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Pfft, you call that snow. In my day we were glad of the snow. It were better than walking the 54 miles to the coal mine outside Harrogate in bare feet across boiling lava to work 18 hours down the mine before leaving the mine and walking another 16 miles to school. Of course in them days we were grateful for the chance to walk across lava and snow in our bare feet, we were lucky to even have feet. Course, anything less than 18 feet of snow was just a light dusting, we didn't call it snow until it were above the tops of t' trees.

Not only that, but we still had time to be respectful to us elders. And no-one ever had to lock their doors on account of thieves not being invented yet. And don't get me started on this so-called modern music. Or modern food.

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Pifft, and you think you had it hard in the old days. My expensive school shoes were so heavy because their souls were made of real leather, that I used to get ligament damage just walking from my chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce into the school building. Can you imagine the utter monotony of having to sit in a real-leather overstuffed chair while I took my lessons. But worst of all were the five-course silverware launches served at my school, as the afternoon was shear hell with my overfull stomach. So I would thank you Sir not to compare you happy and comfortable upbring, with my poor and bitter experience of school life.

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Pfft, you call that snow. In my day we were glad of the snow. It were better than walking the 54 miles to the coal mine outside Harrogate in bare feet across boiling lava to work 18 hours down the mine before leaving the mine and walking another 16 miles to school. Of course in them days we were grateful for the chance to walk across lava and snow in our bare feet, we were lucky to even have feet. Course, anything less than 18 feet of snow was just a light dusting, we didn't call it snow until it were above the tops of t' trees.

Not only that, but we still had time to be respectful to us elders. And no-one ever had to lock their doors on account of thieves not being invented yet. And don't get me started on this so-called modern music. Or modern food.

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Pifft, and you think you had it hard in the old days. My expensive school shoes were so heavy because their souls were made of real leather, that I used to get ligament damage just walking from my chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce into the school building. Can you imagine the utter monotony of having to sit in a real-leather overstuffed chair while I took my lessons. But worst of all were the five-course silverware launches served at my school, as the afternoon was shear hell with my overfull stomach. So I would thank you Sir not to compare you happy and comfortable upbring, with my poor and bitter experience of school life.

Brings a tear to my eye, it does.

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Work from home day!

would like to. 10 to 20 inch of snow expected in a few hours before i get back home.....

Hmmm ... that doesn't sound so good. I'm going for a recce to the Ardennes area (IVO Sedan) on friday morning and staying until sunday. Was hoping for a little better weather :-/

Well, it should be perfect for your students, Per. I mean, lousy snowing weather in the Ardennes in November or December. No one would launch a major offensive in that weather in that place.

True ... But then, we will go there with our students coming May ...

This is an interesting point. From an military educational perspective, which Ardennes battle do you feel is most critical to show your students on site and why?

I'll give you a true staff officer answer; "That depends ... [on what points/things/themes you want to teach or discuss]" ...

It also depends on what meaning you put in the word "battle" - Low level skirmish? A campaign?

In this particular case however, we're will mainly look at the 1940 campaign and the values of "Auftragstaktik (/"Mission type orders")" and wargaming an operational plan to name just a few points among many. The asymmetry between French and German doctrines that paved the way for the outcome is also interesting to discuss. Having access to relevant background material from both sides and trying to understand why the commanders made the decisions they made, and doing it in the actual terrain where they made those, is also invaluable. Then, trying to synthezise those lessons learned into something that has relevance nowadays (or in the future) is also something that we always do.

We've going to have to change the structure of this trip for various reasons, so that's why we are going on a new recce. Given how many battles that has been (historically) fought in that area however, I wouldn't be surprised if we happen to find some new interesting "stop". Some years ago, we had a (from the 1940 campaign) deviating stop at Bastogne, where the theme for discussion was "tenacity" One other stop that hasn't got anything to with 1940 is at Verdun, where we will discuss "consequences". A sobering place to discuss that theme.

Mike

"Good times will set you free" - Jimmy Buffett

"They need more rum punch" - Me


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We've going to have to change the structure of this trip for various reasons, so that's why we are going on a new recce. Given how many battles that has been (historically) fought in that area however, I wouldn't be surprised if we happen to find some new interesting "stop". Some years ago, we had a (from the 1940 campaign) deviating stop at Bastogne, where the theme for discussion was "tenacity" One other stop that hasn't got anything to with 1940 is at Verdun, where we will discuss "consequences". A sobering place to discuss that theme.

"Grown ups are what's left when skool is finished."
"History started badly and hav been geting steadily worse."
- Nigel Molesworth.

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not necessarily the act of examination, but the use of such big and expensive words...

Bravo! Its things like this that make this place absolutely irreplaceable.

Hey, it worked for me. I'm married to a veterinarian. Apparently, she found this sort of pillow talk at best intriguing, at worst tolerable.

ETA: Lousy font mismatch...

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Per, you have a very cool job!

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We've going to have to change the structure of this trip for various reasons, so that's why we are going on a new recce. Given how many battles that has been (historically) fought in that area however, I wouldn't be surprised if we happen to find some new interesting "stop". Some years ago, we had a (from the 1940 campaign) deviating stop at Bastogne, where the theme for discussion was "tenacity" One other stop that hasn't got anything to with 1940 is at Verdun, where we will discuss "consequences". A sobering place to discuss that theme.

Need a driver?

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Also, after about 10-15 years of absolute crap, my faith in the ability of post-Soviet nations to make movies about WW2 has finally been restored.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj96Ahlcak0&feature=related

I dont know if it is possible to get it with subtitles, but if you have the chance I highly recommend it. No politicizing or moralizing, just the real, terrible, awful reality of war. The story is all absolutely true, down to every single episode. My father was a tour guide there in his younger days and has told me many things that he himself, and other staff, learned in speaking with the survivors. He met the hero of the story as well.

My hat's off to the film makers at Belarusfilm.

Brother Onime - have you seen 6 part documentary (done for victory day 2010) - "Velikaja Voina"?

No. Gotta check it out.

Edit: any idea where I can find it?

Here it is (it was aired on Russian TV and later availabe on DVDs)...


Great War" ("Великая Война"). 8 Films:

http://www.1tv.ru/documentary/fi=6510


WW2 Documentary - Great War (Великая Война). 8 (split) films on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E8B31A22E025873F

Thanks Leo. I'll have to dig a bit. I found some episodes online but havent seen a site that has all of them yet. From the tidbits so far it looks amazing. Better yet, I ran across a forum of anti-Soviet history revisionists (Stalin planned to sacrifice the Red Army to Hitler in hopes of appeasement, the Red Army refused to fight, the NKVD executed anyone who retreated, that sort of thing) and they seem to have hated it, so its probably very good.

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Hi all,

Hmmm...


http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/nov/HQ_M10-167_Astrobiology.html

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NASA Sets News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery; Science Journal Has Embargoed Details Until 2 p.m. EST On Dec. 2


WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.

The news conference will be held at the NASA Headquarters auditorium at 300 E St. SW, in Washington. It will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on the agency's website at http://www.nasa.gov.

Participants are:
- Mary Voytek, director, Astrobiology Program, NASA Headquarters, Washington
- Felisa Wolfe-Simon, NASA astrobiology research fellow, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, Calif.
- Pamela Conrad, astrobiologist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
- Steven Benner, distinguished fellow, Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, Gainesville, Fla.
- James Elser, professor, Arizona State University, Tempe

Media representatives may attend the conference or ask questions by phone or from participating NASA locations. To obtain dial-in information, journalists must send their name, affiliation and telephone number to Steve Cole at stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov or call 202-358-0918 by noon Dec. 2.

For NASA TV streaming video and downlink information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv


For more information about NASA astrobiology activities, visit:

http://astrobiology.nasa.gov

Leo "Apollo11"

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Oh dear, I guess they finally captured Brother Brush-Hat...

G'night, y'all...

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Hi all,

Hmmm...


http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/nov/HQ_M10-167_Astrobiology.html

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MEDIA ADVISORY : M10-167


NASA Sets News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery; Science Journal Has Embargoed Details Until 2 p.m. EST On Dec. 2


WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.

The news conference will be held at the NASA Headquarters auditorium at 300 E St. SW, in Washington. It will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on the agency's website at http://www.nasa.gov.

Participants are:
- Mary Voytek, director, Astrobiology Program, NASA Headquarters, Washington
- Felisa Wolfe-Simon, NASA astrobiology research fellow, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, Calif.
- Pamela Conrad, astrobiologist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
- Steven Benner, distinguished fellow, Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, Gainesville, Fla.
- James Elser, professor, Arizona State University, Tempe

Media representatives may attend the conference or ask questions by phone or from participating NASA locations. To obtain dial-in information, journalists must send their name, affiliation and telephone number to Steve Cole at stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov or call 202-358-0918 by noon Dec. 2.

For NASA TV streaming video and downlink information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv


For more information about NASA astrobiology activities, visit:

http://astrobiology.nasa.gov

Leo "Apollo11"

Oh dear, I guess they finally captured Brother Brush-Hat...

G'night, y'all...

Bigger boys stole my sig

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Happy St Andrew's Day!

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Hi all,

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Also, after about 10-15 years of absolute crap, my faith in the ability of post-Soviet nations to make movies about WW2 has finally been restored.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj96Ahlcak0&feature=related

I dont know if it is possible to get it with subtitles, but if you have the chance I highly recommend it. No politicizing or moralizing, just the real, terrible, awful reality of war. The story is all absolutely true, down to every single episode. My father was a tour guide there in his younger days and has told me many things that he himself, and other staff, learned in speaking with the survivors. He met the hero of the story as well.

My hat's off to the film makers at Belarusfilm.

Brother Onime - have you seen 6 part documentary (done for victory day 2010) - "Velikaja Voina"?

No. Gotta check it out.

Edit: any idea where I can find it?

Here it is (it was aired on Russian TV and later availabe on DVDs)...


Great War" ("Великая Война"). 8 Films:

http://www.1tv.ru/documentary/fi=6510


WW2 Documentary - Great War (Великая Война). 8 (split) films on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E8B31A22E025873F

Thanks Leo. I'll have to dig a bit. I found some episodes online but havent seen a site that has all of them yet. From the tidbits so far it looks amazing. Better yet, I ran across a forum of anti-Soviet history revisionists (Stalin planned to sacrifice the Red Army to Hitler in hopes of appeasement, the Red Army refused to fight, the NKVD executed anyone who retreated, that sort of thing) and they seem to have hated it, so its probably very good.

No problem at all!

BTW, the YouTube (the links above) host all 8 episodes (I think 4 parts per episode)...

Also, as far as I saw it is very very accurate - no more Stalinist / Brezhnev political history that had no connection to reality!


Leo "Apollo11"

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Tom Label is hoping that you're wrong... though his team just lost their big lead in the Iron Bowl.

Brad - don't ever mention this again! I still can't get to sleep at night. If you think Saban had steam coming out of his ears during the press conference, you should have seen me the last two days. Just don't get it!!!! But, hey, next year will be better!

JOHN - so glad you are enjoying Alabama!!!

At least you can say that the state of Alabama has (hopefully for Auburn) had two National Champions in consecutive years!!!! Bye, bye Florida!!!!

Awww... Tom, it's hard for this Georgia Bulldog to find himself feeling very sorry for ya! Look at our past few seasons...


I will, however, agree with the sentiment in your last sentence (not that my team has had any luck over those dadgum Gators!).

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Tom Label is hoping that you're wrong... though his team just lost their big lead in the Iron Bowl.

Brad - don't ever mention this again! I still can't get to sleep at night. If you think Saban had steam coming out of his ears during the press conference, you should have seen me the last two days. Just don't get it!!!! But, hey, next year will be better!

JOHN - so glad you are enjoying Alabama!!!

At least you can say that the state of Alabama has (hopefully for Auburn) had two National Champions in consecutive years!!!! Bye, bye Florida!!!!

Awww... Tom, it's hard for this Georgia Bulldog to find himself feeling very sorry for ya! Look at our past few seasons...


I will, however, agree with the sentiment in your last sentence (not that my team has had any luck over those dadgum Gators!).

OK - didn't know you were a BULLDOG. I feel your pain. I've pulled for GA all season long especially how bad the luck was at the beginning of the season with the suspensions and all. I was really hoping you guys luck against FL - I HATE them so much!

I reallly like your coach as much as I like Saban! I hope he will be there for years to come as he is really, really good!!!
Just give him some time!!!

I would love to see a bama / ga game no matter who wins - that would be classic!!!!

Please forgive my typing as I have a borken hand at the moment but adjusting.

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Hello guys Are any of you guys gonna pick up War in the East?

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Another work from home day.

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