http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=332 Sat, 18 May 2013 21:32:27 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=332 Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:15:17 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=01f_1362959826 Chris Kaczmarski Volume Warning... Music and jet engines to follow... and corny music.. Sorry about the slow start, the whole video is NOT photos..actual videos start at 2:57 From filming Transformers 2 off San Diego, all the way to Busan, Korea.. There was never a dull moment aboard the John C Stennis.. Although, I did not spend as much time there as some of my friends, it is easy to step back NOW and really be amazed at how much of a modern marvel this ship is. I am proud to have served aboard her and I wish her and her crew the best, stay safe! For those who have never been aboard an aircraft carrier, it's quite amazing how this 97,000 ton carrier can traverse through the oceans.. The anchors, weighing at 30 tons each, were removed from the USS Forrestal and the original flag which flew over the WTC is in the ship's museum. Below is some basic information about CVN-74 (taken from Wikipedia). Class &amp; type: Nimitz -class aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt subclassDisplacement:103,300 long tons (115,700 short tons) Length:Overall: 1,092 feet (332.8 m) Waterline: 1,040 feet (317.0 m)Beam:Overall: 252 ft (76.8 m) Waterline: 134 ft (40.8 m)Draft:Maximum navigational: 37 ft (11.3 m) Limit: 41 ft (12.5 m)Installed power:A/C plant capacity: 2,900 refrigeration tons (10.2 megawatts ) Distillation plant capacity: 400,000 US gallons (1,500 m3)Propulsion:2 x Westinghouse A4W nuclear reactors 4 x steam turbines 4 x shafts 260,000 shp (194 MW)Speed:30+ knots (56+ km/h; 35+ mph)Range:Unlimited distance; 20-25 yearsCapacity:6500 officers and crew (with embarked airwing) Complement:Ship's company: 3,200 Air wing: 2,480Sensors and processing systems: AN/SPS-48E 3-D air search radar AN/SPS-49(V)5 2-D air search radar AN/SPQ-9B target acquisition radar AN/SPN-46 air traffic control radars AN/SPN-43C air traffic control radar AN/SPN-41 landing aid radars 4 x Mk 91 NSSM guidance systems 4 x Mk 95 radarsElectronic warfare &amp; decoys:SLQ-32A(V)4 Countermeasures suite SLQ-25A Nixie torpedo countermeasuresArmament:2 x Mk 57 Mod3 Sea Sparrow 2 x RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile 3 x Phalanx CIWS Armor: Classified Aircraft carried:90 fixed wing and helicoptersAviation facilities:catapults: 4 aircraft elevators: 4 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=01f_1362959826 Chris Kaczmarski My time aboard CVN-74 (USS JOHN C STENNIS) VOLUME warning, jet engines united states, Navy, CVN-74, Stennis, Nimitz class, John C Stennis, Bremerton, aircraft carrier, ships Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:51:28 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=862_1361915302 Catalytic Feb 20 2013, 1:55 PM ET 332 One of Chuck Hagel's most vociferous critics is a Breitbart writer named Ben Shapiro, who is responsible for this bit of immortal journalism: On Thursday, Senate sources told Breitbart News exclusively that they have been informed that one of the reasons that President Barack Obama's nominee for Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, has not turned over requested documents on his sources of foreign funding is that one of the names listed is a group purportedly called &quot;Friends of Hamas.&quot; There is, of course, no group called &quot;Friends of Hamas,&quot; and Chuck Hagel did not receive funding from this group, which, as I just mentioned, does not exist. (Dave Weigel did the hard work of proving its non-existence, and Dan Friedman , from the New York Daily News , subsequently explained that he may have inadvertently introduced, in a joking fashion, the idea that such a group did, in fact, exist.) I bring this up not to question the quality of journalism perpetrated by writers associated with the Breitbart site. (Full disclosure: Breitbart.com has argued that I am a &quot;court Jew&quot; who has been &quot;obsequiously bending over for Barack Obama for some time.&quot;) Instead, I bring this up to note the remarkable fact that Mr. Shapiro, who has positioned himself as a stalwart defender of Israel and of the Jewish people, has expressed views that place him squarely in the fascist camp. Not only is he to the right of Chuck Hagel and Barack Obama, he is to the right of the mainstream pro-Israel community; of the right-wing Zionist Organization of America; the Likud Party; and the governing body of the West Bank settlement movement. In a column published in 2003, Shapiro explicitly endorsed the idea of forcibly expelling the Palestinians from the West Bank. This was the position of the extremist Meir Kahane, who was banned by the Israeli Supreme Court from participating in Israeli politics because of his racist views. Here is an excerpt from one of Shapiro's columns , entitled &quot;Transfer is Not a Dirty Word,&quot; which, to the best of my knowledge, he has never renounced, not that it would matter particularly much: The Jews don't realize that expelling a hostile population is a commonly used and generally effective way of preventing violent entanglements. There are no gas chambers here. It's not genocide; it's transfer. It's not Hitler; it's Churchill. After World War II, Poland was recreated by the Allied Powers. In doing so, the Allies sliced off a chunk of Germany and extended Poland west to the Oder-Neisse line. Anywhere from 3.5 million to 9 million Germans were forcibly expelled from the new Polish territory and relocated in Germany. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was pleased with the result. In 1944, he had explained to the House of Commons that &quot;expulsion is the method which, so far as we have been able to see, will be the most satisfactory and lasting. There will be no mixture of populations to cause endless trouble ... a clean sweep will be made. I am not alarmed by the prospect of the disentanglement of populations, nor even by these large transferences, which are more possible in modern conditions than they ever were before.&quot; Churchill was right. The Germans accepted the new border, and decades of conflict between Poles and Germans ended. Arab-Jewish conflict is exponentially more volatile than German-Polish conflict ever was. And the solution is far easier. If there was &quot;room in Germany for the German populations of East Prussia and of the other territories,&quot; as Churchill stated, there is certainly room in the spacious Muslim states of the Middle East for 5 million Palestinians and Israeli Arabs. If Germans, who had a centuries-old connection to the newly created Polish territory, could be expelled, then surely Palestinians, whose claim to Judea, Samaria and Gaza is dubious at best, can be expelled. It's time to stop being squeamish. Jews are not Nazis. Transfer is not genocide. And anything else isn't a solution. Shapiro has argued that Jews who support Barack Obama (the majority of American Jews, in other words) are, in essence, self-haters and &quot;Jews in name only.&quot; But Shapiro is the one who seems completely divorced from Jewish values. His leadership role in the dump-Hagel movement reflects well on Barack Obama. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/02/prominent-hagel-detractor-endorses-fascistic-vision-of-israel/273349/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=862_1361915302 Catalytic Prominent Hagel Detractor Endorses Fascistic Vision of Israel Chuck, Hagel, Israel, Jews, Fascist, state, apartheid, torture, settlements, razing Sun, 29 May 2011 19:06:28 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bed_1306710232 dcmfox JR Hildebrand may have lost the 100th Indy 500 to Dan Wheldon after crashing into the wall with one turn to go, but over at the life-size Hot Wheels V-Drop, Top Gear's Tanner Foust nailed a world record-setting 332-foot jump in a modified Pro 2 truck. Those two things may not be directly related, but they both happened. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bed_1306710232 dcmfox <span class="highlight">332</span>-foot world record jump in hot wheels car 332, ft, jump, hotwheels Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:07:25 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=daa_1237356235 singlelife Senator Barack Obama received a $101,332 bonus from American International Group in the form of political contributions according to Opensecrets.org. The two biggest Congressional recipients of bonuses from the A.I.G. are - Senators Chris Dodd and Senator Barack Obama. The A.I.G. Financial Products affiliate of A.I.G. gave out $136,928, the most of any AIG affiliate, in the 2008 cycle. I would note that A.I.G.'s financial products division is the unit that wrote trillions of dollars' worth of credit-default swaps and "misjudged" the risk. The Washington Post reports a "mob effect" at A.I.G financial products division: "A tidal wave of public outrage over bonus payments swamped American International Group yesterday. Hired guards stood watch outside the suburban Connecticut offices of AIG Financial Products, the division whose exotic derivatives brought the insurance giant to the brink of collapse last year. Inside, death threats and angry letters flooded e-mail inboxes. Irate callers lit up the phone lines. Senior managers submitted their resignations. Some employees didn't show up at all." With the anger and rage that is being exhibited against A.I.G., perhaps the bonuses Obama received from A.I.G. explain Obama's A.I.G crocodile tears. Now that the Wall street Journal has revealed that A.I.G. paid bonuses of $1 million or more to 73 employees, it's time to ask if recipients of A.I.G. "bonuses," including President Obama, will give what now ought to be taxpayer money back? http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=daa_1237356235 singlelife Obama Received a $101,<span class="highlight">332</span> Bonus from AIG obama, bonus, aig Thu, 31 May 2007 06:09:30 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=692_1180606170 Sierratango69 The Royal Norwegian Air Force and the F-16 Fighter Aircraft from the 332 squadron. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=692_1180606170 Sierratango69 RNoAF F-16s <span class="highlight">332</span> Squadron RNoAF, Royal, norwegian, air force, low level, leve, flying, f-16 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:28:10 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ad8_1182875290 llSnOwll Royal Norwegian Air Force flying the F-16 in the nice country side of Norway.Pretty footage!!! http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ad8_1182875290 llSnOwll Royal Norwegian Air Force with the F-16 And <span class="highlight">332</span> Sqd. royal,norwegian,air,force,f16,332sqd,norway Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:26:15 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=77f_1360214337 p1cwh0r3 Source: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/obese-man-wins-350000-payout-from-gp-20130207-2e0b6.html A morbidly obese man dying of liver cancer has been awarded more than $350,000 from his doctor because the GP failed to refer him to a weight-loss clinic or send him for lap-band surgery. Medical experts say the case of Luis Almario is a legal landmark in NSW and will force suburban doctors to ensure overweight patients shed kilos or risk being sued. I am satisfied that but for the negligence of the defendant, the liver disease would not have progressed to cirrhosis and one could have expected a great improvement in his health generally. Dr Emmanuel Varipatis, a Manly GP, is appealing the Supreme Court ruling that he was negligent in not sending Mr Almario, 68, to an obesity clinic or arranging for a bariatric surgeon to assess his suitability for gastric band surgery. Mr Almario, a Colombian-born former left-wing revolutionary and one-time candidate for State Parliament, was in the care of Dr Varipatis from 1997 to 2011. During that time he weighed 140kgs despite being just 154cm tall. The court found Mr Almario has terminal liver cancer as a result of liver disease brought on by his obesity. He has been given 40 weeks to live. Mr Almario, of North Parramatta, had sought out Dr Varipatis, a nutritional and "environmental" medicine specialist, after reading about him in a newspaper for his work in treating disease arising from toxic exposures. Mr Almario was convinced his medical complaints were linked to his exposure to chemicals while working at the infamous Union Carbide pesticide plant at Rhodes in 1988. In his verdict, Justice Joseph Campbell said when Dr Varipatis first saw his patient in 1997, Mr Almario was "morbidly obese and suffered from a constellation of other inter-related conditions, all affected by his obesity, including the liver disease". He upheld that the doctor was legally responsible for the disease progressing to cirrhosis, liver failure and eventually liver cancer. "I am satisfied that but for the negligence of the defendant, the liver disease would not have progressed to cirrhosis and one could have expected a great improvement in his health generally, had bariatric surgery been successful, and a healthful weight been achieved by Mr Almario following surgery," Justice Campbell noted. He found Dr Varipatis negligent on three counts but the GP has appealed the decision, backed by his insurer Avant. Allan Tattersall, acting general manager of claims at Avant, told industry publication the Medical Observer that it was in the interest of all GPs to refer the case back to the courts. Dr Varipatis insisted that in the late 1990s bariatric surgery was not considered effective as a treatment for progressive liver disease associated with morbid obesity. The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and Australian Medical Association declined to comment before the appeal has been heard. Dr Adrian Sheen, a Penrith GP and president of the group Doctor's Action, said the Supreme Court ruling would place an "intolerable burden" on the family doctor. "This will force doctors to refer patients off for every test under the sun or fear being dragged into the courtroom. The cost to the health service will be astronomical," he said. "Health is a relationship between you and your family doctor and it's one that is taken outside the courtroom. Where is this going to stop? We have a high standard of care in this country, GPs have a tough task as it is and this will make it impossible." Mr Almario was awarded $569,332 in damages discounted to $364,372 on a range of mitigating factors, including that a "reasonable person" would have taken the precaution of dieting. Justice Campbell based the payment on the assumption that Mr Almario has 40 weeks to live. "Mr Almario is severely, totally and permanently disabled. He is almost entirely dependent upon others for the ordinary activities of daily life. All of his food is pureed, and he is fed via a naso-gastric tube. He can barely walk as far as the kitchen. He is on medications which are administered to him via the tube. He is reduced to doing little apart from sitting in the lounge watching television or sitting in his bedroom on the computer," the judge said. Mr Almario is being cared for at home by his wife Elvira. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=77f_1360214337 p1cwh0r3 [Video + News Article] Obese man wins AU$350,000 payout from GP MURRICA law suit far arse doesn't know the word Diet Australia Sun, 20 Jan 2013 12:39:08 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f76_1358703031 s3w2 A very windy day at Lisbon Airport LPPT, with crosswinds gusting till 55 knots with many missed approaches proceding to rwy 35 as the example with the Portugal 332 coming from Natal - Brasil landing at the 3rd attempt. Credits: Pedro Dias My last submitted video on Liveleak also shows how rough it was to land a Beechcraft on this exact day. Check it out. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f76_1358703031 s3w2 Hard landings and misses in Lisbon's airport with strong winds! landing, winds, plane, dangerous, scary Thu, 10 Jan 2013 17:50:08 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bf1_1357858071 God_Himself KAJAKI, Afghanistan -- In the approaching twilight of its war in Afghanistan, the U.S. is forging ahead with a giant infrastructure project long criticized as too costly in both blood and money. It's a $500 million effort to refurbish the massive Kajaki dam and hydro-electric power system with an extensive network of power lines and transmission substations. It is supposed to bring electricity to 332,000 people in southern Afghanistan, increase crop yields and build up a cohort of trained Afghan laborers in a region badly in need of them. But completion, which originally was envisaged for 2005, now is projected for some time in 2015, the year after most combat troops will have left the country. And there are some crucial ifs: If a convoy carrying 900 tons of concrete can make it up a dangerous road to the dam site without being attacked by the Taliban. If the Afghan army can hold out in an area that took thousands of U.S. Marines to secure. If the Afghan government can take on the management of the dam. "It's a long-term bet. I've said to people: We have to be patient and we have to persevere," said Ken Yamashita, the head of USAID in Afghanistan. The desire to succeed is understandable. The Kajaki dam on the Helmand River symbolizes for both the Afghans and their American backers what they had hoped the infusion of U.S. troops and cash would produce nationwide: an Afghan government that can provide for its people and in turn count on its support against the Taliban insurgency. The U.S. has spent $22.34 billion on governance and development in Afghanistan since it invaded the country following the Sept. 11 attacks, much of that on projects to build roads, schools, power plants and irrigation systems. In the past two years alone, $800 million was earmarked for infrastructure projects. Kajaki is also a symbol of the American presence in Afghanistan dating back to the 1950s and the Cold War. That was when the U.S. built the original dam, with a powerhouse added in the 1970s. But before the three turbines could be installed, the Soviets invaded and construction stopped. The dam was still squeezing out a bit of power in 2001 when the U.S. attacked and, ironically enough, bombed the dam's power transmission line. In the latest phase of the Kajaki saga, fighting as well as limited oversight of spending has led to huge delays and cost overruns, and now Helmand province, home of the Kajaki dam, is seeing the first and largest wave of U.S. troop reductions, with 10,000 of 17,000 U.S. Marines already gone. That means most of the Kajaki project is going forward with Afghan forces providing nearly all the security in an area that was a Taliban stronghold until a year ago. Afghans here are already hedging their bets. The number of workers on a U.S.-funded construction project next to Kajaki has dwindled from 200 to 20 since last fall, and those remaining say workers feel the risk isn't worth the $6 daily paycheck. "They can't come here because all the routes to the district are controlled by the Taliban," said Abdul Razziq, a 28-year-old villager working on construction of a new district government center next to the dam. His family supports the government, so he at least doesn't have to lie to keep his place of work secret. Not so Timur Shah, who spends a couple of months at a time working at Kajaki. "My immediate family knows I am here. But if anyone else asks they will make something up," he said. Shah said security improved when U.S. Marines flooded the province, but is deteriorating as the Marines leave. "Just at the time the American forces started leaving here, the Taliban started to appear again, in the whole area," Shah said. Cellphone service also stopped working in Kajaki district in late fall. It is common for insurgents to disrupt service in areas they control, though the construction workers say they're just as ready to believe to say the Americans blocked calls. U.S. officials say the wariness is to be expected at a time of transition. They point out that Afghan security forces have increased their presence around the dam and that attacks, while still regular, appear to be decreasing. "There's an ebb and flow," said Marine Capt. Glen Baker, one of a small group of Marines who continue to hold an outpost in Kajaki and advise Afghan forces in the area. "There was an increase when the Marines pulled out and there has been a decrease subsequently." The company working on building the dam has also been able this year to send supplies via road - four convoys of trucks have made the trip without incident. Previously, equipment was being helicoptered in at enormous cost. The core of the project is the installation of a third power-generating turbine at the dam, an effort that planned since 2002. The installation was originally budgeted at $18 million. Now it is getting another $85 million and is scheduled to be installed in March, after being delayed by efforts to weed out subcontracting applicants suspected of having Taliban ties. But many in Afghanistan have already given up on Kajaki. "It is 10 years now that Kajaki dam has been as it is. Too much money has been spent there in the name of reconstruction ... all of that money wasted," President Hamid Karzai said in a speech in December. Shah, the construction worker, echoed the complaint. "When the international forces first came here they told us, `In one year you will have the dam, you will have power, you will have roads.' But that didn't happen. ... and we are still waiting," he said. Even if the project now overcomes the security and logistical barriers, there are questions about whether it's worth the cost. The dam can't provide enough power to sustain the main city in the region - Kandahar - and the price tag is steep for the extra irrigation it brings to the Helmand River valley. And there are also signs of the difficulties the Afghan government may face when it takes over the management of the dam. One area already controlled by the Afghans is the management of irrigation water. The water has to hold to a certain level through the winter to keep electricity flowing, but last year the manager in charge of irrigation yielded to pressure from farmers and kept the water valve open. "He ignored the need to close it in September. So the level of water was reduced," said Shaqib Nassar, the utility's chief operations officer, which oversees the dam. As a result the dam can only produce 24 megawatts, rather than 33 megawatts, he explained. And the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction, the U.S. government watchdog for spending in the country, said in a report in December that $12.8 million in electricity distribution equipment provided to the Afghan energy utility in Kandahar was sitting unused because the Afghan staff "lacked the technical and operational capacity to properly install and manage it." The Kandahar utility also oversees Kajaki dam. As recently as mid-2012 the U.S. was considering scrapping the whole project and switching the money to less unwieldy projects. Then it doubled down. "Several months back we had a lot of discussion about whether continued investment in this would be worthwhile ... There are certainly voices that say, `We've invested this much, let's finish it,' and there are others that say, `We've invested this much, however the additional investment just won't get us there,'" said Yamashita, the USAID official. "In the end, the discussion and the conclusion was that the output of electricity plus the development programs in the Helmand valley, plus the security it brings, equals a risk worth taking." From the air, the Helmand River is a narrow turquoise ribbon through the desert. The dam is a stacked concrete wall that bisects the river, creating a reservoir ringed with trees - a few spots of green in a vast field of brown. The helicopters that fly to the dam are owned by a U.S. contractor and depart from a U.S. military base. As resources and Americans become fewer, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and USAID say they expect oversight to depend increasingly on Afghan partners. Everyone says they are committed to finishing the project; they'll just have to manage much of it from afar. Sayed Rasoul is an Afghan engineer with decades spent in the management of Kajaki as well as the Kandahar and Helmand power grid. He says he's confident the dam will be completed and deliver the riches promised. He also says he's certain that the Americans will be in Kajaki long after the last of the combat troops leave. "Maybe the American forces will leave here," he said, "but the engineers will be with us." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/05/kajaki-dam_n_2415738.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bf1_1357858071 God_Himself Kajaki Dam Project: US Pushes To Finish Afghan Dam As Challenges Mount : Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Video, Afghanistan Kajaki, Afghanistan Kajaki Dam, Afghanistan War Blog, Kajaki, Kajaki Dam, World News Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:53:08 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=975_1355339980 Tama7866 627 - Battle at Nineveh: Byzantine emperor Heraclius beats Perzen 1098 - 1st Crusaders capture &amp; plunder Mara Syria 1408 - Order of the Dragon: The Order of the Dragon was first created on December 12, 1408 by Emperor Sigismund, then King of Hungary, and his wife Queen Barbara of Celje following the battle for possession of Bosnia. 1474 - Isabella crowns herself queen of Castile &amp; Aragon 1479 - Jews are expelled from Schlettstadt Alsace by Emperor Frederick III 1524 - Pope Clement VII approves Organization of Jewish Community of Rome 1527 - Composer Adrian Willaert moves from Milan to Venice 1653 - Barebone-parliament ends 1677 - Brandenburgs army occupies Stettin 1700 -Utrecht/Overijssel/Buren/Leerdam/Ijsselstein adopt Gregorian calendar 1715 - Russian/Prussian troops occupy Stralsund 1769 - Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee 1787 - Pennsylvania becomes 2nd state to ratify US constitution 1791 - Bank of US opens 1792 - In Vienna, Ludwig Von Beethoven (22) receives 1st lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn 1800 - Washington DC established as capital of US 1812 - French invasion of Russia comes to an end. 1822 - Mexico officially recognized as an independent nation by US 1858 - 1st Canadian coins circulated (1 cent, 5 cent, 10 cent &amp; 20 cent) 1862 - Battle of Dumfries, VA 1862 - Naval Engagement at Yazoo River, MS (USS CAIRO torpedoed) 1870 - Joseph Rainey (SC) became 1st black sworn into House of Reps 1871 - Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in solar corona spectrum 1878 - Joseph Pulitzer begins publishing "St Louis Dispatch" 1884 - 1st Test match played at the Adelaide Oval 1897 - Anti-Jewish violence breaks out in Bucharest Romania 1897 - Rudolph Dirks' 1st Katzenjammer cartoon strip in NY Journal 1897 - Belo Horizonte, the first planned city of Brazil, is founded. 1898 - 1st 1st-class game between NSW &amp; Tasmania 1899 - 1st case of plague on Oahu, Hawaii 1899 - George F Bryant of Boston patents the wooden golf tee 1900 - National Negro Anthem, "Lift Every Voice &amp; Sing," composed 1901 - Marconi receives 1st transatlantic radio signal, England to US 1903 - Roger Casement completes report about abuses in Belgian Congo 1904 - CMS McClellans "Leah Kleschna," premieres in NYC 1906 - Oscar Straus, 1st Jewish government member, appointed Sec of Commerce 1911 - Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India. 1912 - R Friml/O Harbachs musical "Firefly," premieres in NYC 1913 - "Mona Lisa," stolen from Louvre Museum in 1911, recovered 1913 - Hebrew language officially used to teach in Palestinian schools 1914 - The largest one-day percentage drop in the history of Dow Jones Industrial Average, down 24.39%. 1915 - 1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau Germany 1915 - Aristide Briand forms French war government 1915 - Russian troops overrun Hamadan, Persia 1916 - Worst train disaster ever (Modane France-543 killed) 1917 - French troop train derails in French Alps killing 543 1917 - Rev Edward Flanagan forms Boys Town outside Omaha, Neb 1920 - Maurice Ravels ballet "La Valse," premieres in Paris 1925 - Arthur Heinman coins term "motel," opens Motel Inn, San Luis Obispo 1925 - Cossack officer/ex-premier Reza Chan becomes shah of Persia 1925 - Last Qajar Shah of Iran deposed; Rexa Shah Pahlavi takes over 1926 - Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' 1st Pianoconcert 1928 - Nichols/Brownes "Wings over Europe," premieres in NYC 1930 - Baseball Rules Committee greatly revises the rule book 1930 - Baseball changes rule, ball bounces into stands not a HR, now a double 1930 - Start of the 1st Australia v West Indies Test (at Adelaide) 1931 - Japanese government of Imukai forms 1932 - S N Behrmans "Biography," premieres in NYC 1932 - USSR &amp; China resume diplomatic relations 1936 - Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek declares war on Japan 1937 - NBC &amp; RCA sends 1st mobile-TV vans onto the streets of NY 1937 - Washington Redskins win NFL championship 1937 - Japanese aircraft shell &amp; sink US gunboat Panay on Yangtze River in China. (Japan apologized &amp; eventually paid US $2.2M in reparations) 1939 - Russ Indigirka capsizes in blizzard off Japanese coast; 750 die 1940 - British troops conquer Sidi el-Barrani 1941 - European reservists on Java mobilizes 1941 - German occupying army do a house search in Paris looking for Jews 1941 - Russian 20th army recaptures Soljetsjnogorsk 1942 - German offensive in South Western Stalingrad 1942 - A fire in a hostel in St. John's, Newfoundland kills 100 people. 1945 - Special Court of justice convicts NSB-leader Mussert to death 1946 - Ice plant collapses, shearing a tenement building &amp; burying 38 1946 - Tide detergent introduced 1946 - UN accepts 6 Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D Rockefeller Jr 1947 - United Mine Workers union withdrew from AFL 1948 - Malayan Emergency: Batang Kali Massacre - 14 members of the Scots Guards stationed in Malaysia allegedly massacre 24 unarmed civilians and set fire to the village. 1949 - AL votes 7-1 rejecting legalizing the spitball 1950 - 16th Heisman Trophy Award: Vic Janowicz, Ohio State (HB) 1950 - Baseball owners vote to drop 4-year old bonus &amp; high school rule 1951 - Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement 1952 - Dallas Texans (former Boston Yanks) play last game, last original team 1953 - Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane 1955 - 1st prototype of hovercraft patented by Brit eng Christoper Cockerell 1956 - Commencement of the Irish Republican Army's Border Campaign. 1957 - Maj Adrian Drew flies 1,943 kph in F-101 Voodoo 1957 - US announces manufacture of Borazon (harder than diamond) 1957 - Jerry Lee Lewis weds his cousin Myra Gale Brown, 13, while still married to his 1st wife Jane Mitcham 1958 - Dutch social democratic party-ministers/premier Drees dismissed 1958 - Fergie Gupte takes 9-102 with leggies v W Indies at Kanpur 1959 - UN Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space is established 1961 - Ham radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36 1961 - Martin Luther King Jr &amp; 700 demonstraters arrested in Albany Ga 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1963 - Argentina asks for extradition of ex-president Peron 1963 - Frank Sinatra Jr returned after being kidnapped 1963 - Kenya (formerly British East Africa) declares independence from UK 1964 - Cleveland Browns' Frank Ryan sets club record of 5 TD passes 1964 - Shooting starts for "Star Trek" pilot "The Cage" (Menagerie) 1965 - Beatles last Great Britain concert (Capitol Theatre in Cardiff Wales) 1965 - Doug Walters makes maiden Test ton in 1st Test, goes on to 155 1965 - Gale Sayers of Chicago Bears scores 6 TDs, ties NFL record 1965 - Vivian Beaumont Theater opens at 65th St &amp; Amsterdam Ave NYC 1966 - US Supreme Courts votes 4-3 allowing Braves to move to Atlanta 1967 - US launches Pioneer 8 into solar orbit 1968 - Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to be ranked #1 in tennis 1968 - Rolling Stones film TV show "Rock 'n Roll Circus"-never aired 1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1969 - "Hello Dolly" with Barbra Striesand premieres 1969 - Bill Toomey achieves world record-score (8417 points) 1969 - Bomb attack on bank in Milan, 14 killed 1969 - Strategia della tensione: Piazza Fontana bombing - The offices of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan, are bombed. 1970 - Polish government proclaims price rise 1970 - Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 42 launched to study X-rays 1970 - USSR performs underground nuclear test 1973 - Canada begins selling Olympic coins ($5 &amp; $10 silver coins) 1973 - San Diego files anti-trust against NL (stopping Padres move to DC) 1975 - Gas stove explodes &amp; starts fire killing 138 (Mecca Saudi Arabia) 1975 - Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to trying to kill Pres Gerald Ford 1976 - QB Joe Namath last game as a NY Jet 1977 - Yanks purchase Andy Messersmith from Braves 1979 - Gold hits record $462.50 an ounce 1979 - Rhodesia becomes independent nation of Zimbabwe 1979 - President of Pakistan, Zia-ul-Haq, confers Nishan-e-Imtiaz on Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam. 1980 - US's copyright law amended to include computer programs 1981 - "1st" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 37 performances 1981 - Gambia &amp; Senegal sign agreement to be known as Senegambia in Feb 1982 1981 - Wayne Gretzky scores quickest 50th goal (game 39) 1982 - "Herman Van Veen: All of Him" closes at Ambassador NYC after 6 perf 1982 - $9,800,000 in cash stolen from money transport car in NYC 1982 - 57th Australian Womens Tennis: C Evert beats M Navratilova (63 26 63) 1982 - Joanne Carner/John Mahaffey wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic 1983 - A truck bomb explodes at US Embassy in Kuwait 1985 - 248 US soldiers &amp; 8 crew members die in Arrow Air charter crash 1985 - DC-8 crashes near Gander, Newfoundland; 258 die 1985 - NASA launches space vehicle S-207 1986 - David Boon's fourth Test century, 103 v England at Adelaide 1986 - James "Bone Crusher" Smith TKO's WBA champ Tim Witherspoon in Madison Square Garden 1986 - Russian Tupolev-134 crashes in East Berlin, 70 killed 1986 - South African journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu arrested 1987 - Mookie Blaylock sets NBA record of 13 steals in a game 1987 - Okla's sets NCAA record of 33 steals vs Centenary 1987 - Rollermania at Madison Square Garden, Eastern Express beats Midwest Pioneers 1988 - 3 trains collide in London, 40 die 1988 - NYC Subway system adds new stations (Z line) 1988 - PLO leader Yasi Arafat accepts Israel's right to exist 1988 - Sandra Miller of Queens sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment 1990 - US accuses Iraq of dragging its feet on dates for talks 1990 - US ambassador to Kuwait, Nathaniel Howell leaves Kuwait 1991 - Actor Richard Gere marries super model Cindy Crawford 1991 - Maastricht Treaty signed to create a European Community 1991 - NJ Nets set NBA record of 22 blocks beating Nuggets 121-81 1991 - Orion Pictures filed Chapter 11 for bankruptcy protection 1991 - Tampa Bay Bucaneer Dexter Manley, retires after failing drug test 1992 - 58th Heisman Trophy Award: Gino Torretta, Miami-Fla (QB) 1992 - 6.8-7.5 earthquake strikes Flores Island (tsunami kills 3,000) 1992 - Japanese crown prince Naruhito announces engagement to Masaka Owada 1992 - Julia Kurotchkina, 18, of Russia, crowned 42nd Miss World 1992 - NY Giants lose 19-0 to Phoenix Cardinals 1993 - "Any Given Day" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 32 performances 1993 - "Kentucky Cycle" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 34 performances 1993 - WAQX 104.3 (Q-104) rock format replaces WNCN classic format in NYC 1995 - CBC announces Radio Canada International service to end on March 31 1995 - Israeli PM Shimon Peres address both house of US congress 1995 - NBA referees return to work after striking 1995 - Amendment to make it illegal to physically desecrate the flag turned down by senate 63-36 (need 2/3 vote) 1996 - Assassination attempt on Uday (Iraqi's heir to Sadam Hussain) 1996 - Marlins sign their 6th free-agent since Nov 22, Moises Alou 1997 - Carlos the Jackal, "professional revolutionary" goes on trial in Paris 1997 - Florida releases Alex Arias, the last original Marlin 1997 - Japanese train builders (Maglev) claim world speed record at 332 MPH 1997 - Red Sox sign Pedro Martinez to record 6 year $69 million contract 1997 - SWAT team shoots John E Armstrong in Fla, freeing 2 young hostages 1997 - TWA 800 hearings end 1997 - Fed judge sentences Autumn Jackson, who claims to be Bill Cosby's daughter, to 26 months for trying to extort $40 million from him 2000 - The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush Vs Gore 2006 - Peugeot produces its last car at the Ryton Plant signalling the end of mass car production in Coventry, formerly a major centre of the British motor industry. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=975_1355339980 Tama7866 TWELVES (Today in history) What will happen today? today,history,12,twelve,facts,dates Sun, 02 Dec 2012 20:26:56 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9ae_1354497835 JTMusic Houston Texans clinch playoff berth, down Tennesse Titans 24-10 - 12-02-2012 Gary Kubiak can tell his Houston Texans are maturing both as a franchise and as a championship contender with a simple glance around his locker room. This time, they acted like they've been in the playoffs before. Yes, the Texans are excited by clinching a second straight postseason berth and setting a franchise record for wins in a season by beating the Tennessee Titans 24-10 on Sunday. ''We're very happy, I can tell you that,'' Kubiak said. ''But I think they expected to get there, and they got there today. There's a lot more to work on. We've got to continue to push our group.'' Rookie linebacker Whitney Mercilus recovered a fumble and had two sacks as the Texans (11-1) remain tied with Atlanta for the best record in the NFL with their sixth straight win. After needing overtime the past two games, the Texans forced six turnovers they turned into 10 points and had six sacks of Jake Locker when the Texans weren't batting down a handful of other passes. Houston is 6-0 on the road this season, the only unbeaten team away from home. Texans quarterback Matt Schaub, injured when Houston clinched its first postseason berth a year ago against Cincinnati, called this a great feeling. ''It's good to know we're in,'' Schaub said. ''It's a great feeling to know that we've reached that goal, but we've got a lot more to accomplish.'' The Texans also swept Tennessee (4-8), the team they replaced in Houston, for only the second time. Schaub threw for 207 yards and two touchdowns, and Arian Foster ran for a TD. The Titans debuted new offensive coordinator Dowell Loggains, but they didn't help him much as receivers repeatedly dropped balls in losing their second straight. ''To work so hard to turn things around and go out and have a performance like that is very frustrating,'' Titans running back Chris Johnson said. Tennessee scored on a 34-yard pass from Locker to Kenny Britt late in the third quarter to pull within 24-10. The Titans had plenty of chances, including third-and-3 at the Houston 7 early in the fourth quarter before Locker was sacked and fumbled on fourth down. Darryl Sharpton sealed the win with the third interception with 2:05 left. Locker finished with two fumbles and three interceptions. ''I guess that's why we're 4-8,'' Titans coach Mike Munchak said. ''We can't make enough plays to win when we have an opportunity.'' The Texans avoided all the late-game dramatics needed in beating first Jacksonville, then Detroit in overtime in a span of five days. But their injury list grew. Linebackers Bradie James and Brooks Reed, cornerback Johnathan Joseph and right tackle Derek Newton all sat out. Cornerback Brice McCain hurt his foot and couldn't finish. Tight end Garrett Graham also suffered a head injury and couldn't finish. Houston improved on last season's 10 wins with Schaub completing four of his first five passes for 78 yards on the opening drive. Schaub also connected with James Casey on a 5-yard pass for a 14-3 lead in the second quarter. By halftime, Schaub was 15 of 24 for 167 yards with a 110.9 passer rating, and he finished 21 of 35, completing passes to eight teammates, including himself off a batted ball he pulled in for a 6-yard loss. ''Our defense really won the game for us,'' Schaub said. ''They created all those turnovers and stops on fourth down. The game ball goes to the defense because we weren't holding up our end on offense.'' Shaun Cody tipped Locker's pass to Houston linebacker Tim Dobbins, a Nashville native, who ran it 7 yards to the Tennessee 3 before Locker knocked him up into the air. Arian Foster scored on a 2-yard TD run two plays later for a 21-3 lead midway through the second quarter. Shayne Graham added a 50-yard field goal in the third quarter after Mercilus recovered Locker's fumble forced by Antonio Smith. That was all Houston needed with the defense disrupting Tennessee repeatedly, even though the Titans wound up with a 354-332 edge in total offense with two offensive linemen knocked out of the game with injuries. Texans defensive end J.J. Watt had another sack, giving him 15 1-2, adding to his franchise record for a season and joining Reggie White as the only NFL players with at least 15 sacks and 13 passes defensed in a season. Watt batted down a couple of passes, giving him 15 for the season. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9ae_1354497835 JTMusic Texans win spot in 2012 Playoffs 24-10 Titans, Kids take it to school Texans win spot in 2012 Playoffs 24-10 Titans, Kids take it to school Thu, 08 Nov 2012 15:43:07 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=580_1352407281 dcmfox By MARC CAPUTO - Miami Herald Though votes are still being tallied, President Obama is all but assured a victory in Florida because the lion's share of the outstanding ballots come from Democratic-heavy counties.Obama leads Republican Mitt Romney by 55,825 votes - or 49.9 percent to 49.24 - but there just aren't enough votes from Republican areas to allow the challenger to catch up.Romney's Florida campaign has acknowledged their candidate lost in Florida as well. Romney already conceded the national race after he lost the other battleground states."The numbers in Florida show this was winnable," Brett Doster, Florida advisor for Romney, said in a statement. "We thought based on our polling and range of organization that we had done what we needed to win. Obviously, we didn't, and for that I and every other operative in Florida has a sick feeling that we left something on the table. I can assure you this won't happen again."With Florida's 29 Electoral College votes, Obama will have 332 votes to Romney's 206. "We feel we will be the official winner in Florida later today," Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said. Preliminary results are due into from the counties to the state by noon Saturday. The final results are to be certified Nov. 20.The numbers in Florida look unlikely to change in Romney's favor. Consider: o Miami-Dade County. It appears to have the most outstanding ballots, 54,000. They're being tallied Thursday. Obama won Miami-Dade 62-38 percent. If those numbers hold, it would give Obama a 12,800-vote lead.o Broward County. It has about 15,000 absentee ballots outstanding. Obama won Broward 67-48 percent. If those numbers hold, it would give Obama 2,887 more votes.o Palm Beach County. It could have as many as 30,000 votes yet to add to its tally. Obama won that county 58-41 percent. If those numbers hold, Obama would pick up another 5,141 votes.o Duval County. The only non-South Florida County, Duval has about 3,600 absentee ballots to be counted. Romney won it narrowly, 51-48 percent. At that rate, Romney would only pick up 133 more votes.Even if the margins in South Florida were reversed and Obama's projected margins handed to Romney, the Republican would still lose by about 35,000 votes.A wild card: Provisional ballots. These are cast by voters whose status is in doubt. Often they're rejected, in part because people vote in the wrong precinct. Most studies show, however, that provisional ballots are more likely to be cast by Democrats than Republicans Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/2012/11/08/4271001/romney-campaign-we-lost- florida.html#storylink=cpy http://www.bradenton.com/2012/11/08/4271001/romney-campaign-we-lost-florida.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=580_1352407281 dcmfox Romney campaign: We lost Florida Romney, campaign, We, lost, Florida