From the BBC: A man has been overpowered by cabin crew on an Alitalia flight from Paris to Rome, after he drew out a small knife and demanded the plane divert to the Libyan capital, Tripoli. A female flight attendant was slightly injured as the man was subdued. The suspect, from Kazakhstan, was handed over [...]
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Tweet Reports from multiple sources indicate that United States military personnel are aiding Japanese military and civilian personnel in search-and-rescue efforts: Thousands of Japanese and American military personnel joined together Friday in a final three-day sweep to search for those still missing from last month’s massive earthquake and tsunami. The operation involves 120 aircraft and [...]
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A “Cantenna”: improvised antenna, reused materials, can extend transmission and reception of a variety of radio devices – a paint or other metal can, plus copper wire or brass rod, brass tubing – can extend the range of radios, cell phones, wireless networks. Here’s one example from Wikipedia’s entry Cantenna:
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Tweet Earth Day, 2010, I looked to the future on Popular Logistics. In 2009, I wrote about water pollution and agricultural waste in the Chesapeake. Today I am looking at the present and recent past. While a comprehensive look at where we are can be found on the web pages of the World Watch [...]
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Tweet An op-ed article in the Telegraph, UK, last year urged President Obama “to marshal America’s vast scientific and strategic resources behind a new Manhattan Project” and by so doing we could “reasonably hope to reinvent the global energy landscape and sketch an end to our dependence on fossil fuels within three to five years.” [...]
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Indonesian terrorists are decentraling networks, scaling down cells, and varying modes of attack. From the Jakarta Post: The International Crisis Group (ICG) said in its latest report issued on Tuesday that Indonesian law enforcers’ aggressive clamping down on terrorism had driven terrorists to act in smaller groups independent of larger organizations. “The suicide bombing [...]
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Everyday Carry Contest on Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools. This is what we might refer to as “”A” gear (always with you), even more critical than what you might keep in a “go-bag,” particularly if you don’t drive everywhere. The tools you have with you are the ones that are going to get used, and so [...]
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Tweet President Obama’s speech on Fiscal Policy was summarized by Hans Nichols and Roger Runningen on Bloomberg.com here.” “President Barack Obama vowed to cut $4 trillion in cumulative deficits within 12 years through a combination of spending cuts and tax increases, setting the stage for a fight with congressional Republicans over the nation’s priorities. “In [...]
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Tweet But apparently a public humiliation and the end of a career is the vestige of older traditions incorporating human sacrifice. The sleep-deprivation/asleep at work/understaffed air traffic control centers issue is serious. This ritual suggests that person or persons higher on the food chain believe the public sufficiently credulous, enraged, afraid or overwhelmed that this [...]
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CNN via BBC, Pakistani diplomat shot in Nepal Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) — Two people on motorcycles shot and wounded a Pakistani diplomatic official in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Thursday morning, authorities said. Mehboob Asif, a visa assistant at the Pakistan embassy, was hit by eight to 10 bullets while he was riding a motorcycle to work, [...]
Tweet On May 25, 1961 President John Kennedy said, “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.” (Kennedy library and NASA) Ten years ago, before Sept. 11, Jim Gordon and his team [...]
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Tweet Michael Rubinkam of the Associated Press reports that Pennsylvania is reviewing – and approving – natural gas drilling permits in 35 minutes. There are several ways to interpret this data; these come to mind: The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has already done the requisite research on applicant(s) and location(s) in some other process not reflected [...]
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Tweet On Friday, March 25,2011, Cape Wind LLC‘s CEO Jim Gordon spoke at Columbia University about the long delayed project. When he started the project, back in 2001, the Europeans were 10 years ahead of us. Today the Europeans are 20 years ahead of us, and the Chinese too are years ahead of us. Mr. [...]
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Conservatives and the Tea Party may be right about the government wasting money, however, I want to fly with confidence that the planes on which I fly are safe, that the safety and reliability of the commerical airline fleet is enforced by a proactive government rather than a reactive invisible hand.
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The same messages can be communicated by signalling the letter "K" in Morse code via signal lamp. (While a proper signal lamp may be ideal, a flashlight, probably best employing red LEDs, will certainly fit the bill).
In Morse, the letter "K" is represent as Dash - Dot -- Dash.
The ICS also has a subset, the Medical Signal Code, which uses three-character phrases to communicate brief medical messages.