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Recap: Joliet scored seven times in the second inning and finished with season-highs for runs and hits (17) in a victory over host Schaumburg on Friday night. Grant DeBruin doubled twice in the second and extended his hitting streak to 14 games. Blair Walters gave up three runs on six hits to earn the win. The Slammers also made several roster moves Friday: Marquis Riley was traded to Southern Illinois for pitchers Matt Crim and David Kubiak, pitcher Travis Reboulet was released and Jake Gronsky was signed (he had two hits and two RBI in his pro debut).
Slammers record: 19-29.
Up next: Slammers at Schaumburg (2), 5 p.m. Saturday, WJOL-AM (1340), wjol.com.
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- Colin Burke
- February 28, 2013 - 15:50
Wondering, it can be misleading to agree that the rich "often buy justice." What they buy, I believe, are injustices in their favour, especially when justice itself is denied the poor, or denied even those who are less rich.I strongly suspect justice has seemed to many not to be real, largely because Calvinism led much of the West to feel for a long time that it did not matter: John Calvin's doctrine was that nothing we might do could ever affect our eternal destiny; we are all equally depraved and damnable but God chooses some for salvation directly despite that, just because he can. (If no one can do justice, then apparently there isn't any.) And God spiritually informs those who are chosen that indeed they are chosen and so need not worry. Does it sound to you as if Mr. Morrison might possibly be a little bit partial to Calvinism? I wouldn't know, of course. Now, about justice being real or not. I do seem to see -- though I may incur more irenic irrelevant ridicule from Mr. Ed for repeating it yet again -- that "people deserve the effects of what they do." (It might not need such repetition if our courts or lawmakers mentioned it officially once every ten years or so.) That is not an opinion; that is to say, "not even an opinon"; opinions are supported by at least slight evidence, and there is none for this; it is simply a perception, whether true or illusory. If anyone wants me to disabuse me of it, let him establish by rational argument that it is false or point to some actual truth in the light of which I can simply perceive myself to have been deluded. As things are, I am "morally certain" my perception in this case is valid: that is, it would warrant acting upon what one seems thus to see, if one should choose so to act. Thank you for prompting me to this much clarity; I'm afraid I found Mr. Power's confusion somewhat contagious.
- Wondering
- February 26, 2013 - 23:39
Colin, justice is not real. Justice is a human concept. It is subject to opinion. Justice is human justice. What you call justice , another will say is injustice. And justice is relative. Justice follows laws, and laws are varied and manipulated, they are not absolute, and some get preferencial treatment, which makes justice injustice. Justice is often bought by the rich and so denied to the poor. You cannot apply reason to say justice is real. Did Jesus get justice? Did the chief Rabi plan justice for Jesus? Will Herb get justice if Saint Peter says his faith or good works is insufficient? Now that is devine justice, it may be real , but we cannot prove it to be real. If we cannot prove it to be real, we cannot truthfully say divine justice is real. One may state an opinion that it is. One may have faith that it is. But that is not proof.
- Wondering
- February 26, 2013 - 23:08
Herb, I agree you cannot buy your way into heaven, but it is hard for a rich man to get to heaven, did not Jesus teach that? So good works are essential, once you have the faith. Agreed? Yet many do good works without the faith. Does not "the faith" require one to follow "all" the teachings of Christ? Does not even the Pope possibly fall short, as did he do enough to protect victims of sexual assault by priests? And if the Pope is subject to judgement , yet you feel you will not be judged, as your faith is strong and sufficient. By this reasoning, do you not judge yourself?
- Colin Burke
- February 26, 2013 - 15:13
Mr. Morrison, my superior command of the English language enables me to recognize that an opinion is indeed an opinion and that it is in most cases the opinion of the person who stated it -- unless that person is a politician -- without requiring him to tell me those highly relevant facts every single time. For instance, I am inclined to believe I have ascertained your opinion of myself without really needing you to state explicitly that it is indeed your opinion, whether or not it is "only yours" or "only an opinion" of quite a considerable number of irascible persons -- an over-inflated ego keeps me from much caring which..
- Herb Morrison
- February 26, 2013 - 12:51
Mr. Burke.Try this on for size. The use of contraceptives is wrong.(Which you once stated in an earlier post) VS In your opinion the use of contraception is wrong. (Pity that, as your earlier post indicates, you can't see the difference. I suggest you consider practicing what you preach before beginning to pontificate to others concerning what you believe to be the "error of their ways." Furthermore, when it comes to matters of morality,utilizing your extensive volcabulary in a futile attempt to refute a valid argument, while it may leave you glowing with feelings of self-satisfaction, feeling quite pleased with yourself, such behaviour really doesn't impress people like myself who are in a position to know better.
- Colin Burke
- February 26, 2013 - 07:29
Wondering, "circular reasoning" means assuming to begin with that what you are attempting to prove, is already true, or arguing from two premises which are essentially the same one. If you think the assumptions that "justice is real" and "justice deserves to be real" (there ought to be a standard called justice) are essentially the same proposition, then I ask you to consider whether assumptions parallel to these are the same assumption. For instance, "Poor old bloody Burke exists, unfortunately" and "Unfortunately, poor old bloody Burke deserves to exist (God save the mark!)" Or how about, "Bloody Burke is intolerant" and "Bloody Burke ought to be intolerant"? You see the distinction now, I hope? You were confused, I think, by the fact that the two perceptions of justice from which I had argued are equally self-evident and also closely related in any sound moral insight.
- Herb Morrison
- February 25, 2013 - 20:24
Wondering. What I said was that it is by God's grace, because of my faith in God and in Christ as Saviour and Lord, that my Spiritual life is assured, following my physical death. I did not cllaim that my spirit is superior to anyone elses. eternal spiritual salvation is granted by God to anyone who believes in God and as Christ as Saviour. My spirit is not superior to anyone elses. Furthermore, I, as a Christian am commissioned to do good works to the glory of God. However, my doing good deeds will not buy me my way into Heaven. You obviously misunderstood what I said in my post.
- Wondering
- February 25, 2013 - 18:07
Herb, last week you stated that your faith alone gives you certainity of spiritual superiority, you see little if any need for good works to be a good Christain. But now you say no one's conduct is above reproach. I assume this applies to you, and ask whether, at the end of life , your conduct is not subject to judgement, including an evaluation of your good works? And Colin, last week, a posting by another, effectively showed you make straw arguments and use circular reasoning to try to impress readers of your high intellect. You are too clever by half. You would have failed if your were a student of Aristotle. You can fool some of the people some of the time..... but those you fool have little ability to reason for themselves, and are impressed with your manipulation of poor arguments as sound reason. Is this not so?
- Sick to death of religious zealots.
- February 25, 2013 - 15:29
Mr. Burke's views remind me of some of the views of the Taliban, the Islamic Fundamentalist Group. How frightening!
- Ed Power
- February 25, 2013 - 11:42
I see, Mr. Burke, that you offer another well-reasoned rebuttal of my points, and provide practical solutions of your own to the problems facing the world today. Bravo, sir. I will counter with "Modern economic efficiency means that the business of the village theist and the business of the village idiot are often conducted equally well by the same village priest". Now, exactly how many lambs should we burn on our altars to achieve these goals....?
- Doug Smith
- February 25, 2013 - 09:38
Ms. Webster, excellent comments. Your statements regarding the Catholic Church were right on. I just happened to notice that the hypocritical behaviour of the church continues. I see that top British Cardinal Keith OŌĆÖBrien has just resigned because of sexual misconduct. That Roger Cardinal Mahoney of Los Angeles will be helping to pick a new pope even though it has been revealed he plotted to conceal child molestation by priests. That the top U S Catholic, Cardinal Dolan of New York is being questioned about hiding $100 million so that the church would not have to pay victims of child sexual abuse by priests when he was archbishop of Milwaukee. That a Vatican report by 3 cardinals detailing sexual misconduct and stealing within the Vatican will be dealt with by the new pope. Now how is that for setting a good example of moral behaviour? Doug Smith, GFW
- Speaking of hypocrisy
- February 25, 2013 - 07:21
If, as Ms Webster states, ''We live in the modern era where people are capable of deciding best family planning for themselves'' then why do we need a Deputy Minister (or a premier) developing a strategy for us?
- Colin Burke
- February 24, 2013 - 19:37
Ah yes, the benefits of modern life and innovative social agencies: "Modern economic efficiency means that the business of the village atheist and the business of the village idiot are often conducted equally well by the same dedicated public servant."
- Ed Power
- February 24, 2013 - 10:37
You do have a point Mr. Morrison. It would indeed be helpful if the people making such moral pronouncements (Mr. Alcock and friends) provided some useful advice, or offered practical solutions from the reality-based world, not something from the world of religious mythology. Solutions like education, poverty reduction, jobs, adequate health care and family planning services. The drop in the birthrate in the Western world over the past six or seven decades did not come because people turned away from God, fell into sin or because we are living in the End Times. It is the result of a number of social and economic factors. The revolution in agriculture means that we can produce greater amounts of food with much less labour. Families don't need 7 children (my grandfather) or 11 children (my wife's grandfather) to run a farm. Medical discoveries and expanded health care mean that families - read women - don't have to birth 8 (my aunt), 10 (my aunt),12 (a neighbour's mother) or 16 (another neighbour's mother) children to ensure that 4 or 5 of them will survive the influenza, polio, smallpox, whooping cough, measles, mumps, rubella, TB and other diseases that killed many children before the age of 5. Large scale warfare has also been been absent from recent decades, so women aren't being coerced into producing cannon fodder for the next war. The employment of women in industry during WWII showed them that there was more to life than dinners and diapers. Expanded educational services in the post-war years provided more employment opportunities for women. No longer relegated to clerical jobs and selling ladies undies, women could use the brains that evolution has given them. Women now make up more than 50% of the students in science, engineering and legal programs at many universities. Take a stroll through the MUN campus and you will see this for yourself. This is a relatively recent development. I will close with a personal anecdote. Back in the Dark Ages of my childhood in the early 1960s, Grade 2 or 3, perhaps, a delegation of educators from the RC School Board came to my school for Vocation Day. At the close of their presentation to my class, they asked each student what they wanted to be when they grew up. The boys were all going to be mechanics, doctors, lawyers, engineers, carpenters, police officers and "army men". The girls? Nurses, teachers, nuns (which set our Sister beaming in joy) and housewives. Not an engineer, lawyer, doctor or scientist amongst them. What do you think the answer to that question would be in any Grade 2 or 3 class today, do you think? There is a demographic crisis coming, as Mr. Mr. Alcock posits, , but the answer is not for the West to turn the clock back to the Dark Ages. A solution is required that will give women in the developing world social equality, the freedom to choose the number of children they want to have and the creation of a fair, equitable and sustainable economic system for this planet so that we survive into the next century. You won't find that in a 4000 year-old book of religious mythology.
- Colin Burke
- February 23, 2013 - 16:47
Ms. Webster, I'd like to refer you to a comment of mine, on this website, under the column by Brian Jones which is headlined "Apologizing popes." In that comment, I warn of a more recent danger, perhaps greater even than is posed by the Catholic clergy, that innocent young lives may be ruined by perversion. It is a longish posting and I am lazy, so I would prefer not to copy it back in longhand and type it again here with suitable alteration, but I think you may find it relevant to a genuine concern for the innocence of children.
- Herb Morrison
- February 23, 2013 - 13:53
Ms. Webster. I too stand in opposition to what Mr. Alcock said in his recent submission,. However, if, as you suggest in your post, that anyone who comments on matters of morality must be always be morally upright in all respects before thay can comment on matters pertaining to morality, in other words must be Divine not human, than that would mean that no mere mortal could pass an opinion on the state of the moral fiber of either themselves or anybody else. Not, I suggest, a very practical or realistic approach, given that no mortal's conduct, in my opinion, is always above reproach.
- carogers
- February 23, 2013 - 08:27
Ms. Webster, I tip my hat to you.

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It's nice to be recognized, publicly, as a public reader. That's what happened Monday, December 12 2011 in this Guardian article on why "Book swaps at London tube and train stations are 'a good idea'". I wouldn't even have noticed the article if Nicola of Nicola's Book Club hadn't pointed it out to me. Thank goodness she did, because otherwise not only would I have missed this picture of me in the Guardian - I would've missed the most incredible thing about it. I'm not wearing any pants. Yup. I'm totally trouserless and completely sans pants. A fact that's not touched upon in the article, and barely noticeable in the photo. So, while trying to figure out why I'd had my photo taken on the tube - and why I hadn't noticed - I noticed that there was a glimmer of thigh in the photo. Then it all made sense. The photo was from The London No Pants Subway Ride 2010. A yearly event organised by Improv Everywhere. And someone at the Guardian Books page was looking through an image bank trying to find a suitable photo to accompany the piece. And they did. I only wish they'd also encouraged people to enjoy the gloriously silly and fulfilling feeling of riding the rails in their underpants. And reading. This year's No Pants ride will be the 11th annual. If you're keen to get involved go the FB event page.
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Yet again, a Good Samaritan with a gun stops the commission of a crime by a bad guy with a weapon. Florida gun owner Edwin Sullivan, taking advantage of rights recognized under a new law enacted in that state, witnessed an attempt by a knife-wielding thug to commit a violent crime, and fired a warning shot to stop the crime. The attacker froze and this saved the life of the would-be victim, and stopped a violent crime from happening. Once again, a citizen with a gun stops a crime.
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Friday, December 10, 1999
The British government has awarded a Marshall Scholarship to Melissa Ann Cox, a May 1999 University of Tulsa graduate whose career goal is to combat poverty and social inequity through litigation and policy-making, eventually serving in an elected office.
Cox, who spearheaded a housing renovation project in the university's own backyard while pursuing a double major in political science and economics, is the second TU student since 1997 to receive this prestigious scholarship. This award brings the total number of Marshall Scholarships from Oklahoma universities to three in the last 29 years.
Long regarded as one of the highest undergraduate accolades, the Marshall Scholarship is awarded each year to 40 American students of intellectual distinction who demonstrate the potential to become leaders in their fields. The scholarship covers two to three years of study in any discipline at any British university. The British Embassy in Washington, D.C., announced this year's recipients on Thursday, Dec. 9.
TU President Bob Lawless said Cox's selection as a Marshall scholar "is foremost a credit to Melissa, and also a testament to TU's commitment to providing students with opportunities for leadership experiences and community involvement. Her record of scholarship and service is inspiring. This award will further ensure that Melissa Cox will do uncommon good for the world."
"I am honored to receive this scholarship and very grateful to those who have encouraged me along this path," said Cox, 22, a native of Artesia, N.M. "I have many people to thank, including TU professors Jeffrey Hockett, Sujeet Shenoi and Steve Steib, attorney Jane Douglas with the Neighborhood Legal Assistance Program in Charleston, S.C., and all of those who recommended me."
Cox, who graduated magna cum laude, plans to study for a bachelor of science in social policy and government at the London School of Economics. This top-ranked program will enable her to examine the framing and implementation of policy in social provisions such as health care, education and housing before she attends law school.
"This will be crucial in helping me with my career goals," she said. "In order to become an advocate for underprivileged people, I will need the skills to critically analyze social policy."
As an AmeriCorps volunteer, Cox now works for the Washington, D.C.-based National Community Reinvestment Coalition, whose mission is to increase access to credit, capital and banking services in low-income communities. She is coordinating a nationwide loan program developed by NCRC and the U.S. Small Business Administration that fosters entrepreneurship in low- and moderate-income communities. She is also drafting a financial literacy manual on small-business economic development.
Last summer, Cox interned at the Neighborhood Legal Assistance Program clinic in Charleston, doing legal research for consumer and housing cases, and conducting intake interviews. Earlier, she interned at the U.S. Probation Office in Tulsa where she investigated criminal histories and helped draft sentencing recommendations.
At TU, her leadership positions included Student Association senate and cabinet, Government Operations chair, Mortar Board president, Rowing Team varsity member, Tri Delta sorority vice president and Provost Search Committee participant. In turn, she received numerous honors, including induction into Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa, the Medicine Wheel Award for Leadership and Community Service; the TU Alumni Association's designation of Top Ten Senior and the political science department's Outstanding Senior award.
"Missy is fearless in meeting academic challenges and in seeking opportunities to put her skills to work in the service of others. It is this rare combination of intelligence and fortitude that make her an excellent choice for a Marshall Scholarship," said political science professor Jeffrey Hockett.
Cox participated in TU's Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge (TURC) program, which enables undergraduates and high school students to take advanced courses and conduct research with the guidance of top TU professors. She analyzed banking regulations, welfare initiatives and demographic and economic data, and proposed ways of increasing affordable financial services to low-income communities.
TU's previous Marshall Scholar is Ann Vernon, a 1998 graduate who was also a TURC student. She is now studying at Cambridge University in England. Vernon and Cox were college roommates at TU.
The scholarship is worth approximately $25,000 per year, covering tuition, housing and related costs. The Marshall scholarships were established in 1953 as a British gesture of thanks to the people of the United States for the assistance received after the World War II under the Marshall Plan.
Past Marshall scholars include Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer, Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt, inventor Ray M. Dolby and author Daniel H. Yergin.


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Encrypted Text: Macro guide for rogues {WoW}
Sep 30th 2009 3:46PM For fast ToT switching mid-combat, I actually use 2 macros. The first is a mouseover blind macro that I use to quickly set my focus target. It obviously doesn't cast the blind on a friendly target :)
#showtooltip Blind
/focus [target=mouseover]
/stopmacro [target=mouseover,noharm][target=mouseover,dead]
/cast [target=mouseover] Blind
/p %f has been blinded. DO NOT TOUCH!
The 2nd macro is the actual tricks macro:
#showtooltip Tricks of the Trade
/cast [target=focus]Tricks of the Trade
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/p *** Tricks of the Trade ***
On another note, I'd like to recommend the mod TrickorTreat for all rogues interested in using Tricks regularly (which should be all of us!)
It sends whispers back and forth without having to build it into your macro, and it will also tell you how much extra damage you did based off the 15% buff. Very useful for knowing how well you're timing the ToT synergy with cooldowns and energy pooling.
Addon Spotlight: Essential addons for raid leaders {WoW}
Jun 12th 2009 4:25PM I'll 2nd this one. I run pally power on my warrior, just so I can see who's assigned to what buffs and specifically call them out if we're missing a buff.
No more begging and pleading for "the pally assigned to might" to buff, please.
Addon Spotlight: Essential addons for raid leaders {WoW}
Jun 12th 2009 4:23PM As Rookwood mentioned above, Lucky Charms is a great addition to help with quickly marking, to the point where I can mark mid-combat (while tanking) if something goes South.
I'd also like to point out XRS (or X Raid Status). It's a highly configurable mod that can be customized to show bars for jsut about anything. For mine, I have 3 bars setup. 1) Average HP% of melee classes (averages rogue, warrior, dk, paladin). 2) Average MP% of healing classes (pally, shaman, druid, and priest) 3) Number of Dead people in the raid. This allows me to quickly glance and get a total count of dead, w/o having to count in my raid frames
I know there are some classes that CAN melee, but weren't in my list. I left hem off because I don't normally run with enhancement shaman or feral druids. XRS can't separate by spec, unfortunately, so it would skew the bars to include those classes. All of this is fully configurable.
Breakfast Topic: What's your favorite raid boss? {WoW}
Jun 12th 2009 8:34AM I'd have to go with Nef. The class calls were just too awesome. :)
Though Aran and Kael'thas come a close 2nd and 3rd.
Main Tanking Kael took a level of skill and cooldown management rarely seen in game before or since. If you didn't time all your CD's just right, you were dead. The end.
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The history of the Vietnam War teaches that to preserve American strength and prestige, we must begin withdrawing from Iraq now.
This past August, President George W. Bush stood at a lectern in a VFW hall in Kansas City, Missouri, and launched an attack on critics calling for an early withdrawal from Iraq. Invoking "the legacy of Vietnam," he rued the prospect that Congress would "pull the rug out from under" American soldiers "just as they are gaining momentum and changing the dynamic on the ground in Iraq." And even though many expert commentators, including Boston University professor and Vietnam veteran Andrew Bacevich, have roundly discredited it, the Vietnam analogy is not likely to fade away. Voicing the Bush Administration's stance last month in the Washington Post, former Assistant Secretary of Defense Peter Rodman asserted as the "widely accepted narrative of the endgame in Vietnam" that "there was a much-improved balance of forces in Vietnam, reflected in the 1973 Paris agreement, and that Congress subsequently pulled the props out from under that balance of forces–dooming Indochina to a bloodbath." Rudolph Giuliani, the frontrunner for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, draws the same comparison in a recent issue of Foreign Affairs. "The consequences" of withdrawal, he writes, "were dire, and not only in Vietnam: numerous deaths in places such as the killing fields of Cambodia, a newly energized and expansionist Soviet Union, and a weaker America. The consequences of abandoning Iraq would be worse."
Recalling the jingoistic post-Vietnam T-shirt blurb, "Good Soldiers Betrayed By Gutless Politicians," this view holds that the Vietnam War was lost at home and could have been won on the ground, and that such a victory would have ineluctably rendered the United States better able to meet the broader challenges of the Cold War. The ensuing lesson for the present day is that proceeding to military victory in the Iraq War will enable the United States to flatten the transnational Islamist terrorist threat, and that now is no time to cut and run. But the truth is that the bitter stab-in-the-back Vietnam narrative that fuels the Bush Administration's argument is grossly and demonstrably inaccurate. The decline of American prestige and leverage, and the destabilization of Southeast Asia occasioned by Vietnam, resulted not from withdrawing too soon but, rather, from withdrawing too late. If we are serious about salvaging our strategic position in the Middle East, then we need to be clear-eyed about what history teaches us about interventions gone wrong–especially the war in Vietnam.
The Analogy Game
The Vietnam comparison represents the culmination of a series of tendentious analogies waged by senior American officials to justify the continuing military presence in Iraq. General David Petraeus, commander of American forces in Iraq, repeatedly bruits about the British counterinsurgency effort in Northern Ireland as a successful model for the American enterprise in Iraq. But that model is easily invalidated: British troops in Northern Ireland peaked at 30,000, against active Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers numbering perhaps 500 (which yields a soldier-to-insurgent ratio of 60 to one); coalition forces in Iraq now stand at roughly 170,000, facing over 30,000 Sunni insurgents alone, for a ratio of less than five to one. And whereas Protestant "loyalist" terrorism in Northern Ireland was almost exclusively pro-British, broadly pro-state Iraqi Shia militias have targeted American troops as well as their Sunni enemies. Because the Northern Irish conflict was small and containable, claiming on average fewer than 40 British troops a year–P.J. O'Rourke once dubbed Northern Ireland "heck's half-acre"–it was relatively easy to manage politically over the course of 25 years. Obviously, Iraq is not.
Undaunted by subtlety, the U.S. command in Iraq has glommed onto other models, like the 1950s British suppression of the Chinese communist insurgency in Malaya and the defeat of the bloody Salvadoran insurgency in the 1980s. These too are readily distinguishable. In Malaya, the British did an artful job of managing political and economic incentives, but they faced only an ideological minority of an ethnic minority, most of whom did not actively oppose the British and the ethnic Malay majority; the British likewise enjoyed an overwhelmingly superior force ratio. In El Salvador, there was a viable central government steeped in Western political traditions to defend, a relatively small number of insurgents, no sectarian dimension, and an operational requirement of less than 100 American military advisers. This made a "market solution" involving heavy economic aid and incentives singularly appropriate. Furthermore, in Northern Ireland, Malaya, and El Salvador, those whom we generally regard as the good guys won. The British government and the pro-British Northern Irish majority tamed the IRA sufficiently to open it to a political deal; UK-backed Malays prevailed over Chinese communist insurgents; and a pro-Western government remained in place in El Salvador at the expense of Soviet-supported rebels. The fact that these stories ended so well may explain the appeal of these purported Iraq precedents.
The Vietnam War has a different and more insidious relationship to the American psyche, one all the more seductive and resonant today because it does in fact bear objective similarities to the Iraq War. Both were major, large-scale American engagements against unexpectedly tough adversaries. Over time, both were met by dwindling public support. But there are also obvious differences. The Vietnam War evolved from a guerrilla insurgency into a major conventional conflict, while the Iraq War has taken just the opposite course. And Vietnam's crowning characteristic is that the good guys lost. Indeed, the Vietnam War is often cast as the first American defeat. As such, it cries out for redemption of a cause betrayed. It is this last, highly emotive and nationalistic impulse, rather than the war's pedagogical utility, that the Bush Administration seeks most acutely to exploit in implicitly vowing "never again."
A fortuitous cakewalk in the first Gulf War and an unexpectedly precipitous victory in the Cold War shortly thereafter gave us the luxury of shaking off a national leeriness of military intervention–the "Vietnam syndrome"–without coming to terms with how the war was lost or understanding its strategic consequences. Contrary to the stab-in-the-back narrative, the diminution in American prestige and leverage occasioned by the loss of the Vietnam War were temporary and more than offset by its unburdening effects, and the wider regional violence that followed that loss–in particular, the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia–primarily resulted not from not the U.S. military's withdrawal but from its pre-withdrawal escalation. But the Bush Administration has willfully ignored these realities and used Vietnam to amp up fears of American disempowerment. This misreading (or non-reading) of history not only re-opens old divides between hawks and doves, but portends disastrous policy choices.
The Real Vietnam
Before considering the actual defeat in Southeast Asia, it is important to consider what would have constituted a victory. Outright success would have seen the United States withdrawing from a durable, democratic South Vietnam governed by a friendly elite respected by its people, overseeing institutions capable of defending the country against both external attacks and internal insurgents. As Lyndon Johnson stated unambiguously in 1965, "Our objective is the independence of South Vietnam and its freedom from attack." In late 1966, however, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara felt compelled to take grim stock of American efforts up to that point: "This important war must be fought and won by the Vietnamese themselves. But the discouraging truth is that, as was the case in 1961 and 1963 and 1965, we have not found the catalyst for training and inspiring them into effective action."
As the war proceeded, it became even clearer that there were no plausible circumstances under which the United States might have won the Vietnam War on Johnson's original terms. In taking up a stiff counterinsurgency challenge in Vietnam, the United States made itself hostage to the effectiveness and commitment of the South Vietnamese government. Furthermore, it became obvious that in Vietnam–as in virtually all counterinsurgency situations–an agreement changing the political conditions that spawned the insurgency was indispensable to a sustainable peace on terms acceptable to Washington and Saigon. Unless that happened, military gains, no matter how audacious, could not be sustained. Yet throughout the U.S. involvement, the South Vietnamese government remained decadent, stagnant, and incorrigible. As historian George Herring has noted, "The United States found to its chagrin that as its commitment increased, its leverage diminished." While there were undeniable counterinsurgency successes in the early 1970s, Saigon was not up to consolidating them by winning the confidence of its citizenry.
Meanwhile, the United States lost public support for the war–not because the American people were pampered, spineless, and lacked tolerance for casualties, but because they were convinced that the American leaders had conducted the war so incompetently and dishonestly for so long that victory could no longer be retrieved. If this sounds familiar, it should: Americans today have essentially the same attitude toward the Iraq War.
The unwinnability of the Vietnam War is not an assessment gleaned from hindsight; it was readily apparent by late 1967. Although Johnson's informal council of "wise men" were whipsawed by the need to cut America's losses and the impulse to decisively impose its will, McNamara was resolutely pessimistic about American prospects. In a November 1 memorandum to Johnson, he wrote prophetically: "As the months go by, there will be both increasing pressure for widening the war and continued loss of support for American participation in the struggle. There will be increasing calls for American withdrawal…There is, in my opinion, a very real question whether under these circumstances it will be possible to maintain our efforts in South Vietnam for the time necessary to complete our objectives there."
The United States government, however, morbidly delayed its exit from Vietnam on the pretext of a fruitless "Vietnamization" process begun under the first Nixon Administration. The period was marked by a fatally incoherent combination of factors: the slow and indecisive withdrawal of American troops, an unmotivated South Vietnamese military (despite an accelerated U.S.-sponsored buildup), and the aggravation of local and regional populations by the increasingly brutal application of U.S. military power. Rather than seriously attempting to induce the South Vietnamese to develop institutions sufficient to sustain the state, the United States kept pressing for a military solution, expanding the war to Cambodia and stepping up the air campaign against the North. Despite effective rural development programs that diminished the insurgency, in 1972 the United States was basically left with what it had at the start: a decadent government in Saigon. In fact, things were worse. Ten years on, the problem was compounded by instability fomented by the war. In particular, the U.S. invasion of Cambodia had hardened the communist Khmer Rouge's resistance against pro-U.S. Cambodian leader Lon Nol and lent momentum to Pol Pot's genocidal designs.
Having spent its domestic political capital on Cambodia, the Nixon Administration had little choice in 1972 but to eke out the Paris Peace Accords, under which North Vietnam would observe a cease-fire following a U.S. military withdrawal. But by then Nixon, devoid of popular American support for further engagement in Vietnam, had to negotiate with Hanoi from weakness. The Paris accords required a wholesale American pullout, but they did not require the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) to withdraw from South Vietnam. Its patience exhausted, Congress would not authorize funds to equip the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) with the hardware it would have needed to repel a major NVA offensive. The U.S. military guarantee to South Vietnam came to little more than Nixon's secret 1972 pledge to President Nguyen Van Thieu that the United States would retaliate militarily if North Vietnam violated the cease-fire–a pledge rendered empty by the 1973 congressional ban on all U.S. military activity in Southeast Asia and its meager 1974 appropriation ($700 million) for South Vietnam. By the end of 1973, Watergate had so damaged Nixon's standing with Congress that he was powerless to revive any congressional support for U.S. activities in Vietnam. When the decisive offensive came in 1975, the Ford Administration could muster only toothless diplomatic protests. North Vietnamese troops soon overran Saigon, and the South surrendered unconditionally to the North in April 1975 as American helicopters staged an unforgettably shambolic and tragic evacuation.
Even leaving aside historical differences between the conflicts, the Iraq-Vietnam analogy is largely a straw man. Most of those who oppose a continued major U.S. military presence in Iraq have not, thus far, proposed a 1975 vintage withdrawal that would leave the Iraqi government without recourse to U.S. diplomatic or military support to secure its position in the regional political environment or military assistance to prevent state implosion. Indeed, all serious proposals call for robust diplomacy to temper destabilizing external influences and a U.S. quick-reaction force deployed in the region to deter and contain any security crisis in Iraq. That could change, of course. As long as large numbers of U.S. troops remain deployed in Iraq, it is not at all difficult to foresee circumstances on the ground–say, a suicide attack on the order of the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut–that would push opposition to U.S. involvement past the tipping point for measured and prudent compromise. In that event, only wholesale withdrawal, with little consideration for residual help to Baghdad, might satisfy a majority of Americans and their elected representatives. If that happened, American power and influence in the region would dwindle precipitously.
When to Withdraw?
In other words, the question is not whether to withdraw or not, but rather when and how. And in that regard, Vietnam does in fact offer some important lessons for today. Leaving aside the question of whether the domino theory ever held water, it is arguable that the United States had little choice but to commit its troops and prestige to the South Vietnamese regime, lest it risk undermining the trust of collective security partners. At the same time, countering a nationalist communist movement like Ho Chi Minh's in North Vietnam was always going to be difficult, as Hanoi enjoyed the support of a dedicated population, an army to match, and the substantial resources of the Soviet Union and China. This triad of assets gave North Vietnam staying power that the United States could never muster. Given that these factors were increasingly understood by the last years of the Johnson Administration, when was the best time to withdraw?
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Time cockpit allows you to take notes during your daily work. Such a note often acts as a reminder for a certain action, task switch or event that is not automatically tracked but important for your time booking. Notes are typically created for the current point in time. This article shows how you can configure time cockpit to allow arbitrary timestamps in user notes.
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If you are using Team Foundation Server for your daily development and planning work time cockpit can provide you with some information from TFS via the signal trackers (e.g. checked in code). Using python scripting and the TFS client SDK you can also query the work items for your projects and store them as time cockpit tasks. This will allow you keep track of your working time based on TFS projects and work items.
Time cockpit allows you to assign time bookings to tasks and projects. If you are using JIRA for planning and bug tracking, this article shows you how to import issues from JIRA into time cockpit in order to use them for time booking. This can be achieved by using the REST API provided by JIRA and a small python script in time cockpit.
Time cockpit can assist you in keeping track of your phone calls. By using two simple and free apps you can set up automatic synchronization from your Android phone, to cloud storage, to your desktop and into time cockpit.
It is easy to create small scripts to automate tasks or extend time cockpit's functionality. When the requirements and scripts grow more complex step-debugging and a REPL are desirable features we do not (yet) provide within time cockpit. This post shows how these features can be set up using Visual Studio or other development environments.
Using just around 100 lines of code, basic customer master data can be imported from SharePoint to time cockpit. This can be achieved by using IronPython, the .net BCL and the SharePoint 2010 REST interface.
Third-party .net assemblies can be easily used from IronPython. If the external assembly relies on a companion .exe.config/app.config file, a config for ipy.exe or an IInternalConfigSystem-implementation is required.
With the release of time cockpit 1.7 we are happy to ship IronPython 2.7.1 as our scripting environment. This release significantly simplifies the use of LINQ by fixing an issue we identified and reported about ten months ago. It is now possible to import, transparently use and chain together calls to extension methods which LINQ heavily relies on.
Just a quick heads up: "Administrator" is not the best user name you could try to use for Windows Azure Remote Desktop connections.
Upon popular request I would like to explain the current possibilities and limitations of time cockpit in advanced multi-user scenarios like using Remote Desktop Services or sharing workstations (using user switching).
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Forgive me, I am a total beginner at this vb.net thing. I have a vba routine that I have used for years to execute a lisp routine on an open document, then switch to the next already open document, and continue until the routine has been performed on each already open documents. For the life of me, I cannot figure out how in vb.net to get a document collection and make each document the active document so that I can execute the lisp routine.
VBA code:
Option Explicit
Dim objAcadApp As AcadApplication 'Acad application object
Dim objAcadDocs As AcadDocuments 'Acad documents collection
Dim objAcadDoc As AcadDocument 'Acad document object
Dim i As Integer
Public Sub FixAllIds()
'Get Acad objects
Set objAcadApp = GetObject(, "autoCAD.application") 'get Acad object
Set objAcadDocs = objAcadApp.Documents 'get Acad Documents collection
'step through open drawings
For i = 0 To (objAcadDocs.Count - 1)
'for each drawing run c:fix-id15
Set objAcadDoc = objAcadDocs.Item(i)
'load the routine
objAcadDoc.SendCommand "lo" & vbCr & "fix-id15" & vbCr
'run the routine
objAcadDoc.SendCommand "fix-id15" & vbCr
Next i
End Sub
Thanks in advance for any advice or pointers!
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Solved! by Alexander.Rivilis. See the answer in context.
You also need to enable switching:
Application.DocumentManager.DocumentActivationEnabled = True
I watched the video, but as far as I can tell he only shows how to get the event flag showing that the user has switched the active document. He doesn't show the code for how to switch focus from one open drawing to another already open drawing.
My goal is to perform various actions on a subset of drawings, which will vary from project to project. All of the examples I have looked at show how to open, change, then close specific drawings by file name. I don't want to hard-code the file names into my .net project, I just want to perform an action on files already open, one-by-one.
If you execute the following code without the CommandsFlags.Session after it switches to another document the code will not continue until to you activate the document that the command was started in. So you have Drawing1-Drawing10 and Drawing1 is active. Without the Sessions flag Drawing2 will become active and your no longer in the "Document Context" of Drawing1. Once you switch back to Drawing1 then the code will continue executing and Drawing3 would become active, etc........
By specifying Sessions flag it will execute in "Application context" and only pause until the alert box is closed so to modify any of the documents you would have to explicitly lock them.
Sorry for not giving a more complete exampe but after I write about 10 lines of VB I start to throw up in my mouth.
<CommandMethod("MyCommand", CommandFlags.Session)> _ Public Sub MyCommand() ' This method can have any name Dim docMgr As DocumentCollection = Application.DocumentManager For Each doc As Document In docMgr Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument = doc Application.ShowAlertDialog(doc.Name) Next End Sub
Hi Alex do you think you could take a look at this thread?
It seems to be in the same vain as this thread but the same solution doesn't work....
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miserable. Got 3 inches of snow last night. end my misery, spring.
You know... I know you & you don't seem much of a liar to me, but I just can NOT believe it is snowing today (or last night!). :no: So... how close are you to Santa?:question:
We went from 60 degrees just the other day to 3-5 inches of snow for tonight. Gotta love the midwest!
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Oh believe her! Northern Michigan winters sometimes last until the end of May! My Parents still have a good 5 1/2 feet of snow outside their windows! :wow:
At least the sun has come out and it's up to a balmy 38 degrees!
Right now it's a bit windy, but it's still a nice warm 74 degrees outside. I'm so glad to be living in S. Florida. :grin:
However, it's less than 80 days till hurricane season!!!!!! aaargh!!!!!!! :wow:
We almost hit 70 degrees on Monday and today all we have is heavy winds and lots of snow, it usually takes me 10 mins to get to work in the morning, today it took me 45! you couldn't see the car in front of you!
It's cold, but sunny.
We are supposed to get rain and snow tonight ( I am praying for a snow day)
But it won't happen. We have not had a snow day yet this whole winter.
Dang to all the snow...I was running outside barefoot all weekend! It cooled off a little bit today, though.
Today was sunny and in the mid 50's, very nice!
cold and sunny!!
Cold and very very windy
Well its sunny not to hot here yet. Probably in the 70s. Lots of dust in the air.
well i just took a kid to the bus stop
and i wore flip flops
and i didn't think it was that cold
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I finally got this completed! Red had posted a pattern link earlier this year (thanks, Red) for a jar but after I made a couple blocks, I didn't care for the strip across the bottom, so I changed it to the top.
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Sharon, Your quilt is so neat! Wish I could see it up close. I like your jar. I think that is the pattern we sent blocks to Red for comfort quilts. I like the way you did it and will try to remember it that way if I do more. Actually, I've been collection different bugs for a while with this pattern in mind. Now just to do it. Too many ideas-too little time. Have a great day! Sally |
- Posted by geezerfolks (My Page) on Wed, Oct 24, 07 at 9:43
Thanks, Sally. Yes, I used the pattern from http://www.azpatch.com/bom/bom2003/03mar03/bom03mar.htm and just switched the bottom strip to the top. It ended up being 59" X 71" and I think this is the easiest jar block I've ever seen. I prefer not to paper/foundation piece so this was great! |
wow! thats realy beauitful! you did a awsome job, ive seen that pattern done with vegie print but never butterflies! reminds me when i was a kid catchin butterflies, |
- Posted by geezerfolks (My Page) on Wed, Oct 31, 07 at 21:48
Thanks, chrizty. I enjoyed making it. The gal I made it for really liked it! SharonG/FL |
i bet she did its beauitful! i have the pattern n was wanting to make my friend one with veggie patterns cause she loves canning, but i realy love the butterflys lol think ill make one for her n me, she can have the vegies n ill take butterflys hee hee |
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