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State Ship Series: USS New Mexico

There has been two ships commissioned named after the state of New Mexico in the US Navy. The state was admitted into the United States on January 6, 1912.

USS New Mexico (BB-40), New Mexico class, dreadnought battleship, nicknamed "the Queen", in commission from 1918 to 1946. Originally laid down as USS California at the New York Navy Yard. However, certain politicians from the state wanted a ship named for their state to built in the Mare Island Navy Yard, California. So Navy renamed BB-40 to New Mexico and the next unnamed ship, BB-44, would be California. She was the first US Battleship to be built with a turbo-electric drive and the only one of the New Mexico Class battleships to fitted with the system to compare it with the direct drive turbine system. This system used stream to run the four turbines connected to electric generators that powered four electric motor connected to the propellers. To learn more, see my dedicated post on it: link.

She was rebuilt and modernized in the mid-1930's. Her turbo-electric drive was removed during this time and replaced with the same power plant as her sisters. This was not due problems with the machinery but as a economic measure, as her turbo-electric machinery was not the same as Tennessee class or Colorado class and would require building spares just for her. It cheaper to have commonality between the three sisters.

She and her sisters were on the east coast during Pearl Harbor Attack and were quickly transferred to the Pacific Fleet to fill in for the battleships damaged and being repaired. She fought in the Aleutian Islands Campaign, Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, Battle of Saipan, Mariana and Palau Islands campaign, Battle of the Philippine Sea, Battle of Luzon (during which she was hit by a kamikaze that killed her Captain and 29 others and wounded 87 others), and the invasion of Okinawa.

She hit again by a kamikaze in May 1945, that killed 54 and wounded 119. After the War, she was decommissioned 1946 and sold for scrap in 1947.

Her scrapping caused an issue with the City of Newark, New Jersey. The salvage company, Lipsett, Inc., chose the city due to it close proximity to the railroads for hauling away the scrap metal. However, the city was in the process of beatification of it's waterfront and did not want anymore ships scrapped there. City officials ordered two fireboats block the entry of tugs towing the battleship which resulted in what the newspaper's dubbed the "Battle of Newark Bay". The US Navy had to get involved to broker a truce between the City and Lipsett, in which Lipsett had 9 months to scrap exUSS New Mexico, exUSS Idaho and exUSS Wyoming, after which the city would never again host to be scrapped vessels.

She was awarded 6 battle stars during WWII.

USS New Mexico (SSN-779), Virginia class block II, in commission from 2010 to present.

Painting by an unknown artist of the two New Mexicos.

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Em Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt, a terceira campanha adicional de Borderlands 2, jogadores entrarão num desconhecido território pantanoso de Pandora onde um gigantesco navio Hyperion foi destruído. Os destroços trazem rumores de itens para apanhar. Mas cuidado, criaturas mutantes, e exércitos de selvagens também têm interesse pelo navio. Ferozes e primitivos como aparentam ser, o misterioso professor Nakayama afirma ser seu líder diabólico e ele não quer que ninguém se aproxime do local.

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As melhores armas de Borderlands 2 até então - Não é apenas uma viagem ao safari, e sim um encontro a armas imensas e totalmente insanas! Cace por novas preciosidades para recolher cristais Seraph e tenha armas ainda maiores para serem levadas ao jogo principal.

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Cace e seja caçado - Enfrente um novo chefe de Raid, novos chefes de mundo, monstruosas criaturas mutantes e ondas de bárbaros mal-cheirosos. No pântano, ninguém pode sentir seu cheiro.

Novo local pantanoso - Vegetação alienígena, água pantanosa, montanhas irregulares e formas mistas e variadas de uma zona exótica e perigosa, tudo numa parte jamais vista de Pandora

Novo veículo de pântano - Entre de cabeça nos pântanos sobre o novo helibarco para lutar contra veículos inimigos.

Novos chapéus e skins - Seja recompensado por encontrar e derrotar os mais raros inimigos dos Pântanos. Se ele está na lista de espécies ameaçadas, mate imediatamente, pois ele será todo seu.

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Borderlands 2: Psycho Madness Pack For Mac

May 14, 2013 Platform:PC Download Code Edition:The Psycho Pack Take a peek at Pandora from behind the menacing eyes of Krieg, the Psycho Bandit, an all-new character and the 6th playable class in Borderlands 2. You’ve fought against them as enemies, now use that aggressive energy on the vault hunter’s side. About This Content Enhance your Vault-hunting experience with a fresh new style! This pack contains the GLUG GLUG GLUG head and DRINK IT DOWN skin for the Psycho - look for them in the character customization menu! Enhance your Vault-hunting experience with a fresh new style! This pack contains the I WANNA BE WANTED head and the I'LL NEVER GO BACK skin for the Psycho - look for them in the character. Buy Borderlands 2 Game of the Year. Includes 10 items: Borderlands 2, Borderlands 2 - Captain Scarlett and her Pirate's Booty, Borderlands 2 - Psycho Pack, Borderlands 2: Collector's Edition Pack, Borderlands 2: Creature Slaughterdome, Borderlands 2: Mechromancer Pack, Borderlands 2: Mr. Torgue’s Campaign of Carnage, Borderlands 2: Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt, Borderlands 2: Tiny Tina's.

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Borderlands 2 Psycho

Dê uma olhada em Pandora por trás dos olhos ameaçadores de Krieg, o Psico Bandit, um personagem totalmente novo, é a sexta classe jogável em Borderlands 2. Você lutou contra eles como inimigos, agora use essa energia agressiva do lado dos vault hunter's. Pegue fogo e exploda as coisas - tomar dano nunca foi tão gratificante ou tão divertido!

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Age Of Wonders III - Golden Realms Expansion

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Golden Realms greatly expands Age of Wonders III’s empire building mechanics and introduces bucket loads of new content. These new features are used in random maps, new scenarios and a new story campaign, where Halfling survivors settle in a distant land filled with danger and treasures never seen before.

Age of Wonders III - Golden Realms Expansion; Availability: Instant download delivery. NOTICE: Activation key must be used on a valid Steam account. Requires internet connection. Age of Wonders III is the long anticipated sequel to the award-winning strategy series. Summary: Golden Realms greatly expands Age of Wonders III’s empire building mechanics and introduces new content. These new features are used in random maps, new scenarios and a new story campaign, where Halfling survivors settle in a distant land. The first expansion; Golden Realms, gives you the Halfling playable Race, Halfling Campaign and adds a few custom Leader cosmetics(I think) and the Magic City Upgrades and structures. Basically the biggest deal with Golden Realms is the Magic City Upgrades and Halflings.

New Content Includes:

The Halfling Race: The little folk are back, with new units, heroes and leaders. The jesters shoots fireworks which dazzle the enemy and the cleaver flinging brew brothers keep the Halfling armies fed while on the road. Halflings can be used with all classes and introduce the new Luck mechanic which allows them to dodge incoming attack while they’re in good spirits.

Golden Realms Campaign: In this three scenario campaign, you help the Halfling survivors of the Heartwood Massacre rebuild an empire in an exotic land and confront an ancient evil.

Exotic Map Locations: Capture the Naga Dwelling, home to serpentine queens and giant man-snakes, and discover new treasure sites such as the fabled Lost City to benefit your empire.

Over twenty new units: Encounter new exotic units such as the filth throwing Dread Monkeys, alluring Mermaids and the fearsome Glutton who can swallow whole regiments in one bite.

New Hero Items: The Golden Realms contain 50 new magical artifacts to discover and use. Wield the enigmatic Crystal Skull, or wear a stylish Witch Doctor’s Headdress to mix in with the locals.

Wild Magic Specialization: Unleash wild magic. Cause spontaneous mutations, warp equipment and turn orderly battles into a pandemonium where the lines of battle are violently warped.

Partisan Specialization: Use new skills for guerrilla warfare. Create concealed hide-outs and develop ambushing skills.

Two hand crafted scenarios: Playable single and multi-player these new stand-alone scenarios are built around the new features of the Golden Realms expansion.

Key Features:

Mystical City Upgrades: Arcane treasure sites located in your domain unlock new unique upgrades for your cities, making the location and specialization of your cities more important than ever. Building a city near a Crystal Tree unlocks the Enchanted Armory which reinforces your armored units.

Empire Quests: Achieve empire building goals before your rivals to unlock unique rewards for your realm. This introduces a new type of indirect competition between players. Examples are the Eternal City: be the first to build a metropolis and get an awe-inspiring Monument of Prime Good and Evil, where the first player to achieve full good or full evil alignment has a party of champions the respective alignment join at no cost.

Seals of Power: A new King of the Hill style victory condition where players must capture and hold the dangerous Seals of Power structures in order to achieve victory. Don’t sit and hold back as broken seals attract extra-dimensional beings wanting to take the Seal back.

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About the game

Highlights

Golden Realms Campaign: In this three scenario campaign, you help the Halfling survivors of the Heartwood Massacre rebuild an empire in an exotic land and confront an ancient evil.

Exotic Map Locations: Capture the Naga Dwelling, home to serpentine queens and giant man-snakes, and discover new treasure sites such as the fabled Lost City to benefit your empire.

Over twenty new units: Encounter new exotic units such as the filth throwing Dread Monkeys, alluring Mermaids and the fearsome Glutton who can swallow whole regiments in one bite.

New Hero Items: The Golden Realms contain 50 new magical artifacts to discover and use. Wield the enigmatic Crystal Skull, or wear a stylish Witch Doctor’s Headdress to mix in with the locals.

Wild Magic Specialization: Unleash wild magic. Cause spontaneous mutations, warp equipment and turn orderly battles into a pandemonium where the lines of battle are violently warped.

Partisan Specialization: Use new skills for guerrilla warfare. Create concealed hide-outs and develop ambushing skills.

Two hand crafted scenarios: Playable single and multi-player these new stand-alone scenarios are built around the new features of the Golden Realms expansion.

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Age of Wonders, the Age of Wonders logo, Triumph Studios and the Triumph Studios logo are trademarks of Triumph Studios B.V.. Copyright (c) 1999-2014 Triumph Studios. All Rights Reserved. All other trademarks and trade names are properties of their respective owners.

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About the game

Hotline Miami Collection contains both legendary games in the neon-soaked, brutally-challenging Hotline Miami series from Dennaton Games. Read more Explore this game’s official site. For Hotline Miami on the PC, a GameFAQs message board topic titled 'What are the default keyboard controls?'

Hotline Miami is an action game loaded with brutal action, heavy shooting and rolling heads. Set in a 1989 alternative Miami, you'll take on the role of a mysterious antihero in a murderous rage against the shadowy underworld guided by your answering machine's voices.

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Soon you will find yourself struggling for your control and understanding why you are prone to these acts of violence. Rely on your intelligence to demarcate your way through seemingly impossible situations while you constantly find yourself at a disadvantage among fierce enemies. The action is relentless and every shot is deadly so each move has to be quick and decisive if you want to survive and unravel the evil forces that drive the bloodshed.

The unmistakable visual style of Hotline Miami, plus an engaging soundtrack and a chain of surreal events will take you to the answer to your bloodlust while taking you to the limits of a relentless challenge.

Highlights

Amazing shootouts in neon corridors stained with blood combined with intense and immense soundtrack;

A surreal and brave story in 20 maps;

Amazing battles against a bizarre cast of bosses from Miami's underworld;

35 different weapons: from shotguns and assault rifles to katanas and pipes;

More than 1,000 sprites for a fantastic variety of environments, weapons, elements and enemies;

25 masks of animais to unlock that will hide your identity;

Engaging beats by Sun Araw, Coconuts, M.O.O.N., Jasper Byrne, The Huervo, Perturbator, Scattle, Elliott Berlin and Eirik Suhrke

Extremely difficult achievements that will test your limits.

System Requirements

Minimum

OS:Windows XP, Vista e 7

Storage:250 MB

Processor:1.2 GHz

Memory:512 MB

Graphics:DirectX (32MB)

DirectX:9.0

Recommended

OS:Microsoft® Windows® XP / Vista / 7

Storage:250 MB

Processor:1.4GHz +

Memory:1 GB

Graphics:DirectX (32MB)

DirectX:9.0

Minimum

OS:Mac OS 10.6+

Storage:130 MB

Processor:2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo +

Memory:1 GB

Recommended

OS:Mac OS 10.6+

Storage:130 MB

Processor:2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo +

Memory:2 GB

Minimum

Storage:130 MB

Processor:1.8 GHz Dual-Core

Memory:512 MB

Release date:2012-10-23

Developer: Dennaton Games

Publisher: Devolver

Game Mode

Single-player

Language

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Name: Hotline Miami

Available on: PC, Mac, Linux, PS3, PS Vita

Reviewed on: PS Vita

Hotline Miami is one of those games where there’s little-to-no story, the controls are fairly basic, and the graphics aren’t realistic – but it manages to be more fun that perhaps most games that feature even just one of those mechanics.

Hotline Miami is a very violent game. Not violent as in ‘a bit of blood here and there’, violent as in you’ll be punching people’s heads off, shooting people, choking people, and even drilling holes in people. This game, while not realistic in many ways, is not for the faint of heart.

Hotline Miami is a top-down beat-em-up type game that progresses through a set of linear missions, which must be unlocked in order.

One day, the unnamed playable character wakes up in a basement, where after a quick tutorial in how to kill people through a variety of methods, the character walks upstairs to a room with three masked men who promptly launch into a cryptic set of messages, before the actual game begins. Each mission plays out with the character receiving a phone call, driving to a location, and killing a whole bunch of henchmen. Each level takes place in a building with many floors, so the character will make their way up each floor until they eventually kill every man in the building. After the character accomplishes this, they walk all the way through the floors of the building, past all the piles of bodies of the men he’s killed, reaches the entrance, hops in his car, and then goes an completes a mundane task, like buying groceries, renting a movie, or going to the local disco to get his groove on – this is (presumably) the 80s after all. These tasks help reiterate how strange the whole set of events is, and even allows some sort of story progression (which is very minimal and I never really followed what was happening – or even why it was happening).

Gameplay is very simple – there is one ‘action’ button that will make you use whatever you’re holding: fists will punch, baseball bats will swing, and guns will fire, all with the press of this one button – it’s very easy to use, especially since the only other controls are moving and controlling the cursor. Whenever you kill or knock out an enemy, they drop their weapon. This is useful for many reasons, namely because the character can only carry one weapon at a time – so if you run out of ammo and need a melee weapon, or you have a melee weapon and want a gun, you’ll need to find whatever enemy has the weapon you’re after. Additionally, the AI in this game will react in many ways to different weapons: if they hear gunshots, they’ll come running. If they see you through a window holding a knife, they’ll shoot you/run at you. This can be used to an advantage to quickly exterminate all the enemies on a floor – a tactic of mine was a gunshot followed by picking up the knife and holding down the ‘action’ button to melee very fast, and then moving close to the door and killing all the enemies very quickly.

It’s little additions like these that make the game that much more stylised and interesting to play through. The other addition that makes the game unique on every playthrough (I played the campaign twice) is the feature of one hit kills for not just you, but your enemies as well (save for the few bosses). Once you die, you start from the start of the floor you were killed on – so sometimes I’d get through almost the entire floor of enemies and then die at the hands of the last one. There are little moments like these in Hotline Miami that just make the game that much more intense, and if you survive, rewarding.

The game also has several collectables; which are masks and puzzle pieces. Masks are masks that your character wears to do their job, all of which save for the starting mask add a perk to the game – one allows you to start with a knife, one gives you another life (but only if you get hit by a gunshot) and another allows for even more gore. There’s a mix of cosmetic masks (like the gore one) and gameplay ones (such as the knife one), which is good. Most masks are unlocked simply through progressing the story, but there are others that must be specifically found in a particular level. The other collectable, puzzle pieces, are found throughout all the levels, and are represented by a small purple square. Collecting these will give a letter, which is used to spell out a sentence. This is used in one of Hotline Miami’s two endings: either the standard one with little info (but still finishing the story) or the ‘complete’ ending, which gives a lot more information (but still doesn’t really make the story any clearer).

I only really have two gripes with this game, and funnily enough they’re almost contradictory: one regards how easy the game is, and the other how hard it is. My first issue is how overpowered some of the weapons are: the knife especially. I found that I was able to pretty much use just knife to kill everyone on a floor, and once I got the mask that let me start with a knife, that was the only mask I used. My other issue is that some parts of the game are incredibly difficult – the difficulty scaling in this game is crazy, it’ll be flowing at one point and then be incredibly difficult the next – I had to use a walkthrough to figure out how to do some parts, and at other parts I only survived thanks to a fluke. Fortunately, there’s only really three parts in the whole game that I remember as being incredibly difficult, and once you realise how to complete them they become so much easier.

Length-wise, there’s about 20 story missions here, and none of them take that long to complete – it’d be possible to finish the game in one sitting of about 3 hours I reckon, but otherwise it doesn’t take that long to complete. There is replay value in the masks and the puzzle pieces/complete ending though.

While there are a few issues regarding the difficult of the game, that doesn’t change how much pure, simple fun Hotline Miami is. It’s simple, intense, and just absolute brilliant.

Positive

Great Fun

Simple Art Style

Simple Gameplay

Great Design Elements (such as the one-hit kills)

Replay Value (masks and puzzle pieces)

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Weak Storyline

A Few Overpowered Weapons

A Few Very Difficult Sections

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The Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II by the United States military, was fought between the U.S. and Japan during the Mariana and Palau Campaign of World War II, from September to November 1944, on the island of Peleliu.

U.S. Marines of the 1st Marine Division, and later soldiers of the U.S. Army's 81st Infantry Division, fought to capture an airstrip on the small coral island of Peleliu. This battle was part of a larger offensive campaign known as Operation Forager, which ran from June to November 1944, in the Pacific Theater.

Major General William Rupertus, Commander of the 1st Marine Division, predicted the island would be secured within four days. However, after repeated Imperial Army defeats in previous island campaigns, Japan had developed new island-defense tactics and well-crafted fortifications that allowed stiff resistance, extending the battle through more than two months. The heavily outnumbered Japanese defenders put up such stiff resistance, often fighting to the death in the Emperor's name, that the island became known in Japanese as the "Emperor's Island."

In the United States, this was a controversial battle because of the island's negligible strategic value and the high casualty rate, which exceeded that of all other amphibious operations during the Pacific War. The National Museum of the Marine Corps called it "the bitterest battle of the war for the Marines".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Peleliu

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A Japanese Kamikaze plane shot down as it attempted to attack a group of carriers, near the Marianas Islands in the Pacific, 13-17th June 1944.

#Mariana and Palau Islands campaign #wwii #aviation #pacific theater #june

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Les batteries de 127 mm du cuirassé USS New Mexico (BB-40) se préparent au bombardement de l'île de Saipan – 15 juin 1944

Photographe : Official U.S. Navy Photograph

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State Ship Series: USS California

There have been five ships commissioned named after the state of California in the US Navy. The state was admitted into the United States on September 9, 1850.

USS California (1867), Guerriere class, screw frigate, in commission from 1870 to 1875. Originally named USS Minnetonka, renamed USS California in 1869. She was "one of eight wooden steam frigates authorized by the United States Navy during the American Civil War to provide a postwar general purpose fleet."

USS California (ACR-6), Pennsylvania class, armored cruiser, in commission from 1907 to 1917. Renamed USS San Diego free up the name for BB-44 in 1914. Sunk by U-156 in May 1918. She was the only major warship lost by the United States after its involvement in World War I.

USS California (BB-44), Tennessee class, Dreadnought Battleship, in commissioned from 1921 to 1947. She was part of the "Big 5", the group that consisted of the the most modern battleships of the interwar period. The group compromised of the Tennessee class and Colorado class. She damaged during the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and was later rebuilt. Return to service in January 1944. She found in the Mariana and Palau Islands campaign, Battle of Guam, Philippines campaign, Battle of Leyte Gulf, Battle of Lingayen Gulf Edit, and invasion of Okinawa. She earned 7 battle stars during WWII. She was scrapped in 1959.

USS California (CGN-36), California class, nuclear powered guided missile cruiser, in commissioned from 1974 to 1999. Recycled in 2000.

USS California (SSN-781), Virginia Class Block II, nuclear powered attack submarine, in commissioned from 2011 to present.

Ships acquired by the Navy named California.

USS California (SP-249), armed section patrol vessel. Originally a yacht, she was chartered and refitted by the US Navy during World War I and later renamed back to her original civilian name, USS Hauoli. Commissioned from 1917 to 1919.

USS California (SP-647), motorboat, armed section patrol craft. She was chartered and refitted by the US Navy during World War I, kept her civilian name. Later renamed USS SP-647. Commissioned from 1917 to 1918.

NHHC: 19-N-13844, NH 99531, NH 82114

LOC: LC-F82- 1833

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May was officially designated as Asian Pacific American Heritage Month by Congress in 1992 (Public Law 102-450 if you want to read the specifics).

As you can imagine, Asian Pacific American covers a fair amount of area. An Asian Pacific American is an American (whether born, naturalized, or other) who was born on or has heritage from anywhere on the Asian continent and the Pacific islands of Melanesia (New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji and the Solomon Islands), Micronesia (Marianas, Guam, Wake Island, Palau, Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Nauru and the Federated States of Micronesia) and Polynesia (New Zealand, Hawaiian Islands, Rotuma, Midway Islands, Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Cook Islands, French Polynesia and Easter Island). These areas cover a wide array of languages, cultures, religions, and ethnicities that have brought countless skills, hopes and dreams to the United States. The more voices that are heard the better we all are so (if you’ll pardon the *dun dun*) these are some of their stories.

Click Keep Reading to see the full list, descriptions, and catalog links for the 20 titles by or about Asian Pacific Americans suggested by UCF Library employees.

A Song for Cambodia by Michelle Lord, illustrated by Shino Arihara A biography of Arn Chorn-Pond who, as a young boy in 1970s Cambodia, survived the Khmer Rouge killing fields because of his skills on the khim, a traditional instrument, and later went on to help heal others and revive Cambodian music and culture. Suggested by Sandy Avila, Research & Information Services

American History Unbound: Asians and Pacific Islanders by Gary Y. Okihiro Focusing on a survey of US history from its beginnings, this book reveals our past through the lens of Asian American and Pacific Islander history. Suggested by Peter Spyers-Duran, Cataloging

Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America by Erika Lee and Judy Yung From 1910 to 1940, the Angel Island immigration station in San Francisco served as the processing and detention center for over one million people from around the world. The full history of these immigrants and their experiences on Angel Island is told for the first time in this landmark book. Suggested by Peter Spyers-Duran, Cataloging

Asian American Dreams: the Emergence of an American People by Helen Zia This book is about the transformation of Asian American; from a few small, disconnected, and largely invisible ethnic groups that is influenced in every aspect of American society. It explores the junctures that shocked Asian Americans into motion and shaped a new consciousness, including the murder of Vincent Chin, a Chinese American, by two white autoworkers who believed he was Japanese; the apartheid-life working conditions of Filipinos in the Alaska salmon canneries; the boycott of Korean American greengrocers in Brooklyn; the L.A. riots; and the casting of non-Asians in the Broadway musical Miss Saigon. The book also examines the rampant stereotyping of Asian Americans, which has an impact on key issues concerning all Americans, from affirmative action and campaign finance to popular culture and national security. Suggested by Chris Saclolo, Special Collections & University Archives

At America's gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 by Erika Lee Devoted to both Chinese immigrants and the American immigration officials who sought to keep them out following the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, this text explores the consequences for the Chinese and for the USA as a nation of immigrants. Suggested by Peter Spyers-Duran, Cataloging

Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: Career Strategies for Asians: the Essential Guide to Getting In, Moving Up, and Reaching the Top by Jane Hyun The popular media often portrays Asian Americans as highly educated and successful individuals’ the "Model Minority." As the ethnic minority with the largest percentage of college graduates, many Asian Americans do enter the professional workforce. However, many of them seem to stall in their careers and never make it to the corner offices. Leading executive coach Jane Hyun explores how traditional Asian values can be at odds with Western corporate culture. By using anecdotes, case studies, and exercises, Hyun offers practical solutions for resolving misunderstandings and overcoming challenges in an increasingly multicultural workplace. Suggested by Peter Spyers-Duran, Cataloging

Cora Cooks Pancit by Dorina K. Lazo Gilmore When all her older siblings are away, Cora's mother finally lets her help make pancit, a Filipino noodle dish. Includes recipe for pancit. Suggested by Cindy Dancel, Research & Information Services

Global Families: a History of Asian International Adoption in America by Catherine Ceniza Choy Based on extensive archival research, Global Families moves beyond one-dimensional portrayals of Asian international adoption as either a progressive form of U.S. multiculturalism or as an exploitative form of cultural and economic imperialism. Rather, Choy acknowledges the complexity of the phenomenon, illuminating both its radical possibilities of a world united across national, cultural, and racial divides through family formation and its strong potential for reinforcing the very racial and cultural hierarchies it sought to challenge. Suggested by Peter Spyers-Duran, Cataloging

In the Country: Stories by Mia Alvar Exploring the Filipino experience spanning decades and continents, these fully rendered tales express wonder and sadness leavened with humor. Suggested by Megan Haught, Teaching & Engagement/Research & Information Services

Na Mamo: Hawaiian People Today by Jay Hartwell Biographies of ten contemporary Hawaiians engaged in a variety of traditional cultural practices. Each chapter is introduced by a chant or poem composed by a Native Hawaiian. Suggested by Megan Haught, Teaching & Engagement/Research & Information Services

The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food by Jennifer 8 Lee A woman's search for the world's greatest Chinese restaurant proves that egg rolls are as American as apple pie. Suggested by Christina Wray, Digital Learning & Engagement Librarian, and Carrie Moran, User Engagement Librarian

The Gangster We Are All Looking For by Lê Thi Diem Thúy In 1978 six refugees—a girl, her father, and four “uncles”—are pulled from the sea to begin a new life in San Diego. In the child’s imagination, the world is transmuted into an unearthly realm: she sees everything intensely, hears the distress calls of inanimate objects, and waits for her mother to join her. But life loses none of its strangeness when the family is reunited. As the girl grows, her matter-of-fact innocence eddies increasingly around opaque and ghostly traumas: the cataclysm that engulfed her homeland, the memory of a brother who drowned and, most inescapable, her father’s hopeless rage. Suggested by Megan Haught, Teaching & Engagement/Research & Information Services

The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri Stories about Indians in India and America. The story, A Temporary Matter, is on mixed marriage, Mrs. Sen's is on the adaptation of an immigrant to the U.S., and in the title story an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors. Suggested by Megan Haught, Teaching & Engagement/Research & Information Services

The Making of Asian America: a History by Erika Lee The Making of Asian America tells the little-known history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, from the arrival of the first Asians in the Americas to the present-day. An epic history of global journeys and new beginnings, this book shows how generations of Asian immigrants and their American-born descendants have made and remade Asian American life in the United States: sailors who came on the first trans-Pacific ships in the 1500s; indentured "coolies" who worked alongside African slaves in the Caribbean; and Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, and South Asian immigrants who were recruited to work in the United States only to face massive racial discrimination, Asian exclusion laws, and for Japanese Americans, incarceration during World War II. Over the past fifty years, a new Asian America has emerged out of community activism and the arrival of new immigrants and refugees. No longer a "despised minority," Asian Americans are now held up as America's "model minorities" in ways that reveal the complicated role that race still plays in the United States. But more than that, it is a new way of understanding America itself, its complicated histories of race and immigration, and its place in the world today. Suggested by Ven Basco, Subject Librarian, and Peter Spyers-Duran, Cataloging

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen The story of a South Vietnamese captain--a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America--who returns to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause. Suggested by Ven Basco, Subject Librarian

The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera As her beloved grandfather, chief of the Maori tribe of Whangara, New Zealand, struggles to lead in difficult times and to find a male successor, young Kahu is developing a mysterious relationship with whales, particularly the ancient bull whale whose legendary rider was their ancestor. Suggested by Sandy Avila, Research & Information Services

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston A memoir of the American-born daughter of Chinese immigrants who lived within the traditions and fears of the Chinese past as well as the realities of the alien modern American culture. Suggested by Christina Wray, Digital Learning & Engagement Librarian

The Woman Who Could Not Forget: Iris Chang Before and Beyond the Rape of Nanking by Ying-Ying Chang Iris Chang's best-selling book The Rape of Nanking forever changed the way we view the Second World War in Asia. It all began with a photo of a river choked with the bodies of hundreds of Chinese civilians that shook Iris to her core. Who were these people? Why had this happened and how could their story have been lost to history? She could not shake that image from her head. She could not forget what she had seen. A few short years later, Chang revealed this 'second Holocaust' to the world. But who was this woman that single-handedly swept away years of silence, secrecy and shame? Her mother, Ying-Ying, provides an enlightened and nuanced look at her daughter, from Iris' home-made childhood newspaper, to her early years as a journalist and later, as a promising young historian, her struggles with her son's autism and her tragic suicide. Suggested by Ven Basco, Subject Librarian

Third Asiatic Invasion: Migration and Empire in Filipino America, 1989-1946 by Rick Baldoz Rick Baldoz explores the complex relationship between Filipinos and the U.S. by looking at the politics of immigration, race, and citizenship on both sides of the Philippine-American divide: internationally through an examination of American imperial ascendancy and domestically through an exploration of the social formation of Filipino communities in the United States. He reveals how American practices of racial exclusion repeatedly collided with the imperatives of U.S. overseas expansion. A unique portrait of the Filipino American experience, The Third Asiatic Invasion links the Filipino experience to that of Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Chinese and Native Americans, among others, revealing how the politics of exclusion played out over time against different population groups. Suggested by Ven Basco, Subject Librarian

To the Stars: The Autobiography of George Takei, Star Trek’s Mr. Sulu by George Takei Popular Star Trek television star George Takei recounts his life and career from his childhood internment in World War II camps through his visionary experiences on the set as Mr. Sulu. Suggested by Cindy Dancel, Research & Information Services

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USS San Diego (CL-53), Light Cruiser, WWII by photolibrarian

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Name:San Diego Namesake:City of San Diego, California Builder:Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation’s Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts Laid down:27 March 1940 Launched:26 July 1941 Sponsored by:Grace Legler Benbough Commissioned:10 January 1942 Decommissioned:4 November 1946 Reclassified:CLAA-53, 18 March 1949 Struck:1 March 1959 Identification: Hull symbol:CL-53 Hull symbol:CLAA-53 Code letters:NCDF ICS November.svgICS Charlie.svgICS Delta.svgICS Foxtrot.svg Honors and awards:Silver-service-star-3d.pngSilver-service-star-3d.pngSilver-service-star-3d.png 18 × battle stars Fate:Sold for scrapping, December 1960 General characteristics (as built)[1][2] Class and type:Atlanta-class light cruiser Displacement: 6,718 long tons (6,826 t) (standard) 8,340 long tons (8,470 t) (max) Length:541 ft 6 in (165.05 m) oa Beam:53 ft (16 m) Draft: 20 ft 6 in (6.25 m) (mean) 26 ft 6 in (8.08 m) (max) Installed power: 4 × Steam boilers 75,000 shp (56,000 kW) Propulsion: 2 × geared turbines 2 × screws Speed:32.5 kn (37.4 mph; 60.2 km/h) Complement:796 officers and enlisted Armament: 16 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 caliber Mark 12 guns (8×2) 16 × 1.1 in (28 mm)/75 anti-aircraft guns (4×4) 8 × single 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon anti-aircraft cannons 8 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 6 × depth charge projectors 2 × depth charge tracks Armor: Belt: 1.1–3 3⁄4 in (28–95 mm) Deck: 1 1⁄4 in (32 mm) Turrets: 1 1⁄4 in (32 mm) Conning Tower: 2 1⁄2 in (64 mm) General characteristics (1945)[1][2] Armament: 16 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 caliber Mark 12 guns (8×2) 4 × quad 40 mm (1.6 in) Bofors anti-aircraft guns 13 × 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon anti-aircraft cannons 8 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 6 × depth charge projectors 2 × depth charge tracks Service record Part of:Fast Carrier Task Force Operations: Solomon Islands campaign Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign Mariana and Palau Islands campaign Volcano and Ryukyu Islands campaign Awards:18 battle stars The second USS San Diego (CL-53) was an Atlanta-class light cruiser of the United States Navy, commissioned just after the US entry into World War II, and active throughout the Pacific theater. Armed with 16 5 in (127 mm)/38 cal DP anti-aircraft guns and 16 Bofors 40 mm AA guns, the Atlanta-class cruisers had one of the heaviest anti-aircraft broadsides of any warship of World War II.

San Diego was one of the most decorated US ships of World War II, being awarded 18 battle stars, and was the first major Allied warship to enter Tokyo Bay[3] after the surrender of Japan. Decommissioned in 1946, the ship was sold for scrapping in December 1960.

Construction

Launching of USS San Diego, 26 July 1941 San Diego was laid down on 27 March 1940 by Bethlehem Steel in Quincy, Massachusetts, sponsored by Grace Legler Benbough (wife of Percy J. Benbough, then-mayor of San Diego), launched on 26 July 1941, and acquired by the Navy and commissioned on 10 January 1942, Captain Benjamin F. Perry in command.[3]

Service history 1942–1943 After shakedown training in Chesapeake Bay, San Diego sailed via the Panama Canal to the west coast, arriving at her namesake city on 16 May 1942. Escorting Saratoga at best speed, San Diego barely missed the Battle of Midway. On 15 June, she began escort duty for Hornet in operations in the South Pacific. Early in August, she supported the first American offensive of the war, the invasion of the Solomons at Guadalcanal. With powerful air and naval forces, the Japanese fiercely contested the American thrust and inflicted heavy damage; San Diego witnessed the sinking of Wasp on 15 September and of Hornet on 26 October.[3]

San Diego gave antiaircraft protection for Enterprise as part of the decisive three-day Naval Battle of Guadalcanal from 12–15 November 1942. After several months of service in the dangerous waters surrounding the Solomon Islands, San Diego sailed via Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, to Auckland New Zealand, for replenishment.[3]

At Noumea, New Caledonia, the light cruiser joined Saratoga, the only American carrier available in the South Pacific, and HMS Victorious in support of the invasion of Munda, New Georgia, and of Bougainville. On 5 November and 11 November 1943, she joined Saratoga and Princeton in highly successful raids against Rabaul. San Diego served as part of Operation Galvanic, the capture of Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands. She escorted Lexington, damaged by a torpedo, to Pearl Harbor for repairs on 9 December. San Diego continued on to San Francisco for installation of modern radar equipment, a Combat Information Center and 40 mm antiaircraft guns to replace her obsolete 1.1 in (27 mm) batteries.[3]

1944 She joined Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher’s Fast Carrier Task Force at Pearl Harbor in January 1944 and served as an important part of that mighty force for the remainder of the war. Her rapid-fire guns protected the carriers against aerial attack. San Diego participated in "Operation Flintlock", the capture of Majuro and Kwajalein, and "Catchpole", the invasion of Eniwetok, in the Marshall Islands from 31 January to 4 March. During this period, Task Force 58 (TF 58) delivered a devastating attack against Truk, the Japanese naval base known as the "Gibraltar of the Pacific."[3]

San Diego steamed back to San Francisco for more additions to her radar and then rejoined the carrier force at Majuro in time to join in raids against Wake and Marcus Islands in June. She was part of the carrier force covering the invasion of Saipan, participated in strikes against the Bonin Islands, and shared in the victory of the First Battle of the Philippine Sea on 19–20 June. After a brief replenishment stop at Eniwetok, San Diego and her carriers supported the invasion of Guam and Tinian, struck at Palau, and conducted the first carrier raids against the Philippines. On 6 and 8 August, she stood by as the carriers gave close air support to Marines landing on Peleliu, Palau Islands.[3]

On 21 September, the Task Force struck at the Manila Bay area. After replenishing at Saipan and Ulithi, she sailed with TF 38 in its first strike against Okinawa. From 12–15 October, the carriers pounded the airfields of Formosa while San Diego’s guns shot down two of the nine Japanese attackers in her sector and drove the others away; however, some enemy planes got through and damaged Houston and Canberra. San Diego helped escort the two crippled cruisers out of danger to Ulithi. After rejoining the fast carrier force, she successfully rode out the typhoon of 17–18 December, despite heavy rolling of the ship.[3]

1945 In January 1945, TF 38 entered the South China Sea for attacks against Formosa, Luzon, Indochina, and southern China. The force struck Okinawa before returning to Ulithi for replenishment.[3]

San Diego next participated in carrier operations against the home islands of Japan, the first since the Doolittle Raid of 1942. The carrier force finished the month of February with strikes against Iwo Jima.[3]

On 1 March, San Diego and other cruisers were detached from the carrier force to bombard Okino Daijo Island in support of the landings on Okinawa. After another visit to Ulithi, she joined in carrier strikes against Kyūshū, again shooting down or driving away enemy planes attacking the carriers. On the night of 27–28 March, San Diego participated in the shelling of Minami Daito Jima; on 11 April, and again on 16 April, her guns shot down two attackers. She helped furnish anti-aircraft protection for ships damaged by suicide attacks and escorted them to safety. After a stop at Ulithi, she continued as part of the carrier force supporting the invasion of Okinawa, until she entered an advanced base drydock at Guiuan, Samar Island, Philippines, for repairs and maintenance.[3]

San Diego arrives at Yokosuka Naval Base, 30 August 1945 She then served once more with the carrier force operating off the coast of Japan from 10 July until hostilities ceased. On 27 August, San Diego was the first major Allied warship to enter Tokyo Bay since the beginning of the war, and she helped in the occupation of the Yokosuka Naval Base and the surrender of the Japanese battleship Nagato. After having steamed over 300,000 mi (480,000 km) in the Pacific, she returned to San Francisco on 14 September 1945. San Diego gave further service as part of "Operation Magic Carpet" in bringing American troops home.[3]

Decommissioning and sale San Diego was decommissioned and placed in the Pacific Reserve Fleet on 4 November 1946, berthed at Bremerton, Washington. She was redesignated CLAA-53 on 18 March 1949. 10 years later, she was struck from the Naval Vessel Register, on 1 March 1959.[3] Sold in December 1960 to Todd Shipyards, Seattle, WA.

Awards

USS San Diego (CL 53) memorial, April 2012. USS San Diego (CL-53) received 18 Battle Stars[4][5] for service in World War II, placing her among the Most decorated US ships of World War II.

Following is a list of the campaigns participated in:[6]

Guadalcanal Capture Buin-Faisi-Tonolai Raid Santa Cruz Islands Guadalcanal (Third Savo) Rennel Island Jan. New Georgia-Rendova-Vaugunu Buka-Bonins Strike Gilbert Islands Occupation Kwajelein-Wotje Truk Attack, February 16–17, 1944 Saipan-Pagan Attacks Southern Palau Islands Southern Palau Islands, Philippine Islands Assaults Okinawa Attack Formosa Attacks China Coast Attacks Iwo Jima, Feb. 15 To March 16, 1945 Okinawa Assault And Occupation March, 17 To June 11, 1945 Philippine Liberation #reconditioning #batteries car battery, #battery, rechargeable aa batteries, rechargeable batteries, battery charger, car batteries, nimh battery, battery doctor, battery reconditioning, battery repair, battery desulfator @BatteryReconditioningNew Home http://bit.ly/2I9sVzc

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America the Beautiful Quarters – American Memorial Park

As part of the on-going America the Beautiful Quarter series, April sees the release of the second coin for 2019, which steps outside continental USA, and goes to the remote Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, a group of 14 islands in the Pacific, near Guam, which has been administered by the US since the Japanese surrender of WWII. This dependent territory of the USA has about 54,000 people living on these islands, mostly on the main island of Saipan. It is on that island we find the American Memorial Park, which is the subject of this coin. Bags and rolls of quarters are already available, as well as a 5-ounce, 3-inch diameter silver version of it, but the official release ceremony will take place on April 30, 2019 at the Park on Saipan.

The park is part of the US National Park network, and it covers 133 acres of the island. There is a beautiful beach, 30 acres of protected wetland and mangrove forest, areas for picnicking, as well as baseball, bicycling, running, and tennis facilities. The main attraction though, and the feature of the quarter, is the Memorial to the Mariana and Palau Islands Campaign of WWII. This invasion of the islands was part of the larger campaign to take the Philippines from the Japanese, and it took place in the second half of 1944. The central focus of the memorial is the Court of Honor, which consists of 26 granite panels, with the names of the 5,204 Navy, Marine Corps, Army and Coast Guard service members who died in the campaign. In the center is the Flag Circle, containing the flags of those services.

This part of the memorial, which was created and dedicated in 1994, for the 50th anniversary of the campaign, is featured on the reverse of the quarter, which shows a Chamorro woman in traditional dress at the front of the Flag Circle and Court of Honor. The Chamorro are the indigenous people of the Mariana Islands, and of Guam. Her hand rests on a plaque inscribed with text honoring the sacrifice of those who died. The inscriptions around the image are, AMERICAN MEMORIAL PARK, N. MARIANA ISLANDS, 2019, and E PLURIBUS UNUM. The design is by U.S. Mint artist Donna Weaver, and the master die was made by one of the Mint’s sculptor-engravers, Phebe Hemphill. The artist’s initials (DW) appear at the extreme left of the image.

There are other memorials in the park, chiefly the Saipan American Memorial, a 12-foot tall rectangular obelisk of rose granite, dedicated to the soldiers and Chamorro who died in the wider battle for all the Marianas, including Guam. Beside the obelisk is the Carillon Bell Tower, which commemorates the 50th Anniversary of the end of WWII.

More recently, in 2004, the Marianas Memorial was created to honor the memory of the indigenous peoples who were victims of a war they did not create. There are 10 granite panels carrying 929 names.

Like all quarters since 1932, the obverse shows John Flanagan’s profile image of George Washington, the first President of the United States. This design has been slightly modified over the years, but it is substantially unchanged. The inscriptions on this side are, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, LIBERTY, IN GOD WE TRUST, and QUARTER DOLLAR. The mint mark is also on the obverse (P for Philadelphia, D for Denver and S for San Francisco.)

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America the Beautiful Quarters – American Memorial Park

More recently, in 2004, the Marianas Memorial was created to honor the memory of the indigenous peoples who were victims of a war they did not create. There are 10 granite panels carrying 929 names.

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