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Sandy • For Ryan Andrus and the American Fork Cavemen, Christmas break is over.
The five-day break from the hardcourt proved to be their biggest challenge in defeating Copper Hills in Thursday's opening game of the Jordan Holiday Tournament, 48-39.
The 6-foot-10 senior led American Fork with 21 points and 10 rebounds in a 5A match that proved time away from basketball might be the Cavemen's biggest obstacle.
"We need to learn how to self-motivate and be ready to play back-to-backs," coach Doug Meacham said. "We looked like we've been playing Xbox for the last five days."
It took the first half for Meacham's squad to go to their game plan of utilizing Andrus in the low post. Andrus' ability to capitalize on double teams and pass out to shooters was the difference, according to Meacham.
"Ryan is an awesome passer and has an innate ability to get out of double teams," Meacham said. "His role changes throughout the entire game."
Six-foot-8 Tyler Rawson, who finished with four points and grabbed seven rebounds, joined Andrus under the low post. The twin towers of Andrus and Rawson gave American Fork an advantage under the basket that guard Christian Wells is always looking to exploit.
"They're the best two bigs in the state," Wells said. "When they get doubled, the guards better be ready for a kickout pass."
Wells finished the game with nine points.
Copper Hills mounted a comeback in the fourth quarter. Led by Austin McCombs' three 3-pointers and an aggressive man defense, the Grizzlies were able to cut the deficit to eight. Meacham hopes that this game serves as a wake-up call to the Cavemen that winning teams start and finish strong.
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Chat transcript from Wednesday.
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Aaron Wilson: Good evening, everyone. Ready for your questions.
Dont Know: How will the Ravens deal with BJ? Cut him? Give him a 3rd chance? Are there any precedents?
Aaron Wilson: They won't cut him, at least not during the season. He's a true asset to the special teams, so it makes no sense to cut him. Remember, he won't necessarily be automatically suspended for four games until his case is adjudicated in the Maryland court system.
Until that happens, the NFL is likely to withhold punishment.
It does seem like he's due for a four-game suspension and/or a significant fine. The Ravens are likely to offer him counseling. Especially in light of this being his second DUI arrest.
RockyMRaven: Aaron, in view of BJ Sams' recent stupidity, the FO is looking like a bunch of geniuses for keeping Cory Ross on the active roster. Do you think they anticipated something like this?
Aaron Wilson: As far as keeping Cory Ross, it was mostly because they liked him and saw promise in him, not because they were forecasting a second B.J. Sams DUI. Let's not get carried away with conspiracy theories. The Ravens aren't puppet masters pulling strings.
They are happy with Sams' play, but obviously this is a major concern. Don't expect anyone to criticize him publicly. I doubt he'll apologize, since he didn't want to talk about his prior DUI, which he basically beat with probation before judgment outcome.
Fanman: When will Musa Smith and Mike Anderson see more carries? Jamal is not getting the job done so far.
Aaron Wilson: Musa Smith and Mike Anderson might not be able to run behind this type of blocking, either. I do agree that Jamal Lewis' running has been substandard, though. He hasn't demonstrated his old burst and his tackle-breaking is pretty much nonexistent.
Expect him to be relieved soon enough in short-yardage if he continues to fail. Those 3rd-and-1 and 4th-and-1 situations are critical and he's not busting through the line of scrimmage.
hurting: Have you heard any specific plans for the O-line going forward without Ed.
Aaron Wilson: Jason Brown is immediately the starter at left guard for the remainder of the season. If he does well, expect him to be groomed as a future starter on the interior line even when Edwin returns next year. Keep in mind that could be at center or right guard as well in place of Mike Flynn or Keydrick Vincent.
Fanman says: When will Demetrius Williams see more time...he seems like he could be a deep threat?
Aaron Wilson: I think they should be employing more three wide receiver sets immediately especially in light of the running game averaging under 100 yards per game and ranking 23rd in the league in rushing average. Williams can run after the catch and is explosive as a leaper downfield.
He deserves to play more and get at least three or four touches per game.
I don't know when that will happen, though.
Fanman: How much of the playbook does McNair feel comfortable with at this point?
Aaron Wilson: I can't put an exact percentage on it. He knows all the verbiage, as Brian Billick calls it, but the greater question is how comfortable is he with the nuances and personnel. At times, good enough. At others, not nearly enough.
He's a work in progress, but his reduced mobility and arm strength take away some of his natural gifts and are holding back his productivity.
That said, he's an upgrade over what had been under center here for years.
I wouldn't get too picky.
RockyMRaven: Aaron, do you think our D is going to be able to mount a good pass rush on Plummer? If we let him sit back there, he could pick us apart.
admin: Going to the game RMR?
RockyMRaven: Yep. Can't wait
Aaron Wilson: I think they will have some trouble getting him down not only because of his offensive line and superior maximum protection schemes, but also his mobility. Plummer is an extremely good athlete who can give defenses trouble with his speed.
Remember, this is the most experienced quarterback the Ravens have played yet.
Is he perfect? Obviously not, but he's a skilled player who's capable of getting on a roll. Very streaky, though
Which Jake Plummer will show up for Monday Night Football is my question?
Dont Know: You stated earlier "when Edwin returns next year. has he stated publicly that he will be back (I havent seen any such quote)? Did he consider retirement at all?
Aaron Wilson: He's not retiring. He had a good surgery and he'll rehab it and give it another try in all likelihood. I haven't even heard a whisper about him retiring and he hasn't indicated any thoughts toward hanging up his cleats.
RockyMRaven: How about Sam Koch's tackle? And he just trotted back on the field as if it was all in a day's work. Could be dangerous?
Aaron Wilson: Sam Koch is a tough kid, but he might not want to make a living as an extra linebacker. Eventually, you'll get yourself hurt that way.
Then, you might see Leo Araguz or Micah Knorr on fourth down.
The players and coaches were impressed by his hit. Alas, ESPN didn't take notice. They should have put him on Jacked Up!
admin: What is the team doing to specifically address the weak running game?
Aaron Wilson: Brian Billick offered nothing in the way of specifics when I asked him that directly on Monday. All he said was the team needed to have a better plan, better running and better blocking. That gives you about as much information and enlightenment as it did me, which is to say nothing, zilch.
I'm sure they're going to explore some more off-tackle and counters to try to get something going.
Dont Know: Did the move away from the bruising fullback to, I guess, halfbacks hurt the running game more than they anticipated coming into the season?
Aaron Wilson: I think the shift away from I-formation football has hurt the running game. Jamal Lewis was accustomed to nothing but the I-formation and Alan Ricard. I don't think it's a coincidence that he struggles in one-back and H-back looks.
Fanman: They keep saying Jamal can't get outside..if that's true then why does Musa sit all game long?
Aaron Wilson: As far as Musa Smith, remember how loyal to a fault Brian Billick is with starters.
RockyMRaven: The Broncos are saying that to be the best, they need to beat the best. That's our D they're talking about. I think this is going to be even more of a test for us than the Chargers game was. Are the Ravens going to be paying special attention to how good?
Aaron Wilson: This is a more challenging game than San Diego. Denver has a better secondary and a more balanced offense.
They have more explosive wide receivers and better quarterback play and much better coaching with Mike Shanahan superior to Marty Schottenheimer.
RockyMRaven: Yes. That was the last part of what I was trying to write - to how good their secondary is
Aaron Wilson: The Broncos' speed in the secondary is what separates them from other defenses. I think Larry Coyer is an underrated defensive coordinator, too.
Fanman: Will Bisciotti pressure Billick if the O continues to struggle?
Aaron Wilson: I don't think Steve Bisciotti has a problem with what's going on as long as the team is winning and the locker room isn't fractured.
When losses mount along with back-channel complaints that seem legitimate from respected players, then Brian Billick might want to be on his P's and Q's.
Dont Know: Both Brian Billick and Steve McNair have said that they need to do better jobs in the first half, particularly these last two games. Is it just a question of execution or is Billick being outcoached when it comes to preparation, but works wonders in halftime.
Aaron Wilson: I think the offensive game plan is too conservative and the offensive line isn't good enough. I also think Steve McNair has been far too erratic. Plus, the running game has crumbled.
All of those factors combine to create an offense that only ranks ahead of Cleveland, Houston, Oakland, etc..28th overall.
Fanman: Didn't we sign an O-lineman today?
Aaron Wilson: Former Redskins practice squad guy. Not a big deal.
Eighth out of eight linemen on the active roster.
RockyMRaven: I would certainly have to agree with you. Do you think it's possible for the offense to break out in this game, or is that still a long way away?
Aaron Wilson: I think they might be able to get back to the efficient football you saw from them in the season opener against Tampa Bay. I don't think they're capable of much more.
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camdenyard says: How is Rolle's foot?
Aaron Wilson: I think it's been bothering him for the past few weeks. He wasn't 100 percent last week and that likely contributed to his slip and fall on Malcom Floyd's touchdown.
merlin: Is there a legitimate trade possibility for the line in the works? Signing off a practice squad is OK, but I think we could do better.
Aaron Wilson: No, they aren't working on a trade.
This is your offensive line, don't get your hopes up. There is no grand plan for the guys upfront. The Ravens took a calculated gamble that these guys could get the job done. We'll find out if it was a smart one or not.
Fanman: Do you think John Clayton of ESPN looks like Mr. Mackey from South Park?
Aaron Wilson: I don't watch South Park often enough to say.
It's a funny show, but all I really know is Cartman and Chef.
Obviously, you think he looks like Mr. Mackey whoever that is.
Dont Know: In the wired segment, Ray seemed glad to finally get rid of it and having done his part this season. Bart Scott on the other hand seemed to love it. Is there this division of players of either love or hate that segment or was it an act from Ray?
Aaron Wilson: I think it's irrelevant who's on Wired. That's really not important. It's supposed to give you guys a look inside how practice works and the personalities, but the players who are wired don't act like themselves or they ham it up like Bart to perform for the cameras.
Most of the players don't want to be around the guy who's wired because they don't want to not be able to speak freely or cuss.
I don't think wired is really that relevant to the pulse of the team honestly.
It's a team produced production intended for fans' enjoyment. There's not a lot of insight offered by putting a mike on a player anytime.
They just wind up acting like pro wrestlers.
admin: Is that really the tape room or is it a set?
Aaron Wilson: They have a set, a video room that used to be the linebackers' room.
RockyMRaven: When Ed Reed went up to try to intercept in the endzone, he seemed slow to get up. Did he hurt himself?
Aaron Wilson: He got the wind knocked out of him. He's fine. He was mad that he didn't intercept the football.
Fanman: How many plays are scripted to start the game?
Aaron Wilson: I don't know how many plays they script on a game to game basis. It's usually no more than 12 to 15.
wayupnorth: What kind of snags, or advantages can we look for in the Carolina game in 2 weeks? (the only game I can attend this year)
Aaron Wilson: They might have trouble with the Panthers' defensive ends and DeShaun Foster is having success running the ball. Obviously, Steve Smith represents a matchup issue for any team.
camdenyard: Getting back to the running game, is there anyone who believes that MA isn't getting touches because of "personnel packages" or limited opportunity? The guy's ability to catch out of the backfield screams for attention and offers a chance to mix it up.
Aaron Wilson: I don't think the coaching staff wants to throw to the backs that much or they would do it more often. It's not like any of these guys is reminiscent of Brian Westbrook or Tiki Barber out of the backfield.
Fanman: Will there be a spy on Plummer?
Aaron Wilson: It's a novel idea, I wouldn't doubt they would do it with Adalius Thomas or Bart Scott on occasion if he begins to leave the pocket regularly. Keep in mind that Plummer is more inclined to stay in the protective environs of the pocket nowadays.
wayupnorth: Watching the number of fumbles and missed catches on Many of the teams I've watched this year I wonder if you think there is anything to the complaints about the new balls being slippery
Aaron Wilson: I wouldn't put a great deal of stock in that. If it's an issue, guys should be adjusting by the fifth week of the season. This is the NFL. Sometimes, they need to suck it up and adapt. I have heard very few complaints at all.
From the Ravens, at least.
Fanman: What did you think of the crowd vs. San Diego...I thought they were awesome?
Aaron Wilson: Brian Billick credited the fans as did several players with making a big contribution to the win, so you guys should feel good about that. I thought it was pretty loud and disruptive to the Chargers' flow.
RockyMRaven: Now the Ravens will have to put up with the crowd noise. That Broncos stadium is LOUD!
Aaron Wilson: It always is.
Dont Know: Was it important for the team to win despite having a negative turnover ratio considering the rather appalling win-loss ratio when losing the turnover battle?
Aaron Wilson: I think it's important to win, period. Statistics are great and usually the turnover ratio will tell you who wins as an accurate predictor, but it's a 100-percent equation. Usually, winning this way means you got clutch play and a nice dose of good fortune.
The Ravens had both of those qualities working for them on Sunday against San Diego.
wayupnorth: I have heard some negative things about the Ref (malice man) are these issues ever addressed after a game?
Aaron Wilson: I don't understand. Which referee do you have a problem with? Mike Carey?
If you're asking do coaches complain and the players during the game about officiating, definitely so. They whine, curse and yell throughout. It's usually wasted energy. You're better off being nice to the refs.
Dont Know: Are the redskins regretting the scrimmage as Ozzie has stated that it was there he saw IK in action and now signed him from them?
Aaron Wilson: No. If they cared about that guy, he would be on their active roster. He's not a big deal. Just like they didn't care about losing Chris Pino.
wayupnorth: I think it was Mike Carey, the one that called a weird penalty at the Lion's game last year because someone had "Malice in his heart"
admin: Suggs.
Aaron Wilson: Mike Carey had a legit call last year not so much in the sense that he could read Suggs' heart, but that he felt threatened.
RockyMRaven: Mike Carey certainly did not make bad calls against us in the Chargers game. I was quite relieved.
Aaron Wilson: I don't think he's the best referee in the world, not as bad as some others.
Dont Know: Is a 4 game suspension the maximum suspension for BJ under the NFL policy?
Aaron Wilson: Yes, unless he had other aftercare conditions in his status in the substance abuse program.
They could also fine him. I've heard he's in Stage II.
Keep in mind that simply being arrested doesn't automatically trigger the suspension. It hasn't been adjudicated in court and he has certain rights.
Don't be shocked if this case isn't continued until after the season.
He obviously needs to change his lifestyle to avoid this kind of trouble. Maybe he has an issue, maybe not. It warrants some kind of observation and involvement on a team and league level as well as teammates.
The NFL has wide discretionary powers in cases like this one. Remember, Odell Thurman. But the Bengals clearly wanted him gone too.
The NFL would likely have a fight with the NFLPA if they tried to suspend him immediately along with Sams' lawyer.
wayupnorth: In a case like this would the team/NFL require a blood alcohol level for their own testing?
Aaron Wilson: No they wouldn't. And the police have said nothing about a Breathalyzer leading me to believe he refused the test.
hurting: why don't these guys just call a cab or hire a limo. They know the public is watching them and it can jeopardize their livelihood!
Aaron Wilson: I'm not sure why they wouldn't use a car service. They obviously can afford it.
RockyMRaven: What are your predictions for the Broncos game?
Aaron Wilson: Ravens by six points.
RockyMRaven: YESSSSS!
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I wish I could make these chats but the time never suits me :(
Regardless, I really enjoy reading them every week. So dont be disappointed by low turnout...
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Thanks for the chat Aaron and thanks for the transcript Admin!
I need to make one at somepoint (maybe set an alarm on my cell). In the future, I don't know how 8pm works but you may not want to go against Lost at 9pm.
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I was there but had to run before it was over but by then all my questions had been asked by someone.
I can't make it at all most times but love to read this the next day.
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I've heard that Ubuntu have had some problems with hibernate, but how big is your swap partition?
Initially hibernate/resume was working fine. But now system hibernate but doesn't resume, instead it boot-up normally. I had checked SWAP is mounted on /dev/sda2
I have tried hibernate from [menu] -> Leave -> Save to disk
There is no problem in hibernate process, but resume fails.
I have also installed uswsusp package and tried to hibernate through command "s2disk", again it hibernate properly but fail to resume.
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I've heard that Ubuntu have had some problems with hibernate, but how big is your swap partition?
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One game is a rematch. The other might feel like one at least to one of the teams.
For the second straight year in the AFC, the New England Patriots will host the Baltimore Ravens with a trip to the Super Bowl on the line.
In the NFC, it will be San Francisco traveling to Atlanta, with the Falcons defense trying to stop a versatile, running quarterback for the second straight week.
"Russell Wilson and Colin Kaepernick are mobile quarterbacks who throw the ball at extremely accurate levels," Falcons safety Thomas DeCoud said. "We can use this game as a cheat sheet to prepare for next week."
On Sunday, the Falcons barely got past Wilson and the Seattle Seahawks, who overcame a 20-point deficit to take a one-point lead, but gave it up after Matt Ryan drove Atlanta into field goal range and Matt Bryant made a 49-yard kick with 8 seconds left.
Atlanta is the only team not making a repeat appearance in the NFL's final four. Last year, it was the Giants playing, and beating, the 49ers for the NFC title.
On Saturday, Kaepernick passed for 263 yards and rushed for 181 a playoff record for a quarterback to defeat Green Bay 45-31.
"We're one step closer to where we want to be," said Kaepernick. San Francisco hasn't been to the Super Bowl since 1995, when Steve Young led the 49ers to their fifth Lombardi Trophy.
Though the Niners must travel cross country for the game, they opened as 3-point favorites in a meeting of teams that played twice a year until 2003, when Atlanta was moved from the NFC West to the NFC South. Their only previous playoff meeting was a 20-18 victory for the Falcons in the 1998 divisional playoffs. Atlanta won at Minnesota the next week to make its only Super Bowl.
Justin Tucker hit a 47-yarder against Denver on Saturday to lift the Ravens to a 38-35 win in double overtime, extending Ray Lewis' career for at least one more week and putting the 17-year veteran one win away from his second Super Bowl.
Lewis and the Ravens will have to stop the NFL's most potent offense. The Patriots put up 457 yards in a 41-28 victory over Houston, which left them one win away from their sixth Super Bowl in the 2000s.
"I think the two best teams are in the final," Patriots quarterback Tom Brady said. "Baltimore certainly deserves to be here and so do we."
The Patriots were made early 9½-point favorites against the Ravens.
These teams met in the regular season and that game was also decided by a kick Tucker's 27-yard field goal that sneaked through the right upright for a 31-30 victory. Or did it?
While the Ravens were celebrating, Pats coach Bill Belichick ran to midfield and grabbed a replacement official's arm as he tried to exit the field. The NFL fined Belichick $50,000 for the gesture.


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The tell-me-web takes nmap output in Grepable format (-oG) generated together with -sV option. It extracts all hosts with http & https ports open. Then it feeds them into whatweb.
Log Path
Scan results can be found in logs/ folder.
How to configure
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Lactose is a type of sugar found in milk and other dairy products. Lactose intolerance develops when the small intestine does not make enough of an enzyme called lactase. The body needs this enzyme to digest lactose.
Lactase deficiency; Milk intolerance; Disaccharidase deficiency; Dairy product intolerance
Babies' bodies make the lactase enzyme so they can digest milk, including breast milk.
Babies born too early (premature) sometimes have lactose intolerance. Children who were born at full term usually do not show signs of the problem until they are at least 3 years old.
Lactose intolerance is very common in adults. It is rarely dangerous. Around 30 million American adults have some degree of lactose intolerance by age 20.
Other causes of lactose intolerance include:
Symptoms often occur 30 minutes to 2 hours after having milk products. Large doses of milk products may cause worsesymptoms.
Symptoms include:
Other intestinal problems, such as irritable bowel syndrome, may cause the same symptoms as lactose intolerance.
Tests to help diagnose lactose intolerance include:
Cutting down or removing milk products from your diet usually eases symptoms.
Most people with low lactase levels can drink 2 - 4 ounces of milk at one time (up to one-half cup) without having symptoms. Larger (more than 8 oz.) servings may cause problems for people with lactase deficiency.
Milk products may be easier to digest include:
You can add lactase enzymes to regular milk, or take these enzymes in capsule or chewable tablet form.
Not having milk in your diet can lead to a shortage of calcium, vitamin D, riboflavin, and protein. You need1,000 - 1,500 mg of calcium each day depending on your age and gender. Some things you can do to get more calcium in your diet are:
Read food labels. Lactose is also found in some non-milk products -- including some beers.
Symptoms usually go away after removing milk products and other lactose containing products from your diet. Infants or children may have slow growth or weight loss without a change in diet.
Call your health care provider if:
There is no known way to prevent lactose intolerance. You can prevent symptoms by avoiding foods with lactose. Read food labels carefully. Lactose is also found in some non-milk products, including some beers.
Hogenauer C, Hammer HF. Maldigestion and malabsorption. In: Feldman M, Friedman LS, Sleisenger MH, eds. Sleisenger & Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2010: chap 101.
Lactose intolerance. The National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse (NDDIC). NIH Publication No. 09-2751. June 2009, updated April 12, 2012.
Semrad CE. Approach to the patient with diarrhea and malabsorption. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 142.


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Wednesday, June 29 2011 - Other Important News
The Painful Collapse of Empire: How the 'American Dream' and American Exceptionalism Wreck Havoc on the World
We must tell the truth about the domination that is at the heart of the American Dream so that we may face the brokenness of our world.
June 27, 2011
Whether celebrated or condemned, the American Dream endures, though always ambiguously. We are forever describing and defining, analyzing and assessing the concept, and with each attempt to clarify, the idea of an American Dream grows more incoherent yet more entrenched.
The literature of this dream analysis is virtually endless, as writers undertake the task of achieving, saving, chasing, restoring, protecting, confronting, pursuing, reviving, shaping, renewing, and challenging the American Dream. Other writers are busy devouring, recapturing, fulfilling, chasing, liberating, advertising, redesigning, rescuing, spreading, updating, inventing, reevaluating, financing, redefining, remembering, and expanding the American Dream. And let's not forget those who are deepening, building, debating, burying, destroying, ruining, promoting, tracking, betraying, remaking, living, regulating, undermining, marketing, downsizing, and revitalizing the American Dream.
We are exhorted to awaken from, and face up to, the dream, as we explore the myths behind, crisis of, cracks in, decline of, and quest for the American Dream.
My favorite book title on the subject has to be Andy Kaufman: Wrestling with the American Dream, which explores the comedian's career "within a broader discussion of the ideology of the American Dream." According to the book's publisher, the author "brilliantly decodes Kaufman in a way that makes it possible to grasp his radical agenda beyond avant-garde theories of transgression. As an entertainer, Kaufman submerged his identity beneath a multiplicity of personas, enacting the American belief that the self can and should be endlessly remade for the sake of happiness and success. He did this so rigorously and consistently that he exposed the internal contradictions of America's ideology of self-invention."
As we can see, writers are eager to dive deep into the American Dream to find strikingly original insights, bold new interpretations, previously unexplored nuances. I will take a different approach: I want to skate on the surface and state the obvious. It's a strategy seldom employed, I believe, because such a reckoning with our past leaves us uneasy about the present and terrified of the future. That strategy leaves us in anguish.
I believe that to be fully alive today is to live with anguish, not for one's own condition in the world but for the condition of a broken world. My anguish flows not from the realization that it is getting harder for people to live the American Dream, but from the recognition that the American Dream has made it harder to hold together the living world.
So, our task is to tell the truth about the domination that is at the heart of the American Dream so that we may face the brokenness of our world. Only then can we embrace the anguish of the American Dream and confront honestly our moment in history.
The epic dream
James Truslow Adams appears to have been the first to have used the phrase "the American Dream" in print, in his 1931 book The Epic of America. This stockbroker turned historian defined it as "that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone." But he didn't reduce the dream to materialism and emphasized U.S. social mobility in contrast with a more rigid European class system:
Adams was, in fact, concerned about the growing materialism of U.S. life, and he wondered about "the ugly scars which have also been left on us by our three centuries of exploitation and conquest of the continent." He was writing at the beginning of the Great Depression, coming off the go-go years of the 1920s. So, not surprisingly, his list of those problems will sound familiar to us:
Yet for all his concerns, Adams believed that the United States could overcome these problems as long as the dream endured, and that led him into the dead end of clichés: "If we are to make the dream come true we must all work together, no longer to build bigger, but to build better." For Adams, as the book's title makes clear, the story of America is an epic, and "The epic loses all its glory without the dream."
But dreams of glory are bound to betray us, and 80 years later the question is whether the story of the United States is an epic or a tragedy. More on that later.
The dream and domination
Adams' definition of the dream as the belief that "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone" is rather abstract. One historian's "short history" of the concept highlights the dreams of religious freedom, political independence, racial equality, upward mobility, home ownership, and personal fulfillment that run through U.S. history, but a concept used by so many people for so many different purposes can't be easily defined. Rather than try to organize the complexity, I want to focus on what has made the American Dream possible. That much is simple: The American Dream is born of, and maintained by, domination.
By this claim, I don't mean that the American Dream is to dominate (though many who claim to be living the American Dream revel in their ability to dominate), but rather that whatever the specific articulation of the American Dream, it is built on domination. This is the obvious truth on the surface, the reality that most dreamers want to leave out, perhaps because it leads to a painful question: How deeply woven into the fabric of U.S. society is the domination/subordination dynamic on which this country's wealth and freedom are based?
First, the American part: The United States of America can dream only because of one of the most extensive acts of genocide in recorded human history. When Europeans landed in the region that was eventually to include the United States, there were people here. Population estimates vary, but a conservative estimate is 12 million north of the Rio Grande, perhaps 2 million in what is now Canada and the rest in what is now the continental United States. By the end of the so-called Indian Wars, the 1900 census recorded 237,000 indigenous people in the United States. That's an extermination rate of 95 to 99 percent. That is to say, the European colonists and their heirs successfully eliminated almost the entire indigenous population -- or the "merciless Indian Savages" as they are labeled in the Declaration of Independence, one of the most famous articulations of the American Dream. Almost every Indian died in the course of the European invasion to create the United States so that we may dream our dreams. Millions of people died for the crime of being inconveniently located on land desired by Europeans who believed in their right to dominate.
Second, the dream part: Adams pointed out that while this is always about more than money, the idea of getting one's share of the American bounty is at the core of the American Dream. That bounty did not, of course, drop out of the sky. It was ripped out of the ground and drawn from the water in a fashion that has left the continent ravaged, a dismemberment of nature that is an unavoidable consequence of a worldview that glorifies domination. "From [Europeans'] first arrival we have behaved as though nature must be either subdued or ignored," writes the scientist and philosopher Wes Jackson, one of the leading thinkers in the sustainable agriculture movement. As Jackson points out, our economy has always been extractive, even before the industrial revolution dramatically accelerated the assault in the 19th century and the petrochemical revolution began poisoning the world more intensively in the 20th. From the start, we mined the forests, soil, and aquifers, just as we eventually mined minerals and fossil fuels, leaving ecosystems ragged and in ruin, perhaps beyond recovery in any human timeframe. All that was done by people who believed in their right to dominate.
This analysis helps us critique the naïve notions of opportunity and bounty in the American Dream. The notion of endless opportunity for all in the American Dream is routinely invoked by those who are unconcerned about the inherent inequality in capitalism or ignore the deeply embedded white supremacy that expresses itself in institutional and unconscious racism, which constrains indigenous, black, and Latino people in the United States. The notion of endless bounty in the American Dream leads people to believe that because such bounty has always been available that it will continue to be available through the alleged magic of technology. In America, the dreamers want to believe that the domination of people to clear the frontier was acceptable, and with the frontier gone, that the evermore intense domination of nature to keep the bounty flowing is acceptable.
Of course the United States is not the only place where greed has combined with fantasies of superiority to produce horrific crimes, nor is the only place where humans have relentlessly degraded ecosystems. But the United States is the wealthiest and most powerful country in the history of the world, and the country that claims for itself a unique place in history, "the city upon a hill" that serves as "the beacon to the world of the way life should be," in the words of one of Texas' U.S. senators. The American Dream is put forward as a dream for all the world to adopt, but it clearly can't be so. Some of the people of the world have had to be sacrificed for the dream, as has the living world. Dreams based on domination are, by definition, limited.
Jackson reminds us how these two forms of domination come together in the United States when he asserts, "We are still more the cultural descendants of Columbus and Coronado than we are of the natives we replaced." Citing the writer Wendell Berry, he points out "that as we came across the continent, cutting the forests and plowing the prairies, we never knew what we were doing because we have never known what we were undoing."
Dreams based on domination by people over the non-human world are dreams only for the short-term. Dreams based on domination by some people over others are dreams only for the privileged. As Malcolm X put it, "I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don't see any American dream; I see an American nightmare."
Justice and sustainability
A world based on domination/subordination is a profoundly unjust world and a fundamentally unsustainable world.
The state of our unjust world: A third of the people on the planet live on less than $2 per day, while half live on less than $2.50 a day. That means at least half the people in this world cannot meet basic expenditures for the food, clothing, shelter, health, and education necessary for a minimally decent life. Concern about this is not confined to radical idealists. Consider the judgment of James Wolfensohn near the end of his term as president of the World Bank:
The state of our unsustainable world: Every measure of the health of the continent -- groundwater depletion, topsoil loss, chemical contamination, increased toxicity in our own bodies, the number and size of "dead zones" in the surrounding oceans, accelerating extinction of species and reduction of bio-diversity -- suggests we may be past the point of restoration. This warning comes from 1,700 of the world's leading scientists:
That statement was issued in 1992, and in the past two decades we have yet to change course.
These days when someone seeks my support for an idea, project, or institution, I ask whether it makes some contribution to the struggle for justice and sustainability. No one idea, project, or institution can solve our problems, of course, and perhaps even no combination can save us. But I am convinced we must ask this question in all aspects of our lives.
I have concluded that the American Dream is inconsistent with social justice and ecological sustainability. So, I'm against the American Dream. I don't want to rescue, redefine, or renew the American Dream. I want us all to recognize the need to transcend the domination/subordination dynamic at the heart of the American Dream. If we could manage that, the dream would fade -- as dreams do -- when we awake and come into consciousness.
That's my principled argument. Now let's consider two questions about political and rhetorical strategy.
Strategic considerations I: A radical core
A few years ago, sometime around the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, I got a call from a New York Times reporter who was writing a piece about the anti-war movement's attempt to rally folks around the idea that "peace is patriotic." I told him I never used that phrase and routinely argued against patriotism -- instead of trying to redefine patriotism, I wanted to abandon the concept as intellectually, politically, and morally indefensible. He was intrigued and asked me to explain. Realize, this was the first, and so far the only, time I have been interviewed by a Times reporter, and so even though I know that newspaper to be a tool of the ruling class, I wanted to make a good impression. First, I pointed out that critiques of patriotism have been made by radicals in the past and that there was nothing all that new in what I had to say. After I explained my argument, he said he couldn't see a hole in the reasoning but that it didn't really matter. "No one is ever going to accept that," he said, and so my position -- no matter how compelling -- didn't end up in his story.
Perhaps I can take some solace in knowing that he thought my argument was right. But it's not enough just to be right, of course -- we want to be effective. Is an argument irrelevant if it can't be communicated widely in the mainstream? Is that the fate of an assault on the idea of an American Dream?
It's certainly true that the American Dream is a deeply rooted part of the ideology of superiority of the dominant culture, and there is evidence all around us that this ideology is more deeply entrenched than ever, perhaps because the decline of American power and wealth is so obvious, and people are scrambling. But that doesn't automatically mean that we should avoid radical critiques and play to the mainstream. I believe those critiques are more important than ever.
This conclusion stems from an assessment of the political terrain on which we operate today. This is not a mass-movement moment, not a time in which large numbers of Americans are likely to engage in political activity that challenges basic systems of power and wealth. I believe we are in a period in which the most important work is creating the organizations and networks that will be important in the future, when the political conditions change, for better or worse. Whatever is coming, we need sharper analysis, stronger vehicles for action, and more resilient connections among people. In short, this is a cadre-building moment.
Although for some people the phrase "cadre-building" may invoke the worst of the left's revolutionary dogmatism, I have something different in mind. For me, "cadre" doesn't mean "vanguard" or "self-appointed bearers of truth." It signals commitment, but with an openness to rethinking theory and practice. I see this kind of organizing in some groups in Austin, TX, where I live. Not surprisingly, they are groups led by younger people who are drawing on longstanding radical ideas, updating as needed to fit a changing world. These organizers reject the ideology that comforts the culture. The old folks -- which I define as anyone my age, 52, and older -- who are useful in these endeavors also are willing to leave behind these chauvinistic stories about national greatness.
To openly challenge the American Dream is to signal that we are not afraid to (1) tell the truth and (2) keep working in the face of significant impediments. This kind of challenge speaks to those who are hungry for honest talk about the depth of our problems and are yearning to be part of a community that perseveres without illusions. That isn't a majority, maybe not yet a significant minority, but those people have the resolve that we will need.
Back to the patriotism critique: Despite the popularity of the "peace is patriotic" bumper stickers, I have continued to offer my argument against the concept of patriotism, and whenever I speak about it in a lecture, people tell me that it was helpful to hear the position articulated in public. Over and over, on this and other issues, I hear people saying that they have had such thoughts but felt isolated and that hearing the critique in public shores up their sense that they are not crazy. Perhaps these kinds of more radical analyses don't change the course of existing movements, but they help bolster those who are at the core of the more radical movements we need, and they help us identify each other.
Strategic considerations II: Engagement
Although a radical critique of the American Dream isn't likely to land in the New York Times, we shouldn't ignore the ways we can use such arguments for outreach to liberal, and even conservative, communities. Once again, an example about patriotism: I have had conversations with conservative Christians, who typically are among the most hyper-patriotic Americans, in which I challenged them to square that patriotism with their Christian faith. Isn't patriotism a form of idolatry? I can't claim to have converted large numbers to an anti-empire/anti-capitalist politics. But as the evangelicals say, we sometimes make progress one by one, from within. Framing questions in a way that forces people to see that conventional politics is at odds with their most deeply held moral principles is a potentially effective strategy. It doesn't always work -- we humans are known for our ability to hold contradictory ideas -- but it is one resource in the organizers' toolkit.
So, we might consider critiquing the American Dream by contrasting it with another widely embraced idea, the Golden Rule or the ethic of reciprocity, which says we should treat others as we would like to be treated. That principle shows up in virtually all religious teachings and secular philosophy. In Christianity, Jesus phrased it this way in the Sermon on the Mount:
One of the best-known stories about the great Jewish scholar Hillel from the first century BCE concerns a man who challenged him to "teach me the whole Torah while I stand on one foot." Hillel's response: "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah, while the rest is the commentary thereof; go and learn it."
This is echoed in the repeated biblical command, in the Hebrew Bible as well as the New Testament, to "love thy neighbor as thyself." [Lev. 19:18] In Islam, one of the Prophet Muhammad's central teachings was, "None of you truly believes until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself." In secular Western philosophy, Kant's categorical imperative is a touchstone: "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law."
On the surface, the American Dream of success for all appears to be an articulation of the Golden Rule, of equal opportunity for all. When I suggest that the two ideas are, in fact, in opposition, it gives me a chance to make the case that the Dream is based on domination and, therefore, a violation of that core principle. How can we reconcile our commitment to an ethic of reciprocity while endorsing a vision of society that leads to an unjust and unsustainable world? How can we face the least among us today, and our descendants tomorrow, knowing we turned away from the moral commitments we claim to be most dear to us? A critique of the American Dream can open up that conversation.
Telling the tale: Epic or tragic hero?
The American Dream typically is illustrated with stories of heroes who live the dream. But the larger story of American Dream casts the United States itself as the hero on a global stage. The question we might ask, uncomfortably: Is the United States an epic hero or a tragic one?
Literature scholars argue over the definition of the terms "epic" and "tragedy," but in common usage an epic celebrates the deeds of a hero who is favored by, and perhaps descended from, the gods. These heroes overcome adversity to do great things in the service of great causes. Epic heroes win.
A tragic hero loses, but typically not because of an external force. The essence of tragedy is what Aristotle called "hamartia," an error in judgment made because of some character flaw, such as hubris. That excessive pride of the protagonist becomes his downfall. Although some traditions talk about the sin of pride, most of us understand that taking some pride in ourselves is psychologically healthy. The problem is excessive pride, when we elevate ourselves and lose a sense of the equal value of others.
This distinction is crucial in dealing with the American Dream, which people often understand in the context of their own hard work and sacrifice. People justifiably take pride, for example, in having worked to start a small business, making it possible for their children to get a college education, which is one common articulation of the American Dream. I can tell you a story about a grandfather who emigrated from Denmark and worked hard his whole life as a blacksmith and metal worker, about parents who came from modest circumstances and worked hard their whole lives, about my own story of working hard. That story is true, but also true is the story of domination that created the landscape on which my grandfather, my parents, and I have worked. Pride in work turns to hubris when one believes one is special for having worked, as if our work is somehow more ennobling than that of others, as if we worked on a level playing field.
When we fall into hubris individually, the consequences can be disastrous for us and those around us. When we fall into that hubris as a nation -- when we ignore the domination on which our dreams are based -- the consequences are more dramatic. And when that nation is the wealthiest and most powerful in the world, at a time in history when the high-energy/high-technology society is unraveling the fabric of the living world, the consequences are life-threatening globally.
Not to worry, some say: After all, other empires have come and gone, other species have come and gone, but the world endures. That flippant response glosses over two important considerations. First, empires cause immense suffering as they are built and as they decline. Second, the level of human intervention into the larger world has never been on this scale, so that the collapse of an empire poses new risks. To toss off these questions is to abandon one's humanity.
To face this honestly, we need to recognize just how inadequate are our existing ideas, projects, and institutions. Quoting the late geographer Dan Luten, Jackson reminds us:
Developing new institutions is never easy. But it will be easier if we can abandon our epic dreams and start dealing the tragic nature of circumstances.
The end of the epic, for us all
To conclude I want to return to the words of our first American Dreamer, James Truslow Adams: "The epic loses all its glory without the dream."
Glory is about distinction, about claiming a special place. The American Dream asserts such a place in history for the United States, and from that vantage point U.S. domination seems justified. The future -- if there is to be a future -- depends on us being able to give up the illusion of being special and abandon the epic story of the United States.
It is tempting to end there, with those of us who critique the domination/subordination dynamic lecturing the American Dreamers about how they must change. But I think we critics have dreams to give up as well. We have our epics of resistance, our heroes who persevere against injustice in our counter-narratives. Our rejection of the idea of the American Dream is absorbed into the Dream itself, no matter how much we object. How do we live in America and not Dream?
In other words, how do we persevere in a nightmare? Can we stay committed to radical politics without much hope for a happy ending? What if we were to succeed in our epic struggle to transcend the American Dream but then find that the American Dream is just one small part of the larger tragedy of the modern human? What if the task is not simply to give up the dream of the United States as special but the dream of the human species as special? And what if the global forces set in motion during the high-energy/high-technology era are beyond the point of no return?
Surrounded by the big majestic buildings and tiny sophisticated electronic gadgets created through human cleverness, it's easy for us to believe we are smart enough to run a complex world. But cleverness is not wisdom, and the ability to create does not guarantee we can control the destruction we have unleashed. It may be that no matter what the fate of the American Dream, there is no way to rewrite this larger epic, that too much of the tragedy has already been played out.
But here's the good news: While tragic heroes meet an unhappy fate, a community can learn from the protagonist's fall. Even tragic heroes can, at the end, celebrate the dignity of the human spirit in their failure. That may be the task of Americans, to recognize that we can't reverse course in time to prevent our ultimate failure, but that in the time remaining we can recognize our hamartia, name our hubris, and do what we can to undo the damage.
That may be the one chance for the United States to be truly heroic, for us to learn to leave the stage gracefully.
[A version of this essay was delivered at MonkeyWrench Books in Austin, TX, on February 10, 2011. An audio version, on CD or MP3, is available from Alternative Radio. Video of the talk is online at http://vimeo.com.
Robert Jensen is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin and board member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center. His latest book is All My Bones Shake: Radical Politics in the Prophetic Voice (Soft Skull Press). He is also the author of Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity (South End Press).
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I came across this forum while looking up info on Na Uyana. I've been meditating for six years in Goenka tradition and recently started thinking about going to either a Myanmar or Sri Lanka monastery to do a year or so of practice. Na Uyana looked good till I read piano piano's post about food in Sri Lanka. I spent about a year working with monks in rural West Bengal so I know what he means. If anyone has first hand knowledge of a good Vipassana monastery in either of those countries, please let me know. I am not looking for anything fancy, most important is the quality of instruction and it would be good if I don't have to drop 30 kilos by the end of my stay.
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Yes, BT not have tor installed, for this,
Follow instructions at:
Tor seems to be missing from the 32-bit (I haven't checked 64) BT5 package repository.
It's easy enough to install manually, but since it's recommended by a number of other packages, I assume a package is supposed to exist?
Yes, BT not have tor installed, for this,
Follow instructions at:
"If you aim the gun at your foot and pull the trigger, it's
UNIX's job to ensure reliable delivery of the bullet to
where you aimed the gun (in this case, Mr. Foot)."
Yeah, I know how to install and configure Tor, I just figured I'd point out that it's missing from the package repository.
It's not missing (as in we forgot it) it's missing because the team felt it was not needed. Penetration testers don't generally attempt to hide their activities using tor exit nodes. Generally one wants the company that is tested to know that something is being done. Not only to cover one's ass(ets ) during a test, but to also gauge how well the IT dept. is doing their job in monitoring their networks, to stop potential attackers. Audit trails.
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To be successful here you should read all of the following.
If you are new to Back|Track
Back|Track Wiki
Failure to do so will probably get your threads deleted or worse.
fine, I'll install it myself.
For the record, I wasn't asking for it to be installed with the release image, I was only asking for it to be included in the repository alongside the hosts of far more worthless packages that you've nonetheless done the work of including.


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i'm in! but i have a question about this:
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are you seriuos? DD name in the forum in your case it must be nerko.jpg
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It means don't use a computer....
Good question, sure a mod. will answer... I just take a few pics with different light and pic the best...
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In 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "This generation has a rendezvous with destiny." When Roosevelt said that he had no idea of how much World War II would make his prophecy ring true. More than fifty years later, Americans are remembering the sacrifices of that generation, which took up arms in defense of the nation. Part of that generation was a neglected minority, Native American Indians, who flocked to the colors in defense of their country. No group that participated in World War II made a greater per capita contribution, and no group was changed more by the war. As part of the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of World WarII, it is fitting forthe nation to recall the contributions of its own "first citizens."
The Vanishing American
At the time of Christopher Columbus ' arrival in the New World, the Native American population living in what is now the United States was estimated at about one million. By 1880, only 250,000 Indians remained and this gave rise to the "Vanishing American" theory. By 1940, this population had risen to about 350,000. During World War II more than 44,000 Native Americans saw military service. They served on all fronts in the conflict and were honored by receiving numerous Purple Hearts, Air Medals, Distinguished Flying Crosses, Bronze Stars, SilverStars, Distinguished Service Crosses, and three Congressional Medals of Honor. Indian participation in World War II was so extensive that it later became part of American folklore and popular culture.
The Warrior Image
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor seemed to waken an ancestral warrior spirit in many Native Americans. Thousands of young Indians went into the armed forces or to work in the war production plants that abruptly emerged during military and industrial mobilization. A 1942 survey indicated that 40 percent more Native Americans voluntarily enlisted than had been drafted. Lt. Emest Childers (Creek), Lt. Jack Montgomery (Cherokee), and Lt. Van Barfoot (ChoctawW all of the famed 45th "Thunderbird" Infantry Division-won Medals of Honor in Europe. Childers had first distinguished himself in Sicily, where he received a battlefield commission. Later in Italy, unaided and despite severe wounds, he destroyed three German machine gun emplacements. During the Anzio Campaign in Italy, Montgomery attacked a German strongpoint single-handed, killing eleven of the enemy and taking thirty-three prisoners. During the breakout from Anzio to Rome, Barfoot knocked out two machine gun nests and captured seventeen prisoners. Subsequently, he defeated three German tanks and carried two wounded men to safety. All of these exploits reinforced the "warrior" image in the American mind. Maj. Gen. Clarence Tinker, an Osage and a career pilot, was the highest ranking Indian in the armed forces at the beginning of the war. He died leading a flight of bombers in the Pacific during the Battle of Midway. Joseph J. "Jocko" Clark, the first Indian (Cherokee) to graduate from Annapolis, participated in carrier battles in the Pacific and became an admiral. Brumett Echohawk (Pawnee), a renowned expert in hand-to-hand combat, trained commandos.
A Tradition as Fighters
The Iroquois Confederacy, having declared war on Germany in 1917, had never made peace and so automatically became party to World War II. The Navajo and other tribes were so eager to go to war that they stood for hours in bad weather to sign their draft cards, while others carried their own rifles so they would be ready for battle when they joined up. Unwilling to wait for their draft numbers, one-fourth of the Mescalero Apaches in New Mexico enlisted. Nearly all the able-bodied Chippewas at the Grand Portage Reservation enlisted. In a story that has been attributed to many other tribes as well, Blackfeet Indians mocked the need for a conscription bill. "Since when," their members cried, "has it been necessary for Blackfeet to draw lots to fight?"
The annual enlistment for Native Americans jumped from 7,500 in the summer of 1942 to 22,000 at the beginning of 1945. According to the Selective Service in 1942, at least 99 percent of all eligible Indians, healthy males aged 21 to 44, had registered for the draft. War Department of ficials maintained that if the entire population had enlisted in the same proportion as Indians, the response would have rendered Selective Service unnecessary. The overwhelming majority of Indians welcomed the opportunity to serve. On Pearl Harbor Day, there were 5,000 Indians in the military. By the end of the war, 24,521 reservation Indians, exclusive of officers, and another 20,000 off-reservation Indians had served. The combined figure of 44,500 was more than ten percent of the Native American population during the war years. This represented one-third of all able-bodied Indian men from 18 to 50 years of age. In some tribes, the percentage of men in the military reached as high as 70 percent. Also, several hundred Indian women served in the WACS, WAVES, and Army Nurse Corps.
The "Chiefs" Go to War
In spite of years of inefficient and often corrupt bureaucratic management of Indian affairs, Native Americans stood ready to fight the "white man's war." American Indians overcame past disappointment, resentment, and suspicion to respond to their nation's need in World War II. It was a grand show of loyalty on the part of Native Americans and many Indian recruits were affectionately called "chiefs." Native Americans responded to America's call for soldiers because they understood the need to defend one's own land, and they understood fundamental concepts of fighting for life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness.
Even the clannish Pueblo tribe, whose members exhibited a historical suspicion of the white world, contributed 213 men, 10 percent of their population of 2,205, to the armed forces. Wisconsin Chippewas at the Lac Oreilles Reservation contributed 100 men from a population of 1,700. Nearly all the able-bodied Chippewas at the Grand Portage Reservation enlisted. Blackfeet Indians enlisted in droves. Navajo Indians responded by sending 3,600 into military service; 300 lost their lives. Many volunteered from the Fort Peck Sioux-Assinibois Reservation in Montana, the descendants of the Indians that defeated Custer. The Iroquois took it as an insult to be called up under compulsion. They passed their own draft act and sent their young braves into National Guard units.
There were many disappointments as well-intentioned Indians were rejected for the draft. Years of poverty, illiteracy, ill- health, and general bureaucratic neglect had taken its toll. A Chippewa Indian was furious when rejected because he had no teeth. "I don't want to bite 'em," he said, "I just want to shoot 'em!" Another Indian, rejected for being too fat to run, said that he had not come to run, but to fight.
The Swastika Shadow Over Native Americans
World War II signalled a major break from the past and offered unparalleled opportunities for Indians to compete in the white man's world. Because the Choctaw language had befuddled German code-breakers in World War I, the Gemman government feared the likelihood of Indian communications specialists as World War II loomed. During the 1930s, Nazi agents posing as anthropologists and writers on reservations tried to subvert some Indian tribes and learn their language. Pan-Nazi agitators from the German-American Bund tried to persuade Indians not to register for the draft. Third Reich Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels predicted Indians would revolt rather than fight Gemmany because the Swastika was similarto an Indian mystical bird symbol depicting good luck.
Goebbels went so far as to declare the Sioux to be "Aryans," but the Indians knew that as a Mongoloid race, they would be enslaved by the Nazis. Fascist attempts to convert Indians to their cause not only met with failure, but it may have encouraged Indians to register for the draft in the large numbers they did. About 20 percent of the Indian population, 80,000 men and women, marched off to fight in the armed forces and at the home front against Adolph Hitler, a man they called, "he who smells his moustache." Benito Mussolini fared little better, as the Indians called him "Gourd Chin."
Indians saw the Axis Powers as a threat to their liberty, and the Indian tribes responded patriotically. The Chippewa and Sioux joined the Iroquois in declaring war on the Axis. Indians took extreme measures to get into the war. Illiterate Papago Indians memorized a few English phrases and learned to write their names when called to the induction centers. The Navajo, also rejected in large numbers for not speaking English, were extremely determined to serve. They organized remedial English training on their reservations to qualify for service in the armed forces.
The draft created a structure within which Indians and whites had to operate together for the defense of their country. The draft set Indians on a new course where they would be integrated into military life with their white counterparts . Their lives and their land-based society would never be the same. The Indians' success in weakening racial barriers in the armed forces during World war II presaged the rise of the Civil Rights movement later.
The Home Front
Well-known American humorist Will Rogers, a Cherokee from Oklahoma, said, "The United States never broke a treaty with a foreign government and never kept one with the Indians." Nevertheless, the government of the United States found no more loyal citizens than their own "first Americans." When President Roosevelt mobilized the country and declared war on the Axis Powers, it seemed as if he spoke to each citizen individually. Therefore, according to the Indians' way of perceiving, all must be allowed to participate. About 40,000 Indian men and women, aged 18 to 50, left reservations for the first time to find jobs in defense industries. This migration led to new vocational skills and increased cultural sophistication and awareness in dealings with non-Indians.
The purchase of Treasury Stamps and Bonds by Indian tribes and individuals was considerable. By 1944, war bond sales to Indians had reached $50 million. Indians also made generous donations to the Red Cross and other organizations, giving what they had. All of this from a minority group at the bottom rung of the economic ladder.
Some 2,500 Navajos helped construct the Fort Wingate Ordnance Depot in New Mexico, and Pueblo Indians helped build the Naval Supply Depot in Utah. Because of their hunting, survival, and navigational skills in the harsh regions of the north, Alaskan Indians were involved in territorial defense. The entire football team at the Santa Fe Indian School volunteered for the armed forces after the 1942 homecoming game.
Women took over traditional men' s duties on the reservation, manning fire lookout stations, and becoming mechanics, lumberjacks, farmers, and delivery personnel. Indian women, although reluctant to leave the reservation, worked as welders in aircraft plants. Many Indian women gave their time as volunteers for American Womens' Volunteer Service, Red Cross, and Civil Defense. They also tended livestock, grew victory gardens, canned food, and sewed uniforms. A wealthy Kiowa woman in Oklahoma sent a $1,000 check to the Navy Relief signed with her thumbprint. Alaskan women trapped animals to earn war bond money. By 1943, the YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) estimated that 12,000 young Indian women had left the reservation to work in defense industries. By 1945, an estimated 150,000 Native Americans had directly participated in industrial, agricultural, and military aspects of the American war effort.
The Indian Service sent 1,119 of its 7,000 employees into military service. Of these, 22 died, while 7 won Silver or Bronze Stars. In 1942, the Japanese captured 45 Aleuts on Attu. Only 24 returned from captivity in Japan, where they had worked in clay pits.
The federal government designated some Indian lands and even tribes themselves as essential natural resources, appropriating tribal minerals, lumber, and lands for the war effort. After the war, Native Americans discovered thattheirservice forthe warefforthad depleted their resources without reward. Indian lands provided essential war materials such as oil, gas, lead, zinc, copper, vanadium, asbestos, gypsum, and coal. The Manhattan Project used Navajo helium in New Mexico to make the atomic bomb. The war effort depleted the Blackfeet's tribal resources of oil.
Tell it to the Marines
German soldiers during World War I had been befuddled by Indians who transmitted messages over field phones in the Choctaw language. The 32d Infantry Division, Third Ammy, used Indians from Michigan and Wisconsin to work with microphones and to transmit messages in the Louisiana Maneuvers of 1940. During World War II, the U.S. Marine Corps recruited Navajo Indians for the same purpose. Navajo marines used their language as a battlefield code that the Japanese never broke. The Navajo Code Talkers became the most celebrated and publicized of the radio units.
Marines were "elite" fighters and welcomed Indians because of their warrior reputation. The Navajo marines ended their ceremonial chants by singing the Marine Corps Hymn in Navajo. Their eloquence came naturally to Indians because theirs is an oral culture. Navajos formed special all-Navajo Marine Corps signal units that encoded messages in their native tongue. Taking advantage of the flexibility and range of the Navajo language, they worked out translations of military and naval terms so that orders and instructions could be transmitted by voice over the radio in a code the Japanese were never able to break. They were used first in late 1942 on Guadalcanal. Special Code Talker units were eventually assigned to each of the Marine Corps' six Pacific divisions. By war's end, over 400 Navajo had served as Code Talkers. Untold numbers of Marines owe their lives to the Navajo Code Talkers.
Indians also excelled at basic training. Maj. Lee Gilstrop of Oklahoma, who trained 2 ,000 Native Americans at his post, said, "The Indian is the best damn soldier in the Army." Their talents included bayonet fighting, marksmanship, scouting, and patrolling. Native Americans took to commando training; after all, their ancestors invented it. One Sioux soldier, Kenneth Scisson of South Dakota, became an American commando unit's leading Gemman-killer. On a single patrol, Scisson added ten notches to his Garand rifle. Native Americans endured thirst and lack of food better than the average soldier. They had an acute sense of perception and excellent endurance, along with superior physical coordination.
Indians first saw action in the Pacific theater. Over 300 Indians, including a descendant of the famed Apache chief Geronimo, took part in the defense of Bataan and Corregidor. Over 2,000 Indian farmers, workers, and businessmen in Oklahoma and New Mexico trained and fought as part of the 45th Infantry Division for 511 days of combat in Italy and Central Europe. The "Thunderbirds" had the highest propor tion of Indian soldiers of any division, but Indians served conspicuously in the 4th and 88th Divisions, the l9thand 180thInfantryRegiments, and the 147thField Artillery Regiment, and in sundry Oklahoma National Guard units.
For Native Americans, World War II signalled a majorbreak from the past. Many Indians inthe military made a decent living for the first time in their lives. By 1944, the average Indian's annual income was $2,500, up two and one-half times since 1940. Military life provided a steady job, money, status, and a taste of the white man's world. Indians leamed assertiveness they could use in their fight for equal rights after the war.
The Warriors and War Workers Return
The war, therefore, provided new opportunities for American Indians, and these opportunities disrupted old patterns. The wartime economy and military service took thousands of Indians away from the reservations. Many of these Indians settled into the mainstream, adapting pemmanently to the cities and to a non-Indian way of life. Moreover, thousands retumed to the reservation even after they had proved themselves capable of making the adjustment to white America. Those who left traditional cultures did not necessarily reject their heritage. Instead, they forged a new Pan-Indian identity to cope with the differences they perceived between themselves and whites.
World War II became a turning point for both Indians and Caucasians because its impact on each was so great and different. Whites believed that World War II had completed the process of Indian integration into mainstream American society. Large numbers of Indians, on the other hand, saw for the first time the non-Indian world at close range. It both attracted and repelled them. The positive aspects included a higher standard of living, with education, health care, and job opportunities. The negatives were the lessening of tribal influence and the threat of forfeiting the security of the reservation. Indians did not want equality with whites at the price of losing group identification. In sum, the war caused the greatest change in Indian life since the beginning of the reservation era and taught Native Americans they could aspire to walk successfully in two worlds.
A good deal of credit must go to the Native Americans for their outstanding part in America's victory in World War II. They sacrificed more than most-both individually and as a group. They left the land they knew to travel to strange places, where people did not always understand their ways. They had to forego the dances and rituals that were an important part of their life. They had to leam to work under non-Indian supervisors in situations that were wholly new to them. It was a tremendously difficult adjustment; more than for white America, which had known modem war and mobilization before. But in the process, Native Americans became Indian-Americans, not just American Indians.
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@Tr00g33k - The uploading issue can sometimes be due to a bad Ruby package. Try updating the ruby packages to the latest development packages and see if that helps. In terms of it not connecting back - make sure the executable has exited correctly on the other system when reconnecting, and that you're not running any other instances of Metasploit on the current PC (i.e., by doing a "ps -a" and looking for any related ruby processes). Also, make sure no firewall that could be getting in the way is.
@lil-hard - All I can say is that without the proper port forwarding or an external server, you won't be able to do it externally. And you can't do proper port forwarding without router access. Either ask your neighbour for his router password, or rent an external server to do it.


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The Android BSP enables the combination of app and HTML 5-based content to be displayed simultaneously on a single screen giving system integrators flexibility to create engaging multi-touch digital signage systems.
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