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Books in Review II
The online complement to the printed edition of The VVA Veteran magazine's Book in Review column
Category Archives: Memoir
In Country by Forrest R. Lindsey
Posted on January 20, 2023 by vvaposted
The simple fact is that Forrest R. Lindsey's memoir— In Country: My Memories of Vietnam and After (Dorrance, 198 pp. $47, hardover; $36, paper; $34, Kindle)—is a confession. In it, Lindsey chronicles his transformation from a nearsighted, skinny 20-year-old to a dispassionate killer.
Lindsey tells his history with little interference from his ego. He mainly presents facts to the reader, and the most telling is: "I had picked up the habit of shooting whoever I hit after they went down, usually a burst of three rounds, just to make sure he stayed down."
By the time that habit was ingrained, he had come to believe that death wasn't that frightening and that "when you're dead, you're dead."
A 1965 enlistee in the U.S. Marine Corps, Lindsey arrived in Phu Bai in January 1966 and progressed from an accident-prone 5-ton truck driver to an OJT artilleryman, a gunner, and then a scout with an Artillery Forward Observer Team as part of Echo Company of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines. He extended his 13-month tour to move up to the scout level where, along with directing supporting artillery, he became a rifleman.
"Grunts had their own uniquely dangerous war," he says. They "were always active. Every single day was spent out in the field and patrolling, looking for the enemy." Lindsey was amazed to learn that all of his fellow grunts had been wounded—many as many as three times, which automatically qualified them to go home—but they self-doctored minor wounds so they could stay with the unit.
Ignoring regulations, Lindsey continued to use an M-14 rifle after American forces converted to the M-16. More than once, Marines looked to him for the riflery magic their weapons could not provide.
Lindsey took part in 19 operations before being wounded in May 1967. He writes about a Marine attack on a suspected Viet Cong battalion headquarters that easily qualified as a walk through hell. "I won't describe what I saw," he says, after watching an overhead 155-mm-howitzer-round booby-trap kill a dozen Marines and wound many more.
He is less hesitant to discuss his own wound—a "comminuted fracture" from a bullet that pulverized his thigh bone into a cloud of fragments. Surgeons put him in a full body cast and saved his leg. His two years in a hospital were nearly as horrid as his time in combat except that the new enemy consisted of Navy and Air Force nurses who outranked enlisted men and haughitly ignored their needs.
Discharged from the Marine Corps when his four-year enlistment ended, Lindsey finished rehabilitating his leg, went through post-traumatic stress, enrolled in college, married, divorced, and drank too much. In 1973, the Marine Corps invited him back and commissioned him as a lieutenant. After becoming an artillery battalion commander and serving a total of 27 years, Lindsey retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1996.
He says he has no regrets for his actions in the Vietnam War, and feels strong compassion for wounded and dead Marines. "The Marine Corps exists to kill people or to be killed in the process of killing people," he says.
Although In Country initially offers the standard war memori litany of arriving in Nam, eating C-rations, and taking cold showers, Lindsey's recollections about his three jobs and medical treatment presented surprises and facts that were new to me.
Forest Lindsey's experiences went well beyond what most Vietnam War veterans encountered.
—Henry Zeybel
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My Year in Vietnam by Phillip Elkins
If I had to choose one word to best describe Phillip Elkins' My Year in Vietnam: How I Managed to Survive: June 1966 to June 1967 (Senior Felipe Press, 374 pp. $20, paper; $9.99, Kindle), it would be "ambivalent." The book qualifies as a war memoir, as well as a tell-all tale about military life, a love story, a study in psychology, a tour guide, soft-core pornography, and an indictment of whomever or whatever the reader prefers.
Elkins, AKA "Senor Felipe," pours out attitude, insight, and humor in abundance. He can describe taking a piss in a style that simultaneously educates, repulses, and amuses. He has perfected the mood and voice of a 19-year-old, unhappy draftee who lacks goals beyond the moment.
This is Elkins' second book about his Army years. His first, Running from the Fire, tells of his growing up in East L.A. and training as an Army medic. A third, Coming Home from Vietnam, is in the works. Presently, he hosts the "L.A. Sounds with Sr. Felipe" show on KZFR-FM in Chico, California.
During the first half of his year in Vietnam Elkins served under the pseudonymous Sgt. Ulysses Sidell, who the men considered as more dangerous that the Viet Cong. They operated from Bien Hoa's 3rd Surgical Hospital in the 1st Preventive Medicine Unit attached to 56th Med.
Their mission centered on reducing infectious diseases, water problems, food spoilage, mosquitoes, rats, and fleas. Sidell sent his men on unproductive cross-country trips to remote sites in the Viet Cong-controlled countryside. When the unit went to Dak To, the VC overran their compound.
Elkins' descriptions of combat and post-battle scenes contain an uninhibited nakedness of emotions that are gut-wrenching. He does not dwell on gore; he makes concrete observations about death and moves on.
Naturally, the men despised Sgt. Sidell. Elkins played a major role as spokesman for his fellow draftees. They sent protest letters to their commander and—surprise—Sgt. Sidell was reassigned.
At this point the story makes a U-turn. Under a new commander, Elkins found a broadminded friend. Because Elkins knew his job and did it well, the new lieutenant gave him almost unlimited freedom and Elkins took advantage of it.
Elkins at An Khe, Christmas 1966
He continued to meet his obligations as a traveling preventative medicine lecturer and trained new troops to emulate his humorous, sex-centered, and highly effective manner of educating the masses on how to avoid sexually transmitted diseases.
Parallel with that throughout the second half of the book, Elkins does little more than frantically pursue women, day after day in Saigon and during R&R in Bangkok. The story becomes a sexual romp with a lineup of beautiful women with whom he falls in love. He promises the moon to each of them—after all, he was 19 years old.
Elkins repeatedly shatters today's standards about sex and race. He warns the reader that he uses "some harsh words, some derogatory terms, and some graphic scenes." He used them, he says, because he wanted his book to be "as realistic as possible." He delivers in every department.
Phil Elkins loathed the Army. It stole a year of his life for no productive purpose, he believes. The book's outrageousness shows, however, that despite the system, he followed his self-centered lifestyle, which makes his Vietnam War story one of a kind.
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Fort Bragg to Hué by James M. Dorn
What is it with all these lawyers who, having served in the Vietnam War, after retiring from the bar, write a war memoir and not one about their lengthy legal careers. My theory is that their short war experiences are more memorable than their decades-long practice of law.
One of the latest such war memoirs is Fort Bragg to Hué: A Paratrooper with the 82nd and 173rd Airborne in Vietnam, 1968-1970 (McFarland, 234 pp. $29.95, hardcover; $13.49, Kindle) by retired Army Maj. James M. Dorn. In this highly readable and lucid book, Dorn chronicles his two-year Vietnam War tour of duty, during which he served in three of the war's four Corps—all except IV Corps in the Mekong Delta.
2nd Lt. Dorn and his 82nd Airborne unit—the Third Brigade—were sent to Vietnam on an emergency deployment in February 1968. He began as a Public Information Officer running a small brigade newspaper and added Post Exchange Officer to his portfolio. After five months, he was transferred and, as an XO, commanded his battalion's defense perimeter at night for nine months. Then he was transferred to Saigon for five months to lead a platoon defending the U.S. Embassy.
Dorn found his niche and his love as a platoon leader. Then he was transferred to the 173rd, where, for four months, he was in command of a recon platoon. After yet another transfer, he commanded another infantry platoon for six months. Then, after turning down an offer to be a staff XO, he ran squad-size patrols as a platoon leader in the pacification program.
Dorn spent his final months in-country as an Assistant Operations Officer at battalion HQ. He describes all those assignments in great detail.
A 173rd Trooper in-country
The strength of the book is how Dorn conveys the boredom, fatigue, mud, rain, leeches, and the endless and exhausting days humping the boonies on patrol without contact with the enemy. He pulls no punches in his criticism of some of the decisions made by superiors, several of which led to unnecessary casualties. He was relentless in his work ethic and preparation for operations and for the safety of his men. He was creative when necessary and—when deserved—praises his superior officers.
Dorn had limited contact with the Vietnamese people, but, after politely refusing to use nuoc mam (fermented fish) sauce at the one meal he had with a Vietnamese family, I hope he has since acquired a taste for it.
Dorn recounts a USO show in which he first thought the veteran actor and World War II veteran Tom Tully was a "wino." In the book, he belatedly offers an apology and hopes that Tully will accept. Alas, Tully, who was nominated for an Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his role in The Caine Mutiny, cannot accept because he died in 1982.
While on that Vietnam USO tour, Tully contracted a filarial worm, which ultimately led to the amputation of his left leg, as well as to pleuritis, deafness and serious debilitation, and alll but ended his acting career.
One can never imagine the story behind the person who pops out of a chopper for a USO show.
–Harvey Weiner
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A Tour of Chuong Thien Province by John Raschke
Posted on January 4, 2023 by vvaposted
John Raschke's A Tour of Chuong Thien Province: A U.S. Army Lieutenant with MACV Advisory Team 73 in the Mekong Delta,1969-1970 (McFarland, 238 pp. $29.95, paperback) tells the remarkable story of a young second lieutenant's 10-and-half month tour as part of a MACV advisory team in one of the most dangerous—if not the most dangerous–provinces of the 44 in South Vietnam. Raschke, a life member of Vietnam Veterans of America, grew up on an Illinois farm, was one of ten children in a house with no indoor plumbing, and educated in a one-room schoolhouse.
His book is well written and is as much a history as a war memoir. Considering that Rascke kept a diary only of his combat operations and that he waited almost fifty years to begin the book, the level of detail and recall in it is extraordinary. It is supported by substantial research, endnotes, a glossary, a "what happened to them" section, and an index.
The contribution of this book to Vietnam War military history is Raschke's documentation of the role of U.S. military advisers to the South Vietnamese. Each adviser had a separate role from other members of his 50-person advisory team and each role required training, initiative, and judgment. John Raschke had all of these qualities, well beyond his years. I know—I was his hooch mate.
Raschke was the engineer adviser, but when he realized his more experienced Vietnamese engineer counterpart didn't often need his advice, he made himself useful to the Team and the war effort by volunteering to take part in many combat operations. He was so effective in the latter role that the Province Senior Advisor officially switched Raschke's duty position for a month so that he could qualify for the Combat Infantryman Badge, his proudest decoration and one he richly deserved.
Among Raschke's many combat operations was his heroic rescue under intense enemy fire of a fellow Team member who had been shot six times, including a bullet in his heart and one in his head. He miraculously survived and Rascke (and I) visited him a few days later in the Can Tho hospital. A mason jar with six bullets inside sat at his bedside.
The book emphasizes the warm relationship between the American Team members and the South Vietnamese. To the Team, they were not "gooks" or "slopes" or "the other," but rather close friends and equals. They were combat buddies.
John Raschke spent decades trying to locate members of the Team, including those who were members when he was not there. The Team existed for nine years. The book discusses the seven reunions Raschke has organized since 2009, their cathartic and healing aspects, and the new and renewed friendships that have resulted.
The first reunion in 2009 included the first meeting between Raschke and the soldier he rescued from the rice paddy since we saw him in the Can Tho hospital 40 years earlier.
In Proust's In Search of Lost Time, the fictional narrator recreates his youth as filtered through his subsequent life experiences and accumulated wisdom. In a sense, John Raschke does the same in this book, but with a humility and a modesty that Proust's narrator lacked.
Looking back, Raschke understates what he did, and that makes the book even more compelling.
Posted in History, Memoir, Nonfiction, Paperback, Vietnam veterans, Vietnam War, Vietnam War History, Vietnam War memoir | Tagged A Tour in Chuong Thien Province, Advisory Team 73 Vietnam War, John Raschke, John S. Raschke, Vietnam War, Vietnam War MACV Advisor, Vietnam War memoir
MASH Doctor in Vietnam: by Reuel S. Long
Posted on December 28, 2022 by vvaposted
Reuel Long has lived a highly challenging life. In the Vietnam War as an anesthesiologist, sometimes surgeon, and too-frequently a soul-blistering, life-or-death triage doctor, he dealt with more gore and destruction than any human being should have to endure. His compassion for the troops he treated taught him to detest leaders such as President Richard Nixon who prosecuted the war despite preaching otherwise.
Long tells his life story in MASH Doctor in Vietnam: A Memoir of the War and After (McFarland, 227 pp. $29.95, paperback; $13.49, Kindle). He begins by unfolding his experiences as a young man and progressed to the present time with an emphasis on his work treating people with combat wounds.
Long smoothly describes his medical training and his initial jobs in emergency rooms that prepared him for his medical responsibilities as an "obligated volunteer" (draftee) in and around Chu Lai and Da Nang during his 1970-71 Vietnam War tour of duty. At the 27th MASH unit and then the 95th Evacuation Hospital, he handled countless offbeat situations that built on each other. During that year, his life held no dull moments.
He provided anesthesia for amputations and eviscerations and laparotomies for bowel perforations and bleeding, as well as debridements of fragmentation wounds, and craniotomies. Case after case of unsightly mutilations depressed him. As he says: "All of us honed our skills and got very efficient at our tasks, but at a terrible price."
Long more than captures the trauma of the time with stories such as a soldier begging doctors not to amputate his legs; a shattered man with half of a body striking a nurse so he can be left alone to die; and the image of a torso hacked by spinning helicopter rotor blades.
For Long's MASH team, the destruction of bodies reached a climax when the North Vietnamese Army attacked Fire Support Base Mary Ann on March 28, 1971, killing 30 Americans and wounded nearly 80. Overwhelmed by the number of casualties and threatened by rocket attacks, doctors and other medical personnel wore helmets and flak jackets in the operating rooms.
Since the war, Long has concentrated on doctoring and fatherhood, which he talks about at length. He has worked and lived primarily in his hometown of Flint, Michigan. Forty-four years after the war, Long met and befriended Jim Dehlin, a double-amputee he had helped recover after being serverely wonded in a booby-trap explosion in Vietnam. Long includes a mini-memoir of Dehlin with many photographs about the former lieutenant's highly successful post-war life.
Vietnam War MASH hospital medical personnel waiting for casualties
Taking a last look at events from a half century gone by, the final chapter of MASH Doctor in Vietnam offers a tell-all account of the jamming problem of the U.S. Army's M-16 rifle. Metallurgist Dan Sebastian helped Long with his insider knowledge of the issue. Although Sebastian's information was classified, the two men decided it should be publicized even at this late date. Long cites the case as an example of governmental mismanagement that needlessly cost the lives of American fighting men.
I enjoyed the book because, in thirty years of both military and civilian medical duties, Reuel Long accepted challenges beyond the norm and solved problems by improvising solutions. His independent character favored his patients above the medical administrators, and he freely shared his skills and time among the needy.
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Passing Time by W.D. Ehrhart
Passing Time: Memoir of a Vietnam Veteran against the War (McFarland, 303 pp. $19.99, paperback; $10.99, Kindle) is a newly published revised edition of W.D. Ehrhart's classic 1989 memoir of his time in the Vietnam War and a few years after. Ehrhart is considered by many to be the most important American poet to come out of the war. He served thirteen months as a U.S. Marine in South Vietnam.
Passing Time is the second of Ehrhart's memoir trilogy. The others are Vietnam-Perkasie: A Combat Marine's Memoir (1983) and Busted: A Vietnam Veteran in Nixon's America (1995).
Bill Ehrhart enlisted in the Marines right out of high school in the spring of 1966. Since he was only 17, he needed his parents' signatures to join. He wanted to go to Vietnam, and got his wish, serving a combat-heavy tour based at Con Thien and seeing action throughout I Corps. He recalls a time when he was reading a letter from his mother encouraging him to stop smoking while he was in the middle of an artillery assault.
On one mission Ehrhart moved from one hamlet to another over several hours, blowing up and burning hooches. At the time he hated such actions, but felt as though they were necessary. He had only wanted to do his duty as he had been raised to understand it. Receiving a Purple Heart, he considered it a "booby prize" since all you need to do to get it is "to be in the wrong place at the wrong time."
After serving in Vietnam the young Marine returned to a country that appeared, in his eyes, to have radically changed. "When I'd gotten back to the States, I discovered that in my absence America had become an alien place in which and to which I no longer seemed to belong." He volunteered to go back to Vietnam, but was sent to Okinawa and then the Philippines.
Once he was out of the Corps Ehrhart began attending classes at Swarthmore College in his home state of Pennsylvania. He was older than most of his fellow students and soon became aware that he was likely the only Vietnam War veteran at the school.
In college he had a change of heart about the war and his role in it. Large events spurred the changes, such as the May 1970 National Guard shootings at Kent State University and the release of the Pentagon Papers, but he also had reoccurring nightmares of atrocities he had witnessed.
Ehrhart (left) in country
Ehrhart joined the student antiwar movement, he says, when he realized "It was time to stop the war." Once he became involved, he went all in.
Many of sentences in Passing Time are naturally poetic. Such as:
"The moon was almost full, and the sky was clear, and the trees and buildings cast shadows on the dark earth."
"As the gray false dawn gave way to a glowing pink fringe on the edge of a cloudless sky…."
"My whole life didn't really lie in front of me, but rather lay behind me broken and scattered like the bodies of the Vietnamese I had left broken and scattered among the green rice shoots."
It's great to see Bill Ehrhart's work republished by McFarland. His memoirs and poems need to be read as long as there is a memory of America's participation in war in Vietnam.
–Bill McCloud
Posted in Electronic Book, Memoir, Nonfiction, Paperback, Vietnam veterans, Vietnam War, Vietnam War Marine memoir, Vietnam War memoir | Tagged Passing Time Ehrhart, Vietanm War Memoir, W.D. Ehrhart, W.D. Ehrhart memoir
Marching to a Silent Tune by Gerald R. Gioglio
Gerald Gioglio's Marching to a Silent Tune: A Journal from We Shall to Hell No (ACTA Publications. $19.95, paperback) is a compelling book. This Vietnam War era memoir is a well-executed scholarly effort worthy of a graduate thesis. It also is a deep dive into the psyche of a newly drafted soldier coming to grips with his Catholic upbringing and its conflicting demands as he goes through Army Basic Training and Infantry AIT with an assignment to Vietnam in the offing.
Gioglio, a life member of Vietnam Veterans of America, began questioning the morality of war based on his upbringing, as well as military life in general. He describes Basic and AIT as dehumanizing and degrading, with drill instructors belittling him and his fellow trainees as they try to turn them into trained Viet Cong killers.
Throughout the book Gioglio poses a series of italicized questions and observations that read like a psychologist's footnotes from a counseling session. It's almost as if he's falling back on his religious training to define the unwholesome challenges he encounters in the military.
This confused and unhappy soldier finally decides that the solution to his inner turmoil is to become a Conscience Objector and to seek a discharge from the Army on that basis, thus avoiding being deployed to the warzone and forced to take the lives of enemy combatants. Spoiler alert: Jerry Gioglio eventually gains CO status, is discharged, and joins Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
This is a book suffused with deeply held beliefs and is a worthwhile read—perhaps a necessary read.
–Tom Werzyn
Posted in Antiwar Movement, Memoir, Nonfiction, Paperback, Vietnam War, Vietnam War memoir | Tagged Gerald Gioglio, Jerry Gioglio, Marching to a Silent Tune, Marching to a Silent Tune Gioglio, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Vietnam war conscientious objector
A Different Military Life by Stephen Frushour
Retired U.S. Air Force Col. Stephen Frushour strings together countless engaging anecdotes in his colorful memoir A Different Military Life: Interesting Short Stories from 12418 Days of Service (226 pp., $8.50, paperback). Frushour guides the reader through virtually every step of a military career that spanned four decades. It begins with with his plebe year at West Point in the fall of 1964, and moves through his service as an artillery officer in the Vietnam War and his transition to becoming an orthopedic surgeon in the Army and then the Air Force.
Anyone even remotely familiar with the four years of training and service at the United States Military Academy likely knows that the first year—the Plebe year—can be the most difficult. Upperclassmen inspect every aspect of the new cadet's life; demerits are handed out for the slightest infraction. Whether a cadet's uniform is not impeccably turned out, or a bed is not perfectly made, the opportunities are endless.
But, as with other elements in his life, Frushour finds a quiet humor in it all, offering the reader reasonable questions: Exactly how is it possible to have clean laundry improperly placed in a clean laundry bag? Why is it necessary that a cadet design his own guide to refer to when he is ordered to slice a cake into seven pieces of exactly the same size? The purpose, of course, is to instill in the cadet habits of precision that must soon become instinct—a given for anyone training to become an artillery officer.
In Vietnam, the newly minted lieutenant was assigned as a Forward Observer, Fire Direction Officer, and Air Observer with C Battery of the 1st Battalion/27th Field Artillery Regiment in from February 1969 to February 1970. He Frushour makes plain for the reader two key aspects of a mobile unit he was part of that this reviewer was previously unaware of. First, despite their appearance, tracked vehicles' resemblance to tanks is misleading. Unlike a tank, the vehicle's aluminum construction makes it vulnerable to enemy fire, and requires extra vigilance by the crew when going into action.
One harrowing event Frushour recounts occurs when, on returning from a combat assignment, the brakes of one track failed. In order to stay on the road, the driver often had to rotate the vehicle as much as two hundred-seventy degrees. When it finally broke down, Frushour offers a gripping account of he and his men finding themselves trapped and outnumbered in enemy territory waiting for help that they thought would never arrive.
Like many such accounts, Frushour provides context with each anecdote. Yet, at the same time, he requires the reader to be familiar with military strategy and the political landscape of the war in Vietnam. The work also would benefit from stronger editing, especially with formatting and spelling.
But these are minor missteps when considering the colorful journey Steve Frushour brings to us as he leaves Vietnam for Germany, and then returns to U.S., as well as his transition from soldier to surgeon, and from the Army to the Air Force.
This is account of a life well lived is as enjoyable as it is edifying.
–Mike McLaughlin
Posted in Memoir, Nonfiction, Paperback, Vietnam War, Vietnam War memoir | Tagged A Different Military Life, A Different Military Life Frushour, Stephen J. Frushour, Steve Frushour Vietnam War, Vietnam War memoir
Hail and Farewell by Frank Jodaitis
Posted on December 1, 2022 by vvaposted
Frank Jodaitis's Hail and Farewell: A Vietnam Era Memoir (BookBaby, 656 pp., $26.99, paper; $7.99, Kindle) is a prodigious effort by a first-time author. Jodaitis adroitly blurs the line between memoir and fiction with this first-person account of his adventures before, during, and after his 1969-70 Army Engineering tour of duty in the Vietnam War. The post-war chapters tend to devolve into minutia regarding people, places, and occurrences, but continue to tell his story.
Jodaitis, a life member of Vietnam Veterans of America, starts by describing his college days at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. In 1967, he graduated with a Civil Engineering degree and an ROTC commission as a U.S. Army 2nd Lieutenant. The book's title refers to the social gatherings that signaled the welcomings and departures of fellow officers in the commands in which he served.
Through a series of assignments, locations and commands, Jodaitis brings the reader along as a passenger—and at times as a confidant—as he navigates the places and personalities he encountered during his time in the war. An abundance of dialogue drives the narrative.
As the chapters unwind, Jodaitis tends to close a good number of them with a bit of editorializing and introspection. These asides make for an interesting read and a deeper understanding of his frequently almost-morose takes on his surroundings. At times, some of today's events factor into his musings.
A constant thread is his wartime ebbing and flowing relationship with a girl back home, including with her changing attitudes about the war. Suffice it so it was not a happy time. Jodaitis uses his Epilogue to bring some of his relationships up to date, tie up the book, and make plain his feelings about the war.
In all, this is an interesting, albeit at times overly detailed, book that is not exactly a quick read but a deeper one than many other Vietnam War memoirs.
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The Dreaming Circus by Jim Morris
Posted on November 26, 2022 by vvaposted
The works of soldier-writer Jim Morris—who served three Army Special Forces Vietnam War tours of duty—have enraptured readers for decades. War Story, his Vietnam War memoir, and The Devil's Secret Name, largely about his time as a combat correspondent for Soldier of Fortune magazine during the 1982 war in Lebanon, are but two examples.
With his latest book, The Dreaming Circus: Special Ops, LSD, and My Unlikely Path to Toltec Wisdom (Bear & Company, 288 pp. $20, paper; $13.99, Kindle), Morris proves to be an even more fascinating person than legend holds.
Morris feels bitter about the way the U.S. abandoned the Vietnamese people in 1975. He reveals just how bitter in the opening pages of The Dreaming Circus:
"When the U.S. bailed on the people it had sent me to save all that patriotism died. The U.S. toyed with those people's lives for a decade and a half, and then casually abandoned them when the going got tough."
Before he served in Vietnam, Morris patriotically supported the war. After being wounded four times, that patriotism evaporated when the U.S. failed to keep a promise to the beloved Montagnards with whom he fought. "When I retired from the Army, I had done all the right stuff," he writes. "I had repeatedly put my life on the line [but was] abandoned by the people who sent me to do it. The basis on which I had built my life was destroyed."
Back home, in late 1969, Morris's consciousness was awakened after he read Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid and became aware of Ken Kesey and his frolicking busload of hippies known as the Merry Pranksters. "One thing I noticed is how many in Kesey's group were ex-GIs. Not just ex-GIs, but former combat arms officers," Morris writes.
Jim Morris In Country
In one of his own forays into the world of LSD, the lives of Jim Morris, soldier, and Jim Morris, acid imbiber, seem to collide. In The Dreaming Circus, he writes about "walking into his soul." That is precisely what he did in finding "the path to Toltec wisdom."
The Toltecs, who flourished from the 10th to the 12th centuries, were the predecessors of the Aztecs. For Morris, their wisdom was channeled through two people he writes extensively about: mystical historian Carlos Castaneda, author of The Teachings of Don Juan, with whom Morris seems to have connected in a deeply spiritual sense, and author-shaman don Miguel Ruiz, whom he interviewed.
From their teachings, Morris learned "spells, prayers, and ceremonies are ways of focusing intent to create what you want. That means the world you experience is part of you, as much as the other way around. You are a wave in a vast ocean, but the ocean is you. Claim it all. See what you want to see. You have eternity to complete this task."
The Dreaming Circus: Special Ops, LSD, and My Unlikely Path to Toltec Wisdom is a book that could well help readers do so.
–Marc Philip Yablonka
Marc Phillip Yablonka is a Burbank, California-based military journalist and author. His book Hot Mics and TV Lights: The American Forces Vietnam Network, will be published in 2023 by Double Dagger Books.
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Labour MP Jim Fitzpatrick has said he is "not far away" from voting for Theresa May's Brexit deal on Tuesday.
The former minister, whose Poplar and Limehouse constituents voted 67% for remain, said the "danger of no deal is still there" and the PM's plan was "the only real alternative on the table".
Fitzpatrick used a speech in the Commons on Friday to warn "time is running out" as he branded a so-called "people's vote" on the deal "code for reversing original decision".
"Some colleagues on my side have said nothing has changed since the government pulled the vote in December and I disagree," he said, as MPs continued their lengthy debate on May's withdrawal agreement.
The London MP expressed doubts about Labour's policy of demanding a general election, saying it would mean delaying Article 50 and "perhaps" another referendum.
"The amount of time, energy and money that we have already spent on Brexit could be duplicated," he said.
He also said furious rows between Tory MPs and Speaker John Bercow, as well as remainer MPs such as Anna Soubry being subjected to abuse outside parliament demonstrated "just how toxic this issue is and it has to end".
The Poplar and Limehouse MP said: "I'm talking myself into supporting the Prime Minister's deal next Tuesday against no deal and against further delay.
"I'm not quite there yet but I'm not far away.
May's deal is expected to be defeated on January 15, with the vote delayed from December in a bid to convince more MPs to offer their support.
The government holds out hopes that some Labour MPs could be convinced to back her after she offered a number of concessions on environmental protections and workers' rights.
Fellow Labour MP Mike Gapes later claimed his party was in a "bizarre position" over Brexit, noting: "According to the brief from the PLP (Parliamentary Labour Party) this week we're going for a sensible Brexit – whatever that is.
He warned May's deal offered a "blindfold Brexit" and he expected it to be rejected, adding he wants Article 50 revoked.


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For example- textBox1 contains 01, textBox2 contains 02, textBox3 contains 03.
The final textBox output will be 010203 and this data will be stored in the database. Is it possible?

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You can just concatenate the Text of all the three TextBox(s).
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A: Sure, just concatenate the text property textbox1,textbox2 and textbox3 into the text property of the other textbox3. You'll have to implement the DB update logic separately.

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Covid graph goes up, active cases past 1,600 in Himachal Pradesh
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Shimla, January 6
Political rallies, Christmas and New Year celebrations seem to have triggered the resurgence of Covid-19 in the state. From a low of 344 active cases recorded on December 27, the count has gone up to 1,655 in just 10 days.
The Covid graph had been going down consistently in the state until December 27 – the number of active cases had slipped to 344 in the state, the lowest in the past several months. A day later, the Covid graph took an upward turn, with the active cases rising to 370. The sudden upward turn continued over the next few days and the tally on Thursday stood at 1,655 cases.
Along with the number of active cases, the positivity rate, too, has been rising fast. On December 27, the positivity rate was less than 0.57 per cent; on January 5, when 358 positive cases were reported, the positivity rate jumped past five per cent. On Thursday, the positivity rate had risen to 6.9 per cent with 481 cases recorded in the day.
While just one omicron case has been reported so far in the state, experts feel the latest variant could be the reason for Covid's resurgence in the state. "If you see the data from across the country, 70 to 80 per cent cases are omicron related. So, yes, there's a possibility of omicron being behind the latest spike," said Dr Malay Sarkar, a member of the state Covid clinical committee.
"And given that hospitalisation has not increased much despite the spike in cases, the possibility of omicron driving the spurt becomes stronger," said Dr Sarkar.
Omicron may have caused the surge
If you see the data from across the country, 70 to 80 per cent cases are omicron related. So, yes, there's a possibility of omicron being behind the latest spike. — Dr Malay Sarkar, member of state covid clinical committee
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Осова Гора — підвищення на Поліській низовині. Розташована в межах Черняхівського району Житомирської області, на схід від села Стирти і на північний захід від села Бежова.

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Осова Гора належить до кінцево-моренних утворень дніпровського зледеніння. За іншими даними вона має неотектонічне походження. Гора вкрита трав'яною рослинністю.

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This amazing dress is from GroopDealz and when I finally got it in the mail I knew that it needed to be blogged. As a busy Mom, you don't get many opportunities to have your picture taken so you use what you have available. This meant that my shopping trip to Wal-Mart became the perfect chance to snap a few pictures!
The dress is super comfy, has pockets and is the perfect length for work or play. I paired it with this fun Forever 21 sweater vest and my favorite Carlos Santana booties from Famous Footwear. I finished the look off with this amazing necklace that I received from my Secret Santa at work! She said that she found it at Maurices and it has quickly become one of my favorite pieces of jewelry! The little plaid clutch is a pencil pouch from Barnes & Noble that was on Christmas Clearance… Score!!


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Quality services for HW travelers at a unique location in charming natural surroundings. Our constant goal is to propose the opportunity to experience the genuine local qualities by having access to adventure.
Athemed resort, centered on the union of experiencing nature and relax. Its unique identity is a location chosen by who loves a full immersion in the uncontaminated nature of the island of Salina, the most authentic among the Aeolian Islands. A place to experience nature, surrounded by a timeless habitat. Capofaro Malvasia & Resort is the result of the love for the vines and the sea by the Tasca d'Almerita family, an icon of quality in Sicilian viticulture.
Simplicity, tranquility, immersed in natural beauties, access to genuine local and in house produced food, opportunity to mental relax.
Lipari, Vulcano, Salina, Alicudi, Filicudi, Panarea and Stromboli: the seven sister islands rise from the Tyrrhenian sea at about forty kilometers from the Sicilian coast, and have a history and mythology that date back thousands of years.
The Aeolian Islands are volcanic islands that according to the legends were created by Aeolus, god of the winds. Inhabited since prehistoric times, they were always in the crossroads of the Mediterranean civilizations and a source of nature's mythological expression.
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Salina is a UNESCO heritage site and a natural reserve since 1981. There are panoramic trekking routs that lead up to "Monte dei Porri". The tour of the "Fossa delle Felci" mountain is a must; it has numerous plant and animal species, from which there are views of the Sicilian coast and also Mount Etna.
A crystal clear sea meets high dark cliffs spotted with lush vegetation: circumnavigating the island of Salina, with a boat or "skiff" (typical fishing boats), is a breathtaking experience, which allows to discover secret corners of the coast and to swim in uncontaminated waters. Salina is exactly in the center of the archipelago: there are daily excursions to all of the other islands by boat or hydrofoil.
Families with children are welcome in some of our rooms that are adequate due to their size and location. Although it is not an "adults only" concept we inform parents with small children (under the age of 12) that Salina is not equipped with attractions, programs and beaches for them.
Each room is different from the other, with a private sea view terrace. Surrounded by fifteen acres of vineyards, they are divided in 4 types: Standard rooms; Superior double rooms; Junior Suite, Suite Exclusive and Suite 21.
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Luka Jović, the Serbian centre forward is popping up in football headlines as one of the best young strikers, who caught a lot of attention of all the biggest clubs in Europe. As of now, he has already been linked with football giant Barcelona, who look to add his skills to the team. But who is Luka Jović, why is he considered one of the best at what he does, and could he really end up in Barcelona?
Luka Jović, born on December 23, 1997, in Bosnia and Herzegovina is a Serbian striker, and Benfica player, who is currently on a loan at German club Eintracht Frankfurt. He joined the club on July 1st, 2017 from Benfica on a loan with a possibility of a buyout at the end of the loan duration. Jović is to remain in Germany until June 30th, 2019, when his loan expires. After that, the German club will have a chance to sign the striker for mere £4million.
In the first season after arriving at Eintracht Frankfurt, Luka Jović already left a mark at his new team with 8 goals and 1 assist in 22 league games an. While those numbers were considered only decent for a player who arrived from Benfica B, where he scored only 2 goals in 11 games played in Portuguese 2nd division football, it was the 2018/19 season, when Luka Jović drastically improved and changed from a "decent player" into a star player. This season alone, Luka Jović scored 22 goals in 36 games for Eintracht Frankfurt in Bundesliga and Euro League combined. With 15 goals in Bundesliga, Luka Jović is the 2nd best striker, only trailing Robert Lewandowski (18 goals). On the other side, Jović is the 3rd best goal scorer in Europa League with 7 goals, which is only 2 less than the leader Oliver Giroud. Meanwhile, Jović has scored his debut goal for the Serbian national team in the friendly match against Germany (1-1).
But it's not only the number of goals Luka Jović has scored. It's the style, it's his approach to games and his dramatic improvement from last season that made his stand out of all the other players. Not surprisingly this young Serbian striker is now considered as one of the biggest sensations in football, popping on the radar of numerous football giants, especially after his historic goal against Inter Milan in the 1/8 finals of Europa League, which knocked the Italians out from the competition and brought Eintracht Frankfurt into the quarterfinals. While there are several clubs showing their interest in Jović, there is one club that knocked on Eintracht Frankfurt door that stands out and is considered to be the frontrunners to land Jović signature this summer. That club is no other than Barcelona.
Luka Jović has been on the radar of Spanish champions for a while, however, the rumours of Barcelona being serious about signing him proved to be true after three important men from Camp Nou; Pep Segura, Eric Abidal, and Ramon Planes were spotted in Italy to watch the match between Inter and Eintracht Frankfurt. It's no secret that Barcelona are looking for some fresh legs in their attack. Time is not stopping and their players are not getting any younger. That is especially true for their star striker Suarez, who blew out 32 candles on his cake in January and is well on his way to 33. While it would be hard to justify saying Suarez is getting any worse, it's reasonable for Barcelona to look for some youngsters who could be their future stars.
There is no denying Luka Jović is an exceptional striker who improved drastically this season. He is also without a doubt a key player in Eintracht Frankfurt and will be a great addition to any team that signs him. That is why it should not come off as a surprise, he has been approached by Manchester City, Chelsea and as mentioned Barcelona who will most likely be the one to sign the Serbian. But at this point, we need to think about what would that mean for Barcelona and most importantly Suarez. Suarez is approaching the twilight years of his career and if Jović ends up in the squad it will be interesting to see what the club decides to do with the Uruguayan player, who I am sure will not be too keen to play the second fiddle to a new signing.


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HomeNew BIA Head Tries to Terminate the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, a Warning Sign to All Native Nations
New BIA Head Tries to Terminate the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, a Warning Sign to All Native Nations
September 16, 2018 healingmn NewsAssistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, BIA, Klamath Tribe in Oregon, Mashpee Wampanoag, Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin, National Congress of American Indians, Pilgrims, Tara Sweeney, Termination Era
Few non-Indian people probably know about the "Termination Era" of the 1940s-1960s, when federal policy tried to terminate Native nations' sovereign rights and their reservations, and force indigenous peoples to move to the cities and assimilate to Main Stream America.
The Trump Administration is trying to revive that effort, according to a news report in IndianZ.com, targeting the "Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, whose homelands in Massachusetts are now on the chopping block," the story says.
And its raising an alarm across Indian Country.
Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Seal. Image courtesy of Nathan Stoliz.
Tara Sweeney, the new Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, issued a decision this month to take the Mashpee Wampanoag reservation out of federal trust, the first time such action has been taken since the 1950s, according to the IndianZ story.
About the Mashpee Wampanoag
The Mashpee Wampanoag, also known as the People of the First Light, have been on these lands for 12,000 years, according to the Nation's website.
However, it wasn't until 2007 — under the Bush Administration — that the Mashpee Wampanoag received federal recognition. (Native nations on the eastern seaboard were killed or displaced well before the United States became a country.)
According to the Mashpee Wampanoag's website, it took more than three decades of hard work to achieve federal recognition. It says:
In 2015, [under the Obama Administration] the federal government declared 150 acres of land in Mashpee and 170 acres of land in Taunton as the Tribe's initial reservation, on which the Tribe can exercise its full tribal sovereignty rights. The Mashpee tribe currently has approximately 2,600 enrolled citizens.
The Mashpee Wampanoag want to build a $1 billion casino on their lands.
The Trump Administration wants to strip the Mashpee Wampanoag of their federal tribal status.
Proposed Congress legislation would prevent the reservation from being dissolved, according to the IndianZ article. It's called the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Reservation Reaffirmation Act, and it appears to be the nation's best chance to survive.
Map of Southern New England, 1620-22, showing Native peoples, settlements, and English exploration sites. Image courtesy of AnthroMimus.
A Boston Globe editorial challenged the Massachusetts congressional delegation to step up to support the Mashpee Wampanoag:
No excuses. No whining about partisan gridlock. Congress has taken such action before for other tribes. They should do it for the tribe that greeted the Pilgrims and joined in the first Thanksgiving. The need to beg is a national embarrassment — and a special embarrassment for Massachusetts, as the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrim landing in Plymouth approaches.
The challenge to the Mashpee Wampanoag's federal status has raised "red flags" across Indian Country, according to a June story in WBUR (Boston's NPR station),:
"While it's not exactly the same [as the Termination Era], this brings back those same types of concerns, that those lands that have been seen as secure and protected are potentially not as secure as they were before," said Derrick Beetso, senior counsel for the National Congress of American Indians, the largest organization representing tribal communities.
Two dozen tribes, from the Apache in the Southwest to the Sioux in the Dakotas, have written letters in support of legislation in Congress proposed by Massachusetts lawmakers to enshrine the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe's land status.
The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) issued a statement opposing the BIA's efforts to terminate the Mashpee Wampanoag:
NCAI is extremely disappointed in this decision, as it reflects the obvious failure of the Federal Government to uphold its trust responsibility to Indian tribes. NCAI demands an immediate response from the Department as to whether this decision indicates that the Administration's current land policy towards Indian tribes is one of "how to get to no."
Quick History on the Termination Policy
To bring this discussion closer to home, the federal government tried to "terminate" recognized tribes more half a century ago, including the Menominee Nation in Wisconsin. It was ugly.
Here is how the website Indian Country Wisconsin recounts the Menominee Nation's termination, and the federal government's abusive and strong-armed tactics back in the 1950s:
The Bureau of Indian Affairs began to assemble a list of tribes believed to have the economic prosperity needed to sustain themselves after termination, and at the top of the list was the Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin. One reason the BIA chose the Menominee was that the tribe had successful forestry and lumbering operations that the BIA believed could support the tribe economically. Congress passed an act in 1954 that officially called for the termination of the Menominee as a federally recognized Indian tribe.
Termination for the Menominee did not happen immediately. Instead, the 1954 act set in motion a process that would lead to termination. The Menominee were not comfortable with the idea, but they had recently won a case against the government for mismanagement of their forestry enterprises, and the $8.5 million award was tied to their proposed termination. [Utah Sen. Arthur V.] Watkins personally visited the Menominee and said they would be terminated whether they liked it or not, and if they wanted to see their $8.5 million, they had to cooperate with the federal government. Given this high-handed and coercive threat, the tribal council reluctantly agreed.
Termination turned out to be a very complex process, requiring seven years. Menominee was "terminated" in 1961. "All tribal property was transferred to a corporation, Menominee Enterprises, Inc. (MEI), and the reservation became a new Wisconsin county, Menominee County," Indian Country Wisconsin said.
It was a disaster. The county was the least populated and poorest in Wisconsin. The Menominee stopped receiving federal funds. Among other things, it forced the reservation's hospital to close.
Klamath Termination Policy
In 1954, the federal government also terminated the Klamath Nation in Oregon, with similar disastrous results. According to Wikipedia:
In the 1950s, the Klamath tribe in Oregon was one of the strongest and wealthiest tribes in the nation. They had created a vigorous economy based on timber resources and imported livestock, which nearly fully supported the entire tribe.
That said, those living on the reservation were mostly poor and unemployed.
Within the tribe, termination had been supported only by a few who were loyal to Sen. Watkins. After being terminated, the tribe was cut off from services for education, health care, housing and related resources. Termination directly caused decay within the tribe including poverty, alcoholism, high suicide rates, low educational achievement, disintegration of the family, poor housing, high dropout rates from school, disproportionate numbers in penal institutions, increased infant mortality, decreased life expectancy, and loss of identity.
The Indian Country Wisconsin website continues:
The experiences of both tribes [Menominee and Klamath] were so negative that other tribes slated to be terminated strongly resisted. Congress also saw that termination did not bring about the desired results, and by the late 1950s and early 1960s a new group of congressmen halted the process of terminating tribes.
The Menominee and Klamath nations eventually — with effort — had their lands and status restored. But it should be no surprise that the BIA's move to terminate the Mashpee Wampanoag is retraumatizing Native nations across the country.
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deion says:
The Bureau of Indian Affairs decision to take away the home land of The Washpee tribe be a devastating blow to the aboriginal community across the nation, and show poor judgment in land management. Seizing the land from the Washpee, a no federal recognized tribe, strips them of the ability to governance their own community. which is crucial for their cultural survival and protecting sacred sites. The subject of landownership will always be an issue for indigenous communities seeking to keep their culture alive and pass down traditions to future generations. I feel that native land management is an essential to component to preserving biodiversity, and without it the world will miss out on the opportunity to enjoy some of the wonderful gifts earth has to offer.
John Fortune says:
Warrior of the East Coast Rappahannock Tribe.
This situation is a slippery slope. Termination of tribes can become a norm in our congressional leadership. Native American must fight such action by uniting and becoming one voice. The love of money will again jlbe the downfall of all we have achieved.
Amid health crisis, Trump administration finds time to attack Indigenous rights and the environment | says:
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Egyptian teenager assaulted in England last month has died: British media
Ahram Online , Thursday 15 Mar 2018
Egyptian teenager Mariam Moustafa who died after being attacked in Nottingham, England on February 20 (Photo: Nottingham Post)
An Egyptian teenager who was violently assaulted last month in the UK died on Wednesday, the Nottingham Post website said.
Eighteen-year-old Mariam Moustafa Abdel Salam, a Central College student in the city of Nottingham, was attacked outside a shopping mall by a group of women on February 20 and fell into a coma following the incident.
"She died in Nottingham City Hospital today (Wednesday, March 14)," the news website said.
A 17-year-old female suspect had been arrested by police on suspicion of "assault occasioning grievous bodily harm," but was later released on conditional bail, the website added.
It said a post-mortem examination is set to take place.
"Our investigation is ongoing and extensive enquiries have already been completed," Detective Chief Inspector Mat Healey, of Nottinghamshire Police, was quoted as saying
He urged witnesses of the incident, which took place outside the intu Victoria Centre, or anyone with information that might be of help to investigators to come forward.
Egypt's foreign ministry said late on Wednesday that the Egyptian consulate in London will follow up on legal measures to punish the culprits and hold accountable those who showed negligence in providing necessary medical care to the teenager.
The ministry said it has been in touch with the girl's family and is taking necessary procedures to send her body home.


The Kumquat identity came into existence in 1992, although its mapped human is somewhat older than that.
The Kumquat is opinionated, overeducated, and in debt. The final two facts may be related. It has been known to write various stuff for its own and others' amusement. The erotica is probably the most popular.
Pastimes include writing, cooking, board gaming, acting as interpreter between Brits and USers online, and generally stressing out.
The Kumquat got a proper job after 9 years of being a student, has paid off its student loans, and now knows way too much about breeding goats. These facts are all related. It has also been enjoying DIY and is less stressed.
The Kumquat now has what has been described as "a grown-up house", presumably to go with the grown-up job. Presumably this means rather creaky and on the verge of falling apart.
For people wondering whether the Kumquat is male, female, or what, I point out that citrus fruits do not have gender and therefore the pronoun 'it' will do nicely.


CXXVI. Cleaving to the Lord. – We Love God!
CXXVI. Cleaving to the Lord.
is, here is the Church.
they should cleave to the Lord.
The Lord is the sole object to be grasped and held.
subjective religion is, cleaving to Him.
all other victories go for nothing.
1. Let us cleave to Him by reiterated acts of faith.
2. Let us cleave to Him by habitual contemplation.
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The best mathematical equation I have ever seen: 1 cross + 3 nails = 4 given.


Firefighters hose down the roof of a Mililani townhouse this morning that was severely damaged by a fire that started in a bedroom.
A two-story Mililani townhouse was gutted today and two other units were damaged in a fire that displaced a family of six.
A mother and her infant daughter and 3-year-old son escaped uninjured from the 9:13 a.m. fire at 94-275 Kupulau Place., said Capt. Richard Soo of the Honolulu Fire Department. The fire was reported under control at 9:26 a.m.
Adjacent units suffered fire and water damage, Soo said. Damage was estimated at $90,000 to the building and $25,000 to the family's belongings.
An 18-year-old woman escaped serious injury yesterday when she was thrown off the Wilson Bridge near the entrance to Wahiawa town by her boyfriend.
The woman managed to grab the man, also 18, with whom she was arguing at about noon as she was going over the railing, police said. The man and woman went over the bridge together and landed on the ground about 5 feet below.
Witnesses told police the man started to choke the woman but fled as people started gathering on the bridge.
The man surrendered to police at 12:40 p.m. and was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. The argument involved allegations by the woman that her boyfriend stole money and jewelry from her to buy drugs, police said.


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Document 52011IP0239
Cultural dimensions of EU external actions European Parliament resolution of 12 May 2011 on the cultural dimensions of the EU's external actions (2010/2161(INI))
OJ C 377E , 7.12.2012, p. 135–141 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)
CE 377/135
Cultural dimensions of EU external actions
European Parliament resolution of 12 May 2011 on the cultural dimensions of the EU's external actions (2010/2161(INI))
2012/C 377 E/18
having regard to Article 167 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU),
having regard to Article 27(3) of the Treaty on European Union,
having regard to Article 11 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union,
having regard to the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (UNESCO Convention),
having regard to the Council Decision 2010/427/EU of 26 July 2010 establishing the organisation and functioning of the European External Action Service (1),
having regard to Directive 2010/13/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 March 2010 on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the provision of audiovisual media services (Audiovisual Media Services Directive) (2),
having regard to Decision No 1041/2009/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 establishing an audiovisual cooperation programme with professionals from third countries (MEDIA Mundus 2011–2013) (3),
having regard to Decision No 1983/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue (2008) (4),
having regard to the European Agenda for Culture in a Globalising World (COM(2007)0242),
having regard to the Commission report on the implementation of the European Agenda for Culture (COM(2010)0390),
having regard to its resolution of 5 May 2010 on Europeana – the next steps (5),
having regard to the Council Conclusions of 18 and 19 November 2010 on the Work Plan for Culture 2011 – 2014 (2010/C 325/01) (6),
having regard to the Council Conclusions of 20 November 2008 on the promotion of cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue in the external relations of the Union and its Member States (2008/C 320/04) (7),
having regard to the United Nations Millennium Declaration (2000), and in particular the articles under the heading 'Human rights, democracy and good governance',
having regard to the United Nations resolution entitled 'Keeping the promise: united to achieve the Millennium Development Goals' of 22 September 2010,
having regard to the United Nations resolution entitled 'Culture and Development' of 20 December 2010,
having regard to the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement signed in Cotonou on 23 June 2000 (8), as first amended in Luxembourg on 25 June 2005 (9) and as amended for the second time in Ouagadougou on 22 June 2010 (10),
having regard to the Protocol on Cultural Cooperation annexed to the model Free Trade Agreement,
having regard to Rule 48 of its Rules of Procedure,
having regard to the report of the Committee on Culture and Education (A7-0112/2011),
whereas the EU is a culturally diverse community of values, whose motto – 'United in diversity' – finds expression in a variety of ways,
whereas successive EU enlargements, personal mobility in the shared European area, established and new migratory flows and exchanges of all kinds with the rest of the world help foster that cultural diversity,
whereas culture has intrinsic value, enriches people's lives and fosters mutual understanding and respect,
whereas the European Agenda for Culture sets the strategic objective of promoting culture as a vital element in the EU's international relations,
whereas culture can and should be a facilitator for development, inclusion, innovation, democracy, human rights, education, conflict prevention and reconciliation, mutual understanding, tolerance and creativity,
whereas the Union and its Member States, citizens, businesses and civil society both in the EU and in third countries are key actors in cultural relations,
whereas cultural goods, including sports, contribute to the EU's non-material development and economy, fostering the realisation of a knowledge-based society, through, in particular, cultural industries and tourism,
whereas artists act as de facto cultural diplomats exchanging and confronting different aesthetic, political, moral and social values,
whereas new media and communication technologies, such as the internet, can be an instrument for freedom of expression, pluralism, the exchange of information, human rights, development, freedom of assembly, democracy and inclusion and for facilitating access to cultural content and education,
whereas cultural cooperation and cultural dialogue, which are building blocks of cultural diplomacy, can serve as instruments for global peace and stability,
Culture and European values
Underlines the cross-cutting nature and the importance of culture in all aspects of life, and believes that culture needs to be taken into consideration in all EU external policies, in line with Article 167(4) TFEU;
Stresses the need for all EU institutions to recognise more fully the value of culture as a force for tolerance and understanding and as a tool for growth and more inclusive societies;
Calls for cooperation with the regions in each Member State in drawing up, implementing and promoting cultural policies;
Stresses that democratic and fundamental freedoms, such as freedom of expression, press freedom, freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom from intolerance, hatred and the freedom to access printed and digital information, as well as the privilege to connect and communicate – online and offline – are important preconditions for cultural expression, cultural exchanges and cultural diversity;
Recalls the importance of the cultural cooperation protocols and their added value in bilateral agreements on development and trade; urges the Commission to present its strategy on future cultural cooperation protocols and to consult Parliament and civil society on this strategy;
Reiterates that culture plays a role in bilateral agreements on development and trade, and through measures such as the European instruments for Development Cooperation, for Stability, for Democracy and Human Rights and for Pre-Accession, the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), the Eastern Partnership, the Union for the Mediterranean and the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR), which all allocate resources to cultural programmes;
Emphasises that transatlantic cooperation and cooperation with neighbouring European states is important to advance joint interests and common values;
Values public-private cooperation with a strong role for civil society, including NGOs and European cultural networks, in addressing the cultural aspects of the EU's external relations;
EU programmes
Is concerned at the fragmentation of external EU cultural policy and projects, which is hampering the strategic and efficient use of cultural resources and the development of a visible common EU strategy on the cultural aspects of the EU's external relations;
Urges the streamlining of internal operations in the Commission in the various DGs which focus on external relations (foreign policy, enlargement, trade, development), education and culture and the digital agenda;
States that cultural and educational exchanges can potentially strengthen civil society, foster democratisation and good governance, encourage the development of skills, promote human rights and fundamental freedoms and provide building blocks for lasting cooperation;
Supports the increasing involvement of third countries in EU cultural, mobility, youth, education and training programmes, and calls for access to these programmes to be facilitated for (young) people from third countries, such as European neighbouring countries;
Calls for coherent strategies to foster youth mobility and the mobility of cultural professionals, artists and creators, cultural and educational development (including media and ICT literacy), and access to artistic expression in all its forms; encourages, therefore, synergies between cultural, sports, education, media, multilingualism and youth programmes;
Encourages cooperation with practitioners, mediator organisations and civil society, in both Member States and third countries, in drawing up and implementing external cultural policies and in promoting cultural events and exchanges which improve mutual understanding whilst taking due account of European cultural and linguistic diversity;
Calls for the creation of a cultural visa for third-country nationals, artists and other professionals in the cultural field, along the lines of the existing Scientific Visa Programme in force since 2005; also asks the Commission to propose a short-term visa initiative with the aim of eliminating obstacles to mobility in the cultural sector;
Media and new information technologies
Stresses the importance of the EU taking action throughout the world to promote respect for freedom of expression, freedom of the press and freedom of access to audiovisual media and new information technologies, in a manner consistent with copyright rules;
Condemns the fact that repressive regimes increasingly censor and monitor the internet, and urges the Commission and the Member States to promote internet freedom globally;
Reaffirms the principle of net neutrality, which is designed to ensure that the internet remains a free and open technology, fostering democratic communication;
Emphasises the internet's role as a tool for promoting European culture, and calls on the Member States to further develop investment in broadband internet throughout the EU;
Emphasises the importance of the new media and, above all, of the internet as free, easily accessible and user-friendly communications and information platforms which should be actively used, inside and outside the EU, in the context of intercultural dialogue; in addition, stresses the importance of the new media in providing access to cultural goods and content and in making Europe's cultural heritage and history better known, inside and outside the EU, as demonstrated by key projects such as Europeana;
Calls on the Commission to create a central internet portal which both provides information on existing EU support programmes in the external relations sphere which have a cultural component and on the planning and organisation of cultural events of pan-European significance by the EU's foreign representations and acts as a central information platform to facilitate networking between cultural professionals, institutions and civil society, and which at the same time contains links to other EU-sponsored events, such as Europeana;
Cultural diplomacy and cultural cooperation
Emphasises the importance of cultural diplomacy and cultural cooperation in advancing and communicating throughout the world the EU's and the Member States' interests and the values that make up European culture; stresses the need for the EU to act as a (world) player with a global perspective and global responsibility;
Argues that the EU's external actions should focus primarily on promoting peace and reconciliation, human rights, international trade and economic development, without neglecting the cultural aspects of diplomacy;
Stresses the need to devise effective strategies for intercultural negotiations, and considers that a multicultural approach to this task may facilitate the conclusion of beneficial agreements, putting the EU and third-country partners on an equal footing;
Urges that one person in each EU representation overseas should be responsible for the coordination of cultural relations and interaction between the EU and third countries and for the promotion of European culture, in close cooperation with cultural actors and network-based organisations such as EUNIC;
Emphasises the need to adopt a comprehensive approach to cultural mediation and cultural exchange and the role of culture in fostering democratisation, human rights, conflict prevention and peace-building;
Encourages the launch of policy dialogues on culture, such as that recently initiated between the EU and India, in order to strengthen people-to-people contacts;
Encourages the setting of priorities directly linked to the cultural dimension within the EIDHR, including strengthening the rule of law, conflict management and prevention, civil society cooperation and the role of new technologies as regards freedom of expression, democratic participation and human rights;
EU external relations and European External Action Service (EEAS)
Expects the draft organisational chart of the EEAS to include positions tailored to cultural aspects, and suggests that a coordination unit be established for this purpose;
Calls on the EEAS and the Commission to coordinate the strategic deployment of the cultural aspects of external policy, incorporating culture consistently and systematically into the EU's external relations and seeking complementarity with the Member States' external cultural policies;
Calls for EEAS staff to be provided with appropriate training and further training in the cultural and digital aspects of external policy, so that they can provide coordination in this area for EU delegations, for joint European training possibilities to be offered to national experts and staff from cultural institutes, and for training facilities to be thrown open for global participation;
Calls for the inclusion of a DG Cultural and Digital Diplomacy in the organisation of the EEAS;
Encourages the EEAS, when developing its resources and competences in the cultural sphere, to cooperate with networks such as EUNIC in order to draw on their experience as independent links between the Member States and cultural mediation organisations and create and exploit synergies;
Encourages the EEAS to take account of the EU's recently established European Heritage Label as a tool to be used in relations with third countries with a view to improving knowledge and the dissemination of the culture and history of the European peoples;
Calls on the Commission to establish an interinstitutional taskforce for culture in the context of the EU's external relations in order to develop and widen coordination, streamlining, strategies and the sharing of best practices and, in that connection, to take account of the Council of Europe's activities and initiatives and to report to Parliament on the taskforce's work;
Proposes that the Commission should submit to Parliament regular reports on the implementation of this resolution on the role of culture in the EU's external relations;
Proposes the creation of specific information systems to support the mobility of artists and other professionals in the cultural field, as envisaged by the study entitled 'Information systems to support the mobility of artists and other professionals in the culture field: a feasibility study' (11);
Urges the Commission to propose and adopt in 2011 a Green Paper on a strategy on culture and cultural cooperation in the EU's external actions, to be followed by a communication;
Encourages concrete steps to foster capacity-building through the involvement of civil society and the funding of independent initiatives;
UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
Calls on the EEAS to encourage third countries to develop policies on culture and systematically to call on third countries to ratify and implement the UNESCO Convention;
Reminds the Member States of the importance of the commitments they have given in ratifying the UNESCO Convention, since the protection of cultural diversity in the world requires an informed and balanced policy in the digital sphere;
Calls on the Commission to take proper account of the dual nature of cultural goods and services when negotiating bilateral and multilateral trade agreements and concluding cultural protocols and to grant preferential treatment to developing countries, in accordance with Article 16 of the UNESCO Convention;
Welcomes the recent signing of an agreement between the EU and UNESCO on an EUR 1 million Expert Facility to support governance in the cultural sector and enable the governments of developing countries to take advantage of experts' knowledge in devising effective and sustainable cultural policies;
Encourages the Member States and the Commission to step up their cooperation efforts in order to further improve national legal frameworks and policies for the protection and preservation of cultural heritage and cultural assets, in accordance with national legislation and international legal frameworks, including measures to combat illegal trafficking in cultural assets and intellectual property; encourages them to prevent the unlawful appropriation of cultural heritage and the products of cultural activity, whilst at the same time recognising the importance of copyright and intellectual property in maintaining the livelihood of those involved in cultural creation;
Calls for a coherent EU strategy for the international promotion of European cultural activities and programmes based on the protection of diversity and the dual nature of cultural goods and activities, which covers, inter alia, the more effective coordination of existing EU external policy programmes with cultural components and their implementation in agreements with third countries, and consistency with the cultural compatibility clauses included in the Treaties, the subsidiarity principle and the UNESCO Convention;
Calls for a coherent strategy for the protection and promotion of cultural and natural heritage, both tangible and intangible, and international cooperation in conflict areas, for example through Blue Shield, which gives culture a role in preventing conflicts and restoring peace;
Calls for personnel being sent to conflict and post-conflict areas to be given training in the cultural aspects of action to preserve heritage and promote reconciliation, democracy and human rights;
Wishes to ensure that, in the framework of existing financial instruments, operational programmes are focused on simplification, efficiency and the coordination of EU policies;
Encourages the promotion of the role of culture within the EIDHR, in its work on strengthening the rule of law, conflict management and prevention, civil society cooperation and the role of new technologies as regards freedom of expression, democratic participation and human rights;
Recognises that all human rights need to be respected, as laid down in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, and therefore recognises the link between cultural rights, diversity and human rights and objects to the use of cultural arguments to justify human rights violations;
Proposes to include a chapter on culture in the Annual Review on Human Rights and to mainstream culture in the work of interparliamentary delegations;
Urges that the development of cultural activities should not be used as an argument for restricting the free movement of cultural professionals between the EU and third countries;
Encourages the establishment of cultural relations with countries with which no other partnerships exist, as a stepping stone towards the development of further relations;
Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission and the governments and parliaments of the Member States.
(2) OJ L 95, 15.4.2010, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 288, 4.11.2009, p. 10.
(5) OJ C 81 E, 15.3.2011, p. 16.
(6) OJ C 325, 2.12.2010, p. 1.
(7) OJ C 320, 16.12.2008, p. 10.
(9) OJ L 209, 11.8.2005, p. 27.
(10) OJ L 287, 4.11.2010, p. 3.
(11) DG Education and Culture of the European Commission, March 2009.


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When interviewing, be vulnerable and create a safe space to induce vulnerability in your guests.
Neil Strauss has written eight New York Times bestsellers, been an editor at Rolling Stone and a staff writer for The New York Times, and has built highly profitable companies. He is a seasoned interviewer, and this is one of his golden keys to success. Neil has found that when you are open, vulnerable, and create a safe space, you build rapport and connection quickly. Tim Ferriss has followed his advice and honed it to this format: he is open and vulnerable, addresses guests' concerns, tries to help guests benefit from the interview, and gives them the final decision about what is cut. He says the resulting interviews are a giant win for all involved, and his top-ranking podcast is proof that it is a successful formula.
Before the interview starts, be open and vulnerable with the person you're going to interview.
Prior to hitting the record, take 5 to 10 minutes for banter, warm-up, soundcheck, etc. At some point, volunteer personal or vulnerable information (e.g., I'm struggling with a deadline, etc.). This makes them much more inclined to do the same later. Or genuinely ask for advice but not interrupt things, along the lines of, "You're so good at X, and I'm really struggling with Y. I want to respect your time and do this interview, of course, but someday I'd love to ask you about that."
Address common concerns during those 5 to 10 minutes.
Let the guests know that you understand how it feels to be misquoted and that your interview is a safe space in which they can be open and experiment.
Find out how you can help your guest.
Let them know yours isn't a 'gotcha' show. It's intended to make them look good. Ask, "Let's flash forward to a week after this interview comes out. What would make it a home run for you? What does 'successful' look like?"
Let the guest know they have 'final cut' when the recording isn't live.
They can delete anything they like. If they think of something the following morning, for instance, you can clip it out. Say, "I always suggest being as raw and open as possible. People love tactical details and stories. We can always cut stuff out, but we can't add interesting stuff in later."


The new Dark Tower movie starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey is something that Stephen King fans like Maya Prohovnik have been looking forward to for years. Unfortunately, the movie falls far short of expectations.
Listen to our complete interview with Maya Prohovnik, Rajan Khanna, and John Joseph Adams in Episode 268 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy (above). And check out some highlights from the discussion below.