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Good morning. Last night I was at a Big Band jazz concert and I must say that this kind of music makes you so happy and energized. It was great.
By the way, Phyllis Schiafly and Ron Paul have nothing nice to say about Rubio ( Drudge Report ).Schiafly says he is a traitor to conservative ideas and a tool for the establishment, Ron Paul says he is owned by Goldman Sachs. So I am even more convinced now.
Good morning everyone. To you as well swedishlady. I am glad you had such a good time at the concert. Was it an indoor concert, or out outside?
Lee, it was indoors. Thank heavens…..brrrr, it´s cold right now.
:) It is 34 degrees and I have furry socks and long johns and sweater along with pajamas.
Lee, it's cold in Sweden this time of year.
If it was outdoors, everyone would freeze their tutu off. :)
Right, AFVeT.
Hey, she lives in Louisiana.
It's cold in Ohio Lee and we are south of Sweden.
You are correct AFVet. I would freeze in Ohio and Sweden.
I thought my man Cruz was supposedly "owned" by Goldman Sachs. It's all so confusing, I can't keep up!
Yeah, and it's just getting started.
I´mNoDhimmi, Goldman Sachs probably owns many of them.
Yes I think they own candidates from both parties. I have about 3 weeks left to make a choice…our primary is March 1st…
Goldman Sachs has had their own people in the highest levels of the White House and government since at least the days of Roosevelt and probably much earlier. They've been "White House counsels", heads of Treasury, etc. etc. Highly involved in influencing government policies for Treasury, debt creation and control, federal mortgage policies, tax policies, how money is spent, economics in general—the whole money operation in the government. It's the dirty little secret everybody already knows about.
Here's a list of Goldman Sachs people who create and run Obama's economic policies as of 2012, as an example:
Thanks for putting "owned" in quotes…In crony capitalism, the cronies can hop to and do the donor's bidding, but not always…What they really get is access–someone in high places who will take their call or meet and discuss "interests." Where it goes after that…can differ.
My two teenage boys love big band music and have even formed a small combo to play at swing dance clubs, etc. They think my 70's music is too modern. Glad that the old jazz style is all over the world.
Speaking of music. I just listened to a song, song by Fincicum's daughter.
If that does not pull up. Look it up on YouTube.com American Patriots sung by his daughters. That is Lavoy Finicum's daughters.
bb, show them this.
You are taking Phyllis Schlafly's word? Uh…OK….I didn't know she was still here. Well, good for her.
I am no fan of Rubio's. But I think the charges that he is not "conservative" holds as well for oth to his wife's affiliation. We seem to be getting good at the circular firing squad — killing our own guys. And leaving the enemy with a clear field.
Kinda' what Congress — the Republican congress is doing vis a vis Obama and his entire Administration of criminals. With the exception of Senator Jeff Sessions and a handful of others.
holds as well for oth to his wife's affiliation. Incomplete undo edit.
holds as well for others and the GS charge more likely due to his wife's affiliation than anything Rubio has done.
You mean Cruz's wife's former Goldman job? Does Rubio's wife had an affiliation–I know she got tickets blamed on him.
I think you are right Star. I got my wives mixed up. I stand corrected.
Doesn't make me like Rubio any the more and certainly doesn't make me like the circular firing squad either.
I agree on the firing squad–I keep begging those on TV and the Wash Post and NYT to please leave me someone to vote for….
Nothing better than the ol Big Band. Dorsey, Ellington, Miller, Shaw, man on man.
Had cousin back when I was in High School who played in the Shriner's band. He got a few of us High School kids together and with a couple other Shriners and for about a year he booked local Socak halls and the old dance halls around the area. Charged a few bucks at the door and off we went. I couldn't believe it. I got $50 bucks cash for a 4 hour set with 15 minute breaks each hour for doing nothing but playing my sax to the best music ever written. Now THEMS was GOOD TIMES!
So, Trump denied on O'Reilly last evening he actually said the F word in his speech–says he just mouthed the word. Jeez.
Trump speaks his mind for sure, but swearing in public is not something I want my president to do.
I did not see the video. Do you recall what he was talking about at the time?
Bringing jobs back to New Hampshire.
I appreciate that he is trying to make a bold comment. However I agree, he needs to refrain from that. In other words many like O can sit their and speak with all types of nice words, but look what he has done since he took office, with out cursing.
Doesn't mean using tired, grating Anglo-Saxonisms throughout talks would result in better policies, tho.
Ahhh, my Star has risen. ;)
Beaten down, but unbowed…LOL.
Star and CiscoKid have both mentioned a connection with Aircraft Carriers.
Star visited one and Cisco has a bud that worked on one as I recall.
Dangerous duty up there on deck.
Here's a video of the real thing.
Note how they turn the Carrier into the wind to help with lift.
While I'm on this subject,….
Here's the chaos aboard a carrier.
I opened this–was it a music video? Not sure I "got" it…Let me try the other one…
The second one had more action…takeoffs. I have seen photos shot from planes landing–the deck looks like a postage stamp in a vast sea. These people earn their money!
Best pilots in the military.
Obviously taken with a hand held device.
I'm sure the music was added later.
Had to get something fixed on AOL (shocker) and chatted with the helper, who was from Rumania. She told me she likes talking with Americans–we are so friendly and make jokes, she said. I said yes, don't believe everything you hear–there are many wonderful, smart people here and yes, funny, too. She watches some housewives, and loved the Victoria Secret Fashion Show.
The ONLY candidate that can and WILL win is Hillary. Everyone is just wasting time talking about all the other candidates.
There is only one choice and it is Hillary!! She is an awesome person, smart and the most qualified to run this country.
She will keep us safe and secure.
Her policies will create more jobs for everyone who want a job. And if you don't want to work her policies will protect and furnish everyone with what they need to live day to day. Life will become worry free and peace will once again descend upon the entire planet for perfect harmony between all of mankind. Her election can't come soon enough!!!
Could not agree more!!
You're both a little off your rocker.
Two votes for the serial liar with the innocent baby blues…
descend upon the entire planet for perfect harmony between all of mankind
This reminded me of how Obama would stop the rising of the tides… You never know what someone is thinking, I guess.
If you are being sarcastic, OK.
Please identify your comments as sarcasm.
If you are serious you are delusional.
The people here on this thread do not tolerate fools or trolls for that matter.
You must learn to tolerate the delusional or we are all intolerably doomed to be delusional forever.
Don't tell me what I must learn.
I have learned enough to see you as what you are.
Well, it's not exactly GK Chesterton, but nice try. Thanks for playing!
I love a Chesterton joke–well played!
Star, I'm reading through Chesterton's "What's Wrong With The World" essays right now. That's why the comparison came to mind. ;+}
To Star or Marcus.
Please enlighten me as to who Chesterton is.
I got it Marcus and Star.
Sam Clemens had the same attitude.
AFVet….A few Chesterton quotes:
He's worth reading, like CS Lewis, Eric Hoffer (his Reflections on the Human Condition, is great), Mark Twain. They get us grounded, and give us little thought bullets to shoot down the nonsense that passes for wisdom, even in these weird days.
No evidence here.
Right Obama ?
That's an amazing article. Suspicions confirmed.
Great article. Thanks for the link. Haney also spoke out after the San Bernardino terrorists killed 14 people.
Watch Live – Republican Debate 2016 from New Hampshire
A page out of the Democrat play book — debate on a weekend night — really?
Carly Fiorina is excluded from the ABC debate tonight and ABC refused to sell her ad time. She finished ahead of Christie and Kasich in Iowa, so her exclusion seems unfair. The RNC is useless. They should have insisted she be included or cancelled the debate.
There were a lot of petitions, calls, and tweets to ABC and the RNC to get her on. Talk about gender apartheid! Her campaign sent out a video that's kind of clever. https://vimeo.com/154417824
Some idiot on FOX is hyping the mis-information that no one has lost both Iowa and NH and gone on to win the presidency!
No one except Bill Clinton! He lost to Tom Harkin in Iowa and Paul Tsongas in NH. I wish these people could get their facts straight.
Good catch.
The consistent failure to pass a budget in congress is intentional.
Read this and you'll see why.


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The "Marine life"
The "Marine life"
Objective: Creation of conditions for the education of ecological culture and the development of cognitive and creative abilities of children.
expand the representation of children of the inhabitants of the deep sea, forming the ability to think;
develop logical thinking skills based on a comparison of the facts, the results of observations to make findings and conclusions;
develop aesthetic perception of the world, the ability to see beautiful;
develop the ability to listen to the sounds of nature;
develop cognitive interest, creative abilities;
use a variety of non-traditional art – graphic art;
learn to protect the environment;
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own concepts of "sea animals", "fish", "shellfish";
have a simple understanding of some features of the structure of the body in relation to their life in the water, their method of movement (swimming, crawling), methods of concealment of the uniqueness of each species;
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Dwarf shark aquarium fish
What are sharks?
For people who are not related to ichthyology sea, the word "shark" is very often an association with gigantic jaws and big teeth the same. The main purpose of these devices is a dangerous natural eating all living creatures in its path. In fact, sharks are extremely diverse.
Among individuals superorder sharks, along with giants and big views. There are medium and small shark species. They are predators and the huge size and peaceful plankton eaters, as well as lovers of shellfish, which are protected by their shell or carapace.
Further, there are species which parasitize large animals. But there are also quite small species, for example, the dwarf shark squaliformes squad.
The habitat of sharks of various types is quite diverse: from the shallow waters off the coast to the upper layer of water in the open ocean. There are some individuals that live at great depths. reaching 3,000 meters.
Aquarium Fish dwarf shark and its description
Our article will tell you about this form of animals like pygmy shark aquarium fish that live in the open ocean, more precisely on its vast depths.
In the waters of the Pacific and Indian oceans, has a warm water temperature can vstretitkarlikovuyu shark (Euprotomicrus bispinatus), which is very popular and you like to keep in aquariums.
The largest specimen of this species have a length of less than 20-25 cm. Living in open ocean waters away from the coast, these fish at night ascend to the surface of a body of water, and the day find shelter and privacy in the lower layers of the ocean deeper.
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As ovoviviparous species. pygmy shark aquarium fish as food absorbs cephalopods, while tearing them apart with the help of sharp teeth.
Available observations prove that the female brings posterity about 10 sharks that have a length of 5.5-6 cm. One of the characteristics of the individuals is their ability to arbitrarily glow.
This is facilitated by it available to the special fluorescent bodies – photophores. resembling the shape of round plaque diameter 0,003-0,08 mm, which is densely dotted with lower torso of fish, and its pectoral and pelvic fins.
When this aquarium fish is excited, the whole of its ventral surface and the lower edge of the side glow pale green, with bright flashing movement of fish, and for its calming – quiet. Continue reading


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Hello, my name is Lyle Haugen. I am a Type 1 diabetic and, now, a registered nutrition health coach. I was diagnosed in 1985, a week after surviving an industrial explosion at a natural gas facility. The condition forced me to change from my trained profession of commercial diving, since deep sea diving is not where you want to be as a type 1 diabetic. My empathy is with those who experience a similar life changing event.
For 20+ years, I followed all the various advice given by my doctors and nutritionist. None of it allowed me to have consistent, controllable and reliable blood sugars. Inevitably, I began to get many of the associated conditions of Type 1, like eye issues, crohns/colitis and diabetic gastroparesis.
As these conditions mounted, I grew frustrated and angry with the advice I was given.
I decided to take control back and figure it out for myself. I trained in nutrition and health coaching, read books, tried everything I could, took meticulous notes and, finally, I figured out a system, protocol and diet that gave me my life back.
I now sleep through the night and have great energy. I'm not afraid to travel or experience life. The freedom I've gained by taking back my blood sugar control has been unimaginable. My associated conditions have been getting better and better and my health is no longer sliding down a slippery slope.
With years of diabetes experience and training as an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, I've developed a simple yet effective system for all those who live with type 1. The experiences of my clients and myself demonstrate that balancing those sugars will net improvements in your health, resolve many conditions and help you awaken to a new life. Creating a website specifically for only type 1s has become a great passion, and finally it has arrived. I am also a father, and my adult daughter Shanice helped me refine my bars recipe. I currently reside in the beautiful town of Creston, BC.
These are 3 things I'm committed to improve!
1. Building Community
My focus is on building a supportive community for type 1 diabetics and assisting in the management of their diabetes. This will be a place where clients can learn an effective management system for all facets of their condition. Managing type 1 is extremely complex, and type 1s deserve a place to find real solutions, educated by a fellow type 1 diabetic who really understands.
2. Managing the 4 Variables
The management of type 1 diabetes has four variables: insulin, diet, exercise and stress management. Educating clients to achieve a simple and effective control of these four variables results in improved blood sugars.
3. Taking Control of Your Type 1
The quality of life improves dramatically when you master of your type 1. The improvement of your HbA1C will fend off many secondary medical conditions that may otherwise lead to heart attacks, strokes and blindness to name a few. Mastering your type 1 can reduce the odds of these severe conditions and provide an enhanced quality of life.
How Nic Went From a HbA1c of 11.5 to an 8.0 in Two Months (Saving His Job and Family)
I'm a professional driver and was about to lose my license because my blood sugars where to high. The doctor said it had to be at a 8.0 or lower. At that time my blood sugars where wildly fluctuating from 20 to 2 and back again. Life was a roller coaster of agony.
My body was screaming in pain, legs, back and especially my feet. My hands would seize up in cold weather, becoming difficult to work at all. I had insomnia, only sleeping up to 3 hours. Anxiety to the point of isolating myself from friends and family and work. Then there was the 15 prescriptions that covered things like intestinal issues, anxiety and depression. Also blood pressure pills to protect kidneys. When it all came to a head, I would go into highs or lows so fierce, that it led to diabetic comas and Ketoacidosis.
Now, two months after starting with Lyle, my HbA1C was 8.0. Exactly what was needed to save my drivers licence. I feel amazing. I sleep like a log and wake up jumping out of bed. I now feel like i have a life. Time and energy for my daughter, she loves to spend time together now. Just remarkable. I wish i was taught this when I was first diagnosed years ago. My life and relationships would have all been different.
Now I'm building a new life and feeling awesome.
Thank You Lyle!
– Nic
Being diagnosed with Type One diabetes can be overwhelming to say the least. The minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day drudgery of trying to manage blood sugars is exhausting. Then to only be out of control in the end is soul crushing.
The commitment level seems impossible and the medical profession often makes it seem like it's your fault and that you're not doing it right. Being too high or too low can quickly change your day and never for the better. The compounding secondary conditions may be very debilitating.
- Eyes deteriorating.
- Dry itchy skin
- Intestinal troubles
- No energy
- Apathy
- Depression(mild to severe)
- Kidneys
- Sore aching feet and legs
- Anxiety (mild to severe)
- And many more…
Then the relationships stresses begin to mount on top of your already exhausted shoulders. You lose your spontaneity and freedom to play with your children, family and friends. And when you do make plans to do fun things you often end up canceling them last minute because of wacky blood sugar levels. Then your emotions are dragged through all these highs and lows and you end up feeling awful about yourself. It never ends.
These undesirable conditions are a result of roller coaster sugar levels.
I know you just want to feel good again, that you've tried to follow every existing program but nothing is working. The doctor makes you feel it's your fault, like you aren't trying hard enough. If this sounds like your struggle, it doesn't have to be. The reality the problem is the doctors and their recommendations are not working for you — and they likely never will.
The TRUTH is you need a customized Type 1 program for your life, body and activity levels.
No one Type 1 is the same. Some people drive trucks all day, some people have 5 kids, some people run marathons and NONE of these people should be on the same program. There activity levels, nutrition needs, age, supplement and sleep needs are all different. If this sounds like something you'd like to have so you can get the freedom, energy, sleep and relationships you really want in this life then I would thrilled to guide you to an incredibly simple and effective program to conquer your blood sugar control and regain the life you have always desired.
It will be my great pleasure to guide you on your journey. Looking forward to meeting you!
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An early morning officer-involved shooting closed Gough at Geary this morning. "Police have released few details about the incident, but a fire dispatcher said the fire department was notified of the shooting shortly before 8 a.m. and that one person was taken to a hospital," reports BCN (via SF Examiner). One resident near the crime scene said he heard "two shots then a rapid succession of five to 10 shots."
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Lamont Williams is currently a communications specialist and science writer at the National Institutes of Health. For more than 20 years, he has overseen the production of science-based communications for organizations in the public and private sectors.
Lamont's professional interests extend to such fields as medicine, health policy, clinician education, biology, and physics. In 2010, he self-published The Greatest Source of Energy, a book that explores a possible method for combining General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics into what has been called the "Theory of Everything."
Among awards Lamont has received are those of "Distinguished" and "Excellence" in the International Technical Publications Competition of the Society for Technical Communication.
A New Jersey native, Lamont attended Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey. He currently resides in the Washington, D.C., metro area.
This work provides an easy-to-follow way of possibly combining General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics into a more comprehensive theory. The book examines old scientific concepts from a new perspective and connects many long-separated dots along the scientific landscape. A brief, yet comprehensive work, The Greatest Source of Energy is a thought-provoking new look at all that surrounds us.
Select problems that the book addresses are as follows:
Theory of Everything (the combination of General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, also known as quantum gravity)
Problem of time
Predominance of matter over anti-matter
Origin of mass
Nature of dark matter
Nature of dark energy
The papers listed below represent the author's in-progress thinking on various topics. They are not meant to reflect complete or final thoughts on the issues covered. However, they might offer the reader some insight into certain problems or questions. Commentaries from the author are also provided below.
In this paper, the author describes the potential reason why gravity is far weaker than electromagnetism. It is suggested that gravity and electromagnetism have an inverse relationship — as if the two forces sit on opposite sides of a seesaw. Gravity is thus naturally weak ("low to the ground") while electromagnetism is strong ("high off the ground").
Here, the author discusses the fine-structure constant — the electromagnetic coupling constant (also known as alpha), which represents electromagnetism's strength. Specifically, the paper addresses the speculation of renowned physicist Richard Feynman that alpha might be associated with the base of the natural logarithm (e). It is shown that indeed there is a mathematical relationship between alpha and e.
This paper describes how half the mass of the Z boson plus half the mass of each of two W bosons (i.e., the W+ and W– bosons) creates a total that is a near-identical match to the mass of the Higgs boson of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This suggests that the LHC Higgs boson might not be fundamental, but instead might be an exotic hybrid particle with specific constituent parts.
Brief background: The LHC Higgs boson decays via five principal decay channels: photons, Z bosons, and W bosons (the boson decay channels), and tau particles and bottom quarks (the fermion decay channels). The signal strength is the ratio of the observed number of events in a given decay channel over the number expected by way of the Standard Model. A value of 0 would mean no events were observed in that decay channel. A value of 1, the ideal value, would mean that the number of observed events matched the number expected from the Standard Model. If the boson discovered at the LHC is the Standard Model Higgs boson, the signal strength in each decay channel, in the ideal sense, would be 1, indicating that observation matched theory.
Neither ATLAS nor CMS (the two main laboratories at the LHC) has been able to achieve a value of 1 in all channels simultaneously except within uncertainty ranges, some of which are unfortunately large. Some values have been higher than 1, while some have been lower than 1.
Focus of paper: In this paper, the author describes how there appears to be a specific proportional relationship between the combined fermion signal strength and the combined boson signal strength in both ATLAS and CMS. It is shown how, as of the date the paper was produced, the ratio of the combined fermion signal strength to the combined boson signal strength in both laboratories is approximately 0.83 to 1, when, technically, it should be 1 to 1. This fact might be a clue to some hidden physics.
In this paper, an attempt was made to use concepts from The Greatest Source of Energy to predict certain characteristics of the newly found Higgs boson at the LHC. It was proposed that the LHC's Higgs boson would likely be found to be a non-elementary, spin 2 particle with positive parity — positive parity means that it and its mirror image look the same.
An important point inadvertently omitted in the paper is that the particle can be regarded as spin 0 even through concepts in The Greatest Source of Energy — that is, it can be regarded as spin 2 or spin 0 by way of these concepts.
In the paper, the Higgs boson is considered to develop from two overlapping (spin 1) photons — see the left and middle panels of the figure below.
The spin 2 nature of the resulting Higgs boson is illustrated in the middle panel, where the two spin 1 photons are overlapping.
However, during oscillation of the overlapping waves of the photons, the arrows at times clash, with the two arrows on the left pointing toward one another, and the two arrows on the right doing the same — see the rightmost panel in the figure.
From concepts in the book, when arrows representing the spins of particles point toward one another, the spins cancel and the overall spin (of the composite particle) becomes 0. The clashing of the spins against one another would cause instability within the particle and cause it to decay.
Thus, from the standpoint of concepts from The Greatest Source of Energy, the LHC Higgs boson can be regarded as a spin 0, composite particle with positive parity. With this, two of the three characteristics match current findings. One difference that cannot be avoided, however, is that concepts from the book suggest that the LHC particle must be a composite particle, whereas currently it is believed to be elementary.
In this essay, the author argues that spacetime has greater detail than is being taken into account and that the current limited view of the four-dimensional field has been hindering us from continuing to produce advances in science of the same power and utility as relativity and quantum theory.


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The paper describes the calculation of the annual radiation dose of an astronaut on the ISS from gamma rays created by solar neutron activation of the aluminium structure of the Unity Node. It is calculated that the annual dose is 2.32 x 10-5 mSv, and the solar neutron flux required to reach the maximum legal annual dose is 828 neutrons cm-3 s-1. The results show that the annual neutron activation gamma ray dose is very small compared to the legal limit (some six orders of magnitude smaller).
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Q. . . . I was going over the manifest of the Blue Ridge seeing who landed on it when you came out on the 29th. You had quite a crew. I have George Lewis, Phil McCombs, Nick Profitt, Roy Rowan, Bob Simon , and Dick Threlkjeld for some reason was taken to the Hancock. I can never quite figure out the rationale of all of that.
What I wanted to ask you about was your last days in Saigon. There were not that many newsmen who remained to the very end. Usually when they did, they did not have very pleasant experiences getting out. Could you describe for me when your last assignment started. I saw the tape of the story you did from Cambodia, the two soldiers, the one who stepped on the mine and was killed and then his friend who was hit in the face -- and then I didn't see any videotapes that you did after that or any reports.
A. I think you should probably get the tape from the last day.
Q. But I thought that was Bob Simon.
A. We all went out together on the helicopters. I was the first one off the aircraft carrier to Manila. And the first reports that were done by anyone who was there and got out with film were the reports I did that morning.
Q. Brian Ellis was bureau chief in Hong Kong and I know he started getting out some of the Vietnamese dependents and employees about mid-month. How was it decided about the time of President Thieu who would stay and who would go? Did you volunteer to stay after the 21st?
A. Oh, yeah, it was all volunteer. Nobody was forced to stay. I was in Cambodia for most of it.
Q. Were you inside the perimeter in Phnom Penh?
Yes. I came out on the helicopters.
Q. Were you with Sidney Schonberg?
I saw Sidney at the embassy that morning. Sidney said he was going to stay and we had been ordered out.
Q. So were you reluctant to leave at that time. Were you curious about staying with some of the others or not, in Phnom Penh?
I had mixed emotions about it. I didn't see any reason to leave Cambodia. I didn't have any fear or anything. Quite contrasting feelings between Vietnam and Cambodia. Faced with the same situation in Vietnam I was concerned for my safety.
Q. Why would that be?
Because two days before the evacuation a South Vietnamese soldier put a gun to my cameramans head and pulled the trigger and the gun misfired.
Q. That was Mike Merriot. He descried that for me. He said that was the event that made him decide to not stay.
A. Up to that point we had made arrangements to stay in Vietnam and I had made contact with the Viet Cong. We had lived with the Viet Cong for about a month a year or so before that. Mike Merriott and I had. And we made contact with the people we knew who were Viet Cong and asked two things, one, "Can you tell us where there is a safe house in town, so we can stay." And two, "If that doesn't work, is there some place we can rendezvous outside of Saigon and enter Saigon with your troops?" And he said that would take too long to arrange and the fall of the city was imminent and he basically said, "Mr. Bradley, you have nothing to fear from us."
I said, "Look, I realize I have nothing to fear from you. It's not you I'm concerned about, it's the South Vietnamese I'm concerned about." And I related what had happened that day when what had happened was that a plane flew too close to the palace on an approach to the airport-- a South Vietnamese plane -- and the anti-aircraft gunners at the palace freaked and thought it was a captured South Vietnamese plane getting ready to attack the palace.
Q. This was after the plane that bombed the palace?
They started shooting. Well, everybody in Saigon has a gun. There was shooting all over the city and all of the Vietnamese staffers, cameramen, sound men and all had left the country, so Mike ran out with a camera and I grabbed the amplifier. We had a system where you had to plug the amplifier into the camera. So I ran out and worked the sound. We went up Tu Do Street and saw this guy just beating this woman for no reason -- a captain. It was one of the corner restaurant buildings that had big plate glass windows on each side. So we could see him around the corner through the two glass windows. And he saw us and ran around the corner and came up to us and pointed the gun at Mike and pulled the trigger. I'm standing next to Mike and it misfired. He came up and hit him with the butt and Mike and I turned and just ran down the street. There was a telephone pole there and we split the cord as I ran on one side and he the other, and we dove into a door there, any minute expecting to get shot.
Q. What goes through your head at times like this. You guys are not soldiers. Do you ever think of throwing down the camera and running for your life? You said you still carried the equipment. It sounds like you were good news men and at the same time concerned about your personal safety.
A. Well that's just kind of second nature. I think it was probably faster to run with it than to throw it down.
Q. Is that the only event like that? I know when Ken Kashiwahara came out he said he was afraid his helicopter would get shot by South Vietnamese troops.
A. We were too, the last day. I did two or three pieces. I did a pool report for all the networks on the morning and then I did a long piece with Hughes Rudd on the morning news, and then a five-minute talk with Hughes. And then I did another piece that evening on the evening news with Walter Cronkite. I think Dan Rather was substituting that night for Walter. Those pieces will give you the full story of what happened.
Briefly, we went to the airport as we were supposed to, and they shot at us at the gate.
Q. Mike said he walked over to the airport. Is that right?
No, he couldn't have walked to there.
Q. So you went to one of the evacuation points and got on a bus.
Right. We went -- it was crazy. We had been told to listen to Armed Forces Radio and they were playing Muzak and when the evacuation was going to happen, you would hear an announcer break into the Muzak and say, "It's a hundred degrees in Saigon and the temperature's rising." And then he would play Bing Crosby's White Christmas. This was in April. That just shows you the mentality. Nobody played White Christmas, but we looked out the window and saw people walking with suitcases -- round-eyes. So we knew the evacuation was on. So we called the information officer at the embassy and he said to go to the nearest evacuation point.
We went to the nearest evacuation point and there was no one there. We went to the second one and there was no one there. Couldn't get into the building. Went to the third one and at that point there was panic, because the Vietnamese in Saigon see round-eyes walking around with suitcases and they know it's time for the Americans to leave, so all the Vietnamese who want out start following the Americans and other round-eyes. When we got to the third evacuation point and people were getting to march off again to a fourth, I said, "Look obviously this thing is not organized. Let's just wait here. And eventually a bus will get here. Somebody will come open this door so we can get in." It was a school on Gia Long Street.
You've got maybe twenty, thirty, forty people and a crowd's gathering. You get up to a hundred, hundred-fifty, two hundred people. And finally after about an hour a bus came and we kind of in an orderly fashion tried to organize to put people on these buses. I got two or three buses out and then I got on a bus and that's when we went to the airport and they shot at us. Then we went to a place down by the port which was across from the a well-known Restaurant, and they said that -- you could see the helicopters flying overhead. I don't know how high they were, five or ten thousand feet. And they said the helicopters are going to land. We've got five or ten thousand Vietnamese at this port, some of them jumping off trying to get on the boats. All of this is in this footage I'm talking about. Some making it, some falling into the river. I said to the bus driver, "You going to leave us here like this? And you think these helicopters are going to land among all these Vietnamese who would like to leave the country. And you have no security at all and you think they are going to stand and watch us walk onto those helicopters and fly away and leave them behind? You are crazy. You put all these people back on the bus and take us somewhere else. The helicopters aren't going to land."
Q. This was an embassy person driving the bus?
A. I don't know. Boy he was a jerk. He didn't have keys to the bus, he had to hot-wire it. The mentality of this thing -- the guy who was running the evacuation was called the wagon master.
The driver had to hot wire the bus because he couldn't find the keys. Plus he wasn't a bus driver and he'd stall out a lot. And every time the bus would stall we'd have to jump it again, cross the wires.
Q. So various buses got separated on the way to Tan Son Nhut?
A. Years ago they had cut down all of these trees in Saigon so these convoys could get through. Do you think this guy goes on those wide streets? Uh uh. He takes the smallest streets he can find. And you had all these restaurants in Saigon that were just street corner soup stalls, no more than somebody sitting on the curb with a pot and a fire and a canvas cover and that was a restaurant -- with a stool. He turned the corner with this bus and wiped out two or three restaurants.
Q. This sounds like the same bus that Ken Kashiwahara was on.
It could be. I can't remember who was on.
Q. Your bus didn't run over the baby down at the port, did it?
Q. That was Kashiwahara then. His driver actually ran over an infant in the street. And he just went crazy on his bus then. They had gone to the port also.
The bus was going to wait at the port also?
A. No. He was going to drop us off and then he was leaving.
Q. Did he get off a Tan Son Nhut? Some drivers got off and the guards shot at their feet. Or did they actually shoot at your bus?
They shot over your head.
Q. Had you gotten off the bus already?
We were off the bus. Got back on the bus, and "Bye." We'll find another way out.
We spent seven hours that day trying to get out of Vietnam.
Q. Did the Vietnamese at the port try to get on your bus when you left?
I begged people -- there were Vietnamese on the bus. And I begged them not to get off. I said, "Look nobody's got ID. You are on the bus now. Stay." And I remember one guy got off with his family. I'll never forget this as long as I live. The bus was pulling out, the guy was running along and he had a suitcase and was trying to hold his wife's hand and two little kids behind trying to hold her hand, and people were running along beside him taking the guy's watch, hacking at the suitcase, and they just never made it. I can see the terror in that guy's face to this day.
Q. Eventually where did you end up?
Eventually we ended up in the parking lot across the street from the embassy. Kais Beech called somebody in the embassy and they told us to come to the back. We ended up going -- to get I guess a distance of ten yards took about an hour to fight your way over the wall.
Q. You had to climb over the white wall, is that right? And there were Marine guards on top?
Uh huh. At one point I was with Keith Kay, a cameraman, and he was shooting, and I said it was time to stop taking pictures and get over the wall. When I got inside I saw them burning all this money. There was this big oil can full of twenty dollar bills.
Q. It was packed inside also I assume?
There was one guy who had an arm ful of money, about three or four feet long, all wrapped and tied up, and I said, "Are you going to burn that too?" And he said, no, it was too slow, they had to shred it.
Q. This sounds like something out of Alice in Wonderland. I know it's not laughable, but it sounds like it. It sounds like the whole world was crazy.
Yes, it was.
Q. Once inside the embassy -- ABC threw film over the wall and lost it on the way in. But you had film from that day. Were you carrying it yourself?
Keith had some, I had some.
Q. There was a long wait inside, wasn't there?
Q. The radio radio broadcast was about nine in the morning, so this was late in the afternoon.
Yeah, most of that time was spent driving around trying to find a way out.
Q. It was a hot day, too, wasn't it?
Q. What happenes then getting out? I know Kashiwahara was on an overloaded helicopter and crash landed three times before it eventually took off. Where did you take off from?
I went off from the roof. Once you got up there is was okay.
Q. How about lifting out over the city. Did you get a chance to look?
I could see fires, and I could see the lights. It was dark by then.
Q. Did it look like a battle zone?
Well, no, really it didn't look like a battle zone. You could see the fires burning in different parts of the city and outside of the city. But it was kind of surreal. "It's all come to this."
Q. I guess Martin doesn't leave until about one in the morning. Did you see him inside the embassy?
No. The first time I saw him was on the carrier.
Q. When you went out over Vung Tau, was that a battle zone also?
I don't remember.
Q. No worry about SAMs on the way out?
Q. So you came to the Blue Ridge. Did you see Ky come in the next morning?
No, I never saw Ky. I'm trying to get off.
The guy who was the information officer, Patty something, had been the information officer on the Cambodian evacuation and I knew him. And we'd also gone to the same high school in Philadelphia. Although about ten years apart. He was older than I was. And he said he had one seat on a helicopter and we'd have to draw lots to see who would go out and carry everybody's material. And I just pulled him aside and said, "If I don't win the lottery, you got two seats. I've got to get out of here." And he said he'd see what he could work out.
We had the lottery and CBS won the lottery. So I was going, and I said, "Listen, there's only one seat."
Q. From the Blue Ridge you had to go to another ship to catch a plane?
Right. We went off the Coral Sea.
Q. In those last couple of days, did you ever have the feeling, or was there a feeling in the city among the newsmen that there would be a settlement, that Minh or Hoang??? would make a settlement, that there would be a partition and it would all end, or did you have a feeling --
My sense always was that the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese were coming into the city. It was just a matter of time.
Q. Did you ever expect American B52s to come like the cavalry at the end?
Q. How about the organization of Frequent Wind?
There was no organization. Listen to the story about White Christmas, the "wagon master", the helicopters, the port, the airport -- there was no organization. It was chaos.
Q. Martin came back and appeared before Congress and talked about how great it all was because they only left two hundred and twenty-four people in the embassy compound. Did you have a feeling when you left that everybody in that compound wasn't going to make it out?
A lot of them weren't going to make it out. Because they didn't have that much time. At this point all of the defenses in the city are gone. Because everybody is trying to get out. So who's going to stop the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong from entering the city? The defenses? Hell, they're trying to get out.
Q. Nobody seems to be sure that there was an agreement that they would let us out. Mike Marriot hinted there might have been an agreement with the Swiss, through the Swiss government to let the evacuation of the Americans take place. But nobody can say really for sure about that.
Q. In the couple of days before Marriott got shot at, did you think of leaving the city and going out, say, around Xuan Loc and --
We were trying, but that's really dicey. You don't walk out into a main force unit with no advance preparation. That's how you get killed. At this point the war is over. It's not time to be crazy. That's why Mike and I were trying to contact the people we knew in the Viet Cong, to make arrangements to go outside the city to meet with them.
Q. I'm assuming the Viet Cong you knew were in the ICCS at Tan Son Nhut.
Right. They had contacts with these people. There were people all over the city. All they had to do was say, "Hey, go here."
Q. In looking back, at that time it doesn't sound like you considered it to be any betrayal of trust, or anything like that, that you consider it to be historical forces. Am I right or wrong?
It was something that was bound to happen. Two years or a year and a half before that when I lived with the Viet Cong I met a guy who spoke excellent French and that's how we communicated. And he said to me, "You know, I've been fighting for twenty-five years. Before you we fought the French and now we're fighting the Americans, and we will continue to fight, and we will win. It may not happen in my lifetime, but we will win." And I never saw that kind of determination and dedication on the other side. I never saw that kind of determination and dedication by the South Vietnamese fighting forces.
Q. But that's exactly what Ky told me down at his house. He said, "We will win. I'll be in Saigon before I die."
I was out at Bien Hoa when they turned tail and ran. Peter Green and I were out there at Bien Hoa, when I saw the whole command come out in a caravan and leave all the people there behind. The entire leadership of the South Vietnamese high command at Bien Hoa, generals and all, turned tail and ran. Now these are the guys that are going to be back in Saigon?
Q. The stories contrast so much. It's difficult to look these people in the eye and say "You're full of it."
In your career is that still with you? Or was that just an episode?
That's like being at Waterloo, for my period. That's something that's so historical. The United States -- we as a people -- have not recovered from Vietnam. The Vietnamese have not recovered from Vietnam. The Cambodians have not recovered from Vietnam. What else in my lifetime have I witnessed personally that is as gigantic as all that? I lived through that. I was evacuated from Cambodia. I was evacuated from Vietnam. I went to Laos and saw it coming there, and said "Gee, I think I'd like to leave on a fixed wing aircraft. I'm tired of helicopters."
Q. Now it's ten years down the line, and to me it seems there's more interest in the trivia of today than there is in the collapse of Indochina to the communists. I'm having trouble trying to grasp a metaphor to tell people who have come of age in the past ten years and started college, exactly what it all means. How many lives were uprooted and shattered and lost and the timelessness of the tragedy. When you talk to your children, for example, how do you approach this?
I don't have any children.
Q. What phrase would you use -- you said you were at Waterloo. Is that the proper metaphor?
It's a tragedy. That's what it was. We sent good people there on what some politicians thought was a noble mission. And we lied to ourselves, to the people who were there, the soldiers who had to fight the war. We lied to them all along. We lied to the people in this country. That's tragic.
Q. One phrase from the chief of personnel at DAO, he said, "God damn press never knew from beginning to end what was going on over there." And he said, "When I saw the videotapes of the commentaries on Tet, I gave up." Now he's probably CIA. He's in Egypt today and just came back from Uruguay. But I find that particularly with the Westmoreland trial going on it is a real popular sentiment. You guys never quite got it.
The whole thing is, this is the first time there was a war like that. World War I and World War II, we were the good guys. The Korean war we were the good guys. This is the first time we really weren't the good guys. And when reporters reported, wrote, broadcast what they saw, people were saying "Hey, go along with the program guys. Get on board. Show the company line." Well that's bullshit.
Q. Did you ever feel limited in the medium itself? Did you feel limited by being on television rather than in print?
I stayed away from the American military. I stayed away from American CIA, from intelligence people. I'd rather go out in the field and find soldiers to find out what the hell is going on. And tell my story based on the eyes of that one soldier. It's like the guy in Cambodia, I don't need to talk to a general. I don't need to talk to a briefing officer. Let me show you what happened to these two guys. That's one day in the war.
Q. Michael Arlen says about tv that that's fine, but what you are doing is tantamount to a child looking through a keyhole into a room with people walking around inside and he sees them walking back and forth. What he sees is really happening, but he's not really looking at what we would call the "truth". You really do believe that the little stories add up to the big story. A lot of people wouldn't.
I do believe that. I believe that anything is a compilation of all the little stories, everybody's story.
Q. I was looking at Morley Safer's report from Cam Ney??? the other day and something funny struck me. I'm always looking at the visual images that you guys put on, the pictures, and I guess I should pay more attention to the narrative. Morley Safer at the beginning of the report is real excited and he says, "This is what the war in Vietnam is all about." And that struck me just about a week ago, because for the first time I thought, "Now wait a minute Morley, this is not what the war in Vietnam was all about." And I know he was doing a great job and that piece of tape was really provocative and controversial, but you think the newsmen knew as much as anybody about what was happening? Because the military thought they really knew.
Yes, because I think what happened, I think we didn't know what was happening maybe at the very top ranks. We didn't know the secrets, some of them, but we had a better idea of what was happening with the grunt in the field because we were with the grunt in the field. And by the time it filtered from the grunt up to the high command it was just one lie after another. The lies, the body counts, I mean lying just went with being in Vietnam.
Q. Was there a point when you made a turnaround from being on the team?
I was never on the team. I didn't go there as a member of the team. I went there as an observer.
Q. When did you first go?
Q. So you went relatively late then.
I was there in September of '72. Westmoreland had said there was liaght at the end of the tunnel. Three years later I was still getting shot at.
Q. The intelligence officer for ARVN, Colonel Vu Van Loc said he was in boat going down the river on the morning of the 30th and he went by the light tower at Vung Tau and there were Viet Cong mortars around it shelling them and he thought rather humorously that that was the light at the end of the tunnel. That was one of the worst metaphors that Westmoreland or anybody ever came up with.
Q. Have you been back since then? Or will you be going back?
I don't think so. I've been trying to go back to Cambodia and I can't get a visa.
Q. I read in the New York Times they've invited all the newsmen back for a big show on the 30th.
Had you been in the service before?
Q. What college did you go to?
Cheyney State College
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Shipping a vehicle is no small feat and it comes with a lot of deliberation. Between finding a company with a good reputation to settling on a price that works for your budget, there are a lot of moving parts while you search for the perfect option. One of the biggest decisions you'll have to make is between an open or enclosed auto transport. There are reasons to consider both but when they go head to head, which shipping method comes out on top?
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1. Is developing a better attitude toward ___ grade.
2. Is showing interest and enthusiasm for study.
3. Wants responsibilities and follows through.
4. Enthusiastic about participating. Gaining more self-confidence.
5. Has earned a very fine report card. Has been consistently progressing.
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7. Is willing to take part in all classroom activities.
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9. Needs to increase speed and comprehension in reading.
10. Making steady progress academically. Is maintaining grade-level achievements.
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12. Rate of achievement makes it difficult for ___ to keep up with the class.
13. _______ shows self-confidence in writing. However, handwriting needs to be improved.
14. Cooperative, well mannered. Capable of achieving a higher average in ____.
15. Is inconsistent in his efforts, especially in ___.
16. Sacrificing accuracy for unnecessary speed in his written work.
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18. Comprehends well, but needs to work more quickly.
19. Enjoys doing neat careful work. Is working well in all subjects
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28. _____________ continued to blossom as the year progressed.
29. She is capable of much better work. Possesses good self discipline
30. _________has made nice progress this reporting period.
31. ___________ is a wonderful girl and I'm happy to have had her in my class.
32. She has made many fine contributions to the class and is an inspiration to her classmates.
33. With ____'s friendly, cooperative attitude, she will always be a pleasant addition to any class.
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56. It is possible for _______ to exceed grade expectations.
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58. ______ volunteers frequently and makes wonderful contributions to class. She does tend to work too quickly, which results in many careless errors.
59. ______'s excellent attitude is reflected in the work she does.
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61. _______'s work is below grade standards. I am sure with that more effort and concentration he will show rapid improvement.
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64. Many teachers have reported that he/she has been extremely disruptive in their classes. Not only is this a sign of immaturity, it is also a show of defiance and disrespect. He/she needs to improve or face administrative disciplinary action.
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66. He/she is an asset to the school and a perfect ambassador for the incoming freshman. Keep up the good work!
67. She is a budding poet. I find her work very interesting and mature beyond her years.
1. It is unfortunate that I have to bring this to your attention, but, __________ has become our class clown. He/she has a pretty strong "following" which makes teaching a chore at times, as I have to constantly refocus the class.
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I spent Tuesday afternoon in a midtown Manhattan ballroom, listening to Victor Peng, who took over this year as chief executive of Xilinx (XLNX), lay out a new vision of the company, one focused squarely on how the company's chips can propel artificial intelligence.
There was nothing ugly in the talk, only some good and some bad points, as far as the Street is concerned. The reaction, however, has been a decline in the shares today of $2.91, or 4%, at $68.76.
First, the bad: Analysts are not entirely comfortable with the company's plan to boost spending this year by 10%, slightly faster than projected rise in revenue of 8% to 10%, for the fiscal year that began this quarter.
Morgan Stanley's Joseph Moore, reiterating this morning an Outperform rating and a $78 price target, defends the company's spending, writing that unlike in the past, spending is "more directly tied to enthusiasm about future prospects" such as AI.
The good news, by most accounts, was the company's expectation that its addressable market for chips in the data center will rise to $4.6 billion by 2023, a compound annual growth rate of 67% from just $600 million in 2019.
That data center forecast is the foundation for Peng's projection that from 2019 to 2023, revenue growth should accelerate to greater than 10%.
Peng outlined multiple routes to achieving its share of that market, which it thinks could amount to $1 billion in revenue come 2023, up from relatively little data center revenue today. One route is selling plug-in circuit boards with its chips, rather than just the chips themselves, turning Xilinx into a "platform" company.
Credit Suisse's Joseph Moore thinks the increased operating expense to do so will pay for itself, as the "R&D dollars are likely to drive long-term share gains and moats."
And the second is a new line of chips that will "tape out" this fall, known as "Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform," or ACAP, which he has said is a "totally new category" of chip from either Xilinx's traditional "FPGAs," or field-programmable gate arrays, or competing kinds of chips, the Nvidia (NVDA) GPU. The chip has new features that include digital-signal-processor parts, and embedded memory circuitry, to allow for great flexibility in customizing the circuitry.
Mark Lipacis of Jefferies, who came away "confident" in the company, notes that "Management is optimistic about this new platform," meaning ACAP, "because it is fully software programmable, and is designed to be dynamically reconfigured for a diverse set of applications, which should improve its utilization and ROI." That dovetails with Peng's point, made repeatedly, which is that Xilinx parts already server many markets, including networking and storage, not just computing, unlike Nvidia.
Asked about Intel (INTC), which has its own FPGAs, from having bought Altera, Peng said that the company's manufacturing is now struggling with mistakes Intel has made. "They had been so aggressive to show Moore's Law is still going, that they overdid it on packing things," he said, meaning, "getting more density" of transistors. "Things can actually break when you do that," said Peng.
Peng also offered a tantalizing reference to a forthcoming technology from Xilinx called "computational memory," which it is partnering with "a tier-one memory supplier" to make, the name of which company he declined to give. Those chips will not go the usual route of fetching data from memory circuits, but instead will "put memory nearer to processing."
Among the bears on the stock, Macquarie's Srini Pajjuri is "encouraged," though he's waiting for evidence of "meaningful" data center revenue contribution.
But SunTrust's William Stein is more guarded, a little concerned about the "middle of the road" strategy the company has adopted.
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Despite technology, Stein sees nothing to prompt "material estimate nor multiple upside to warrant a Buy rating."
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Spider Glue Study Leads to Discovery for Adhesives Development
A recent paper published by polymer scientist Saranshu Singla and his team at the University of Akron in Ohio described the findings of the team's study of the glue manufacturing process of orb spiders. Determining how they are able to achieve adhesion despite humid conditions will help in the future development of water-resistant synthetic adhesives. Find out more about the study and what Singla and colleagues ultimately discovered in an article published on the Cosmos Magazine website.


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Born: Wigan, Lancashire 13 August 1924
Died: Oldham, Lancashire April 1978
Teacher and Trade Union official.
Headmaster of All Saints CE Primary School, Farnworth..
Regional official of the National Union of Teachers ad member of the National Executive.
Councillor on Horwich UDC 1963-74.
Chairman of local Divisional Education Executive.
Member of Bolton Metropolitan Council 1975-78 where he was Labour Group Leader.
Later served two years on Horwich Town Council.
Magistrate - Deputy Chairman of the Juvenile Bench and member of the Magistrates Courts Committee.
Died after being taken ill while making his opening remarks at an employment tribunal.
His wife, Margaret, was Chairman's Lady.