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Q: static url rewrite, using rewrite map is not working I have a website on azure, and I am trying to make some user-friendly urls to my websites use.
I have downloaded IIS remote manager, and did as it was explained here.
Although the article is since 2008, the GUI of the remote IIS manager is still almost the same.
after defining the rewrite map, and the rule that looks inside the map, this is the web.config that was generated:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <rewrite>
            <outboundRules>
                <preConditions>
                    <preCondition name="ResponseIsHtml1">
                        <add input="{RESPONSE_CONTENT_TYPE}" pattern="^text/html" />
                    </preCondition>
                </preConditions>
            </outboundRules>
            <rewriteMaps>
                <rewriteMap name="StaticRewrites">
                    <add key="/niceurlpart" value="/Menu/master/#/Menu?Token=7926983e-c64e-4547-85f5-d85e3c06c7a8" />
                </rewriteMap>
            </rewriteMaps>
            <rules>
                <rule name="Rewrite rule1 for StaticRewrites" patternSyntax="ExactMatch">
                    <match url=".*" />
                    <conditions>
                        <add input="{StaticRewrites:{REQUEST_URI}}" pattern="(.+)" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="{C:1}" appendQueryString="false" />
                </rule>
            </rules>
        </rewrite>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

when I enter inside the address bar: mydomain.com/niceurlpart I get:
"The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable."
Also, when I try to test the pattern inside the remote IIS manager, it fails..
am I missing something?

A: Not sure on the syntax of doing this in web.config, but the # part of a URL doesn't reach the server, so using that in your rule won't work.
If you are using angular type app and are using # for routing, then try using HTML5 mode which will get rid of the hash.
If your are after SEO, you can google '_escaped_fragment_' to get the hash value to your server. Also if SEO is your goal then we use _escaped_fragment_, along with this tool https://prerender.io


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Chronicle History
THE COALITION'S MISSION:
The Philadelphia Crosstown Coalition is a Pennsylvania non profit corporation created in 2014, directed by board of volunteers nominated by a federation of civic associations which have united to advocate on a non partisan basis for quality of life issues and, further, to share resources, best practices and economies of scale for the benefit of the Coalition and of its member organizations.
THE COALITION'S ACTIVITIES:
At an April 2014 organizational meeting, the Coalition identified four topical areas for committee activities:
Taxes and City Finance
Anti SLAPP Legislation
In addition, the delegates created four operational committees:
The activities of the committees are described in the Initiatives portion of the website.
THE COALITION'S HISTORY: 2007 to the present
A. THE COALITION & ZONING CODE REFORM (2008 - 2012): In 2007, the development community and the Nutter administration persuaded City Council to create a ballot question calling for a 32 member Zoning Code Commission to issue recommendations to reform the City's Zoning Code. The Code had been enacted in 1961.
After the ballot question passed in the May 2007 primary, four civic associations, calling themselves the Crosstown Coalition - Center City Residents' Association, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, South of South Neighborhood Association, and Society Hill Civic Association - met in the offices of Steve Huntingon, the first Chair of the Coalition, and decided to pool their funds and expertise in order to ensure a place at the table for communities in the Zoning Code Commission process.
The four civics published 13 recommendations in November of 2009, the first of which, "Improved Participation of Community Groups" led to the codification of Registered Community Organizations. Other Coalition goals, such as Civic Design Review, zoning category consolidation, and bonus revision also found their way into the current Code.
The Coalition soon expanded to include seven other organizations - East Falls Community Council, East Passyunk Crossing Civic Association, Northern Liberties Neighbors Association, Old City Civic Association, Overbrook Farms Club, Queen Village Neighborhood Association and South Broad Street Neighborhood Association.
Until the new Code's enactment in August of 2012, Coalition representatives met approximately every two months, attended each monthly meeting of the Zoning Code Commission (there were more than 50 such meetings), and had weekly interactions with members of the Commission and its staffers. Coalition volunteers published approximately 200 pages analyzing the numerous topics raised by zoning code reform. The new Code, enacted in 2012, contained many suggestions advanced by the Crosstown.
B. THE COALITION & REALTY TAX REFORM (2012 - 2014) – No sooner had the new Zoning Code Commission shut down in 2011, than the Nutter administration announced the Actual Value Initiative (AVI), a realty tax reform program. The reform efforts arose from a series of Inquirer articles published in 2009 which highlighted both the inequities in City assessments and the "Patronage, Politics, Secrecy and Delay" of the City's assessment agency, the Bureau of Revision of Taxes (BRT). Through AVI, the administration proposed to reassess the City's 490,000 properties on a market value basis.
The associations in the Crosstown acknowledged the inequities in the City's assessments. However they were concerned whether an accurate reassessment could occur within the proposed tight time parameters and whether AVI would adversely impact gentrified neighborhoods where newcomers had driven up the market value of homes occupied by long term residents.
This concern turned to alarm in May of 2012 when the administration announced intentions to pass a realty tax before the reassessments were published. The Crosstown mobilized and successfully lobbied for a one year delay in the implementation of the AVI reassessments. In the process, ten new members joined – Bella Vista Neighbors Association, East Kensington Neighbors Association, East Passyunk Crossing Civic Association, Fishtown Neighbors Association, Hawthorne Empowerment Association, Packer Park Civic Association, Pennsport Civic Association, Washington Square West Civic Association, West Powelton Sanders Park RCO, and Woodland Terrace Homeowners Association.
Once the reassessments were finally issued, the Crosstown funded research by a graduate student which led to the publication of a 37 page study: "Actual Valuation: A Flawed Initiative?" authored by Walter Spencer, a Center City Residents' Association volunteer. Among the findings of that report:
Homes with sale prices over $1million were assessed at below market value while homes with sale prices below $50,000 were assessed at double their market value.
Land constituted less than 2% of the assessment of condos at the Ritz Carlton, Ten Rittenhouse and 1706 Rittenhouse.
The Coefficient of Dispersion, a metric used to evaluate the accuracy of mass appraisals, did not meet industry standards (15%)
In addition, the Crosstown prepared "The AVI Appeal Guide" a 37 page "How To" manual counseling homeowners whether and how to appeal AVI assessments and arranged neighborhood based information sessions.
C. THE COALITION INCORPORATES 2014 - 2017
Having worked together for six years on zoning and taxes, the members of the Crosstown decided in 2014 to convert from an ad hoc federation focused on limited topical initiatives to a broader purposed 501c 3 non devoted to non partisan advocacy for quality of life issues and sharing resources, best practices and economies of scale for the benefit of the Coalition and of its member organizations. In April of 2014, a board was created, officers were elected and dues were assessed to each member in proportion to their yearly income.
The Coalition's achievements during its first three years are described in the Crosstown's annual reports (indexed under "Publications" on this website) but highlights included:
EDUCATION SUMMITS - Each year since 2015, the Coalition's Education Committee, chaired by Jeff Hornstein, has held an Education Summit providing workshops and networking for education activists in general and, in particular, the members of the Coalition's Education Committee (FONE - Friends of Neighborhood Schools).
CANDIDATE'S QUESTIONNAIRES - For the 2015 Mayoral Primary, 5 candidates answered a 16 item questionnaire as did 14 of 19 Council candidates, a process that was repeated in 2017 when 5 District Attorney candidates and 3 Controller candidates completed an 11 item questionnaire.
ZONING/LAND USE - The Crosstown Zoning Committee allied with the Building Industry Association and the Development Workshop to revise the provisions of the Center City Overlay (Bill 140721) and to amend the Bill restructuring the City's land use agencies and creating the new Office of Planning and Development.
BEST PRACTICES SUMMIT - In 2016, the Crosstown invited all of the City's Registered Community Organizations to a "how to" workshop on running a civic association. 39 groups attended.
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Q: Scaling ViewGroup, keeping it aligned at the bottom I want to scale a ViewGroup, but keeping it aligned at the bottom, is this at all possible?
If I scale the view with the ViewPropertyAnimator, the view is scaled in a way that a lot of "white space" is generated below the ViewGroup.
<RelativeLayout
    android:id="@+id/content"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">

    <fragment
        android:id="@+id/MessagesView_ListFragment"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:scrollbars="none"
        android:paddingLeft="@dimen/paddingLeft"
        android:paddingRight="@dimen/paddingRight"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        />

    <com.customwidget.ScrollBar
        android:id="@+id/InboxView_ScrollBar"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        />

</RelativeLayout>

Scaling it like this:
    findViewById(R.id.content).animate().scaleX(0.75f).scaleY(0.75f).setDuration(750).start();

A: I believe extending your code like this should suffice :
View v = findViewById(R.id.content);
v.animate()
.scaleX(0.75f)
.scaleY(0.75f)
.translateY(v.getHeight() / 4) // Translates by 1/4 of the view's height to compensate the scale
.setDuration(750)
.start();

Some other workaround would be to set the pivot point of your View like this :
View v = findViewById(R.id.content);
v.setPivotY(v.getHeight()); // Can be set in an xml file using android:transformPivotY
// Use your original code here.

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Vassileva CM, Kwedar K, Boley T, Markwell S, Hazelrigg S.
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Es otorgado anualmente por el grupo Le Moniteur para un edificio francés, completado el año anterior. El premio se divide a partes iguales entre el arquitecto y el propietario de la construcción.

Ganadores de premios
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 1983 - Henri Ciriani para la guardería, Saint-Denis
 1984 - Christian Devillers para el Parking des Chaumettes, Saint-Denis
 1985 - Roland Simounet para el Museo Nacional Picasso, París
 1986 - Adrien Fainsilber para la Cité des Sciences, la Villette, París
 1987 - Jean Nouvel y Architecture-Studio para el Institut du Monde Arabe
 1988 - Christian de Portzamparc para la escuela de danza de la Ópera de París, Nanterre
 1990 - Dominique Perrault para el Hôtel industriel Berlier, París
 1991 - Renzo Piano para los apartamentos 64 rue de Meaux, París
 1992 - Denis Valode y Jean Pistre para la fábrica de L'Oréal, Aulnay-sous-Bois
 1993 - Jean Nouvel y Emmanuel Cattani para la Ópera de Lyon
 1994 - Henri y Bruno Gaudin para el Stade Charlety de París.
 1995 - Christian de Portzamparc para la Cité de la Musique de París.
 1996 - Pierre-Louis Faloci para el Museo de la Civilización Celta en Mont Beuvray
 1997 - Jean-Marc Ibos y Myrto Vitart para el Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille .
 1998 - Rem Koolhaas para una casa cerca de Burdeos .
 1999 - Marc Mimram para el Puente Solférino
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Q: Use Cryptography.RSACryptoServiceProvider assembly in SQL Server 2017 for decryption In my asp.net MVC project, i created functions to encrypt/decryt via RSA which works fine as expected. I stored public/private keys on azure vault and accessing on runtime which is also fine.
I am using those functions to encrypt the data at application level and then save to database which is also fine. Now my requirement was to compare that encrypted data with the data comping from my website, so I created CLR function and ran into database.
But when i run that clr function, it throws below error.
Msg 6522, Level 16, State 1, Line 3
A .NET Framework error occurred during execution of user-defined routine or aggregate "Decrypt":
System.Security.SecurityException: Request for the permission of type 'System.Security.Permissions.KeyContainerPermission, mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' failed.
System.Security.SecurityException:
   at System.Security.CodeAccessSecurityEngine.Check(Object demand, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean isPermSet)
   at System.Security.CodeAccessPermission.Demand()
   at System.Security.Cryptography.RSACryptoServiceProvider.ImportParameters(RSAParameters parameters)
   at System.Security.Cryptography.RSA.FromXmlString(String xmlString)
   at EMCDatabase.CryptographyHelper.Decrypt(Byte[] data, Int32 keySize, String publicAndPrivateKeyXml)
   at EMCDatabase.CryptographyHelper.Decrypt(String encryptedText, String PrivateKey)
   at UserDefinedFunctions.Decrypt(String SQL, String key)
.

Can anyone please help me fix this issue?
Below is my source code
public partial class UserDefinedFunctions
{
    [Microsoft.SqlServer.Server.SqlFunction(DataAccess = DataAccessKind.Read)]
    public static SqlString Decrypt(string SQL, string key)
    {
        return CryptographyHelper.Decrypt(SQL, key);
    }
}

public static class CryptographyHelper
{
    private static readonly bool _optimalAsymmetricEncryptionPadding = false;
    //These keys are of 2048byte

    //private readonly static string PrivateKey = AzureKeyVault.GetRSAPrivateKey().Result;

    public static string Decrypt(string encryptedText, string PrivateKey)
    {
        int keySize = 0;
        string publicAndPrivateKeyXml = "";
        GetKeyFromEncryptionString(PrivateKey, out keySize, out publicAndPrivateKeyXml);
        var decrypted = Decrypt(Convert.FromBase64String(encryptedText), keySize, publicAndPrivateKeyXml);

        return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(decrypted);
    }

    private static byte[] Decrypt(byte[] data, int keySize, string publicAndPrivateKeyXml)
    {
        if (data == null || data.Length == 0) throw new ArgumentException("Data are empty", "data");
        if (!IsKeySizeValid(keySize)) throw new ArgumentException("Key size is not valid", "keySize");
        if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(publicAndPrivateKeyXml)) throw new ArgumentException("Key is null or empty", "publicAndPrivateKeyXml");
        using (var provider = new RSACryptoServiceProvider(keySize))
        {
            provider.FromXmlString(publicAndPrivateKeyXml);
            return provider.Decrypt(data, _optimalAsymmetricEncryptionPadding);
        }
    }

    private static int GetMaxDataLength(int keySize)
    {
        if (_optimalAsymmetricEncryptionPadding)
        {
            return ((keySize - 384) / 8) + 7;
        }
        return ((keySize - 384) / 8) + 37;
    }

    private static bool IsKeySizeValid(int keySize)
    {
        return keySize >= 384 && keySize <= 16384 && keySize % 8 == 0;
    }

    private static void GetKeyFromEncryptionString(string rawkey, out int keySize, out string xmlKey)
    {
        keySize = 0;
        xmlKey = "";
        if (rawkey != null && rawkey.Length > 0)
        {
            byte[] keyBytes = Convert.FromBase64String(rawkey);
            var stringKey = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(keyBytes);
            if (stringKey.Contains("!"))
            {
                var splittedValues = stringKey.Split(new char[] { '!' }, 2);
                try
                {
                    keySize = int.Parse(splittedValues[0]);
                    xmlKey = splittedValues[1];
                }
                catch (Exception e) { }
            }
        }
    }
}

public enum RSAKeySize
{
    Key512 = 512,
    Key1024 = 1024,
    Key2048 = 2048,
    Key4096 = 4096
}
public class RSAKeysTypes
{
    public string PublicKey { get; set; }
    public string PrivateKey { get; set; }
}
public class RSACryptographyKeyGenerator
{
    public RSAKeysTypes GenerateKeys(RSAKeySize rsaKeySize)
    {
        int keySize = (int)rsaKeySize;
        if (keySize % 2 != 0 || keySize < 512)
            throw new Exception("Key should be multiple of two and greater than 512.");
        var rsaKeysTypes = new RSAKeysTypes();
        using (var provider = new RSACryptoServiceProvider(keySize))
        {
            var publicKey = provider.ToXmlString(false);
            var privateKey = provider.ToXmlString(true);
            var publicKeyWithSize = IncludeKeyInEncryptionString(publicKey, keySize);
            var privateKeyWithSize = IncludeKeyInEncryptionString(privateKey, keySize);
            rsaKeysTypes.PublicKey = publicKeyWithSize;
            rsaKeysTypes.PrivateKey = privateKeyWithSize;
        }
        return rsaKeysTypes;
    }
    private string IncludeKeyInEncryptionString(string publicKey, int keySize)
    {
        return Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(keySize.ToString() + "!" + publicKey));
    }
}

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When I create assembly with EXTERNAL_ACCESS, I get below error
Altering [EMCDatabase]...
(70,1): SQL72014: .Net SqlClient Data Provider: Msg 10327, Level 14, State 1, Line 1 ALTER ASSEMBLY for assembly 'EMCDatabase' failed because assembly 'EMCDatabase' is not trusted. The assembly is trusted when either of the following is true: the assembly is signed with a certificate or an asymmetric key that has a corresponding login with UNSAFE ASSEMBLY permission, or the assembly is trusted using sp_add_trusted_assembly.
(70,0): SQL72045: Script execution error.  The executed script:
ALTER ASSEMBLY [EMCDatabase]
    FROM 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
An error occurred while the batch was being executed.

A: A CLR Asssembly must be at least EXTERNAL_ACCESS to get KeyContainerPermission.
See
EXTERNAL_ACCESS assemblies also have the following permissions and values:

Permission  Value(s)/Description
DistributedTransactionPermission    Unrestricted: Distributed transactions are allowed.
DNSPermission   Unrestricted: Permission to request information from Domain Name Servers.
EnvironmentPermission   Unrestricted: Full access to system and user environment variables is allowed.
EventLogPermission  Administer: The following actions are allowed: creating an event source, reading existing logs, deleting event sources or logs, responding to entries, clearing an event log, listening to events, and accessing a collection of all event logs.
FileIOPermission    Unrestricted: Full access to files and folders is allowed.
KeyContainerPermission  Unrestricted: Full access to key containers is allowed.
NetworkInformationPermission    Access: Pinging is permitted.
RegistryPermission  Allows read rights to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG, and HKEY_USERS.
SecurityPermission  Assertion: Ability to assert that all the callers of this code have the requisite permission for the operation.
ControlPrincipal: Ability to manipulate the principal object.
Execution: Permission to execute managed code.
SerializationFormatter: Ability to provide serialization services.
SmtpPermission  Access: Outbound connections to SMTP host port 25 are allowed.
SocketPermission    Connect: Outbound connections (all ports, all protocols) on a transport address are allowed.
SqlClientPermission Unrestricted: Full access to the datasource is allowed.
StorePermission Unrestricted: Full access to X.509 certificate stores is allowed.
WebPermission   Connect: Outbound connections to web resources are allowed.

CLR Integration Code Access Security
Also this
return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(decrypted);

should probably be:
return Convert.ToBase64String(decrypted);


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var htmlSnapshots = require("html-snapshots");

// where the snapshots go
var outputDir = require("path").join(__dirname, "./tmp");

// The hostname of the website
var hostname = "enigmatic-refuge-9006.herokuapp.com";

// Do it:
htmlSnapshots.run({
  source: "http://" + hostname + "/robots.txt",
  hostname: hostname,
  outputDir: outputDir,
  outputDirClean: true,
  selector: ".page-content",
  timeout: 15000,
  processLimit: 1 // no parallel fetch, one browser process at a time
})
.then(function (completed) {
  console.log("completed snapshots:");
  console.log(require("util").inspect(completed));
})
.catch(function (err) {
  console.error(err);
});

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Where does outer space begin?
Updated Friday 14th August 2009
We don't really know where space begins, as Dave Rothery explains
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WARNING: This blog post contains spoilers for the fourth programme in the Bang Goes The Theory series. Don't read it if you haven't seen the space challenge yet and don't want to know what happens.
While we were planning and filming an ambitious item for Bang Goes the Theory in which an 'action man' type-figure dubbed mini-Dallas is sent up to the "edge of space" by a balloon, there was a lot of discussion among the Bang gang about whether or not we could claim to be reaching 'space', and also whether Joseph Kittinger had really "parachuted from space" after his balloon ascent to 102,800 feet (31,333 metres) in 1960.
We got our mini-Dallas to pretty much the same height, but I'm afraid that the answer has to be 'no' in both cases, even though the sky looks gratifyingly black in our remarkable camera shots.
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Mini Dallas from Bang Goes The Theory.
It's pretty obvious if you think about it. Kittinger and mini-Dallas were both carried up by a balloon, and a balloon only goes up if it (plus its 'astronaut' payload) is on average less dense than the air that it displaces. That's how buoyancy works.
There must still be air – albeit very tenuous – at the height reached by the balloon, otherwise it could not float.
There is not a vacuum at the height reached by these extreme balloons, but the pressure is very low. In fact it is about one-hundredth of the pressure at sea-level. This means that 99% of the atmosphere's mass is below, and only 1% of the mass of the atmosphere is above.
However, that does not mean that mini-Dallas was 99% of the way to the top of the atmosphere, because the atmosphere becomes more and more tenuous with height. If you look at this diagram that shows how atmospheric temperature varies with height, you will see that 30,000 metres is only about halfway to the top of the stratosphere, and that there are layers called the mesosphere and the thermosphere above that!
Temperature variation with height in the Earth's atmosphere. The warming with height in the stratosphere and thermosphere are because the air molecules are warmed by absorption of ultraviolet and other radiation from the Sun
Temperature variation with height in the Earth's atmosphere. The warming with height in the stratosphere and thermosphere are because the air molecules are warmed by absorption of ultraviolet and other radiation from the Sun.
There is actually no definite boundary that marks the top of the atmosphere, but eventually it becomes so completely tenuous that for practical purposes it can be regarded as 'space'. But where is this limit?
Well, I did some web searching, and I came up with this. Satellites can orbit 200 km above the Earth, free of any appreciable atmospheric drag. Clearly at 200 km, you are in 'space' (the International Space Station orbits at 320-347 km). Lower orbits down to about 160 km are possible, but there is too much drag for these to be stable.
The US government refuses to recognise a definition of where space begins, perhaps because it prefers to keep its option open.
However the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale recognises 100 km as the lower limit of space, whereas an encyclopedia of international law suggests 80 km as a practical limit between 'air space', potentially reachable by an aircraft, and 'outer space'.
However you look at it, sadly 30,000 metres or 30 km is less than half way there, but it was a bold effort nonetheless.
John Zarnecki looks back over fifty years of space exploration
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I Just Called to Say I Love You är en låt skriven av Stevie Wonder. Den skrevs särskilt för att vara med i filmen En tjej i rött 1984 och finns på filmens soundtrack. Sedermera släpptes den även som singel och blev en gigantisk framgång med förstaplaceringar på många av världens singellistor. Den är fortfarande skivbolaget Motowns bäst säljande singel internationellt sätt.

Wonder tilldelades såväl en Oscar som en Golden Globe för bästa originalsång till en film, och låten nominerades i tre kategorier vid Grammygalan 1985.

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After reading those it seems pretty clear they are simple talking about projects they've done in the past, so they must be simple talking about the building as an expansion in the way I talked about it above (i.e. the expansion of the old BWL building and construction of a new building).
After rereading the LSJ story about the Firm, I decided to look into Bob Green's (the PSD director) commments: "There are other projects in the works for the 200 South Washington block that will just add to the mix.", and "Green expects to make an announcement on those additions by Jan. 1."
I decided to look into what he could possibly be talking about, and there are several candidates:
207-209 S Washington are owned by a company called "Capitol Holdings LLC" and has an address of 124 W Allegan. I beleive that this is probably the Boji's. Both because the "holdings" in the name indicates that this is a subsidary of a larger company and that 124 W Allegan is Boji Tower, where their offices are. These are the ugly one story buildings next to the old Michigan Theater, so they are bound to be tore down and something built in their place regardless.
220 S Washington, the old Walgreens building. Already seen a vague item on a council agenda about condos, I have no clue what could be going on here, it could either be a simple rennovation or they could be planning some sort of new construction (although doubtful).
The empty lot at the NE corner of Washtenaw & Washington. The citys site says that it is 66x85 feet. I think that there is enough room here for a nice infill development, something less than 6 floors would be reasonable and realistic, while something taller still isn't out of the question. I'd love to get some height on Washington Sq. This is another parcel that will almost certainly be redeveloped anyways, it's just a matter of time.
Then of course he could have been misquoted or may have mispoken himself when he said 200 block. Once you enter the 300 block there are several possibilities for large developments, namely the Knapps building and the whole Cooley Auditorium/Performing Arts center deal, which I would expect to hear more on before too long.
When you are talking about the empty lot, you are talking about the vacant lot next to the Cooley library building? That lot has been empty for so long now, it would really be nice to have something built in that place.
There is an article in NOISE about the Temple Club closing its doors.
NOISE: Temple Club closes
Owners cite financial reasons for shutting Lansing nightclub
Christian Czerwinski
One day short of its fifth anniversary, the Temple Club, Lansing's largest music venue, closed its doors Monday because of financial troubles.
General Manager Jerome White said ownership decided to close the venue because "the economics just weren't working out."
"The expenses were more than the income," he said. "We appreciate the support Lansing has given us but it just doesn't have the market to support a club of this size."
The about 10,000-square-foot club - located in an early 20th-century church - hosted national touring bands and local acts for the past five years including Clutch, Detroit's Hard Lessons and members of the Wu-Tang Clan. The Temple Club was known for its spacious dance floor surrounded by original stained glass windows and the mellower Red Light Lounge.
White said refunds for all shows will be available at the points of purchase. He's working to secure venues for the bands still scheduled to play.
Share your memories of the Temple Club and your reactions on the NOISE blog at http://noise.typepad.com and read more about the Temple Club's closing in this week's NOISE out tomorrow and in Wednesday's State Journal.
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061017/NOISE11/610180321/1001/RSS
The lot I was talking about is a small lot kitty-corner to the Knapps building, it actually has a few parking places in it.
About the Temple Club, thats really too bad. I think the club had a lot more potential and since the owner has been trying to dump her properties to move out of state I think it suffered more from poor management than lack of a market. The market in Lansing, given MSU, Cooley and the lack of good clubs makes for a reasonably sized and wide-open nightclub market. I think there is room for plenty of clubs maybe even several the size of the Temple Club. They just have to create themselves a district, where people can easily go club hopping, I think Washingon Sq could end up that way given time.
I shot off a letter to Kevin Green the yesterday. He usually always gets back to me, and I asked him specifically about the Washington/Washtenaw lot as maybe a possible spot for a mid-rise residential (hood, you read my mind). I asked that because there really isn't much besides new construction that could happen on that block that is worth mentioning. Every storefront is filled or is being filled, and almost every facade along that block has or is being revitalized. I can't imagine anything short of new construction that would be worth mention.
BTW, it should be impletemented that every parking lot downtown look as nice as that small Washtenaw lot. If we must have all this surface parking downtown, at least make owners make it look good.
That's really sad to here about the Temple Club, and kind of unexpected that it closed so abruptly. I was just driving by there the other day and they were getting ready for a band.
Thats what I was thinking. there is nothing noteworthy even possible on that block besides something new being built. And there are really only two potential locations for something new, either those two one story buildings or that lot. Thats why I'm leaning more towards maybe he meant not to specify 200 block, because the 300 block is wide open to development, for improved facades, new businesses and new construction.
Hey, Hood. I remember you saying a few times that you write Bob T. of the EDC about things, and it seems like you get some response. I sent him a few emails a few months back as well as one very recently, and he's NEVER been able to give me anything. He's always been courteous, but I'm surprised how tight-lipped he is. Patti Cook, the old EDC director, wasn't so cautious. Even the Planning Department is reluctant, though less reluctant, to at least give me something to chew on. Have you noticed this?
I never attem[ted to contact them before he was in charge. But he is about the only one I ever get a response from. I've never gotten a response from the mayors office, I only got one response from emailing council and I've never a gotten a response from any other city agency I've wrote to. What makes that worse is that the cities website is not at all informative and you can never find anything up to date on there. I could go on and on with examples, one recent example is that I looked at the Riverwalk map yesterday and noticed it was from 1999, it even listed the Blue Coyote as a sponser. The cities website is just an embarassment, I've even wrote them about the inadequecy of their website a few times and as usual got no response.
Well, speak of the devil. Bob got back to me, today. I listed a bunch of projects I'd like the status of, and here's what he gave me:
Man, those answers just make you want to ask more, and believe me, I shot off another email asking him if he could offer me any crumbs of information. lol
Before that I asked him about the poorly laid out EDC site. I asked if his team could even do monthly updates of the things as it's embarrasingly outdated (something like 2002 was the last time it was regularly updated, and here's what I got):
"You are very correct. We have big dreams of a very interactive and great
web site, but at a minimum we can scan in our news clippings. Thanks for
the point."
These response are so cryptic and scripted. I, too, dream of a very interactive and great website. lol The problem with this city is that it doesn't get enough good news out there, which leaves citizens to only dwell on the doom-and-gloom. This city is losing in the war of perception.
It's funny because Patti Cook used to get back to me regularly, as would most of the city council and planning department. Now, I can get regular contact back from Kathy Dunbar, and on occasions Ms. Bauer, who's soon to leave us, and Kevin Green. But, that's about it.


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The Economy Is Keeping 'Reluctant' Trump Voters With Him
Making Sense Of Trump's Two Big Moves On North Korea And Tariffs
Trump Is In A Worse Position With North Korea Than Obama Was At The Start Of The Iran Talks
Tariffs Can Work — When They're Part Of A Plan
Tariffs And Bank Regulations Are Splitting Both Parties In The Lead-Up To The Midterms
Everyone Tries To Dodge The Tax Man, And It Keeps Getting Easier
Student Loans Are Too Expensive To Forgive
How To Win A Trade War
We Let Our Readers Practice International Trade. They Started A Bunch Of Trade Wars.
What Issues Should Democrats Ignore In 2018?
THE NEWS FINDERS
The announcement on Thursday night that President Trump planned to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, likely in May, was weird. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson seemed blindsided by the move, it breaks with U.S. precedent (no sitting commander in chief has ever met with a North Korean leader), and it was announced at the White House in part by South Korean officials, rather than senior U.S. figures, like Tillerson or national security adviser H.R. McMaster or Trump.
Donald Trump Comment on Making Sense Of Trump's Two Big Moves On North Korea And Tariffs
Late last year, graduate students watched as legislators in the House debated giving them a hefty new tax bill: A version of the GOP tax plan proposed to treat tuition waivers as taxable income. Although that plan was later dropped, Congress is once again considering legislation that could affect graduate students' bottom lines. And the federal government is considering ending some of its student loan forgiveness programs, which could raise the economic barrier to entering certain public service professions and leave social workers, teachers and other people in public-service fields that require graduate degrees paying thousands of dollars more for their education.
Comment on Student Loans Are Too Expensive To Forgive
The Reluctant Trump Voter
Last spring, FiveThirtyEight commissioned a SurveyMonkey poll that aimed to glean the views of voters who cast their ballots for President Trump but did so unenthusiastically. We called them "reluctant" Trump voters; they were crucial in Trump's victory, and we've been keeping tabs on this voter demographic over the year, including a new survey conducted Feb. 12-19.1
The Reluctant Trump Voter Comment on The Economy Is Keeping 'Reluctant' Trump Voters With Him
What If Tariffs Cost Trump The Farm Vote?
In 1977, Jimmy Carter made an improbable journey from Georgia peanut grower to Democratic president in part by playing on his humble roots and receiving support from America's farmers. Yet this bedrock voting constituency abandoned a fellow farmer to back Ronald Reagan four years later, after Carter punished Moscow for invading Afghanistan by cutting off grain sales to the Soviet Union. U.S. farmers were already struggling with collapsing crop prices, and the embargo may have been the final straw. Farmers threw their support behind Reagan, who had promised to lift the hated restrictions.
Tariffs Comment on What If Tariffs Cost Trump The Farm Vote?
Economists Are Bad At Predicting Recessions
Every president's election-year nightmare — a recession — is suddenly looming over the 2020 race. In a survey released earlier this week by the National Association of Business Economics, 38 percent of economists predicted that the country will slip into an economic downturn next year, and another recent poll of economists put the chances of a recession in the next 12 months at 1 in 3. Those predictions are getting a lot of attention, and it's not hard to see why — an economic slowdown in the middle of the presidential election cycle could reshape the race, potentially changing the calculus of Democratic primary voters and undermining President Trump, who has made the strong economy a central selling point of his presidency.
2020 Election Comment on Economists Are Bad At Predicting Recessions
The Pay Gap Is Way Too Entrenched To Be Solved By Women Alone
Happy Equal Pay Day! (Or, as I like to call it, Women's New Year.) Today is the day that marks roughly how far into 2018 women had to work to earn a salary equal to what men got the year before.1 We'd throw a parade and street fair, but we were too busy working to organize one.
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Welcome to FiveThirtyEight's weekly politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited.
Slack Chat Comment on What Issues Should Democrats Ignore In 2018?
The Trump Administration
Why couldn't we all just get along?
The Trump Administration Comment on We Let Our Readers Practice International Trade. They Started A Bunch Of Trade Wars.
The tweet came before 6 a.m., as President Trump's tweets often do. It was early March, and the Trump administration had just announced steep tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. That did not make China or America's European allies happy. Last week, after the U.S. imposed tariffs on $60 billion worth of Chinese goods, it was reported that China would respond with their own tariffs on $3 billion of U.S. goods.
The Trump Administration Comment on How To Win A Trade War
We think of today's Washington as being rigidly divided along party lines on nearly every issue. But a bloc of Democrats in the Senate just joined with Republicans and the Trump administration on a bill that would lighten some restrictions on banks imposed by the Dodd-Frank financial regulation law, one of President Obama's signature policy achievements. Meanwhile, some congressional Republicans are considering legislation that would stop President Trump's new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, which several Democrats and labor leaders have publicly supported.
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Science Question From A Toddler


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Along for the Ride by Henry Zeybel
Posted on November 23, 2021 by vvaposted
Retired USAF Lt. Col. Henry Zeybel wrote and published three novels in the 1980s about SAC B-47 operations during the Cold War, F-4 Phantom missions over North Vietnam, and AC-130 Spectre gunship operations during the Vietnam War. He served in the war as a navigator on USAF C-130 Hercules "Trash Haulers" in 1967-68, as a sensor operator on AC-130 Spectre gunships in 1970-71, and as a Special Ops adviser in 1972-73.
Now comes Hank Zeybel's first book of nonfiction, Along for the Ride: Navigating Through the Cold War, Vietnam, Laos & More (Casemate, 288 pp. $34.95), a tour de force of an autobiography. The book is filled with captivating and introspective looks at every part of Zeybel's life, primarily his military career, growing up in Pittsburgh, and the eventful forty-plus years since he retired from the Air Force in 1976.
The most vivid writing comes in the sections—including the riveting opening chapter, "Downtown Tchepone"—in which Zeybel takes the reader along with him inside the Spectre gunships he crewed on during his second tour of duty. The depictions of the 13-man crew dodging surface-to-air missiles over the Ho Chi Minh Trail stand among the most evocative air-combat writing in the Vietnam War literary canon.
Zeybel's sections on the 775 combat support sorties he flew inside C-130 Hercules transports during his first tour come in a close second in the verisimilitude department. We get many evocations of what it was like, as he puts it, "transporting the alive, wounded, and dead; relocating villagers; and performing an endless list of mundane tasks."
Zeybel deftly weaves his life story into the narrative, flashing back and forth to events from his childhood in the 1940s. He grew up the son of a sports-loving Pittsburgh Press journalist father and a stay-at-home mother, whom he pithily describes as "Wife. Mother. Homemaker. Excellent cook…. Tutor. Disciplinarian…. Avid reader of contemporary novels. Crossword puzzle pro." He graduated from high school in 1951, from Penn State in 1955, and joined the U.S. Air Force via ROTC.
There's also great descriptive writing about the decades following his retirement from the Air Force in 1976. That includes his many writing assignments for National Defense, Eagle, and Airpower magazines. And his (mostly) rewarding work tutoring football players and other athletes at the University of Texas at Austin where he has lived for decades.
A Spectre at Thailand's Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base during the Vietnam War
The book also is filled with lots of clever, caustic prose. Such as:
On Air Force office duties: "The design of military force is to prosecute war and to defeat the enemy on a given spot; in comparison, the outcomes of conferences, staff meetings, and power point presentations are ethereal and not worth a half-hearted fuck." (Did I mention that Zeybel drops more than a few dozen F-bombs in the book?)
On a trigger-happy Spectre gunship pilot: "He blasted away as if trying to keep time to an album titled Jimi Hendrix Goes Completely Fucking Nuts."
On the first time he came face to face with dead American troops as he and his crew loaded 22 body bags into their C-130: "Describing the setting as 'dank' would be a compliment to the atmosphere."
Hank Zeybel has written more than 300 book reviews for Books in Review II since October 2014. He's still regularly producing first-rate reviews for us today, in his 89th year.
–Marc Leepson
A version of the review appeared in the September/October print and online editions of The VVA Veteran.
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An American Combat Bird Dog Pilot by Mike Leonard
Posted on July 6, 2021 by vvaposted
During his 1969-70 Vietnam War tour of duty Mike Leonard earned three Distinguished Flying Crosses (one with a V device) for performing bold feats in the O-1 Bird Dog throughout central South Vietnam. But don't expect an overflowing collection of stories about a forward air controller's combat action in his new memoir, An American Combat Bird Dog Pilot: From the Battlefield of Vietnam and Beyond (SOPREP, 330 pp. $14.99, paper; $9.99, Kindle) because Leonard devotes only 64 pages of the book to those achievements.
What we get are other hyper-interesting stories of combat that recreate support missions mostly flying under four hundred feet of altitude in attacks on North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong troops. Leonard's proudest moments in the air led to the rescue of a shot-down helicopter crew that crashed practically in the laps of the enemy.
Mike Leonard's life has been filled with joy and drama in war and peace, yet he reflects a humble approach to all of it. His level of introspection remains constant whether a situation is good, bad, or otherwise.
Beyond the Vietnam War, his stories about flying the C-5A Galaxy and his post-Air Force life as an executive in the satellite market steal the show. Straight from the war Leonard went to piloting the C-5A in the midst of its growing pains. Whatever could go wrong with those airplanes went wrong. Fear of flight problems caused the Air Force brass to limit the aircraft's tactical deployment. Still, one preposterous situation followed another.
Leonard repeatedly experienced the unexpected, and his descriptions of those events made me laugh out loud—and then I read those passages to my wife, who laughed along with me. Screw-ups that produced positive results in which Leonard took part advanced the C-5A's tactical growth faster and more accurately than command guidance did.
After exactly twenty years of military service, he retired as a lieutenant colonel and went to work in the satellite industry. He describes his second career as intermittently intense, mundane, borderline illegal and unethical, and highly stressful. He reveals the intrigue behind years of knock-down, drag-out deal making and tells better stories than most present-day television and movies do.
Leonard in country with his Bird Dog, 1969
Mike Leonard's business ventures made him a wealthy man. I believe he should have expanded the 100 pages about commerce in this memoir into a book of its own.
As an introduction to all of the above, Leonard presents a bizarre history of his family. He rates growing up in St. Louis as a surprisingly good experience. The pace of the book slows a bit when Leonard writes about enlisting in the Air Force and then going through Officer Training School; and his experiences as an EC-121 Warning Star weapons controller (including a rotation to Tan Son Nhut in south Vietnam), and during pilot training. Much of this ground has been covered many times in other memoirs, but Leonard re-evaluates the events in his terms.
An American Combat Bird Dog Pilot compensates for its misleading title by providing stories that should entertain anyone with the slightest interest in aircraft and the people associated with them, as well as exposing how a few sly devils manipulate big businesses.
—Henry Zeybel
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Noble Canine by Jimmie Moore
Posted on September 3, 2019 by vvaposted
To avoid the likely possibility of living a grunt's life in the jungle, Jimmie Moore plotted his own course through the Vietnam War. With the draft breathing down his neck, Moore enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, completed basic training and Security Police School, and became a K-9 sentry dog handler. During his 1969-70 tour of duty with the 37th Security Police Squadron at Phu Cat Air Base he patrolled the perimeter every night but six, he says, with German Shepherds Duke II and Junior.
Interactions between handlers and animals constitute the core of Moore's Noble Canine: Search for the Edge (Steel Crow Productions, 240 pp. $27.95, hardcover; $16.95, paper; $9.95, Kindle). He examines those relationships in totality in the book, and his candor makes enjoyable reading. Beyond that, Moore's accounts of in-country activities parallel the experiences of many Vietnam War veterans.
Moore recalls the challenges of K-9 training at Lackland Air Force Base, a time when a seasoned sentry dog severely tested his ability to control him. In Vietnam, Moore faced similar challenges while working with Duke II and Junior, both of whom were later euthanized. Moore deplores Air Force policy that dictates death for sentry dogs that no longer can perform their duties; their aggression, the military argues, precludesthem from becoming pets.
A dog's highly refined ability to hear and smell made it the team leader in nighttime patrolling. Dogs responded to anything approaching the base far sooner than handlers could. Moore often visualized life without a dog and how he might be shot and killed before recognizing a threat.
Jimmie Moore was nineteen years old while at Phu Cat. Initially, he spent as much time as possible in nearby Qui Nhon. He gets specific when reminiscing about local women and the pleasures they taught him. Eventually, following ten-hour night patrols, he grew contented with 8:00 a.m. beer drinking and poker games with eight other handlers he had trained with at Lackland.
He recalls events meaningful to all of them. Viet Cong fighters attacked the base four times during the year he was there, but they hit distant ammunition and fuel storage areas. Along with Moore, the eight handlers ate in mess halls, slept in beds, and made it through the year unscathed.
Old documents, letters, and recollections frame this memoir. The book overflows with reconstructed dialogue as Moore took, he says, "a few liberties to fill in the blanks without infringing on the story's truth."
People who love dogs should love Noble Canine.
The book's website is www.moorek9.com
Posted in Electronic Book, Memoir, Nonfiction, Paperback, Vietnam War Air Force, Vietnam War memoir | Tagged Jimmie Moore Vietnam war, Nobel Canine Search for the Edge, Noble Canine Jimmie Moore, Vietnam War Air Force memoir, Vietnam War dog handlers, Vietnam War memoir, Vietnam War security Police
Sherman Lead by Gaillard R. Peck, Jr.
Posted on March 20, 2019 by vvaposted
With the exception of compassion for the deaths and disappearances of fellow flyers, Gaillard R. Peck Jr. presents a lighthearted insider's view of his Vietnam War experience in Sherman Lead: Flying the F-4D Phantom II in Vietnam (Osprey, 304 pp.; $32, hardcover; $22.40, Kindle).
As a pilot in the 443rd Tactical Fighter Squadron—aka Satan's Angels—at Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base in 1968-69, Peck flew 163 combat missions into North Vietnam and Laos to destroy the enemy transportation system, day and night. He describes many close calls with disaster, some caused by North Vietnamese Army antiaircraft defenses, and others by his mistakes. He recounts several dangerous misadventures with humor and wonderment about his youthful good luck.
Although the book is Peck's memoir, he includes a few long passages describing bombing missions written by his pilot systems operator Steve Mosier. For his part, Peck unhesitatingly names names. Occasionally, his appreciation of his crew members' and buddies' advice, friendship, and devotion to the mission nears adoration.
When citing a few incompetent individuals, Peck—whose nom de guerre was "Evil"—graciously hides their identities. He expresses intolerance for their ineptitude, especially those who jeopardized his safety simply to qualify for monthly flying and combat pay.
His thoughts on offensive tactics following Lyndon Johnson's 1968 bombing halt of North Vietnam appear throughout the text. For example:
"We roamed the area looking for lucrative targets for our ordnance. By this point in the war there weren't many."
"Lack of feedback on effectiveness [from intelligence sources] added to our cynical attitude about these missions."
"We joked about the fact that we seldom caused much apparent damage. The results didn't seem to amount to much—especially given the risk involved in making the attacks."
"It was just the continuation of another mind-numbing mission attacking an unseen target that would be defended with a lot of aggressive AAA."
Peck convincingly shows the difficulties of flying the F-4D under the often-combined challenges of enemy gunfire, clouds and rain, and using the wrong weapons against, as he puts it, "whimsical" targets selected by higher-ups.
Several times, Peck assumes a teaching role and, in great detail, explains techniques of visual, radar, and laser-guided bombing. He taught me a lot with these and other interludes.
The first third of the book deals with Peck's education at the U.S. Air Force Academy, pilot training, and preparation for deployment to Vietnam. His descriptions of POW, water, and jungle survival training closely parallel my memories of attending the same courses. Similarly, his accounts of off-duty activities at Ubon—on base and downtown—perfectly coincide with what I saw and did there in 1970-71.
Peck refers to letters he wrote and received while with the 443rd. His writing style has a casual conversational tone, and he often repeats facts to refresh a point. This is his second book, following 2012's America's Secret MiG Squadron, based on his flying and evaluating captured and stolen Soviet aircraft as part of a twenty-six-year military career, from which he retired as a colonel.
Significant overlap exists between Sherman Lead and other memoirs by USAF Vietnam F-4 jocks such as David R. "Buff" Honodel's The Phantom Vietnam War. Each book reveals dedication and camaraderie within the fighter pilot trade that was unequaled anywhere else in the Air Force at the time—for good and bad.
Aficionados of F-4 operations might find enlightenment in comparing Peck's USAF views with those of Navy pilot Don Pedersen in his recently published Top Gun: An American Story. Both books cover the same times and events.
Posted in Electronic Book, Memoir, Nonfiction, Vietnam War, Vietnam War Air Force | Tagged F-4 Phantom, Gaillard Peck, Gaillard R. Peck Jr., Sherman Lead, Sherman Lead Peck, Vietnam air war, Vietnam War Air Force memoir
Racing Back to Vietnam by John Pendergrass
Posted on December 22, 2017 by vvaposted
If you want to know about flying in F-4 Phantoms in the Vietnam War and competing in triathlons years later, you must read John Pendergrass's Racing Back to Vietnam: A Journey in War and Peace (Hatherleigh, 256 pp. $22, hardcover; $7.99, Kindle).
In the book, former U.S.A.F. flight surgeon John Pendergrass writes about his Vietnam War tour of duty with the 390th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Da Nang Air Base in 1971-72. Much of what he relates has been well reported. However, when a writer presents the drama of war from a highly individualized perspective as Pendergrass does, that type of storytelling does not grow old.
Pendergrass's prose is easy to read. He nicely turns many a phrase, including "checking out a slow learner in a fast mover." Honesty is his forte. When he does something beyond the ordinary, Pendergrass explains why he did it, especially if it benefits him. He is free of pretense and rich in enthusiasm.
Like most doctors with whom he served, John Pendergrass did not want to go to Vietnam, but after he got there, he voluntarily flew fifty-four missions over Laos, Cambodia, and both South and North Vietnam in the back seat of the F-4 Phantom. He recalls the post-mission feeling of being "more alive than when I took off, anxious to go again." At the same time, the fear he experienced is palpable.
His squadron's basic assignment was to interdict trucks along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos. He describes virtually every step of preparing for and executing flights that dropped lots of bombs.
He also devotes chapters to life as a prisoner of war and to complications involved with being shot down and rescued, situations that he luckily avoided. On his final mission at the battle for An Loc, Pendergrass witnessed events that altered his perspective of the war.
He includes observations about air power that I had not read before, but with which I concur. His conclusions ended his combat life on a down note.
Pendergrass's account of his war makes up only half of this memoir. In 2016 he returned to Da Nang at the age of seventy and participated in an Ironman Triathlon. He did it partially to satisfy "a mixture of nostalgia and reflection," Pendergrass, an eye surgeon in Mississippi, says.
The triathlon took only one morning. He then drove to Laos with a guide to exolore the Ho Chi Minh Trail. He worked his way to Hanoi and shuffled through Uncle Ho's tomb. Next, he visited battlefields in the South and ended up in Saigon.
Having experienced my share of flying in the Vietnam War, I found Pendergrass' peacetime travel to be the most enlightening part of the book. I learned a lot I would not have on my own. Pendergrass talked to everyone who gave him time. As a result, he offers insights about today's Vietnamese and their lifestyles. Farmers work unobstructed, except for uncovering unexploded ordnance. The tourist trade flourishes and most people have forgotten the American War.
Pendergrass speaks of the "absurdity of war," and in the same breath he recalls combat as "the great adventure of [his] life." This paradox reminds me of returning to the scene of an old crime, intrigued by questions that should have been resolved half a lifetime earlier. Seeking justification for what one did in war is unnecessary. No guilt should be associated with adrenaline rushes related to acts a person performed practically in childhood.
Recently I reviewed another flight surgeon's account of the war, Sharkbait by Guy Clark. He flew eighty-six combat strike missions in back seats of Phantoms.
His six-hundred-plus-page memoir offers readers an opportunity to learn more than they ever expected (or perhaps wanted to know) about Vietnam War Phantom and Air Force operations.
Both Clark and Pendergrass extol the skill and courage of pilots with whom they faced death.
Posted in Electronic Book, Laos, Memoir, Nonfiction, Vietnam War, Vietnam War memoir | Tagged A Journey in War and Peace, John Pendergrass memoir, John Pendergrass Vietnam, Pendergrass Vietnam War, Racing Back to Vietnam, Vietnam War Air Force memoir
The Air Force Way of War by Brian D. Laslie
Posted on September 10, 2015 by vvaposted
Long ago—in the 1950s and 60s—Strategic Air Command bombers ruled the world. SAC, for one thing, controlled ninety-five percent of the Free World's striking power. Its city-busting thermonuclear war plans held top priority. Tactical fighter pilots hated SAC's dominance.
Then came the Vietnam War and fighter jocks began doing the bombers' job—deep-penetration attacks on strategic targets in North Vietnam. The jocks paid a heavy and disproportionate toll in losses, but gained heroic superiority.
Following years of obliterating tactical targets such as remote jungle outposts in Laos, SAC B-52s began to strike strategic targets in North Vietnam during the penultimate month of the war. But it was too late for SAC. The many years of role reversals had allowed tactical air force thinkers to gain equality in air war planning.
Working from this background, NORAD deputy command historian Brian D. Laslie examines what happened after the Vietnam War in The Air Force Way of War: U.S. Tactics and Training after Vietnam (University Press of Kentucky, 256 pp.; $40, hardcover; $38, Kindle). Laslie convincingly shows that inadequate training was the primary cause of combat losses in Vietnam. He points out that studies revealed that the first ten "actual combat missions" over North Vietnam took the greatest toll on pilots. Consequently, the Air Force revised pilot training to make it as realistic as the first ten actual combat missions.
Laslie goes on to explain the steps that revised the approach to training: creation of "designed operational capability," agreement on "thirty-one initiatives" with the Army, evolution of Red Flag war games, and development of new aircraft. In other words, under the new system, technology influenced training, which influenced tactics, which influenced doctrine.
Of course, Laslie holds fighter pilots in high esteem (rightfully so, especially those who flew over North Vietnam) and therefore strongly supports their views. As an old B-47, B-52, and Spectre gunship crewdog, I occasionally found his arguments credible but slanted.
Vietnam War B-52 Stratofortress taking off
At the same time, I admire his honesty. He names generals who accepted mediocrity based on their inability to recognize the need for change. And he lauds leaders who championed crew survivability. Laslie should have said more about inadequate pre-strike intelligence, but perhaps he considered that weaknesses as a given.
The book's final chapters describe the impact of improved training methods on combat operations starting with the attack on Libya in 1986. Swept up in the fighter pilots' quest for control, Laslie makes the following pronouncements: "Many have dubbed the air war over Iraq and Kuwait as a 'strategic air war.' In the purest use of the term, this is a misnomer. The air war over Iraq and Kuwait was actually a tactical air war that caused strategic level effects. Everything about air power in the way it was traditionally conceived was overturned during Desert Storm." Along with winning Desert Storm, fighter pilots also finally won control of the United States Air Force.
And: "Perhaps the most damning statement in [a GAO] report was that the B-52's contribution to the overall war effort was minimal and did not 'stand out' over that of the far more numerous tactical fighters." Basically, the report said that SAC had no role "outside the nuclear realm." Clearly, fighter pilots wanted to run the Air Force without compromise.
Laslie best captures the mood of the time in his account of planning for Desert Shield. Personality clashes created scenes of drama equal to the most intense you can find on a good TV miniseries.
Brian D. Laslie
As a wrap-up, Laslie explains the 1992 restructuring of the entire Air Force. He clarifies the merger of TAC and SAC into the Air Combat Command by saying: "The former members of SAC moved into ACC seamlessly as they reorganized the bomber doctrine and made it fit with what the tactical community had been doing for years."
Laslie offers a postscript by analyzing USAF participation under NATO in the Balkan Campaigns. He finds faults in NATO's lack of planning and clear objectives. But he credits Red Flag training for the good things that have happened, including the USAF's ability to conduct day-and-night operations. He does not delve into air operations in Afghanistan and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
The book has excellent endnotes, along with a "Flag" appendix, bibliography, index, and seven pages of photographs.
Posted in Electronic Book, Nonfiction, Vietnam War, Vietnam War History, Vietnam War military history | Tagged Brian D. Laslie, Brian Laslie, Laslie, The Air Force Way of War, The Air Force Way of War: U.S. Tactics and Training After Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vietnam War Air Force memoir, Vietnam War History
Eleven Months and Nineteen Days by John Bowen
Posted on May 11, 2015 by vvaposted
John Bowen's Eleven Months and Nineteen Days: A Vietnam Illustrator's Memoir (Middle River Press, 264 pp., $24.95, paper) is a unique book. It documents his experiences as the only U.S. Air Force illustrator assigned to Tan Son Nhut Air Base outside of Saigon from 1967-68.
Bowen was born in New York City and raised in New Jersey. He began working in the commercial art field after high school, then joined the U.S. Air Force in 1961 as an illustrator. Six years later, he was a staff sergeant and received orders to Vietnam, where he was assigned to the 834th Air Division Headquarters Unit.
As the only illustrator, his primary duty was documenting airlift resupply operations by drawing and painting what he observed. His many sketches and drawings placed liberally throughout this book enhance the reader's ability to visualize what the author is writing. Some of his works are on display at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.
A large majority of those who served in the Vietnam War were support troops. This is one of their stories. Bowen aptly describes the transformation in his unit from an almost state-side quality of day-to-day life—living in a barracks, sleeping in a bed, taking a warm showers, watching full-length movies, and dining in a mess hall—to life after the 1968 Tet Offensive.
Tan Son Nhut Air Base and nearby Saigon were in the thick of it. A good friend of Bowen's was killed by an enemy rocket inside the civilian terminal while waiting in line to board a plane back to The World.
By John Bowen
While security forces from the U.S. Army and ARVN Airborne moved through the area responding to enemy attacks, Bowen and his men were on placed on alert, ready to respond. Enemy rocket attacks continued night and day through February and into March, concentrating on the flight line and housing areas. The base control tower even sustained a direct hit. Bowen includes many sketches of the destruction in his book.
Especially poignant was Bowen comforting another airman who was on a sandbag-filling detail when they were bracketed by a salvo of rockets, killing and wounding several men.
The enemy's May 1968 Spring Offensive saw more attacks on Tan Son Nhut. Again, the combined U.S. Army, Air Force, and ARVN units prevented the base from being overrun.
The author's unit, the 834th Air Division, received two Presidential Unit Citations for outstanding performance during the Tet Offensive and the Spring Offensive. After reading John Bowen's well-written and profusely illustrated book, you will have a new appreciation for the troops who kept our supplies coming, no matter what.
For ordering info, go to the author's website, www.johnbowenwatercolorist.com
—-James P. Coan
Posted in Art, Memoir, Nonfiction, Paperback, Vietnam War | Tagged 834th Air Division, Air Force illustrator, Eleven Months and Nineteen Days, John Bowen, Vietnam War, Vietnam War Air Force memoir, Vietnam War illustrator, Vietnam War memoir
Shamrock 22 by Rick Hudlow
Posted on October 29, 2014 by vvaposted
Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Rick Hudlow recounts his life story in Shamrock 22: "An American Aviator's Story" (AuthorHouse, 415 pp., $31.99, hardcover; $23.95, paper; $3.99, e book). Hudlow is a man who lived to fly and who devoted his career to the Strategic Air Command—particularly the B-52.
"As a young man I served but did not get into combat in WWII," Hudlow humbly writes. "I served through Korea but was deeply involved in the new B-47 so did not serve in Korea. I served in Vietnam and saw our forces in action in the field and participated in the bombing campaigns in Vietnam."
Hudlow's story follows a path laid out by his father—a pilot, business owner, and consultant. Hudlow spent his boyhood at airports. He began flying by standing at the wheel of a Ford Tri-Motor because he was too small to see out the windshield. He enlisted in the Army aviation cadet program at age eighteen. Throughout his career, Hudlow extended to his subordinates the same high degree of confidence and respect that his father showed to him.
Rick Hudlow
The core of Hudlow's book deals with the Cold War, a topic practically forgotten since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. He entered SAC with the initial B-47 deliveries and rose in rank and influence as the Command's importance toward deterring nuclear war increased.
Hudlow clearly enjoyed and was "most proud of" the everyday performance of his B-47 and B-52 crew duties. Promoted to staff level, he conceived modifications that improved B-52 capabilities.
In Vietnam, Hudlow served on a targeting panel. He came to recognize that B-52 bombs were being fused incorrectly. He inspected recently bombed areas and flew with forward air controllers to validate that observation. He then designed new fusing practices that improved bombing results. After that, the Seventh Air Force Commander consulted with Hudlow about other bombing tactics.
Upon his return from Vietnam, Hudlow failed to achieve his life-long goal of becoming a SAC Wing Commander and retired. He immediately went to work in private industry and spent many years traveling to parts of the world he missed while serving in the Air Force.
Posted in Electronic Book, Nonfiction, Paperback | Tagged Air Force Colonel Rick Hudlow, B-47, B-52, Hudlow, Rick Hudlow, Shamrock 22, Vietnam War, Vietnam War Air Force memoir, Vietnam War memoir
Stumbling Through the Sixties by Howard Flomberg
Posted on July 17, 2013 by vvaposted
Howard Flomberg undertook his short autobiography, Stumbling Through the Sixties (CreateSpace, 162pp. $12.95 paper), as a project to stay sane once poor health forced him into retirement. He takes the reader through his impoverished childhood in Queens, New York, through his Air Force career, and to the present day.
His style is breezy and anecdotal, like that old uncle you had when you were a kid who loved to tell stories and wax philosophical. Flomberg seems to have had a desperate childhood, growing up as an orthodox Jew in a difficult household. His father died when he was quite young, to be succeeded by a brutish, alcoholic stepfather. Relatives sometime helped, but money was a constant issue. Flomberg had trouble in school. He was smart but easily bored, and his grades were poor. He was chubby and wore hand-me-downs.
Howard Flomberg
After flunking out of college, he entered the Air Force as the lesser evil—the other choices were the Army and the Marines. Luckily, they trained him in the very earliest computers, vacuum tube models. He was stationed in Bangkok, where, in one of the book's more exciting scenes, he acquitted himself well in a knife fight with some local toughs.
Flomberg writes about a CIA operation, Igloo White, that placed sensors along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and used the results to analyze the data in South Vietnam. Flomberg was flown into the Igloo White base to pull maintenance on the systems, and there were firefights all around him.
Perhaps in a future book Howard Flomberg will write more about Igloo White, an intriguing, outlandish undertaking. He should be congratulated just for getting his book in print. Like your uncle, he's often entertaining.
The author's website is http://hpflomberg.blogspot.com
—John Mort
Posted in Nonfiction, Paperback | Tagged Howard Flomberg, Vietnam War Air Force memoir, Vietnam War memoir


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'Mysterious illness' hits Fangak county
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Fangak, December 23, 2021 (SSNA) — A mysterious disease believed to be cholera is killing people in South Sudan, especially in Jonglei State's Fangak County, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. South Sudan's Health Ministry said the disease has already killed elderly and young people and that ages 1-14 appear to be the hardest hit….
Health ministry launches cholera vaccination in Pibor
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Pibor, January 21, 2021 (SSNA) — South Sudan's health ministry has launched cholera vaccination in the Greater Pibor Administrative area after initial evaluation show that the people in the area are at risk of the disease including the Coronavirus. Health minister Achuei Yol said the immunization campaign was also launched in other areas deemed to…
Former South Sudan's ambassador dies of Covid-19
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Juba, December 27, 2020 (SSNA) — A former South Sudanese ambassador to Russian Federation and legal advisor to President Salva Kiir has died of Coronavirus, a senior government official who does not want to be named because he was not authorized to speak on behave of the family of the deceased told the South Sudan…
CDC recommends "avoiding all travel" to South Sudan over Coronavirus
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Juba, December 27, 2020 (SSNA) — The United States-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention popularly known as CDC has recommended that U.S citizens should avoid "all travel" to South Sudan due to what it described as a "very high" risk of COVID-19 pandemic in the war-ravaged young nation. The CDC places South Sudan under…
South Sudan's vice president tested positive for COVID-19
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Juba, May 19, 2020 (SSNA) — South Sudanese First Vice President and leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-In Opposition (SPLM-IO) Dr. Riek Machar has contracted Coronavirus, his office said. The announcement came as a new high-level COVID-19 taskforce was taking over. South Sudan said it has confirmed at least 236 positive cases and four…
Health ministry raises COVID-19 cases to 45
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Juba, May 1, 2020 (SSNA) — South Sudan's ministry of health said Friday that the number of Coronavirus has increased from 35 to 45, raising fears the virus could devastate the young nation with a poor health sector. The government the new ten cases include normal citizens who have no history of traveling outside the…
South Sudan partners with WHO and CDC to combat Coronavirus
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Juba, April 16, 2020 (SSNA) — South Sudan's Ministry of Health has stepped up its readiness to contain the spread of the Coronavirus by partnering with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Stated-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a memo obtained by the South Sudan News Agency (SSNA) shows. The text…
Yellow fever outbreak declared in South Sudan
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Juba, April 11, 2020 (SSNA) — The Health Organization (WHO) said the deadly fever has been detected in Kajo-keji, a South Sudan's town bordering Uganda. The WHO revealed in a statement that two positive cases were identified last month and that the young nation faces the imminent spread of the virus as the rainy season…
Coronavirus fears force South Sudan to ban international flights
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Juba, March 24, 2020 (SSNA) — The newly-formed transitional government of national unity has banned all international flights coming into or going out of the country due to fears of Coronavirus, the government said on Monday. Juba asserted that the move is to prevent the spread of the deadly virus. The government also banned public…
Ebola virus reemerges between South Sudan-DRC border
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Juba, July 5, 2019 (SSNA) — South Sudan health ministry is on high-alert after Ebola virus killed a woman 70 kilometers away from the capital, Juba. South Sudan's Director General for disease control, Dr. Pinyi Nyimol, told VOA's South Sudan in Focus program that the ministry of health sent seven people Yei River State –…
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3GS what firmware came with Baseband 05.13.04?
Discussion in 'Jailbreaks and iOS Hacks' started by Anijake, Apr 26, 2011.
I think my iphone died, I was using it in the car with the bluetooth and Navagon and all of a sudden all radios went off, no GPS no Bluetooth and no signal from T-Mobile.
The phone crashed and rebooted and then said connect to iTunes. Itunes said it was messed up and do a restore so I reloaded my Pwned firmware and now it says no sim installed in iTunes and keeps rebooting.
I am thinking the baseband might be messed up, so I would like to reinstall the firmware that has the 5.13.04 baseband which is what is on there now.
Does anyone know what firmware that might be? I have SHSH's all the way back to 4.0.
Or does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this?
But if its still doing the same it might not have to do with the baseband.
Try setting it up as new if it lets you get that far and dont restore from backup when itunes asks you.
It could also be a hardware issue.
Thanks, I'll give it a go and see what happens.
Yep, you guessed it bro.


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