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package org.olat.data.repository;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import org.olat.data.basesecurity.BaseSecurity;
import org.olat.data.commons.database.DBFactory;
import org.olat.data.commons.database.DBQuery;
import org.olat.data.lifecycle.LifeCycleManager;
import org.olat.data.reference.ReferenceDao;
import org.olat.data.resource.OLATResourceManager;
import org.olat.system.logging.log4j.LoggerHelper;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Repository;

/**
 * Initial Date: 1.11.2011
 *
 * @author Christian Guretzki
 */
@Repository
public class RepositoryDeletionDaoImpl implements RepositoryDeletionDao {

    private static final Logger log = LoggerHelper.getLogger();
    @Autowired
    BaseSecurity baseSecurity;

    private RepositoryDeletionDaoImpl() {
    }

    public List getDeletableReprositoryEntries(final int lastLoginDuration) {
        final Calendar lastUsageLimit = Calendar.getInstance();
        lastUsageLimit.add(Calendar.MONTH, -lastLoginDuration);
        log.debug("lastLoginLimit=" + lastUsageLimit);

        // 1. get all ReprositoryEntries with lastusage > x
        String query = "select re from RepositoryEntry as re " + " where (re.lastUsage = null or re.lastUsage < :lastUsage)" + " and re.olatResource != null ";
        DBQuery dbq = DBFactory.getInstance().createQuery(query);
        dbq.setDate("lastUsage", lastUsageLimit.getTime());
        final List reprositoryEntries = dbq.list();
        // 2. get all ReprositoryEntries in deletion-process (email send)
        query = "select re from RepositoryEntry as re" + " , org.olat.data.lifecycle.LifeCycleEntry as le" + " where re.key = le.persistentRef "
                + " and re.olatResource != null " + " and le.persistentTypeName ='" + RepositoryEntry.class.getSimpleName() + "'" + " and le.action ='"
                + SEND_DELETE_EMAIL_ACTION + "' ";
        dbq = DBFactory.getInstance().createQuery(query);
        final List groupsInProcess = dbq.list();
        // 3. Remove all ReprositoryEntries in deletion-process from all unused-ReprositoryEntries
        reprositoryEntries.removeAll(groupsInProcess);
        return filterRepositoryWithReferences(reprositoryEntries);
    }

    private List filterRepositoryWithReferences(final List repositoryList) {
        log.debug("filterRepositoryWithReferences repositoryList.size=" + repositoryList.size());
        final List filteredList = new ArrayList();
        int loopCounter = 0;
        for (final Iterator iter = repositoryList.iterator(); iter.hasNext();) {
            final RepositoryEntry repositoryEntry = (RepositoryEntry) iter.next();
            log.debug("filterRepositoryWithReferences repositoryEntry=" + repositoryEntry);
            log.debug("filterRepositoryWithReferences repositoryEntry.getOlatResource()=" + repositoryEntry.getOlatResource());
            if (OLATResourceManager.getInstance().findResourceable(repositoryEntry.getOlatResource()) != null) {
                if (ReferenceDao.getInstance().getReferencesTo(repositoryEntry.getOlatResource()).size() == 0) {
                    filteredList.add(repositoryEntry);
                    log.debug("filterRepositoryWithReferences add to filteredList repositoryEntry=" + repositoryEntry);
                } else {
                    // repositoryEntry has references, can not be deleted
                    log.debug("filterRepositoryWithReferences Do NOT add to filteredList repositoryEntry=" + repositoryEntry);
                    if (LifeCycleManager.createInstanceFor(repositoryEntry).lookupLifeCycleEntry(SEND_DELETE_EMAIL_ACTION) != null) {
                        LifeCycleManager.createInstanceFor(repositoryEntry).deleteTimestampFor(SEND_DELETE_EMAIL_ACTION);
                        log
                                .info("filterRepositoryWithReferences: found repositoryEntry with references, remove from deletion-process repositoryEntry="
                                        + repositoryEntry);
                    }
                }
            } else {
                log.error("filterRepositoryWithReferences, could NOT found Resourceable for repositoryEntry=" + repositoryEntry, null);
            }
            if (loopCounter++ % 100 == 0) {
                DBFactory.getInstance().intermediateCommit();
            }
        }
        log.debug("filterRepositoryWithReferences filteredList.size=" + filteredList.size());
        return filteredList;
    }

    public List getReprositoryEntriesInDeletionProcess(final int deleteEmailDuration) {
        final Calendar deleteEmailLimit = Calendar.getInstance();
        deleteEmailLimit.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, -(deleteEmailDuration - 1));
        log.debug("deleteEmailLimit=" + deleteEmailLimit);
        final String queryStr = "select re from RepositoryEntry as re" + " , org.olat.data.lifecycle.LifeCycleEntry as le" + " where re.key = le.persistentRef "
                + " and re.olatResource != null " + " and le.persistentTypeName ='" + RepositoryEntry.class.getSimpleName() + "'" + " and le.action ='"
                + SEND_DELETE_EMAIL_ACTION + "' and le.lcTimestamp >= :deleteEmailDate ";
        final DBQuery dbq = DBFactory.getInstance().createQuery(queryStr);
        dbq.setDate("deleteEmailDate", deleteEmailLimit.getTime());
        return filterRepositoryWithReferences(dbq.list());
    }

    public List getReprositoryEntriesReadyToDelete(final int deleteEmailDuration) {
        final Calendar deleteEmailLimit = Calendar.getInstance();
        deleteEmailLimit.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, -(deleteEmailDuration - 1));
        log.debug("deleteEmailLimit=" + deleteEmailLimit);
        final String queryStr = "select re from RepositoryEntry as re" + " , org.olat.data.lifecycle.LifeCycleEntry as le" + " where re.key = le.persistentRef "
                + " and re.olatResource != null " + " and le.persistentTypeName ='" + RepositoryEntry.class.getSimpleName() + "'" + " and le.action ='"
                + SEND_DELETE_EMAIL_ACTION + "' and le.lcTimestamp < :deleteEmailDate ";
        final DBQuery dbq = DBFactory.getInstance().createQuery(queryStr);
        dbq.setDate("deleteEmailDate", deleteEmailLimit.getTime());
        return filterRepositoryWithReferences(dbq.list());
    }

}

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Q: Display float column with leading sign I am using PHP with PostgreSQL. I have the following query:
SELECT ra, de, concat(ra, de) AS com, count(*) OVER() AS total_rows
FROM mdust
LIMIT :pagesize OFFSET :starts

The columns ra and de are floats where de can be positive or negative, however, the de does not return the + associated with the float. It does however return the - negative sign. What I want is for the de column within concat(ra, de) to return back the positive or negative sign.
I was looking at this documentation for PostgreSQL which provides to_char(1, 'S9') which is exactly what I want but it only works for integers. I was unable to find such a function for floats.

A: to_char() works for float as well. You just have to define desired output format. The simple pattern S9 would truncate fractional digits and fail for numbers > 9.
test=> SELECT to_char(float '0.123'  , 'FMS9999990.099999')
test->      , to_char(float '123'    , 'FMS9999990.099999')
test->      , to_char(float '123.123', 'FMS9999990.099999');
 to_char | to_char | to_char
---------+---------+----------
 +0.123  | +123.0  | +123.123
(1 row)

The added FM modifier stands for "fill mode" and suppresses insignificant trailing zeroes (unless forced by a 0 symbol instead of 9) and padding blanks.
Add as many 9s before and after the period as you want to allow as many digits.
You can tailor desired output format pretty much any way you want. Details in the manual here.
Aside: There are more efficient solutions for paging than LIMIT :pagesize OFFSET :starts:

*

*Optimize query with OFFSET on large table

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John H. Collins (December 31, 1889 – October 31, 1918)  was an American writer and director of the silent film era. He married film actress Viola Dana. His career was cut short when he died at the age of 28 due to the 1918 influenza epidemic. During his career which began in 1914, he directed more than 40 features and film shorts, and wrote the scenario for over a dozen more features. His 1917 film The Girl Without a Soul was selected by the National Film Registry to be preserved by the Library of Congress. His final works were shown posthumously in 1919.

Partial filmography
 Cohen's Luck (1915)
 Gladiola (1915)
 The Man Who Could Not Sleep (1915)
 Children of Eve (1915)
 On Dangerous Paths (1915)
 The Flower of No Man's Land (1916)
 The Light of Happiness (1916)
 The Gates of Eden (1916)
 The Innocence of Ruth (1916)
 The Cossack Whip (1916)
 God's Law and Man's (1917)
 A Wife by Proxy (1917)Rosie O'Grady (1917)
 Lady Barnacle (1917)
 Aladdin's Other Lamp (1917)
 The Girl Without a Soul (1917)
 Blue Jeans (1917)
 The Winding Trail (1918)
 A Weaver of Dreams (1918)
 Riders of the Night (1918)
 Opportunity (1918)
 Flower of the Dusk (1918)
 The Gold Cure (1919)
 Satan Junior'' (1919)

References

External links
John H. Collins at IMDb.com

1918 deaths
1889 births
American film directors
Deaths from the Spanish flu pandemic in New York (state)

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pirouetta27
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Current Dancer News
pirouetta27 replied to Helene's topic in Pacific Northwest Ballet
Congratulations to the Suddarths on their upcoming baby! I think this answers my question as to why Emma wasn't dancing as much in the last rep as I would've expected Also, per their Instagram, another company family is expecting!
Carmina Burana /Agon Sept 27-28, Oct 3-6)
Oh, and I one more note: I was surprised to see that Emma Love Suddarth hasn't been cast in anything beyond general ensemble dancing for either weekend (but please correct me if I'm wrong; I was reading the casting on a smartphone screen so it's possible that I missed something). Her dancing is always very strong and I'd love to see more of her.
After attending the Saturday night performance, I have to say that I've never realized before how FUN Agon can be! The dancers have taken Russell's notes to heart; there were plenty of moments I could hear her corrections (from the livestream rehearsal) in my head, and see how the dancers had adjusted accordingly. Lucien's coupés in his solo were clear; the partnered arabesque promenades at the end revolved smoothly; Mullin's traveling echappes glided in perfect unison with Macy's. I especially enjoyed the gailliard with these two women. Sometimes with the Balanchine black and white ballets I get the sense that the driving emotion is "look how spiky we can be! Look how fierce and neoclassical!" Elements of that were there, but more than anything, I felt that Macy and Mullin were playing a wonderful game onstage, feeding off each other's energy and daring. Oh, and the pas de trois--such excellent chemistry between the two of them and Lucien, and what a glorious tendu ending! In the other sections, Pantastico brought a coy charm to her bransle solo, and Laura Tisserand was both cool and eminently personable as she and Josh Grant wrapped themselves in knots during the pas de deux. I could watch that pas over and over again. With Grant, I still don't think I really have a sense of who he is as a performer, but there was nothing dislikable in his presence or partnering. I mean, I do wish that Laura had reached the floor in the split-walk section, but with those legs I don't think there's time in the music for it! The whole cast kept up such crisp unity from start to finish that it really seemed like they were all pieces in an elaborate game of chess (a very fast game of chess, so there are holes in the metaphor, but you get the idea). There's no hiding in these leotard ballets--and this cast had nothing to hide, just wonderful musicality, teamwork, and sky-high extensions to show. I was a bit nervous to see Carmina, just because I'd adored it in the past and didn't know how I'd receive Stowell's choreography from an adult perspective. Happily, I found that his patterns, partnering steps, and conceptual flow held up to the power of the music, especially with the beginning Fortuna Plango Vulnera section where the men spring to life from the floor. Chills. Because this piece has such a large cast and often necessitates casting Professional Division students, there were a few moments throughout where one couple would be lagging in partnering, but it didn't detract from the spectacle or youthful exuberance. It's a great learning opportunity for all of them, and I must say that Mark Cuddihee (apprentice) and Noah Martzall (PD) really caught my eye in their commitment to the work, along with Abby Jayne DeAngelo (her face during the kneeling lines at the end captured the whole arc of the ballet). Another young one to watch is Sarah Gabrielle Ryan. She and Steven Loch in Primo Vere had chemistry out the wazoo as they progressed from teasing village couple to the more mature sections in unitards. I also greatly enjoyed Elle Macy as the siren female in In Taberna; she brought a sense of decisiveness and hedonistic abandon to every developpe, and it was interesting to watch her/Lin-Yee shift the power dynamics back and forth in the group. Something in her interpretation seemed fresher than those I've seen in the past: with other females it's felt more like an inevitability that the tavern would orbit around her, but with Macy it was a wicked party that just barely stayed in her control. Of course, Liz Murphy and Lucien were full of melting arabesques and silky solos in Cour D'Amour, and you could feel the audience stunned into silence during Dulcissima as the purity of Murphy's steps matched the soprano's impossibly high notes. What a treat! But on a sour note, in many of the other sections, someone kept bumping into a microphone, which inserted a horrible "ka THUNK" into the rest of the singing. And it. Kept. Happening. Seriously, I don't know if it was onstage or off, but its recurrence was both irritating and baffling. I heard one of the other audience members mentioning it as we filed out...hopefully the problem is fixed for future performances. I could go on and on but the last thing I'll mention is just how much I love the Carmina costumes...sure, the nude unitards provide minimal costuming, but the flecks of reflective material and waving pieces of fabric highlight the dancers' lines so nicely. And Murphy's buttercup-colored dressed for Cour is regal in its simplicity. It's so nice that, although PNB presses ahead with new and exciting works, Boal also takes time to revisit classics from the company's heritage: the architecture from Balanchine and gesamtkunstwerk revelry from founding director Stowell.
I'm getting more and more excited for the show with all of this excellent video footage PNB is producing! After living overseas for a year and a half, it's a treat to be in town for these two powerhouse pieces. Does anyone remember the last time that Agon was programmed?
Director's Choice March 15-16 and March 21-24
Did anyone go to see the opening weekend? I live overseas so it's rare that I get the chance to watch a performance in person (thank heavens for the youtube rehearsal streams!) and I'm curious about everyone's impressions of this program. Standout dancers? Overall longevity of these pieces in the repertoire? Feeling/mood of the night?
You can watch new PNB apprentice Abby Jayne DeAngelo dancing in this fun video from Cut; obviously, she's the ballerina with checked pants and a white t-shirt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUxf7oytC9M
Sleeping Beauty Act I Rehearsal Live Stream Thurs Jan 24 at 3:30pm PST
I was able to watch what I think was all of the Act I rehearsal on Instagram stories (from Japan, no less; the time difference worked out well). Leta looked strong and joyful in the Rose Adagio, and I thought that Steven Loch was fantastic as Carabosse. Hats off to the many hard-working corps ladies, too, and their glorious unison work! It always warms my heart to see Francia Russell back in the studio alongside the current artistic team.
2018-19 Promotions and Roster Changes
Seeing Leta in Afternoon Ball was also revelatory; she was filled with tenacity and grace. Many congratulations to her! Now I'm waiting for Dylan Wald to finally get moved out of the corps...
pirouetta27 replied to abatt's topic in New York City Ballet
This whole situation has made me very sad from the moment the first article was published, but I was especially saddened today to read Ramasar and Catazaro's posts on the matter: regardless of what really happened, neither of them acknowledged the hurt that everyone else has been feeling (Waterbury, colleagues, fans...) Posting about how you are a such an honorable person blah blah blah does not make it so; what's honorable is to recognize and validate someone else's pain, particularly in such an icky situation as this. Without saying anything that would entangle the legal side of the case, each of them could have taken the chance to acknowledge the very real hurt that's happening NOW, rather than boasting about previous accomplishments in the world of City Ballet. The world is a better place when humans are able to step outside of their own self-focussed bubbles. Unfortunately, Ramasar and Catazaro have not done that in their public statements, and I fear that peace for City Ballet, Waterbury, etc. will be slow to come.
pirouetta27 replied to canbelto's topic in New York City Ballet
Not sure where to put this, but an Instagram post by Peter Boal, a Wikipedia bio (currently lacking citation), and public Facebook posts indicate that Sean Lavery may have passed away this week. Quite sad news for the company and all who knew him.
Helene, didn't PNB do Martins' "Fearful Symmetries" back in 2003? It's not listed with the rep on their website right now, but I seem to remember it being performed years ago. From what I've seen, Martins' R & J is not a particularly special interpretation of the tale, but I am excited to be seeing City Ballet for the very first time next week when it's performed! My eagerness to visit NYC and watch the company eclipses the apathetic feelings I have about the choreography and production.
According to several public-facing Instagram posts from PNB dancers, it appears that Ryan may have already debuted Sugar Plum Fairy this weekend.
Ballet 101 program
pirouetta27 replied to sandik's topic in Pacific Northwest Ballet
Blessings on you for recording all this information! FASCINATING!
Krohn Retiring On Oct 7, 2017
Clara Ruf-Maldonado is currently in the Professional Division at PNB. She graced the stage in the corps of "Emeralds" during the company's recent run of Jewels,
Reopening of the Francia Russell Center, 6 September 17
I was able to take open class at the new facility (pro tip: as of yesterday at 9am, the PNB website still listed the temporary facility's address and the FRC voicemail sounded as though it hasn't been updated since May) and was quite impressed! Although there are a number of construction details that are still being taken care of, the space appears to be even better designed than the original to meet the needs of Eastside students. I'm looking forward to seeing how it all progresses; bravo to the work crews who have put this all together in such a short amount of time and the students/parents/faculty who have rallied to make the transition go smoothly.
Encore repertory
I'd love to see Imler do the "Plink Plank Plunk" excerpt from Olivier Wevers' "Shindig." His choreography for this section is full of humor, and the speed of some of those turns--my gosh, Imler is one of the only women who can pull it off with such confidence! As for Bold, I agree with sandik's suggestion of "Caught." It's a marvelous chance for him to not only jump but also command the stage with that quiet gravity he has.
Cendrillon, Feb 3-4, 9-12
According to Noelani's public Instagram (@hulagirl): "The role of the Fairy is what April [Ball] was taught in her audition for BMC, and she's been doing it ever since--13 years! It's not in PNB's culture to have guests, and seems to be the norm in other major ballet companies, so I'm grateful to see this unfold here and pray it happens more. I can't tell you how much it improved my dancing to see other dancers and companies outside of this realm when I left PNB in 2008." Though I don't know if Ball's guesting is as a replacement for someone or as an experiment in PNB hosting guest artists, it sounds like she'll be magnificent in the role! It must be exciting for the PNB dancers to get new faces and new voices as they prepare for Cendrillon.
PNB at the Vail Festival
pirouetta27 replied to pirouetta27's topic in Pacific Northwest Ballet
Sounds like the Vail newspapers gave the company some great reviews! From the photo albums posted, it looked like some dancers took on new roles over the tour, such as Griffiths in 9 Sinatra Songs, and Bartee in Red Angels. Exciting stuff; it'll be interesting to watch casting for this fall.
Here is the link to PNB at Blogspot: http://blog.pnb.org/2010/07/artistic-director-peter-boal-on-pnbs.html
pirouetta27 posted a topic in Pacific Northwest Ballet
Saw some beautiful photos on Facebook of the company taking morning class in Vail, CO! Lots of shots of them jumping, as well as one of Lucien Postlewaite's amazing developpe a la seconde. It looked like there were a few NYCB dancers in the class; maybe Tiler Peck? The company's journey to Vail is also being chronicled on the PNB blog. Peter Boal wrote a humorous first entry that included anecdotes from their plane trip, and Benjamin Griffiths wrote a few paragraphs later about their arrival. It'll be interesting to see how frequently they update this in the coming days. Almost all of the company is on tour, except for Jonathan Porretta, Stacy Lowenberg, and Maria Chapman, who are all coming back from injuries. Best wishes go to them for their recoveries!
Three By Dove
No, Korbes and Bold didn't dance at all on opening night. They made an announcement shortly before Serious Pleasures that the two of them would be replaced by the Orzas.
No, unfortunately I wasn't there on Friday night, since I had to travel out of town on Friday morning. I was grateful that, for this year at least, there are still Thursday night performances! I wonder why Carla Korbes and Batkhurel Bold were replaced by Seth and Sarah Orza that night...injury, maybe? Especially sad not to see Carla.
I was able to see 3 By Dove on opening night, and was thoroughly impressed by PNB's level of performance! The same group of dancers was in pretty much every piece, but they looked very strong. I posted a review on my blog here: http://swissbelle.blogspot.com/2010/03/3-b...to-extreme.html
PNB promotions announced
pirouetta27 replied to SandyMcKean's topic in Pacific Northwest Ballet
Oh! That must be such a wonderful transition for Karel and Lindsi! They both richly deserve it.
Romeo et Juliette Casting and Reviews
Please also let those of us who aren't in town know who got promoted on opening night...It's such an exciting season for the company!

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Angela Ewing announces the premier show of our new series Cultural Cuisine. In this first episode her co-host Judith Lidgus talks with Lauren Spector about Jewish cuisine, customs, and practice.
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FEAST stands for Food, Education, Agriculture, Solutions Together. FEAST is a community organizing process that allows participants to engage in an informed and facilitated discussion about food, education, and agriculture in their community and begin to work toward solutions together to help build a healthier, more equitable, and more resilient local food system.
When a community comes together to discuss how it can build a healthier, more sustainable food system, amazing things happen. Relationships with local growers flourish. Backyard gardens and new farmers markets sprout. And neighbors learn that, by working together, they can create a stronger local food system that takes advantage of the resources within their community.
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Host Candice Michel continues her conversation with event organizers Carolyn Milliman and Curtis Wohlgemuth about the Central Building's Centennial Celebration on Saturday, February 28, 2015. Included are more great stories by Central Building's owner and long-time Brookings resident Eldon Gossett.
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Board index Topical Research The Allies in WWII
Allied strategic bombing - An overlooked success?
The Allies 1939-1945, and those fighting against Germany.
Moderator: John W. Howard
Michate
Post by Michate » Mon Apr 04, 2005 3:58 am
I might add that the British - as all participants of the war - remembered all too well World War 1 and the final breakdown of German morale in a critical situation which had brought that war to an end. Something that is easily forgotten today when we tend to judge WW2 by its final results.
In 1943, after Stalingrad certainly some parallels to 1918 could be drawn ("1918" appeared on house walls in Germany and Austria) and I have read about some statements from British command staffs that the year might see defection of Germany's allies and either a breakdown of the fighting spirit of the common German soldier or a plot by the German army against the Nazi party.
As to economical results of the bombing campaigns, I remember some figures for production losses October - December 1943, roughly 20% of weapons production and enough to equip some firts-rate Panzer divisions.
Post by Qvist » Mon Apr 04, 2005 3:58 am
Essentially, a good point. But to play the devil's advocate a little, one could argue that the war in the Far East was won by the combination of strategic bombing with the obvious likelihood of an immiment amphibious invasion as aresult of the island hopping campaign, and the impending collapse of the Japanese position on the Asian mainland after the Soviet entry into the war. And also that it can perhaps not be taken for granted that nazi Germany would have capitulated even in the event of one or two nuclear strikes. Also, that the proponents of strategic bombing did not presuppose a nuclear capability to justify their strategic claims.
sid guttridge
on "time out"
Post by sid guttridge » Mon Apr 04, 2005 7:06 am
Hi Qvist,
I think that the military and most others of the time tended to see the A-bomb as a massive enhancement of their conventional armoury (i.e. talking of A-bombs in terms of equivalent tons of TNT) rather than as something fundamentally new. As it was, the two A-bombs took less lives than the Tokyo fire raid and weren't an order of magnitude more immediately fatal to human life than the likes of the conventional Hamburg or Dresden raids.
We today are aware of the fundamentally different nature of the danger to life posed by nuclear weapons and are faced now by the possibility of not merely annihilating a couple of enemy cities but the entire human race. However, this was probably not the perspective of anyone in political or military authority in August 1945. I would suggest that in 1945 A-bombs were basically viewed as a welcome leap in the destructiveness of the conventional armoury that would allow strategic bombing to continue but without the very heavy losses in air crew that had previously to be endured.
PaulJ
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Post by PaulJ » Mon Apr 04, 2005 5:10 pm
sid guttridge wrote: I think that the military and most others of the time tended to see the A-bomb as a massive enhancement of their conventional armoury ... rather than as something fundamentally new. ...
We today are aware of the fundamentally different nature of the danger to life posed by nuclear weapons ...
Well Sid, for my money you have hit upon a key point that is under appreciated today. The modern firebreak between conventional and nuclear weapons was not apparent in 1945. Indeed, I would argue that (in 1945) it did not exist. The atomic bombs of 1945 followed seemlessly from the strategic bombing campaigns of the preceding five years.
I published a short piece on this (http://pauldjohnston.tripod.com/atomic.html), in which I asked the rhetorical question:
What is the essential distinction between using hundreds of bombers to destroy a city by fire-storm, and using one bomber to destroy a city by atomic blast?
In my opinion, there is no distinction. Which is the point I was trying to make in my article. A great deal of ink has been spilt on the question of why the American leadership "decided" to use the atomic bombs. I would argue that there was no real decision to make - it was already well established policy to smash Japan's cities by strategic bombardment from the air. That being the case, what difference do the technicalities of the bombs' design make?
Paul Johnston
http://tactical-airpower.tripod.com
Post by Qvist » Mon Apr 04, 2005 11:15 pm
Hello both
That seems reasonable enough to me - but I don't quite get the connect to anything I argued in my post? But perhaps there isn't one?
Post by sid guttridge » Tue Apr 05, 2005 2:46 am
Just making conversation following on from your last point that "the proponents of strategic bombing did not presuppose a nuclear capability to justify their strategic claims." With that I agree.
However, they did presuppose more and bigger bombs with ever greater destructive power unleashed from the air in order to achieve their strategic aims and the two atomic bombs used conformed with this intended trend. They may not have presupposed atomic weapons per se, but they definitely did envisage equivalent conventional destructive power and even measured atomic bombs in terms of their equivalent in conventional explosives.
Post by Qvist » Tue Apr 05, 2005 3:50 am
Got you. I just wondered if there was some misunderstanding.
Post by greenhorn » Wed Apr 06, 2005 1:36 pm
The US were compelled to use A bombs on Japan.
They had to force the Japanese to surrender as it would have been politically impossible to take the additional casualties required by assaulting the home islands.......
By the time the US had achieved a bridgehead on Kyushu/Honshu, the Russians would have rolled up the Korean Peninsula and probably all over Japan! Not having an electorate to worry about.
Post by sid guttridge » Thu Apr 07, 2005 2:58 am
Hi Greenhorn,
I don't think the US had to use the atom bomb. However, it was certainly massively to its advantage to do so.
I think that your perspective on low-US casualty tolerance is coloured by internal US reaction to later, far less important conlicts against opponents not threatening to its national existence, such as Korea and particularly Vietnam.
I think that the US was nowhere near as casualty-shy in WWII against a foe that had attacked its national territory as it was in later more minor wars.
I also think that the US was probably psyched up for heavy losses during a conventional invasion of Japan - something the USSR was probably incapable of mounting independently. Indeed, the US was prepared to mount such an invasion with little more than token British Commonwealth ground support.
Post by Andy H » Thu Apr 07, 2005 1:29 pm
Indeed, the US was prepared to mount such an invasion with little more than token British Commonwealth ground support.
Agreed, but that was absed on Political and Logistical grounds, rather than purely military
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Post by Vagabond » Thu May 12, 2005 9:47 am
PaulJ wrote: ... The modern firebreak between conventional and nuclear weapons was not apparent in 1945.
I think you are right that there was no 'firebreak' between nuclear weapons and area bombings of civilian targets in 1945, but I would add that mass bombing of cities was seen in much the same light at least until 1940 as we saw full scale nuclear war during the Cold War, i.e. as decisive in itself.
Once the genie of area bombing of enemy cities was out of the bottle after Rotterdam, there were no moral constraints left, though one wonders why the RAF persevered with their comparatively ineffective bombing for as long as they did. After all, the Butt Report established that accuracy was appalling, which ruled out precision bombing of key targets such as eg. the synthfuel industry. That left only area bombing conducted at night, and the Brits would have known full well that such bombing did not break the population's morale - after all, they had first hand experience from The Blitz.
I think the British population's desire for revenge is a factor that should not be underestimated. Churchill's parliamentary basis was elected, after all, and for a very long while strategic bombing was the only means by which the UK could hit Germany directly.
Post by sid guttridge » Fri May 13, 2005 5:05 am
Hi Vagabond,
A couple of points. There were moral (and legal) constraints left after Rotterdam. For example, Allied area bombing did not continue to the end of the war. It stopped in March 1945.
Furthermore, there always existed the legal device of the "Open City", under which a city was immune to attack if it stopped all contribution to the war effort and this was both declared to the enemy and adhered to. Germany never declared any of its cities "open" and prevented the Hungarians declaring Budapest "open" in March 1944, but they did apparently declare Rome "open" when they finally left it in June 1944. The only person condemned to death for bombing civilian areas was apparently the German who led the bombing of Belgrade after it had been declared "open" in April 1941.
The British did not know full well that bombing couldn't break civilian morale, because they had seen how shakey British civilian morale sometimes got during the Blitz. (See Angus Calder's "The Peoples' War"). Their conclusion was that more and heavier bombing was more likely to be effective. Goebbels, who was in charge of maintaining German morale, was agreed. His diaries have many references to his fears in this direction.
It is a moot point as to whether Allied bombing eventually broke German civilian morale or not. There certainly was little popular resistance to the Western Allies in the last months of the war, and none afterwards. In the Saarland the civilian population even tried to stop the German armed forces from fighting for the area.
If you read the first posting on this thread you will also see a good number of reasons why Allied strategic bombing should be regarded as widely successful, even though it never lived up to the extravagant hopes of those who thought the war might be won from the air alone.
While it is true that a widespread public desire for revenge created a moral climate at home in which the RAF could operate area bombing, it should also be recalled that it was also public and parliamentary pressure that helped end it weeks before the end of the war. There was no technical reason why area bombing had to be stopped, the only real question is at what point the moral case against it became overwhelming.
Post by Vagabond » Fri May 13, 2005 11:18 am
sid guttridge wrote: Hi Vagabond,
Perhaps over Europe, but certainly not over Japan - and concentrating solely on the ETO would in turn also remove the nuclear bomb as the next logical step in area bombing.
...Furthermore, there always existed the legal device of the "Open City"...The only person condemned to death for bombing civilian areas was apparently the German who led the bombing of Belgrade after it had been declared "open" in April 1941.
Yes, Martin Fiebig was executed as a war criminal in 1946. Bombing cities can also have a more narrow tactical application. They usually serve as mobilisation centres, which in turn might explain why the Luftwaffe bombed Warsaw but not for example Paris in the early parts of the war.
The British did not know full well that bombing couldn't break civilian morale, because they had seen how shakey British civilian morale sometimes got during the Blitz. (See Angus Calder's "The Peoples' War").
True, there were disagreeable parts of the Blitz. There seems to have been a real collective effort to gloss over the adverse effects some bombings on occasion had on civilian morale - all the same, the whole 'Britain can take it' attitude, Churchill and the royal family visiting bombed-out Londoners, even Soviet press visiting and writing favourably about the heroic AA gunners in Hyde Park was clearly a point for the PR people. I think it is fair to say that Britain came out of the Blitz strengthened, a point that should not have gone missed on the RAF bomber barons.
Their conclusion was that more and heavier bombing was more likely to be effective.
I think you are wrong here. Their conclusion was that the RAF did not possess the means to hit anything smaller than a city center with any degree of accuracy, cf. the Butt Report. Area bombing was chosen because it was the only option left.
Goebbels, who was in charge of maintaining German morale, was agreed. His diaries have many references to his fears in this direction.
The Nazis may themselves have been victims of the myth that the German home front collapsed in 1918. I think that is a strong reason why Germany never got a full war economy (and that in turn can explain the growing German production numbers throughout the war), and why eg. German rations remained comparatively lavish. Goebbels expressing fears to his diary that civilian morale might sap does not in itself mean that this was the case.
It is a moot point as to whether Allied bombing eventually broke German civilian morale or not.
I don't think it is moot when it comes to determining whether Harris was successful in seeing his original strategy through to a successful conclusion.
There certainly was little popular resistance to the Western Allies in the last months of the war, and none afterwards. In the Saarland the civilian population even tried to stop the German armed forces from fighting for the area.
Well okay. But I can think of other reasons why German morale in the West might have been on the decline during the closing months of the war
I do not dispute that the Allied strategic bombing campaign was widely successful in tying down very considerable German resources in men, AA guns and particularly fighter aircraft, but this drain should be put in proportion to the considerable drain on Allied resources that the bombing campaign itself was. Would the RAF have carried on bombing German targets after the Butt Report's disheartening conclusions if their resources had been scarcer?
While it is true that a widespread public desire for revenge created a moral climate at home in which the RAF could operate area bombing, it should also be recalled that it was also public and parliamentary pressure that helped end it weeks before the end of the war...
Absolutely. While public pressure facilitated the strategic bombing campaign initially, the same public mood could of course also be a factor in stopping strategic bombing again.
Post by sid guttridge » Sat May 14, 2005 3:02 am
Yes. Cities and even quite small towns contained mobilisation centres, barracks, depots, training schools, etc. Tessin has written three volumes on their distribution across the Reich in WWII. Every single one of Germany's soldiers passed through them. The Ersatzheer in them averaged some two million men throughout WWII. The same was true of virtually any country.
I don't see that Britain came out of the Blitz strengthened, except in the sense that it had survived it. There was enormous relief that the bombing had been far less damaging than pre-war estimates had predicted but, nevertheless, widespread death and destruction had been caused and morale had sometimes been distinctly shakey in the immediate aftermath of raids - Churchill was booed on one visit to the East End. The obvious lesson was to make sure that any counter-blitz on Germany would have to be heavier and more sustained if it was to succeed.
I agree that area bombing was adopted as the only option left (at least until better equipment became available), but in fact this official "adoption" was simply a recognition that, such was the inaccuracy of earlier raids, area bombing was always what the RAF had been conducting at night anyway.
I think you are spot on about the long overlooked impact of the British blockade on German civilian morale by 1918, which had the direst political consequences for the Second Reich. The Third Reich tried to cushion its civilian population from a repitition in WWII by maintaining as much civilian normality for as long as possible. The cost of this was a fatally late switch to a total war economy.
Goebbels was not fantasising. German civilian morale demonstrably did decline in WWII. See my original post about the much higher absenteeism amongst German workers than amongst forced labourers in 1944.
Harris's aim of winning the war from the air alone clearly did not work in Europe. However, this does not mean that his European operations were a total failure. Enormous damage was inflicted on Germany and enormous human and material resources were diverted to opposing or avoiding the bombing. This undoubtedly facilitated Allied progress elsewhere.
Furthermore, as Japan WAS knocked out of the war through air power, Harris was not necessarily on the wrong track. It may be argued that he simply lacked the necessary weight of destructive power and that Atom Bomb was his ultimate vindication.
What is your alternative to the strategic bomber offensive? The Royal Navy couldn't attack Germany. The Army was far too small to land back on the continent. The diversion of resources from building strategic bombers wasn't going to change this significantly. Air attack was the only method Britain had of striking at Germany. Why, therefore, is it a problem that enormous resources were devoted to this end? The alternative would appear to be to give up the war altogether. Is this your proposition?
Post by Vagabond » Sat May 14, 2005 7:53 am
Hi again Sid,
sid guttridge wrote: ...I don't see that Britain came out of the Blitz strengthened, except in the sense that it had survived it. There was enormous relief that the bombing had been far less damaging than pre-war estimates had predicted but, nevertheless, widespread death and destruction had been caused
Yes, but the loss of life luckily fell very short of expectations. Some pre-scient London bureaucrat had so many death certificates printed on the eve of war in 1939 that they were still in use well into the 1970s...
I still maintain that Britain came out of the Blitz stronger, both in absolute terms (RAF strength vs. Luftwaffe strength) and in acknowledging the strategic condition that an invasion of the British isles was beyond the means of the Wehrmacht.
and morale had sometimes been distinctly shakey in the immediate aftermath of raids - Churchill was booed on one visit to the East End.
OK, but the overall picture of the Blitz's consequences for the civilian populace was one of public perseverance and an ability to keep everyday life going in the face of the enemy. That was also the image of London under the Blitz that made it abroad to the UK's future allies USA and USSR.
The obvious lesson was to make sure that any counter-blitz on Germany would have to be heavier and more sustained if it was to succeed.
Another just as obvious lesson might well have been to admit that pre-war ideas about the total dominance of the bomber were false, and consequently abandon all ideas of bombing enemy cities altogether. I think the revenge motive is key in establishing the reasons why the RAF decided to press on with a bombing campaign that for its early part in fact killed more British aircrews than it killed Germans.
It was certainly what the RAF had been advocating prior to the war, though surprisingly little effort had gone into such essentials as navigation, developing heavy bombs for the (very few) bombers to deliver and escorts for bombers.
... The Third Reich tried to cushion its civilian population from a repitition in WWII by maintaining as much civilian normality for as long as possible. The cost of this was a fatally late switch to a total war economy.
...and that in turn makes it so tricky to establish just which effect the Allied bombing raids had on the German war effort. Production kept growing because there were always fresh resources to tap into.
For example, you could maintain that all the AA guns and fighther defenses and so on that the Germans allocated to combat the Allied air offensive simply came into existence due to bare necessity, not due to any conscious effort on Speer's part to give the defense of the Reich priority at the expense of something else.
I think equating increased absenteeism with morale problems caused by the Allied bombing campaign is something of a stretch. In no particular order, absenteeism could also have been caused by a) a workforce that was older on average in 1940 than it was in 1944 due to the fronts taking all the young and strong; b) a workforce with a higher percentage of women (who have more sick days than men); c) disruption and destruction of German infrastructure; d) disruption and destruction of German industry and e) public morale declining due to other factors than the Allied bombing campaign.
Yes, but you should also add the very considerable resources that went into turning the RAF strategic command from a small and inefficient force into a massive arm if you want to find out if the strategic bombing campaign was really worthwhile.
Furthermore, as Japan WAS knocked out of the war through air power, Harris was not necessarily on the wrong track.
No, not necessarily on the wrong track. But don't you think it is problematic that it is in fact so difficult to establish just to which degree strategic bombing helped the Allies win the war?
As for Japan, I humbly submit that there were also other factors than strategic bombing contributing to her defeat.
It may be argued that he simply lacked the necessary weight of destructive power and that Atom Bomb was his ultimate vindication.
An earlier posting on this thread classified the nuclear bomb as a logical step-up in a strategic bombing campaign - but classifying the A-bomb as a war-winning weapon in its own right squarely equates it with how strategic bombing was viewed pre-war - namely as a weapon so powerful that it would act as a deterrent.
Posterity shows that strategic bombing was not decisively war-winning in its own right. I think even the most ardent supporters of the strategic bombing campaign would agree. Assume for a second that nuclear weapons had been available to the Allied side from 1943 onwards, and further assume that a liberal amount had been dropped on Germany causing widespread destruction but not surrender. Which consequences would that have had for the Cold War that followed WWII?
What is your alternative to the strategic bomber offensive? The Royal Navy couldn't attack Germany. The Army was far too small... The alternative would appear to be to give up the war altogether. Is this your proposition?
You'll note that I was only addressing the feasability of the strategic bombing campaign, not the wisdom of waging war on Germany altogether.
I do think a point can be made for a different and possibly wiser allocation of RAF resources, particularly in the early parts of the war. For example, Cunningham estimated that three squadrons of modern fighter planes would have been enough to hold Crete. The 1941-1942 Malayan campaign and the subsequent fall of Singapore was marked by a complete lack of modern aircraft on the British side.
Perhaps most importantly, more big multi-engined aircraft could have been given to RAF Coastal Command, thus contributing to winning the battle for the Atlantic sealanes quicker than the case was historically. Harris himself actively opposed the transferring of modern planes to Coastal Command, perhaps not realising that the success rate of planes operating over the Atlantic should not be measured in the (low) number of U-Boats sunk by aircraft, but rather in the number of convoys that made it through.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Art Garfunkel is back on tour and performing a fair number of songs from his Simon & Garfunkel days
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Ten years after he quit smoking pot and tobacco, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee continues to tour as he approaches his 79th birthday
By George Varga
It's been nearly a decade since Art Garfunkel lost his ability to sing, midway through a 2010 Simon & Garfunkel reunion tour concert in New Orleans.
He was subsequently diagnosed with partial paralysis of one of his vocal cords and gave up smoking tobacco and marijuana later the same year.
It took the 78-year-old vocal star until 2014 to regain his ability to sing and resume touring, which he does not take for granted. As Garfunkel put it a 2018 Union-Tribune interview: "When I do shows now, I thank God in the middle of the first song."
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership Is a Huge Deal. So Why Is It Being Kept Secret?
President Barack Obama's administration has come under criticism due to its unwillingness to release the full text of the prospective TPP agreement between the United States and 11 Asian nations.
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The expected Trans-Pacific Partnership deal would cover nearly 40 percent of the world economy. (World Economic Forum / Flickr)
The trade rules of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership between the United States and 11 Asian nations would cover nearly 40 percent of the world economy — but don't ask what they are. Access to the text of the proposed deal is highly restricted.
Transparency and grassroots pressure is better than secretly negotiating a trade deal that ends up defying public will.
Nevertheless, at last month's World Economic Forum in Switzerland, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman defended the Obama administration from intensifying criticism of its refusal to release the full text of the proposed trade pact.
"We can always do better on transparency," he said, but added that "there is no area of policy where there is closer collaboration between the executive and Congress than trade policy."
Froman, who said his office has held more than 1,600 briefings with lawmakers over the TPP, asserted that his office also has released summaries of proposed provisions.
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Sanders' office confirms that congressional lawmakers are permitted to view the text of the agreement only in the Trade Representative's office, without their own staff members or experts present. They are not allowed to take copies of the agreement back to Capitol Hill for deeper, independent evaluation.
Despite those restrictions, specific details of the agreement's text have surfaced from unauthorized leaks — some of which appear to contradict the Obama administration's promises.
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Froman suggested that nations have varying definitions of transparency.
"It is very important that as we pursue these trade negotiations we do so in a way that takes into account input from the public, from our wide range of stakeholders, our political processes — in our case, Congress — we each have different ways we engage in that process," he said.
Azevêdo said: "Honestly, this is something that the participants have to solve — the degree of openness and the degree of transparency." Negotiations require a degree of balance between transparency and secrecy, he said, "otherwise they don't move."
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The opening ceremony of the CSTO peacekeeping exercise, Unbreakable Brotherhood 2012, in Kazakhstan.
The Collective Security Treaty Organization has begun what it calls its first-ever peacekeeping exercise, in Kazakhstan. According to the CSTO, the exercise will work on standard peacekeeping tasks like separating the parties to a conflict and ensuring compliance to a cease fire. But the scenario of the exercise seems a bit more active than that: "According to the scenario, a crisis situation arises connected with the activity of international extremists and terrorist organizations and conflict between ethnic groups living in the country." And a Kazakhstani military spokesperson is a bit more detailed: "People portraying terrorists will attack a military base checkpoint and retreat to a village, after which the troops will respond to free the village."
In any event, about 950 troops are taking part, the majority (535) from Kazakhstan, 160 from Russia, 50 from Kyrgyzstan and small contingents from Armenia, Belarus, and Tajikistan. This exercise, called "Unbreakable Brotherhood 2012," follows closely on the heels of another CSTO exercise in Armenia. But this one was (ostensibly) about peacekeeping, and observers from the United Nations, with whom the CSTO has agreed to cooperate on peacekeeping, were present.
Deputy General Secretary of the CSTO Valeriy Semerikov said at the opening ceremony that "the opening of the exercise is the beginning of the arrangement of national peacekeeping contingents into a single structure -- comprising the collective peacekeeping force of the CSTO."
It's interesting that this first CSTO peacekeeping exercise took place in Kazakhstan. Developing Kazakhstan's ability to send peacekeeping forces abroad has been a top priority of the U.S. in its military relationship with Kazakhstan. The annual Steppe Eagle exercise is the centerpiece of this effort, and this year's version just ended, at the same training ground (Iliysky) that is hosting Unbreakable Brotherhood. Lest the Americans think that they can break this Russian-Kazakh brotherhood...


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Thursday morning, we got started pretty early: up for Fajr, then around the corner to Peet's, for a change (though Dunkin Donuts coffee is better, really…), where we ate out on the street and enjoyed the cool morning air before packing up the car and heading south.
We stopped after an hour or two and Hana took over driving, which gave me some time to shoot a bit, mostly with Hipstamatic.
I hadn't made this drive before, not the whole way, anyway, and the landscape was different than I expected: less corn, more soybeans and open land.
Hipstamatic was a good choice for this, I think. I used the Shake to Randomize function and just shook and snapped for awhile.
The land just kept rolling by, but the construction was that type of construction where just when you think you've made it through, it starts up again.
The iPhone 5 is starting to show its age, largely in the form of regular autofocus misses, as if it didn't even try to focus. When it's dark, I understand, but in bright daylight? Sheesh.
But then we were through it, mostly, and I could just enjoy the landscape.
Enjoy the landscape, and enjoy someone else driving for a change.
We stopped for lunch of leftover Lou Malnati's at the Rend Lake rest area: nice place, but loads of bugs.
After lunch, I took back over driving. Hana was feeling tired and I let her sleep, but I couldn't resist shooting the Mississippi as we passed.
I only took one more picture before we got to Memphis, just to admire the (slight) change of landscape.
We drove past downtown to visit the Memphis Islamic Center. It too was closed, but we found an open door and prayed our Dhuhr and Asr prayers before traveling on to the hotel.
To be honest, I was a bit worried about Memphis. It's kind of a small town, and it's in the south, and my wife and I tend to encounter bigots in places like that. But to my pleasant surprise, everyone was lovely, more or less, and those that weren't were just tired of the day or their jobs and there were nasty to everyone, so it was really a nice place.
We checked in and had a bit of a nap at the Holiday Inn downtown. It was a nice enough motel, but quite a step down from the Blackstone, and even from the Springfield, IL Hilton.
After naps, I took the my usual opportunity to shoot the scene out the window.
That's the famed Peabody across the street.
And here's what I could see of the rest of downtown.
We went for an early-isn dinner at Bangkok Alley just down the street—tasty, in particular, the panko-crusted avocado stuffed with spicy crab and raw tuna appetizer: if you're in Memphis, it's a can't miss, IMO.
After dinner, I really just wanted to have a quiet evening in the hotel room and an early nights sleep, but Hana had other ideas.
So we walked downstairs and across the street, and climbed into the back of one of those horse-drawn carriages in the picture above for a 20 minute clop-trop around downtown Memphis, with running commentary from a nice woman whose name I've forgotten.
Hana enjoyed it, I think, and I did too, even though I barely lifted the camera.
All in all, it made for a nice way to end the day.
Tomorrow, we head back to Dallas and a return to regular life.


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Tuesday Discover Challenge: Perspective
Jamie Lyn Weigt / March 29, 2016
I'm pretty excited about today's Discover Challenge post, because the stars have aligned to get me to post the first bit of story I wrote many weeks ago, that would eventually turn into this whole new Neeka adventure I'm embarking on lately. I've gone back today and heavily edited it, and finished the scene as well, but this here is why I wanted to write this story. This was where I met Neeka herself.
Today's theme is Perspective:
You could experiment with a new perspective — write as if you were someone else, take a photo that highlights your unique position — or reflect about the vantage point you currently occupy (literally or figuratively). Or take the topic in a totally different direction: whatever you do, just be unabashed in your deliverance.
I'm only getting the prose finished at the very last minute today, so I'll let it speak for itself, but I hope you enjoy this unique perspective in the midst of my cyberstory!
Neeka's heart was pounding in time with the countdown, but when the starting buzzer went off, her quadcopter left the ground smoothly and took off like a shot, leading the pack of nine other UAVs down the wide corridor of the empty three story shopping mall. They'd been warned to stay on the ground floor for the first lap, and that they'd know when it was time to cut up to the second and third floors through the open spaces in each corridor.
She blinked to bring her virtual display into first person view mode. The lens in her cybernetic eye showed her the view from the camera attached to her racing drone so she could react to the twisting route and the obstacles throughout the course. Below that, she saw the virtual control board she manipulated with her hands held before her, although she touched nothing in the physical world. Three of the other pilots were still using the clunky VR goggles and mechanical control boards of a generation ago, she had noticed earlier, and wondered again how they had even gotten an invitation to this elite underground race.
"And they're off! Drac0Fyre takes the early lead, followed by Ac1D, CrashHavok, Shark…" Neeka shut out the voice of the announcer at the bank of screens off to the right of where the racers stood in a line, instead focusing on avoiding the shuttered kiosks in the middle of the wide path and flying around the next curve as close as she could get to the inner wall.
The pack of quads and multis was still bunched together after the first lap around the huge rectangular complex when Neeka saw her chance to break away. UAVs like those she flew at her day job, armed with cameras to film all the action, hovered at intervals around the course, but now she saw they also had screens, and the ones just past the starting line ahead had arrows flashing upwards.
With the modificiations she'd made after the last race she'd managed to lighten her quad even futher, so it responded lightning fast as she sent it up through the skylight to the second floor of the mall.
She didn't have time to appreciate any of the closed shops on either side as she sped past, the quads now flying near max speed as they completed another lap around, although they slowed when they had to manuver a sharp 90 degree turn at one point on this level where a restaurant jutted into the space. At least, most of them slowed — one of the racers must not have seen the turn in time, as Neeka heard loud swearing and a control board smash to the ground somewhere down the line of pilots beside her.
She watched for the arrows to send them up another level as they rounded the curve where they'd risen last time, but they were instead directed once more around the second level, so Neeka turned on the speed in the straightaway and prepared to cut a closer line on the curve just ahead. She was so focused on the calculation she almost missed the flashing arrow that told her to instead swing wide around a set of escalators on the outer edge of the courtyard on that corner instead, but she was able to make the correction in time and just barely held on to her lead.
"Are you kiddin' me? Dammit!" the guy next to her swore, and Neeka figured he hadn't adjusted for the course change. This time there was no smashing of the control board, though, so either he had a virtual display or more self control than the first pilot.
They were coming up on the hallway with the banners hanging from the ceiling again, and Neeka was tempted to dip under them as she and the others had done last time, but something made her take the risk to cut between them instead. She only had about a half meter of space on either side, but her daring paid off when she saw a flash of gold near the top of one of the banners. It would have been impossible to see from below, but her suspicions were confirmed when the emcee excitedly announced, "Drac0Fyre found the first of the bonus medals, for an additional 1,000 points!"
Her excitement was short lived, however, when they reached the 90 degree turn once again and someone managed to pull ahead of her as she became overly cautious. She hated being in second place, especially because it meant she had to divide her attention between the course and the quad in front of her.
When they passed the place they'd risen to the second level for a second time, Neeka knew something must be up and she kept watch for the next trick that must be coming. Sure enough, just after the next curve, arrows started flashing to send the racers down a side corridor. Some of the heavier multis wouldn't be able to handle the sudden S curve this created, Neeka thought, but the quad in front of her managed it with no problem.
Just as quickly as they were speeding down this new corridor, arrows started flashing again, signaling them to rise to the third level. The ceiling was low in this wing off the main mall circuit, and there were plants as well as kiosks to manuver around, but Neeka and her opponent made it up to the third floor with no problems.
More flashing lights greeted them, however, signaling them to turn 180 degrees and head back toward the center of the mall and the main corridor. Neeka had been expecting this, since it made sense that this wing would be a dead-end, and was able to pull off a sweet flip with her quad that even the emcee commented on. In moments, she was shooting back down the hallway, taking the lead once again.
Instead of signaling to turn right to continue around the main mall corridor as they'd done for the first three laps, the arrows above pointed straight ahead and into the center of the mall complex. In the darkness, Neeka almost didn't see that she had to fly over the fake painted mountain scenery of a mini golf course that created a separation between the mall shops and the huge children's theme park she was flying into, but she pulled up in time.
As she emerged into the open space of the park at the center of the mall, the arrows instructed her to fly straight across, avoiding the roller coaster tracks and ziping through the spokes of a huge ferris wheel. "And CrashHavok has found the second bonus medal! 1,000 points!" the emcee announced, and Neeka cursed under her breath, wondering if it had been up near the ceiling where she'd seen a pair of fake trees rising from the painted mountains.
She didn't have time to wonder long, however, as the next set of arrows were pointing right, sending the racers back into the main mall corridor but going the opposite way of the previous laps. Neeka remembered just in time that that meant if the 90 degree turn was also on this level, it would be coming up fast. Sure enough, she made the corner and heard another pilot go off on a tirade in a foreign language shortly afterwards, as that racer apparently did not.
The six remaining quads sped down a new straightaway on the third floor at breakneck speeds, the stars glittering through huge skylights in this very dark section. Wait… Neeka saw glittering up ahead of her as well, as if the starlight were filtering down…
Just in time, she dove her quad and barely avoided the massive art installation decorating this otherwise sparse corridor. She risked a quick dip and climb to look up while still flying low enough to avoid the danger, and saw thousands of cut crystals hanging from hundreds of nearly clear filament lines, spanning the entire width and breadth of the corridor in an effect that Neeka thought must look like rainfall frozen in space.
Before she could appreciate the beautiful scene, however, the whole thing shuddered as one or more of the pilots crashed into the lines, sending a wave ahead of Neeka that she could no longer pay attention to going into the next curve. She thought she heard at least three voices start cursing beside her where she stood in the real world, and perhaps control board hit the ground far to her left.
As she came out of the curve, still in the lead, she was relieved to see the finish line flashing in front of her, at the end of this straightaway. As she got closer, however, she realized it wasn't quite the finish line, but a row of UAVs with flashing screens that read "BEHIND YOU" in bright flashing letters in alternating languages.
Pulling another flip move as she had in the dead-end corridor earlier, Neeka was suddenly racing back the way she had come. But there was another quad ahead of her, someone who had made the reverse before she had. She saw the arrows pointing them back down to the second floor and then to the first, and she chased the other pilot through the opening in the floors, steadily gaining on them.
But while she pushed her quad to its limits, the actual finish line loomed large ahead of them, and to her deep dismay, the other quadcopter crossed it first, just before she caught up.
Now it was her turn to swear, but she bit her lip to keep from speaking aloud while she flew her quad at a less breakneck pace back to the starting line where she stood.
As she landed it on the ground in front of her her, she blinked off her virtual monitors and knelt in silence to start disassembling it to fit in her carrying case. The announcer was gushing over the winner, and the final crystal obstacle, and the entire race, and the racers who hadn't flown their quads back to the start were heading out to pick up the pieces.
A shadow fell across her quad as someone stepped in front of her, and Neeka looked up in annoyance. It was a winner-take-all race, so she had no reason to stick around for a consolation prize; she just wanted to take her bruised ego back to her neighborhood dive bar and get a couple consolation drinks in before she had to sleep, and then drag her butt to work in the morning.
"Nice race," he said, extending his hand to shake hers.
Continue the story in the next chapter, Tuesday Discover Challenge: Who are you?…
This post is copyright © Jamie Lyn Weigt. All rights reserved. Please do not share without credit and a direct link back to this post and my site, writingdragonsblog.com.
This beautiful Dragon Tattoo is by deviantartist Spirit-Candy, aka Venetia Jackson. I really like the wing detail, especially the lower tips. Venetia says she designed this as a personal tattoo (hence the watermark, to deter others from getting the same), but then never had the courage to get it herself. She has more really great work, including Pokemon and fantasy art, at her deviantart site that you should check out.
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That was an exciting ride!!
Why thank you! It was exciting to write. I did a lot of it while sitting in a fancy new food court at the Mall of America in Minnesota. 🙂
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Melissa Ann says:
The race had me on the edge of my seat! I was bummed when Neeka didn't win. And now a mysterious someone appears, right at the end, leaving me hanging. Grrr…why oh why, do I have to wait until next Tuesday?? Sometimes I think you are an evil writer Jamie!
Lovin' it…Melissa 🙂
I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be evil! But I always run out of time on Tuesdays! 🙂 If it makes you feel any better… I'm not exactly sure who this guy is yet either, so we're kinda in the same boat! 🙂
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jaane tu meri kya hai..
A boy was late to home. His father "kanha tha tu?"
Boy: friend k yanha tha.
Father called his 10 friends:5 answrd: "Yes, yahi par tha"
2 answrd: Yahi hai uncle, padh raha hai , phone doun kya?
wish you Happy friendship Day!


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One of the smoothest departures for homeward bound journeys that I can remember: up at 6, MSN chat with Angie, a quick repack as always, then, by 9 a casual drive from Bellflower via a coffee shop for a light breakfast on to LAX. Check in desks here have been replaced by electronic check in machines at each counter, with a member of staff only appearing once you have completed all the questions and the machine has printed your boarding ticket. Their task is limited to checking the weight of the luggage, sticking on the appropriate stickers and moving the luggage on its way to the plane.
The plane left right on schedule at 12:45 in the afternoon and after a light lunch I settled down for 10 hours or so of snoozing.


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I tried create mock class without phphunit manually. Somethig like tests/Mocks/MyClass.php that extends abstract class and implement my static method/
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My static method must return instance of itself to use other internal methods that i need to cover.