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governor

http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/nikki-haley-on-brink-of-political-superstardom-64215

posted by Danny Kainth @ 2:32 PM 0 comments

"Loose Lips Sink Ships"

"Millions volunteered or were drafted for military duty during World War II. The majority of these citizen-soldiers had no idea how to conduct themselves to prevent inadvertent disclosure of important information to the enemy. To remedy this, the government established rules of conduct. The following is excerpted from a document given to each soldier as he entered the battle area.


WRITING HOME
THINK! Where does the enemy get his information -- information that can put you, and has put your comrades, adrift on an open sea: information that has lost battles and can lose more, unless you personally, vigilantly, perform your duty in SAFEGUARDING MILITARY INFORMATION?


THERE ARE TEN PROHIBITED SUBJECTS


1. Don't write military information of Army units -- their location, strength,, materiel, or equipment.

2. Don't write of military installations.

3. Don't write of transportation facilities.

4. Don't write of convoys, their routes, ports (including ports of embarkation and disembarkation), time en route, naval protection, or war incidents occurring en route.

5. Don't disclose movements of ships, naval or merchant, troops, or aircraft.

6. Don't mention plans and forecasts or orders for future operations, whether known or just your guess.

7. Don't write about the effect of enemy operations.

8. Don't tell of any casualty until released by proper authority (The Adjutant General) and then only by using the full name of the casualty.

9. Don't attempt to formulate or use a code system, cipher, or shorthand, or any other means to conceal the true meaning of your letter. Violations of this regulation will result in severe punishment.

10. Don't give your location in any way except as authorized by proper authority. Be sure nothing you write about discloses a more specific location than the one authorized.


TALK

Taking the oath at a Baltimore
Induction Center, September 1942

SILENCE MEANS SECURITY -- If violation of protective measures is serious within written communications it is disastrous in conversations. Protect your conversation as you do your letters, and be even more careful. A harmful letter can be nullified by censorship; loose talk is direct delivery to the enemy.

If you come home during war your lips must remain sealed and your written hand must be guided by self-imposed censorship. This takes guts. Have you got them or do you want your buddies and your country to pay the price for your showing off. You've faced the battle front; its little enough to ask you to face this 'home front.'


CAPTURE
Most enemy intelligence comes from prisoners. If captured, you are required to give only three facts: YOUR NAME, YOUR GRADE, YOUR ARMY SERIAL NUMBER. Don't talk, don't try to fake stories and use every effort to destroy all papers. When you are going into an area where capture is possible, carry only essential papers and plan to destroy them prior to capture if possible. Do not carry personal letters on your person; they tell much about you, and the envelope has on it your unit and organization."

posted by Danny Kainth @ 4:15 PM 0 comments

long time

"Ryukyu Underground
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Ryukyu Underground
Origin Okinawa, Japan
Genres Electronica/Uchinaa pop
Years active 2002 - present
Labels Respect Records (Japan)
Website http://www.ryukyu-underground.wwma.net/
Members
Jon Taylor, Keith Gordon
Ryukyu Underground (琉球アンダーグラウンド, ryūkyū andāguraundo?) is an electronic music duo, consisting of Keith Gordon and Jon Taylor, whose music is heavily based on, and inspired by, traditional Okinawan folk music.

The duo's music blends Okinawan folk songs with Western dance music and dub, often collaborating with native Okinawan singers and other musicians. Though their music may at times sound like a DJ's mixing of dance tracks with min'yō tracks, it consists in fact mostly, if not entirely, of compositions composed, performed and recorded as original, new pieces. Though it may draw extensively from traditional lyrics, tunes, and chords, it is never simply mixed from pre-existing recordings by other artists, and always includes considerable original elements. Though the pair started out incorporating vocals and other elements via sampling, on later albums and other releases they have worked directly with Okinawan artists, recording vocals and other elements live in the studio[1]. The pair have released four albums, and their music has been included in Buddha Bar compilation albums and used on a variety of television programs, documentaries, and other media.

Though questions could be raised about Westerners appropriating Okinawan music, the duo's reception in Okinawa, by local Okinawans, has been described as "ecstatic.[1]" The duo first tested their music in dance clubs in Okinawa, and were well received, the natives even dancing traditional kachashi dances to it[2][1]. In an interview in 2003, Taylor expressed that "we are both sensitive to the fact that Okinawan music is an important part of Okinawan culture, and we certainly don't want to disrespect it or commercialize it in a cheap way for profit. However, I'm confident we haven't done either."[1]

Taylor cites Rinken Band, the Nenes, and Champloose, the leading bands of the 1970's Uchinaa pop boom, among the duo's influences. Just as those bands took up electric guitar and other "modern" instruments and sought to replicate the traditional folk songs, so Taylor notes that he and Gordon saw potential in doing something similar using computer equipment[2].

Most of Ryukyu Underground's albums and singles are released by the label Respect Records (Japan).

Gordon grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne, in England, and was a fan of David Bowie and early punk music[3]. He first started playing music in the early 1980s, primarily on synthesizer but is said to have been "out of sync with the mods and metalheads around him"[3], before shifting to DJing and organizing events in Manchester. In an interview with the Japan Times, he describes this as "a good time to be in Manchester[3]," but by the late 1980s, he was tired of the aggressive scene there.

Escaping England, which was also seeing strong political tensions and protests against the poll taxes instituted by the Thatcher administration, Gordon spent some time in Denmark, where he found a more open and welcoming environment for his music. One of his tracks, a remix of the theme to the television show "Twin Peaks", was No. 1 on the Finnish charts for a time[3].

Gordon eventually left Denmark and after 4 years traveling through Asia and Australasia ended up in Okinawa, where in 1998 he met the American Jon Taylor, who was there doing PhD research on the environmental problems faced by the islanders[1]. Taylor had previously been a member of The Subjects, an electronic group, and had played guitar for several reggae groups, including U-Roy and The Ethiopians[4]. Gordon describes Taylor as having been the one to motivate him into starting Ryukyu Underground and taking it seriously[3].

Gordon still lives in Okinawa today, while Taylor lives in Los Angeles, where he works as a professor of geography; the two continue to collaborate by exchanging music and other data through the internet[3]"

"http://www.ryukyu-underground.wwma.net/eng/eng86/index.html"

posted by Danny Kainth @ 2:05 PM 0 comments

@end it

What's the point of doing projects and assignment if the world is going to end in 2012 :D :D

posted by Danny Kainth @ 10:06 AM 0 comments

abroad

My next small challenge is to plan a trip to further West over the Pacific, not sure just where, exploration taking over this summer

posted by Danny Kainth @ 9:51 AM 0 comments

WS2

posted by Danny Kainth @ 2:19 PM 0 comments

engineers these days....:))

http://www.stanford.edu/group/eng/blog/2008/07/nerd_girls.html

posted by Danny Kainth @ 2:04 PM 0 comments

common thinking

"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."

posted by Danny Kainth @ 1:56 AM 0 comments