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Gasoline Tanker Explodes On I-75 North Of Detroit (VIDEO)
July 16th, 2009 |
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HAZEL PARK, Mich. — Flames shot hundreds of feet into the air after a gasoline tanker exploded Wednesday night underneath a highway overpass near Detroit, collapsing part of the overpass onto the interstate below. Spilled fuel burned on …
Robert M. Grossman: Things Jewish
July 15th, 2009 |
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Matt and I recently returned to Morocco after a long interlude.
“Many dead” in Iranian air crash
July 15th, 2009 |
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An Iranian plane carrying at least 168 passengers and crew has crashed in the north of the country, state media says. The plane broke into pieces and all those on board were feared dead.
Missile Crew Discharged After Falling Asleep While Holding Classified Launch Code Devices
July 15th, 2009 |
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BISMARCK, N.D. — The Air Force discharged three North Dakota ballistic missile crew members who fell asleep while holding classified launch code devices, the military announced Tuesday. Officials said the codes were outdated and remained…
Stunt Plane Crashes Into Car At German Air Show, Family Miraculously Survives (VIDEO)
July 15th, 2009 |
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CBS has amazing video of a German air show in which a stunt goes horribly wrong. A bi-plane is doing a stunt in which is spirals basically straight down towards the ground, but the pilot pulled up too late and the plane skims the ground and s…
67 Air Force Cadets Stricken With Swine Flu
July 14th, 2009 |
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The number of cadets with confirmed cases of the swine flu at the Air Force Academy has increased to 67.
The Gazette newspaper in Colorado Springs reported Monday that 121 freshmen with flu-like symptoms have b…
Terry Gardner: Could Love Be in the Air?
July 13th, 2009 |
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Is it possible to find love in the air? That’s the question Air New Zealand hopes to answer for a group of people departing from LAX on October 13, 2009.
Air France box search winds down
July 10th, 2009 |
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French ships equipped with US listening devices are ending their hunt for the black boxes of an airliner lost over the Atlantic on 1 June, officials say.
They failed to pick up signals the boxes’ "pingers" were meant to emit for 30 days after the Air France jet crashed with the loss of all 228 lives.
Experts believe the cause of the crash may never be known unless the two flight recorders are recovered.
There is still a chance that French submarines may discover the boxes.
See a map of the plane’s routeBrazil ended its operation to recover bodies and wreckage from Flight AF447, which was flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, towards the end of last month, after finding the remains of 51 people.
French investigators believe the plane, which disappeared in a storm, broke up on contact with water, not in the air.
They say the plane’s speed sensors appear to have been a factor in the crash but not its cause.
‘Still hope’
Two tugs chartered by the French agency investigating the crash (the Investigation and Analysis Bureau, or BEA) had been searching for the jet’s cockpit voice and flight data recorders with Towed Pinger Locators (TPL) supplied by the US Navy.
US Air Force Col Willie Berges, the Brazil-based commander of US military forces supporting the effort, said one tug had already stopped searching.
"The last ship will be departing the search area today," he told the Associated Press news agency on Friday, adding that he did not know the exact time.
The ships had had "no success – nothing was tracked", Col Berges said.
A French nuclear submarine, the Emeraude, has also been hunting the boxes and robot submarines will join the search later in July, Air France-KLM director Pierre-Henri Gourgeon said in an interview published in France’s Le Figaro newspaper on Thursday.
"All hope is not lost," he said.
Chief BEA investigator Alain Bouillard said last week that a French boat equipped with two small submarines would begin a search along with another submarine and a robot craft "after 14 July", a public holiday in France.
Friday saw the funeral in Dublin of a young Irishwoman who was aboard the jet along with two friends, all three of them doctors.
The body of Dr Jane Deasy was identified this month. Those of her friends, Dr Aisling Butler and Dr Eithne Walls, were never found.
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Bowerbirds:
Upper Air
July 10th, 2009 |
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By: Dennis Cook
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One morning you wake to find you are shackled to your bed and bound and gagged. Oh my, what a predicament.
With this Bowerbirds fabulous sophomore album, Upper Air (released July 7 on Dead Oceans), is off and running towards a freedom we already possess but frequently forget or deny ourselves. As sparkling and pastoral as their debut was (JamBase review), this leaps into the world, climbing as high as the title implies with strong wings – no melting wax contraptions here.
Their foundation of friendly, left-of-center sing-a-longs remains, all the winning traits associated with folk distilled by one band, but they greatly expand on their palette this time, infusing their darkly observant tunes with a moan and reach full of arching electricity, graceful chamber music-esque turns and a vocal blend that’s positively swoony. There’s not a dud amongst these 10 cuts, which build in density and enjoyment as the record spins to its trembling, sunset conclusion. From the delicacy of “Silver Clouds” to the songcraft perfection of “Northern Lights” to the guarded hope of “Bright Future,” every song hits its mark, piercing us with truths snared with thoughtful poetic language and music to match.
In some ways, Upper Air plays in the same fields as recent (and quite excellent) releases from Grizzly Bear and Antony & The Johnsons but with more exposed skin and color in its cheeks. This grapples with fate and the world, as it is, never forgetting the flesh and bone beneath it all. Just wonderful stuff.
Bowerbirds are currently on a joint tour with the equally swell, outside the box Megafaun. Find dates here.
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Climate change talks: Wanted: fresh air
July 9th, 2009 |
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Poor countries wrangle with rich ones about who can burn what and when
WHEN argument fails, try metaphor. Shyam Saran, who heads India’s international negotiating team on climate change, says that greenhouse gases are taking up “carbon space” in the atmosphere. Past emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases from rich countries have taken up much of that space. Now the poor countries are standing up for their right to a little bit of that space too.
Put in those terms, it seems a matter of plain justice. Mr Saran is merely defending India’s right to industrialise. But as a negotiating position, it is one of the reasons why the talks on climate change at the G8 meeting in Italy this week have proved so fractious. Mr Saran says that the only limit India will accept on greenhouse-gas emissions is the same per-person amount enjoyed by citizens of developed countries. From the planet’s point of view that would mean a huge, and possibly catastrophic, increase in overall emissions. …
Innovation@Intel: Air Quality Measuring & Reporting
June 8th, 2009 |
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When sailors aboard the Hapag-Lloyd Bangkok Express container ship want to phone a friend, they use a satellite phone – which is standard, but the costs of $2.25 per-minute are hard to swallow. To ease the burden on their pocketbooks, the ship will soon have an Intel Atom Z5xx-based communications system makeover. Mounted on the outside of the ship, and designed to withstand extreme temperatures, the Atom system will connect with the best available and most cost-effective network – such as 3G, satellite or Wi-Fi – to enable the crew to more easily communicate with people on shore. This is one example of the 15 billion devices expected to be connected to the Internet by 2015. Learn more: Embedded Internet.