#ft. arndt

[pharology101]

LOTD: Suva West Reef

~sorry for delay - meant for November 12th, 2023~

(from: https://www.ibiblio.org/lighthouse/fji.htm)

Suva West Reef (2)

Date unknown. Active; focal plane 9 m (30 ft); red flash every 3 s. 10 m (33 ft) tripod tower painted red. Trabas has Arndt's photo, Bill Strong has a distant photo and Google has a satellite view. The post on the left in the satellite view is a former light. This is known as the best surfing location in the Suva area. Located on the west side of the entrance through the reef into Suva, Fiji's capital. Accessible only by boat. Site open, tower closed. Admiralty K4676; NGA 3412.

(full photo found here; ©Arndt)

[kristie-rp]

TS: Interlude - Tera

FIRST | I-1 | SECOND

Triggers: Gunshot, blood

The blonde is gorgeous by any stretch of the imagination. It’s been commented on all her life: she looks like a model or an actress, all perfectly maintained blonde hair trailing over her shoulder, and curves to make any man die happy. She’s waiting in a booth at a dodgy little bar on the wrong side of town, out of place for her looks but otherwise seeming completely at home among the sorts of people who slit throats and sell children for a drop of cheap liquor.

She gets left alone, because most people are perfectly happy ogling her for afar, or more interested in the girl ingesting shots like candy at the bar across from a bartender with freckles like stars. This pleasant status quo is completely ruined when a pale skinned man-boy with long black hair – longer even than hers – saunters up to her.

“Want some company, beautiful?”

She looks up at him, revealing eyes that can best be described as cerulean, lined in heavy mascara and on point eyeliner.  She doesn’t even bother checking him out before she looks back down at the cell phone in her hands. “No.”

“Excellent,” he says, and leans against the top of the booth seat across from her.  She rolls her eyes; he thinks he caught wind of an exotic accent in her single word. “What’s a pretty thing like you doing alone in a place like this?”

“Minding my own business,” she says, tapping out a text. He knows he picked an accent now, British and charming. Two can play at that game, he thinks, and turns on the charm.

“You don’t know me yet, gorgeous, but you can call me Syrus.”

She sighs, flipping her phone closed. “I’ll say this once more, Syrus. Piss. Off.”

The grin he gives her is best described as a leer, and he steps closer to her.

It’s the wrong thing to do.

She draws a gun from her purse and fires once before he can react. No one else in the bar so much as looks over – it’s the sort of place where this is common, perhaps even anticipated. She aims at his knee, blows out his kneecap, and returns the weapon to its’ hiding place as she gets to her feet, watching as he falls to put most of his weight against the table she’s been sitting at. “What the fuck!” he cries.

She glances at the injury to see it already healing through the bloody hole in his slacks, and is unable to bring herself to feel any surprise. Trust Port Lyndon, she thinks, to be home to the most irritating supernaturals possible. “Don’t be such a baby, Syrus. No one likes a whiney vampire.”

“Problem, babe?” comes a new voice. Syrus’s eyes are watering from the pain of the accelerated healing, the bullet being expelled. The newcomer has light brown hair and fits in perfectly with the scenery, except for the arm he slings around the blonde’s neck. Her lip curls into a sneer as she stares down at Syrus, nothing but distaste in her gaze, or her voice when she speaks.

“Just the usual trash. Let’s get out of here.”

[unexpectedreylo]

What Happened To TROS

There’s a show I watch on occasion called “Autopsy:  The Last Hours Of...” featuring a medical examiner going over celebrity autopsy reports and explaining why the celeb died.  (It’s on Reelz, in case you’re as morbid as I am.)

Many Reylos have gone over every statement uttered about the film and analyzed every bit of footage to see just what heck was going on with this movie.  Based on what’s come out in the press I was about to pitch my own autopsy theories.  But every day more comes out about TROS!  Chris Terrio digging his hole deeper, Colin Trevorrow’s alleged “script” leaking on Reddit!  As of writing, South Korea got the Art of TROS book first so images have been leaking all over the place.  

Here are my takeaways at this point:

Problem #1:  J.J. Abrams’s brand of filmmaking.  Abrams is really good at fast-paced, fun-filled spectacle.  He is also good at not explaining things, at interrupting every conversation with action/danger, and at forced, unearned moments that are more about winking at the audience than advancing the story/developing the characters.  Case in point:  Kirk and Spock acting out the Spock death scene from “Wrath of Khan” in “Into Darkness,” only with Kirk about to croak (he doesn’t).  The movie did nothing to set them up as close friends.  They were still sniping at each other the whole movie.  So it’s unsurprising TROS also had all of those elements.

Problem #2:  There was no plan.  What’s come out since the film’s release seems to emphasize that they really had no clue how to wrap this thing up because nobody had a clue who these characters were or what their story means beyond Chris Terrio’s curious obsession with Luke and Leia.  The audience attributed meaning based on what we got in TFA and TLJ but it seems like hardly anyone behind the scenes had any idea what that meaning was.  They threw away George Lucas’s road map and decided to just keep driving until they got somewhere.  

Problem #3:  There was no time.  When I was a kid, I’d see t.v. ads for Paul Masson wine starring the late Orson Welles.  The ads’ tag line was always, “We will sell no wine before its time.”  Bob Iger’s philosophy is “FTS, give me that movie yesterday!”  He announced a new trilogy to start in May 2015 at the end of October 2012.  That was less than three years.  Recall that it took months to find a director and they ended up junking Michael Arndt’s screenplay, with J.J. Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan having to do a quickie re-write in late 2013-early 2014.  Abrams was casting the film at the same time.  He asked for more time but all Iger would do is move the release date to December 2015 because he’d promised shareholders it would be out that year.  I felt that TFA seemed a little rushed and this explains why.  J.J. Abrams and Chris Terrio were officially running the show as of September 2017.  Originally TROS was scheduled for May 2019 but again Abrams asked for more time and the film was bumped back to December 2019.  Still, that’s only two years and two months.  Twenty six months to figure out how to end a trilogy, end a nine-part series, and work around the unexpected death of one of its stars.  Oh and do all of this while you hadn’t given Star Wars a thought in years along with a screenwriter whose knowledge is pretty wonky.  Is it any wonder why the script sometimes felt like it was written at the last minute by college students pulling an all-nighter on speed?  By comparison, George Lucas started writing the OT in 1973, three years before he shot ANH and four years before release.  He started writing the PT in 1994, three years before he shot TPM and five years before it was released.  Star Wars wasn’t based on a novel or a comic book.  The whole saga had to be cooked up from scratch.  It required more time and more thought.

Problem #4:  They didn’t get the best closer.  After TFA, Abrams didn’t worry about the long game for the trilogy because the original plan was to be one and done.  He never had to think about Rey and Co. ever again...until Colin Trevorrow got the hook in June 2017.  I don’t know if Kathleen Kennedy had anyone else in mind or not.  But I am certain Abrams was either Iger’s or Walt Disney Motion Pictures head Alan Horn’s idea.  Why him even if he admitted he’s not a good closer?  It’s simple:  TFA made $2 billion.  With no plan, limited time, and a few years of not thinking Star Wars at all, he had to quickly wrap up a series, something by his own admission he’s not very good at.

Problem #5:  Too many disruptions.  George Lucas somehow managed to survive changing directors for each of the OT, having to let Gary Kurtz go, and the end of his marriage to Marcia Lucas, who just happened to also be the films’ editor.  The ST had to contend with Michael Arndt, Colin Trevorrow, etc. getting fired and someone else having to step in and work from scratch.  Rian Johnson seemed to be the only one able to get through production unscathed, only to get his film retconned because of the internet peanut gallery.  Carrie Fisher unexpectedly died, forcing everyone to rack their brains on how they were going to finish this without her.

Problem #6:  They were totally out of touch with what audiences liked about the ST.   Before the arrival of Baby Yoda, Kylo Ren was the most searched Star Wars character.  Yes, even more than any of the OT characters.  While lots of people love Rey, they loved Kylo just as much if not a tiny bit more.  He was the one descended from the legends of our youth:  Han Solo and Princess Leia, Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala.  It also helped that a highly-talented, charismatic actor played him.  I think audiences were rooting for him but didn’t expect him to die.  Even people I know who otherwise really liked or loved TROS thought they shouldn’t have killed him off.

Reylo was also the gas in the ST’s tank, not only as a romantic duo but as physical representation of the push and pull of the Force itself.  Their interplay makes each character more interesting and make the story overall more interesting (I had little to no investment in the Resistance vs. First Order brouhaha).  

A logical person would’ve milked this for all its worth but instead they killed off their most interesting character and half of the most interesting relationship in the trilogy.  They left their heroine alone in the desert.  Had Ben Solo and Rey killed off the Emperor together and survived, and the movie ended with the two of them walking off into the sunset, TROS would have sailed past $1 billion and counting weeks ago.

[eitmonline]

EITM Playlist 7/26/21

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Fall Out Boy - The Phoenix | 6:27

The Linda Lindas - Oh! | 7:04

Imagine Dragons - Wrecked | 7:27

Dixie ft. Rubi Rose - Psycho | 7:40

Rise Against - Talking To Ourselves | 7:45

HAIM - Cherry Flavored Stomach Ache | 8:12

Jon Batiste - FREEDOM | 8:40

Lorde - Stoned At The Nail Salon | 9:03

Alessia Cara - Shapeshifter | 9:16

Slothrust - Once More For The Ocean | 9:21

Dirty Honey - The Wire | 9:46

Jocelyn & Chris Arndt - Sugar And Spice | 10:15

Zac Brown Band - Out In The Middle | 10:32

[rabbitcruiser]

Völkerschlachtdenkmal, Leipzig (No. 6)

Shortly after the Battle of Leipzig, Arndt called for a monument to be built at the site. He demanded that it "has to be constructed in such a way that it can be seen from all the streets around from which the allied armies moved to the bloody decisive battle. If it is to be seen, it has to be large and splendid – like a collosus, a pyramid, a Cologne Cathedral". His plans included a 60 m (200 ft) high mound surrounded by oak groves, with a large cross on top. However, lack of political will prevented such a monument of being built at the time. Arndt, together with the painter Caspar David Friedrich, worked on a monument for Gerhard von Scharnhorst, who had died from injuries sustained in the Battle of Großgörschen, but received no support from state officials. In a letter to Arndt, Friedrich lamented in March 1814: "I am not at all surprised, that no memorials are being erected, neither to mark the great cause of the Volk, nor to the manganimous deeds of great German men. As long as we remain man-servants to the princes, nothing of this sort will happen." Other people came forward with plans for a large memorial as well, including Karl Sieveking and August von Kotzebue, the latter of whom suggested a 31 m (102 ft) tall Roman column with an Iron Cross on top, symbolising the victory of Germany against France, the "modern Rome". The architect Friedrich Weinbrenner proposed a fortress to be built outside Leipzig, at the top of which a pyramid was to be placed, with the quadriga that Napoleon had taken from the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin situated on it. On the other side of the political spectrum, the nobleman Adolph von Seckendorff put forward the plan for a simple monument to the Saxon government, which would bear an inscription reading "To the liberation of a strong land, Alexander, Franz, and Friedrich Wilhelm", honouring the three monarchs who led the fight against Napoleon. While none of the proposals for Leipzig gained any support, a monument for the Wars of Liberation was erected in Berlin in 1821. Designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, it was a miniature of a gothic church tower situated on top of the Kreuzberg, bearing the names of twelve battles fought against the French. It's inscription, "From the king to the people who, at his call, nobly sacrificed their blood and chattels to the Fatherland", highlighted the role of the monarch over that of the people.

On the first anniversary of the battle, in 1814, a 18 m (59 ft) tall wooden cross was placed as a monument in front of a church in one of the burned villages near the city. It was removed by the winter of the same year. In 1817, a monument to Józef Poniatowski, a Marshal of the French Empire who had died in the battle, was placed by his sister and Polish veterans near the battle site. After the establishment of the "Association for the Celebration of October 19", more small monuments started to be built. The family of Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg also placed a monument in his honour at the site, in 1838. In 1843, a sandstone monument was erected at "Napoleon Hill", where the Emperor had supposedly watched the battle. Two years later, the local government of Leipzig established another monument, commemorating the entrance of the victorious forces into the city. Until 1863, seven memorial stones were also placed to mark decisive points of the battle, which still remain to this day. In the same year, on the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Leipzig, city officials also funded the restoration of the monument they had erected in 1845. During the same festivities, a cornerstone for a future grand monument was placed, and 23 cities from all around Germany, including Vienna, Hanover, and Dresden, pledged money for its construction. However, the Unification of Germany and the subsequent foundation of the German Empire temporarily halted plans for a monument, since public conscience turned towards the more recent military victories. The commemoration of the Battle of Leipzig as a decisive one in German history was replaced by the Battle of Sedan and the city of Leipzig erected a monument to the German unification in its centre in 1888. Steffen Poser, head of the Museum of the Monument for the Battle of the Nations, wrote: "[T]he foundation of the German Empire deprived the monument project of what had been its basis for legitimacy so far—namely, the desire for German unification, the leitmotif, which had been missing at the time."

Source: Wikipedia

[yeokaa]

I no longer belong here

Acrylic on Canvas

4 x 4 ft.

2017

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Terra Incognita

Arndt Art Agency

Vienna, Austria

[aaronmblevin]

100 Awesome Folkways LPs

Back in 2005 I had just dropped out of graduate school and returned to Edmonton, Alberta. I was waiting for the semester to start so I could begin my journey as a mathematician. I'm indebted to my friend Christopher Bateman (co-author of In Fine Style) who told me that there was a collection of Folkways Records at the University of Alberta. An entire collection?! Wow! The only other complete collection was at the Smithsonian Museum! And I had nothing to do all day (except for my string of terrible minnimum wage jobs)!

I started visiting folkwaysAlive!, the small Folkways centre (photos below), regularly and digging through their collection. Most of the knowledge about Folkways at the time was centred on their incredible collection of ethnographic recordings. However, as I began looking through the catalog I was finding all kinds of weird and amusing records. There was one titled Speach After the Removal of the Larynx and another called Sounds of the Junkyard. Even more, there were famous composers of electronic music who had published LPs on folkways. What were those doing there? It turns out that Folkways founder Moses Asch was determined to capture all "sound" and that in the pure pursuit of this philosophy several LPs of collateral damage would delight the catalog.

Some years later I had a radio show on CJSR where I played music entirely from the Folkways collection (the show was appropriately titled The Sounds of Folkways). At the same time I was trying to capitalize on my newfound knowledge and tried to pitch a book and/or column to various people titled 100 Weird and Wonderful LPs on Folkways. I wasn't successful, but in the process I had made a "list of weird Folkways LPs" and that's what I'd like to share today.

Here is my list. It's not complete. It's not a list of "the best folkways LPs." It's just a list of Folkways records I happen to like and think weird or cool. Thus, there are large omissions in categories like Blues and Ethnomusicology, which contain many of the most incredible Folkways records.

You can find music clips for most of these LPs on YouTube. This list is a decade old, so there's probably some errata and some of the catalog numbers aren't likely correct.

I hope you enjoy.

PS - I still need a copy of Speach After the Removal of the Layrnx!

PPS - I'm forward thankful to Lorna Arndt who so graciously let me hang out in the folkwaysAlive! office!

Avant-Garde / Electronic

FW 34006 – Music of Ann McMillan - Whale-Wail, In Peace, En Paix

FW 33451 – Gateway Summer Sound – Abstracted Animal & Other Sounds Composed by Ann McMillan

FW 33855 – Reelizations – Composed and Preformed by Barton Smith

FW 33856 – Reelizations Vol. 2 – Composed and Preformed by Barton Smith

FW 37464 – Dariush Dolat-Shahi – Electronic Music Tar and Setar

FW 37467 – Dariush Dolat-Shahi – Ostashagah

FW 03434 – Eight Electronic Pieces – Todd Dockstader

FTQ 33951 - Ilhan Mimaroglu - To Kill a Sunrise and La Ruche

FW 31313 – Gamelan in the New World Vol.1

FW 31312 – Gamelan in the New World Vol. 2

FSS 33878 - Israeli Electroacoustic Music

FS 003861 – Radio Programme No. 1 Audio Collage / Henry Jacob’s Music & FolkloreFT 03704? – Indeterminacy (John Cage Reading and David Tudor Music)

FW 47902 – Invocations – Richard Kostelanetz

FX 06250 - Science Fiction Sound Effects Record

FW 06160 – Sounds of New Music

FW 06241 – Travelon Gamelon – Music for Bicycles – Richard Lerman

FW 33440 – Outer Space Music by Vaclav Nelhybel

FW 33436 – Electronic Music

FW 06253 – Futuribile the Life to Come – Gianni safred and his Electronic Instruments

FM 03349 – The Piano Music of Henry Cowell

FW 03438 – Electronic Music From Razor Blades to Moog – Produced & Composed by J.D. Robb

FW 33435 – J.D. Robb - Rhythmania & Other Electronic Compositions

FW 33439 – Music by Jean ivey for Voices, Instruments, and Tape

FW 33445 – Jon Appleton – Music for Synclavier and other Digital Systems

FW 33437 – The World Music Theatre of

FW 33442 – The Dartmouth Digital Synthesizer

FW 37461 – Jon Appleton – Four Fantasies for Synclavier

FW 33450 – McLean: Electro-Symphonic Landscapes

FW 36050 – Electronic Music from the Outside In

FW 37465 – Computer Music from the Outside In

FW 37475 – Computer Music

FSS 6301 – Highlights of Vortex

FW 33431 – Extended Piano (Elliot Schwartz)

FW 33901 – New American Music Vol. 1

FW 33902 – New American Music Vol. 2

FW 33903 – New American Music Vol. 3

FW 33904 – New American Music Vol. 4

FW 33441 – Tract: A Composition of Agitprop Music for Electromagnetic Tape by Ilhan Mimaroglu

Ethnographic

FW 31306 – The Nuru Taa African Musical Idiom: Played on the Mama-Likembi (Nadi Qamar)

FW 08975 - Mushroom Ceremoney of the Mazatec Indians of Mexico

FW 08512 – Music of Upper-Egypt

FW 04457 – The Pygmies of the Ituri Forest

FE 4377 - Modern Maya: The Indian Music of Chiapas, Mexico

FE 4379 - Modern Maya: The Indian Music of CHiapas, Mexico - Vol. 2

FC 7755 - Bilal Abdurahman – Echoes Of Timbuktu And Beyond

Folk

FG 3526 - Elizabeth Cotton - Folksongs And Instrumentals With Guitar

FTS 31003 - Elizabeth Cotton - Vol. 2: Shake Sugaree

FW 03537 - Elizabeth Cotton - Vol. 3: When I'm Gone

FW 07535 – Innovative Rythmic and Tonal Textures for developing Creative Motor Skill Activities (Bilal Abdurahman)

FW 07540 – Sound Rhythm Rhyme and Mime for Children (Bilal Abdurahman)

FW 03581 - Mike Hurley – First Songs

FW 07520 – Ghetto Reality (Nancy Dupree)

FW 32850 – Niss Puk Band – No More Nukes

FW 32852 – Roger Matura – The Outrage Grows

FW 32851 – Roger Matura – Times are Gonna Get Harder

BR 304 - The Village Fugs - Sing Ballads Of Contemporary Protest, Point Of Views, And General Dissatisfaction

PAR 01020 – A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle by Asians in America

FTS 31066 - Lucinda Williams - Ramblin' on My Mind

FTS 31067 - Lucinda Williams - Happy Woman Blues

FA 2951 - Anthology of American Folk Music Volume One: Ballads (Harry Smith)

FA 2951 - Anthology of American Folk Music Volume Two: Social Music (Harry Smith)

FA 2951 - Anthology of American Folk Music Volume Three: Songs (Harry Smith)

Jazz

FW 33867 – East New York Ensemble de Music at the Helm

FW 33866 – Entourage

FW 33870 – The Neptune Collection – The Entourage Music & Theatre Ensemble

FW 05403 – From the Cold Jaws of Prison

FW 09718 – Kenneth Patchen reads with Jazz in Canada

FW 02966 – Mary Lou Williams – The Asch Recordings 1944-1947

FW 02843 – Mary Lou Williams – Black Christ of the Andes

FSS 37462 - Bertram Turetzky - A Different View

New Age

FW 06195 – Clouds: New Music for Relaxation Vol. 1 (Craig Kupka)

FW 06916 – Crystals: New Music for Relxation Vol. 2 (Craig Kupka)

FW 37463 – Charles Compo – Seven Flute Solos

Soul / Funk / R&B

FW 32863 – Into Morning – Charles Cha-Cha Shaw

FW 32870 – Kingdom Come – Cha Cha Shaw

FW 31037 – Climbing High Mountains – Juanita Johnson & The Gospel Tones

FW 33868 – The Montgomery Movement featuring The Montgomery Express

FW 09723 – Underground Streets – Words and Original Music by Normal Riley

FW 09710 – Boss Soul – 12 Poems by Sarah Webster Fabio set to Drum Talk, Rhythms & Images

FW 09715 – Together to the tune of Coltranes “Equinox” (Sarah Webster Fabio)

FW 09714 – Jujus Alchemy of the Blues – Poems by Sarah Webster Fabio Read by Sarah Webster Fabio with Musical Background

Spoken Word

FC 7471 - Rev. Howard Finster - Man of Many Voices

FW 06134 – Speech After the Removal of the Larynx

FW 05401 – Angela Davis Speaks

FW 09871 – Dante: The Inferno

FW 06102 – Interview with Sir Edmun Hillary – Mountain Climbing

FW 09711 – Soul Ain’t Soul Is – Poems by Sarah Webster Fabio

FW 05404 – The End of the World

FW 09701 – The Psychedelic Experience (Timothy Leary)

FW 055338 – What If I am a Women? Black Women’s Speeches Narrate by Ruby Dee

Strange

FW 06118 – Playing Music With Animals – The Interspecies Communication of Jim Nollman with 300 Turkeys, 12 Wolves and 20 Orca Whales

FW 06143 – The Sounds of the Junk Yard

SFW 45060 – Sounds of North American Frogs

FW 06142 – Sounds of the Office

FW 06121 – Sounds of the Sea Vol. 1

FW 06122 – Sounds of the Sea Vol. 2

FW 05589 – Street and Gangland Rhythms

FW 05580 – A Dog’s Life (Tony Schwartz)

FW 05562 – The World in My Mailbox (Tony Schwartz)

FW 05581 – Music in the Streets (Tony Schwartz)

FW 06200 – Voices of Satellites

FW 06123 – Vox Humana

[gabriellakirtonblog]

Best Fitness Articles — March 8, 2020

We scan the net, but if you’d like to submit your article for consideration, please do so via the PTDC Article Submission Form.

The Top Article of the Week

We Did Everything Wrong, and It Was Awesome — Greg Nuckols, gregnuckols.com

In this week’s top article, Greg Nuckols explains why he defied conventional wisdom with his recent product launch.

This article wasn’t selected as top of the week for his decision, but rather for the rationale behind it. In this piece, you’ll get a glimpse of the proper demonstration of the sentiment, “know the rules well, so you can break them effectively”.

  General Health

The Rock’s Cheat Meal — Bryan Krahn, bryankrahn.com

The Strength & Conditioning Research Rundown February 2020 — Thomas King, JK Conditioning

Digestive Health 101: 4 Powerful Tools for Optimizing Digestive Health — Geoff Price, The Ready State

  Fat Loss

Weight Loss Begins with the Battle for Your Mind — Jason Leenaarts, jasonleenarts.com

The 5 Universal Principles of Good Nutrition, According to Science — Ryan Maciel, Alisa Bowman, Precision Nutrition

The Pantry Project — David Cain, raptitude.com

  Strength Training

Complete Breakdown: Deceleration and Landing for Athletic Development — Matthew Ibrahim, TD Athletes Edge

Applying Menstrual Rules to Your Training — Cassie Prenger, Elite FTS

Stretching: You’re Doing It Wrong — Lee Boyce, Stack

Drop Stress and Get Into “Recovery Mode” with This 3-Step Cool-Down— Zach Trowbridge, All Strength Training

Top 6 Mistakes Powerlifters Make Health-Wise — Dani LaMartina, EliteFTS

Career

The Words We Use Matter — Tony Gentilcore, tonygentilcore.com

The #1 Email You Need to Send — Tara Arndt, School of Email

What You Need to Know Before You Start a Personal Training Business — Pamela Hernandez, Thrive Personal Fitness

  The post Best Fitness Articles — March 8, 2020 appeared first on The PTDC.

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[pharology101]

LOTD: Suva Hospital

(from: https://www.ibiblio.org/lighthouse/fji.htm)

Suva Hospital (2)

Date unknown. Active; focal plane about 30 m (98 ft); continuous red light. Approx. 25 m (82 ft) communications tower topped by a flagstaff. Trabas has Arndt's photo and Google has a satellite view. This light has little navigational value today but for many years it has been listed, and is still listed by NGA, as "Flagstaff on Hospital roof." Located within the hospital complex. Site status unknown. Admiralty K4687; NGA 3384.

(full photo found here; ©Arndt)

[pharology101]

LOTD: Suva East Reef (2)

(from: https://www.ibiblio.org/lighthouse/fji.htm)

Suva East Reef (2)

Date unknown. Active; focal plane 10 m (33 ft); green flash every 5 s. 11 m (36 ft) square pyramidal skeletal tower painted green. Trabas has Arndt's photo, another photo (second row, right) is available and Google has a satellite view. This light replaced an octagonal concrete tower. The entrance to Suva Harbour is through an opening in the reef about 500 m (0.3 mi) wide. Located at the north end of the reef on the east side of the entrance through the reef into Suva, Fiji's capital. Accessible only by boat. Site open, tower closed. Admiralty K4678; NGA 3404.

(full photo found here; ©Arndt)

[pharology101]

LOTD: Kailua

(from: http://www.ibiblio.org/lighthouse/hi.ht)

Kailua (Kailua-Kona) (2)

1915 (station established 1909). Active; focal plane 32 ft (10 m); white light, 3 s on, 3 s off (red sector covers shoals). 20 ft (6 m) square pyramidal reinforced concrete tower, painted white. Trabas has Arndt's photo and Google has a satellite view and a distant street view. The lighthouse replaced a light mounted on a mast. Located on Kukailimoku Point at the western entrance to the harbor at Kailua-Kona. Accessible by a short walk from the Old Kona Airport State Recreation Area, where parking is available. Site open, tower closed. Owner/site manager: U.S. Coast Guard. ARLHS HAW-009; Admiralty G7234; USCG 6-28185.

(full photo found here; ©K. Andersen)

[pharology101]

LOTD: Punta Secca

(from: http://www.ibiblio.org/lighthouse/sic.htm)

Punta Secca

Date unknown. Active; focal plane 13 m (43 ft); yellow light, 2 s on, 1 s off. 12 m (39 ft) square cylindrical concrete tower with lantern and gallery. Tower painted yellow-brown; lantern painted white. Trabas has a photo by Rainer Arndt, and Google has a photo and a satellite view. There is another Punta Secca ("Dry Point") lighthouse at Ragusa (see below). Located at the northeastern tip of Punta Secca; Site open, tower closed. ARLHS ITA-278; EF-2758; Admiralty E1816; NGA 9772.

(full photo found here; ©Rainer Arndt)

[pharology101]

LOTD: Messina Port Office

~sorry for delay - meant for June 15th, 2023~

(from: http://www.ibiblio.org/lighthouse/sic.htm)

Messina Port Office

Date unknown. Active; focal plane 16 m (52 ft); two green flashes every 5 s. 12 m (39 ft) square skeletal tower, painted green, adjacent to a 1-story building. Trabas has a photo by Rainer Arndt and Google has a satellite view, but only the tip of the tower can be seen over the building in Google's street view. Located on the Messina waterfront at the foot of the Viale Boccetta. Site open, tower closed. EF-2770; Admiralty E1818; NGA 9780.

(full photo found here; ©Rainer Arndt)

[pharology101]

LOTD: Tafuna

(from: http://www.ibiblio.org/lighthouse/asm.htm)

Tafuna (Pago Pago International Airport)

Date unknown. Active; focal plane about 30 m (98 ft), flashing light, alternately white and green. 15 m (49 ft) short mast atop a square cylindrical unpainted concrete tower. Trabas has Arndt's photo and Google has a street view and a satellite view. This is an aviation beacon but its placement makes it also a landfall light for the island. Located at the Pago Pago International Airport at Tafuna on the west side of the harbor entrance. Site and tower closed but the tower can be seen from nearby. Admiralty K4574.6.

(full photo found here; ©Arndt)

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LOTD: Pago Pago Range Rear (4?)

(from: http://www.ibiblio.org/lighthouse/asm.htm)

Pago Pago Range Rear (4?)

Date unknown (station established 1901). Active; focal plane 55.5 m (182 ft); red light, 3 s on, 3 s off, visible only on or close to the range line. 3 m (10 ft) square skeletal tower carrying a daymark colored red with a white vertical stripe. Myhre has a photo and Trabas has Arndt's photo, but the tower is not clearly identified in Google's satellite view. The "square structure" listed as of 1947 is seen at the very bottom of this page on the right side. Located on the mountainside 194 m (212 yd) northwest of the front light. Site status unknown. Admiralty K4580.1; NGA 3096; USCG 6-30195.

(full photo found here; ©Larry Myhre)

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LOTD: Pago Pago Range Front (4)

~sorry for delay - meant for February 26th, 2023~

(from: http://www.ibiblio.org/lighthouse/asm.htm)

Pago Pago Range Front (4?)

Date unknown (station established 1901). Active; focal plane 11 m (37 ft); quick-flashing red light, visible only on or close to the range line. 11 m (36 ft) square skeletal tower carrying a daymark colored red with a white vertical stripe. Myhre's photo is at below, he also has a photo showing both range lights, Trabas has Arndt's photo, and Google has a street view and an indistinct satellite view. The original range lights were described as "iron standards," a 1922 light list describes a 3.5 m (11 ft) white square pyramidal tower, and by 1947 the lights were shown from the wood towers seen below. Located at the water's edge on the east end of the Pago Pago waterfront. Site open, tower closed. Admiralty K4580; NGA 3092; USCG 6-30190.

(full photo found here; ©Larry Myhre)