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A football coach analyzes U.S. military tactics and strategy
Posted by John Reed on Nov 26, 2015
A football coach analyzes U.S. military tactics and strategy by John T. Reed
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Many have noted that football and war seem similar in many ways. I have experience and training in both areas and I agree—although I cringe when I hear coaches use phrases like "Take no prisoners" or "football is war." Not taking any prisoners is an atrocity known as murder. Football is a game. War is not.
I also cringe when I hear that football coaches are trying to get better at coaching football by imitating the military and reading books like Sun Tzu's The Art of War. The problem with that is that football coaches generally know what they are doing. Military officers generally do not. (See my article "is there really any such thing as military expertise?") If there is any learning between the football coaching profession and the military leader profession, it needs to be going the other way, that is, military officers learning from football coaches.
Indeed, military personnel are typically great fans of football. I do not recall any U.S. military officers admitting they could learn from football coaches, but they like to watch the sport and were thrilled when Pat Tillman quit the NFL to become a U.S. Army airborne Ranger.
I also wrote another article that applies a football coaching perspective to the war in Iraq.
My pertinent background
Militarily, I am a West Point graduate, airborne, Ranger, Vietnam veteran.
In football, I coached 16 youth and high school teams. I have written eight books on football coaching and two on baseball coaching. I coached about 20 baseball teams from tee ball to semi-pro. You may think writing a book on how to coach a football team is a manifestation of the author's knowledge, not a learning experience for the author. You would be wrong if you think that. Writing a how-to book is a learning experience for its author as much as it is for the book's readers.
I have also read hundreds of football coaching books; attended hundreds of football coaching clinics; subscribed to and read numerous coaching periodicals; been a clinic speaker at numerous coaching clinics; attended many NFL, college, and lower level practices; been a columnist for American Football Quarterly; and spent much time discussing football coaching with numerous top coaches like Bill Walsh (with whom I was a clinic speaker on a couple of occasions), Brian Billick, Cal Berkeley head coach Jeff Tedford (whose son I coached in high school), and many others.
Readers of my coaching books have provided me with many testimonials, many of which are so strong that I was amazed at them.
A 'war' a week
The main reason military officers need to be learning from football coaches rather than the other way around is that military officers rarely have wars and, in the case of the U.S., have not won one (other than the 100-hour-long Desert Storm war in Kuwait in 1991) since 1945. Football coaches have a "war" a week and those who last in the profession generally win them.
Because of their "war" a week and the almost total lack of job security in the football coaching profession, football coaches are results oriented. Because of lack of wars and civil service-type job security, military officers are almost all process oriented. See my article on "Process orientation vs. results orientation."
In view of the fact that winning real wars is infinitely more important than winning football games, that needs to cease. America's football coaches should not be far more competent than Americas's military officers, but the military officers are not even close to being as competent as the coaches.
Job security and pensions
One solution should jump right out at you. Eliminate military leadership being a civil-service type job. Make it results-oriented like football coaching by firing those who do not get results within a reasonable amount of time.
I am not advocating taking away their pensions. In fact, I think military pensions should vest like civilian pensions shortly after the person begins working for the military, not after 20 years. Furthermore, the generousness of the pension should be reduced to civilian levels, not 50% of pay after 20 years. I recall reading about 15 years ago that the U.S. military payroll for retirees had surpassed the payroll for active duty personnel. I have not since read that has been reversed. If not, the U.S. taxpayer is paying more to military personnel who do nothing militarily than it is for those on active duty. That's very General Motors unionish and General Motors has gone bankrupt.
You do not attract great military leaders, or great football coaches, with pensions. Great football coaches want the opportunity to compete. The same is true of great military leaders like Patton, MacArthur, Ridgeway, Grant, Lee. Guys like that would not have quit the Army to go work for the water company if their pensions had been reduced to civilian business levels. Many of today's military career officers would. Get rid of them. They are dead wood, not great coaches, I mean combat leaders.
'Film'
One of the main things that distinguishes my experience as a military officer and my experience as a football coach is "film" as we still anachronistically call it.
Football coaches film (actually, nowadays, video) their opponents' games, their own games, and their own practices. We study scout films by the hour looking for the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy. To say we use a magnifying glass to do so would hardly be an exaggeration. We routinely watch each play about 15 times in order to see what each of the eleven enemy players is doing or not doing. We make near constant use of slow motion and stop action to see exactly what happened on each play. Coaches' wives joke about watching film with their husbands because they would not get to spend any time with them if they did not.
We also study films of our own practices and games to evaluate the performance of each of our players in minute detail. We incessantly pursue a two-pronged program of making the team better by either getting each player to perform better at his position or by replacing him with someone else who will. As with coaching, there is no job security in the starting lineup of a football team. Perform now or "die" and "death" comes quickly to a non-performer. Straighten him out or move him out.
One of the astonishing things about film is that until you see it, you have little idea what happened in the game. You often hear coaches on TV after a game decline to answer some questions on the grounds that they have not yet seen the film and will not know the answer to the particular question until they do. We football coaches don't know what happened and why until we see the film. The military doesn't take or study much film. And their ability to see what's going on when it's happening is dramatically impaired by the "fog of war" (dust, smoke, noise, flashes of light, etc.) compared to the broad daylight or powerful lights of a football stadium. The implication is they do not know what they are doing, period.
Power to hire, fire, promote, demote
Military leaders need the same ability as coaches or civilian businesspersons to hire and fire, promote and demote, not the current civil service-style military system of recruiting, firing next to no one no matter how bad they are, and giving the authority to promote or demote only to the Pentagon and only after a lengthy bureaucratic procedure and tenure waiting period. Straighten them out or move them out should apply to everyone in the military and the authority to do so must be at the lowest officer and NCO levels.
You cannot hold U.S. military leaders responsible for their performance if they do not have the authority to hire and fire and promote and demote their troops. Don't tell me it can't be done. We do it every day in coaching and in civilian business. The military's civil service way is very rare in a competitive society like the U.S. and it's rare precisely because it does not work. Because of unions, the airlines and auto makers got to be very much like the civil service and military. They also go bankrupt or threaten to regularly. If the U.S. military got paid by the victory, it would have gone bankrupt some time ago, or they would have changed their ways and resumed winning our wars.
Military film study
As far as I know, there is little film study in the U.S. military. Fighter planes have had gun cameras since World War II, but I got the impression that was to prove kills more than to study what works and what does not. I understand that aircraft carriers now film their flight-deck operations sort of like civilian security cameras to study what went wrong when some sort of accident occurs. I have the impression that some war games are recorded for study.
But I do not get the impression that anything comparable to football coach film study is going on in Iraq and Afghanistan. It should.
I understand that the action does not take place in the open on a 100-yard-by-160-foot rectangle in broad daylight or under powerful stadium lights nor does Al Qaeda have a press box from which we can film. But I'm not interested in excuses. Get it done. One or more personnel could wear a helmet cam. Aerial camera drones could be used. Photographers could be assigned to combat units not for the usual public relations or historical documentation purposes but for the far more important purpose of figuring out how to be more successful and safer in battle.
There are also other ways to record what happened than video or film. Personnel could have GPS devices that figure out where each soldier is and broadcast that in real time to a central monitoring point. They could also record the locations of enemy using lasers and such as they now use to tell bombs where to land.
Fundamentally, the military officers and NCOs need to record what goes on during battles and analyze those recordings to figure out what went right and what went wrong.
Also, these asymmetrical wars bear more resemblance to New York City police work than military campaigns. One of the things that worked in New York City to reduce crime was to input crime data into computers that then allocated police resources—officers, vehicles, equipment—more efficiently. It was that, not the vaunted arrests of squeegee guys, that reduced crime greatly in that city. I have not heard that such computers are being used in Iraq or Afghanistan. Why not? Get them over there and start using them now!
Black boxes
When planes crash, the investigators are always very eager to find the black boxes to evaluate the recordings to see what went wrong. Once, when a military aircraft crashed, I recall news reporters noting that military aircraft do not have black boxes. Freaking typical! Get them you damned idiots!
If you continue to insist on forcing U.S. military personnel to drive down IED alleys in Iraq and Afghanistan, put the black boxes in the hummvees. Since the U.S. military has a far higher accident rate than civilian aircraft, the military aircraft need the black boxes more than the civilians. The only reason they don't have them now is the government is not afraid of being sued or of the voters when they kill servicemen, but they are when they kill civilians.
Correct it!
The main thing about film study is that coaches use it to get better. The military generally does not because, in spite of all their protests to the contrary, they just aren't that interested in getting better. Actions speak louder than words. If they cared enough, they would find a way and they would start winning and stop whining about why they can't.
Since military actions involve life and death, not merely winning a game, I figure the military leaders ought to spend at least two hours in film study or study of other pertinent recordings of battles for every hour a football coach spends. It takes about two hours to grade the film of a high school offense and about one hour to grade the film of a high school defense. It takes about one or two hours to analyze the film of an upcoming opponent. That's about four or five hours per week that the football coach spends analyzing the film and does not count the additional two hours they spend showing the films of our last game and our next opponent's last game to the players each week.
So are U.S. military officers and NCOs spending eight to ten hours a week analyzing recordings of their last battle and recordings that shed light on the enemy they will face next? Are they doing this even more religiously to prevent their men from dying than football coaches do it to prevent their team from scoring fewer points than their opponent? Not that I know of. I pay a lot of attention to military stories in the media and I recall nothing whatsoever about military leaders studying film or other recordings like football coaches do.
Why is this? By the standards of football coaches, U.S. military leaders are appallingly lazy. They also would have to exert more effort just to get film or other recordings to study than coaches. Tough. It's an all-volunteer Army. You wanted to be there and you stayed after you got there. Deal with it.
As a general rule, when I became a football coach, my predecessors had neither filmed their own games nor their upcoming opponents. I instituted that everywhere I went. Reportedly, at most of those teams, they reverted to not doing it after I left. So it's not automatic in the civilian world either. It was a pain in the butt to find people to do the filming especially of the upcoming opponents. But it had to be done so I found ways to get it done. That's how results-oriented people behave. Process-oriented people like those in the government including the military just make excuses about why they cannot get it done.
What you measure you manage
There is a saying in the business world,
What you measure, you manage.
What it means is that if you are not gathering data on any part of your operation, you are not managing that part. And since you are the manager, that is malpractice. When I was in the Army 35 years ago, about the only things they gathered data on was
• vehicle readiness
• personnel in the unit each day
• arms inventory
• daily training schedule
Furthermore, except for the day (personnel) report, the other reports were partially or totally false so they were not really gathering data on the vehicles, arms, or training. They were just pretending.
Has the military changed since then in that regard? Not that I know of. I would like to hear from current or recent military personnel if there has been a change. My impression is that the military is still composed entirely of government bureaucrats, many of whom who want to do as little as possible to get by, life and death notwithstanding. The others are careerists who are content to talk a good game and look the part because that's all their superiors consider when it comes to handing out promotions.
In other words, the military accurately measures next to nothing and therefore manages next to nothing.
Offense: strength against weakness
The basic principle of football offense is strength against weakness. Accordingly, our military should be listing our strengths and weaknesses and those of the enemy.
Here are some:
U.S. Strengths
U.S. Weaknesses
air supremacy inability to speak local languages and recognize foreign accents of those speaking local languages
technology lack of local geographic and neighbor knowledge
discipline hostile relations with many Iraqis and Afghans
artillery poor quality military personnel in many cases
long-range weapons dwindling political support in U.S.
world's largest industrial capacity inability to tell good guys from bad guys
one of world's largest military forces reluctance to injure civilians or civilian property
state of the art communications of all sorts U.S. Department of Defense is 100% government bureaucrats including military personnel
large-scale conventional destructive power military personnel distracted by getting ticket punched, rotating home, political considerations
Enemy Strengths
Enemy Weaknesses
local language skills relatively little formal, secular education in many cases
highly motivated belief that zealotry and "Allah on our side") trumps skill, technology, and materiel (similar to Japanese mistake in World War II)
seemingly unlimited supplies of small arms and explosives no long-range weapons
support from many civilians crude communications capability
entrepreneurial organization and low-level authority relatively little coordination above the squad or platoon level
complete focus on killing Americans other than time spent on religious practices difficulty moving around when transporting weapons or other incriminating material
involved "for the duration" reliance on foreigners (non-Iraqis and non-Afghans) for suicide-bomber missions
This is just a crude, quick list. If I could go there with a half dozen intelligent football coaches, and had authority to gather pertinent information, we would identify a far more precise comprehensive list of strengths and weaknesses.
Obvious strategies
Many of the needed strategies almost jump out at you when you make such a list. For one thing, many of our weaknesses are correctable. We could draft and/or hire native speakers of Iraqi Arabic and Afghan Pashtun and other Afghan languages. We can do the same with local knowledge. Indeed, native interpreters would have that knowledge and would therefore be a two-for-one weakness correction.
We can upgrade the quality of our Army personnel by a draft and/or by finding out what causes people to not want to join the Army or re-enlist and fixing it where feasible.
We can supply troops with more forensic equipment and training like retina scanners, finger printing equipment, paraffin testing equipment, and so forth, computers, etc. to improve their ability to track people and thereby identify the enemy.
We can eliminate laws and treaties that prevent us from attacking enemy who use human shields and change the rules of engagement accordingly.
The military can and must be turned to focus on victory, not careerism, ticket punching, and all that.
Weapons-range differential
In Iraq and Afghanistan, enemy weapons almost all have a range of about 300 yards or less. Mortars can shoot farther than that, but we have technology to almost instantly fire back accurately once the mortar round leaves the tube en route to our location. Radar can pinpoint the origin of an artillery or mortar round, which follows a parabolic (lob) trajectory, within seconds of its being fired. It just quickly notes two points on the round's flight and calculates backward to the point of origin. That same radar or other technology can direct instant direct fire at that location immediately. Mortars, which the enemies in Iraq and Afghanistan have, and artillery, which they do not, are both called indirect fire weapons because of that delayed parabolic trajectory. We can fire back with direct fire, that is, faster straight-line trajectory, weapons from aircraft.
The weapons-range differential between the warring parties suggests an obvious strategy. Virtually every American who was killed by the enemy was killed because he or she was within 300 yards of an enemy or one of their remotely-controlled weapons. If our weapons were also limited to 300-yard range, we would have to get within the range of both our weapons and theirs to fight. But our weapons have no such range limitation. In fact, we can kill everyone in Iraq and Afghanistan from Iowa with nothing but conventional weapons if we want.
We don't need to go as far away as Iowa. We could just stay 300 yards away—like the strips of nothing but flat dirt that we created on each side of some roads in Vietnam. If we prevented the enemy from getting within 300 yards of any of our personnel, our casualty rate would drop to near zero overnight.
Would that limit our ability to kill bad guys? No. But it would probably limit our ability to identify them. On the other hand, it would reduce much of the U.S. political pressure to surrender Iraq and Afghanistan to the enemy.
We have no trouble whatsoever delivering firepower on identified enemy locations without ever getting within range of enemy weapons. Generally speaking, we did that extremely effectively in Bosnia.
They come out
I have never seen this written about, but it seems to me that guerillas and urban terrorists eventually come out of hiding when the heat is somewhat off. Sure, they can go underground and hide for years. But that is not what they want. They want to parade around and show off and control other people and resources.
Initially, Fidel Castro hid in the jungle. But eventually, he came out and went pretty conventional in his revolution.
Similarly, the enemy in Vietnam hid in the jungle and blended in in the urban areas, but then they came out for the Tet Offensive and the Viet Cong were all but wiped out. After that, our enemy was the North Vietnamese Army, which originally stayed out claiming that the war in South Vietnam was a civil war. After Tet, they had no choice.
Also, the North Vietnamese Army was hiding in the jungle in South Vietnam but they hid less and were quite conventional in Cambodia, Laos, and North Vietnam itself. Had we had the guts, we could have attacked those sanctuaries and defeated them. During my tour in Vietnam, we did invade Laos and Cambodia.
Before those invasions, I heard either outgoing or incoming fire either daily or weekly. After those invasions, I never heard a single shot of either type of fire for the rest of my tour in Vietnam.
We also bombed North Vietnam, but we kept pussy-footing around about it for political reasons and never got them to a tipping point. Had we turned the military loose on the North Vietnamese sanctuaries in Cambodia and Laos and on North Vietnam, we would have won the war.
Again, in the final year or so of the Vietnam war, the North Vietnamese came out of the jungle into the open using tanks and trucks and such. Had we still been in the war, we could have easily wiped them out.
In Somalia, the enemy hid until they thought they had the upper hand in the Battle of Mogadishu. Then they revealed themselves brazenly. Had we had a normal amount of firepower, like AC 130 gun ships, on hand we could have sent a whole lot more enemy to paradise.
We have all seen news footage of Palestinian terrorists celebrating and parading in ski masks and shooting AK-47s into the air in the Middle East. I do not know why someone doesn't lay a bunch of cluster bombs or 2,000-pounders on those celebrations.
In other words, an appropriate U.S. strategy might be lay back and wait for the bad guys to come out of hiding. Then pop them. Guerillas seem to be incapable of refraining from eventually beating their chests publicly. In order to win, the bad guys have to come out of hiding and do a victory parade then occupy palaces and so forth. If we simply wait for the inevitable victory parade, then vaporize it, they never win.
As I said in my review of General Rupert Smith's book Utility of Force, we could easily deny the Iraqis utilities and transportation like water, sewer, electric, natural gas, communications, and the use of vehicles by just flipping a bunch of off switches and banning all vehicle use. We could then say, we will turn them back on if the citizens of the area in question will cooperate with the police and occupation forces to maintain security. Kill some Americans, and you go back to living in the dark and the heat and walking to a well for water. This is somewhat reminiscent of the Enclave Strategy advocated by former Army Chief of Staff and ambassador to Vietnam Maxwell Taylor. That strategy was never tried there.
Instead of us trying to keep saboteurs from hurting utilities, which is very difficult for us to do, let the enemy try to turn them on without our cooperation. That would be impossible for them to do.
Force them into large-unit actions
If we send a hummvee or series of them driving on an urban road, the enemy can attack it successfully with just one man to detonate the mine and maybe two or three to transport. plant, and camouflage it. By reducing where we go in small groups and the location and staffing of our bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, we can force the enemy to operate in company- (about 100 men) or larger-size units. That is not attractive to them because they seem to lack the ability to coordinate such large units. Also, it would offer targets that our superior firepower, long-range, powerful weapons and air supremacy can efficiently vaporize. Accordingly, it would either force the enemy to take unacceptable losses or end their combat actions. Of course, they would adapt is some way eventually, perhaps by attacking Americans in the U.S. or elsewhere. But the time to deal with that is when it happens. In the meantime, it's our turn to adapt and the strategy I just suggested holds out the hope of decreasing U.S. losses and increasing the enemy's if they tried to continue to attack us in the new circumstances.
Religious beliefs and practices as a weakness
The Japanese military believed in buchido (fighting spirit), Samurai principles, and the Emperor being a God. All that nonsense was a basis for a military strategy that included use of poorly-designed, poorly-made weapons. They figured their spirit was better than ours (bull!) and more important than weapons quality or design.
In fact, what was decisive in the Pacific in World War II was the massive amount of men and materiel we were able to throw at the Japanese as well as our superior technology. Our technology from code breaking to radar to flame throwers to atomic bombs made a mockery of their fighting spirit and rendered it irrelevant. None of those technologies or the many other we employed (Norden bomb sights, B-29s, etc.) were affected in the slightest by how strenuously the Japanese soldiers yelled "Banzai!" or how fiercely they charged at U.S. weapons they could not reach.
One classic case of using religious zealotry against the enemy was the killing by bombing of the head of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Zarqawi on 6/7/06. We found him by following the Islamic advisor he consulted with daily.
We should analyze the various ways in which devout muslims behave differently because of their faith, including relationships to mosques, religious styles of dress and grooming, marital practices, holy celebrations, and so forth and use them to identify and kill enemy fighters. Some may think there is something wrong with that—like discrimination by religion, profiling, etc. These guys have no interest in adopting our Constitution. For one thing, they sure as hell hate what the First Amendment says about religious freedom. So it is childlike to think we have to apply the Constitution and various U.S. laws relating to discrimination in housing or employment to fighting a war against a bunch of guys who want us dead in part because we have our Constitution.
During the invasion of Iraq, local Iraqis working for us would shout insults over bullhorns from U.S. vehicles about the manliness and sexual prowess of the Iraqis. Time and again, the Iraqi enemies who heard these insults became so enraged that they came out of hiding to fire at the Americans—and were promptly killed by the Americans.
Their martyrdom and paradise-for-dying notions sound like effective weapons for killing many of them if used wisely. To the extent that their religious beliefs conflict with sound military tactics and strategy, which they certainly do in many respects, we should use that against them.
One idea that comes to mind is that we have Jewish soldiers and Marines. I am concerned that they do not have decent places to worship in Iraq and Afghanistan. We should build some synagogues for our troops maybe a mile or so outside of towns in those countries. We should not use our Jewish troops for Al Qaeda bait. But buildings? Why not? Would Al Qaeda religious beliefs cause them to abandon their normal caution and stealthiness to come out and attack the synagogues thereby giving us a great opportunity to reduce their numbers? Worth a try.
Might some say that the Muslims would be outraged by this? That's the whole idea. I am outraged by IEDs and 9/11 and by Muslim discrimination against Jews and other non-Muslims or infidels as they would call us. No Muslims seem concerned about my outrage. Would we worry about whether Hitler and his Nazi Party would have been outraged by the building of synagogues in western Europe during World War II? I think not.
So why are we intimidated by Muslims on the exact same issue? They use religion, mosques, and all that against us. Religion is a two-edged sword. He who lives by the jihad may die by it as well. Turnabout is fair play. Liberals can think of our building of synagogues in Iraq and Afghanistan as a sort of imitation of the civil rights marches and integration of lunch counters at Woolworth's in the deep South.
Reliance on foreigners
Since Al Qaeda in Iraq relies almost completely on non-Iraqis for suicide bombers, it seems like we ought to have native Iraqi speakers telling us who the non-Iraqis are. Then round them up and deport them. I do not know how many non-Iraqi foreigners the country needs, if any, but pending that information rendering this impractical, the suicide age non-Iraqi's living in Iraq ought to be deported unless they can provide a very persuasive reason for being there. If any are allowed to stay, they ought to be thoroughly fingerprinted, DNAed, voice printed, retina printed, and provided with documents. Thereafter, no documents, no remain in the country.
Al Qaeda's reliance on non-Iraqis for suicide bombers is a weakness that can be and should be exploited. Suicide bombers may be the weapon that kills the most people in Iraq.
Abolish cell phones
I am not sure of the technical or practical difficulties, but we could abolish cell phones by simply removing the various cell phone antennas and related equipment. Since they use these to set off IEDs it should make it harder for them to do so and make it easier to identify the bad guys when they switch to other types of communication that would be needed to replace cell phones as IED detonators. Also, if they switched to garage door openers, for example, we could probably jam those frequencies with less disruption of our own communications.
I was in communications in the Army and graduated in the Army's first ever satellite communications class, but that was 38 years ago. My memories of that are faded and technology has advanced. But it seems to me that we could downgrade the enemy's already relatively weak ability to communicate with each other and with IEDs while preserving our own ability to communicate with each other.
Like drug trafficking
Another analytical approach that should be used is to diagram the flow chart of weapons including AK-47s, RPGs, and IED explosives from the factory to the firing of the weapon at Americans. Those things ought to be declared contraband if they have not already. The movement of them is probably quite similar to drug trafficking. In that case, the U.S. military should learn as much as it can from those in our government who spend all day every day trying to interdict the flow of drugs.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link. We should be trying to find the weakest link in the weapons movement chain and attack it. Certainly our enemies in Iraq are most vulnerable when they are in possession of and transporting contraband weapons or setting IEDs. As with football, you attack the weakest point.
Contrast football with the military
The military are fond of calling themselves "elite" and the "professionals" and such. If they mean it, they ought to compare themselves to true elite professionals, like successful NFL football teams. If there are any discrepancies, and there sure are, they ought to fix the military to bring it closer to the NFL teams.
2006 Indianapolis Colts
Ranking compared to competitors Best in the world Claim to be best in the world
Evidence of their ranking Won 2007 Super Bowl against Bears Apparently best technology and largest budget of any military in the world; air supremacy in all combat since early 1950s; naval supremacy likely, contingent on air supremacy, but untested since World War II; however, ground forces have generally not won any wars since World War II even against loosely-organized and minimally-trained irregular enemies with only small arms and no navy or air force
personnel-selection process have generally been trained and obtained experience, as well as been carefully evaluated by experts over ten to fifteen high school, college, and pro seasons before becoming starters; typical NFL starter was All-American in college; world-class athletes; criminals generally excluded minimal education and physical health standards; no demonstration of any skill or talent at all required; criminal convictions sometimes not permitted but my 2/14/07 San Francisco Chronicle reported that the number of "moral waivers" granted to U.S. Army recruits was up to 8,129 in 2006. "Moral waivers" are required to get into the Army persons who have been convicted of crimes like aggravated assault, robbery, and vehicular homicide. Approximately 900 of the 2006 "moral waivers" were granted so that the U.S. Army could recruit convicted felons. 11.7% of all U.S. Army recruits in 2006 were convicted criminals who needed "moral waivers" to get in.
leader-selection process coaches generally have decades of successful experience in the most competitive football leagues in the world; much cronyism in the selection of coaches other than head coaches leader rank and positions awarded mostly on the basis of tenure; battalion and higher command generally restricted to those who have tenure and who not yet been made a bad impression on a superior (See my article "The U.S. military's 30-year, marathon, single-elimination, suck-up tournament" or "How America picks its generals")
compensation both coaches and players salaries range from $225,000 (rookie) to $750,000 (10-year vet minimum) to $35,000,000 per year for the highest paid player (Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning) in the NFL pay ranges from $15,600 (buck private) to $201,500 (4-star general) per year depending upon rank and tenure
moves during career Generally stay with one team unless traded (rare) or choose to accept a free agent offer after three or four years move to a new continent or at least a new state and whole new military unit about once per year counting training schools and regular assignments
additional duties generally none; players and coaches are entirely focused on competing in regular-season and playoff NFL games all military personnel are burdened with numerous additional duties ranging from guard duty to policing barracks and surrounding areas to charity drives to filling out forms, putting on various shows like parades and firepower demonstrations, etc., etc.
how spend day watching film of own performance and of upcoming opponent games; rehearsing job assignments for upcoming game in individual, group, and team practice sessions
virtually no film watching; rare rehearsals of job; mostly housekeeping, maintenance of equipment, calisthenics, parades, personal uniform and barracks inspections; paperwork is probably the dominant day-to-day activity of military personnel; what rehearsal that is done, like basic training and advanced individual training, generally bears more resemblance to World War II in Europe than to the upcoming "game" in Iraq and Afghanistan
If U.S. military officers ran the Colts, Peyton Manning would be picking up trash at the RCA Dome or performing white glove inspections of his linemen's lockers.
job almost always stay in the same position for entire career If U.S. military officers ran the Colts, Peyton Manning would have only been quarterback for one season. In the subsequent seasons, he would have held jobs like strong safety, left guard, media relations, weakside outside linebacker, general manager, place kicker, strength and conditioning coach, and defensive end. Actually, the military is far worse than that. If he was lucky, the Army would give Manning a quarterback MOS (military occupational specialty). But if he arrived at the Colts when they already had a quarterback, military officers would assign him to another job, like short order cook on deck two of the RCA Dome. Think I'm exaggerating? After he graduated from Harvard Law School and was drafted, world famous lawyer Ralph Nader was made a cook by the Army. It never occurred to them to assign him to the JAGs who have offices at almost every military base.
The Indianapolis Colts are an elite, professional organization. When the military uses the word "elite," it generally only applies in a relative sense compared to other military units. See my articles on the Rangers and paratroopers. By absolute standards, there are probably few elite units in the U.S. military. Some I would nominate for that status would be the faculty of the U.S. Military Academy, the Blue Angels, the Thunderbirds, and the submarine service.
Use of the word "professional" by the military to describe themselves is arguably bogus. It is questionable that they have a body of knowledge with regard to fighting wars that is accepted as valid by a consensus of experts or proven in any battles in the last 60 years. And the military's propensity to move people to a new unit on average once a year, changing not only geographic location but also the nature of their assignment, makes them temps and jacks of all military activities and masters of none. Furthermore, the military is consumed with paperwork, not practicing that at which they are purportedly "professional."
The top leaders in the military are professional suck-ups and bureaucrats but it is not clear whether they can legitimately claim to be professional at anything else in the sense that doctors, lawyers, and engineers are professionals because of those civilians' mastery of a large body of technical knowledge and years of experience applying their training in the real world.
Basic principle of defense
The best defense is a good offense. That is part of President Bush's idea of fighting them there rather than here. But the Green Zone and similar bunker-type installations are not offensive.
In football, you have to play defense about half the time by rule. In war, you do not. George Patton was not known for defense. Indeed, I do not recall any instance of it in his career.
But since our military seems to be determined to keep our troops on the defensive most of the time, they'd better learn the basic principle of defense from the football coaches. It is strength against strength.
Look at the lists of the enemy's strengths above. To the extent that we are going to sit on defense, our military needs to direct our strengths at their strengths to neutralize theirs.
Military football
If you look at the schedules of college football teams back in the early part of the Twentieth Century, you often see military units like the Quantico Marines. If you visit older U.S. military bases, you will see huge football stadiums. Use the Google satellite capability. For example, here is a satellite photo of the Fort Benning football stadium complete with night lights: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Fort+Benning,+GA&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_en___US231&um=1&sa=N&tab=wl (You have to zoom in on the corner of Ingersoll Street and Vibbert Avenue.) Why do military bases have football stadiums? The divisions and other large units or bases used to have their own football teams. They played other divisions and such.
What happened to those teams? The military banned them. Why? I don't know. I heard that too much cheating was going on—recruiting top players and getting them assigned to your unit for football rather than military reasons—keeping them there longer than normal assignments, and so on. The movie MASH had such a football game. Also, I suspect some of the "wrong" teams won. That is, the team of a commander who was less politically powerful or lower ranking beat the team of a more politically powerful and/or higher ranking officer. That's a problem in Little League baseball so I'll bet it was a problem in the military. Anyway, those stadiums still stand there now in mute tribute to the fact that, once upon a time, military units actually competed, until the competition was outlawed.
Satellite photos of military bases will also reveal another sports facility: golf courses.When the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor attack began, the Army and Navy commanders of U.S. forces in Hawaii were getting dressed for their joint weekly golf match. The military banned competitive football but not golf. That should tell you volumes about what our military leaders are really about.
Pity. My 15 seasons of coaching youth and high school football taught me far more about leading and getting results through leading than the four years of West Point. Indeed, I think West Point ought to try to find a way to have each and every cadet coach a football teams for at least one season before graduation. Unlike running around in the woods shooting blanks at "aggressors" who are always scripted to lose, it would be real competition in a combat-like sport against an opponent who is actually trying to win. Big difference.
I appreciate informed, well-thought-out constructive criticism and suggestions.
John T. Reed
Link to information about John T. Reed's Succeeding book which, in part, relates lessons learned about succeeding in life from being in the military
John T. Reed military home page
Angry 'I quit' letter from fighter pilot to the Air Force
The Medlock Doctrine: quick victory with minimal casualties and cost
Russian and Chinese buzzing of U.S. planes and warships
Parris Island training versus West Point and Coast Guard Rescue
LTC Dominick Edwards on how to have a good Army officer career
Obama sends B-52s to Iraq
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Diana Hyland
Hyland was born Diana Gentner in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. . She made her acting debut in 1955, aged 19, in an episode of Robert Montgomery Presents. Over the next decade she played numerous guest and supporting roles in various television series.
In 1976, she appeared in the television movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble for which she won a posthumous Emmy Award. The following year, she signed on to play the wife of Dick Van Patten's character in the series Eight is Enough. The first four episodes would be her last role.
In 1977, Hyland was diagnosed with breast cancer, and underwent a mastectomy. Despite the mastectomy, her cancer continued to spread, and her health deteriorated. Hyland and John Travolta, with whom she was romantically involved for one year since 1976, remained together until her death, on March 27, 1977 in Los Angeles. Hyland died in Travolta's arms.
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This article will outline how to add an Eligibility form to your site to ensure that your applicants meet the requirements of your available program(s).
If this is your first time setting up an Eligibility Form, or if you do not currently have a form attached to your eligibility task in the site, you will need to create a new form.
Setup your form with the questions you will ask applicants to ensure they are eligible for your programs.
The form will be given "Eligibility Quiz" as the default title. However, you can edit the form title within the form. This will also update the button label within the Eligibility page.


TORONTO, April 3, 2019 /CNW/ – Liberty Health Sciences Inc. (CSE: LHS) (OTCQX: LHSIF) www.libertyhealthsciences.com ("Liberty" or the "Company"), a provider of high quality cannabis, announced today that it will open its 13th Florida dispensary in Bonita Springs on April 5th, as the company continues to expand rapidly throughout the state. On April 1st the Company also received approval form the Florida Department of Health (DOH) for an additional use of 80,000 square feet of enclosed greenhouse space at the Liberty 360 Innovation campus in Gainesville. This brings the Company to a total of 228,880 square feet of cultivation space in the Gainesville area.
Located at 24611 Production Circle Bonita Springs, Bonita Springs, FL, off of Tamiami Trail, also known as Alligator Alley, the new dispensary is open Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. The 4,000 square-foot facility includes innovative shopping displays that engage and educate patients, two private consultation rooms and two private waiting rooms where patients, physicians and community members can learn about the benefits of medical cannabis in a relaxed and secure environment.
Patients may place an order online at www.libertyhealthsciences.com for in-store pick-up or free delivery. Liberty also offers patients free delivery statewide.
CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS: This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Any statements that are contained in this news release that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are often identified by terms such as "may", "should", "anticipate", "expect", "believe", "plan", "intend" or the negative of these terms and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements in this news release include, but are not limited to, expectations related to the Company's production capabilities, expectations concerning the receipt of all necessary approvals from the Florida Department of Health, expectations concerning the opening of new dispensaries and the expansion of its greenhouse space, and the Company's future expansion and growth strategies. Forward-looking statements necessarily involve known and unknown risks, including, without limitation, risks associated with general economic conditions; adverse industry events; marketing costs; loss of markets; future legislative and regulatory developments involving medical marijuana; inability to access sufficient capital from internal and external sources, and/or inability to access sufficient capital on favorable terms; the medical marijuana industry in the United States generally, income tax and regulatory matters; the ability of Liberty to implement its business strategies; competition; crop failure; currency and interest rate fluctuations and other risks. Readers are cautioned that the foregoing list is not exhaustive. Readers are further cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements as there can be no assurance that the plans, intentions or expectations upon which they are placed will occur. Such information, although considered reasonable by management at the time of preparation, may prove to be incorrect and actual results may differ materially from those anticipated. Forward-looking statements contained in this news release are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement.


The duck face makes cheeks look thinner and puts the emphasis on the cheekbones. This makes women look more attractive than they actually are.
Full lips make women more attractive to men because they signal good health and fertility. Some women make duck faces in an attempt to look more attractive in pictures.
Studies have shown that symmetrical faces are found to be more attractive than asymmetrical ones, because the brain finds them easier to process. The duck face, when done correctly, can minimize the asymmetry of faces.
Mirror neurons are the set of neurons present in the brain that help us understand the feelings of others. When women see other women taking selfies with duck faces they feel like they want to do the same.
A woman doesn't have to know anything about beauty standards to notice that a picture made one of her friends look better. As some women notice their friends looking better after making duck faces, they start doing the same to also look better in pictures.
Some women do duck faces with the conscious goal of appearing like they are blowing a kiss. Those women do so to make their pictures seem more attractive.
According to psychology, the ideal woman's face from an evolutionary perspective should have big eyes, full lips and narrow cheeks. The duck face helps women's faces become closer to the ideal face.


An ailing James Earl Ray, in prison for the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., was denied permission Monday to go to Pittsburgh to see whether he could get a liver transplant. Irvin Kilcrease, a Chancery Court judge, said Ray's lawyers failed to give a legal reason why the 69-year-old inmate should be moved to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. William Pepper, Ray's chief lawyer, said he will appeal within days. "Time is critical. He's dying," he said.


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Liz's Book Report: Carnivorous Lunar Activities – Podcast Extra!
You'll howl at the moon with laughter as you read Carnivorous Lunar Activities!
Um…we're not exactly sure where to park this, but here it is…Lindsay Lohan is in a werewolf movie.
Bullying, puberty, lycanthropy. Life's not easy for a high school girl.


If your car is no longer operable following an auto accident, there are several ways to obtain a rental car while yours is being repaired. You will usually be granted a rental car if your car is no longer drivable, and the most common way to obtain one is through your own insurance company.
There are two other methods of obtaining a rental car. One way is by requesting a rental car from the at-fault party's insurance company, and a second way is by paying for the rental yourself, out-of-pocket. If you choose to pay for the rental car yourself, we will want to include that amount in your harms and losses as we attempt to recover these from the at-fault party. Watch the video to learn more.
If you have additional questions regarding how to obtain a rental car following a car crash in which your vehicle has been damaged, I want you to call me at (559) 436-0850. I welcome your call. Visit our educational website at www.NunesLaw.com for more videos and media content from our law firm.


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19 Jan, 2021 | News
The highly acclaimed Leeds Lieder 'Mahler Song Series' (given in collaboration with the University of Leeds International Concert Series and recorded by the BBC Radio 3 last season) is to be broadcast again this week! The three recitals will be spread over four lunchtimes from Tuesday 19th to Friday 22nd January at 1.00pm on BBC Radio 3. Each concert will also be available on BBC iPlayer for 30 days after broadcast. Full programme details in the links below.
Episode 1, Leeds Lieder 2016-17, Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert – BBC Radio 3
This week's Lunchtime Concerts were recorded at the Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall as part of the 2016/17 Leeds Lieder Festival, curated by pianist Joseph Middleton. Joseph's theme for this festival was the music of Gustav Mahler, which he paired with songs by some of Mahler's inspirations and contemporaries. Today, soprano Ruby Hughes performs some of Mahler's early songs, baritone James Newby sings three of the Knaben Wunderhorn settings, and mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston performs Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder.
Soprano Gemma Lois Summerfield performs three of Mahler's Knaben Wunderhorn settings, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston sings his 5 Lieder nach Texten von Rückert, and soprano Ruby Hughes sings five songs by American composer Charles Ives.
Soprano Gemma Lois Summerfield and baritone James Newby perform four of Mahler's Knaben Wunderhorn settings, soprano Ruby Hughes sings his song-cycle Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen and also three songs by Alma Mahler, and mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston sings four songs by Liszt.
Soprano Gemma Lois Summerfield and baritone James Newby perform three of Mahler's Knaben Wunderhorn settings, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston sings his song-cycle Kindertotenlieder and soprano Ruby Hughes sings three songs by Robert Schumann.


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Q: Persistent Storage of an Array of Structs in Swift I have an Array containing Structs.
I want to persistently store it.
Core Data is a bit complicated for my liking!
I've tried using an NSKeyedArchiver but It comes up with the error "cannot invoke achieve root object with an argument list of type ([Struct], toFile: String)
Any ideas would be really appreciated!

A: NSKeyedArchiver / NSKeyedUnarchiver serializes serializes -compliant types to and from a data representation. So you will need to serialize your struct to persist.

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What is a sous chef, what does a chef de partie do and how are the chefs ranked in a professional kitchen?
WITH all the fancy French terms and angry shouting, getting to grips with how a professional kitchen works can be difficult.
The name for a sous chef comes from the French word "sous" meaning under.
This is basically the second in command in the kitchen.
Which means they take over running service when the head chef isn't around.
As well as preparing food, they also act as the head chef's assistant, which often includes managing the kitchen team and ensuring food is prepared correctly.
A chef de partie is more junior than the sous chef.
There are often many chef de parties in a kitchen, and each works in a specific section.
In bigger operations, a chef de partie could have a number of other cooks working for them in their section - but in most kitchens, it is them in their section on their own.
Sometimes, chef de parties are separated into their own hierarchy of "first cook", "second cook" etc.
How are chefs ranked in a professional kitchen?
As with the military, kitchens run on discipline and respect for the chain of command.


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Home Travel National Parks 100 Years and Counting
Created in 1905 and now celebrating 100 years of forest management, the
United States Forest Service has overcome a myriad of challenges to
conserve some of our most important lands and embrace a vision. It is an
agency we should all be applauding — not once, but twice, initially
for confronting challenge, and then, for what it does today.
Although the Forest Service owes its successes to countless individuals,
it owes its beginnings to a trio of farsighted men who were
environmentalists long before anyone thought to coin the term. It was
Gifford Pinchot and Theodore Roosevelt who first recognized that it
would not be long before America's vast forests would be in great peril.
They were joined by George Washington Vanderbilt, a man searching for a
place to build a grand European-style castle — and though the hills in
which we now camped were the same ones cleared long ago for farming,
Vanderbilt realized his vision. The man would build his castle, and
then, through the practice of forestry as it had existed in Europe, he
would restore the forest to what it had once been, inadvertently
bringing together men who would one day use skills learned working his
land to remedy some of the nation's timber problems.
To understand how this agency has become so much to so many, we
could do little better than to start among Vanderbilt's trees and
mountains and streams on what is now Pisgah National Forest's "Cradle of
Forestry." This was America's first eastern national forest, and quite
arguably, it can be said that the agency and practice of timber
management began on these North Carolina swaths at a time when land was
cheap and people had little more than their pride.
Essentially, the making of our national forests can be traced
to the Forest Reserve Act of 1891, which authorized the president to
establish forest reserves. That same year, President Harrison created
the nation's first reserve, the Yellowstone, separated today into the
Shoshone and Bridger-Teton national forests. In 1897, Congress passed an
expanded Forest Reserve Act, intended to protect the watersheds and
furnish a continuous supply of timber for the people of the United
States. The following year, President William McKinley hired Pinchot
away from his work for Vanderbilt and made him chief of the Division of
Forestry.
Following the assassination of McKinley in September of 1901,
Theodore Roosevelt ascended to the presidency, and retained his good
friend Gifford Pinchot as chief. The following year — in part because
of Pinchot's powers of persuasion — Roosevelt transferred more than 63
million acres of forest reserves from the Department of the Interior to
the Department of Agriculture. But the most memorable legislation saw
Roosevelt create a name change. On July 1, 1905, the Bureau of Forestry
became the U.S. Forest Service.
Read more about the Forest Service's century-of-service history
and see the 100-year timeline highlighting the agency's important
dates. Pick up the July 2005 issue of MotorHome magazine on the
newsstand — then subscribe to MotorHome
so you can stay informed on the latest motorhome technical information,
road tests, previews, products, travel destinations and more.


The Town of Nantucket Energy Office is committed to pursuing, encouraging, and incentivizing energy efficiency, renewable energy, and other innovative energy solutions to decrease summer peak load and defer the need for a costly 3rd undersea transmission cable to Nantucket, which will be disruptive to the island economy, precious land, and sea life.
As part of the "Beat the Peak!" initiative, these targeted projects and programs are designed to reduce peak energy use during late afternoons and evenings (5-9 pm) during the busy, summer season, as a more sustainable, locally appropriate, and cost-effective alternative to installing a third undersea cable, expected to cost between $100-175 million to local ratepayers.
Nantucket Ice Energy Project: Receive a free Ice Energy "Smart Air-Conditioner" as part of a $1.5 million Massachusetts Dept of Energy Resources (MA DOER) grant!
"Ice Energy, Genbright to deploy 1MW of ice energy storage in Nantucket." Energy Storage News.


the thrill of it all - moments of joy in the wedding chaos: Why I love my job - a beautiful letter and reminder last week.
Why I love my job - a beautiful letter and reminder last week.
A beautiful letter and reminder last week why I love my job. Thanks Keely.


Music is a universal form of self-expression. Musicians and Singers convey a culture's musical traditions and create new forms as well. An ear, or talent, for music often shows up early in life. While vocal training for singers usually begins in later teen years when the voice matures, musicians can start learning an instrument even sooner. For those who specialize in classical or jazz music, it's typical to take formal instruction, such as studying with a "master" or earning a bachelors or master's degree in music. Many musicians working in popular music genres, like hip hop, rock, and folk, are self-taught. Musicians and singers need a great deal of skill, tenacity and sometimes luck -- to earn a living from music. While they may find work through competitive auditions, most need to promote themselves to find consistent work. Gigs, or performances, are often scheduled in the evenings, weekends or holidays and can require travel away from home. Musicians and singers often teach, or hold another "day job" to support a performing career. Offering lessons and performing for different venues is a form of self-employment. Financial and business experience or classes can be helpful for managing the business side of a self-employed music career. While a music career isn't an easy one, for many, the joy of performing more than makes up for the sacrifices the art demands.
Sing songs on stage, radio, television, or motion pictures.
See more details at O*NET OnLine about singers.
Singers by U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.


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I found this solution, but it didn't work for me.
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A: Chrome has difficult with numbers with a lot of decimal places at times when there is a transform involved. Try doing a parseInt on those numbers to bring the decimal places down. You'll find the blurryness often goes away with this simple fix.


Thank you to everyone who voted in our Best of the Month for March. We had a runaway winner, getting a huge majority of the votes…No 4 @tada_cakes_by_jody Congratulations! 🎉 You'll now go forward to our Best of the Year 2019 competition. Every month we ask you to vote for your favourite edible image cake. To be in with a chance of winning, share your edible image cakes with us here or over on our Facebook page and remember to tag us!


Clestina – Christmas Box recipient.
Since 2001, Christmas Box has fed 131,424 families across New Zealand, Australia & Cook Islands.
In 2018 there was a significant increase in requests for Christmas Boxes from families who found themselves in a dire situation due to illness, low income and family breakdown etc.
Over 18 years, we've seen how Christmastime brings immense pressure to families that are already struggling to put food on the table. Our boxes play but one part in bringing hope at Christmas.


Heather Jones, senior project scientist will present two technical papers about the robot on Wednesday at the Waste Management Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. CMU also will be demonstrating a prototype of the robot during the conference.
CMU is building two of the robots, called RadPiper, and will deliver the production prototype units to DOE's sprawling 3,778-acre Portsmouth site in May. RadPiper employs a new "disc-collimated" radiation sensor invented at CMU. The CMU team, led by Whittaker, began the project last year. The team worked closely with DOE and Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth, the decommissioning contractor, to build a prototype on a tight schedule and test it at Portsmouth last fall.
"With more than 15 miles of piping to be characterized in the next process building, there is a need to seek a smarter method," said Rodrigo V. Rimando, Jr., director of technology development for DOE's Office of Environmental Management. "We anticipate a labor savings on the order of an eight-to-one ratio for the piping accomplished by RadPiper." Even with RadPiper, nuclear deposits must be identified manually in some components.
RadPiper will operate initially in pipes measuring 30 inches and 42 inches in diameter and will characterize radiation levels in each foot-long segment of pipe. Those segments with potentially hazardous amounts of uranium-235, the fissile isotope of uranium used in nuclear reactors and weapons, will be removed and decontaminated. The vast majority of the plant's piping will remain in place and will be demolished safely along with the rest of the facility.
The tetherless robot moves through the pipe at a steady pace atop a pair of flexible tracks. Though the pipe is in straight sections, the autonomous robot is equipped with a lidar and a fisheye camera to detect obstructions ahead, such as closed valves, Jones said. After completing a run of pipe, the robot automatically returns to its launch point. Integrated data analysis and report generation frees nuclear analysts from time-consuming calculations and makes reports available the same day.
The robot's disc-collimated sensing instrument uses a standard sodium iodide sensor to count gamma rays. The sensor is positioned between two large lead discs. The lead discs block gamma rays from uranium deposits that lie beyond the one-foot section of pipe that is being characterized at any given time. Whittaker said CMU is seeking a patent on the instrument.
The Robotics Institute and Whittaker have extensive experience with robots in nuclear facilities, including the design and construction of robots to aid with the cleanup of the damaged Three Mile Island reactor building in Pennsylvania and the crippled Chernobyl reactor in Ukraine.
DOE has paid CMU $1.4 million to develop the robots as part of what CMU calls the Pipe Crawling Activity Measurement System.
In addition to the Portsmouth and Paducah plants, robots could be useful elsewhere in DOE's defense nuclear cleanup program, which is not even half complete, Rimando said. Other sites where robots might be used are the Savannah River Site in Aiken, South Carolina, and the Hanford Site in Richland, Washington.
"With at least 50 more years of nuclear cleanup to be performed, the Robotics Institute could serve as a major pipeline of roboticists for DOE's next several workforce generations," he added.


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African Food: 25 Best African Cuisines You Must Try
November 18, 2019 Cook	0 Comments African cuisine, African food, African Food Facts, African Food near Me, African Food Store, Central African Food, East African Food, North African Food, South African Food, West African Food
African food is a common term that refers to the cuisines of Africa. It is a list of outstanding dishes found in African cuisine.
The continent of Africa is the second-largest landmass on Earth and is the household to hundreds of diverse cultural and ethnic groups.
This diversity is also mirrored in the numerous local culinary traditions in terms of choice of ingredients, style of preparation, and cooking methods.
Since the first "barbecue" might well have taken place in Africa based on history, then, the continent can debatably claim to have thought up cooking.
From the lush greens of the West to the desert lands in North Africa and the Sahel plains of the East, every region serves an authentic recipe that will beat your minimum expectations.
African Food Facts
African food can vary from each country in the continent; native African staple food crops like yams, cassava, sorghum, and millet are widely used in African cookery, along with cultivated imports like wheat, rice, and corn.
Starches for bread and common African swallow called fufu or ugali are derived from these crops.
However, there are common flavors throughout the dishes that make it distinctive.
The authentic African cuisine often incorporates many tropical climate crops and combines them with wild game and unique spice mixes.
One thing for sure: African food is just as diverse as its people. Below is a list of popular dishes in African cuisine;
Food in North Africa
The UN sub-region of North Africa consists of 7 countries at the northernmost part of the continent –Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, and Western Sahara.
The food of these countries that lived along the Mediterranean Sea is almost familiar to the Western, possibly because of the constant interaction with Mediterranean Europe.
North African cuisine is the product of a whole host of historical, cultural and topographical factors.
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Couscous is the staple food of North Africa, a traditional Berber dish (first mentioned in a 13th-century cookbook) of steamed semolina that can be served as an accompaniment with tajine, with plates of vegetables, or eaten by itself.
B'stilla
African food chicken B'stilla
B'stilla, sometimes also known as pastilla, is a Moroccan dish. Its origins are said to be in Fez and date back to the period of the Umayyad Caliphs in the eighth century. B'stilla generally consists of a sweet and sour pigeon pie, but can also be made with chicken or quail.
African food Tajine
Tajine is perhaps the most famous Berber dish. It takes its name from the earthenware pot in which it is cooked.
The tajine dish is a slow-cooked stew and can be made up of all sorts of ingredients – chicken, lamb, beef, fish or vegetables, stewed with spices and dried fruit.
Best served with couscous and bread.
Shakshouka
Shakshuka with Feta
Shakshouka, or chakchouka, is a Tunisian dish that has spread across North Africa and is popular in Israel.
It can be served for breakfast, lunch or as part of the evening meal.
It's one of the most colorful of the dishes on this list and is made up of chopped onions, chili peppers, tomatoes, and cumin.
In addition, it is cooked in a skillet to form a rich sauce in which a couple of eggs are poached.
Ful Medames
Ful medames is the national dish of Egypt and common street food in cities like Cairo and Giza.
You'll also find it served in much of North Africa and the Middle East.
Ful medames is a dish of fava beans, cooked in a pot and then served with vegetable oil and cumin, garlic, onions, peppers, and hard-boiled eggs.
Food in East Africa
East African Countries include: Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Réunion, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Somaliland, Tanzania, and Uganda
Best East African dishes that are most commonly eaten are starchy, grain-based foods.
Ugali is an important staple like in neighboring Tanzania. Barbecued meat (nyama choma) is popular too.
Ugali
It is the most common staple food in the region and is traditionally eaten with the hands. Like flat bread in other countries, ugali can be used as a sort of 'scoop' to pick up meat and vegetables. When it is not dipped in a stew, it is dipped in a sauce.
What more can you ask for than a deliciously tender and meaty grilled fresh tilapia? Nothing if you're a fish lover. Even though it can also be cooked in thick sauces, nothing beats the simple and mouthwatering grilled version.
iii. Sambaza
One of the favorite dishes of those who live around Lake Kivu, on the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is the small sambaza fish.
Often, it is deep-fried and comes served on a plate with lemon, accompanied by French fries.
Whether at the side of the road, in a high-end restaurant, or front of a nightclub, grilled meat brochettes can be found all around the region. Chicken, beef and goat meat cuts might be the most common options, but it is specifically the goat meat brochettes that remain a favorite with locals.
Matoke
Matoke, sometimes referred to as Ebitookye, is a type of banana, usually known as a cooking banana.
These bananas are harvested green before being baked or steam cooked and pounded into various meals.
In Uganda, one of their national dishes is the traditional Matoke, which is often served mashed.
Food in Central Africa– Centrafrican Cuisine
Central Africa, defined by the UN Sub-region, consists of the following countries: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo Republic – Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, São Tomé & Principe.
Best Central African staple foods include millet, rice, starches, sorghum, and sesame. Different sauces and vegetables are also consumed.
Firstly, Makara: Bread made from cassava flour.
Secondly, Chicken and cumin stew: with additional flavors fro, onion, tomato and garlic.
Thirdly, Chikwangue: Traditional starch made from manioe and often serves as batoris.
Fourthly, Egusi: Blood-red sauce made from the seed of gourd or pumpkin as well as tomatoes, onions, and chilli.
Fifthly, Capitaine: fish caught in Bangui River and smoked, also called Nile perch.
Lastly, Chichinga: skewered pieces of barbecued goat meat
Food in West Africa
The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, the Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.
Sitting down to a typical ancient West African meal, one cannot help but notice it is loaded with starchy foods, very light on the meat side, and well dipped in fat.
Fufu Africa is a semi-solid paste, far-fetched from the mashed potatoes or Italian polenta.
It is made from root vegetables like yams or cassava, and always accompanies soups and stews.
West Africans love hot spices -including chili peppers
SMOKY PARTY JOLLOF RICE
Every West African country has its version of this dream. Jollof rice Africa is a tomatoey rice dish with lots of pepper, crayfish, crabs, shrimps and what not.
Kenkey
Kenkey is a staple dish from the Ga tribe of West Africa, usually served with shitto, pepper sauce, and fried fish.
Potato Greens Plasa
This Sierra Leonean dish has a groundnut base and features potato leaves as well as bits of fish or chunks of meat.
The Ghanaian version uses cocoyam leaves – either could be replaced with spinach.
Fisherman Soup
This African soup is very common in the riverine areas in Nigeria. In principle, fisherman's soup is just a seafood broth made with Palm oil.
The name of the soup has a history attached to it. It's said to be the easy-to-prepare soup for fishermen while out at sea hence the name.
For those who love seafood, this recipe is absolutely for you. You can use all your favorite seafood to prepare this soup.
Maafe originates from the Mandinka and Bambara people of Mali.
It's made up of meat (Lamb, beef, or chicken), tomatoes, onions, garlic, cabbage, leaf or root vegetables and peanuts.
Thieboudienne from Senegal
This traditional dish is made from rice, fish and tomato sauce and is flavored with spiced onions, carrots, cabbage, cassava, and peanut oil.
Interestingly, a dish from the American deep south called Savannah red rice is very similar – many believe it was taken to the new world from here and adapted by the Creole people.
Cachupa from Cape Verde
This famous dish from the volcanic archipelago is a stew of slow-cooked corn, cassava, sweet potato, fish or meat.
It is commonly referred to as the country's national dish and nine out of the ten inhabited islands have their version of the cachupa.
Food in Southern Africa
The UN sub-region of Southern Africa consists of five countries in the southernmost part of the continent – Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Southern African cuisine is a cultural Technicolor with so many influences mingled in their food.
i. Chakalaka & Pap
These are the mainstays on every South African dinner table. Chakalaka is a vegetable dish made of onions, tomatoes, peppers, carrots, beans, and spices, and is often served cold. Pap, meaning 'porridge', is similar to American grits and is a starchy dish made from white corn maize.
ii. Biltong
Probably the most-loved South African snack, biltong is a dried, smoked and spiced meat.
While not as sweet, biltong and American beef jerky share some similarities.
Beef biltong remains a favorite, but venison biltong is also popular. More unconventional versions, like chicken biltong, are also available.
iii. Bobotie
Bobotie, a dinner-time favorite, consists of spiced mince, an egg-based topping, and traditionally raisins or sultanas that are added to the mixture.
The dish has a sweet taste, a Cape Malay influence, and it includes curry, turmeric and often almonds.
iv. Vetkoek
This is traditional Afrikaner fried dough bread. It is either served filled with cooked mince or with syrup, honey, or jam.
It is similar to the Caribbean Johnny cake, the Dutch oliebol, and the Mexican sopaipillas. The word vetkoek means "fat cake" in Afrikaans.
v. Potjiekos
In South Africa, a potjiekos, literally translated "small pot food", is a dish prepared outdoors.
It is traditionally cooked in a round, cast iron, three-legged pot.
vi. Boerewors
Boerewors a type of sausage which originated in South Africa, is an important part of South African cuisine and is popular across Southern Africa
vii. Bunny Chow
Bunny chow, often referred to simply as a bunny, is a South African fast food dish consisting of a hollowed-out loaf of white bread filled with curry.
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I've been telling you guys I would do a MLIWW post featuring Jeansy's t-shirts and sweaters, but I think I'm going to feature each one every other week or so. He doesn't have many, so it won't last too long!
...on sale at Walmart one day. It was $1, and I had just gotten Jeans a few months before. I thought it'd be funny to put him in it once and be done with it. I didn't realize how the t-shirts and sweaters would actually help us and help Jeans.
When we first got Jeans he had a lot of behavior problems. Not just normal kitten craziness, but serious issues that were so hard to deal with (as someone who hadn't been a cat owner since 8 years old) that I considered bringing him back to the Humane Society because I was at the end of my rope. He was constantly biting us, drawing blood every single time. I still have scars all over my arms! He would frantically run around our apartment and if we were sitting on the couch he would run over us and scratch us up. He also wouldn't sleep at night. He would be up biting us and running around and knocking things down every night. He was also really good at waking me up one hour before my alarm would go off, regardless of what time it was set for. I have no idea how he knew, but everyday for months on end he woke me up one hour earlier than I wanted. At that time, I was occasionally working at six in the morning, which meant I had to get up at 4:45 am, which means he woke me up at 3:45, after I probably went to sleep at midnight. It wore me down after a while! I didn't know how to cope with it. One day Chris and I went to get groceries and I picked up this sweater. When we got home and put it on him, his behavior changed instantly. He was finally calm for once. I put it on him and he instantly laid down and started purring. I didn't connect the dots for a few weeks, but eventually we started putting it on him at night so he learned that he was supposed to calm down and go to sleep. And he did! It took about six months, but I think the sweaters (along with turning from kitten to cat) really helped him learn about nighttime sleep.
He barely ever has to wear anything to bed anymore. He usually climbs in bed with us when he's ready to sleep, and every night he sleeps in between our legs. We definitely had a rough start, but he's become the best little kitty I could have asked for!
That is awesome! Great story!
I love these wednesday posts.
That little sweater is simply incredible. If i put this on my fat cat he would never forgive me.
yay! This is such a cute story! Love the pics!
cats are strange people! glad to hear he calmed down so much. he is such a cutesy and looks adorable in his sweater.
Adorable! I am so glad you posted pics of him in a sweater!
so cute! what a crazy cat.
So just like with some children that have sensory integration delays they sometimes wear "weighted" vests. It helps ground them and gives a sensory input that is calming. And like with children that grow out of their delays by learning to listen to theirs bodies so has Jeans!
I LOVE IT! I want one for my kitty! She'd never keep it on though!


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Music Lineup Announced For INKARCERATION At OSR
The Ohio State Reformatory will certainly be rocking this July. On Thursday, the new INKarceration Music and Tattoo Festival unveiled its debut music lineup featuring a battery of well-known bands.
Consider this. Over 30 bands on two stages. A tattoo festival with some 70 artist booths. Food trucks. Tours of the Reformatory. Vendors and the Hellzapoppin' rock n' roll circus sideshow.
Bands schedule to appear include Rise Against, A Day to Remember, Our Lady Peace, Suicidal Tendencies, Fuel, Hatebreed, Sevendust, and many others.
"We are very excited to host the 2018 INKCARCERATION Music and Tattoo Festival," said Ohio State Reformatory Executive Director Paul Smith. "They plan to bring next-level entertainment to our venue, and we hope to have a long and prosperous relationship with them that helps benefit and secure the future of our organization, the historic site itself and the community."
One featured band is Clutch."We just finished our new album, and now it will be fun to get back out and play some shows," Clutch drummer Jean-Paul Gaster said.
Weekend tickets range from $89 per person to $321, the latter of which includes VIP lounge access with food and a private bar. Premium VIP tickets are also available. Tent and RV camping will be available at the Richland County Fairgrounds, about five miles from the festival venue.
The fun takes place on July 13, 14, and 15.
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Collaborations Pharmaceuticals Inc. Receives Funding from NINDS to Partner with Washington University on Batten Disease
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) at NIH has awarded $229,560 to Collaborations Pharmaceuticals Inc of Raleigh, NC to initiate a project at Washington University (St. Louis, MO) aimed at developing an enzyme replacement therapy to treat infantile Batten disease, also known as CLN1. The company will partner with Batten disease researcher Jonathan Cooper, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine.
This treatment approach, originally funded by Taylor's Tale (an LDN-affiliated patient advocacy group) and NINDS, began in the lab of Sandra Hofmann, MD, PhD, at the University of Texas Southwestern (Dallas, TX). Supported by these funds, Dr. Hofmann and her research team performed extensive development of the protein as well as pre-clinical assessment. Taylor's Tale, a 501(c)3 public charity based in Charlotte, NC, funded Dr. Hofmann's work beginning in 2007.
Moving forward, Collaborations Pharmaceuticals Inc will further develop the PPT1 enzyme, setting the stage for future clinical studies of this potential treatment for CLN1. In 2017 Collaborations Pharmaceuticals Inc received Orphan Drug Designation from the FDA for this PPT1 enzyme.
Collaborations Pharmaceuticals Inc is led by CEO Sean Ekins, PhD, who is also the President, CEO, and co-founder of Phoenix Nest, Inc.
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Clogher (en gaèlic irlandès Clochar, que vol dir lloc pedregós) és una vila d'Irlanda del Nord, al comtat de Tyrone, a la província de l'Ulster. Es troba als marges del riu Blackwater, 29 kilòmetres al sud d'Omagh. Es troba en els townlands de Clogher Demesne i Clogher Tenements. El cens de 2001 recull una població de 309 habitants. La parròquia civil de Clogher cobreix àrees del comtat de Fermanagh i del de Tyrone.

Història
El nom Clochar es refereix a alguna cosa feta de pedra ('Cloch' és la paraula irlandesa per a 'pedra' i es pot haver anglicitzat com a 'cloch', 'clogh' o 'clough'); probablement en un monestir medieval o un ringfort proper. S'ha trobat restes arqueològiques del segle V al veïnatge. Es diu que Clogher ha estat localització d'una pedra cerimonialo oracle coberta d'or anomenada Cermand Cestach. La història diu que "Cloch-Ór (pedra daurada), podia haver estat una pedra cerimonial o oracle (vegeu Cenn Cruaich i Omphalos) originalment coberta en or sagrat pels druides ... donada als Mac Cairthinn per un antic noble pagà (Cairpre, el pare de Tigernach de Clones), qui l'havia assetjat de totes les maneres possibles fins que l'amor pacient del sant va guanyar el governador local a la fe.." La pedra és registrada com a "una curiositat en el pòrtic de la catedral de Clogher" en el temps de l'annalista Cathal Maguire de Fermanagh a finals del . Tighernach de Clones va succeir St. Mac Cairthinn com a bisbe de Clogher.

Clogher ha estat un centre religiós des de l'època de Sant Patrici i potser abans, St. Aedh Mac Cairthinn de Clogher (c. 430-505), un dels primers deixebles i company de Sant Patrici fundà un monestir a l'indret, que més tard fou reconegut com a seu episcopal pel Sínode de Rathbreasail. La catedral de Sant Macartan a la vila és avui una de les dues catedrals de la Diòcesi de Clogher de l'Església d'Irlanda; l'altra és a Enniskillen. La Diòcesi de Clogher de l'Església Catòlica Romana té la seu a la catedral de Monaghan.

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Població del
La població de la vila va disminuir durant tot el segle XIX:

Referències

Enllaços externs

 Clogher Historical Society
 Clogher Town 1837 noms dels townlands de Clogher

Geografia del comtat de Tyrone

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Oman Air wins double at WTA Middle East 2017
Oman Air, the national carrier of the Sultanate of Oman, has won two awards at the World Travel Awards Middle East 2017. The national carrier was awarded the top position for two awards in the 'Middle East's Leading Airline - Business Class' and 'Middle East's Leading Airline - Economy Class' categories at a glittering ceremony which was held on 29th October 2017 in Dubai.
This is the fourth year in a row that Oman Air has taken the titles, which are voted for by travel and tourism professionals from around the world. This is the latest in a long line of awards won by Oman Air.
Acting CEO of Oman Air, Eng. Abdulaziz Al Raisi, said: "This is a fantastic achievement for Oman Air to be voted the best, considering the competition we were up against. These awards set the standards for the travel industry and confirm that Oman Air services and standards are of the highest quality. It is immensely gratifying to be recognized for our unique product and overall guest experience in both these two key classes in our industry."
The World Travel Awards was established in 1993 to acknowledge, reward and celebrate excellence across all key sectors of the travel, tourism and hospitality industry. The brand is recognised globally as the ultimate hallmark of quality in the travel industry.
Oman Air and Muscat Duty Free (MDF) were awarded the Inflight Retailer of the year 2017 during the annual Frontier Awards held on 6th October, at Palm Beach in Cannes, France. The Frontier Awards recognises best practice, rewards innovation and celebrates excellence across the global travel retail industry.
Recently, the National Carrier has been voted the 'Best In-Flight Duty Free' provider in the Middle East by readers of the German passenger services industry publication, Pax International Magazine. In addition, awards in 2016 include World's Leading Airline – Economy Class at the World Travel Awards in the Maldives, and Foreign Airline of the Year by Sector to the Middle East at the annual KLIA Awards, introduced in 2006 to recognize the best in Malaysian aviation industry. The coveted Signum Virtutis, the seal of excellence, from the Seven Stars Luxury Hospitality and Lifestyle Awards 2016 and winner for the best airline in the Middle East, Africa and Europe. The accolades are not limited to the passenger operation; Oman Air Cargo was also awarded "Best Cargo Airline for Valuable Goods – North and East" at the India Cargo Awards 2016 held in Delhi.


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