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By Jeff Gurwitch
November 14, 2010
For this review of the Smith & Wesson M&P (Military & Police) pistol series, I want to do something that I think is different from what you might normally see on a review of a gun. Most firearms reviews I have seen seem to be based on the writer giving his or her impressions or findings on the firearm after just one or perhaps a series of range sessions. For this review I want to cover the past 2 and half years I have been using M&P pistols and the reason that led me to going from just owning one to several in the M&P pistol line. So, let me start at the beginning…
My quest for a double action 9mm that would be good for both competition and defensive carry started a little over four years ago. I had for the longest time been a diehard M1911 pistol fan. Throughout my military career, on and off at times, I have carried a M1911A1. I just preferred all metal guns and I liked the big old .45ACP bullet. It was therefore just natural that when I started competitive shooting (about 10 years ago), I exclusively used a single-stack Kimber Custom Classic in .45 ACP and a M1991 Colt Commander for personal carry.
It was right around June 2005 after about 5 years of shooting my trusty Kimber in Limited-10 in USPSA matches I felt the need to switch to a 9mm and go for Production Division. The rising cost of ammo for .45ACP coupled with the fact that more and more Limited-10 shooters were switching to double stacked 40's and such drove me away from L10. So, for the next two years I tried a total of four different 9mm pistols from four different manufactures. I was looking for a 9mm pistol that most closely resembled the feel of a M1911—a tall order for a polymer double action pistol to fill!
Enter the Smith & Wesson (S&W) M&P9 9mm Pistol:
So, for one reason or another, whichever pistol I tried, either I didn't like the feel of it, couldn't shoot it near as well as a M1911, or had reliability issues. I just moved onto one 9mm after another trying to find the perfect one for me. It was during this period of trying several different double action pistols that I met Ernest Langdon, who was at the time working for Smith & Wesson (S&W) as a military sales rep. Even though Ernest was bringing the thunder at a lot of matches with an M&P and we had started shooting a lot together, it still wasn't enough to make me want to go out and get one. It actually took Ernest about a year of dogging me for me to finally give in and give the M&P9 a serious look and try.
In July 2008 I got my first Smith & Wesson (S&W) M&P9 pistol: a standard model with 4.25-inch (4.25") barrel. Since I wanted to use it primarily for competition, I immediately replaced the stock sights with a set of Dawson Precision sights and gave it to John Cavney of Shooters Supply, Fayetteville NC for some trigger work, before I even fired one round through it. John was able to significantly drop the factory trigger pull weight by polishing the internals.
I liked that first M&P pistol so much I have gone on to get three more: two M&P9L's, and one M&P9c (M&P9 Compact). I acquired the first 9L just after they came out in November of 2008, and then my second, a custom built one (by Smith & Wesson), in November 2009. The only difference between the two is that the custom M&P9L has a manual frame-mounted "sweep down" thumb safety, which is only offered on standard and compact models. I prefer a manual thumb safety not so much for the extra safety aspect, but because it allows me to obtain the same exact grip I use with M1911's. Having the safety lever allows me to rest my thumb on it while firing. I think this application of the thumb safety is overlooked by a lot of shooters. I think generally there are two types of automatic pistol shooters out there: the ones who started out on polymer guns already and ones like me who started out with 1911 style guns. If you are the latter I think you will find that, like me, the thumb safety on the M&P is an awesome feature if you want to get the same grip you enjoyed on your trusty 1911.
So how do these four pistol stack up? To best answer that I have to delve into their respective specific uses. With the S&W M&P9 standard and the M&P9L, they are pretty much the same gun except for barrel length. The M&P9L has a 5-inch (5") barrel. I find the M&P9 Standard settles a little faster during recoil, so I prefer the Standard model for USPSA match's where I can get my max speed on. But for 3-gun and IDPA, I actually prefer the 9L. I do feel that with the longer sight radius, I am a little smoother in my long range shots; and since IDPA and a lot of 3-gun matches base their scoring a little more on accuracy than speed, I think the 9L is the perfect gun for both of those competitions.
One standout item on all M&P pistols I think I should point out is the design of their grip/back strap on the pistol. Not only can you change out the back of the grip with 3 different sizes to match to your hand, the beavertail-style back of the frame allows you to get a super-high grip on the pistol and fully protects your hand from the slide during recoil, so the inside of your thumb knuckle doesn't get "bitten" during recoil. These features along with the grip angle itself puts the S&W M&P pistols above a lot of other DAO pistols, in my opinion.
M&P for Personal Protection/Defenseive Carry, including Concealed Carry (CCW):
After shooting both the M&P9 (4.25") and M&P9L (5") for a little over a year in competition I started to entertain the idea of carrying a M&P pistol for defensive use. I was fortunate enough to get chance to try a M&P9 Compact (M&P9c). What occurred was totally different than what I was expecting. Considering the M&P9c barrel is only 3.5 inches (3.5") long, I was expecting a lot of recoil and muzzle whip during firing. However, after shooting one, I was pleasantly surprised to find it shoots remarkably smooth for a gun that size. In fact, I liked it so much that I immediately ordered one for myself right after that range session! The M&P9c (thumb safety version) now is my primary carry gun. It comes with two a 12-round magazines: one with a finger rest, one without. Because the grip is cut down , I only use mags with the finger rest in order to shoot it comfortably.
For those times when I think I need more than 12 rounds, XGRIP offers a magazine adaptor for the standard M&P magazine (17 rounds) that fills the gap between the full size mag and the grip of the 9c. When applied, the XGRIP for the S&W M&P Compact (M&Pc) pistol makes one continues grip, allowing you to have the benefit of both extra rounds AND a true full-size grip.
**A Note on 9mm Parabellum for Defensive Use:
I will be the first to admit the 9mm Parabellum (9x19mm NATO) round is not the ultimate stopping round (I leave that honor to the .45ACP); but with the right ammo, I have total trust that the 9mm can get the job done. Currently loaded in my M&P9C is Winchester Ranger 127gr +P+.
Parts and upgrades for the M&P:
Now that the M&P pistol series has been out for a few years, Smith & Wesson has upgraded some of the internal parts in the M&P. One notable upgrade to the M&P line is their re-designed striker. Although I have never experienced a striker breaking on any of my own S&W M&P pistols, a lot of shooters have complained of breaking strikers in their M&P pistols while dry firing. To answer this, in the middle of 2009, an "enhanced" striker has replaced the original design. Not only is this striker beefed up and thicker, but the coating on the new striker is smoother, offering a slightly better trigger pull. On my original M&P9 pistol, I had the contact point of the striker that engages the sear polished; with the enhanced striker, this procedure is not necessary.
With the introduction of the S&W M&P Pro model, you now have a M&P9 9mm pistol with a 5-inch (5") barrel, a Pro sear, and a fiber optic sight upgrade. The Pro sear takes about 2 pounds (2 lbs) off the stock trigger pull weight; I've been using one in my first 9L for over a year now, and it runs flawlessly. Although not really new, I just recently acquired a 40-degree trigger bar designed for the 8 and 10lbs triggers. What is new is it being used in conjunction with the Pro sear. Although I've only fired about 200 rounds through this setup in my M&P9 standard, I can say there is a definite improvement. Not only is there less slack in the trigger, but it has a little less than half the normal reset distance to the next shot. Again, it's an outstanding improvement over a stock trigger.
One company that I must mention that offers outstanding products for the Smith and Wesson M&P pistol line is Apex Tactical Specialties, which offers competition ready replacement parts (such as their hard sears) for all models/calibers in the M&P pistol line. I have their hard sear in two of my M&P9's. Also Apex offers complete "Competition Enhancement Kits" that contain all the parts you need to really slick up the action on your M&P pistol and get it ready for competition.
Smith & Wesson (S&W) M&P9 Pistol Performance Up to the Present:
As it stands now I am just over 10,500rds through my first M&P9 pistol, which is set up with a 40-degree trigger bar and an Apex Tactical hard sear putting the trigger pull right at 4.6lbs. My other M&P9L, which just has an Apex hard sear in it, has a 4.1-lb trigger pull. The increased trigger pull weight might be due to the fact that I also replaced the trigger return spring or the trigger bar. Either way, the extra half-pound of trigger pull weight is worth the trade-off for less reset distance and travel on the trigger; my M&P9c, which has a stock sear, is sitting has a 7-lb trigger pull; my 9L, which has a Pro sear, comes in at 5 lbs of pull.
Maintenance wise, with the first M&P from 2008, I have replaced the recoil spring once at 6,000rds, and I've replaced the original striker with the improved one that is now standard on all M&P's. The pistol has run flawlessly over the past two and a half years. While I own the 9L and 9c versions, the standard model M&P9 is still my favorite one to shoot.
*A note on the magazines:
Even though I think I have acquired about 20 M&P magazines over the last 2 years I have been using the same first 5 I got when I received my first M&P pistol back in July 2008. These 5 magazines between my 3 full-size M&P's have seen just over 18,000 rounds through them. It wasn't until just last month that I finally had to break down and replace one; the plastic follower had worn and started to fail to lock back when empty. I think almost twenty thousand rounds and two and half years of use is an excellent benchmark in terms of reliability and at this rate, I think I'm set for life in terms of ever needing to buy new magazines!
Side by side shoot off:
Just recently I hit the range to do some side by side comparisons between my M&P9, M&P9c, and one of my duty pistols: a Glock 19 (G19). The drill: a 5-shot string as fast as I can shoot from the low-ready position at 5 meters into a 6-inch (6") circle. Because I don't shoot the Glock 19 as often as my M&P's, I gave myself 3 mags (magazines) to warm up prior to the two tries.
Here are the results:
Pistol String 1 Time String 2 Time
Glock 19 1.94sec 1.8sec
M&P9c 1.8sec 1.68sec
M&P9 1.7sec 1.6sec
The M&P9c's slight edge over the Glock 19 can be attributed to the fact that the M&P9c is my carry gun and I'm more used to it. Also, because my M&P9c is equipped with a thumb safety on which I can rest my firing hand thumb, I may be able to settle the gun a little faster when shooting at speed. Shooting-wise, the G19 and M&P9c felt the exact same it terms of felt recoil and muzzle rise. The full size M&P having the best runs was kind off what I expected, since it has a better trigger (different trigger bar and Apex sear) compared to the stock 5-lb pull in the Glock 19. The M&P9 standard is also a full-size gun with longer barrel and larger grip.
The Wrap Up:
Smith and Wesson M&P 9mm pistols have now replaced all my other pistols for both competition and daily carry, including concealed carry (CCW). If you are looking for a reliable, smooth-shooting double action polymer framed pistol M&P's are second to none.
Editor's Note: In the photos and video, you can see the author, Jeff Gurwitch, wearing ITW FASTMAG (also written FAST-MAG) 5.56mm AR mag carriers (magazine carriers) loaded with Lancer Systems L5 Translucent AR mags on his belt. DefenseReview (DR) likes and uses both of these products, as well.
Photo(s) Credit: Jeff Gurwitch
About the Author (Jeff Gurwitch):
– Has been a competitive shooter for the last 10 years: USPSA, IDPA, and 3-Gun.
– U.S. Army 3rd Special Forces Group, Ft. Bragg, NC.
– Spent 3 years as an instructor at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School
– Spent 8 years with U.S. Army 5th Special Forces Group, Ft. Campbell KY and did 3 tours in Iraq.
– Graduated the U.S. Army Special Forces Qualification course in 1998 as a Weapons Sergeant.
– Spent 7 years in the mechanized infantry and Airborne.
– Served in First Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm) in Iraq with the 1st Armored Division.|
– Joined the U.S. Army in June of 1990 as an infantryman.
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Apex Tactical Specialties, Inc.
715-D Santa Maria Ave.
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Website: http://www.apextactical.com
XGRIP Magazine Adapters
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Phone: 618-258-3529
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Website: http://www.winchester.com
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Phone: 770-432-1202
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A report out today by the charity Forum on Prisoner Education (FPE) claims cons should be given "unrestricted access to the internet for 'educational, resettlement, and recreational purposes'".
It argues that the UK should follow other European countries such as Hungary and Switzerland where prisoners have been able to use the internet and email for the last four years.
The report insists that trusting inmates to use the net would help their rehabilitation, enabling them to prepare for life on the outside.
Said FPE director Steve Taylor: "There really is something wrong with our prisons when countries such as Hungary, Greece and Russia provide internet access to prisoners but we do not."
However, the proposals have been branded "unrealistic" by the Government.
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Barbara Duarte, a nurse, testified previously that employees at Maui hospital were written up for comments made on Facebook. She says the bill would protect privacy and free speech.
But several members of Hawaii's business community had concerns about the proposal.
The state Chamber of Commerce says the bill is well-intentioned but that the issue isn't a prevalent problem in Hawaii.
The Maui Police Department also opposed the measure, saying it would limit the department's ability to conduct background checks.
The department suggested amending the bill to allow employers to ask about usernames for social media accounts but not passwords.
The committee adopted the department's suggestion as well as amendments from several businesses to make sure the proposal won't interfere with human resources or cybersecurity practices.
The bill now goes to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Mazinger Z is a giant manga robot who had his own anime show in the early 70s, and according to Wikipedia had a great influence on the Super Robot genre.
In this satellite photograph we can see a giant statue of Mazinger, standing proudly in a Spanish field. Nope that wasn't a typo ('Japanese' being quite a few keystrokes away) – this really is in Spain! But who built him there and why?
I'd never heard of Mazinger Z, but the show was a surprise hit in Spain, despite being edited down from the original violent Japanese version. A babelfish translation of this Spanish article might shed more light on the statue's origins…
The statue of the Mazinger was constructed 20-25 ago years, when they emitted the series by tele, so Mazinger is the guardian of our urbanization.
Umm, nope, that didn't help much. Loved the Power Rangers poses though.
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Soy milk, almond milk, oat milk, rice milk, coconut milk ... the list of alternative "milk" options go on and on. For those of us who are lactose intolerant, vegan, or just attempting to live a more plant-based lifestyle, this means a ton of options. And now, you can add one more to the list above: hemp milk.
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Hemp milk is made from the seeds of the hemp plant, which you might be familiar with from sprinkling them on your yogurt and salads or stirring into your overnight oats. The milk made from these delicate, white seeds is a great source of minerals, healthy fats, and plant protein. In fact, according to Nour Zibdeh, MS, RDN, CLT, hemp milk has even more protein than other common plant-based milks. "A cup of hemp milk contains 3 to 4 grams of protein, which is higher than almond or coconut milks," she explained.
Hemp seeds are also a great source of minerals like phosphorus, potassium, sodium, magnesium, sulfur, calcium, iron, and zinc, so you're a little closer to your recommended intake of each of those minerals by consuming hemp milk on the reg.
Healthy fats in hemp milk: ALA omega-3 fatty acid
Hemp milk is particularly unique because it contains high amounts of the plant-based omega-3 fatty acid alpha-linolenic acids, or ALA for short. Unfortunately, ALA is not converted into EPA and DHA—the bioactive forms of the omega-3 fatty acid—very efficiently1 in the body, but it does still have some positive benefits.
As Carlene Thomas, R.D. wrote for mbg, "One body of research2 found that women who ate more ALA fatty acids had a 40 percent reduced risk of sudden cardiac death, while the Cardiovascular Health Study3 found that there was a 50 percent reduced risk of fatal ischemic heart disease with higher ALA intakes in both men and women over age 65."
Is hemp milk sustainable?
If hemp's nutrition profile wasn't enough to convert you, there's a chance its sustainability factor will be.
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If you've decided that its rich mineral content and lesser need for water is enough to give hemp milk a go, there are a few things to know before you go shopping. The first has to do with sugar, as Zibdeh explained: "When picking hemp milk, choose varieties that are not sweetened. Sweetened and flavored varieties often contain sugars or syrups that negate its health benefits."
The second has to do with gums. "Hemp and most other dairy-free milks contain gums to keep the beverage homogeneous and from separating. But people with digestive disorders or symptoms like IBS, IBD, stomach pain, bloating, diarrhea, or constipation may experience more stomach upset from these gums." If you have these digestive issues, it's best to avoid these ingredients and look for a hemp milk with the fewest possible ingredients, which brings us to…
How to make your own hemp milk
Whether it's added sugars, gums, or flavoring, you might no be happy with the hemp milk options you find at the store. The good news is that as with most nut and seed milks, making your own hemp milk is refreshingly simple. Much like making your own oat milk, hemp milk just requires water, hemp seeds, and a pinch of salt.
- ¾ cup hulled hemp seeds (also called hemp hearts)
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- Add all ingredients to blender (with sweetener, if using: See note above).
- Blend until very smooth. You can strain this one through a clean, thin dish towel or a nut milk bag, but I don't find it necessary—I just shake well before using again.
- Makes 2 cups milk that can be stored in the fridge for up to a week.
Now that you're an expert on all things hemp milk, you might be wondering one last thing: How do hemp seeds and hemp milk relate to hemp-based CBD oil? Are they really from the same plant? There are a lot of different versions of the hemp plant, but the short answer is yes. Hemp is more than just super sustainable, its extremely versatile: It can be used to make anything from soap and paper to clothing and biofuel. As we already know, hemp seeds make a tasty snack and can also be used to make hemp milk or hemp seed oil (not to be confused with CBD oil). CBD oil is still made from hemp, it's just extracted from a different part of the plant that is richer in specific medicinal compounds, called cannabinoids, than the seeds.
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Since I penned my latest ode to the A's, little seems to have changed in their regard. The team thrives, and our Billy continues to confound analysts who think of Moneyball as an outlying historical event, rather than the process of always being a step ahead. It's fun to read the serial confusions of those for whom the sun rises and sets on well-appointed pinstripes or sawx. I've heard it claimed, by much better stat geeks than I, that the local team has actually underperformed its statistically likely wins to-date: in other words, they've not been lucky (Rajai was lucky). Here's hoping our boys can sustain their play well into the autumn tournament.
BUT, other things-of-note Have been happening in the past month-or-so, including the LA trial court decision to overturn teacher tenure in California -- about which there was much local celebration. I want to look at that issue over several editions of the RC: first and below, what is this thing called "tenure," anyway, and why all the specific fuss over it? Next, we'll look at the court decision itself, and then what it may mean for the real issue: improving K-12 education in our corner of the world. Finally, I am hoping to coax a guest appearance from a veteran educator who has taught from Brooklyn through N'Awlins to Guatemala, as well as deep in the cold heart of Texas. She's my daughter, and she has managed to pick-up a few ideas (as well as a law degree) along her way, about what ails the system. Stay tuned!
So, what is "tenure," and how is it different from the job security enjoyed by others in the public and private sectors?
A dictionary definition reads "status granted to an employee, usually after a probationary period, indicating that the position or employment is permanent." Now, "permanent" itself is a term that was weaned-out of the HR lexicon late last century, as workers' status generally devolved from Human Capital Asset down to disposable Overhead Expense. Anything in the private sector that connoted longevity or entitlement to a position was jettisoned in favor of the neutral term "regular-hire" status.
Indeed, most non-government workers are denominated as "at-will" employees, meaning that the arrangement of exchanging labor for money may be terminated at any time, by either Party for a good reason, or for no reason at all just not for any of a limited class of bad reasons (e.g., some forms of status-based discrimination, or an act against public policy, some other kinds of retaliation against conduct, breach of an implied contract term, or, in CA anyway, breach of an 'implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing' which is narrower than it sounds).
As such, and focusing here on 'firings' -- terminations related to poor performance or misconduct -- 'at-will' status gives employers very broad discretion to divest themselves of individual employees. They needn't even justify the action, much less have grounds related to performance. It's a major management gotcha, and an assist to American competitiveness. That said, it comes at a considerable cost in terms of employees' personal and financial insecurity, as many factors unrelated to actual performance may precipitate unemployment in a potentially hostile economy. It is also true, of course, that some workers 'game' the system the EEOC, for example, reports that employee claims of wrongful employer conduct tend to spike on the down-side of the business cycle.
In light of the vagaries of at-will status, the prospect of better job security has traditionally attracted private sector workers to unions. Typical collective bargaining agreements cover most terms and conditions of employment, including discipline and dismissal. Management prerogatives regarding firings are limited by provisions that establish employment policies and processes as parts of the bargained-for agreement between labor and management. These may generally be described as limited to "for cause" situations, and 'cause' may be formally disputed. There is a loss of flexibility and management discretion, as union-represented workers have some insulation against potentially arbitrary termination.
In the public sector generally, employees have still greater job security based on several lines of defense. Where government acts as an employer, general constitutional protections like Due Process and Equal Protection apply specifically to govern the employment relationship. 'Permanent' enjoy what are known as Skelly Rights, named for the US Supreme Court case that established them. These require notice to the employee, listing of the reasons for the dismissal, an opportunity to be heard on the subject, and some appeal right.
In addition, federal, state and local civil service statutes first enacted in the 1870s to overcome patronage systems (in which newly elected leaders would sack all their workers in favor of hiring their cronies and other supporters) also prescribe separate protective procedures for performance and misconduct-based terminations. In CA, the State Personnel Board oversees the process, and provides significant for-cause-type protection to employees, even during their probationary periods which may be a year or less. Public sector union processes, similar to their private counterparts above, also contribute further job security, and more than half of California's government workers are unionized.
Turning specifically to the education sector, tenure protections were originally enacted in the early 1900s for different reasons at different levels. In the college realm, tenure allows profs (and no, I don't get any as an Adjunct) to undertake research, or espouse positions, that would subject them to demagogic job pressure in its absence. It helps ensure academic freedom to pursue great questions wherever they may lead.
At the K-12 level, by contrast, the great questions may be fewer and demagogic pressures may be less (albeit what parent hasn't longed to fire at least one of Billy's teachers along the way?), but teachers (largely women at the time) were once subject to dismissal for marrying or having children. Tenure insulated them from those issues, as well as interference in the curriculum decisions.
In California, the challenged K-12 tenure rights are found in the Education Code: the so-called Permanent Employment Law and the Dismissals Law. The former authorizes school districts to grant permanent employee status to teachers after a probationary period of two years, or less as a practical calendar matter. Thereafter they may only be dismissed for any of eleven species of misconduct, including unsatisfactory performance. The process is long, arduous and expensive. Probationary teachers may also be dismissed for unsatisfactory performance, with some procedural rights-of- review of that decision. Union representation and assistance are, of course, available.
// Note that I am hopeful that all the above is reasonably accurate and on-point. There is a tremendous amount of over-heated rhetoric available on-line, so it's tough for the merely curious to find the straight scoop. Fire away in the comments. //
Now, given all of that, I'm not sure why this 'tenure' brand of job security is such a hot-button issue. Clearly, teachers enjoy rights that are dramatically better than that of 'at-will' private sector employees, and significantly better than private sector unions can provide. That said, the provisions that relate to educators vs. other public sector employees appear to be only marginally different.
Is it that much better, readers? If so, how -- and if not, how do we account for the extreme contrast between the public perception of teacher rights vis-à-vis other public employees? Is it the ongoing contact, with our kids -- our most important relations? Do you think educators are much better compensated than other government workers? In your view, is K-12 incompetence rampant, as compared with police, fire or the DMV?
Do you think CA education as a system is so bad that it's easy to decide that any change is an improvement? Or is this about envy, or the suspicion that everyone works best when they must constantly perform in fear for their jobs ("The beatings will continue until morale improves"?)
I'm interested in your thoughts.
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SEALs Killed in Crash Were on Rescue Mission
KABUL, Afghanistan — The 30 American service members — most of them elite Navy SEALs — who died when their helicopter was shot down had rushed to help Army Rangers who had come under fire, two U.S. officials said.
The heavy loss shows that clandestine tactics carry huge risks despite the huge success of the SEAL mission that killed Osama bin Laden more than three months ago. Most of the SEALs who died Saturday were from the same unit that killed bin Laden, although none of the men took part in that mission.
The U.S.-led coalition plans to rely more on special operations missions as it reduces the overall number of combat troops by the end of 2014.
There were conflicting accounts late Sunday as to whether the SEAL team had subdued the attackers who had pinned down the Rangers and were departing, or whether they were hit as they tried to land. One official said they had accomplished their mission, but another said the aircraft, a Chinook helicopter, was hit as it approached.
Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was still ongoing.
Thirty Americans and eight Afghans — seven commandos and a civilian translator — were killed in the crash, making it the deadliest single loss for U.S. forces in the decade-long war in Afghanistan. The Rangers, special operations forces who work regularly with the SEALs, secured the crash site in the Tangi Joy Zarin area of Wardak province, about 60 miles (97 kilometers) southwest of Kabul, the other official said.
The SEAL mission was first reported by CNN.
NATO was recovering the remains of the twin rotor Chinook helicopter. A current and a former U.S. official said the Americans included 22 SEALs, three Air Force members and a dog handler and his dog. The two spoke on condition of anonymity because military officials were still notifying the families of the dead.
All but two of the SEALs were from SEAL Team 6, the unit that killed bin Laden, U.S. officials said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.
Eight Taliban fighters were also killed in the battle, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement.
Afghanistan has more U.S. special operations troops, about 10,000, than any other theater of war. The forces, often joined by Afghan troops, are among the most effective weapons in the coalition's arsenal, conducting surveillance, infiltration and capture missions and night raids.
From April to July this year, 2,832 special operations raids captured 2,941 insurgents and killed 834, twice as many as during the same time period last year, according to NATO.
SEALs, Rangers, and other special operations troops are expected to be the vanguard of the American military effort in Afghanistan as international military forces start pulling out. By the time combat troops plan to have left the country, the coalition will have handed control of security to the Afghan forces they have spent tens of billions of dollars arming and training.
Special operations troops are expected to remain in the country after 2014 for counterterrorism missions and advisory support. Just how many will remain has not yet been negotiated with the Afghan government, but the United States is considering from 5,000 to 20,000, far fewer than the 100,000 U.S. troops there now.
Special operations forces are frequently used to target insurgent commanders as part of an effort to force the Taliban's leadership to agree to a negotiated peace. The operations, mostly in the form of night raids, are often carried out by Afghan and coalition special operations forces.
Night raids have drawn criticism from human rights activists and infuriated Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who says they anger and alienate the Afghan population.
But NATO commanders have said the raids are safer for civilians than relatively imprecise airstrikes.
As U.S. forces removed the wreckage Sunday, nearby Afghan and NATO forces battled insurgents as they carried out clearing operations in the areas around the crash site, a region that is just a stone's throw from the capital. The province, which borders Kabul, has increasingly come under Taliban control in recent months — even as the U.S.-led coalition has begun handing over security for parts of Afghanistan over to the government of President Hamid Karzai.
"There have been a small number of limited engagements in the same district" as Saturday's helicopter crash, NATO said in a statement. "However those clashes have not been in the direct vicinity of the crash site. As of now, we have no reporting to indicate any coalition casualties resulting from these engagements."


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There's an ongoing debate among neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, and even philosophers as to whether or not we could ever construct or reverse engineer the human brain. Some suggest it's not possible, others argue about the best way to do it, and still others have already begun working on it.
Regardless, it's fair to say that ongoing breakthroughs in brain science are steadily paving the way to the day when an artificial brain can be constructed from scratch. And if we assume that cognitive functionalism holds true as a theory — the idea that our brains are a kind of computer — there are two very promising approaches worth pursuing.
Interestingly, the two approaches come from two relatively different disciplines: cognitive science and neuroscience. One side wants to build a brain with code, while the other wants to recreate all the brain's important functions by emulating it on a computer. It's anyone's guess at this point in time as to who will succeed and get there first, if either of them.
Before we take a deeper look into these two approaches, however, it's worth reviewing what our friend Alan Turing had to say about brains.
The Church-Turing Hypothesis
Given that scientists are looking to model the human brain in digital substrate (i.e. a computer), they're having to work in accordance to a rather fundamental assumption: computational functionalism. This goes back to the Church-Turing thesis which states that a Turing machine can emulate any other Turing machine. Essentially, this means that every physically computable function can be computed by a Turing machine. And if brain activity is regarded as a function that is physically computed by brains, then it should be possible to compute it on a Turing machine, namely a computer.
So, if you believe that there's something mystical or vital about human cognition you're probably not going to put too much credence into these two approaches.
Or, if you believe that there's something inherently unique about intelligence that can't be translated into the digital realm, you've got your work cut out for you to explain what that is exactly — keeping in mind that any informational process is computational, including those brought about by electrical and chemical reactions. Minds are what brains do, so it's not too implausible to suggest that minds are what computers can do, too.
Rules-based artificial intelligence
One very promising strategy for building brains is the rules-based approach. The basic idea is that scientists don't need to mimic the human brain in its entirety. Instead, they just have to figure out how the "software" parts of the brain work; they need to figure out the algorithms of intelligence and the ways that they're intricately intertwined. Consequently, it's this approach that excites the cognitive scientists.
Some computer theorists insist that the rules-based approach will get us to the brain-making finish line first. Ben Goertzel is one such theorist. His basic argument is that other approaches over-complicate and muddle the issue. He likens the approach to building airplanes: we didn't have to reverse engineer the bird to learn how to fly.
Essentially, cognitive scientists like Goertzel are confident that the hard-coding of artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a more elegant and direct approach. It'll simply be a matter of identifying and developing the requisite algorithms sufficient for the emergence of the traits they're looking for in an AGI. They define intelligence in this context as the ability to detect patterns in the world, including in itself.
To that end, Goertzel and other AI theorists have highlighted the importance of developing effective learning algorithms. A new mind comes into the world as a blank slate, they argue, and it spends years learning, developing, and evolving. Intelligence is subject to both genetic and epigenetic factors, and just as importantly, environmental factors. It is unreasonable, say the cognitive scientists, to presume that a brain could suddenly emerge and be full of intelligence and wisdom without any actual experience.
This is why Goertzel is working to create a "baby-like" artificial intelligence first, and then raise and train this AI baby in a simulated or virtual world such as Second Life to produce a more powerful intelligence. A fundamental assumption is that knowledge can be represented in a network whose nodes and links carry "probabilistic truth values" as well as "attention values," with the attention values resembling the weights in a neural network. There are a number of algorithms that need to be developed in order to make the whole neural system work, argues Goertzel, the central one being a probabilistic inference engine and a custom version of evolutionary programming. Once these algorithms and associations are established, it's just a matter of teaching the AI what it needs to know.
Whole brain emulation
Neuroscientists aren't entirely convinced by the rules-based approach. They feel that something is being left out of the equation, literally. Instead, they argue that researchers should be inspired by an actual working model: our brains.
Indeed, whole brain emulation (WBE), the idea of reverse engineering the human brain, makes both intuitive and practical sense. Unlike the rules-based approach, WBE works off a tried-and-true working model; neuroscientists are not having to re-invent the wheel. Natural selection, through excruciatingly tedious trial-and-error, created the human brain — and all without a preconceived design. They say there's no reason to believe that we can't model this structure ourselves. If the brain could come about through autonomous processes, argue neuroscientists, then it can most certainly come about through the diligent work of intelligent researchers.
When talking about WBE it's important to distinguish between emulation and simulation. Emulation refers to a 1-to-1 model where all relevant properties of a system exist. This doesn't mean re-creating the human brain in exactly the same way as it resides inside our skulls. Rather, it implies the re-creation of all its properties in an alternative substrate, namely a computer system.
Moreover, emulation is not simulation. Neuroscientists are not looking to give the appearance of human-equivalent cognition. A simulation implies that not all properties of a model are present. Again, it's a complete 1:1 emulation that they're after.
A number of critics point out that we'll never completely emulate the human brain on account of the chaos and complexity inherent in such a system. Others disagree. As researchers from Oxford University have pointed out, we will not need to understand the whole system in order to emulate it. What's required is a functional understanding of all necessary low-level information about the brain and knowledge of the local update rules that change brain states from moment to moment. What is meant by low-level at this point is an open question, but it likely won't involve a molecule-by-molecule understanding of cognition. And as Ray Kurzweil has revealed, the brain contains masterful arrays of redundancy; it's not as complicated as we currently think.
In order to gain this "low-level functional understanding" of the human brain, neuroscientists will need to employ a series of interdisciplinary approaches (most of which are currently underway). Specifically, they're going to require advances in:
Computer science: The hardware component has to be vastly improved. Scientists are going to need machines with the processing power required to host a human brain. They're also going to need to improve the software component so that they can create algorithmic correlates to specific brain function.
Microscopy and scanning technologies: Scientists need to better study and map the brain at the physical level. Brain slicing techniques will allow them to visibly study cognitive action down to the molecular scale. Specific areas of inquiry will include molecular studies of individual neurons, the scanning of neural connection patterns, determining the function of neural clusters, and so on.
Neurosciences: Researchers need more impactful advances in the neurosciences so that they can better understand the modular aspects of cognition and start mapping the neural correlates of consciousness (what is currently a very grey area).
Genetics: Scientists need to get better at reading our DNA for clues about how the brain is constructed. It's generally agreed that our DNA will not tell us how to build a fully functional brain, but it will tell us how to start the process of brain-building from scratch.
Essentially, WBE requires three main capabilities: (1) the ability to physically scan brains in order to acquire the necessary information, (2) the ability to interpret the scanned data to build a software model, and (3) the ability to simulate this very large model.
WBE may be the right approach, but it's not going to be easy. Nor is it going to be quick. This will be a multi-disciplinary endeavor that will require decades of data collection and the use of technologies that don't yet exist. And importantly, success won't come about all at once. This will be an incremental process in which individual developments will provide the foundation for overcoming the next conceptual hurdle.
Inevitably the question as to "when" crops up. Unfortunately, we are still quite a ways off. Kurzweil's prediction of emulating the brain by 2030 seems uncomfortably short — that's only 18 years away. Moreover, his analogies to the human genome project are unsatisfying. This is a project of much greater magnitude, not to mention that we're still likely heading down some blind alleys. Similarly, Goertzel's predictions of success via the rules-based approach within the next decade or two seems overly optimistic — though arguably not impossible given his "learning AI" approach.
A more likely scenario would see us code or emulate the human brain in about 50 to 75 years. Possibly 100. That said, this is an exceptionally difficult thing to predict given the crudeness of the neurosciences on the one hand, and the rate of accelerating change on the other. The year 2050 is a kind of black hole when it comes to predictions.
Lastly, it's worth noting that, given the capacity to re-create a human brain in digital substrate, we won't be too far off from creating considerably greater-than-human intelligence. Computer theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky has claimed that, because of the brain's particular architecture, we may be able to accelerate its processing speed by a factor of a million relatively easily. Consequently, predictions as to when we may achieve greater-than-human machine intelligence will likely co-incide with the advent of a fully emulated human brain.
Top image via pixeldreams.eu/Shutterstock.


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Saturday, July 02, 2005
Peppermint Ice Cream Cake
3/4 cup dutch processed cocoa
3/4 cup boiling water
6 tablespoons butter, melted
1 cup packed dark brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
3 large eggs
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 cups Dreyers peppermint ice cream, softened
3 cups lightly sweetened fresh whipped cream
1/8 teaspoon peppermint extract
8 peppermint candies, crushed
Preheat oven to 350
Coat 2 8" round cake pans with cooking spray. Line bottoms with parchment paper.
Combine cocoa, water, and butter, stirring with a whisk until blended. Cool.
Combine sugars in a large mixing bowl, stirring well until blended. Add eggs and beat 2-3 minutes or until light in color. Add cocoa mixture, and beat for 1 minute.
In a medium bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Gradually add flour mixture to bowl; beat for 1 minute or until blended. Stir in vanilla. Pour batter evenly between the prepared pans.
Bake 24-28 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes on a wire rack. Remove from pans. Wrap in plastic wrap, and freeze for 2 hours or until slightly frozen.
If you do not have the special cake pans I used, spread ice cream in an 8-inch round cake pan lined with plastic wrap. If you do, place the softened ice cream into the grooves of the cake from the pan. Cover and freeze 4 hours or until firm.
To assemble cake, place one cake layer, bottom side up, on a cake pedestal.
*If making without the pans* Remove ice cream layer from freezer and remove plastic wrap. Place ice cream layer, bottom side up, on top of cake layer. Top with remaining cake layer.
Combine fresh whipped cream and peppermint extract, and stir until blended. Spread frosting over top and sides of cake. Sprinkle with crushed peppermints. Freeze until ready to serve. Let cake stand at room temperature 10 minutes before slicing.
6 comments:
Hi Joe - I'm sitting here with my 13-year old nephew drooling over the Christmas cookies but THIS cake, shall we say, really caught his attention! THAT looks GOOOOOOD, he says!ReplyDelete
What special pans and where did you get them??ReplyDelete
AK - Thanks!ReplyDelete
JimC - You can see what they look like here
I have had them for a few years and bought them in another state. I believe they are called "Surprise inside" cake pans or something like that!
- Anonymous7/12/2007 02:53:00 AM
When I was young, I liked cooking. Once my little brother and I cooked the cake like this. I asked him to mix ingredients while I was talking by phone. He put salt instead of sugar and told me nothing! I invited my boyfriend for dinner, served a table... In a nutshell when I had chewed a bit of it, I lost predilection for sweet cakes forever!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10/05/2007 10:16:00 PM
Oh my gosh I love the look of this cake! I stumbled upon your blog this morning and found this...and then I ran down to the cake supply shop and said 'gimme one of those cool cake tins!' Hahaha. Apparently they're hard to come across, but the one I got is made by Wilton and is called the 'Fanci-fill (lol) Cake Pan Set'.ReplyDelete
Thanks so much, I'll definitely be giving this a try!
Kellie - I hope you enjoy the cake as much as we did! It was such fun to make and impressive to look at!ReplyDelete


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Spring 08: The Grunge Reportby Tom Runge '71
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When I saw the theme for this issue, the line from a John Mellencamp song kept running through my head: "I was born in a small town." After all, I was born in a small town in rural Indiana…Crawfordsville, Indiana!
It's interesting to be a grown-up "townie" and be back working in Crawfordsville after more than 30 years away. Oh, we had the occasional visit when I was away in the Air Force but those days didn't lend themselves to a good look around. All too often, the question was—"is the Darilicious open?"—and the answer, regardless of a "Yes" or "No," usually finished the discussion. Once the Redwood Inn, the excellent restaurant on the south side of town, closed, it seemed when we went out to eat it meant the Beef House in Covington, or Lafayette, or Indianapolis. And what about Stecks, Weathervane, The Squire Shop, Miller's Shoes, and the Bank Cigar Store? Gone. All gone.
Don't get the idea that the Runges lived on base or in big cities. During my military career, we moved 18 times, I think, and our family lived in several small towns: Mt. Home, ID (one stop light and high desert); Clovis, NM (on a clear day you CAN see the end of the world from there!); Stanton, Suffolk, England; Croxton, Norfolk, England; Feltwell, Suffolk, England; Yorktown, VA, and Granger, IN!
Crawfordsville, like so many other small towns, has changed a great deal. Sometimes the quickest way to lose a community is to work hard to preserve it "just the way it always was." The reason: If you aren't growing, you're dying. There is no in-between. Preservation without investment and advancement is a nice term for decay.
That doesn't mean Crawfordsville is dead, by any means. But I do think the kind of town we had in the 1970s, like so many other similar communities, is gone. The locals lived and worked here. They shopped here.
They went out to eat here. There were small industries located here (Steel Industries, Mid-States) and most of the Wabash faculty lived a rock's throw or less from the campus. We had two "big" banks a couple blocks from each other—Elston Bank and First National Bank.
No, Crawfordsville is not dead…but it is different. It would be easy to say: "Well, that's life." But I sense a growing desire by the local community and by the Wabash community to change. To improve. To work together for the betterment of all. I think you'll see that in the years to come. Stay tuned for the details.
Like you, I'm sure, I am proud of my hometown. As Bruce Springsteen sings: "Take a good look around, this is our hometown."
—Tom Runge '71, Director of Alumni Affairs; email@example.com