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An entire people are under attack not because of what they have done but because of who they are. Instead of traveling to Burma, President Obama should be leading the call for a United Nations observer mission to investigate the violence in Rakhine State, deter the escalation of the violence and hold the perpetrators a... |
We’ve seen these warning signs before. The hateful rhetoric of Rakhine monks is reminiscent of the hateful propaganda directed at the Tutsi population and their sympathizers leading up to, and during the Rwandan genocide. While renewing calls for their expulsion from Burma, several Rakhine monks have urged the local po... |
There is no word to describe the response from the United States and the international community other than inadequate. The conditions that led to two major outbreaks of mass killings in the last few months are worsening daily. Greater loss of life and displacement are a certainty without a change of course. |
In a day and age in which technology affords us the ability to connect with people across the world, we can no longer claim ignorance to the fact that the Rohingya people are being slaughtered, displaced, and terrorized. When we look back on the books of history, will this be another example of when we failed to show u... |
Take action: Tell President Obama to call for an end to ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya. |
Tom Andrews is the President of United to End Genocide. |
Why "Daisy" in 2001: A Space Odyssey? |
Why did the HAL 9000 computer sing "Daisy Bell" in the 1968 science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey, written by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke? |
Maybe this video clip, taken from a documentary where Arthur C. Clarke is visiting Bell Labs back in the early 60s, will give you an answer to that question. |
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The voice synthesis part seems to be in its entirety on the record Album "First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival" published by Creative Computing in 1979. It also includes a really nice computer generated Toccata. Hey it's on-line here: |
The last track is the one. |
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J.S. Bach/Toccata & Fugue in d Minor |
J.S. Bach/Suite for Orchestra #2 in b minor (excerpt) |
Johann Wanhal/Rondo from Sonata in B flat for Clarinet and Piano |
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I heard the same recording around 1965-6, when my father was doing his doctoral research on computer voice recognition at Case Institute (now Case/Western) in Cleveland. At the time, the 'Daisy-voice' was astounding quality for a computer; my Dad's "advanced" setup could only generate and recognize the numbers 1, 2, 3,... |
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I remember hearing this exact rendition in the mid 60s at a science museum in Ohio. It was right next to the working traffic light mock-up. |
Cheap thrills for a ten year old. |
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Fire Engulfs Car Service, Burns Cars |
By Brittany Nicholson |
CARROLL COUNTY, Tenn. -- Anytime temperatures drop, firefighters warn about the dangers heat sources can bring. A Carroll County family sadly saw that first hand on Saturday. |
Tony Dill and his family are devastated. They lost their family business they have been building for the past five years. |
Dill's son, T.J., who works down the road, was almost speechless when he saw the damage. |
"I wasn't expecting everything to be gutted," he said. |
T.J. said a wood burning heater started the fire as his dad and brother worked on a car. His father's first reaction was to save the client's car. |
"It definitely could have ended a different way, with him trying to pull the car out and having part of the roof fall on him," T.J. said. |
The two were able to safely escape. Fire officials said this fire was hotter than normal, hot enough to melt the front end off a car that sat about 20 feet from the building. |
"The building had a lot of tires and flammables in it. It's just hard to get it under control," firefighter Richie Matthews said. |
Fire officials said it took just 15 minutes for the entire building to go up in flames with two cars and a motorcycle inside. |
Despite the family's loss, T.J. said his family will find a way to make it through and remain positive. |
"To have that lost in a matter of hours, it's just devastating. This is their livelihood. But everybody come out safe. So that's something you can be thankful for," T.J. Dill said. |
Fire officials say using wood or oil burning heaters will be inevitable over the next few days with freezing temperatures. They say to make sure you keep a close eye on them and don't leave them unattended. |
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May 31, 2011 |
FAA Chief Faces Heat For Controller Lapses |
• Thanks to the new "non-punitive" reporting system touted so highly by Captain Babbitt this controller was able to go report the incident...even though the pilots of the US Air flight were also reporting it as a near miss so this isn't one of those "previously unknown events" that Captain Babbitt says is causing t... |
• @Jay ---- your knowledge of the aviation industry is laughable. Captain Babbitt, by the very nature of his background, has experienced many close calls in his career as all pilots have. He was not BORN in to his position (like George W) as a pilot and then ALPA national President, he worked his way there and was ... |
• Apparently the "pilot" of the turbo prop" did not have or does not understand "TCAS," because he was not aware of what he was flying towards. The information here indicates that the pilot of the jet did not have a TCAS warning, becuase his comments, as reported here, were made when he visually observed the aircra... |
• Having over 26,000 hours I have always said the the best service the Government provides is the FAA. A true professional would report obvious breakdowns in the system no matter who is at fault. Punitive results or not. Keep the union's out of the discussion. |
• IMHO the problem is that the FAA has to hire (or has been hiring) people who know NOTHING about aviation. The "screen" is laughable, and we now have second generation post-strike "controllers" who never learned how to control in the first place as instructors -- of the third generation post-strike trainees. |
I retired on the FIRST day I was eligible because of these people who must have trouble "controlling" their bladders because they can't control planes and never think of how their "actions" affect downstream sectors. |
But to be fair, I would have quit anyway with all the new "stuff" that the FAA's lawyers have dumped onto controllers through the 7110.65.... and their habit of "management by GENOT". No matter how hard you try you cannot dump 10 lbs into a 5 lb bag. |
• Unfortunately, this appears to be another example of mismanagement by Randy Babbit. As an airline pilot of more than 19000 hours, I appreciate what he did while running ALPA, but I think he is in over his head trying to run the FAA, or better yet, trying to "fix" the FAA. As a buroucracy, the FAA is broken. About... |
• Immunity from prosecution for operational errors in all probability will breed a lapse in attention by a few controllers that have not been doing the job adequately. What happens if 100 ft turns into a midair? What program will be used by Randy and the boys to cover up the "operational error" and resultant smokin... |
• Just an added comment to Jay. How in the world do you tie George W to the ineptness of Randy Babbitt. He is more of a politician then Geprge W ever thought of being. How did he get elected to the head of the union? When you want to advertise for the union just come out and say it. George W had nothing to do with ... |
• @Ric |
Actually, Jay is just about right on the money, and I can tell you from first-hand inside FAA exoerience that he must be on the inside himself because his comments about the ATSAP system and the union on the ERC board are 100% correct. |
• Travis you are correct. The comment should have been in response to Ric. My apologies. |
• Harold and Ed - Obviously you do not remember what happened when the government contracted out Flight Service, it has gone from essential services to a joke, yet Lockheed-Martin is raking in the bucks and crying for more and more money every year while doing less and less. Enjoy being controlled by 2/3 less Contr... |
• There are hundreds of mistakes by human beings in the Aviation System daily. The only thing has changed is the reporting of these anomolies by the media and the lack of ability of people with no aviation experience to put them in the proper context. Some of the comments above are obviously politically biased or a... |
• Why is it that Ric and Jay don't admit the truth: ATSAP has kept tens of thousands of safety violations hidden from Babbitt, the Congress and the public. NOT JUST THE IDENTITIES OF THE ATCs involved, but also the real numbers reported to the system. Why is the ATSAP database hidden away--OUTSIDE FAA--resident wit... |
ATSAP was NOT Babbitt's idea, it was former Acting Administrator, BOBBY STURGILL's, who directed the creation of the system. Sturgill was a "Bushie", and on his shoulders rests responsibility for the failure of ATSAP to enhance, not erode, aviation safety. |
Babbitt is simply ignoring reality because--as during the Bushie reign--the Obama Administration is beholden to contractors like Raytheon, whose former senior vice president of Government Operations and Strategy is the current Deputy Secretary of Defense. |
According to three former FAA officials intimately knowledgeable of ATSAP, operational errors and ATC training, it is "not a matter of if, but when" the 100 feet turn into a mid-air. |
• Why is it that safetyminded has do make up rediculous conspiracy theories in order to try to prove a point. We KNOW that people will lie, provide misleading facts and tell half truths in order to mitigate criticism and punishment directed at them for mistakes made during employment in safety related industries. T... |
• Ric, this is not a conspiracy theory. You've not refuted a single fact I mention in my comment. |
I emphasize, this is not about WHO made the error, but about reporting to the flying public, Congress and Administrator Babbitt, accurate numbers and types of operational errors. Accurate statistics are useless if they're kept hidden away from those who can assess their merit and provide solutions to problems. |
Fact: ATSAP was Bobby Sturgill's creation |
Fact: ATSAP data reside with outside contractor, CSSI |
Fact: ATSAP data is examined by three arbiters, one delegate from the union (NATCA); two FAA officials, no one else. |
Fact: These three individuals decide which errors merit attention, which do not. They decide how they will be handled, by whom; they decide whether or not the errors will be reported officially to FAA's statistical database on operational errors. |
Fact: ATSAP contains tens of thousands of anonimously reported errors that have not ever been transmitted to anyone outside CSSI. |
As a result, FAA's published statistics on operational errors and other safety violations are incomplete, inaccurate, heavily edited by individuals representing organizations with vested interests in not revealing the facts to the prees, Congress and the public. |
Ric, aviation safety is not the private concern of one small contractor vested in financial interest, and three reviewers vested in institutional bias. Shouldn't we let the truth about ATSAP statistics come out? NOT IDENTITIES, JUST THE NUMBERS AND TYPES OF PROBLEMS THAT BESET THE SYSTEM AT PRESENT? |
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