"... 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!"
1. The Army is older than the country it serves.
2. If the U.S. Army were a city, it would be the tenth-largest in the United States.
3. It is also the second-largest employer.
4. Specialist is the most-prevalent rank among soldiers — by far.
5. The service burns through nearly one billion gallons of fuel every year.
6. Among U.S. Presidents with military service, most served in the Army.
7. The Army owns so much land that if it were a state, it would be larger than Hawaii and Massachusetts combined.
The world's top three shipbuilders -- Hyundai Heavy Industries, Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering and Samsung Heavy Industries -- all swung into the red in the second quarter due to massive losses from offshore plant projects.
Daewoo reflected W3.1 trillion (US$1=W1,160) in accumulated losses in the April to June period, and Samsung W1.5 trillion.
The top three shipbuilders posted combined operating losses of W4.75 trillion, which marked a record low.
The losses were attributed to expensive mistakes in constructing offshore oil rigs that stemmed from a lack of experience.
Offshore plants account for 60 to 70 percent of remaining orders at Daewoo and Samsung, which leaves them wide open to additional losses.
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2015/07/30/2015073001274.html
At 4:30 p.m. EDT on August 13, 2015, NASA conducted a developmental test firing of the rocket's engines at its Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, the sixth in a series of seven tests for the rocket's main engine. Four RS-25 engines and two solid rocket boosters of five segments each will power the 70-metric-ton rocket configuration into deep space.
"It is the most complicated rocket engine out there on the market, but that's because it's the Ferrari of rocket engines," said Kathryn Crowe, RS-25 propulsion engineer.
"When you're looking at designing a rocket engine, there are several different ways you can optimise it. You can optimise it through increasing its thrust, increasing the weight to thrust ratio, or increasing its overall efficiency and how it consumes your propellant. With this engine, they maximised all three."
The resulting engine, according to Martin Burkey of the SLS strategic communications team, blows everything we currently have out of the water.
"The RS-25 makes a modern race car or jet engine look like a wind-up toy," he said in a post on NASA's Rocketology blog.
"It has to handle temperatures as low as minus 400 degrees where the propellants enter the engine and as high as 6,000 degrees as the exhaust exits the combustion chamber where the propellants are burned. It has to move a lot of propellants to generate a lot of energy. At the rate the four SLS core stage engines consume propellants, they could drain a family swimming pool in 1 minute."
The RS-25 produces 512,000 pounds of thrust, which is over 12 million horsepower. It's powered by four turbopumps that each generate 100 horsepower for each pound of weight, with a main shaft that rotates at a rate of 37,000 rpm, compared with 3,000 rpm for a car engine traveling at 60mph (96.5km/h).
"The RS-25 is about the same weight and size as two F-15 jet fighter engines, yet it produces eight times more thrust. A single turbine blade the size of a quarter -- and the exact number and configuration inside the pump is now considered sensitive -- produces more equivalent horsepower than a Corvette ZR1 engine," Burkey wrote.
http://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-tests-the-ferrari-of-rocket-engines-for-mission-to-mars/
The Internet company used by Hillary Clinton to maintain her private server was sued for stealing dozens of phone lines including some which were used by the White House.
Platte River Networks is said to have illegally accessed the master database for all US phone numbers.
It also seized 390 lines in a move that created chaos across the US government.
Among the phone numbers which the company took - which all suddenly stopped working - were lines for White House military support desks, the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy, a lawsuit claims.
Others were the main numbers for major financial institutions, hospitals and the help desk number for T2 Communications, the telecom firm which owned them.
A lawsuit filed on behalf of T2 claims that the mess took 11 days to fix and demands that Platte River pay up $360,000 in compensation.
People walk through a taegeukgi-themed tunnel of vines in Sejong, South Chungcheong Province on Wednesday, ahead of the 70th anniversary of liberation from the Japanese colonial rule
Children observe a moment of silence in Seoul on Wednesday to mark the 70th anniversary of liberation from the Japanese colonial rule.
http://english.chosun.com/svc/view.html?contid=2015081300627&catid=C
The nuclear powered aircraft carrier (CVN), with its embarked carrier air wing (CVW), is the only maritime force capable of executing the full range of military operations necessary to protect our national interests. From deterrence, to
humanitarian assistance, to large-scale combat operations, Carrier Strike Groups (CSGs) stand ready to answer the call in all phases of conflict. Navies across the globe aspire to extend their influence by building aircraft carriers and developing deployment models that mirror what the United States has been doing for more than eighty years. Our innovative leadership in this arena must continue to grow as the need for a modern aircraft carrier remains critically important to the continued freedom of navigation on the high seas.
Geopolitics and global threats require that we maintain a maneuverable and visibly persuasive force across the globe that can accomplish a number of missions, over sea and land. The carrier is the only answer to this requirement and the future USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) will soon be underway fulfilling this critical need.
The Ford is not a notional, larger than life project that may never see the light of day. Ford is alive and pier-side in Newport News. Ninety percent of the actual ship is structurally complete, and multiple cutting edge systems are coming online each month. She is nearly ready to go to sea and a community of sailors, shipbuilders, engineers, and citizens cannot wait to take her to the front lines.
Return on Investment
Despite the significant costs of developing the world’s newest aircraft carrier, the investment is absolutely critical to our national security over much of the next century. Nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and their embarked air wings enable the U.S. to operate without a “permission slip” for host nation basing. Ships like Ford will generate the full range of effects necessary to deter potential adversaries with minimal notice or diplomatic coordination. It is understandable that the cost of operating 100,000 tons of fast, highly-lethal combat power should come with a high price tag, but we’ve been committed to rigorous oversight and management of cost and delivery deadlines. Looking at cost in a vacuum without considering how unmatched warfighting power is extracted from each of those dollars would be shortsighted. Overall, the Ford class brings improved warfighting capability, quality-of-life improvements, and reduced total ownership costs. Together, these efforts will reduce manning by approximately 700 billets, reduce periodic maintenance, improve operational availability and capability, and reduce total ownership costs through its 50-year life by $4 billion for each ship over its Nimitz class counterpart. With the exception of the hull, virtually everything has been redesigned; it is the first new aircraft carrier design in more than 40 years. The ship’s design includes sophisticated new technologies that deliver capability now and will continue to grow with the incorporation of future weapons systems. A new nuclear propulsion and electric plant on the Ford class will generate almost three times the electrical power over the Nimitz class, leading to higher aircraft sortie rates and excess power to incorporate future technologies, such as the employment of directed energy weapons. From the Advanced Arresting Gear to engineering efficiencies, the Ford class is cutting-edge.
THE Chinese economy is like a cricketer who’s scored a triple century. They’ve done an incredible job and they’re still out there batting, but the odds suggest it can’t go on much longer.
37+ years of growth is a record akin to Brian Lara’s 375 against England in 1993-94. Everyone knows the knock can’t last forever.
In the last few years and months we’ve seen China look wobbly for the first time in ages.
First, its demand for commodities dropped off causing prices to drop.
WINNER
PAUL ZERDIN
AND THEN THERE WERE 10 LEFT
9/15/2015 WEEK VOTE #6
STARTS 8:00 pm ET TUES
ENDS 12:00 PM WEDS ET
VOTING METHODS AND PHONE NUMBERS
| .CONTESTANT | PHONE # | RESULTS |
| OZ PEARLMAN | 1-866-602-4801 | NO |
| UZEYER NOVRUZOV | 1-866-602-4802 | NO |
| BENTON BLOUNT | 1-866-602-4803 | NO |
| GARY VIDER | 1-866-602-4804 | NO |
| PIFF THE MAGIC DRAGON | 1-866-602-4805 | NO |
| PAUL ZERDIN | 1-866-602-4806 | WON |
| THE CRAIGLEWIS BAND | 1-866-602-4807 | NO |
| DEREK HUGHES | 1-866-602-4808 | NO |
| THE PROFESSIONAL REGURGITATOR | 1-866-602-4809 | NO |
| DREW LYNCH | 1-866-602-4810 | NO |
| NONE | NONE |  |
| NONE | NONE |  |
VOTE NOW
9/08/2015 WEEK VOTE #5VOTING METHODS AND PHONE NUMBERS
| .CONTESTANT | PHONE # | RESULTS |
| 3 SHADES OF BLUE | 1-866-602-4801 | GONE |
| GARY VIDER | 1-866-602-4802 | OK |
| ALONDRA SANTOS | 1-866-602-4803 | GONE |
| FREELUSION | 1-866-602-4804 | GONE |
| ALICIA MICHILLI | 1-866-602-4805 | GONE |
| PIFF THE MAGIC DRAGON | 1-866-602-4806 | OK |
| DANIELLA MASS | 1-866-602-4807 | GONE |
| UZEYER NOVRUZOV | 1-866-602-4808 | OK |
| THE PROFESSIONAL REGURGITATOR | 1-866-602-4809 | OK |
| SHARON IRVING | 1-866-602-4810 | GONE |
| PAUL ZERDIN | 1-866-602-4811 | OK |
| NONE | NONE | NONE |
VOTING IS NOW
9/01/2015 WEEK VOTE #4
STARTS 8:00 pm ET TUES
ENDS 7:00 AM WEDS ET
VOTING METHODS AND PHONE NUMBERS
| .CONTESTANT | PHONE # | RESULTS |
| IRA | 1-866-602-4801 | GOODBYE |
| MOUNTAIN FAITH BAND | 1-866-602-4802 | GOODBYE |
| METAL MULISHA FITZ ARMY | 1-866-602-4803 | GOODBYE |
| SAMANTHA JOHNSON | 1-866-602-4804 | GOODBYE |
| DEREK HUGHES | 1-866-602-4805 | YES |
| DREW LYNCH | 1-866-602-4806 | YES |
| THE CRAIGLEWIS BAND | 1-866-602-4807 | YES |
| OZ PEARLMAN | 1-866-602-4808 | YES |
| BENTON BLOUNT | 1-866-602-4809 | YES |
| SIRO-A | 1-866-602-4810 | GOODBYE |
| ARIELLE BARIL | 1-866-602-4811 | GOODBYE |
| NONE | NONE | NONE |
8/25/2015 WEEK VOTE #3
STARTS 8:00 pm ET TUES
ENDS 12:00 PM WEDS ET
VOTING METHODS AND PHONE NUMBERS
| .CONTESTANT | PHONE # | RESULTS |
| CHAPKIS DANCE FAMILY | 1-866-602-4801 | OUT |
| METAL MULISHA FITZ ARMY | 1-866-602-4802 | OUT |
| DADITUDE1 | 1-866-602-4803 | OUT |
| ALICIA MICHILLI | 1-866-602-4804 | IN |
| GARY VIDER | 1-866-602-4805 | IN |
| MOUNTAIN FAITH BAND | 1-866-602-4806 | IN |
| OZ PEARLMAN | 1-866-602-4807 | IN |
| SELECTED OF GOD | 1-866-602-4808 | OUT |
| THE PROFESSIONAL REGURGITATOR | 1-866-602-4809 | IN |
| BENJAMIN YONATTAN | 1-866-602-4810 | OUT |
| DANIELLA MASS | 1-866-602-4811 | IN |
| FREELUSION | 1-866-602-4812 | IN |
VOTING METHODS AND PHONE NUMBERS
| .CONTESTANT | PHONE # | RESULTS |
| DM NATION | 1-866-602-4801 | NOT TO BE |
| DEREK HUGHES | 1-866-602-4802 | TO BE |
| 3 SHADES OF BLUE | 1-866-602-4803 | TO BE |
| ANIMATION CREW | 1-866-602-4804 | NOT TO BE |
| ARIELLE BARIL | 1-866-602-4805 | TO BE |
| UZEYER NOVRUZOV | 1-866-602-4806 | TO BE |
| IRA | 1-866-602-4807 | TO BE |
| DAMONE RIPPY | 1-866-602-4808 | NOT TO BE |
| MYQ KAPLAN | 1-866-602-4809 | NOT TO BE |
| THE CRAIGLEWIS BAND | 1-866-602-4810 | TO BE |
| FRECKLED SKY | 1-866-602-4811 | TO BE |
| SHARON IRVING | 1-866-602-4812 | TO BE |
8/11/2015 WEEK VOTE #1
STARTS 8:00 pm ET TUES
ENDS 12:00 PM WEDS ET
VOTING METHODS AND PHONE NUMBERS
| .CONTESTANT | PHONE # | RESULTS |
| SIRO-A | 1-866-602-4801 | TO NEXT ROUND |
| ALONDRA SANTOS | 1-866-602-4802 | TO NEXT ROUND |
| VITA RADIONOVA | 1-866-602-4803 | DONE |
| TRIPLE THREAT | 1-866-602-4804 | DONE |
| THE GENTLEMEN | 1-866-602-4805 | DONE |
| PIFF THE MAGIC DRAGON | 1-866-602-4806 | TO NEXT ROUND |
| BENTON BLOUNT | 1-866-602-4807 | TO NEXT ROUND |
| CRAIG AND MICHELINE | 1-866-602-4808 | DONE |
| DREW LYNCH | 1-866-602-4809 | TO NEXT ROUND |
| SHOWPROJECT | 1-866-602-4810 | DONE |
| PAUL ZERDIN | 1-866-602-4811 | TO NEXT ROUND |
| SAMANTHA JOHNSON | 1-866-602-4812 | TO NEXT ROUND |
