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so at the last meeting it was agreed that we would organise before hand what the meeting where going to be about . I think this is what we should of been doing anyway . with some agenda points set before hand rather then 2 days before the meeting or even at the meeting itself .
october meeting
map project
the map project needs to know when the annual is . does somebody want to take this on as the main contact for the annual . we need to know this as this affects the booking at least in the summer period .
dealing with the submission for the winter /spring period . this will include all submission presently held ether in the inbox or the submissions that mirja has .
i think its a good idea before hand to take a look at the slots , so everyone has an idea what we are dealing with .
3rd jan - 31th jan tk27
i would suggest we make this one shorter . am not sure if any one would want to take a show down on the 2nd jan
1st feb -28th feb tk28
1th march - 28th march tk29
29th march - 4th april tk30
if someone wishes to work out the rest of the slots that would be great . bearing in mind the map project . this shold be added to the calender thread and double checked for mistakes .
map project
the map project needs to know when the annual is . does somebody want to take this on as the main contact for the annual . we need to know this as this affects the booking discuss above
november meeting
festival 2010
as of yet , we have not been contacted about any dates for next year .
For this project we need a main contact , i did it last year . maybe someone would like to do it this year . Also someone dealing with promo would be good .
all these issues can be dealt within there respected threads , this is just an overview of some of the issues we will have to deal with in the coming months .
there may not be one ! if anything set what the January meeting is going to be about .


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I wonder who they copied?
There is no shortage of places serving a montanara pizza.
There is in my part of the world, that's why it's new to me. I live in a pizza wasteland.
I am glad you have found good pizza in ohio! I live in Granville Ohio and if you are ever in the area let me know. Our bakery/pizzeria makes pies/breads authentic to my NJ/NYC area upbringing. Thanks. Walter
We went out for an early dinner to a new local restaurant that is Ohios only certified neapolitan pizzeria. They say, The 5th street pub specializes in handmade, italian inspired cuisine and the only APN (associazione pizzaiuoli napoletani) certified pizza in ohio. We top our 150 year old dough recipe with only the freshest produce and imported meats and cheeses. Our full bar specializes in regional and international craft beers, a reasonably priced wine selection and specialty cocktails inspired by classic italian and American drinks.I had, The Real Deal Margherita made of, tomato sauce, grape tomatoes, basil leaves, imported buffalo mozzarella, pecorino romano, and olive oil.My wife had the La Montanara made of, deep fried crust with thick marinara sauce, basil leaves, pecorino romano, fresh smoked mozzarella, olive oil. Voted best pizza in N.Y.C. by the New York Times. I wonder who they copied?We shared and they were both delicious. Ive got a new favorite pizza joint and its only 15 minutes away. O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
Walter, Your pizza looks delicious! The next time I'm down around Sugarcreek, I'll have to make a detour your way for lunch. After all, how many broasted chicken dinners can I eat?
Being raised in an Italian NYC area food culture is normal for me and thus using grande whole milk mozz, grande provolone, DOP parmigiano and DOP romano, fresh herbs, 7/11 tomates, at least a 24 hour cold ferment, are the way to go. Walter
redox: If you make it out here I can sell you a loaf or as much or little as you like of the grande whole milk at cost. Walter
redox i put more cheese on my neapolitan pies than normal for the reason stated above customer perception, and my likes. i really think Neapolitan pizza can get boring if it is not topped with enough cheese and tomato sauce. on a 11 inch pie i use 4 ounces of cheese which gives good coverage. the way the cheese melted above it looks like his oven temperature was down some. if he is not selling a lot of pies it will be hard to run the oven at high temperatures all of the time. his best pizzas are probably produced on weekends during his rush where is is able to run the oven hot. i wish him the best, he is about two hours from me and i want to visit the pizzeria. do you know who certified his pizzeria? i thought roberto was the only APN instructor, he may have taken a class from roberto. and i though APN certified pizza makes and VPN certified the pizzeria and methods.
"Jeff Kies and Bruce Rahe, the men behind Perrysburgs 5th Street Pub, are two of the 35 people in the United States who have been certified to make authentic Neapolitan pizzas... After their training, Kies and Rahe received a certification to make the authentic pizzas and are not allowed to make them any other way. They are subject to unannounced inspections by Caporuscio in the future."Oh good grief...
If you've ever had dealings with the press you'll know that they are cheap, lazy, and usually half in the bag. I'm not endorsing what was printed, just posting a link to answer a question. If this is upsetting to you then perhaps you should stop reading my postings. I'm not trying to annoy anyone, even you.
My comment was in no way directed towards you. Not sure why would even think that.
Walter,That's really kind of you, thank you very much. I'm now feeling a gentle tug toward Granville that I'm sure will intensify as my current stock of part skim mozz dwindles. I've got a vacuum sealer so I could certainly handle a loaf. I'm betting your pizzeria makes a great pepperoni & mushroom pizza so the wife and I will plan on that for lunch.thanks again,Jay


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I've suggested the date (quite changeable) of May 20th. The details would have to be worked out, obviously, but I have a few ideas in mind. Let me start with this poll, and we'll work our way from there.


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This week's "Photo of the Week" comes to us from the U.S. Embassy in Malawi, where Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton participated in a Feed the Future event at the Lumbadzi Milk Bulking center on August 5, 2012. In this photograph, dairy farmer Margaret Chinkwende describes her work to the Secretary of State.
At the event, Secretary Clinton remarked, "For the past decade, the United States has been supporting Malawi's dairy sector, including this center. And thanks to your work and the support we have given you, Malawi's milk production has increased 500 percent. Thousands of farmers have benefited. I was delighted to meet some of the farmers and the workers here. And I want to thank all of you. I'm also proud that we see a partnership with PEPFAR, so people can also receive HIV testing and counseling services here."
Secretary Clinton continued, "Now, Malawi and the United States are building on this success. Today I am pleased to announce that over the next three years, the United States intends to invest in Malawi more than $46 million to strengthen the entire agricultural chain. We are also proud to make a gift to this center of this purebred dairy bull -- his name is Emanuel -- and a liquid nitrogen network to help farmers throughout the region improve their dairy cattle breeding. As Secretary of State of the United States, I'm very pleased that I could be here to see all of you and to see Margaret's cow, the technical testing, and the beautiful milk that I just observed.
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That poster gives us the "short" version of the bible The "long: version included somewhere between 31,102 to 31,109 scriptures and somewhere around 1,200 pages, plus or minus about 500 which can be found without any accuracy whatsoever capable of proving the bible completely and exactly correct on all points, or completely irreverent, depending on how sane and logical, drunk and couldn't care less, or insane you might happen to be.
Using that book, one can possibly derive any possibility. Just depends on your logic, drunkenness or your level of insanity, whose finger is pointing, and whose voice is behind that finger. If it's yours, point it at the book and laugh. Then we know you're sane and logical... but likely to have a huge battle on your hands in the near future.
@John Cook - What specific battle are your referring to?
I've seen you post pretty often as I'm sure you've seen mine. I'm on the front lines ready for the battle. BRING IT ON! :-)
I was watching an SVU today where they were portraying a couple of hard-core born-again-ers as the nutbags that those people can be and I realized it is SO nice that more and more TV shows are jumping on the "why do we let these people get away with this shit?" band wagon. Religion is becoming less and less of a subject that is above reproach, I think that is evident by the TV shows that are not portraying xians as the "pillars of the community", but rather the pompous, self-righteous children that they can be. I think we are already well within the battle and we are making headway every single day.
The most annoying thing about having a conversation with a snake is that they don't have any ears so you never know if they can hear you. All that hissing is bad manners. I don't suppose any theist will suggest that snakes had ears back 6000 years ago and that they have "evolved" them away?
Hi Strega - a serpent is a major part of my next tattoo (Jan 18th) with the double helix and tree of life!! I will post a pic then.
Most of the bible thumpers refer to god ripping off the serpent's legs, so it has to crawl on its belly from then on...to punish it for being possessed by satan.
Maybe the ears came off with the legs, the way grasshoppers are built, etc. :)
Probably also ripped off the genes that code for ears and legs too, from its DNA, so its progeny had no legs or ears either.
And the genes for talking....
and vocal structures needed to produce sssstructured ssssssounds.
And, yet, blessed the poor disfigured 'lil beast with the ability to fnd love after all this, and produce disfigured offspring.


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I had posted the following (below) on another potters-specific forum in response to a couple of questions people there had about the "imperfect" forms that seem to pervade much of Japanese ceramics and also how Raku wares and Tea Ceremony are connected. I thought some here might also find it of interest. So here is a copy of the posting:
As a matter of fact, I am doing the keynote lecture at the New Hampshire Art Educators Association annual meeting that is being held at the Currier Museum of Art ( http://www.currier.org/nowonview.aspx ) that is being held in conjunction with the"Lethal Beauty" exhibition there of Samurai period weapons, armor, and other artwork. A good part of this presentation will tend to focus on this very subject, as I tie together the centuries and centuries of the martial state and civil strife with the development of the arts of the period.....particularly ceramics.
It takes a semester-long 3 credit BFA art history course (History of Japanese Ceramics) for me to actually trace the development and evolution of the Japanese ceramic arts from the proto-Jomon period to contemporary work, and the impact that the Tea Ceremony (Chanoyu) had in the midst of this development cannot really be understated. The evolving nature of Chado (The Way of Tea) in Japan had a profound impact on the broader cultural tastes in pretty much all of the arts, not just ceramics. However, because of the pre-eminent role that ceramic objects had (have) in Chanoyu, particularly the Chaire (Tea Caddy) and Chawan (Tea Bowl), the art of ceramics was profoundly impacted by the changes in "tastes" in what was (and still is) considered "proper" Teawares (Chadogu).
The short story (yeah,….this is the really short version) on the connection between Raku and Tea...................
In the time leading up to what we might think of as the current "modern" tea aesthetics, the various Daimiyo (Feudal Lords) were pretty much in a constant state of civil warfare and were vying for political power and position. Really,from the beginning of the Yayoi Period (400 BCE) with the influx of new iron weapon wielding peoples into Japan supplanting the old culture, through the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 cementing the relatively peaceful Tokugawa Shogunate….. Japan was in a constant state of overt civil war and under what amounted to martial law (or even what might be called anarchy). Basically 2000 years of civil strife! That fact had a PROFOUND impact on Japanese cultural development that affects the underpinnings of Japanese culture even to this day.
By the 1580s an upwardly mobile guy named Hashiba Hideyoshi had risen from a simple warlord's servant to Samurai warrior to General in Oda Nobonaga's armies, to finally THE leading power figure (not Shogun….but Kampaku) in Feudal Japan who had more or less "unified" Japan (not completely... but that is the kind of material for the undergrad course).
Eventually Hashiba was given the Samurai-class family name of Toyotomi……. the name most know him by today. Once this happened, he "slammed the door" on anyone following in his footsteps… making it unlawful (impossible) for a commoner to become a Samurai anymore, and also outlawed commoners from bearing swords (or any weapons). In this, he basically finalized the developing formalized Class distinctions of Japan sitting below the Imperial House……. Samurai, Peasant, Artisan, and Merchant…. and above the Eta ("untouchables").
Since the Imperial House was basically a puppet figurehead of the State at the total mercy of the Samurai, the Samurai ruled the land in the name of the Emperor.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi was known for wanting to put his poor commoner (non-Samurai class) origins behind him and, once rich and in power, he was prone to totally ostentatious displays of wealth. He was always trying to show how powerful and cultured he was to everyone around him..... particularly the rival Daimiyo. His, and hence others in powerful positions, approach to Chanoyu was to use the most precious and opulent settings and utensils possible. It was all about "showing off".
His Chado mentor/teacher was a particular chajin (Teaman) known as Sen no Rikkyu, who was a student of another great Teaman of the period, Takeno Joo. Takeno and Rikkyu both found the ostentatious tea gatherings of Hideyoshi and his cohorts and the use of absurdly expensive Chadogu to be very much an "affected"stance, and in Joo's and Rikkyu's opinion, unbefitting the Zen roots of a lot of the developing Tea Ceremony philosophy. The "peak" of this pretentious craziness was the Kitano Ochanoyu, or "The Great Tea Ceremony at Kitano" in 1585.
So as a reaction to all of this grandiose posturing of the Daimiyo with all their finest imported Chinese Chadogu and solid gold objects and tea rooms, Rikkyu started to promote the use of more "everyday" common and rustic objects as THE proper way to select the settings for Tea and the objects used in the Ceremony. It was a turn of the viewpoint to the internal, both in the view toward the value of traditional Japanese-produced objects, as well as a focus toward the more spiritual (but still actually non-religious) aspects of a tea experience. He moved Tea away from a outwardly focused "posturing"approach, and toward a "interpersonal relations" and "being totally in the moment" approach. A move from extroversion toward introversion.
In addition to being a Tea Master, Rikkyu also eventually became a "designer". He began to not only select and promote objects that he thought were superior Chadogu....... he also began to make some objects and also commission pieces to be made to fit his tastes and ideas. His views at this time had a profound impact on the nature of Chanoyu. Tearooms shrank in size from HUGE halls in elaborate Daimyo castles to specially constructed rooms that were based upon commoner's huts (but still constructed with the utmost in craftsmanship considerations). Rikkyu greatly favored things like the common cheap rice bowls found in Korea for use as Chawan.
Rikkyu approached a roof tile maker in the Kyoto area who made some of the rooftiles for Hideyoshi's castle, and had him produce a new type of Chawan specifically to his specifications. Roof tiles in Japan at that time were hand-builtand the ridge-line tiles and eaves tiles were often highly sculptural figurative works featuring Shinto and Buddhist dieties and icons. Chojiro's father had emigrated to Japan from China, and he was a Sancai (Japanese….sansai ……three color lead glazed earthenware) potter. So the lead glazing and earthenware firing process were well known to Chojiro before he produced the new style of Chawan for Rikkyu.
In a sense, while he worked with clay, Chojiro was really a sculptor, not a potter. So this tilemaker, Chojiro, was very familiar with hand-building and sculptural techniques…..one of which is carving and modeling work from clay. So it would seem that a "comfortable" forming technique for Chojiro to make these new bowls for Rikkyu would naturally tend toward the basic forming by modeling the rough shape of the bowl…. what we'd maybe call pinching a basic thick form…….. and then further refining by carving the thick form into the very light weight piece necessary for proper Chanoyu. That is the core technique for forming a Raku Chawan.
The tea wares made by Chojiro were, to Rikkyu's specifications, very quiet and unassuming. Deliberately rustic by design. The very lowly low-fire earthenware process moved these pieces far away from the Chinese wares formerly in favor of the various Daimyo and developing upper-crust Merchant class of the time. Yet within their seeming simplicity at first glance, upon careful inspection, the variations caused by the hand carving forming process and the simple primitive firing process caused subtle variations in the form and glaze surface that could take many viewings to really understand. This type of object fitted the contemplative aspects of Rikkyu's new Chado focus well.
Originally this work was called Ima-yaki ("now pottery") ….because it was something totally new. But because of the great reception given to these sculpted earthenware bowls lauded on them from Rikkyu and his many followers, Hideyoshi soon granted Chojiro the use of the characterfor "leisure" or "contentment" as a designation for the new types of wares he produced and also as a family name ( 楽). That character is pronounced "raku", and was a part of the formal name of Hideyoshi's castle, Jurakudai Palace. That Raku family name and ware type has now passed down unbroken for 14 generations.
Joo, Rikkyu, and Chojiro's ideas and work in the mid to late 1500s are the advent of the teaware (and other artwork) tastes that are known today as "wabi-sabi", and the Tea Ceremonies based upon its tenets known as"Wabi-cha" or sometimes "Sooan-cha". Wabi-sabi is the finding of deep beauty in the inherent and inexorable deterioration of time on absolutely everything and the formal appreciation of the rustic, unrefined,and imperfect.
This aesthetic approach has pervaded much of Japanese ceramics from the Momoyama Period until today, and hence the focus onthe "imperfect", the asymmetrical, the unassuming, and the unrefined forms one finds in many ceramic pieces since that time and even today. Materiality figures in here heavily also; ceramic material exhibiting the genesis of earth and fire working naturally together. The wabi-sabi aesthetic greatly fits a world-view born of centuries of warfare, sudden violent death, the Samurai's fatalism, and a formal Shinto religious background that focuses on the natural events in the world (in Japan….typhoons, earthquakes, and fires), and the Buddhist belief that desire is the root of human suffering.
Hideyoshi was the warlord that ordered his vassal Daimyo to invade Korea (and then his plan was to also take over China). Aside from grandiose attempts at power, this plan was also devised to cause the various warlords "under" his rule to be tied up financially and to have their troops occupied elsewhere…. thereby minimizing the threat to his own power from any plots that might hatch against him. This was the time also known as "The Pottery Wars" …when Hideoshi's generals captured whole villages of Korean potters and brought them back to Japan to create "traditional" Korean wares for Chanoyu use. Many of these potters founded the Kyushu and southern Honshu potteries that have great favor today …. like Hagi and Karatsu.
Eventually (1591) Hideyoshi ordered Sen no Rikkyu to commit seppuku (hara kiri …. stomach cutting…….. the Samurai's ritual suicide method). A death with Samurai honors…. but a death nonetheless. No one knows for sure why……… there are no good documents that reveal the facts behind it. But likely it was because Sen was gaining political power and influence that threatened Hideyoshi in some manner. Tea Ceremony was a powerful cultural practice that extended throughout all of upper Japanese society at that time both within the Samurai class and also the developing and powerfully rich Merchant class that had strong ties into the "Southern Barbarians" (Nanban….. the Westerners who had started trade with Japan). And one has to wonder if Rikku's focus on the "common" types of objects and setting was a bit of a sore point between the former commoner warlord and his Tea Master. Hideyoshi wanted nothing to do with an association with "common-ness".
Japanese history is deep. Tradition being a very powerful force in Japan to this day, the traditions developed in the mid 1500s continue to influence Chanoyu and other aspects of Japanese culture and artwork. The three major schools of tea (Chado) in the world today, Omotesenke, Urasenke, and Mushakōjisenke, trace their roots directly back to Sen no Rikkyu himself. The most prized native origin teabowls for Chanoyu continue to be Raku wares, which command pretty astronomical prices.
Hope that helps to put things into some context for you.
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Topic: find returns 'undefined column' SQL error in Rails 3
I am having trouble resolving an error as I convert my app from Rails 2.3.x to 3.2.4. Execution of the 'find' method for some models results in an 'Unknown column' SQL error. I'm using MYSQL2.
Executing this code:
@album = Album.find(params[:id])
Results in this error:
Mysql2::Error: Unknown column 'albums.' in 'where clause': SELECT `albums`.* FROM `albums` WHERE `albums`.`` = '425' LIMIT 1
Notice the column name 'id' is missing in the where clause. I can avoid the error if I add the ':first' option to the find.
This works:
@album = Album.find(:first, params[:id])
Now I'm getting the same error when updating the record. The following code will fail with the same SQL error as above and I haven't been able to find a solution.
Executing this code:
if @album.update_attributes(params[:album])
flash[:notice] = 'Successfully updated Album.'
redirect_to @album
render :action => 'edit'
Results in this error:
Mysql2::Error: Unknown column 'albums.' in 'where clause': UPDATE `albums` SET `title` = 'Abacab', `group_id` = 162, `visual_id` = 672, `editors_comments` = '1981 Abacab * Released: 18 September 1981', `tracks` = ' ', `album_info` = '', `release_date` = '1981-09-18', `display_start_date` = NULL, `display_end_date` = NULL, `updated_at` = '2012-07-14 03:59:23' WHERE `albums`.`` = 2
Again the column name 'id' is missing in the where clause. I would appreciate any help in resolving this issue.
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Move 5 Expeditionary Warrior 2010
By LtCol Roger Galbraith, USMCR
In Move 5 of Expeditionary Warrior 2010, our Red Team analysts told us how they would degrade, disable or attack the seabase.
1. It is harder to attack a seabase than it is a land base for your typical bad guy ground force.
2. The difficulty of attacking the seabase will cause opposing forces to attack the connector boats ferrying supplies and forces ashore and back.
3. OpFor will use bad weather and sea state to their advantage.
4. During HA or NEO, the OpFor will attempt to overwhelm aid distribution points, medical stations, evacuation points, etc., in order to show our inadequacy.
5. The trends of technology will make unmanned aircraft, vehicles and boats as well as anti-ship missiles smaller and cheaper.
6. Rumor or whisper campaigns counter to our efforts are more difficult to detect and counteract from a seabase.
7. U.S. forces will be continually filmed while ashore, for opportunities to show us as cruel, uncaring, inadequate, etc.
Based on these observations from the Red team, it would seem like we need to develop:
1. Seabase and connector force protection practices and craft.
2. Increase our ability to operate in rougher weather.
3. Develop international standards for connector craft.
Tags: Expeditionary Warfare, Expeditionary Warrior, Expeditionary Warrior 2010
Move 4 Expeditionary Warrior 2010
By LtCol Roger Galbraith, USMCR
Move 4: Stability Operations
After evacuating Americans in 2025, the country degraded into a low-intensity civil war, with opposing political parties, criminal factions and motivated radicals using violence against the government. Eventually, the government got the upper hand militarily, but still had a large refugee and infrastructure problem. The country requested help from the UN to feed refugees and enforce a tenuous cease fire.
Here comes the U.S. We have ponied up to lead the JTF under the UNSC charter. The mission is: assist the host nation's government to assist displaced persons, create stability required to allow displaced persons to return to their homes and to allow the government to begin to provide basic services to its people again. We expect this effort to last a couple years until we can transition operations to the host-nation, UN agencies, and NGO's.
First item, a Seabase is great, but it is expensive. Probably in a timeframe of two years, we would be looking at repairing and opening a port to allow shipping to tie-up and offload to support operations ashore.
Another point was force protection for the connectors. In supporting operations ashore for a prolonged time, you will spend a lot of resources to protect the seabase and especially to protect the connectors going back and forth to shore. Positioning the seabase farther off shore provides more security to the big ships, but also puts the LCU's and LCAC's at more risk with a longer transit (perhaps even out to 20 miles or more off shore). Quickly, we realized a need, not only for lots of connectors, but for lots of escort and security craft.
It made sense to keep your higher level medical support on ship. It made sense to keep a lot of command and control on ship.
We used the MPS and Army pre-positioned stocks to build up forces ashore and refugee camps, etc. We planned on resupplying the forces ashore primarily by shipping for the two year operation. We figured 90% or more of your supplies could be forecasted well enough, so that the slow speed of shipping would still be acceptable. Certainly in the beginning of the operation, the MPF ship you loaded two years ago in Blount Island is what you get, but perhaps a few months into the operation, your cargo ship can be specifically loaded in the U.S. or elsewhere to support your unit. Still, we liked the concept of keeping a light footprint on shore, and keeping your "Iron Mountain" of spare parts and supplies on ship. It's just tough to make it work.
The MPF-Future (MPFF) has an "extra" big-deck amphib (LHA/LHD) with enhanced aircraft maintenance facilities. In addition, the LHA/LHD and MLP of the MPF-F will provide thousands of berths, so you could fly-in the Marines or Soldiers and truly base them on a ship, and ride or fly ashore to conduct operations.
Consideration was given toward taking a whole MPF squadron out of action to support this kind of stability operation. Is it worth it to take the MPF squadron and the ability to outfit a rapidly deployed force out of action to support a stability operation for which you really only need a portion of the MPF stuff? Again, selective offload of cargo is vital.
Finally, an extended land campaign is not a core competency of the Marine Corps, (please ignore current land war), so it is difficult for us to plan a two-year operation supported from ships, we're not necessarily set up for that, MPF is not necessarily designed for that. The MPF-Future will have a capability to sustain operations ashore from the seabase for a prolonged time, but so far that concept is briefed, but not bought. Even if we do develop the MPF-F, it is an expensive way to support prolonged operations ashore of multiple MEB's or BCT's. Company-sized or smaller FOB's supported from a seabase for a long period of time are conceivable.
We realized very quickly, we need the Army and we need a port. Marines have an attention span of about 6 – 7 months, so we don't set up the chow hall or PX until the second rotation of Marines. The Army is much better at thinking in long-term deployments of large forces. Am I actually asking for a Soldier's help?….Got to go to sick call tomorrow.
Tags: Expeditionary Warfare, Expeditionary Warrior, Expeditionary Warrior 2010
Day 2 Expeditionary Warrior 2010
By LtCol Roger Galbraith, USMCR
Move 2: Humanitarian Assistance
For background information on Expeditionary Warrior 2010, go to: https://www.mcwl.quantico.usmc.mil/ew.cfm. Sorry, only accessible for CAC users, we're working on it!
Move 2: Humanitarian Assistance, 2022. After a couple years recovering from the 2020 severe flooding, the host country is hit again with an even more severe rainy season, requiring the international community's help.
To answer a comment about the Marine Corps in 2022: The Marine Corps Warfighting Lab is currently experimenting with something called Enhanced Marine Air-Ground Task Force Operations. Basically, in EMO, the lowest level independently operating Marine Corps unit will shift from a reinforced battalion, as we see in a Marine Expeditionary Unit, to a reinforced company. MCWL is experimenting with the additional comms, fire-support and transportation that will be needed to support platoons operating 40 miles from a ship, and 10 miles from each other. A Company Landing Team (COLT) is pretty cool, because it creates a small amphibious operations capability that could fit on one ship, potentially increasing the reach of U.S. forces around the world.
Another answer to a comment: There will be partners, and there will be other countries with competing interests. We have discussed the difficulty in relief operations if someone like an Iran, Russia, China, Venezuela brings a cargo ship or frigate and says, "We're here to help." The basic answer from the ambassadors, admirals and generals helping the game is: "It depends."
The wargame is looking into the advantages and disadvantages of using a seabase in various scenarios, Move 2 requires a humanitarian assistance operation.
First of all: it's all about relationships and agreements. The Embassy is key in starting an HA operation, the first thing the seabase commander needs to do is check in with the embassy. The HA operation needs to be run as truly a supporting operation to the host nation, and not a "we're in charge" kind of operation.
Environment, to run HA, we need a benign environment, with no threat other than a few criminals and looters. HA won't be effective if we need to attack the village before we bring in water. This is applicable from a seabase or not, but it was an interesting nugget from the gray hairs in the room.
Advantages of the seabase in HA: A HA operation will require a lot of heavy equipment. Water purification, power, road building, other engineering equipment is all heavy. Ships are great for transporting heavy stuff, and LCU's, and LCAC's to some extent are great for taking that heavy stuff ashore, where a port facility might be damaged. (Like Haiti in 2010)
Basing your HA operation from a seabase reduces your footprint ashore, which is good to reduce the support required ashore, and helps your security situation as well. (During tsunami relief in Thailand, the US forces kept only a couple dozen on shore at night.)
But there are disadvantages to a seabase too: A seabase is slow to respond, in comparison to human suffering. A seabase will not be there in time to be a first responder and tend to the dying or bleeding. In fact, a seabase may not even be there to prevent suffering or death from a lack of water or food in the first 72 hours. During the wargame, we looked at a week to ten days as a reasonable window in which we could respond to a disaster with a seabase. So, the seabaase won't be there first.
Another disadvantage to a seabase is a reduced effectiveness if the ship-to-ship connectors cannot mate up to all ships in the base. Currently, the Army and the Navy both have ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore connectors, as well as our own service MPF ships. The connectors need to work together. Maybe only buy one LCU for the whole DoD, or one LCAC; commonality, incredible concept.
In 2022, we assumed MPF ships have a ramp (Vehicle Transfer System) that they can roll vehicles to another ship or floating dock. We also assumed a ship called a Mobile Landing Platform (MLP) exists. An MLP will be able to accept the rolling vehicle from the VTS/MPF ship, and will have a lot of deck space for docking LCAC's and LCU's. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/mlp.htm
This link might answer some ship and connector questions:
Afternoon. Move 3
Move 3: Non-combatant Evacuation Operation
The situation ashore has deteriorated. The assassination of the opposing political party's leader has thrown the host nation into an armed conflict between the government and the opposing party. The embassy has requested military assistance to evacuate non-combatants.
The combatant commander has assembled a seabase composed of Joint High Speed Vessels, a Mobile Landing Platform, MPF ships (T-AKE and LMSR's), and a MEU on a 3-ship ARG. Once they decide who's in charge, we conducted the NEO in this game, with command and control functions staying on ship. Amphibious big decks and carriers have great communications capabilities and flag staff spaces, so they were very useful for this move.
The majority of American and allied nation citizens that are to be evacuated live in a port city, so evacuating by sea, as slow as ships may go, was seen as a good option. This also reduced crowding in the few airfields that are still serviceable after a few seasons of flood.
A couple ships we will have in 2023, the Joint High Speed Vessel, and the Mobile Landing Platform were invaluable in conducting the NEO. The JHSV was used to ferry evacuees to a nearby port with a working airport. The MLP was used in much the same manner. The JHSV can carry a few hundred (in seats and troop berthing) for a matter of hours. The MLP can carry upwards of 1,100 for a matter of days (troop berthing) if it didn't carry soldiers or Marines into theater.
During the NEO, we didn't see as much a need to play nice with others as we did in the previous HA move, we saw the NEO as a clear mission that U.S. forces would conduct, and U.S. forces would be in charge of the U.S. evacuation of U.S. citizens.
Another invaluable tool for the NEO was the ability to connect the shore to the ship, and not have to rely on a serviceable port. Again..we are operating from a multi-billion dollar seabase with state-of-the-art aircraft and communications, and the most useful tool was the 65 year old LCU! It's tough to carry people on an LCAC, and it's tough to carry thousands of people on helos. LCU's to the rescue!
In general, the seabase was very useful in the NEO, but it was a stepping stone in the evacuation process. You can't just impress the evacuees to be a new crew of the ship, we've eventually got to get them home, and the evacuees will probably want to go faster than 15 knots across the ocean. So using the seabase's ships as ferries and a base of operations was valuable, but it didn't complete the whole mission by itself, we'll need to get the evacuees to an airport.
Stay tuned, tomorrow we will conduct stability operations from a seabase.
Tags: Expeditionary Warfare, Expeditionary Warrior, Expeditionary Warrior 2010
Day 1 Expeditionary Warrior 2010
By LtCol Roger Galbraith, USMCR
Seabasing Nuggets
Expeditionary Warrior 2010 is a joint, multinational wargame designed to test the concepts of seabasing. Refer to: https://www.mcwl.quantico.usmc.mil/ew.cfm
Sitting through the obligatory classes prior to the seabasing wargame. To save you the few hours and the line to the head during breaks, here are a few nuggets:
-Seabasing is a national capability. The Corps gets is feathers ruffled when we hear this, but the fact is the Army has significant equipment already pre-positioned and they are buying some Joint High Speed vehicles, to connect MPF ships and ports.
-The current 30-yr shipbuilding plan just released with the QDR will realize an amphibious fleet of 29 – 33 ships as the years go by. Both the Navy and Marine Corps agree that it takes 38 ships to lift 2.0 Marine Expeditionary Brigades (MEB). To further complicate matters, current USMC units have more vehicles than the tables of organizations of 10-years ago; it won't all fit on the ships, even if we did have 38.
-USMC (and Army) equipment has gotten much heavier and larger in the past 10 years, and will continue to do so. This will make amphibious ships too heavy, and with the larger vehicles needing to be in the upper vehicle stowage areas just to fit, the ships are too top-heavy. As a telling illustration:
Old Vehicle: M151 Jeep: 3,000 lbs.
Currents ships designed around: M998 Soft-door HMMWV: 5,000 lbs
Currently used on the ground: Up-Armored HMMWV: 7,600 lbs
Future vehicle, Joint Light? Tactical Vehicle: 22,000 lbs
Current Helo ships are designed around: CH-46: 13,000 lbs
Future Helo: MV-22: 47,000 lbs
Current V/STOL attack aircraft: AV-8b: 25,000 lbs
Future V/STOL attack aircraft: JSF (F-35): 46,000 lbs
This is a huge problem that we haven't really been faced with in combat operations yet. How to fit current Marine forces on a ship? There are a few smart guys crunching the numbers to examine the Gear Left On the Pier (GLOP).
The first move of the game comes this afternoon, we'll see how this seabasing thing works
Move 1: Steady State Operations from a Sea Base
For background material on Expeditionary Warrior 2010, refer to https://www.mcwl.quantico.usmc.mil/ew.cfm
To answer a question from an earlier blog about "What is a seabase?" and "How does this work with MPF?"
A seabase is a collection of ships and capabilities at sea. It basically provides an airfield, a port and a logistics base through the collection of ships and other tools. So in real terms, you put some MPF ships together with a carrier and LHA/LHD, add some well deck capability with LPD/LSD's and there you have a seabase. Now anyone who has been a part of a Navy surface combatant group knows that at times it is easier to swim to another ship than it is to get a ride there, or have a phone call with anyone on another ship. So you can see quickly, that a key element of a successful seabase is ship to ship, and ship to shore connectors. In addition to that, you will need to surgically extract the cargo you want from the densely packed MPF ship. So when the MPF ship goes to support a humanitarian assistance operation, you will want to leave the armored vehicles, but take out all the tents, generators and water purification units. It is projected that in 2020, the time for Move 1 of the wargame, the U.S. will have a selective cargo offload capability, as well as improved connector capabilities.
So in Move 1 of the wargame, the U.S. and its coalition partners are supporting a nation like many in the world. There is little to no infrastructure, the national government has little or no ability to improve the lives of its people or provide basic services, and laws mean very little. The reason the seabase was deployed to the area was to support the government to rebuild infrastructure and prevent disease following an unusually severe rainy season.
A seabase is good for humanitarian assistance because it reduces the footprint ashore and the amount of support you need to bring ashore for yourself. That's great, and it was proven in the aid provided to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.
For the seabase capabilities we envision for 2020, we are planning on the ability to pull the bulldozer and generator out of the hold on the MPF ship, and deliver them with an LCU or LCAC. We don't have that capability yet, but we're working on it. Currently, when you unload the MPF ship, you need to unload it all until you see the equipment you want, then you need to put all the stuff back in the same order.
The seabase is not a great answer to everything however. In Move 1, we want to provide a persistent presence ashore to assist rebuilding and disease prevention. A seabase is not really great for that, you can't really build situational awareness or relationships while you are 40 miles or more off shore. A seabase was seen as being a good platform to deliver heavy equipment, and some logistics capabilities not provided in the host nation, like refined fuels, medical supplies, etc.
Move 2 and 3 tomorrow: send your questions.
Tags: Expeditionary Warfare, Expeditionary Warrior, Expeditionary Warrior 2010
Expeditionary Warrior 2010
By LtCol Roger Galbraith, USMCR
This is LtCol Roger Galbraith, USMCR, packing my seabag for a notional deployment to a seabase for exercise Expeditionary Warrior 2010.
Expeditionary Warrior 2010 is the Marine Corps sponsored Title X wargame that will exercise a notional seabasing capability as envisioned in the year 2025. The exercise will require participants to assemble a seabase, and use its capabilities to conduct humanitarian assistance, security, and combat operations. The exercise will raise questions about how a multi-national, multi-platform seabase will coordinate operations among its member ships, units and nationalities. The purpose of the game is to use the notional scenario to show abilities or gaps in policy, functions and interoperability in the use of the seabase.
Follow me as I serve as a member of the amphibious task force staff and comment on what the weather, the sea, and opposing forces are doing, and what the assembled seabase will do, or try to do in response. The exercise runs Monday, February 22nd to the 25th. I'll be providing a post for each game move, the game will have about two moves a day.
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And Fred Mortani Orlando foods also on the scene. Larry you were at the beer pavilion where else John
Sharlene, Fred is in the picture holding the microphone for don Antonio. i would have introduced you but as john said i was to interested in the beer pavilion.Fred is realy a nice man and he is able to bridge the language barrier between the Italians and American audience.
Sharlene,You can see what Larry meant about Fred Mortati acting as a bridge between Italians and Americans in the video that was recently put up by Pizzaddict at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,24094.0.html. I thought that the video, which also features Roberto and Don Antonio, was quite good.Peter


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I heard Mike Savage talking about the article on his Friday show, so I too checked it out.
As pointed out on the other thread relating to this, it isn't the Pravda we all know, that being the official Russian News Agency.
Though I agree with the author, I too beleive the world views Oboma as a pushover.
Anti-intellectualism and fascism go together like bacon and eggs.
Did you ever think you'd see this in print in Pravda?Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK's Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our "wise" Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (282 votes).
In short: Very good raceIn full: Course was very good, not too taxing with gentle hills. Organisation was good and facilites were adequate enough with ample catering. Can't complain about the weather as it was far worse and variable running around Silverstone in March. On the negative side it has to be the first race I've ran where there was no water available afterwards unless of course I'm mistaken. Not convinced its value for money as for £2 more the Silverstone Half has the t-shirt included and they send out the chip and race number to you before race. I really didn't see why you'd want to make a special trip the day before to pick up your number and chip. An inside source tells me it wasn't that popular an option anyway. Not the first time I've encountered this, but somebody manning a water station was not paying enough attention although they fared worse in that. You'd think holding a cup out at arms length would be simple?! Having said that thanks go to the organisers and helpers and the marshalls for their support in miserable conditions. Overall, a very good race and would definitely do it again.Date of review: December 2, 2007
In short: Excellent race, Weather stopped a PBIn full: Excellent race, Weather stopped a PB, although it was my second best time (And fastest of 3 visits to Norwich)Date of review: December 2, 2007
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (42 votes).
In short: Fun and enjoyable, but a bit disorganisedIn full: Great way to start the year, cold but sunny, lovely setting, and friendly atmosphere. The marshalls were well placed to give advanced warning on the most slippery parts. But.... it was virtually impossible to hear the marshall's address to the runners at the start, and I'm sure the distance was less than 6 miles which was a little disappointing. Date of review: January 3, 2010
In short: ok as a training runIn full: i like running around delamere, However for the money it cost their were some serious mistakes.-lack of imformation about the late start -starter could do with something to start the race with-cource not the right distance-poor marshalling / sign missingok they had to change the route due to ice, however the lead group of us ended up running around like headless chickens due to a sign/marshall missing. the marshalls in close proxsimity didn't have a clue where we should go? ok it happens, but it shouldn't on races that cost this much. The leaders ended up well down the field!Date of review: January 3, 2010
Date of review: May 5, 2009
In short: Men only aye Si, lovely setting for a cobweb remover.Date of review: January 11, 2009
In short: Overall... ok.In full: I know the area well, but even I got lost trying to find the car park as the signage was terrible. The marshalls at the start couldn't be heard as they had no PA system or megaphone. No mile markers meant you didn't know how far there was left to go!I set a PB though which I was happy about until I read other reviews commenting that it seemed short!Many thanks to the marshalls and organisers giving up there time on a FREEZING cold morning :) Date of review: January 8, 2009
In short: Next time i'll just run around the forest on my ownIn full: As other people before me have mentioned the barrier i think it goes without saying, but getting clubbed over the head as i went under it by a size 12 shoe is not my idea of organisation or safety. No mile markers or statements to say you were at the end to go for that PB push. Scenery was fab but thats the pleasure of the area and is not enough to let the organisers off their poor efforts. Having said that the worry of mild concussion aside the female helper at the point where the race hairpinned was fab. Timings are completely off in this race due to the terrible start but a good way to see in the new year if you need the motivation!Date of review: January 8, 2009
In short: Enjoyable race, the scenery was great and the course was good, a great race for starting the new year.In full: Des anyone know where the results are posted?Date of review: January 5, 2009
In short: An enjoyable race. Pretty flat for a trail race (not a criticism) with the odd hill to keep you warm. I haven't got a GPS system, but I suspect it's a little shy of a full 10k. Great location, especially in the snow. Date of review: January 5, 2009
In short: Blimey, that was hard...In full: A lot harder then i expected, but then 2 weeks of unhealthy living probably didn't help. As people have said, distance markers would have been nice, and the barrier at the start was a bit bizarre, but apart from that a really good race.Incidentally, did anybody GPS it? Was it really 6 miles dead?Date of review: January 5, 2009
In short: Some Minor problems, but overall a good race, that I would do again., In full: There were some problems, 1, Signs for the car park 2, Mile Markers, 3, The Barrier thing at the start, The momento, was pretty craptacular. But having said that some positives, 1, Lovely location, 2, Cheery Marshalls 3, Its close to home, Will do it again as its pretty close to home and a good way to start the year, some proper snow would have been nice Thanks to the organisers, and the marshalls, it was a cold day to stand about in. Date of review: January 5, 2009
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Edguy -- San Francisco, CA -- September 29th, 2007
Been waiting to see Edguy for a really long time, as the last time they played SF two years it was at a 21+ club. This time they booked the show at the all-ages Slim's, so I made damn sure I would be there and bought tickets early (even though I don't think the show ended up selling out). Got to the venue a little earlier than expected, hung out while the PA was playing some SABBATH and ACCEPT with live PRIEST video on this projector that came out in front of the stage, kinda like the effect of having curtains. The first band up was ECHOES OF ETERNITY, I'd never listened to them before or (more importantly) had never seen a band photo either, so while I wasn't surprised that their sound was pretty generic goth/faux-progressive metal, I was shocked at how good looking their singer was. This chick is fine, almost too good looking in fact cuz I'm pretty suspicious of these guys' motives. None of them looked metal in the least, or even exuded any genuine sense of metalness, and to me it sounded like they were caught between trying to imitate NIGHTWISH while throwing in retarded DREAM THEATER faux-prog parts with metalcore breakdowns. Also taking into account the fact that they're from Los Angeles makes me chalk this one up to a bunch of music school grads trying to cash in on having a hot chick front the band. Her voice isn't even that good to boot. At least on there behalf I will say it wasn't annoying and they beat the other "Eternity" band tonight by lightyears.
Next band up was a group from my neighborhood called LIGHT THIS CITY. I had been eagerly anticipating seeing them almost as much as EDGUY because I went to middle school with the drummer and main songwriter Ben Murray and I still have those memories of him from 6th grade as a scary punk kid who no one wanted to hang around It makes me thrilled to see him and his band have such success, these guys and gal work their asses off touring and are really in it for the long haul, Ben even deferred Cal-Berkeley to keep touring and dedicating himself to LIGHT THIS CITY full-time. I regret not having gone to see them when they would play at the really little high school shows in our area back in the day, and so far they've been the only band out of many from the Peninsula scene who have achieved any kind of real success. I bought their album Facing The Thousand, released last year on Prosthetic Records, from a Best Buy store, if that's not getting somewhere I don't know what is Anyways I'm thrilled for them, and was both excited yet apprehensive about seeing them live; tonight could have really affirmed me as a fan or have bummed me out about them. Even in this day and age, the live show is still the ultimate 'make-or-break' point for bands.
And LIGHT THIS CITY made it in style. Right from the start it was easy to see that this is no kiddie band, they're tight like a well-oiled touring machine. The difference between them and ECHOES OF ETERNITY on stage was huge too; while I doubted the sincerity of the former band throughout their set, LIGHT THIS CITY absolutely ripped, headbanging and giving it 100%. It was awesome how into it they all were, especially frontwoman Laura Nichol. This is a real metal chick folks, running around, screaming and headbanging the whole time. She also gave a nice shout-out to her mom who was in attendance The interplay between the two guitarist was killer, and even if all they're doing is pretty much imitating AT THE GATES and ARCH ENEMY, at least that's actually what they sound like, not bullshit around and claim to be Gothenburg-inspired but really play shitty American metalcore like a bunch of bands do. Ben's drumming is fucking top-notch too, not only does he hold the band together excellently he also provides more than just the standard blasting by adding some clever little touches that I especially notice being a drummer too. The drumming live is much more interesting than on the record for sure. Best performance was probably "The Unwelcome Savior", which I think they did an extended version of, though I might be wrong, it just seemed longer than on the album version. Anyhow the crowd gave them a great response overall, even though no pit formed even when the band asked for it Great performance, bought a t-shirt to support them too Setlist: (not 100% in order but very close)
Cradle For A King
The Unwelcome Savior
Fear of Heights
The Eagle
Tracks of Decay
Like Every Song's Our Last
Facing The Thousand
I was prepared for INTO ETERNITY to suck, and suck they did. Really, really badly. Technical difficulties didn't help matters either, not to mention the lead singer's incessant blathering about weed. If you like so much then play some stoner metal dammit Anyways I honestly haven't disliked a performance like that in a long time, it was just plain bad all the way around. I think one song had a neat intro that sounded like a YES keyboard line played on guitar, the rest was crap. Random shit thrown together to try to sound 'prog', horrendous breakdowns, and some of the worst singing I've ever heard. I'm not talking about the growls either, I'm talking about the glass-shattering bitch-wail the lead singer would do from time to time. Worse than emo singing even. People really dug them though so whatever, I don't feel so bad ripping into them cuz apparently they do have fans.
Finally, after being kindly treated to some vintage IRON FUCKING MAIDEN over the PA and on the video screen, it was time for some real German metal, EDGUY. Tobias might be the best frontman I've ever seen, and that includes Bruce Dickinson even. He reminds me of David Lee Roth (young of course) so much for some reason, both with his looks and his overall stage persona, with the acrobatics and all the sheer enthusiasm. Anyone who has seen EDGUY knows that they are really an unparalleled live act, in terms of that there is seriously no band out there doing what they do. The fact that they could have easily fit probably 4 to 5 more songs in the set without Tobias and the band joking around is a moot point because that part of the show is actually almost more fun than when they are playing the songs. It's just so refreshing to see a band like this, pure heavy metal to the point that it's simultaneously both parody yet real. EDGUY are just a band that everyone needs to see live, plain and simple. As far as nitpicking the set, I'd say that the length actually didn't feel that short as I feared it would. However they definitely needed to put some faster songs in there, "Babylon" was the only fast tune of the set. The middle of the set started the lag a little, around the Drum solo-"Superheroes"-"Save Me" part, but 'lagging' is a relative term here because it was still more energetic than just about any other show I've been to. The crowd was awesome as well, didn't know what to expect but they were extremely into it, and very loud (more so than the band at times, I do wish the sound would have been a little better for them but I can't complain too much). Tobi and the whole band seemed genuinely appreciative and thankful of the audience, in a rare moment of seriousness mentioning how even though these crowds in the U.S. are much smaller than what they're used to in other parts of the world, they will continue to come back and play because of the honesty and the passion of the fans. Slims is a big step up from the DNA Lounge in terms of size too, so here's hoping next time they'll get an even bigger draw. This is a band that would just be perfect for arenas though, the showmanship and the music just seem tailor-made. They will definitely be back within 12 months though Tobi said, and bet your ass I'll be there Setlist:
1.) Catch of the Century
2.) Sacrifice
3.) Babylon
4.) first verse/chorus of The Trooper
5.) Lavatory Love Machine
6.) Tears of a Mandrake
7.) Vain Glory Opera
8.) Drum Solo
9.) Superheroes
10.) Save Me
11.) Fucking With Fire (Hair Force One)
12.) Avantasia
13.) King of Fools
EDIT: I should mention that while I've never liked the song much, "Lavatory Love Machine" live is fantastic
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Haha that was fast. Glad to see you liked Light This City, I went to high school with Laura.
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Btw no Pavo sighting
Light This City is fucking terrible. Sorry, but if you like that garbage I can't really respect any opinions you may hold about anything else.
Never enough shows
I agree to the fullest there, but what pisses me off is when they have 5,000 shirts that say "I <3 Thrash on them" It's like people saying Slipknot is death metal, it brings a fist to someones face if you ask me, too bad i supported them and got ike 20 cool metal buttons.
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Los Angeles may have a shot of one on Tuesday...
Jaco died for our sins so that modern bass players could be free to play more and be heard.
And trust me, I've listened to way more Sodom and Artillery than you have, so don't try that one
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CLEARWATER - Vehicle burglaries are common enough that they can go unnoticed. But not when 60 or 70 of them are grouped in 1 square mile of the city. Not when they all take place in the course of just two months.
Tuesday morning, Clearwater police arrested a man they believe is responsible for the burglary rampage.
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When the burglaries started April 3, crime analysts in the department took note.
All the burglaries took place at night. Almost all involved unlocked vehicles. The vast majority fell within a box of streets bounded by Lakeview Road, S Highland Avenue, Belleair Road and S Missouri Avenue.
The analysts passed the word to the community policing officers, who are expected to have their finger on the pulse of the community.
The community policing officers quickly developed a suspect: 44-year-old Robert O'Conner, an unemployed former lawn maintenance worker.
On Monday night, a team of Clearwater officers watched O'Conner as he walked out of his apartment at 1328 Tioga Ave. in Clearwater.
With a bag on his back, he hopped on his bicycle and took off down the street.
It didn't take long before he was going through a yard he shouldn't have entered, Stewart said.
That's when police arrested him on a charge of loitering and prowling.
Then they went through his backpack, Stewart said, and found the contents of other people's vehicles: cell phones, CDs, change and all the things people leave in their vehicles, which O'Conner was then pawning and selling.
Stewart said O'Conner confessed to six burglaries, but is a suspect in all the rest.
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"It's a great story for us as a police department, " Stewart said.
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Unreal – I just rewound that f-ing play. That was an interception and a fumble. Collins took 3 full steps then fell to the ground and fumbled. I absolutely don't understand that call.
Most undisciplined team ever. Penalty, penalty, penalty.The Pack deserves to loose this game.
Maybe if we'd have had a challenge left? But McCarthy is the King of losing challenges. Total fail on preparing the team for tonight.
When the refs are so one sided like that, it always makes me wonder if games really are bought.. =(
Yes, it was an interception.. why not challenge that play?? Instead you waste a timeout on an obvious play.


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"I love music, but besides high school band and singing in the shower, that's as far as my music career had gone . . . until my Whittier Scholars project."
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Travis' Story
"Combining physics and football? Well, I do say 'the harder you hit someone, the less it hurts you and the more it hurts them.' I suppose that relates to the topic of momentum and (in)elastic collisions."
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Greenberg's Story
"Standing in the dirt, I found myself planting lettuce alongside my Sociology professor."
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