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STUTTGART, Germany - German police said at least 10 people were killed after a gunman dressed in black opened fire at a high school in the south of the country on Wednesday.
STUTTGART, Germany - German police said at least 10 people were killed after a gunman dressed in black opened fire at a high school in the south of the country on Wednesday.
Police spokesman Klaus Hinderer said the attacker had fled the Albertville technical high school in Winnenden, near Stuttgart, and police were searching for him. The school was evacuated. more....
German Spiegel:Mindestens zehn Tote bei Amoklauf in Realschule
Mittwoch, März 11, 2009
Montag, März 09, 2009
Airplane Cabin Air: It’s Toxic
By Kimberly • February 26, 2008
Nausea, headaches, memory loss, neurological illness, paralysis… from flying?
Indeed. When you’re on a plane, you’re likely breathing in toxic fumes from the cabin air.
According to the Daily Mail, half of the air in your plane “comes from the blisteringly hot heart of its engines… [and] once it has been cooled down, that air, together with any toxins it might have picked up along the way, passes straight into the aircraft cabin totally unfiltered.” And this has been happening since 1962, when airlines realized it was cheaper to recycle engine air than to make air from the outside breathable. more...
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>ABC Australia
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>Swiss TV Kassensturz
Nausea, headaches, memory loss, neurological illness, paralysis… from flying?
Indeed. When you’re on a plane, you’re likely breathing in toxic fumes from the cabin air.
According to the Daily Mail, half of the air in your plane “comes from the blisteringly hot heart of its engines… [and] once it has been cooled down, that air, together with any toxins it might have picked up along the way, passes straight into the aircraft cabin totally unfiltered.” And this has been happening since 1962, when airlines realized it was cheaper to recycle engine air than to make air from the outside breathable. more...
>BBC PANORAMA
>ABC Australia
>MAIL ONLINE
>German TV ARD Plusminus
>German TV WDR
>Swiss TV Kassensturz
Donnerstag, Februar 26, 2009
Mittwoch, Februar 25, 2009
Montag, Februar 23, 2009
Samstag, Februar 21, 2009
Michael Jackson lined up for O2 concerts
Adam Sherwin and Helen Nugent
It's a tantalising prospect for the millions who worshipped Michael Jackson in his Moonwalking heyday. Could the former King of Pop retrieve his crown with a spectacular run of comeback concerts at the O2 Arena?
Negotiations are at an advanced stage, The Times has learnt, for the debt-ridden superstar to return to the stage with a residency of up to 30 concerts at the London venue.> more... in TIMES
It's a tantalising prospect for the millions who worshipped Michael Jackson in his Moonwalking heyday. Could the former King of Pop retrieve his crown with a spectacular run of comeback concerts at the O2 Arena?
Negotiations are at an advanced stage, The Times has learnt, for the debt-ridden superstar to return to the stage with a residency of up to 30 concerts at the London venue.> more... in TIMES
Freitag, Februar 20, 2009
The Miami Herald: Miami banker gives $60 million of his own to employees/Banker zahlt 60 Millionen Dollar an seine Mitarbeiter aus eigener Tasche
BY MARTHA BRANNIGAN
MBRANNIGAN@MIAMIHERALD.COM
Lots of bosses say they value their employees. Some even mean it.
And then there's Leonard Abess Jr.
After selling a majority stake in Miami-based City National Bancshares last November, all he did was take $60 million of the proceeds -- $60 million out of his own pocket -- and hand it to his tellers, bookkeepers, clerks, everyone on the payroll. All 399 workers on the staff received bonuses, and he even tracked down 72 former employees so they could share in the windfall. more...
How the employees use the money >
MBRANNIGAN@MIAMIHERALD.COM
Lots of bosses say they value their employees. Some even mean it.
And then there's Leonard Abess Jr.
After selling a majority stake in Miami-based City National Bancshares last November, all he did was take $60 million of the proceeds -- $60 million out of his own pocket -- and hand it to his tellers, bookkeepers, clerks, everyone on the payroll. All 399 workers on the staff received bonuses, and he even tracked down 72 former employees so they could share in the windfall. more...
How the employees use the money >
Freitag, Februar 13, 2009
Mittwoch, Februar 11, 2009
New York Times: Uncovering Lost Path of the Most Wanted Nazi
By SOUAD MEKHENNET and NICHOLAS KULISH
Published: February 4, 2009 New York Times
CAIRO — Even in old age the imposingly tall, athletic German known to locals as Tarek Hussein Farid maintained the discipline to walk some 15 miles each day through the busy streets of Egypt’s capital. He walked to the world-renowned Al Azhar mosque here, where he converted to Islam, and to the ornate J. Groppi Cafe downtown, where he ordered the chocolate cakes he sent to friends and bought the bonbons he gave to their children, who called him Uncle Tarek. more...
Photos in New York Time
ZDF German TV Documentation
Published: February 4, 2009 New York Times
CAIRO — Even in old age the imposingly tall, athletic German known to locals as Tarek Hussein Farid maintained the discipline to walk some 15 miles each day through the busy streets of Egypt’s capital. He walked to the world-renowned Al Azhar mosque here, where he converted to Islam, and to the ornate J. Groppi Cafe downtown, where he ordered the chocolate cakes he sent to friends and bought the bonbons he gave to their children, who called him Uncle Tarek. more...
Photos in New York Time
ZDF German TV Documentation
ISS QSO WITH "Städtisches Gymnasium Herzogenrath, Herzogenrath, German" Sat (Feb 07) at 10:36 UTC - Callsign on earth DR0G and in space OR 4ISS
Sat (Feb 07) at 10:36 UTC ISS "International Space Shuttle" in QSO with "Städtisches Gymnasium Herzogenrath, Herzogenrath, Germany" Recorded by IW7DLE Mario in JN80XP, Brindisi, ITALY VHF 145.800 Mhz - FM
Stadtisches Gymnasium Herzogenrath ARISS Contact listening from Casale Monferrato (Italy)
February 7, 2008 10:36 UTC
Recorded from Casale Monferrato (Italy) JN45FD in School "Alighieri-Trevigi" preparing for a future direct ARISS contact with callsign IZ1PAY.
At the school IK1SLD, I1QEQ, IK1YFE, IW1BND and the cameraman IW1ANL
Dienstag, Februar 10, 2009
Freitag, Februar 06, 2009
Dienstag, Februar 03, 2009
Luftfahrt ungefiltert eingeatmet - Plusminus ARD/WDR, Dienstag, 3. Februar 2009 um 21.50 Uhr im Ersten
Die Luft an Bord von Linienmaschinen ist längst nicht so sauber, wie immer angenommen wird. In Zusammenarbeit mit der Redaktion „Kassensturz“ vom Schweizer Fernsehen wurden in den vergangenen Monaten bei Stichproben über 30 Abstriche in Verkehrsflugzeugen namhafter Fluggesellschaften gemacht. 28 Proben weisen zum Teil sehr hohe Anteile von Trikresylphosphat (TCP) auf. Dabei handelt es sich um eine ausschließlich dem Triebwerksöl beigefügte Chemikalie, aus der Gruppe der organischen Phosphate, die als Nervengift bekannt ist. mehr....
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