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Have you noticed issues of page transitions on the iPhone with dynamically injected pages (http://jquerymobile.com/test/docs/pages/page-dynamic.html)? If so have you found any work arounds?
You want to use APIs? Want to create dynamically pages on the fly? Want to do it without overwhelming the browser? Here's how....
Note: Here is this same example done with jsRender. jsRender is now the stated direction for templating by the jQuery team. Thanks to @ziodave for pointing this out. Despite that, I am leaving this original post intact because it may still be useful to somebody.
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Once you've read this article and found it useful, you should order my book. It's full of real world examples that span several industries and technologies using jQuery Mobile. The eBook editions are cheap and obviously, you know where to come if you have follow up questions ;-)
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For the base page, let's start out with the basic starting page from jquery mobile.
For an API, let's go with the example for getJSON from jQuery.
Next, call in the tempalte engine scripts...
<script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.templates/beta1/jquery.tmpl.min.js"></script>
Then, create a spot for your templated content to live...
<script id="flickrTemplate" type="text/x-jquery-tmpl">
When we make our getJSON call, we'll transform the contents of the template with the returned data from the API call and add it wherever we like.
Here is the finished code but please don't stop at just viewing the source, I've got a few key takeaways afterwards.
newpage.attr( "data-" + $.mobile.ns + "external-page", true ).one( 'pagecreate', $.mobile._bindPageRemove );
$.mobile.changePage calls.
$.mobile.changePage("#"+data.pageId); will find the page through selectors and then transition to. The change will also be reflected in the URL and thus show up in history.
$.mobile.changePage(newpage); is being passed a direct jquery object reference to the page. Using this method will cause a page transition to the new content but will not affect the URL and thus not show up as an update in history.
<script id="flickrTemplate" type="text/x-jquery-tmpl"> jQuery Mobile does not try to parse or enhance the contents of these script files. The example is a single page example, even with these templates. It is not until templates are transformed with the data and the results are appended to the DOM that you can navigate to the pages.
else, and
each loops. To get the most of our them, you should really read up on the template APIs and examples.
I hope you found this helpful. As always, you can leave a comment or send a message to email@example.com.
Now, go be brilliant!
Have you noticed issues of page transitions on the iPhone with dynamically injected pages (http://jquerymobile.com/test/docs/pages/page-dynamic.html)? If so have you found any work arounds?
Actually, I don't really have any kind of page transition issues with this example.
If I'm not mistaken, the problem you reference is... "Now an interesting problem here is that jQuery Mobile typically updates the browser's location hash with the URL associated with the page it is showing. Because we are re-using the same page for each category, this wouldn't be ideal, because the URL for that page has no specific category info associated with it."
I did not have this issue because I'm not reusing the same page over and over as they are. I can understand why they'd do that. It keeps the DOM size small, but I'm getting around that issue a different way. I create a new page each time based off a single template and give it a unique ID. After creating the new page, I'm marking it for deletion on exit as if it were loaded by ajax. (check my code to see how I did it). The result is a multi-page template that behaves more like an ajax based site. Therefor, it avoids any page transition issues.
Did you have any particular example you were needing help with? I'd be happy to have a look.
I also just noticed that the back button behavior is not ideal. I ran your search for "cats" then at the bottom of the results I ran a "dogs" search. Clicked back to #cats but still had the dogs DOM items. I'm sure this was just a quick example for your blog. I'll try it without marking the page for deletion. Thanks again.
Thanks for the info Shane. Your example isn't rendering properly on my iPhone4 (iOS5). The page loads but is "un-jQm-styled". Desktop safari/chrome is fine. Just me/my phone?
Their example uses the pagebeforechange event. I'll try your pageint approach. It's the main difference between my example and yours (I'm also saving new pages in the DOM). I modified their example to first look if the page exist and if not dynamically inject one. I have the case where users will often return to previous pages (employee directory) and I wanted to keep the pages to avoid the delay of another ajax/rending call.
Another difference is I'm using jsRender for my templates and 1.7.1. Not sure if this has any impact or not. If I still see issues I'll post my example. Thanks again for contributing to the community.
I didn't fully flush out the thing to be production ready ( or even QA ready ) by accounting for every circumstance. I never built in the hooks to make it pull a search term directly from the URL on page navigation. It is doing a search that makes it call to flick for now.
As for showing the dogs again, If you try to navigate to an "page" that doesn't exist, it shows what you were just on.
It's like you said, this was just a quick example for the blog to give people a starting point and hopefully answer some of the kinds of questions I've seen floating around out there in the community. If you create an example using JSRender I'd love to see it. That was my next goal by the end of this week.
Hi everybody, I have a question on the history after the page removal. Let's say I have dinamically generated content from json files and I can go deeper than 1 level (unlike the app example here). I need to remove the pages from the dom since it becomes too heavy for a mobile device, but at the same time I want to keep track of the history.
Right now, if I go down to a 3rd level in my tree, I removed the pages from level 1 and 2. If I hit the back button I can go back only to page 2 but I lose the ability to go back to page 1 and 0.
How can I keep the path 0,1,2,3 in the history without having to keep the pages in my dom? Is there any simple solution to this?
Thank you. This actually was a lot more helpful than the JQM docs for me. I'm putting the json data into a dialog instead of a page, so this worked great.
Totally good post, the article gave a lot of information. Thank you


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Basketball: Lone Peak sophomore Frank Jackson commits to BYU
The Salt Lake Tribune
Published: September 13, 2013 10:50AM
Updated: September 13, 2013 10:50AM
Frank Jackson, a 6-foot-1 guard who will play basketball for Lone Peak High this upcoming season, apparently doesn't like to wait around.
Jackson, who is only a sophomore, received a scholarship offer from BYU basketball coaches during a recent unofficial visit to BYU.
A day or two later, he took it.
Certainly, Jackson is the earliest commit in the Dave Rose era at BYU. Because he plans on going on a two-year LDS Church mission when he graduates from high school, Jackson likely won't suit up for BYU until the 2018-19 season.
Jackson played his freshman season at Lehi High School, averaging 10 points a game for the Pioneers. His family moved into the Lone Peak boundaries last spring.
Jackson scored 30 points against Lone Peak last February in a 90-71 loss to the Knights, ironically. He also had big games against Pleasant Grove, scoring 27 and 21 points in two outings against the Vikings.
"There's no question he's a highly regarded player," Lone Peak coach Quincy Lewis told The Salt Lake Tribune in June.
Jackson has attended BYU team camps for several years. He averaged 1.3 assists per game for Lehi last season.
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The B-Cycle bike that Philadelphia will use is already part of bike-sharing services across the nation and in Santiago, Chile.
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The Mayor's Office of Transportation and Utilities has secured $90 million in infrastructure grant funding, according to a 5-year report.
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Philadelphia unveiled more details about its planned citywide bike sharing program.
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31 December 2009 12:20
This is how a top custom motorcycle builder raises cash for charity – building a slick Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade streetfighter to auction! LA-based custom bike builder and former 250GP racer Roland Sands is well known for custom and sportsbike-based one-offs alike. This Fireblade-based naked is one of his more restrained transformations, but it's still a great-looking motorcycle that proves that ...
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23 December 2009 11:34
In the December 16 issue of MCN we have the full story for Roland Sand's cool fat-tyred Ducati 1098 – and here online you can see it in all its glory. We couldn't fit the full image gallery in the paper, so we've uploaded them here for your viewing pleasure. Highlights of the motorcycle are a custom swingarm, 250-section rear ...
Chris Newbigging,
20 October 2009 09:50
Bull Originals Inc. in Japan have made a neat job of kitting out this Harley-Davidson Sportster with Roland Sands' line of parts – but then they named it the 'Sickster'. Dodgy name aside, the 883 Sportster dodges chrome trinkets in favour of subtle colours neatly detailed with polished aluminium. There's a 2-1 high level exhaust, RSD wheels, air-filter cover, sprocket ...
Chris Newbigging,
10 October 2009 15:30
Custom motorcycle parts don't get much more ludicrous than the subwoofer-equipped swingarm on this Suzuki TL1000S! Created by ABW Designs in Virginia, the tubular steel swingarm is not only set up to accept a 300-section back tyre (standard is 190-section) but also house a subwoofer box! A pair of speakers in the fairing openings provide the sound to go with ...
Chris Newbigging,
16 September 2009 14:54
Graceland Harley-Davidson has unveiled a special edition Street Glide to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Elvis' Las Vegas comeback. As well as a special paint job the Vegas Elvis Harley-Davidson Street Glide will come with a special paint scheme with images from the four-week, 57-performance comeback, created by O's Custom Paint in Memphis. It also comes with billet alloy wheels, ...
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05 September 2009 09:00
ProCharger's blown 122bhp Night Train has the go to match the show. Speed and low-rider style don't usually go together, but ProCharger went and gave its slick custom 122bhp anyway. The 'Dream Smasher' is based around the chassis and engine of a 2007 Harley-Davidson Night Train. The 1573cc motor is standard internally – Harley's heavyweight internals were deemed tough enough to ...
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13 August 2009 16:17
French paint shop AD Koncept has transformed the dull-looking Fireblade in to a slick LCR Playboy Honda MotoGP replica. The new paint is the instant eye-grabber, but AD Koncept has sunk £15,000 worth of work in to the bike to give it the performance to match the style. Standard bodywork is retained with the addition of a genuine Honda seat ...
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West London Suzuki is offering a limited run of 'Bumble B-King' specials with a Transformers-inspired paint job. The unique paint is the work of Surrey paint shop Altamura, who took inspiration from the 'Bumblebee' transformer which is based on a Chevrolet Camaro car. A B-King was also used in the film too, so the two were combined to make the ...
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One-off showcase bikes from respected manufacturers don't usually hit the classified ads. So MCN was surprised to see this Heretic from exclusive manufacturer Ecosse up for sale for £40,500. Built to showcase the work of the American firm, the Heretic C is finished in black with orange pin-striping and coated in a matte-finish lacquer. As standard, it packs a 130bhp, ...
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Earlier, I had written about Kurukshetra in Voice From Kurukshetra: The Land of Dharma. Just as Kurukshetra in North India brings alive various scenes from the Mahabharata, Rameshwaram in South India brings alive scenes from another epic, the Ramayana.
Rameshwaram is located on Pamban Island, which is separated from the mainland at Mandapam town by the Pamban bridge (also called Indira Gandhi Bridge), and is about 50 kilometres from Mannar Island, Sri Lanka.
Pamban bridge was completed in the year 1988, and this was considered as an engineering marvel at the time. It is a bascule bridge section that can be raised to let ships pass under the bridge.
Image: Rameshwaram Express Train over Pamban Bridge
Danushkodi is a fishing town at the southern tip of the Rameswaram and is 18 miles (29 km) West of Talaimannar in Sri Lanka. Dhanush means 'bow' – here, Rama's bow with which he marked the spot for the construction of Setu or bridge.
Dhanushkodi is situated in the Gulf of Mannar at the very tip of the Indian peninsula. The town had a railway station, a school, houses and port offices, but the entire town was marooned in the 1964 cyclone. It is a ghost town now, with just a few fishermen's huts, and the entire area is covered by sand dunes. One has to reach Dhanushkodi in jeeps and tempos.
According to legend, Dhanushkodi is the place from where Lord Rama built a bridge across the sea to Lanka called Ram Setu (aka Adam's Bridge) with the help of a monkey army to rescue his wife Sita from Ravana, the demon king who abducted her.
Hi Uma -
I remember reading a blog about Dhanushkodi by a fellow female blogger - it was eerie with potent dangers of strong wind and rainy weather.
Uma Shankari
Loved the way you have written this. have been to Dhanushkodi and have seen the stones.
Appreciate very much, the ay you have presented this.
See what happened to the once shipping minister and his party...Touch the Sethu and question Rama's Academic qualification... and a storm misplaces them !! Nemesis
Uma shankari,
This is indeed a professional work.The facts are neatly presented with maps and videos and this is highly informative.Loved your work.
Checked your blog also to read the final part.
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Well this is gorgeous! Definitely one for my 'to do' list!!
Colorful Snowflake Garland from Crochet Today
September 8th, 2014 -
Easter is on it's way, so over the next week or so, I'll be posting some cutesy Easter inspiration for you all. Here are some colourful little Easter eggs (for purchase) via eljuks on Etsy. I'm going to have a go at making my own too.
March 20th, 2013 -
Knitted Tea Pot Cosy with Crocheted Embellishments
Pic found via blij dat ik brei
Pattern can be found here at Crochet with Raymond
February 9th, 2013 -
Cute crochet pic found via IngThings (a very sweet Dutch blog).
January 8th, 2013 -
Love Your Yarn Scraps!
Ever wondered what to do with your pesky little yarn scrap? (I left mine outside for the birds last week …) Well, EasyMakesMeHappy has come up with a fabulous idea — Scrap Yarn Art! Click on the link for instructions.
November 22nd, 2012 -
Pretty crocheted pillowcases from You Go Girl. Seriously, that's one sweet blog, check it out when you get a sec.
November 17th, 2012 -
Another 'crochet in the home' pic coming straight from the JuBella Flickr Group: How Creative People Live — tovemichelle12 is featured again with her oh-so-lovely and colourful home.
Loving it!
September 27th, 2012 -
Loving these colourful hexagons. Hand crocheted work-in-progress found via Rettg.blogspot.com.au
August 31st, 2012 -
A cute and colourful and crocheted CAT! What could possibly be better?
To make this precious softie, check out Janette's tutorial on her website, the Green Dragonfly.
April 11th, 2012 -
My name is Claire and I'm a creative soul from Canberra Australia. I live with my High School Sweetheart hubby, Mr S, and our little cat Mingka (aka Mingky Tinky Tiger).
(In my 'real' life) I am passionate about, and advocate for vulnerable and at-risk children and young people. I believe in the healing power of Crochet (it truly is my stress relief - so I'm bringing Crochet back!). I devour cook books like some people eat chocolate (give me a bowl of chilli olives any day). I make my own pasta and stock. And I am a creative crafter who is obsessed with masterminding magical little monster creatures (aka 'Podkins').
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Bus: STL 144, 151, 902, STM 16, 17, 64, 70, 72, 117, 121, 128, 170, 171, 174, 177, 196, 213, 215, 216, 225, 468, 470, 475
Visit: December 19, 2012
We all have our own neighbourhood places. Ville Saint-Laurent is a vast territory, but there is one thing that doesn't quite sit well with a lot of us, the lack of significant places to eat. In this part of town, there are a litany of fast food options and chain restaurants, but none of those are really worth talking about. What is worth talking about is a place that I couldn't leave 2012 without trying, Décarie Hot Dog.
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1909 Avenue Canadiens-de-Montreal
Montreal, Quebec
Metro: Bonaventure, Lucien-L'Allier
Train: Gare Centrale, Lucien-L'Allier
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Visit: September 29, 2011
You're probably thinking to yourself that Mr. Lew is now desperate for material. Well, I am not really. On this faithful night, I got the incredible opportunity to go see the Montreal Canadiens play the Tampa Bay Lightning in the second to last pre-season game before the 2011-2012 season was to start. Seeing how the Bell Centre has food, I was curious to see how what they served stacked up to other things on the island.


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Presenting Out of Context, a new series on scriptures which are popularly quoted, but are used in a way that has little or nothing to do with why they were originally said. They're proof-texted to suit the quoter's purposes, not God's. The icon is a good example of it: It's the "And Jesus Wept" statue at St. Joseph's Church in Oklahoma City. But you've likely seen it around the Internet, taken out of context and renamed "Facepalm Jesus." The facepalm, in American culture, is not a sign of sorrow, but frustration at other people's stupidity. (Whether sorrow or frustration is what I mean by this icon, I leave to you to determine.)
Today's out-of-context scripture comes from Isaiah 55.11: "So shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; / It shall not return to me void." (NKJV) Christians typically quote this verse under one of two circumstances.
One is that they're laying claim to a promise of God. They found something God said in the scriptures, and they choose to believe that this verse applies to them personally, regardless of what God originally meant by it, and the people he said it to. Because it doesn't matter what God originally meant, or those he said it to: Simply because God said it, at some point in history, it's imbued with some kind of supernatural divine power. It'll work on anyone. So I can claim it for myself. I can claim it for others. So can they. We can use it out of context however we wish. It's not void of power simply because I'm using it wrong. It's God's word, and God's word is never void.
The other is related to it: They've been quoting bible to a skeptic, and the skeptic won't believe them, no matter how many verses they throw at them. This is precisely what Jesus meant by throwing pearls to swine, or giving holy things to dogs (Mt 7.6) —what they've preached has fallen on deaf ears, who choose to mock it rather than receive it, and they've wasted their time. But they don't choose to believe they have wasted their time, for "God's word won't return void." Every quotation of scripture, at any time for whatever reason—stupid or not—has that supernatural divine power attached to it. It'll perform some kind of voodoo on the person whom they've thrown it at; it'll gnaw at their conscience until it finally works on them, and makes them see the light.
The general idea: Bible verses are magic spells.
Based on this way of thinking, I can take any verse I want from the bible, and make it work my will. If I want to live in joy and peace, all I have to do is find some prophecy where God promises other people joy and peace, (Is 55.12) and claim that for myself. If I want the ability to command other people to do my bidding, I just have to find a spell—I mean scripture—that gives me that power; something that God promised to the ancient Jews, likely, (Is 55.5) and claim it, and voilá, I have that power too. Because God's word won't return void. Right?
There's a lot of demented teaching out there about the promises of God, and it's all based on the idea of the magic bible, and the ability to seize divine power for ourselves; to name things and claim things because God promised us these things. Which is totally valid when he really did promise us things, but when in fact he did no such thing, we're actually practicing sorcery.
Yes, sorcery—the fraudulent gaining of power and wealth through spiritual manipulation. It's an attempt to manipulate God, and sometimes others, into giving us what we want. It doesn't work on God, of course; God is under no obligation to give us anything other than what he said he would. And when we're not following him, he's actually obligated himself to prove us wrong and come against us. (Is 13.11) But where sorcery can work is that we might convince others that our magic is real, use it to defraud them, and spread this abominable teaching. And of course we'll convince ourselves that it works; that all our "prosperity," as we call it, is a blessing from God, instead of coincidence, or a sign that we've in fact sold ourselves to the things of this world. We'll just maneuver ourselves further and further away from a true relationship with him, in favor of more material goods, more fleeting happiness, more relationships based on gaining power instead of serving others… and more idolatry.
When we disregard what God means to say in the scriptures, and replace it with what we would rather have it mean, we ultimately disregard God himself. We have no relationship with him. We instead have a relationship with an imaginary, made-up, genie-in-a-lamp type of God. But instead of a lamp, we have a bible.
In context:
God's word does what God wants it to.
How do you rebuke someone who quotes bible out of context? You quote it in context. You quote the whole passage. Like so.
Seek the LORD while you can find him.
Call on him now while he is near.
Let the wicked change their ways
and banish the very thought of doing wrong.
Let them turn to the LORD that he may have mercy on them.
Yes, turn to our God, for he will forgive generously.
"My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts," says the LORD.
"And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.
For just as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so my ways are higher than your ways
and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.
The rain and snow come down from the heavens
and stay on the ground to water the earth.
They cause the grain to grow,
producing seed for the farmer
and bread for the hungry.
It is the same with my word.
I send it out, and it always produces fruit.
It will accomplish all I want it to,
and it will prosper everywhere I send it."
—Isaiah, Isaiah 55.6-11 NLT
The context of this passage is that God forgives generously. When people turn away from evil, he has mercy on them, and restores them. If you don't believe it—as many don't; as Isaiah's listeners didn't—God points out that he isn't petty and vengeful like we are: "My ways are far beyond anything you could imagine." If he says he's going to forgive, take it to the bank: He will forgive. His word will always do what he says it will: "I send it out, and it always produces fruit. It will accomplish all I want it to."
In other translations "it always produces fruit" is rendered "it shall not return to me empty," (ESV, NIV, NRSV) or as The Message puts it, "not come back empty-handed," and the KJV puts it, "return unto me void." The original, lo yashúv eláy reyqám, means "not returning to me empty," empty like a hand, a sack, a jar, or a scabbard. But "empty" is also used as a metaphor for "unsuccessful" or "for no reason." It doesn't mean that God's words don't lack supernatural power, and are in fact full of the power to do whatever we wish. It means, more simply, that God doesn't say things for no reason. There is always a context and purpose behind anything God says.
Ironically, taking this verse out of context, and using it to defend the use of bible verses as magic spells, violates the very purpose of this verse. It'd be hilarious… if it weren't so twisted.
The proper idea: God's word does what God wants it to. It prospers wherever he sends it. Not what we want; not where we send it. Whenever we misquote God, it's no longer his word; it's ours. We've taken it away from him, and abused it; we've made the sacred into something profane, a mockery of his original intent, like when the devil quotes it. And our words have no creative power without God behind them. They only have destructive power. They drive us and God apart, not close.
So: You want prosperity, growth, a stronger relationship with God, and to have his wishes fulfilled more than your own? Learn what God really means to say through the scriptures. Read it in context. In context, it won't return void. Out of context, it's nothing but void.


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Victor Oladipo and Cody Zeller were drafted by the Orlando Magic and Charlotte Bobcats respectively.
Maurice Creek said he will play his senior year at another school.
Cody Zeller will follow his teammate Victor Oladipo to the NBA draft.
The President suggests the Hoosiers will topple Louisville in the final.
Oladipo and Zeller highlight several postseason awards for the Big Ten Champion Hoosiers.
The number one ranked IU beat Indiana Wesleyan 86-57 on Thursday.
The Indiana University Hoosiers kicked off their season Saturday with Hoosier Hysteria.
Indiana has been chosen the number-one team in the nation for the upcoming season in several preseason polls.
A bus pulled off before daylight to take IU students to see the Hoosiers play number one seed Kentucky Friday night.
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Schoonover was a Deputy Chief for the Harlem-Roscoe Fire Department. Current Chief Don Shovelin says Schoonover spent 35 years on the department. A visitation will be held to honor his life Thursday from 5pm-8pm at Delehanty Funeral Home in Loves Park. Schoonover will be laid to rest on Friday after a service at 11am at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Rockford.
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I received a variety of products to review but I will first start out with the eye dusts. I am a hoarder of most makeup in general but my area of most delusion tends to be eye products! These are SUPER fine & swatched true to color. I love the packaging & although these are sample sizes I feel like I got a good amount to use over a period of time. The colors are all lovely with a similar sparkle & gleam. I recommend applying these using a patting motion as always with loose shadows to help avoid fallout! I want to note real quick how much I love the labels because the color title is similar to the color itself. I find that super helpful & wish more companies took the time to do that!
Jenda- My favorite shade, this is a cranberry/blackberry/red based purple packed with multi-colored shimmer.
Swag- An orange with hints of yellow with a golden shimmer packed within.
Charcoal- A medium grey with purple shimmer base.
Titanium- My 2nd favorite,this is a gorgeous, multi-colored shimmering white based gray with blue undertones. Nice pigmentation & kind of reminds me of what a tiara smashed into an eye pigment would look like.
Anya- A yellow with a white base shimmer that reminds me of daffodils.
I Dream of Reenie- A multi-colored shimmering lilac toned purple that applies somewhat sheer.
Nugget- A silver toned light brown that comes off as a warm highlight shade for me.
Left to right: Jenda, Anya, Charcoal, Titanium, Swag, I Dream of Reenie, & Nugget.
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How silly I am.
He's still nice, but you find out more about a person so quickly. He drinks a lot, and likes for me to drink. It bothers him when I dont. I feel hindered and used as a tool. I want to end this relationship with Michael.
I really like him. I'm just happier when he's around, and I think he feels the same way too.
I wish I never told him about what some of my family thought. It's not even a problem to me, and I shouldn't have introduced that.
Yesterday, I was talking about him to Dave, and I accidentally said I loved him. I tried to correct myself, but Dave already knew what I meant. How I meant it. I'm not in love, but I love his heart, regardless of if we were romantically involved.
I guess I'll see where things go. It's only been a few days.
21 jump street
To dream that you are going to bed with a stranger suggests that you are making friends too fast. You need to be more cautious.
To dream that you are going to bed with someone you are not sexual with represents some sort of partnership or some aspect of yourself that you need to acknowledge and come to terms with.
To see your bed in your dream represents your intimate self and discovery of your sexuality. If you are sleeping in your own bed, then it denotes security and restoration of your mind.�You may be looking for domestic bliss, for peace or for some form of escape. If you are waking up in a different and/or unknown bed, then it represents the consequences of the decisions you have made.�The dream may also be a pun on the completion of a project and "putting it to bed." Consider the condition of the bed. If the bed is made, then it symbolizes security. If the bed is unmade, then it indicates that certain secrets will soon be exposed or revealed.�Or that you are exhibiting some carelessness in your sexual behavior.�
To dream that you are searching for a bed suggests that you are having difficulties acknowledging your intimate self. You may be feeling inhibited in expressing your sexuality. Alternatively, it may mean that you are looking for domestic security and happiness. Or you just need more sleep.
To dream that you are floating or lifting up into the air from your bed suggests that you are feeling helpless and� disconnected from those around you. Your ideas may be alienating people. You might need to tone down your personality a bit.
To notice or buy bedspread in your dream represents your open sexuality and outward beauty. The design and look of the bedspread may be a clue into what you are looking for sexually.
To dream that you feel numbness indicates that you are letting fear take over and run your life. You fear failure and as a result, you are afraid of taking risks or chances.
To dream that you are gripping something implies control, hope, determination, possession or endurance. Consider the significance and symbolism of the object that you are gripping. If your grip is slipping, then it means that it is time to let go, whether it be a relationship, goal or situation. You may be holding on to false hope.
To see blood in your dream represents life, love, and passion as well as disappointments. If you see the word "blood" written in your dream, then it may refer to some situation in your life that is permanent and cannot be changed. If something else is written in blood, then it represents the energy you have put into a project. You have invested so much effort into something that you are not willing to give it up. If you dream of blood on the walls, then it is a warning of sorts. There is a situation that you need to confront. You can not avoid it any longer. More specifically, if blood is on the bathroom walls, then it indicates that the situation that you need to confront is an extremely emotional one.
To dream that you are bleeding or losing blood signifies that you are suffering from exhaustion or that you are feeling emotionally drained. It may also denote bitter confrontations between you and your friends. Your past actions has come back to haunt you. Women often dream of blood or of someone bleeding, shortly before or during their periods or while they are pregnant. If you dream that you are giving or donating blood, then it suggests that you are feeling physically drained due to stress.�If blood is squirting everywhere, then the dream implies that you are experiencing some deep emotional stress. You are literally bursting.�
To see a lake in your dream signifies your emotional state of mind. You feel restricted and that you can't express your emotions freely. Alternatively, the lake may provide you with solace, security, and peace of mind. If the lake is clear and calm, then it symbolizes your inner peace. If the lake is disturbed, then you may be going through some emotional turmoil.
To dream that you are crawling indicates that you are approaching your goals with careful forethought and preparation. Alternatively, the dream may indicate that you are lowering yourself and your standards. You may be doing less than your best.
To dream that you are crawling out of a wreck or ruins represents your willpower.
To dream that someone is crawling towards you signifies your need for power, revenge, superiority, or control
To have a blurry dream indicates that there is something you are not confronting or are refusing to see. Life may be passing you by if you do not participate in it. It also represents secrets and confusion. Perhaps you think that someone is trying to keep something from you.


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Security breach costs Y-12 contractor $12.2M in fee
KNOXVILLE — B&W Y-12, the government's contractor at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant, was docked $12.2 million in its fee because of the July 28 security breach in which three protesters gained access to the plant's inner sanctum and defaced the storage center for bomb-grade uranium.
According to information released by the National Nuclear Security Administration, B&W received only 58.9 percent of the total fee available for Fiscal Year 2012, the contractor's lowest ever.
Babcock & Wilcox Technical Services Y-12 LLC, a partnership of B&W and Bechtel National, was given a "very good" rating for the Program category in the evaluation; a "satisfactory" rating for Operations; and a "very good" rating for Institutional Management and Business.
The government awarded B&W Y-12 a total fee of $35,862,741. That was out of a total available fee of $60,863,521.
"As a result of the July security incident, B&W Y-12 lost a total of $12.2 million in award fee, which includes 100 percent of their possible security-related fee and a negative overall management fee adjustment of $10 million," the NNSA stated.
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Bramham Park Fun Run 2014
Now is the time to prepare for the 16th annual Bramham Park Fun Run in aid cancer research based at St James hospital, Leeds.
The event offers a choice of 5Km and 10km circuits covering a variety of terrains using tarmac roads, paths and farm tracks through the park. Both routes are entirely within the park and offer beautiful surroundings and views. Everyone who participates really enjoys it.
The organiser, Ann Newton, says: "The event is increasing in popularity every year, everyone is welcome to participate, the 10Km offers a challenge for serious runners, the 5Km is particularly suited to occasional runners and families who want to walk. Anyone who wishes to remember a relative or friend, who has been affected by cancer, can make a statement in support by wearing something pink."
This years' event is again sponsored by local Estate and Letting Agents, Beadnall Copley which means that all the money raised by participants will go directly to Cancer Research UK.
Andrew Beadnall says: "I am both honoured and thrilled to be asked yet again to sponsor this wonderful event which has grown tremendously in recent years, raising funds for Cancer Research UK. Last year's event was our best so far and attracted around 700 people who to date have helped to raise over £15,500 which is double the amount collected in 2012. Sadly cancer affects one in three of us and all of us know of someone who has suffered or is currently undergoing treatment".
"I urge everyone to get involved in 2014 as we are setting a big target of over 1,000 participants and hope to raise over £20,000. Remember, you don't have to be a top athlete to take part. However you get round the 5km or 10km circuits will be an amazing achievement and help eradicate this evil disease. I look forward to seeing you all on Sunday 5th October".
Once again this year we will be supporting Prof Alan Melcher's research at St James hospital, Leeds into how viruses such as herpes can be used in the treatment of cancers. Click here for a report on Alan Melcher's research
Beadnall Copley is an award-winning, leading independent Estate and Letting Agency with residential sales offices in Wetherby, Harrogate and Ripon. Their lettings division covers all this region and is centralised in Harrogate. They provide an unrivalled, personal service with expert marketing that continually achieves excellent results. For more information click on the logo at the top right hand corner or visit their website at: www.beadnallcopley.co.uk.
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Featured Articles
for Asymmetric Warfare
Firepower: SMART BOMBS, DUMB STRATEGY
Small Change of Soldiering and American Military Experience
the Elements: Thoughts on Joint Force (Re)Organization
Presented at "Armed Diplomacy: Two Centuries of American Campaigning"
held at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., August 5-7, 2003
Dr. Spiller is employed at the U.S. Army Command
and General Staff College. No other biographical information is
currently available.
"Armed diplomacy," the term used
by this conference as an organizing theme, defines a class of military
operations with certain characteristics. Roughly speaking, these
fall under the heading of "the small change of soldiering,"
to use John Keegan's now-famous phrase.1
Finer-gauged definitions are unnecessary. No doubt soldiers have
always understood: when they were charged with a mission that did
not look familiar, that diverged from the agreed upon business of
fighting wars, they entered this unorthodox realm of soldiering.
This might include interventions and invasions, punitive expeditions,
constabulary operations, occupations, peacekeeping, or even colonial
or imperial warfare. The first of the case studies presented here,
by Irving Levinson, considers America's occupation of Mexico as
a classic "stability operation." Next, J. G. Dawson considers
the US Army's role in the Reconstruction of the South after the
Civil War as an important early case of "nation-building."
For Robert Wooster, the Army's operations on the frontier after
the Civil War amounted to a very different sort of occupation, and
in many ways one of the most complex in American history. The volume
concludes with surveys of recent American operations in Somalia,
Afghanistan and Iraq. The scope of these and other cases collected
here is vast, reaching across the past century and a half of the
American military experience up to the present campaigns in Afghanistan
and Iraq. Seen together, these studies contribute to the body of
professional knowledge American soldiers are most likely to require
in the foreseeable future.
Apart from their unorthodox nature, what all
the campaigns considered in this volume have in common is that they
were in some way limited. None approached, nor was intended to approach,
the intensity of total war seen in the two world wars of the 20th
century. Something a good deal less than the national survival of
the United States was at stake. Instead, their limitations determined
their fundamental character. In each of these cases, America's aims
and methods were bounded in some way by the immediate situation,
usually by the immediate cause that gave rise to the operation.
These less than vital circumstances in turn framed the mission of
the forces deployed; although hard--and repeated--experience has
shown how missions often take on an elastic quality as the shapes
and purposes of these struggles evolve. American operations in Somalia,
UNISOM II, described here, is a case in point. What began as a humanitarian
relief mission metastasized over time into an altogether different
kind of operation with a tragic result for American policy, American
forces, and not least, the people of Somalia.2
Such operations are limited in other respects
too; for instance, they are always confined geographically. A limited
mission and a limited operational area both require a fine sense
of discrimination about the number and kind of troops that should
be employed. Having too many troops, or having the wrong kind of
troops could be just as bad as not having enough. Too, no matter
how small a given area of operations, expeditionary forces are never
strong enough to cover it entirely, even if it were desirable to
do so. The Army's pacification campaigns in the Philippines were
typical in this respect. The Army put its formations and detachments
where they would challenge the most intractable problems. Troublesome
provinces such as Batangas received a large share of attention while
others were left to their own devices. Unable to dominate an entire
territory or region by physical means, statesmen and commanders
are always forced to discriminate, to decide where limited assets
could advance their mission, to calculate where politics might substitute
for combat power, or risk dissipating their power and failing altogether.
And American statesmen and commanders did fail.
One might be misled to think that because vital national interests
are not immediately in danger the failure of a limited operation
may be of only limited importance. But the military dimensions of
an operation may not be a mirror image of its larger, long-term
political importance. The United States'relatively small-scale intervention
in the Russian Civil War did much to poison American relations with
the USSR during its formative history and for most of the century
thereafter. History does not obey a rule of proportionality. Small
events may produce great effects. As colonial soldiers have long
understood, a politically charged tactical defeat can have strategic
Next, limited operations do not conduce to
a leisurely pace. American political and military authorities have
usually set these campaigns in motion with one eye on the clock.
The role of the United States is usually reactive, and this suffuses
the campaign with the sense that American forces must move quickly
if they hope to take the initiative and take control of the situation.
Very seldom is the American public consulted beforehand. Provided
the cost in lives, treasure and time does not outrun the American
government's justifications, the sufferance of the public can be
assumed, but warily, not for too long. So, forces engaged in limited
operations almost always feel undermanned and out of time. And for
troops trained only in orthodox soldiering, METT-T3
always feels out of whack in these operations. As one soldier said
of his role in stability operations in Panama, "I didn't sign
up for this bullshit."4
Nowhere is the departure from "real soldiering"
more keenly felt than in the imbalance of combat power between the
forces engaged. In limited operations, American forces have rarely
faced opponents whose orders of battle approached their own, even--with
notable exceptions--in a momentary, tactical sense. The lack of
parity between forces works its own important influence on the greater
character of the operation. An abundance of combat power on the
part of the Americans has naturally led to frustration over policies
that prevent its whole-hearted use. Often, on the other side, the
very lack of combat power will drive opponents toward the more inventive,
less orthodox methods that have become so familiar in 20th century
warfare. From time to time, in cases of what one might term the
"Custer Syndrome," the overconfidence bred by such abundant
combat power, has been met with very dramatic and wholly unexpected
American defeats.
It is no wonder, then, that soldiers throughout
history have never been particularly fond of limited warfare. Given
a choice in theory that is never available in practice, soldiers
would prefer to meet their own kind in battles where there was no
ambiguity about ends, ways and means. Perhaps it is this preference--or
prejudice--that has worked against the advancement of military theories
of unorthodox operations, a deficiency that has extended even to
simple doctrines and methods until quite recently. While modern
orthodox warfare has given rise to a vast professional literature
to guide every facet of strategic planning, campaign design and
operational execution, the same cannot be said of more limited operations.
Perhaps that is because these operations are
seen as too much affairs of the moment, too much accidents of history
than any well planned, deliberate orthodox operation could be. Thus--so
the argument runs--it is impossible for military theory and doctrine
to anticipate these operations in any useful way. We must concede
the initiative to reality and realize that improvisation is more
important than knowledge in such operations.6
Of course, this is an argument for ignoring experience, one's own
as well as others'.
One might expect such opinions from armies
with no experience, seeking to rationalize their ignorance. But
on the contrary, officers in mature armies with long experience
of colonial and expeditionary warfare such as the French were quick
to say "adaptability in the face of each new situation, not
the application of some pat formula of the Ecole de Guerre, made
for success in the colonies."7
The ambiguous character of these operations was supposed to create
bold, innovative military leaders who could reinvigorate the staid
practices of the orthodox army when they finally returned home.
The common view among expeditionary soldiers that this kind of soldiering
was beyond the reach of codification certainly worked against any
but the most informal, ass-in-the-saddle doctrines.8
Indeed, only a very forgiving definition of doctrine could be applied
to the nostrums that were handed down like saddle blankets from
soldier to soldier on the American frontier after the Civil War.9
And while it is certainly true, as Andrew Birtle has observed, that
doctrine in the modern sense did not exist in the 19th century Army,10
the differences between the state of the military art as it existed
for orthodox operations and the state of the art for unorthodox
operations were difficult to ignore. The difference in the two bodies
of knowledge was the sign of a preference being enacted by an increasingly
professional officer corps. Choices were being made about what was
most important to learn and what could be dealt with informally.
The distance between these two bodies of corporate knowledge has
persisted throughout the 20th century and into the 21st. As a consequence,
the US Army still greets unorthodox campaigning as if it were a
new day, where improvisation and hoping for the best overrules experience.
Yet there is no intrinsic reason why this should
be so. The US Army's experience alone is sufficient to inform the
creation of an "American school" of limited warfare.11
Hardly a year has passed in the last two centuries in which American
soldiers have not been engaged in such missions, with very little
time out for the world wars. And with the advent of the Cold War,
not only the frequency of contingencies intensified, so did their
scope of consequence. Between 1945 and 1976, arguably the most dangerous
period of the Cold War, the United States employed its armed forces
in support of its foreign policy 215 times.12
Behind every one of these operations lay the possibility that it
might escape its limitations, and spin toward a confrontation between
the Superpowers. After a period of relative quiescence during the
1980s, the pace of American contingency operations surged again.
During the dozen years of the Bush and Clinton administrations,
the United States employed its armed forces in contingency operations
grand and small on more than a thousand occasions.13
What have we learned from all this experience?
A collective look at the military operations
discussed in this volume suggests we still have much to learn about
unorthodox conflict--if only because we have forgotten so much.
Notwithstanding their wide variety of intent, type, scope and result,
certain shortcomings still seem to appear with depressing regularity.
These shortcomings are evident from the very
beginning of such operations and do much to set the course for how
they will play out. In no case cited in this volume will one see
an instance in which the principal actors took heed of the nation's
hard-won experience, studied the problem at hand with any discipline,
or allowed their actions to shaped in any way by the body of knowledge
available to them. How American policy is framed, and how the Army's
mission is defined exercise a critical influence over all subsequent
action. But the translation of policy into a military mission has
always been fraught with difficulty. It has been so difficult that
Army leaders often relented in the face of presidential insistence,
as Secretary of War Newton Baker did when he received President
Wilson's less than exact guidance for intervening in the Russian
Civil War.14 All too often, Army generals
have adopted a dog-in-the-manger attitude when confronted by a willful
President, preferring to comfort themselves with the illusion that
their role is only to follow orders, so they can be held blameless
if the mission goes awry.
The traditional lack of collaboration between
American policymakers and soldiers tends to create a false picture
of what might be expected from the mission about to be launched.
All parties, civil and military, have tended to overestimate how
much of any given problem military force can solve. One repeatedly
sees the assumption made by policymakers and soldiers alike that
the exercise of sufficient force alone would obviate the need for
an expert understanding of the problem before them. Experience indicates
quite the opposite. If anything, it is possible to hypothesize that
the political dimension of these operations is always miscalculated.
From the Mexican War to the Philippines, to Russia, Germany, Vietnam,
Panama, Bosnia and beyond, missions guiding American action have
fallen short on this very score. A misshapen strategy thus passes
its deficiency of vision down the echelons until the price is paid
in the field.
Yet, armed with even the best-framed mission,
one that provides expert, professional guidance for execution, soldiers
will be forced to improvise. Missions always change simply because
the situations that gave rise to them change. Furthermore, as a
kind of military codicil to Heisenberg's Principle of Uncertainty,
one may assume that as soon as American soldiers enter the operational
environment, the character of the experiment is unavoidably altered.15
This may be the reason another rule seems appropriate for these
kinds of operation: missions never contract.16
Uncertain policies, inadequately framed missions,
a long-standing professional bias against unconventional operations,
all these virtually guarantee that the soldiers will be assigned
to execute these missions with little doctrine to guide them and
less training to protect them. The usual disparity of force evident
at the onset of a mission naturally breeds confidence, but the opposition
is not required to comply with expectations. In several of the cases
discussed here, planning assumed-wrongly--a compliant noncombatant
population. A wrong-headed assumption on such a question spells
the distance between a short uneventful operation and an all out
resistance movement.17
The haste to respond and the focus on immediate
action militate against "what happens next" planning.
As if the presence of combat power alone will render all other questions
moot, intervening forces are usually caught off guard as the operation
changes shape and gradually de-militarizes (or re-militarizes) itself.
This is usually the phase when the occupying power learns that the
noncombatant population's initial reaction was less approval than
grudging acquiescence. Depending on the depth of popular resistance,
the opposition to the intervening power may reconstitute itself,
as indeed it did during the Philippine War.18
If modern military planners are unable to look beyond the first
shots, the old problem of enemy reconstitution will seem wholly
new. At that point, execution defaults to improvisation, which in
fact is not so much a plan as the absence of a plan.
Ten of the twelve cases collected in this volume
show unprepared American soldiers confronted by the complex challenges
of occupation duty. Faced with this unattractive prospect, American
political and military leaders rarely took their thinking beyond
the point of settling old scores and stabilizing the country long
enough to depart. Yet, the American experience with occupation operations
is so extensive that one can easily discern recurring themes-temporary
government, population control in general, suppression of residual
resistance, resettlement of displaced noncombatants, rejuvenation
of supply and distribution systems, infrastructure repair and instititutional
reform. With the one exception of the American occupation of Germany
after the Second World War, in preparation for which the Army had
very wisely established a School of Military Government two years
earlier, American soldiers have suffered the disadvantages of ignorance
time and again, plunging into operations where they were forced
to learn as they ran.19 Abundant knowledge
offers no guidance simply by existing. Ideas are like orphans: unless
adopted, they will not serve their rightful function.
If the Army will not consult the wisdom of
its own experience, the question is why not? If actions are not
informed by fact, what remains other than passion, prejudice or
wishful thinking? During the conference's session on irregular warfare,
one of the participants spoke with some heat of "an incredible
resistance to lessons learned" after the Vietnam War, and reminded
everyone of the old saying that the war did not really last eight
years, but one year eight times. The late Douglas Pike, an eminent
scholar of the Vietnam War, believed that this resistance to knowledge
permeated every level of the American politico-military system.
To describe this phenomenon, Pike used a term coined by Aldus Huxley-vincible
ignorance: a state of mind in which one does not know, and understands
he does not know, and does not believe it makes any difference.
Pike's characterization of how vincible ignorance works in action
is worth recounting:
. . . we first committed ourselves to the
war and then began to think about it comprehensively. The highest
level leadership did not initially sit down and address in detailed
and extended fashion its strategic position, did not discuss and
analyze enemy strengths, weaknesses, and probable strategies,
did not wrangle and argue and finally hammer out a fully articulated
strategy. There was in this behavior a sense of enormous self-confidence,
indeed a kind of unconscious arrogance on the part of the Americans.20
. . . we first committed ourselves to the
war and then began to think about it comprehensively. The highest
level leadership did not initially sit down and address in detailed
and extended fashion its strategic position, did not discuss and
analyze enemy strengths, weaknesses, and probable strategies,
did not wrangle and argue and finally hammer out a fully articulated
strategy. There was in this behavior a sense of enormous self-confidence,
indeed a kind of unconscious arrogance on the part of the Americans.20
As Pike goes on to explain, this is not to
say that no one in the system understood the situation and what
answers were required. On the contrary, the United States had experts
aplenty, willing put their knowledge to work. "The villain
in the piece," he writes, was not so much particular people
but the system itself.21 The system
somehow arrested the necessary translation of knowledge into action.
Certain institutions seem to be especially
susceptible to these misfires, as if the institution subordinates
all its functions to its own survival. Where an organizational hierarchy
manages knowledge by subordinating it to process, the potency of
the knowledge the institution does possess is inevitably dissipated.
With all operations reduced to routine, knowledge counts for less
and less until its acuity--its capacity for affecting change-- simply
disappears. We have in two recent tragedies a nonmilitary variant
of Pike's vincible ignorance. A comparison of the United States'
two Space Shuttle disasters reveals virtually identical institutional
shortcomings. In both cases, NASA's "institutional culture"
was assigned a greater weight of responsibility by accident investigators
than the immediate technical reasons for the crashes. The management
of expert knowledge, which existed in abundance at all organizational
levels, nevertheless worked against its critical influence over
the larger, policy-level decisions made within the agency.22
After the Challenger disaster in 1983, both a Presidential Commission
and a Congressional Investigation recommended corrective reforms
in how NASA managed critical knowledge. The recently released Columbia
Accident Investigation Board report identifies the same deficiencies
in the agency's organizational culture--seventeen years later.23
In 1944, the British military historian and
theorist B. H. Liddell Hart published a brief meditation on his
professional life entitled, Why Don't We Learn From History? Considering
the experience he and his countrymen were living through at the
moment, Liddell Hart's answer was quite optimistic. The Second World
War had reached its apogee when he was writing. The war had grown
to truly global proportions. To many at the time, the war seemed
the tragic result of civilization's failure to heed the lessons
of the First World War.
Liddell Hart's optimism was all the more remarkable
because he had personal reasons for doubting the value of knowledge
as a guiding force in contemporary public action. He had been intimately
involved in his nation's debates over foreign and military policy
for nearly two decades. Immediately before the war he had served
as an advisor to the Secretary of State for War in the ill-fated
Chamberlain government, which had added the word "appeasement"
to every politician's lexicon of nightmares. His reputation suffered
when the government fell, and he spent the war in a kind of intellectual
exile. He claimed his faith in the power of experience to inform
reason was undeterred. Liddell Hart was putting on a brave face,
however; he surely knew better by then, if not long before. And
he seemed to admit as much later, wondering whether there was "a
practical way of combining progress toward the attainment of truth
[that is, knowledge] with progress toward its acceptance."24
In some modern armies, this process might be manifested as doctrine.
For those who have direct experience of military
planning and active service in limited operations-as quite a few
of those attending this conference did-Liddell Hart's optimism seems
closer to denial than reality. Very likely, every one of them could
recount an episode in their own experience in which "prerational"
thinking suppressed informed professional judgment.25
In my own experience, the answer to Liddell Hart's question comes
down to two reasons: ignorance and the kind of arrogance Douglas
Pike described so well. The first of these is certainly correctable.
The second is, finally and regrettably, as close to an historical
constant as anyone is ever likely to isolate. For a modern army
with much to do, the only possible corrective is to learn how to
learn from itself. But learning is never automatic, and history
makes no guarantees in any case.
1 John Keegan, The Face of Battle (New York:
Viking Press, 1976): 16. "For there is a fundamental difference
between the sort of sporadic, small-scale fighting which is the
small change of soldiering and the sort we characterize as battle."
2 See [citation for
final author and title of LTG Montgomery's presentation on UNISOM
II for Conference Session 3].
3 "Mission, Enemy,
Terrain, Troops and Time Available" reduces to this acronym.
4 Author's conference
notes, Oral interview cited by Dr. Lawrence Yates during general
discussion on "Intervention and Peacekeeping in Panama and
5 The exceptions are
few and important. The classic study of these forms of operation
is Colonel C. E. Callwell's Small Wars: A Tactical Textbook for
Imperial Soldiers (London: Grenhill Books, 1990; orig. London: Her
Majesty's Stationery Office, 1899); and Frank Kitson's Low Intensity
Operations: Subversion, Insurgency, Peace-Keeping (Hamden, CT: Archon
Books, 1971;orig. London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1971), to name two.
6 This was exactly the
argument posed by France's leading colonial soldiers of the 19th
century and no small number of American soldiers. See Douglas Porch's
discussion of France's "colonial school" of soldiering
in "Bugeaud, Galliene, Lyautey: The Development of French Colonial
Warfare," in The Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli
to the Nuclear Age, edited by Peter Paret (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1986): esp. pp. 403-404. See also Perry Jamieson,
Crossing the Deadly Ground: U. S. Army Tactics, 1865-1899 (Tuscaloosa,
Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1994), esp. pp. 36-53; and
Robert Wooster, The Military and United States Indian Policy, 1865-1903
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988): 136-141.
7 Ibid.; the phrase
is Porch's.
8 Jamieson, Crossing
the Deadly Ground, p. 37.
9 Attack Indian villages
in winter, kill the ponies and the buffalo, use converging columns,
use Indian auxiliaries but don't ever trust them, use firepower
as a substitute for ingenuity, and so on. See ibid., p. 36 et seq.
10 See Andrew Birtle,
US Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations, 1860-1941(Washington,
D. C.: US Army Center of Military History, 1998): vii.
11 Add to the American
experience that of the French, British and Russian armies, to name
only three of the most prominent modern expeditionary armies, and
there is no reason for military theory and doctrine in this field
to remain dormant.
12 Barry M. Blechman
and Stephen S. Kaplan, Force without War: U. S. Armed Forces as
a Political Instrument (Washington, D. C.: Brookings Institution,
1978): 16.
13 Barry M. Blechman
and Tamara Cofman Wittes, "Defining Moment: The Threat and
Use of Force in American Foreign Policy," Political Science
Quarterly, vol. 114, issue 1 (Spring, 1999), page 2 of 21. Accessed
at http://web8.epnet.com, September 2, 2003. The criteria used in
this count appear to have been a good deal less rigorous than Blechman
and Kaplan's earlier accounting. Here, Blechman would include very
small scale missions such as the Army's relatively well known 55
man "mission training team" deployed to El Salvador in
the 1980s.
14 See Major Jeffrey
Stamp's essay, "Lost in the Snow: The U. S. Intervention in
Siberia during the Russian Revolution."
15 One may see this
phenomenon in virtually every intervention mentioned in this volume.
16 The removal of
US forces following the "Black Hawk Down" disaster in
Mogadishu may be taken as a case of mission contraction, but this
instance is more correctly seen as mission failure. The same may
be said of another case not discussed in this volume, the bombing
of the Marine Barracks in Beirut in 1983. But, again, this tragedy
seems to have come about because the Marines' mission expanded in
the eyes of their enemies. The Marines' subsequent withdrawal from
Lebanon, therefore, could also be seen as the result of mission
17 In this volume,
see especially Irving Levinson, "Occupation and Stability Dilemmas
of the Mexico War: Origins and Solutions;" J. G. Dawson, "Reconstruction
as Nation Building: The U. S. Army in the South;" Robert Wooster,
"The Frontier Army and the Occupation of the West;" Robert
S. Cameron, "U. S. Constabulary Activities in Postwar Germany;"
and Lawrence Yates, "The Transition from Combat to Nation Building
in Panama."
18 See Brian Linn,
"The U. S. Army, Nation-Building and Pacification in the Philippines."
The reconstitution of the German army into pockets of guerrilla
resistance was an important early concern in planning for the Allied
Occupation of Germany. See Robert S. Cameron, "U. S. Constabulary
Activities in Postwar Germany."
19 The occupation
of both Germany and Japan are important exceptions. However, these
occupations accomplished something less than their promoters claimed
at the time, and a distinct line was drawn between military government
and "nation-building" as the term is used presently.
20 Douglas Pike, "Conduct
of the Vietnam War: Strategic Factors, 1965-1968," in The Second
Indochina War: Proceedings of a Symposium held at Arlie, Virginia,
7-9 November 1984 (Washington, D. C.: Center of Military History,
U. S. Army, 1986): 99-116; see esp. p. 110-111.
21 Ibid. Two classic
works offer the depth and texture of modern organizational theory
to Pike and Huxley's interpretation of "vincible ignorance."
See Graham T. Allison, The Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban
Missile Crisis (Boston: Little Brown, 1971), and Irving L. Janis,
Victims of Groupthink (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982).
22 Diane Vaughan's
study of the Challenger disaster is more forthright: "routine
and taken-for-granted aspects of organizational life . . created
a way of seeing that was simultaneously a way of not seeing."
See Vaughan's The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology,
Culture, and Deviance at NASA (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1997): 394.
23 Vaughan, The Challenger
Launch Decision, p. 389, et seq.; and Columbia Accident Investigation
Board Report, Volume 1 (Washington, D. C. : Columbia Accident Investigation
Board Limited First Printing, August 2003): esp. pp. 121-170 (accessed
at www: caib.us/news/report/default.html, August 26, 2003).
24 B. H. Liddell Hart,
Why Don't We Learn From History? (New York: Hawthorne Books, Inc.,
1971; orig. London: Allen & Unwin, 1944): 70.
25 The term is Diane Vaughan's.


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Godbeat pros will convene in Atlanta this week for the Religion Newswriters Association's 65th annual conference.
In advance of the national meeting of religion journalists, RNA President Bob Smietana did a 5Q+1 interview (that's five questions plus a bonus question) with GetReligion. I'll sprinkle a few #RNA2014 tweets between Bob's responses.
Q: For our readers unfamiliar with you, tell us a little about your journalism career and your background in religion writing. And catch us up on how your beloved Red Sox are doing after winning a third World Series title in 10 years last season.
A: I've had a pretty fun career. I wrote a weekly religion column in college then decided to go out and save the world by working at nonprofits like Habitat for Humanity. Turns out I was terrible at saving the world.
So, in my mid-30s, I became a writer instead. I started small — my first freelance religion story paid $35 — and then landed a job writing for a small religious magazine in Chicago called the Covenant Companion, where I stayed for eight years. One of my big breaks came in 2001, when I got the chance to spend a summer at Medill, studying religion writing with Roy Larson.
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Watch The First Teaser Trailer For Disney's Live Action Cinderella
Here is the very first teaser trailer for Disney's Cinderella movie, which we have seen a preview of and—trust us—what we've seen is amazing. Cate Blanchett plays the Evil Stepmother and she walks in with A CAT ON A LEASH. Speechless. Oh, and Robb Stark is Prince Charming. »


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Cycling can be an activity for sport, exercise or leisure. Unlike other cardio activities that can put added stress on the joints in a high impact exercise, cycling provides easy movement that can burn off calories and increase your heart rate. Cycling can be a great way to get out in the fresh air and an activity that can be done individually or with a group. For women, it's important to choose a bike that will cater towards a woman's cycling needs, whether it's form or design.
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Most of us would probably agree that a good Valentine's Day should include a healthy dose of kisses and laughter. But if you think about it, both laughing and kissing are kind of strange behaviors. Why do we laugh? Why do we kiss? Are humans the only animals that giggle ...
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If a thought is like lots of little neurons singing together in harmony, who conducts the brain chorus? Neurologist Christof Koch offers his theory in Emergence.
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Stroke Health Center
Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) - Topic Overview
Your doctor will start you on medicines to help prevent a stroke. You may need to take several medicines.
If tests show that the blood vessels (carotid arteries) in your neck are too narrow, you may need surgery to open them up (carotid endarterectomy). This can help prevent blood clots that block blood flow to your brain.
Another type of surgery is carotid artery stenting. During this surgery, the doctor puts a small tube called a stent inside your carotid artery. This helps keep the artery open. Carotid artery stenting is not as common as endarterectomy.
After you have had a TIA, you are at risk for having another TIA or a stroke. But you can make some important lifestyle changes that can reduce your risk of stroke and improve your overall health.
- Manage high blood pressure or high cholesterol by working with your doctor.
- Manage diabetes. Keep your blood sugar levels within a target range.
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- Limit alcohol to 2 drinks a day for men and 1 drink a day for women.
- Stay at a healthy weight. Being overweight makes it more likely that you will develop high blood pressure, heart problems, and diabetes. These conditions make a stroke more likely.
- Do activities that raise your heart rate. Get at least 30 minutes of exercise on most days of the week. Walking is a good choice. You also may want to do other activities, such as running, swimming, cycling, or playing tennis or team sports.
- Eat heart-healthy foods. These include fruits, vegetables, high-fiber foods, fish, and foods that are low in sodium, saturated fat, trans fat, and cholesterol.
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Trashigang Dzong
The dzong is on a thin promontory that overlooks the confluence of the Drangme Chhu and the Gamri Chhu. It was built in 1667 by Mingyur Tenpa, Bhutan's third desi . The entire eastern region was governed from this dzong from the late 17th century until the beginning of the 20th century.


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How to Build a Long, Skinny, Curved Kitchen
I just posted two photos of my kitchen: http://www.NicaLiving.com/node/15236 and http://www.NicaLiving.com/node/15237 for reference. I am looking for some ideas of how to use the space. It's not really small, just a funny shape.
First, what you see in the photos. In the first one, you see from the entryway to the stove. The microwave is against a 25 inch wide wall at the end of the counter. That wall has 12VDC, 24VDC and 120VAC available in it. That counter-top is 24 inches deep. The next electric feed is 120VAC on the far side of the stove.
In the second photo you see the narrower counter-top. It is 18 inches deep. On the left is a chest-type refrigerator (covered with cardboard to protect it from the work we are doing/make it into a nice table). There is a 24VDC outlet behind the fridge and a 120VAC one on the wall above it. (That probably makes a logical place for the microwave.) On the back wall is an electric water heater and 120VAC outlet.
All the racks you see under the counter-tops are temporary as is the sink drain pipe held in place with plastic packing tape. And, well, there are too many electrodomesticos on the counter-top. The space between the counter-top and the wall on the other side varies from about four to a bit over five feet. It is not curved—it has three flat segments. The total length of the space along the curved outside wall is about 20 feet.
I have some ideas but I am open to suggestions. It is quite a bit of space but its shape makes it a design challenge.
If you want ideas....
What I saw in that kitchen was opportunity with various methods:
1. Hanging shelving from chains screwed into the roof line will offer you additional space for smaller electronic appliances and allows you some placement above counter tops in selected areas. Think of it sort of like a chef's kitchen where the pots and pans are hung from hooks above a cutting table. And they can be as fancy or dressed down as you like based on the material you pick for shelving.
2. Using wire baskets that slide on rails fitted to cabinet doors will allow you to see what you place below the sink line and also give you a pull out option. Something like this: http://www.hgtv.com/organizing/what-we-love-best-pantry-organizers/pictu...
3. A mini built in pantry along the flat wall at the end will also give you additional space. You could build a series of custom shelves that accommodate your smaller appliances (breadmaker, blender, things you may not use every day to get them off the counter) and baskets can hide things like potatoes, onions, other perishables that take space....line them with removable plastic bags and you can clean them easier. Or you can toss your storage items in them. Baskets never seem to go wrong.
4. The microwave looks like it could be placed on a shelf above the stove, as long as the bottom surface of the shelf is not flammable. Cement maybe?
5. And wire or straw baskets make wonderful hanging devices for cooking and eating utensils. They can be hung from curved areas and if they are uniform in appearance sometimes add to the feel of a decor. I have also hung wooden rods (or small curtain rods) with s-hooks that hold baskets or boxes filled with things. I've even created spice racks this way with a shelf on top for things like cooking oils or vinegars etc.
6. Here's a wonderful site to send questions too as well. They have unique solutions to unique space problems. Why not try them and here are some offbeat solutions for storage that can be inexpensive. I've even covered cans with paint or decorative paper sealed with varnish to hold things like pens but it could work for other items as well. http://www.hgtv.com/organizing/clever-organizers-can-the-clutter/index.h...
Good luck! Looks like you are having fun creating your new home.
Lighting & shelving
Can you do recessed lighting inside the structure? If you can string wiring, that may be a great solution and the concentration of some recessed lighting these days would work. I once lived in one of those streamline trailers, when I was going to college. It had a curved roof too. I found that some of the hanging shelves worked well, but it looks like you are finding your solutions. Good luck to you and your project is very appealing!
Looks ok already
Not quite sure what kind of feedback you're looking for. It seems like what you have already done is "good enough". But there is already room for improvement, so here is what I see...
Given the shortage of counter space, I would look for ways to get the microwave and breadmaker (?) off the counter. Either put them on a shelf below, or build a shelf above. Perhaps the microwave could be mounted on the wall above the fridge, high enough not to block opening the fridge? Maybe find a place to stash the blender when not in use (unless every meal includes a margarita :) )
It looks like the fridge hinge is probably against the wall opposite the counter right now. would it work better to rotate it 90 degrees so you could open it while standing in front of the range? If so, you could even create an L counter out to meet the fridge.
From a real estate standpoint, if you're trying to stage the kitchen to sell, you'll want to do some serious de-cluttering :) Curtains below the counter would get rid of a lot of visual clutter.
In-wall storage
Have you thought about cutting shelves into the walls, along the lines of an inset bathroom medicine cabinet (but open)? Would make a nice spice rack or storage for other bottles and cans. There is all that wasted space between the two sheets of drywall.
Similar to a dining car kitchen??
Reminds me of a dining car kitchen that got bent! :)
O quantum est in rebus inane! / A palabras necias, oídos sordos.
I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building. - Peanuts (Charles M. Schulz)
Bad link???
I keep getting "Page not found" with the two links above. But then when I scrolled down the page I did see the pictures you're referring to!!
O quantum est in rebus inane! / A palabras necias, oídos sordos.
I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building. - Peanuts (Charles M. Schulz)
Square Peg, Round Hole
Yep, I can see how difficult it is now. You caused me to look around my house and at various places I have been in this morning. The verdict, "We live in very square surroundings!".
It's just a suggestion, but you almost need to look at truck & camper, caravan (trailers) and/or boat websites to see how they fit all that stuff in, especially in a truck/camper topper. The "Airstream" line for instance at www.airstream.com with it's curved walls. I searched "Airstream Interior Photos" and got quite carried away, now I want one!