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F. G. Hoffman, “What the QDR should say about Landpower” Parameters, Vol. 43, no. 4 (Winter 2013/2014), 7–14. |
Hammes, “Cheap Technology Will Challenge U.S. Tactical Dominance,” 76–85. |
Rhys McCormick, “The Army Modernization Challenge: A Historical Perspective,” (Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, March 2016). |
Shawn Brimley, While We Can: Arresting the Erosion of America’s Military Edge (Washington, DC: Center for a New American Security, December 2015). |
For ideas, see Paul Scharre, Uncertain Ground: Emerging Challenges in Land Warfare (Washington, DC: Center for a New American Security, December 10, 2015). |
David Deptula, “Revisiting the Roles and Missions of the Armed Forces,” testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, November 5, 2015, 2. See also Stephen D. Krasner & Amy B. Zegart, “Pragmatic Engagement,” The American Interest (July/August 2016), 27. |
Arnold Punaro, The Commission on the National Guard and Reserves (Washington, DC: Commission on the National Guard and Reserves, January 31, 2008). |
Hoffman, “What the QDR Should Say about Landpower,” 13. See also National Commission on the Force Structure of the Army, Report on the Role of the Army (Washington, DC, January 28, 2015). For further analysis see Joshua Klimas et al, Assessing the Army’s Active-Reserve Component Force Mix (Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2014... |
David Barno and Nora Bensahel, “Beyond the Army Commission: Unifying the Army’s Components,” War on the Rocks, February 9, 2016. |
LTGEN H. R. McMaster, U.S. Army, “Continuity and Change, The Army Operating Concept and Clear Thinking about Future War,” Military Review (March-April 2015), 6–14. |
Robert O. Work, “The Third U.S. Offset Strategy and its Implications for Partners and Allies,” As Delivered, Willard Hotel, Washington, DC, January 28, 2015. Available at http://www.defense.gov/News/Speeches/Speech-View/Article/606641/the-third-us-offset-strategy-and-its-implications-for-partners-and-allies. |
See Mackubin T. Owens on strategic pluralism in US Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy: The Evolution of an Incidental Superpower, Derek S. Reveron, Nikolas K. Gvosdev, and Mackubin T. Owens, eds., (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2016), 55. |
Calgary-based visual collaboration provider Smart Technologies, inventor of the Smart Board interactive whiteboard, has released its new “Smart kapp” digital capture board. |
The company says that Smart kapp allows users to write, draw and capture ideas using ordinary dry erase Smart ink markers as they would on dry-erase boards. Images can be saved, converted to PDF format and shared. |
“Smart kapp eliminates the ineffective practice of photographing whiteboards and flipcharts or furiously typing notes during meetings to save and share valuable information and insights,” the company says. |
Smart kapp can be wirelessly connected to mobile devices and doesn’t require additional IT integration. |
Product specs, sizes, pricing, purchasing information and availability will be announced at InfoComm, which takes place June 18-20 in Las Vegas. |
If you’re not an early adopter or serious gamer, don’t get too excited over the breakthrough VR headset–yet. |
A post by Atman Binstock, chief architect at Oculus, states, “The Rift will be capable of delivering comfortable presence for nearly everyone. However, this requires the entire system working well…We believe this ‘it just works’ experience will be fundamental to VR’s success.” Binstock’s post also makes clear that Rift... |
The reason for these serious specs is simple: Virtual reality requires a high frame rate for the motion within a virtual space to feel natural. Smooth movement is necessary to prevent simulation sickness, which makes people get headaches, dizzy, or even nauseous. Most video games run at 30 frames per second, like telev... |
Garden-variety PCs simply aren’t up to the job. Oculus requires a machine built in the last 12 months, or one about to be built. It needs a graphics card that costs $300 or more, which means a computer that costs over $1,000. And this is really only the minimum. There will be games that push boundaries, as developers e... |
Embracing what may be a revolutionary technology is not for the cheap or faint of heart. |
In other words, Oculus Rift, along with competitors such as HTC’s Vive and Sony’s Morpheus— is not a product for the masses. It will cater to early adopters and gaming enthusiasts who will spare no expense to get the best experience. Morpheus may be the cheapest when it is released in first half of 2016, since it will ... |
Embracing what may be a revolutionary technology is not for the cheap or faint of heart. It’s a shame that more people won’t get to buy the Oculus Rift or the Vive or other VR headsets. But if they try a friend’s headset, they may be enticed to bide their time until the technology required to power VR becomes inexpensi... |
And it does seem like Oculus is keeping such people in mind. The company partnered with Samsung to create the Gear VR, which relies on a Galaxy smartphone for its screen and processing power. It’s not as immersive as Rift, but $200 and a phone you may already have beats the $2,000+ requirement to get the most out of th... |
Some, including me, should find their current computers may be just powerful enough to get into VR, at least the simpler games. Others will invest the money later this year or next to get gaming machines that are screaming with the power and speed required for VR. But most will wait until the technology’s cost of entry... |
DETROIT, Mich. – Choosing a nursing home for a family member is a big decision. |
Carlas Parker says her family did their research before choosing St. Francis Nursing Center in Detroit to care for her 73-year-old uncle. |
Parker says her uncle, Ralph Ford, suffered from cognitive breakdowns, so they chose St. Francis’ because it was supposed to provide a safe and secure facility for residents who tend to wander. |
However, the system failed in Ford’s case. |
“It was like a nightmare,” Parker told WDIV. |
Ford’s body was found in a nearby dumpster on Jan. 18. Family members say they know he was at the facility the day before, and the nursing home didn’t report him as missing until his body was discovered. |
“He was supposed to be safe and secure in his bed, not freezing in a dumpster,” she said. |
Parker’s attorney has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the nursing home, seeking $1 million in damages. |
The nursing home did not provide a comment to WDIV. |
“The main thing that hurts me and my mother is we truly, truly thought he was going to be safe there. We really did,” she said. |
Smokebrush Gallery, 218 W. Colorado Ave., 444-1012. Open Wed., Fri. and Sat., noon to 5 p.m. Featuring Entre Nous: Works by Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore through Sept. 23. Call 444-1012 or visit smokebrush.org for more. |
Bridge Gallery, 218 W. Colorado Ave., 232-9368. Open Sat., 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sun., noon to 3 p.m. Featuring Cat's Cradle through Oct. 1. |
Business of Art Center, 513 Manitou Ave., Manitou Springs. Open Tues.-Sat., 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Free. Featuring The Other Side of the Peak, unusual and atypical views of Pikes Peak through Sept. 23. Call 685-1861 or visit thebac.org for more. |
Cedars Jazz Club, 3125 Sinton Road, 578-5744. Featuring 400-700 Nanometers, recent paintings by Michael Thompson through Sept. 27. Call 685-9140 for more. |
Coburn Gallery, CC Worner Center, 902 N. Cascade Ave., 389-6607. Featuring Afterimages: an installation in three parts, works by Scott Johnson through Oct. 21. Public lecture, Sept. 21, 3 p.m. Featuring Book as Object: An International Survey of Sculptural Bookworks, Oct. 31 through Dec. 19. Opening reception and galle... |
Colachi Arts, 1107 Manitou Ave., 685-1254. Featuring Heather Harris' mixed media, Ginny Thompson's photography and Peter King's pottery through September. Opening reception, Sept. 23, 5-9:30 p.m. and Sept. 24, noon to 7 p.m. |
Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum, 215 S. Tejon St., 385-5990. Featuring Pike's World: Exploration and Empire in the Greater Southwest through Oct. 14. Looming Large: The Artistic Legacy of Pikes Peak through March 2007. Marketing the Mountain: Pikes Peak in the Popular Imagination through 2007. Visit cspm.org for more. |
Commonwheel Artists Gallery, 102 Cañon Ave., Manitou Springs. Open daily, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. through Labor Day. Open daily, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. thereafter. Featuring Landscapes of Change, woodcuts by Jean Gumpper and ceramics by Howard Chip Shaw III through Sept. 25. Latka Land Expanded, by Pueblo artists Tom and Jean Lat... |
Cottonwood Artists' School, 25 Cimino Drive, 520-1899. Open Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Featuring Pikes Peak Pastel Society Members' Exhibit through Sept. 26. |
Cucuru Gallery, 2332 W. Colorado Ave., 520-9900. Open Tues.-Sat., 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Featuring Fall Art Safari with Mary-Linn Benning and new works by resident artists through Nov. 10. Opening reception, Sept. 21, 4-8 p.m. |
Colachi Arts, 1107 Manitou Ave., 685-1254. Featuring Heather Harris mixed media, Ginny Thompsons photography and Peter Kings pottery through September. Opening reception, Sat., Sept. 23, 5-9:30 p.m. and Sun., Sept. 24, noon to 7 p.m. |
El Pueblo History Museum, 301 N. Union Ave., Pueblo, 719/583-0453. Open Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. $3-$4 for non-members. Featuring Explorer or Spy: The Pike Legacy through Dec. 30. 18th Annual Mercado, Sept. 23-24, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. |
FAC Modern, 121 S. Tejon St., Suite 100, 633-5583. Open Mon.-Thurs., 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Fri.-Sat., 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sun., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. $3.75-$7.50 for non-members. Featuring works by Dale Chihuly through Jan. 7, 2007. First Thursday Tastings, Oct. 5, 5-8 p.m. Colorado Springs artists Dan Britton, Pard Morrison... |
Full Spectrum Gallery, 828A E. Fillmore St., 630-7664. Open Wed.-Sat., 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sun., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Featuring Prolific Tendencies, showcasing the work of Maggie Hanson and Gabe Kamm through Oct. 21. Opening reception, Sept. 15, 5-8 p.m. Call 630-7664 for more. |
Gunter-Wolff Gallery, 2605 W. Colorado Ave., 520-9494. Open Mon. and Wed.-Sat. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sun., noon to 5 p.m. Pearing Pearfect Artwork with Your Taste, works by Julie Kirkland and Jerry Rhodes through Oct. 18. Opening reception, Fri., Sept. 22, 6-8 p.m. Call 520-9494 or visit guntherwolffgallery.com for more. |
L.I.W. Cargo Gallery, 713 Manitou Ave., Manitou Springs, 685-0452. Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Featuring Nancy Rynes' Small Towns and Back Roads, paintings of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah through Sept. 30. |
Mediterranean Caf, 118 E. Kiowa St., 633-0115. Open Mon.-Sat., 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Featuring Tibet! photographs by Constance Elmore. Call 633.0115 for more. |
Mountain Living Studio, 741 Manitou Ave., Manitou Springs, 685-0225. Open Mon.-Thurs. and Sun., 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Fri.-Sat., 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Featuring Living Semiprecious by Ronnee DelBianco, Millefiori & Swarovski by Joyce Illiq, Chunky Stones through Silver by Shelly Birch & Pablo, Crochet Bead Rope Design by Mary... |
OpticalReverb Gallery, 218 W. Colorado Ave., 210-9799. Open noon to 5 p.m., Wed., Fri. and Sat. Free. Featuring Futureself, displaying the work of more than a dozen artists, through September. Works by Brandon Friend and Matt Clark, through October. Opening reception Fri., Oct. 6, 5-8 p.m. Works by James Wolnick, throu... |
OpticalReverb at Park East, 720 Goodnight St., Pueblo, 719/210-9799. Featuring Train Station Glimpses, works by Tim Davis, Tylan Troyer, Erica Reyes, Pathos, Douglas Rouse and Jeff Jag, through Oct. 1. |
OpticalReverb at Phantom Canyon, 2 E. Pikes Peak Ave., 210-9799. Open daily, 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Featuring For Sara, works by Samuel Pisciotta, Brett Wilson and Lance Butcher through September. Organic Symmetry, works by Kim Polomka, Andy Mason, Marina Eckler and Adept, Oct. 1 through Nov. 30. Seguidor de Prosa, multi-me... |
OpticalReverb at the V Bar, 19 E. Kiowa St., 210-9799. Featuring Pops and Purple People, works by Martin McCormick through Oct. 15. Urban Sickness, canvas works by national graffiti artists, Oct. 15 through Dec. 15. |
FAC Modern, 121 S. Tejon St., Suite 100, 633-5583. Open Mon.-Thurs., 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Fri.-Sat., 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sun., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. $3-$5 for non- members. Featuring works by Dale Chihuly through Jan. 7. Visit csfineartscenter.org for more. |
Pankratz Gallery, 366 Second St., Monument. Open Tues.-Fri., 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Sat., 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Featuring Linda Lugenbill's Sculptural Basketry, Sept. 21 to Oct. 13. Opening reception, Thurs., Sept. 21, 5-8 p.m. Acrylic paintings of Karen Scharer, Oct. 19 to Nov. 10. Call 481-3108 for more. |
Penrose Public Library, 20 N. Cascade Ave., 531-6333. Featuring the whimsical works of artists ages 12 and older based on the book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as part of All Pikes Peak Reads, Oct. 2-27. Reception, Fri., Oct. 6, 4-6 p.m. |
Plantera Group Gallery, Plantera Group, 731 N. Weber St. Open Mon.-Thurs., 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Fri., 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Featuring Weber Street Works of Art, with CJ Hendrickson, Alison Smith and Davoth, to benefit the Business of Art Center. Fri., Sept 22, 5-8 p.m. $20. Call 886-0456 for more. |
Sangre de Cristo Arts & Conference Center, 210 N. Santa Fe Ave., Pueblo, 719/295-7200. Mon.-Sat., 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. $3-$4, free to members. Featuring Where's Zebulon? The Great Pikes Peak Hunt! in the Children's Museum through Nov. 4. Bill Gillette: A Passion for Ranching through Nov. 4. The Miller Collection and South... |
Smokebrush Gallery, 218 W. Colorado Ave., 444-1012. Open Wed., Fri. and Sat., noon to 5 p.m. Featuring Entre Nous: Works by Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore through Sept. 23. Power of 4: 4th dimension: Works by the artists of ROAR, Oct. 6-28. Opening reception, Oct. 6, 5-8 p.m. Minimum Wage: Works by Kat and Bob Tudor, No... |
The Squash Blossom, 2531 W. Colorado Ave., 632-1899. Open Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sun., noon to 5 p.m. Featuring Landscapes by Rick Young and New Works by Miguel Martinez through Nov. |
Tri-lakes Center for the Arts, 305 Hwy. 105, Palmer Lake, 481-0475. Annual Members' Show through Oct. 20. Octoberfest Celebration, Sept. 30, 6:30-10 p.m. Visit trilakesarts.org for more. |
UCCS Gallery of Contemporary Art, 1420 Austin Bluffs Pkwy. 262-3567. Open Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sat., 1-4 p.m. Featuring Floating Worlds, Sept. 22 through Nov. 17. UCCS Faculty Exhibition, Dec. 1 through Jan. 5. Blue Books and other Artist Books, Jan. 19 through March 16. Student Art Exhibition, April 6 through... |
Art events & openings Adobe Moby Paint-It-Yourself Ceramics and Pottery Studio Events, 1822 Dominion Way, 266-6022. $3-$15. Movie Night, Fri., Sept. 22, 6-9 p.m. Ladies Night, Wed., Sept. 27, 6-10 p.m. Soap and Salts Making, Wed., Sept. 27. 6-10 p.m. Youth and Adult Pottery Classes, Homeschool Art Classes and After-Sch... |
Rubbish, 17B Bijou St. Open Fri. and Sat., 5-10 p.m. Presenting Magic Reality, a one-man show featuring oil paintings by Rodney Wood, Oct. 6-8. Call 440-5638 for more. |
Still, he admits that Defense Sec. Leon Panetta’s stated lack of patience with Pakistan is mostly about the continuation of things like the Haqqani Network and the fact that parts of Pakistan remain a safe haven for terrorists. But part of that frustration is the lack of progress on the ground supply routes. |
The ground routes, he noted, aren’t needed, in the sense that supplies are getting through. |
The US has been getting supplies in by air and what is called the Northern Distribution Network, which run through lots of places, like Russia, and Uzbekistan, and Latvia and Georgia and many more. |
But the southern routes are certainly wanted. “It’s always good to have more options,” Little said. |
It’s even better to have better options. The shortest Northern routes are five times as long as the longest Pakistan routes. The longer northern routes are more than 10 times as long as the Pakistan routes. |
But the costs are much, much higher. |
Estimates run around an extra $30 million and more each month. |
Still, despite the lack of progress, lack of hope for progress or improvements in the near term, and growing frustrations, it’s good to know the U.S. doesn‘t consider the negotiations stalled. |
Still, one wonders how Little, theoretically, of course, if stuck on the side of the road in a car that isn’t moving and won’t start would describe his vehicle to mechanics. |
It isn’t moving and won’t start. And to anyone else, it might look dead. |
But there’s hope it might start again at some point in the future, isn't there? |
So don’t call it stalled. |
Dhananjay Motwani is thinking of an animal, and his 20 Questions opponent is, question by question, trying to figure out what it is. |
What’s impressive here isn’t that the questioner is a computer; that’s old hat. It’s that the machine and Motwani are chatting in his blue Hyundai Sonata, trundling along one of Silicon Valley’s many freeways. The traffic, as it tends to be in this part of the country, is bad. The game is a good way not just to pass th... |
Amazon introduced the road-going, Alexa-equipped device in September of last year, and started shipping to some customers in January. Amazon is working with some automakers to build Alexa into new cars, but the $50 Auto works with tens of millions of older vehicles already on the road: All you need is a power source (e... |
About the size and shape of a cassette, the Echo Auto sits on your dashboard and brings 70,000 Alexa skills into your car. Its eight built-in microphones let you make phone calls, set reminders, compile shopping lists, find nearby restaurants and coffee shops, and hear Jake Gyllenhaal narrate The Great Gatsby. |
An Artificial Head Measurement System with “the acoustically relevant structures of the human anatomy” plays a key role in Amazon's development of the Echo Auto. |
To safely cross the aural minefield, Daniel’s team started by adapting the Echo’s hardware, software, and user interface to the car. That meant adjusting the device so it can handle being turned on and off frequently, and boot up in a few seconds instead of the minute and a half it took when they first tried it. The te... |
Daniel’s team created new audio cues and streamlined the potentially distracting activity of the Auto’s LED bar. They gave it one tiny speaker to play the occasional error message, but chose to rely on the car’s audio system to do the heavy lifting, to reduce the Auto’s bulk and cost. They tested a variety of microphon... |
At Amazon’s reliability lab, the Echo Auto endured climatic chambers, heat and UV exposure, drop tests—just what they sound like—and yank tests, in which a specialized device yanks cords out of the thing with different levels of force. Standard stuff for all Echo devices. |
But making sure the Echo can hear you properly in a moving car took a new kind of test. That’s why Motwani, an Alexa product manager, is pondering large, not-soft herbivores while driving me to Amazon’s testing complex in Sunnyvale. The complex contains mocked up kitchens and living rooms, but I’m not allowed to see th... |
Amazon build a library of road noises by sending drivers into the wild in cars loaded up with microphones, then playing the sound recorded by each at the speaker in the same location. |
For up to 18 hours on end, the dummy will talk to the Echo Auto sitting on the dash, calling out the same commands and queries over and over again. |
In the driver’s seat is what looks a bit like the upper bit of a crash test dummy, a head and shoulders mounted on a gray plastic box. The head features a black cross where a human has eyes and a nose, a pill-shaped opening for a mouth, and unsettlingly accurate, molded ears. Its maker, Head Acoustics, calls it an Arti... |
Standing by the computers on a table against one wall, Motwani and two of his fellow Amazon engineers decide to start their demonstration at 40 mph, in the rain. A few keystrokes later, the speakers come to life, and the inside of the unmoving, sheltered car becomes an auditory facsimile of what it sounds like to drive... |
From the computer, the engineers show off the other conditions the car can mimic: different speeds, changing weather conditions, windows up or down, talk radio or music blaring. This is where the dummy goes to work, and when I learn why its sole facial feature is a mouth, which is really a speaker. For up to 18 hours o... |
Now that the Echo Auto has shipped to some customers, the garage-lab is focused on improving its performance in extreme conditions like convertibles and rain (though probably not the combination of the two). Like other Alexa products, it will keep getting better, and keep adding skills. But today, at least, it hasn’t b... |
Billboard is looking to expand its awards brand in Nashville by creating a Billboard Country Music Awards telecast. Billboard already has successful TV franchises with the "Billboard Music Awards," which honors the top sellers of the year, the "Billboard Latin Music Awards" and a weekly Spanish countdown show. |
"Country music is very important to Billboard, and we would love to put the spotlight on its brightest stars," said Tamara Conniff, executive editor and associate publisher of Billboard. "We are in early discussions to determine our plans. If this is something Nashville thinks would be good for the country music indust... |
No broadcast partner has been confirmed for the Billboard Country Music Awards or the Billboard Music Awards, but negotiations for both are taking place. |
Billboard also is home to the Billboard Touring Awards and the Billboard R&B Hip-Hop Awards. |
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