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It means that Boeing has screwed up royally. Its trade complaints to the US government have resulted in its arch-rival Airbus getting a 50% interest in a commercial airliner that fills out a gap in the bottom of its product line - literally for free. Airbus is contributing no cash and is getting Bombardier stock at distress prices.Airbus will build the Bombardier planes for the US market in its Alabama plant and thereby avoid the 300% tariffs that the US government wanted to impose on Bombardier. Boeing itself has no aircraft to fill this market niche. Meanwhile it has pissed off both the Canadian and UK governments, both of which were in the market for billions of dollars in Boeing military aircraft, but which will now toss Boeing’s bids into the garbage bin in favour of anybody else who wants to bid.They didn't look at the big picture before picking on this small Canadian company, and that resulted in a major win for its major competitor. An analyst who was talking about it today suggested that Boeing should fire all the executives responsible for this fiasco.The US has been making noises about taking action against Airbus anyway, but that could result in the EU taking retaliatory action against Boeing, and that could result in Boeing losing billions and billions in sales to European countries. The Canadian market isn't that big, but Boeing sells an awful lot of aircraft in Europe. That could come to an end in a trade dispute.It would also pit the state of Washington against the state of Alabama in US politics. Just so you know, Alabama has voted for the Republican candidate in every presidential election since Reagan, whereas Hillary Clinton trounced Trump in Washington, Boeing’s home state. Airbus knows how to play politics.

The Battle of Athens, the Battle of Day's Gap, the Battle of Decatur, the Battle of Fort Blakely, the Battle of Mobile, the Battle of Selma, the Battle of Spanish Fort, numerous sabotage raids, and the Burning of the University of Alabama (all but one building was burned to the ground). Not massive battles, in the main, but not free of them by any stretch.Alabama was, contrary to the answers of those who have said lay ignored until the end of the war, actually involved quite early on. Less than 6 months after the First Battle of Manassas, almost all of North (and the Civil War is why it is NEVER called Northern) Alabama was occupied by several companies of the Union Army. These detachments occupied towns and cities that had supplied thousands of men to the Confederacy for use elsewhere and thus had not many men left to mount defense, not to mention that 1850's Alabama had virtually no industry but agriculture--not much strategic value. There wasn't much reason to have battles here.Although there weren't any of the 50,000+ on each side engagements, Alabama newspapers are full of accounts of debauchery and cruelty to Alabamans by the occupying Union. Such are the spoils of war. There were consequently numerous uprisings and ambushes, and several skirmishes and outright battles between the two sides.There was no reason to have burned the University. Before the War, it had included a military academy, and the graduates went into the American Army. During the war, its graduates of course entered the CSA. It was burned to deprive the South of officer candidates. The Union could just as easily have occupied the University and spared it.As Alabama was primarily an agricultural state, it had no massive weapons caches or arsenals and no weapons manufacturers, before the War. It grew King Cotton, as it was called (until the 1970's), chiefly, and produce and livestock, which helped feed the Confederacy, as well as the Union Army after North Alabama's occupation. The Civil War actually gave birth to the steel industry in Alabama, for Birmingham's and its surrounding areas' remoteness lent it privacy from Northern attack for much of the War...and steel was born. Alabama became a major manufacturer of arms during the War, including of the most impressive domestic artillery piece of the War, the Brooke Cannon with its rifled barrel.The War impressed upon Alabama, hardly a wealthy state before the War, the incomprehensible depth of the poverty (if not the utter destruction) shared by all the South after it.The Reconstruction was nearly as bad, and in the poorest parts of the South--rural Alabama and Mississippi--caused effects which lasted for nearly a hundred years, and in some places, more..I was born in Birmingham, Alabama, before the Civil Rights Era, to the daughter of Irish immigrants and the Tennessee-born son of a transplanted Kentucky tobacco farmer (and moonshiner). Except for military service and a year in New Jersey, I have lived all my life in the South. I am Southern through and through, but neither my Irish immigrant grandparents nor my Dad's first-generation land-owner parents had any ancestral dog in the Civil War. Mother's family was Irish, and Dad's grandparents were sharecroppers, not slave owners. There were actually, per capita, very few slave owners in the South. I am not related to any of them. As such, I was raised to be a proyd American, not a redneck.I am Southern, not rebel. I was raised to respect all people unless they gave you a reason not to. Skin color was not a reason. I have never owned a Confederate flag. I fly Old Glory.I proudly wore my nation's uniforms--one blue, one green--and I served America with honor. I feel no sense of loss over the Confederacy's Lost Cause. I of course studied the Civil War both in high school and at University, so I know enough to enter a conversation about it. I know Alabama had no Shiloh or Atlanta. But to suggest that Alabama therefore managed to avoid the Civil War is seriously inaccurate.

When in college, my roommate arrived in our small dorm room with a large can of nitrous oxide - the sleeping gas they use in dentists’ offices. Only this thing was six feet tall and almost full.Where did you get this?He and another guy stole two canisters from a hospital. The other guy had the second one.Say what? That’s like grand theft-He was so giddy about having stolen it.So he gets these balloons and sets up a technique. You fill up the balloon with the nitrous, sit down, put it in your mouth and inhale, exhale until the balloon deflatesInterestingly, when you inhale the balloon has that shrinking “hiss”. On the second breath, the hiss becomes staccato - like his-is-is-is-isThen your brain goes somewhere else. Freakiest feeling not to have direct control of your mind for a few seconds - at least - it felt like a few seconds.A chemistry major, my roommate did some math and measured the volume of our room and the output of the canister. He figured he could open the canister for X-minutes and close it, and we would be breathing a small amount with every breath. We would have to cover the air vent.It worked and that’s when I realized the meaning of laughing gas. What a total rush. We laughed about “nothing” until we were hyperventilating, sides were hurting, the whole bit. When it ebbed off, we did it again, and again.At this point he said we should invite some girls over from the dorm next door. We knew several pretty girls who liked to get naked with guys we knew, but never with us. So we invited them over for drinks in the early evening, and they would leave later to go to their other parties.Four showed up, and were dressed smokin’ hot. We had several pitchers of frozen drinks, strawberry daq’s, margarita, etc. They stood around drinking and my roommate slowly turned on the gas. They never knew.Within a minute, the girls were laughing themselves silly. This set them up for more drinks and gas, and they didn’t leave the room until midnight. During this period, they laughed so hard they overheated and stripped to their underwear, then the underwear came off, and we were dancing naked to various bands, all of us laughing until we were crying.Both our cocks were getting hard as rocks and the girls were taking turns holding them and yanking on them.One said - “Let’s get to work!” dropped to her knees and stuffed me into her mouth. Another came alongside and they alternated. They went after it like hungry animals. My roommate was getting the same. For the next several hours the two of us took turns on all four girls in every imaginable configuration.Something about the gas (I guess) made me recover faster - I popped four orgasms in three hours, each one with a full load. It also (somehow) caused more back-pressure on the load and it came flying out of me. The first spurt had a four-foot climb and came down on their faces. My eyes popped the same as theirs. They howled with laughter.We ran out of the gas and never had another party like that one. But we saw all four girls off-and-on for four semesters and that first date was always a hot topic.

Most state tribes claiming to be Cherokee - outside of the three federal bands, and the Texas family clusters in Rusk County, TX - are indeed fraudulent. That’s just the reality.There are a smaller number of these so-called state tribes that might include some actual Cherokee descendants. Or perhaps where you might see a mix of legit descendants (like Henderson Roll and Hester Roll descendant families even) along with those that just have family lore, and those that self-identify and have no verified Cherokee ancestry at all.This group seems to be rather vague about their enrollment criteria, so it’s hard to say how much “lore-based” claims they’d accept vs. legit descendants.You have to understand the context here.The northeast corner of what is now Alabama was never heavily settled by Cherokees in the historic period. It wasn’t really settled - meaning, with real villages or settlements - until the eastern villages were getting pressure from Whites in South Carolina and Georgia. So, these Lower Town Cherokees moved west with this pressure, and some began moving into NW AL in the late 1700s and early 1800s. By the 1830s there were just a few hundred Cherokees living in the extreme southwest part of what was then Cherokee Nation east. By the time of removal, which ended in 1839, the vast majority of the tribe had been removed west. There were just a few dozen family clusters and individuals left in Alabama, who were resided there according to the terms of the Treaty of New Echota. By the 1850s, two rolls were taken to enumerate these Eastern Cherokees and their descendants, who had decided to stay in the state and forfeit their Cherokee Nation political affiliation. They found 69 individuals clustered in the three northeast Alabama counties. That was the bulk of the recognized Cherokee descendant population that was still found in that state.Some might argue the old myth of “hiding out.” So, “a lot were missed.” That’s not true. Most were indeed enumerated. But, we might allow for a certain number that were missed on this enumeration, or provide for a wide margin of error. The numbers would still be quite low.Say, we give a plus or minus margin of 15% or 20% - which is high even - to account for these odd missing Cherokee and to give a wide leeway for those that might not have been enumerated (for various social reasons or bureaucratic difficulties, etc.). We are still talking about 80 or so people. Certainly less than 100 people, total.So, how many modern descendants would be alive today from a population of say 70–80 ancestors alive in 1851? That would represent just over a dozen heads of households, at child bearing age.So, extrapolate that out with a reasonable population growth. And I’d suspect there would be high hundreds to low thousand range (if you still want to be very liberal in your calculation) of legit Cherokee descendants in Alabama today. The core group of 70–80 left in the state in the 1850s were all mixed blood (e.g. White-Cherokee). So, you’d have maybe a few hundred or so with very low blood quantum, whose family stayed in the state according to the removal treaty. These families married into White (and a few Black) families and were Alabama residents, and there was no tribal organization extant after 1839.Okay, but you also have to consider, this group is just one “tribe” among a number in the state of Alabama claiming to be Cherokee. The population could only muster several hundred to low thousand range of total descendants of low blood quantum. Yet, there are “Cherokee” tribes in Alabama claiming to have 3K+ members, just in that one group. It’s statistically and demographically impossible.Most of these groups fill their ranks with American families with lore of Cherokee blood. This is usually based on FALSE lore, actually.But, stating this bluntly is seen as rude. It’s the truth though.

Make it compellingQuickly and clearly make these points:Who you are and why you are doing thisHow long it takesWhats in it for me -- why should someone help you by completing the surveyExample: "Please spend 3 minutes helping me make it easier to learn Mathematics. Answer 8 short questions for my eternal gratitude and (optional) credit on my research findings. Thank you SO MUCH for helping."Make it convenientKeep it shortShow up at the right place and time -- when people have the time and inclination to help. For example, when students are planning their schedules. Reward participationOffer gift cards, eBooks, study tips, or some other incentive for helping.Test and refineTest out different offers and even different question wording and ordering to learn which has the best response rate, then send more invitations to the offer with the highest response rate.Reward referralsIf offering a reward, increase it for referrals. Include a custom invite link that tracks referrals.

Generally it was desired in the beginning to use comissioned officers but the demand for commissioned officers exceeded supply. The Army decided to expand the Warrant Officer recruitment process to fill the need for rotary wing pilots. Generally, a WO is a NCO offered an opportunity to go to WO schooling to receive a WO warrant as opposed to a commission provided to a new lieutenant. Motor pools and supply rooms S-4 at battalion and brigade levels often had WOs as OICs.Since the air assault strategy of Vietnam would outstrip the normal NCO to warrant progression, draftees and enlistees were tested in the AFEES examination process and those with a high AFQT score, the forerunner of ASVAB, would be offered an opportunity to attend Rotary Wing Flight School aka Army Aviation School at Ft Rucker Alabama. Those who scored high with college educations were often offered the opportunity to attend OCS to become a commissioned officer. Individuals who scored high but only attended college or graduated high school would be offered the WO route.If they washed out of flight school (and many did), they would be offered a non-combat MOS school like cook or supply or admin.

NOOOOOOO. You are talking to a military romance scammer. I received an email from the US Army that directly answers your question that is pasted below please keep reading.I believe you are the victim of a military Romance Scam whereas the person you are talking to is a foreign national posing as an American Soldier claiming to be stationed overseas on a peacekeeping mission. That's the key to the scam they always claim to be on a peacekeeping mission.Part of their scam is saying that they have no access to their money that their mission is highly dangerous.If your boyfriend girlfriend/future husband/wife is asking you to do the following or has exhibited this behavior, it is a most likely a scam:Moves to private messaging site immediately after meeting you on Facebook or SnapChat or Instagram or some dating or social media site. Often times they delete the site you met them on right after they asked you to move to a more private messaging siteProfesses love to you very quickly & seems to quote poems and song lyrics along with using their own sort of broken language, as they profess their love and devotion quickly. They also showed concern for your health and love for your family.Promises marriage as soon as he/she gets to state for leave that they asked you to pay for.They Requests money (wire transfers) and Amazon, iTune ,Verizon, etc gift cards, for medicine, religious practices, and leaves to come home, internet access, complete job assignments, help sick friend, get him out of trouble, or anything that sounds fishy.The military does provide all the soldier needs including food medical Care and transportation for leave. Trust me, I lived it, you are probably being scammed. I am just trying to show you examples that you are most likely being connned.Below is an email response I received after I sent an inquiry to the US government when I discovered I was scammed. I received this wonderful response back with lots of useful links on how to find and report your scammer. And how to learn more about Romance Scams.Right now you can also copy the picture he gave you and do a google image search and you will hopefully see the pictures of the real person he is impersonating. this doesn't always work and take some digging. if you find the real person you can direct message them and alert them that their image is being used for scamming.Good Luck to you and I'm sorry this may be happening to you. please continue reading the government response I received below it's very informative.   You have contacted an email that is monitored by the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command. Unfortunately, this is a common concern. We assure you there is never any reason to send money to anyone claiming to be a Soldier online. If you have only spoken with this person online, it is likely they are not a U.S. Soldier at all. If this is a suspected imposter social media profile, we urge you to report it to that platform as soon as possible. Please continue reading for more resources and answers to other frequently asked questions:  How to report an imposter Facebook profile: Caution-https://www.facebook.com/help/16... < Caution-https://www.facebook.com/help/16... >   Answers to frequently asked questions:  - Soldiers and their loved ones are not charged money so that the Soldier can go on leave.  - Soldiers are not charged money for secure communications or leave.  - Soldiers do not need permission to get married.  - Soldiers emails are in this format: john.doe.mil@mail.mil < Caution-mailto: john.doe.mil@mail.mil > anything ending in .us or .com is not an official email account.  - Soldiers have medical insurance, which pays for their medical costs when treated at civilian health care facilities worldwide – family and friends do not need to pay their medical expenses.  - Military aircraft are not used to transport Privately Owned Vehicles.  - Army financial offices are not used to help Soldiers buy or sell items of any kind.  - Soldiers deployed to Combat Zones do not need to solicit money from the public to feed or house themselves or their troops.  - Deployed Soldiers do not find large unclaimed sums of money and need your help to get that money out of the country.  Anyone who tells you one of the above-listed conditions/circumstances is true is likely posing as a Soldier and trying to steal money from you.  We would urge you to immediately cease all contact with this individual.  For more information on avoiding online scams and to report this crime, please see the following sites and articles:   This article may help clarify some of the tricks social media scammers try to use to take advantage of people: Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/61432/< Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/61432/>   CID advises vigilance against 'romance scams,' scammers impersonating Soldiers  Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/180749 < Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/180749 >   FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center: Caution-http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx< Caution-http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx>   U.S. Army investigators warn public against romance scams: Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/130...< Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/130...>   DOD warns troops, families to be cybercrime smart -Caution-http://www.army.mil/article/1450...< Caution-http://www.army.mil/article/1450...>   Use caution with social networking  Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/146...< Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/146...>    Please see our frequently asked questions section under scams and legal issues. Caution-http://www.army.mil/faq/ < Caution-http://www.army.mil/faq/ > or visit Caution-http://www.cid.army.mil/ < Caution-http://www.cid.army.mil/ >.  The challenge with most scams is determining if an individual is a legitimate member of the US Army. Based on the Privacy Act of 1974, we cannot provide this information. If concerned about a scam you may contact the Better Business Bureau (if it involves a solicitation for money), or local law enforcement. If you're involved in a Facebook or dating site scam, you are free to contact us direct; (571) 305-4056.   If you have a social security number, you can find information about Soldiers online at Caution-https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/appj/sc... < Caution-https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/appj/sc... > . While this is a free search, it does not help you locate a retiree, but it can tell you if the Soldier is active duty or not.  If more information is needed such as current duty station or location, you can contact the Commander Soldier's Records Data Center (SRDC) by phone or mail and they will help you locate individuals on active duty only, not retirees. There is a fee of $3.50 for businesses to use this service. The check or money order must be made out to the U.S. Treasury. It is not refundable. The address is:  Commander Soldier's Records Data Center (SRDC) 8899 East 56th Street Indianapolis, IN 46249-5301 Phone: 1-866-771-6357  In addition, it is not possible to remove social networking site profiles without legitimate proof of identity theft or a scam. If you suspect fraud on this site, take a screenshot of any advances for money or impersonations and report the account on the social networking platform immediately.  Please submit all information you have on this incident to Caution-www.ic3.gov < Caution-http://www.ic3.gov > (FBI website, Internet Criminal Complaint Center), immediately stop contact with the scammer (you are potentially providing them more information which can be used to scam you), and learn how to protect yourself against these scams at Caution-http://www.ftc.gov < Caution-http://www.ftc.gov > (Federal Trade Commission's website)