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This article discusses a study exploring the performance of struggling readers on reading assessments to determine what we might learn about connections between their print processing skills and possible instructional interventions.

Given the stark fiscal constraints on the federal budget today, the US military faces hard decisions about which conventional capabilities to develop and deploy to address the wide range of challenges and global demands facing the nation. The military services, including the US Air Force, have long argued that traditional capabilities for deterring and/or defeating nation-states would adequately handle nontraditional or irregular threats from nonstate actors such as terrorists or insurgents. In recent years, the exclusive focus of the Air Force s strategic planning and programming for confronting future traditional challenges related to operating in highly contested environments has put other Air Force capabilities important to the nation at grave risk. For example, as the war in Afghanistan draws down, the service is considering divesting or drastically reducing its ability to organize, train, and equip (OT&E) general purpose force (GPF) air advisors. Such a divestiture would negatively affect America s security cooperation (SC) efforts at a time when it is relying far more on partner nations to address both traditional and nontraditional challenges to enduring US strategic interests. Furthermore, a divestiture would revert to the historic Air Force pattern of assuming that GPF air advisors and other SC-relevant personnel are no longer needed when major irregular conflicts are finished and that these skills can simply be resurrected, like a phoenix out of the ashes, on demand. Our recent experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan clearly demonstrate the disastrous consequences of that assumption., Published in Air & Space Power Journal p92-117 Sep-Oct 2014.

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A monograph of Keith Armstrongs Typewriter Art and visual poetry with essays by Tom Gill, Nicola Simpson, and Barrie Tullett. Barrie Tullett and Tom Gill’s masterful book on Keith Armstrong opens up a splendid oeuvre for a new generation of reader-viewers. Keith Armstrong’s brilliant inventiveness is an essential part of the concrete poetry movement and can now at long last be fully appreciated. This book will be essential reading for artists, designers, and typographers. Jeremy Adler With the twenty-first century resurgence of interest in typewriter art, the publication of RUHUMAN by Keith Armstrong is reason for celebration. The work is a joyous and loving homage to a man whose work engages with sound, pattern, colour, geometry, type, and life. There’s peace and minimalism here. There’s also noise and clutter. It sates me and makes me hunger for more. Amanda Earl Keith Armstrong was one of the more underrated exponents of the 1960/70s British poetry revolution. Experienced in retrospect, his complete work comes as a revelation. Following trails embarked upon by his heroes Bob Cobbing, Dom Sylvester Houédard, and Henri Chopin, Armstrong’s work is restless, engaging, and constantly innovative. For a decade back then he caught the zeitgeist. And as a bonus what he created has aged wonderfully. Peter Finch

This is the second edition of the Port Performance Freight Statistics Program Annual Report, which builds on the foundation of the 2016 Annual Report. In the inaugural edition, BTS published existing, nationally consistent measures of port capacity and throughput, and explained the criteria used to define ports and the measures used to define the top 25 ports in each category. The report included recommendations of the advisory working group to the Port Performance Freight Statistics Program (2016 Working Group), and was delivered to the BTS Director prior to publication as specified in FAST Act Section 6018. This 2017 Annual Report expands upon the first edition in several ways. The throughput and capacity statistics included in the 2016 edition have been updated with the most recently available annual data and, in many cases, have been enhanced with additional detail. This edition also expands the number of throughput and capacity measures published and incorporates new and improved methodologies. For example, a new measure of container vessel dwell times uses locational data transmitted continuously from ships, and represents the first application by BTS of automated data collection to port performance measurement. The supporting zip file contains port profile and port vicinity map datasets, a README.txt with a data dictionary, and a .json metadata file in Project Open Data format, for Port Performance Freight Statistics Program : Annual Report to Congress 2017, https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/36212 The data files are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. The compressed zip file is 50.63 MB. These files can be unzipped using any zip decompression software. The PDF files can be opened by web browsers or with PDF readers. The README.txt file is a plain-text file and can be opened with any basic text editor. The metadata file is in .json format and can be opened with any basic text editor, but is better viewed in a metadata editor or more advance text editor, such as Note

This is the second edition of the Port Performance Freight Statistics Program Annual Report, which builds on the foundation of the 2016 Annual Report. In the inaugural edition, BTS published existing, nationally consistent measures of port capacity and throughput, and explained the criteria used to define ports and the measures used to define the top 25 ports in each category. The report included recommendations of the advisory working group to the Port Performance Freight Statistics Program (2016 Working Group), and was delivered to the BTS Director prior to publication as specified in FAST Act Section 6018. This 2017 Annual Report expands upon the first edition in several ways. The throughput and capacity statistics included in the 2016 edition have been updated with the most recently available annual data and, in many cases, have been enhanced with additional detail. This edition also expands the number of throughput and capacity measures published and incorporates new and improved methodologies. For example, a new measure of container vessel dwell times uses locational data transmitted continuously from ships, and represents the first application by BTS of automated data collection to port performance measurement.