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Platoon defies orders in Iraq to undertake "suicide mission"
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Clarion-Ledger (Mississippi)
Platoon defies orders in Iraq Miss. soldier calls home, cites safety concerns
By Jeremy Hudson
jehudson@clarionledger.com
A 17-member Army Reserve platoon with troops from Jackson and around the Southeast deployed to Iraq is under arrest for refusing a "suicide mission" to deliver fuel, the troops' relatives said Thursday.
The soldiers refused an order on Wednesday to go to Taji, Iraq — north of Baghdad — because their vehicles were considered "deadlined" or extremely unsafe, said Patricia McCook of Jackson, wife of Sgt. Larry O. McCook.
Sgt. McCook, a deputy at the Hinds County Detention Center, and the 16 other members of the 343rd Quartermaster Company from Rock Hill, S.C., were
read their rights and moved from the military barracks into tents, Patricia McCook said her husband told her during a panicked phone call about 5 a.m.
The platoon could be charged with the willful disobeying of orders, punishable by dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of pay and up to five years
confinement, said military law expert Mark Stevens, an associate professor of justice studies at Wesleyan College in Rocky Mount, N.C.
No military officials were able to confirm or deny the detainment of the platoon Thursday.
U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson said he plans to submit a congressional inquiry today on behalf of the Mississippi soldiers to launch an investigation
into whether they are being treated improperly.
"I would not want any member of the military to be put in a dangerous situation ill-equipped," said Thompson, who was contacted by families. "I have had similar complaints from military families about vehicles that weren't armor-plated, or bullet-proof vests that are outdated. It concerns me because we made over $150 billion in funds available to equip our
forces in Iraq.
"President Bush takes the position that the troops are well-armed, but if this situation is true, it calls into question how honest he has been with
the country," Thompson said.
The 343rd is a supply unit whose general mission is to deliver fuel and water. The unit includes three women and 14 men and those with ranking up to
sergeant first class.
"I got a call from an officer in another unit early (Thursday) morning who told me that my husband and his platoon had been arrested on a bogus charge
because they refused to go on a suicide mission," said Jackie
Butler of Jackson, wife of Sgt. Michael Butler, a 24-year reservist. "When my husband refuses to follow an order, it has to be something major."
The platoon being held has troops from Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Mississippi and South Carolina, said Teresa Hill of Dothan, Ala., whose
daughter Amber McClenny is among those being detained.
McClenny, 21, pleaded for help in a message left on her mother's answering machine early Thursday morning.
"They are holding us against our will," McClenny said. "We are now prisoners."
McClenny told her mother her unit tried to deliver fuel to another base in Iraq Wednesday, but was sent back because the fuel had been contaminated with
water. The platoon returned to its base, where it was told to take the fuel to another base, McClenny told her mother.
The platoon is normally escorted by armed Humvees and helicopters, but did not have that support Wednesday, McClenny told her mother.
The convoy trucks the platoon was driving had experienced problems in the past and were not being properly maintained, Hill said her daughter told
The situation mirrors other tales of troops being sent on missions without proper equipment.
Aviation regiments have complained of being forced to fly dangerous missions over Iraq with outdated night-vision goggles and old missile-avoidance
systems. Stories of troops' families purchasing body armor because the military didn't provide them with adequate equipment have been included in recent presidential debates.
Patricia McCook said her husband, a staff sergeant, understands well the severity of disobeying orders. But he did not feel comfortable taking his
soldiers on another trip.
"He told me that three of the vehicles they were to use were deadlines ... not safe to go in a hotbed like that," Patricia McCook said.
Hill said the trucks her daughter's unit was driving could not top 40 mph.
"They knew there was a 99 percent chance they were going to get ambushed or fired at," Hill said her daughter told her. "They would have had no way to
fight back."
Kathy Harris of Vicksburg is the mother of Aaron Gordon, 20, who is among those being detained. Her primary concern is that she has been told the
soldiers have not been provided access to a judge advocate general.
Stevens said if the soldiers are being confined, law requires them to have a hearing before a magistrate within seven days.
Harris said conditions for the platoon have been difficult of late. Her son e-mailed her earlier this week to ask what the penalty would be if he
became physical with a commanding officer, she said.
But Nadine Stratford of Rock Hill, S.C., said her godson Colin Durham, 20, has been happy with his time in Iraq. She has not heard from him since the
platoon was detained.
"When I talked to him about a month ago, he was fine," Stratford said. "He said it was like being at home."
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The following summaries are posted:
1. Top officer relieved of duties amid convoy probe
October 22, 2004 •• 549 words •• ID: jak2004102210159729
·Commander to be reassigned, no misconduct suspected, Army says By Jeremy Hudson jehudson@clarionledger.com The commander of an Army Reserve unit whose soldiers refused a fuel convoy order in Iraq last week has been relieved of her duties on her own request, the military confirmed Thursday. Citing privacy laws, the military will not name the commander. But relatives of the soldiers told The Clarion-Ledger the commander is Capt. Nancy Daniels of Birmingham who they say ordered
2. Platoon defies orders in Iraq
October 15, 2004 •• 1033 words •• ID: jak2004101511128794
Miss. soldier calls home, cites safety concerns By Jeremy Hudson jehudson@clarionledger.com A 17-member Army Reserve platoon with troops from Jackson and around the Southeast deployed to Iraq is under arrest for refusing a "suicide mission" to deliver fuel, the troops' relatives said Thursday. The soldiers refused an order on Wednesday to go to Taji, Iraq - north of Baghdad - because their vehicles were considered "deadlined" or extremely unsafe, said
3. PROFILES OF DETERMINATION
Wives speaking for soldiers who said no to convoy By Jeremy Hudson jehudson@clarionledger.com Patricia McCook and Jackie Butler have accepted a mission created when their husbands refused a fuel convoy order in Iraq last week. "He can't speak because he has to live that life in the military right now," Patricia McCook said of her husband. "I'm his voice on the outside, and there is nothing the military can do about it." "It's our job
4. Eric Stringfellow
Disobedience to ensure troops safer in long run Sgt. Michael Butler and Sgt. Larry McCook probably will not receive any medals for military duty in Iraq. In fact, the Jackson soldiers might be jailed for disobeying orders. Their military careers and benefits also are at stake. But regardless of the outcome of an Army probe or how the Army chooses to punish Butler, McCook and others, soldiers in Iraq are safer because of their gutsy challenge of what they considered a "suicide
more followup 01.Nov.2004 08:04
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url: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/oct2004/iraq-o21.shtml
from the World Socialist web site:
The New York Times and the reservists in Iraq who said "No"
By Rick Kelly and Jerry White
With its lead editorial Tuesday, "When Soldiers Say No," the New York Times has signaled its approval, in advance, for the punishment of 18 US army reservists in Iraq who last week refused to carry out what one described as a "suicide mission."
On October 13, the soldiers from the 343rd Quartermaster Company, based in South Carolina, rejected an order to drive seven unarmored fuel tankers through southern and central Iraq, where resistance fighters have repeatedly attacked US convoys.
Family members reported that the reservists were arrested and detained, though the military claims they are no longer in custody. All of those involved could face severe disciplinary measures, including loss of rank, discharge from the army—with the attendant denial of veterans' benefits—and possible imprisonment for up to five years.
"Soldiers in combat cannot pick and choose their missions, no matter how grave the risks they are asked to face," the Times editorial declared. "Legal direct orders must be obeyed."
The Times acknowledged that reserve troops, including the rebellious supply unit, had been sent into "counterinsurgency combat" without sufficient training or armor. It further noted that the soldiers' repeated appeals to commanding officers had fallen on deaf ears.
Nevertheless, the newspaper concluded: "None of these points lessen the seriousness of uniformed soldiers' refusal to carry out legal orders. An Army where discipline breaks down can neither accomplish its mission nor protect its own troops. Once the facts have been established, the men and women who refused the mission can expect to be held accountable."
For precisely what "mission" are these men and women supposed to sacrifice life and limb? The Times chooses not to say. But by charging soldiers who disobey with undermining the "mission," and demanding that they be punished, the newspaper reveals once again that, whatever its criticisms of Bush's conduct of the war, it supports the imperialist enterprise in Iraq.
The bulk of the editorial is a recitation of what the newspaper terms "catastrophic" missteps and failures by the White House and the Pentagon. While these criticisms are issued under the guise of sympathy and concern for the troops, the clear implication is that the drive to crush the Iraqi resistance must be intensified—with more US troops, and more deaths and mutilations of both Americans and Iraqis.
What the Times will not say is that the war itself is a flagrant violation of international law and the democratic rights of the American people. It is a crime, and those who planned and launched it are criminals—not those who resist orders that evince indifference and contempt for the lives of ordinary soldiers.
Every rationale given to the troops, and to the American people as a whole, for the invasion and occupation of Iraq has been exposed as a lie. So too was the claim that the invaders would be greeted as heroes and liberators by the Iraqi masses. When that fairy tale exploded, a new lie was rolled out—that those opposing the US occupation were a small group of Baathist "dead-enders," Al Qaeda terrorists, and common criminals. This fiction was combined with a new ex-post-facto pretext for the ongoing slaughter—the US was bringing democracy to the people of Iraq and the entire Middle East.
The reality is that the resistance has massive popular support, and that the US-installed interim government is despised by Iraqis—Sunni and Shia alike. Far from "liberating" the country, the invasion has caused a catastrophic decline in the living conditions of ordinary Iraqis and subjected them to a new authoritarian regime, backed by American tanks, war planes and bullets.
There is a growing awareness in the ranks of the US army of the gulf that separates the reality of their daily experiences and the propaganda emanating from Washington. Thousands of troops sense that they have been lied to, and the suspicion is growing that the authors of the war have ulterior motives that have nothing to do with democracy, peace, or the safety of the American people.
Moreover, the Bush administration's recklessness and criminality in Iraq and Afghanistan have serious and immediate implications for the safety of the soldiers. Many are undoubtedly aware that the government's flouting of the Geneva Conventions, and its use of torture at Abu Ghraib, Bagram, Guantanamo, and other military prisons, have exposed them to similarly brutal treatment should they be taken prisoner.
Throughout history, it has often been the case that the opening stages of large-scale breakdowns in military discipline were marked by soldiers questioning their superiors' competency and capacity to prosecute the war. When troops lose confidence in their commanders' leadership ability, broader issues concerning the very nature of the conflict invariably follow.
The reservists' defiance foreshadows a deeper radicalization in the ranks. Future protests will inevitably occur on a larger scale, and on a more explicitly political basis. The ruling elite—and the Times' editors—are acutely aware of this, which is why the case of the reservists is being treated with such nervousness and apprehension.
The Times' expressions of sympathy for the plight of US soldiers in Iraq are utterly hypocritical. As of this writing, more than 1,100 have been killed in combat and thousands more have been wounded, many of them maimed and crippled for life. Tens of thousands of Iraqis have been killed, and thousands more will die in the coming assaults on Fallujah and other centers of Iraqi resistance.
There is only one way to take the US soldiers out of harm's way and stop the American slaughter of Iraqis: to immediately and unconditionally withdraw all US and foreign forces and allow the Iraqi people to settle their own affairs.
The Times, which speaks for the so-called "liberal" sections of the American political and corporate establishment, stands opposed to such a course. On the question of Iraq, as well as the more general goal of establishing US global hegemony, the differences within the US ruling elite, and between its two major parties—no matter how sharp or bitter—are over tactics and means, not over principles or ends.
That is why the Times comes down on the side of the military brass and against those soldiers who dare to resist and say "No."
NOT THE N.Y. TIMES ARTICLE MENTIONED ABOVE BUT A MORE REALISTIC ONE THAT SIMPLY AMAZED ME!! WHO WOULD HAVE BELIEVED THAT THIS WAS PRINTED THERE?
url: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/18/national/18guard.html
THE G.I.'S
Soldiers Saw Refusing Order as Their Last Stand
By NEELA BANERJEE and ARIEL HART
THIS IS THE BEST OF ALL: AN INTERVIEW OF 2 OF THE WIVES WHO ARE THE ONES THAT FIRST RAISED THE CALL TO ACTION OVER THE LIES.
url: http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0443/robbins.php
A pair of Mississippi women challenge the army brass on behalf of their soldier-husbands in Iraq
The Soldiers Who Said No
by Tom Robbins
JACKSON, Miss., Oct. 17 - What does it take for a man like Staff Sgt. Michael Butler, a 24-year veteran of the Army and the Reserve who was a soldier in the first Persian Gulf war and a reserve called up to fight in the current war in Iraq, to risk everything by disobeying a direct order in wartime?
On the morning of Oct. 13, the military says, Sergeant Butler and most of his platoon, some 18 men and women from the 343rd Quartermaster Company, refused to deliver a shipment of fuel from the Tallil Air Base near Nasiriya, Iraq, to another base much farther north.
The Army has begun an inquiry, and the soldiers could face disciplinary measures, including possible courts-martial. But Jackie Butler, Sergeant Butler's wife, and her family in Jackson say he would not have jeopardized his career and his freedom for something impulsive or unimportant.
The soldiers, many of whom have called home this weekend, said their trucks were unsafe and lacked a proper armed escort, problems that have plagued them since they went to Iraq nine months ago, their relatives said. The time had come for them, for her husband, to act, Ms. Butler said.
"I'm proud that he said 'no,' " Ms. Butler said. "They had complained and complained for months to the chain of command about the equipment and trucks. But nothing was done, so I think he felt he had to take a stand."
Other soldiers completed the mission the platoon turned down, the military kept functioning, and the Army has cast the incident as isolated.
But as the soldiers involved in the refusal in Tallil and others begin to speak out, it is growing more apparent that the military has yet to solve the lack of training, parts and equipment that has riddled the military operation in Iraq from the outset, especially among National Guard and Reserve units.
Brig. Gen. James E. Chambers, commander of the 13th Corps Support Command, which the 343rd reports to, said at a news conference in Baghdad on Sunday that he had ordered two investigations into the incident and the concerns expressed by the 18 soldiers "regarding maintenance and safety.''
General Chambers said preliminary findings showed that the unit's trucks were not yet armored and were among the last in his command to get such protection, because they usually functioned in less dangerous parts of Iraq. None of the trucks in his command were armored when they arrived in Iraq, General Chambers said. He told reporters that he had ordered a safety and maintenance review of all trucks in the 343rd.
"Based on results of this investigation other actions may be necessary,'' the general said, but he added, "It's too early in the investigation to speculate on charges or other disciplinary actions.''
General Chambers described the episode as "a single event that is confined to a small group of individuals.''
A number of Army officers contacted in recent days said such an apparent act of insubordination was very unusual, particularly among such a large number of soldiers in a single unit and especially since the military is all volunteer.
The incident has prompted widespread interest among military families who have complained in months past of inadequate equipment and protection for their soldiers.
Nancy Lessin, a leader of Military Families Speak Out, which opposes the war, said she had been flooded with calls and e-mail from families with a simple message: What had happened to the reservists echoed the conditions their own soldiers experienced in Iraq: a shortage of armored vehicles, especially for part-time soldiers' units; convoy missions through dangerous stretches without adequate firepower; and constant breakdowns among old vehicles owned, especially, by National Guard and reservist units.
"This is absolutely striking a nerve," Ms. Lessin said. "People are saying, 'This is the same thing that happened to my son,' and if the Army tries to spin this as 'just a few bad apples,' people need to know that these are common problems and what these soldiers did required a tremendous amount of courage."
Nothing seems to separate the men and women who defied their command in Tallil from the tens of thousands of others now in Iraq, their families say. The 343rd was drawn mainly from Southern states like the Carolinas, Alabama and Mississippi, and the military said Friday that the 343rd had performed honorably during its tour in Iraq.
The soldiers in the platoon are described as devoted to the military and unabashedly patriotic. A wall of Sergeant Butler's living room is covered with certificates and citations from the Army. Another member of the 343rd, Specialist Joe Dobbs, 19, of Vandiver, Ala., had his bedroom painted the dark blue of the American flag. And another soldier in the unit, Sgt. Justin Rogers of Louisville, Ky., liked to walk around town in his uniform when he was home on leave, said Chris Helm, a 14-year-old high school student and his first cousin.
When Sergeant Rogers went home for a two-week leave in July, his brother Derrick asked whether the war and all the deaths were worth it. "His answer was simple," Derrick Rogers said. "He said, 'If I didn't feel like it was worth it, I wouldn't be there.' ''
Ms. Butler did not want to speak for her husband on his feelings about the war. Better he should do that when he is finally home, she said, which is scheduled to be sometime next year. But Sergeant Butler knew he would be called up, once the war against Iraq was begun in March 2003. Late last year, he reported to Rock Hill, and quickly, his confidence was shaken, his wife said. He saw that the equipment to be shipped with his unit was "not very good," Ms. Butler said.
Once the unit arrived in Iraq, the inadequacy of the platoon's equipment and preparedness was thrown into sharp relief against the dangers the country posed. Although the unit is based near Nasiriya in the Shiite-controlled south, which is not as volatile as Sunni-dominated areas, the whole country has been convulsed by battles and uprisings during most of the 343rd's tour of duty. "This is not the first time that there has been a problem with these charges and stuff, with them not having armor, not having radios," said Beverly Dobbs, mother of Specialist Dobbs. "My son told me two months ago - he called me, he said, 'Mom I got the scare of my life.'
"'I said what's wrong?'" Ms. Dobbs said. "He said, 'They sent us out, we come under fire, our own people was shooting and we didn't even have radios to let them know.' They're sending them out without the equipment they need. I don't care what the Army says."
Families that spoke to the soldiers this weekend received slightly differing accounts of what happened the morning of Oct. 13. They all said, however, that fuel the soldiers had to deliver was unusable because it had been contaminated with a second liquid. They all said the soldiers were under armed guard. General Chambers denied both assertions. Relatives say that Sergeant Butler, Sgt. Larry McCook of Jackson and Specialist Scott Shealey of Graysville, Ala., have been identified as three of five "ringleaders" of the incident and reassigned to other units on the air base. Specialist Shealey's parents said their son said in a telephone call that he was going to be discharged.
"He'll be home in three to four weeks, that's what he's being told," said Ricky Shealey, Specialist Shealey's father, a retired Postal Service supervisor and former sergeant in the Army. "He's depressed," Mr. Shealey said. "He just can't believe it's happening."
Ms. Butler said her husband did not know what he might be facing and had heard nothing about a discharge. Other families said the military had yet to contact them to explain the situation. The families have not hired lawyers yet, in large part because they are uncertain what charges might be brought against their relatives.
Some families are reaching out to one another through e-mail and phone calls, offering help and discussing strategy. They have contacted their members of Congressmen. Others, like Ms. Dobbs and her family, are glued to television news, awaiting some clarification of the incident.
Ms. Butler has her big family to lean on, and on this Sunday, the day after the phone call from her husband, they went to church and turned to their neighbors, friends and faith. Ms. Butler went to the altar rail of Zion Travelers Missionary Baptist Church and told the congregation: "My husband has been in the Army more than 20 years, but refused to take those men in that convoy. He said it would be suicidal.''
"So, I'm going to ask you to pray for me," she said, "because he is not going to take no other men's children into the land of death."
She bowed her head, and so did everyone else. "Lord, Sister Butler needs you," the Rev. Daniel Watkins said, shutting his eyes tight. "Her husband, he needs you. All the soldiers in Iraq, they need you."
Monica Davey contributed reporting from Chicago for this article, and Richard A. Oppel Jr. and Dexter Filkins from Baghdad.
o matter how the military ultimately decides to deal with Staff Sergeant Michael Butler for disobeying orders, once the war in Iraq is through with him, he'll be welcomed home by an adoring family and the big yellow ribbon that is pinned to the tall long-leaf pine tree outside his one-story brick house in Jackson, Mississippi.
"I am very, very proud of him. He is a definite leader, someone who is capable of doing many things," said Butler's wife, Jackie, as she sat in her living room facing a wall of awards earned by her husband during his 24 years of duty in both the regular army and the reserves. There are a half-dozen Army Achievement Medals and a plaque for "1997 NCO [Non-Commissioned Officer] of the Year." Four short words of high military praise are inscribed on it: "Can do. Damn good."
It was that same type of leadership that Butler, 44, was exhibiting this month, his wife insisted, when he and 17 others in his army reserve platoon did the militarily unthinkable by refusing direct orders to drive a convoy of fuel trucks from their post at the Tallil Air Base in southern Iraq to Taji, north of Baghdad. Butler told his wife that their breakdown-prone trucks—and the lack of steel-plated armor on the vehicles—made them sitting ducks for hostile fire along the 200-mile route. According to Jackie Butler and family members of others in the unit, commanders of the 343rd Quartermaster Company reacted by arresting the soldiers at gunpoint, reading them their rights, and holding them in a tent under guard for 24 hours—actions denied by army spokesmen.
A day later, after Jackie Butler and others spread the alarm, the incident was worldwide news, providing sharp focus to charges that many troops in Iraq lack adequate equipment, criticism that dogged the Bush administration even before Democrat John Kerry made it a stock element of his stump speech. It has also rekindled memories of the last days of the Vietnam War, when there were incidents of demoralized U.S. troops refusing orders they believed would accomplish little other than placing themselves in peril.
Jackie Butler said she was less concerned with the big-picture implications of her husband's actions than the fact that he was in trouble and needed her help. That news had come in an alarming call in the early morning of October 14 from a stranger who said he was a lieutenant in the army in Iraq and friendly with her husband. "He said, 'Your husband snuck this note to me to call you, that you should call your sister-in-law and she should call the lawyers she knows, because he needs their help.' I asked him what was going on, and he said, 'Your husband has been charged with disobeying orders.' I said, 'What?' He said, 'Yes, your husband has been falsely accused. He is being held under guard right now. I have to go.' Then he hung up."
Butler said she immediately began calling family members. She also left a message at the local daily paper, the Jackson Clarion-Ledger.
A couple of miles away, Patricia McCook, whose husband, Sergeant Larry McCook, 41, was also serving in the 343rd, was awoken at 5:12 that same morning when he called from Iraq.
"He was saying, 'Baby, baby, wake up, wake up please. Get a paper, take this down.' He sounded panicky. He said they were trying to make them go to a place called Taji—I can't even pronounce it. He said the trucks didn't have protection, that it was a suicide mission. He said, 'They've arrested us. They've got military police armed with guns guarding us; they read us our rights.' He said, 'Write these names down, these are the others in trouble with me.' "
Among the names her husband gave her was that of Michael Butler. The two wives had never met, but within a few days, Jackie Butler and Pat McCook were granting joint interviews to media from around the country, holding court in Butler's living room, so much in tune with each other's concerns that they noddingly finished each other's sentences.
It was a sudden and unexpected thrust into the national spotlight, putting them at the crossroads of a volatile issue at the heart of the presidential election.
In many ways, they are an unlikely pair to be taking on a mighty military establishment. Both are devout churchgoers: Butler at Zion Travelers Missionary Baptist, McCook at the Jones Chapel Church in nearby Flora, Mississippi, where her husband is a deacon. McCook is raising a pair of teenagers; Butler, a hairstylist, is stepmother to two children, ages 10 and 14. The trunk of Pat McCook's sedan bears a "Support Our Troops" yellow-ribbon sticker. Another urges people to find guidance through prayer. McCook was born in Flora and raised in Jackson; Butler has lived here all her life. Her modest but comfortable home is on a street of well-groomed lawns and spreading magnolias, a quiet neighborhood located in the city's northeast, where the only discordant note is the protective metal bars that cover most windows. It is about a mile and a half from another pleasant neighborhood of single-family homes, where Jackson civil rights leader Medgar Evers was shot dead in his driveway in 1963 by a virulent racist.
Despite the unexpectedness of the crisis, both women quickly rose to the challenge posed by the emergency messages from the other side of the world. Armed with a mutual bedrock belief in their husbands' integrity, they enlisted friends, relatives, and local politicians in a campaign to expose what they called "a terrible cover-up" by the army.
"It's a leadership problem," said McCook. "They knew those vehicles were unsafe. Why in the world would you send soldiers out unprotected like that?"
Probably their most effective calls were those to The Clarion-Ledger, where reporter Jeremy Hudson got the military to acknowledge the incident and wrote the initial account. National and international coverage followed. "I thought, Well, The Clarion-Ledger has it, that'll be it, just a local story," said McCook. "We're surprised at all the national attention."
They share the same analysis, however, of what's driving the news. "It's because it's election time," said McCook.
Both women declined to discuss their own political preferences. "I don't deal with politics," said Butler. "I vote for the best person."
They both said, however, that they believed President Bush to be badly misinformed in his assurances to the public that troops in Iraq have all necessary equipment. "He should go to the 343rd," said McCook.
"I don't know how he says these soldiers are all so enthusiastic," said Butler. "He is getting some bad information from someone."
The issue of shortages isn't new, they said.
"It's not as though this hasn't come up before," said McCook. "Even General [Ricardo] Sanchez [former commander of coalition forces in Iraq] wrote a letter to the Pentagon about the equipment problem."
"From what I was told there have been many direct orders disobeyed before this," said Butler. "But it was just one person. This was so many, all at the same moment."
"They all stood together, they made a united front, that's what makes the difference," added McCook. "It's like a fist, it makes a mighty blow. I know you don't have any clout when you stand alone."
Pat McCook has a first-person understanding of how the military works. She spent three years on active duty, serving as an army administrative specialist in 1983 in Fort Polk, Louisiana, where she met her husband. "I loved everything about him," she said. Larry McCook followed her home to Jackson and, about 10 years ago, joined the army reserves. He was working for the Hinds County Sheriff's Office as a detention officer when he was called up last year. In February, he was shipped to Iraq from Rock Hill, South Carolina, where the 343rd is based.
Iraq is Michael Butler's second round of combat in the Middle East. He served in the 1990-91 Gulf War and came home to Jackson, maintaining his enlistment in the reserves. He married Jackie three years ago. When he was summoned for active duty last fall he was working as a carpenter for the Jackson public school system. "I asked him why he was in the army," said Jackie Butler. "He said, 'Baby, I volunteered. I was looking to serve my country, and I wanted to go to school.' He did, too. He got himself licensed as a mechanic and learned carpentry skills. He did well by the army."
Jackie Butler gave her husband a pre-paid telephone calling card when he left. When he was able, they managed to speak two or three times a week. Not all of the calls were reassuring. "I've been talking to him on the phone when I hear the bombs coming in. You hear that sound, 'Ssssss,' and the explosion, and then my husband says, 'Got to go, baby.' "
Michael Butler was home for a two-week leave at the end of August. "He was fine. We didn't go out much; we had the family over, had a lot of fun, eating and laughing. At night, though, me and him would sit together and talk. He talked about the problems he was having over there, the trouble with the equipment. He told these stories. I said, 'Just go to him, your commander.' He said, 'She's a female, and I tried that. She's not going to do anything.' "
Pat McCook also noted changes in her husband after he went to war. "Most of all I love his sense of humor; he is just a naturally funny man. People say he even looks like Eddie Murphy so he should be funny. But ever since he went over, I don't hear it as much in him. I can tell he's worried."
Their husbands' complaints kept coming back to the trucks, both women said. "I remember him pulling out of Rock Hill, South Carolina," said Jackie Butler. "They had to drive down to Fort Stewart, Georgia. Even then the trucks were breaking down. He said he could've outrun those trucks, they went so slow. They were just no good."
In Iraq, breakdowns had occurred while the trucks were on their way to deliver fuel and supplies, the men told their wives. "He said they just sleep on top of the trucks when that happens," said Jackie Butler.
"What they wanted was bulletproof armor for the trucks," said Pat McCook. "At least it gives them a fighting chance."
McCook and Butler weren't the only ones sending up alarms about the incarceration of the platoon members. Relatives of other soldiers in the 343rd also called the media. Some offered a different explanation for the platoon's refusal to take the convoy to Taji. Rick Shealey of Quinton, Alabama, said his son Scott, 29, told him by phone that the fuel the platoon was ordered to deliver to Taji had been contaminated by diesel fuel and had been rejected as unusable when they had tried to deliver it to another army location.
"They had just got back from that trip when they got woken at 4 a.m. and told to take it to Taji," Shealey said. "The soldiers sat there for three hours arguing with the commander, saying it didn't make sense. They were saying, 'Now what if that bad fuel got into a helicopter?' " said Shealey. "I asked my son, 'Wasn't you all tired?' He said, 'Daddy, we do that every day. Tiredness doesn't matter. We are used to it. The point was that the fuel was contaminated. That's the whole reason.' "
Jackie Butler and Pat McCook said that their husbands never raised the fuel issue in their initial conversations, and since then, both women say, their husbands have been guarded in their conversations with them about the incident. "We try not to talk about stuff like that over the phone now," said Butler.
Whatever the army's reasons—either the mini-maelstrom kicked up by the media, or its own second thoughts—the platoon members were freed after being held for about a day, according to relatives. Five members of the platoon, however, including Butler, McCook, and Shealey, were sent to other units. "They saw them as the ringleaders," said Jackie Butler. Pat McCook said her husband told her he is back driving a fuel truck again, this time one in good condition and equipped with armor. "He said it's like going from driving a Yugo to driving a Cadillac," she said.
The army has sent other signals that it recognized that the soldiers had legitimate gripes. Last week, the military confirmed that the commander of the 343rd had been relieved of her duties. Although the army refused to name her, The Clarion-Ledger reported that it was Captain Nancy Daniels, the commander whom sergeants McCook and Butler had complained about. There have also been reports that the army will seek to have the leaders of the revolt released under a general discharge rather than bring courts-martial against them.
"What I would like is to have the army admit that this is why these soldiers did this—to save lives of other soldiers," said Jackie Butler. "They should fix the problem, finish the mission, and get our husbands home—"
"Alive and whole," interjected Pat McCook, beside her on the couch.
"The same way they left," added Butler.
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The American military is there in Iraq for the culling of American service men and women. There is a more sinister reason for sending the fuel convoy into certain death after delivery of contanimated fuel for American helicopters. They don't want the story of "insurgents" to be any other than the official storyboard they have designed for public consumption. Pockets of "insurgents" creating chaos in Iraq. Juat bear in mind who is creating this image in your minds and to what purpose.


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Austria 2017: conflict mobilization in a reconstructing political landscape
Carolina Plescia Sylvia Kritzinger Patricia Oberluggauer
On the 15th of October 2017, Austrian voters are called to the polls to elect a new parliament (Nationalrat). The snap elections were called immediately after Sebastian Kurz, the 31-year-old minister of foreign affairs succeeded Reinhold Mitterlehner as leader of the Christian democratic People' s Party (ÖVP) in May 2017. Kurz's leadership and a new party brand ("The new People's party") lead to an enormous ascent in the polls for the party.[1] As of today, less than a week before the election, Kurz's way to the Austrian chancellorship appears to be rather sure.
Sebastian Kurz was successful in establishing himself in the eyes of media and many voters as representing a fresh approach to politics – even though he has been the minister for Foreign Affairs and Integration since 2013 – with tough stances towards immigration. During the large inflow of migrants in 2015-16, the immigration issue was a strong driver of support for the radical-right Freedom party (FPÖ), which has had the lead in the polls since then. In recent months however, Kurz was able to take ownership of the immigration issue by conveying a clear anti-immigration position, thus eclipsing the FPÖ. The Social Democrats (SPÖ), the current chancellor party, is largely expected to fare in third place. The SPÖ had hoped that the appeal of its new leader, Christian Kern – until May 2016 manager of the public railway with little political experience – would grow as the campaign intensified. However, due to a series of missteps in the election campaign and given the strong focus of the campaign on immigration, issues clearly owned by Kurz and the FPÖ, the support for the SPÖ has deteriorated and remained behind the other two main parties.
An online CAWI survey study conducted by the Department of Government at the University of Vienna in the context of a broader comparative research project of the Italian Center for Electoral Studies (CISE) provides a snapshot of the preferences and priorities of the Austrian electorate. Similarly, to what has recently been done for the Dutch, French, German and British elections, respondents in Austria were asked to express their support on a wide set of positional issues (these are divisive issues that refer to two rival goals, e.g. public spending vs. tax cuts). Specifically, each respondent was asked to position herself on a 6-point scale where the respective poles represent the two rival goals to be pursued on a given issue. Later, respondents were asked to indicate the priority they assign to the selected goal for each of these issues. The questionnaire also included ten valence issues, namely issues that refer to one shared goal (e.g., fight unemployment, fight against corruption). On these issues, respondents were asked to attribute their level of priority.
Table 1 summarizes the main findings from the CAWI survey, reporting the ten most salient issues among the overall Austrian electorate, the party that "owns" the issue, and the party with the highest generalized issue yield score on that issue. Issue ownership refers to the idea that parties have long-standing reputations for competence and the ability of handling certain issues (Petrocik 1996); the issue yield score, based on the issue yield theory (De Sio and Weber 2014), measures the favorability for the party of campaigning on that issue.
Table 1 unsurprisingly shows that, as in much of the rest of the countries included in the comparative project, valence issues such as fighting unemployment, crime and protecting from terrorism receive the top levels of priority in Austria. These valence issues tap both immigration and welfare issue and score equally well. Interestingly, the issue of terrorism is very salient although Austria has not been subject to terrorist attacks directly. Various court cases and police operations against IS warriors from Austria may be responsible for this high issue importance. Turning to the positional issues, those related to immigration score high, including asylum rules and refugee quotas as well as issues related to social welfare connected to immigrants (i.e. restricting access welfare benefits for immigrants).
The issue ownership column in Table 1 lists the party the electorate thinks is the most competent in handling a specific issue. We clearly see that the three main parties, SPÖ, ÖVP and FPÖ control almost all of the salient issues. The only exception is the issue of corruption that is controlled by Liste Pilz. Peter Pilz – a long-standing MP for the Greens with a well-known reputation as "corruption fighter" – has formed its own party in June 2016 after intra-party conflicts within the Greens.
Table 1 – List of issues with the highest priority included in the survey (click to enlarge).
The most-right column in Table 1 indicates the party with the highest generalized issue yield score on that issue. In other words, this is the party, which should emphasize the issue most than any other parties during the electoral campaign to maximize its votes. It is not surprising to observe that the three largest parties (SPÖ, ÖVP and FPÖ) have the best yields: this is in line with the other countries in the project. In particular, Table 1 shows that the ÖVP and FPÖ have the highest yield on most of the issues that have priority for the electorate – all related to immigration issues. Importantly, so far the ÖVP and FPÖ have been successful in keeping the election campaign focused on precisely these topics. On the other hand, the SPÖ has been unable to raise interest on the issues with its highest yield like unemployment and affordable homes: this explains why the FPÖ and the ÖVP are currently in the lead in the polls while the SPÖ is struggling to increase its support. One exception to the mainstream prevalence on salient issues is represented by the fight on corruption, on which the Liste Pilz has the highest issue yield. On the issue of refugee quotas the liberal NEOS have the best yield. While this party attribution may seem surprising, it in fact reflects the strong advocacy by the NEOS for a European-wide solution to solve the immigration issue. Apart from these two exceptions, the three smaller parties, i.e. Liste Pilz, the Greens and the NEOS, never show the highest yield: this means that whatever they decide to talk about during the election campaign, they may favor some other party more than they help themselves. Overall, the various ways of analyzing issues show that the issues dominating the Austrian electoral campaign are clearly helping the two parties on the right of the ideological spectrum – the ÖVP and FPÖ – reflected on their current lead of the opinion polls.
The proportional system in Austria makes a coalition agreement a necessary step in the formation of the government. Giving the unwillingness of the ÖVP and the SPÖ to form a grand coalition again, and given that the ÖVP and the FPÖ remain closer to each other in terms of policy platforms, a result in line with current polls would be a coalition consisting of the ÖVP and the FPÖ, with Sebastian Kurz taking up the position of chancellor. Austria would then have the youngest head of government in Europe ruling together with one of the most successful far-right populist party in Europe mostly focused on the various issues related to immigration. Which repercussions this will have on the old conflict line including economic and social welfare issues remains to be seen.
De Sio, L., and Weber, T. (2014). 'Issue Yield: A Model of Party Strategy in Multidimensional Space' American Political Science Review 108 (4): 870–885.
Petrocik, John R. (1996). 'Issue Ownership in Presidential Elections, with a 1980 Case Study', American Journal of Political Science, 40(3): 825–850.
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Carolina Plescia
Carolina Plescia è Assistant Professor ed Hertha Firnberg Scholar presso il Dipartimento di Governo dell'Università di Vienna. La sua ricerca si concentra su opinione pubblica, comportamento elettorale e rappresentanza politica. Presso l'Università di Vienna, è tra responsabili della componente sondaggio nell'ambito del progetto RECONNECT H2020 ed è coinvolta nello sviluppo di AUTNES (Austrian National Election Study). È autrice di Split-Ticket Voting in Mixed-Member Electoral Systems (ECPR Press), e i suoi lavori sono stati pubblicati in riviste quali Political Psychology, West European Politics, Electoral Studies e Party Politics.
Sylvia Kritzinger
Sylvia Kritzinger è Professoressa di Metodi di Ricerca nelle Scienze Sociali presso il Dipartimento di Governo dell'Università di Vienna. I suoi interessi di ricerca vertono su comportamento politico e ricerca elettorale, rappresentanza democratica e comunicazione politica. È tra gli studiosi che dirigono AUTNES (Austrian National Election Study) e i suoi lavori sono stati pubblicati su diverse riviste accademiche, tra cui il British Journal of Political Science, Political Communication e il Journal of European Public Policy.
Patricia Oberluggauer
Patricia Oberluggauer è una studentessa di dottorato all'Università di Vienna nell'ambito del programma in comportamento politico. Dall'ottobre del 2016 ha una borsa di studio uni:docs e lavora alla sua tesi di laurea "Class Voting Revisited". Prima ha studiato la scienza politica all'Università di Vienna e all'Università di Zurigo. Durante il suo master, è stata impiegata presso l'Università di Vienna come assistente alla ricerca presso il Centro di Facoltà per i Metodi di Scienze Sociali e come organizzatore della ECPR Winter School. I suoi interessi attuali di ricerca includono il voto di classe, il risultati elettorali dei partiti della destra radicale, e il diritto di voto ai sedicenni.
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North/South: The Great European Divide
By Ricardo J. Quinones
The division of European society and culture along a North/South axis was one of the most decisive and enduring developments in the modern world. In North/South, which completes a trilogy of works devoted to the study of the mind and body of Europe, Ricardo J. Quinones examines the momentous early modern origins of this division. Quinones focuses on four concepts connected with the Protestant Reformation whose emergence defines the rise of the North and the subjugation of the South: Christian liberty, skepticism, tolerance, and time. Tracing their influence through the political and philosophical conflicts of the era and forward into the Enlightenment, he suggests that they constitute the basis of Europe's transformation between the sixteenth century and the dawn of the industrial revolution.
A fascinating combination of cultural and intellectual history, philosophy, and comparative literature written in the vein of Quinones' award-winning Dualisms, this work, called "dazzling" by one critic, shows a contemporary pertinence with the relapse of the South into the subordinate position which it was thought to have overcome.
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North/South focuses on the dramatic changes in the intellectual and political typography of a Europe divided between the countries of the North and of those of the South.
"Ricardo Quinones offers a sweeping exploration into the North and South division in which he succinctly describes not only his own perspective, but also perspectives of early modern to modern writers, scholars, philosophers, and statesmen…This intellectual history offers an intriguing view of the origin of the Europe's North-South division that continues to the present."
Jennifer Tellman, Louisiana State University
The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol xlix, no 2, Summer 2018
"This is an excellent and intellectually stimulating book, inviting the reader to ponder the unconventional interpretations offered by the author."
Erika Rummel, Department of History, University of Toronto
"In North/South, Ricardo J. Quinones eloquently moves from the greatest writers, to the greatest historians of ideas to the actual history as it occurred on the ground. The author's erudite and thought-provoking work goes a long way toward straightening out the complex cultural history that divides the fate of north and south. North/South is the culmination of a lifetime of thinking and writing about the great literature, the key ideas, and the broader cultural history that unfolded with such marked contrast in two different realms of the modern world."
David M. Hertz, Department of Comparative Literature, Indiana University
Ricardo J. Quinones is a professor emeritus in the Department of English at Claremont McKenna College.
Chapter 1: Ground-works
Chapter 2: Decline and Resistance
Chapter 3: The Challenge of Ideas
Chapter 4: Tolerance Twin to Incredulity
Chapter 5: The Paradox of Time and the Moderns
Chapter 6: Major Figures and Causality
Chapter 7: Centering the Great Bases in Thought
Chapter 8: English Thought: John Milton, John Locke and John Stuart Mill
Chapter 9: The Edict of Nantes, Toleration and Voltaire
Chapter 10: The Pending Revival of the South
Chapter 11: Toward a Summation
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El estilogloso (Styloglossus) es un músculo de la lengua—un músculo extendiéndose a cada lado de ella—delgado y par, que ensancha la lengua y la lleva hacia arriba y hacia atrás. Es el músculo más corto de los tres músculos estiloideos o Ramillete de Riolano (estilohioideo, estilofaríngeo, estilogloso), y se extiende desde la apófisis estiloides hasta las partes laterales de la lengua.

Origen
El músculo Styloglossus nace en los lados anterior y externo de la apófisis estiloides del hueso temporal, cerca de su punta; en la parte más alta de la inserción del ligamento estilomaxilar. Desde su origen, el músculo se dirige oblicuamente hacia abajo y adelante, ensanchándose en su trayecto y doblándose ligeramente sobre sí mismo de manera tal que su cara anterior tiende a hacerse externa. En esa dirección pasa en medio de las arterias carótida interna y externa.

Inserciones
Llegado cada músculo a su respectivo lado de la lengua, inmediatamente por detrás del pilar anterior del velo del paladar, se dividen en tres fascículos, que se distinguen por su situación, en inferiores, medios y superiores. Los fascículos inferiores, oblicuos hacia abajo y adelante, se introducen entre las dos porciones del músculo hiogloso y se continúan, por debajo de este músculo en parte con haces del músculo lingual inferior y en parte con los del geniogloso. Los fascículos medios siguen el borde correspondiente de la lengua y describen una ligera curva de concavidad interna. Finalmente los fascículos superiores o internos se inclinan hacia dentro y se dirigen horizontalmente al septum medio de la lengua, en el que terminan por fuera de los músculos intrínsecos (músculos lingual superior, lingual inferior, vertical, y transverso de la lengua).

Relaciones

El estilogloso corre por dentro de la glándula parótida, el músculo pterigoideo interno, la mucosa lingual —que lo recubre— y el nervio lingual. En su trayecto por el espacio submandibular, se ubica por fuera del ligamento estilohioideo, el constrictor superior de la faringe y el músculo hiogloso.

Anatómicamente, existe una región en el cuello llamado espacio parafaríngeo, descrito con la forma de una pirámide, con la base hacia el cráneo y el vértice haciendo contacto con el cuerno mayor del hueso hioides. Se separa de la columna cervical hacia atrás por los músculos paravertebrales, limita hacia adelante con hazas del músculo pterigoideo, medialmente —hacia la línea media— limita con la nasofarínge por medio del músculo tensor del velo del paladar. Es en este espacio parafaríngeo donde se sitúan los músculos estiloideos —junto con el músculo digástrico son también llamados diafragma estíleo— incluyendo el estilogloso.

Acción
Dirige la lengua hacia arriba y atrás asistiendo al movimiento de la deglución. En conjunto con la acción del músculo homólogo del lado opuesto, tiende a apilicar la lengua fuertemente contra el velo del paladar.

Irrigación e inervación
El músculo estilogloso posee la inervación motora lingual dada por el XII par (hipogloso), además de recibir fibras del IX par (glosofaríngeo). La irrigación sanguínea proviene de la arteria lingual —rama de la arteria carótida externa— y de la vena lingual, que drena en la vena yugular interna por medio de la vena tirolinguofaringofacial.

Patologías
La celulitis y otras infecciones de los premolares inferiores pueden penetrar el espacio sublingual, comprometiendo al estilogloso y otros músculos de la lengua. Un absceso en el espacio retrofaríngeo —en la parte posterior y lateral de la faringe— puede resultar en relación con la mucosa y músculos de la lengua.

En las patologías de la masticación, causadas por síndromes o trastornos como el síndrome de Hutchinson, la estimulación eléctrica del músculo estilogloso resulta parte del tratamiento para mejorar la calidad de la masticación, usualmente precedido por reconstrucciones mandibulofaciales. Rehabilitación Neuro-Oclusal.

Por la cercanía al nervio trigémino, el espacio parafaríngeo, que contiene al músculo estilogloso puede verse afectado en casos de schwannomas del trigémino. Los schwannomas son un tipo de tumor cerebral que representan entre un 8-10% de los tumores intracraneales. Ocasionalmente, pueden penetrar hacia los nervios trigéminos, en cuyo caso, resultan en masas que ocupan espacio por delante del hueso temporal, extendiéndose por las vainas que recubren los nervios en cuestión y ocupando regiones circunvecinas.

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Referencias

Cavidad oral
Lengua (anatomía)
Estilogloso

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Carey Averbook examines the brave Bolivians who have uprooted the entirety of their lives to relocate to Northern Virginia in Only the Bridge Matters Now. There is a belief in Bolivian culture that the most dangerous thing for the community is to forget one's origins; therefore these emigrant communities bring nearly all of their possessions to their new homes abroad to bridge the gap in between.
Looking at the qualities of fragility and agility as states achieved by organic matter, Tatiana Gulenkina experiments in cameraless photography. She captures the fleeting moments occurring through the decay of organic material, aptly named, Things Merging and Falling Apart. The transformation of persistent objects on a light sensitive surface ultimately reflect Gulenkina's ephemeral emotional states, both tenuous and ever changing.


Yesterday, Vox.com's Matthew Yglesias published an article about a chart on our website which appeared to reveal a decline in capital investment in cable infrastructure over the last five years. After taking a close look at the chart, we can see how Yglesias arrived at this conclusion, because the chart had a few simple errors. We've gone ahead and updated and reposted an accurate chart which tells a positive story about how light regulation has led to healthy and growing investment in broadband networks. We've also posted above the full data set which shows annual infrastructure investment figures since 1990 and demonstrates that there is a clear and sustained level of investment. The bottom line is that cable's broadband invest has remained significant and steady, and is on the upswing. Data from SNL Kagan, an independent third party, show cap-ex over the last two years is six percent higher than 2011, a number that is expected to continue at or around the current pace for the foreseeable future. Since 1996, cable has invested $213 billion in infrastructure growth building out a nationwide fiber-rich broadband network that millions of consumers enjoy every day. Infrastructure investment is cyclical in nature but over the last seven years, capital investment levels have ranged between $13 billion and $14.5 billion, and the levels for the last two years were higher than the previous three years. The cable industry has and will continue to invest billions annually to build vibrant broadband networks that continue to increase in speed and scope. With growing consumer demand for Gigabit Wi-Fi and cable's ultra-fast Gigasphere service, that virtuous cycle of investment and improvement will only continue provided we stay true to a regulatory model premised on marketplace competition, and not 19th Century regulation.


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Checklist for Planning a Housewarming Party
By Lorna Hordos
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Moving to New Home Checklist
The purchase of a new home deserves celebrating, but any celebration can have you spinning in circles if you don't have an organized plan. A housewarming-party checklist, including everything from the budget to the party-day details, can prove to be invaluable.
Your budget, whether modest or mountainous, has a big impact on any get-together. Determine how much you are going to spend and then plan the event around the money. If the finances are tight, decide where you can save a few dollars. For example, you could borrow dishes and patio chairs from close friends and family members instead of buying or renting them for a barbeque.
The food can be as laidback as hotdogs and hamburgers for an outdoor gathering, as pompous as a fine wine and cheese evening or a catered event, or as middle ground as a potluck supper. But the cost can vary significantly, so refer to your budget for a direction. Once you've settled on the type of food to be served, list everything that you'll need, from the tableware and linens to the cake, which you may want to have custom ordered in the shape and style of your new home, to the stemware or plastic cups.
Your budget can control a lot of things when you're planning a party, but it shouldn't affect the guest list. By excluding a few people, feelings could be hurt. It's better to trim expenses where possible to make sure that every important person in your family's life is invited. There's family friends and relatives -- in town and out -- your closest coworkers and, of course, the new neighbors to consider. For a small gathering, phone-call invites can be appropriate. For a larger bash, make or buy invitations. Either way, include the time, date, whether the party is casual or formal, the address and directions to your home. If it's too much for one party, you might want to have a second shindig, at a later date, to get to know neighbors.
Party Day
A housewarming party is mainly about showing off the new house; after all, whether it's your first home or your fifth, it's a big deal, and your guests will want to see every inch, so have the place party-ready and clean and tidy from one end to the other. If you've done some updates or added a few custom touches, gather up before-and-after photos -- if you have them -- to put on display in each room to show your guests as you take them on a tour throughout. Keep your list handily tucked away until the party is over so as not to forget anything, from the music and games to the canopies, coffee and end-of-party "thank-you's." By staying organized, you'll be able to relax, enjoy your guests' company and have a memorable experience.
Century 21: Housewarming Party Checklist
Lorna Hordos is a home-flipping business owner and freelance writer. She writes friendly, conversational business, home and lifestyle articles for Bizfluent, azcentral, Daltile, Marazzi, Lowes, Philips Lighting, WordPress.com and numerous other publications.
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News Armed With Science
DOD Should Focus on Short-Term Goals in Quantum Science
March 12, 2020 | BY C. Todd Lopez , DOD News
The Defense Department is focusing a lot of effort on an array of technologies involving quantum science, but the department's chief technology officer says it's important to be realistic about timelines for the most fantastic applications of that technology — and to focus on what's plausible in the short term for best equipping the warfighter.
During testimony Wednesday before the House Armed Services Committee, Michael D. Griffin, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, said quantum computing and quantum communication are not beyond the boundaries of physics, but are still long-term prospects for use in the department.
"We caution that the hyperbole surrounding these topics may be getting ahead of their military and economic utility," Griffin wrote in testimony he submitted to Congress.
Instead, Griffin said, the department is focused on quantum technology that's going to be of use to the force in the shorter term.
Army Spc. Carl Arenberg, a horizontal construction engineer, prepares his defense advanced GPS receiver for the night orienteering course during the 2014 U.S. Army Central Soldier/NCO of the Year competition at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, May 19, 2014.
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"First and foremost [are] quantum clocks to give us timekeeping, precision, synchronized timekeeping and precision [that are] two, or possibly even three, orders of magnitude better than we have today," Griffin told lawmakers. "That's critically important for maintaining communications in a GPS-denied environment where we might have to fight a war."
Quantum sensors for inertial navigation or navigation by other means, as well as quantum magnetometers to improve navigation information, are also critical technologies, Griffin said.
"These are the things that we will see in the next few years and where we are focusing a substantial amount of our effort," Griffin said.
In the department's fiscal year 2021 budget request, Griffin said, DOD has asked for $23 million to further the development of an enhanced-stability atomic clock that will provide a constant connection to sensor networks and encrypted communication channels that support DOD's most critical missions.
Quantum Tech
Quantum technology is important to the U.S. military, but DOD officials say the most spectacular realization of that technology is years away and the Department must focus on what's possible now.
Photo By: C. Todd Lopez, DOD
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Griffin also said the department is focusing on modernizing space architecture, both offensive and defensive hypersonics capabilities, and microelectronics as priorities.
"We rely on our commercial partners completely for everything we do in microelectronics, and none of our systems will work without it," he said. "So, we are fully embracing the need to be able to produce trusted microelectronics on a risk-assessed basis all the way from initial design right through fabrication and assembly," he said. "That's a critical area, and our industrial base is under siege from abroad."
The FY2021 budget request includes $597 million to improve security related to the department's use of microelectronics.
Spotlight: FY 2021 Defense Budget Spotlight: FY 2021 Defense Budget: https://www.defense.gov/Explore/Spotlight/FY2021-Defense-Budget/
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Звездното струпване в Стрелец (М24) е голямо струпване от звезди, разположено на 600 св.г. по посока на съзвездието Стрелец. Открито е от Шарл Месие през 1764.

Звездите, куповете и другите обекти, включени М24 са част от галактичните ръкав и Стрелец и Кил-Стрелец. Шарл Месие оценява ъгловия диаметър на образуванието на 1.°5, което се оказва достатъчно точно.

М24 заема голям обем – оценките за ширината му са между 10 000 и 16 000 св.г. В зрителното поле на бинокъл се виждат около 1000 звезди.

Външни препратки
 Messier 24, SEDS Messier pages

Вижте също
 Списък на обектите на Месие

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The Synergy Expert Group (Hagger et al., 2016 Hagger, M. S., Luszczynska, A., de Wit, J., Benyamini, Y., Burkert, S., Chamberland, P. E., Chater, A., … Gollwitzer, P. M. (2016). Implementation intention and planning interventions in health psychology: Recommendations from the Synergy Expert Group for research and practice. Psychology & Health, 18, 1–72. [Taylor & Francis Online], [Google Scholar] ) has provided an excellent account of research agendas and priority areas helping psychologists to further advance the field and guide future research on planning in the course of health behaviour change. The group has defined planning as one means to attain goals. It has, however, not been elaborated and agreed upon further distinctions such as action planning and coping planning although this distinction is an important and useful one. Therefore, some comments to clarify the meaning of these terms are in order. Further, a comment on the evaluation of planning effectiveness is added.