Hundreds of aggressive jumbo flying squid have appeared off the coast of San Diego, attacking divers and washing up dead on beaches. So they're not actually giant squid, they're jumbos.
The 5-foot long sea monsters, which have razor-sharp beaks and toothy tentacles, have been bringing terror to scuba drivers and swimmers on the coast's tourist-packed beaches. The carnivorous calamari, which can grow up to 100 pounds, came up from the depths last week and swarms of them have pounced on unsuspecting divers. "Harriet! Look out! It's a jumbo calamari!"
[GLURG!]
Some divers have reported tentacles enveloping their masks and yanking at their cameras and gear, ... So basically it's like a mugging ...
... leaving many too scared to go in the water. Increasing numbers of the squid, which come from Mexico, are being found in California and scientists say they may have moved because of global warming, a shortage of food or a decline in natural predators.
Stories of too-close encounters with the alien-like cephalopods have chased many veteran divers out of the water and created a whirlwind of excitement among the rest, who are torn between their personal safety and the once-in-a-lifetime chance to swim with the deep-sea giants.
The so-called Humboldt squid have been known to attack humans and are nicknamed 'red devils' for their rust-red coloring and mean streak.
The squid hunt in schools of up to 1,200, can swim up to 15 mph and can skim over the water to escape predators.
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" Increasing numbers of the squid, which come from Mexico, are being found in California and scientists say they may have moved because of global warming, a shortage of food or a decline in natural predators."
There was undersea earthquake off the coast earlier this week, and within an hour, there were squid washing up on the beach in La Jolla (near San Diego). While the events are sequential and may not be cause / effect, it irks me that the author of this piece still tries obliquley to relate it to global warming.
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Huh? Grabbing divers? Haven't heard that, and find it hard to believe, though my blackout of "media" includes the local rag (which, BTW, today carries a huge front-page photo of Cronkite with a 36-pt headline "Distinguished Journalist"). Haven't been in the water lately, but that's because the surf is flat (typical summer conditions in the SoCal area).
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Google 'Humboldt squid', folks. They are actually fairly unpleasant creatures and have been known to attack people.
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An insipid Hollywood manuscript right now being composed by another wannabe hack to fill programming time on a television channel near you. "Based upon true events...."
Argentina's government declared on Friday a national sanitary emergency due to the presence of the new H1N1 flu virus in pigs. Earlier this month, animal health officials said workers at a pig farm in Buenos Aires province were suspected of having passed the new strain onto the animals. Despite the apparently ironic headline, this is something that you need to pay attention to. I suspect this is what happened in Kansas in 1918. When it jumped back to humans a previously mild strain became the pandemic killer.
Yup ... that's what some experts have been predicting will happen this Fall too.
Something big and strange is floating through the Chukchi Sea between Wainwright and Barrow.
Hunters from Wainwright first started noticing the stuff sometime probably early last week. It's thick and dark and "gooey" and is drifting for miles in the cold Arctic waters, according to Gordon Brower with the North Slope Borough's Planning and Community Services Department.
Brower and other borough officials, joined by the U.S. Coast Guard, flew out to Wainwright to investigate. The agencies found "globs" of the stuff floating miles offshore Friday and collected samples for testing. Later, Brower said, the North Slope team in a borough helicopter spotted a long strand of the stuff and followed it for about 15 miles, shooting video from the air. The next day the floating substance arrived offshore from Barrow, about 90 miles east of Wainwright, and borough officials went out in boats, collected more samples and sent them off for testing too.
Nobody knows for sure what the gunk is, but Petty Officer 1st Class Terry Hasenauer says the Coast Guard is sure what it is not. "It's certainly biological," Hasenauer said. "It's definitely not an oil product of any kind. It has no characteristics of an oil, or a hazardous substance, for that matter. It's definitely, by the smell and the makeup of it, it's some sort of naturally occurring organic or otherwise marine organism."
Something else: No one in Barrow or Wainwright can remember seeing anything like this before, Brower said. "That's one of the reasons we went out, because in recent history I don't think we've seen anything like this," he said. "Maybe inside lakes or in stagnant water or something, but not (in the ocean) that we could recall ...
"If it was something we'd seen before, we'd be able to say something about it. But we haven't ...which prompted concerns from the local hunters and whaling captains."
The stuff is "gooey" and looks dark against the bright white ice floating in the Arctic Ocean, Brower said. "It's pitch black when it hits ice and it kind of discolors the ice and hangs off of it," Brower said. He saw some jellyfish tangled up in the stuff, and someone turned in what was left of a dead goose -- just bones and feathers -- to the borough's wildlife department. "It kind of has an odor; I can't describe it," he said.
Hasenauer said he hasn't heard any reports of waterfowl or marine animals turning up.
Brower said it wouldn't necessarily surprise him if the substance turns out to be some sort of naturally occurring phenomenon, but the borough is waiting until it gets the analysis back from the samples before officials say anything more than they're not sure what it is. "From the air it looks brownish with some sheen, but when you get close and put it up on the ice and in the bucket, it's kind of blackish stuff ... (and) has hairy strands on it."
Hasenauer said the Coast Guard's samples are being analyzed in Anchorage. Results may be back sometime next week, he said.
The two Coast Guard experts sent up to overfly the area with the borough said they saw nothing that resembled an oil slick, Hasenauer said. "We brought back one sample of what they believe to be an algae," he said, and a big algae bloom is one possibility. "It's textbook for us to consider algae because of all the false reports of oil spills we've had in the past. It's one of the things that typically comes up" when a report turns out not to be an oil spill after all.
But, he said, "there's all types of natural phenomena that it could be."
Meanwhile, the brownish-blackish gunk is drifting along the coast to the northeast, Brower said. "This stuff is moving with the current," he said. "It's now on beyond Barrow and probably going north at this point. And people are still encountering it out here off Barrow." For the most part, the mystery substance seems to have stayed away from shore. "We did get some residents saying it was being pushed against the shoreline by ice in some areas," Brower said, "but then we get another east wind and it gets pushed back out there."
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I'm confused. The report says that the stuff looks black when it hits the ice. I thought that Al Gore said there was no more Arctic ice - it had all melted cuz of global warming.
And all the polar bears drowned.
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Its likely (not really) an ancient oxygen depleting type of algae, that hasn't been seen in more than 100 years because of CO2 levels in the atmosphere. Now that we're all CO2 averse, the environment is going change a bit, in unexpected ways.
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I think the latrine for the whales has overflowed. Those big guys are going to have to file one huge environmental impact statement and the fine will be big enough to pay for our health care for several years.
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[ADN Kronos] Saudi Arabia's religious police, also known as the committee for the promotion of virtue and the prevention of vice, must have long beards, Islamic attire, and a degree in Islamic Sharia law in order to serve in the corps, local media reported.
The new measures apply to new recruits as well as policemen already serving in the forces, said Saudi daily Okaz. "We will hire only those who have a degree in Sharia law," said an official. "The commission that is selecting the candidates wants the future agents to have a long beard and wear Islamic attire to set a good example for Saudis."
The religious police will also undergo training including English language courses and have signed an agreement with the British consulate in the Saudi capital, Riyadh. The accord is the first of its kind.
What kind of an agreement? "We will speak to them in English as we arrest and torture them to confess to things we know they didn't do"?
The religious police contains over 3,500 members as well as volunteers. They police Saudi Arabia's streets and are tasked with enforcing strict Sharia law.
I s'pose it could be deemed better that they arrest people for breaking actual stupid religious rules than imaginary stupid religious rules.
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This is funny, because the bulk of the vice police are uneducated, rural hicks of the lowest order. When told they will have to go to school, most will quit, which is probably the real intention of these rules.
Urban kids won't join, because they would have to dress like hicks and know that everyone will despise them.
[Bangla Daily Star] The eyes of 14-year-old boy Miru Khan were not gouged out at an arbitration for stealing a mobile phone set at Bhanga upazila as mentioned in some national dailies on July 17. We're all so glad to hear that...
Several dailies reported that influential locals at an arbitration forced Sultan Khan to gouge out his son Miru's eyes as punishment for stealing a cell phone set. Yep. That'd be paternal devotion, Subcontinental-style, I guess...
Deputy Commissioner Helal Uddin Ahmed at a press conference at the office of superintendent of police (SP) said the reports were not true as the boy only sustained injury to his right eye. Oh. Well. That's another thing entirely.
He said they would take necessary actions against the people responsible. "You there! Stop that gouging this instant or I'll take action!"
Influential locals at the arbitration asked his father to gouge out his son's eyes.
Miru at the press conference said influential locals at the arbitration asked his father to gouge out his eyes on July 15. "Ummm... Right. Gouge my son's eyes out. That sounds fair."
SP Mizanur Rahman said giving in to their pressure, Miru's father hit his eyes. Miru sustained injury to his right eye. "Son, this's gonna hurt you more than it does me!"
"Aaaaiiieee! My eye!"
"Hey! That's only one of 'em!"
He was admitted to Faridpur Medical College Hospital the same day but released after receiving first aid. "Right. We'll just pop the old orb right back into its socket like [POP!] that!"
"Aaaiiieee! My socket!"
As he felt pain in the right eye, he got readmitted to the hospital the next day, said Mizanur. "Whattya mean, 'it fell back out'?"
"Well I can see outta this one fine, but the other one just keeps looking in my shirt pocket..."
I think Fred is feeling better. Either that or the medicos gave him some really good drugs.
A case was filed with the Bhanga Police Station against 15 people. Police arrested three people in connection with the incident.
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it's all fun and games til somebody loses an eye
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Mr Allingham once attributed his grand age to 'cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women'.
Not on the slate under Obamacare, cause you know the utes who'll get taxed for Obamacare would take it as an alternative private health insurance policy instead. Allingham Mutual Ltd, now there's an idea.
WASHINGTON The United States is opposed to any attempted return to Honduras of deposed leader Manuel Zelaya, fearing it could jeopardize reconciliation talks hosted by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias.
I'm rather amazed. Is Hildebeast coming to her senses?
"We don't want people to take steps that in any way conflict or don't contribute positively to the Arias mediation efforts," said State Department spokesman Robert Wood.
"Tensions are very high," Wood said. "And what we're trying to do is to get people to really focus on how we can bring about that peaceful... return to democratic and constitutional order."
Zelaya's attempt to return to Honduras "within hours" on Friday, according to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, comes as the United States pushes talks between the deposed leader and interim Honduran president Roberto Micheletti, mediated by Nobel Peace Prize winner Arias.
"We believe the Arias engagement process is the best way to do this," Wood said.
He declined to say whether the United States had tried to convince Zelaya to abandon his return attempt, but a department official who spoke on condition of anonymity said the US position had been made clear to him. Describing the return plan as "not helpful," the official said Zelaya "is well aware of our position on this.
"What he should do is fully commit himself to this process and give it time," the official said.
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"...return to democratic and constitutional order."
Uh, that's what they got when the Hondurans showed Zelaya the exit sign. Could we be seeing the begining of a walk-back to get the US on the correct side of this fight?
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Not coming to her senses, just aware her red slip is showing. Maybe, just maybe, the kneejerk reaction of our neo-Marxist dem leadership (O, the beast, et al) in support of the Chavez power projection attempt in Honduras exposed their base proclivities to the US public too soon. I think the US public is not generally supportive of Chavez, his goals or his tactics, and are confused at our government's initial position. So now O and Hill are seeking shelter in a temporary retreat from their blatant and open support of the attempted takeover. Perhaps they will now pursue their goals by "other means". Keep your eyes on the events unfolding in Honduras over the next days and weeks.
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Best fall back will be for 6 power talks to 'quickly' resolve the issue. Yes, use the successful State Dept model to deal with it. /sarc off
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The administration is concerned because Zelaya isn't playing the poor, deposed El Presidente and is coming across like a little Chavez.
This isn't helpful to the administration and might cause their otherwise-fawning groupies to start having doubts about other aspects of the administration's foreign policy.
Original in Spanish; computer translation and then clean-up by me.
Tegucigalpa -- The National Direction of Criminal Investigation confiscated computers in the Presidential House in which were registered the supposed results of the referendum on the reform of the Constitution that was planned by former President Manuel Zelaya on last June 28, the day that he was ousted.
The District attorney's Office will investigate now if it is a possible crime of fraud and forgery of the documents, due to that some had been filled with the data of the people that supposedly had participated in the failed referendum. One of the public prosecutors that participated in the operating one carried out yesterday showed to the mass media an electoral minutes of the Technical Institute Luis Bográn, of Tegucigalpa, in which the number of people is specified that participated on the table 345, where 550 ballots were counted of which 450 were votes in favor of the proposal of Zelaya and 30 in against, besides 20 blank votes and 30 nulos.
Cheez, it's like Chicago ...
The seizure was carried out on the third storey of the building annex to the Department of the Presidency that had been rented the former home secretary, Enrique Flowers Throws.
The public prosecutor, Roberto Ramírez, declared that zone as the "scene of the crime" and, although he wanted to need more details, said that the found evidence would be able to characterize the crimes of fraud, embezzlement, forgery of documents and abuse of authority. Ramírez did not rule out that these computers were to be utilized in the final count of the referendum.
"This group of some 45 computers, by the appearance that present, they would be used for the launch of the supposed final results of the quarter ballot box", he explained. The computers belonged to the project 'Learns' of the Honduran Counsel of Science and Technology directed towards rural schools. All of the computers had been lettered with the name of the department for the one that would transmit the information accompanied by a document with the headline: "Leaf of test", that contained all the data of the centers of voting.
The public prosecutor also indicated that there was evidence of documents, hardware and tests that could give light in the investigations on the possible fraud.
During the last months of his mandate, Zelaya promoted the referendum that had been called for last June 28, in which the population would be asked consider the possibility of forming a Constituent assembly so as to reform the constitution. The consultation was ruled "illegal" by the Supreme Court of Justice and was also rejected, since the beginning, by the opposition that alleged that the idea to reform the Constitution responded to the interests of Zelaya to establish in the country the indefinite reelection of the president.
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Another smoking howitzer? Can't trust them damned computers; you can buy them, but them don't stay bought.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] The US military has begun to dismantle its anti-drug-and-terrorism operation base in Manta, Ecuador, as US aircrafts flew their last missions.
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PORTLAND, Ore. - You may have heard the radio ads calling out TriMet, which spends as much as $1,900 per employee, per month, just for health insurance benefits.
Radio Ad: "Free breast enhancement, fitness centers, eyeglasses, no co-pay -- and taxpayers are paying for all of it!"
That's enough to win the so called 'Golden Fleece Award' for wasting taxpayer money but you will be floored when you see the millions more TriMet is spending every year on people who don't even work there.
Over the last month, KATU investigated TriMet's union benefits package and we learned the same kind of deal that drove GM into bankruptcy is happening right here, even as the transit agency faces a $31 million budget deficit.
TriMet's drivers can opt into a plan to pay nothing for health insurance and it turns out the agency is the most generous transit agency in the country, picking up the entire tab for union employees, their families and all retirees. "I'll tell you what, that is an awful good thing," said MAX rider Stan Welsh. "Maybe I'll move out here and drive one of these. Get benefits for the rest of my life - right?"
"I wish my employer would do that," said MAX rider Allan Ravitch. "Why not?"
"The cost of fringe benefits is cannibalizing the general fund, so this cannot continue," said John Charles (pictured at right), president of Cascade Policy Institute. He says TriMet's union benefits are destroying the agency's financial viability. "You have a growing number of retirees who are drawing the life out of the current organization," he said.
TriMet said it paid out $108.1 million in fringe benefits last year but an outside audit that accounts for long-term liability shows TriMet is actually responsible for more in fringe benefits than wages. That audit found that between 2001 and 2008, benefits rose from 61 percent of wages to 118 percent - a total of $151.8 million. An easy way to look at it - for every dollar paid, TriMet is reponsible for $1.18 in benefits. "When the cost of benefits exceeds the cost of payroll, that's ludicrous," Charles said.
Particularly when more than half of TriMet's revenues come not from fares but taxes imposed on workers in Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties. "Every time they need more money, they go to the state legislature and get an increase in the payroll tax rate, which is the cash cow that subsidizes TriMet," Charles said.
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Walter Cronkite, who personified television journalism for more than a generation as anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News," has died. CBS vice president Linda Mason says Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. Friday with his family by his side at his home in New York after a long illness. He was 92.
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I've seen the tapes - the mosted trusted man in America told America that it could not win in Vietnam. 6 years later the Democrat party made sure the South Vietnamese couldn't win in Vietnam. I think Walter Cronkite set the mold for the current crop of lefty "blame US first" news readers. I can't say I'm glad he's gone,I don't have that much passion about his passing, but this man should be considered a traitor to his county and his profession.
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Acording to the North Vetmanese general (Gapp?) the North Vietmanese were ripe and ready to talk actual peace after Tet. Only after watching Walter's (The War is LOST!) broadcast (and with a little persuading from Hanoi Jane) the North decided to continue their fight and the war was probably extended for years.
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"Even as with the American rejection of the League of Nations, our failure to live up to our obligations to the United Nations is led by a handful of willful senators who choose to pursue their narrow, selfish political objectives at the cost of our nations conscience.
"They pander to and are supported by the Christian Coalition and the rest of the religious right wing. Their leader, Pat Robertson, has written that we should have a world government but only when the messiah arrives.
"Any attempt to achieve world order before that time must be the work of the Devil! Well join me I'm glad to sit here at the right hand of Satan."
-- Walter Cronkite, now assuming his rightful seat.
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sorry, but the whitewashing lovefest on the news makes me puke. F*ck him. He did his best to lose Viet Nam. Hope he has to meet and apologize for his traitorous lies to every GI an ARVN killed in VN. Continuing the CBS anti-American tradition with Dan "TANG letters" Rather and Katie "I tried to kill Sarah's career" Couric. F*ck em all
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"and" not "an"
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CBS Legend Walter Cronkite Dies
He lived way too long if you ask me, the effing traitor.
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What's really sad is the propaganda continues and is in the White House. Just as most people got their news from Cronkite, NBC, and the NYT's over the years, the public is largely uninformed and keep their deeply held ass-umptions. Usurped power by all the czars and appointments are still plugging global governance with GE set to profit from it. Thank God for RB as getting the real news out on the wot!
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I see Barry jumped on TV this morning with a stirring uelogy.
Ed McMahon died last week. He was a great entertainer, but prior to his
stage accomplishments he was a distinguished Marine Corps fighter pilot
in WWII earning six Air Medals and attaining the rank of Colonel. He was
discharged in 1946 and was later promoted to the rank of Brigadier
General in the Calif Air National Guard.
Farrah Fawcett died last week after a long career in Hollywood as an
actress. After she was diagnosed with cancer, she became an activist
for cancer treatment and devoted her last remaining years encouraging
people to seek treatment. She documented her plight on film and used it
to encourage others to stay positive and upbeat despite their diagnosis
and suffering.
Michael Jackson died last week. He was perhaps one of the greatest
singers of modern time. He will also be remembered for his eccentric
lifestyle that included sleeping with a chimpanzee, living in a
carnival-like atmosphere at Neverland, his fascination with Peter Pan,
and his numerous masks and costumes. He also admitted to finding
pleasure sleeping with young boys and paying out millions of dollars in
settlements to the families of these boys despite being acquitted by a
court on one allegation of sexual molestation.
QUESTION 1- Which of the above did the House of Representatives declare
a moment of silence for? (Hint - It wasn't the first two.)
QUESTION 2- Which of the above's family received a personal note of
condolence from President Obama? (Hint - It wasn't the first two.)
QUESTION 3- Which of the above is Al Sharpton calling to honor with a
national day of mourning and stating the the national press have been
unfair in their coverage? (Hint - It isn't the first two.)
Now you know what kind of leaders we have. No wonder our nation is in
trouble.
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Walter can rot in hell. If he is at Satan's right hand, I can assure you its not in the posture he imagined. Good riddance you conniving son of a bitch.
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Cronkite had stepped down at a vigorous 64 years old with the assurance that other duties awaited him at CBS News, but he found little demand there for his services. He hosted the short-lived science magazine series "Walter Cronkite's Universe" and was retained by the network as a consultant, although, as he was known to state wistfully, he was never consulted.
So why do you think that was, Walter?
Cronkite's credibility problems started when he started to bask in that "most trusted man in America" bullshit.
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All of the networks fawned over Crankcase. Why, you would have thought he was Michael Jackson. He was a lefty liberal and injected far too much of himself into broadcasts--just like the rest of the talking heads today. When the talking heads start reporting on themselves and interviewing each other and parading it as the news we are in trouble. Thank God for the internet.
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Thank you Walter Cronkite, you're death introduced me Princess Madeleine.
(side note TY to Atomic. Your taste is excellent)
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Odd trivia but Cronkite was a founding charter member of a DeMolay chapter. DeMolay was the original Knights Templar. Kept a yacht in the Caribbean--cruising islands sovereign property of Knights of St. John territory for centuries--as did Allen Stanford and Lawrence Rockefeller.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's wife Gursharan Kaur is to crack the auspicious coconut marking the historic launch of India's first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine at the naval dockyard, Visakhapatnam on July 26. The launch, which naval tradition demands always be performed by a lady, is also the tenth anniversary of the conclusion of the Kargil War.
After spending over a decade cloaked under an obscure project name, the Advanced Technology Vessel (ATV) India's first nuclear submarine finally gets a name: Arihant (destroyer of enemies), pulled out of a list with options like Astra. But more importantly, the Arihant propels India into an exclusive league of only five other nations who have designed and built their own nuclear-powered submarines. It also marks the first step towards the acquisition of the third leg of the nuclear triad-- a secure underwater platform for launching nuclear weapons.
Based on the design of a Charlie-1 submarine which India leased from the former Soviet Union between 1987-'91, the submarine is currently housed in a completely-enclosed dry-dock called the Shipbuilding Centre (SBC) in Visakhapatnam. The launch, where the long, narrow dry dock is to be flooded with water from the harbor and the submarine floated out, is only the first step.
The Arihant is to be towed out of the SBC into an enclosed pier for its harbor trials. The trials will prove its nuclear power plant and auxiliary systems before it heads out into the Bay of Bengal for sea trials and weapon trials of the 12 K-15 ballistic missiles it is armed with. It will take the submarine between two and three years before commissioning.
In the meantime, the navy will get its first nuclear submarine, the Chakra, an Akula-2 class nuclear powered attack submarine currently undergoing sea trials in the Pacific Ocean off Vladivostok. The Chakra is to be commissioned later this year before sailing to Visakhapatnam. The submarine (known as the Nerpa in Russian service) is being acquired on a ten-year lease from Russia under a secret agreement signed in January 2004. India paid $650 million for the completion and lease of the submarine which is being acquired to rapidly train crews to man the fleet of three nuclear submarines which are to be inducted by 2015. Hull sections of two more ATVs have been completed by L&T at its Hazira facility and are to be transported to the SBC for assembling soon after the Arihant vacates dock space.
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.........Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand Pakistan soils itself in three, two, one...
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couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of two-faced assholes than the Paks.
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Pakistain soils itself? How about China?
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[Geo News] Lahore police claimed to have arrested two stage actresses, accused of filing sëxual dances and production of unethical dramas here on Friday, Geo news reported. According to police, two actresses, Anjuman and Hina have been arrested over charges of shooting sëxually ëxplicit material while Anjuman, talking to Geo news ruled out all charges terming them fabricated and baseless. She said we, held actresses, appeal to Chief Minister (CM) Punjab to take strong and immediate note on our unjustified arrests.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Police clashed with demonstrators in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal injuring over 40 people as protesters shouted 'Communists must go'. As sporadic violence spread, protesters in the state capital of Kolkata set fire to railway tracks and stormed government offices. They pelted stones at vehicles and shouted 'Communists must go' in direct opposition to the local government of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M).
The unrest is the latest in a series of challenges to the state's ruling CPI-M, which performed dismally in the national elections in May.
Over 40 people suffered minor injures as a result of the clashes. Police arrested 150 protesters all over the state, police Inspector General Raj Kanojia told AFP. The protests and a strike were called by the Congress Party after nine of its state legislators were allegedly assaulted by the police. Eyewitnesses said that roads were deserted as local transportation was paralyzed by the strike on Friday. Schools and government offices were also shut down.
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The original recordings of the first humans landing on the moon 40 years ago were erased and re-used, but newly restored copies of the original broadcast look even better, NASA officials said on Thursday.
NASA released the first glimpses of a complete digital make-over of the original landing footage that clarifies the blurry and grainy images of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the surface of the moon.
The full set of recordings, being cleaned up by Burbank, California-based Lowry Digital, will be released in September. The preview is available at http://www.nasa.gov.
NASA admitted in 2006 that no one could find the original video recordings of the July 20, 1969, landing. Since then, Richard Nafzger, an engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland, who oversaw television processing at the ground-tracking sites during the Apollo 11 mission, has been looking for them.
The good news is he found where they went. The bad news is they were part of a batch of 200,000 tapes that were degaussed -- magnetically erased -- and re-used to save money. This is the same government that wants custody of our electronic health records...
"The goal was live TV," Nafzger told a news conference. "We should have had a historian running around saying 'I don't care if you are ever going to use them -- we are going to keep them'," he said.
They found good copies in the archives of CBS news and some recordings called kinescopes found in film vaults at Johnson Space Centre. Lowry, best known for restoring old Hollywood films, has been digitizing these along with some other bits and pieces to make a new rendering of the original landing.
Nafzger does not worry that using a Hollywood-based company might fuel the fire of conspiracy theorists who believe the entire lunar program that landed people on the moon six times between 1969 and 1972 was staged on a movie set or secret military base. "This company is restoring historic video. It mattered not to me where the company was from," Nafzger said. "The conspiracy theorists are going to believe what they are going to believe," added Lowry Digital Chief Operating Officer Mike Inchalik.
And there may be some unofficial copies of the original broadcast out there somewhere that were taken from a NASA video switching centre in Sydney, Australia, the space agency said. Nafzger said someone else in Sydney made recordings too. "These tapes are not in the system," Nafzger said. "We are certainly open to finding them."
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The bad news is they were part of a batch of 200,000 tapes that were degaussed -- magnetically erased -- and re-used to save money.
Well, it's not like this is rocket science. Oh, wait, never mind....
The last time we saw CNN correspondent Susan Roesgen, she was arguing with folks at the April 15 Tea Party in Chicago claiming the event was "anti-government, anti-CNN [and] highly promoted by the right-wing conservative network Fox." Although CNN officials won't blame the decision specifically on this event, the network has decided not to renew her contract.
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Although CNN officials won't blame the decision specifically on this event..
No, no. That's because she articulated what she absorb from the culture at CNN. Couldn't let the yokels know what all those smiling talking heads really thought of potential rating viewers, that's money.
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Hundreds of aggressive jumbo flying squid have appeared off the coast of San Diego, attacking divers and washing up dead on beaches.
[Geo News] Lahore police claimed to have arrested two stage actresses, accused of filing sëxual dances and production of unethical dramas here on Friday, Geo news reported. According to police, two actresses, Anjuman and Hina have been arrested over charges of shooting sëxually ëxplicit material while Anjuman, talking to Geo news ruled out all charges terming them fabricated and baseless. She said we, held actresses, appeal to Chief Minister (CM) Punjab to take strong and immediate note on our unjustified arrests.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Police clashed with demonstrators in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal injuring over 40 people as protesters shouted 'Communists must go'. As sporadic violence spread, protesters in the state capital of Kolkata set fire to railway tracks and stormed government offices. They pelted stones at vehicles and shouted 'Communists must go' in direct opposition to the local government of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M). 
The original recordings of the first humans landing on the moon 40 years ago were erased and re-used, but newly restored copies of the original broadcast look even better, NASA officials said on Thursday.
The last time we saw CNN correspondent Susan Roesgen, she was arguing with folks at the April 15 Tea Party in Chicago claiming the event was "anti-government, anti-CNN [and] highly promoted by the right-wing conservative network Fox." Although CNN officials won't blame the decision specifically on this event, the network has decided not to renew her contract.
