3-20-08

hecker Marathon Redux: Ford Transit Connect Taxi
Wired News - USA
By Matthew Phenix March 19, 2008 | 10:01:40 AMCategories: New York Auto Show Okay, so we wrote about (and gushed over) the forthcoming Ford Transit Connect ...
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No protection from Qassam rockets in ‘transit camps’
Ynetnews - Israel
Aid organizations present higher figures – up to 25% of population These houses received the not so flattering moniker “1990s transit camps”. ...
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Interourte, Rostelecom create Transit Europe-Asia network
Telecom Paper (subscription) - Houten,Netherlands
... and London to the Russian network of Rostelecom and its partners' technical facilities through a high-speed ring channel named Transit Europe-Asia. ...
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Ford Transit Connect Taxi concept a natural for New York
MotorTrend Magazine - USA
At February's Chicago Auto Show, Ford unveiled its plans to bring its European Transit Connect van to the US in mid 2009 and used the show to highlight the ...
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India asks Bangladesh for transit facilities through port
Hindu - Chennai,India
Dhaka (PTI): Bangladesh should grant transit facilities to India through the Chittagong sea port as it will "significantly" improve the country's economy ...
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Ford Transit Connect Taxi Concept Offers New Perspective on Urban ...
Earthtimes - London,UK
Ford reveals fuel-efficient, nimble Transit Connect Taxi concept in the taxi capital of America -- New York City. NEW YORK, March 19 -- Ford , the leading ...
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Ottawa ponies up $350- million for Toronto transit
Globe and Mail - Canada
Despite his feud with Mr. Flaherty over funding for cities, Mr. Miller thanked the federal government for the transit funding. "This is a very good day for ...
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Deal will provide millions for public transit in Toronto
CBC Toronto - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Premier Dalton McGuinty thanked the federal government on Tuesday for coming up with some long-promised money for public transit in Toronto, and said he's ...
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Mid-Week Miami News
By Gabriel J. Lopez-Bernal(Gabriel J. Lopez-Bernal)
At the current rate, the PTP will be milked to fix past screw ups, provide free transit use for veterans, and various other road (vehicular) projects which have passed under the radar. Doesn't anyone care? Meanwhile, the metromover will ...
Transit Miami - http://www.transitmiami.com/

Toronto receives $303.7 million for transit
By Chris
Toronto, Ontario – A new $303.5 million contribution agreement signed yesterday by the Government of Canada, the City of Toronto and the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) will provide funding for improved public transit, ...
CanadianDriver: Automotive news - http://www.canadiandriver.com/thenews

Ford’s Transit Connect could become taxi
Ford Motor Co. today is expected to show a new taxi cab concept vehicle based on the European-made Transit Connect van. The New York auto show might be the perfect place to do it -- the Big Apple is the nation's largest taxi cab market.
News Servant.com / cars - http://www.newsservant.com/cars

New York 2008: Hail a Cab with Ford’s Transit Connect Taxi Concept
By Evan McCausland
The Taxi concept also features a new electronic infotainment and navigation system that shows passengers their accumulating cab fare, and a scrolling news, weather, sports score and stock ticker. Using the 13-inch diagonal touch screen, ...
Winding Road - http://news.windingroad.com

Development Of Sensors With Widespread Applications Including ...
By admin
Bombs constructed with hydrogen peroxide killed more than 50 people and injured 700 more on two London subway trains and a transit bus during rush hour on July 7, 2007. More than 1500 pounds of a hydrogen peroxide-based mixture was ...
Medical,Health News and Articles - http://03530.com

Marlboro kids: Man pointed gun at school bus
Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park,NJ,USA
He said the department is using a statewide system that compares local police reports against those of other towns to determine if similar incidents have ...
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Confed tunnel 'hell's gate': mom
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
... attacked after dark while standing at the Confederation bus terminal. Two teenage boys and a teenage girl were arrested in connection with the incident. ...
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Taskforce targets Rosemeadow violence
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
"Over the past month there have been seven incidents relating to public order within the suburb of Rosemeadow with five of these incidents relating to ...
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Police: Man tried to abduct teen near school
Jackson Hole Star-Tribune - Casper,WY,USA
By JOSHUA WOLFSON A man wearing a nylon stocking on his head tried to abduct a 16-year-old girl as she walked to a bus stop in Mills on Tuesday morning, ...
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Fear grips Sri Lanka's state television after wave of mysterious ...
International Herald Tribune - France
The incidents were largely ignored until Labor Minister Mervyn Silva and his bodyguards walked into Rupavahini's offices Dec. 27 and reportedly attacked ...
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3 Wolf - Proof Bus Stop Shelters Go Up In New Mexico Community
By admin
In May of 2007 two Catron county Reserve School district school children were followed home from the bus stop by what appeared to be a Mexican wolf although later two sets of wolf tracks were found in the immediate area of the incident. ...
Wolf Crossing - http://wolfcrossing.org

Stir Crazy
By Joselle Shea
In the wake of serious incidents of school violence, weapons threats and fighting are dealt with swiftly and unequivocally. The conditions surrounding the threat or fight are considered only after the punishment has been dealt. ...
Prevention Works - http://ncpc.typepad.com/prevention_works_blog/

Grieboski, of the Institute for Religion and Public Policy, Nails It
By Julia Gorin
On that day ethnic violence erupted involving over 50000 individuals in at least 30 separate incidents, which claimed the lives of 19 civilians [actually, over 30 dead including KFOR] and injured over 900 persons, ...
Republican Riot - http://www.juliagorin.com/wordpress

Bus Karma in Black and White
By Pandababy(Pandababy)
It turned out that he should have let me off in a different neighborhood for a different bus, that was a direct route to my destination. I never connected the two incidents until today, when I heard Senator Obama's speech in ...
PandaBaby - http://vegetarianbear.cityonahill.com/

Travel Warning - Nepal
By Chris Harvey
Nepal continues to experience sporadic incidents of terrorism and politically-motivated violence in major urban areas. On September 2, 2007, near-simultaneous blasts at three locations in the capital, Kathmandu, killed three persons and ...
Travel Insurance Advice - http://www.squaremouth.com/travel-advice

School Officials Battle With EMS Over Bus Accident Procedures
WLKY - Louisville,KY,USA
Jefferson County Public School officials are at odds with Louisville EMS about how to handle medical care for students involved in bus accidents. ...
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Politicians, educators weigh in on school bus seat belt issue
Aurora News Register - Aurora,NE,USA
Harms introduced the bill after a fatal bus accident in 2001 claimed the lives of four Seward High School students. The student were traveling from a ...
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Foster to revamp school bus safety
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
The two girls, both wearing seatbelts, were sitting together at the rear of the bus when the accident happened. The impact crushed both girls against seats ...
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Two bus accidents in west Nepal: 18 dead, dozens injured (Roundup)
Monsters and Critics.com - USA
Kathmandu - At least 18 people were killed and 43 injured in two separate bus accidents on Nepal's dangerous mountain highway in the western part of the ...
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Lee school district picks up another budget award
The News-Press - Fort Myers,FL,USA
By news-press.com • March 18, 2008 The Lee County School District has been honored for its budget presentation for the second time this month. ...
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Eight killed, more than 30 injured in west Nepal bus accident
Monsters and Critics.com - USA
The bus plunged about 200 metres in Dadeldhura district, about 550 kilometres west of the Nepalese capital, on Tuesday night. Most of the passengers were ...
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you could get hit by a bus
By Liam Delaney(Liam Delaney)
The matching strategy ensures that the exogenous health shocks from the bus accident are random, conditional upon matching. Using data from my household survey conducted one year after the accidents, I find evidence of imperfect ...
Geary Behaviour Centre - http://gearybehaviourcenter.blogspot.com/

Eleventh Anniversary of ‘that’ accident !
By vivekshankar13
Not only that, we even visited Calcutta, and once while travelling in a crowded local bus, people gave me their seat because of my plastered hand . Those 3 months taught me a number of things - living a handicapped life was indeed tough ...
Vivek Shankar's Weblog - http://vivekshankar13.wordpress.com

Mass Transit & Gasoline Prices: Time to Go Public?
By xboxg
Another issue for bus passengers is the lack of seat belts and shoulder belts. I have been in two bus accidents without injury, but one sudden stop sent me sailing four or five feet forward. I managed to grab a post and only received a ...
xbox - http://xboxg.myfreeblog.us

Trains, Boats and Automobiles
By rosibud
I witnessed the aftermath of two accidents, one involved a car, truck and a motorbike. The car was in two pieces and the bike had only a wheel left and a flattened frame, it was not pretty. This is the exact point that our guide Tien ...
Rosi & Jen's South East Asian Odyssey - http://journals.worldnomads.com/rosibud/

Vehicle Accident Settlement
By miscallaneousblog
... vehicles involved in the accident that caused serious injuries are both cars, imagine the damage and injuries that will be sustained if the collision involves a car and a truck or a car and motorcycle or even a motorcycle and a bus. ...
Miscallaneous Blog - http://blog.ymoi.com/miscallaneousblog