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Lieutenant Roméo Sabourin (January 1, 1923 – September 14, 1944) was a Canadian soldier and spy during World War II.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Sabourin joined the Canadian Army, serving in the Canadian Intelligence Corps. Because of his training and fluency in both the French and the English languages, he was recruited into the Special Operations Executive (SOE).

From England, he was parachuted into occupied France where he worked with the French Resistance, but was captured by the Gestapo with members of the Robert Benoist group and shipped to Buchenwald concentration camp on August 27, 1944.

Twenty-one-year-old Roméo Sabourin was executed by the Nazis at Buchenwald on September 14, 1944, along with two other Canadian SOE agents, Frank Pickersgill and John Kenneth Macalister. (Wikipedia)

Above:: l-r, Frank Pickersgill, Romeo Sabourin and John Kenneth Macalister

Above: Official Canadian army overseas casualty notification to Lieutenant Sabourin’s mother, Mme. Flore Sabourin, née Desjardins.

Above: Letter to Mme. Sabourin from Colonel l. J. Buckmaster expressing sympathy and explaining some of the circumstances of Romeo Sabourin’s death.

Lieutenant Sabourin is honored on the Groesbeek Memorial in the Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery in the Netherlands. As one of the SOE agents who died for the liberation of France, Lieutenant Sabourin is listed on the "Roll of Honor" on the Valençay SOE Memorial in the town of Valençay, in the Indre département. (Link to Valençay SOE Memorial Wikipedia page at bottom)

Above left: Record of Lieutenant Sabourin’s memory at the Groesbeek Memorial, and (above right) his name inscribed, along with that of his compatriot, Frank Pickersgill.

Above: The Groesbeek Memorial in the Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery in the Netherlands.

Above: S.O.E. Monument, London, England, a bronze bust dedicated to the Special Operations Executive (SOE), commemorating the heroism of the secret agents who led covert operations against the Nazis, located on the south bank of the Thames, London.

Above: Plaque at Tempsford Airfield Gibraltar Farm commemorating those who flew from the secret airfield into Europe to aid in the Resistance against the Nazis. (2.3 miles northeast of Sandy, Bedfordshire, England)

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Liked on YouTube: We tested the US Military’s secret space weapon || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_n1FZaKzF8 || An engineer came up with a plan to drop tungsten telephone poles from space - the idea has been seriously considered on multiple occasions, so we tested it. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. You can get started for free, or the first 200 people to sign up via https://ift.tt/ZNBAuQs get 20% off a yearly subscription. Massive thanks to Archisand for building such a beautiful sandcastle. https://www.youtube.com/@GregLeBon Huge thanks to John and Angie Miller for helping us with securing the shooting location and going above and beyond to make this shoot happen – https://ift.tt/4TbDQam Thanks to Inland Empire Film Services and the San Bernardino County Film Office for portions of the video shot in the County of San Bernardino. Massive thanks to Dr David Wright for the interview and providing invaluable guidance during the research for this video. Here’s a great video about space-based missile defense – https://ift.tt/PxfLgHZ Massive thanks to Adam Savage for being part of this video. Additional photos from NASA and ESA. ▀▀▀ References: USAF. (2003). The US Air Force transformation flight plan. Preston, R., Johnson, D. J., Edwards, S. J., Miller, M. D., & Shipbaugh, C. (2002). Space weapons earth wars. Rand Corporation. Wright, D., Grego, L., & Gronlund, L. (2005). The physics of space security. A Reference Manual, Cambridge. DeBlois, B. M., Garwin, R. L., Kemp, R. S., & Marwell, J. C. (2004). Space weapons: crossing the US Rubicon. International Security, 50-84. Baucom, D. R. (2017). The Rise and Fall of Brilliant Pebbles 1. In United States Military History 1865 to the Present Day (pp. 329-376). Routledge. Hitchens, T., & Samson, V. (2004). Space-based interceptors: still not a good idea. Georgetown journal of international affairs, 21-29. National Research Council. (2012). Making sense of ballistic missile defense: An assessment of concepts and systems for US boost-phase missile defense in comparison to other alternatives. National Academies Press. Borger, J. (2005). Bush likely to back weapons in space. The Guardian, 19. ▀▀▀ Special thanks to: Bernard McGee, James Sanger, Elliot Miller, Brian Busbee, Jerome Barakos M.D., Amadeo Bee, TTST, Balkrishna Heroor, Chris LaClair, John H. Austin Jr., OnlineBookClub.org, Eric Sexton, John Kiehl, Diffbot, Gnare, Dave Kircher, Burt Humburg, Blake Byers, Evgeny Skvortsov, Meekay, Bill Linder, Paul Peijzel, Josh Hibschman, Mac Malkawi, Mike Schneider, John Bauer, Jim Buckmaster, Juan Benet, Sunil Nagaraj, Richard Sundvall, Lee Redden, Stephen Wilcox, Marinus Kuivenhoven, Michael Krugman, Cy 'kkm' K'Nelson, Sam Lutfi ▀▀▀ Written by Petr Lebedev, Derek Muller, and Emily Zhang Filmed by Trenton Oliver, Derek Muller, Petr Lebedev, Emily Zhang, Raquel Nuno, and Eddie Lopez Animation by Mike Radjabov, Fabio Albertelli, and Jonny Hyman Edited by Trenton Oliver Slow Motion Camera: Shawn Sanders and Anthony Corrales Sandcastle Timelapse by Greg LeBon and Archisand Phantom rental from Panny Hire LA Helicopter Pilots: Rick Shuster and Cliff Fleming Helicopter Safety Officer: Ryan Hosking FPV Drone Pilots: Sammie Saing and Josh Ewalt Production Assistants: Roman Bacvic and Eddie Lopez Intern: Katie Barnshaw Additional video/photos supplied by Pond5 and Getty Images Music from Epidemic Sound Produced by Derek Muller, Petr Lebedev, and Emily Zhang

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Weekend Edition: Essays, Part 2

We’re back today with more collections of essays. Remember to see our post Here for You to learn how you can access the following materials remotely. Even if you are not on campus, both printed materials and electronic resources are still available to you!

The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America edited by Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman

Presents essays by first- and second-generation immigrant writers on the realities of immigration, multiculturalism, and marginalization in an increasingly divided America. From Trump's proposed border wall and travel ban to the marching of White Supremacists in Charlottesville, America is consumed by tensions over immigration and the question of which bodies are welcome. In this much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling UK edition, hailed by Zadie Smith as "lively and vital," editors Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman hand the microphone to an incredible range of writers whose humanity and right to be here is under attack. Chigozie Obioma unpacks an Igbo proverb that helped him navigate his journey to America from Nigeria. Jenny Zhang analyzes cultural appropriation in 90s fashion, recalling her own pain and confusion as a teenager trying to fit in. Fatimah Asghar describes the flood of memory and emotion triggered by an encounter with an Uber driver from Kashmir. Alexander Chee writes of a visit to Korea that changed his relationship to his heritage. These writers, and the many others in this singular collection, share powerful personal stories of living between cultures and languages while struggling to figure out who they are and where they belong. By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, troubling and uplifting, the essays in The Good Immigrant come together to create a provocative, conversation-sparking, multivocal portrait of America now.

Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll "With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the rise of its author as a media personality, J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis has defined Appalachia for much of the nation. What about Hillbilly Elegy accounts for this explosion of interest during this period of political turmoil? Why have its ideas raised so much controversy? And how can debates about the book catalyze new, more inclusive political agendas for the region's future? Appalachian Reckoning is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow Hillbilly Elegy has cast over the region and its imagining. But it also moves beyond Hillbilly Elegy to allow Appalachians from varied backgrounds to tell their own diverse and complex stories through an imaginative blend of scholarship, prose, poetry, and photography. The essays and creative work collected in Appalachian Reckoning provide a deeply personal portrait of a place that is at once culturally rich and economically distressed, unique and typically American. Complicating simplistic visions that associate the region almost exclusively with death and decay, Appalachian Reckoning makes clear Appalachia's intellectual vitality, spiritual richness, and progressive possibilities."--Back cover

Victorian Comedy and Laughter: Conviviality, Jokes and Dissent edited by Louise Lee This innovative collection of essays is the first to situate comedy and laughter as central rather than peripheral to nineteenth century life. Victorian Comedy and Laughter: Conviviality, Jokes and Dissent offers new readings of the works of Charles Dickens, Edward Lear, George Eliot, George Gissing, Barry Pain and Oscar Wilde, alongside discussions of much-loved Victorian comics like Little Tich, Jenny Hill, Bessie Bellwood and Thomas Lawrence. Tracing three consecutive and interlocking moods in the period, all of the contributors engage with the crucial critical question of how laughter and comedy shaped Victorian subjectivity and aesthetic form. Malcolm Andrews, Jonathan Buckmaster and Peter Swaab explore the dream of print culture togetherness that is conviviality, while Bob Nicholson, Louise Lee, Ann Featherstone, Louise Wingrove and Oliver Double discuss the rise-on-rise of the Victorian joke -- both on the page and the stage -- while Peter Jones, Jonathan Wild and Matthew Kaiser consider the impassioned debates concerning old and new forms of laughter that took place at the end of the century.

Why I Like This Story edited by Jackson R. Bryer

On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story selected, they also tell us a good deal about the author of the essay, about what elements of fiction he or she values. Among the writers whose stories are discussed are such American masters as James, Melville, Hemingway, O'Connor, Fitzgerald, Porter, Carver, Wright, Updike, Bellow, Salinger, Malamud, and Welty; but the book also includes pieces on stories by canonical but lesser-known practitioners such as Andre Dubus, Ellen Glasgow, Kay Boyle, Delmore Schwartz, George Garrett, Elizabeth Tallent, William Goyen, Jerome Weidman, Peter Matthiessen, Grace Paley, William H. Gass, and Jamaica Kincaid, and relative newcomers such as Lorrie Moore, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Phil Klay, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Edward P. Jones. Why I Like This Story will send readers to the library or bookstore to read or re-read the stories selected. Among the contributors to the book are Julia Alvarez, Andrea Barrett, Richard Bausch, Ann Beattie, Andre Dubus, George Garrett, William H. Gass, Julia Glass, Doris Grumbach, Jane Hamilton, Jill McCorkle, Alice McDermott, Clarence Major, Howard Norman, Annie Proulx, Joan Silber, Elizabeth Spencer, and Mako Yoshikawa. Editor Jackson R. Bryer is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland.

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Elton John may be one of the most committed superstar music consumers. John habitually engaged in music store shopping sprees in various cities on his world tours in years past, amassing a monumental collection over the decades. He largely sold it off in the early 1990s to raise money for his Elton John AIDS Foundation.

As he only half-jokingly told an audience last year at a free show he gave in the parking lot of the former Tower Records store in West Hollywood, “I could have probably bought Los Angeles for the money I spent in Tower Records.”

But he couldn’t give up the passion entirely.

“I’ve fallen in love again with the ritual, of sleeve notes — especially on old albums —and I’ve been re-collecting a lot of old blues records,” “I’ve fallen in love with the ritual of finding out who these people were, who played with them, sitting down and listening to the records”

So it’s no surprise he’s returning the favor, in a manner of speaking, with a special of an expanded reissue — on vinyl only — of his 1970 live album, “17-11-70,” to be released at independent music outlets on April 22. It marks the 10th anniversary of Record Store Day, an event designed to spur shopping at mom-and-pop brick-and-mortar record stores.

Outlets participating in the promotion include Amoeba Music in Hollywood, Fingerprints in Long Beach and many more

John’s release is now a two-disc album that includes several additional takes not found on the original single-disc version that MCA Records issued a few months after the original concert,

John’s star was rapidly rising at the time he entered New York’s famed A&R Studio for radio station WABC-FM broadcast on Nov. 17, 1970, with bassist Dee Murray and Nigel Olsson. They had backed him on a string of dates that launched a career that soon made him the most successful recording artist of the 1970s — and No. 5 of all time — according to Joel Whitburn’s “Top Pop Singles” book collating Billboard’s charts across the decades.

A string of shows at the Troubadour in West Hollywood the previous summer had ignited the fuse on that career, and John soon became one of the hottest concert attractions in the world. The November performance for WABC-FM was intended strictly for the small audience on hand and the station’s listeners. But it was quickly bootlegged, prompting John’s label, MCA, to hustle out an official version the following May.

The new edition brings a remastered version of the original recording to new life and captures him at a critical juncture in his nascent career.

His debut U.S. album, “Elton John,” was chock full of exquisitely arranged and intimately performed songs about love in its early stages (the breakthough hit single “Your Song”), the miracle of birth (“The Greatest Discovery”), alienation and disillusionment (“Border Song”) and even a God-knows-what-it-means rocker (“Take Me to the Pilot”).

Many featured lush orchestrations by Paul Buckmaster. The revelation of “17-11-70” (which was issued in the U.S. with Americanized date nomenclature as “11-17-70”) was what an electrifying live performer John was.

Rock at that time was both intensely serious business and often temperamentally restrained, thanks to the rise of the sensitive singer-songwriter likes of James Taylor, Carole King and Cat Stevens.

John, however, channeled the early rock ’n’ roll spirit of such flamboyant pianistic predecessors as Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard, and it ignites in his live renditions of “Take Me to the Pilot,” “Bad Side of the Moon” and a playful arrangement of the Rolling Stones then-recent hit “Honky Tonk Women.”

The original album’s closer and piece de resistance was his 18-minute-plus barn-burner performance of “Burn Down the Mission,” a song that incorporated bits of Elvis Presley’s “My Baby Left Me” and the Beatles “Get Back,” and which would appear in comparatively abbreviated 6½-minute form on his next studio album, “Tumbleweed Connection.”

The second disc extends the stripped-down approach with a previously unreleased version of “Indian Sunset,” the historically minded tragic grand opus that would turn up on 1971’s “Madman Across the Water” album, and another “Tumbleweed Connection” song, “Amoreena.”

It also includes alternate versions of “Your Song,” “Country Comfort,” “I Need You To Turn To,” “Border Song” and “My Father’s Gun,” collectively reinforcing the inherent strength of the songs John wrote with lyricist Bernie Taupin, apart from the gorgeous arrangements they meticulously crafted for the studio versions.

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Mint Mid-Century Modern Designed by Buff and Hensman Lands on L.A. Market

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The iconic Mid-Century Modern home of Grammy-winning composer and arranger Paul Buckmaster, who died in 2017, is now on the market for $1,385,000. The Los Angeles home is being sold by Buckmaster’s estate.

Designed in 1957 by the architecture firm Buff & Hensman, it is one of the first—if not the first—residence designed by the team when they started working together.

The firm went on to form the partnership of Buff, Straub & Hensman, and designed iconic Case Study House #20, which “cemented their legacy in the celebrated Case Study Program and Los Angeles’ Modernism movement,” the Los Angeles Conservancy website notes.

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What set their work apart in the Case Study Program had to do with their choice of building materials. Rather than using steel, the designers opted for wood, a decision that would become a trademark.

The notable look is evident in this sleek, rectilinear, wood-and-glass jewel box on the market.

“It’s supercool,” says Richard Stearns, who is co-listing the home with Carrie Berkman Lewis; both are with Pacific Union International.

The well-preserved home hasn’t changed much since its inception.

“It’s got that vibe. You walk in, and here I am in 1950s,” says Stearns. “The finishes, the glass, the ceilings, and courtyards—it’s pretty authentic.”

Buckmaster bought the pad in 1998, and made some updates. He added the cantilevered pool, modernized the kitchen with stone counters and new appliances, and gave the bathrooms a refresh as well.

The 1,540-square-foot home sits on a large, street-to-street lot in the serene setting of Nichols Canyon. There are two bedrooms and two bathrooms. The open floor plan features walls of glass, cantilevered overhangs, and several “flex spaces,” according to the listing. The sliding glass doors open to the pool, spa, and deck.

Buckmaster, who died at age 71, had collaborated with rock greats, including Elton John, the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, and more recently Guns N’ Roses, Heart, and Taylor Swift. Buckmaster famously arranged “Space Oddity” for Bowie, and scored the 1995 movie “12 Monkeys.”

“That house was his working studio,” says Stearns, who notes that there’s been interest in the mod pad from people in the music business. “They probably love it for the same reasons he did. It’s a very Zen, inspirational place.”

While the list price seems reasonable for a Mid-Century Modern masterpiece, it most likely will go for more. A Buff & Hensman design in mint condition isn’t easy to find.

“They’re pretty rare, especially when they haven’t been ruined. We’re going to be getting multiple offer insanity,” Stearns predicts. It sounds like a hit to us.

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