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Chapter Notes and References
(1) p. 74. Monticello, from 1900 to the 1940s, was known, at least to local residents, as the "patent medicine capital of the world." Several such remedies, including Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, were developed and manufactured there. "Pepsin" was first manufactured in 1895. The product, which was a laxative, grew in popularity and a factory was built It provided employment for many Monticello residents for three generations. Details of the story are to be found in The Good Life in Piatt County by Jessie Borrer Morgan, published by Desaulniers & Company, Moline, Illinois 1963.
Mary Cynthia worked for Centaur-Caldwell for 4½ years. When she married Herbert in January 1942 she had to resign because the company had a policy not to hire married women. She then began work for the Selective Service Board with offices in the Piatt County Courthouse in Monticello. That office administered the military draft program in Piatt County. Of this employment Mary Cynthia said, "That was a job I didn't like very much--drafting men into the army, especially since Herbert was eligible for the draft."
(2) p. 74. Mary Cynthia recalled that they were at the famous Blackhawk Restaurant in Chicago one evening when Les Brown's orchestra was playing. His band was just getting started then. Later it played for Bob Hope's overseas tours of army bases and then for his television shows and movies.
(1) p. 75. Eisenhower, Dwight D., Crusade in Europe, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1948.
(2) p. 76. Eisenhower, ibid.
(3) p. 77. Eisenhower was elected President of the United States in 1952.
(4) p. 79. Daniels, Richard, The Norden Bombsight, Eureka, California, September, 1986.
(5) p 80. Nisos, Michael J., Air Force Magazine, "The Bombardier and His Bombsight," published by The Air Force Association, Washington, D.C., 1981.
(1) p. 89. Hoseason, James, The 1000 Day Battle, Gillingham Publications, Lowestoft, Suffolk. NR32 3LT., 1979.
(1) p. 91. Hoseason, ibid.
(2) p. 91. Kaplan, Philip and Smith, Rex Alan, One Last Look, Abbeville Press, New York, 1983.
(3) p. 92. History of the 453rd Bombardment Group (H)
453rd Bombardment Group (H)
Assigned Eighth AF: Dec. 43.
Wing & Command Assignments
VIII BC, 2BD. 2CBW: 23 Dec. 44.
2 BD. 2 CBW: 8 Jan. 44.
2 AD. 2 CBW: 1 Jan. 45.
Component Squadrons
732nd. 733rd. 734th and 735th Bombardment Squadron (H).
Combat Aircraft
B-24H (from blocks 1--CF. 5--DT. 10--FO); B-24J, B-24L and B-24M
OLD BUCKENHAM 22/23 Dec. 43--9 May 45 (Air ech. in ear Jan. 44).
Group COs
Col Joseph A. Miller 29 Jun. 43--18 Mar. 44, MIA
Col Ramsey D. Potts Jr. 19 Mar. 44--6 Jul. 44.
Col Lawrence M. Thomas: 7 Jul. 44--25 Jan. 45.
Lt Col Edward F. Hubbard: 25 Jan. 45--May 45.
First Mission: 5 Feb. 44. Last Mission: 12 Apr. 45. Total Mission: 259.
Total Credit Sorties: 6,655. Total Bomb Tonnage: 15,804 ton A/c MIA: 58. Other Op. Losses: E/a Claims: 42-12--19.
Major Awards
Claims to Fame
733rd BS completed 82 consecutive missions without loss--record.
James Stewart of film fame, was Group Executive Officer from May 44.
Early History
Activated 1 Jun. 43 at Wendover Fd. Utah. Established at Pocatello AAFd. Idaho, on 29 Jul. 43 and trained there for two months. Moved March Fd. Cal. 30 Sep. 43 to complete training. Ground echelon left March for port of embarkation 2 Dec 43.
Subsequent History
Removed from operations 12 Apr. 45 to prepare for return to US and possible deployment in the Pacific theatre. A/c apparently remained in UK. Group personnel left Old Buckenham 9 May 45 for port of embarkation. Established at New Castle AAFd, Del. 25 May 4[] as prospective very heavy bomb group but project dropped. From 1 Jun. 45 to 12 Sep 45 Group located at Fort Dix AAB, NJ. Inactivate 12 Sep. 45.
(4) p. 93. The author was fortunate to have the writings of others as source material for the description of Old Buckenham. The author is indebted to and pleased to acknowledge these sources: (1) Unit History, 453rd Bombardment Group (H), Andy Low, Editor; (2) The 1000 Day Battle, by James Hoseason; (3) The Mighty Eighth--Units, Men and Machines, by Roger Freeman; (4) One Last Look, by Philip Kaplan and Rex Alan Smith, (5) In Search of Peace, by Michael D. Benarcik; and (6) "The Second Air Division in East Anglia", in Second Air Division Memorial, 8th U.S.A.A.F. The description is a mix of information found in these sources.
(5) p. 94. Hoseason, ibid., p. 62.
(6) p. 94. Bowman, Martin W., Fields of Little America, Patrick Stephens, Ltd., Cambridge, England, 1983.
(7) p. 94. Kaplan, Philip and Smith, Rex Alan, ibid., pages 36--38.
(8) p. 95. Hoseason, ibid., p. 86.
(9) p. 95. Hoseason, ibid., p. 86.
(10) p. 96. Kaplan, Philip and Smith, Rex Alan, ibid., pp. 45--60.
(11) p. 97. The 453rd Bombardment Group (H) operated at Old Buckenham from February 5, 1944 until April 12, 1945. In May 1945 the airbase reverted to British Air Ministry control and was used for maintenance of RAF planes until it was closed down June 20, 1960. It was sold off during 1960-1964, demolished and returned to agriculture--and by 1948 hardly a trace remained.
(1) p. 100. Eisenhower, Dwight D., ibid.
Jeffrey L. Ethell wrote in Air Command--Fighters and Bombers of World War II, Lowe & B. Hould, Publishers, 1997, p. 7 that there were 2,411,294 men and women serving in the USAAF at the height of the war. The aircraft factories of America produced almost 230,000 aircraft of all types. Bomber construction was astounding: 12,677 B-17s; 18,188 B-24s; 9,815 B-25s; 5,157 B-26s, 3,760 B-29s; 7,230 A-20s; and 2,446 A-26s.
A million people were used to train 497,533 aircraft and engine mechanics; 347,236 gunners; 195,422 radio mechanics and operators; 50,976 navigators; 47,354 bombardiers, and 193,440 pilots.
Over 29,350 heavy bombardment crews were formed, and 7,600 medium and light bomber crews were created.
Ethell further wrote that the Eighth and Fifteenth heavy bomber air forces took a higher percentage of losses than any other American fighting force, from foxhole to destroyer deck. He says that in flying 264,618 bomber and 257,321 fighter sorties from England, the Eighth Air Force lost 4,148 B-17s and B-24s; 2,042 fighters were also lost, with 43,742 airmen killed or missing and another 1,923 seriously wounded. The RAF lost 55,573 men, a 20% casualty rate. He concluded: "To be in a bomber of any kind during World War II was not a safe proposition." Ethell's fine book is recommended reading!
(2) p. 101. Hoseason, ibid.
(3) p. 102. The Ploesti raid is chronicled in many accounts of the air war. See Hoseason, ibid., pages 39-52.
(4) p. 103. Hoseason, ibid., pages 47-48.
(5) p. 103. Hoseason, ibid., pages 53-54.
(6) p. 103. Freeman, Roger A., Mighty Eighth War Diary, Janes Publishing Co., Ltd., NY., N.Y. Excellent resource for statistical data on all missions.
(7) p. 104. Freeman, Roger A., ibid.
(8) p. 104. Freeman, Roger A., ibid.
(1) p. 107. The principal sources for this chapter are, (a) Birdsall, Steve, The B-24 Liberator, Arco Publishing Co., Inc., New York, N.Y. 1979. (b) Birdsall, Steve, B-24 Liberator in Action, Squadron/Signal Publications, 1975. (c) Perkins, Paul and Crean, Michelle, THE SOLDIER--Consolidated B-24 Liberator, Living History Series, Howell Press, Inc., Charlottesville, VA, 1994. (d) Hoseason, ibid.
(2) p. 113. Jeffrey L. Ethell, writing in his incomparable work, Air Command--Fighters and Bombers of World War II, Lowe and Hould, Publishers, 1997, (page 6) tells of the seemingly endless supply of aircraft built for the USAAF by the end of World War II:
From 1 July 1940 to 30 August 1945 the United States manufactured 299,293 aircraft. Of those, 69,118 were for the U.S. Navy and in the massive Lend-Lease effort to supply the Allies, over 43,000 aircraft were sent to the Soviet Union and Great Britain. By comparison, the United Kingdom built 128,835 aircraft from 1939 to 1945; Germany rolled out 113,514 (53,728 were fighters) and Japan produced 58,834 from 1941 to 1945.
He concludes: "There never was, and there never will be, another flying armada to equal the wartime U.S. Army Air Force."
(3) p. 114. Statistics are from the preface of Bowman, Martin W., Fields of Little America, Patrick Stephens, Ltd., 1983.
(1) p. 115. Hoseason, ibid., p. 71.
(2) p. 115. Hoseason, ibid. p. 71.
(3) p. 115. Freeman, Roger A., The Mighty Eighth War Diary, Jane's, New York, 1981. This excellent report of Eighth Air Force missions is the source of much of the data and incidents reported throughout this book.
(4) p. 116. Caldwell, Donald L., JG--Top Guns of the Luftwaffe, Ivy Books, N.Y., 1991, p. 207.
(5) p. 116. Lineage of 453rd Bombardment Group (H) is to be found in Notes. Chapter 4, (3).
(6) p. 117. Freeman, Roger A., ibid. p. 183--184.
(7) p. 117. Caldwell, Donald L., ibid., page 208.
(8) p. 117. Hoseason, ibid.
(9) p. 117. Caldwell, Donald L., ibid., page 213.
(10) p. 117. Hoseason, ibid.
(11) p. 117. Caldwell, Donald L., ibid., page 213.
(12) p. 118. Low, Andy, Editor, The Liberator Men of "Old Buc." The Story of the 453rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) in World War II, 29 June 1943--15 September 1945.
(13) p. 118. Caldwell, Donald L., ibid., page 217.
(1) p. 119. Norwich Public Libraries, The Second Air Division in East Anglia, Norwich Record Office, 1965, page 10.
(2) p. 119. Wilbur Stites' poem appeared in Benarcik, Michael D., In Search of Peace, The Michael D. Benarcik Foundation, Wilmington, DE, 1989. In October 1998, Mr. Stites wrote that he was pleased that his poem would be used in this book. He wrote, "As for my own story, I grew up on a farm in north central Illinois, enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1942. I had been enrolled in ROTC at the U of Illinois and was accepted as a cadet trainee. The over-abundance of men who wanted to fly resulted in my transfer to gunnery school. I flew 35 missions as left waist gunner with the 453rd Bomb Group, 734th Squadron of the 8th Air Force stationed in East Anglia at Old Buckenham. near Norwich. Retailing to the U of I, I completed my education in Journalism. I worked for the Illinois Dept. of Conservation for five years and then was recruited by the Wisconsin Natural Resources Dept. In both I established radio and television programs--hosting and contributing to the production of both. I retired in 1984."
Mr. Stites and his wife, Jeane, publish the 453rd Bomb Group Association's Newsletter twice a year. His address at this writing is 9334 Kahl Road, Black Earth, Wisconsin 53515-9518. Many thanks to Wilbur for his assistance.
(3) p. 122. Freeman, Roger A., ibid., page 23.
(4) p. 122. Historical Section, ETOUSA, American Enterprise in Europe, The Role of the Services of Supply in the Defeat of Germany, Information and Education Division, USFET, 1945.
Supplying POL (petroleum products) was a function of G-4, Army Services of Supply in the pre-invasion period. All of it came from America (7,108,718 tons) to the ETO for all military operations--43 times the amount provided by America in World War I.
(5) p. 123. Bradley explained, "One might assume that we all went to our stations before take-off. Such was not the case for all of us. The Engineer, Navigator, Radio Operator, and Bombardier gathered on the flight deck with the Pilot and Co-pilot. This helped center the weight and was helpful for lift-off and for landings. After the plane became airborne we crawled to our positions. The Engineer remained with the Pilot and Co-pilot to call off air-speed on take-off and lift."
(6) p. 127. Freeman, Roger A., ibid., page 194.
Freeman writes that the bomb-bay doors were not hinged, but were flexible in operation and rolled up the outside of the fuselage. When fully closed, locking pins secured them in place, and the bomb release in the nose was then locked in a safe position so that bombs could not be dropped when the doors were closed. The problem was that when the doors were fully open, vibration sometimes caused the doors to creep an inch or two and the locking pins would engage, unknown to the bombardier, and prevent the immediate release of bombs upon the target. Perhaps this was Bradley's problem on the occasion bomb-bay doors or the bomb-release mechanism did not operate properly.
(1) p. 133. Again, the author expresses his gratitude to Hoseason for much of the information presented in this chapter.
(2) p. 134. Hoseason, ibid.
(3) p. 134. Benarcik, Michael D., ibid., page 151.
(4) p. 135. Benarcik, Michael D., ibid.
(5) p. 135. Benarcik, Michael B., ibid.
(6) p. 135. Low, Andy, ibid.
(1).(2).(3) p. 137. Angell, Joseph W., "Crossbow", in Vol. III, The Army Air Forces in World War II, Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate, Editors, by USAF Historical Division, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1951, pp. 84-106.
(4) p. 138. "Rhubarb" flight. Flights flown at very low altitudes seeking targets of opportunity--so low they said they could practically see the whites of the enemy's eyes in low strafing attacks on military trucks, railroad yards, trains, radio stations. Other targets were called "rhubarb" flights because they said they flew so low they could have clipped off the rhubarb plants. Fighter aircraft were also equipped as dive-bombers.
(5) p. 140. Of this target, Hoseason wrote (page 138, The 1,000 Day Battle), "The target at Marquise Mimoyesques was attacked again and again--a huge concrete construction. Despite the heavy bomb loads dropped on it, there was not much the bombers could do to prevent the Germans from using the site. There was mystery surrounding its real purpose, which was not known until it fell later into Allied hands. Initially associated with flying bombs, it was, in fact, an underground 6-inch multi-barrel, long-range gun battery. This was Hitler's V-3 weapon. Trained on London, only 100 miles away, the five giant 400-foot long smooth-bored barrels involved using a series of small charges in branches of the barrel to be fired electrically in sequence to accelerate the shell. To reach London, a velocity of nearly 5,000 feet per second was necessary. The guns were designed to fire shells with collapsible fins which came out into position when the shell left the barrel. But the sustained bombing by the Allies ensured the V-3 weapons were never used for their intended purpose."
This site was one of seven very large construction sites from which the Germans were preparing to fire their rocket missiles against London and other British and American targets in England. Bradley could not at that time have realized how important these "milk runs" really were to the outcome of the war.
(1) p. 144. Freeman, Roger A., ibid., p. 209.
(2) p. 144. The marking prior to this change was a black letter "J" in a white circle super-imposed on a black background
(3) p. 144. Hoseason, ibid.
(4) p. 145. Lt. Mailander was Co-pilot. One morning his ship crashed on take-off.
(5) p. 145. Hoseason, ibid.
(6) p. 145. Freeman, Roger A., ibid.
(7) p. 146. Freeman, Roger A., ibid.
(8) p. 147. Kaplan, Philip and South, Rex Allen, ibid, p. 7.
(9) p. 147. Thanks to Freeman and to Angell for these observations.
(1) p. 151. Hoseason, ibid., pp. 103--105.
(2) p. 151. Freeman, Roger A., ibid., p. 212.
(3) p. 153. Benarcik, Michael D., ibid., pp. 67--75.
(1) p. 155. Ferguson, Arthur B., "Winter Bombing" in Vol. III, The Army Air Forces in World War II, Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate, Editors, USAF Historical Division, USAF; University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1951. p. 22.
(1) p. 187. Of these 855 fighter aircraft, 202 were P-38s, 295 were P-47s and 358 were P-51 "Mustangs." These planes were escort for both the Berlin and Brunswick missions.(Source: Freeman, The Mighty Eighth War Diary. Low said it was P-38 fighters that came to defense of the 453rd after it reached the RP.
(2) p. 187. Low, Andy, Editor, The Liberator Men of "Old Buc"--The Story of the 453rd Bombardment Group (H) in World War II, June 29, 1943-September 15, 1945.
(3) p. 188. Olds, Don, Rolla, Missouri, shared official after-action reports of this mission with the author. These documents are the source of much of the information presented in this chapter.
(4) p. 189. Benarcik, Michael A., ibid., p. 134.
(5) p. 190. Stites, Wilbur. See Notes, Chapter 8, and Acknowledgments.
(6) p. 190. The 453rd submitted a report of the May 8, 1944 mission, to Hq., 2nd Air Division which included this statement, "Approximately 250 E/A consisting of Me 109s and FW 190s, equally distributed, were seen; only one crew reported seeing approximately 50 TE E/A, believed to be Me 110s."
(7) p. 191. Benarcik, Michael A., ibid., p. 140-143.
(8) p. 191. Benarcik, Michael A., ibid., p. 144-147.
(9) p. 197. Freeman, Roger A., ibid.
(1).(2).(3) p. 200. Freeman, Roger A., ibid.
(4).(5) p. 202. Fagg, John E., "Pre-invasion Operations" in Vol. III, The Army Air Forces in World War II, Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate, Editors, USAF Historical Division, USAF, University of Chicago Press, 1951. pp. 138-181. This source was used for much of what was written here.
(6) p. 204. Caldwell, Donald L., ibid. p. 383-393.
(7) p. 204. Caldwell, Donald L., ibid., p. 226.
(8) p. 205. Much of this account is from Blue, Allan G., The Fortunes of War, the 492nd Bomb Group on Daylight Operations, edited by Kenn C. Rust, Aero Publishers, Inc., Fallbrook, California, 1967.
(1) p. 210. "Nor'wester"--Pamela in Yank Magazine, July 2, 1944, British Edition.
(2) p. 211. Eisenhower, Dwight D., ibid., p. 248.
(3) p. 211. Hoseason, ibid., p. 128.
(4) p. 214. George, Robert H., "Normandy" in Vol. III, The Army Air Forces in World War II, Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate, Editors, UAF Historical Division, USAF, University of Chicago Press, 1951, pp. 193-194.
(1) p. 215. The referenced works are: (a) Eisenhower, Dwight D., Crusade in Europe, ibid.; (b) Hastings, Max, Overlord--D-Day and the Battle of Normandy, a Touchstone Book, published by Simon and Schuster, N.Y., 1984.
(2) p. 215. Eisenhower, Dwight D., ibid.
(3) p. 216. Freeman, Roger A., ibid., p. 264.
(4) p. 217. Eisenhower, Dwight D., ibid., p. 259-260.
(5) p. 217. Freeman, Roger A., ibid., p. 266.
(6) p. 217. Freeman, Roger A., ibid., p. 267.
(7) p. 218. Freeman, Roger A., ibid., p. 270.
(8) p. 218. Freeman, Roger A., ibid., p. 268-281.
(9) p. 220. Astor, Gerald, The Mighty Eighth, the Air War in Europe as Told By the Men Who Fought It; Dell Pub. Co., New York, NY, 1997.
(10) p. 220. Benarcik, Michael, ibid.
(1) p. 246. The Confederate Air Force (CAF) is a not-for-profit organization of volunteers dedicated to restoring, preserving and showing military aircraft. It was founded at Mercedes, Texas in the early 1960s. Bradley says the government was then destroying its remaining stock of military planes. A number of men were then forming an association for the purpose of acquiring some of these planes. Someone suggested they adopt the name, "Confederate" because, like the men of the Confederacy of the Civil War, they were resisting government policy--the policy of destroying the wartime airplanes.
CAF Headquarters was at Harlingen, Texas for many years; at Midland Army Air Base, Midland, Texas since 1995.
The Oklahoma Wing of the CAF was formed in July 1979. Bradley is a Charter Member. There are Wings worldwide now (1999).
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Harvey Nichols' first web site was an ambitious attempt at a rich and stylish online experience.
It failed, because it buried the essence of the brand experience under layers of unnecessary interactivity and animation. See my original case study »
The 2004 redesign solves all the major problems. It projects the right mix of personality and product, is faster, easier to use, and lots more fun.
The new experience
When harveynichols.com first starts loading, you're presented with a classic black and white box layout. The page appears quickly and immediately shows striking and stylish fashion images.
Text is smart white-on-black, and the whole site has a clean art deco feel that fits in perfectly with the decadence of the brand.
I normally recommend black-on-white for all main content text, as lots of light-on-dark is hard work, but this is a fine exception. We don't go to Harvey Nichols to read, and text is kept to a sensible minimum. While not a particularly pleasant combination, I think the classiness carries the argument.
Tongue in cheek
So that it doesn't take itself too seriously, the classic art deco is countered with cheeky sketched Flash animations in the top title banner. These are fairly heavyweight – I picked up 700kb worth of Flash movie browsing half a dozen pages.
However, I think the designers have struck a sensible balance with these animations.
The key here is that animations aren't critical. Without the Flash, the pages are still clean and elegant, with just a bit more wasted space at the top than you'd expect. You wouldn't think you were missing anything.
This is a perfect application of Flash – working inline alongside standard HTML to provide an enhanced experience for those who get it, but without compromising the others.
I think these banners strike a great tone: they're irreverent, carefree and playful, and just a bit sexy.
Side navigation is minimal and clear enough in pink-on-black text. The main nav is arranged horizontally under the title banner, and made up of images, which can take a bit longer to arrive (not shown on screenshot).
Overall, the information architecture on the new site feels loose and browsable, with plenty of "scent leads". It's easy to browse around, and you never get the feeling that the site is too big, or stuff is hard to find. Another definite improvement.
In addition to the main fashion shot, it's great to see several other product offerings further down the home page.
This is just what I wanted to see in the original site: an interesting view of the breadth and depth of what the Harvey Nichols shopping experience has to offer.
Browse further, and the whole site displays well-shot and interesting imagery.
The 'Must Haves' sections do a good job of picking out especially desirable items, which keeps the casual browser happy and maintains an air of exclusivity.
It's great to see Havey Nicks showing off their fantastic window displays on the web site.
Any criticisms?
Just a few small ones…
Site map
There's a fairly unusable site map, one long list comprised of 3 levels of nested bulleted lists. I get the feeling this was provided more for the benefit of search engine crawlers than consumers, but that doesn't mean it can't be nice to use.
Search results
Search performs quite well, but makes the mistake of telling us what it can't do. Why do I want to know that "the brand directory didn't return any results"? I didn't even know there was a brand directory.
I also find these results somewhat dry and text-heavy. I don't really feel like clicking on any of this stuff. Where are the enticing images?
Mouseover crime
The hover mouseover effect on the side navigation makes the mistake of un-highlighting.
If you use a visual mouse-response indicator (which you should), it must be positive. Negative highlighting feels like the link doesn't want to be clicked.
I think this redesign is right on the money. It achieves a perfect balance of posture and product, elegantly achieving the business, brand and consumers' objectives.
HN invited 5 agencies to pitch for the redesign, and they certainly made a good decision in appointing Tribal DDB (in July 2004).


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North Vietnam condemns Linebacker raids
Hanoi's foreign ministry, calling the new B-52 raids against Hanoi and Haiphong "extremely barbaric," accuses the United States of premeditated intensification of the war and labels the actions "insane."
On December 13, North Vietnamese negotiators walked out of secret talks in Paris with National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger. President Nixon issued an ultimatum to Hanoi to send its representatives back to the conference table within 72 hours "or else." The North Vietnamese rejected Nixon's demand and the president ordered Operation Linebacker II, a full-scale air campaign against the Hanoi area. During the 11 days of Linebacker II, 700 B-52 sorties and more than 1,000 fighter-bomber sorties were flown. These planes dropped roughly 20,000 tons of bombs, mostly over the densely populated area between Hanoi and Haiphong.
Nixon was severely criticized both by American antiwar activists and in the international community for ordering what became known as the "Christmas bombing." Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, China and the Soviet Union officially condemned the resumption of American bombing above the 20th parallel. The French newspaper Le Monde compared the attacks to the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, when German planes from the Condor Legion attacked the Spanish city and caused great devastation and loss of life. In England, the Manchester Guardian called the bombing "the action of a man blinded by fury or incapable of seeing the consequences of what he is doing." Pope Paul VI and United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim expressed concern for world peace.
American antiwar activists charged that Linebacker II involved "carpet bombing"–deliberately targeting civilian areas with intensive bombing designed to "carpet" a city with bombs. Though the bombing was focused on specific military targets, it did result in the deaths of 1,318 civilians in Hanoi.
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This weekend I attended the International Fight League (http://www.ifl.tv/) event at the Sears Centre.
The whole Ultimate Fighting Championship has spawned a Mixed Martial Arts competition between cities – with teams who compete in weight categories.
It was a wild night of diversity and blended styles. Some fighters were slow and methodical. Others just went berserk and charged into their opponents. Some of those gained an advantage and won, others found themselves gazing at a ceiling filled with floodlights.
Chicago fan favorite, Mark Miller provided the evening's highlight match. He knocked out his opponent with a flurry of punches and the loser was so dazed he didn't know the fight was over. He attacked the referee and began to fight his coaches and teammates as they attempted to calm him down.
In all the action and fan frenzy and entertainment, I couldn't help but notice that martial arts style was not a guarantee of victory. Top U.S. trainer, Pat Miletich's and his team, The Silverbacks won only 3 of 5 fights.
Even experience wasn't the deciding factor. Silverback's heavyweight Ben Rothwell had 17 fights under his belt and soundly blasted Chicago's fighter who had over 200!
Sales thoughts – different styles, different experience – what makes a winner?
You have to find yourself in selling. What gets you to the close faster and more frequently than otherwise? One of my personality strategies is to keep the laughter coming throughout the relationship – early is key. Other sales pros are consummate business types, no nonsense – and that works for them.
Diversity is what this planet is about. Rejoice in your uniqueness. Win the battle, the game, or whatever you choose to designate the competition among sales pros.
Point is you don't have to "be like Mike." Be yourself. Have fun. Make money.


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Saturday, March 24, 2012
Hi everybody. Now we all know Easter is aproaching. A beautiful celebration in my opinion so I want to honour it with some cards . I.m still experimenting with new techniques . This time I want to thank Azlina , because of her help and her osm tutorial I finally got to try the combing technique. and I have to say I love the results.
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Flat windows chop up the smooth contours of this Gehry-designed health center. Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany have developed an economical process for bending large sheets of glass. Credit: Wikipedia.
The southern elevation of architect Frank Gehry's design for the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, Nev., rises and swells in waves of steel and glass crashing over each other as if caught in a confluence of currents going in opposite directions. However, the building's windows break up the smooth motion of the waves—some are carved out of the curves, some look as if they are tentatively balanced on top of the wave. The viewer's eye wants the windows assume the contour of the building like a leaf would on a wave.
However, curved glass panels are expensive to manufacture, and even more so when each one is different. The process involves making a mold of the shape, laying a sheet of glass on top of it, loading the mold-glass rig into a furnace and heating it to a temperature where viscous flow of the glass allows it to slump and conform to the mold's contour. The piece must be closely monitored—remove the glass too soon, and you don't have the right shape; wait too long, and you get pressure marks at the support points.
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM in Germany have found a way to economically produce bent glass pieces by getting rid of the mold itself. In a press release, scientist Tobias Rist says, "It's no longer necessary to produce a special steel mold."
Instead of forcing a sheet to conform down onto a mold, they have found a way to have the form fall away from the sheet so that only the necessary parts of the glass sink into it. The process uses an array of pins or rods, similar to the "pin art" gadgets that make impressions of things pressed into them, like hands, faces, etc. A sheet of glass is slid onto the flat array and rolled into an already hot furnace. The array is programmed to assume the desired geometry after the assembly is in the furnace.
In the press release, Rist says, "Our process is roughly six-times faster than the conventional process, as well as being considerably more energy-efficient and cost-effective."
Energy is saved because the furnace is held at temperatures slightly below that at which the glass becomes viscous. The additional heat needed to cause viscous flow is applied only to the spots that need to deform. Time and more energy are saved because the furnace can be kept hot between pieces, and additional cost is saved by eliminating job-specific mold forms.
The new approach allows for more precise control of the process. Rist says, "While the conventional process relies a great deal on trial and error, we simulate the process and the material behavior on a computer. We then compare the outcome with the results from physical tests so we can identify and implement the most favorable process conditions."
The Fraunhofer team has demonstrated the process on sheets of glass measuring approximately one meter square. Those sizes are big enough for a guy like Gehry to work with.


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As a reminder for everyone, our next troop meeting on Monday may 20, 2013 will begin at 6:00 and is our Annual Planning session. This is the meeting where the scouts select what outings and events thay would loike to do in the coming year and also select the boy and adult leaders for these outings. We begin early and serve pizza part way through. Please try to be there at 6:00 but come even if you can't be there at the earlier time.
On Memorial Day, Monday May 27, we will march in the Pittsford parade. We are looking for a Scout volunteer to coordinate this and the meeting time is usually around 9:30 at Sutherland. more details to follow....
Our next outing is on Friday and Saturday June 7-8 at Mendon Ponds Park. There is a camping & advancement opportunity on Friday night. On Saturday, Spencer Kull is coordinating our pioneering project at the ADK Expo at Mendon Ponds Park. This is a community service opportunity and a fun time. There iwll be another Scout troop with us this year. They are doing an obstacle course. Let's have some great attendance and make this a fun event. The information and a sign up form are available here Click this link to go to the Mendon Ponds Camp Out page. It's available from the Upcoming Events page of this website.
On Monday June 3, we will likely be doing a patrol equipment inspection. Be on the look out for an email from our new Troop QM Jack Hart.
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08 April 2015
My passport has arrived.
It took me 3 tries to get it, I'm so glad that it's here.
It's one less thing for me to worry about!
It's a pretty amazing look book.
Considering what you can do with it, and what you can't do without it!
I don't like my passport photo (but who does)
The next step in my big adventure planning is flights.
I have decided to purchase my flight to New Zealand first.
Contiki need to know when I fly in ASAP, and I'm not 100% sure when I'm planning on coming home yet... if I stay an extra couple of days in Auckland, or just fly straight home.
I was going to fly direct to Auckland, then to Christchurch, but have discovered it's cheaper to fly to Christchurch via Melbourne. So that's the plan.
I'm still having trouble deciding on checked baggage or not. There are pros and cons to it. Pros - more space for stuff, Cons - having to carry it around. My flights include luggage... so maybe I can just check luggage on the way home instead. I don't know, it's one of the ultimate travel questions!
I think I mentioned that I did a mock-pack and failed miserably :( I got in most of my clothes... but that was it, not toiletries, no extra stuff... Do I buy a bigger backpack? Do I pack less? I'm worried that if I get a bigger backpack, it will be too big for carry on. My Crumpler ASO Outpost, is the right size for carry on, but just not big enough for all my stuff! Do I want to be the girl who wears the same clothes everyday? {20 Packing Light Benefits}
Good thing I have a couple more months to figure this out :)
<3 Molly
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I don't know about you, but I'm excited to read this month's selection. For decade's Jack Vance was an author whose name lurked only in dim rumors of serving as the inspiration for the D&D magic system. Even as a regular at the used book stores, his works just never crossed my path. It wasn't until a lucky find at the dawn of the digital publishing revolution that I stumbled on a Dying Earth omnibus.
That book really opened my eyes to new ways of looking at magic, and Vance's gentle touch showed me that Ring Lardner's dry and blink-and-you-miss it subtle humor could work in a fantasy settting. To my chagrin, I've only lately been informed that my Vance exposure is drastically limited. In fact, Dying Earth represents the only works of his I can say with any certainty that I have read. (It's possible a few of his stories were included in collections, and I just didn't realize I was reading one of the masters at the time.) I have no idea what to expect, only that it will be a pleasure to enjoy a few stories for a change of pace. Given my recent forays into establishment fiction and a futile search for modern pulp, a little Vance is just what the literary doctor ordered.
So it is with great pleasure that I open the floor for discussions about The Dragon Masters. If you want to join in the read-along, pick up a copy today, we'll be here all month.


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Andrew Stockdale Performs with Slash in Australia
August 23, 2012
Legendary guitarist Slash is currently completing the Australian leg of his Apocalyptic Love World Tour with vocalist Myles Kennedy and backing band The Conspirators, which kicked off with a show at the Brisbane River Stage last night (August 23rd). Wolfmother frontman Andrew Stockdale appeared at the show, performing lead vocals on the song 'By the Sword', on which he was featured for Slash's self-titled debut album in 2010.
Tweeting shortly after the show, now-constant frontman Myles Kennedy declared that "Andrew Stockdale killed it tonight in Brisbane. Super talented cat. It's always a pleasure to hear him sing with the band."
Stockdale has previously performed the song live with Slash and co. a number of times, in April 2010 in Melbourne and in Brisbane in March last year, as well as on a number of TV appearances. The singer is currently in Australia with Wolfmother, recording the band's third studio album.
Good Heavens Frontwoman Provides Guide to New Album
August 22, 2012
Blogging for radio station Triple J, which is currently in the middle of a catfight with Andrew Stockdale, Good Heavens frontwoman Sarah Kelly has provided a guide to the band's debut album Strange Dreams, released last week.
Warning listeners that "These songs and ideas are not for the faint of heart", Kelly has provided backstories and information for every song on the album, including recent single 'It's Not Easy Being Mean'.
The full feature can be read here. Check back to Wolfmother.net and WeLoveChrisRoss.com for more information soon… and yes, we will have Wolfmother news as soon as humanely possible!
Newest Ross-Heskett Project Releases Debut Single
August 3, 2012
After leaving Wolfmother in August 2008, former members Chris Ross (bass, keyboards) and Myles Heskett (drums) have tried their luck in a number of musical projects, including Doom Buggy and Palace of Fire, and have now returned with their latest group, Good Heavens.
With Sarah Kelly at the helm on vocals and guitar, Good Heavens released their debut single on July 17th through Australian independent label Rice Is Nice Records. 'It's Not Easy Being Mean' is taken from the group's upcoming debut album Strange Dreams, which will be released on August 17th, and showcases the trio's mid-paced, grungy sound featuring Kelly's powerful vocals on top of the experienced rhythm section of Ross and Heskett.
Good Heavens' official biography can be read on the group's page on the Rice Is Nice website, here, and the band can also be found on Facebook and Twitter. As usual, be sure to discuss this story on our forums, and stick with Wolfmother.net for more news and updates!
Wolfmother Lock Horns with Triple J
August 1, 2012
It seems that Wolfmother and Australian radio station Triple J are at odds with one another, following an outburst by frontman Andrew Stockdale at the band's recent Splendour in the Grass performance.
During the group's set, which included hits like 'Woman' and 'Joker & the Thief', and new track 'Keep Moving', Stockdale levelled criticism at the station for not paying attention to the group's early demo, and subsequently ceasing to play their material when public interest in their music decreased. Describing the station's staff as "Left-wing conservatives sitting up in their offices on their government-paid wages", he concluded his speech with the statement "Triple J can go fuck themselves!".
He later took to the official Wolfmother Twitter page to respond to a tweet from the station pointing out the male dominance of the crowd at the show, a claim he described in reply as "100% consistently lame". Triple J presenter Tom Ballard and comedian Rhys Nicholson have responded negatively to Andrew's statements, with a number of fans defending him on Twitter.
Triple J and Wolfmother have in the past shared a relatively positive relationship, with a number of interviews and up-to-date news stories given exclusively to the station on a number of occasions. The band also won the 2005 J Award for Best Australian Album for their self-titled debut, and were named a record eight times in the Triple J Hottest 100 in the same year, with two entries in the top ten. It remains to be seen how this latest development will affect their future collaborations.
Wolfmother have one more date left on their current touring cycle, supporting The Smashing Pumpkins at Melbourne's Hisense Arena tomorrow (August 2nd), and are expected to return to working on their anticipated third album thereafter.
Wolfmother.net will bring your more updates when they are available. For now, why not discuss this story on our forums!


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Sunday, June 26, 2011
Library Changes
I have been working in the library to create an environment that fosters collaboration and information gathering! Because of this, the reading of the Bluebonnet Award nominees has been slow, but I am now on Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm. The book is about a young girl who is sent to live with her aunt in Key West, Florida. She has never met her aunt AND her aunt had no idea that she was coming to live there. I tried to imagine what it must feel like to have to leave your mom, then to not be welcomed where you were sent. I can't wait to see what happens! I hope you are reading too!
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Happy Reading!
It is the beginning of summer and I am anxious to get through the new Bluebonnet Award nominees in the next week or two. In addition, I am thinking of ways to transform our library into a 21st century library media center! If you have any ideas, please share! In the meantime, make sure you are reading as much as you can. I can't wait to hear about the books you are reading this summer. I will share my favorite Bluebonnet books as I read them. Happy Summer and Happy Reading! :)
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There are many ways to share files with teams of people, but few require only a Web browser for access and let you choose from tens of different ways of authenticating user access to the files. Such lightweight and universal access is the promise of Gollem, a file manager that runs in your Web browser. With it you can connect to and manage your files on a WebDAV, FTP, or traditional filesystem or SQL database.
Gollem is a subproject of the Horde Application Framework, which you must installed along with it. Horde provides PHP interfaces for building Web applications. These interfaces include pivotal things like session handling, forms, authentication, and encryption.
Gollem is packaged for Ubuntu Hardy but not for Fedora 9 or openSUSE 11. You'll find packages of Horde available for both Fedora 9 and openSUSE 11; installing them will make installing Gollem itself from source tarball much simpler on these distributions. I'll install Gollem H3 1.0.4 from source tarball on a 64-bit Fedora 9 machine.
Because Gollem is a subproject of Horde, by default it wants to be installed in a subdirectory of the main Horde installation. The below commands will install Horde from the Fedora 9 repository and then expand the Gollem tarball into the Horde directory. Once this is done I rename the gollem directory to no longer contain the version information, and then create a vfsroot directory for the file manager to use for file storage.
# yum install horde horde-enhanced
# cd /usr/share/horde
# tar xzf /FromWeb/gollem-h3-1.0.4.tar.gz
# chown -R root.apache gollem*
# mv gollem* gollem
# mkdir -p vfsroot
# chown -R apache gollem
The Gollem tarball includes many .dist files, which are default configuration files. The
for foo line in the below commands makes a copy of these defaults into real configuration files. I then made the config directory writable by Apache so that I can use Horde to complete the configuration.
# cd config
# for foo in *.dist; do cp $foo `basename $foo .dist`; done
# chmod g+w .
I edited the backends.php configuration file to change the default vfsroot to be the new directory that I created for Gollem to use during testing.
$backends['file'] = array(
'name' => 'Virtual Home Directories',
'driver' => 'file',
'preferred' => '',
'hordeauth' => false,
'params' => array(
// The base location under which the user home directories live.
'vfsroot' =>'/usr/share/horde/gollem/vfsroot,
For some reason PHP's PEAR repository was not in the default PHP include_path, so I had to edit the php.ini file for Gollem to work.
; UNIX: "/path1:/path2"
include_path = ".:/php/includes:/usr/local/php/site-includes:/usr/share/pear"
The new gollem.conf file in /etc/httpd/conf.d stops Apache from directly serving files out of the vfsroot. Depending on how your Horde is configured, all the files in the Gollem vfsroot will be owned by the Web server. If you don't block direct downloads, users will most likely be able to download any user's files by accessing the vfsroot directory directly as an ordinary HTTP request. I also disabled the "local connections only" restriction by editing the horde.conf file before restarting Apache.
# cd /etc/httpd/conf.d
# vi gollem.conf
<DirectoryMatch "^/usr/share/horde/gollem/vfsroot/.*">
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
# vi horde.conf
<Directory /usr/share/horde>
# Comment out the following 3 lines to make Horde accessible from anywhere
#Order Deny,Allow
#Deny from all
#Allow from 127.0.0.1
# service httpd restart
You complete the Gollem setup inside the Horde environment itself by loading http://localhost/horde into your Web browser. Select the Administration -> Setup link in the tree menu on the left of the main page and make sure that the status for both File Manager (gollem) and Horde are both "Application is ready." If they are not ready, Horde will let you configure and enable them.
By default on a Fedora machine, Horde is set up to automatically log you in as Administrator without authentication. To change the way Horde authenticates users, select Horde in the Administration -> Setup page and switch to the Authentication tab. Toward the bottom of the page is a drop-down menu offering everything from PAM and /etc/passwd through to IMAP, Samba, and LDAP authentication options. I found that the simplest authentication system to set up was the HTTP basic authentication using htpasswd files. I selected "HTTP (Basic Authentication/.htpasswd) authentication" and set the htpasswd_file to /usr/share/horde/config/htpasswd. The below commands will create a new htpasswd file and add Administrator and the user ben to it.
# htpasswd -c htpasswd Administrator
# htpasswd htpasswd ben
# chown root.apache htpasswd
# chmod 640 htpasswd
When you are using htpasswd authentication, the users you set up in Horde are completely divorced from the Linux user accounts. That means that if you log in to Gollem and create a new file foo.txt as ben, you will find the file at vfsroot/ben/foo.txt in the filesystem and it will be owned by the apache user. If you want files to be owned by a Linux user account instead, you must make Horde change to the Linux user when the Horde user authenticates. See this FAQ entry to get started using other authentication schemes. A screenshot of Gollem viewing a subdirectory of ben's vfsroot is shown below.
You can use Gollem to store your files in a PostgreSQL database instead of the normal filesystem at vfsroot. Using a relational database for storage might be of interest if you want to link information stored in another relational database with the documents that users upload and edit. To try this, set up a database as shown below. Horde supports many databases, so you can use MySQL or others if you prefer. See the README file in the same scripts/sql directory shown in the example for information about using other databases. Also, you probably want to change the password listed on the last line of the commands shown below.
$ cd /usr/share/horde/scripts/sql
$ psql -d template1 -f create.pgsql.sql
$ psql -qc "ALTER USER horde WITH PASSWORD 'horde';" template1 postgres
Once you have the database set up, log in to Horde as an administrator and go to the database tab in Administration -> Setup -> Horde to make sure you have the right database engine and credentials set up in Horde. Once Horde can connect to the database you are ready to use it to store your files. Click on the SQL Server link under File Manager and you will see a similar interface to the one shown when you were using the Virtual Home (vfsroot backed) storage. After I uploaded a file to SQL Server storage, logging into the console as postgres I could see the new file and its contents from the horde_vfs table, as shown below.
horde=# select *,decode(vfs_data, 'hex') from horde_vfs;
vfs_id | vfs_type | vfs_path | vfs_name | vfs_modified | vfs_owner | vfs_data | decode
1 | 1 | | zzz.txt | 1225149849 | | 547565204f63742032382030393a32343a30342045535420323030380a | Tue Oct 28 09:24:04 EST 2008\012
(1 row)
You may notice that there are two SQL Server links under File Manager. The first link, "SQL Server," provides shared storage in a relational database for multiple users. The second link, which unfortunately had the right side of the text truncated for me, is for the "SQL Server with home," which provides private storage in a relational database for only your user. Trying to use the "with home" version I got the error
ErrorFolder "home/ben" does not exist when attempting to upload a test file.
If you select just the "SQL Server" link, you can create a new folder home and make the user home directories in there. I found that by making home/Administrator and home/ben I could use the "SQL Server with home" functionality when logged in as both Administrator and ben. The downside is that looking at the SQL database, the vfs_owner was not set to anything for all the files in the database. This meant that if I logged in as ben and selected "SQL Server," I could browse into home/Administrator and view files that the Administrator uploaded into its "SQL Server with home" directory.
In gollem/config/backends.php you'll find an entry for "SQL Server with home" that has two options you might like to change. If you set createhome to true instead of false, Gollem will automatically create your home directory in the relational database when you log in. You might also like to change the table that is used to store the VFS files. If you use a different table for your SQL with home files, users will no longer be able to navigate to other users' home directories.
# vi /usr/share/horde/gollem/config/backends.php
$backends['sqlhome'] = array(
'name' => 'SQL Server with home',
'driver' => 'sql',
// The default connection details are pulled from the Horde-wide SQL
// connection configuration.
'params' => array_merge($GLOBALS['conf']['sql'], array('table' => 'horde_vfs_home')),
// 'root' => '/home',
// 'home' => '/home/' . Auth::getAuth(),
'home' => Auth::getAuth(),
Of course you'll have to create the new horde_vfs_home table in the database too. The below commands use a copy of the table schema from /usr/share/horde/scripts/sql/create.pgsql.sql with a table name change. Once this table is set up you'll be able to store private files in the SQL database that only your Horde user can access.
# su - postgres
$ psql horde
\c horde horde;
You are now connected to database "horde" as user "horde".
horde=> CREATE TABLE horde_vfs_home (
vfs_id BIGINT NOT NULL,
vfs_type SMALLINT NOT NULL,
vfs_path VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
vfs_name VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
vfs_modified BIGINT NOT NULL,
vfs_owner VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
vfs_data TEXT,
PRIMARY KEY (vfs_id)
horde=> CREATE INDEX vfs_home_path_idx ON horde_vfs_home (vfs_path);
horde=> CREATE INDEX vfs_home_name_idx ON horde_vfs_home (vfs_name);
Because Gollem relies on Horde it can be a handful to get set up. However, once you have Gollem up and running, you can take advantage of Horde and Gollem to allow users to load and save files into a relational databases. You might then want to investigate other Horde-based Web applications and decide if you want to invest the time to configure a Horde server.
Some of the file management features you might expect are still missing in Gollem. For example, I could not recursively delete a directory in either the filesystem or SQL-backed storage. Recursive copy failed in a similar manner. Selecting a directory and choosing to copy it and paste it into another location failed. While you might not perform such recursive operations on a daily basis, not being able to perform them through the Web interface is going to frustrate more advanced users.
In summary, Gollem lets you set up a Web interface for a team of users who can share files on an FTP server, in a relational database, or a filesystem on the server itself.


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Quid"dle (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quiddled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Quiddling (?).] [L. quid what.]
To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle.
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Quid"dle (?), Quid"dler (?), n.
One who wastes his energy about trifles.
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