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Content Category: general

Intercept: proceeds to 3 Navy SEALs

reposted from Facebook

Patrick Robinson I am donating some of the proceeds of INTERCEPT, my new novel, to defend the 3 Navy SEALs on trial for punching a Taliban chief. Here’s the link to pre-order the book.

INTERCEPT – Donate and help defend

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Content Category: humor

Max G: Aviationese “A” entries only

[[ note the test here, seeing how ridiculous this long of a post looks ]]

If it looks really bad, I’ll insert book links to spice it up.  (Now there’s a great idea, Vic.)

Vic

YES, this is directly from the world-famous, genuinely popular, Aviationese Glossary — as a co-creation of friendly 2nd Lieutenants, Captains and Majors all who were named Dick.  (The Lt. Colonels were dancing being briefed at Miramar and could not be reached for comment.)

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***   ALPHA   ***

AAA:  We begin our glossary with the more ominous aspect of military aviation: Anti-Aircraft Artillery.  (Pronounce it like the USA auto club: “triple A”.)  Pilots avoid this by JINKING and popping CHAFF and FLARES.)  See SAM.

AB:  See AFTERBURNER.

ABSOLUTE CEILING:  The answer to the question, “How high can it fly?”  All aircraft require an atmosphere dense enough to allow its CONTROL SURFACES to maneuver and its engines to produce sufficient THRUST.  Because the design of each aircraft is different, each craft’s controllability degrades at different altitudes/ densities.  The altitude at which a craft would normally lose control is referred to as its Absolute Ceiling.  (The space shuttle cheats by using rocket power and thrusters, so it wouldn’t have a normal Absolute Ceiling, since it doesn’t have traditional Control Surfaces.)

ACLS:  Actually Crash Landed Safely.  Well, pretty close … it’s the Automatic Carrier Landing System, (aka Spin 42), a complex computer data link electronics system with components in both the airplane and the ship or landing field.  To initiate the system, the pilot selects ACL control, the system engages, and automatically guides the airplane on to the SHIP (or runway at a FIELD that is equipped with Spin 42 equipment.)  The ACLS components are controlled by a Seaman “Nintendo” Class, who sits below deck and guides the plane onto the carrier deck with joy-sticks.  If the plane crashes, he simply puts another $25,000,000 coin in and tries again with the next pilot.  These systems are installed in the computerized PLANES in case the weather is ZERO ZERO or the pilot chickens out.  Not the same as ILS.

ACM:  Air Combat Maneuvering.  This is DOGFIGHTING, (you know, the turning and burning, yanking and banking part.)  The quintessence of military flying.  ACM is a FIGHTER JOCK’s reason for living.  (“Sorry, Honey, I have my priorities, er, um, I mean, my country comes first and they make me to do this.”)  To a layman, ACM can only be imagined by watching the pilots replaying their aerial exploits by O CLUB antics replete with twisting and flailing about of hands, and the words, “There I was …”  ACM is an INTRODUCED ITEM during ADVANCED training; AGGRESSIVENESS is now openly graded (e.g., “above average in aggressiveness.”)  This is where SCISSORS and YO-YOs come in handy in keeping the bad guy off your SIX.

Continue reading Max G: Aviationese “A” entries only

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Content Category: general

Service & Brotherhood, the examples

Just finished Lone Survivor. Thank you Marcus Luttrell, for surviving. That hand of God was definitely at your side. Deepest appreciation to all of the Brotherhood of Service.

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Content Category: general

Lone Survivor

Reading this now …

supporting Facebook friends meanwhile. Aghast at this, ever:

Yes, citizens need to sign petitions to do the right thing.

http://www.indianadan.com/savetheseals

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Content Category: education

Types of Biases or Glamours, name the fog. Common Sense, pt 3

For background, here is a list of glamours, following another half of a conversation:

Keep in mind the glamours of the group. This includes your Soul and personality groups, and of nations, and of humanity as a whole.

For instance, the glamours of the often called ‘esoteric community’, of which you now find yourself could be justifiably argued to have a predominance of

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Content Category: education

Capitalism, Socialism, Solutions, and common sense, pt 2

Continuing notes from school, roughly around common sense and seeing through the polarities, which can be defined as communism and capitalism.

This is pretty obvious, isn’t it?
It’s about the biases or glamours …. (see next post, pt 3)

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Vicktorya Stone The following emerged from work in our Service & Solutions course. The topic is pros and cons of Capitalism vs Socialism, as an example

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Content Category: education

Common Sense, pt 1

Snip from conversations on Campus. Specializing on thinking things through.

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Content Category: future

Art Work: Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God

Last year I created this image, as I thought the original phrase would be useful to us now, in the future.  It is of Moses parting the Sea, with, the Flaming Angel looking on.

Today I was typing up some thoughts, below, when I overheard Beck refer the obverse side of the Great Seal.

Rebellion To Tyrants Is Obedience To God.

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Content Category: general

Joan of Arc (Cohen & Warnes) & Democracy

Democracy

Democracy is Coming to The USA

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Content Category: video

Gayle McCormick: Smith

Gayle McCormack, Smith
one of my favorite vocalists:

notes from here:
Another St. Louis Band Gayle McCormick is just totally a wonderful woman.
Smith were discovered by 1960s rocker Del Shannon in a nightclub in Los Angeles, California. McCormick had started her career singing songs by Tina Turner, Etta James and others of that ilk. Shannon arranged “Baby It’s You” for the group and got them signed

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Content Category: video

Stevie Nicks Stand Back Dancing Red Rocks

4:30 guy dancing (can’t find longer version with him dancing more … different angle)
6:20 – voice reverb
good tada dada final bebopadoerzeyeah

2:10 saxaphone

Sara

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Content Category: tech

Net Neutrality

Hands off, in general.

What’s broke?

Part that stands out the most to me is the TIMING … and yes, the name, granted — anything government puts out that sounds like “freedom preservation” sounds restrictive.

It’s b-a-a-a-c-k
August 4, 2009

Loose translation: The best new technologies designed to meet America’s growing demand for online content will be held hostage to the whims of Congress,

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Content Category: education

Groupthink

Last Free Voice
overview of Groupthink, from Irving Janis.
Review other articles on vMEMEs and bias.

In 1972, Irving Janis, in his book Victims of Groupthink, added a new dimension to the study of group behavior and group dynamics when he described “groupthink” as:

“… a quick and easy way to refer to a mode of thinking that people engage in when they are involved in a

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Content Category: education

vMEME color code charts

The following is taken from
Don Beck’s Spiral Dynamics:

It is a way of looking at the various levels of consciousness. Ken Wilber has expanded upon this most prolifically. and wow cool new site for Ken (including mystery meat; haven’t seen that in ages, except on Alan’s Khepher site (where he talks about the cult of Wilber …

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Content Category: education

Discovery Method

http://www.niquette.com/books/sophmag/heurist.htm

Many of the problems I will assign during the coming weeks do not have enough data. Better get used to that. Oh yes, and some will have too much data — more than you need.” The instructor managed an amiable smile. “Which is worse, not enough or too much?”

“Not enough,” someone called out.

“What about contradictory data?” the instructor asked.

The class inhaled.

“That’s another

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Content Category: future

Social Singularity: through the needle’s eye

More thinking ahead.

http://www.jrmooneyham.com/through-the-needles-eye.html

A few paragraphs to hint:

The evolving model singularity

As of 2005 the concepts of artificial evolution and modeling have not yet been fully integrated. Instead, they exist as separate efforts to adequately simulate chunks of the real world in virtual space, and getting physical devices or software to improve in quality and performance at an accelerated pace via evolutionary strategies and tactics.

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Content Category: education

New World Conspiracies and Superstition

Vic here. If you read of New World or New World Order in the Bailey books (of which I am an astute student, not a Capital “B” Believer. ) then realize please that THAT New Age or New World Order is NOT the one explained here, with great charts.

The theft of a term like ‘new world’, etc., that may hint at

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Content Category: education

Rattlin’ Bones: Social Singularity

Another post from Bones

Social Singularity

Here is the first part of this article (written 2007):

Currently there are more than one billion people on the internet. Some scholars and researchers claim that the next five years will see at least another one billion people join us. That latter number does not take into account internet capable iPods and cell phones, etc., which are

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