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Esa Holopainen
Tomi Joutsen – Vocals
Esa Holopainen – Guitar
Tomi Koivusaari – Guitar
Santeri Kallio – Keyboards
Jan Rechberger – Drums
Niclas Etelävuori – Bass
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Interviewer: Karma E. Omowale
Photos: Erika Kristen Watt
"I think there are a lot of bands that give up after a certain point, when things get rough and they don't see much development. I think that's stupid because the point is you are suppose to be writing music for yourself..."
For the past 15 years Amorphis has been morbidly depressing souls with their eclectic mix of death and experimental-esque metal. Seeing Finland has produced a plethora of amazing bands such as Sentenced, Kalmah, Children of Bodom, etc, this band is inarguably one of their finest exports. After under going some lineup and stylistic changes, the band morphed from a once predominately death metal vocally latent style, once fronted by now guitarist, Tomi Koivusarri, to the cleaner vocal styling of recently departed Pasi Koskinen. Now at the helm is Tomi Joutsen who looks to have found a permanent home with Amorphis whom has a remarkably similar vocal style to that of Koskinen. Joutsen's presence has seemingly invigorated this steadfast band. I caught up with guitarist, Esa Holopainen, one of the band's founding members, during their spring 2005 headlining tour. Esa discusses his disappointment in not being able to tour with Type O Negative, the immediate future of the band, what's in their CD player and more...
Karma: First off, I must thank you for doing the interview.
Esa: Yup! [Smiles]
Karma: Congrats on headlining!
Esa: Thank you.
Karma: Happy to see you guys here considering you would have been here earlier had Type O Negative not been forced to cancel the tour last winter. It must have been rather disappointing.
Esa: Yeah, it was.
Karma: How has this tour been going so far?
Esa: Pretty good. We're almost half way through it. We started from the West Coast and heading now to the East Coast. Yeah, there are new territories where we haven't played before like Florida. We're going to Canada, they've always been nice to us. Yeah, it's been good so far! [Smiles] We're happy, it's great to be touring the States instead of boring Germany! [Laughs]
Karma: Well, it's awesome to have you guys here, finally! [Smiles]
Esa: Thank you! [Smiles]
Band: Thanks
Karma: So as far as Pasi's [Koskinen] departure is concerned…
Esa: Yes.
Karma: How did Tomi [Joutsen] come to join Amorphis?
Esa: Really, I think Pasi left the band late summer [of 2004] We did one show with him in Hungary and after that came this Type O Negative tour; he informed [us] that he can't do it [anymore] because of his family obligations. Yeah, we talked more and it was obvious his choice was definitely that he was not able to tour anymore. So that's he came to leave the band. He's probably happy because he still has another project going on [Mannhai] in Finland.
We found Tomi...it took quite a lot of time as we looked over a lot of demos of different singers and a lot of people as well but Tomi came by word of mouth. My friend's, friend's, friend knew him [smiles] and we liked his voice. It works well as we were getting ready to go on tour. It's scary, it's good that we knew him before the tour started [laughs] because we knew him, we didn't want to go on tour with a strange guy. [We both laugh]
Karma: What was the motivating factor in incorporating lyrics from [the Finnish poem book], The Kalevala on Tales of Thousand Lakes.
Esa: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah! It was just an interesting idea because we were using pop melodies in our music and this pop book is very much connected into the music. It's about old Finnish traditions and we decided it was a good idea to take topics from there for Tales. We used another poem book for Elegy and furthermore, Pasi started writing lyrics based on, inspired by those traditional books.
Karma: That was for Kantele, correct?
Esa: Right, yes!
Karma: Your style has changed drastically from days of Privilege of Evil/Tales of Thousand Lakes to Far From The Sun.
Esa: Yes, yes.
Karma: Will you go into the direction of Kantele to Far From The Sun going forward or would you ever consider going back to the style of Tales?
Esa: I don't see ever going back to anything that extreme. We would probably used a little more gruffer vocals because Tomi [Koivusaari] is good with that among with clean vocals of course. Music wise, I think we are quite stable now with a lot of melodies… We'll see, we'll see what's going to happen. We will be writing quite of a lot of new stuff. It will be quite interesting.
Karma: Then the decision to change the logos during the transition was done to reflect the change in your sound as well.
Esa: Yeah, back when we released Elegy, we changed the logo as well. We wanted a clearer logo. We didn't want to get stuck with the old, death metal logo that really stands behind nothing. [Laughs] When Pasi came to the band, we had more clear vocals and I think that song structures were more like…real songs. So yeah, it was like a new day for us.
Karma: So how does your typical writing process go?
Esa: People bring songs and ideas to the rehearsal when we decide to rehearse as a band and arrange the songs together, so that's how it goes.
Karma: Were you satisfied with the way Far From The Sun turned out?
Esa: Yes, we are! Afterwards I think it would have been nice to do with Tomi. [Pointing to Tomi Joutsen whom was sitting on the couch]
Karma: Really? Why is that?
Esa: Hmmm, because, I don't know. It was a good album with good songs but in some way you can hear the lack of motivation in Pasi's voice, at least we do! I don't know if people really recognize it but we hear it very well. It took quite a lot of time to come up with the vocals for that album as well. It's probably something we would do differently, it would be nice, like previews of all of those again. I don't know, we're happy with the album and stand behind it. There good songs!
Karma: Yes they are! Well as far as future plans are concerned, are you going to tour more then release a new album or…
Esa: Probably for this tour, we spent more time writing new songs and we have worked more with arranging vocals for new songs, lyrics…which has been tough. We tried to record the album during the summer because Far From the Sun was released in Europe a year before it was released here.
Karma: Right, in 2003.
Esa: Yeah, we'll have a new album coming very soon, your way. We're happy with the way the U.S. version came out because we put all of the tracks we had left over and put them on as bonus tracks so…Only 1/3 of the stuff was new… [Laughs]
Karma: Who are some of your biggest influences now?
Esa: Actually some old stuff, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, [Jimi] Hendrix, Led Zeppelin. We do listen to metal as well.
Karma: So who are you listening to right now that is in the genre?
Esa: Right now we have a lot of CDs on the bus, A Perfect Circle, Tool, Monster Magnet.
Karma: Whom would you see like to get more exposure from Finland?
Esa: There are so many metal bands from Finland…Nightwish and H.I.M. There's a good rock band called Flaming Sideburst but they are really good. I think they're one band that should tour more.
Karma: Speaking of touring, whose name would you like to see on a marquee along side of yours?
Esa: Hummm, [smiles] realistically, the Type O tour would have been nice but Peter [Steele] got sense and it really wouldn't have made sense to tour without them. I don't really know it would be with some big metal band [pauses] Metallica maybe.
Karma: What are some major difference between your audiences in Europe as oppose to your fans in the States?
Esa: Probably the mosh pit that people [do].
Karma: Here?
Esa: Here, yeah. It's something you don't see in Europe that much…I don't know if there's really that much of difference.
Karma: What's the most important lesson learned in the Industry?
Esa: Lesson, hummm… not to trust people that much. [Laughs]
Karma: [Laughs] Okay.
Esa: Because people promise you too [many] things, business wise and not to expect too much. You've got to be quite patient, it [can] take years and years before anything happens.
I think there are a lot of bands that give up after a certain point when things get rough and they don't see much development. I think that's stupid because the point is you are suppose to be writing music for yourself and see how things will progress from there.
Karma: Here's a Speed Round of Questions.
Esa: Okay
Karma: What's your mantra, a statement that sums up how you lead your life?
Esa: I just lead my life day by day. I don't put much expectations on it.
Karma: Spiritual or religious?
Esa: Spiritual
Karma: The one musician that has made the most impact on your life?
Esa: I've always like Dave Gilmour from Pink Floyd. I've always like his playing style.
Karma: Favorite color?
Esa: When I was kid it was blue, probably blue.
Karma: Top 5 favorite movies.
Esa: Godfather, what else is good, there are so many good movies… I live mafia movies! [Laughs] Goodfellas…
Karma: So then what was the last movie you watched?
Esa: Oh, we watched a little bit of the Italian Job, the new version.
Karma: Do you swear?
Esa: In Finnish, quite a lot! [We all laugh]
Karma: What's your favorite curse word?
Esa: Vittu!
Karma: Okay, that's Alexi Laiho's [Children of Bodom's singer] favorite curse word too.
Esa: [Laughs] Yeah, it means fuck…but worse.
Karma: What's your first self purchased CD?
Esa: Produced?
Karma: Bought.
Esa: Oh, I don't remember because I used to buy vinyl some Deep Purple, Purple Haze…Perfect Strangers from Deep Purple.
Karma: Favorite instrument to hear?
Esa: Saxophone is nice, when it well played.
Karma: Live or dead: If you could interview anyone, whom would you choose?
Esa: George Bush.
Karma: Favorite household chore?
Esa: Cooking.
Karma: First job?
Esa: Cleaner, it was bad! [Laughs]
Karma: Favorite food?
Esa: As in general?
Karma: Yeah.
Esa: I like Mexican food, but I don't know after this tour if I like it anymore. [We all laugh] But I like it though.
Karma: Favorite drink?
Esa: Red wine.
Karma: If you could commission a band to do an Amorphis cover tune, who would do it and which song would they do?
Esa: Humm, humm! It would be nice to hear Black Sabbath do something like "Black Winter Day"
Karma: Oh, wow! Now that would be awesome and interesting to say the very least. Do you think he could get those growls in the right way?
Esa: Oh, I don't think so! [We laugh hysterically]
Karma: Kiittääs!
Esa: Ahh, kiittääs! [Smiles] Thank you!
I'd like to thank the band's tour manager, Brian Griffin, for making this interview a possibility.


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Obama challenges Congress to help create jobs
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama is challenging Congress to help him create jobs and rebuild the nation's infrastructure.
In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama points to the launch of two new high-tech manufacturing hubs and a competition to rebuild the nation's roads, bridges, mass transit, ports and railroads. Obama says Congress can help in both areas.
He says a bill now before Congress would create a network of high-tech manufacturing hubs all across the country. And he says he'll send Congress a budget next week that would rebuild transportation systems and support millions of jobs.
In the Republican address, Rep. Ann Wagner of Missouri is asking the president to explain government reports that up to 11 million workers will pay higher insurance premiums because of the new health care law.
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This error pops up saying database out of date.
* find the tracking.db3 file in your appdata folder (for windows 7 its C:\programData\Rosetta Stone\tracking.db3 (hidden folder) and rename it to tracking.db3.bak
* Restart the pc
* launch rosetta stone (all your progress has been lost now)
* close the rosetta stone application
* rename tracking.db3.bak to tracking.db3
* Launch the application again and here you go, you can use it again
For error code 2123:
Solved by simply reboot, and reboot, and reboot, until it is fixed.
BTW, adding a line in the file dynamicStoredPaths.xml, next to tracking.db3, may help:
Line added to second last line of file, before </installerDefaults>.


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The best plane for a shooting board? One that's sharp, heavy, bevel-up and comfortable to use.comments (7) December 14th, 2010 in blogs
Not so long ago, I wrote a blog explaining why planes don't continuously cut into shooting boards, which would give you no good way to control how much wood you removed and would wear away the shooting board pretty darn quick. That's probably the question I'm asked most often when I get a chance to meet readers and other hand tool nuts like myself. The question that I'm asked nearly as often is which plane is best suited for a shooting board. Let me start by saying this: The best plane is a sharp one! As long as it's sharp, you can use almost any plane with a shooting board, except for ones like a shoulder plane, where the blade extends the full width of the body. A block plane will work. So too will a bench plane. I know some folks who prefer using a big No. 7 for shooting. Also, the sole of the plane must be exactly 90 degrees to the side it will ride on. Otherwise, you'll plane the end grain of out square from top to bottom. Taking those two points as given, there are a few features that I value in a shooting board plane. I'll explain them below. Of course, if you disagree, feel free to post your thoughts in the comments below.
Comfort is the most important thing
When I made my first shooting board, I used a No. 4 smoothing plane with it. It worked fine, but I don't use it anymore. Here's why. If I used it to shoot for anything more than a few minutes, the hand I held it with would begin to hurt. If I had a lot of shooting to do, my hand would hurt the rest of the day, possibly into the next, and occasionally it would get bruised. Why? Because bench planes aren't designed to be used on their sides and held by the sidewall, frog, blade assembly. So, when I could afford it I bought a Veritas low angle jack plane, which has several distinct advantages over my smoother. First, it is made to be used on a shooting board (among other things). It has fairly tall sides walls, which makes it stable when laid on its side. There is also a nice little circular indent on the side wall--the perfect place for a thumb. And because there isn't a frog, it is very easy to grasp the side wall with your hand. It adds up to a comfortable plane for shooting. I've also used the Lie-Nielsen low angle jack with the hotdog attachment. It too is very comfortable as a shooting board plane. (And trust me, I'm already scheming a way to justify owning it as well!)
A low angle of attack is nice, too
When it comes to end grain (and 99% of shooting is on end grain), you want to slice through the fibers at a low angle of attack. The higher the angle, the more likely the blade is to break the fibers rather than cut them cleanly. In order to get the blade at an angle low enough for cutting end grain, you've got to turn it bevel up. If it were bevel down, the bevel angle would have to be less than the bedding angle and that would make it too weak. So, you should look for a low-angle, bevel-up plane.
Beefy is better
That last thing I look for in a shooting plane is heft, because it's easier to get through end grain with a heavier plane. That's why I use a jack plane. It has just the right amount of mass. Anything bigger is, in my opinion, too tiring. Anything lighter doesn't glide through end grain as well.
Finally, let me go back to a point I made earlier. Keep your plane sharp. In fact, sharpen it before you use your shooting board. And keep it sharp as you use it. Nothing is more frustrating or counterproductive at a shooting board than a less than razor sharp blade. It takes way more effort to get through the end grain and the surface you leave behind won't be smooth.
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Also could you please give me sources and part numbers for the hardware that goes with your shooting board.
Thank you
Posted: 10:49 am on January 3rd
Posted: 10:50 pm on March 1st
Posted: 4:59 pm on February 26th
The Lee Valley BU Jack has an interesting design for shooting. The lever cap has been intentionally made to fit your fingers. Put fingers under the cap and your thumb in the indentation on the side and start shooting - no hotdog required.
Posted: 2:20 pm on January 14th
I have several planes and other tools from Lie-Nielsen and I have nothing but praise for all of these tools, both in function and in form.
Recently, however, when I decided to order a low angle jack plane, I decided I liked the design and features of the Veritas plane over the Lie-Nielsen. When examining the Veritas low angle jack plane for the first time, I was surprised to notice that the blade was not highly polished on all sides, like I've come to expect from Lie-Nielsen. The back of the blade was a dull gray color and it looked like some dark colored coating had dripped all over the sides of the blade and is very sloppy looking. Although the top of the blade was polished, it wasn't the best job. The blade was definitely razor sharp right out of the box and the plane does perform flawlessly, but esthetically, it is a bit of a disappointment.
In addition to the blade disappointment, I noticed the knob and tote were not finished to the level of a Lie-Nielsen. The LN handles are finished to absolute perfection – they are high gloss and super smooth, a pleasure to touch and feel. The Veritas knob and tote were dull in comparison and the tote actually felt rough – far short of the quality of LN.
The Veritas low angle jack plane does perform flawlessly, both upright and on it's side for shooting. It is an excellent plane and has some interesting features like set screws to stabilize sideward movement of the blade and a thumbscrew to use as a stop on the mouth setting, both of which are lacking in the Lie_Nielsen version. But for the price, I expected the highly polished blade, knob and tote that I consistently get from Lie-Nielsen. I'm still debating whether I should return the plane and purchase the Lie-Nielsen instead.
If I never owned or touched a Lie-Nielsen plane, I would have been thrilled with the Veritas low angle jack. Like I said, functionally, the tool is excellent, but I'm afraid I've been spoiled by the best. Both firms manufacture excellent, hard working tools. Lie-Nielsen tools, however, are also a work of art.
Posted: 11:06 am on January 14th
Now I'll offer some advice to anyone looking to get started with shooting boards and needs a plane. If you buy a new plane and its side isn't square to its sole, send it back and get another one. If you come across an old plane that's out of square, put it down and keep looking.
Posted: 5:23 pm on December 17th
"Also, the sole of the plane must be exactly 90 degrees to the side it will ride on."
This is not true. What is important is that the iron can be adjusted square to the surface of the shooting board. You can use the lateral adjuster to do this regardless of the state of squareness of the sides of the plane to the sole. The plane's sides do not need to be square to the sole to make the iron square to the shooting board.
Posted: 11:41 am on December 17th
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Gov't spend on pensions to rise to £420bn by 2062
The Department for Work and Pensions has predicted basic state pension benefit expenditure to reach £302bn in the next 50 years while total expendature will reach close to £420bn, almost five times the spend on pensions today.
Currently, basic state pension benefits incur an expenditure of £60bn, and all state pensions - including for example pension credit and second state pensions - cost the state £90bn in 2011/12.
However, even when adjusted for inflation the DWP believes this figure will steadily increase for the next 49 years and reach £302bn by 2061/62, according to new figures. Correspondingly, the figure for total state pension expenditure will reach £419bn.
This revelation comes at a time when Prime Minister David Cameron is under increasing pressure to address pension expenditure, will some critics calling for cuts to pensions rather than welfare as the government looks to get its deficit reduction plan back on track.
Laith Khalaf, pensions analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: "The real crunch is how on earth we are going to afford this. The answer is we aren't.
"The government is almost certainly going to have to raise retirement ages and water down state pension benefits. The bottom line is there is little other choice. It may well do this on the sly, by tinkering with the inflation link, or indeed by changing the definition of inflation which they are considering at the moment."
"Tomorrow's pensioners are likely to suffer death by a thousand cuts to their state pension entitlement."
He added that these projections give further credence to advocates of auto-enrolment and make it all the more important that individuals build up retirement pots of their own instead of planning to simply rely on the state.
"Because what they get from the state might be like that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. They might actually catch up with it, only to find out it is little more than a few chunks of lead."


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Morgan Stanley changed tack on junk-rated corporate bonds in Europe Friday, shifting its stance to equal-weight from overweight.
Its main reason was that this type of debt has become really expensive. Investors have been pushed into taking riskier and riskier bets in recent months. With key interest rates so low, they have been sent scrambling for any extra return.
This asset class, aptly known as high yield, was an obvious place to look. No surprise, then, that a survey by the U.S. investment bank found junk bonds are the most preferred asset class among European investors. Demand has sent yields to a historic low of 5.4%.
It's a great performance given that these companies are operating amid a harrowing economic crisis. Morgan Stanley's economists have lowered their expectations for 2013 gross domestic product in 15 European Union countries to -0.4% from -0.2%.
Their shift on junk bonds didn't come out of nowhere. Last week the analysts reminded markets that the past three years started off strong, just like this one. Then summer came. People got burned when sovereign fears kicked up.
"This week we begin to act on that worry," analysts Andrew Sheets and Joerund Holterud Aarsnes said.
They also noted companies eager to take advantage of low rates are flooding the market, which is not very supportive of bond prices.
But perhaps the dire state of the economy and bumper bond deals can be overlooked due to the low rate of default among companies? Or that easing central bank policies, especially from the European Central Bank and Bank of Japan, will continue to be supportive?
Nope, not enough to justify an overweight position, they said.
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The small Fall concert takes place this coming Sunday Afternoon at 3 pm. in the Concert Hall at MCA
The Program is combined with the choir, and the orchestra's contributions will be:
Ravel - Minuet on the name "Haydn"
Mozart - Minuet from Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Bach - the central section from his Fantasia in G major for organ.
The Orchestra will also have rehearsals this week in preparation, at the normal times:
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"Studying Zen is zazen.
For zazen, one should have a quiet place...
Cast aside all involvements and discontinue the myriad affairs.
Good is not thought of; evil is not thought of.
It is not mind, intellect or consciousness; it is not thoughts, ideas or perceptions....
Having thus regulated body and mind, take a breath and exhale fully.
Sitting fixedly, think of not thinking.
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- Miss Jessel appears to the Governess (and possibly Flora) by the lake.
- Prowling around the halls of the house late one night, the Governess sees Miss Jessel sitting miserably on the same staircase where she'd seen Quint earlier.
- Miss Jessel appears in the schoolroom but doesn't speak. The Governess later tells Mrs. Grose that they conversed.
- When the Governess and Mrs. Grose find Flora by the lake, the Governess sees Miss Jessel across the water again – she frantically tells the others to look at her. Mrs. Grose can't see her at all, while Flora either doesn't see her or denies that she sees her.


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By David VergunFebruary 23, 2013
FORT IRWIN, Calif. (Army News Service, Feb. 23, 2013) -- Gen. George S. Patton once said, "Gentlemen, the officer who doesn't know his communications and supply as well as his tactics is totally useless."
That quote illustrates the importance of sustainment for mission success, said Lt. Col. Michaele McCulley, commander of the "Gold Miner" team of the National Training Center's, or NTC, Operations Group.
Her team of 32 Soldiers are responsible for providing sustainment training, coaching and mentoring to "Dagger" Soldiers of 1st Infantry Division's, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, or ABCT, as well as other units that rotate through here.
The 2nd ABCT will become the first regionally aligned brigade to U.S. Africa Command in early May, following 14 days of training here, which end March 1, and follow-on region-specific training at the brigade's home station at Fort Riley, Kan.
Gold Miner Soldiers, all of whom have combat experience and are experts in their logistics specialties, move about "the box," as the 1,100-square-mile training area is called, providing guidance mostly to Soldiers of the brigade support battalion, or BSB, and the corps support sustainment battalion, or CSSB, she said.
Their occupational specialties include staff organization; distribution; warehouse operations; mortuary affairs; fuel, water, maintenance and recovery operations; medical operations, including treatment and evacuations; intelligence; communications; and ammunition resupply.
"We providing training and mentorship using our own experiences, coupled with doctrine," McCulley said.
The doctrine piece comes from Training and Doctrine Command, which anticipates future threats and ways to meet them, using subject-matter experts, modeling, simulations and live experimentation.
"Doctrine is the basic recipe for how we do operations," she said. "You can add spice to it, but it's still the basic recipe."
In 1999 and 2000, McCulley was with the Gold Miners here when Cold War, force-on-force training was still conducted at NTC. Following the 9/11 attacks, counterinsurgency training was emphasized, she said. McCulley has first-hand experience with COIN, as it is termed, since her last tour before arriving here in 2011 was in Afghanistan.
Current doctrine anticipates a hybrid threat, she said. Now, the training is known as decisive action and consists of two main parts that, in reality, occur simultaneously, the conventional force-on-force and wide area security. The latter includes counterinsurgency, humanitarian crises, cultural awareness and diplomacy.
This is the fourth unit rotation through NTC that is using this doctrine, she added.
What makes this training unique, she said, is that most BSBs don't get the opportunity to set up their full complement of logistics scenarios at home-station training because the size of the training area at most installations is so much smaller and that limits full-brigade involvement, she said.
"When they come out here, we're able to help them develop ways to set up the entire BSA (brigade support area) that could be a 2- or 3-kilometer sized goose egg (shaped area)," she said. "They see the big picture here."
Soldiers are shown how to use the terrain to set up their equipment, for example, she said. There are some benefits to setting up the BSA where there's a lot of open terrain for good visibility and at other times, the BSA might be better off in a wadi or on a mountain.
It's all based on enemy threats and the brigade commander's intent, she said. "We help them to use all their intelligence and communication assets to set this up."
A wadi is a gully formed by a stream. At Fort Irwin and in other desert locations around the world, the wadis are normally dry, but can flood quickly when it rains.
"You wouldn't want to be in a wadi when that happens," she said.
Another unique training opportunity here is that the Soldiers gain an appreciation for traveling long distances and seeing just how long it takes to do a resupply mission, she said.
Since there is no dedicated security element for logistics operations, Soldiers must provide for their own security.
"We're all Soldiers first" and then logisticians," she said, adding that security challenges can be especially challenging with wide area security threats, coupled with conventional.
In humanitarian or refugee situation, Soldiers tasked with sustainment rely on government and non-governmental organizations like the Red Cross, United Nations, State Department or U.S. Agency for International Development for support, she said.
"Doctrine says we help locals tap into international or NGO-type organizations to help bring that level of assistance," she said, adding that "often, those organizations don't have their own distribution capability, so we would work with them jointly (so that relief) supplies could come to the BSB for distribution to local population.
Although NTC provides role players for these NGOs and governmental organizations, some of the participants are actually State Department personnel on training prior to foreign-service duty, she said.
"We rely on Soldiers in all the units for accurate information reporting to anticipate their fuel, water, ammunition needs. There's only so much ammo in this training environment," she said. Coincidentally, as McCulley was explaining this she got a call in the box, where she was located, regarding a Class V resupply issue. Class V refers to all categories of ammunition.
"Units struggle with detailed reporting," she said after the call. "They say 'we need ammo' but they can't tell the BSB how much they need or how much they have on hand. They just want more ammo. They absolutely should know, just like you should know how much is in your checking account before you write a check. But they're learning.
"Also in the past, Soldiers relied more on contractors for many sustainment tasks, and here, Soldiers are having to do it all themselves," she added.
Soldiers are used to operating out of large forward operating bases, known as FOBs, that have plenty of stocks of supplies at hand, said Command Sgt. Maj. Jason Runnels, who has been with the Gold Miners for 18 months. He mentors the brigade command sergeants major in logistical matters and works with McCulley on personnel matters.
"Our first sergeants have been so engaged with the forward fighters, that they're not used to the basic responsibilities of beans and bullets being put back on their shoulders, ensuring all the sustainment functions are in place," he said.
"We had prepositioned stockpiles of supplies at the FOBs so they thought it doesn't matter if my report for fuel was wrong. I'm still going to get plenty of fuel. It doesn't matter if I request enough Class V because there's plenty at the FOB. If you don't submit the proper requests, it doesn't show up. And if it doesn't show up, you won't get it," he said.
Maneuver Soldiers who come to these rotations learn that if they don't get logistics right, the operation is not going to work, Runnels said. And, from the logistical side of the house, they gain a better appreciation for the decisive action environment, the magnitude of tactical responsibilities that have to be coherently built into the plan.
He said it's a real wake-up call for Soldiers who are used to having air superiority and rule the night with their night-vision goggles.
"Now, the enemy has every capability you have, so how do you defend against that?" he asked rhetorically.
"You spread your fuelers, equipment and personnel across the BSA. You use biometrics at our (equipment collection points) because we might be engaged with local civilians. You emplace hasty fighting positions, we haven't done that in years," he said, citing some force protection measures Soldiers learn to take here.
Biometrics are ways to measure physical and behavioral characteristics used to establish personal identity to prevent sabotage, terrorism and espionage. Techniques could include fingerprinting, iris scans and so on.
"How to manage your people is challenging for all rotations," he said. "All it takes is one or two individuals not completing their tasks or doing so incorrectly and it could affect the success of the entire organization."
(Editor's note: This is the final article in a four-part series on "Dagger" Brigade Soldiers training at NTC for regional alignment to U.S. Africa Command).


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Where the Red Fern Grows
by Wilson Rawls
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This book is pretty straightforward, so you shouldn't have any trouble. Take this totally random sentence:
As I ate, Papa sat down at the table and started talking man-talk to me. (6.32)
Got it? Of course you do. There are only four words of more than one syllable, and one of them is "Papa." The only thing to keep an eye out for is some seriously outdated language. The book was written in the late 1950s or early 1960s, and takes place 50 years before that, so the boy throws around words like "gunnysacks" and "buggies." (Oh, and city slickers should watch out for some hunting terminology—but, you know what? We think you're going to be fine.)


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Want to start a rocking new holiday tradition with your friends? How about a book swap? Some folks have holiday cookie swaps or clothing swaps, but for those always on the hunt for the next great read, a book swap is the way to go.
Here's how it works:
- Invite a group of about 6-10 friends.
- Provide book-based snacks like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory hot chocolate or a bowl of blue M&Ms from Chasing Vermeer.
- Everyone brings at least one great read to swap – it can be new, used, dog-eared, whatever, as long as all the pages are there. Feel free to bring more than one title because the ultimate goal is to match every swapper up with a fabulous fit for them.
Get creative with how to match up friends with books. Here are a few ideas:
- Have each swapper create a short "personality quiz" (like in magazines) to see who's best suited to the book.
- Try a "Yankee Swap." Draw numbers out of a bag. Person 1 gets first pick, but Person 2 can choose from the pile OR grab Person 1's pick – and so on.
- Another way to i.d. who belongs with which book is to make connections with other books your guests have already read and loved. Here are some pairings to get you started:
If you liked the suspense of Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
If you liked the alternate reality of Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
If you liked sinking into all seven Harry Potter books
If you liked going to England with The Calder Game by Blue Balliett
If you liked the characters with amazing abilities in Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke
If you liked the quirky twists in A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
Cap off your book swap festivities with crafty fun like bookmark-making (you supply the thick paper, stickers, and glitter glue). Or pop in a book-based movie like The Chronicles of Narnia or The Neverending Story, pop some corn and settle in.
Are you planning a holiday swap? Be sure to post here and let us know how it goes.
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One of the bars well actually a coffee house with more character in London has to be The Bridge Coffee House. The place is in a time capsule or a time machine, as soon as you enter you are transported to the past, hit with a massive collection of antiques all in one coffee house.
The Place
Having all these antiques is something not difficult for Ricco (the owner of the place) as he is a collector and is obvious as you enter the place, things like the coffee machines, old cameras, or the phonograph. Is amazing how Ricco make a bunch of tacky stuff work together and create an amazing atmosphere, is just brilliant.
Ricco at his old school coffee house
I love to go to the place to have a couple beers, relax, and enjoy the trip to the past. Don't waste more time in commercial coffee houses just go there and enjoy the trip. This is kind of unique place reminds me why I love London so much.
Upstairs, looks like my Grandma's living room
Love the coffee machine
All this antique state of mind reminds me the Seinfeld episode "The Pitch"
Jerry: Well, they want me to come up with an idea. I mean, I don't have any ideas.
George: Come on, how hard is that? Look at all the junk that's on TV You want an idea? Here's an idea. You coach gymnastics team in high school and you're married. And your son's not interested in gymnastics and you're pushing him into gymnastics.
Jerry: Why should I care if my son's into gymnastics?
George: Because you're a gymnastics teacher. It's only natural.
Jerry: But gymnastics is not for everybody.
George: I know, but he's your son.
Jerry: So what?
George: All right, forget that idea, it's not for you....Okay, okay, I got it. You run an antique store.
Jerry: Yeah and?
George: And people come in the store and you get involved in their lives.
Jerry: What person who runs an antique store gets involved in people's lives?
George: Why not?
Jerry: So someone comes in to buy an old lamp and all of a sudden I'm getting them out of a jam? I could see if I was a pharmacist because a pharmacist knows what's wrong with everybody that comes in.
George: I know, but antiques are very popular right now.
Jerry: No they're not, they used to be.
George: Oh yeah, like you know.
Jerry: Oh like you do.
Jerry: Oh like you do.
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Over-use. Over-load. Over-stress.
"I've had ankle sprains, quads, back, shoulder...head."
Teen soccer standout Alicia Wolfe isn't the only one hurting. High school athletes account for two million injuries, 500,000 hospital visits and 30,000 hospital stays each year, and the patients are only getting younger.
"In baseball players I see pitchers 9 years old come in with overuse injuries," said Joel Shawl, M.D., Sports Medicine Physician.
"You're always using the same muscles, the same body parts over and over again leading to overuse," said Jeff Sczpanski Head Athletic Trainer.
There are limits. Experts say kids under 9 shouldn't run more than two miles a day. From ages 12-14 - that increases to six miles. In a sport like baseball - a 9-year-old pitcher shouldn't toss more than 75 balls a game. Boost that to 95 for 16-year-olds. Pushing the limits means major injuries for athletes like Alicia down the road.
"I think the whole concept of 'no pain, no gain' has been a big problem and that's where a lot of this has come from," said Joel Shawl, M.D.
Sports medicine doctor Joel Shawl at Grant Hospital in Columbus says the taut hamstrings and strong quads in a soccer player could lead to hip, knee, and back problems.
"A lot of the problems in baseball are back strain," said Joel Shawl, M.D.
Basketball, ankle and knee injuries may mean arthritis. Playing through pain is really just post-poning that pain for another day.
For More Information, Contact:STOP Sports Injury Organization The American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicinehttp://www.sportsmed.org/STOP/(877) 321-3500


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