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This morning, the NTSB's "go team" of investigators began the job of collecting what is described as perishable information concerning the flight.
Investigators recovered the flight recorders from the wreckage just before noon. Locating those black boxes was critical.{} They were recovered from the tail section of the plane. Now, the investigation turns to piecing together the evidence{} to determine what happened{} in the moments before crash, and why.
"We want to get the wreckage documented as soon as we can. We want to document the evidence. We want to document the perishable information. That's what we want to do now," says Robert Sumwalt, board member of the NTSB.{}
Sumwalt knows time is of the essence. "Evidence that we are looking for that can go away with the passage of time, would be witness statements. The more the 'elements' contend with us, the harder it is to get out there and get a good documentation of the wreckage," Sumwalt explains.Investigators met their primary goal. They retrieved both flight recorders from the wreckage. Now, the investigation will shift to a second area of impact. The trees that were clipped as the plane went down.
"how far north on the approach path did this plane start clipping trees? We have not documented that," says Sumwalt.Although the recovery of the black boxes is critical. There still is more information important to the investigation. "We'll be getting the transcripts from the FAA. The FAA has told us on a preliminary basis that there were no distress calls on the aircraft," Sumwalt says.Ultimately, the NTSB's mission is clear."We want to know what happened on this flight, not only what happened, but why it happened. Our goal at the end of the day is to find out what happened so it won't happen again," says Sumwalt.
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Historic Hollywood Sites that you might enjoy!
Posted 27 March 2010 - 11:26 PM
You're welcome! Also in the direct vicinity of the Film Festival are some of the following historic sites:
*The Hollywood Roosevelt*: Home to the first Academy Awards and built on Hollywood Blvd in the 1927, it helped anchor the west end of the Blvd. Located across the street from the famed Grauman's Chinese Theater, the Roosevelt was the classiest hotel back in the day. It's famed lounge, the Cinegrill, often featured up and coming singers who went on to have big careers as well as some of the best crooners of the day. It is said to be haunted.
*Grauman's Chinese Theater*: the second of renowned theater mogul Sid Grauman's movie palaces on the Blvd. It also opened in 1927 with the premiere of CB DeMille's silent epic, *The King of Kings*. It's historic neon marquee and Chinese pagoda have graced films from the silent days to today's blockbusters. In the courtyard is the famed Footprints of the Stars. Legend has it that Mary Pickford, Norma Talmedge and Grauman's partner in the theater (and movie star and hubby of Mary Pickford), Doug Fairbanks, sr were the first three footprints enshrined.
Even after Ted Mann bought Grauman's Chinese and renamed it Mann's Chinese, no one ever really called it that. It will always be Grauman's Chinese.
Just west of the Chinese (where the Galaxy theaters are (or whatever they are called today) used to be the Garden Court Apartments. This wonderful beaux-arts building was home to many Hollywood stars and up and coming stars back in the day. By the 1970s, the Apartments had become run down and homeless and runaway youths were camping out in the ruins. A fire of unknown nature razed the building in the early 1980s.
*The El Capitan Theater:* It originally opened in 1926 as one of the many movie palaces on the Blvd. It opened with the premiere of *Charlotte's Revue*. The Depression took a toll on the El Capitan but it was the host theater for the premiere of *Citizen Kane*.
In 1942, it was renamed the Hollywood Paramount with the premiere of *Reap the Wild Wind*. It was the flagship West Coast theater for Paramount Studios until the Consent Degree took affect.
As Hollywood Blvd ebbed and flowed in the post-war era, so did the El Capitan becoming by the late 1960s a seedy, second and third run theater. In the 1980s, it was bought by the Pacific Theater Chain which didn't respect the property but did appreciate the land underneath.
In 1989, the Walt Disney Studios bought the theater and it underwent a restoration to return it to its former grandeur. Since then, Disney has used the theater to highlight their re-releases of animated classics as well as premiering new animation classics.
Near the El Capitan is the former Masonic Temple where Jimmy Kimmel used to broadcast his show from (may still). The Masonic Temple also showcased a number of punk rock bands back in the late 1970s.
Just east of the El Capitan was a drugstore that featured a minature of Hollywood Blvd circa the 1940s that graced the large show window for years until the 1980s.
*The Egyptian Theater*: Sid Grauman's first foyer into movie palaces on Hollywood Blvd. Grauman had opened a number of movie palaces in downtown Los Angeles along Broadway St. But he had his eye on Hollywood. And the Egyptian would be the first movie palace to open on the Blvd. It cost $800,000 to build and it opened with the premiere of Alan Dwan's wonderful *Robin Hood* starring the swashbuckling idol of the day, Doug Fairbanks, Sr.
The Egyptian style was part of the craze sweeping the world during the 1920s with the British expeditions of historic Egypt and the discovery of not only King Tut's tomb (two weeks after the opening of the theater) but other historic milestones as well.
It's giant courtyard made it a natural for red carpet entrances. But as with the Chinese and the El Capitan, as the Boulevard's fortunes ebbed and flowed, so did the theaters. It hosted the roadshow version of *My Fair Lady* and the front of the courtyard was redesigned to include a large mid-century modern pylon sign.
In the late1970s, during the multi-plex craze, the Egyptian opened two smaller theaters located on the east side of the property. Unlike the Warners Hollywood (coming up) theater, the main theater was not cut up to accommodate these theaters. In the 1980s, *The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai* and other movies premiered at the Egyptian.
The theater was badly damaged in the 1994 Northridge Earthquake that hit Hollywood hard (I was living east of the theater on Gower St just above Franklin at the time). The theater was red tagged and for along time preservationists thought the theater would be destroyed.
Instead, the American Cinematheque (long the dream of the two Garys behind Filmex), bought the building from the city of Los Angeles in 1996 for a dollar. The city's one proviso was that the theater be returned to its grandeur as a movie palace.
The Cinematheque undertook a large fund raising effort. The main theater had been badly damaged in the earthquake and in the restoration it was reconfigured to fit a smaller theater in the complex as well.
Be aware, the Cinematheque is a non-profit that is still trying to raise money to help repair the fixes they made to the building when they took over ownership. Don't be surprised by some the crumbling facade. The Cinematheque offers one of the most imaginative film programming in Hollywood.
Next door to the Egyptian on the west side of the building is the famed Pig and Whistle Restaurant and Bar.
More to come!
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Posted 27 March 2010 - 07:56 PM
Posted 23 March 2010 - 10:35 PM
If you are coming to the TCM Film Festival, I thought you might like a few historical sites to check out, especially if you are coming a day or two earlier or staying a day or two more.
The DeMille Barn: This is the building that DeMille used in the making of *The Squaw Man*, one of the first films shot in Hollywood. For years the building was located just off of Vine Street near Fountain Ave. Finally, in a last ditch effort to save the historical building, it was moved to its current location across the street from the Hollywood Bowl. Today it is home to Hollywood Heritage, the group dedicated to preserving the historic buildings of Hollywood. There is a small but great museum inside and best of all it's affordable.
You won't be disappointed. It's not that far a walk up Highland from the Hotel Roosevelt. If you are walking to the museum, be sure to take a bottle or two of water to stay hydrated. By the end of April, it will be springtime in the City of Angels.
(Click on Museum for details about the barn.)
More historic spots to come......
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The next group of Las Vegas athletes to invade the NFL draft looking to make a living as professional had to wait a while to be drafted but must be relieved to know where they will be starting their career. It took until the fifth round but the group will be entering the league in great positions to stick around and develop.
Fifth Round Selections
Former Cimarron linebacker Brandon Marshall (Nevada) was the first off the board landing with a Jacksonville Jaguar team in need of depth and a player capable of stepping in to play quality minutes. A four year starter in college, Marshall lands with a program where he should fill a need and have an opportunity to eventually develop into a starter.
Shadow Ridge linebacker Korey Toomer (Idaho) came off the board second. Remaining in the northwest region with the Seattle Seahawks, Toomer is a player that brings a ton of athleticism and speed off the edge. Toomer will probably spend year one as a special teams contributor but he is a player that the Seahawks staff expects to eventually develop as a pass defender from the linebacker position and possibly develop as a strong pass rusher as well.
Canyon Springs wide receiver Juron Criner (Arizona) should be the Oakland Raiders fifth option at worst upon his arrival but he is a red zone threat and big possession type of player that in a bit of a different mold than the tradition speedster the load up on along the edge. Criner will have stiff competition but bring a different set of skills and some of the best hands on the current roster.
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The Cleveland Browns selected the player rated the highest among Nevada prospects before the draft in Las Vegas HS defensive lineman Billy Winn (Boise State). Moderate level work outs and tweener size kept Winn on the board much longer than expected but he steps in to a situation where he can provide depth and earn time in the defensive line rotation. Very capable of being a starting caliber lineman, Winn has to prove that he can use his versatility to be a playmaker for the Browns and that the explosion he displayed in college can transfer to play in the NFL.
Seventh Round
A former Cheyenne quarterback, safety D.J. Campbell (Cal) used the off-season to prove he is an elite athlete for the deep backfield and landed with the Carolina Panthers. Campbell only had a single year as a starter, which hurt his stock, but he is a player that had a good buzz entering the draft. The situation at safety is favorable for Campbell in Carolina and he is experienced as a special teams guy. Minus injuries, Campbell won't have a major opportunity to play quality minutes this season but he is a player that fills a need and should land time on the active roster with a strong of-season.


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Texas highest suicide risk rate for youth in the country
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Alfonso Mercado said he's worked with children and adolescents for 10 years as a therapist.
He said according to a study by the Texas Mental Health America, Texas has the highest suicide risk rate in the country for youth.
"Suicide among the youth is also the third leading cause of death|so we really need to pay attention to the warning signs and identify and provide early treatment and intervention before the depression becomes worse to the point of that psychiatric emergency where someone is in danger of their selves or others," said Mercado who works at Tropical Texas Behavioral Health.
Mercado said during teenage years, there are biological changes and hormonal shifts that play a role when dealing with depression and parents need to be on the lookout.
"When grades start declining with students would be one example. School absenteeism...these are all behavioral signs of depression when it starts to interfere with their day to day functioning," said Mercado.
Other signs could be not sleeping or sleeping too much, restlessness, not being able to concentrate, loss of energy, feeling worthless, change in appetite, and no longer being interested in favorite activities, and if you're child mentions they want to die, Mercado said to take it very seriously.
There are mobile crisis outreach teams provided by Tropical Texas Behavioral Health that provide a 24 hour valley-wide response.
They assess the risk of suicide and talk the person out of it.
To contact them in a time of mental health emergencies call 1-877-289-7199.
But to prevent things from getting to the point of suicide, Mercado said communication is the key.
Not only between parent and child but also in schools.
"I think having a good communication system among the teachers the administrators and working with mental health professionals as well so that everyone can be on the same page as well as providing outreach to the families," said Mercado.


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A new international study is pouring cold water on suggestions non-drinkers might enjoy even greater health benefits if they tried a few glasses of red wine.
The harmful effects of alcohol on conditions such as liver cirrhosis, injuries and many cancers have been firmly established.
But scientific debate has continued about whether light to moderate alcohol consumption reduces the risk of coronary heart disease and stroke.
In 1991, the US news programme 60 Minutes aired a broadcast on the so-called ''French paradox''- that French people ate a high-fat and dairy-fat diet yet had relatively low occurrence of cardiovascular disease.
Bordeaux scientist Serge Renaud suggested on the programme that the moderate consumption of red wine was a risk-reducing factor for the French, given worse heart health outcomes for British and Americans, who also had a high-fat diet.
Prof Jennie Connor, of the University of Otago preventive and social medicine department, and a medical spokeswoman for Alcohol Action New Zealand Ltd, said many studies had showed a benefit of light drinking, compared with no drinking.
But this was highly disputed because the design of the studies meant other explanations for the findings could not be ruled out.
Breakthrough research published this week in the British Medical Journal suggested the sceptics were right, she said in a statement.
With a quarter of a million participants, this study showed that individuals of European descent with a genetic predisposition to consume less alcohol had a reduced risk of coronary heart disease and ischaemic stroke, and lower levels of risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
Prof Connor said people with the genetic variant drank less or no alcohol.
''They were not otherwise different from the general population, but had lower blood pressure, were slimmer and had lower risk of both coronary heart disease and the most common form of stroke,'' she said.
The study showed that reducing alcohol consumption, even for light to moderate drinkers, was ''likely to be beneficial for cardiovascular health'', she said.
''This is a major challenge to the idea that light to moderate alcohol consumption is good for your heart, and supports the contention that the previous studies have been flawed,'' she said.
Dick Bunton, a Dunedin cardiothoracic surgeon and a director at award-winning Rockburn Wines in Central Otago, said he had not yet read the latest study.
But he would not recommend even light drinking of wine as a therapeutic health benefit for a non-drinker.
Some previous studies had suggested some health benefit in light to moderate wine consumption, he said.
But great care needed to be taken in assessing overall alcohol-related health risks, not only to the heart, but also to other organs, including the liver.
He acknowledged that research which suggested health benefits of some wine consumption also needed to be interpreted in light of the knowledge that some wine drinkers were also more likely to be non-smokers and to undertake regular physical exercise.
Prof Doug Sellman, director of the National Addiction Centre at Otago University's Christchurch campus, said the British study was ''an important turning point in the discussion of benefits of drinking for physical health''.
For a long time the supposed benefits of drinking had been promoted by the industry, the media and some health professionals.
But previously doubtful claims had now been shown to be ''very unlikely indeed''.
He said consuming a few glasses of wine could well be ''good for the soul'' but consuming more than a bottle of wine a week was likely to be somewhat harmful to the body.


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This new quantitative, automated assay, and the encouragingly positive results of several recent trials, mean that H-FABP is now ready to be implemented into routine clinical practice, in combination with Troponin.
H-FABP is a low-weight cytoplasmic protein (15kDa) that is involved in the intracellular uptake and buffering of free fatty acids in the myocardium. It has been shown to be a highly sensitive & specific biomarker of myocardial ischemia, as it is released within 30 minutes of an ischemic episode and is 20 times more cardiac specific than Myoglobin.
Recent trials have shown that H-FABP has highly significant & additive diagnostic value, especially during the early hours following ACS symptom onset. Such results are particularly valuable, as this has traditionally been a "troponin-blind" period for hospital Emergency Departments, and many patients are conservatively admitted for further observation, in many cases, unnecessarily. The addition of H-FABP to an existing Troponin test offers the potential to rule-out ACS in many patients as early as their time of presentation to hospital.
These results have been shown to apply, even when one of the new generation of "high sensitivity" Troponins (hsTn) is used. The results of one recently completed study from the University of Manchester, UK, were presented at the IFCC EuroMedLab conference in Berlin on May 17th 2011. These results suggest that utilising a combination hsTnT, H-FABP and ECG on admission, could act as a highly accurate rule-out test for AMI.
Lead author of the study, Dr Rick Body, explains "We know from existing evidence that H-FABP and troponin have additive diagnostic value. In a recent publication in Resuscitation, we showed that the combination of H-FABP and troponin is more accurate for early diagnosis than troponin alone and more accurate than other more established biomarker combinations".
Dr. Body continues, "Recent publications report the enhanced diagnostic value of hs-troponin assays. However, it is becoming apparent that even a normal hs-troponin level at presentation doesn't rule out acute myocardial infarction (AMI) without serial sampling. This demonstrates that there is still the clinical need for an early marker such as H-FABP. The preliminary analyses presented at IFCC EuroMedLab suggest that the combination of H-FABP and hs-troponin is extremely promising and we eagerly await the outcome and publication of our final analyses".
Such new studies on the diagnostic value of H-FABP further build on the extensive existing evidence base on its prognostic value. Two recent landmark studies from a group based at Leeds General Infirmary, UK, and published in the prestigious Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), showed that H-FABP offers independent and additive prognostic value across the full spectrum of ACS patients, and is a significant predictor of mortality in both Troponin positive & Troponin negative patients. The Troponin negative patients are of particular importance, as this group are usually stratified as low-risk and frequently may be discharged from hospital.
"Presently, where Troponin is used on its own and generates a negative result, patients are frequently sent home," says Lead Investigator, Professor Alistair Hall. "However, our study found that a significant number of these people are subsequently found to be at high risk of having a heart attack over the coming months, if they have not done so already. H-FABP can help to identify these high risk patients." Recent data from the group also shows that these results hold true even after 6 years of follow-up and, again, even when a highly sensitive Troponin assay is used.
CEO of Randox Laboratories, Dr Peter Fitzgerald, believes the release of this new laboratory-based assay represents a new era in the clinical use of acute cardiac biomarkers. "This exciting new quantitative and fully automated assay means that hospitals around the world can now utilise H-FABP, in combination with Troponin, as part of their standard clinical protocol. H-FABP, alongside Troponin, offers much improved potential for ACS rule-out on presentation, better risk stratification across the ACS spectrum and facilitates improved management of post-MI patients". He continues, "The new Randox H-FABP assay is a simple & rapid test that can be performed on a wide range of clinical chemistry analysers, without the need for specialist software, training or equipment. We believe it represents a wonderful opportunity to improve the management of patients with suspected ACS and enable a more effective utilisation of healthcare resources".
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For three days, cities across the country are celebrating Culture Days, a non-profit initiative to encourage Canadians to attend and participate in arts and culture events. Naturally, there's a plethora of institutions and arts organizations taking part in Toronto. Better still, all the events are free. There are open houses, tours, and performances at places like the Four Seasons Centre, the Toronto Centre For the Arts, and Wychwood Barns. And there's plenty of special programming at libraries, public and private art galleries, and dance studios. You can search for activities by proximity to your postal code, type, date, organizer, and more at the Culture Days website.
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WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Stuart Appleby felt opportunity, not nerves, as he started running out of real estate in the chase for golf's magic number: 59.
The Australian, who trailed by seven strokes going into the final round, birdied the final three holes with putts of 15 feet or less Sunday to win the Greenbrier Classic by one.
Appleby became the fifth PGA Tour player to tie the tour record for lowest round and broke a four-year winless drought. Third-round leader Jeff Overton just missed a long birdie on the par-3 18th that would have forced a playoff.
"I did the math. I was chasing Jeff, who was heading toward the finish line," Appleby said. "At the same time, I was playing well, and I thought if I could keep making birdies … there was plenty of (birdie chances) coming in."
Appleby's 11-under round on the Old White course put him at 22-under 258. Overton (67) finished 21 under. He appeared to be flabbergasted when his birdie putt on the par-5 17th hole lipped out after apparently hitting a spike mark.
"I though I put a great stroke on it; I thought I put it right in the center," Overton said. "Yeah, like a foot and a half from the hole, it just went hard left. Might not have been a mark … late in the day it gets bumpy."
Paul Goydos shot 59 at the John Deere Classic last month. The others: Al Geiberger (1977 Memphis Classic), Chip Beck (1991 Las Vegas Invitational) and David Duval (1999 Bob Hope Classic).
Appleby shot the first 59 on a par-70 course. He understands there might be debate as to whether his round is up there with the others.
"I agree," he said. "I can see both sides of the fence. … But who says par is supposed to be 72? There's a lot of great courses that aren't 72."
Win gets Tseng close to career slam at 21
Yani Tseng made a 6-foot putt on No. 18 to win the Women's British Open at Southport, England, by one stroke over Katherine Hull of Australia.
It was Tseng's third major and second of 2010 along with the Kraft Nabisco. She also won the 2008 LPGA Championship and, at 21, needs only the U.S. Women's Open to cap a career Grand Slam.
Hull came into the round down by four but trailed by one heading to the 18th. She missed a 20-foot birdie and settled for 70. Tseng shot 73 for a total of 11-under 277 at Royal Birkdale.
"I was nervous and tired with all the pressure and attention out there," Tseng said. "… It was the toughest win I've had to date. I usually come from behind to win. I've never won from the front before."
Seminole's Brittany Lincicome, who was three back after two rounds, shot 75 to wind up at 286, tied for ninth.
u.s. senior open: Bernhard Langer was more than willing to be the villain if it meant winning the U.S. Golf Association event.
Playing in an atmosphere more suited for a Ryder Cup than the final round of a major, Langer was undeterred by a partisan crowd in Sammamish, Wash., that was rooting hard for hometown hero Fred Couples.
The German shot bogey-free 3-under 67 to win his second straight over-50 major and cap a daunting trans-Atlantic double.
A week after winning the Senior British Open, Langer, 52, finished at 8-under 272 to finish three shots ahead of Couples (70), a native of nearby Seattle.
"I knew what was coming, which doesn't make it any easier," Langer said of the crowd pulling for Couples, 50.
FUTURES: With her father as caddy, Tampa's Cindy LaCrosse shot 3-under 68 at the Alliance Bank Golf Classic in Syracuse, N.Y., to beat Amelia Lewis by three strokes for her second victory this season. "To have my dad, and also my mom, here gave me some extra confidence, whether he caddied for me or not," said LaCrosse (201 for three rounds). She took the top spot on the feeder tour's money list; the top 10 earners at the end of the season earn LPGA Tour cards for 2011.


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National Security Advisor James Jones will step down from his post today, according to an administration official.
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The Rocky Ridge Animal Clinic is offering vaccinations after being approached by a pet owner who wanted to make sure his dog was vaccinated before a hunting trip to Texas.
The vaccine is made in California for rattle snake bites but Veterinarian Rodger Dieguez says it applies to other species as well.
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A 44-year-old Oakdale man was sentenced to prison July 19 in Anoka County District Court following a guilty plea to a felony domestic assault charge.
Jeffrey Scott Roehling was sent to the St. Cloud Correctional Facility for two years, although he was given credit for the 158 days he already served in the Anoka County Jail, according to court records.
He must also pay an $85 fine.
According to the criminal complaint, the July 23, 2011 domestic dispute Roehling had with his girlfriend at the time in her Andover home was not his first run-in with the law. He was convicted of violating an order for protection and convicted on two separate charges of felony harassment. These prior convictions led to this most recent incident becoming a felony charge.
Roehling's girlfriend told police who responded to the incident that Roehling put his hand on her throat and squeezed until she let go of the cell phone that she wanted to use to dial 911 because the two of them were having a heated argument. He said she was not going to call 911, spit in her face and he threatened to kill her.
She said she gagged from being choked, according to the complaint.
The woman said he also took her car keys to prevent her from leaving. She ran to a neighbor's home to call 911.
In a post-Miranda statement, Roehling denied putting his hands on or near his girlfriend's throat, but agreed that he had pushed her upper sternum area to get her out of his way, according to the complaint.
A gross misdemeanor charge of interfering with a 911 call was dismissed.
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More than 30 people were in custody Wednesday at the Shawnee County Jail after law enforcement officers served federal search warrants during a two-day span in connection with the trafficking of drugs.
Jim Cross, public affairs officer for the U.S. attorney in the District of Kansas, said 60 people have been indicted on federal drug-trafficking charges. The indictments were unsealed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Topeka.
Cross said 42 of the defendants were in custody as of Wednesday afternoon.
All 60 defendants are charged with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, a felony that carries a penalty upon conviction of not less than 10 years and not more than life in federal prison, along with a fine up to $10 million.
Cross said the 60 defendants in this single investigation is a large number, though it isn't unheard of in federal drug cases.
"It's something you don't see very often," Cross said, "but you do see it."
Kristen Veverka, Topeka Police Department spokeswoman, said about 50 officers assisted local, state and federal agencies, though the department refused to release any details about the operation.
Of those charged, four defendants also are charged with one count of distribution of methamphetamine, and three defendants are charged with one count of possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine.
The charges are contained in five separate indictments. Law enforcement officers served arrest warrants Tuesday and Wednesday.
The indictments are the product of two lengthy investigations led by the Drug Enforcement Administration, in cooperation with Topeka police and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
All of the crimes are alleged to have taken place in Kansas at various times beginning prior to Nov. 1, 2009, and continuing until as late as May 31.
The U.S. Attorney's Office released the names of all 60 indicted in the federal investigation. Shawnee County Jail records show 36 of those people were booked into the facility between 7:30 a.m. Tuesday and 3 p.m. Wednesday, of which 15 were identified by the U.S. Attorney's Office as being Topekans.
Those 36 were identified as:
Fernando Alvarez-Ruiz, 33; Edgar Melendez Amaya, 30, of Topeka; Crystal Nicole Bacon, 28; Leopoldo Ignacio Campos, 40; Henry Paul Castro, 23; Lisa Lynn Cunningham, 33; Shawn Allen Cunningham, 39; Anna Lucy Devore, 65; Cindy Yanel Escalante, 28, of Topeka; Jose Flores-Carillo, 52, of Topeka; Urbano Martinez Garcia, 25, of Topeka; Brenda Sue Harris, 46; Alexis Gerardo-Mota, 23, of Topeka; Hernan Gomez-Jimenez, 34, of Topeka; Bradley Marshall Guerrero, 28, of Topeka; Alex Jacob Harris, 22; Garrett David Hunt, 23; Douglas Wade Kamauff, 39; Lindsay Nicole Lee, 27; Hector Manuel Mota, 26, of Topeka; Nolberto Mota Jr., 28, of Topeka; Luisa Migdee Mota-Hernandez, 24, of Topeka; Jorge Michel Munoz, 30, of Topeka; Rafael Munoz, 30; Carlos Bruno Nunez, 26, of Topeka; Julio Cesar Ortiz, 34; Geronimo Ortiz-Valdonvinos, 56; Carlos Ruiz-Arreola, 28; Heather Ray Schulz, 21; Karen May Shutts, 43, of Topeka; Jennifer Renee Simpson, 33, of Topeka; Tracy Marie Tugwell, 49; James Justin Woods, 28, of Topeka; Tiffany Dawn Woosley, 20, of Topeka; Armando Yanez-Plancrate, 22; and Victor Zavala-Ramos, 25.
Three others Topekans were indicted but hadn't yet been arrested.
The U.S. Attorney's Office identified them as: Miranda C. Mauk, 34; Shawn F. Polinskey, 39; Braelund Silversmith, 36.
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WASHINGTON Recently, Miss Liu tour guide takes visitors to Fuzhou Yongtai Red Cliff Spa scenic tour, I did not expect to estrus scenic spots monkey suddenly leapt out, Miss Liu avoid less scratched by monkeys. The scenic said monkeys recently entered estrus, the mood is more irritable. She reminded the majority of tourists, the recent Chibi Scenic Area in play, do not take the initiative to go teasing them.
Miss Liu Fuzhou Fuzhou, a tour guide, last weekend, she led a group to the Fuzhou Yongtai Chibi Scenic Area tour. In the early morning of April 8, she took the tourists to the Red Cliff scenic hiking, scenic monkey little terrifying, often monkeys come and go on the road. Saw monkeys, tourists
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I had 375cc silicone submuscular implants to cup size aa done 3 weeks ago. The right side was less painful and seem to have settled nicely. The left side is still more painful, I am unable to lift my arm normally. It is a lot bigger on the upper area and towards the armpit. Is this still swelling that will subside? Is it normal for the 2 breasts to differ so significantly in recovery period?
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Post op asymmetry
It is really too soon post-op to assess a final outcome. As hard as it is, please be patient and let the swelling resolve and the implants drop. That being said if the swelling gets worse one might fear a hematoma so if it worsens check in with your PS. Best of luck.
Different recovery in the 2 breats after augmentation
It is not uncommon for both sides to recover slightly differently. However, more prominent swelling and pain on one side may indicate a haematoma (bleeding) on that side. Most os these will resolve and improve over time however you should check with your PS.
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Aviall Services (Booth No. 1437), a provider of aftermarket parts and services, reports that its Logistics and Inventory Flight Team (LIFT) program launched last fall is proving popular with customers. The goal of the LIFT program, which provides custom inventory and logistics solutions to individual helicopter operators, is to help those operators lower direct operating costs based on their individual needs.
"LIFT has been a large part of our ability to grow rapidly after our acquisition of Rocky Mountain Helicopters," said Archie Gray, vice president of technical services for Aviall customer Air Methods. "Relying on Aviall's forward stocking location here in Denver has afforded us the ability to limit some of our inventory costs." Gray said that the LIFT program allows Air Methods to use Aviall as a "second warehouse" for more than 2,500 part numbers, lowering the operator's inventory holding and operating costs.
Aviall recently signed a contract with Canadian Helicopters to provide the LIFT program under an exclusive parts agreement. To provide rapid response, Aviall will stock fast-moving items at sites in Calgary and Montreal.
Offering approximately 400,000 catalog items from 215 manufacturers, Aviall will work with individual operators in the LIFT program to ensure needed parts are stocked. "LIFT has bolstered our ability to meet customer demands because Aviall has the right parts on their shelves at the right time," said Lloyd Marks, president of Part 135 operator Rotorcraft Leasing. "Our inventory reductions have been a direct reflection of [Aviall's] willingness to stock critical items at their Lafayette [La.] facility, less than 10 miles from our main hangar."
"Customers in the general helicopter market are seeing that we can lower their direct operating costs because of our large market basket, product availability and fair prices," said Dan Komnenovich, Aviall president and COO.


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Thanks to a group of academic economists from Harvard and Stanford, we now know that the U.S. economy has been in a recession since last March. But despite academia's confirmation of what most of us had already figured out on our own, the World Wide Web–and by extension the e-commerce business model–is not on the verge of extinction. To be sure, the dot-com bubble burst took a serious toll on scores of 20-something computer science majors, who saw their multi-million-dollar online empires vanish overnight.
But this wasn't enough by a long shot to extinguish the flames stoking online users' fervor for Web surfing. By now the Internet has outlived its novelty stage and grown into an indispensable medium for communication. In fact, the Web today is arguably as important to the global conveyance of information as the postal service, fax machines, telephones, radio and television.
Yet it's hard to ignore the spectacular flameouts that have forced scores of commercial Web sites either to lay off large portions of their staffs or shut their doors altogether. Businesses that cater to niche audiences (and that includes pilots and other professionals working in the business aviation industry) have found the path to profitability to be at least as perilous as that encountered by those big e-commerce sites, which had promised to rewrite the rules of business only to pay the ultimate price by violating some of the most fundamental principles of business.
Attempting to buck this trend are a number of Web sites that have found reasonably solid footing in the last couple of years after tenuous starts. Online charter brokers are a good example of the type of business that have taken to the Web with surprising success. Comprehensive databases of charter aircraft providers coupled with up-to-the-minute information on fleet location derived through online flight-tracking services have helped charter firms to realize at least a portion of the Web's early Utopian vision. While most agree they are "not there yet," it is clear online charter brokers have come a long way in a short time.
By now most aviation businesses have developed some sort of Web presence, with many companies fielding sites that are quite impressive. Airframe makers and large established business aviation firms are leading the way by adding customer-support functionality to password-protected areas online, providing reams of information on products and services and in offering interactive customer services. Gulfstream, for example, allows customers to go inside the completion center for a virtual peek at how the outfitting work on their globe-girdling jet is coming along.
It's all part of the Internet's sometimes overlooked success story, which has spurred online efforts by companies seeking not only to enhance the services they already offer but also to improve the overall customer experience through the use of interactive digital media, such as Web browsers and other Internet applications. There was a time when about the best an online surfer could hope to gain from his or her online experience was perhaps the discovery of an interesting recipe. Now, the Web truly has evolved into a global community where the possibilities and potential seem almost limitless.
If this sounds overly optimistic in light of the Web's much heralded failings over the past few years, consider that the people now conceiving tomorrow's Web-enabled ideas–the so-called digerati or cyber elite–are building on hard lessons from the recent past. The days of trying to sell pet food online, for instance, are probably gone forever, but new ideas are emerging all the time. Some of these include sites that allow users to browse electronic online newspapers, complete with advertisements, from any computer with a Web connection (check out nytimes.com/ee for an example of this) or interactive TV that naturally merges the Web with television content to provide broadband TCP/IP broadcasts over standard coaxial cable.
The truth is we have barely brushed the surface of the Web. We're in the Orville and Wilbur stage. As the number of processors on a chip, and thus computer power, keeps doubling every 18 months, decade after decade, we'll eventually make it to something analogous with the jet age. And as people continue to crowd into the online datastream, the worth of the Web–that is to say, it's importance on a global scale–will grow exponentially. Soon there cannot help but be the merging of technologies–television, radio, telephone and Internet–that one day will bring about the birth of a web of communications in the truest sense. As soon as technology catches up with the vision of leading-edge developers, the potential of the Internet will at last become reality.
All of which is to restate what was said at the outset of this report: for all its foibles, the Web isn't about to disappear. We may not know exactly how to harness all that raw potential, but we're learning as we go. The best advice for the business aviation industry as it grapples with how to turn the Internet into a tool for growth is to be patient, keep an eye toward the digital horizon and make decisions that make sense.
Navigating the Web
Surfing the Internet used to be a lot like walking around in a dark house. You knew there was worthwhile stuff there somewhere, but it was hard to find–when the lights came on, often it was a matter of separating the good from the bad from the truly awful. That's how AIN's annual Directory of Business Aviation Web Sites came to be. The guide, which has grown over the years to include more than 500 business aviation-related sites, serves as a launch pad for everything the typical corporate pilot or industry professional needs to navigate cyberspace successfully–or at least without bumping into walls.
An interesting trend has emerged in the last year or so. To many, the Web has become comfortable. Users know what they want, they know where to find it and they are perfectly satisfied choosing from lists of favorite sites that offer the services and information they feel they need most. Users will sometimes venture away from their group of preferred sites, especially on those occasions when they cannot immediately find precisely what they are looking for, but by and large the wanderings of Web users have become fairly predictable.
Perhaps now more than ever, Web guides and directories are important tools for providing users a compass by which to navigate on those instances when they need to leave the confines of their favorite-site lists. The AIN directory, with more than 20 categories, is as complete a guide as is available to industry professionals. All sites have been verified as correct at the time of publishing, and in addition the entire contents of the directory can be found on the Web at www.ainonline.com by clicking the "Bizav Web Directory" link. Throughout the year the online directory, complete with active hyperlinks to all the sites on the list, will be updated periodically to reflect changes and to add the latest sites.
This segment of the aviation industry has embraced the Internet in a big way. Many of these manufacturers started out their Web sites under the guise of providing product information–in other words, a marketing ploy. But these Internet portals quickly branched out to include e-commerce, customer-support and other customer-oriented applications. Today, site visitors can order parts or browse technical manuals just as easily as they can find out about the latest product offerings online.
Dassault Falcon Jet
Dassault Falcon Jet's site is user friendly even though it is packed with useful features for owners and operators and those who just want a little more information about Falcons. For the latter group, there are scores of pages of detailed information about the current Falcon offerings, as well as listings of pre-owned aircraft for sale from the manufacturer. For owners and operators, there is a password-protected customer area where visitors can order spare parts, contact their field representative or view technical publications and bulletins online.
Perhaps the most impressive of the manufacturer's Web sites, this is also one of the most useful for owners and operators. The Web site offers the usual liturgy of product information, service center locations and company information. What sets this site apart, though, is the link to myGulfstream.com, which is a secure, Web-based, customer communications vehicle. It enables customers to exchange information online and to track and collaborate with their Gulfstream representative throughout the sales, contracts, completion and delivery process. Progress updates on the status of aircraft production and completions are available through digital photography. In addition to customer- and aircraft-specific data immediately available on myGulfstream.com, it also provides customers with access to a wide variety of information, including customer bulletins and Gulfstream events. Customers can also access flight-tracking software, weather, stocks and other customizable links through their personalized site.
Honeywell Aerospace
At the portal, avionics and engine customers can retrieve technical publications, obtain customer-support telephone numbers, order parts and spares, find service centers and get warranty information, to name just a few features. General users can glance at product marketing material for the company's various products, read company news and find contacts at Honeywell.
Pratt & Whitney Canada
Engine maker Pratt & Whitney Canada is in the midst of upgrading the services it offers to customers on its Web site. Registered customers have access to the extranet through the site, which allows online parts sales (including sales order entry, order status, price inquiry and material applicability transactions) and an engine tracking system to follow an engine during maintenance at one of Pratt & Whitney's overhaul shops. Extranet features in the works include a warranty catalog, warranty and commercial support, warranty policies and service bulletins. All site visitors can obtain customer-support contact numbers, view online product brochures and read company news releases.
Rockwell Collins
Rockwell Collins' Web site is neatly organized and contains categorized information for its various avionics systems and products. In addition, the company has an extranet portal for registered customers to allow secure access to technical publications, e-commerce applications for parts and spares and used equipment, general assistance, rental-exchange program options, service center locations, maintenance solutions, training program information (including distance learning) and other sales and support services.
While Rolls-Royce's Web portal doesn't yet have a customer-only section or e-commerce applications, it still yields a lot of information. Site visitors can view the company's product lineup (which includes links to the Rolls-Royce Deutschland and Williams Rolls Web sites), get customer-support contact information, find service center locations and read recent news. Also on the site is the engine manufacturer's 20-year outlook for the civil aerospace market.
Universal Avionics
Visitors to Universal Avionics' home page will find a clean and user-friendly Web site packed with information. The site contains detailed information and specifications of the avionics maker's product line, which ranges from flight management systems to datalinks to a terrain awareness and warning system. Site wanderers can also read company news, find service centers and obtain customer-support telephone numbers. For Universal Avionics customers, the UniNet feature provides secure access to account and order information, technical publications and navigation databases.
Ask anyone in the charter industry his or her opinion of the Internet, and you will likely receive similar answers: the Web has lots of potential, but it's very difficult to implement new ideas. Fractional-ownership providers have spent millions of dollars developing sophisticated computer software that can track, and thereby maximize, the use of their enormous fleets. In the same way, maximizing the efficiency of the charter fleet is an important aim. But because there are so many charter providers worldwide, such a computer system would simply be impossible to build.
Instead, charter brokers are using the Internet to keep track of limited–although fairly large–numbers of aircraft and facilitate online booking. And just as the charter brokers learned something from the frax industry, the fractional providers are beginning to add such customer-oriented features to their Web sites.
Air Charter Guide
The Air Charter Guide, the industry's definitive listing of charter providers, has developed an industry exchange called Charter X for connecting charter customers with providers. The exchange provides operators and brokers with the ability to perform trip searches on charter aircraft around the world. Search results are qualified by up-to-the-minute ATC positioning data, by user-supplied repositioning requirements and by operator-confirmed availability. Users can also
receive trip-specific instant quotes and book trips online.
TAG Aviation recently joined the Charter X program. It pays the Air Charter Guide about $300 a month to be connected directly to the service. Charles McLeran, executive vice president and COO for TAG, said the company's charter division has been receiving about 20 requests a day since it has been affiliated with the service, but added that it is still too soon to say whether its involvement with the program will bear fruit.
Part of the problem with the Internet, said McLeran, is that only a rigid set of parameters can be used to determine what type of aircraft a customer needs and when and where he or she needs it. Often, the personal touch is required to satisfy a customer completely, something that is difficult if not impossible to do with an automated Web-based computer system. Another difficulty is that many requests are from people who aren't really serious about chartering a jet, but instead are merely curious. It's hard to distinguish between the two on the Internet.
One of the unqualified success stories on the Web is eBizJets, an online broker that has devised a unique way of combining traditional charter with the benefits of fractional ownership. Through the company's eBizJets TravelCard program, customers purchase blocks of time with guaranteed five-hour response. The basic plan costs $100,000.
For that fee customers can choose to fly in light, midsize or heavy jets either on one-way or round-trip flights. One-way trips are charged at a higher hourly rate to reflect the cost for repositioning, but customers are never billed directly for positioning an airplane, said a spokesman.
All the charter providers eBizJets uses are audited by ARG/US, a critically important point considering that eBizJets' client base tends to be made up of high-net-worth individuals, mostly on the West Coast. The company was founded four years ago in Boston, but since then it has discovered that Los Angeles is the perfect city for such a card program, which currently has about 300 customers.
In the past year alone, eBizJets has built up a clientele of more than 150 athletes across all the major professional sports including the NBA, NFL, Major League Baseball, professional tennis and PGA Tours. Well known clients include Los Angeles Laker Shaquille O'Neal and Alex Rodriguez of the Texas Rangers, baseball's most highly paid player.
To meet demand, the company recently opened a West Coast sports and entertainment office in Los Angeles CEO John Williams said California has become a key piece of the puzzle that has made the company profitable.
"It was critical that we establish a strong presence in Los Angeles to help manage the West Coast business and serve our clients to the highest level possible," said Williams, adding that the office at Santa Monica Airport is ideally located to attract celebrities, who he said like the flexibility of being able to pull a card out of their wallet or purse and dial a toll-free number to make arrangements for travel aboard a private jet.
Gulfstream has introduced a customer-focused Web site dedicated to charter of Gulfstream business jets. GulfstreamCharters.com brings nearly 100 Gulfstreams to a single, easy-to-navigate location on the Web. From this single source, customers can search and view individual aircraft, check availability and
receive quotes.
"The site provides customers with an instant resource for reviewing Gulfstream jets available for charter," said Catherine Smith, director of Gulfstream charter services. "The improved service is expected to double Gulfstream's charter business in the coming year."
Customers can search the Gulfstream charter listings by aircraft type, features, location and availability. Aircraft photos, seating arrangements, specifications, maintenance information and availability are accessible for review before requesting a price quote via e-mail. The site captures customer information and preferences to speed and personalizes subsequent charter requests, said Smith.
Gulfstream Charter Services was established in 1998 to support Gulfstream operators seeking a reliable source for additional lift. Available aircraft span the full range of Gulfstream large-cabin jets from the GII to the GV. Aircraft participating in the program are strategically based worldwide.
This recently revamped Web site includes comprehensive information about NetJets and an insight into fractional aircraft ownership. The new design also enables visitors to locate information quickly by using enhanced navigation in an easy-to-use format. At the site, one can find specifications for the entire NetJets fractional fleet, although no pricing information is available online. Those considering fractional ownership can order via the Web site a free copy of The Buyer's Guide to Fractional Aircraft Ownership, which was written and published by NetJets. Currently there are no online owner services available at the NetJets Web portal, though they are
in development.
Flight Options
At the Flight Options Web site visitors can look at cabin layouts (some complete with 360-deg views) of aircraft in the company's fractional program, as well as pricing information for the respective aircraft. For those unfamiliar with aircraft fractional ownership, the "about the program" link explains the concept and how it works. An owners-only link offers secure domestic trip scheduling, flight confirmations via e-mail, trip calculators for estimating time and costs and itinerary access. This feature allows owners to experiment with different travel scenarios to better estimate flight routes, time and distance. Owners can review scheduled flights using the "aircraft schedule" link. A screen icon prompts the owner if a trip requires a fuel stop or if the runway length is insufficient for landing. Owners can also incorporate meal preferences, ground transportation requirements, contact information and other special requests into their online trip itinerary.
Raytheon Travel Air
While not rich in services for current Travel Air fractional owners, this site provides plenty of marketing information for those considering joining the program. Visitors can explore the different aircraft offered by the frax provider, educate themselves on the fractional concept, view pricing data, read FAQs and e-mail a marketing representative to obtain more information.
More and more pilots are turning to online bulletin boards–sites where they can post messages for other pilots to read and comment on. Such sites have helped create online pilot communities, where aviators can chat with other pilots, gain information that is important to their career or sometimes even vent their frustrations. Such sites can be an important resource for pilots, who may not get the chance to talk very much with colleagues, except while waiting for passengers and fuel in the FBO pilot's lounge.
NBAA AirMail
For corporate pilots there is perhaps no better bulletin board on the planet than NBAA's members-only AirMail list group, which is frequented by chief pilots, industry professionals and NBAA representatives. Pilots who post messages to the site, however, might be surprised to learn who is watching. For example, just about anytime pilots begin to rant about a specific problem with an airplane or other product-specific problem, representatives from the industry intercede to quell trouble.
For example, pilots recently voiced their displeasure with Jeppesen after a version of
e-chart software became corrupted and locked up users' computers. Shortly after the complaints began, Jeppesen issued a contrite statement on the bulletin board apologizing for the glitch and then set about contacting complainers to apologize in person and gain feedback.
Several lists are offered on NBAA's site, including bulletin boards for pilots, flight department managers, schedulers and dispatchers, mechanics, fractional industry professionals and those looking for a job.
Professional Pilots' Rumour Network
For pilots in Europe, there is the Professional Pilots Rumour Network, a great place to read the latest dirt about airlines and corporate operations from the pilots who fly for them. As the name suggests, much of what is contained on the site is unsupported speculation, but often what the pilots say here turns out to be right on the mark.
The Hangar Online Forum
Another large bulletin board is The Hangar, where GA and professional pilots interact on a number of easy-to-navigate lists. With nearly 800 members, the discussions are often lively and the topics usually interesting. Much of the banter is among GA pilots, but there is also plenty for pros, including several lists that deal specifically with flying jobs and interviewing.
The Internet has become an invaluable flight-planning tool for many business aviation pilots. While aviation e-commerce is being heavily touted, the majority of Web-savvy pilots are going online to obtain information. There are plenty of places to get weather and flight-planning data online, from weather (both text and graphics) and flight routing to FBO services and finding the best fuel prices.
This no-nonsense Web site yields detailed airport, navaid and airspace fix information, as well as aviation fuel price statistics. Though the information on the site is not valid for navigation, flight planning or use in flight (a disclaimer that one finds on many flight-planning sites), it is second to none. Included under airport
information is field location, operations data, nearby navaids, communication
frequencies, on-site services and facilities, runway and helipad information, operational statistics, fuel prices, remarks and local hotels.
Navaid information consists of operational and technical characteristics and remarks. Airport fix information includes the lat-long (and state) location, navaid radial/DME that defines the fix, which charts it can be found on and fix use.
Perhaps the most interesting feature on AirNav.com is the aviation fuel information. Here pilots can view current local fuel price information for their area or near their intended destination. Pilots can also search for fuel deals nationwide and view a statistical summary of aviation fuel prices across the U.S. At press time, AirNav.com listed an FBO at Miami Opa Locka Airport as having the lowest jet-A price nationwide at $1.25 a gallon.
Aviation Weather Brief
This site is a one-stop shop for pilots seeking free weather information for any region of the world. And there's lots of information to be found here, so much so that one could easily be overwhelmed. The site contains links to current satellite and radar images, weather cameras, weather models, Metars, TAFs, pireps and a ton of other useful data for aviators.
This aviation portal has a plethora of flight-planning and weather resources available for business pilots. The site is basically a host to partnering companies, which provide the various services offered at Flightneeds.com. Trip-planning and weather information is provided by Jeppesen, airport data is supplied by Ac-U-Kwik, the pilot availability database is provided by Bizjetpilot.com and Air Security International offers aviation security information, to name just a few of the partners. Flightneeds does provide some of the services, including the FBO pre-advise feature, which allows pilot members to book a fueling slot, order services, receive electronic confirmation and obtain firm pricing from selected FBOs. Other useful features include a currency converter, aircraft charter booking, online travel services, an online pilot-supply store and aviation news.
FltPlan.com is an online destination where corporate pilots can create IFR flight plans and navigational logs at no charge. The site provides IFR routings, winds aloft, aircraft performance, estimated time en route, airport information, SIDs and STARs, frequencies, FBO information and recommended alternates, among other features. Pilots can also use FltPlan.com to file their IFR flight plan and obtain current weather information. Paid services from the site include graphical weather and real-time flight tracking.
National Weather Service
If you want weather information for the U.S. straight from the source, the National Weather Service Web site is the place to start. Here pilots will find the latest radar and satellite images, weather data, forecast products, current conditions, weather maps, severe convective outlooks, extended forecasts and a host of other helpful weather information. Also included on the site are links to the National Weather Service regions for even more detailed weather data, as well as a link to the aviation weather center, where pilots can obtain a standard briefing online.
Billed as the "complete weather source for pilots," PilotWeather now features a new design and easier navigation to give pilots access to hundreds of aviation weather products and information, though for a fee (a free 30-day trial is available). PilotWeather is a one-stop aviation weather source on the Web, featuring real-time Nexrad radar products, route weather briefing, flight-plan filing with the FAA, as well as notams, sigmets, aireps, pireps and more.
Universal Weather & Aviation
If you're already a Universal Weather & Aviation customer, this Web site will help make life easier. Here pilots can call on Universal's trip-support and flight-planning
specialists to plan domestic or international flights, schedule ground services, obtain overflight permits, check fuel availability and
pricing and obtain weather information. Once a pilot is done with trip planning, this information can be uplinked to the aircraft or a Palm organizer with the click of a mouse.
The Weather Channel
Hosted by The Weather Channel, this Web site has an aviation-specific section (www.weather.com/aviation) that yields the big-picture graphical view of the weather for aviators. This is a great place to check the weather the day before a trip to get a quick-and-dirty picture of what patterns might affect your planned route of flight. It's also a good starting point on the day of the trip to see areas of low visibility, view the jet stream and get an overall snapshot of the current and forecast weather situation.


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TEN MONTHS ago, an FBI special agent shot and killed Ibragim Todashev in the course of interrogating him about a Massachusetts triple murder possibly linked to the late Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the suspected mastermind of the April 15 Boston Marathon bombings. This week, the Justice Department and state authorities in Florida, where the shooting occurred, produced the first detailed official accounts of this bizarre incident. Those long-awaited documents helped settle some key questions while leaving other mysteries unsolved.
Most important, both an internal Justice Department investigation and the parallel probe by Jeffrey L. Ashton, state's attorney for Orange and Osceola counties, show convincingly that the still-unnamed agent committed no crime or other intentional wrongdoing. He fired on Todashev only after the mixed-martial-arts expert threw a coffee table at the agent's head, opening a large gash, and then rushed with a metal pole at both the agent and his colleague from the Massachusetts State Police. Investigators relied not only on the testimony of the officers involved but also on independent, corroborating statements from other people and on physical evidence. The fact that Mr. Ashton, an authority outside the FBI chain of command, confirmed the self-defense scenario lends it credibility. The FBI could benefit from independent input in future investigations of lethal force by its agents, as it has historically exonerated them in almost every case.
Alas, it is already too late to prevent the spread of conspiracy theories, especially in Todashev's native Russia. Fair-minded observers, however, will be reassured that the FBI agent fired in self-defense. Indeed, it would have been strange for him to have acted from any other motive, given that killing Todashev eliminated a key witness and, possibly, a suspect in an unsolved homicide — one who also might shed light on the marathon bombing.
What remains unclear is the precise nature and extent of Todashev's admissions about the triple homicide in Waltham, Mass., on Sept. 11, 2011 — and what, specifically, he revealed about Tsarnaev's role. That horrific crime has gone unsolved for too long.
Also, the fact that the FBI agent did not act criminally does not mean that he and his colleagues from Massachusetts law enforcement acted wisely or appropriately at every turn of this highly sensitive investigation. Among the questions the bureau should be exploring is why the agent needed to fire a second volley of three shots after a first one had wounded Todashev. And why was it considered unavoidable to risk a meeting with Todashev in his apartment, where improvised weapons were within his reach, rather than some alternative location?
Yes, it's easy to second-guess, but the only way to redeem this tragic incident is to learn every lesson from it that can possibly be learned.
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