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LSU adds another pitcher from transfer portal in UCLA’s Thatcher Hurd

The pursuit of additional arms to bolster his future pitching staffs led LSU first year baseball coach Jay Johnson to his latest addition Wednesday from the NCAA transfer portal.

Freshman right-hander Thatcher Hurd of UCLA confirmed that he’s transferring to LSU where he could have up to three years of eligibility.

The 6-foot-4, 200-pound Hurd, who entered the transfer portal June 9, changed the avatar on his Twitter page to a picture of himself in an LSU uniform. D1Baseball also reported the move with Hurd becoming the sixth player to transfer to LSU and third pitcher, joining Creighton’s Dylan Tebrake and Vanderbilt’s Christian Little.

A native of Manhattan Beach, California, Hurd was regarded as one of the nation’s top pitchers coming out of Mira Costa High. He was rated the No. 1 pitcher in his home state, No. 9 ranked overall right-handed pitcher and No. 32 overall prospect.

Hurd, a converted catcher, also took part in the Under Armour All-American Game and Area Code Games.

Before truly taking off at UCLA, Hurd’s freshman season was derailed by injury. He was 2-0 with a 1.06 ERA where in 34 innings, he allowed four earned runs with 48 strikeouts and 10 walks.

He was chosen the Perfect Game/Rawlings Co-National Player of the Week on March 8 for his combined work of 6.2 innings, two hits, no runs and 15 strikeouts against Long Beach State and Oklahoma. In the game with Long Beach, he struck out a career-best 12 batters in five innings.

After transitioning from a weekday to a weekend starter, Hurd left an April 3 start against Pac 12 Conference foe Oregon after two batters. He was later diagnosed with pars defect or a stress fracture of bones in his lower spine and was shelved for the remainder of the year.

Hurd, who started in six of his nine appearances, could receive a medical redshirt for the 2022 season.

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CLINTON Baptiste, best known for his appearances with Peter Kay on Channel 4’s Phoenix Nights, will perform at Maryport Rugby League Club, on Saturday August 13 from 7pm.

The flamboyant medium, psychic and clairvoyant, famed for his cringe-worthy comments and complete lack of empathy as he delivers paranormal predictions, is the alter ego of actor Alex Lowe.

When he’s not donning Clinton’s blond wig and flashy suits, Alex is also known as Barry from Watford, a regular with Steve Wright on BBC Radio 2, as well as starring in everything from Shakespearian classics to television dramas.

READ MORE: Town's bid to become festival capital

Clinton Baptiste will top the bill at the popular Taste Cumbria comedy night alongside a great line-up of stand-up comics.

The MC for the evening is Cumbrian festival favourite Mike Wilkinson who compered the event brilliantly in Maryport last year – once he was freed from a loo with a dodgy lock!

He has supported the likes of Peter Kay, Johnny Vegas and Ross Noble, as well as headlining clubs all over the country.

READ MORE: Local producers urged to join in festival

Iain Hume promises ‘good classic Scottish banter’ and is ‘wonderfully deadpan with impeccable timing’ according to his reviewers, while Roger Monkhouse has a ‘stage-prowling style’ and is ‘a master of observational comedy'.

Mike Johnson, leader of Allerdale council, which organises Taste of Cumbria events, said: “We’ve got a great line-up for the comedy night though I suspect Clinton Baptiste’s set won’t be for the faint-hearted!

“It’s brilliant to be able to bring big names to our festivals, alongside the food and drink and family entertainment taking place in the heart of the towns. This promises to be a fantastic night.”


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• Bella Shirin, a Lithuanian-Israeli artist, near her apartment in Kaunas, Lithuania, July 2019 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)
    Bella Shirin, a Lithuanian-Israeli artist, near her apartment in Kaunas, Lithuania, July 2019 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)
  • Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walk together during a meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania, August 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
    Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walk together during a meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania, August 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
  • People walk on where decades ago stood an ancient Jewish cemetery, near an abandoned and soon-to-be renovated sports complex that the Soviets built in the middle of the cemetery, in central Vilnius, Lithuania, July 2019 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)
    People walk on where decades ago stood an ancient Jewish cemetery, near an abandoned and soon-to-be renovated sports complex that the Soviets built in the middle of the cemetery, in central Vilnius, Lithuania, July 2019 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)
  • Smashed and dilapidated graves at the old Jewish cemetery in Kaunas, Lithuania, July 2019 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)
    Smashed and dilapidated graves at the old Jewish cemetery in Kaunas, Lithuania, July 2019 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)
  • Archeologists and volunteers excavate the ritual bathhouses adjacent to the Great Synagogue of Vilnius, Lithuania, July 2019 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)
    Archeologists and volunteers excavate the ritual bathhouses adjacent to the Great Synagogue of Vilnius, Lithuania, July 2019 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)
  • The gate to the old Jewish cemetery in Kaunas, Lithuania, July 2019 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)
    The gate to the old Jewish cemetery in Kaunas, Lithuania, July 2019 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)
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Graves, guilt and genius: Inside Lithuania’s struggle with its checkered past

Once an epicenter of Jewish life, the Baltic state still refuses to come clean about its dark history, critics charge. But recent developments show it is a work in progress

Raphael Ahren is the diplomatic correspondent at The Times of Israel.

VILNIUS, Lithuania — Last month, during a government-sponsored trip to Lithuania, I visited the old Jewish cemetery in Kaunas, the country’s second-largest city. I was excited that we managed to spontaneously add an unscheduled stop to our already-jam packed itinerary, but the burial ground’s shameful state left me nearly speechless.

If local anti-Semites wanted to vandalize the cemetery, they couldn’t possibly make it any worse than it already is: abandoned and neglected, with countless toppled tombstones, some broken into pieces, many lying on the earth overgrown with grass, about to be swallowed by the ground.

The Lithuanian official who accompanied me during my three days in the country must have regretted taking me here. She helplessly looked on as I passed by thousands of dilapidated graves, shaking my head in utter disbelief that a Jewish cemetery in a country that seeks to promote its rich Jewish heritage could be left in such decrepitude.

Lithuania, which gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, is a small country with limited resources, she told me. We’re doing what we can, she repeated, as we walked deeper and deeper into the vast desolation.

A day earlier, at a government office in Vilnius, First Deputy Chancellor Deividas Matulionis had handed me a seven-page document, last updated in June, with talking points regarding Jewish issues. “Restoration works are being carried out in Lithuania’s largest cemetery in Zaliakalnis in Kaunas,” it stated.

Well, Mr. Matulionis, it doesn’t look like it.

And I am not the only one who thinks so. “A popular place for people to walk their dogs and dump their rubbish, this massive burial ground for many of the city’s pre-war Jewish elite speaks volumes about local attitudes towards history,” according to the In Your Pocket tour guide. The cemetery looks “like the victim of an earthquake,” it correctly notes.

For some reason, no wealthy Jewish organization or individual ever undertook to renovate the Zaliakalnis cemetery. By contrast, plans by Vilnius authorities to renovate a run-down sports complex the Soviets built on top of an ancient Jewish cemetery are eliciting vocal protests from activists across the globe (but more about that later).

Dilapidated graves at the old Jewish cemetery in Kaunas, July 2019 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)

The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry probably hoped I would focus on other issues when it invited me to an all-expenses-paid trip, during which I interviewed about two dozen Lithuanians, Jewish and non-Jewish. The powers-that-be would likely wish I’d highlight the government’s declared admiration for its large pre-war Jewish community, and its efforts to come clean with its complicated history. And I will, indeed, deal with all that too in this piece.

But like the cemetery, my visit to Lithuania exposed a visible gap between the government’s declared intentions and the reality on the ground, where efforts to pay homage to the country’s Jewish heritage run up against a hesitancy to deal with its problematic past, including during the Holocaust.

Last year, the Lithuanian parliament unanimously decided to designate 2020 as “Year of the Vilna Gaon and the History of the Jews of Lithuania,” marking the 300th birthday of world-famous Torah scholar Rabbi Elijah ben Solomon Zalman Kramer.

A monument to the Gaon of Vilna stands near where the Great Synagogue once stood. (Photo credit: Ruth Ellen Gruber/JTA)
A monument to the Gaon of Vilna stands near where the Great Synagogue once stood. (Ruth Ellen Gruber/JTA)

Until the Holocaust, Vilnius, or Vilna — known among Ashkenazi Jews as the Jerusalem of Lithuania — was the epicenter of Eastern European Jewish life. When World War II ended in 1945, more than 90 percent of the country’s 250,000 Jews had been murdered.

The extent of Lithuanian complicity with the Nazi death machine remains a highly controversial topic, with the current government highlighting the role of locals who saved Jews while downplaying the amount of collaborators.

Of course, the places I was taken to and the people I was introduced to were not chosen randomly but were meant to promote the government’s agenda.

For instance Bella Shirin, who was born in Kaunas to Holocaust survivors, moved to Rishon Lezion as a teenager and three years ago regained Lithuanian citizenship and returned to live in her native city. Given her enthusiasm for the city most Jews know as Kovno, the municipality appointed her an “ambassador” ahead of 2022, when it will be celebrated as European Capital of Culture.

Bella Shirin, a Lithuanian-Israeli artist, near her apartment in Kaunas, Lithuania, July 2019 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)

“I love this place,” she gushed over lunch, saying that she has never encountered any anti-Semitism and admires “Lithuanian modesty” as well as the country’s vibrant cultural scene.

Yes, there were a few Lithuanians who helped the Nazis, and some were indeed involved in killing Jews, many of my interlocutors agreed, but by and large, they said, we were victims ourselves. Anti-Semitism existed here once, but today it’s basically extinct. True, there are still some streets named after notorious anti-Semites, but we’re working on it.

Incidentally, just a few days after I returned to Jerusalem, Vilnius authorities removed a street sign and a plaque honoring two alleged Nazi collaborators, in a move historians welcomed as important steps in the right direction.

To the Lithuanians’ credit, they were flexible and allowed several spontaneous changes to the itinerary for my visit; I was encouraged to ask questions, and they did not try to pressure me into writing about any particular issue or to approach a topic from any particular angle.

Still, the impressions I gathered, the inquiries I made and the follow-up interviews I conducted once I returned to Israel left me with certain conclusions, not all of which are flattering to the government in Vilnius.

Modern-day Lithuania, a country of 2.8 million people, is sincere in its embrace of its rich Jewish history (although that may also have to do with PR and tourism related benefits that come along with such an approach). Local Jews have few complaints; anti-Semitism is marginal. Diplomatic relations with Jerusalem are excellent, nobody here has heard of BDS, the movement to boycott Israel.

The Gaon of Vilna painted on a wall near the former Jewish ghetto of Vilnius, July 2019 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)

On the other hand, Vilnius, much like Warsaw, Budapest, Kiev and others in the region, still struggles with the right way to remember anti-Soviet so-called freedom fighters who were also Holocaust villains.

More problematic, still, is the government’s refusal to face the fact that many — not just a few — Lithuanians were, passively and actively, involved in killing Jews.

Our first stop, on a Tuesday morning, was the legendary shulhoyf, an area that in its heyday included 12 synagogues, several ritual bathhouses and even a small prison (until the 18th century, the Jews here had internal autonomy, which came with extensive powers to the rabbinical courts).

As we arrived, excavations at the site of the Great Synagogue of Vilna, which Jewish community leader Faina Kukliansky called the city’s Jewish “acropolis,” were in full swing. For the last five summers, the Vilnius municipality, the local Jewish community and Israel’s Antiquities Authority have conducted ground-penetrating excavations in the very place where the Gaon of Vilna lived three centuries ago, even though he likely did not worship there himself.

“The thing about the Gaon is that he didn’t like publicity in any way,” said Jon Seligman, an Israeli archaeologist who oversees the annual excavations. “He didn’t like the public in any particular form. Going to public prayer would not be in his style. Solitude and studying by himself with the very best and brightest students is what he would be involved with.”

Archaeologists and volunteers excavate the ritual bathhouses adjacent to the Great Synagogue of Vilnius, July 2019 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)

After proudly showing us the yellow and red tiles of one of the mikves, or ritual bathhouses, that his team had just uncovered, Seligman went on to discussing Israel’s responsibility toward Jewish heritage abroad.

“Israel as a state is a successor community of many people who lived in these places,” he said, noting that his work in Vilnius is an “expression of that responsibility” and that Israel is eager to promote awareness of and interest in Jewish heritage all over the world.

Two days later, Seligman presided over a press conference during which the excavation’s most exciting findings were presented to local and international journalists. It was attended by the head of the country’s Jewish community, the Israeli ambassador and senior government officials.

Jon Seligman, director of the Excavations, Surveys and Research Department of the Israel Antiquities Authority, stands at the site where an international team of archaeologists work to unearth parts of the Great Synagogue of Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 25, 2018. (AFP Photo/Petras Malukas)

Besides discovering one of the synagogue’s four main pillars, which made local headlines, the archaeologists also found a tablet that stood near the table from which the Torah was read for 200 years.

“It’s a spectacular find,” Seligman said.

The table’s inscription, from 1796, sheds light on two Jews, Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Shmuel, who donated the table in memory of their mother Sarah and their father Chaim, who had moved from Lithuania to Tiberias.

A recently discovered tablet with Hebrew inscription found during excavations at the Great Synagogue of Vilnius, July 2019 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)

“The inscription is important because it talks about aliya to the Holy Land, Israel, and the inscription is one of the first parts of proto-Zionism, which developed here in Lithuania, of the followers of the Gaon of Vilna,” Seligman told the reporters.

Seligman and his team, which consists of local volunteers and senior archaeologists from the US and Israel, also found a cellar underneath the prayer table, the existence of which was hitherto unknown. Inside, they found a small golden plaque from 1539, a prayer book, hundreds of ancient coins, and buttons that belonged to soldiers of Napoleon’s army who passed through the city on their way to Russia in 1812.

The recently discovered pillar and bimah of the Great Synagogue of Vilnius, July 2019 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)

Surprisingly, perhaps, Vilna’s Great Synagogue survived the Nazi occupation and was only demolished by the Soviets, who built a kindergarten on its ruins.

This “ugly building” will eventually be torn down, despite the city’s lack of kindergartens, Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Simasius said. What will be built in its place is still unclear.

Local Jews are against rebuilding the Great Synagogue, because the community already has one active house of worship, and another one is currently under construction, he explained.

“For them it’s very important not to have a fake synagogue. We don’t want to have an empty synagogue with no Jews praying in it. But they do want to have a place that could serve as a symbol of a very rich Jewish history in Lithuania.”

Indeed, a group of experts on Jewish cultural heritage, which presented its findings during the press conference, said the Great Synagogue “cannot be rebuilt but must be protected as a Jewish heritage, Vilnius cultural and attractive historical site.”

Some Jews in Vilnius of course disagree and call for the Great Synagogue to be rebuilt as a place of study and prayer.

Next year, Vilnius plans to hold an international architecture competition to determine the future of the site, Simasius, a former justice minister, told me is his spacious office on the municipality’s top floor.

Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Simasius in his office, July 2019 (Raphael Ahren/TOI

“We’re very sensitive to what the international Jewish community says about this, because many of them have ancestors who were praying in this synagogue. Of course it’s a very sensitive topic,” he said.

How does he envisage next year’s Gaon of Vilna celebration? “We don’t plan to build any monuments,” he replied. Rather, the municipality is thinking about events to “better educate” the public about the man and his genius, he said. “Many people have heard of him but don’t really know who he was, where and when he lived and what he did.”

Later that day, I was granted a nearly hour-long on-record interview with Matulionis, the first deputy chancellor who, among other things, holds the government’s Jewish file.

“Lithuanian Jewry was part of Lithuanian society for more than 500 years; it was very active in building up our economy and political system,” he said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s grandparents hailed from Lithuania, he noted.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a remembrance ceremony at the Paneriai Holocaust Memorial near Vilnius, August 24, 2018 (AFP photo / Petras Malukas)

Anti-Semitism exists but is gradually evaporating, he posited. “Twenty years ago, society was much more poisoned with different stereotypes. Now the situation has completely changed.”

Like other Lithuanian officials I spoke to, Matulionis recalled the 1995 Knesset speech by the country’s first president, Algirdas Brazauskas, who asked for “forgiveness for those Lithuanians who ruthlessly killed, shot, deported and robbed Jews.”

‘We’re offended that some Jewish historians make it look like Lithuania is the country where the Holocaust originated’

The government is not whitewashing the fact that “some Lithuanians” participated in the Holocaust between 1941 to 1944, Matulionis insisted. It’s true that “some Lithuanians” participated in the killing of Jews, he allowed, saying the exact number of Nazi collaborators is not known. It was maybe 3,000, he estimated, acknowledging that some put the number somewhat higher.

“We’re offended that some Jewish historians make it look like Lithuania is the country where the Holocaust originated. It’s completely unfair to say that all Lithuanians were anti-Semites and that the Holocaust started here before the Germans entered,” he said.

“The real tragedy was that 95 percent of [Lithuanian] Jews were killed, but there is a misperception; disinformation is being spread from unconfirmed sources that argue that members of the [anti-Soviet] resistance movement equals Holocaust perpetrators.”

Matulionis was primarily referring to Jerusalem-based Efraim Zuroff, the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s top Nazi hunter, and US-born Dovid Katz, the world’s preeminent Yiddish scholar, both of whom are perennial critics of what they consider a revisionist view on Lithuania’s wartime record.

Zuroff told me this week that according to his research “approximately 20,000” Lithuanians were guilty of crimes against Jews during World War II.

This number doesn’t only include the people who pulled the trigger and actually killed Jews — no one denies that several Lithuanian police units carried out mass shootings — but also those who provided the Nazis and their local collaborators with logistical support.

In 2016, Zuroff co-wrote a book about Lithuanian Nazi collaboration with local writer Ruta Vanagaite, for which they visited some 40 sites across the country.

Vanagaite also told me Lithuanian complicity in the Holocaust extended far beyond those who physically shot and killed Jews in forest pits.

One of several pits in which the Nazis and their local collaborators shot and killed tens of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, in Ponary, outside of Vilnius, July 2019 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)

“First you have to identify the Jews, you have to gather them, you have to cart them, and then you have to distribute their property. So which part of the Holocaust are you talking about? Those people in Lithuanian cities, who commissioned redistribution of Jewish property while they were still in ghettos, were they part of the Holocaust or not?”

The author of six popular books, Vanagaite, who is not Jewish, has become a very controversial figure in her native country after she cast doubt on the record of Lithuanian partisan leader Adolfas Ramanauskas, a person revered as a national hero.

Although she later partially retracted her contentious comments, she was insulted as a “pro-Putin Jewish whore” and spat at on the street, and her books were removed from stores across Lithuania. Whenever I mentioned her name in talks with Lithuanian officials, they accused her of deliberately lying and badmouthing the country to advance her career.

Vanagaite, who started looking into Lithuanian Holocaust complicity only after she learned that her grandfather, a civil servant, compiled a list of 11 Jews who were later shot to death, currently resides in Israel and is working on a new book about the German occupation of her country.

“The major question is not how many Lithuanians were involved in the killings,” she told me. “The real question is: What is the story we teach our children at school? Were they [Nazi collaborators] just a few degenerates, or were they normal people? Were only outcasts participating in the Holocaust — as many or as few as they were — or was Lithuania’s so-called normal society also a part of it?”

Lithuanian writer Ruta Vanagaite who co-authored the book “Our People” (Musiskiai) with top Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff during the presentation of their the book in Vilnius, on February 17, 2016. (AFP / Petras Malukas)

For Vanagaite, the answer is clear: the Lithuanian government is pushing a false narrative of a small country victimized by both the Nazis and the Soviets, in which a few outliers, regrettably, participated in the Holocaust.

“Lithuania has to face its own trauma, as a country, and not only say what Jews want to hear, which is that, ‘Yes, some of us were bad.’ But this is not happening,” Vanagaite concluded.

Officials in Vilnius dismissed such arguments as misguided efforts by people who built their careers on attacking their country.

“We understand what happened, [but] we will never accept [claims] that there was an orchestrated Lithuanian approach of killings Jews,” Matulionis, the deputy chancellor, said. “Anti-Semitism was part of European history before World War II and Lithuania wasn’t immune. But if it wasn’t for the Nazis, I am sure that the Holocaust would not have happened in Lithuania.”

The author, right, with Lithuanian FM Linas Linkevicius, in his Vilnius office, July 2019 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius, in an interview in his Vilnius office two days later, similarly accepted limited individual responsibility for his countrymen’s actions during the Holocaust, but rejected any attempt to incriminate the majority of Lithuanians.

Asked if he agrees with the assessment found on the website of Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Center that a “significant part of the murders was carried out by Lithuanian auxiliary forces,” Linkevicius demurred.

“Significant could be read as a majority. And it was not a majority, as far as I know,” he said.

Yehuda Bauer, Israel’s preeminent Holocaust scholar, says he knows it was indeed a majority.

“In Lithuania there are 227 places in which Jews were killed, the large majority of them at the hands of the Lithuanians, even without any presence of the Germans. The whole story that the Lithuanian government tells you is unfounded,” he told me last week in a phone interview.

‘There were some Lithuanians, mostly women, who helped Jews, but they were a small minority. The majority of Lithuanian citizens fully cooperated with the Nazis’

“An overwhelming majority of the Lithuanian people, because of the previous Soviet occupation, were very happy that the Germans arrived and collaborated with them in a maximalist fashion,” he said. “It’s clear that most Jews were killed by Lithuanians, under German auspices,” he declared.

Lithuanian officials like to point out that 904 non-Jewish Lithuanians are recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.

“These people were really heroes, there’s no doubt about that,” Bauer said. “But they were forced to work against their own people. Because it was very unpopular to help Jews; you could get into very serious trouble. There were some Lithuanians, mostly women, who helped Jews, but they were a small minority. The majority of Lithuanian citizens fully cooperated with the Nazis.”

Lithuania has some “very serious” historians who tell the truth about the country’s wartime record, Bauer said. “But they are not exactly the darlings of the government.”

Nazi killing squad murders Jews from Vilna in the Ponary forest, 1941 (public domain)

Markas Zingeris, a prominent Jewish-Lithuanian author who said he wrote Brazauskas’ famous Knesset speech in 1995, on the other hand, is known to generally back the government’s view on history.

No one is denying the existence of Lithuanian battalions who killed Jews across Eastern Europe, he said. And yet he fails to understand why so many Israeli historians are still so critical of the government in Vilnius.

I met Zingeris at the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum, which he used to head and which he now advises on political issues. Nobody from the government curtails his or the museum’s freedom of speech, he insisted. “We’re open about everything, and I will fight any obfuscation.”

I asked him if he feels more Jewish or more Lithuanian. “It’s mixed,” he replied. “When I see anti-Semitism, I feel Jewish. When I write, I feel Lithuanian.”

In Vilnius, I was introduced to two young Lithuanian filmmakers currently working on the second season of their documentary called “Righteous Among the Nations,” which is to be screened on national television.

“We have a lot of them, but we don’t talk enough about them. They’re dying out,” said screenwriter Ruta Vederyte-Macijauskiene. Many famous writers and artists were among those risking their lives to save Jews, she added.

Of course there were also Lithuanians who cooperated with the Nazis, a fact that gets mentioned on the program, they assured me. Neither of them knows how many collaborators there were. “I once heard a Jew from Kaunas tell me that it was easier to kill than to rescue,” she said.

I asked them about their own families. Dominykas Kubilius, the series’ producer, said his ancestors were sent to Siberia even before the Nazis arrived in Lithuania. They worked for the local government and thus were seen as a threat by the Soviets, he said. But clearly it’s a “lie” to say there was no anti-Semitism in Lithuania at the time, he stressed.

Vederyte-Macijauskiene said she did not have a chance to ask her grandparents.

“My mother was born in the 60s. She had nothing to contribute [when I asked her]. We couldn’t talk about it during the times of the Soviet occupation [that lasted until 1991]. People were afraid to speak, even with their own families. They were afraid of the neighbors. People were afraid of everything.”

Main entrance to the Ghetto of Vilnius in Lithuania, during WWII (Wikimedia Commons – public domain)

Bella Shirin, the Kaunas-born artist who lived most of her lived in Israel but recently returned to Lithuania, said that her parents survived Dachau and Stutthof concentration camps in part because “good Lithuanians” helped them.

“Lithuanians, who were forbidden from helping Jews, are the real heroes,” she said. “If I was in their place, what would I do? I’d risk my own life to help, but would I risk my children’s life? I asked myself this question very often, but I could never answer it.”

The officials I met in Vilnius all mentioned the fact that Lithuania, with 904 recognized rescuers of Jews, outscores Germany in righteousness (Yad Vashem lists 627 Germans Righteous of the Nations). But Bauer, Zuroff and other historians said this comparison is meaningless. They also stressed that Lithuanians who refused to participate in the killing of Jews did not have to fear any consequences.

At the outbreak of World War II, about a quarter of a million Jews lived in Lithuania; today some 3,000 Jews call the country their home — 0.1 percent of the general population.

And just like any other Jewish community in the world, the Litvaks — as Jews with Lithuanian roots call themselves — have their fair share of infighting, including nasty court battles over money. During my three days in the country, I chose not to delve into these quarrels but to focus on the community’s external problems.

Anti-Semitism existed and will always exist. Sometimes you can feel it, but it’s really not what it was during the Soviet period

Even in my interview with Kukliansky, the chairwoman of Lithuania’s Jewish community, whose leadership was challenged in court by some of her coreligionists, I opted not to go there. Rather, I asked her what the community’s main challenges are today.

“I don’t know. I’d have to think about it,” she replied. A few seconds later, she answered that there is nothing that particularly worries her.

“We’re a small community. What worries us is money, as always,” she finally offered, lamenting difficulties in fundraising and distributing the little Holocaust restitution money the community receives. She herself does not receive a penny for her work on behalf of the community, she said.

“We don’t have a Jewish kindergarten. And the Jewish school is too small,” she added.

If you ask Jewish leaders from France or Germany about their main challenges, they would probably speak about Israel boycotts and rising anti-Semitism. But Kukliansky, whose parents survived the Holocaust in Lithuania, said that nobody here knows about BDS, and Jew hatred has actually decreased since 1991.

“Anti-Semitism existed and will always exist,” she said. “Sometimes you can feel it, but it’s really not what it was during the Soviet period. Things are getting better.”

Rabbi Sholom Krinsky at the Vilnius Choral Synagogue, July 2019 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)

Rabbi Sholom Krinsky, a US-born Chabad emissary who arrived in Vilnius in 1994, said he has almost never encountered anti-Semitism, although he is clearly recognizable as a Jew.

“Growing up in Boston, I often passed by a bunch of kids who yelled ‘F– you’ at me. This has never happened here in Vilna.”

Gercas Zakas, who heads the small Jewish community of Kaunas also doesn’t register anti-Semitic sentiments in Lithuanian society, apart from the occasional nasty comment on the internet.

A former professional soccer player, he recalled that for the last 20 years he has been a supervisor of referees, the only Jew holding such a position, and that he never experienced any anti-Semitism.

‘Lithuanians should talk about collaboration, Jews should talk about those who rescued Jews’

At this point, his assistant interrupted him, saying that once a coach called him a dirty Jew. But Zakas dismissed her comment, saying that such things happen everywhere. “We need to use common sense. There will always be anti-Semitism, but there’s no danger. There are no attacks on Jews here.”

Sitting in the community’s small office, rented from a local high school, Zakas said that one of his uncles was killed by a Lithuanian during World War II, but that his father never harbored hatred for the Lithuanian nation.

“We cannot say a Lithuanian equals a Jew killer,” he insisted. In fact, he said, Jews should not focus on Lithuanian Holocaust complicity, as such talk only leads to bad blood and confrontation. “Lithuanians should talk about collaboration, Jews should talk about those who rescued Jews.”

Zakas doesn’t speak English and only rudimentary Hebrew, so part of our conversation took place in Yiddish.

Full disclosure: My Yiddish is not very good, and — oy vey z’mir — has a distinct Polish hue to it, thanks to my maternal grandparents, who hailed from the other side of the great Yiddish dialect divide. But during my three days in Lithuania I discovered that many Litvaks were nonetheless thrilled to chat in their mome loshn (or lushn, as Polish Jews would say), and many interviews were conducted in a mix of English, Hebrew and Yiddish.

Besides Lithuania’s difficulties coming clean about the extent of Holocaust complicity, the other main criticism Jewish historians and activists have of the government is its allegedly ongoing glorification of people who were either notorious anti-Semites, or collaborated with the Nazis, or both.

Many of the country’s heroes were anti-Soviet partisans — or freedom fighters, as they are called here — but some of them were also involved in anti-Jewish agitation and even atrocities.

Two of the more egregious cases were a Vilnius street named after wartime diplomat and Hitler ally Kazys Skirpa, and a plaque of Nazi collaborator Jonas Noreika at the entrance to the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences.

For years, local and international activists said a self-respecting country cannot continue to honor these men.

“Does Lithuania have no one of whom to be proud, so that we can only lionize a person famous for his anti-Semitic statements, his vision of a Lithuania free of Jews and his idealization of Hitler’s Germany?” Kukliansky asked in 2016 in a written statement sent to the Vilnius municipality, which was debating the possible renaming of Skirpa Alley.

Nationalists carrying a picture merging Pepe the Frog and Kazys Skirpa during a march in Kaunas, Lithuania, on February 16, 2017. The banner reads: ‘Lithuania will contribute to a new and better European order.’ (Defending History via JTA)

Skirpa “foresaw a free Lithuania without Jews” and fathered the idea of the special battalions that ended up killing thousands of Jews at the Seventh Fort in Kaunas, she argued.

When I met her in her office at the Jewish community center last month, Kukliansky suggested that if the street name is not changed, local Jews might boycott the government’s Gaon of Vilna celebrations planned for 2020. “Let’s see. If nothing changes, we’ll [only] do a small celebration for our community, as a sort of protest,” she said.

Noreika, who Kukliansky says established the ghetto in which her mother was imprisoned, is not known to have personally killed any Jews, but he “helped implement the Nazis’ final solution,” according to the Lithuanian Jewish community.

Many other local Jews — including those generally apologetic toward the Lithuanian government — expressed discomfort at the fact that their country still honors people like Skirpa and Noreika.

Veteran Jewish-Lithuanian MP Emanuelis Zingeris at the Lithuanian parliament in Vilnius, July 2019 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)

“Who is a hero? That’s the big test for Lithuania today,” veteran Jewish-Lithuanian lawmaker Emanuelis Zingeris told me in the Seimas, the country’s parliament. “Everybody who took part, in any form, in the persecution of their Jewish neighbors cannot be considered a hero.”

Even partisans who died while heroically fighting the Soviet invaders cannot be role models if they had any role, active, or passive, in collaborating with the Nazi regime, he insisted.

“There’s a huge fight about this question. It’s a fight for Lithuania’s dignity.”

Foreign Minister Linkevicius and other senior politicians are very aware of the problem. “Of course it’s not okay” that a street is named after Skirpa, he told me. But, he added, “It takes time, we’re a democratic country… You cannot over-push, you cannot speed up [this process] more than it’s naturally possible.”

Stanislovas Tomas smashes the plaque honoring Jonas Noreika in Vilnius, Lithuania, April 7, 2019 (Screen grab via Facebook)

If it were up to him Skirpa Alley would be renamed tomorrow, and the Noreika plaque removed the day after, but it’s not up to him, he said. Rather, the matter needs to be decided by the Vilnius municipality, and while he hoped they would act soon, he could not guarantee anything.

Exactly eight days later, on July 24, Vilnius city council discussed a motion proposing to rename Skirpa Alley as “Tricolor Alley,” in honor of the Lithuanian flag. About a dozen protesters gathered outside city hall urging council members to oppose the proposal, but 21 eventually voted in favor, with 16 against, and one abstention.

“If we want to be glad and proud to have a city that is open and respectful to all people, we can’t display extraordinary signs of respect to someone who said, ‘Let’s take the opportunity to get rid of all Jews and create an oppressive atmosphere so that they wouldn’t even think they could have rights in Lithuania’,” Mayor Simasius said immediately after the vote.

“We still don’t know the concrete time when the sign will be changed, but it will be changed as soon as all the technical questions will be solved,” Aleksandras Zubriakovas, an advisor to the mayor, told me last week.

Accused Nazi collaborator, ‘General Storm’ Jonas Noreika (Courtesy)

Four days later, early on a Saturday morning, Simasius took another courageous step and had the plaque honoring Noreika removed. Noreika was involved in “isolating Jews and confiscating their property, thus contributing to conditions for the occupational regime to murder them later,” the mayor said in justifying his move.

The local Jewish community hailed the two “important” events as “of significance to the cause of historical justice.” But it also noted, with considerable discomfort, that many Lithuanians were critical of the developments.

“After reading hundreds of ignorant and rude comments where readers share their opinion of Jews and the Holocaust, the Jewish community is beginning to wonder whether the Lithuanian public is mature enough to celebrate a Year of Jewish History,” it said in a statement.

Of course there were Lithuanians who happily helped the Nazis rid the country of Jews, “but when Jews are calling attention to this, it creates contra — that’s natural,” Rabbi Krinsky, the Chabad emissary, had told me when I asked him about Skirpa and Noreika.

Speaking to me at the city’s Choral Synagogue — the only Jewish house of worship in Vilnius offering daily prayer services — he argued that “bringing Jewish kids back to Yiddishkeit [Jewish study and observance] is more important” than heated historical debates. (Chabad generally focuses on religious outreach and tries to stay out of fights with authorities).

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in Vilnius’s Choral Synagogue on August 26, 2018. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

“It’s better to conduct such discussions with the government behind closed doors. When we scream about issues as the Jewish community, it suddenly becomes a ‘Jewish issue’ and the actual issues get obscured, and emotions get in the way of substantive debate,” he said. “Once things become public, it gets harder for them [Lithuanian authorities] to do the right thing.”

As a case in point, Rabbi Krinsky cited his behind-the-scenes protest over plans to turn an empty and decrepit sports complex built on the city’s historic Jewish cemetery into a state-of-the-art congress center. “I didn’t campaign against the government’s plans. Instead, I had quiet meetings with people and explained to them my point of view.”

I asked him where things stood right now on this issue. “I don’t know; in our last meeting the mayor promised me that he’s going to look for another venue for the conference hall.”

I was previously unaware of this particular controversy, so I asked Dainius Junevicius, a senior official in the Lithuanian foreign ministry who deals with Jewish issues, to fill me in. He sighed, as if he had hoped I would leave Lithuania without finding out about yet another painful issue. Then he handed me a few documents on the matter his office had prepared — in case I’d ask, I presume– and promised to take me there so I could see for myself.

A few hours later, Junevicius and I strolled over to a huge, mostly empty area in Vilnius’s central Snipiskes district. All of it used to be the ancient Piramónt cemetery, which was built in the late 16th century. The Gaon of Vilna was buried here, though his grave was moved to another cemetery in 1950.

A few years later, the Snipiskes cemetery was razed, and in 1971 the “Palace of Sports” was built in the very heart of it. In the process, “almost all still-existing graves there were destroyed,” according to the Lithuanian Jewish community.

People walk in an area where decades ago an ancient Jewish cemetery stood, near an abandoned and soon-to-be renovated sports complex the Soviets built in 1971, in central Vilnius, July 2019 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)

Preparing the foundations for the sports complex, the Soviets dug nine meters deep, ruining all the graves underneath the building, Junevicius told me, as we walked up to the currently empty — and frankly quite ugly — building. It’s a tragedy, he said, adding that he used to come here to enjoy himself when he was a student, not having a clue that he was walking on what used to be a cemetery.

As opposed to what Rabbi Krinsky believed, Vilnius is going ahead with the planned renovations, Junevicius said. But only the building itself will be worked on, he emphasized. The area around it, where Jewish graves could still be found, will be left untouched, he vowed.

“Any issue related to the arrangement of the Cemetery site and the organization of the reconstruction works at the Cemetery area will be agreed with the Lithuanian Jewish community and the [London-based] Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe, and other authorities,” states the document Junevicius handed me. Work is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2022.

However, there is massive worldwide opposition to the project.

More than a dozen US lawmakers, including Rep. Eliot Engel and Senator Ben Cardin, have publicly protested against the plan.

In a January 2018 letter to the Lithuanian president, Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau said the proposed renovation would “severely damage the remains of the bodies that are found in this holy land.” All rabbis he has spoken with are of the opinion that Jewish law strictly forbids any change to the status quo, he wrote.

The Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sports, a complex that was shut down a decade ago, is the site of a proposed $25 million conference center. (JTA)

An online petition urging the government to move the planned the convention center project to another site has garnered more than 46,000 signatures.

In April, the European Foundation of Human Rights, a Lithuania-based NGO, filed a lawsuit against the sports complex’s planned renovation in a Vilnius court.

Modern-day Lithuania is a work in progress, and whether or not authorities will press ahead with this controversial project is just one of many yardsticks on which to judge the way the country is coping with its checkered past.

Lithuania’s new President Gitanas Nauseda, who took office three days before I arrived in Vilnius, on Wednesday commented on the rekindled debate over Skirpa and Noreika, the two freedom fighters disgraced as Nazi collaborators. In a statement posted on his website, he argued that local politicians should not be the ones to decide who’s a hero and who’s a villain.

Rather, he invited historians, political scientists and cultural heritage professionals to “come together in discussions that would serve as the basis for the formulation of the principles and regulation of a national commemorative policy.” He urged the public to honor a “moratorium” on heated historical debates until such principles have been established.

If past controversies here are any indication, his call will likely go unheeded.

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Video: Amtrak's new NYC train hall detailed in fly-through

Entrances, exits, interior and layout featured in Amtrak video

Come Jan. 1, Amtrak passengers in New York City can come out from the basement that has served as Penn Station since the building was knocked down in the 1960s.

A new video gives a detailed look at the building — inside and out.

A project to convert much of the James A. Farley Post Office building is nearing completion, and Amtrak said it would open Jan. 1.

The Moynihan Train Hall, as the new space is being called,  honors the late U.S. Senator from New York, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who for decades pushed for a replacement to the Penn Station building, the demolition of which is now considered a colossal mistake.

The new hall will accommodate waiting passengers under a "sky lit atrium" in Amtrak's words, intended to provide daylight.

After the original Penn Station was knocked down, Madison Square Garden was built atop the underground train concourse and platforms. When space in the Farley building across the street became available, passenger rail advocates and elected officials including Gov. Andrew Cuomo agreed that it could be the new "head house," the structure that sits atop or adjacent to the railroad tracks, providing a place for passengers to wait.

The Farley building, like the original Penn Station across the street, was designed by architects McKim, Mead & White, with both built in the Beaux-Art style popular at the beginning of the 20th century.

Passengers on Amtrak's Empire Corridor to Albany and beyond may appreciate the new amenities. With Penn Station Amtrak's busiest and Albany its ninth busiest, the Empire Corridor's Hudson Valley section is one of the most heavily traveled on the Amtrak system.


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Churchill: Chris Gibson comes home to Siena

The former congressman will be good for the college. If only he'd run for governor.

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COLONIE — In light of Chris Gibson becoming president of Siena College, I have one question: Will he hire Rick Pitino?

I'm kidding, of course.

Pitino, the legendary but controversial basketball coach, would have been a risky hire when he was interested in coming to the Loudonville school two years ago. Siena would have needed to build an entirely new wing on the student union to house Pitino's considerable baggage, had he been chosen to coach the Saints.

Gibson, a former congressman, arrives on campus with no risk and no baggage. I don't want to make a saint of the guy, pun intended, but I don't know of another politician as well regarded. At a time when integrity and honesty are distressingly and increasingly rare among public figures, Gibson arrives with a well-earned reputation for both.

MORE: Former U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson picked as new Siena president

A bit of background for those who don't know him:

Gibson, 55, is a retired Army colonel who served four tours in Iraq. He then served three terms in Congress, a Republican representing the district that includes his Kinderhook home. He could have served in Congress for a lifetime, but he decided to leave Washington behind.

His timing was perfect, given that he got out of Congress just as Donald Trump took up residence in the White House. In recent years, as most of his former Republican colleagues sacrificied their integrity in the service of fealty, Gibson kept his pride and reputation intact.

Gibson has said more than once that he's no fan of Trump or his temperament, which is so very much different than his own. Gibson doesn't do bombast. He doesn't lob insults. Nor does he bully.

He is also, then, nothing like Andrew Cuomo — the governor Gibson almost ran against.

To my disappointment, Gibson decided not to run after seeming to gear up for a 2018 campaign. As I wrote at the time, New York would have benefited from a competitive governor's race and a vigorous debate about the state's direction. Gibson, I think, could have made Cuomo sweat.

The past is past. Now, he's at Siena, replacing Brother Edward Coughlin, who died unexpectedly in July.

On Friday, Gibson's presidency was announced to a packed hall in the Sarazen Student Union. For many in the room, the news was a surprise when Gibson, his hair shorn as if still in the military, came bounding into the room. (I insist that he resembles the late actor Jack Lemmon, although not everybody agrees.)

When he spoke, Gibson seemed, to my eyes and ears, to be awed at what he was undertaking and to be running the very school he attended more than 30 years ago.

Gibson talked of the Franciscan school's special ability to help quell the nation's ugliness and vitriol. Siena, he said, emphasizes a moral leadership that America so desperately needs.

"We don't treat each other right in this country, and we wonder how we're going to get through this mean season," Gibson told the crowd. "The answer is in this room. We need more Saints."

Gibson struck similar themes when I talked to him later in the afternoon, telling me he's concerned rising incivility and diminishing faith in institutions. He's right to be worried.

There's reason to worry about higher education, too. Schools like Siena are facing increased competition for a shrinking number of students. It's likely some smaller colleges won't survive.

If there had been an upside to Pitino's coming to Loudonville — beside the likelihood of winning more basketball games — it would have been in his ability to raise Siena's profile, both locally and nationally. In a very different way, Gibson can do something similar, and he made it clear that's among his goals.

"That's what we're coming here to do," he said. "I believe we're destined for top-tier status in the country."

In a world in which a reality TV star and the mayor of a small Indiana city are considered presidential timber, it's kind of a shame that Gibson has walked away from politics. This is a man with four Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart, along with a Ph.D in government from Cornell.

So I asked him if he'd ever run for office again.

Gibson didn't say no. But he also said his focus is entirely on Siena, the students he'll serve and on this important new role he has undertaken.

"I don't know that I've ever been happier," Gibson said, sounding genuinely elated. "Why would I want to mess that up with politics?"

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Schumer seeks tougher oil train rules after crashes

Sen. Schumer wants feds to create volatility standards for shipping

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer is calling on federal agencies to develop safety standards governing volatility that oil companies would have to meet in order to transport crude by rail.

In a conference call Wednesday with reporters, Schumer said standards developed by the North Dakota Industrial Commission that will take effect April 1 were "not enough."

Crude from North Dakota's Bakken field that exploded in Lac Megantic, Quebec, killing 47 people and devastating the small downtown in 2013, would have met the standard, he said.

The stability of crude was not part of the new safety standards for tank cars federal regulators are developing, Schumer said, adding the U.S. departments of Transportation and Energy must develop the stability standards.

The Port of Albany has developed into a major transshipment point for the volatile Bakken crude, as tanker trains from Canadian Pacific and CSX unload and transfer crude to tankers, barges and other trains for delivery to refineries along the East Coast.

Last month, Assemblyman Phil Steck, a Colonie Democrat whose district includes much of the area through which oil trains pass, called on federal regulators to immediately require stabilizing Bakken crude to make it safer to ship.

Schumer said hundreds of oil-laden tank cars travel across the state daily en route to the port and to downstate destinations.

State officials on Wednesday quickly seconded Schumer's effort.

"New York urges the federal government to immediately require stabilization of crude oil before it enters the rail network," State Transportation Commissioner Joan McDonald and State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens said in a joint statement. "The West Virginia and Ontario derailments underscore again the need for immediate action to reduce the volatility of this hazardous cargo before it is shipped through New York's communities."

Last month, trains derailed in West Virginia and Ontario within days of each other, exploding into fireballs that firefighters couldn't extinguish, and causing massive fires that were left to themselves out.


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Sabathia hit hard early

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Tony Watson escaped a two-on, two-out jam in the ninth for his fifth save as Pittsburgh's offense — which managed all of three runs while getting swept in St.

Leon homers to cap long Boston victory

April 5, 2017 |

Boston loaded the bases with two outs in the 10th, but Pirates closer Tony Watson retired opening day hero Andrew Benintendi on a weak grounder to second to end the inning.

Safety training ready for teens, temps, freelancers

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Countryside owner Tony Watson did not have workmen's compensation when Booze was killed. ... Watson is appealing the OSHA fines. Even if Watson pays the fines one day, the law does not require that any of the ...

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Four players, all relief pitchers, remain scheduled for hearings this week: the Yankees' Dellin Betances, Baltimore's Brad Brach, the Chicago Cubs' Pedro Strop and Pittsburgh's Tony Watson.

Cubs' six-run 9th stuns Pirates

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Tony Watson gave up a go-ahead single to pinch-hitter Jon Jay, Rizzo added a two-run single and Addison Russell had a two-run double.

Angels' Mike Trout has torn thumb ligament

May 29, 2017 |

Diamondbacks pinch hitter Chris Iannetta tied the game moments earlier with a two-run homer to left field off closer Tony Watson. Watson (4-1) was credited with the win after blowing his third save in 13 opportunities.

Pomeranz hurt in Red Sox defeat

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Pirates 6, Diamondbacks 4 (10): Jose Osuna hit a two-run homer for Arizona with two outs in the 10th inning, and Tony Watson escaped a bases-loaded jam in the bottom of the inning.

Tigers edge Orioles, tie for wild card spot

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With the score tied 3-3, Eugenio Suarez hit a leadoff single off closer Tony Watson (2-5), advanced to second on Ramon Cabrera's sacrifice bunt, took third on Tyler Holt's single and scored on Peraza's liner to center field.

Pirates nip Cards, snap skid

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Tony Watson worked a perfect ninth inning for his 11th save after blowing his previous two opportunities, including Tuesday night when he allowed three home runs in the ninth inning of a 9-7 loss to St.

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The Pirates managed just four hits against Arrieta — or a handful less than the number of haymakers utility infielder Sean Rodriguez landed on an unsuspecting water cooler following his ejection in the seventh ...

Jays' Estrada takes no-hitter to 8th at Boston

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Angels 5, Pirates 4: Albert Pujols hit a two-run home run off reliever Tony Watson in the top of the eighth inning to lead Los Angeles to the victory.

D-Backs pick Stewart as GM

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In a restructuring of the front office under chief baseball officer Tony La Russa, the team also named De Jon Watson senior vice president/baseball operations. ... The last person to play in the majors and coach ...

Nova defeats former team

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Loss results in two dismissals

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Arrieta carries Chicago to NLDS

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Ibanez powers Phillies

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He doubled to right off Tony Watson (0-2) in the 10th to score Hunter Pence and help the Phillies complete a three-game sweep.

Years after wood chipper death, meaning still sought

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Owner Tony Watson is appealing. ... Watson, the owner of Countryside, told the Times Union that he met Booze through a mutual friend who implored Watson to throw work Booze's way. ... According to the Department ...

Taillon, two HRs downfall for Mets

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Tony Watson worked around a leadoff double by pinch-hitter Matt Reynolds in the ninth to finish the three-hitter.

TU+ Wood-chipper death reflects lack of industry oversight

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Tony Watson, Booze's employer who owns Countryside Tree Care, does not have workers' compensation insurance coverage, according to Workers' Compensation Board spokesman Brian Keegan. ... Watson said that he is ...

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At last, Bills in postseason

Team clinches spot with its win and loss by Ravens to end its 17-year drought

Miami Gardens, Fla.

Amid the dancing and screaming and hugs and high-fives in the Buffalo Bills' locker room, defensive tackle Kyle Williams watched his two young sons climbing around in his stall.

"What do you think, boys?" Williams shouted. "Where are we going? The playoffs?! Yeah!!"

His sons are only 6 and 4. For their dad and most Buffalo fans, Sunday was a long time coming.

The Bills snapped the longest current playoff drought in North American pro sports, making the postseason for the first time since 1999. They avoided elimination by beating Miami 22-16, and clinched an AFC wild-card berth minutes later when Cincinnati rallied past Baltimore.

The Bills watched the dramatic finish of the Bengals game on locker room TVs, and then erupted.

"Everybody went crazy," said Williams, who is in his 12th and perhaps final season with the Bills. "I've been a wreck for 10 to 15 minutes."

His voice choked with emotion, and he wasn't the only one.

"Well I started crying, if that's a good reaction..." former Bills running back Thurman Thomas said in a text to The Associated Press.

Buffalo (9-7) will travel to face Jacksonville and former Bills coach Doug Marrone on Sunday. Marrone resigned as Bills coach three years ago Sunday.

The Bills' joy was tempered by the loss of 1,000-yard rusher LeSean McCoy with a right ankle injury. He was carted off the field in the third and was in a walking boot after the game.

The frustration of a disappointing season got the best of the Dolphins (6-10) with 6:21 left, when receiver Jarvis Landry, running back Kenyan Drake and offensive lineman Jake Brendel were ejected following a fight. Landry was cited for disrespecting an official, and Drake for throwing his helmet 20 yards in anger. Unsportsmanlike conduct penalties were called against both teams.

The undisciplined Dolphins, who came into the game with the second-most penalties in the NFL, had 14 for 145 yards.

Meanwhile, for the Bills, 17 seasons of frustration ended.

"The locker room is electric, man," said guard Richie Incognito, who finished a season above .500 for the first time in his 11-year career. "We have been working so hard for this. So much has been said about it. And now the monkey is off our back. We're in the postseason, and we've got new life."

Buffalo punctuated the memorable victory with a 1-yard touchdown run by Williams for the first score of his career.

"I thought, 'Try not to screw it up. They're not going to call it again if I screw it up,'" he said.

He and his teammates celebrated with choreographed back flips in the end zone.

Golf great Jack Nicklaus wore Bills gear and a smile watching from the stands as his grandson, tight end Nick O'Leary, caught Tyrod Taylor's 26-yard touchdown pass.

The Dolphins scored a touchdown with 1:56 left and recovered the ensuing onside kick, but Jordan Poyer's interception sealed the win.

Taylor went 19-for-27 for 204 yards and one score. In six games against Miami, he has 10 touchdown passes and no interceptions.

For the Dolphins, the season finale had the feel of an exhibition game, with thousands of empty seats and David Fales giving a lengthy, unimpressive audition as a potential backup quarterback in 2018. Miami was eliminated a week ago and will sit out the playoffs for the eighth time in the past nine years.

Miami lost to Buffalo for the seventh time in their past 10 meetings.

Injury report

Bills: McCoy was hurt on a carry up the middle. After being tackled, he pounded the turf with his fist as trainers attended to him. He had 10 yards on 11 carries to finish with 1,138 yards rushing, and added 448 receiving on a team-high 59 catches. ... RT Jordan Mills (ankle) was helped off the field late in the second quarter.

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Buffalo will play a postseason game for the first time since losing at Tennessee in the Music City Miracle game in January 2000.


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Amartya Sen: The Search for Justice

The Nobel laureate argues that social justice is more than a matter of intellectual discourse, and that the idea of justice influences how people live. 6 p.m. Thurs. $7-$18. Commonwealth Club of California, 595 Market St. (415) 597-6705. www.commonwealthclub.org. SF

Chinese Medicine: A Vital Partner in American Health Care

Learn the history of Chinese medicine in America. 6 p.m. Thurs. $8-$15. Commonwealth Club of California, 595 Market St. (415) 597-6705. www.commonwealthclub.org. SF

Woody Guthrie and the Great American Folksong

Tim Holt will present a musical performance and discussion celebrating the life of Woody Guthrie and the history of the American folksong. 5:30 p.m. Thurs. Ingleside Branch Library, 1298 Ocean Ave. www.sfpl.org. SF

Animal Tracks and Signs

Learn to identify tracks and signs and about the animals that left them. Advance registration required. 10 a.m. Sat. $15. Richardson Bay Audubon Center & Sanctuary, 376 Greenwood Beach Road, Tiburon. (415) 388-2524. richardsonbay.audubon.org.

Birding Lake Chabot Field Trip

Visit Lake Chabot to see the winter residents found in this vastly different habitat. Meet early at the marina boathouse. 7:30 a.m. Sat. Hayward Shoreline Interpretive Center, 4901 Breakwater Ave., Hayward. (510) 670-7270. hard.dst.ca.us/hayshore.html. EB

Coho Salmon Habitat Restoration

Join Bob Flasher of the National Parks Conservancy for a day of work to improve the habitat of a more natural creek and wetland system. 10 a.m. Sat. Meet at Muir Beach parking lot (at Pacific Way), Muir Beach. www.wildequity.org/events. NB

Discover the Ridges Ride

Join docents for a hike in Skyline Ridge and Russian Ridge. 10 a.m. Sat. Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. (650) 691-2150. www.openspace.org. PN

Exploring Bear Creek Redwoods

Explore this wooded gem and visit an old orchard and vineyard area for lunch. 9:30 a.m. Sun. Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. (650) 691-2150. www.openspace.org. PN

Happy Birthday John Steinbeck

Celebrate one of California's most famous authors on a 6-mile hike along the Ridge Trail of Skyline Ridge preserve. 10 a.m. Sat. Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. (650) 691-2150. www.openspace.org. PN

Lynch Canyon Guided Park Ranger Tour

Hike through Lynch Canyon with a Solano County Park Ranger, who will talk about the area's wildlife, plants, history and more. Meet at the Parking Lot Kiosk. 9 a.m. Sat. (415) 561-2595. www.ridgetrail.org. NB

Nearly Full Moon Hike

Explore the park by the light of the moon along Canyon View Trail. 5 p.m. Sat. Sunol Regional Wilderness, Geary Road off Calaveras Road, Sunol. (510) 652-7275. www.ebparks.org. EB

Oakwood Valley

Meet at Tennessee Valley trailhead and hike up to overlook Sausalito, Belvedere, Tiburon and more. 9:30 a.m. Thurs. (415) 461-9255. sanfranciscobay.sierraclub.org/marin/hikes.htm. NB

Owl Wars

On this strenuous 7-mile dusk hike, look and listen for the owls that make Muir Woods their home, learn more about their history and ecology and receive the latest research updates on the spotted owl. 4 p.m. Sat. Meet at Muir Woods National Monument Visitor Center, Mill Valley. www.wildequity.org/events. NB

The Owls of Picchetti Ranch

Join docents for a 2.5-mile walk. 4:30 p.m. Sat. Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. (650) 691-2150. www.openspace.org. PN

REI Service Project at Las Trampas Regional Wilderness in San Ramon

Help work on the Mahogany Trail, repairing tread, pruning overgrowth and more. 9 a.m. Sat. REI, 43962 Fremont Blvd., Fremont. (510) 651-0305. EB

Snowcamping 101

Learn how to prepare for winter camping. 7 p.m. Thurs. REI, 2475 Sand Creek Road, Brentwood. www.rei.com/brentwoodca. EB 7 p.m. Thurs. REI, 2450 Charleston Road, Mountain View. (650) 969-1938. www.rei.com. PN

Snowy Plover Walk

Naturalist and historian David Schmidt will lead a hike from the San Francisco Zoo to see snowy plovers. Noon Sun. Meet at the corner of Sloat Blvd. and Great Hwy. www.wildequity.org/events. SF

Winter Wood and Wine Wandering

Join docents for a 5-mile, moderately-paced hike in Picchetti Ranch. 10 a.m. Sun. Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. (650) 691-2150. www.openspace.org. PN

Woodland Winter

Join docents for a hike in Los Trancos. 11 a.m. Sun. Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. (650) 691-2150. www.openspace.org. PN

Historic Wineries of California

Celebrate the history of winemaking and taste the latest vintage wines and appetizers from a host of California wineries. 6 p.m. Thurs. $20-$25. California Historical Society, 678 Mission St. (415) 357-1848, Ext. 229. www.californiahistoricalsociety.org. SF

Pinot Noir Summit

Event includes wine tastings, workshops, a reception and more. Noon-8:30 p.m. Sat. $125. Osher Marin Jewish Community Center, 200 N. San Pedro Road, San Rafael. (415) 444-8000. www.marinjcc.org. NB

Wine and Dine Around

More than a dozen Santana Row shops and restaurants host exclusive in-store events with complimentary wine and food pairings and incredible one-time discounts available only to ticket holders, all to benefit the American Heart Association. 2-6 p.m. Sat. $30. Santana Row, San Jose. www.santanarow.com. SB

The Amazing Derique

Hambone expert and circus artist Derique will amaze and entertain children of all ages. 3 p.m. Sat. Portola Branch Library, 380 Bacon St. www.sfpl.org. SF

Dance Kaiso

Performance of Caribbean music and dance. Children of all ages welcome. 3 p.m. Fri. Ocean View Branch Library, 345 Randolph St. www.sfpl.org. SF

The sf|noir Wine and Food Event

Ninth annual Black History Month celebration with a focus on the culinary arts features five delicious days of food, wine and entertainment to highlight the best in black cuisine. Ends Sun. Check Web site for schedule and tickets. (415) 692-7880. www.sfnoir.org. SF

FREE What Does Liberation Look Like

Hear thoughts, rhymes and notes on liberation of black people and the need for revolution. Event includes performance and discussion. 7 p.m. Thurs. Revolution Books, 2425 Channing Way, Berkeley. (510) 848-1196. EB

Cougar Party

7 p.m. Thurs. Last Day Saloon, 120 Fifth St., Santa Rosa. (707) 545-5876. www.lastdaysaloon.com. NB

Demolition Dance Party

Celebrate the start of construction of new Marin History Museum Music Center and Marin Rocks exhibition - with DJs, live music, light shows, food, beverages and dancing. 5 p.m. Sat. $50. 850 Fourth St., San Rafael. www.brownpapertickets.com. NB

Drinks with Tony

Join Tony DuShane, author of "Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk," at a taping for a live literary talk show. Featuring Alan Black ("Kick the Balls"), Harmon Leon (head of Freedom Haters), Marisa Matarazzo ("Drenched") and music by Vagabondage. 6:30 p.m. Fri. The Knockout, 3223 Mission St. www.drinkswithtony.com. SF

Energy Efficiency

At this week's Nightlife, pick up tips about how to increase your energy efficiency, promote carbon offsets and harness renewable technologies. This week, DJs Party Ben and MyKill return. 6 p.m. Thurs. $10-$12. California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. www.calacademy.org/nightlife. SF

Friday Nights at the de Young

Features a closing reception for February artist-in-residence Ann Weber and the music of Southern India by Prasant Radhakrishnan's VidyA. 5 p.m. Fri. De Young Museum, Golden Gate Park. (415) 750-7694. nschach@famsf.org. SF

Match Your Key Singles Dance

7 p.m. Fri. $20. WPLJ's Night Club, 2112 N Main St., Walnut Creek. (415) 507-9962. www.thepartyhotline.com. EB

Solid Gold Singles Dance

8 p.m. Sat. $20. Sinbad's Restaurant, Pier 2, the Embarcadero. (415) 507-9962. www.thepartyhotline.com. SF

Annie Sing-along

Interactive event includes gestures and expressions that tie into the film, including singing along with Annie and chiming in with a rousing "Yes, Miss Hannigan!" 7 p.m Fri.-Sat., 1 p.m. Sun. The Retro Dome, 1694 Saratoga Ave., San Jose. www.theretrodome.com. SB

Chinese New Year Treasure Hunt

Join the largest and most popular sleuthing adventure in America, played on the streets of Chinatown, North Beach and Telegraph Hill on the night of the annual Chinese New Year parade. 4:30 p.m. Sat. $10-$30. Justin Herman Plaza, 1 Market Street at the Embarcadero. (415) 564-9400. www.sftreasurehunts.com. SF

Collage Workshop with Catherine Shallcross

Create a delicious juxtaposition of images, colors, shapes, and textures. 2 p.m. Sat. Lakeview Branch Library, 550 El Embarcadero, Oakland. www.oaklandlibrary.org. EB

Daffodil Daydreams

Celebration to enjoy the spectacular early spring flowering of the Filoli gardens and three days of talks, demonstrations, activities for children and families, garden walks with horticulturalists, more. 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 11 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Sun. $5-$15. Filoli, 86 Cañada Road, Woodside. www.filoli.org. PN

Kala TGIT! - Art, Wine & Music

Affordably priced works from members of Kala's community of artists paired with an enticing wine tasting. 5:30 p.m. Thurs. $5. Kala San Pablo, 2990 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley. kala.org. EB

Pacific Orchid Exposition

More than 150,000 orchid flowers from all over the globe will be displayed in educational exhibits from local, national and international orchid growers both professional and amateur. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Fri., 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. $8-$14. Fort Mason Center, Bay and Buchanan streets. (415) 665-2468. www.orchidsanfrancisco.org. SF

Propaganda Art in Theory and Practice + Stencil Workshop

Join a discussion on the motivations for revolutionary propaganda art, with examples from feminist and international revolutionary artists, followed by a demonstration of stencil-making. 2 p.m. Sat. $10-$20 (sliding scale). New Valencia Hall, 625 Larkin St, suite 202. (415) 864-1278. baradicalwomen@earthlink.net. SF

Purim Unmasked: An Off-Street Festival

Highlights of the Festival will be food, wine, musical performance by teen and ethnic music ensembles, and a host of activities designed for all ages. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Sun. Jewish Community Center, 3200 California St. www.jccsf.org. SF

Three-part Oakland gallery walk of music, film, poetry and food. 5 p.m. Sun. WE Artspace: 768 40th St., Oakland. www.royalnonesuchgallery.com. EB


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Vista has crashed and your PC will no longer even boot up into the operating system—what to do? It turns out that your USB thumb drive can save the day. You can use what Microsoft calls UFD (for a USB flash drive) with a Windows image file (.wim) for Windows Preinstallation Environment that offers a quick-start way to access the System Recovery Options. But besides saving your skin when your PC will not boot up, this bootable drive can also do lots of other interesting things. In the pages that follow, we describe exactly how to build such a device and explore some of the useful tasks that it can accomplish.

Every copy of Windows Vista comes with installation disks or files that include a special pared-down version of the operating system, which Microsoft calls Windows Preinstallation Environment 2.0, but it is more often known as Windows PE or even WinPE.

You may not think you’ve used WinPE before, but you probably have. When you install Windows Vista, for example, the code that enables you to load a command-line environment, as well as the Windows Recovery Environment (also known as Windows RE or WinRE), comes straight from WinPE. While Microsoft won't admit it publicly, it is the Windows Preinstallation Environment, aka WinPE, that allows one to create a bootable UFD–instead of using the more time-consuming Windows Recovery Environment, also known as WinRE.

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  • masterwhitman
    What, no mention of BartPE or UBCD4Win (Ultimate Boot CD for Windows)? These are two projects that are vastly superior to Microsoft's method (both are built on WinPE but have expanded capabilities) and are far easier to use.
  • richwag
    Nice guide. Never knew about it. Thanks.
  • when I saw this I thought it was going to be a review of Bart's PEBuilder... It's saved my a$$ many times. Far superior to WinPE...

    How about a comparison/companion article? or an article on tools gearheads & techies find indespensible?
  • average joe
    Vista's PE is far more advanced than XP's. The BartPE project is based of XP's PE. Barts is amazingly useful and I can't wait till they move to from PE 1.1 to PE 2.0.

    Some "fairly new" systems will not boot from usb so always carry a cd version as a backup.
  • "I usually grab Imagex.exe and the Package Manager using the commands shown in the next screen capture."

    Hmmm... I don't see a 'next screen capture' showing the commands used to get imagex and Package Manager.
  • LightWeightX
    Good start to the guide until you get to the WinRE. In section 5, step 2, you describe using imagex and the secret is the number 2 argument however you do not give an example of the command. In the WinPE you use a 240 MB partition, then in WinRE you state you need at least 512 MB.
  • sdybas
    Show us howto "use imagex to grab the Windows RE image from the Vista-installation media." Thanks.
  • jfutima
    Yes please follow up on the last few comments, I am stuck in that spot.
  • Good article, but it makes a few omissions and goofs here and there.
    1. For using imagex to grab the WinRE image, check out this link:
    2. "x64" won't work when you're using copype.cmd - it has to be "AMD64". Just replace all instances of x64 with AMD64 in this procedure, and it'll work.
    3. For the image showing how to grab imagex and the package manager, click on the picture above the text to open up the gallery, then click one pic forward.
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The Deepwater Horizon oil spill represents one of the most significant ecological events in the United States in recent time. It was defined by release of more than 133 million gallons of crude oil, followed by treatment of the spill with the addition of 1.8 million gallons of dispersants. Oil mixed with dispersant ultimately settled on wetlands, beaches, and deep-sea sediments of the Gulf of Mexico. As severe as this ecological event was, the significance was overshadowed by the loss of 11 lives. These were the oil rig workers in the Gulf on the platform at the time of the spill. Hundreds of oil spill emergency responders, coastal inhabitants, and visitors were exposed to the oil and dispersants, another sad aspect of the tragedy. The total cost of this oil spill to the entire Gulf of Mexico ecosystem, both human and environmental, may never be fully determined. In an immediate response, the scientific community mobilized and began to work diligently after the spill to provide information and support to protect and begin restoration of the Gulf ecosystem.

Another immediate response was the commitment by BP to fund a $500 million 10-year oil spill research program. The focus of the fund is on the impact and long-term ecological effects of the oil and on mechanisms for better global preparation in the event of any future oil or gas releases to the environment. Though BP established the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI), it operates independently of BP to provide leadership and to administer the $500 million research fund. This special issue of Oceanography presents findings from the research funded by GoMRI to date as well as overviews of the GoMRI program.

To describe its operation, it is important to point out that GoMRI adheres to the principles set forth in the Master Research Agreement (MRA, http://gulfresearchinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/Annotated-GoMRI-Master-Research-Agreement-2.pdf) with BP. The mission of GoMRI, as stated, is to investigate the impacts of oil, dispersed oil, and dispersant on the ecosystems of the Gulf of Mexico and affected coastal states, with the objective of improving understanding of environmental stresses and public health implications of oil spills in general, and the consequences of the Deepwater Horizon incident on the Gulf of Mexico specifically (http://gulfresearchinitiative.org/about-gomri/gri-mission). A significant GoMRI goal is to improve society’s capability to understand, respond to, and mitigate the impacts of petroleum pollution and related stressors on marine and coastal ecosystems, with emphasis on the Gulf of Mexico.

In accordance with the MRA, GoMRI established five programmatic research areas: (1) physical distribution, dispersion, and dilution; (2) chemical evolution and biological degradation; (3) environmental effects; (4) technology developments; and (5) impact of oil spills on public health. These research areas enable scientific and technological experts from different disciplines to collaborate to gain an understanding of Gulf ecosystem complexity. GoMRI-funded research consortia and the individually funded projects address the themes, allowing the scientific research to progress more rapidly and effectively than would otherwise be possible. Selection and funding of research consortia and individual projects are accomplished under the aegis of the GoMRI Research Board, with the assistance of the GoMRI Management Team.

Because it operates completely independently, the GoMRI Research Board acts with full authority for the program and adheres to the established and highly respected standards of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Science Foundation with respect to conduct of scientific research. Thus, based on the well-recognized experience of both of these scientific organizations, the Research Board established its operating procedures for requesting and selecting the best science and also for communicating scientific findings accurately and responsibly. The intricacies of the GoMRI operating framework and GoMRI’s dedication to scientific integrity are described in detail in this issue.

The GoMRI Research Board fully endorses transparency and has acted to ensure the availability and preservation of scientific results generated by all of the programs and projects that have been funded. The resulting science is robust, and the scientists are highly productive. To date, over 3,000 GoMRI-funded researchers representing 278 institutions in 42 states and 17 countries have produced almost 800 peer-reviewed publications. To ensure data availability now and into the future, GoMRI established the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information and Data Cooperative (GRIIDC), described in this special issue by James Gibeaut. This team of researchers, data specialists, and computer system experts developed a data management system for storing and distributing all of the scientific data generated by the GoMRI researchers. This initiative comprises an essential component of GoMRI’s legacy. The GoMRI Research Board commitment to outreach is equally strong, ensuring the science resulting from the GoMRI investment is made available to the public on a timely basis through its many outreach programs involving partner organizations. GoMRI’s outreach activities have been very effective in transforming scientific results into information for the public. Debra Benoit and colleagues describe the outreach program in detail in this issue.

The GoMRI Research Board is mindful of the importance of a GoMRI legacy. Many discoveries have already been made, and the continuing productivity of the scientific teams and individuals will ensure scientific contributions long after the GoMRI program is completed. Critical measures of the success of GoMRI are not only the number of scientific publications, but even more importantly, the young oil spill scientists who are now being trained, and the compilation and accessibility of big data maintained at GRIIDC. Journal special issues, film documentaries, and partnerships with outreach organizations also comprise the GoMRI legacy. The Research Board continues to explore ways for GoMRI science to be useful for the broader community and the public after the program has ended, especially since the human and ecological impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico region will persist when GoMRI has completed its mission. Thus, it may well be most important that GoMRI has provided an excellent model for how industry can play a significant role in supporting independent, open, scientific research to address challenges and help solve societal problems, inform decision-making, and address future environmental and public health challenges.

Colwell, R.R. 2016. Foreword to the GoMRI special issue. Oceanography 29(3):24–25, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2016.57.

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