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Since Friday was Quadruple Witching, it would be natural to play Donovan, "Season of the Witch…" but no, we've heard that plenty now and know how appropriate that is already. Steph wanted me to work in "Renegade" by Styx, and since I'm on a Styx kick lately, here it is. I think their lyrics are fitting in this environment (even though others don't necessarily love 'em – hey you can't please everyone), it is EASY to work them in… How about Bernanke's actions on Wednesday? Renegade! How about Geithner's upcoming plan to use our money to make the bankers profit on their crap, AND to now give MIDDLE MEN even MORE of our money. That will help the math! RENEGADE!
Styx – Renegade:
And not despite, but BECAUSE of their renegade actions the DOW closed down 122 points, the SPX lost 2%, the NDX lost 1.4%, and the RUT led the decline (a sign) by losing 3.2%. The XLF lost 6%, IYR gave up a massive 7.5%, and the Trannies gave back 4.6% of their recent bounce.
Internals were decidedly negative with decliners outnumbering advancers 3 to 1, declining volume led by 79% on the NYSE. New highs rose to a still very low 14.
Much of the overbought pressure is now removed from the short term indicators. All the stochastic indicators are now oversold up to the 60 minute timeframe which makes a bounce or at least sideways action likely early in the week – or alternatively we could get into crash mode. It will be VERY interesting to see how the market reacts to Geithner's plan. From what I see so far, it's a net negative to the taxpayers, but will undoubtedly help the banks/bankers as all their actions to date have.
If we keep moving the debts from the banks and onto the taxpayers, we accomplish worse than nothing to our nation's situation, and we net NO help to those who are in debt. This plan is just going to bring in the next lower level of pigmen to profit as middle men from the mess and from the taxpayer. Yes, bank stocks may rise from that, but then again, they may have MORE write downs as their toxic waste is removed – toxic waste removal fees.
And then there is Obama now talking up regulations to "make sure this doesn't happen again!" Is that going to be good for the banks? Well of course! Who do you think will write the new rules? Bernanke wants MORE power and MORE control, and you can bet Congress will give it to him. Just remember that the "FED" is really a representative of the central bankers. They will do what is in THEIR best interests, not yours and not America's.
And then there's the G20 meeting in early April. That's right around the corner. Who is it that meets? THE CENTRAL BANKERS. You can bet that YOUR interests will NOT be represented there.
Do you realize that our government has now provided more than $13 TRILLION in bank bailout money, loans, and guarantees on the back of American taxpayers since this crisis began?! Has any of the debt of the people gone away? NO?
Now I'm going to side with McHugh here to play devil's advocate… Do you realize that had they simply printed $13 trillion and given it to the PEOPLE, then every family of four would have received $170,491!!!!!! That's $42,622 for every man, woman, and child in the United States. Those people could have used that money to pay down their debts. That would have freed up the banks balance sheets, kept their derivatives in tact, and would have compensated the people who did not take on debt they couldn't afford for the future taxes and erosion of their currency that is created. But what's happening now is we get all the bad effects, but none of the good. That makes the decisions to date system ending which it would eventually do regardless because even if we were to do that as "the right thing" for the people, it would only prolong all the nonsense and would have to be done over again in the future. Thus, the collapse is probably the long term better way to go as it gives us a window to reinvent ourselves. Of course BEWARE of the reinvention, especially if it emanates from the central bankers!
Another outrageous point about what's happened lately is that Hank Paulson (Renegade), former CEO of Goldman Sachs, turned former Treasury Secretary, arranged for the quick bailout of AIG right before he left which is now approaching $200 billion! We now know that much of the AIG bailout money went to Goldman in which Hank Paulson still has hundreds of millions invested! That is not only outrageous, it is criminal, FAR BEYOND the paying of bonuses to AIG employees. And this is just the latest of his criminal activities. Keep your eye on the debt ball and the real traitors/criminals, Hank Paulson is right up there on my most wanted list.
To the Charts…
Let's start by looking inside the SPX at a 10 day, 10 minute chart. You can see that the advance finally ran out of steam on a double top in the 800 area. I have a set of fibs on what would be wave 5 up, and you can see that we have retraced 61.8% of that move, but only 23.6% of the entire run. I would expect a minimum of 38.6% or 750ish for a valid retrace. Note, however, the downsloping red lines… those are the wave 5 channel lines, making a 5th wave down still a possibility. A triangle is also still a possibility as is a simple ABC that takes us to a higher high, but likely after more of a retrace:
Zooming out to a one month daily we see a bearish candle with the daily stochastic rolling over about to issue a sell with my slow settings. Here you can better see the support areas on the way back down… pivots at 768, 734, 717, and 696. The next higher pivot is 789 – I could see a short term bounce up towards that pivot followed by more selling. Of course the oscillators haven't been as helpful lately and I would contribute that to MARKET MANIPULATION. Again a reminder here that our bond market is no longer a free market at all, in any way shape or form. The only thing free about it is that you are free to sell your bonds to the taxpayers, and that's what I would do:
The DOW daily is the same picture, but here you can see that Friday had rising volume on the selling and if you'll notice, the selling volume Friday was more than any of the panic volume buying days. That's a hint, although I note that volume was not as high on the index ETFs:
Let's look at the Transports. Remember the gravestone doji I pointed out on Thursday? Should have shorted that puppy, a classic. And the selling here is also on rising and higher volume than the bounce days:
Here's the NDX daily. The rising wedge now has prices well underneath. The NDX sold off hard, but could not break below the 50dma, although I note that the broader Nasdaq index was unable to hold above the 50 and closed below it. I wish I could see index volume, but I can't. When I look at the futures the volume was lighter and also on the ETF, so there's some discrepancy there with the DOW and Transports. I tend to believe index volume when it's available, but don't like when they don't match:
Here's the XLF daily. Note the plummet below the 50dma which couldn't be held for more than a day. Lower volume on day two of the selling, the daily stochastic is rolling over hard and is about to issue a sell. The XLF has already retraced more than 38.2% of its bounce. MANIPULATION is all I can say about that rally. It started with one CEO talking operating profit on manipulated spreads, then the other CEO saw that worked and all began to talk as if they are a profitable enterprise. BULLSHIT. Now the whole index is influenced by the actions of the pigmen and politicians/Fed. Investing here, long or short is worse than gambling. In a casino you at least know the odds and the rules. Here you know neither:
When we zoom out farther and look at a 6 month weekly chart of the SPX (with my drawings turned off), I see a mixed picture. I see a weekly doji that looks like a potential top, but I also see what looks like an immanent buy signal and a close above the lower Bollinger after being beneath it, that is a buy signal. It could also be that we just needed the technical bounce to relieve pressure on the extreme oversold levels we were experiencing. A lot of people are looking for an extended leg up. It could happen after a little more retrace, but then it again, it may not. There are some GIANT shoes still to drop. Tax revenues are one, the lack of TIC flows is another… there is a LOT of risk out there still with a lot of people with their eye off the ball:
The DOW weekly candle looks an awful lot like a gravestone… it's not quite thin enough, but it's close. Like the one on top of the Transports daily, this one will need confirmation with next week's bar beneath it. If we're making an ABC, that may not happen, but if we're starting wave 5 down it probably will or you'll get a doji with a wave 4 triangle:
The Put/Call Ratio went out of the week at .89, pretty middle of the road for action of late:
Overall our markets are no longer free, the government under pigmen/corporate influence is taking over. The short term indicators say short term bounce or sideways early in the week, then we will probably get back to further correcting the upmove. After that we'll have to see.
Huge risks are being taken with our money system and the very foundation of America. Bernanke's actions are saying, "I'll take any risk!"
Styx – Rockin the Paradise (and I'll take any risk):
Okay, after this I'll lay off the Styx for awhile!
So whatcha doin' tonight?
Have you heard that the world's gone crazy?
Young Americans listen when I say there's people puttin' us down
I know they're sayin' that we've gone lazy
To tell you the truth we've all seen better days
Don't need no fast buck lame duck profits for fun
Quick trick plans, take the money and run
We need long term, slow burn, getting it done
And some straight talking, hard working son of a gun.
Whatcha doin' tonight, I got faith in our generation
Let's stick together and futurize our attitudes
I ain't lookin' to fight, but I know with determination
We can challenge the schemers who cheat all the rules
Come on take pride, be wise, spottin' the fools
No more big shots, crackpots bending the rules
A fair shot here for me and for you
Knowing that we can't lose
And we'll be rockin' in Paradise
Rockin' the Paradise tonight
Rockin' in Paradise
Rockin' the Paradise tonight
Tonight, tonight...
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Weekend Update 3/22
Posted byAmy Jamison at10:53 AM


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I remember 2011 Super Bowl Sunday like it was yesterday. The game was about to wrap up and I sat in the living room staring at our computer, logging our expenses for the month. I told Doug what I was woRkiNg on. He responded by asking, "Lara, WHY do you even do that? We've been doing this for years and it comes out to the same number every month!" After talking about it for a while we went to bed feeling defeated.
I couldn't fall asleep and happened to see the "Total Money Makeover" book by Dave Ramsey on the night stand. (I had ordered that book earlier in the week because a friend had recommended it.) I ended up reading the first three chapters and my financial atTituDe was forever impacted. I anxiously told Doug about it the next morning and, from that day on, we started working the basic principles to become debt free. We revamped our expense sheet, made new gOaLs, and most importantly worked like crazy. Doug got up with me and worked a few hours painting blocks before he went to his day job. We stayed home on the weekends and worked every free chance we had. We got the entire family involved in the process. It was a little cRazY but we finally started getting traction.
Looking back, I can't believe how much we've accomplished. We not only drastically changed our financial situation, but our family has become even more of a TeaM. It is still a work in progress but we are on our way to changing our family tree!
I am sharing this with you because if someone didn't reach out to us, who knows how long we would have stayed in denial. As humbling as it is to admit our faults, I take cOmfoRt in knowing our story may help someone going through the same struggle.
How is your financial situation? Do you run out of money before the end of the month? Go check out the "Total Money Makeover". Dave Ramsey has a great, simplified plan that will make you look at your financial future in a whole new way. We also LoVe tuning into his radio podcasts while we are busy at work! Visit http://www.daveramsey.com/radio/home/
Check back in on Thursday, for my Part 2 of this story!
Get on your way to financial FREEDOM!

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Hi, I'm trying to 'addchild' (a circle shape) to the stage from a class that's not the main project class. Maybe this is a bad idea... I'm not sure. Anyway, my code isn't working, yet there are no errors. Here's it is below. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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AfriGeneas Military Research Forum Archive
Re: Roster of 371st Infantry Regiment, WW1
In Response To: Roster of 371st Infantry Regiment, WW1 ()
Dear Mr. Lowery,
I have transcribed the account of the Battle for Hill 188 from Major Pate (CO of 1st Battalion) to my grandfather, !st Lieut Marcus Boulware (Company D). At the end of the document, there is a roster of the officers at the time of the engagement. I hope this helps.
NOTE: This document is transcribed from a photocopy of typewritten tissue paper. It was apparently written by Major Joseph B. Pate, Commanding 1st Battalion, 371st Infantry. I will try to spell each word as it is spelled in the original. Since I know little French, I have no way of knowing if Maj. Pate's spelling is correct. I DO know that the word "COTE" means "hill" in French.
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MAP: French topographical battle map, Systéme Lambert; Scale 1:20,000; CERNAY - EN - DORMOIS quadrangle, 12 September 1918.
Without relating something of what transpired prior to the attack on COTE 188, it would be almost impossible to appreciate the condition obtaining in the 1st Battalion when this attack was launched.
The Infantry of the 157th French Division consisted of the following regiments; 333d French, 371st American and 372nd American. After almost four months of service in defensive sectors of the Fourth French Army area and with different Corps of that Army, the division was withdrawn from the front line trenches about the middle of September in order to enjoy, as we understood, a well earned rest and for this purpose we were moved by trucks to an area about 65 kilometers to the rear; but the long-looked-for rest proved to be a very intensive five-day period of offensive training.
After four long night marches, followed each day by field exercises executed by individual battalions, our division reached the rear portion of the area occupied by the IX French Army Corps and during the night 24-25 September the 371st Infantry went into the SOMME - BIONNE area, about 14 kilometers in rear of the front line
(Page 2) trenches.
Following a most unusually thorough artillery preparation, which began at 23 o' clock (11:00 P.M.), 25 September, the 2d Moroccan and 161st French Divisions had driven the Germans back on to their reserve battle positions where they were making a very determined resistance. Communications with the front line battalions of our Corps had generally broken down and little or no accurate information was available as to the exact location of these battalions, but they were believed to be engages along the general line BELLEVUE - OLD MILL north of GRATREUIL.
On 26 September the General Commanding the IX Army Corps ordered the 157th Division to the front to exploit the success of the two leading divisions. Pursuant to these orders we marched 14 kilometers during the night 26 - 27 September and before daylight reached a sheltered position in the vicinity of BEAUSEJOUR FARM, just in rear of the original front line trenches of our Corps.
On 27 September our Division Commander ordered forward the Infantry regiments in column and in the order: 371st American, 372nd American, 333d French, along the axis: BUTTE du MESNIL - RIPONT - BUSSY FARM - LES PETITS ROSIERES, and with instructions to continue along the axis indicated until contact was gained with
(Page 3) the enemy. The 372nd Infantry was to be assembled north of RIPONT during the night 27 - 28 September and was destined to attack on the same line as the 371st Infantry. The Laure Battalion of the 333d French regiment was to support the attacks of the two American regiments engaged and the remainder of the 333d regiment was held in division reserve.
At 13 o'clock (1:00 P.M.) the 371st Infantry marched from the vicinity of BEAUSEJOUR FERME in column of battalions in the order 1st, 3rd, 2d Battalions. The march was covered by patrols to the front and flanks and the 1st Battalion, composed of B, C, D and Machine Gun companies, was assigned the special mission of sending reconnaissance patrols to the battle line to ascertain the enemy situation. The 1st Battalion marched in approach formation with two rifle companies in the front line covering a frontage of about 500 meters and the other rifle company and the Machine Gun Company, also in approach formation, following in rear at about 500 meters distance.
When the front line of the 1st Battalion had reached a point about 500 meters north of BUTTE du MESNIL (278.3 -272.1), the regiment was halted and remained in that position until 17:30 o'clock (5:30 P.M.), when the Division Infantry Commander came up to where Colonel Miles and I were standing together and said, "There is a gap in our front lines between 161st French Division on our
(Page 4) right and the 2d Moroccan Division on our left. The 371st Infantry will fill in that gap." Colonel Miles turned to me and said, "The 1st Battalion will fill in that gap; move out immediately."
I immediately sent out a patrol of two commissioned and three non-commissioned officers with instructions to proceed to the front as rapidly as possible along our present axis of advance and to locate either the left flank of the 161st French Division on our right or the right flank of the 2d Moroccan Division on our left, and informed them that the battalion would follow them over the same route. The 1st Battalion then moved out followed by the 3rd and 2d Battalions and by 21 o'clock (9:00 P.M.) we had crossed the DORMOISE RIVER just west of RIPONT and halted near the top of the hill (278.65 - 274.4) about 800 meters northwest of RIPONT. Ut to this time nothing had been heard from the patrol sent out at 17:30 o'clock (5:30 P.M.) and I sent out a second patrol of the same strength and composition as the first and with the same mission. The Battalion again took up the march and at about 24 o'clock (12:00 midnight) reached the unimproved road running almost east and west along the ridge through crossroads at (279.00 - 275.15) and crossroads at (279.55 - 274.95) 1500 meters north of RIPONT. We found this hill being swept by machine gun fire and I halted the battalion just in rear of the crest. Within a few minutes I received instructions to report to
(Page5) the Regimental Commander, who was then at a point (279.3 - 274.7) about 700 meters north of RIPONT, and at this time the regimental attack orders were issued to assembled battalion commanders.
While back at the regimental command post my second patrol reported to me that they had been unable to accomplish anything. It was now almost one o'clock (1:00 A.M.) 28 September, I turned over the command of the battalion to Captain Wharton, the senior company commander, and instructed him to get the battalion across the road connecting GRATREUIL and FONTAINE-en-DORMOIS and under cover of the steep slope at that point before daylight and that unless I returned before 6 o'clock (6:00 A.M.) to consider me a casualty. I then went forward on reconnaissance with a French adjutant, Jaques Colledeboeuf, who was attached to the 1st Battalion as interpreter. We continued in the same general direction the Battalion had been following until we ran into a German outpost at a point about 700
(Page 6) meters southeast of GRATREUIL (279.55 - 276.1). From that point we changed direction to the east and continued in front of the German lines to a point 1900 meters southeast of GRATEUIL near crossroads at (280.8 - 275.9) where we found three French soldiers on outpost, who directed us to their battalion command post, which we found about 500 meters further to the southeast, somewhere near the point (281.05 - 275.5). Fro this battalion commander we learned that his battalion was on the left of the 161st French Division and he gave us his estimate of the situation which confronted us. He said that COTE 188 had been very strongly held, but that the Germans were withdrawing and he doubted if we would find the position occupied at all. We then moved along the improved road leading to GRATREUIL and found our battalion in the vicinity of the road junction at (279.35 - 275.55) and crossroads (279.3 - 275.7), about 900 meters southeast of GRATREUIL. This was about 5:45 o'clock and the fog was quite dense in the valleys. The company commanders were assembled in a nearby dugout where I explained the situation with the aid of a battle map and issued verbal attack orders. While the officers were still in the dugout a German feldwebel (a high ranking non-commissioned officer) was brought in and said he had 35 men with him who wished to surrender, as they had been left to defend the hill and did not care to risk their
(Page 7) lives any longer in a lost cause. This information, coupled with the opinion expressed by the French battalion commander, led me to believe that we had a very easy task before us and I so informed my company commanders.
The 1st Battalion formed for the attack of COTE 188 on a front of about 500 meters along the unimproved road running southeast from GRATREUIL through crossroads at (279.6 - 275.95) to road junction at (279.97 - 275.45).
Direction of the attack: N 50 E along unimproved road running through crossroads at (279.6 - 275.95) and crossroads at (280.25 - 267.47).
Formation: "C" Company on the left astride unimproved road running generally N 50 E and marking direction of attack, "B" Company on the right and "D" Company in reserve in the draw about 200 meters to the right rear of "B" Company. One platoon of Machine Gun Company was attached to each rifle company.
The attack was launched at 6:45 o'clock, which was H hour as announced by the Division. The assault platoons of "C" Company moved out as skirmishers. "B" and "D" Companies moved in section columns, as they were not only somewhat echeloned in the rear of "C" Company, but were not exposed to enemy rifle and machine
(Page gun fire due to the rather abrupt slope of the ground to the right of "C" Company. At a point about 300 yards in front of the trench "de la Cote 188", the left platoon of "C" Company (Lieut. Ramsay Commanding) was forced to cut its way through two very heavy systems of wire, which was being accomplished under cover of fire delivered by the rest of the platoon and in the face of some fire from the defenders within the trench. During this time the right platoon of this company (Lieut. Bryson Commanding) was kept pinned to the ground by enemy fire. Within a few minutes the Germans ceased firing and began climbing up on to the parapet of the trench and holding up their arms as if wishing to surrender. Our Platoon Commanders ordered their men to cease firing as the Bosches were surrendering. Our men promptly ceased firing and the battalion again started forward and when within about 100 meters of the trench someone within blew a whistle and the Germans who had been standing up on the parapet immediately jumped back into their trenches and "C" Company was greeted with interlocking bands of machine gun fire and minenwerfer fire covered the defiladed areas. The leading platoons of "C" Company were almost annihilated, including both platoon commanders (Lieutenants Bryson and Ramsay) wounded.
This was a genuine surprise to all of us and the battalion was flat upon its face without waiting
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When the Bosches sprang their "Kamarad" trap, those of the first wave of "C" Company who were not knocked down by the fire rushed forward to close with the enemy in his trenches, but upon reaching the first trench which was parallel to the first trench and only 30 or 40 meters in rear of it. The small group of men who reached the trench could neither go forward nor backward and were so close to their opponents that we were denied the support of our artillery at the time when we in the greatest need of it.
Before launching the attack a detachment of French machine gunners, apparently a platoon, were noticed in position on our immediate left in the boyeau which runs generally parallel to the left of our line of departure and about 150 meters to the front thereof. As soon as the Bosches played their "Kamarad" trick on us the French machine gunners withdrew and left for parts unknown, thus exposing our left flank and the Germans immediately took full advantage of the abandoned position and occupied it themselves. I was unable to ascertain where the French detachment came from, as we had not established liaison with them, although I understood that they were the right element of the division on our left.
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Our predicament was far from pleasant and called for a new estimate of the situation and additional reconnaissance before new plans could be formulated. However, a decision was finally reached which required "D" Company to move to the rear by crawling part of the way until under cover of the hills in rear of us and then via the road leading to the northwest in the direction of GRATREUIL and from this road by infiltration into a position on the left of "C" Company and somewhat to the east of the positions earlier abandoned by the French machine gun detachment. Lieut. James A. Boswell, commanding "D" Company, preceded his company into position in order to make personal reconnaissance and while on this mission was killed by a German sniper, after which Lieut. Marcus B. Boulware took command and let the company through the attack. In spite of the difficult and hazardous nature of this movement, over a distance of more than 2000 meters, it was executed with little more than one hour and with only three casualties, including Lieut. Boswell - a splendid tribute to the discipline and training of the men and the efficiency of the platoon leaders. When all was in readiness a coordinated attack was launched on rocket signal at about 11:30 o'clock in which "B" Company drove almost due north and "D" Company almost due east, thus simultaneously enveloping both flanks of the enemy position. This double envelopment enabled us to promptly enfilade all enemy machine gun positions and
(Page 11) soon silence the guns. When the assaulting companies were within about 150 meters of the enemy main line of resistance many of the defenders began to run away in the direction of BUSSY FARM, during which time our men took full advantage of the excellent targets afforded by the retreating Germans and thus killed a large number of them. Those who stood their ground fought desperately and some of these were finally despatched with the bayonet. The final phase of this assault was extremely gruesome as our men could not be restrained from wreaking their vengeance upon the enemy who had so shamefully entrapped their comrades earlier that morning.
We were now in full possession of COTE 188, the famous Hindenburg line had been broken and the enemy had withdrawn to the SECHAULT - ARDEUIL line, about 2 kilometers to the north of us.
We found 7 machine guns, 5 minenwerfers (trench mortars), a number of rifles, and 3 antitank guns in this position and just in rear of it a very neat row of infantry packs and rifles, which we presumed had been left there by the feldwebel and his 35 men who surrendered to us at the foot of the hill shortly after 6 o'clock that morning. The remnants of the battalion were reorganized and dug in for the night along the unimproved road running east and west through crossroads at (279.45 - 276.8) and road junction at (280.52 - 276.75 and about 600 meters
(Page 12) south of BUSSY FARM.
In this engagement our casualties in officers were:
The casualties among the enlisted men were very heavy indeed, but I keenly regret that I am unable to furnish accurate data regarding these losses, but estimate our losses in men as something near 40% of the total number engaged.
Our total casualties during the period September 28 -30 inclusive were 12 commissioned officers and 403 enlisted men. The casualties in officers, not mentioned above, were:
I do not know the strength of the Germans who defended COTE 188 on the morning of 28 September, but estimate their number at one machine gun company, one rifle company (less the detachment of 36 that surrendered to us befor the
(Page 13) attack was launched), a minenwerfer detachment and a detachment of antitank gunners. No acurate count was made of the enemy dead left on the field, but the number is estimated at between 50 and 60, including two officers. Six more prisoners were taken here, all of whom were badly wounded.
The heavy losses suffered by our 1st Battalion on 28 September were by no means the only damage wrought by the defenders of COTE 188. Troops from either the 2d Moroccan Division or 161st Division, or both, attacked this position on 27 September and left scores of their dead upon the field. It is presumed that the failure of the original attack of COTE 188 and the consequent withdrawl of the troops making this attack, produced the gap between the two divisions which we were directed to fill - I have not been able to verify the details of the first attack against this hill.
During the morning of September 28th the 1st Battalion was operating alone against COTE 188 after the withdrawal of the French machine gun detachment from out left, but during the afternoon a battalion of the 372d American Infantry came up on our right and thereby greatly simplified our final task of reorganizing the position for night defense.
After dark our 3d Battalion came up and went into position about 700 meters to our left front and
(Page 14) established an outpost line from BUSSY FARM on the right to a point about 1500 meters to the west thereof and from which line the attack was renewed on 29 September by the 3d. Battalion.
It would take too much space for me to attempt to cover the many individual acts of gallantry performed by members of my command dureing the operation against COTE 188, and, were I to attempt an enumeration of these brave deeds, I know that many of the most important ones would have to be omitted as the witnesses either made the supreme sacrifice themselves or were too modest to report what they did. Many of these brave men received recognition, but I believe that equally as many more deserving ones were not mentioned in orders.
Every battle has its own peculiar stage setting and every commander has his share of unexpected situations to meet. The following are some of the problems and surprises that I was confronted with during the attack on COTE 188:-
(1) due to the difficulty and consequent delay in locating the gap our regiment was directed to fill, I was unable to establish liasion with the battalion on my left before the attack was launched.
(2) Our delay in getting into position left almost no time for company commanders to reconnoiter
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(3) The dense fog prevented anyone from seeing much until within short rifle range of the enemy trenches.
(4) While I was issuing attack orders to Company commanders an enemy shell exploded near my headquarters group and killed the chief of my messenger section and two of my best runners.
(5) Due to heavy shelling the regiment was unable to lay a wire to my command post until quite a while after the attack was launched and well after the greatest need for rearward communication had passed.
(6) My battalion had no wire section and so was forced to depend entirely upon runners for communication with front line companies. After all runners had been expended and my reserve company committed to action my adjutant delivered three messages.
(7) The lack of wire communication prevented our getting much of the artillery support that might have been rendered.
(8) The group of "C" Company men who occupied a section of trench within a few yards of the enemy front line prevented our artillery from firing on that part of the enemy position which was doing us most damage.
(9) the French machine gun platoon originally in position on our left flank was a deciding factor in my original scheme of manoeuver.
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(10) The very erroneous impression gained from the Commander of the French battalion on our right flank and which was later fully corroborated by a prisoner, led me to believe that COTE 188 was either very weakly held or had been wholly abandoned by the enemy.
It will be readily noted that most of the foregoing problems were due to the total lack of information furnished me regarding either the line from which my battalion was supposed to attack or the location of friendly troops on my right and left flanks and the extreme difficulty of gaining such information during a foggy night.
In soite of the many handicaps under which the 1st Battalion was forced to attack COTE 188; in spite of the natural strength of this position which had been further strengthened by continuous lines of trenches and two strong systems of wire in front of it; inspite of the determination with which the defenders fought to hold their last organized line of defense, and in spite of our very cruel losses in both officers and enlisted men, the battalion filled the gap and accomplished the mission assigned it. To have been pernitted to command such a splendid body omen from its organization and to share in the honor of this signal achievement, accomplished through such united courage and the supreme sacrifice
(Page 17) of so many of our comrades, fills my heart with the greatest pride and the keenest sadness.
Major Joseph B. Pate, Commanding,
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When I first looked at the weekly report from the Department of Labor on initial jobless claims, it didn't look like news to me. The number remained virtually unchanged from last week, going from 429,000 to 428,000, which barely qualifies as statistical noise:
In the week ending June 25, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 428,000, a decrease of 1,000 from the previous week's unrevised figure of 429,000. The 4-week moving average was 426,750, an increase of 500 from the previous week's unrevised average of 426,250.
The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 2.9 percent for the week ending June 18, a decrease of 0.1 percentage point from the prior week's revised rate of 3.0 percent.
The advance number for seasonally adjusted insured unemployment during the week ending June 18 was 3,702,000, a decrease of 12,000 from the preceding week's revised level of 3,714,000. The 4-week moving average was 3,703,500, a decrease of 11,250 from the preceding week's revised average of 3,714,750.
The near-equality of the claims number to the weekly average speaks to the consistency seen in the numbers since early April. Claims rose as the second quarter began, with a significant spike from the Q1 range of 380K and spiked upward to over 470K before settling in around 425K. As I noted last week, the data is as consistent and predictable as anything we've seen over the last six months.
So, it's not really news, or it wasn't — until news outlets decided to spin the results a little, as Steve Eggleston caught. The AP didn't try making this week's numbers look good or overstate the miniscule drop of 1,000 claims, but the outlet did spin the Q1 level:
Applications had fallen in February to 375,000, a level that signals sustainable job growth. They stayed below 400,000 for seven of nine weeks. But applications then surged to an eight-month high of 478,000 in April and have shown only modest improvement since that time.
The four-week average, a less volatile measure, has been stuck at about 426,000 for a month.
Reuters was even worse:
It was the 12th straight week that claims have been above 400,000, a level that is usually associated with a stable labor market. Employment stumbled badly in May, with employers adding just 54,000 jobs — the fewest in eight months.
No, the 375K level does not signal sustainable job growth, and the 400K level doesn't signal job-market stability, either. I covered this in last week's analysis, where I used actual DoL data to determine what initial jobless claims level was associated with growth and stability. The only time we've gotten to 400K before Obama took office was when we were heading into unemployment crises. And periods associated with sustainable job growth had averages and medians at the 325K level, not the 375K level:
Take a look at the historical series of weekly claims between December 2005 and December 2007, the last time we really had "stability" in the labor force. The highest number in that period was 355,000 in a week, and that was in December 2007 when the economy slid into recession. In fact, between January 2004 and January 2008, we had only two weeks of 400K-level weekly claims, both in September 2005, and they were very much the exception. The average for that four-year span is 326,735, and the median number is 324,000 — which is why I usually use the 325K number in my analyses. We actually didn't get to the 400K level until July 2008, at which point no one considered the labor market "stable." …
Think I'm fudging those baseline expectations by using the supposedly "overheated" Bush economic expansion? Well, take a look at the same series for the four years between 1996 and 1999. The average number of initial jobless claims per week in that period was 321,986, and the median was 317,500. There was exactly one week of 400,000 or more claims in a week, and that took place in January 1996.
Perhaps if the AP and Reuters used actual data rather than listen to White House shills on economics, they wouldn't have to use "unexpectedly" in their reports so often.
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Don't forget my other pages, links and comments are one click away at the top right of the page…
GenuineBull: Persistent lies of chemically-infused butt spray dispersals from typically uninformed brains which are now seen in YouTube all over the world. Unlike normal conversations formed by normal people, GB's words spread to form a thick blanket of bullshit, held together by straws until they reach the ground, contaminating crops, water supplies and humans with a pungent stink of lies and dessicated innuendoes which contain active human pathogens. The cure: contrailscience.com
Chemtrails Parts I and II ? Miles Muzio Chief Meteorologist KBAK-TV, CBS 29 News, Bakersfield California
Genuine professionals are people called by some as "disinformationalists" (sic).
They are ALWAYS people who KNOW what they are talking about. Chemtrailers automatically HATE these people and call them "useful idiots".
Miles Muzio here is a regular guy who is obviously good at his job, but not too practised in rebutting or debunking conspiracy fools. (I can tell because he occasionally misuses some relevant terminology himself, which one has learned NOT to do when fighting such a war of ideas. In particular he seems unaware of the existence of supersaturation as a special condition of the stratosphere.)
He says: "This is an ongoing controversy with some people who insist a malevolent conspiracy is subliminally gassing Americans. I have found no credible evidence of this. Condensation trails are common and form as a function of temperature. Condensation nuclei are produced by hydrocarbon exhaust and quickly form ice fog in the high atmosphere. The colder it is at flight level the more persistent the ice fog is.
There are really three types of fog (which are manifest as clouds aloft): 1) regular water droplet fog at temperatures above freezing, 2) water droplet fog at temperatures below freezing (which can result in icing conditions for aircraft), and 3) ice crystal fog (ice fog). Ice fog generally forms at temperatures below -22F. In arctic towns during the dead of winter it is not unusual to have ice fog form behind cars on the road. Ice fog dissipates very slowly because it must sublime from solid to vapor which requires a molecular heat transfer of about 620 calories per gram. At extremely low temperatures in the 30,000 to 40,000 foot range (between -60 and -100 degrees F), this change of state can take some time.
When I was a military meteorologist in Alaska back in the 1970s, one of the routine forecasts I put out was a contrails prediction. It was something that dated back to World War II. Our bombers needed to know at what altitude they must fly in order to NOT produce contrails. Of course, there was radar back then and the Japanese probably could spot an incoming B-29, but perhaps not. If contrails were visible 100 miles away then everyone would know. Nomograms were developed for the prediction. It was fairly straight forward. A critical temperature and pressure was required for contrail formation, usually something like -45F. Humidity came into the equation for relatively warm temperatures, but once it got below about -70F humidity didn't matter – ice clouds would form regardless. When you see jets in which the contrail forms for only a short distance behind the aircraft and then it quickly disappears – that means the jet is flying at an altitude close to the critical contrail temperature.
I can also tell you that the manner in which contrails disperse, or don't disperse, reveals important information about atmospheric stability and diffluence. The same is true about lenticular clouds that form in Tehachapi. These mountain wave clouds don't automatically form when it's windy. There are several other considerations, such as stability, humidity and the wind angle relation to the mountain range.
In the same way contrails will expand in areas of diffluent flow (winds pulling apart over a horizontal area). Much of this also applies to steam or exhaust that is released from a common smoke stack in breezy conditions. If the smoke goes up or if it goes down, if it expands or if it stays uniform – all tell a story about the character of the atmosphere. So when contrails form an X in the sky, it means there are two persistent contrails behind aircraft with tracks at 90-degrees to each other – nothing more. Go to contrailscience.com for further details."
This was an American with a single-digit percentage of bullshit telling Americans what was wrong with their thinking (not that he didn't have a world-wide appeal!). I tremendously respected and admired this man, and still keep him in mind when I write – he helps me keep my OWN bullshit in check.
What he says about DISEASE (and many other issues) should be MANDATORY MATERIAL in education.
He was the very embodiment of MATURITY…
Aviation kerosine contains no metal, and burns to form steam and carbon dioxide. Chaff is INERT. Civil planes aren't fitted with spray equipment. The world's 1500 active (24/7) volcanoes outdo Man's efforts twentyfold. Living plants have converted THAT into FRESH AIR for 3 billion years. Human skin and lung diseases are caused by pollens and auto fumes and photoreactive smog combined. Worry about deforestation and the death of ocean phytoplankton. GET REAL! PEACEFULLY!
"He will just waste your time and energy" – You ARE wasting everyone's time.
"I learned the hard way" – You have LEARNED not a thing
"posts on other chemtrail videos" – who LIE as YOU do..
"comments from other people about him on his YouTube profile" – There was ONE SMART GUY there…
"all over the web debunking chemtrails" – I would STOP if there were any PROOF to the contrary.
"google "jazzroc"" – and some extreme "chemtrailer" crap crops up amongst scientific and musical references. Embarrassing.
"logical explanation for his behavior is he is paid" – NO. For want of a scientific understanding you guys are talking complete rubbish, and I thought to point you in a scientific direction. While you talk utter crap you'll get nowhere. (Don't you just LOATHE people who talk past you?)
"jazzroc (aka "Epoxynous", "doublemeat")" – They are OTHER PEOPLE I'm pleased to have been in touch with.
""soda pop" crap" – Which is COMPLETELY TRUE – but call it CRAP, and maybe it'll go away, eh?
"never-ending arguments" – NEVER HAPPEN BETWEEN SENSIBLE PEOPLE.
"He attacks anyone" – I attack ANY BAD IDEA.
"chemtrails may not be simple contrails" – may not exist, for the complete ABSENCE of PROOF.
"bombard you with "scientific evidence"" – as found in TEXT BOOKS ON SCIENCE
"he refers to his own website as proof" – It has a potted life history, photographs, my composed jazz and my synthesized classics (some of it interesting. "Fire and Ice" and "Variations on a Theme by Thomas Tallis" I recommend), pictures of my daughter's wedding, blogs on volcanoes/contrails, "intelligent" design, canvassers, religion.
"responds with a barrage of insults and bizarre accusations (such as "you are either uneducated or evil")" – (some barrage) but only after enduring STREAMS OF ABUSE from people who are resolutely opposed to either REASON or LOOKING THINGS UP. Only YOU would think my accustion bizarre!
It IS EVIL to do HARM, and propagating LIES is HARMFUL.
"Classic misdirection" – (Yours) is being followed by MY REDIRECTION. Your answers to my posts NEVER QUESTION THE SCIENCE, NEVER argue the SCIENCE, NEVER even acknowledge the SCIENCE.
(You call Science "DISINFORMATION"!)
Let me tell you something.
SCIENCE DOES NOT REQUIRE BELIEF TO WORK AND BE CORRECT. Disbelief in Science WILL NOT MAKE IT GO AWAY.
If you have an enemy who is using WORKING SCIENCE to depopulate YOU, he is MORE LIKELY TO SUCCEED if YOUR UNDERSTANDING of Science is abysmally POOR.
And I don't mean read up THE LIES YOU TELL EACH OTHER.
LEARN about the atmosphere. TRY to get a PROPER SENSE OF SCALE about the SIZE OF THE EARTH.
Read JANE'S AIRCRAFT so that you can UNDERSTAND more about aircraft design and stop making such fools of yourselves.
(A Roll of Honor)
For some time now (writing in May of 2009) I have been feeling less alone, and more heartened by others speaking up as I do against chemtard foolishness, but often more eloquently, or more wittily than I'm able to do, throwing in a lightness of touch which I both envy and admire, or cutting to the centre of a misperception with a rapier's slash.
And so I introduce a heroine of mine, STARS15K, featuring both in YouTube and Contrailscience, who describes herself thus: "I'm just a middle-aged, middle-income, middle-American, dog-loving, wool spinning, fly-tying, sock knitting, married to the only man i ever dated, Grandma of two, cloud-freak. I'm so proud."
That is real smart.
I'm going to add to this list, of course, because I have come across suitable candidates previously, but I dedicate it to STARS15K because, well, she probably can always head up such a list!
And what she writes here is really beautiful:
Real Science, has facts and is the same everywhere. CT theory doesn't fit these criteria. Laws of gravity, thermodynamics, aerodynamics, fluid dynamics, physics, chemistry, meteorology can't be repealed by any government or entity. They have to remain the same. When science shows the same results over and over again, it means that is a fact. When you have just facts, you know the truth. When you understand the truth, the sky is the sky again, clouds look like bunnies or Homer Simpson, colored sunsets are beautiful, and planes can leave signs of their passing overhead without fear and worry.
I would like to ask you why those who are in the meteorology/aviation field need to go through years of schooling when all one has to do is "look up" in order to understand what is happening as an airplane flies through varying weather conditions. If one can just simply rely on their eyes to explain complex weather movements and air masses, why go to school at all? Can't you just imagine for a moment that these are complex concepts that require actual training to understand? Both meteorology and aviation are rare subjects to study and there are not many people in a given area who have learned about such subjects. Isn't it possible that those you have learned from are uneducated in these subjects also?
Can I understand the complicated jet engine just by looking at it or do I need to study a bit to understand that it COMPRESSES the air it takes in and then mixes that high pressure air with fuel and ignites it to create thrust? To believe you understand the atmosphere and how all the elements work together, without studying from a source other than youtube (and other "websites"), is absurd. I hope you learn the truth someday, for your sake and the sake of your children. No one should live in fear of the lines in the sky when here there are billions of sources of pollution right down here on the ground to worry about. The funny, and ironic, FACT is that the trails hold LESS danger to you and your family than some of the water down here that is labeled fit for human consumption. You focus on the absurd while ignoring true dangers. If you fertilize your lawn, you are exposing your children to MUCH higher concentrations of dangerous substances than you can find in MILES of persistent contrails.
Please stop telling lies about people you know nothing about here, or on youtube. It makes you look foolish and paranoid. I really do hope you find the truth. I would hate to live in fear as you people obviously do.
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Yeah sure.
The government
keeps info about the real world
hidden from the population
in storage devices called "books"
kept in secret vaults known as "libraries".
(Such a hero of mine. His site: CONTRAILSCIENCE.COM)
How is your belief as valid as mine? I think "The cloud photos in this 100 year old book are natural".
You think "The cloud photos in this 100 year old book indicate the use of Tesla's scalar energy used to modify the weather, a practice that has gone on for the last 100 years and continues today".
To back up my belief (really a theory, but let's call it a belief, no need for semantic arguments), I point out that the science of meteorology, as practised in every country in the world by hundreds of thousands of scientists, and as reported in tens of thousands of scientific articles and research papers, and verified by millions of experiments, and as followed by millions of amateur scientists and meteorologists, and modeled by thousands of weather forecasting systems, and taught in schools and universities, is entirely consistent with the photos in the book. In addition, the exact same clouds were observed hundreds (and even thousands) of years BEFORE the book was published.
To back up your belief, what? Tesla made vague mention of "scalar energy", a technology that nobody has ever demonstrated by experiment in any way. Technology supposedly invented 100 years ago that no country in the entire world has ever used – despite its promise of "free" energy. Somehow this is being used to modify the weather of the entire planet – and you can offer no evidence other than "it seems like something they would cover up if they were doing it".
Not all beliefs are equally valid. If I believed that clouds were the condensed breath of invisible dragons, then you would quite likely disagree. If you want your alternative beliefs to be taken seriously, you need to at least approach the degree of evidence that supports the mainstream beliefs.
The reason we have not been able to find any legitimate proof that chemtrails exist is because they simply do not exist. The term is an internet creation to make condensation trails aka contrails sound more sinister.
When you actually look at the facts, as Uncinus proposes, you can see the argument in support of these chemtrails quickly reduces to nothing more than a bundle of pseudo-science, assumption, misguided correlations and unqualified uneducated personal testimony.
I have yet to find for myself one argument for the existence of these 'chemtrails' that does not skirt around the real results from real studies from real accredited sources. Instead, I have just found these arguments to resort to personal attacks and contradictory statements.
For example, how can you argue that the government is lying to us to cover this up and at the same time use government information taken out of context as the proof chemtrails exist? Logically, if this is the huge conspiracy, involving thousands of people, falsified studies and an extreme government cover up, wouldn't the simplest thing these conspirators would do would be to remove those links to themselves?
Of course, this is speculation on my part and should be taken as such. I am not a professional of any kind in this matter and I don't believe anyone should be convinced on my word alone just as I will never be convinced by your word alone.
What we do have, however, is science and legitimate information. Anyone can access these studies and weigh both sides of this argument and make an educated decision. For me the answer is simple; chemtrails do not exist and so this conspiracy does not exist.
Contrails do exist. Everyday, the number of airplanes in our skies increase as do the number of contrails left behind. Instead of trying to justify our paranoia with fictional conspiracies, we should be looking at what is actually going on in the world we create for ourselves.
Our air is polluted, our water is polluted, our earth is polluted, we don't need to create something like chemtrails to prove this. Instead of creating government conspiracy in our minds we should acknowledge the real perpetrators, ourselves.
We drive the cars, we fly in the planes, and we ignore the effect each one of us has on the environment around us. No one wants to see the blood on our own hands, an enemy image is easier for us to justify than taking the blame for our own contribution to an increasingly polluted planet.
We desperately need to stop pointing fingers and start taking responsibility for our own actions.
We need to ask ourselves the hard question; What actions or in-actions am I taking that contribute to the problem and what am I doing to create a solution?
The answer is yours alone and yours to reconcile with yourself.
"As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities." -Voltaire
Ahh, the catch cry of the liar and charlatan, got no proof, caught redhanded knee deep in bullshit, then start calling people a shill to try and divert.
Show some proof, retard. show the planes on the ground, show me the tankers transporting this stuff, show me the plants manufacturing this chemical.
You can't because it's all bullshit.
All you have is the same dumb-arse videos. Go video rainbows in the sprinklers and drop some acid.
You can't be any more brain damaged than you are already.
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My kids love taco anything, so this works for a quick fix after a day in the garden!
Taco Chicken Mac
4 cups cooked pasta,cooked with one large diced onion
1 1/2 cups cooked beans (pinto, canned chili beans, whatever is on hand, even black beans)
1 small can green chilis
1lb shredded chicken
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup ketchup or tomato sauce
taco seasoning (use one pack or equivalent of homemade or bulk mix)
shredded cheese (opt)
Bring the 1/2 cup water to a simmer and toss in the chicken and taco seasoning. Simmer for 2 to 3 minutes and add the ketchup, chilis, cooked pasta, and beans. Heat to a simmer. (Add more liquid if necessary.)
Serve topped with cheese if desired.
Frugal notes:
Chicken was bought on sale at .99lb as split chicken breasts. Cooked in bulk and frozen.
Ketchup and sauce are bought in bulk as well.
Chilis were bought at a discount store.
Pasta was whole grain, bought in the clearance bin in a bulk ziploc bag.
This dish was made for less than $2.
Psa 136:26 O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever.


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Recipe: Mexican Chocolate Doughnuts
These are not too sweet and take minutes to make.
You'll need an ebelskivver pan. The yield will depend on the size of the wells in your pan.
See the VARIATION, below, to make pancakes.
12 to 21 filled mini-doughnuts or 8 mini pancakes
1 cup whole milk
6 ounces Mexican chocolate disks, such as Abuelita brand, broken into chunks
1 1/4 cups flour
2 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
Pinch kosher salt
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled, plus more for the pan
1 large egg, beaten
2 to 4 tablespoons filling of your choice, such as chocolate-hazelnut spread, La Lechera brand dulce de leche (cajeta), jams or preserves
Confectioners' sugar, for dusting (optional)
Seat a wire cooling rack inside a rimmed baking sheet.
Heat the milk in a medium saucepan over medium-low heat. Add the chocolate; cook, stirring a few times, until it has melted. Remove from the heat. Whisk the mixture just until it is foamy.
Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a mixing bowl. Add the 3 tablespoons of melted butter and the egg, mixing just until the mixture is evenly moistened. Slowly pour in the milk-chocolate mixture, stirring constantly so the egg doesn't curdle; this should yield a shiny, smooth batter that's a bit runny. After a few minutes' rest, the batter will thicken, which is what you want.
Meanwhile, heat the ebelskivver pan over medium-low heat for 4 or 5 minutes, until thoroughly heated.
Grease the wells of the pan with a little butter. Spoon just enough batter into each well so that it's no more than three-quarters full. Cook for a few minutes; once the outside edge of each mini-doughnut is firm yet the center is still somewhat runny, add 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of your favorite filling. Use the remaining batter to cover the filling and barely fill the wells to the rim. Cook for a few minutes, until the outside edges make it possible to flip each mini doughnut, using two spoons or wooden skewers; cook for a minute or two, then transfer each doughnut to the wire rack. Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar, if desired.
Serve right away.
VARIATION: To make mini pancakes, heat a large skillet or griddle over medium-low heat until thoroughly heated. Grease it with a little butter. Use half of the batter to ladle 4 pancakes, spacing them at least an inch apart. Cook for a few minutes, just until bubbles form on the top and the bottom is cooked enough to be released. Turn them over and cook for a minute or two, until darkened on the second side. Use the filling of your choice as a topping. Repeat with the remaining batter and filling.
Nutrition Per doughnut (based on 21): 110 calories, 2 g protein, 16 g carbohydrates, 5 g fat, 2 g saturated fat, 15 mg cholesterol, 130 mg sodium, 0 g dietary fiber, 9 g sugar


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A 5 petals flower, with beads in the middle.
I spotted this wire flower at the MoMA Store few years ago.
I don't remember the designer, and couldn't find it online.
If you happen to recognize it, please let me know who designed it, so I can give credit.
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This is a good "beads buster", since you can use beads of different size, colors and materials :)
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* 15" of sterling silver 24 gauge Hard
* round nose pliers
* a big marker, or something round (to coil the wire onto)
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* coil the 18 gauge HH wire around the marker
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* start threading one bead at the time, and pass the wire up and down the centre of the flower (same as you were sewing)
* once one end of the wire is too short, start with the other side until you're happy with the overall look.
* loop the ends of the wire with the pliers so it won't be pocking you!
At this point you can pick wether you want a ring, a pendant or a pin.
For the pendant, add a jumping and a chain or a cord, for making a ring or a pin, take a base ring or a base pin, get busy with your glue gun and stick the flower on top of the base!
The first one will be a bit time consuming, but then you get the hang of it and you can't stop!!
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The government has warned the agreement's rejection will mean the country's economic collapse and possible exit from the euro, used by 17 European Union countries.
But anger still lingers over the deal's terms which include forcing depositors to take major losses on savings over 100,000 euros in the country's two biggest lenders. Second-largest lender Laiki — which was worst affected by its exposure to toxic Greek debt and loans — is being wound down and folded into the bigger Bank of Cyprus.
Ratcheting up frustration among local businesses and ordinary Cypriots are a string of capital controls such as a 300-euro daily withdrawal limit that authorities imposed last month to prevent a run on banks — the first such controls that have been introduced in the common currency's 14-year history.
The communist AKEL and socialist EDEK parties said they will vote against the agreement to protest what they said is a deal that undermines the country's sovereignty and leads to social misery.
A mass demonstration called by left-wing trade unions and organizations is planned outside the parliament during the vote.
Voting in favour of the agreement will be the ruling, centre-right Democratic Rally party along with ally Democratic Party, which together hold exactly half the seats. Right-wing European Party leader Demetris Syllouris is also expected to cast an approving vote.
Other European parliaments, including those of Germany and the Netherlands, have already signed off on the accord and Cypriot lawmakers have already approved most of its terms.
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The resource-rich promise of South America has been fulfilled under the Federation. Fully consolidated energy production combined with a rich factory infrastructure arising from First World outsourcing, the Federation is operating and enjoying a period of growth similar to the late 20th Century Middle East. The average, compliant citizen enjoys a wealth of resources that most inhabitants of the former first world would envy. That said, the aggressive government and constant military spending make this region a dictatorship, not a democracy.
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id - Every feed and entry in Atom has a unique identifier
link - Feeds can have multiple links, which are distinguished by a
type attribute
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type="text/html". If the link
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author->name() - The feed author's name
author->email() - The feed author's email address
Atom entries commonly have the following properties:
id - The entry's unique identifier
title - The entry's title, same as RSS item titles
link - A link to another format an an alternate view of this entry
summary - A summary of this entry's content
content - The full content of the entry; can be skipped if the feed just
contains summaries
author - with
name and
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updated - the date the entry was last updated, in RFC 3339 format
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text: Railroad Line Forums Username: Password: Save Password Register Forgot Password? Home Forums Events Calendar Sponsors Support the RRLine Guestbook FAQ Register Active Topics | Active Polls | Resources | Members | Online Users | Live Chat | Avatar Legend | Search | Statistics Photo Album | File Lister | File Library [ Active Members: 1 | Anonymous Members: 0 | Guests: 239 ] [ Total: 240 ] [ Newest Member: MOONVLL ] All Forums Model Railroad Forums Small Scale Model Railroad Forum Nantahala Midland V 3.0 Note: You must be registered in order to post a reply.To register, click here. Registration is FREE! Posting Form Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic Help Prompt Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana Size 1 2 3 4 5 6 Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Callouts: Message Icon: Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Tyson Rayles[/i] [br]Thanks guys! [/quote] - HTML is OFF | Forum Code is ON Insert a File Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic. T O P I C R E V I E W Tyson Rayles Posted - 01/20/2007 : 8:53:49 PM Yep! Frank's modeling convinced me I was better off golfing than modeling! 15 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) Tyson Rayles Posted - 12/02/2020 : 1:22:42 PM Carl and Mike, thank you for the interest. As far as the question about the track plan on page two, yes that is the same. However that is the 28" by 6' original section of the layout. The layout is now 32' long and is U shaped in that room and extends down a hallway (where the last group of pics come from). So an overall pic isn't possible but if you go thru this thread you will see all of the layout. Thanks Philip! Philip Posted - 12/02/2020 : 10:47:58 AM But there is O so much left no matter what scale you model in.Looking great Mike G. !Philip Michael Hohn Posted - 12/02/2020 : 09:38:00 AM The Hackney building looks really nice worked into the scenery. I�m impressed by the way you bring scenes to completion. I second Carl�s questions. Mike Carl B Posted - 12/02/2020 : 09:14:03 AM Wow- this thread started in 2007! Mike- is the layout track plan still as it was back on page 2?And, is there an overall layout photo of your current status? Frank Palmer Posted - 12/02/2020 : 09:02:11 AM Mike, 14 down and 14 to go. Tyson Rayles Posted - 12/01/2020 : 2:14:39 PM Sorry I should of sharpened the focus. Tyson Rayles Posted - 12/01/2020 : 2:13:35 PM On the 14th anniversary of the start of this layout I finally got the Hackney building done and "planted" on the layout. Hard to believe I still have about 1 square ft. of the 32 sq. feet still to go . That's where you guys in the bigger scales have it made. In O scale just plop a bush down and that square foot is history . Tyson Rayles Posted - 10/17/2020 : 09:07:02 AM Thanks Bruce Dutchman Posted - 10/16/2020 : 08:48:54 AM Nice, Mike. Tyson Rayles Posted - 10/16/2020 : 07:57:44 AM Thanks Rick Rick Posted - 10/15/2020 : 08:47:49 AM Tyson Rayles Posted - 10/15/2020 : 08:26:07 AM Thanks George, when I plant it on the layout it may get a little more kudzu. George D Posted - 10/14/2020 : 7:41:50 PM Looks good, Mike, but if that's kudzu, you don't have enough of it. George Tyson Rayles Posted - 10/14/2020 : 3:26:28 PM There wasn't much roof to work with but I managed to get some detail on it. In real life the signs were attached to not painted on the wall so that was the look I was going for. Next is to "plant" it on the layout. Tyson Rayles Posted - 10/10/2020 : 5:44:18 PM Thanks guys! Railroad Line Forums © 2000-2020 Railroad Line Co. Steam was generated in 0.67 seconds. Powered By: Snitz Forums 2000


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Tina Fey makes funny TV shows, funny movies and funny books.
Tina Fey makes funny TV shows, funny movies and funny books.
Director Paul Weitz often goes for something beyond funny — emotional stories of parents and children trying to puzzle out something beyond flesh and blood that bonds them.
She did "30 Rock" and "Date Night." He did "About a Boy" and "Being Flynn."
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There's something else John wants to get across, in between awkward moments of violating Princeton policy and instances where Portia is sure he's making a pass.
"Jeremiah — I think he's your son."
Much of the film is about miscommunication, things that stop just short of being said — Portia accepting this shocking news, or denying it; John and Portia trying to not tell the kid. She keeps seeing little things the teen does that are like her, and starts looking for shortcuts so that he can get into college.
Fey has made romantically-put-upon her stock in trade, and as Portia's life unravels, there are plenty of moments that remind us of Fey's lonely "30 Rock" loser, Liz Lemon. Portia is set up to be in open revolt against a "hippie" school like Quest thanks to her brittle, feminist lioness of a mother (Lily Tomlin). But she's an egalitarian acting as guardian of the gates of American exclusivity — a college where fewer than one in 26 candidates is "Princeton material."
Fey plays this inner-outer conflict well. But at her most wide-eyed and vulnerable, she still has trouble making a romance credible, even with Rudd, edgy comedy's puppy dog of a leading man.
And Weitz can't winnow the story down to a simple personal journey with romantic overtones. "Admission" breaks down the college admissions process, makes blunt statements about the upper class' "legacy," and the cards students and their hovering parents will play to score Ivy League acceptance.
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If you've been around the African music blogosphere for a while you've probably chanced across an incredible site entitled Voodoo Funk. Here an intrepid German named Frank, or "DJ Soulpusher" (right), recounts his adventures digging up old vinyl recordings across West Africa, with a special emphasis on Benin, which, for a small country, has produced an inordinate amount of wild, funky and just plain out there music. The really great thing is, every month or so Frank posts a mix of his latest discoveries. Sure, they're usually scratchy as all get-out, but that only adds to the overall ambiance. Close your eyes and you can imagine yourself sitting in a dusty, stifling record shack in Cotonou, drinking an ice-cold (or not-so-cold) Star or Gulder or whatever they drink in Benin, just rockin' out.
Now Frank's back from another expedition, and he's promising us not one but three new collections of his discoveries. Moreover, he's gone back and reworked some of his earlier postings, adding more material and more "local color." Here's a passage that particularly impressed me:
"....One day, I decided to visit Bohicon, a town about 70 miles to the North of Cotonou. My guide Didier and I travelled in a bush taxi and upon arrival chartered two motorcycle taxis with local drivers who said they'd know some places where we would find records. The first spot was at a store that sold cassette tapes, records as well as radios and all other sorts of electronic equipment. The records were in two large wooden boxes that also contained swarms of large cockroaches and silverfish. Most paper sleeves had been eaten away partially by insects. The closer we got to the bottom, the lesser intact the sleeves and the thicker the bug droppings inbetween records. The air was thick with dust and and a dark layer of dirt and bug excrement started to cake onto my hands and lower arms. When I was finally through with everything, we jumped on our bikes and zoomed across a labyrinth network of dirt roads finally reaching a big one story building with clay walls.
"The owner of the records store who had accompanied us on a third bike introduced us to a very old man who had some white medicine smeared all over his body and was only covered around the waist with a piece of cloth. The record store owner went into the next room and returned, one after the other, with three very large wicker baskets that were stuffed with stacks of LPs and 45s. At one point, thankfully long before our visit, the baskets had also given a home to some sort of hornet who had chewed away almost all cover sleeves right up to the records, leaving round layer cakes of vinyl, paper and cardboard. I found a few records where even small amounts of vinyl had been gnawed off by those eager little critters. Things got really rough when I hit the bottom of the last basket that contained mostly 45s: The hornets had built chambers and tunnels inbetween the records, using a red, claylike substance that I guessed consisted of chewed up record sleeves, earth and hornet spittle. To make things even more bizarre, large pieces of insect shells were baked into the thick, red crust. Otherwise, the records that I could see the surface of seemed unplayed and the fact that most of them were present in multiple copies supported the idea that this was dead stock. I decided to also buy the claycaked ones, including the embedded insect parts. . ."
'Til Frank gets those new mixes posted, here's a little something to get us all in the mood: Poly-Rythmo de Cotounou, from their LP Zero+Zero = Zero (Star Musique SMP 6019):
Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou - Adin Gbanzon
Update: There is another very interesting anecdote about Benin, and some ultra-rare, unreleased tracks by Poly-Rythmo de Cotouou here.
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