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| 'Yuppie 911' (Posted by Bookworm on November 03 2009) |
FRESNO, Calif. -- Last month two men and their teenage sons tackled one of the world's most unforgiving summertime hikes: the Grand Canyon's parched and searing Royal Arch Loop. Along with bedrolls and freeze-dried food, the inexperienced backpackers carried a personal locator beacon -- just in case.
In the span of three days, the group pushed the panic button three times, mobilizing helicopters for dangerous, lifesaving rescues inside the steep canyon walls.
What was that emergency? The water they had found to quench their thirst "tasted salty."
If they had not been toting the device that works like Onstar for hikers, "we would have never attempted this hike," one of them said after the third rescue crew forced them to board their helicopter. It's a growing problem facing the men and women who risk their lives when they believe others are in danger of losing theirs.
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| Church of Scientology (Posted by Stasi on October 27 2009) |
While I am not a fan whatsoever of the "Church" of Scientology, I think the charge and conviction of fraud is a bit harsh here. But then again, I don't know French law.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/27...raud/index.html...(Read more)
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| 15 Year Old Gang Raped (Posted by Stasi on October 27 2009) |
Horrible, just horrible....
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/27/califo...tion/index.html...(Read more)
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| RIP, GeoCities (Posted by Chris Vogel on October 25 2009) |
GeoCities is closing down on 26 October, which is roughly two hours and twenty minutes from now at their headquarters. Sites are still viewable, although that will not be the case for long. (Just to ease everyone’s concerns, TFEFEFP has already migrated.)
I had a GeoCities page a long time ago. I don’t remember what it was about or what it looked like, and perhaps that’s best....(Read more)
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| Wandering Flight Spurs Nap Probe (Posted by Bookworm on October 24 2009) |
Federal officials are working to sort out whether pilots of a Northwest Airlines flight dozed off or were simply distracted Wednesday night when they fell out of contact with air-traffic controllers for more than an hour and overshot their destination by 150 miles.
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating, among other things, whether the two pilots fell asleep at the controls. The pair told law-enforcement officials who interviewed them upon landing in Minneapolis -- and apparently told fellow pilots later -- that they had been engaged in a "heated discussion over airline policy and they lost situational awareness," according to the NTSB.
Whatever the reason, the plane may have flown out of range of one air-traffic-control center and failed to take steps to get back on course and resume radio contact with controllers, according to industry and government officials close to the situation.
During the 78-minute radio silence, controllers bec...(Read more)
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| Charges will be filed in balloon saga (Posted by Bookworm on October 18 2009) |
Deputies searched the home of a couple caught up in Colorado's "balloon boy" saga Saturday night after the sheriff said he was pursuing criminal charges in a case that at first sparked fear for the child, then relief he was okay, to suspicions of a hoax.
The boy's parents, Richard and Mayumi Heene, met with Larimer County investigators for much of Saturday afternoon amid lingering questions about whether he perpetrated a publicity stunt when his 6-year-old son Falcon vanished into the rafters of his garage while the world thought he was zooming through the sky in a flying saucer-like helium balloon.
But Sheriff Jim Alderden didn't say who would be charged or what the charges would be. His deputies later showed up at the Heene's Fort Collins home with a search warrant and at least three of them began a search. Sgt. Ian Stewart declined so say what they were after.
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| 'Massive' ancient wall uncovered in Jerusalem (Posted by Bookworm on September 25 2009) |
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- An archaeological dig in Jerusalem has turned up a 3,700-year-old wall that is the largest and oldest of its kind found in the region, experts say.
Standing 8 meters (26 feet) high, the wall of huge cut stones is a marvel to archaeologists.
"To build straight walls up 8 meters ... I don't know how to do it today without mechanical equipment," said the excavation's director, Ronny Reich. "I don't think that any engineer today without electrical power [could] do it."
Archaeologist Eli Shukron of the Israel Antiquities Authority added, "You see all the big boulders -- all the boulders are 4 to 5 tons."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/04/...ered/index.html
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