This summer I'll have the opportunity to be the assistant basketball coach for Team USA at the European Maccabi Games.
It's not often that great opportunities are presented to you, but this winter I had one that was too good to pass up.
Vassar head coach BJ Dunne sent me a message on Twitter asking if I would be interested in working with him in coaching the Maccabi USA men's basketball team this summer. There were a number of specifics that had to be worked out and the conversation immediately moved to phone calls and texting and face-to-face meetings, but there was no doubt that I wanted to be a part of this. Coach Dunne offered me the assistant coaching spot for this team and I accepted.
Our team will be competing in the European Maccabi Games from July 27 to August 5 in Berlin, Germany. We will face Israel in our opener and host-nation Germany in our fourth and final pool-play game. Representing the United States in the Open Division (ages 18-35), is certainly a tall-task, but Coach Dunne and I put together what we consider to be an extremely strong 12-man roster. We have five Division I players, six Division III players and one player currently playing professionally in the German A League.
Having players from all over the country makes organizing and uniting them a difficult task, but everybody will converge in New York, at Vassar College, for our training camp on Tuesday, July 21. We will hold a rigorous five-day camp before flying out to Germany on the 25th. In that time we'll practice hard, install our offense and defense and at different times bond as a team through go-karting, baseball games and other activities.
Coach Dunne and I have put together our offensive and defensive systems and playbook already. We have planned for the adjustments from NCAA basketball to FIBA basketball rules and believe we have a gold-medal plan in place. I'm extremely excited and prepared for my role as the assistant coach, readying everything I possibly can to make sure Coach Dunne and the squad are ready.
The schedule for the Open Men's Basketball competition.
While being able to coach high level players and test our might against other countries is so much of the appeal, I also cannot wait to immerse myself in the culture, food and experiences in Berlin. I have never been to Europe and using basketball as a tool to expand my mind and experiences makes me very lucky. Having the opportunity to meet impactful people from halfway across the globe and to see and learn about the concentration camps and what life was like for Jews like myself in Germany over 50 years ago is something that I would never get from just sitting at a summer camp evaluating talent.
In 2006 I played baseball at the Maccabi Games in Richmond, VA for the Metrowest (NJ) JCC. We lost all five games we played and were actually mercy-ruled in every single one. The cumulative score from those games was somewhere in the range of 70-5. I'm looking forward to late July for a chance to reverse those results at the European Games, this time on a bigger stage.
A chance for redemption, high level basketball, new cultural experiences and great people. Not more that you can ask for as a basketball coach.
Be sure to follow our Maccabi USA Open Men's Basketball team on both Twitter and Facebook as the games approach. We'll have updates from training camp and photos and daily news from Germany during the games.
This entry was posted on June 14, 2015 by Coach Sass in Coaching, Miscellaneous.


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Q: Parent class properties are null in child class in php I have two classes in PHP when I inherit one class from another the properties of parent class are available in child class but their value is null.
Parent Class:
    <?php
class Parent_class {
  public $foo;
  public $bar;

  public function __construct(){
    $this->foo = 'This is foo';
    $this->bar = new self();
  }

  public function getFoo(){
    echo 'Foo is: ' .$this->foo;
  }

  public function getBar(){
    echo 'Bar is :' .$this->bar;
  }
}

Child Class :
<?php
    require './class1.php';
    class Child_class extends Parent_class{
      public function __construct(){
        echo $this->foo;
        print_r($this->bar);
        var_dump(get_object_vars($this));
      }
    }

    $child = new Child_class();
    $child->getFoo();
    $child->getBar();

Result :
 array(2) {
  ["foo"]=>
  NULL
  ["bar"]=>
  NULL
}

Foo is: Bar is :

So, How can I get those value in child class to. Did I made something wrong here?

A: You actually override you parent constructor. Try this
  public function __construct()
{
    parent::__construct();
    echo $this->foo;
    print_r($this->bar);
}

Or better if you will output your data via some method, not constructor.

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There has been a rampant increase of various types of teeth related problems in various parts of the world among different people and hence this is a condition that has caused a lot of different challenges to the lives of various specific individuals who have been having different problems affecting the teeth. Just like every problem comes because of a certain cause, it is also obvious that most of the problems that affect our teeth are as a result of various causes and hence some of the main causes of various teeth problems include lack of eating various types of foods that are meant to strengthen that teeth, lack of taking the right care to the teeth and also lack of regular teeth checkup by a good dentist.
However, despite of there being so many challenges that affect the teeth, there are however various ways, measures or even treatments that most of the dentists and other teeth experts can provide to the patients to help them lead a much better life and have healthy lives. One of these modern treatments that has been introduced to help improve the oral health of the various people having different problems affecting their teeth is known as short term orthodontics.
However, despite of various upcoming teeth problems, the short term orthodontics is also an ideal type of a treatment that can be very helpful to the adult patients especially those who have crowded or spaced teeth and would like to straighten them in a short period of time, that is about six months or less. Most of the people however do not properly differentiate between the short tern orthodontics and the comprehensive orthodontics. The short term orthodontics is mutually helpful to both the dentist and also to the patient as it helps to make sure that the dentist or any other type of a teeth expert gets much better returns while to the patients, there is better treatment that brings much more satisfaction.
There is a use of the brackets and wires to move the teeth in the process of straightening them and hence being the reason why short term orthodontics os almost similar to conventional orthodontics. The short term orthodontics is however much preferred by most of the people since it has been seen as a revolutionary shift in the treatment that has been so much helpful and beneficious to most of the patients. The short term orthodontics helps to improve the general smile of an individual.


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For other uses, see Flora (disambiguation).
Find sources: "Flora" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (August 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
Simplified schematic of an island's flora – all its plant species, highlighted in boxes
Flora is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous) native plants. The corresponding term for animal life is fauna. Flora, fauna, and other forms of life, such as fungi, are collectively referred to as biota. Sometimes bacteria and fungi are also referred to as flora, as in the terms gut flora or skin flora.[1][2][3]
2 Flora classifications
3 Documentation of floras
The word "flora" comes from the Latin name of Flora, the goddess of plants, flowers, and fertility in Roman mythology.[4] The technical term "flora" is then derived from a metonymy of this goddess at the end of the sixteenth century. It was first used in poetry to denote the natural vegetation of an area, but soon also assumed the meaning of a work cataloguing such vegetation. Moreover, "Flora" was used to refer to the flowers of an artificial garden in the seventeenth century.[5]
The distinction between vegetation (the general appearance of a community) and flora (the taxonomic composition of a community) was first made by Jules Thurmann (1849). Prior to this, the two terms were used indiscriminately.[6][7]
Flora classifications[edit]
Plants are grouped into floras based on region (floristic regions), period, special environment, or climate. Regions can be distinct habitats like mountain vs. flatland. Floras can mean plant life of a historic era as in fossil flora. Lastly, floras may be subdivided by special environments:
Native flora. The native and indigenous flora of an area.
Agricultural and horticultural flora (garden flora). The plants that are deliberately grown by humans.
Weed flora. Traditionally this classification was applied to plants regarded as undesirable, and studied in efforts to control or eradicate them. Today the designation is less often used as a classification of plant life, since it includes three different types of plants: weedy species, invasive species (that may or may not be weedy), and native and introduced non-weedy species that are agriculturally undesirable. Many native plants previously considered weeds have been shown to be beneficial or even necessary to various ecosystems.
Documentation of floras[edit]
The botanical continents of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, used for classifying floras geographically
Main article: Flora (publication)
Floristic regions in Europe according to Wolfgang Frey and Rainer Lösch
The flora of a particular area or time period can be documented in a publication also known as a "flora" (often capitalized as "Flora" to distinguish the two meanings when they might be confused). Floras may require specialist botanical knowledge to use with any effectiveness. Traditionally they are books, but some are now published on CD-ROM or websites.
Simon Paulli's Flora Danica of 1648 is probably the first book titled "Flora" to refer to the plant world of a certain region. It mainly describes medicinal plants growing in Denmark. The Flora Sinensis by the Polish Jesuit Michał Boym is another early example of a book titled "Flora".[8] However, despite its title it covered not only plants, but also some animals of the region, that is China and India.[9]
A published flora often contains diagnostic keys. Often these are dichotomous keys, which require the user to repeatedly examine a plant, and decide which one of two alternatives given best applies to the plant.
Biome — a major regional group of distinctive plant and animal communities
Fauna and Flora Preservation Society
Horticultural flora
Pharmacopoeia
Vegetation — a general term for the plant life of a region
Flora by continent
Flora by country
Flora by floristic kingdom
^ "flora". Merriam-Webster.
^ Clifford E. Starliper; Rita Villella; Patricia Morrison; Jay Mathais. "Sampling the bacterial flora of freshwater mussels" (PDF).
^ John, D.M.; Whitton, B.A.; Brook, A.J. (2002). The Freshwater Algal Flora of the British Isles: An Identification Guid to Freshwater and Terrestrial Algae. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521770514.
^ Rengel, Kathleen N. Daly; revised by Marian; Daly, Kathleen (2009). Greek and Roman mythology, A to Z (3rd ed.). New York: Chelsea House Publishers. ISBN 1604134127.
^ Berrens, Dominik (2019-03-21). "The Meaning of Flora". Humanistica Lovaniensia. Journal of Neo-Latin Studies. 68 (1): 237–249. doi:10.30986/2019.237. ISSN 2593-3019.
^ Thurmann, J. (1849). Essai de Phytostatique appliqué à la chaîne du Jura et aux contrées voisines. Berne: Jent et Gassmann, [1].
^ Martins, F. R. & Batalha, M. A. (2011). Formas de vida, espectro biológico de Raunkiaer e fisionomia da vegetação. In: Felfili, J. M., Eisenlohr, P. V.; Fiuza de Melo, M. M. R.; Andrade, L. A.; Meira Neto, J. A. A. (Org.). Fitossociologia no Brasil: métodos e estudos de caso. Vol. 1. Viçosa: Editora UFV. p. 44-85. [2]. Earlier version, 2003, [3].
^ Flora Sinensis Archived 2010-02-06 at the Wayback Machine (access to the facsimile of the book, its French translation, and an article about it)
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eFloras — a collection of on-line floras
Chilebosque — checklist of Chilean native flora
Flora of NW Europe with descriptions and a quiz to test your knowledge
Flora of Australia Online
Flora of New Zealand Series Online
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Dr. David Lorber, specialized in pulmonary disease and internal medicine, has a vast medical practice experience of over 40 years. He graduated from the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and completed his residency at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System. A fellowship program, at the University of Arizona, followed. Dr. Lorber also served as Vice President of Clinical Affairs for Walgreen Co. in Illinois, as well as Vice President of Medical Affairs at CVS Caremark. At the time, he practices at Highland Park Hospital, Skokie Hospital and Evanston Hospital in Illinois.


Make tablespoon mounds of the shredded cheese. Spread the cheese out so its nice and flat so it will melt nicely when in the oven.
Cook for about 3-7 minutes, depending on your oven, until they are nicely golden brown.
Remove from oven and let them cool down for 5-10 minutes.
Remove from parchment paper and place on paper towels to finish cooling.


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Q: Creating a fragment using update method of observer pattern declared in main activity in android I am not able to figure out how to call the update method declared in the main activity.
MainActivity which has a button when on pressed reads data from a QRscan. After that, a background service is started and data from QRscan is sent to it. It has an update method defined to create a fragment once it is invoked by notifyobserver.
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements Observer{
@Override
protected void onStart(){
    super.onStart();
    NotifyChange Observer = new NotifyChange();
    Observer.addObserver(this);

}
@Override
public void update(Observable observable, Object o) {

    String data = o.toString();
    DialogFragment newFragment = AlertUrlDialog.newInstance(data);
    newFragment.show(getSupportFragmentManager(), "processedData");

   }
}

The background service processes the data and broadcasts it to the receiver.
DataReceiver.java:
public class DataReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {

@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
   String data = intent.getStringExtra(Service.DATAPROCESSED);

   NotifyChange observer = new NotifyChange();
   observer.dataChange(data);

   }
}

now,here is the observable file NotifyChange.Java:
public class NotifyChange extends Observable {

public void dataChange(String data) {
    setChanged();
    notifyObservers(data);

   }
}

Based on analysis using breakpoints, when execution comes to notifyObservers(data) , it should call the update method in MainActivity but it doesn't. I don't know what is wrong here?
Here is how my app works:

*

*MainActivity has a button which when user clicks on it, opens a camera and scans QRCode. MainActivity appears again after the scan.

*A backgroundsevice is started which broadcasts the result. The Receiver receives the result.

*Receiver then calls the method in the NotifyChange.java which then calls notifyobserver().

But notifyobserver() does not invoke the method update which is defined in mainactivity through which I am creating a fragment to display the result.
Now,another way of creating a fragment after receiving the result from backgroundservice is to start a new activity say dialogActivity which then creates the fragment. However,after the creation of the fragment,if the user hits a back button or touches anywhere on the screen except the fragment,then a blank dialogActivity is shown instead of MainActivity.
Besides, this method feels like a "hacky" way of doing things.
Any ideas would be appreciated. I hope I have communicated my problem clearly.

A: Never mind. I figured it out. I am not using the observer pattern but instead I am creating an activity with a style : @style/Theme.AppCompat.Dialog.Alert. This has helped me solve my problem.
Edit: I found a better way to do it.
If you want to create a dialogbox from broadcastreceiver, then you need to a start an activity which extends FragmentActivity and set its style like @style/Theme.Appcompt.Dialog.Alert. In that activity,you can call the fragment to show.
However,if you choose to extend AppCompatActivity instead,it will work but when you try to close your activity, it will show actionbar for split-second which looks weird.


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Q: Can't find method GetCellValue in C# when trying to read values in Excel file I'm going according to the MS tutorial for retrieving Excel values from a spreadsheet using OpenXML
Using directives as specified
using DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Packaging;
using DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Spreadsheet;

But for the life of me I cannot get VS2013 to recognise the method. In bold below.
string value = GetCellValue(fileName, "Sheet1", "A1");

What am I missing? I'm using .Net 4.6.1 and Office 365.
I've googled it but can't find any specific reference to the methods API
FYI I'm trying to create a dynamic read for simple data from a spreadsheet to pack into a class object and fire off to a clients web service

A: If you scroll down the tutorial to the Sample Code section you will see the method the tutorial describes. Usage:
class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        System.Console.Write(GetCellValue("C:\\Users\\...\\Desktop\\test.xlsx", "Sheet1", "A1"));
    }

    // Retrieve the value of a cell, given a file name, sheet name,
    // and address name.
    public static string GetCellValue(string fileName,
        string sheetName,
        string addressName)
    {
        string value = null;

        // Open the spreadsheet document for read-only access.
        using (SpreadsheetDocument document =
            SpreadsheetDocument.Open(fileName, false))
        {
            // Retrieve a reference to the workbook part.
            WorkbookPart wbPart = document.WorkbookPart;

            // Find the sheet with the supplied name, and then use that
            // Sheet object to retrieve a reference to the first worksheet.
            Sheet theSheet = wbPart.Workbook.Descendants<Sheet>().
              Where(s => s.Name == sheetName).FirstOrDefault();

            // Throw an exception if there is no sheet.
            if (theSheet == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentException("sheetName");
            }

            // Retrieve a reference to the worksheet part.
            WorksheetPart wsPart =
                (WorksheetPart)(wbPart.GetPartById(theSheet.Id));

            // Use its Worksheet property to get a reference to the cell
            // whose address matches the address you supplied.
            Cell theCell = wsPart.Worksheet.Descendants<Cell>().
              Where(c => c.CellReference == addressName).FirstOrDefault();

            // If the cell does not exist, return an empty string.
            if (theCell != null)
            {
                value = theCell.InnerText;

                // If the cell represents an integer number, you are done.
                // For dates, this code returns the serialized value that
                // represents the date. The code handles strings and
                // Booleans individually. For shared strings, the code
                // looks up the corresponding value in the shared string
                // table. For Booleans, the code converts the value into
                // the words TRUE or FALSE.
                if (theCell.DataType != null)
                {
                    switch (theCell.DataType.Value)
                    {
                        case CellValues.SharedString:

                            // For shared strings, look up the value in the
                            // shared strings table.
                            var stringTable =
                                wbPart.GetPartsOfType<SharedStringTablePart>()
                                .FirstOrDefault();

                            // If the shared string table is missing, something
                            // is wrong. Return the index that is in
                            // the cell. Otherwise, look up the correct text in
                            // the table.
                            if (stringTable != null)
                            {
                                value =
                                    stringTable.SharedStringTable
                                    .ElementAt(int.Parse(value)).InnerText;
                            }
                            break;

                        case CellValues.Boolean:
                            switch (value)
                            {
                                case "0":
                                    value = "FALSE";
                                    break;
                                default:
                                    value = "TRUE";
                                    break;
                            }
                            break;
                    }
                }
            }
            document.Close();
        }
        return value;
    }
}


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FAR 2011 No. 1 (24) January-March Editorial M. Załęska
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The thematic issue Rhetoric and political polemics is dedicated to one of the most important aspects of political communication. Polemics, controversies, contestations, arguments oft en degenerate into what counts nowadays as pure sophistics. Therefore the volume opens with a study by Cyprian Mielczarski The heritage of the classical sophistics and the modern culture in which the author challenges the received views on the sophists' ideas and offers a positive interpretation of their influence on the modern political culture. Joanna Partyka, in her article Ancient tradition as an argument in the polemic with the enemies of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, explores the Old-Polish patterns of polemics. She shows that while refuting the arguments formulated by the "slanderers of Poland", the seventeenth-century writers relied heavily on the authority of ancient texts, regarded as very respectable counterarguments within the argument culture of the time. Monika Kostro and Krystyna Wróblewska-Pawlak, in their article Between courtesy and depreciation. The forms of address as a rhetorical means in political polemical discourse, study the television presidential debates between Polish and French politicians, respectively. The authors identify when and why some occurrences of the forms of address, regarded as the most important linguistic markers indicative of the social relationship between the participants of interaction, function as a rhetorical means which dissimulates ad personam attacks by apparent politeness. Agnieszka Kampka, in her contribution We are from another courtyard – political opponents about each other, examines press interviews from the point of view of the criticisms that politicians address against their adversaries. The study shows that the most frequent accusations, expressed through vivid language involving irony and metaphors, concern the alleged hypocrisy, weak character and neglect of the democratic rules. The article Homo seriosus and homo rhetoricus in the political discourse. The argumentative strategies of Janusz Palikot and his opponents by Oliwia Tarasewicz-Gryt is dedicated to the analysis of rhetorical and eristic mechanisms in speeches by one of the most controversial Polish politicians. Against the homo seriosus strategies, privileged by his adversaries, Janusz Palikot mobilizes them resources typical for the homo rhetoricus. The contrast shows the revealing differences characteristic for both styles of communication in the political polemic. The contribution by Tomasz Olczyk We, They and the virtual universes of the TV political advertisement, explores the construction of the axis we/they within the constructed universes of the political commercials. The author points out such framing devices as inclusion, exclusion, amplification and narrative structurization. He describes the role of these processes in creating "dystopian " and "arcadian" versions of reality in political ads and the construction of the we/they opposition.
Continuing the discussion on the present challenges of the rhetoric with respect to the tradition, initiated in the previous issue of the quarterly, Marek Czyżewski prevents from the risk of the banalization of rhetoric by reducing it to the easy and quick tips – also in political communication – which have almost nothing to do with the original rhetorical concepts. Since the reflection on the modern status of rhetoric is essential for the discipline, we invite the representatives of different academic backgrounds to express their views in the ongoing discussion.
The articles collected in the volume contribute to the vivid scholarly debate on one of the most fascinating aspects of rhetoric: its role in creating, alimenting and, hopefully, resolving the political conflicts. Oddly enough, none of the contributions considers this last case…
Maria Załęska
Volume Editor
FAR 2011 No. 1 (24) January-March
Rhetoric and Art
FAR 2011 No. 1 (24) January-March Editorial
Visual rhetoric. Perspectives and important issues
Argumentative mechanisms in advertising
Photographical lie, or about persuasion in photography
From Rhetorics to Aesthetics. Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten's "Aesthetica"
On the threshold of modernity. The Renaissance art of mnemonics in the "Dialogue about memory" by Lodovico Dolce


Following my previous post about threats to the Tahrir, the Canadian boat to Gaza, I wrote to New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton and the party's foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar, demanding that the NDP take a principled stand in support of Canadian participation in the Freedom Flotilla, as their brave colleague Alex Atamenenko, NDP member of parliament, had already done. I also wrote to Atamenenko, commending him for his courage and integrity.
From Jack Layton's office came an automatic response, "…Please be assured your comments and views are valued…" The usual.
We urge restraint. Nice. Safe, comfortable, ineffectual. Very NDP.
"An Israeli friend speaks of two world-views, the macro and micro. To me the macro view is an overview, from the war room, the cabinet room, the CEO's suite. The micro view is close up, on the street, on the wrong side of the wall, under the bombs. [Now I would add, on the boat.] It is the view of this book.
When "something happens," hardly ever is it due to pressure from above, but almost always from below, popular pressure, from the grassroots. In a historic referendum this past week, Italian citizens defied all the establishment parties and the corporate media to refuse nuclear power and to ban the privatization of water. The elites were stunned. Even activists who've organized for years on these issues admitted they hadn't really believed this outcome to be possible.
Meanwhile, from the plush comfort of Parliament Hill in Ottawa, the New Democrats urge "restraint," equally, from both the Israeli forces and the activists. The equation of the two is grotesque. By nature and purpose, the Israeli military forces are about exactly that, force, unparalleled in the Middle East. Israeli peace activists told me repeatedly that the only effective restraint on their government would be an effective end to the lavish flow of support from western regimes, which Israeli authorities consistently interpret as carte blanche to do as they wish. True to form, the Israeli regime is now threatening to use even more aggressive force than it did against last year's Freedom Flotilla, when Israeli commandos murdered nine activists.
The peace and human rights advocates on the Freedom Flotilla will go to Gaza unarmed, on small boats, and face the most powerful military force in the Middle East, fully backed by the most powerful, aggressive military force on the planet, and its faithful allies, including official Canada.
The last thing Flotilla participants need is more restraint. They are restraint personified.
What they need is support. They won't get it from the elites that hold formal power in Europe and North America. They won't get it from the current Secretary General of the United Nations, who shamefully declared the Freedom Flotilla a provocation, thus granting implicit permission for Israeli military aggression. And, sadly, it is clear now that no useful support can be expected from wannabe elites like the NDP.
As in all campaigns for justice — women's and civil rights, anti-apartheid, queer liberation, anti-war, pro-choice, environmental — pressure for justice and peace in Palestine-Israel springs from the ground (or water, in this case), from the grassroots, from us.
Since most of us can't join the Freedom Flotilla in person, here is a practical way to support the Tahrir, due to sail within the next couple of weeks.
For people in other countries, very likely there is a boat that needs your support. Check the list of Local Boat Initiatives here.
Please pass on this message or the link to this blog to others.


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November 16, 2019 November 10, 2019 B. Zedan
I can't remember how it started but in high school, I spent two summers painting murals in the town I grew up in. The downtown, a couple-block-long strip of half-empty shops when I lived there, was home to a place called "Mural Park." It was an empty lot created when fire gutted whatever building used to be there. It was a couple of benches and some plants, a totem pole nominally about the local, long-dead, timber industry, and murals that were about 25 years old. When I was about fifteen a painter decided it was time to redo the murals and enlisted local teens to help her. She was funded by the local Optimist's club, a group that I still can't tell apart from Rotary. Somehow, I got involved.
To say I was an aimless teen sort of misses the mark but then, as now, I did sort of simple-mindedly and cheerfully go forward with the things I liked to do without any larger goals. I legit do not remember how I ended up on the mural painting team. I think I was just generally known as "arty" and okay at painting, a decent enough candidate for the job. What had to have happened was that one of the sainted teachers who tried to keep me from wandering off academic cliffs pointed my little idiot head in the right direction and off I went. It's not like I worked since I wasn't allowed to have a job, and volunteer work was the sort of thing you wanted to show if you were the first person in your family to go to college. Plus I liked painting.
There were three walls in Mural Park, in a logical sort of shape outlining the business that used to be there. The back wall we weren't touching, it was to be sealed so the faded, 1970s-era mural of loggers could be preserved as a sort of testament of time. The intent was that we would do the first wall one summer and then a fresh group of kids would do the other wall the next year. The town desperately wanted to remain relevant, it'd stopped being a timber town before my memory and was still decades off from leveraging its Walmart and placement off the highway into a transformation to the kind of place split harshly between a bedroom community and the townies who ran the service industries.
I can't remember the other two kids very well. One girl I know was kind of a flake because it is sweaty, boring business to paint murals and my memory is supported by the copies of our timesheets I for some reason still have that show she worked maybe a fourth of what the rest of us did. The other girl I wanted to be friends with but she was on a different life path that involved owning a beautiful old beater of a car and going to raves. She was the first person I knew who didn't shave her legs and I desperately wanted that freedom. She also had a bright orange fur skirt and I skipped a class once with her when we ended up on the same outdoor trip. I will never find her again because when women marry they change their names and even she must have fallen in line with that convention.
Painting murals was something I was made to do. I could and would happily sit for hours, copying the squares off of a gridded guide onto a wall too textured to easily paint. I learned landscape painting techniques that were basically Bob Ross methods writ large, slapping happy trees and rocks across a wall that was something like 20×100 feet. Whether I'm building spreadsheets or running catering, the constant in my life has always been that I love a straightforward task of moderate skill that I can just doggedly pursue to completion. Mural painting is that, with a bonus of getting to climb off the scaffolding sometimes and see how everything falls together in a way that's unclear when your nose is right up in it. Not to be too fancy about it but that's a luxury difficult to come by in any other task.
Again, this was over twenty years ago, so I don't know why or exactly how, but the next year it was just the head painter, Joy, and me, as far as I remember. Most likely it was because I didn't have anything else going on and everyone else did.
Here's something about Joy. She was primarily a porcelain artist. She painted realistic-enough scenes on porcelain, things like flowers and landscapes. Once she painted some eagle or something on a vase and it was given to someone important in Russia by a diplomat or something. She had a picture of the ceremonial hand-off in her house.
She also took vision baths where she dreamt up some of the designs for a pack of oracle cards. She was the first totally vibe-and-energy based belief system person I ever encountered and I ended up with two VHS tapes from her that are just sermons about energy over really wild visuals that are a mix of animation styles. She smoked thin black cigarettes and bleached her greying hair so it would have more body to it. "It raises the scales on the hair shaft, so it's thicker" she explained one day as we took a break from painting.
I went to Joy's house a lot. The second year of mural painting I was involved in the preliminary process. The original mock-up of the final wall painted on a piece of foam core in her studio, the individual studies of trees and rocks and techniques. I learned she was one of those people who mixed her colours completely before adding them to the painting, and she kept marvelling over how I just let them mix in the process of painting, "like impressionism!" I knew just enough art history to be flattered and know she was kind of wrong.
The relationship was something like journeyman/apprentice, except as an adult I know Joy wasn't anything like a journeyman mural painter. But she did have experience painting and knew how to manage a project and I was grateful to learn. When the second mural was done I ended up getting drafted by her to manage some award program she ran for the Optimist Club.
I would take my bike from where I stashed it at a friend's house and go do things on the computer for her like make certificates and write letters and update tables. I got school credit for it as an independent class, one of several ways my high school dealing with a generation of students they were trying to placate until graduation. A few years after I left, the administration ended up implementing the education reform we'd protested against anyway. But until then I spent the majority of my last chunk of high school in weird, self-guided courses.
The important thing was, twice during all this, I got a $200 "honorarium" from the Optimist Club. Somewhere in my old high school notes, I saw that the first time I spent part of it paying my way to state theatre trips and lent the rest to my dad. The second time I opened a bank account with it and paid the first fees for the college that accepted me. It was the only college I'd applied to since they waived their application fee.
A lot of years later, my sister got me to come visit before the park was demolished to build a new, modern park space that fit the city's updated image. She told me how the park had been a touchstone for a bunch of kids in the area, kids she'd grown up with who all still mostly lived in town. They'd apparently been vocal about the demolition of the old murals and indignant that no attempt to find the artists and invite them back had been made.
"It's not like you're hard to find." My sister shrugged, scowling.
It was weird. I'd forgotten about painting the murals. I remembered vaguely how I had thought, at an excited 17, that I'd come back in 20 years and get a new group of teens to paint the walls. The idea I'd be able to leave the town and never look back hadn't been a possibility even worth considering. Everyone came back, or at least stayed nearby. That work I'd done as a teen had been a part of a different generation's lives and held more meaning to them than it ever did to me was weird and strange and nice.
It's nice that I learned how to paint landscapes and be an administrative assistant for Joy. It's skills that I leveraged in college to work as an assistant to a professor and that's something I used to slowly chip my way out of the service industry and into my first pure office job by my mid-30s. It's nice that the $200 I got a couple of times for what these old timesheets say is hundreds of hours of work gave me a way to get out and never look back.
But mostly it's nice that something I did meant something to other people, even if my nose was too close to the work to see it at the time.
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So whenever I find an individual who is a master of food talk, I like to give him credit. Such a fellow is Chief Deputy Jimmy Apodaca of the El Paso County Sheriff's office.
A reporter for the El Paso Times, Daniel Borunda, was kind enough to pass along a press release consisting of a single quote from Apodaca. It concerned weevils found in noodles intended for inmates.
When any of us go out to eat in the lesser restaurants of New York and find weevils in our noodles, or, for that matter, cockroaches in our coq au vin, we're fortunate if the joint takes the dish back and doesn't charge us for it.
"When we learned of the discovery of the inferior food component we immediately took action and removed the food items."
That's what they call weevils down in tough-talking Texas, inferior food components.
I wonder what they've started calling gunshot wounds?
My guess: Aerated Human Exteriors.


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3 released on bail for Lebanese Consul's home invasion
General	— 15 December 2015	— by Rowland A. Parks
BELIZE CITY, Fri. Dec. 11, 2015–Three out of nine persons who were remanded to prison on Monday, December 7, for their alleged role in a vicious home invasion of Lebanese diplomat, Abou Nahra's Burrell Boom home, were granted bail in the Supreme Court of Justice Herbert Lord this morning.
This afternoon, three additional persons, charged in connection with the same incident, appeared in the Magistrate's Court. Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser remanded two of them to prison, while the third, on the advice of his attorney, Dickie Bradley, will be arraigned on Monday, before the Chief Magistrate.
Randolph Coleman, 23, a Coast Guard officer and resident of Police Street, was offered bail of $10,000 plus one surety.
The conditions of Coleman's bail is that he surrender all of his travel documents to the Supreme Court, prior to receiving his bail, and that he report to the Queen Street Police Station every Friday, beginning on December 18.
Justice Lord also ordered that Coleman stay away from the virtual complainants and he is not to communicate with them either directly or through a third party; he is not to go within 100 yards of the virtual complainants; and he is not to interfere with any prosecution witness. Failure to adhere to the bail conditions would result in revocation of his bail.
Ashanti Roches, 19, who is facing a charge of handling stolen goods and who was on remand, after the Magistrate's Court prosecutor objected to granting her and two other women bail at their arraignment, appeared in court today, along with her attorney, Leo Bradley.
Justice Lord granted Roches bail of $3,000 plus one surety in the same amount, and imposed conditions similar to those that he imposed on Coleman.
Crystal Augustine, 23, also appeared for the bail application hearing with her attorney, Anthony Sylvestre, who had made submissions on her behalf during the Magistrate's Court arraignment, but she was remanded when the Chief Magistrate decided to uphold the prosecutor's objection to bail for the handling stolen goods charge, which is a bailable offense that is not covered by the Crime Control and Criminal Justice Act that restricts the Magistrate's Court from granting bail.
In the Supreme Court, however, Augustine was granted bail of $3,000 plus one surety in the same amount. Justice Lord imposed the same bail conditions on Augustine that he imposed on Coleman and Roches.
In addition, the three are to appear in court for every adjournment until their case or cases come to an end.
Less than three hours after Coleman, Roches and Augustine were released on bail, the police van transporting detained persons to the Magistrate's Court arrived. Three men who arrived in the van did everything they could to conceal their faces from court reporters' cameras.
Almost two hours after the van arrived, a police court orderly escorted Jeffery Buller, 20, Malik Pitts, 18, and Paul Jex, Jr., 20, from the holding cell to the courtroom of Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser.
Magistrate Fraser read the charges to Buller, who was being represented by attorney Dickie Bradley.
Police charged Buller with abetment to commit aggravated burglary.
Magistrate Fraser explained to him that the matter is a Court 1 matter and that she was only "facilitating" the arraignment.
After Fraser explained that the Chief Magistrate had remanded other persons charged in connection with the case, Bradley asked the court to put off the arraignment of his client until Monday, when Chief Magistrate Smith would be in her court.
Fraser agreed and Buller was not arraigned on the charge, but remained in police custody.
Pitts and Jex were charged with handling stolen goods.
Police are alleging that Pitts handled a gold ring and a silver ring that were stolen during the home invasion.
In court, Pitts alleged that he was beaten by police and his face was banged against a wall; Magistrate Fraser made a note for the court record.
Jex told the court that police found the items (4 silver rings) in a parking lot.
Today, police confirmed that they are in possession of a digital video recorder (DVR) that was stolen from Sarkis' home by the men accused of committing the aggravated assault.
Senior Superintendent Edward Broaster, officer commanding Eastern Division Rural, told the media that the DVR is in good working condition and that it had recorded the eight men who had entered the home on December 3.
Broaster said the burglars thought they had disconnected the DVR, and then they stole it.
"We have already taken evidence off it," Broaster disclosed.
Police said they are also in possession of a black Honda Accord car that they believe was used in the burglary.


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Tools and methods – As everyone agrees there are no shortcuts to comply with compliances. It is not like installing a software or enabling a service. Organizations needs to go through relevant rules and see how its apply with its infrastructure, business models. But it is not always practical to do all these manually. As an example, GDPR has more than 100 rules. If we not use tools or other methods to see how its apply to existing infrastructure, it can be time consuming, complex process. There are existing tools which gives your reports based on the information you provide but so far, I am not aware of a tool which do real time analysis of infrastructure and reports back about compliances status.
On Last Ignite event Microsoft introduced Compliance Manager tool which simplifies the compliance adoption process for organization. As a service provider Microsoft also have role to play to make its cloud products comply with these compliances. So, Microsoft creates a service where it explains how it's done its task and give insight to customers to do their bit in form of tasks. Each of these tasks include detail explanation. Each of these tasks can assign to a user and measure its progress real-time.
This service is available for Azure and Office 365 customers. This is not only covering GDPR, it also covers other compliance such as ISO 27001:2013, ISO 27018:2014. This is currently on preview and it will generally available in 2018.
In next page, it will ask about the subscription. If you have valid subscription already you can use "Sign In" option.
After successful authentication, it will load the Dashboard for the compliance manager.
Each tile represent compliance. Using "Add Assessment" button we can add new compliances to the list. To do it first click on Add Assessment option.
Each of the tile have two sections. One is to list down the controls Microsoft comply with and one is to list down controls customer comply with.
In order to see these in details click on the assessment name on the tile.
Then it lists down the section for each control.
As an example, if I expand one of task related to Microsoft, it explains what is it and what Microsoft did to implement it and who assessed it.
Now if I do the same for customer controls I can see similar details. But most of it need to be fill by customer. It provides detail description of the assessment. If go to customer actions it gives some insights what customer need to do to pass the assessment.
It also has two sections where we can add notes about implementation, test plan and management response.
Using Test Date option we can define the data for assessment.
Using Test Result drop down we can select the assessment status.
Using Manage Documents option we can upload relevant documents for the task.
More importantly using Assign button task can assign to another user in the organization.
In my demo, I am assigning it to user Agnes Schleich with high priority.
Email notification for this is not working yet, but in future once task been assign, it will send email notification to user.
Now when I login as user Agnes Schleich to compliance manager, I can see the assigned task under action items.
Cool, isn't it? Microsoft promised to add more and more assessment in coming months to make life easier with compliances. Once you done evaluation, do not forget to provide feedback using Feedback button.
Azure active directory is responsible for providing identity service for Microsoft online service's needs. When I talk to people about azure AD one of most common problem they ask is what version I should buy? my existing subscription will work for the features I looking for? The myth is, lot of people still thinks azure subscriptions and prices are complicated, but if you understand what each subscription can do it's not that hard. I have seen people paying for Azure AD premium version when azure AD free version can give the features they needed for their environment and some people struggling to implement features only available for premium version using their free azure AD instance. In this blog post I am going to list down the features for each azure AD version and hope it will help you to decide the version you need for your setup.
Free – if you subscribed to any Microsoft online service such as azure or office 365 you will get the free azure AD version. You do not need to pay for this. But it got limited features which I will explain later in this post.
Basic – Designed for task workers with cloud-first needs, this edition provides cloud centric application access and self-service identity management solutions. With the Basic edition of Azure Active Directory, you get productivity enhancing and cost reducing features like group-based access management, self-service password reset for cloud applications, and Azure Active Directory Application Proxy (to publish on-premises web applications using Azure Active Directory), all backed by an enterprise-level SLA of 99.9 percent uptime.
Premium P1 – Designed to empower organizations with more demanding identity and access management needs, Azure Active Directory Premium edition adds feature-rich enterprise-level identity management capabilities and enables hybrid users to seamlessly access on-premises and cloud capabilities. This edition includes everything you need for information worker and identity administrators in hybrid environments across application access, self-service identity and access management (IAM), identity protection and security in the cloud. It supports advanced administration and delegation resources like dynamic groups and self-service group management. It includes Microsoft Identity Manager (an on-premises identity and access management suite) and provides cloud write-back capabilities enabling solutions like self-service password reset for your on-premises users.
Premium P2 – Designed with advanced protection for all your users and administrators, this new offering includes all the capabilities in Azure AD Premium P1 as well as our new Identity Protection and Privileged Identity Management. Azure Active Directory Identity Protection leverages billions of signals to provide risk-based conditional access to your applications and critical company data. We also help you manage and protect privileged accounts with Azure Active Directory Privileged Identity Management so you can discover, restrict and monitor administrators and their access to resources and provide just-in-time access when needed.
Recently I was working on a project for a customer and I thought to share the problem and solution so in future it will help my blog readers.
My client has an on-premises Microsoft exchange 2013. Recently they are acquiring a company. This company is using Office 365. The both companies like to see calendar free/busy information when they schedules meetings etc.
Exchange 2013 offers a feature called "federation trust". Federation trust will create trust relationship between on-premises exchange server and Azure active directory authentication system. Then it can use to create federated sharing with other federated organizations to share calendar free/busy information. The same method can use to create federated sharing between on-premises exchange server and office 365.
4) Auto discovery should be fully functioning with on-premises exchange setup. If you got problem with it need to fix before start this configuration as you will end up with one way calendar free/busy info sharing.
3) Then click on enable (if you not using any federation trusts already) and start the federation trust wizard. It is straight forward setup and once wizard completes click on close.
8) Once it's done it will looks like following. It creates unique federation trust namespace and will register with Azure AD authentication system.
9) If you got additional domains, click on + mark to add. Once done click on update and exit from the window.
11) In new window, fill the info about the office 365 domain and set the sharing permissions as you desired. But I highly recommend to use same permissions in both ends to avoid issues. Of policies mismatch it may work on one-way only. Once changes are done click on save.
12) That's it, it completes the federation trust setup on on-premises exchange 2013 end.
4) In new window add the info about on-premises domain and also set sharing permissions, once done click on save.
Now it's all done, it's time for testing.
But I have notice sometime you need to restart IIS on on-premises exchange 2013 CAS to get this working.


In March 2002, a number of writers as also specialists on Dialogue gathered on the island of Kish in Iran, for the first and – due to political developments – only Global Seminar on Fiction and Dialogue among Cultures, hosted by the Iranian Centre for Dialogue among Civilizations.
Centre for Dialogue Among Civilizations.
dialogues" – both within and without!


In this season of my life there isn't a lot of going out with the girls...really there isn't a lot of going out period, but what makes this okay is my comfort friends. Comfort friends are those friends that you don't have to entertain, or perform for. They're the kind of friends that are happy to just sit next to you and not say a word or do a thing and then leave and say "I really had a great time hanging out today". Comfort friends are the friends that you don't have to clean your house for in fact they usually end up helping you clean your house. Comfort friends are simply friends you are comfortable to just be yourself around, no expectations or standards just enjoying each other's company. I am blessed to say I have a few of those kinds of friends, one of them being Lindsay.
Lindsay and I have always enjoyed hanging out together. She makes me laugh and she's just really easy to talk to. Lindsay makes it a priority to come over and hang out with me at least once every 2 weeks. She comes over and spends the day. In between babies crying, changing diapers, and feeding them we connect. This is such a blessing for me that she meets me in the season I'm in. She understands that I can't do the same things I used to do and she doesn't care, she just wants to be with me. Lindsay makes the days of house cleaning, and changing diapers fun. The greatest thing is she is having fun too!
Today I'm grateful for my comfort friend, Lindsay.
Beautiful picture and beautiful lady. Love you both!!


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using Test.VirtualRadar;
using VirtualRadar.Interface;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;
using VirtualRadar.Interface.Settings;
using Test.Framework;
using InterfaceFactory;
using Moq;

namespace Test.VirtualRadar.Interface.Settings
{
    [TestClass]
    public class ConfigurationTests
    {
        private IClassFactory _ClassFactorySnapshot;
        private Mock<IRuntimeEnvironment> _RuntimeEnvironment;
        private Configuration _Implementation;

        [TestInitialize]
        public void TestInitialise()
        {
            _ClassFactorySnapshot = Factory.TakeSnapshot();
            _RuntimeEnvironment = TestUtilities.CreateMockSingleton<IRuntimeEnvironment>();

            _Implementation = new Configuration();
        }

        [TestCleanup]
        public void TestCleanup()
        {
            Factory.RestoreSnapshot(_ClassFactorySnapshot);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void Configuration_Constructor_Initialises_To_Known_State_And_Properties_Work()
        {
            Assert.IsNotNull(_Implementation.BaseStationSettings);
            Assert.IsNotNull(_Implementation.FlightRouteSettings);
            Assert.IsNotNull(_Implementation.WebServerSettings);
            Assert.IsNotNull(_Implementation.GoogleMapSettings);
            Assert.IsNotNull(_Implementation.VersionCheckSettings);
            Assert.IsNotNull(_Implementation.InternetClientSettings);
            Assert.IsNotNull(_Implementation.RawDecodingSettings);

            Assert.AreEqual(0, _Implementation.ReceiverLocations.Count);
            Assert.AreEqual(0, _Implementation.RebroadcastSettings.Count);
            Assert.AreEqual(0, _Implementation.Receivers.Count);

            TestUtilities.TestProperty(_Implementation, r => r.BaseStationSettings, _Implementation.BaseStationSettings, new BaseStationSettings());
            TestUtilities.TestProperty(_Implementation, r => r.FlightRouteSettings, _Implementation.FlightRouteSettings, new FlightRouteSettings());
            TestUtilities.TestProperty(_Implementation, r => r.WebServerSettings, _Implementation.WebServerSettings, new WebServerSettings());
            TestUtilities.TestProperty(_Implementation, r => r.GoogleMapSettings, _Implementation.GoogleMapSettings, new GoogleMapSettings());
            TestUtilities.TestProperty(_Implementation, r => r.VersionCheckSettings, _Implementation.VersionCheckSettings, new VersionCheckSettings());
            TestUtilities.TestProperty(_Implementation, r => r.InternetClientSettings, _Implementation.InternetClientSettings, new InternetClientSettings());
            TestUtilities.TestProperty(_Implementation, r => r.RawDecodingSettings, _Implementation.RawDecodingSettings, new RawDecodingSettings());
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void Configuration_ReceiverLocation_Returns_ReceiverLocation_From_ReceiverLocations()
        {
            var home = new ReceiverLocation() { UniqueId = 1, Name = "HOME" };
            var away = new ReceiverLocation() { UniqueId = 2, Name = "AWAY" };
            _Implementation.ReceiverLocations.AddRange(new ReceiverLocation[] { home, away });

            var location = _Implementation.ReceiverLocation(2);
            Assert.AreSame(away, location);
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void Configuration_ReceiverLocation_Returns_Null_If_Receiver_Cannot_Be_Found()
        {
            var home = new ReceiverLocation() { UniqueId = 1, Name = "HOME" };
            var away = new ReceiverLocation() { UniqueId = 2, Name = "AWAY" };
            _Implementation.ReceiverLocations.AddRange(new ReceiverLocation[] { home, away });

            var location = _Implementation.ReceiverLocation(3);
            Assert.IsNull(location);
        }
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


"The Rules" are twenty-six ideas I've collected over the years that seemed relevant enough to life in general that I've written each down with a short story to reinforce each in particular. This is Rule Number Fifteen.
Optimism takes work and is rewarded.
In 1979 there was ample temptation to be pessimistic as a second lieutenant, flying a KC-135A tanker, as a copilot, at what had to be worst base in the Air Force, and while assigned to the Strategic Air Command. Nobody, we were told, respects a second lieutenant. The KC-135A is underpowered and under-equipped. The Air Force wanted desperately to close Loring Air Force Base and cut funding to the minimum. And SAC? SAC was in its death throes.
But, for some strange reason, I was looking forward to the challenges to come. Even all the study associated with . . .
Air refueling, from the tanker's perspective, was not too difficult once the receiver found its way to the "stabilized pre-contact" position. But getting to that point was, now and then, a problem. But that wasn't my problem. As a fully trained KC-135A copilot, the Strategic Air Command was happy for me to execute three takeoffs and landings every 90 days, fly three instrument approaches, and pull Emergency War Order — EWO — alert. As for air refueling, I had to watch over a fuel panel, turn the pump switches on when the boom operator told me to and turn them off when the receiver disconnected or the pilot yelled at me. I could handle all of that.
Getting qualified as a tanker copilot was easy. Learning the flying mission was easy. But becoming a certified SAC trained killer meant I had to learn the secret mission and then I had to do something called "certify." It sounded ominous. I needed advanced intel.
I just didn't see how that was possible. I studied every aspect of my job and thought I had every angle covered. The only new territory was the EWO stuff, the things I was expected to know if we were going to war. The standard list of copilot questions were all easily handled.
EWO certification was a two day process. The crew spent a full day studying classified manuals and learning about recent changes in world politics, all in an effort to better execute their emergency war orders. The second day was the certification. Each crewmember gave a prepared speech to the certifying official and then answered that officer's questions. The certifying official was at least a lieutennant colonel. I read each manual twice and listened to the rest of the crew predict our fates.
"We are going down in flames," the aircraft commander said. "We're scheduled to certify to the wing commander himself! He's a died in the wool bomber pilot who hates us tanker toads. He makes a point of cutting every tanker officer off at the knees just for sport."
"It's a shame," the navigator agreed, turning to face me. "You being brand new like this. Too bad you are going to fail your first certification."
"Who says we are going to fail?" I asked. "We all know our jobs. All we have to do is convey that to the wing commander."
"Even if you know your job cold," the aircraft commander said, "he'll ask you about someone else's job."
The certification was the next morning. As the copiot I probably had the smallest role in the crew when it came to doing our nuclear mission. If the wing commander asked me about how to do the aircraft commander's job I would be in trouble. The wing commander was a bomber aircraft commander and I would be playing on his turf. If he asked me about the boom operator's job, I would again be in trouble. What about the nav? I couldn't master what the navigator spent months learning, but I knew I could at least get some of it. I picked up my air refueling manual and began with the basics.
The point parallel rendezvous was the standard means of flying our KC-135 over the Air Refueling Control Point (ARCP) while waiting for the B-52 to arrive at the Air Refueling Initial Point (ARIP). Once he reported there, usually at the Air Refueling Control Time (ARCT), we would turn towards him and establish the required offset distance from his inbound track. I didn't know the required offset, but I knew it changed with winds. Once we were at the required range, we would turn 180 degrees and roll out 3 miles ahead of him. Once again, I didn't know what the range was, but it too could change with winds. What else? We usually flew this at 275 knots indicated airspeed (KIAS), at 25,000' altitude, and the turns were made at 25 degrees of bank.
It seemed I had the mechanics of the process down, just not the two magic numbers: offset and turn range. It was simple aero, how hard could it be?
I pulled out my favorite Aero text book, by Charles Dole, and found the equation for turn radius. First I was going to need the True Airspeed (TAS) but all I had was Indicated Airspeed (IAS). Pulling out my hand dead reckoning computer — really a circular slide rule issued to all Air Force pilots back then — I knew I could convert IAS to CAS by dividing it by the appropriate F-Factor.
Setting -35°C opposite 25,000' in the appropriate window places the outer scale in the correct orientation to read TAS opposite CAS. Answer: 420 KTAS.
That was easy enough. But what about the turn range? The tanker and bomber had a closure rate of 840 knots! And for the tanker's turn the closure rate wasn't constant. No wonder the navigator was needed!
If I assumed the tanker rolls out exactly abeam where he initiated the turn, I no longer needed to consider the closure rate, only the bomber's speed. To find out how much territory the bomber covered while the tanker was in the turn, I needed only to find out how much territory the tanker covered in his half turn, their speeds were equal. The circumference of a circle is 2πr and 2r is diameter but I only wanted half the circle. So the distance of the half circle would be πr/2, or π(11)2 = 17.28 nm.
Of course this was the distance the bomber covered getting to the 3 nm roll out range. The offset range was the hypotenuse of this triangle, a larger number.
So now I knew I could bluff my way through the navigator's toughest job, but what if the wing commander didn't ask me a navigator question? I had to steer him there. But how?
The next day I waited my turn. Colonel Burkel was in rare form and he had already humiliated the pilot and navigator. The pilot missed a bit of breaking news about the Soviets on the Polish border.
"Yes sir," the pilot said. I didn't know about the Soviet-Russian geopolitical thing either.
He asked the navigator about aircraft endurance once refueling was complete. Those questions should have been sent my way.
"I'd ask the copilot," the nav said.
The nav stood at attention, in silence. Our crew was going down in flames. The cost of total failure would be having to do all this fun over again next week. That after an appropriate annotation to our permanent records: "failed nuclear certification." Nobody wanted that.
It was my turn. The pilot introduced me as "our new superstar fresh out of copilot school, a distinguished graduate!" He was doing a good job of lowering expectations until that last bit. Burkel gave me the standard copilot questions and I gave him the standard copilot answers. This was going to be easy.
"The curtains don't work?" I stammered.
Now I knew where he was headed and I obliged him, disguising my joy at what was to come.
I stared into the wing commander's eyes and said nothing, setting the trap.
"Nuclear combat," I said, "toe-to-toe with the Rooskies." Every B-52 pilot loves that movie.
I talked for about ten minutes. He just sat there and listened. He started to look a bit dejected. When I was done talking he almost didn't react. But then he recovered.
"Loo ten ant," he said, "sit down. We are done here." With that, he got up and left.
The rest of the crew just stared at me. Silently, we gathered our things, checked in our secrets, and we too left. The next day the squadron was buzzing with the play-by-play. The next week we were on alert. One year later, when I had to certify the SAC EWO mission for my second and last time, I didn't get any questions at all.