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What's three typos away from being a Pubecastle? The Pubcast! And much like a castle made out of pubes, this episode of the Pubcast is completely nonsensical and pretty feeble structurally. Also you might not be able to get through to the end of it without gagging.
Anyway, here we arrive at Episode 43! In which Stephen returns! No, not that Stephen. We're talking about one of the Farrelly brothers! No, not those Farrelly brothers. We're talking of course about Stephen Farrelly from Ausgamers, who's making his second appearance on the Pubcast. Welcome back, Steve!
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We've been getting a lot of Windows Phone 8 live lockscreen apps lately and we couldn't be happier. With these new tools for developers we're going to start to see some real creativity in the coming weeks and we just found our new favorite: HelloFriends.
The app is so ingenious, we're kind of shocked Microsoft didn't build this in to the OS—after all, the concept is their very own. HelloFriends simply generates gorgeous lock screen wallpaper based off of your contact photos. It creates three types—all mini tiles, one with varying sizes and one with some huge tiles mixed in and then updates every 30 minutes with a new pattern.
What's nice too is the app generates the images so that near the bottom it fades to black, allowing your time/date and notification area to remain highly visible. Conceptually, the app reflects the core design principle of Windows Phone—making your phone personal. We already have Live Tiles, especially for the People Hub and Photos that display and flip images of your close ones—so why not bring that to the lock screen as well?
Okay, we suppose if you have really ugly friends, you may want to avoid it. But we're not going to, as we love the look of these images, how it updates every half an hour and the whole idea behind it.
For that, we have to highly recommend this little ditty.
You can pick up HelloFriends here in the Store for $0.99 with a free trial (that appears to be limitless right now).

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Bible Readings for Holy Week
Read these Bible verses for each day of Holy Week -- from the joyous celebration of Palm Sunday to the blessed remembrance of Maundy Thursday to the somber hours of Good Friday and the triumph of Easter Morning-- as part of your devotional practice.
Excerpted from Sacred Space for Lent 2009 by the Jesuit Communication Centre, Ireland.
© 2009 by Ave Maria Press,
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Seth Meyers took the "Late Night" stage Monday night like a man who didn't have anything to prove.
His approach to his hosting debut was suggestive not of a much-hyped beginning, but of a Tuesday night show a couple of years into a long run: calm, confident and steady bordering on slack. A gentleman's B, — or, to borrow a term from pharmaceutical marketing, a low-T talk show.
And maybe that's not a bad thing. Viewers certainly tuned in to check out the new guy. In overnight ratings that came out Tuesday, "Late Night" scored its highest Monday number since 2005, walloped its season average and bested the rating for predecessor Jimmy Fallon's 2009 "Late Night" premiere by about 25 percent, according to Variety.
Even as the comedy he delivered was hit-and-miss, and the show's energy was, shall we say, modulated, the longtime "Saturday Night Live" "Weekend Update" anchor projected an ease and affability that should wear well with viewers approaching or fighting off sleep.
Meyers, 40, is flat out likable, closer to the smoothness of Johnny Carson than the jagged edges of "Late Night" precursors David Letterman and Conan O'Brien.
And the show's strategy, judging from Night One, seems to be to ride that likability until it either delivers him to the next destination ("The Tonight Show"?) or peters out somewhere along the trail.
Meyers was winningly self-deprecating, making fun of a costly graphic and noting a monologue joke as "our first sort-of bomb. I'll take it."
And in introducing himself to viewers, he told a good story about the flat tire he and his wife had endured during a Connecticut getaway, ending with this life lesson: "It's very hard to feel macho when you're holding a tiny dog while another man changes your wife's tire."
There really aren't a lot of new ideas in TV-talk-show comedy. Letterman, in his brilliant first 15 or so years, cast an ironic eye on the whole enterprise from the perspective of the best seat in the house. Fallon does a digital-age update on some of original "Tonight" host Steve Allen's stunts, mixed with a whole lot of celebrity chumminess.
Jay Leno, as "Tonight" host, sublimated his best stand-up instincts to try to be broadly popular. Craig Ferguson, Meyers' time-slot competitor on CBS, delivers an almost free-form monologue that is an often exciting tightrope walk. And Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central set standards for political humor that make traditional monologues sound like something just down from the Catskills..
Meyers' choice in this crowded field was, really, just to do a talk show the way talk shows have mostly been done. Never mind that the show begins at 11:30 p.m. which in theory gives it room to play.
Coming right out of the gate, he made fun of his new show's old trappings: "I'm going to shake stuff up and open this thing with a monologue," he said, and then delivered a passel of jokes that sounded, in their crisp, unadorned and sometimes offbeat wording, as if they could have been delivered in his old gig, at the "SNL" newsdesk.
The new Taco Bell breakfast items, Meyers said, are "perfect for those occasions when you wake up drunk." And now that the Olympics are over, he said, "for the next four years, if you go skiing with a rifle on your back, you're just a crazy person."
There was a lot of scripted humor. Before bringing out guests Amy Poehler and Vice President Joe Biden, a Venn Ddiagrams comedy bit didn't work so well — it's hard to find a great punch/ /line in the intersection of two groups, but the show tried, over and over again. A better one showed what NBC Olympics host Bob Costas saw through his infected eyes: A bobsled run looked like two guys pushing a car, etc.
But didn't Meyers just point out that the Olympics were, you know, over?
He made an awful lot of references to Fallon, who also preceded him at "Weekend Update" and has moved up an hour from "Late Night" to the "Tonight Show." The cold open with Meyers copping Fallon's signature thank-you notes segment was funny, but it would have been acknowledgment enough.
And the new studio seems awfully big for Meyers, whose style is more intimate and conversational. Unlike on "Tonight," the first night of "Late Night" offered no host-led song and dance, no bids for YouTube hits. The show did begin to answer some questions. While Fallon brought much of what he developed at "Late Night" to the "Tonight" hosting chair a week earlier, Meyers was an unknown in this role.
We've seen him sell jokes, from corny to quirky to razor sharp, as "Weekend Update" anchor, as comfortable when they fail as when they kill. We know he guided much of "SNL's" writing for half a dozen years. But we've never seen him carry a show with his own personality, an hour a night, five nights a week.
So it was encouraging Monday to see the show flow nicely through the Poehler and Biden interviews. He paid enough attention, and is quick enough in the moment, to make you think he could become very good at this part of the job.
Meyers poked at Biden, trying to get something un-political (calling the vice president, for instance, on his finger pointing mannerism). And Meyers laughed as Poehler told him, "I have watched you for 13 years pretend to listen to people."
What viewers could not yet find was the hint of an edge that he managed to show — friendly, but a definite edge — at "Weekend Update."
In other ways, though, Meyers did not work to distance himself from his "Saturday Night Live" roots. Beyond "SNL" impresario Lorne Michaels running "Late Night With Seth Meyers," there was the opening-night presence of Poehler, Meyers' former cast mate and "Weekend Update" co-anchor.
And in early February, just a couple of weeks before showtime, Meyers announced Fred Armisen, another ex-cast mate, as his bandleader. (Chicagoans may remember Armisen from his pre-"SNL" incarnation as drummer in the band Trenchmouth.) Armisen seemed just right on Night One, delivering quick banter with Meyers about his (fake) "recent history" show on The History Channel.
The rest of his first-week guest list branched out a bit, including Kanye West, Kelly Ripa and Lena Dunham.
Meyers was born in Evanston and raised, like Adam Sandler and Sarah Silverman, in Manchester, N.H. He returned to Evanston to get a degree from Northwestern University.
He joined the Chicago improv scene, performing, for instance, at ImprovOlympic and with the Boom Chicago troupe in Amsterdam. He started at "SNL" in 2001 and didn't leave until it came time to start this job.
Meyers becomes the fourth host of "Late Night," which Letterman originated on NBC in 1982. Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Fallon followed Letterman.
Meyers surely has more tricks up his sleeve. He has said he wants his writers — a high percentage of them with Chicago ties — to also be performers.
But for the first "Late Night With Seth Meyers" hour, he delivered a sort of old-school, comfortable late-night talk show that relied, mostly, on the audience finding the host charming. We did, but if we're going to keep tuning in, we're going to want something more.
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Dozens Dead as Army and Pro-Morsi Protesters Clash
At least 42 people were killed and 332 injured in a gunfight between soldiers and supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi. Matt Bradley reports on the conflict between Egyptian secularists and Islamists. Photo: Getty Images
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
I ... the the ... least force to keep the kill it with the hubby did he just passes that ... the team that it forces the supporters ... of the post of president Mohammed Morsi according to Egyptian state television ... Matt Bradley is joining us from Cairo ... now this is the overall the dangers of events ... a very very dangerous tournaments prayed now we're not only seen a massacre that there's ... there's really get the injection military which seized control from the Brotherhood ... against Brotherhood supporters ... we also saw than or party withdrew permit its fledgling government that was set to run the country now than or party was the only Islam is present in this in this government ... and so now ... the military backed government a brand new ... no longer really claimed act in the name of the of the huge number of the Egyptian public worldwide swapping but you can ideologies ... this ... cycle ... so we're seeing is ... essentially ... a major issue are ... being drawn down the center of ... the Egyptian politics and while that is always existed ... it is now turning incredibly By ... so the ACC this season ... we don't know ... the Islamists say that they were just simply bring in around four am during the punter dawn prayers ... and that they were opened fire on a fire on bottom up there ... the military has made some claims that they were part of comedy is this that people were throwing ... throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails happened during the dawn prayers ... now it's really hard to ... parse out exactly who was right ... was wrong all of this ... occurred under the cover of darkness of break before dawn ... and the obvious to witness testimony is going to be very very different depending on the ideology of the first Vedas ... but ... a lot of Egyptians are going to remember ... the fall of two thousand eleven ... when Egyptian soldiers were seen on TV writing over protesters in front of the most euro building in downtown Cairo in the film Something like twenty six by mostly Christian protesters ... so this is not new in the Egyptian military is going to play a lot of explaining ... and some that some REITs pass the salt called for the prize is Rozelle ... write to Muslim Brotherhood has called for building to call for an uprising and statesman storm revolution ... and that is simply that is not that ... that that that you read ... but ... that is when you divide this country ... now the people who have lower back the new government they claim that the millions of people on the street and came out against Mohammad Morsi ... that that is testament to the fact ... that this ... is a popular revolt not a military coup ... and that the people who are now in government are speaking the entire population ... it would be very difficult considering voting record in favor of the most in Brotherhood of the last two years to bring cohesiveness to this country ... use all still ... from the government will from this ... the military has a nice response to us yet we've been calling them all morning ... but ... they haven't saying basically ... that some of their soldiers were killed that that Islam is have weapons ... that they were fired upon first and they were attacked by people who were trying to bring him in his Republican Guard club with no Mahmud Morsi is believed to still


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After pointing out last week that "Cold Pizza"'s Woody Paige had been reduced to eating dog food live on camera, we've heard some more news about everybody's favorite "columnist."
We hear whispers that Paige — a longtime favorite of now-departed ESPN head honcho Mark Schapiro, the man credited with keeping Paige on the show — chose to skip the huge, 300-person going-away shindig for Shapiro last Thursday. We hear he purposely decided to bypass the party because he was not going to be allowed to bring his girlfriend.
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U.S. Rep. Kathy Hochul has announced $254,877 in funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the State University of New York at Buffalo. The grant is for the development and use of robots for space exploration, as well as by manufacturers and businesses in the U.S.
"I am pleased to announce this opportunity for UB that will not only contribute to our country's space program, but also foster innovative new technology for manufactures here in Western New York and across the country," Hochul said. "As I have in the past, I will continue to support investment in pioneering research and development that can help spur job growth in our area."
"Manipulating flexible materials and deformable objects is a key challenge in developing robots to work with humans in manufacturing and NASA applications," said Robert Platt, Ph.D. of UB. "The purpose of this project is to develop new approaches to flexible materials handling that will dramatically expand the capabilities of today's robot systems. This work will expand the potential for robots in the home, in space, and in manufacturing."


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To the Editor:
The atmosphere at the recent budget hearings was the closest thing to a circus I have encountered in my 15 years living in the city. The chamber was packed with union members chanting and drowning out the people with a different point of view, refusing to allow the views of the taxpayers who pay for their lavish benefits to be heard.
The mayor and many members of the council were obviously on the side of the unions and completely disinterested in the views of the taxpayers. It seems apparent that the union members, union leaders and many politicians are unwilling or unable to understand that the current situation is unsustainable.
The taxpayers cannot simply be expected to pay more and more every year. You would think that the union and political leadership would recognize that it is better to begin making small steps toward fiscal sanity, rather than wait until the situation is completely out of hand as occurred in Central Falls. Hopefully, what happened last Tuesday in Wisconsin, San Diego and San Jose will serve as a wakeup call.
Lisa McDuff
Ms. McDuff, you sound surprised by the behavior of the undergrads of Convict U, employed at DPW. So much for honorable service. I wonder how many were hired under Mr. Picozzi and how many he inherited? As for the Mayor and the stooges on the Council this is nothing new. This has gone on for decades and will not stop till the money is all gone, which should be about 5 years when Warwick will look like Cranston at the end of Mayor O'Leary's term. The first sign of the coming apocalypse is all the signs that are in plain view that say, FOR SALE. I have not found any indication that the voting public will not return to their stupid, uneducated and beholden ways, like any other year. As for changing the behavior it would appear around RI that people are doing it by voting with their feet.
Mrs. McDuff, are you yet another taxpayer who has not paid attention all these years and is just now speaking up because things are so bad?
You are part of the problem. Most taxpayers don't pay attention to who is elected, what is in contracts, etc. The most neglected part of city governement by the taxpayers is the school committee. They are responsible for spending 6 out of every 10 dollars of your property taxes but who pays attention to school committee elections? In a way, they are more responsible for spending than the mayor and city council. Before blaming unions and calling them thugs, crooks, etc., take a long look in the mirror at Mr/Mrs. don't vote, don't care, don't know the issues taxpayer.
Dave Barry, your also part of the problem becuase you don't know what you are talking about regarding city vs school spending. here are the facts:
Allocation of local tax dollars to city in millions of dollars,
2007 $63.9
2008 $67.1
2009 $76.1
2010 $78.5
2011 $79.6
2012 $94.1
2012 $97.7
Allocation of local tax dollars to schools in millions of dollars,
2007 $113.1
2008 $118.1
2009 $118.1
2010 $124.0
2011 $125.0
2012 $118.6
2013 $118.6
Notice that schoola are slightly above 2008 levels while city is at all time high.
Also the spending break down is 55% schools 45% city. If you comapre this to other towns the school allocation is lower than normal.
Conclusion city spending has accounted for 100% of the tax increase over the last 4 out of 6 years.
Dear Mr. Barry, You have made an awful lot of assumptions about me, which is remarkable considering that we have never met. You have called me part of the problem and assumed that I have not been paying attention until now, and that I don't understand the issues. I will have you know that I have been politically active at the state and local level for the last 15 years. You apparently base your assumptions on the fact that I have not spoken out in print before now. Furthermore, I encourage you to re-read my letter. I never referred to anyone as a thug or a crook. I simply described the atmosphere at the meeting accurately. I consider you incredibly naive if you don't think that unions are a big part of the spending problem. I also want to mention to "Mr./ Mrs. "Warwick Taxpayer's " previous comment on school vs municipal spending. Just because the municipal side needs to be put on a serious diet, doesn't mean that the school system couldn't stand to lose weight too. Sincerely, Lisa McDuff
It would be nice to hear how the negotiations are going between the mayor and the unions before the election.
Perhaps McDuff would like an ordinance passed which prohibits people who happen to be in a labor union from attending city council meetings so as to prevent the rampant and circus like CLAPPING which has been so inappropriate and disrupting of late... Folks, PLEASE come to a council meeting or two so you can see what Cote's thugs and McDuffs circus really are. Working joes and janes sitting quietly 95% of the time, clapping 4% of the time and letting out a benign boo or yeah 1% of the time. Really scary and circus like.... give me a break.


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Gesture in Mental Abacus Calculation
Neon Brooks1, David Barner2, Michael Frank3, and Susan Goldin-Meadow (Co-PI)1
1 University of Chicago, 2 University of California-San Diego, 3 Stanford University
Wherever we go, we take with us a pair of very powerful tools for thinking, learning, and communicating about spatial information: our hands. Over the past few decades, scientific evidence has accumulated showing that the ways that people move their hands not only reflects the ways that they're thinking about problems (e.g. Church & Goldin-Meadow, 1986; Alibali & Goldin-Meadow, 1993; Pine, Lufkin, & Messer, 2004), but can actively change learning and performance outcomes. For example, encouraging children to gesture when explaining their answers to math problems prior to a math lesson significantly improves their ability to profit from that lesson (Broaders, Cook, Mitchell, & Goldin-Meadow, 2007).
The fact that the hands can be used as a learning tool has powerful implications for education. However, in order to design effective classroom interventions we need to understand the mechanisms by which gestures can influence thought. Does gesture influence thought by supporting specific cognitive processes such as mental imagery, or by facilitating associations between the motor system and more abstract conceptual information?
Gaining a better understanding of these mechanisms would have broad theoretical implications: it would provide insight into how humans represent both concrete and more abstract spatial information and into the ways that distinct cognitive processes interact in allowing us to reason and learn about challenging concepts. Critically, this knowledge would also lead to a better understanding of how gestures can be used by teachers and students to facilitate learning, especially in spatially rich content areas like chemistry and physics.
There are, however, large challenges to determining the role that gestures play in cognition. Chief among them is that when people gesture, they typically speak at the same time. In an experimental setting, it is difficult to separate the effects that gesture has on learning from the effects of the accompanying talk. Moreover, gestures produced along with speech have the added burden of communicating information to a conversation partner. The challenge is to pull apart the role gesture plays in learning from its role in communication.
In this project, we study the ways that gesture and cognition interact in a setting where gestures are produced in the absence of speech and in a non-communicative context: problem solving on a mental abacus. Mental abacus is a method of doing arithmetic by imagining the movements of beads on an abacus; it is a technique learned by many students around the world, particularly in Asia. Students typically begin by learning to use the abacus as a computational tool, and then learn to solve problems without a physical abacus present. The video below shows a student adding up ten 2-digit addends in about 6 seconds:
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Even though the child in the video is not physically moving the beads on an abacus, he is moving his hands in ways that are consistent with making bead movements. Of the over 200 Mental Abacus users that we have tested, all have spontaneously used their hands in this manner.
As a first step to understanding the gestures of Mental Abacus users, we undertook a study to observe children's gestures and investigate how they were related to math performance. Our participants were 86 children studying Mental Abacus in afterschool programs in Gujarat Province, India. We videotaped them solving arithmetic problems of varying difficulty, and also measured their performance on a math task on which they were not permitted to gesture. We measured performance on the math task with and without gesture in order to assess the children's dependence on gesture.
We found a great deal of variability in how dependent children were on their gestures. Overall, children performed 26% worse when they were not allowed to gesture than when gesture was permitted, but the range across children was large: some children did equally well with and without gesture, others did as much as 80% worse when they were not permitted to gesture than when gesture was permitted.
Although all children gestured on almost every problem, the size of the children's gestures varied quite a bit. In some cases, children's movements were very slight, smaller than the physical abacuses on which they were trained. In other cases, children would perform their movements with their whole arms, moving their hands as high as their heads. To determine whether these differences in gesture size related to math performance, we coded the size of the gestures on each trial on a four-point scale, from smaller than a physical abacus to large enough to require large-scale movement of the arms (beyond the wrists and fingers). See below for examples of each gesture size.
Was this variation in gesture size related to the demands of the task? If gesture is actively contributing to performance on the math task, we might expect gesture size to vary as a function of the difficulty of the problem. To test this hypothesis, we calculated the difficulty of each problem for each individual child: for some children, adding 5 addends was very challenging, whereas for others, adding 9 or 10 addends was relatively easy. We gave each of the problems a child solved a difficulty score, and examined the size of the gestures that the child produced at that difficulty level. The results showed a striking increase in average gesture size as problems became more and more difficult:
This finding is striking because it suggests that the size of a child's gestures are not a character trait; rather, children appear to flexibly adjust the size of their gestures depending on how difficult the problem they are solving is.
Does this size adjustment in gesture help children solve more difficult problems? Research has shown that the size of an imagined mental image can affect how detailed it is, and perhaps also its accuracy (Kosslyn, 1976;Thompson, Hsiao, & Kosslyn, 2011). To determine whether the same is true of gesture size on the abacus task, we instructed children to produce large and small gestures on problems that were matched for difficulty. We are currently investigating whether children's math performance was affected by this manipulation.
Even if it turns out that gesture size does not play a functional role for the child, gesture size might still reflect how much the child is relying on gesture. To explore this possibility, we compared children's average gesture size on problems that were moderately difficult for them to the children's decline in math performance when they were not allowed to gesture. We found a moderate correlation between a child's gesture size and the degree to which their performance declined when they were not permitted to gesture, suggesting that children who habitually produce larger gestures may also rely more heavily on gesture and, as a result, suffer when not permitted to gesture. Although more work is needed, this finding is consistent with the idea that when gestures are larger, they are playing a larger role in children's cognition.
Together, these findings provide evidence that gesture is actively contributing to children's performance on mental abacus tasks. In addition, they inform our hypotheses about the roles gesture could be playing in cognition. The fact that gesture size is a flexible predictor of problem difficulty requires further investigation into whether gesture and mental imagery size similarly affect performance, and into the degree to which gesture and mental imagery might be related. However, the fact that children gesture even on very easy problems suggests that gesture may serve some function even on very easy problems. One possibility is that gestures play a role in recalling specific mental abacus procedures, which were needed even on the easiest problems we presented. In future studies planned for this spring, we plan to address two primary hypotheses: first, whether gesture directly supports a visual representation of bead locations on the abacus; and second, whether gesture helps students to represent or remember specific procedures for acting on the abacus.


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News Of The World Staffers Take Parting Shot At Management In Final Crossword Puzzle
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"Rebekah tried everything to stop the staff having the last word and she utterly failed.How? They hid it in the puzzles section. Apparently, a bunch of clues for the various puzzles were not-so-subtle references to the whole thing, including "criminal enterprise," "catastrophe," "stench," and "racket."
"She brought in two very senior Sun journalists to go though every line on every page with a fine tooth comb to ensure there were no libels or any hidden mocking messages of the chief executive.
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Moderator: Bill Glasheen
WSJ wrote:A Florida man with ties to suspected Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was shot and killed by a federal agent in Orlando early Wednesday while being questioned about a 2011 triple murder, according to federal law-enforcement officials.
An Orlando, Fla., man whom U.S. law enforcement questioned as an associate of the Boston bombing suspects was shot and killed after he tried to attack a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent, according to a U.S. law enforcement official. evan Perez joins Lunch Break. Photo: Zuma Press.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Ibragim Todashev was a friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev and was being questioned by an FBI agent and two Massachusetts State Police officers "when a violent confrontation was initiated by" Mr. Todashev. An FBI agent, "acting on the imminent threat posed by the individual, responded with deadly force," the FBI said.
Valkenar wrote:Are you saying that his crooked nose may indicate boxing experience, perhaps working directly with Tamerlan?
Bill Glasheen wrote:Valkenar wrote:Are you saying that his crooked nose may indicate boxing experience, perhaps working directly with Tamerlan?
Partial credit. You have one more detail to find, and then you need to complete the picture.
(The full picture is somewhat subjective, but impressions matter.)
- Bill
WSJ wrote:According to Ms. Manukyan, Mr. Todashev lived in the Boston area from 2008 to 2010 before moving to the Atlanta area a few months after their marriage in July 2010. She says she and her husband moved to the Orlando area in 2011, in part because he had friends there and it was a better place for the mixed-martial-arts fighting Mr. Todashev practiced.
Bill Glasheen wrote:My point was the mindset of people dealing with him. A first glance should send signals that this person was accustomed to going toe-to-toe with others. Broken nose from being hit... cauliflower from mat burns... he also allegedly was limping from recent knee surgery. Add in the recent "parking lot incident" for which he needed to retain a lawyer, and you're painting an interesting picture.
Could you notice his capacity for violence with a quick glance? Probably.
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Trademark Troll Claims Ownership Of Google; Google Claims Troll Is Racketeering
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Someone purporting to be Stoller (and we have no reason to believe it wasn't him) stopped by our comments to note that we shouldn't count him out yet, and that: "Every adverse case is up on appeal and it will not be over until the "fat" lady sings!" However, it appears that he now has another "adverse case" to deal with. This time, it's from Google and they're charging him with racketeering for trying to extort money out of them while claiming to own the trademark "Google" himself when he clearly did not.
Reading through the lawsuit filing (warning: pdf) is tremendously amusing. Google lists out the long, long history of Mr. Stoller, and details many of the lawsuits he's lost and bogus trademarks he's claimed to own. In 2005, similar to what he's done in the past, apparently, Stoller tried to claim the trademark on Google, sending a letter to the USPTO on letterhead supposedly from an organization called "Google Brand Licensing and Products," claiming the use of "Google" in commerce since 1981. Apparently this is similar to the way he obtained (or tried to obtain) certain other trademarks as well. At other times, Stoller also simply claimed on his website that you could license "Google" from him, though that was clearly untrue. He then demanded money from Google to make this go away, threatening to destroy the Google trademark by having it taken away as generic. In a letter to the company, he notes that it will cost them at least $150,000 to defend themselves, and they'd be better off just paying him $100,000. The threats get increasingly amusing, as he promises that Google's stock "won't be worth $5 a share" after he's done with them and, later, that he wouldn't be surprised if "Google goes out of business" by the end of his lawsuit.
Following this, it appears that Stoller did, indeed, file with the court to have Google's trademark taken away, claiming that it was a generic term, a fact which he then highlighted on his blog -- which apparently failed to have the expected impact of knocking Google's stock down to $5. In the last few weeks, Stoller has taken to posting a variety of posts about that filing on his blog that seem to focus on the salary of Google's lawyer. However, following these RICO filings against him, Stoller yesterday posted to his blog what appears to be an entire blog post mocking Google's lawyer, claiming that he filed the RICO charges because his nickname is RICO and saying he has always wanted to visit Porto [sic] Rico. I'm not a betting man, but I would imagine that Stoller's odds against Google in this case are not particularly good.


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At Sesame Workshop's 11th Annual Benefit Gala on Wednesday, we were proud to honor both an individual and an organization that champion the importance of early education and work to ensure young children from all walks of life are prepared for school.
Susie Buffett, Chairman of the Sherwood Foundation, received the Global Leadership Award for her commitment to increasing public awareness of the need to invest in educational resources for preschool children at all economic levels. Qualcomm Incorporated received the Corporate Leadership Award for its commitment to leveraging the power of mobile technology to educate children around the globe in new, impactful ways. The award was accepted by Dr. Paul E. Jacobs, Qualcomm's Chairman and CEO.
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Rants of an unreconstructed music geek
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During the two-year agreement, the Alliance will develop fact sheets on the benefits of employers establishing an injury and illness prevention program, hazard identification and control topics that should be included in worker training, fall prevention and best practices for reporting near misses. The Alliance will also develop a case study on preventing falls from heights in construction, focusing on the causes of fall protection failures and how employers can assure an effective and reliable fall prevention program.
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Could this be the rock bottom Lindsay Lohan needs to finally get her life in order? Hey, if multiple arrests, car crashes, public fights, jail time, 911 calls, scandalous headlines, and poor reviews won't do it, maybe losing her clothes will!
Reportedly, Lindsay, who recently had her bank accounts seized by the IRS in an attempt to claim back taxes, has resorted to taking off her designer duds to raise money. And, no, not like how she took off her clothes for Playboy.
RadarOnline is reporting that Lindsay's little sister, Ali, has been hauling bags of Lindsay's used clothes to a second hand store in Los Angeles. That's quite a nice little sister! Though kind of tacky of Linds to ask her, but hey ... that's LiLo for ya. (Ironically, or appropriately, the store is called Wasteland.)
However, I guess Ali wasn't happy with the prices being offered for the wares, because rumor has it she began arguing with the store clerk, saying, "Thirty dollars for these? They cost $700! This is ridiculous!" And Ali appears to be somewhat deluded about Lindsay's appeal, continuing her haggling by reportedly whining, "These have to be worth more, Lindsay was photographed wearing them, that has to add value." Err, yeah, I dunno about that, Ali. The clerk didn't buy it either and refused to budge on price.
Some of the items supposedly hauled to the store included Chanel shoes and a Balenciaga bag.
It just goes to show how far this star has fallen from being the one every designer in town wanted to dress. Lindsay's recent troubles include waiting to see if she'll be charged in the recent altercation with a psychic; seeing if her probation will be revoked because she allegedly lied to cops about a car crash she was involved in over the summer; IRS hassles; and a reported drinking problem. Whew. I'm sure there must be more, but my brain can only handle so much depressing LiLo information at one time.
Maybe selling off her clothes will be the wake-up call Lindsay needs -- though I've been wrong before.
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Mark C. Hollis, retired president of Publix Super Markets Inc. and the company's director emeritus, died early Friday at Lakeland Regional Medical Center, according to Publix officials. He was 78.
LAKELAND | Mark C. Hollis, retired president of Publix Super Markets Inc. and the company's director emeritus, died early Friday at Lakeland Regional Medical Center, according to Publix officials. He was 78.
The Lakeland native spent almost 60 years working for Publix, beginning in 1946 as a 12-year-old when he bagged potatoes. Hollis went on to serve as a store manager, director of personnel, director of warehousing and distribution, and vice president of public relations and public affairs.
He was elected to the Publix board of directors in 1974 and served as the company's president from 1984 until 1996, when he was elected vice chairman of the board. After retiring in 1999, Hollis remained on Publix's board of directors until 2005, when he was honored as director emeritus.
"Mark's contributions to Publix and as a leader affected the lives of thousands of people throughout this organization," Publix CEO Ed Crenshaw said in a statement provided to The Ledger.
"He led a life we can all admire in so many ways. He was a great man and a wonderful husband, father, grandfather and son to his parents. His loss is heartbreaking."
Crenshaw said Hollis addressed the leadership team of Publix's Miami division in February. He spoke "about not looking back on the good old days, but moving forward to the bright future of our company; a message that will long resonate with our managers."
Hollis was a Stetson University graduate and earned a master's degree in business administration from Michigan State University. He also was awarded honorary doctorates from Stetson and Florida Southern College.
In 1996, he received the Sidney R. Rabb award, a top honor from the Food Marketing Institute recognizing supermarket industry leaders.
He was a co-founder and chairman emeritus of Florida TaxWatch and chairman of the Florida Retail Federa-tion.
"He was a man of generous spirit and very wise; extremely courteous and customer-driven," said Dominic M. Calabro, president and CEO of the Tallahassee-based TaxWatch, a non-profit research institute that focuses on the state's taxing and spending issues.
"What Mark brought was an incredible degree of integrity and character," Calabro said. "He really believed that we as leaders have a duty and obligation to make our government better; if we don't, we have no one to blame but ourselves."
Hollis and his wife of 57 years, Lynn, were noted for their philanthropy, funding the development of Hollis Garden in downtown Lakeland. They also supported LRMC, Florida Southern College, All Saints' Academy and Stetson University.
"He was admired all over the country for his leadership, not only in the grocery industry but in civic affairs," said Homer Hooks of Lakeland, a friend of Hollis and former president of the Florida Phosphate Council.
"He was a man of great intellectual achievement. When he got up to speak, people listened because he was a man of great conviction," Hooks said. "He was a real leader."
Hollis enjoyed playing tennis, sculpting and spending time at his mountain home in Franklin, N.C. His marble sculpture "Spirit" is displayed in a garden at Florida Southern near Ingraham Avenue and Lake Hollingsworth Drive.
"He was very strong in his beliefs and thoughts. He was an excellent businessman," said Joe P. Ruthven, a longtime friend and the founder of Lakeland-based warehousing and development company The Ruthvens.
Ruthven said he played tennis with Hollis, and the two enjoyed hiking together when Hollis would visit Ruthven at his home in Sedona, Ariz.
"Mark always wanted to go to the top of the mountain, whether there was a trail or not," Ruthven said.
Hollis is survived by his wife; sons Clayton, Jack and Dean; and 11 grandchildren. Clayton Hollis is the current vice president of public affairs at Publix.
He is also survived by a sister, Marjorie Roberts of Lakeland.
Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. today at First United Methodist Church, 72 Lake Morton Drive, Lakeland. In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting that donations be made to charity.
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PG Kasey Hill (2013 commitment) Montverde Academy sits atop the ESPN Rise 25 rankings as the nation's No. 1 team and point guard Kasey Hill has been a huge part in its success. Hill battled a minor injury last week, but sat out of Montverde's 10-point win against Orlando Boone.
PF Chris Walker (2013 commitment) Walker continues to impress in his senior season at Holmes Country in Bonifay, Fla. Last week, he had 35 points, including nine dunks, in a 70-82 loss against Chipley High.
PF Julius Randle (2013 target) Randle remains out with a broken foot and continues to rehabilitate it in an attempt to return late in the season. However, it's looking unlikely that the 6-foot-9, 225-pound Texas native will play in his senior season. Randle is set to officially visit N.C. State on Jan. 26.
SG Grayson Allen (2014 target) Jacksonville (Fla.) Providence is 17-0 and Allen has played a significant role for the Stallions. Last week, Providence defeated Jacksonville (Fla.) Ed White 79-71 and Allen finished the game with 23 points and five assists. He confirmed with GC that he would be on campus on Jan. 19 to watch Florida take on Missouri.
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I had an argument with a friend, a few days ago about the rights of a child. In the course of the argument i realised that most of the reasons he had against various rights of the child were based on ignorance rather than fact. For example he said prohibiting child labour promotes the idea that children have a right to disobey their parents and not do any work they dont feel like. This is so wrong and it prompted me to write this little piece because i believe there are many others out there who think the same way my friend does.
Every child has a right to freedom from forced and exploitative labour. In the fight to eliminate all forms of child labour it is important to understand that not all work done by children is classified as child labour. Child labour should be differentiated from child work.
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Monday, January 19, 2009
How I'm feelin'...
Endlessly Frustrated - that a true peace seems further away than ever.
Growingly Anxious - about big career decisions that I'll need to make this year as I realize med school is nearing its final few stretches and most of my information comes in second hand form.
Downright Concerned - about the fate of medical practice in America where managed care, government regulations and CYA practice secondary to litigiousness is progressively grinding enthusiasm out of the field.
Abashedly Hopeful - as I see the strength of American democracy in the upcoming inauguration of Obama, through whom I also feel a...
Frank Solidarity - with the Black people of America who are seeing what was unthinkable just a few decades earlier.
Awed Delight - for Sully Sullenberger who with aplomb saved 150+ lives with an amazing landing in the Hudson.
Defeatedly Blase - about studying all this week for the coming exam that caps off my latest hospital rotation. Though I've also got..
High Hopes - for my irregular week off after that exam when maybe I'll go skiing and have a superbowl party or something.
There you go. The latest review of what's on OP's mind lately.
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- Yeshivish Atheist said...
Good luck on choosing what kind of doctor you want to be. Does anything come to mind?
- January 19, 2009 at 5:03 AM
- Orthoprax said...
Acute care surgery vs ER medicine vs vascular surgery vs ???
My focus is actually relatively narrow compared with some of my classmates (since most fields I have already all but ruled out), but all the same a decision needs to be made and I feel like I don't have all the information yet.
- January 19, 2009 at 10:30 AM
- e-kvetcher said...
Good luck. What is the downside of choosing incorrectly, btw?
- January 19, 2009 at 2:37 PM
- Orthoprax said...
Well, that depends how long it takes someone to figure out what's wrong. At the very least you might have wasted a year doing the wrong residency which means you'd likely need to start all over again if you switched. Plus there are integrated specialist programs designed to be completed in fewer years (like a 5-year vascular surgery residency) which are applied to directly from med school. Missing that competitive opportunity would likely mean one would have to take the longer way around, which would mean a five-year general surgical residency and then a two-year vascular surgery fellowship.
That translates into two more years of grueling apprenticeship-like working conditions (read 80+ hour work weeks) for modest salary. And two more years of letting your multi-(hundred-)thousand dollar student loans accrue against you.
A second large is issue is that teaching hospitals get federal aid through a system that pays out per resident spot and per length of training. Through some goofy federal stratifications, hospitals may not be willing to accept your switch from one residency to another as it could pose a monetary loss for them to do so. You could get stuck in an unwanted career path!
(Interestingly, if you ever watched the show ER - one of the early storylines involved Dr. Carter who did a first year of surgical residency before deciding to switch to ER. The hospital couldn't afford another ER resident spot, so he [being from a wealthy background] agreed to work for free during his first ER year.)
- January 19, 2009 at 4:17 PM
- e-kvetcher said...
Yeah - i remember that ER now that you bring it up...
- January 19, 2009 at 4:47 PM
- Tigerboy said...
You realize, of course, that Sully Sullenberger didn't save those people on his own.
Those people all survived due to the excellent recurrent training of the entire crew (as required by government regulations), due to the excellent mechanical maintenance of the very sound aircraft (as required by government regulations), due to the excellent training in emergency procedures done by the crews of the responding ferry boats (as required by government regulations), due to the presence of appropriate rafts, inflatable evacuation slides, life vests, and other first aid and medical equipment on the aircraft (as required by government regulations), due to the presence of life vests and other emergency equipment on the ferry boats (as required by government regulations), due to the excellent training of all the other first responders (as required by government regulations), and the emergency equipment they brought with them (as required by government regulations), etc.
Do you think that this situation would have played out the same way without government regulations?
Sully's own initial and yearly recurrent training is subject to all kinds of government regulations. He did what he was trained to do. Sully's skills are kept sharp by attending regular recurrent training in emergency procedures. Recurrent training required by the government.
Do you think the cash-strapped airlines would accomplish even a tiny fraction of the training, maintenance, or emergency-equipment-outfitting that they do now, without government regulations?
I guess regulations aren't always bad.
- January 26, 2009 at 6:40 PM
- Orthoprax said...
You've done well at lighting a straw man afire. Good for you.
All of what you said is true to greater or lesser degrees, and you would find few people objecting to government safety regulations for air travel, but the fact in hand is that our guy Sully here was the man on the spot and he alone brought that airplane down safely. It wasn't 'the government' in the pilot's seat. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred fully regulated pilots in similar positions don't manage to accomplish anything nearing this feat.
So in the end: Do I think that this situation would have played out the same way without government regulations? Could be! Sully is a man apart and it seems to me like the main force behind this grace is him as an individual.
- January 27, 2009 at 2:52 AM
- Tigerboy said...
Another long one. Sorry.
I guess it doesn't surprise me that someone training to be a doctor would choose to see only the glory of the individual, whilst totally discounting the value of Sully's government-mandated training, or the contributions of the team of flight attendants, air traffic controllers, ferry boat crews, paramedics, police, etc. that were there backing him up.
Pilots and doctors are the two biggest offenders of the "God-complex." The public worships them, and many, the obnoxious ones, worship themselves.
From the admittedly little knowledge I have of Sully, from the media, I would say that he seems to be a man of humility and dignity, so my guess is that he would be embarrassed and even possibly offended by your statement:
- - - " . . . the main force behind this grace is him as an individual."
I am quite confident that he would strongly disagree with your statement:
- - - "Ninety-nine times out of a hundred fully regulated pilots in similar positions don't manage to accomplish anything nearing this feat."
Every single pilot, who finds him or herself with an aircraft that cannot stay aloft, is trained to look for water. It is drilled into their heads.
When is it drilled into their heads? Every year, when they receive their government-mandated recurrent training.
I'm not saying that Sully didn't do his job very well. He did. But, this isn't some magic bit of genius. He was trained to respond to a specific situation in a very specific way, and that is exactly how he responded.
I'm not saying that we shouldn't all be grateful for Sully's good judgment and individual skill. But, he's not some sort of superhuman. Every single time I step onto an airplane, I (we all) make the assumption that this particular pilot is capable of just such a feat. It's not magic, it's good training. Training required by government regulations.
Just like I assume that the flight attendants are capable of performing CPR, or directing an efficient evacuation, or extinguishing a cabin fire. Regulations.
Just like I assume that the air traffic controllers are capable of plotting a safe course for us and the hundreds of other aircraft. Regulations.
Just like I assume that the TSA workers are capable of preventing dangerous goods from entering into secure areas of the terminal and the aircraft. Regulations.
Just like I assume, should I have a health crisis, that I can count on the very capable professionals who have been trained as 911 dispatchers, EMT's, nurses, therapists, X-ray techs, etc.
It may be the most natural thing in the world to give up all of the glory to the one with the big paycheck, the one with the most education, but these people do not operate in a vacuum.
Sully might have done exactly as he had been trained, he might have successfully brought that plane down into the water, yet, without a team of the unsung, underpaid individuals behind him, they all, including Sully, could have easily sunk to their watery graves.
Who was responsible for opening the doors, inflating the evacuation slides, and, with clear voices and authority born of government-mandated training, directed the people out of a highly-chaotic situation, out of an imminently sinking aircraft?
Flight attendants.
Who arrived on the scene very quickly, and plucked those people out of freezing water that could have killed them in brief moments?
First responders of many descriptions.
And, who made sure all of these professionals, including Sully, had proper training, and that all of the appropriate emergency equipment was on-hand when it became needed?
The Federal Government of the United States of America.
The reason this incident went off so beautifully is that EVERYBODY acted efficiently and according to their training. The fact that there were a number of fully-equipped ferry boats in the vicinity certainly helped tremendously. And, the fact that both the ferry boats, and the aircraft, carried government-mandated emergency equipment was INVALUABLE.
It's not just about Sully. Much like, it's not just about doctors.
A system devoid of regulations, and I'm not just talking about airline regulations, a system devoid of government regulations would have lead to a VERY different outcome.
- January 28, 2009 at 2:40 AM
- Tigerboy said...
As a matter of fact, chew on this:
Remember all the glory given to firefighters, police, etc. after Sept.11? -and I'm not saying they didn't deserve it- but, who was the very first protector of public safety killed in the line of duty that morning? A flight attendant. Did anyone acknowledge her? Not really.
Who almost single-handedly prevented Richard Reed, the so-called "Shoe Bomber", from blowing up a whole planeload full of people, immediately after Sept. 11? A flight attendant.
People not only don't give flight attendants any credit for being watchdogs of public safety, for being first responders in medical crises, for being trained to deal with all manner of emergency situations . . . many, many people seem to greatly enjoy ridiculing flight attendants.
What other profession, in our society, what other person who could easily end up being the one person available to provide CPR, or to operate an AED, or to fight a life-threatening fire, or to be Sully's eyes and ears in the cabin during a security threat, or to administer the Heimlich Maneuver on your child, what other first responder is the recipient of such little respect, in fact, is the butt of so many insulting jokes?
(Perhaps nurses, though not nearly as egregiously.)
Refer to any "blond joke" you have ever heard, I guarantee that it has been told referring to flight attendants.
If it's not rich, white, and male, it gets zero credit.
Only acknowledging the actions of Captain Sullenberger is a good example of that. He was part of a highly-trained crew of airline professionals, and part of a larger group of highly-trained rescue responders. He brought the plane safely down to earth. He gets big credit for that.
He does not get ALL the credit for saving everyone's life.
- January 28, 2009 at 2:43 AM
- Orthoprax said...
"whilst totally discounting the value of Sully's government-mandated training, or the contributions of the team of flight attendants, air traffic controllers, ferry boat crews, paramedics, police, etc. that were there backing him up."
I'm not discounting, I'm properly recognizing their place as, you said it, back up. You might as well credit farmer Joe in Iowa too, because without farmer Joe Sully would have had to make his own food and never would have been a pilot! Of course flight attendants and the like should get some credit, but would the plane have landed without them? Probably!
Sully was the man on the line with the most crucial task and he pulled it off. Trying to turn this into a 'win' for government regulations is silly. Heck, I'm not even saying I have a problem with those safety regulations - but they didn't land that plane. You can't regulate good judgement and consummate skill.
Similarly in medicine, the surgeon is the man doing the work. Support staff are necessary for the smooth functioning of the operation and even follow up care, but it's not them on the spot. The lion's share of credit quite properly goes to the individual surgeon.
"I am quite confident that he would strongly disagree with your statement:"
Little doubt on that count, but a Mosaic humility only adds to his credit. I don't think you get how this is only the second time in human history that a passenger plane has landed in the water and everyone survived.
"Just like I assume that the flight attendants are capable of performing CPR, or directing an efficient evacuation, or extinguishing a cabin fire. Regulations."
How naive. Regulations just submit that the person was able to pass a regulating exam. How they act on the scene very often doesn't match up. I've been an EMT and I assure you there were people in my class when we passed the exam who I had zero confidence in.
You have to be an individual who wants to accomplish the duty, to be willing to put in the effort to know how to do it well and have the confidence to follow through when the time calls for it. Regulations ensure that at least an echo of these gets through the doors, but I guarantee that not everyone who comes through has 'em.
"The fact that there were a number of fully-equipped ferry boats in the vicinity certainly helped tremendously. And, the fact that both the ferry boats, and the aircraft, carried government-mandated emergency equipment was INVALUABLE."
How do you figure? Do you think they were trained to get people off of a sinking plane? The truth is that their simple near vicinity counted for far more than any particular set of skills or equipment. Most of the people on the plane were fine when it landed. If the ships had a few ropes and life preservers that would have been largely sufficient in this case. The biggest threat to life here was not the crash but the cold. Again, not that I think they should not have the emergency equipment - you're just overplaying your hand.
"Who almost single-handedly prevented Richard Reed, the so-called "Shoe Bomber", from blowing up a whole planeload full of people, immediately after Sept. 11? A flight attendant.
LOL, Freudian slip?
"If it's not rich, white, and male, it gets zero credit."
I love how you turn a non-issue into a total non-sequitur.
- January 28, 2009 at 2:37 PM
- Tigerboy said...
My use of the term "bimbo" was not a slip, Freudian, or otherwise. It's called sarcasm. My point was about how these safety professionals are viewed by the public. I was pointing out that a member of this often maligned profession had saved an entire planeload of people.
"What a bimbo!" Sarcasm. Get it?
----"I don't think you get how this is only the second time in human history that a passenger plane has landed in the water and everyone survived."
Oh, really?
On January 16, 2002 Garuda Indonesia Flight 421, a Boeing 737, successfully ditched into the Bengawan Solo River near Yogyakarta, Java Island after experiencing a twin engine flameout during heavy precipitation and hail. The pilots tried to restart the engines several times before making the decision to ditch the aircraft. Of the 60 occupants, one flight attendant was killed. The survival rate was 98%.
On August 7, 1980 a Tupolev 154B-1 operated by Tarom Romanian Airlines ditched in the water, 300m short of the runway at Nouadhibou Airport, Mauritania. 1 passenger out of 168 passengers and crew died. The survival rate was 99%.
On April 6, 1952, the prototype de Havilland Australia DHA-3 Drover was ditched in the Bismarck Sea between Wewak and Manus Island. The port propeller failed, a propeller blade penetrated the fuselage and the pilot was rendered unconscious; the ditching was performed by a passenger. The survival rate was 100%.
On September 12, 1993 while landing in poor weather conditions at Papeete Faaa airport, Tahiti, an Air France Boeing 747 registered F-GITA hydroplaned, overshot the runway and ended in a lagoon. All 272 passengers and crew evacuated successfully, even though the engines were still running and there was a risk of ingestion. The survival rate was 100%.
In 1993 China Airlines Flight 605, a Boeing 747-409, ended up in water after it overran runway 13 at Kai Tak International Airport on landing during a typhoon with wind gusting to gale force. All of the 396 occupants donned life vests and boarded the eight slide/rafts. The survival rate was 100%.
On August 21, 1963 an Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-124 ditched into the Neva River in Leningrad after running out of fuel. The aircraft floated and was towed to shore by a tugboat which it had nearly hit as it came down on the water. The tug rushed to the floating aircraft and pulled it with its passengers near to the shore where the passengers disembarked onto the tug. All 52 on board escaped without injuries. The survival rate was 100%.
On November 22, 1968 Japan Airlines Flight 2, a DC-8, landed short of the runway in San Francisco Bay on approach to San Francisco International Airport. There were no fatalities, and the aircraft itself was in good enough condition to be removed from the water, rebuilt, and flown again. The survival rate was 100%.
In October 1956 Pan Am Flight 943, a Boeing 377, ditched northeast of Hawaii, after losing two of its four engines. The aircraft was able to circle around USCGC Pontchartrain until daybreak, when it ditched. All 31 on board survived. The survival rate was 100%.
It is rare. ANY major incident in commercial aviation is rare. I guess those government regulations are keeping us safe after all.
Or, do you give the credit to free enterprise?
Let's see . . . . life vests or management bonuses. It's so hard to choose.
- February 1, 2009 at 7:41 PM
- Orthoprax said...
""What a bimbo!" Sarcasm. Get it?"
I'm sure you realize by now that sarcasm often gets lost when in the form of blogging and commentary.
"Oh, really?"
Forgive me, I took that piece of data from a news story and remembered it incorrectly. It's the second time in human history that a passenger JET has crash landed in the water and all survived. Overshooting a runway doesn't count as a landing.
It is extremely uncommon, and if you got your list of events from wikipedia you shoud also know that "the FAA does not require commercial pilots to train to ditch, regulating instead the distance a plane can stray from an airfield." This means that government regulations played no role in Sully's skill here.
"Or, do you give the credit to free enterprise?"
Do you just pull stuff from your butt? I've said time and again that I primarily credit Sully Sullenberger and Sully Sullenberger alone for bringing down that plane safely.
- February 2, 2009 at 6:20 PM
- Tigerboy said...
---"Do you just pull stuff from your butt? I've said time and again that I primarily credit Sully Sullenberger and Sully Sullenberger alone for bringing down that plane safely."
Do you read my comments at all? I asked if you give credit to free enterprise, versus regulations, regarding the rarity of ANY major incident in commercial aviation.
I am well aware of your major hardon for Sully, but I don't think he gets credit for the outstanding safety record of the entire industry.
Try reading before responding.
- February 10, 2009 at 5:03 PM
- Orthoprax said...
Maybe you should read your own comments over before you post them. More than once have you written in ways which are unclear or ambiguous.
- February 11, 2009 at 9:11 PM


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