Now that I know what the readiness drill is called, and what it's designed to do, I can relax and stop being reminded of the time it happened for real.
"If you don't know what your readiness is, here's a good starting point," says Tom Kmak, chief executive officer of Fiduciary Benchmarks.
How to play nuclear-armed pokerAMERICA, which has more deployed nuclear weapons than any other country, is open about precisely how many warheads it has in what state of readiness.
Since the 1970s, several schools scattered around New Hampshire have placed kindergarteners in what they call readiness classes for up to a year before starting first grade; the classes are usually smaller and promote social development as much as academics.
"It is hard to believe that a District Court-level judge in California knows more about what impacts military readiness than the service chiefs who are all on record saying the law on homosexuality in the military should not be changed," said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, a conservative group.
After co-authoring, on March 17 , 2014 with Natalie Pregibon of the Concordia Summit, my last blog post,, Public Education and Job Readiness: What Can Be Done to Shrink the Skills Gap?
The gatekeepers of the corporate media and the Beltway press corps have so lowered the "bar" regarding what marks presidential readiness, (first with Bush and then with Palin), in 2012 anything is possible.
The aim of the present study was to address the following research questions: 1) what is the readiness of medical students to engage others in academic dishonest behaviours; 2) who would students ask for help in academic cheating; and 3) is it more acceptable to ask more individuals for help with routine material favours than it is to seek help with academic cheating?
Instead, Cynthia Board Schmeiser, head of the development division, was focused on what she calls the "readiness crisis".
The federal government also runs periodic tests of emergency readiness within what is called a 50-mile "ingestion plume pathway," where radiation levels are expected to be lower.
