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New Kentucky driver’s licenses not ready yet. Here’s what that means for you. |
1 Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning throws his 509th career touchdown pass during the first half of an NFL football game against the San Francisco 49ers in Denver, Oct. 19, 2014. |
2 Peyton Manning celebrates his 509th career touchdown pass with teammates in Denver, Oct. 19, 2014. |
3 Denver Broncos fans celebrate Peyton Manning's 509th career touchdown pass during the first half of an NFL football game against the San Francisco 49ers in Denver, Oct. 19, 2014. |
4 Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning greets San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick after the game in Devner, Oct. 19, 2014. |
Marshall joins Kasey Keller, Fredy Montero and James Riley as Sounders who have drawn red cards this season. His punishment will make him ineligible for the Sounders’ visit to league-leading Chivas USA on Saturday. |
But long before the red card, Seattle coach Sigi Schmid thought his team had become distracted by the refereeing. And he took extra time in the locker room after the game to let his players know he wasn’t happy. |
The result was Seattle’s fifth straight regular-season draw. And while each yields one point in the standings, the Sounders do not consider all draws to be equal. This one – coming at home against an injury-depleted .500 team – seemed to register as more frustrating than others. |
The stream of single points allowed Seattle (4-2-5, 17 points) to be passed in the Western Conference standings Saturday by the Houston Dynamo (5-2-3, 18). The Colorado Rapids (4-2-4, 16) are just one point behind. |
Eight teams make the MLS playoffs: the top two finishers in each conference and the teams with next four best records regardless of conference. With the season’s midpoint approaching, Seattle has little margin for slippage. The expansion Sounders have the league’s fourth-most points, behind Chivas, Houston and Eastern-... |
Jeff Cunningham and Kenny Cooper scored goals and FC Dallas handed Chicago its first loss of the season. The result ended a franchise-record unbeaten streak at 11 for the Eastern Conference-leading Fire (5-1-6). |
Dallas (2-6-3) entered the match with the fewest points in the league. |
Spirit Airlines, the largest privately-held airline in the U.S. and the low-fare leader, offers business and leisure passengers savings up to $20* per roundtrip ticket purchased online at www.spiritair.com. |
The “Point, Click and Fly” sale is valid for travel August 19, 2003 through November 6, 2003 and tickets must be booked by 11:59 PM (EST) on July 17, 2003. Passengers booking at www.spiritair.com will save an additional $10 each way. |
“Spirit is making it easy for passengers to book their late summer and fall travel online with fares as low as $54* each way in just two clicks,” said Tom Anderson, senior vice president and chief marketing officer for Spirit Airlines. |
*These non-refundable fares are each way based on round trip purchase and do not include a $3.00 Federal Excise tax that will be imposed on each flight segment. A flight segment is defined as a take-off and a landing. Passenger facility fees up to $18, depending on itinerary, are not included. Fares do not include the ... |
About Spirit Airlines: Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Spirit Airlines is the largest privately-held airline in the U.S. With a fleet of modern aircraft for scheduled and charter service, Spirit brings low fares and friendly service to Atlantic City, N.J., Chicago/O’Hare, Denver, Detroit, Las Vegas, Los Angeles... |
Spirit Airlines recently announced Spirit Plus, an upgraded coach class of service, including wide leather seats in two by two seating, dedicated check-in, complimentary cocktails and snacks, priority boarding and more, all without sacrificing low fares. The upgrade fee, available day of departure at any Spirit Airline... |
Net-savvy parents are outbidding each other on the Net this holiday season for this year's must-have toy: the Sing & Snore Ernie doll. |
In the hallowed tradition of harried parents fighting for the last Cabbage Patch Kid, Mighty Morphin Power Ranger, or, more recently, the Tickle-Me-Elmo doll, Net-savvy parents are outbidding each other online this holiday season for this year's must-have toy: the Sing & Snore Ernie doll. |
In holidays past, the truly desperate would turn to the classified ads of their local newspaper to hook up with wily entrepreneurs looking to make a fast buck off a procrastinating parent. But as the Internet permeates more and more aspects of commerce, it has finally infiltrated what was one of the last remaining occu... |
For the last several weeks, after the doll had flown off the shelves of department and specialty stores, message boards have been awash with Ernie scalpers testing the waters to see just how much frantic parents would be willing to pay for the toy. |
"Bring Ernie home for Christmas!" cried one post to the "rec.toys.vintage" newsgroup. Some offer to sell "at cost," although what that means exactly seems to vary. According to a salesperson at the FAO Schwarz San Francisco store, Tyco's Sing & Snore Ernie retails for $39.99. |
On the Net, however, there is definitely some price gouging afoot. In a brief survey of the more than 2,000 Usenet newsgroup messages that refer to the Sesame Street toy, the prices varied from $10- $250 per Ernie--plus shipping charges, which ranged from $5-$20. |
FAO Schwarz along with some Toys'R'Us and KB Toys stores in the Bay Area are currently sold out of the toy, and they are unsure whether they will receive any new shipments before the holidays. |
"No one wanted it at first, until it got out that this was 'the one' this year," said the FAO Schwarz salesperson. "And then we sold out real fast." |
At least one Ernie-peddler seems to be an altruist, inspired by the spirit of the season: " If you truly need one of these for Christmas and you do not wish to support people who would scalp baby/toddler toys, send me an email." |
However, not everyone was impressed by the sentiment. "Go scalp somewhere else," wrote one of the disgruntled, who pointed out that the Ernie enthusiasts were posting to a miniature-car newsgroup. |
"The Royals aren't well represented on my top 100," Law writes, "but they've got more sleeper/breakout candidates than any other organization." |
Law cites pitcher Miguel Almonte, outfielder Jorge Bonifacio and infielders Adalberto Mondesi and Kenny Diekroeger as breakout possibilities. |
The entire story is behind ESPN's paywall at http://es.pn/TzBjtc. |
"Sometimes a gig is just a paycheck. When we’re lucky, it’s so much more." |
Plus, his disastrous audition for 'Daredevil' and why the line "avocados at law" will never die. |
Bad news for Matt Murdock, good news for us. |
Two of K-pop’s biggest acts, Big Bang and Beast, held sold-out concerts in China and Taiwan over the weekend. |
Big Bang hit the stage at the Beijing MasterCard Center on June 5 and 6 on their “MADE” tour. The 25-song set list included past hits like “Tonight” and “Bad Boy,” as well as “Loser” and “Bae Bae” from their “M” EP and “Bang Bang Bang” and “We Like 2 Party,” the two songs from their most recent “A” EP released a week a... |
Meanwhile, boy group Beast was in Tianmu Stadium in Taipei on June 6 for its concert “2015 Beautiful Show in Taiwan.” The two-hour concert included Beast’s most popular dance tracks such as “Good Luck,” as well as slower ballads such as “12:30” and “On Rainy Days.” The members gave individual performances to show off t... |
Taiwanese fans also prepared a surprise birthday party for member Dongwoon. The 4,500 tickets to Beast’s first solo Taiwan concert in three years sold out in just one hour. |
At night, I find incredible pleasure in my Kindle. I pick up all 7.8 ounces of it, palm it, turn out the lights. Then, the only physical act required is a small swipe of my finger across an index-card-size piece of glass. I can choose to go almost anywhere, as long as I am willing to pay. |
The Kindle offers the purest form of immersive reading I have ever experienced. There is something narcotic about it. As scholar Alan Jacobs writes, “Once you start reading a book on the Kindle—and this is equally true of the other e-readers I’ve tried—the technology generates an inertia that makes it significantly eas... |
But when I am reading on my Kindle, I am not alone. While swiping my fingers across the pages of Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, for example, every dozen pages or so, I come across underlined sentences and above the words a tally: “513 Highlights.” That refers to the number of people who h... |
The Kindle has several such built-in but optional features that fall under the label of “social reading.” Social reading is basically what we have been trained to do while we read online. Newspapers and magazines have taught us to like, share, and retweet what we read, and URL links have us accustomed to switching betw... |
There are two main types of social reading. One kind, occurring after the reader has finished a book, is familiar to us—Facebook book groups and Twitter chats are two of many examples; although the term assumes a digital platform, these activities are updated versions of book clubs or classroom discussions. Other featu... |
Back at the Kindle webpage, I can see the most highlighted Kindle passage of all time, this sentence from Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire: “Because sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal with them” (17,784 highlights). The most highlighted book of all time is The Holy Bib... |
Bob Stein, director of the Institute for the Future of the Book, has created a matrix breaking down the two main categories of social reading into a more complex taxonomy organized by whether discussion occurs offline or on and whether it is ephemeral or persistent, synchronous or asynchronous, or just plain face-to-fa... |
Social reading sounds newfangled. But looked at another way, it’s not so new. Reading, historically, was “social” for far longer than it has been private. The concept of reading as primarily an individual, solo act—which the modifying “social” in “social reading” assumes—is a modern phenomenon. Homeric poetry and other... |
After writing became more widespread, it was often a prompt for speaking, something one used as an aid in orating, reciting, or declaring to others. When Saint Augustine watched Ambrose read a book without moving his lips or making any sounds, he was shocked: Until about the eighth century, most people read by reading ... |
This kind of “social reading” continued throughout most of the Middle Ages, as scribes copying manuscripts assumed readers would enunciate the words they saw on the page. Written texts developed from and aided oral communication, and since there are no commas or capital letters in speech, there were initially no spaces... |
But here’s the thing: Even with history and theory behind me, I do not want to see those Kindle Highlights on my screen. Not because I am averse to the digital or the social. This has nothing to do with technology. |
It is not “private reading” I crave. It is—as long as we are coining terms—unlinked reading. Ironically, or perhaps appropriately, we may need a digital-native term to best describe the varieties of reading now available to us. Unlinked reading is the kind that requires of me deeper attention and allows me to ruminate.... |
We need both kinds of reading. Social—I mean, linked—reading returns us to a long tradition in the history of the book. Academics who are exploring it for classroom texts are enriching age-old pedagogies. Access to what others deemed important to highlight or to conversations about a text in real time also has a democr... |
But we need unlinked reading, too. What I crave when I pick up my Kindle is absorption, to be inside another world, floating in the flow of narrative or argument. Once so immersed, freed from the existential problems of constant contact, and the narcissistic silo-ing of small experience, I can think hard or feel deeply... |
Are you for or against the Conservation Security Program? Would you support increased funding for the Millennium Challenge Account? Do you think the identity card issued by the Tohono O'odham Indian tribe should be accepted as proof of US citizenship? |
What? You say you don't know? Well, the US bishops have strong opinions on all these issues. |
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops-- the agency allegedly run by the American bishops-- has put all those issues on this year's political agenda. The list of issues on which the bishops will be lobbying goes on and on: child-care funding, immigration reform, welfare, foreign aid. |
If you scroll all the way down to the end of the list, you'll notice that the bishops are also supporting pro-life legislation. That's nice. |
But if you see anything on that long, long list that would help Catholic families with lots of children-- say, something that would provide tax relief for families in which the mother stays at home-- let me know; I couldn't find it. |
NEW YORK, Oct 9: Google is expected to introduce two new smartphones Tuesday, part of its continuing push to embed its digital services and Android software more deeply into peoples’ lives. |
The new Pixel-branded phones will anchor a product event Tuesday in New York. Google launched its line of high-end phones two years ago to better compete against Apple, Samsung and other device makers. That includes many that rely on free software and apps such as the free Android operating system, which powers most of... |
Google is also likely to roll out several other gadgets, including new version of its “smart” Home speaker, a rumored tablet with a detachable keyboard and an update to its Chromecast streaming device, based on media leaks. |
The latest Pixel phones are likely to attract the most attention, even though the first two generations have so far barely made a dent in the market. Google has sold an estimated 7 million Pixels over the past two years, almost imperceptible next to the 3.6 billion phones shipped during that time, according to the rese... |
Google has been somewhat restrained in its distribution and marketing the Pixel phone, Llamas said, because it doesn’t want to alienate Samsung and hundreds of other device makers who feature Android in their own phones. Because Android highlights Google services, it’s key to Google’s business of selling ads through it... |
The new Pixel phones are expected to follow the trend of expanding the phone screen nearly to the edges of the device. Apple, for instance, just released its biggest iPhone yet, the XS Max, which sells for as much as $1,450. Google hasn’t yet discussed prices for its Pixel phones. |
Analysts are also expecting Google to add higher resolution and more cameras to the Pixel, whose first two generations attracted rave reviews for its high-quality pictures. |
(FPRI) — Congress and the Pentagon are pursuing a number of initiatives that should significantly reshape tomorrow’s force. Defense Secretary Ash Carter has advanced a “Force of the Future” project with a series of proposals that focus on personnel system reforms and better talent management practices. Somewhat related... |
Little of the effort to date has touched on the key considerations and critical trends that impact the design of future combat forces. To advance the discussion, this short E-Note raises six major considerations that might offer the Pentagon’s planning community some insights into translating strategy aims into the cha... |
We will certainly be surprised in the future, so it is our task now to try to plan against the effects of some deeply unsettling surprises. The key to victory here is not the expensive creation of new conceptual, methodological, or electro-mechanical tools of prediction. Rather it is to pursue defense and security plan... |
Minimizing regrets is not achieved with better computer-aided powers of prediction, or by maximizing investments in a narrow or specific war-fighting area. As we cannot predict the future with consistent accuracy, we should not be tempted to believe that there is some wonderful methodology that enables American planner... |
Instead, as Professor Gray noted, “Expect to be surprised. To win as a defense planner is not to avoid surprise. To win is to have planned in such a manner that the effects of surprise do not inflict lethal damage.” Surely, tradeoffs and resource constraints are crucial to the exercise of strategy as a pragmatic tool, ... |
Avoiding “lethal damage” by surprise also involves assessment of the character of future wars. There are more indirect methods as suggested by the discussion about Gray Zone conflicts, and there are rising powers capable of more direct forms of sustained attrition. As noted by the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, G... |
Conventional deterrence remains a strategic priority but is strained by the rank of rising powers or revisionist states bent on seizing regional hegemony. Deterring rising competitors will be more difficult as they acquire more advanced capabilities. There is more to deterring a major state like China than buying a lot... |
While many states might want to emulate some of our critical military systems, just as many will seek unique solutions to their security dilemmas that feature their own culture and context. We should not assume that all opponents will fight us in our preferred conventional paradigm. Future threats will be increasingly ... |
We must anticipate more experienced opponents capable of smart swarming and focused attacks on our critical systems and vulnerabilities. As my colleague Dr. T.X. Hammes has persuasively argued, the future should be replete with adversaries who employ the smart, small and cheap solutions. Our tactical and operational su... |
A force design that places a premium on utility in multiple scenarios is a smart call and should be stressed. Versatility is based on a breadth of competencies, versus a collection of specialized organizations or players. It is very difficult for general purpose forces to achieve full spectrum coverage, but having forc... |
A survey of the world’s trouble spots suggests that land warfare has more of a future than many now seem to believe. Given that we cannot predict the place or nature of future military engagement, as former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has noted, “we must place a premium on acquiring equipment and providing traini... |
One of the principal elements of a sound joint force design is a balanced force capable of generating options for decision makers in many contexts, and at the operational level of being able to generate dilemmas for our opponents. We may no longer have the overall size of the force we need to execute our national strat... |
Technology cannot significantly offset the need for balanced joint forces, nor can it guarantee short wars. Our forces have to cover a wide range of missions and forms of terrain, and they have to be rugged and reliable, instead of exquisite and expensive. Of late, we have been succumbing, almost sub-consciously, to bu... |
Certainly, advanced forms of technology can benefit U.S. military performance in all domains, enhancing command and control, intelligence, undersea warfare, missile defense, etc. Over the last generation, America’s prowess in precision strike operations has been materially improved. But rarely have we applied the same ... |
This is not to suggest that we eschew strategic or operational breakthroughs. We should explore innovation in all forms in a dedicated effort to arrest the erosion of our military edge. It just means that we need to pursue more than one domain in our set of options in order to ensure that we do not place all our chips ... |
Overall, a premium should be placed on forces that can do more than one thing. Therefore, providing flexibility across all domains should be foremost among the decision criteria we apply to our future military. U.S. force planning should hedge by providing general capabilities and organizational agility that allow for ... |
The United States should maximize the use of the Reserves wherever feasible and suitable. An increased reliance on the National Guard is not without additional costs and higher risks since the Reserve Component is not maintained at the necessary level of combat readiness. Given the time required to bring the reserve as... |
Given the range of adversaries that we face, the United States cannot gamble its future security entirely on a single dimension or domain of warfare. Our opponents have a say in the character, frequency, and ferocity of tomorrow’s wars. Future policymakers should not be simplifying potential opponents’ strategic calcul... |
The views expressed here are the author’s own and do not reflect the policy or position of the Defense of Defense. |
*Dr. F. G. Hoffman is a member of FPRI’s Board of Advisors, a retired Marine officer, and serves as a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University. |
Ash Carter, Remarks on “The Next Two Links to the Force of the Future” As Delivered by Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, The Pentagon Courtyard, Washington, D.C., June 09, 2016. Accessed at http://www.defense.gov/News/Speeches/Speech-View/Article/795341/remarks-on-the-next-two-links-to-the-force-of-the-future. |
See the SASC committee press release at http://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2016/5/senate-armed-services-committee-completes-markup-of-the-national-defense-authorization-act-for-fiscal-year-2017. |
For ideas on this, see the ideas of Shawn Brimley and Loren DeJunge Schulman, “Sustaining the Third Offset in the Next Administration,” War on the Rocks, March 15, 2016. |
Charles Heller and William Stofft, America’s First Battles, 1776–1965 (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1986), xii. |
Colin S. Gray, “The 21st Century Security Environment and the Future of War,” Parameters (Winter 2008/2009), 14–24. |
See the Chairman, JCS risk assessment statement appended to the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review, 60–65. |
Martin E. Dempsey, The National Military Strategy of the United States of America 2015 (Washington DC, June 2015), i. |
National Commission on the Future of the Army, The Army for the Future (Arlington, VA: NCFA, 2016), 52. |
Timothy M. Bonds, Michael Johnson, Paul S. Steinberg, Limiting Regret: Building the Army We Will Need (Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2015). |
Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr., “How to Deter China,” Foreign Affairs (March/April 2015). |
David E. Johnson, “The Challenges of the “Now” and Their Implications for the U.S. Army,” (Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2016), 10. |
T. X. Hammes, “Cheap Technology Will Challenge U.S. Tactical Dominance,” Joint Force Quarterly, 81 (2nd Quarter, April 2016), 76–85. |
Australian Army, Complex Warfighting, Future Land Operations Concept (Canberra: Australian Army, 2004). |
Robert M. Gates, statement before the Senate Armed Services Committee, October 21, 2015, 7. |
Nathan Freier, “Defining and Operationalizing Balance in Defense Strategy,” (Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2009). |
Mackubin Thomas Owens, “A Balanced Force Structure to Achieve a Liberal World Order,” Orbis, (Spring 2006), 307–325. |
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