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One of the four miners trapped 90m (295ft) below ground in the Swansea Valley has been found dead, police say.
Link : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-14944188One of the four miners trapped 90m (295ft) below ground in the Swansea Valley has been... more
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Fluid inclusions in modern and ancient buried halite from Death Valley and Saline Valley, California, USA, contain an ecosystem of “salt-loving” (halophilic) prokaryotes and eukaryotes, some of which are alive. Prokaryotes may survive inside fluid inclusions for tens of thousands of years using carbon and other metabolites supplied by the trapped microbial community, most notably the single-celled alga Dunaliella, an important primary producer in hypersaline systems. Deeper understanding of the long-term survival of prokaryotes in fluid inclusions will complement studies that further explore microbial life on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system, where materials that potentially harbor microorganisms are millions and even billions of years old. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/your-details/22566-microbial-communities-in-fluid-inclusions-and-long-term-survival-in-halite-the-11th-hour-documentaryFluid inclusions in modern and ancient buried halite from Death Valley and Saline... more
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If anyone's wondering, those big trees are called "Baobab" trees. Incredible trees only found there in the Kalahari. Definitely a must visit place before you die.
I think these videos from from "The Gods Must Be Crazy", definitely a classic film.If anyone's wondering, those big trees are called "Baobab" trees.... more
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11/11/2010, Uberaba, MG, Brazil - Thrilling rescue of two children, a broken-legged man and a woman from their car during an intense flood on the streets of the city.11/11/2010, Uberaba, MG, Brazil - Thrilling rescue of two children, a broken-legged... more
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See Brett and Ellen's review of "127 Hours," the newest film from "Slumdog Millionaire" director Danny Boyle. James Franco stars in the real-life story of a hiker trapped for five days in a deep crevasse who must cut off his own arm to survive.
Rotten Tomatoes is a recurring infoMania segment dedicated to the movies. Join hosts Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox on Thursday nights at 11/10c on Current TV as they roll out updates on the latest Hollywood news and judge the freshness of studio blockbusters and independent hits. For more from Rotten Tomatoes: http://rottentomatoesshow.com
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Erin Gibson, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 11/10c on Current TV.
Go to http://current.com/infomania for more, and make sure to check out our Facebook profile for special features at http://facebook.com/infomania.See Brett and Ellen's review of "127 Hours," the newest film from... more
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A dawn explosion in a Chinese coal mine has killed 20 workers and trapped a further 17 underground.
The blast happened at 6am local time this morning and came shortly after the world was riveted by Chile's dramatic rescue of 33 trapped miners who spent more than two months underground.
It remains unclear how far underground the 17 trapped workers are at the state-owned mine in the country's central region, a spokesman with the state work safety administration said.
He had no details on the cause of the blast in Henan province, a couple of hours outside the provincial capital of Zhengzhou, about 430 miles south of Beijing.
China Central Television originally reported that more than 30 people were trapped and 20 killed, but the spokesman said the earlier number of people reported trapped included the dead workers.
Today's blast happened in a pit owned by Pingyu Coal & Electric Co. Ltd, the state-run Xinhua News Agency cited mine officials in Yuzhou city as saying.
China's mining industry is the most dangerous in the world, and more than 2,600 people died in mining accidents last year.
The Chinese government has shut down more than 1,600 small, illegal coal mines this year as part of an effort to improve safety standards, the state-backed People's Daily newspaper reported on Thursday.
However, an unknown number of illegal mines still exist to profit from the fast-growing economy's huge appetite for power.
China had its own stunning mine rescue earlier this year, when 115 miners were pulled from a flooded mine in the northern province of Shanxi after more than a week underground. The miners survived by eating sawdust, tree bark, paper and even coal.
Some strapped themselves to the walls of the shafts with their belts to avoid drowning while they slept.
Henan province was the scene of one of China's deadliest mining disasters on record, a gas explosion in the Daping mine that killed 148 in October 2004.
At least 195 people were killed in mining accidents in Henan this year during August, according to the provincial coal mine safety bureau.
China's mines had 6,995 fatalities in 2002, the deadliest year on record.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1321110/Explosion-Chinese-coal-kills-20-traps-17-underground.html#ixzz12c1UTuRRA dawn explosion in a Chinese coal mine has killed 20 workers and trapped a further 17... more
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Yep the web supplies a little flash game allowing you to control a flash Phoenix capsule to rescue 33 trapped Chilean miners. You have to spin a wheel to make the capsule move, so seems more better placed as a iphone or ipod game.
"This is genius. (Although you probably won’t finish it.) Chilean tech and design firm Root33 has made a playable Flash game called Los 33"-Neatorama
http://www.geekosystem.com/the-chilean-miner-rescue-flash-game/Yep the web supplies a little flash game allowing you to control a flash Phoenix... more
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With around 2,000 journalists at the San José mine it is not surprising firends and families of the trapped miners are worried about the effect the media attention will be when the miner escape from the tunnel.
"A poll of 20 families by the local newspaper La Tercera found that fears of media "overexposure" outweighed concerns over the men's psychological and physical health.
The hospital in the nearby town of Copiapó, where the men are due to be taken in a helicopter for 48 hours' observation, was bracing for a siege with security barriers being erected as TV crews arrived to book spots."-Guardian
The article says a leading doctor in the rescue Jean Romagnoli has stated the miner are being coached to cope with the sudden media attention they'll receive when back outside the mine.With around 2,000 journalists at the San José mine it is not surprising firends... more
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However, reports say it could take months to rescue the trapped 33 cooper and gold miners.
News of their survival in the collapsed mine came from a note they wrote and attached to a rescue drill, since then a small camera was sent down which showed the miners.
They've been trapped in the mine since 5 august surviving on tanks of water in the mine.
"The eldest of the trapped men, 63-year-old Mario Gomez, also wrote a letter to his wife which was attached to the note.
"God is great," it read. "This company has got to modernize, but I want to tell everyone I’m ok, and am sure we’ll survive."-Channel 4 newsHowever, reports say it could take months to rescue the trapped 33 cooper and gold... more
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It's not covered by the Geneva Conventions, but being trapped in an airplane while waiting for takeoff sometimes feels like a crime against humanity.
Starting Thursday, airline passengers stuck on the tarmac have some redress. Under a new federal rule, passengers must have the chance to get off that motionless plane three hours after leaving the gate.
Many passengers have faced the scenario where they're waiting for their flight to take off, and then weather or air traffic intervenes. A quick taxi to the runway becomes an ordeal.
At Baltimore-Washington International Airport recently, Syed Hussain was waiting for his bags. He said he was stuck for five hours at Houston's Hobby Airport because of a thunderstorm. He said he and other passengers onboard waited and waited, and they weren't offered any refreshments.
Now passengers like Hussain can complain to Ray LaHood. The transportation secretary has been a big defender of the new rule, which he says stipulates that "the pilot has to go back to the terminal when the three-hour period is up to let the people get off of the plane and do what they want to do."
If the airline misses that deadline, it will face a fine of fine of $27,500 per passenger, LaHood says. And passengers will no longer have to go hungry. They can look forward to snacks and "potable water" after two hours. And the lavatory also must be working.
READ MORE AT LINKIt's not covered by the Geneva Conventions, but being trapped in an airplane... more
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More than 2,000 people spent the night trapped inside the Channel Tunnel after four Eurostar trains broke down due to wintry weather.
It is thought the trains failed as they left the cold air in northern France and entered the warmer air inside the tunnel, Eurostar spokesman Bram Smets said.More than 2,000 people spent the night trapped inside the Channel Tunnel after four... more
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It begins:
“My man has stolen psychiatrist. Yep, it is official. MY therapist and MY partner have now booted me out of the loop. Okay. I’ll tell you the whole story, but here’s the irony. YOU GUYS are now my only source of therapy for the moment (well, at least until next Tuesday) and what’s even worse: I’M footing the bill!!!!”It begins:
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It begins:
“My man has stolen psychiatrist. Yep, it is official. MY therapist and MY partner have now booted me out of the loop. Okay. I’ll tell you the whole story, but here’s the irony. YOU GUYS are now my only source of therapy for the moment (well, at least until next Tuesday) and what’s even worse: I’M footing the bill!!!!”
Care to read on with this bonkers and honest story? And it's damned well-written too. Visit her site and click the link above.It begins:
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A Turkish boy who became trapped in a safe when he was playing with friends in front of a vault and safe shop has been freed by rescue workers, who had to use an electric saw, a sledgehammer and other heavy equipment, to force open the heavy door, as the shopkeeper was away for the weekend.A Turkish boy who became trapped in a safe when he was playing with friends in front... more
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In the 1960s, there was a dramatic push to reduce the number of mental health patients in large public psychiatric hospitals, shifting their care to local communities. However, those communities were ill-prepared to provide treatment for them, and they ended up being left or abandoned on the streets to fend for themselves.
Presently, increasingly large numbers of mentally ill persons have ended up trapped as inmates in our country’s prisons and jails, rather than receiving treatment in mental health facilities.
This article includes a number of dramatic photographs of mentally ill persons who are presently trapped in prison, as well as an absolutely chilling documentary that provides a look at the unbearable experiences that the mentally ill endure inside the prison walls.
You will remember this.In the 1960s, there was a dramatic push to reduce the number of mental health patients... more
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Amazingly, a man trapped benith the rubble of a building for for nearly 179 hours was rescued during the aftermath of May 12th earthquake in China. The 31-year-old man was pulled out of the debris of a destroyed power plant.Amazingly, a man trapped benith the rubble of a building for for nearly 179 hours was... more
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Getting trapped in an elevator is an awful way to spend time but what would you do if you were trapped in an elevator for over 41 hours?Getting trapped in an elevator is an awful way to spend time but what would you do if... more
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Accompanying video to Nick Paumgarten's piece "Up and Then Down" from the April 21st issue of The New Yorker. Footage of Nicholas White trapped in an elevator in the McGraw-Hill Building for 41 hours.
The longest smoke break of Nicholas White’s life began at around eleven o’clock on a Friday night in October, 1999. White, a thirty-four-year-old production manager at Business Week, working late on a special supplement, had just watched the Braves beat the Mets on a television in the office pantry. Now he wanted a cigarette. He told a colleague he’d be right back and, leaving behind his jacket, headed downstairs.Accompanying video to Nick Paumgarten's piece "Up and Then Down" from... more
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After putting up with years of ongoing abuse from the city, Chicago's transit riders finally revolted against Mayor Daley and his decayed subway system. Packed trains were stranded under Chicago's Loop during rush hour for more than an hour on Tuesday. People were getting sick and throwing up from the lack of circulating fresh air. Finally, riders revolted en mass, ignoring transit workers' confused directions and pleas, abandoning the stalled trains and making a long and dangerous trudge through dark and dirty underground tunnels to the light of freedom. Some of them still remain hospitalized.
Photographs and videos are included.After putting up with years of ongoing abuse from the city, Chicago's transit... more
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A group of men have been sleeping rough in a Karama park for the past six months after their passports were stolen by a recruitment agent when they arrived in Dubai. At least 30 Indians now regard the park as their home, as they have no money to rent accommodation and cannot get jobs as they are regarded as illegal workers.
“This little park has become our home for the past six months. We sleep on the grass and look towards the sky hoping that there won’t be rain or dust storms... Sometimes we remain awake all night as it is too cold to sleep,” said Bukke Shiva Rao, a 32-year-old Indian worker from the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
He said that he sleeps in the park at night and goes out during the daytime looking for work. “No one is ready to provide us with a job as we are illegals and do not hold any identification documents to prove our credentials. Our only aim is to return to our country but we need help,” he added. “We have no idea for how many more days we will be suffering like this. One of our colleagues went out recently and broke his arm. He is still desperately looking for treatment. There are also many others who are suffering with various other ailments,” said another worker, Y Rajesh.
A Dubai-based social worker has been providing free food to the group on a daily basis. The men said that they came to the country at the time when the amnesty was announced last year but mounting debts back home forced them to try to find jobs, rather than take advantage of the grace period.
“We borrowed huge sums of money to come here and the interest rate has been climbing every month. We thought we could earn good money staying here. However we failed to find jobs due to strict labour laws introduced after the end of the amnesty period,” said Rajesh who paid dhs10,000 to an agent to come to Dubai.
Indian Consulate officials said that they would contact the workers and try to help them. “We will get in touch with the workers to find out why they are stranded in the country and try to provide them air tickets so that they can fly home,” BS Mubarak, Consul for Labour Affairs in the Indian Consulate, told 7DAYS.A group of men have been sleeping rough in a Karama park for the past six months after... more
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