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Wednesday, 11 April 2012

Titanic's 100-year anniversary

 April 15, 2012 marks the centenary of the most famous maritime disasters in history. That "night to remember" the "unsinkable" liner, RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg, killing 1,517 people. Since the 1997 release of James Cameron's best-selling, Oscar-winning film of the same name, Titanic and the unfortunate crew of the interest and imagination of people around the world.


Museums are competing with each other to show artifacts of the ocean liner that sank the Titanic "experts" life "to explain" disaster for the public, and enterprising entrepreneurs strive to deliver food, clothes and music enjoyed by the first re-class passengers who sailed proudly White Star Line.

Titanic carried out some of the richest people in the world, such as millionaire John Jacob Astor IV, Benjamin Guggenheim and Isidor Strauss, who enjoyed the ship first class facilities, and more than a thousand emigrants from Ireland, Scandinavia and elsewhere who had to do with control. Surviving accounts of the cruise a lot about the passengers on the ship and crew, except for their sexual orientation and gender identity.
Was there any LGBT people on the Titanic? Of course there were, even if you agree with the social constructionist idea that strangers were different in 1912 than we are today. Moreover, in 1912, were neither victims or the survivors of the disaster probably "out" in the modern sense of the word. But gay-inclined men and women existed in 1912, Titanic, and elsewhere. Jack Fritz Cher, author of the novella Gayrotic Titanic: The Untold Story of Gay passengers and crew (Palm Drive Publishing), calculated that "if, according to Kinsey, one out of six ordinary men are gay men, 225 gay men have died If . two of the six in the travel industry is gay, 450 homosexual men died doing Titanic overlooked but crucial chapter in gay history. "Because men are more likely to go down with the ship, the homosexual victims were undoubtedly higher than most.

There were single men and women, and male and female "couple" with family units and heterosexual married couples on the Titanic. Or one of those "few" were romantic or erotic couples, of course, without our knowledge. But we can speculate. Concrete cases on the mainland, we can say that some of the fateful millionaires and their employees a relationship that went beyond the master and servant counterparts. With the same reasoning, abroad a number of "old maids" Enjoyed erotic "Boston marriages" with their female companions. Hugh Brewster, author of Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic first-class passengers and their world (Thorndike Press), told the lawyer that two of the victims, Major Archibald Butt and artist / writer Francis Millet, perhaps more than friends. According to Brewster, Major Butt, "a dandified bachelor with an intense devotion to his mother, it seems more realistic than gays Frank Millet, the decorated war correspondent and married father of three children." Yet Millet surviving love letters to homosexual writer Charles Warren Stoddard gives clues about possible Millet homosexuality.

As in other places, was male homosexual activity, more frequent and more covert than lesbian activity on the Titanic. If the crew seemed to sailors everywhere, they may have indulged in a man-to-male sexual activity. In contrast to on-board romance between first class and third class passenger Rose (control) Passenger Jack - could not happen in real life - class boundaries were regularly crossed by men seeking sexual pleasure with other males. Like other men in Europe and America, many "Queer" men from the first class is based on the "more masculine" men of the working class, whether crew or platform, homosexual or trade. While many third class men indignantly rejected these prepayments, others went along, whether money, sexual liberation, or to gratify their own homosexual tendencies.

There were many places on the Titanic, where two or more men can have sex: private cabins, storerooms, various nooks and crannies, and even public toilets. (Frits Cher writes about gay goings-on in the hold of the ship, a maze of catwalks ... performed both on the pitch coalmen sailors, cooks, mechanics, masseurs and Negro in the Turkish bath. ") From the facilities of the Titanic was a men's sauna . If this sauna like other saunas in New York and London, which by 1912 was already notorious for homosexual activity, it must have the crew and passengers with more than therapeutic baths.

In Titanic, Jack Frederick Fritz Gayrotic Cher's account of the fateful journey details Cher-gay sexual encounters between the passenger and crew of the Titanic. Written in 1986 and first published in the journal Honcho (1988), Frits Cher calls her Titanic "gay literary erotica, which is in the psychology of the cruise and dramatizes the sexual antics on the basis of what one of my old friends who had been a purser on the Queen Mary told me about sex on board a large ship. "

In Titanic Frits Cher, Michael Whitney (a rare male survivors) and his hapless partner Edward Wedding, cavort sexually with another male passengers and crew. According to Frits Cher in the movie newsreel footage "shot three days [after the Titanic sank] on the deck of the rescue ship Carpathia immediately after it took the Chelsea Piers in New York, a dozen of the surviving Titanic crew, mostly sailor boys in tight white trousers to hide a little, showing a lot can be seen in a very intimate affair, camping around and represent the life jackets, pretending to faint. "This should not surprise us. After all, the world's great gay sexual adventurers.

Unfortunately for the historian, there is no evidence that this or any homosexual activity took place on the Titanic. What homosexual activity there was on the ship, it must be within the limits of imagination.

Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Russian official council sub can be armed in the fire

A senior Russian official said Monday atomic-powered submarine could carry nuclear weapons when it was invaded by a fire during repairs at a shipyard in december.
The authorities initially said that all nuclear weapons on board the submarine Yekaterinburg had fired well before the fire broke out on 29 december and there was no risk of radioactive spills.

Last week, respected Russian magazine Vlast quoted naval sources said that the submarine was 16 R-29 intercontinental ballistic missiles, each armed with four warheads wear off during the fire by welding sparks.

On Monday, said Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who oversees the defense industry that for 1986, five years before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the elimination of weapons is not necessary during minor repairs.

"Was it such a repair that was performed in Yekaterinburg, so they are removing torpedoes and ballistic missiles is required?" Rogozin told reporters, without answering this question directly.

But he added: "It was not a medium repair when a boat enters the medium, the capital repairs, of course, far removed when a boat goes in and they say we have some small problem, it is never removed. "

The fire started when welding sparks ignited wooden scaffolding around the 18,200-ton submarine in the harbor Roslyakovo, 1.500 km (900 miles) north of Moscow and one of the major shipyards used by the Russian Northern Fleet.

The rubber coating of the submarine then fire, sending flames and black smoke over the ship. Firefighters fought the flames for a day and a night of partial sinking of the submarine to the flames, according to media reports.

Vlast said Russia was "on the brink of the greatest disaster since the time of Chernobyl," a reference to the 1986 explosion and fire at a nuclear plant in Soviet Ukraine.

It is said that Yekaterinburg sailed to the fleet of gun shop immediately after the fire, an unusual trip for a damaged submarine contains no weapons.

Rogozin, who in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur was for meetings on defense and military issues, chaired by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, said that federal investigators were expected to report on their probe into the fire on Friday.

"We do not doubt, in the future, about what kind of repairs unloading of weapons and what kind of repair is not," said Rogozin.

BlackBerry want Govt to intercept messages


New Delhi: After much controversy, has finally launched its BlackBerry server in Mumbai after intense pressure from the government to establish a system for lawful interception of its messenger services, and Nokia have been asked to follow this example to offer.

During a high-level meeting of EU interior ministry recently, knows officials from the security services that Canada-based Research in Motion, the servers installed in Mumbai.

The servers are controlled by a team of officers and authorization for direct link to the lawful interception is expected to be released, a presentation made at the meeting in the office of Interior Minister said.

Nokia Push Mail, including the Department of Telecom a similar policy as prescribed in the proceedings initiated by the BlackBerry, said the presentation.

The government and BlackBerry producers were in a stalemate over the security services in India and had raised a red flag about his activities with reference to non-availability of the method of delivery services and the company e-mail to intercept.

There was a climb down by the government to intercept e-mail with BlackBerry Enterprise Services (BES), which decodes the message and sends it to the e-mail server provider, where it is stored in decrypted form. So the message is pushed to the BlackBerry device in encrypted form.

DOT secretary said that there are currently around 5000 Enterprise Servers for BES. Director, Intelligence Bureau Nehchal Sandhu noted that this communication between company employees only, and therefore not "serious concern" for safety or intelligence.

"But, it was decided to list and location of servers in the telecommunications providers to achieve" the presentation said.

RIM representatives had explained that the BlackBerry mobile device, the encrypted e-mail sent to BES located with the service provider sends.

The government had said that the burden of providing access to safety information about these smartphones is to follow the service.

Under the license, providers are subject to a system that provides security services for a call or a notification of each subscriber to pick up when needed.

As telecom operators like Airtel, Vodafone, RCom, the Tata and the government-run BSNL and MTNL offers BlackBerry services, it is the responsibility of these operators to ensure that the security services access to all services they offer to come.

RIM has operations in 175 countries.