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

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

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

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: DivePac88

ORIGINAL: Dixie

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

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

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

Brings a tear to my eye, it does. [:D]

ORIGINAL: Grollub

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Grollub



True ... [:D] But then, we will go there with our students coming May ... [:)]

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

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

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

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

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

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

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo




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

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

ETA: Lousy font mismatch...[:@]

ORIGINAL: USS America

Per, you have a very cool job! [8D]

ORIGINAL: sprior

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

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


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

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

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

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

For NASA TV streaming video and downlink information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv


For more information about NASA astrobiology activities, visit:

http://astrobiology.nasa.gov

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo



No. Gotta check it out.

Edit: any idea where I can find it?

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


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

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


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

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... 22E025873F

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

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

Hmmm... [X(][X(][X(]


http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/no ... ology.html

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


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

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

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

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

For NASA TV streaming video and downlink information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv


For more information about NASA astrobiology activities, visit:

http://astrobiology.nasa.gov

Leo "Apollo11"

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Oh dear, I guess they finally captured Brother Brush-Hat...[:D]

G'night, y'all...[>:][>:][>:][>:]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

Hmmm... [X(][X(][X(]


http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/no ... ology.html

MEDIA ADVISORY : M10-167


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


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

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

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

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

For NASA TV streaming video and downlink information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv


For more information about NASA astrobiology activities, visit:

http://astrobiology.nasa.gov

Leo "Apollo11"

Oh dear, I guess they finally captured Brother Brush-Hat...[:D]

G'night, y'all...[>:][>:][>:][>:]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Happy St Andrew's Day!

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: Apollo11



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


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

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


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

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... 22E025873F

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

No problem at all!

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

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


Leo "Apollo11"