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- Age 22
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Preferred Rate $8-$12 per hour
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I'm 19 years old I am a college student going for my degree to be a midwife.
I have my CPR /First Aid certifications along with being certified to pass medications if needed.
I have been a Caregiver threw companies for the last year so I have knowledge in care of metals and physically disabled.
I have also care for children since I was 10 years old. I haves lot of experience in children ages 0-14. I love to read and draw. I love areas and crafts and playing outside. I love to watch little ones grow an learn all new things.
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10 years of paid child care experience with:
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- Preschooler (3 to 5 years)
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This should be fun. Name some of the stupidest things you've seen in a gun store (not dangerous per se but just ignorant). Here are some I've seen:
1) Three employees trying to figure out how to get the slide stop back on a 1911. When I saw the pocketknife come out I knew they were clueless, but kept my mouth shut.
2) An employee trying to sell someone a set of Hogue grips that go to a square-butt S&W for a round-butt one. That big gap in the back of the frame was really attractive.
3) Another employee trying to sell a customer a set of GP100 grips to go on a Redhawk (not a super redhawk but the regular one with the grip frame) - he tried to argue when I said they didn't fit. I was about 12 and the customer was my dad. He didn't buy them.
4) Employee trying for about 5 minutes to break down an AR15. He got really p!ssed when my dad did it in three seconds (the guy was trying to do it with the bolt open).
I've seen several other goodies on oddball guns but I tend to give the guys a pass on those - no one can know everything about every gun.


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By Elham Asaad Buaras
British Muslims are showing their support for blood donation this month by giving blood to save lives in 10 cities across the UK as part of a nationwide campaign.
Running throughout this month and December the Imam Hussain Blood Donation Campaign (IHBD) aims to increase the number of regular blood donors from Muslim and other ethnic minority communities in Britain.
The campaign was started 2006 by volunteers from the Islamic Unity Society (IUS) who noticed the lack of Muslim donors at their local blood donation centre in Manchester. Using the slogan 'Give back, Give blood,' the focus of the campaign is the annual multi-city blood drive held during the Islamic month of Muharram when Muslims all over the world gather to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Husayn, grandson of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
In its first year IHBD was successful in encouraging 23 people from Manchester to donate blood, the following year the campaign was extended to London, Glasgow, Birmingham with 50 successful blood donations.
In 2011 the campaign was introduced to more major cities across the UK with 268 successful donations; by last year over 300 people donated blood across 10 cities, including: London, Manchester, Sheffield, Birmingham, Leeds, Bradford, Leicester, Edinburgh and Surrey.
In a statement to The Muslim News IHBD founder, Dr Marwan Al-Dawoud, said, "An important part of our faith as Muslims is to contribute to the society we live in and this campaign encourages people to do just that."
A single blood donation has the potential to save three adult or seven infant lives. Currently, only 4% of the UK population are blood donors, and of this number only 3% are from an Asian, African and African-Caribbean background. However, the NHS requires around 8,000 units of blood per day and increasingly more are needed from ethnic minority communities who are more likely to have rarer blood groups.
Noor Al-Hussaini, who donated blood for the first time last year, said; "It was a good experience. The staff were really friendly and very understanding. The whole process went very smoothly and made me wonder why I hadn't donated blood before. I will most definitely donate blood again when I can."
Anyone aged between 17 and 65, generally in good health and weighing more than 50kg (7st 12lbs), could potentially become a blood donor and help to save lives.
Sessions are planned in London, Manchester, Sheffield, Birmingham, Leeds, Bradford, Leicester, Luton, Glasgow and Edinburgh throughout November and December.


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.Winter patties are mixing beekeepers heads.Lack on pollen tells that winter is coming. Prepare for winter rest.In cluster bees eate some amount pollen. Poo is full on empty pollen cells.Honey has only energy and pollen has other nutritiens..Cluster goes over winter without pollen but it is not able to start brooding before they get pollen from nature. Bees need winter rest. So they are in better condition than bees which beekeeper has disturbed the whole winter with his emergency operations.It is very different when hives are in California on in New York. It is different too if hives are 1000 / hectare or 5 per hectare. Have you in December 20C day temp or 0C.I start pollen feeding in spring about 3-4 weeks before willow starts blooming.When new bees emerge, they get new fresh pollen from nature and they will grow to good brood feeders.If snow covers the ground and if I feed pollen or pollen patty, bees become sick. They need lots of drinking water to use patty. They get a long lasting chalk-brood then.
That is real children fairy-tales. It is more poetry than science.If you read wikipedia, it says it better.Vitellogening exist in all animals which produce eggs. birds, fishes, nematodes....It it precursor of protein. Nothing more. You get a scientific research into you hands and you deliver fairy-tales. That is big waste..********Put into google "amino acids of vitellogenin" , you get some idea what the stuff is
.It is better if you debate with your self. Communication with you is waste of time.I do not understand what you are going to get with your style. Blood from nose?Go to sleep. We have here 8 in the morning. Just now we have storm, rain and +1C.
Thankfully, gratefully we all don't live in Finland :-DFinski; if you're bored by other beekeeping methods (that seem to be working for them and you even agree with once in a while) why do you keep coming around? You can't even get the topic right in this case and seem hellbent on confusing every one. I think you just like to argue, am I right?Just to fan the flames? Who needs that?thomas
thats a good spring program but we are interested in the benefit of boosting protein levels for our winter bees supplemental feeding of bees whether fall boost or spring jump start is a management technique and a manipulation
why not ask the manufacture what is going on-- http://www.globalpatties.com/pages/articles/fall.htm 8-) RDY-B http://www.globalpatties.com/pages/why.htm
"Better to stop here."Please dont! Winter is long, dont let it be boring.


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My home is a mess. My mom has decided to find a new home and so now all of my stuff is all over the place! I cant find my treats and my wand is nowhere to be seen. At least I can always count on finding my condo! Don't tell anyone but the view is great! I get to see squirrels up close now and WOW they are strange! Thats all for now....
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Workers yesterday rejected an apology from Rio Tinto-controlled Energy Resources of Australia over an incident where they drank uranium-contaminated water at the controversial Ranger mine in Kakadu.
"It's a pretty hollow apology when to date ERA has refused to hand over information about the contaminants in the water," said Hayden Stephens, a lawyer representing three workers.
Mr Stephens said the workers were asking how ERA could declare at its annual meeting that there would be no long-term effect on the men's health and at the same time refuse to give them any information.
"ERA have placed their own affairs as a priority ahead of their workers," said Mr Stephens, a partner in the Slater & Gordon law firm. "For three weeks we have been calling for vital information about the uranium-contaminated water consumed by the workmen. To date we've received nothing.
"In the one breath ERA are expressing deep regret for the distress caused to the men. Yet in the next it is refusing to hand over critical information concerning their workers' health."
ERA revealed yesterday that 28 workers had reported symptoms after contaminated process water was "erroneously connected to the system that supplies drinking and showering water" at the mine on March 23.
Slater & Gordon is representing three contractors who have suffered aches, lethargy, headaches and diarrhoea after drinking water that contained 400 times the legal limit of uranium.
No doctor can tell them what the long-term effects will be because no one else in the world has drunk anywhere near that amount of uranium.
Australian Conservation Foundation campaigner Dave Sweeney, who attended the Sydney meeting, said the board had made no commitment to increase its transparency.
"The board is obviously feeling pressure from scrutiny it has received following the incident but it has failed to outline a better way forward," he said.
At the meeting, ERA managing director Harry Kenyon-Slaney said the company "deeply regrets the incident" and the distress caused to the people, who had reported "mild symptoms'.
He said he had written to all those on site at the time to "offer my sympathies and to confirm that medical support will be available for as long as necessary".
"The advice we have received to date is that anyone exposed to the affected water is unlikely to suffer any long-term health effects," Mr Kenyon-Slaney told shareholders.
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A Scrutiny of Syllabi, Part 2 - Dolphins Aligning for Dining
In V1N2 we examined parts of syllabi that convey important logistical information. In this issue, we'll examine the parts of syllabi that help us to build alignment into our courses. These parts largely address process. As in past issues, we discover we can continue to learn from dolphins, which offer some wonderful examples of the power of alignment. The individual dolphin's torpedo-shape, powerful musculature and air breathing are a great example of how evolution aligned traits to produce a marine creature with speed and incredible endurance. In Dolphins of the World, author Ben Wilson translates the dolphins' remarkable deeper dives for food into human equivalents: "You are on the top floor of the Empire State Building. Your lunch is on the ground floor. You have to charge... down the stairs, grab it, and climb back up again on a single breath of air." Clearly, there's no room for wasted energy here.
Effective teaching and course design, when done with alignment, are much like dolphins' dives. It is possible to design our course so that our efforts produce extraordinary learning by diverting the least possible energy elsewhere. S. A. Cohen (Educational Researcher, 1987, v. 16, n. 8. pp. 16?20) recognized the power of such design when he coined the term, "instructional alignment." Cohen's alignment refers to consistence of design and enactment of efforts between intended outcomes, instructional processes and instructional evaluation (testing). He noted that classes that incorporate instructional alignment can produce two standard deviations learning beyond that achieved by usual classroom practices (Figure 1).
To an educator, Figure 1 is as impressive as the single-breath lunch dash. Instructional alignment seems to be the only known way we can provide a class of students with a learning mastery that approaches that which individuals enjoy when schooled by one-to-one tutoring (Bloom, Educational Researcher, June/July, 1984, pp. 4?16).
Imagine that you are teaching young dolphins to accompany you on an incredible dive for lunch, and you draft a syllabus to address their needs. In any course, you will probably address equivalent key parts needed to align students' efforts with your own instruction, as shown by Table 1.
|"Professor-speak:" Suggested sub?headed areas of syllabi that carry messages that address equivalent concerns in any course
|What's for lunch?
|The main learning outcomes central to this course are....(The full menu of content is the topic of our next issue of "Bow Wave.")
|What makes it worth my driving that far for it?
|Here's why I love this discipline...(enough to devote my life to it.) Here's what you will be able to do at the end of this course that you cannnot do when you began. Here's what's in it for you.
|How do we get down, catch lunch, and get back to breathe?
|How we'll journey into this learning...Expect engaging this material through methods and assignments that, while perhaps unfamiliar, are effecient ways to master this challenge.
|It's dark and scary down there. I won't know how to navigate in such an unfamiliar place.
|Tools exist through which to know what now seems obscure and difficult. I've done this many times; here are key points of my teaching philosophy that pertain to this experience. Here is the kind of support you can expect from me. You won't be alone; you'll be in the company of other students. Here's how you can help each other. You can trust me to lead you to good learning and treat you well on the journey.
Instructional alignment is not a single practice, such as collaborative learning. Rather, it is enactment of an informed, comprehensive teaching philosophy. With alignment, all our course documents should be consistent with that philosophy. The syllabus is the most important document because it discloses both the plan for alignment and constitutes the first written document that permits our students to align their efforts with ours to learn with great efficiency. For example, if a professor aspires for his/her ideal class to exhibit the qualities of engagement, questioning and effort, these three key terms should appear in the syllabus along with an explanation of their meanings.
Both aligning instruction and writing a good syllabus require that we know our students' preparation and aspirations, because we must connect initially at their level in order to convey what we want students to know and to be able to do. Students differ across regions and institutions, so a syllabus that coveys this well at one institution may prove an awkward fit at another. Students vary in their ability to read, study, write, or to think in ways that best promote their learning. In the syllabus, we can at least encourage students to study together, which is one of the most effective methods of learning.
A good course syllabus discloses the process through which content mastery will occur. Students will be familiar with the lecture method, but not with interactive engagement methods. We need not detail intricacies of alternative methods in the syllabus, but the syllabus is the best place to alert students to expect specific methods other than lecture. Pedagogy also includes the assignments and exercises we create that allow students to grapple with material, learn from mistakes and achieve mastery. This mastery may occur before a final graded challenge, or the graded challenge, through designed reflection and revisions, may itself become a part of the pedagogy.
This summer, at the Malibu Arts and Crafts show, I visited the booth of an artist who photographed dolphins. In one photo, taken underwater, the camera had caught a pod of these streamlined swimmers riding a large swell in perfect alignment, as they moved in on a school of fish. (For a similar photo of dolphins surfing in formation click here.) Dolphins understand that aligning their individual efforts with those of others produces surprising benefits.
The scale we professors usually focus upon is that of our aspirations, our courses and ourselves. We can extend Cohen's work by further aligning our efforts with others at the larger scales of program/curriculum, institution/mission, and, sometimes, professions/licensure/certification. Although we may easily see the place of the course in these larger plans, our students likely cannot. The syllabus gives us the opportunity to assist students in understanding the place of their course within larger frameworks. As we shift thinking from just teaching courses to creating and offering curricula, we have the opportunity in our syllabi to shift our students' thinking from taking courses to becoming educated. Subheadings useful for this alignment include the place of our course within understanding of our discipline and/or the place of the course within the educational plan of a program (such as our major or general education) or institution (enacting the mission statement through instruction).
Alignment influences everything from our getting to have fun by doing what we most want to do to producing better student learning.
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The Storm That Blew Me Away
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I could feel the winds breeze brush threw my long,brown hair while I raced my boat threw the waves of the Atlantic ocean. The large body of water was an incredibly dark,heavy,blue blanket that laid upon the indentions of the land.
Suddenly, I could hear the water hissing at me. As I move deeper into the ocean,the clouds began to darken, getting closer and closer together like they were in a rush to get somewhere. I started to feel anxious about going further, but I put my worries aside and watched my boat drift upon the humongous waves.
The white, spinning, eye of the dark water was staring straight at me, coming towards me as I froze in fear.The eye was like a tornado inside out but was getting stronger instead of weaker.My anxiety was growing so fast that i started to feel a burning sensation inside of my head.
When the lightning striked, the thunder roared like a lion.
I drove wave by wave, but the salt water was going over instead of under. So, i decide to race to the basement of the boat as fast as i could.i kept falling from it moving side to side.The storm jostled me to the floor of the basment. i was terrified, thinking that was going to be the end of my life,
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LeBron James continued his devastation on the Lakers as he goes down the middle and throws down the dunk against the Los Angeles Lakers. Poor Steve Nash. He didn't stand a chance. But I suppose that was a nice attempt to stop him, Nash. That was an attempt, right, Steve?
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The Ferris State University Bulldogs was selected to finish seventh place in the 2008 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Football Coaches Preseason Poll, which was released Tuesday (August 5) afternoon during the GLIAC's annual football media day luncheon at Zehnder's Restaurant in Frankenmuth, Mich.
The Bulldogs received 66 points in the balloting, which was conducted by the conference's 12 head coaches. The coaches weren't allowed to vote for their own team. The first-place team on each ballot earned 11 points while the second-place team received 10 points, etc. A season ago, Ferris State was chosen to place fourth with 108 total points in the conference's preseason gridiron poll and the Bulldogs went on to register a 6-5 overall record while tying for fourth place in the final 2007 GLIAC standings at 6-4. Ferris' final league record was changed to 7-4 in order to reflect Saginaw Valley State's decision to forfeit four 2007 contests.
"I'm excited about the upcoming season and the committment which our guys have shown during the offseason," said FSU head coach Jeff Pierce, who will begin his 14th year at Ferris State this fall and is the program's all-time winningest coach with an 85-58 (.594) career coaching mark. "This is a fun time getting ready for 2008 season and I'm more excited about seeing our testing program results as our guys make themselves into better conditioned, more productive football players."
Defending conference champion Grand Valley State was selected as the preseason favorites to capture the conference title as the Lakers earned 121 points and picked up 11 of the 12 first-place votes. Ashland was tabbed second with 105 points and one first-place vote while Saginaw Valley State recorded 83 points to place third, edging out Northwood's fourth-place 78 points total. Hillsdale and Michigan Tech both tied for fifth with 73 points and Ferris State garnered seventh place with 66 points. The Bulldogs tallied two more points than eighth-place Indianapolis.
"To be picked in the middle of the pack doesn't completely surprise me," said Pierce. "Our aspirations and intentions as a football team are to finish higher than where we are selected in this preseason poll."
Ferris State, which will celebrate its 100th year of varsity competition this 2008 campaign, begins its 11-game regular-season schdule Saturday, Aug. 30, against the Tiffin (Ohio) Dragons in a non-conference contest at Tiffin, Ohio. Kickoff for the Bulldogs' 2008 season opener is set for 2:30 p.m. (EDT). FSU begins conference play the following Saturday, Sept. 6, versus the Ashland Eagles with a 1 p.m. (EDT) start time slated in Ashland, Ohio.
The third game of Ferris' 2008 slate represents the Bulldogs' home opener as the Findlay Oilers visit Saturday, Sept. 13, in a GLIAC matchup at FSU's Top Taggart Field in Big Rapids, Mich. The game is scheduled for a 7 p.m. (EDT) opening kickoff and the traditional Fireworks Night festivities will be held following the contest. Ferris State will play five home outings during the 2008 regular season.
Tickets for all home games can be purchased by contacting the FSU Athletics Ticket Office at (231) 591-2888 or online at www.starticketsplus.com.
The following is the complete 2008 GLIAC Football Coaches Preseason Poll with first-place votes in parenthesis.
Rank Team (First-Place Votes) Points
1. Grand Valley State (11) 121
2. Ashland (1) 105
3. Saginaw Valley State 83
4. Northwood 78
5. Hillsdale 73
Michigan Tech 73
7. Ferris State 66
8. Indianapolis 64
9. Wayne State 48
10. Northern Michigan 40
11. Findlay 25
12. Tiffin 16


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From Parameters, Winter 2000-01, pp. 128-39.
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To the Editor:
I first want to thank Professor William J. Prior for his thoughtful and erudite review essay of Saving Private Ryan ("`We aren't here to do the decent thing': Saving Private Ryan and the Morality of War," Parameters, Autumn 2000). Like him, I believe that this film is a rich source of discussion of military ethics, and I would like to take up some of the points he introduces.
Professor Prior nicely parses out the different and conflicting ethical viewpoints expressed in the film: of the individual, of the member of a unit, of the member of a nation state, and of the moral agent. He also tries to reconcile these viewpoints, finding them ultimately incompatible. In his account, the gulf between "ordinary decency" and the moral demands of service in war can never quite be bridged, so that the soldier will often experience guilt for his actions in wartime, however necessary, however consistent with the special moral requirements of service in war.
Such contradictions, or paradoxes, certainly exist in ethics. As philosopher Martha Nussbaum has pointed out, the heroes of Greek tragedy as often suffer for their virtues as for their vices, but I do want to suggest a formulation that may bring the disparity of ethical perspectives closer to agreement.
Professor Prior is correct to say that Captain Miller acts out of a sense of decency when he releases the German prisoner. In so doing, Miller implicitly reminds his men of the standards of ordinary decency by speaking, for the first time, about his civilian background, but Captain Miller is also acting, in this instance and throughout the movie, out of a sense of professional obligation. Although he is not a professional soldier, Captain Miller takes his obligations as an officer very seriously. It is obvious throughout the film that he has studied the military art, and that he feels an unlimited and unremitting requirement to care for his men. These are traits of military professionalism, but so too is the enlightened and moral sense that Miller takes to the business. He is a professional officer by virtue of his superior education and sensibility as much as because of his excellence as a soldier.
When Captain Miller prevents his men from killing the German prisoner, he knows that the laws of war, the regulations of the US Army, and the best traditions of his adopted profession militate against the killing of prisoners. Although he tolerated some questionable conduct in the heat of action at the bunkers on D-day, he draws the line at this cold-blooded killing of an enemy soldier who has been disarmed and taken into custody, perhaps out of a sense that such conduct could have a demoralizing effect on his own men, even undermining his own authority in that he will have tolerated a breach of military law. Miller's actions assert his authority (I might say, his moral authority) by forcing an important issue under conditions that allow him to make and win his point. His men will act as soldiers, not as murderers.
Unlike Carpazo in the village, who unrealistically (if understandably) wants to have a reminder of his niece with him in combat, Miller is acting as a soldier as well as as a decent man in that situation. This is also the moment at which Miller reveals that in civilian life he had been a teacher of English composition. Miller's right to command is upheld by his education and mastery of the chief language of the allies (he also understands French). He is a fit representative of the culture for which he fights.
In contrast, Upham, the translator, knows the language of the enemy, and in the film this perhaps causes him to have too much empathy with them. He is ineffective in combat in part because he is estranged from the us-and-them attitude which the combat soldier is bound to have. Upham is also conversant in the language of femininity: he does a very convincing imitation of the singer Edith Piaf. This may be another suggestion of why he is out of place in the masculine world of the combat unit.
I believe that the character of Private Ryan may also be discussed in such a way as to show a reconciliation or continuity between what Professor Prior calls ordinary decency and the morality of war. The young Private Ryan is a somewhat ambiguous figure morally. He may be said to be up for grabs in terms of the moral quality of his future life. Although he is surely brave and high-spirited, with a large capacity for comradeship, he is also callous, with a streak of meanness or misogyny. He tells with obvious relish the rather brutal story of his intrusion on a brother's efforts to seduce a girl.
If, by the time he is an old man, Ryan is a good man, compassionate and responsible, I would argue that this is in part because of, rather than spite of, his military service. He has benefited from examples of courage and self-sacrifice in his comrades, and of responsibility and maturity in Captain Miller, who has told him explicitly that he must make his life worthy of the sacrifices laid down to preserve it. Although this point is surely sharpened in the special circumstances of Private Ryan's salvation, it mirrors the feelings of many veterans, and not only those of this war, who have put their survival to good use.
If I have one quibble with Professor Prior's article, it is that he concludes with the word "guilt." I believe that this is the wrong note on which to end. There is a large literature about the guilt of combat veterans. There are many who no doubt are less than proud about what they did or failed to do. But the prevailing feeling of most of them, and again not only on the part of veterans of World War II, is justly one of pride, just as the prevailing sentiment toward them must be one of honor.
Dr. Reed R. Bonadonna, LtCol USMCR
Adjunct Faculty, Marine Corps University, Norwich University
S-3, 25th Marine Regiment
The Author Replies:
I want to thank Lieutenant Colonel Bonadonna for the attention he has paid to my essay on moral conflict in warfare. I think he is in large measure in agreement with my analysis; at any rate, I am in large measure in agreement with his. If I focus below on a couple of areas of disagreement, one of which is largely a matter of emphasis, I don't want that to obscure the fact that there is a large area in which we have the same view.
I agree with Colonel Bonadonna's character analysis of Captain Miller, and with the point that when Miller refuses to kill the German prisoner he acts in accordance with his professional obligation. The laws pertaining to the treatment of prisoners are an attempt, in light of the considerations of "just war" theories, to reconcile the morality of war and the morality of decency. As Colonel Bonadonna states, these laws represent the best traditions of the military profession. I claim, however, that there are practical considerations pertaining to the prosecution of the war and the completion of the mission that argue in favor of killing or at least disabling the prisoner. My contention is that this conflict is built into the situation in which Miller finds himself. I would also note that Stephen Ambrose says that American soldiers did kill prisoners; Ambrose was a technical advisor for the film, and the scenario described in the film provides a situation in which such an (admittedly illegal and immoral) act may appear justified.
I find Colonel Bonadonna's analysis of Corporal Upham problematic. Upham, we should remember, is after all correct about the fact that the prisoner should not be killed. If he is somehow out of place in a combat unit, that suggests (though it certainly does not prove) that the morality of decency is somehow out of place there as well. Incidentally and for what it's worth, I think that Upham's failure of courage in the final battle is attributable not to a lack of masculinity, but to inexperience and a lack of training. He has not held a weapon since basic training. He has not experienced combat until the start of the mission. He is surrounded by combat veterans who are highly trained members of an elite unit. He can't be expected to behave as well under fire as they do. One wonders, though, whether continued service in such a unit might not inure Upham to the moral principle he is zealous to defend in the first encounter with the prisoner. (He does, after all, eventually kill the man himself, when the man has once again become his prisoner.)
Finally, I agree with Colonel Bonadonna that Private Ryan shows growth in the film, growth that is at least in part due to the sacrifice made by Miller and others on his behalf. I also think that soldiers who have served in combat may justifiably take pride, and moral pride, in their service. By referring to the morality of war as a morality I meant to argue that this pride is not simply mistaken or the result of moral insensitivity. It may also be the case that a soldier may serve, even in combat, and escape without performing acts incompatible with the morality of decency. My claim was only that some situations create conflicts between the morality of decency and the morality of war, and that when soldiers act against the morality of decency they must feel some guilt. Years ago I spoke to an elder in a church I was joining about my pacifist convictions. The man had been a bomber pilot in World War II. He was clearly proud, and justifiably so, of his service. Still, he said, "Those people on the other side, they were human beings too." That is the conflict about which I was attempting to write.
William J. Prior
To the Editor:
I read with dismay the intellectual confusion presented by Christopher J. Fettweis in his article "Sir Halford Mackinder, Geopolitics, and Policymaking in the 21st Century" (Parameters, Summer 2000). Four major problems exist with his logic and argument.
Defining Terms. Fettweis apparently believes that anyone who looks at international relations through a geographical lens is a "geopolitician." This is sloppy usage and a shows a fundamental misunderstanding of a diverse body of literature. Broadly speaking, "geopolitics" may be divided into the schools of the organic state thinkers--those who wish(ed) to transcend the balance of power--and the geostrategists--those who wish(ed) to maintain the balance of power. While the first school largely disappeared with the demise of the Third Reich and General Karl Haushofer, the second school remains--and, as Fettweis clearly points out, has many different variants. In any event, to (mis)use the term geopolitics as a pejorative does little to advance debate.
Levels of Analysis. Tied in with the first problem is Fettweis's miscomprehension of levels of analysis. For him, geopolitics concerns itself only with international relations writ large. However, as Geoffrey Parker points out in his Geopolitics: Past, Present, and Future (1998), "geopolitics" may be viewed from the macro (global), meso (regional), or micro (national/state/local) levels. In other words, geography does not matter merely to superpowers. Even the most casual examination of the Balkans or Caucasus (Armenia and Azerbaijan come to mind) over the past decade shows that geography matters to the local populace just as much (if not more so) than it does to the statesmen and strategists.
The Fallacy of Technology. Third, Fettweis buys into the modern-day trend that technology has shrunk the world and that the ends of the earth may be traversed with little inconvenience. To an extent this is true. A battalion of the 82d Airborne Division or a battalion of Marines may be able to reach hotspots quickly. But what about sustainability? What about combat power? Fettweis overlooks the lifeline of military operations: logistics. Geography constrains logistics precisely because transportation assets are finite and shipping personnel and materiel over long distances is time-consuming. Russia's central position makes, in his words, "successful attack nearly impossible" because its strategic depth and climatic conditions offer adversaries logistical nightmares.
In addition, Fettweis's belief in the dominance and efficacy of air power seems misplaced. Kosovo may well have been the first conflict resolved through air power, but the Yugoslav army still maintains large quantities of materiel that could not be effectively engaged from the force protection-induced altitude of 15,000 feet. Similarly, cruise missiles did little to hurt Osama bin Laden and his training facilities in Afghanistan. And, to return to logistics, the vaunted B2 bombers of which Fettweis speaks require some 500 man-hours of maintenance for every hour of operational use, making it hardly the weapon system of first resort.
Benevolent Hegemony. Last, Fettweis admonishes the followers of geopolitics for concerning themselves with finding a new threat--or creating new adversaries through such logic. He believes that the United States instead should use its unipolar position to shape the future. But how precisely? The engagement and enlargement strategy has surely created as much resentment against the United States as reward (see, for example, Peter Rodman, "The World's Resentment," The National Interest, Summer 2000).
Geostrategic analysis offers both practitioners and observers a useful tool for examining international politics at the global, regional, and (sub)national levels. With this in mind, serious practitioners of this school of thought do not reduce strategy or politics simply to the geographical. Myriad factors play roles--all roles, however, play out in the contexts of time and space. In an era where no peer competitor exists and no countervailing ideology threatens the nation, it seems that geostrategic analysis is more useful than ever. The analysis of geography and its effects on strategy, culture, and politics offers valuable insights to policymakers. However banal Mackinder's theories seem to be to Mr. Fettweis, lumping all geostrategic theories in with Mackinder's ideas from 1904, 1919, and 1943 oversimplifies things considerably and denies the richness of the literature. To do away with geostrategic analysis, as Fettweis suggests, would be the equivalent of throwing out the baby with the bath water.
Michael P. Noonan
Research Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
To the Editor:
Trying to follow what is published in Parameters regularly, I found the article by Christopher Fettweis, "Sir Halford Mackinder, Geopolitics, and Policymaking in the 21st Century," below the usual standards. Mr. Fettweis is introducing into one of the leading American military journals the anti-American concept of "critical geopolitics" promoted by a left-wing Irish professor in Virginia, Gearoid Ó Tuathail.
The article contains a number of mistakes, of which I will mention a few:
Karl Haushofer's influence on German World War II policy was not of the kind Mr. Fettweis claims. The great idea of Haushofer was an axis of Japan, the Soviet Union, and Germany. When in June 1941 Germany attacked the Soviet Union, Haushofer lost what little influence he had and his dream was crushed.
There never even was an Institute of Geopolitics in Nazi Germany: "There was never an Institute for Geopolitics. My father's only assistance was my mother; he never had any other staff." (Interview with Heinz Haushofer, July 1978, in G. R. Sloan, Geopolitics in United States Strategic Policy 1890-1987 [New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988], p. 57. Sloan is a graduate of the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and a highly respected geopolitician.)
On Haushofer's influence on the German leadership: "Haushofer only met Hitler three times in his entire life. When my husband and Hitler were in Landsberg Prison, Haushofer visited only my husband. Hitler drew his geopolitical thoughts in Mein Kampf directly from Ratzel. Professor Haushofer never influenced him." (Interview with Frau Ilse Hess, 25 July 1978, in Sloan, p. 53.)
It is an incorrect claim that Swedish troops in a war of aggression laid waste to Russia. Sweden was at the beginning of the Great Northern War (1700-1721) subject to a surprise attack and secret coalition by Russia, Denmark, and Saxony, and King Charles XII was faced with a multifront defense. He had to deal in turn with Denmark, Russia, Saxony, and then Russia again. The Swedish army in Russia, when turning south, was welcomed by oppressed Ukrainians.
It is true that Swedish troops captured Moscow in 1609. This was on invitation of one of the Russian pretenders to the throne during the "Time of Troubles" to prevent a Polish capture of the capital. There was also a dynastic conflict at the time involving Swedish Prince Charles Philip (brother of Gustavus Adolphus) for a future as Tsar of Russia. But Moscow chose a Romanov instead. Russo-Swedish wars (there have been quite a few) have mainly been of a defensive nature on the part of Sweden.
Mr. Fettweis also leaves out the matter of the influence of the founder of geopolitics, Swedish Professor and Member of Parliament Rudolf Kjellén, on Karl Haushofer. For further information on Professor Kjellén, see my article "Rudolf Kjellén and Modern Swedish Geopolitics" in the Autumn 1998 issue of Geopolitics.
Bertil Häggman
Director, Center for Research on Geopolitics
Helsingborg, Sweden
The Author Replies:
I appreciate this opportunity to address this pair of well-reasoned and thought-provoking criticisms, and to clarify some of the points I made two issues ago. In the end I believe there is much that my critics and I can agree upon.
For instance, I agree with Mr. Noonan on a fundamental point--geography is certainly a vital consideration for military operations and tactics. He made a convincing argument for a proposition with which I concur, that in general geography becomes more relevant as one's scope of inquiry shrinks. However, my article was not an examination of tactics, but rather a critical look at Mackinder and geopolitical approaches to US national interests and grand strategy. Failure to address other geopolitical levels of analysis does not imply "miscomprehension" or ignorance of their existence. One has only so much time.
The term "geopolitics" has indeed taken on an unfortunate pejorative connotation in some circles, due to its association with the Nazis and then with the realpolitik of Henry Kissinger. However, I do not see how Mr. Noonan's categorization of geopolitical theorists would be helpful, for it merely clouds the debate. The key issue differentiating his two schools of thought is the approach to the balance of power, which of course is a matter open to many interpretations, depending on where one sits. Basically it seems to boil down to this: if a theorist is on your side, he is a "geostrategist"--if not, he is an "organic state thinker." One man's peaceful balance is another's dangerous imbalance that needs attention.
I am often fascinated by arguments decrying the "fallacy of technology." They always begin by admitting that technology is indeed changing international politics, but assert that there are some aspects that remain the same, as if the rest of us expected the entire system to change overnight. It seems we can all agree that the limitations of the physical world are becoming less imposing with the arrival of each new technological innovation. Technology is changing the world faster than the social sciences can adapt, and therein lies our problem.
I'm afraid Mr. Noonan and I will have to disagree on the potential for the kind of benevolent hegemonic leadership by the United States that he implies is an impossible pipe dream. Even realists like Ken Waltz and Christopher Layne have argued that successful aspects of successful states are imitated by others. As the most "successful" state in almost every category, the United States can expect that its behavior will be closely watched by other nations eager to replicate that success. The nature of American hegemony in the next century will go a long way in determining the actions of the other states and the nature of the system with which we will be faced. Other states may grumble at perceived American meddling and arrogance, but they do little to offset it--in fact, American leadership is welcome in most quarters. How precisely is the United States to use its unipolar position to change the world? The short answer is: lead, preferably by example.
The assertion that "geostrategic analysis is more useful than ever" in a world devoid of peer competitors and ideological conflict is intriguing but unsupportable. When there is no competition for territory, no obvious enemy to conquer or defend against, geostrategists must invent one, for geopolitical analysis is by its nature competitive. The identification of the importance of spatial considerations seems to always entail competition over that space. In the absence of great power rivalry, the map of the earth does not have to be the map of a battlefield--but it will be if we approach grand strategy from a geopolitical perspective.
Mr. Häggman begins his critique with the assertion that critical geopolitics is "anti-American," which seems to imply by extension that I was attempting to introduce some hidden anti-American agenda into Parameters. This is surprising, for surely Mr. Häggman knows that critical geopolitics (and all critical theory) may be many things, but one thing it is not is "anti-American." It is instead a terminological umbrella under which many different theories find a home, some of which are more "left-leaning" than others. Most, however, merely call for new investigations into the foundations of thought upon which our most basic ideas are constructed, trying to help us define and understand the true nature of the post-Cold War world and of politics itself.
In my article, I was suggesting that the United States would be better off recognizing the vacuous nature of some of its intellectual geopolitical heritage and developing new frameworks with more potential to bring about national and international peace and prosperity in the next century. I hope this does not strike the reader as anti-American, for that was never its intent.
I must admit that I am confused by Häggman's twofold "corrections" of my work. I wrote that Karl Haushofer was very influential on the overall development of geopolitical thought, not on Nazi policy. The latter is a controversial issue in geopolitical theory, one for which Mr. Häggman has a clear opinion. I did not assert that there was an "Institute of Geopolitics" in Germany, for instance, or that Hitler consulted Haushofer. What I did do was argue that Haushofer put geopolitics on the American intellectual radar screen, if inadvertently. Second, my article made the minor point that Sweden invaded Russia; Mr. Häggman seems to refute that assertion by restating it. To occupy the capital at the request of a puppet government is to invade the country, as Soviet actions in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan demonstrated. Invading Swedish armies may have been "welcomed by oppressed Ukrainians" and serfs, but so were the French and Germans. Russia has been the scene of many invasions, several of which were by Swedes.
Ideas have staying power. "Heartlands" and "rimlands," "shatterbelts" and "pivots areas"--these are the kind of ideas more appropriate to games of Risk® than to international relations, yet they have imbedded themselves into the strategic subconscious of this nation like pebbles stuck in a shoe. My article tried to deconstruct the geographically-based notions that affect our policy, to show that recommendations for grand strategy informed by alleged mystical insight into mother earth have outlived their usefulness, if in fact they ever possessed any at all.
Christopher J. Fettweis
To the Editor:
It is safe to assume that the readers of Parameters look forward to Ralph Peters' frequent contributions. He addresses interesting, important, and controversial subjects for which there is no party line. His article "The Human Terrain of Urban Operations" (Parameters, Spring 2000) is a primary example as it concerns an extraordinarily difficult and complex topic.
Until recently, the subject of urban operations has been relatively neglected in formal military doctrine. The Army basically made the siege an absolute science; the Air Force concentrated on "place annihilation"; the Navy contributed information and analysis; and the Marines were left with the eyeball-to-eyeball fighting. The overall strategy was designed to keep our fighting forces out of range, à la force protection or "casualty avoidance," and give them the ability to hit without being hit. The emphasis was on keeping a distance with techno-gadgets, non- or less-lethal weaponry, and imaging.
The earlier doctrines were written for urban operations in support of conventional forces. Even General Krulak's "Three Block War" describes a "holding territory" type of operation. The US military seems to recognize the difficulties and has aggressively attacked the complexities of military operations in urban terrain (MOUT), including those of the resident population, refugee creation, and terrorists. However, there is little understanding about how to conduct other types of urban operations--those more closely involved with the human element: humanitarian and various forms of low-intensity conflict. The natural starting point is, of course, organizing our thinking about urban areas where US military forces may be required to conduct a large range of operations.
To accomplish this agenda, we have to (a) assess the urban areas as accurately as possible, (b) create the required doctrine and operational guidelines, and (c) make certain that these fall within the guidelines of US foreign and defense policy. Lieutenant Colonel Peters starts rather appropriately with the first task: assessment of urban areas. However, his assumption that there is a relationship between types of cities as he categorizes them and the prevalence of violence is fundamentally flawed.
First, Lieutenant Colonel Peters' categories of hierarchical, multicultural, and tribal urban areas simply don't work. Categories must be distinguishable and inclusive on the basis of criteria held in common in order to be useful and comparative. In the case of "hierarchical" the criterion for inclusion is defined as centralized administration; in the case of "multicultural" the criterion is the existence of two or more cultural groups; in the case of "tribal cities" the criterion seems to be geography. Most important, to be truly useful, categories or typologies must be "findable" in the real world. This test of verifiability simply means that one should be able to make three lists--one of hierarchical cities, one of multicultural, and one of tribal cities--and know exactly where each city fits. In the real world one would have to assign Chicago, New York, Albuquerque, Denver, Miami, Los Angeles . . . and Athens, Istanbul, Delhi, Damascus, London, and Tokyo to one of the categories without too much trouble. That might be difficult.
Then, if the categories worked, one should be able to find a direct relationship between those lists and the level of violence. If you can't list the cities and then relate that to levels or types of violence, the categories are not very useful and maybe even misleading or dangerous when used as a basis for policy. The more critical question is: Would these categories tell us how to conduct more successful MOUT operations?
Other points:
� We do not know that historical cities were more repressive than modern cities. In some ways, the reverse may actually be true. Historical cities were certainly less intrusive--i.e., they did not have the technology of the modern state that allows control of individual citizens in a variety of ways.
� That cities on the "fringes of civilizations" have problems is not a result of the causal power of history (i.e., "they have always hated each other"). Rather, "causes for killing" are clearly related to political, economic, and/or ideological factors.
� Munich may have "whimpered" not in relationship to its categorization as a "hierarchical city" but because it was the end of a painful war. Likewise, Mogadishu was just really beginning to mobilize political and military forces against a number of likely "enemies." That war will also eventually end with a whimper. They all do.
� I am not sure how cities "squander" creative energies by being multicultural. We need some clarification on that point. Some people even like having spaghetti, chow mein, sushi, and hot dogs available on the same street. It is only when differences become politicized that competition can turn into conflict. This is a challenge for democratic politics.
� Most people agree that the fighting between Palestinians and Israelis is not irreconcilable, given historical patterns which have more peaceful times than conflict periods, and not related to profound difference in beliefs, values, and ambitions--they are all "peoples of the Book(s)" having remarkably similar codes of belief and conduct but very different political experiences. Most of the time, under most conditions, their social relationships are quite peaceful.
� There seems to be some definitional problems with race, blood, and color. If there are "differences in blood" one just might find differences in "race." Race is associated with genotype and phenotype and becomes important when associated with preferential access to valued goods and services. Blood types A, B, or O are not predictors of violence. And color is not the same thing as race or blood. If people, like flowers, come in different colors, we just might have to blame God. We can make color either a benefit or a curse.
� Social organization is most basic at the level of intermarriage--usually an ethnic in-group or out-of-group phenomenon. Hence Lieutenant Colonel Peters' argument about the former Yugoslavia disintegrates. Ethnic groups are not primitive social organizations on an evolutionary march to civilization. They are simply one way human populations organize in support of socialization. The marriage patterns (endogamy) may have been overlooked by modernists, but are critical indicators of political loyalties and economic consumption patterns whether under the rule of an empire or modern state.
� We do know many of the reasons why people kill, and it isn't for a phantasmagoria of identity. There are very real political, economic, and social concerns that form "more than the total of the sum of the parts." But in knowing, there is responsibility.
� A major ethical concern is the implication that single ethnic group or monocultural cities are somehow "best"--if they can be found to exist. Admittedly, there are practical, even compelling arguments for separating people so they can't fight (ethnic cleansing), and/or the deprivation of the object of hatred (genocide). However, the solutions should not be less palatable than the problem.
Perhaps it would behoove us to ask two basic questions: Given the various types of urban operations, can we identify those urban areas where US military forces may be sent, and what do we need to know about different urban terrains and their respective human populations for a variety of operations--humanitarian, low-intensity, non-combatant evacuation, etc.? These questions may take us back to the drawing board.
Dr. Pauletta Otis
Professor of International Studies, University of Southern Colorado
Former Distinguished Professor of International Strategic Studies, Joint Military Intelligence College
The Author Replies:
Dr. Otis reports her beautiful view of the world from a university campus, so she has the advantage of me. My own views always seem to be crippled by experience.
Ralph Peters
To the Editor:
Dr. Timothy Thomas's article "Kosovo and the Current Myth of Information Superiority" (Parameters, Spring 2000) was timely and interesting. This is a type of warfare that the United States and our allies will be facing in the future, and it needs to be discussed.
However, I feel that Dr. Thomas missed the mark in addressing NATO's information superiority. I would contend that it was Serbia that started with information superiority and maintained it throughout the conflict. The United States and NATO were using their perceived and touted "information superiority" to better their conventional targeting, while Milosevic was using his actual superiority to almost accomplish his goal of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. Without the timely intervention of third parties, we could still be ineffectively lobbing steel onto Serbian soil.
Thomas does a very good job of showing strengths and weaknesses of both sides during the conflict. Serbia was able to stay well within our decision cycle and make us react to their informational strengths, while NATO was able to bring overwhelming combat power into the conflict. But was that combat power necessary and well used?
Through careful manipulation of his armor and decoys, Milosevic was able to force NATO to waste millions of dollars of munitions. Serbia's use of readily available intelligence (satellite times, NATO targeting information) allowed him to position his forces for their maximum effectiveness: either to preserve his limited combat power or to expose another chink in the NATO partnership. Serbia's use of the media and electronic news facilities allowed Milosevic to cause tension and ruptures in the NATO fabric. These tensions hampered military decisionmakers and targeters by having to elevate targeting to the national political arena, eliminating any informational advantage that NATO's technological edge offered.
Thomas reviews NATO's reported success versus Serbian tanks and armor, but did that force Milosevic away from his goal of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo? No. He still managed to inflict a massive amount of suffering on the ethnic Albanians during the air war.
The article raises several questions from my perspective:
� Were information planners integrated into the planning stages of the operation, or was the planning left in the hands of conventional military thinkers?
Kosovo demonstrates the future of conflict, a powerful military force confronted by a weaker opponent, asymmetrically. The weaker opponent will try to find a way to defeat the strong military power in an arena where the power is weaker. Milosevic succeeded in that aspect by using information to accomplish his goal.
Our planners (planners refers to both military and civilian/political planners) were never integrated into the operational planning for Kosovo. I can only imagine the scene at the KFOR planning facility. Military targeters jumping into the traditional steel-on-target mode over a huge, modern digital map, while the information operations planners are given a small desk in the back room and allotted two minutes to brief the assistant to the assistant chief of operations.
KFOR missed the boat militarily, and the NATO allies missed the boat politically. This was not a traditional conflict where military power and prowess dominated, but one where information was vastly more important.
For an operation of this magnitude, political and military information planners need to be not only integrated into the planning, but dominant in the planning. Steel-on-target planners need to be integrated into the information operations plan, not the other way around. Civilian and political planners need to be integrated so the entire range of options (diplomatic, economic, information and military) can be used.
� The lack of human intelligence hampered the entire range of the operation. NATO's reliance on technical sensors to provide information to planners played into Serbia's information superiority. The predictable, well-published, and promoted intelligence platforms allowed Serbia to enact a full range of countermeasures and deceptions.
There were no human intelligence networks to rely on in the targeting network for initial information, targeting, or any assessment or feedback. Serbia once again dominated this aspect of warfare, while NATO ignored it. With the simple introduction of a clandestine intelligence network in the target area, NATO would have had immediate feedback to targets and more accurate and timely targeting information. Human sensors on the ground would have also given NATO the ability to access populations for counterpropaganda and NATO's psychological operations. This access would have been a huge asset to the information campaign.
� Were NATO's military intelligence assets efficiently used? I suspect once again that the MI assets were used to feed the traditional steel-on-target planners, and not to support informational goals or advise NATO leaders that their decision cycle had been compromised by Serbia well before the air war started. The target for MI assets should have been the decisionmaking cycle for Milosevic and his leaders--what were they thinking, how were they going to react--followed by recommendations on how to stay inside their planning cycle. Instead, the efforts of the thinkers were wasted on developing target folders to brief pilots and program TLAMs.
� Despite our much-touted PSYOP assets, NATO was not able to gain access to the Serbian population. We could not override their signal with the truth. As a result, the Serbian population played right into Milosevic's information operation.
� My final question lies in the basis of the article. The article discusses military information superiority. The discussion needs to center on whether or not the United States and the NATO allies effectively used the full range of interagency assets to counter Milosevic's full range of information. It seems to me that the military was left to execute a plan that should have been spearheaded by civilian agencies using the military as a hammer if the carrot didn't work, as a potential source of information and information-based targets.
Kosovo should not be touted as a NATO success for information superiority; it should be studied for what it actually was: a lesson from a master in how to manipulate information on the modern asymmetrical battlefield.
Major Frederick C. Gottschalk
Commander, C Company, 1st Battalion, 3d Special Forces Group (Airborne)
Fort Bragg, North Carolina
The Author Replies:
I appreciate Major Gottschalk's comments on my article, but to respond to it properly would take a long article in and of itself. He raises many different and interesting issues. Major Gottschalk is talking about information superiority from several points of view--PSYOP, Milosevic's internal and external use of propaganda, interagency coordination and responsibility, lack of human intelligence (and implication of an overreliance on technology), and military intelligence. My article focused on the last two issues (use of intelligence gathering devices and analysis) and barely touched on the other areas.
Major Gottschalk's point of view is that there is much analysis yet to be done in the other areas, and I agree with him. I do not agree, however, with his contention that "it was Serbia that started with information superiority and maintained it throughout the conflict." Major Gottschalk is correct if talking about the soft side of information superiority (propaganda, perception management, etc.), but is off the mark if his focus is information superiority in the technological sense. The direction of his argument demonstrates once again that one's understanding of information superiority depends on which aspect (pure information or information systems) one is discussing.
Timothy Thomas
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Town Line, New York
|Town Line, New York
|Census-designated place
Location in Erie County and the state of New York
|Coordinates: 42°53′6″N 78°33′30″W / 42.88500°N 78.55833°WCoordinates: 42°53′6″N 78°33′30″W / 42.88500°N 78.55833°W
|United States
|New York
|Alden, Lancaster
|• Total
|4.6 sq mi (12.0 km2)
|• Land
|4.6 sq mi (12.0 km2)
|• Water
|0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2)
|751 ft (229 m)
|Population (2010)
|• Total
|• Density
|510/sq mi (200/km2)
|Time zone
|Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
|• Summer (DST)
|ZIP code
|14086, 14004, Formerly 14165
|Area code(s)
|FIPS code
|GNIS feature ID
Town Line is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Erie County, New York, United States. The population was 2,367 at the 2010 census.[1] It is part of the Buffalo–Niagara Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The community is located on the boundary between the towns of Lancaster and Alden. Town Line is at the junction of Town Line Road and Broadway.
The Town Line Fire Department is located on the Lancaster side of the hamlet. It serves the portions of the towns of Lancaster and Alden.
Another community, Town Line Station, is about a mile to the north on Town Line Road.
Oral lore says that in 1861, 125 men supposedly gathered in an informal meeting and passed by 85 to 40 a resolution to secede from the United States. Because Town Line was never an incorporated municipal entity in the first place and had no well-defined boundaries, the resolution had no legal effect; neither the Confederacy nor the Union ever formally recognized the action.[2] The town historian says there are no written records of what happened.[3] Several members of the German-American community fled to Canada; five residents crossed the Mason–Dixon line to fight with the Confederates in their Army of Northern Virginia, and twenty residents fought for the Union Army.[4] Town Line held a ceremony on January 24, 1946, to "rejoin" the Union, along with a vote (overseen by Hollywood celebrity Cesar Romero) in which the residents voted, 90 to 23, to rescind the old vote.[4]
Town Line is located at 42°53′6″N 78°33′30″W / 42.88500°N 78.55833°W (42.884974, -78.558428).[5]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 4.6 square miles (12 km2), all land.
As of the census[6] of 2000, there were 2,521 people, 906 households, and 759 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 543.5 per square mile (209.8/km²). There were 925 housing units at an average density of 199.4/sq mi (77.0/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 99.29% White, 0.20% Native American, 0.16% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, and 0.32% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.44% of the population.
There were 906 households out of which 32.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 74.4% were married couples living together, 6.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 16.2% were non-families. 13.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.78 and the average family size was 3.05.
In the CDP, the population was spread out with 23.9% under the age of 18, 6.1% from 18 to 24, 25.4% from 25 to 44, 31.1% from 45 to 64, and 13.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females there were 101.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 99.4 males.
The median income for a household in the CDP was $51,548, and the median income for a family was $57,054. Males had a median income of $36,589 versus $30,000 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $21,957. About 3.6% of families and 3.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.9% of those under age 18 and 2.7% of those age 65 or over.
See also[edit]
- Dade County, Georgia - voted to secede (unrecognized) from the state of Georgia, and from the United States, rejoined in 1945.
- ^ "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Town Line CDP, New York". U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder. Retrieved January 20, 2012.
- ^ Federal Writers' Project, New York: A Guide to the Empire State (1940) p 436
- ^ See quoting Karen Muchow, who runs the local historical society
- ^ a b Kwiatkowski, Jane (September 7, 2011). Secessionist hamlet takes stroll down memory lane; Hamlet of Town Line marks its unique role in the Confederacy. The Buffalo News. Retrieved September 7, 2012.
- ^ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-04-23.
- ^ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31.


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I don't need any great sounding stereo in my car but I'm very dissapointed in the "premium" audio system in my '09 WRX. I drive a bone stock Dodge Ram at work and it's 10 times better than my WRX! The bass is non-existant, the door panels rattle if there's an odd bass tune, and I'm afraid to turn it up in fear of blowing a speaker. I swear one already sounds blown.
Please understand, I know proper operating procedures of a stereo and taking care of them, ie. not blasting it.
I've done all sorts of upgrades to stereos in past cars, I'm not really looking to do anything crazy. My Ipod files are high quality, the equalizer on my Ipod is off, and a CD doesn't sound any better.
Any suggestions or any others feel my pain?
I think I just needed to vent, I had just a $100 head unit in a 2000 Grand Prix (traded in) and it sounded a hundred times better.


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Mystery continues to surround Putin's choice to succeed him as the next president of Russia. His party, United Russia, will undoubtedly win a majority in the upcoming Parliamentary elections so there is scant doubt Putin continues to dominate Russia's political scene. Ivanov and Putin were students together and both served in the KGB, Russia's secret police. They enjoy a particular close relationship which might persuade Putin to make his friend the next president. Ivanov as First Deputy Prime Minister has undertaken many tasks and met leaders of the world, he has a particularly good relationship with Condi Rice.
In the murky world or Russian politics, one vote counts — that of President Putin. He most probably wants the next president to be a close ally and will undoubtedly expect to control things behind the scene. Of course, Boris Yeltsin who appointed Putin also expected to control things from behind the curtain. Once in power, the next president will soon call the shots and Putin will lose the power he so craves to possess. The more important issue which never will come into play is what is best for Russia? What type of leader meets the needs of the country at this point in its history? I doubt if anyone will consider these questions, loyalty is the main issue for Putin.


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The Cowboys also made another roster move, released guard Daniel Loper yet again from the 53-man roster. He's replaced by third quarterback Chris Greisen, who will likely be active Romo (bruised hand) still banged up, but expected to play.
Not sure if this means anything but if Romo gets hurt more then they will have "insurance"


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My truck was towed on 12/9/13 from my apartment complex due to an expired inspection sticker. I never received any kind of warning or notice letter from the apartment complex or lone star wrecker. I contacted the apartment office and they told me they felt bad but Lone Star Wrecker Service was completely in charge of the situation and that Lone Star Wrecker Service mailed out the letters prior to towing the truck. When I went to pick up my truck, at a cost of $188, I asked why I received no warning or notice of this prior to the towing. The gentleman said they sent a certified letter to an address I previously lived at and it was returned to them. The house has new owners and I do not have any contact with them.
I asked why he didn't contact the apartment complex to get a hold of me since they have all my information on file, including the information of the truck that was towed, and he went back to his initial story that he did what he had to do and that it didn't matter if it wasn't sent to my current address. He said all that matters is that we sent a letter and even though it was returned he had proof he sent one. After doing some investigation I have discovered that this is actually the responsibility of the apartment complex because they have all of my recent information on file. So this means Lone Star Wrecker Service has provided something of value to the apartment complex in connection to my truck being towed, which is a clear violation.
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Regardless of the reason...
SUBMITTED: Friday, October 16, 2015POSTED: Friday, October 16, 2015
These people are thieves. Doesn't matter whether the reason they towed was semi-valid, their customer service and people skills say their species may actually be baboons trained to speak one or two words. Mostly they just grunt and say "no" a lot.
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#2 Author of original report
Missing the point
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, December 11, 2013POSTED: Wednesday, December 11, 2013
I totally understand your point of view because I am usually the one taking your stance. You are correct, the inspection sticker is my responsibility but there are also laws that are put in place to prevent abuse by these companies. If I had been given the notice, as required by law, I would have gladly removed my vehicle from the premises until the problem was taken care of. Or if I failed to move the vehicle after receiving the notice I would have no one to blame but myself. If you go to the store and you come out and your car is missing and you find out it was towed becasue it was not completely within the parking space would you be upset? I bet you would. And I know you, as the rest of us, have done this at some point in our life. But if you take your stance it was your fault for not parking straight so deal with it and let these towing companies get away with violating known laws.
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Looking for someone to blame
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, December 11, 2013POSTED: Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Get over it. Your tag expired. It was YOUR responsability. To blame them for YOU not getting a letter is stupid. Thats just YOU looking for ANYONE else to blame for what is YOUR FAULT!!! YOU are the one that parks there. Its YOUR vehicle. Its YOUR responsability to ensure YOUR parking permit is up to date.
Really now....just accept that YOU madea a mistake and move on from there. Why is it that you must find someone else to blame.
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>Is it best to go all foundationless even in the supers where the honey is extracted from?
Let's see. The wax supply is contaminated with chemicals, therefore the foundation is contaminated with chemicals (as measured by Maryann Frasier) http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...44451959719523
So where would you like to have and not have that contamination?
>It is best to remove all the drawn comb in all the supers and go foundationless in all the supers?
Best from what view? If you want a lot of honey it's hard to beat drawn comb. If you want all small cells, you'll have to change them out, if you want to eliminate any existing contamination you may need to swap them out. If you think they are not contaminated because you haven't used any chemicals and you normally use an excluder anyway, then I'd probably go ahead and USE the drawn comb.
Since I don't use excluders and since I wanted to eliminate all the contamination I swapped all mine out.


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I think a number of posters have identified the major problems preventing many folks from practicing like they should:
1. Time, or lack thereof
2. Money, or lack thereof
3. Range rules that all but prohibit effective defensive handgun practice
As far as the esteemed posters on this forum are concerned, I don't think there is any problem here with lack of desire to hone our skills or to prepare for the worst. It's more a case of easier said than done.
One of the reasons I became a range master is so I could practice my self-defense shooting without other range masters jumping all over me. You see, I'm disabled, and depend on the use of a cane to walk. I've even been known to use a walker from time to time (nasty little motorcycle crash a few years back). I'd show up at the local range, and begin practicing self defense shooting, and because of what they perceived as my "frail condition," the range masters on duty were scared to death I'd hurt or shoot myself LOL. They still won't let me participate in their three-gun matches (which makes sense, since I can't run anyway), but I do get to shoot the pistol stage, and usually school them in the benefits of self-defense handgun practice.


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Toby & Trace Advocate Tough Love for Lindsay Lohan
Toby Keith and Trace Adkins know what it's like to raise daughters. They have seven between them. Toby's daughter Shelley is 25 and daughter Krystal, 29, graduated with her degree from the University of Oklahoma and is planning to start recording this winter after her wedding in the fall.
Trace couldn't be more proud of his five daughters (Tarah, Sarah, MacKenzie, Brianna, and Trinity) and understands what it takes to raise kids of the female persuasion. He and his wife Rhonda have nurtured their 8-year-old daughter Brianna through her bouts with severe food allergies. His daughter Mackenzie hit the small screen last summer working as a 'CMT Insider' special correspondent. The jury is still out about her long-term entertainment aspirations, but no doubt she'll get some good advice from her famous father no matter what course she takes.
And although both are the parents of girls who have been raised in nurturing, loving households, the big guys have their own ideas about the difficult situation actress Lindsay Lohan now finds herself facing as a result of legal and personal battles with alleged substance abuse.
"I can't comment on her parenting that she's had," Toby tells The Boot. "But all that starts at home. I think most of the problems that kids have start at home. There have been very few times that I've ever seen a troubled child that didn't stem back to the parents. That may not be the case with her because I don't know her parents, but in my lifetime when I've seen troubled kids, it's usually because … if it's a boy, it's because there's not a man in his life, and if it is, it isn't much of one; and if it's a girl … two of my [daughters] are in their 20s and grown, and my son is 13, and I've never heard him use foul language one time. He says, 'Yes, sir,' and shakes their hands and looks them in the eye. That doesn't mean when he's away from me with his buddies that boys won't be boys, but he knows the difference. I think you have to be taught that there is a difference and how to be respectful and dependable and responsible. All those things come from underneath your roof at your house. All you can do right now in a situation like that is give them hard love."
"Somebody a long time ago probably should have stopped trying to insulate her and protect her, and let her suffer the consequences and pay for her mistakes instead of trying to hire lawyers and whatever to keep her out of jail," adds Trace. "At some point you've just got to practice tough love and make them pay for it."
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