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in carrier warfare is to man the perimeter of the carrier battle group and absorb heavy losses. While it may not be true that you can never have enough surface combatants, 84 is only 7.5 escorts per 11 carrier groups. An aditional 25 combatants, or ten escorts per carrier, would be a good thing. Maybe at 12 or 15 escorts per carrier they start getting in each other’s way.

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Collins and Senate colleagues had added $2.6 billion to the 2008 defense bill for the third DDG-1000, which was to have been built by her constituents at Bath Iron Works. She is now advocating for the construction of nine more DDG-51s at BIW, in order to maintain the shipyard’s employment level and turnover. This is apparently more important than any military need for the DDG-51s, which is not discussed in Collins’ release.

It is now time to revisit future Navy fleet requirements: here’s a link to some recommended reading from Bob Work at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, who has suggested ways of defining a new surface combatant

Nimble Books specializes in micropublishing timely, relevant information in slender paperback formats that are available via Amazon.com. If your Knol would make the core of a good 32 - 48 page “nimble” book, let us know!

Inside Google Book Search: Do you Knol the ledge?

A few months ago we announced on the Official Google Blog that we were testing a new product called Knol. Today, we’re making it available to everyone. In addition to our official announcement, we wanted to tell you about it here because we think that Knol could be a powerful tool for publishers and authors. Knols are articles about specific topics written by authoritative sources, so if you’re an author, writing a knol is a great way to raise the profile of a topic you care about.

Official Google Blog: Knol is open to everyone

A few months ago we announced that we were testing a new product called Knol. Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. Today, we’re making Knol available to everyone.

The web contains vast amounts of information, but not everything worth knowing is on the web. An enormous amount of information resides in people’s heads: millions of people know useful things and billions more could benefit from that knowledge. Knol will encourage these people to contribute their knowledge online and make it accessible to everyone.

The key principle behind Knol is authorship. Every knol will have an author (or group of authors) who put their name behind their content. It’s their knol, their voice, their opinion. We expect that there will be multiple knols on the same subject, and we think that is good.

This is a public domain publication. Why isn’t it available in full view in GBS?

CVAN-70 Aircraft Carrier: Joint … - Google Book Search

CVAN-70 Aircraft Carrier: Joint Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, Second …
By United States Congress. Joint Senate-House Armed Services Subcommittee on CVAN-70 Aircraft Carrier, United

Update: apparently this issue has been around for a couple of years. There is (justified) concern that there may be a (small) percentage of copyrighted material inside GPO publications. Bottom line: Lame-o!

Right on! One of my favorite things to do in a new city is to go for a long morning walk of exploration.

Google LatLong: Pound the pavement

Starting today, you can tell Google Maps that you want walking directions, and we’ll try to find you a route that’s direct, flat, and uses pedestrian pathways when we know about them. Just get directions as you normally would. If you’re going 10 km or less (some call this 6.2 miles), we’ll show you a link that you can click to get “Walking” directions:

The LATBR was painfully thin and not especially insightful twenty years ago. The only wonder is that it’s taken this long to happen.

The best (only) good thing about the NYTBR now is the Bauman Rare Books ad on the back page.

LA Times to Fold Standalone Book Review - 7/21/2008 12:28:00 PM - Publishers Weekly

According to a former staffer, the Los Angeles Times is folding its standalone Sunday book review section, laying off two dedicated book editors.

Despite the folding of the section, the longrunning Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is expected to continue, but Wasserman observed that without the Book Review itself, “the book festival will be a hollow joke.” He urged readers and writers “to join with us as we protest this sad and backward step.”

That was quick. Can anyone say “Sea Wolf”?

Cost and design bugs could sink new destroyer program | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com

But limiting the DDG 1000 series to two ships also may raise questions about the Navy’s fiscal management.

Retired Vice Adm. Tim LaFleur, who served as the Navy’s top surface warfare officer from 2001 to 2005, said the DDG 1000’s distinctive design and operating systems will require the service to maintain special supply lines and training programs for sailors for decades. Such expenses routinely are spread across a long line of ships but are harder to justify when just two are involved, he said.

Because of those costs, the Navy probably would offer few objections if Congress decided to cancel the DDG 1000 program completely, Work said.

This might be a good subject for a nimble book. Anyone “want to write one?

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Review of: Your mother was a Neanderthal by Scieszka, Jon

Parker loves these Time Warp trio books.

In my case, I was the Neanderthal and my mother the Cro-Magnon.