Monthly Archives: March 2014

Taxi Fares To The Airport All Around The World

We all usually have good intentions of checking out of our hotels with plenty of time to make our way to the airport on some sort of mass transportation. The plan to bid adieu to our fabulous vacation with one … Continue reading

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Bremont flies high

Boeing, the world’s biggest aircraft manufacturer, has announced a collaboration with boutique-sized British brand Bremont on a once-in-a-lifetime watchmaking project that is part of Boeing’s centenary celebrations in 2016. Three years in the planning, Boeing made sure it was up … Continue reading

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Jimmy Carter visits Powell’s, reunites with old friend (photos/video)

Sunday afternoon brought hundreds of people of all ages to Powell’s bookstore on W. Burnside to see former president of the United States, Jimmy Carter. Carter was signing copies of his latest book, “A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence … Continue reading

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The Explosive Evolution That Took Rocket Cars and Trains to Space Flight

One night in the spring of 1914, what appeared to be an impossibly large comet whizzed through the skies over Innsbruck, the capital city of Tyrol in western Austria. It terrified the locals; it was too big and too low … Continue reading

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60th anniversary of tragic Blackwood Brothers plane crash nears

60th anniversary of tragic Blackwood plane crash nears By Staff Reports Published 9:40am Monday, March 31, 2014 By Billy Singleton | Chilton County Airport Authority “There is nothing in God’s world more beautiful than Alabama’s woods and hills, in early … Continue reading

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IoT Sprinkler Taps the Cloud

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Steve Fernholz looked out the window of his Seattle home and got an idea for an Internet of Things startup. “I was watching the way my mom was watering the trees on my behalf, and I … Continue reading

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Flight 370, a mysterious ‘one-off,’ spurs calls to modernize tracking technology

Viewed in the broad context of aviation safety, this weird case actually fits snugly within a recent pattern: Airline disasters now tend to be unprecedented in nature — what investigators call “one-offs.” In the old days, planes typically went down … Continue reading

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