A 64-year-old man has pleaded no contest to charges in Clark County Circuit Court after telling police he regularly had been using calves for sexual gratification. Harold G. Hart was placed on two years probation Thursday and ordered to have psychological counseling and an alcohol and drug abuse assessment after pleading to charges of sexual gratification with an animal and disorderly conduct.
According to the criminal complaint, the family living on the farm Hart visited, installed a motion sensor because they had seen suspicious footprints and vehicle tracks. When the sensor sounded, Hart was caught leaving the barn. He later told police the farm was a routine stop, usually after bar closing or on trips to strip clubs near Marshfield or Neillsville. Hart told police he had gone to the farm at least 50 times in the last year, sometimes two to four times in a week.
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they had seen suspicious footprints
Hummmmm...
Away from PhotoShop.
Ima think HangTen Logo
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special circumstances? They were underage
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Harold was a teat man.
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Brian Anderson, 31, was surfing off the coast of Northern Oregon Saturday when a great white shark attacked him. As he was paddling, Anderson said he felt something grab his leg. Without thinking, he punched the big shark in the nose. "That's all I could think to do, and after I did that, it let go," Anderson said. "And I wanted to get to shore as soon as I could. The thought crossed my mind that I might not make it back in and it was just pretty hectic."
Anderson credits his experience as a surfer and shark television shows with helping him keep his presence of mind. "I acted on instinct," he said.
Anderson then paddled to shore, where bystanders said they saw a puddle of blood dripping from his leg. Before heading to the hospital with a fellow surfer, Anderson tied his surfboard leash tightly around his shin to prevent blood loss. Still hospitalized, he is expected to make a full recovery and will probably surf again. "I'll go back out, eventually," he said. "It probably will be awhile. I'm grateful I made it back in and there was definitely somebody watching out after me that day."
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A woman who police thought deliberately tried to swallow her cell phone during an argument with her boyfriend was apparently the victim of an assault instead, authorities said.
"How'dja like me to shove that phone right down yer throat?"
"Try it, tough guy!... Urk!"
Police have a suspect in the bizarre incident that sent the 24-year- old woman to the hospital last week, Sgt. Allen Kintz said. Police would not say whether the boyfriend was the suspect
What do you think?
and would not explain exactly what they believe happened.
"So, y'see, we wuz havin' a little argyment, an' I sez 'How'd ya like me to shove that thing down yer throat?' An' then this guy, see, he steps outta the shadows and sez 'Here, lemme help yez widdat,' an' next thing I know she's chokin'. So y'see, it wudn't me... Nope. Nope. Never saw his face. He wuz wearin' a hat..."
"It appears she didn't voluntarily swallow this phone," Kintz said. "It's not quite the way it was first portrayed."
Comes as a surprise, huh?
Early Friday, police responded to a call from a Blue Springs man who said his girlfriend was having trouble breathing. Police arrived to find a woman with a cell phone lodged in her throat. Police were initially told the boyfriend wanted the phone and the woman tried to swallow it so that he could not get it.
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I must confess that I've had these urges on the roadways from time to time when I have to brake for "Can you hit me now?" types who are more connected to their cell towers than to their steering wheels.
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The words 'new', 'council', and 'takes' are relative in Somalia. The word 'control' doesn't translate into their language.
Warlords and civilians installed a council Sunday to govern Somalia's capital, an action that further fragments the nation but could bring the city under the control of a single group after 14 years of anarchy.
That leaves the rest of the country going in all directions, of course...
The swearing-in of the 64 new legislators formalized a break with Somalia's transitional government, which was stillborn formed last year under President Abdullahi Yusuf after lengthy peace talks in Kenya.
Wasted a lot of precious breath on that one, didn't they?
The new council contains mainly members of the Hawiye clan that dominates the capital of about 2 million people, which previously was divided under the control of rival warlords. There was no immediate comment from Yusuf, whose transitional government is based in Jowhar, north of Mogadishu.
"That settles it! I'm not moving the gummint to Mogadishu any time soon!"
The U.N. envoy to Somalia, Francois Lonseny Fall, warned last month that Somalia could become a terrorist haven because it is a failed state where extremist Islamic groups are growing.
Brilliant Mr. Ambassador, simply brilliant.
How does he do it?
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The word 'control' doesn't translate into their language.
How do you translate "Warlord 'x' controls such and such a territory" then?
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Bananas.
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The Khat trade?
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I think they should start out slow and restore trash collection service first. Appointing a coroner would be another good step.
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Enforcing the zoning code is a good 3rd step.
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A Fire Dept. would be good. Set fire to the place and start over.
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The State Department has launched an investigation into whether hard-line Islamic employees at the U.S Embassy in Egypt are working behind the scenes to deny visas to Coptic Christians, The Post has learned.
State Department officials are closely examining 15 to 20 Egyptian employees of the embassy's consular section after top officials received complaints from lawyers and human-rights groups about discriminatory behavior toward the Copts seeking visas to the United States, sources said.
Hundreds, possibly thousands, may have been wrongly denied visas, sources said. Muslims only need apply
In a recent meeting organized by Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), top State Department officials were told that these employees, who conduct prescreening interviews and translations, appear to have unusual influence over a process that is supposed to be controlled by Americans.
"This is a widespread problem that we have been aware of for some time. Now, however, there are people stepping forward and are making formal complaints," said Father Keith Roderick, head of the Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights, who attended the meeting.
Among those making complaints to the State Department is a Christian man who was seeking to donate a kidney to an uncle in New Jersey.
He says he was twice told to remove the cross he was wearing if he wanted a visa. He refused and was denied a visa.
Another is a woman who was scheduled to speak at a recent human-rights conference in Washington about what it is like to live in a Muslim-dominated country. She claimed embassy officials demanded to see her speech. She and two other Egyptian Copts were denied a visa while Egyptian Muslims were granted visas.
They have asked that their names not be made public for fear of retaliation in Egypt.
There have also been complaints that these employees keep posters in the embassy promoting supporters of the Hamas terror group.
"This should be a concern because if they can influence who they can keep out of the United States, they could also influence who can get in," said Caroline Doss, a Jersey City immigration lawyer who presented State Department officials with affidavits from Coptic Christian clients.
Wolf, who heads a subcommittee that controls the State Department's budget, had no comment because he is conducting a separate probe.
State Department officials wouldn't comment.
weak ass Foggy Bottom Arabists - clean house, Condi!
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Why are we hiring "HARDLINE ISLAMISTS" in the embassy for anything?
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I have never understood why any local nationals work in embassies. Islamists or not, they are also known as SPIES. Sometimes the stupidity and naivety of government officials is beyond comprehension.
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The consular's offices have long been known to be a local national problem. As well as the Consular's political leaning, usually to the left. Condi needs to continue cleaning house.
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KINSHASA (Reuters) - U.N. and Congolese troops fought a bloody battle with Ugandan rebels in Congo's wartorn east in their latest move to restore order after the huge nation approved a postwar constitution, the U.N. said on Sunday.
Thirty-five rebels were killed in the ongoing operation, U.N. military spokesman Major Hans-Jakob Reichen said. An Indian peacekeeper was killed and four compatriots injured, and three Congolese government forces were killed and 16 injured.
Since last week's referendum, which paves the way for elections by the end of June 2006, U.N. and Congolese forces have tackled militias blamed for undermining the peace process and raping, pillaging and murdering civilians in eastern areas.
The latest fighting began on Saturday around 30 km (20 miles) south of Beni in North Kivu district after fighters of the Ugandan Allied Democratic Forces/National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (ADF/NALU) ignored an ultimatum to negotiate voluntary repatriation, Reichen said.
Uganda and neighbouring Rwanda backed rebels in Congo's complex five-year war and nationals from both countries still operate in militia groups across Congo's east.
On Saturday some 300 Nepalese U.N. peacekeepers and 1,500 government troops backed by helicopter gunships attacked and captured Nioka, 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Bunia, the main town in the unruly Ituri district of northeastern Congo.
U.N. and Congolese forces have been fighting in the area for several days against an ethnic Lendu militia which has refused to join a U.N.-backed disarmament process.
Dozens of militia fighters and a number of Congolese troops have been killed since last Sunday's vote, the first free national poll for four decades in Africa's third biggest state.
Nearly 4 million people have died since war broke out in 1998, mostly from war-related hunger and disease.
DISLODGING THE FIGHTERS
Latest results announced on Saturday showed that with votes from nearly three quarters of polling stations counted, the "Yes" vote had 83 percent, with just under 17 percent for "No".
"No" campaigners say they will contest the result in the Supreme Court on the grounds that the government's "Yes" campaign was unfairly supported by the international community, which has a role as sponsor and guarantor of a 2003 peace deal.
The referendum won a verdict of "free and fair" from European Union observers despite some violence and intimidation at some polling stations. But across the vast country, most of which lacks basic roads or phone links, it is still unclear how the vote went in some areas where militia groups operate.
U.N. troops and a new Congolese army drawn from the ranks of government and rebel forces aim to establish central government control in areas dominated for years by foreign-backed rebel factions or local militias.
Last month a delegation of U.N. Security Council ambassadors visited Congo and its neighbours and backed Ugandan calls for more robust action to dislodge the ADF/NALU and a number of other Ugandan rebel groups from bases in northeast Congo.
The United Nations estimates around 2,000 armed Ugandans operate in Congo, for a confusing array of foreign armed militias left after years of fighting driven in part by competition to control Congo's rich mineral resources.
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Man - Africa really is an alternate reality universe! Who would of thunk? Blue hats actually fighting!
The Supreme Judiciary Board had recently appointed Abdulgawi Mohamed Saeed Al-Marwani as a judge in Radaâa First Instance Court. Reliable sources in Taiz said Al-Marwani had committed willful murder in a Taiz hospital in March 1999. He was allegedly working in Yafros First instance court in Jabal Habashi in Taiz when he committed his crime six years ago. He killed Noman Ahmed Ismail following a quarrel between the judgeâs father and the deceased.
Many newspapers including Al-Ayam, Al-Jomhoria, Al-Wahdawi, Al-Quds and Al-Sharq Al-Awsat had tackled the case of murder at the time. Some prominent personalities, sheikhs and the dignitaries of Shraâab then intervened to ensure that Al-Marwani is not punished. The Islah party also exerted pressure because the judge apparently was one of its prominent leaders. The victimâs family said it accepted blood money because of fear that the crime could escalate into a revenge clash between the relatives of each family. The family received blood money four times the actual value to drop the case and set the killer free.
A Taiz source said the former minister of justice Ismail Al-Wazeer had re-appointed the judge to a court in Shabwa province a year after he committed his crime. In the recent judiciary appointments in December 2004, the murderer was re-appointed by the Supreme Judiciary Board to a court in Radaâa. He is still working in Radaâa, Albaidha despite being proven to have killed another citizen.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE - A Jordanian soldier with the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti was shot dead during a patrol in Port-au-Prince, a source close to the Jordanian contingent told AFP on Sunday. The soldier was killed on Saturday in the huge Cite Soleil shanty town in the Haitian capital. Seven members with the UN mission in Haiti have been killed since the force was deployed in June 2004. A Canadian police officer in the force was killed last Monday close to Cite Soleil, where there are many followers of former president Jean Bertrand Aristide. Haiti is due to hold elections in January.
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MOSCOW - One Russian border guard was killed and another missing and feared dead after they were caught on Sunday in an avalanche in the mountains of the Caucasus province of Dagestan, Interfax news agency reported.
Notice, guys, how the Lutherans all got out of the way in time.
The two were in a group of five border guards traveling together in the mountains in the Tsunti district when the avalanche occurred. Three managed to climb out of the snow, but one was found dead and the other was missing and feared dead, the report said. A search for the missing guard was under way.
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Hat tip Orrin Judd. As it were. And I like this picture for this story: a smiling Aussie soldier 'polishing his gun'.
ALBURY, Australia - Ruth Keat has a huge file folder in her office drawer filled with details about the 70 or so men from Alberta keen to do their bit for the Australian fertility crisis.
Lured by ads in the University of Calgary student newspaper that declared, in bold letters, SPERM DONORS NEEDED, WE WILL PAY, RETURN AIR FARES TO AUSTRALIA, TWO WEEKS ACCOMMODATION, DAILY ALLOWANCE, the unusual call-to-arms was a bit of a no-brainer for healthy, young university students with the desire to travel.
But a strange thing happened once the campaign went public.
This is the story of a small fertility clinic that announced it was going to Canada to look for sperm and unwittingly provoked so much Australian male pride that it suddenly found more than enough donors domestically. After several years of failing to raise enough donors in Australia, despite advertising widely, Reproductive Medicine Albury found the intense publicity about its other-side-of-the-world sperm search last year delivered a new batch of homegrown donors.
Not to be outdone by Canadian donors, it seems, Australian men reacted to the campaign as a point of pride. "It was a bit of, 'What? Isn't Australian sperm good enough, then?' " says Dr. Scott Giltrap, director of the fertility centre.
Never underestimate male pride in marketing.
Dr. Giltrap is a big believer in the any-publicity-is-good-publicity credo. "The media exposure brought it to the attention of a lot of men in Australia and basically their reproductive manlihood was offended," agrees Ms. Keat, the clinic's program manager.
She remembers having to suffer the indignity of seemingly endless morning radio shows filled with nudge-nudge-wink-wink innuendo about the clinic's overseas recruitment campaign. Even the newspaper headlines were written with a similar swagger: "Clinic Urges Canadians, 'Have Sperm, Will Travel,'" and "Australian Authorities Approve Scheme to Invite Canadians for Sperm Donor Holidays."
Because of the sufficient domestic response, the clinic hasn't yet had to follow through on its Canadian candidates, but the campaign, and the grim medical reality behind it, is not a joke at all to the clinicians and their patients.
Sperm donation has declined dramatically in Australia ever since some states began passing legislation that requires all donors to agree their identity could one day become disclosed to their offspring. Known-donor legislation is already in place in Victoria, the state that borders the Albury clinic in New South Wales, but the spectre of it hangs over the entire country. What's happened is that the number of donors, already small, has shrunk to virtually nothing. At the Albury clinic, says Ms. Keat, "we're not talking about going from 300 down to 20. We're talking about going from 20 down to three, or fewer."
The shortage, which has become increasingly dire since 1998, has prompted other innovative initiatives, such as a pitch by Melbourne's Monash IVF clinic urging all legislators under the age of 45 to do their part to replenish depleted stocks.
What woman would want the sperm of a politican?
Nor is the shortage limited to Australia. In Canada, the practice of sperm donation has been effectively abolished by the Assisted Human Reproductive Act of 2004, which prohibits any buying or selling of human reproductive material, including sperm, eggs, or embryos. That legislation has driven those seeking donor sperm into the United States, where laws are less restrictive.
The Albury clinic's decision to look to Canada for sperm was not deliberately provocative or attention-seeking, but pragmatic: The clinic had a Canadian gynecologist on staff, Dr. Trixie Rasmuson, who could act as a liaison with clinicians in Calgary to ensure all donors were effectively screened before coming over. The geographical distance, it was thought, would soften the impact of being potentially identified years afterwards as a donor. It certainly did not seem to dissuade many who responded to the ad, which ran in successive issues of the sports pages of the Gauntlet, the University of Calgary newspaper.
The applicants had to be between the ages of 18 and 40; and they had to pass a blood test, semen analysis, fitness test and undergo counselling. In exchange for the hefty costs of their airfare, accommodation and living allowance, they would be expected to produce semen every second day for donation. "We had a huge response from Canada," says Ms. Keat. "The only ones we have e-mails from were the ones who were totally willing to disclose identities."
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What woman would want the sperm of a politican?
Alpha males attract women.
Henry Kissenger said he was most desirable as Sec of State
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The morning after Paul Martin campaigned in Toronto's crime-ridden Jane-Finch corridor and pledged to ban handguns, Frank Hiemstra walked in to work at Shooter's Choice gun store and range and got a surprising phone call. "The guy says, 'Get me two 1911s. They don't want me to have one gun, I'm going to buy two,' " Mr. Hiemstra said. Mr. Hiemstra, whose store is in Waterloo, Ont., said the announced ban has had a noticeable effect on sales: "We're definitely selling more guns than normal."
I'd guess that's because people don't expect them to be available in the near future...
Gun shop owners and distributors across the country say handgun sales have increased since the Liberal Leader promised to ban them if his party wins the next election. Buyers are stocking up on coveted models before it's too late and hoping the ban would not be retroactive by including guns already owned.
Have they considered voting for somebody else? Just a thought...
"The people that are buying these guns hope they'll be covered under the exemption Martin said there'd be for target shooters," said Sean Hansen, who manages Freedom Ventures Ltd., a high-end handgun distributor in Halifax. "And if they are seized, they've said, 'we'll have a very recent receipt showing the market value,' which Mr. Martin promised when he said he'd buy up all the guns."
Another genius at work. These goobers just don't pay attention, do they?
Phil Harnois is a former police officer who now owns one of the biggest gun shops in Western Canada. Handgun sales at his Edmonton store, P&D Enterprises, have skyrocketed since the Liberal announcement. "In a week we've done about 60 handguns, where we'd normally sell about 15," Mr. Harnois said. "It's certainly driven sales and we didn't try and assist that at all. People just came on their own." He's worried sales might plummet, though, if the ban goes into effect. "In the short term, yeah, we're doing quite well in sales. But soon we're going to exhaust our inventory and we don't know if they'll allow more handguns in Canada," Mr. Harnois said.
There are more than 500,000 legally registered handguns in this country. Most are owned by police, security guards, collectors and licensed target shooters. Under the proposed ban, collectors would have to permanently disable or get rid of their guns. But Mr. Martin said legitimate target shooters who meet "strict requirements" would be exempt. He did not, however, explain what those requirements would be -- leaving target shooters frustrated by the idea of more red tape in what is already a strictly and cumbersomely regulated sport. "People are saying, 'Piss off a Liberal: buy a handgun,' " said Len Kucey, owner of Phoenix Indoor Range and Gun Shop in Edmonton, who has also seen a boost in sales.
He said the people who come to his shop are tired of politicians making threats against the sport and not explaining any of it. "We get calls all day about these announcements and regulations, 'What's your feeling on this, what's going to change?' " Mr. Kucey said. "It's all very frustrating, because they [the government] are not doing the right thing. I would bet my house that less than 5 per cent of these crimes they talk about are committed by lawful gun owners."
Mr. Kucey said target shooting is a popular pastime in the area and he gets all types of shooters walking through his doors, from first-timers to national competitors. "We get lots of stagette parties in here," Mr. Kucey said. "It's a lot of fun and women tend to be very good, better than the guys, beginners."
Wendy Cukier, president of the Coalition for Gun Control and a professor of justice studies at Ryerson University in Toronto, said she's not surprised by the boom in handgun sales: A similar trend occurred in the United States in the early 1990s when assault weapons were banned. This is also the first time Canadian authorities have proposed confiscating banned guns with a buy-back, she said. In the past, owners could keep outlawed guns already in their possession. "Gun bans in Canada have typically been on future sales," Ms. Cukier said, "which explains why people might be rushing to buy them in hopes of keeping them."
Ms. Cukier said she doubts the spike in gun sales is politically motivated. "The only other thing that makes any sense to me is that people either think the guns will become more valuable with the ban or less available."
Ms. Cukier said her organization has not taken a position on the ban, but advocates for stricter gun control in general. "The reality is legal guns are often diverted to illegal markets and end up being used in crime," she said. "I think many legal owners are in denial about this and do need to take more responsibility."
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explain it to the police widows committee. You'll need a lot bigger HQ when the politicians force your husbands to enforce their gun grab
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"The reality is legal guns are often diverted to illegal markets and end up being used in crime," she said. "I think many legal owners are in denial about this and do need to take more responsibility."
Reacting to the threat of the radical Shiv Sena to throw out those who do not speak the regional language Marathi, Hindi-speaking immigrants to the province from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi and Haryana have formed a political party to confront the movement head-on. The new outfit, Par Pranatiya Sena, has completed the formalities of registering as an official political party, said the groupâs 25-year-old founder Rajiv Mishra, who expected final confirmation in two days.
Y'gotta register as a political party before you can have street fights...
Mishra said the migrants had been targets of Shiv Sena, which operates an agenda of expelling migrants from Bombay who do not follow the tenets of the organization, which includes speaking the local language. Tensions have been brewing since Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray launched an anti-migrant campaign called âIâm a Bombayiteâ that targets non-Marathi speakers.
"Yew cannot live here, 'coz yew gotta fonny assent!"
Mishra recalled the incident last year when Shiv Sena militants assaulted migrants from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar at the Kalyan train station near Bombay.
"Dey're talkin' fonny! Get 'em!"
Speaking about the membership of Par Pranatiya Sena party workers, Mishra said that so far nearly 15,000 migrants have enrolled as members, and he said he was confident that membership of his party would steadily increase to a million in Bombay alone. Mishra said his organization is considering fielding candidates to run in future local elections. Ashok Dubey, a migrant from Etawah in Uttar Pradesh, welcomed the new political outfit and said that the strength of the seven million migrants in Bombay was quite capable of countering Shiv Sena tactics.
Shiv Sena, if you've forgotten, is the Hindu equivalent to Islamic fundamentalism.
âBombay is not the fiefdom of Shiv Sena⊠and the constitution of the country grants absolute freedom to the citizens of the country to reside and work where they please, and practice any religion they wish. Why are these Sena workers trying to sow seeds of hatred among the citizens and trying to divide them?â he asked.
Because they can't get honest jobs?
Any action against the migrants by Shiv Sena would be confronted in the future, said Ramesh Sharma, a carpenter from Gorakhpur. The Sena is not only against migrants from the Hindi belt, but they had used pressure tactics against migrants from the southern states too, he said.
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The SS started out as a Marathi Chauvanist organisation before changing ideologies when they tried to ride the Hindutva wave, it's closely linked to the mafia, and dispite it's Muslim bashing, it's been linked to Muslim gangsters like Dawood Ibrahim too.
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The Shiv Sena spend their time plotting against shop owners selling Valentine's day merchandise.
Bunch of half wits... I'll take them over the jihadis anytime
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ISLAMABAD - An aftershock measuring 5.2 on the Richter Scale jolted northern Pakistan on Sunday, causing panic among tens of thousands of survivors of the devastating October 8 earthquake.
It was the latest of more than 1,500 aftershocks that have rocked the region since more than 73,000 people were killed and 3.5 million made homeless in Pakistanâs worst natural disaster.
Sorry Fred, no Unitarians amongst them yet. Should we turn the dial to '7'?
The tremor, which was felt at 13:02 (0902 GMT), originated in the same area where the October earthquake caused havoc, siesmological chief Qamaruz Zaman told AFP. He said the epicenter was in the Hazara region, 80 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of the capital Islamabad. âSuch aftershocks will continue for another two months,â Zaman said, adding that there was little likelihood of any damage from the latest jolt.
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NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 23: By the time Russian-built aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov arrives in 2008, the Navy will have a contingent of 32 pilots, trained in specialised deck-based fighter operations at the US Navy training command in Pensacola, Florida.
With the first batch of four Lieutenant-rank officers are already under training there, the next is scheduled to go in March.
The selection of venue for training to operate Russian-built MiG-29K fighters off the Gorshkov may seem strange but the government was compelled to accept the Pentagonâs offer because Russia has no facilities for intermediate deck-based flight training. The US Navy training school in Pensacola trains Naval F/A-18 Super Hornet pilots.
The first batch of four at Pensacola, led by training coordinator and seasoned Harrier pilot, Cdr Rohit Gupta, is currently training on the T-45 Goshawk (a variant of the British Hawk AJT) single engine trainer after completing a capsule on the T-34 Turbomentor propeller trainer. They are scheduled to begin actual deck-qualifying from January. All eight batches of four pilots each will spend six months at the training command in US.
You want to learn, you go to where the training is the best.
After this, each batch of four pilots will be sent to Russia for training on the MiG-29K, 16 of which would be operated off the Gorshkov. The MiG-29K is likely to be an option for the Air Defence Ship (ADS) being built in Kochi as well, alongside the Naval version of the LCA Tejas. Operating conventional jets off carriers will be a first for the Navyâit has so far used only Harrier jump-jets.
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The level of irony in this news is overwhelming : the Indian Navy is buying a Russian-built aircraft carrier, that is to carry Soviet-designed fighters; but the only way to get their pilots trained is to subcontract that to the US Navy. Meanwhile, the Russian Navy is barren of anything resembling Carrier Battle Groups; and the Red Chinese are rehabbing a scrapped Soviet carrier and hoping to put pilots on it without using foreign training - or just maybe some light French training. {The same French whose carrier keeps having to be towed into port since the freaking propellor keeps snapping off} If China and India ever go at it, I am putting $50 on the Indian Carrier Battle Group and giving points.
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Here's a picture of the carrier the Indians will start practice on...... at NAS Pensacola.
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India has operated carriers since 1961.
Lord Moutbatten (cousin of Queen Elizabeth and the last viceroy of India) persuaded Nehru in 1955 to purchase the HMS Hercules which lay unfinished in a Belfast shipyard since 1945. This became the INS Vikrant and was modernized with an angled deck, a steam catapult and a mirror landing sight.
Her airwing comprised British Hawker Seahawk fighter-bombers and a French Alize anti-submarine aircraft.
They later bought HMS Hermes from the UK and renamed her INS Viraat.
Both carriers were modified with skijumps for their Sea Harrier airwings. The catapults on Vikrant were removed.
The Gorshkov will not have catapults nor will the carrier being built in India (ADS). They will both be STOBAR.
Incidently the Vikrant purchase pissed off the Russians. They could not operate carriers then and they still can't now.
In 1957, the Russian Defence Minister, Marshal Zhukov, visited India. In Cochin, Rear Admiral RD Katari, the Fleet Commander, invited him to a banquet on board the flagship. In his memoirs, "A Sailor Remembers" he recalls: (Page 83). "From the moment Marshal Zhukov, stepped on board, he virtually impaled me against the centre-line capstan and demanded to know why we were acquiring an aircraft-carrier. Resisting the temptation to tell him that it was none of his business, I tried to explain to him the reasons which induced us to do so, but he could not, or would not, accept them. The discussion was obviously reaching a point of exasperation to both sides but the climax came when Zhukov made the provocative observation that we were buying the carrier at the behest of the British and to please them."
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French also train in USA. And its Aircraft Carrier even has E2C-Hawkeyes
#5
The Indian Air Force attitudes towards the Russian training is similar... Russian combat training ain't worth a damn. Pilots have traditionally trained in India, the UK (after the Canberra, Gnat and Jaguar purchases) and France (after the Mirage purchases) with advanced training at the Indian TACDE (a fighter weapons school). Some have trained in Israel. Russians provided basic training on their equipment but their entire ground controller centric mode of operation was alien to the IAF.
With the recent Hawk trainer deal, detachments of IAF trainees are again being sent to the UK for training by the RAF.
If Lockeed Martin or Boeing wins the MRCA contract (either F-16s or the F/A-18s) then the USAF will be training Indian pilots...
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12/26/2005 10:50 Comments ||
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Yes to #4, I know the French run Hawkeyes. But that does not mean much when your carrier keeps losing its freaking propellor, and has to be towed back in. The French did not spend the time and money on the propulsion system that they should have, and their carrier problems are the result. And remember, it is their only full-sized carrier - we manage to run 11 or 12 of them all the time.
#7
The Wasp class amphibious assualt ships with their Marine Sea Harriers are larger than the carriers operated by the UK(2), Russia(1), India(1), Spain(1) etc.
And they are not even considered real carriers by the USN.
Hell, the Marines have more aircraft than the RAF.
In both quantity and quality, USN airpower far outclasses all other nations put together.
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12/26/2005 11:33 Comments ||
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Please refer to "http://www.strategypage.com/dls/articles/2003127.asp" for a history of the French carrier woes.
#9
What I found astounding in the deGaulle mess was that the French, who have a very successful civilian nuclear power program, screwed the nuclear propulsion system up so badly.
Perhaps we should change the name of the San Antonio to de Gaulle so people would think only the French could screw up a ship so badly.
#10
Makes you think highly of the upcoming carriers to be built by the Brits and Frenchies in a French yard, huh.
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12/26/2005 12:21 Comments ||
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They will be conventional powered though...
Posted by: john ||
12/26/2005 12:51 Comments ||
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Yes but the new carriers are a British design, conventionally fueled, and the Brits will build two of them in their own shipyards. If the Frogs screw that one up, then as a real bitchslap, we should give them the Kitty Hawk after it is retired. That way, the Frogs would have one actual functional carrier, albeit a bit old.
#13
change the name of the San Antonio to de Gaulle
Ouch!
Posted by: Leon Clavin ||
12/26/2005 12:55 Comments ||
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I have always wondered why nobody has converted a SuperTanker to a cheap carrier? One of those 1/2 mill or 3/4 mill ton monsters would have a huge flight deck.
likely could pick up old ones pretty cheap to and with a double hull.
#15
One antiship missile or torpedo hit will flood a tanker or freighter. Down goes $5 billion worth of aircraft and weapons.
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12/26/2005 22:49 Comments ||
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The only value of a supertanker to carrier conversion would be to a country that already has ASW and anti-missile defenses in place in their fleet. At that point, the tanker/carrier would be a modernized version of the WWII jeep carriers. Otherwise, that conversion is just a really big target that would be easily sunk with a minor {for a warship} hit.
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China is working to build its ties to Indonesia as part of an effort to expand influence in Asia. Same with Venezuela, Zim-Bob, Sudan, Iran, see a pattern here?
Chinese Vice President Zeng Qinghong said China wants a strategic partnership with Indonesia. He spoke after meeting Indonesian House Speaker Agung Laksono in Beijing. Whatcha think about that, Australia?
China wants to block U.S. influence in Southeast Asia by developing closer ties with states like Indonesia, which has energy resources that China needs for modernization. It's all about oiiiiilâ¢.
Zeng said China and Indonesia are increasing political, economic and military ties.
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Not really going to fly, I'm afraid. Indonesia thinks of itself as "the man" in Southeast Asia. China wants Indonesia to resume its ancient role as a Chinese vassal state. I don't think the Indos will go for that. Too much historical baggage.
#2
Indonesia will try to milk this for more American aid. But we'd be nuts to hand free stuff over to them just because of their posturing. Fact is that China is no threat to us, but a genuine threat to Indonesia's territorial integrity. And the Indos will do what they have to, in order to avoid getting swamped.
#3
Father-in-law (rest his soul) built a monomer plant in Indonesia in the 60s. Mitsibushi Heavy Ind. was suppose to have a special "in" with the Veep. Turned out the VP was nobody so they couldn't get Indonesian Oil. Had to build a port and city to import the stupid oil.
Had to figure out Indonesian bribe rules.
His chart went "last name", vs "pos in gov" giving a minimum positive bribe ammount.
In addition it was harder then hell to get Indonesians to work. The more he raised their wages the less they showed up. So.. he hired PIs. Turned out with their stratified society the guys couldn't do bs with the extra money... so he found out what they would like to do. That was rec stuff... pinball, billards, exercise, pools, gyms... stuff no amt of money would get them access to due to their class...
So... he built a huge rec facility...
cut wages by a factor of 10x
give tokens with every 15 mins worked redeemable in the rec facility.
People started working their asses off 60 hrs/week and doing great work.
Finished up six months after rec center was done.
I don't think the PRC has that sort of flexible finesse.
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A 64-year-old man has pleaded no contest to charges in Clark County Circuit Court after telling police he regularly had been using calves for sexual gratification. Harold G. Hart was placed on two years probation Thursday and ordered to have psychological counseling and an alcohol and drug abuse assessment after pleading to charges of sexual gratification with an animal and disorderly conduct.
Brian Anderson, 31, was surfing off the coast of Northern Oregon Saturday when a great white shark attacked him. As he was paddling, Anderson said he felt something grab his leg. Without thinking, he punched the big shark in the nose. "That's all I could think to do, and after I did that, it let go," Anderson said. "And I wanted to get to shore as soon as I could. The thought crossed my mind that I might not make it back in and it was just pretty hectic."
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