.
Jesús Villamor, Filipino Air Force officer that helped organize World War II guerilla movements.
Billy Waugh, former United States Special Forces soldier who later worked as a contractor with the CIA.
Covert operations have often been the subject of popular novels, films, TV series, comics, etc. The Company is a fictional covert organization featured in the American television drama/thriller series Prison Break. Also other series that deal with covert operations are Mission: Impossible, Alias, Burn Notice, The Unit, The State Within, Covert Affairs and 24.
Joi Lansing on TV: American Model, Film & Television Actress, Nightclub Singer
Joi Lansing (April 6, 1928 -- August 7, 1972) was an American model, film and television actress, as well as a nightclub singer. She was noted for her pin-up photos and minor roles in B-movies. More Joi:
Lansing's film career began in 1948, and, in 1952, she played an uncredited role in MGM's Singin' in the Rain. She received top billing in Hot Cars (1956). In the opening sequence of Orson Welles's Touch of Evil (1958), she appeared as Zita, the dancer who dies at the end of the famous first tracking shot, during which her character exclaims to a border guard, I keep hearing this ticking noise inside my head! Lansing had a brief role as an astronaut's girlfriend in the 1958 sci-fi classic Queen of Outer Space. During the 1960s, she starred in short musical films for the Scopitone video-jukebox system. Her songs included The Web of Love and The Silencers.
In the 1964, producer Stanley Todd discussed a film project with Lansing tentatively titled Project 22 with location shooting planned in Yugoslavia and George Hamilton and Geraldine Chaplin named to the cast. The movie was never made.
Lansing played Lola in Marriage on the Rocks (1965) with a cast that included Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr, and Dean Martin. She had previously appeared in Sinatra's film A Hole in the Head and in Martin's comedy Who Was That Lady?. She denied the chance to replace Jayne Mansfield in The Ice House, a horror film, and instead appeared in Hillbillys in a Haunted House, as Mamie Van Doren's replacement. Her last film was Bigfoot (1970).
Lansing appeared in The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, It's a Great Life, I Love Lucy, Where's Raymond?, Noah's Ark, State Trooper, Bat Masterson, This Man Dawson, Maverick, The Mothers-in-Law, and had a recurring role in The Beverly Hillbillies. She is best known perhaps as Shirley Swanson in The Bob Cummings Show or Love That Bob (1956--1959). She appeared in several episodes as a busty model who was the foil for photographer Cummings. The series ran for 173 episodes. She also appeared as the title character in Superman's Wife, a 1958 episode of The Adventures of Superman.
What was possibly Lansing's best role may ironically have been her least-seen—as the leading lady in The Fountain of Youth, a Peabody Award-winning unsold television pilot directed by Orson Welles for Desilu in 1956 and broadcast once for the Colgate Theatre two years later. The half-hour film remains available for public viewing at the Paley Center for Media in New York City and Los Angeles.
In the 1960--1961 season of the NBC Western Klondike, Lansing appeared as Goldie with Ralph Taeger, James Coburn, and Mari Blanchard. In May 1963, Lansing appeared in Falcon Frolics '63. The broadcast honored the men stationed at the Vandenberg Air Force Base. By 1956, she had appeared in more than 200 television shows.
She appeared in five episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies in the role of Gladys Flatt, the unlikely glamorous wife of bluegrass musician Lester Flatt.
She named Ozzie Nelson as possessing the greatest sex appeal of any actor with whom she worked. The two played a love scene in a Fireside Theater drama. The show was hosted by Jane Wyman. Lansing was sometimes referred to as television's Marilyn Monroe.
Lansing broke into night club entertaining in 1965. She had taken up singing during an actors strike in the early 1960s. In May 1965, Lansing cut her first record album. It was composed of a collection of songs written especially for her by composer Jimmie Haskel and actress Stella Stevens. Lansing performed in the Fiesta Room in Las Vegas, Nevada, in July 1966. Featured on the bill were Red Buttons and Jayne Mansfield.
In 1972 Joi Lansing died from breast cancer at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California where she had initially been treated surgically for the disease earlier the same year.
Roswell Incident: Department of Defense Interviews - Gerald Anderson / Glenn Dennis
A first-hand account from Gerald Anderson similarly offered descriptions that seemingly matched dummies: thought they were plastic dolls, he said. More on Roswell:
He also described a blimp, further suggesting a misidentified military recovery operation. A description of a jeep-like truck that had a bunch of radios in it sounds very much like a modified Dodge M-37 utility truck not used until 1953, further suggesting a confusion about dates.
In 1997, the Air Force, in response to Congressional inquiries, issued the second of two reports which they asserted accounted for the reports of aliens recovered at Roswell in 1947. The report, entitled The Roswell Report: Case Closed had a section which specifically dealt with the Dennis claims. While identifying a possible match to the nurse Dennis had said was a witness (see above), the report additionally linked descriptions of bodies and high security to several known and documented incidents, albeit ones which occurred years after 1947. As evidence that the event Dennis described contained elements from much later real events, the report cited the presence of a black sergeant paired with a white officer, a pairing it described as unlikely as the Army Air Force was racially segregated in 1947, and Dennis' use of the term airman, a term not employed until 1952.
A June 26, 1956 aircraft accident supplied many of the elements of Dennis' account, said the report. On that day, 11 crew members were killed when a propeller blade punctured the plane's fuel tank, creating an inferno. The charred and mangled remains of the crew were taken to Walker Air Force Base (the former Roswell base) and identification specialist George Schwader arrived from Wright-Patterson AFB. He said in an interview that he was frequently mistaken for a pathologist because of his working garb.
The corpses had to be moved to a refrigerated part of the base, owing to the overpowering odor of the bodies. Three of the victims were autopsied by Dr. Alfred Blauw, a local physician, and the autopsies were performed at the Ballard Funeral Home, where Dennis was employed.
A second incident accounts for the description of the canoe-like object Dennis said he saw in the back of a vehicle, and some of the high-handed treatment he received from officers at the base, including from a tall red-headed captain. A May 1959 accident of a low-altitude balloon, part of the Excelsior program, saw the three injured crewmen flown to Walker AFB. The mere fact of the accident caused consternation for the crewmen as the project was controversial and there was a very real prospect that word of the accident might lead to the program's cancellation. The controversy surrounded the wisdom of parachuting attempts from balloons some 100,000 feet in the atmosphere. Accordingly, much secrecy surrounded the project, as can be corroborated by a 1961 book written by a participant, Captain Joseph Kittinger, The Long Lonely Leap. Kittinger, redheaded and six foot one, likely was the red-headed captain Dennis referred to who Dennis claimed said You did not see anything. There was no crash here. You don't go into town making any rumors that you saw anything or that there was any crash. The report asserts that Dennis was in fact witnessing the arrival of the three injured crewman and was subsequently warned to be quiet, but so as to preserve the Excelsior program. Kittinger would go on to make those high-altitude leaps, one at 102,800 feet in 1960 still stands as the all-time record.
The three-man Excelsior crew had been escorted by ambulances, and descriptions by Dennis closely match what would have been present that day. He reported what he thought was wreckage in the back of one ambulance which was kinda like the bottom of a canoe... like stainless steel... with a kind-of bluish-purplish tinge to it. This description, the report notes, accurately describes two steel panels painted Air Force blue on a converted ambulance for this mission. Other descriptions such as wreckage all over the floor looking like broken glass corresponds to the clear plastic polyethylene balloon recovered from the mission.
The heightened state of security Dennis described sounds very much like the extra security which occurred upon the arrival of the Excelsior team. The very presence of the balloon crew, who had arrived unannounced, likely led many base personnel to believe they may have posed a security threat or were a team from Strategic Air Command testing the nuclear-armed facility's alertness. Either way, the base's personnel would have been far more vigilant that day, and this may account for the heavy-handedness reported by Dennis.
Dragnet: Helen Corday / Red Light Bandit / City Hall Bombing
Dragnet is a radio and television crime drama about the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from an actual police term, a dragnet, meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.
Dragnet debuted inauspiciously. The first several months were bumpy, as Webb and company worked out the program's format and eventually became comfortable with their characters (Friday was originally portrayed as more brash and forceful than his later usually relaxed demeanor). Gradually, Friday's deadpan, fast-talking persona emerged, described by John Dunning as a cop's cop, tough but not hard, conservative but caring. (Dunning, 210) Friday's first partner was Sergeant Ben Romero, portrayed by Barton Yarborough, a longtime radio actor. After Yarborough's death in 1951 (and therefore Romero's, who also died of a heart attack, as acknowledged on the December 27, 1951 episode The Big Sorrow), Friday was partnered with Sergeant Ed Jacobs (December 27, 1951 - April 10, 1952, subsequently transferred to the Police Academy as an instructor), played by Barney Phillips; Officer Bill Lockwood (Ben Romero's nephew, April 17, 1952 - May 8, 1952), played by Martin Milner (with Ken Peters taking the role for the June 12, 1952 episode The Big Donation); and finally Frank Smith, played first by Herb Ellis (1952), then Ben Alexander (September 21, 1952-1959). Raymond Burr was on board to play the Chief of Detectives. When Dragnet hit its stride, it became one of radio's top-rated shows.
Webb insisted on realism in every aspect of the show. The dialogue was clipped, understated and sparse, influenced by the hardboiled school of crime fiction. Scripts were fast moving but didn't seem rushed. Every aspect of police work was chronicled, step by step: From patrols and paperwork, to crime scene investigation, lab work and questioning witnesses or suspects. The detectives' personal lives were mentioned but rarely took center stage. (Friday was a bachelor who lived with his mother; Romero, a Mexican-American from Texas, was an ever fretful husband and father.) Underplaying is still acting, Webb told Time. We try to make it as real as a guy pouring a cup of coffee. (Dunning, 209) Los Angeles police chiefs C.B. Horrall, William A. Worton, and (later) William H. Parker were credited as consultants, and many police officers were fans.
Most of the later episodes were entitled The Big _____, where the key word denoted a person or thing in the plot. In numerous episodes, this would the principal suspect, victim, or physical target of the crime, but in others was often a seemingly inconsequential detail eventually revealed to be key evidence in solving the crime. For example, in The Big Streetcar the background noise of a passing streetcar helps to establish the location of a phone booth used by the suspect.
Throughout the series' radio years, one can find interesting glimpses of pre-renewal Downtown L.A., still full of working class residents and the cheap bars, cafes, hotels and boarding houses which served them. At the climax of the early episode James Vickers, the chase leads to the Subway Terminal Building, where the robber flees into one of the tunnels only to be killed by an oncoming train. Meanwhile, by contrast, in other episodes set in outlying areas, it is clear that the locations in question are far less built up than they are today. Today, the Imperial Highway, extending 40 miles east from El Segundo to Anaheim, is a heavily used boulevard lined almost entirely with low-rise commercial development. In an early Dragnet episode scenes along the Highway, at the road to San Pedro, clearly indicate that it still retained much the character of a country highway at that time.
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