[FOX5NY] A Healdsburg father has been tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in connection with the death of his 4-year-old daughter, authorities said Monday.
Gerardo Mendoza Ordaz, 42, of Healdsburg, was taken into custody and was being held Monday on suspicion of homicide. Police said they believe the father intentionally drowned the girl in a baptismal pool at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, located in the 200 block of Matheson Street in Healdsburg.
According to Healdsburg Police, the father was carrying his unresponsive daughter in the back lot of the cop shoppe Sunday around 8:30 p.m. He was yelling, "help," and "police."
Police say the father was naked, while the daughter was clothed. Another child, a 9-year-old boy was also there. He was partially clothed.
The girl was taken to the hospital where she later died.
In a written statement, church officials declined to comment about the case.
"Sunday night there was tragedy in the church; a little girl lost her life," said Sean Rodgers, a pastor at the church. "When police finish the investigation we will know more. In the meantime, please pray for the family, and the parish community."
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Baptismal Pool? Something I've never seen in a Catholic Church. But then my wife saw the sign for St John the Baptist Catholic Church in Egg Harbor one time and made the comment "I didn't know the Catholics had Baptists". Methinks there was something else going on here. Catholics don't go much in for dipping
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Our Catholic Church has a baptismal fountain. We gently sprinkle water over the top of the babies' heads while Mom and Dad hold the tyke over the fountain.
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Just awful. My brother was married in that church.
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@#1: Lotsa goofy things in D.C. (i.e. Al Johnson and his goats.) - also rumored to have quite the Witch population, esp. @ Washington Island.
Howard Brookins Jr., the alderman for Chicago’s 21st ward, had publicly spoken out about a toothy menace plaguing the city’s garbage carts: urban squirrels, which in Brookins’s view were "aggressive," and aggressively damaging the trash cart lids.
He now has another reason to dislike the rodents. One recently sent him to the hospital with a skull fracture in a "freak bicycle accident," as the alderman wrote on Facebook.
Brookins was biking along Cal-Sag Trail on Nov. 13, when a squirrel darted into his path. The squirrel cut Brookins’s bike trip short by wrapping itself in the spokes of the alderman’s bicycle. The alderman flipped over the handlebars and landed with such a severe impact that he fractured his skull, broke his nose and knocked out a handful of teeth, the Chicago Tribune reported. A woman who passed by called 911. Brookins was only able to leave the hospital Thursday.
"I can think of no other reason for this squirrel’s actions than that it was like a suicide bomber, getting revenge," the alderman said to the Tribune on Monday. He told the newspaper a full recovery was expected to take months.
Brookins had denounced the eastern gray squirrel just a few weeks before the accident. In mid-October, Brookins complained that "aggressive squirrels" were undermining the effort to overhaul the city’s trash carts, reported the Chicago Sun Times. The squirrels were gnawing through the garbage cart lids at a cost of $300,000 to the city.
"It’s a pet peeve. It does invoke some giggles. But we are spending too much money on replacing garbage carts because the squirrels continue to eat through ’em," Brookins said at a city council meeting on Oct. 21, according to the Sun Times. The alderman said that residents were repeatedly asking for replacement garbage cans, as the squirrels could chew through the lid within as little as two days.
After the accident, Brookins wrote on Facebook that he was okay, but he added he will undergo several surgeries "to recover from damage to my face and upper body." His chief of staff, James Ramos, told Chicagoist that Brookins was "in very good spirits" despite his "heavy damage."
The squirrel, however, was destined for the great Chicago garbage cart in the sky. It's called KARMA, and pronounced "HaHa - eff you!"
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What is it with Democrats and rodents. First Jimmy and the giant killer rabbit and now squirrels
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Brookins had denounced the eastern gray squirrel just a few weeks before the accident. Same gray squirrel or a different one? Gray squirrels don't like being denounced. Accident you say? I think not. The alderman is lucky to get off with his life.
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I was attacked by a screech owl while I was on the drive to work this morning. I had to hock a loogey so I rolled the window down and the owl flew in and whacked me upside the head. Sadly, the owl expired.
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[FOX5DC] Police are investigating an accident that left a woman hospitalized after her wig caught fire overnight on a D.C. street corner. The incident happened around 3:30 a.m. in the 1200 of Holbrook Street in the northeast.
Officers say emergency crews found the woman on the corner of Holbrook and Neal Street suffering from burns. Authorities say the fire spread to others parts of her body causing her to sustain critical injuries.
It is unclear what caused the wig to catch fire, however, police say a review of surveillance video confirmed that the incident was accidentalin nature.
The woman’s condition is unknown at this time.
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Issued by President George Washington, at the request of Congress, on October 3, 1789
By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation.
Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and--Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me "to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness:"
Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favor, able interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.
And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and other trangressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally, to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.
Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.
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Interesting. I believe I will read the whole thing as the dinner prayer tomorrow. Or maybe after everyone has started eating, so the turkey doesn't get cold...
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The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the Eighty-eighth.
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As turkeys trot straight down our gullets
And sweet taters leap up like mullets,
We thank you Gray devils
For hosting our revels
Whilst dodging your womenfolk's bullets.
hopefully not repost... also not too sure re status of domestic turkey in those days, but what the hell.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The office of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. denied rumors that the president has passed away of a heart attack. "His excellency, the President-for-Life, is not dead yet."
Taha Othman, the director of Bashir’s office, told al-Arabiya.net that the president is in good health and is resuming his presidential tasks. "Don't get your hopes up."
"I am sitting next to President Bashir in Morocco and enjoying the rain. We are getting ready to leave in a while to Guinea to participate in the Arab-African Summit," Othman said. "At some point after that he will be dead."
A rumor had circulated on social media platforms claiming that the Sudanese president has died of a heart attack. "More chili, Your Enormity?"
"[Belch!]"
The fourth Arab-African Summit will kick off on Wednesday in Guinea and last for two days. "What's on the menu?"
"Enchiladas, Your Immensity!"
"Have somebody standing by with an EKG machine, just in case."
"Of course, Your Acreage!"
"Oh, and that thingy with the paddles, too."
The summit will discuss several issues such as the burden of debts in Africa in addition to fighting terrorism, resolving conflicts and improving political coordination and cooperation among Arab and African leaders regarding major issues such as the Paleostinian cause.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Omanis took to social media to comment on their leader Sultan Qaboos’ first public appearance in nearly a year during their country’s National Day celebrations.
Wearing a military uniform, Qaboos appeared in good health as he was welcomed by high-ranking military and civilian officials before presiding over the parade.
The 76-year old Western-backed Qaboos had received a number of visitors in recent months, including US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... last week.
Qaboos returned to Oman in April after a trip to Germany after spending eight months there for medical reasons before returning home in March last year.
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The Sultan! The eunuchs were flustered.
He croaked, "Let my subjects be mustered,"
And, scimitar flashing,
He looked bloody dashing
While slashing the Thanksgiving bustard.
[Dhaka Tribune] The High Court has ordered police to arrest the attackers of a father, who has lost his both legs in the attack for protesting the stalking of his daughter at Noldanga village in Kaliganj upazila of Jhenaidah, within 72 hours.
In a suo-moto rule, the HC bench of Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice Mohammad Ullah yesterday also ordered the district superintendent of police to file a report in this regard before the court by November 27.
The HC move came as a news item on the incident, published in a daily newspaper yesterday, drew their attention.
Both legs of victim Shahanur Biswash had to be amputated because of his injuries he had received while the stalkers of his daughter beat him up on October 16, according to the report.
The father, who is a peasant, is undergoing treatment at the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (Nitor), popularly called Pangu Hospital.
After the incident, police had allegedly denied lodging any case against the attackers.
Later, Shahanur’s family filed two cases with a local court accusing 23 people.
Md Kamal, Kastobhanga union parishad member and also general secretary of local unit of Jubo League ... the youth wing of the Bangla Awami League... ‐ the youth front of ruling Awami League, has been made the prime accused, according to media report.
Later, the police incarcerated Book 'im, Mahmoud! two people, while the rest of the accused still remained on the lam.
Shahanur’s daughter has stopped going school fearing more attacks.
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"On October 27, the Russian media outlet Lenta.ru published a lengthy report on the history of the Russian carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, titled "Fire In The Sky, Why Admiral Kuznetsov Is Smoking."
As I noted before when we talked about this ship, the 2010 refit now allows it to burn wood and peat...
The article's author, Ilya Kramnik, explains that the Russian aircraft carrier's creation was the result of many compromises and palliative decisions. After departing Severomorsk on October 15, the Admiral Kuznetsov reached Syria on November 12. Russia's aircraft carrier has already been involved in large-scale operations to deliver strikes in the Syrian provinces of Idlib and Homs.
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The Russian navy still needs planes capable of providing cover for its deployment off the coast – primarily in order to defend its own sea borders in the Arctic and in the Pacific Ocean.
Hold on, hold on: I know I'm not a Navy guy, but isn't this exactly *not* why you go to all the expense and trouble of building and maintaining aircraft carriers? I though they were to project power far afield, not for defense close to home. That's how we, the Brits, and French do it. That's how the Indians and Chinese are going to do it. Or am I missing something here?
There is a school of thought - growing in recent years - that the Kuznetsov was designed not to go up against the USN's supercarriers but rather to protect the USSR's missile sub bastions against NATO patrol planes. That idea does make sense when you remember that a single squadron of F-14s would have sliced and diced the Kuznetsov's 10-plane air group without even working up a sweat, and although there was a lot of talk at the time about the carriers going north (something that scared the hell out of the Soviets) the Navy regarded that as a scare tactic more than anything else.
There was never any realistic chance that the projected Soviet carriers could take on the old Cold War carrier force (the USN plus the 2 French carriers), so there's the likelihood that the only reason they were built in the first place was so the USSR could say, "We have carriers too, fear us!!"
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Most excellent link, although the current air wing is 10 plus 3 Mig-29, it was designed for more. At best a training carrier, but how how they training?
[THEVERGE] Apple is reportedly asking its manufacturing partners to investigate moving iPhone production to the United States, according to the Japanese newspaper Nikkei. According to the report, sources claim that Apple has approached Foxconn and Pegatron, the two manufacturing companies that are largely responsible for assembling iPhones. Foxconn is apparently exploring the possibility, while Pegatron has elected to decline due to cost concerns.
According to the Nikkei, Apple made the request to explore moving manufacturing to its partners in June, prior to President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the recent election. But despite that, this report has to be considered in light of Trump’s comments regarding Apple earlier this year. Trump has repeatedly suggested that Apple move its manufacturing back to the US. His most recent comments were made in January at a talk at Liberty University where Trump said, “We're gonna get Apple to start building their damn computers and things in this country, instead of in other countries."
Moving iPhone production overseas would likely be a pricey endeavor, with Nikkei sources claiming that it would increase production costs by nearly 50 percent, which makes sense given that the vast majority of Apple’s part suppliers are already located in Asia. Motorola also tried to move smartphone manufacturing to America, but the experiment ended in 2014 when Motorola closed the factory due to costs. Apple has made some efforts in bringing hardware production back to America in the past — most notably, the Mac Pro in 2013, when the company invested over $100 million dollars to jumpstart production — but relocating iPhone manufacturing to the United States would be a move of a vastly different scale.
It's the supply chain, something that is as intricately orchestrated as anything you'll find on the planet. Moving assembly or some production to the U.S. would be simply an enormous undertaking, even if you could find thousands of US workers who would be willing to do the assembly jobs that still can't be done by machines and robots.
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Got to give the 1500 illegals coming in a day something to do.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Two Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... i that had just left Le Bourget airport in the northeast of Gay Paree on Monday were women were held up by robbers with their driver on a Gay Paree motorway.
They were then robbed of valuables worth "at least five million euros ", police sources said on Tuesday.
Their Bentley was held up by two masked men, who sprayed them with tear gas and stole "everything in the vehicle: jewels, clothes, luggage", one source said.
This is the latest robbery against the wealthy, which has also targeted the likes of Kim Kardashian.
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Dey wuz askin' for it.
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All they'd get from me would be about $9 and some pocket lint.
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Closer cooperation does not necessarily mean they are readying for war. It could mean they are reducing redundancies to further lessen the cost and it could mean they are looking for bribes in order to relegate different expenditures to different member states.
I have been joking with my friend, "Watch, if Britain leaves, suddenly the EU will be able to mobilize a pan-national military...but not for the Ukraine."
me, June 24
But isn't that what that EU Quick Reaction Police Force was going to be?
[Deutsche Welle] After spending years researching abroad, Bekir Cinar returned to Turkey to as an academic. But this year, he was forced to leave the country again, when the university he worked at was shut down suddenly and many other academics were detained in the country. Just like Cinar, hundreds of academics who have worked overseas and returned to Turkey - only to become unemployed amid the government's post-coup purges - are leaving the country once again.
Since declaring a state of emergency and enforcing various decree laws after the coup attempt, nearly 110,000 Turkish civil servants have either been dismissed or detained; 36,000 have been arrested. In addition, all academics were banned from leaving the country. Education has been a notable target for the Turkish government since July 15's coup attempt. Since then, the government has shut down 15 universities and around 1,000 secondary education institutions.
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) confirms an uptick in interest in Germany among Turkish students and academics. Dr. Wiebke Bachmann, head of the DAAD in Istanbul, said that the number of students wanting to study in Germany has increased, as well as the number of academics wanting to continue their research in Germany.
Nil Mutluer, formerly the dean of the Nisantasi University Sociology Department, was sacked for signing the Academics for Peace petition. She's been in Germany for a few months now, and is lecturing at Berlin's Humboldt University. Mutluer also said that many academics who signed the petition have left the country or are planning on leaving - warning that the phenomenon extends further.
"This brain drain doesn't just include academics. Educated people, journalists, writers, artists, many people have left the country. I see many people from the middle class, businessmen, trying to find ways to leave. These were people who were happy in their county, who had studied abroad and returned home, and were living in peace. And I was one of them," she said. "But now it's not safe for us. We have to think of the safety of our children and their future as well."
[RUDAW.NET] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has withdrawn a controversial law that may have pardoned the sexual abuse of minors if the convict agreed to marry the girl.
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim announced on Tuesday that his party has withdrawn the motion at the Turkish parliament, in a presser at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport.
"These issues will be discussed at a (parliamentary) commission," Yildirim said. "If a proposal comes from them (the opposition), it will be developed. If not, we will fix the issue by taking the suggestions of NGOs, citizens, experts and academics," he was quoted as saying by Turkish media.
Yildirim added that the government wanted to heal some grievances in society through the amnesty law, but said he understands that other parties have different views and that this will now give a chance for other parties to set forward their proposals on this issue.
The law, which if passed, would have affected about 3,000 people who are currently in prison for breaking the child marriage, according to the state-run Anadolu Agency.
The controversial law, which faced strong resistance from the opposition parties and women’s rights organizations, stipulates that the sentence for the convict would be deferred if he marries the underage girl with her consent, and that of her family.
The bill received the majority vote in the Turkish parliament on Nov 17, and was supposed to receive a second vote today.
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USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) is pier side following an engineering casualty the ship suffered transiting the Panama Canal, U.S. Navy officials told USNI News on Monday. The guided missile destroyer will undergo repairs at a former U.S. naval station until its fit to complete its journey to Naval Station San Diego, Calif., U.S. 3rd Fleet spokesman Cmdr. Ryan Perry told USNI News.
The ship was in the midst of a southbound transit through the canal when it suffered the casualty, Under orders from U.S. 3rd Fleet commander Vice Adm. Nora Tyson, Zumwalt is now stopped for repairs at the former U.S. Naval Station Rodman, he said.
“The timeline for repairs is being determined now, in direct coordination with Naval Sea Systems and Naval Surface Forces,” he said. “The schedule for the ship will remain flexible to enable testing and evaluation in order to ensure the ship’s safe transit to her new homeport in San Diego.”
A defense official told USNI News on Tuesday the repairs could take up to ten days.
The ship lost propulsion in its port shaft during the transit and the crew saw water intrusion in two of the four bearings that connect to Zumwalt’s port and starboard Advanced Induction Motors (AIMs) to the drive shafts, a defense official told USNI News on Tuesday. The AIMs are the massive electrical motors that are driven by the ship’s gas turbines and in turn electrically power the ship’s systems and drive the shafts.
Both of the shafts locked during the passage and the transit had to be completed with tugs. The ship made minor contact with lock walls in the canal resulting in minor cosmetic damage. Following the transit, the Navy determined the ship couldn’t continue to its new homeport at Naval Station San Diego without additional repairs.
The latest casualty follows an incident in September following the ship’s transit from shipbuilder General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Maine to Naval Station Norfolk, Va. in which the crew discovered “a seawater leak in the propulsion motor drive lube oil auxiliary system for one of the ship’s shafts,” the Navy told USNI News at the time. A service official told USNI News the most recent incident is similar. The service has narrowed down the likely problem to lube oil coolers leaking. The service replaced all four lube oil coolers following the September casualty.
Following its Oct. 15 commissioning, Zumwalt suffered additional unspecified engineering trouble around the time arrived at Naval Station Mayport, Fla. and spent extra time repairing and testing the propulsion system, USNI News understands.
Zumwalt entered the Panama Canal following a successful port visit to Colombia last week – a visit which the service intended to skip if it thought the engineering problems would continue, several defense officials told USNI News.
The ship’s engineering plant – the Integrated Power System (IPS) – is arguably the most complex and unique in the service. Installing and testing the system — that provides ship additional power margins to power high energy weapons and sensors — was a primary reason the ship delivered months late to the service.
Before the casualty, the ship was set to arrive in San Diego by the end of the year and start weapon system activation period before joining the fleet as an operational warship sometime in 2018.
Zumwalt is the first of three in the $22-billion class. Michael Monsoor (DDG-1001) and Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG-1002) are currently under construction at BIW.
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Newc, I am a veteran of twenty years Naval service and the indifference of the sea as to how smart anyone is can be quite upsetting. Especially when that seawater reaches your upper lip. Machinery breaks down, people are injured or die at sea.
Well, what I'm trying to say is, the real piece of $#!+ is using your keyboard. Better clean it up before eating your b00gers.
Thank you.
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The latest casualty follows an incident in September following the ship’s transit from shipbuilder General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Maine to Naval Station Norfolk, Va. in which the crew discovered “a seawater leak in the propulsion motor drive lube oil auxiliary system for one of the ship’s shafts,” the Navy told USNI News at the time.
And this from July 30, 2011...
This month, a bipartisan group of seven U.S. senators demanded that the Pentagon explain why Freedom, the first of the new littoral combat ships, suffered a small but worrisome crack in its hull and had to return to its homeport of San Diego for repairs.
The group, led by Arizona Republican and former naval aviator John McCain, also asked why an even newer, different version of the ship named Independence developed “aggressive” corrosion in its propulsion system.
The Navy continues to lack a single ship that is operationally effective or reliable,” McCain told Greenert.
And don't forget, that the reason the Iranians captured and humiliated our sailors very recently was because their ship broke down and drifted into their waters.
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Well, we seem to have an answer to the Professor's eternal question. -- Where's the graft in that?
Oh, that's where.
I would say that the fleet aka the ships, is not is great shape. The flag ranks? I don't know what's up there after 8 yrs of this regime. The regular sailors are by and large the ones paying the price.
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AA, ok, let's narrow it down abit. How do you feel about the LCS/DDG 1000 series build programs and the ships it has produced? Not the sailors themselves.
I'm heavily invested in this - my son is currently on a DDG. His thoughts (admittedly from a very junior perspective) on the these programs cannot be published here.
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It's like buying a several thousand dollar tractor with only half the required horsepower and nobody cares cuz it is BAU! The plague is in all aspects of life greed and stupidity they allow it everyone gets an award mentality! It is also legal in the idiot world to build things in that fashion just ask them!
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The problem here seems to what the guy over at 'Cdr. Salamader' refers to as "transformational change" rather than just improvement.
i.e., trying to jump three steps going up the stairway, instead of going one step at a time.
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Build/Shipyard quality issue? Bath vs NN vs MS?
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Build/Shipyard quality issue? Bath vs NN vs MS?
Say it with me. U N I O N...
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Boats build by bean counters and not sailors; previous employer go the job to build 4 (count 'em, 4) doors for the DDG 1000 superstructure, because of our experience in composites ( read; stealth) the overhead to get qualified for this was far beyond anything needed to build aircraft and was the biggest line item in the entire project's budget.
Add in the reliance on software to detail engineering casualties in an effort to reduce manning... well I have yet to see a computer hammer a soft plug into a burst pipe or man a fire team hose....
between this POS and the Clittoral Combat boats we are living in lala land.....
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I'm not in the military but the corporate world, but the problem may be similar. You get engineers that pull miracle after miracle to keep things going until eventually that is simply expected by folks at the top as average performance when clearly it is not sustainable. One budget cut and serious problems appear.
[Daily Excelsior] The Government today ordered termination of services of 21 Government employees of various departments after declaring them as deadwood on the basis of reports obtained against them from the Vigilance Organisation.
Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, who holds charge of General Administration Department (GAD), approved the proposal today after which the GAD issued individual termination orders to all 21 Government employees giving them compulsory retirement by invoking Article 226 against them.
Official sources told the Excelsior that the officers/officials terminated from the Government services today belonged to Public Health Engineers (PHE), Power Development Department (PDD), Consumer Affairs and Civil Supplies Distribution Department, Revenue etc.
The Government didn’t release the list of Government officers declared as deadwood to the media. Instead, it directly dispatched termination notices individually to all 21 officers informing them that they have been declared as deadwood and, accordingly, removed from the services in view of corruption and other charges of irregularities and that their services were no more required to the Government.
The terminated officers were picked up as they had completed mandatory requirements under the Government Service Rules like their age, particular period of services. They will be paid 3-month salary in advance.
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... what has raised question mark over the Government’s drive to weed out corruption from the Government offices was the fact that no senior or higher ranking officer falls in the list of dismissed officers/officials and only junior and low ranking officers have been dismissed.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Young Iranians accused of breaking their country’s moral codes have been uploading photos on social media of injuries sustained from lashings by police.The Facebook page My Stealthy Freedom, which usually known for posting photos of Iranian women without their headscarf, showed photos of the harsh punishments after young Iranians were caught in mixed-gendered parties.
A party where unmarried couples attend, especially if alcohol is involved, is strictly forbidden by Iran’s inquisitors religious police.
One photo showed a 28-year-old woman’s severely bruised back after she was tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud! by authorities. She was lashed 80 times as punishment for attending a party where men were present in the city of Mashhad nearly two years ago.
Iranian activist Masih Alinejad first posted the photo of the woman’s back a week ago with the hashtag #NotoLashes, which then gained traction by international media outlets like The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... and La Belle France24.
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Thinking that's a #7 on the far left of the picture.
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The Iranian police took advise from George Bernard Shaw, who said "If you beat you child, be sure to do it in anger".
(If it's worth doin', it's worth doin' right.)
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Howard Brookins Jr., the alderman for Chicago’s 21st ward, had publicly spoken out about a toothy menace plaguing the city’s garbage carts: urban squirrels, which in Brookins’s view were "aggressive," and aggressively damaging the trash cart lids.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Omanis took to social media to comment on their leader Sultan Qaboos’ first public appearance in nearly a year during their country’s National Day celebrations.
"On October 27, the Russian media outlet Lenta.ru published a lengthy report on the history of the Russian carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, titled "Fire In The Sky, Why Admiral Kuznetsov Is Smoking." 
[THEVERGE] Apple is reportedly asking its manufacturing partners to investigate moving iPhone production to the United States, according to the Japanese newspaper Nikkei. According to the report, sources claim that Apple has approached Foxconn and Pegatron, the two manufacturing companies that are largely responsible for assembling iPhones. Foxconn is apparently exploring the possibility, while Pegatron has elected to decline due to cost concerns.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Young Iranians accused of breaking their country’s moral codes have been uploading photos on social media of injuries sustained from lashings by police.The Facebook page My Stealthy Freedom, which usually known for posting photos of Iranian women without their headscarf, showed photos of the harsh punishments after young Iranians were caught in mixed-gendered parties.
