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Big Blue has been wanting to close the active duty side of Eielson and move it to Elmo for a while now. Their justification is that it'll save the AF money but they have not been able to produce reliable figures to back that up. I'm wondering if this is just another nail they are trying to put into Eielson's coffin.
Alaska's strategic location in the world was recognized over 80 years ago by Billy Mitchell hmself. With our strategic shift to the Pacific theater, does it make sense to close a perfectly good air base within a few hours' flight of almost any point in Asia?
Glad you provided this reminder.
There is still the 168 ARW there. Let the Guard maintain the base.
It does not make a lot of sense to keep and entire AD Wing at a base year-round when all they are there for is Red Flag. The old F-16's there are only aggressors and have no combat mission.
Is there a U.S. presence at Thule today? I don't remember more than a handful of Americans stationed there when I visited in April 1993.
It's not Maple Flag anymore?
only reason 16's are there now is Begich stopped it. Have to support the community and if you take 500 personnel away, then Fairbanks economy takes a dive.
As I recall, "red flag alaska", at the time it was implemented, it was debated whether it was Moseley pumping up PACAF and the F22 "polar bomber intercept" nonsense. At the very least, it was an unnecessary and expensive "training exercise" for the zipper suits squad, given that the entire infrastructure supporting tha...
In any case, good move by the AF to cancel (at least for one year) this. Saves a couple million, anyway, better than nothing.
Alaska (or rather the polar region) is strategically important if you are flying manned long range bombers that have limited range. With the advent of refueling capability, the strategic necessity of having numerous polar bases has decreased somewhat. Shoot, they don't even deploy the B2, they launch and recover from C...
There are plenty of advantages to having Eielson host Red Flags, the main one being the Alaska Range Complex, which is a whole lot of play area that is for the most part, deconflicted from any civil air traffic. Furthermore, Eielson has a sh!t ton of ramp space and you can bet that if anything serious kicks off in the ...
But yea, the heating bill for that base in winter is a cold and bitter pill from what I hear.
Now if we could cancel ordinary exercises aka ORE's that are a waste of time and money.
Artificial intelligence experts have come together at the World Economic Forum in Davos to discuss the future – or lack of – for autonomous killer robots.
Despite calls for a ban made by people like Tesla’s Elon Musk last year, Sir Roger Carr, the chairman of British weapons manufacturer BAE, said that 40 countries are currently working on this tech, including the United States.
The US is the leader in this field, Carr said, despite the fact that it is the only country in the world that has banned their use, if only for a decade starting in 2012.
Angela Kane, the UN’s representative for disarmament, said that while conversations for creating international law on this started in 2014, little progress has been made.
She explained that policymaking is just not keeping up with advances in this technology and said there isn’t even an accepted definition of what a killer robot, or “autonomous weapon” really is.
Although not governed by a specific law, all of the panelists agreed that giving the decision to kill to a robot would break the conventions of war.
The audience at Davos and beyond was polled during the chat about their views on autonomous killer bots.
People were more likely to be in favor of sending robots to die instead of their own sons or daughters, but were less likely to want their enemy to send killer robots hunting for them.
In 1962, I was a precinct chairman for four Montgomery County, Md., Board of Education members who were running for re-election.
At the urging of the school board, the all-Democratic county council had approved a sizeable property tax increase to support the public schools, which were overflowing because of population growth. The tax bills reflecting this increase arrived in the mail one month before the election.
A new conservative majority was elected to the board having no understanding of the school system. They tried for two years to hack away at the school budget. The voters also threw out the entire Democratic county council and then were aghast when the new real estate- and developer-backed council tried to rezone major ...
ENTERCOM has closed on the acquisition of CBS RADIO in a merger that gives the combined company a nationwide footprint of 244 stations, including 23 of the Top 25 markets. The closing brings to fruition the deal that was first announced in FEBRUARY (NET NEWS 2/2).
"The separation of our radio business is part of a broader strategy to make CBS even more focused on our content and all the ways we can monetize it," said CBS CORPORATION Chairman/CEO LESLIE MOONVES. "We started on this path several years ago with the split-off of our outdoor advertising business. And just as we did w...
One of the first items on the merged company's agenda came to fruition at midnight, when, as previously tipped (NET NEWS 11/14), Country KSON/SAN DIEGO moved from 97.3 FM to 103.7 FM. On 97.3 FM, a looped message directed listeners to switch frequencies to hear the Country format, while also announcing that the Top 40 ...
Among other changes (see separate stories) are the launch of Alternative formats at WBMP/NEW YORK and KVIL/DALLAS.
"It is with great pleasure that I write to inform you that we have officially completed our merger! We are now one company! And so with great respect and appreciation for the former CBS Radio and its extraordinary history and achievements, we usher in a new era in which these two proud and great organizations will join...
Today marks the end of a near two-year journey to complete this historic, transformational merger that has created an incredibly exciting new company with truly game-changing power and potential. Now we begin a new journey together.
We have an amazing opportunity to make history and to transform not only our company, but all of Radio and even the broader media landscape. And we start our journey in a terrific position. We are a leading American media and entertainment company reaching and engaging over 100 million people each week through a premie...
Those of you in our new markets will notice some changes. We will play to win. We are done playing defense; it is time to play offense. We plan to make big investments in our brands, people, capabilities and innovation. We are also done apologizing about Radio, America’s #1 Reach medium, which is massively undervalued ...
There will be much more to come in the hours and days ahead, but for now I welcome you to the new Entercom and want you to know how excited I am about our future together. I have attached a video welcome to share some additional thoughts. And we will be holding a company-wide town hall on Tuesday during which I will di...
I want to take this opportunity to thank those individuals who worked tirelessly and effectively over so many long months to get us to this point. First and foremost, I would like to recognize Andrew Sutor for his truly extraordinary, heroic work spearheading all of our legal and regulatory efforts over the past year. ...
I also want to thank and acknowledge Les Moonves and Joe Ianniello for their leadership and all of their efforts to lead us to such a successful outcome for both companies. As Les stated last month, Entercom provides investors with “the opportunity to invest in what we believe will be a best-in-class radio company, wit...
I will close in the words of Michelangelo who said, “the greatest danger isn’t that our aim is too high and we miss is, but that it is too low and we reach it.” We will live by those words as we embark on this exciting journey.
All eyes will be on us in the days and months ahead. We have a window of opportunity to elevate our game and get listeners, customers, partners, and others excited by what we are working to build. Let’s get off to a terrific start as one team and show the world what we are capable of achieving. Congratulations and all ...
Staffers were also sent a link to this video.
Kress, Heather Gabrielle, "Bergson's philosophy of intuition as a process epistemology" (1969). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 3643.
Dressed in pretty pinks, Valentina Pinault carried some sweet flowers as she and her mother Salma Hayek left a restaurant near Venice Beach, California.
The two were enjoying lunch with friends on the bright Sunday, and it seemed Valentina wanted to thank her mummy for the day out with a floral gift.
But this show of love is nothing new for Salma, who says her daughter gives her a present every time she goes out.
The 46-year-old actress often has to travel away from Valentina with work, so the five-year-old gives her mum a souvenir every time.
But parenting has proven difficult for Salma, who said: 'When you become a mum and are responsible for someone else's welfare, everything is about being the best mum and that's a huge challenge on a daily basis.
Salma - who is married to Francois-Henri Pinault - looked rather businesslike in her attire, wearing a nineties style blue and black mini-skirt and matching jacket over a leather top.
Legs bare, the petite actress wore black patent pumps and a pair of round purple sunglasses, as well as carrying a large red Gucci Green Carpet Challenge top handle tote bag.
The eco-friendly accessory is the first to be made with leather from the Brazilian Amazon that is guaranteed to have caused zero-deforestation and is fully traceable from source to finished product.
After playing a vicious crime boss in Savages, Salma will soon be returning to a tamer parental role in the comedy sequel Grown Ups 2.
Returning in the second installment is onscreen husband Adam Sandler with Kevin James, Chris Rock and David Spade as childhood friends who reunite with their families at the old beach house of their youth.
Now Lenny (Sandler) has moved his family back to the small town and the action takes place on the last day of school, with new faces Taylor Lautner, Andy Samberg and Milo Ventimiglia adding some much needed eye candy to the comic flick.
Grown ups 2 is scheduled for release in the UK August 9th.
When Democrats brought the debate over the Confederate flag to the floor, GOP leaders couldn't figure out how to stop it.
The national movement to remove Confederate battle flags from government property spilled into the Capitol this week, blindsiding House Republican leaders and their rank and file alike, and potentially stalling the appropriations process indefinitely.
Republicans were thrust into the politically and emotionally fraught position of defending a symbol that, since the tragic murder of nine parishioners in a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, has increasingly come to be understood as synonymous with the country's racist history.
Even as Speaker John Boehner himself told reporters he personally believes the flag should not be flown at federal cemeteries, Republican leaders embarked on a clumsy and ultimately futile attempt to find a middle ground between Southern Republicans who see the flag as part of their heritage and Democrats who decry it ...
All this came to a head Thursday, the same day South Carolina legislators overwhelmingly approved a measure removing the emblem from their statehouse grounds.
Democrats pounced on the issue, loudly protesting Thursday on the House floor. Republicans pulled an appropriations bill from House consideration to avoid debating the flag's merits. But on this issue, Republican leaders were jammed from the start, and they knew it.
"It makes us look bad," said Rep. Mike Simpson, an Idaho Republican. "Republicans are trying to expand our majority, grow our majority and attract more and more minorities. This doesn't help us."
At issue was an amendment added to the Interior and the Environment Appropriations bill that would have banned Confederate battle flags from any grave in federal cemeteries, a decoration permitted to certain local groups on Confederate Memorial Day. Rep. Jared Huffman offered the measure as part of a Democratic package...
The House appropriations process is run under an open rule, meaning any member can offer an amendment. So Huffman's add-on came as a surprise to Republicans. Wary of the optics of voting to defend the flag, Republicans tried behind the scenes to block Huffman from bringing it forward, he said. Huffman contends the GOP ...
"There was a mad scramble for quite some time before the debate and vote on these amendments because Republicans were throwing everything in the book at us," Huffman said. "The awkwardness on their side was palpable. "¦ They didn't want to expose what we now know is a very substantial bloc of their caucus that wants to...
Democrats declined the deal, he said, and Republicans allowed both of his measures and a third from Rep. Hakeem Jeffries to be unanimously approved—hoping, according to sources on both sides of the aisle, to avoid a contentious debate on raw racial issues. But the face-saving strategy backfired.
As word of the content of the Huffman amendment started spreading, members from Southern states, including Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia, called an emergency meeting with leadership. They argued that the amendment would block a local Confederate Memorial Day tradition.
"Several members expressed their displeasure and expressed their desire to have a roll-call vote to represent their constituents back home," said Rep. Steven Palazzo of Mississippi, one of the members in the meeting. "It was members of the South, members who have a lot of history and heritage tied to the Civil War. And...
But according to Palazzo, members left the meeting not knowing that what was in the works, saying that the "procedure they would take was unexpected."
The next day, GOP leaders announced they would try to backtrack on the Huffman amendment. They asked Rep. Ken Calvert to offer an amendment that would maintain the Park Service's policy of allowing Confederate battle flags to adorn the gravesites of fallen soldiers on certain days.
But ultimately, the Calvert amendment left Republicans trapped, perceived either as offering an insensitive giveaway to Southern members if they moved forward or dodging the optics of a bad vote if they pulled back. Without some action, though, the bill was doomed. Appropriations Committee Chairman Harold Rogers told r...
At a press conference, Boehner made an attempt to call for a reasoned, bipartisan discussion on the subject. But it quickly became clear that there was no room for maneuvering. As word of the amendment spread across Capitol Hill, Democrats one by one took to the House floor to decry what they said was a defense of a ra...
In the face of that pressure, Republican leaders toyed with pulling the amendment, but then decided to pull the entire bill from floor consideration. At the same time, Democratic Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina took to the floor to call for adjournment in protest. Democrats offered a series of procedural motions, ...
Calvert, for his part, pushed responsibility up the ladder, issuing a statement that said the amendment "was brought to me by Leadership at the request of some southern Members of the Republican Caucus" and offering a mea culpa to his Democratic colleagues.
"Looking back, I regret not conferring with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle "¦ given the strong feelings Members of the House feel regarding this important and sensitive issue," Calvert said.
All of which leaves open the question of how the House can move forward with the appropriations process. Members and staff on both sides said a similar amendment on any of the remaining appropriations bill would throw a wrench in the entire process. But appropriations bills are now a sideshow to the debate about Confed...
Democratic Rep. John Lewis of Georgia told reporters that the same symbol was emblazoned on the sides of helmets worn by officers who beat him in Selma, Alabama, on the fabled Bloody Sunday march in 1965. For him, he said, there was no middle ground: The flag must go.
"There's not any room on federal property for the display of the Confederate battle flag. It represented a dark past. It was a symbol of separation, a symbol of division, a symbol of hate," Lewis said.
But his fellow Georgian, Republican Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, defended the practice of displaying the flag at cemeteries and disputed Lewis's notion that there is no room for compromise on the issue.
"That's his belief," Westmoreland said. "We are guided by different beliefs."
CORRECTION: The original version of this article misstated the year of the "Bloody Sunday" march in Alabama. It occurred in 1965.
A COOPERATIVE pilot project to shorten the time city juveniles wait between arrest and court resolution has passed its test drive, and the state Department of Juvenile Services is wise to commit to paying for the team effort to continue.
The joint immediate charging unit - three assistant state's attorneys and one court clerk - forms a hub that not only has cut the wait for justice from months to weeks but has saved some children from incarceration in the meantime.
After being charged, most youths still are sent home with a parent to wait two months or more for their first court appearance. For those whose parents pick them up between noon and 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, though, police, DJS and the unit's attorneys determine whether charges will be filed; if they are charged,...
In the last half of 2004, more than 97 percent of those children showed up on their court date; 82 percent of those charged the regular way, with a court summons mailed to the home and a court date 45 days in the future, appeared. The unit shaves about 36 days from the whole process, according to its first-year statist...
The stepped-up timetable helps troubled kids realize that there are consequences to delinquent activity; waiting months (even up to a year in some cases) severs the mental connection between cause and effect. It also gives them plenty of time to make more mistakes and garner more charges, compounding their troubles. An...
For those whom the court does declare delinquent, this approach could get them the rehabilitation, treatment and services they need that much sooner.
The state's attorneys at the juvenile center on North Gay Street also help DJS intake workers and city and state police understand which charges are likely to pass muster in court. Officials say there are fewer cases of overcharging, which in the past often led to children being incarcerated while waiting to appear in ...
This method served the 162 children charged in the last quarter of 2004 well. But there were another 232 children charged the slowpoke way. DJS has made the right decision to retain the program; next fiscal year, it should extend it to reach most children.
The NDP’s Marit Stiles has won in Toronto’s Davenport, a riding long held by the Liberals.
Ahead of the election, Stiles was projected to defeat her main rival Liberal Cristina Martins, who along with the Wynne Liberals came under heavy criticism for her handling of the Davenport Diamond rail overpass.
The diamond is a crossing where two rails line intersect at ground level. Martins took considerable heat for her party’s handling of a Metrolinx plan, which would see an overpass built for GO Transit rail traffic. CN freight trains, which currently share the crossing with GO trains, would pass underneath. Metrolinx has...
Community groups like Options for Davenport initially expressed their frustration a tunnel option wasn’t seriously considered for the project, before reluctantly offering a nominal endorsement for the plan.
The Liberals have managed to hold on to the riding for all but one election since Davenport was established in 1999.
PC candidate Fed Sanchez also campaigned on his criticism of the Diamond project, which he claimed was chosen by Metrolinx and the Wynne Liberals without serious consideration for a tunnel. He has promised to push hard to re-open the issue so the tunnel can be further studied.
The Conservatives have traditionally underperformed in Davenport; no PC candidate has captured more than a few thousand votes in the traditionally working-class riding.
In past campaigns, Conservatives have finished well back of both the Liberals as well as the NDP.
Kirsten Snider of the Green Party, a Masters student, made affordable housing and road safety central planks of her campaign. While never winning a seat in Davenport, the Greens fared relatively well on election night in 2011, when the candidate finished third, capturing more than 10 per cent of the total vote.
Robert Mackey, the former editor of the New York Times’ The Lede blog, is returning to the paper, after a very short stint with The Guardian‘s stateside team. The announcement was just made by Jim Roberts, the Times’ Assistant Managing Editor, on Twitter.
Mackey was only with The Guardian for one month, so whatever the Times offered must have been substantial. Or maybe things just weren’t working out there.
March 8, 2010: The British Royal Navy has adopted a version of the U.S. Remus 600 UUVs (Unmanned Underwater Vehicle) for underwater reconnaissance (including searching for mines). The U.S. Navy earlier used the similar, but smaller (80 pound), Remus 100s for this in Iraq, and the Remus design is highly regarded.
Remus 600 is an 240 kg (528 pound) pound vehicle that looks like a small torpedo. It is 3.25 meters (10 feet) long and 320mm in diameter. Carrying a side scanning sonar, and other sensors, a Remus 600 can stay under water for more than 24 hours, traveling at a cruising speed of 5.4 kilometers an our (top speed is nearl...
Remus 100 was designed mainly for civilian applications (inspecting underwater facilities, pollution monitoring, underwater survey or search). But there were similar military and police applications, like searching for mines, or other terrorist activities. Australia and New Zealand also used Remus 100, and over a hundr...

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