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Notes: Promega T4 Polynucleotide Kinase was used to end-label an oligo representing a NF-kB binding sequence element with [γ-32P] ATP (7,000 Ci/mmol). Specific primers to IFN-β and IκB-α messenger RNA were used in RT-PCR to generate products for cloning into the pGEM®-T Easy Vector. The resulting plasmids were linearized with Nco I and Spe I, respectively, and used as templates for in vitro transcription using the Riboprobe® System to generate probes for use in an RNase protection assay. The antisense probes were labeled with [α-32P]CTP (800 Ci/mmol) in the Riboprobe® reactions. RNase ONE™ Ribonuclease was also used in this study. (3197)
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Scarlets threw the battle for Heineken Cup Pool Four wide open on Saturday with a surprise 33-19 win over Harlequins.
Scarlets threw the battle for Heineken Cup Pool Four wide open on Saturday with a surprise 33-19 win over Harlequins.
Scarlets put the embarrassment of last season's Heineken Cup whitewash behind them as backs Rhodri Williams, Scott Williams and Jordan Williams all scored outstanding tries for the visitors, who led from start to finish.
Mike Brown touched down twice for the English club, what it wasn't enough as the hosts were forced to settle for a losing bonus point despite dominating the closing stages.
The defeat was Harlequins' fourth loss in six matches across all competitions this season.
Rhys Priestland contributed with an excellent kicking performance under pressure, adding three conversions and four penalties with the Wales fly-half also setting up the opening try for R.Williams.
The livewire scrum-half collected Priestland's inside pass after the Scarlets 10 combined with Kristian Phillips down the right touchline to unlock the Harlequins defence within the opening minutes. Priestland's penalty a few minutes later had the visitors comfortably ahead at 10-0.
Priestland and Evans traded penalties as Harlequins tried their hardest to establish a foothold in the match, reeling after defeat away to London Irish last weekend.
Brown, who impressed throughout as he vies for England's full-back spot ahead of the November Internationals, was sharp enough to cut inside for the hosts' first try after a favourable bounce of the ball for Nick Easter enabled to find Brown in space.
With the damage only limited to three points, the home faithful at The Stoop gradually found their voice until Scott Williams silenced them with a wonderful try.
The Wales centre burst through and fixed England scrum-half Danny Care with a dummy, before beating Matt Hopper for pace to touch down under the posts. It left the Scarlets 20-10 ahead at the break.
Samson Lee's sin-binning for a stamp on the face Care was only given a yellow card but could have been red, a key moment that played out in the visitors' favour.
Nick Evans added a drop goal to bring the hosts back within seven points but Priestland struck twice with difficult penalty attempts as the West Wales outfit impressively controlled the tempo through their scrummaging and choke tackles in defence.
Quins piled on the pressure and Evans took the two chances that came his way to put the result in the balance heading into the final quarter.
Scarlets were not done, though. Scott Williams brilliantly stripped Joe Marker of the ball on the Quins 10-metre line to gain possession, and the three-time European semi-finalists spread the ball wide to left wing Jordan Williams who bumped off three defenders and cut inside Matt Hopper for a sublime opportunist score. Priestland converted to make it 19-33.
Brown demonstrated his finishing instincts once again with a well-taken score and Evans converted to put Quins back within one score of Simon Easterby's men.
With Rob Evans in the sin-bin for repeated team infringements Scarlets faced a nervy final 10 minutes, but they held on to give them their best win in Europe since defeating Northampton at Franklin's Gardens two years ago.
The scorers:
For Harlequins:
Tries: Brown 2
Cons: Evans 2
Pens: Evans 3
Drop: Evans
For Scarlets:
Tries: R. Williams, S. Williams, J.Williams
Cons: Priestland 3
Pens: Priestland 4
Yellow cards: Lee, Evans
Harlequins: 15 Mike Brown, 14 Tom Williams, 13 Matt Hopper, 12 Ben Botica, 11 Sam Smith, 10 Nick Evans, 9 Danny Care, 8 Nick Easter, 7 Chris Robshaw (c), 6 Maurie Fa'asavalu, 5 George Robson, 4 George Merrick, 3 Will Collier, 2 Rob Buchanan, 1 Joe Marler.
Replacements: 16 Dave Ward, 17 Darryl Marfo, 18 Kyle Sinckler, 19 Tom Guest, 20 Luke Wallace, 21 Karl Dickson, 22 Paul Sackey, 23 Charlie Walker.
Scarlets: 15 Liam Williams, 14 Kristian Phillips, 13 Jonathan Davies (capt), 12 Scott Williams, 11 Jordan Williams, 10 Rhys Priestland, 9 Rhodri Williams, 8 Josh Turnbull, 7 John Barclay, 6 Aaron Shingler, 5 George Earle, 4 Jake Ball, 3 Samson Lee, 2 Emyr Phillips, 1 Phil John.
Replacements: 16 Kirby Myhill, 17 Rob Evans, 18 Jacobie Adriaanse, 19 Joe Snyman, 20 Craig Price, 21 Gareth Davies, 22 Steven Shingler, 23 Gareth Maule.
Venue: Twickenham Stoop
Referee: John Lacey (Ireland)
Assistant referees: Peter Fitzgibbon (Ireland), Olly Hodges (Ireland)
Television match official: Marshall Kilgore (Ireland)


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WYDOT Director John Cox testified before a U.S. Senate Committee in Washington Thursday about the importance of maintaining the interstate highway system.
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Dave Mustaine is turning 55 this year and celebrating with the launch of his own beer, À TOUT LE MONDE. Want to party with Dave for his birthday? Subscribe for details at megadethbeer.com
Megadeth was forced to cancel a show earlier tonight (Friday August 26) after performing two songs at Estadio Jorge El Mágico González in San Salvador, El Salvador due to a severe rain storm. Check out video footage below.
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David Ellefson spoke to Argentina's Rock & Pop radio station about the band's acoustic performance on Tuesday, August 23 outside the Four Seasons hotel in Buenos Aires. "...it was very fun, very spur of the moment, very impromptu."
Megadeth played a four-song acoustic set for devoted fans outside the band's hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina earlier today (Tuesday, August 23) performing "Trust", "She-Wolf", "A Tout Le Monde" and "Symphony of Destruction".
Megadeth will play to sold out crowd tonight at Luna Park in Buenos Aires, Argentina! The band will play its first of two back-to-back shows in Buenos Aires. Catch Megadeth on the Dystopia World Tour. megadeth.com/tour
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Megadeth was featured in, and attended the world premiere of Recycled Orchestra's documentary, Landfill Harmonic earlier tonight (Friday, August 19) in Asuncion, Paraguay. Dave Mustaine tweeted afterwards, "It will be the best feel-good movie you will see all year!!!" The band stayed after the screening to watch Recycled Orchestra perform to a live audience. Landfill Harmonic follows the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, a Paraguayan musical youth group of kids that live next to one of South America's largest landfills. Read more at landfillharmonicmovie.com
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Roberto Luongo After Consecutive Bad Games
Jonathan Willis
April 23 2011 09:03PM
Roberto Luongo has had two bad games in a row against Chicago. Despite the fact that many of the shots that beat him were screened, or from danger areas, or came about as the result of a defensive breakdown, the simple fact is that he hasn't been very good and he needs to be better in Game Six.
Since Alain Vigneault has made the decision to start Luongo, I think it's worth asking: exactly how good has Luongo been after consecutive bad games in the past?
Roberto Luongo doesn't string two bad games together very often.
October 15-20: Luongo got off to a lousy start this season. He allowed four goals in his fourth game (versus Los Angeles), posting a 0.789 SV%, and followed that up with a six goals against, 0.667 SV% performance against Minnesota on October 19. After the game on the 19th, the Canucks played the second-half of a back-to-back match against Chicago. It would have been easy for Vigneault to justify sitting his underperforming 'tender on a back-to-back, but he didn't. Luongo responded with 31 saves on 32 shots (0.969 SV%) in a shootout loss.
2009-10 Playoffs
May 5-9: In their playoff series against Chicago, Luongo got blasted for 11 goals over a two-game stretch, posting a 0.857 SV% and then a 0.819 SV% in consecutive losses. He followed those up by stopping 29 of 30 shots (0.967 SV%) in a Game Five win.
April 19-23: In the first round against Los Angeles, Luongo allowed four goals in two consecutive games (one a win, one a loss), posting save percentages of 0.750 and 0.846. The next night he stopped 24 of 26 shots (0.923 SV%) in a Canucks' victory.
2008-09 Season
April 2-7: We jump back to 2008-09 for the next example of two consecutively awful games from Luongo. After allowing five goals versus the Ducks (0.844 SV%), the Canucks played a back-to-back series. In two games in two nights, Luongo surrendered four goals to Edmonton (0.833 SV%) and Colorado (0.846 SV%). His next game came against the Calgary Flames, and he stopped 46 of 47 shots in the victory (0.979 SV%).
2007-08 Season
March 26-30: After allowing a total of nine goals over two games against Colorado (0.783 SV%) and Minnesota (0.810 SV%), Luongo played well against Calgary, stopping 27 of 29 shots (0.931 SV%) en route to a win.
2006-07 Season
November 2-6: Luongo had poor outings in consecutive games against Minnesota (five goals against, 0.792 SV%) and Colorado (three goals against, 0.850 SV%). He followed that up by stopping 19 of 20 shots (0.950 SV%) against the Dallas Stars in another win for the Canucks.
That's it for Luongo's Canucks' career. There are six instances (including twice in the playoffs) where Luongo had consecutively awful games, and in five of the six (including both playoff instances) his game following those two was tremendous. On one occasion, Luongo laid three stinkers in a row before playing brilliantly in a win.
My takeaway from all this is that despite the talk of Luongo's "mental fragility," he has shown the ability to bounce back from a couple of poor outings during his time with the Canucks. I'm fairly confident that Vigneault's ongoing faith in his star goaltender has something to do with how Luongo's performed in similar situations in the past for him.
Not a 'nucks fan here, but I'm curious to hear from the fanbase:
If Vancouver loses on home ice, in game 7, to their playoff nemesis, will there be a riot?
Because I'm betting there will be, but I'd love to hear what the experts have to say (seriously).
April 25 2011, 08:00AM
Does Luongo choke when he eats to or is it just a hockey thing?


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You do know that the guardian, is a slow, highdamage, class, that can kill alot, but not catch them....
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As a rule, I try to act on the internet as I would in real life. If I have offended you, feel free to point it out. Unless I meant to offend you, I will probably apologize.
A guardian can be equipped and traited to be very mobile. There is one trait that makes your standard sword attack give you swiftness on a crit, and another(stacking) trait which makes that same standard sword swing crit chance 50% higher. On the same weapon you have a teleport, and one of your last 5 universal abilities is a teleport all on it's own.
That's just off the top of my head, ontop of strategic barriers I'm sure there are other ways to close a gap(and I know of at least one way to make one, if need be).
Read the books imo. If you have an ipad or something you can download them from amazon for like...$4.99. I got em for 3.99 pounds each.
You get quite a good sense of the world and the profs if you pay attention to what your reading and what the chars are doing. Plus, everything will still be a surprise visually for you.
And yeah...sounds like you want a Norn Guardian if you want a magical sword-wielding juggernaut. Mesmers, although I love them, sound too crafty and posturing for you.


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Skip to comments.Revisiting the Vietnam War: The Legacy of the Tet Offensive (burying a dangerous historical myth)
Posted on 09/30/2010 7:23:58 AM PDT by WebFocus
James S. Robbins, who has been a contributor to National Review Online since the September 11 terrorist attack, is author of a new book, This Time We Win: Revisiting the Tet Offensive. The book, as he describes in an interview with NROs Kathryn Jean Lopez, is an effort to bury a myth and crush a continuing source of inspiration to Americas enemies.
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: You call the Tet Offensive a powerful symbol divorced from its reality and describe it as a having become more than a battle; it is a legacy, a legend, a continually replicating story line. How does history get this out of control?
JAMES S. ROBBINS: Tet was misrepresented from the start, and over time the misrepresentation became an accepted fact in the culture at large. There are some very good reality-based histories of Tet, but most contemporary commentators use the Tet analogy to imply the end is near in whatever unconventional war the United States is fighting. Plus, the bad guys know this and will attempt to generate facts on the ground that engage the medias Tet reflex. When you have something like the Wikileaks document dump being compared to Tet, as Times Joe Klein did, you know something is seriously wrong with how people understand what went on back in 1968.
LOPEZ: If you were writing the paragraph in your kids social-studies textbook about Tet, how would it read?
ROBBINS: The four most important frequently wrong things to correct are: Tet was not a surprise attack; it was not intended only to be a symbolic strike; it did not turn the American public against the war effort; and it did not drive Johnson to the negotiating table, because he had been futilely calling for peace talks since the war began.
LOPEZ: Could we have really won?
ROBBINS: Absolutely. The Vietnam War was lost by choice. The biggest American mistake was not seeking victory but fighting for a negotiated status quo peace. Johnson said in 1965 that the United States would convince the enemy that we will not be defeated, but that just handed the initiative to the Communists. There is a big difference between trying to win and trying not to lose.
LOPEZ: Is it really true that young people supported the war in Vietnam in the summer of 1967, the Summer of Love?
ROBBINS: Probably the most astonishing fact I turned up in my research was that young people supported the war effort in greater numbers than older Americans. According to Gallup, in May 1967, at the onset of the Summer of Love and Flower Power, hawks outnumbered doves on college campuses 49 percent to 35 percent, and among draft-age young men the hawk edge was even greater, 56 percent to 30 percent. You would never know that from the hippie histories of the 1960s that portray most young people as long-haired, dope-smoking draft resisters. But the poll numbers cannot be denied.
LOPEZ: What do you mean by Lyndon Johnson had not lost Middle America. Middle America lost Lyndon Johnson?
ROBBINS: In the wake of Tet, the majority of the American people wanted to escalate the war. They understood that the Communists had been decisively defeated on the battlefield and the time was ripe for forcing an end to the conflict. But President Johnson was paralyzed by indecision and received conflicting suggestions from his advisers. Johnson delayed making a decision until the moment for concerted action passed, and then basically gave up.
LOPEZ: What was President Johnson thinking?
ROBBINS: He honestly believed that he could reach a peace agreement with the Communists that would guarantee a free South Vietnam. Unfortunately, LBJ simply did not understand the Communist worldview. Johnson wanted a deal, but Ho Chi Minh wanted to win.
LOPEZ: How was the famous Walter Cronkite moment a legend? He did, in fact, blurt out, What the hell is going on? I thought we were winning this war.
ROBBINS: The legend is not that he turned against the war effort, but that he was a bellwether for American public opinion. At the same time Walter Cronkite was turning into a dove, the American people were becoming more hawkish. According to Gallup, the percentage self-identifying as hawks climbed from 52 percent in December 1967 to 56 percent in early January 1968 to 60 percent in the week after the start of Tet. The respective percentage of doves dropped from 35 percent to 28 percent to 23 percent. Three weeks later, the hawks still had a better than two-to-one edge. And slightly more people wanted to settle the issue with nuclear weapons than wanted to pull out. Cronkite may have set the agenda among the political class but not in the country generally. Besides, at this time Huntley and Brinkley had higher ratings.
LOPEZ: How did the quest for the moment become absurd during the Iraq war?
ROBBINS: During the Iraq war, whenever someone voiced skepticism about the course of the conflict who hadnt done so previously, commentators rushed to invoke Walter Cronkite, as though the myth could be replicated. Probably the most absurd use was in 2006, when NBC News decided to declare the Iraq insurgency a civil war and Keith Olbermann made a big deal about that as a Walter Cronkite moment. Good thing no one took him seriously.
LOPEZ: How powerful has the media been vis-à-vis Iraq and Afghanistan?
ROBBINS: If the mainstream media had as much influence as some of its critics say, we probably would have lost both those wars already. Fortunately, since Vietnam, the media cannot lead public opinion the way it did, and even back then its power was overrated. Tet is a case in point: The press went one way and the public went another. The high-water mark for network-TV-news ratings was 1969; the decline began long before the CNN revolution. And today there are a multitude of news and information outlets offering diverse viewpoints and performing a watchdog function that the traditional Big Three networks did not have to contend with.
LOPEZ: How did Tet lower the standards for victory?
ROBBINS: It made it easier for insurgents to generate strategic effects in the media, because after Tet they do not have to actually win but only seem to or, often, simply do something that creates headlines. The symbolic attack has a very real impact in wars of perception. This is a very difficult thing to deal with, and it is a decided advantage for Americas enemies.
LOPEZ: What was the Hue Massacre?
ROBBINS: Hue was the only city in South Vietnam over which the Communists gained substantial control. During their three weeks in power in Hue, they massacred thousands of enemies of the people, often in the most gruesome ways imaginable. Mass graves turned up for years afterward. It was one of the greatest such wartime atrocities in history. But the American press coverage was minimal, and Communist apologists in this country tried either to minimize the scope of the massacre or deny it ever happened.
LOPEZ: Did Iraq have any Hues?
ROBBINS: Wherever radical Islamists are active, innocent people are slaughtered. The main difference is scale. If there had been as many al-Qaeda insurgents in Iraq as there were Viet Cong in South Vietnam, it would have been a charnel house.
LOPEZ: Does Tet truly still inspire terrorists? Or did Osama bin Laden use it because he knew it was an open wound?
ROBBINS: The American defeat in Vietnam is a standing inspiration to terrorists; they have said as much. Tet is the model for gaining victories in the press that they cannot achieve on the battlefield. They have analyzed this in detail. Osama bin Laden wrote to Mullah Omar that media war may account for 90 percent of the total preparation for battles.
LOPEZ: Is this one of the greatest injustices of history, that we allow this myth to live?
ROBBINS: Lets not allow it, lets get rid of it. Thats the purpose of the book.
LOPEZ: When did you decide you were going to write this book? Did you feel an obligation to truth and to those who served in Vietnam?
ROBBINS: Yes, definitely. Vietnam vets gave me the title. When I spoke to vets about my work on the Tet Offensive, they often said, Do we win this time? Absolutely, this time we win.
LOPEZ: The way we received the soldiers upon returning from Vietnam is a source of national shame. Have we recovered? Can we recover? Have we learned?
ROBBINS: I think the outstandingly positive public response to the troops engaged in the war on terrorism has buoyed the Vietnam generation. In general, people show great respect for those who wear or have worn the uniform, and that includes Vietnam vets. Maybe there is an element of guilt in that for the shameful way the troops who returned from Vietnam were treated. We have definitely learned, especially those of us who have always supported the troops. If you were to spit on someone in uniform these days, there would be hell to pay.
LOPEZ: Are there lessons President Obama needs to learn from Tet?
ROBBINS: Ignore the press and the defeatists. Know your enemy, keep clear goals in mind, and never give up.
LOPEZ: What did you find most revealing in your research?
ROBBINS: My research reconfirmed what I had previously believed, that the war could have been won, and fairly swiftly, if it had been fought without so many self-imposed limitations. The U.S. gave the Communists tremendous advantages safe havens in Cambodia and Laos, making North Vietnam off-limits to ground operations, restricted targeting in the bombing campaign. It made achieving victory that much more difficult. Imagine what would have happened if Hanoi had been treated to something like shock and awe. As Ronald Reagan said in 1965, Its silly talking about how many years we will have to stay in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas. Even with the restrictions, we were winning, but the war could have been settled much more quickly and favorably if Johnson had listened to his military commanders.
LOPEZ: Who was the unsung hero of the Vietnam War?
ROBBINS: Considering how unsung the heroes of that war are in general it is hard to say. It was a noble effort, doggedly fought, and thrown away by politicians.
LOPEZ: Who could have made sure we won?
ROBBINS: Only President Johnson could have used Tet to force total defeat on North Vietnam, but he was not the man for the job.
Kathryn Jean Lopez is an editor-at-large of National Review Online.
As Ronald Reagan said in 1965, Its silly talking about how many years we will have to stay in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
A-stan wouldn't even have tree stumps to block the pavers.
A lot of people think the Tet offensive was won by the North Vietnamese. In truth, it was a dismal failure for them and the US wiped out most of their conventional forces. They had to resort to a guerrilla was after that.
"....making North Vietnam off-limits to ground operations,.."
I served with a guy who went in with a team to N Vietnam...the Navy took them up there on a submarine...then they paddled in on a rubber boat...the purpose was to inspect a beach to see if it was fit for amphibious landings...the Marines like to know everything about a beach when they make invasion plans...and they were tasked to develop a plan for an amphibious assault into N. Vietnam.
AMEN and Amen!
The truth is that Tet 68 brought to fruition a long held objective of the U.S. military in Viet Nam in that the Viet Cong were well and truly destroyed as a fighting force. In other words, the "news" media in this country turned what was in reality a major victory into a defeat and I will forever HATE them for doing so!
Liberals never do.
There's a more important conflict to be won here before we commit any more blood or treasure overseas.
Vietnam facts I compiled.
It's my webpage, but I don't make any money or anything (no ads or stuff like that).
This is why I hope Walter Cronkite rots in hell.
The US never lost a single battle in Viet Nam and never suffered casualties that were more than a fraction of what the North lost in any engagement. Yet because of LBJ's insistence on not bombing NV, not calling out Ho Chi Mihn and not cutting off the Ho Chi Mihn Trail we wound up losing the war. Unforgiveable. Even worse...Nixon managed to pull out most of the US troops and train the ARVN to the point where, with adequate US air support they were kicking the North's ass pretty durn good. After Nixon's resignation the democrap Congress completely turned off all funding for the effort and just handed VN over to the commies...letting all of our war dead lie dead for a wasted effort. I'll never forgive the democrats for what they did. I'll never forgive the media either. They consciously lied about what was happening in the war and deliberately mislead the people in an effort to allow a win for their idealogical soul mates. Damn them all.
That is entirely correct. The commanding NVA general (his name slips my mind) said, in papers published years later, that the North Vietnamese Army after Tet could not wage an effective division-sized campaign for at least six months. Their "victory" had crippled them. If we had struck with everything we had, Ho Chi Minh City would today be known as Westmoreland.
I second that!
Excellent work! I would only add that the ARVN lost after U.S. Forces pulled out ONLY because the United States Congress (under long democrat control at the time) cut off their funding! It is VERY hard to fight a war without resources!
Spot on!
Great post!
Whether or not we ultimately win the Vietnam War will be a function of winning or losing the War On Terror.
Good to "see" you my FRiend!
Well, that is somewhat beside the point. George Washington lost most of his battles too as did the commies who were fighting the Russians in Afghanistan. The important victories in war, especially guerrilla war, are ones of perception and the ability to keep the war going by the enemy. And in this sense Tet was a NVA victory. It showed that U.S. forces could be attacked anywhere and everywhere and that the war could be endless. In this sense, it dealt a gigantic psychological blow which ultimately led to LBJ's bombing halt and Nixon's Vietnamization.
Another canard the left loves to throw out is that Ho Chi Minh asked for our help against the French, and only became a Communist after we refused him.
The fact is, he was a full-fledged member of the Comintern ever since the 1920s, and was never going to be a friend of the US whether we sided with him against the French, or not.
"Trying not to loose" seems to be the strategy in Afghanistan. We give the Taliban three months notice when we're going to attach an area and allow them to leave unopposed. We allow the poppy farmers to grow and harvest the crop that provides the Taliban with their war chest. We should wipe out the poppy fields before they're harvested. If we know that the Taliban are in an area, we should go after them. If they hide in the hills, bomb the hills. We should be fighting to win. It will cost a lot less in terms of money and lives in the long run.
This is about myths of the Vietnam War, and you continue to spread one.
The US lost many battles, that is a fact of war[military conflict].
The thing was the President Johnson was deathly afraid that if he pushed too hard in Vietnam that the Russians would push back by taking over the rest of Berlin. Then what? World War III?
You are just plain full of CRAP! What it showed was that the media in this country was furthering the interests of our enemies instead of our own!
I couldn't agree with you more! It appears that some will NEVER learn!
The USA could have achieved a peace very similar to Korea, where the South would have quickly become prosperous, while the North became a brutally poor buffer state for China.
We would likely have to have remained committed to our South Vietnamese allies until 1976 or 1978. The death of Mao and the purging of the hard-left in China would eventually have changed Chinese and world communist support for North Vietnam.
North Vietnam was aligned with the Soviet Union, and had cool relations with the ChiComs, in fact they fought a small war in 1979.
Interesting counterargument. Could you be more specific on how my examples were wrong? Facts please. Please knock me for a loop with your debate skills.
The American people don't have patience for a long foreign war like that. That is reality, at least under a democracy. It was certainly the reality during the Vietnam Era.
Only because pukes like Walter Cronkite and his butt boy Dan Rather made it so! What do you suppose the result would have been had they simply reported the actual FACTS as to what happened during the period in question?
Just as Obama ... was (is) paralyzed by indecision and received conflicting suggestions from his advisers
Post #31 should have been addressed to you.
everybody knew it but LBJ. Even his advisors knew it. They just had a different agenda as does the president today.
RE: The death of Mao and the purging of the hard-left in China would eventually have changed Chinese and world communist support for North Vietnam.
Speaking of North Korea, I expect the Dear Leader not to last very soon. Let's hope and pray that whoever succeeds him gets to realize that Communism and belligerence doesn't work.
Add to that the North waited until after Nixon resigned for its final offensive to the South. This was an offensive with conventional mechanized forces. It the North did so before Nixon resigned, Nixon would have turned the skies over Hanoi and Haiphong dark with B-52's, using treaty violation as the reason. Linebacker would have been a nuisance raid in comparison.
No doubt that is true!
Johnson/Carter/Clinton/Obozo = haters of America pretending to be Presidents.
Maybe you could share what you can about the reality of Tet with those of us who weren't there.
I believe in "On Strategy" it was described as having never lost any "major" battles, not "battles" which, while some people may sloppily slip into using that, (as people do), would be unrealistic. Even in Iraq, we lost "battles".
Add John Kennedy to your list, Mr. "call off the air support" and "send the troops to Vietnam", he was the incompetent liberal boob that started all this.
Man does that guy get good historical whitewashing though.
Ditto that, good buddy!
PING to a great interview.
To be really precise, the Tet offensive was waged primarily by the Viet Cong. As a result they were nearly wiped out as an effective fighting force. It was after Tet that NVA regulars began doing the brunt of the fighting in the south.
The damage done to the South Vietnamese people by the left in this country cannot be calculated. Our military won every battle and won the war. The story being told by "historians" in this country is a lie. What WAS lost was the "peace" when the congressional democrats broke every promise made to the So. Vietnamese people between 1973 and 1975. They HANDED the south to the communists-something I suspected they wanted to do all along.
I was relatively young when this all happened, and it was here that I began to hate the demonRATs and the left. And I still do.
I will add one fact I doubt many of you ever heard.
During the build up to the Tet Offensive we were collecting all levels of Chinese and N Vietnamese Regulars in the areas around Saigon, Da Nang, Hue and all the other important sites in Nam. When they started hitting the cities it was only the press and the politicians that had no clue what was going on.
But - The most important thing that happened was that at the end of the Tet Offensive, the N. Vietnamese offered Ho Chi Min to us if we would stop the bombing.
So President Johnson did the same thing as he did earlier when we had bombed the north into submission - he stopped and waited for them to show up at the talks in Paris.
They waited how long?
3-4 months as I recall. In the mean time they rebuilt and rearmed through China and Russia.
Each time Johnson patiently had his negotiators waited in Paris - twiddling their thumbs while our men continued dieing.
If Johnson had of done what Westmorland and Abrams suggested, the North would be told to get to Paris anyway they could and when a treaty or truce was signed, then and only then would we stop bombing them. Instead, we cleared the airspace and allowed any and all flights out of Hanoi in the hopes that they were going to Paris.
I know these facts because I was the only one who saw and handled the messages given directly to Generals Westmorland & Abrams. I took the online encrypted messages to offline encryption and then directly to General Westmorland's Adjutant who then handed it directly to General Westmorland (in my presence).
I then waited for further instructions and reversed the process of encryption to transmit their response to Washington.
Only I, the Adjutant and the two Generals knew what was in those messages (well - and the Senate Arms Limitation Committee and I suppose Pres Johnson). When I left the service I was specifically told not to disclose any information I gathered in my duties while in this Top Secret position.
I have told others of this in the past as I am telling you this now. I will continue to do so until my dying day in hopes that the story will be written correctly and not the way the press wrote it.
I also did some things which helped our cause during the Tet Offensive. I delayed messages (Officially) reaching Westmorland and Abrams until they could take specific action to prevent the Viet Cong, Chinese and N Vietnamese Regulars from getting their equipment back into the DMZ on their exit and TET Failure.
- But that is an entirely other story.
"(his name slips my mind)"
General Giap
Johnson/Macnamera had no intention of letting us effectively fight the war.
If we "Invaded" the North we would be as bad as they were - therefore we let them beat the shit out of us at their leisure.
Pukes? Aren't you late for school?
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Funeral services for long time resident of Cortez, Rodney Ray Ritthaler, will be held at 10 a.m. on Monday, May 12 at Ertel Memorial Chapel with Pastor Anthony Maes officiating. Interment will follow at Cortez Cemetery.
Visitation has been scheduled for 9 a.m. on Monday at Ertel Chapel.
Rodney passed away on May 6, 2014 at the age of 76. He was born in Perry, Okla., on October 2, 1937.
Growing up, his family moved between Oklahoma and Idaho; wherever the farm work could be found. The family eventually settled down in the Caldwell/Nampa area. After high school graduation Rodney eventually made his way to the Cortez area in approximately 1956. To make a living and provide for his family he was a truck driver for most of his life. He drove in the area for companies such as Northcott, CB Johnson, Pat Burns, Bridgewater, and Reed Hurst. In the early 1970s Rodney made his way to Alaska during the oil boom and pipeline construction. There he found work driving trucks as well, hauling equipment from Anchorage to Prudhoe Bay. Eventually he found himself on the North Slope of Alaska, above the Artic Circle, working for CATCO and driving a cross-country version of a truck called a Rolligone. Ever the one not to sit and be idle, Rodney bought 80 acres south of Cortez in the early 1980s and started growing alfalfa hay and raising cattle. Eventually retirement settled in and there was no more truck driving, the cattle had all been sold, as well as much of the land. Rodney enjoyed visiting old friends, family, and grandchildren. And those he could find to play cribbage with him was a bonus!
Surviving Rodney are his children, Cynthia Robb and husband, John of Midland, Tex., Raymond Ritthaler of Sherman, Tex., and Rodney Ritthaler and wife, Jamie of Dolores; nine grandchildren and four great grandchildren; and siblings, Leo Ritthaler and wife, Mary of Idaho and Lenna Brocke and husband, Ken of Idaho. Preceding him in death are his wife, Evalena Ritthaler; parents, Jacob and Annabell Ritthaler; and sister, Phyllis Ackerman.
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<AscE|afk> so deal with it
<nagumo> this is fine
<AscE|afk> if you still have complaints, my balls are open for licking
<Archiel|TS> excellent
It was closer to something like that...
<AscE|afk> fourth time is the last time
<AscE|afk> so deal with it
<nagumo> this is fine
<AscE|afk> if you still have complaints, my balls are open for licking
<Archiel|TS> excellent
It was closer to something like that...
Why don't more people read these mangas?
<fendigucci> !list
<fendigucci> emm anybody knows how to get binktopia/mangashare previous releases of onepiece?
<fendigucci> am i even allowed to ask for this?
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<fendigucci> helo?
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<puppeto4> lo
<fendigucci> lo
<%Xeperu> bye
<fendigucci> bi
<%Archiel> damn thing
<fendigucci> ?
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<fendigucci> can any body explain to me how that it is legal to scanlate a manga or sub an anime/.
<fendigucci> just out of curiosity
<%Xeperu> sometimes it is
<fendigucci> isit leagal in da 1st place
<%Archiel> One Piece (Manga) Information & Downloads | Manga Share
<%Xeperu> sometimes it isn;t
<fendigucci> ic
<%Xeperu> depends
<%Xeperu> something to do with japanese copyright law
<%Xeperu> I dunno
<fendigucci> lol
<%Xeperu> i just scanlate it and have bluds dear with the lawyers
<fendigucci> omg
<%Xeperu> deal*
<fendigucci> bluds is a lawyer also?
<fendigucci> cool
<@gin0va> no lol
<%Xeperu> he is president of the united stated of canada eh
<%Xeperu> states*
<fendigucci> HAHAHah
<fendigucci> for real?
<%Xeperu> ye
<BloodLust89> lol
<%Xeperu> he's some big shot
<fendigucci> holyshit. i look up to guys alot, so carefull wat what u say . cuz i am believing it
<%Xeperu> also your ip is logged
<%Xeperu> and the feds are watching
<fendigucci> ?
<%Xeperu> for 50 USD donation we can delete it
<fendigucci> feds?
<fendigucci> wat is that?
<%Xeperu> FBI
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<%Xeperu> i shit you not
<@gin0va> lolz
<%Xeperu> objob = federal agent
<fendigucci> why are they watching us otakus
<%Xeperu> copyright law
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<fendigucci> aaah. is taht why guys stop uploading the previous scanlation?
<%Xeperu> yea, we got an 8 million dollar fine
<fendigucci> = =
<fendigucci> how are u still alive?
<%Xeperu> I donated it
<fendigucci> holy
<fendigucci> moly
<%Xeperu> i'm so rich I shit gold bullions
<fendigucci> bullions LOL
<fendigucci> are u from japan?
<fendigucci> i wanna go japan 1 day
<BloodLust89> me 2
<%Xeperu> it's overrated
<%Xeperu> i'll be there for over 4 weeks this summer
<%Xeperu> backpacking mostly
<fendigucci> amazingneesss
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The backpacking guide is real btw.
[19:48:38] <ut2004player> You know i am sensitive about UT subject... >_>
<ut2004player> Xeperu: Death note is better than code geass
[21:45] <thsv> i once called an op a cockgobbler
[21:45] <Xeperu> sometimes you can do it
[21:45] <Xeperu> depends on who you are and who the op is
[21:45] <thsv> oh this was in the early days
[21:45] <thsv> and it was [name deleted to protect the guilty]
[21:45] <Xeperu> for some reason only know to god I can call DB's dongcop all the names I want and he doesn't care, and other fags get the banhammer
[21:46] <thsv> bit like MrD and Woofcat
[21:46] <Xeperu> thatsx different
[21:46] <Xeperu> they are gaylovers
[21:47] <thsv> Mister_Death is cheating on me?
[21:47] <Xeperu> cockgobbler is a cool word btw
[21:47] <BloodLust89> thats your type of work Xeperu
[21:47] <BloodLust89> word*
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<gin0va> fucking androids
<gin0va> D:
<Wingzy> so are Fletcher's breasts man
<Wingzy> :p
<gin0va> lolz
<Chaos> Fletcher's breasts are fucking androids?
<Chaos> hawt
<Chaos> can androids cum?
<Fletcher> <Chaos> Fletcher's breasts are fucking androids? <-- LOL
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Xduino forum decision
Posted by Ram in ARM, detail, development tools, programming on October 14th, 2009
We are currently deciding to go with either phpBB or SMF. If you have experience with these forums please let us know your opinion.
The topics within the discussion forum will include but not limited to:
– Xduino IDE (including ARM Compiler) and Xduino library (with Arduino-like commands) feature request/comment/suggestion/ideas
– Interesting program/projects/library
– Help channel and trouble shooting
Let us know what you think.
Xduino v0.2 to be released
Posted by Ram in ARM, detail, Xduino release on July 31st, 2009
The next release of Xduino will be version 0.2 making a jump from version 0.1x as most of the Arduino programming functions has been implemented along with additional features, medical especially those exceeding what current Arduino platform can provide.
Supported Arduino syntax will be:
pinMode digitalWrite digitalRead
analogRead (12-bits 0-4095 range)
analogWrite (12-bits 0-4095 range true Analog output not PWM)
attachInterrupt (upto 16 interrupts)
detachInterrupt interrupts noInterrupts
delay delayMicroseconds millis micros
Serial – print println read available flush
on top of this more advanced functionality will include:
Setting Serial port Rx and Tx buffer size
Serial.printf – optional C style printf function for Serial port eg.
printf("hello %d", cheap 123);
digitalToggle – toggle state of digital output
analogLastwrite – get the latest value set by analogwrite
(General purpose Round-Robin library will be included.)
along with endless possibilities offered by C++ libraries
More to follow… Suggestions are always welcome!


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Have you ever suffered from depression?
good grief—no never—life is just sunshine and lollypops 24/7….ReplyCancel
Yes and now is one of them. But id never get to the point where Id ever consider suicide. Life is hard and sometimes its harder than that but you deal and cope and fight back. Suicide is never something Id considerReplyCancel
oh gawd, lets not turn today into a weepfest.
giving chicks an open forum to be overly emotional wont end well.ReplyCancel
Yes, briefly after my wedding. My husband was being very difficult. Went to the doctor for anti-depressants to deal with it when I realized I couldn't get through it myself. Helped me to balance out for a month or so and then I was able to get back to my normal positive self. If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone. And I understand how overwhelming it can feel.ReplyCancel
Yes. TODAY!!!!!ReplyCancel
Yes several times but most recently after that passing of my mom 2years ago after a long battle with Parkinson'sReplyCancel
Really? After the other 2 posts where people basically answered this question already? Here's a suggestion for you Enty, Entern, whoever runs this site and is profiting off this post:
Donate all ad revenue from the last 24 hours to NAMI.ReplyCancel
Yep. Every winter.ReplyCancel
Support NAMI
Charlotte York's vagina even suffered from depression once. True story.ReplyCancel
Thank you! NAMI is an incredible organization. I highly recommend any of the NAMI walks across the country. It is amazing to see how many people's lives are touched my mental illness. You truly never know what goes on behind closed doors.ReplyCancel
Would it not be easier to establish who has never experienced depression? May be easier to count the numbers.
I have, it was utterly savage and near uncontrollable. And when, if you are lucky enough to, emerge it is like emerging from the most horrendous battle ever fought. When I finally return to sanity I often wonder how I survived while someone else has not.
I feel for Robin Williams. He fought hard undoubtedly. His death is a huge loss.ReplyCancel
There's not a person in the world who hasn't been depressed at one time or another. Like Robin, I have some family members who suffer severe clinical depression and I think it's hard for the typical person to comprehend how someone who is in that condition can't just get over their feelings. Someone I grew up with committed suicide this past February and his family is still trying to come to grips with the guilt and senselessness of it. He felt a complete sense of loss and helplessness and truly believed his family would be better off without him. Unfortunately, I think that is the way most suicidal people feel.ReplyCancel
U REALLY SHOULD REALLY GIVE A KINDNESS REVEAL RATHER THAN A TRIGGER ENTERN!!! IM BEING SERIOUS & I KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT 4 CHRISSAKEReplyCancel
I have severe depression disorder and I am currently on medication. Without it I can cry over any set back big or small. It physically hurt at times, making it difficult to get out of bed just to take a shower.
Even with my medication I have suicidal thoughts almost daily. I don't have a plan nor do I actually want to do it, but the thoughts don't go away.ReplyCancel
First suicide attempt at 10 years old. Does that answer the question?
Sorry, I don't mean to be snarky. Here's a cut and paste (sorry for the length!) from my blog regarding it all:
I've never really hidden much about my life. Most people know that, like Robin Williams, I've fought the uphill battle of mental illness (in my case, major depressive disorder with suicidal tendencies and a bunch of other mental health issues) for almost my entire life. My first suicide attempt was at age 10.
Until 8 years ago, I used alcohol to "self-medicate" those feelings of worthlessness into submission. I *get* how easy it is to pick up a glass of scotch or beer or wine or whatever it takes to make life seem a little more worthwhile. And it seems to work… for a while. Until the next time… or when "just one more" becomes not enough to make the grey cloud go away. I get it.
I also know all too well how easy it is to have everything slip and to think there is only ONE solution, to make it all go away and to make the hurt stop. Lucky for me, I have someone (my beloved husband) who won't let me go into the darkness alone. He's fought for me, forced me to get help when I didn't want it, made me see that (despite all the dark, twisty parts of my psyche) my life really is worth SO much more, and that I need to be here. For that, I'm grateful and thankful.
I just wish Robin had that person in his life. RIP Mr. Williams. Peace, love, and light to your spirit and all those who knew and loved (and still love) you.
(And for those who bring up all the wonderful, positive things in the lives of people struggling with Major Depressive Disorder and suicidal tendencies: it's really NOT that easy. The greyness permeates every corner of our brains. We could have EVERYTHING going for us… happy family, great job, nice home, amazing friends… and we still feel like this. It's a chemical imbalance in our brains. Drugs and alcohol only mask it. Telling us to "snap out of it" and to "enjoy all the great things we have" doesn't help. Really, medication and therapy and a trusted loved one who can recognize the symptoms and isn't afraid to force us into treatment are really the only things that help. For more information, please visit NAMI's website.)ReplyCancel
No problem, I also recommend AFSP, I do an Out of the Darkness walk every year for my brother, looks like I'll be doing it for Mr Keating this year too.
I have not only been depressed but stood on the edge of the abyss of suicide. To this day I am not sure why I'm still here, but I managed to crawl out of the pit of darkness and have stayed out. It's hard for some to understand why, I do understand, hopefully I won't ever be on that edge again.ReplyCancel
Yes. It's difficult to learn how to divert away – especially when anxiety drives the "brain chatter" that leads you down the spiraling rabbit hole.
For me, learning techniques of how to stay present in the moment and use meditation to stop anxious thoughts from creating "scenarios".
Real life at hand is difficult to navigate as it is.
I want to share something else. What I have found (as a Cancer) is that folks with my astrological sign are extremely sensitive to others – meaning the vibes and feelings they project. I'll speak for myself in saying I know many of my anxious – depression scenarios turned out Not to be my issues. They belonged to others but I took them on as my own. To deal with the overwhelming projected feelings, one if 2 things would happen: I'd internalize and believe it was my problem to solve and get depressed when I couldn't. Or, I'd get anxious and overtly hyper compassionate in trying to save others from the situation. I'd like to suggest that in some small part, this may also have affected Robin Williams (who was also if the same sign).ReplyCancel
Wow for everyone who's felt suicidal or attempted suicide and deal with this horribly crippling affliction I send you a hug. I cannot imagine the pain you fight every day. My heart goes out to you.
And I only felt depressed when I was around 14. My husband suffers from depression and when the black dog arrives it's all I can do to pull him out. I hope I am able to do so. Life would be shitty without him.ReplyCancel
I love that idea, @Riven. Love it hard.
All the hugs to those dealing with MI issues. The one thing about Robin Williams' death is that I've not read one horrible thing about him and so many people are rallying around getting help and destigmatizing MI. I want to stand on a desk! 🙂
@Sherry, I've heard that "black dog" phrase before, but I can't remember where. A very apt description.ReplyCancel
Black Dog is what Churchill called it. He also struggled with depression.
I deal with depression and anxiety/PTSD. Some days are better than others.
Wishing strength and love to all of those fighting the good fight.ReplyCancel
terrible deep suicidal depression. I consciously make myself be positive so that I don't sink into the mire. it's very easy to get down. if I focus on gratitude, what's good, my blessings, then I can go on in a happy way But, the darkness is always there. the world has a lot in it to be sad about. its a matter of focus for me. what I focus on becomes the center of my attention and sets the tone. there are two sides to everything. the good and bad. but yes I have experienced major suicidal depression. I just told myself I couldn't do that to my family, and forced myself to have faith that life would get better, that things pass. which is true. nothing stays the same forever.ReplyCancel
I do suffer from depression, and I have nil social skills, just like Robin Williams. It sucks.ReplyCancel
@fancys. Lol! (U make a point, but then again what would the world be with out a woman's emotions? That's a rhetorical question btw)ReplyCancel
Lolz. Needed a little laughter there. I better get my mirror out and check on mine.
Which reminds me. – laughter is awesome medicine. I'm not saying it can cure clinical depression, but it sure can help a case of the blues. So thank u Lady H!ReplyCancel
Yes, depression since my teens; I also had severe anxiety as a child, but amazingly no one knew but me (good actress). I now am grateful and thankful for SSRIs to keep me stable.ReplyCancel
Reading what all of you have shared is very enlightening. I feel for everyone here.
A few times life has overwhelmed me and I've asked myself "What's the point?" But I could never do it to my loved ones, nor my faith; at least I like to think so anyway.
I don't know if I'd realized how many people suffer from such deep depression.
I do know that what helps some doesn't always help others. Like other illnesses too, when you feel like crap it's so hard, to impossible, to help yourself.
Laughter almost always helps me, that's one reason Robin will be missedReplyCancel
Yes and anxiety. If I am unemployed or between jobs during the summer etc. it can get really bad. Then anxiety kicks in with regards to finding a new job or worrying about the next school year. It is terrible and I can see how people just give up.ReplyCancel
Ever since I was 13 and I still struggle with it now (I'm 47) and I tried to kill myself 3 times. Prozac literally saved my life. I now take 40 mg a day and it changed my life.ReplyCancel
Most of my life…ReplyCancel
Yes. For the last 17 years. Some days, I just can't.ReplyCancel
Yep. Several suicide attempts. Several hospital inpatient admissions. Almost a decade of counselling. Intensive therapy for 2 years (5 days a week, then 4 days, then 3). Feeling pretty good at the mo, but I still have self destructive tendancies. One of them is answering this question which is a painful reminder on what started out as a nice morning. Sheesh! I'm going to have to buy shampoo now, lift my spirits heheReplyCancel
I'm 22 fyiReplyCancel
One time. My ex husband had severe bipolar and my nerves just could take it anymore. Got put on an antidepressant and weaned myself off 1 year later. Been good since.ReplyCancel
yes, but for me my deep depression lessened when I stopped drinking and using opiates. For a while I went on an anti-depressant (while still an addict) Welbutrin, and it was the only time in my life that I thought seriously about killing myself. Thankfully I realized what was causing it and got off. So heartbreaking that he was in so much pain 🙁ReplyCancel
Every day for the past 25 yrs or so. I've been on every med known, therapy is a crock, it's just something you have to deal or die with. Sometimes you don't know if you'll want to be bothered with waking the next day.
Everyday you make it through is an accomplishment. Most people will never go through that though.ReplyCancel
My husband committed suicide 4 years ago last Friday. Since his death, there's this weight that's settled in. Some days I cant even get out of bed. I've seen Grief Counselors, tried the meds, but its still here. Everyone says I should be MAD at him, get ANGRY, because he didnt care enough to stay. He LEFT me. I get that. but I cant be angry because I UNDERSTAND where he was when he did what he did. I know those feelings, that bleakness where there is no light, all too well. I live with it daily, and the desire to join him, wherever he is, grows stronger every day.ReplyCancel
yup. and robin williams' death finally made me "come out" about it in my blog: http://www.wrekehavoc.com/2014/08/someone-saved-my-life-tonight/ReplyCancel
It is interesting what we all share here and what we have in common. I love this community and everyone who posts here, we all fight battles. I hope that we can keep reminding one another that life is good. It is. Even when the darkness creeps in, there is light.ReplyCancel
And, yes, I've fought it for years. Thought of taking my life many times, gave it a pretty good go on several occasions. When #1 came, I understood why I was never successful. And as I sit here, with #2 sleeping peacefully on my chest… I am so, so glad I never was.ReplyCancel
Anyone in this country, who watches CNN and works in the tech industry has been or will be on mood disorder drugs at some point. Between taxes, our government and the world crisis – kids, college education bills (ours and theirs) food, clothes, household bills, insurance premiums, and cars for everyone feels the pressure and sometimes feels like drowning themselves in their own pools. Lucky these things are transitory if you get treatment. Health scares are just the shitty topping on the sundae that is our lives if you are middle class in this country. Which means you make a little less than 250k. More than that, you are on easy street being upper middle class. Yeah everyone is depressed, with moments of joy and satisfaction.ReplyCancel


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In my last post, I tossed out a not-quite-baked idea for a new academic major for elementary teachers: World Studies. That major would ensure teachers have the broad range of knowledge they need to introduce our students to the world via literature, history, geography, science, mathematics, and the arts.
One point that is obvious to the Core Knowledge community—yet somehow shocking and mysterious to most of the education world—is that before we could decide what academics future teachers need to study in their prep programs, we need to decide what all elementary students must learn. Drum roll: We need a core K-5 curriculum.
Refusing to identify and teach essential knowledge has consequences. (Image courtesy of Shutterstock.)
Some people might think we kinda sorta have a core curriculum with the Common Core standards. In math, I would agree—the actual math that has to be mastered each year is specified. It's far from a full-blown curriculum, but it does provide concrete guidance on what math to teach. However, the Common Core ELA standards are nearly content free. They indicate the reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills students need to develop, but they do not outline content to be taught grade by grade. Instead, the ELA standards call on schools to create content-rich curricula infused with nonfiction texts, thereby systematically building broad knowledge across academic subjects.
I am grateful that the Common Core ELA standards explain the benefits of building knowledge. In implementation, schools need to realize that when they forge ahead without any shared core of content for each grade, they miss out on the many benefits of a coherent educational system. I've written about the problems with student mobility; today I want to share a terrific, little-known article by education professor David Cohen. In "Learning to Teach Nothing in Particular," he explains the massive leaps forward we could make in student and teacher evaluation if only we specified what students are supposed to know:
Because local control and weak government were the foundations of U.S. public education, most of our school systems never developed the common instruments that are found in many national school systems…. These include a common curriculum or curriculum frameworks, common examinations tied to the curriculum, teacher education grounded in learning to teach the curriculum that students are to learn, and a teaching force whose members succeeded in those curriculum-based exams as students, among other things. Teachers who work with such infrastructure have instruments that they can use to set academic tasks tied to curriculum and assessment. They have a common vocabulary with which they can work together to identify, investigate, discuss, and solve problems of teaching and learning. Hence, they can have professional knowledge and skill, held in common….
Because there is no common infrastructure for U.S. public education, it has developed several anomalous features. One of the most important concerns testing: because there is no common curriculum, it is impossible to devise tests that assess the extent of students' mastery of that curriculum. So, even though we've been testing student learning for nearly 100 years, only isolated programs (such as Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate) have tested whether students learned what they were supposed to have been taught. In the early 1900s, when E. L. Thorndike and his colleagues and students invented tests of students' academic performance, they devised tests that were designed to be independent of any particular curriculum. Nonetheless, those tests, and more recently developed similar tests, were and are used to assess students' progress in learning. That has to rank as one of the strangest creations in the history of education.
Teacher education is a second anomaly: absent a common curriculum, teachers-in-training could not learn how to teach it, let alone how to teach it well. Hence, teacher education consists of efforts to teach future teachers to teach no particular curriculum. This is very strange, since to teach is always to teach something, but the governance structure of U.S. education has long forbidden the specification of what that something would be. For the most part, teacher education has been accommodating: typically, teacher candidates are taught how to teach no particular version of their subjects. That arrangement creates no incentives for those training to be teachers to learn, relatively deeply, what they would teach, nor does it create incentives for teacher educators to learn how to help teacher candidates learn how to teach a particular curriculum well. Instead, it offers incentives for them to teach novices whatever the teacher educators think is interesting or important (which often is not related to what happens in schools) or to offer a generic sort of teacher education. Most teachers report that, after receiving a teaching degree, they arrived in schools with little or no capability to teach particular subjects….
Absent a common curriculum, common assessments, common measures of performance, and teacher education tied to these things, it will be terribly difficult to devise technically valid and educationally usable means to judge and act on teaching performance. Building a coherent educational system would be a large task, but not nearly as daunting as trying to solve our educational problems without building such a system. Without standards and measures of quality practice—grounded in linked curriculum, assessments, and teacher education—it will be impossible to build a knowledgeable occupation of teaching, and a knowledgeable occupation is the only durable solution to the problem of quality in teaching.


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All too many Americans today view military service as an abstraction, as images seen on TV and in the movies. For a growing percentage of American people, Memorial Day has come to mean simply a three-day weekend or a major shopping day. Families might still gather for picnics, but for many of them the patriotic core-the spirit of remembrance-is absent.
We can all make a difference with our individual acts. When we find a grave that has no flowers, leave one and say a prayer for the family of that person, who for some reason could not bring their soldier or family member flowers. It is important that those of us who understand the importance of our history, who understand the importance of our army, who understand the importance of the values of our Army-that we act to help reconnect the American people to the American soldier.
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|Posted by Steve Addison on June 06, 2002 at 14:55:01:
A few weeks ago, my softener brine tank filled all the way up and remained there
for several days, as the water in the tank continuously ran outof the overflow. I continued to get soft water
for a few days until (presumably) I ran out of salt. Then I turned it to "bypass". I have spent the last few
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Having found none, I checked the timer function. The timer appears to be working perfectly and the
control seems to cycle the valves correctly. I'm wondering if the "regen" cycle is working, since I don't
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when its in the "regen" cycle. I do notice the backflush and rinse cycles seem to work, judging by the
water discharged from the hose. I took the brine tank out and cleaned it before putting it
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when it worked correctly, but it isn't dry.
I'm stumped. The softener appears to be functioning, I think salt is being consumed,
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The global clinical trial imaging market is projected to reach USD 1069.7 million by 2021 from USD 773.4 million in 2016, at a CAGR of 6.7% from 2016 to 2021. Increase in R&D spending and growth in the ...
The global CRO services market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 7.4% from 2016 to 2021, to reach USD 41.86 billion by 2021 from USD 29.29 billion in 2016. Growth in this market is primarily attributed ...
According to Stratistics MRC, the Global Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS) market is expected to grow from $493.58 million in 2015 to reach $1118.58 million by 2022 with a CAGR of 12.4%. Huge research ...
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