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It's hard for most people to even think about the possibility of nuclear war. They have completely lost their fear of nuclear war. It can't happen! Unfortunately, that's not true, and I'm going to show you why.
How can one possibly know that nuclear war approaches? History provides the clues we're looking for. Just like history informs us when a forest is susceptible to a major forest fire. The exact timing might be impossible to figure out, but we can know the season.
Possible reasons for war:
1. The rise of a powerful rival in the presence of a declining superpower has led to war six out of the last seven times. Today it's China versus America.
2. When a rival finds that it is incapable of keeping up militarily, then it may launch a preemptive strike before it is too late. Russia is now in danger of falling behind. This is the reason why Germany started World War I.
The decline of a superpower is a very important historical sign of bad things to come. America is now in this situation.
Another important historical sign of war is that when most people from the last big crisis have died then society becomes susceptible to another big crisis. The last big crisis was the Depression plus World War II.
Here are three possible catalysts for war:
1. A conflict in the Middle East involving Israel.
2. A conflict on the Korean peninsula.
3. A conflict over Taiwan.
The use of nuclear weapons by any country could result in an an escalation.
Introduction to Nuclear War – Signs 1 to 5
1. Doomsday shelters making a comeback. Today a lot of people are starting to become concerned about events occurring in the world. Iran and North Korea are working hard to develop nuclear weapons. China and Russia are upgrading their nuclear forces. The US is letting its nuclear forces atrophy. What's a regular person to do? Well, why not buy a doomsday shelter?
Jason Hodge, father of four children from Barstow, Calif., says he's "not paranoid" but he is concerned, and that's why he bought space in what might be labeled a doomsday shelter.
Hodge bought into the first of a proposed nationwide group of 20 fortified, underground shelters — the Vivos shelter network — that are intended to protect those inside for up to a year from catastrophes such as a nuclear attack, killer asteroids or tsunamis, according to the project's developers.
Doomsday shelters making a comeback
If Everything Is Going To Be Okay, Then Why Is The Number Of Preppers [Preparing for End of World] In The United States Absolutely Exploding?
Nuclear fallout shelters are making a comeback in other countries too: Japan and Israel.
Nervous Japanese Build Nuclear Bunkers
Israelis Put Bunkers in Gardens
Both Switzerland and Singapore have nuclear fallout shelters for everyone:
Swiss Still Braced for Nuclear War
Bomb Shelters in Singapore
2. On November 8, 2010 a mystery missile was launched 35 miles off the coast of Los Angeles. Initially there were many reports that this so-called missile was actually a contrail from an airplane. After a few days many different experts weighed in on the topic by confirming that it was indeed a missile. It was a two-stage submarine launched ballistic missile. It was most likely China providing a warning to the United States. If you think about it for a second, you will realize that this act was absolutely outrageous and unacceptable. This is a nuclear challenge from China – stay out of our core interests, or prepare for nuclear war.
3. China has completed in the last few years massive underground nuclear bunkers under many of its major cities. Why is this necessary?
Shanghai Completes Massive Underground Bunker to Protect Citizens from Disasters
4. In a report by Russia Today, the Russian government is hurrying to complete 5,000 underground nuclear bunkers in Moscow by 2012. What's the rush? And why do you need them in the first place?
Inside Russia's magic mountain [This bunker is the size of a city]
Russian bunkers against nuclear attack
Russian fallout shelters
5. In 2009 Russia announced that it reserves the right to use a preemptive nuclear strike if it feels its security is threatened. A couple of years earlier it announced that it reserved the right to use nuclear weapons in a preemptive nuclear strike to protect itself and its allies. But which countries are Russia's allies? One such ally is Syria. This is the same Syria that is preparing for war with Israel, along with Hezbollah and Hamas. What would Russia do if Israel destroys Syria?
Russia in a new review of its policy on use of nuclear weapons will reserve the right to undertake a pre-emptive strike if it feels its security is endangered, a senior Kremlin official told a Russian newspaper.
I've just given you a short introduction to the possibility of nuclear war. This shows both Russia and China suggesting the possibility of nuclear war is real. Both countries are working hard to build underground nuclear bunkers. Both countries have brought up the use of nuclear weapons. But why would they want to attack America?
Why World War I Started (Historical Sign of War)
With the November 1912 announcement of the Russian Great Military Programme, the leadership of the German Army began clamoring even more strongly for a "preventive war" against Russia. Moltke declared that Germany could not win the arms race with France, Britain and Russia, which she herself had begun in 1911, because the financial structure of the German state, which gave the Reich government little power to tax, meant Germany would bankrupt herself in an arms race. As such, Moltke from late 1912 onwards was the leading advocate for a general war, and the sooner the better. Source: Wikipedia – Causes of World War I.
World War I started as a preemptive strike before Russia, France and Britain could gain a clear military advantage over Germany. This provides us with a clue as to why Russia might launch a preemptive nuclear strike against America in current times. Russia's economy and military are in decline. The Russian state could be at risk of defeat in the future.
The key signs present right before the start of World War I (Historical signs of war):
[1.] The first cause was imperial overstretch. By 1914, the British Empire was showing signs of being a "weary Titan," in the words of the poet Matthew Arnold. …
[2.] Great-power rivalry was another principal cause of the catastrophe. The problem was not so much Anglo-German rivalry at sea as it was Russo-German rivalry on land. …
[3.] The third fatal factor was an unstable alliance system. Alliances existed in abundance, but they were shaky. …
[4.] The presence of a rogue regime sponsoring terror was a fourth source of instability. The chain of events leading to war, as every schoolchild used to know, began with the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo by a Bosnian Serb, Gavrilo Princip. …
[5.] Finally, the rise of a revolutionary terrorist organization hostile to capitalism turned an international crisis into a backlash against the global free market. …
What about the historical signs of war today? Here they are:
1. America is in decline.
2. Both China and Russia are powerful rivals. China is on the rise while Russia is in decline.
3. NATO's direction is no longer clear. If NATO has a pulse, it's very weak – Washington Times
4. Terror sponsoring regimes: Iran and Syria are two terror sponsoring regimes.
5. A revolutionary terrorist organization is Al Qaeda which is more like "Islamo-Bolshevists" than "Islamo-Fascists."
The first three signs represent the ability of a major war to take place. The last two signs represent a catalyst to facilitate a major war. They are all present today.
The catalyst for a major great-power war exists in the Middle East surrounding Israel. Should a war in the Middle East involving Israel, Hezbollah, Hamas and Syria involve a large number of Arab deaths, then a great-power war could follow. If Israel were to use nuclear weapons against its neighbors then you should be very worried.
The Attack on Pearl Harbor (Historical Sign of War)
The attack on Pearl Harbor (or Hawaii Operation, Operation Z, as it was called by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters) was an unannounced military strike conducted by the Japanese navy against the United States' naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941 (Hawaiian time, December 8 by Japan Standard Time), later resulting in the United States becoming militarily involved in World War II. It was intended as a preventive action to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from influencing the war the Empire of Japan was planning to wage in Southeast Asia against Britain, the Netherlands, and the United States. The attack consisted of two aerial attack waves totaling 353 aircraft, launched from six Japanese aircraft carriers.
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a preventive or preemptive strike to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from influencing the war the Empire of Japan was planning to wage in Southeast Asia. This suggests that in a future attack on America one should seriously consider a preemptive nuclear strike out of the blue.
Why Would Russia and China Want to Attack America?
There are two key reasons that Russia and China would want to launch a nuclear attack on America:
6. Russia is in decline: Russia in Decline
Russia's military industrial complex will be unable to keep up with America's technological innovations in the future. In the next 10 to 15 years Russia's nuclear forces could be at risk due to America's missile defenses and global strike capabilities.
Russia's military problems: Russia Military in Decline
"The revival of Russia's military might under Putin is merely a myth," Stanislav Belkovsky, who head the Institute for National Strategy, said at a presentation of the report. "The Russian armed forces have degraded completely under Putin."
If the current trends continue, the report warns, Russia's nuclear arsenals would shrink from about 680 intercontinental ballistic missiles now to between 100 and 200 missiles over the next 10 years.
Experts see decline in Russia's military
Russia today faces a similar problem as Germany did prior to World War I. If it does nothing then its chief adversary, America, will probably gain a clear military advantage in the future.
7. If the new START treaty is not ratified by the US, then Moscow will be placed into a situation where it cannot keep up. The US will increase its missile defense capabilities over time, and gradually increase its global strike capabilities. Effectively, the defense of Russia will be put at risk with the failure of the new START treaty.
America's global strike capability in the future: Prompt Global Strike: World Military Superiority Without Nuclear Weapons
Should Russia sit around and wait for the US to overwhelm Russia's defensive capabilities, or should Russia strike the US while it still can? This is the choice Russia has.
… If the arms control treaty fails, Moscow has no means to stop US progress either on missile defense or on enhancing its global strike program, perhaps the single most frightening military threat perceived by Moscow. …
Moscow would also lose valuable potential and actual economic gains. Failure to ratify the treaty could undermine the entire edifice of the new cooperation like the treaty on civilian nuclear cooperation, Russian entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Obama administration's efforts to bring about what has always been lacking in bilateral relations: a solid economic underpinning creating a community of interest on both sides to uphold and sustain ties through difficult times (The Moscow Times, November 8). These are among the fears expressed by pundits who have publicly registered their anxiety about the future course of the relationship (RIA Novosti, November 3; www.pravda.ru, November 3).
Finally, failure of the ratification process confronts Russia with very difficult questions concerning the future course of its military policies and investments. If it cannot have mutual deterrence and arms control at more affordable levels as it spends huge amounts to modernize its army's conventional weaponry, how would it react to that outcome? Certainly, there are those in the Kremlin who harbor unceasing suspicion of US interests, goals, and capabilities and those who would like to continue to place their priority on nuclear weapons in a strongly anti-US stance. Should the treaty fail to be ratified they would be emboldened, but can Russia afford both a sizable nuclear and huge conventional modernization? Therefore, the concern in the government and media about the outcome of the treaty is well founded because its failure will then confront Russia with a host of unpalatable situations that require major policy decisions in an environment of competitive foreign and defense policy agendas, leading to an outcome that no government looks forward to facing.
Moscow Shows Anxiety Over Passing the New START Treaty – The Jamestown Foundation
8. Russia doesn't think nuclear war is out of bounds. In 2008 four-star Chief of the General Staff Gen. Yury Baluyevsky, has warned in the future there could be full-scale wars, even the use of nuclear weapons is not regarded as inconceivable. Watch this video about how Russia introduced medium range ballistic missile launchers (SS-21) capable of launching missiles with nuclear warheads in the Georgian war. The SS-21 missiles can be conventional or nuclear. The conventional warhead is not significant. This represented a threat of nuclear retaliation if America helped Georgia with precision guided conventional weapons.
9. China is seeking a sphere of influence in its surrounding area. Currently, America is standing in its way. China has also defined an international body of water as its core interest – the South China Sea. America has so far not recognized this core interest.
The Chinese people are not happy about a U.S. aircraft carrier so close to China while conducting naval exercises with South Korea.
At this stage, China may not react through a show of force to the US fleet cruising into the international waters of the Yellow Sea. But it does not mean that the Chinese people will tolerate it. Whatever harm the US military maneuver may inflict upon the mind of the Chinese, the United States will have to pay for it, sooner or later. Just look at the thousands of messages Chinese readers have left on the Global Times Chinese-language website. More than 92 percent of them agree that the joint naval drill will be a huge threat to China. Many voiced their concerns, in lines such as: It's a matter of the dignity of a big country; China has to grow even faster in order to avoid the bully and such shame; Don't trust the United States any more.
10. The conflict over Taiwan:
A senior Chinese general has warned that his country could destroy hundreds of American cities with nuclear weapons if the two nations clashed over Taiwan.
Major general Zhu Chenghu, a dean at the National Defence University, said he was expressing a private opinion, but his comments, the most inflammatory by a senior government official in 10 years, will fuel growing concerns in Washington about the rise of China.
11. China is preparing for the "eventuality of a nuclear war."
Defense analysts for the British intelligence service MI6 believe China is preparing for the "eventuality of a nuclear war." The conclusion follows evidence that Beijing has built secretly a major naval base deep inside caverns which even sophisticated satellites cannot penetrate, says a report in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
In an unusual development, the analysts have provided details to the specialist defense periodical, Jane's Intelligence Review, which published satellite images of the base location which is hidden beneath millions of tons of rock on the South China Sea island of Hainan.
Is China now where Germany was in 1900?
1914 All Over Again? (Historical Sign of War)
In the run up to WWI, an influential book was written by General Von Bernhardi titled Germany and the next War. The book manifests Germany's frustration and militancy. Von Bernhardi proclaims that, with her scientific and intellectual achievements, Germany should have a more prominent role in world affairs, more colonial trophies with access to petroleum reserves. Germany's GDP had passed that of Great Britain and France and they now wanted more respect. France and Great Britain were maneuvering as best they could to keep Germany (a perceived threat) out of the game. Bernhardi's book also argues that war was not only a justifiable means to achieve that goal but even an obligation of Germany's leadership.
And now in 2009 we witness the wide distribution of a book titled Unhappy China, which expresses China's frustrations with their current position.
The Three E's of War (Historical Signs of War)
Historian Niall Ferguson discusses the three key factors present before wars in the 20th century.
In The War of the World, I argued that three factors made the location and timing of lethal organised violence more or less predictable in the last century. The first was ethnic disintegration: violence was worst in areas where majorities lived uneasily side by side with religious or linguistic minorities. The second factor was empires in decline: when imperial rule crumbled, battles for power were most bloody. The third was economic volatility: the greater the magnitude and frequency of economic shocks, the more likely conflict was.
The three E's are present today: The American empire is in decline, the global financial crisis is causing economic volatility and the Middle East is set to blow up into a regional war sooner than we would like to think.
12. Currently America is in economic decline, while China's economy is on the rise. In the last 7 times that a global empire was challenged by a rival power, war has occurred 6 times.
America in Decline
America is vulnerable.
Will the rise of China lead to conflict with the US?
Great power rivalries in history:
1. Spain versus Holland in the 16th century. [War]
2. Holland versus England in the 17th century. [War]
3. Britain versus France in both the 18th and 19th centuries. [War]
4. France and Britain versus Germany in the 20th century. [War]
5. Germany versus Russia in 1914. [War]
6. Germany versus Russia (Soviet Union) in 1941. [War]
7. Soviet Union versus the US and its allies in the Cold War after 1945. [No War]
China's Risky Bet Against History
Is this the beginning of an enduring rivalry or merely a temporary downturn?
The answer lies in the past as much as the present – but history provides some cause for concern about the future of US-China relations. A careful survey of the early twentieth century reveals that rising autocracies inherently and predictably spawn mistrust, and that their ascent culminates in rivalry, if not outright military conflict. By contrast, rising powers with rule of law and transparent governance offer multiple avenues for reassurance, meaning they can rise without provoking strategic competition.
No Democracy: No Peaceful Rise
So why have some powers risen peacefully while others haven't? The answer is regime type, a lesson of history derived from the most important power transition of them all—the eclipse of Pax Britannica.
Economic Volatility and Social Unrest
13. The signs of social unrest are just starting to appear in Russia due to Putin's incompetence and the global financial crisis. This type of economic volatility is one reason for war.
Russians have good reasons to despise the increasingly neo-Soviet regime that Putin, a proud KGB spy, has created. And despite the shameful lack of support from Barack Obama and other craven Western leaders, they have good reason to be brave enough to challenge him.
When he came to power two years ago, Russia's so-called "president" Dmitri Medvedev (in reality nothing more than Putin's puppet) promised that he would bring a new level of fairness to Russia's infamously corrupt electoral process. But exactly the opposite has happened. A Russian court has totally banned Russia's most salient opposition party, Yabloko, from taking part in the next round of elections in the Russian regions. The court upheld the actions of local political leaders who rejected electoral petitions simply because they "just looked false."
A revolution is brewing in Vladimir Putin's Russia
14. China is experiencing problems because of its rapid growth. Due to the rapid growth in real estate prices, widespread property seizure by the government has become a big problem:
The Chinese government has moved to calm huge public anger over the widespread seizure of property, an issue that has driven three people to set themselves on fire in as many months.
A large proportion of China's estimated 100,000 or so public protests each year are driven by rage over compulsory evictions. Over the past decade, hundreds of thousands of Chinese have been forcibly evicted from their homes to make way for one of the greatest property booms of all time.
China moves to calm unrest over property seizures – Telegraph
15. Russia believes that a war with NATO is possible.
"This is very significant. Right now the present Russian leadership believes that a war with Nato is very much possible," Pavel Felgenhauer, a Moscow-based defence analyst, told the Guardian. "This is the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union that the Russian military is actually preparing for an all-out nuclear war with America."
He added: "I believe we [the Russians] are sending the west a serious message. The message is treat us with respect, and if you don't go into our backyard we won't go into yours. Russia wants to divide the world into spheres of influence. If not, we will prepare for nuclear war."
Felgenhauer said Russia's military was old but still effective. "Our military is backward in its development. But we still have a sizeable nuclear potential. It can kill a hell of a lot of people," he said.
Russia challenges west with nuclear overhaul | World news | The Guardian
16. China is thinking about a cold war and a hot war.
Now almost 55% of those questioned for Global Times, a state-run newspaper, agree that "a cold war will break out between the US and China".
An independent survey of Chinese-language media for The Sunday Times has found army and navy officers predicting a military showdown and political leaders calling for China to sell more arms to America's foes. The trigger for their fury was Obama's decision to sell $6.4 billion (£4 billion) worth of weapons to Taiwan, the thriving democratic island that has ruled itself since 1949.
China's hawks demand cold war on the US
17. Demographic problems in Russia and China.
The West's problems are, however, nothing compared to the social and economic catastrophe shaping in China.
The one-child policy has, in its own harsh terms, worked: reducing births by between 300 and 400 million. But it has induced a premature, and alarmingly rapid, ageing process. China has given itself a rich country's problem before it has become rich: for all its economic performance, Chinese incomes are still nowhere near as high as those in Western societies at the point when they started to age.
18. Tension between between mainland China and Taiwan is building.
A senior Taiwanese official has told a defense forum in the United States that despite rapidly warming commercial relations with Taipei, China's military threat against the island is growing, Taiwanese media reported Tuesday.
The reports call into question the efficacy of China's efforts to use its huge financial resources to convince Taiwanese both in and out of government that political union with the mainland is in the island's interest.
Deputy Defense Minister Andrew Yang told a U.S.-Taiwan Business Council meeting in Maryland on Monday that despite considerable progress on commercial ties, the mainland is continuing to deploy more and more sophisticated weapons against the island, according to reports Tuesday from opposition and pro-government newspapers and the government-owned Central News Agency.
Taiwan official says China threat growing: reports
Category: Taiwan
19. A regional Middle East war approaches. This war will be unlike anything we've ever seen before. Thousands of missiles will rain down on Israeli cities. Syria and Lebanon have missiles with chemical warheads which they might use on Israeli cities. The response from Israel could include nuclear weapons.
A new report based on extensive conversations with regional decisionmakers, released Monday, Aug. 2, by the International Crisis Group, the respected mediation organization of former diplomats, warns of the possibility of war. "The situation in the Levant is … exceptionally quiet and uniquely dangerous, both for the same reason," the Crisis Group warns. "The buildup in military forces and threats of an all-out war that would spare neither civilians nor civilian infrastructure, together with the worrisome prospect of its regionalization, are effectively deterring all sides." But while Hizballah and its regional backers, Syria and Iran, believe that the buildup in the Shi'ite militia's arsenal and capabilities is deterring Israel from launching attacks on any of them, Israel views the acquisition by Hizballah of a missile arsenal capable of raining destruction on Israeli cities as an intolerable threat. "As Hizballah's firepower grows," the Crisis Group notes, "so too does Israel's desire to tackle the problem before it is too late … What is holding the current architecture in place is also what could rapidly bring it down."
20. Bible prophecy suggests that something big is about to happen. If the end times started with the arrival of modern Israel, then something big is up.
Please note that I have provided one possible interpretation of Bible prophecy. Others are possible.
a. Nebuchadnezzar's statue suggests that the old Roman empire will rise again. Later another empire rises with 10 parts or zones. Where is America, Russia and China? How could a weak Roman empire (the EU?) rise again to dominate the world unless America, Russia and China were greatly weakened or eliminated?
The scenario outlined below is about Israel's destruction of its neighbors and the subsequent retaliation on America by Russia and China.
b. Amos 1: Provides the timing for the destruction of Israel's neighbors, and informs us that this is God's judgment. They all arrive at three wars with Israel at different times, but gather together in the fourth war. It will be in the fourth war that they are destroyed. They are now at or near the third war.
c. Isaiah 17: Discusses the destruction of Damascus, Syria. Who cares about Damascus, Syria? Is it a sign?
d. Isaiah 18: A powerful friend of Israel is going to be destroyed. Pay attention to when Israel destroys its neighbors with nuclear weapons in the summer. By the following spring there will be sign: This powerful friend brings gifts to the new Jewish temple on the Temple Mount. The destruction of this powerful friend could begin at any time after the gifts are delivered.
Find out how Islam takes over the world: Could Islam really take over the world? After the videos is an article on Isaiah 18.
21. How significant American wars follow a cycle of 80 to 100 years. These are the wars that plunge the entire country into a crisis. A new 20 year crisis period starts about the time that most people who directly experienced the last crisis have died off. There was the Revolutionary War, Civil War and Depression plus World War II. The current crisis period runs from 2005 to 2025.
Thus might the next Fourth Turning end in apocalypse – or glory. The nation could be ruined, its democracy destroyed, and millions of people scattered or killed. Or America could enter a new golden age, triumphantly applying shared values to improve the human condition. The rhythms of history do not reveal the outcome of the coming Crisis; all they suggest is the timing and dimension.
Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning
Winter is coming. Are you prepared? Americans see time as their enemy. Most Americans have bought into a view of the past and future as linear. When you observe the world in linear way and things are going well, the population is happy and confident. If you view the world in a linear way and things are going badly, the population sees nothing but terrible times ahead. This linear outlook of history and the future is not rational or supported by facts. I'm convinced that world history is not on a linear path towards Armageddon and the Rapture. This belief is preached by many of the mainstream religions, but the truth is that we've seen this movie before and it doesn't end in the 2nd Coming of Christ. The American belief in a destiny of never ending progress will undergo its 3rd major crisis period since its founding. The resolution of this crisis is 10 to 20 years in the future. The outcome will remain in doubt until the definitive resolution.
Watch this video about the Fourth Turning. In 1997 the authors make some very interesting predictions about the problems we are about to face.
22. What nuclear gaming tells us about the START treaty.
The results of the gaming exercises are clear. Pursuing nuclear disarmament in a proliferated world without employing missile defense and maintaining credible nuclear deterrence increases instability, which can lead to nuclear war. Moreover, it is likely that New START will fail to protect the U.S. and its allies from attack, to provide verification of existing programs, and to prevent nuclear proliferation.
Pursuing an arms control strategy of "protect and defend"—in other words, fielding missile defenses and maintaining a modernized, credible nuclear deterrent—appears to be the best option for pursuing arms control and nonproliferation policy while limiting the potential for conflict.
23. The mathematics of war [see video below]. Wars and attacks within wars precisely follow a power-law distribution. The longer you go between wars or attacks then the bigger they will get which is contrary to the thinking of most people. Most people think that the longer you go since a major war like World War II, then the less likely a major war will happen. The mathematics of war shows that this thinking is not true.
It turns out that forests, sandpiles, earthquakes, financial markets, wars and attacks within wars follow the power-law distribution. What happens to a forest when you put out every fire? Eventually the forest experiences a fire so massive that it can't be put out. When you don't allow the small fires or collapses to occur, then eventually they get so big that they can't be stopped.
Concerning war, hasn't the U.S. been at war many times since World War II? Yes, but they have not been gut wrenching wars that severely affect society. Most people can't even comprehend the possibility of a major war on American soil. It can't happen. Big wars are no more. It's better to eliminate our nuclear weapons so that other countries will follow. Apparently, we're disarming to become more safe.
You can see the power-law at work because over time historical information has changed people's thinking in the future. No major wars during our lifetime mean that they will not occur in the future. So no need to worry. Think about the forest fire example. What did no fires for a long time mean? Did it mean that no fires will ever happen, or did it mean that once a fire came it would be huge?
To understand this better you need to start reading many of the articles in the "power_law" category by using the link below.
24. Let's not forget Iranian nuclear weapons.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger says that unless civilized nations act soon to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions "the world's going to go to war over this."
His remark came in reaction to the news that Russia has announced it will begin loading nuclear-fuel rods into an Iranian nuclear reactor on Aug. 28.
"When you're as old as I am," he told Cavuto, "if you remember how much this sounds like the workup to WWII, when everybody was letting things go by, letting things happen, and nobody was doing anything to stop what was clearly a track toward war. And we're doing it again, we're doing it again.
Eagleburger: World's Going to War Over Iranian Nukes
Australian intelligence agencies fear involvement in Mideast nuke war
The warnings about the dangers of nuclear conflict in the Middle East are given in a secret US embassy cable obtained by WikiLeaks and provided exclusively to Fairfax newspapers. They reflect views obtained by US intelligence liaison officers in Canberra from across the range of Australian intelligence agencies.
25. The 1930s – An Era Strikingly Similar to Our Own
Paul Johnson's Churchill recalls an era strikingly similar to our own.
Johnson notes that when Hitler and the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, most Europeans failed to recognize either the nature or the gravity of the threat. Winston Churchill — retired soldier, popular writer, not very popular politician — was the exception. He understood that unless free peoples acted decisively, they would come under attack, sooner or later.
Churchill was derided as an alarmist, or even a "warmonger."
Nineteen-Thirty-Something by Clifford D. May on National Review Online
Tag: The 1930s
26. Could the conflict between North Korea and South Korea spiral out of control and involve America and China? N. Korea: Exercises bring war 'closer' – CNN.com
Mullen: Risk of [Nuclear] War Rising on Korean Peninsula
The latest example of bellicose rhetoric came with North Korea warning of nuclear war, as South Korea planned live-fire naval drills to run Monday through Friday. Those drills follow a North Korea artillery attack on front-line Yeonpyeong Island that killed two South Korean marines and two civilians.
Mullen: Risk of War Rising on Korean Peninsula – FoxNews.com
27. In the early 1990s Deng Xiaoping introduced the 24 Characters strategy: keep cool-headed to observe, be composed to make reactions, stand firmly, hide our capabilities and bide our time, never try to take the lead, and be able to accomplish something. What does "hide our capabilities" and "bide our time" mean? Just like the word "jihad", there are different interpretations. The story below provides one chilling possibility. It suggests that America is in trouble.
The Parable of Goujian
The story of the king [Goujian] who slept on sticks and tasted gall is as known to the Chinese as George Washington and the cherry tree are to Americans. He has become a symbol of resistance against the treaty ports, foreign concessions and the years of colonial humiliation.
King Goujian (Yue) was defeated by King Fuchai (Wu) and taken prisoner. He worked in the royal stables and gradually won the respect of Fuchai. Later he was allow to govern his old kingdom under Fuchai. Goujian quietly bided his time and hide his capabilities over eight years until he was strong enough to finally attack and defeat Fuchai. During the eight years he quietly undermined Fuchai and facilitated Fuchai's growth of debt.
Taken like that, the parable of Goujian sums up what some people find alarming about China's rise as a superpower today. Ever since Deng Xiaoping set about reforming the economy in 1978, China has talked peace. Still militarily and economically too weak to challenge America, it has concentrated on getting richer. Even as China has grown in power and rebuilt its armed forces, the West and Japan have run up debts and sold it their technology. China has been patient, but the day when it can once again start to impose its will is drawing near.
War Between Wu and Yue
The war between Wu and Yue comprised several separate phases. It was started when a Yue princess, who was married to one of the princes of the neighbouring State of Wu, left her husband and fled back to the country of Yue. This became the spark for the war to come.
Upon the death of Yunchang and the accession of Goujian, King Helü of Wu seized the opportunity and launched an attack on Yue. At the Battle of Zuì L? (????), however, Yue defeated Wu, and King Helü was mortally wounded; before his death he instructed his son, King Fuchai of Wu, "Never forget Yue!" Yue would be defeated three years later by a resurgent Wu, and Goujian captured, to serve as Fuchai's servant for three years until he was eventually allowed to return to his native state.
Upon resuming his rule King Goujian quickly appointed skilled politicians as advisors, such as Wen Zhong and Fan Li, to help build up the kingdom. During this time, his ministers also worked to weaken the State of Wu internally through bribes and diplomatic intrigue.
All the time, whilst ruling his kingdom, Goujian never relished in riches as a king, but instead ate food suited for peasants, as well as forcing himself to taste bile. This way, he could remember his humiliations while serving under the State of Wu. There is a Chinese idiom, ???? (Pinyin: wò x?n cháng d?n, literally "sleeping on sticks and tasting gall"), the second half of which refers to Goujian's perseverance.
After ten years of economic and political reforms the last phase of the war began, by which time the State of Yue had come a long way from its previous defeat; as described in the Shiji, Ten years of reforms; the state is rich, the warriors well-rewarded. The soldiers charge in the face of arrows like thirsty men heading for drink… making use of Fuchai's expedition to struggle with Jin for hegemony Goujian led his army and successfully attacked the Wu capital, killing the crown prince. In the 24th year of his reign (473 BC), Goujian led another expedition, laying siege to the capital for three years before it fell; when a surrender from Fuchai was refused he committed suicide, and Wu was annexed by Yue. After his victory, he ruthlessly killed Fuchai's scholars and his own scholars who helped him, not allowing himself to make the same mistake Fuchai did by letting his enemies live.
King Goujian's army was known for forcing their front line, composed of criminals sentenced to death, to commit suicide by decapitation to scare their enemy before battle.
28. Demographic problems around the world suggest that great upheaval is ahead.
The weakening of the developed countries might not be a cause for concern if we knew that the world as a whole were likely to become more pacific. But unfortunately, just the opposite may be the case. During the 2020s, the developing world will be buffeted by its own potentially destabilizing demographic storms. China will face a massive age wave that could slow economic growth and precipitate political crisis just as that country is overtaking America as the world's leading economic power. Russia will be in the midst of the steepest and most protracted population implosion of any major power since the plague-ridden Middle Ages. Meanwhile, many other developing countries, especially in the Muslim world, will experience a sudden new resurgence of youth whose aspirations they are unlikely to be able to meet.
The risk of social and political upheaval could grow throughout the developing world—even as the developed world's capacity to deal with such threats declines. Yet, if the developed world seems destined to see its geopolitical stature diminish, there is one partial but important exception to the trend: the United States. While it is fashionable to argue that US power has peaked, demography suggests America will play as important a role in shaping the world order in this century as it did in the last.
Global Aging and the Crisis of the 2020s
29. Even the Pentagon is starting to acknowledge that nuclear war may be a distinct possibility with China.
Gates sees what's going on, and he is worried. So worried, in fact, that he has allowed Pentagon intelligence experts to present an alarming assessment of recent Chinese military moves to the new Congress. The secret briefing describes a pattern of technology investments and breakthroughs signaling that China is likely to be more assertive about its regional security interests in the years ahead. That won't come as a big surprise to China's neighbors, many of whom have experienced growing friction with Beijing over maritime sovereignty and territorial boundaries in recent years. But what worries U.S. intelligence analysts is that China is now moving to acquire the kind of sophisticated military systems only America has had — a potentially decisive advantage given the fact that U.S. forces in the Western Pacific are far from home and enjoy access to only a handful of bases in the region.
What that means for the Pentagon is that America's military must begin preparing for the possibility that it might be in a war with China sometime in the next few decades. …
Inside Pentagon, Growing Alarm Over China's Military Prowess | Forbes
30. China is not afraid of a nuclear war with America because it is willing to sacrifice its people, the dissident said. Now take a look at the statement of a Chinese general named Zhu Chenghu's:
… declaring that China would launch nuclear weapons against America if it attacked China and that "we will prepare ourselves for the destruction of all the cities east of Xian," which would include Beijing, Shanghai, and Canton.
The general is referring to help that America may provide Taiwan in a war with China. If America uses its non-nuclear weapons to protect Taiwan, then China may respond with nuclear weapons. So the fact that China may lose a billion people doesn't really seem to bother the general. Could you imagine the uproar if a Western general made a similar comment?
Nuclear War with China is Possible, Says Dissident
31. Is a new Pearl Harbor looming on the horizon?
The US strategic position in the Pacific is starting to look a lot like it did 70 years ago — on the eve of Pearl Harbor.
… China in 2011 confronts a US policy swinging from apathy to toughness without the military leverage to back it up. Beijing's aggressive bullying of neighbors over sovereign rights in the South China Sea, and its steady military buildup, including its navy, deserves presidential attention. But the new militancy from the White House is jarring.
President Obama reassured Asian heads of state in Hawaii last month, "We're here to stay" — which is supposed to intimidate China into playing nice. Plus, we're sending troops to Australia to show a "more broadly distributed military presence" in Asia, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton terms it. Our Navy will step up operations there, too.
Yet that Navy is even smaller than in 1933, with up to 60 more ships destined for retirement with few replacements in sight. And our troops in Australia will number less than 2,500 — just enough to be provocative, but far too small to do anything effective.
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text: Ok, so I'm not able to reproduce the failure to remove /Progams/<folder> paths, I tested by removing Wormux and GKrellm at the same time. I did however reproduce Ferid's issue where the UI didn't correctly update. What was actually happening was that the PBM was failing to write to the ProgList file properly in certain cases (leaving items there that shouldn't be). This issue has been fixed in trunk at r1662, and the 1.5 branch at r1663. Cheers, Tim On Friday 28 March 2008 08:51:13 Ferid Cafer wrote: > Hello, > > Kris Moore, when I removed more than one PBI at a time, all the > programs were removed both from start menu and from /usr/programs/ > folder. However from the control panel (add/remove sw panel), only > one of them were removed and others seemed not to be removed. It > is just a vision. Actually all of them are removed completely. So, > I think the problem may me in add/remove software panel (visually > it does not eliminate all the uninstalled ones) instead of > programs or pbi system. > I made this experiment more than once and the result was the same. > > Best wishes, > > Ferid > > ------ > > Tim, > > I've noticed this same problem here, if I try to remove more than > one > PBI at a time, the /Programs/<folder> doesn't get removed.. Can > you take > a peek at this? > > -- > Kris Moore > > Marcel Klinz [PC-BSD.de] wrote: > > when i want to desintall smartision and wxdownloadfast the > > /programs/%programfolder% will not remove. > > > > cheers > > marcel > > _______________________________________________ -- Tim McCormick PC-BSD Lead Developer tim at pcbsd.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.pcbsd.org/pipermail/pbi-dev/attachments/20080328/82e6abee/attachment.bin

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Flora Layered Leaf Skirt by Vibe Ulrik Sondergaard
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Record of Telephone Conversation - Cervarix, July 18, 2007
Record of Telephone Conversation
STN Number: 125259/0
Manufacturer: GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals
Product: Human Papillomavirus Vaccine, ASO4 Adjuvant-Adsorbed
To: File
From: Helen S. Gemignani, Regulatory Project Manager
Subject: Discussion of July 10, 2007, Request for Information for MPL Adverse Events
Telecon Date: July 18, 2007 Telecon Time: 10:00 – 11:00 am
Telecon Initiated by: GSK
Contact Phone: 610 787-3726 Mr. Whitman
Summary of Telecon
CBER and GSK held a telecon to clarify some items in CBER's July 10, 2007, request for adverse event data in regard to all of GSK's INDs and BLA that use MPL adjuvant.
CBER stated that they would like to review and agree to the analysis plan before GSK does their analysis. It was requested that GSK submit data files as well as the analysis. The analysis will include events from study HPV-009. The meta-analysis will be done across all INDs.
GSK is waiting for an anti-phospholipid antibody study from NIH and expect a Final Clinical Study Report any day. Data from this study will be included in the analysis.
End of Teleconference
Action Items
- CBER will provide to GSK a list of AE variables that will be captured by GSK.
FDA Participants
- Gopa Raychaudhuri
- Nancy Miller
- Martha Lee
- Helen Gemignani
- Joseph Toerner
- Douglas Pratt
- Amelia Dale Horne
- Loris McVittie
- Sara Gagneten
- Jennifer Ross
- Dale Slavin
- Ronald Rabin
GSK Participants
- Matt Whitman
- Clare Kahn
- Gary Dubin
- Tom Verstraten
- Patrizia Izurieta


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GIS Tutorials Archive
Below you will find links to How-To documents in online and PDF format that teach specific skills with GIS programs. Accompanying these tutorials you may find files to help you complete each tutorial and animated demonstration videos. For help with these tutorials, to request an appointment or to request the creation of a specific tutorial, contact GIS Specialist Lisa Jordan x3740 (email@example.com).
Spatial Data Center Tutorials Archive
Links to a number of GIS tutorial resources for ArcGIS, ArcPad, Trimble GPS Units, and GIS data management.
Getting Started with GIS
Instructions for faculty/staff and students for downloading ArcGIS and Google Earth. Information about other GIS programs, data resources, tutorials, and instructional materials.
Google Earth Tutorials
Exercises for learning to use Google Earth. Recommended for courses and projects in which no data analysis is required.
Google Earth Basics
A condensed set of how-to instructions for beginning to work with Google Earth.
ArcPad Tutorials
Living tutorial documents in uKnow help students, faculty, and staff use Trimble GPS units with ArcPad 8 software to create dynamic map projects.
How to Collect and Edit Data Points
A set of instructions for using the Trimble GPS unit with ArcPad 8 software to collect latitude and longitude coordinates for map projects.
Changing the Symbology of Points
Instructions for changing the way the symbols used to represent latitude and longitude points in your map project using ArcPad 8 on the Trimble GPS unit.
The courses projects and programs described on these pages are not supported by government funds. Major support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation is gratefully acknowledged.
ArcGIS Tutorials
GIS Laptop Readiness Tutorial
This document is recommended for anyone downloading ArcGIS software onto a computer that is more than a year old. Though the title suggests that they are only for laptops, these directions are recommended for Drew desktop computers as well.
Making Maps with ArcGIS
Basic instructions for navigating the ArcGIS interface, adding shape files and data to a map document, designing and symbolizing data so that it can be read by users.
Geocoding Tutorial
Geocoding allows you to add street addresses as data points to your maps. In this tutorial, users learn to use online map documents from the ESRI GIS Server services, access ESRI's Geocoding database, import addresses in a .csv file to their map document, and use the geocoding function in ArcMap to code the uploaded addresses to show up on their map.
Measuring Distances with GIS Using Hawth's Tools
Measuring distances between points can provide useful data for a wide variety of analyses. Users will learn to create layers of geocoded addresses and then use the analysis capabilities of Hawth's Tools to measure distances between those addresses. Users will also learn to create new data columns within layers and write a calculation script that automatically converts calculated distances from one unit of measurement to another. Designed for users who have already taken the Geocoding Tutorial.
Cartograms Tutorial
Cartograms are a method of displaying geospatial data as totals, wherein data are displayed with both color and area as a function of their values. Cartograms are analogous to pie charts in which the slices of the pie are geographic regions rather than wedges. Maps that display data as cartograms are quite dramatic and will provoke reactions and spur dialog in the classroom.
Exporting ArcGIS Data to Google Earth
This tutorial teaches you how to save data layers and map documents into a format that can be imported and used in Google Earth.


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LISTEN: Local Boy Does Right
A retired Rochester police officer who served in the Iraq War has been selected to become the next senior enlisted soldier in the New York Army National Guard.
Officials at National Guard headquarters in suburban Albany say Command Sgt. Maj. Louis Wilson will take over the position later this year.
The 38-year veteran of the National Guard served 20 years with the Rochester Police Department. During that time, Sgt. Maj. Wilson spent time on the force with the man who recently retired Greece Police Chief, Todd Baxter. Listen below as former-Chief Baxter discusses his brother in blue.


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RoseAnn V. Shawiak (October 6,1950 / New Jersey)
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When my Mom died, I didn't ever want to have friends or relationships again, thinking, what's the sense? they'll only die too! .
Just wanting to stay home, be safe, not have to reach out to anyone.
It's natural and normal when you're hurting so much, because the grief is so personal. It's hard to share it.
There is no advice to give, the only thing I know of to do is walk through the grief, however long it will take.
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Back in May of 08 i interviewed with T-Mobile and had all 3 interview that day. But i didn't have a high school diploma or GED so that stop me from getting the job. I have since got my GED and I'm looking at working there again. I have applied but i have not heard anything. What can i do after embarrassing myself the first time to get back in the door. The letter i got only stated that they could not make a offer to me at this time..
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Apply again. Go online to www.t-mobile.com/jobs and put in your app. There is no reason to be embarrassed!! The great thing is that you went back and got your GED opening so many more doors for you. If anything, your committment to your future is going to look good for you. The recruiter will see it as you taking initiative to improve your future, which will only look good.
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Barania Góra, emblematic mountain of the Vistula
Barania Góra, the "Mountain of the sheep", 1220m, second tallest of the Silesian Beskids after Skrzyczne for a story of few meters, can legitimately advertise itself to the mountain lovers as the first to visit for few reasons.
Lovers of peacefulness will above all appreciate the lack of infrastructures on its top, apart from a judiciously located outlook tower that allows panoramic views above the tree-line.
Barania Góra is also known as the emblematic mountain of the Vistula (Wisła, just like the homonym mountain resort on its foot), where Poland's largest river, flowing over 1048km via Cracow and Warszaw till the Baltic, takes its source. To be precise, two sister streams, the Black and the White Vistula (Czarna Wisełka i Biała Wisełka), born on different slopes (the first at the Przysłop pass, the other at Magurka Wiślańska) merge into a reservoir, Jezioro Czernianskie. Into whose downstream end merges a third river, the Malinka. All three are beautiful mountain streams that flow into cascades, and along which go some of the routes that are commonly walked like a sort of pilgrimage.
Barania Góra is indeed the tallest of a serie of tops gradually growing on a large massif from North to South, including Malinów, Malinowska Skała, Zielony Kopiec, Magurka Wiślańska and Barania itself. The ridge walk provides extensive panoramic views to the surrounding valleys and villages such as Milówka, Kamesznica, Koniaków. On a clear day, a wide portion the Tatras, the Malá Fatra, and the rest of the Beskids (Moravian on the West, Żywiecki on the East) are commonly seen.
On Malinowska Skała is located a feature worth mention, some bizarre sandstone outcrops somehow similar to those on Kiczory, in the Stożek Wielki range.
The massif of Barania Góra is separated from the rest of the Silesian Beskids by two high road passes, Kubalonka (758m) and Samopolska (937m), which are both sought-after goals for road cycling and made many times stages of legend of the Tour de Pologne. Kubalonka marks the limit with the Western Silesian Beskid and Stożek Wielki, while Samopolska separates it from the entity of Skrzyczne.
Barania Góra is also a natural reserve that extends on most of the western slope, in the perimeter formed by the rivers Malinka and Black Vistula. Many endemic plants and trees grow in a fragile environment that reminds of primeval forests. The route that visit the summit via the Black Vistula, the Przysłop hut, and returning via the White Vistula is an educative trail with informative panels set all along the way, informing the visitor about the specificities of the ecosystem.
Getting There
The most usual and popular trailheads are from Wisła so the access to Wisła is described here. However, Milówka, Kamesznica, Koniaków end Węgierska Górka, are other possible starting points, in this case it is advised to reach first the town of Żywiec.
This is the route from Poland, but the region is close to the convergence of three borders so it is worth describing the access from Czech Republic and Slovakia.
From Czech republic and Český Těšín, one can go either via the Polish side of the city Cieszyn and then Ustroń, or via Jablunkov and the Bukovec pass that reaches Istebna and eventually Wisła by the Kubalonka pass. Longer but more scenerical.
From Slovakia, we get into Poland via Zwardoń, which provides access to Koniaków and possibly the Kubalonka pass as above, despite the trailheads on the Żywiec are reached faster.
Żywiec, Węgierska Górka, Milówka as well as Wisła are all served by train lines. Kamesznica and Koniaków aren't, but buses are going there.
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Given the amount of trails that visit this mountain, a simple map is better than a long paragraph.
Instead, here are few ideas of loops that make a complete overview of the mountain :
- Loop by the valleys of Czarna Wisełka and Biała Wisełka. The same can be done returning along the Malinka, or the yellow-marked trail running on the W ridge of Zielony Kopiec. This is the "usual" visit.
- Loop from Węgierska Górka, using the red and the green trails
- Loop from Kamesznica , using the yellow and black trails
* Mountain huts
- Schronisko Górskie na Przysłopie pod Baranią Górą. Large cubic concrete mountain hut, not very good looking but in a nice location. Accessible by bike thanks to the asphalted track. The only one in the whole mountain.
- Wildcamping : forbidden into the Natural reserve (perimeter formed by the rivers Malinka and Black Vistula). Very little place in other locations due to the lack of grassy meadows into deep forests.
- Official campsites in Wisła and Węgierska Górka
- Lots of accomodations, from agrotouristic farms (strongly recommended if you are a mountain lover) to luxuous hotesl, in the Wisła and the Żywiec valleys. Just look into google for a location name followed by one of the words as follows :
- Accomodation = Noclegi
- Hotel = Hotel/Hotel. "Hostels" often designate Youth hostels or motels.
- Green lodge = Agroturystyka
- Guesthouse = Pokoje gościnne
- Summer residence = Dom letniskowe
- Flat for rent = Kwatery
- Mountain hut = Schronisko
- Tavern = Chata (not to mix with the Czech homonym for mountain hut)
- Restaurant = Restoracja
- Campsite = Kemping


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By Gladys Edmunds for USA TODAY
Hello Gladys, I have written before and I appreciate your answers. I have another situation that you might be able to help me with. I own a limo company. Another company has started a competing service with much lower prices. I pride myself on providing top-class service. I have lost some business and I fear losing a lot more because of my competition's low prices. Should I try to undercut them to save my current clients? J.L.
Proper pricing is critical to a healthy and competitive business environment, and remains one of the most important issues for businesses both large and small. How you price your products and services should communicate both values that you have to offer your clientèle and the vision that you have set for your company. Many companies set prices by what their competitors are changing without looking at the complete picture of their own companies.
A point to consider is an observation that I made about 25 years ago while owning a travel agency. Shortly after airline deregulation a new airline appeared called People Express. The airline claimed that if the frills were removed from the cost of flying, it would allow travelers to save money on air transportation. They priced round-trip airline tickets at $49 from Pittsburgh to New York City and $69 from Pittsburgh to Florida. This idea of "no frills" meant no pre-assigned seating, no advance reservations and no meal service on the aircraft.
The price represented a huge savings. Other airlines were charging around $300 from Pittsburgh to New York City and approximately $450 to destinations in Florida. Immediately air carriers started dropping their process to meet the People Express price.
It seemed hard to believe the "frills" cost in excess of $200-$300. But there was no evidence that the airlines stopped to evaluate their actual cost of doing business. And so the pricing war began.
One day during that time, my husband came home from his office and announced that a buddy of his who was reported to be a genius in investing had suggested that we invest money in People Express Airlines. My immediate reaction was: NO WAY. I asked him to consider if he thought it possible that he could fly to New York cheaper than driving his car. After some consideration on his part the subject ended.
Not long after People Express went bankrupt and the major airlines' competitive pricing war took them on a downward spiral that is still being felt today.
In the meantime, an airline surfaced known as Southwest Air. They agreed with the "no frills" flying idea. They seem to have done the smart thing and figured out the real cost of doing business with the perks removed. And, today they are still providing service to customers and profits to their bottom line.
Also take a lesson or two from the hotel industry. You don't see them caught up in price wars. When you stay at the Four Seasons the cost of all of their amenities are factored into the cost of your room. So if you don't need the pool, sauna, complimentary copy of USA TODAY, Wall Street Journal or the New York Times, gourmet restaurants, gym and other luxury features you can find a "no frills" priced property at the Days Inn.
I agree that you should be competitive. But don't price yourself out of business. Take time to evaluate what it actually costs to do business, including overhead. Learn more about the wants and needs of your customers. Do you want "bare bones" "no frill" service? Or do they want the extra services that your company offers? Once you know the needs and wants of your clients give it to them at a price that speaks to the value of the service.
As an example, I use a limo service company to and from the airport. Inside of each vehicle are three national newspapers, cellphone service and hot coffee in the morning and wine in the evening. I am not in the car long enough to read the newspapers, I have my own cell and I can forgo the beverages if it meant a price reduction.
It is OK to scale back some of your services once you know what it costs to do business. And if you have customers who insist on the services that you cut, you can negotiate a price for them that would include the services that suit their needs.
An important lesson to be learned from companies like Southwest Air and the hotel industry is that, while their pricing is competitive it also communicates both the value (what you get for the money) and the company vision (the best: Four Seasons or the "no frills" Days Inn).
Gladys Edmunds' Entrepreneurial Tightrope column appears Wednesdays. Click here for an index of her columns. As a single, teen-age mom, Gladys made money doing laundry, cooking dinners for taxi drivers and selling fire extinguishers and Bibles door-to-door. Today, Edmunds is founder of Edmunds Travel Consultants in Pittsburgh and author of There's No Business Like Your Own Business, a six-step guide to success published by Viking. Her website is www.gladysedmunds.com. You can e-mail her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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"What was great about the TET (Teacher Education Transfer) program at Morrisville is it provided me with the opportunity to participate in several observations of teachers in the Morrisville-Eaton Central School District. Right from my freshman year I was able to observe and even teach my own lesson plans. This gave me more confidence and an advantage over other students when it came time to student-teach during my senior year in college."
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Introduction to literature. Students learn the elements of literature by studying different genres to develop interpretive and analytical skills Pre-requisite C or better in ENGL 101. 3 credits (3 lecture hours), fall or spring This course satisfies SUNY General Education Requirements for "Humanities". These credits count toward the Humanities (List A) requirements for graduation.


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A rapper, who performs under the moniker of Maxamillion, claims the 'Black and Yellow' song is lifted from his own song called 'Pink and Yellow'.
Wiz Khalifa is facing a copyright infringement lawsuit. The Pittsburgh rapper, who claimed his fame through his debut single called "Black and Yellow", is accused of stealing the track from another rapper and songwriter named Max Gregory Warren a.k.a Maxamillion.
Warren has filed the legal papers at the United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The rapper claims the 2010 hit single was lifted from his own song called "Pink and Yellow" which he copyrighted in 2008. He seeks at least $2.3 million in damages.
Khalifa, whose real name is Cameron Jibril Thomaz, is named in the papers along with co-writers, Mikkel S. Eriksen & Tor Erik Hermansen (StarGate), who also produce the song. EMI Music Publishing, Rostrum Records, Warner Music Group and Atlantic Recording Corporation are included as defendants as well.
According to AllHipHop, Warren claims Khalifa and his team stole the concept for the song before his song was officially copyrighted. He accuses them of engaging "in a scheme to defraud plaintiff out of the fruits of his copyright of the Subject song," so he sues them "for fraud and deceit, copyright infringement, civil conspiracy and unjust enrichment."
Warren's camp declined to comment on the matter. Meanwhile, Khalifa, who copyrighted "Black and Yellow" in 2011, and his people at Atlantic Records didn't immediately respond to an email seeking comment.


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"I want to say that anything is possible … You got to keep God first and always remember to keep family first. Jesus loves every one of you!"
The "Baby" singer made a similar statement earlier that evening, when he told Entertainment Tonight, "If you put God first and remember to always stay humble and always be gracious then anything can happen."
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Joe Arpaio Recall Supporters Set Up "Camp Recall Arpaio" in Downtown Phoenix
Respect Arizona's Lilia Alvarez, holding down the fort Sunday at Camp Recall Arpaio
Nativists, Comicon enthusiasts, and supporters of the effort to recall Sheriff Joe Arpaio from office.
Downtown Phoenix was abandoned on Sunday, save for these three groups as members of the pro-recall organizations Respect Arizona and Citizens for a Better Arizona set up tents on the plaza in front of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Auditorium at 205 West Jefferson Street.
See also: -Joe Arpaio's Doomsday: Arpaio Loses ACLU Civil Rights Lawsuit, MCSO Enjoined from Racially Profiling Latinos -Joe Arpaio Recall Needs 100,000 Signatures According to Organizers (w/Update) -Joe Arpaio Recall Suspends Paid Signature Gathering Campaign for Second Time
Respect Arizona campaign manager Lilia Alvarez said her group would be camping out Sunday and Monday nights, and would be either in front of the BOS auditorium or across the street at Cesar Chavez Plaza till 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, May 30, which is the deadline for the effort to turn in its signatures to Maricopa County Elections.
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All You Can Eat Value Pack - Mercury v Sun
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Alvarez estimates that the recall now needs 90,000 more signatures to have a cushion in addition to the 335,317 necessary to force a recall.
"We're really pushing now for Arpaio to resign," she told me. "After this ruling, we should not have to spend the taxpayer dollars to have a recall special election."
Vietnam vet Julio Ortega stopped by to sign the recall Arpaio petition
Alvarez was referring to the ruling handed down by federal Judge G. Murray Snow on Friday, finding that the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office racially profiles Latinos and ordering Arpaio's office to stop.
She said Snow's 142-page ruling had given the recall a boost, but whether it would be enough to put the recall drive over the top remains an open question.
"If we're under the amount necessary to trigger an election, we're going to say that," she explained. "We're not going to turn them in unless we hit our mark."
That would be prudent, as Maricopa County Elections Director Karen Osborne estimates that it will cost her office $1.5 million to validate the recall petition's signatures.
A memorial for Arpaio's many victims...
If the county finds that there are enough valid signatures from qualified electors, Arpaio would have five days to resign before a special election is ordered.
One of those who would like to see Arpaio resign or be recalled is Julio Ortega, a Vietnam vet and former Marine. He stopped by Camp Recall Arpaio with his wife to sign the petition.
Ortega, 70, said that the people should be allowed "to speak on the recall," and that Arpaio should have to defend himself and debate an opponent, something the sheriff dodged in the 2012 election.
I asked him what he thought of Judge Snow's ruling and the finding that Arpaio's deputies discriminate against Latinos.
Rusty Childress loves Joe so much he'd like to French-kiss his feet
He recalled friends of his, other Hispanic soldiers, who died in Vietnam.
"If we were good enough to get shot and killed and wounded, mutilated, like is still going on in other wars," he said, "whether you're white, black, Indian, whatever you are, you should have the right to be treated like a human being."
Crazy Art Olivas, with his fellow nativists lined up across the street
On the other side of Jefferson Street, the Joe-lovers kept vigil, sometimes shouting through megaphones, sometimes blasting music, like Twisted Sister's "We're Not Going to Take It."
It was pretty much the same sad old, hateful crew that you would have seen supporting Arpaio back in 2008.
Michelle Dallacroce, nativist soccer mom, talks to a local TV journo
There was aging Arpaio-worshipper Barb Heller, plus-sized masseuse Brandy Baron, non-Hispanic "Hispanic" Art Olivas (who sometimes says he's of Mexican descent and other times denies it), Santa Claus-bearded biker dude Reverend Jim, nativist soccer-mom Michelle Dallacroce, and ex-KIA dealer and redneck playboy Rusty Childress.
Childress has bobbed back to the top of Arizona's slimy stew of bigotry recently after being out of sight since he sold the car dealership his father had built and then handed down to Rusty, who liked bashing Mexicans more than bid-ness.
Which is ironic, considering that some of his fellow nativists once accused him of sub-contracting out the car cleaning on his lot to a company that used undocumented labor.
Art Olivas and videographer Dennis Gilman go toe-to-toe
Dallacroce, too, is an old hand at the immigrant-bashing game. She founded a group called Mothers Against Illegal Aliens in 2005, and has officially dropped out of the movement only to re-emerge from time to time.
The nativists started out with about 15 or so counter-protesters, and that diminished to just a few after an hour and a half. The only excitement, if you can call it that, occurred when Art Olivas, wearing a sombrero, crossed the street to shout at videographer Dennis Gilman with his megaphone.
Rev. Jim, nativist Bible-thumper, showing off some belly...
He made the mistake of giving Gilman the mic at one point, and almost didn't get it back.
This kept passers-by amused, some of them on their way back from the Phoenix Comicon, which wrapped up Sunday afternoon at the Phoenix Convention Center.
Art should have attended, as he had on a costume. A circus would have been better for him, though. He's got the clown shtick down pat, you see.
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After a non-religious West Point cadet left the academy because of what he claimed was religious bigotry, CNN contributor Roland Martin compared it to racism suffered by one of West Point's first black cadet graduates.
Cadet Lt. Blake Page first aired his grievances to The Huffington Post and he told CNN's Starting Point that what he found "most offensive" at West Point was "condescension and disrespect from other people."
"General Benjamin Davis Jr. was the first black to finish from West Point in the 20th Century. He went through an entire year where no one even spoke to him because he was black. Do you believe that you're giving in to them by leaving?" Martin asked Page, immediately drawing a parallel between his case and the racism suffered by General Davis.
"What if you stayed? What if you said, no matter what you do to me, I am going to win and beat you at this battle? Why leave?" he pressed.
Mikey Weinstein – who's made offensive remarks in the past about Christianity – joined Page on the show, representing the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. He described his attempts to prevent West Point from having "raging Islamophobe" retired Lieutenant General Jerry Boykin – of the Family Research Council – speak at its national prayer breakfast.
While Page's grievances may or may not have been real, Roland Martin promptly raised the stakes by comparing West Point's treatment of non-religious cadets to racism.
A transcript of the segment, which aired on December 6 on Starting Point at 7:36 a.m. EST, is as follows:
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN: This is an interesting story. A young man who's just five months away from graduating West Point, he's decided that he is going to abandon his degree in a very public way. 24-year-old cadet Blake Page, he wrote a blog post on The Huffington Post saying he wanted out because he's being discriminated against, he's claiming, for being non-religious. In his resignation letter to the school, he writes this, "I do not wish to be in any way associated with an institution which willfully disregards the Constitution of the United States of America by enforcing policies which run counter to the same."
The U.S. Military Academy declined to give us a statement. They did, though, confirm that Page's resignation has been approved and he's being honorably discharged. So joining us this morning is Blake Page, now an out-processing cadet from West Point. Michael Winestein is with the founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. They're in Albuquerque. Nice to talk to you both.
Blake, I'm going to start with you, if I can. Did you know before you attended West Point, that this was an institution that involves going to chapel, praying over meals. Did you have an – there was a bit, I think it's fair, of a religious culture around the West Point.
Cadet Lt. BLAKE PAGE, out-processing cadet, West Point: Sure. I knew there was a religious culture, but being a cadet does not involve going to chapel, it doesn't involve praying over meals, under normal circumstances. Going to chapel is often encouraged in illegal ways here and throughout the military at large. But prayer over meals is explicitly required at certain times. Those things, though – those things weren't as big of a deal to me as a lot of the other problems that have arose --
O'BRIEN: So walk me through. You spelled it out in your letter to The Huffington Post, religious bigotry. So tick off for me some of the things that you found most offensive.
PAGE: Right. Well, things that have happened to me personally have just been conversational and really just condescension and disrespect from other people. And I can give my personal stories all day long, but so far, it seems that my greatest criticism comes from people saying that they can't believe what I'm saying.
We have over 150 clients here and the staff, faculty, and cadets at West Point of the MRFF who also agree that this is a problem. And there are thousands throughout the military who also agree that this is a problem. So if anybody wants to just pretend that this sort of harassment doesn't exist, they're really missing it. I've had conversations with –
O'BRIEN: Forgive me for interrupting you, you said the MRFF, and I just want people to be aware that's the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, which Mr. Winestein is the founder and president. So we'll turn to him for a moment. Is it true that this is a -- how big of a problem is this? And how many complaints do you get? This seems to be a real rarity, a high-profile departure, just months before graduation.
MICHAEL "MIKEY" WEINSTEIN, founder and president, Military Religious Freedom Foundation: Soledad, it's a terrible problem. Our foundation, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, currently represents 30,512 active duty United States Marines, sailors, soldiers, airmen, and cadets and midshipmen at my alma mater, the Air Force Academy, West Point, and Annapolis. 96 percent of them are actually practicing Christians themselves, being told that they're not Christian enough. At West Point, as Blake says, we have 151 clients, 119 of whom are also Christians. But this year, this is very typical for West Point.
Earlier this year, our foundation had to lead the way with other organizations to stop West Point from inviting the raging Islamophobe, retired Lieutenant General Jerry Boykin, from speaking at their national prayer breakfast. We had to go public with that. This man is a raging fundamentalist Christian, Islamophobe, you know, disgraced. He was – West Point, did, at the last minute, disinvite him. A few months later, thanks to other folks at West Point, we found out that West Point had a four-year longitudinal study that was assessed with the class of 2013 this time.
It came out in August, I think it was, Blake, where they were actually asking questions about leadership, and they were testing, you know, asking questions about faith and religion, which is fine to do, but not in this country, because Clause 3, Article 6 of our constitution specifically forbids religious testing. So this is an epidemic situation –
O'BRIEN: So let me get back to Blake for a moment if I can. I think Roland wanted to jump in with a question to him.
ROLAND MARTIN: General Benjamin Davis Jr. was the first black to finish from West Point in the 20th Century. He went through an entire year where no one even spoke to him because he was black. Do you believe that you're giving in to them by leaving? What if you stayed? What if you said, no matter what you do to me, I am going to win and beat you at this battle? Why leave?
PAGE: Yeah, I get that question a lot. I didn't come to West Point to get a West Point degree. I couldn't care less about graduating from West Point. What I wanted to do was become an officer, all right? So that's what was important to me and that was what I was working towards. And I'm not being beaten. Going through the channels here has not been difficult for me, classes haven't been difficult. I've generally had a fair amount of success with my time as a cadet, and anybody who thinks that I'm just giving up and walking away is really missing the point.
I found out earlier this semester that I would not be able to commission, but I was told that I would be allowed to graduate if I decided that I wanted to. When I first found out that I wasn't going to commission, I asked if I could go ahead and leave so that I wouldn't waste any more taxpayer dollars. But I was encouraged by people here to stay, and I ended up staying for a few months, but I realized that there was a problem here and I was about to be out of the system. I wasn't going to be inside the ranks of the Army any more, and so I wouldn't have an opportunity to affect the change that I wanted to affect as a member of the chain of command or as a high-ranking officer later on. So I made the decision to do what I could to try and get attention to an issue that I think needs a lot of attention.
O'BRIEN: You certainly have with your post on The Huffington Post. It's what all people are talking about. Cadet Blake Page joining us, and also Michael Weinstein as well with the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. Nice to talk to both of you gentleman. We appreciate your time this morning. Got to take a short break.


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David Brion Davis is one of the foremost historians of our time, and in this final volume in his monumental trilogy on slavery in Western culture he offers highly original, authoritative, and penetrating insight into what slavery and emancipation meant to Americans. He explores how the Haitian revolution terrified and inspired white and black Americans respectively, and offers a commanding analysis of the complex and misunderstood significance of "colonization"-the project to move freed slaves back to Africa-to members of both races and all political persuasions. Davis vividly portrays the dehumanizing impact of slavery, as well as the generally unrecognized importance of freed slaves to abolition. And he explores the influence of religion on American ideas about emancipation. Above all, he captures the ways in which America wrestled with the knotty problem of moving forward into an age of emancipation. This is a landmark work: a brilliant conclusion to one of the great works of American history.


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John L. McNeil Papers
A Preliminary Inventory to the Collection
Biographical Note
Limited biographical information about John L. McNeil has been gleaned from the collection. McNeil was born in the early 1930s and grew up in East Austin at 2007 East 10th Street. He was a member of the Boy Scouts in the mid 1940s. His mother's name was Irene Maynard.
There is evidence that he joined the United States Armed Services in the early 1950s and was stationed in California. His name appears in the Austin City Directories briefly in the mid-1950s where he is listed that he was a student. His name reappears in the City Directories in the late 1970s through the late 1990s and his profession is listed as a mail handler for the U.S. Post Office. The Austin City Directories also tell us that he married a woman named Jewelene.
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The collection contains items such at War Ration booklets and Boy Scout certificates from McNeil's childhood. There is correspondence, a life insurance policy and "Combination Scorecard for U. S. Rifles, M1903 and M1 and Browning Automatic Rifle" from his time in the military. Materials from the early 1970s include a University of New Mexico publication titled "Ravin'" from the Afro American Student Association, a flyer from The Young Democrats of the University of Texas listing segregated and integrated restaurants in Austin, periodicals The American Postal Worker and Texas AFL-CIO News and several newspaper clippings.
There is a single photograph of an unidentified African-American boy as well as pins from the Boy Scouts and the Army.
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Materials donated by the new owners of 7310 Meador Ave, Austin, TX. This was the address for John McNeil for 20+ years.
Preferred Citation
John L. McNeil Papers (AR.2009.003). Austin History Center, Austin Public Library, Texas.
Acquisition Information
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Donation Date: 2008 December 21
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There will be a free pancake breakfast at the Fire Station from 7:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. In Railroad Park, there will be kids activities from 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Irwin & Naomi Swandt's Little Toot Train will run all day, starting at Railroad Park and cruising around Donnellson. There will be music from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Bob Black and Banjoy along with Kirk Brandenberger will be playing from 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. There will also be crafts and food vendors from 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. On Main Street, there will be a car show from 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
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Enze Han is a China and the World Fellow resident at Princeton. At his talk, he will discuss the focus of his research on ethnic politics in China, in particular how domestic politics intereact with the international dimension in the making of ethnic group political strategies in China.
During the academic year, he will work on a project titled "The Politics of Ethnic Mobilization in China: Ethnic Identity and the Role of External Kin." He has published an article entitled "The Dog That Hasn't Barked: Assimilation and Resistance in Inner Mongolia, China" in Asian Ethnicity (forthcoming).
He holds a BA from Beijing Foreign Studies University, MA from the University of British Columbia. He recently defended his PhD in Political Science from the George Washington University. This talk is sponsored by the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program of the Woodrow Wilson School whose mission is to encourage research on China's foreign relations and China within the international relations context.


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In a Wednesday post on its company blog, Twitter (TWTR) announced that it has filed legal actions in Turkey to contest the Turkish government's effort to block access to the social media service.
Last week, the government of Turkish Prime Minster Recep Tayyip Erdogan began blocking the popular service, vowing to "eradicate" Twitter inside Turkey. Erdogan's government — which is facing upcoming municipal elections — accused Twitter of failing to remove certain objectionable links. Turkish officials said that they had obtained court orders to disrupt Twitter.
Twitter said it has been talking to Turkish officials in a bid to resolve the dispute. The company says it is now working with lawyers in Turkey to challenge those rulings in three Turkish courts. Twitter noted that it had not received copies of the bans ordered by three courts before they were enforced.
One of the orders required Twitter to cancel an account that alleged corruption by a former Turkish government minister. Twitter says that it is contesting that order. Two other court orders pertained to content posted on Twitter that the companies says violated its posting rules and has already been removed.
Twitter said that while it battles the bans in court, Turkish Twitter users could use an online tool called Country Withheld Content that would allow postings to be viewed by Twitter users outside specified regions. Twitter said that it had not provided access to any user data to the Turkish government.
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It's understood that Newcastle will have the first chance to sign Loic Remy next summer, for whatever the price is – £8M or €8M (£6.8M) – take your choice.
Loic Remy – sign him up as soon as possible
Given the class that Loic has already displayed at Newcastle, that fee is very low for a player of his caliber, and all being well, and assuming Loic is found not guilty at his trial for rape in November, we hope that Newcastle will be able to sign Loic in January,
It could be dangerous if Newcastle wait until the summer, because then there will be other clubs in for him, if he scores lots of goals, which now seems very possible.
And even if we try to get the deal sealed in January, Arsenal are wanting to sign a top striker in the next transfer window, and £8M will seem like peanuts to Arsene Wenger, so we have to hope that Newcastle do their work under the radar screen until January rolls around.
And then we get him signed up to a five-year deal on Tyneside, because from what we've seen of him so far, he would be an absolute bargain.
And the fans have already taken to him, and he seems like a good guy – and comes across so well in his interviews – so get him signed up Joe.
And Joe made a big deal in last Saturday's program notes that Loic was still a QPR player and that he would return to the London club in the summer, but that was to lower the expectations of Newcastle fans, which for Joe is a good move. 😀
But once you've played in front of 52,000 fans at St. James' Park, who would want to go back play in front of 17,000 fans in a small stadium at a small club.
Hopefully not Loic.
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As a member of the so-called millennial generation myself, I'm always interested to hear the thoughts of my contemporaries on issues of faith and culture. A new e-journal, Millennial, offers an online home to Catholic writers in their 20s and 30s to explore a vast array of topics, including politics, inspiration, and living out faith in today's world.
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I'm sure you've heard the saying "Nothing good happens after midnight".
So, to that I say… what about:
- Stargazing
- Rock Band All nighters
- Baking
- Blogging about what you just baked
- Movie marathons
- Great conversations
- Enjoying peace and quiet
Any others you'd like to add to the list?
Well, while you ponder that thought, you might also want to add enjoying a slice of this yummy cheesecake to the list.
Milky Way Midnight Cheesecake
20 chocolate graham crackers finely ground
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon instant coffee
4 ounces (1 stick) unsalted butter
Spray a 9 inch springform pan with cooking spray, then line it with parchment paper. This will prevent the candy from sticking to the pan.
Melt butter over low heat. In a bowl combine butter with crumbs, sugar, and instant coffee until thoroughly mixed. Press crumbs firmly into pan bottom.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
16 oz cream cheese
2 eggs
1/4 cup granulated sugar
8 oz sweetened condensed milk
1/4 cup heavy cream
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups chopped milky way midnight minis
pinch of salt
In a mixer, whip cream cheese on the highest speed for 5 minutes, then add sugar an whip for 2 more.
Add the eggs, one at a time, keeping the mixer on the lowest speed in order to prevent too much air from destroying the proper consistency of the batter; mix just until each egg has been incorporated into the batter.
Add condensed milk, heavy cream, vanilla, flour and salt. Blend until smooth. Stir in the chopped milky way.
Pour cheesecake batter into pan and bake for 45 minutes or until set. Turn oven off open the oven door slightly and let it sit there for another hour, then place in fridge overnight.
Just before serving melt some milk chocolate in a microwave safe bowl, in 30 second intervals at 50% power and drizzle it over the cheesecake.
If you are feeling extra naughty, drizzle with a little dark chocolate syrup (I used Hershey's) and top with a Milky Way mini.
A nice drizzle of dark chocolate syrup goes a long way.