Terminator!
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Police say a Metromover car rolled over and killed a station supervisor as he inspected the tracks.
The accident happened Saturday. The computerized vehicle, which is not driven by a conductor, was stopped, but moved forward for an unknown reason.
Police found the body about 100 feet from the platform; the identity of the supervisor wasn't released.
This is the second public transit worker death in the last week. On Sunday night, a 60-year-old Metrorail security officer was shot and killed by two men in a station garage.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Florida Man Killed By Computerized Vehicle While Inspecting Tracks
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Report: Steve Jobs Had Liver Transplant
He'll be back!
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Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave from Apple Inc. since January to treat an undisclosed medical condition, received a liver transplant in Tennessee about two months ago.
Oct. 14: Tim Cook, Steve Jobs and Apple vice president Phil Schiller take questions during a meeting at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.
The chief executive has been recovering well and is expected to return to work on schedule later this month, though he may work part-time initially.
Jobs didn't respond to an e-mail requesting comment.
"Steve continues to look forward to returning at the end of June, and there's nothing further to say," said Apple spokeswoman Katie Cotton.
When he does return, Jobs may be encouraged by his physicians to initially "work part-time for a month or two," a person familiar with the thinking at Apple said. That may lead Tim Cook, Apple's chief operating officer, to take "a more encompassing role," this person said. The person added that Cook may be appointed to Apple's board in the not-too-distant future.
Apple has previously drawn criticism from some shareholders over what they have called limited disclosure of Jobs's health problems, which began in 2004. In this case, it is unclear whether the surgery is material because Jobs was already on leave. Material information like that must be disclosed only "if you are asking shareholders to make a decision based on [that] information," said John Olson, a senior partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Washington. "You can't expect the company to give a blow-by-blow account of Steve Jobs's health."
But once Jobs resumes work, the company will have to be "very careful" about what it says "about his health and his prognosis," Olson said. The attorney, who counsels corporate boards on governance issues, has never advised Apple's board.
At least some Apple directors were aware of the CEO's surgery. As part of an agreement with Jobs in place before he went on leave, some board members have been briefed weekly on the CEO's condition by his physician.
Air France pays $24,500 to crash victims' families
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PARIS, France (CNN) -- Air France will pay families about €17,500 ($24,500) in initial compensation for each victim of the crash of Flight 447 this month, the company's chief executive says.
French Senator Gerard Larcher throws a tribute wreath into waters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Thursday.
French Senator Gerard Larcher throws a tribute wreath into waters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Thursday.
So far, Air France has been in touch with about 1,800 relatives of the people who died when the Airbus A330 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, chief executive Paul-Henri Gourgeon told France's RTL radio Friday.
The company is also providing families with counseling, he said.
"Of course, this is not always easy, (but) we make up for it," he said. "We have psychologists in each country, in each stop. You know that the passengers were of 32 different nationalities, so all that is of great complexity, but we have the ability to manage this complexity. It's just a question of means and no limits on the means that we put in place."
Gourgeon said it has been difficult tracing the relatives of all 228 victims.
"The modern world is different and we often have only a cell phone, and as you can imagine, this cell phone is unfortunately in the aircraft," he said. "So we probably put more hours to access all the relatives."
The aircraft has not been found, though search teams have found dozens of pieces of debris in the water and think they know the general location of the wreck. The head of the French accident investigation board, Paul-Louis Arslanian, said this week that there is a chance the entire aircraft may never be found. Video Watch more wreckage recovered from crash »
With no wreckage and few clues about what caused the plane to go down, searchers are focused on finding the plane's data recorders, the so-called black boxes. Data from the recorders may be crucial in pinning down a cause.
Autopsies conducted on some of the 50 bodies found so far show they suffered broken bones, including arms, legs and hips, Brazilian authorities have told French investigators, Arslanian said.
Experts have said such injuries indicate the flight broke apart before hitting the ocean.
Asked about that theory, Gourgeon said he would not go that far.
"What I know is that the investigators would like to know the causes of death," Gourgeon said. "That knowledge of causes of death will better clarify what exactly happened. Were the victims killed before the impact, or during impact?"
There has been difficulty in exchanging information between French investigators and Brazilian coroners, but that is being resolved, he said.
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Investigators are looking at the possible role of airspeed sensors known as Pitot tubes, among other factors, as a possible cause of the crash.
The plane sent 24 automated error messages in the four minutes before it crashed, Arslanian said Wednesday. The error messages all indicate there were problems with on-board information about the plane's speed, which can cause some of the plane's instruments to stop functioning, Arslanian said.
Air France bodies had broken bones, official says
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PARIS, France (CNN) -- At least some of the bodies recovered from the Air France crash this month had broken bones, Brazilian authorities have told French investigators, evidence that suggests the flight broke apart before hitting the ocean.
French Senator Gerard Larcher throws a tribute wreath into waters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Thursday.
French Senator Gerard Larcher throws a tribute wreath into waters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Thursday.
Paul-Louis Arslanian, director of the Bureau d'Enquetes et d'Analyses, the French accident investigation board, said Thursday that Brazilian medical examiners had given that information to his agency.
Asked whether the information included reports that the recovered bodies from Flight 447 had fractures to arms, legs and hips, and few had any clothing, Arslanian said yes.
All of that, aviation experts have said, points to a mid-air rupture of the plane at about 35,000 feet.
There is still no explanation of what brought down the Airbus A330, which was en route from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris, France when it crashed in the Atlantic on June 1. Video Watch more wreckage recovered from crash »
Arslanian pleaded Thursday for the media and the public to stop speculation about the cause of the Air France crash.
A major Brazilian newspaper reported this week that 95 percent of the bodies so far had shown fractures in the legs, arms and hips similar to injuries found in people who fall from great heights. The newspaper O Estado de Sao Paulo cited unnamed officials who are part of the investigation.
Another clue is the low incidence of cranial trauma, the newspaper reported. If the aircraft had nose-dived into the ocean, victims would have more head injuries, the paper said.
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A large number of bodies also had red lesions in their mucous membranes, which the paper said is usually associated with asphyxia, or lack of oxygen.
Another major Brazilian newspaper, the Jornal do Brasil, cited information from an unnamed person from the Brazilian military who has access to the teams working in the recovery of the plane. This person told the paper that bodies were found "mutilated" with no clothing, a strong indication of violent depressurization caused by a structural rupture.
Friday, June 19, 2009
FBI: Test Confirms Michigan Man Not Long-Missing New York Boy
DETROIT — DNA testing disproved a Michigan man's suspicions that he was a toddler kidnapped on New York's Long Island in 1955, the FBI said Thursday, closing a chapter in a bizarre mystery that started after he began researching his roots on the Internet.
The FBI said in a statement that a test showed John Barnes, an unemployed man in his 50s who lives in a trailer in northwest Michigan, is not Stephen Damman, who disappeared at age 2 from outside an East Meadow market while his mother shopped.
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The sample showed Barnes could not have the same mother as Pamela Damman Horne, the sister of the toddler who was with him when he disappeared, the FBI said. She was found in her stroller, unharmed, around the corner from the market.
The case had raised the hopes of the toddler's father, Jerry Damman, who runs a 440-acre farm in Iowa, and stunned the community where the Halloween kidnapping occurred. Damman, now 78, had said he hoped for a resolution after five decades of silence.
"It's too bad we had to go through all of this for actually nothing in the end," he told The Associated Press.
Barnes has said he has long suspected the couple who raised him are not his biological parents, and the FBI took his DNA sample after he connected with Horne and took a trip to Iowa to try and catch a glimpse of the man he believed to be his father. He said he began investigating his origins years ago because he believed he never fit in.
Photos of the missing toddler's mother on the Internet led him to believe he could be Stephen. Barnes said pictures of the missing boy's mother when she was a young adult resembled what he looked like at the same age, so he started looking into the case.
Barnes did bear a striking resemblance to a photo of the missing toddler: He had the same chubby cheeks, the same round face and bright, blue eyes. And there was a faint line on his chin, close to the scar the missing toddler was said to have. But his father, Richard Barnes, immediately dismissed the speculation as "a bunch of foolishness," and said John Barnes was born in a Navy hospital in Pensacola, Fla., on Aug. 18, 1955.
Cheryl Barnes, John Barnes' sister, said she was not surprised by the test results. Mending fences, she said, won't be easy. "He pretty much lost two families today," she said.
"We knew that was going to be the outcome. ... My dad feels the same way. Neither of us had a doubt. My dad knows who his son is. I'm angry at my brother for putting everyone through this, turning everybody's lives upside down."
No one answered the door at John Barnes' home. A message seeking comment was also left for an attorney representing the toddler's sister in Lee's Summit, Mo.
Dwight Damman, a son from Jerry Damman's second marriage who would be the missing toddler's half brother, said he always had been skeptical of Barnes' story.
"We didn't hold out a lot of hope that it was true," Dwight Damman said. "After the pictures came out it kinda made you think, but with DNA you have to wait for the results."
Haze worsens in Penang
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GEORGE TOWN: Penangites will have to brace themselves for thicker haze as there will be no rain for the next three days, according to the meteorological department.
The haze which is enveloping the state has worsened over the last couple of days with visibility dropping to 4km.
Visibility in Bayan Lepas was 4km at 10am while in Prai and Butterworth, it was 5km.
It remained the same at 1pm except for Butterworth where it improved to 6km.
Visibility on Wednesday was better at 7km in Butterworth, 6km in Bayan Lepas and 8km in Prai and on Tuesday, visibility was more than 10km.
The air pollutant index (API) at all three places was moderate at 71 for Seberang Jaya, Universiti Sains Malaysia (53) and Prai (59) at 5pm.
A total of 23 areas nationwide recorded good API between 0-50 while 27 areas had moderate API between 51 and 100. The unhealthy API is between 101-200.
A spokesperson of the Penang Bridge Sdn Bhd said traffic on the bridge was not affected although it was slow moving.
Penang International Airport airport manager Abdul Wahab Mohd Yusof also said that the haze condition had not affected airport operations.
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