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Autopsy set for decomposed body found along NKY interstateUPDATED 11:16 PM EDT Aug 27, 2013
Deputies are investigating a decomposed body found along Interstate 75 in Kenton County.Video Transcript
INVESTIGATORS WORKED INTO THE NIGHT ... TRYING TO IDENTIFY A DEAD BODY. IT WAS FOUND BY WORKERS... MOWING THE GRASS ALONG THE INTERSTATE, TODAY. ALISON MONTOYA... WAS AT THE SCENE ALL NIGHT... AND HAS SOME NEW INFORMATION. (Alison Montoya, WLWT) (What's left of the body was taken here to the medical examiner's office at Saint Elizabeth in Fort Thomas. It's where the autopsy will be performed in hopes of identifying the body found along the interstate.) SOMEWHERE... SOMEONE KNOWS HOW A PERSON'S BODY ENDED UP ALONG A BUSY INTERSTATE IN SOUTHERN KENTON COUNTY. (Chief Brian Capps, Kenton County Police Department) (There's some soil around it, maybe some clothing, it's just hard to tell right now for sure... Race, but we believe it's a female.) THE GRUESOME DISCOVERY WAS MADE BY A MOWING CREW AROUND 9 IN THE MORNING ALONG INTERSTATE 75 SOUTH... NEAR THE WEIGH STATIONS IN CRITTENDEN. WHAT'S UNCLEAR... IS THE IDENTITY AND AGE OF THE PERSON... AND HOW THE BADLY DECOMPOSED BODY ENDED UP ALONG THE WOODLINE. KENTON COUNTY POLICE CHIEF BRIAN CAPPS SAYS THEY HAVE LITTLE INFORMATION TO GO ON. (Chief Brian Capps, Kenton County Police Department) (Right now we have to identify the person, once you have the person identified you work backwards.. But right now our biggest hurdle is trying to identify the body.) THROUGHTOUT THE DAY... INVESTIGATORS SCOURED THE SIDE OF THE SIDE OF THE INTERSTATE FOR EVIDENCE AND DIDN'T FIND ANYTHING OF SIGNIFICANCE. BUT ONCE THE BODY IS IDENTIFIED KENTON COUNTY POLICE WILL BE WORKING WITH SURROUNDING AGENCIES TO PUT THIS PUZZLE TOGETHER. (Alison Montoya, WLWT) (That autopsy is set for Wednesday morning. From Fort Thomas Alison Montoya WLWT News 5.) A DRIVER IS RECOVERING TONIGHT...
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About the Book
"An unexpected story and a gem of a book."
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The incomparable Campbell McGrath, whom Outside magazine calls, "A writer who could help save poetry from academia and get the rest of us reading it again," delivers an astounding work: Shannon, an epic poem that traces the remarkable journey of the youngest member of the Lewis and Clark expedition. The Kansas City Star praises Shannon as, "A luminescent narrative…a myth of American character before its corruption," and Campbell McGrath—Poet Laureate, Guggenheim Fellowship, Pushcart Prize, and three-time Academy of American Poets Prize winner—proves once again to be truly an "everyman poet" who channels the spirit of Walt Whitman in this lyrical adventure.
From the inimitable Campbell McGrath comes an epic poem of george shannon, the youngest member of the lewis and clark expedition, who wandered the prairie alone for sixteen days.
The last of the Maha will fade from the earth Vanquished utterly by the Pawnee & after the Pawnee the Sioux may perish & eventually the Kentuckians and Ohioans &c—I doubt not but my countrymen Will populate in numbers these fulsome plains But what untold count Of years & men, of decades & centuries What numberless generations will it require Life by life & skeleton by skeleton To claim this land from the buffalo?
With Shannon, a testament to both natural splendor and human courage, Campbell McGrath has created a thrilling narrative that rises from those vast, lonely spaces that continue to haunt the American consciousness.
Educator and Librarian Resources
Critical Praise
"A luminescent narrative...the stanza spacing, the line breaks and the quiet rhythms of Shannon's speech ...suggest the continent's vastness...Shannon's understated lyricism — the apprehension of nature before the onset of self-consciousness...reflects heightened maturity in McGrath's work." — Kansas City Star
"McGrath takes us back to a pivotal point in United States history through the curious eyes of an unsung hero. ['Shannon' is] an unexpected story and a gem of a book." — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"A meditation on a new, westering nation's discovery of its own inestimable riches....Surely, the sort of task McGrath undertakes here represents one of literature's profoundest pleasures. A poet tirelessly digs up something buried by days, years, centuries. And then he holds it to the light." — Washington Post
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- On Sale: 05/26/2009
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#Seawolves fall to Albany in America East Championship
May 11, 2014
Stony Brook, N.Y. -
The Stony Brook softball team was one out from winning back-to-back America East Championships and making its second straight appearance in the NCAA Tournament, but Albany's Elizabeth Snow hit a three-run homer in the bottom of the 10th to lift the Great Danes to a 3-2 win in game one.
In a winner-take-all nightcap, Albany beat Stony Brook, 8-1, in game two, securing an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Head Coach Megan Bryant's Reaction
Game One Recap
With two on and two out in the bottom of the inning, Snow hit a 2-0 fastball just over the left field fence for the game-winning three-run homer.
Game Two Recap
MacFawn retired 11 of the next 12 batters over the next four innings.
Stony Brook had a runners on first and second in the fifth, but an inning-ending double play kept the Seawolves off the scoreboard.
The Great Danes took an 8-0 lead after six-and-a-half innings. Junior Bria Green (Wheatley Heights, N.Y.) line-drive homer finally got the Seawolves on the board. After a hit by pitch, Albany retired the side for the victory.
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Aliceville F3 Tornado - February 11, 1965
Twelve homes were demolished and another 42 homes suffered varying degrees of dmaage. A church, motel, cotton mill, and several commercial buildings were heavily damaged. One farm suffered extensive damage. Several injuries occurred in and enar Aliceville, but no fatalities were reported. The tornado was rated an F3 on the Fujita Damage Intensity Scale.


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American Airlines and the FAA are still arguing over the MD-80 debacle that affected 350,000 air travelers. Was it the FAA's fault for going back on a promise to give American more time? Or was the airline lazy? [WSJ]
I'd love to see a feature on when different airlines' frequent flyer miles expire. It drives me nuts that all my airtran miles expire after just a year.
I am fairly certain that MD-80 safety issues had little or nothing to do with the cancelled flights. AA simply couldn't afford to put those planes up in the air, so they canceled the flights and put passengers on other planes in order to cut down on some costs.
The safety issue is a ruse. By October, AA will be lucky to be operating at all.


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BANGALORE: Leaders of the fashion industry have come together to form Fashion Alliance, an umbrella group representing India's fashion brands and retailers. The announcement of the creation of this consortium was made to about 100 CEOs of the two industries, at the recently concluded Images CEO Meet in Mumbai.
In the keynote address given by AT Kearney, stress was made on the necessity for Indian players to develop distinctive growth strategies as part of a coordinated group. Fashion Alliance was hailed as the


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Dear Midwife,
I was in a car accident the 25th of February and my blood test came out negative. I was given a CAT Scan and had an x-ray on my hand.
I just found out I am pregnant, four weeks along. I am a very worried about the radiation. Please advise.
I really can't. You may want to consult a maternal-fetal medicine specialist about your options.
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Today's free song from HMVDigital is Barking Classics' "12 Days of Christmas".
At least it's free. Honestly, that's about all I have to say about this one. I might play this for my kids later and see if it gets a laugh out of them, though. I also might try to recreate it in Mario Paint if I can convince my Super Nintendo to work for a little while. Happy listening!
Bone Poets Orchestra - Christmas Down South
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Law:Division 14.1. Transportation Of Hazardous Material (California)
From Law Delta
Chapter 1. Licensing
Ca Codes (veh:32000-32004) Vehicle Code Section 32000-32004
32000. It is the intent of the Legislature, by enacting this division, that the public be provided additional protection through the licensing of motor carriers transporting hazardous material. The Department of the California Highway Patrol shall be authorized to inspect and license the motor carriers with special attention directed to the negligent operators or repeat violators.
32000.5. (a) A motor carrier who directs the transportation of an explosive and a motor carrier who directs the transportation of a hazardous material, who is required to display placards pursuant to Section 27903, and a motor carrier who transports for a fee in excess of 500 pounds of hazardous materials of the type requiring placards pursuant to Section 27903, shall be licensed in accordance with this code, unless specifically exempted by this code or regulations adopted pursuant to this code. This license shall be available for examination and shall be displayed in accordance with the regulations adopted by the commissioner. (b) (1) Except as provided in Section 32001, this division shall not apply to a person hauling only hazardous waste, as defined in Section 25115 or 25117 of the Health and Safety Code, and who is registered pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 25163 of the Health and Safety Code or who is exempt from that registration pursuant to subdivision (b) of that section. (2) A motor carrier that is transporting a hazardous waste and is required to display placards pursuant to Section 27903 shall comply with all provisions of Section 32001 except paragraph (3) of subdivision (c) of that section. (c) This division does not apply to implements of husbandry, as defined in Section 36000. (d) This division does not apply to the hauling of division 1.3 explosives classified as special fireworks or to division 1.4 explosives classified as common fireworks by the United States Department of Transportation if those fireworks are transported by a motor carrier under the authority of, and in conformance with, a license issued to the motor carrier by the State Fire Marshal pursuant to Part 2 (commencing with Section 12500) of Division 11 of the Health and Safety Code. In that case, a copy of the license shall be carried in the vehicle and presented to a peace officer upon request. (e) (1) The department shall not issue a license to transport hazardous materials to a motor carrier unless each terminal from which hazardous materials carrying vehicles are operated is in compliance with Section 34501.12 and is currently rated satisfactory. (2) The department shall adopt rules and regulations that provide for a temporary license to transport hazardous materials for a carrier who, within the previous three years, has not been issued an unsatisfactory rating as a result of an inspection conducted pursuant to Section 34501, 34501.12, or 34520. (3) It is the intent of the Legislature that a carrier's license to transport hazardous materials should not be unreasonably hindered as a result of the department's verification and issuance process. (f) This section does not prevent the department from issuing a new or initial license to transport hazardous materials to a motor carrier that applies for a license to transport hazardous materials and that, within the previous three years, has been issued an unsatisfactory rating as a result of an inspection conducted pursuant to Section 34501, 34501.12, or 34520, if the motor carrier has corrected the unsatisfactory rating before applying for the license to transport hazardous materials.
32001. (a) (1) Any authorized employee of the department may inspect any sealed or unsealed vehicle, container, or shipment subject to this division in maintenance facilities, terminals, or other public or private property to ascertain the quantity and kind of hazardous material and to ensure compliance with the provisions of this code and regulations adopted pursuant to this code. (2) If a seal is opened for inspection, the department shall reseal any vehicle, container, or shipment prior to further transportation. (b) Unless specifically stated, nothing contained in this division shall be deemed to exempt any vehicle transporting a hazardous material subject to this division or the operator or any other person from other provisions of this code. (c) No motor carrier shall direct the transportation of any shipment of a hazardous material in any vehicle unless all of the following are complied with: (1) The vehicle is equipped as required by this code and applicable regulations adopted pursuant to law. (2) The shipment complies with laws and regulations pertaining to the shipment or transportation of hazardous material. (3) The motor carrier holds a valid license for the transportation of hazardous materials. (4) (A) A vehicle or combination of vehicles required to display placards pursuant to Section 27903 is equipped with a two-way communication device, maintained in good working order, that enables the driver to contact the personnel responsible for the safety operations of the motor carrier in the event of an emergency. (B) For the purposes of this section, "two-way communication device" means a radio, cellular telephone, or other similar device that permits communication between the driver and personnel responsible for the safety operations of the motor carrier. (5) (A) The enclosed cargo body, when the display of placards is required pursuant to Section 27903, shall be locked and remain locked during transit of the hazardous materials so as to prevent any unauthorized entry and shall be opened only during loading, unloading, or at the direction of a peace officer, an authorized employee of the department, or a person authorized pursuant to Section 25185 of the Health and Safety Code. (B) A driver transporting hazardous material in a locked cargo body shall verify that all locks are in place if the vehicle has been left unattended for any length of time. Each driver shall make a notation in his or her log book of the time and date that the verification occurred. (C) For the purposes of this section, "cargo body" means a fully enclosed area that is an integral part of the vehicle and designed to encapsulate the entire load, such as a van body or an intermodal freight container, and does not mean a tank or flatbed type of vehicle. (d) The commissioner may issue exemptions from the provisions of this section. (e) Nothing in this section shall limit the ability of other state or local agencies to carry out their regulatory, enforcement, or emergency response duties under other provisions of law.
32002. (a) The commissioner may adopt any regulations that are necessary to administer this division. It is a misdemeanor for any motor carrier to violate this division or regulations adopted pursuant to this division. (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), it is unlawful for the motor carrier or the person who directs the driver to operate a vehicle transporting hazardous material, when that transportation requires a license pursuant to this division, to cause the operation of the vehicle unless the motor carrier holds a valid license for the transportation of hazardous materials. A violation of this subdivision shall be punished as follows: (1) For a first violation, by a fine of not less than two thousand dollars ($2,000). (2) For a second or subsequent violation, by a fine of not less than four thousand dollars ($4,000).
32002.5. (a) The commissioner may temporarily suspend a license to haul hazardous material prior to any hearing, when, in the commissioner's opinion, the action is necessary to prevent an imminent and substantial danger to the public health. The commissioner shall notify the holder of the license of the temporary suspension and the effective date thereof and, at the same time, shall serve the person with an accusation. Upon receipt of a notice of defense to the accusation, the commissioner shall set the matter for a hearing which shall be held as soon as possible, but not later than 10 days after receipt of the notice of defense. The temporary suspension shall remain in effect until the hearing is completed and the commissioner has made a final determination on the merits, which, in any event, shall be made within 10 days after the completion of the hearing. If the determination is not transmitted within 10 days after the hearing is completed, the temporary suspension is of no further effect. (b) The commissioner shall suspend a license to transport hazardous material of a person or motorcarrier, for a period of at least 90 days but not more than 180 days, if the holder of the license permits the transportation of fissile class III shipments or highway route controlled quantity radioactive materials, as defined in Subpart I (commencing with Section 173.401) of Part 173 of Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations, by a person who does not possess a license of the appropriate class and an attached radioactive materials driver's certificate or an endorsement issued under Article 6 (commencing with Section 15275) of Chapter 7 of Division 6.
32003. (a) All fees collected by the department pursuant to the issuance or renewal of a license for the transportation of hazardous material shall be deposited in the Motor Vehicle Account of the State Transportation Fund. (b) All moneys collected from these fees shall be used for the support of the hazardous materials inspection and licensing program of the department upon appropriation therefor by the Legislature.
32004. Any violation of any provision of this division may be enjoined in a civil action brought by the Attorney General in the name of the people of the State of California, upon request of the department, except that it shall not be necessary to show lack of adequate remedy at law or to show irreparable damage or loss.
Chapter 2. Notification Of Routes
Ca Codes (veh:32050-32053) Vehicle Code Section 32050-32053
32050. (a) Prior to the transport of anhydrous hydrazine, methylhydrazine, dimethylhydrazine, Aerozine 50, fuming nitric acid, liquid fluorine, or nitrogen tetroxide in bulk packaging, except when that packaging contains only residue, outside the confines of a facility where that material was used or stored, or prior to the delivery of that bulk material to a carrier for transport, each carrier shall provide advance notification, in writing, of the shipment, to the department, which, in turn, shall notify the sheriff of each county and police chief of each city in which is located the proposed route. Notification shall be made through the Department of Justice's California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System. The sheriffs and police chiefs shall, in turn, make timely notification to the fire chiefs within their respective jurisdictions through a mutually agreed upon communications system. (b) Subdivision (a) applies only to the extent that it does not conflict with federal law. (c) For the purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) "Bulk packaging" has the same meaning as defined in Section 171.8 of Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations. (2) "Fire chief" means the fire chief of each county and city fire department and the fire chief of each fire protection district serving a population greater than 15,000 in which is located the proposed route. This paragraph does not apply to any fire chief of a fire department or fire protection district that is composed of 50 percent or more volunteer firefighters. (3) "Residue" has the same meaning as defined in Section 171.8 of Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
32051. (a) Each advance notification required by Section 32050 shall contain all of the following information: (1) The name, address, and emergency telephone number of the manufacturer, shipper, carrier, and receiver of the shipment. (2) A current copy of a material data safety sheet, as designated by the department, regarding the material. (3) If the shipment is originating within California, the point of origin of the shipment and the 48-hour period during which departure of the shipment is estimated to occur, the destination of the shipment within California, and the 48-hour period during which the shipment is estimated to arrive. (4) If the shipment is originating outside of California, the point of origin of the shipment and the 48-hour period during which the shipment is estimated to arrive at the state boundary, the destination of the shipment within California, and the 48-hour period during which the shipment is estimated to arrive. (5) A telephone number and address for current shipment information. (b) The department shall design a standard notification form to include all of the information specified in subdivision (a) and shall make these forms available by April 1, 1989.
32052. (a) The notification required by Section 32050 shall reach the department at least 72 hours before the beginning of the 48-hour period during which departure of the shipment of any material designated in Section 32050 is estimated to occur, and the department shall notify the sheriffs and the police chiefs as specified in subdivision (a) of Section 32050 at least 36 hours before the beginning of the 48-hour departure period specified in subdivision (a) of Section 32051, who shall notify the fire chiefs, as provided in Section 32050. A copy of the notification shall be retained by the department for three years. (b) The carrier shall also notify, by telephone or telegram, the department if there are any changes in the scheduling of a shipment, in the routes to be used for shipment, or any cancellation of a shipment. The department shall, in turn, notify the sheriffs and the police chiefs specified in subdivision (a) of Section 32050 that would be affected by these changes in the scheduling of a shipment, in the routes to be used for a shipment, or the cancellation of a shipment, who shall notify the fire chiefs, as provided in Section 32050. The department shall maintain for three years a record of each telegram and telephonic notification.
32053. (a) Any carrier who violates Section 32050, 32051, or 32052, in addition to any other penalty provided by law, is subject to a civil penalty of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) or more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each violation. For purposes of this section, each day of a continuing violation is a separate violation. (b) When establishing the amount of the civil penalty, the court shall consider, in addition to other relevant circumstances, all of the following: (1) The extent of the harm caused by the violation. (2) The persistence of the violation. (3) The number of prior violations by the same violator. (4) The deterrent value of the penalty based on the financial resources of the violator.


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KOCHI: Oil traded near the highest level in a week in New York on speculation US and European policy makers will act to boost growth and concern that unrest in the Middle East may spread and disrupt supplies.
Crude for September delivery was at $90.25 a barrel, up 12 cents, in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract climbed 0.8% to $90.13 on July 27 for a fourth day of gains and the highest close since July 20. Prices are up 6.2% this month. Brent oil for September settlement was at $106.20 a barrel, down 26 cents, on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange.


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Excerpts from Reuters March 22 2014
An outbreak of haemorrhagic fever that has killed 29 people in Guinea may have spread across the border into neighbouring Sierra Leone, according to a World Health Organisation (WHO) document and a senior Sierra Leone health official.
WHO officials..... suspect Lassa Fever may be behind the outbreak, cases of which have now also been reported in a border region in Sierra Leone, according to minutes of a March 18 teleconference seen by Reuters.
From SIGA
The CDC has designated several arenaviruses as Category A, indicative of the highest level of risk to public health and safety. Among these are Lassa fever, a disease with an estimated several hundred thousand cases annually in West Africa, and Argentine hemorrhagic fever, caused by Junín virus. No licensed vaccines or therapeutics are available to prevent or treat diseases caused by arenaviruses
SIGA's arenavirus antiviral program is supported in part by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases through grant 1R01AI093387.
Excerpts from Press Release from CDC
For Immediate Release: Friday, April 4, 2014
Lassa Fever Reported in U.S. Traveler Returning from West Africa
Contact investigation under way; risk to other travelers considered extremely low
The CDC and the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) have confirmed a diagnosis of Lassa fever in a person returning to the United States from West Africa. The patient was admitted to a hospital in Minnesota on March 31 with symptoms of fever and confusion. Blood samples submitted to CDC tested positive for Lassa fever on April 3. The patient is recovering and is in stable condition. ((I would add that the fatality rate is about 20%))
"This imported case is a reminder that we are all connected by international travel. A disease anywhere can appear anywhere else in the world within hours," said CDC Director Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H.
Regarding ST-161 (lassa) and ST-193
Excerpts Via SIGA Technologies via Elsevier Ltd.:
ST-161 ... a near tenfold increase in potency against Lassa virus pseudotypes compared to ST-193.
Re Optimization program
Excerpts from Abstract on ST-161
Previously we reported the optimization of antiviral scaffolds containing benzimidazole and related heterocycles possessing activity against a variety of arenaviruses. These series of compounds were discovered through an HTS campaign of a 400,000 small molecule library using lentivirus-based pseudotypes incorporated with the Lassa virus envelope glycoprotein (LASV GP). This screening also uncovered an alternate series of very potent arenavirus inhibitors based upon an acylhydrazone scaffold. Subsequent SAR analysis of this chemical series involved various substitutions throughout the chemical framework along with assessment of the preferred stereochemistry. These studies led to an optimized analog (ST-161) possessing subnanomolar activity against LASV and submicromolar activity against a number of other viruses in the Arenaviridae family.
----Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
Excerpts from Abstract
A series of potent arenavirus inhibitors sharing a benzimidazole core were previously reported by our group. ...... Many of the analogs containing alternate nitrogen-based bicyclic ring systems were found to retain antiviral potency compared to the benzimidazole series from which we derived our lead compound, ST-193. In fact, 21 h, built on an imidazopyridine core, possessed a near tenfold increase in potency against Lassa virus pseudotypes compared to ST-193.----Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
That's easy to resolve...just don't travel to Minnesota.
Seriously when was the last company update on any of these and other NIH programs?
Dengue ST-610 & ST-148 Sept.12, 2008 $963,000 NIH grant
Lassa fever and other hemorrhagic fevers of Arenavirus origin.
August 24, 2011 $7.7 million grant from NIH.
What phase is drug in?
It's been in the guinea pig phase since 2007. Earlier results showed that around 61% of the guinea pigs survived versus 0% for other treatments. Beav...Don't be such a snob. If you were a guinea pig all this would be quite important to you. Since you're a Beaver you're just kinda dissing the entire worth of this ST-193. In fact, I understand that under Obama care there is now reimbursement for guinea pigs injured by Lassa fever! So there!
Interesting. ..thanks for sharing tla.
What phase is drug in?
unfortunately unless these diseases hit the west they are somewhat deemed as irrelevant. (especially if its in Africa)That's why you are the only one in the world that knows of this information. I am stuck in Siga but the beauty of owning it was it didn't sell off with the rest of the biotechs on Friday,
The following claim was first presented above as to the significance of drug development to combat Hemorrhagic fevers (Arenaariruses--Lassa) .
"unfortunately unless these diseases hit the west they are somewhat deemed as irrelevant. (especially if its in Africa)"
From the CDC we have this:
Category A
The U.S. public health system and primary healthcare providers must be prepared to address various biological agents, including pathogens
that are rarely seen in the United States.
High-priority agents include organisms that pose a risk to national security
because they can be easily disseminated or transmitted from person to person; result in high mortality rates and have the potential for major public health impact;might cause public panic and social disruption; and require special action for public health preparedness.
Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)
Smallpox (variola major)
Viral hemorrhagic fevers (filoviruses [e.g., Ebola, Marburg] and arenaviruses [e.g., Lassa, Machupo])
(and 3 others agent/diseases are also on the Catagory A threat list)
What phase is drug in?


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Although for numerous reasons crude oil prices averaged $108 per barrel during the first half of this year, the U.S. Energy Information Administration expects the price to average $104 the rest of the year and $100 a barrel in 2014.
The EIA made the prediction in its most recent Short-Term Energy Outlook.
Crude oil prices increased the first three weeks of July as world oil markets tightened because of seasonal upswings in world consumption plus unexpected supply disruptions and uncertainty over unrest in Egypt, the EIA of the U.S. Department of Energy noted.
EIA also said it expects the discount of West Texas Intermediate crude oil to Brent crude oil, which had a monthly average of $21 per barrel in February and averaged $3 per barrel for July, to widen to $6 per barrel by the end of this year as crude oil production in Alberta, Canada, recovers from early June flooding "and as midcontinent production continues to grow."
The strong demand for light, sweet crude oil in the Midwest and new pipeline capacity to deliver production from the West Texas Permian Basin directly to the Gulf Coast contributed to the price of WTI rising relative to Brent crude, EIA said.
EIA expects U.S. total crude oil production to average 7.4 million barrels a day this year and 8.2 million barrels a day next year, both about 0.1 million barrels-a-day higher than was forecasted last year.
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With ITunes, you can transfer content from your computer to iOS devices -- the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch -- to keep them synchronized. To sync an iPhone with iTunes, connect the phone to your computer with the iPhone connection cable and then select the music, apps, books, videos and other content you want to transfer. If your computer and iPhone share a Wi-Fi network, you can enable wireless syncing to transfer content.
Things You'll Need
- IPhone USB cable
Connect the iPhone to your computer using the iPhone's USB cable.
Open iTunes on the computer if it does not open automatically when you connect the iPhone. If you don't have the latest version of iTunes, you can download it free from Apple's website.
Select the iPhone on the list of available devices in iTunes. Devices are listed below the LCD and playback controls near the top of the window in iTunes 12.
Click the "Summary" tab on the left of the screen and place a check mark in the "Sync With This iPhone Over Wi-Fi" check box to enable Wi-Fi syncing. The iPhone will sync content automatically when it is plugged in to a power source and when iTunes is open on the computer. Skip this step if you plan to only sync with a USB connection.
Select the tab corresponding to the type of content you want to sync. Content tabs are listed along the left side of iTunes. Depending on what content is available in your iTunes library, tabs might include Apps, Music, Movies, TV Shows, Podcasts, Books, Audiobooks, Tones and Photos.
Place a check mark in the Sync check box found at the top of the selected content page. If you selected the Music tab, for example, place a check mark in the Sync Music check box.
Click the "Sync" button in the bottom-right corner to sync the selected content to your iPhone.
Tips & Warnings
- Depending on the content tab you select, you can customize sync settings. If you select the Music tab, for example, you can choose whether to sync your entire music catalog or only certain music. If you select Photos, you can choose whether to sync images from certain applications or from individual folders on your computer.
- With Wi-Fi syncing enabled, your iPhone appears as an available device in iTunes whenever it's on the same network as your computer.
- If iTunes won't recognize your iPhone, take a moment to troubleshoot the connection. Restart both your computer and the iPhone. Make sure you have the latest version of iTunes. Verify that your USB cable is firmly connected to both devices.
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Definition of Eurobond in English:
An international bond issued in Europe or elsewhere outside the country in whose currency its value is stated (usually the US or Japan).
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- Bulgaria issued Eurobonds with a face value of 835.5 million euro and $513 million.
- Icici Bank has informed the Bombay Stock Exchange that the ministry of finance and the Reserve Bank of India have granted it approval for issuing Eurobonds in the international markets to the extent of $300 million.
- Bulgaria is to exchange Brady bonds for new Eurobonds, the Finance Minister announced simultaneously in Sofia and London.
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MCG Industries is a South African owned and managed company engaged in the manufacturing of a variety of plastic packaging to a diverse market. We are an industry leader in Injection Moulding of Crates and Containers. Our manufacturing sites are strategically located in Cape Town and Johannesburg to supply customers with a wide variety of competitively priced quality products for both the domestic and international export market. MCG Industries is a BEE accredited enterprise.
MCG manufactures a large range of plastic crates for all types of industries. The company serves a diverse market, including the beer, soft drink, agricultural, dairy, bread and poultry industries. We also have a range of chairs and seats designed for schools, auditoriums and stadiums.
We are able to work with customers from concept, through the design and development phase right up to product realization. We work closely with our customers to help them achieve their packaging requirements.
The factories are situated in Malvern Johannesburg and Montague Gardens, Cape Town.


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UPDATE: "The Flash" Hasn't Cast Savitar, Says Berlanti
TV, Comic Books
Humorist Michael Kupperman is the kind of storyteller that prompts a (long thought dead) legendary writer to reveal he's undead. Such is the offered backstory on Kupperman's new book, Mark Twain's Autobiography 1910-2010, described by Fantagraphics as follows: "From WWI to the Great Depression, WWII to Woodstock, and through the present, Twain details his careers as an ad man, astronaut, hypnotist, Yeti hunter, porn star, drifter, grifter and more, rubbing shoulders and having never-before-told adventures with many major figures of the 20th Century." After covering his new collection of writing and illustrations, Kupperman discusses the upcoming series of live performances (set to start tomorrow with his solo appearance, but future installments will often be in conjunction with Kate Beaton)—and how performing his work helps him gain a sense of his material. Once you've read the interview, be sure to peruse the publisher's 32-page book preview and Kupperman's reading of the Ant I Am Telling You portion of the 160-page book.
Tim O'Shea: Have you heard what Mark Twain thinks of what you did with the manuscript he gave you, or do you expect never to hear from him again?
Michael Kupperman: Actually I've been hearing from him a lot. I thought that one meeting would be it, but since then he keeps reappearing, asking for help dealing with today's publishing industry. He's written a new novel called Prairie Rumpus, which I feel is dated in its use of slang and locale. Meanwhile I've got a lot of interest in my novel The Fart Vampires, a lotta heat building up.


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The Customer Isn't Always Right
In Wednesday's WSJ story, "How to Fix a Customer-Service Flub," six entrepreneurs agree that the mea-culpa approach is best when dealing with a cranky customer.
Fessing up is popular for a reason: It's the most effective way to win back the customer, the entrepreneurs say. But not all business owners apologize to patrons who voice complaints, even if it ultimately means losing the customer and his or her friends.
Take, for instance, the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, a movie theater in Austin that received an angry voicemail from a customer who was thrown out for using her cellphone during a film. It didn't plead forgiveness, nor did it offer the happy patron free tickets to a future movie.
Rather, the theater turned the customer's profanity-laden message into a public-service announcement that will be shown to audiences of R-rated films before the featured movie starts. (Censored version here.) While listening to the voicemail, viewers see the theater's written interpretation of the message, which pokes fun at the customers' usage (and misusage) of the English language, such as the "Magnited States of America."
The message demonstrates how serious the establishment is about its no-phone policy. The founder and chief executive of the theater, Tim League, stands by the PSA. He posted a note on the company's website explaining the theater's unconventional move:
"Recently, we had a situation where a customer persisted in texting in the theater despite two warnings to stop. Our policy at that point is to eject the customer without a refund, which is exactly what went down that night."
Readers, what do you think? How should business owners handle customers who aren't always right?


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Tallahassee, FL - September 14, 2012
The average age expectancy in Florida's Capital City is 72.2 years. However, at least one man has been working at the same job longer than many people live.
He doesn't look a day over seventy. The straight edge razor is steady in his hand. At 97 Delmar Smith has been cutting hair 77 years and is the longest practicing barber in the state. He says the doctor wants him to keep at it. "He told me, he says you are where you are today on account that you still work", says Delmar Smith.
Delmar found barbering by accident. When his brother went off to barber college in 1934, there was no one left to cut his youngest brother's hair, so he did …over the initial objection of his mother. "She looked at it and she said who cut your hair? And he told her Delmar cut it. She said that looks pretty good. So I've been barbering ever since", recalls Delmar.
Delmar's second wife Dot, drives him to and from work, although Delmar still does some of the driving. Dot's husband was a customer of Delmar's for 35 years before he died. And when Delmar's first wife passed, the two started dating. "I had the two of the best women in this country", says Delmar.
When the talk turns to politics, Delmar tells patrons his first vote was cast for Franklin Roosevelt. It was 1935 when Delmar Smith gave his first hair cut. He charged just 25 cents.
Delmar can still be found cutting hair every Tuesday and while his wife might want him to retire so they can travel, he has no plans to stop anytime soon.
WCTV Note:
You can visit Delmar at Chester's Barbershop at Lake Ella in Tallahassee, Florida.


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About CTS
Columbia Theological Seminary is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award masters and doctorate degrees. Contact the Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, GA 30033-4097 or call 404.679.4500 for questions about the accreditation of Columbia Theological Seminary.
Columbia Theological Seminary is accredited by the Commission on Accrediting of the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada, and the following degree programs are approved: Master of Divinity, Master of Arts in Practical Theology, Master of Art (Theological Studies), Doctor of Ministry, Doctor of Educational Ministry, Master of Theology and Doctor of Theology.
The Commission contact information is: The Commission on Accrediting of the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada, 10 Summit Park Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15275, USA. Telephone: 412-788-6505 Fax: 412-788-6510 Website: www.ats.edu
Statement of Mission
Columbia Theological Seminary exists to educate and nurture faithful, imaginative, and effective leaders for the sake of the Church and the world.
Mission Emphases
We understand Christian faith to include a growing love for God expressed in daily faithfulness to Jesus Christ, vibrant worship as an essential feature of life together, cultivation of the mind, and the disciplines of the Christian life; a growing love for the Church expressed in authentic community, participation in the life of local churches, and responding to God's call to and gifting for leadership; a growing love for Christ's work in the world expressed in ministries of proclamation, nurture, compassion, justice, creativity, and the care of all creation.
Because we are a confessional community of the Church, we believe in Christ's reign over the whole world; articulate a missional understanding of life rooted in the rule of God's love and justice; celebrate the goodness of God in all creation; live under the authority of Jesus Christ as witnessed in the scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, in the Church throughout the ages, and in the Reformed tradition and its confessions; nurture a personal and corporate faith which takes responsibility for our choices amid the political realities, the social institutions, and the global contexts in which we live; commit ourselves to diversity and inclusivity, to ecumenicity, and to discerning the ongoing manifestations of God's presence in human affairs; listen with openness to voices of hopelessness and hope around and within us; and acknowledge our own brokenness and need for redemption.
At Columbia, we seek to witness to God's creative power—seen in the wonder and beauty of creation; God's reconciling love—demonstrated in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ; and God's redemptive action and transforming justice—visible through the Church and in the broad work of the Holy Spirit in a pluralistic and interdependent world.
Our special mission in the service of the Church, and especially the Presbyterian Church (USA), is to educate women and men for leadership in ordained and lay ministries by offering graduate degrees, certification programs, and lifelong learning opportunities; to attend diligently to both text and context; to keep learning as a community of scholars and practitioners together; and to provide theological resources through an exceptional faculty, library, and campus facilities.
Because we are an educational institution, our calling is to prepare persons to be leaders in worship, witness, teaching, mission, and service; to pursue learning that joins mind and heart—that enlarges intellect and imagination and nurtures passion, compassion and empathy; to develop personal and professional skills for leadership in the Church; to learn from the world-wide church, from other faith traditions, from education, the arts, politics, economics, and science, and from those outside the centers of power and influence; and to consider critically from the perspective of the Christian faith, ideological, technical, and scientific assumptions—including our own—about the human situation.
In carrying out our mission, we seek to be faithful to the gospel, and to become a living expression of the Body of Christ in the world.
Who We Are
Columbia Theological Seminary is a community with a commitment "to educate imaginative, resilient leaders for God's changing world." God has called the Church to participate in God's global work of creation, reconciliation, compassion and justice. In the years ahead, God's Church needs…
- faithful disciples who live consistently with focus and integrity,
- anchored influencers who can serve stable and growing faith communities,
- imaginative energizers who can ignite congregations that need to be revitalized to engage opportunities and build sustainable ministries,
- resilient shepherds who can pastor the long-time faithful and those who are new to the church, and
- spiritual pioneers who can plant new faith communities with entrepreneurial skill.
These are descriptions of leaders, people who are faithful, imaginative and effective in their influence of others for the sake of the Church and the world. God's Church needs leaders of character, wisdom, imagination and courage—who think theologically and critically, engage culturally and globally, act pastorally and compassionately, speak prophetically and insightfully, and guide wisely and skillfully. It is our mission to nurture and educate leaders like this.
At Columbia, we develop leaders in a holistic manner. In addition to classroom and field experience, students are nurtured, challenged, and ultimately formed by mentoring relationships, engagement in community life, participation in community worship and other spiritual disciplines and experiences. As a result, Columbia produces skilled leaders who are also mature disciples and lifelong learners.
A Brief History of the Seminary
From the time of its founding in Lexington, Georgia, in 1828, Columbia has been committed to training persons for leadership in the church of Jesus Christ. Throughout its history, Columbia has nurtured, and has been nurtured by, the Presbyterian Church in the South; this connection continues to be a cherished tradition. While Columbia now enjoys an outstanding national and international reputation, it also faithfully upholds its historic covenants with the Synods of Living Waters and South Atlantic.
In 1830, Columbia, South Carolina, became the first permanent location of the seminary. The school became popularly known as Columbia Theological Seminary, and the name was formally accepted in 1925.
The decade of the 1920's saw a shift in population throughout the Southeast. Atlanta was becoming a commercial and industrial center and growing rapidly in its cultural and educational opportunities. Between 1925 and 1930, President Richard T. Gillespie provided leadership that led to the development of the present facilities on a fifty-seven-acre tract in Decatur, Georgia.
Because the early years in Decatur were difficult, the future of the institution became uncertain. Columbia, however, experienced substantial growth under the leadership of Dr. J. McDowell Richards, who was elected president in 1932 and led the seminary for almost four decades. Following Dr. Richards' retirement in 1971, Dr. C. Benton Kline served five years as Columbia's president. In January 1976, Dr. J. Davison Philips assumed the presidency; he retired eleven years later. Dr. Douglas W. Oldenburg became the seminary's seventh president in January 1987. In August 2000, Dr. Laura S. Mendenhall began her service as Columbia's eighth president.She served nine years and was succeeded on July 1, 2009, by Dr. Stephen A. Hayner, who had been a member of the faculty since 2003.


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The groundhog lied.
Well over six weeks after the famed Punxsutawney Phil predicted an early spring, winter has still not released its grip on Marietta, said local weather watcher Charlie Worsham.
"There's not much to say about March except that it was miserable," he said.
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JASMINE ROGERS The Marietta Times
Vienna resident Randy Givens grabs some lunch and a milkshake at Cone N' Shake on Pike Street Monday. March's abnormally cold temperatures have meant the outdoor eatery is not in full swing yet, but it is getting there, said owner Jeff Neader.
It was the coldest March the city has seen since 1996, he said.
With an average high of 46.3 degrees, March was almost eight degrees below its normal average high.
"These were February-like temperatures, not March," Worsham said.
Fact Box
March's weather
Actual average high temperature: 46.3 degrees.
Normal average high temperature: 54 degrees.
Actual average low temperature: 30.8 degrees.
Normal average low temperature: 32 degrees.
Actual rainfall: 2.83 inches.
Normal rainfall: 3.82 inches.
Actual snowfall: 2 inches.
Normal snowfall: 2.9 inches.
Source: Marietta weather watcher Charlie Worsham.
It was a stark contrast to last year's March, which tied for the hottest on record, and meant lots of early recreational activities.
Business last month was certainly not as good as last year's business, said Jeff Neader, owner of Cone 'N Shake on Pike Street.
"It's been a little slow. We're a weather driven business," said Neader, who along with his wife, Kristina, kept the outdoor eatery open for the second winter in a row.
Even with the colder weather, several regular customers can not resist the lure of a milkshake.
With the thermometer hovering just below 50 degrees Monday, Vienna resident Randy Givens picked up his.
"I wish it was warmer," he said.
Slowly upward creeping temperatures in the last week of March did make a difference for business, said Neader.
"It's starting to get better," he said.
Despite a chilly average high, March 10 did bring 70-degree weather, pointed out Worsham.
"And then we just went right back down again," he said.
The low that same night was 39 degrees, a 34 degree difference.
The Mid-Ohio Valley was not alone when it came to an abnormally cold March.
"The whole eastern half of the country was below normal," said Worsham, pointing to temperatures in the 20s and 30s in the typically warm state of Georgia.
March also saw less snowfall and rainfall than normal, although it did not necessarily seem like it, said Worsham.
"There were 12 different days where it rained. We just didn't get that much at a time," he said.
Rainfall for the month was 2.83 inches, almost exactly an inch less than the normal average 3.82 inches.
Snow, which occurred on four days, amounted to exactly 2 inches, or nine-tenths of a inch below normal for the month.
Hopefully April will bring the spring weather everyone has been anticipating, said Worsham.
"This coming weekend it's supposed to be in the 60s, almost the 70s," he said.
April averages a high of 66 degrees, a low of 42 degrees, 3.4 inches of rainfall and 0.6 inches of snow.


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FAIRBANKS-The top team in the NAHL got their first sweep of the postseason over the weekend and it came in the Robertson Cup semifinals.
It looked like it would be another grindfest with the Michigan Warriors as the first period went scoreless. But Lonnie Clary was at the right place at the right time for a rebound shot on a Fairbanks powerplay that gave the Ice Dogs a 1-0 lead with 1:47 left in the second period.
Then the Ice Dogs went into clutch mode. Colton Wolter got in transition and rushed towards the net before finding Brett Gervais with a sweet pass and Gervais hustle pays off as he scores with four seconds left in the second period giving the Ice Dogs a 2-0 lead.
It was all about the Fairbanks defense and Kevin Aldridge from there. The Ice Dogs held the Warriors to single digit shots on goal in each period while Aldridge made 21 saves.
Tayler Munson put the nail in the coffin with an empty net goal with 1:35 left in the game. The Ice Dogs shutout the Michigan Warriors 3-0. Aldridge gets his 3rd shutout of the playoffs and Fairbanks sweeps the Warriors 2-0 in the best of three series.
Lonnie Clary perfectly sums up the feeling of going to the championship series.
"It's surreal. Nothing describes it. This is probably the best feeling I've ever had playing as a hockey player. This is the best moment I've ever had in my life," Clary said.
"I think it's huge. It's great for our confidence. It was great in terms of how we rebounded after last night's win to come back and be able to duplicate and exceed our effort last night," head coach Trevor Stewart said.
Coach Stewart added,"we're just excited. We get one more week together as a group. The guys are excited. Since we're here together as a group let's try to win two more games and call ourselves national champions."
We know who the Ice Dogs will be playing and hosting for the 2014 Robertson Cup.
The no.3 seed Austin Bruins defeated the no. 2 seed Topeka Roadruners 4-3 in overtime on Sunday for their Robbie Cup berth.
This should make for a great three game championship series. Both teams split their four meetings this year and 3 games were decided by one goal.
Austin, the Central division champions, won on Oct. 25 and Dec.31, 2-1 and 4-3. Fairbanks swept the Bruins at home showing no love on Feb. 14 and 15 winning 5-4 and 4-1.


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Obama: GOP Worried Obamacare Will Succeed
President Barack Obama railed against efforts to defund his health-care law and offered a defense of his signature initiative, saying it will prove to be a boon for millions of Americans despite early glitches.
At a community college in Maryland, the president said tea party donors were running a cynical campaign designed to convince young people to forgo health care and suggested that Republicans in Congress are trying to blackmail him with threats of shutting down the government or allowing the country to go into default. The comments come just days ahead of the Oct. 1 launch of the heath-insurance marketplaces at the heart of the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare.
Prescribed: An Interactive Tour of What Obamacare Means for You
"The Republicans' biggest fear at this point is not that the Affordable Care Act will fail," he said. "What they're worried about is it's going to succeed."
While Mr. Obama mentions his health-care law in nearly every speech he delivers, Thursday's remarks were a more emphatic and detailed argument for its upside as the White House ramps up what will be a six-month effort to educate the public and build support for Obamacare.
Critics of the president's health plan say it will force people to buy more expensive coverage than they need or want, and that the administration's efforts to shape the way care is delivered in the U.S. amount to a government takeover of the health-care system. They also say the law's requirements for employers to offer coverage discourage businesses from hiring, and have highlighted various problems and setbacks in the rollout of the health-care exchanges.
"This law is not ready for prime time and never will be," House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R., Va.) tweeted after the president's speech.
With five days remaining until the rollout of the health exchanges, the president's speech dived into explaining risk pools and insurance marketplaces and urged people to go to healthcare.gov to get more information.
"I promise you if you go on the website, and it turns out you're going to save a hundred, 200, 300 dollars a month on your insurance or you'll be able to buy insurance for the first time, even if you didn't vote for me, I'll bet you'll sign up for that health-care plan," he said.
Three years since Mr. Obama signed the law, it remains unpopular with the public and a top target for Republicans. But the president blamed opponents for trading in misinformation, saying that they've scared people "with lies about death panels and killing Granny."
Mr. Obama said Americans need to research their options online and make up their own minds, as he likened the process to buying a plane ticket or shopping for a television on Amazon.com. He warned that as with any new law or product, there would be hiccups but said ultimately, more people would have health insurance.
The Senate is currently considering a bill passed by the House that would keep the government running when the next fiscal year starts on Oct. 1 and eliminate funding for Obamacare. Senate Democrats are expected to pass a revised version of the bill that strips out the health-care provisions.
House Republicans also are preparing legislation that would extend the country's borrowing authority for a year while delaying the health-care law for a year.
Mr. Obama has said he will not negotiate on the debt ceiling and will not sign anything that defunds or delays the health-care law. On Thursday, he lashed out at Republicans for what he said were moves endangering the full faith and credit of the country, calling the U.S. the world's bedrock economy and saying, "You don't mess with that."
More Resources
- FAQ: What You Need to Know About New Health Exchanges
- What Is ACA? | Q&A: How Law Affects You |The Myths | States' Role
- Basic Facts, by Sector: Insurers | Employers |Doctors | Hospitals | Drug Industry | Devices
- Document: Affordable Care Act
- Complete Coverage: Health Law Rollout
Video: Obama Says Government Shutdown Would Be 'Irresponsible'
Video: Obama on How to Sign Up for New Health Insurance


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A Quote by Lecomte Du Nouy on curiosity, deed, influence, intelligence, prophets, sacrifice, and saints
Man is not merely a combination of appetites, instincts, passions and curiosity. Something more is needed to explain great human deeds, virtues, sacrifices, martyrdom. There is an element in the great mystics, the saints, the prophets, whose influence has been felt for centuries, which escapes mere intelligence.
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CAPT DOUBLEDAY: Good afternoon. This is a single-subject briefing on the Theater High Altitude Area Defense Interceptor Flight Test that was conducted this morning at White Sands Missile Range. There are two briefers today. First, Lieutenant General Lester Lyles, who is the director of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, Lieutenant General Paul Kern, who is the military deputy to the assistant secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology.
General Lyles is going to go first and then General Kern. General Kern has a short video clip that he is going to show. And following those two presentations, we will take some of your questions.
General Lyles?
LT GEN LYLES: Good afternoon. Well, this morning at White Sands Missile Range, we attempted to conduct the ninth in a series of flight tests for the Theater High Altitude Area Defense System. This is a critical element of our theater missile defense architecture for the United States and for all of our coalition forces.
The primary objectives of today's tests were to demonstrate a body-to-body, high endo-atmospheric intercept of a unitary target; to demonstrate and characterize the seeker used in the THAAD program, the INSBY, Indium Antimonide Seeker; to demonstrate the THAAD system closed-loop operation of all of the various components involved in the THAAD program and this particular test; and to demonstrate the THAAD radar performance against this kind of unitary target.
The test today was conducted, as I stated, from White Sands Missile Range. During the tests, which started roughly at 7:13, Eastern Standard Time, we launched the HERA [ph.] target. We then, seven minutes later, launched the interceptor, the THAAD interceptor, from one of its launch tubes and its configuration. We did not achieve our primary objective of having a body-to-body intercept of the THAAD interceptor with the specific HERA target.
During this particular test, we got a nominal booster fly-out from the THAAD system. We had performance, good performance of some of the various systems or subsystems that have not worked very well on some of the previous intercept attempts for the THAAD program.
The flair, at the very beginning of the test, coming out of the tube, worked very, very well. The THAAD Energy Management Steering worked very, very well. The booster and kill vehicle had a nominal separation. We got nominal separation of the shroud around the kill vehicle. We had good command data of the in-flight target updates from the radar Battle Management Command and Control to the missile. They were providing target information and target map information to the missile.
Unfortunately, about one minute into flight, we lost the telemetry and because of loss of that telemetry, we are not able, to date, at this particular moment, to characterize and specifically determine the cause of why we managed to miss the particular intercept.
As I stated, we did not have a body-to-body intercept. However, from the radar data and from airborne sensors which are on-scene at White Sands Missile Range, we think we came between 10 and 30 meters from having an actual intercept. Unfortunately, again, because of not having the telemetry data, we are unable right now to specifically pinpoint better the closure rate of the two objects, and we are not able to tell you right now what may have caused the particular separation. We are still evaluating all of the available data.
The two story boards to my left and to my right sort of define specifically the configuration for the test today at White Sands Missile Range, shown on the left, with the HERAtarget, which was launched; the THAAD launch, itself; all of the Battle Management Command and Control; the launcher and the radar system of the THAAD system, which all worked extremely well together; and then the actual missile, you see from this photo here, you will see dramatically shown in the video shown by General Kern.
The configuration profile for the test itself is shown on my right, with the HERA target shown on the left part of that particular chart; the launcher and all of the other configurations that are part of it, shown on the right-hand side of the chart.
And rather than go into details about the chart configuration and profile, let me ask General Kern to come forward and talk you through the video, and then we'll both come forward and try to answer any questions you might have.
LT GEN KERN: Let me just take a second to put in my perspective that this is an extremely critical part of our Nation's missile defenses. And you know we have built a system of systems between all of the Services to work effectively together. Last week, we had the opportunity to watch a successful PAC-3 shot. This week we had the opportunity to watch a not-so-successful THAAD shot. Nevertheless, a significant improvement over those previous shots that we have seen.
We did put the new seeker, as General Lyles mentioned, on board, and we did get a good shot that was not available the last time. So while we are not where we would like to be, I am encouraged by the test today that we are much closer to achieving success than we have been for quite some time and, again, it is a critical part of that whole compendium of missile defense systems.
We have a battalion of soldiers that are trained, and ready and waiting for this. They have the ground systems, as demonstrated today, with the launcher, the radars and the battle management. And, finally, I am convinced that American industry can do this. They have the right technical pieces that they have put together, and I believe that the team that General Lyles, with the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, the Space and Missile Defense Command at Huntsville, and America's industry are very close to complete success in the entire system that we are putting together.
So I am encouraged, rather than discouraged, by today's shot, and I think that in the next few months you are going to see some real advances made in our ability to demonstrate to you that we can put the entire package together end-to-end.
I am going to go ahead and dim the lights here in a second. I just would tell you that we saw this film probably not more than about ten minutes ago. So you are getting to see it almost precisely the same time that we are. We did talk to the program manager as it was--he was on the phone at the airport going through it, and we'll give you a quick description of the shots as we see them.
The first thing you are going to see will be the HERA, which is a two-stage rocket built from Minuteman sections that we use as our test vehicle. As General Lyles mentioned, it was fired from the northern part of White Sands Missile Range, about 170 kilometers from the THAAD launch point. The entire test, in this case, takes place over White Sands Missile Range.
Go ahead and roll the movie, please.
I don't know if you all can see that or not. There is the HERA launch. It will fly to an apogee of about 314 kilometers and will be on the descent when it gets into the intercept phase.
The next piece you are going to see is the THAAD launch. It is firing off the THAAD launcher. There it goes. The first maneuver it does, that strange spinning maneuver, is the THAAD Energy Management Steering to burn off energy so it stays within the White Sands Missile Range. It is also used for a low-altitude intercept.
You are going to see some sparkling lights that will come up here. Hopefully, you will be able to see them in this light. What the sparkling lights are, are the controllers, the DACS (Divert and Attitude Control System), that are on the side of the missile that actually steer it towards the target. You are beginning to see that now. It did not freeze in space, I guarantee you that.
The bright spot that came in from the top is the HERA target missile. It's very difficult to see in here. There we go: the launch, the TEMS maneuver, and that's a quick replay.
We will have copies of this available for you at DDI afterwards. I can't tell you how soon afterwards. They are making copies of it now. It literally just came in just prior to our walking in here.
Are we going to try and run that back again? Yeah. The light in here, it is not terribly bright.
The predicted intercept that should have occurred would have been about 2 1/2 minutes after the THAAD launch. That did not occur, as General Lyles explained, and the THAAD missile self-destructed ten minutes past that intercept--ten seconds past that intercept point.
The initial results indicate that the, as I mentioned, and the bright spots, when you see that in a darkened room I think you'll be able to pick them out, that the Divert and Attitude Control System, the DACS, was performing. It appears that we had the seeker bringing it into that end game, but until we do the final analysis, and depending upon the quality of the data we are able to get back, it may take some time to go through that.
We will then plan our next shot for late May. Exactly when, as I say, will depend somewhat on the ability to reduce the data that we have now and get the next missile ready, and we are shooting --- If we are completely successful, we'd have two more successful shots by the end of June, and I will just tell you that's going to be a real challenge, given the schedule that we have right now.
I think that's all I've got. As I said, copies of that video will be available for you from DDI later.
LT GEN LYLES: At this point, we'll be happy to take any questions that any of you might have.
QUESTION: Can you walk through the financial penalties now that Lockheed incurs. Is it $15 million right off the top because they missed today and then $20 million by the end of June?
LT GEN LYLES: Yes. What the question is referring to is the contractor cure agreement, cure notice agreement that we initiated as a result of the last failed intercept we had in the THAAD program, and it does require that we get a body-to-body actual intercept on flight test nine; if not, there is a penalty of $15 million.
And I might add, we are not going to get a check from Lockheed Martin. That's not the way this works. Lockheed will just not bill the Government for $15 million worth of effort under this particular contract as a result of this particular milestone or lack of a milestone.
The next milestone for this cure notice is that we have two successful hits achieved by the 30th of June. The penalty for that is $20 million if we don't achieve that particular milestone, and then there's subsequent milestones associated with different time frames leading up until the end of this calendar year. The total potential penalty, is $75 million; again, not in terms of a check from the contractor, but in terms of lack of billing or that they do not bill the Government for that particular amount of dollars.
QUESTION: Does it look like they're going to have to pay the next $20-, given that two by the end of June 30th is unlikely?
LT GEN LYLES: I do not want to speculate on that. If we're able to find out and pinpoint exactly what the cause was for this particular anomaly and it's something that can be correctable very, very quickly, we're hoping to stay the line and try to conduct the next test by the end of June--excuse me, end of May. And if it's successful, there is a chance that we can get a second attempt off, and if that's successful, by the end of June, and not have to have that particular penalty come into play.
QUESTION: Are you happy with the way Lockheed improved overall between May and today in terms of management and quality?
LT GEN LYLES: Absolutely. Absolutely. They have done just yeomen's work in going back, bringing in the leadership, and bringing in stronger technical support from throughout the corporation and actually bringing in experts from other major corporations to help them to get their arms around the problem, redoing qual testing, redoing component testing, lots of pedigree work to find out the background of literally every nut and bolt in the THAAD system. I am extremely pleased with the performance of Lockheed management and the technical experts in this regard.
LT GEN KERN: I'd add one comment. The other missiles are available. It's not a question of having to build the missiles. It's a question of making sure that what is learned from each shot is then brought forward so that we don't make the same mistakes over again.
And I would echo, completely, General Lyles' comments that we've seen a real turnaround in Lockheed Martin's performance from both management and technical supervision of this program.
LT GEN LYLES: Yes?
QUESTION: Valid or not, there seems to be a linking on Capitol Hill between the performance of Theater Missile Defenses, particularly THAAD, and National Missile Defense. Does this particular test give you any pause with NMD or is there any connection in your mind at all?
LT GEN LYLES: None whatsoever. The physics, in some aspects, are similar, but we're talking different regimes, in many respects, and obviously different designs and different systems.
I think one of the cautions or concerns that people have had is about hit-to-kill lethality, the body-to-body impact lethality, methodology, and whether that will work. Well, we actually proved that two weeks ago with our PAC-3 test. PAC-3 is also a hit-to-kill missile, and that was absolutely a perfect test. We learned some things. We had some very, very minor anomalies of things that we learned, which we wanted to learn from that test, but we proved that hit-to-kill is viable and can work.
So, until we understand better about today's anomaly for THAAD, I would not even have one bit of hesitation relative to our plans and designs for National Missile Defense.
QUESTION: General Lyles, part of the concern with the first five tests was that, or the intercept attempts, was that you never got to the end game. Well, this time you got to the end game, and you didn't get an intercept. So to what extent do you know or do you not know whether the end-game design, which is kind of the heart of this, is just flop?
LT GEN LYLES: Let me just add a correction because I think we've all sort of cavalierly used that phrase, "we never got to the end game." If you look over the series of nine tests that we've had for THAAD, and particularly look at the now six anomalies or failures that we've had, we've had a couple that actually did get close to the end game. Now, it turns out we had seekers that didn't perform properly. One had some contamination, and we had one where we just ran out of fuel at the last few microseconds, if you will, and didn't get the kind of divert that we actually needed. So I am not quite sure if we can use that statement that we have been using that we never got into the end game.
Nevertheless, we know there have been a couple of failures that have precluded us from actually determining what happens those last critical seconds, last critical fractions of a second. We are hoping that we did manage to get some information on this particular flight. It's going to be very complicated by the fact that we don't have telemetry, at least right now, and so determining what did occur, how the seeker performed, the slew rate of the seekers, how the DACS performed, whether or not they were getting signals from the seeker, all of that is very, very critical to the final design. And we're not sure, as of this moment, whether or not we have telemetry information that will answer that question.
LT GEN KERN: I would be a little more pausive [?], too, in saying that the end game has been proven to be not achievable--not so at all. Clearly, we demonstrated it's achievable last, or two weeks ago with PAC-3, as General Lyles said, but also what we're building today is a series of algorithms that were done in simulation on the ground.
And what we have to demonstrate, and that's why it is so important to get the data back from the seeker and the missile flight test, is how they correlate to the algorithms that we're using. Those algorithms are adjusted for the conditions that we expect to see in space, and that's what's so important about that part that we've labeled that end game. So we're not there yet.
LT GEN LYLES: Yes?
QUESTION: Did this HERA target fly a much different course than the one used two weeks ago for PAC-3?
LT GEN LYLES: Yes, it was a completely different profile. Same basic missile, but in this case, a different profile, fired from a different part of the range. This was not fired from Fort Wingate, as was the previous one for PAC-3. So the profile was a lot, a lot different, much as you would expect for a medium-type threat of which the THAAD is intended to engage.
LT GEN KERN: I would also add that PAC-3 is getting ready to go into production, and we're quite a bit earlier in the phase of the testing with the THAAD system. So you wouldn't expect them to correlate identically.
LT GEN LYLES: Let me go up there, and then I'll come back over here. Yes?
QUESTION: General, as you are going to--I know it's only a few months into the new year here, but since you announced the shoot-off sort of competition between THAAD and Navy Upper Tier, but does this test have any impact, like, if you said, "Well, how are things going between the two programs now?" is one ahead, one behind? Can you look at it all?
LT GEN LYLES: Yes, let me qualify that. We're trying to avoid any terminology like "shoot off" or "real competition."
What we're trying to do is to allow, at least right now, allow both of the Upper-Tier programs to proceed through their early testing, series of tests that were planned, and try to determine, within a couple years, how each system is performing to see if one may have a lead ahead of the other in terms of performance, in terms of management, in terms of cost, et cetera, so that we might have an opportunity to reallocate dollars to that one program that's ahead, make that the lead Upper-Tier system that we try to bring into the inventory for the United States.
When you say "fly-off competition," it sounds like we're intending to kill the other program, and that's certainly not the intent at all. It's really to try to make sure that the United States can have an Upper-Tier system to protect our forces, our coalition forces, our war fighters and to try to have one of them, at least one of them, if not both, fielded as early as possible.
As far as this test is concerned, we still have a series of tests left for the THAAD program. We're still several months away before we even have the first Navy Upper-Tier tests. So, again, we're going to let both programs proceed with their test activities for the next couple of years or so and then determine which program is on the most successful track.
QUESTION: So you won't decide at the end of this year which one--is there a decision at the end of '99?
LT GEN LYLES: Not necessarily, because we will not have flown Navy Upper Tier at the end of this year. We will have perhaps one controlled vehicle flight of the Navy Upper Tier if everything stays on track, but not an intercept. The first intercept for Navy Upper Tier is about a year away.
LT GEN KERN: In the Army's perspective, Navy Upper Tier and THAAD are complementary. We don't want one or the other. We want both. And that is simple if you go figure out the mathematics of what it takes to protect troops from missile defenses. You want to get as many chances at shooting down an incoming missile as you possibly can. You don't want to put it all on the back of one system or another.
Secondly, the information that we learn from these tests, the Navy will benefit from in the technologies. The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization is a joint organization, and it's not exclusionary information.
LT GEN LYLES: Yes?
QUESTION: Why did you lose telemetry data, one; and, two, in terms of the $15 million payment, is that set in stone? I mean, if you get information back that it was a HERA, you know, there's something wrong--that it wasn't a missile part of the problem, could you then say that Lockheed doesn't have that $15 million penalty?
LT GEN LYLES: That's a good question. Let me answer the first question first. I wish I knew why we lost telemetry. We lost telemetry about a minute into flight. We've not had problems with telemetry on our previous flights and, to date, or at least right now, at this particular moment, I cannot tell you exactly what occurred, and we are trying to troubleshoot and find out exactly what could have been the cause and pinpoint exactly what happened here.
Your comment is right about the body-to-body intercept, which was the milestone for this particular cure notice agreement we have with Lockheed Martin. We are talking about missile performance. If it turns out we do have, whether it's human error or some problem with the target, then we certainly can't pinpoint or fault Lockheed Martin for that. We don't know that's the case right now and so our thought is that we just did not get body-to-body intercept, which is the milestone that they had to achieve.
And Lockheed Martin is very much aware of that. I've been talking to their senior leadership about that obviously throughout the day.
QUESTION: So you don't know yet--
LT GEN LYLES: We don't know yet. We think, all of the performance data we have for the target, we did have good telemetry on the target all the way through completely until impact or destruction. And the target performance was extremely nominal. So the bet is that the target performed very well.
QUESTION: Any second contractor or not? I mean, any--the debate about the second contractor coming into this, is there any--does this give any further impetus to that?
LT GEN LYLES: You mean in terms of some competition for the THAAD?
QUESTION: Right.
LT GEN LYLES: Right now we're staying the course relative to the prime contractor team for THAAD. This Upper-Tier strategy that we talked about earlier is the closest we come to looking at whether or not resources are applied more to one program or another. But the bottom line is we do need both systems.
QUESTION: General, can you please comment on how this new seeker design perhaps differs from the previously used, the previous design that you used.
LT GEN LYLES: It is a different material. We used platinum silicide as the material for the previous seeker. On the last flight test, flight test eight, we switched to the indium antimonide material. It's a little easier material to process and make than was the platinum sil. It has a little bit better performance characteristics.
And then there's some lessons learned from other systems. The indium antimonides, it's the same material used in the seekers for the Israeli Arrow program that we're helping them to develop and also used in the Navy Area defense program for their IR seeker component.
So there's experience we're gaining from all three programs by using that particular material.
QUESTION: This is the first time General Kern alluded to this. You used new algorithms; is that correct?
LT GEN KERN: No. Second time with this seeker. The first time didn't prove out to be very successful, if you remember. But the algorithms are something that are built into the system that you have to prove that work between the seeker, and the target, and the radar to match up all of the flight performance.
LT GEN LYLES: Yes?
QUESTION: It just seems to me that there are so many things that can go wrong, and every test something has gone wrong; like the telemetry went out. You would have to have a perfect system that responded perfectly for this to work institution end. Can you base the national defense on a system like that, where if it's not perfect, the enemy missile comes in? I mean, that's the biggest critical question.
LT GEN LYLES: I think General Kern stated it very accurately. We have great confidence in American industry to be able to do this particular job. And while it's complex, it's not the only complex thing we do for our national security needs. There are many other programs that have a lot of complex factors to them, maybe not these same factors, but there are a lot of things that are stacked upon other areas that have to work perfectly for most weapon systems to perform the way they are intended.
I think the industry has shown us that they can do this particular job in some various forms. We know the ground systems work very, very well. The radar systems work extremely well. We're having a little bit of trouble trying to get the missile to perform properly, but I have great confidence that we can do this and that our national security, whether from a theater standpoint or a National Missile Defense standpoint, can be supported by these kinds of technologies.
LT GEN KERN: One other thing, though. The telemetry is separate from the Battle Management Command and Control system. The telemetry is peculiar to the test part of the program, where you put it through the phases so that you can learn and make the next system better. When we go to issue this system to fight, that telemetry is not part of the system. It's part of the BMC3/I part that ties all of these pieces together, as well as what's on board the actual missile and seeker.
QUESTION: Can I just ask one follow-up? If you can't get perfection, why did you go away from a system where you just want to--why do you want to do hit-to-kill? Why can't you just, since you get so close to the missile, just do the fragmentation?
LT GEN LYLES: All of our analyses show us that for weapons of mass destruction you have a much better lethality with body-to-body kinetic impact than you do in taking a chance with a warhead. Taking a chance with a warhead can give you the kind of scenarios that we saw a couple of times, we think, during Desert Storm, where you may knock the warhead out of the way or break it up, but not destroy it to the point that you don't have some sort of damage on the ground.
And when you talk about weapons of mass destruction like chemical or biological agents on them, we want to ensure that we have body-to-body impact, with enough energy to completely destroy, disintegrate, kill anything that's there.
So from lethality methodology, that's the reason hit-to-kill is so important to us.
Yes, John?
QUESTION: General Lyles, you have expressed, in the past, concern that, in effect, you may have some lemons on your hands here. These missiles were built several years ago. How many more of these older missiles do you have left and when's the earliest we could start seeing a new batch of THAAD missiles to start testing so we can, you know, there's only so much you can do to an older missile that may have been manufactured improperly.
LT GEN LYLES: I don't think I've used the word "lemon," so I'll make sure to get that clarified right away.
Yes, we are dealing currently with the test assets - - Missiles that were built at the beginning of the program, and we have demonstrated that there may be some quality concerns, but that's the area that the contractor has been focusing on, making sure we don't have any more of those, or we are comfortable with what we have for the current family of test vehicles.
We have about five of those vehicles left, five or six of them currently left. We actually are going to make some block upgrades, minor upgrades, to improve some of the quality in the design which will go into effect for the next couple of tests that we currently have. There are some minor things that are already being addressed in the next couple of test missiles.
So we're already starting to bring along or bring into the inventory some improvements on the original design, improvements on the original configuration that we've been testing for the last, now, nine series of tests.
QUESTION: After these five are shot, though, what then? Is that going to be determined by this review of the Upper-Tier programs?
LT GEN LYLES: If these five are successful or three of these five are successful, technically, we're supposed to proceed into EMD of the program, Engineering, Manufacturing and Development of the program, which is the next phase, and we will be building new missiles with a cleaned-up design -- Some of the things we've learned through the early part of the program for testing in that particular phase of the program.
The pace of that effort will be determined by this Upper-Tier strategy, but the basic strategy is to still proceed into EMD.
QUESTION: But if they're not successful, what's the likelihood that you could have some alternative THAAD program? Try it again, in other words.
LT GEN LYLES: We'd have to look at that very closely. We've been studying that and looking at alternative methodologies. I don't want to comment on them right now because I'm, again, very hopeful that things are going to be very successful. But we are looking at some back-up plans, just in case.
CAPT DOUBLEDAY: We've got time for two more.
QUESTION: General, at which point will you have enough information on the THAAD program versus the Upper Tier to make a decision as to which is the preferred option? 2000, 2001?
LT GEN LYLES: We always stated that we wanted to get through a series of tests for THAAD and for Navy Upper Tier. We said a decision point would be probably the fall of 00, Zero-Zero, the year 2000, when we would be best equipped to make such a decision. By that point, we should have data on both systems. So, roughly, that's the time frame that we stated.
We cut a couple of people out, so I guess we'll take a couple more questions, if you don't mind, Mike. One here and then--
QUESTION: General, if it turns out you don't have telemetry data from this, what will you rely on in order to kind of walk you through the test?
LT GEN LYLES: That's going to be very sporty. But it's amazing sometimes how much information the engineers and test people can get out of--
QUESTION: I'm sorry. You said it's going to be very what?
LT GEN LYLES: Sporty. It's amazing how much data people can get from what might seem like a limited amount of information. We have lots of radar data. We have lots of visual data. We have lots of infrared data from two different airborne platforms which are flying to observe the test, and we have some indication of something, some kind of data stream that was still coming down, but right now it's not decipherable. And we're going to have to look at that to see if that might be actual data that somehow was not modulated properly or what have you.
So we're going to be working with everything we can find, literally, to try to get as much information as we can about this particular test.
QUESTION: Do you happen to know, and maybe General Kern can answer this, how long the analysis may take or that's all subject to what you have to look at?
LT GEN KERN: It's very much subject to what they actually get down when they go recover all of the components. They do a forensic analysis to look at that. We'll see what we can learn from that. As General Lyles mentioned, there are a number of other data streams. That can take weeks to go through all of that. And part of it, on this garbled stream, will depend upon what it really takes to ungarble it. It's a lot of deciphering of that information that is available.
So it can be anywhere from a couple of days to a few weeks to really get through it all.
QUESTION: But you're much more comfortable with the telemetry, if you had not--excuse me--telemetry--
LT GEN LYLES: Oh, yes, definitely.
LT GEN KERN: Absolutely.
LT GEN LYLES: Definitely. Anne?
QUESTION: General, could you give us some impressions of how the whole system is working together? You've said in the past all of the different pieces have been working fast. How does it work as a system? How does it fit into your overall architecture? And when might you be connecting up to other pieces of your architecture?
LT GEN LYLES: For the THAAD system itself, as I mentioned, one of the objectives in this test was to demonstrate the end-to-end, closed-loop operation of all of the various components.
For this particular test, for the first time, we had the UOES radar, as we call it, the User Operational Evaluation System radar, the early radars for the THAAD program, on-line, performing all of the different missions or parts of the mission it's supposed to accomplish.
We had the Battle Management Command and Control, we had the Tactical Operations Center all working properly. The launcher all worked properly. Everything seemed to work very, very well, with the exception, obviously, of what happened relative to the closing end game for the missile. So, from that standpoint, we're closer to having end-to-end, closed-loop operation of the THAAD system, which is exactly what we want.
How it fits into the total architecture. As General Kern alluded to, our architecture depends on, for the most effective capability for missile defense, multi-tier, multi-platform. We want to have as many engagement opportunities as we possibly can, and we certainly want to be able to counter the entire range of threat.
And THAAD, the Upper-Tier systems, THAAD and Navy Upper Tier, are specifically designed to counter the medium-range threats; those that operate above a thousand kilometers, 1,300 kilometers and above, which are the kinds of threats we are seeing being proliferated today.
SHAHAB development--the SHAHAB development by Iran, the North Korean No-Dong, the GAURI tested by the Pakistanis, those are the kinds of threats we have to encounter with the Upper-Tier systems, and so we need to have the entire architecture all working well together to give us the most effective missile defense system.
QUESTION: Sir, just to follow, would you be connecting, in further tests, to, say, Patriot units or something else to test out how your interoperabilities--
LT GEN LYLES: Yes. We do have interoperability tests planned downstream in the program, and that involves both missile tests, and we've actually already been conducting some limited tests, where we have different parts of the architecture working well together. We want to use, eventually, something like the THAAD radar and use it to cue a Patriot system or use the THAAD radar to cue a spy radar on a Navy Aegis ship. Those kinds of tests, interoperability tests, are planned for the program within the next couple of years, and it's the major part of the activity because interoperability is a major part of missile defense effectiveness, from our standpoint.
CAPT DOUBLEDAY: Okay. Thank you very much.
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