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This is all quite frustrating and very sad. A similar situation is playing out in the 2014 disappearance of Malaysia 370. In that case as in TWA 841, speculation of pilot involvement came early and remains so much a part of the probe that an Australian television network recently all but declared the pilots intentional... |
Even though their assistance is sometimes not welcomed, TWA Flight 841 was not the first air accident in which outsiders played an important role. In my book, The Crash Detectives, I write about half a dozen pre-internet-era accidents in which arm chair investigators, hyper-specialists and academics provided research a... |
In the case of TWA Flight 841, it is too late to redeem the reputations of the now-deceased pilots, Gibson and Kennedy. The value of Scapegoat is how well it explains the insidious effects of bias and the benefits of seeking the guidance of qualified outsiders, no matter how inconvenient are the truths that might be re... |
The post New Book Challenges Finding Of Pilot Error in Famous Near-Disaster appeared first on Christine Negroni. |
1 And again he began to teach by the sea side. And there is gathered unto him a very great multitude, so that he entered into a boat, and sat in the sea; and all the multitude were by the sea on the land. |
4 and it came to pass, as he sowed, some [seed] fell by the way side, and the birds came and devoured it. |
6 and when the sun was risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. |
7 And other fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. |
8 And others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing; and brought forth, thirtyfold, and sixtyfold, and a hundredfold. |
9 And he said, Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. |
10 And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parables. |
12 that seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest haply they should turn again, and it should be forgiven them. |
13 And he saith unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how shall ye know all the parables? |
14 The sower soweth the word. |
15 And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; and when they have heard, straightway cometh Satan, and taketh away the word which hath been sown in them. |
17 and they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, straightway they stumble. |
19 and the cares of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful. |
20 And those are they that were sown upon the good ground; such as hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, thirtyfold, and sixtyfold, and a hundredfold. |
21 And he said unto them, Is the lamp brought to be put under the bushel, or under the bed, [and] not to be put on the stand? |
22 For there is nothing hid, save that it should be manifested; neither was [anything] made secret, but that it should come to light. |
23 If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear. |
24 And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete it shall be measured unto you; and more shall be given unto you. |
25 For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken away even that which he hath. |
27 and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he knoweth not how. |
28 The earth beareth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. |
29 But when the fruit is ripe, straightway he putteth forth the sickle, because the harvest is come. |
30 And he said, How shall we liken the kingdom of God? or in what parable shall we set it forth? |
32 yet when it is sown, groweth up, and becometh greater than all the herbs, and putteth out great branches; so that the birds of the heaven can lodge under the shadow thereof. |
34 and without a parable spake he not unto them: but privately to his own disciples he expounded all things. |
35 And on that day, when even was come, he saith unto them, Let us go over unto the other side. |
36 And leaving the multitude, they take him with them, even as he was, in the boat. And other boats were with him. |
37 And there ariseth a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the boat, insomuch that the boat was now filling. |
38 And he himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion: and they awake him, and say unto him, Teacher, carest thou not that we perish? |
39 And he awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. |
40 And he said unto them, Why are ye fearful? have ye not yet faith? |
41 And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him? |
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It's probably fair to call Silicon Valley the center of the tech universe. The Valley is home to more tech companies than any other region, including some of the best companies on the planet to work for (Google, Facebook, Twitter). |
But it's also an insanely expensive place to live. |
Turns out, you don't have to live there to have a fabulous job at a great tech company. There are awesome companies all over the country. |
We asked employee crowdsourcing site Glassdoor.com to tell us which one of these are the best according to their employees. |
Rackspace employees in San Antonio, Texas. |
About the company: Web hosting and cloud computing infrastructure. Rackspace is going through some challenging times right now, as it faces increased competition from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, HP, and others. |
The company's well-liked CEO Lanham Napier surprised the tech world by suddenly resigning in February, when the company announced softer-than-expected growth in its cloud business. Founder and chairman Graham Weston stepped back in as temporary CEO. |
About the company: Microsoft just appointed its third-ever CEO, long-time Microsoftie Satya Nadella. The company is already flourishing under his new leadership as he moves Microsoft into the brave new era of cloud computing and making its own devices with its acquisition of Nokia. |
About the company: TI is a a $12 billion semi-conductor company that consistently lands on the "best places to work" lists. In 2011, it bought its oldest, biggest rival, National Semiconductor. |
Today its chips are embedded in countless electronics devices. It is even powering a Kickstarter project that launched a bunch of tiny spacecrafts into orbit with the last the SpaceX mission, the first so-called "personal spacecrafts." |
About the company: About 24 million people use the CareerBuilder website each month to find new jobs and glean career advice. It was originally launched as a dotcom-era website and went public one-year before the Internet bubble burst. |
It barely hung on through the post bubble years, bought by newspaper companies Gannett Co. and the Tribune Company and The McClatchy Company (which owns Knight Ridder). |
Today, it represents the online heir to the newspaper's help wanted section and is known for its TV commercials featuring monkeys. |
About the company: National Instruments was founded in 1976 and is famous for its test equipment that helps engineers build everything from spaceships to tiny wireless devices. |
It recently announced a partnership with toy maker Lego where NI's software will be used for building Lego robots. The project aims to excite students about science and technology. |
About the company: Citrix offers a form of networking software to companies that allows them to run Windows (and other apps) over the cloud, instead of installing it on PCs. It offers other tech management software, too, for doing things like security and managing mobile devices. It is VMware's biggest competitor. |
Citrix is currently looking to replace its long-time CEO Mark Templeton who plans to retire this year. He took a leave of absence last summer after the tragic death of his 27-year-old son. |
About the company: MathWorks makes math software for computer engineering. Its tools help developers create algorithms or analyze data. MathWorks is famous for a contest it runs each year for the best uses of its software. Last year, an Australian doctorate student won for creating a drone. |
About the company: CDW is a $10 billion company that sells just about every kind of piece of computer equipment and software under the sun. Its founder story is a bit similar to Dell's. |
In 1982, a 28-year-old, out-of-work college graduate named Michael Krasny needed cash and placed a $3 classified ad in the newspaper to sell his IBM computer. Offers poured in, he made $200 profit, and Krasny became a computer broker, buying and selling computers for a small profit. The company was born. |
About the company: Qualcomm is a semiconductor manufacturer most famous for its Snapdragon chips that power many of today's smartphones and tablets. |
The mobile revolution, and Qualcomm's starring role in it, has fueled the 29-year-old company to massive growth in recent years. It reported $25 billion in 2013 revenues, up 30% from 2012. Cofounder Irwin Jacobs is a billionaire involved in politics. He just hosted President Obama at his home for a $10,000-a-plate lunc... |
About the company: Orbitz is a travel-booking website that also owns other sites like CheapTickets and European-focused ebookers. Orbitz began life in the dotcom era as a collaboration by the airline industry. They wanted a piece of the online travel action from rising sites Expedia and Travelocity. |
The company hasn't been a stock market favorite. The stock has been trading well below $10 since 2008, though it has started to rebound a bit in 2014. For that reason its top executive receives modest pay by the tech industry's standards: $5.3 million in total compensation in 2013, up from $3.9 million the year before. |
William Falconer-Beach has rendered some images of the SpaceX Starship with a mirror polished stainless steel body. |
Elon Musk has reported that SpaceX is building the body of the Starship out of stainless steel and that it will be polished to a mirror finish. |
A hopper version of the Starship should have its first test flights by April 2019. The Super Heavy should reach orbit in 2020. |
This vehicle will be completely reusable and will be able to carry 100 tons to low earth orbit with each launch. |
UPDATE: The body and nose cone of the hopper demo version of the SpaceX Starship will be assembled within days. |
This fall, watch for David Axelrod, Obama's campaign manager, to choreograph at least two post-convention mass events at least slightly reminiscent of the stagecraft of Leni Riefenstahl in 1934 Germany. |
Ms. Riefenstahl first heard her idol at a 1932 rally. She was enthralled by his public speaking ability and became a devotee, dedicating her genius to making films that deified The Leader. Her 1934 work entitled "Triumph of the Will," documenting a mass rally in Nuremberg, remains a movie classic with its pioneering dr... |
Riefenstahl, a former dancer, put a camera on a semi-circular track and did a continuous rolling shoot that revolved 180 degrees around the stationary Leader, projecting his firm, unwavering, demigod-like resolve before adoring masses eager to be rescued. The film is still widely regarded as the most innovative and eff... |
Watch for a reincarnation of the Riefenstahl Strategy this fall coming from the Obama Campaign. It will start on August 29. |
Barack Obama has mastered the big-audience platform speech. Not since William Jennings Bryan, "The Boy Orator of the Platte," and Democratic Party presidential nominee in 1896, 1900 and 1908, has an American politician catapulted into prominence based largely on oratorical skills. And Bryan had no teleprompter. |
Obama's widely-televised primary speeches cemented his image as a stirring, motivational speaker. His followers swooned. Hollywood personalities heralded him as an evolutionary politician. Collectively, the old news media said, "Oooooh!" |
Since then, his speeches have failed to reach the euphoric glorification of those early events, which were essentially the same speech reworked for each occasion. |
So, for now, the worm has turned away from Obama in that venue. But not to worry; it'll turn back strong when he delivers his acceptance speech at Denver's Invesco Field before tens of thousands of adoring, cheering fans on the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech. |
At that event, the partisan nominee will be transformed into the Chosen One of the nation. He will no longer just belong to Democrats, but to all America. Some of us will watch with alarm. Others will feel their spirits lifted. |
The camera will pan the stands -- old and young, white and black and brown. Families will hold up small children to see him from afar. Variable camera angles will capture his profiles, his smile, his gestures. Michelle and the girls will thrill the crowd with a wave projected on the large stadium screen. In response, t... |
Someone close to the mike will shout, "We love you, Obama." He will echo, "I love you back." The camera will focus close on one, perhaps two, with hankies held to their eyes. Tears because he has come, and they are the ones for whom they've waited. |
This mega-event will be the high-water mark of the Obama campaign. But it won't end there. It'll kick-off a short series of mass-audience events. (Is Madison Square Garden booked yet by the Obama campaign? And a venue in Florida? Or Michigan, perhaps?) A "short series" because this is something that can be overdone. Bu... |
Meanwhile, until the Democratic Party convention, Obama's staff will tightly control his appearances to avoid the gaffes he makes when speaking off-the-cuff in casual settings. Away from the teleprompter, he has feet of clay. Sometimes wet and slippery clay. His staff, alert to the danger, will manage his schedule to k... |
So, regarding Obama's big-speech prowess, we're in the lowlands of an emotional curve. We await the post-convention surge when his campaign stages events that will eclipse his earlier speeches in size and stagecraft. For its part, the old media will herald each successive extravaganza as evidence of a mounting ground s... |
These fall events will be less congratulatory than his acceptance speech. They'll aim to project an image of thoughtful substance. The Presumptive President will artfully smooth over the rough edges of the gaffes and inconsistencies that surfaced in the middle earth between the last primary and the convention. They wer... |
In mass events after the Denver convention, Obama will recreate the histrionics of his primary speeches when adoring, sleep-depraved, enthusiastic campaign workers shared the triumph of victory. This fall, all the People will share in his coming victory, for it will mean their redemption from anxiety about the future t... |
Fall media coverage will focus on the Obama Phenomena with even more intensity than before. For the final two months of the campaign, we'll be indoctrinated with episodes from the narrative arc of his life history. We'll hear, often, of the historical significance of his political ascendancy as a black man. Panels of t... |
Meanwhile, McCain, who has already missed several opportunities to crack the Obama façade, probably will fade deeper into the background as he becomes a supporting actor in the high drama of His Coming. McCain, the requisite contra-Obama figure. Moses' Aaron. |
All this as Barack Obama steps firmly onto the stage of Marshall McLuhan's "global village" when, to paraphrase McLuhan, the incarnate medium becomes the message. |
When will McCain answer the bell and fight like hell? |
Sheriffs chase a car driven by a big fish. The fish beats them to the water’s edge, diving in and thinking it’s made a clean getaway. But the sheriff confidently pulls out his Rapala fishing gear to let us know it’s not over til it’s over. |
AT&T Worst US Carrier Says Survey – Do You Agree? |
Recently Consumer Reports put together a comparison chart which showed all of the major US carrier ratings side-by-side, we have embedded this chart below, as you can see AT&T came out as the worst overall US carrier. |
AT&T has responded to the critical ratings their network has received and are said to be taking the poor scores very seriously, however they were keen to state that their dropped call rate is within 1/10 of a percent, also they claim that they have the nation’s fastest mobile broadband network. |
The chart also shows that U.S. Cellular is arguably the best US carrier, consumers seem extremely happy with the value for money and voice service, also in terms of customer support their staff’s knowledge is great and they helped people resolve issues encountered. |
Which US carrier is your favorite? |
I just went back to AT&T after trying Sprint &T-Mobile. I had to use 2 batteries a day while using Sprint. 3G . I never got EVO but had to pay $10.T-Mobile was 2G at my home and @G _3G at work. AT&T was 3G At work and at home.. C/S was good at AT&T. I dont know why other people rated them so low. I have never had a pro... |
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BERWICK, Maine — Although the investigation into the legality of the purchase of tax-acquired property 9 Rochester St. by a selectman's wife has come to a close, the original report and complaint filed with the Berwick Police Department is not being released. |
According to Berwick Police Capt. Jerry Locke, the case was turned over to Brian MacMaster at the Maine Attorney General's office for further investigation. Therefore, it is the department's interpretation the report is confidential under 16 M.R.S. section 614. |
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