"... It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings."....I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
The team investigating Gardner Island, now called Nikumaroro, suspects that the aviator veered hundreds of miles from her course, which was originally to Howland Island
A search party is looking to solve a lost aircraft mystery that has baffled the world since long before crews were searching the Indian Ocean for MH370.
The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, called TIGHAR, is now embarking on a trip to the uninhabited island where aviator Amelia Earhart is thought to have made an emergency landing, with hopes of finding her plane.
Earhart, travelling with her navigator Fred Noonan, was attempting to fly around the world when she disappeared on one of the last legs, from Papua New Guinea to Howland Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, in July 1937.
The F-35 Lightning II program made aviation history June 12 as Royal Air Force (RAF) Test Pilot Squadron Leader Andy Edgell released two inert 500-pound dual mode Paveway IV precision-guided bombs over the Atlantic Test Ranges, the U.S. Navy reported.
The inaugural weapons separation test of the Paveway IV conducted by the F-35 Lightning II Patuxent River, Md., Integrated Test Force (ITF) was a major milestone for the U.K. Royal Navy and RAF F-35 program. The test brought together the multi-role short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing (STOVL) variant of the F-35 fifth-generation stealth fighter and the Paveway IV — an advanced weapon that equips the Royal Navy and RAF with a state-of-the-art, all-weather Inertial Navigation- and Global Positioning System-guided bombing capability, the first dual-mode bomb operational on the F-35 Lightning II.
The inert bombs safely separated from an internal weapons bay within the F-35B, thereby maintaining the stealth characteristics of the aircraft and furthering the collaborative approach of the U.S. and U.K. in the development of the F-35 Lightning II.
The U.K. is the only Level 1 partner with the United States on the joint, multinational acquisition to develop and field an affordable, highly common family of next-generation strike fighter aircraft for the U.S. Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and eight international partners. Its major role in the F-35’s System Design and Demonstration phase is enabling the regeneration of the U.K. Carrier Strike capability, which will result in significant contracts and jobs for U.K. industry as the F-35B Lightning II and Typhoon become the U.K.’s Fast Jet Combat Air Elements of the future.
The primary role of the F-35B STOVL aircraft is ground attack with a secondary air-to-air role. The aircraft is powered by a single main engine with a vertically-mounted, shaft-driven lift fan propulsion system. Working on the multi-phase testing of the F-35 Block 3F, U.K.-unique Paveway IV are U.S. government, military and contractor personnel, U.K. Ministry of Defence representatives, and U.K. industry partners from BAE Systems, QinetiQ and Raytheon Systems Ltd.
The Senate passed an annual $612 billion defense policy bill Thursday, including extra war funding for the Pentagon that brought a veto threat from the White House.
Senators voted 71-25 on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which lays out broad policy requirements for the Defense Department.
Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.), both of whom are running for president, were the only Republicans to vote against the bill.
Democratic Sens. Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Cory Booker (N.J.), Barbara Boxer (Calif.), Sherrod Brown (Ohio), Ben Cardin (Md.), Dick Durbin (Ill.), Al Franken (Minn.), Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.), Mazie Hirono (Hawaii), Patrick Leahy (Vt.), Joe Manchin (W.Va.), Ed Markey (Mass.), Robert Menendez (N.J.), Jeff Merkley (Ore.), Barbara Mikulski (Md.), Bill Nelson (Fla.), Harry Reid (Nev.), Jack Reed (R.I.), Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.) and Ron Wyden (Ore.), as well as Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) voted against the legislation.
The usually bipartisan bill garnered strong criticism from Democratic leadership this year for including an extra $38 billion in funds through the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) account, the Pentagon's war fund. The maneuver allowed Republicans to bypass federal budget caps imposed in 2011.
Sailing solo, nonstop, unassisted by motor power for 41,900 kilometers to circumnavigate the globe: That is the feat achieved by Kim Seung-jin. Returning to Waemokhang Harbor in South Chungcheong Province on May 16 after 209 days on the high seas, Kim became the sixth person in the world and the first Korean ever to have successfully completed the challenge. I met up with Kim, 53, at his trailer base camp at Waemokhang Harbor, a small village known for its beautiful sunrise, where his sailboat the Arapani is anchored about 500-600 meters from the shore.
Kim Seung-jin poses aboard the Arapani, anchored off Waemokhang Harbor in Dangjin, South Chungcheong Province, on June 10. (Ahn Hoon/The Korea Herald)
“I am probably the only one to have set off in a non-marina setting,” Kim says as he offers a handshake. I am struck by the firmness of the grasp and then notice the calloused and leathery hand of the man who has weathered Antarctic storms and the blinding sun of the Equator. Sailing on the southern trade winds, Kim traveled eastward, traversing the Pacific Ocean, the Antarctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, covering a total distance of 22,600 nautical miles. Kim became Korea’s first “Cape Horner,” a title given to those who travel around the treacherous Cape Horn, often called the Everest of the Seas, on Feb. 2.
The Wrecking Ball hitmaker and the Victoria's Secret Angel are said to have been dating "for months" and are known to friends as "a couple".
A source told the New York Daily News newspaper's Confidenti@l column: "They hold hands and hug and are very comfortable together. They're definitely together."
Miley and Stella have been seen spending a lot of time together since the 22-year-old singer split from Patrick Schwarzenegger in March, including trips to Las Vegas and the South by Southwest festival in Texas, and can regularly be spotted in pictures on one another's Instagram feeds.
Food industries in the US will have three years to rid their foods of trans fats, as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took a major step towards eliminating the use of partially hydrogenated oils that have long been linked to heart disease and fatal heart attacks.
The new ruling, which FDA released on Tuesday, requires companies to cut out trans fats from food by 2018.
Artificial trans fats found in everything from margarine to cookies and frozen pizzas are not safe to eat, the US regulator said.
President Obama is catching heat from two U.S. senators for releasing violent criminals onto the streets who then went on to murder 121 Americans between 2010 and 2014.
And there are new concerns about the possibility of violent crimes being committed by the nearly 30,000 illegal Cuban immigrants who are walking U.S. streets with criminal records.
Sens. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., and Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, sent a letter June 12 to Secretary of State John Kerry, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Attorney General Loretta Lynch. They are demanding the administration provide written responses by July 6 to their numerous questions about the release of violent criminals, they said in a news release.
“The administration’s actions have resulted in the needless loss of human life,” an aide to one of the two senators on Capitol Hill told WND Friday.
Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, took the administration to task on the issue in a column for National Review.
“Just to be clear, these were convicted criminals, in ICE custody, who had been ordered deported but were instead released back into U.S. communities, and then went on to murder Americans,” Krikorian wrote. “Most were released simply because the administration didn’t want to detain them. Only for two dozen does the administration have any excuse at all, saying that they had to be released because their home countries wouldn’t take them back.”
A list of 12 “recalcitrant countries” fail to cooperate with U.S. efforts to repatriate criminal aliens.
The worst offender is Cuba, according to the senators’ letter, followed by Vietnam, Laos, Jamaica and Mexico.
The disgraced newsman will still earn big bucks despite his demotion, insiders tells TheWrap
Brian Williams will still make close to $10 million per year despite his demotion to a breaking news role at MSNBC, which has at best just 10 percent the audience of the “NBC Nightly News” broadcast, an individual with knowledge of his compensation told TheWrap.
The insider said that Williams would be making “between $8 and $10 million,” adding that the figure represented what the former anchor considered a big cut in pay.
The disgraced news anchor was making closer to $15 million at the network, not the $10 million that has been previously reported, the insider said.
An NBC News spokesman declined to comment, saying that the network won’t discuss personnel contracts.
But multiple individuals told TheWrap that Williams’ salary cut was not as significant as might be expected, given how much smaller the MSNBC audience is than that of the network he was leaving.
Toyota Motor Corp moved into damage control mode on Friday after its new communications chief Julie Hamp, an American and its first senior woman executive, was arrested on suspicion of illegally bringing pain killers into Japan just two months after her appointment.
Toyota President Akio Toyoda apologized for the incident at a news conference and reiterated the company's belief that Hamp had no intent of breaking the law.
"To me, executives and staff who are my direct reports are like my children," he said.
"It's the responsibility of a parent to protect his children and, if a child causes problems, it's also a parent's responsibility to apologize."
Japanese media reports, citing police investigators, said 57 addictive Oxycodone pills were found in a small parcel labeled "necklaces" that was sent from the United States and addressed to Hamp in Japan. The pills were in packets or buried at the bottom of the parcel, which also contained toy pendants and necklaces, they said.
Hamp, a former General Motors Co and PepsiCo Inc executive, told police she did not think she had imported an illegal substance, a spokesman for Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department said.
KIDS in Hong Kong can solve this logic puzzle in just 20 seconds, but it’s got lots of adults dazed and confused. Can you figure it out?
The puzzle comes from a Hong Kong elementary school admission test for six-year-olds going into first-grade.
It contains a simple drawing of a parking lot with a car parked in one of the many bays available.
The bay number the car is in is unable to be seen (see above) and the question asked above the drawing is: “What is the number of the parking space containing the car?”
The puzzle can be found at Puzzlersworld.com and has made world headlines as more and more people try to solve it.
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before you tonight Go crazy, scream, enjoy it The night is passing So
everyone jump and shake it
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Senator Jeff Sessions is worried that the adoption of the Trans-Pacific Partnership would lead to an "historic international regulatory Commission" that would eoncmpass 90 percent of the world's GDP. He's concerned that it would "[create] a self-governing and self-perpetuating Commission with extraordinary implications for American workers and American sovereignty."
“The House is preparing to vote again tomorrow on providing fast-track executive authority to the President. If adopted, it will be sent immediately to the Senate for final consideration," Sessions says in a statement to be released tonight.
"It is essential that there be no misunderstanding: fast-track preapproves the formation of not only the unprecedentedly large Trans-Pacific Partnership, but an unlimited number of such agreements over the next six years. Those pacts include three of the most ambitious ever contemplated. After TPP comes the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union, followed by the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), seeking as one its goals labor mobility among more than 50 nations. Together, these three international compacts encompass three-fourths of the world’s GDP. Including the nations whose membership is being courted for after enactment, the countries involved would encompass nearly 90 percent of global GDP. Yet, through fast-track, Congress will have authorized the President to ink these deals before a page of them has been made public. Then, the Executive sends Congress 'implementing' legislation to change U.S. law—legislation which cannot be amended, cannot be filibustered, and will not be subjected to the Constitutional requirement for a two-thirds treaty vote.
A bystander interrupted Don Lemon's live report from Charleston, S.C., Thursday to accuse him of being an "Uncle Tom." She urged him to report on the anger residents felt in the city where a gunman shot and killed nine people.
"Are you angry, Don? Uncle Tom? Hello?" asked a woman who walked into the frame behind Lemon. "Are you angry, Don? Because we're angry. Speak about the anger."
On Wednesday, a gunman police identified as 21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof entered Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church at around 9 p.m.
The gunman opened fire at the historic African-American church, killing eight on the scene. An additional victim died on the way to the hospital. Police captured Roof on Thursday morning. Law-enforcement officials said the killings were racially motivated.
Supporters of the world’s largest trade agreement are scrambling to revive its fortunes in Congress, but the message from other countries is plain: Time is running out.
Representatives of the 11 other countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership are keenly aware that President Barack Obama hasn’t gotten his own party to support the crucial “fast-track” legislation that would allow him to clinch the deal. The paralysis in Washington has thrown the trade talks’ final stage into limbo and could make negotiations slip past summer — which means it could be up to Obama’s successor to secure the trade agenda that he has cast as his signature economic legacy.
GOP lawmakers and some moderate Democrats are regrouping in their effort to pass fast track, and a deal could come together quickly. But if it doesn’t, the timeline for votes on the bill and the Asia-Pacific trade pact could slip too far into the 2016 election season to make them politically feasible, U.S. and foreign officials say.
“The president wants it, everybody knows this is important, and he can’t get it through,” Singaporean Foreign Minister K. Shanmugam said at a panel discussion in Washington this week. “How credible are you going to be? The world doesn’t wait.”
A major US newspaper has apologised over what its own ombudsman said was an “insensitive” article about the death of six Irish students in a building collapse amid a flurry of complaints that said the report had blamed the victims.
The public ombudsman of the New York Times said she had received “hundreds” of complaints about the article on the building collapse and the death of the students. Five of the young people were from Ireland while the sixth was a joint US-Irish citizen who lived in California.
The Irish Ambassador to Ireland, Anne Anderson, was among those who criticised the report and published an open letter on Wednesday in which she said the inference of the article had caused “great offence”.
Hackers can easily break into Samsung Galaxy phones and spy on the entire life of their users.
A vulnerability in software on the phones lets hackers look through the phones’ camera, listen to the microphone, read incoming and outgoing texts and install apps, according to researchers. Until Samsung fixes the problem, there is little that owners of the phone can do beyond staying off unsecured wifi networks.
The hack works by exploiting a problem with the Samsung IME keyboard, a re-packaged version of SwiftKey that the company puts in Samsung Galaxy keyboards. That software periodically asks a server whether it needs updating — but hackers can easily get in the way of that request, pretend to be the server, and send malicious code to the phone.
It doesn’t matter if Samsung users are using the keyboard or not, because it is still making the requests. But users of SwiftKey on other Android phones seem to be safe, because the problem appears to be isolated to Samsung’s version of the software.
There are usually protections in place that stop hackers from performing what is called a “man in the middle attack”, by encrypting communication with the server, as well as ones to stop any malicious code from getting too deep into the phone. But Samsung has given its version of the software special permissions, which means that hackers can get through the protections in Android that stop third-party apps from tampering with other bits of the device.
BlackBerry is considering equipping an upcoming smartphone with Google Inc’s Android software for the first time, an acknowledgement that its revamped line of devices has failed to win mass appeal, according to four sources familiar with the matter.
The move would be an about-face for the Waterloo, Ontario-based company, which had shunned Android in a bet that its BlackBerry 10 line of phones would be able to claw back market share lost to Apple’s iPhone and a slew of devices powered by Android.
The sources, who asked not to be named as they have not been authorized to discuss the matter publicly, said the move to use Android is part of BlackBerry’s strategy to pivot to focus on software and device management. BlackBerry, which once dominated smartphone sales, now has a market share of less than 1 percent.
It is not clear whether a move to use Android would spell the end of the company’s BlackBerry 10 line of devices that were initially launched to much fanfare in early 2013. After positive early reviews, the late-to-launch BlackBerry devices haven’t competed well with Android or Apple, mainly due to a lack of big name apps. http://www.japantoday.com/category/technology/view/blackberry-may-put-android-system-on-new-device
……Controversial E-6 Visa Aquino, who currently stays at a shelter with three of her colleagues, is one of some 4,500 foreign workers who arrive in Korea with the notorious E-6 Entertainment Visa each year. The visa is issued to foreign athletes and dancers and singers who wish to work in tourist hotels, bars and clubs in Korea. Yet according to last year’s survey by the National Human Rights Commission, 70 percent of female E-6 holders have experienced sexual abuse at least once during their stay here. Many of them become victims of sex trafficking. In spite of the visa’s reputation, the number of E-6 holders increased from 4,246 in 2011 to 4,940 in 2013. The number of E-6 visa holders who eventually became illegal immigrants has risen as well, from 1,446 to 1,504. The government estimates that about 70 percent of the current E-6 holders are from the Philippines. For Aquino, Korea was a land of opportunities. Back home in Cagayan de Oro, she worked as a telemarketer while singing part time for events such as weddings. Aquino, who holds a degree in hotel management, earned about 250,000 won a month. It sounded promising to go to Korea and sing full time. That way, she could support her 3-month-old daughter better, she thought. After a few sessions with brokers and singing in front of officers at the Korean consulate to “prove her vocal skills,” she left her baby to her ex-boyfriend to move to Korea. Before leaving the Philippines, without telling her why, her brokers deftly glued together two pages of her passport, hiding her E-6 visa before they took two layovers in Iloilo, in the Philippines, and Hong Kong. “I asked them why we aren’t taking a direct flight to Seoul, and they just said because it’s cheaper to (take multiple flights),” Aquino said. It was only after she came to Korea that Aquino learned about the existence of the Overseas Employment Certificate issued by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration. Under current Filipino laws, those who have obtained an E-6 visa from the Korean government must obtain the OEC in order to leave the Philippines. Those with the E-6 but without the OEC are banned from leaving the Philippines at all international ports in the country. Getting an E-6 visa from the Korean authorities without an OEC, however, is no problem. “Many brokers use a simple trick of sticking two passport pages together at the airport in the Philippines,” said Kim Jong-chul, a lawyer who represents Aquino and her colleagues. It is believed to be a frequently used tactic by the brokers to fly out with the women in the Philippines as tourists, thereby not needing an OEC, and then enter Korea with an E-6 visa. “I believe the OEC is only issued when the government of the Philippines has verified that the Korean workplace is safe and legitimate after an inspection by their Seoul-based officers. I think the Filipino government is working hard to protect its citizens, but it should work with its Korean counterpart so such brokers can’t maneuver around the system so easily,” said Kim. None of the four women staying at the shelter said they knew anything about the OEC before leaving the Philippines. Trisha Ramos, one of the four, still remembers the moment that made her feel utterly helpless while staying at the detention center. “I called the Embassy of the Philippines (in Seoul) for help,” she said. “They said they cannot help me because I’m illegal ― because I don’t have the OEC.”……. http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20150615000845
The total number of millionaire households around the world reached a record 17.4 million in 2014, up 13.7% from 15.3 million the year before. Meanwhile, the ultra high net worth set is expected to grow at an equally impressive rate over the next five years. According to the Boston Consulting Group, wealth for the richest global families worth more than $100 million is projected to cross the $18 trillion mark by 2019.
Currently, private wealth held by families with a fortune of more than $100 million total a combined $10 trillion, or roughly 6% of global wealth. Those ultra rich fortunes grew by 11 percent in 2014. To get to $18 trillion by 2019, the report predicts that household wealth will grow at a compound annual rate of about 12 percent in the next five years.
The report, published Monday, says there are more than 5,000 U.S. households worth $100 million or more. China follows with more than 1,000 ultra rich households.
“This top segment is expected to be the fastest growing, in both the number of households and total wealth,” the reports’ authors wrote.
In addition, the research shows that the top 1% of households in 2014 made up 42% of total private global wealth.
It’s a good rule of thumb for school bullies to know who they’re dealing with. Oh Ah Ran (Kim Yoo Jung) is a smart and nice high school student who is not afraid to befriend the class outcast. But that makes her the target of the school bullies. But the bullies may soon realize that they messed with the wrong girl when Ah Ran’s mother, Jo Kang Ja (Kim Hee Sun), hears about the bullying. Kang Ja is not your average mother. Back in her teen days, she was a legend back in her hometown of Pusan. As the daughter of a sashimi-restaurant-owner mother with a foul mouth and a father with a prison record, Kang Ja is a tough-as-nails, foulmouthed mother with a quick temper and mad knife skills. What exactly does Kang Ja plan to do to deal with her daughter’s bullies? “Angry Mom” is a 2015 South Korean drama series directed by Choi Byung Gil.
Why do many galaxies appear as spirals? A striking example is M101, shown above, whose relatively close distance of about 27 million light years allows it to be studied in some detail. Observational evidence indicates that a close gravitational interaction with a neighboring galaxy created waves of high mass and condensed gas which continue to orbit the galaxy center. These waves compress existing gas and cause star formation. One result is that M101, also called the Pinwheel Galaxy, has several extremely bright star-forming regions (called HII regions) spread across its spiral arms. M101 is so large that its immense gravity distorts smaller nearby galaxies.
The conservative artist provocateur who calls himself Sabo and is known for his campaign poster-style send-ups of Democratic candidates and fundraisers decided to take his act on the road Monday afternoon.
With both President Barack Obama and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton scheduled to attend multiple fundraising events in Los Angeles this week, Sabo rented a LED traffic warning-style billboard Monday afternoon and programmed it with electronic messages such as, “Expect Delays June 18-19," "Democrats Begging 4 Money." Other messages included (misspelled), "Blame Tobie [sic] Maguire," "Blame Chuck Lorre,” "Hillary Back Begging," among other jibes.
The artist and his crew towed the flashing sign up the 405 freeway, through Brentwood and over to the Pacific Palisades, where at least two fundraisers will be held later this week. The artist also slipped in a plug for his personal choice for president: "Ted Cruz 2016." Obama is returning to Los Angeles on June 18 for two DNC fundraiser at the homes of actor/producer Tyler Perry and Two and a Half Men producer Lorre. The president's trip will coincide with Clinton's latest fundraising visit to Hollywood on June 19. Her events include a $2,700-per-person event at the home of Spider-Man actor Toby Maguire and his wife, Jennifer Meyer, and a $2,700-per-person event at the home of HBO president of programming Michael Lombardo and his husband, Sonny Ward.
