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Afghan forces are growing at an accelerated rate, but can they grow fast enough and good enough to fight-and lead-a war against the Taliban?
KABUL, Afghanistan-Wind lashes the promontory dubbed "One Tree Hill" but shows no marked effect on the army moving over the ridges and plains stretched out before it. The morning sun is just up, yet already 3,000 soldiers are spilling over rocky ground, hours into a course that has them sprawled, an army of specks at this distance but up close mired in dust and gravel, moving on elbows, weapons up, ready for ambush.
Down range a company of 350, up since 3:30 a.m., is well along in combat training while some of its rank sit crouched, backpacks laid behind them in precision rows, taking lessons in counterinsurgency from Afghan officers. Gunshot rings off the far mountains from 10 firing ranges. Humvees crawl in seeming slow motion across roads, some carved out of the dirt, some gravel, laid over the otherwise indistinguishable wadis and lowlands.
In the foreground between One Tree Hill and a graveyard of rusting Soviet tanks, minesweepers in white shirts work their way patiently across a field, metal detectors roving back and forth, reconfirming that it's clear of deadly traps. And on the promontory another corps is about to engage in urban warfare using houses just constructed for the purpose, while an 18-year-old recruit named Navid stands watch near a sandbagged lookout.
So expansive is the early morning routine at Kabul Military Training Center, a daydreamer might contrive that he's fallen into a Robert Louis Stevenson poem like a "giant great and still that sits upon the pillow-hill" watching the "leaden soldiers go with different uniforms and drills."
But the heat and high wind lend assurance enough that this is no land of counterpane. On any given day this 22,000-acre site east of Kabul swarms with two or more brigades: about 7,500 basic trainees, plus an officer training brigade of roughly 1,500, plus another 3,000 or so instructors-including hundreds of U.S. and coalition forces who mentor the Afghan officers and provide other support.
"In the last year the Afghan Army has surged itself," said Lt. Col. Michael Loos, who commands the 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry sent here to help advance Afghanistan's own military expansion. On the eve of the ninth anniversary of 9/11 and the launch of war against Afghanistan, this is a not yet one-year-old experiment Loos calls "industrial in nature": Behind the U.S. combat surge and renewed fighting in the southern provinces is the lesser-noted surge to train the people of Afghanistan to secure their own future. The immediate goal: to build a fighting force of 170,000 by 2011.
Ahead of schedule the Afghan National Army (ANA) 2010 benchmark-increasing soldier strength to 134,000-has been met, Afghanistan's Ministry of Defense announced this month. Recruits are showing up in greater numbers than expected, and the Kabul training center (or KMTC), which trains about half of enlistees nationwide, is putting them through the paces and pushing them out to combat positions at a rate of about 1,500 per week. In some cases, recruits who trained here six months ago already are back, training new recruits while gaining more skills themselves.
Building a new standing army and police force is a mammoth undertaking, and it costs U.S. taxpayers nearly $1 billion a month. Done right, say U.S. commanders, it marks a new beginning for Afghan security, and the beginning of the end for frontline U.S. forces in Afghanistan. But as U.S. commanders-and recent U.S. deaths-attest, none of it is easy.
The tempo rapidly shifted at the KMTC soon after President Barack Obama gave a nationally televised speech at West Point on Dec. 1, 2009. Most assumed the 30,000 additional troops that he ordered to Afghanistan were headed straight to combat against a growing insurgency. But he also intended the U.S. surge for "building the Afghan capacity that can allow for a responsible transition of our forces out of Afghanistan."
Loos said he received word five days later that his unit, based out of Fort Drum, N.Y., would be among the first to go, and its mission would be not to fight insurgents but to train Afghans how to.
By January he and his unit were on the ground in Kabul. When they arrived, Camp Alamo-a blast-wall enclosed enclave that houses U.S. forces at the KMTC-had 150 military personnel; now it houses 750. The buildup represents an investment in training that senior commanders say is essential to a responsible U.S. exit from Afghanistan.
"If you don't resource the training mission with a sense of urgency, all you do is delay the date of the transition," said Col. John Ferrari, head of budget and planning at the NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan. "If we can't grow or sustain the Afghan forces, we've gone backwards."
But Ferrari admits that mission will extend beyond a U.S. withdrawal phase slated to begin one year from now. "The Afghans won't be able to afford their security forces on their own for many years," he said. "The GDP is not large, and it has a huge unmet social need that the government must address."
After the current "build" phase-with intensified recruitment and training plus pay, equipment, and facilities for an army-Ferrari estimates it will cost $6 billion-$8 billion a year to sustain Afghan forces. The country's GDP stands currently at about $13.5 billion. "It's an enormous amount of money. However, today we have close to 98,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, and it costs us about $8 billion a month to have them here. So $8 billion a year versus $8 billion a month-the return on the investment is huge."
But any success, Ferrari noted, depends on improving the Afghan government's legitimacy and fighting corruption-and extends beyond what a fighting force can do: "The goal is to connect the Afghan people to its government. If the people believe in its government, then it will side with the government of Afghanistan rather than the insurgents. You sometimes hear about the U.S. winning hearts and minds, but in the end we are going to leave. The hearts and minds that have to be won are for the Afghan government."
Early on during the tour of the KTMC, Lt. Col. Loos, who serves as its senior coalition adviser, declares himself to be an optimist. It's his fourth tour of duty in Afghanistan, and changes are everywhere. "I'm spending a lot of time with the Afghans this time, and they give me hope. And then there's the traffic and the commerce. . . . Intuitively if there's development and people driving around and setting up vegetable markets and bazaars, there has to be some amount of confidence that security is better," he said.
Programs like the one at KMTC have sprung up this year around the country, including in hot zones like Kandahar (where two coalition police trainers, including one American, were killed in June)-and they extend beyond the prototypical young, all-male, warrior-class corps.
The Afghan Army's first class of female officers since 2002 is scheduled to graduate from a 20-week training course in September. After testing 44 candidates, the course is down to 29. Not surprisingly, it's faced challenges: The program operates in a completely segregated section of an ANA officer's school in Kabul, and the women have no contact with male counterparts. Many of the women lacked officer candidate skills, some even the equivalency of a high-school education and basic literacy. One I interviewed was only 17 years old, (though the ANA advertised the program for 18- to 35-year-olds) and all came into the program struggling with low self-esteem-natural victims of a society that has treated most women as property.
"We wonder if they are going to be integrated into the military," said drill sergeant Janice Luller, who, along with seven other U.S. female reservists, volunteered to spend six months in Afghanistan to jump-start women's training.
Half of the women in this new program are married and some have children. They anticipate administrative jobs or working with other women in the military, but don't know where they will be assigned. Most said they received family approval to join but don't tell neighbors and friends what they're doing for fear they could become targets of militants.
Luller said all have improved their skills and morale, and most say they enjoy physical training as well as class work. "Seeing what they are up against, and seeing that they are the first class in a male-dominated society, it's my vision that they feel confident and strong at the end of this, that they don't have to bow down to men who have not worked as hard as they have," she said.
Another experimental program run by the KMTC is training chaplain officers. The first 10-week course graduated 26 officers on July 24. Their task is to provide "Islamic religious support" to Afghan soldiers, which, according to Chaplain (Lt. Cmdr.) Frederick McGuffin, who supervises training, means giving moral counsel and "countering the message of the insurgents." McGuffin said the ANA's goal is to graduate a class of 30-60 officers every 10 weeks.
McGuffin, ordained by the Baptist General Convention of Texas and on his first tour in Afghanistan, said, "I advise and make sure they are going down the right trail." Courses involve training in "Islamic values taught in a moderate fashion," he said, along with literacy and computers. McGuffin believes it's a crucial part of counterinsurgency training, and imams (who actually teach the classes but are closely screened and known to officers, he said) emphasize "that the Quran doesn't teach things the insurgency is saying."
"Afghan recruits will hear that you are not allowed to pray, that you have to convert to Christianity when they join the Army," said McGuffin. By having in the ranks chaplains, formally called "religious and cultural affairs officers," he said, "that message is countered."
The KMTC program also isn't shying away from former Islamic fighters known as mujahedeen. In one classroom 160 of them, all middle-age warriors (average age: 42) who at various times took on the Taliban and each other, sit together in wooden desks, learning army skills with supervision from eight French and Swiss military advisors.
The accelerated training buildup, in numbers and scope, begs the question: How lasting and successful will it be? "What we are doing," said Afghanistan expert Andrew Exum, "is buying time for Afghan political leaders to make political deals and build up their security forces, especially their intelligence, army, and police corps."
Exum, a fellow at the Center for a New American Security who served active duty in Afghanistan from 2002 to 2004, told me numbers aren't the best measure of success. "The army has to think in terms of competence of individuals and units-the core tasks that individuals perform and then the core tasks of a unit have to be examined in combat." Does a unit have a high or low desertion rate? Does it fire on the enemy rapidly and successfully? "I feel confident that by next summer, maybe by mid-winter, we will be able to evaluate for quality," he said.
Those evaluations, in fact, will drive the timetable for withdrawal of U.S. troops. "The debate over U.S. policy in Afghanistan is a lot more narrow than we sometimes think," said Exum. "It is not about whether to stay in large numbers or withdraw. It's about how quickly we can transition to some sort of assistance mission." Exum believes political leaders, even in an election year, won't risk a sped-up withdrawal without having built up Afghanistan's security forces.
Col. Ferrari equates that buildup to the Marshall Plan following World War II. Gen. George Marshall's strategy to restructure and rebuild Europe "was a reaction to the post-hot-war environment but actually the beginning of the Cold War. Gen. Marshall felt we were about to lose the peace after winning the war. It's the same here."
A key difference is that Afghanistan's war is not a state-on-state struggle, but Ferrari insists that Marshall understood what the United States is just coming to grips with: "You can't kill your way to victory here. You have to build the capacity of the people and the government, because that's what will bring people over to side of the government and not the Taliban."
"You sound like an optimist," I said, sitting in Ferrari's cramped plywood paneled office at Camp Eggers. "Are you?"
"I'm a realist," said Ferrari, who's just been over the reports of the week's casualties: workers kidnapped and killed building a police training center in Wardak Province; Navy personnel kidnapped and killed south of Kabul; defense contractors shot on a firing range during training; and civilian contractors hit by gunfire just the previous night.
"Every day is hard. Every day is challenging. Everything we do is hard. This is an enemy that is fighting for its way of life, and until it is convinced that it cannot win it's going to be hard, and costly in terms of lost lives, and will go on longer than people think, and will be more violent than people think. There are a hundred ways it could go wrong, and in order for it to go right every one of those has to go right."
Surging itself
Afghan recruitment plus $11 billion a year in U.S. taxpayer funds aim to buy a new Afghan security force
Afghan National Army
August 2009:94,500 troops
August 2010:134,000 troops
By October 2011: 171,000 troops
Afghan National Police
August 2009:90,100 policemen
August 2010:108,000 policemen
By October 2011:134,000 policemen
Sources: Afghanistan Conflict Monitor, NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan
To hear Mindy Belz discuss this topic on the Knowing the Truth radio program, click here.
Forgotten war
10-15-99 UN Security Council creates al-Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Committee, imposing sanctions and linking the groups as terrorist entities.
9-9-01 Al-Qaeda operatives assassinate Ahmad Shah Massoud, commander of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance. With Massoud gone, bin Laden is assured Taliban protection following 9/11.
9-11-01 Al-Qaeda operatives crash three planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, while a fourth never reaches its target but crashes in Pennsylvania.
9-18-01 President George W. Bush signs a joint resolution authorizing the use of force against perpetrators of 9/11. It passed the Senate, 98-0, and House, 420-1.
10-4-01 NATO invokes Article 5-stating that an attack on one member nation is an attack on all-for the first time in its history.
10-7-01 Operation Enduring Freedom launches with a bombing campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
11-01 The Taliban begins to retreat as strongholds crumble, including Kabul, the capital, on Nov. 13.
12-5-01 Afghan factions sign the Bonn Agreement, installing Hamid Karzai as the interim administration head and creating a peacekeeping force (ISAF) for maintaining security in Kabul.
12-9-01 Taliban leader Mullah Omar flees as the Taliban surrenders control of Kandahar, its last stronghold. Later, Osama bin Laden escapes capture in Tora Bora.
4-17-02 Bush calls for reconstruction of Afghanistan, with Congress appropriating more than $38 billion.
6-20-02 Afghan delegates pick Karzai to head the country's transitional government.
5-01-03 Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declares an end to major combat.
8-03 NATO takes control of international security forces.
1-04 Afghan delegates agree on a national constitution.
10-9-04 Voters pick Karzai as Afghanistan's first democratically elected leader.
9-18-05 Afghans, including women, vote for the Council of People, Council of Elders, and local councils in what's considered the most democratic elections held in the nation.
7-06 Violence resurges across Afghanistan sparked by weak government and lack of security forces.
8-22-08 Civilian casualties draw condemnation and spur an overhaul of U.S. air strike procedures.
2-17-09 President Barack Obama renews commitment to Afghanistan by announcing plans to send 17,000 more troops.
5-11-09 Gen. Stanley McChrystal replaces Gen. David McKiernan as top U.S. commander in Afghanistan.
7-09 U.S. Marines launch a major offensive in southern Afghanistan to counter growing insurgency.
11-09 August presidential election ends without a winner after Karzai failed to receive at least 51 percent of the vote. A week before the runoff his main rival pulls out of the race, leaving Karzai the victor amid corruption charges.
12-1-09 Obama announces a troop surge of 30,000 troops and sets July 2011 as a target to begin withdrawal.
6-23-10 Gen. David Petraeus replaces McChrystal after Rolling Stone magazine publishes controversial statements McChrystal and his aides made about the Obama administration.
7-31-10 Largest number of U.S. deaths in war, 66, recorded this month.
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Posted 13 April 2012 - 09:43 am
Hello Will
By what criteria are you going to define "effective"? If you want a statistically valid answer, you are going to have to define some measures which can be expressed numerically, and specify the weighting which is to be attached to each criterion.
The result will probably be one of those "league tables" so beloved of governments and hated by most of the educational, medical or other establishments to which they are applied.
Judging by its nil casualty record (as far as I know) and the fact that it never yielded an inch of trench to the enemy, I'd say the War Dept Sausage Factory at Poplar must be a strong contendeer!
On the other hand, you could have started a good debate!
Posted 13 April 2012 - 09:49 am
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Posted 13 April 2012 - 09:58 am
That looks like a comprehensive list of your criteria. I'll be delighted to see the results of the analysis when you get them.
Hi Ron,
I will try and define regions of operations first and separate these out as follows :-
1) Western Front
2) Gallipoli.
3) Other Theaters (all the other regions:-Middle East, Africa, etc.)
Then for each theater of operation to apply the following performance criteria in the following way:-
1) Attack, (shock wave or follow up waves, strength of position attacked, season, weather conditions at the time, opposition, strength, geography, rate of attack, planning and support, effectiveness, after action defence, holding of captured positions)
2) Static defence ( location geography
3) Retreat or Rearguard actions
Then define cost per action with regards:
1) Personnel & casualties
2) Equipment losses
3) Material/Prisoners gained
Then possibly a sub section with bravery awards allocated to units (note: maybe officers awards are not the best indicator)
1) Officers
2) NCO's
3) Other ranks
Would this help in defining what should be required to define the best British (UK) unit in the three defined theaters of war
Will Davies
Posted 13 April 2012 - 10:32 am
Are you only dealing with infantry?
Posted 13 April 2012 - 12:07 pm
Sounds a bit like the project at the IWM some years back, run by Peter Simkins and others, designed to evaluate the effectiveness of British Infantry Divisions. Don't think it resolved anything (I might be wrong). It had a name - SHLM, or something similar.
I recall (vaguely) a talk at my local WFA dealing with "successful" divisions (it may even have been battalions). The premise was to look at each large scale attack and assess whether it succeeded completely, aprtially, or failed. I cannot give more details as the talk was so tedious and the graphics so appallingly bad (and impossible to read even from midway down the room)that I may even have nodded off.
Posted 13 April 2012 - 12:23 pm
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Posted 13 April 2012 - 12:47 pm
Hi Will
In the British army during WW1 there are many comments on the affectiveness of the Scottish and Irish regiments in the great war, especially from the enemy perspective. Does anyone actually know which regiment statistically was actually the most effective British (UK) regiment during the war?
Posted 13 April 2012 - 02:32 pm
Hi Will
I would clarify what you mean by 'unit'. Unit normally means a infantry battalion or its equivalent in other arms. 'Formation' on the other hand means higher level aggregations of units such as divisions, corps etc.
However a regiment of infantry didn't fight as a regiment (unlike in the French and German armies) but as separate battalions which would be in a number of divisions. To take a typical distribution, the regular battalions i.e. 1st and 2nd battalions of the Royal Blankshire Regiment would be most likely to be in one of the regular divisions. The Territorial battalions would be in the TF divisons e.g. 1/4th, 1/5th battalions in a first line TF division, the 2/4th, 2/5th in a second line TF division. The New Army battalions (e.g. 7th, 8th, 8th) would be in one or more New Army Divisions.
Given that, it is pretty hard to say which is the most effective regiment given that so much depended on the parent formation. If you can adequateley define and measure battalion effectiveness, how do you then aggregate battalion scores into a regimental measure? I'm pretty certain that no one has looked at regimental effectiveness, and that is why the focus has been on looking at formations instead, with the division being the most manageable formation to study.
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Posted 13 April 2012 - 06:47 pm
I'm not sure there is an answer to this question. Can you compare like with like? So many factors need to be taken into account, including terrain, weather, time of year, intelligence gathering and application, enemy dispositions, technology etc etc
Posted 13 April 2012 - 06:49 pm
Posted 13 April 2012 - 07:08 pm
Not so, i'm afraid. Units were transferred to and fro on a schedule decided by GHQ . Commanders were allocated tasks and required to undertake them with the resources at hand. Particularly in crucial times, commanders did as best they could. I believe that if it were possible to order the different regiments in some sort of hierarchy, it would have been done long ago.
I think the commanders must have known which units they preferred to use in crucial times to give the best possible chance of success.
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Posted 13 April 2012 - 08:04 pm
OK - why not look at it another way? Who did the Germans most fear?
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Posted 13 April 2012 - 08:52 pm
I think people are a bit reluctant to get into the usual bun fight of who done this and who done that.
If it was me in a trench the unit i would most fear would be the one in front of me.
P.S. Everyone knows that the Regiment that the Germans did fear most was The Black Watch.
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Just wondering i see a lot of other riders from other states on this forum.
Just wondering i see a lot of other riders from other states on this forum.
I'm here over in Montlgomery County, sluggin along
Problem with the way these regoinal forums are split up is that the DC area is cut into two groups. Don't know whether to post in NE or SE or both, so most of the time it's neither.
Southern AA/Northern Calvert here. (North/Chesapeake Beach is the home base)
I got the bike for crosstraining.
I am out pretty much every weekend, either on inlines or the bike.
I certainly see enough other riders on the road, but I haven't had a good chance to meet any.
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P.G. County checking in... I ride mostly on rail trails (WB&A, B&A and W&OD) while training for the Seagull Century.
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Eastern B'more in Balto-county.
2009 mileage = 14,738 miles; 2010 mileage = 15,234 miles; 2011 mileage = 17,344 miles; 2012 mileage = 11,414 miles; 2013 = 12,169
Silver Spring in Montgomery county here. This is the first time I've ever looked in these regional forums. Maybe I'll have to start paying attention.
God grant me the serenity to accept the hills and winds I cannot change;
courage to challenge the cagers I can; and wisdom to know the difference.
(with apologies to AA)
24 mi. roundtrip -- Maryland suburbs to DC and back.
Nice to know he have a nice population of md bike riders, but none in Queen Annes County .
So even though I'm on the nicer side of the river I'll jump in and ask if anyone is riding the Indian Head Century on Sunday? I'm doing the metric with a few friends.
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The Baltimore Bike Club is holding their Civil War Century on Saturday morning at 7am starting at Thurmont--thinking about doing that one. It has about 7,400 feet of climbing across 105 miles.Originally Posted by dpara
2009 mileage = 14,738 miles; 2010 mileage = 15,234 miles; 2011 mileage = 17,344 miles; 2012 mileage = 11,414 miles; 2013 = 12,169
Another Carroll County rider.
RacerMike - Good ride Wednesday! Love the BIM ride blog.
PG County here--if you've ridden in the Beltsville Agriultural Research Center on a weeknight you've probably seen me training.
"Unless he was racing there was no way he could match my speed."
Probably not, i mostly ride on the Eastern shore. Now i just got my licence i may go riding on different trails .Originally Posted by DrPete
If any one is interested in helping promote cycling in MD and has note seen Baltimore Spokes, check it out. http://www.baltimorespokes.org/
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Major announcements low volume list serve: http://epistolary.org/mailman/listinfo/spokesnews
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Proceeds help support One Less Car, Marylands state wide advocacy organization for promoting biking and walking.
Thanks, -=Barry=-
Though 'Spokes' is not a forum, there is a way to comment textually or via a poll on the articles or stories shown on the site or to contribute a story. Barry always seems to have his finger on the pulse of B'more cycling advocacy.Originally Posted by The Human Car
2009 mileage = 14,738 miles; 2010 mileage = 15,234 miles; 2011 mileage = 17,344 miles; 2012 mileage = 11,414 miles; 2013 = 12,169
I've ridden through/around the BARC a few times, although mostly on the weekends. Any routes you recommend?Originally Posted by DrPete
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Film Star versus Groundbreaking Politician.
by Meredith O'Brien
"My name is Geraldine Ferraro. I stand before you to proclaim tonight: America is the land where dreams can come true for all of us." – Geraldine Ferraro, at 1984 Democratic National Convention.
"Every time a woman runs [for office], women win." – Ferraro to a reporter during the 2008 presidential campaign.
Two weeks ago, screen icon Elizabeth Taylor died. Her death was the third biggest news story of the week among American media organizations. (It generated a column in this space about Taylor's experience as a working mom.)
A few days later in that same week, former Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro, the first female vice presidential candidate for a major political party, also passed away. But Ferraro's death wasn't noted on front pages across America with the same verve like two-time Oscar winner Taylor's had been.
For example, the three newspapers I receive at home in their old fashioned, dead tree versions – The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The MetroWest Daily News – treated the two women's deaths differently. A big, glamorous photo of Taylor along with a story appeared on the top left-hand part of Times' front page. The Globe ran a photo and a story on the lower part of page one. My local newspaper ran a photo with a teaser along the top of the page which directed readers to a page 2 story about Taylor.
Days later, Ferraro's death wasn't heralded as much as Taylor's in the same three newspapers. The New York Times had the Ferraro story on the bottom of its front page along with a photo. (Taylor's had been at the top.) The Boston Globe had a page one blurb mentioning her death with a tiny photo, and told readers to turn to page B9 – B freakin' 9 -- for her obituary, and she died in Boston. My local paper didn't even mention her death on page one but ran an Associated Press story about her passing on page 2.


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Functional Show Stopper comes as one parameter of 'Priority'. I know Show Stopper.. but what is Functional Show Stopper ? What kind of issues can be categorized under this ?
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This sounds like, to me, simply a "shop term", something someone came up with in a particular location or locale. A quick Google search didn't really find much of anything to categorize this term or define it in a global way.
So, a "show stopper", as I understand it, is a bug that makes the software product and/or feature being released critically unstable to the point that releasing it would cause the application and/or feature to be just a load of useless bits sitting on the hard drive. So, a "functional show stopper", while it might not totally trash the application, would mean that the bug gets in the way of the intended functionality in such a way that a particular function or feature does not meet requirements and is even un-usable in it's current state. It might not completely destabilize the application but it essentially will mean that the designated feature of the application might as well not be there.
I'd agree with Tristaan that "functional show stopper" sounds like a term that your organization uses for internal tracking purposes.
I'd suggest you start by asking people you're working with for a clarification of how you're expected to use the term. It could mean anything from "this function is unusable" to "this is a show-stopper bug that is triggered by a function" (compared to a "performance show-stopper" like "it takes half an hour to load the application and data entry is accepted at a rate of one character every two seconds") (Don't laugh - I've had to work with applications like that...)


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Performance excerpts from Sins Invalid
'An unshamed claim to beauty in the face of invisibility'
Featuring performances by: Alex Carafelli, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Leroy Moore.
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March 17 & 24, 2-4pm
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Exhibit on-view December 16, 2010 - January 12, 2011.
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AGENCY: AGO Youth Council zine launch
July 7, 2010, 6 - 8 pm
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InTENse: 10 years of Teens Behind the Scenes at the AGO
A retrospective exhibition featuring some of the great projects created by the AGO Youth Council and their partners over the year
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October 04, 2010
Ocean vessel operators threatened by the recent Federal Maritime Commission's mandate to investigate pricing practices of cartels are responding by bringing shippers into the fold.
The latest indication that shippers are gaining more leverage comes with the news that carriers comprising the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement (TSA) are creating a new "advisory board."
This board, similar to the one put together by the Westbound Transpacific Stabilization Agreement, (WTSA), is designed to provide more transparency in the way carriers determine rates.
For National Industrial Transportation League (NITL) president, Bruce Carlton, it represents "a good start."
"But we are not sure at all what will be come of it," he told LM. "The past year has certainly been a high-water mark for tension between shippers and carriers, so anything like can be regarded as positive."
Still, he said, the League has problems with the limited anti-trust immunity carriers enjoy under the current Shipping Act.
"As you know, we have endorsed the new bill to revise the Act, and hope that by next year, a greater degree of competitiveness will be encouraged. While the bill is far from perfect, we welcome any change that it will introduce."
The NITL maintains that the current U.S. shipping regulatory system today does not work in the best interests of U.S. businesses that are required to compete in the global market. The League said H.R. 6167 is an "appropriate" first step toward achieving a more robust, competitive and efficient maritime industry. It also added that the bill, "seeks to address recent problems faced by importers and exporters in enforcing service contract obligations in a timely and cost effective manner."
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The puppies are doing great. Growing like a weed.
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That all ends now.
Those bad times are about to take a sleek throwing knife blade to the chest because today is the Blu-ray release of one of the greatest films ever made, George P. Cosmatos's 1986 classic "Cobra".
"Cobra" is not so much FROM 1986 as much as it IS 1986. If anyone you know has no experience with awesomely kick-ass action movies from the era, you can just sit them down, show them "Cobra" and in a brisk 87 minutes they'll have a very complete overview of the genre. (For the record, if you actually DO know someone with no experience with this genre, there really is no reason to hang out with them, I don't care how good their weed OR blowjobs are).
This is a movie that rips through genre cliches like film ripping through an ultra-high-speed photo-sonic camera. Just watch the first 15 minutes below in my graciously supplied link. Try and count them. Seriously, I bet you'll give up within a few minutes, There's just plain too many of them:
Of course, all of it is anchored by the indispensable Sylvester Stallone. For you young people out there reading this who are too young to remember, Stallone is the man who filled in for Ronald Reagan as President from March 30th, 1981 to February 13th, 1987. The actress Jodie Foster told her boy toy, a man named John Hinkley, to shoot Reagan and maim his aide, Jim Brady (Hinkley was a great shot). While Reagan healed and Brady magically transformed himself into a piece of legislature, the US agreed that VP George Bush was too much of a pussy to be President and we elected Sly Stallone instead. In his tenure as acting President, Stallone won the Vietnam war, Directed John Travolta in a Tony-Award-Winning musical called "Satan's Ally" and ended the cold war through boxing. Eventually, his attempt to push through legislation to make Arm Wrestling our national sport failed and he was recalled soon afterward by a newly healed, but permanently brain damaged Ronald Reagan. Ok, history lesson over.
Back to "Cobra".
If all of that is not enough for you (And how could it not be) there is a scene in this movie where a gorgeous Brigitte Nielsen (Long before her current incarnation, which resembles an overweight Dirk Nowitzki with shorter hair with fake tits) dances around in a fashion shoot with sexy robots. Too good to believe? Check out this still:
Like I said, other than Republican Billionaires, were all having a real bad time of it as of late. It's time to watch "Cobra" again and let the healing start. It's not the greatest movie from the 80's, but it is the greatest 80's movie.
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Only One Hookah Bar in W.Va.
X-Hale Lounge Is Grandfathered Into Smoking Ban
May 5, 2013
MORGANTOWN — There's only one hookah bar in the state of West Virginia, and after a recent Wheeling-Ohio County Board of Health meeting, it appears it will stay that way....
if you don't have money you don't have a say in wheeling. no problem letting them smoke at the race track.
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I don't smoke, but these bans are rediculous. Folks need to be free to make decisions, even if they are bad ones.
We are gradually transitioning to a controlled society where everyone is the clone of a "perfect" citizen, and Big Brother is watching your every move to make sure you conform to the socially engineered nirvana mindset.
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good location to open a mental health facility. . . call it hoodies and hookas. Might even want to us English words.
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Zip, now that's funny!
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Zip BWAHAHAH!
A Hookah Bar is an Undocumented Marijuana Dispensary!
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Big Gooberment politicians have no business telling us what we should be doing with our personal lives. When corruption in Gooberment stops ask me then what I think.
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The bias towards cigarette smokers by the "hookah"bar owner in Morgantown and the wannabe owner in Wheeling is ignorant and laughable! Hookah tobacco is just as dangerous as cigarette tobacco and using the hookah makes it even worse because the smoker the inhales the smoke deeper into the lungs and tends to hold the smoke in longer. Hookah smokers also smoke continuously for smoking sessions that can last an hour or more. It is also possible that the smoking equipment may not always be sanitized properly and could lead to the spread of illness and disease. These people are fools on par with anti smoking zealots who feel it is their duty to protect smokers from themselves. Idiots!
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Hookah. is that ebonics for business lady ?
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The Affordable Care Act has been law of the land for three years now. President Obama signed the legislation on March 23, 2010, but it remains a source of controversy and mystery for many Americans.
Meanwhile, some of the most significant parts of the law have yet to take effect.
Three years after the enactment of Obamacare, here's a look at some key figures that shed light on the status of the law's implementation, its impact on the nation and public opinion.
A poll from the nonpartisan, nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation, conducted March 5-10, found that just 37 percent of Americans have a favorable view of the law while 40 percent have an unfavorable view.
There's a partisan split in opinion, with 68 percent of Republicans saying they view the law unfavorably and 58 percent of Democrats saying they have a positive opinion of the law. Among independents, 31 percent have a favorable view, while 45 percent have an unfavorable view.
Meanwhile, nearly a quarter of Americans -- 23 percent -- declined to offer any opinion on the law. That may not be unreasonable, given that many people don't fully understand the law.
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Canned Sardine Banh Mi Recipe
The greatest column since sliced bread.
- Yield:Makes 2 sandwiches
- Active time:10 minutes
- Total time:10 minutes
This recipe appears in:Sandwiched: Canned Sardine Banh Mi
Note: You can find canned sardines in tomato sauce at Asian markets. Ligo brand is a good choice and comes in spicy and mild versions.
Baguettes made in Vietnamese bakeries are made with rice flour and are crispier than regular french baguettes. If you don't have a Vietnamese bakery nearby, a regular French baguette roll can be used.
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- 1 medium carrot, cut into fine matchsticks
- 1 small daikon radish, cut into fine matchsticks
- 1 tablesopon sugar
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1/4 cup vinegar
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 baguette roll, preferably Vietnamese, about 12-inches long, cut in half cross-wise (see note above)
- 2 tablespoons mayonnaise
- Maggi seasoning, for drizzling
- 1 (5.5-ounce) can of sardines in tomato sauce
- Fresh cilantro
- 1 jalepeño pepper, thinly sliced
To Make the Pickled Carrots and Daikon: combine carrots, daikon, salt, and sugar in a small bowl and toss to coat. Allow to rest 10 minutes until liquid has been drawn out of vegetables and salt and sugar are completely dissolved. Add vinegar and water and transfer to small, sealable container. Let sit at room temperature for 1 hour, or for best results, allow pickled to rest for at least 3 days in the refrigerator.
Lightly toast baguettes if desired, then split each baguette half lengthwise, then evenly distribute the mayonnaise among the baguettes. Add a few dashes of Maggi seasoning to the inside of the baguettes. Divide the sardines among the sandwiches—there should be about 2 whole sardines per sandwich. Using a fork, mash the sardines into the sandiwches. If desired, spoon more of the tomato sauce from the can over the mashed sardines.
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I went out on Friday night with the intent of seeing how long I could track without guiding. Typically all I do to polar align is line up the Big Dipper in the Polar scope with its orientation in the sky. This time I decided to do it more precisely.
I looked directly at Polaris and noted two stars that were either directly vertical or directly horizontal of each other in the big dipper. Then I rotated the mount and Polar Finder until those stars were either vertical or horizontal in the Polar finder.
It just seems like it is much easier to align based on points that are directly vertical or directly horizontal in relation to each other.
After I accurately placed Polaris in the small circle in the Polar Finder I rotated the scope to verify that my Polar finder was centered in my mount. It was dead on.
Then I started taking some images. I tried 2 minutes and it looked great so I went for 3 minutes and it still looked fine. Then I went for 5 minutes and it definitely started to show some star trails but honestly it was not as bad as I thought it would be.
I never attempted the All-star align simply because Polaris tracked exactly around the small Polar Finder scope all night long. The all-star alignment wouldn't have helped because I had done the Polar Finder setup so precisely.
This is not to say that the All-star alignment shouldn't be used. It does a great job especially when you do a true "rough" alignment with the Polar Finder. However, I have noticed that if you do an extremely precise alignment with the Polar Scope then the error tolerance in the All-star alignment is usually greater than it is with an extremely accurate Polar Scope Alignment.
Please note that this is the second Polar Scope that I have owned. I accidentally let the little piece of glass slip in the first one when I was trying to center it. Once it rotates at all you can no longer do a precise alignment in this manner and the All-star alignment will definitely be a better option.
3 minutes for an 800mm scope and a 2x crop factor camera. This is a 1:1 crop from the center of the image. ISO 800.


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Coco Crisp is usually awakened around 9 a.m. by his kids at his California home. Today's wake-up call came a bit earlier, around 7 a.m., when he learned that he had been traded to the Royals. Crisp had an idea that he might be dealt this week and was excited to learn about his move to Kansas City.
Coco described himself as down to earth, competitive, a family man, and a person who tries to stay within his abilities on the baseball field. He wants to win and brings a presence to the park every day. The winning attitude comes from his roots in a competitive family. Every family event from Monopoly to ping-pong was a must-win competition in the Crisp household.
His time in Boston was hampered by nagging injuries, but he described it as a good learning experience. He knows only a few of his new teammates, but he is looking forward to a return to the AL Central, where had success as a member of the Cleveland Indians from 2002 to 2005.
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I'm definitely going to miss Coco, but I'm happy that he'll be going to Kansas to get the playing time that he deserves. He's a great player,a force on the bases, pretty solid defensively, and had that amazing at-bat in game 5 of the ALCS (and ended up batting in the tying run!!!). I think he'll get better offensively, and he has a great attitude too. I still reminisce about when he attacked James Shields. I've heard that Ramon Ramirez is good, I haven't heard much about him though.
Take good care of Coco, I'll miss him a lot
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Well, I thought it was pretty traumatic, anyway, and I wanted to share and see if anyone else had experienced something like this.
I wanted a natural birth - my mom had four kids at home and on the only birth with a complication her midwives saved her life and her OBGYN flat out told her she probably would have died on the table with him. But my insurance at the time wouldn't cover a midwife so I found an OBGYN that advocated natural, drug-free, zero-intervention type births. Like most doctors, she belonged to a practice with eight other OBGYNs.
I went in to labor early one Saturday morning. I called my mom, who came and went through nine hours of contractions with me and then sent my husband and I to the hospital - about a 45 minute drive from our home.
My OBGYN was NOT there. She should have been, but called in for personal reasons and would not be present again until Monday. But one of her associates was there. This person checked me and said it didn't matter how active I felt my labor was (talking down to me the whole time) that I was not dilated enough to be admitted and she sent me home. I sobbed all the way home b/c I was pretty exhausted and disappointed. They even gave me meds to take to slow down my contractions and make me sleep. My mom was no longer at my house and I didn't want to call and wake her at home, so I took the meds and went to bed. Ten minutes later, I threw everything up and my contractions started becoming stronger and closer together.
My husband called my mom - who was a phenomenal labor coach - who came back and helped me labor from midnight to 6:30 AM. She even had me sleeping in between contractions! My husband slept through the night too, so he was awake and ready to go when my water broke. "There's no way they'll send you home now," my mother said. I had insisted all night long that I would NOT go back to that hospital where the "mean doctor" was. "Just go and you should be delivering soon. They may not even give you any pain killers at this point."
The mean doctor was still there when we got there, but this time she took one look at my face and had me in a birthing suite. I vaguely remember her being furious that I arrived at such a late stage that they did not even have time to get an IV in me - they put it in AFTER I gave birth. Makes me chuckle now. But she did talk me in to pain killer b/c I tore. First thing she said was, "You may feel okay now, but it's really going to hurt. Let us give you something." I protested that I would be fine with just IBprofen or something but she insisted. My ignorant response: "Okay. You're the doctor."
Ladies, to this day I'm not sure what I was given. I've heard a few educated guesses, but I can't find the actual drug on any of my hospital paperwork. But whatever it was caused me to completely forget that first day of my daughter's life. I called people to tell them about the birth, but the next morning woke up in a panic thinking I hadn't told anyone. I couldn't remember nursing my little girl for the first time, being in a hospital room with family, and apparently I even fainted rather dramatically and had most of the nurses on the floor in my room trying to revive me and get me from the bathroom to bed. I remember nothing of any of this.
I've spent the first year and a half of my daughter's life quite angry about the pain medication and furious that the know-it-all doctor sent me home. I was 23 years old, frightened, and I had longed for the "comfort" of a hospital full of technology and medical knowledge and doctors.
Now, after reading the book and watching the documentary, I am beyond relieved that everything worked out the way it did. Because I spent so much of my labor time at home, I avoided having drugs pushed on me and a C-section. Turns out that the attending doctor has an extremely high C-section rate and her personal opinion is the polar opposite of what I wanted. Maybe it was all for the best.
For my second birth - only ten weeks away now - I've found a certified nurse-midwife who has a lovely birthing center. And she accepts my insurance. My husband is also going to take a very active role, whereas in the hospital he was kind of pushed to one side. He's now a certified paramedic and my midwife loves the idea of him doing some of the work. :-)
Just thought I'd share and wasn't sure where to do it. I also thought this would be a good introduction - so, hi everyone!
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Thank you so much for sharing your story!
Thank you for sharing this!
Your story is one that I hear similar variations of all the time - it seems to be the standard of care now to be talked down to and treated as if you don't know your own body OR what you want intervention-wise (as if you're not smart enough to figure it out, or to realize that of course this is a very dangerous thing that you need to be saved from!)
Good for your mom for knowing what to tell you, and it's awesome that you stood your ground as much as you could.
Do keep us posted about how this birth goes! You also may want to look into hiring a doula - they make all the difference too!
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Thank-you for sharing your story. It is wonderful that you had the assistance of your mom--the presence of a calm, supportive woman who knows you. I am sorry that you had a medication pushed on you. It sounds like scopolamine, but I didn't think that drug was being used any longer. Blessings on your coming birth!
One of the best bits of advice that has been given to me about first births is that they are what they are. Mine was less than desirable but I was also not as informed as I am now. The only thing we can do it to improve upon the next one.
Hope your second birth goes perfectly and Good Luck!
Thank you so sharing your story. Have a beautiful birth and Happy 2011! xoricki
Congrats on your upcoming birth. I am sorry for your experience, I know that must have been very hard for you. I hope your birth & babymoon are beautiful. Maybe your husband can "catch" the baby, then he will have experience in case he has to do it in the field. :-)
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A slow start had the Holyoke girls' basketball team in a hole from the get go during Saturday's District 2 third-place game with Sedgwick County in Sterling. An admirable late-game run by HHS made for an exciting finish, but Holyoke's comeback bid fell short as they lost 41-43.
The Lady Dragons had defeated the Sedgwick County girls in their previous two meetings during the season. As the No. 5 team in the tournament, the Lady Cougars performed better than expected, upsetting fourth-ranked Wray in the first round and No. 3 Holyoke in the third-place match.
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World badminton champion Howard Bach goes for the kill in his last Olympics this summer in London.
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Growing up, Howard Bach had always been quite the athlete — he ran track, played baseball and soccer — but he eventually decided to stick with badminton. Today, he is a world champion in the sport and is training for his third, and last, Olympics in the badminton men's doubles event.
At the age of 5, Bach picked up the sport from his father, who used to play back in Vietnam. He moved to an Olympic training center at the age of 16 and has since racked up a long list of accomplishments in the sport. With his partner, Indonesian American Tony Gunawan, Bach made history in 2005 when the pair won the gold medal in the men's doubles competition at the World Badminton Championships, becoming the first American badminton athletes to ever medal at a World Championship. In 2008, Bach and his doubles partner, Bob Malaythong, made it to the quarterfinalsof the Olympic Games in Beijing, advancing farther in the Olympic sport than any other Americans in history.
Now facing his last Olympics — at 33, he's married and has a baby boy — Bach is training hard. His regular routine consists of everything from weightlifting to track to on-court training two times a day, five days a week. Bach is hoping to end his badminton career as a full-time athlete with a medal, but regardless, he plans to stay involved in the sport and maybe even raise its profile in the U.S. "America has one of the best athletic pools around the world, yet you see mainly Asians in the U.S. playing badminton," he says. "That mentality should change. We have a lot of athletes of different ethnic backgrounds who are equally as athletic who would definitely enjoy the game as well."
Bach credits his family, friends and sponsors for his success. "Being an athlete, it's not enough to just have the talent; you need to have the environment to make an athlete successful," he says. "I always mention it as the team behind the team, the support group, and I've been pretty blessed to have that support group behind me."
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Good News! Tourism in Durango Colorado has been very heavy and this is some good news for the grim news that we watch on TV day in and day out. Driving down main street at 7:pm last night, the town was bustling and there were actually people in lines waiting outside several of the restaurants.
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