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|The first Raspberry Pi I had, got my attention with all the potentials it had The first thought I had is - why couldn't it host a database ? My old 386 with a 66Mhz process could and ran that just fine with Slackware Linux. I believe the total hard drive space on that computer was about 200Mb. In a nutshell, the purpose of this project was to be able to evaluate the upcoming Tableau server release for the Linux platform. That release will be announced at the 2016 Austin, Texas Tableau conference. Well, for that to work, I need a database to pull information from - and the database can not be a bottleneck for the Tableau server. Tableau, by the way, in a nutshell, is an awesome data visualization actionable business intelligence tool. That means, that with a few clicks Tableau can connect to a myriad of databases and types and in a matter of minutes you start exploring your datbase in graph mode, none the less. Instantly you can find outliers of the data, trends, groupings and more. 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Plan "A" was to create Federated engine tables on the first node and query that hoping that it will pull the necessary query results from each node. That did not happen since I noticed that the results took an unusually long time. Further digging revealed that the mySQL Federated engine table downloads the entire table content, then joins that result set to the rest of the node1 dimension tables, even though that's not how I wrote up my SQLs. This test was a complete failure since I already had identical data on each nodes - I did not want to download the same data I already had, three more times. Plan "B". I wanted to pull 4 different month worth of data parallel processed and the queries distributed to each node and wanted only the result of the query returned not the entire table content So for example, node4 would return January data, node3 February, node2 March and node1 would process and return April data. So, I wrote the SQL for each node, then wrote a small Perl script, threaded to send out the query to each node, process it then return the data by inserting it into a Memory engine table on node1 and when all nodes inserted their data, summarize the Memory engine table. This process was a very good success, the worst time it ran is 19 seconds without any indexes on 2.7 million records. Once I created some composite indexes the return time dropped to 3 seconds or less. Although this is a very successful attempt to distributed queries and run them parallel simultaneously - unfortunately Tableau can not connect to these result set memory tables, and start drilling down to individual records because these tables are the result of a Perl script with predefined SQLs Plan "C" Next I installed a nuber of clustered database technologies, replicating them on each of the nodes - so each node is as close to the other as they can be - except when one node has to be a master. First I tried Crate database from http://crate.io. The set up went relatively easily and aside from the data import slowness, it runs very nicely and so far is the best solution I found for the Raspberry Pi cluster. The one difficulty I found with Crate is that loading data from a JSON file of 300,000 records took 29 minutes. At this rate I could load only 3 months worth of data, even though I disabled the refresh interval and the indices.store.throttle.type to 'none'. Another aspect that I don't fully understand is why can't it use a CSV file, when the CSV file converted JSON the size of the new file is three times that of the CSV data. In any case Crate advertises this database as distributed queries, which I believe is working really nicely, since the return time on the queries are about 3 to 5 seconds. Remember these are very small low-end commodity hardware and were not designed for clustered database servers. Still, the results are fast enough and hopefuly Tableau can then connect to node1 and see the tables. Plan "Z" I installed a number of database clustering technologies on my Raspberry Pi cluster. I put HBase database on it, wich works quite well and I can see the nodes in the administrative web page. However I could not figure out how to load data into HBase. Even though that is a distributed database - apparently it has to run on Hadoop, and can not do anything on its own. The learning curve on this is pretty steep. I installed Hadoop too, and the next step for HBase but so far I ran into a myriad of issues - mainly that it has an issue with the Raspberry's ARM processor. So perhaps, I have to compile Hadoop on the Pi first. I downloaded Phoenix which is an SQL, DBMS type interface for HBase, but I won't be able to evaluate that until Hadoop runs and finally I can load HBase. I also installed CouchDB - which did not help at all. I had a hard time to understand how I can load a JSON or CSV file to it to populate something. CouchDB is not a relational database so for this project it is an inappropriate choice - however from the description on the site I could not decipher this, at first. I installed Gaian database, which I could never, ever start up, because of the myriad of errors. Finally, I installed SQLite. The official Raspberry Pi version of SQLite is so old - it does not recognize CSV files as a valid data mode for loading. So, I downloaded SQLite from an unofficial mirror in source code and compiled the entire database on the Pi. The compile went just fine and is now running. Wow !! What a surprise ! Yes, it is running ! Although SQLite is more of an embedded database for phones and devices rather than anything else, it is blazing fast ! Who needs a distributed query database when this little server smokes on the Raspberry Pi - it is so fast. It returned the results of every query I threw at it in less than a single second !! Wow ! I could not believe that this database returns 4 months of data tabulated, grouped and ordered out of 2.75 million records in less than a second !! And I just created only a single composite index on the entire data set. The dimension tables I left alone, did not even bothered to index them. If I can figure out how to run this as a daemon on Linux so Tableau could connect to it - it would be beautiful - even on a single node ! Conclusion: There are a myriad of clustered, distributed, massively parallel processed, noSQL, newSQL and whatever else they are named databases and/or file systems out there. I had only a very short time to evaluate some of them. The limitations of the hardware revealed quite a few lessons. Nevertheless, I think that the Raspberry Pi is a seriously underestimated piece of technology. I had a ton of fun working on this project and will keep hacking the Pis even longer. Over all, the Raspberry Pis are awesome for pilot testing, debugging performance bottlenecks, but most of all - it is a portable micro-data warehouse - which is awesome ! The best part though, you can show off Crate on the Pi stack and show that you have a distributed query database cluster - a supercomputer in the palm of your hand !
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Puerto Rico's San Juan Mayor, Carmen Yulín Cruz took to a microphone final week scarcely screaming, "Can anybody hear us," and stated, "You are murdering us." She was directing her remarks during President Donald J. Trump and a sovereign government. Cruz says service efforts are too slow, inadequate, and chaotic. Oddly enough, she done her remarks station in front of pallets of food and H2O sent to Puerto Rico.
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Is there anything anybody can contend anymore though being labeled a racist?
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This nation does in fact still have problems traffic with racism, though how can tangible injustice be broken when people like Reid and Lee ceaselessly cry wolf where there is no wolf? Labeling all as extremist trivializes a definition and hinders a ability to overcome genuine racism.
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Puerto Rico Congresswoman Jenniffer González-Colón seemed on "Justice with Judge Jeanine" on Fox News. She reports they are still receiving reserve and this weekend they will accept 600 medics, 700 sanatorium beds, and generators for hospitals. Eighty percent of a island is still though energy due to a perfect decimation of a infrastructure. Only a tiny percent of a civil area has communications, that is causing a biggest problem, she said.
Hurricane Irma left one million people in Puerto Rico though power. One week later, a already shop-worn infrastructure has been totally wiped out by Hurricane Maria. The whole island mislaid electricity, withdrawal residents in unfortunate conditions. The broken communication systems are formulating a serious logistics calamity for organizing service efforts.
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Approximately, dual million liters of H2O and over one million dishes have been supposing by FEMA and other organizations. In some areas, a extinction to infrastructure is so serious that reserve had to be atmosphere forsaken or delivered with helicopters.
Rafael Surillo, a mayor of Yabucoa, says his municipality was on their possess though electricity and no approach to promulgate for a initial week. The mayor said: "This materialisation was unprecedented. We are training here. No one underestimated a storm's power, though a bulk and scale of a drop has been overwhelming."
Opinion by Laurel Fee
Edited by Jeanette Smith
Townhall: Other Puerto Rican Mayor: Trump Has Been Great, San Juan's Mayor Has Been AWOL
CNN: Trump attacks San Juan mayor over whirly response
NBC News: Puerto Rico Crisis: San Juan Mayor Pleads for Federal Aid, Trump Hits Back
The Washington Post: Puerto Rico has a prolonged story with pleasant storms. None of them were like Hurricane Maria.
Justice with Judge Jeanine of Fox News: Judge Jeanine interviews Congresswoman Jenniffer González
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Puerto Rico Making Progress Despite San Juan Mayor and Politics combined by Laurel Fee on Oct 1, 2017
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Dust Bowl : Illustrated History
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In this riveting chronicle, which accompanies a documentary to be broadcast on PBS in the fall, Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns capture the profound drama of the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Terrifying photographs of mile-high dust storms, along with firsthand accounts by more than two dozen eyewitnesses, bring to life this heart-wrenching catastrophe, when a combination of drought, wind, and poor farming practices turned millions of acres of the Great Plains into a wasteland, killing crops and livestock, threatening the lives of small children, burying homesteaders' hopes under huge dunes of dirt. Burns and Duncan collected more than 300 mesmerizing photographs, some never before published, scoured private letters, government reports, and newspaper articles, and conducted in-depth interviews to produce a document that may likely be the last recorded testimony of the generation who lived through this defining decade.


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Quantock Hills Workshop: Programme
1-3 March 2011
Tuesday 1st
Introduction from Peter Coates, David Moon & Paul Warde [Network leaders]
'From the Environment to an Environment (of Outstanding Natural Beauty)' (Peter Coates)
Comments and discussion
Presentation by Friends of Quantock (Alan Hughes & Denys White) [i]
'Upper Glen Almond: A Case Study of Landscape as Cultural Record & Exploring Past, Current and Potential Future Stresses on Landscape' (Richard Oram) [ii]
Poetry reading: (Greg Garrard) [iii]
Wednesday 2nd
Walk up and down Cothelstone Hill (with Tim Russell [AONB team, senior ranger])
Presentations from AONB team (Iain Porter, Emma-Jane Preece & Tim Russell [iv])
Hazel Riley [v] 'Recording and Understanding the Historic Landscape of the Quantock Hills'
c. 3-hour circular 'walking tour' on the Quantocks departing from Halsway (led by Tim Russell) [vi]
Roundtable discussion, focusing on AONB management plan: 'How can academic work feed into/add value to the AONB service's work, eg. by directly informing management plan revision/future joint collaboration?' (chair: Peter Coates) [vii]
'Social documentary photography and the Quantocks' (Gary Penny) [viii]
Thursday 3 March
Research papers and discussion (chair: David Moon)
'Beauty and the Motorway – The Problem for All': Tourism, Speed of Travel and the Quantocks' (Tim Cole)
'Bringing Environmental Change Home: Integrating the History of Pollution Around Us and Within Us' (Erin Gill)
Final discussion: what we've learned and what we'd like to know (including discussion of publication plans) (chair: Peter Coates)
Looking ahead to Workshop 3 (David Moon)
[i] Friends of Quantock is a citizens' watchdog organization founded in 1949 in response to afforestation proposals that remains an active independent contributor to AONB policy discussions. http://friendsofquantock.com/
[ii] Richard has to leave on Wednesday afternoon to be back in Stirling for Thursday morning.
[iii] Greg, who is based at the School of Humanities and Cultural Industries, Bath Spa University, is chair of the Association for the Study of Literature & the Environment (ASLE-UK) and co-investigator on another AHRC-funded Researching Environmental Change research network: 'The Cultural Framing of Environmental Discourse' http://www.bath.ac.uk/news/2010/12/06/cultural-framing-environmental-discourse/
[iv] Iain Porter is Development Officer & Acting Manager; Emma-Jane Preece is Landscape Planning Officer; Tim Russell is Senior Ranger. http://www.thequantockhills.co.uk/about-quantock. Various documents relating to Landscape Character Assessment have been pre-circulated.
[v] Hazel Riley is author of The Historic Landscape of the Quantock Hills (English Heritage, 2006), which is based on archaeological fieldwork, transcription of aerial photographs and architectural research.
[vi] A walk across the hills to Holford, while a nice idea, is too complicated as it would depend on leaving vehicles to the car park at Holford for the return journey to Halsway.
[vii] The current AONB Management Plan (2009-14), the most recent Annual Report (2009-10) and two articles (1980 and 1990) by Margaret Anderson on the history of the AONB designation have been pre-circulated.
[viii] Gary J. Penny, The Quantocks – On English Hills: The Life and the Land (Halsgrove, 2004); Mixed Blessings: Rural Life on the Quantock Hills (AONB, 2007);
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Making the grueling flight from Sydney, Australia, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban showed up at LAX International Airport earlier today (February 8).
Joined by their daughters Sunday Rose and Faith Margaret, the Moulin Rouge mommy and her Long Hot Summer hubby looked to be in good spirits, though a little worn out, as they made their way through the terminal.
Meanwhile, it seems Nicole played a significant role in helping Naomi Watts continue pursuing her acting aspirations early on in her career.
Watts explained, "She kept saying, "It"s just going to take one thing, one thing, Nay, and you know, if you"re in a hit filmthen everything changes. We"ve been looking for a movie to do together for a long time now. But both of us have picky tastes. It has to be the right thing.


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Feeling a little rebellious? Frustrated with authority? You can't do much better than to spend Saturday night picking fights with Jack Nicholson at the Egyptian Theatre. It's a trifecta of discontent that begins with 1969's "Easy Rider," then 1970's "Five Easy Pieces" before closing with 1973's "The Last Detail." I love all three for the way they show the actor's rising power and so did the academy, nominating Nicholson for an Oscar each time ("One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" brought his first win in '76). Maybe it's the current cultural climate that makes "Five Easy Pieces" seem the best fit for the moment. Beyond the infamous chicken-salad-sandwich order at the diner, Carole Eastman's script is jammed with the surly spite of a dropout at odds with his privileged past. The movie would be a game-changer for director Bob Rafelson, until then known only for the TV hit "The Monkees." But it is watching Nicholson on the big screen worrying his issues like change in a pocket that is worth the price of admission.
— Betsy Sharkey


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January 15, 2002
The opinion of the court was delivered by: Larimer, Chief Judge.
This is a diversity action arising out of a series of related
financial transactions among plaintiffs, Ben and Shirley Harris,
defendant/third-party plaintiff Key Bank National Association,
d/b/a Key Bank, Key Bank of New York, and Key Bank of Central
New York ("Key Bank" or "the bank"), and third-party defendants
1564 St. Paul Street Partners, Lass Associates a/k/a "Last
Associates," Sanford Liebschutz, Edward J. After, Martin L.
Schuster, Jack Schuster and Bell Schuster ("the partners"). The
complaint asserts various claims under New York law against Key
Bank, all relating in one way or another to plaintiffs'
allegation that Key Bank mishandled collateral that plaintiffs
had pledged to secure a loan, causing plaintiffs to lose the
value of the collateral, and to suffer various other
consequential damages.
On March 14, 2000, the court issued a Decision and Order which
granted in part Key Bank's motion for summary judgment by
dismissing plaintiffs' claim for constructive fraud, but which
denied Key Bank's motion to dismiss plaintiffs' claims for
negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of the duty of
good faith. Harris v. Key Bank Nat. Ass'n, 89 F. Supp.2d 408
Key Bank filed a third-party complaint against the partners on
June 2, 2000, alleging three causes of action under New York law
for rescission, contribution and indemnity, and unjust
enrichment. The partners have now moved for summary judgment
dismissing the third-party complaint. Key Bank has cross-moved
for summary judgment dismissing plaintiffs' remaining claims.
The relevant facts are fully set forth in my March 14, 2000
Decision and Order, familiarity with which is assumed, and will
be only briefly summarized here. In June 1984, plaintiffs sold
an apartment building on St. Paul Street in Rochester to the
partners. As part of the $775,000
purchase price, the partners executed a promissory note for the
benefit of plaintiffs in the amount of $195,000 (the "St. Paul
Street Note"). As security for this note, the partners gave
plaintiffs a second mortgage on the property.
In May 1985, in a completely separate transaction, plaintiffs
borrowed $150,000 from Key Bank. Plaintiffs executed a demand
note for the benefit of the bank in the amount of $150,000 ("Key
Bank Note"). As security for that note, plaintiffs assigned to
Key Bank the $195,000 St. Paul Street Note and the second
mortgage interest that secured it.
In time, both the partners and plaintiffs began having
difficulty making their monthly payments on their respective
notes. For several years, with the blessing of plaintiffs, the
partners sent their payments on the St. Paul Street note
directly to Key Bank and not to plaintiffs, in order to fulfill
the partners' obligation to plaintiffs and plaintiffs'
obligation to the bank simultaneously. Various other proposals
concerning the parties' obligations were made and considered
over the years, but in early 1994, Key Bank sold plaintiffs' Key
Bank Note to the partners (doing business as "Lass" or "Last"
Associates) for $75,000, which was the remaining balance on the
note at that time, along with the $195,000 St. Paul Street Note
and the second mortgage interest that secured it.
In April 1994, Lass Associates demanded that plaintiffs pay
the $75,000 balance on the Key Bank Note within fifteen days.
When plaintiffs failed to do so, Lass Associates served on
plaintiffs written notice, pursuant to U.C.C. 9-505(2), that
Lass Associates proposed to retain the assigned collateral,
i.e., the St. Paul Street Note and second mortgage, in full
satisfaction of the Key Bank Note. Plaintiffs neither objected
to nor responded to this notice, although it is not entirely
clear from plaintiffs' deposition testimony and that of their
then-attorney, David Berlowitz, why that was so.
Thereafter, plaintiffs sued the partners in New York State
Supreme Court, Monroe County, to enforce the St. Paul Street
Note. The state court ruled that since the bank had repledged
the Key Bank Note to Lass Associates and Lass Associates had
foreclosed on that note, Lass Associates was now the owner of
the St. Paul Street Note, and plaintiffs did not have standing
to enforce it. Plaintiffs then brought this action against Key
Bank, alleging that the bank impaired the value of plaintiffs'
collateral when it transferred the collateral and the Key Bank
Note to Lass Associates.
I. Key Bank's Motion for Summary Judgment
A. Law of the Case
Plaintiffs argue that the court should deny Key Bank's motion
for summary judgment based on the "law of the case" doctrine.
"The doctrine of the law of the case `posits that if a court
decides a rule of law, that decision should continue to govern
in subsequent stages of the same case.'" Aramony v. United Way
of America, 254 F.3d 403, 410 (2d Cir. 2001) (quoting In re
Crysen/Montenay Energy Co., 226 F.3d 160, 165 n. 5 (2d Cir.
2000), cert. denied, 532 U.S. 920, 121 S.Ct. 1356, 149 L.Ed.2d
286 (2001)). In general, a court "will only reconsider a prior
decision in the same case if there has been an intervening
change in controlling law, there is new evidence, or a need is
shown to correct a clear error of law or to prevent manifest
injustice." United States v. Sanchez, 35 F.3d 673, 677 (2d
Cir. 1994), cert. denied, 514 U.S. 1038, 115 S.Ct. 1404, 131
L.Ed.2d 291 (1995).
This principle must be followed by the district court when an
appellate court has ruled on a matter of law in the case.
See, e.g., United States v. Minicone, 994 F.2d 86, 89 (2d Cir.
1993), cert. denied, 513 U.S. 940, 115 S.Ct. 344, 130 L.Ed.2d
300 (1994). It is discretionary, however, for a court that is
considering whether to revisit its own prior decisions in the
same case. See, e.g., Lewis v. Whelan, 99 F.3d 542, 545 (2d
Cir. 1996); United States v. Uccio, 940 F.2d 753, 758 (2d Cir.
1991); Scottish Air Int'l Inc. v. British Caledonian Group,
PLC, 152 F.R.D. 18, 24-25 (S.D.N.Y. 1993). In such cases, the
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court's power to reconsider its own decisions prior to final
judgment." Sagendorf-Teal v. County of Rensselaer,
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I'm a day late, but I'm going to persevere and post anyway.
Every two weeks I get up very early and toddle off down to Moulton College to spend a day doing paperwork to support my Apprenticeship. Last Wednesday I would have been at College, but they are closed for the Easter Holidays. Instead I got to take a day off work and spend it sat in the Dining Room doing Evidence Sheets. I managed to do all of the Job Sheets that I had pending and even got some Photo Evidence Sheets sorted, so all in all it was a very productive day. My time here at the Farm ends when my course is completed. – so it's in my interest to get this paperwork done and out of the way PDQ.
Of course the morning was filled the wonders of feeding the Sheep.
At 8.00pm I made my way down to the Merry Monk pub in Oakham where I run a Rock Night every second Wednesday. So far turn out has been pretty poor, but tonight was a real success!
I had sorted a great playlist beforehand and it paid dividends since there were people on the dance floor and people bought me drinks. I wrapped it up early at midnight since the booze had been flowing a little too freely and the punters were getting a little raucous.
We fed the beasties
We met up with James afterwards and headed down to Wardley to continue hedging.
A rather uneventful day had to be honest.
A very pretty moonscape to wrap up the evening with and then Joe made Spaghetti and Meatballs for dinner. Delicious.
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So I was stumbling around the Internet t'other day, when I came across
Louis vs. Rick – The story of a man who taught his cat how to instant message.
There are only thirteen of them made so far, but I sincerely hope the creator keeps making more.
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I sat and thought about this long and hard and after sifting through my photos I decided that when it comes to dedications – there's only one photo I have that properly fits the bill.
The Taj Mahal is a marble mausoleum built by the Mughal emperor Shar Jahan in memory of his third wife Mumtaz Muhal.
In 1631 the emperor was grief stricken when his wife died during the birth of his 14th child, Gauhara Begum. Construction began in 1632 with the principle mausoleum being completed in 1648 and the surrounding buildings and garden were finished five years later. Emperor Shar Jahan described the Taj in these words:
Should guilty seek asylum here,
Like one pardoned, he becomes free from sin.
Should a sinner make his way to this mansion,
All his past sins are to be washed away.
The sight of this mansion creates sorrowing sighs;
And the sun and the moon shed tears from their eyes.
In this world this edifice has been made;
To display thereby the creator's glory.
That's enough Wikipedia for now.
Basically I feel that to build a tomb of such proportions shows a certain <b> dedication </b> to a person and their memory. Sure, you can say it's extravagant, costly and wholly unnecessary, but as a symbol to the power of love between two people — there's not much that can better that.
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Sorry for the 'tardy' submission, but Gitwizard only told me about the Friday Foto Finder last night.
Here is my submission:
Again, sorry for my lateness.
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I was Stumble'ing around on the Internet a while back when I came across this Youtube Clip. I was never a great fan of Poetry and I still remember the suffering that I endured studying Poetry at School.
This proves to be a notable exception. Please, tell me what you think.
There once was a boy named Gimmesome Roy. He was nothing like me or you.
'Cause laying back and getting high was all he cared to do.
It started when he was a boy, sitting in his basement, sniffing on airplane glue.
And then he started smoking banana peels — which back then was the thing to do.
He tried aspirin in Coca-Cola, sniffed helium on the sly,
And his life became an endless search to find that perfect high.
Smoking grass just made him lay back and eat chocolate-chip pizza all night,
And the beautiful things he wrote while stoned looked like shit by the morning light.
Speed just made him rap all day, reds just laid him back,
And Cocaine Rose was sweet to his nose, but the price nearly broke his back.
He tried PCP and THC, but they didn't quite do the trick,
Poppers nearly blew his heart and mushrooms made him sick.
Acid made him see the light, but he couldn't remember it long.
And hashish was just a bit too weak, and smack was a lot too strong,
And Quaaludes made him stumble, and booze just made him cry,
Till he heard of a cat named Baba Fats who knew of the perfect high.
Now, Baba was this hermit cat who lived up in Nepal,
On a far and lonely mountain top, up a high and icy wall.
"But hell," says Roy, "I'm a healthy boy, and I'll crawl or climb or fly,
But I will pursue that guru who knows the perfect high."
So out and off goes Gimmesome Roy to the land that knows no time,
Up a trail no man could conquer to a cliff no man could climb.
For fourteen years he climbs that cliff, then back down again he slides
Then sits — and cries — and climbs again, pursuing the perfect high.
He's grinding his teeth, he's coughing blood, he's aching and shaking and weak,
As starving and sore and bleeding and tore, he reaches the mountain peak.
And he blinked just once with his snow-blind eyes, and he snarls the snarl of a rat,
As there in perfect repose and wearing no clothes — sits the godlike Baba Fats.
"What's happening, Fats?" says Roy with joy, "I've come to state my biz.
I hear you're hip to the perfect trip. Please tell me what it is.
For you can see," says Roy to he, "that I'm about to die,
So for my last ride, Fats, how can I achieve the perfect high?"
"Well, dog my cats!" says Baba Fats. "here's one more burnt-out soul,
Who's looking for some alchemist to turn his trip to gold.
But you won't find it in no dealer's stash, or on no druggist's shelf.
Son, if you would seek the perfect high — find it in yourself."
"Why, you jive motherfucker!" screamed Gimmesome Roy, "I've braved wind, rain, snow and sleet,
I've lost three fingers off my hands and four toes off my feet!
I've braved the lair of the polar bear and tasted the maggot's kiss.
Now, you tell me the high is in myself. What kind of bull shit is this?
My ears 'fore they froze off," says Roy, "had heard all kind of crap,
But I didn't climb for fourteen years to listen to this sophomore rap.
And I didn't come all this way to hear that the high is on the natch,
So you tell me where the real stuff is or I'll kill your guru ass!"
"Ok, OK," says Baba Fats, "you're forcing it out of me.
There is a land beyond the sun that's known as Zaboli.
And in this devil's garden blooms the mystic Tzu-Tzu tree.
And every ten years it blooms one flower as white as the Key West sky,
And he who eats of the Tzu-Tzu flower will know the perfect high.
For the rush comes on like a tidal wave and it hits like the blazing sun.
And the high, it lasts a lifetime and the down don't ever come.
But the Zaboli land is ruled by a giant who stands twelve cubits high.
With eyes of red in his hundred heads, he waits for the passers-by.
And you must slay the red-eyed giant, and swim slimy sea,
Where the mucous beasts, they wait to feast on suckers like you and me.
And if you survive the giant and the beasts and swim that slimy sea,
There's a blood-drinking witch who sharpens her teeth as she guards that Tzu-Tzu tree."
"To hell with your witches and giants," laughs Roy. "To hell with the beasts of the sea.
As long as the Tzu-Tzu flower blooms, some hope still blooms for me."
And he twirls around, does a little dance and hands the guru a five,
And out and off goes Gimmiesome Roy, pursuing that perfect high.
"Well, that is that," says Baba Fats, sitting back down on his stone,
Facing another thousand years of talking to God alone.
"It seems to me", says Fats, "it's always the same, old men or bright-eyed youth,
It's always easier to sell them some shit than it is to tell them the truth."
I have altered the original text slightly to suit a) the style of the video I linked earlier and b) because I think this altered version sounds a little bit better.
If you are curious, the original lyrics can be found here
Until next time,
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Hello Bloggers everywhere! *waves*
My name is Adam, but please call me Raddish. I'm 25 and I live in Rutland, which interestingly is England's smallest county. I am working towards a HND Level 3 in Mixed Farming and to facilitate this I live and work on a Sheep farm.
Currently my Boss and his Wife are on holiday, so contrary to what I've already told you I'm not actually living on the farm at the moment. From the eve of their departure until early in the new year I will be residing in a shared house in the next town over.
Normally, when I'm living on the Farm, I awake on Saturday at a respectable hour, have some Breakfast and go about my business of feeding the animals which are on site. Here's a quick breakdown of my morning.
20 Horned Adult Rams
17 Hogget Rams
22 Commercial Adult Rams
8 'OAP' Ewes
10 ICU (Sick) Ewe&Ram Lambs
30 Juvenile Mixed Rams
136 'Store' Ewes
7 Dogs
1 Turkey
As you can see, that's enough feeding to keep one man fairly busy. It usually takes me about One and a half hours to provide feed stuff, hay, water and bedding as well walking the fields on site to check for problems.
Currently in addition to this I have to drive from Uppingham (shared house) to Brooke (Sheep Farm), which is about 6 miles down snaking countryside tracks on my Honda Scooter via Kinnachan (home farm) where the dogs have been temporarily moved to.
So my day today worked out like this.
I awoke at a quite respectable 9.00 and stumbled downstairs in search of the three C's … Coffee, Cereal and of course, Cigarette. A short time later I was suited and booted, sat astride my Bike and ready to go.
My first task of the day was to drive to Kinnachan (approximately two miles away) and give one of the Dogs his morning medicine – which he gobbled down eagerly (I think the tin of dog meat helped somewhat). Whilst I was there I had a look around to check all was well (all was well) and before I knew it I was on my Bike again manfully driving towards Brooke. I took my time driving there as it was freezing last night and there were patches of ice all over the place.
After a cold, windy ride I arrived at Brooke alive and well – ready for my duties.
First I attended to the Cat, who was waiting for me by the door, demanding her food (it's amazing how humans are subservient to cats) and I checked the post (nothing exciting) before heading in to the Feeds room where I had to prepare the feeds for all of the animals listed above (minus the dogs who are being fed by someone else currently).
It takes me about 20minutes to prepare all the various mixes and combinations for all the animals, but I'm well versed now so I can do it without thinking too hard.
After attending to all the animals in the barns and on the site immediately around me I was faced with my daily punishment of taking three bags of feed (25kilos each) and four bales of Hay (20-30kilos each) across two fields to the Store Ewes. Now currently we're without a 4×4 on site since it's in the shop being serviced so rather than making three trips as I usually do I decided that I could make the journey in the large white Transit Van that was on site doing nothing. It was cold and the ground was frozen so I didn't have to worry about lasting damage to the grass.
I loaded the Van and reversed it out of the Yard and in to the field where once I'd closed the gate behind me it proceeded to sit and do nothing more productive than spin its wheels in the semi-frozen mud that surrounds the gateway. After a few attempts it became clear that the Van wasn't going anywhere quickly and all I was succeeding in doing was leaving wheel spin marks in the grass. I reversed the Van out and put it away and considered my other options.
Next I found myself in the Tractor, which had a bucket on the front that I could load the feed bags and Hay Bales in to. Excellent. I rummaged out the keys for it and cleared space in the Yard for it to come past since it was hidden around the back where the naughty boys couldn't see it.
For those not familiar with Tractors, it takes two keys to start them. An immobiliser key which enabled the electrics and an ignition key for the engine. I turned the key and instead of hearing the healthy roar of 105HP ot the splutterings of a flat battery and a barrage of warning lights. This was rather odd since I'd used the Tractor a week before to move some trailers around and it was working fine. It's impossible to leave the radio on or forget about the lights as by removing the immobiliser key you're disconnecting the battery from the rest of the vehicle.
Now what with the Van not being able to drive across the field and the tractor not working I'd spent more time faffing around with machines that it would have taken me to wheelbarrow the three trips of food and hay. Life's funny that way.
So I manned up, walked the feed across the field and checked that everyone was doing fine.
After that I locked up and headed on back to the shared house for some lunch, a coffee and 'net.
I spent the rest of the afternoon watching questionable movies on more4 (or something like that) until Six o'clock came around and I was forced by my duties back outside in to the cold where I had to drive to Kinnachan and give the Dog his evening medicine. I checked the post outside and made sure everything was as it should be (and it was) before heading back to the shared house to curl up in my sleeping bag and try and stay warm (this is a ridiculously cold house and I'm not turning the heating up any more than it absolutely necessary).
There are two others living here with me currently (or I suppose I should say that I'm living with them)
An English man called Steve and a Spanish lad called Marc. Marc disappeared off to Oakham to watch the football in a pub and I said I'd stay up so I could let him back in (and so I can take a photo of him wasted xD)
Tomorrow is exactly the same plan, but with the addition of watering the vegetables in the Poly Tunnel at Kinnachan and pressure washing and disinfecting a one of the Barns at Brooke.
The boss returns a week on Monday, so even when this weekend is completed I've still got another weekend of working alone to look forward to.
So this is my first post of my first blog. I've probably rambled a bit and given information that isn't really interesting or relevant – but my writing style can only improve and we do all kinds of random stuff on the Farm so watch this space for more excitement.
Until next time…
Professor Raddish
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Granny's Apple Bread Pudding
Granny's Apple Bread Pudding
8 eggs (egg substitute can be used)
4 cups milk
2/3 cup sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla
¼ tsp salt
4 to 5 cups dry apple bread cubes
2/3 cup cranberry raisins
Vanilla sauce, see recipe below
Beat together eggs, milk, sugar, cinnamon, vanilla and salt.
Place bread cubes in 10×10 baking dish. Sprinkle craisins over bread. Pour egg mixture over all. Bake at 325 degrees F. for 40 to 60 minutes or until knife inserted comes out clean. Cool slightly. Serve warm with vanilla sauce (see below). Serves 8 to 10
Vanilla Sauce
1 cup heavy cream
3 Tbsp sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 tsp cornstarch
1 Tbsp water
Bring cream, sugar and vanilla to a slow boil over medium heat. Do not burn. Mix cornstarch with water and add to saucepan, cook 3 minutes on simmer until thickened. May be made ahead, refrigerated and later warmed in microwave. Topping for Bread Pudding.
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Something is Brewing in Downtown Anniston
September 4, 2013
Rodney Snider, owner of Cheaha Brewing Company, has always had a love of food and a passion for cooking. Like many others, working in a restaurant was his first job ever, but later in life, he was introduced to craft beer, which fit into his vision for the future well. Rodney says, "I have a huge sense of loyalty to this community and could have picked other places, but this is home. We're sharing this passion for something we love to do, hoping to light a spark in the community. This doesn't exist anywhere else, and now, it's in the heart of downtown Anniston."
For specialties, of course Cheaha Brewing is known for their onsite brewery, rotating tap, brewing quality beer. If Rodney had to pick one, he says the "Schwalserweisse, a German style, summer beer is really light with its hint of fruit."
Rodney says, "You can eat and drink local because we brew onsite and a good portion of our food is local. We're most well-known for our Burger. Most of it comes from Alabama, the meat and bread, and we try to use local farms' produce. It just depends on what we can get."
While working in the corporate world, Rodney's travels and exposure to other brew pubs inspired pieces of the brewery, but Rodney says that most of "this is the combined effort and vision of the partners and team. My dad was a welder, so he inspired the metal legs of the tables and welded them together."
Cheaha Brewing Company's setting downtown showcases high exposed brick walls, vaulted ceilings with skylight, large windows allowing for natural light, and a wooden bar made from the repurposed wood of where the brewery now sits. As Rodney says, "We have a beautiful downtown, and these are rare, hidden gems across the southeast. Ours has character, which people should appreciate. The brewery is a rustic modern view of 19th Century Anniston, and we were able to keep that character throughout."


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Now opened in Dubai Mall & DCC.
Potbelly Sandwich Shop began in Chicago in 1977 as a small antique store. The couple running the store decided to enhance their business by making sandwiches for their customers.
Potbelly is known for their made-to-order wholesome sandwiches, shakes, and cookies at reasonable prices. Their restaurants feature a vintage interior and often promote local musical artists through live in-store shows.
I'm not a meat eater, so sandwich options are limited, but I will still be going to DXB to trying POTBELLY 😀


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Bmw as Innovative Organisation
Over the last years, with the rapidly increased needs and the high rates of technology's development, innovation could not be less than essential to the companies. Innovative company and furthermore innovation can be considered as technology or management issue that is being for the first time by the specific even if they were used by another companies or as the redesigning of a product or an improvement in a process. Innovation originally is defined as the changes that are made in something that is already established (Oxford dictionary). This technical report will be focusing on addressing whether a company is innovative or not. Additionally the characteristics of innovation and which of them are the selected company meeting will be discussed. Moreover the strategic alliances of the selected company and as a result which particular technology will be both of them used will be described. 2. Initial selection
As it is widely known one of the world's largest automobile companies is BMW Group. The company is listed by the Forbes as the 9th most powerful brand, and included in the 100 largest companies in the world (Forbes, 2012). BMW Group is a leading company in the automobile industry and in the motorcycle industry. The company is also high ranked with 5/5 stars on the car models by NCAP, the European Union's car safety organization (EuroNCAP, 2012). The BMW Group is the owner, in the automobile industry, of MINI (Morris Mini-Motors) and the Rolls-Royce Motors Cars. Furthermore Husqvarna Motorcycles is owned by the BMW Group as it was acquired on 2007. 3.1. Innovation's categories
A company in order to be capable of being called as innovative must arrange innovative actions in one or more of the following aspects: market, process and product innovation (Johne, 1999). Product innovation is referring to the product updating and completely renewing for keeping strong market presence. Process innovation is being mentioned as embracing quality function deployment and business process reengineering. The development of a product over a time remaining at the same performance but with lower cost is added by the author as process innovation. The market's innovation purposes are to identify in better way the market and to serve in a better way as well (Johne 1999). The author continued that it can be achieved if the company will divide the current market into smaller parts so the management would be easier. 3.2. Innovation characteristics
The characteristics of innovation have been an argument among the scientists that are studying in that particular sector. Based on studies of Downs and Mohr (1976) observed that the innovation characteristics can be divided into primary and secondary attributes. Primary attributes can be considered as the characteristics that are intrinsic to an innovation such as the actual cost and complexity. On the other hand, secondary attributes are the characteristics that are perceived by the individual adopter such as perception of cost (Moore and Benbasat 1991). As a result the primary innovation characteristics can be presented as cost, complexity. Oppositely, secondary attributes are relative advantage, compatibility, observability, trial-ability and voluntariness (Moore and Benbasat, 1991). Referring to the primary innovation characteristics, innovation cost is a critical component of organization performance and it negatively affects innovation adoption. The less expensive an innovation is, the more likely it will be adopted by organizations (Rogers 1995). Innovation complexity is defined as the degree to which an organization is capable of understanding and using it (Rogers 1995). On the other hand, referring to the secondary attributes, relative advantage is a characteristic that applied in the current report (Rogers, 1983; Bulte, 2000). Relative advantage refers to the degree in which a company can benefits from the innovation. The compatibility refers to...
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Smart Start-Up Tips: What Most Entrepreneurs Forget to Do – A Checklist of Stupidly Obvious Things
It's rarely the big picture stuff that we totally forget. It's all the little (seemingly insignificant) stuff that completely slips our minds until it's too late. But as they say, it's in the details (and that little stuff adds up)!
It happens to all of us – 10,000 business cards get printed without your social media links, you send LinkedIn requests to your new contacts without updating your profile, or you launch your latest product without letting your email subscribers know where to go to buy it.
It's happened to us (or very close entrepreneurial friends who shared over drinks and laughter) and it could happen to you. Before your next entrepreneurial "Oops!", read our checklist of stupidly obvious things (just in case you missed one of those small details).
A Checklist of Stupidly Obvious Things that Most Entrepreneurs Forget
#1: Share your social media links EVERYWHERE – On your business card, web site, email signature, author bio, and other social media sites. Include them everywhere because you never know who would prefer to follow, fan or friend you before taking the next step.
A recent entrepreneurial oops had me neglect to include my Twitter ID on a collaborative book I was asked to contribute a chapter to. Too bad because the book has been published and is now a bestseller.
#2: Include contact details on your web site – The more you want people to contact you, the easier you need to make it for them to access reliable contact information, preferably multiple methods to suit different communication preferences.
For example, if your business relies on potential customers picking up the telephone, it's critical that you place contact details on the top of every page or use clear navigation to direct them to your contact page.
#3: Update your profiles and bio regularly – Did you win an award or other recognition? Change the name of your company? Publish a book? Don't forget to update your bio!
Get in the habit of redoing or refreshing your bio on a regular basis, including your headshot. You don't want to get caught with an outdated photo and a bio that's missing your latest accolades.
#4: Give clear instructions on how to buy – Does your sales page pass the Grandma test? Meaning if you sent your 87-year-old (non-technical) Grannie to complete a transaction, would she succeed or get confused and give up?
So often entrepreneurs forget to give simple, direct instructions on how to buy what they're trying to sell. Do they click a big yellow button? Find a local dealer? Call a toll free number to place an order?
#5: Always introduce yourself with your web site – Get in the habit of introducing yourself in interviews and media profiles as you plus your web site, complete with the dot whatever.
If it's an audio interview and there's a chance your listeners may not remember or misspell your URL, repeat it multiple times or spell it out. "I'm Carla Young, Publisher of MOMeo Magazine.com. That's MOM-E-O (as in Mom CEO)."
#6: Include promotions in your email signature – Think about how much email correspondence you send out in a day. That's how many opportunities you are missing out on to share what you are up to with people who already know, like and trust you.
Are you launching a new affiliate program? Promoting your new Facebook fan page? Offering a new and exciting product? Share it in your signature! You never know who will take you up on your offer if you never make it.
#7: Always NEVER forget to bring business cards – Business cards are small and fit anywhere so there's no excuse not to have a couple stashed in every nook and cranny. Bring them…because you just never know!
Wednesday, 27 July 2011
Smart Start-Up Tips: What Most Entrepreneurs Forget to Do – A Checklist of Stupidly Obvious Things : MOMeo Magazine for Work-at-Home Moms: Business Tools | Parenting Advice | Mom Lifestyle Tips | Mom Blog | Mom Forum
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Have you been to Orange Circle Optometry yet? Well, it's been 5 years since this husband and wife duo, Alex and Ly, took over the business in Old Towne Orange and what better to celebrate than 5 successful years in business! We met up with our friend Alex to find out how they're celebrating and why the…Read more
Give Back to the Community: Volunteer in Old Towne Orange
The sunny summer months are fast approaching! Many of us are beginning to prepare for vacation getaways and leisurely downtime. With temperatures continuing to rise, we will soon be creating new memories with family and loved ones. Although there's so much to look forward to, it's easy to get swept up in the excitement and…Read more
A MOM-umental Mother's Day: Celebrate in Old Towne Orange
She's known to have many jobs throughout her lifetime. Somedays a personal assistant and others an at-home doctor. Between the many hats that mothers wear, it's hard to believe they aren't secretly superheroes. Let's give a MOM-umental shoutout to all the moms out there! They are some of the toughest, most caring, and heroic humans around. Luckily, we have…Read more
Fit Fantastic Foods for the Fit Fabulous Family
Fit Foods On the Go provided samples free of charge, but these opinions are my own. If there's one thing I love, it's eating. I especially love eating healthy, whole foods. Don't get me wrong, I love my Stouffer's Mac n' Cheese too, but I try to keep those few and far between. My friends…Read more


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Skip to comments.Appeals arguments heard in Holocaust lawsuit against Hungary
Posted on 01/16/2012 2:30:01 PM PST by Ravnagora
Holocaust survivors Magda Brown and Paul Fischer leave Dirksen U.S. Courthouse on Wednesday. (E. Jason Wambsgans, Chicago Tribune / January 11, 2012)
Until late in Wednesday's hearing, it took a little effort to keep in mind the issue at hand concerned nearly 500,000 human beings who had been herded into cattle cars and sent to Auschwitz.
The judges and lawyers in the federal courtroom batted around bloodless abstractions like "sovereign immunity" and "personal jurisdiction."
But it doesn't take much to awaken memories of what lawyers call "the facts situation" of the lawsuit for Paul Fischer, one of the Holocaust survivors trying to recover property confiscated by the Hungarian national railroad and Hungarian banks when Jews were deported to Nazi concentration camps in 1944.
Fischer remembers flying to Frankfurt, Germany, for an industrial trade show years after World War II and waiting for public transport into the city.
"I saw the train approach, and I again heard 'Achtung! Achtung!' Voices of the guards shoving us into the cars," he said after the hearing.
On Wednesday, a panel of three judges with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit was hearing an appeal from defendants in a case still under trial. The appellate court's decision for which no time frame was given will determine whether the U.S. District Court trial will resume.
Lawyers representing the Hungarian State Railways and the country's banks argued that if the trial were allowed to proceed, their clients stand to "suffer irreparable harm."
The arguments in court were hard to grasp for Magda Brown, another Auschwitz survivor. "I couldn't understand much of the legal dialogue," Brown said. "I'm here simply because I believe that 'Never Again,' should mean 'Never Again.'"
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Being behind to Iron Curtain after the war doomed the chances that Jews would reclaim their property, since the Communists nationalized everything.
Previously stripped of their property by Adolf Eichman and his young helper:
George Soros does not hide it. According to his own admission, those where the happiest days of his life.
If Holocaust survivors want justice, they should sue ex-Nazi George Soros before he kicks the bucket. No sovereign immunity involved.
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How to Save £4,000,000 on the Army
THE Army Estimates of the years since the War show commendable progress in the process of reducing the annual cost of the Army to reasonable proportions. In fact, the figures since 1922' are remarkable, even allowing that one of the causes for the decline in the total has been due to the automatic disappearance of abnormal post-War liabilities, for which no credit can be taken.
Army expenditure totalled 62 millions in 1922, and 441 millions in 1925. The Estimates presented in 1926 showed a further reduction of £2,000,000, and those of this year again show economies totalling £1,000,000. But it is evident, from the much discussed strain which has been plaCed upon such an important part of our defensive system as the Territorial Army this year in order to find funds for it, that those responsible are reaching the end of their tether in the matter of saving money on the Army. Further, as far as stores are con- cerned, we have been living largely upon War stocks. Additional outlays in this direction will be asked for in the future.
For these reasons, then, it is more than ever desirable to consider whether, by some new methods or policy, there is not some way of further reducing the present military expenditure. Side by side with this desire to make our funds go further, it must be insisted upon that there shall be no falling off in efficiency or in fighting power.
Examining the Estimates for this year, we find that, of a total of approximately 41i millions, 8 millions are required for non-effective services, mainly pensions. This latter sum can obviously not be cut down. Of the remaining total of 33i millions, the outgoings on pay, food, clothing and quarters of the regular officers and men come to a sum of 17 millions. Quite 50 per cent. of the expenditure thus goes upon the regular personnel of the Army. Of the remainder, it is very questionable how far it is possible to cut down the allocations any further without seriously impairing the health, armament, comfort, and efficiency generally of the Army and its reserves.
The question then resolves itself into whether better use cannot be made of the 17 millions spent upon the regular units.
In 1922 there was a large block reduction of our forces when 22 infantry battalions and 5 regiments of cavalry went by the board, making a loss of some 17,000 men and 1,900 animals. Those units were allowed to go with mis- givings as a concession to the need for economy. They were not replaced by other means of strengthening the Army, and represented a net dead reduction of power. No -repetition of such a step is possible.
There remain, however, two methods of economizing on the Army. Both are well known, having already had some application to our forces. The one is the greater employment of labour-saving machines. The other is the extension of the system of using reserve or non- permanent personnel to make up the strength of the Regular Army on mobilization. . Both have certain advantages and disadvantages which require to be weighed.
Dealing first with the question of labour-saving ; this is the era of machines, and just as in civil life the highest costs (those of labour) have been reduced by the use of machine power, so in the Army it is necessary to examine how . far man and horse-power are replaceable to-day. It has been computed that the annual cost of a private soldier in the Army is £120, and that of the average horse £40. Even small numbers of men and horses therefore involve us in considerable annual bills.
It is generally accepted that—except for campaigns in mountainous, swampy or bush countries, which may be regarded as special cases requiring special equipment- s machine such as a light tank or armoured car is more efficacious in attack than a number of infantry. Having in mind that the crew are protected, and that they can move under heavy fire, it is probably not unreasonable to place a tank or .armoured car on a footing of equality with a platoon of infantry. Similarly in defence a couple of heavy machine guns are certainly the equivalent of a platoon. In theory, the Army will not be reduced in power by a total substitution of armoured vehicles and machine guns for infantry. In practice, however, there is a limit, for a strong percentage of riflemen will always be required. They are needed in battle, for instance, to close with enemy machine gunners after tanks have reduced the latter to impotence. They are needed out of action in large numbers for police duties, such as the finding of guards and the garrisoning of points of importance. Nevertheless, speaking broadly, a large increase in the numbers of armoured vehicles and machine guns and an equivalent decrease in riflemen will lead. to no diminution of the strength of the Army.
The financial aspects of such a transformation are interesting. On the basis of the previous argument that a tank equals a platoon in power, a tank battalion (64 fighting tanks) equals 4 infantry battalions (each 16 platoons). The cost of the tank battalion is £192,900* per annum, and that of 4 infantry battalions £453,600,* a difference of £260,700. For the cost of a machine-gun battalion (of 64 guns, equal in power for defence on our previous assumption to 32 platoons, i.e., 2 infantry battalions) no figures are now available, but it would probably be little above the cost of an ordinary battalion, say £120,000. Our Army numbers, exclusive of the Guards, 126 battalions. If about half only—i.e., 60--of these were converted, of which perhaps. 40 became 10 tank battalions and 20 became 10 machine-gun bat- talions, there would be a total saving of £8,675,000 per * Artily Estimates, 1927, p. 265. annum.t For all ordinary purposes to which the British Army is likely to be put suddenly in peace time, whether it be the defence of a locality such as Shanghai, preserva- tion of peace in India, Egypt, Iraq, or the garrisoning of overseas naval bases, &c., surely an army of 10 tank battalions, 10 machine-gun battalions and 66 infantry units is the superior of 126 infantry battalions. And as regards preparation for a major or a minor war, the fact that we have converted to the extent suggested is certain never to be regretted.
Passing on to the other method of economies on the Army—namely, the greater use of reserve or non-per- manent personnel in making up regulars to war strength —at present every unit has its reservists and on mobiliza- tion calls these up and incorporates them to the extent, in the case of the infantry battalion at home, of 22 per cent. Such a method of maintaining an armed force has the merit that on every man a sum of about £100 per annum is saved. It has the defect that a force com- posed largely of reservists cannot be as ready or as efficient as one permanently on a war footing. It is now the question whether the extension of this system is per- missible in the interests of economy. The writer believes that in the matter of the horse transport of the Regular Army at home it is.
A change on the following lines would seem to be feasible : Firstly, the horse transport now with regular units should be done away with, to be replaced by mechanical transport. Both the men and the vehicles should be drawn from civil life. The men would need to be organized into a form of reserve, to carry out an annual training, and to receive an annual retaining fee. The vehicles would be drawn from the most suitable of the hundreds of thousands now in use on the streets, and their availability insured by means also of a retaining fee. To facilitate annual training and lessen the time for mobilization, a small nucleus of regulars in each unit would be required. And to enable regular units to have some transport during the training season before and after the period in which the civilian transport is available, an increase to the existing R.A.S.C. mechanical transport will be necessary, though not a great increase if resources are pooled by stations for general use on demand.
In the regular cavalry, artillery, infantry, and engineer units at home there is to-day horse transport totalling 3,200 men, 5,887 horses, and 1,589 vehicles. In other units of the Royal Corps of Signals and Royal Army Service Corps there is more. The annual cost of this transport, allowing for the maintenance of reserves, is in the region of £900,000. By replacing this horse transport with mechanical transport maintained upon the basis suggested above, a considerable saving can be effected. To finance a scheme which provides an equivalent carrying power, making allowances for all the steps suggested above as necessary, an annual sum of £480,000 will be required. The possible economies of the change therefore represent £420,000 per annum.
_The effects of such a substitution, apart from the question of economy, are that there will be a greater mobility for the units concerned in all normal theatres of war and that, so far from the Expeditionary Force being delayed by having to absorb more reservists, by eliminating the animal to a large extent, the time required (many weeks) to fit shipping to take troops will be reduced. There will be certain difficulties. There may be insufficient drivers coming forward ; there may be troubles over arranging the training programme of f Since some of the 126 battalions are financed by Trylia., some of these savings, perhaps 30 per cent.. would go to India. regular units. For the field artillery there may at first be insufficient vehicles suitable •for the drawing of guns into action. But, provided the policy is adopted, none of these difficulties should prove insuperable.
For units abroad, which are maintained nearer a war- footing, the change is not applicable, for obvious reasons, on the same lines. But the gradual replacement in garrisons abroad, except in special forces intended for the North-West frontier, the Sudan, &e., of horse trans- port by regular mechanical transport will prove sound in the end and will bring units abroad on to the same footing as those at home as regards transport.
Both the steps advocated in this article represent progress towards complete mechanization of the Army, a surely inevitable end as far as a large proportion is concerned. At the same time, they offer the most important possibility of a further saving of over 4 millions, of which nearly 3 millions would fall to the relief of the home Army Estimates.


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Please admire the asparagus baby plants in the front of the picture on the right, looking like small pine trees. We bought 3 asparagus babyplants from Wilkos and planted in a pot to see if it would work. Behind the mini pines are the monster potatoe plants JD has planted and you can also see the brussel sprout plants that JD is hoping will bring fruit in time for Christmas.
I have decided to adopt the asparagus plants to Heidi when we move to the US as the are not going to be edible til in two years time. And as she is super reliable I am sure will will be able to restrain herself from nibbling already next year and be patient for the 2011 crop.
Oh, we also have about 20 self seeded tomato plants scattered around the pots. This is after we gave away about 30 plants - tomatoes are insane. And I had to add a photo of the roses just coming out! Summer is here, my garden will soon smell lovely of roses and honeysuckle.