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The hidden courtyards of AmsterdamGo on a walking tour of the city's 'hofjes' (pronounced hof-yus). These tranquil courtyards surrounded by pretty little houses, were the country's first social housing system, some dating as far back as early as the 14th century. They were built to provide shelter to poor, elderly ladies and were originally overseen by nuns, later by well-todo citizens and then by the local council. Of the 53 that were built originally, 47 still exist. Most are open to the public, but they can be hard to spot. On this tour you'll visit four hofjes in the attractive Jordaan district, once Amsterdam's poorest neighbourhood.
A stroll through the marketOn Saturday mornings, a visit to the Noordermarkt is a treat. The market is held on a picturesque square overlooked by the Noorderkerk, a church built in 1623. There's an excellent flea market with affordable prices. Adjacent is an organic market with a variety of sustainably produced products, including wild mushrooms, cheeses, artisan bread and other delicacies. Just around the corner you'll find the Lindengracht market with fresh food, clothes, shoes, flowers, nuts and much more. The area around the markets is a great place to take a break from your shopping in a nice café or restaurant.
Museum tipsIf you're planning to visit several of the main museums – the Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum or Stedelijk Museum (modern art) – it's best to buy a Museumkaart (museum card) from one of the museums or from the Uitburo on Leidseplein. To avoid the crowds, it's advisable to set off early. The Museumkaart gives you free access to 400 museums in the Netherlands for one year.
Cruise around the canals in your own boat Would you like to go on a boat trip and explore the Amsterdam canals by yourself? Rent a boat for an hour or two from Sloepdelen. The calming water, the charming canal houses – you'll get a completely different experience of Amsterdam as you sail through the canals. The boats all run on electricity, helping to reduce emissions (and noise) in the city. The company even invests in green projects to offset the CO2 emitted generating the electricity used to charge your boat's batteries. www.sloepdelen.nl
A day out to HaarlemThe historical city of Haarlem is just 15 minutes away by train and has much to offer. The pretty centre is full of good shops and some beautiful museums. The Frans Hals Museum has an extensive art collection from the Dutch Golden Age. A visit to Teylers Museum, the oldest museum in the Netherlands (1784), is like stepping back into the 18th century. Museum Het Dolhuys offers visitors an interactive experience of the history of psychiatry. www.haarlemmarketing.co.uk Antique heaven If you like antiques or art, the Spiegelkwartier is the place to go. This friendly area, just across the bridge opposite the Rijksmuseum, has been the heart of the national art and antiques trade for the past eighty years. Over seventy specialised dealers offer a wide variety of objects. www.spiegelkwartier.nl www.noordermarkt-amsterdam.nl/en/
Canal Museum: gateway to the historic centre One of the world's greatest urban projects – the 17th century Amsterdam canal district – is presented in six rooms of the Grachtenhuis (canal house) museum. Visit the multimedia, interactive exhibition and travel through 400 years of history in 40 minutes. The audio tour is available in eight languages. Open: Tuesdays-Sundays 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. www.hetgrachtenhuis.nl
In awe of Amsterdam's concert hall The Royal Concertgebouw is a spectacular concert hall, renowned the world over for its fabulous accoustics. Conductor and violinist Bernard Haitink described the Concertgebouw as the orchestra's finest instrument. The concert hall, begun in 1881, was a gift to the city funded by donations from its prominent residents. Seven years later, on swampy fields just outside the then city limits, arose this wonder of neoclassic architecture. The Concertgebouw is home to the equally celebrated and renowned Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. www.concertgebouw.nl
A horseriding school in the middle of town This special building near the Vondelpark, hidden behind a 19th-century townhouse, is easily missed. The Hollandsche Manege (the Dutch equestrian academy) was established in 1744. Mozart, then a ten-yearold child prodigy, performed a concert at the original location of the manege in 1766. The present neoclassical building, dating from 1882, was inspired by the famous Spanish Riding School (Spanische Hofreitschule) in Vienna. The nineteenth century atmosphere has been preserved in all its glory. From the beautiful foyer and balcony you can enjoy a cup of coffee or a light meal whilst observing the old stables and the horses and riders. You can also watch a short film about thehistory of the manege. Open: daily from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. www.dehollandschemanege.nl
9 Straatjes (the nine little streets) These picturesque streets straddle the 17th Century canals from the Singel to the Prinsengracht. Spend a fabulous day wandering from one to the next, exploring designer and vintage boutiques, art galleries, jewelers and the many bars, cafes and restaurants. www.de9straatjes.nl/uk
Cycle out of the city and into the countrysideThe pretty villages of Durgerdam, Holysloot and Ransdorp are just a thirty-minute cycle ride away from the city centre. Rent a bike at any of the bike rental shops close to Central Station and ask for a map of 'Waterland', northeast of the city. You can either join an organised cycle tour or go off and explore on your own. A good tip is to walk (don't ride!) your rental bike through to the rear (river side) of Central Station where you can catch a (free) ferry to 'Buiksloterweg'. Hop on your bike from there and soon you'll be cycling happily among cows, birds and polders.
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This article was first published in the September UK edition of Accounting and Business magazine.
It was with relief this summer that I turned from a boring book about austerity economics to A Review of the Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting, a discussion paper from the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB).
Although the early sections suffer from a legalistic level of detail, there are many points in the 238-page paper that will stir up overdue debate on key elements of financial statements.
An important one is that the 'mixed attribute' model – using measurements based on both market prices and cost – is here to stay. The 'preliminary view', put forward in section 6, is that the selection of measurement method for an asset 'should depend on how it contributes to future cashflows', and for a liability 'on how the entity will settle or fulfll that liability'. Amen to that.
But having let the flexible genie out of the bottle, the IASB tries to limit the options to current market price and historic cost. Despite all the rhetoric about investors needing information to help forecast cashflows, the standards-setter is nervous about the custom-designed nature of cashflow measures. Yet these are integral to a fundamental approach to valuation.
The dualist approach sets the scene for some radical proposals, notably on the income statement and where to draw the line between profit and loss (P&L) and other comprehensive income (OCI).
This goes some way to tackling the problems that arise from the muddle between income and expenses from operating activities and various other gains and losses, especially those arising from the remeasurement of asset and liability values.
Yet it is still a stretch to claim that the items in comprehensive income collectively depict the company's return on its economic resources. This rings hollow for knowledge-based companies, where important internally generated intangible assets are missing from measured 'resources'. More generally, the IASB continues to skirt round the information needed to analyse operating cashflows and profit margins.
More detail in the income statement would help, with different sections for different levels of 'profit'. This happens at present as an uneasy compromise between preparers and analysts, with an inevitable lack of discipline.
Instead, and in response to popular demand for attention to the P&L, the IASB is tackling some of the issues – but in a roundabout way. The P&L becomes the primary part of the income statement by default. So anything not permitted in OCI is P&L.
This turns the spotlight on what is permitted in OCI:
- bridging items, where the (cost-based) measure in the P&L is different from (fair value in) the balance sheet
- mismatched remeasurements of linked assets, liabilities
and/or transactions - transitory remeasurements, recognising the long-term nature of the asset or liability.
The last is an exciting new category that goes with the anti-short-term zeitgeist. Unlike the other two, it includes gains and losses that may never be 'recycled' to P&L after some relevant trigger such as realisation.
So, we are heading for an OCI that is better defined than the P&L. But I am uneasy about the use of this section to reconcile two different approaches to accounting: cost-based and current market price. Sometimes they are irreconcilable and the real question is the correct way to account for an item, such as own credit risk or hold-to-collect loans. Better to plump for one method and provide the other perspective in the notes.
This is just a taste of the issues to debate between now and January. Time to put on the thinking cap.
Jane Fuller is former financial editor of the Financial Times and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation think-tank

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So I stopped trying. I cultivated indifference. I sat back while they cooked real meals for me well into adulthood. Whatever meals I cooked for myself were not real meals — in fact, I don't know if you could say I "cooked" them. All throughout college and after college, I ate the kind of "instant meals" that American grocery stores are known for: macaroni and cheese, instant rice, ramen noodles, pasta sauce out of a jar. Maybe if I was getting fancy, I'd make a salad or scrambled eggs. Keep reading »


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Go Tell It on the Mountain
This week, as Kofi Annan sits in his hotel room at the U.N. tech summit in Geneva, he may wonder what the world's citizens are thinking. If he glances out the window, he might see the answer blazing across Lake Geneva's Jet d'Eau, the world's tallest water fountain.
The answer could be, "Mr. Secretary General, listen to your mountain!"
And then again, it might read, "Kofi, I want to beam us into funnier times." Annan could then decide to answer -- on the fountain.
Diplomats from 191 countries meet this week in Geneva for the three-day United Nations World Summit on the Information Society. It's the occasion for The Helloworld Project to project thousands of 500-foot-high laser-light SMS messages onto the Geneva fountain.
Internet users everywhere can post billboard thoughts almost instantly onto the fountain -- or onto the northern façade of New York's U.N. building, the face of a mountain in Rio de Janeiro or the front of a Bombay skyscraper.
"The idea is to use the media to allow people to get their message across to powerful people," said Swiss Web designer Johannes Gees, who conceived, coordinated and sought funding for the $250,000 Helloworld Project. The project is similar to a smaller version he implemented at the 2001 World Economic Forum.
Anyone can use a website form or send an SMS to create a message and project it across any or all of the four global landmarks with 10- to 20-watt semiconductor lasers. Of course, Internet access hasn't yet reached all corners of the world -- that's why the United Nations is having the meeting.
But to Gees, Helloworld takes free speech and democracy up a notch.
"We speak about public space and that it belongs to everybody, but the use of public space is actually set into regimentation," Gees said. "You can buy the space for advertising, but that takes money. Or you can do graffiti, but that's illegal.
"With this project's intervention into public space, I give people who don't have money the power to be present in a big, visible way."
Big and visible it is. The largest laser projection is going to be on Morro dois Irmaos, a mountain at the southern tip of Ipanema Beach that can be seen from Rio de Janeiro's main lagoon. The message surface is 1,650 feet by 200 feet. Each letter in Rio will be 200 feet tall and 200 feet wide, made visible by a four-lasers-in-one projector and viewable from up to 1.5 miles away.
If you don't happen to be in the vicinity of a designated mountain, fountain or skyscraper, you can visit the Helloworld Project website to see the messages broadcast by webcams. (The latest version of Shockwave is required to view a simulation.)
While the project may have a guerrilla feel, Gees worked with all the government entities before setting up the laser projectors. Because most of his funding came from the Swiss government's Federal Office of Culture, he requested permission from the owner of each landmark structure before shooting lasers at them.


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In a milestone event for the architectural design industry, RMJM, one of the world's largest architectural practices, and Hillier, one of the largest architectural design firms in the U.S., today announced plans to merge their firms, creating a combined entity with unprecedented depth of talent and global reach. The merged firm creates a 1,000 strong super-studio positioned to deliver holistic architectural solutions anywhere in the world, with offices in 16 cities across North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, approximately 1,000 design professionals and more than $15 billion in construction value of buildings currently under design.
"Never before in the history of architecture have clients had such a global depth of architectural talent to meet their design aspirations," said Peter Morrison, CEO of the RMJM Group. "The new firm will draw on a skill set from our diverse and experienced professionals that is unmatched and can be perfectly tailored to meet the design needs of our client base."
In North America, the firm will be branded as RMJM Hillier and form the North American business of the RMJM Group, with offices in New York City, Philadelphia, Princeton, NJ, and Washington, DC.
"The beauty of this partnership is that both firms see design as a way of enhancing people's lives – creating livable, sustainable cities, fostering new ways of learning and working – and both have sophisticated clients in every corner of the globe," says J. Robert Hillier, founder and chairman of Princeton, N.J.-based Hillier Architecture. "It's about more than having 1,000 architects worldwide; what is significant is that we now have 250 architects on each of four continents. That's huge in terms of our ability to understand the issues that face our clients, work with them closely, and still bring a broader, global perspective to everything we do. "
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Basrah: Missing the Iraqi Security Force Deployment
The Iraqi military deployed one of its two tank brigades to Basrah, yet this goes unreported. AFP Photo. Click to view. |
There are four factors in determining when to transition a province to Iraqi control: the threat, Iraqi Security Forces capability, governance, and politics. The reporting on the turnover of Basrah province addresses three of the four factors in determining PIC; yet the established press leaves out one of the most important changes of the last year.
The reporting on the transition of Basrah province to Provisional Iraqi Control (PIC) has been filled with stories on the influence of the Jaish al Mahdi (the Mahdi Army), the Badr Brigades, various militias, criminals, United Kingdom forces, and politics. But the reporting has omitted a significant development in Basrah, and a crucial element of the story: the greatly expanded Iraqi Army presence.
The security situation in Basrah is certainly in need of being addressed, as Iran's attempts to influence the region, coupled with the extensive militia and criminal activity threatens the government's writ. The Iraqi government has committed significant resources to the southern city. Many of these units have been redeployed from regions where the Sunni insurgency is strongest.
One year ago the Iraqi Army had one brigade in Basrah, and it was reported as corrupt. The 1-10 Motorized Brigade has since been replaced by one of the three best brigades in the Iraqi Army. The 1-10 was sent to Wassit province to break its ties to the militias in Basrah.
The Iraqi Army now has four brigades and an Iraqi Special Operations Forces battalion in Basrah province. And the Iraqi Army is not finished; another brigade for Basrah is forming. The current and future units in Basrah include:
• 3-9 Tank Brigade (deployed from Baghdad to cover until 4-14 is formed)
• 1-14 Motorized Brigade (formerly the 3-8 Brigade from Wassit, replaced the 1-10)
• 2-14 Motorized Brigade (formerly the 5-10 Brigade, formed in May 2007)
• 3-14 Brigade (assembled in November 2007)
• 4-14 Brigade (forming by July 2008)
• Basrah ISOF Battalion (assembled from Anbar/Ninawa/Baghdad in August 2007)
• 14th Division Headquarters elements (diverted from Salahadin 12th Division formation; established Nov. 7, 2007)
The 3-9 Tank Brigade is the one of two tank-equipped Iraqi Army units, and it was temporarily deployed from Baghdad to Basrah. Yet the reporting continues to omit this very important factor.
In addition, the Iraqi National Police has sent two battalions of the 1st National Police Mechanized Brigade to Basrah. These forces are in addition to the Basrah based 2/IV Border Guards Brigade and the Umm Qasr-based Iraqi Marine Battalion.
All of this data is public knowledge and published. When discussing the security situation in Basrah and the transfer of provincial control, the Iraqi government's efforts to buttress the security forces must also be mentioned to tell the full story.
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Posted by Hamidreza at December 16, 2007 7:56 PM ET:
Good point DJ. I used to think that the sectarian nature of the army predisposed it to failure. But I think the events of the past 2 years has proven such concerns to be overblown.
However, I believe that the US presence as "the force of last resort" is critical and without it the Islamist factions will take over through attrition and Iranian backing. We may even see tactical alliances between al-Qaeda and al-Mahdi develop, if they were not kept in check. The stakes are just too high - namely, who gets to freeload on the oil and the illiterate masses, in the name of their exhalted diety, to allow for a reasonable socio-political development in Iraq. A western overlord is a must.
Posted by DJ Elliott at December 16, 2007 8:05 PM ET:
"the sectarian nature of the army predisposed it to failure"
Notice the IGFC addressed this factor by removing the corrupted 1-10 Bde and building 14th Division out of forces not from Basrah. Most of the 14th is assembled from the north including the ISOF Bn. Even the INP Bde sent is one of the better mixed and experienced. They went out of area for this force to reduce the likelyhood of militia ties.
The ISF is aware of its weaknesses and does address them. They just don't get credit for thier actions from the press...
Posted by anand at December 17, 2007 5:49 PM ET:
The 14th IAD is probably aiming towards an end state as a Mechanized division with 1 armored (tank) brigade, 2 mechanized brigades, 1 light armored cavalry (wheeled mechanized) brigade. The three tracked brigades will probably be armed with upgraded Hellinistic M60 tanks. The tank brigade will likely have about 80 such tanks while the mechanized track will likely have about 60 tanks. The total division will likely consist of about 200 tanks at end state. The first division to field upgraded M60 tanks is likely to be the 14th Mech IAD.
Probably the division's 9 line combat battalions (excluding wheeled lightly armored cavalry) will be pulled off line to be upgraded one by one. At end state there will be 5 tracked mech bns and 4 armored tank bns (in addition to 3 mech wheeled bns.)
I wonder about the ordering of this however.
My guess (and it is not based on any data, pure conjecture) is that the first brigade will start to mechanize (tracked) within weeks so that it can complete some of its mechanization before IA 3-9 has to be returned north. The second brigade will start to mechanize (tracked) around early summer. IA 4-14 will probably be created as a 1 light armored cavalry (wheeled mechanized) brigade next summer. The last brigade will probably begin to be upgraded to armored (tank) early in 2009.
I think that the highly capable IA 1-14 motorized will be upgraded last or second to last to hold the fort while its sister brigades mechanize.
The first IA brigade to Mechanize might be IA 2-14 (former IA 5-10 and before that SIB.) If the security situation in the South is good next spring, IA 1-14 will begin to mechanize. Or next up is likely to be IA 3-14.
Here is what 14th Mech might look like at the end of 2008:
1 C2 lightly armored cavalry (wheeled mech) in the fight.
1 C2 tracked mech brigade in the fight
1 C3 tracked mech brigade in the fight and in the process of completing its upgrade to tracked mech from motorized infantry.
1 C2 motorized infantry brigade in the fight.
1 C2 Construction engineering bn
1 C3 artillery regiment
1 C3 Maintenance Bn
1 C2 MTR (understrenght bn since most transport functions will be performed at the brigade leve)
1 C1 Scout company in the process of upgrading to a C3 Scout battalion
1 C1 Base Defense unit (bn strength)
End 2009:
1 C1 lightly armored cavalry (wheeled mech) in the fight
2 C1 tracked mechanized brigades in the fight
1 C2 armored tank brigade in the fight
1 C1 Construction engineering bn
1 C1 maintenance bn
1 C2 MTR (understrenght bn since most transport functions will be performed at the brigade leve)
1 C1 BSU bn
1 C1 artillery regiment
1 C1 Scout (battalion strength)
1 C1 Base Defence unit (bn strength)
DJ, what is the plan with respect to the division training centers? Weren't each division suppose to get 1?
Posted by DJ Elliott at December 17, 2007 8:23 PM ET:
"The tank brigade will likely have about 80 such tanks while the mechanized track will likely have about 60 tanks. The total division will likely consist of about 200 tanks at end state."
- They are equipping slightly lighter than that. 70 Tanks to the Armor Bde/50 to the Mech. 170. 10 tanks to the tank company with BMP1s filling out rest. The 9th is heavier because it is converting to Armored and is expected to have more detachments since it is strategic reserve...
"The first division to field upgraded M60 tanks is likely to be the 14th Mech IAD."
- Very likely. Focus on improvements is where the IA is PIC Provinces and Baghdad. The press has been claiming we are working out from Baghdad when the reality is we are working in from the outer provinces in ISF force development.
"Probably the division's 9 line combat battalions (excluding wheeled lightly armored cavalry) will be pulled off line to be upgraded one by one."
- No. They are more likely to form tank companies seperately. And elements of BMPs. Then convert the Bns with excess mot-inf consolidating into new 4-14. The tank companies new and only part of the Bn pulled at a time to provide the inf component. Remember that the Mot-Inf will require little training in this conversion. Then the 4-14 converts when the BTRs arrive. Just a change in vehicles. Only the vehicle crews will require serious training.
"I think that the highly capable IA 1-14 motorized will be upgraded last or second to last to hold the fort while its sister brigades mechanize."
- I expect them to be the first Mech Bde conversion with the excess infantry detached as they are replaced with Tank companies. These detached companies become the initial cadre of 4-14 bde. The 2-14 and 3-14 to follow with thier excess mot-inf going to filling 4-14.
- I expect 3-9 to be there till end-summer minimum. Looking for delivery dates of tanks, BMP1s and BTR3E1s for true timeline.
- Also note, the 1NPM is there filling the role of 4-14 and they will want it back for INP Operational reserve.
"Here is what 14th Mech might look like at the end of 2008"
- Artl Rgts do not start forming until 2009. The bdes fire support bns are what forms in 2008. Guessing categories is a dice role without knowing the key command personnalities in the individual units.
"DJ, what is the plan with respect to the division training centers? Weren't each division suppose to get 1?"
- Look at OOB. Last item in each Div entry. A part of the Div Support Rgt. Each Division is getting a training base (bn) by mid-2008. Most of the bases are already there, some were national/regional and others adhoc for divisional training. This is just formalizing and expanding what was already happening...
Posted by Marcello at December 18, 2007 6:00 AM ET:
"10 tanks to the tank company with BMP1s filling out rest."
I don't get the armored company structure. A ten tanks company entails a soviet style structure
(command tank + three tanks platoon x 3).
This is quite different from the typical US tank company albeit more similar to what AFAIK the iraqis used ( two tanks command section + three tanks platoon x 3). I would have expected US organization to be followed.
Posted by Turner at December 18, 2007 8:15 AM ET:
To me, it says something very important that the Iraqi Government would replace a corrupt, Shiite division with another to in order to maintain impartiality and success. Given the majority of Shiites among the current representatives in parliment, this tells me they value stability and advancement over sectarian politics.
Did the Iraqi Govt. come to this conclusion independently?
Posted by DJ Elliott at December 18, 2007 8:20 AM ET:
They are still short in MBTs so they are employing BMP1s to fill out their TO/E in Armor.
~10 tanks plus ~4 BMP1s and 1 or 2 HMMWVs per company. Combined arms at company level.
Keep in mind that the BMP1 is a light tank with an 8-man infantry compartment. 73mm gun.
Posted by DJ Elliott at December 18, 2007 8:29 AM ET:
As best as I can determine, it was a joint decision.
Baghdad needed a dependable Bde to help build the new 14th Div. So they grabbed one of the only three category one IA brigades (3-8/Wassit) and swapped it with the corrupted 1-10/Basrah.
And then sent one of only three heavy Bdes in the IA (3-9 Tank) and two/thirds of the INP's Mech (2nd and 3rd Bns of 1NPM) from Baghdad to help out until 14th gets on its feet and gets its own armor. Note: the 1st Bn is in Phase III Carabinarie training at Camp Dublin.
The hard sell was reducing the quallity of Wassit's IA. Part of why they did it is the 3rd Georgian Bde was available to augment Wassit until July 2008.
P.S. Of the five ISF Bdes that have deployed away from Baghdad in the last four months. Four have gone south to deal with problems:
- 3-9 Tank and 1st NPM went to Basrah.
- 1-9 Mech and 5-2 NP went to Diwaniyah.
- The 6-2 is the only one to go north - Balad/Samarra.
Posted by Turner at December 18, 2007 12:59 PM ET:
Thanks DJ:
Your answer not only provides insight, but another good opportunity to think in terms of Bde's and Div.'s. "Carabinarie training" (above) being MP training?
Posted by Marcello at December 18, 2007 1:37 PM ET:
"They are still short in MBTs so they are employing BMP1s to fill out their TO/E in Armor."
Odd, I would have guessed that with all the military restructuring ongoing in eastern europe some more tanks could be spared.
~10 tanks plus ~4 BMP1s and 1 or 2 HMMWVs per company. Combined arms at company level.
That's one way to do it, although frankly cross attachments of platoons would probably be better because:
"Keep in mind that the BMP1 is a light tank with an 8-man infantry compartment. 73mm gun."
Not really, it isn't a tank, not even a light one, it was designed for a different task and if pressed in service in the tank role it will not fare well in demanding circumstances.
It was designed to carry an infantry squad and support it with its weapons and in a low intensity environment it can still do that. That's it, no more and no less. For example it cannot duke out with enemy tanks, even the iranian ones, with any hope of success (even in the 60's it was a questionable proposition, now it would be suicide). Even in more likely to happen counterinsurgency scenarios its lack of firepower and protection, compared to a tank, would be a liability if things get hot.
Yes it has a 73mm gun. But it's a low pressure, smoothbore one with a primitive FC. Note that it was replaced with a 30mm autocannon in the following version.
Posted by DJ Elliott at December 18, 2007 2:26 PM ET:
Carabinarie or Gendarme type training is being provided to one Bn per Bde in the INP. By the Italian Carabinarie under NATO Training Mission-Iraq at Camp Dublin. Paramilitary Police training. There is no US equivalent. The Bn then returns to the Bde and trains them. 1st Bn/1st NPM Bde is due to graduate at end-year.
- BMP1 has 73mm and ATGW.
- It was not replaced by the BMP2, it was augmented. The BMP2 with the 30mm DP cannon was fielded to offset the increased threat of NATO attack helos. They mixed the vehicles in Soviet Bns.
The replacement for both is the BMP3 with a 100mm gun/missile launcher and a coax 30mm DP cannon.
All BMPs were equipped with ATGW but, are not ment for fighting tanks. For what they are currently being used for, they are an effective tank for infantry support.
No worse than using a Bradley vs tanks...
P.S. Most of the old Soviet armor was sold or scrapped to stay within CFE requirements in the 90s.
Posted by Marcello at December 18, 2007 4:59 PM ET:
- BMP1 has 73mm and ATGW.
- It was not replaced by the BMP2, it was augmented. The BMP2 with the 30mm DP cannon was fielded to offset the increased threat of NATO attack helos. They mixed the vehicles in Soviet Bns."
Sort of. Yes, it did not replace the BMP-1 completely but that was the norm in the soviet army, as they could hardly afford to reequip the entire force in a reasonable time frame. And since the armament was kinda complementary they made mixed units instead of simply handing the earlier BMPs to lower priority units as did with the tanks. But the BMP-2 was not just an "alternate armament BMP-1". It was supposed to be a successor remedying some of the known deficiencies of its predecessor. Namely inaccurate gun and insufficient missile. For example one of the prototypes for the BMP-2 was armed with a longer barrelled 73mm gun, which is not what you would expect if the antihelo performance was the overriding design priority, although in the end the 30mm was deemed more practical. In any case AFAIK all BMP-2s units are the norm these days in the russian army.
"All BMPs were equipped with ATGW but, are not ment for fighting tanks. "
The basic BMP-1 carries the Sagger, which in its basic variants is a definitively non user friendly, MCLOS beast with insufficient penetration even against what the iranians would field. I would not be surprised if the iraqis had not got any missiles for their BMPs, certainly they have never been present on any of the pictures I have seen so far.
"No worse than using a Bradley vs tanks..."
Well, at least the Bradley has a very lethal missile system and its 25mm gun can cause all the sort of problems even without full penetrations. With its basic armor and ERA tiles it has a decent protection against RPGs and autocannons. The BMP-1 has nothing of the sorts.
Posted by DJ Elliott at December 18, 2007 6:41 PM ET:
Look up the Iranian inventory of tanks. Much is still Pattons. Every bit as suseptible as the Israeli Pattons in 73 were to Saggers. 90% of Israel's tank losses were credited to the Sagger in that fight.
PS It would not be difficult to fit them with TOW II...
Posted by Marcello at December 19, 2007 12:10 PM ET:
"Look up the Iranian inventory of tanks. Much is still Pattons. Every bit as suseptible as the Israeli Pattons in 73 were to Saggers. 90% of Israel's tank losses were credited to the Sagger in that fight."
Yes they still have Pattons, although my understanding that the older ones are covering the afghan border. They however have also nearly 500 T-72s (and those are mostly in IRGC hands AFAIK) and are busy upgrading a lot of earlier tanks with ERA.
AT-3s would be hard pressed to stop them.
Mind you the Sagger wasn't a bad weapon for its days but as I said, penetration issues aside, it takes good training to master and I doubt that would be a priority as it was in Egypt before 73'. Absent that its MCLOS guidance would make hitting targets a pretty tricky proposition. I will have some digging to do but I remember hitting chanches well below 10% for the syrian crews.
"PS It would not be difficult to fit them with TOW II..."
Basically any decent 80's ATGM would be good enough.
Posted by DJ Elliott at December 19, 2007 1:10 PM ET:
Actually, the MoD has been shopping for SAMs and ATGWs and they were not looking at Russian systems. They were looking at mostly western European.
Posted by DJ Elliott at January 4, 2008 9:17 AM ET:
PS Even the US Military consider the BMP1 to have the atributes of a light tank.


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Criterion Files By Landon Palmer on December 21, 2011 | Be the First To CommentThe 1980s proved to be an interesting and difficult time for auteurs of the 1960s and 1970s. Directors like Copolla, Scorsese, De Palma, Altman, etc. offered works that were far from their classics of the previous decade, but many of these films have aged well and proven to be compelling entries within the respective ouvres of these directors precisely because they aren't part of their canon. While British director Nicolas Roeg did not play a central part in New Hollywood in the same way as the directors I listed, his 1970s work was certainly part and parcel of this brief countercultural revolution in narrative storytelling. I see Roeg as something of a British equivalent to Hal Ashby: someone who made brilliant entry after brilliant entry throughout a single decade, only to fade out of the spotlight once the 1980s began. But unlike the late Ashby, Roeg has continued making films during these years, and The Criterion Collection has taken one of his most perplexing entries from the era of Reagan and Alf out of obscurity. Insignificance (1985) is a strange film about a strange time. Based on the play by Terry Johnson, Insignificance stages an impossible meeting between iconoclastic minds as the likenesses of Marilyn Monroe (Roeg's then-wife Teresa Russell), Albert Einstein (Michael Emil), Joe DiMaggio (Gary Busey), and Sen. Joe McCarthy (Tony Curtis) move in an out of a hotel room as they share a variety of 50s-topical dramatic scenarios.
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Features By Nathan Adams on November 8, 2011 | Comments (2)Billy Wilder's career is a lengthy one, full of highly acclaimed features. But out of all the great films that he made over the course of forty some years, Some Like It Hot may be the most famous. And when you talk about what his masterpiece was creatively, it's often mentioned right up there with movies like Sunset Boulevard and The Apartment. But I guess that's no surprise, it's got Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis acting like ladies and Marilyn Monroe slinking around in cocktail dresses. That's memorable stuff. Ted Kotcheff's career was a lengthy but unspectacular one. He mostly did TV work and is probably best known for being the guy who directed the original Rambo film First Blood. But what I best remember him for is a movie about two guys and a dead dude called Weekend at Bernie's. I must have watched it about a million times on HBO when I was growing up. These days, when you mention it, people talk about it like it's a joke; but I guess that's because Jonathan Silverman and Andrew McCarthy didn't quite become Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis, and Terry Kiser is no Marilyn Monroe.
Reel Sex: The Private Sadness of a Sexpot
Features By Gwen Reyes on October 12, 2011 | Be the First To CommentWhile some lucky individuals have already had the chance to see Simon Curtis' peek into the life of a sex icon My Week with Marilyn at the New York Film Festival, the rest of us plebeians have to wait until November for our own chance. Now, early buzz for the Michelle Williams (Marilyn Monroe) vehicle has been favorable, however that is not what's piquing my interest in the project. Rather I'm curious to see the maudlin-looking Williams' embodiment of the sexpot. Williams is of course a stunning actress when she's dressed for award season, but we rarely see that beauty on screen as she tends to embrace homely, makeup free characters. Clearly she will add an intriguing element of wistful sadness to the woman many of us wish to be.
Reel Sex: Camp Versus Raunch in Film, Part One
Features By Gwen Reyes on July 6, 2011 | Be the First To CommentWhile insanely different, the words "raunch" and "camp" often get confused or misused when describing films. They both are expressions for a type of subculture within explicit films; Camp stemming from a "love of the unnatural" (Susan Sontag, "Notes on 'Camp'") and often used to reference gay-themed or identified films, while "raunch" originally meant anything that was highly vulgar or obscene. Both words have evolved over the decades from their harsher, more exact meanings to softer, even fluffy uses today. How many times have you used raunch to describe a slightly suggestive moment in a film, where in fact you probably meant risqué or gauche? Hell, I did it last night when discussing the new film Horrible Bosses, which is what spurred this whole exploration of the two phrases. Before Sontag named and defined it in the 1960s, the manifestation of camp elements in Hollywood went all the way back to the invention of the medium. Comedies like Charlie Chaplin's 1916 film Behind the Screen presented cross-dressing and male-male loving. The "gay" kiss between the two main characters is later revealed to be a straight kiss between Chaplin and his co-star Edna Purviance. This film was controversial, but audiences embraced the over-the-top antics of Chaplin (arguably one of the purveyors of "camp") and flocked to the theaters to see more from the mustached tramp and his pre-Code/pre-Talkie contemporaries.
This Week in Blu-ray: The Mechanic, The Rite, The Roommate, The God of Thunder and Japanese Noir
Blu-ray Spotlight By Neil Miller on May 17, 2011 | Be the First To CommentAfter a few weeks of hellish uncertainty, This Week in Blu-ray is back to being on time. That is, if you count being available at some point on Tuesday as being "on time." Which I do, for the record. Moving on, the most important thing to remember is that we're back with some advice in one of the most diverse weeks of Blu-ray releasing so far in 2011. We've got a new one from Criterion, a few classics, action films for people who wish they were Jason Statham, horror films, an animated superhero epic, and a movie starring Kat Dennings. There's something for everyone this week. Pale Flower (Criterion) I must differ to Roger Ebert for a moment, as he says it far better than I ever could: Pale Flower is "one of the most haunting noirs I've seen, and something more; in 1964 it was an important work in an emerging Japanese New Wave of independent filmmakers, an exercise in existential cool. It involves a plot, but it is all about attitude." What Masahiro Shinoda created in 1964 is an enduring and indelible excursion into Japan's underworld. It's also a relentlessly cool film for its time. Criterion, to their credit, has gone to great lengths to preserve it and restore it for HD Blu-ray. They've included an uncompressed monaural audio track, brand new video interviews with the director and a new (and allegedly improved) English translation. As this is my first experience with Pale Flower, I can't say how […]
The Vintage Trailer of the Day Cross-Dresses Its Way Into Your Heart
Features By Scott Beggs on April 24, 2011 | Be the First To CommentEvery day, come rain or shine or internet tubes breaking, Film School Rejects showcases a trailer from the past. If there's one thing that movies have taught us, it's that when you witness a mob killing you have to dress like a woman and join an all-girl jazz band that's touring the sunnier areas of the country. Also, you just might find love with Marilyn Monroe. Check out the trailer for yourself:
Your Alternate Box Office: Just Gnome With It
Features By Scott Beggs on February 11, 2011 | Be the First To CommentWhether you're trying to avoid the releases this week or augment them with even more movies, your alternate box office offers some options for movies that would play perfectly alongside of (or instead of) the stuff studios are shoving into the megaplex this weekend. This week features Adam Sandler getting sand in his career, a couple of gnomes only Shakespeare could love, a desperate search for a piece of metal, and an immoral ambulance chaser growing a heart three sizes larger.
Joe and Jerry are two musicians who see a mob murder and decide to go into hiding in an all-female band. The gorgeous Sugar Kane Kowalcyk is part of the troupe, which might just be two good reasons to stay in hiding.
Daily Diversion: Titular Lines
Daily Diversion By Scott Beggs on November 7, 2009 | Be the First To CommentYou might want to play it over and over. A quick video of some iconic movie titles delivered by the movies themselves.
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Saturday, September 27, 2008
Be Careful What You Ask For...
As a result of Hurricane Ike, we have not had power at St. Joseph's the last two Sundays. Because we haven't had air conditioning, we have not held Sunday School. This has caused me to get about three weeks ahead in my lesson preparation. So, I have decided to take a little break from preparing my Bible studies on St. John's Gospel. I'll probably start them again next week.
For now, I wanted to tell you a story about a pre-Ike hurricane that I rode out, this one many years ago. As I may have mentioned before, I grew up in Pasadena, Texas, which is just southeast of Houston. As a kid, I saw many hurricanes come and go. The worst one I remember was Hurricane Alicia in 1983. My parents decided to ride it out. Even though I was 15 at the time, I have almost no memories of the storm. There is one thing that I DO remember, however. It's pretty funny, so I thought I would share it with you.
A few years after we moved to Pasadena, some new neighbors moved in to the house next door. Not long after moving in, they bought an aluminum tool shed and situated it up against the part of their fence that bordered our yard. My mother absolutely hated that tool shed, so much so that she made my father nail a bunch of bamboo to the fence. This way, the fence was about three feet taller, and the offending eyesore was no longer visible. Even though she couldn't see it, Mom continued to complain about that tool shed, often saying, "I wish they would get rid of that stupid shed!"
Several years later, as we were hunkered down during Hurricane Alicia, we heard a great CRASH! The sound was one of the loudest I have ever heard; it was almost deafening. We had no idea what had happened, but we knew it couldn't be good.
After the hurricane had passed, we looked out in our backyard and saw something amazing. It turns out that Alicia had picked up our neighbor's tool shed, flipped it upside down, and dropped it right in our swimming pool (knocking over the fence, bamboo and all, in the process). My father, brother, and brother-in-law spent a whole day out in the pool with hacksaws, cutting the shed to pieces so that they could remove it from the pool.
So, my Mom finally got her wish. The tool shed was finally gone, even if it was not in the way my mother would have chosen. At least it didn't come crashing through our roof or through a window.
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- Clint said...
So the neighbor just sat around and watched your family take out the shed? Did you put the pieces back in their yard for them?
Just wondering. - September 27, 2008 at 6:33 PM
Did you know that Rhonda Patton Davis is living in your old house you're talking about here? She's living there with her son and boyfriend. Her parents live right down the road from them.
- October 11, 2008 at 8:35 PM
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Thanks for checking out the blog. I hope you will spread the word about it.
I did not know that Rhonda was living in the house, but I did know that she has been dating the man that owns it. He has been there since my parents sold it to him in 1999. I also knew that Rhonda's parents live down the street. I hope that the current owner doesn't get another tool shed deposited in his pool! - October 11, 2008 at 9:21 PM
I sent your story on to her and let her know about your blog. They'll get a kick out of the story.
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I've long held an unassailable preference for psionics to live in science fiction and magic to live in fantasy. This preference has absolutely nothing to do with the stories inspiring wargames or roleplaying games and I'm keenly aware that there was once no distinction between the now separate genres. This strong preference is entirely opined and has no historical basis.Staying in the shallow water, psionics were a really horrible "grafting on" of something foreign in 1E. This really didn't seem to improve in 2E so much as polymorph into an alternative magic system, which is what I ultimately view psionics to be today. A comparison of spell and psionic formats elucidates my point: they're just spells. Making matters worse, I've been forced upon occasion to use psionics in 3E since it wasn't viewed by 3E architects as optional with respect to some monsters. (The alternative is more prep time.) I've no high opinion of psionics to this day.
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By Mufaddal Fakhruddin on February 16, 2012
That's a Mexican city.
Kotaku has learnt that Microsoft's next Xbox is codenamed Durango. Previously, it was known as Xbox 720, so a new name is utterly welcome.
A quick Google search reveals two of possible inspirations for the name: Dodge's SUV and the Mexican city. It's probably the latter; Kinect was codenamed Natal, named after a city in Brazil.
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England may be in the throes of an Indian Summer but over the next few months horizontal rain is sure to pelt the graying shores as sea mist rolls over the UK's pebbly beaches. Lucky then that Millimetre and Duggan Morris Architects, the designers behind the recently completed Bexhill Beach Shelters, selected Kebony as a collaborative force in their latest build.
The sustainable substitute for tropical hardwood has been implemented in a series of four sculptural beach shelters that now adorn the Bexhill coastline, offering a durable and eco-friendly solution to the south coast's unpredictable weather.
Duggan Morris Architects and design studio Millimetre worked in close collaboration on this modest yet beautifully crafted scheme, taking pole position in a design competition for the project run by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). The shelters' steel frames form a durable base for the Kebony Scots Pine cladding, complimented by Kebony Southern Yellow Pine bench furniture.
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Viktor Troicki Victorious In First Match Back From Doping Suspension
Viktor Troicki made a winning return to tennis after serving a 12-month doping ban.
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November 8th, 2013
Roger Federer: Tennis Needs More Drug Testing
Roger Federer says tennis needs more drug testing.
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November 7th, 2013
Viktor Troicki: "I've Been Treated Like A Criminal" [Video]
Viktor Troicki speaks out on his doping case.
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October 26th, 2013
Marin Cilic Reinstated From Doping, Will Play Paris
After getting his sentenced reduced, Marin Cilic will return to the ATP next week in Paris.
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September 16th, 2013
Marin Cilic Suspended Nine Months For Doping Violation, Will Miss Australian Open
Marin Cilic has been suspended for nine months.
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August 7th, 2013
Novak Djokovic: Troicki's Definitely Innocent Of Doping Charges
Novak Djokovic says his friend and countryman Viktor Troicki is innocent of doping charges.
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July 28th, 2013
Poll: Is There A Drug Problem In Tennis? The Case For And The Case Against
Is there a serious steroid problem in tennis?
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July 27th, 2013
Italian Wimbledon junior champion Gianluigi Quinzi is wondering why top stars in tennis don't get caught for doping violations.
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July 27th, 2013
Was Marin Cilic Found In Violation Of The Tennis Anti-Doping Rules?
Marin Cilic is reportedly under investigation for failing a drug test in April at Munich.
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July 26th, 2013
ITF Releases More Details In Viktor Troicki "He Said, She Said" Doping Case
More details emerge in the Viktor Troicki he-said, she-said doping case.
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Ten Tips for Building a Profitable Business (Part 1)
Building a profitable business is a goal that many new entrepreneurs and small business owners seem to forget.Instead they operate like a "free service provider" setting themselves up to lose money and eventually close shop. No matter what industry you are in – when it comes to building a profitable business, the basics are the basics and the essentials are the essentials. While building your small business, or entrepreneurial endeavor, here are 10 ideas that will set you a part in the market and help you achieve success much faster…Let's go….
#1 Date ideas, marry innovation.
When it comes to building a profitable business, ideas are what get us in the game; innovation is what keeps us in the game. There is not a better person I can think of when it comes to innovation then Sir Richard Branson, the CEO of Virgin. Virgin is the parent company to more than 300 companies in 34 countries. How is this possible? Simply point to Richard Branson, who I like to call the "King of Innovation." Branson is not afraid to fail, not afraid to try a new idea: he lives and breathes for innovation. In fact, innovation is what sparked the launch of his Virgin conglomerate. He thought he could create a better airline experience so he started Virgin Airlines. From that one idea he's now launched and oversees more than 300 companies. I once heard him say "Ideas have multiple levels, so don't stop at level one." As a business owner, your ability to see pass level one of your idea, will enable you to be innovative and build a profitable business.
#2 Think product development, not perfection.
A profitable business has figured out how to consistently make more money than it cost to be in business. I know that seems strange for me to say this to business owners, but this idea seems get overlooked. Along with providing a service or great product, you need to make a profit or eventually you will not be able to provide that service or product.
Taking a page from companies like Microsoft, Apple and Intel, they will release a product to the market that they know is not perfect. They then rely on customer feed back to help them make their products and services better. Have you ever heard of the word "Update?" If you have an iPhone like me you have. At least once a month I receive an email from Apple telling me of an update to my phone, an update that will fix a problem on my phone that I paid hundreds of dollars for. These companies know that their product is not perfect, but it is functional.
As a small business owner you have to focus on getting the product in the customer's hand. Have a built in system that allows you to ask the customer how the product or service is doing. I work with a lot of authors that want to write the perfect book, so they will take years to finish a book, hoping to produce a book free of errors. I have yet to read a perfect book, I'm always amazed when I read a book from a big time author and publisher and find errors in it. Just goes to show you, even the big boys and girls make mistakes. So concentrate on getting your product to the market, worry about perfecting later.
#3 Quiet time is money time.
Very few business owners actually stop to evaluate to see if all the hard work and effort is paying off. Taking a day or so to actually review your systems to see it they are producing the desired results will benefit you greatly in the long run. I know we like to stay busy and "on the grind" but many times, the only thing getting grinded is us. We are putting in a lot of hours, but we fail to check our "Systems For Success (SFS). I call it doing a "Return On Actions" (ROA). Each system you set up in your business should produce measurable results that you can evaluate at a later date.
A measured business is a profitable business.
Example: if one of your marketing tactics is to contact 20 people a day, after a month you would have talked with at least 400 people. Let's say you speak to each person for 10 minutes, that's 4000 minutes, which equals close to 70 hours, almost 3 days on the phone. If you are investing that much time on the phone, you need to know what the return is. At least twice a month a evaluate my systems to see if they are producing the results I want and to also see if there is a more effective way I can handle something.
#4 Fail fast.
If you are going to fail – and you will fail (it's part of the game), then fail fast. Countless business owners are afraid to do anything, because they fear they might fail. If you are in this category, your fear of failing is valid, you are 100% correct in thinking you may fail, but so what? Do it, fail, learn, fix it and keep on moving. That is the process.
David Foster the 15-time Grammy Award winning music producer put it all in perspective when he said in an interview "I have written over 1500 songs in my lifetime, and only 15 have won Grammy's." But those 15 Grammy's makes him one of the best in the business. David has been nominated for 45 Grammy's in his career, so 30 of those times, he didn't win. He learned to get over it fast and kept on writing. In business you have to learn to fail fast. If something doesn't work, learn from it and keep on moving.
#5 Remember every profitable business was once a start-up.
Being a business owner and entrepreneur can be overwhelming to say the least. Some days it can seem like you are putting in so much effort and time but still going nowhere. Keep in mind that every business was a start up once. In the world we live in, we can be easily led into thinking everything happens overnight, but this is just not the case. You name the company and I can almost promise you, they have a story of start, struggle, fail, start again; struggle, fail and finally a glimmer of success, then start again.
As you work towards building a profitable business, remember, you are building for longevity. Don't be distracted by what appears to be the over night success of others. Know that there is a story behind every business. That's why I love reading the history behind all the big companies we admire today. They remind us that long hours, hard work, dedication, and patience produced the profitable business we see today.
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Category: Business Basics, Kitchen Table Advisors, Launch Your Business


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That is a grrreat article! Thanx for posting it.
I think Uncle Walt would be very happy. I try to talk to as many persons as I can while at WDW, or anyplace else for that matter, but that's probably because I am a shy person, like many actors and performers.
My DW is always commenting about how I have no fear of talking to strangers, except for the salespeople, or the missionaries, at the front door.
As for the Internet thing, I am really new to this, as DWT was the first place I really had the nerve to chat almost 1 year ago, even though I have had Internet access for 10 years or so. I always had the feeling that there were indeed a lot of scary people, who I would not want to ever meet, using chat rooms for whatever purpose. However, I have changed my mind--sort of. While I would like to meet as many members of DWT as possible, I am still a little wary of the "let's hang out" for a day or so thing. I guess I get that from my parents, who to this day still tell me not to trust anyone you don't know, and only trust the ones you do know very little. A chit chat at the parks, or maybe a meal, but no long term relationships for me. That's just the way I am.