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Time to focus more on climate change
Here's a scary fact about America: We're much more likely to believe that there are signs that aliens have visited Earth (77 percent) than that humans are causing climate change (44 percent).
That comes to mind because a couple of weeks ago, I asked readers for suggestions of "neglected topics" that we in the news business should cover more aggressively in 2014. Some 1,300 readers recommended a broad range of issues, which I look forward to pilfering (with credit!) — and many made a particularly compelling case for climate change.
A reader from Virginia quoted James Hansen, the outspoken climate scientist: "Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now."
Another reader, Daria, acknowledged that the topic isn't sexy but added: "Whether we 'believe in it' or not, all species on Earth are being subject to frightening disruptions in our weather, food supply, land."
You would think that we would be more attentive, with the federal government a few days ago declaring parts of 11 states disaster areas because of long-term drought. More than 60 percent of California is now in extreme drought.
Yet we in the news media manage to cover weather very aggressively, while we're reticent on climate. Astonishingly, coverage of climate has actually declined in mainstream news organizations since peaking in 2007, according to the count of researchers at the University of Colorado. (Coverage did increase last year after a low in 2012.)
The proportion of Americans who say they believe that global warming is real has fallen since 2007 as well, and climate beliefs have fallen victim to political polarization. In 1997, there was no significant gap between Republicans and Democrats in thinking about climate change. These days, 66 percent of Democrats say human activity is the main cause of global warming; 24 percent of Republicans say so.
My take is that when Democrats, led by Al Gore, championed climate change, Republicans instinctively grew suspicious. Yet the scientific consensus is stronger than ever. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in September raised its confidence that human activity is the main cause of warming from 90 percent probability to 95 percent or higher.
When we have this disjunction between scientific consensus and popular perception — well, that should light a fire under those of us in the news media.
An excellent basis for discussion is the new book "The Climate Casino" by William Nordhaus, a Yale University economist. Nordhaus is a moderate whose work has been cited by climate deniers, yet he concludes: "Global warming is a major threat to humans."
Nordhaus acknowledges uncertainty but sees that as a problem: "The outcome will produce surprises, and some of them are likely to be perilous."
For all the uncertainty, Nordhaus cites several areas of strong agreement among experts: Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere exceed those observed for at least the past 650,000 years; hurricanes will grow more intense; the Arctic will become ice free in summer; oceans will rise up to 23 inches by 2100 (more if there were major melting of ice sheets); and the global temperature will likely be 3.5 degrees to 7.5 degrees Fahrenheit higher in 2100 than in 1900.
A 7.5 degree difference in average temperature may not sound like much. But it's about the differential by which Arizona is warmer than New Jersey.
Nordhaus warns that "the pace of global warming will quicken over the decades to come and climate conditions will quickly pass beyond the range of recent historical experience."
Perhaps the greatest risk is various discontinuities and feedback loops that are difficult for climate models to account for. Melting of the Greenland ice sheet is typically predicted to add only a few inches to sea level rise by 2100, Nordhaus says. But ice dynamics are still poorly understood, and that matters a great deal. If the whole Greenland ice sheet disintegrated, that would raise sea level by 24 feet.
Climate change is hugely exacerbated by changing patterns of how we choose to live, often in danger zones such as extremely vulnerable coastal zones — from New Jersey to the Philippines. This enormously increases the economic and human costs of hurricanes, rising seas and changing weather patterns.
In politics and the military, we routinely deal with uncertainty. We're not sure that Iran is trying to build a nuclear weapon, but we still invest in technologies and policies to reduce the risks. We can't be sure that someone is going to hijack a plane, but we still screen passengers.
So, readers, you're right! This is a neglected topic. We need to focus more on climate change, and perhaps that can help nudge our political system out of paralysis to take protective action to reduce the threat to the only planet we have.
Contact Kristof at Facebook.com/Kristof, Twitter.com/NickKristof or by mail at The New York Times, 620 Eighth Ave., New York, NY 10018.


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PHILADELPHIA (CBS Philly) — Sleepy driving is a huge problem, but it's one that most of us don't recognize.
Drowsy drivers may cause nearly a third of all deadly car crashes according to federal statistics and a study at the University of Pennsylvania Health System proves the danger.
"A lot of people don't realize that more serious crashes are caused by falling asleep at the wheel than alcohol," Dr. Michael Grandner said. "Though we've all heard of drunk driving, we haven't heard much about drowsy driving, but it's a major health problem and safety problem."
Dr. Grandner, a member of the Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology, says a survey of more than 17,000 people showed that most people need at least seven hours of sleep each night. He says, "People who reported five hours or less per night were 3-4 times as likely to report dozing off at the wheel in the last month as compared to people who say they slept an average of seven hours a night."
Dr. Grandner says it didn't matter if the person felt he or she had gotten enough sleep, too little shuteye still affects time behind the wheel.

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The federal trial over the 2010 BP oil spill resumed Monday with a focus on the company's response to the disaster, with billions of dollars at stake as the two sides argue over how much oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico.
The government and BP have different estimates; establishing how much oil leaked will help determine the penalties the oil company must pay.
U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier is expected to hear two hours of statements Monday from lawyers for BP and for Gulf Coast residents and businesses who claim the spill cost them money.
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Börje Ekholm at Ericsson AGM: "Stabilize and simplify" Read the pressrelease here
Ericsson's Annual General Meeting 2018
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- Give notice of attendance to the Company at the latest on Thursday, March 22, 2018.
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LOS ANGELES -- Saphenous vein grafts for bypass surgery may hold up better with a little TLC, researchers investigating a "no-touch" harvesting technique and an "external stent" suggested.
The technique to minimize manhandling of the vein -- by stripping it out with a pedicle of surrounding tissue left attached -- yielded 3.4-fold better graft patency at 3 years compared with a conventionally harvested radial artery, Mats Dreifaldt, MD, of Sweden's Orebro University Hospital, and colleagues reported at the Society of Thoracic Surgeons meeting here.
In addition, giving the thin-walled saphenous vein grafts a metal jacket for structural support appeared feasible and safe in early data from a separate study, also presented at a late-breaking session at the meeting.
Action Points
- Note that these studies were published as abstracts and presented at a conference. These data and conclusions should be considered to be preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
- Saphenous vein grafts for bypass surgery may have better patency with a "no-touch" harvesting technique.
- Point out that giving the thin-walled saphenous vein grafts a metal jacket for structural support appeared feasible and safe in early data from a separate study.
"The reality is that arteries are much better than veins. But despite all the evidence in favor of arteries, 80% of everything that goes in the heart is still a vein," David P. Taggart, MD, PhD, told MedPage Today. "So how can you make the vein grafts better?"
Taggart, a cardiac surgeon at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford England, discussed the Fluent external stent at the Tech-Con portion of the conference.
The investigational device is a cobalt-chromium alloy mesh tube that's slipped over a saphenous vein graft and stretched to fit without squeezing, presumably helping it withstand the 10-fold greater blood pressure it will face in its new environment without the usual thickening adaptations that may play a role in graft failure.
In a sheep model, the device worked like a charm, Taggart reported, with a significant reduction in vein lumen irregularities and intimal hyperplasia.
The Vein External Support Trial (VEST) presented by his co-author Anthony De Souza, MD, of Royal Brompton Hospital in London, tested the device in 30 patients without any deaths, heart attacks, strokes, or repeat revascularizations at 6 weeks for the safety endpoint.
Only four patients have reached recatheterization at 1 year for the efficacy evaluation, two with blocked grafts. Final results are expected later this year, followed by a planned 600-patient randomized controlled trial.
As another route to the same end, Dreifaldt's group studied 109 consecutive patients at a single center who got both a no-touch saphenous vein graft and a radial artery graft as secondary conduits for coronary artery bypass grafting (an internal mammary artery was used as the primary graft).
This was a good comparison because the radial artery is usually considered to fall somewhere between an internal mammary artery and a vein graft for patency outcomes, commented Frederick L. Grover, MD, of the Denver VA Medical Center and University of Colorado Denver.
After a mean 36 months of angiographic follow-up, 94% of the no-touch saphenous vein grafts were patent, compared with 82% of the radial arteries (P=0.01).
The advantage was seen in both coronary artery territories.
For the left territory, no-touch saphenous vein grafts had 97% patency, versus 84% with the radial arteries. The rate was 92% versus 84%, respectively, in the right territory.
The difference was greatest for triple sequential grafting, at 100% no-touch versus 50% radial artery graft patency, respectively, but the gently handled saphenous grafts came out ahead for double sequential and single grafts as well.
That greater advantage in longer grafting may be due to a mechanical function of the pedicle, allowing "excessively long" grafts without kinking, Dreifaldt noted.
In that sense, the no-touch technique may actually be similar to the external stent, De Souza suggested in an interview.
He argued that its advantage may have been because "the fat outside gave it extra scaffolding."
Other mechanisms may be less damage to the endothelium and differences in nitric oxide synthase and the vasa vasorum, Dreifaldt suggested.
The advantage of the no-touch technique seems intuitive, Grover said. "Whatever your conduit is, you want to be very gentle because what you don't want to do is damage the intima because that could lead to platelets clotting on that injury and causing either a narrowing or a blockage of the graft."
Whatever the mechanism, "there's no doubt that the better the success of revascularization, not just short term but longer term, the better the long-term outcomes are," he concluded.
Dreifaldt reported having no conflicts of interest to disclose.
The VEST study was sponsored by Vascular Grafts Solutions.
Taggart reported receiving speakers' bureau or honoraria fees from Medtronic and research grant funds from Vascular Graft Solutions.
De Souza reported having no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Primary Source
Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Source Reference: Dreifaldt M, et al "The no-touch saphenous vein as the preferred second conduit for coronary artery bypass surgery" STS 2013.
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Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Source Reference: De Souza A, et al "Early results of a vein graft external support system in a randomized pilot study for coronary artery bypass grafting" STS 2013.


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John Kerry, the Democrat Foreign Relations Committee Chairman, and John McCain, the senior Republican on the Armed Services Committee, will introduce a resolution today in an attempt to legitimize Obama's invasion of Libya.
June 19 marked 90 days since Obama called for U.S. intervention under a humanitarian pretense. According to the War Powers Act, the president must wait on Congress to pass a resolution after 90 days.
McCain took to the Senate floor and said the measure would authorize Obama to advance U.S. "national security interests" as part of an international coalition attempting to unseat and even assassinate Gaddafi. The authority would be limited to a year, according to the Associated Press.
Kerry and McCain introduced the resolution in order to head off an attempt by the House to defund the operation. The effort began after Obama ignored Congress and did not seek a formal declaration of war, as stated under Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the United States Constitution.
Congress has not issued a formal declaration of war since the Second World War. The United States has formally declared war against foreign nations five separate times, each upon prior request by the president. Four of those five declarations came after hostilities began.
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During the Federal Convention of 1787, the phrase "make war" was changed to "declare war" in order to allow the executive branch to respond promptly to sudden attacks without approval of Congress or a formal declaration of war.
Resolutions have been ignored and violated in the past. For instance, in 1971 when Congress repealed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, then president Nixon ignored the will of the people and continued to wage war in Vietnam. In response, Congress passed the War Powers Resolution over a Nixon veto.
"The Constitution does not permit any president to decide unilaterally to overthrow foreign governments, redraw the world's map, and put the national survival of the United States in jeopardy by committing us to a potential fight to the death with another sovereign nation," writes Ken Klukowski. "Only Congress can make that decision, authorizing the president to use our military to wage war. Once authorized, only the president can actually order the military to attack. This is a two-step safeguard; both steps must be met before America goes to war."
McCain and Kerry are introducing a resolution that will attempt continue Obama's unilateral effort to overthrow the regime of Gaddafi. Instead of a formal declaration of war, they are attempting to pass a resolution that will eventually be ignored.
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"That said, this authorization has been a bipartisan effort," he added. "My Republican colleagues and I have had to make compromises, just as the Senator from Massachusetts and his Democratic colleagues have had to do. The end result, I believe, is an authorization that deserves the support of my colleagues in the Senate, on both side of the aisle. And I am confident they will support it."
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Wellity-well! It's that time again... wait... err... that time for this time was quite some time ago.
The last time we saw of our intrepid Spotlighters they were in the midst of putting the final verdicts together for the amazing and fantabulous Episode 151, and playing levels for Episode 152.
Sadly someone ignored the giant sign on the squirrel cage that said 'Do Not Open' and well... the great dark period of 2015 began.
The levels below are the levels that
would have beenwere featured, and while it may have been a little while since they were first published; their quality has not diminished!
The hardworking Spotlight crew thought it best to still recognise them, although I'm sure you will notice that quite a few went on to garner recognition from a few other locations. Both offical and unofficial, but now the creators can add Spotlighted to their trophy case.
If you somehow missed them like I missed all of you, or how I'd miss not having my daily chocolate pudding, then be sure to check them out! You will have ever so much fun if you do!
More to come as the folks get back up to speed, including the mythical beast know as Episode 152, which few have seen, but many have mentioned in hushed tones.
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English Soldiers are trying to reclaim your newly conquered british castle. Defend the walls against the approaching troops for 10 days until the reinforcements arrive.
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Community Spotlight Episode 151
Last edited by Morgana25; 01-08-2016 at 09:31 AM.LBPC Spotlight Crews
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It is back!? Thanks for the spotlight and congrats to everyone else. And thanks for bringing the spotlight back!New psn: http://lbp.me/u/shookie_monster
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Yeah, congratulations to all spotlighted creators! And thanks to the spotlight team!
Many greetings, Jürgen^^
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Congrats to the spotlighted creators and those that got a nod!!
Also, thanks so much to the crew for finally pulling this off. Especially after so long due to the site being down. Special extreme thanks to Bio for work on this one even with the ridiculous challenges he's had recently. Maybe everyone could send good thoughts his way? He really really could stand some luck in his favor.(aka jww) - Published Levels
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Hey everyone.
Really glad to see this out, nice work gang!
Unfortunately on my end (trying not to make it a dramatic experience, nothing to see here), i am no longer apart of the spotlight crew. After many episodes and months of working with these fantastic people i like to call second family (trust me, the feelings when working together is real) i am tossing my hat off and moving on to the next thing in my life.
If it wasn't for the spotlight crew, i wouldn't be where i am today. Literary, i would probably be in the other room typing this. Nah, but it was a definite life changer.
Thank you to the fabulous LBP2, LBP3, LBPK, and LBPV communities for one heck of a ride. I love you all!
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Thats sad to hear, but I wish you all the best for the next stations in your life! Once a part of our community, always a part of our community!
Many greetings, Jürgen^^
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Set as a follow-up to the oh-so-exciting 'Aliens Vs. Predator' movie in 2004, AVP-R follows from where the first movie left of:
"The Predator, who has been killed by the Alien Queen at the end of the first movie, gives birth to the deadly Predalien (hybrid of the Predators and the Aliens) on board of the scout ship. The Predalien causes the ship to crash in a Colorado town where the Aliens escape from board and infect the town. A lone "Wolf" Predator is sent to clean up and kill all the Aliens. Meanwhile, people who live in the Colorado town are helplessly caught in the middle of the ultimate face-off between the two space monsters. The human plot seems to center around stopping the alien outbreak before the military carpet bombs the area to contain it."
The above synopsis is obtained from Wikipedia.
With Colin & Greg Strause at the helm as Director and features relatively unknown actors such as Steven Pasquale, Reiko Aylesworth & John Ortiz, this movie is sounding like a burst of bad gas from too much funky beans. But fret not, here are some funky photos to offset those bad beans:
If these images is already wetting your appetite and your pants, here's a 'R'-rated trailer of AVP-R that you wouldn't see in Malaysian cinemas due to, well, see it for yourself:
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World In Conflict (Radeon 4870)
Parallels Desktop 5
Good overall at 1920x1200 in high and very quality modes, with some visual stuttering. But I could see that the framerates were getting low enough that it would be a problem when there were a lot of units later on.
Parallels Desktop 6
Another great showing by Parallels Desktop 6, with little to complain about. Sure, it was early in the game with little going on but at 1920x1200 and no signs of framerate or audio problems, it's clear this can be played comfortably.
VMWare Fusion 3.1.1
Graphically, this was playable at 1920x1200 but the very light effects of the intro scenario still had it stuttering a bit. The benchmark was a bit of a surprise since it didn't feel that fast during gameplay but it's possible not everything was being drawn correctly. There is so much going on in the WiC benchmark scene that it's hard to know for sure. The audio was awful though, with consistent tearing all the way through the cutscenes and the gameplay:
Batman Arkham Asylum (Radeon 4870/Geforce GTX 285 tested)
The Arkham Asylum demo is locked at 1280x800, presumably because the graphics are so demanding and they wanted a safe point for people trying out the game, so I picked up the full version on Steam and ran it with near-maxed settings:
After jumping through some Windows Live account hoops and updates (three times!), I was up and running.
The graphics in this UT3 engine-based game are very demanding. On top of the usual things like normal-, parallax- and specular-mapped shaders, it has a lot of post effects, color grading, ambient occlusion, motion blur and lens shader effects for the detective mode. I was thinking this would not be playable comfortably in a VM.
Parallels Desktop 5
Version 5 performed OK during the pre-rendered cutscenes, but it was jumpy during the rotating camera motion blur with frequent cache delays. Playable but not a lot of fun, since the motion blur was consistently lagging. This wasn't much of a surprise.
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At 1920x1200, the game suffered from a few stutters and only a minor audio skip now and then. The Geforce and the Radeon in the Mac Pro ran it almost exactly the same speed (48FPS average at 1920x1200 when benchmarked). Dropping it to 1600x1000 made it very playable:
I was impressed to see the realtime ambient occlusion rendering flawlessly since this is a very "next-gen system" effect used in games like Uncharted 2.
On my MacBook Pro with Windows XP, Arkham Asylum was a bit of a slideshow at all settings, but that was expected since it's packing an aging 8600M that wouldn't run this game well natively within Windows.
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It didn't take long to realize that VMWare Fusion wasn't going to handle this well. The first real-time scene opened and you could see the motion blur buffer was overlaid on top of the entire scene:
Shortly after taking that screenshot, my machine kernel panicked. So I'd say that's a no for Arkham Asylum in VMWare Fusion 3.1.1.


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MIAMI -- With 29-year-old Hanley Ramirez getting Thursday off, manager Don Mattingly had 35-year-old Nick Punto starting at shortstop, and Mattingly said he's fine with that.
"My theory is, Chihuahuas live longer than bigger dogs," Mattingly joked. "They stay faster longer. Little dogs live longer."
It's rare for a player who sees increased playing time at shortstop when he reaches his mid-30s. Usually, that's the time veterans are moved off the position.
But Punto is an exception. He will play more games at shortstop than any other position this year for the first time since 2008. Punto might have seemed a throw-in to last year's blockbuster that also brought Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford and Josh Beckett to the Dodgers from Boston, but that's not the way Mattingly sees it now.
"I don't know if we really knew what we had when we got Nick," said Mattingly. "He didn't play all that much with Boston and he had been hurt. But to see him in Spring Training and to use him with what we had to do early this year, we've seen him play everywhere. He doesn't throw a ball away, knock on wood. He's just solid. He's got range and he's still moving good."
Punto credits his longevity to an offseason regimen of biometric conditioning that emphasizes speed and agility as much as strength.
"The training is more intense than when I first got to the Major Leagues," Punto said. "I feel I do a really good job in the offseason. I could play every day if I had to. Shortstop is the most demanding position and I take pride that I can still play it."


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CALGARY - The Wildrose party went into damage-control mode Sunday after one of its candidates' anti-gay rants raised the ire of many voters and prompted Premier Alison Redford to warn Albertans about who they want to run their province.
The controversy stems from a blog written by Allan Hunsperger, a pastor who's running as a Wildrose candidate in Edmonton South, in which he warned against accepting gays and lesbians for who they are.
In his comments, written in June, 2011, Hunsperger criticized the Edmonton Public School Division's views of accepting students for who they are and used Lady Gaga's album, "Born this Way" as part of his analogy.
"You see, you can live the way you were born, and if you die the way you were born then you will suffer the rest of eternity in the lake of fire, hell, a place of eternal suffering."
With only one week left before the election, Redford wasted no time joining in the condemnation of the comments that quickly spread to social media.
"The fact that there are people who think that's a legitimate perspective just absolutely blows my mind," Redford told reporters at a Calgary campaign stop.
"I think they're shocking and I think it goes back to Albertans are about to decide who is going to govern their province. They are going to have to decide who their premier is. They're going to have to decide who the cabinet is," she added.
"If we have people like this making these sorts of comments in Alberta I think it's absolutely wrong and of course I disagree with it."
Just hours after Redford's comments, the controversial posting was taken down. In a short message posted on the same website, Hunsperger defended his comments.
"The views I expressed in this blog posting are my own personal religious views and were given in the capacity as a church pastor," he wrote.
"I fully support equality for all people, and condemn any intolerance based on sexual orientation or any other personal characteristic."
Wildrose leader Danielle Smith said she was aware of Hunsperger's religious views and made it clear that they won't have any effect on her party's policy if it forms government.
"Our party is not going to legislate on contentious social issues," Smith said on Sunday.
"I also said in the debate that we recognize that people have a great diversity of viewpoints ... it's not unique to our party."
On Saturday she told reporters that none of her candidates had experienced a "bozo eruption." She said they were disciplined and would do a good job if elected.
"When a person is making personal statements in their capacity as a pastor, which he was, I don't think anybody should be surprised that they're expressing certain viewpoints," she said.
She said Hunsperger understands and accepts the party's policy on contentious social issues.
Many people took to Twitter to express their views on the controversy.
"I'm concerned that a party with a transparency pledge, seems to have so much to hide" read one tweet.
Another one suggested the candidate's Twitter profile should read "Wildrose candidate dedicated to representing Albertans who I approve of."
Redford has speculated that there are other extreme views within Smith's party. She is critical of a Wildrose demand of a $1,000 good conduct bond that isn't returned to failed nominees until after the election campaign is over. Smith said it was meant to prevent unhappy former nominees from "sabotaging" the campaign.
"I think that is undemocratic. I think that if you have a political party and you have people who run for nominations that those people are still members of the party, are still entitled to have points of view," she said.
"I don't know what they would or wouldn't say but the fact as a party that they are worried about that I find ridiculous."
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Traditional kids' cartoons rarely have cliff-hangers, especially ones in which the main characters get transported into alternate realities. But Adventure Time is anything but traditional. The whimsical Cartoon Network series — which is populated with talking candies, partying bears and a flying, Korean-speaking, rainbow-colored unicorn — begins its fifth season Monday (7:30/6:30c) with audacious Finn and his magical dog Jake on the other end of the mysterious portal they leapt through in last month's finale.
"You can't blink, because you'll miss something," creator Pendleton Ward says of our heroes' trippy, existential journey in back-to-back episodes. "I usually like to buffer things out so there's a little breathing room, so the pacing of these episodes is a bit of a departure."
The upcoming season also includes more celebrity guest voices to the Land of Ooo, including Community's Donald Glover and a return visit from Neil Patrick Harris as Prince Gumball. On the top of Ward's guest-star wish list? "Beyoncé. I'm a big fan of 'Single Ladies' and all of her music, really," he says. "I think it would be fun to get Beyoncé on and get her to sing with [friendly vampire queen] Marceline.


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It has been about 11 months since the business-analytics start-up firm Tidemark came out of stealth mode, and it turns out they were a pretty busy 11 months.
The company is announcing a bunch of important news today. The big piece is that its application is coming out of beta testing and is now ready for general availability; along with that, it is disclosing some of its customers — and one of them, at least, is kind of cool.
The second is that it has hired Phil Wilmington as its new president and COO. He has been executive chairman since January. Wilmington was President at OutlookSoft, the company that he and Tidemark CEO Christian Gheorghe ran together — Gheorghe was
CEO CTO — before it was acquired by SAP in 2007. Before OutlookSoft, Wilmington had been co-president at PeopleSoft until it was taken over by Oracle.
You'll remember that this is one of several start-ups aiming to attack the juicy vein of enterprise software that's currently dominated by the Oracles and SAPs of the world, and more often than not by applications that tend to run on-premise. And naturally, like so many other upstart business software outfits these days, it runs it all in the cloud, or more precisely, the "software-as-a-service" model made so popular by outfits like Salesforce.com and Workday.
The unsexy way to describe it is Enterprise Performance Management, and it's the stuff that businesses use to plan their finances and operations. Over a pair of lunches last year, Gheorghe explained something that sounded a lot like what all the other so-called "business intelligence" applications in the cloud are trying to do. His argument then, and now, is that while lots of applications give you good information, few help guide you to a decision or a course of business action. Gheorghe says that, in Tidemark, these applications have been "reimagined."
One key problem holding it up is that data from one side of the business doesn't get mashed up with data from another. What happens then is that enterprising executives try to do it themselves in Excel spreadsheets, which, even if you're really good at building spreadsheets, isn't optimal.
Tidemark's play is to deliver real-time business data that has been adjusted for risk and assembled in consideration of all the strategic, financial and operational forecasting that has already been done. It also runs on the iPad or any other tablet or smartphone that supports HTML5, which shouldn't be surprising anymore, but still is to me.
Those three applications Gheorghe told me about last October are ready for general availability: Metrics Management and Management Reporting basically answers the "what's happening?" question about a business with a more sophisticated "what is happening and why?" kind of approach; Enterprise Planning is a classic budgeting and forecasting app; and Profitability Monitoring — by product, customer and channel — tells you precisely which aspects of your business are profitable or losing money.
Here's the part where it's time to name the customers. One CIO told me that he got his CEO excited to use Tidemark in a bar. That sounds a little sketchy, until you realize that the company is Pabst Brewing. CIO Ben Haines said that in the beer business, you sell via third parties. In this case, there are about 600 different distributors that it does business with, and all of them send data back to Pabst in different ways. "It's all disparate, and we try to make sense of it and try to figure out what's going on," Hains said. Then there's data from Nielsen covering what consumers are saying and doing, and then there's shipping data coming from individual breweries. The challenge has been to mix them all up and make them useful. Not easy, that.
Haines had built out systems running IBM's Cognos, but said that it can be years before it's up and running and tuned enough to deliver data you can actually use. "We don't have that kind of time," he said. "Most people run their companies on spreadsheets because their business intelligence applications haven't kept up." It used to be that Pabst would have generated about 400 different reports that different execs would have to have, and people might read them, they might not, and when they did, they had to hunt for the data they needed to do their jobs.
One night in a meeting at a bar — it is a beer company, after all — Tidemark execs whipped out an iPad and showed Pabst President John Coleman all of the company's live data at a glance, in a dashboard. He was an instant fan.
Other customers being named today are also sort of cool. One is CEC Entertainment, which is better known as the company behind the 550-store Chuck E. Cheese pizza chain. The other is Platinum Hospitality Management, a manager and operator of mid-market hotels that works with Hilton and Marriott, among others.
Tidemark also has some strong financial backing from venture capital firms, including Greylock Partners and Andreessen Horowitz, which invested $6.3 million back when Tidemark was still a stealth start-up called Proferi. Later rounds included Redpoint Ventures with Greylock and AH also participating, and as of January, Tidemark had raised a combined $35.5 million. Ben Horowitz of AH is a director. Aneel Bhusri, the former PeopleSoft CEO turned Greylock Partner who is also co-CEO at the soon-to-be-public Workday led Tidemark's A round. Dave Duffield, another former PeopleSoft CEO and the other co-CEO of Workday, also invested in that round.


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We tend to think of the discovery of a new species as requiring a trip to a remote and exotic location. But our ability to use DNA to determine how closely populations are related has revealed an unexpected fact: lots of plants and animals that look indistinguishable to the human eye are actually quite distant from each other genetically, often far enough to merit a new species designation. In the latest example, researchers have found that a population of leopard frogs that make their home in the New York City area are probably a newly discovered species.
According to the press release accompanying the new paper, the leopard frogs in the region were noted as having a croak that was quite distinct from those of the two species that inhabit the northern and southern parts of the East Coast. (A researcher involved in the finding described the other species as having a "long snore" or a "rapid chuckle.") Speculation had focused on the possibility that the New York frogs were a hybrid of the two species, but molecular evidence shows that they are distant from both.
Although New York City has probably not been especially kind to the frogs—any appropriate habitat for them in Manhattan is probably long gone—they still survive in a number of areas nearby, including New Jersey, Staten Island, and the Bronx. The researchers suggest that their range is probably centered on Yankee Stadium. Given the molecular evidence, the team that found the species (which has members in New Jersey, Alabama, and California) are now going back to study it more closely so that they can give it a formal description.
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Libya's newly elected Prime Minister Mustafa Abushagur was dismissed by the country's congress on Sunday after members passed a vote of no confidence. The vote came after lawmakers rejected Abushagur's nominations for a new government.
Libya's parliament on Sunday passed a no-confidence vote in the newly-elected prime minister, removing him from his post, in the latest blow to stability in the war-ravaged country.
Mustafa Abushagur was Libya's first elected prime minister after last year's overthrow of dictator Moammar Gadhafi that ended eight months of civil war.
He had 25 days from his appointment to form a Cabinet approved upon by parliament, but that deadline expired on Sunday as legislators moved to unseat him. The General National Congress voted 125 versus 44 in favor of removing him as prime minister, with 19 abstaining from voting.
Until a replacement can be nominated, management of Libya's government is in the hands of the legislature.
Abushagur represented an offshoot of the country's oldest anti-Gadhafi opposition movement, and was considered a compromise candidate acceptable to both liberals and Islamists.
But he failed to produce a list of ministers that could win the approval of enough legislators. After 40 years of Gadhafi's divide-and-rule tactics and the 2011 war, Libya's towns, tribes and regions are highly polarized. Many feel entitled to high government positions because of their losses in the war against Gadhafi, and are wary of any power wielded by their rivals.
In an indication of the charged atmosphere, Abushagur withdrew his line-up for government after the parliamentary chamber was stormed on Thursday by protesters from the city of Zawiya -- one of several cities that took the brunt of Gadhafi's attacks during the war -- demanding representation. Lawmakers left the General National Congress floor, saying they would not vote under pressure.
Before the vote of no-confidence, Abushagur said he was aiming to create a government of national unity that did not appoint minister according to "quotas."
"The government I proposed is not perfect and was marred by some mistakes, so I changed it for the purpose of national unity," he said.
He had submitted 10 names for key posts for parliament's approval, saying the remaining 19 posts would be managed by his proposed deputy prime minister. But Congress instead voted to remove him.
Independent lawmaker Nizar Kawan, who is aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood in Libya, said the group's party and a secular coalition led by former rebel prime minister Mahmoud Jibril were already holding talks about replacing Abushagur with an independent to form a government that is run by well-known professionals and is politically balanced and geographically representative.
The Congress will have to vote on a new prime minister in the coming weeks. The incoming leader will be responsible for rebuilding Libya's army and police force and removing major pockets of support for the former regime.
Perhaps the single greatest challenge facing the new leader is the proliferation of ex-rebel militias. One radical Islamist militia has been linked to the attack last month on the U.S. Consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi that killed the ambassador and three others.
There has been a widespread backlash against militias since that attack, and the Libyan government has taken advantage to try to put some of them under central government control. But some continue to resist attempts to disarm them and integrate them into the military and police
Abushagur had taught engineering at the University of Alabama for about 17 years before leaving in 2002. He was active in the opposition abroad against Gadhafi prior to last year's uprising.
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Brendan Schaub (8-3 MMA, 4-3 UFC) hasn't fought for almost 10 months, and it's about to drive him insane. It isn't the hard work in the gym or the lack of a paycheck that's bothering him but rather the need to break a frustrating two-fight losing streak.
"For me, it's more about having this monkey off my back after losing two in a row," Schaub told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). "It's driving me insane. That's the biggest thing.
"As far as financial and stuff like that, I've been blessed with great sponsors, and I've been smart with my money, and I have a good team supporting me. That's not an issue for me. The thing for me is knowing you're only as good as your last fight, and my last fight was crap."
Schaub, a finalist on "The Ultimate Fighter 10," finished his reality-series run with four-straight wins in the UFC after downing Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic, Gabriel Gonzaga, Chris Tuchscherer and Chase Gormley. However, back-to-back first-round losses to Ben Rothwell and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira led Schaub to move to Los Angeles in hopes of getting a few fresh looks in training.
He was set to return to action this past December against the hard-hitting Lavar Johnson (17-6 MMA, 2-1 UFC), but the Strikeforce import suffered an injury late in training camp and the bout was scrapped.
The bout was later rescheduled for this week's UFC 157 event, which takes place at Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif. The pair meets on the FX-broadcast prelims, which precede the evening's pay-per-view main card.
Schaub said the delay has been a little difficult, largely because he can't wait to step foot again in the cage.
"It's been a long time," Schaub said. "The fight with Lavar has been kind of an ongoing process. I'm not going to lie to you, it's been a beast. I live in L.A., and I do my camps in Denver, at least the last part of it, so I've been going back and forth between L.A. and Denver."
When the two finally do set foot in the octagon, it's not likely to be a lengthy affair. Both are known for an attack-first style, and they've combined for 22 knockouts in 25 total career wins.
"The judges, they can go on their coffee break or do whatever they do on their off time," Schaub said. "I guarantee you this one's not going to a decision."
And, of course, Schaub expects his hand to be the one raised. Victory is imperative for the 29-year-old, and it's time to get this money off of his back.
"It drives me nuts," Schaub said. "That's what's bothering me most. I've got to be honest with you, it's driving me absolutely crazy."
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Wall Street gains as earnings flow in; Alcoa up
Stocks are rising on Wall Street after U.S. corporate earnings reports got off to a strong start.
The Dow Jones industrial average was up 86 points to 13,414 at midday Wednesday. The Dow is coming off of two days of losses.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose six to 1,463 and the Nasdaq composite rose 18 to 3,110.
Alcoa rose 1 percent after the company predicted rising demand for aluminum this year as the aerospace industry gains strength. Late Tuesday the company reported fourth-quarter revenue that beat analysts' forecasts. Alcoa is the first company in the Dow average to report earnings each quarter.
Helen of Troy, whose brands include Dr. Scholl's, Vicks and Fabreze, rose 3 percent after reporting a 15 percent increase in income.
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The myth of the precision bombing
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Many people believe that modern guided (dubbed "smart") weapons allow for pinpoint precision from very large distance, such as allowing fast high-flying aircraft to carry out Close Air Support, or to engage targets in urban environments.
In NATO missions in Libya, carried out to "support" anti-Gadaffi rebels, have killed or wounded multiple civilians and rebel troops. It is nothing new – as noted in the article, up to 25 – 80 % of casualties in wars have been caused by friendly fire (this also shows why BVR combat is unlikely to become prevalent form of air combat, as potential for misidentification is far greater). Visual ID has time and again proven itself as only somewhat reliable type of identifying targets, and even it is not perfect. As such, fast jets are completely incapable of identifying targets. WW2 Stuka pilot, Colonel Hans Rudel, has stated that "high speeds are a poison for finding tanks" – and that was in flat Ukraine, flying an aircraft far slower than modern jets. Army Sgt. First Class Frank Antenori has stated same thing.
In fact, due to lack of A-10s, F-15Es have on multiple occasions found themselves using their guns to strafe targets in Afghanistan. While they were mostly successfull, end result was longer time required and less successfull mission than what would have been with A-10s. A-10 also has very long loiter time, which means that – unlike "multirole" jets – it can be on station hour after hour, providing permanent presence and near-immediate answer to any CAS request.
Furthermore, units are equipped with limited number of radios, making identification difficult. While low-flying UAV's can be used to identify targets, such usage is dependant on lack of any serious air defenses as well as presence of secure uplinks.
But even when targets are identified, precision weapons' performance is nothing stellar – unless killing civilians is considered, where casualties have increased from WW2-standard of 9 tons of bombs per civilian killed to 200 civillians per one bomb, and drones' effectiveness of 6 civillians per attack. This shows that, for precision weapons to be used correctly, either aircraft must be slow enough and low enough for pilot to use binoculars for identification, or identification must be done by troops on the ground.
Precision weapons have to have their points of impact calculated. Result was that, even with fast jets in the air, it took anywhere from 26 minutes to several hours for munitions to be finally delivered.
Guided munitions are also only effective against fixed targets. But against mobile targets, low-speed low-altitude attacks with cannon or unguided munitions are required to achieve any kind of effect, rendering DAS (Distant Air Support) ineffective. As such, laser designators have to be complemented with smoke grenades and marker baloons. JDAMs are not terminally guided, and as such are very likely to go astray.
While satellite surveillance is avaliable, it is very-long-distance, and as result it does not offer good target-recognition capabilities – to satellites and high-flying aircraft, cardboard decoys are indiscernible from actual targets, and it takes 18 hours for strike to arrive. UAV surveillance, on the other hand, is insufficient, whereas UCAVs can only attack fixed targets.
And problem sometimes isn't too few data – it is too much data displayed to the pilot, overloading him and distracting him from the mission, as well as increasing time required for "observation" in OODA loop.
There are problems with munitions themselves too – further away bomb is dropped from, greater error becomes. On release, bombs often bump into each other – and sometimes aircraft too – causing fins to get bended and thus reducing accuracy. This is problem that only increases with increasing speeds, due to stronger turbulences. GPS weapons' guidance systems also often malfunction, with bombs hitting miles off the target. A laser-guided bomb, meanwhile, can be thrown off course by a laser beam guding it being disturbed by a debris or simply by smoke, dust, clouds or highly humid environment, thus causing bomb to go ballistic.
During Operation Desert Storm, at most 60% of bombs have achieved hits on targets, and many misses were off by hundreds of meters. In fact, success rate could have been as low as 41%. While officials have said that strategic targets will be destroyed in 10 days, it took two weeks to destroy nuclear weapons factories – and all other targets have only been damaged, not destroyed. Out of 15 SAM batteries attacked by low-flying F-117s in Baghdad at first night, 13 continued to operate. All Coalition aircraft hit only 21 of 37 "crucial" targets. It also took between 4 and 10 laser-guided bombs to destroy targets such as bridges – similar to success rate of dive bombers against aircraft carriers during Pacific war.
In Kosovo War, only 58 successfull strikes have been made by USAF out of 750 attacks, destroying 14 tanks, 18 APCs and 20 artillery pieces. Out of 80 SAM batteries, 3 were destroyed. That can be compared to USAF claims of 120 tanks, 220 APCs and 450 artillery pieces destroyed. Chinese Embassy was also bombed, which was a repetition of President Reagan's raid on Libya, when French embassy was bombed by "precision" weapons. Civilian casualties were one for every 10 tons of bombs, very close to WW2 rates. In Vietnam, casualties were one for every 12,5 tons of bombs. UK's bombing accuracy with smart bombs was 40%.
In Afganistan, 2001, B-52 dropped precision ordnance around 100 meters from US Special Forces team, killing three US soldiers and five Afghan government soldiers. Other than several such incidents, however, war has been a positive example of USAF integrating more with the Army. Still, errors cannot be done away with, and problem gets worse faster the jet flies.
During 2003 invasion, US "precision" weapons have managed to miss Iraq entirely, falling into Turkey and Iran (at least US heavy bombers in WW2 never missed the country, though they did occasionally miss the city in entirety). Civilian objects, including hospitals, were consistently hit, and 2003 precision bombing has been more deadly than 1991 bombing which was done mostly by "dumb" bombs – killing 1350 civilians per 10 000 tons of bombs, as opposed to 400 civilians per 10 000 tons. This can in part be attributed to pilots dropping bombs from greater altitude due to the belief that part of targeting can be taken over by the projectile itself. Ballistic missiles did not fare much better, with only one-third hitting targets, one-third failling to detonate and one-third missing alltogether. It also happened on Balkans, when NATO bomb intended for Serbia fell in Sofia, Bulgaria. Accuracy of bombs against radar sites was 32%.
What is important to realize is that many of described attacks have taken place at low altitude – inly in Serbia did bombardment come, as a rule, from high altitude due to altitude limits placed, which means that it could be considered most indicative for high-altitude bombardment success rate. But even when bomb or missile does hit the target, debris from 1-ton bomb can cause casualties hundreds of meters from the impact point; radius for a 2-ton bomb can extend to a thousand meters. In fact, while 450-kg GPS bomb has CEP of 12 meters, blast damage extends to 30 meters and fragmentation damage extends to 900 meters. Area of effect is calculated by cube root of yield, so 227 kg weapon would still cause blast damage to 24 meters and fragmentation damage to 716 meters. As such, precision munitions are completely unsuited for CAS roles as well as operations in urban areas or areas where there might be civilians present. Furthermore, due to the expensive guidance systems, trend is for precision munitions to have higher yield than "dumb" counterparts, increasing the problem.
UCAVs used for assassinating terrorist leaders are especially problematic. Of 700 people killed by UCAVs in Pakistan, only 14 have been Taliban, which is mostly connected to unreliable intelligence and careless approach.
While some say that low-and-slow-flying CAS aircraft are vulnerable to being shot down, aircraft is just as safe from SAMs and MANPADS below 30 meters as it is above 3 000 meters. It is in-between these two values that trouble occurs. While average infantry division has large number of automatic weapons, most of these are small-calibre and thus only suited for engaging typical fighters (F-15, F-35) and not armored ground attack aircraft such as A-10 or Su-25 which can survive even direct hits by full-sized SAMs in good portion of cases – 50% in case of the A-10. In reality, real threat for CAS aircraft are enemy fighter aircraft, although the mere fact that CAS aircraft fly very low might make job difficult for radar-guided missiles. On the other hand, large aircraft such as AC-130 Spectre are vulnerable, can only be used at night. and have more limited capability for providing effective CAS. In Gulf War, only the tough A-10 and very fast Tornado operated at low altitudes due to persistent threat from optically-aimed AAA and IR MANPADS. Unlike other aircraft, both these types proved survivable in the environment.
Since precision weapons are tested in deserts, in fair weather (without anything that might impede bombs) and against static targets, official claims about their actual precision can be disregarded – they are equally faulty and based on equally flawed assumptions as pre-Vietnam claims of 90% accuracy for BVR missiles, which has turned out to be around 8% in combat.
Precision bombing myth is also nothing new. Norden sight for B-17 was claimed to be able to "put bomb into a pickle-barrell from 20.000 feet". In the end, entire city blocks were levelled when bombers attacked specific targets, with bombs falling hundreds of meters off the target.
Conclusion? While guided munitions can be and are helpful, they are not magic, and aircraft still have to go very low and very slow – until pilots can see target through the canopy – in order to reliably hit tactical targets. Old-fashioned cannons are still most precise weapons in arsenal, when used well; and while precision munitions certainly can be useful, their main usefulness is not so much in increasing range from which attacks are made as in allowing pilot to spend least time possible "on target" and concentrate on evading enemy AA fire.
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January 23, 2013 at 2:23 am
You forget to mention a lot of things…the biggest «tank buster» in the gulf war was not the A-10…it was the F-111 with the GBU-12 LGB…from the WIKIPEDIA«The F-111s were credited with destroying more than 1,500 Iraqi tanks and armored vehicles.[60] Their use in the anti-armor role was dubbed "tank-plinking".[61]»
The main weapon of the A-10 isnt the GAU-8,its the Maverick…they launched 90% of the Mavericks in GW1.
During TASVAL 79 the A-10 egaging the enemy with the cannon were all destroyed by simulated soviet air defenses.During the gulf war the A-10s proved to be very vulnerable:«General Chuck Horner, the 'Air Boss' in Desert Storm, gets to have the last word on whether the A-10 or an A-10 'like' platform qualifies as the 'best' CAS tool in the future (LINK):
Q: Did the war have any effect on the Air Force's view of the A-10?
A: No. People misread that. People were saying that airplanes are too sophisticated and that they wouldn't work in the desert, that you didn't need all this high technology, that simple and reliable was better, and all that.
Well, first of all, complex does not mean unreliable. We're finding that out. For example, you have a watch that uses transistors rather than a spring. It's infinitely more reliable than the windup watch that you had years ago. That's what we're finding in the airplanes.
Those people . . . were always championing the A-10. As the A-10 reaches the end of its life cycle– and it's approaching that now–it's time to replace it, just like we replace every airplane, including, right now, some early versions of the F-16.
Since the line was discontinued, [the A-10's champions] want to build another A-10 of some kind. The point we were making was that we have F-16s that do the same job.
Then you come to people who have their own reasons-good reasons to them, but they don't necessarily compute to me-who want to hang onto the A-10 because of the gun. Well, the gun's an excellent weapon, but you'll find that most of the tank kills by the A-10 were done with Mavericks and bombs. So the idea that the gun is the absolute wonder of the world is not true.
Q: This conflict has shown that?
A: It shows that the gun has a lot of utility, which we always knew, but it isn't the principal tank-killer on the A-10. The [Imaging Infrared] Maverick is the big hero there. That was used by the A-10s and the F-16s very, very effectively in places like Khafji.
The other problem is that the A-10 is vulnerable to hits because its speed is limited. It's a function of thrust, it's not a function of anything else. We had a lot of A-10s take a lot of ground fire hits. Quite frankly, we pulled the A-10s back from going up around the Republican Guard and kept them on Iraq's [less formidable] front-line units. That's line [sic] if you have a force that allows you to do that. In this case, we had F-16s to go after the Republican Guard.
Q: At what point did you do that?
A: I think I had fourteen airplanes sitting on the ramp having battle damage repaired, and I lost two A- 10s in one day [February 15], and I said, "I've had enough of this." ….From the blog «Elements of power»
You know nothing about aviation and only write political(non technological )anti-american opinions…you should read something about aviation from Bill Gunston or Mike Spick not Mike Sparks…lol
January 24, 2013 at 12:33 am
1-The AGM-65 Maverick is an air-to-ground tactical missile (AGM) designed for close air support. The most widely-produced precision-guided missile in the Western world,[4] it is effective against a wide range of tactical targets, including armor, air defenses, ships, ground transportation and fuel storage facilities.(WIKIPEDIA)
2-The cannon is cheaper but it puts the aircraft in danger…
3-Since the Vietnam war that fast jet do CAS:the A-7 corsair droped bombs just 75 ft (23m)from friendly trops in more tham an ocasion (source:An illustrated guide to modern attack aircraft by Mike Spick).In fact the most used weapon in cas in A-stan and Iraq is the JDAM…
4-You did not read my post:the General was tired of having is A-10 in pieces..
January 25, 2013 at 12:52 am
1-The GAU-8 cannon is not for use against infantry…its original purpose was to be a tank buster.The USSR were fielding more MBTs and armored cars than NATO had PGM…the cannon was a cheap alternative to destroy tanks…like the Maverick missile it had outher uses,but it main goal was tank busting.In fact the USMC version(AGM-65E)has a penetrating blast-fragmentation warhead for use against fotifications or exposed soldiers…its a CAS missile…
2-has i stated,TASVAL 79 PROVED that the use of the cannon against peer forces would result in very large attrition rate.It was verified in the first Gulf War .You can search the statemnts of General Chuck Horner…
3-The biggest friendly fire causers are the A-10 and the Apache …bouth fly slow like you said…the Corsair was loved by ground troops.Search 190th Fighter Squadron, Blues and Royals friendly fire incident.Search WIKIPEDIA for friendly fire…the A-10 is more probable to kill friendly troops because it relies on the eyeball to do the shooting…GPS guided PGMs HAVE reduced the number of accidental deaths…just do a small search…i beg you…
4-Are you serious?He continued doing the CAS WITH F-16s BECAUSE HE HAD 14 A-10s in repairs AND 2 LOST…he send the f-16s and none was lost…what the hell man…that is Mike Sparks BS right there…just like James Bond is real and the anti tank vespa…lol
http://youtu.be/bmxxdFcFUw8 – fresh proof that i am wrong and you are right:)
February 3, 2013 at 9:44 am
Ever notice that none of the Stuka aces fought in the West? In fact, the Stuka was almost never used in the West because Allied anti-aircraft batteries and CAP massacred German ground attack aircraft whenever they attempted to intervene.
It's hard to know where to begin with your analysis but you are aware that there are other ways to guide precision munitions other than laser and GPS? AARGM uses MMW for terminal guidance and the SBD II uses no fewer than three guidance modes.
"Old-fashioned cannons are still most precise weapons in arsenal"
Uhh..how? The dispersion of modern cannon fire at actual combat ranges (dictated by enemy AAA) is pretty awful and certainly not used in "danger close" scenarios. Precision guided cannon rounds may change that (EAPS for examples) but it's not likely that CAS aircraft will ever fire such rounds.
"Guided munitions are also only effective against fixed targets. But against mobile targets, low-speed low-altitude attacks with cannon or unguided munitions are required to achieve any kind of effect, rendering DAS (Distant Air Support) ineffective. As such, laser designators have to be complemented with smoke grenades and marker baloons. JDAMs are not terminally guided, and as such are very likely to go astray."
You are aware of Laser JDAM? It's been used in combat for years. Not to mention the fact that Paveway has been hitting moving targets since GW1.
Going in "low and slow" is an awful idea against modern or even 80's air defense systems.
How effective is aerial cannon fire against well-equipped enemy infantry firing from cover? Answer: not very. A 30mm auto-cannon rounds contains no more than 45g of explosive fill; compare that to 25 *Kilo* grams of explosive fill on a Small Diamater Bomb (SBD) I. Then of course, the SDB can be programmed to airburst or fly a non-ballistic trajectory something than no current air-fired cannon shell can do.
"Precision bombing myth is also nothing new. Norden sight for B-17 was claimed to be able to "put bomb into a pickle-barrell from 20.000 feet". In the end, entire city blocks were levelled when bombers attacked specific targets, with bombs falling hundreds of meters off the target."
Entire city blocks were leveled deliberately because the Germans dispersed their industry. But against non-disperable targets (oil refineries, synthetic oil production plants, transmission and engine assembly, coking and steel works), precision bombing did work.
"It also took between 4 and 10 laser-guided bombs to destroy targets such as bridges – similar to success rate of dive bombers against aircraft carriers during Pacific war."
Do you have any idea how many unguided bombs were required to destroy bridges in WWII, Korea and Vietnam? Hundreds if not thousands. In fact, precision guided munitions like AZON were developed (and used in WWII and later Korea) specifically to attack bridges.
Dive bombing was only effective if the enemy had weak AAA and was generally abandoned after WWII because losses against AAA had been so heavy; Torpedo bombers like the Avenger sank far more enemy vessels than dive bombers.
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Uranium news from Saskatchewan and elsewhere for December 14 to 20, 2013
by Greg Klein
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News flash: Fission Uranium releases assays—actual lab assays—from Patterson Lake South
Frenetic as activity has been at Patterson Lake South, assays have been trickling in at a most leisurely pace. Results released by Fission Uranium TSXV:FCU on December 18 come from three holes that were drilled last summer and had scintillometer results reported in August and September. The backlog of assays, from about 50 holes, can only increase speculation about when the project's maiden resource might appear and what it might show.
Even so, these results continue to impress with high-grade, near-surface intervals. Taken from R945E, the most easterly of six zones along a 1.78-kilometre trend, some of the better assays show 7.91% uranium oxide (U3O8) over 14 metres, 1.59% over 40 metres and 3.69% over 13.5 metres. One Russian doll interval-within-an-interval-within-an-interval graded 43.7% over 0.5 metres.
Highlights show:
Hole PLS13-084
- 0.11% U3O8 over 8 metres, starting at 129.5 metres in downhole depth
- 0.27% over 25.5 metres, starting at 156.5 metres
- 0.3% over 7 metres, starting at 195 metres
- 0.13% over 12.5 metres, starting at 206.5 metres
- 3.69% over 13.5 metres, starting at 232.5 metres
- (including 9.12% over 1 metre)
- (and including 7.27% over 4.5 metres)
Hole PLS13-092
- 0.84% over 16 metres, starting at 163 metres
- (including 1.62% over 4 metres)
- (and including 6.22% over 0.5 metres)
- 0.15% over 7.5 metres, starting at 196 metres
Hole PLS13-096
- 0.3% over 7.5 metres, starting at 98 metres
- 1.59% over 40 metres, starting at 138 metres
(including 14.22% over 3 metres)
- 2.4% over 11 metres, starting at 186 metres
(including 6.91% over 2 metres)
- 7.91% over 14 metres, starting at 249.5 metres
- (including 18.2% over 5.5 metres)
- (which includes 43.7% over 0.5 metres)
True widths were unavailable. Drilling was vertical or near-vertical, with dips of 90, -88 and -89 degrees respectively.
The previous week, PLS's now sole owner closed a $12.87-million financing for the project's "most aggressive drill program to date" with about 100 holes totalling 30,000 metres, along with further geophysics. Winter is not a quiet time in the Athabasca Basin.
Lakeland recruits more expertise while planning Gibbon's Creek winter program
Two more Lakeland Resources' TSXV:LK appointments bring additional experience to the company's management and board. December 16 and 19 announcements reported Neil McCallum joining as director and Frances Petryshen as corporate secretary.
McCallum, a project manager with Dahrouge Geological Consulting, has served a number of companies with target generation, hiring, logistics, land management, data compilation, project reviews and management.
"Among the first Basin projects I worked on was staking the Waterbury Lake project that started with Strathmore Minerals and turned into Fission Energy," McCallum says. Fission Energy's 60% interest in Waterbury was the main impetus for Denison Mines' TSX:DML acquisition of the company earlier this year. The project's J zone now shows an indicated resource of 291,000 tonnes averaging 2% for 12.81 million pounds U3O8.
"Also with Dahrouge, I worked on the Patterson Lake project, which morphed into Patterson Lake South," McCallum adds. "Part of that work back in 2004 was digging through historic data, looking for projects that had been passed over by some of the major companies. So I've been familiar with the Basin since that time."
His involvement in a variety of projects with prospect generator Zimtu Capital TSXV:ZC led him to Lakeland, a Zimtu core holding, about a year ago. "Having worked with Zimtu and Ryan Fletcher, I found I like the way he operates. He's similar to me in that he's a young guy who thinks outside the box. When you work with different projects and different teams you can look at the Basin from a different angle. I think that's what people like Ryan and myself bring to the table—a bit of a different perspective."
We'll continue building our team and our projects so that when uranium's price environment changes, which it will, we'll be very well established.—Lakeland Resources
director Ryan Fletcher
As a Lakeland director, McCallum will play a wider role in the company than before. "A big part of Lakeland's goal is to find projects either by staking or linking up with other companies," he explains. "So a lot of what I'll do is review those projects on a technical basis to make informed decisions."
Fletcher reinforces those comments. "Our group has worked with Neil for several years now and I've seen the impact he's had on other projects. But he's also focused a lot on uranium and the Athabasca Basin. He has a talent for looking at historic data, filing through the assessment reports and putting it all into context. He's already been helping with project management on our Gibbon's Creek/Riou Lake project, but now he's joining the board to represent shareholders and drive shareholder value."
As corporate secretary Frances Petryshen brings 25 years of experience specializing in corporate compliance and governance for public, private and not-for-profit organizations. She's been a director and officer with several public and private companies including CanAlaska Uranium TSX:CVV, where she worked from 2007 to 2012.
Petryshen is an accredited director and a fellow with the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, where she currently serves as director and chairperson of the British Columbia branch.
"Her appointment is another important step towards adding the right people to deliver as we grow the company and expand our exploration and activity in the Athabasca," said Lakeland president/CEO Jonathan Armes in a statement accompanying the announcement. "Frances will be an important contributor and a trusted adviser and associate to our team."
The news follows several recent Lakeland announcements including the appointments of mining specialists Sam Wong as CFO and Canon Bryan as adviser, JVs with Declan Resources TSXV:LAN and Star Minerals Group TSXV:SUV, and a research report by Zimtu research and communications officer Derek Hamill.
With summer/autumn field work complete, planning now takes place for the 12,771-hectare Gibbon's Creek winter campaign. "We'll be very active throughout the new year as well," Fletcher says. "We'll continue building our team and our projects so that when uranium's price environment changes, which it will, we'll be very well established."
Mega Uranium to get Energy Fuels' interest in Bayswater; EFR signs KEPCO agreement
Under a share swap announced December 19, Energy Fuels TSX:EFR signed an agreement to exchange all its Bayswater Uranium TSXV:BYU stock with Mega Uranium TSX:MGA for 1.7 million newly issued Mega shares. Energy Fuels got the 11.5% interest in Bayswater on taking over Strathmore Minerals in September. Subject to all approvals, the co-signers expect to close the transaction by January 17.
The companies are hardly unacquainted. Energy Fuels is already a Mega shareholder. Mega, meanwhile, owns about 17% of NexGen Energy TSXV:NXE. Although Mega lost its bid for Rockgate Capital TSX:RGT in October, the following month it picked up 28% of the ASX-listed Toro Energy in return for Mega's Lake Maitland pre-development project in Western Australia. Energy Fuels holds a 5% gross production royalty on the Reno Creek uranium project, which last March reached pre-feasibility under a Bayswater affiliate.
Energy Fuels supplies about 25% of American uranium production. In November the company suspended development of its Canyon mine in Arizona due to low commodity prices and legal action challenging the U.S. Forest Service's approval of the mine.
On December 17 the company announced a strategic relationship agreement with the Korea Electric Power Corp. But details were lost in Energy Fuels' vaguely written news release.
Ur-Energy offered 50% discount on Pathfinder Mines, AREVA to get 5% royalty
A revised agreement offers Ur-Energy TSX:URE a half-price deal on Pathfinder Mines and its two former Wyoming mines with historic resources. The acquisition was originally priced at US$13.25 million in July 2012. Now, "in recognition of current market conditions," AREVA affiliate COGEMA Resources will let go of Pathfinder for approximately $6.625 million in return for a 5% gross royalty on Pathfinder's Shirley Basin property. The royalty remains subject to caps depending on uranium's price. Ur-Energy has already put $1.325 million into escrow. Some other details have yet to be negotiated, the company stated.
Three days after that December 16 announcement, the company reported a private placement expected to close on December 20 for approximately $5.18 million. The money was earmarked for the Pathfinder acquisition.
Earlier in December Ur-Energy reported a first shipment of 35,000 pounds U3O8 left its Lost Creek mine in Wyoming. Lost Creek's resource update was released in November.
In late October the company closed a $34-million Wyoming state loan after having previously borrowed $35 million from RMB Australia Holdings Ltd.
Uranium exploration finds frac sand potential on Declan Resources' Firebag River
Initial field work by Dahrouge Geological Consulting shows potential for high-quality frac sand on Declan Resources' Firebag River property in northeastern Alberta, the company announced December 18. Samples from depths of less than two metres revealed "high silica content, quality sphericity and roundness values, and a high percentage of sand falling within the preferred 20/40 and 40/70 mesh sizes," Declan stated.
Using figures from consulting firm PacWest, a December 2 Wall Street Journal report says oil and gas companies have boosted sand demand 25% since 2011, with another 20% increase expected over the next two years.
Declan intends to follow up on the finding "along with its principal objective of uranium exploration" at the 50,000-hectare property just southwest of the Basin. One day earlier the company released silver-copper results from its Nimini Hills property in Sierra Leone. In early December Declan signed a JV on Lakeland Resources' Gibbon's Creek project, a four-year option which would inject an extra $1.25 million into the property's 2014 drill program.
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