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February 7, 2012
Liz Coffin-Karlin
I live in Buenos Aires full time, I was a Spanish major in college and I'm about as obsessive about Latin pop music as any actual Latina I know so naturally, people laugh when I tell them I almost didn't take AP Spanish my senior year of high school. Once upon a time, I thought foreign language classes were good for silly skits and fluffing up your college resume but looking back, I can honestly say that even if I had no idea at the time, my high school Spanish classes were probably the most important classes I took in those four years.
Most colleges require language classes to graduate and have varying levels of language requirements for different study abroad programs. The thing about really trying to learn that tricky foreign language is that it lets you become part of whatever culture you're visiting, whether you flew to another continent or just visited a part of your own college city that you'd never been. Instead of being just a tourist, you can become an observer – an anthropologist of that new and exciting land – but if you don't know the language (or your basic cultural history), that task becomes impossible and you're just a tourist with a resident visa. Think about practicing your French in a New York Haitian neighborhood, your Cantonese in San Francisco Chinatown or your Arabic in Dearborn, Michigan. You don't have to fly a thousand miles away to get out of your comfort zone or expand your horizons.
Now I'm not advocating walking into Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood and expecting your six words of Spanish to make you a whole bunch of new friends. Just like when you're a visitor in someone's home, be polite and know that your presence can easily become a burden rather than a novelty. If you work at understanding the people around you, finding out about their lives and listening to their opinions and goals, your limited language skills might rapidly expand.
Liz Coffin-Karlin grew up in Sarasota, Florida where the sun is always shining and it's unbearably hot outside. She went to college at Northwestern University and after studying Spanish and history, she decided to study abroad in Buenos Aires. In college, she worked on the student newspaper (The Daily Northwestern), met people from all over the world at the Global Engagement Summit and, by her senior year, earned the title of 120-hour dancer at NU's annual Dance Marathon. She currently works in Buenos Aires on freedom of speech issues but is thinking about returning to the U.S. for a job in urban education.
February 8, 2012
Alexis Mattera
Spending a semester abroad may not be feasible for students with rigid major requirements or ones who are aiming to graduate in the shortest amount of time possible to save on tuition. Instead of having students miss out on what could be one of the most rewarding experiences of their lives, schools like the University of Maryland are offering truncated programs called minimesters to foster international travel.
This winter alone, UMD's study abroad office offered 42 short-term programs to destinations including Costa Rica, Mexico and Thailand with courses covering government and politics, art history, architecture, education, geography and more. These trips are usually about three weeks in length and students (including the article's author, Elizabeth Roberts, who completed two minimesters to Chile and Brazil) have reported it's plenty of time to immerse themselves in the culture without sacrificing school, work and other obligations back home. This time abroad even causes some students to alter their educational directions: One UMD senior's minimester in South Africa last winter sparked an interest in health issues and has since translated into an internship with the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C.
Do you think a minimester is a good way to interact with the age of globalization without compromising progress toward graduation?
February 14, 2012
Darci Miller
Hello from the beautiful city of London! I've been here for a month and if I've learned anything, it's that the study abroad experience is just as wonderful as everyone says it is. It's also given me the chance to put some study abroad myths to the test.
Myth #1: Study abroad is 90% partying, 10% studying. This certainly depends on what kind of student you normally are and what kind of lifestyle you lead at your home university. Europeans do go out more than Americans but "going out" often means drinking a pint with some friends at the local pub and not necessarily getting all dolled up and going clubbing. And once assignment deadlines start looming, you are going to have to hit the books.
Myth #2: It's too much money. It's very easy to study abroad in a financially responsible way. If you go through a program hosted by your home university, any financial aid you have will (or should) transfer. After that, it's all a matter of using your money in a smart way. Also, check online and with your study abroad office to see if there are study abroad-specific scholarships you can apply for. I got $4,500 from Miami's study abroad office and it'll be funding all of my travels and then some!
Myth #3: It's dangerous and/or scary. It's drilled into our heads before we leave that pickpocketing is a big threat in Europe but as long as you're smart about your belongings, international cities are no more dangerous than cities in America. And living in a new country is certainly a jarringly different experience but it'll only change you for the better.
Myth #4: Europeans all dress a certain way and you need to fit in. Everyone in London looks like they've stepped out of a fashion magazine – well-dressed and attractive – so if I wear a Miami t-shirt to class, I stick out like a sore thumb. It's ok, though: Regardless of how you dress, people will know you're American as soon as you open your mouth.
Myth #5: You'll have more free time than you know what to do with. I'm taking four classes and each is two hours per week with Tuesdays and Fridays off. I've become a champion napper but I've also done a ton of exploring. You're abroad for a short time – don't waste it!
Darci Miller is a New Yorker studying journalism and sport administration at the University of Miami. When she's not writing for the school newspaper, you can find her at the gym, either working or working out. She loves all '80s pop culture (the cheesier the better!), and glues herself to her TV when the Olympics are on. She dreams big, and believes the sky's the limit!
February 20, 2012
Jacquelene Bennett
There is going to come a time when you are writing a paper or doing a research project when simply doing a Google search will not be enough to get the information you need. As you progress through your college career, the papers you write and the projects you do will get harder and more in depth and the research tools you used in high school and in intro-level classes won't help much. So how do you do proper research?
Start off by going to the library and looking at books – real, actual books. Contrary to what people think, books are not outdated or irrelevant but are actually great sources for papers and projects. The plus side to going to the library is that if you have trouble finding sources, you can ask a librarian who will be more than happy to help you out.
Another way to find reliable and informative sources for a paper is through scholarly journals. Scholarly journals are collections or databases of articles written by experts and professionals on different subjects and issues in almost every academic field of study. The databases I use are JSTOR, Project MUSE and LexisNexis but there are literally hundreds of different journals and students generally have free access to them through their universities. You can usually find these sites linked to your school's library website, through a class's Blackboard site, Google Scholar (though you generally have to pay for these), or, of course, a librarian can help you access them.
While a Google search might give you fast surface facts, you will have to search for a long time to find citation-worthy in-depth analyses and reliable information. With books and scholarly articles, you get the information you need and you never have to question their legitimacy.
Jacquelene Bennett is a senior at the University of Redlands where her areas of study are creative writing, government and religious studies. When she is not studying or working, you can usually find her eating frozen yogurt or blogging about her day. She has a cactus named Kat and believes that Stephen Colbert is a genius. Jacquelene works hard, laughs hard and knows that one day you'll see her name in lights.
February 21, 2012
Jessica Seals
It's Tuesday afternoon and you just finished your last class for the day before heading off to club meetings, work, and finishing up two big papers. As you realize just how full your schedule is, you remember that you forgot to include time to eat and, given your time crunch, you decide to grab a quick burger for lunch and some chips to snack on later. As a college student, this scenario probably seems very familiar: We have so many different things going on in our lives that we struggle to make time for healthy meals. Although eating fast food occasionally will not cause you much harm, you will eventually notice changes in your body and mood if you eat it each day – in college and beyond.
Although the infamous 'freshman 15' still causes concern for college students, many continue to rely on fast foods. During my freshman year of college, I was more than excited to learn that our campus dining halls featured a few popular fast food restaurants but after eating these foods without including any fruits or vegetables in my diet, I noticed a big change in my mood. I have a high metabolism so gaining weight didn't worry me but I was concerned about my lower energy level – I always felt too tired to do anything, even after I had just eaten and I could not focus on reading assignments or writing papers. At that time, I realized that it was time to make a change.
I knew that I could not give up fast food completely, but I did start keeping fruit in my dorm room or eating salads instead of burgers. When I went to restaurants, I opted for healthier choices and slowly but surely, my energy level returned to normal. My advice to even the busiest college students? Make room for healthy foods. Your schedule may be packed but you'll be able to get through it much easier when you have more energy!
Jessica Seals is recent graduate of the University of Memphis, where she majored in political science and minored in English. She was the secretary of the Pre-Law Society, the philanthropy chair of the Phi Kappa Phi Student Council and a member of Professional Assertive United Sisters of Excellence (PAUSE), Golden Key Honor Society, Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society, Sigma Alpha Lambda Honor Society and Black Scholars Unlimited. As she prepares for law school, Jessica will continue to tutor and volunteer in her community.
February 23, 2012
In my last article, I talked a lot about language classes at school and how you can use those skills in your own cities. But honestly the best way to practice a foreign language is to immerse yourself in it so in this column, I'm going to talk about studying abroad – but cost effectively.
Like with real estate, the costs associated with studying abroad depend on location, location, location. While your parents didn't have a lot of study abroad options outside Europe, the world is changing and becoming more global every day; by changing that dream European vacation into a jaunt to a different continent, you can save a lot of money and have a unique experience. I studied abroad here in Buenos Aires, which at the time was about $10,000 cheaper than an equivalent program I could have done in Barcelona. Plus, my study abroad program was about a month and a half longer, meaning I had a lot more cultural immersion than I would have had with the program in Spain.
Also, think about if you really need the college credits you'll get abroad. If you can just go for a summer and give up the academic courses or if you're ahead on credits and can take a semester off, it might be worth it to check out volunteering abroad programs aimed at young people. Generally, the prices are significantly lower for a few months of building houses than for university classes; however, the experience is very different than taking university classes with native students (which is what I did...and loved) so think about what you're really looking for in an abroad experience before choosing.
Finally, there are ways to actually make money while you're studying abroad! Many countries are looking for English teachers and it's worth checking out expatriate websites to see if anyone needs a babysitter who is a native English speaker. Similarly, if your language skills are good enough, there are lots of translation jobs out there – just check Craigslist like I did!
February 24, 2012
There could be a 15-page research paper deadline, a monster exam and an internship shift tomorrow but if you think a college student isn't going to take even a few minutes to destress or have a laugh, you're crazy. My go-tos were Peanut Butter Jelly Time, Snood and UCTV but today, it's all about college-centric memes.
According to Time (and Richard Dawkins), a meme is essentially an idea that replicates and evolves through imitation – a process the Internet makes almost too easy. Since October, schools like Florida International University, McGill, Appalachian State, UT, Duke, Northwestern and BU have all jumped aboard the meme train and the viral school spirit shows no sign of slowing: More student-created takes on Success Kid, Uber Frosh and others keep popping up on Facebook every day.
Have you caught college meme fever or do you think the meme trend has already worn out its welcome?
February 27, 2012
Upon arriving in London for study abroad, I was initially amazed by how normal everything felt. I mean, everyone speaks the same language – how different could things possibly be? But two days later, as I was standing in an endless line and waiting to register for classes, I realized that some things here might not be quite the same.
While the lack of a language barrier definitely helps (we all know what a "lift" is, right?), the British school system does its own thing. Most British universities are three years rather than four and get this: the first year doesn't even count. That's right! If Brits want to slack off their entire first year of "uni," they absolutely can. Of course, it'll affect their ability to get work placement but it won't mean anything when it comes to their degrees. This means a whole ton of drinking and skipped lectures followed by two years of mountains of work.
In America, handing in an assignment means printing it out and giving it to your professor. Not across the pond: Each assignment needs some sort of cover sheet that's provided to you on Blackboard (or the "Virtual Learning Environment") and needs to be handed into the department office. Not the lecturer or seminar tutor, but the department office. Does this make sense?
The grading system is different as well. One hundreds are completely unheard of: Eighty is basically the equivalent of a perfect score so don't freak out about getting a 60 – that's a decent grade here! There are all sorts of different labels assigned to seemingly arbitrary numbers and not even the educators have any idea why it's done like this. Trust me, I've asked.
And then, of course, there's registering for classes. British students only take classes in their "course," or major so when associate students attempt to take classes in multiple courses, the online system isn't equipped to handle it. You may be able to take out books from the school library using a touch screen and a scanner, but you have to run around to the different departments and have them physically sign you up for classes. I never thought I'd miss waking up early for my registration time back in the states!
Bottom line: No matter where you study abroad, you're going to have culture shock, even if it means writing papers with footnotes instead of in-text citations. Just smile and chalk it all up to experience!
Darci Miller is a New Yorker studying journalism and sport administration at the University of Miami. When she's not writing for the school newspaper, you can find her at the gym, either working or working out. She loves all '80s pop culture (the cheesier the better!), and glues herself to her TV when the Olympics are on. She dreams big, and believes the sky's the limit!
February 28, 2012
Radha Jhatakia
One of the best resources that college can offer you (besides an education, of course) is the opportunity to find employment after graduation. There are programs dedicated to helping students in different career fields and at SJSU, one of these opportunities comes with the Bay Area Retail Leadership Center, or BARC.
BARC consists of SJSU students and faculty who have partnered up with those in the retail industry. Currently, the list of partners includes Target, Walgreens, Kohl's, Verizon Wireless, Ross, Nike and Walmart and students are able to interact with professionals at these companies and gain insight to what working for a retail corporation will be like while networking and getting potential job offers.
BARC offers a study tour during which students travel to different headquarters and main offices of these companies – an advantageous experience that happens only twice a year. Apart from this, BARC hosts conferences in which speakers present on different aspects of how to make it to the retail industry; internships are also offered. Just like with any networking opportunity, though, it is up to the student to make the most of these prospects in the end.
If there is a program like BARC at your college, take advantage of it – there are so many unexplored opportunities! – but if a program like this doesn't exist, speak with advisers and faculty to start one! It will be a great chance for you to launch a program that will not only help many individuals but will allow you to gain work experience and contacts in the professional world as well.
Radha Jhatakia is a communications major at San Jose State University. She's a transfer student who had some ups and downs in school and many obstacles to face; these challenges – plus support from family, friends and cat – have only made Radha stronger and have given her the experience to help others with the same issues. In her spare time, she enjoys writing, reading, cooking, sewing and designing. A social butterfly, Radha hopes to work in public relations and marketing upon graduation.
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Upperclassmen across the country are stressed in every sense of the word. And it would come to no surprise that said students are currently walking around in oversized tees and sweats, with mangled hair and dark circles under their eyes, which can only mean one thing: The SATs are just around the corner. For years, the SATs have long been synonymous with intense anxiety and while that is considered the norm (unfortunately), U.S. News and World Report and psychologist Ben Bernstein, author of "Test Success! How to Be Calm, Confident and Focused on Any Test," have complied a few handy tips for parents to help ease their kids' stress:
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4.0 out of 5 stars Raw Unedited Rage,
Coach C (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Generation Kill (Paperback)
I have a friend serving in Afghanistan as part of the Canadian contingent of NATO. He was describing to me the thrill he felt to be on the front-lines fighting. As an admitted pacifist and having never served in the military, it is hard for me to understand how someone can feel "glee" in an all out firefight. My friend referred me to "Generation Kill", as a way to explain how he feels.
First the mechanics, Evan Wright is an excellent journalist and writer and the lucidity of his prose reflects his talents. The book is literally a page-turner and Wright does a great job developing each of the characters as an embedded journalist in a Recon unit leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The parallel with Lt. Fick and my friend are uncanny.
It's still difficult for me to comprehend why soldiers do what they do, but Evan Wright's book has helped me bridge that gap. Soldiers are ultimately human, conflicted and flawed. Compared to Mark Bowden's "Black Hawk Down", I felt Wright did a better job showing more raw human emotion, to explain what it means to be a soldier.
I'm writing this review as I'm watching the HBO series that bears the same name as the book. I read the book last year and watching the series brings me back to this great book, a worthwhile read for anybody wanting to know more about what it means to be a soldier.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars No Boyscouts Here,
I'm glad to read a story about the Marines that is uncensored - with the high expectations of the American people set by the greatest generation that ever lived I found it impossible to live up to Steven Spielberg's version of "Band of Brothers". Being a Marine in 1st Recon Bn, Evan Wright's interpretation of our daily lives and experiences are extremely accurate. While reading the book almost a year later I had forgotten some of the details of my own experiences that Wright brought back to life. It was almost like I was living through the war again. Simply put, if you want to know what it is like to be a Marine during this campaign there is no better book at this time. It seems to me that Evan Wright was influenced by nothing but the experiences and the personalities that he absorbed during the war. No one is over exaggerated.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Accurate and instructive,
Bill McAllister (Livermore, CA) - See all my reviews
I was a Recon Marine (Bravo Co. 3rd. Plt.) in the first Gulf War and Somalia. I look at this book from the distance of time, for my own experience, and with a history degree to reflect upon. The Marines have not changed much, nor has the command structure. There were good officers and enlisted men, and bad ones. The bad ones being deadly by the nature of the work. Yet, when you go to war you are stuck with what you have. First and foremost Wright illustrates that maxim of war.
Secondly, Wright, if he follows up on the consequences, shows the dillema of a journalist being too close to the war. He is embedded with his subjects and the story himself. For me, he did an outstanding job of staying objective about the chaos and slaughter of war. As well, he shows the American Fighting Man for all the things that he is. Some do not want to hear it but many Marines do look forward to war and that does not change after the first round goes off. But Wright does, in a way, become one of the boys. However, he could not have gotten this story if he had not, Recon Marines tend to not like reporters because they usually get portrayed as ninja like Rambos, which is unreal.
Of course, Wright made a few errors on military details, which an editor should have caught. Reporters of military actions should know more about the military: the structure, rank, equipment and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. There are at least a few remarks in the book for which some Marines may unfortunately regret. I don't think journalists should edit themselves but greater care is given to other confidential sources.
Wright got his boots dirty and saw a piece of the military that America has chosen not to look at. This book is true to the American Marine who has to go to war with less than perfect conditions and make decisions that few other humans have to consider.
Semper Fi! (The God Father always had a rhaspy voice.)
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5.0 out of 5 stars True but sad,
moe armstrong "Moe Armstrong" (San Francisco, Ca) - See all my reviews
I was with Third Recon in Vietnam. This book is the only real description I have read about the full Recon experience. This is war. Some valor Some horror Today I will buy ten copies of this book and pass them out to people. If you want to know me, read this book that is what I will tell people. I was in Vietnam for a year doing this. How were any of us supposed to have survived? For once our story gets out almost forty years after my time in Vietnam. I will be a Recon ranger till the day I die. Somebody wrote the truth in this book. God help the next generation. We might have to hunt and fight the some of these middle easteran religious fanatics on our own land.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Get some!,
Brian Maitland (Vancouver, BC, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Generation Kill (Paperback)
Comparisons are made with this book and Michael Herr's "Dispatches" for the Iraq War generation. I think you need to look at these books as bookends of a long arc of excellent journalism on the "American soldier on the ground" experience.
Look, forget the analysis as all I know is any military unit that bans any country music and calls it "the Special Olympics of music" is one I want to get to know. This book takes you inside that unit and is right up there with Anthony Swofford's "Jarhead" at the top of the heap in books on the modern military.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars finelook from a visitor to the Corps,
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Evan wrote in firm prose...dancing his pen in and out of the cobwebs that sometimes clutter a tired sentries vision. He gave a Recon look at War as Chadz gave a infantry Marine's view at peacetime(Stand By to Fall Out). These two books together will allow a reader to travel to hell heaven and back with the Marines...maybe more drastically with Chadz as he was a Marine and wrote first person. Salutes to Evan...and there is still time to join!!!
Semper Fi
5.0 out of 5 stars Best account of either Iraq war,
David Zincavage (San Carlos, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This is certainly the best account of either Iraq war I've read. Those who've previously served will be gratified to find that, even today, the Marine Corps remains the elite service branch. Marines are still warriors. Marines still prize competence. And marines still train at every opportunity.
Evan Wright, a Rolling Stone reporter, embedded with a Marine Recon battalion operating at the spearhead of the Marine Corps advance to Baghdad and beyond, gets thoroughly assimilated into the platoon he's living among. He hero-worships the squad leaders, non-coms, the cold-eyed snipers, and the martial artist warriors. Some readers may think he is quite a bit taken in by the self images, the urban legends and the daily folklore of a macho world he finds impressive and intimidating, and with which he clearly yearns to identify, but he does convincingly portray a bunch of disparate young men from diverse backgrounds, some from the barrio and the jailhouse, some from affluent suburbs, who pretty much all do subscribe to the myth of the Marine Corps served up in the famous TV recruiting ad in which a knight in shining armor fights and slays a dragon, then morphs into a US Marine in dress blues saluting with the USMC mameluke sword. A surprising percentage of that Recon platoon enlisted because they saw that very ad (!).
The young marines talk the tough Marine Corps talk: "Question: What do you first feel when you accidentally shoot a civilian? Answer: Your rifle's recoil." But they nearly all do their best, and they are willing time and again to risk their own lives, to avoid inflicting civilian casualties. They manifestly feel a lot more than recoil when the accidents and mistakes inevitable in warfare occur. One of the main gripes of the rankers is US command's failure to make provision for adequate facilities and care for Iraqi prisoners of war and civilian casualties. Wright shows us US military forces behaving completely unlike the stereotypes found in the daily press.
Wright seemed sometimes more than a bit naive, but he does share, and can vividly describe, soldier's lives, discomforts, and the hazards of combat. He does a good job of explaining just how miserable it is to try to function in desert heat in one of the contemporary anti-gas outfits. Wright naturally recounts plenty of incidents illustrating war's horrors and brutality, but he can also explain some of its fascination, the way being shot at makes young men feel more alive, the way it makes the food taste better.
The author though does fail to recognize that enlisted men gossip incessantly, and that scuttlebutt about the incompetence, criminality, and dementia of individual officers and the reckless folly of all command decisions is ubiquitous in every service, and those kinds of stories and gripes need to be taken with a considerable grain of salt.
4.0 out of 5 stars So much to think about,
Sherri L. Bergman "slb" (Shanghai) - See all my reviews
I flew through this book feeling like I was reading letters home from people I knew. I was fascinated by the characters, especially Espera, Reyes and Fick. I protested the war (and continue to) and have a hard time with the "support our troops" messages - the best way I can think of to support our troops is not to send them into unnecessary harm. This book gave me a lot to think about: the military as one of the only truly diverse (socially, economically, racially) institutions in America, the military as safety valve for angry young men, the question of how these guys will ever find civilian life stimulating enough, whether it's possible to train the world's best military and not have it be inevitable that they "get their chance to prove themselves" and, overwhelmingly, the relief at knowing how hard they try not to kill civilians and how bad they feel when they do. I heard an interview with Fick and Wright on NPR and while I'm glad Fick is no longer in harm's way (and hoping he's not one of the non-reservists being recalled to Iraq) I am glad that someone like him enlisted.
I understand the other reviewer's concern that the book wasn't fact checked enough but I disagree that it ruins the book. As it says in the book, most of the time the Marines only knew what was happening in their immediate vicinity - the style of the book replicated the powerlessness and anxiety of that feeling -- of not knowing what the bigger picture is and not being able to do anything to control it.
5.0 out of 5 stars The Face of Marine Recon in OIF,
Evan Wright has written an American classic in war time journalism. If you never serve in the military and want just a taste of action, this is the closest you can get without raising your right hand.
The 1st Recon Bn in OIF is used to make feints all along a string of towns leading to Baghdad to keep the enemy forces off balance and allow the main force components to make rapid progress. Evan Wright is there as a reporter, riding sometimes in the point vehicle even as it willfully goes into ambush situations time and time again. He notes the mannerisms of the Recon Marines around him, meticulously quoting some of the most hilarious statements and incongruous actions ever made by humans at the most innocous moments in combat. The level of competence, concern and attempts to do the "right thing" is reassuring. Alternatively, the tragedies, and mistakes due to incompetence and irresponsibility within one unit is at times excessively shocking. The overall humanizing factor was the portrayal that the Marine's themselves are so shocked by the acts they witness and at times engage in to survive in this combat zone.
For an authentic look at a USMC Recon Bn in battle and to gain some insight of day to day concerns of a small unit in a combat zone, "Generation Kill" delivers a gritty yet enthralling ride. One I could not put down. The five stars is definitely well earned.
4.0 out of 5 stars Not necessarily "accurate", but so what?,
John Snell (Fairview, UT United States) - See all my reviews
After reading "Jarhead" I expected another couple of hours of angst and wierdness that doesn't necessarily relate to the experience of the 'Corps. I couldn't have been more wrong.
Mr. Wright captures the experience of the modern infantry marine very well. I beleive he does this simply by observing and writing from 'outside' the experience. Instead of a tale of false bravado, he relates the true experience of combat. In essence, confusion, error and chaos.
Had Wright done his homework later, and reinterviewed his subjects after the fact, he would have lost the effectiveness of this book. Research would've killed it in a flood of useless details that have nothing to do with what he's writing about. In these situations, you do not have the play-by-play. You do not have the big picture. It is true that Wright misses on some smaller points of weaponry and nomenclature. But what little this book suffers in accuracy, it gains in relating the true experience of these Marines.
This book will be compared to a bunch of other modern war stories. It will inevitably be compared to 'Jarhead'. Jarhead was good, because it captured some of the duality and angst of many of the younger Marines in the first Gulf War. But Jarhead was a cathartic exercise, focused inside the brain of a single individual. It's appeal is more to the people who actually lived through some of the events Swafford relates. Generation Kill is a better book about Marines in general, because it captures a cross-section of an elite Marine unit, from an outside perspective. One of the things both books try to tackle is the strange marriage of dysfunction and competence of the Corps. You will never see a stranger (or stronger) patchwork of personality and experience anywhere in the world.
I liked both books, but for very different reasons. If you are a veteran of the first Gulf War, you should certainly read both of them. If you are not, then don't waste your time with Jarhead, but read Generation Kill instead.
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Books or movies on trike flyingBy Rizwan Bukhari
I just got done with my final Securities exam, so now I have a lot of free time to read.
I would like to know if there is any book or videos that you can recommend, related to flying and flying adventures, they don't necessarily have to be about trike flying but any kind of flying related interesting book or video that you enjoyed or it inspired you.
I would appreciate your recommendations.
New Delta Jet 2 Performs!By Todd Halver
We have had many inquiries on the performance of the NEW Delta Jet 2 with the Cheval 12.4M wing. I thought I would give some real life results from a recent flight.
This DJ2 is equipped with a Rotax 912ULS 100hp and the tundra tire option and has a useful load of 540 lbs. This flight was one up with me at 240lbs, full fuel (14 gallons), density altitude 1,700, temperature 24, dew point 20. Keep in mind that Delta Jet 2 has a proper static port to report airspeed that is much more accurate than some set-ups. This DJ2 is equipped with the new Sterna three blade composite propeller.
- Take off with trim in full slow position delivered 1150 fpm climb at 63 mph turning 5325 rpm
- With the DJ2 trimmed for full fast and turning 5640 rpms my level cruise speed was 102 mph
- At full fast trim and bar pulled into my gut speed topped 112 mph at 5700 rpm
- When set at full slow cruise I was able to settle in at 65-67 mph
- Trimmed for medium cruise speed delivered 82 mph at 4650 rpm
- Powering up to 5,000 rpm put my cruise at 89 mph
The Cheval 12.4 is a light in roll and great tracking wing. We use lexan winglets and in testing I found I gained 3 mph speed with the winglets than without and improved turning performance. The wing is stable and delivers a very slow stall speed. In fact, power off stalls in level flight yield no buffeting and the nose just leans over into a gentle descent. The full stall position would actually be at a point beyond the compression strut.
Having trained in an Airborne XT, flown and owned both a Tanarg and a Revo for a number of years, I have to say the DJ2 has exceeded my expectations both in performance and true value.
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I am in the market to buy a new GPS for my trike and I would like your input. Currently I have the old Garmin GPS iii. What GPS do you use, why do you use it and how much did it run you?
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Sign Petition for fair representation of trike pilotsBy Rizwan Bukhari
I think this warrants a blog space. I read this petition and signed it because among many things, it asks for fair representation of pilots. This is your chance to do so as well. It is one thing to sit out and do nothing about an Issue or you can after reading the petition (if you agree with the message) support it. I think in all important decisions that impact our sport, all of us should have a fair representation.
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I just read this on www.alltrikes.com
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Today as I attempted on setting up my new wing, I found it very challenging to secure the last 4 or 5 battons with the cord (bungee). Is there a tip to make it easier. I thought of disconnecting the strut where it attaches the cross bar so the wing has a bit more play but I was not sure if that would be a good idea. Do you have any tips.
My Manta wing just like the Northwing I use to have does NOT have a bungee to secure the battons but it is a little cord or rope. Bungee would have made it easier.
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By profession I am a banker, loan officer and investment broker with the Wells Fargo bank. Recently I became an authorized representative for Ace Trikes USA. My desire to become a representative was for two reasons, one I believe that Ace Trikes offers a great aircraft that is about 6k or more cheaper than a comparable trike made here. Secondly at 13,000 dollar for the complete trike, it is a very easy trike to finance without taking much risk.
So what are the options? The best option for cheaper trikes in my opinion is either an Unsecured Loan or Line of credit. Loan and lines are very similar when it comes to the interest rate compounding but there are few differences as follows.
Unsecured Loan: No risk to you since no collateral is required, fixed interest rate and a five year (60 month) max term. No fee. No prepayment penalty. Decision in two hours
Unsecured Line of Credit: No risk to you since no collateral is required, variable interest rate (due to our crappy economy the interest rates haven't really changed on the line of credits in the last three years). A line of credit is good for 10 years. There is a 25 dollar annual fee. Decision in two hours. Your minimum payment is 1 percent of what your borrowed + interest. There is NO prepayment penalty. So, for example, Ace trike at 13,000 dollars. Your minimum payment will be 130 dollars plus interest. In my opinion this is one of the best routes to go because for a small monthly payment you could own a second trike for soaring.
Portfolio loan or line of credit: If, you wanted to further reduce the interest rate, you could go this route. In this scenario you put money in the cd and borrow against your own money. Great option for someone who has some money saved that they are not planning on using any time soon but would rather keep their savings. There is NO prepayment penalty.
Home equity loan or line: This is NOT the ideal option for inexpensive trikes but might be a good option for E-LSA or S-LSA trikes. Money is secured against your house. Interest rate is the lowest. I booked a Home Equity line few weeks ago and the interest rate came at 3.87, which I think was great considering that the US Prime rate is 3.25 (this is the rate below which the bank won't lend money). Home equities can take up to 4 weeks to book and have an annual fee of 75 dollars, which is waived the first year. If you pay off the home equity line before three years there is a penalty.
My prediction is that in the coming quarters the rates will go higher because the feds haven't raised the rates in the longest while and what goes down must go up.
I hope this helps you in understanding how financing works and if you need my help in financing the Ace trike or any other trike, you are more than welcome to get in touch with me at firstname.lastname@example.com or you can send me an email at my work address email@example.com or call me 208-713-1844 cell
P.S. The loan or line approval depends on a lot of things including but not limited to your credit score, debt to income ratio. etc. Also different banks have different rules and fees, this article is just to give you a basic idea, you should consult with your bank or contact me if you need my help. Rizzy


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The Dissident Frogman has broken a long silence to comment on the results of our election, and this article, "The Frogman's Prophecies," should be read in full. Because of the strong logic and utter beauty of its last few paragraphs, and its relevance to many I know who want to be purist libertarians (or even anarcho-capitalists) I think the climax of his essay deserves to be quoted in a multi-paragraph block, and hence have broken my usual practiceThe various flavors of Social Democrats who run Europe (into the ground, admittedly), and share so many features and aspirations with Obama have learned the mistakes of the less subtle autocrats who preceded them. If France can teach you one thing, it's that Obama will never bleed you dry or push you beyond the threshold of revolt, only to the nearest edge of it: you are now more likely to bleed from a thousand cuts over a thousand years than to get a quick, if violent, resolution to the relentless assaults against your life, liberty and pursuit of happiness—snarky Libertarians who opted to let Obama squat in the Oval Office unopposed on the deluded notion that "it doesn't matter" and will bring the fall of Leviathan sooner, may want to take notice.Even the French have not yet managed to completely plunder and ruin their comparatively much weaker economy, and the good Lord knows they've been trying for the best of the last 80 years or so.Just like in France, the rates of taxes, duties and fees unleashed upon the good folks of the US of A will not only augment, they will also metastasize over an incredibly varied and ever expanding range of products and services, in addition to your income and profits. You will suffocate under an unrelenting onslaught of new regulations, red tape and audits by a growing army of government agencies and bureaucrats all tasked with the mission of controlling that nothing passes through their nets, and punishing you ruthlessly for anything that does.And still: you will live through it, and you will live well enough—for a given value of "well"—to never really have a legally and morally unquestionable motive to rise up in arms and go full scale de oppresso liber on the tyrant. This will not be, as many of you imagine when they think about France, North Korea only with more cheese, wine and broads who don't shave their armpits. Instead, you will find yourself in a multi-generations limbo of "too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards"—as, ironically, a Libertarian once said.Just like in France, this will turn you into a depressed, cynical and pessimistic people, until they finally manage to kill your spirit whole, and nearly everybody is on the dole.That's when they've won. They do not need to kill you, they just have to break you.The Dissident Frogman is absolutely right. We (and I include myself, in my more naive moments) tend to expect some sort of big dramatic showdown between the forces of Oppression and Resistance, because that's how it would work in a story, because a story has to compress the drama into the scope of a movie or book. So we fantasize about obviously-unconstitutional and clearly-tyrannical degrees, affecting everyone, being enforced by international mercenaries riding in black helicopters gunning down all opposition, or mobs of brownshirts marching through the streets smashing the livelihoods of all who oppose them.But that's not how it actually will work -- not if Obama and (more importantly) the faction behind him actually wants to win, rather than just be a credible threat for story purposes. Striking swiftly and dramatically would arouse opposition: to take the most dramatic sort of example, if Obama got on TV tomorrow and declared himself Maximum Leader For Life of the American Mandate with totalitarian control over all aspects of life, almost everyone save for his most fanatical supporters would conclude that his Administration had lost its legitimacy. Congress -- even the Democrats in Congress -- would impeach him. The military and security establishments woulde refuse to obey him. If he was lucky, he would be escorted out of the Oval Office by the Secret Service into a lunatic asylum. If he was unlucky, he would find just enough military and security support that the bodies would pile up before he was pitched out of power in a short civil war, and then his final destination would be a parade ground with a ready firing squad.And Obama probably knows this. Heck, I doubt that even Obama really wants to be a Third World style dictator, let alone Hitler or Stalin. He may be on a path that might eventually lead his successors to be this, but he probably doesn't know this, or at least admit it to himself.What he wants is to create a society in which the important economic, and even many of the important cultural decisions, are made by the Federal Government (hereafter called "The State") rather than emerging from the free interactions of individuals and organizations limited only by the requirement not to commit unprovoked force or fraud upon each other. He wants this not because he intends to build a Barad-dur at the top of which he may gloat and laugh evilly at the sufferings of his subjects, but because he genuinely believes that such a society would be more peaceful, prosperous and sane than the alternative.He's wrong, of course, but that's not the same thing as being consciously evil, nor is it even the same thing as being stupid. Barack Hussein Obama is not the Obamessiah his followers imagine, but neither is he the Antichrist; he's not as brilliant as he thinks he is, but he's also not idiotic, and he has the support of a whole faction who has been thinking about how to change America into a socialist country, and has been thinking about it for a long time.The key is to change the political culture, and this is a generational, possibly multi-generational task.What do I mean by "political culture?" It's what the electorate expects and is willing to tolerate of the State in order for the State to be perceived by them as legitimate and hence to be obeyed for any reason other than sheer terror of its might. Even a dictatorship needs a friendly political culture -- a dictator who behaves in a manner that enough of his people, especially in key places, consider illegitimate will be assassinated or overthrown, by coup or civil war.There are three things to remember about political culture.(1) Only in an extreme crisis can it change swiftlyThe classic example of this is a great depression or major war. Note that the three biggest past changes in the American political culture -- during the first of which we established our Republic and in the last two of which we began to slip away from the libertarian ideals of that Republic -- were in the Revolutionary War (major war coinciding with depression, and the depression lasted for years after the war); American Civil War (major war with regional depression in the South owing to the war followed by prolonged Reconstruction); and World War II (major depression followed by major war).We are in the fourth such crisis. The war started in 2001 but hasn't yet become "major;" the economic downturn also started in 2001, and deepened in 2007. Obama's re-election itself is likely to ensure that both war and depression increase to "major" scale. No, Obama didn't plan it this way: he genuinely imagines that rainbows and unicorns come from his ass, and expects glorious success to increase his popular support. Yet, here we are.The thing about swift changes in the political culture is that they are impermanent unless either the crisis lasts for a very long time, or they are ratified and made permanent after the end of the crisis. The reason why this is so is that the changes introduced during the crisis are understood by most to be temporary measures put in to deal with the crisis: once the crisis is over, unless the electorate then demonstrates that they consider them good enough to remain in "normal" times, the changes are likely to be scrapped.In the Revolutionary Crisis, for example, while independence from Britain by its nature was permanent barring a British reconquest, the Union was not: it took the ratification of the US Constitution in 1787, four years after the end of the war, to make it permanent. Until then, the Republic was in limbo as a confederationIn the American Civil War, the reunification of America and the liberation of the slaves were by their nature irreversible as long as the South lay militarily prostrate. However, the South still needed to be politically reconstructed (restored to functional state governments) and black status needed to be defined. The key events here were the 13th - 15th Amendments of the US Constitution (permanently abolished slavery and established racial equality), and the compromise attending the disputed election of 1876 (Republicans got to see Hayes President in return for an agreement to cease enforcement of many aspects of racial equality in the South).In the Great Depression/World War II Crisis, the vast and permanent expansion of the State required over three terms of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, followed by over a term and a half of Harry S. Truman. It was Truman's Presidency, not FDR's, which ensured the permanency of this growth, because Truman got majorities of the electorate to consent to these changes in the much less anxious environment of economic growth and cold war, as opposed to depression and hot global war. (Note, though, the key role played by the stress of having to fight Communism in the ratification of America's permanent involvement abroad: it was Stalin as much as Hitler and Tojo who killed American isolationism).(2) Significant change can happen over one generationIf the crisis is perceived as great enough and the response by the faction in favor of the change is perceived as successfully and favorably resolving the crisis, people can in the course of their own life go from opposing (or at least fearing) to accepting the change. Consider a man born in 1750 assuming himself to be a loyal subject of the King who by 1800 accepts the United States of America and assumes himself a loyal citizen of the Republic. Or a man born in 1840 believing in states' rights who by 1890 accepts Federal supremacy. Or a man born in 1910 believing in fully-free-enterprise capitalism who by 1960 has accepted the State's power and right to interfere in the economy. Or a man born in 1980 believing in ???? who by 2030 has accepted the State's right to ????In all these cases, the State is now doing something which, decades ago, would have led to protest and possibly violent rebellion, which is now just accepted as "the way things are," which is to say the change has become part of the political culture. These changes may be good, or bad from our POV. (Personally, while I'm not happy that the States are no longer semi-independent, I'm very happy that Lincoln liberated the slaves). This is irrelevant. The important point is that the changes are no longer controversial.This is what Obama wants to do, in his lifetime. He wants to secure the regulatory expansion of the 1970's and go a bit beyond it, and have these changes be ratified by his successors so that, by 2030 or so (when he'll have long since retired from politics) Americans just accept this growth in Federal purview as normal, and only a few extremists still regard them as controversial.Think this couldn't happen? Imagine the position of a man in 1800 who believed that America should still be under British rule. Or a man in 1890 who thought that states should be able to nullify Federal laws. Or a man in 1960 who argued that it was malfeasance for the Federal government to deliberately inflate the currency.(3) Really major changes require several generations to acceptImagine that the current electorate of the United States of America was born in 1780. Would they have accepted the political and legal situation in America in 1980?No, and for many reasons. Some would have bad (they would have been horrified at the sight of enfranchised poor people, women and blacks). Some would have been good (they would have been equally horrified at laws restricting the right of contract and the right to bear arms). But all these reasons would have had something in common -- they would have been a matter of dissonant political cultures.They would have revolted at the sight of enfranchised poor people, women and blacks because their concept of "responsible voters" was limited to rich or at least middle-class white males. They would have revolted at laws restricting the right of contract and the right to bear arms because, in the America of 1801 (when they would have attained their adulthood), you could make and have enforced any contract which was not actually criminal under Common Law, and you could buy and own any weapon you wanted up to and including siege artillery (though for obvious reasons very few people actually did own siege guns).When I say "revolted," I'm not engaging in hyperbole there. I mean that they would have found these laws so noxious that they would have been willing to pick up weapons and make an armed rebellion against the Federal Government. After all, their fathers and grandfathers had been willing to do just that against a British Empire which was far more similar to them in terms of political culture than would be the America of 1980.This demonstrates that a really major change in political culture requires time. Specifically, it requires enough time for those holding the older views, who remember how things used to be, to die out and new generations to be born who accept the change as part of the background, the "way things are." Generally, a really major change in political culture takes roughly 40-90 years to be fully accepted, for different political situations and varying values of "fully accepted.""Fully accepted" means that the new view has now become part of the legal and political background upon which nearly everybody agrees. Those who disagree are considered extremists, eventually lunatics. Once a change has reached this point it cannot be reversed save by the most radical measures.For instance, people who think that we should return to the relatively free gun control laws of 1962 are considered moderate conservatives. People who today think the economy should return to the freedom it enjoyed in, 1912, would be considered extremists (libertarians, though the media would probably paint them as "conservatives"). People who think that blacks should revert to the slavery they suffered in 1812 would be considered insane racists (even most modern white supremacists want segregation rather than a return to chattel slavery). People who think that we should return to the British rule over America that existed in 1762 are -- well, almost nonexistent: loyalty to the British monarchy in modern America is a vague sentiment of sympathy rather than a political movement. And so on.ConclusionWe've lost the election of 2012. What we need to do is get ready to win the elections of 2014 and 2016. And what we on the Right need to do to achieve this is to pull together, rather than pull apart. A lot is at stake -- if Obama is able to get more legislation through in 2015 and 2016, he will increase his support and may be able to jigger the polls in 2016 so that we can't win. And if another socialist is elected in 2016, then this could work out like the New Deal: and racism against whites, sexism against men, and hatred of the upper middle classes become fixed in our system for at least another 60-80-years. We have to win.As the Dissident Frogman points out in reference to France, the French conservatives were utterly-ineffectual in their opposition to socialism in France, and now it may be too late for France. Generations have grown up now who simply accept socialism as "the way things are," and regard any attempt to turn it back as unrealistic at best, insane at worst. It has become part of the French political culture.Let us on the American Right, both conservative and libertarian, unite to prevent the ratification of Obama's socialism before it simply becomes part of the political culture. I've already argued to the Religious Right that stopping Obama and his socialist successors is more important than opposing homosexuality; now I'm arguing to the Libertarian Right that stopping Obama and his socialist successors is more important than opposing religiosity or even crony capitalism.Because if we fail, that's it for the American Experiment. America herself will endure, probably grow stronger by shifting from economic predominance to military domination over key resources. But America will endure as an Empire, not as a Republic.Honestly, if someone has to be the "Roman Empire" of the Western Civilization, I'd rather it be America than, say, China or even France. But I'd much rather see the Republic live on.Wouldn't you?
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I agree with this, actually, only it's my assessment of the current situation. And, accordingly, I do vote for those most likely to maximize the freedoms I value. I don't think there is a substantial difference between Obama and Bush's foreign policies, and certainly no difference between their economic policies.
It comes down to social policies, and I'm not going to go with the social conservatives, who appear to be utterly detached from the rest of reality. I also will not directly vote for anybody who opposed the DADT repeal or who would support its reinstatement, because, you know, I'm a gay Soldier.


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