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Steaming Engine? Check Cooling Fan
Ray: I'd start by checking the simple stuff first. The thing I'd suspect first would be the cooling fan.
Tom: Let's say, just for the sake of argument, that your cooling fan bit the dust at some point. Like in 1998. Or last week. You might not have noticed because as long as you're moving, air is flowing through the radiator and helping to cool the engine.
Ray: It's only when you stop, say, at a railroad crossing, to let a 200-car freight train go by, or to chat with your buddy, that you really need the cooling fan to simulate the airflow you normally get when the car is moving.Tom: So, while you sat there chatting for five, 10, 15 minutes, with no cooling fan, the engine was getting hotter and hotter. Finally, it overheated, your coolant boiled over, and that boiling coolant blew a hole in a weakened hose or maybe even the radiator itself. That explains the steam, the smell of hot coolant and the puddle under your car.
Ray: Now, it's possible that with a car this old, you may need a cooling fan, a new hose, a new radiator AND a new engine as well. So there are no guarantees here. But start with the simple, inexpensive stuff first, and take it a step at a time.
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Emergency landing at JFK after LaGuardia takeoff
The plane landed a short time later at Kennedy Airport. No one was injured and the cause of the engine failure was not known Monday, said Tim Wagner, an American Airlines spokesman.
Passengers from the 140-seat aircraft were put on another American flight or on flights from other carriers to get to Atlanta, he said.
American Airlines flight 2393 took off from Runway 4 at 4:39 p.m. and airport personnel immediately knew there was a problem, officials said.
Engine maker cited for workplace safety violations
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration conducted an inspection in February. The agency says it found unprotected live electrical parts, improper use of electrical equipment and improper use of powered industrial vehicles, among other violations.
International Truck and Engine spokesman Ron Wiley says the citations are unjustified and the company will contest the $159,500 fine.
International Truck and Engine is a subsidiary of Navistar International that manufactures truck and tractor engines. It employs about 10,000 employees, including 1,450 in Melrose Park.
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He had spotted one of his own shirts, a loose-fitting traditional garment called a cushma.
"I literally took it off his back when we were in Ecuador last year," sociologist Daniel Brinkmeier said. "It was a good example of typical but traditional clothing, so I asked Martín if we could buy it."
The Cofán are a rain forest tribe that barely had contact with the outside world until an American company struck oil on their land in 1966. Since then, members have struggled to hang on to their lands, traditions and culture in the face of the invading 20th and 21st Centuries.Tribal leaders have enlisted the Field Museum in their effort, inviting Brinkmeier and two other museum scientists to Ecuador last year to gather and preserve about 100 Cofán artifacts, including beadwork, feathered shamanic headdresses, wooden flutes, ceramic griddles, blowguns, darts and spears.
"We were looking for handicrafts that the Cofán might not make in the future, everyday things that might go out of use and disappear," Brinkmeier said.
Last month the museum brought Criollo and two other tribal members to Chicago to explain the objects more fully and to edit hundreds of hours of videotaped interviews with Cofán elders that the men helped capture during the museum's visit.
From the information they gathered, the three are helping make detailed maps of more than 1,000 square miles of Cofán land that will be distributed to villages and schools, as well as DVDs to educate Cofán families.
"There is real political power when people can map out a wilderness area and show in their native language their names for all the geographical and historical landmarks," Brinkmeier said. "It tells the rest of the world that this place is known by and is owned by these people, who can say, 'This land has always been ours,' when they are confronted by outsiders wanting to move in and take over."
Traditional Cofán land comprised millions of acres of rain forest straddling the Aguarico River from southern Colombia across northern Ecuador into Peru.
In 1966 Texaco and Gulf Oil struck oil in the center of Cofán territory, and the aftermath left tribal life traumatized. Long stretches of the river and its tributaries were poisoned from toxic wastewater and petroleum spills, killing fish. When oilmen built supply roads into the forest, thousands of poor settlers followed, cutting swaths of jungle for farms.
Cofán land was reduced to two sizable chunks on either end of their former territory and two small reserves set aside in the middle. Some members abandoned Cofán life, finding jobs and marrying into settler communities. Others retreated deeper into the forests to maintain what tradition they could.
But the tribe's traditions are fading, zapped by access to electricity even in the most remote villages, where generators power lights, radios, TVs and DVD players bought with proceeds from eco-tourism.
"In the days before electricity, when the sun went down at 7 or 8 o'clock people went to bed," Criollo said. "But they weren't tired, so fathers told their families the stories of the Cofán people, our oral tradition.
"People don't go to bed when the sun goes down anymore, because they have electric lights. They listen to their radios or watch Bruce Lee and Jean-Claude Van Damme kickboxing DVDs on their TVs. When they go to bed at 11, they are too tired to listen to stories."
Only an estimated 1,000 to 1,500 Cofán speakers are left, and the fear is that much of the oral history and the history of Cofán territory will be lost as members now in their 60s or older die.
So, while in Cofán territory to collect objects, Brinkmeier and two Field anthropological research associates, Mike Cepec of the University of Texas at San Antonio and Clark Erickson of the University of Pennsylvania, trained tribal youths in interview techniques and videography.
The younger Cofán took elders into canoes, traveled through traditional tribal lands, and taped the older people as they named the places they came to and told stories in Cofán. These interviews have been transcribed and preserved.
Criollo, a village high school teacher, came to Chicago last month with Hugo Lucitante, 21, a university student in Quito, Ecuador's capital, and Felipe Borman, 20, a student at Knox College in Galesburg.
They are working with the museum staff to produce detailed maps with names in Cofán and with Art Institute students trained in video editing to produce six hours of DVD programs.
"The Cofán kids in the villages love those kickboxing movies," Lucitante said, "but there is almost nothing available to show on video that is in the Cofán language, so we think they will watch our videos."
Until he was 10, Lucitante lived with his parents in Zábalo, one of the most remote Cofán villages. A visiting scholar from the University of Washington offered to take him to Seattle to learn English.
Lucitante stayed in Seattle until his graduation from high school, coming home every summer for visits. When he was 12, he spoke before the United Nations in New York on indigenous people's rights and the plight of the Cofán.
But staying in the U.S. is not in his plans.
"Western life is go, go, go from the start of every day, every morning," Lucitante said.
"At home in the jungle, you do what you have to do to survive, but you also have time to relax and enjoy life with your family. I prefer home to the city life.
Navarre Corp.'s Funimation and Encore DVDs Down, BCI DVDs Up
Video game sales helped post net sales of $142 million, compared to $137 million during the same period last year, while profits were down to $5.3 million, compared to $7.3 million during the same period last year.
For DVD, Blu-ray and digital delivery, Navarre posted earnings of $.6 million for the quarter, on sales of $27.4 million.
“Funimation had a solid quarter and it exceeded our sales and profit expectations,” said CEO Cary Deacon. “Growth in net sales and solid expense management of BCI led to much improved financial results … DVD video had a very strong quarter, exhibiting a 20% net sales gain on a year-over-year basis.”
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DCM Deutsche Capital acquire four B777 freighters
DCM Deutsche Capital acquire four B777 freighters
DCM Deutsche Capital acquire four B777 freighters
28-Jul-2008 :
Deucalion Capital VII Limited ("DC VII"), an aviation fund advisedand management by DVB Bank AG, has sold four Boeing 777F freighteraircraft to DCM Deutsche Capital Management AG, a German issuinghouse based in Munich. DC VII had placed an order for a total ofeight freighters with Boeing in November 2007.
The aircraft will be delivered in 2009 and 2010 under a long-termoperating lease to AeroLogic, a joint venture cargo airline createdby Lufthansa Cargo and DHL Express. The joint venture will commenceflight operations from its home base at Leipzig/Halle Airport inthe spring of 2009.
Claus Hermuth, Chairman of the Management Board of DCM DeutscheCapital Management AG, said that there are "numerous factorspointing to air freight transport as one of the key growth marketsof the future. Demand for aircraft with particularly high payload,operating range, and cost efficiency is expected to be especiallybrisk: Boeing's new 777F – considered to be the mostinnovative freighter available – is particularlywell-positioned in this respect. With the aircraft acquired fromthe Deucalion Funds, we have secured exposure to this type ofaircraft for our current aviation fund, as well as for funds wewill launch in the future. At the same time, we look forward to asuccessful long-term business relationship with DVB Bank."
New mobile phone mast to save lives
New mobile phone mast to save lives
The EU-funded WISECOM project has developed portable mobile phonemasts which can be deployed in minutes to aid rescue workers indisaster sites.
One of the first systems to go down in a disaster is generally themobile networks, and re-establishing them can help workers findvictims and treat them much quicker, saving many lives.
Two systems have been developed, using the BGAN and DVB-RCSstandards. The former is a smaller system, weighing around 10kg andcan be carried on a plane.
This has a 300m range over voice and data, and can be set up inminutes by almost any worker, even without technical training.
Bigger and better
The DVB-RCS is a much larger device at 60kg, and will likely beused in the days after a disaster to improve communications overseveral kilometres.
th use satellite communication to send and receive the signals,and include WiFi coverage as well. The complexity of set up for theDVB-RCS is mostly down to the precision needed in setting thesatellite dish.
"We developed lightweight, portable (or transportable) systemsthat allow rescue workers to set up voice and data networks in avery short time," says Matteo Beriloli, WISECOM's coordinator.
"The system works anywhere there is satellite coverage, whichis to say almost everywhere in the world," he adds
