Texas: once again doing the job the blue portion of the country refuses to do.
[BBC] A gunman suspected of killing eight people in the city of Joliet, Illinois, has died after a confrontation with law enforcement officials, police say.
Police in Joliet said Romeo Nance, 23, is believed to have fatally shot himself after the confrontation near Natalia, Texas.
He is suspected of killing eight people at multiple locations in Joliet.
Seven of the victims were found in two nearby houses by police on Monday. The eighth was found earlier on Sunday.
The discovery of the bodies sparked a manhunt for the suspect, who authorities warned "should be regarded as armed and dangerous".
In a statement, Joliet police department said Mr Nance had been located by US Marshals near Natalia at approximately 20:30 local time on Monday (2:30 GMT on Tuesday).
At that point, it said, "it is believed that Nance took his own life with a handgun following a confrontation with Texas law enforcement officials."
It added: "Identification of the victims and manner of death will be determined by the Will County Coroner's Office. This remains an active investigation."
Researchers in China claim they have carried out a successful simulated strike on a US aircraft carrier using satellites to hide missiles' approach Winning in a simulation is so much easier than the real thing...
Paper published in the Chinese journal Shipboard Electronic Countermeasures claimed they would need 28 low-orbit satellites to launch a global strike
In a research paper published in the Chinese journal Shipboard Electronic Countermeasures in December, scientist Liu Shichang described a computer-simulated attack on the US fleet.
The team launched missiles at a US aircraft carrier from 750 miles away and used low-flying satellites to block the ship's radars, so it couldn't detect the missiles until they were just 30 miles away.
Based on the study, they concluded that three satellites would be enough to attack an aircraft carrier group, while just 28 satellites would enable a 'global strike', according to the South China Morning Post.
Liu wrote: 'Commanding height has always been a pivotal tactic in war since ancient times.
Liu works at the secretive Science and Technology on Electronic Information Control Laboratory.
According to the South China Morning Post, the lab works on electronic warfare equipment for the Chinese military, under the state-owned China Electronics Technology Group Corporation.
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This is a huge problem, offset just a bit by the fact that while the satellites are jamming the carrier's radars, all those Aegis destroyers are watching and can target the satellites with SM-6 missiles.
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It was probably also a dumb idea for the Chinee to reveal that tactic.
Picking up some bad habits from infiltrating the Pentagone, are they?
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...Remember always two things about the battle of Midway:
1) The Japanese wargamed it before the actual operation, and got their backsides handed to them. They ignored that.
2) Every few years, the Naval War College wargames the battle. They have never yet recreated an American victory.
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It was probably also a dumb idea for the Chinee to reveal that tactic.
What is the point of having a doomsday device if you don't tell the world?
The Chicoms are letting the USN know what it will be up against when a Chinese blockage goes up around Taiwan and they dare the USN to come do something about it.
In the meantime, our Navy is focused on pronouns and DIEing.
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@2 not a huge, huge problem. We have multiple ground and satellite radars covering the Pacific and it would be hard as hell to jam the Aegis system.
The missile launches would be picked up nearly instantly by IR satellites, tracked by multiple radars and speed, altitude and track would be calculated in under 30 seconds. It would matter if the ships radars are blind because the US has a data linked system that can use other sources to track. Not only would the fleet see it, they would kill it pretty quick. The SM-6s could be launched and the F-35s can grab their control and guide them into the attacking missiles even if the Aegis system couldn't see them.
Better just to EMP the entire fleet, then nuke 'em.
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Now now, let them have their delusions right up to actually trying it. Then they will have their "Oh crap" moment when return fire hits the Three Gorges Dam:p
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seems to me Turkey has to much say in such things. I wouldn't trust those mutherfuckers with a tennis ball
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Turkey may have triggered a rule change against "unanimous" approval for accession. They are no longer an Anti-Soviet bulwark needed
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All NATO members need to say "Yes" for another country to enter. Turkey was playing hard ball with the Swedes as they support members of the Kurds the Turks see as terrorists. They wanted the support and funding to stop. Seems like they got what they wanted.
They’re burning their brand in every way possible.
[WSJ] The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, is seeking to retract six studies and correct 31 other papers as part of a probe involving four of its senior cancer researchers and administrators.
More than 50 papers, including four co-authored by Chief Executive and President Dr. Laurie Glimcher, are part of a continuing review, according to Dr. Barrett Rollins, the cancer institute’s research-integrity officer. Some requests for retractions and corrections have already been sent to journals, he said. Others are being prepared. The institute has yet to determine whether misconduct occurred.
Given that many papers are involved, including the leadership, a culture of misconduct can be assumed, or at least a very unscientific carelessness.
Also under investigation are papers co-authored by Chief Operating Officer Dr. William Hahn; Director of the Clinical Investigator Research Program Dr. Irene Ghobrial; and Dr. Kenneth Anderson, program director of the Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center.
All four researchers have faculty appointments at Harvard Medical School, making it the latest tranche of misconduct allegations leveled at Harvard researchers. Claudine Gay resigned as Harvard University president early this year, facing allegations of plagiarism. Last year, Harvard Business School placed Prof. Francesca Gino on administrative leave after accusations that her work contained falsified data.
Glimcher and the other researchers didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Dana-Farber’s disclosure about its probe arrived after a data sleuth pointed to irregularities in the researchers’ papers.
In early January, molecular biologist Sholto David published a blog post describing what he said were signs of image manipulation in papers by the Dana-Farber researchers. David contacted Dana-Farber and Harvard Medical School with his concerns, submitting a list of papers he said contained problems.
The most serious, he said, had to do with images of experimental results that had signs of copy-and-pasting by software such as Adobe Photoshop. "Those are pixel-perfect matches for the same area, but it’s supposed to be a different sample," he said.
Scientific studies are assessed by experts in the field for quality before they are published in peer-reviewed journals, but the process doesn’t reliably catch fabrications or errors. As a stopgap, some scientists have taken up policing the scientific record on their own, often posting their findings on social media or the scientific discussion forum PubPeer. David has been looking for faulty papers and posting about them for nearly three years. The rot's lot deeper than DEI humanities faculty or baby bolshevic students.
Yes, indeed. And the rot in scientific research has been going on a lot longer than those new issues, especially on fashionable topics where a great deal of grant money and prestige are involved. That papers are being retracted after other scientists show that they’re bad is a positive sign. Trying — and failing! — to reproduce key research started almost as a joke over a decade ago, and now has become a regular practice, resulting in corrections and some deservedly destroyed careers.
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...Is it possible people are dying because of this?
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Science has innovated to the point that this is both a symptom and a cause of the COVID farce.
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I think it is an easy case to make that management is culpable for damages by knowingly selecting an unqualified individual to perform a procedure.
Driving a school bus, flying a plane, medical procedures and theory, etc.
For example: you are having your wisdom teeth removed; you do not want me handling anesthesia, but I get assigned anyways because I'm a fraction of a properly trained anesthesiologist plus gives enough athletic employees to field their softball team.
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.
