http://nnhs65.com/CD-MIX.html

TYPHOON Regards,

Dave Spriggs ‘64

   OHHHH, yeah! Many of our readers are probably unaware of these fabulous CD's that you created several years ago! Here's their chance to remedy that!

   Thank you for the reminder, Captain!

      

   Thanks, Ray! You're gonna flip over those CDs!

   One of my great regrets in life is not studying Latin, but I think you might be quoting from one of your first Latin lessons - and you may (or may not!) have been saying "All Gaul is divided into three parts. The die is cast. My house is white. Time flies."

   At any rate, I added your memory to miss Brewer's teacher page:

http://nnhs65.com/SITE-MAP.html 

     http://nnhs65.com/faculty.html

          http://www.nnhs65.com/teachers.html

               http://www.nnhs65.com/teach-Brewer.html

   Wal, shut my mouf' - you shore nuff had distappeared (English  major, ya know...)!  ‹(•¿•)› 

   I've added you back to your place of belonging, Carla!

http://nnhs65.com/SITE-MAP.html  

     http://nnhs65.com/alumni-list.html

          http://nnhs65.com/alumni-1963-to-1965.html

... Although my contacts with my old classmates are few, I do love hearing how everyone's doing and applaud your great work and dedication to the task.

And one last thing. I totally enjoyed reading about various teachers on the teacher pages and have some memories to contribute...but many are humorous (though not meant ever to be disrespectful) rather than tributes to them as pedagogues, so I wanted your opinion as to whether they'd be appropriate. Or would you want to see them first?

   We always love to read the memories of our teachers - and some of them were indeed funny! As long as they are not injurious to their characters, we would love to post them, Carla (and unless you post them yourself on the NNHS BLOG, I'd have to see them first to add them anyway)!

Thanks so much, and as always, love to you and everyone "Up North,"

Carla (Fine) Cripps
Class of '65
Australia

   Thank you so much, Carla - for everything! As you were one of the first kids I met when we moved to the Peninsula we share many fond old memories!

    Say, Lady, you never did tell us how you happen to be living "Down Under"!

By Norman M. Covert

Apparently the “Buck…” touted by President Barack Obama, stops in Libya, not the Oval Office. Col. Moammar Gadhafi continues to be in Mr. Obama’s face, surviving insurgents and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Reports of his impending demise seem exaggerated.

There are fears this could be another “Debacle in the Desert.” President Jimmy Carter oversaw that failed effort to rescue captured Americans in Iran in 1980. Everything went wrong for the Delta Force.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has declared that military action will probably not suffice to force Gadhafi out; that it will take lengthy negotiation. In other words the mission is doomed. It is probable Gadhafi may emerge even stronger in his confederation of Libyan tribes.

Press and diplomatic dispatches portray a confounding outcome in this version of Mr. Obama’s belated attempt at nation building. If past action is an indicator, Mr. Obama will look for an excuse to get out of town. It appears he can neither lead, nor hide in the White House.

Col. Moammar Gadhafi

Colonel Gadhafi’s public appearances, on the other hand, trumpet his attitude of invincibility. He may indeed have the proverbial nine lives.  

There hasn’t been this much military movement in Libya since World War II, when British commandos found Tobruk and Benghazi difficult to retain. German Field Marshall Erwin Rommel earned the title “Desert Fox” because Libya, and much of Egypt, was his military playground. He surrendered only after Chancellor Adolph Hitler abandoned the vaunted Afrika Corps, which waged a wadi-to-wadi defense.

In a reprise of history, rebels have captured and lost the same territory in today’s back and forth. They captured the road between Benghazi and Tobruk in the early fighting. However, for the most part, Gadhafi’s forces have taken control again.

The assurance of victory was short lived after the initial bombardment by American Tomahawk missiles. What can go wrong, did go wrong with the NATO Joint Task Force.

NATO has demonstrated questionable or no “command and control” capability. Its ability to coordinate bombing sorties has been wholly inadequate, with unknown, missing or unreliable spotters on the ground to identify targets. Modern communication makes it easy if everyone has the same capability.

The mission appears to be a comedy of errors. It was unaware the rebels had tanks and failed to brief pilots of French aircraft who targeted several last week. In addition, two Libyan military helicopters, which had been captured, were destroyed on their maiden flights. NATO is claiming better success in hitting Gadhafi’s ammunition dumps this week.

NATO membership was expanded with approval of then-President Bill Clinton, a gesture in the aftermath of the demise of the Soviet Union. It includes former Communist Bloc countries and barely resembles the force organized in 1949 to protect Western Europe from the Soviets.

NATO Flag

Canadian Forces Lt. Gen. Charles Bouchard commands NATO’s Joint Task Force. General Bouchard, who has no apparent combat experience, is struggling to integrate primary British, French and limited American aviation assets. Success is far from guaranteed for NATO.

American forces’ battlefield “doctrine” is influenced by the deliberations of combat-seasoned officers. Seminal changes, developed in the mid-1970s at Fort Monroe, Va., were tested in Operation Desert Storm, defense of Kuwait, in 1991. Victory was achieved in 100 days.

U. S. Army Gen. William E. DePuy, who died in 1992, generated the new doctrine. He turned away from small unit jungle tactics, which had dominated Southeast Asia combat and Pentagon planning. His legacy includes the Abrams Main Battle Tank, Bradley fighting vehicle, Apache and Blackhawk helicopters and Patriot Air Defense System.

Gen. W. E. DePuy with lst Infantry Division, Vietnam

General DePuy foresaw challenges of fighting in desert environments like Kuwait, Iraq, and now Afghanistan. A World War II, Korea and Vietnam combat commander, he proved his theories at the sandy, desolate expanse of Fort Irwin, Cal.

He believed in the synergism of combined arms, thus achieving a powerful weapon system. In contrast, unless NATO can right its disjointed approach, it cannot achieve military success.

Making matters worse in the long haul, it appears we are backing an insurrection force primarily identified as al-Qaeda veterans. Rebel ground commander Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidit is a graduate of the Guantanamo Bay Resort and Spa. His ties to al-Qaeda are without question and he admits his main battle troops are jihadists, who fought against the coalition in Iraq.

It would appear that the Libyan incursion — justified in the name of protecting innocent civilians – is another failed foreign policy adventure for Mr. Obama and his advisors.

Col. Gadhafi has the ground war advantage at the moment with rebels shown cowering in alleyways. NATO must quickly overcome the perception that it is a virtual toothless tiger.

I’m ashamed to think this may be what Mr. Obama wants.

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(Published in its original form at http://www.thetentacle.com  April 13, 2011. Printed by permission of The Octopus LLC and the author.)

Contact Norman Covert at nmcovert77@aol.com

   Thanks, Norm!

TIPS ON PUMPING GAS

I don't know what you guys are paying for gasoline.... but here in California we are paying up to $3.75 to $4.10 per gallon. My line of work is in petroleum for about 31 years now, so here are some tricks to get more of your money's worth for every gallon:

Here at the Kinder Morgan Pipeline where I work in San Jose, CA we deliver about 4 million gallons in a 24-hour period thru the pipeline.. One day is diesel the next day is jet fuel, and gasoline, regular and premium grades. We have 34-storage tanks here with a total capacity of 16,800,000 gallons.

Only buy or fill up your car or truck in the early morning when the ground temperature is still cold. Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground. The colder the ground the more dense the gasoline, when it gets warmer gasoline expands, so buying in the afternoon or in the evening....your gallon is not exactly a gallon. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and the temperature of the gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products plays an important role.

A 1-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for this business. But the service stations do not have temperature compensation at the pumps.

When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to a fast mode. If you look you will see that the trigger has three (3) stages: low, middle, and high. You should be pumping on low mode, thereby minimizing the vapors that are created while you are pumping. All hoses at the pump have a vapor return. If you are pumping on the fast rate, some of the liquid that goes to your tank becomes vapor. Those vapors are being sucked up and back into the underground storage tank so you're getting less worth for your money.

One of the most important tips is to fill up when your gas tank is HALF FULL. The reason for this is the more gas you have in your tank the less air occupying its empty space. Gasoline evaporates faster than you can imagine. Gasoline storage tanks have an internal floating roof. This roof serves as zero clearance between the gas and the atmosphere, so it minimizes the evaporation. Unlike service stations, here where I work, every truck that we load is temperature compensated so that every gallon is actually the exact amount.

Another reminder, if there is a gasoline truck pumping into the storage tanks when you stop to buy gas, DO NOT fill up; most likely the gasoline is being stirred up as the gas is being delivered, and you might pick up some of the dirt that normally settles on the bottom.

To have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of gas buyers. It's really simple to do.

I'm sending this note to about thirty people. If each of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)...and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers !!!!!!! If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted!

If It goes one level further, you guessed it..... THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!

Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. How long would it take?

   WOWZERS! Thanks so much for these valuable tips, Phil!

   Thank you, Eva! I love cool dates! Two down, two to go!