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Penguins Reduce Roster
The Pittsburgh Penguins announced today that they've trimmed their roster up in anticipation for this Thursday's opening game against the Vancouver Canucks.
The Penguins announced that Jason Williams, Brian Strait, and Alexandre Picard were returned to Wilkes-Barre Scranton.
Joe Morrow was returned to Portland of the WHL.
Both Williams and Picard will need to clear waivers before returning to WB/S.
The Penguins also assigned Sidney Crosby, Dustin Jeffrey, Nick Peterson, Boris Valabik, and Robert Bortuzzo to injured reserve.
On Joe Morrow…
Morrow will be well served by a year of dominance at the WHL level. This will be a chance for him to dominate and shine among his peers.
A special note with Morrow, he doesn't have any WHL eligibility left after this year. He has met both the age and experience requirements to play in the AHL next season, a move that I'm sure factored into Shero's decision to draft him.
We'll keep you updated on the progress of Joe Morrow in Portland throughout the year. Check back for more updates, including our annual preseason roundtable, as we prepare for opening night!
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I recently viewed a documentary in which astronomers assert that they have captured images of actual supernova events. The process involved taking several images sets of distant galaxies and then evaluating any additional or missing points of light between the images.
It seems to me that due to Hawkening's theory that photons can be deflected by massive gravitational influences, that these new points of light could originate from an entirely different point in space. For that matter, how can we be certain that these points of light were not influenced by reflection of refraction?
They also stated that they were confused by their resulting data, as the photos seemed to moving far slower than expected. They went on to say this balks at the collapsing universe theory. why couldn't simple refraction, which slows photons, account for the deviation?
It is difficult to answer the question as phrased without seeing the original references. I do not know of any reference that claims that the speed of light in a vacuum travels at less than the value of 'c'. The path length may change, the wavelength may change, but not the speed. There is a phenomenon known as "lensing" where a massive body (strong gravity) causes light from a distant source to be deflected (change of path length) but this effect shows up in a very characteristic way on the image observed from our vantage point.
Various "events" that occur on a time scale of fractions of a second have been reliably reported, and with the Internet it is possible for such events to be observed by multiple observers at multiple frequencies from the x-ray to the infrared to learn a lot about the details of these rapid "events", but I have not seen any reference to light traveling at less than 'c' in a vacuum.
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I suppose a lot of midnight oil is being burned, in various European and American newspaper editorial offices, at the UN and other various transnational entities, the various offices of CAIR, and departments of Middle East Studies at universities everywhere, as the denizens thereof are trying to figure out and explain just why the general run of Americans— despite every inducement; intellectual, political and economic— continue in their stubborn, sentimental and persistent attachment to the State of Israel, and ensuring it's continuing, if perilous existence. (Hey, wow! Totally complicated sentence— do I get any prize for this from the 19th Century literary appreciation wonks? No? OK, then, on with the explanation.).
I think there are a great many reasons for this; chief among them being that Jews have been part of the American scene, and more or less integrated into the great nation-building adventure since Colonial times. There has always been— depending on the time, place and social caste— a certain degree of social anti-Semitism, but generally achieving nothing like the degree of virulence it takes to achieve a pogrom, a Dreyfus Affair or a Holocaust. Congress making no law respecting a particular religion left us in the habit of seeing ones' particular religious beliefs as a personal one, however outre they might be. Frankly, more political outrage and general suspicion was expended on Catholics— Popery! The Bishop of Rome! The Whore of Babylon! — at the time of the great Irish migrations in the mid-19th century. It was pretty difficult to work up much alarm about off-standard religious beliefs when Jews were compared against groups like the Shakers (no sex, communal living, workshops and free enterprise!) and the Mormons (plural marriages, communal living, free enterprise and separation!) and a whole other range of non-standard and extremely creative social and religious communes.
All our base impulses leading towards rioting, lynching and intermittent attempts at genocide were pretty much focused during the 19th century on parties other than those of the Jewish persuasion; towards blacks, Hispanics, Mormons, and Native Americans, mostly. From reading various 19th century American writers, one gets the general impression that they knew of anti-Semitism, but didn't quite grasp what all the fuss was about and relegated it to the intellectual back burner. Some time ago I had read of a famous American literary personality — I believe it was General Lew Wallace (the author of Ben Hur) who was asked what he felt about Jews, and he replied in all seriousness (IIRC) that Jesus had been born a Jew, and for him that pretty much settled the matter.
As nearly as I can remember, the Holocaust made any overt display of anti-Semitism in post WWII America just not the done and socially approved of thing. I remember being deeply puzzled, at the age of 12, when a boy in Mr. Terrenova's 6th grade class at Sunland Elementary School called my good friend Robin a 'dirty Jew'; first, by the very fact that it should be any sort of insult at all— why not a dirty Presbyterian, or a dirty Lutheran?— and by the fact that Mr. Terrenova sent him to the principal's office so fast that the unfortunate lad probably sustained whiplash injuries. I went to catechism class one afternoon a week after school, Robin went to Hebrew school. We often spent Friday or Saturday night sleepovers at each others houses, and at her house, her mother often fixed bacon for us the next morning. They were, like my parents'good friend, Unca Ralphie and his Auntie Vera from Moscow, not observant Jews. My parents were godparents to Unca Ralphie's twin daughters when they were baptized as Lutherans, that's how non-observant Unca Ralphie was. Robin attempted to teach me the Hebrew alphabet, and I reciprocated by enlightening her regarding the theological intricacies of Luther's Small Catechism. She was a third generation descendent of Russian Jews, as I was the third generation of English Protestants. Russia and England were alike the "old country' from whence our grandparents had departed with some degree of alacrity, only Robin had the new 'old country' of Israel as additional fall-back. It was another place to feel a connection towards, and take an interest in, the way my other friends, who were descendents of immigrants, took a kindly and proprietary interest in, say, Sweden, or Ireland, or Germany.
Another reason for American's natural sympathy with Israel is that pioneer thing— building a whole new place from scratch, out of desert and waste. Sorry, we love all that. Especially if it is being done by people like us and to quote Bill Murray in Stripes, who have been thrown out of every other decent country imaginable. That just resonates with us. We also look at what a place like what South Korea has made of what history dealt them, over the same time-span as the Palestinians: third-world poor, war-ravaged, exiled from half of their places of birth, in the gentle care of the UN.
Seoul. Gaza. Deal.
That Jacksonian respect, towards truth, honor, and integrity? A man's word being his bond? Sorry, we're rather freakingly medieval about that, in our blunt and honest peasant fashion. Our initial assumption is that is someone is telling the truth, when he pledges his word and if he is later proven to have spoken falsely? We do not take well at being lied to. Upon once being lied to by a source, we will assume that source is speaking to us with an increasingly longer nose ever after. There are reasons (Jenin, Mohammed Dura, the Karin A affair, etc.) that I personally think of the Palestinian representative in front of the TV cameras as a "spokes-liar" and assume that every word out of their lips is a lie, including "and" and "the". Imagine Sab Erekat trying to sell you a used car– when you have finished twitching, vomiting and having spasms all over the floor, I will move on.
I would like to note that the blog-reported speculation that the reason our former president suddenly soured on the late and indifferently shaved President Arafat of the Palestinian Authority and proprietor of the least convincing beard in recent history, was the fact that President A lied to President B as regards the Karin A, the ship full of arms for the poor, poor Palestinians. We are incessantly being lectured as well, on the fact that we should feel instant and abundant sympathy for the Palestinians. Really, NPR is non-stop hectoring us about that, along the lines of They have been historically wronged! Wronged, I tell you! They have been unsupportively and uniquely wronged, and we demand that attention be paid! Over, and over again! Umm. Yeah. Right. Uniquely and historically wronged. Like the Armenians. And the Tibetans. And the Ukrainians. And the Kurds - the list goes on and on. But it's the Palestinians who field suicide bombers, who reward, honor and glorify them, dress up small children in bomb belts… and then get pissy because they are stereotyped as terrorists. Well, the Chechens and the Uighers have that same problem, but NPR doesn't seem to give a damn.
Hey, life is rife with these little unfairnesses and inconsistencies.
Here's another Jacksonian response; we favor competency in our soldiering, and despise braggarts, show-offs and incompetents. Every couple of decades since 1948, it seems like the militaries of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, etc. are swept by delusions of adequacy and have a go at demolishing their Public Enemy #1. And every time they get their asses handed back to them on a silver platter. Jacksonians are amused by this and also kind of like seeing the outnumbered little guys clean the floor with them. Over and over.
Then there are those Hamas and Hisbollah showboats who strut around before the admiring throng, waving their weapons in a gloriously martial fashion, boasting of how they will drive the Jews into the sea, et cetera, et cetera. Funny thing, they haven't managed it yet; I guess because they keep running into real soldiers, which is why they have to hide behind their own women and children, behind the cover of an assortment of well-meaning tools, and in the Church of the Nativity. There's a certain sort of passive-aggression about that; it's the tactic of the sneaky, evil-minded little kid who picks and provokes and snipes, and when someone snaps and thumps him one, goes wailing to the authority figure, sniveling that someone is hitting him. And then, of course, the little git smiles maliciously, as his target is punished by the authority figure. Jacksonians hated that sort of thing when we were kids, and don't much like it any better when practiced by adults.
Finally, there's 9-11. Hard to feel completely neutral about suicide bombers on public transport, after that. So for those reasons, and any others that commenters may articulate, our sympathies tend towards Israel, as much as the rest of the world seems to wish it otherwise. And keep in mind, there a lot of American mothers, who when their children pleaded with them by saying "But everyone else is doing it!" cautioned us against going along with the crowd by saying,"Well, would you jump off a cliff, if everyone else is doing it?"
No, you get the booby prize for not knowing the difference between "it's" and "its."
As one who for the most part disagrees with both the Far Left and Right I have had, shall we say, heated, discussions with both on the ongoing progress of the homecoming.
The Left loves a cause, the Right loves, er, loves to hate, an enemy.
Personally and subjectively, as usual, there is a lot of blame on both sides, primarily with leadership. The Israeli Right plain and simple isn't going to stop with the settlements, no matter what, and this panders to the NPR crowd's sense of injustice ... as if the displaced Arab former West Bank residents will ever be allowed pre-48, much less pre-67, return, that is not going to happen, so, it is the proverbial head banging against the wall waiting for change. It won't happen.
It may sound like a wild analogy, but there is no such effort to return the European properties to their former Jewish owners.
My heart goes out to the Palestinian people, whose leaders, as you say, are at best cartoonish. It is like watching Yosemite Sam hold a press conference, pistols in hand. This "leadership" isn't capable of settling anything with anybody, even between Gaza and the West Bank. Ironically, the population's suffering the same type of treatment pre-Israel Jews did, and, as they have not anything near the same education or experience, they are entirely ill-equipped to move forward ... their Saturday morning kids TV shows pretty much say it all. I root for them though, and I also hope one day they can surf the beaches of Gaza as the former residents did, albeit in apartheid, instead of being told Allah does not approve of swimsuits and fun.
President Jackson's hoi polloi, Native American genocide aside, gave the US the differentiator that allowed the country to change the world, but the Jewish experience gave us Spinoza, the source of what became the Enlightment; the source of what the founding fathers used to create this great experiment. Sadly, Philosophy and its history are considered the realm of egg-heads, like, well, the elites that founded the United States building on his ideas ... this country, good and bad, owes its genesis to a Jew- that fact is plain and simple though sadly little known, though frankly few modern Jacksonians know Jackson well either ...
And the world turns ...
actually they are doing what they have always done poke a stick in yr eye , & raise all kinds of indignation when you say, 'ouch'.
we deserve more balanced MMM coverage but only overseas can you get it. US jews have too much clout!!!! we don't get balance, or israel's withdrawal from Gaza would be also played up. i try to understand all this---i really do, until i'm reminded they all have identical DNA.
Thought provoking post SgtMom
I've served on juries---as many of us have. evrybody's under oath but somebody's lying.
Why, yes, Ben - I am am a retired USAF NCO, and I do currently live in Texas. Weather is hot, but the people are nice ... does that present some kind of problem for you?
Carry on.
I really like your approach to….
A breath of fresh air on this FORUM….
If we follow your way of pointing out the root cause of societal evolution in America with things like the Jewish experience giving us Spinoza, don't we have to go even further back to Al Horezmi, the developer of the algebraic equation? And a bunch of others…
Check your facts better. Speaking of Israelis buying from us the weaponry, how much new and more advanced technologies are they giving back to the US? Please, do some research. You'll be surprised!!!
Exactly- they are our ally. (until they aren't, which isn't going to be any time in this century or probably the next)
I still don't think them taking over Palestinian land is right, I see it as an invasion of previously occupied land and a killing off of the native people, but I don't think lots of things the US does to win wars is good and right either. I have that luxury, sitting in the middle of a country who doesn't get attacked on it's own shores except occasionally. I think my stance on that is probably one of the few places my dad's politics and mine intersect :)
Given a choice between the imperfect representative government of Israel and the intolerance and despotism of most of its neighbors, who do you expect Americans to support? Of course, if Israel ceased to exist, those despots would lose their scapegoat, and quite possibly their own lives.
As Ben made clear above, we heebs must be working at counter purposes to Real Americans, right? Maybe our political actions should be restricted, or our control of the media and world finance ended? Sound familiar? Ask Mel Gibson. According to him, Jews have started every war in the past 2,000 years.
As for not criticizing Israel's policies, Ben, I'm not alone in calling them out on a regular basis. There's even a lobby for that: J Street.
The ugly 62 year-old war between the Arabs and the Jews shows no sign of abating. Then, there are the Persians.
Well, I would argue that you are ignoring your mother's advice and marching towards the cliff along with your herd. Or more precisely, you are encouraging Israel as they race for the cliff.
some of the palestinians continue to resist, since the alternative the israels offer is serfdom in enclaves like the formal walled ghettos of pre-war europe. hamas is their vehicle. others have given in, fatah will settle for whatever they can get. since they won't fight any longer, netanyahu will give them nothing.
if you can bring to mind the 'settling' of the west, you may remember the endless list of broken treaties americans created in dealing with their beaten enemies. 'respect for one's word' would get a sour laugh on any reservation in america. this may figure in the determination of hamas to deal with israel with gun in hand.
Isn't this the story of the War of Independance here ?
The problem here is that Israel was formed on land that belonged to the British empire. Israel didn't force anyone out, the British left.
Extended answers to y'all coming later. Been busy at my real job, writing the next best-selling (hah!) historical novel, all this afternoon.
Interesting set of responses, to an essay I originally wrote a couple of years ago, and only reposted as it seemed relevant to the current situation vis a vis Israel. Thank y'all for your time and mostly considered and erudite responses.
Youv'e obviously not heard of the biggest fraudster in all of recorded and unrecorded history, Maddof. Not forgetting the other Jews on Wall Street. The Lehman's etc etc. Swindlers that didn't spare anyone. Would you buy a car from them?
And how convenient! 70 billions gone and no one knows where!
Check with the Central Bank of the Zionist enterprise. More weapons I guess to kill stone throwing kids.
Do be careful about this sort of anti-Semitic smear, Salamander. You are treading very close to my line.
I didn't call anyone a dirty Jew, but I am not sure how many expletives you would have used had any of these mega swindlers/fraudsters been Muslims.
BTW any idea where the 70 billion has disappeared?
"There are reasons (Jenin, Mohammed Dura, the Karin A affair, etc.) that I personally think of the Palestinian representative in front of the TV cameras as a "spokes-liar" and assume that every word out of their lips is a lie, including "and" and "the". Imagine Sab Erekat trying to sell you a used car– when you have finished twitching, vomiting and having spasms all over the floor, I will move on."
It sounds like your sympathies are still with Israel, as you say, because of your contempt for Palestinians.
Also - the shooting of missiles into Israeli towns, and homicide-bombers with explosive vests, blowing up buses, pizza parlors and seaside attractions ... that's kind of off-putting, sympathy-wise.
Anyone who hates any group of people wholesale can find reasons why they can be said to have "earned" it. Rationalized racism is still racism. Indeed, I've never encountered a racism that didn't find a way of rationalizing itself, and pointing to a particular version of history is the most common racist justification at all. Nothing special here I'm afraid. Garden variety American racism toward the last "acceptable" object of such an attitude.
I can't remember if this is my first visit to your b log, but it will certainly be my last. I don't need the toxicity.
Because too many Jews have families who suffered from pogroms, Nazis, etc. I was in Prague last weekend. 90% of the Jews who lived in the Czech Republic before WW2 were killed by the Nazis. Somewhere around 90,000. Who wants that kind of a homeland?
By contrast, in Israel, there is a Jewish look. An American Jew whose ancestors lived in Central Europe for centuries can feel like like they belong in Israel, which they certainly won't do touring the empty synagogues and remains of once-thriving ghettos nor the death camps of the countries their ancestors emigrated from.
I would guess that is because in terms of sentiment or states of mind and being, Israeli Jews and American Jews are actually worlds apart. Israelis are extremely varied but in the most general terms, and speaking mainly about secular Israelis: They are friendly, warm, nosy, hyper, manic, connected to a land, connected to each other, hang in groups, less lonliness , less psychological, more harsh, more outspoken et al: Quite different from American Jews, in many ways.
In the large cities in USA where many Jews live: NYC, LA, Miami, to name only 3 , American Jews are more polite, more diplomatic, more distancing from others (applies to all Americans in large cities) and meet primarily through Synagogues or Jewish chavara--reconstructionist Jews for example, centered in Philidelphia, or Tikkun leftist Jews in Berkeley: All are entirely different from Israeli sabras.
This means 1) that many USA Jews know very little about Israel, 2) That Israel is a source of bonding (growing less true with the young) but not known as a real dynamic, crazy, heartening, disheartening exciting, difficult and most of all: as an imaginative space, with tribal tensions we do not have here in USA.
Israeli Jews think of American Jews as: spoiled, wealthy, weak, money hungry, alienated from life, tepid etc.
This is a very generalized statement but it is important. Because both Israelis and USA Jews live with HUGE myths about the other, and some from USA do and many do not find in Israel itself any comfort or sense of home.
I've met many many Jewish Americans who cannot stand the Israeli 'chutzpah'; their directness, the ease with anger and the ease with getting over anger. We in USA are far more inhibited due in part to post Holocaust fears when the Jews were far from certain they would get into Universities and most were certain that we'd face anti-semitisim, which as you said in your post, in fact we Jewish Americans did and do not.
The word I was looking for was "sensibility"--so there are intra-jewish tensions that are not about left or right, rarely discussed yet a source of the so-called political ties and tensions. Israeli loudness vs. American 'tepidness' are real ways the two from such different cultures confuse each other. To love Israel requires a certain need for openness, directness, bravado, a huge need for ease of connectedness.
Not everyone's cuppa tea. This is a huge topic that I am not doing justice but what your post brought forth in me. Rarely discussed. Hugely important but why? will have to wait till I get some sleep.
Permit me while I scoff.
I would quibble with a few things you've argued here. I'd start by contesting the notion that the State of Irael suffers from a 'perilous existence.' I don't see how that can be so--and indeed, it is, I think, one of the defining differences in opinion between many European and American commentators on the Palestinian Question. I think most people outside the US take it as given that Israel will continue to exist unproblematically, thanks in large part to America's bloated annual aid and its guarantee for Israeli security. In Britain, for example, I think most people just don't think the very state is at danger of destruction because of the ongoing turmoil in the occupied territories. I think this also, generally, defines attitudes to terrorism in general. Few in Europe seriously believe their state is on the precipice of complete destruction as a result of terrorist attacks; in America, we're way more paranoid about that.
And of course, coupled with Israel's gigantic military advantage vis-à-vis its neighbours, let alone the TERRITORIES IT OCCUPIES, so bold an assertion proves more facile than Americans seem to accept.
I further quibble with that queasy romantic take on America's love of 'frontier' countries, on many grounds. I'm sorry, but Palestine has always been inhabited--from before the Jews 'arrived', until after the destruction of the kingdom(s) of the Jews, to the extension of the caliphate(s), to the European mandates. The Jews in 1948 did not create something ex nihilo--there was a whole society, mostly Arab, but also Jewish, Christian and others, that continued to be present. Saying otherwise is a patent falsehood, and it buys into Israel's self-deceptive myths; much, indeed, as the US buys into its own myths about its exceptionalism and--yes--its pioneering spirit. (Only, of course, Americans weren't pioneering in the wild entirely; there were Native Americans everywhere, and Spaniards--later Mexicans--to the South and the West; all forgotten...) And South Korea is a silly example. There was no wholesale re-engineering of South Korea's demographics after the Korean War. If anything, Korea simply undertook the same policies adopted by Germany and Japan after the Second World War: that is, a managed (read: state-directed) economic growth policy to reconstruct its destroyed, and in the event backward economy, and it worked wonders. South Korea, further, wasn't occupied, like Palestine; South Korea was under American military protection, much like Japan and Germany. Protection does not equal occupation, and that makes all the difference. It's also an affront to make any direct comparisons between South Korea and Gaza, for what should be obvious reasons. (Oh, but of course it's not obvious; NPR is just being silly, as are continued reports of food and supplies shortages in Gaza...)
What's even more galling, however, is that you concentrate your energies on putting us on a pedestal--because we Americans just absolutely love the truth, and can't stand to be lied to--whilst wantonly ignoring our, well, ignorance of the truth. In America, you only get half the truth--Israel's half--about what has transpired, and what continues to transpire. So Yasser Arafat wasn't a shining beacon of democracy and political legitimacy in the Middle East. But it is not as though the UN, European states, pretty much every NGO worth its name, and countless independent enquiries--even within Israel itself, mind--haven't consistently pointed out the many, MANY egregious harms done by the Israeli occupation on the Palestinian people.
And what makes it all so unique, indeed, is the fact that this is a problem of our--the West's--creation. You can bang on and on about the Armenians, the Tibetans, et al, but the simple fact of the matter is that those are peoples who were--and to some degree, are--oppressed by folks outside of our direct control. But what of Palestine, carved as it was out of a large series of protectorates under British control? What of Palestine, whose creation is owed to UN sponsorhip of Zionist claims to a separate homeland? What of Palestine, where the US transfers billions of dollars to fund one of the best-equipped militaries on Earth, and which enjoys singular transfers of technology and weaponry to fight terrorists fighting with the most arcane weapons? What of Palestine, where Israel has flouted more Security Council resolutions--the self-same Security Council that guaranteed Israeli independence--than should be deemed acceptable? What about the Palestine that has been illegally occupied, partially ethnically cleansed (let's not mince our words), and which continues to be colonised in an era when we're told colonisation is no longer acceptable?
The truth of the matter, Sgt. Mom, is that yours are tendentious arguments that appeal to only the worst in the American psyche--its pompous self-regard, its back-patting congratulations over its supposed even-handedness, its love of 'winners'--whilst studiously (no, stupidly) ignoring not just historical verities, but present-day suffering. So it doesn't matter to you that Gaza is slowly being strangled, if not entirely starved (in the words of Israeli officials). That this goes against the spirit AND letter of international law, international humanitarian law, and the laws of war doesn't bother you one iota.
You think that's splendid because you're a gee-whiz, we-know-what's-best American. I call it a callous indifference both to truth and suffering.
-- An American Without Natural Sympathies
I just read part of an editorial this morning pointing out that 1500 Jews were killed in Poland AFTER the war - by Poles who didn't want to give up the spoils left behind by Jews who were now returning. In Russia, there were pogroms long before Hitler was even born. Subjugation of the Jews isn't some theory or a new 20th century phenomenon.
What I don't understand is the black/white thinking. I mean, there will always be assholes who call us "heebs" and blame us for everything. (BTW, do all Catholics agree with the Vatican's protection of pedophiles? Do all American Christians think the crusades and Inquisition were a good thing? Why then would all Jews agree "tribally" with everything Israel does? It's a stupid concept.)
Jews lived in Palestine for centuries before the founding of Israel. Israel is a speck in a sea of huge nations, some of whom have pledged and tried to "drive Israel into the sea". When faced with genocide in Europe (they were not "given a place" in Europe; they were born there) and being killed after trying to come "home" after the war, European Jews sought a more ancestral home.
Perhaps there is some other, more nefarious reasoning behind this, but for the Jews coming to Israel after the war, it was about being somewhere safe from annihilation - somewhere that at some point in time was "home" and could be home again.
The UN agreed and passed a resolution making it so; yet the UN didn't put any force behind it, the Arab nations balked, and the Israelis used force to make the resolution a reality.
Agree or disagree with their actions, that's what happened.
At the same time, muslims lived in Palestine for centuries before the founding of Israel. Jews and Muslims in the area had a difficult time getting along long before the establishment of Israel. And subjugation of the Palestinians, which may well be borne of Israelis' fears of annihilation, is horrible nonetheless. Israel responds in an over the top military action with which I cannot agree. This latest is just unconscionable. A few rusty knives and some gas masks still do not justify the Israelis' actions.
Yet it does not occur in a vacuum. We may disagree with the utter destruction of Afghanistan in pursuit of destroying the Taliban, but we know it was undertaken by our government in response to 9/11.
Israel likewise often responds outrageously to verbal threats and suicide bombings, which are real and frightening to them.
And the Palestinians are also being used as pawns by the Arab world to provoke Israel. Arafat enriched himself on aid sent to help the Palestinians. Israel plays into their hands by reacting as they do, wholesale destruction in response to a relative pinprick.
What happened, happened. Israel exists. The Israeli government are not merely saintly protectors of the Jews; in fact a lot of decisions are probably made more about water rights in the area.
By the same token, Palestinians are pawns in a larger Arab game of provoking Israel, keeping a tiny nation on alert and always being able to point out Israel's subjugation of the Palestinians, casting Israel as "evil" and Palestinians as "good".
There are good and bad actors on both sides, there are pure and cynical motivations on both sides. I'm tired of hearing about the 1967 borders - Israel was blockaded and threatened by an army of nations at those borders, so why would they assume going back to those borders is a solution?
In summary, as an American Jew I do not kneejerk (tribally) agree with whatever Israel does. I don't despise everything the Palestinians do. I'm able to see nuance in the situation.
Those that blame all Jews for Madoff or assume we all blindly support Israel's every action are, well, let's just say "misguided".
The I/P argument can go on forever. Perhaps trying to see both sides (and not calling people "heebs") would be a start to a solution.
Oahusurfer and Procopius, Julie-H, Malusinka, Wendy Orange and anybodhi - thank you especially: y'all hold up the very best of what OS is supposed to be.
RCM - For the record, I do not particularly hate Palestinians - if anything, I am exasperated by sixty years of consistently making the most disasterous choice, no matter what the situation. And I do think the comparison to South Korea is perfectly valid: totally trashed infrastructure, having lost half the country in a war, bounteous outside help and interest - and completely different results.
I have to get back to work - if there is any more life in this topic, I will comment later.
I was at a Toronto demonstration a few days back, protesting the attack on the aid flotilla. Both groups were there; pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian, on opposite sides of the road. The pro-Palestinian group included two Jewish speakers, including a holocaust survivor who echoed Anybodhi's words that there are millions of Jews who totally disagree with Israel's policies and actions; she saw herself as anti-Zionist.
There were at least ten times more on the pro-Palestinian side than on the pro-Israeli side. Yet, the following morning I saw that almost every single Canadian newspaper had only pictures of the pro-Israeli demonstration. Why is it then that those who talk of Jewish control of the media are branded as anti-semitic? Is the truth anti-semitic?
Another example, of probably over a billion, of Jewish control of the media, especially in North America. Not so much in Europe.
About 10 days ago, The Guardian reported on a ground-breaking headline story about the transfer of nuclear technology from Israel to South Africa, in the 70's I believe it was, showing documents signed by Peres and Botha, the respective Defense Ministers at the time. The story was picked up by the Daily Telegraph and BBC. This news was never reported anywhere in North America. Why? Because the drumbeat against Iran is getting louder by the day. How irresponsible Iran is and it would transfer tecnology to terrorists. So, any news of Israel trying to sell to apartheid South Africa would obviously have been an embarrasment to the war lobby.
Not only is the U.S. Congress and Senate under the Jewish/AIPAC control but so is the U.S media. And, what I say here is no different to what a Republican President ( Nixon ) was saying to Billy Graham way back in the 70's. It's all there on You Tube.
One wonders what kind of a democracy there is, when both Gaza and Washington are occupied territories.
Why this special love for Israel? I heard Biden saying well Israel is a democracy. SOOOOO? I believe there are other democracies in the world. Why don't you love Sweden that much?
And do democracies or having elections in your country give you a right to kill stone throwing children and decimate a whole family on the beach, doing nothing more ominous than having a picnic. Hundreds of Palestinians have been brutally murdered and all we here of is the attack on the Pizza joint.
Unfortunately for the war mongers, the world is seeing through the farce.
You see, you're fumbling a very obvious point: that the Palestinians, by and large, have been held hostage by the actions of others. It's not that the Palestinians have been largely to blame for 60 years of violence--because lest you remember, there had been little by way of unified Palestinian leadership prior to the PLO gaining prominence at the UN in the 1970s. Palestinians have mostly had to suffer indignities first at the hands of Israelis, then at the hands of their 'hosts' in the wider region, and finally--and only then--at the hands of an inept leadership (to be sure) but one without any of the advantages Israel (sovereignty, a state, Western support) or the Arab states (sovereignty, a state) are afforded. Again, you seem to be equating both sides here, when they are anything but equal contenders.
Not only have the Palestinians not had the wherewithal to do much better, they're incompetence has been matched by the incompetent and often malicious policies executed far more efficiently by both Israel and the Arab states.
And no, Sgt. Mom, South Korea is a terrible example-- I really have no idea how you're arguing otherwise. South Korea was recognised as a state from the start. A large proportion of its people weren't living abroad because of forced expulsions after the war. It did not suffer an occupation by enemy forces after the war. It was able to build institutions thanks to relative peace--and under military guarantees from one of the world's super powers--and a boat-load of aid. That aid, mind, wasn't directed at subsistence living, as has been the case with the Palestinians, but was aimed at the creation of a functioning state and economy. And that aid moreover enjoyed the considerable advantages of not having to 'start afresh' every time occupation tanks and fighter planes decided to punish the people for the actions of terrorist combatants; to start fresh every time the occupying power bulldozed homes and shops to make way for occupation settlements; to be overseen by a power distinctly hostile to your interests.
And lest you need reminding--despite my having said it many times above--it sure helped that there was de facto peace on the peninsula. Not quite the same as enduring de facto continuous warfare, waged by a far-better equipped military force, against a state-less, poor and poorly-armed people seeking liberation.
Give me a break, Sgt. Mom--that is some very sloppy reasoning. In literally no relevant way was the post-war Korean experience similar to that the Palestinians continue to endure.
You said I was bordering on anti-semitic when referring to the mega world record holder swindler Maddof. Well here's what he had to say about the people he swinled:
On CNBC:
Bernard Madoff, the author of the biggest Ponzi scheme in history, told inmates at the Butner prison where he is serving his 150-year jail sentence that his victims deserved what happened to them, because they were rich and greedy, according to an article in New York Magazine.
One evening a fellow prisoner kept asking Madoff about the victims of his US$65 billion scheme and Madoff, angered, said: "F*** my victims. I carried them for twenty years, and now I'm doing 150 years," the magazine reported.
"Not forgetting the other Jews on Wall Street. The Lehman's etc etc. Swindlers that didn't spare anyone. Would you buy a car from them?And how convenient! 70 billions gone and no one knows where! Check with the Central Bank of the Zionist enterprise..." Your words, Salamander. Brownshirts, much?
Whether you like it or not, almost one in every five guys walking the earth these days is a Muslim, so there's bound to be quite a few bad apples, just like there are in any other group.
Long before in the pre-9/11 era when Pakistan first detonated the nuclear bomb, the headlines all over the western media were " the Islamic bomb". Now I didn't know that bombs have a religion too.
Are American bombs referred to as Christian bombs or are Israel's 200 plus nuclear bombs referred to as Jewish bombs?
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Thanksgiving will be here before we know it! I'll be posting videos with ideas for setting a creative Thanksgiving table. Look out for them during the upcoming weeks. I hope they inspire you to add a few unique touches this year and even create some new traditions of your own.
I made these videos a year ago and the ideas always seem to be a hit! I had such a good time making the videos with my nieces and one of my daughters.
When making the sunflower and fruit candle holders I used an arrangement similar to the 1-800-FLOWERS Autumn Celebration Centerpiece as an inspiration.
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Over the weekend Mary-Kate Olsen was pictured enjoying a basketball match in Madison Square Garden in New York City with her boyfriend Olivier Sarkozy (yes he is still 43 years old and he is still the brother of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and he is still a father of two) wearing a gold band on her wedding ring finger.
So is 26-year-old Mary-Kate Olsen engaged to Mary-Kate Olsen?
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I'm gradually making my way through the glut of eggs, by adding them to salads, making lablabi , having them for breakfast and so on. My latest Lettuce Deliver box contained the first asparagus of the season, which is always an exciting addition – tangible evidence that summer is on its way. To celebrate, I put together this little concoction, which really lets the asparagus shine. The bunch of asparagus was quite small, so I bulked it up with some green beans, this is up to you.
I never had asparagus until I came to Australia, but have loved it from that first taste. I used to just steam it or add to stir-fries, however about three years ago I found this method, in Madhur Jaffrey's " World Vegetarian ":http://www.cookerybook.com.au/popup_blue.asp?ID=4525. By cooking the asparagus in only a few tablespoons of water, not a skerrick of flavour is lost. It's still easy and makes all the difference.
I've always been a bit scared of poaching eggs, having tried many methods and had many disasters. No more, not since I discovered Orangette's method and instructions. Follow them and you'll have no problems.
This quick and easy recipe serves two people for a light lunch with some crusty bread, or you could split between four as a dinner entree.
Poached eggs with asparagus
Serves 2
- 2 bunches asparagus
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 70g olives (about 10), pitted and roughly chopped
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 4 eggs
Snap the woody ends off the asparagus.
Heat the olive oil in a frying pan over a medium-high heat and when hot, add the asparagus. Using tongs move the asparagus around in the oil until its completely coated (about 30 seconds). Add 3 tablespoons of water and cover the pan immediately (this will hiss and fizz a bit). Turn the heat to low and cook for 3 – 4 minutes. Add the olives and lemon juice, put the cover back on and put to one side to keep warm while you cook the eggs.
Poach the eggs for 3 – 4 minutes.
Place the asparagus and olives on two plates. Put the eggs on top and drizzle with any juices left in the pan.
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- Number of vegetable serves towards your daily total: 2
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Y'all know we crush hard on author Junot Diaz around these parts. Well, this bit of news from Entertainment Weekly's Tumblr makes us crush even harder: comics legend Jamie Hernandez (of Love and Rockets fame") is reworking Diaz's This Is How You Lose Her as illustrations for the upcoming deluxe edition.
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A real hero came to San Diego on July 20, as Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) arrived to unveil the first volume of March, a three-volume autobiographical graphic novel telling his own origin story.
"I hope that hundreds and thousands of young people across America and around the world, pick up this book and be inspired to engage in non-violent direct action," Lewis said. "When they see something that is not right, something that is unjust, that they be moved to protest."
Co-written by Andrew Aydin, a member of his staff, and illustrated by Nate Powell, the first volume of the story, due out on Aug. 13, flashes back to Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, and his eventual journey into what we now know to be the Civil Rights Movement, but was initially called "the Montgomery Method." Under the cut is my live report from their jam-packed session at the convention.
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It's an immediate attention grabber. Why? Because this highlights the gap in diversity of caucasian and POC authors. This is an informal survey taken by author Roxanne Gay that breaks out authors reviewed by the NYT in 2011 by race. Nearly 90% are caucasian. This by no means shows a complete breakdown of publishing. But I would venture to say that a more accurate number of published books might even further compound the gap between caucasian authors and POC authors.
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I was looking for some "Victorian" roses to plant in our new garden which is in a lovely Victorian terraced house that we are renting in Oxford. I tend towards the Bourbons, especially the most strongly scented roses. I found a really interesting looking nursery in the UK that specialises in old roses here:
One of the roses they offer is a Hybrid Perpetual called Comtesse Cecile de Chabrillant which seems to have wonderful flowers with a good scent. I went ahead and placed an order for her along with my Bourbons. I guess it's too late now to change my mind, but I'm wondering, does anyone have any experience with this rose? Any suggestions or recommendations for planting her? What can I expect? Go ahead and give me the bad with the good (but I'm hoping for mostly good!)
Below is a link to their page on the rose.
Here is a link that might be useful: Comtesse Cecile de Chabrillant
Hey Robert - congrats on finding Trevor White's roses - go ahead and buy it - you won't be disappointed. I buy most of my roses from Trevor and they are extraordinarily good. They come freshly dug with long, sturdy roots and clean green canes. Once in the ground, they just roar into life. A great nursery and lovely people.
Trevor only recently began direct sales to the public, but for many years he has been 'supplier of choice' to many of the better gardens that also retail roses. In my own area, Cranborne Manor, Longstock Park and Mottisfont Abbey all sell his roses. It is also a two-way process - many of his rarer roses come from those gardens. I think 'Countess Shabby' came from Mottisfont (further provenance - ex Sangerhausen about 1980). Not, I hasten to add, a shabby rose! Very full and silvery, vigorous enough to be grown against a wall, which is how it shows at Mottisfont. It will blackspot, but no more than most of its family. Like all HP's it likes to be fed, watered and pampered. Tends not to make old wood, so needs the strength to constantly rejuvenate itself.
Trevor also has the attraction of being considerably less expensive than the usual competitors, Beals and Austin, who are currently raping the market with their charges.
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Campanula and Jon, thanks very much for the good words about Trevor's roses!!! They had such a great site with so many wonderful roses I thought I would definitely give them a try, and now I feel confident in the choice. Thanks on too for the information on 'Countess Shabby', which I've now started thinking of as 'Countess Floosy', which can't be good at all. :) Wonderful to think I'll have a little piece of Mottisfont growing in the garden!
Jon, if you check back on this thread, can you answer a question for me? When I visited Mottisfont several years ago I was struck by the little bush of Hermosa. I *loved* the scent which seemed sweet and strong to my nose. When I returned to California, I started looking for it, but most sellers list it as having little scent and I started to wonder if maybe I remembered the name incorrectly? Does Hermosa have a good scent?? It's been five years, about time to pay Mottisfont another visit, am I correct in remembering early June as the prime time?
Rosefolly, I'll be sure to share how it does in the garden, I'm very excited about this rose, some of the photos I've seen have been amazing.
This photo, from http://www.petrovicroses.rs, is the one that did me in:
Cheers all,
Robert, I would go along with Graham Thomas's observation that Hermosa is 'fairly fragrant' :) Not its defining characteristic for me, it has many qualities that make up any lack in nasal oomph. There would seem to be a few forms of it around the world, including a 'climbing' form. My own shrub - the same as the little Mottisfont one - was planted next to an 8-foot high clematis support and within two seasons had romped to the top of it . . . roses will always surprise you!
Yes, mid-June for the high display of the roses, but of course it is a long season, and in fact the garden is open year around nowadays, so those who are interested can watch the Winter work/pruning etc being carried out. An easy jaunt down the A34 for you :)
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If your hand was busted to the point of uselessness, would you prefer to have this?:
The issue that's arisen is one that's happened twice thus far in Austria, where two guys have elected to have a hand amputated and replaced with a bionic version that lets them do things like pinch and grasp and tie their shoelaces. One guy's had it done, another's in the process.
So, if you could have a body part cut off and replaced by a bionic version that works better, which one would you… oh, come on, not that. You guys are sick. Besides, I don't think hydraulic technology is quite at that level yet.
(If the BBC takes the above video down, you'll find it here)
YES! No question I would have a limb replaced with a better version!!
I would have my legs replaced so that I could become a master of kick-centric martial arts. See that's why the Terminator failed, he was all guns.
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It was pretty damn impressive to start with, but when he rotated at the wrist 360 my mind broke. It's one thing to replace, but to enhance, that is on a whole new level.
amazing! but on the other hand(sorry) i hope he's a righty or he's going to have a tought time celebrating this month
Everyone knows that replacements are okay, but enhancements get you dark side points. And atoning is a bitch.
Hand down yes! (no joke intended) The robotics looks super cool I would want to leave the flesh colored outer casing off.
I have a family member who lost the use of her hand and had multiple painful surgeries to try and regain some function and it still only is barely capable of doing what these prostetics can. I know if she was a candidate she would not hesistate.
Glad to see that there is something like this available out there. I can imagine someone without a hand.
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Maybe. It would have to be super strong. Perhaps with lasers that shoot from the finger tips.
Absolutly. I want to see the VA start paying for this stuff for all of the injured service men and women out there.
I don't know. Could I punch with the power of kicks?
Why… that would make you… some kind of cybernetic "KickPuncher". And I would have to destroy you.
Sadly, I'm at the age where I'd probably just ask for bionic knees that bend completely and don't hurt in the presence of any sort of humidity.
Also, I'd like to see Matt get one of those bionic spines like they gave Worf the one time a bunch of empty plastic crates fell on him in the loading bay. (Worf is SUCH a baby.)
I know what you mean. It is such a bizare feeling. Never having met any of the people of the Nerdist podcast I still feel like I have. I listen to them every few days. They talk about their lives and I feel myself worrying about Matt and his bad back. I feel happy everytime he has lost more weight like he is a friend. Makes me feel weird.
for me it would have to be eyes, for sure, as long as i have the same dynamic rage of color but obviously it could make the viewing experience for any visual media thousands(if not more) of times better. this would all be assuming that any and all kinds are worked out. next i end up going deep into ghost in the shell territory with stuff like cybernetic minds ect.
Probably knees, because let's face it, whether your 4 years old or 60 years old, walking up stairs still still suck.
If someone chose to get their (healthy) hand cut off just so they could get a cool bionic replacement, then that's not right. But if your real hand is useless, then why not?
I bet as bionics improve and become more commonplace, elective replacement is going to become an issue.
And Paul, I'm gonna have to be THAT guy and point out that Worf didn't get a bionic spine. If I remember correctly Dr. Crusher's colleague replicated him a new organic one from his own DNA.
Huh. I could have sworn that there was some sort of metallic thing attached to Worf's back in that episode. I last saw it in 1995, though, so I'll defer to you on that point.
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the wife and I and 2 neighbors have been thinking about how and where we live; south west of DC leaves us little options should social unrest become a reality. The 6 of us, along with 8 kids from 18 months to 11 are in agreement that unrest would accrue in stages--not with much knowledge added from the 'experts'. Our 3 homes in a row back up against a hill and we have been doing small things over the past 3 years: digging into the hill to relive our youth with forts--try to spin what we do as something innocuous. Though a bit better constructed and with a generator and some branches for hygiene and storage. plan is loosely that 'we the people' will know nothing about what is truly happening in the downtown parts of the cities. Our 1st event driven conditions will --consensus here is that they inner peoples will take 3 to 8 days to eat them selves out of whats in their neighborhood and than begin moving on the suburbs. Little or no gasoline means they will move by foot in mass and rest and loot by night.
Optimally we tunnel from house to house and than to the hill. couple more years by hand ( cover our work with 'home improvements'-- pool, fancy gardesns.....)
map wise after 'they' arrive it would be a week before --they either get & burn everything and move on or--the govt gets some plan of action which actually gets safe back into our lives.
decisions already made
---we will not let 'them, the govt' make us leave, we hide from them as well as the more obvious thieves.
---we have ( will have ) 3 months supplies; food, water , medicine, etc
---we are willing to let the looters burn, or......still discussing the pros of defense vs the cons of letting then know we are there.
---we do not wish to overtly confront our own young men and women in the dress of our military, yet we will not allow ourselves to be 'taken to a camp for our safety"
---lots of lines to be drawn and were to put them and with how much wiggle room....
---and survival tools include guns and ammo. 4 of the 6 adults are better than average and the 11 year old boy is a rifle champ.
right now i question what type of training we can all benefit from and the selection of guns we should work with.
and after the '90 days' there is barter ( have some small gold coins and silved......and ammo to carefully trade.
ideas, help please...can we do TEOTWAWKI one step deeper in both directions?


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The time has come to start this thread. There has been some interest in creating combat jets in the same vein as the series of WWII fighters. This will be somewhat of a learning curve as the process for designing simple, great flying, and good looking models is developed.
Design Criteria: 1. Wing area - 150 sq. in. This is calculated by extending the leading and trailing edges to the centerline. The area of one wing panel then would equal 75 sq. in. Keeping to this size is more likely to allow the design to fit on one sheet of MPF (24" x 48" x 6mm). Tail surfaces will be enlarged 10% from scale for stability purposes. This has served well throughout the WWII series. Typically jets are longer than their wingspan, so I may have to revise the wing area down to allow the use of one sheet. 2. Flight Controls - Pimarily aileron/elevator designs. However some will include rudder/flaperon options. In this case there will be dual aileron servos and a rudder servo. Some setups may be four channel with a single aileron servo, or even as simple as tailerons or elevons. 3. Construction Style - This will vary between VLF (vertically laminated fuselage), and PLF (perpendicularliy laminated fuselage), and or a mix of the two. 4. Power System - I want to go with the 1700 Kv 24g motor again, but this time it will be set up for 3s. We found on the WWII models that the motor/esc/prop combo that they handled 3s just fine. Since these are models of jets, I want to see a more jet like performance. Batteries in the 1000 mAh + 200 mAh. Sticking with the 7x6 prop as well. These may be tractor, prop in slot, or pusher setups. 5. Servos - Sticking with the low cost 9 or 10g servos. You will be able to opt in 5g servos easily. The opening is close enough to hold the smaller ones as well. The WWII thread sat somewhat idle for a year until I was able to turn my attention to the idea. Hopefully this will not be the case and we will have several models to build this winter and be ready for the spring or even some indoor venues. I already have some projects on the burner. Feel free to post 3 views of projects you would like to see. Ken Plans list: DH100 Vampire F-22 Raptor Su-27 Flanker MiG 29 Fulcrum F-15 Eagle |
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Here is the starter. It is a tractor mounted motor with that is already motion. I should be cutting the prototype this weekend. Plans will eventually be placed in this post.
I am fond of the T7 varient, but this is the Mk9 (I believe). Hawker Hunter Wingspan - 21.6" Foam weight - 72.6g Have a great weekend, Ken Edit 03-OCT-2012: Maiden flight report 1. I put three batteries through this model today. Adjusting the battery aft until finding what seems like the optimum CG, which was at the rear of the aileron servo case (not the mounting tab). I will be repositioning the elevator and rudder servos aft so that the battery can sit on the CG. 2.Pitch response was acceptable once the CG was found. May add some TE to the elevators. 3. Roll response was super sensitive. I had to put the pushrod in the 3rd hole from the end on the servo horn to tone it down, and rate was set to 50% on the radio with 60% expo. Still a bit twitchy. Truncating the ailerons and fixing the tips should slow this down to a more docile rate and allow full use of servo travel. I will try this once the CG has been tuned for the battery at the CG. 4. The rudder was mildly effective. A little more throw and it will hold knife edge flight. May add some TE to this surface as well. 5. Flaperons were causing serious nose down pitching. This effect was so pronounced that at one point I reset up the radio for elevons and flew it without the elevator. It not the most responsive this way, but the throws were way down. Then I plugged the elevator servo into the aux1 channel on the rx and mixed the the elevator to aux1. Then the pitch response was super sensitive. I used +100 so there was full deflection. This may have merit if it is tuned down. 6. Power system performance was more than adequate with unlimited vertical on 3s. Summary Some tuning and adjustments to the design will make this more fun to fly. Right now its kind of a handful. ImagesView all Images in thread
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That F-86D is a great candidate for a tractor mount with spinner, while the earlier F-86 and Mig 15 may get a mid mount setup ala Eliworm's BD-5J. It really depends on the fuselage cross section hieght. Ken : |
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I appreciate you sharing your experience. Your Mig 15 is similar to what I may try. If you get a chance to check Eliworms thread he posted here. To use a more standard power set up, I would go with a 3 point strategy. and allow the prop to extend through the bottom of the airframe. I got the Hunter nearly ready to maiden. Right now its a bit on the nose heavy side, and I will likely move the elevator and rudder servos aft a bit to balance it out better. Probably mount them as in the wings. Much cleaner profile that way. Oh well, sometimes you have to do something to see where you should have gone. I really like the long lean looks of the Hunter. More pics in post #2. Ken |
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