tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69477696300651638912024-03-07T20:27:57.806-06:00ThimkThis site is written by James Owen, aka, Ya'akov, and contains his personal opinions and the wanderings of his mind on general and/or technical topics. Lately, I have decided to blog on most anything that crosses my mind. For more religious subjects see "Nothing Technical" at http://phinehas2.blogspot.com. Also, if you DO comment, let me know by sending an email to jco_kbsc@icloud.com - thanks.James Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09329916624230570826noreply@blogger.comBlogger227125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947769630065163891.post-7262447069130071792018-12-14T16:30:00.001-06:002018-12-14T16:30:50.775-06:00Something to Think AboutGreetings:<br />
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You know, I thought that I was the only one who was weird enough to cast aspersions on the Harry Potter series without getting stoned in the town square. Apparently, there are others who also have seen the little glitches and weird twists in the movie plots. I ran across a web site today:<br />
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https://www.looper.com/3248/disturbing-realizations-harry-potter-universe/sl/<br />
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Slavery? Mind-altering drugs? No background checks on teachers? I could go on and on but that would defeat the purpose of pointing you to the link, wouldn't it now? The author has gone into a lot of detail about the HP series and it is without doubt hilarious. Well, I got a giggle out of it but, then, I am a bit weird anyway. :) Enjoy,<br />
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Ya'akovJames Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09329916624230570826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947769630065163891.post-53574814555972295292018-12-07T15:10:00.002-06:002018-12-07T15:10:56.413-06:00December 7th - AGAINGreetings:<br />
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Well, December 7th has rolled around again and, once again, little mentionhas been made on the news in relation to Pearl Harbor 77 years ago. For those who have forgotten, may I remind you that the Japanese Empire, which felt threatened by the USA, bombed and strafed all the ships and air planes in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, at 7:55 a.m. (HST) on Dec 7, 1941 in two waves of dive bombers, torpedo planes and fighter planes for almost three hours. 2,335 American service men were killed while 1,143 were injured. <br />
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Americans called it a "Sneak Attack" because the Japanese had not declared an official war. However, that was the fault of the diplomats in Washington, D.C., because of their problems translation from Japanes to English so that it could be presented to the Secretary of State Hull. Most of this is covered in the movie "Tora! Tora! Tora!". Admiral Yamamoto wanted the attack begin no more than 30 minutes (preferably one hour) after the declaration of war that morning just to "keep his skirts clean." Didn't happen...<br />
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Anyway, I just wanted to recall this date to most of you that this is what brought the USA into war with Germany, not something that happened in France or England. Japan and Italy were in an alliance so when we declared war with Japan, Germany declared war with us. Axis powers (Germany, Italy, Japan) against the Allied powers; basically, everyone else, but mostly the USA and England - OK, and the Russians. :)<br />
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Shalom<br />
jcoJames Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09329916624230570826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947769630065163891.post-19726318652918778322018-12-02T21:36:00.001-06:002018-12-03T20:38:02.190-06:00Climb Mount NiitakaEveryone, well, most everyone, knows about December 7th, 1941, and the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan. What most do not know was that the Japanese fleet was sitting in the far north Pacific several hundred miles north of Hawaii waiting for the command from the homeland that would contain that particular phrase; "Climb Mount Niitaka". With that phrase delivered on <b>December 2, 1941,</b> Japanese Admiral Yamamoto opened a sealed envelope that contained the orders from Minister of War Tojo to attack Pearl Harbor on December 7th at 8:00 a.m. Hawaii Time- EXACTLY because that would be when the Japanese Foreign Ministers would have finally delivered the declaration of war to our State Department in Washington, D.C. some 30 minutes before the first bomb was dropped. Some of this is played out in the movie "Tora Tora Tora."<br />
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Actually, the attack began at 7:55 a.m. Hawaii time. Many think that this was just the Japanese being overly aggressive but in reality they were trying to strike a single blow to keep the USA out of Indo-China. The USA had already been pursuing some activities in China via General Joe Stilwell prior to 1940 and Japan was worried that their oil supplies would be cut off. The attack on Pearl Harbor was, in my humble opinion, an "all or nothing" attack that, eventually, proved to be a ghastly mistake.<br />
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More coming on December 7th.James Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09329916624230570826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947769630065163891.post-13658339017552736482018-02-23T16:19:00.000-06:002018-03-01T13:18:20.365-06:009 vs 40 vs 45Greetings:<br />
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As some of you may (or may not) know, I have been a member of the NRA since Moses was a pup - mostly because I get a free magazine every month for the measly price of just $25 a year ($35 now) and it is the admission price to belong to almost any membership-only gun club in Texas. The one to which I belong right now is a 15-minute drive from home and has a 200-yard rifle range, falling plates, sight-in range, and, well, about six or seven ranges all total; some pistol-only, some rifle-only, some center-fire only, some rim-fire only and some mixed. Great place but it is all outdoor and kind of cold and rainy right now.<br />
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Anyway, in the November 2017 NRA "American Rifleman" magazine, page 84, there is a chart on the H&K Tactical Trio of handguns. They are all about the same except for caliber. When reviewing the chart of "Shooting Results" I noticed something that really stood out: The energy (in ft-lbs) delivered at 25 yards (or maybe it was measured at the muzzle or at 12 feet; not really sure but it doesn't matter because it is a comparative value for me) I noticed something: The .40 cal delivers more energy than either the 9mm or the .45 cal.<br />
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So, then, why have I been carrying around a bulky, noisy, kicky .45 cal all these years when I could have had a slightly more friendly .40 cal that would be cheaper to shoot, easier on my hands and ears and much lighter on my hip? I mean, most of the Fort Worth police carry a .40 cal - why didn't I take notice of them? Surely, maybe they know something that I didn't? Right! A .40 is lighter and delivers more power for the payload. Here is a small table of the (average) results on that page.<br />
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Bullet Vel@12' Energy<br />
Wt Gr f.p.s. ft-lbs<br />
9mm. 131 1068 330<br />
.40cal 171 1085 <b>442</b><br />
.45 230 868 383<br />
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While the .40 cal is a lighter slug (payload) than the .45 cal, it travels much faster and delivers a heavier knockdown power. On the other hand, it has a heavier slug than the 9mm and travels at a higher velocity and, ergo, delivers a higher payload than the 9mm. So, all-in-all, what say ye Laertes? (Or was it Horatio?) Anyway, methinks that the conclusion is clear: The .40 cal will be my next choice for a CC pistol. But then, my 5.7mm FN is still working fine, is less than 2 pounds (unloaded) and has 20-round magazines so...<br />
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Shalom,<br />
jcoJames Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09329916624230570826noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947769630065163891.post-83423275403266228222018-02-20T18:44:00.000-06:002018-02-20T18:44:33.049-06:00National Concealed Handgun LicenseGreetings:<br />
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OK - I live in Texas. Have been for, oh, a really long time now. Everyone over 21 that is a Republican and is a Conservative or Orthodox Jew has a CHL (Concealed Handgun License). And most other Conservative Republicans over 21 in Texas have one as well. When that law went into effect the violet crime rate here in major cities dropped about 25% and went up in the the more liberal adjacent states up north. Meaning that the bad guys got the heck out of there and went up there. It never was very high out in the rural areas. Most every one out there carried openly anyway. :)<br />
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BUT, that did not stop the crazies and weirdos from getting guns because the Feds and Local Smokies could not get their act together and sync up their computers so that they could snag a crazy or weirdo at the gun shop when that person was shopping. Like that punk in Florida! DANG!! All of the flags went up and STILL they did not get him. Now the kids down there want more laws. We have enough laws on the books if someone would just enforce what is already there.<br />
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BTW, the AR-15 started out as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArmaLite_AR-5">AR-5 </a>and was initially a bolt-action, survival rifle in .22 Hornet caliber that was packed with the Air Force pilots. Subsequently they came up with the AR-7 which was a .22 long rifle version which was the semi-auto version that had a 7-shot clip that they could still pack with the bomber crews. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArmaLite_AR-10">AR-10</a> was an upgrade to the 7.62mm semi-auto, version of the AR-5 but manufactured by Armalite and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_AR-15">AR-15 </a> was an upgrade of the AR-10 but manufactured by Colt in a .223 mm caliber. Now, the AR-15 was NOT intended to be an assault rifle. Period! End of discussion. It was a survival and/or a hunting rifle that allows a hunter a quick second or third shot if the first on misses - which, believe it or not, usually happens in thick woods. And a .223 is not much of a hunting rifle for big-game. the 7.62mm (about a .308 caliber) is a much better rifle for hunting deer or big game.<br />
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Anyway, this is not about a national background check not working nor about the AR series of rifles, it is about a national CHL permit not working. It seems that there is a bill going through the House of Representative (that actually passed and has now gone to the Senate) that wants to allow anyone who has a CHL in one state to be allowed to carry in another state. Horse Hockey!! Yes, I want reciprocity when I go to Louisiana or Arizona BUT what I don't want is some Yah-hoo from a state that has absolutely NO restrictions on a CHL to come to Texas and have a CHL over here. You see, there are some states that will give out a CHL and they do not have to know the law, do not have to show any kind of knowledge of pistol nor anything else and they will just hand over a CHL to them.<br />
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Here? Hell! We have to know the law and pass a course on handgun carry complete with how well can we shoot the damned thing. If you can't hit a bull in the butt at 15 yards you don't get a license. (Think about it - 15 yards is 45 feet and nobody has a room that big.) OTOH, a bull's hinney is just about as big as the target at which we were shooting at that time which was the silhouette of a person. Short story about my first class taught by a retired military police Sgt who had then spent 20+ years with the Dallas Police Dept and retire there as well;<br />
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It seems that he had never been involved in a "shoot out" until he had been on the DPF for about 10 years or so and he had always carried his trusty 38-Special with "hot" loads and he could hit the 10-ring bulls-eye on the range 10-out-of-10 times; left-handed or right-handed, shoulder-high or hip-high. Anyway, he got into a shoot-out at a 7-11 on Zangs Blvd in Dallas with some punk with him about half-way across the store and the punk at the other end, probably 20 or 25 feet (not yards) away. He fired all six shots, reloaded, fired six more and finally hit the guy with the 12th shot. As he said in class, it's a LOT different when the other guy is shooting back. Somehow you just can't seem to get you aim just right. After that he traded in his trusty six-gun for a 16-round-magazine 9mm Glock semi-automatic where he could carry a few extra magazines on his belt. Never can have too much ammo the next time.<br />
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Another thing that he pointed out; only about 5% of the police ever are ever involved in a "shoot-out" like that and of the 5% only about 5% of those (meaning a really small percentage) ever actually kill another person. And of that small percentage, about 95% of those retire (or commit suicide) within the next 12 months. The people that the police departments hire are not the "Dirty Harry" kind of people. They are usually caring, non-homicidal kind of cops who go home to the families at night. Much like the "Blue Bloods" kind of folks that you see on TV rather than the "Good Fellows" kind of cops and robbers.<br />
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Finally - bottom line: It used to cost almost $400 to get a four-year CHL permit in Texas. Now it is down to about $75 but if you belong to a license NRA club and you are NRA member and have a DD-214 showing that you are a true Veteran then you can usually get it down to about $25 for a five-year license. That is about right. BUT, I still don't want any of those 1-D-10-T folks coming down here and screwing things up for the locals. Now, if the folks in DC want to do things right they will set up a REAL commission that will follow the state laws of either Texas of Florida and make it a National law for getting a CHL that is valid in any state. Much like I used to get a International driver's license that was valid in France, the UK, Madagascar or in the USA. It wasn't hard - I just needed to take a standard test in Madagascar, have a valid passport from the USA, a valid driver's license from the USA and they gave my my International license. Just a thought...<br />
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jco<br />
<br />James Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09329916624230570826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947769630065163891.post-28584865529034023192018-02-06T19:56:00.000-06:002018-02-06T19:56:03.212-06:00My Friend CharlesGreetings:<br />
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Well, more than a friend. A best friend - not a "bestie" in the modern sense. You see, <u><b>Charles Raymond Isaacs, Jr.</b></u> was a "brother" in the older sense. A very close friend, hunter, Viet Nam Vet, Marine, sharp shooter, avid-gun owner and willing to help anyone learn to shoot or re-load ammo, play golf (well, hack around the course) or just hang out. Helluva guy! He was a rock to his wife, his children, his relatives and all of his friends. When anyone had a problem they called Charles. (He had a nephew named "Charlie" and his dad was called "Chuck" so you didn't call him either of those names.)<br />
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Anyway, my friend died last night, 5 Feb 2018. About two weeks ago while working on his rent house (that he kept in beautiful shape) he looked up and to the left and his neck "popped" and he felt extreme pain; much like I feel most every day but far worse. We had a short chat with him last Monday (29 Jan 2018) on our way home from the funeral services for my mom. (Step-mom but we called her "Grandmother" most of the time.) Charles stood up, well, shakily because of the pain killers and muscle relaxers that he was taking at the time, and we chatted briefly because he was still in a lot of pain. We were there for all of five minutes and then we left and went back to Fort Worth.<br />
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This past Sunday we got a call from Ashley Diane (his daughter) that he had gone to the hospital with pneumonia a few days earlier and they were having trouble determining what was the problem with the neck pain AND the pneumonia - or something like that. From over here, all we could do was pray; after all, Charles was in excellent health and something like a neck cramp and pneumonia was not going to get to a Jar Head like him! <br />
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But it did. Ashley called us yesterday (Monday) afternoon and told us that Charles was on a respirator and no longer had any brain activity. Again, all we could do was pray. We waited all night and today she called about noon and gave us the word that late last night they had taken him off the ventilator and the drugs. He passed away about ten minutes later; peacefully, without pain. <br />
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Because he had been a Viet Nam Marine Vet, the local Vets came in and gave him a Red-White and Blue escort. They draped his body with an American flag and walked him out of the hospital while the nurses and attendants stood at attention with their hands on their hearts (in respect for the flag) and anyone in uniform saluted. Quite moving I understand. And he deserved it. He was a "real" Viet Nam Vet, not a drug store Vet like so many you hear about. Later I will update this blog with his dates of service and decorations. <br />
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So, to end this blog: My Best Friend is gone. I am going to really miss that big boy. All 6'2", 220 pounds of him. Now I have only my blood brother, my wife and my other friend in Pittsburgh. I might have to move. Or maybe one of those other two will move to Fort Worth. Maybe... Who knows? James Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09329916624230570826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947769630065163891.post-65788185605093204262017-12-17T23:47:00.000-06:002017-12-18T20:26:56.166-06:00The Battling Bastards of BastogneGreetings, Programs:<br />
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73 years ago yesterday on December 16th, 1944, at 0530 (German Time, or about 2330 EST the night before on 15 December) the Germans launched the first winter offensive by the Germans since Fredric the Great through the densely forested <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardennes" title="Ardennes">Ardennes</a> region of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallonia" title="Wallonia">Wallonia</a> in eastern <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a>, northeast <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg" title="Luxembourg">Luxembourg</a>, towards the end of World War II. Nobody, virtually, nobody thought that this could be done. The surprise attack caught the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II" title="Allies of World War II">Allied forces</a>
completely off guard. American forces bore the brunt of the attack and
incurred their highest casualties of any operation during the war.<br />
(Most quotes are from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge#Initial_German_assault)<br />
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My Uncle Bill, SSgt William L. Leach in the 82nd Airborne, was in London at the time of the offensive and had to march to Bastogne (or ride if he got lucky) in winter with little preparation and not much in the way of winter uniforms. I found out most of this after he died. Some of this is covered in the movie "Band of Brothers" that focuses on the 101st Airborne but the "Battling Bastards of Bastogne" were all in it together. Also it is covered in detail in the movie "Patton" with some high degree of accuracy - Patton really did have his men prepare three different plans of attack before the meeting with Eisenhower and the other generals so that he and his men could move 90 degrees in the dead of winter with no hot food, no sleep and engage the enemy in a major battle to relieve the men at Bastogne by Christmas. (Patton actually got there a day later than he planned but considering everything that winter and the lack of supplies threw at him, he did a helluva of a job!)<br />
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Anyway, back to the story - the following paragraph is a direct quote from the Wikipedia account of the 19 December meeting of the General Staff meeting of Allied Command: "Gen. Eisenhower, realizing that the Allies could destroy German forces
much more easily when they were out in the open and on the offensive
than if they were on the defensive, told his generals, "The present
situation is to be regarded as one of opportunity for us and not of
disaster. There will be only cheerful faces at this table." Patton,
realizing what Eisenhower implied, responded, "Hell, let's have the guts
to let the bastards go all the way to Paris. Then, we'll really cut 'em
off and chew 'em up." Eisenhower, after saying he was not that
optimistic, asked Patton how long it would take to turn his Third Army,
located in northeastern France, north to counterattack. <u>To the disbelief
of the other generals present</u>, <u>Patton replied that he could attack with
two divisions within 48 hours</u>. Unknown to the other officers present,
before he left Patton had ordered his staff to prepare three contingency
plans for a northward turn in at least corps strength. By the time
Eisenhower asked him how long it would take, the movement was already
underway.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAmbrose1998208_100-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAmbrose1998208-100">[94]</a></sup> On 20 December, Eisenhower removed the First and Ninth U.S. Armies from Gen. Bradley's <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_Army_Group" title="12th Army Group">12th Army Group</a> and placed them under Montgomery's <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_21st_Army_Group" title="British 21st Army Group">21st Army Group</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacDonald1984422_101-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacDonald1984422-101">[95]</a></sup>"<br />
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At 0200 Christmas morning, CCB marched thirty miles west to the 4th
Armored Division's left flank. At 0700 the 37th jumped off from <a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bercheaux&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Bercheaux (page does not exist)">Bercheaux</a> and swiftly took <a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bauxles-Rosieres&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Bauxles-Rosieres (page does not exist)">Bauxles-Rosieres</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nives" title="Nives">Nives</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remoiville" title="Remoiville">Remoiville</a>. At dawn on 26 December 1944, the 37th struck again, taking <a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Remichampagne&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Remichampagne (page does not exist)">Remichampagne</a>, and then seizing the high ground near <a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chochiment&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Chochiment (page does not exist)">Chochiment</a>, only three miles from Bastogne. Announcing the plan to relieve the surrounded <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101st_Airborne_Division" title="101st Airborne Division">101st Airborne Division</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant_Colonel" title="Lieutenant Colonel">LTC</a> (<b>Lt. Col) Abrams (After whom the Abrams tank is now named</b>), commanding the 37th, made the undramatic statement, "We're going in to those people now."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Toland1999_3-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/37th_Armored_Regiment#cite_note-Toland1999-3">[3]</a></sup> The lead vehicle in that attack was a Sherman tank nicknamed "Cobra King"<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/37th_Armored_Regiment#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> and commanded by <b>1st Lt. Charles Boggess Jr.,</b> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenville,_Illinois" title="Greenville, Illinois">Greenville</a>,
Illinois. Boggess was the commanding officer of Company C, 37th Tank
Battalion. There were but <b>eight other tanks in Company C </b>when the "move
out" order came, but at 1515 hours all nine sets of sprockets turned,
leading the 37th northward to the embattled <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101st_Airborne_Division" title="101st Airborne Division">101st Airborne Division</a>. Remember, most of this was done without HQ "approval" except with coordination with General Patton who told them "GO!".<br />
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If you have not seen the movie "Patton", watch it soon. The part about Bastogne alone is worth the whole two-hour movie. Highly accurate and thoroughly to the point of showing the military genius of General George S. Patton. The point is, that winter offensive by the Germans damned near worked. If Bastogne has fallen, it would have split the Allied forces and, possibly, would have given the Nazis some much-needed gasoline and/or diesel from several captured depots. The combination of the clearing weather, American P-47 Thunderbolts, The Battling Bastards of Bastogne with General Anthony McAuliffe, General George S. Patton and the 3rd Army, and the British XXX Corps in the North combined to finally stop the assault. Otherwise, it is quite possible that all of us would be speaking German as our native tongue today.<br />
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Be grateful this Hannukah and/or Christmas.<br />
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Shalom,<br />
jcoJames Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09329916624230570826noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947769630065163891.post-79352750629995722442017-12-07T17:15:00.002-06:002017-12-10T13:04:32.767-06:0076 Years Ago Greetings, Programs:<br />
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Yes, once again it is "Pearl Harbor Day" - 76 years ago at about six hours ago the Imperial Japanese Fleet composed of six aircraft carriers came in from a bit over 250 miles northeast of Pearl Harbor, launched several hundred specialized torpedo planes modified for the shallow, 40-foot waters of the harbor, hundreds of dive bombers, fighter planes and standard bombers and, basically, carried out a well-planed and well-thought-out attack on what should have been a heavily defended island. (Yes, that was a rather long, run-on sentence to tell about a rather long, run-on attack.) Americans called it a "Sneak Attack." Maybe... But it was, militarily, a well-planned surprise-attack that the stupid Washington Japanese diplomats failed to declare war on the USA prior to the attack.<br />
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<span class="ui_qtext_rendered_qtext">Most of us might have seen the movie, "Tora! Tora! Tora!" and think that the words mean "Tiger! Tiger! Tiger" as Hollywood said that it meant. However, probably Mitsuo Fuchida, the leader of the first wave of Japanese fighters, sent these words back to his superiors on the aircraft carrier <i>Akagi</i>. The word <i>tora</i> (虎) does, indeed, mean "tiger" in Japanese, but in this case it is thought to mean an a<a href="https://www.quora.com/What-does-Tora-Tora-Tora-mean-How-did-this-saying-originate">bbreviated radio code</a> word, an acronym for <i><u><b>TO</b></u>tsugeki <u><b>RA</b></u></i><i>igeki</i>
(突撃雷撃), literally meaning "lightning attack," indicating to his
superiors that the objective of complete surprise had been achieved. Which, of course, would have meant nothing to any interception by any listening American code breakers. Shades of Blitzkrieg! </span><br />
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<span class="ui_qtext_rendered_qtext">Fortunately all of the USA aircraft carriers were out to sea looking for the Japanese fleet but the Japanese fleet was much farther north than the USA carriers were looking for them. Also, some have pointed out that had the six Japanese carriers caught the American fleet out at sea the losses to America would have been far greater than the 2,700+ or so men lost in Pearl Harbor; the battle ships would all have sunk to the bottom of the ocean rather than being raised and repaired and the wounded would have died at the bottom of the ocean as well. If we had to survive an attack, it was better at Pearl than out in the Pacific.</span><br />
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<span class="ui_qtext_rendered_qtext">Anyway, just something to remember on December 7th each year. </span><br />
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<span class="ui_qtext_rendered_qtext">jco</span>James Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09329916624230570826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947769630065163891.post-18248093409414137632017-12-02T15:18:00.001-06:002017-12-02T15:24:46.789-06:00Climb Mount NiitakaGreetings:<br />
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Many of you who are WW II buffs know the code that was sent back after the successful attack on Pearl Harbour; "Tora! Tora! Tora!" There was even a "fairly accurate" movie of the same name. However, during that movie, you might have seen, or heard, the phrase, <em>"Niitakayama Nobore</em>" or, in English, "<a href="https://todayshistorylesson.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/climb-mount-niitaka/"><i>Climb Mount Niitaka</i></a>". This was the code words sent to Japanese Admiral Nagumo to open his Top Secret documents that would direct him to attack Pearl Harbor (American spelling this time). This was OOA December 2nd (today) or about 76 years ago today.<br />
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At that point in time the Japanese fleet was cruising in the northern Pacific under a heavy squall of storms making it impossible for the American flattops to find them. (The American aircraft carriers from Pearl Harbor were all out at sea looking for the Japanese fleet at that time which explains why they were not in dock at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked five days later.)<br />
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Anyway, many Americans have called it a "Sneak Attack." No such thing. It was just a total failure on the part of clumsy diplomats to formally declare war prior to the attack. Like President Trump has said many tims, you never tell the enemy when and where you are going to attack nor when and where you are going to withdraw. That is just plain stupid. Why would the Japanese tell us that they were going to attack on December 7th and then attack on December 7th? OK, the Geneva convention did say that you should at least declare war first before attacking another country but, looking back, did Germany declare war before attacking Poland? Sure. 15 minutes before. Or was it 30 minutes before? Big deal.<br />
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Anyway, look forward to the December 7th posting. "Tora! Tora! Tora!" might have meant "Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!" but did it really? More on that later...<br />
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jcoJames Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09329916624230570826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947769630065163891.post-7162357683563598502017-11-09T17:35:00.001-06:002017-11-09T17:35:33.283-06:00Graham GlassGreetings, Programs:<br />
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Just thinking about Graham today. Don't know why... I was just sitting in my LaZyBoy this morning drinking my morning coffee, having my usual morning Einstein Blueberry Bagel that my Spousal Unit picks up for me every Tuesday on her way to the Irving Art Association and he crossed my mind. I remembered that either he drove me home or I drove him home after a JavaMUG meeting at the Sun offices one Wednesday evening. [I "think" that the meting might have been about Voyager that evening - maybe not - I don't really remember. Maybe GreG can correct me one this one.] All that I can remember of that evening was that we had a remarkable chat on the way home about rulebased systems and how they might fit into what he was thinking about doing with a future project. (I don't think he ever got around to doing anything with rulebased systems nor AI nor the future project for that matter.)<br />
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All of that is neither here nor there but I did go look up where he is now and what happened to him after that evening. At that time he was still with Object Space. It seems, after reading his bio, that what he should have done back then was sell out his shares of Object Space after his dispute with the board (if he could have done so) and gone his on wonderful way. He has a remarkable mind and could have done anything with the proper capitalization and good business team behind him, much like many other high-IQ techies that I have been fortunate to meet in my long and varied career to date.<br />
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Bottom line: Whatever you are doing, if you are <u>not</u> enjoying it then you are either doing it wrong or you are doing the wrong thing. [What an old cliche'!] Find something that you truly enjoy doing and do it to the the very best of your ability, even it that something is just fly fishing, brewing beer, making wine, crafts, painting, wood working, programming (whether rulebase stuff or security or special applications or GUI stuff - whatever) or biking or whatever. Find the best parts, even the "commercial" parts, and build a business out of it that exploits the absolute best - the real craftsman part. If it is teaching then find out what part of teaching really reaches others. If it is the political spectrum, then be the best, non-corrupt politician in the country, NOT what exists in today's culture!<br />
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I cannot teach children nor can I teach high school students - and rarely college students. But I can teach those who want to learn rulebase systems (RBS) so that is something that I love. Unfortunately, a lot of folks <u>say</u> that they want to learn RBS but it is only so that they can charge the Fortune 500 companies lots of money for that knowledge. Those folks I cannot teach. They want the QuAD (Quick And Dirty) way to learn and I have not found that way yet.<br />
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Most BRMS companies try to teach a one-week school followed by another one-week school a year later but I have found that those who have followed that path in those schools have learned a monkey-see, monkey-do kind of programming for RBS, not anything of any kind of depth. When I am working on-site and I ask them to actually read a book outside of class or outside of the working environment, they look at me as though I have lost my mind. Or they take the book home and never read it and I get it back when the gig is up, untouched and unread.<br />
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Like I said back on the first of the month - these days I am writing on almost anything. Graham memories got me started on this so I can blame him for it. :) So, from GG to RBS to QuAD teaching methods. Have a Happy Whatever you are having this week. <br />
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Shalom!<br />
jcoJames Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09329916624230570826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947769630065163891.post-47283900702960995962017-11-01T10:24:00.003-05:002017-11-01T16:24:48.333-05:00Rete Goes GNUGreetings Programs:<br />
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Yepper, you heard
(OK, read) that correctly:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Forgenator himself, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Forgy#https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Forgy">Dr.
Charles L. Forgy</a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u> is, as of today, releasing the Rete-NT
Algorithm as GNU source code to the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is totally free </u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>BUT you cannot make changes to the code and then try to keep your changes proprietary</span>. </u></b>(See the link to the licenses below.)<br />
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An article (soon to appear in the on-line version of InfoWorld per my over-worked and under-paid editor) should confirm that Dr. Charles L. Forgy, the original inventor of Rete (pronounced Ree'-tee in our industry regardless of how much Latin you had in high school or college) has released his invention into the wild. Not just the original Rete but Rete-NT, the latest and greatest! Yes, you read that right! Rete-NT is now available for download from PST on the GNU license. (Go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-source_software_licenses for a comparison of all of these license.) <br />
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</style> This is basically a R(E)evolution in the BRMS / Rulebase World. Are you old enough to remember where you were when John
Kennedy was assassinated in 1963?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or
where you were when Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon in 1969?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or Gene Cernan last walked on the moon in
December of 1972?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Most folk don’t
remember Gene Cernan!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Actually, there
are a few of us still around who remember the news that Pearl Harbor had just been
bombed in 1941 or that we had dropped the first (and last) war-time atomic bomb
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OK - back to the technical side; have you been around long enough to
remember the advent of the Rete Algorithm way back in the 1960’s?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or the coining of the term “AI” at Dartmouth
College in 1954?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What about the
introduction of Java back in 1996 or 1997?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(It was kind of vague back then.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, try to remember where
you were <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>today</u></b> when you heard
that the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Rete-NT Algorithm was
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Why?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, I asked
him the same question on a Tuesday afternoon at lunch in Dallas at a local
Bar-B-Que.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His answer: “It’s about
time.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For now, the Rete-NT algorithm
will be released via the GNU license, meaning that you can use it at almost any
academic or non-commercial venture AS WELL as for any commercial purposes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sounds fair to me. You can also use it commercially but this should be negotiated with PST, Dr. Forgy's company based in Pittsburgh, PA. <b>For downloading and the OPSJ 8 manual and/or code, please contact/email Dr. Forgy at <a href="mailto:cforgy@pst.com">cforgy@pst.com</a> for more information with your name, company/university name and phone number. </b></div>
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want everything compressed, I shall try and compress the history into as brief
a passage as possible that includes all of the contributions of Dr. Forgy et al
made along the way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back in August 31,
1955, there was a short (2 month, 10-man) study of AI at <a href="http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/dartmouth/dartmouth.html">Dartmouth
College</a> by such notables as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist)#https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist)">John
McCarthy</a> (Dartmouth College), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky#https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky">Marvin
L. Minsky</a> (Harvard University), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Rochester_(computer_scientist)#https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Rochester_(computer_scientist)">Nathaniel
Rochester</a> (I.B.M. Corporation) and C. E. Shannon (Bell Telephone Labs) to
study how computers could be programmed to use languages to manipulate words as
human thought processes, neuron networks, abstraction, randomness and
creativity and other “original” ideas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They “coined” the term “Artificial Intelligence” – or “AI”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Drs. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Newell#https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Newell">Newell</a>
and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_A._Simon#https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_A._Simon">Simon</a>
also introduced their Logic Theorist Program which later became the GPS, <a href="http://ai-su13.artifice.cc/gps.html">General Problem Solver</a> – which
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Then, in 1958, a stunned USA realized that the USSR was
ahead of them in the “space race” and established ARPA, or Advanced Research Projects
Agency which became D(Defense) ARPA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And, yes, ARPA/DARPA was the origin of the internet, NOT VP Al Gore,
when they contracted with BBN Technologies to build the first routers in
1969.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>DARPA also was highly involved
with Stanford, MIT, Boston University and CMU in Rulebased Systems where a
young Charles L. Forgy was working on his Ph. D. with Dr. Alan Newell, one of
the founders of AI.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During that process,
Charles (later, Dr. Charles Forgy) was tasked with optimizing the process of
running the rules because it was taking DAYS to run simple rulebase tasks, even using
the Symbolics LISP machines. He came up with a method of swapping memory space for optimizing processing time using a network (ergo, "rete" meaning "network") of objects. You can read about it in his dissertation or many other simpler but not as detailed explanations on the web. (eg, <a href="http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/1995/CMU-CS-95-113.pdf">Robert Doorenbos Thesis</a>)</div>
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Most of us older folks learned to quit fighting with our hands (too many broken/bruised knuckles) and now have legal, concealed-carry permits. You do not need a CHP for a fire arm in your home. So, here goes nothing. This is usually called, "Texas Gunfight Rules". Please don't send me any emails nor comments calling me a "gun nut" nor a "right wing nut" nor anything like that. Just some common-sense rules for living in the plains of west of the Mississippi River:<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The “unwritten rule” of Gunfight Rules
is, of course, always have a gun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What
is locked up and away from you is of no use.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What is unloaded and cannot be loaded in 1 or 2 seconds is of no use in
a panic situation.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">A: Guns have only three enemies: rust,
liberal politicians, and unthinking spouses. </span></b></div>
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than carried by 6. (This from "Blue Bloods.")</span></b></div>
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threatens you get inside arm's length . (Actually, if the threat is deadly, keep them at least 20 feet away - studies have shown that a highly-trained attacker can move in for a kill with only a knife before a trained police person can draw and shoot.)</span></b></div>
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without being prepared to use it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
you need to use deadly force, the next sound that they hear should be the
safety on your gun clicking off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My Dear
Old Dad always taught me, “If you pull the gun you had better be pulling the
trigger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Otherwise do not pull the gun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never pull a gun just to threaten
someone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It doesn’t work.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">F: The average response time of a 911
call is <a href="http://gundata.org/blog/post/after-you-call-911/">24 minutes;</a> the BEST response times are about <a href="http://www.self-defense-mind-body-spirit.com/average-police-response-time.html">10 minutes</a>. Response time where I live is about two hours depending on the time-of-night. The response time of a .357 is 1400 feet per second or 1150
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wall of bullets. . . <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may get killed
with your own gun, but he'll have to beat you to death with it because it'll be
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loading. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are not loading, you
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<b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">J: In a life and death situation, do
something. . . <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Liberals may argue, but
do something! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">K: If you carry a gun, some people might call you
paranoid. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nonsense! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you have a gun, what do you have to be
paranoid about? </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">L: You can say 'stop' or 'alto' or any
other word, but a large bore muzzle pointed at someone's head is pretty much a
universal language. </span></b></div>
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must do everything you can do to responsibly save yourself and your family</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">.</span></div>
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James Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09329916624230570826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947769630065163891.post-9516711500598912502017-10-11T15:11:00.001-05:002017-10-16T16:30:00.084-05:00Spider Solitaire StrategyGreetings:<br />
[updated 15 Oct 2017]<br />
[updated 16 Oct 2017] <br />
<br />
A friend of mine complained a while back that I never publish anything technical any more. OK - this is kind of technical. Kind of. Sort of.<br />
<br />
After playing Spider Solitaire from Branium for many years now, I have finally come up with a (somewhat) fairly successful strategy for a two-suit game. (Single-suit game is for children and I have NEVER beaten the four-suit game. Just never took the time and brain power to attack it.) The following rules are not absolute but if followed them they might give you a somewhat better than average increased advantage. Just for fun, look at your statistics now, reset them and then check them again about 500 or 1K games later. (Yeah, well, I play it a lot when waiting for a taxi or bus or for meetings to start.)<br />
<br />
Before I started this strategy, my percentage of winning was around 4.2% but then it climbed to 19.4% after about 450 games. I have now gotten up to 17.3% after 1100 games. (Well, I did have a couple of 100+ losing-game runs.) This has been over about six months of playing so it takes a while to get any meaningful results. Anyway, this is just a set of general rules and not meant to be a hard-and-fast guide to winning. You still have to plot your way around the board and use some brain power.<br />
<ol>
<li>The first objective is to turn over the hidden cards. Give that a priority of 100.</li>
<li>The next priority is to get long runs of the same suit - give that a priority of 90.</li>
<li>The next priority is to make King->Ace runs a quickly as possible. Try to make at least two runs before you have the last two stacks left to play. If you have not done that, probably you will not win the game. Probably. I have won a couple of times but not normally. Priority of 80.</li>
<li>Given a choice, always play a card from the smallest stack. That means that you should start from one of the six cards on the right before playing one of the four cards on the left when first starting the game. After that, if you have choice of two or three cards to play, pick the one on the smallest stack of cards. Priority of 70.</li>
<li>NEVER EVER make a cross-play (defined elsewhere) on a same-suit run of four cards or more UNLESS you can immediately uncover that mistake and correct it by playing that card elsewhere. OK - I have done it sometimes just to get a card uncovered near the end of the game when all else seemed lost but it never has worked out well for me. </li>
<li>If the cards to pick to play are all the same, pick the play with the largest card. i.e., pick a Queen over a Jack or an 8 over a 5. Why? Just because...</li>
<li>If at all possible, try to get an empty slot so that you have a choice of which card or stack of cards to put there so that you can have an option of playing a better suit of cards. </li>
<li>If you have a choice of playing a card on a different suit (a cross-play, 5-of-heards on the 6-of-spades) or a same-suit play (5-of-hearts on the 6-of-hearts), ALWAYS play the same-suit play unless you can make the same-suit play in the next play or so.</li>
<li>Set the options so that the game can pick the play for you. Meaning that you can just click on the card and the game will make the move for you. You can always pick "go back" to reverse the move it the game makes the wrong move but (usually) it makes a better move than you would have made.</li>
</ol>
Strategies<br /><ol>
<li>Try to keep long runs of the same suit if possible </li>
<li>As the game progresses, during a play, keep one leg open as long as possible for "transportation." This will become increasingly important in the later stages of the game. You will have put "something" in there before proceeding to the next stage so try to put something that has little importance to your overall goals.</li>
</ol>
<ol>
</ol>
Anyway, these are just some general guide-lines that seem to work for me. No real logic to them. They just seem to work. I may add some later as I think of them. Check back from time-to-time and add some comments if you like. I usually publish comments with credits to the person(s). TTFN<br />
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jco <br />
<br />James Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09329916624230570826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947769630065163891.post-54209385813912478892017-07-13T12:41:00.000-05:002017-07-13T12:41:17.069-05:00Anti-Company PoliciesOr, How To Sabotage Company Meetings And Routines<br />
<br />
Greetings:<br />
<br />
Now, this is a topic with which we should all be concerned. It seems that way back in WW II, the forerunner of the CIA published a document for the underground in Nazi-occupied territories on how to upset Nazi war efforts. Believe it or not, many of these activities are still being carried on today in many companies in the free world by unknowing and well-meaning employees who do not know that they are unknowingly harming rather than helping the company. Listed below are some of the "suggestion" from that WW II document:<br />
<br />
Managers and Supervisors:<br />
<ol>
<li>Demand written orders for everything</li>
<li>"Misunderstand" orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence of such orders. Quibble over them when you can.</li>
<li>Do everything possible to delay the delivery of orders. Even though parts of an order may be ready beforehand, don't deliver until it is completely ready.</li>
<li>Don't order new working materials until your present stocks have been virtually exhausted, so that the slightest delay in filling your order will cause a shutdown.</li>
<li>Order high-quality materials that are hard to get. If you don't get them, argue about it. Warn that inferior materials will mean inferior products.</li>
<li>In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first. Always see that the important jobs are assigned to the inefficient workers of poor machines.</li>
<li>Insist on perfect work on relatively unimportant products; send back for refinishing those that have the slightest flaw. Approve others that whose flaws that are not visible to the naked eye.</li>
<li>Make mistakes in routing so that parts and materials are sent to the wrong places in the plant.</li>
<li>When training new workers, give incomplete or misleading instructions.</li>
<li>To lower morale, and with it production, be pleased with inefficient worker; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly against their work.</li>
<li>Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.</li>
<li>Multiply paper work in plausible ways. Start duplicate files.</li>
<li> Multiply the procedures and clearances involved in issuing instructions, pay checks, andso on. See that three people have to approve everything where one would do. </li>
<li>Apply all regulations to the last letter.</li>
</ol>
General Interference With Organizations and Conferences<br />
<ol>
<li> Insist on doing everything through "channels". Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.' </li>
<li>Make "speeches." Talk as frequently as possible and at great length.
Illustrate your points by long anecdotes and accounts of personal
experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate "patriotic"
comments.</li>
<li> When possible refer all matters to committees for "further study and
consideration." Attempt to make the committees as large as possible -
never less than five.</li>
<li> Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.</li>
<li>Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes and resolutions.</li>
<li>Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meetings and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.</li>
<li> Advocate "caution". Be unreasonable and urge your fellow-conferees to
be "reasonable" and avoide haste which might result in embarrassments or
difficulties later on</li>
<li>Be worried about the propriety of any decision. Raise the question of whether such action as is contemplated is within the jurisdiction of
the group and whether it might conflict with the policy of some higher echelon.</li>
</ol>
<u>In light of full disclosure, the original idea for this was taken from the blog of a friend of mi</u>ne BUT he made the mistake of disclosing the location of the original document which, unfortunately, also gave many, many idea for sabotaging railway lines, bus lines, undergrounds, power plants, natural gas plants, bomb plants, ammunition plants, etc. I think that ISIS has enough ideas of their own and that they don't need any more from us. Anyway, this is supposed to be humorous and not REAL ideas for sabotage. <br />
<br />
Bottom line: Do you know anyone like this? (We used to call such folks "anal-retentive".) Have you seen this kind of behavior in any of your meeting or office procedures? If so, try to pass this around and discourage it. Immediately. It might just possibly make for better office and/or meeting behaviour. Bon Chance!<br />
<br />
jcoJames Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09329916624230570826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947769630065163891.post-85182598745162182492017-07-11T10:00:00.003-05:002017-07-11T10:00:34.216-05:00Real ProgrammersGreetings:<br />
<br />
For those who regularly visit my almost hidden-from-view postings, I thought that we might <u><b>re</b></u>visit Bernstein's now-famous (infamous) take-off from "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche" book. <br />
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<h2 align="center">
<span style="font-family: "hevetica" , "arial" , "times"; font-size: medium;">REAL PROGRAMMERS DON'T EAT QUICHE</span></h2>
<span style="font-family: "hevetica" , "arial" , "times"; font-size: medium;">
Real programmers don't eat quiche. They like Twinkies, Coke,
and palate-scorching Szechwan food.<br />
<br />
Real programmers don't write application programs. They program
right down to the base-metal. Application programming is for dullards
who can't do systems programming.<br />
<br />
Real programmers don't write specs. Users should be grateful
for whatever they get; they are lucky to get programs at all.<br />
<br />
Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to
write, it should be even harder to understand and modify.<br />
<br />
Real programmers don't document. Documentation is for simpletons
who can't read listing or the object code from the dump.<br />
<br />
Real programmers don't draw flowcharts. Flowcharts are,
after all, the illiterate's form of documentation. Cavemen drew
flowcharts; look how much good it did them.<br />
<br />
Real programmers don't read manuals. Reliance on a reference
is the hallmark of the novice and the coward.<br />
<br />
Real programmers don't write in RPG. RPG is for the gum-chewing
dimwits who maintain ancient payroll programs.<br />
<br />
Real programmers don't write in COBOL. COBOL is for COmmon
Business Oriented Laymen who can run neither a business nor a
real program.<br />
<br />
Real programmers don't write in FORTRAN. FORTRAN is for wimp
engineers who wear white socks. They get excited over the finite
state analysis and nuclear reactor simulation.<br />
<br />
Real programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for insecure
anal retentives who can't choose between COBOL and FORTRAN.<br />
<br />
Real programmers don't write in BASIC. Actually, no programmers
program in BASIC after reaching puberty.<br />
<br />
Real programmers don't write in APL unless the whole program
can be written on one line.<br />
<br />
Real programmers don't write in LISP. Only sissy programs
contain more parentheses than actual code.<br />
<br />
Real programmers don't write in PASCAL, ADA, BLISS, or any of
those other sissy computer science languages. Strong typing is a
crutch for people with weak memories.<br />
<br />
Real programmers' programs never work right the first time.
But if you throw them on the machine they can be patched into
working order in a few 30 hour debugging sessions.<br />
<br />
<b>
Real programmers don't work 9 to 5. If any real programmers
are around at 9 A.M., it is because they were up all night. </b><br />
<br />
Real programmers don't play tennis or any other sport which
requires a change of clothes. Mountain climbing is OK, and real
programmers wear climbing boots to work in case a mountain should
spring up in the middle of the machine room.<br />
<br />
Real programmers disdain structured programming. Structured
programming is for compulsive neurotics who were prematurely
toilet trained. They wear neckties and carefully line up sharp
pencils on an otherwise clear desk.<br />
<br />
Real programmers don't like the team programming concept.
Unless, of course, they are the chief programmer.<br />
<br />
Real programmers never write memos on paper. They send
memos via mail.<br />
<br />
Real programmers have no use for managers. Managers are a
necessary evil. They exist only to deal with personnel bozos,
bean counters, senior planners and other mental midgets.<br />
<br />
Real programmers scorn floating point arithmetic. The decimal
point was invented for pansy bedwetters who are unable to think big.<br />
<br />
Real programmers don't believe in schedules. Planners make
schedules. Managers firm up schedules. Frightened coders strive
to meet schedules. Real programmers ignore schedules.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "hevetica" , "arial" , "times"; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "hevetica" , "arial" , "times"; font-size: medium;">
Real programmers don't bring brown-bag lunches. If the
vending machine sells it, they eat it. If the vending machine
doesn't sell it, they don't eat it.
<b><u>Vending machines don't sell quiche. </u></b></span><br />
<br />
I added the emphasis but thanks to http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/RPDEQ.html for the "real deal" quote. Loved it.<br />
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Ya'akov James Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09329916624230570826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947769630065163891.post-40141673104144040172017-06-05T10:29:00.001-05:002017-06-05T11:17:05.754-05:0073 Years Ago Today - D-Day -1 !!Greetings:<br />
<br />
[Note: I write this same article every year with only slight revisions and changes. But it is always important.) 73 years ago today, at around 0000Z tonight (UK
Time, or GMT) or about 1800 EDT - not adjusting for Summer Time - here in Texas, the
greatest armada that the world has ever seen is just steaming out of all
of the ports in England, both on the eastern and western side, northern and southern sides. The ones on the western side started early,
probably about an hour ago. The ones on the eastern side are just
casting off their ropes. The invasion fleet was drawn from eight
different navies composed of 6,939 vessels (far greater than the Spanish Armada) that included:<br />
<ul>
<li>1,213 warships</li>
<li>4,126 transport vessels (landing ships
and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_craft" title="Landing craft">landing craft</a>), and </li>
<li>736 ancillary craft and </li>
<li>864 merchant vessels.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-DDayFAQ_18-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Normandy#cite_note-DDayFAQ-18">[17]</a></sup></li>
</ul>
<br />
On board the ships are about 130,000 men with rifles,
pistols, sub-machine guns, machine guns, tanks, jeeps, bazookas,
Bangalore Torpedoes, ammo and <u><b>nobody has a bullet-proof ves</b></u>t. Most have
on a Mae West, a life jacket of sorts that will not, contrary to what
they have been told, keep them afloat with all of the stuff that they
are carrying. But, they trust in the CO and faithfully put on their Mae
West hoping that they don't have to use it. If anyone has to jump into water over their heads, they will sink straight to the bottom and stay there. By the end of 11 June
1944, (D + 5), 326,547 troops, the Allies had brought over 54,186
vehicles and 104,428 tons of supplies. By 30 June 1944, (D+24) over
850,000 men, 148,000 vehicles, and 570,000 tons of supplies had been
ferried over from England. By July 4th (the anniversary of American
Independence) well over one million men had been landed at Normandy. <br />
<br />
Meanwhile,
on the other side of the English Channel, most of the German officers
and generals are taking a bit of time off. Genral Irwin Rommel, the man
in charge of the Normandy defense, has gone home to see his wife and
Der Fuehrer Adolph Hitler. You see, most of the German weather boats
have been sunk or captured but, for some reason, they are absolutely
sure that in this foul weather that nobody can mount an invasion.<br />
<br />
But
the Allies have better reporting. They have a forecast that there will
be a small break in the weather on the 6th of June. So, betting on a
spotty-at-best forecast, General Dwight David Eisenhower orders the
invasion. Having all of the troops already on the ships and planes,
having followup troops already staging and on the way, it would have
been impossible to call it off. Looking back, early May would have been
the absolute best time to have invaded. The Allies were just fortunate
that they got a small, one-day break in the weather. And, above all,
it was the best kept secret of WW II. Nobody in England had a clue WHEN
the invasion would happen, but it will happen in a few hours.<br />
<br />
I
think about this every year. You see, my Dad (MSgt Carl P. Owen of the
First Special Service Forces - precursors to the Green Berets) and my
Uncle Bill (TSgt William L. Leach) were both in WW II. At this point in
time, Dad was battling his way up through Italy having started at the
Anzio beachhead. My Uncle Bill was in the 82nd Airborne and he had
already geared up and was in the plane by this time. Nervous as Hell
and, like all of the other men (despite what Holly would have you
believe) NONE of them would admit to being scared. That kind of
namby-pamby BS happens only in the "modern" army or in Hollywood. Back
then, you did not show fear. Fear is contagious and NOBODY showed that
he was scared as hell. And all of them, except for the "crazies", were
scared. Personally, I think that Uncle Bill was one of the "crazies." I
know that Dad was. :-)<br />
<br />
In about six hours, midnight
my time, the Allies will open up with 15" and 16" battle ship guns. The
shell was almost as big as a Volkswagen bug. When it went over the
boats going ashore, the men in the boats said that the small landing
craft would literally lift up out of the water because of the tremendous
vacuum created by a shell that big going going that fast just
overhead. (OK, maybe so, maybe not - but it really was a huge shell!)
But the German bunkers were built really, really stout. Very few were
destroyed by the shelling. However, when that 14", 15" or 16" shell hit
those bunkers it deafened those inside. No sound deafening had been
provided.<br />
<br />
The American forces landed at Omaha and Utah
beaches - the most heavily defended coast line. The foul weather had
prevented the Allies from pounding those defenses as much as was needed
and most were still intact. And the Allies paid dearly for it. Rommel
had done an excellent job of ensuring that not a single foot of the
beach could not be raked with 9mm and 10mm machine gun fire as well as
20mm and 40mm rapid-fire cannons. The British and Canadians landed at
Sword, Gold and Juno beaches. These were not quite as heavily
defended. Most of the gun emplacements did not even have the guns
mounted yet. However, they paid later when they ran into the interior
German armies.<br />
<br />
Intermixed with these assaults (usually
with the English landing parties) are the Canadians, Australians, Free
French, Belgian, Czechoslovakians, Netherlands, Danish, Greek, New
Zelanders, Norwegian and Polish. No mention of the Swedes, Spanish,
Turkish, Mexican nor any other South American nation has ever been
made. Probably there were some, but not enough to have been mentioned.<br />
<br />
<u><b>To quote from Wikipedia:</b></u><br />
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The Normandy landings were the largest seaborne invasion in history,
with nearly 5,000 landing and assault craft, 289 escort vessels, and 277
minesweepers participating.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBeevor200974_185-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBeevor200974-185">[183]</a></sup> Nearly 160,000 troops crossed the English Channel on D-Day,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEEllisAllenWarhurst2004521.E2.80.93533_31-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEllisAllenWarhurst2004521.E2.80.93533-31">[29]</a></sup> with 875,000 men disembarking by the end of June.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhitmarsh2009104_186-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhitmarsh2009104-186">[184]</a></sup> Allied casualties on the first day were at least 10,000, with 4,414 confirmed dead.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhitmarsh200987_187-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhitmarsh200987-187">[185]</a></sup> The Germans lost 1,000 men.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFordZaloga2009335_188-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFordZaloga2009335-188">[186]</a></sup>
The Allied invasion plans had called for the capture of Carentan, St.
Lô, Caen, and Bayeux on the first day, with all the beaches (other than
Utah) linked with a front line 10 to 16 kilometres (6 to 10 mi) from the
beaches; none of these objectives were achieved.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBeevor2009Map.2C_inside_front_cover_34-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBeevor2009Map.2C_inside_front_cover-34">[32]</a></sup>
The five bridgeheads were not connected until 12 June, by which time
the Allies held a front around 97 kilometres (60 mi) long and 24
kilometres (15 mi) deep.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHorn201013_189-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHorn201013-189">[187]</a></sup> Caen, a major objective, was still in German hands at the end of D-Day and would not be completely captured until 21 July.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilmot1997360_190-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilmot1997360-190">[188]</a></sup>
The Germans had ordered French civilians, other than those deemed
essential to the war effort, to leave potential combat zones in
Normandy.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFlint2009102_191-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFlint2009102-191">[189]</a></sup> Civilian casualties on D-Day and D+1 are estimated at 3,000 people.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFlint2009336_192-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFlint2009336-192">[190]</a></sup><br />
<br />
<b>Victory in Normandy stemmed from several factors.</b> German preparations
along the Atlantic Wall were only partially finished; shortly before
D-Day Rommel reported that construction was only 18 per cent complete in
some areas as resources were diverted elsewhere.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilmot1997290_193-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilmot1997290-193">[191]</a></sup>
The deceptions undertaken in Operation Fortitude were successful,
leaving the Germans obligated to defend a huge stretch of coastline.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFordZaloga2009343_194-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFordZaloga2009343-194">[192]</a></sup>
The Allies achieved and maintained air superiority, which meant that
the Germans were unable to make observations of the preparations
underway in Britain and were unable to interfere with bomber attacks.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilmot1997289_195-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilmot1997289-195">[193]</a></sup>
Transportation infrastructure in France was severely disrupted by
Allied bombers and the French Resistance, making it difficult for the
Germans to bring up reinforcements and supplies.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFordZaloga200936_196-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFordZaloga200936-196">[194]</a></sup> Some of the opening bombardment was off-target or not concentrated enough to have any impact,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBeevor200991_151-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBeevor200991-151">[149]</a></sup>
but the specialised armour worked well except on Omaha, providing close
artillery support for the troops as they disembarked onto the beaches.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilmot1997291_197-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilmot1997291-197">[195]</a></sup>
Indecisiveness and an overly complicated command structure on the part
of the German high command was also a factor in the Allied success.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilmot1997292_198-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilmot1997292-198">[196]</a></sup><br />
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<br />
There are several really good links that tell about this day. Some are<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings<br />
http://www.history.army.mil/html/reference/Normandy/asltforce.html<br />
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day<br />
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Two GREAT movies about D-Day are<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Longest_Day_%28film%29<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saving_Private_Ryan <br />
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And then there is D-Day, the movie<br />
http://en.dday-normandy1944.com/D-Day-1944-the-film/home-2.html<br />
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<br />
Check out some of the other references at<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings#Further_reading <br />
<br />
But,
remember of these men who went ashore close to 10,000 men died on that
day and close to 1 million Allied military men died by the end of the
June - died so that we could live in peace. If you see a soldier,
marine, coast guard sailor, navy sailor or airman, THANK THEM for being
there then and here today. Buy their breakfast, lunch or supper if you
see them in a restaurant. <br />
<br />
See you in December:<br />
<br />
Shalom<br />
Ya'akovJames Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09329916624230570826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947769630065163891.post-13818663108088698972017-05-28T18:28:00.000-05:002017-05-28T18:28:02.990-05:00Memorial Day - 2017Greetings:<br />
<br />
I don't think that I have written anything about memorial day in a long time, if ever. Mostly because everyone in my family came home safely (un-injured) from both WW II (my dad and my Uncle) and Viet Nam (myself and my brother). My dad was a MSgt/1stSgt in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Special_Service_Force">First Special Service Forces</a> and my uncle made all five jumps with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/82nd_Airborne_Division">82 Airborne</a> in WW II and also fought at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge">Battle of the Bulge</a>, aka, the Battling Bastards of Bastogne. <br />
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My brother went another route; he served undercover in Thailand; being only 5'8" and with my mom's dark complexion, black eyes and black hair he fit right in with the locals and was able to observe the movements of the North Vietnamese and report back daily via diddy-bop. He had four marines back behind him for protection but, as he said later, they were usually bored and stoned and not really much help if the VC had ever found him. He was pretty much alone out there. Me? Well, I was the one left behind doing Heavy Ground Radar Maintenance - meaning that the closest thing that I came to combat was the rifle range. I did have a .44 magnum Ruger pistol that I carried off-duty just to be cool but it didn't impress anyone. (AN/GPS-20 and AN/GPS-90 if anyone is interested...)<br />
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Anyway, today and tomorrow should be about all of those who did NOT come home. The thousands and thousands who gave their all so that we could be safe back here in (fairly isolated) USA. Oh, we'll shoot off fireworks to simulate what war is all about, but anyone who has ever been subjected to artillery bombardment will tell you, it just is not the same when those shells start landing all around you. They're really pretty up in the air, but when they start landing on the ground around you, it is the closest thing to living in hell that you will ever come. There is no place to hide and the next shell could land right on top of you. My dad and uncle had that kind of experience. My brother just had to live with trying not to have the VC find him while he was living in the jungle.<br />
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If you ever get a chance to see the History Channel series on the Devil's Brigade, it is fairly accurate from what my dad told me late in life. My dad said that the Hollywood version of "The Devil's Brigade" with William Holden was OK but it was still Hollywood and could not show the real blood and gut action of real war. Besides, Col. Fredrick never came in at night and soaked his feet. The realism did not come until "Saving Private Ryan" and "We Were Soldiers" later. He died just before those came out but he might have approved of them. <br />
<br />
Anyway, enjoy the fireworks tonight and tomorrow. Just remember why you are free to watch them.<br />
<br />
jcoJames Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09329916624230570826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947769630065163891.post-48445286635475696422017-04-15T13:49:00.001-05:002017-04-15T13:49:22.075-05:00Military Gas and HitlerGreetings:<br />
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Sean Spicer was "kinda sorta" right about Adolph Hitler the other day. "Der Fuhrer" did not use "military" gas on his own people, just gas chambers on Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, mentally retarded, slavic and other folks that he felt were not part of the "master race." But, most especially, the Jews.<br />
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You see, Hitler himself had fought in WW I and had, himself, be a victim of a gas attack and had spent almost a year recovering in the hospital. He hated the concept of using gas as military weapon and knew that if he used it then the Allies would use it.<br />
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In WW I the Germans had perfected the use of gas in two forms: chlorine gas that burned the skin and burned out the eyes. It will make you cry to see of the film from WW I where the victims are being led to chow or to the latrine single file, eyes bandaged, with their hand on the shoulder of the man in front of them.<br />
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The other was far more lethal: Mustard gas. It not only burned the skin and eyes, it burned out the lungs and would lay on the ground for about a foot (unless a strong wind came along to blow it away which wasn't likely in most forests) clinging to the grass and bushes. If a soldier came walking along he would stir it up again and the next soldier behind him got another good dose of it. Terrible stuff.<br />
<br />
Anyway, Hitler did not use it for military use; only on civilians that he did not think would fit into the Third Reich. So, give Spicer a break. He was almost correct. He just left out the word "military."<br />
<br />
BTW, you do know who manufactured the gas [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyklon_B" title="Zyklon B">Zyklon B</a> (hydrogen cyanide)] that they used in the gas chambers don't you? Yepper; good old Bayer AG. Same folks who make our asprin today. They also invented such things as phenobarbital and heroin. Wikipedia has a good article on them at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer#World_War_II. <br />
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I guess that I think that sometimes we are a bit too quick to forget what happened in WW I and WW II. The USA did some really, really bad things back home in WW I. Maybe I will write about those one day just wake everyone up. :-) Or you can go watch Part III of "The American Experience - The Great War" on PBS. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/<br />
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Ya'akovJames Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09329916624230570826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947769630065163891.post-43790238173224317162016-12-08T16:48:00.001-06:002016-12-08T20:49:34.609-06:00John Glenn - An American Hero - Dead at 95Greetings:<br />
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Col John Herschel Glenn, Jr., died today at the ripe old age of 95. John Glenn (born in July 18, 1921) had just graduated college when WW II started up in 1941. He ended up in the US Marine Corps and became a Marine fighter pilot flying 59 combat missions in the Marshall Islands in his <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F4U_Corsair" title="F4U Corsair">F4U Corsair</a>. He was promoted to captain shortly before the end of the war. During the Korean War (sometimes called the Korean Conflict by the more PC) he flew the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F9F_Panther" title="F9F Panther">F9F Panther</a> jet <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interceptor_aircraft" title="Interceptor aircraft">interceptor</a> on 63 combat missions getting the nickaname "magnet ass" because he seemed to attract so much enemy flack. Actually, it was because he liked to fly in low and actually "see the enemy" at whom he we shooting rather than taking "pot shots" from a safer, higher altitude. On a two occasions he came home with 250 combat holes in his planes. Later he logged 27 more combat missions in the newer <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-86_Sabre#Variants" title="F-86 Sabre">F-86F Sabre</a> and shot down three <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-15" title="Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15">MiG-15s</a> near the Yalu river. That is a LOT of combat missions!!<br />
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Anyway, after the Korean peace talks, on July 16, 1957, John flew a supersonic, transcontinental flight from NAS L.A. to Bennett Field NY in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8.3 seconds - despite three subsonic re-fuelings to set a new (at that time) world record. Quite a feat considering that he took time to fly over his home town at Mach 2 to rattle the windows and let them know that he just went by the place.<br />
<br />
Also, Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth, aboard <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Atlas_6" title="Mercury-Atlas 6">Friendship 7</a></i>
on February 20, 1962, on the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission, circling the
globe three times during a flight lasting 4 hours, 55 minutes, and
23 seconds.<sup> </sup>This made Glenn the third American in space and the fifth human being in space. After that, the president(s) would not let him back into space to risk losing a truly great American hero.<br />
<br />
But, Robert Kennedy suggested back in Dec of '62 that John run for the US Senate. In 1970 he did run and he was narrowly defeated in a general election race to Howard Metzenbaum. In 1974 he ran again and he defeated Metzenbaum with what was called the "Gold Star Mother's" speech. He ran for president much later (once) but would not bow to "party politics". He was described a "painfully honest" man and not suited for a run for president. Way too honest to be a politician. But, he remained a Senator for 30 years. The folks from Ohio seemed to like his home-town honesty.<br />
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Col John Glenn returned space on October 29, 1998. This time at the age of 77. NASA wanted to know what would be the effect of space on the elderly in case they wanted to go further into our solar system. They discovered that John handled it just fine.<br />
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All in all, good bye John. We will miss you. Truly the last of dying breed. A truly great American Hero. Godspeed John. <br />
<br />
jco<br />
<br />
Credit: Almost all of this info was extracted in parts and pieces from Wikipedia and various Fox News shows. Thanks guys.James Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09329916624230570826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947769630065163891.post-85166760301304249442016-12-06T18:01:00.001-06:002016-12-07T17:25:58.896-06:0075th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor AttackGreetings:<br />
<br />
Well, so far the only thing that I have seen on national TV about Pearl Harbor is a quick quip on "The Five" on Fox. Not much there at all. President Obama is making a "good bye" speech to the military about how great a military leader he has been (he never served in the military) and VP Biden is on a late-night show. Maybe later someone else will have something to say later tonight and I will amend this post.<br />
<br />
Anyway, at 6:45 a.m. Honolulu-time tomorrow morning, December 7th, 1941, Sunday morning, the first shots were fired for/against the USA in WW II. The Japanese had sent six midget submarines into Pearl Harbor. They were supposed to trail larger ships into the harbor so that they would not be noticed. However, one was trailing the cargo ship <i>Antares</i> (just after the anti-submarine net had been pulled back up) and an alert crewman aboard the <i>Wickes</i>-class destroyer <i>U.SS. Ward</i> saw them. They opened fire with a 4"/50 cal deck gun and hit the sub just behind the starboard side of the sub's tower. It sank immediately.<br />
<br />
However, 70 minutes later, at 7:05 a.m. Honolulu-time, the main attack attack cam roaring in to a totally unprepared base. About the only anti-aircraft guns were on board the burning battle ships so the guys on the ground found some Stinger guns that were supposed to be mounted on the aircraft because they did not have the heat dispersion capability of regular machine guns. But they did have a much higher rate of fire. The 30-cal ANM2 30 cal had a 1,300 rpm (rounds per minute) rate of fire and the larger 50 cal had an 805 rpm rate of fire. The men used all kinds of contraptions to mount the guns and returned fire and brought down a few of the attacking planes.<br />
<br />
One of the stories from that day caught my eye: Marine PFC Melvin Thompson was on guard duty when the Japanese planes began their attack on Ewa, about 7 miles from the main base. He got so angry that he just stepped out of the guard shack, pulled his .45 pistol and started firing at the incoming planes. Years later, the 27-year old Lt. Yoshio Shiga remembers seeing Thompson's tenacity and fighting spirit and described the lone marine as "the braves American I have ever met."<br />
<br />
One other thing: One of the subs ran out of battery power before it could get into the bay and ran aground on Bellows Army Airfield. Lt. Plybon and Cpl. Akui (US Army) went to investigate a man lying on the beach. it was 23-year-ols Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki who became the first POW of WW II.<br />
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One final fact: of the 2,400+ dead, 1,100+ are still entombed in the USS Arizona that is upside down in the bay. Until 9/11/2001 it was the largest single loss of American life in one day in American history. <u><b>And to have our American politicans ignore it is deplorable</b></u>.<br />
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One of the best movies on this is "<i>Tora! Tora! Tora!</i>" (Meaning, "Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!" The Japanese code that the attack was a complete surprise.) It shows the attack from both sides of view and, I think, shows the immaculate planning that went into the attack without taking sides.<br />
<br />
Yours,<br />
<br />
James<br />
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BTW, can you remember when the last American president to serve as Commander-in-Chief was actually a veteran of the armed services in some capacity? Sad, isn't it?<br />
<br />
Update, 8 December: OK, here are some updates:<br />
<ul>
<li>Donald Trump was in NC last night and he mentioned Pearl Harbor as well as the 82nd Airborne (The AA or All American) and the US Marine camp nearby.</li>
<li>Today, Fox gave lots of short coverage shots of the ceremonies at Honolulu. Greg Gutfeld and others promoted a book that just came out, "<i>All the Gallant Men</i>" by Donald Stratton, a survivor of the USS Arizona. He had 60% burns on his body but returned to duty after several months in the hospital. I suggest strongly that you get the book if you have any interest in that period. </li>
<li>Today CNBC both gave 45 second shots from time to time about the ceremonies going on but nobody seemed to want to carry the whole thing. There was a "moment" of silence on all shows at 11:55 CST but not a whole minute. Oh, well...</li>
<li>There are still 5 remaining survivors of the USS Arizona and four of those five attended the ceremonies in Honolulu today. There are about 2,400 survivors of the attack still alive, the oldest being about 104. </li>
</ul>
James Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09329916624230570826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947769630065163891.post-46604323033063953042016-03-22T16:16:00.001-05:002016-03-22T16:16:23.171-05:00Is Java Dying on the Oracle Vine ?Greetings, Programs:<br />
<br />
All of this started quite some time agon with an InfoWorld <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/2987529/java/insider-oracle-lost-interest-in-java.html">article</a> by Pau Krill that asked if Oracle had lost interest in Java. This would be understandable considering Oracle's past history with being exclusive and their predatory practices in the software industry. Some, Mark Proctor [MP] for example, feel that Java is the <a href="http://www.datamation.com/applications/java-is-dead-not-according-to-these-enterprises.html">most used </a>programming language available for new companies today. A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history">brief history of Java</a> can be found on Wikipedia. BTW, for those who ask if <a href="http://www.javaworld.com/article/2077265/core-java/so-why-did-they-decide-to-call-it-java-.html">Java</a> means, "Just Another Vague Acronym" - well, you are partially right. <br />
<br />
Anyway, I had a chance to chat (on-line, of course) with some of the leading Gurus (Gurim?) in the BRMS industry about Java: Its past, present and future. These are the guys who design the tools that we (the AI Geeks) use every day. [see list at the end of the article] This started with a group email that asked the question, "Is Oracle being a good steward for Java?" Some [DB] tried to go over to <a href="https://developer.apple.com/swift/">Swift</a> from Apple but had some questions about its future as well. Supposedly the code is bullet-proof - which is important after Apple's recent debacle with <a href="http://now.avg.com/apple-apps-infected-with-xcodeghost/">XCodeGhost</a> that has infected 400 or 1,000 or 4,000 (depending on which report you happen to believe.) There is a long discussion on <a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/15/09/22/1657211/apple-xcodeghost-malware-more-malicious-than-originally-reported">SlashDot</a> where some tried to "justify" downloading XCode from servers in China rather than the official Apple site. But, that is another story for another time.<br />
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Mark Proctor [MP] weighted in with a lot of upbeat chat. He and Dr. Forgy [CLF] seemed to feel that Sun had let Java 7 ride for way too long. Personally, I think that this was during the period when Oracle was in the "process" of buying out Sun and the Sun bosses just did not want to invest a lot of money into Java. If the bottom line looks better then they get a bit more dollars per share.<br />
<br />
However, most of those in the group agreed that Oracle had, since 2010, done some good things with Java. Java 8, for example came out quickly and included <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/architect-lambdas-part1-2080972.html">Lambdas</a> to the product line. Also, Java 9 is scheduled to be out in 2016. One of the nice things about java 9 will be <a href="http://www.javaworld.com/article/2878952/java-platform/modularity-in-java-9.html">modularity</a> that will help alleviate the "jar path hell" that is so prevalent in multin-vendor applications.<br />
<br />
The proposed future of Java is all outlined <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/0">here</a>. One that I really like is the <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/189">Shenandoah</a> project for garbage collection in extremely large applications. [MP] Another good reason for staying with Java is <a href="https://github.com/blog/2047-language-trends-on-github">Git</a>, the most prolific SCC system on the internet right now. [DB] Also of note is that Java Script is really easy to use and is probably the fastest growing language right now. If we stop and consider just for a moment all of the companies that are totally focused on Java: IBM, Oracle, Google, Amazon - just to name a few.<br />
<br />
Some [MP][CLF] mentioned a desire/need for the C/C++/C# structs. But there are some <a href="http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/compact-off-heap-structurestuples-in.html">workarounds</a> to structs by using byte buffers [MP]. Personally, I prefer a Java Class without any methods to having to come up with a whole new thing - but that's me.<br />
<br />
jco James Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09329916624230570826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947769630065163891.post-87274190068984301382016-03-22T14:22:00.001-05:002016-03-22T14:22:14.394-05:00Decision Camp 2016 Greetings:<br />
<br />
The location for DC-2016 is now at Stony Brook University in New York and the link is https://sites.google.com/site/ruleml2016/home - meaning that we are co-located with RuleML this year. Dr. Jacob Feldman is heading up this year's DC. It should prove interesting and, good news, it is one day only. OK, maybe two... Decision Camp ONLY is $75. You have a choice of rooms that range from about $60 on campus up to $150 in the local Holiday Inn.<br />
<br />
I am planning (subject to approval by the board) to present a talk on Rule Optimization, Performance and Efficiency. With a 45 minute limit, not much can be done but I will have a white paper available for those who want to dig deeper. Decision camp itself is at https://sites.google.com/site/ruleml2016/decisioncamp and you can submit your abstract up until 4 April 2016.<br />
<br />
See you there?<br />
<br />
jcoJames Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09329916624230570826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947769630065163891.post-37527098296945077022015-11-02T13:46:00.002-06:002015-11-02T13:46:22.981-06:00ALERT!! American Airlines SPAM EMail !!Greetings:<br />
<br />
There is a SPAM EMail going around that really looks like it came from AA - complete with locator number (which is not valid). Your first indications that this is spam<br />
<ul>
<li>the email says that you (well, mine did) are flying from Richmond, VA to Chicago, IL to Dallas - and I am NOT in Richmond at the time. </li>
<li>the "ticket_AA77799543.doc" attachment - AA never sends one with that weird numbering sequence. </li>
<li>you probably have not made that reservation. </li>
<li>my reservation left at 8:00 this morning. </li>
</ul>
<br />
Anyway, do NOT click on the attached document. AA is aware of this but they have NOT sent out an email to any of their cherished customers telling them that this is SPAM. <br />
<br />
jcoJames Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09329916624230570826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947769630065163891.post-47444669773899456392015-09-02T18:36:00.000-05:002015-09-02T18:36:34.248-05:00What the Heck?Greetings:<br />
<br />
OK, enough is enough. Recently, three Americans (aka, citizens of the USA) and a Brit ex-patriot living in Paris, responded when a terrorist attacked the passengers on a high-speed French train. The terrorist, a 26-year-old Moroccan man, Ayoub El-Khazzani, who boarded the train in Brussels, was armed with an AK-47 automatic (yes, automatic, not semi-automatic) rifle and a (semi-automatic) 9mm pistol. Two of those Americans, Spencer Stone (USAF) and Alek Skarlatos (USA - NG), are American military; buff and trained in some combat situations. Alek had just returned from a tour in Afghanistan. The fourth tag-along was a college student named Anthony Sadler - a fairly trim young man who was vacationing with his two military friends. Chris Norman, a British citizen who lives in Paris, was the real hero. The Frenchman who
first jumped on the gunman is still recovering from his wounds and
wishes to remain anonymous. But he took a bullet to the neck in the first few seconds of the attack.<br />
<br />
Anthony appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon (as well as several other TV shows and news reports) and is telling "his story" around the world. Some in California are even taking up a collection to help him pay for his last year in college. So, what is wrong with all of this? Well, let's see; first, according to what I saw last night, Anthony was sleeping when the gunman first fired through a glass partition on the door of their partition. When he groggily started to get to his feet, his two military buddies were already charging down the aisle toward the gunman. Not wanting to be left out, Anthony went along behind his two military buddies. On The Tonight Show, Anthony said that they "... pounded on the guy... " to put him down. Brave words indeed. Especially since Stone was the one who put the gunman in a choke hold and was wrestling him to the ground.<br />
<br />
In the ensuing struggle with the gunman, Stone had his thumb almost sliced off when the gunman produced a box cutter from his pocket. One of the two military guys, Alek, was a medic in Afghanistan and helped Chris, the Brit, who had been shot in the neck. Alek kept the guy from bleeding to death until help could arrive. <br />
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Here's the thing: The two military guys have been, for the most part, ignored by press. I wonder why? They seem normal. Maybe the press is just infatuated with the Chris Rock look-alike and the service guys just look too ordinary to be heroes. But somewhere along the line, the press and the Hollywood elite will have to own up that the least heroic of the four was Mr. Sadler - yet, he seems to be getting all the press. <br />
<br />
This is like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Musketeers#Important_characters">Three Muskeeters</a>. Remember them? (These descriptions came from Wikipedia.)<br />
<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porthos" title="Porthos">Porthos</a> – Isaac de Portau: A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandy" title="Dandy">dandy</a>, fond of fashionable clothes.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramis" title="Aramis">Aramis</a> – Henry d'Aramitz: A deeply religious younger Musketeer.</li>
<li><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athos_%28fictional_character%29" title="Athos (fictional character)">Athos</a> – Armand de Sillègue d'Athos d'Autevielle: The last Musketeer to be introduced. He seems immune to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_%28love%29" title="Romance (love)">romantic</a> feeling. To an extent, he becomes a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_figure" title="Father figure">father figure</a> to d'Artagnan. </li>
</ul>
Finally there was the tag-along, much like Anthony in our story. <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Artagnan#Portrayals_in_fiction" title="D'Artagnan">D'Artagnan</a>
– Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan: He is not one of the "Three
Musketeers" in the sense that he does not become a Musketeer until
nearly the end of the novel, being merely a guard attached to Monsieur
des Essart's company for the majority of the book. But he is the main focus of the story. A mere lad who lacks the good sense to actually JOIN the Muskeeters and rise through the ranks like the three real heroes of the story. <br />
<br />
Go figure... <br />
jcoJames Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09329916624230570826noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947769630065163891.post-70601227526796846232015-08-19T18:50:00.000-05:002015-08-19T18:50:14.622-05:00Installing JBoss and Drools WorkBench<style>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Basic (Undocumented) Drools WorkBench Concepts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">FIRST:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Install JBoss (or another AppSvr).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For JBoss follow the following instructions:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>CAUTION:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>REMEMBER THESE TWO DIRECTORIES</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Assume that
you have installed Drools 6.2 to drool/drool6.2</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Assume that
you have a directory named JBoss in the root directory</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Match Java JDK
7 to JBoss 7.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Match Java JDK
8 to JBoss 8.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Download JBoss
zip (or tar.zip for Unix/OSX) to the JBoss Directory</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Unzip JBoss </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Open up a
terminal screen</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">cd</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> to the /JBoss/jboss-as-7.1.1 or <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">/JBoss/jboss-as-8.2.1</b> directory</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">cd bin</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Enter the
following commands from the command line</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">./add-user.sh</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (or .\add-user.bat for Windows)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><add b="" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;" type="" user="">> a</add></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><user name="" the="" to="" use="" want="" you=""><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">jco</b>, jw, rm, user1, whatever…</user></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><password b="" capital="" character="" have="" letter="" letters="" must="" number="" one="" special="" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">> **********</password></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><group> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">admin</b></group></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><answer a="" about="" asked="" group="" joining="" just="" or="" particular="" press="" return="" when="" yes=""></answer></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><add type="" user=""> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">b</b></add></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><user name="" the="" to="" use="" want="" you=""><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">jco</b>, jw, rm, user1, whatever…</user></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><password b="" capital="" character="" have="" letter="" letters="" must="" number="" one="" special="" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">> **********</password></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><group> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">admin</b></group></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><answer a="" about="" asked="" group="" joining="" just="" or="" particular="" press="" return="" when="" yes=""></answer></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">./standalone.sh </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">(or .\standalone.bat for Windows)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Start up a
browser window</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Enter the following
for the URL:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">127.0.0.1:8080</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">You should see
the following screen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Click on “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Deploy an application</b>”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">You should see
the following screen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Click on “>
Create Deployment” (in blue in the “Deploy an application” box)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Your should
see the following screen<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>BUT<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Name” and “Runtime Name” will be blank. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Click on “Add”
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Click on
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">You should see
the following screen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Browse down to
the following directory (for a Mac OSX)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">/Users/<your name="" user="">/drools/drools-6.2/kie-drools-wb-distribution-6.2.0.Final/binaries</your></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Select the
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">kie-drools-wb-distribution-wars-6.2.0.Final-wildfly8.war</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The “Name” and
“Runtime Name” should now be filled in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Note, “Name”
CAN be anything but most leave it at the same name a “Runtime Name”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">OK – NOW your
are ready to start up WorkBench</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Select a new
FoxPro screen (Ctrl-N) or tab (Ctrl-T)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Enter the
following URL</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://127.0.0.1:8080/kie-drools-wb-distribution-wars-6.2.0.Final-wildfly8/kie-drools-wb.html">http://127.0.0.1:8080/kie-drools-wb-distribution-wars-6.2.0.Final-wildfly8/kie-drools-wb.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">You should see
a KIE Login Screen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Login with the name
and password that you set up initially.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">You should now
see the following screen:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">You are now
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Start with the
first one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About 1/3 of the first video
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Note that you
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Also, these
videos (as of today, 150817) are for version 6.0 of Drools WorkBench and
version 6.x of JBoss AppSvr.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you have
a question, call, email or text me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(jco)</span></div>
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