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Tom Youngs to stake claim for Lions start in showdown
Hugh Godwin
Hugh Godwin is the rugby union correspondent of the Independent on Sunday who also writes for The Independent
Sunday 19 May 2013
Once upon a Lions tour two hookers, Barry Williams and Mark Regan, famously came to blows on the training field. No one died; frankly, it was a relief to every onlooker to know the two men were living up to one of the game's most combustible positions.
This year Tom Youngs of Leicester and Northampton's Dylan Hartley are two of the three Lions contesting the No 2 jersey. They managed to keep things civil at last Monday's kitting-out session – well, a full-on scrap among the suits and the shiny shoes would have been silly – but next Saturday, even before they board the plane for Australia, they have the little matter of their clubs meeting in the final to decide the Aviva Premiership.
"I think it's like any position, when you're fighting for it," Youngs said, pondering over the right words. "You get on but you're still in competition.
"It's easier when you have a rival at a club. When it's international level, or higher with the Lions, it's that bit more difficult. You say hello, you have your chat at dinner about a game… you do everything to help the team, but that's about it.
"Dylan and I get on all right together. But you know on the training field you're going to want to get ahead of each other. And at Twickenham next week we will be smashing into each other, wanting to do what we can do to help our side win the Premiership."
The pair have had the same rivalry with England all season and Youngs, in making a stunning breakthrough after his well-documented switch from centre to hooker four years ago, has had the best of it, starting eight of his country's nine Tests, while Hartley was out of action with a knee injury in the autumn, before sitting on the bench behind his less experienced rival for most of the Six Nations.
There was just time enough in the few hours they and the third Lions hooker – Wales's Richard Hibbard – spent with their fellow tourists at the Lions' London hotel for the head coach, Warren Gatland, to make a speech about casting off their national ties and uniting for the red jersey. Then Youngs and Hartley returned to pumping themselves up for the infinitely more parochial battle of the East Midlands, set for six days' time at Twickenham in the first Premiership final meeting between the clubs, who are 37 miles apart but at either end of the championship-winning scale: Leicester have nine titles to Northampton's none, and have appeared in the past eight finals, winning three.
In fact the sides first met in 1880 when Leicester were just a few weeks old – but Youngs, as in so many respects of his whirlwind rise, is a relative novice. A few minutes here and there in four appearances as a substitute hooker against Northampton to go with a start as centre in what feels like the mists of time in December 2006, before Leicester's South African former head coach Heyneke Meyer suggested his switch of position.
Youngs's first front-row start versus the Saints was in March this year, but he was off before half-time after banging his head on someone's knee and cannot remember much about it. (Not Hartley's knee, in case you were wondering).
"I think Dylan and Hibbard are strong in the tight and pretty good around the field too, though I am a bit quicker," said Youngs. "The hard grounds in Australia might suit me. I guess Warren has picked players to give him a certain balance. All I am thinking about is this final. Your club is who you come back to, you feel like you owe the club the win."
In turn the club coach, Richard Cockerill, has been rewarded for his decision to see the Youngs experiment through, leaving him on the field early in the season at Gloucester when The Shed were braying and Youngs's throw was faltering.
"I'm a bit envious, in a nice way," said Cockerill. "I got capped at 27, having been a hooker since I was a kid, and I had to work my nuts off for that. Tom should take massive credit. He has worked so hard."
For the record, when Williams and Regan had finished fighting in 1997, Keith Wood got the Test spot. And anyway, when it comes to rivalry, how about the Youngs family try-tally challenge? Every Monday, cousin Jake posts an update on Facebook – participants are Tom and his brother Ben (who is topping the table), plus two more fellow Tigers and Lions squad members Tom Croft and Dan Cole, who are going out with two of their female cousins.
Then there are the playing cousins at the Youngs's old club, Holt in Norfolk: Jake, a hooker, his brother Bruce, a scrum-half, and Joe and Freddie in the seconds. And Edward, who plays for West Norfolk, and Monty, who's somewhere Tom cannot remember. "I am actually on minus one, because I got a try disallowed against Scotland, so that's not too clever," said Tom. "Coley's on zero but he's still beating me."
With that kind of incentive, Hartley may not stand a chance.
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Announced last week, a new study from Harvard School of Public Health reports that processed meats have a "shockingly high" association with type 2 diabetes. A daily serving of 50 grams of processed meat, about the same as two slices of cold cuts or one hot dog, can increase your risk of the disease by 50 percent, according to the researchers. And that applies to anyone, fat or slim, warned head researcher An Pan, a Harvard research fellow, in a statement.
The research, published online in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, is based on data from three major US studies involving more than 200,000 adults, some of whom have been followed for nearly 30 years.
Other options for your barbecue? Unprocessed red meats, such as ground beef and pork, can also raise your diabetes risks, but not to the same degree, the researchers reported.
Even better, replace a daily serving of red meat with a serving of nuts, which is associated with a 21 percent lower risk of diabetes, according to health website MyHealthNewsDaily. Substituting meat with a portion of low-fat dairy can reduce your risk by 17 percent; whole grains, by 23 percent.
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Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Mick Keelty said an officer - appointed with Indonesia's permission - would target child abuse by wealthy foreigners, many of whom are Australian.
"The biggest priority he will have, outside terrorism and prosecutions for the Bali bombings, is child sex tourism," Keelty told a parliamentary committee.
AFP Acting Deputy Commissioner John Lawler said the officer would also investigate reports of children being abused after being adopted or fostered by foreigners on the tropical island.
"We're aware of circumstances where it occurred," he said.
While child sex tourism is widespread across Southeast Asia, the extent of the problem in Bali only hit the spotlight in Australia last month with the arrest of former diplomat, William Brown, 51, who is awaiting trial on charges of abusing two Balinese boys, aged 13 and 15.
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"Bali is very vulnerable at the moment. The bombings destabilised the island's economy and stopped access to foreign income, leaving families and children open to exploitation"
Bernadette McMenaminChild Wise National Director"Bali is very vulnerable at the moment. The bombings destabilised the island's economy and stopped access to foreign income, leaving families and children open to exploitation," Child Wise's National Director Bernadette McMenamin said.
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"There are some very serious claims being made about children going missing as well as sexual abuse," she said, adding that a lack of action so far had created an impression of Bali being tolerant towards tourists preying on young girls and boys.
Keelty said he hoped the close relationship between Australian and Indonesian police forged since the Bali bombings would aid investigations into child exploitation which had failed in the past due to a lack of physical and admissible evidence.
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PanARMENIAN.Net - Around three-quarters of the world's inhabitants now have access to a mobile phone and the mobile communications story is moving to a new level, which is not so much about the phone but how it is used, says a new report released by the World Bank and infoDev, its technology entrepreneurship and innovation program.
The number of mobile subscriptions in use worldwide, both pre-paid and post-paid, has grown from fewer than 1 billion in 2000 to over 6 billion now, of which nearly 5 billion in developing countries. Ownership of multiple subscriptions is becoming increasingly common, suggesting that their number will soon exceed that of the human population.
According to Information and Communications for Development 2012: Maximizing Mobile, more than 30 billion mobile applications, or "apps," were downloaded in 2011 – software that extends the capabilities of phones, for instance to become mobile wallets, navigational aids or price comparison tools. In developing countries, citizens are increasingly using mobile phones to create new livelihoods and enhance their lifestyles, while governments are using them to improve service delivery and citizen feedback mechanisms.
"Mobile communications offer major opportunities to advance human and economic development – from providing basic access to health information to making cash payments, spurring job creation, and stimulating citizen involvement in democratic processes," said World Bank Vice President for Sustainable Development Rachel Kyte.
"The challenge now is to enable people, businesses, and governments in developing countries to develop their own locally-relevant mobile applications so they can take full advantage of these opportunities."
This new report, the third in the World Bank's series on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Development, analyzes the growth and evolution of mobile telephony, and the rise of data- based services, including apps, delivered to handheld devices. The report explores the consequences for development of the emerging "app economy", especially in agriculture, health, financial services and government, and how it is changing approaches to entrepreneurship and employment.
The report emphasizes the role of governments in enabling mobile application development. It also highlights how mobile innovation labs – shared spaces for training developers and incubating start-ups – can help bring new apps to market. For instance, infoDev, in collaboration with the Government of Finland and Nokia, has established five regional mobile innovation labs (mLabs) in Armenia, Kenya, Pakistan, South Africa, and Vietnam. infoDev is also using mobile social networking to bring grassroots entrepreneurs together with other stakeholders in mobile hubs (mHubs).
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Siegfried Sassoon
A Working Party Poem by Siegfried Sassoon
Three hours ago he blundered up the trench,
Sliding and poising, groping with his boots;
Sometimes he tripped and lurched against the walls
With hands that pawed the sodden bags of chalk.
He couldn't see the man who walked in front;
Only he heard the drum and rattle of feet
Stepping along barred trench boards, often splashing
Wretchedly where the sludge was ankle-deep.
Voices would grunt `Keep to your right -- make way!'
When squeezing past some men from the front-line:
White faces peered, puffing a point of red;
Candles and braziers glinted through the chinks
And curtain-flaps of dug-outs; then the gloom
Swallowed his sense of sight; he stooped and swore
Because a sagging wire had caught his neck.
A flare went up; the shining whiteness spread
And flickered upward, showing nimble rats
And mounds of glimmering sand-bags, bleached with rain;
Then the slow silver moment died in dark.
The wind came posting by with chilly gusts
And buffeting at the corners, piping thin.
And dreary through the crannies; rifle-shots
Would split and crack and sing along the night,
And shells came calmly through the drizzling air
To burst with hollow bang below the hill.
Three hours ago, he stumbled up the trench;
Now he will never walk that road again:
He must be carried back, a jolting lump
Beyond all needs of tenderness and care.
He was a young man with a meagre wife
And two small children in a Midland town,
He showed their photographs to all his mates,
And they considered him a decent chap
Who did his work and hadn't much to say,
And always laughed at other people's jokes
Because he hadn't any of his own.
That night when he was busy at his job
Of piling bags along the parapet,
He thought how slow time went, stamping his feet
And blowing on his fingers, pinched with cold.
He thought of getting back by half-past twelve,
And tot of rum to send him warm to sleep
In draughty dug-out frowsty with the fumes
Of coke, and full of snoring weary men.
He pushed another bag along the top,
Craning his body outward; then a flare
Gave one white glimpse of No Man's Land and wire;
And as he dropped his head the instant split
His startled life with lead, and all went out.
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Standard practice with unguided 70mm missiles is to use as many as two pods' worth (ie, 38 rockets, at $1,000 a round) to blanket a target. That means the APKWS II comes in at three-quarters of the cost per kill. It also means that many more targets can be attacked on a single mission.
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Introduced onto the battlefield in Iraq in 2007, the rounds gave Howitzer units so much added flexibility due to the Excalibur's increased range, non-ballistic trajectory and almost perfect accuracy that the Army immediately upped the round's production from 18 units a month to 150. Since then, thousands more M982 shells have been built and nearly a thousand of them have been fired in combat.
Now they're shrinking it down for the Navy's five-inch Mk45 deck guns.
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The museum is in possession of a particularly fine sword — a golden-hilted ring-sword, probably used only by kings and nobles. The ring affixed to the hilt is believed to be the symbol of an oath.
The instruction that the museum gave Anderssen was that the sword should look and feel exactly like the original would have done when it was new. This would allow museum visitors to have hands-on time with the sword, as a complement to admiring the relic safe in its glass case.
Anderssen has no experience in blacksmithing or goldsmithing, but he does know his way around 3D-modelling software — namely 3D Studio Max.
Using photographs of the real sword to gauge the dimensions of the hilt, Anderssen modelled the shape into basic polygons before working on carving out the fine details of the intricate design. Then he sent the finished model to i.materialise to be printed in bronze. When the finished print arrived, he cleaned up the details and had the pieces gilded and fitted with wooden inserts for stability before being attached to the blade.
Recent measles outbreaks have sparked a national debate over vaccinations and herd immunity, but herd immunity applies to guns, too, Paul Hsieh argues:
Crime rates in Chicago dropped dramatically in 2014 after the state of Illinois allowed legal concealed carry. [...] According to AWR Hawkins, national FBI statistics also showed a significant decrease in crime in the first half 2014 even though gun sales soared in 2013. [...] This is a continuation of the longer-running trend described by Dylan Polk in Guns & Ammo: "Crime rates have dropped as gun ownership has risen, despite a population growth" over the 1993-2013 period.
Lars Andersen's latest archery video led Lynn C. Rees to cite the Strategikon's admonition that even when the arrow is well aimed, firing slowly is useless:
For tribesmen native to the Eurasian steppe stretching from Hungary to the Pacific, constant archery practice was a logical extension of daily life: bow work was essential to routine tasks like hunting or raiding the neighbors. For a hybrid settled/nomadic state like Parthia and its Sassanid successor, balancing the interests of your nomads out east with your farmers out west produced sharp tensions but often found a way to field archers without breaking the farmers or the treasury. For an wholly agricultural state like Rome in the sixth century, raising and training archers was an expensive strain.
Rome's traditional strategy, crushing enemies under the weight of infantry mass, was hampered by population decline in the empire, bruising face-offs with new horse riding archers like the Huns, and an inability or disinclination to raise many soldiers from its own peasants. Rome turned toward smaller armies composed of horsemen, some drawn from native Romans, some mercenaries drawn from nomadic tribes like the Heruli. These armies were, man for man, better trained than prior Roman armies. They could check and even defeat opposing cavalry armies like the Persians.
But they were expensive. Roman finances groaned under the costs of supporting its armies. Their cost made it hard to maintain enough forces to cover all of the Roman's territory. The Balkans were frequently abandoned to non-stop nomad raids because most forces were needed against the Persians in Armenia and Syria. Roman armies of the sixth century were politically fickle, prone to rebel if payment didn't show up on time and sometimes prone to rebel even when pay arrived on time.
And they were brittle: like World War I-era dreadnoughts, they were too expensive to use. They couldn't be replaced overnight like Rome replaced armies during the Second Punic War. Equivalent forces required time and capital to raise and train to proficiency. Native Romans had to be taught how to fight like steppe nomads at state expense. Nomadic mercenaries who had the needed skills from childhood were often unreliable. This made sixth-century Roman leaders as unwilling to risk battle as earlier Romans were eager to force battle.
Caution was justified. Destruction of just one of these armies, capital intensive transplants from their natural habitat on the steppes to the more foreign but pricey fleshpots of Thrace, Anatolia, Syria, Carthage, or Egypt, were not only catastrophic but world-changing. The military bench was left so thin that there was little left to resist a victor who succeeded in annihilating a sixth century Roman army.
Defeats by the Persians and civil war after the fussy Balkan army mutinied and overthrew Mauricius over discontent with their employment benefits and uncomfortable winter accommodations reduced Rome to precisely one army. If the Persians destroyed that one army, led in person by the Emperor Flavius Heraclius, that was the end of Rome. Heraclius came back from far behind, skillfully using that one army to defeat the Persians, though it meant leaving his capital reliant on only the Theodosian Walls and the remnants of the Roman navy to fight off an Avar-Persian siege. Turns out those were good odds against the Avars and Persians, though it left the Balkans open to permanent Slavic occupation.
But Heraclius only had that one army. When he sent it against a surprisingly persistent army of desert raiders six years after his victory over the Persians, he ended up with the equally surprising loss of that entire gold-plated army to those raiders. Destruction of that one Roman army was world changing. It's why today's Middle East and North Africa are Moslem instead of Christian.
I was not impressed with Bob Scales' attack on the AR, but I decided to go back to his Future Warfare Anthology, from when he was Commandant of the Army War College back in 2000. In the second chapter, he looks at cycles of war:
Signs foretelling how the defensive's return to dominance might turn the cycles of war a third time began to appear as early as the closing days in Vietnam. A few laser-guided bombs destroyed targets that had previously required hundreds of unguided dumb bombs. In World War II, an average of 18 rounds was needed to kill a tank at a range of 800 yards. During the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, the average was two rounds at 1,200 yards, and by Desert Storm one round at 2,400 yards.
The ability to see and strike deep using ground and aerial platforms served to expand the battlefield by orders of magnitude. What was once a theater area for a field army now became the area of operations for a division or a corps. Just as an army moving at two miles per hour could not cross a killing zone dominated by long-range, rapid-firing, rifled weapons in 1914, the precision revolution made it prohibitively expensive for an army moving at seven times that speed to cross an infinitely more lethal space a hundred times as large. Thus, in a conflict involving two roughly equal — or symmetrical — forces, evidence seems to show convincingly that the advantage goes to the defender.
Danish archer Lars Andersen has rediscovered the skills of combat archery:
The video has gone viral, but I can say I mentioned Andersen's archery a couple years ago.
(Hat tip to T. Greer.)
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The high-end ranges come as the $15 billion gun industry's sales have more than doubled since 2005. Fears of regulations with a Democrat in the Oval Office have juiced much of that growth, which is now leveling out. But experts also say an industry shift away from hunting culture has helped spawn a new generation of firearms enthusiasts buying up sleekly designed handguns and AR-15 rifles for tactical shooting practice.
The average age of new target shooters is 33, while 47 percent live in urban or suburban areas, and 37 percent are female, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a trade association for the firearms industry. Shooters spend $10 billion a year on target shooting, including the cost of firearms, ammunition and range fees.
Those demographics and economics are attracting investors without firearms industry backgrounds; they see ranges as a new place to employ their cash. Elite Shooting Sports, a nearly $14 million project, has investors from the electronics industry. Real estate, finance, hotel and auto industry executives have backed other new ranges.
Techcrunch tries out the TrackingPoint rifle:
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The targets sat 300 and 500 yards away and I was supposed to be able to hit them with the TrackingPoint Precision-guided Semi-Auto 5.56.
The company's spokesperson, Anson Gordon, gave me the run-down, highlighting the basics of the system. It seemed easy enough. Designate the target with the red button, pull the trigger and find that dot again to fire the gun.
It was that easy. I hit my mark on the first try. The system works as advertised.
Gordon explained the system that consists of four parts. Housed inside the scoop are the brains of the operation. It features a laser rangefinder, gyroscopes, an accelerometer, and a magnetometer. The shooter targets on an LCD screen. This system is linked to a custom trigger system, which also consists of the target designation button and zoom buttons housed on the trigger guard. Everything is powered from batteries housed in the stock and TrackingPoint encourages its shooters to use ammo loaded specifically for their guns.
The technology works like this: A shooter designates a target using a small button on the rifle's trigger guide. This target can be moving up to 30 mph. Once the target is mapped, a Linux-based system housed in the optics casing calculates all the variables needed to hit that mark. When the shooter is ready to fire, they pull the trigger all the way back, yet the gun fires only when they line the crosshairs up with designated mark one more time. The system assesses the effects of gravity and Coriolis force. When the bullet leaves the barrel it always hits its mark. The shooter cannot miss.
Everything seen by the optics can be streamed live to a smartphone, tablet or even online. Either for coaching or sharing the hunting experience, TrackingPoint built a social shooting system.
This wasn't cobbled together by hobbyists:
Founder John McHale sold his first company to Compaq in 1995 for $372 million. The deal netted McHale $24 million. In the following years McHale went on to found and sell companies to Cisco and 3Com. TrackingPoint is familiar ground for the serial entrepreneur.
Backed by $33 million in financing in part from McHale himself, the young Texas-based company released its first product in 2013. It cost $22,000 to $27,000. This model didn't hit its mark. Early testers reported inconstant performance, yet videos demonstrating the smart gun went viral. While not perfect, this first model put the company on the board.
McHale recruited impressive talent to build the products. He stole engineers and executives from Remington, Amazon and enlisted the help of a design firm that had built software for Siemens and Motorola. Yet after the early unreliable reports, the CEO, Jason Schauble, previously a Remington vice president, was replaced by John Lupher who had led the development of the first gun.
The first product was clearly priced too high for average hunter or gun enthusiast. The company demonstrated the system to the US Military and later the Canadian military. Gordon told me that the U.S. Military has ordered six units and the Canadians five.
Yet the company kept developing the system and driving down the price. The system I tried, a modified AR-15, only cost $7500. This model has a range of a third of a mile and can track an object moving up to 10 miles an hour. Spend more money to net additional range, stopping power and the ability to hit faster moving targets.
TrackingPoint is about to introduce a .338TP called the Mile Maker, and as the name suggests, it can hit a target a mile away. Think about that. A person, with very little skill or training, will soon be able to accurately hit a target a mile away.
What happens when you run an office-shooting simulation, with two tactical trainers, armed with ARs, as the shooters, and random volunteers as the victims? Watch the (NSFW) video:
In a previous simulation of a school shooting, they found that an armed defender was almost always able to either kill the attacker or to prevent them from entering the classroom and killing more students.
In this case, not so much. Two trained attackers, operating as a team, are more than a match for one untrained defender with a handgun — most of the time:
In one of the early scenarios, a relatively new shooter decided that instead of trying to confront the armed terrorists she would use her gun to cover her retreat and give her co-workers time to escape. This plan worked perfectly, and she was able to escape from the room while returning fire towards the attackers, allowing nearly everyone in the room to escape before she too turned tail and ran.
In the face of overwhelming numbers and firepower, it appears that this tactic using the firearm as a means to give everyone else time to escape is extremely effective. There was only one person who used this tactic, but they used it to great effect.
As an artillery commander in Vietnam, Bob Scales ran into some gun trouble:
In June of 1969, in the mountains of South Vietnam, the battery I commanded at Firebase Berchtesgaden had spent the day firing artillery in support of infantry forces dug into "Hamburger Hill." Every person and object in the unit was coated with reddish-brown clay blown upward by rotor wash from Chinook helicopters delivering ammunition. By evening, we were sleeping beside our M16 rifles. I was too inexperienced — or perhaps too lazy — to demand that my soldiers take a moment to clean their guns, even though we had heard disturbing rumors about the consequences of shooting a dirty M16.
At 3 o'clock in the morning, the enemy struck. They were armed with the amazingly reliable and rugged Soviet AK?47, and after climbing up our hill for hours dragging their guns through the mud, they had no problems unleashing devastating automatic fire. Not so my men. To this day, I am haunted by the sight of three of my dead soldiers lying atop rifles broken open in a frantic attempt to clear jams.
He's definitely haunted:
With a few modifications, the weapon that killed my soldiers almost 50 years ago is killing our soldiers today in Afghanistan. General Ripley's ghost is with us still. During my 35 years in the Army, it became clear to me that from Gettysburg to Hamburger Hill to the streets of Baghdad, the American penchant for arming troops with lousy rifles has been responsible for a staggering number of unnecessary deaths.
That strikes me as ludicrous — and odd, given that he seems to understand that the problem was quickly fixed:
The "militarized" adaptation of the AR-15 was the M16. Militarization—more than 100 proposed alterations to supposedly make the rifle combat-ready—ruined the first batch to arrive at the front lines, and the cost in dead soldiers was horrific. A propellant ordered by the Army left a powder residue that clogged the rifle. Finely machined parts made the M16 a "maintenance queen" that required constant cleaning in the moisture, dust, and mud of Vietnam. In time, the Army improved the weapon—but not before many U.S. troops died.
Scales asserts that the next-generation rifle should be modular, higher-caliber, suppressed, and electronically sighted. That's all reasonable, but his claim that the M4 is getting soldiers killed is rather over the top. Weapons Man especially takes issue with the big lie that the M4 got troops killed at Wanat, in Afghanistan:
The hardest thing to manage in the design of automatic weapons is waste heat. Cyclic rate is something that can be used for a short period, at a cost to the durability of the weapon. The men at the COPs around Wanat were left hanging for very long periods, with no meaningful air or indirect fire support, and had been given so little training in automatic fire that they didn't know they were hazarding their weapons. There is no weapon on Earth that will hold up to firing thousands of rounds on cyclic rate without a barrel change or water cooling.. But we'll go into that in Part 2. For now, let's just see who it was that a failed M4 "killed."
But when we explore the AARs and historical reports, asking, "Who exactly was killed by his weapon at Wanat?" we have a hard time putting a name to this blood libel.
Sci-fi stories often feature ray guns but rarely consider the nature of energy sidearms:
The main advantages of laser weapons include: weapon bolt travels at the speed of light, excellent accuracy, damage inflicted by the bolt can be dialed up or down, lasers have no recoil, and the "ammunition" (i.e., electricity required per bolt) is much more inexpensive than the equivalent conventional bullet.
The main disadvantages of laser weapons include: it still requires huge amounts of power, bullet ammo takes up far less space than power generators, it has far more of a waste heat problem than a conventional firearm, and the energy in a given bolt is severely reduced by dust, smoke, clouds, or rain.
Pretty much zero science fiction stories, movies, or TV shows mention that laser sidearms have the ability to permanently blind anybody closer to the weapon than the horizon. If the beam is in the frequencies that can penetrate the cornea of the eye, and the beam reflects off a door nob or other mirrored surface, anybody whose eyes get flashed by the beam is going to need a seeing-eye dog. There are more hideous details here.
Laser pistols don't make sense though until you have a portable power source.
I got a kick out of this excerpt from Robert Heinlein's 1942 story Beyond This Horizon, where Monroe-Alpha notices that Hamilton is "armed with something novel… and deucedly odd and uncouth":
"What is it?" he asked.
"Ah!" Hamilton drew the sidearm clear and handed it to his host. "Woops! Wait a moment. You don't know how to handle it — you'll blow your head off. " He pressed a stud on the side of the grip, and let a long flat container slide out into his palm. "There — I've pulled its teeth. Ever see anything like it?"
Monroe-Alpha examined the machine. "Why, yes, I believe so. It's a museum piece, isn't it? An explosive-type hand weapon?"
"Right and wrong. It's mill new, but it's a facsimile of one in the Smithsonian Institution collection. It's called a point forty-five Colt automatic pistol."
"Point forty-five what?"
"Inches… let me see, what is that in centimeters?"
"Huh? Let's see — three inches make a yard and a yard is about one meter. No, that can't be right. Never mind, it means the size of the slug it throws. Here… look at one." He slid one free of the clip. "Damn near as big as my thumb, isn't it?"
"Explodes on impact, I suppose."
"No. It just drills its way in."
"That doesn't sound very efficient."
"Brother, you'd be amazed. It'll blast a hole in a man big enough to throw a dog through."
Monroe-Alpha handed it back. "And in the meantime your opponent has ended your troubles with a beam that acts a thousand times as fast. Chemical processes are slow, Felix."
"Not that slow. The real loss of time is in the operator. Half the gunfighters running around loose chop into their target with the beam already hot. They haven't the skill to make a fast sight. You can stop 'em with this, if you've a fast wrist.
Shooters make the same point about laser sights today.
As early as the 16th century, French barber-surgeon Ambroise Paré noted that firearms caused noise-induced hearing loss. Today, shooters wear hearing protection, even when shooting relatively low-power guns, like pistols, alone, outdoors, but it wasn't that long ago that a machine-gunner was supposed to tough it out. The military didn't address the problem until a new technology made it impossible to ignore:
Even though World War II was a major contributing factor in the evolution of hearing conservation, it was not until after the war that the most significant event occurred. The Army Air Corps became a separate branch of service from the US Army and was renamed the US Air Force. Concurrently, this new branch of service introduced the jet engine aircraft to the military. No sound of that volume and duration had ever before been experienced. It was immediately noted that exposure to jet engine noise caused permanent hearing loss in a brief time. It also made verbal communication impossible and caused a series of physical manifestations described as "ultrasonic sickness." Symptoms included earache, headache, excessive fatigue, irritability, and feelings of fear. Initially, it was believed that these symptoms were caused by inaudible, ultra-high-frequency sounds being generated by the jet engines. These symptoms, widely reported by air force maintenance crews, triggered a medical study that revealed that the illness was real; however, research attributed it to high levels of audible frequencies.
As a result, the US Air Force published the first military regulation on hearing conservation in 1948. AFR 160-3, "Precautionary Measures Against Noise Hazards," is significant not only because it was the first enforceable regulation in the history of hearing conservation, but it also placed responsibility for the new program on the medical leadership at air force installations. Some of the preventive measures described in AFR 160-3 include limiting noise exposures in terms of overall sound levels and using cotton wads moistened with paraffin as hearing protection for exposures to hazardous noise.
In 1952, the Office of Naval Research reported the results of extensive interviews with hundreds of returning frontline soldiers who indicated that in combat, "sound was more important than all other means of equipment identification." Combat-relevant sound sources included aircraft, mortar and artillery rounds, rifle and machine gunfire, and various other weapons. According to the report, "The men regarded the sound of enemy weapons as such an important means of identification that they rarely made use of captured equipment because it resulted in their being fired upon by friendly troops."
Ordinary riflemen have only been issued hearing protection recently:
The combat arms earplug was introduced into the military at the start of the war in Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom). However, as with most hearing protection, it was shunned for operational use and, at approximately $6.00 per pair, was considered prohibitively expensive by individual army units. The device allows soft sounds to flow unimpeded through a filter but blocks loud impulse sounds, such as an explosion or a rifle discharging. This allows effective communication, enables situational awareness, and provides protection from hazardous weapons firing and explosions. With units' strength decreasing because of hearing loss, commanders began to recognize that hearing readiness is an extremely important factor of a unit's performance in combat. All deploying soldiers were therefore issued the earplugs in 2004. In fact, the US Marine Corps was so convinced of the effectiveness of the combat arms earplug that it ordered over 20 000 pairs, thereby temporarily depleting the entire national stock in 2003.
The problem of protecting hearing while enhancing soldiers' communication ability and situational awareness was solved with a new generation of hearing protection. This new category of equipment was called tactical communications and protective systems (TCAPS). In 2007, TCAPS were introduced into the army as a possible solution to an age-old problem. TCAPS compose a new category of electronic hearing protection that uses active noise reduction to soften noise and enhance speech discrimination while at the same time reducing noise by up to 40 dB. In addition to being light and rugged, TCAPS provide protection and let soldiers monitor environmental sounds, communicate, accurately gauge auditory distance, and localize sound sources without hindrance. Further, the devices allow radio connections specifically used by the military to be processed without interrupting the signal when the TCAPS are actively blocking environmental sounds. Although this category of device is still being studied and protocols for use are being created, it represents a new era in the history of hearing protection.
When I saw Christopher McDougall (Born to Run, Natural Born Heroes) claim that real athletes throw knives, I almost dismissed him, because throwing knives are cool, but they're not at all practical — but he was way ahead of me:
Brewster came to my house one afternoon to teach me no-spin knife throwing. He mounted a slice of log on an easel, pulled out three knives, and — as he whipped them in from all kinds of angles and distance — demonstrated why no-spin might be the answer to one of the great riddles of modern anthropology. It goes like this:
Hitting a target is an amazing act of calculation, because often you're not aiming where something is; you're aiming where it isn't. You have to factor angles, directions, and muscle force, all of it in a blink.
We're the only animal that can pull it off, and once we did, it changed everything. Learning to throw transformed us from prey into predators. Better hunting gave us more food; more food grew us bigger brains. We also upgraded our software:
Throwing taught us the kind of sequential thought that would become the human imagination and spur the creation of language, technology, medicine, and art.
So explain this: If humans are such natural marksmen, why are the majority of us like Shaq at the free-throw line?
"Yeah, that was me," Brewster says. "I had all the cards stacked against me. Never played baseball, no real sports background at all. First time I threw a knife, I failed miserably." He'd seen videos of expert throwers, the kind who send knives flipping end-over-end toward showgirls, but when he tried to copy them, he clanged all over the place. Then one day while working construction, Brewster began monkeying around with a screwdriver. If he held his finger straight up along a screwdriver's spine, he could fling it perfectly into the ground. Every time. A quick Internet search later, Brewster found himself in the midst of an entire tribe experimenting with the same throwback throw. There was Roy Hutchinson, aka "The Great Throwzini," and Xolette, a high-school science teacher in Florida who likes to no-spin butter knives across her kitchen.
Brewster explains that the spin technique — the kind of throwing you see at every circus and Vegas show — is inherently flawed. It's not natural. Spin is terrific for long tosses, and it can be supremely accurate, but only under artificial conditions. For a spin to work, both you and the target have to be stationary, and you can only be a precise number of steps away. Shift even a little and you shank.
But with no-spin, you cash in on the fact that your index finger is neurologically wired to your eyeballs. In fact, you can learn no-spin with startling ease. You'll need a target, naturally. Any solid chunk of wood will do. I just sawed a round slice off the end of a log and bolted it to an old picnic table turned on its side and braced with a two-by-four. (So easy, it almost took me longer to write it than do it.)
Next up: your blades. One of the beauties of no-spin is that just about anything will do. Steak knives, butter knives, screwdrivers, metal chopsticks, nails — if it's got a point, you can fling it. For ease and safety, though, Brewster recommends a tempered-steel knife that won't shatter or feel weird in your hand. He makes his own by hand (and sells them at FlyingSteel.com) and brought me a set of three of the simple black shanks he calls North Wind.
The best place to start is so close to the target you could almost reach out and touch it. "The nearer you are, the less you'll try to overpower the throw," Brewster explains. "You'll let the knife sail on its own." For your first throws, face the target slightly in profile with your left foot forward (opposite for lefties). Then remember these four steps:
- GRIP the knife lightly, with your index finger straight up.
- EXTEND your arm back and high over your head.
- Push your ELBOW forward, not your hand.
- RELEASE when the knife passes your ear and the point is still aimed at the sky.
As soon as you get the feel (and don't be astonished if it only take two or three throws) you can begin stepping back, adding distance each time and experimenting with angles. With a little practice, you'll soon be letting fly the way your ancestors did: fast, on the move, from any direction.


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This year's race included a donation to the Ronald McDonald House.
NEW BERLIN, Wis. — Those fabulous Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches did it again! They raced in New Berlin, Wis., on Oct. 2., at the Batzner Pest Management home office. It was their 12th consecutive year and this time the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Eastern Wisconsin benefited from the unique event.
Jerry Batzner, president of the company bearing his family name, said that selecting the Ronald McDonald House to be the recipient of a company donation this year was "another part of this celebration."
According to Batzner, one of his company's customer service employees, Sandy Busalacchi, is a dedicated volunteer with the Ronald McDonald House. Her personal connection with the nonprofit, which provides families of ill and injured children a place to stay during the hospital treatment of their children, played an important role in the decision to donate money to help the Ronald McDonald House cause.
On racing day, Batzner Pest Management customer service employees comprised nine teams and each team chose their favorite roach from their collection. "Hissing Hank", AKA Curtiss Duensing, a personable and outgoing Batzner employee wearing a cockroach costume, was the enthusiastic MC .
The roaches, urged by their respective teams sped along a customized, 8-foot track built especially for the race by Chris Venuti, Batzner marketing manager. "Prizes were awarded to the winning team, but even better, the company made a generous donation to the Ronald McDonald House in their names," Batzner said.
Customer Service Week allows the company to recognize the important contributions made by their customer service professionals. Along with the race, the schedule of events for the week-long occasion included a staff cook-out, a number of "shout out" forms posted around their offices recognizing individual employees for providing extraordinary customer service on a daily basis, as well as theme games and puzzles.
"This event is not just an excuse for us to throw a party," Batzner added. Customer Service Week, which began in 1988, is a national event recognizing the importance of customer service and honoring the people who practice it.
"We're extremely proud of our own customer service people and are happy to recognize them for their valuable contributions to our organization. "
As it has in previous years, the Madagascar Hissing Cockroach race attracted local radio, TV, and print media to cover the event.
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