Dick Storey

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Today---

Putin’s silent killer is choking Ukraine’s regiments (msn.com)

The Telegraph

Story by Hamish de Bretton-Gordon

 The grinding trench warfare across the Donbass in Ukraine is experiencing a new silent killer, which has allowed the Russian invaders to make gains around Chasiv Yar and Bakmut early in the year and in the Pokrovsk area today – gas. 

Until January 2024, the Ukraine military reported just 600 uses of gas across all fronts since February 2022, but this has increased to around 4000 since then, a detailed study by the Kyiv Independent reported over the weekend. Some units are being attacked 2 to 3 times per day with gas, usually CS gas or chloropicrin. The latter was developed in WW1 as a chemical weapon to incapacitate troops in trenches. Both are illegal under the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention, which Russia and Ukraine are signatories to.

The Kyiv Independent report details how drones are dropping gas canisters over trenches, dumping riot control gases that make breathing very difficult and inducing vomiting. Without a mask, the only way to mitigate the attacks is to get away from the gas. After soldiers flee the trenches, surveillance drones direct artillery fire onto the retreating infantrymen who are also pursued by the attack drones. 

Though hardly a new form of warfare, it was gas that broke the deadlock of trench warfare in April 1915 when the Germans unleashed Chlorine on unsuspecting and unprepared allied troops, who had to turn and run. The results are the same in Ukraine over 100 years later.  --->

Gary Price

Fred Miller

Nelson Evans

Fred,

That's a good one.

I laugh every time that I hear it.

Thanks for reminding us.

W Leggett

Twenty years ago, Congress passed a law recognizing September 17 as Constitution Day.  On that date in 1787, the delegates at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia put their signatures on the Constitution of the United States.  Local celebrations of Constitution Day started over 100 years ago, but it didn’t become federal law until 2004. 

Cheryl Corazzi (Essex)

Great bit of history. Thanks Bill. Saw what I thought was a good movie today. It was Raegan. Not wanting to get political, but I was impressed with the history of the era. 

W Leggett

Cheryl Corazzi (Essex)

YES, A LITTLE bit of history. YES IT WAS POLITICAL. BUT NOW DAY'S  NO MATTER WHAT WE DO GET'S POLITICAL IN SOME WAY OR ANOTHER. 

LOOK AT WHAT CLASSES WE HAD TO TAKE IN HIGH SCHOOL.

 GENERAL  COURSE'S 

ENGLISH.

GENERAL MATHEMATICS

CIVIC

AMERICAN/ WORLD HISTORY, & GOVERNMENT

WORLD AFFAIRS AND  HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY

PHYSICAL EDUCATION. MATH, SCIENCE.

I DON'T THINK YOU WILL FIND THESE REQUIREMENTS TAUGHT NOWADAYS. 

JUST MY THINKING, WOULD WE BE LIKE THIS TODAY IF THESE SUBJECTS WERE TAUGHT NOWADAYS? EVEN 15 YEARS AGO.  LIKE WE TOOK 60 YEARS AGO. DAM THAT WAS A LONG TIME AGO.

W Leggett

Dick Storey

Cheryl--good point. Thank you.

I get frustrated that schools teach "higher math" (when was the last time you did long division by hand?) and such but not much civics, economics or history.

Science is taught as memorizing a lot of "facts"  (the parts of a frog, a leaf, a cell, nomenclature, metabolic cycles, etc) but not the process of science--at least not much if any.  Hands-on, minds-on, learning is doing and learning science. Discovery.  I blame those of us who taught college science (not a popular opinion among many science faculty). No wonder most kids don't like science.

Nova Guynes

I was not a great student in high school, but I think the education I received helped me throughout my life.

I was lucky enough to have a math teacher in Jr. High School, that took the time to show me how important math really is and helped me to improve my grades.  I have been in construction for most of my adult life.  I have done everything from carpentry, project managers, upper management, vice president of a very large construction company, and over the last 25+ years, the owner of a concrete company doing commercial concrete.  I use math every day, when I am doing or checking estimates, computing the amount of concrete required for walls, columns, slabs etc., creating bid programs using Excel spreadsheets.  I am who I am today because of the teachers that helped me when I was in school. I made plenty of mistakes throughout the years but I think I learned from most of them.

History, civic, world affairs classes taught me that when you try to see what the future will bring, you must be able to remember the past.  I think one of the problems today is we are not learning from the past.  We keep making the same mistakes over and over. 

Typing classes gave me a head start when computers came out.  I was lucky enough to understand how the programs worked and was able to create programs using Lotus and Excel programs.

I think that the classes we took prepared all of us for life. God, Teachers and Country has helped me become who I am today.  God guided me throughout my life, Teachers gave me some of the skills I needed to succeed and Country gave me the opportunity to succeed. 

Just my thoughts.  

Dick Storey

Nova,

Well said. Point taken.

I used math extensively in my biology research laboratory and teaching courses like cell and molecular biology, plant physiology, and biochemistry. I used a calculator to figure & prepare solutions, illustrate speed or reactions, calculate protein and amino acid content, measure radioactive isotopes for enzyme studies and so forth.

Of course, one must understand the math, but few actually do long division (e.g.) by hand today.

The " new math."  Why? My sister and sister-in-law taught elementary school for 30 years each and do not like the new math.

I did not intend to downplay the importance of mathematics but to say I wish kids learned more about history, economics and civics today. Then we could move the conversation to the arts and music.

Darrell Barnes

I had the Palmer sisters at North Jr High..my dad had them in the late 1930's

Nelson Evans

Let's take all of the emotion out of it and look at the numbers from the Federal Reserve, Bureau of Labor, Energy Information Agency, and NASDAQ: and what do you have is less money and further  ???

W Leggett

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Nova Guynes

I think Harris did a good debate. (B.S.)

Trump did a good job at appealing to his base which he had to do. 

I also think the election will be decided by Independents which can go either way.

Not surprising ABC was all over Trump but left Harris alone.

Harris said all the things she would do, even though she hasn’t done any of them in the last 3 ½ years.  It is easy to say what you will do before an election but how soon they forget afterwards. 

John Radzinski

Hi everyone. Thanks Joy Lee for the bd wish. I've been thinking about the situation we are all in at this time of our lives. Most likely the vast majority are retired and on some sort of pension to live on. We have grandkids and maybe even our children at home. They are the future of our country. Most of us have had very good lives, even though we all probably have had tough, trying times also. But what of the future our grandkids and our children will be left with? You know, I don't need a debate! I've been to the grocery store, hamburger $8.17 a lb. I've been to the gas station, $3.60 a gallon for regular grade fuel. I've got my electric bill, my natural gas bill, paid my auto insurance. The day the present administration took office I wrote the price I had just paid for regular grade gasoline, it was $1.97/gal. Yes they want a MANDATORY gun buy back program. People here in Utah can not afford to buy a house, even though both couples work and make very good money! I don't need a debate! Our lives may be good now, but what of the near future? Millions of un veted people who don't really care about this country, but instead just want our wealth! Think about it guys and gals, policy over personality, policy over looks, policy that has worked over what has not. I pray our country survives as we have grow up knowing how it did. All the veterans that are now gone, many our very parents and some even our off spring served for the America we all know. Thats why I don't need a debate. God bless all of you, I'm proud to have been a member of this RHS63 group and I wish you all the very best in the future. JOHN

Cheryl Corazzi (Essex)

Well said, John!

W Leggett

Nova Guynes

John - I agree, very well said.

Joy Lee (Mullins)

Thank you, John.  I am in agreement with you.

W Leggett

JOHN, I WISH I COULD GET GASS  $3.60 a gallon for regular-grade fuel.  jUST PAID $4.81 A GAL. a gallon for regular-grade fuel. AS I HAVE TWO (2) TANKS ON MY TRUCK $98.87, TO FIIL BOTH TANKS 

Dick Storey

Joy Lee (Mullins)

Thank you, Bill.  The King is still a rock n' roll favorite, and who doesn't love Toby Keith!!!