For five years, the young Special Forces officer spent most of his time in a cage and wasn’t allowed more than 40 yards from it. Limited to two cans of rice per day, Rowe and fellow prisoners would capture snakes and rats whenever they could. Rowe also tried to escape three times.
Angry at his deceit and the training he had provided South Vietnamese soldiers, the North Vietnamese sentenced Rowe to death. A Viet Cong patrol took Rowe into the jungle for the execution.
As they were heading to the execution point though, Rowe heard a flight of helicopters. He shoved a guard to the ground and sprinted into a nearby clearing, waving his arms to get the pilots’ attention.
They were American helicopters, but the first pilot to spot Rowe saw his black pajamas and nearly fired on him. Then he noticed Rowe’s beard that had grown out during his captivity. After realizing that Vietnamese men were incapable of growing a thick beard, the helicopter scooped Rowe up and carried him to safety.
Rowe returned to the states as a major. He left the military for a short period before returning in 1981 as a lieutenant colonel stationed at Fort Bragg. There, he developed the Army’s Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape Course using the lessons he learned in captivity.
Rowe later deployed to the Philippines as the ground forces director for the Joint U.S. Military Advisory group for the Philippines where he provided counterinsurgency training for Philippine forces.
Hollywood does its best to try and capture the essence of what it means to be in the military and transcribes it for a civilian audience in ninety-minute chunks. Sometimes, they fall flat on their face. But, on occasion, there are outstanding moments when they knock it out of the park.
Most big-budget military films often put the focus on the Army or the Marines, leaving the Navy on the sidelines. When sailors do get an opportunity to shine on the silver screen, the glory often goes to the SEALs — or it’s Top Gun. But everyone’s already seen Top Gun and most sailors would roll their eyes if we mentioned it in this list.
In no particular order, here are six awesome films about sailors that you should put on your must-watch list:
As was the case with many of the great war films set in the 1990s after the collapse of Soviet Union, Crimson Tide showcases the “what-if” of the Russian Federation squaring off against the United States in another Bay of Pigs incident.
Denzel Washington stars as the mild-tempered XO to Gene Hackman’s temperamental Captain. The two are at odds with one another on how to prevent World War Three. Fun Fact: Though uncredited, Quentin Tarantino wrote much of the pop-culturey dialogue.
Annapolis is an indie drama that follows Jake Huard (played by James Franco) as he attends the Naval Academy. It’s the story of a poor nobody trying to make it as one of the elite. It kind of toes the line between being a Marine film and a Navy film because it’s never made clear which route he’ll take, but it’s still steeped in Navy traditions.
It tanked at the box office, but eventually found its footing with a home release. The fact that it shows pledges getting hazed upset the Department of the Navy so bad that they called for its boycott. It’s still a great film, in my opinion.
This 1945 musical came out right before the Japanese signed the surrender and put an end to the Second World War. The film follows Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra as two sailors on liberty in golden-age Hollywood. In this musical comedy, the sailors come across a lost, innocent kid who wants to one day join the Navy himself. Then, the sailors proceed to hit on his aunt.
It’s nice to see that nothing’s changed in the way sailors think since then.
‘Master and Commander’
Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this film is heavily focused on what it means to complete the mission and the importance of safeguarding the welfare of the troops underneath. Russell Crowe’s crew aboard the HMS Surprise are locked in seemingly eternal combat with French privateers.
It was nominated for ten Academy Awards the year it came out, including Best Picture and Best Director, but would lose all but two (Cinematography and Sound Editing) to The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
Still one of the best military comedies is Down Periscope. It stars Kelsey Grammer, who plays one of the worst commanders in the Navy and who’s given an even worse crew of submariners who all manage to fail upwards.
It’s packed full of 90s comedians in their prime. It also stars William H. Macy, Rob Schneider, and even a young Patton Oswald.
‘The Hunt for Red October’
What else can be said about The Hunt for Red October? It’s a cinematic masterpiece. If you haven’t seen this one yet, you should honestly clear your evening schedule and watch it today.
Set during the conclusion of the Cold War, Sean Connery plays a Soviet submarine captain and Alec Baldwin is a CIA analyst. Both struggle to find peace while their respective forces do everything in their powers to avoid it. Technically, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, The Sum of All Fears, and Shadow Recruit are all sequels to this masterpiece, but none come close.
If you can think of any that we missed (and there are a lot), feel free to let us know! We’d love to hear it.
Recently, Russia released new video of the KH-35U “switchblade” anti-ship cruise missile in action, a weapon that can be fired from surface ships or aircraft and flies extremely quickly towards target ships, which are then destroyed in a massive explosion.
The video shows a Su-34 being prepared for takeoff, then jumps to ships being struck by a missile before cutting again to a Su-34 landing. The KH-35U carries an over-1,000-pound warhead and is reportedly capable of destroying vessels of up to 5,000 tons.
The Russians test fired eight missiles during the exercise, according to the Russian Defence Ministry, and all eight hit their targets.
The missile video is impressive and fun to watch, but it’s left many U.S. observers worrying. Russia claims the weapon is impossible to stop and that it renders all current ship defenses powerless.
Both the Su-57 and the T-14 were impressive programs on paper that slowly wilted in the bright light of day. Now, there are few orders for either platform, even from within Russia, as the capabilities ended up being low and the costs high.
(Alex Beltyukov and Vitaly V. Kuzmin, CC BY-SA)
But these are Russian defense claims about a Russian weapon, so it’s prudent to take them with a grain of salt. After all, the T-14 Armata and PAK FA (which became the Su-57) programs haven’t lived up to the hype.
But the KH-35U is a fielded weapon. The first KH-35 came out in the 1980s, and the U variant has been in the field for years. It flies close to the water, can be fired from aircraft ranging from helicopters to jets, and can be carried by surface ships. If Russia’s claims are accurate, it can eliminate destroyers and littoral combat ships with just one shot. Carriers would likely be crippled or destroyed with a shot, but certainly couldn’t withstand sustained bombardment.
A ship is destroyed by a KH-35U anti-ship cruise missile during a Russian test.
So, should America be shaking in its boots? Well, the target ship in the Russian video is a stationary, civilian vessel, and hitting that with a missile is a far cry from getting a cruise missile into the hull of an American carrier sailing at a decent clip with its Phalanx close-in weapon systems firing off rounds.
Meanwhile, the F-35C will have a range about 10 percent greater before aerial refueling. So, aircraft carriers will have plenty of breathing room as long as they keep the radars and patrols up.
But some task forces have little-to-no jet support, and a Su-34 or a similar aircraft could get within range and release the missile. And what’s worse is that the Russians may have already sold the missile to at least one other country. North Korea’s Kumsong-3 anti-ship cruise missile bears a striking resemblance to the KH-35U, meaning that a rogue state may be able to strike American ships from 500 miles away.
Though, again, we should avoid getting too far into speculation without our grains of salt. After all, the Russian military has a history of stripping down the export versions of their weapons, just like the U.S. And, ownership of a missile doesn’t mean you have the expertise and tactical excellence to properly employ it.
More than one senior military leader has said the services are facing a “war for talent,” as a stronger economy and two decades of war, among other factors, make military service less appealing to young Americans.
The Army, striving to reach 500,000 active-duty soldiers by the end of this decade, has rolled out an esports team to attract recruits. The Air Force, facing a protracted pilot shortage, capitalized on the recent blockbuster “Captain Marvel” with a recruiting drive.
“What we have to think about — and we’re sort of a platform-centric service, both us and the Marine Corps — is how do we reduce the number of people we have and that distributed maritime force that we have? How do we get lethality out there without having to have 300 people on a ship to deliver it?” Navy Secretary Thomas Modly said Friday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in response to a question about personnel costs, which rise faster than inflation.
“It also requires, I think, an increase in the level of capability and skill that we have in the force, and that’s why we’re investing so much in education, because you’re going to ask these people to do a lot more and to be a lot more adaptable in the jobs that … we’re asking them to do,” Modly said.
That thinking was “sort of the philosophy” behind the Navy’s future guided-missile frigate, Modly added.
Frigates do many of the same missions as destroyers and cruisers but are smaller and less equipped and therefore generally do those missions in lower-threat areas.
The Navy wants the new frigate to be able to operate in open-ocean and near-shore environments and to conduct air, anti-submarine, surface, and electronic warfare and information operations.
“That’s going to be a fairly lightly-manned ship with a lot of capability on it,” Modly said.
“I had a great example of a ship, and I won’t mention which manufacturer it was, but I went into the ship and they showed me a stateroom with four bunks and its own shower and bathroom facility,” Modly said.
He continued: “I was in the Navy back in the Cold War, and I said, ‘Wow, this is a really nice stateroom for officers.’ They said, ‘No, this where our enlisted people live.’ And I said, ‘Well, why did you design the ship like that?’ And they said, ‘We designed the ship like this for the type of people we want to recruit to man it.'”
“That’s really what we have to think about,” Modly added. “They’re going to be more lightly manned but with probably more highly-skilled people who have lots of opportunities to do things in other places, so we have to be able to attract those people. That is a big, big part of our challenge.”
The Navy’s most recent frigates were the Oliver Hazard Perry class, or FFG-7 — 51 of which entered service between 1977 and 1989 and were decommissioned between 1994 and 2015.
While the design for the future frigate, designated FFG(X), has not yet been selected, the Navy plans to award the design and construction contract in July, according to budget documents released this month.
The Navy is only considering designs already in use, and the firms in the running are Fincantieri with its FREMM frigate design, General Dynamics Bath Iron Works and Navantia with the latter’s F-100 variant, Austal USA with a frigate version of its Independence-class littoral combat ship, and Huntington Ingalls with what many believe may be a variation of the National Security Cutter it’s building for the Coast Guard, according to Defense News.
The Navy plans for design and construction of the first ship to take until 2026 but expects construction to increase rapidly thereafter, with the 10th arriving by 2030, eventually producing 20 of the new frigates.
Without an exact design, cost is hard to estimate, but the Navy wants to keep the price below a billion dollars per ship for the second through 20th ships and hit a total program cost of .81 billion.
The Navy also wants to use dual-crewing to maximize the time its future frigates spend at sea.
Switching between a “blue crew” and a “gold crew” extends the amount of time the ship can operate — allowing frigates to take on missions that larger combatants, like destroyers, have been saddled with — without increasing the burden on the crew and their families; it’s already in use on ballistic-missile submarines and littoral combat ships.
Dual-crewing “should double” the new frigate’s operational availability, Vice Adm. Ronald Boxall, then the surface-warfare director for the chief of naval operations, told Defense News at the end of 2018.
In the blue-gold crew model, the crew of the ship would still be working to improve their skills in what Boxall described as “higher-fidelity training environments.”
“In an increasingly complex environment, it’s just intuitive that you have to have time to train,” Boxall told Defense News. “We think Blue-Gold makes sense for those reasons on the frigate.”
The U.S. Air Force announced plans to ramp up its pilot training to produce 1,500 pilots a year by fiscal 2022. Now, Air Education and Training Command (AETC) has divulged preliminary blueprints on how it anticipates accomplishing the task.
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said before a Senate Armed Services readiness and management support subcommittee hearing Oct. 10, 2018, that the service will increase its current 1,160 pilot training slots to 1,311 in fiscal 2019, aiming for 1,500 every year shortly thereafter.
“AETC has been tasked to produce about 1,500 pilots per year … That number includes active-duty Air Force, Air Force Reserves, Air National Guard and international students,” command spokeswoman Marilyn Holliday told Military.com this in October 2018.
While the undertaking is in its initial stages, the command will use programs such as the experimental Pilot Training Next — paired with Pilot Instructor Training Next — to improve how teachers and incoming students work together.
U.S. Air Force Second Lt. Brett Bultsma, Pilot Training Next student, and Capt. Jeffery Kelley, PTN instructor pilot, prepare for a training flight aboard a T-6 Texan at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Austin.
(U.S. Air Force photo by Sean M. Worrell)
AETC is also updating its Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT) curriculum to streamline how quickly the Air Force can produce new pilots, Holliday said.
“The final touches to the new Undergraduate Pilot Training syllabi were adjudicated and are now in the initial stages of execution,” she said.
Revising pilot training
The curriculum’s redesign gives squadron commanders the ability to refine training to better meet the needs of individual students, AETC said in a recent release.
Previously, students went back and forth between simulators and the flight line. The new syllabus moves “11 simulators that had been previously spread out over a three- to four-month time frame, into a single block of training prior to the first flight in the aircraft,” Holliday said.
It’s also a blended learning model, she said, that incorporates several best practices from “advanced military flight training and civilian flight training.”
Students will cut their training time from 54 to 49 weeks once the changes are fully implemented.
“We are still in the early phase of executing the syllabus redesign, but initial performance from students indicates increased pilot performance,” Holliday said.
Students will advance at their own pace. Previously, they had to wait until the entire class completed stages or assignments before moving on to the next. AETC will now allow for individual students to complete courses faster or slower as needed, officials said.
Holliday said this will not alter the official course length, but the time a given student spends in the course could change. The first UPT students to use the adjusted curriculum will graduate in spring 2019, she said.
Pilot Training Next
Thirteen students graduated from the first, experimental Pilot Training Next (PTN) class in August 2018 after six months of learning to fly in virtual-reality simulators. The program ran 24 weeks and “included 184 academic hours, with approximately 70 to 80 flight hours in the T-6 Texan II, as well as approximately 80 to 90 hours of formal flight training in the simulator,” Holliday said. Students also trained on their own time in the simulators.
“We want to learn as fast as possible,” said 2nd Lt. Christofer Ahn, a student pilot, in an interview before graduating. “Being able to use the simulators is a huge step in allowing us to accelerate through our training.”
U.S. Air Force students and instructor pilots from the Pilot Training Next program fly a T-6 Texan during a training flight at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.
(U.S. Air Force photo by Sean M. Worrell)
The service recently announced there will be a second class to test Pilot Training Next before the results are briefed to Wilson and Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein, who will decide whether the program will be incorporated into formal pilot training. The second class will begin training in January 2019.
Holliday said that lessons learned from PTN have already been incorporated into traditional Undergraduate Pilot Training, as well as Pilot Instructor Training.
Instructors are also refining the ways they connect with students through innovation and simulation training. With a program called Pilot Instructor Next, they are looking for ways to develop what AETC calls the “Mach-21” airman, or the next generation of 21st century pilots.
Lt. Gen. Steven Kwast, the AETC commander, coined the term to describe what the Air Force wants in its new pilots.
“A Mach-21 Air Force essentially is comprised of airmen who learn faster, adapt faster and strategically out-think the enemy, because they are moving at Mach-21 speed,” he said.
To produce such high-quality and sought-after pilots, instructors need to up their game.
“Through Pilot Instructor Training Next, AETC flying squadrons have been equipped with virtual-reality simulators and 360-degree video headsets to integrate into syllabi,” Holliday said. “Since implemented, there have been measurable benefits from the addition of technology, and 10 instructor pilots are slated to graduate from the PIT Next program each month.”
U.S. Air Force Second Lt. Brett Bultsma, Pilot Training Next student, and Capt. Jeffery Kelley, Pilot Training Next instructor pilot, prepare for a training flight aboard a T-6 Texan at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.
(U.S. Air Force photo by Sean M. Worrell)
Its biggest advantage, AETC says, is the ability to test students in high-stress environments in the safe space of a simulator.
“Virtually, instructors can put students in any situation to determine if they would recognize the danger and whether or not they take the right course of action,” Holliday said. “Students also have the opportunity to take home mobile-video headsets, which connect to the pilot’s smartphone and allow for on-command and on-demand training, which has also been helpful.”
She added, “Incorporating this level of technology and deep-repetition learning allows these students to see the flight environment so many more times than they would have in the past.”
Aircrew Crisis Task Force
AETC is also coordinating with the Aircrew Crisis Task Force — set up in 2016 by the Pentagon — building on its “holistic plan to ensure the Air Force’s pilot requirements are met through retention of currently trained pilots as well as through the production pipeline.”
At the Oct. 10, 2018 hearing, Wilson said the Air Force is placing an emphasis on addressing the national aircrew shortage by focusing on pilot quality of service and quality-of-life issues.
The task force has looked at ways of giving fighter pilots and aircrew the ability to stay in rotations longer at select commands and bases in an effort to create stability for airmen affected by the service’s growing pilot shortage.
“We continue to work with the Aircrew Crisis Task Force to ensure our pilot production planning encompasses an airman from commissioning through training and then to their operational flying units,” Holliday said.
This article originally appeared on Military.com. Follow @militarydotcom on Twitter.
3. The Marine Corps emblem — the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor — is one of the most recognizable symbols in the world. You could be wearing one now if you would’ve joined.
4. They have the toughest boot camp in the military. So just graduating says a lot about an individual.
5. Some of the most successful actors served in the Marine Corps. Drew Carey, Gene Hackman, and WATM’s good friend Rob Riggle just to name a few.
6. You could have been a part of some major military moments in history. Marines have fought in every American conflict since they were created in 1775.
7. Since all Marines are considered riflemen, you’ll learn to eat concertina wire, piss napalm, and put a round through a flea’s ass at 200 meters.
8. Anyone can claim the title of a sailor if you have been on a boat. Anyone call themselves a soldier if they listen to a lot of rap music. Lastly, anyone can call themselves an airman if you’ve flown once or twice. But the title of a Marine is never just handed out — it’s earned.
9. When there’s a significant conflict poppin’ off anywhere around the world, America sends in the Marines first. It’s best fighting force when you need to settle things down.
While the United States was celebrating its 100th birthday on July 4, 1976, four Israeli C-130 cargo planes landed at Entebbe Airport in Uganda, cargo bay doors already open. A black Mercedes and a parade of Land Rovers screamed out of two of the planes, headed for the old passenger terminal. Armored personnel carriers exited the other three.
There were 106 mostly Israeli hostages being held by pro-Palestinian hijackers and supported by the Ugandan army under dictator Idi Amin being held here. The hostages were coming home.
The raid on Entebbe airport was one of the most daring hostage rescues of all time. The Israelis flew in some seven planes under the radars of many hostile countries, landing at an enemy airport, pretending to be the caravan of a brutal dictator, and risking an all-out war to save Israeli citizens, losing only three and only one of the Israel Defence Forces commandos. The Israelis even destroyed 11 Ugandan fighter aircraft on the ground in retaliation. In three years, Amin would be deposed.
Airplane hijackings dropped dramatically after this incident and a number of Western countries vowed never to negotiate with terrorists, especially the United States. The U.S. does not negotiate with terrorists as a matter of policy.
In the years following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, more than 1,200 Westerners from some 32 or more countries have been captured by terrorists and held hostage by militant groups and pirates, demanding ransom or some other concession. Americans made up 20 percent of those hostages taken since 2001 and half of those were killed by their captors. The reason for this is the policy of not giving concessions to terrorists or anyone else who might take citizens hostage.
The United States believes giving in to terrorist or other militants’ demands for ransom or some other concession would just make Americans a more tempting target for those who would take hostages, allowing terrorists to perpetually self-finance through hostage-taking. As it is, Americans are twice as likely to die in captivity by their captors while countries who pay ransoms – Germany, Spain, France, Austria, and Switzerland – are more likely to have hostages released.
But citizens of those countries are not taken hostage in disproportionate numbers because taking hostages is risky and not as profitable as other ventures for terrorist groups, such a narcotics, black market oil and arms sales, and human trafficking. Civilians more likely to be kidnapped are those who are already in unstable areas. Three-quarters of Westerners taken by al-Qaeda and ISIS were freed. Only two of those were Americans.
Since a new hostage policy was announced in 2015, where the U.S. coordinates agencies to secure the release of hostages, six have been released, and none died in captivity. The only hitch is that none were held by foreign jihadist groups.
It should be noted that the Carter Administration held negotiations with Iran for the hostages taken at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran during the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Not one of the hostages were killed, and they were released on the last day of the Carter Presidency – all without firing a shot.
While most of the things COVID-19 has brought us have been horrible, contagious, disappointing, frustrating, no good and almost overwhelmingly sad (just me? No?), one of the many silver linings has been the accessibility of entertainment. Movies like Trolls released straight to television, Ryan Seacrest hosted a family Disney sing-a-long (can you tell I have young children at home?) and museums and theaters all over the world are opening their doors for virtual shows, tours and the like.
And now (well, Sunday, April 19), you can watch one of our favorite Bond movies, GoldenEye, with none other than Bond. James Bond. (Fine, Pierce Brosnan, the fourth actor to star as 007).
Whether or not he’s your favorite Bond, you can’t say no to that face.
Put on by Esquire UK, the GoldenEye watchalong will stream live on their Facebook, Twitter and YouTube feeds this Sunday 19th April at 7pm BST (2pm ET for American viewers.) According to Esquire UK:
The 66-year-old screen icon will be taking us all behind the scenes of the spy epic, discussing his time in the tuxedo and how it felt to take up the mantle, as well as interacting with his legions of fans – which, of course, is where you come in. We need you to supply us with all the unanswered questions that have been burning away inside your brain for 25 years. Send them over to us via our Instagram, Facebook and Twitter pages now for a chance to get them answered by the main man himself.
The idea is simple: press play on GoldenEye (rental options are listed below) at the same moment as Pierce, and listen along to his play-by-play analysis and commentary in real-time.
The beginning of World War II started with a brutal Nazi war crime.
On Sep. 1, 1939, German soldiers began their invasion of Poland, triggering the outbreak of World War II. The shelling of a Polish garrison at Westerplatte is commonly believed to be the first shot fired in the war, but the beginning actually happened five minutes prior, according to Deutsche Welle.
At 4:40 a.m., the town of Wieluń was bombed by the Luftwaffe as most of its 16,000 residents slept. There were no anti-aircraft, military, or economic targets of any importance, in the sleepy town just 13 miles from the German border. The target of the bombing was civilians.
Overall, 380 bombs fell on Wieluń, weighing a total of 46 tons. The first ones hit the All-Saints Hospital. 32 people died there – patients and staff. These were the first victims of the German air raids during World War II. The next target was the oldest parish church in Wieluń, St. Michael the Archangel, built in the beginning of the 14th Century. The Piarist building was the only surviving structure on the old square.
In total, as a result of the attack on Wieluń by the German air force, which lasted until 2pm, over 1200 people died. Certain sources note as many as 2,000 victims. Bombs dropped by the Stukas (Junkers Ju 87) destroyed 75% of the city. 90% of the city center was destroyed.
The people of Wieluń were the first to experience the German tactic of “blitzkrieg” (lightning) war, which was later used during the invasions of Belgium, North Africa, the Netherlands, and France. Just minutes after the bombing of the town began, the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein began its bombardment of Westerplatte.
Two days later, Britain and France declared war on Germany, and the conflict lasted for six years at the cost of millions of lives. When it was all over in 1945, it ended with the surrender of the Nazis, and the exposure of the most shocking and brutal war crime the world had ever seen.
Two letters sent to the Pentagon, including one addressed to Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, have tested positive for ricin, a defense official told VOA on Oct. 2, 2018.
The envelopes containing a suspicious substance were taken by the FBI on Oct. 2, 2018, for further testing, according to Pentagon spokesman Army Colonel Rob Manning.
The two letters arrived at an off-site Pentagon mail distribution center on Oct. 1, 2018. One was addressed to Mattis, the other was addressed to Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral John Richardson, an official told VOA on condition of anonymity.
The Pentagon, headquarters of the US Department of Defense.
The Pentagon Force Protection Agency detected the substance during mail screening, so the letters never entered the Pentagon building, officials said.
“All USPS (United States Postal Service) mail received at the Pentagon mail screening facility [Oct. 1, 2018] is currently under quarantine and poses no threat to Pentagon personnel,” according to Manning.
Ricin is a highly toxic poison found in castor beans.
Isikoff, citing three “sources familiar with informal discussions of Snowden’s case,” writes that the chief counsel to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Robert Litt, “recently privately floated the idea that the government might be open to” the former NSA contractor returning to the US, pleading guilty to one felony count, and receiving a prison sentence of three to five years “in exchange for full cooperation with the government.”
Snowden, who has lived in Russia since June 23, 2013, is charged with three felonies: Theft of government property, unauthorized communication of national defense information, and willful communication of classified communications intelligence information to an unauthorized person.
ACLU lawyer Ben Wizner, one of Snowden’s legal advisers, told Yahoo that any deal involving a felony sentence and prison time would be rejected.
“Our position is he should not be reporting to prison as a felon and losing his civil rights as a result of his act of conscience,” Wizner said.
Snowden, 32, allegedly stole up to 1.77 million NSA documents while working at two consecutive jobs for US government contractors in Hawaii between March 2012 and May 2013.
The US government believes Snowden gave about 200,000 “tier 1 and 2” documents detailing the NSA’s global surveillance apparatus to American journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras in early June 2013. Reports based on the disclosures have swayed courts in the US and influenced public opinion around the world.
Snowden also provided an unknown number of documents to the South China Morning Post, adding that he possessed more.
“If I have time to go through this information, I would like to make it available to journalists in each country to make their own assessment, independent of my bias, as to whether or not the knowledge of US network operations against their people should be published,” Snowden told Lana Lam of SCMP on June 12, 2013, 11 days before flying to Moscow.
Snowden reportedly told James Risen of The New York Times over encrypted chat in October 2013 that the former CIA technician “gave all of the classified documents he had obtained to journalists he met in Hong Kong.” (Wizner subsequently told Business Insider that the report was inaccurate.)
Snowden would later tell NBC that he “destroyed” all documents in his possession before he spoke with the Russians in Hong Kong.
“The best way to make sure that for example the Russians can’t break my fingers and — and compromise information or — or hit me with a bag of money until I give them something was not to have it at all,” he told Brian Williams of NBC in Moscow in May 2014. “And the way to do that was by destroying the material that I was holding before I transited through Russia.”
In any case, some current and former officials are considering ways to bring the American home.
“I think there could be a basis for a resolution that everybody could ultimately be satisfied with,” Former Attorney General Eric Holder told Yahoo. “I think the possibility exists.”
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has bought his way in to talks with China’s President Xi Jinping, South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in, and US President Donald Trump with a commitment to denuclearize his country — but doing so could open up the world to the tremendous risk of loose nukes and loose nuclear scientists.
Though Kim has repeatedly vowed to rid his country of nuclear weapons, the promises remain totally one-sided as no one knows how many, or where, North Korea’s nuclear arsenal is.
But to do that, Kim would have to provide a list of nuclear sites to the inspectors. It will be a major challenge for the outside world to take his word for it when he announces the sites, or to scour the country for additional sites.
As a result of North Korea’s secretiveness, it may have unaccounted for nuclear weapons floating around even after work towards denuclearization begins.
(Photo by Clay Gilliland)
Furthermore, former US Senators Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar, who served a pivotal role in securing the loose nuclear weapons after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, write in the Washington Post that “thousands of North Korean scientists and engineers” are “now employed in making weapons of mass destruction.”
If North Korea’s weapons program ends, the scientists with highly sought-after skills would “risk of proliferation of their deadly knowledge to other states or terrorists,” according to the senators.
North Korea already stands accused of helping Syria develop a chemical weapons program and conducting spy work around the world to improve their knowledge at home.
But the senators say the problem can be managed, as it was in the 1990s. Looking to the success of the post Cold War-era, when the world dismantled 90% of its nuclear weapons, Nunn and Lugar maintain that safe denuclearization can be achieved with proper planning.
Where nuclear missile silos once stood in Ukraine, US officials visited and — together with Russians — destroyed the facilities. Today, on those same fields, crops grow.
This article originally appeared on Business Insider. Follow @BusinessInsider on Twitter.


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M.Y. Caesar Company, the producers of Dr Caesar Lina Energy Tea” has presented 50packs of its products to the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Dr. Usamanu Nuhu Sharabutu, to support this year’s Ramadan.
Presenting the items at the office of the National Chief Imam in Accra, Mr. Emmanuel Nansen Chayo, the Marketing Manager urged muslims to drink Lina Energy Tea to boost their immune systems.
He mentioned the donation was to enable them build their immune systems during the period of Ramadan.
Receiving the items, the National Chief Imam, Sheik Usman Sharubutu, lauded M.Y. Caesar Company for the gesture and prayed for the success of the company.
Sheik Sharubutu reminded Muslims of the importance of kindness through charity and the significance of Ramadan, which is one of the five pillars of Islam.
He also urged all Muslims to observe and maintain peace throughout the Ramadan period.

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Charlotte based her Textile Art piece on the imaginative story called ‘The Rainbow Fish’, illustrated by the artist Yellena James.
The objective of this Textile Arts piece is to be aesthetically pleasing whilst exploring the theme of the book. Charlotte expressed her creativity through the colours, fabrics and textures used in the work.
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At 12:30, we drove over to Neptune Beach and met our instructor Andrew. He was awesome. A relaxed, easy to talk to guy who gave us great tips and personal instruction. PJ and I both did really well and had a fun afternoon paddling up the coast. We ended up quite a way down the beach to the north and stroked our way back to our spot. I caught a couple of small shore break waves that deposited me on my back in about a foot of water. We learned a lot and are excited about getting a board. Thanks Andrew, sorry we forgot to get a group photo at the end.
On the way home, we stopped at Sub-cultured and got sandwiches and took them to the beach at Hanna. We sat in our chairs and ate them under the watchful eyes of some antsy looking seagulls. We were comfortably tired from our afternoon of paddling so we headed home and took Cali for a walk by the lake. We ended up our day with a nice fire and a bit of guitar playing at camp. Being Friday evening, all of the weekend warriors were showing up and getting their rigs set up. Lots of extra activity and sounds into the night.

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CONWAY, Ark. (UCA) -- The University of Central Arkansas Bears hit their first two home runs of the season and romped past Mississipp Valley State 19-3 on Tuesday afternoon at Bear Stadium.
Senior right fielder Forrestt Allday, this week's Southland Conference Hitter of the Week, hit a three-run blast to left center in the seventh inning. Junior first baseman Doug Votolato had another three-run shot to right field in the third inning as UCA tallied 11 hits off four Delta Devil pitchers.
Allday finished 3 for 5 with 4 RBI and 2 runs scored and made a spectacular diving catch in right field. Votolato was 1 for 3 with 3 RBI and 2 runs scored. UCA starter Ethan McKinzie went six innings, allowing 5 hits and no earned runs for his first victory of the season.
UCA (7-1), which is a perfect 7-0 at home this season, fell behind 1-0 in the second inning but quickly overcame that deficit with three runs in the bottom of the inning. Nick Rougeau had a sacrifice fly, Logan Moon scored on a balk and Allday had an RBI single.
Votolato made the lead 6-1 with one swing of the bat in the third inning before UCA got one more run in the fourth when Blake Marchal scored on a double-play groundout was a leadoff walk. MVSU got another unearned run in the sixth but UCA answered with two of its own in the bottom of the inning. Michael Marietta's sacrifice fly scored Allday and Marchal came in on a wild pitch for a 9-2 lead.
After Allday's home run in the seventh made it 12-2, the Bears explode for seven more runs in the eighth inning. Tyler Langley, Rougeau, Garrett Bock, Chris Townsend, Jonathan Davis and Sam Moon contributed RBI in the frame.
Seth Milliorn and Trey Lacy had two hits each for MVSU (1-8).
The Bears and Delta Devils will play again at 1 p.m. Wednesday.


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Title: Detective Comics #958
Publisher: DC Comics
Writer: James Tynion IV
Artist: Alvaro Martinez
Inker: Raul Fernandez
Colours: Brad Anderson
Release Date: 28th June 2017
If there is something the creative team on Detective Comics do incredibly well, it’s re-establishing lore. Last issue we had a flashback into Bruce’s life and his relationship with Zatanna, and we also got to bear witness to Azreal’s replacement Ascalon. The fight continues this issue as Bruce seeks Zatanna’s aid in locating a lost ally whilst fighting off the order of St Dumas’ latest assassin.
It should come as no surprise to anyone following this series that this issue, like those before it, is heavy on lore building and character development. We spend time with young Bruce once again, but we also get to spend some quality time with Azreal both on and off the battlefield. James Tynion would appear to have a bottomless supply of backstory to show us aspects of our cast we have not yet seen. His genius this issue can be seen in his reworking of the St Dumas order and, of course, its brand new representative Ascalon. There is something very dangerous about a villain who can out manoeuvre Jean-Paul Valley and take on the entire Bat family single handed.
Alvaro Martinez is on pencils this month and each panel is illustrated with a keen understanding of the characters and how they should carry themselves. The action sequences are spectacular as we watch Ascalon dance around his opponents, matched only in ferocity by Azreal and Batman himself. The level of detail on display is breathtaking and regardless of the page is likely to impress even the most critical eye.
Brad Anderson brings his ‘A-game’ with his colours this issue, turning a gorgeously drawn book into visual masterpiece. From the very beginning Zatanna steals the show with her magics on display and it’s Anderson’s ability to give them an almost tangible energy that lights up every panel she appears in. Ascalon’s neon red markings on his mask make him a visually intimidating foe, really hammering home the danger he represents. Batwing is suitably impressive too, thanks to glowing white eyes and Bat symbol imbued with the very colour of electricity (I swear I could hear it hum as I scrolled through the pages).
It is very easy to be excited by this issue and the threat a newly determined order of St Dumas represents. Since becoming an ally to the bat we ironically lost one of his greatest foes but in bringing this new, sleek, dangerous personage into the tale we have a reason to feel on edge once more. As with previous issues the digging into the past and present of our heroes is an absolute joy and brings us closer to them in a way that only this team have been able to do.
Another well-crafted issue with visuals that match the compelling narrative and exploit the cast of characters we have come to love. Ideally you would want to have at least read the issue prior to this one but it is not an impossible task to grasp what is happening so new readers should consider it viable.
The series remains a favourite of mine as it continues to expand upon exactly what it means to work with Batman and the repercussions that frequently follow. This book continues to be at the top of my reading pile on comic book day, and honestly deserves a higher score than I have available to me.
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Popular community site craigslist is getting just a bit more commercial.
The Web site operator, which has a cult following of users who tap its regional sites for everything from jobs to dates, has begun to charge a $25 fee to post employment advertisements on its New York and Los Angeles sites. Such postings had been free, and the move represents the first new revenue stream for the company since it began charging for job postings on its San Francisco-area site six years ago.
The company says the new fees are necessary to cover its costs as it continues to expand. Craigslist (www.craigslist.org) began in 1995 as a way to help San Franciscans find "everyday stuff" and cool local events, and now includes nearly 50 sites covering different regions of the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom.
The closely held company plans to expand to more cities, and will offer new services such as foreign-language sites in the next year, starting with Spanish. Such expansion requires hiring new staff, said Jim Buckmaster, the company's chief executive.
"Raising revenue improves the quality of the service we are providing and … it provides the revenue the company needs to ensure we are in a position to offer the public service that we do as broadly and widely as people need it," said Mr. Buckmaster. He said charging for ads will limit the job postings to those from legitimate employers.
According to Mr. Buckmaster, it has been clear to craigslist for a while that New York and Los Angeles made sense as markets that could generate revenue for job postings, and the company had been waiting for the economy to improve before taking action.
While craigslist gets more than 100,000 total new job listings each month across all its site, New York accounts for about 30,000 of them, and Los Angeles for about 25,000.
The company said it was becoming increasingly harder to monitor the surging number of job posts in those markets without hiring more people.
Still, craigslist has always tried to operate more like a community than a business (it has both nonprofit and for-profit arms), and the move to begin charging for job ads has riled some users. The company started a discussion forum in June to solicit feedback on the move.
Ian Adelstein, a 24-year-old who works in human resources at a commercial real estate company in Brooklyn and has been using craigslist to scout talent for a couple years, said he was disappointed with the decision. "I think that passing the cost along to the customers is not the way to go," Mr. Adelstein said. "I liked it because it was free and easy to use."
From the forum, Mr. Buckmaster said craigslist realized that if it charged for all job postings in New York and Los Angeles, certain jobs ads in those markets would likely disappear, such as those for low-budget film positions. In response, craigslist will preserve a place for such listings -- including acting, modeling, moving, domestic and design jobs -- in a special free "gig" category.
Ric Boltz, managing director of a recruiting company in New York, said he isn't opposed to the decision to charge for job ads. "It's one of the cheapest deals," said Mr. Boltz, who has been posting jobs on craigslist for four years, especially to find people to fill junior positions. He said his company will continue to use the site, but will likely cut back to about 50 job postings a month from 100.
The $25 fee for job postings could increase. When craigslist first starting charging for such ads in San Francisco in 1998, the initial fee was $25. Today, postings on that board cost $75. Mr. Buckmaster said New York and Los Angeles could eventually see similar rate increases.
Craigslist, which was founded by software engineer Craig Newmark, also has other revenue streams on the drawing board. Mr. Buckmaster said that in 2005 the site could start charging for job postings in Boston, its next largest employment market. By early next year, he said, craigslist may also start charging New York real estate brokers to place apartment listings.
Craigslist, a 14-employee company which claims it has been profitable since 1999, says its push for more fees targets businesses rather than individuals. The company, which doesn't disclose financials, plans to keep access to the site free. "We're just not comfortable charging individuals for using the site," Mr. Buckmaster said.
Analysts think the charges are long overdue. "I think it makes sense for them if they want to keep the quality of service as they continue to grow their site," said Charlene Li, an analyst with Forrester Research Inc. in San Francisco. "The way I like to think about it is Craig's conscience is clear."
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Parents, children want to pledge allegiance to the flag
In light of students not being required to stand or recite the Pledge of Allegiance in classrooms, locals discuss the meaning of patriotism.
Jordan Lawson, 5, said he "pledgerates" the flag because God is special. Xander Byrd, 8, said the flag means America and he says the Pledge of Allegiance because the military saved our lives.
Children like Lawson and Byrd attend schools in Santa Rosa County where the Pledge of Allegiance is recited every morning. The pledge took center stage last month when school officials placed signs in classrooms notifying students that reciting and standing for the pledge is optional. The move was in response to a complaint filed by a middle school parent who felt their child's rights were violated when the student was asked to stand.
After nearly a dozen local interviews, it's clear the Panhandle is pro-pledge, especially as Veterans Day is observed today.
"I think it should (be said)," said Renee, Byrd's mother. "I think it shows where we come from. It'd be like changing the day of Christmas. It's been there."
"Patriotism is being loyal to your country," said Lawson's father, Brian. "It's good to have a country that takes care of us and (the pledge) shows patriotism."
One opponent, Amanda Knief, the national legal and public policy director of the American Atheists, said you can love your country and disagree with it at the same time. Knief represented the parent who filed last month's complaint regarding the pledge.
SR school signs: 'You don't have to Pledge'
"Those who served in our military served to protect the American way of life, which includes freedom of consciousness and freedom of expression," she said. "If someone wants to protest the flag or the pledge or other symbols of this country, that’s the very essence of what we fight for in this country. That’s what freedom means."
While Bill Bledsoe agrees it's important to have freedoms and liberties, the 12-year Marine Corps veteran, said patriotism is just as important.
Bledsoe is disturbed by the laws and school's posting signs reminding students they aren't required to stand or recite the pledge. He compared the idea to treason.
"It is important for American citizens to know the history of America; why it was founded," he said. "American people think the Supreme Court is the supreme law of the land. We need to get back to the Constitution and pledging allegiance to the flag is getting back to the Constitution, which is not a sin and not a crime."
Still actively involved in many local Marine Corps affiliated organizations, Bledsoe said he begins many of the events he officiates by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and no one has ever refused to stand or was offended. The signs, he said, aren't needed.
Davis: They pledged allegiance to the flag
"That’s encouraging anti-Americanism, that’s encouraging them to refuse to do it," he said.
The issue grabbed the attention of state Rep. Doug Broxson of Gulf Breeze. He announced Tuesday that the Santa Rosa County Legislative Delegation plans to have a special public hearing regarding the controversy of the pledge being reciting in schools. He has invited parents, students and educators to attend and participate. A date for the hearing was not announced Tuesday.
Broxson will be pushing for a bill to have the statute regarding a student's preference to stand and recite listed in schools handbooks instead of posted on signs. His is concerned about protecting the faculty and not sending a message that Northwest Florida is not being pro-America or pro-military.
"We are the very epicenter of military life," Broxson said. "We're committed to seeing the flag at every school and have the pledge recited in every classroom every day. That's not going to stop.
The superintendent is not happy to have to post signs, according to Broxson, but a remedy can be worked out.
"The thing I don't want to happen, and don't think will happen, is that there will be an overwhelming push to embarrass any child who has been pushed into some action by a parent," he said. "Many of these childrens' parents and grandparents went to fight for their country ... Children sometimes misinterpret disclaimers and we don't want there to be a (confused) reaction of 'Oh, well I don't have to say the pledge.'"


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WHAT goes on in a zebrafish’s mind when it spots some lunch? Now, for the first time, we can see its thoughts in action, by tracking patterns of activity in individual neurons.
A standard way to view cellular activity is by genetically altering cells to express green fluorescent proteins (GFPs). Some of these proteins light up under certain conditions, such as when calcium concentrations rise – which occurs when neurons are activated.
To get a more detailed view of the activity in individual neurons, Koichi Kawakami at the National Institute of Genetics in Shizuoka, Japan, and colleagues created a super-sensitive GFP and tested it in zebrafish larvae aged between 4 and 7 days old, when they are still transparent.
The team focused on activity in the zebrafish’s tectum – a brain region behind the eyes that processes vision. They set up a screen that displayed a blinking dot to one side of an immobilised larva. As the dot appeared and disappeared, they saw corresponding flashes of light from the tectum, reflecting neural activity. When the team moved the dot from left to right or top to bottom, they saw similar horizontal and vertical movement of brain signals in the tectum, revealing what is known as a visuotopic map.
The difference in scale between the actual movements and the movements in the brain map shows that the magnification factor is larger vertically than it is horizontally. “I think fish eyes and our eyes could be better at finding differences in height than those in the horizontal direction,” says Kawakami. Why this should be is unclear.
When the team introduced a paramecium – a single-celled organism eaten by young zebrafish – near the larva’s head, there was no response from the fish while its prey lay motionless. But when the paramecium moved, signals in the zebrafish brain tracked the movement across the visuotopic map.
There were different brain signals when the larva and prey both swam freely. Just before the larva catches its prey, the signals converge in the front of the tectum, suggesting that activation of this area could be connected with subsequent activation of the larva’s motor pathways (Current Biology, doi.org/kdn).
“The sensitivity resolution of this new green fluorescent protein is amazing,” says Martha Constantine-Paton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She hopes that it will soon be possible to watch how neural circuits grow as a fish matures.
Kawakami’s team is now attempting to observe activity across the whole brain. “We will explore neurons that work while the fish learns,” he says.
This article appeared in print under the headline “Don’t be koi, tell us what you think”

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The 1990 Horror Skinned Alive: Gets Under Your Skin
There are some horror movies out there that don’t give anything away with their titles. I’m talking about movies like Midsommar or The Lodge. And then there are movies like the 1990 horror Skinned Alive. You pretty much know from the beginning what you’re going to get. But what else is there?
A Brief Plot Summary of the 1990 Horror Skinned Alive
Crawldaddy (Mary Jackson), who, despite the moniker is actually a woman, is the matriarch of an unusual family. Together with her children, Phink (Scott Spiegel) and Violet (Susan Rothaker), they travel the country peddling their fine leather goods. I’m sure you can guess from the title which animal they procure their leather from. Anyway, they’re somewhere in rural Ohio, busy practicing their trade, when their van breaks down.
However, mild-mannered Tom Miles (Lester Clark) and his wife Whinnie (Barbara Katz-Norrod), offer them shelter. That’s lucky for Crawldaddy and clan, but unlucky for the Miles family. All is not lost–or skinned alive–though. The Miles’s neighbor, Paul Hickox (Floyd Ewing, Jr.) is a cop. Well, he was a cop. Now he’s mostly an alcoholic. He’s able to put together what Crawldaddy and her kids are using to make their goods, but will he be able to stop them?
To find out, you’ll have to stay tuned for the climax of the film, when Hickox and the family meet in a violent confrontation. There will be blood, but there’s a lot of blood on the way, too.
Whose Idea Was This?
Jon Killough directed the movie, with a script he wrote with Mike Shea. This movie is his only directing credit, although he would go on to write 1992’s Galaxy of the Dinosaurs. And Killough didn’t just direct the movie; he had a hand in multiple departments. For example, he did production design, he operated a camera, he edited the movie (and did additional editing), and also handled the sound effects as a foley artist. And as if that weren’t enough, he appears in the film as “The Hitchhiker.”
As for the actors, they’re a varied bunch. Mary Jackson, who played Crawldaddy, is probably best known for her role as Emily Baldwin on the homespun classic series The Waltons. As for Susan Rothacker, she has only one credited role (the Kingdom of the Vampire movie) after this. It appears that she went on to a career outside of show business. Scott Spiegel, on the other hand, continued appearing in films. Thanks to a high school friendship with director Sam Raimi, Spiegel appeared in most of Raimi’s films. He’s also become a film producer, forming the company Raw Nerve with director Eli Roth and Boaz Yakin. Raw Nerve’s produced such movies as Roth’s own Hostel.
Audience Comments for the 1990 Horror Skinned Alive
As the title indicates, this is not a subtle movie. It’s what we’d call “trash horror,” actually. So viewers know what they’re going to get. But do they like it? Well, it depends. Many folks didn’t like it. They had the usual complaints you see with low budget horror–bad acting, bad jokes, etc. It seems like an homage to Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre that a horror movie fan made and that’s probably what it is. However, it doesn’t quite hit the mark or achieve the highs of its inspiration. On the other hand, though, if you like gore and bloody special effects, then this might be a movie for you. Multiple folks mentioned the gore, either as a selling point or just a point of notice.
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Ribbon Cutting for Ladd Senior Apartments
Heidi and Maggie recently attended the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for Ladd Senior Apartments in Ladd, Illinois.
The project includes 40 one and two-bedroom affordable senior apartment units and community building, and also includes the first-of-its-kind recreation area with accessible horseshoe, shuffleboard, and cornhole game courts for resident use.
Also in attendance at the event were Village of Ladd Mayor Mike Grivetti, former Village of Ladd Mayor Frank Cattani, Village of Ladd Clerk Rhonda Bezely, Executive Director of the Housing Authority of Champaign County Lily Walton, Tim Erickson and Dan Joos of CORE Construction, Jayne Lourash, Jamey Littleton, and Tim Ryan from Laborers Home Development Corporation, among many residents from the development.
WJW is proud to be a team member on this important project, addressing the need of affordable housing for the growing senior population in Bureau County!


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