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1 August 2015, 17:34

Turkmenistan, Pakistan to hold talks on TAPI gas pipeline

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Why The Trail Of Clues To Flight MH370 Now Leads To France

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Published on Saturday, 01 August 2015 14:40

A mystery that began with the disappearance of a Malaysian plane en route to China that detoured to the waters off Australia’s coast has now spread across the Indian Ocean close to Africa. Next stop: France.

An aircraft part found on a French island is headed for a government laboratory in Toulouse, said a U.S. official who wasn’t authorized to speak about the investigation. It will be examined by Wednesday, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office.

A suitcase found near the debris on Reunion island also will be studied, according to an e-mailed statement from the prosecutor, which said a French judge handling the inquiry into the airplane parts will meet with Malaysian officials on Aug 3.

The involvement of investigators and officials from multiple countries underscores the complexity of the case.

“It’s a bit difficult when something lands in the great white oceans, because you don’t own the ocean more than 12 miles off your coastline,” Brian O’Keefe, a former vice president of the International Civil Aviation Organization’s general assembly, said by phone from Canberra, Australia. “It’s an unusual case where the wreckage is found in a different jurisdiction to the place where the accident is thought to have happened.”

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Since President Richard Nixon’s administration, Kelly’s Hobby Shop has played host to astronauts and schoolkids, famed athletes and amateur craftsmen.

The tiny shop in Old Town Tustin helped inspire generations of kids to pursue careers in engineering, aerospace and construction. It has been a gathering place for hobbyists to talk about their latest projects and about life. And it staged a quiet, steady battle to keep alive the dying art of building things by hand.

Model builders say it’s the last shop of its kind in Orange County, offering hard-to-find parts and invaluable insight from owner Greg Kelly, who stands ready with a story about every item hanging from the ceiling, crowding the shelves and narrowing the already-tight aisles.

In mid-August, the shop will close its doors after 43 years.

It’ll be tough to say goodbye, Kelly acknowledges. But he has to follow his heart, which once led him to open a hobby shop and is now leading him across the country to embark on the most important project of his 63 years.

It helps that, since word of the shop’s closing started to spread, Kelly has welcomed a steady stream of former customers, longtime friends and even Mayor Chuck Puckett – all eager to pay their respects to Kelly’s Hobby Shop.

“I am very humbled to know how much my shop meant to them,” Kelly said. “I know this has always been a real benefit to the community.”

A BUSINESS FROM A HOBBY

As one of 12 kids growing up in Long Beach, Kelly wasn’t

Article source: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/kelly-674640-shop-years.html

Postal workers have recovered all the mail strewn about a west suburban street after a U.S. Postal Service truck was struck by a freight train early Thursday in Addison.

A Canadian National train hit the semi at the Grace Avenue crossing in Addison at 4:48 a.m., according to Addison police.

As of 2:40 p.m., all of the mail had been recovered from the crash site, U.S. Postal Service spokesman Mark Reynolds said.

The mail was bound for the Addison and Elmhurst post offices, and will be re-processed Thursday night for delivery Friday.

The exact amount of mail on the truck was not affected, but there were 16 large transport containers inside the trailer, Reynolds said. The truck was likely carrying letters, as well as small parcels.

The driver was not injured in the crash, he said.

Article source: http://chicago.suntimes.com/stng-wire/7/71/836411/freight-train-hits-mail-truck-addison

By JOAN LOWY, LORI HINNANT and ROD McGUIRK
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) – Air safety investigators have a “high degree of confidence” that aircraft debris found in the Indian Ocean is of a wing component unique to the Boeing 777, the same model as the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared last year, a U.S. official said Wednesday.

Air safety investigators – one of them a Boeing investigator -have identified the component that was found on the French island of Reunion in the western Indian Ocean as a “flaperon” from the trailing edge of a 777 wing, the U.S. official said.

Given that there are no other missing 777s, if the piece is confirmed to be from such an aircraft, it would almost certainly have to belong to Flight 370, which vanished on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board while traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

A discovery of debris from the missing plane would confirm the prevailing belief based on satellite data that the plane turned south into the Indian Ocean after vanishing from radar, and put to rest other theories that it traveled north, or landed somewhere after being hijacked.

The piece itself could also help investigators figure out how the plane crashed. But whether it will help search crews pinpoint the rest of the wreckage is unclear, given the complexity of the currents in the southern Indian Ocean and the time that has elapsed since the plane disappeared.

A French official close to an investigation of the debris confirmed Wednesday that French

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