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![]() This close contact upset Mohamed Atta, the tactical leader of the plot, and al-Qaeda planners may have considered another operative, Zacarias Moussaoui, to replace him if he had backed out. Jarrah maintained contact with his girlfriend in Germany and with his family in Lebanon in the months preceding the attacks. There, he began taking flying lessons and training in hand-to-hand combat. Embassy in Berlin, arriving in Florida in June 2000. In May, Jarrah received a visa from the U.S. Jarrah returned to Hamburg at the end of January and in February obtained a new passport containing no stamped records of his travels by reporting his passport as stolen. While there, he met with al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in January 2000. In November 1999, Jarrah left Hamburg for Afghanistan, where he spent three months. In Hamburg, Jarrah became a devout Muslim and associated with the radical Hamburg cell. ![]() A year later, he moved to Hamburg and began studying aeronautical engineering at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. He intended to become a pilot and moved to Germany in 1996, enrolling at the University of Greifswald to study German. Jarrah was born in Lebanon to a wealthy family and had a secular upbringing. The hijacking of Flight 93 was led by Ziad Jarrah, a member of al-Qaeda. Construction of a permanent Flight 93 National Memorial was dedicated on September 10, 2011, and a concrete and glass visitor center (situated on a hill overlooking the site) was opened exactly four years later. ![]() A temporary memorial was built near the crash site soon after the attacks. The hijacking was supposed to be coordinated with that of American Airlines Flight 77, which struck the Pentagon less than 26 minutes before the crash of Flight 93. United Airlines Flight 93 was the fourth and final passenger jet to be commandeered by terrorists on September 11, and the only one that did not reach a target intended by al-Qaeda. One person witnessed the impact from the ground, and news agencies began reporting the event within an hour. In the ensuing struggle, the plane nosedived into a field near a reclaimed strip mine in Stonycreek Township, near Indian Lake and Shanksville, about 65 miles (105 km) southeast of Pittsburgh and 130 miles (210 km) northwest of the capital. By 9:57 a.m., only 29 minutes after the plane had been hijacked, the passengers had made the decision to fight back in an effort to gain control of the aircraft. The hijackers' decision to wait an additional 46 minutes to launch their assault meant that the people being held hostage on the flight very quickly found out that suicide attacks had already been made by hijacked airliners on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center complex in New York City as well as the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, near D.C. The plane was 42 minutes behind schedule when it left the runway at 08:42. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Ramzi bin al-Shibh, considered principal instigators of the attacks, have claimed that the intended target was the U.S. Ziad Jarrah, who had trained as a pilot, took control of the aircraft and diverted it back toward the east coast, in the direction of D.C. The airliner involved, a Boeing 757-222 with 44 passengers and crew, was flying United Airlines' daily scheduled morning flight from Newark International Airport in New Jersey to San Francisco International Airport in California, making it the only plane hijacked that day not to be a Los Angeles-bound flight.įorty-six minutes into the flight, the hijackers murdered one passenger, stormed the cockpit, and struggled with the pilots as controllers on the ground listened in. The mission became a partial failure when the passengers fought back, forcing the terrorists to crash the plane in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, preventing them from reaching al-Qaeda's intended target, but killing everyone on-board the flight. The hijackers planned to crash the plane into a federal government building in the national capital of Washington, D.C. United Airlines Flight 93 was a domestic scheduled passenger flight that was hijacked by four al-Qaeda terrorists on the morning of September 11, 2001, as part of the September 11 attacks. Newark Int'l Airport (now Newark Liberty Int'l Airport) UA 93's flight path from Newark, New Jersey, to Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvaniaįield ( Flight 93 National Memorial) near the Diamond T. ![]() In 1999, Billy Mitchell became the first person to obtain a perfect Pac-Man score of 3,333,360, eating every dot, power pill, ghost and bonus on every level without losing a single life. But let’s just forget about that, shall we?Ģ3. Pac-Man was a major element in the appalling Adam Sandler comedy Pixels, with Toru Iwatani getting a cameo as an arcade repairman. The scene is effectively a how-to guide and an advert for Pac-Man rolled into one.Ģ2. In a 1982 episode of the sitcom Taxi, Louie (Danny DeVito) installs a Pac-Man cabinet in the garage and Jim (Christopher Lloyd) becomes addicted to the game. The movie also featured preview footage of Super Pac-Man, Namco’s official sequel to the original game.Ģ1. It was later heavily featured in the movie Joysticks, which belonged to the 1980s teen sex comedy genre popularised by Porky’s. In 1981, Japanese manufacturer Shoei released a terrible “erotic” version of Pac-Man called Streaking. The game gave us this Marcus Brigstocke joke: “If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.”ġ9. Notable examples include Jonzun Crew’s Pack Jam and Newcleus’s Jam on Revenge (The Wikki-Wikki Song).ġ8. The game’s distinctive electronic music and sound effects were also an inspiration to early hip-hop pioneers. An album of video-game-inspired songs followed. ![]() The tribute song Pac-Man Fever by artists Jerry Buckner and Gary Garcia reached number nine in the US charts in March 1982. This advert for the device is quite a rush.ġ6. Japanese toy manufacturer Tomy made a famously beautiful, handheld Pac-Man game in the shape of an enormous yellow blob with an LCD display. Although it sold 7m copies, the game was so wretched it has been widely blamed for the 1983 video game crash, alongside the similarly poor title, ET.ġ5. With its simplified maze and blocky visuals, the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man is widely considered one of the worst arcade-to-home console conversions of all time. A strategy guide to the game, Mastering Pac-Man by professional blackjack player Ken Uston, sold more than 1m copies.ġ4. Inspired by pizza … Toru Iwatani, creator of Pac-Man. Pac-Man became gaming’s first marketable mascot, with licensed merchandise including lunchboxes, joke books, T-shirts, board games, pyjamas and, for the romantic gamer, Valentine cards. Within a year of Pac-Man’s launch, 100,000 units had been sold and 250m games were being played every week. Martin Amis was a fan of the game and in his 1982 book Invasion of the Space Invaders claimed to have spent weeks in “a Pac-Man-fed stupor unwilling and unable to think about anything else”.ġ2. This was one of the first examples of a non-interactive video game “cutscene”.ġ1. The game features short animated sequences between levels, showing Pac-Man being chased by the ghosts. It was originally called Puck Man, but the US distributor Midway was worried that the word Puck could easily be modified by mischievous vandals into something ruder. The game was only a moderate success until its blockbusting US launch the following October.ĩ. ![]() Pac-Man manufacturer Namco installed the first machine in a movie theatre in Shibuya, Tokyo, on. It’s considered one of the first examples of a “power up” in video game history.ħ. ![]() The idea of eating a power pill to give Pac-Man super strength came partly from the cartoon Popeye and his love of spinach, and partly from the Japanese concept of kokoro (“spirit”) or life force. Moreover, it automatically switches between Wi-Fi and cellular networks. Also, Google Duo uses WaveNetEQ for the concealment of lost data packets. It uses WebRTC and QUIC over UDP for low-bandwidth. So no message will be dropped if you are using Google Duo web for video calling. ![]() Google duo uses a very decent quality network balancing technique if your friend or recipient is in a low-network area, still Google duo balance the network, you may observe a little buffering or lagging in the video but audio will be clear and sharp. Moreover, if you make a call and Knock-Knock is enabled then your recipients will also know who is calling them. And it is the best way to know who is calling you from another side. This is a very helpful feature when you receive unknown video-calls through Google Duo. Knock-Knock is one of the quite useful and best features of Google Duo Web, by enabling Knock-Knock you can see the live preview of the person who is calling you. Record a video message using Google Duo, moreover, you can use some animations and effects to make your video message more attractive and loving. You can send video messages to brighten up someone’s day. Suppose someone has called you on Duo and at that time you weren’t available to answer so you can leave a voice message to inform them that you are available now to join the call. ![]() Using Google Duo you can leave a message or Voice note to your friend, informing them that you are missing them. Make one-to-one callingįind who is available to receive a call or invite your friends to join the call on the Google Duo web. Google Duo web also supports Voice calling, if you do not have recharge in your phone and connect with the Internet through Wi-Fi, so Google Duo helps you to make voice calls, It offers an extreme quality clear voice calling. ![]() So we worked up those songs, and at the same time, I said to Andy, “What if we came up with a song?” And Andy and I came up with the song “Rise.” So I think we worked up ‘A Taste of Honey,’ maybe ‘Spanish Flea,’ and ‘The Lonely Bull.’ And my writing partner at the time, Andy Armer and I had a little four-track studio in my apartment. So I called Chip Cohen the next morning, and I said “OK, what do you need?” He said “Do me a favor, work up a few Tijuana Brass songs, and do them the way you want to do them. Your uncle touches people with his trumpet.” He said, “Just do your thing - change the frame around the picture. George Harrison, Paul McCartney touched people. ![]() He said “Look man, there’s very few people in the world who can touch millions of people… as a kid, I worked and traveled with Ray Charles, and he touches people. And Billy said something to me in that hallway that really turned me around. A friend of mine was out in the hallway - Billy Preston, the keyboard player. That night I was at the old Record Plant studios on third street. So I was doing demos, and the A&R guy at A&M Records at the time said, “Would you want to do disco songs of Tijuana Brass things for your uncle?” And I said, “You know Chip, I don’t feel great about working with Herb.” And when I started to do it seriously, like I said, I changed my name, and I got my first job - which was to do demos for Columbia Records, for a group called Con Funk Shun. Back then I was 11, in ‘66, packing records in the shipping room, and I loved being around there. Herb and I were always close, family-wise, and as a kid, I always worked at A&M Records. I hated as a kid how everywhere I went, I’d tell them my name, and they’d go, “Oh, are you related to Herb?” So at that time, I was going into doing funk music, and I randomly picked the name - some girl was like, “Oh, you’re pretty badass.” And at that time, I was about 17, and I went “Boy, maybe I should call myself Randy Badazz.” And I did. But when I was about 18, I really wanted to be a musician, and at that time, Herb and A&M were giants. His words have been condensed and edited for clarity. “He elevated it to ‘the struggle.’ ” - M.R.Here, Randy tells Billboard about his memories of composing and recording “Rise,” why “Hypnotize” was the first sample request that he actually cleared, and how Biggie’s song has helped his own song live on through the generations. “I loved that he described what a lot of hustlers were going through in the streets - dissed and feared by teachers and parents and neighbors and cops, broke, working a corner to try to get some bread for basic shit - as more than some glamorous alternative to having a real job,” wrote Jay. In his book Decoded, Jay-Z explained how Biggie’s ad-lib about being arrested simply for “trying to feed my daughter” held deep meaning. Co-produced by Poke of the Trackmasters and Puffy, it’s a stark departure from the dusty boom-bap sound New York rap was known for and boasted a smoothly harmonized chorus from soon-to-be famous girl group Total. ![]() “Juicy” was full of layers both prominent and subtle: It not only epitomized the Notorious B.I.G.’s evolution from street hustler to successful musician, but also symbolized how the East Coast rap establishment learned to adapt to shifting pop tastes and a then-omnipresent G-funk sound. “It was all a dream…” goes one of the most famous opening verses in history.
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![]() I grew up in the Valley next to Laurel Canyon Blvd., which serves as a synecdoche for the top American rock music of 1969. The Soviets focused intently on the Lockheed Skunk Works, navigating spy satellites overhead, stationing an electronic warfare ship disguised as a fishing trawler out by Catalina Island, and targeting nuclear ICBMs on what is now the Empire big box store mall next to the Burbank airport. Burbank was a major arsenal of American military and cultural power. When Vladimir Putin’s espionage operation to bribe Ukrainian officials into turning over their country to the Kremlin failed in February 2022, I had to wonder how much of Putin’s budget had been diverted into infinity pools in the Hollywood Hills, both by Russia’s corrupt spymasters and by Ukrainian politicians who’d proved even more unethical than Putin had hoped and simply pocketed his largesse.Ī curious postscript to the Cold War is that ex-Soviets are pouring into places like the east Valley’s Burbank, once home to both Lockheed Aircraft (where my father worked from the 1930s to the 1980s) and studios such as Disney, Warner Brothers, and NBC. But others are here for their beauty or bravery, such as the Slavic blondes on the fringes of the entertainment industry and the Russian flatheads who provide security to ex-Soviet oligarchs in Bel-Air. Many are descended from prosperous mercantile minorities of the old empires and can easily economically outcompete Mexicans for houses in the pricey Valley. The main nationalities are Armenians Persians (many of them Jewish) Russians (many of them partly Jewish) Israelis (many of them less Jewish than you’d expect) Russian-Israelis who were Jewish enough to be invited to Israel by Ariel Sharon to vote for him, but who find Bibi Netanyahu’s Israel increasingly too Jewish for their tastes when they can bounce to the similar climate of California Ukrainians Turks Copts Maronites Tajiks, and so forth. Note that almost none of the strangers are fundamentalist Muslims dressing their womenfolk in chadors: Those obsessed with female modesty know enough to stay away from Los Angeles. In a sour mood, I refer to them as Men with Gold Chains. I call them the Peoples of the Three Defunct Empires: Persian, Ottoman, and Soviet. These newcomers lack any official term with which to conceptually lump them together, but they tend to overlap. Increasingly, Latinos are losing out in the struggle for the Valley’s expensive turf with immigrants who are officially classified as white. After decades of rapid increase, the Hispanic share of the Valley’s 1.8 million residents only grew from 40 percent to 42 percent from 2010 to 2020. It had long seemed inevitable that Los Angeles’ famously white bread suburb, the vast San Fernando Valley, the site of so many Brady Bunch–style sitcoms a half-century ago, would eventually be inundated by Latino immigrants.īut that has slowed. Of the many unexpected developments of the demographic diversification of America, perhaps the oddest has been one so outside our vocabulary that it’s hard to even notice it happening. Surprisingly, in the suburban San Fernando Valley in the northwest corner of the city of Los Angeles, immigration has largely taken a different turn. But which immigrants? The hordes flooding across the southern border? The answer of course is immigrants, typically from countries where, by comparison to the motherlands they helped construct, Los Angeles still looks like paradise. So if huge numbers of Southern Californians resident for long enough to become Dodger fans are moving out, who is moving in? Californians have fled for reasons such as high home prices, intrusive regulations on business and private life (for example, the ban on plastic straws), sclerotic infrastructure (for instance, since 2007 Los Angeles’ Department of Water and Power has been indolently replicating the water main past my house that was originally built in 15 months by William Mulholland of Chinatown legend using pickaxes and mules), stringent mask rules, an unexpected surge of looting by masked bandits, and weak public education.Īnd yet, the population of Los Angeles County, the city of Los Angeles, and the section I know best, my native San Fernando Valley, have all remained flat since the 2010 Census. Much has been written about the exodus from California during this decade. He went on to become a primary starter in 1994 and was a starter for the Raiders until 2001. The Raiders drafted running back Greg Robinson from La-Monroe. The Raiders final pick of the 1993 draft occurred in the 8th round. The Raiders next pick occurred in the seventh round and with the 181st pick the team took linebacker Greg Biekert from Colorado. In the fifth round the team drafted wide receiver Olanda Truitt from Mississippi State. Also in the third round with the 72nd pick the Raiders took defensive back James Trapp from Clemson. In the third round with the 58th pick the team drafted quarterback Billy Joe Hobert from Washington. The Raiders did not have a second round pick. ![]() With the 12th pick in the first round the Raiders drafted safety Patrick Bates from Texas A&M. The 1993 draft for the Los Angeles Raiders eventually produced several starters. Like Green he was cut prior to the 1993 season. Lofton played for the Raiders during the 1987–1988 seasons. The Los Angeles Raiders also brought back James Lofton from the Buffalo Bills. Green did not make the team and was cut prior to the 1993 season. To fill his spot the Raiders signed running back Gaston Green formally of the Denver Broncos. Marcus Allen the team's all-time leading rusher was allowed to leave as a free agent and later signed with the Kansas City Chiefs. Left tackle Gerald Perry was signed from the Rams to solidify the left tackle position which the Raiders had struggled to fill since the retirement of former Raider left tackles Bruce Davis and Art Shell. Joe Kelly a former first round pick of the Bengals was signed to fill the middle linebacker slot. Additionally, defensive end Greg Townsend, who along with Long and center Don Mosebar were the only players left from the Raiders' Super Bowl XVIII championship team of 10 years earlier, left to play for the Philadelphia Eagles (in 1997 Townsend would return to the Raiders, by then having returned to their original home in Oakland, for his final season).ĭuring the offseason the Raiders signed quarterback Jeff Hostetler from the New York Giants to lead the offense. This would be the final season for receiver Willie Gault and defensive end Howie Long before their retirements. ![]() ![]() This was the Raiders’ final playoff appearance in Los Angeles, and would not return to the playoffs until 2000, when the franchise returned to Oakland. The team improved upon its 7–9 record in the previous season and returned to the NFL playoffs after a one-year absence, but lost in the AFC Divisional game to the Buffalo Bills. 1 seed Indiana in the opening round, 97–54.The 1993 Los Angeles Raiders season was the franchise's 34th season overall, and the franchise's 24th season in the National Football League. The Raiders finished tied for second in regular season standings, and won the Mid-Con tournament title to earn an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament – the first NCAA Tournament berth in school history – as the No. The Raiders, led by head coach Ralph Underhill, played their home games at the Nutter Center in Dayton, Ohio, as members of the Mid-Continent Conference. The 1992–93 Wright State Raiders men's basketball team represented Wright State University in the 1992–93 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. |
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