Officials decided Sunday that the search for the six miners trapped in the Utah collapsed coal mine will continue, although there was no sign of life from them.Robert Murray, the mine's co-owner said that after drilling the six bore hole they would close the mine, but an attorney for families of the trapped Utah miners says the search will continue.The miners from the Crandall Canyon mine were last heard on August 6 before a thunderous shudder inside the mountain cracked the ribs of the mine and filled passageways with debris, cutting off an exit route.Jack Cuzar of the Mine Safety and Health Administration declared: "We found the technology out of Canada. They built a robot, the only one of its kind, that's going to be used in this mine. It's a long shot and I repeat - it's along shot - but we owe it to the families."The federal officials plan to use a camera similar to one used for searching trough the wreckage of the World Trade Center in New York City after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The camera will take images in the darkened cavern from about 50 feet away with the help of a 200-watt light and then it would travel 1,000 feet from the end of the test hole."We're very excited about it. The families are thrilled to hear this," said Colin King, a lawyer for the miners' families.
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Alberto Gonzales presented his resignation to the President George Bush Monday. The former Attorney General was the first Hispanic to be helm the Justice Department. Gonzales declared: "Even my worst days as attorney general have been better than my father's best days."President Bush reluctantly accepted Gonzales' resignation, whose "good name was dragged through the mud for political reasons," enduring "unfair treatment that has created harmful distraction at the Justice Department."George Bush named the solicitor general, Paul Clement as a temporary replacement until a nominee will be confirmed by the Senate.The Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday that Gonzales was never fitted for the job, lacking independence, judgment and the spine to say no to Karl Rove."This resignation is not the end of the story," Reid warned. "Congress must get to the bottom of this mess and follow the facts where they lead, into the White House."Alberto Gonzales, son of immigrants, studied the law school at Harvard, becoming a very close friend with the President Bush signing with him in the mid 1990s and after that he became general counsel and secretary of state when George Bush was governor of Texas, after that winning an appointment to the state Supreme Court.
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Poverty rates are down for the first time in seven years Corina Ciubotaru
For the first time since George W. Bush became elected president of the United States in 2000, poverty rates are down. This is somewhat surprising, considering the financial slump the country has been in since the housing crisis started and the fall in the number of people who benefit from health insurance. Even though it's one of the richest countries in the world, America's presidential candidates have made eradicating poverty one of their most important campaign points, in an attempt to reach the hearts of the ones most affected by the problem: single mothers and African-Americans. The poverty rate has reached 12.3% in 2006 and this takes into account people that live out of less than $20,444 a year, for a family of 4. These families are able to enjoy a pretty good lifestyle though, as they have VCRs, two colored televisions, a car, a washing machine, a dryer etc., and if we're talking about families of immigrants, their poor life in the United States is much better than in their home country. Americans not holding insurance now represent 15.8%, but they are not all poor, as everyone might expect. Most of them make over $75,000 a year, and the number of uninsured people keeps rising apparently, after a level of 15.3 in 2005.The state with the highest median household income and the lowest poverty rate was Maryland, and the state with the smallest household income and the highest poverty rate was Mississippi. The median household income was $48,200.
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In an effort to reach the trapped miners from the Utah collapsed mine, rescuers are now trying to lower a robotic camera and drill a new hole into the coal mine.They hope that the hole would break into the coal mine's so-called kitchen, a designated safety area 1,800 feet underground where the miners could have sought protection after the Aug. 6 cave-in.On the sixth hole, with just 10 feet to go to reach the targeted area, the robotic camera used to probe into the mountain where six Utah miners are trapped became stuck. The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration district manager, Jack Kuzar, reported after giving a briefing to the miners' families in Huntington, Utah: "After it could not move forward any longer, a search crew had to pull the camera out of its hole."Now they have putted their hope on the seventh hole hoping to discover the trapped miners."I think they had quite a bit of hope that something would come out of this," said a spokesman for a number of the miners' families, Sonny Olsen. "They're a little bit disappointed, but they understand it's difficult work."The rescue team said that the mountain is very instable and that makes the rescue mission risky for underground digging or to drill a hole wide enough to send a manned rescue capsule into the mine.
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Chris Cantell Discusses US News: New Orleans marks Katrina anniversary Notme
Two years ago, New Orleans was devastated by the powerful Category 3 Hurricane Katrina. Now, sadness and anger marks the second Katrina Anniversary."Hurricane Katrina broke through the levees, it broke a lot of hearts, it destroyed buildings but it did not affect the spirit of a lot of citizens in this community," said Bush in a speech during his trip to New Orleans, La.Many people from New Orleans are sad and angry on the authorities, they say they weren't helped to build their home or to be relocated. Gina Martin, who is still living in Houston after Katrina destroyed her New Orleans home said: "Bush was down here again making more promises he isn't going to keep. The government has failed all of us. It's got to stop."Every soul from the region, kept a moment of silence, cried or prayed, on groundbreaking for a planned Katrina memorial at a New Orleans cemetery bells ranged."We ring the bells for a city that is in recovery, that is struggling, that is performing miracles on a daily basis," New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said.In that morning of August 29 the waters broke in the town and flooded almost 80% of the city. By the time water dried up weeks later, it left behind almost 1600 dead people, thousands of people displaced, wrecked homes, mud and debris.
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Charles Steger, the president of Virginia Tech refused to resign despite the amount of criticism that came from the victims relatives. He said that the university did everything it could in response to the nation's deadliest school shooting."I believe that based on what we knew at the time we did the right things, quite honestly," he said.A state panel concludes that lives could have been saved if alerts had been sent out earlier and classes canceled after two people were killed, but Charles Steger rejected that. He suggested that the death toll might have risen above 33 if police and school officials had done things differently on that deadly day of April 16.On that day, after the first two murders were committed, Cho had time to live the dorms, mail a videotaped confession and manifesto to NBC News, then return to campus and make his way to Norris Hall, because the administration of the university sent the e-mail alert after two hours.According to Steger during those two hours, the administrators considered how to deal with the first burst of gunfire. At that time only two administrators could have sent the e-mail alert, an the message had to be formulated by the by the Policy Group, a group of nine people chaired by Steger. The assembling of the group took almost half an hour."The alert should have been issued and classes should have been closed," panel Chairman Gerald Massengill said Thursday.
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Vials of poison found in UNMOVIC headquarters in Manhattan Corina Ciubotaru
A lethal chemical called phosgene was found in a U.N. headquarters in Manhattan last Wednesday. The substance was used during World War I as a chemical weapon and it causes nausea, vomiting, lung collapse and even death when it is inhaled. It apparently has a nice smell of freshly cut hay when in low concentrations, but even though it's deadly, the amount contained in the two vials found last week didn't cause any health problems. Apparently, the substance had been stored in a filing cabinet in New York for 10 years by mistake, instead of being sent to a lab for analysis. UNMOVIC employees found it by accident, as they were clearing the building after their chemical warfare agency got shut down by the President. They weren't sure what the vials contained, so they followed procedure, put them in double zip-locked bags and eventually passed them along to the FBI after they realized what they were dealing with. The employees also did a quick check to see if there have any other forgotten materials they should do something about. Luckily, there wasn't anything else. The substance was carried in three containers to a base in Aberdeen, Md., to be disposed of soon. This gas was responsible for the majority of gas deaths during World War I and the vials which are the size of pens were removed from the al-Muthanna chemical weapons plant near Baghdad. They were meant to be destroyed after analysis and have posed no threat to the people of New York during transportation.
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Erin hits Texas, while Dean is closing in on Caribbean islands by Corina Ciubotaru
It's been a very strange year for Texas. It rained like crazy all summer, ending the state's ten-year drought and now Erin is about to hit. Yet another girl-named weather phenomenon formed in the Atlantic on Tuesday and became a tropical storm on Wednesday after it reached the required sustained speed of 40 mph. It hit Copano Bay first then it reached Houston and calmed down a bit, bringing winds of 35 mph and rain that stopped traffic in the middle of the city. It had been too close to land to become a hurricane, luckily. Floods are expected all across Texas, especially in the Hill Country and the Corpus Christi area, which have so far received almost twice the rainfall they're used to. Other hurricanes are on their way, too. Dean became a genuine hurricane out in the Atlantic, with wind speeds of 90 mph and now threatens the Caribbean islands. Because of it, tropical storm warnings have been issued for the following islands: Dominica and St Lucia, Antigua, Barbados, Barbuda, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Monserrat, Nevis, St. Kitts and St. Maarten. A tropical storm warning means the storm is expected to hit in the next 24 hours. Tropical storm watches mean the storm is coming in 36 hours and they have been issued for Martinique, Guadeloupe and Grenada. Flossie swept through Hawaii, but with less force than expected. The hurricane season will go on until November 30th and may result in as many as 16 tropical storms.
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Erin hit Texas, now the Caribbean expect Dean by Corina Ciubotaru
The storm couple, Erin and Dean, is going about its business in North America and the Caribbean islands, respectively. Erin hit the coast of Texas yesterday morning, northeast of Corpus Christi, and has lost some strength along the way, being downgraded to a tropical depression. Many towns and camping resorts in Texas haven't even issued evacuation orders, leaving people to decide for themselves, while in Houston one person was killed and another injured after a storage unit collapsed. Dean is still in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and is heading for the Lesser Antilles, where it is supposedly going to hit on Friday. Barbados is expecting it within 24 hours, while for the islands of Montserrat, Nevis, St Kitts, St Maarten and St Vincent, a tropical storm watch was issued, meaning the hurricane is due in 36 hours. Residents on these islands might be in luck as the last Dean to hit, in 1989, passed over Sable Island, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and caused no damage or deaths, even though it reached maximum wind speeds of 169 kilometers per hour. But chances are this year's hurricane may not be as gentle, as it is expected to become a Category 3 hurricane by Saturday and may bring around ten inches of rain in some mountainous areas. The hurricane season in the Atlantic is just beginning and will last until November 30th. It is expected to sweep the U.S. and the Atlantic islands with nine potential hurricanes, of which three to five may become major.
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A B52 loaded with six nuclear warheads flew right across America by Corina Ciubotaru
A B52 bomber loaded with several nuclear warheads has flown over some U.S. states last week, leading to an investigation by Air Force officials and the firing of a munitions squadron commander. Apparently, it is very hard for nuclear warheads to be detonated, and the people below were in no danger, but U.S. officials found the mistake was inexcusable. The missiles are only detonated after a series of strict procedures and shouldn't explode even in the case of a plane crash. They were to be decommissioned and were being transported between bases in Minot Air Force Base, N.D., and Barksdale Air Force Base, La. This awkward moment in Pentagon history comes after the Bush administration always made sure they knew all about other countries' nuclear weapons and that those weapons are kept away from terrorist hands. The team in charge with handling those warheads was banned from working with munitions for the duration of the investigations which will try to determine how exactly the Air Force handles its weapons. All operations were halted by the Air Combat Command until September 15th. But it's unlikely that we'll hear anything about how this operation is going, as the Pentagon doesn't discuss this kind of affairs with the public. Since it was a matter of national safety, we can rest assured that the investigation will bring results and find someone to blame in the end. We just have to watch the media for the next several months, as such investigations take time, to find out who it is that took the fall.
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In El Paso, Texas, the Border Patrol welding team has to work all the time to fix the holes from a 12-mile border fence made by illegal immigrants from Mexico.Every day it's the same task, they have to fix the fence daily. "It's disheartening," said Eddie Lujan, a Border Patrol agent. "It's frustrating."The U.S. Congress has authorized $1.2 billion for about 700 miles of fencing, including about 330 miles of a so-called virtual fence ╉ a network of cameras, high-tech sensors, radar and other technology, the remaining 370 miles from urban areas will have a two layers fence.But agents from the Border Patrol think that nothing is going to stop the immigrants, no matter the vigilance, constantly wandering patrol agents, pole-mounted cameras trained on the border or underground sensors."If it's made by man, it's going to be tampered and overcome by man," said Salvador Zamora, assistant Border Patrol agent in charge of the El Paso station.Every day Lujan and his team have to patch about 15 to 20 holes a day, and for every cut made in the fence probably three or five people make their way to a road, or a highway, reaching the neighborhoods. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, who voted for the expanded fence, said that although a fence might make a difference in the urban areas, building one that requires daily maintenance in the middle of the open desert, "may not be the most efficient or cost-effective way to control illegal immigration."
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The capricious and unpredictable power by Martina Harvanova
It is used to be claimed that people will destroy the human race themselves, as the evolution of technologies, weapons production and pollution are spreading in a larger scale nowadays. No matter how the assumptions sound like, the only factor that can cause a serious and irreparable damage to us is the same factor that as well enriches our lives the most. The power of nature hasn't been yet copied or replaced by anything.When the tsunami hit Thailand and contiguous areas more than 3 years ago, the worldwide public was shocked. No clear predicts, no intense pressure on some resolute arrangements, no common warning. The nature is just too capricious, it behaves on basis of a sudden decision. Any weapons, technologies or human-induced power couldn't help to divert the potential moves taken by earthquakes, avalanches, tsunamis destroying storms.Unfortunately, another strike of the nature occurred recently, this time the disaster chose South and Midwest of the United States. Tornadoes were accompanied by severe weather, freezing rains, snow and flooding causing a number of injuries. The fatal consequences were reported in Alabama, where about 9, 000 homes remained without electricity and furthermore, the news are still monitoring the areas of toppled trees, damage of structures, numerous crashes and continuous snowstorms. This year's tornado outbreak already killed more than 50 people and the future forecasts don't look very flattering, too. Closed libraries, churches and shopping malls just confirm that there isn't anything more powerful than nature. The only way how to learn to handle the possible natural threat is to be prepared something like this can happen anytime and to anyone. Tangible stuff may disappear even faster than is comes to us.
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No word from the six trapped miners yet by Ana Maria Ciobanu
The six trapped miners could be facing all the problems in the world right now. After three days of digging the rescuers haven't found them, and no hammer tapping in the sealing has been heard.It's only a matter of luck if they're alive. The families must be devastated and they have all the reasons to be.The six men are probably in total darkness at the moment because their head lamps must have burned out.They're wearing thin work clothes in 58- degree cold and no one wants to imagine how frozen they might be if water is seeping into their chamber 150 stories below ground.Officials state they still have air left but all the statements are just assumptions and their condition is probably anyone's guess.Rescuers are trying to clear rubble from a horizontal tunnel in an attempt to actually reach the miners and bring them out. Progress is unfortunately very slow at about 300 feet a day and officials say it could take a week or more to break through to the miners.Trapped miners who have survived are helping the rescuers imagine the situation the six men are facing and are describing them several ways of staying alive and several dangers that can occur.What can be more horrible than being trapped and your life depending on others, leaving you helpless and waiting?Let's hope it won't be long now till they reach them because they might still have a good chance of staying alive.
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Chris Cantell Discusses US News: It"s getting hot by Claudia Sonea
Washington is melting down. Overwhelming temperatures and high humidity made the residents feel like they are a Sunday pie baking. In the morning there was reported a temperature of 31 Celsius degrees, but due to the level of humidity the heat index rose at 37, breaking all records. At Reagan National Airport, near downtown Washington, the record established in 1930 was beaten by a 39 Celsius degrees temperature. Unfortunately the heatwave made victims and a railway worker in Oklahoma (according to chief medical investigator Kevin Rowland he was hospitalized with 42.2 degrees temperature) and an elderly person in Arkansas died. It is extended on an area from the Midwestern plains of Kansas to the Atlantic coast. Also there were power cuts and the city transport slow down, because railway tracks started to bend. The hot weather is about to change according to the National Weather Service, severe thunderstorms with damaging winds are expected in the areas of Washington, Maryland and West Virginia. In Washington five air-conditioned "cooling centers" opened to provide relief for the homeless and the geysers on fire hydrants at city-run housing developments were opened. Rosalind Redmond of the Washington Shelter Hotline said that bottles of water are shared too. Actions took place in order to make sure that there won't be anymore deaths reported. However, the weather cast is nor reliable and people are getting restless. Because residents switched on air conditioners, the problem of the power has entered in the Tennessee Valley Authority attention. The sun is up and shinning, but it's getting too hot to enjoy. Still, drink a lot of water and eat fruits.
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A light earthquake hit Los Angeles and wake up city's residents making them more alert to future phenomenon. According to officials and reporters there were no damages. U.S. Geological Survey states in a preliminary report that the quake had a magnitude of 4.5 on the Moment Magnitude scale and struck at 00:58 am about 4 miles northwest of Chatsworth. It was felt 100 kilometers away. Except some burglar reports and car alarms in Chatsworth, Brian Humphrey, spokesman of the Los Angeles Fire Department, there were no injuries or significant damage. Kate Hutton, a local seismologist, in a statement to Fox 11 television news, said that this type of mild earthquake makes people realize they need to be prepared for the big ones. California is supposed to be hit by a major earthquake because the movements in the nearby San Andreas fault, very close to Los Angeles. It takes place every 150 years and the last time was in 1857. Near Chatsworth, in Northridge, a 6.7 magnitude quake killed around 72 people, injured around 10,000 and made damage worth 12.5 billion dollars, in January 1994. The residents spoke about what happened revealing that before the shakes there was a strong jolt, then were two aftershocks. Some pictures fell of the walls, some items fell of shelves, but mostly there was no harm done. Despite the alarms, no robbery was done and no lives were lost. It does make you think you can not fool around with nature. Wildfires, floods, earthquakes, I wonder will happen next. USA is under weather assault, but hopefully the sun will shine again. Surf on and enjoy!
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Iraq critics concede military progress by Notme dfsfs
Iraq registered a great military progress, even critics of President Bush agree with this. However these changes are not the result of political progress, because of the many differences between the government factions. All Sunni representatives in the government have quit, undermining the legitimacy of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite.In a recent CBS/NYT survey the percentage of Americans that think the U.S. did the right thing in going to war with Iraq increased from 35 percent in May to 42 percent.Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack, both working at Brookings Institution, are critics of Bush involvement in Iraq. But after a recent visit they said "we are finally getting somewhere in Iraq, at least in military terms." "As long as people start to get a sense that what's happening on the battlefield is different and better than what it was, then I feel like we've made our contribution," said O'Hanlon.President Bush at a news conference said: "My own perspective is that they (Iraqis) have made some progress but not enough. I fully recognize this is a difficult assignment."Gen. David Petraeus said that the American military is making progress in Iraq and it achieved "tactical momentum in many areas, especially against al-Qaida Iraq, and to a lesser degree against the militia extremists." But he also said "there are innumerable challenges."
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Whites in America will be a minority by 2050 by Corina Ciubotaru
One in ten counties in the United States is now dominated by non-whites. Be it Blacks, Asians or Latinos, people wanting a better life for themselves can be found all across the country, some working legally, some illegally. The U.S. is an immigration state and the idea that people of all races come together somewhere is basically what the country is all about; if you think about it, the whites now threatening immigrants are also children of people than came to America by boat hundreds of years ago, seeking new jobs and properties. It was the land of all opportunities; for some it still is and it's not right to take their dream away like that.Latinos are the biggest minority now and also the fastest growing one. Blacks make up around 40 percent of the total population, and Asians come third in the most numerous minorities list, but they are second in growth rate. California has the largest number of immigrants of all American states and their number has strongly helped the state increase in size in recent years. Houston and Chicago now have loads of immigrants, Blacks and Asians respectively. It seems living legally is the biggest challenge for immigrants and the government now wants to make it even harder by prohibiting their access to the healthcare system and other public services. But what some fail to realize is that these people actually help the economy by doing jobs nobody else wants and some fill up positions abandoned by whites moving away from city centers. We should take a moment and think where would America be without them?
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Divers recovered more human remains from the Interstate 35W bridge by Notme dfsfs
Divers recovered more human remains from the Interstate 35W bridge collapse, after 11 days and now the official death toll is raised to nine.One body was identified by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office as of Richard Chit, 20, of St. Anthony, his mother Vera Peck, 50, of Bloomington, is still missing.A school bus and other 44 vehicles were removed from the ruined bridge on Sunday. In the buss were 52 children and several adults and all escaped alive, the buss became a symbol for what could have been the worse case scenario.A thunderstorm forced the navy divers to quit the researches. "Storms made their task more dangerous over the weekend, strengthening river currents," the Navy spokesman Dave Nagle said.In the accident about one hundred people were injured, only eight of them needed to be hospitalized. The list with persons confirmed as still missing includes: Christine Sacorafas, 45, of White Bear Lake; Greg Jolstad, 45, of Mora; and Scott Sathers, 29, of Maple Grove.A spokesman from the Minnesota Department of Transportation, Kevin Gutknecht, said that most vehicles on the bridge's north end were removed and that they will focus on the south side for the next day or two. Until now the car parts from the bridge that fell on the land was cleared by the crews and their equipment is positioned to start major debris removal once the recovery efforts are finished.
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Katrina victims could live in luxury apartments if they afford to buy by Corina Ciubotaru
After hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, the U.S. authorities took immediate action and passed a bill that created tax deductions for those contributing to the area's recovery and development. Those wanting to build hotels and casinos were excepted from the rule of deductions, but the additional businesses that function around them, such as attached hotels, are still able to benefit from the lowered tax. This measure is very beneficial for all wanting to make money out of this area. Luxury condos have started to appear in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama and provide great living conditions for those who are able to pay up to $1 million. But the problem here is that the people in most need of help, who have seen their house wiped off the face of the Earth, can not afford such a hefty price if they live in a caravan. They don't even benefit from this tax reduction, because the rule doesn't apply to those that buy houses or land for personal use. Real estate developers will be able to claim a first-year depreciation deduction equal to 50% of the value invested in the property and they may receive some money for demolition and cleanup, also from the government. Help for a devastated region and its residents has turned into big business for real estate companies. It's not even clear how the boundary of the affected area was set and why it got as far inland as Tuscaloosa, where Katrina's effect was diminished. The worse part is that money for the builds isn't actually put to use entirely: most of the projects that received funding haven't been started yet, after two years from the tragic event.
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Gates discloses holdings in McDonald's by Notme dfsfs
Although Bill Gates earns a lot of money with Microsoft products, he shows interest among other business domains.According to a report filed Tuesday to he Securities and Exchange Commission Bill Gate's foundation disclosed its share in McDonald's Corp., Crown Castle International Corp. a wireless tower operator and Progressive Corp. third-largest U.S. auto insurer, for the second quarter.The quarter ended in June 30 and now the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust declared that they own 740,000 shares of McDonald's, the largest food chain in the world, 5 million shares of Crown Castle, and 1.5 million shares of Progressive.The billionaire interest is now headed to Eastman Kodak Co. as now Bill Gates owns 2.6 million shares, from 100,000 shares in the first quarter as of March 31.The FedEx shares raised from 985,000 shares in the previous quarter to 1.2 million shares, and the interest for his stake in Time Warner Cable Inc. is lower, he now has 11,076 shares, from 66,806 shares.The radio broadcaster Cox Radio Inc. has the attention of the world's richest men, as he has 100,000 shares in there too.His fortune is now expected to boost again succeeding in having the world's media attention all the time and being envied by most of the planet's population.
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Neverending Circle of Snow Calamities on the Eastern Coast? by Milota Sidorova
A shot of chilly air along with continuously falling snow showers will visit the Southeast and the Northeastern coast of U.S. Travelling through the mountains of Tennesse and North Carolina may be very hazardous, whilst risking slipping accidents on the frozen surface of the roads. That is what the American weather forecast says these days.While Europe gets a glimpse of following spring, America suffers by heavy snow storms, that, like it seems, don' t have enough.Tireless snow showers in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, New Engeland and New York caused massive crash accidents, traffic jams, electricity cut offs. The situation seems to be unbearable. Due the scabby weather, schools in South Michigan, Nothern Indiana, Ohio and New York reported that they had to be closed three times this month already. The roads and the sidewalks are pure ice, and that' s what rescue services can hardly cope with."Snow, you can plow that right off," said spokesman of Southern Illinois University, Rod Sievers. "But the ice was just brutal, brutal."This winter seems to score with neverending circle of people slipping and falling on the streets, car crashes, traffic jams that last several hours and already two dead cases. First victim, a 71 old woman, that died in her mobile house after crashing down with a tree, broken in the storm. Police of Northern Ohio also reported the death of a man, who obiit in the snow covered wreck on the highway.Ubiquitous snow has broken the historical records even on the places, where the winter had always very mild climate. For instance, Madison, Wis. reported more than 77 inches by Feb. 12, and Boston overcame its record about 19.3 inches, spanning more than 49.6 inches of snow."Enough already!", people say, declaring that the situation is getting worse because of no breaks among the snow storms. Finishing this blog, one must mention well-turned expression of Roland Swanson, a simple American citizen, who spoke out for the reportes whilst waiting to cross the street."It's been endless, it just keeps coming. It's killing us by the inch."commented sored Swanson.
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POST TO World News Will the Philharmonic concert improve relationships between U.S. And North Korea? by Sandra Stoklaskova
After the years of misunderstandings and wars between United States and North Korea, now it is dawning for better times. Relationships among these states were interfere with diplomacy conflicts, battles and struggles. North Korea's nuclear weapons constituted a danger for the whole world, what was the main reason, why U.S. held enemy ties with this country.But on Tuesday something amazing happened. New York Philharmonic had a concert in Pyongyang, with a huge success. Some musicians left the stage in tears, after three encores and audience waving dearly. U.S. and North Korea found kind of partnership in this concert that spanned American and Korean musical traditions.When the Philharmonic played North Korean national anthem "Patriotic Song", audience stood respectfully. Drop-scene was terminated by the folk song "Arirang" and enthusiastic applause of standing audience.East Pyongyang Grand Theater attended 2.500 people and the concert was also broadcast live on North Korean TV. But North Korean leader Kim Jong II did not visit this amazing performance and we don't know whether he watched it on TV.Former U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry attended this event and called it a "historic moment," and added that Washington should as a reaction to this invite North Korean performers to the U.S."I can say that through the concert tonight, all the members of the New York Philharmonic opened the hearts of the Korean people," said Song Sok Hwan, North Korea's vice culture minister. He added:"The concert serves as an important occasion to open a chapter of mutual understanding between the two countries."
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A Romanian proverb says "the country is burning and the old brushes herself", that is the problem of Florida's authorities that cannot decide what really caused Tuesday's outages. The opinions are divided into those who blame Florida's electrical grid and those who think that mostly the bad weather caused all the chain of misfortunes. The main issue was that a nuclear plant automatically shut down on Tuesday, cutting power to up to 3 million people from Daytona Beach through the Florida Keys. There were no safety concerns and although many areas were hit hard, the outages were short lived and only about 20,000 people lacked electricity during the evening commute home. Still traffic was the one most affected, in the Miami area many stop lights being left briefly without power. Another problem was created by an equipment malfunction in a substation near Miami disabling two power distribution lines between Miami and Daytona Beach, and in response, Florida Power & Light's Turkey Point nuclear plant south of Miami stopped operating around 1 p.m., according to Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman Kenneth Clark. The company however suspects something more because such equipment failure should not have caused the widespread blackouts. Dick Winn believes that the grid problems caused both Turkey Point reactors to shut down and are responsible for the entire mess and agreeing with Homeland Security Department spokeswoman Laura Keehner the outages are far from being connected to terrorism and it is not even an act of vandalism like that from March 2006 when tiny hole was found in a coolant pipe at the plant. The federal nuclear commission says the causes are not yet known and the initial drop in voltage from outside Turkey Point was worsened by the two reactors shut down that according to Florida emergency management officials cut power to about 2-3 million people. Everyone expects now for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, responsible for electricity grid reliability, to find out if there were any violations of federal grid reliability rules. Miami and the southeast portion of the state were the areas where the outages were more concentrated, but were also reported in the southwestern and northeastern parts of the state determining several hospitals to switch to backup generators and schools were scheduled to be dismissed on time. Otherwise everything went like nothing has ever happened: Miami International Airport, the Port of At the most the outage lasted for a couple of hours and it did not make anyone restless, nor created panic. These things happen, but authorities are prompt in action and that makes people sleep better at nigh. Isn't it true?
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The tragedy of World Trade Center from 11th September of 2001 afflicted the hearts of people from all nations throughout the world. It was the biggest terroristic attack in the history of United States, which craved a lot of victims.Shortly after this, Governor of New York George Pataki wrote a letter to Secretary of the Navy Gordon England. This letter contained a request that the Navy would name the USS New York on a warship involved in the War on Terror, and all of this in honor of September 11's victims. This request was, of course approved, and during this weekend the ship was also christened.On Saturday the USS New York, ship built with the scrap steel from the ruins of WTC, was christened in Avondale. This event did not forwent thousands of people, among which did not absent families, friends and acquaintances of people died in this terrorist attack. Christening was overshooting very well. "May God bless this ship and all who sail on her," said Dotty England, the sponsor of the ship, when smashing a bottle of champagne against it.This huge ship should serve as a source of strength and inspiration for the nation. "We are sending the message, that we are standing strong," said Lee Ielpi, president of the September 11th Families' Association.The ship contains 7.5 tons of steel from the site, is 684 feet long, 105 feet wide and the total weight is 25,000 ton. The vessel is designed to deliver a fully-equipped battalion of 700 Marines and 360 sailors.
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John Redding, regional spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in Boise said they are reconsidering dam construction which involves to tame rivers by dividing them, to prevent water from flowing in certain areas, to produce cheap hydroelectric power and can also involve environmental problems like soil erosion, species extinction, sprea of diseases. The dam construction era ended in 1966 once the dam of Glen Canyon was finished, but the growing of population, the fears about the climate change makes the governments rethink it. Statistics show the population of the Western states grew about 20 percent in the 1990s and continues its growth despite the fact that water supply is endangered by climate changes. The dams seem the solution to this growth and its implications, but are they really? How can they be when all over the country they are removing dams because of environmental concerns that promote a better quality of water, a better environment for fish. For example in Oregon four dams on the Klamath River will be destroyed in order to restore the salmon population and when Edwards dam was removed many dead salmons were released. Jay Manning, director of the Washington state Department of Ecology, said that although dams are not a very possible matter to take into account, they may well be a necessary harm as the only solution to the poor water supply. Furthermore, the demand for water is already high and there is also the pressure of climate changes that instead of snow in winter there will be rain, thus the slow-melting calotte that provides water in the summer months will not be formed anymore. On the other hand there are other options like conservation, storing water in natural underground aquifers, exploiting water from the mountains, desalination plants to make water from the ocean to be good to drink and even small dams for local use only. Washington's Democratic Governor Christine Gregoire already assembled a coalition of business, government and environmental groups and came up with the Columbia Basin River Water Management Plan. They will spend nearly $200 million to find ecologycal solutions for arid eastern Washington by approaching subjects like air quality, environmental assessement, nuclear waste, shorelands, etc. It is for no one surprise that many environmentalists sustained her plan. Dr. John Osborn, a Spokane physician and chairman of the Sierra Club chapter in Spokane considers dams as beneficial for business, but they overlap costs and environmental destruction and also they ignore possible solutions that would led to the improvement of the conservation. Nevertheless, the new dams cost more money then the government can actually afford and it's uncertain if dams will be the solution taken into account, only the Black Rock dam proposal in the Yakima River basin concludes estimates a cost of $6.7 billion to build and the profit would be of 16 cents/dollar spent. Taking a peep in the past more than 472 dams were built in California, Oregon-Washington state line, Montana (Aswan High Dam, Edwards Dam, Folsom Dam, Grand Coulee Dam, Hoover Dam, Itaipu Dam, South Fork Dam, Three Gorges Dam) and so on and so forth. Their decision will be taken in the benefit of the population, because they are in the same boat, so don't worry very much. Just wait and see.
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Chris Cantell Discusses US News: Medal of Honor to a young Marine by Maria Vasilova
Since president Lincoln, the Medal of Honor is the highest award given for valor to those who lost their lives during a military action beyond the call of duty.One of those, who were awarded posthumously, is Marine Cpl. Jason Dunham. April 2004. He and his fellow soldiers were patrolling near the Syrian border in Iraqi. They stopped a convoy of cars. As medias announced later, the convoy was returning from an attack on Marine convoy.A man attacked Dunham unexpectedly and during the fight he dropped a grenade. Dunham, in order to save the lives of his fellow Marines, used his body as a shield to protect them from being injured. As he tried to lower the force of the bomb using his helmet, the explosion wounded him seriously. Unfortunately, he died eight days later in Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. November 2006. President Bush announced that the Medal of Honor would be awarded posthumously to Dunham. "As long as we have Marines like Corporal Dunham, America will never fear for her liberty," said Bush. Cpl. Jason A. Sanders says that Dunham knew what he was doing, he wanted to save lives of other Marines."All he wanted was to make sure his boys made it back home," said for CNN Cpl. Mark E. Dean.In his age of 23 years, he is the second American in Iraq to receive the Medal of Honor. Sgt. Paul Ray Smith, the only U. S. soldier in the battle in April 2003 near Baghdad International Airport, received the Medal of Honor for killing 50 enemies while helping his wounded comrades. Although the Medal of Honor is the highest award for human's bravery, the sad thing about it is the fact, that either you "have to" die in military action, or you "should" kill people to save lives of your people. My question is, what is the purpose of the war, who are these people dying for?
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Investigating the collapse of Minnesota's busiest bridge
Last week the bridge which connected the center of Minneapolis with the University of Minnesota collapsed into the Mississippi River. Dozens of cars fell into the water and at least five persons were killed and fifty are seriously injured.Till now there are no information about why the bridge collapsed but the authorities removed the possibility of a terrorist attack.Technology is now coming to help people recreate the scene of events and find the cause of this dreadful catastrophe.Advanced software will help recreate the disaster and determine the exact piece of bridge that gave way.This is a clear sign if technology evolution because 40 years ago, experts had to put the pieces of a fallen bridge back together to determine what went wrong.Ted Galambos, a professor emeritus of structural engineering at the University of Minnesota declared: "Computers and modeling techniques are just light years from what was available 40 years ago."The dive recovery teams are benefiting from technological help and using underwater video cameras to search under dangerously unstable debris.With all this artificial help, experts have stated that they're going to need 18 months to complete their highly demanding investigation on why Minnesota's busiest bridge collapsed and fell into the river on the first day of August.The bridge was built in 1967; it was 580 meters long and 20 meters high. Over 200.000 vehicles transited the bridge every day. It was last checked in 2006 and the reports didn't detect any structural problems.
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The bridge collapse in Minnesota last week sparked a massive bridge investigation all over the United States. 1,160 bridges in the state alone are deemed structurally deficient as was the 35W but specialists say there is no reason to worry: this is just a standard term for the state of a certain bridge, and they can be in much worse state before being taken out of public use. In other words, there was no way of knowing the 35W would fall into the river beneath it on Wednesday. Furthermore, it was a non-redundant structure design, meaning that the whole structure would collapse if a single portion failed. While investigations continue and suppositions regarding the reason for this tragedy arise, attention turned to a construction company in charge of consolidating the structure of the bridge. NTSB investigators now wonder if closing half of the lanes had some effects on the weight distribution and the overall resistance of the bridge and are trying to determine the negative impact of the restoration work being done by Progressive Contractors Inc., the company in charge of the job. The bridge was supposed to be replaced in 2020 as it had minor wear and tear problems, similar to other bridges built 40 years ago. Even though three members of the deck truss were carrying higher loads than others, the bridge was considered safe but after this collapse, rules of bridge-building in America will probably be thoroughly evaluated. As the rules changed in the last 40 years due to flaws discovered in 60s bridges, some of them may be changed now to avoid such a catastrophe in the future.
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Terrible news from across the oceans, Montana had to deal with one of the natural calamities that reminds of the biblical doom. Last Friday the wildfire started and increased to 8,000 acres, until Sunday it doubled and 200 homes were evacuated. Everyone had to abandon the place that sheltered their dreams, their sorrows, their expectations and their work. Pat Cross, fire information officer, tried to calm down everyone and stated to the press that the wind will keep the blaze from expanding. However, Seeley and Placid Lakes had to face spots of fire sparked by the wind-blown embers from the main blaze. Also because Brian Schweitzer, the Montana Governor, declared state of emergency, I'm inclined to believe that the fire won't be put down very soon. Even the Federal Emergency Management Agency and FEMA got involved in the firefighting process. Moreover, California deals with the same issue, the Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared state of emergency because of the 50 fire engines added on Sunday to the 100 already on the scene. Michigan and southern New Jersey's Wharton State Forest were under fire's assault too and the only good news is that no injuries were reported. Usual for this time of the year, the fire showed us how easily everything we have built on earth could perish. It is like hell on earth, the image of how will all end. For US residents of the areas mentioned above, the fire is their worst enemy and their only hope is that soon the firefighters will put an end to the whole situation. Stay connected, more US news to come.
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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) stated that after all the fuss made over the war in Iraq, USA did not only failed to bring to a viable self-governance, but it also lost track of more than 190,000 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols. The Pentagon replied that arms deliveries procedures are to be reviewed. Brigadier General Abd-al-Karim Khalaf, a spokesman, told BBC that there is no evidence that the rebels have stolen the ammunition and his ministry was not consulted over the distribution. Gen David Petraeus, commander of all US forces in Iraq presented records that by comparison with those of the Multi-National Security Transition Command for Iraq and discovered the loss of the arms. US Defence Department admitted that the US-led coalition in Iraq has not succeeded to deliver at least the two-thirds of the equipment promised and Iraq's ambassador to the US revealed his concern that the delays and losses were affecting his army fighting capacity. Gen Petraeus and US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker will have to give a full report of Iraq's situation to Congress by mid-September. Meanwhile USA spends billions of dollars on a war that most of the Americans do not support; from 2003 $19.2bn were spent on it ($2.8bn spent on buying and deliver weapons and other equipment). What will happen next? The situation is getting worst every day and while humans lives are endangered, the US is at a loss to explain why there were only 14.5m of the nearly 40m items of equipment provided to Iraq's forces. For more information, stay close.
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35W tragedy will be examined using a computer model
After the tragedy on the 35W bridge near Minneapolis last week, authorities are doing their best to find the reasons for the sudden collapse. The 40-year old bridge was built during an age of far less construction standards than we have today and due to its specific structure, the collapse could have been generated by a single small failure in any part of it. It is not the first bridge of its kind to collapse and after it was built in 1967, safety measures on this type of construction increased. Several inspections labeled the bridge "structurally deficient" and it was scheduled to be replaced in 2020, and at the time of the accident, a team of workers from a local construction company were in charge with repairing damaged pieces of the upper surface. We must keep in mind that this was the most used bridge in Minnesota and any construction work on it should have been done with great care. Now, U.S. authorities plan to create computer models to simulate the collapse in an attempt to see which part of the 35W was the most fragile. Next week, the debris will be cleared from the water to allow heavy ships to pass, but only after helicopters will take aerial shots of the site to allow the computer model to be accurately built. Given its importance, this bridge will be rebuilt using state money as agreed by the President, hopefully by the end of next year. The death toll is smaller than anticipated and most of the missing persons have been found.
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A B52 loaded with six nuclear warheads flew right across America by Corina Ciubotaru
A B52 bomber loaded with several nuclear warheads has flown over some U.S. states last week, leading to an investigation by Air Force officials and the firing of a munitions squadron commander. Apparently, it is very hard for nuclear warheads to be detonated, and the people below were in no danger, but U.S. officials found the mistake was inexcusable. The missiles are only detonated after a series of strict procedures and shouldn't explode even in the case of a plane crash. They were to be decommissioned and were being transported between bases in Minot Air Force Base, N.D., and Barksdale Air Force Base, La. This awkward moment in Pentagon history comes after the Bush administration always made sure they knew all about other countries' nuclear weapons and that those weapons are kept away from terrorist hands. The team in charge with handling those warheads was banned from working with munitions for the duration of the investigations which will try to determine how exactly the Air Force handles its weapons. All operations were halted by the Air Combat Command until September 15th. But it's unlikely that we'll hear anything about how this operation is going, as the Pentagon doesn't discuss this kind of affairs with the public. Since it was a matter of national safety, we can rest assured that the investigation will bring results and find someone to blame in the end. We just have to watch the media for the next several months, as such investigations take time, to find out who it is that took the fall.
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The roads, railways, airways, waterways, canals, pipelines and highways that make up the infrastructure in the US are often taken for granted. Yet a disruption to a single one of those can have crucial consequences across others. In Minnesota, close to Minneapolis, a busy bridge Interstate 35W collapsed during the rush hour on August 1. It carried 141,000 cars every day, 13 people died. In 1990, the government rated it "structurally deficient" because of corrosion but they didn't think of it as being unsafe. DOT (Department of Transportation) presented an estimated figure of the costs stemming from the collapse. The total (the emergency response, site cleanup, inspections, traffic diversions and the constructions of a new steel-deck truss span) will cost the government $393 million (according to USA Today). It should be all done (with one of the most important Minneapolis arteries back in function) by the end of 2008. However, the collapse drew attention to the overall infrastructure in the US. And what did the investigators find out? 35 busy bridges across the country need a construction pretty badly, plus the roads and utilities and other basics. The government decided to focus on bridges similar to Minneapolis'; it is 700 of them in the US. Thousands of US' bridges are between 30 to 70 years old. The oldest ones need a reconstruction the most since the trucks used to be much lighter back in those days. The Senate excluded $1 billion to fix bridges. Now, working on the Minneapolis bridge, the project manager, Jon Chiglo, will be motivating his workers 6 days a week, 20 hours a day & until the end. They will try to get done ahead of schedule, that could earn them a nice amout of money, $27 million.
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Paul Tibbets, Enola Gay bomber, dies by Nina Gotzmannova
The World War II didn't end in 1945. As long as the last soldier, the last victim, the last eyewitness and the last general will be alive, memories on the war will be still in their blood and on their minds. One of the key persons of 1945 dies on November 1. The pilot of the first aircraft which dropped an atomic bomb, the man who pushed the button, dropped Little Boy and killed 140,000 Japanese in Hiroshima, the man who helps to end World War II, Paul Tibbets, 92, made his last flight to heaven. And with his death part of the history dies too.Paul Tibbets was born to be a soldier. His middle name was Warfield. His mother probably took a great care about him and made him a great childhood, because Tibbets wrote her name into history books. The name of his plane carried name Enola Gay, her name. In 1937 Tibbets joined the army as a flying cadet. In 1942 he already had a reputation of the best flier in the Army Air Force. Confirming the reputation, Tibbets served as a personal pilot to Dwight Eisenhower. His brilliant piloting abilities were the reason, why he was chosen to perform the most delicate operation in history & dropping the first atomic bomb. Although his act of dropping the bomb killed more than 100,000 people, he said he never regretted it and he was repeating it all his life. His reason is simple. If the attack wouldn't be done, Japanese would probably invade to United States and kill millions of people all over the world. His act was therefore perfectly acceptable.
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