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The incident took place Sunday when Ryanair Flight 737 was flying on autopilot at the altitude of 37,000 feet over Canary Islands, Spain, at 4:38 p.m. local time (11:38 a.m. EST). Although the plane initially did not face any objection from the air traffic control room when the pilot requested to descend to 13,000 feet... |
When the pilot was questioned as part of the investigation, he said the recovery maneuver was taking more time than expected on autopilot and since he thought “they had gone past their cleared flight level of FL360,” he decided to take things into his own hands and stop the descent manually. |
“The investigation has determined that the accident probably occurred when the crew executed a sudden manual maneuver to maintain the specified flight level,” the report added. “A contributing factor is the fact that the autopilot was disengaged in order to carry out the manual maneuver, which contributed to its abrupt... |
Due to the sudden change in direction without any warning, the aircraft lurched, causing flight attendants as well as passengers who were standing in the cabin to tumble to the ground. This included the passenger who broke his ankle. |
"The injured passenger had a child, approximately five years old, in his arms and that he was exiting the right hand lavatory. These sudden movements caused all four flight attendants to fall to the floor. The injured passenger turned his body to the left to try to shield the child, which forced his legs into an unnatu... |
“The child hit the back of his head, which caused some bruising. No one else was injured. After the event, the injured passengers cried out in pain. Their relatives were also upset and raised their voices at the flight attendants, complaining about what had happened,” the attendant added. |
Passed in 1990, the Farm Bill’s intent was to set regulations for the agricultural sector, implementing provisions for food, nutrition, forestry, natural resource conservation, environmental protection and rural development, among other facets. |
Also referred to as FACT-90 (Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990), the law was designed to make agricultural policy more green, including keeping mandatory records on pesticide use and maintaining national standards for products labeled “organic,” according to the University of California. |
Under the Farm Bill, the Organic Foods Production Act was established to uniform national organic food standards through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Organic Program (NOP). |
The NOP is responsible for setting standards for production, handling and processing of organically grown food, a program from which the National Organic Standard Board (NOSB) was derived. The NOSB is a 15-member board that advises the Secretary of Agriculture on maintaining quality organic standards. |
The NOSB is supposed to be comprised of individuals representing farmers, environmentalists, public interest advocates, handlers, retailers, scientists and a USDA certifying agent, as reported by Natural News. However, one of the nation’s leading organic industry watchdog groups has persistently criticized the selectio... |
“The selection process was conducted in secrecy despite requests to cast sunlight on the decision making and solicit input from a very engaged community of organic farmers, businesses, and consumers,” said Will Fantle, the co-director for The Cornucopia Institute. |
While four of the board’s seats are designated for “farmers” and “growers” in the organic industry (people who own or operate an organic farm), large agribusiness employees occupy two of the seats instead. |
“Congress deliberately set aside the majority of seats for independent organic stakeholders as a way to prevent the kind of unseemly corporate influence we have witnessed in recent years on the NOSB,” Fantle stressed. |
Cornucopia warns that allowing agribusiness employees to replace seats intended for farmers jeopardizes the integrity of organic food. Powerful food processors do not have the same interests as small-organic farmers, nor do their interests meet the NOSB’s intent under the law. |
One of the new farmer-appointees is Ashley Swaffer, an employee of Arkansas Egg Company, a large, industrial-sized egg company that turned organic about five years ago. Last year, the company signed a consent decree with state officials “related to remediating problems concerning manure and liquid waste,” wrote Cornuco... |
Meanwhile, Rebecca Goodman, a “hands-on” Wisconsin organic dairy farmer, was passed up after applying three times for the board. “I guess I am not suave enough to serve my fellow organic farmers. After three attempts, I will not be applying again,” she said. |
Watchdog groups are also disappointed by the appointment of Tom Chapman, a Clif Bar employee selected for one of the “handler” seats. |
“The USDA Secretary could have chosen a representative of a company that sells 100% organic products, rather than a company that offers manufacturers less than 20% of their product line in a certified organic form,” said Mark Kastel, Senior Farm Policy Analyst for Cornucopia. |
While some of Clif Bar’s products use organic materials, other ingredients are synthetic. Part of the board’s responsibility is to make decisions regarding allowing synthetic materials into organic food production. |
Simon Hill is an experienced technology journalist and editor who loves all things tech. He is currently the Associate Mobile Editor at Digital Trends. He has spent more than a decade writing about smartphones, wearables, tablets, software, computing, videogames, and robots all over the internet for Tech Radar, Android... |
Your morning commute doesn't have to be a drag. Here, we've compiled a list of the best CarPlay apps for the iPhone, including apps for playing music, listening to podcasts or audiobooks, and checking the news. |
Most of Thursday is mild and dry. Showers hold off until evening. |
into the 50s. Most of Thursday is dry with showers arriving towards evening. Afternoon temperatures are the warmest of the week in the upper 60s and lower 70s. Showers become more numerous overnight into the early commute on Friday. A few breaks in the wet weather likely through the day before another wave of moisture ... |
WEEKEND CHILL: It is still damp with lingering morning showers. The next shortwave disturbance swings in Saturday. Plenty of cloud cover along with a few showers are possible. Highs are back into the middle 50s. Sunday features more sunshine and cool readings in the 50s. Also, a reminder Daylight Saving Time ends Satur... |
NEXT WEEK: Temperatures jump back to near 60 degrees Monday. An east-southeast wind pulls in more moisture thickening the clouds towards evening. An area of low pressure developing off the southeast coast and approaching cold front combine to bring shower chances by evening and overnight into Tuesday. A couple more mil... |
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Parr certainly seems at times to be bringing bad news. Where the photographs of Cartier-Bresson and others who inspired Parr as a young man portray a dignified humanity in terms that are at most gently humorous, Parr, in his mature work, frequently shows us crazed with desire for the most tawdry of mass-produced goods,... |
As such, he is constantly in the public eye. This month an important study of his work by Val Williams is published by Phaidon in paperback. On May 6 a major exhibition of his work opens in Hamburg. And he is creative director of this summer’s photography festival in Arles – the Venice Biennale of the photographic worl... |
“Most photographers,“ he explains, “are very attached to things that are exotic, and to people who are in extreme and dramatic circumstances. But I truly believe that the ordinary is much more interesting than people make out. We are so familiar with it and familiarity breeds contempt, but when you go to something like... |
One irony of all this is that Parr himself, as he likes to point out, is almost caricaturally English and middle class. He was born in 1952, and brought up in a bungalow in Surrey, which he has described as “drab, suburban and dreary“. His father was a civil servant. In person, Parr himself could be a solicitor, a head... |
One of his first projects, the following year, was to record a Yorkshire fish and chip shop, which he represented as “bleaker than it really was“, because he felt that it was part of world that interested him and would soon be lost. “I went up to the North of England from suburban Surrey and was very taken with the sen... |
Parr’s first mature work, in the 1970s, was devoted to the Yorkshire town of Hebden Bridge, much in the gentle black and white tradition of Cartier-Bresson and Brandt. But he had at the same time a quite different variety of photographic experience. While a student at Manchester Polytechnic he worked for a time at a Bu... |
Parr also began collecting postcards, which were eventually published in the hugely successful series of Boring Postcards books. These bring out another aspect of Parr’s work. It can be very funny. Boring Postcards – followed by US and German versions – is one of the few photographic books that can make you laugh out l... |
At the same time, like many truly hilarious things, it is shot through with poignancy. It is touching just to reflect that anyone, ever, thought it worth transforming these scenes – The Lounge, Manchester Airport; Butlins, Bognor Regis: The Reception Hall; Brent Cross Shopping Centre – into postcards. But these caravan... |
As a coda to the Boring books, Parr made a pilgrimage to the small town of Boring, Oregon, where he took 468 photographs of such subjects as Boring Middle School and the Boring Sewage Treatment Facility. It’s an extended joke on Parr’s fundamental idea – that the ordinary, and hence boring, is actually interesting. |
In Parr’s own photographs, many of the themes of his postcard collection are present – the vulgarity of our pleasures and pastimes, the feeling of loss. But there is sometimes something else – a sense of physical distaste. |
Recent projects such those devoted to the package tour Mecca of Benidorm, and the still life series Common Sense, focus on such things as a mass of pre-cooked bacon weltering in fat. A pallid mass of uncooked sausages is contrasted with a glistening piece of chewing gum at the side of an ashtray. The bloated, reddened ... |
‘Martin Parr’ (Phaidon Press, £24.95) is available from Telegraph Books Direct for £22.95 + £2.25 p&p. To order please call 0870 155 7222.1952 Born Epsom, Surrey. Father a civil servant, mother “quite posh“. Salient childhood memories are of birdwatching with his parents at Hersham sewage farm. |
1970-73 Studies photography at Manchester Polytechnic. Makes Home Sweet Home, a model of a Bradford sitting room with cheap perfume and The Sound of Music on loop, for his degree show. |
1973 Moves to Hebden Bridge, a town in the Pennines with a small artists’ community -where he meets his wife, Susie Mitchell. |
Exhibits on the emerging photo gallery circuit. |
1982 Publishes his first book, Bad Weather (of bleak, monochrome landscapes). |
1986 The Last Resort, a book of photographs of holidaymakers at a rundown seaside resort, brings him notoriety. Parr is accused of knocking the working classes; he says he’s knocking Thatcherism. The Serpentine Gallery exhibits the pictures. |
1989 His follow-up, The Cost of Living, takes on the middle classes. |
1994 Joins photographic agency Magnum, a self-electing elite. Parr scrapes in by one vote – the most controversial entry there’s ever been. |
1999 Makes the acclaimed social documentary Think of England for BBC2’s Modern Times series. Publishes the popular Boring Postcards – of motorways and shopping centres. Organises Common Sense, an exhibition of photocopies staged simultaneously in 42 galleries across the world, claimed as the largest ever. |
2002 A retrospective at the Barbican seals his status. |
2003 Subject of one of Alan Yentob’s BBC Imagine arts programmes, where he shows off his Spice Girls crisp bags. |
It was a sweet moment between partners, a smiling Braden Holtby skating over to Philipp Grubauer, standing in front of his net. To celebrate Grubauer’s shutout in San Jose on Saturday, the Capitals’ first in regulation this season, Holtby kissed Grubauer on the mask, a show of support from one member of Washington’s go... |
Since Coach Barry Trotz handed the net over to Grubauer in what was billed as a “reset” period for Holtby, Grubauer has allowed just four goals in three games, the first time he’s had three straight starts since the 2013-14 season. He’s saved 76 of the 80 shots he’s faced as Washington recorded wins against two postsea... |
But if Grubauer continues to acquit himself this well as the interim No. 1 netminder, it’s fair to question just how temporary this new role might be and what it would take for Holtby to wrestle the top job back. The Capitals insist that for the time being, the starting goaltender will be a game-by-game determination. |
The sample size isn’t so small as just the past week. Grubauer started the season by losing his first six starts despite some strong play, but in the 20 appearances since he recorded his first win on Nov. 24 against Tampa Bay, Grubauer is 10-3-2 with a .946 save percentage and a 1.40 goals-against average. Holtby had l... |
“I’m not trying to show off or impress anybody,” Grubauer said. |
Holtby carried the Capitals throughout the start of the season, when the team was plagued with injuries and inexperience on defense. But while Grubauer has surged of late, Holtby has struggled. Going back to a Feb. 2 game in Pittsburgh, Holtby has a 3-6-2 record with an .872 save percentage and a 3.73 goals-against ave... |
Brent Johnson, an NBC Sports Washington analyst and former NHL goaltender, suggested on Twitter that Holtby’s recent struggles could be related to fatigue. During Trotz’s first season in 2014-15, Holtby started 73 games, but his workload has steadily declined with a capable backup like Grubauer around to spell him. He ... |
That’s the other challenge with a workhorse like Holtby, balancing this time off to work on his game with keeping him sharp for when he does get back in net. Over Holtby’s career, if he has more than three days of rest, he has a 2.57 goals-against average with a .915 save percentage. His numbers are best with one day o... |
Foundation Plant Services (FPS) has an extensive and diverse grapevine collection with 619 varieties used for wine, food, juices, raisins and rootstock. Each selection planted in the foundation vineyard has undergone a rigorous disease-testing protocol and, in most cases, professional identification. |
FPS names its public grapevine selections with variety names most commonly used by the grapevine nursery trade and sources offering the grapes to grape growers and other interested parties in the United States. You will see synonym names in the profile for each grape variety below. Some of those synonyms may have been ... |
The grape variety profiles also include detail such as species, country of origin, pedigree (if known), uses, berry color and TTB-approved name. References to source information for the data allow you to explore your grape variety of interest in further detail, should you wish to do that. |
To locate a particular wine, table, raisin, or juice variety or grape rootstock, please click on the first letter of the variety name or below on the entire name. You will see a complete list and description of the available FPS selections for each variety under the variety profile. The description reveals key facts ab... |
Questions are often asked as to how Foundation Plant Services (FPS) decides which number to assign to the grape selections in the foundation vineyard and whether those numbers relate to particular clones that may be the sources of the FPS selections. |
The answer for most selections in the FPS foundation vineyard is that selection numbers are assigned by the next available (unused) number in sequence for that variety. There is nothing magical about it. For example, the first Sauvignon blanc selection that came to FPS in 1958 was named Sauvignon blanc FPS 01. The next... |
FPS intentionally chose the word "selection" rather than "clone" when referring to the products offered in the foundation vineyard. The word "clone" can be confusing and ambiguous. The major European collections have formal evaluation protocols for grape material to qualify material for release as an official "clone". ... |
FPS does not perform formal clonal evaluations on the grapevine materials accepted for the foundation vineyard. The word "selection" at FPS simply means the material was collected from a single source vine from the vineyard of origin, whether within the United States or from a foreign vineyard. Some of our numbered sel... |
Having said that, there is a subgroup of selections at FPS that are official numbered clones from the formal clonal development programs in Europe. Those official clones are imported and sold by the owners as proprietary (trademarked) clonal material in the United States. The owners are large government or nursery enti... |
Lastly, there is a small subset of "clones" that came to FPS in the 1980's prior to the establishment of the trademark programs for the European clones. Those clones also came to the United States associated with clone numbers assigned when the clones were developed in Europe. Many of the French clones in that group we... |
FPS refers to this subset of clones as "generic clonal material". FPS agreed that we would assign those non-proprietary clones a new number at FPS rather than the European clonal number. They received their FPS numbers using the "next in order" rule. We may have a note on the plant description that the selection is "re... |
Justin Rhodes, who co-wrote the 'Terminator' reboot that Tim Miller is directing, is rewriting a script that was written by Ed Neumeier and Michael Miner. |
RoboCop, the cyborg police officer who patrols the streets of Detroit, is returning to the big screen. |
Neill Blomkamp, who directed such tech-heavy movies such as District 9 and Chappie, has been set by MGM to helm what is being titled RoboCop Returns, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. |
Justin Rhodes, who co-wrote the Terminator reboot that Tim Miller is directing, is rewriting a script that was written by Ed Neumeier and Michael Miner, the duo who wrote the original 1987 RoboCop, which is regarded as a sci-fi and action classic. |
The original movie, directed by Paul Verhoeven, told of a police officer who, on death’s doorstep, is used as an experiment to create a new type of patrolman, one that is half man, half machine (but "all cop," as the poster said). The new creation then struggled with resurfacing memories and corrupt city officials. |
RoboCop struck chords viscerally — the action elements went deep 'R' rating — as well as thematically, with the movie serving up satirical commentary on Reaganomics, the Go-Go '80s and media. |
Two sequels followed — one was even co-written by Frank Miller — but they are largely forgotten. |
MGM already tried to resuscitate the franchise with a remake in 2014. That movie was directed by Jose Padilha, the helmer of Brazil’s acclaimed Elite Squad crime movies, and starred Joel Kinnaman. The pic was met with tepid response and shows how hard it can be to manage and update classic titles. |
Neumeier and Miner wrote the script for the sequel years ago, with Rhodes now rewriting it. Neumeier will act as a producer on RoboCop Returns, with Miner serving as an executive producer. |
BRYAN EATON/Staff photo. Drew Cassino, 11, top, and Jaclyn Zinck, 12, and others at the Newburyport Rec Center played outside at the Brown School playground on Monday afternoon. The outdoor adventure was short-lived and the students went back inside as the sun went down and the temperature dipped. |
• Bethel UMC will be sponsoring a golf tournament at Waterford Golf Course March 31. The fee is $75 person, $300 for a team of four and $100 for a hole sponsorship. Money raised will be used to help support the Penn Center Camp housing at Sakehatchie. For more information or to sign up, call Jessica Whittle at (8... |
Yahoo is gearing mobile developers to wrestle user mind share away from traditional media outlets. |
Yahoo pitched mobile developers on new tools at a New York conference on Wednesday, aiming to inspire them to go out and build disruptive apps. |
"There hasn't been a single industry that hasn't been disrupted by mobile applications, starting with music, gaming, travel, retail, and now media," said Simon Khalaf, Yahoo senior vice president of publishing products, at the company's second event this year for mobile app developers. |
Among the new tools in the Yahoo Mobile Developer Suite is one that links apps to the Yahoo-owned Tumblr blogging platform. A third-party content-creation app can include the option to post a user's work on a Tumblr account. |
One company looking forward to using this new feature is PicsArt, which offers a mobile app for editing photos. With this new functionality, users can now copy the work they create in PicsArt into their Tumblr feeds, said Wilson Kriegel, the company's chief business development officer. |
The Tumblr tool also collects metrics on how often a Tumblr entry has been reblogged, clicked upon, or liked, thanks to the software Yahoo acquired when it purchased Flurry Analytics last year. |
Yahoo has also provided some help with embedding advertisements in mobile apps. The tool can be used to insert video ads into an app, and provide metrics on which ads have the best response rate. |
Khalaf shared some statistics the company has been aggregating from its customers' use of the Flurry analysis software. |
Flurry now tracks the usage habits of 720,000 apps across two billion mobile devices, capturing billions of user sessions each month, he said. |
Among the findings: Americans now spend about 3 hours and 40 minutes per day on their phones, which is about 35 percent more time than they did a year ago in the same time period. This is time that used to be devoted, at least in part, to watching television, Khalaf argued. |
"You folks are taking over the media industry," Khalaf told the audience of developers. |
Another interesting finding from Flurry: People appear to be spending less time browsing the Web on their mobile phones, and focusing more on using apps. |
Based on metrics gathered in the second quarter of 2015, mobile users are spending about 90 percent of their mobile device time on apps, and only 10 percent of their time using a browser. |
Mobile users also appear to be spending less time playing games on their apps. Gaming occupies just 14 percent of all user time on mobile apps. In 2015, users spent 43 minutes playing games, down from 52 minutes in 2014. |
Instead, people are spending more time on social, messaging, and entertainment apps, which now account for 51 percent of all usage, Khalaf said. |
This year will be the first when in-app sales exceed mobile app advertising, pointing to a growing revenue stream for developers, Yahoo has projected. Last year, $21 billion was spent on in-app purchases of content, and $23 billion on ads; in 2015, $33 billion will be spent within or on apps, and $31 billion will be sp... |
"The mobile app consumer has been trained to pay for content. It's not like the Internet. That is phenomenal news," Khalaf said. |
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