Late afternoon, the fog lifted as we approached King George Island and we got a final glimpse of that northernmost land considered to be part of Antarctica and just at dinner time the Captain came on the horn to tell us that there were two huge tabular icebergs, we would pass one to port and one to starboard.
As an exercise the captain had some of the officer cadets take sextant readings on the bergs. The one on the port side was about feet tall. The starboard one, which looked more like a castle, peaked near feet on one of its pinnacles.
For reference our ship is around feet at the top of the mast. The opening quote was the opening of one of our lectures from the Antarctic. The speaker was a graduate of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
Internet on the ship has been virtually non-existent in these southern waters. I got on once each time we passed near King George Island where there must be a satellite beam directed, I was able to check mail and upload a post each time.
Western military prowess has nothing to do with race, or genes, or skin color, or geography, but rather everything to do with these strange protocols that grew up in Greece and were incorporated, and transformed, and evolved into what we now loosely and somewhat sloppily call Western culture. So what are these protocols? What made Western armies so good? Not morally good, but good in the cold efficiency of killing people?
One of them is freedom. There was a greater propensity in Western armies for the individual to feel that he had a stake in his army. So it has been very important for Western armies, throughout the history of civilized warfare, that the individual felt that he had a modicum of freedom — or at least greater freedom than the adversary that he was asked to kill.
Civic Militarism. It explains why, for example, between and B. We are worried at this stage in early about losing people [in Iraq], and rightly so, but just think of a society not of million, but of 4 million, that in a series of disasters at the Trebia, the Tricinius, Lake Trasimene, and Cannae, lost over , men in three years. Yet at the end of the decade they had more men under arms — after losing , men people a minute were killed at the Battle of Cannae — than their Carthaginian adversaries, because in Rome, there was the idea that they had the ability through the Republican avenues of government and civic protocols to empower people to feel that just because they put on a uniform, they did not lose their status as a free voting citizen.
In the West it means that as a Macedonian professional soldier, you can be playing kickball alongside Alexander the Great, even though you are merely one of the Macedonian phalangites, and be a quasi-mercenary, and have destroyed constitutional government. Still, you probably have a greater degree of freedom than someone in the imperial army of Darius. Or to put it another way, in modern terms, you can be a draftee in the army of Saddam Hussein, or a draftee in the army of China today and have fewer rights than a professional if we can use that harsh term mercenary in the American or a volunteer European army.
You can be a Green Beret professional soldier and serve for pay, and yet more a representative of civic militarism, because you still have the rights of habeas corpus, follow an adjudicated code of conduct, enjoy a military standard of justice, appeals, and lawyers in a way that draftees that are inducted into levies and masses in other autocratic societies do not.
And that ultimately has been of tremendous advantage to Western armies, not that they always enjoy all these aspects of civic militarism, but they have a greater likelihood of having some of them.
I wondered if winemakers could describe something in the scents and flavors of naturally fermented wines that may be identified as specific to this approach.
Advantages cited were greater aromatic complexity and increased diversity of flavors. There are dozens of commercial designer yeasts that offer significant safety advantages throughout the winemaking process.
And there are yeasts with additional benefits, which promise to deliver certain style characteristics.
Some are designed for specific grapes, some for enhancing spice notes, and others for reducing herbaceousness, for production of fruity aromas or for accentuating volume in the mouth. Still others target such things as better tannin structure, color stability, alcohol tolerance and ageability. In the sweet snapshot posted on October 24, the couple can be seen posing alongside each other in front of a sparkling pool.
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