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[Red State Legacy logo]( [View in browser]( October 23, 2023   [Red State Legacy logo]( [View in browser]( October 23, 2023 Abraham Lincoln Biography | Quotes | Facts “With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds…. ” – Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was born Feb 12, 1809, in a single-room log cabin, Hardin County, Kentucky. His family upbringing was modest; his parents from Virginia were neither wealthy or well known. At an early age, the young lincolnAbraham lost his mother, and his father moved away to Indiana. Abraham had to work hard splitting logs and other manual labour. But, he also had a thirst for knowledge and worked very hard to excel in his studies. This led him to become self-trained as a lawyer. He spent eight years working on the Illinois court circuit; his ambition, drive, and capacity for hard work were evident to all around him. Lincoln became respected on the legal circuit and he gained the nickname ‘Honest Abe.’ He often encouraged neighbours to mediate their own conflicts rather than pursue full legal litigation. Lincoln also had a good sense of humour and was deprecating about his looks. “If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?” Work colleagues and friends noted that Lincoln had a capacity to defuse tense and argumentative situations, though the use of humour and his capacity to take an optimistic view of human nature. He loved to tell stories to illustrate a serious point through the use of humour and parables. Lincoln was shy around women but after a difficult courtship, he married Mary Todd in 1842. Mary Todd shared many of her husband’s political thinking but they also had different temperaments – with Mary more prone to swings in her emotions. They had four children, who Lincoln was devoted to. Although three died before reaching maturity – which caused much grief to both parents. As a lawyer, Abraham developed a capacity for quick thinking and oratory. His interest in public issues encouraged him to stand for public office. In 1847, he was elected to the House of Representatives for Illinois and served from 1847-49. During his period in Congress, Lincoln criticised President Folk’s handling of the American-Mexican War, arguing Polk used patriotism and military glory to defend the unjust action of taking Mexican territory. However, Lincoln’s stance was politically unpopular and he was not re-elected. Lawyer braham_Lincoln_by_ByersAfter his political career appeared to be over, he returned to working as a lawyer in Illinois. However, the 1850s saw the slavery question re-emerge as a prominent divisive national issue. Lincoln abhorred slavery and from a political perspective wished to prevent slavery being extended and ultimately be phased out. He gave influential speeches, which drew on the Declaration of Independence to prove the Founding Fathers had intended to stop the spread of slavery. In particular, Lincoln used a novel argument that although society was a long way from equality, America should aspire towards the lofty statement in the Declaration of Independence. “We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal” Lincoln had a strong capacity for empathy. He would try to see problems from everyone’s point of view – including southern slaveholders. He used this concept of empathy to speak against slavery. “I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others. When I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.” Lincoln’s speeches were notable because they drew on both legal precedents but also easy to understand parables, which struck a chord with the public. In 1858, Lincoln was nominated as Republican candidate for the Senate. He undertook a series of high-profile debates with the Democratic incumbent Stephen Douglass. Douglass was in favour of allowing the extension of slavery – if citizens voted for it. Lincoln opposed the extension of slavery. During this campaign, he gave one of his best-remembered speeches, which reflected on the divisive nature of America. “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. ” (House Divided) In this House Divided speech, Lincoln gave a prophetic utterance to the potential for slavery to divide the nation. Although he lost this 1858 Senate election, his debating skills and oratory caused him to become well known within the Republican party. On February 27, 1860. Lincoln was also invited to give a notable address at Cooper Union in New York. The East Coast was relatively new territory for Lincoln; many in the audience thought his appearance awkward and even ugly, but his calls for moral clarity over the wrongness of slavery struck a chord with his East coast audience. “Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.” (Cooper Union address) The reputation he gained on the campaign trail and speeches on the East coast caused him to be put forward as a candidate for the Republican nominee for President in 1860. Lincoln was an outsider because he had much less experience than other leading candidates such as Steward, Bates and Chase, but after finishing second on the first ballot he went on to become unexpectedly nominated. After a hard-fought, divisive campaign of 1860, Lincoln was elected the first Republican President of the United States. Lincoln’s support came entirely from the North and West of the country. The south strongly disagreed with Lincoln’s position on slavery The election of Lincoln as President in 1861, sparked the South to secede from the North. Southern independence sentiment had been growing for many years, and the election of a president opposed to slavery was the final straw. However, Lincoln resolutely opposed the breakaway of the South, and this led to the American civil war with Lincoln committed to preserving the Union. Lincoln surprised many by including in his cabinet the main rivals from the 1860 Republican campaign. It demonstrated Lincoln’s willingness and ability to work with people of different political and personal approaches. This helped to keep the Republican party together. Abraham-linconThe Civil War was much more costly than many people anticipated and at times Lincoln appeared to be losing the support of the general population. But, Lincoln’s patient leadership, and willingness to work with unionist Democrats held the country together. Lincoln oversaw many of the military aspects of the war and promoted the general Ulysses S Grant to command the northern forces. Initially, the war was primarily about the secession of southern states and the survival of the Union, but as the war progressed, Lincoln increasingly made the issue of ending slavery paramount. On September 22, 1862, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared the freedom of slaves within the Confederacy. “… all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free” (Emancipation Proclamation) The Proclamation came into force on January 1, 1863. Towards the end of the year, many black regiments were raised to help the Union army. Gettysburg address Lincoln-at-gettysburg After a difficult opening two years, by 1863, the tide of war started to swing towards the Union forces – helped by the victory at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863. Lincoln felt able to redefine the goals of the civil war to include the ending of slavery. Dedicating the ceremony at Gettysburg on November 19, 1863, Lincoln declared: “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. … that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address November 19, 1863 Eventually, after four years of attrition, the Federal forces secured the surrender of the defeated south. The union had been saved and the issue of slavery had been brought to a head. After the Civil War Lincoln_O-60_by_Brady,_1862 Lincoln 1862 In the aftermath of the civil war, Lincoln sought to reunite the country – offering a generous settlement to the south. When asked how to deal with the southern states, Lincoln replied. “Let ’em up easy.” Lincoln was opposed by more radical factions who wanted greater activism in the south to ensure civil rights for freed slaves. On January 31, 1865, Lincoln helped pass through Congress a bill to outlaw slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was officially signed into law on December 6, 1865. Some northern abolitionists and Republicans wanted Lincoln to go further and implement full racial equality on issues of education and voting rights. Lincoln was unwilling to do this (it was a minority political view for the time) Frederick Douglass, a leading black activist (who had escaped from slavery) didn’t always agree with the policies of Lincoln but after meeting Lincoln, he said enthusiastically of the President. “He treated me as a man; he did not let me feel for a moment that there was any difference in the color of our skins! The President is a most remarkable man. I am satisfied now that he is doing all that circumstances will permit him to do.” Assassination Five days after the surrender of Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army, Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth while visiting Ford’s Theatre. Lincoln’s death was widely mourned across the country. Posterity Lincoln is widely regarded as one of America’s most influential and important presidents. As well as saving the Union and promoting Republican values, Lincoln was viewed as embodying the ideals of honesty and integrity. “Posterity will call you the great emancipator, a more enviable title than any crown could be, and greater than any merely mundane treasure.” – Giuseppe Garibaldi, 6 August 1863. “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.” Martin Luther King Jr., “I Have a Dream” speech (28 August 1963), at the Lincoln Memorial Caught on Camera – Florida man leaves crypto crowd speechless… Ivan Sulyma (Polish: Iwan Sulima, Ukrainian: Іван Михайлович Сулима – Ivan Mykhailovych Sulyma) was a Senior of Registered Cossacks in 1628–29 and a Kosh Otaman in 1630–1635. Life and death Son of Mykhailo Sulyma, Ivan came from a petty noble (szlachta) family. He was born in Rohoshchi (next to Chernihiv). He served as an estate overseer for Stanisław Żółkiewski and later the family of Daniłowicze who inherited his lands; for that service in 1620 he was awarded three villages: Sulimówka, Kuczakiw and Lebedyn. All the villages today belong to the Boryspil Raion, Kyiv Oblast. His sons included Stepan (died 1659), a captain of Boryspil company, and Fedir (died 1691), a colonel of Pereiaslav regiment. He became popular among the unregistered Cossacks, leading them on campaigns to plunder Crimea and other Ottoman vassal territories. For organizing a revolt on an Ottoman slave galley and freeing Christian slaves[1] he received a medal from Pope Paul V himself. Eventually, Sulyma reached the rank of the hetman, which he held from 1628 to 1629 and 1630 to 1635. In 1635, after returning from an expedition to Black Sea against the Ottomans, he decided to rebel against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, which at that time controlled most of the Cossack territories, and whose nobility was trying to turn militant Cossacks into serfs.[citation needed] Ivan Sulyma took part in numerous campaigns of Sagaidachny against Tatars and Turks. In particular, it was the famous capture of Kafa (modern Theodosia), the main center of the slave trade on the Black Sea, Trapezont, Izmail, and also two attacks on Tsaregrad. On the night of 3 to 4 August 1635 he took the newly constructed Kodak fortress by surprise, burning it and executing its crew of about 200 people under Jean Marion. Soon afterwards however his forces were defeated by the army of hetman Stanisław Koniecpolski and Sulima was turned over to the Commonwealth by Cossack elders or starshina. Together with several other leaders of his rebellion, Hetman Sulyma was executed in Warsaw on 12 December 1635. At first, the Polish King Władysław IV Waza, known for his friendly attitude towards the Cossacks, was hesitant to execute Sulyma, especially since he was a person upon whom the Pope himself bestowed his medal. However, pressured by the nobility who wanted to show that no rebellions against the 'established order' would be tolerated, the order for an execution was given; after being tortured, Sulyma was cut to pieces and his body parts were hung on the city walls of Warsaw.[2] True story. Florida man walks into a packed crypto conference… Executes weird 3-second Bitcoin “trick”… And then this amazing thing happens… History Demonstration of firing The concept of a conventional tactical ballistic missile was made possible by the doctrinal shift of the late Cold War, which rejected the indispensability of an early nuclear strike on the Warsaw Pact forces in the event the Cold War went hot.[10] The AirLand Battle and Follow-on Forces Attack doctrines, which emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s, necessitated a conventional-armed, hence much more accurate, missile to strike enemy reserves, so the US Army Missile Command sponsored the Simplified Inertial Guidance Demonstrator (SIG-D) program.[10] Within this program, Ling-Temco-Vought developed a solid-fuel analog of the MGM-52 Lance missile, designated T-22,[11] with a new RLG-based inertial guidance package, which demonstrated unprecedented accuracy.[10] In 1978, DARPA started the Assault Breaker technology demonstration program to attack armor formations with many mobile hard targets at standoff ranges. It utilized the T-22 missile and the Patriot-based Martin Marietta T-16 missile with cluster warheads. Development of the missile now known as ATACMS started in 1980, when the U.S. Army decided to replace the Lance with a similar nuclear, but also chemical or biological, tipped solid-fuel missile dubbed the Corps Support Weapon System (CSWS). Concerned that two branches were developing too many similar missiles with different warheads, the Department of Defense merged the program with DARPA's Assault Breaker in 1981, and with United States Air Force (USAF)'s Conventional Standoff Weapon (CSW) in 1982–1983.[12] The new missile system, designated Joint Tactical Missile System (JTACMS), soon encountered USAF resistance to the idea of an air-launched ballistic missile. As a result, in 1984 the USAF ended its participation in the non-cruise missile portion of the program, leading to the missile being re-designated as the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS).[13] In March 1986, Ling-Temco-Vought won the contract for the missile design. The system was assigned the MGM-140 designation. The first test launch came two years later, thanks to earlier experience of the company with previous programs. The first use of the ATACMS in combat was during Operation Desert Storm in 1991, where 32 of the missiles were fired from the M270 MLRS.[14] During Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003, more than 450 missiles were fired.[15] As of early 2015, over 560 ATACMS missiles had been fired in combat.[4][5] In 2007, the U.S. Army terminated the ATACMS program due to cost, ending the ability to replenish stocks. To sustain the remaining inventory, the ATACMS Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) was launched, which refurbishes or replaces propulsion and navigation systems, replaces cluster munition warheads with the unitary blast fragmentation warhead, and adds a proximity fuze option to obtain area effects. Deliveries were projected to start in 2018. The ATACMS SLEP is a bridging initiative to provide time to complete analysis and development of a successor capability to the aging ATACMS stockpile, which could be ready around 2022.[needs update][16] In January 2015, Lockheed Martin received a contract to develop and test new hardware for Block I ATACMS missiles to eliminate the risk of unexploded ordnance by 2016.[4][5] The first modernized Tactical Missile System (TACMS) was delivered in September 2016 with updated guidance electronics and added capability to defeat area targets using a unitary warhead, without leaving behind unexploded ordnance.[17][18] Lockheed was awarded a production contract for launch assemblies as part of the SLEP in August 2017.[19] In 2021, Lockheed Martin was contracted to upgrade existing M39 munitions to the M57 variant with a WDU-18/B warhead from the Harpoon missile by 2024.[20] A plan announced in October 2016 to add an existing seeker to enable the ATACMS to strike moving targets on land and at sea[21] was terminated in December 2020 to pursue other missile efforts.[22] Ukraine This section may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (October 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) There has been speculation that ATACMS missiles, may have been used by Ukraine for attacks on Crimean airbases in 2022.[23] On 24 August, Undersecretary of Defense For Policy, Colin Kahl said: "It's our assessment that they don't currently require ATACMS to service targets that are directly relevant to the current fight. You know, we'll obviously continue to have conversations with the Ukrainians about their needs, but it's our judgment at the moment that we should be focusing on GMLRS, not ATACMS."[24] In February 2023 a U.S. official said ATACMS would not be sent, due limited US inventory. [25] However, in late May 2023 President Biden said that ATACMS were "still in play" for Ukraine.[26] The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 authorized the production and procurement of up to 1,700 additional ATACMS systems.[27][28] Other alternative long-distance systems potentially in use by Ukraine have been the Saab–Boeing GLSDB, which has a range of 150 km (93 mi).[29] This is a combination of the GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb (each one having a cost to the U.S. government of about US$40,000)[30][31] and the M26 rocket, an obsolete weapon of which there is an abundant stockpile.[31][32] On September 23 there were news reports that President Biden had promised "a small number" of ATACMS to Ukrainian President Zelensky.[33] According to the New York Times on 18 October 2023, the U.S. delivered about 20 ATACMS missile systems to Ukraine.[34] The systems were an older version that dispenses small bomblets over a wide area. This type of weapon is banned by a treaty not signed by the United States but, because of the ban, the Pentagon said that it could not imagine using these missiles in a conflict, so it agreed to supply them to Ukraine.[35] On 17 October 2023, Ukraine claimed it had killed and wounded dozens of Russian soldiers and destroyed nine helicopters, an air defense system, and an ammunition dump in airstrikes in Berdiansk and Luhansk.[36] Forbes reported that three ATACMS were fired during the attack.[37] The missiles used were the M39 variant, with payloads consisting of 950 M74 submunitions.[38] President Zelenskyy confirmed that ATACMS rockets were used in the attacks, the first time they were used in the conflict since their arrival from the US only a few days earlier. The US supplied the shorter range "100 mile" (160 km) version of the missile due to fears of it striking Russia; the missiles were built between 1990 and 1997.[36][39] The addition of this weapon placed under direct threat the entirety of Russia's land corridor in southern Ukraine, all the way to the Sea of Azov coast,[40] putting within reach the vast majority of the air bases operated by Russia from within Ukraine (north of Crimea), and rendering more difficult Russia's continued heavy use of attack helicopters against the Ukraine counter-offensive, these being the types of thin-skinned targets that are vulnerable to the M39 variant.[38] [Bitcoin opportunity]( The Storm Shadow is a Franco-British low-observable, long-range air-launched cruise missile developed since 1994 by Matra and British Aerospace, and now manufactured by MBDA.[6] "Storm Shadow" is the weapon's British name; in France it is called SCALP-EG (which stands for "Système de Croisière Autonome à Longue Portée – Emploi Général"; English: "Long Range Autonomous Cruise Missile System – General Purpose"). The missile is based on the French-developed Apache anti-runway cruise missile, but differs in that it carries a unitary warhead instead of cluster munitions.[7] To meet the requirement issued by the French Ministry of Defence for a more potent cruise missile capable of being launched from surface vessels and submarines, and able to strike strategic and military targets from extended stand-off ranges with even greater precision, MBDA France began development of the Missile de Croisière Naval ("Naval Cruise Missile") or MdCN in 2006 to complement the SCALP. The first firing test took place in July 2013 and was successful.[8] The MdCN has been operational on French FREMM frigates since 2017 and also equips France's Barracuda nuclear attack submarines, which entered operational service in 2022. In 2017, a joint contract to upgrade the respective Storm Shadow/SCALP stockpiles in French and British service was signed. It is expected to sustain the missile until its planned withdrawal from service in 2032.[9][10] The Future Cruise/Anti-Ship Weapon, currently being developed by the two countries and Italy, is intended to replace it. Characteristics A Microturbo TRI 60-30 expendable turbojet engine used by the Storm Shadow, Musée aéronautique et spatial Safran The missile weighs about 1,300 kilograms (2,900 lb), with a conventional warhead of 450 kilograms (990 lb). It has a maximum body diameter of 48 centimetres (19 in) and a wingspan of three metres (120 in). It is propelled at Mach 0.8 by a Microturbo TRI 60-30 turbojet engine and has range of approximately 560 km (300 nmi; 350 mi).[11] The weapon can be launched from a number of different aircraft—the Saab Gripen, Dassault Mirage 2000, Dassault Rafale, the Panavia Tornado, both the Italian Tornado IDS and formerly the British Tornado GR4 (now retired),[12] and a modified Sukhoi Su-24.[13] Storm Shadow was integrated with the Eurofighter Typhoon as part of the Phase 2 Enhancement (P2E) in 2015,[14][15] but will not be fitted to the F-35 Lightning II.[16] The Storm Shadow's BROACH warhead features an initial penetrating charge to clear soil or enter a bunker, then a variable delay fuze to control detonation of the main warhead. Intended targets are command, control and communications centres; airfields; ports and power stations; ammunition management and storage facilities; surface ships and submarines in port; bridges and other high value strategic targets. The missile is fire and forget, programmed before launch. Once launched, it cannot be controlled or commanded to self-destroy and its target information cannot be changed. Mission planners program the weapon with details of the target and its air defences. The missile follows a path semi-autonomously, on a low flight path guided by GPS and terrain mapping to the target area.[17] Close to the target, the missile climbs to increase its field of view and improve penetration, matches the target stored image with its IR camera and then dives into the target.[18][19] Climbing to altitude is intended to achieve the best probability of target identification and penetration. During the final maneuver, the nose cone is jettisoned to allow a high resolution thermographic camera (infrared homing) to observe the target area. The missile then tries to locate its target based upon its targeting information (DSMAC). If it cannot, and there is a high risk of collateral damage, the missile is capable of flying to a crash point instead of risking inaccuracy.[18] Enhancements reported in 2005 included the capability to relay target information just before impact and usage of one-way (link back) data link to relay battle damage assessment information back to the host aircraft, under development under a French DGA contract. At the time in-flight re-targeting capability, using a two-way data link, was planned.[20] In 2016, it was announced that Storm Shadow would be refurbished under the Selective Precision Effects At Range 4 (SPEAR 4) missile project.[21] Some reports suggest a reduced capability version complying with Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) restrictions was created for export, for example to the United Arab Emirates.[22][23][24] [Click here to watch!]( During his Chancellor’s Speaker Series talk at University of Massachusetts Lowell on December 7, 2012, King indicated that he was writing a crime novel about a retired policeman being taunted by a murderer. With a working title Mr. Mercedes and inspired by a true event about a woman driving her car into a McDonald’s restaurant, it was originy meant to be a short story just a few pages long.[81] In an interview with Parade, published on May 26, 2013, King confirmed that the novel was “more or less” completed[82] he published it in June 2014. Later, on June 20, 2013, while doing a video chat with fans as part of promoting the upcoming Under the Dome TV series, King mentioned he was halfway through writing his next novel, Revival,[83] which was released November 11, 2014.[84] King announced in June 2014 that Mr. Mercedes is part of a trilogy; the second book, Finders Keepers, was released on June 2, 2015. On April 22, 2015, it was revealed that King was working on the third book of the trilogy, End of Watch, which was ultimately released on June 7, 2016.[85][86] During a tour to promote End of Watch, King revealed that he had collaborated on a novel, set in a women’s prison in West Virginia, with his son, Owen King, titled Sleeping Beauties.[87] In 2018, he released the novel The Outsider, which featured the character of Holly Gibney, and the novella Elevation. In 2019, he released the novel The Institute. In 2020, King released If It Bleeds, a collection of four previously unpublished novellas. In 2022, King released his latest novel, Fairy Tale. Analysis Writing style and approach Stephen King in 2011 King’s formula for learning to write well is: “Read and write four to six hours a day. If you cannot find the time for that, you can’t expect to become a good writer.” He sets out each day with a quota of 2000 words and will not writing until it is met. He also has a simple definition for talent in writing: “If you wrote something for which someone sent you a, if you cashed the and it didn’t bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the, I consider you talented.“[108] When asked why he writes, King responds: “The answer to that is fairly simple—there was nothing else I was made to do. I was made to write stories and I love to write stories. That’s why I do it. I rey can’t imagine doing anything else and I can’t imagine not doing what I do.“[109] He is also often asked why he writes such terrifying stories and he answers with another question: “Why do you assume I have a choice?“[110] King usuy begins the story creation process by imagining a “what if” scerio, such as what would happen if a writer is kidnapped by a sadistic nurse in Colorado.[111] King often uses authors as characters, or includes mention of fictional books in his stories, novellas and novels, such as Paul Sheldon, who is the main character in Misery, adult Bill Denbrough in It, Ben Mears in ’Salem’s Lot, and Jack Torrance in The Shining. He has extended this to breaking the fourth w by including himself as a character in The Dark Tower series from The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Ca onwards. In September 2009 it was announced he would serve as a writer for Fangoria.[112] Influences King has ced Richard Matheson “the author who influenced me most as a writer”.[113] In a current edition of Matheson’s The Shrinking Man, King is quoted as saying, “A horror story if there ever was one...a adventure story—it is certainly one of that select handful that I have given to people, envying them the experience of the first reading.“[114] Other ackledged influences include H. P. Lovecraft,[115][116] Arthur Machen,[117] Ray Bradbury,[118] Joseph Payne Brennan,[119] Elmore Leonard,[120] John D. MacDonald, and Don Robertson.[121] King’s The Shining is immersed in gothic influences, including “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar an Poe (which was directly influenced by the first gothic novel, Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto).[122] The Overlook Hotel acts as a replacement for the traditional gothic castle, and Jack Torrance is a tragic villain seeking redemption.[122] King produced an artist’s book with designer Barbara Kruger, My Pretty Pony (1989), published in a limted edition of 250 by the Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Alfred A. Knopf released it in a general trade edition.[88] The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My at Rose Red (2001) was a paperback tie-in for the King-penned miniseries Rose Red (2002). Published under anonymous authorship, the book was written by Ridley Pearson. The novel is written in the orm of a diary by Ellen Rimbauer, and annotated by the fictional professor of paranormal activity, Joyce Reardon. The novel also presents a fictional afterword by Ellen Rimbauer’s grandson, Steven. Intended to be a promotional item rather than a stand-alone work, its popularity spawned a 2003 prequel television miniseries to Rose Red, titled The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer. This spin-is a rare occasion of another author being granted permission to write commercial work using characters and story elements invented by King. The novel tie-in idea was repeated on Stephen King’s next project, the miniseries Kingdom Hospital. Richard Dooling, King’s collaborator on Kingdom Hospital and writer of several episodes in the miniseries, published a fictional diary, The Journals of Eleanor Druse, in 2004. Eleanor Druse is a key character in Kingdom Hospital, much as Dr. Joyce Readon and Ellen Rimbauer are key characters in Rose Red.[citation needed] Throttle (2009), a novella written in collaboration with his son Joe Hill, appears in the anthology He Is Legend: Celebrating Richard Matheson.[89] Their second novella collaboration, In the T Grass (2012), was published in two parts in Esquire.[90][91] It was later released in e-book and audiobook formats, the latter read by Stephen Lang.[92] King and his son Owen King wrote the novel Sleeping Beauties, released in 2017, that is set in a women’s prison.[93] King and Richard Chizmar collaborated to write Gwendy’s Button Box (2017), a horror novella taking place in King’s fictional town of Castle Rock.[94] A sequel titled Gwendy’s Magic Feather (2019) was written solely by Chizmar.[95] In November 2020, Chizmar announced that he and King were writing a third instment in the series titled Gwendy’s Final Task, this time as a full-length novel, to be released in February 2022.[96][97][98] Best Regards, Andrew Miller Music In 1988, the band Blue Öyster Cult recorded an updated version of its 1974 song “Astronomy”. The single released for radio play featured a narrative intro spoken by King.[99][100] The Blue Öyster Cult song “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” was also used in the King TV series The Stand.[101] King collaborated with Michael Jackson to create Ghosts (1996), a 40-minute musical video.[102] King states he was motivated to collaborate as he is “always interested in trying something , and for (him), writing a minimusical would be “.[103] In 2005, King featured with a sm spoken word part during the cover version of Everlong (by Foo Fighters) in Bronson Arroyo’s album Covering the Bases, at the time, Arroyo was a pitcher for Major League Baseb team Boston Red Sox of whom King is a longtime fan.[104] In 2012, King collaborated with musician Shooter Jennings and his band Hierophant, providing the narration for their album, Black Ribbons.[105] King played guitar for the rock band Rock Bottom Remainders, several of whose members are authors. Other members include Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson, Scott Turow, Amy Tan, James McBride, Mitch Albom, Roy Blount, Jr., Matt Groening, Kathi Kamen Goldmark, Sam Barry, and Greg Iles. King and the other band members collaborated to release an e-book ced Hard Listening: The est Rock Band Ever (of Authors) Tells (June 2013).[106][107] King wrote a musical entitled Ghost Brothers of Darkland County (2012) with musician John Mellencamp.[citation needed] King was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21, 1947. His father, Donald Ed King, a travelling vacuum salesman after returning from World War II,[10] was born in Indiana with the sur Pollock, changing it to King as an adult.[11][12][13] King’s mother was Nellie Ruth King (née Pillsbury).[13] His parents were married in Scarborough, Maine on July 23, 1939.[14] Shortly afterwards, they lived with Donald’s family in Chicago before moving to Croton-on-Hudson, York.[15] King’s parents returned to Maine towards the end of World War II, living in a modest house in Scarborough. When King was two, his father left the family. His mother raised him and his older brother David by herself, sometimes under strain. They moved from Scarborough and depended on relatives in Chicago; Croton-on-Hudson; West De Pere, Wisconsin; Fort Wayne, Indiana; Malden, Massachusetts; and Stratford, Connecticut.[16][17] When King was 11, his family moved to Durham, Maine, where his mother cared for her parents until their deaths. She then became a caregiver in a local residential facility for the menty chenged.[1] King was raised Methodist,[18][19] but lost his belief in organized religion while in high school. While no longer religious, he says he chooses to believe in the existence of God.[20] As a child, King apparently witnessed one of his friends being struck and killed by a train, though he has no memory of the event. His family told him that after leaving to play with the boy, King returned speechless and seemingly in shock. later did the family learn of the death. Some commentators have suggested that this event may have psychologicy inspired some of King’s darker works,[21] but King makes no mention of it in his memoir On Writing (2000). He related in detail his primary inspiration for writing horror fiction in his non-fiction Danse Macabre (1981), in a chapter titled “An Annoying Autobiographical Pause”. He compared his uncle’s dowsing for water using the bough of an apple branch with the sudden realization of what he wanted to do for a living. That inspiration occurred while browsing through an attic with his elder brother, when King uncovered a paperback version of an H. P. Lovecraft collection of short stories he remembers as The Lurker in the Shadows, that had belonged to his father. King told Barnes & Noble Studios in a 2009 interview, “I k that I’d found when I read that book.“[22] King attended Durham Elementary School and graduated from Lisbon High School (Maine) in Lisbon Fs, Maine, in 1966.[23] He displayed an early interest in horror as an avid reader of EC horror comics, including Tales from the Crypt, and he later paid tribute to the comics in his screenplay for Creepshow. He began writing for fun while in school, contributing articles to Dave’s Rag, the spaper his brother published with a mimeograph machine, and later began selling stories to his friends based on movies he had seen. (He was forced to return the when it was discovered by his teachers.) The first of his stories to be independently published was “I Was a Teenage Grave Robber”, which was serialized over four issues (three published and one unpublished) of a fanzine, Comics Review, in 1965. It was republished the follog year in revised, as “In a Half-World of Terror”, in another fanzine, Stories of Suspense, edited by Marv Wolfman.[24] As a teen, King also a Scholastic Art and Writing Award.[25] King entered the University of Maine in 1966, and graduated in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts in English.[26] That year, his daughter Naomi Rachel was born. He wrote a column, Steve King’s Garbage Truck, for the student spaper, The Maine Campus, and participated in a writing workshop organized by Burton Hatlen.[27] King held a variety of jobs to pay for his studies, including as a janitor, a gas-station attendant, and an industrial laundry worker. He met his, fellow student Tabitha Spruce, at the university’s Raymond H. Fogler Library after one of Professor Hatlen’s workshops; they wed in 1971.[27] Managing Editor, Jeff Clark Trader   You are receiving this editorial email that includes advertisements because you opted in to this service and indicated your interest in receiving such content. If you wish to stop receiving these emails, please click on the [unsubscribe link](. To guarantee the delivery of our emails to your inbox, please include our email address in your address book. Your feedback and questions are always welcome at Polaris Advertising. It is important to note, however, that we are not authorized to offer personalized advice due to legal restrictions. Development Lіghtweіght Fіghter progrаm Mаіn аrtіcle: Lіghtweіght Fіghter progrаm US Vіetnаm Wаr experіence showed the need for аіr superіorіty fіghters аnd better аіr-to-аіr trаіnіng for fіghter pіlots.[10] Bаsed on hіs experіence іn the Koreаn Wаr аnd аs а fіghter tаctіcs іnstructor іn the eаrly 1960s, Colonel John Boyd wіth mаthemаtіcіаn Thomаs Chrіstіe developed the energy–mаneuverаbіlіty theory to model а fіghter аіrcrаft's performаnce іn combаt. Boyd's work cаlled for а smаll, lіghtweіght аіrcrаft thаt could mаneuver wіth the mіnіmum possіble energy loss аnd whіch аlso іncorporаted аn іncreаsed thrust-to-weіght rаtіo.[11][12] іn the lаte 1960s, Boyd gаthered а group of lіke-mіnded іnnovаtors who becаme known аs the Fіghter Mаfіа, аnd іn 1969, they secured Depаrtment of Defense fundіng for Generаl Dynаmіcs аnd Northrop to study desіgn concepts bаsed on the theory.[13][14] аіr Force F-X proponents were opposed to the concept becаuse they perceіved іt аs а threаt to the F-15 progrаm, but the USаF's leаdershіp understood thаt іts budget would not аllow іt to purchаse enough F-15 аіrcrаft to sаtіsfy аll of іts mіssіons.[15] The аdvаnced Dаy Fіghter concept, renаmed F-XX, gаіned cіvіlіаn polіtіcаl support under the reform-mіnded Deputy Secretаry of Defense Dаvіd Pаckаrd, who fаvored the іdeа of competіtіve prototypіng. аs а result, іn Mаy 1971, the аіr Force Prototype Study Group wаs estаblіshed, wіth Boyd а key member, аnd two of іts sіx proposаls would be funded, one beіng the Lіghtweіght Fіghter (LWF). The request for proposаls іssued on 6 Jаnuаry 1972 cаlled for а 20,000-pound (9,100 kg) clаss аіr-to-аіr dаy fіghter wіth а good turn rаte, аccelerаtіon, аnd rаnge, аnd optіmіzed for combаt аt speeds of Mаch 0.6–1.6 аnd аltіtudes of 30,000–40,000 feet (9,100–12,000 m). Thіs wаs the regіon where USаF studіes predіcted most future аіr combаt would occur. The аntіcіpаted аverаge flyаwаy cost of а productіon versіon wаs $3 mіllіon. Thіs productіon plаn wаs hypothetіcаl аs the USаF hаd no fіrm plаns to procure the wіnner.[16][17] Selectіon of fіnаlіsts аnd flyoff Two jet аіrcrаft flyіng together over mountаіn rаnge аnd cloud а rіght-sіde vіew of а YF-16 (foreground) аnd а Northrop YF-17, eаch аrmed wіth аіM-9 Sіdewіnder mіssіles Fіve compаnіes responded, аnd іn 1972, the аіr Stаff selected Generаl Dynаmіcs' Model 401 аnd Northrop's P-600 for the follow-on prototype development аnd testіng phаse. GD аnd Northrop were аwаrded contrаcts worth $37.9 mіllіon аnd $39.8 mіllіon to produce the YF-16 аnd YF-17, respectіvely, wіth the fіrst flіghts of both prototypes plаnned for eаrly 1974. To overcome resіstаnce іn the аіr Force hіerаrchy, the Fіghter Mаfіа аnd other LWF proponents[whіch?] successfully аdvocаted the іdeа of complementаry fіghters іn а hіgh-cost/low-cost force mіx.[18] The "hіgh/low mіx" would аllow the USаF to be аble to аfford suffіcіent fіghters for іts overаll fіghter force structure requіrements. The mіx gаіned broаd аcceptаnce by the tіme of the prototypes' fly-off, defіnіng the relаtіonshіp between the LWF аnd the F-15.[19][20] The YF-16 wаs developed by а teаm of Generаl Dynаmіcs engіneers led by Robert H. Wіdmer.[21] The fіrst YF-16 wаs rolled out on 13 December 1973. іts 90-mіnute mаіden flіght wаs mаde аt the аіr Force Flіght Test Center аt Edwаrds аFB, Cаlіfornіа, on 2 Februаry 1974. іts аctuаl fіrst flіght occurred аccіdentаlly durіng а hіgh-speed tаxі test on 20 Jаnuаry 1974. Whіle gаtherіng speed, а roll-control oscіllаtіon cаused а fіn of the port-sіde wіngtіp-mounted mіssіle аnd then the stаrboаrd stаbіlаtor to scrаpe the ground, аnd the аіrcrаft then begаn to veer off the runwаy. The test pіlot, Phіl Oestrіcher, decіded to lіft off to аvoіd а potentіаl crаsh, sаfely lаndіng sіx mіnutes lаter. The slіght dаmаge wаs quіckly repаіred аnd the offіcіаl fіrst flіght occurred on tіme.[22] The YF-16's fіrst supersonіc flіght wаs аccomplіshed on 5 Februаry 1974, аnd the second YF-16 prototype fіrst flew on 9 Mаy 1974. Thіs wаs followed by the fіrst flіghts of Northrop's YF-17 prototypes on 9 June аnd 21 аugust 1974, respectіvely. Durіng the fly-off, the YF-16s completed 330 sortіes for а totаl of 417 flіght hours;[23] the YF-17s flew 288 sortіes, coverіng 345 hours.[24] ☎[tel:+1 302 966-9552](tel:+1%20302%20966-9552) Call toll free Domestic/International [+1 (302) 499-2858](tel:+13024992858) Mon–Fri, 9am–5pm ET [Red State Legacy logo]( 124 Broadkill Rd 4 Milton, DE 19968 аіr Combаt Fіghter competіtіon іncreаsed іnterest turned the LWF іnto а serіous аcquіsіtіon progrаm. NаTO аllіes Belgіum, Denmаrk, the Netherlаnds, аnd Norwаy were seekіng to replаce theіr F-104G Stаrfіghter fіghter-bombers.[25] іn eаrly 1974, they reаched аn аgreement wіth the U.S. thаt іf the USаF ordered the LWF wіnner, they would consіder orderіng іt аs well. The USаF аlso needed to replаce іts F-105 Thunderchіef аnd F-4 Phаntom іі fіghter-bombers. The U.S. Congress sought greаter commonаlіty іn fіghter procurements by the аіr Force аnd Nаvy, аnd іn аugust 1974 redіrected Nаvy funds to а new Nаvy аіr Combаt Fіghter progrаm thаt would be а nаvаl fіghter-bomber vаrіаnt of the LWF. The four NаTO аllіes hаd formed the Multіnаtіonаl Fіghter Progrаm Group (MFPG) аnd pressed for а U.S. decіsіon by December 1974; thus, the USаF аccelerаted testіng.[26][27][28] YF-16 on dіsplаy аt the Vіrgіnіа аіr аnd Spаce Center To reflect thіs serіous іntent to procure а new fіghter-bomber, the LWF progrаm wаs rolled іnto а new аіr Combаt Fіghter (аCF) competіtіon іn аn аnnouncement by U.S. Secretаry of Defense Jаmes R. Schlesіnger іn аprіl 1974. The аCF would not be а pure fіghter, but multіrole, аnd Schlesіnger mаde іt cleаr thаt аny аCF order would be іn аddіtіon to the F-15, whіch extіnguіshed opposіtіon to the LWF.[27][28][29] аCF аlso rаіsed the stаkes for GD аnd Northrop becаuse іt brought іn competіtors іntent on securіng whаt wаs touted аt the tіme аs "the аrms deаl of the century".[30] These were Dаssаult-Breguet's proposed Mіrаge F1M-53, the аnglo-French SEPECаT Jаguаr, аnd the proposed Sааb 37E "Eurofіghter". Northrop offered the P-530 Cobrа, whіch wаs sіmіlаr to the YF-17. The Jаguаr аnd Cobrа were dropped by the MFPG eаrly on, leаvіng two Europeаn аnd two U.S. cаndіdаtes. On 11 September 1974, the U.S. аіr Force confіrmed plаns to order the wіnnіng аCF desіgn to equіp fіve tаctіcаl fіghter wіngs. Though computer modelіng predіcted а close contest, the YF-16 proved sіgnіfіcаntly quіcker goіng from one mаneuver to the next аnd wаs the unаnіmous choіce of those pіlots thаt flew both аіrcrаft.[31] On 13 Jаnuаry 1975, Secretаry of the аіr Force John L. McLucаs аnnounced the YF-16 аs the wіnner of the аCF competіtіon.[32] The chіef reаsons gіven by the secretаry were the YF-16's lower operаtіng costs, greаter rаnge, аnd mаneuver performаnce thаt wаs "sіgnіfіcаntly better" thаn thаt of the YF-17, especіаlly аt supersonіc speeds. аnother аdvаntаge of the YF-16 – unlіke the YF-17 – wаs іts use of the Prаtt & Whіtney F100 turbofаn engіne, the sаme powerplаnt used by the F-15; such commonаlіty would lower the cost of engіnes for both progrаms.[33] Secretаry McLucаs аnnounced thаt the USаF plаnned to order аt leаst 650, possіbly up to 1,400 productіon F-16s. іn the Nаvy аіr Combаt Fіghter competіtіon, on 2 Mаy 1975, the Nаvy selected the YF-17 аs the bаsіs for whаt would become the McDonnell Douglаs F/а-18 Hornet.[34][35] [📮](mailto:support@polarisadvertising.com) Email us support@polarisadvertising.com © 2023 Polaris Advertising. All rights reserved. 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