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POPS10,000 Miles, Mary Chapin Carpenter My daughter and I watched the movie Fly Away Home today. It is wonderful, if you haven't seen it. A little girl finds some orphaned goose eggs and teaches the geese to fly south for the winter. Makes me cry every time I watch it.
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POPS'Miracle on the Hudson' Pilot Capt. Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger to Return to N.Y., Cockpit Thursday
He has also been given a spot on US Airways's flight operations safety management team. Sullenberger, 58, had taken a break from flying to write an autobiography and required catch-up training before he could get back in the cockpit. Despite being the nation's most celebrated and trusted pilot, Sullenberger had to go back to ground school, take some new simulator training and fly with a captain from the training department. "The months since January 15 have been very full, and my family and I have had some unforgettable experiences," Sullenberger said in a statement. "However, I have missed working with my colleagues at US Airways and I am eager to get back in the cockpit with my fellow pilots in the months ahead." "Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters," Sullenberger's engaging account of his life and the crash - in which his calm Gary Cooper-esque personality shines - comes out in October. "We welcome Capt. Sullenberger back to work and
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POPSNYC To Gas 2,000 Geese Aww, so sad. Culling is such a drastic thing to do. I wish they could be relocated instead, or something, but maybe they have a homing instinct? I wouldn't know. It's still sad, though. :(
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POPSGay Sheep and Other Homosexual Animals Of course as the "it's against nature" argument is debunked, it is only a matter of time when conservatives will argue that humans should rise above base animal instinct and shun homosexuality precisely because it is found in the natural world.
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POPSPic: Goose flying upside down more: “It looks like this bird is in mid-whiffle,” he said. “When geese come in to land from a great height they partake in a bout of whiffling, this involves the bird twisting and turning to spill air from their wings and thus lowering their speed prior to landing. In 36 years of birdwatching I have seen this many times, particularly when watching pink-footed geese on the north Norfolk coast coming in to roost in the late afternoon and evening. I have, however, never seen a photograph of a bird in mid-whiffle like this. It is an amazing photograph.”
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POPSJapanese Raccons found with Bird Flu What this shows is that the h5n1 virus is present in many different species. It breaks out in a form that is deadly to both animals and people when the host animal is gathered together in large numbers. When chickens, ducks, or geese are factory farmed (thousands raised at same time and housed for egg laying or held for delivery to live markets), the natural system "thinks" the species's population is too large and is exhibitig stress that calls for a "system" response to bring the flock back into balance. The system response to re-create balance is influenza which kills weaker or stressed birds and reestablishes balance. Repeated human intervention causes greater system responses until it may reach pandemic levels.
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POPS Turing Bombe, the WWII Nazi Code-Breaking Machine [PICS] War veterans Ruth Bourne, left, and Jean Valentine, who served in Women's Royal Navy Service during World War II, stand in front of the machine, that played a crucial part in cracking the Nazi, Enigma code, Teams of highly skilled mathematicians, cryptologists, inventive thinkers and crossword enthusiasts would receive hundreds of Nazi codes and ‘guess’ the approximate real message or plain text. This ‘crib’ would be given to the Wrens who would set it on the Bombe’s alphabet wheels. By checking all the permutations, the crib would help locate the true message within the code. "There were 210 such bookcase-like Bombes that gave Britain advance warning of Hitler’s plans and shortened the conflict by two years. " This replica is called Phoenix.
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POPSInsanity in Alberta My first exposure to this travesty has been horrifying. This should never have been allowed. Time to stand up for clean fuels.
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POPSUS Airways 1549 Passengers get (only) a year of 'top customer status' Why a year and not a lifetime? Why not free flights for a year and then a lifetime of "first class seats when available with priority check-in"? For that matter, why not a lifetime of free flying? Were they afraid everyone would want free upgrades for being in a plane crash? Any how many of the passengers will really feel ready to fly again within the next year? I'd be taking a lot of trains myself.
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