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Pilot miraculously survives horrific plane crash on busy
motorway
Last updated at 01:13am on 23rd September 2007
Dazed and bloodied, the pilot gazes around the wreckage of
the plane he has just crash-landed on a busy road – and only one
thought can possibly be running through his mind: "How on Earth did I
survive that?"
The cockpit of Bob Robertson's cargo plane disintegrated around him as he hit the freeway, leaving him
sitting upright in his seat, his legs trapped under the control column.
Shock: Pilot Bob Roberston tries to take it all in
His five-ton 1964 Super Twin Beech 18 clipped the side of a building before it dropped on to Florida's Interstate 93 and slid on to a grassed embankment.
Stunned witness Fred Allen said: "It was like he was just sitting in the road."
The 34-year-old pilot got into trouble when the twin-engine plane began to lose power shortly after taking off from Fort Lauderdale, en route for the Bahamas, on Friday.
Crash-land: A fire crew prepares to cut the pilot free
Escaped murderer questioned by police but let go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBrnBmUmVzI&feature=related
A Boeing 767 airliner ran out of fuel due to a hijacking. The large plane crash lands on the ocean. People at a gathering on the shore captured the event as it unfolded.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHdPkcF7F4k
Airplanes hitting the Twin Towers
Servant power: http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=0k4lsi1dql
Seniors singing hip songs with meaning – Their living
for the moment:
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By Claudia Puig, USA TODAY When the spirited senior chorus
featured in Young@Heart (* * * 1/2 out of four) tears into
James Brown's I Got You (I Feel Good), it's charmingly evident that
they do. It's no accident one
of the more rousing musical numbers among the contemporary and classic rock
tunes performed in this funny and poignant documentary is David Bowie's Golden
Years. Clearly, these New England
residents in their 70s, 80s and 90s are having the time of their lives.
Singing and performing with youthful vigor for appreciative crowds — from
Massachusetts prisoners to audiences in Europe and Australia — they could be
poster children for AARP. The Young@Heart
chorus, started 25 years ago by Bob Cilman, 53, comprises an eclectic and
endearing bunch of oldsters with a zest for life and enthusiasm for music.
They also inspire with their upbeat attitudes and willingness to embrace the
new and unfamiliar. Even when Cilman
selects some offbeat choices, such as Sonic Youth's dissonant Schizophrenia,
chorus members good-naturedly throw themselves into learning the song. No
matter that most of them can't stand the selection. (Many of their tastes
tend toward classical music or show tunes.) They trust Cilman to steer them
to the material that speaks to audiences and best showcases their
versatility. FIND MORE
STORIES IN: New York
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| Massachusetts
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| New England
| James Brown
| Coldplay
| Stay
| David Bowie
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| Sonic Youth
| Feel Good
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Ballroom | Got You
| Fix You
| Golden Years
| Schizophrenia
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| Fred Knittle
In the vein of Mad
Hot Ballroom, Young @Heart focuses on a few engaging performers
and gives us a window into their lives and their philosophies on aging. Some
of the singers are surrounded by family, while others live alone. But a few
elements are consistent: They have formed strong bonds of friendship and are
devoted to their musical avocation. The chorus is of paramount importance
with some members braving serious illness and defying physical weakness in
their commitment to perform. The songs are
sometimes humorous: The way Eileen Hall, the salty 92-year-old British-born
former stripper, talk-sings The Clash's Should I Stay or Should I Go
is hilarious. Other renditions are tender and sad: Fred Knittle's version of
Coldplay's Fix You, which he sings despite congestive heart failure
and dedicates to a deceased fellow member, is lump-in-the-throat material. As long as they can
carry a tune, no matter if the warble gets a bit wobbly, these singing
seniors forge on. Not only is it enjoyable, Young@Heart is a
heartening and poignant affirmation of the transformative power of music.
(Rated PG for some mild language and thematic elements. Running time: 1 hour,
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygWGcHVKv2s&feature=related – Sung after 2 members passed away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82mwhSyHbow&feature=related – Sung to inspire prisoners
http://www.stumbleupon.com/demo/?review=1#url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u6k-99qcCE - Sung after singing partner died
Cold Play’s Clock song, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7rDNgkeUtw;
Capuchin monkeys providing hands and companionship for severely disabled people
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16692051/
2008 Kentucky Derby – 2nd place winner
breaks both legs & is put to sleep while others unknowingly celebrate the 1st
place winner.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nssrqK-0VUg
Incredible pictures of one of
Earth's last uncontacted tribes firing bows and arrows
By MICHAEL
HANLON
Last updated at 4:43 PM on 30th May 2008
Skin painted bright red, heads
partially shaved, arrows drawn back in the longbows and aimed square at the
aircraft buzzing overhead. The gesture is unmistakable: Stay Away.
Behind the two men stands another
figure, possibly a woman, her stance also seemingly defiant. Her skin painted
dark, nearly black.
The apparent aggression shown by
these people is quite understandable. For they are members of one of Earth's
last uncontacted tribes, who live in the Envira region in the thick rainforest
along the Brazilian-Peruvian frontier.
Thought never to have had any
contact with the outside world, everything about these people is, and hopefully
will remain, a mystery.
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Painted: In a
thick rainforest along the Brazilian-Peruvian border, these tribespeople are
thought never to have had any contact with the outside world
Their extraordinary body paint, precisely
what they eat (the anthropologists saw evidence of gardens from the air), how
they construct their tent-like camp, their language, how their society operates
- the life of these Amerindians remains a mystery.
'We did the overflight to show
their houses, to show they are there, to show they exist,' said Brazilian
uncontacted tribes expert José Carlos dos Reis Meirelles Junior. 'This is very
important because there are some who doubt their existence.'
Meirelles, who despite once being
shot in the shoulder by an arrow fired by another tribe campaigns to protect
these peoples, believes this group's numbers are increasing, and pointed out
how strong and healthy the people seemed.
But other uncontacted groups in
the region, whose homes have been photographed from the air, are in severe
danger from illegal logging in Peru and populations are being decimated.
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Mystery: The tribespeople
are likely to think the plane that took this photograph is a spirit or large
bird
Logging is driving uncontacted
tribes over the border and could lead to conflict with the estimated five
hundred uncontacted Indians already living on the Brazilian side.
'What is happening in this region
[of Peru] is a monumental crime against the natural world, the tribes, the
fauna and is further testimony to the complete irrationality with which we, the
'civilised' ones, treat the world,' said Meirelles.
It is extraordinary to think
that, in 2008, there remain about a hundred groups of people, scattered over
the Earth, who know nothing of our world and we nothing of theirs, save a
handful of brief encounters.
The uncontacted tribes, which are
located in the jungles of South America, New Guinea and a remote and the
beautiful and remote North Sentinel island in the Indian Ocean (the inhabitants
of which have also responded to attempts at contact with extreme aggression)
all have one thing in common - they want to be left alone.
And for good reason. The history
of contact, between indigenous tribes and the outside world, has always been an
unhappy one.
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Human nature: One
man points at the plane. Others ready their weapons
In our overcrowded world their
very future hangs in the balance. Almost all of these tribes are threatened by
powerful outsiders who want their land. These outsiders - loggers, miners,
cattle ranchers - are often willing to kill the tribespeople to get what they
want.
Even where there is no violence,
the tribes can be wiped out by diseases like the common cold to which they have
no resistance.
According to Miriam Ross of
Survival International, which campaigns to protect the world's remaining
indigenous peoples, 'These tribes represent the incredible diversity of
humankind. Unless we want to condemn yet more of the earth's peoples to
extinction, we must respect their choice. Any contact they have with outsiders
must happen in their own time and on their own terms.'
As to who these people are, how
they live their lives, what language they speak - we know nothing. 'Normally
you can tell who tribes are by their language, how they wear their hair, how
they adorn their bodies and so on, but in this case the photos don't allow us
to get close enough to see,' says Ms Ross.
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Hidden homes:
The tribe's tent-shaped dwellings deep in the rainforest
When anthropologists first
overflew the area, they saw women and children in the open and no one appeared
to be painted. It was only when the plane returned a few hours later that they
saw these individuals covered head-to-toe in red. 'Tribes in the Amazon paint
themselves for all kinds of different reasons - one of which includes when they
feel threatened or are aggressive,' Ms Ross says.
'And they are almost certain to
feel threatened by or aggressive towards a plane, which was where the photos
were taken from. They are almost certain not to understand what the plane is -
perhaps a spirit or a large bird.
'The jungle is fundamental to
their lives and survival. It's their home, their source of food, the source of
their culture etc. Without it, they could not exist as a people.'
Contact is usually a disaster for
these remote tribespeople, who live a life probably unchanged for more than
10,000 years. Even if the loggers do not shoot them (which they often do) or
force them off their land, diseases against which these isolated humans have no
resistance typically wipe out half an uncontacted tribe's numbers in a year or
two.
Stay away: The
anthropologists saw evidence of gardens, but exactly what they eat, how they
build their huts and why they paint their bodies remains unknown
Ms Ross added: 'These pictures
are further evidence that uncontacted tribes really do exist. The world needs
to wake up to this, and ensure that their territory is protected in
accordance with international law. Otherwise, they will soon be made extinct.'
For more information on Survival
International, see www.survival-international.org.
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