[ARABNEWS] With an estimated 3.3 billion people traveling on about 27 million flights annually, there have been many sudden deaths aboard planes. Never thought about that, did you?
Airlines have special procedures in place to deal with these eventualities, such as special compartments on planes where they can store a body, according to a report in a local publication recently. "Shirl, the passenger in 114B's death rattling. Is the meat locker empty?"
Most of the time the other passengers are not informed if a person dies, to prevent people from getting upset or panicking. Bodies are normally stored in a compartment in the first class section. "Mind if we put this guy in that seat?"
"Go right ahead. And I'd like more champagne, please."
Singapore Airlines, which operated the then-new Airbus A340-500 planes in 2004, was the first airline to have a discreet locker built next to one of the plane’s exit doors, long enough to store an average-sized body, with special straps to prevent any movement during a bumpy landing, according to reports. "Shirl, who put all that baggage in the corpse locker?"
Cabin crew were instructed to use the locker in the event of a death on a long-haul flight — particularly if the aircraft was busy, with no free seats on which to lay out the deceased, the report stated.
On an ever-so-slightly serious note, a physician friend of mine was on a SwissAir flight from Chicago to Zurich when a passenger had the big squeeze somewhere around Newfoundland. While the pilot got the plane to Bangor my friend helped to resuscitate the poor fellow. He was impressed by just how well SwissAir was equipped with emergency gear.
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In the 'no good deed' category; I had a former colleague expire on a flight to Dubai. An American physician on board the flight made a valiant but unsuccessful attempt at resuscitation, only to be arrested in Dubai and held for days for practicing medicine without a license.
Or you can contact me personally, and I will see it gets disposed of.
Ares Armor, the California 80 Percent receiver firm who were raided by the ATF last year has some new information on the armor piercing ban. For example, did you know that the Clinton administration tried to ban importation of the standard 7.62x39mm 123 Gr. AK round for the very same reason the 7N6 5.45x39 53 Gr. round was banned? I didn't either. And though the proposed ban on M855 ammunition has been delayed, the ban on 7N6 ammunition continues in force.
The first anniversary for the Bundy Ranch Stand Off is coming next month, and the Bundys are holding a party to celebrate, April 10-12, 2015. Wish I could attend, but work intervenes. Right now the only information about the gathering is on Facebook.
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[AnNahar] Nearly 300 U.S. paratroopers will begin training Ukrainian national guard soldiers next month, the Pentagon said Thursday. You're talking about a country that builds its tanks out of boilerplate instead of armor plate. It might be a hopeless task.
The 290 paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, dubbed Sky Soldiers, will train the Ukrainian troops in the western town of Yavoriv.
Colonel Steven Warren, a Pentagon front man, said the training, originally set for mid-March, is now due to take place in late April.
The program underwent "some review" so it got off to a late start, he explained.
The American paratroopers will train six Ukrainian national guard companies, "with a focus on internal security and territorial defense," said Eileen Lainez, a Defense Department spokeswoman.
"While we continue to believe that there is no military resolution to this crisis, Ukraine has the right to defend itself."
The United States provides some military aid to Ukraine, though it stops short of delivering the lethal weapons asked for by Kiev.
The training assistance "is part of our ongoing efforts to help sustain Ukraine's defense and internal security operations," Lainez explained.
"The program is also designed to strengthen Ukraine's defense capability and capacity and assist in its defense reform."
Washington announced last week it would deliver more than $75 million worth of armored and unarmored Humvees, unarmed Raven drones, counter-mortar radars, night vision devices and other "non-lethal defensive" equipment.
Sporadic fighting is ongoing in pro-Russian, separatist-held eastern Ukraine, despite a ceasefire agreement signed last month.
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OK - first - I think of the Crimea (in particular) and Ukraine (in general) as historically Russian territory, where the US has no business interfering.
But - with that said - IF you are going to go try to go in and train the locals to fight the Russians in the local environment, then:
1) Maybe your "Trainers" should go spend some time fighting the Russians in the local environment, so that they - you, know, sort of - have some idea of what they are talking about and teaching.
2) Better still - have the Sky Soldiers go relieve a Ukrainian front-line battalion, and take over fighting in that sector - to free the Ukrainian veterans to go back and train their own countrymen.
My thoughts on how to best accomplish effective trasnfer of critical front-line know how.
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Lone Ranger, sorry but that's absolutely moronic. We have known how to right Russian standard military troops for decades, from a conventional as well as unconventional warfare way of doing things. Whats missing for us is the will. Whats missing for the Ukrainians is competence. Neither pf which will be changed by this, nor would be changed by your asinine suggestion.
[ARABNEWS] Russian President and new Baby Daddy Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... on Friday called for a single currency with the Kremlin's closest ex-Soviet allies despite fraying ties in the region which is struggling with the fallout from Moscow's economic crisis. They could call it the "rubble."
Putin urged closer integration for his flagship Eurasian Economic Union -- which also includes Belarus, Kazakhstan and Armenia -- as Moscow scrambles to limit the damage from Western sanctions over Ukraine and tumbling oil prices.
"We think the time has come to discuss opportunities to form a potential currency union," Putin said at a meeting with his Kazakh and Belarusian counterparts in Kazakhtan's capital Astana.
"Working shoulder to shoulder, it is easier to react to external financial and economic threats, and protect our common market."
Political and economic ties between Moscow and the bloc's two other founding members, Belarus and energy-rich Kazakhstan, have been strained by the recent economic woes and jitters over Russia's alleged military involvement in Ukraine.
"Major trials have befallen our union," said Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev ...has served as the President of Kazakhstan since the Fall of the Soviet Union and the nation's independence in 1991. Contrary to commonly held belief, there is a difference between Kazakhs and Cossacks: Kazakhs have mustaches. Or maybe it's the other way around... at the outset of the summit, while arguing for deeper cooperation.
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Ah, yes, a currency union. Cause it worked so great for the EU.
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One more turn of the screw.
You know, dlr, it DOES work great for the EU. You just have to define your terms properly. The elite gets richer and richer and the productive are f***** over. Works great for some.
[ARABNEWS] In a delay that some say may have cost lives, the World Health Organization resisted calling the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a public health emergency until last summer, two months after staff raised the possibility and long after a senior manager called for a drastic change in strategy, The News Agency that Dare Not be Named has learned.
Among the reasons the UN agency cited in internal deliberations: Worries that declaring such an emergency -- akin to an international SOS -- could anger the African countries involved, hurt their economies or interfere with the Moslem pilgrimage.
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Yeah, last thing you want is a virulent disease epidemic interfering with the Haj.
The problem with declaring something a problem is you then have to do something, or stand around looking like a doof. Do you guys have any idea what a logistical nightmare it is getting white Land Rovers and shrimp cocktail into some Third World hellhole? So we'll get back to you on that whole epidemic thing.
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A longer article in this morning Dallas Morning News says - WHO has acknowledged acting too slowly to control the Ebola epidemic. In its defense, the agency says the virus’ spread was unprecedented and blames factors including lack of resources and intelligence from the field.
So they just need more budget to save more lives. Nice touch.
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Political correctness trumps science and common sense again.
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[SANFRANCISCO.CBSLOCAL] Saint Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco will dismantle a system that pours water on entrance areas of the church frequented by homeless after receiving a formal notice of violation from the city. Meanwhile, the San Francisco Archdiocese has apologized for the ‘misunderstood’ and ‘ill-conceived’ effort to keep homeless out of alcoves used to enter and exit the church.
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...effort to keep homeless out of alcoves
...literally flushing the left behind feces and urine most likely. It's called a health hazards in most parts of civilization (SF exempted).
I have a pond behind the house that hosts 2000 Canadian geese at a time in the spring/fall. If all it takes is to have a nearby nuclear reactor...
Our Canada Geese used to migrate. They don't any more, though they happily continue to be fruitful and multiply. I figure if bad times really come, the excess of C. Geese and deer will feed the local population for at least a few months.
We can consume the rats with antlers. Then the rats with wings. Then the rats...
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Fish & Game are in a hurry to collect the bodies.
I first thought they may have flown through RA outgassing. Now I wonder if they hit a power beam test.
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We can consume the rats with antlers. Then the rats with wings...
When they came for the rats with antlers, I said nothing for I was not herbivorous.
Some years back, there was a big outbreak of avian cholera in the Texas migratory snow goose population. The Dept. of Wildlife wanted to shoot the poor afflicted critters, but enviro-weenies filed suit saying it was mean to shoot them, better to let them die 'naturally'. After a while, the question was moot.
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Not much sympathy here for the once endangered Canada Goose. Now we are over-run with them, and they have successfully chased the Loons from our favorite lake.
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Man, lighting off a honker or two would be crazy. Likely carry the equivalent of 8 gallons in their fatty, fat fat. Forest fires, thermal infrastructure damage and roof fires.
[Weekly Standard] Secretary of State John Kerry has released a statement mourning the death of the mother of Iran's president.
"We extend our deepest condolences to the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Dr. Hassan Rouhani and his family on the passing of his mother, Mrs. Sakineh Peivandi. Such a loss is especially hard coming on the eve of Nowruz, traditionally a time when families gather together in joy and hope. We share in his grief and that of his brother, Presidential Special Advisor Hossein Fereydoun, who has been participating in the talks in Lausanne, and we keep their family in our thoughts," 'Their family is in my thoughts' in a General James N. "Mad Dog" Mattis sort of way.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[ARABNEWS] With an estimated 3.3 billion people traveling on about 27 million flights annually, there have been many sudden deaths aboard planes.
[AnNahar] Nearly 300 U.S. paratroopers will begin training Ukrainian national guard soldiers next month, the Pentagon said Thursday.
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
