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The music world may be in a permanent state of panic and flux, but one basic principle of rock’n’roll remains true: the key to longevity is to always deliver the goods. No band has better encapsulated this ethos of integrity and determination over the last decade than Skindred.
Widely acknowledged as one of the most devastating and enthralling live bands on the planet, the Newport destroyers have been a perennial force for musical invention and remorseless positivity since emerging from the ashes of frontman Benji Webbe’s former band Dub War back in 1998. Over the course of four universally praised studio albums – Babylon (2002), Roots Rock Riot (2007), Shark Bites And Dog Fights (2009) and Union Black (2011) – Skindred’s reputation for producing the ultimate spark-spraying state-of-the-art soundclash, combining all manner of seemingly disparate musical elements into an irresistibly exhilarating explosion of energy and cross-pollinated cultural fervour has rightly earned them a reputation as a band capable of uniting people from all corners of the globe and making every last one of them tear up the dancefloor with a giant shit-eating grin plastered across their faces.
With the toughest and most infectious metal riffs colliding with the biggest, phattest hip hop and reggae grooves, cutting edge electronics and a razor-sharp pop sensibility guaranteed to encourage even the most curmudgeonly music fans bellow along with rabid enthusiasm, Skindred are both the ultimate thinking man’s party band. And now, with the release of their fifth studio album Kill The Power, Benji Webbe and his loyal henchmen – bassist Dan Pugsley, guitarist Mikey Demus and drummer Arya Goggins – are poised to spread their gospel of good times and badass tunes to an even bigger global audience.
“We know that everyone recognises us as one of the best live bands around,” says Arya. “We’re really proud of all of the albums we’ve made, but we all felt that we needed to make an album that would be as powerful and effective as the live show. That’s what Kill The Power is all about. This time, we want everyone to sit up and listen and join in the party.”
“I started DJ-ing a little while ago and it’s taught me a lot,” adds Benji. “Now I feel like I wanted to make an album where every intro to every song makes kids think ‘Fucking hell, they’re playing that song!’ Every middle eight on this album is a banger. Every chorus is massive. On this album, the lyrics are deep and the songs are just bigger than ever.”
In keeping with their tradition of making people move while singing about universal issues and spreading a message of positive action and social unity, Kill The Power is an album bulging with fury at the state of the modern world. Never afraid to tackle important topics head on, while never forgetting his band’s mission to entertain and leave the world in a sweaty, sated heap, Benji’s notoriously insane energy levels seem to be creeping up with every album and Kill The Power showcases his most furious and impactful performances to date.
“The world’s getting worse so how can I get more mellow?” he laughs. “Of course I’m getting angrier! People normally stay in a bag when it comes to lyrics. Stephen King stays with horror and he’s brilliant at it, you know? With Skindred, it’s always about encouraging an uplift. It’s about a sense of unity. Lyrics can change people’s lives, you know? You can be going down one road and hear a song and have a Road To Damascus experience and become someone else.”
On an album that has no shortage of invigorating highlights, Kill The Power takes Skindred to new extremes at both ends of the lyrical spectrum, reaching a new level of fiery intensity on the lethal cautionary tale of “Playin’ With The Devil” and the euphoric end-of-the-working-week celebration of “Saturday”: both songs proving that this band’s ability to touch the heart and fire the blood remains as incisive and potent as ever. As if to enhance their songwriting chops more than ever, Kill The Power also features several songs written in collaboration with legendary songwriting guru Russ Ballard, the man behind such immortal rock staples as Since You’ve Been Gone and God Gave Rock & Roll To You, and this seemingly perverse team-up has led to Skindred’s finest set of lyrics and melodies to date.
“Basically, I try to write songs that people can interpret however they like,” says Benji. “When I wrote ‘Playin’ With The Devil’, I originally wrote some words down on a piece of paper thinking about friends I’ve had who smoke crack and live on the pipe, you know? I wrote the song about that kind of thing, but then a couple of days later the riots happened in London and so it became about that as well. When you shit on your own doorstep, your house is going to smell of shit. You’ve got to clean that up! With ‘Saturday’, it’s not a typical Skindred song; it’s a big celebration. We got Russ Ballard involved on that one and he helped me structure the lyrics in the right way so when the chorus hits, it hits like a hammer. It’s an upbeat song but when you listen to the lyrics it goes on about how people all have different reasons to be out and partying. Some people are celebrating, some people are drowning their sorrows, and we all come together on a Saturday. When this record comes out and people go to a club on a Saturday, that’s when it’s gonna go off! The chorus is huge!”
While Skindred’s previous album Union Black was dominated by the bleeps, booms and squelches of British electronic dance music, albeit balanced out by Mikey Demus’ trademark riffs, the new album sees the band return to a more organic sound that amounts to the most accurate representation of the Skindred live experience yet committed to tape. From the huge beats and stuttering samples of the opening title track and the laudably demented Ninja through to the insistent melodies and rampaging choruses of “The Kids Are Right Now” and “Saturday” and on to the thunderous, metallic throwdowns of “Proceed With Caution” and “Ruling Force” and the cool acoustic breeze of the closing More Fire, Kill The Power is Skindred cranked up to full throttle and revelling in their own febrile creativity like never before.
“It’s all about making an album that moves people in the same way that our live shows do,” says Arya. “We love what we achieved on Union Black and we still used a lot of those basic ideas on Kill The Power, but this time it’s a more organic sound. All the drum loops you hear were originally played by me before we started chopping them up, and there are a lot more guitars on this record too. We love combining all the music that we love in Skindred but we all love heavy music and we’re a rock band at heart and that really comes across this time.”
“We’ve delivered an album that’s gonna make people rock for the next few years,” states Benji. “You know what? I can’t do anything about record sales, but if people come to a Skindred show they’re gonna know they’ve been there, you know? Ha ha! The music we make is not about Christians or Muslims, straight people or gay people, black or white or any of that shit. When people are in that room together it’s just Skindred, one unity and one strength!”
Having conquered numerous countries around the world, Skindred could easily be taking a breather and resting on their laurels at this point. Instead, this most dedicated and hard-working of modern bands are preparing to launch their most exuberant assault on the world ever when Kill The Power hits the streets. Anyone that has ever seen the band live before will confirm that it is impossible not to get fired up and drawn into the joyous abandon of a Skindred show and with their greatest album to date primed and ready to explode, the best live band on the planet simply cannot fail to conquer the entire world this time round. Wherever and whoever you are, Skindred are coming. Open your ears and get your dancing feet ready…
“There’s nothing better than being on stage with these guys,” says Arya. “Skindred is my favourite band and I’m so lucky to be part of this thing we’ve created. We’ve been all over the world but there are always new places to visit and new crowds to play for. We just want to keep getting bigger and better.”
“We’re a global band. We’ve played in Colombia and India and everywhere and it’s the same energy,” Benji concludes. “I get letters from people in Hawaii and people in Turkey. It’s all the same. We resonate globally and it’s the greatest thing ever. It seems funny to us sometimes because we’re always kicking each other’s heads in and saying ‘You’re a wanker!’ to each other before we go on stage, but as soon as it’s time to play the show the oneness this band creates together and the unity we bring is unique. I’ve never experienced anything like it and we can’t wait to get back on the road and do it all again.”
In a clean room at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida, NOAA's GOES-S is being prepared for encapsulation in its payload fairing. After encapsulation, the satellite will be moved to Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. GOES-S is slated to launch March 1, 2018, aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
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The music world may be in a permanent state of panic and flux, but one basic principle of rock’n’roll remains true: the key to longevity is to always deliver the goods. No band has better encapsulated this ethos of integrity and determination over the last decade than Skindred.
Widely acknowledged as one of the most devastating and enthralling live bands on the planet, the Newport destroyers have been a perennial force for musical invention and remorseless positivity since emerging from the ashes of frontman Benji Webbe’s former band Dub War back in 1998. Over the course of four universally praised studio albums – Babylon (2002), Roots Rock Riot (2007), Shark Bites And Dog Fights (2009) and Union Black (2011) – Skindred’s reputation for producing the ultimate spark-spraying state-of-the-art soundclash, combining all manner of seemingly disparate musical elements into an irresistibly exhilarating explosion of energy and cross-pollinated cultural fervour has rightly earned them a reputation as a band capable of uniting people from all corners of the globe and making every last one of them tear up the dancefloor with a giant shit-eating grin plastered across their faces.
With the toughest and most infectious metal riffs colliding with the biggest, phattest hip hop and reggae grooves, cutting edge electronics and a razor-sharp pop sensibility guaranteed to encourage even the most curmudgeonly music fans bellow along with rabid enthusiasm, Skindred are both the ultimate thinking man’s party band. And now, with the release of their fifth studio album Kill The Power, Benji Webbe and his loyal henchmen – bassist Dan Pugsley, guitarist Mikey Demus and drummer Arya Goggins – are poised to spread their gospel of good times and badass tunes to an even bigger global audience.
“We know that everyone recognises us as one of the best live bands around,” says Arya. “We’re really proud of all of the albums we’ve made, but we all felt that we needed to make an album that would be as powerful and effective as the live show. That’s what Kill The Power is all about. This time, we want everyone to sit up and listen and join in the party.”
“I started DJ-ing a little while ago and it’s taught me a lot,” adds Benji. “Now I feel like I wanted to make an album where every intro to every song makes kids think ‘Fucking hell, they’re playing that song!’ Every middle eight on this album is a banger. Every chorus is massive. On this album, the lyrics are deep and the songs are just bigger than ever.”
In keeping with their tradition of making people move while singing about universal issues and spreading a message of positive action and social unity, Kill The Power is an album bulging with fury at the state of the modern world. Never afraid to tackle important topics head on, while never forgetting his band’s mission to entertain and leave the world in a sweaty, sated heap, Benji’s notoriously insane energy levels seem to be creeping up with every album and Kill The Power showcases his most furious and impactful performances to date.
“The world’s getting worse so how can I get more mellow?” he laughs. “Of course I’m getting angrier! People normally stay in a bag when it comes to lyrics. Stephen King stays with horror and he’s brilliant at it, you know? With Skindred, it’s always about encouraging an uplift. It’s about a sense of unity. Lyrics can change people’s lives, you know? You can be going down one road and hear a song and have a Road To Damascus experience and become someone else.”
On an album that has no shortage of invigorating highlights, Kill The Power takes Skindred to new extremes at both ends of the lyrical spectrum, reaching a new level of fiery intensity on the lethal cautionary tale of “Playin’ With The Devil” and the euphoric end-of-the-working-week celebration of “Saturday”: both songs proving that this band’s ability to touch the heart and fire the blood remains as incisive and potent as ever. As if to enhance their songwriting chops more than ever, Kill The Power also features several songs written in collaboration with legendary songwriting guru Russ Ballard, the man behind such immortal rock staples as Since You’ve Been Gone and God Gave Rock & Roll To You, and this seemingly perverse team-up has led to Skindred’s finest set of lyrics and melodies to date.
“Basically, I try to write songs that people can interpret however they like,” says Benji. “When I wrote ‘Playin’ With The Devil’, I originally wrote some words down on a piece of paper thinking about friends I’ve had who smoke crack and live on the pipe, you know? I wrote the song about that kind of thing, but then a couple of days later the riots happened in London and so it became about that as well. When you shit on your own doorstep, your house is going to smell of shit. You’ve got to clean that up! With ‘Saturday’, it’s not a typical Skindred song; it’s a big celebration. We got Russ Ballard involved on that one and he helped me structure the lyrics in the right way so when the chorus hits, it hits like a hammer. It’s an upbeat song but when you listen to the lyrics it goes on about how people all have different reasons to be out and partying. Some people are celebrating, some people are drowning their sorrows, and we all come together on a Saturday. When this record comes out and people go to a club on a Saturday, that’s when it’s gonna go off! The chorus is huge!”
While Skindred’s previous album Union Black was dominated by the bleeps, booms and squelches of British electronic dance music, albeit balanced out by Mikey Demus’ trademark riffs, the new album sees the band return to a more organic sound that amounts to the most accurate representation of the Skindred live experience yet committed to tape. From the huge beats and stuttering samples of the opening title track and the laudably demented Ninja through to the insistent melodies and rampaging choruses of “The Kids Are Right Now” and “Saturday” and on to the thunderous, metallic throwdowns of “Proceed With Caution” and “Ruling Force” and the cool acoustic breeze of the closing More Fire, Kill The Power is Skindred cranked up to full throttle and revelling in their own febrile creativity like never before.
“It’s all about making an album that moves people in the same way that our live shows do,” says Arya. “We love what we achieved on Union Black and we still used a lot of those basic ideas on Kill The Power, but this time it’s a more organic sound. All the drum loops you hear were originally played by me before we started chopping them up, and there are a lot more guitars on this record too. We love combining all the music that we love in Skindred but we all love heavy music and we’re a rock band at heart and that really comes across this time.”
“We’ve delivered an album that’s gonna make people rock for the next few years,” states Benji. “You know what? I can’t do anything about record sales, but if people come to a Skindred show they’re gonna know they’ve been there, you know? Ha ha! The music we make is not about Christians or Muslims, straight people or gay people, black or white or any of that shit. When people are in that room together it’s just Skindred, one unity and one strength!”
Having conquered numerous countries around the world, Skindred could easily be taking a breather and resting on their laurels at this point. Instead, this most dedicated and hard-working of modern bands are preparing to launch their most exuberant assault on the world ever when Kill The Power hits the streets. Anyone that has ever seen the band live before will confirm that it is impossible not to get fired up and drawn into the joyous abandon of a Skindred show and with their greatest album to date primed and ready to explode, the best live band on the planet simply cannot fail to conquer the entire world this time round. Wherever and whoever you are, Skindred are coming. Open your ears and get your dancing feet ready…
“There’s nothing better than being on stage with these guys,” says Arya. “Skindred is my favourite band and I’m so lucky to be part of this thing we’ve created. We’ve been all over the world but there are always new places to visit and new crowds to play for. We just want to keep getting bigger and better.”
“We’re a global band. We’ve played in Colombia and India and everywhere and it’s the same energy,” Benji concludes. “I get letters from people in Hawaii and people in Turkey. It’s all the same. We resonate globally and it’s the greatest thing ever. It seems funny to us sometimes because we’re always kicking each other’s heads in and saying ‘You’re a wanker!’ to each other before we go on stage, but as soon as it’s time to play the show the oneness this band creates together and the unity we bring is unique. I’ve never experienced anything like it and we can’t wait to get back on the road and do it all again.”
Nearly 1,000 Students to Participate in WSSU Commencement on May 15
WINSTON-SALEM, NC -- Christina Wareâs story is one of the many inspiring testimonials of the nearly 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students from near and afar who are expected to participate in Winston-Salem State Universityâs commencement ceremony on Friday, May 15, at 9:45 a.m., at Bowman Gray Stadium, 1250 South Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive.
Academy Award-winning recording artist, activist and actor Common will be the keynote speaker. There are no guest limits or ticket requirements for the ceremony.
It is conceivable that Wareâs story of work ethic, undeniable spirit and enthusiasm encapsulates the sentiment of her graduating 2015 classmates.
Ware, 43, of Winston-Salem, is quite active on and off campus as a mentor to other students, a member of the non-traditional student organization, the first president of Epsilon Chapter 130 of Tau Sigma National Honor Society at WSSU, a wife and proud mother of two. She is also legally blind. She wants to blaze trails, set examples and raise the bar for others with disabilities.
âIn 2007, I lost my eyesight. After a six-month pity party, I decided to continue my education and make a difference for others. Since 2008, I have spent every day of my life proving to society that having a disability does not mean we are weak. I am now an advocate for persons with disabilities,â Ware, a business major, said, "We are not handicapped, we are handy capable!"
Ware, who can be described as always pleasant and having an unlimited enthusiasm for life, says every day alive is like Christmas. She demands to be treated like everyone else and has been noted to say, âI may physically fall, but mentally I can get back up and pull a 4.0 semester.â After graduation she wants to start a Kosher/Halal foods business and become active on community boards.
The China Connection
From the City of Harbin, the capital and largest city of the Heilongjiang province of the People's Republic of China, WSSU Master of Arts in the Teaching of English as a Second Language and Applied Linguistics students Yaowen Xing and Chunling Zhang have found a second home at WSSU and in Winston-Salem. They perhaps have come the farthest distance attend the university.
With a population of more than five million people, Harbin is situated in the northeast region of China so close to Russia that only the Songhua River separates the two countries. Nicknamed the Ice City, the average winter temperature is -3.5 °F with annual lows hitting -31.0 °F. Itâs no wonder the students say the warmer weather here in the Piedmont Triad has not been lost in translation with them and itâs one of the things they enjoy.
âWe really love the weather in North Carolina, especially the long summer time, since our hometown is so cold with snow for almost 6 months of the year,â Xing, 30, noted. âWe also love the people at WSSU and the faculty who all are nice and it has been a really good experience.â
Xing and Zhang, 35, are in America as part of a Chinese education immersion program to help exchange the cultures between China and America. They enjoy working as cultural ambassadors to students in both the cultures. The two came to the U.S. in 2013 and have been teaching at Konnoak Elementary school during the early hours and studying and researching later in the day. âComing to America was a dream for me after learning about it through books, movies and music, and my time here it has been amazing,â Xing said.
Zhang, said she didnât know much about WSSU or Historically Black Colleges or Universities (HBCUâs), but after a short time here she knew WSSU would be was special part of life. âI have met many African- Americans who have been friendly and helpful. I now can say I truly have many black friends,â Zhang said. She and Xing have taken advantage of the HBCU experience. They have been often seen attending evening lectures and presentations, sports events, musical and visual arts events. With their WSSU master degrees they will return to China one day in the future to make an impact on teaching and the quality of education there.
The All-In Approach
Olivia N. Sedwick, 21, a political science major from Indianapolis, has taken âthe all-in approach" to her WSSU experience. The current WSSU student government president (SGA), honorâs student and champion athlete, chose WSSU over other schools she could have attended.
Featured in a USA Today article highlighting the HBCU experience released last June, Sedwick is quoted as saying about WSSU, âI fell in love with the school.â She says, âWe talked about things that I had never had the chance to before coming from a predominantly white high school.â
Liking the intellectual and social environment, she was comfortable becoming involved around campus. In her first year, a walk-on athlete for the womenâs track and field team, she was a 2013 CIAA Indoor Womenâs Track and Field All-Conference competitor and the WSSU womenâs shot put record holder until earlier this year, although she never competed in the throws until coming to college. In her second year she served as the sophomore class vice president while also being appointed to serve on many committees throughout the university. In that same year, she was a delegate to the UNC Association of Student Governments (UNCASG), representing WSSU students on a state-wide level. At the end of that year, she became the first African-American female elected senior vice president of UNCASG and served in that capacity for the entirety of her third year while being active as the chief of staff for the WSSU student government association that year also. Toward the end of her term in UNCASG, she decided to run for student body president and has served as the voice of the students for the duration of her last year. With all of her activities, she has maintained a 3.95 GPA throughout her time in college.
Sedwick has been selected as a UNC General Administration Presidential Intern, which begins in July. Upon completion of the prestigious one-year appointment, Sedwick plans to attend Howard University School of Law.
A Drum Major who will March for a Noble Cause
Willie Davis, 22, a social work major from Fayetteville, N.C., who has led WSSUâs Red Sea of Sound Marching Band as a drum major for his senior year, will now march to lead the charge for helping veterans and their families cope with typical and unique challenges of serving in military. Davis will be one of four Cadets with the distinct honor of being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant U.S. in the U.S. Army during this yearâs commencement ceremony. Despite that professionally Davis will help vets, military and families with things like dealing with emotions, he said, âI donât think I will be ready for the commissioning part (of commencement) emotionally.â
Readiness for Davis is an understatement. The youngest of three siblings, who was age 10 when his father died, Davis has been an A average student throughout life. He was in the top ten of his high school class and the first generation in his family to attend college. At WSSU, besides maintaining high academic achievement and serving in the U.S. Army ROTC, Davis has been active with the WSSU Band, the University Choir, a Campus Ambassador, a mentor to freshmen students, vice president of the WSSU chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi National Honorary Band Fraternity, a Veterans Helping Veterans Heal intern and a member of Galilee Missionary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem.
After graduation, Davis is going to graduate school at the University of South Carolina. He plans to complete that program in one year and begin his military duties. As a clinical social worker, his responsibilities may range from clinical counseling, crisis intervention, disaster relief, critical event debriefing, teaching and training, supervision, research, administration, consultation and policy development in various military settings. He wants to specialize in helping military veterans who suffer from different traumas such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), paranoid schizophrenia and other conditions.
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – Preparations are underway to complete the encapsulation of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, or OCO-2, into the Delta II payload fairing in the mobile service tower at Space Launch Complex 2 on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The fairing will protect OCO-2 during launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket, scheduled for 5:56 a.m. EDT on July 1. OCO-2 is NASA’s first mission dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide, the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving changes in Earth’s climate. OCO-2 will provide a new tool for understanding the human and natural sources of carbon dioxide emissions and the natural "sinks" that absorb carbon dioxide and help control its buildup. The observatory will measure the global geographic distribution of these sources and sinks and study their changes over time. To learn more about OCO-2, visit oco.jpl.nasa.gov. Photo credit: NASA/30th Space Wing, U.S. Air Force
Few families had such an important impact on the history of the South Australian colony as did the Randell family. The father was a successful flour miller and his son William Richard Randell was the paddle steamer builder, river boat captain and river trader. The father settled in Gumeracha and became its leading citizen and the son established his career in Mannum but then retired back to the family estate of Kenton Park in Gumeracha just before his father’s death. They contributed to the Baptist Church in SA and the state parliament apart from their business interests. The Randell family developed a family logo which encapsulates the varied interests of the family. It has English Oaks which were planted at Kenton Park and in Gumeracha, a paddle wheel representing the river navigation company (and the river race of 1853), and a stone flour mill and chimney which represented the family milling businesses. Their heritage lives on in both Gumeracha and Mannum 186 years after William Beavis Randell arrived in Gumeracha. Below as a small family history chart as their names become confusing
William Beavis Randell 1799-1876. Married Mary Ann Elliott ( Bear) 1823. 10 children.
Married Phoebe Robbins 1876. 1 child.
Established Gumeracha, Kenton Park, flour mill. Buried Salem cemetery.
Their eldest son William Richard Randell. 1823 – 1911.
Married Elizabeth Nichols 1853. 15 children.
Established Mannum, Mary Jane paddle steamer, flour miller. Buried Salem.
Their eldest living son William Beavis Randell 1856 – 1917.
Married Hannah Finlayson 1880. 12 children.
Established dairy factory in mill, potato farmer, at Kenton Park. Buried Salem.
Their eldest living son William Beavis Randell 1886 – 1946.
Married Mary Lander 1916. 3 children.
William Richard Randell.
William Richard Randell was born in 1824 and lived until 1911. With his parents he arrived at Glenelg in 1837. He was born in Devon. On the banks of the Murray on his father’s land he dreamt of having the first paddle steamer on the River Murray. In 1852 with the gold rushes sweeping Victoria he determined to do it and set about construction a paddle steamer. After it was built the big race between “Captain” Randell of Mannum and Captain Francis Cadell of Goolwa transpired in August 1853 to see who could steam up the River Murray to the junction with the Darling River. Before then William Randell with his brothers Elliott and Thomas Randell and some carpenters (Wiese, Teakle and Bond) set about cutting timber for the hull in Gumeracha and then they carted it in bullock drays to the River Murray where Mannum now stands. A local blacksmith John Coulls of Blyth Street Adelaide made the boiler and the engine was built in Adelaide by a German engineer Claus Gehlken. The hull was 17 metres (56 feet) long and the boat was completed in February 1853 and named the Mary Ann after his mother. Captain Cadell of Goolwa named his first paddle steamer the Lady Augusta after Lady August Fox Young the wife of the South Australian Governor. The Lady Augusta was made in Sydney and sailed to Goolwa. Unlike American paddle boats Randell’s Mary Ann was a side wheeler. It cost William Randell about £1,800 - a large sum for those days. Both paddle steamers arrived in Swan Hill on 14th September with the Lady Augusta arriving first by three hours. Cadell got the prize money from the government for winning the race. But William Randell went much further up the River Murray to Echuca. In 1854 after the voyage to Echuca William Randell built a second hull and attached it to make a strange two hulled vessel which he renamed the Gemini. This was the start of William Randell’s successful river boat company carrying supplies to the gold towns and the sheep stations along NSW and Victorian rivers. All that remains of the historic Mary Ann these days is the old boiler which is located in the Randell Reserve Mannum. It was left on the shores of the River Murray for decades from the mid 1850s and just after William Richard Randell’s death it was given back to the town of Mannum for display purposes in 1912. Randell had given the boiler to the SA Chambers of Manufactures in 1909.
William married Elizabeth Nichols in 1853 in Gumeracha. He eventually moved into Bleak House at Mannum now known as Randell House. At the bottom of the garden of this grand residence is one remaining wall of the two room cottage which he built in Mannum in the mid-1850s. The grand two storey limestone residence with red brick quoins faces McLaren Street but is hidden by trees and an impressive stone wall sand extensive gardens. It is above Randell’s old wool store which the first was building erected in Mannum in 1854. Randell house, however was built in 1868. As Randell’s trade along the Murray, the Murrumbidgee and the Darling increased Randell gave up four milling for shipping and warehousing. He moved to Wentworth in NSW and became a JP there in 1861. He returned to permanently live in Mannum in 1869 once Randell House was completed and in that same year he sailed a dry dock up from Goolwa and installed it where the Mannum Museum is now located. Around the time that his mother died at Kenton Park and in 1874 William Richard Randell and his family returned to live at Kenton Park in Gumeracha. His father died there in 1876. In 1893 he became the chairman of the Gumeracha Butter factory which operated in the former flour mill. In that same year 1893 he replaced John Barton Hack as the member the seat of Gumeracha in the Legislative Assembly which Randell held until 1899. The Butter Factory manager bought the business, but probably not the building in 1906. Unfortunately a fire destroyed part of the mill in 1912 and only part of it was rebuilt. Part was still used by the butter factory and part became a slaughter house for a butcher. In the 1920s the building became an AMSCOL milk depot. William Richard Randell died in 1911 just four years before work began on Lock One at Blanchetown which was named after him. He maintained his river businesses after the move back to Kenton Park and during his life he owned and ran 16 paddle steamers along the Darling and Murray Rivers. His progeny numbered fifteen and his eldest born living son William Beavis Randell moved into Kenton Park. Sadly he died there just a few years later in 1916. He ran the Kenton Park property as a dairy, potato and grain farm. Kenton Park stayed in the Randell family for some time after this as the child born of Phoebe Robbins( John Beavis Randell) , the second wife, purchased it in the late 1920s.
William Beavis Randell.
David McLaren took out three Special Surveys of the Torrens Valley area for the SA Company in 1839/40. One centred on the River Torrens which flows through what became Gumeracha. The SA Company had a manager’s residence built at Gumeracha named Ludlow House for the sheep and cattle herd manager of their lands there. William Beavis Randell, arrived in South Australia in October 1837 as a SA Company manager and he was sent to work at Ludlow House. William Beavis Randell was born in Devon in England in 1799 and married Mary Ann Bear in 1823 in the village of Kenton near Exeter Devon. He came from a family of flour millers and that was his father’s occupation in Devon. William Beavis Randell’s first born child William Richard Randell arrived in 1824. At the age of 38 William Beavis Randell brought his wife and family of seven children to South Australia including William Richard Randell who was then 13 years old. When William Beavis’ contract with the SA Company expired in 1845 he bought land for himself in Kenton Valley adjacent to Gumeracha. Here he built a grand house, which he called Kenton Park, and a flour mill which opened for business in 1847.
Flour milling was such an important industry in early South Australia and William Beavis Randell Senior built his first flour mill at Gumeracha in 1847 which he called Kenton Mills. He had leased and run a flour mill in Kenton Devon before he moved to South Australia. On his land he first built a two storey stone barn in 1841 followed by Kenton Park House in 1844. When he built his first flourmill in 1847 he also built a row of workers cottages for his employees. These 1847 cottages are locally heritage listed and they received an Adelaide Hills Council grant of $20,000 in 2023 for their restoration. Like Kenton Park house they back onto the River Torrens. Directly opposite the flour mill he built Mill Cottage as a residence for his William Richard Randell and another son John Beavis Randell. Today Mill cottage is a well maintained private stone residence.
The Randall family with seven children moved into the Gothic style Kenton Park house in 1844. Randall had 966 acres of prime land along the River Torrens with some bought from the SA Company Special Survey and some from the government. From 1848 he bought wheat from the early settlers at Blumberg (Birdwood) for processing in his flourmill. One of his sons, Samuel Randell managed that flour mill. William Beavis Randell and the Randell family also bought the flour mill at Mt Pleasant built in 1863 and another at Eden Valley which was managed by William Richard Randell a son of William Randell senior. Then William Beavis Randell also acquired the land for a flour mill in Blumberg from George Fife Angas. He built the Blumberg (Birdwood) mill in 1854 and in 1857 it was destroyed by a fire. It was rebuilt and partially fire damaged again in 1867 when it was rebuilt again. It was owned by William Beavis Randell’s until his death in late December 1876. Thereafter it was sold to the Pflaum brothers in 1877. They built the grand three storey structure in 1888 and that building is now the National Motor Museum in Birdwood. Much of the flour produced in the Gumeracha flour mill from 1853 onwards was carted by bullocks to Mannum to be loaded onto a Randell ship for transport up the Murray and Darling rivers and to the gold mining centre of Bendigo and the Murray-Darling River sheep stations! The Randell flour mill was converted to a butter factory in 1883 by William Richard Randell and later it became a butcher’s shop, and an AMSCOL milk depot. More recently a bed and breakfast establishment before reverted to a private residence.
William Beavis Randell was a good Baptist and friend of David McLaren the former SA Company manager who was also a Baptist. McLaren had lived in Ludlow House himself for some time. Early Baptist services for the Gumeracha area were held in William Beavis Randell’s barn (built 1841) until the Salem Baptist Church, the oldest Baptist congregation in SA, was built. This congregation was keen to build a church and one opened in 1846 with the first service taken by Reverend Thomas Playford of Mitcham. Randell donated some of his land for this Baptist church which he attended. William Beavis Randell and his wife and numerous family members are buried in the attached cemetery. Until 1899 baptisms were conducted in a spring in the circle of oaks opposite the church but an earthquake at the time dried up the permanent spring which was located there and used for the baptisms.
Randell died at Kenton Park in 1876 and the milling business was then taken over by his son William Richard Randell. William Beavis Randell was an interesting character. But there is a surprise in William Beavis Randell’s story because in the last year of his 77 years of life on 17th August 1876 he married his housekeeper who was only 38 years old. He died on 28th December 1876. His first wife Mary Ann had died in December 1874 and was buried in the Salem cemetery with a simple marble headstone. After William Beavis Randell died a grand marble memorial was built for his nearby grave with Mary Ann Elliot Randell’s name also listed on that headstone. His second wife was Phoebe Robbins and by the time Randell died, just four months after the marriage, Phoebe was pregnant with a child who was named John Beavis Randell. William Beavis Randell was buried with his first wife Mary Ann in the Salem Baptist cemetery in January 1877. After his death Phoebe inherited 100 acres of land but she did not inherit Kenton Park. Phoebe Randell died in 1922. Her son John Beavis Randell bought Kenton Park in 1928 and moved back into the house and he represented Gumeracha in state parliament in the 1920s. He died in 1953. William Beavis Randell had nine children with Mary Ann and John Randell with Phoebe. Kenton Park remained in the Randell family until the year 2000 when it was sold to others.
Gumeracha.
In 1853 William Beavis Randell had the private town of Gumeracha laid out on part of his property. He named streets after his friend David McLaren and the reigning English monarch and her prince consort – Victoria and Albert. The town progressed well and a Methodist Church opened in Gumeracha in 1860 followed by the Institute in 1864 which was demolished for the new Town Hall which was built in 1909. The District Hotel was erected in 1861 and up the hill from it a Court House was built which was the first Court House in the Torrens districts. A second Court House and police station was built in 1865 and it is now the oldest police station still in use in SA. The Police Station was built in Georgian style. Although post services began in 1848 the current Post Office was built around 1890 to 1900. It is a fine stone building.
The SA Company residence Ludlow House in Gumeracha was retained by the SA Company until 1908 when it was sold to Mr W Hannaford. But for many years before 1908 it was leased out to others as the SA Company had moved its headquarters for stock management from the Gumeracha district. In the early years the SA Company had over 9,000 acres of land in the Gumeracha district. The Company moved stock production out of the Gumeracha-Birdwood districts in the 1850s when they decided to make money by leasing land to farmers. Rents and land sales became the Company’s major source of income after this early development stage of South Australia. Much of its land in the Gumeracha area was sold in the 1910s and 1920s to long term lessees. The Company ceased operations in 1949.
Mannum.
William Beavis Randell took out leasehold runs both side of the River Murray at Noa No just north of the later site of Mannum. He ran cattle on the riverfront leaseholds from 1851. It was on this land that William Richard Randell assembled his paddle steamer the Mary Ann which was carted down by bullock drays from Gumeracha. He built a launch slip and tested his steam powered paddle steamer. After his first short trip the steamer was moored further south at the site which later became Mannum. In 1864 the government surveyed the town of Mannum near Randell’s slip and wool store. William Richard Randell purchased sites in the town in addition to some of the family leaseholds. On the leasehold land he had built his wool store in 1854 and Randell House (originally called Bleak House) in the 1868 as well as maintaining his floating dock yard. Before Randell House was built William Richard Randell built a two room stone cottage in 1856. Only a couple of the walls of that cottage remain at the bottom of the garden of Randell House. One of his brothers Thomas George Randell built a new general store and house in Mannum in 1863 at the top of McLaren Street basically across the road from Bleak House. The rear part of that store, the original house was built around 1856. Look for it behind the current façade. It was later known as the B & F Randell store referring to Thomas’s wife Bella and their son Frederick Randell.
The Main Street of Mannum was renamed Randell Street in 1932. There are a number of structures in Randell Street which relate to William Richard Randell’s time in Mannum and they indicate his importance to the town. To acknowledge the importance of the Randell family to Mannum a walking trail of sites relating to him has been developed by the town. The sites relating to the Randell family include the boiler from the PS Mary Ann under a rotunda in the Randall Reserve and a stone memorial cairn nearby with a small metal replica of the Mary Ann paddle steamer is also in Randell Reserve on the river. The dry dock is by the town Museum and the Paddle Steamer Marion is often moored beside Randell’s dry dock. Randall House and garden was built in 1868. Thomas George Randell’s store and house (1856 and 1863) is at the top of McLaren Street- he was another son of William Beavis Randell and brother of William Richard Randell. Thomas George Randell was born in 1826 and died in 1880. Francis Henry Randell’s fine two storey house in McLaren Street is behind the Wool store. Francis Randell lived from 1835 to 1899 and is buried in the Salem Baptist cemetery in Gumeracha. He was another son of William Beavis Randell and brother of William Richard Randell. He bought the land for his house in McLaren Street from his brother in 1872. The house was erected shortly after that. The old launching site of the Mary Ann PS was at Noa No landing north of the town.
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The music world may be in a permanent state of panic and flux, but one basic principle of rock’n’roll remains true: the key to longevity is to always deliver the goods. No band has better encapsulated this ethos of integrity and determination over the last decade than Skindred.
Widely acknowledged as one of the most devastating and enthralling live bands on the planet, the Newport destroyers have been a perennial force for musical invention and remorseless positivity since emerging from the ashes of frontman Benji Webbe’s former band Dub War back in 1998. Over the course of four universally praised studio albums – Babylon (2002), Roots Rock Riot (2007), Shark Bites And Dog Fights (2009) and Union Black (2011) – Skindred’s reputation for producing the ultimate spark-spraying state-of-the-art soundclash, combining all manner of seemingly disparate musical elements into an irresistibly exhilarating explosion of energy and cross-pollinated cultural fervour has rightly earned them a reputation as a band capable of uniting people from all corners of the globe and making every last one of them tear up the dancefloor with a giant shit-eating grin plastered across their faces.
With the toughest and most infectious metal riffs colliding with the biggest, phattest hip hop and reggae grooves, cutting edge electronics and a razor-sharp pop sensibility guaranteed to encourage even the most curmudgeonly music fans bellow along with rabid enthusiasm, Skindred are both the ultimate thinking man’s party band. And now, with the release of their fifth studio album Kill The Power, Benji Webbe and his loyal henchmen – bassist Dan Pugsley, guitarist Mikey Demus and drummer Arya Goggins – are poised to spread their gospel of good times and badass tunes to an even bigger global audience.
“We know that everyone recognises us as one of the best live bands around,” says Arya. “We’re really proud of all of the albums we’ve made, but we all felt that we needed to make an album that would be as powerful and effective as the live show. That’s what Kill The Power is all about. This time, we want everyone to sit up and listen and join in the party.”
“I started DJ-ing a little while ago and it’s taught me a lot,” adds Benji. “Now I feel like I wanted to make an album where every intro to every song makes kids think ‘Fucking hell, they’re playing that song!’ Every middle eight on this album is a banger. Every chorus is massive. On this album, the lyrics are deep and the songs are just bigger than ever.”
In keeping with their tradition of making people move while singing about universal issues and spreading a message of positive action and social unity, Kill The Power is an album bulging with fury at the state of the modern world. Never afraid to tackle important topics head on, while never forgetting his band’s mission to entertain and leave the world in a sweaty, sated heap, Benji’s notoriously insane energy levels seem to be creeping up with every album and Kill The Power showcases his most furious and impactful performances to date.
“The world’s getting worse so how can I get more mellow?” he laughs. “Of course I’m getting angrier! People normally stay in a bag when it comes to lyrics. Stephen King stays with horror and he’s brilliant at it, you know? With Skindred, it’s always about encouraging an uplift. It’s about a sense of unity. Lyrics can change people’s lives, you know? You can be going down one road and hear a song and have a Road To Damascus experience and become someone else.”
On an album that has no shortage of invigorating highlights, Kill The Power takes Skindred to new extremes at both ends of the lyrical spectrum, reaching a new level of fiery intensity on the lethal cautionary tale of “Playin’ With The Devil” and the euphoric end-of-the-working-week celebration of “Saturday”: both songs proving that this band’s ability to touch the heart and fire the blood remains as incisive and potent as ever. As if to enhance their songwriting chops more than ever, Kill The Power also features several songs written in collaboration with legendary songwriting guru Russ Ballard, the man behind such immortal rock staples as Since You’ve Been Gone and God Gave Rock & Roll To You, and this seemingly perverse team-up has led to Skindred’s finest set of lyrics and melodies to date.
“Basically, I try to write songs that people can interpret however they like,” says Benji. “When I wrote ‘Playin’ With The Devil’, I originally wrote some words down on a piece of paper thinking about friends I’ve had who smoke crack and live on the pipe, you know? I wrote the song about that kind of thing, but then a couple of days later the riots happened in London and so it became about that as well. When you shit on your own doorstep, your house is going to smell of shit. You’ve got to clean that up! With ‘Saturday’, it’s not a typical Skindred song; it’s a big celebration. We got Russ Ballard involved on that one and he helped me structure the lyrics in the right way so when the chorus hits, it hits like a hammer. It’s an upbeat song but when you listen to the lyrics it goes on about how people all have different reasons to be out and partying. Some people are celebrating, some people are drowning their sorrows, and we all come together on a Saturday. When this record comes out and people go to a club on a Saturday, that’s when it’s gonna go off! The chorus is huge!”
While Skindred’s previous album Union Black was dominated by the bleeps, booms and squelches of British electronic dance music, albeit balanced out by Mikey Demus’ trademark riffs, the new album sees the band return to a more organic sound that amounts to the most accurate representation of the Skindred live experience yet committed to tape. From the huge beats and stuttering samples of the opening title track and the laudably demented Ninja through to the insistent melodies and rampaging choruses of “The Kids Are Right Now” and “Saturday” and on to the thunderous, metallic throwdowns of “Proceed With Caution” and “Ruling Force” and the cool acoustic breeze of the closing More Fire, Kill The Power is Skindred cranked up to full throttle and revelling in their own febrile creativity like never before.
“It’s all about making an album that moves people in the same way that our live shows do,” says Arya. “We love what we achieved on Union Black and we still used a lot of those basic ideas on Kill The Power, but this time it’s a more organic sound. All the drum loops you hear were originally played by me before we started chopping them up, and there are a lot more guitars on this record too. We love combining all the music that we love in Skindred but we all love heavy music and we’re a rock band at heart and that really comes across this time.”
“We’ve delivered an album that’s gonna make people rock for the next few years,” states Benji. “You know what? I can’t do anything about record sales, but if people come to a Skindred show they’re gonna know they’ve been there, you know? Ha ha! The music we make is not about Christians or Muslims, straight people or gay people, black or white or any of that shit. When people are in that room together it’s just Skindred, one unity and one strength!”
Having conquered numerous countries around the world, Skindred could easily be taking a breather and resting on their laurels at this point. Instead, this most dedicated and hard-working of modern bands are preparing to launch their most exuberant assault on the world ever when Kill The Power hits the streets. Anyone that has ever seen the band live before will confirm that it is impossible not to get fired up and drawn into the joyous abandon of a Skindred show and with their greatest album to date primed and ready to explode, the best live band on the planet simply cannot fail to conquer the entire world this time round. Wherever and whoever you are, Skindred are coming. Open your ears and get your dancing feet ready…
“There’s nothing better than being on stage with these guys,” says Arya. “Skindred is my favourite band and I’m so lucky to be part of this thing we’ve created. We’ve been all over the world but there are always new places to visit and new crowds to play for. We just want to keep getting bigger and better.”
“We’re a global band. We’ve played in Colombia and India and everywhere and it’s the same energy,” Benji concludes. “I get letters from people in Hawaii and people in Turkey. It’s all the same. We resonate globally and it’s the greatest thing ever. It seems funny to us sometimes because we’re always kicking each other’s heads in and saying ‘You’re a wanker!’ to each other before we go on stage, but as soon as it’s time to play the show the oneness this band creates together and the unity we bring is unique. I’ve never experienced anything like it and we can’t wait to get back on the road and do it all again.”
Burke and Wills Menindee Camp Pamamaroo Creek 26/10/1860 to 26/01/1861.
The story of Burke and Wills has become an integral part of the Australian consciousness. Burke and Wills and their fate seem to encapsulate and justify the fear that many urban Australians have of the vast, lonely, dry wilderness which occupies over two-thirds of the continent. Of course the truth about the ignominious demise of Burke and wills is more pedestrian. What went wrong with their expedition can best be summed up by those well-known human failings - incompetence, arrogance, inflexibility and racial bigotry. The expedition was ill-conceived from the outset. It is now generally agreed that the raison d'etre of the whole undertaking was overwhelming pride. This pride was a result of the newly found wealth of Melbourne (a direct result of the gold rushes) and the newly created colonial independence of Victoria. Public enthusiasm for the expedition was high. Public subscriptions exceeded £3000 and the government contributed £6000. Under ordinary circumstances this would have been adequate funding but over half of the funds were spent on purchasing and importing twenty-four camels from Afghanistan. The committee then advertised for a man to lead the expedition. They had thirteen applicants out of whom they chose Irish-born police inspector Robert O'Hara Burke. Burke had no experience and no apparent knowledge of the Australian bush. Why he was chosen to lead an expedition which was going to travel across thousands of miles of rugged and unknown terrain remains a mystery. It was not so much an expedition as a public display. The camels and packhorses were carrying twenty-one tons of equipment including 120 mirrors as presents for Aborigines, sixty gallons of rum, four gallons of brandy, supplies of rockets, arms and vast qualities of dried food.
On 6 September when the expedition reached Swan Hill Burke sold off a large quantity of stores and hired two new men. In Balranald the foreman, Ferguson, quit; Burke dismissed Creber, Cowen, Fletcher, the cook Drakeford, and Langan; and some stores including the expedition's entire supply of lime juice were sold. At the Darling River camp at Pamamaroo Creek Burke insisted that all items weighing over thirty pounds be abandoned. This decision meant that neither Dr Beckler nor the naturalist Ludwig Becker could carry their instruments. Becker left the expedition at Menindee. Prior to Becker's departure the second-in-command, Landells, realised that he would never be able to work with Burke and resigned. At Menindee news arrived from Melbourne that another continental crossing was about to commence. All pretence about the desire to 'enquire into the report upon the exploration of the Australian interior' was abandoned. Burke could not tolerate the thought that he might be beaten. On 19 October Burke, Wills, Brabe, King, Gray, McDonough, Patton and an Afgan cameleer Dost Mohammed left Menindee. Wright was left behind with instructions to bring stores and provisions and to follow the main party in a week to Cooper’s Creek. The main party reached Cooper Creek on 11 November and on 27 November the famous Camp 65 was established under a coolibah tree on the banks of the river. On 16 December 1860 with six camels, one pony, and Wills, Gray and King, Burke began the final push north to the Gulf of Carpentaria. Disaster now followed disaster on the trip north and back to Cooper Creek. On 17 April on the way back Charley Gray died. Four days later Burke, Wills and King reached the Cooper Creek depot. They were exhausted and in desperate need of fresh supplies. To their horror the depot had been abandoned only hours earlier. On a tree William Brahe, the depot foreman, had carved DIG. Confronted with an empty depot, a small cache of supplies and the prospect of starvation, Burke had to decide whether he was going to go back to Menindee or attempt a 320 kilometre walk across the desert to a cattle station at Mount Hopeless. Once again Burke made the wrong decision. He decided to head for Mount Hopeless. It is perhaps the most telling comment about the character of Burke he ignored his only chance saving himself, Wills and King. It is almost certain that the local Aborigines could have saved the trio. But Burke saw himself as the conqueror, as a member of a superior civilisation. The idea that he could be saved from death by a group of 'savages' was unthinkable. The base camp in Menindee was thus occupied by part of the group from 19 Oct 1860 to 26 Jan 1861 before they headed back to Melbourne. Only John King made it back alive from Cooper Creek because he had accepted the hospitality of the Aboriginal people there. Dost Mahomet returned and lived in Menindee and worked for Ah Chung the Chinese baker. He died in 1880 and was buried just outside the town. The base camp at Pamamaroo Creek near Menindee was occupied from 19 October 1860 to 26 January 1861. Before setting off north Burke stayed in the hotel in Menindee and not with his men at Pamamaroo Creek depot. The main weir on the River Darling diverts water into Lake Pamamaroo which becomes the water supply of Broken Hill and the source of irrigation water for the fruit and vines around Menindee.
DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-4 satellite, encapsulated inside a 4-meter-diameter payload fairing, is transported and mated to its United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket inside the Mobile Service Tower (MST) at Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance
The Air Force’s second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-2) satellite is encapsulated inside a 5-meter-diameter payload fairing in preparation for launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, or OCO-2, is viewed for the last time in the mobile service tower at Space Launch Complex 2 on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California before the Delta II payload fairing encloses it completely for launch. The fairing will protect OCO-2 during launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket, scheduled for 5:56 a.m. EDT on July 1. OCO-2 is NASA’s first mission dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide, the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving changes in Earth’s climate. OCO-2 will provide a new tool for understanding the human and natural sources of carbon dioxide emissions and the natural "sinks" that absorb carbon dioxide and help control its buildup. The observatory will measure the global geographic distribution of these sources and sinks and study their changes over time. To learn more about OCO-2, visit oco.jpl.nasa.gov. Photo credit: NASA/30th Space Wing, U.S. Air Force
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The U.S. Air Force’s Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF-9 is encapsulated inside a 4-meter-diameter payload fairing in preparation for launch on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – Encapsulation of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, or OCO-2, into the Delta II payload fairing nears completion in the mobile service tower at Space Launch Complex 2 on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The fairing will protect OCO-2 during launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket, scheduled for 5:56 a.m. EDT on July 1. OCO-2 is NASA’s first mission dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide, the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving changes in Earth’s climate. OCO-2 will provide a new tool for understanding the human and natural sources of carbon dioxide emissions and the natural "sinks" that absorb carbon dioxide and help control its buildup. The observatory will measure the global geographic distribution of these sources and sinks and study their changes over time. To learn more about OCO-2, visit oco.jpl.nasa.gov. Photo credit: NASA/30th Space Wing, U.S. Air Force
Ritigala is an ancient Buddhist monastery and mountain in Sri Lanka. The ruins and rock inscriptions of the monastery date back to 1st century BCE. It is located 43 km away from the ancient monastic city of Anuradhapura. Ritigala mountain range consists of four peaks of which the main and the highest peak at the south of the range is named Ritigala Kanda. Ritigala mountain range, a 3776-acre (1582 ha) Strict Nature Reserve, in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka, is managed by the Department of Wildlife of Sri Lanka together with the Forest Department of Sri Lanka.
Ritigala Mountain
At 766 m (2513 feet) above sea level, and 600 m above the surrounding plains, Ritigala is the highest mountain in northern Sri Lanka. The modern name Ritigala is derived from the ancient name Ari??ha Pabbata (Dreadful Mountain), mentioned in the Mahavamsa. Its elevation is higher than the other main tourist attractions of the north central plains, namely Sigiriya, Dambulla and Mihintale. The significance of this topographical feature lies in the abrupt sheerness of the massif, its wooded slopes and wet microclimate at the summit. During the North East monsoon (December to February), Ritigala experiences the highest rainfall (125 cm) of entire dry zone. The wet micro climate at Ritigala is a singular occurrence in the north central plains, the ancient Sri Lanka’s “Wewe Bandi Rata” meaning “the land of rainwater reservoirs” in Sinhalese.
The climate at the summit is in sharp contrast to the climate at the foot; it is cooler in comparison to hot and dry climate of the region. Its rainfall records the highest in the whole of dry zone surrounding it by a good margin during the northeast monsoon of dry zone of the tropical island of Sri Lanka. The mist and cloud cover which encapsulate the summit during the south-west monsoon of Wet Zone of the island, results in high vapor condensation, in turn, turning the earth moist when the plains all around are in drought.
Legends
Legends abound on Ritigala. One of mysterious aspect is the belief of powerful medicinal herbs found near the crest. A herb called “Sansevi” is believed to have the power of conferring long life and curing all human pain. According to legend, all vegetation on Ritigala is protected by Yakkas, the guardian spirits of the mountain. The venerable Prof. Walpola Sri Rahula Maha Thera (1907–1997), a Professor of History and Religions at Northwestern University, a Buddhist monk scholar, in his “History of Buddhism in Ceylon, says "the term “Yaksa” denotes superhuman beings worthy of respect. It is possible that it was applied, by an extension of meaning, also to some pre-Buddhistic tribe of human beings, aboriginal to Ceylon".
The legend has it that Prince Pandukhabaya (3rd century BC) was assisted by Yakkas during his battles against his eight uncles at the foot of Ritigala. Another legend refers to a duel of two giants, most possibly Yakkas, named Soma and Jayasena. Soma being killed in the duel, Jayasena became a legend.
The Legend of Lord Hanuman and Ritigala
According to popular belief, non-human Lord Hanuman of supernatural powers, traveled over Ritigala, and, by accident, dropped a chunk off a mountain of the Himalaya range he was carrying from India to Lanka for its medicinal herbs. Lord Rama's brother, Prince Lakshmana was mortally wounded in battle and only a rare herb in the Himalaya could save his life. The pocket of vegetation of healing herbs and plants at the strange mini-plateau at the summit of Ritigala, which is distinct from the dry-zone flora of the lower slopes and surrounding plains at Ritigala, could thus be accounted for.
Lord Hanuman has visited Lanka on a previous occasion. That was when he was sent by Lord Rama in search of his consort Sita. It was King Ravana, a devotee of God Siva, who seized Sita from Parnasali in India, the holy hut of Lord Rama and brought her to Asok Vana, a beautiful park at Seetha Eliya (close to Nuwara Eliya or Little England, as the British called it three millennia later) on the Pusparaga (Dadumonara) in an air chariot, without touching her. (The peacock logo of Air Lanka, the predecessor of SriLankan Airlines and successor of Air Ceylon, is a stylized version of Rawana’s air chariot.) Having found the location where Sita was held, Hanuman made use of Ritigala Kanda as a launching pad to take a leap across to South India. Incidentally, Ritigala is the highest prominence between the central plains of Sri Lanka and the coast of southern India.
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My favorite shot from the night because it encapsulates the feel of a summer evening at the ballpark to me. The sky, the lights, and the batter whacking a good one.
I took Chris and Sarah -- who are visiting us from the UK -- to a Carolina League (minor league) baseball game in Wilmington and our locals the "Wilmington Blue Rocks" played the "Myrtle Beach Pelicans" (from South Carolina).
The Blue Rocks won -- and we introduced Chris to American Baseball which he had never ever seen before. We had a great time and it was a GREAT night for baseball!
Panasonic DMC-GH2 and Panasonic 35-100mm f/2.8 lens.
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Encapsulation of the Pioneer Venus Multiprobe in its protective nose fairing is closely monitored by technicians in Hangar AO. The 2,000-pound spacecraft is one of two being launched toward the planet Venus. The Multiprobe is scheduled for launch aboard an Atlas Centaur rocket on August 7. Flying a direct path to the cloud-shrouded planet, the Multiprobe will reach Venus five days after the arrival of its sister spacecraft, the Pioneer Venus Orbiter, which was launched May 20, 1978. Three weeks before the Multiprobe reaches Venus, its four heavily instrumented scientific probes (seen on top of the spacecraft's main body or ""bus"") will be released and will impact at various points on the planet's surface. Together, the two spacecraft will conduct a thorough scientific exploration of the planet Venus.
Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/
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Brillat-Savarin Cheesecake with Strawberry, Elderflower and Champagne
Strawberry jelly on a bed of strawberry swiss roll, strawberry sorbet with crème fraiche sorbet.
Another beautifully plated masterpiece. A rich slice of nearly room temperature, soft set and almost custard-like in texture strip of cheesecake was covered with a thick, clean and pure strawberry gelée (i.e. not set gelatine). The contrast of the creamy cheesecake against the moist and thick sponge cake layer was, as our server warned, "classic" (i.e. standard, pedestrian, good but nothing extraordinarily unique). The distinct features of the plate relied on the accompanying thick pools of concentrated strawberry and elderflower and champagne jelly
- a winning flavour combination that reminded me much of the Ispahan in terms of colour and aromatics; a mini jelly roll-like sponge cake brushed with sugar syrup and filled with strawberry preserves that acted as an edible pedestal for a fun to eat encapsulated strawberry-raspberry gelée with liquid purée center, and quenelles of clean and refreshing strawberry and crème fraiche sorbets.
We should have clued in when our server noted that this dessert was "classic" when we asked what the difference was between it and his recommended Peach Melba. Woe to us to have gone with our mislead gut instincts and order the Brillat-Savarin cheesecake instead (I swear it was the lure of the triple cream cheese – oh how I love thee against the better judgement of my beautiful arteries).
The U.S. Air Force’s Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF-12 is encapsulated inside a 4-meter diameter payload fairing in preparation for launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance
Nearly 1,000 Students to Participate in WSSU Commencement on May 15
WINSTON-SALEM, NC -- Christina Wareâs story is one of the many inspiring testimonials of the nearly 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students from near and afar who are expected to participate in Winston-Salem State Universityâs commencement ceremony on Friday, May 15, at 9:45 a.m., at Bowman Gray Stadium, 1250 South Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive.
Academy Award-winning recording artist, activist and actor Common will be the keynote speaker. There are no guest limits or ticket requirements for the ceremony.
It is conceivable that Wareâs story of work ethic, undeniable spirit and enthusiasm encapsulates the sentiment of her graduating 2015 classmates.
Ware, 43, of Winston-Salem, is quite active on and off campus as a mentor to other students, a member of the non-traditional student organization, the first president of Epsilon Chapter 130 of Tau Sigma National Honor Society at WSSU, a wife and proud mother of two. She is also legally blind. She wants to blaze trails, set examples and raise the bar for others with disabilities.
âIn 2007, I lost my eyesight. After a six-month pity party, I decided to continue my education and make a difference for others. Since 2008, I have spent every day of my life proving to society that having a disability does not mean we are weak. I am now an advocate for persons with disabilities,â Ware, a business major, said, "We are not handicapped, we are handy capable!"
Ware, who can be described as always pleasant and having an unlimited enthusiasm for life, says every day alive is like Christmas. She demands to be treated like everyone else and has been noted to say, âI may physically fall, but mentally I can get back up and pull a 4.0 semester.â After graduation she wants to start a Kosher/Halal foods business and become active on community boards.
The China Connection
From the City of Harbin, the capital and largest city of the Heilongjiang province of the People's Republic of China, WSSU Master of Arts in the Teaching of English as a Second Language and Applied Linguistics students Yaowen Xing and Chunling Zhang have found a second home at WSSU and in Winston-Salem. They perhaps have come the farthest distance attend the university.
With a population of more than five million people, Harbin is situated in the northeast region of China so close to Russia that only the Songhua River separates the two countries. Nicknamed the Ice City, the average winter temperature is -3.5 °F with annual lows hitting -31.0 °F. Itâs no wonder the students say the warmer weather here in the Piedmont Triad has not been lost in translation with them and itâs one of the things they enjoy.
âWe really love the weather in North Carolina, especially the long summer time, since our hometown is so cold with snow for almost 6 months of the year,â Xing, 30, noted. âWe also love the people at WSSU and the faculty who all are nice and it has been a really good experience.â
Xing and Zhang, 35, are in America as part of a Chinese education immersion program to help exchange the cultures between China and America. They enjoy working as cultural ambassadors to students in both the cultures. The two came to the U.S. in 2013 and have been teaching at Konnoak Elementary school during the early hours and studying and researching later in the day. âComing to America was a dream for me after learning about it through books, movies and music, and my time here it has been amazing,â Xing said.
Zhang, said she didnât know much about WSSU or Historically Black Colleges or Universities (HBCUâs), but after a short time here she knew WSSU would be was special part of life. âI have met many African- Americans who have been friendly and helpful. I now can say I truly have many black friends,â Zhang said. She and Xing have taken advantage of the HBCU experience. They have been often seen attending evening lectures and presentations, sports events, musical and visual arts events. With their WSSU master degrees they will return to China one day in the future to make an impact on teaching and the quality of education there.
The All-In Approach
Olivia N. Sedwick, 21, a political science major from Indianapolis, has taken âthe all-in approach" to her WSSU experience. The current WSSU student government president (SGA), honorâs student and champion athlete, chose WSSU over other schools she could have attended.
Featured in a USA Today article highlighting the HBCU experience released last June, Sedwick is quoted as saying about WSSU, âI fell in love with the school.â She says, âWe talked about things that I had never had the chance to before coming from a predominantly white high school.â
Liking the intellectual and social environment, she was comfortable becoming involved around campus. In her first year, a walk-on athlete for the womenâs track and field team, she was a 2013 CIAA Indoor Womenâs Track and Field All-Conference competitor and the WSSU womenâs shot put record holder until earlier this year, although she never competed in the throws until coming to college. In her second year she served as the sophomore class vice president while also being appointed to serve on many committees throughout the university. In that same year, she was a delegate to the UNC Association of Student Governments (UNCASG), representing WSSU students on a state-wide level. At the end of that year, she became the first African-American female elected senior vice president of UNCASG and served in that capacity for the entirety of her third year while being active as the chief of staff for the WSSU student government association that year also. Toward the end of her term in UNCASG, she decided to run for student body president and has served as the voice of the students for the duration of her last year. With all of her activities, she has maintained a 3.95 GPA throughout her time in college.
Sedwick has been selected as a UNC General Administration Presidential Intern, which begins in July. Upon completion of the prestigious one-year appointment, Sedwick plans to attend Howard University School of Law.
A Drum Major who will March for a Noble Cause
Willie Davis, 22, a social work major from Fayetteville, N.C., who has led WSSUâs Red Sea of Sound Marching Band as a drum major for his senior year, will now march to lead the charge for helping veterans and their families cope with typical and unique challenges of serving in military. Davis will be one of four Cadets with the distinct honor of being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant U.S. in the U.S. Army during this yearâs commencement ceremony. Despite that professionally Davis will help vets, military and families with things like dealing with emotions, he said, âI donât think I will be ready for the commissioning part (of commencement) emotionally.â
Readiness for Davis is an understatement. The youngest of three siblings, who was age 10 when his father died, Davis has been an A average student throughout life. He was in the top ten of his high school class and the first generation in his family to attend college. At WSSU, besides maintaining high academic achievement and serving in the U.S. Army ROTC, Davis has been active with the WSSU Band, the University Choir, a Campus Ambassador, a mentor to freshmen students, vice president of the WSSU chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi National Honorary Band Fraternity, a Veterans Helping Veterans Heal intern and a member of Galilee Missionary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem.
After graduation, Davis is going to graduate school at the University of South Carolina. He plans to complete that program in one year and begin his military duties. As a clinical social worker, his responsibilities may range from clinical counseling, crisis intervention, disaster relief, critical event debriefing, teaching and training, supervision, research, administration, consultation and policy development in various military settings. He wants to specialize in helping military veterans who suffer from different traumas such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), paranoid schizophrenia and other conditions.
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – Half of the Delta II payload fairing for NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, or OCO-2, is positioned around the spacecraft in the mobile service tower at Space Launch Complex 2 on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The fairing will protect OCO-2 during launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket, scheduled for 5:56 a.m. EDT on July 1. OCO-2 is NASA’s first mission dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide, the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving changes in Earth’s climate. OCO-2 will provide a new tool for understanding the human and natural sources of carbon dioxide emissions and the natural "sinks" that absorb carbon dioxide and help control its buildup. The observatory will measure the global geographic distribution of these sources and sinks and study their changes over time. To learn more about OCO-2, visit oco.jpl.nasa.gov. Photo credit: NASA/30th Space Wing, U.S. Air Force
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Nothing encapsulates the story of the out ward diaspora of the Merchant Princes of Shekavati than the beautiful decaying haveli’s left behind in the small towns of Sikar & Jhunjhunu which made up the Shekavat region of Jaipur State. These Haveli’s bearing names like “Modi ki Haveli”,Khaithan ki Haveli” etc is the who’s who of the current major industrial house’s in India. (Poddar,Bajaj,Goenka,Ruias, Singhania’s et al)
Had visited the deserted town of Chitpur last year to see the mansions of the Bohra’s. These haveli’s I got to see in Jhunjhunu still has people living in some parts of the mansions. The towns of Sikar & Jhunjhuna are still vibrant & full of bright earthy colours.
The quirky,exuberant paintings & murals all over the portions we were allowed to see is lovely. The “Tibrewala” & the “Modi” haveli has Gods, Cars, Trains driven by White Babu’s Mughal motifs & what not…. I saw Bhagat Singh twirling his mushtache on a wall
Some snaps..
What a birthday gift for Bill Simpson, the launch campaign manager – encapsulating a satellite!
Credits: ESA
Oh ho! Now this is a car! Something space age from the early 70's that truly took the idea of futuristic car design from 60's TV shows and made them real. This was all encapsulated in the beauty and raw innovation that is the Citroen SM!
The Citroen SM's story begins back in 1961, where the company began work on a project called 'Project S', a sports variant of the revolutionary Citroen DS. Throughout the decade the car went through a myriad of running prototypes, ironing out faults and pushing the innovative nature of the car to the highest possible level. In 1968 the company purchased Maserati, and took on their knowledge of high-performance cars and engine technology to produce a true Gran Turismo car, combining the sophisticated Citroën suspension with a Maserati V6.
This marriage of raw power and sublime innovation and style was unleashed upon the public in March 1970 at the Geneva Motor Show, going on sale in September of the same year. Dubbed the 'SM', a portmanteaux of Project 'S' and the 'M' in Maserati, the car quickly became the company's flagship, looking like nothing on earth and being able to take on the Jaguar's, Lotus', Ferrari's, Aston Martin's, Alfa Romeo's and Porsche's of the day, the first time France had developed a sports production vehicle of this calibre since the end of World War II.
Power was derived from a 170hp 2.7L V6 engine, with a 0-60 of 8.9 seconds, which made it somewhat mediocre when compared to the likes of the Jensen Interceptor and its 288hp powerplant, and a 0-60 of 6.4 seconds.
Nevertheless, the car's biggest party piece was its mixture of raunchy power and incredible style and comfort, the likes of which had never been experienced before. The car is dripping with French panache and style, with the design being the brainchild of Citroen Chief Designer Robert Opron, who intended to keep the stlye similar to that of the DS but gave it some 70's flair for the new, more angular age. It was also fitted with the same hydro-pneumatic suspension found on the earlier DS, as well as the self-leveling lights that swiveled with the steering.
Sadly though, unlike its sporty competitors the SM, like many promising, outside-the-box, French products such as the Renault Avantime, didn't sell in the way the company wanted it to, largely being due to its image and design, looking less like a sports coupé and more a luxury saloon car, sort of along the lines of the Aston Martin Lagonda. At the same time and with much better performance, Maserati was selling the Merak, which looked much more like a sports car and felt just the same. In a similar way to the later Avantime, the SM fell into a gap between two markets, one market being sports coupé's, and the other being large luxury cars, of which it appealed more to one but not the other.
The SM did though make it big in the world of sports, winning its first competitive outing, the gruelling 1971 Rallye du Maroc, and a Twin Turbo V6 SM snatched the world record as the fastest production car on the Bonneville Salt Flats, achieving a top speed of 202mph.
Sadly though, the Citroen company fell into financial decline during the early 1970's, and officially declared bankruptcy in 1974, being rescued by Peugeot. Attempting to cut the costs wherever possible, the company axed the Citroen SM in May 1975 and sold off the Maserati division of the company to DeTomaso, with only 115 SM's produced in 1975 before production ended.
This setback and sad demise however doesn't mean the SM was an unpopular egg. During its 5 years of production, 12,200 SM's were built, and also managed to garner a selection of awards, including the 1972 Motor Trend Car of the Year award, as well as coming 3rd in the 1971 European Car of the Year, a competition won by another Citroen product, the GS.
Today these cars are very hard to find and incredibly exotic. In France you'll probably find a fair few and the United States and Canada also imported a good number. In the UK however they're something of a rarity, but so rewarding when you actually capture one!
In Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility-2 (SAEF-2), Jet Propulsion Laboratory workers are closing up the metal "petals" of the Mars Pathfinder lander. The Surveyor small rover is visible on one of the three petals. The Mars Pathfinder is being prepared for launch aboard a Delta II expendable launch vehicle on Dec. 2 at the beginning of a 24-day launch period.
Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/
Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
In a clean room at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida, technicians and engineers monitor progress as NOAA's GOES-S is encapsulated in its payload fairing. It soon will be moved to Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for mounting atop the Atlas V rocket that will boost the satellite to orbit.
The payload fairing protects the spacecraft during the ascent through Earth's atmosphere on its way to orbit.
GOES-S is slated to launch March 1, 2018 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
In a clean room at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida, technicians and engineers monitor progress as NOAA's GOES-S satellite is encapsulated in its payload fairing. It soon will be moved to Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for mounting atop the Atlas V rocket that will boost the satellite to orbit.
The payload fairing protects the spacecraft during the ascent through Earth's atmosphere on its way to orbit.
GOES-S is slated to launch March 1, 2018 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
This is a view of how the bulky Gardner 6LXB was encapsulated and cantilevered out over the front axle to allow OPO. The passenger access around the engine doesn't look to bad, but would preclude the use of wheelchairs or baby buggies, pretty well essential on today's buses. I bet the drivers found the cabs hot and noisy also. This bus has the Duple Metsec version of the bodied bus.
(Photograph courtesy of Anthony Lui)
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In a clean room at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida, technicians and engineers monitor progress as NOAA's GOES-S satellite is encapsulated in its payload fairing. It soon will be moved to Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for mounting atop the Atlas V rocket that will boost the satellite to orbit.
The payload fairing protects the spacecraft during the ascent through Earth's atmosphere on its way to orbit.
GOES-S is slated to launch March 1, 2018 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett