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3 bedroom house for salePort Of Ness, Isle Of Lewis, HS2
Guide Price £275,000
Property Description
Key features
- Garage and Store
- Business premises:
- 5 Acres of Owner Occupied croft land.
Full description
Tenure: Freehold
Attractive and extended Crofthouse and business premises with about 5 acres of owner occupied croft land. Views to a white sandy beach and across the sea to the mainland mountains.
Hall, study, living room, sitting room, kitchen, utility room and cloakroom. 3 double bedrooms and a family bathroom.
Garage and Store
Business premises: Reception room, study/research room, cupboard, toilet. Upper floor: Studio.
5 Acres of Owner Occupied croft land.
The property is situated in the crofting township of Port of Ness which was developed during the 19th Century with a focus on fishing. The Harbour was constructed in support of this from early-late 19th century construction but is now used mainly for leisure craft. There is a Primary/Junior Secondary School at Lionel about 1 mile away with secondary schooling at the Nicholson Institute in Stornoway. There is a comprehensive Sports Centre in Lionel with a large sports hall, fitness suite, sauna and a 10 pin bowling alley. There is a swimming pool in Lionel School available to general public in the evenings. Further amenities include a hotel, bar and restaurant, 2 Post Offices and Art Gallery. There are Doctors surgeries at Habost and Borve and general stores at Cross and Swainbost. Petrol and diesel pumps are also located at Swainbost. All local communities are within a three mile radius of Port of Ness.
Stornoway, the main town of the Isle of Lewis, is some 45 minutes by car from Port of Ness. It is home to the Western Isles Council and about 6000 people live in the town which represents about a third of the Islands total population. The town has a wide range of facilities with shops and 2 supermarkets, hotels, bars and restaurants, an art gallery, museum and library. There aredaily ferry sailings to Ullapool, and Stornoway Airport has flights to Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Inverness and Benbecula.
The Western Isles, of which Lewis is the largest, are well known for a great variety of recreational activities including sailing, salmon and trout fishing, birdwatching, golf and water sports on the white sandy beaches of this remarkable and scenic area of Scotland.
From Stornoway take the A857 to Port of Ness (approximately 26 miles). On entering the township continue passing the sign for Cnoc Ard on your left. Take the next right at the Post Box and continue on this minor road to 10 Port of Ness which is the first house on the right.
10 Port of Ness is a spacious, modernised and extended croft house, with two multi-fuel stoves, one open fire and all modern conveniences. It is situated on 5 acres of owner-occupied croft land. The house is well laid out with a living room, study, sitting room, large dining kitchen, utility room and cloakroom on the ground floor and three double bedrooms and a family bathroom on the upper floor. Adjacent to the house is a recently built two storey Archive and Studio presently used, on the ground floor, as a historical archive and research centre and on the upper floor as a studio for the manufacture of quilts. This building has a reception room, study, toilet facilities and large studio with a small kitchen area. The house and business premises benefit from high specification upvc wood-effect double glazed windows and doors throughout.
The property is an owner-occupied croft of about 5 acres in two parts which are fenced and gated and includes common grazing rights from the Galson Estate Trust. The croft house,, business premises and garden ground have been decrofted. A supply of peats cut from the common grazings may be included in the sale.
Twin panelled double glazed door into hallway. Doors to study, living room, sitting room and stairs (with storage cupboard under) to first floor.
Study 3.8m x 3.4m
Double aspect room with wooden mantelpiece and multi-fuel stove on a tiled hearth. Radiator. Carpet. TV Point.
Living Room 3.4m x 3.8m
Double aspect room with multi-fuel stove on a tiled hearth with tartan tile surround. Oak floor. Radiator. Two TV points. Door to kitchen.
Sitting Room 4.5m x 6.77m
Double aspect room with large picture window to garden. Tiled cast iron fireplace with timber mantelpiece and tiled hearth. Carpet. Door to kitchen:
Kitchen 4.48m x 4.69m
Oil fired Stanley stove which supplies hot water and central heating, four ring calor gas hob. Pine fronted floor and wall units with an integrated under counter fridge. Stainless steel sink and draining board. Airing pulley over the stove. Vinyl floor covering, telephone and TV points. Door to utility room:
Utility Room 3.92m x 2.10m
Floor and wall units with space and plumbing for washing machine and under-counter freezer. Wall-mounted electric bar heater. Fuse board. Door to cloakroom with w.c., wash hand basin and wall-mounted electric bar heater. Twin panelled double glazed door to outside.
First Floor
Stairs reach a small half landing and then divide to two larger landings to the front and rear. The rear landing has a radiator and a linen cupboard plus two access doors to roof storage space. Telephone point. The front landing has access to a small attic. Carpet
Bedroom 1 3.60m x 3.77m
Double bedroom with a coombed ceiling. Dormer window. Wardrobe with louvred doors. Radiator. Carpet
Bedroom 2 3.45m x 3.77m
Double bedroom with a coombed ceiling. Dormer window. Wardrobe with louvred doors. Radiator. Carpet.
Main Bedroom 5.0m x 4.5m
Double bedroom with coombed ceiling. Double aspect room with 4 under coombe cupboards and one full height wardrobe with louvred doors. Access to the attic space. Carpet.
Large family bathroom with panelled bath, w.c. and wash hand basin with vanity light over. Corner shower unit with electric shower. Two velux windows. Built in cupboard with shelf and louvred doors providing access to hot water cylinder. Vinyl floor covering.
Garage 5.18m x 2.72m
Single garage with concrete floor, metal up and over door, shelving and electricity. Door to store and door to Business Premises building.
Store 5.88m x 2.72m
Large store with concrete floor and shelving. Central heating boiler Grant Vortex Pro combination boiler. Door to garden and croft.
Business Premises
Archive and Studio
Presently used as a Historical Archive and Research centre on the ground floor and a Studio on the first floor. Half-glazed door from the public road giving access to the stair to the studio and fire doors through to:
Reception 4.15m x 4.4m
Generous room with a Junckers hardwood floor (Sylvared), reception desk, two cupboards, radiators. Telephone point, wall and floor sockets. Door to hallway.
Large cupboard. Junckers hardwood floor (Sylvared), leads to a half-glazed rear door to the car parking area, the house and the garage. Radiator.
Large room with disabled facilities and two lockable store cupboards. Vinyl floor covering. Radiator.
Study 4.11m x 3.16m
Double aspect room. Radiator. Wall lights. Floor and wall sockets. Carpet.
Upper Floor
The Studio 10.8m x 4.32m
Spacious multi aspect room giving tremendous natural light and views to the sea and surrounding countryside with access to floored loft with lighting, via pull down loft-ladder. Junckers hardwood floor (Sycamore), tiled hearth and surround suitable for electric stove/heater. Telephone point, TV point. Wall and floor sockets. Radiators. Strip lighting. Small cupboard kitchen with work surface, sink/drainer, shelving and electrical sockets for a fridge, kettle etc.
Gas hob in the kitchen of the house and all curtains and fitted carpets in the house and business premises are included in the sale.
Access to the property is from a minor public road which finishes beyond the croft at a turning circle. A track beyond gives access to the cliffs and beach. Double gates give vehicular access to a tarmac covered car parking area. A concrete path surrounds the buildings with access via small pedestrian gates to the garden areas.
Viewing Arrangements
By appointment with Selling Agents Bell Ingram Ltd. 01463 717799
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The U.S. House has little influence over the confirmation of Cabinet nominees, but that's not stopping Alaska Congressman Don Young from brewing trouble for President Obama's pick to lead the Department of the Interior.
On Thursday, Rep. Young took to the House floor to urge his colleagues in the Senate -- which must confirm Cabinet secretaries -- to put the nomination of former REI chief Sally Jewell on hold until outgoing Interior Secretary Ken Salazar approves a federal land exchange to construct a road between King Cove and Cold Bay in Alaska's Aleutian Islands, through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.
The proposed road connecting King Cove and Cold Bay been a source of contention for years between residents, who say it would save lives, and environmentalists, who say it would damage the ecosystem of the refuge. To allay fears of environmental degradation, a land exchange was proposed that would allow for a 9-mile road through the refuge, comprising about 1,800 acres of federal land, in exchange for the addition of more than 56,000 acres to the refuge. The exchange was approved by Congress as part of the Omnibus Public Lands Package.
On Feb. 5, however, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) decided not to take action on the proposed land exchange, preventing the deal from taking place. However, the final decision lies with the soon-departing Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. Fish and Wildlife is an agency of the Interior Department, which manages federal lands, including most of Alaska, more than 60 percent of which is still owned by the federal government.
Last month, Salazar announced his plans to resign. Now, Young is urging him to act before he steps down.
"We had hearings, we had the land transfer, we had everything going to work so these people could be . . . safe to go to hospitals, be safe to fly out when the weather was bad. It was an agreement between the State, the Congress and the village of King Cove. But along comes Fish and Wildlife and denies them the trade that has to be necessary for this transportation corridor," Young said in a press release.
"I'm urging my senators to put a hold on a new Secretary of the Interior, so she's not confirmed until this Secretary can in fact sign the law to allow (King Cove) to have safety once and for all."
Environmental group Defenders of Wildlife, responsible for tens of thousands of public comments on the matter, hailed the decision. "The proposed road would have significantly damaged an ecologically sensitive and critical part of the refuge that migratory species like the Pacific Black Brant depend upon," the group said. "It also would have set a dangerous precedent for the future of wildlife refuge and wilderness area management across the country."
The City of King Cove, the Agdaagux Tribe, the Belkofski Tribal Council, Aleutians East Borough and State of Alaska have pushed for road access for years, a move they say would save lives of people who need to be medevaced out of Cold Bay. Right now the only way to access Cold Bay from King Cove is by small plane, a method of transport that can prove unreliable in treacherous weather.
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Young penned an article for the website Politico on the subject, bashing Fish and Wildlife for siding with the "radical environmental community," adding, "in 40 years as Alaska's lone representative in the House, I have never seen the federal government turn its back on the health and safety of its residents in such a shameful manner."
Young appears to have found an ally in Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska. Later Thursday, Begich promised to press the matter during Jewell's confirmation hearings:
I am troubled that this decision is part of a continuing trend to ignore the needs of Americans who live in the West, especially in some of the most remote parts of our nation such as Alaska. Despite repeated attempts, the residents of King Cove were denied an opportunity to meet face-to-face with Secretary Salazar to make their case. Yet these Americans deserve the same opportunities for basic health care and public safety as those who live in Chicago or elsewhere in our country.
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Week 2 Power Rankings RoundupPosted by on September 19, 2012 – 4:13 pm
The Washington Redskins surprised many in the national media with a Week 1 victory over the New Orleans Saints at the Superdome.
The feat was enough to cause the Redskins to make up some serious ground in various publications' weekly power rankings — in fact, Washington made the biggest jump forward of any team after Week 1.
But fast forward a week later — with a 31-28 road loss to the St. Louis Rams now in the books — and the Redskins (1-1) are going the opposite way. Add season-ending injuries to defensive end Adam Carriker and outside linebacker Brian Orakpo to the mix, and those in the media are, again, skeptics.
Hopefully a win against the Cincinnati Bengals Sunday at FedExField can get things back on the right track.
Anyway, here's the power rankings roundup:
CBSSports.com ranked the Redskins at 19th overall last week. The loss to the Rams dropped Washington just two spots to 21st, but CBSSports.com feels the loss of Carriker and Orakpo will definitely be felt moving forward:
The Redskins dropped five spots from 15th to 20th this week in ESPN.com's power rankings. I guess the good news is Washington didn't have the biggest drop in their list; the Kansas City Chiefs fell nine spots:
ESPN.com NFC East blogger Dan Graziano dug further into the ESPN.com rankings:
Brian Billick, who does FoxSports.com's power rankings, apparently didn't think the Redskins' loss to the Rams — and their losses of Carriker and Orakpo — were enough to give them a nose dive this week. They dropped from 18th to 19th this week:
The Redskins dropped a whole seven spots to No. 22 in NFL.com's Week 3 power rankings by analyst Elliot Harrison:
ProFootballTalk/NBC Sports apparently thought Redskins fans overreacted to the Week 1 win against the Saints. Washington drops three spots in their power rankings this week:
And, finally, Sports Illustrated and columnist Don Banks agree with ProFootballTalk's ranking, putting the Redskins at 16th overall this week:
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In the Nightside, the hidden heart of London where it's always 3 AM, Detective John Taylor must find an elusive singer known as The Nightingale. Her silken voice has inexplicably lured many a fan to suicide--and Taylor is determined to stop her, before the whole neighborhood falls under her trance. But to catch the swift-winged Nightingale, he'll have to hear the deadly music--and survive.
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Portland resident Jim Steffman has won Best Feature Screenplay in the prestigious Moondance International Film Festival. The screenplay, "For What It's Worth," was adapted from the novel "Shadow of Death" also written by Steffman and based on a true story. "For What it's Worth" is a tough-luck, true-crime drama, with a motley cast of lethal illusion-busters: one of the FBI's ten most-wanted mob figures and a bunch of openly corrupt government agents "just doing their job". And, caught in this evil crime web, is a man absolutely determined to fight for his civil rights - to protect his family, his health, his wealth, and, more importantly, his freedom, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, against all odds.
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By Ian G.
From: PDX, OR
Aug 7, 2009
rating: 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b
|Definitely bring extra small pieces. Great route.
By Bennett
From: Southern California
Aug 1, 2011
|Solid for the grade. Done a lot of 10b routes in Yosemite Valley and Windsurfer is no give away, definitely harder and more sustained than your average 10b, but a must do with solid, if a little techy to place at times, pro (crack can be a little flaring or open up in the back)... I would give 5 stars... placed a 4 and 5 camalot on here but not mandatory, could take a third three and not be too run...
By GhaMby Eagan
From: Heaven
Aug 8, 2011
rating: 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b
|Super classic route, but I think for Beacon, Yosemite and Broughton this is a rather soft 10b, but maybe I'm just extra good at stemming???
By slim
Aug 8, 2011
rating: 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b
|i think the thing that makes it feel a little harder is that the rock quality isn't that great in several places. i remember not really wanting to fall on it. also, it was hotter than the hinges of hell and humid. great climbing, but if a friend was breaking into the grade i wouldn't recommend it.
By the professor
Sep 21, 2013
|FA by Bob McGown in the mid 1980s. Was originally rated 5.10a which was a bit of a sandbag even for Beacon Rock.
By George Zack
From: Orting, WA
Oct 10, 2015
|Some of the most interesting stemming I have yet to do at Beacon. Great sensation of exposure near the top as well. Recommended rack: Set of nuts, cams .3-1, doubles of 2 and triples of 3 (or doubles of 3 and a 4). If your legs are strong, you'll have the patience to place nuts, for which there are many great constrictions. Otherwise, bring doubles in .2-.3 cams. Dump the 2's and larger before the first roof.
By Nate Ball
From: Portland, OR
Jul 22, 2017
rating: 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b
|Perhaps no move harder than 10a but SUSTAINED!


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|Federal Information & News Dispatch, Inc.
The Role of the
Madam Chairwoman Hagan, Ranking Member Fischer, members of the Committee, I am pleased to come before you today to testify about the state of the
The FY 2015 budget request for science and technology (S&T) n1 is relatively stable, when compared to the overall DoD top line n2 and modernization accounts. The DoD FY 2015 S&T request is
Simultaneous with the challenges of balancing a reduced budget and continuing to engage the total defense workforce in meaningful research and engineering (R&E), the capability challenges to our R&E program are also increasing. This is attributable to changes in the global S&T landscape and the acceleration globally of development of advanced military capabilities that could impact the superiority of US systems. The convergence of declining budgets, in real terms, and increased risk is not a comfortable place to be. However, as I will highlight in the latter sections of my statement, the Department has begun to reshape the focus of our technical programs to address some of our new challenges. We are also beginning to shift our programs to better position the Department to meet our national security challenges. Finally, we have some areas where we need your help in order to be successful executing our FY 2015 budget. I will cover these areas at the end of my statement.
The current fiscal environment presents significant challenges to the DoD budget. The Department is in the third year of a protracted overall topline and RDT&E budget drawdown. As highlighted by Secretary Hagel, there are three major areas that comprise the Department's budget: force size, readiness, and modernization. The current budget is driving a force reduction, but this reduction will take several years to yield significant savings. In the FY 2015 budget, readiness and/or modernization will pay a larger percentage of the "bill". As a former airman who entered service in the 1970's, I am very well aware of what happens when savings are gleaned from readiness - the hollow force is not acceptable. Over the next several years of the budget we expect modernization accounts (Procurement and RDT&E) to pay a large portion of the Department's fiscal reduction bill. At the same time, Secretary Hagel's strategy is to protect advanced technologies and capabilities. The FY 2015 budget must balance all of these drivers; we believe we have done well, but do acknowledge there is increased risk.
The last several budgets have been characterized by instability and rapid decline of the modernization accounts. The FY 2013 sequestration reduced all accounts by 8.7%; for S&T, this amounted to a loss of about
One of the key points for S&T of the FY 2015 budget is a shift in focus at the macro scale from basic research to advanced technology development and a shift from the Services to
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Research and Development is not a Variable Cost
Over the past decade, the R&D accounts have been quite variable, but this counters one of the key tenets of R&D investment made by the Honorable
R&D is not a variable cost. R&D drives our rate of modernization. It has nothing to do with the size of the force structure. So, when you cut R&D, you are cutting your ability to modernize on a certain time scale, period -- no matter how big your force structure is. n4
If we don't do the research and development for a new system than the number of systems of that type we will have is zero. It is not variable.
Secretary Kendall said it this way:
[T]he investments we're making now in technology are going to give us the forces that we're going to have in the future. The forces we have now came out of investments that were made, to some extent, in the 80s and 90s...if you give up the time it takes for lead time to get...a capability, you are not going to get that back." n5
There is another trend impacting the Department's ability to deliver advanced capabilities. Recent data from the
Most of U.S. basic research is conducted at universities and colleges and funded by the federal government. However, the largest share of U.S. total R&D is development, which is largely performed by the business sector. The business sector also performs the majority of applied research. n6
This implies that DoD needs to be more cognizant of industry R&D as part of our overall capability development and remain sensitive to the importance of federally funded academic research. We continue to push in these areas through our continued support of the university research portfolio and our recent emphasis on
Figure 1 - Changes in US GDP and R&D by Performer n7
The Department's scientist and engineering (S&E) workforce consists of in-house labs, engineering centers, test ranges, acquisition program offices and so forth, and is augmented by our partners in the federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) and University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs). The talented scientists and engineers working within these organizations form the foundation of the Department's technology base and are responsible for conceiving and executing programs from basic research through demilitarization of weapon systems. The technical health of this workforce is a priority for me and the Department.
Our in-house labs have been designated by
Data from the Strategic Human Capital Workforce Plan published in
Although anecdotal, we are seeing a trend in why younger workers may be leaving. We saw a number of young scientists and engineers leave in 2013, early in their career. In conducting exit interviews, our laboratory directors reported that these young workers consistently cited travel and conference restrictions, as well as perceived instability of a long term career as motivating factors for their departure. This information, although anecdotal, is of concern; consequently, we are attempting to gather data to see if we can discern a definite signal.
Another area of significant Department and national interest is building a robust science and engineering workforce through various Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) initiatives. My office recently created the STEM Executive Board who has the authority and continues to provide strategic leadership for the Department's STEM initiatives.
Significant change to the Federal portfolio of STEM programs has occurred over the past year. In response to the requirements of the America Competes Reauthorization Act of 2010, Federal STEM-education programs were reorganized with the goals of greater coherence, efficiency, ease of evaluation, and focus on the highest priorities. This resulted in the Federal STEM Education 5-Year Strategic Plan designating the Smithsonian,
We are also developing department-wide guidance on STEM program evaluation, coordinating within the Department and across the Federal government to improve effectiveness and efficiencies in these investments in future workforce needs. A DoD STEM Annual Report, expected to be delivered in FY 2015 based on FY 2014 data, will communicate the activities and results in achieving Departmental goals.
In summary, budget constraints, furloughs, and conference and travel restrictions have contributed to a drain on our most valuable resource - people. To replace our losses and rebuild our workforce for the future, we are working on bringing stability back to our S&E programs, give our people challenging while enriching environments in which to work.
In short, the Department and Nation are at a strategic crossroads--the funds available to the Department (and national security infrastructure in general) are decreasing, while the complexity and depth of the national security challenges are growing. The world we live in is an uncertain place. Secretary Hagel said it best in his recent roll out of the FY 2015 budget:
"The development and proliferation of more advanced military technologies by other nations that means that we are entering an era where American dominance on the seas, in the skies, and in space can no longer be taken for granted." n8
Secretary Hagel went on to say:
"To fulfill this strategy DoD will continue to shift its operational focus and forces to the
Global Changes in
1) Many technologies of importance to the Department's capability developments are driven by the commercial sector, and have become a global commodity.
2) The pace of maturation of technology is accelerating; that is, technology maturation occurs on a more rapid scale than in the past.
Our DoD S&T community needs to identify areas where technology has become a global commodity and not expend resources working to develop the same capability. We must track global technology developments, harness them and apply the technology to our needs. This year, we have initiated a project at the
We already know that industry drives most microelectronics and semiconductors development; older infrared focal planes, routine communications, computers. The technology coming from these sectors is sufficient to meet most DoD capability needs. The DoD should be an adopter, not a leader in these areas while addressing the unique security concerns of these technologies used in our military, cyber and IT systems. The DoD should focus our research in technology integration or in developing technologies into products at performance levels beyond those commercially available or planned. Examples would include electronic travelling wave tubes (led by
At the same time, we know that the time to mature many technologies is decreasing. We have seen the time from invention to market penetration decrease by a factor of two over the past half century. Consequently, I would like to cite comments made by Mr.
"The effects of time (lost) cannot be reversed. It is well understood in the R&D community, and most particularly in the S&T community, that the investments we make today may not result in capability for a generation. It takes upwards of 5, 10, even 20 years to develop a new system, test it, and put it into production. By taking higher risks and accepting inefficiencies and higher costs we can reduce the "time to market" of new weapon systems; in fact, we have reduced this time ... with reforms put in place in recent years."
Even during <person>World War II we fought with the systems that had been in development for years before the war began. We can shorten, but not eliminate the time required to field new cutting edge weapons systems. But one thing is for sure, if we do not make R&D investments today, we will not have the capability in the future.
Capability Changes to DoD Technology Superiority. More significant than the changes in how technology is developed and delivered globally are changes in military capabilities being developed by other nations.
I will cite just one example; there are many more. The convergence of advanced digital signals and computer processing has given rise to proliferation of a new class of system--the digital radio frequency memory (DRFM) jammer. DRFM jammers are fairly inexpensive electronic systems that ingest the radar (or communications) signal, analyze the digital waveform, and then generate random signals, with the same waveform, back to the transmitting radar receiver. The result is the radar system sees a large number of "electronic" targets. If the US employed conventional weapons systems using the traditional methods, we could shoot at or chase a lot of false targets. The consequence is that the US needs to develop a counter to DRFM jammers.
The convergence of computer processing, digital signal processing, digital electronics, optical fibers, and precise timekeeping are giving rise to inexpensive enablers that can improve the ability to counter conventional weapons platforms. We are starting to see other nations advance technologies to counter US overmatch by combining the components listed above to enhance capabilities in electronic warfare, longer range air-to-air missiles, radars operating in non-conventional bandwidths, counter-space capabilities, longer range and more accurate ballistic and cruise missiles, improved undersea warfare capabilities, as well as cyber and information operations. We see these types of new capabilities emerging from many countries; to include
Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). The 2013 National Security Interests published by the Chairman of the
Vulnerability of the US Surface Fleet and Forward Bases in the
The People's
US Air Dominance. We see the same trend--development of systems to push US freedom of movement further from the
Vulnerability of US Satellites in Space.
Research and Engineering Strategy
To address the challenges of an accelerating, globalized research and development environment coupled with pressurized DoD budgets and the rapid growth of capabilities in other nations, we needed to examine the strategy we are using to focus the DoD investment on high priority areas. n11 To develop the research and engineering strategy, we had to go back to first principals. Why does the Department conduct research and engineering? What does the Department expect the DoD R&E program to deliver? After examination, we contend the Department conducts research and engineering for three reasons, in priority order:
1) Mitigate new and emerging threat capabilities--the Department must defend the homeland and overseas forces and national interests against threats that exist today, and threats that are still in development.
2) Affordably enable new or extended capabilities in existing military systems--Coincident with a tighter budget, and the fact that time is not recoverable, the DoD R&E program should focus on controlling costs, both in existing and future weapons systems.
3) Develop technology surprise--Finally, throughout the past century, the nation and the Department have looked to the Department's R&E program to continually develop and mature new capabilities that surprise potential adversaries.
Priority 1: Mitigating or Eliminating New and Emerging Threats to National Security
The Department must be prepared to meet its current and future national security missions, which include defending the homeland, securing freedom of navigation, and being able to project power. The research and engineering priorities inherent in this principal also include protecting the nation against nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, from both state and non-state actors. This principal also includes protecting the nation against new threats, such as cyber operations and the proliferation of cruise missiles and UAVs. The final emerging vector in this area is to find solutions to the new capabilities that would prevent the US armed forces from fulfilling our global mission, such as electronic warfare and maintaining space capabilities.
Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (C-WMD). The Department's investment in countering weapons of mass destruction is made primarily by the
Emerging trends over the last year includes the need to counter threats as far "upstream" or left of event as possible. Therefore, the entire C-WMD community is strengthening their program to interdict / render safe WMD before they are used.
Missile Defense. In FY 2015, the investment in missile defense S&T dropped from roughly
Although not a capability that will be fielded soon, the
A strategy based on only kinetic defense which requires a high-end US missile intercept against this proliferation of missiles is cost-imposing on
Cyber and information operations. The Department's investment in Cyber S&T in FY 2015 is
This year, the Department rebuilt the cyber S&T investment around warfighting capability requirements. We have then built a strong integrated technical foundation across the Cyber research and engineering enterprise through our
Though challenges remain in all areas, Cyber S&T is making progress and having significant impacts. Over the past few years, our cyber investments, from fundamental research through advanced technology demonstrations have resulted in many successes that directly benefit our warfighters and the broader defense enterprise. Some highlights are:
. Securing our telecommunications infrastructure through vulnerability assessment, tool development, and best practice dissemination;
. Developing technologies to accurately geo-locate illicit commercial wireless devices to protect our networks;
. Producing a game-changing approach to signature-free malware detection capable of defending against zero-day attacks;
. Designing a flexible, mission-based interoperability framework enabling rapid, low-cost capability integration for our cyber operation forces; and
. Developing tools and techniques that assure the secure operation of microprocessors within our weapons platforms and systems.
This year, in concert with White House Priorities n12, we created the Cyber Transition to Practice (CTP) Initiative. The goal of this initiative is to mature and ultimately transition S&T products to operational use. The development of cyber tools frequently happens on a time scale much less than the traditional acquisition process. The CTP initiative is intended to accelerate fielding of cyber tools.
Loss of Assured Space. Other nations have developed both kinetic and non-kinetic means to degrade or deny the US space layer. Consequently, the DoD S&T program is working on developing the space capabilities our forces rely on whether or not the space layer exists. The capability may be degraded, but will also not be vulnerable. Other nations are seeking to asymmetrically disrupt our military capabilities that depend upon assured satellite communications; global systems for positioning, navigation, and timing; and on-demand ISR, even in denied areas. The US will respond to these actions through increasing the resilience of our space assets so they are free from interference as well as develop alternative means to deliver the capabilities we currently obtain from our space assets.
Current technologies in development include, but are not limited to the following: improving our space situational awareness capabilities employing improved ground- and space-based systems (such as the
Electronic warfare (both attack and protection). The Department's investment in electronic warfare (EW) S&T is about
Electronic warfare is becoming important and more critical because the enabling technologies underlying frequency and complexity are progressing very rapidly. To address the underlying technologies, the components have coalesced around a concept called Advanced Components for EW (ACE), which is focusing on Integrated Photonic Circuits, Millimeter Wave,
In addition to the underlying technology, the Services are involved in building advanced electronic systems. We will cover two of them. The
The Home on GPS-Jam (HOG-J) is a small munition that will identify foreign GPS jammers and vector the munition into the jammer. HOG-J has had some preliminary successful tests, and could be ready to enter the inventory in 2-3 years. There are other EW systems that could be covered at the appropriate security level.
Priority 2: Affordably Enabling New or Extending Military Capabilities
The cost of Defense acquisition systems continues to be a challenge for the Department. Over the past three years, the Department introduced "
Systems engineering. The Department's systems engineering capability and capacity are critical to enabling affordability across the system life cycle of an acquisition program. The Department's systems engineers drive affordable designs, develop technical plans and specifications to support cost-effective procurement, and conduct trade-off analyses to meet program cost, schedule and performance requirements. Systems engineers are enabling strategies to identify opportunities to reduce life-cycle costs. My organization has taken a lead role in improving the Department's ability to achieve affordable programs through strong SE policy, guidance, dissemination of best practices, execution oversight and support for a healthy, qualified engineering workforce.
Through an emphasis on affordability in recently updated policy and guidance, the Department has established a clear role for systems engineers in defining, establishing, and achieving affordability goals and processes throughout the life cycle. Through required systems engineering trade space analyses, individual acquisition programs establish the cost, schedule and affordability drivers and can demonstrate the cost-effective design point for the program. These trade space analyses will be conducted across the program's lifecycle to continuously assess system affordability and technical feasibility to support requirements, investments, and acquisition decisions and depict the relationships between system life-cycle cost and the system's performance requirements, design parameters, and delivery schedules. Recent emphasis on better reliability engineering has focused the Department's acquisition programs on reducing overall lifecycle costs. My systems engineering staff maintains regular and frequent engagement with acquisition programs to support the planning and execution of effective technical risk management, as well as affordability considerations. They provide regular oversight and guidance to assist the programs as they mature through the lifecycle.
Developmental Test and Evaluation. Developmental Test and Evaluation (DT&E) efforts focus on engaging major acquisition programs early in their lifecycle to ensure efficient and effective test strategies, thereby ensuring a better understanding of program technical risks and opportunities before major milestone decisions. In 2013, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Developmental Test and Engineering (DASD(DTE)) introduced the "shift left" concept--specifically to drive DT earlier in the acquisition process. Early DT&E engagement with programs not only reduces acquisition costs through efficient testing, but finding and fixing deficiencies early, well before production and operations, drastically reduces overall lifecycle costs. The DASD(DT&E) is focusing on a few key areas to improve the overall effectiveness of developmental test and evaluation; use of the Developmental Evaluation Framework, increased emphasis on testing in a mission context, earlier cyber security testing, and an increased emphasis on system reliability testing.
The Developmental Evaluation Framework is a disciplined process that results in a clear linkage between program decisions, capability evaluation, evaluation information needs, and test designs. Using the Developmental Evaluation Framework provides an efficient, yet rigorous T&E strategy to inform the program's decisions. Developmental Test and Evaluation is also moving beyond the traditional technical test focus to include testing in a mission context to characterize capabilities and limitations before production. Robust DT&E should also include early cyber security testing that previously was not tested until late in the acquisition life cycle, where deficiencies are costly to fix. Finally DT&E is focusing on increased system reliability testing. System reliability is a major driver in the affordability of future weapon systems. Improved reliability information early in the program allows acquisition leadership to understand the program technical and cost risks and take steps to improve system reliability and therefore the affordability of the system.
Prototyping. Another way to drive down costs of weapons systems is through the expanded use of prototypes, which we use to prove a concept or system prior to going to formal acquisition. Consequently, in FY 2015, we look to expand the use of developmental and operational prototyping to advance our strategic shift to a greater emphasis on future threats. In FY 2015, the Department's investment in prototypes or prototype like activities is around
A recent example of an operational prototype is Instant Eye, a one pound quad-copter. We outfitted Instant Eye with an electro-optical camera and IR illuminator, bringing a field repairable, overhead surveillance capability to the soldier in the field at a unit cost of less than
Joint Multi-Effects Warhead System (JMEWS) is a good example of a higher-risk, higher reward developmental prototype. The JMEWS project took on the challenge of in-flight targeting and re-tasking of the Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM). JMEWS' flexible lethality increases the combat power of these expensive weapons by tailoring the TLAM flight profile for best effect, taking advantage of information often not available until after the weapon has launched. With the developmental prototyping effort demonstrating the essential technical aspects, all that remains for
Throughout the history of the Department, periods of fiscal constraint have been marked by the use of prototypes to mature technology and keep design teams active in advancing the state of practice. We will use prototyping to demonstrate capability early in the acquisition process. Prototyping will also be used to improve capability development methods and manufacturing techniques, evaluate new concepts, and rapidly field initial quantities of new systems. Prototyping's ability to evaluate and reduce technical risk, and clarify the resource picture that drives costs makes it a critical piece of the larger research and engineering strategy. Put simply, by prototyping in research and engineering, we can focus on key knowledge points and burn down the risk before the risk reduction becomes expensive.
Energy and power. Energy and
Unmanned Underwater Vehicles - Air Independent Propulsion (UUV-AIP). The
The Integrated Vehicle Energy Technology (INVENT). The Air Force INVENT program is developing power and thermal management technologies and architectures that not only address today's aircraft performance limits but also work with adaptive cycle engines to enable next generation game changing high power airborne capabilities. There are related Service initiatives to realize higher performance, more fuel efficient designs for rotorcraft and ground vehicles.
Engineered Resilient Systems. To address the need for more affordable and mission-resilient warfighting systems, we are developing an integrated suite of modern computational modeling and simulation (M&S) capabilities and engineering tools aligned with acquisition and operational business processes to transform engineering environments under the Engineered Resilient Systems (ERS) initiative. The ERS tool suite allows warfighters, engineers, and acquisition decision-makers to rapidly assess the cost and performance of potential system designs by providing many data-driven alternatives resulting in systems which are less sensitive to changes in external threats, mission needs, and program constraints. ERS has already demonstrated that the insertion of advanced S&T models, tools and techniques into early phases of engineering processes and decision-making will positively impact effectiveness, affordability and sustainability of defense systems, thus addressing these most critical challenges head on. These new M&S-based frameworks adopt the most advanced design and modeling approaches of government, industry and academia to enable our Nation to meet emergent threat, while insuring that we can do that affordably, today and in an uncertain future.
Priority 3: Creating Technology Surprise Through Science and Engineering
The third and final reason the Department conducts research and engineering is to create surprise to potential adversaries. Previous
The Department invests in a structured way to create surprise. Creation of surprise requires a robust basic research program coupled with a strong applied research. While it is not really possible to know where technology surprise will come from, there are several areas that highlight the possibility; we will discuss several of them in increasing level of maturity. The least mature is quantum science, followed by nanotechnology, autonomous systems, human systems, and then finally, directed energy systems.
Quantum Sciences: The discoveries a century ago of the quantum properties of the atom and the photon defined and propelled most of the new technology of the 20th century - semiconductors, computers, materials, communication, lasers - the technological basis of much of our civilization. Now, the next quantum revolution may define new technological directions for the 21st century, building upon the intersection of quantum science and information theory. Consequently, the DoD is increasing its basic research investment in Quantum Information Science (QIS). QIS exploits our expanded quantum capabilities in the laboratory to engineer new properties and states of matter and light literally at the atomic scale. We are already developing new capabilities in secure communication, ultra-sensitive and high signal to noise physical sensing of the environment, and a path to exponentially faster computing algorithms in special purpose computers. The DoD research funding has driven quantum sciences in the past decade. This funding has led to the demonstration to measure time through cold atom research at 1000 times more accurate than GPS. Using quantum sciences, the DoD is likely within 10 years of fielding an affordable timekeeping system that will cut our tether to GPS. We are building in the laboratory gravity sensors of unprecedented sensitivity, opening the possibility of remote detection of tunnels (or submarines). Other military applications are just being realized, but quantum science is a technology that will provide surprise.
Nanoengineering/Nanotechnology: QIS is based on the ability to control atoms. Nanoengineering also deals with the ability to develop and engineer systems at the molecular level. This will, in turn, lead to new system level capabilities. For instance, one of the limitations to systems like directed energy is thermal management. By designing systems at the molecular level, it is possible to increase thermal management by several orders of magnitude. Materials like "metamaterials" (engineered materials for specific properties) provide a promise of development of radars and electromagnetic systems that operate much more effectively at much broader frequency ranges. Metamaterials are especially intriguing because through clever design and dissimilar materials integration, properties that are never seen in nature's materials may be obtained. An example from the
Autonomy: A major cost driver to the
Human Systems: Previous wars were won by massing power through weapons systems. It is not clear that will be the case in future conflicts. With the proliferation of sensors and data, future conflicts may well be won by the person that can react quickest. Studies of human cognition suggest that cognitive response times can be reduced by using display systems that present information using multiple sensory modalities. Such a reduction would give the force that is enabled with these technologies the ability to process more information, faster than their adversaries. Additionally, we are learning how to tailor training to adapt to individual students' unique needs, leading to reductions in the time needed to acquire expertise. Reducing the time to train forces to an advanced level of competence offers another way to respond faster than our adversaries. Additionally, robots, unmanned vehicles and other advanced technologies continue to be deeply integrated with our warfighters. We are developing new methodologies and technologies to enable our warfighters to interact with these systems as naturally as they do with their human counterparts leading to faster and more accurate responses by these "hybrid teams". Lastly, we are optimizing warfighter physical and cognitive performance for long durations, in dynamic and unpredictable environments, through personalized conditioning and nutritional regimens.
The Department's Research and Engineering (R&E) Enterprise is wide-ranging, and is the foundation of the Department's technological strength. The enterprise includes DoD laboratories and product centers, other government laboratories, federally funded research and development centers (FFRDC's) and University affiliated research centers (UARCs), US and allied universities, our allied and partner government laboratories, as well as industry. Last year I took the opportunity to brief the members of this Committee as my impetus to develop a strategy for the R&E Enterprise; this strategy was discussed earlier. What is important this year is putting in place the structure to attempt to optimize the S&T investment. Consequently, the Department's S&T Executives and I have worked to put in place Reliance 21. Under Reliance 21, most of the Department's S&T program will be managed in one of 17 cross-cutting portfolios. Each of these portfolios will be made up of Senior Executive or Senior Leader from each
We are the most technologically advanced military in the world but, as Secretary Hagel so aptly stated in his remarks on the 24th of February of this year, "we must maintain our technological edge over potential adversaries" n14. I have outlined what we are doing with the resources that we have been given and what we plan to do with the resources in the FY 2015 President's budget. Success, however, will depend on your support. In that regard I have two requests.
I ask that you enact the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation portion of the President's Budget as submitted. We spent a lot of time to balance the program to best meet DoD priorities.
The President's Budget seeks funding for FY 2016-2021 that is above the estimated sequestration levels under current law. As pointed out earlier, with no relief from the BCA in the out years, we expect modernization and readiness accounts to bear the brunt. This would heighten the increased risk we are already seeing. Simply, at that sequestration level, we expect continued erosion of the S&T and RDT&E accounts.
Second, I would ask that you support our efforts in prototyping. We are expanding the use of developmental and operational prototyping in lieu of formal acquisition programs. Throughout the history of the Department, during periods of fiscal constraint, the Department has used prototypes to mature technology and keep design teams intact and moving forward.
Prototyping has another advantage--it allows the Department to build a capability early in the acquisition process, before all the structure affiliated with the acquisition process begins. By prototyping in research and engineering, we can acquire valuable knowledge and buy down risk and lead time to production at relatively low cost.
In summary, the last year has been a challenge to the Department's S&T program. The risk to our force is growing, and the need for the S&T community is likewise increasing. We have shifted our focus to protecting the future by countering anti-access, area-denial threats, addressing the increasing complexity of adversary's weapons systems, shortening the maturation time of developing our own systems, and addressing the erosion of
n1 Science and Technology is defined as program 6, budget activities 1, 2, and 3; frequently called 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3 (basic research, applied research, and advanced technology development); Research and Engineering adds
n2 Top line refers to the total funds appropriated by
n3 Remarks by Secretary Hagel on the FY 2015 budget preview in the
n4 Honorable
n5 Kendall,
n6 National Science Board. 2014. Science and Engineering Indicators 2014.
n8 Remarks by Secretary Hagel on the FY 2015 budget preview in the
n9 Hagel,
n10 As of 2013
n11 While the priorities listed below capture the cross-DoD priorities, there are still individual Service priorities they must address. These priorities do not address Naval responsibilities for the Ocean,
n12 This is in direct response to the NSS Cybersecurity FY2014 Budget Priority of
n13 "From Marginal Adjustments to Meaningful Change",pg 64,
n14 Hagel,
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What do we do when we muse discursively on a topic? Do we reach a greater understanding of the world? Of ourselves? Of the suppurating boner we get when we tell the girl in the check-out line at Trader Joe's the big word we looked up from the New Yorker? I mean, The Believer.
("Hey! 'Postlapsarian.' That make you wet!? Wha- Ah! No! Don't take away my organic soy tandoori coconut chicken sticks.")
People, in the main, don't seek introspection. They seek the immediate gratification of a sentence directly expressed, and not the turbid waters of distilled genuine experience. Can't they understand nothing can be conveyed intellectually unless it's by an oblique music or movie quote? Also, they don't appreciate a throbbing phallus jammed into the duodenum. Philistines.
From WBEZ Chicago, it's This American Life, distributed by Public Radio International, I'm Ira Glass.
This week, the new American pastime: football. How did this come about? From whence did it come? Whither is it going? Did the twee novels we read not foretell such an phenomenon?
What do we talk about when we talk about football? Is the obsession a byproduct of our collective impetuous mindset? A Jungian desire for contact, kinetic energy… coherence? Freud said sometimes a cigar is just a cigar but he'd know for sure that Chris Simms is gay.
Now, football is something embraced by mainstream culture, therefore we must approach it leerily and with skepticism and superciliousness. To do otherwise wouldn't be fake-edgy, pseudo-intellectual and above-it-all.
(A music overlay of Boards of Canada's "Turquoise Hexagon Sun.")
Chapter 1 this week features Sarah Vowell talking about presidential assassins for 30 minutes. She may, at some point, compare Charles Guiteau to Jerry Rice, so don't switch over to that Sigur Ros record just yet.
Chapter 2: David Sedaris pays a visit to Wes Welker's dungeon school for cock-tickling gimps on the campus of Texas Tech and finds a way to make a cleverly worded reference to Jabberjaw and his wacky experiences learning French with his male partner in Paris. That is to say, Sedaris' experiences, not Jabberjaw's.
Chapter 3: A perfunctory attempt at engaging with real life folk. For authenticity's sake, we even let slip a few colloquialisms and sly references to the Iraq War. We'll explain to an ice cream man and an illegal immigrant the parallels of Faulkner and Jon Gruden. How devilishly informal and prosaic. I'll end the segment with an interview with Dave Eggers, who will be amused that I'm even asking him about something as mundane as football. He'll remark that there should be a team in Africa.
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2 Spokane Valley teen girls killed in crash
Mon., Oct. 7, 2013, 6:34 a.m.
SPOKANE VALLEY — Students at University High School in Spokane Valley are mourning the deaths of two girls in a crash.
The teenage girls, Josie Freier and McKenzie Mott, were riding Saturday night in a car driven by a friend, Preston Maher, 16, news reports show.
The boy was injured when the car went out of control and hit a tree on a residential road. He was hospitalized in critical condition. Deputies say he was not impaired, but likely speeding.
Freier and Mott were both sophomores at University High.
Hundreds attended a Sunday night vigil organized by students for the teens on the school's athletic field. School counselors, administrators and the Central Valley School District support team prepared to help grieving students today.
The accident took place on South Bates Road near East Ponderosa Drive. All three teens were wearing seat belts.


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Two businesses a mile and a half apart were held up at gunpoint Wednesday night within about 12 minutes of each other, authorities said, and the descriptions of the robbers in each are nearly identical.
Topeka police first responded at 8:04 p.m. to Subway, 2518 S.W. 17th St., on a call of a robbery. At 8:16 p.m., officers responded to Dollar General, 1920 S.W. 10th St., on a similar report.
Sgt. Jay Junghans, who was working the Subway heist, said the man's reported appearance in both robberies is "almost identical."
The robber is described as a black man standing between 5-foot-10 and 6-foot-tall wearing a gray hoodie and dark-colored jeans (blue or black) with a black bandana covering his face.
Authorities stopped short of confirming the businesses were hit by the same man, but it was a possibility being investigated.
No injuries were reported in either crime.
At each business, witnesses told officers the robber pointed a black handgun at employees and took an undisclosed amount of cash.
The bandit fled west on foot from Subway, officers were told. The Dollar General robber went north, also on foot.
Officer James Moore, who was working the Dollar General holdup, said the man was in and out "pretty quick."
If the robber is the same person, Moore said, he has to be fleeing on foot to a vehicle. There isn't a way to prove that yet, he said, but it is a likely scenario given the distances and time span between holdups.
Officers were using K-9 units in a foot search in the neighborhood around the Dollar General.
The Dollar General is about a mile north and half mile east of the Subway.
It was the second time in as many nights that a Dollar General store in Topeka had been robbed. The store at S.W. 10th and Fairlawn was held up Tuesday night by a man matching the descriptions from both holdups Wednesday night.
Anyone with information regarding the robberies may contact police detectives at 368-9400 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 234-0007.


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Linebacker pick satisfies priority for Cowboys defense
As veterans Bradie James and Keith Brooking have aged, the Cowboys have made it a priority to find players who will one day replace them at their positions. For the third consecutive year, the Cowboys drafted an inside linebacker when they selected Bruce Carter with the 40th overall pick Friday.
In 2009, the Cowboys grabbed Jason Williams in the third round with the 69th overall choice. A year later, they acquired Sean Lee in the second round with the 55th overall selection. Williams never realized his potential, while Lee has shown promise.
Carter, meanwhile, hopes he can eventually become a fixture in the Cowboys lineup, where James, 30, and Booking, 35, are regulars.
"Anywhere they put me," Carter said, "I'm just ready to learn and just ready to get after it."
Jones said Brooking's and James' positions are safe for now.


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Cowon brings the C2 to Japan as well
Announced in Korea early April Cowon new C2 mini PMP is finally heading to Japan this month! Announced in 8 or 16Gb in Japan at around 13,000 and 17,000 Yen the Japanese C2 comes with the same specification as we Korean version with a 2.6" touchscreen (resistive) with a QVGA (320×240) resolution, Video out, MicroSD Slot, USB 2.0 minus the DMB TV Tuner.
The C2 is like most of Cowon's creation compatible with pretty much everything you will give it and is even capable, according to Cowon, to offer you up to 55h of continuous video play on a single charge!
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Georgia and Alabama could be on a collision course to play for the Southeastern Conference title in December.
That's still to be determined, of course.
What is certain is that Florida Atlantic, 1-11 last season, will play the two in a powerful 1-2 punch in the next two weeks in Athens and Tuscaloosa.
Why? The easy answer is money.
Georgia is paying Florida Atlantic $1 million, the highest payout every for a Bulldogs opponent.
Howard Schnellenberger, who built the Florida Atlantic program and retired as its head coach last season, said the Boca Raton school has played 25 "money games" against the likes of Florida, Michigan State, Auburn, Clemson, Texas and Minnesota.
"Playing those 25 games, we generate $12.5 million," said Schnellenberger, who said he was in charge of the scheduling.
Georgia coach Mark Richt said Wednesday he didn't think Florida Atlantic will find the next two weeks daunting.
"I doubt that," he said. "I think they're more excited about playing, would be my guess."
Florida Atlantic's future schedules include games at Nebraska, Florida and another at Alabama.


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The dish on Long Island's restaurant and food scene.
Neither Grillfire nor Nick's Tuscan Grill in Long Beach will be reopening -- two more restaurants taken down by superstorm Sandy.
Both had originally opened as part of the George Martin Restaurant Group but changed ownership about a year ago.
George Martin's Grillfire in Rockville Centre and Merrick are still alive and cooking.


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Even in Texas, Abortion Rights Got a Big Boost with FDA Ruling on Mifepristone
Anti-choicers in front of the United States Supreme Court in March.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's decision to update the recommended dosage for women taking the abortion drug mifepristone may give Texas women easier access to abortions in the state. The FDA changed the label on the drug, bringing it in line with the way doctors in other states have been using the drug in practice.
Previous label instructions from the FDA recommended a greater dose of the drug be administered in a shorter time frame. In states like Texas that required abortion providers to follow the FDA's label instructions, issued in 2000, that meant more trips to the clinic for the few women who were eligible for a drug-induced abortion. Now, the number of office visits required for a medical abortion could drop from as many as four to as few as one.
Abortion providers like Planned Parenthood will now be able to provide the same level of care at facilities in states that, like Texas, have legally limited the way doctors can prescribe mifepristone.
"Since Planned Parenthood's medical standards are constantly evolving with the latest clinical research findings, we have actually had the protocols approved today in place at Planned Parenthood for some time," Raegan McDonald-Mosley, chief medical officer of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said in a Wednesday statement. "But given the restrictions on medication abortion enacted at the state level in recent years, updating the label to reflect best medical practice represents a significant step forward for science, for women, and for health care providers who want to give our patients the highest quality care."
Research into the effects of the Texas law that mandated on-label mifepristone use, 2013's House Bill 2, has indicated that medication-based abortions in the state are falling at a much more precipitous rate than the rate of surgical abortion.
Dr. Daniel Grossman, the lead researcher in a study that found a 70 percent drop in medical abortions over a one-year period just before and just after HB 2 became effective, told the Observer in 2014 that Texas' requirement that doctors follow the outdated FDA protocol did nothing to protect women's health, despite the protestations of the bill's backers.
"The restrictions in HB2 force doctors to offer a protocol that was approved by the FDA in 2000," Grossman said. "That's really outdated, there are much easier ways to provide the method. The law made it much more complicated for doctors to provide it and it made it more expensive."
Joe Pojman, executive director of the Texas Alliance for Life, said in a statement that the FDA changes do — contrary to what people like Grossman and Dr. Hal Lawrence, the CEO of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, have said — endanger women's health.
"We regret that the FDA appears to be increasing the risk to the health and safety of women undergoing drug-induced abortions in their attempt to make those abortions cheaper and easier for abortion facilities to provide," he said
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Someone might be able to help you if we knew what you were working with.
What am I talking about? These are all of your posts that conflict with each other...
I have a Beretta 92fs and It can only take 15 and 20 round mags in it.
My Beretta is in excellent condition and I'd be looking for a 226 in excellent condition as well. I also have an HK USP 45. compact that I might try to sell and I'd get at least $800 for that, but the HK is such a great shot and reliable, I'm reluctant to get rid of it. For $800, I could actually probably get a brand new sig but my HK has never failed once.
I carry a HK USP 45. Compact. It's very concealable and extremely reliable.
I would carry the HK P2000SK. I've been carrying mine for years and I love it. It is lightweight, very contollable, and 100% reliable. Also, mine is the V3 with the LEM trigger, so I don't have the hammer poking me in the side all of the time. Personally, I hate Glock.
For concealed I take my P99AS 9mm (Hornady 147 +p.) For home defence I use my AK-47 (which is not really a pistol but I like it anyway) : ]
I voted Germany I have three Walthers and four HK's and I love them all. I also have a Sig P232 that was made in Germany.
I've actually had many FTF's on my Kimber Custom II. I am not a big fan of Dan Wesson either. I would either get a Springfield or a Para Ordnance.
From the "Most problematic gun you've owned" thread:
S&W Walther PPK. Biggest piece of crap ever.:barf: Constant FTFeeds and a few KBooms. Also some slide bite. James Bond made a horrible choice. I wonder if he even has a thumb anymore.
A few KB's!?!?!?
Oh yea, I'm the one who made the OP, and I forgot to mention that I have 2 AK's
My Bersa Thunder .380 sucked and had FTF. I wouldn't buy one. I'm glad your happy with your's though
I have a Walther P99AS, PPS, PPK, PPK/S, P5, P38, P22, P88, P1, and PP. Mind you, I started my Walther collection when I was 18 and I will never stop. Walther all the way!!!
in reference to a gun not available in the US (a UMP)
HK Allday:
Nice carbine. I have the same exact one. It is a beauty and I wouldn't get rid of it.
I actually already own a PPS and I regret buying it. For a gun of its size, you'd think it would be a little bit lighter. Also, I think the trigger on it sucks.
That's completely not true. I own a selective fire uzi. I bought it back in 87' for only 2,500.
HK Allday:
Good questions. I have had an HK USP45C, and I have shot an HK45C and an HK P2000SK 9mm.
I am thinking about getting Walther PPK/S in .380 as my next gun. Also, my father is going to buy a two-tone Sig P232 (.380)
What is good defence ammo for a .380?
I have been a semi-auto pistol guy (with the exception of one rifle.) Honesty, just for the first time yesterday, I picked up a revolver to fondle it
I was once in the same situation as you
I went with the 3'' 686
I like it better than the Ruger
"Oldest handgun you own" thread:
a 2008 Lancaster AK47 lol. All of the guns I own are from 08'.
I own a P99AS and I used to own a USP/C. I liked the P99 in every way better (hint...hint...look at the username)
Mine was an HK P2000SK V2 LEM. I bought it without even trying the LEM trigger before and I hated it. I sold it within the week that I bought it
I prefer steel because of its heft and recoil-reducing weight. But my CCW and home defence weapon is a P99 with a polymer frame. For some weird reason, my polymer P99 has less recoil than my 42oz 226ST. It's just kind of weird how that works.
I own a selective fire IMI Uzi. I pretty much never use it because it's way to expensive to shoot, which is why I'm considering buying a .22lr conversion kit for it. I got it in 1987 for $3000.
The Sig P220 is a great pistol. Mine had only 2 FTF's when I first shot it and then it was fine.
Definately my dad's fault
, and I can't thank him enough. When I was 12 he bought me my first gun for Christmas (a Sig P239). Ever since then I was obsessed with guns.
Also, my heavy, steel-framed Kahr K40 kicked like a mule, and that was a heavy gun for a compact.
You don't add up......
HDR Ban!?
It's a shame all of my guns sank with my boat last week...
Time to catch up.....like mayonnaise
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Basketball: Douglas girls, boys prevail in non-league contests
December 8, 2012
Lady Tigers pull away from South Tahoe in win
A certain pattern is beginning to develop for the Douglas High girls basketball team.
Suffer through a rocky start, find a rhythm midway through the first quarter and then put on an offensive show, particularly in transition, through the remainder.
The Lady Tigers followed the outline to the letter for the second consecutive game Friday night, picking up a 59-35 win over South Tahoe in a non-league game played at Pau-Wa-Lu Middle School due to the Douglas High Craft Fair being set up in the Tiger gym.
"We had some struggles defensively tonight," Douglas coach Werner Christen said. "We were just sloppy. I've never seen a team get in the bonus with fouls that quickly before. We just weren't moving our feet and we reached in way too much. It just wasn't happening.
"We didn't do a good job on our press break, but we did make some basketball plays. We're starting to see that with this group, they can execute some plays. We're doing a good job in the transition game. When we get out in transition, we're going to be OK."
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The Tigers got balanced scoring throughout their lineup. Sophomore Leonna Mortimer put up a team-high 12 points while Desiree Cage and Ericka Munoz each scored 11. McKenna Kynett had eight points and Corryne Millett and Diana Regalado each had six points in the win.
South Tahoe built an early 4-0 lead while Douglas struggled to find it's shot from the floor.
"It was almost a carbon copy of the Wooster game (the Tigers missed their first six shots against the Colts on Tuesday)," Christen said. "South Tahoe really made us work for it. They are a scrappy team and they do a good job. We expected that.
"We bounced back, though. We're down 4-0 and then we go on a 13-0 run. The kids responded."
After finishing the first quarter on a 13-0 run for the 13-4 lead, Douglas extended its lead in chunks through the second and third quarters.
Cage had a personal 5-0 run early in the second, and the Tigers pieced together two more 5-0 runs and a 6-0 run in the second quarter to carry a 33-17 lead into halftime.
The Tigers then outscored South Tahoe 14-4 in the third to effectively put the game away.
It was Douglas' second consecutive game topping the 50-point mark on offense.
"There were some good things happening," Christen said. "Now we have to get back to work for a big week next week. We have Galena, Reed and Reno all coming up. Those are big league games. If we don't play better, it is going to hurt us."
Douglas improved to 5-2 overall on the year.
The Douglas boys basketball team opened a tournament in Elko with a solid 78-55 win over West High School out of Salt Lake City, Utah.
Douglas opened the game on a 10-0 run and fought off West's feisty full-court pressure to run up its highest scoring total of the young season.
The Tigers improved to 3-0 overall on the year and will take on host Elko Saturday night.