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BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 2, 2009 Glenn R. Sheridan sat quietly captivated as he and about 40 fellow World Ward II-era veterans listened to the words of the grandson of one of their generation's most influential and legendary military figures.
The 83-year-old veteran of three wars didn't serve under Army Gen. George S. Patton. He didn't even serve in the same branch of service, but he was pleased, to say the least, to have the opportunity to hear Patton's grandson share stories here last night before a modest group of senior veterans participating in the 23rd Annual National Veterans Golden Age Games.
"This is one of the great things we get to enjoy by taking part in events like the Golden Age Games," Sheridan said of the Patton presentation given by retired Army Col. James Patton Totten. "And it's nice to bring all these veterans together to learn from each other and talk about our experiences."
Sheridan, who served nearly 10 years on active duty as a Navy medical corpsman and another 25 years as an Army National Guard mechanic, fought in World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam. Throughout his 35 years of military service, he said Patton was a leader he always looked up to. And after Totten's presentation, Sheridan was even more impressed.
"General Patton had a whole lot of influence on [World War II], and because of him, it ended a lot sooner than it probably would have, otherwise," Sheridan said. "So to hear these stories from his grandson was a real treat."
Totten told family stories of his grandfather's career and pastimes and praised the World War II-era military members for setting the example for future generations to follow. Totten, a Vietnam War veteran himself, said there's no comparison to his grandfather and the World War II veterans as to which is the greatest generation.
Although Patton is remembered for his keen military skills and intelligence, the group of veterans learned that his success didn't come easily. The general suffered from dyslexia and had difficulty making it through the ranks until the latter part of his 37-year career, Totten said.
Patton was actually almost kicked out of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., for poor academics but was retained solely because of his military bearing. Patton ended up having to repeat his freshman year, Totten told the group.
"I was very surprised and quite taken back by what Patton had to overcome to be the kind of leader he was," Sheridan said.
In spite of Patton's adversity, his leadership and legacy still became a symbol of America's military and an example for today's leaders waging war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Patton and his generation of troops set the standard for modern leaders, Totten said.
"Those of us who've had the opportunity to meet with young soldiers today fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq can be very proud of those young men following in your footsteps," he said. "A large part of their success is because of the standard of leadership set by your generation and men like George Patton."


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Compare and contrast the style and theme of "A Red, Red Rose" and William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18
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Shakespeare's sonnet 18 adheres to the sonnet form, 3 stanzas of 4 lines and a finishing couplet, ten syllables per line written in iambic pentameter. Robert Burns's poem is written in 4 stanzas of 4 lines each, alternating 8 and 6 syllable lines, written in iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter respectively.
As far as the themes these poems convey, one poem could have inspired the other. They both speak of the permanence of love, of loving beyond all constraints of time. Here the "summer day" and "red rose" of both poems express the transient nature of physical beauty, but the narrator in both conveys that their passion will not diminsh over time.
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The space of reasons has been whacked in the face by the space of causes: most of our Molinari panelists – now including myself – are going to be unable to get to Boston, owing to inclement blizzardry and blitzcraft. Not sure yet whether those (if any!) who do make it are going to try to hold the panel or not.
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Float Time, Part 3
It's not every day that I wake up to find Patri Friedman being quoted in my local newspaper; but this story actually made the Opelika-Auburn News this morning.
How To Do Things With Words
I propose some new terminology: left-conflationism and right-conflationism.
Left-conflationism is the error of treating the evils of existing corporatist capitalism as though they constituted an objection to a freed market. Right-conflationism is the error of treating the virtues of a freed market as though they constituted a justification of the evils of existing corporatist capitalism.
Yes, these are basically just Kevin's "vulgar liberalism" and "vulgar libertarianism" in new garb. And yes, the new terms sound more awkward and jargony than their predecessors.
But the advantage I claim for them is that they also sound less insulting than their predecessors. Of course neither set of terms entails anything about the etiology of the views it names. Nevertheless, left-conflationism and right-conflationism sound like intellectual mistakes, ones that well-meaning people might fall into; by contrast, vulgar liberalism and vulgar libertarianism sound like character flaws – the outlooks of, well, vulgar people. And to be sure, in many cases they may be. But not all; and we only make it harder for ourselves when our terminology alienates the very people we're trying to persuade.
I'm not suggesting that we should simply junk the terms "vulgar liberalism" and "vulgar libertarianism." There's a time for polemics, and when we want polemical terms it's handy to have them. But when we're not engaged in polemics, it's also handy to have a term for our interlocutors' position that isn't a conversation-stopper.
An End to Allegiance, Part 2
The following letter appeared in yesterday's Opelika-Auburn News:
To the editor:
Jim Evans is quite right to point out Saturday that the founders (well, most of them) would not have approved of the insertion of "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. (Some of the founders would probably have had a problem with "indivisible" as well.)
But he omits the still more important fact that most of the founders would not have approved of any Pledge of Allegiance at all, with or without such phrases.
The Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 by the nationalist socialist Francis Bellamy. The term "allegiance" refers to the duty of obedience and subordination that medieval serfs owed to their feudal lord – their "liege."
The American founders, by contrast, waged and won a revolution against the Old World idea that we owe allegiance to our governments; the United States was founded on the opposite principle, that our governments owe allegiance to us.
The founders would have been horrified to learn that two centuries after the American Revolution, schoolchildren would be forced to recite loyalty oaths to the government. The Pledge of Allegiance is one of the most blatantly un-American documents ever written.
Roderick T. Long
For a previous post on the pledge, see here.
Boston Anarchist Thinking Brigade, Part 2
My paper for the upcoming Molinari Symposium is now online.
In related news, Gary Chartier has decided to boycott air travel in order to protest the irradiate-or-grope screening process; I'll be reading out his responses (along with Kevin Carson's commentary) in absentia sua. Doug Den Uyl will also not be attending (though he's not boycotting anything as far as I know); Doug Rasmussen will read out their joint commentary.
Atlas Shrunk, Part 3
Richard Gleaves has seen the first ten minutes of the Atlas Shrugged movie and lived to tell about it. (See also this.)
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Hill, who has over 2,800 flying hours to his credit, holds a master's degree in sports administration from the University of Northern Colorado and retired from the Air Force in April of 2006 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
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Is the Timney AR-10 trigger assembly compatible with a DPMS style lower reciever?
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I played with the Timney trigger at the SHOT show, and it was the best there. I tried to find a Gold trigger to compare it with but no luck. Anyone know how the Timney rates compared to the Gold?
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I cant wait till my trigger gets here. Its in the mail right now!!! Cool, this is my 500th post!!! Gold Metal Match now!!!! I have been wanting to be like imschur!!!
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I have both the Timney and Gold. They are both comparable, but the Gold just has a "hair" better feel to it. The Timney is on CQ rifle, and the Gold on the Long Range build. So both have different purposes, but feel about the same. Although for the price I should love the Gold alot more!
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Thanks! The Timney felt amazing to me.
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Thanks for the info guys. I recently installed my trigger group, (not easy since I had to do it twice after forgeting to place the selector switch during the first install.) Trigger pull went from 7.2# to a very crisp 4#. What was about a 1.7 moa is now about .8 moa. I'd recommend this to anyone.
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Karoi(ZimEye) A Tengwe man has been sentenced to 210 community service hours after being found guilty of having sex with a neighbour's cow.
Jelous Matashu(23) admitted committing the detestable offence of bestiality before Karoi magistrate Elisha Singano.
The court heard that on the 24th August after 7am, Matashu seeing the herd of cattle, singled out the white heifer, forcefully tied it to a tree and began to have sex with it having climbed the animal from behind.
Within minutes of having started, he was however spotted by the owner Henry Tandabute who charged at him, freeing the animal afterwards.
Local magistrate Elisha Singano sentenced Matashu to 210 community service hours at Tengwe's Marere Clinic. The judge said it there would be no further gain of sentencing Matashu to prison.
Zimbabwe has seen many cases of animal sexual abuse in the past four years and recently a goat gave birth to a half human-half goat child which died upon delivery.
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Salamis will provide coating application, removal and reinstatement of insulation and passive fire protection (PFP), as well as access solutions for the project.
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Three lesbians charged with assualt for beating a gay man in Boston
This is a hot ass mess to say the least. Three lesbians by the names of Erika Stroud, Felicia Stroud and Lydia Sanford have been charged with assault after jumping a gay man in a stairwell in Boston. The victim told officers that he felt like he was targeted because of his sexuality. All three of the women were screaming and calling him a f*ggot while they were kicking him and punching him. The women who are being charged for the crime claim that they arent homophobic (because they are gay) and that he called them a few racial slurs before the fight ensued.
At the end of the day these girls are wrong and there's no if, ands or buts about it. The whole "im not homophobic because im gay" stance is bullshit and let me tell you why. There are a number of gay men and women who dont like other gay people who are the opposite sex. Ive heard butch women talk about how they hate "fags" and ive hear gay men talk about how they hate "dikes". It goes both ways. So that theory my friends, is dead. Secondly, when did it ok to jump people and call them f*gs just because they accidental bumped into you? If your gay why would you even think its of to call someone a "fag" or a "dike" in an aggressive manor and think that its ok? These girls are a hot ass mess and im not sad to see them in cuffs. We have GOT TO DO BETTER!


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Mitt Romney's Press Secretary Andrea Saul was hit with a biblical flood of conservative outrage yesterday, after she mentioned that the steelworker's wife in the Priorities USA ad would have had health insurance under Romneycare if she had been living in Massachusetts. Calls for Saul's firing (and eulogies for the Romney campaign) commenced immediately.
In an interview with Fox News Channel on Wednesday, Andrea Saul invoked Massachusetts's expansion of health coverage as a defense to a harsh new ad funded by a super PAC supporting President Obama. In the spot, a former steelworker whose plant was closed by Bain Capital blames Romney, who co-founded the firm, for his family's loss of health insurance and his wife's subsequent death from cancer.
"To that point, if people had been in Massachusetts, under Governor Romney's health care plan, they would have had health care," Saul said in the interview. "There are a lot of people losing their jobs and losing their health care in President Obama's economy."
Saul's comment was accurate; the worker would have been insured under Romney's plan. And as both TNR's Noam Scheiber and TPM's Benjy Sarlin have noted, her remark may not have been as off-message as it initially sounded.
That being said, this was still a serious misfire. The Obama campaign and Priorities USA are getting shredded in the media for the Joe Soptic ad. Conservatives are leaping to Romney's defense. Why trample all that by reminding the right of the one issue that made them reluctant to support Romney in the first place?
Saul's comment was also irrelevant. She didn't need to debate the ad on its "merits." Just point out what virtually every fact-checker has noted — that the story in the ad crumbles under scrutiny. Joe Soptic was laid off years after Romney left Bain; his wife continued to have health insurance through her own job; and his wife passed away five years after Soptic lost his job. There was absolutely no reason to inject Romneycare into the debate.


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'Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai' Gayatri quits the show
After playing Gayatri, Akshara's (Hina Khan) mother-in-law in 'Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai' for five years, actress Sonali Verma has quit the show. The reason to quit the show is, She is getting married and will shift to US, where her husband Sachin Sachdeva lives.
Though the wedding date is yet to be finalised, Sonali wants to finish her work commitments and leave Mumbai for good. Says she, "I will wrap up the remaining shoot and return to my parents in Delhi. We are yet to decide the date and I am taking one step at a time. It will happen early next year." "Both of us are originally from Delhi and met through common friends. We started dating over a year ago. He is in the garment industry. It's been a long-distance relationship and only our bank balance knows the kind of fortune we have spent on flight tickets. We have become global jet-setters," says the actress. Sonali says, "I have no idea. I am so overwhelmed with all the developments that I haven't given it a thought." About her co-actors' reactions, she says, "The ones I am close to have been a part of my emotional journey. They knew when I started dating Sachin and when I decided to tie the knot. I am not leaving the show on a bad note or getting replaced. I am leaving with everybody's blessings and wishes. What more could I have asked for? I will definitely miss Mumbai."


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Swirls of gold spray paint coated one side of Stephen Smith's white Chevy truck Tuesday morning. It was vandalized overnight Monday.
"My jaw dropped because the whole side of my truck was covered," Smith says. "I was pretty upset, pretty upset I'll tell you that."
Smith wasn't the only one; the vandal left their gold markings all along Haskins Drive in Suffolk. In all, three cars, three mail boxes, a speed limit sign and manhole cover were all tagged with gold spray paint.
"This is very upsetting because we work hard for what we have and for someone to come and destroy it, it's pretty upsetting," Smith says.
Smith says he was lucky; he was able to use paint thinner to clean his vehicle. He also took action to help his neighbors.
"I felt bad for the rest of the neighbors so I went down and helped get all the paint off their cars," he says.
You can hardly tell his truck was once tagged, but Smith is making sure if there's a next time the vandal will be caught on video.
"Because everyone wants to protect their valuable stuff," he says.
Smith installed three home surveillance cameras around his house.
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Originally published on Thu March 28, 2013 9:22 am
The U.S. economy grew at a 0.4 percent annual rate in fourth-quarter 2012, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported Thursday morning.
That's better than both of the earlier estimates of how the economy was doing as the year ended. The bureau initially thought gross domestic product dipped at a 0.1 percent rate the last three quarters of the year. Then it said there was growth at a 0.1 percent annual rate. Now, in its final scheduled revision of the fourth-quarter data, it has settled on growth at a 0.4 percent pace.
"Nonresidential fixed investment [was] higher than previously estimated," the bureau says. Or as Bloomberg News puts it, there was a "bigger gain in business spending" than previously thought.
Although the quarter's pace has been revised upward, the 0.4 percent growth is still the lowest for any three-month period since first-quarter 2011's scant 0.1 percent increase.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -University of New Mexico's women basketball player Amanda Best is this week's Lobo Great Eight. A senior on the team this season, she is a major player and a difference maker in The Pit. Throughout her three years so far at New Mexico she has truly paved her own path as a Lobo. Her freshman year, Best played 32 games, earned Academic All-MWC honors and named a Mountain West Conference Scholar-Athlete.
In her second season, she played in 36 games and had 31 starts. At the annual Lobo awards banquet she was named Most Improved player. That year she again earned Mountain West Conference Scholar-Athlete and Academic All-MWC honors.
Her junior year, she proved she was truly an impact player for the Lobos. Known to be a strong rebounder, she loves to drive to the basket and has the ability to finish. Athleticism has always been in her genes, having a father who is a former professional baseball player.
Amanda first picked up a basketball at the age of five when she performed dribbling skills in her kindergarten talent show, but she has been playing year round since fourth grade. She is one Lobo who will leave her own mark by not only being an outstanding basketball player but also by having a personality all her own.
What were you like when you were a kid?
I wouldn't say I was normal at all. I enjoyed doing pretty weird things. I liked to pull pranks and tell jokes. I also liked to wear really different clothing than everyone else. I really just stood out among all the other kids.
If you had one billion dollars, what would you do with it and why?
I would definitely give most of it away to charities and different organizations like that. I would really like to do some mission work.
How has basketball changed your life?
Wow, it has changed me so much. It has really been a part of my personality and made me who I am today. All of my role models and best friends have been from basketball. It is really a sense of my complete identity. Basketball has let me really be myself.
What is the best prank you have ever pulled off and on whom?
The team had a sand volleyball and BBQ. It was when Amanda Adamson was on the team. She knew how competitive I was and so she asked me to race up the volleyball net. It is like where you try to weave your hands in and out of the holes of the net. Well I didn't think of it then, but your hands get stuck. So she came up behind me and de-pantsed me. To get her back, I ran at her with my full force and tackled her as hard as I could. She could barely walk for the next week and her back hurt.
Do you have any unique game day traditions?
Well I always try to put my WWJD bracelet on my shoe somewhere, for motivation. I always listen to music to relax me and just get me pumped up. Oh yeah and I also always take a nap!
Do you collect anything and what?
I collect Jordan basketball shoes, the numbered ones. I haven't been able to do much of that living here, because there are not many places that actually sell them. When I lived in Seattle though I did a lot. It was a much bigger deal there. I would get up at like three in the morning and wait in line, so I could make sure to get my size.
Who has been your biggest inspiration in basketball and why?
Well it used to be Michael Jordan, but that kind of changed after my trip oversees playing ball. After I went on that trip, I realized that I really just would like to play for God. I want to push myself to be the best for him.
Red or green Chile?
Ew, neither. I am not from here so I guess I do not have the acquired taste for it.


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Joel Aaron Foster is the Communications Director and Grassroots Coordinator of Americans For Prosperity Georgia. As a former four year radio personality in Atlanta, Georgia, he received two GABBY's including the 2009 GABBY for Radio Personality of the Year from the Georgia Association of Broadcasters. He is an Atlanta Power 30 Under 30 Award recipient, a graduate of the Charles G. Koch Market Based Management Training program and he holds a BA in Media Communications from Asbury University.
Joel is the co-creator of numerous training programs and civic speaking tours including
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around the southeast covering current events, new media and messaging to postmodern
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conferences as an emcee or speaker. Joel has spoken on grassroots activism in front of
hundreds of groups, organized over 55,000 AFP activists in Georgia and has
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Interview with Morihiro Saito - Part 1 (1979)
by Stanley Pranin
Aiki News #33 (March 1979)
The following article was prepared with the kind assistance of Volker Hochwald of Germany. It is the second installment of a three-part interview with Morihiro Saito, 8th dan Sensei of the Ibaraki Dojo in Iwama, Japan. Saito Sensei continues his description of O-Sensei's teaching method during the post-war years in Iwama.
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Saito Sensei : During practice O-Sensei would teach the techniques he had developed up to that point as if systematizing and organizing them for himself. If we started doing suwari waza (seated techniques), we would continue doing that only, one after another. The sempai (senior students) and kohai (junior students) would practice together and the kohai would take ukemi (breakfalls). When the sempai finished the right and left sides and the kohai's turn came it was already time for the next technique. Practice in those days was not easy. I used to review the day's practice with Mr. Goro Narita, Yuichi's uncle, on the road in the middle of the rice fields on our way to the Joban line (railway line in Ibaraki Prefecture.) If we practiced a long time it took as long as two hours to get to the station. It was my free practice. When we would study one technique we would systematically learn related techniques. As I also think that this is the right method, I don' t teach favorite techniques in an unsystematic manner. I always teach only related techniques. In this way, students also can learn techniques in an organized manner and when they teach they will be effective. If they practice unsystematically they can't teach in an organized way. Also, O-Sensei taught us two, three or four levels of techniques. He would begin with kata, then one level after another, and finally, it became just so… and now I teach in exactly the same way. It's not good to teach only flashy techniques in order to be regarded as a great teacher. It doesn't matter if you' re not flashy. Those who don' t want to practice don' t have to come. So Aikido isn't something we should solicit people to practice by saying: "Come and join us." It's not something to be publicized. Those who want to practice come and we all practice together. That' s why I say we shouldn't overdo it in urging people to come. Those who don' t have a strong will will hinder others. They hinder those who practice earnestly. Because O-Sensei taught us systematically I've got to teach in an organized way, too. In the prewar period he taught without explanation. Students couldn't ask questions. He only demonstrated throws. But I was taught from morning till evening and he would say: "That's not the way. Every little detail should be correct. Otherwise it isn't a technique. See, like this… like that!" Those are the "kuden" (oral teachings) I wrote down. So if I have a problem in doing a certain technique I remember what I was told by O-Sensei and then it works fine. That's why I regard these words as superb secrets, in other words "kuden". So I wrote my books as oral teachings. In olden times, the instructions were secret and secretly handed down. It was alright that they were kept secret. Secrets were necessary. However, in Aikido today, secrets are not necessary. Since the Founder said that we wish to spread this Aikido — correct Aikido — I would like to improve as fast as possible, even by one day. Also, though he didn't have many students at that time, O-Sensei used to throw everyone at least once. So I also touch everyone, though it would be impossible to do so if there were tens of thousands of students, at least in "Tai no henko" and "kokyuho". I don't know whether I can call it my philosophy, but to my way of thinking, a family-like life such as this is necessary and that without actually touching and skin-to-skin contact true Aikido can neither be understood nor taught. I don't think it will work well if a teacher says. "Do it like this!. or "That's no good!" speaking down to the students. In my case my explanation during class is quite lengthy. Though everyone was intelligent, I wasn't and I had a hard time in learning. So, when I see a student who is moving incorrectly I stop him and tell him: "Your movement is not quite right. It's better this way." or "You should do it like this." And without explanation during the class everyone gets tired. Since I want to give them a chance to rest and also I want their technique to become perfect even one day sooner, I frequently give explanations during class. I can't speak well and I don't have much talent, so I can't do as well as I wish. I was very lucky O-Sensei taught me thoroughly in detail, and I'm following his example. When I accompanied Sensei on a trip I was tested by everyone, though they weren't impolite to the Founder. Once, when we went to Osaka the whole class consisted of fourth or fifth-dan judoists. You see, my arms were so skinny. So they teased me and tested me.
Editor: Your arms were skinny? (laughter)
Saito Sensei: After the war when Mr. Minoru Mochizuki opened a dojo in Shizuoka Prefecture O-Sensei was invited and I accompanied him. There, I entered the bath to wash O-Sensei's back and he looked at me and said: "Saito, you are skinny!" After this happened, I want to the maintenance department of the JNR (Japanese National Railway where Saito Sensei was working at that time) and borrowed a rail which was one meter long and weighed 81 pounds. As there were no barbells, I used the rail….but now I have pain in my legs and I can't do anything. Anyway, the Founder's teaching method was perfect. He taught so that anybody could understand and remember. Pre-war Aikido wasn't the true one — remember he was ordered to do what he did by the military — he used to say that his post-war Aikido was the true one….In any case, as O-Sensei's instruction was sound, I preserve it in my teaching. But I think I should study more and teach more kindly and politely. I will try to do so….
It is said that when O-Sensei came to Iwama during the war he underwent a profound spiritual change. Would you tell us how O-Sensei changed during that important period and also what influence it had on the development of Aikido?
Saito Sensei: I don't know such details. What I do know is the following: Toward the end of the war, the military finally became aware of the fact that Japan couldn't win the war by teaching Judo (to soldiers). Dr. Soichi Sakuta, President of Kenkoku University in Manchuria said, "We can't win the war with Judo. Teach Aikido instead." Then, Mr. Kenji Tomiki became the Aikido shihan of Kenkoku University. Also, in the Naval Academy at Edajima they decided that Judo was inadequate and changed to Aikido. They discussed who would be a suitable shihan there and thought that Akasawa-no-sabu (nickname) would be good. Mr. Akasawa was at that time fighting on the Pacific front aboard the ship "Akishima." O-Sensei was influential enough to have him recalled to Edajima with a telegram from military headquarters. So Mr. Akasawa came back to Edajima and I heard he just ate and slept and ate and slept in order to get his body back into shape. Then, soon the war ended. O-Sensei had said, "Aikido has finally been recognized. The young officers of the army and navy are slack. We've got to reeducate them. But we don't have a suitable place for this. We should build an outdoor dojo. Without retraining the young officers in an outdoor dojo there's no way we can expect to win the war. We can't win the war by requiring them to learn Judo and Kendo. They have to learn Aikido basics according to the Aikido method." When he found this place (Iwama) for the outdoor dojo and the dojo was built, the war ended. That's all I know. Beyond that I don't have any idea about the psychological change in O-Sensei caused by the social situation. What I have just told you is what I know and I heard it clearly (from O-Sensei.) Close to the end of the war, the military finally judged that our country would lose the war if we practiced Judo. At least at the Naval Academy they thought so. Before that, O-Sensei used to teach at the Nakano Military School, the Army University, the Naval University, Toyama University and the Military Police School, he taught for more than ten years. After it was decided that Judo was inadequate, the Kenkoku University in Manchuria also changed to Aikido. However, when the war ended it was prohibited to train in the martial arts, to possess a sword, or a gun, or a knife with a blade longer than 7 centimeters. Under such circumstances, when O-Sensei was trying his best to keep the seed of Aikido alive here, I happened to become his student. There were a lot of sempai but they all grew up and left. They all returned to their own homes, entered companies, returned to their families, or got jobs. If their family had a dojo they inherited that, etc. In the end, only a small number of sempai from around here and myself were left. But all the sempai from this area ended up not being able to come to the dojo after getting married because they had to work hard at their occupations…. Whenever Sensei was here we couldn't tell when he would call to us. Even if we asked for the neighbors' help in threshing rice, that very day, if Sensei said, "Come!" and we didn't, the result was terrible. So everybody ended up unable to come to the dojo in order to maintain their own families. I could continue because I was free during the daytime though I went to work every other evening. I could live without receiving any money from O-Sensei because I was paid by the JNR. O-Sensei had money but students around here didn't. If they came to Sensei they would have had no income and not have been able to raise rice for their families and would have died by coming to the dojo. All of them gradually stopped coming. I could continue because I had money enough to live. I was lucky enough to have a job, otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to continue. As I was of some use to him, O-Sensei willingly taught me everything. It was extremely severe. It was only to those students who served him at the risk of their lives, even though it was only for budo, helping him, from morning to evening in the fields getting dirty and massaging his back that O-Sensei opened his heart.
to be continued
(transcribed by Kaori Fujisaki; translated by Stanley A. Pranin and Midori Yamamoto.)


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Georgia DNR Marketing Manager Jennifer Hancock says the offer works the same as a three day hunting/fishing license.
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This new feature is a result of new legislation for the state of Georgia that went into effect earlier this month on July 1st.
According to a press release from the Georgia DNR, there are roughly 300,000 registered boaters in the state, and Hancock says it's a great way for boaters who don't fish to pick up the hobby.
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American Samoa Governor Togiola "Blessed" for a Second Term
On Friday, January 9, the Director of the Office of Insular Affairs, Nikolao Pula, attended the inaugural festivities in the Territory of American Samoa for Governor Togiola Tulafono and Lieutenant Governor Faoa A. Sunia who were sworn in for their second term in office.
Celebrations held at the Veterans Stadium in Ili'ili, American Samoa were organized into a two-part program which included traditional blessings from cultural leaders, a parade, an 'ava ceremony, song and dance, band performances and dinner. The governor delivered the Inaugural Address during the first part of the program and the parade opened the second part. Lieutenant Governor Faoa A. Sunia provided the closing remarks and the festivities ended with a "taualuga" at midnight. The inauguration theme was "Light Tomorrow with Today."
OIA Director Kik Pula (far right) &
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Governor Togiola and Lt. Governor Sunia
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Rated 93 by Decanter
This is also admirably fresh and ripe with reserved aromas of damp earth, game and underbrush as well as plum and red currant. The supple, mouth coating and moderately rustic big-bodied flavors offer excellent depth of material and fine length on the firm, austere and linear finish. This too will require plenty of cellar time but should well reward your patience. (burghound)
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A red full of macerated cherry, vanilla, sweet spices and mineral, this is both stylish and powerful. Still a bit...
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Professional Wine Reviews for Jacques Prieur Clos Vougeot 2008
Rated 93 by Decanter
This is also admirably fresh and ripe with reserved aromas of damp earth, game and underbrush as well as plum and red currant. The supple, mouth coating and moderately rustic big-bodied flavors offer excellent depth of material and fine length on the firm, austere and linear finish. This too will require plenty of cellar time but should well reward your patience. (burghound)
Rated 92 by Wine Spectator
A red full of macerated cherry, vanilla, sweet spices and mineral, this is both stylish and powerful. Still a bit rigid, but well-proportioned, with grip on the finish. Just a bit rustic in the end. Best from 2014 through 2030. 15 cases imported.
Rated 91 by Robert Parker
Still in barrel this spring, the Prieur 2008 Clos Vougeot features scents of cooked red raspberry, cherry, and tobacco which follow on a palate of juicy brightness and lift more typical for the vintage than the impression left by most of the other Pinots in this 2008 collection. The dark meaty and earthy aspects of the site are little in evidence but hints of toasted nuts, brown spices, and herbs add interest to a persistent finish. This will merit at least 12-15 years of cellaring.
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Saturday, January 14, 2006
No Lovin' from TaSCAM. Again...
Remember the girl who broke your heart? She was SOOOO magic; Aphrodite, Athena, Artemis all in one incredible, beautiful creature. You kept trying and trying and trying.
She'd play you, too. Spend a little time with you, batting those beautiful eyelashes, brushing against you so alluringly -- then blowing you off yet again. But it was always the same story -- you'd end up alone at the end of the day with nothing to show for all your efforts but pain and frustration.
You finally wised up and blew her off once and for all -- and for three months never heard from her, until, day by day, like a nasty scrape, the pain dulled, and you would find yourself surprised that hours, even days had passed without a thought of the pain that had once dominated your entire world.
Then the phone call would come, and, with a sweet, honeyed voice, she'd work her magic on you again, and you'd think to yourself "maybe THIS time things'll be different...."
Enter TASCAM and their magic product "Gigastudio", the reputed sound sampler of the gods. GIGABYTE-sized, absolutely authentic sounds from your MIDI tracks. The ability to create aural magic for the price of a small television set.
And I bought the hype.
Not once, but twice.
Now I'm no slouch with hardware -- in addition to a one-year tech certification, I've got Microsoft MCP and COMPTIA A+ and Network+ certifications. I can build a PC from the ground up with my eyes closed and diagnose and repair virtually any problem.
I've also used a number of different audio products -- Cakewalk, Sonar, Sonic Foundry, Halion, all with generally excellent results. But EVERY incarnation of Gigastudio has only caused bluescreens or simply refused to function.
After shelling out the first 150 bucks and spending months and months of fruitless tweaking and rebuilding, you'd think I would've learned my lesson.
But no, not this hopeless romantic.
When music giant Tascam bought out Nemesys, the company responsible for the first Gigascrewedio, I thought -- like so many other hapless victims -- that THIS time things would be different.
And so I parted with another cool 250 bucks with the blind faith of the lovestruck.
Needless to say, the relationship never got past first base -- the initial installation -- and, since I waited past the warranty date, I am, once again, nicely out of luck.
So I called Tascam right before the holidays.
Getting only a recorded message, I spoke nicely, calmly, and gave detailed information about the problem, along with my contact information. I sent out a follow-up email, along the normal channels.
No answer.
I kept trying, calling long distance at different times of the day, leaving messages with tech support and the main number. E-mail after email followed.
After two weeks, my patience wore somewhat thin -- hell, even a form letter would have been appreciated as a simple gesture of courtesy.
But now, a month later, it seems I just can't get no lovin' from Tascam.
Fact is, Tascam, she just don't care.
And so, as I finally promised, I'm parting company with Gigascrewdio, never to look back. And to all of you hoping to make music with this expensively-wrapped, overly-hyped, perfumed piece of fecal matter, expect the same. You ain't gettin' no lovin' there.
I, for one, will be looking into lemon laws to try and recoup my cash so as to spend it better elsewhere.
And so, that eternal advice still hasn't changed: dump her and look elsewhere. There are a hell of a lot better ones out there; ones who won't take all your money and leave you frustrated at the end of the day.
Posted by New American Patriot at 6:56 PM
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- historymike said...
Have fun with the Gigastudio.
Years ago I bought TASCAM's analog 4-track PortaStudio, and it was incredible fun.
I am sure that you will be limited only by your creativity!
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What could be more fun than a sweet, salty, crunchy, coconutty popcorn treat? For this year's Easter snack at daycare, we're making HOPcorn! And, as always, it's 100% free of artificial food dyes. Happy snacking! Toasted Coconut Hopcorn 7 cups air-popped popcorn (or 2 bags if using microwave popcorn) 1 generous pinch sea salt 12… [read more]
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The Seven Deadly Sins of Book Care
Display photos (May 11-31, 2009): 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7
"The Seven Deadly Sins of Book Care" is on display through May 31st in the Renne Library display case in the main lobby.
Taken from the series of posters, "The Seven Deadly Sins of Book Care," created by Randy Silverman, Preservation Librarian, University of Utah, and reproduced with his permission. "The Seven Deadly Sins of Book Care" was inspired by the seven deadly sins outlined in Edward Spencer's epic poem The Færie Queen. Some verses and images taken from The Færie Queen (1596): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser.
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The science question being addressed:
How does your brain process sounds (including language) in a realistic acoustic environment where there are multiple sounds competing for your attention?
A problem:
How do you study neural responses in the higher auditory cortical regions when you don't even know what they will respond to? These neurons don't respond to the usual battery of tests such as tones, filtered noise, etc.
Auditory cortical regions of the marmoset. The inset on the right shows the connections of the primary auditory cortex with higher auditory regions. Figure adapted from de la Mothe et. al. 2006.
Monitor neural activity in the brain while listening to the sounds they are responding to and then correlate both signals. This is known as reverse correlation, which is illustrated below.
A prototype telemetry system has been developed and tested that will enable this data collection (Block diagram illustrated below).
Here's a picture of the custom 5.8 GHz transmitter (top and bottom of RF PLL and VCO board):
Here are several spectrograms of marmoset vocalizations that were transmitted by the acoustic channel of the telemetry system. Below one can see a trill-phee, juvenile calls, as well as tsik calls.
Below are tsik and trill calls.
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WOONSOCKET -- The rematch was a mismatch.
Defending state champion Mount St. Charles, which saw its bid for a perfect regular season come up a game short when the Mounties lost their finale to the Burrillville/Ponaganset co-op team, got a bit of revenge for that defeat in Friday night's showdown at Adelard Arena.
The Shea sisters, Allison and Caitlin, and Marissa Heroux each scored a pair of goals for Mount in a surprisingly-lopsided 7-0 triumph over the Broncos, a game the hosts dominated from start to finish.
The Mounties (3-1), who have outscored their competition by a 26-2 margin this season, netted four goals in the opening period and never looked back as they outshot the Broncos (3-2), 45-14.
MSC had a 4-0 lead after a period of play, and Lauren Levesque added a goal in the second period to help extend the lead to 6-0. Levesque, Alexis Fagan, and Jordan Duncan also had two assists in the game, and goalie Sarah Erban posted the shutout in net.
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