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Shadow passed over to the Rainbow Bridge on June 14, 2014. In early April 2014 he was diagnosed with advance brain cancer. By June it was taking its toll on his quality of life and I made the decision to let him go on Flag Day. As his heart stopped "Taps" was played for he could have a Military Funeral.
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My sissy went into labor late Saturday night and mom took me to the hospital. She was sent home, but mom thought she better stay with sissy because she was in early labor. Well, mom and sissy were only back at the apartment for about 2 hours when they had to get to the hospital "again".
I was the 1st Service Dog team allowed in the Delivery Room at St. Joseph's Hospital. It was also the 1st for the Nurse and Midwife to have a Service Animal present during a delivery. Mom put me in a down/stay in the corner. I never moved - I just slept and slept. All of sudden it was just over 3 hrs later and I hear this BABY CRYING!! I looked up because I didn't hear any baby in the room when I went to sleep.
Well, my sissy had a baby boy - 7 lbs 1 oz - 19 1/2 inches long - born at 6:39 AM - July 29, 07. Name is: James Luciano Cantellano. The staff gave my mom a huge congrats on having the most behaved dog in the whole wide world.
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However, the Bears had everything clicking to take the Mid-South Conference sweep 70-63. Georgetown (15-4, 9-2 MSC) sees its eight-game winning streak end in Portsmouth, Ohio as for the second time this week it struggled in the opening half. SSU (11-11, 4-7) opened up a 16-point halftime edge, 40-24. GC rallied from 21 down Thursday, but did not have enough magic on the Bears' Homecoming.
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We've decided to overhaul our finances. I'm already somewhat of a psychopath about where money goes each month, but since we're going to be combing some of our finances in the next 2 months I've been trying my darndest to get things under control and on track for both retirement and savings.
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One of our long-term (and read- long term) goals is to live in another state. Experience life elsewhere. Preferably in a place where it doesn't snow. We're both realists, we understand that moving to a different state requires well...money. And I am well...paranoid. Meaning I panic if we don't have a certain amount in checking every month. What if the car breaks down? What if I get fired? What if a racoon sneaks into the apartment, leaving the door open allowing a black widow spider to crawl in and bite me in my sleep, rendering me without an arm and I have to take a sabbotical? What then?
So we've made some changes: we've turned off the air. It's April. It's a nice steady 60-70 here, and with the windows open we don't need any air conditioning. We've stopped shopping at the more convenient (and much more expensive) grocery store in order to utlize our Shopper's Perk card. I've started line-drying much more, saving a few loads of dryer-time. I've spent the last two days researching coupons and finding deals on items we use a lot. I only go out to lunch once a week now as a treat.
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I recently posted about beginning to build a modest WWII collection. Didn't really start out to do so, but each if my purchases have fallen in my lap, I didn't go looking for them. Well, it's happened again. I got an e-mail from a friend about his friend wanting to sell a Japanese Nambu Type 14.
My friend is getting the gun for me to look at, so I don't yet know it's condition. What I know at this point is the date, 18.9. Did a little research, found out how to translate this, it was made in Sept. 1943. It is a first series Nagoya Arsenal. Further research indicates this was the second highest production year for the Type 14.
Based on the information I have, can anyone give me some approximate values based on if the condition is 50%, 60%, etc? I know it will be totally contingent on condition, and how bad the seller really wants to sell it. I have hardly ever seen one of these for sale in the Birmingham, AL area, and didn't pay any attention to them at the time. Any input would be appreciated!
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Opening Weekend at The Glen to Benefit Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection
Students Enrolled in Nationally Recognized Youth Development Program to Experience Opening Weekend Firsthand on Sunday, April 25
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Proceeds from Opening Weekend, April 24-25, will benefit the Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection this year.
school, achieve academic success and earn their high school diplomas.
Approximately 40 students participating in the program will come down to The Soul of American Road Racing to get a ride around the track and experience the excitement of the historic road course firsthand on Sunday. The teens will also get a chance to take their picture in Gatorade Victory Lane and get a behind-the-scenes glance of track operations.
"Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection is grateful for its partnership with Watkins Glen International and is excited to receive the proceeds from Opening Weekend," said Executive Director of Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection, Roderick Green. "We are always looking to share new opportunities with our students – they are excited to visit Watkins Glen for the very first time to experience a world-class racetrack."
"We are thrilled to be able to use Watkins Glen International as a platform to help raise money and awareness for such a phenomenal program," stated Michael Printup, president of Watkins Glen International. "The event has become a tradition for several car clubs and enthusiasts. It is a great way to get fans to come to the track to save money on tickets, get excited about the upcoming season, and help out a great cause!"
Opening Day at Watkins Glen International has traditionally been the day that fans can drive the historic road course to celebrate the opening of a new season. The track has traditionally held Opening Day on the last Sunday in April and has expanded the event to the entire weekend to cover both Saturday, April 24 and Sunday, April 25 this year. During Opening Weekend fans will get to drive three laps around the same turns as many legends of motorsports for only $25 per vehicle. Tickets can be purchased in advance at any Wegmans store located in Rochester, Syracuse, or the Southern Tier and will be available at the gate during the event. Gates will open each day at 9:00am with laps starting at 10:00am and ending at 4:30pm.
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On Dec. 14, 2012, I was reading the news when I saw a report about another school shooting. I looked away because I find these stories so hopeless. But just as quickly looked back when I noticed they were first-graders.
As I was reading tears came to my eyes and thinking about the devastated parents I sobbed uncontrollably for five minutes. Being a gun owner and a physician, I knew the horrible consequences of these shootings.
These military style weapons create 2-3 inch exit wounds. Every child killed was shot between three and 11 times, their tiny little bodies torn into pieces.
Yesterday I read with anger that many congressmen still won't vote for sensible gun safety. Despite the fact that 91 percent of Americans want universal background checks for the sale of firearms and 75 percent of the NRA members feel the same, they are considering voting with the gun manufacturers and against sensible gun laws.
We deserve better than this. Join with me and contact your representative to vote to prevent further devastation from firearms. Ask them to vote for universal background checks on all firearms sold in America.
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Please tell me how "universal back ground checks" would have stopped the shooting at Sandy Hook...or any other GUN FREE ZONE? Furthermore, "military-style" gun...can you please tell me how this makes any firearm more devastating. Does a rifle with a bayonet lug really make a firearm more deadly...or the fact that it's black?
Please tell me how universal background checks would have stopped any shooting at a GUN FREE ZONE such as the school you speak of?
"More rigid enforcement". " We want less government except when we want more government with less funding."
Where can i get a bazooka? It's my right you know.
Society will not be safer when only criminals and law enforcement officers can have firearms. By definition, criminals do not obey the law! Our Founders knew the only way to keep a federal government from encroaching into the rights of citizens was to have both a well armed militia and individual firearm ownership. We need to be careful not to confuse compassion with an erosion of more civil liberties for law abiding folks. We need more rigid enforcement of existing laws to curb criminal behavior; not less freedom for those who obey the law.


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Thanks everybody for sharing some of your 2009 favorite rides. We had some friggen' hilarious submissions! How about spending the whole day riding an epic in your jeans after sh%$ting yourself early seeing a bear. Or hitting all the mountains from here to Whistler in a single day and having time left over to shuttle a hill. I'm pretty geographically savvy but never heard of a country called MonteNegro.
The winner of this round will be looking sweet in a new Bell Drop helmet and the eyes will not be watering behind some new Oakley Proven MX goggles!
Reading through all the stories got me thinking that we are truly lucky to have such a variety of terrain to ride. Shuttling, Bike Parks, all mountain epics, desert XC shredding, we as mountain bikers have access to all. That got me thinking. Last year and now even this year, given the mild winter, I seem to be riding new trails everywhere. On road trips previous, there doesn't seem to be any lack, or shortage of trails to ride. Even the "God forbid" poaches of some certain Provincial Parks that I definitely don't partake in seem to be abundant. Are we living in a mountain bike Mecca? I don't mean here specifically, but in terms of time. Does the trail access issue seem to be cooling off? And I'm wondering if it's because of the work of advocacy groups, and the fact that the general population is just becoming comfortable, more understanding towards mountain bikers. People are slow to change..what's your view?
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Hey Wade,
My best ride of 2009 took place on July 4th and easily qualifies as my most memorable ride ever, as well as one of the best days of my life. My friend Ian and I had planned this ride over beers for a couple of years, and having completed it, are planning on making it an annual tradition, though we'll likely modify it slightly. The original plan was to hit the Whistler Bike Park, Fromme, Cypress, and Seymour. To prove that we'd done it, we decided we'd take pictures in each location with a newspaper from that day. We called it the 'All Mountains' ride.
I woke up at 5am in my apartment in South Vancouver and headed out to pick up Ian and our buddy Tiago, who also lives in Vancouver. Tiago doesn't ride, but he'd very generously offered to drive and document the occasion. We racked the bikes (Ian: 2003 BigHit, Me: 2006 SX Trail), and after a quick stop at Chevron to pick up some gatorade and a newspaper for the pictures, we drove up to Fromme, arriving at 6:45am. It was a unique experience riding up the road so early, with the sunlight coming from the other side, enhanced by our excitement for the riding day ahead. We hit Upper Oilcan into Espresso, which just happens to be our favorite line (as Fromme is our regular riding spot). This ride down Espresso was particularly satisfying, as I finally hit the skinny-to-rockface about half way down, an obstacle that I remember thinking was simply ridiculous when I first started riding. We ended the ride on Fromme with the classic rip down Dempsey-Braemar, which while very non-technical, is always a good time. After a quick photo-break, we started the long drive out to Whistler.
We arrived at Whistler at 9:45, just before the park opened, perfectly on schedule. Determined not to wreck at the bike park and end our day without completing our objective, we did our best to take it easy and not tire ourselves out too much, which is difficult in the bike park. We did several runs, the highlights of which revolved around Schleyer, which we rode a couple of times. While there was nothing particularly special about those runs, Schleyer always gets me stoked to ride, and it's always the trail I look back on the most fondly. It was 2:00 pm when we finally decided that enough was enough. We were pretty glad to finish up at Whistler with no bails or mechanicals, but by this time of the day, we were starting to get pretty tired (our attempts to take it easy had long since been abandoned), so we rode back to the car and ate some lunch on the way over to Cypress.
The Cypress ride was interesting, as it was only my second time there, and Ian hadn't ridden there in years. Even though we'd been up there the week before to pick a line to ride, we stumbled around a little at first, trying to find the trail, eventually realizing we were in the right place. We started out on some unknown trail at the top and ended up riding Roach Clip and Roach Hit. It was Roach Clip that saw the first bail of the day. I'd followed Ian down some line I normally wouldn't have ridden and ended up washing out in the deep soft dust. I knew as soon as I hit the ground, though, that this wasn't a show stopper and was laughing before my bike and I stopped sliding. Most of this is just a blur in my memory, but I recall being disappointed as the Cypress portion of the day came to an end. It was only 6:00, and once again, we'd made it through without any mechanicals, and we were sure we'd be able to finish the ride.
After our third bottles of Gatorade, Tiago dropped us off at the top of Seymour. We'd decided to ride CBC into Corkscrew into Pingu into Pangor, as we'd done a few times already throughout the summer. This ride was easily the most casual of the day. While Ian and I don't ride on Seymour very much, we both know the mountain reasonably well and were confident we'd make it down in good time without any difficulty. Honestly, there's not too much to say about the Seymour ride. No mechanicals. No bails. I do remember being impressed that despite all the riding we'd done that day, Ian was still going for the hardest lines he could find. The close to this ride marked one of the most satisfying moments I can recall in mountaining biking. We'd made it through all three North Shore mountains and Whistler. We'd always said if we could do those four, the rest would just be gravy. It was on that note, that we drove out to Burnaby Mountain.
Again, there's not much to be said about the Burnaby Mountain ride. While SFU certainly has it's place, this mountain just doesn't measure up to the North Shore. I ride there quite a bit at the end of winter, trying to build up fitness for the upcoming summer, so I've gotten to know the mountain pretty well. Knowing that this was our last mountain and that it was much easier than anything we'd ridden all day, we decided we'd let comfort dictate our protective options, and ride with less armor and no packs, and wore skid lids instead of full-faces. We started out the ride thinking this would be just another casual ride down Nicoles, but found that it was the perfect way to end the long day. The air was finally cooling off and riding without packs and armor only made it more pleasant. Where we'd started out to do just a casual ride, we ended up pinning it and having a blast. It was 8:00pm when we finally wrapped it all up and decided to meet up for some beers, which were some of the most satisfying I've ever consumed. It was a truly fantastic day, the recollection of which causes an immediate compulsion to get outside and ride some more.
Ya Scott
That is a sick day! The gauntlet has been thrown down. I bet you want to do something even bigger this year? I've been brainstorming similar epics, there are so many different ideas. Mark Weir a buddy from down south climbed a million vertical in less than a year. I want to descend the same but see how fast it can be done and the kicker is, that it has to be on different trails, no doubling up on a trail. Or something similar over two days….imagination is the only limit. Locals on the Shore do a triple crown which is an all day ride up/down tour of Seymour, Fromme and Cypress. But even with that there is always something you can ad to make it more epic. Looking forward to what you have cooking this year…..
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Hey Wade,
Here's a brief recounting of my most memorable ride of 2009. I actually wanted to ride the Seven Summits trail in 2008, but a sprained back and stolen car prevented that (whoops!). This summer I was trying to round up some friends to make the drive out there and ride the trail with me, but work and injuries prevented everyone else from making it (with some morning of departure cancellations even). So after work the third weekend of September, I packed up my car and hit the road for Rossland hoping for the best. Unfortunately, about halfway there I realized that I'd left my shorts/jersey in the change room at work, so I was going to be riding in Jeans and a TShirt… Luckily the drive out there was fun enough that I didn't really think about it again until I got there.
After a mostly uneventful drive, (besides the insane hill climb leaving Osoyoos and the road check in Greenwood), I rolled into Rossland around 11.30. Instead of trying to find a campground I just rocked out with some ghetto fab style at the tourist center/decommissioned weigh scales.
The night was mostly delightful, with a beautifully clear sky and a number of shooting stars. However, I had no idea that this tourist center/decommissioned weigh scales was the most bussy place in Rossland. I saw RCMP parked there picking off cars, about a million friggin trucks using engine retarder brakes and maybe a drug deal. All I know was there were two trucks and a lot of garbage bags involved.
Here's my room with a view for that night.
I woke up at the crack of dawn on Saturday from my delightful little gypsy bed and headed into Rossland to see about getting the shuttle up to the 7 Summits and some breakfast. I checked the temperature and my car (that reads 4 degrees too warm) informed me that it was a balmy 9 degrees overnight. Good thing my sleeping bag is warm to -12C…
As you can see here, I'm super excited to discover that you need to have at least 2 people before they'll shuttle you to the trailhead and I forgot my shorts at work so I'm riding in my skinny jeans… Lolz. All 3 of the people that I met on the trail gave the exact same comment –
"Dude, you're riding this in jeans?! Hardcore."
"Yeaaaah, I totally meant to…"
Anyway, I took it pretty easy on the twenty-something kilometer pedal up the highway to the North Trailhead, and only saw one bear on the highway just outside of town! F*cking bears…
Having done this trail now, I understand why the only people I met on the trail were shuttling to the North trailhead and then riding to Plewman and out (although personally I would have gone to Old Glory and out – there's no way that Plewman is more fun than the stretch of the 7 Summits between those two trails).
YESSSSSS!!!! Although I definitely took it easy on the way up, I was already down 600ml of Gatorade by this point. These signs mark the trailhead on the North end of the trail (and there is a nice little parking lot/sign area on the South side of the highway).
So, after riding the 3.5ish km from the North trailhead to Lepsoe basin, I'm greeted by a group of riders driving to this point in their truck… Not so stoked on that (purely out of jealousy).
Regardless, I took off at a good clip while they unloaded, thinking that they'd catch me pretty easily, but apparently not. Even when I got hella paranoid about bears and started taking a million pictures at any vantage point I could to kill time and wait for someone to catch up.
So Touristy right now. Also so happy since someone had finally passed me and was now what I would consider "bear food".
When I reached the "Highest Point on the trail" sign, my stoke was out of this world. I'd killed four of the Gatorades I had with me already and a couple of the energy bars (each one has 24% of your daily Protein requirements! And they're made in West Van!!). I was also back in the lead on the trail by this time, but I'm more than alright with that. Although the uphill was demoralizing, the downhill to come is easily the most amazing single track I've ever ridden. Every corner that should have a berm was bermed, every rock that could have some dirt in front of it to make it a launch did, so many rollers to pop off of, everything was linked together perfectly… Seriously, it was barely believable. It would be like taking the best trails I've ridden on the Sunshine Coast, North Shore and interior of BC, putting them on the top of some mountains, and then making them about a million times better. Seriously. Unreal.
The only time I stopped to take a photo of me riding during the first half of the trail; it was just way too much fun to stop for photo ops. Just putting some more distance between myself and civilization (and anyone else on the trail).
There was a new section of trail that went up and over one of the ridges that it used to skirt around. Although I don't know for sure how the other way looks, I can say for sure that the high road has an incredible view (and really isn't that hard of an up or down).
My little rock atop the pile, looking East out along the Kootenays. If you look carefully, you can see Rossland WAY down there in the valley below. Also, the highway that I pedaled up.
After clearing the descent with delights, I hit the Old Glory trail that would take you back to Highway 3B along another long descent. Being the foolhardy individual that I am, I said, "Heck no!" to that and continued my quest to ride the entire trail. Partly because I'd just descended for about 5km straight (yes, please, I want more) and partly because I'd been led to believe that from Red Mountain out was mostly downhill with a few small up hills.
Too bad that it was all uphill from the junction with Old Glory to the Record Ridge, which is where the adventure really began. Also too bad that I only figured I should keep going because it was going to be mostly down, as I had only 1 gatorade and 1 energy bar left at this point. What's not too bad – making the decision to put the Bear Banger in my front pocket when I was on the highway after seeing the first bear, and having the bear spray in my water bottle pocket on my backpack.
Record Ridge – There were points shortly before this that I wasn't too sure I was going to make it. I was so incredibly thirsty and hungry, and saving the last half of my Gatorade and energy bar for this point. It was when I rolled onto this skree slope that I began to think of the "Mountains" episode of Planet Earth where the bears are digging in the rocks for roosting moths in the fall, looking for their high fat content to give them the stores they needed to last for the winter. An ominous thought, to say the least…
It was about 100m from here that I zipped around a corner and scared the shit out of two bears that were digging in the rocks for moths about 5m from me. I immediately stopped, and somehow didn't poop myself, and the two bears both stood on their hind legs, which I figured was a pretty bad sign. I calmly removed the bear banger from my pocket while shrieking like a girl and shot it off (note: bear bangers are not as loud as I thought they would be). Luckily, this had the desired effect and both bears started ripping up the mountain away from me (and holy shit can they ever haul ass uphill), and I then rode the next 6km of trail in less time than I've ever ridden any 6km, in what felt like forever. So, needless to say, there are no pictures for the next 6km of trail. That being said, what I remember of it, was SUPER awesome.
It should also be noted, that prior to thinking I was going to be eaten by bears, I was feeling pretty tuckered out, but that whole adrenaline/fight or flight thing really does kick shit up a notch. I wound up out of the trail starving and incredibly thirsty, but otherwise with no fatigue. Great success!
By the time I calmed down enough from my bear scare, I was at the end of the Alpine/sub-Alpine riding, and the start of the sooooooo fun singletrack that rips/rolls through a forest of mostly elms/poplar/aspen/maple trees. Holy shit fun. This trail is truly off the hook.
Here I am, SO pumped to have finally ridden this trail. Also, so pumped to make it back to the car and a Subway, free of bears and full of subs and 3 Large Iced Teas.
I would recommend this trail in a heartbeat to pretty much any rider I know, as it really does have something that caters to everyone (minus the dirt jump/street only riders).
That being said, now that I've done the whole thing, I have little desire to do it again in one go without a few changes:
1. I would do it about a month earlier in the year so there's less likelihood of bears being up there, without being as hot as July.
2. I would not do it alone (because I'm infinitely less paranoid about bears in a group). Also, you need a minimum of two people to get the local company to shuttle you.
3. I'd shuttle it.
4. I'd do it more slowly, take more water and more food.
If I was a local, (without having access to a helicopter), I'd probably do what the three other people I met on the trail did -> shuttle to the North Trailhead, push to Plewman and then either continue to descend on Plewman, or ride till Old Glory and take that out. Every day. Because it was that good.
Anyway, that was my most memorable ride of 2009, and although I'm SUPER stoked to have done it alone I'm hoping that I get the chance to share it with some friends this year as well. I would have posted this to the forum, but I've been lurking for years now without an account… please don't tell anyone!
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Do you have feeling in your balls back? This ride will go down in Dirtbag history! The perfect makings of a "trip of the year". Who needs all the fancy bike clothes anyway huh. It's even more funny that you work at the premier outdoor clothing company Arc'teryx. Bangers are fun. I carry bear bangers when traveling in the Chilcotins. The only problem that I see with them is that if it goes past the bear and explodes behind, it could cause the bear to run towards you, not good. You can get flares for them to if one gets really screwed up, which it sounds like you could have been close! I wish I had been there to see you 5hrs in wearing jeans…that would be hilarious.
Great adventure.
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Hi, my name is Andrej. I come from Slovenia. Last year my friends and I headed to Montenegro. Since I'm pretty busy during the summer we had carefully planned our trip beforehand. It was a six-day long adventure, full of unforgettable moments in the picturesque mountains and gorges in excellent weather.
Having been far away from the shops, TVs, mobile phones and everyday concerns, I felt as if we had travelled to the past – in the cabins there was no electricity or tap water. At home, I always feel we strive for 'a better life', and we unknowingly make our lives even more difficult. But once you're riding your bicycle far away from home, all there is is new experiences and new horizons, enjoying the extraordinary. And when you see people living in wooden huts without electricity, you realize you have too much of everything.
It doesn't matter how many kilometers we rode by bike, it's irrelevant compared to the beauties of nature I experienced in this unforgettable tour. I will definitely come back to Durmitor (Montenegro).
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Man that's some pretty sweet riding! I've never heard of MonteNegro before I read your story. I had to Google it, and I was surprised to find where it is. The pictures tell the story alone. Epic trails, middle of no-where, local interaction, and something I'm finding harder to accomplish……zero electronics and technology. I'm wanting to do a trip this year where we travel multiple days on epic single-track and have to hunt/catch our food. That would be unreal. Do you know such a place to do this?
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|We had an annual talent and fashion show that was a fundraiser for the speech team. Those of us actually on the speech team had little or nothing to do with it. At least, I had nothing to do with it -- probably because I wasn't viewed by the speech coach as being either talented or fashionable. This, from a guy who clearly didn't wear undershirts and used lime deodorant.
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Meanwhile, in those war zones, the Big Corporation would take over the humblest of soldierly roles—the peeling of potatoes, the cooking of meals, the building of bases and outposts, the delivery of mail—and it would take up the gun (and the bomb) as well. Soon enough, even the dying would be outsourced to corporate hirees. Occupied Iraq and Afghanistan would be flooded with tens of thousands of private contractors and hired guns, while military men trained in elite special operations units would find their big paydays by joining mercenary corporations doing similar work, often in the same war zones.
It was a remarkable racket. War and profit had long been connected in complicated ways, but seldom quite so straightforwardly. Now, win or lose on the battlefield, there would always be winners among the growing class of warrior corporations.
The all-volunteer force, pliant as a military should be, and backed by Madison Avenue to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars to insure that its ranks were full, would become ever more detached from most of American society. It would, in fact, become ever more foreign (as in "foreign legion") and ever more mercenary (think Hessians). The intelligence services of the national security state would similarly outsource significant parts of their work to the private sector. According to Dana Priest and William Arkin of the Washington Post, by 2010, about 265,000 of the 854,000 people with top security clearances were private contractors and "close to 30% of the workforce in the intelligence agencies [was] contractors."
No one seemed to notice, but a 1% version of American war was coming to fruition, unchecked by a draft Army, a skeptical Congress, or a democratic citizenry. In fact, Americans, generally preoccupied with lives in which our wars played next to no part, paid little attention.
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Although early drone technology was already being used over North Vietnam, it's in another sense entirely that drones have been heading into America's future since 1973. There was an eerie logic to it: First came professional war, then privatized war, then mercenary and outsourced war—all of which made war ever more remote from most Americans. Finally, both literally and figuratively, came remote war itself.
It couldn't be more appropriate that the Air Force prefers you not call their latest wonder weapons "unmanned aerial vehicles," or UAVs, anymore. They would like you to use the label "remotely piloted aircraft" (RPA) instead. And ever more remotely piloted that vehicle is to be, until—claim believers and enthusiasts—it will pilot itself, land itself, maneuver itself, and while in the air even choose its own targets.
In this sense, think of us as moving from the citizen's army to a roboticized, and finally robot, military—to a military that is a foreign legion in the most basic sense. In other words, we are moving toward an ever greater outsourcing of war to things that cannot protest, cannot vote with their feet (or wings), and for whom there is no "home front" or even a home at all. In a sense, we are, as we have been since 1973, heading for a form of war without anyone, citizen or otherwise, in the picture—except those on the ground, enemy and civilian alike, who will die as usual.
Of course, it may never happen this way, in part because drones are anything but perfect or wonder weapons, and in part because corporate war fought by a thoroughly professional military turns out to be staggeringly expensive to the demobilized citizen, profligate in its waste, and—by the evidence of recent history—remarkably unsuccessful. It also couldn't be more remote from the idea of a democracy or a republic.
In a sense, the modern imperial age began hundreds of years ago with corporate war, when Dutch, British and other East India companies set sail, armed to the teeth, to subdue the world at a profit. Perhaps corporate war will also prove the end point for that age, the perfect formula for the last global empire on its way down.
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Neither is Dragon Age: Origins filled with endless encounter loops. I'd say the structure is more like:
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3. Que combat encounters.
4. Complete sub-plot and make a major decision about who you're going to side with.
Rinse, repeat. Although I can understand people who hated the long grinding combat of the Deep Roads and The Circle Tower. That wasn't all Origins was composed of however and you could spend as much time talking to people in Ostagar, Ozarmmar or Redcliffe as you could fighting there. For me it was a fair balance save for the Deep Roads and Circle Tower.
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another hemangio thread - advice please
I hope that I can make this simple and clear, here goes.
Cajun is a 7.5yo intact GSD. No history of hemangiosarcoma in the bloodlines . My dogs have been raw fed (PMR) for just over a year now. I practice minimal vaccines, rabies every three years after puppy vaccines and flea treatment if they get fleas.
Cajun recently has been having a hard time defecating if he is fed bones, which up until recently have been a main part of his diet. Now even one chicken back causes straining the next day. This started a few weeks ago. Also a few weeks ago I noticed his urine was very yellow. I have been keeping an eye on this and he started peeing a lot. No straining, a good stream but it is like he cannot void his bladder in one go. It is not a leg lifting thing, even in the back yard he will pee, then go to the other side of the yard and squat and pee, then squat and pee again. Producing urine each time in a steady stream. Eventually all he produces is dribbles and then he is done peeing. Wednesday night I took both boys for a walk, he peed many times and we came home. An hour later he peed on the floor. I took him out, he pooped and then had another big pee right after the poop.
Thursday we go to the vet with a urine sample. He has an enlarged prostate, makes sense with the peeing/pooping thing. Urinalysis comes back and there is no infection, no crystals, PH is 6.5. But his bilirubin is high. Vet is very concerned and is thinking hemangio at this point. We do bloodwork and wait for results. Get results on friday. I tested for everything - he has no lyme, no heartworm, T4 thyroid test is normal, WBC, RBC everything is normal except his ALT is 16 healthy range is supposed to be 18-121 and his lymphocytes are 0.9 healthy range to be 1.0-4.8. There is no abnormalities in the bilirubin in his blood. We do a second urinalysis today just to make sure, and results are the same, bilirubin is high. Specifically it says Large (+++).
Vet consulted with a cancer specialist, they also think hemangiosarcoma. Probably on the liver, or on the heart causing it in the liver and spleen. The reason we are not seeing bilirubin in the blood is because his kidneys are very good.
My head is spinning, I am trying to remember everything that is being told to me and the reasoning. It is really hard to understand and remember everything but I am trying my best.
I know this is very hard to diagnose and most dogs are diagnosed when they start to bleed out. Cajuns case would be a rare early catch of the disease. I have done some research and read many stories on here. Jocoyn seemed to go through something similar with Grim and I do plan to pm her.
I was given a few options: xrays which may or may not show the tumors, if they do then at least we know. Testing the liver bile acids - he would be fasted, bile tested, then fed and bile tested again. This is very expensive and might not tell us anything useful. And we could try a round of antibiotics in case it is an infected liver. They also want to put him on a low protein veterinary diet while on the antibiotics. I have no desire to put a dog with possible terminal cancer on a high carb diet, and he does NOT do well on kibble and is a very difficult dog to deal with when on kibble.
I do not feel like prolonging his pain. As it stands right now he is his normal, crazy, active self. He is not sick. He is eating, drinking, running, playing, no vomiting, no diarrhea, no pale gums, no lethargy. So I do not think he is bleeding out yet. We caught this very early. I do not plan to remove the spleen, nor do chemo. If it is the cancer then treatment will be palliative until the time comes when he needs to be released of pain.
There is still the issue of the enlarged prostate. Neutering would help lessen the hormones and reduce the size of the tumor. If there was no chance of cancer I would go this route. However, and this may sound cruel, I do not want to spend $600 on a neuter for a dog who may not live more than a month. I also do not like the idea of his body trying to recover from surgery while fighting cancer at the same time. So, through my research, I have learned certain drugs may reduce the hormones and reduce prostate size.
So what I have tentatively decided to do is the xrays and hope they show the tumors, do the antibiotics because that can't hurt and do the hormone drugs to shrink the prostate size. Keep him on his raw diet as that should help keep tumor growth slow. Keep an eye on him and make his life as wonderful as I can.
If anyone has any info on early diagnoses of hemangiosarcoma, or any insight on my thoughts and what I plan to do please share. My heart is breaking for my boy and I don't want to do wrong by him.
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If you live in Hickory Hills and the Police Communications Center gets a 911 disconnect from your house, you may get the Hickory Hills PD or the Sheriff's Department or the State Police or cops from the next town or village over, depending upon the situation. It's not at all unusual.
Any time you interact with the police, be truthful, don't have an attitude nor appear to be concealing information and your day will go a lot smoother. Almost always when we the police encounter somebody with a belligerent attitude, it's because they're trying to hide something. You don't have to offer information, but answer the legitimate questions that you are asked. If you appear to be trying to hide something, cops treat that the same way that sharks treat the smell of blood in the water . . .
Just because you explained something to the call taker on the phone DOES NOT mean that information was ever passed on to the officer. If its really busy, theyll just send the officer with a minimum of information and expect them to sort it out when they get there.
If you live on the boundary of multiple jurisdictions, be aware of where the incident happened and which police department you called. If you have called to report an incident, and then just flag down a passing police car, the cops inside (a.) may not have received the call yet and so have no idea what youre talking about, or (b.) may be from another jurisdiction, possibly dispatched by a different comm center on a different radio frequency, and they may not know what youre talking about, either.
Just because you talked to a cop once about a particular situation does NOT mean that all cops everywhere will be familiar with the situation. We are not telepathically connected!
If you reported a problem at midnight, dont call back at eleven the next morning and expect to talk to the same officers. Individual police officers are not on 24/7. We do go home to sleep and conduct our personal lives from time to time.
Pay attention to what agency the officer works for, and ask for their name and badge number or radio number or ID number. We get issued business cards to give to people we interact with. Get a business card from officer friendly and ask for the case number of the incident (if there is one), the address of occurrence and the case title, and write down the date. That way, if at some later time you need to make an inquiry, you'll have the information that you need.
If theyre in plainclothes, feel free to ask to look at the officers credentials. Just keep in mind that you don't know what an authentic police ID card for that agency looks like. (I don't know what official ID cards for the surrounding agencies look like, either.)
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Okay I have to say something. Are you people oblivious to what Jihad is? People who exist in a state of Jihad do not want to come "talk with you to work things out." There IS NO working things out. They believe that if you are not following the Koran, they are at war with you. That is "the state of Jihad". If you are not a Koran following Muslim, then the radical Muslim believes you are in a state of Jihad with them. It doesn't matter what color you are, what country you are in, what language you speak, if you do not follow the Koran, they are AT WAR with you and as an infidel, you must die. it doesn't matter if you are Arab, if you are not a Koran-following Arab, they are in a state of war with you and unless you convert you must die.
This is how Islam originally spread if you recall: Muhammad and his armies conquered the areas around them.
I just cannot stomach when people start saying that we need to "go and talk" with these people. There is no going and talking. Their creeds clearly state that if you are not a Koran following person and will not convert, YOU MUST DIE. You are an infidel and must die. What part of "must die" do you not understand?
This is not a new thing. Radical Muslims have been blowing up people and killing people around the world for years. France and Spain are terrified of the large influx of radical muslims in their country who PUBLICALLY SPEAK in their countries about taking over the government. This is not an American problem, this is not an Israeli problem, this is not a European problem: it is a Global Problem.
And then you go and say "lets just talk with them". If President Clinton (God bless him, yes I voted for him but yes he made mistakes) did not let Bin Laden go (yes Bin Laden was detained and Clinton let him go) because he was so much into "talking and working things out" with radical extremists, we wouldn't be in such a big mess.
Listen please. I implore you: These people will DIE for their cause which is KILLING YOU to please Allah. If you think for one second that you can TALK to someone who has been trained to die for their cause to kill you, then I beg you to re-think.
Terrorism is not new. It has been here for decades, increasing in tenacity, boldness, and technological means. People have been dying around the globe. America has been hit around the globe and it wasn't until it hit American soil that Americans really began paying attention. Terrorism has not recently emerged and it is well-financed. These people are terrorizing because you are an infidel and you must die.
I've said my peace. I just couldn't believe that you all were saying "lets go and work things out --la la la -- with the radical extremists."
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Senate Democrats said Friday they have enough votes to approve a more than $60 billion Sandy relief bill, overcoming objections that it includes too many pet projects unrelated to the storm.
"Today's votes puts us on a certain path towards providing the relief needed to help our families recover and rebuild," New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand said in a statement. "We will pass this package next week and House Republicans have a moral obligation to come back to Washington and get this important work done."
The bill survived a filibuster threat, but the actual vote isn't expected to come until Dec. 27, when amendments may change the actual size of the bill. If it passes, the legislation will head to the House of Representatives for its approval.
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- $11 billion in aid for public transportation systems in the region.
The specific breakdown of how much the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, NJ Transit and other agencies would receive will be determined later. About half of the amount would go towards repairing storm damage and the other half towards making transit networks more resilient.
All told, about $13 billion of the bill's total will go towards mitigation, but watchdog groups say it still came short of its potential.
"The problem that happens a lot of time with disasters is that naturally we want to rebuild and get going without knowing what is the best way to go about it," said Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense. "And inevitably we end up putting people right back where they were using some of the same things, and when we have proof positive these are vulnerable areas."
According to Ellis's analysis, for example, the Senate bill calls on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to undertake a 120-day study of whether its storm-control measures, like dunes, worked effectively during Sandy. But the bill doesn't require the Corps to wait for the results of that study before deciding which projects to rebuild. A spokesman said the Corps doesn't comment on pending legislation.
The Association of State Floodplain Managers had praise for many parts of the bill, but noted that of the $17 billion directed towards damaged businesses, homes and infrastructure that weren't insured, just $2 billion is specifically for mitigation activities.
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