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Stay Adventurous (2010-Present)

craig zabransky

Owner and creator of the travel website Stay Adventurous ( a mind set for travel, a mindset for life. The site provides inspiration and travel ideas not only for specific destinations, but also encourages others to take and make adventure in their lives.

  • Posted over  375 stories in three years on my adventures from the US and across the globe
  • Created the weekly Sunset Sunday post (now over 125+), capturing the meaning and metaphor found in each sunset´s special moment.
  • Created other timely and relevant special themes such as ¨Culture through Cuisine,¨ a winter ¨Beach Thursday¨to keep us warm through the season, and also destinations specific themes such as  ¨Mexican Bicentennial Tribute¨ and “All Africa All August”
  • Provides an expertise on Mexico, Southern Africa, and the United States
  • Created Unique Stay Adventurous mindset tips to travelers to teach them how to incorporate adventure into their travel and daily living.

Freelance Writer – Photographer (2005-Present)

After nearly a year traveling, I realized I needed to share my stories and adventures with the world to encourage others to do the same. I started to realize travel was not just enjoyment, but a great educator. The RTW (´round the world) can me be more valuable than an MBA (and cheaper too).

  • Content Contributor and an Ambassador for Mexico Today, ( an organization designed to promote the stories about Mexico to the public through multiple social media channels (2011-2012)
  • Content Contributor for AllAboutMexico websites ( and specifically working for the expansion of its AllAboutPuertoVallarta and AllAboutMazatlan web site (2011-2013)
  • Travel Writer for with a focus on Mexico, Europe, and America (2010-Present)
  • Contributor and ¨South of the Border” expert for the News & Views at (2009-2011).
  • Travel Blogger for Gaincontact, a multicultural learning center in New Jersey (2009).
  • Senior Travel Writer for Real Hoboken Online an e-Magazine (2005-2009).
  • Award winning photographer as part of the MexMonday, TogChat, and Florida Keys contest.
  • Contributor to the Shanghai Metro Newspaper and Caribbean Travel & Life Magazine Travel Blog
  • Licensed Photos to SF Gate, Luxaviation and Mexi-Go.
  • Social Media savvy with 6,500+ followers on twitter at t:@stayadventurous.

Travel Sabbatical (2004-2005)

In November of 2004, I took nearly a year off from management consulting position to travel the world and see it from a backpack rather than a luxury or business perspective. My eyes opened up. The original plan of 3 months, quickly blossomed into nearly a year of seeing the world.

  • Visited 15 countires in Central & South America and across Eastern & Western Europe
  • Called Buenos Aires home for two months, deciding to explore living abroad as part of my travels
  • Learned to be conversational in Spanish enabling me to secure a long-term position in Mexico City upon my return to management consulting

Global Management Consultant (1998-2009)

For over ten years, I worked to improve the business processes of the top tier investment banks on Wall Street and across the globe.

  • Employed at Arthur Andersen, KPMG Consulting, and BearingPoint all working with the same team of Financial Service Consultants.
  • Worked with the following investment banks: Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, UBS, and others.
  • Worked and lived in Asia, Europe, Latin America and across the United States.
  • Instructed both experienced and new hire consultants on business processes techniques and basic consulting principles.

In the Press

I have appeared on Television, Radio and in numerous publications both in print and on the web. Highlights include:

  • TV News – appeared on Fox and Friends to discuss successful people changing careers in difficult economic times.
  • Satellite Radio – appeared on Sirius Radio four times to discuss travel sabbaticals and following your career dreams on the Martha Stewart Channel
  • Cruise Radio – Co-Host and Contributor for multiple episodes of Cruise Radio focusing on Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America
  • Interviewed on AOL Jobs and various travel sites about being a travel blogger – writer
  • Interviewed for Work Style Magazine regarding my successful career change
  • Interviewed and appear in award winning book titled “How to Ditch the Corporate Work and Rock Your Own”

  • Graduate of Villanova University with a BSBA; major in Finance; minor in Political Science (1995)
  • Attended two Gotham Writing (NYC) classes Memoir Writing (2000) and Travel Writing (2004)
  • RTW (‘Round the World), learned from travels across the globe (2004-5)

You can also find out more detailed information read about Craig Zabransky and view my LinkedIn Profile.


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Telecoms Training – How To Skill Your Staff In A Rapidly Changing Market

Over the past decade or so, technological communications have been advancing rapidly. Work places have changed from just having a telephone line and a fax machine to having email, Skype, VOIP, instant messaging, multiple phone lines and more. In this article we explore the need for telecommunications training and look at the different types of training available.

The days of being able to operate with just a phone and fax machine are long gone.

The Need for Telecoms Training
To stay ahead in business today, every company needs to ensure that it is contactable at any time with key staff members being contactable in any place to ensure smooth operations. Where a few years ago, customers would have been given an email address, landline number and perhaps mobile number for their account managers. Today they want to be able to contact the person they need to using any form of technology and that requires a unified communications system covering everything from mobiles to land lines, email to tablets, VOIP and more.

With so many different ways to communicate, businesses need a unified telecoms system

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With the cost of most of these technologies coming down in price, many more businesses are adopting them in order to offer their customers better customer service. Although this sounds simple enough, in reality it is causing a lot of internal problems for companies. New telecoms systems mean disruption and change for staff with many staff members not being able to use the new technology introduced. This is why a need has arisen for effective telecoms training by professionals.

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There are a wide range of telecoms training options available which vary depending on the technology being used, the existing skill levels of staff and of course the company’s training budget. The first method of training is assisted online training. This training is a relatively cheap way of training staff as it involves them sitting in front of a computer with an internet connection and undertaking a series of training modules and related tasks. Other than price, the main advantage is that this type of training usually lets staff learn at their own pace with experienced trainers being contactable online if there is a problem or clarification is required. However assisted online training can prove to be time-consuming as staff can work at their own pace and businesses might want a quicker way to train staff.

The alternative is in-person training. This can either involve your staff going to a training facility to undertake the training or for a qualified professional to come into your business to train your staff. In-person training is slightly more expensive than assisted online training as you are paying for dedicated trainer time but one of the advantages is that a dedicated timeframe can be devoted to the training to fit with business needs. Another benefit of in-person training is that training can be given at all levels and tailored to meet the technological skills and needs of your staff – teaching your staff only what they need to know in order to perform their functions within the business and nothing superfluous to requirements.

Whichever telecoms training option you choose for your business, it is an investment into the future of your staff and your company as a whole. Companies who fail to adopt modern telecoms technology will be left behind in the business world.

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Collaborations with Matteo Patocchi: Twins

This limited edition publication, a collaboration between my poetry and the brilliant photography of Matteo Patocchi, features beautiful innovative portraits of twins surrounding by my long poem about zygote splitting, based on a work by Velimir Kklebnikov. Matteo did an amazing job with the typography and an even better job sourcing a printer to render the work as a newspaper, a format that really gives the publication a unique quality. Do visit and here's a link to the amazing images in the book

Here's my reading from the launch of Twins, at the Rich Mix Arts Centre in London, October 2013.

A collaboration about beauty & sexuality, & its idiosyncratic constitution, against homogeneity and the contemporary consumption of the aforementioned. The tradition of classic central European art / fashion photography meets the tradition of central European modernist poetics and typographical innovation. Muyock featured in Enemies: the selected collaborations (2013)

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   now you can fuck

    off back to spider island

  w allthe dead i cant thank enough

french . swiss   fruits    flower grw to green

  the wind died in refusing the drinks they drnk

   & ruin bad ideas in saint jons forest w h th pickl grows

  of  listened to another light   yes we know ur importnt

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What is so sad about people like him, from the right or the left, regardless of the issue, is that they have already decided what the "truth" is. Reality means nothing to them, and I find that to be so frustrating. Someone who is truly honest, on either side of the political spectrum, is CURIOUS. Which means, I just want the fact. Pathetic, this idiot.

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MOSCOW (AFP) - Two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut returned to Earth on Thursday after spending more than six months working together aboard the International Space Station, as tensions between their countries soared over the Ukraine crisis.American Steven Swanson and Russians Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev, who left on March 26, landed in the Kazakh steppe at 0223 GMT aboard a Soyuz capsule, the Russian space agency Roscosmos and its US equivalent NASA said in statements.The trio, who worked together in cramped quarters aboard the ISS as relations between their countries plummeted to levels unseen since the end of the Cold War over Ukraine, smiled broadly, gave thumbs up signs and waved in the sunshine as they spent their first minutes back on the planet.The three spent a total of “169 days of science and technology research in space, including a record 82 hours of research in a single week” in July, Nasa said in a statement.The crew orbited the Earth more than 2,700 times and travelled more than 71.7 million miles, Nasa said.“One of several key research focus areas during Expedition 40 was human health management for long duration space travel as Nasa and Roscosmos prepare for two crew members to spend one year aboard the orbiting laboratory in 2015,” it said.The ISS is now being commanded by Max Suraev of Russia, with crewmates Reid Wiseman of Nasa and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency. Three new crew members – Barry Wilmore of Nasa and Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova of Roscosmos – are due to arrive in two weeks, blasting off from Kazakhstan on September 25.The Ukraine crisis has sent East-West tensions soaring, with the US, the EU and Kiev accusing Moscow of fomenting, supporting and participating in separatist unrest in the ex-Soviet state’s east – charges that Russia has denied.Amid the tensions, Nasa in April announced that it was cutting space cooperation with Russia over Moscow’s Ukraine policies, but that work at the space station would not be affected.Use of the space station depends on Russia, which is the only country in charge of transporting astronauts and cosmonauts to and from the facility.The ISS was launched in 1998 as an international effort and has been a symbol of cooperation, particularly between the US and Russia. When the time comes to retire it, the station will be taken out of orbit and sunk in the ocean.


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ISTANBUL (REUTERS) - Turkish warplanes attacked Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in southeast Turkey on Sunday in the first significant air operation against the militants since the launch of a peace process two years ago, Hurriyet news website said on Tuesday.

The air strikes caused “major damage” to the PKK, Hurriyet said. They were launched after three days of PKK attacks on a military outpost in Hakkari province near the Iraqi border, it added.

There was no immediate comment from the military on the reported air strikes, which Hurriyet said was carried out with the knowledge of Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.

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  • Kidnapped by the Pombero February 2, 2017

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    The story starts nicely enough and then takes a decided turn for the bizarre. In July of last year (2016) a two and a half year old child was lost in the Argentinean countryside in an area of ‘bush and mountains’. Beach’s youngest is two and he shivers to think what this means. The little boy, Octavio Leonel Da Silva, wandered off from a campground: he had been left asleep in a tent and evidently woke up and went looking for his parents while unsupervised. He was eventually found two days later, two and a half kilometers away by the local police force: 100 policemen, dogs, a drone and a helicopter were put on the job of finding the child.

    So a terrible story that ended well… Only there is more. Octavio’s parents were convinced that their son had been taken by ‘a mythological creature’, the Pombero (aka the Señor della Noche), a nightmare figure from Guarani tradition. The Pombero is big in northern Argentina and as far north as Brazil: so big, in fact, that he has his own Wikipedia page! Beach has included above an artist’s impression (ahem). He gets up to the normal fairy nonsense: raping sleeping women, stealing children… But he can be bought off. If a threatened party leaves tobacco or strong spirits then Pombero will go and look for other victims: in other words Pombero runs a rural protection racket. Octavio’s father, after his son’s rescue, left smokes and a beer for ‘the man of the night’. Interestingly the owner of the camping site had another theory. He claimed that Octavio had been stolen not by the Pombero but by Yasy Yataré a forest-dwelling gnome and another figure from the Guarani legendary. Beach sincerely hopes not because Yasy first plays with children then let’s them go home only after taking their reason or leaving them with epilepsy.

    The parallel with certain British news reports where missing children were believed to have been taken by the fairies is striking: Beach thinks of an eighteenth century instance from Cornwall.

    Fingers crossed that Octavio grows up with no memory of his ordeal.

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Licensed as a Pennsylvania Realtor since 1994, Lisa has helped negotiate the sale and purchase of many of the finest properties on Philadelphia's Main Line. She has represented the owners and purchasers of estates, mansions, and specialty properties as well as traditional family homes. In 1979, Lisa started the successful interior design firm of LS Design. Her creative and business sense in her design firm along with her Accredited Staging Professional (ASP) designation in real estate have proven to be an advantage to both her buying and selling clients, while her vast personal and professional networks “behind the scene”, contribute to her clients’ success whether they are selling their property or buying their “dream home”. Confidentiality, Integrity, and Commitment to her clients are her guiding principles. Lisa has the comprehensive background, expertise, abilities, and knowledge to provide you with what you need most . . . a competitive market advantage.For a personal consultation on buying or selling a home, please contact Lisa directly!Come and visit my website at: 20 years of Real Estate ExperienceLifetime Resident of Philadelphia's Main LineCertified Buyer's RepresentativeAccredited Staging ProfessionalComprehensive experience with both Buyers and SellersFor a personal consultation, please contact Lisa directly 610.420.2646

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Kalpa Limited (company) – China Files (publication)

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Describe your site or business in few words.

Simone Pieranni, founder of China Files, explains: “China Files is a startup based in Beijing, focusing on in-depth coverage of China-related issues for Italian- and Spanish-speaking media outlets. Our business model is that of the news-agency: producing multimedia stories (text, video, pictures, interactive features) to re-sell to mainstream outlets. Currently we work with more than 30 European and South-American media outlets (print, radio, broadcasting and online). Recently we have started to offer supplementary services, too, as, for example, press roundups on China-related issues for Italian and Spanish corporations, press office consultancy for institutions (e.g. European Union, Embassies) and companies investing in China. These services are more remunerative than producing editorial content, but our main focus remains the journalistic activity.”

Staff numbers

Who’s creating the content

Content creators, paid full-time

Content creators, paid freelancers

Are some of the content creators citizen contributors or interns?

1 intern

How is your time divided between doing business and content?

70% content, 30% new business. But this ratio can change, depending on specific circumstances.

Business, marketing & sales, paid full-time

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Revenue models and sustainability

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Thanks to the lower cost of life in China, from the very beginning China Files has been sustainable. During the last two years, we have also been able to re-invested dividends in new business.

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Most of our revenues go to wages. Then we have to afford fixed costs for our offices and variable costs for business development (especially to upgrade hardware and software we need for our reporting).

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We pay contributors on a monthly basis and per story. There is no standard rule, it depends on different factors: the typology of the story, how long it took to be reported and produced, the media outlet where it will befeatured.

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We would use the extra profit to hire more reporters and producers (actually we are understaffed for the amount of work we do). We would also like to diversify  our productions, investing more on video and multimedia stories.

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Freelancing – journalism and non-journalism, Design

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Ebooks, Software, plugins or apps, Audio, Video, Books, Special editions of content.

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Death at a Distance: The Loss of the Legendary USS Harder

At daybreak on August 24, 1944, the USS Harder (SS-257), captained by Commander Samuel D. Dealey, was submerged off Dasol Bay on the west coast of Luzon Island in the Philippines. Her wolf pack partner, the USS Hake SS-(SS-256), captained by Lieutenant Commander Frank E. Haylor, was nearby. Based on the information they had received the previous day from wolf pack partner Lieutenant Commander Chester Nimitz, Jr. in USS Haddo (SS-255), Dealey believed that a damaged destroyer had been towed inside Dasol Bay and the enemy might attempt to tow her up to Manila at daybreak. As the wolf pack leader, he therefore stationed the two boats to lie in wait, and gave Hake the first crack at sinking her. Nimitz left the pack the previous day to reload and refit at Submarine Base Able on Mios Woendi.

The information Dealey had about what was waiting inside Dasol Bay was imperfect. The "damaged destroyer" the pack was stalking was the Asakaze, one of nine Kamikaze-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy following World War I. Nimitz had used his last torpedoes to immobilize her the previous day. When last seen by Nimitz, six steam and sailing ships had taken the immobile Asakaze under tow, and were heading for Dasol Bay. However, unknown to all the wolf pack members, the damaged destroyer continued to take on water and at 2230 hours she sank twenty miles from Cape Bolinao.

The Asakaze had been escorting a Type 1TL Standard Merchant Tanker. Its name was Niyo Maru. After her protector had been crippled, the Niyo Maru prudently headed for the safety of Dasol Bay. Meanwhile, in response to distress signals from the Niyo Maru, the Third Expeditonary Fleet had dispatched escort vessel CD-22 and patrol boat PB-102 (ex-USS Stewart) from Cavite to intercept and assist Niyo Maru. The PB-102 got there first and brought her into Dasol Bay. The CD-22 joined them later. 1

On August 24, 1944, at 0630 hours, Haylor aboard the Hake sighted two ships making headway out of Dasol Bay. Haylor mistakenly identified the PB-102 as the old Thai destroyer Phra Ruang and the CD-22 as a minesweeper. As the Japanese ships began to exit the bay they spotted both the Harder's and the Hake's periscopes. The PB-102 turned and headed back into the harbor with the Niyo Maru. The CD-22 headed straight for the periscopes. Haylor did not like the setup, so the Hake broke off its approach and turned away. The Harder continued into the bay and fired three down-the-throat torpedoes at the CD-22. All three missed the mark. At 0728 hours, the CD-22 picked up the Harder with her Type 3 sonar and commenced a series of depth-charge runs with her Type 94 DC throwers with each charge set to detonate deeper than the last. The fifth salvo brought a large amount of oil and pieces of cork and wood to the surface. The Harder and her crew of 79 were gone. 2

When Commander Samuel D. Dealey and the USS Harder sailed from Fremantle on August 5, 1944 for their sixth war patrol, no one anticipated it would be their final one. Dealey was at the pinnacle of his career. During the Harder's fifth war patrol Dealey had successfully executed a dangerous special mission and had claimed the destruction of five enemy destroyers. He had become the "Destroyer Killer." News of his death and the loss of Harder surged through the submarine force like a lightning bolt. Everyone was shocked. His boss, Rear Admiral Ralph Christie described his loss as "...the most ghastly, tragic news we could possibly receive." 3 By all accounts, Sam Dealey was a hero, and both he and the Harder would be sorely missed.

After the Harder's fifth patrol, Ralph Christie had recommended Dealey for the Congressional Medal of Honor. The basis for it was because the Harder's fifth war patrol had become the most brilliant of the war. Dealey's rampage had further reduced the enemy's already severely decimated inventory of destroyers. His actions in the Philippines caused Admiral Toyoda to move fleet elements away from Tawi-Tawi earlier than planned. This premature departure disupted the enemy's overall battle plan and contributed to their staggering defeat in Battle of the Philippine Sea. In addition, the dangerous special mission he had successfully carried out required great navigational skill and courage, and had saved lives. Because of the need for secrecy, details about the special mission could not be mentioned in any public documents.

The citation for the Congressional Medal of Honor awarded to Dealey posthumously is telling of Dealey's legendary status:

For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. Harder during her Fifth War Patrol in Japanese controlled waters. Floodlighted by a bright moon and disclosed to an enemy destroyer escort which bore down with intent to attack, Commander Dealey quickly dived to periscope depth and waited for the pursuer to close range, then opened fire, sending the target and all aboard down in flames with his third torpedo. Plunging deep to avoid fierce depth charges, he again surfaced and, within nine minutes after sighting another destroyer, had sent the enemy down tail first with a hit directly amidship. Evading detection, he penetrated the confined waters off Tawi Tawi with the Japanese Fleet base 6 miles away and scored death blows on two patrolling destroyers in quick succession. With his ship heeled over by concussion from the first exploding target and the second vessel nose-diving in a blinding detonation, he cleared the area at high speed. Sighted by a large hostile Fleet force on the following day, he swung his bow toward the lead destroyer for another "down-the-throat" shot, fired three bow tubes and promptly crash-dived to be terrifically rocked seconds later by the exploding ship as the Harder passed beneath. This remarkable record of five vital Japanese destroyers sunk in five short-range torpedo attacks attests the valiant fighting spirit of Commander Dealey and his indomitable command.

In between his fifth and sixth patrols, in his book Death at a Distance: The Loss of the Legendary USS Harder, Michael Sturma reveals for the first time that Sam Dealey was sent to Pearl Harbor by airplane on another secret mission. Sturma writes, "Perhaps because of the extreme secrecy involved, no previous writer on Dealey has noted this trip or its implications." 4 At the time, President Franklin Roosevelt was visiting Honolulu to discuss strategy with General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz. Did Sam Dealey meet with the President? While he was at Pearl Harbor, Dealey spent time with Eugene Fluckey. What did they talk about? I won't give you any spoilers here. The book's discussion of these events is fascinating.

A lot had been going on in Sam Dealey's life before he set out on his last patrol. His fifth patrol had been very stressfull for both him and his crew. It was a double-barreled patrol, often described as "Patrol 5A" and "Patrol 5B." On Patrol 5A, he completed Operation Python, an Allied Intelligence Bureau initiative involving the Allied commando unit Z Force. The objective of the mission was to to insert a team of Z Force commandos at a location on the northern Borneo coast. These commandos would go ashore and rendezvous with six other Z Force commandos who were being hunted down by the Japanese and transport them back to the submarine via folboats. Three other American submarines had attempted to complete this operation, but for various reasons were unable to do so. It took a lot of planning and training, but Dealey was able to get the job done. He would also claim the destruction of five enemy destroyers during this patrol. When they made it back to Australia at Darwin on June 21, 1944, Ralph Christie was there to meet them. They reloaded, refit, topped off, and bid farewell to the Python men, then headed to sea for the Patrol 5B leg of this double-barreled patrol that night with Christie aboard. Christie had been wanting to make a war patrol on the Harder for a while.

The Harder's crew were not happy about having to spend more time at sea. They had just completed one of the most difficult patrols they ever made, and they were all tired and wanted to get back to the safety of Perth to rest and recuperate. Charles Lockwood wrote in 1956 that the "...badly worked-over submarine and crew should have returned to Fremantle for a bang-up hero's reception and a much needed rest." 5 Twice before the Seventh Fleet Commander had denied requests from Christie to go on a war patrol. Christie had made the decision to just go on patrol first and then report it later. Christie was keen to "...intercept a nickel ship in the Celebes Sea that sailed down to the Gulf of Boni and loaded with ore weekly at Pomaela." 6 The Christie fiasco resulted in an extra twelve days on patrol for the Harder. No torpedoes were fired, but the Harder was depth-charged by an escort vessel and aircraft. They made it back to Darwin on July 3, 1944, dropped off Christie, and headed back to Fremantle that night.

During the Patrol 5B trip Christie discussed Dealey's future with him. After Dealey's fifth war patrol, Christie had planned to rotate Dealey back to the United States and pass command of the Harder to the first officer, Frank Lynch. However, Dealey wanted to conduct one more patrol in command of the Harder. After that, he would turn the boat over to Lynch. In addition, Dealey insisted that Lynch sit out the next patrol to get rested. When Dealey completed his sixth patrol and returned to Fremantle with the Harder, he would make a decison about his future. He could opt for new construction or he could take a new operational or non-operational position within the Navy. Sturma discusses Dealey's decision process and the options that were available to him in great detail. Which option would Dealey have chosen if he had lived? I think you will find the likely answer to be quite surprising.

What affect did all the issues facing Dealey have on his performance during his last patrol? Was fatigue a factor for him and his crew? Why did Dealey insist that Frank Lynch sit out the sixth patrol and what affect did his absence have? Had Dealey simply become too reckless? There were seventeen new crewmen aboard during the Harder's sixth patrol - did this affect her performance in the final showdown in Dasol Bay? Why did Dealey want to go on a sixth war patrol in the Harder? Did the Japanese technology known as Jikitanchiki (Magnetic Detector) play a role in the Harder's sinking? Michael Sturma addresses each of these issues in his book. The discussion is engrossing and revelational.

Sturma writes in straightforward and clear manner. An extensive bibiliography documents his extensive research. In the book you will find frequent anecdotes and arcane bits of information about Sam Dealey and the Harder you won't find elsewhere. A book dedicated to Sam Dealey and the Harder has been long overdue. I am certain Sturma's book will be the authoritative publication about the Harder for many years to come. This is the second book by Michael Sturma I have read. The first was The USS Flier: Death and Survival on a World War II Submarine. Both of them are of the same high quality. I anxiously await receiving his most recent book from Amazon, Surface and Destroy: The Submarine Gun War in the Pacific.

1. Hackett, Bob, Sander Kingsepp and Peter Cundall, "IJN Escort CD-22: Tabular Record of Movement", published online at Combined Fleet.

2. Ibid.

3. Sturma, Michael, Death at a Distance: The Loss of the Legendary USS Harder, p. 1.

4. Ibid., p. 158.

5. Lockwood, Charles A., and Hans Christian Adamson, Through Hell and Deep Water, p. 278.

6. Sturma, op. cit., p. 139.


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Valentine Decor

Good Morning!
Just thought I would show you a Valentine decoration that I made some time ago.  I got the idea from my friend Holly several years ago.  I just took little strips of homespun fabric and cut them to the same length.  I then looped them around two foam hearts.  Finally, I tied the two hearts together with a strip of homespun.  Since I love primitives, I thought it was a neat way to celebrate Valentine's Day but still blend with my decor.  Enjoy!

These hang on two of my doors inside my home every year.

  Stop back tomorrow for a scrapbook surprise!

Tiffany said...

So cute and what an easy project! Love it.

Kelly said...

I am just so in love with this that I can't say enough about it! It's so homey and charming! I want to do something like it....thanks for the inspiration!

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This is a wreath that I made to hang on my front door during the summer months.  Our house sits back away from the road quite a bit so the size and color of this wreath really stand out.  Hope you like it!

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Hound Rock

Hound Rock

Page Type: Mountain/Rock

Location: California, United States, North America

Lat/Lon: 34.03296°N / 116.20368°W

Object Title: Hound Rock

County: Riverside

Activities: Trad Climbing

Season: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter

Elevation: 4000 ft / 1219 m

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East Face of Hound Rock
West side gully
West Side corridor

Hound Rock is a formation in the Quail Spring area of Joshua Tree National Park, California.

Located behind its smaller brother Baskerville Rock, Hound Rock is often mistaken for the lesser of the two formations. Hound Rock, however, is twice the height and offers twice as many routes as Baskerville Rock. For many years these two neighboring formations were collectively known as Hound Rocks, but in the more recent years, they are considered as two independent formations.

If you are looking for a little solitude away from the beaten path, visit Hound Rock. Only one half mile from the very popular and always busy Trashcan Rock, alias Quail Spring Rock, Hound Rock went without much attention for decades. On my last visit there in January of 2010, I found a well-worn path leading to the crag. Although we sepent a few hours in the area, we didn’t see any other climbers approaching the formation. The chances are that you will not have to wait in line for your turn to get on a climb.

Select Routes

Left Side
Left Side
Select Routes of Hound Rock
Select Routes of the East Face
Right Side
Right Side

There are several crack systems ranging in difficulty levels from 5.7 to 11c. The 5.11 cracks are difficult to protect and you need to be prepared to run out your lead. Both of these routes are located on the rounded adjoining formation to the right side of the main face. Fortunately, the best route on the entire formation, however, is a crack system that is easy to protect. This climb is called Tossed Green, rated 10a, and it was pioneered by the legendary, John Long and company. The best part about climbing Tossed Green is a double bolt anchor on top. No need to make scary moves on friction slabs of the south shoulder to get down. You can rapell from the bolt anchor. Take a standard rack with protection up to 3 inches and have a great time.

The west face of Hound Rock sports several cracks with varying degrees of difficulty from 5.6 to 5.9. These cracks are not as geometric and clean as the east face crack systems and as the result they don’t attract very much attention. If you have better information about the west face cracks, please feel free to attach a supplement to this page.

List of the select routes

Select Routes of Hound Rock
ACrescent Wrench, 10d, Standard Rack, bring lots of small pieces
BAn Eye to The West, 5.9, standard Rack
CTossed Green, 10a, Standard Rack, anchor
DOver The Hill, 5.9, Standard Rack, pro to 3 inches

How to get there

To get to Hound Rock you need to first get to Quail Spring parking lot. From the west entrance to Joshua Tree National Park drive 5.8 miles to where you will see a sign for Quail Sring. Pull into the parking lot and park close to the west face of Trashcan Rock. This paved parking lot is one the best in the entire park. There are bathrooms and picnic tables in front of the west face. Since Trashcan Rock has something for every ability, it’s likely that you will see many people climbing here. If you look in the direction of the southwest, you will see Baskerville Rock and Hound Rock blended together some one half mile away. From this distance, they look less significant than they really are.

The trailhead to Hound Rock starts from the parking lot and it’s just across from the west face of Trashcan Rock. Follow this trail to the top of a small rise. Drop down and cross a wash and continue for another quarter of a mile to the first formation, Baskerville Rock. Circle around Baskerville Rock from the left to a gully separating this formation from the next formation, Hound Rock.

Environmental Concerns, Camping, Noise considerations

Joshua Tree landscape
Typical Joshua Tree landscape

Desert Flowers near...
Desert Flowers

Please tread lightly. The Access Fund has gone to great lengths posting trail marker for approaches to many of the more popular crags. Do your best to stay on these trails, and where you are forced to use a different path, choose the ones that rain can mend in time. Drainages make for good trails where there are no established trails.
Avoid stepping on native and fragile plants, and do not feed the coyotes. Coyotes are very much used to people and often hang around picnic areas and camp grounds in hopes of getting a hand out. It’s better to let them live their natural life.

Protecting native plants
protecting native plants

There are nine campgrounds in Joshua Tree National Park. At the entrance to the park you are always asked if you would care to have a map and a brochure. The brochure will have plenty of information on the campgrounds and the map will guide you to many of the pleasant hikes throughout the park. You may even get the latest information as to availability of campsites. During the peak season (mid winter through spring) finding a campsite may become a major task. It is highly recommended to use the following link to get more information in advance.

Joshua Tree Camping

Noise considerations

When you are camping with friends and sitting around the fire, it is easy to forget that there are other people trying to sleep in the nearby campsites. It is important to put yourself in their shoes. Keep the noise and music to a minimum and certainly not too much past 10 p.m. Your neighbors will smile at you in the morning instead of giving you dirty looks.

Food & Fees

Entrance station...
The best Thai food...
My wife and I have had Thai food in many different restaurants and cities. This Thai place beats them all. In November when the number of visitors to Joshua Tree reaches its peak, this restaurant puts on a Thai buffet, all you can eat for 10.95$/person. But, you must get there early, or be prepared to wait by the door for a table. The latest information indicates that the buffet style will be terminated by the end of February and will resume in November of 2010.

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Looking back down the slope toward Horse Meadows, the route is pretty much a sand and scree slog. I include this pic to show the type of terrain you encounter on the south side approach. June 5 2004

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keemaFun boot ski.

Voted 10/10

Did you go straight at the summit or to the saddle between Job's Sister and Freel. I went down at the saddle and the sandy scree made for some fun boot ski / plunge stepping on the way down.
Posted Jun 7, 2004 2:35 pm

DeanRe: Fun boot ski.

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I hit the saddle between them. I really wanted to go over and get Job's Sister and Job's peak but just didn't have the extra time, despite the quick up. The descent was super easy with the boot skiing on the way down.

I dropped about 1200 feet in fifteen minutes. SWEET.

After experiencing this route, i am glad I didn't go the "normal" route.
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Palisade traverse from South Lake
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Palisade traverse from South Lake

Palisade traverse from South Lake

Page Type: Trip Report

Location: California, United States, North America

Object Title: Palisade traverse from South Lake

Date Climbed/Hiked: Aug 25, 2008

Activities: Scrambling

Season: Summer

Page By: seano

Created/Edited: Sep 12, 2008 / Jan 25, 2009

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My alarm woke me at 4:15 from a decent night of car sleep, and I had sucked down a Red Bull and hit the trail by 4:25. One reason I had chosen to approach from this side was that the route to Bishop Pass would be easy to navigate quickly in the dark. Since I guessed from others' trip reports that it would be about an 18-hour day, my plan was to reach the pass at dawn and return by dusk, leaving about 14 hours for the main part of the route.

Bishop pass
Bishop pass at dawn
Thunderbolt Pass lake
Large lake below Thunderbolt pass

I reached Bishop pass a bit ahead of schedule at 6:15, and after a brief "scenic" detour down the trail to Dusy Basin, struck out East toward the lake at the base of Thunderbolt Pass, where I tanked up on water. My 3-liter camelback would have to last until the lake below Potluck Pass. Thunderbolt pass was as boulder-strewn as advertised, but the boulders were stable, and the hike went smoothly.

SW Chute #1
Southwest chute #1
T-bolt's 5.9 side

Would that I could say the same of Southwest Chute #1, a pile of sliding sand and rocks that earns its "class 3" rating only in the last couple hundred feet to the ridge. The route-finding, straightforward in the chute, became a bit trickier from the chute to the base of Thunderbolt's summit block. I ultimately ended up climbing some blocks to the right, wriggling under the summit block, and climbing the crack to its left, to find the register at its base around 8:45.

I spent a few minutes studying the 5.9 face of the block, but being a mediocre climber, did not feel confident enough to climb it and risk peeling onto the very sharp rock below. After a few desultory attempts to lasso the block -- I'm not much of a cowboy either -- I somewhat guiltily signed the register and moved on. Norman Clyde's picture glared in disapproval, but as my failure was a convenient excuse to return next year, I was only slightly disappointed.

Where the route drops down from the ridge, I met two men (whose names I forget) doing the traverse from a camp near the Palisade glacier. Since they had rock shoes, a light rack, and webbing to spare, I returned with them to T-bolt's summit for a chance at top-roping the summit block. Unfortunately neither of them was up to leading the block, so we all headed out again around 9:45.

North Pal
North Pal from Starlight
Starlight chimneys
Looking up at the descent from Starlight

The descent from Thunderbolt was intense but straightforward. After a long-ish traverse and a bit of messing around after losing sight of the milk bottle, I reached Starlight just before 11:00, and waited a few minutes for my rope-using companions. Since I thought I had to move quickly, I skipped the milk bottle, signed the register, and moved on to North Palisade, which was ridiculously close by line of sight.

"Line of climber," however, was a whole different story. I quickly found the crack/chimney system mentioned in Scott's trip report. For me at least, this combination of stems, jams, and general off-width writhing was the crux of the traverse in terms of both exposure and difficulty. On the other hand, the subsequent pendulum move across to North Palisade earns the craziness award. Someone had fortunately left a nice 10- or 20-foot piece of webbing hanging into the crack, so I was able to lower myself down that and swing across rather than set up my own rappel or look for another route. After a bit of exploring and down-climbing to avoid some ice on the North side, I reached North Palisade at noon, reveling in having reached a summit I had been coveting for over a year.

After about 20 minutes spent enjoying the view and waiting for my compadres, I headed out toward Polemonium, hopefully via the Clyde variation. The route into the bowl was straightforward, but beyond that it became less obvious. Judging by erosion and footprints, others had been similarly confused. Ultimately, I ended up a couple of hundred feet down the U-notch after much backtracking and unnerving down-climbing. From there to Polemonium, the route was exposed but straightforward. After enjoying the unfortunately-windy summit and abandoning my temporary companions, I continued on to the final objective.

Polemonium knife-edge
Polemonium knife-edge
Pal and Pals
South side of the Palisades

Polemonium's knife-edge had decent features on one side or the other for your feet, but was spectacularly exposed -- it surprises me that its first user thought "hey, why don't I go down that!" -- and the sudden transition from Polemonium's exposure to Sill's endless boulder-hopping was as surprising as it was disappointing. Then again, after the consistent, dramatic exposure and solid rock of the traverse, anything would have been a let-down.

I reached Sill exactly 10 hours after I started, much faster than I had expected. After some celebration and a longing look at the the Big Pine Creek trailhead to the East, I headed South along the ridge, then down the hideous loose boulder field to the West.

Unlike previous boulder fields, this one consisted mostly of loose rocks, making it a misery at this point in the day. Driven to avoid this, I contoured high toward Potluck Pass. Big mistake: the contour to Potluck Pass involves much 3rd and 4th (?) class climbing, so that losing elevation probably would have saved time. To make up for this, though, the descent from Potluck Pass was nothing but delicious, fast scree-skiing.

Tolerant marmot

The afternoon traverse across Palisade and Dusy Basins was enjoyable despite my exhaustion, with exhilarating views of the Palisades and exhibitionist wildlife. However the climb to Thunderbolt pass was, while mostly solid grass and rock, slow and painful in my drained state. I distracted myself by drinking a Red Bull and stopping to look at the snap-dragons, and soon was back to the boulder field, Bishop Pass (more directly this time) and, just before 8:00, my car for the long drive home.

I brought a 20-meter single rope, a couple of slings, and a couple of biners for an emergency rappel or lowering, but did not use any of them. A 3l Camelback was plenty of water for the ridge.

Polemonium knife-edgePal and PalsThunderboltMarmotSW Chute #1Starlight chimneysThunderbolt Pass lake
North PalSnapdragonsBishop pass

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Men were seen climbing over the gates to Roker Pier.
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Men who climbed over gates to get onto Roker Pier sparked an emergency services alert after fears for their safety.

Sunderland Coastguard Rescue Team, run by HM Coastguard, said they were called to the pier at 6am today after a call was made raising concerns for fishermen on the pier.

A spokesman said: "Police were already on scene on our arrival.

"With the pier gates shut the police stated that up to three persons were on the other side.

"As we were opening the locks for the tunnel access two fishermen were seen to climb back over the pier gate.

"These individuals were handed over to the police, while the team continued to ascertain whether there was a third person.

"The two fishermen, port control and the first informant were consulted again.

"It was ascertained by the team that there was no other individuals on the pier.

"When the pier gates are locked it's a criminal offence contrary to the Port of Sunderland by-laws to enter the pier."

The service has said anyone reporting coastal emergencies should call 999 and ask for the Coastguard.