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by Amy O'Neill Houck
for those new to it
This hat is worked from the crown down to the brim, so the crown will be increased to the full hat circumference. For these increases to spiral, we're simply stacking one round of increases on top of the previous round in the same way that you would stack decreases on a bottom-up knitted hat. You will work the increase (2 sc in the same stitch) in the 2nd stitch of the increase from the round below. Once you're comfortable spotting the increases, you may not need stitch markers, but if it's helpful, you can put a split ring marker (or coil-less safety pin) in the 2nd stitch of each increase, and just move it up each round to keep track.
Another advantage of crocheting the crown of this hat is sizing. Starting a circle from the center has the same advantage as building a garment from the neck down. You can try it on and size it as you go. To size the Hybrid Hat, you'll need to measure your head. You'll want a full circumference an inch smaller than what you've measured so the hat will stay on. If you just want to make a basic hat, you can go for a finished circumference of 22 inches which is an average head size. This means you'll increase until the crown measures 21 inches.
Measuring the circumference of a piece of fabric can be tricky. It's much easier to measure the diameter. So, we've used a calculator to convert diameter to circumference. You can do the same. Just be sure to measure from one increase point to another. Then do the math to see if your hat is the right size.
|model: Kerry Neely
Since you're crocheting to a particular circumference instead of a number of stitches, you can work this pattern in any gauge. As long as you finish the crown shaping with a full round, then you should end with a multiple of 6 sts and the Filet Round and 2 x 1 ribbing will work out. If you use a different weight of yarn, pick a hook that creates a nice, soft fabric. Choose a needle one size smaller than your hook for the ribbing.
Ch: chain
For new or newish crocheters, here is some online assistance:
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Using crochet hook chain 4 and join in a ring.
Round 1: Ch 1, 6 sc in chain loop, mark start of round with removable marker.
Round 2: Inc 6 times. (12 sts)
Round 3: (1 sc-blo, inc) 6 times. 18 sts.
Round 4: (2 sc-blo, inc) 6 times. 24 sts.
Round 5: (3 sc-blo, inc) 6 times. 30 sts.
Round 6: (4 sc-blo, inc) 6 times. 36 sts.
Round 7: (5 sc-blo, inc) 6 times. 42 sts.
Continue increasing evenly until the desired head circumference is reached. You can use this site to help you calculate the correct diameter for your desired finished head size. Lay the crown of the hat flat and measure from increase point to increase point. Remember you want a circumference 1 inch smaller than your head measurement.
With the needle, pick up and knit 1 st through the back loop of each crochet stitch
Count your stitches. You need a multiple of 3 sts for the ribbing.
Ribbing round: K1, p1, [k2, p1] to last st, k1.
Bind off using Jeni's Surprisingly Stretchy Bind-Off.
Weave in ends and block.
Miriam can be found on on the web at miriamfelton.com, and on Twitter @mimknits. Amy O'Neill Houck blogs at thehookandi.com and tweets @plainsight. Amy and Miriam both have patterns on ravelry.com.
|Pattern & images © 2013 Amy O'Neill Houck + Miriam Felton. Contact Miriam


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by Jack Broughton
Copyright © 1988 by Jacksel Broughton
We split the North into six numbered sections that we called Route Packages. Package One was the southernmost. While the defenses were lighter there, those who didn't properly respect them often paid with their lives for their carelessness. The significant targets and the tougher defenses were all to the north, and by the time you got to Pack Six, with Hanoi and Haiphong in the center, you were in the big leagues. About 80 percent of the North's war materials moved along two rail lines that ran south from China and converged in Hanoi, while about 80 percent of the material used to bolster the North's economy was shipped into the port of Haiphong. If you were an interdiction fighter pilot, Pack Six was what it was all about.
If we got fragged on one of the easy packs it was a letdown. It was even worse to get fragged on Pack Six, go through all the pre-mission preparations, get psyched up to go Downtown, then get skunked after you got airborne by the weather or a command hiccup from Washington or some other headquarters. When that happened, we had to paw through our cramped cockpits and sort out the piles of paper, maps, and target folders we always had to carry for each of our two alternate targets. Then we had to figure out how to get there from where we were. When we got there we usually found the alternate targets to be insignificant or nonexistent and far less stimulating than Downtown Hanoi.
The navy worked the same Route Package structures we did and they launched their strikes from carriers off the coast, while our air force fighter strikes came out of Thailand. The air force had abut 40,000 men in Thailand, with 28,000 of them involved in some phase of combat mission support involving 300 strike aircraft and 250 support aircraft at six Thai bases. Between us we had a lot of hardware and a lot of dedicated people who are sure to this day that if we had been properly utilized, Vietnam would not have been the debacle that it was, and that many thousands of Americans would not have been lost needlessly in the mud down south.
In our wing we had a good exchange visit program going with our navy buddies. They would gather up four or five of their fighter types and launch from the carrier in their little Cod transport aircraft and recover at Takhli; then a few weeks later they would send the Cod back to pick up some of our troops and take them out to the carrier. Depending on the schedule, we would spend a couple of hours or days yakking about how we were fighting the war and we all learned from each other. The navy guys and my guys had long since agreed that neither of us had a corner on all the good tactical smarts or how a crazy war like this one should be fought. There was no friction at the operating level.
In April of 1966 Route Pack Six was split between the navy and the air force. It was far from a hard line and we constantly moved around in each other's area, with the navy choppers darting in to save a shot-down air force pilot or with us refueling in their area when we came up the water route to the northeast railroad. We always worked together to get the job done, and when we got together on the ground we always laughed at the big gears up the line arguing about who dropped the most bombs or flew the most sorties. Hell, there was plenty there for all of us if they had ever used us as they should have.
The navy was given the eastern portion of Pack Six, which was closest to the coast and included Haiphong, and which was where they had normally worked anyway. Downtown Hanoi and the areas to the west and south were given to the air force as their primary operating area. If we worked pretty much in the same area each time we were up there it gave us a better shot at knowing the terrain and targets. We also developed a better feel for the constantly moving defenses.
Those of us flying Thuds got to know Pack Six in great detail. If we didn't commit that geography to memory we simply increased our jeopardy on each trip. There was no time to sit around and cogitate or read maps when the action got heavy during a strike. We had to know where to expect the action and how to get there and how to get back out of there, but we also had to know where the off-limits lines were drawn.
If we wandered too far north while working in Pack Six we were violating our restriction against entering the Chinese border buffer zone. That sizable strip of the North, extending all the way from the desolate western border to the Gulf of Tonkin, was etched in Washington's mind and it contained many well-traveled roads and rail lines that stretched into China. It also provided sanctuary for the MiGs when things didn't go their way. Our leaders wanted to be sure that we remembered where they had drawn that line, so they kept a bunch of big command and control aircraft flying around, to the south and out over the water. Those aircraft had radar eyes that allowed their crews to see from border to border and track us, then turn us in if we got a few feet offsides while we were being shot at.
Whether they were being catapulted off a carrier deck or struggling into the air from a jungle airstrip in Thailand, fighter pilots who worked Pack Six were sympathetic to the desires of Admiral Sharp, the senior commander of the entire Pacific operation. He was constantly involved in exchanges with the Johnson administration, and as the war dragged on ineffectively he became increasingly critical of the lack of action at the top. His proposal was that six basic systems in the North should be promptly and decisively destroyed: the electrical networks, the limited industries with war-making capabilities, the transportation net, the air bases and training centers, the petroleum, oil, and lubricant, or POL, facilities, and the constantly improving Russian- and Chinese-sponsored air defense network. His proposals were repeatedly rejected. Rather than attack and destroy those systems, Johnson and McNamara seemed to be determined to protect them, or at worst nibble at them bit by bit, in order in insure their no-win philosophy.
Rolling Thunder was the code name assigned to our strikes against the North. The project was on paper in 1965, but it took a long time to get it in motion and it never truly got rolling as it should have. The POL phase of Rolling Thunder finally opened on June 29, 1966. McNamara made the announcement in Washington, but before he talked to the press we had already been at work against the POL storage tanks that we had wanted to go after since the first days of the war. When we got there, still under all sorts of cumbersome rules as to where to go and how to get there and what we could hit, we found what we had expected—we were at least a year late. We did a lot of good work and had smoke billowing to 30,000 feet, but it was only a fraction of the good we could have done.
Recognizing the fact that McNamara and Johnson were afraid to move decisively, the Vietnamese had been busy for many months on a program to disperse and hide their POL all across the countryside. They used everything from large underground tanks to barrels in village backyards. The president and secretary had originally given permission to attack the POL sites in April, but in a real display of indecision they refused to allow us to attack. In effect we were told it was okay, but don't really do it until tomorrow, or someday. The military would say "Okay, we're ready," but Washington would say "Wait." Next day the process would be repeated with still another decree of "Not yet." Washington wanted more assurances of accuracy, more assurances that no civilians would be hurt, and more assurances that no third-country personnel or ships would be harmed. Finally, on June 29, the navy hit POL in the Haiphong area while a seventy-aircraft strike of Thuds hit POL in the Hanoi area. This pattern continued sporadically, at the whim of Washington, throughout the rest of 1966 and 1967. While the show was downright spectacular at times, it was a pale version of what could have been a real show.
Toward the end of 1966 we got all sorts of hush-hush briefings and indications that someone had sold Washington on letting us go right into the middle of Downtown. We rushed to prepare all the details and you would have thought we were going to a big party the way our pilots squabbled over who was on the schedule and who was flying whose wing in which flight. Nobody wanted to be left out. They all wanted to be part of the attacks against the hottest targets yet released to us, admittedly the most fiercely defended targets ever faced by any pilot in history. The adrenaline count was high throughout the wing. We were primed and ready to go. We got visits from generals telling us the importance of our tasks, as if we needed any extra pumping up, and we got lousy weather.
Once we had selected the lineup for those strikes we tried to keep it intact while we waited out the weather. I wound up leading the early morning crew for the night takeoff part of the effort. A 2:00 A.M. wake-up makes for short nights, and coupled with the other duties that kept us going until about eight in the evening, everything sort of ran together. But we just kept charging. Our little breakfast club was made up of the same group every day and after many days of the same thing it became difficult to work up a hearty smile or a strong appetite for greased eggs at 2:30 A.M. Normally we were not on the same schedule for too many days in a row and we could make up, to an extent, for lost sleep. But on this one, the weather in the target area would not break and the schedule would not change. We sat on this package for almost forty days before we got the job done properly. Some days we would get all the way through the briefing and be on our way to the aircraft before the no-go decision came in. Some mornings the word would be to divert to a lesser target; sometimes it was slip the schedule for two hours, and everybody tried to find someplace to fall down and catch a restless nap. Some mornings when we got diverted to lesser targets we would substitute the newer heads and let them build experience while at other times the first team would go to keep in practice. Many times we would launch and go all the way to the target, bombs armed and ready, only to have to break it off at the base of Thud Ridge when we knew for sure that we were skunked with the target socked in by low clouds and rain.
During that run of bad weather, Seventh lost its cool. The pressure was on all the way from Washington for us to get in and get out. Seventh got so jumpy that it insisted that the mission leader fly directly over the cloud-covered target before canceling the mission. It didn't seem very wise to fly directly over the targets we wanted, day after day, if we wanted to retain any element of surprise, and it was plain dangerous. Why drag twenty-four of your best fighter pilots over the top of an undercast covering the hottest targets in history, especially when you're making all of them SAM bait because they couldn't hope to see a SAM heading their way through the clouds?
The decision on a mission like that rightly lies with the mission commander, the guy up front, and personally I never surrendered that authority despite Seventh's temporary whim. It's a tough decision to make and excited different sensations each time I faced it. I was usually the overall leader for both Thud wings and that meant forty-eight strike pilots and aircraft leaning on me. I didn't want to take my people into a situation where they couldn't see the target well enough to set up decently and bomb the way they should. You couldn't dive-bomb flying straight and level a few hundred feet above the ground in a rainstorm. It was not wise to hurl forty-eight fighters into the face of a spectacular defense, then expect the pilots to mill around at 500 miles an hour, on different attack headings in the clouds, where they couldn't see each other or anything else. I also knew that if Ho complained that any one of the 288 750-pound bombs that my strike force carried went a few hundred feet off target and hurt someone or something that Washington had not approved, McNamara and Lyndon would hold me personally responsible.
Regardless of whether it was a good mission that went all the way, a diversion, or a weather recce, we couldn't go much of anyplace without the support of the tankers and their crews. When refueling became the way to go for the worldwide mobility concept, we generally associated the tankers with something that had to happen to get across the ocean once in a while. We suddenly found out that there was not a whole lot we could do without them in Southeast Asia and they became as much a part of our mission as the bombs we dropped. We were so heavy and overloaded that we could barely get off the ground and get organized before we needed fuel and we certainly couldn't get to Hanoi without fuel on the way in. Extremely important to the preservation of ourselves and our forces, we couldn't get back home from Hanoi without more fuel from the tankers.
For Mike McNamara, increasing fighter capability depended on the availability of tanker support. They didn't have any tankers when they were at Korat the first time because they didn't cover enough total miles to need them in those days. When Mike started flying the longer hauls out of Takhli he found out that we were still back in the dark ages of aerial refueling, but those tanker guys still did pretty good work for the Thuds. Those old KB-50 prop-driven tankers were slow, and when we started out with heavy fighters with a full load of bombs trying to poke that old-style refueling basket at 20,000 feet, those ancient tankers would have to keep diving from 20,000 feet to below 10,000 feet to transfer a load of fuel for a single fighter. Trying to hit those baskets on the end of a flapping rubber hose with a bunch of bombs on was a trick, but trying to stick there after finally catching it and fighting to keep from falling off or stalling out was some challenge. The entire operation improved dramatically when the jet-propelled KC-135 tankers arrived on the scene. They were far more compatible with the operating altitudes and airspeeds of the fighters. The fighter pilots could also depend on a stable refueling boom hanging there in space, as well as the skill of the refueling boom operator, or boomer, in the back end of the tanker. Those boomers saved lots of fighter pilot asses. -
At first the 135s were not interested in coming up North when the fighters were hurting for fuel on the way out. That was because of the way those tanker crews had been trained, or brainwashed. They were completely SACumsized????? at that point in time and their rules, which had them orbiting on refueling tracks pretty far to the south, were all they knew. Gradually they got the big picture that all concerned were fighting for the same side, and that if the Thuds called for help they really needed help. The tanker crews decided they had to take some chances along with the fighters, except they were taking their chances more against their own authorities than the enemy. Nobody was going to shoot them down in the MiG-free neutral area where the fighters asked them to come. Eventually the problem went away as the individual tanker crews would come to get a fighter out of a jam whenever they could.
Dave Groark remembers the fighter-tanker duo as a soap opera. One day when he was headed north on a Hanoi strike, Ray Lewis was bringing his flight back from a strike up around Thai Nguyen. Some of the tankers serviced fighters both ways, going in and coming out, and on that day Ray and his guys were all really hurting for fuel and were heading for the same tanker Dave's flight was looking for on the way in. Ray had called that they were in bad shape and the tankers had moved as far north as they could. The thing Dave remembered most was being completely hypnotized by the radio drama that was being played out before him. The outbound flight was still looking for the tanker and it was a real emergency situation. They were very cool and very calm, but Dave could hear that they were hurting and got the feeling that they were just not going to get to the tanker and that we were going to lose four airplanes and four pilots. When they finally spotted the tanker the highest fuel gauge reading in the flight was four hundred pounds of fuel, which is something like fifty-nine gallons. The book says that if you're at full throttle, fifty-nine gallons will keep the engine turning for thirty seconds. The low man's gauges were on zero. It was like listening to one of those old radio suspense stories. Everyone on that radio channel could feel the tension as the wingman with his gauge showing zero plugged the tanker first and took a few hundred pounds of fuel, just enough to show on the gauges, then backed off so the second guy could get on before he flamed out. They rotated and juggled on and off the boom, calculating pounds of fuel versus survival for all four of them. But the tankers saved all four of them; they brought them all back. That was so exciting that Dave completely forgot about his own mission and the fact that he was going into the same fracas that the other flight was returning from.
The control of Pack Six targets from Washington was ridiculous, but so was the reaction down the chain right to the operating level. Nobody wanted to get Downtown as badly as the Thud drivers did. We were the ones who were humiliated by our own restrictions and we were the ones sharing in the loss of good people and Thuds. We were the ones going back time after time to nibble at what we wanted to eliminate and get it over with. If we had cleaned out what little there was up there that was worthwhile, that could well have stopped the foolishness down south. Then Downtown Hanoi would have been surrounded by tons of guns,, SAMs, and MiGs protecting nothing but each other. Since we were the only ones who knew what the defenses of Hanoi were capable of and who realized what it took to make a successful strike, we felt that we should have been allowed to participate in the design and the detailed mechanics of our strikes. But damned few people listened to what those who went there had to say about how to do the job right.
What we wanted to do in an area like Pack Six is pick the day and the weather and the time that was best for us; utilize surprise and imagination; then take advantage of our capabilities and strong points to clobber them. What we didn't want to do was fly in, day after day, on make-believe dry runs over what we were going after in order to give the MiGs, SAMs, and radar tracking gunners lots of good practice until the day the weather would break and we really could roll in on the targets.
Swede Larson told of one particular mission that shows how the Pentagon got into the act. Early in the spring of 1967 the weather was really rotten up in Pack Six for a long time; it was just really socked in. The air force in Washington was nervous about trying to get some sorties going so they could have something to talk about. The navy had been very successful with its all-weather A-6 bombers, which were flying missions and getting all the publicity back in the States, while the 105s were all sitting on the ground. So in frustration, a frag order came in calling for two volunteers to fly a mission to hit a power plant up in Pack Six. The mission fell to Swede's squadron. His ops officer, who had more balls than sense, volunteered for it and took another young Turk with him. They went up there in impossible weather: They dead-reckoned to the target area, let down on the gauges, somehow found the power plant on the second pass while milling around fully loaded under an eight- to nine-hundred-foot ceiling, and damned if they didn't put a bomb right through the window of that power plant. The number-two man got a picture of it as he came in on his pass in staggered trail. It was one in a million that they would ever get in there, let alone get back out. Swede says that when they got back Willy Chairsell, his wing commander, who wore pilot wings but didn't fly, was so tickled that he could get the powers to be at Seventh off his back that they really played the mission up. Next thing they knew, Saigon sent over a Silver Star for the leader and a Distinguished Flying Cross for the wingman. Swede's ops guy told them they could stick it. He told them that if it wasn't good enough for a Silver Star for both of them, he wasn't interested and that was the end of that. It was just another example of the fact that politics and publicity controlled much of what Swede and all of us did over there.
The raids against bridges, rail facilities, and other industrial structures proceeded in parallel with the POL strikes, and if an outside observer kept track of the claims for bridges blown up it would be easy to assume that the North was made up of nothing but bridges. Sometimes it seemed that way to us. Quite often when we would attack a bridge we could see the replacement pontoon bridges waiting along the river banks. The North had a construction force of 600,000 laborers to repair bomb damage, and they did their bridge work just like they did their rail work and their road work, quickly. As soon as we knocked a bridge down they dispatched masses of laborers and put in substitute facilities while they rebuilt the damaged bridge. It doesn't take much of a pontoon bridge to support bicycle and pedestrian traffic. If they needed to move something like a heavy truckload of supplies and the makeshift bridge would not support the truck, they used the people, bicycles, cattle, or whatever was available to haul the truckload, piece by piece, to the other side. There always seemed to be another truck, or another back, waiting on the other side to continue the journey. We did not match their sense of purpose and did not show the desire to do the interdiction job forcefully. If you go after a repairable target, then ignore it for a few months, you can bet the enemy will rebuild it if that suits his purpose. It's tough to win a war in Asia with an attack plan based on the whims and schedules of the Oval Office rather than a calculated interdiction plan.
During 1967 Admiral Sharp was still trying to convince Washington that if the six basic systems were released to him, he could execute a systematic plan of attack with a high probability of relatively speedy success. Admiral Sharp's requests were never honored. At the conclusion of one of McNamara's many press conferences in defense of his policies, the press dubbed him "a man looking down a long tunnel with no patch of light at the end." Those of us who did the fighting can only ask, "Who built that tunnel?"
One of the excuses that McNamara and his supporters made for not approving the entire JCS target list and for denying us authority to attack targets methodically was that bombing by itself could not win the war unless we attacked the civilian population of North Vietnam. Here is what McNamara said in his August 25, 1967, Senate testimony: "There is no basis to believe that any bombing campaign, short of one that has the population as its target, would itself force Ho Chi Minh into submission. Bombing the ports and mining the harbors would not be an effective means of stopping the infiltration of supplies into South Vietnam."
McNamara's contention that the North could not be forced to submit does not correlate with authoritative views from inside Downtown Hanoi. John Colvin was consul general at the British mission in Hanoi during 1966 and 1967. In his book Twice Around the World he reports that Hanoi had been accustomed to spasmodic raids that came in clusters over the period of a week or so and at predictable times, usually about 2:30 P.M. But after April 1967 it was impossible for residents to continue their normal routines due to increased U.S. air strikes. Even if the strikes were directed at outlying areas, North Vietnamese officials would insist on declaring them as raids against Hanoi itself and the sirens wailed up to thirty times a day. Colvin rated the bombing as effective throughout the North Vietnamese countryside, pointing out that there was only one undamaged bridge between Hanoi and Than Hoa in the southeast of the country. While the damaged or destroyed bridges were repaired by teams on permanent standby or were replaced by pontoon bridges, travel was restricted and slow. Movement was at night in convoys, constantly monitored, halted, and respaced by girl wardens stationed along the way. Colvin states that many villages and agricultural cooperatives were wiped out by bomb damage with high casualties due to attacks against North Vietnamese gun emplacements sited in built-up areas on their perimeters. Schooling, repair work, and cultivation were inhibited as alert followed all clear incessantly. Fuel supplies had to be cached in five-foot-round, ten-foot-long drums at various points along the road, virtually inaccessible to U.S. aircraft. Bicycles often played a larger role in transportation than did motorized vehicles, each bicycle being modified to carry a load of 440 pounds. A major cause of delay was the time needed to reassemble the pontoon bridges at nightfall, since they were regularly disassembled at dawn.
Colvin recounts that on May 19, 1967, he and his vice-consul walked to their balcony as the air raid sirens sounded: "As we stood there, seven or eight United States F-105 Thunderchief fighter-bombers, flying at scarcely roof-top height and no more, it seemed, than one hundred yards away, shot across our vision at what appeared—so tight was the space in which the whole incident was framed between houses and sky—enormous speed. They had come on us suddenly out of nowhere, the hard, sleek aircraft, in superb formation at approximately six hundred mph, disappearing for an instant behind the trees and buildings that lay between us and the power station (thermal power plant) less than one mile to the south, and then quickly climbing clear and away. . . . Almost simultaneously, such lights as were on in the apartment went out, the fan stopped turning, and a column of dust, smoke, and flame rose from the direction of the power station. (As the planes had penetrated the city's defenses by coming in under the radar screen, the first antiaircraft batteries opened up only when the raiders had not only departed but were probably twenty miles away.) As we were shortly to observe, the performance of this squadron disposed of every Communist or other illusion about the laxity of American bombing or the imprecision of U.S. bombing techniques."
When the all clear wailed and stillness descended, Colvin's apartment, without electrical power for the revolving fan and air conditioner, was crushingly hot. He and his assistant went to look at the power plant and found the antiaircraft guns, surrounded by their agitated crews, sited among the trees in the park. They noted an air of tense activity, almost hysteria, as orders were bellowed and the men ran around their positions as if further attack was imminent. Fists were shaken at the sky and little groups of civilians whispered apprehensively together. The war had come to Downtown Hanoi.
The power station was an oblong, gray, brick and concrete structure about six hundred by three hundred feet, one hundred feet high, topped by tall chimneys. Significantly, it was surrounded by terraced houses. The flames had died down as Colvin approached it, but the dust still rose from the effects of the high-explosive hits it had taken. The chimneys had collapsed and the entire structure, gaping with holes, seemed to be listing drunkenly to one side. Colvin wrote, "There was, in our opinion, no hope at all for it. The accuracy of the attack had also been such that out of the complex of fifty or so small private houses around the power plant, only three had been at all damaged, and those from blast rather than direct hits."
The next day the fans and the air conditioner in Colvin's apartment were still out and the inside temperature rose to 140 degrees. He estimated that there was no possibility of restoring the electric power, saying, "Hanoi. . . must now be finished as a functioning industrial and economic city." At that moment the lights went on and the fan and air conditioner came to life. Apparently mobile generators had been brought on line, as electrical power was not restored to the entire city, but only to the diplomatic area and to limited government buildings. For Colvin the lesson learned was "the astonishing preparedness and resourcefulness of the DRV [Democratic Republic of Vietnam]; only continual air attack of the kind that Rolling Thunder had not yet initiated would surmount those qualities. But Rolling Thunder did, thereafter, or so it appeared to us, begin to do precisely that, although without again striking the power plants or other targets in central Hanoi. The objectives, attacked without respite for the next two weeks, remained on the periphery of the city. The noise of bombing and gunfire was almost continual, and the damage to Vietnamese equipment was considerable, but ... in early June, morale, health, and the flow of war material to Hanoi had not decisively diminished."
However, by the end of July Colvin noted a growing sense of anxiety in Hanoi induced by the continued bombing. There was a belief that "Hanoi was going to catch it again badly," but that perhaps the next step in escalation would be the mining of the port of Haiphong. A qualified medical observer told Colvin that he had seen the early signs of malnutrition among 60 to 90 percent of the children. Colvin summarized the changing situation by writing, "For the first time, I was beginning to believe that in spite of the history of that extraordinary people over the past twenty-two years, of their proven ability to stand far worse suffering in other towns and villages of the DRV than they had to withstand in Hanoi, of their tenacity, of the implacable aims of their leadership, they must have a physical limit sometime. I could not predict when it would be reached, perhaps not in 1967, nor what form it would take—presumably slow collapse—but unless the war were further internationalized, I thought that the limit might come."
Colvin's next series of firsthand observations soundly refutes the first tenet of McNamara's August testimony before the Senate: "By September the evidence of malnutrition was clear among adults as well as children. . . . The population could barely get about their duties. . . . Food was not coming in from China. . . . American bombing of the entry points into Vietnam from China, as well as Sino-Soviet differences, had their substantive effects. . . . For three days there was no water supply due to failed electrical pumps. . . . Mass epidemic, in the already unsanitary conditions of the capital, could not have been far away. . . . The economy was at last breaking down. . . . The country and its people were close to collapse which, for the first time, no amount of excited exhortation could correct. And every morning since I reached Hanoi, the streets of the quarter had been lined with war materiel brought in overnight from China across the Paul Doumer Bridge, amphibious vehicles, artillery, armored fighting vehicles, surface-to-air missiles on flatbeds, saucily parked even outside the British and Canadian missions. By June their numbers had somewhat decreased. By August and September there were none at all. . . . The trains were coming no longer. . . . The country's endurance had reached its limit. ... If the Americans continued to cut the railway lines from China and Haiphong to Hanoi and succeeded in putting the ports out of action the DRV could not pursue the war in the south and keep the North running. ... If the Viet Cong were really losing more men in the South than they could recruit locally or import from the DRV, then, failing Chinese intervention, the major war was over."
But we were not permitted by our own national leadership to attack the targets that would have made the difference. McNamara and his associates said they did all they could to win, and then implied they were forced to spend much of their time in office trying to restrain a bunch of crazy pilots who simply wanted to terrorize the Vietnamese population and kill babies. They implied that we as professional air soldiers belonged in the same category as those convicted of atrocities at My Lai, and that they had no alternative approaches. That is not true and that untruth and those who espoused it cost our country dearly.
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Titanfall lead programmer Jon Shiring admitted that the game's anti-cheat system hasn't been turned on yet.
If you've been busy playing Respawn Entertainment's mech-tastic shooter Titanfall, you may have noticed some players pulling off some seemingly impossible stunts. Many fans were quick to call "hacker," and this time, they may just be right. In response to a fan query query over the high prevalence of hackers, lead programmer Jon Shiring admitted that the game's anti-cheat system hasn't been turned on yet, but it will be enabled "soon".
He later clarified, when pressured as to whether or not Respawn's prior statement about anti-cheat working was false, that there is an anti-cheat system in place that is "catching" cheaters, but that the system that punishes them hasn't been enabled yet. He said that they would start dealing with the cheaters "very soon." He said that the reason it wasn't enabled from release was because "It's useful to watch them a bit without revealing your hand."
We have reached out to Respawn for comment on whether this is effecting the PC, Xbox, or both versions of the game, and for a more precise time-frame on the solution.
I've already seen quite a few cheaters in the PC version of the game, from players who were very clearly speed hacking to Titans that could fly. How about you guys?
Source: Twitter
Seriously, what the hell Respawn and EA been doing pre-release that meant that the game (which is multiplayer only to boot) didn't have any sort of anti-cheat?
Letting cheaters run riot isn't what I'll call good for the nascent playerbase, even if you plan on giving them the banhammer later on so their excuse doesn't add up.
Mr Tea found this Twitter which came after the one in the article
As to why this wasn't included I have no idea, but it puts Respawns response in a slightly better light.
That said pulling this sort of anti-hack job isn't really advisable for what is either a new game developer or one with a dubious record with dealing with hackers depending on your point of view.
I haven't actually seen any overt hackers on the PC version. I've seen a few players who do quite a lot of damage at absurd ranges with weapons not meant for long-range combat, and players who seem to take a lot more bullets than others to kill, but both of those could just as easily be me not being terribly good at the game. It's very hard to say what's my lack of skill in similar situations and what's a hack.
I think it's a good method. If it was turned on at the beginning, then people would find a way around it and on the battle would go. But this way, they can ban a mass number of accounts at the onset, which means there'll be less people trying to work around the anti-cheat.
You know VAC works the same right? Not banning a person instantly so they can catch more people using the same or similar hack is quite common for anti-cheat things.
The Twitter states that the anticheat system isn't enabled yet, as in there is nothing to record any potential hackers period.
I get not alerting people that you know about cheat X, but that requires some sort of passive system to catch them to work, otherwise all you are doing is letting your game become a playground and this isn't the fun kind we're talking about here.
See above.
I still can't understand why people feel the need to cheat when playing games.
Is it because they're so bad that they can't play properly?
It actually doesn't say that at all.
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This is what pretty much every PC game does all the time. It makes no sense to ban bots and hackers as you go on a 1 by 1 basis as it allows the people who make the shit to know they are being caught and adjust their program accordingly. You catch much more by doing purges every now and then.
"We have anti-cheat but it is not enabled yet - it will be soon. This is important to us." Then why you don't have this enabled at the launch of your -MULTIPLAYER ONLY- game? I simply cannot fathom this.
I haven't personally encountered any cheaters in my 40`ish hours of the game so maybe I'm just lucky. I was playing on PC of course.
Well, that's it for me.
They're beyond ridicule at this point : D
To answer your questions: Yes, yes, and yes. Seems odd that they have a sense of pride or excitement from winning a rigged game. I don't know about you, but even in older games I'd used the max weapon cheat, but not the god mode. I mean what's the point if there's no risk/danger? The point is overcoming a challenge, but I figure they just like seeing their name on top.
at least they admit it. so far i dint really come across any cheaters, or people who i think are cheaters but at times there were moments that made me think if this player could be one because he killed me so quickly with a weapon thats not possible.
Speedhacking and flying? What is this a shitty online arena mod or something? how badly do you have to code your netcode to not have server doublecheck the speed and pull the player back if his client is reporting wrong data?
Lets say you are in a race and the only way you can beat the other guy is by turning on a NOS in your car even though the race rules are agaisnt it. how many people would do it, you think?
Its all about competition.
Knowing how little effort Infinite Ward put in to their past call of Duty games with hackers and cheaters I really don't see why people are surprised. CoD has its periods where the game is entirely unplayable because of cheaters and the fact that the developers switched to another company; I don't think it's going to be much of a difference for Titanfall.
I get what you're saying. But cheating for money or glory I could understand. Cheating so you can have a wank over how fantastic your aimbot is however... You're not winning anything with it except contempt.
OT: It's good what theyre doing. Build a database of people hacking and do a nice purge once in a while. It will net more results. Also: Ban them from any game that you can please. Also offline single player versions. Put it in the user agreement. Hacking should really be firmly punished. Bring out the BANHAMMER!
Did you read the article?
Here's the tweet if you're curious:
Yeah they have that in game, burn cards, if you're still losing and need to use a system that is outside the game, that's cheating. That's not like nitrus, that's like shooting at the other driver with a heat seeking missile then claiming skill or whatever.
COD was secured by VAC (Valve Anti Cheat) which does fuck all for players in the short term. They let you be raped by cheaters for as long as 6 months before ban waving a couple hundred thousand and then repeat. They don't even take player reports, just rely 100% on automatically detecting cheaters.
Got it, that makes more sense, but pulling this sort of anti hack job isn't really advisable for what is either a new game developer or one with a dubious record with dealing with hackers depending on your point of view.
Really wished that Twitter quote was with the first one.
"I beat you, im better than you, i won, you lost, im the winner, your the looser" ect. The fact that he done this cheating does not even enter into his thinking. Its a pure competition - its human nature.
try reading my post again. your talking about different things.
Not strictly a anti-cheat but its to combat cheating is why its used. Server calculation. everything is calculated on the server. from hit detection to the speed and direction your walking. your computer sends the inputs, then the server reacts on them and send you back feedback. if the game processes wrongly, the server slaps your end and tells you where you should be. if the game is working normally there is no problem. if you are cheating your just gliching your own game with absolutely no effect on other players or yourself other than visual distortion.
Hes wrong though. Catching is enforcing. what they are doing is actually spectating. Its like watching somone murder a person and claiming that "yeah we know hes a criminal but we will let him murder for a bit because its easier for us that way"
I reported a cheater on the Black Ops 2 Forums over 3 months ago. The guys is not only STILL playing, he is ranked #2 in the world.
This is a major problem with not having dedicated servers, the entire banning system is automated with little to no human interaction. Cheaters can be playing for MONTHS and nothing happends. It is unacceptable at this point that a game that is over a YEAR old still has these issues.
Yup. As I said, they don't take reports. Be it a forum shame post, steam report ticket or some other way the only purpose it will serve is to make you feel a little bit better.
Not only cheaters play for months before being banned, they often never get banned at all. I still have people that cheated in my Steam friend list since MW2 days, never got banned. And I'm talking 150:0 infinite ammo headshot through 12 walls bots.
We can rip on Titanfall all we want, the fact is bar is set pretty damn low to begin with.
Titanfall runs on centralised servers (as opposed to peer to peer) so that's not the problem. The problem is that it's a typical EA launch brought to you by the guys who created Modern Warfare 2, so it's not finished and the guys in charge wouldn't know how to run anti cheat if VAC cut their balls off.
Matchmaking isn't impossible to admin, Valve (more or less) manage it with Left 4 Dead and Counter Strike, the problem is that in typical EA fashion the game has launched with extremely important features missing, the way the campaign works (or doesn't) should show that as polished as the base mechanics are Titanfall wasn't ready when it hit gold.
Well, it IS a multi-player game. Hackers and cheaters are just part of it. Like launch day server crashes and overpriced DLC. People will just have to deal with it, because I can't see a company ostracizing such a significant portion of their paying player base.
But it *SHOULDN'T* be something people will have to deal with. It SHOULDN'T be an excuse that "Oh, it's just a part of release hiccups, we just have to cope with it"
As several other people here have stated - Infinity Ward in the past has done very little to give a rats ass about the cheaters, it being a persistant problem and in the worse case scenrio cheaters stay on for MONTHS. Not having dedicated servers that people can't administrate leaves hacking and cheating to a very open and real problem. This is 2014 after all, not mid-90's counter-strike. A $60 AAA-title has much less of an excuse having these problems, and in my personal experience with every VAC-enabled game the anti-cheat system is entirely useless and the people responsable for banning people give little to no shits at all.
"It's just a part of it" is the poorest and sickening excuse there is for this kind of problem.
This is outright bonkers.
Now I'm waiting even longer to pick it up. Holy shit this is blatantly irresponsible for a multiplayer based game to not have a anti-cheat function. I've been in games with hacks and glitches before and that was a terrible experience. This is just a fucking farce if I pay for this game and expect it to play for each dollar I put into it.
to be fair, the game is rigged by itself.
oh, you just wiped the floor with the other team and they couldn't call in a titan throughout the entire match?
what side are you playing on?
right..... yea, you lose.
why? fuck you, story says you lose.
Seriously, anyone that actually bought into the hype needs to quit games forever.
I can't believe I'm having to take a position defending these greedy ass corporations. Everyone seems to jump on the hate bandwagon and crucify them for things others have been doing forever. First Origin, then TESO and now this.
This is exactly how Valve Anti Cheat works too! This is how most other AAA FPS anti cheats work as well.
When you're using an automated anti cheat system it's very counterproductive to start banning early or too often, cheats get adapted to avoid them in no time.
That being said, it should be unacceptable that automatic anti cheat is the only line of defense against cheaters. Developers not including ways for players to immediately remove cheaters from games should be crucified.
I've run into 2 aimbotters on the Xbox One, a number of lag switchers about 10 or 15 people using invincibility type cheats, but the biggest most glaring issue has been people from outside the U.S. intentionally jumping on U.S. servers to gain an unfair advantage. This has also happened in reverse where US players go to non US servers to do exactly the same thing.
Then again, some of the server bouncing is a function of how Respawn coded the servers to handle peak loads. If during peak times in say, the U.K. their servers cannot handle all of the players attempting to connect, the game will search for the next closest server. In the U.K.'s case this is the East Coast U.S. servers. The game then connects those players to the U.S. servers and the game starts with horrendous lag.
In short, one is almost guaranteed to have large numbers of games that are lagfests and players are bound to run into the other sorts of cheats that are all to common in Titanfall. I can honestly say I've never seen a game this riddled with cheaters of all stripes at launch.
What's the point of catching them if you're not going to do anything about it? You're going to deal with them eventually? Okay. So the rest of the community simply needs to shut up and suffer through it while waiting for you to get around to enforcing it?
My god...
The level of ignorance in here on how anti-cheat systems work is staggering. Absolutely confounding.
It seems many of you just don't understand or don't appreciate just how tenacious and hard-working hackers are. (as ironic as that seems)
If these anti-cheat systems instantly banned a detected hacker, the systems would become completely useless very quickly. Not because it would remove every hacker from the game but rather because the hackers would quickly learn the anti-cheat system's tricks and would adapt accordingly. This would then result in the developer having to put an incredible amount of money, time, and resources into having to re-adapt their system to the constant, ever-changing adaptations the hackers are coming up with. It's a cyclical scenario that, logistically, just isn't feasible for the developers.
If you don't get it or you don't believe me, that's fine. I don't really care. But before you start going off on Respawn, or other developers for that matter, over something you don't understand, maybe you should look up how this sort of thing works first.
Except that frequently, when players have the option to ban Cheaters, cheating is suddenly defined as "Actually being good", "Having a female voice", "Being Terrible", "Having a female voice", "Getting lucky", "Having a female voice", "Using a gun other people don't like", and "Having a female voice".
It's true. Having played multiplayer shooters for more than a decade and a half I've been banned by butthurt admins more than most. It's still a small price to pay compared to helplessness of being continuously raped by aimbotting/wallhacking cheaters.
Nowadays I find one server that fits me and stick to it, go easy on the admins for a while and make friends with them, hop to the losing team all the time and such.
I don't think I've ever been vote kicked for being good though.
Servers generally have weapon rules so kicks for that are fully justified if you're breaking them. I often see people getting flamed for their choice of weapon but I don't think I've ever seen an admin kick for that unless he made it a rule, he payed for the server so he gets to pick the weapons.
And.. female voice? What the hell have you been playing? And where? Females I know that play FPSs get so many blind defenders even when they get a slightest criticism. Just the idea of one getting vote kicked after speaking makes me laugh.
And most importantly, why the hell would you have game voip on in the first place. Even in teamplay based games nobody ever says anything constructive on it, those who bother to talk game use skype, vent, ts or other where they won't be disturbed by screeching idiots.
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
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Hello, and WELCOME to America's favorite game show:
What Did Noah Spill This Time?
I'm your host, Upset Mommy. Now, let me just explain the rules really quick for those who are new to the show. The object of the game is to correctly guess the answers to three simple questions before time runs out. For each answer you get correct, you receive a silver star. If you get all three answers correct within the time limit, you get a gold star.
Now let's begin. Okay, Question #1: What did Noah spill on Friday? You have 30 seconds to respond......
I'm sorry, that's not correct. The correct answer is dish washer soap.
That's alright, there are still two more questions. You can still receive 2 silver stars.
Question #2: Where did Noah spill the soap?
Oh, you ran out of time. The answer is on the carpet right by the front door. I'm sorry. Well, there is still one more silver star to be won!
Question #3: How mad did that make his mom?
That's correct! Very mad because it BLEACHED the carpet!! But after a while, Noah's mom was not mad any more because it was really her fault for not putting away the dish washer soap and not rinsing the carpet well enough, quickly enough. Unfortunately, you can't undo a bleached carpet.
Congratulations! You won 1 silver star. There is a bonus round however. You still have a chance to win a gold star if you leave a comment with a suggestion on what to do about the carpet to permanently hide the stain. (Keep in mind we are renters, so it's not like we can just leave it or put a rug over it)
Well, that's all for our show tonight. Thanks for playing! And tune in next time to find out.....
What Did Noah Spill This Time?
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
Interesting fact from The Leahcyclopedia
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Eli is in big trouble
Every few weeks, I get to go into Eli's class and read story books to the kids. I really like it because the kids say some really funny things and they're always really excited to have a special guest (known as the Royal Reader) in the classroom. So, yesterday I got to go yet again. As I was walking up and taking my seat, I said, "Hi everyone! I'm Mrs. Bell. I'm Eli's mom." They all love to know whose mom is the Royal Reader for the day. After I said that and was getting ready for the first book, a cute, little, blond girl on the top row of the steps who was sitting next to Eli said this to me:
"I love it when Eli's mom is here because that means Eli is here. And I have to tell you something...I think I'm falling in love with your son."
Wow! I just had to laugh, and so I did, but not too much. Then I responded, for complete lack of something better to say, "Well, he's a great kid!" And then I proceeded to read my stories. Eli didn't say anything. He just sat there with a big smile on his face and none of the other kids had any idea what was going on. They all just sat, waiting for me to start the first book.
If he's got someone totally smitten in kindergarten, what's going to happen when he gets older? I have a feeling I'm going to have to get an unlisted phone number and a bat to beat the girls off.
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Noah the DESTRUCTOR
I haven't posted in a while because I've been cleaning up after Noah. Here's what he spilled this week:
~300 Q tips
~Milk from his cereal bowl (on more than one morning)
~Decorative rocks
~Potting soil
~Princess Bubbles (he left a lovely trail down the hall too)
~1/3 of a bottle of syrup
That's probably not everything. If I left anything out, it's because I forgot or haven't found the mess yet. Fortunately, he's really cute, so I can't get too mad.
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Finally Mike can read my mind!
Just a half hour ago, I was sitting at this very computer thinking, "I would really like some cookies right now." (I think that often actually, but I never get any) And I swear not 5 minutes later, my sweetheart walks in the door with a Macey's bag in his hand. At first I thought it was just full of medicine since he was just getting home from the doctor--he has bronchitis. So, I jokingly asked, "What do you have in the Macey's bag? Is it cookies?" Just then, he turned the bag around so I could see through the translucent plastic and behold in big letters "Chips Ahoy! CHUNKY"!!! Wholly crap, I was ridiculously excited and made all sorts of happy sounds. I gave him a big hug and kiss and the promptly helped myself to some chocolaty goodness. After reaching in the bag for my last cookie, I thanked him again and then promised to share the rest of the bag with the kids after dinner. After the kids each get a few cookies, the bag will magically disappear, never be seen or heard from again....that is except by me!!!!!
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My MAY BoxyCharm box has arrived!!! Isn't she gorgeous? So I'm already most excited about the Makeup Geek blush in 'XOXO' because the blushes are not even available yet! It makes me feel so VIP! Next, I'm crazy to try The BrowGal brow gel in clear which arrived with perfect timing since I just ran out of my current one. Tonya Crooks is a known Eyebrow artist in Los Angeles, so we are super happy for her for the launch of this product. The packaging is sleek and edgy, so hopefully the product will feel the same way. I also got a cute Ella + Mila nail polish in 'Pistache' that also happens to be vegan & cruelty free - bonus! This brand is unheard for me, but I can see these becoming popular very quickly. We also got a Pur Double Ego Dual Ended Eyeliner in 'Queensland' that looks so amazing because one side is a liquid eyeliner and the other is a retractable pencil. I just wish I would have received a black one since I have so many in this color for some reason and not enough black, but that's my personal problem I guess.
The color was just right with the collaboration Boxycharm did with Starlooks on an ultra longer lip pencil in 'Charmed' which is a gorgeous nude! Lastly I got a Catherine Malandrino Romance de Provence deluxe perfume sample that doesn't have the best packaging and the smell is too sweet for my liking, but I am sure some will love it. Also the perfume sample is a bonus gift, not one of the 5 promised items. Overall I would consider this one of the best boxes I've received so far from - do they spoil us or what!? Enjoy Charmers!
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Under 11 Lions back to their best
by Mike Stephenson on September 24th, 2012
Saturday September 22nd 2012
Crofton Saints Lions U11 v Lee Ranger U11 at Seafield Park
After suffering a 4-0 defeat in the hands of Gosport FC Arrows last Saturday during their second match in the Mid Solent Youth U11A League, the Lions roared back from that under par performance this weekend with goals from Kai Sterne (4), Euan Smart (2), and one apiece from Harry O'Malley and Josh Fox, to register an 8-0 win over Lee Ranger U11 at Seafield Park. All credit must go to Lee Rangers who kept fighting and kept going right to the end.
I must also mention the referee, Joe Broadway. Immediately preceding the Lions/Rangers match Joe refereed during a fierce U15 Hants cup match on the same pitch, which went into extra time, before staying on the pitch to referee the Lions/Rangers match without a break. Well done, Joe, you earned your match fees this Saturday.
Final Score: Crofton Saints Lions U11 8-0 Lee Ranger U11
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Import your Pandora likes into an Rdio playlist
Recently I've decided to abandon Pandora and switch full-time to Rdio for all of my listening needs. Pandora is great but I hate not having the ability to play through all of the things I've liked over the years. I know Pandora uses those likes to determine what I hear from time-to-time, but I have some great stuff in there that I'd like to listen to more frequently.
I've been using Rdio since they first launched, but I've still used Pandora for "radio" functionality. Most often, this is in the car or when I really just want some background music. Rdio has since launched a "Station" feature which allows you to listen to similar artists, songs, etc, and it fills this need pretty well.
So I needed to find a way to get my Pandora likes into my Rdio account. Unfortunately there's nothing that will do this, since Pandora doesn't offer an API for you to quickly get to your likes (another reason I'm leaving Pandora - I want my data to be open). Fortunately, screen scraping isn't hard and Rdio has a full API.
- Head to http://www.pandora.com/profile/likes/username to view your likes (replace with your username, of course).
- Click "Show more" a bunch of times until you can see all of your likes on the page (the "Show more" link will be gone).
Open up a JavaScript console and type:
$tracks = $('div#track_like_pages div.section'); for (var i = 0; i < $tracks.length; i++) { var t = $tracks.eq(i); var title = $.trim($('h3.normal', t).text()); var artist = $.trim($('div.infobox-body p.s-0 a', t).eq(0).text()); console.log(artist + ' -- ' + title); }
Copy the output to a text file for later parsing. This file will spit out your liked tracks in this format:
Artist -- Track Title
So now you have a text file with all of your Pandora likes... this is a good start. Now we need to get them into Rdio.
For that, I wrote a little Python script that uses the Rdio API:
Follow the directions in the README and you should end up with a playlist of all of your past Pandora likes, like this.


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Spotlight on Literary Translators is a regular feature here at Intralingo. The aim of these interviews is to get the word out about our profession and the works we bring into other languages. The insight the interviewees provide is also sure to help all of us who are aspiring or established literary translators. Enjoy!
Spotlight on Literary Translator Sue Burke
LC: What language(s) and genres do you translate?
SB: I translate from Spanish to English, leaning toward science fiction and fantasy, including both fiction and poetry.
LC: How did you get started as a literary translator?
SB: This was a natural transition. I've been working as a professional writer, journalist, and editor for 40 years, landing my first paid job in high school. Twenty years ago I began writing fiction, mostly genre fiction, and since then I've had more than 30 short stories published and some poetry. A novel will be coming out soon.
Meanwhile, my husband got a chance to work in Europe, so we moved to Spain in December 1999. Because readers and writers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror form a close-knit international community, soon I was involved in local literary activities and enjoying the writing and friendship of Spanish writers.
I began studying Spanish in junior high school, and once I was in Spain, it improved fast by using it in daily life and by taking more classes. Eventually I earned certification as a translator, taking the Chartered Institute of Linguists Diploma in Translation examination in Madrid.
Then it was just a matter of finding opportunities to translate for publication. As a writer, I already understood the publishing field – to the extent that anyone does these days. Between economic and technological changes, everything I used to know is wrong, except that there is still no sure long-term path to success besides quality. Short-term success is another matter that no one has ever understood.
LC: What do you love most and least about this work?
SB: For me, learning a second language made my world twice as big. The language divide keeps a lot of amazing literature from reaching eager readers, and I am excited to be able to help cross that divide. I also love to write, and translating is almost like writing. I can apply what I've learned about style and expression to maintain the quality of a work across languages. Among other considerations, certain specific details about the best ways to handle dialogue–such as punctuation and dialogue tags–vary between Spanish and English. The differences between the grammar of possessive pronouns can mean that an entire sentence must be recast.
Another thing I love is that literary works have usually been professionally edited in the original language before they get to me. In that respect, they're easier to work with: they make sense and don't contain meaning-altering typos. Non-literary translation may, for example, involve working with a dental report so badly written that it's hard to tell exactly how many teeth were extracted.
However, writers are a fussy bunch, and working directly with a writer can be a joy or disaster. I was translating for one author who knew just enough English to be dangerous. He could not understand that while you can translate word for word and say, "There is rain in the street, so take your umbrella," you should still translate it as, "It's raining, so take your umbrella." I eventually fired him as a client.
LC: Can you tell us a little about a recent project?
SB: I just turned in a translation of Prodigios by Angélica Gorodischer, an important Argentinian science fiction author, to be published in 2015 by Small Beer Press. The novel features highly poetic prose in long, gorgeous, complex sentences. In Spanish, meaning can flow through a sentence because nouns, pronouns, and adjectives are gendered, so words can link back over some distance. To reproduce the text's beauty in English, I often recast them into parallel constructions. Parallel forms have marked elegant prose in English ever since the St. James Bible, which strove to reproduce ancient Hebrew poetic forms that used parallel structures rather than rhyme. Yet, because Spanish elegance draws on different historical sources, that kind of repetitive prose would seem impoverished if translated literally from English into Spanish.
Years of editing in English have helped me become aware of other writers' styles as well as my own style, and to respect what they are trying to do and the resources they are using rather than to re-do it my way, which some editors do. It has taken some effort and investigation to develop that awareness in another language, but that has been a labor of love.
Another interesting project involved working with a Spanish translator to produce the English-to-Spanish first draft of a collection of Krazy Kat cartoons, published as Krazy & Ignatz, 1925-1926 by Planeta DeAgostini. The original was written in a kind of phonetic slang popular 90 years ago but impenetrable for my Spanish friend even though he's an excellent translator. Luckily, my grandfather had enjoyed that kind of joking slang and used it often, so I read the strips in his voice and understood them–and understood my grandfather a little better, too.
As a hobby, I'm also translating the Spanish medieval novel Amadis of Gaul into English chapter by chapter as a blog. There's a lot to say about that project, but on the linguistic level, medieval Spanish is easier than it looks. The Spanish Royal Academy keeps the language from changing as fast as English does, and Spanish has been a self-consciously literary language since the time of King Alfonso X. I have also accumulated some good medieval reference material, since Spaniards love their history and love to write about it.
Dear readers: Leave your questions or comments for Sue! I'm sure she'd love to hear from you.
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Gaga to perform at F1 party: Arjun Rampal
While Michael Schumacher is expected to drive a car carrying RA.One logo at the India edition of the F1 race, pop star Lady Gaga will perform at the after-party to be hosted by Arjun Rampal's restro-bar, LAP.bollywood Updated: Sep 23, 2011 14:00 IST
Arjun Rampal announced on Thursday that American pop star Lady Gaga will perform at the Formula 1 after-party, which will be hosted by the Bollywood actor's restro-bar, LAP.
"Huge event for India to get a star of her calibre. She has one million Twitter fans and over 40 million Facebook fans. It's a great feeling to get an icon like her to perform at your club, at your lounge. She is very excited to come to India and to perform here," Arjun told IANS.
The Airtel Grand Prix of India will take place at the Buddh International Circuit in Greater Noida on October 28-30.
"The F1 is one of the most glamorous and expensive sports in the world. There is huge fan following for this sport. So excited to be associated with Jaypee Sports International (JPSI) for this venture. At our lounge we are excited to show the world how great Indian circuits will be in the form of Buddh Circuit. We are creating this lounge at Jaypee Greens Golf and Spa Resort in Greater Noida from October 28 to October 30," he added.
Gaga will perform on the last day, while international DJs Roger Sanchez will perform on day one, Edward Maya second day and Tom Navy on day three.
The tickets for the first two days will be for Rs 30,000 per person while the Gaga show will cost Rs 40,000.
If the industry sources are to be believed, Michael Schumacher will drive a car carrying RA.One logo on it at the Formula 1 Airtel Grand Prix of India. SRK has even invited pop icon Lady Gaga for the film's premiere and is trying to convince her to do a song for the film as well.
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Do you love sorbet? What about rose? Do you live in a climate that demands a cold beverage when you sit outside for summertime barbecues? Yeah, you're going to love frozé if you don't already.
If you live anywhere where summer temperatures are peaking in the triple digits then you understand the necessity of sub-zero temperature beverages. Preferably icy ones.
The Dawn of the Frozé Age
Thank goodness acclaimed pastry chef Kelly Fields created this appropriately named frozen rosé cocktail as a way to escape the brutal New Orleans heat. Without her, the population would be left to sink frozen grapes into our glasses of the same rose we've been enjoying for the last three summers.
While you can, of course, make your own frozé, there is something to be said about having a perfectly proportioned frozen cocktail show up and your only mission is to drink it. For many Austinites, however, this can be more challenging than it seems on the surface.
Where Do I Get Frozen Rose in Austin?
With so many bars in the city and frozé being such a trendy beverage, how do you know if the $10 you're about to spend is truly worth it? How do you know you won't be getting an impersonator of the oh-so-popular frozé?
Well, one avenue you could choose is to dedicatedly commit yourself to trying all the establishments within city limits that offer frozen rose on their menu. However, that might take you until September at which point frozé will be gradually weaned from menus.
Now here's a holiday we can get behind, it's National Rosé Wine Day! To celebrate, we'll be popping open the closest bottle of Rosé from our friends at @littleblackdresswines . Make sure you don't miss your chance to sample some of their delicious wines at the Southern Women's Show (exhibit space #847.) Cheers to #RoséAndFrozéAllDay! #swsbirmingham #alabama #october #fun #fashion #shopping #yum #rosé #wine #winetasting #nationalroseday #froze
Alternatively, you could just trust that we've done our research (we have) and are here to bring you the top four spots where you can enjoy a frozé in ATX. Fruity, frozen, and unbelievably refreshing, these four eateries have frozé that is on point.
Whether you want to sip on a frosty glass of pink perfection for brunch or you are in need of a cup of relaxation after a hard day at work, each of these establishments has you covered, and at a fair price.


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Hala Amro
Hala of Jordan is a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) program grantee serving as teaching assistant in Arabic. She finished her undergraduate studies in Spanish and English Language and Literature from the University of Jordan in Jordan. On her third year, she was granted an ERASMUS MUNDUS scholarship to study for an academic year at The University of Granada in Spain; this experience played a major role in building her character, enriching her cultural background, enhancing her communication skills and helping her see the world with new eyes. "Learning about other countries and cultures is best done through lived experience and immersing oneself in the culture".
Hala earned her Master's Degree in Translation and Interpretation from The University of Granada in Spain. After getting back to Jordan, she worked at the University of Jordan as a Spanish Lecturer and Research Assistant. The following two years she worked for The European Union as a Language Assistant (Translator/Interpreter *Spanish-English-Arabic* and Project Coordinator) for The European Twinning Project "Strengthening The Capacities of the Audit Bureau of Jordan" through the consortium of Spain, Netherlands and Estonia. She can speak three languages (Arabic, Spanish, English) and is currently building up her knowledge of a forth language (French). She loves music, sports, travelling and sharing her culture and rich experiences with people from different countries.


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Will Mellor plays armed response officer Rod Kennedy in the new series BBC2 corrupt cop drama Line of Duty (premieres on Thursday).
Here, he talks about playing an action man and reveals how the role brought out his competitive side…
Your character in Line of Duty is part of an armed response unit that anti-corruption squad AC-12 is investigating. What more can you tell us about them?
"The armed response team is like a family unit; you've got to trust each other and stand by each other. But there's lots of tension and little lies being told within this team… there's something suspicious about all of them."
In next week's second episode, Rod seems especially on edge and undercover officer Kate Fleming (Vicky McClure) secretly thinks he could be persuaded to tell her bosses at AC-12 what he knows…
"Rod's heavily involved with the rest of his team and now finds himself in a situation he really doesn't want to be in."
Did you enjoy getting to use a gun in this show?
"When I did another cop show, No Offence, I was gutted that I didn't have a gun – and in this one I had two! I had a rifle, a gun on my hip and a Taser – I was like: 'Give me it all'! But then I regretted it when I had to run 100 metres! I was like: 'Take it off!' It suddenly stops being so glamourous!"
What was firearms training like?
"It totally brought out my competitive streak in me because once they said: 'We're going to see who's got the best shot' I suddenly zoned in and I was like: 'I have to win!' Arsher (Ali, who plays PC Hari Baines) was doing really well and I think he got 47 out of 50 shots on target and I got 49. He pointed out that I took my time a bit more and I went: 'Well, then there's a lesson to be learned!'"
L-R: PC Rod Kennedy (Will Mellor), Sgt Danny Waldron (Daniel Mays), PC Hari Bains (Arsher Ali) andWPC Jackie Brickford (Leanne Best)
Sounds like you had fun…
"Yeah, we all really bonded as a team and became like our own little unit – we were just shooting guns, having a laugh and not talking about work and it made us closer. You need to have a bit of banter on set so that, when you're doing your scenes, you know how far to go with each other."
So have you enjoyed getting to play a bit of an action man?
"It is a bit of a dream – I did it all the time as a kid, so it feels like I've been rehearsing for this role all my life. I was over the moon when I heard I was getting a gun – kicking down doors while shouting 'Armed police', I could do that all day!"
Do you think it's a job you could do for real?
"Well, because of my gun record, I got told by the professionals that I could have a job. But I'm a complete wuss really. I don't go anywhere I can get shot at – I'll keep that on the acting front!"
Line of Duty is known for its intense interrogation scenes. What's it been like filming those?
"Thankfully, I get away with not doing a really lengthy one. When I read the script I was like: 'Please, no, please, no, please, no… Yay, it's not me!' You've got to remember some serious jargon for those… it's like being a doctor. When I did Casualty, I was so glad I was a receptionist, so I never had to use all that jargon!"
With Line of Duty, you're never entirely sure who the corrupt officers are…
"I know! It's all about the bosses from AC-12 trying to work out what's gone on and what went down and the audience goes on that journey with them. There are lots of twists and turns that will keep people guessing right to the end."
You've said in the past you wanted to get some serious drama roles under your belt and with Broadchurch, No Offence and now Line of Duty, you've achieved that. How does that feel?
"You know what it's like in this country, nobody wants to be the first to take you out of 'this' box and put you in 'that' one. I'd actually be filming something like Jimmy McGovern's The Street while I was making Two Pints of Lager. But, while The Street's shown just once, something like Two Pints would be repeated for the next three years, so it seemed like that's all I was doing. I then decided to be a bit more selective about the jobs I was doing and it seems people are now taking me a bit more seriously. Now, when the right characters come along, I just want to dive in and grab them."