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China's parallel development of the DF-21D antiship ballistic missile (ASBM) as a primary anti-carrier weapon indicates the new ship is not intended for carrier-on-carrier combat. 7 Rather, she will serve as a quick-reaction fleet-defense and -attack platform with her air wing intercepting enemy strike aircraft and sinking those surface threats that either are not worth expending a DF-21D or that prove impractical for ASBM engagement. Sea power projection ashore probably is an unstated tertiary mission that no regional power can afford to ignore, although the air wing's capabilities against a modern, integrated air defense system is open to question.
Nonetheless, China's new carrier does extend the fleet's air cover and Beijing's air-defense umbrella beyond the first island chain, provided the carrier enjoys support from the PLA's shore-based AWACS, ASW, and tanker support. Any enemy contemplating surface-ship-based cruise-missile strikes against the China will have to launch them 200-300 nautical miles farther out than heretofore was the case. Additionally, the carrier provides an outstanding command, control, communications, computer, and intelligence (C4I) platform for directing operational-level naval operations or joint maritime strikes.
A Platform for Learning
Chinese officials have announced they have a plan to accept the carrier into the fleet before the end of 2012, but acceptance in the fleet, or commissioning, does not mean it will be fully operational. 8 Whatever the carrier's equipment and technological capabilities, however, the human element remains underdeveloped. Chinese officials are being honest when they say this first carrier will be used for research, experimentation, and training. 9 She is their first carrier and although they have been training naval flight crews to operate from a carrier for years, live flight-deck operations are far more challenging and complex than simulations and static land platforms. More important, they are but a piece of the carrier operations puzzle. The Chinese need to develop the tactical and technical skills to ensure safe, effective and efficient ship–air wing operations at sea. Then they must gain an understanding of all the elements involved in both employing a carrier as part of naval task group and integrating it into a joint force structure tasked with controlling the air and ocean space.
That will take time. Some of the equipment currently thought to be suitable will prove to be inadequate, requiring improvement or replacement. Therefore, the PLAN will not realize the carrier's full potential for another two to three years, though it will join fleet exercises for political purposes and as part of its training and development program within the next 12–18 months. Moreover, the lessons learned from that process will shape subsequent Chinese carrier construction, procedures, tactics, and training.
What Her Air Wing Will Tell Us
China's carrier has more hangar and upper-hull space than the Russian Admiral Kuznetsov -class design on which she is based. 10 Most of that additional space will go to the air wing. The numbers of aircraft by type will vary according to mission requirements balanced against maintenance equipment and deck and hangar space availability. That balancing act will be one of the first challenges the PLAN must address, but the air wing at commissioning will reveal much about the ship's intended primary mission and perhaps what PLAN leaders envision as the optimal air wing configuration. That vision probably will change as the PLAN absorbs the lessons of early exercises and operational deployments. The PLAN will reconfigure this carrier's air wing again when she is relegated to a purely training role after the commissioning of her first sister ship. Meanwhile, the air wing probably won't exceed a dozen fighters and a similar number of helicopters for the remainder of this decade.
Of the carrier's potential air wing components, the two-seat Su-30MKK2 Flanker G—an upgraded and navalized version of the Russian Su-27 Flanker—and the Chinese-built J-15 will draw the most attention and constitute the carrier's primary air-defense and offensive-strike platforms. China purchased 24 Su-30MKK2s from Russia in 2003 and accepted delivery a year later. 11 A multirole fighter designed to use a shortened ski-jump takeoff without catapult assistance, but make arrested landings, the Flanker Gs provide the carrier with a fourth-generation multipurpose fighter. But, there are few in service and no indications to date that more are planned for acquisition or construction.
That makes the domestically built J-15 Flying Shark the most viable candidate for future carrier air wings, though full production on that aircraft is unlikely to begin prior to 2015. 12 It isn't clear if the J-15 can be refueled in the air, but it seems probable. Considered a fourth-generation fighter, the Flying Shark is lighter and more agile than the multipurpose Su-30, but it lacks the latter's all-weather and precision strike capabilities. Even though production J-15s are not expected to join the first embarked operational carrier squadron before 2015, prototypes are flying now and probably will be seen operating off this first carrier within the next year or two.
The Helicopter Component
Although the fighters get the attention, the air wing's other aircraft are what make the carrier a versatile platform. For China, those other aircraft consist entirely of helicopters. Both available indigenous models have the surface-search radars, dipping sonars, and data links to conduct close-in antisubmarine warfare, surface surveillance, and anti-surface attack missions. The Zian-8J, a license-built version of the French SA-320 Super Frelon, is the largest and most capable Chinese-built helicopter. 13 Although the PLAN has only transport and ASW variants in service, this large and powerful helicopter can carry a variety of weapons and sensor loads, including China's C-801 antiship cruise missile. It is the only helicopter in Chinese service large enough to carry the air-search radar and related systems required to conduct airborne early warning (AEW) missions. There is no evidence of an AEW variant in production or development, although it is the best helicopter currently available for it.
The smaller but less-capable Z-9C is China's standard shipboard helicopter. 14 A license-built version of the French AS-565MB Panther (Dauphin in U.S. publications), the Zian-9 is used for search and rescue (SAR), transport, and ASW roles. 15 Its indigenous KLC-1 radar has a range of about 50 nautical miles against a destroyer-sized target, a dipping sonar, magnetic anomaly detection gear, sonobuoys, and one or two A244 antisubmarine torpedoes. 16 It also can link targeting data to the ship or provide mid-course guidance to China's YJ-83 antiship cruise missiles. 17 Those equipped for search and rescue have a searchlight, forward-looking infrared system and 520-lb.-capable hoist. A Z-9D that can carry two TL-10 antiship missiles reportedly is under development.
There's a chance China's carrier may embark the Ka-28 Helix naval helicopter, but that seems unlikely. Beijing bought eight (4 ASW and 4 SAR variants) and it has neither purchased any additional units nor started licensed production. Initially carried only on the Russian-built Sovremenny -class guided-missile destroyers (DDGs), the Ka-28s have since been seen on board the PLAN's Chinese-built Luhai -II DDGs. Given the limited number of units available and lack of production or purchasing, the Ka-28 will see only limited testing on board China's carrier.
Gaps a Chopper Can't Fill
A reliance on helicopters to support aerial missions inhibits the air wing's capabilities, particularly at long range, because helicopters cannot serve as AWACS or tanker assets. The helicopters' low operating ceiling, compared with that of AWACS aircraft, preclude their doing more than providing surface surveillance, serving as a low-altitude AEW, and being a just-over-the-horizon complement to the ship's long-range search radars. Helicopters also lack command-and-control and airspace management capabilities so vital to modern naval operations—deficiencies that also diminish the carrier's capacity as a major fleet flagship. Finally, no active helicopters have the speed to refuel jet aircraft in flight, even if China were to develop such equipment for them. Therefore, the carriers' fighters will have to rely on either shore-based tankers or use "buddy stores"—a workable expedient, but one that comes at the expense of the "buddy" aircraft's combat-action missions.
China presently may not see those as serious shortcomings, given that it envisions the carrier operating primarily within range of shore-based AWACS, ASW, surveillance, and tanker aircraft. However, that will change with time, and the PLAN may be considering alternatives to fixed-wing aircraft for these roles as its blue-water operations expand. The U.S. Navy once envisioned cargo, ASW, and AWACS versions for the conceptual aircraft that became the U.S. Marine Corps' MV-22 Osprey. Beijing may consider that a cheaper alternative to the costs of developing and building a conventional takeoff and landing carrier to host fixed-wing aircraft having those capabilities. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) launched from ashore, the carrier, or other ships in her task group may also come into service to conduct the air wing's surveillance-support missions, including AWACS, but all that lies 10 to 20 years away. China's leaders are patient and may be considering those options at this time, believing their experience with their first carrier will point the way.
Developmental Exercises
The carrier will conduct early activities near China's coast and focus on sharpening personnel skills, especially integrating the ship's crew and air wing. That will be followed by a series of exercises to develop the best procedures and tactics for carrier-centered task group operations. As the crew and fleet hone their capabilities and the leadership becomes more confident, the carrier's operations will expand geographically and become more complex. The ship's "graduation" exercise probably will be conducted in the waters southeast of Taiwan and in the northern South China Sea, areas where the PLAN began conducting moderate-scale naval maneuvers in April 2010. 18 Working with the 2nd Artillery Division's ASBM units probably will become a key feature in some of those exercises. 19 Also, given the ship's political importance as a national symbol, the carrier can be expected to do a show-the-flag deployment within two years of commissioning, certainly by 2018.
China's defense white papers of 2010 and earlier imply that the PLAN's primary mission is one of sea denial and sea control, not power projection and long-range strike. Within that context, the carrier's main task will be to protect PLAN surface units and possibly surveillance aircraft operating beyond shore-based fighters' immediate response range. The carrier's air wing provides a rapid air defense response dimension to China's blue-water naval operation but lacks the aircraft for large-scale power projection or carrier-on-carrier combat against an American-style counterpart. Nonetheless, the carrier reinforces China's already significant and growing capacity for offensive operations within the "first island chain"—which is as much a barrier to expanded Chinese operations as it is a shield protecting the "near seas."
Beijing seems to envision little requirement for sea control beyond the first island chain and developed the shore-based DF-21D ASBM for the anticarrier mission. But putting a carrier to sea in proximity to an intended target of that missile will raise "target separation" or potential "friendly-on-friendly" engagement concerns that will have to be addressed. The ship also has the unstated purpose of serving as a training, demonstration, and development platform to identify present and future requirements for China's carriers, including their efficacy as fleet or task-group flagships. Finally, missing from all the discussions about China's present and future carrier force is its impact on the navy's logistics system. Carrier operations significantly escalate fleet logistics requirements, and China presently lacks the seagoing assets to sustain a carrier far from home. Its leaders seem to recognize that, having identified logistics as a high priority for improvement in the 2010 defense white paper. 20 The growth in designed logistics-ship capability (and their numbers) may signal Beijing's long-term intentions for the carrier, but its present vision for her is limited.
A Baseline for Future Operations
China's leaders may view the carrier in the limited context of the present military focus on the first and second island chain, particularly as it relates to Beijing's territorial claims in the South China Sea. But military professionals know that plans merely provide a baseline that must adjust to emergent operational realities. China's national security requirements reach far beyond those waters. Its trade now extends across the globe, taking its merchant ships through the dangerous waters of the Malacca Strait, western Indian Ocean waters, and West African ports.
The PLAN already deploys surface action groups to combat the piracy problem off East Africa and has signed several port-access agreements to ensure those groups receive adequate logistics support. 21 However, the piracy problem pales in comparison with the navy's growing need to prepare for noncombatant evacuation operations, as demonstrated by recent events in Kenya, Libya, and Yemen. China said, for example, that up to 40,000 of its citizens were working in Libya at the start of the crisis there. The frigate Xuzhou was dispatched to assist in the evacuation—a gesture that coincidentally demonstrated the PLAN's growing reach. 22
Overall, more than 5.5 million Chinese citizens work overseas, many in unstable areas of Africa, Latin America, and South Asia. 23 Those regions also provide a significant and growing proportion of the raw materials needed to fuel China's economy. That will engender a desire, if not a need, to conduct show-the-flag visits and a have a naval presence in those regions. In fact, exercises and interactions with foreign countries are key components of China's National Defense in 2010 white paper. 24 China has also made known its desire to participate in international disaster-relief operations. 25 The carrier is the most prestigious symbol and most capable platform available for all those purposes.
China has demonstrated great patience and frugality in its military modernization program. The lessons learned from this carrier's employment will shape Chinese aircraft carrier design, construction, and operations—as well as the fleet's structure—for the next decade and probably beyond. In that context, this first carrier should serve as a harbinger of the country's naval future. A force of three operational and one training carrier may fit the PLAN's mission requirements as spelled out in defense white papers of 2004 to 2010. It's the requirements for projecting China's interests after 2020 that will determine the carrier force and its operations from that point onward. The one thing that is clear right now is that the Chinese have relearned a longstanding historical lesson: Almost every country has an army, but only great civilizations have an oceangoing fleet.
1. "China's Aircraft Carrier Sets Sail for Sea Trial," People's Daily , 10 August 2011.
2. "China's Aircraft Carrier to Begin Service This Year," China Daily , 13 March 2012, http://english.cri.cn/6909/2012/03/13/1461s686440.htm [6]
3. CCTV-7 broadcast, 15 July 2011. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryywpd2wotU [7] and Taiwanese state television, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw-qLzWskJE [8]
4. Jeremy Page, "China Says Carrier Won't Alter Naval Strategy," The Wall Street Journal , 28 July 2011.
5. China's National Defense in 2010 , Information Office of the State Council (Beijing, March 2011), p. 5.
6. CAPT Bernard D. Cole, The Great Wall at Sea: China's Navy Enters the 21st Century , (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2001), pp. 165–6.
7. Andrew Erickson and Gabe Collins, "China Deploys World's First Long-Range, Land-Based 'Carrier Killer:' DF-21D Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile," China Sign Post , 26 December 2010.
8. Liyao, Lin, "Ex-Varyag Carrier May Join PLA Navy in 2012," PLA Daily , 10 March 2012. http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90786/7754229.html [9]
9. Geng Yansheng, "China Refitted Carrier Body for Research, Training," Xinhua , 27 July 2011.
10. CCTV-7 Broadcast, 15 July 2011.
11. Paul Jackson, editor-in-chief, Jane's All the World's Aircraft 2008-2009 , (London: Jane's Publishing, 2009), pp. 119–20.
12. Michael J. Cole, "First Official Images of J-15 Carrier Based Fighter Revealed," Jane's Defence Weekly , 4 May 2011.
13. Eric Wertheim, The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World , 15th Edition, (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2007), p.107.
14. Cole, The Great Wall at Sea , p.108.
15. Wertheim, Combat Fleets , p.107.
16. See Jackson, Jane's Aircraft , p.104; and Cole, The Great Wall at Sea, p.108.
17. Cole, The Great Wall at Sea , p. 108.
18. Richard Cronin, ed., "Chinese Navy's New Strategy in Action," Strategic Comments , International Institute for Strategic Studies, May/June 2010.
19. The 2nd Artillery is China's strategic and ballistic missile force.
20. China's National Defense , pp. 9, 14.
21. Syse Abdullah, et al, The Military Balance 2011 , (London: International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2011), pp. 195–7
22. Geoffrey Dyer, "China's Overseas Workers in Peril," Financial Times , 25 February 2011.
23. See Erica Downs, testimony before the U.S.-China Economic & Security Review Commission hearing on "China's Foreign Policy, Challenges and Players," 13 April 2011; and Sasha Gong, Chinese Workers in Africa , (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007), p. 1.
24. China's National Defense , p. 20.
25. Ibid., p. 21.


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We have a catastrophic problem in this country and I fear that the only peaceful solution may be divine intervention.
There are ads on the TV for reverse mortgages, which remind me of our national debt and Social Security.
Social Security is not broke. Our politicians have been using the reverse mortgage concept on it for more than 50 years. They have stolen all the equity out of it and now they have the nerve to tell us it is running out of money. What they should do is replace the money they took from the fund, plus the interest and dividends it would have accrued. But, nobody seems to have the courage to tell us the truth and fix this problem properly.
As a matter of fact, they have been operating the federal government by a reverse mortgage process which has totally bankrupted our country to the point where the international bankers and the Federal Reserve, including Red China, own us.
Oh, don't tell anyone I said that; they don't want to hear the truth. Just like they refuse to tell us the whole truth about the fiscal cliff we are about to fall off. Just like they overlook the facts about how much the budget needs to be cut to actually balance the annual budget each year.
They need to cut the budget almost $2 trillion, not over 10 years, but every year. So almost two years ago they need to cut spending at least $20 trillion over the next 10 years. No one seems to admit to that. How many times can they kick the can down the road before it lands in a mud puddle?
In short, the real truth is we have one foot over the cliff and it is almost impossible to stop ourselves from falling. You don't believe me? Well, think about it.
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PICKERINGTON, Ohio -- President Barack Obama has declared September as National Wilderness Month, touting his administration's efforts to "preserve our outdoor heritage." While the American Motorcyclist Association supports appropriately designated federal Wilderness, the nation's largest advocacy group for motorcyclists strongly objects to the president's vision because it does not include motorized recreation.
In the proclamation, signed on Aug. 30, Obama said that his administration "is dedicated to preserving the nation's wild and scenic places. During my first year as president, I designated more than 2 million acres of Wilderness and protected over 1,000 miles of rivers. Earlier this year, I established five new national monuments and I signed legislation to redesignate California's Pinnacles National Monument as Pinnacles National Park.
"To engage more Americans in conservation, I also launched the America's Great Outdoors Initiative," the president stated. "Through this innovative effort, my administration is working with communities from coast to coast to preserve our outdoor heritage, including our vast rural lands and remaining wild spaces."
Wayne Allard, AMA vice president for government relations, said the association takes strong exception to the president's proclamation.
"Off-highway riders have been shut out of the decision making for the America's Great Outdoors Initiative and the most recent America's Great Outdoors progress report makes no mention of motorized recreation," Allard said.
Concerning Wilderness, Allard said the AMA supports the definition signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Language in the Wilderness Act recognizes places "where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain," and that "there shall be no temporary road, no use of motor vehicles, motorized equipment or motor boats, no landing of aircraft, no other form of mechanical transport, and no structure or installation within any such area."
"The problem today," Allard said, "is that many Wilderness proposals introduced in Congress do not adhere to this strict definition. Right now, legislation being considered in Congress would designate 32 million acres -- an area the size of Alabama -- as Wilderness."
For comparison, Congress has designated about 107 million acres of public land as Wilderness since 1964, an area bigger than the entire state of California.
The Wilderness Act gave Congress the power to designate federal public land as Wilderness, which is one of the strictest forms of public land management. Once Congress designates an area as Wilderness, nearly all forms of non-pedestrian recreation are illegal, including off-highway vehicle and bicycle riding.
"We need to protect public lands for the people, and not from the people," Allard said.
To stay on top of what is happening with the Wilderness proposals in Congress and the America's Great Outdoors Initiative, sign up to receive AMA Action Alerts and AMA News & Notes at www.americanmotorcyclist.com/Rights/GetInvolved/ActionAlertSignUp.aspx.


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Shruti wears traditional saree as she gets blessed with cow milk.Original post
The actress, who gave birth in September 2014, shared on Instagram a black-and-white pic along with a quote from writer Milan Kundera (Life is Elsewhere) : "Ah, the joy of suckling!
The coupe designer explained the process: the original mould was made from the malleable pink gummy material used by dentists, before the basic shape was created in glass with a lacy 30s decorative
The Breast-bowl or nipple-jatte, was created in 1787 as a royal command for the Dairy of Rambouillet, a place offered by Louis XVI to Marie Antoinette, who enjoyed the rural "design" of the place and neoclassical decorations that were in vogue at that time. It is even said, but it is a legend, that the curve of the Breast-bowl was obtained by molding the royal breast!
A video by Dylan Knight & Adam Siler. A couple playing with milk.
Imprisoned by Dériadès, Tectaphos, Indian prince, was locked in a dungeon and condemned to starve to death. Her daughter, who had just become a mother, asked the guards to let her enter the jail to make a last consolation. They let her go, and there, she gave his father the milk from her breast. Deriades, when he learnt the daughter's piety, decided to release his enemy.
A long time ago, in some places in France (in Hérault, but also in the Cevennes and in Provence), there were men who were called "tétaïres". They were assigned to assist women breastfeeding by suckling their breasts, for example to promote the flow of milk, or when breasts were engorged (especially if the baby had died), or even to give the nipples an appropriate form.
In the episode 9 of the 5th season of "Weeds", Nancy is out to dinner with Andy (her brother-in-law) and becomes painfully engorged. Not being able to relieve the pressure by herself, she hollers for Andy and begs him to "suck 'n spit."
The story of Pero and Cimon is Roman and is found in a book of stories about ancient life written about 30 AD. In the tale, Cimon is sentenced to death by starvation, but his daughter Pero visits him in jail and secretly breastfeeds him to save his life. She is caught by the jailers, but her act impresses jailers and they release Cimon.
Virgin Mary squirting milk out of her breast in the mouth of a priest : Saint Bernard de Clairvaux lactation
In Museo del Prado (Madrid), there is an oil painting that represents the statue of the Virgin Mary, carrying the child in her left arm, and squirting milk from her breast directly in the mouth of a priest kneeling in front of her.
Not only did Angelina, 39, breastfeed her twins, Vivienne and Knox, now 5, but a gorgeous photo taken by her longtime partner, Brad Pitt, 50, showed her breastfeeding one of the newborn twins on th
On a train, a bucolic peasant wet nurse feels discomfort because she has no child with her to suckle. To relieve her distress, she asks a young stranger, also traveling in te carriage, to suckle her milk.
In the September issue of Glamour magazine, stunning actress Olivia Wilde was photographed by Patrick Demarchelier breastfeeding her son Otis while wearing a sparkling Roberto Cavalli gown and Prada heels.


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Bergen Community College hosted the 39th annual Teen Arts Festival, sponsored by Bergen County Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs, this past Friday at the college's Paramus campus. The festival featured student artists from a number of Bergen County high schools.
A selection of the artworks will be displayed at the Bergen County Administration Building in Hackensack running from June 18 through July 2, 2014.


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WACO, TexasA goal off the head of freshman midfielder Emily Goldstein 67:13 into Sunday's match at the Betty Lou Mays Soccer Field was all the Iowa State soccer team needed in a 1-0 victory over Baylor in Big 12 Conference action.
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Joe Pluta - WDSC Basics, Volume 1
WDSC isn't just a replacement to SEU; it charts a new path for development based on IBM's open-source Eclipse IDE. More than just an editor, WDSC is also a design studio, a compiler, an integration aid, and a test platform. It supports not only standard languages such as RPG and COBOL, but also Java, HTML, JavaServer Pages, and Cascading Style Sheets. The sheer scope of features available in WDSC makes learning it overwhelming for many programmers.


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Aaron Glantz, Center for Investigative Reporting
The Department of Veterans Affairs has failed to provide key information to Congress and the public that shows the agency's ability to quickly provide service-related benefits has virtually collapsed under President Barack Obama.
Internal VA documents, obtained by the Center for Investigative Reporting and authenticated by the agency, reveal that delays newly returning veterans face before receiving disability compensation and other benefits are far longer than the agency has publicly acknowledged. The documents also offer insight into some of the reasons for those delays.
The agency tracks and widely reports the average wait time: 273 days. But the internal data indicates that veterans filing their first claim, including those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, wait nearly two months longer, between 316 and 327 days. Those filing for the first time in America's major population centers might wait up to twice as long – 642 days in New York, 619 days in Los Angeles and 289 days in San Diego.
The ranks of veterans waiting more than a year for their benefits grew from 11,000 in 2009, the first year of Obama's presidency, to 245,000 in December – an increase of more than 2,000 percent.
As a candidate, Obama had promised to revamp a "broken VA bureaucracy," but the documents reveal that many of the administration's attempts – including efforts to boost staffing and computerize claims processing – have fallen apart in the implementation. Calls to the White House press office were not returned.
Despite agency promises to eliminate the claims backlog by 2015, the internal documents show the VA expects the number of veterans waiting – currently about 900,000 – to continue to increase throughout 2013 and top a million by the end of this month.
In Washington, U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, said he was not surprised that the VA's internal documents painted a much gloomier picture than the agency's public pronouncements.
"One of the biggest oversight challenges we've encountered is just getting VA to engage in an honest conversation," Miller said.
The agency's biggest problem, he said, is a "culture of complacency."
The VA downplayed the importance of the internal documents.
The agency still intends to meet its goal of resolving nearly all claims within four months by 2015, VA spokesman Joshua Taylor said, blaming skyrocketing delays on a 50 percent increase in the number of claims filed, a combination of an uptick in returning Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and Vietnam veterans requesting compensation for illnesses newly connected to Agent Orange. The VA also has made it easier for veterans to file claims for post-traumatic stress disorder and Gulf War illness, Taylor said.
In a separate emailed statement, the agency argued that it "consistently provides our numbers during Congressional hearings and briefings. What is not available online or in these reports is generally available on request."
The VA typically takes months to respond to the Center for Investigative Reporting's Freedom of Information Act requests, often stating that information requested must be manually tabulated. Yet the internal documents show the agency tracks its performance at an extremely granular level of detail. The agency also failed to provide this information to attorneys in Veterans for Common Sense v. Shinseki, a federal class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. The lawsuit died when the Supreme Court refused to review the appeal in January.
"They have a lot more detailed information than we were led to believe," said Ryan Hassanein, a partner at Morrison & Foerster, the law firm that represented the veterans.


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Back By Popular Demand... The Ratings Return
I've enumerated the reasons the decision was made to remove the ratings in the first place, and plenty of good arguments were presented on both sides. My hope was that readers wouldn't miss the ratings after we'd implemented the wrinkles of including useful "pro and con" highlights at each review's opening and offering our Top Picks across all product categories so readers would know how each product compares and competes in the larger market. We didn't make the decision to cut the ratings rashly, and wanted to make sure these new elements had some time to take hold with the readers before reversing this decision.
But, as time went by even though many readers and respondents to my Blog posting on the subject were in agreement with our adios to the ratings, the majority of feedback we received over these months has remained constant in favor of bringing them back. So, as I promised in my first editorial, Home Theater was and is the readers' magazine. And we very much hope that you agree that this new strategy works its hardest for you, the reader.
Our new rating system is very straightforward: ratings of 1-5 stars with half stars in three to five pertinent areas. This is effectively a ten point scale, and we feel it requires the least explanation in being so visually oriented. Someone picking up the magazine for the first time will see and understand this system immediately, whether he or she has read any of our From the Test Bench boilerplate or not.
Nearly all products will be rated in the four following areas- Performance, Features, Ergonomics, and Value. Speakers will not be rated on Ergonomics since users don't interact with them once they're set up the same way they do other components. But speakers and HTiBs will also include a rating for Build Quality since that's so critical and based so heavily on the aesthetic appeal of the speakers. Build quality used to be rated for all components reviewed, but with electronics and most other products that aren't speakers we felt this rating was based on inherently superficial findings (we can't take everything apart and do a reliable qualitative parts inventory!).
Unlike the previous system, we are not averaging out the ratings to an overall score. This has many inherent issues. Even if we use some sort of calculation to weight the overall rating toward performance (as the previous system did), the fact is that several factors are still speaking louder than performance in the overall rating. We believe this is contributed to some of the artificially high overall ratings in the previous system. We believe that there's more strength in seeing each rating and letting the reader gauge what's most important to him/herself is the best approach. Tell me if you agree or disagree.
We also need you to know that each rating is specific to the product category and the price range of the component under review. Our reviews are broken down by Entry Level, Midrange and High End price points. While we all like the idea of an absolute scale for performance, how do you account for rating the performance of a $350 AV receiver on the same scale as ones that cost $5k? This isn't a perfect solution, but we're hard pressed to think of one better for an absolute scale that wouldn't involve, for example, putting some kind of cap on performance ratings for entry level products (at least). I'm not going to say I told anyone so, but really, these are the compromises that must be made in rating review products if the ratings are to be rational and useful. Again, if you've got better ideas, this Blog is intended to solicit them. I'd like to hear from you on this.
To recap, starting with January, every issue of Home Theater will feature reviews that open with a meaningful capsule of information At a Glance, a Top Pick logo if the product has made the cut, and a streamlined ratings system. In addition, to place the components reviewed in each issue in perspective with the other current products we've reviewed, all of our Top Picks in all categories are in the back of every issue. We are aiming to arm you with all the knowledge you need to get the best gear your money can buy. Let us know if this system succeeds.
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A look at the big stories that happened this week.
A fireball goes up at the site of an oil train derailment Monday, in Casselton, N.D. The train carrying crude oil derailed near Casselton Monday afternoon. Several explosions were reported as some cars on the mile-long train caught fire. (AP Photo/Bruce Crummy)
Former Washington Redskins head coach Mike Shanahan delivers a statement after he was fired Monday, at Redskins Park, in Ashburn, Va. Shanahan was among four NFL head coaches let go on Monday. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
Passengers enjoy a horse-drawn carriage ride near Central Park on New Year's Eve day, Tuesday, Dec. 31, in New York. Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio, who was sworn in that evening, supports ending the practice of horse-drawn carriages. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
This photo provided by the San Diego Zoo shows Masai giraffe Bahati as she introduces her new calf to the rest of the herd after tenderly grooming her to make sure she was presentable enough to meet the rest of the family, Tuesday, Dec. 31, in San Diego. The calf was born on Dec. 22 measuring 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighing 157 pounds. Masai giraffes are native to Africa and are threatened in some areas. (AP Photo/San Diego Zoo, Ken Bohn)
President Barack Obama shakes hands with people waiting to meet him as he holds his shaved ice outside Island Snow, Tuesday, Dec. 31. The first family is in Hawaii for their annual holiday vacation. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Looking from the Marriott Marquis hotel, fireworks erupt from One Times Square as the Waterford Crystal ball that will mark the new year is raised into position at six hours before midnight for New Year's Eve celebrations in New York Thursday, Dec. 31. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
A long line of buyers trails from a store selling marijuana in Pueblo West, Colo, Wednesday, Jan. 1. The nation's first recreational pot industry opened in Colorado on Wednesday, kicking off a marijuana experiment that will be watched closely around the world. (AP Photo/John Wark)
Nathan Dunville, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, left, and Adam Boutilier, of Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, pose for family photographs at the NHL Winter Classic hockey game at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Mich., Wednesday, Jan. 1, where the Detroit Red Wings play the Toronto Maple Leafs. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Swimmers jump into frigid waters at Coney Island beach in New York Wednesday, Jan. 1, as they take part in the 111th Annual New Year's Day Polar Bear Plunge. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
Three children bring Pope Francis the offertory as he celebrates a mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 1. The Vatican announced this week that Pope Francis drew 6.6 million visitors last year, three times that of his predecessor. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Michigan State linebacker Kyler Elsworth, left, celebrates with quarterback Connor Cook after Michigan State defeated Stanford 24-20 in the Rose Bowl NCAA college football game on Wednesday, Jan. 1, in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Stock trader Gregory Rowe works at the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, Jan. 2, in New York. Stocks opened lower on Wall Street as the market comes off of its biggest annual gain in nearly two decades. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Pedestrians cross 34th Street and 6th Avenue under falling snow in Herald Square, Thursday, Jan. 2, in New York. The storm shut down schools, canceled flights, and brought with it stiff winds and punishing cold into much of the Midwest and Northeast. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Serena Williams of the U.S. celebrates, beating Maria Sharapova of Russia 6-2, 7-6 in their semifinal match during the Brisbane International tennis tournament in Brisbane, Australia, Friday, Jan. 3. (AP Photo/Tertius Pickard)


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True to form, the Accord certainly delivers in the qualities that matter most in this segment. Its king-sized cabin dimensions mean that there's plenty of room, and indeed the Accord has one of the roomiest rear seats in the family sedan segment. If fuel economy is your thing, the Accord has got you covered with a fuel-efficient four-cylinder engine that delivers 34 mpg on the highway. Then there's reliability and resale, and these are areas in which Honda enjoys an excellent reputation.


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Byrons Bass Bugger
Byron's Bass Bugger is different in many ways from those you usually purchase. In 2011, I lost the largest smallmouth bass I ever hooked due to a hook malfunction. I was sick. The point of the streamer hook bent toward the hook shank. This massive smallmouth bass was lost.
I caught this bass you see here using a black Wooly Bugger. We weighed the fish before releasing it. She weighed exactly 5 pounds. I am convinced, more than ever, "a Wooly Bugger is the best subsurface fly for smallmouth bass". So, I decided to make the best smallmouth bass wooly bugger I could and Byron's Bass Bugger is the end result.
This fly is tied on a Gamakatsu B10 S stinger hook. I think this is the perfect bass hook. The wide gape and shape are conducive to hooking and holding a hard fighting smallmouth bass. Kent Edmonds uses this hook for his famous Stealth Bomber. I use the same hook on Byron's Knucklehead. I tie this fly using a #4 hook.
The shank of the hook is wrapped with 10 wraps of .020 non-toxic lead free wire. This design feature allows the fly to descend horizontally in the water column without adding extra weight. Attaching split shot to your tippet causes two problems. First, it weakens the tippet where it is pinched on. Also, it causes the fly to dip and dive when it is retrieved, something I believe is unnatural. You could tie this fly with a weighted bead, placing most of the weight close to the eye of the hook. I would rather have that weight distributed along the length of the fly, so it descends realistically.
Byron's Bass Bugger is tied using high quality Whiting Farms hackle. The hackle is tied in and wrapped flat, causing the fibers to protrude from the body at varying angles. I like that buggy look and I think they work better if tied this way.
Finally, I finish the head using a coat of Z-Poxy 30 minute, non-yellowing epoxy. Then the fly is turned on a rotary dryer until the epoxy sets. You could tie a Wooly Bugger on a cheap hook, with no weight and low quality hackle. I'm not going to do that with a fly I am personally tying for you, or one I plan to use myself. I want the best of everything. I want to catch a smallmouth bass of a lifetime and when I do, it will probably be caught on this fly.
Like Jack says, "These smallmouth bass in East Tennessee like two colors, black and blacker". This fly is only offered in black. A weedless version is also available or will be soon. I can easily fly fish with Byron's Bass Bugger using a 6 weight fly rod. You will do fine with a 5 weight or 7 weight. I would opt for the 6 or 7. Byron's Bass Bugger is proudly tied in Townsend, Tennessee USA by me.
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By Greg Gullberg
Feb. 10, 2013
Live Oak, FL - If you keep an eye out in Live Oak this week you just might see a small army of volunteers hard at work.
It's the inaugural "Love Week" in Suwannee County, Florida. It's put on by Melody Church on highway 129.
They started Sunday with the Local Life Missions Thrift Store at the Old Suwannee County Mall by Winndixie. All the clothes and goods are donated from the community and then sold in the store to fund church missions.
"It's not just about us and what we're doing at Melody Church. It's about these other organizations that are out there every day and we're just trying to compliment them," said Pastor Darrin Baldwin.
Members of the church vow to donate 25 hundred volunteer hours and $25 hundred. Church leaders say it's important to break out of the four walls of the church to serve others.
"You can do that by serving in your own community. You don't have to go over seas. You can serve right here where you live and start there," said Quinn Skierski.
The agenda includes volunteering at the "Pregnancy Care Center", "Vivid Visions" shelter for battered women, the "Drug Free Coalition" and of course general Tropical Storm Debby Clean Up just to name a few.
"God has a plan for everybody so we just want to share the love this week," said Pastor Baldwin.
Anyone is welcome to join in "Love Week".
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Majors, Minors, Clusters
The Program in Statistics is responsible for teaching statistics courses required for majors and minors in statistics, and for all other bachelor degree programs. Some of the advanced courses are taught together for both graduate and undergraduate students.
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Major in Statistics
The Program in Statistics offers a BA with statistics as the major. Six to eight courses in statistics (including STT 201, 203, 212, and 226W) and two to four courses in an allied field such as economics, mathematics, biology, psychology, or political science are required. MTH 161—162 or their equivalent (141—143) and 164 or advisor's permission are the prerequisites.
Double Majors—Double majors with statistics and biology, economics, engineering, mathematics, political science, psychology or other areas are possible. Only three courses may overlap for the two majors.
Joint Major—The BA degree with a joint concentration in mathematics and statistics is also offered.
Minor in Statistics
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Actuarial Studies Certificate
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Ann, I have made these for my son using your recipe and he loves them. And that is a compliment :-) He is very picky. I'll be making these again soon for my son.ReplyDelete
I love perogies but have never had the courage to make them. Yours look delicious.ReplyDelete
I love these and home made are best..Yours are perfect:)ReplyDelete
Thanks Debbie. My son loves them too. The three dozen in the freezer have been promised to Matt and Dana.ReplyDelete
From Beyond, give the recipe a try. You will be surprised just how easy they are to make.
Thanks Monique.
Now you're speaking my language. Growing up I had only ever had frozen perogies. That all changed when I moved to Calgary and used to have "The Perogie Lady" deliver them to my door. Sadly I haven't made them myself in a umber of years. Thanks for the reminder, once the weather cools down....wink.ReplyDelete


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what are the main things we should consider before deciding to go virtual on a vmware esxi hosted virtual guest (centos 5 guest)?
what are the main benefits?
what are the main risks?
best practices?
Thank you all in advance.
what are the main things we should consider before deciding to go virtual on a vmware esxi hosted virtual guest (centos 5 guest)?
what are the main benefits?
what are the main risks?
best practices?
Thank you all in advance.
- Check the hardware RAID configuration behind your virtual disks (e.g. RAID5 or 6 may impact performance)
- Test your I/O performance extensively for mailserver usage (writing multiple small files, database access times etc.).
- Make sure your storage is reliable ( our first SAN wasn't, bad SAN firmware in combination with bad HDD firmware caused many headaches )
- make sure there's no network related bottlenecks on your host
If you use Virtualbox, or similar, make sure of the I/O controller you're going to use for the virtual drive. The default 'IDE' controller is robust, and relatively trouble free, but the throughput is much lower. VirtualBox has a SATA controller that's optimized for the throughput.
First of all, make sure your hardware will work with ESXi.
What type of drives does the system have? SATA? SAS? You have to keep in mind you wont get the best IO with cheap SATA drives.
ESXi is great if you want to get more use out of a single host. However, if you dont have much system resources (cpu,memory,storage), there's really no advantage to switch.
First of all ESXI is only one Product of many and has his own pros and cons.
You may also inform about Prices first
About Virtualisation. Some Basics:
You can Switch Hardware pretty easy without reinstall anything
You can (depending on your size) switch the Virtualhost to another Server and Balance load better
You can do Snapshops of the Hole System
You may even run a Cloud/Cluster easier
You may need it for Zimbra because it should run alone on a System -it really should
Better to recover
More to administer (its like a Real Pysical Machine)
A slight more need Resources - special Ram
More Overhead on Processing / io in detail
More complex Setup
The non Opensource Products are really Expensive
You should also know that an VMWar Appliance - special Zimbra isnt the Same as a Regular Virtual Host with Zimbra - Since its new not all things work there right now
I Personally would stick to a Normal Virtual Guest with Zimbra for many Reasons with or without ESXi - but con and pros of an appliance are also a seperate Discussion
About the Hardware - if you got a Raid or not is NOT important for the Virtualdrive or its performance not in first instance.
It is Important for Zimbra - because of a lot Database (ldapt and Mysql) usage - Databases usually perform not so well on Raid5/6
But this goes for Virtual Systems and Non Virtual same way
If you got not so much Resources on Your Host you may not use ESXI and use KVM - way less Resource need and a real impressive Performance
But really bevore i miss my Dinner - Google for that Topic and read into it - there so many thigns to consider that a Real Advice at this Point is a bit Pointless
Thank you all for the advice. We were planning on a RAID 5 implementation but will reconsider that and do more research on the RAID decision.
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we have a new HP server with 5 SAS disks, We are installing VMware ESXi 4.1.
Zimbra (on a CentOS guest) will be our first 'virtual' project, but in the end we will probably have Apache, MS SQL and more installed on the same VMware host.
I took 3 disks and made RAID 5 array. I also took 2 disks and made a RAID 1 array. I'll make the CentOS/Zimbra VM on the latter (RAID 1) array.
We refuse to build 3-disk RAID5 arrays for clients because of this. Plus, as Bill pointed out, RAID5, unless you have very fast disks and a very nice controller with a lot of cache, will be slow.
FWIW, we build pretty much everything virtualized now, but not investing in the underlying hardware at the right level is setting you up for problems later.
Sorry to be negative!
All the best,