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Monday, March 14, 2005
Don't Free Tibet
To everyone with an aging "Free Tibet" bumper sticker on the back of their rusting old Volvo, it looks like it's time to give up the dream.
The Dalai Lama said that by dropping the sovereignty claim for Tibet, his people would be able to benefit from China's economic achievements. This was in stark contrast to his previous stand, that Tibet should be a self-governing domestic and political entity under a type of "one country, two systems" arrangement.
"This is the message I wish to deliver to China," he said. "I am not in favour of separation. Tibet is a part of the People's Republic of China. It is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. Tibetan culture and Buddhism are part of Chinese culture."
I wonder how Richard Gere is taking the news. Intriguingly to me, Hollywood and its "Free Tibet" movement never wanted to actually do anything to free Tibet (except, of course, make movies and speeches). The truth is, though, that they deified the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan cause; it was easy for them since the leader of the movement was a peaceful, enlightened non-Westerner struggling for the rights of a country where the United States had no vested interests.
Put oil into the bedrock of a nation and no direct action that the United States takes can possibly be righteous. For that matter, if the leader happens to be a Republican, then the cause must be evil, heartless, and driven by semi-secret Zionist forces.
Now that the Dalai Lama has expressed a more materialistic side, hoping that China's rapid development will fuel economic growth and security for Tibet, I wonder how the Hollywood elite will now view the leader. His statements--with a desire for cultural and spiritual autonomy, buttressed by all of the benefits of China's economy and political structure--might not live up to Hollywood's expectations of an immaculate leader.
It's not as surprising a development as might otherwise be imagined, though.
In recent years, the Dalai Lama has been increasingly accommodating in his political manoeuvrings, pursuing a "middle way" that would ensure autonomy rather than independence and leave China in control of Tibet's foreign policy.
So, not surprising, but it sure leaves a lot of bumper stickers looking a little out of date.
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One wonders how much "cultural autonomy" the Dalai Lama thinks he can get. Sounds like he's getting soft in his old age.
Tibet is an example of what happens when you are not willing to fight for what you believe in. The United States has shed blood to free slaves, stop European imperialism, Nazism, and now, Islamic Fascism. Looking at photos of the 800,000 Lebanese massing together to assert their God-given right to freedom, it is hard for me to imagine that the world would be a better place without rough men ready to defend the rest of us.
From the dawn of recorded history until today, there are only 2 periods of time when people were considered citizens, not subjects and free to live life as they chose. The first was the Greek/Roman era, the second period began in 1776 (or 1775 if you want to get technical). This second era of freedom persists only because we devote so much energy, resources, and blood to defending it.
The Lebanese revolution will probably, hopefully, be bloodless. But, it is the blood of Americans and our allies (Britain, Australia, Italy, Japan, Korea, and many others) that made this "bloodless" revolution possible. While we were able to defeat Soviet Communism without shedding blood (only in a loose sense of the word) only because we showed that we were stronger. And that we loved freedom more than peace.
Even in India, Ghandi's peaceful revolution was based on the concept of loving freedom more than life. He knew the British would respect that sentiment. If China had been in India instead of the British, Ghandi's revolution would have been even more of a failure than the current Tibetan resistance.
I respect the Dalai Lama and his ways. But, I disagree with him. Tenzin Gyatso is the 14th Dalai Lama. Over the course of a thousand years he has lived, died, and been reborn to again take the mantle of Dalai Lama. Maybe a thousand years from now his people will live free again. To this Westerner that is hard to imagine. And even harder to accept. Freedom is too precious to leave to the whims of dictators, despots, and any political force that does not believe in and defend the inalienable rights of us all.
Live free, or die.
Free from what?
Not to be contrary, but I'll bet you pay taxes. Is that freedom to do what you want? Do you obey most traffic laws? Damn the tyranny!
How many years did the Lebanese live with a lack of freedom before they started protesting? How many centuries have people lived as subjects rather than citizens? If given the choice, would you go back in time and slaughter them all because they chose life over liberty? Could the freedom of the United States ever have happened without millenia of non-free people living but dreaming/musing for a better life?
Some things take time. A man who is reborn many times over thousands of years might be willing to take a long view of things.
That doesn't mean I support the invasion and occupation of Tibet by China. But if the Tibetans change their self-identity to consider themselves Chinese, should we object?
Should we expect that the native Americans should still rise up and slaughter all us non-natives to regain their freedom from the oppression of the United States? What about the descendents of slaves who were brought here unwillingly? Should they not consider themselves Americans because their ancestors didn't choose to come here?
I don't know...I can't go so far as to say the Tibetans are better off under China's rule, so I guess I am actually just being contrarian. I guess its just from my perspective, the only people I ever saw complaining about Tibet were the Dalai Lama and his rich, famous friends. The people who stayed in Tibet don't seem to be all that upset with things, overall, these days. Maybe if the central Chinese govt weakened, we'd see Tibet split off like the former Warsaw Pact states did when the Soviet Union dissolved...but I hardly think it's a given. The protests for democracy in Tian'anmen Square in Beijing were not singular; similar protests were going on at every major college throughout the nation. That would have been an excellent time for Tibet to rise up and assert its independence, or at the very least, join in the protests.
I don't remember them doing anything...do you?
Did you know that the Dalai Lama actually invited the Communists in, originally?
I don't know...I think this whole situation is probably far more complicated than Richard Gere makes it sound.

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In this exercise we are going to build a third Cell Style that's going to accommodate the text in the final column of this table and the idea is we want to open up the side here, we want to get rid of this Vertical Stroke along the right side of the table. Just to open up the table a little bit and give it some room to breathe I guess. I am working on a catch-up document called Formatted interior.indd that's found inside the O6 Table Styles folder. Now with your Type tool, you want to select the final column and you could do that if you wanted to by positioning your cursor over the top of the word Year like that, so that it's in that blank area above Year there.
If you get in a right place, you will see a down pointing arrowhead, then you can click and you will get the entire final column. But we don't want that, because I don't want the header. I don't want the word Year right there. So the easiest thing to do is just to drag after clicking off of that column to deselect it, then just drag from the beginning of 1967 to the end of 1986, to select of all of those years. Get them all, very important. And then I want you to go to the Cell Styles palette like usual and Alt+Click or Option+Click on that little page icon, we call this guy Last column, like so. And notice it's already based on Songs & Artists, what gives? Why is InDesign so smart all of a sudden that it knows that we want to base the style on Songs & Artists? Well because that text is already formatted with Songs & Artists, so it picks up on that.
When the text is already formatted with another style, InDesign knows that you want to base the new style on that previous style. Alright, let's go over here. We actually don't need to change the Paragraph Style, because Songs & Artists already has its own Paragraph Style assigned, so it's fine. What we do want to do is knock off that edge there and we are not going to be able to preview our changes on the fly, we are just going to have to accept that this is the way it works, unless if you do want to preview, then you click OK, of course to accept that modification. It looks like it went ahead and deselected the table automatically. So I need to drag across that text once again and then I would click on Last column in order to apply it to the text.
Now press Ctrl+Shift+A, Command+Shift+A on the Mac to make sure nothing is selected, then double click on Last column inside of the Cell Styles palette, and then I want you to go over here to Strokes and Fills. Now you might think this is a simple matter, since we want to lop off the right edge here and this guy represents the edges, the borders around the cell. You might think you could just click there to turn of that edge and then it is gone. Well, that's not how it works. These little controls there affect exactly which edge is being affected by the other controls.
So what you need to do is turn that edge on, make sure it is blue and then turn the others off by clicking on them. So only the right edge of this little rectangle should be active. Now I change its Weight to 0 point and because Preview is turned on, we can preview our changes as we have seen before. Now go ahead and click OK in order to accept that modification. Now let's go ahead and make another Cell Style, as long as we are here, let's make another Cell Style for the first column. So drag across all of the track numbers, not the word Track, so one through twenty (1-20).
Then Alt+Click or Option+Click on the little page icon, let's go ahead and change the name of this guy to First column I would gather, since the other one was the last column, for parity of course. Songs & Artists is what we want. This time I am going to set the Paragraph Style to Track number, to this one right here, because we want to make some slight changes. I want my text to be aligned to the right. So the single digits align with the second digits of the double digits. Just like we saw in the previous chapter, it is very important to align your numbers right. Otherwise you look like a moron. Just take it from me.
Alright, so go ahead and change the Paragraph Style option to Track number, which will align the text to the right. Doesn't look like it does for you, but that's because Preview is ineffective inside of this dialog box. Go ahead on click OK in order to accept that change. Then click on first column in order to style the text, ooh! Now you can see what you are doing, it's too far over to the right. So I want you to press Ctrl+Shift+A, Command+Shift+A on the Mac to deselect the table. Then I want you to double click on First column, to bring up the Style Options dialog box and let's go to Text, because we need to change our insets, our Cell Insets. Make sure that the link icon right there is turned off.
So there is a break in the chain and then I want you to go to Right, right there, because the text is too far over to the right and let's take it up actually pretty high. Let's go ahead and experiment with this value. I think we can take it as high as, we could try something like 0p9 and then Tab off of it to see what kind of difference that makes and that's not quite far enough. So let's go ahead and Shift+Tab back to this value and I am going to press the up arrow key, until things look right and right about there I think the numbers look good actually, and then I'll come back and my right value is now one pica, 1p0. So a full pica, fine.
Then I will go to Strokes and Fills. I need to turn off this left stroke right there. By the way, I should say the keyboard shortcuts, the keyboard shortcut for Strokes and Fills is Ctrl+3, Command+3 on the Mac and that's 1, 2, 3, you can count. You could figure that up by yourself. You didn't need me to tell you that. Alright, so let's say I just want to affect this left edge. Here is another way to change this rectangle guy. So just a left edge is selected. Click twice to deselect the entire rectangle and then click a third time to turn that left edge on. So another way to work as opposed to tediously turning each of these edges on and all of these methods involve three clicks.
But still, you might want different methods, let's go ahead and change Weight to 0 point, and that's going to get rid of that edge as well, nice! The job is done go ahead and click OK, we have now formatted the table with a collection of four Cell Styles in all. In the next exercise we are going to assemble our Cell Styles into a Table Style.
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"Fuzzy-Wuzzy" is a poem by the English author and poet Rudyard Kipling, published in 1892 as part of Barrack Room Ballads. It describes the respect of the ordinary British soldier for the bravery of the Hadendoa warriors who fought the British army in the Sudan.
"Fuzzy-Wuzzy" was the term used by British colonial soldiers for the 19th-century Beja warriors supporting the Sudanese Mahdi in the Mahdist War. The term Fuzzy Wuzzy is purely of English origin and is not connected with Arabic. The Beja are not Arabic speakers: their language, Tu Bedawi, is of Cushitic origin and is related to Somali and Afar.
The Beja people were one of several broad multi-tribal groupings supporting the Mahdi, and were divided into three tribes, Haddendowa, Amarar and Bishariyyin. All of these are semi-nomadic and inhabit the Sudan's Red Sea Hills Libyan desert and southern Egypt. The Beja provided a large number of warriors to the Mahdist forces. They were armed with swords and spears and some of them carried breech-loaded rifles which had been captured from the Egyptian forces, and some of them had acquired military experience in the Egyptian army.
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Kipling's poem Fuzzy-Wuzzy praises the Hadendoa for their martial prowess, because "for all the odds agin' you, Fuzzy-Wuz, you broke the square". This could refer to either or both historical battles between the British and Mahdist forces where British infantry squares were broken. The first was at the Battle of Tamai, on 13 March 1884, and the second was on 17 January 1885 during the Battle of Abu Klea. Kipling's narrator, an infantry soldier, speaks in admiring terms of the "Fuzzy-Wuzzies", praising their bravery which, although insufficient to defeat the British, did at least enable them to boast of having "broken the square"—an achievement which few other British foes could claim.
The poem should be read against the background of bayonet drill, (thrusting a bayonetted rifle into a straw filled dummy). As in "'ere's to you Fuzzy Wuzzy" whilst thrusting firmly forward with rifle and bayonet.[citation needed]
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In the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Caractacus' father refers to the "Fuzzy-Wuzzys" when speaking of his time in the army. Additionally, in the BBC situation comedy Dad's Army, Lance Corporal Jack Jones (Clive Dunn) continually refers to the Fuzzy-Wuzzies in his reminiscences about his days fighting in the Sudan under General Kitchener.
In the film The Four Feathers (1939), when the camp of the Mahdi supporters is shown (at 49.35 min.) a title appears: THE KALIPHA'S ARMY OF DERVISHES AND FUZZY WUZZIES ON THE NILE. Also, towards the end of the film (1.52.40 min.) the old General states: "All you boys had to do was deal with Fuzzy-Wuzzy."
In the 1964 film Zulu, Michael Caine's character reports the strength of the opposing force to his commander in the British Army prior to the Battle of Rorke's Drift by saying "Good Lord, sir! There are thousands of the Fuzzy-Wuzzies!"
During the hard fought Kokoda Track campaign during World War II, Australian soldiers called the local Papuan stretcher bearers "fuzzy wuzzy angels".[1]
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- ^ "Kokoda: 'Fuzzy wuzzy angels'". Australia's War 1939–1945. Department of Veterans' Affairs, Australian Government. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
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"They were completely inflexible, which was completely disappointing," track president Eddie Gossage said. "Nobody wins in those kinds of things, and I don't know why they were completely inflexible."
Gossage said that simply switching dates with another track isn't as easy as it may seem, as a particular track might have a festival or other local events tied to those weekends. Still, a mega-event such as the Final Four should have been an exception to alter plans.
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NEW BRUNSWICK — New Brunswick firefighters remain at the scene this morning of a warehouse fire on Somerset Street that ravaged a silk-flower wholesale business late Wednesday night, a city fire official said.
The one-story building, near Home Street, was fully engulfed by the time firefighters arrived at 10:38 p.m., two minutes after receiving the call, Deputy Fire Chief Tom Lopardo said.
"The building was completely destroyed," he said.
A nearby residential and business had minor damage, mostly cracked windows, he said.
Two firefighters were slightly injured, Lopardo said. including one from New Brunswick, who suffered a knee puncture. Both were taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in the city where they were treated and later released, Lopardo said.
The fire was under control shortly after midnight, Lopardo said, and its cause is still under investigation. Fire investigators and city building department officials will sift through evidence later today, he said.
"It was too dangerous overnight for them to go in," he said.
Lopardo said the roughly 13,000-square-foot warehouse that was home to the Ding & A Trading Corp. is likely to be torn down.
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Ron Ladell, senior vice president for developer AvalonBay, told the board late Thursday night that he would agree to extend the deadline of a minor application related to the site plan, which would have otherwise timed out that night if the board did not act on it.
Earlier in the meeting Ladell had said Avalon was not willing to extend the deadline. But after the meeting was slow to start, due in part to a lengthy discussion of the potential legal repercussions of letting the application time out, and there was no time for public comment on the application, Ladell changed his mind.
"I want to make sure every member of the public who wants to gets the chance to vet this application," Ladell said after the meeting. "We wouldn't want to do this without giving the public that chance."
"You don't know how these things are going to go sometimes," he said, referring to his change of mind. "When the meeting doesn't start until two hours in because of this discussion, sometimes you have to adjust."
Earlier in the meeting Ladell had said the developer originally submitted one major site plan for the whole project, which would be primarily located in Princeton Borough. But since part of the parking garage lies in Princeton Township, he was advised by municipal officials to file a separate, minor site plan for that portion of the site, he said.
If the board had let the minor application time out on Thursday without taking a vote, the application would be subject to automatic approval due to planning board rules, board attorney Gerry Muller said during the meeting. If Avalon were to seek that automatic approval, the move would likely trigger litigation by the municipalities. he said.
When asked by other members of the planning board about the situation, Muller repeatedly said it was a very "rare" or "unusual" predicament.
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No matter, apparently, for the TSA, who just went ahead and fined Brennan anyway claiming Brennan "interfered with screening personnel in the performance of their duties" (a violation of this rather broad law). As Lowering the Bar notes, this charge is bogus -- and is basically the same thing as when police arrest people filming them under similar charges:
[The TSA] fined him $1,000 for doing this, claiming he had "interfered" with screening operations when he took off all his clothes. As I discussed here, and then again here, that's the same bullshit argument police use when they arrest people for filming them—we had to come over there and stop you from doing something you're constitutionally entitled to do, and so you "interfered" with us. But that logic makes perfect sense to the TSA, and in particular to the administrative-law judge (a TSA employee) who upheld the penalty (reduced to $500) in April. Brennan appealed.You'll never guess what happened next -- or, wait, actually you will:
Because this is an agency proceeding, the initial appeal is still within the agency, in this case to the deputy administrator. And as I mentioned above, because I didn't want you to be on pins and needles wondering what happened, he affirmed the ruling. The final order (PDF via PapersPlease.org) is again based entirely on the "no, you interfered with us" argument (about which I feel as described above). This also has the benefit (for the TSA) of making the law irrelevant. In fact, the deputy administrator says in his opinion, "I agree with TSA"—of which he is the deputy administrator—"that Respondent's arguments regarding the legality of the nudity are not relevant." Well, that's handy.Handy indeed to be able to ignore a federal court saying that the activity was constitutionally-protected free speech.
Oh, and it gets more ridiculous. Apparently, the TSA review of the matter said the fine is appropriate because the whole three minutes that things were delayed was horrible for TSA efficiency:
By the way, he admits in his opinion that the checkpoint was closed "for approximately three minutes" as a result of the incident, yet affirms the finding that because of this, the agents "were not able to conduct screening in an efficient manner on other passengers present at the checkpoint." So the TSA is claiming here, with a straight face, not only that it screens passengers "in an efficient manner" to begin with but that it is so efficient that punishment is justified if you delay it by three minutes.I'm still wondering how any of this is making us safer. I'm guessing I'll have to keep waiting on that one...
I don't know about you, but I've been pointlessly delayed by much more than three minutes by the TSA approximately EVERY TIME I HAVE FLOWN DURING THE PAST DECADE, so I would describe that claim as farcical.


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Did you know that a huzzah is also a Danza slap?
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Hurtful urban myth created in an attempt to tarnish one's reputation.
Mona thought up a sensational Danza Slap about Walt Disney, hoping to ruin his name.
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I've owned several Minis but have a bad habit of giving them away to my children.
My preference is the stainless steel Ranch Rifle. I do like the Hogue Overmold stock and, now that I'm older, usually install a 6X or 3-9X 'scope on 'em. Accuracy Systems offers an inexpensive (~$20) gas port shim kit that does wonders to control the violent ejection of cartridge cases. I use the smallest port diameter and still have flawless function. I have had a 16.5-inch barrel version but found that the standard Ranch rifle will launch a cartridge with 50 to 70 FPS more velocity with that extra 1.5 inches of barrel. Stainless steel helps with corrosion control and makes it easier to see where you need to clean it.
I see the Mini as a wonderfully light carbine that the user can do some quick follow-up shots as needed. It's practical accuracy is about equal to the average AR-15/M-4 clone, especially if you use those shims to calm the thing down.
It is NOT a battle rifle. It is NOT designed to rapidly blow magazine after 30-round magazine through it. If you desire a "tactical" rifle, I suggest you purchase an AR-15 or an SR-556.
A Mini WILL provide many years of reliable service and plenty of those quick, follow-up shots. "Dak rats" (prairie dogs) were favorite targets when I lived at Minot.
June 8, 2011, 08:52 PM
I have both, also a series 189 mini 30. the tactical is 581 series and with a 2x7x33 Redfield I shoot 1 1/2" 100 yard groups, cant say that about the older mini 14 but I like em. I also own ar15s and AR10s, but the mini is just that, a mini 14, I love the Garand type rifles. if I ever get the hand of photobucket I will post a pic. I just got me a new Springfield Armory M1A to keep them company. if you are looking to buy a more accurate mini, go with the newer 580 & 581 series. at about $600 or more, to me they are still worth it.
June 8, 2011, 09:08 PM
I own a Ranch 14 and a Tactical 30. Couldn't help you decide between Ranch or Tactical though...I do prefer a bit longer barrel.
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June 8, 2011, 09:33 PM
I have the 581 series ranch model in stainless steel. I am very happy with it. It short, light, handy and has a very light kick. It's even perfect for a HD weapon due to its size. My mini 14 is my coyote hunting rifle.
June 9, 2011, 02:39 AM
i went with the ranch, i liked its length and the fact that its stainless.....a bit less work to keep clean.
June 9, 2011, 06:02 AM
Here's my review of the 581 tactical. I believe you'll find that the shorter barrel (less whip) of the tactical along with the flash suppressor will garner you better groups than with the ranch. This is individual rifle dependent of course, but from what I've seen of other owners out there, that is the consensus.
June 14, 2011, 07:40 AM
thank you guys
June 14, 2011, 01:05 PM
I think Davidsons still has a few of the DLX models left, which is the Tactical in a (very nice walnut) wood stock, if that's a deciding factor.
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Something and/or someone thats ugly .
Terrible looking.
Terrible looking.
"Yo, did you just see that girl? She was fuckin` BUSTTTT!"
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A word among those who use smokeless tobacco (referred to as "dip", not "chew" or "snuff" that means to use smokeless tobacco. Relatively uncommon yet still in use in various parts of the country.
I'm about to bust a dip.
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A statue of a head or head and chest. Also used to describe a woman's breasts.
Professor Jones keeps a bust of Julius Caesar in his office.
That girl is very busty, she's like a 34-DD!
That girl is very busty, she's like a 34-DD!
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To cum or "nut."
I didn't even bust in that bitch!
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to do or perform an action greatly.
From all my friends I could bust the best tricks on the skateboard
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v. to turn a vehicle
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Slang for broke.
Ricky: Hey girl, you wanna pitch in on Friday nights booze?
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Dieting and binging did not change your "metabolism", but if you lost muscle through dieting and gained fat by binging, you might need fewer calories to maintain the weight you gained. That's because the muscle tissue you lost burns more calories than the adipose tissue you gained. To burn more again, work to change your ratio of muscle to fat. Use strength-training to build muscle and cardio-type exercise to burn fat. When you try lose weight again, don't cut your calories below a deficit of 500 a day. Drastic calorie cuts lead to muscle loss and to binge eating. Read about the dangers of restrictive dieting at About.com.


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By U.S. ArmyOctober 18, 2012
FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. -- The Army unveiled its latest chapter in the military working dog legacy here October 16 with the activation of the 180th Military Working Dog Detachment under the 92nd Military Police Battalion, 4th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade.
The new unit has never been activated and will be comprised of military police MWD teams old and new.
"In preparation for the new Military Occupational Specialty, 31K, Soldiers currently attending One Station Unit Training here at Fort Leonard Wood will be forwarded the opportunity to attend the MWD course and become MWD handlers," said Sgt. 1st Class Cory Lorenz, MWD career counselor of the U.S. Army Military Police School. "This will create a balance within the ranks of our MWD handlers when their new MOS becomes fully implemented sometime in October 2014."
There are only two Soldiers who have graduated from this program so far and they are both assigned to the 180th MWD Detachment.
"This is a great opportunity and it's so much more than I expected," said Pfc. Cody Barratt, a military police Soldier assigned to the 180th MWD Detachment. "I'm excited to be experiencing things that people of the same rank don't get to experience."
Soldiers within the new unit will train with their dogs on attack and detection operations in preparation for worldwide deployments.
While some Soldiers will begin entering the Army with a new career in mind, the military working dog team is not a new training concept.
"I entered the military in 2000 as a military police Soldier and have been working as a dog handler since 2003," said Staff Sgt. Michael Bending, 180th MWD Detachment kennel master.
Bending has handled half a dozen military working dogs during his career so far and has completed two combat deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Bending said that he has also trained with other countries to improve their detection dog handling techniques and that he looks forward to sharing his experiences with brand new Soldiers.
The first commander of the newly activated unit shared some of Bending's views and offered his own insight into the significance of the detachment.
"With the integration of this new MOS, our Soldiers will begin their training as military working dog handlers alongside seasoned experts from right here at Fort Leonard Wood in a detachment created specifically for them," said Capt. Joseph McGough, 252nd Military Police Detachment and 180th MWD Detachment commander. "I look forward to seeing the many accomplishments that will undoubtedly come from the activation of this unit."
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Slang word used in Northern Virginia to refer to the sleeping aid hormone melatonin... sometimes sold as fake "roofies".
Guy 1: Man I tried to knock that prude ass girl out with some roofies, but they ended up bein' some lousy ass tonin'!
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Sporting a record of 1-2 this preseason heading into this weekend's home opener against Cincinnati, Dallas Cowboys' fans have plenty to worry about concerning America's Team. The training camp festivities in Oxnard, Calif. were a strong combination of surprises, both good and bad.
For now, let's take in some positive surprises to be seen from the Cowboys.
Owner and general manager Jerry Jones' infamously declared ''uncomfortable offseason" is nearing it's end. Much of what Jones seemed to want he has gotten, especially with respect to the coaching staff. Fourth-year head coach Jason Garrett is easily in the best situation he has seen as the top-dog.
The Cowboys have been able to survive numerous injuries and absences while still finding some possible solutions to previous weaknesses. If the bad surprises stop happening, at least for some time, Dallas could be off to a quick start once regular-season play begins September 8 in Arlington, Texas.
No, defensive end Tyrone Crawford won't be back, nobody knows yet exactly who safety Matt Johnson is and the Cowboys seem to have more questions than answers on an offensive line that obviously plans to throw the football quite a bit this season.
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POLICE COMMISSIONER Charles Ramsey has asked an outside law firm to investigate the conduct of one of the department's highest-ranking officers.
The Daily News this month reported that the officer, Staff Inspector Jerrold Bates, allegedly coerced former aide Keisha Johnson into a sexual relationship to keep her job.
The District Attorney's Office also has launched a probe to determine whether Bates should face criminal charges, Ramsey said.
Bates is a former top supervisor in the police Internal Affairs Bureau, which investigates complaints against police officers. He was also the bureau's Equal Employment Opportunity Officer in charge of investigating abuse, harassment and discrimination complaints within the department.


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Posted on 05/01/2011 5:11:41 AM PDT by driftdiver
Reporting from Arlington, Va. Rosemary Brown is standing over the grave of her son at Arlington National Cemetery when someone catches her eye. It's a boy in khaki shorts and muddy shoes, juggling a clunky camera and the Motorola Xoom he got for his 17th birthday five days earlier.
"May I ask what you're doing?" Brown inquires. The boy begins to peck at the Xoom tablet, and in seconds the image that Brown has come all the way from Cartwright, Okla., to see fills the screen. It's the white marble headstone of Army Special Forces Staff Sgt. Jason L. Brown, killed by small-arms fire in Afghanistan three years ago this day. Her face brightens.
"Most of Jason's family and friends are in Oklahoma and Texas. For them to be able to see his grave
," she says, her voice breaking.
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What a thoughtful young man.
Why am I not surprised?
Except not all the headstones are on the right graves, are they?
Great minds and all that stuff....LOL This young man should receive the highest accolades for what he is doing.
His website brought tears of gratitude to my eyes.....gratitude to those who gave their all for our freedom and gratitude to Ricky Gilleland for using his God-given talent in such a positive, awe-inspiring way.
For those who missed my reference above:
<There are thousands of Arlington dead listed at Find-a-Grave.
I happened to be on Find-a-Grave the other day looking at some celebrity graves when I thought to look up some relatives. I was surprised to find several of them at a cemetery in Washington, DC. It turns out that a guy is going through the cemetery, making a digital record of the graves and submitting them to Find-a-Grave. I contacted him and learned about what he was doing, first for his own relatives, and now for others buried there. It's nice to have a record.
I also learned that there are volunteers whose job it is to but virtual flowers on the virtual graves so no one is forgotten. I think this is a very nice gesture.
On the Find-a-Grave site or Ricky's site?
THIS is God's work. Bless this young man.
He'd better be careful. Some SEIU public union golden parachute govt employee, is gonna file a work grievance against him.
Well, I was hoping to find a cousin of mine. No luck. He is not in the Gov database either, yet I have a picture from another of his grave at Arlington, and his burial info in the paper said he was buried there...
I am a bit stunned that this hasn't been done already.
Perhaps he and several other teens who have exhibited such thoughtfulness and organization should be overseeing Arlington.
Indeed, and he's not asking for $1 billion in stimulus money either...
A fine example of how private industry works better than public.
No, they've screwed up their records and lost track of where some people are buried. There are also problems with the storage of remains before burial. I've read where some remains sat in un-refrigerated storage for weeks before being embalmed and buried.
This young man has only finished a portion of the cementary, where those who've died in the current conflicts are buried.
That is beautiful.
I took the time to read about
Douglas A. Zembiec
Major, United States Marine Corps
It touched me.
America should be proud but as an American, I am very sad that we will loose more men just like him.
WOW! Thanks for the post/links. HOORAY Ricky Gilleland!
Thanks to all who have served, who are serving and who will serve in the future...and thanks to their families and friends.
America's finest.
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
Passing, by Nella Larsen
The mechanism of the story is beautifully precise, though; the springs and levers of action and reaction work in total harmony. If the broad trajectory of the plot seems obvious, its suspense is deftly localized scene by scene. Clare Kendry, the woman who is passing in the book, is a triumphant creation: a figure that seems to act on everything she comes in contact with. She is a presence and a performance, and the drama of her passing is magnetic and elusive, overwrought and coy. She is the second great dreamer of the Jazz Age, comparable only to Gatsby.
I would, however, like to compare her instead to a character created a mere three years after Passing's release. I don't mean to suggest an actual causal or inspirational link, or even to suggest that Larsen and Siegel/Shuster were responding to the same cultural impulses or conditions, but I am sort of electrified by the graphical similarity of the names Clare Kendry and Clark Kent.
I probably would not have noticed this little triviality if I had not recently (finally) gotten around to reading Elif Batuman's excellent essay on graphic novels in the London Review of Books from last April. The essay is extraordinarily insightful on a very large number of points, but I was particularly interested in her analysis of the relation between the capacity of the superhero to attain and maintain dual identities (Clark Kent/Superman, etc.) and the desire for assimilation or at least the desire for less identity-related restrictions held by the mostly Jewish writers of superhero comics. More bluntly, she says "the story of the superhero's double identity is actually the story of American Jewish assimilation." She does some exceedingly interesting things with this idea, taking us back to Isaac Babel's Red Cavalry stories for an earlier (though not too much earlier) version of a Jewish tale of schlemiehl/übermensch dual identities, and bringing us to the present, where many non-Jews, particularly many Asian Americans like Adrian Tomine, now take the tropes and patterns of the stories of Jewish assimilation as their templates for new works about their own (often frustrated) attempts to assimilate.
Batuman doesn't specifically identify "passing" as an issue in any of this, though she does point out via a series of parentheticals that most Jewish comic book writers dropped their Jewish surnames for more "American" versions. In Grace Paley's short story "The Contest," however, this practice and related practices are more directly characterized as attempts to pass for Gentiles: the titular contest is a newspaper competition to figure out the names and professions of a hundred Jews, using a picture and two descriptions to identify them. The narrator remarks, "What's the idea, though? To uncover the ones that've been passing?" This isn't the idea, but nonetheless it isn't beside the point: "Peering over her shoulder, I would sometimes discover a three-quarter view of a newsworthy Jew or a full view of a half Jew. The fraction did not interfere with the rules. They were glad to extract him and be proud."
Batuman's account of the development of dual identities as a narrative technique is very good—"As both mythical hero and romantic-novelistic hero, Superman occupies two mutually exclusive kinds of time." These two mutually exclusive kinds of time are crucial to the nearly infinite deferral of "real" temporality—aging, etc.—that allows a character or group of characters to persist through the decades in roughly the same shape.
Yet the lack of consideration to the role of passing in all of this deprives this account of its real force: the tension of these narratives is precisely founded on the drama of passing; it is only because of the persistence of this drama that the story line can extend so long without complete attenuation. It is only because Superman must continue to "pass" as Clark Kent, it is only the non-resolution of this dilemma that allows the character to continue in a single form without any franchise "reboots" or "restarts." The drama of passing is the equivalent of unresolved romantic/sexual tension (in fact, it is also romantic/sexual tension) in a sit-com like "Friends." Once Superman is able to reduce his identities to a single "true" identity, the franchise loses steam and needs a restart or a re-imagining. Yet this reduction is always the goal of the superhero; the ability to assimilate and drop the "passing" identity is, even more than any conflict with a supervillain, more even than any interior conflict, the ultimate resolution of the superhero story. The narrative hopes to resolve itself in a new world that accepts the superhero completely, that obviates the need to pass.
The ultimate resolution of narratives of racial passing is not, however, usually about obviating the need to pass. Such a hope is simply too utopian for a realist narrative, melodramatic as it may become. What replaces this hope is typically a resolution consisting of a limited revelation of the "true" identity to one or a few other people. In Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, the narrator reveals the truth of his race to his white wife. In The Human Stain, Coleman Silk's death reveals to Zuckerman the truth of his background. This limited revelation is what the character hopes for and what the plot is constantly building toward, positioning the character incrementally in such a fashion that they achieve a situation where they can reveal their true identity to someone else. (This is a separate goal from what the novel hopes to achieve, which is, by the fact of publication, a general revelation. In this case, the novel and the story it tells diverge.)
Yet what is the "true" identity? Is it really about the fact that the character is of another race, or is it about the fact that the character has been "passing?" I think it is the latter—the character's primary identity, now revealed, is not that he is "black" but that he has been "passing." These identities are difficult to separate, but I think if we compare Larsen's novel to these other novels about "passing," we can see the distinction.
Clare Kendry does not try to keep her identities merged permanently; in fact, she selectively flaunts her interraciality, attending mixed-race parties in Harlem where she can display the ambiguity of her appearance to fullest effect. She does not attempt to avoid people who know her "secret;"in fact, she makes Irene a frequent accessory to her "passing." She surrounds herself with a racially open society that accepts her interraciality with little more than curiosity. The drama is not that she will be found out as a "passer" by society—she actively courts that. The danger of her actions is instead focused in the possibility that her virulently racist husband will find out that she is, indeed, a black woman.
In fact, the ultimate danger of her actions is that her black friends will come to see her as not interracial, but exclusively black; Irene's fears that her husband, who has professed to liking only darker women, will come to see Clare as a black woman— as dark enough—are what actually cause Clare's death. (I know the ending is ambiguous, but I think there's a clear enough weight to Irene's actions to establish my reading as valid.)
Let's contrast this with a more typical narrative of "passing," like Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, where the danger is not that individuals will see the narrator as a black man, but that society will find out that he is "passing." In fact, at the beginning of the story, when as a child he is unaware that he is black but the individuals around him—his teacher and classmates—are aware, he is still relatively free from the dangers that he faces when he begins "passing." (The narrator faces threats and hardships as he tries at first to achieve as a black man, but the narrative's tension derives exclusively from the constant possibility that he will be "found out" once he starts passing.)
So in a sense, I find that Clare Kendry is more like a superhero than she is like James Weldon Johnson's narrator. The superhero's vulnerability is rarely ever that society will discover that they are "passing;" the danger is that an individual will exploit the fact of their dual identity—threatening the ones they love or preventing them from operating freely. The fact that Batman or Spiderman or even Superman must have a separate existence—that some of the time, they are doing non-superhero things—is usually (I think) understood by the society they live in and by the villains they face. The peril is that this general knowledge will become specific knowledge—that their fluid alternate identity will be attached to a specific person with real attachments and direct consequences. Spiderman will be revealed not just as having a vague alternate identity, but as Peter Parker, and his aunt and Mary Jane will be targeted or threatened. The question "Who is Batman?" will be answered.
Nella Larsen's novel is, I think, a very interesting if surprising interlocutor for superhero comics. However—and in this exception lies Larsen's greatest triumph—unlike superhero comics, Larsen is able to make the question "Who is Clare Kendry?" ultimately unanswerable.
2 comments:
- Richard said...
I enjoyed this post. I've had Passing sitting on my shelf for years, unread, never even cracked (it was originally my mom's). Unfairly, I think I was always afraid it would be one of those novels that is only read because of identity (interesting, given your post taking issue with Myers' & Kurp's list); it doesn't help that the book is described as being important for those reasons (possibly why for some time I had it filed with my non-fiction!). I think I'll take a look at it now.
Also, your remarks about comics and secret identity made me think about how far those characters have gotten away from their origins. And how much more interesting they might have been, had the questions of assimilation or identity been more often explored, as opposed to yet another all-consuming galactic attack on Metropolis. (I've often felt that the worst things for these sorts of characters is that they are wholly owned corporate products.)
- January 30, 2009 at 10:25 AM
- Andrew Seal said...
I'm glad you brought up "how far those characters have gotten away from their origins." I had written a couple of paragraphs trying to address this point—I'm not a big comics reader, but I guess I know enough to realize that there have been a number of re-boots which substantially alter the original emphasis on dual/secret identities and the like, but I think that emphasis still exists in the film and television adaptations of the past twenty years or so. The vulnerabilities of having/needing to have a secret identity still largely drive the plots of the superhero movies that have come out, particularly since Spiderman. X-Men is a different situation, I guess and the eschewal of a secret identity at the end of Iron Man is an important exception here, but I think the secret identity trope is still really consequential to the way superhero narratives are generally constructed.
- January 30, 2009 at 3:05 PM


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A light Hearted Note on Inauguration Day!
I'm sure by now you've heard of the Obama Girl, well she's put together a new video where she actually sings a duet with our New President Barack Obama! Check it out, it's good for a chuckle!!!!!
I figured on a historic day like this one so many would be so serious that I would try to lighten it up a bit! I'm amazingly proud to be an American today and be able to share this history with my children and give them hope that we as a society we really have made strides in breaking the racial barriers that have so handcuffed this nation for so many years. Best of luck to the new president and to you!!!!
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Luxembourg's Fleur Maxwell, 16, made her senior debut at the 2005 European Championships in Torino, Italy in January. Maxwell, who had previously won the novice and junior ladies championships in Luxembourg, won the senior ladies title for the first time in early January to qualify for the Europeans and Worlds in hopes of qualifying for the 2006 Olympic Games. "I did two Junior Grand Prixs this season and have been twice to Junior Worlds," he said, "but I wanted to go to a bigger playground. I want to compete in the Olympics in 2006 and 2010 and maybe after. I love skating. When I'm on the ice, I feel so happy, and it's a way for me to express myself."
Maxwell made the jump to seniors partly because the new Code of Points benefits her style of skating. "It's a very good thing," she said. "The new system encourages skaters, not just jumpers. You're judged on what you do, not just compared to the others. I hope to gain a lot of points from my spins and my style. And you get more feedback from the judges so you can adjust your programs to gain higher levels. When we did my program this summer, we focused on transitions, interpretation, choreography, and spins to get easy points. I hope to have all Level 3 spins for maximum points, but that's not always easy because one really has to be precise on everything. The system is good not just for me, but for the sport."
The petite brunette began skating only seven years ago, when she was nine. "I went to a friend's birthday party at the ice rink and didn't want to ever get off the ice," she remembered. "I had done ballet and loads of other sports before that, like swimming and horseback riding, but I just loved skating." She landed her first triple jump, a salchow, at twelve. Although she has landed all the triples up to the axel, she only consistently lands the salchow, toe loop, and loop. "I have done the others, but I don't want to put them in my program until they're close to 100 percent," she said. "I'd rather skate a clean program."
Andrei Berezintsev and Nicolas Osseland coach Maxwell, who can only skate in Luxembourg during the winter because the ice rink closes from May to September. In the summer, she must travel to Auxerre or Courchevel in France to train. "I've changed coaches quite a lot since coaches don't stay very long in Luxembourg," she stated. "I just started working with Andrei this summer and I hope he'll stay. He's a great coach and we work well together."
"It's hard to find time for practice," she said. "I have school from 8:30 to 4:30 and it's a really hard school, not home school. Before January, I had only seven hours a week on the ice, now I have 13 hours. I skate just with Anna Bernauer twice a week from 6:30 to 8:00 in the morning but the rest of the time I skate with the club where there are lots of people on the ice. In May and June when the rink is closed and I still have school, I have to travel an hour and a half to the other rink in France to train".
This season, Maxwell is skating to music from two movie soundtracks, "In the Mood for Love" for the short and "Cinema Paradiso" for the long. "My mum had seen both movies and had very much liked the soundtrack and thought it would be good for me. Then once I had heard them I just knew that was what I wanted to skate. The music made me want to skate and that's very important because I have to skate to it nearly everyday. The long program is something new, something fresh. I tell a story showing the evolution from child to grownup. I think the pictures tell the story very well."
"I like to skate to classical music or movie soundtracks," she continued. "I like something soft and lyrical. For shows, I like faster stuff. I did a show in France with some big skaters and used Nora Jones' 'I Don't Know Why.' I'm very open when it comes to listening to music. I listen to mainly pop and classical, not so much techno or rap."
Maxwell has quite a musical background herself. "I played the piano and the cello," she said. "My mother started me on the cello when I was four. I didn't even know what it was at first but I became very good on the cello. I think I got my musicality from my mum, and learning to play instruments has definitely helped develop it." She is also very flexible. "I'm very lucky, because I have natural flexibility, and I don't really have to work on it as much as others," she said. Maxwell took ballet classes herself, but only for three years, starting when she was four.
She is a junior in high school, where her favorite subjects are history and languages. She speaks fluent English, French and German. "I didn't like chemistry and science, so I switched to philosophy," she said. "I absolutely plan to go to university. Both of my sisters have done amazing studies and I have to keep up with them. I want to know things and education is important to get anywhere. I hope to go to Paris and study law. I find it quite interesting."
"I don't have much time for hobbies after skating and school," Maxwell said. "I like to go to shopping or to the cinema with my friends or sometimes just rest at home with the television. I like any kind of film, but not so much science fiction or horror films, more comedies and tragedies. I don't collect anything, not even skating pins. We don't have any pins from Luxembourg to trade. I love clothes and shoes and bags, but all girls love clothes and shoes so that's not really a collection." If she receives a lot of toys from fans, Maxwell said she would donate them to the children's hospital. "I think the kids would really appreciate them and might put a smile on their face, it might make their stay in hospital a little easier," she noted.
Her main hobby is travel. "I love traveling," she said. "Thanks to skating, I have traveled to so many places that I'd never think to go to like Slovenia and Croatia. I like Sydney (Australia) a lot because the colors are so vivid and because I'm half Australian. When I was smaller we would always spend our summer holidays in Greece so of course I have great memories from there as well. But I can't pick a favorite place. I like so many!"


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Princeton Parks and Recreation is sponsoring a "Mixed Green Wreath" holiday workshop featuring Tina from Bemis Farms Nursery. Participants will be able to create and customize a wreath for their home, choosing from a variety of shapes from traditional round to door arch, star, swag, mailbox hugger or snowflake. All materials, including wreath forms and a variety of greens and embellishments, will be provided. Get into the holiday spirit and make a beautiful decoration for your home. The class will be held Monday, Dec. 1, at 6:30 p.m. in the First Congregational Church Hall. Pre-registration is required and requested by Nov. 28. Class fee is $32, payable to Princeton Parks and Recreation. Contact Susan Shanahan at 978-868-8055 or LCCQShanahan@ verizon.net to register.