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So far, only been a few days, no response from either CFA or Okinawa Traditional karate Liaison Bureau on the criteria, what they use to determine a system is, for traditional karate. I wonder if they will ever respond. I can understand if they do not because it would be a "trivial matter" in regards to their overall set of responsibilities but it is a good question. What is the criteria u
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Pricing and availability for Sony's 2015 lineup of 4K TVs has leaked, targeting a release date of May for all of the models and prices from $1,300 up to $8,000.
Starting a $599 for at 43-inch model, Vizio's 2015 M series offers full-array local dimming and 4K resolution for prices that significantly undercut the competition so far.
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The Marcus Graham Chronicles is my personal journey of dealing with love and relationships . It is called the Marcus Graham Chronicles because of my affinity for the movie Boomerang and how the main character of Marcus Graham relates to me as the "black professional" man. You can check out earlier posts in this series here.
Yep, the commitment thing its one of the big questions many men (and some women) struggle with everyday. Some people have a problem being able to stay with one man or woman, but this post is talking about that problem. It is the aspect of choosing the "right person". This is the symptom of a person with what I have deemed the Marcus Graham Condition. It's the fear that you will choose the wrong person and live in some proverbial relationship hell. Sometimes sitting pondering over my love life I have wondered "Love Don't Love Me…Do It?"
Commitmentphobia is often most strongly apparent in romantic life. Generally, commitmentphobic people claim that they are eager to find a lasting romantic attachment and get married, yet they fail to find appropriate partners and maintain long lasting connections. Ironically, in these romantic relationships, the commitmentphobic partner craves what he/she fears most: love and connection. This paradoxical craving for a frightening reality leads to a confusing and destructive pattern of seduction and rejection. The results are emotionally devastating.(source)
Marcus Graham in one scene says "I am flowers, I am candy, I'm the most romantic cat…until I hit." Marcus is cut off by his friend Jarrod before he could finish explaining himself, but the there is an underlying point within what he said. I am not necessarily saying that after I have relations with a women that I just don't want to be around her like Marcus. But, I have found myself evading commitment consciously and subconsciously. For whatever reason love shakes and bakes away from me like Barry Sanders. I know I have nuked relationship with women consciously and sometimes unknowingly because the idea of being tied down to that woman. I have had many people tell me it's because I am an Aquarius and by nature we are commitment phoebes. Sometimes it is triggered by something they did that didn't sit right with me but then I think if I made that issue bigger in my head than it really was.
Now this post isn't like LL Cool J's "I Need Love" but this has been a subject I have thought about intensively over the last few months or so. I have broken some hearts and even had my heart-broken a time or two but going into this last year of my 20's I needed to take some personal relationship inventory. I sat back and thought about my love track record (yeah you have a love track record it's like the index in a book). I sat and thought about all the women I have dated, been with, sexed, and "wifed up"(see here) over the last 11 years of dating. I think about all the places I have lived nationally and internationally. After a lot of thinking I realized that I only had three sustainable relationships with none of them consistently being over 2 years. The reason for the low relationship inactivity has some to do with the women, some to do with me, and a lot to do with somewhere in the middle.
Before you think, "Damn this skinny mofo surely sounds like a whore". I would like to say in my defense that in general I have been told I have been very good to the women I have dated. I am not sitting up here portraying myself as Bishop Desmond Tutu either just also making it be known that I haven't been that bad either. I know I have done my fair share of rabbit dancing with women but, in general I am a pretty nice dude. Ok, there is a few women that may say I aint shit but that is far and in-between. I used to try to blame it on the women and put the onus on them (see here) or that I wasn't ready for commitment but I had to look internally at the man in the mirror. The only consistent factor in all those relationships is…..ME!
I have been surrounded by some great sistas, but there is some reason that I have bailed on certain relationships. With many women it feels like I hit a wall where I go from looking at them as being a potential mate to thinking they have the Ebola virus and I need to get out of there as soon as possible. I don't know what exactly it is that flips a switch where I am not feeling them. Maybe I bail too soon? Maybe I shouldn't have given the person a chance in the first place?
One of my cousins at a family function once called m the black George Clooney. At the time it was hilarious as hell but it was true. Then one of my married homeboys proclaimed to me that he lives through me and my stories. He went on to say that he knew he could live through my extended bachelorhood because I was always going to stay somewhat in "the game". He continued to say that he had only seen me with two girls for an extended period and betting on that was like when the St. Louis Rams went to two Super Bowls. Once again I laughed at my friend's proclamation. After a while both of those statements began to sting. I mean no man wants to be alone their whole life or be the old ass dude in the club. I have always seen myself being with one woman traveling the world talking shit, kicking ass, and taking names. I don't know maybe I believe the perfect relationship is like the Ice Cube and Yo-Yo song "Bonnie and Clyde Theme".
The funny thing about "Love Not Loving Me" is that I am not against monogamy at all. It is just sometimes rapping my mind around the concept of monogamy is the issue. Do I really want to be with this person? Are they really the one for me? I am not saying I am going to marry this chick but damn do I even want to really make them my girlfriend. I know this Marcus Graham Condition I will cure they say the first part of recovery is admitting you have the problem, right? I'm admitting the problem and I am going to be proactive about it. I won't complain to myself that "Love Don't Love Me." I'm gonna attempt to embrace love and maybe it will quit not loving me.


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Apparently, Trace is now in the sausage business. I've looked for some more information and can't find anything at all about his new line of spicy meat, but Trace's wife Rhonda tweeted the above picture along with a couple of pictures of Trace shooting a commercial for his "new line of sausage."
Trace is definitely one brave soul because you just know he's going to get all kinds of guff about his putting his meat on the market from his country pals.


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NBA Betting News and Notes Monday 11/12
NBA Betting News and Notes Monday 11/12
Heat at Rockets: What Bettors Need to Know
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Miami Heat at Houston Rockets (+5, 196)
After losing their first two home games, the Houston Rockets attempt to even their record at the Toyota Center on Monday, when they host the reigning champion Miami Heat. Houston dropped home decisions to Portland and Denver before beginning its three-game homestand with a 96-82 triumph over winless Detroit on Saturday. The victory, which halted a three-game overall skid, came under assistant Kelvin Sampson as head coach Kevin McHale took a leave of absence earlier in the day to deal with a family matter.
Miami is hitting the midway point of its six-game road trip. The Heat began the trek Friday with a six-point victory in Atlanta before being trounced in Memphis on Sunday. Chris Bosh scored a team-high 22 points as Miami never led in the contest, and experienced an end to their four-game winning streak.
ABOUT THE HEAT (5-2, 4-3 ATS): Miami was blitzed by Memphis from 3-point range as the Grizzlies were 14-of-24 from beyond the arc. Wayne Ellington accounted for half of Memphis' 3-pointers. "They hit a few 3s. Then Wayne got going and hit some back-burning 3s as well," said LeBron James, who scored 20 points on 10-of-19 shooting. "Then they hit a few at the end of the shot clock, too." Dwyane Wade returned from a one-game absence due to an illness and struggled, hitting only 3-of-15 shots.
ABOUT THE ROCKETS (3-3, 3-3 ATS): James Harden scored a team-high 20 points and Marcus Morris was 6-of-7 for 12 points off the bench as Houston cruised to the 14-point victory Saturday. Rookies Terrence Jones and Donatas Motiejunas made their NBA debuts, scoring five and three points, respectively. Forward Chandler Parsons has at least one 3-pointer in every game this season. The Rockets, who have lost five straight meetings with Miami, have won a franchise-record 32 straight games in which they hold their opponent under 90 points.
* Over is 5-1 in the last six meetings in Houston.
* Heat are 4-1 ATS in the last five meetings.
* Favorite is 6-2 ATS in the last eight meetings.
* Over is 7-3 in the last 10 meetings.
1. The clubs split the first 50 games in the all-time series, with Houston posting a 14-10 record at home.
2. Miami has been held under 95 points twice this season, losing both contests.
3. The Rockets are 3-0 against the Eastern Conference but 0-3 versus the West.
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NBA: Streaks, Tips, Notes
Utah at Toronto
The Toronto Raptors have lost five of six to start the regular season cashing two tickets for bettors (2-4 ATS). This week's early action sees Raptors hosting Utah Jazz on Monday before the Raps head to Indiana to take on Pacers. Jazz have tipped things off winning 3-of-7 both straight up and against-the-spread but remain winless on the road (0-4 SU/ATS). Toronto actually won their lone meeting with Utah last season but remain on a 1-12 skid against the Jazz (2-11 ATS) including 0-6 SU/ATS playing north of the border. Doesn't get easier Tuesday. The Raptors losing their season opener to the Pacers have not only lost seven of eight in the series (3-5 ATS) but are winless in seven trips to Indiana (0-7, 1-6 ATS). Raptors 2-10 (7-5 ATS) on the second of a back-to-back situation won't help.
Oklahoma City at Detroit
Finishing it's six-game road swing with a 96-82 loss at Houston on Saturday the miss-firing Pistons (0-7, 3-4 ATS) return to 'The Palace of Auburn Hills' to face Oklahoma. It may take more than 'Nitroglycerin' to get these Pistons fired up enough to keep up with Durant, Westbrook and company. Thunder have won seven straight (2-5 ATS) in the series including a 105-94 victory in Oklahoma City on Friday. Thunder 6-4 ATS as a road favorite playing without rest, 5-3 ATS away vs a Central Division foe are worth a second look.
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NBA Odds, Picks and Trends: Monday, Nov. 12, 2012
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We'll never question how good the Miami Heat are. There's a good reason why they're an 8-to-5 favorite to repeat as NBA champions. They're clearly the best team in the league, but it's still fair to question what is wrong with them on the road during the early stages of the season.
They're 1-2 road record wouldn't necessarily be so bad if it weren't for the drastic changes in their scoring compared to what they do at home. In four home games, the Heat have averaged 116 points, using their new pass-and-shoot offense. However, on the road, that same system has produced an average of 88 points in three road games.
"It's no big deal, you can't put too much in it." said LVH SuperBook assistant manager Jeff Sherman. "These guys go through the motions sometimes during the regular season because their real season starts in the playoffs. At this stage of the season, it's pretty common to see good teams have up-and-down nights."
The Heat lost by 18 Sunday in Memphis, and they're 5-point favorites Monday at Houston, which brings up an interesting stat pointed out by professor Ed Meyer, who has an endless supply of trends for all sports. The Heat, according to Meyer, are 0-7 all-time in back-to-back situations coming off a loss where LeBron James was not the leading scorer.
The Rockets burst onto the scene with two wins to start the season, as James Harden scored 82 points over the two games. But they then proceeded to lose three straight before beating the hapless Pistons Saturday night. They are 3-0 against Eastern Conference teams, but 0-3 against the West.
NBA trends:
The Jazz have won and covered two of the past three meetings with the Raptors. Utah is 2.5-point favorites in Toronto tonight.
The 76ers and Bucks have gone UNDER the total in six of their past seven meetings. The total in tonight's game in Philly is 189.
The Thunder have won their past four games against the Pistons, but covered only twice. OKC is laying 6.5 points in Detroit.
The Bulls have covered 18 of their past 24 when playing three consecutive homes. Chicago is 2.5-point home chalk against Boston.
The Mavericks have won four of their past six meetings with the T'Wolves, but the T'wolves have gotten the money in four of the games. Dallas is a 7-point favorite hosting Minnesota this evening.
The Nuggets have covered five of the past six meetings with the Suns. Denver is a 3-point favorite in Phoenix tonight.
The Hawks have won and covered three of their past four against the Blazers, and all four of the games have stayed UNDER the total. Atlanta is getting 2.5 points, and the total is 194, in tonight's game in Portland.
NBA notes:
The Lakers remain at 4-to-1 to win the NBA title after signing Mike D'Antoni as head coach. Even though the Lakers were reeling, the sports books had more liability built up on them than any team in the league. That's partly because there are so many southern California visitors to Las Vegas who routinely bet the Lakers every season, but the big boom came when Dwight Howard joined the organization.
Second-year guard Jimmer Fredette doesn't get a lot of time off the bench for the Kings, and in two instances this season, he hasn't got any minutes at all. He's averaged only eight minutes a game, but Sunday night against the Lakers, he made the most of his 11 minutes by leading the team in scoring with 18 points on 7-of-9 shooting, including 3-of-5 from 3-point range. The Kings lost on the road again, 103-90, but you have to wonder why Fredette doesn't get more playing time when looking at some of the other disasters in the Kings rotation, like turnover machine Isaiah Thomas. Fredette is making 64 percent of his field goals and 50 percent from 3-point range on the season, and he's only had one turnover – the big knock against him – in his past four games.
Part of the reason Fredette got to play those minutes was because the Kings were a man down with center DeMarcus Cousins getting suspended two games for an altercation with Spurs announcer Sean Elliott after Friday's loss to the Spurs. Elliott made a reference during the broadcast about how Tim Duncan responds to young trash talkers in the league, and apparently Cousins didn't like Elliott's tone and left the locker room to confront Elliott in a hostile manner.
Wayne Ellington has been languishing around the NBA for the past three seasons without a lot of contributions. Remember him? He was one of the main forces on the North Carolina's 2009 national championship team. Well, he's finally found a home with the Grizzlies, who acquired him in a trade with the T'Wolves in the offseason. On Sunday, he scored a career-high 25 points to lead Memphis to a 104-86 pounding of the defending NBA champion Heat.
NBA injuries:
T'Wolves forward Chase Budinger tore the lateral meniscus in his left knee in Saturday's game against the Bulls and will have surgery this week with no return date set. Budinger was averaging a career high 11.8 points per game. He joins teammates Ricky Rubio and Kevin Love on the sidelines.
Raptors guard Kyle Lowry (ankle) is out tonight against the Jazz.
Bulls guard Kirk Hinrich (hip) is doubtful tonight against the Celtics.
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Churchton man charged in abduction of 12-year old Annapolis girl
On July 5 at 3:09 p.m. officers from Annapolis Police Department responded to the area of Skippers Lane and South Cherry Grove Avenue for a 12 year old girl reporting she had been abducted. The girl told police that she was walking in the area when a man pulled her into his vehicle, drove her to a nearby street, and attempted to assault her. The girl was able to exit the vehicle and run away. The girl was not injured.
The girl guided officers to the 1100 block of Belle Drive, where the vehicle was parked when she jumped out. The man's vehicle was still parked there, but was unoccupied. Detectives identified the registered owner of the vehicle, Cordell Salisbury, 52, of Churchton, as the suspect in the abduction. The girl did not know Salisbury and Salisbury is not a registered sex offender.
Just after midnight on July 6 detectives arrested Salisbury in a home in the 100 block of Brightwater Dr. Salisbury was charged with kidnapping, false imprisonment, 2nd degree assault, 4th degree sex offense, attempted 3rd degree sex offense, sexual solicitation of a minor, indecent exposure, and kidnapping a child under 16. Salisbury is being held at the Jennifer Road Detention Center on a temporary commitment pending his hearing with the District Court Commissioner.
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It was horrific, in every sense of the word.
A 43-year-old woman snowboarder crashed into the side of a snowcat last week at Mammoth Mountain, losing a leg when she was entangled in the spinning tiller behind the cat.
"Her leg was gone!" said a startled employee at the ski area, who asked for anonymity until investigators could complete their work.
Kathleen Willhide-Michiulis, a season pass holder from the Saugus neighborhood of Santa Clarita, was immediately airlifted to a Reno hospital.
The mountain community of Mammoth Lakes showed its true spirit for the winter sport of Biathlon Sunday in the 4th Annual Mammoth Winter Biathlon. Amidst heavy snowfall of 5-9 feet over the last week, the townspeople overcame blizzard conditions and mobilized in force Sunday morning beginning at 4 a.m. Volunteers built out a 20-point biathlon stadium in order to host more than 200 racers, making this race the largest winter biathlon in North America.
The Super Sign outside Main Lodge is buried up to its knees by the March snows, which over the past week packed on up to nine feet of snow. According to mammothmountain.com, this has been the snowiest March ever on record.
Mammoth High School should know if it becomes one of California's Distinguished Schools within the "next few weeks" according to district superintendent Rich Boccia.
The announcement, which Boccia said he expects will reveal a "positive outcome" comes on the heels of a state team of administrators that visited the school earlier in March for the formal on-site visitation required by the application process.
"The team spent the day visiting the school, which included an opening meeting with the staff, a meeting with the leadership team and classroom visits," Boccia said.
When Mammoth resident Christian Fuller sits down Monday night at Snowcreek Athletic Club to play 12 simultaneous games of chess with players ranging in age from seven to 77, don't expect him to lose.
In that room will be everyone from a fifth grade Mammoth Elementary student to someone in their 70s, most students that Fuller has been teaching over the past year since he moved to Mammoth to train as a long distance runner.
Fuller, best known as a winning long distance runner, has also been playing chess competitively as long as he's been running – and winning at both.
When Kelly Bahr became an animal care volunteer for Eastern Sierra Wildlife Care she never imagined she would do physical therapy on a Golden eagle.
But a few weeks ago, she did just that. The eagle was rescued from the shoulder of Hwy. 6 on Matthew Hill midway between Hammil and Benton.
On admission, the female eagle had tightly clenched talons and could only stand on her hocks. While working to find the cause of this problem, ESWC Director Cindy Kamler ordered therapy and Bahr helped implement it.
When the news that Mammoth had lost its bid to the state Supreme Court to review the airport lawsuit finally came down Wednesday afternoon, it was as expected as it was deeply disappointing.
The court typically only hears about five percent of the cases that reach its doors. But Mammoth had hoped to buck that percentage, arguing that the outcome of the case would negatively affect the ability of cities and counties across the state to do business with developers.
But the Court didn't see it that way.
As Big Pine residents mourned the loss of homes and property due to a windblown fire this past weekend, Mammoth residents – already buried after a winter that has dumped 44.7 feet (561 inches) of snow on the higher elevations – are waiting out another three to four feet of the white stuff that's expected to fall by Sunday night.
When Mammoth headed into the second storm of the week early Thursday, it was only 17 inches from becoming the biggest snowfall winter on record – 578.5 inches set in 2005-06 – and it's not over yet.
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The Fred Hall Show in San Diego is this weekend, and Quiz for the Week: "Who the heck is/was Fred Hall?" ... Our faithful tweeters, meanwhile, say that if you haven't latched on to Steven M. Bumgardner (YosemiteSteve), you're missing out. ...
MLPD Sergeant John Mair will be sworn in as the newest lieutenant on today at one o'clock at the Cop Shop. ...
When Kelly Bahr became an animal care volunteer for Eastern Sierra Wildlife Care, she never imagined she would do physical therapy on a Golden eagle. But a few weeks ago, she did just that. The Golden eagle was rescued from the shoulder of Highway 6 on Matthew Hill, mid-way between Hammil and Benton. On admission, the female eagle had tightly clenched talons and could only stand on her hocks. While working to find the cause of this problem, ESWC Director Cindy Kamler ordered therapy and Kelly helped implement it.
All roads into Yosemite National Park have reopened this morning, pending weather and safety along the roadways. This includes park entrances via Highways 120, 140, and 41.
The park is open to visitors until 7:00 p.m. this evening. Reservations for rooms in the park will be honored this evening. The Hetch Hetchy Road and the Badger Pass Road will remain closed until further notice.
Yosemite National Park will be fully open to the public beginning tomorrow, Friday, March 25. Again, this is contingent upon the weather and safety on the roads.
The Center Fire that started outside of Big Pine Friday night burned 19 structures, including homes, and 850 acres before it was considered "contained" or out, last night.
The cause of the fire is still unknown.
As many as 400 fire fighters were assigned to the fire over the weekend, although the wind-whipped flames did most of their damage Friday night.
CalFire's website is one of the best places to get the latest data on the fire; http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=482
Here's the latest update from CalFire, filed Sunday night at 7 p.m.
Are we ready? It's hard not to ask that question, watching the destruction, fear and grief facing Japan.
Deep down, Mammoth holds a large and uncomfortable resemblance to that island country, although the surfaces of the two areas couldn't be more different.
Unstable bedrock, an unquiet volcanic past; more than many places in the country, the Eastern Sierra shares a certain geological kinship with Japan. All that's missing is the sea – and many millions of people.
But a big quake? Sure. A volcano? Sure. Both are inevitable, scientists tell us. Someday.
Don't let the snowbanks or the cold snap fool you.
Mammoth's bears are starting to wake up.
You can see them, now and again, lying on top of a snowbank, soaking up some sun before retreating back in their dens.
"The life cycle is beginning again," said Wildlife Specialist Steve Searles,.
"During the winter we kind of forget about them," he said. "I know where I live, I can leave stuff out in the garage and it'll just freeze, and there's no odor.
Maggie and Buck Wahl are back from Laos, Cambodia and Thailand, and those pictures on Facebook belong in a museum or something, sez us. ...
Good for Kelly Bahr, who as an animal care volunteer for Eastern Sierra Wildlife Care, did heroic work giving help to a Golden Eagle that was rescued from the shoulder of Highway 6 near Benton. ESWC Director Cindy Kamler ordered therapy, and tests revealed the eagle sadly, had acute lead poisoning and it subsequently died.
A permitted burn on private ranchland last Saturday, March 12, was visible from Sherwin Summit and had several people calling in to report a fire. Mammoth Times Photos/Leslie Willoughby
Saturday night, March 12, the first Mardi Gras night at Rafters brought out revelers in costume. New Orleans food was served and Lisa Haley and the Zydekats provided lively music for dancing.
Our hearts go out to the people of Japan, as the evolving multiple catastrophic disasters of earthquake, tsunami, radiation, and now freezing cold and snow compound their unimaginable human misery. The images and stories told 24/7 through our media barely scrape the surface of human emotion being felt in Japan, but leave us feeling at once sad, helpless, guilty, and afraid. Having said that, allow me (RJ) to speak to you as the Eastern Sierra family, and try to put this into perspective. After all, if this happened here, we would be forced to relate as one big family in order to survive.
What was supposed to be a compromise solution to help solve the Bodie Wilderness Study Area (WSA) fate Tuesday, wasn't.
Instead, when Mono County District 2 Supervisor Hap Hazard proposed to divide the existing WSA roughly in half – with one half becoming true wilderness and the other open to multiple uses – just about everyone was none too pleased.
And the fact that he asked everyone to do it quickly didn't help either.
Despite another round of pleas from Mammoth Mountain and the Town of Mammoth Lakes Tuesday for air flight subsidies, county supervisors once again said, "Not so fast."
For the second time in about as many months, Town and Mountain officials came to the county for help, asking for between $215,000 and $289,000 a year to help bridge a gap in subsidizing year around air service (winter air service subsidies are already covered by the Mountain.)


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Boeing and the US Air Force have tested F-16 fighter jets (which have been retired from the Air Force and used for research, such as this) without any pilots in the cockpit. The aircraft were basically turned into drones that were piloted remotely from the ground by US Air Force pilots.
The flights proved to be successful, with the jets flying at an altitude of 40,000ft (12.2km) and speed of Mach 1.47 (1,119mph/1,800km/h). The pilots were also able to remote perform barrel rolls, evasive maneuvers and a landing that Paul Cejas, the project's chief engineer, describes as "probably one of the best landings I've ever seen."
As for what the fighter jet turned drones will be used for, Boeing says that it could eventually be used to help train pilots, since the unmanned planes could be used as a flying target that pilots can fire on. Boeing currently has six of the modified F-16s, which they have renamed QF-16s.
Unexpectedly, the development has drawn some criticism. Prof. Noel Sharkey of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is worried that they might eventually be used for automated killing:
"I'm very concerned these could be used to target people on the ground. I'm particularly worried about the high speed at which they can travel because they might not be able to distinguish their targets very clearly. There is every reason to believe that these so-called 'targets' could become a test bed for drone warfare, moving us closer and closer to automated killing."
The US military is currently planning to use the modified jets in live fire tests.
Is anyone really surprised with this news? It was only a matter of time. I'm just wondering why it took so long.
[via BBC, image via UNC – CFC – USFK]
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This article makes it sound like this is something new for the USAF, they have been doing with with older retired fighters for 40 years or so. They did this with F-100, F-101, F-102, F-106, F-4 and now the F-16 as the older airframes are shot down or no longer perform to the necessary spec.
As to what General Dynamics, thinks, it sold F-16 production to Lockheed about 15 years ago.
The Europeans do the same with their retired aircraft.
Nothing new just that more now know of this because of the issue with drones.
I agree–I'm surprised this wasn't done years ago. The tech's been around for ages to have a remote human pilot them.
We have hundreds (thousands?) of old aircraft sitting around that could be retrofitted; millions could be saved on each jet we didn't have to install life support systems on.
Why waste millions on smart bombs when you can just pack your payload on an old jet that could be crashed right on target.


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iPhone prototype (before iPhone 2G) ran OS X, had 7-inch display and USB ports, and was two inches thick
Posted By Ashraf On March 11, 2013 @ 8:50 PM In iOS | No Comments
We have already seen an iPad prototype from 2002 [2]. Now it is iPhone's turn.
The above image is an iPhone prototype from early 2005 leaked to ArsTechnica by "a former Apple employee who worked on various Apple hardware projects in the early 2000s and was thus exposed to some of the earliest versions of the iPhone". And boy is it nothing like the iPhone that debuted in 2007.
Although it may not be evident in the image, the iPhone prototype had a 7-inch display, was five inches wide and two inches thick, and had USB, Ethernet, and serial ports. To top it off, it "basically [ran] a version of OS X" and used a Samsung-made 200-233MHz processor. The following are more images of the device:
It should be noted that, according to the former Apple employee, Apple never intended on including USB/Ethernet/serial ports in the final iPhone. These ports were included in the prototype to assist with development and were never intended to make to the final product… and indeed never did make it to the final product.
While it isn't clear when Apple decided to go from a 7-inch display to the 3.5-inch that came with the original iPhone (iPhone 2G), the former Apple employee reiterates "at that early date no one knew what [the final device] would be". So it could be someone made a good case down the line for a smaller screensize or maybe Apple all along was going to go with the smaller screen but decided for a larger screen for development purposes. Who knows.
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Exports to Venezuela have skyrocketed but Nicaragua could be trusting its fate to a house of cards.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Nicaragua's exponential export growth to Venezuela has its government singing the praises of Hugo Chavez's socialist alliance. But, economists warn, once the wonderment ceases, Nicaragua could be left with a nasty hangover.
Since Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega returned to power three and a half years ago, exports to Venezuela have jumped by nearly 6,000 percent, from $2 million in 2006 to $119 million in 2009 — an amount that is projected to double again this year. Venezuela is now Nicaragua's second-biggest export market behind the United States — a remarkably fast achievement considering three years ago Venezuela didn't even rank in Nicaragua's top 25.
Though Nicaragua has always relied heavily on Venezuelan oil imports, it has only recently started to reciprocate by exporting beans, beef and cattle.
Ortega claims the numbers offer convincing proof that the "fair-trade" economic model of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas is redefining international relations in a world dominated by "savage capitalism." The alliance, known as ALBA, is a a leftist cooperation agreement between Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Bolivia and three small Caribbean nations.
Originally formed as a socialist alternative to U.S.-led free-trade advances in Latin America, ALBA has evolved into a Venezuelan-bankrolled effort to promote political, commercial and cultural unity among likeminded countries in Latin America. But five years after its inception, critics argue ALBA is little more than a clubhouse of impoverished nations dependent on Venezuelan oil and a political platform for Chavez' arbitrary style of leadership.
"Venezuela is a market that is going to continue to grow, we're sure of that," Ortega said at a political rally earlier this month. "That's the will of our brothers in ALBA, our presidents and our people — to continue strengthening this process."
But economists and business leaders worry that Nicaragua and Venezuela are building an economic house of cards on a wobbly foundation of political rhetoric. Any tremors in either of these two politically seismic countries could have a devastating effect on ALBA and the continuation of bilateral trade, analysts warn.
"This is political trade; it's not sustainable in any way," said Jose Guerra, a former top official with Venezuela's Central Bank and head of the economics department at the University of Central Venezuela. Guerra said the commercial relation between the oil giant and this impoverished Central American nation is "ideologically convenient, but nothing else." He warned that any change in government in Nicaragua or Venezuela will nix the deal.
Other factors, such as Venezuela's deepening economic crisis, could also affect the future of Nicaragua's role as an emerging trade partner. If Chavez feels pressure to normalize relations with neighboring Colombia by lifting the crippling trade embargo that he imposed last year, Nicaragua could find its substitute role terminated.
"If trade with Colombia normalizes, trade with Nicaragua ends because Nicaragua can't compete," Guerra said.
That's why Nicaragua's private sector is asking Ortega to formalize the sweetheart commercial relations by signing a free-trade agreement with Venezuela now before the bubble bursts. By establishing clear rules to the game now, Nicaragua's private sector hopes trade relations between the two countries can evolve beyond a backroom handshake and backslap between Chavez and Ortega.


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