I did.
Coast Guard suspends search for boat off Mass.
US Coast Guard resumes yacht crew search
After request, Coast Guard resumes search for 4 sailors
No signs of British sailors missing in the Atlantic
Debris found in area where yacht went missing
Those flips ended up tails.
NEXT DAY UPDATE:
Coast Guard says debris not related to missing yacht, may suspend search
Coast Guard says debris is not related to missing yacht
Btw, haven't see any debris regarding the Malaysian airliner mystery, but it is very possible.
NEXT DAY UPDATE: Search for missing Malaysia Airlines plane resumes
Sometimes I think the Globe is reading me.
The two-day strike got a single day of coverage, and then:
"Honeymoon slaying suspect charged in South Africa" Associated Press April 09, 2014
JOHANNESBURG — A British man accused of arranging the killing of his wife on their honeymoon was charged with murder in South Africa on Tuesday, hours after arriving from Britain following a lost battle to avoid extradition.
Shrien Dewani landed at Cape Town’s international airport in a plane chartered by South Africa’s justice ministry because of concerns about security and adequate monitoring of his medical condition if he had taken a commercial flight, the ministry said in a statement. The government ‘‘did not want to take chances’’ with Dewani’s transfer because of ‘‘undisputed evidence’’ during his extradition hearing that he had shown suicidal tendencies, according to the ministry. Lawyers for the 34-year-old businessman say he suffers from post-traumatic stress and depression and is unfit to stand trial.
Dewani’s 28-year-old bride, Anni, was found shot dead in an abandoned taxi in a poor area of Cape Town in November 2010. Dewani, who denies wrongdoing, is accused of hiring men to kill his wife and make it look like a botched carjacking during what he said was a township tour. Three men have been convicted for the murder.
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Related: South Africa's O.J.
"UK police seeking sex attacker in McCann case" Associated Press March 20, 2014
LONDON — British police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann said Wednesday they are seeking an intruder who sexually assaulted five girls in the region of southern Portugal where the British toddler was last seen.
Police have linked 12 crimes between 2004 and 2010, in which a man entered holiday villas occupied by British families in Portugal’s Algarve region. In several of those cases, the man sexually assaulted young girls.
Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood acknowledged there were differences in the characteristics of the 12 incidents and the McCann case — such as time of day — but stressed the need to identify the intruder.
‘‘This is an offender who has got a very, very unhealthy interest in young, white, female children who he is attacking whilst they are on holiday in their beds,’’ Redwood said. ‘‘We really need to identify the offender, to bring to a close the trauma and the tragedy that these families have suffered, and then seek to establish whether this is connected to Madeleine’s disappearance.’’
British police haven not released a composite sketch of the suspect. Portuguese police made no comment. Case under investigation in Portugal face judicial secrecy provision.
Madeleine was nearly 4 years old when she disappeared in May 2007 from her family’s resort apartment in Praia da Luz on Portugal’s south coast while her parents and their friends dined nearby.
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I'm getting the feeling they are never getting to the bottom of that.
Now that the meltdown is complete it is time to open it up and let you kick around 9/11:
The tragedy trade
Agenda-pushing paper taking full advantage:
"Many in the audience wiped away tears during the dedication ceremony, which revisited both the horror and the heroism of Sept. 11, 2001, the day 19 Al Qaeda hijackers crashed four airliners into the trade center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 people were killed in an attack that plunged the United States into a decade of war in Afghanistan against Al Qaeda’s Taliban protectors. The museum opens to the public Wednesday, but many of those affected most directly by 9/11 could start exploring it Thursday."
Maybe you should explore this instead.
"9/11 museum offers sights and sounds of tragedy" Associated Press May 15, 2014
NEW YORK — The National September 11 Memorial Museum opens this week deep beneath ground zero, 12½ years after the terrorist attacks.
The project was marked by construction problems, financial squabbles, and disputes over the appropriate way to honor the nearly 3,000 people killed in New York, Washington, and the Pennsylvania countryside....
The privately operated museum — built along with the memorial plaza above for $700 million in private donations and tax dollars — will be dedicated Thursday with a visit from President Obama and will be open initially to victims’ families, survivors, and first responders. It will open to the public May 21.
Visitors start in an airy pavilion where the rusted tops of two of the World Trade Center’s trident-shaped columns shoot upward. From there, stairs and ramps lead visitors on an unsettling journey into 9/11.
First, a dark corridor is filled with the voices of people remembering the day. Then visitors find themselves looking over a cavernous space, 70 feet below ground, at the last steel column removed during the ground zero cleanup — a totem covered with the numbers of police precincts and firehouses and other messages.
Descend farther — past the battered ‘‘survivors’ staircase’’ that hundreds used to escape the burning towers — and there are such artifacts as a mangled piece of the antenna from atop the trade center and a firetruck with its cab shorn off.
And then, through a revolving door, visitors are plunged into the chaos of Sept. 11: fragments of planes, a teddy bear left at the impromptu memorials that arose after the attacks, the sounds of emergency radio transmissions and office workers calling loved ones.
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"Tissues, counselors help ease pain at 9/11 museum" by Jennifer Peltz | Associated Press May 22, 2014
NEW YORK — There are prominent videos of the twin towers collapsing, photos of people falling from them, portraits of nearly 3,000 victims, and voice mail messages from people in hijacked planes.
But behind the wrenching sights and sounds of the National Sept. 11 Memorial Museum lies a quiet effort to help visitors handle its potentially traumatic impact, from silent spaces and built-in tissue boxes to a layout designed to let people bypass the most intense exhibits.
Discreet oak-leaf symbols denote items connected to the dead, and the images of falling victims are in an alcove marked with a warning sign. Designers made sure the rooms have ample exits, lest people feel claustrophobic in the underground space. And American Red Cross counseling volunteers stood by as the museum opened to the public Wednesday.
‘‘There’s a lot of thought given to the psychological safety of visitors,’’ said Jake Barton, who helped create the exhibits.
Related: The Reinforcements Ride In
Just thought you might want to see it.
It didn’t seem enough to Lori Strelecki, who was among the first people to tour the museum. She said she had seen a visitor crumpled over, crying.
‘‘Is that something you want to evoke?’’ asked Strelecki, who runs a historic house museum in Milford, Pa. ‘‘It’s too much.’’
Dr. Steven Cennamo, a New Jersey dentist, said he was impressed by the museum’s blend of spaciousness and artifacts as intimate as a victim’s wallet.
No hijacker passport from one of the planes?
Given the singularity of 9/11, ‘‘I don’t think you can overdo it,’’ he said.
More than 42,000 9/11 victims’ relatives, survivors, rescuers, and recovery workers have already visited the museum, which opened to them last Thursday, Executive Director Joe Daniels said.
It’s the latest in a series of memorials-as-museums that seek to honor the dead while presenting a full, fair history of the event that killed them. And the Sept. 11 museum strives to do that at ground zero while the attacks are still raw memories for many.
It is far, far, from a full and fair history! It's the conventional myth and absurd official version is what it is!
Museum planners realized early on the challenge of trying not to shatter people, ‘‘while at the same time being true to the authenticity of the event,’’ said Tom Hennes, founder of the exhibit designer Thinc Design.
Related: SEPTEMBER CLUES
All the authenticity is gone.
Trauma specialists told museum leaders that sounds of voices and images of hands and faces could be particularly distressing and that visitors should get to choose what to see.
I found it exhilarating.
The goal: ‘‘to keep it feeling alive and present without making it so alive and present that it’s unbearable,’’ said psychologist Billie Pivnick, who worked with Thinc.
To allow visitors an emotional breather, silent spaces with few artifacts surround the densely packed historical exhibit that follows the timeline of 9/11, set off by a revolving door.
Elsewhere, a room where visitors can call up recorded recollections about individual victims was designed as a quiet sanctum for feelings, with tissue dispensers embedded in the benches and acoustically padded walls, Hennes said.
The historical exhibit, crafted by another firm, Layman Design, envelops visitors in images, information, objects, and sounds, but designers sought to avoid emotional overload.
Ambient sounds of emergency radio transmissions and victims calling home are interspersed with the calmer tones of survivors recounting the day.
The hijackers are included, but carefully, in grainy airport-security video and unobtrusive individual photos.
Still, the display doesn’t shy away from large projections of the towers crumbling.
‘‘It’s a dramatic presentation, but I think it’s a dramatic moment,’’ explained Barton, whose firm, Local Projects, handled the multimedia components.
Other museums have faced difficult choices presenting the horrors of history.
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, for example, decided to display photos of hair shorn from people in death camps, but not the hair itself, and ensconced some graphic film footage in walls too tall for children to see over.
Beyond content choices, the Sept. 11 museum hopes a human touch can help visitors grapple with their reactions.
A retired social worker, Georgine Gorra, helped people find their way around the museum after the dedication ceremony. They didn’t seem traumatized, she said, just tearful.
‘‘We all were, frankly.’’
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Also see: 9/11 museum marks a step in nation’s recovery
Final remains:
"Moving of 9/11 remains to be protested" Associated Press May 09, 2014
NEW YORK — A group of Sept. 11 family members vowed Thursday to protest when the unidentified remains of those killed at the World Trade Center are moved to a repository at the site this weekend.
The relatives said that the plan to house the remains underground in the same building as the National September 11 Memorial Museum is disrespectful and that they would rather see the remains entombed aboveground on the adjacent memorial plaza.
‘‘Let us have a voice! Let us have a say!’’ said retired firefighter Jim Riches, who lost his son, also a firefighter, in the 2001 terrorist attacks. ‘‘We are outraged, and we will never rest until our loved ones, America’s heroes, rest in peace.’’
Sally Regenhard, who also lost her firefighter son at the World Trade Center, said the family members dread the opening of the museum on May 21.
‘‘It’s a day of sadness and a day of outrage,’’ she said.
Not all family members agree. Other victims’ families have been forthcoming about their support of the plan, saying the repository is a fitting site for the remains....
Phil Walzak, a spokesman for Mayor Bill de Blasio, said de Blasio’s administration ‘‘has engaged the community of 9/11 families continuously since entering office four months ago. This includes talking with and listening to families who have questions about this plan — as well as many families who are supportive and comfortable with this plan.’’
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Also see:
Ernesto Butcher, 69; N.Y. official praised for post-9/11 actions
He was walking on the street and had a heart attack after being buried in the rubble of the South Tower?
Some remains of 9/11 victims moved to memorial
Scientists still working to identify 9/11 remains
I'd rather you identify how those steel towers fell at free-fall speed due to jet fuel fires three times that day -- a physical impossibility that has happened neither before nor since when it comes to fires and steel-framed buildings.
I flipped a coin to decide whether to continue posting today, and it came up no. Sorry.
Also see: 9/11 museum marks a step in nation’s recovery
Final remains:
"Moving of 9/11 remains to be protested" Associated Press May 09, 2014
NEW YORK — A group of Sept. 11 family members vowed Thursday to protest when the unidentified remains of those killed at the World Trade Center are moved to a repository at the site this weekend.
The relatives said that the plan to house the remains underground in the same building as the National September 11 Memorial Museum is disrespectful and that they would rather see the remains entombed aboveground on the adjacent memorial plaza.
‘‘Let us have a voice! Let us have a say!’’ said retired firefighter Jim Riches, who lost his son, also a firefighter, in the 2001 terrorist attacks. ‘‘We are outraged, and we will never rest until our loved ones, America’s heroes, rest in peace.’’
Sally Regenhard, who also lost her firefighter son at the World Trade Center, said the family members dread the opening of the museum on May 21.
‘‘It’s a day of sadness and a day of outrage,’’ she said.
Not all family members agree. Other victims’ families have been forthcoming about their support of the plan, saying the repository is a fitting site for the remains....
Phil Walzak, a spokesman for Mayor Bill de Blasio, said de Blasio’s administration ‘‘has engaged the community of 9/11 families continuously since entering office four months ago. This includes talking with and listening to families who have questions about this plan — as well as many families who are supportive and comfortable with this plan.’’
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Also see:
Ernesto Butcher, 69; N.Y. official praised for post-9/11 actions
He was walking on the street and had a heart attack after being buried in the rubble of the South Tower?
Some remains of 9/11 victims moved to memorial
Scientists still working to identify 9/11 remains
I'd rather you identify how those steel towers fell at free-fall speed due to jet fuel fires three times that day -- a physical impossibility that has happened neither before nor since when it comes to fires and steel-framed buildings.
I flipped a coin to decide whether to continue posting today, and it came up no. Sorry.
