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Staten Island model pilots fear proposed city ban on drones

Posted on January 18, 2015 by Writer

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A bill that would ban drones in the city has sent a group of Staten Island model airplane enthusiasts into a tailspin.

On a chilly Sunday this month, Tony Pansini, 60, the president of the Staten Island Radio Control Modelers Club, and about 20 members of the club came together to enjoy their imperiled hobby.

On a designated flying field in New Springville, they took turns sending their planes up to 200 feet in the air with a remote control, directing them to soar, spin and nosedive. “Beautiful!” they yelled and applauded when an operator orchestrated a smooth landing on the grassy field.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/staten-island-model-pilots-fear-proposed-city-ban-drones-article-1.2083285

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Face the Nation Transcripts: January 18, 2015: Cameron, Rubio, Pfeiffer

Posted on January 18, 2015 by Writer

(CBS News) — A transcript from the January 18, 2015 edition of Face the Nation. Guests included British Prime Minister David Cameron, White House Senior Advisor Dan Pfeiffer, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, Michael Morell, Stephanie Cutter, Michael Gerson, Mark Halperin and Nancy Cordes.

BOB SCHIEFFER, HOST: I’m Bob Schieffer.

Today on FACE THE NATION: World leaders brace for another terrorist attack, and, here at home, campaign 2016 is under way.

Around the world, the fallout from the Paris attacks continued. Violent protests broke out in the Mideast over the new “Charlie Hebdo” depiction of the Prophet Mohammed, and European countries remain on edge.

After his meeting with President Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron minced no words about the threat.

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DAVID CAMERON, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: We believe an attack is highly likely.

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SCHIEFFER: We will also hear from Florida Senator Marco Rubio on that and his new book, “American Dreams.”

White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer previews the president’s plan to raise taxes on the rich.

And we will have the surprising results on the CBS News poll on who Americans want to run for president, plus analysis on all of the above, because this is FACE THE NATION.

Good morning.

We begin this morning with the continuing fallout from the murderous attack on the French satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo.”

Violent protests have broken out in Pakistan, Algeria, Yemen, and Niger, where at least 10 people are dead.

Security in Western Europe remains high. In Washington, just after his White House meeting with President Obama, to talk about

Article source: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/face-the-nation-transcripts-january-18-2015-cameron-rubio-pfeiffer/

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MOSTHistory, Part 1: Looking Back – 1915

Posted on January 18, 2015 by Writer

1915

It began a century ago this month — twelve months that saw battlefield carnage in Europe and Mexico; the first aerial bombing of cities; technological advances such as neon signs and coast-to-coast telephone calls; a controversial motion picture epic; and a world’s fair in San Francisco that showcased American invention and science, to name only a few landmarks.

In the Rio Grande Valley (Valley), 1915 brought the disclosure of a plot to incite an armed uprising in the borderlands, and the first major “bandit raids” from across the Rio Grande. By the year’s end, violence in the borderlands raised the specter of another United States war with Mexico. Meanwhile, technology was changing life in the Valley and elsewhere, with automobiles, “wireless communication,” and airplanes, to name only a few.

You can glimpse the 1915 era in the Museum of South Texas History in Edinburg, where exhibits with artifacts and photographs connect visitors to earlier-day life and events in the Valley and beyond. The River Crossroads gallery features the 20th century, and much of it relates to the early 1900s. Enter through the Railroad Depot, and the sound of a passing train (with its lighted car windows seemingly just outside) recalls the carloads of “land seekers” who came in droves to see the “Magic Valley” and bought farm lands from Brownsville to Mission. Beyond the Depot are old-time wooden canal

Article source: http://www.themonitor.com/life/valley_life/mosthistory-part-looking-back/article_7f7e5f88-9cfb-11e4-9809-ffc5e3019e95.html

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Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia Premiere: The Gang Takes on Wade Boggss …

Posted on January 18, 2015 by Writer

Always the beer-soaked, vomit-stained bridesmaid but never the bride, FXX’s gloriously grody sitcom It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is back for a 10th (!) season of mayhem. And over its 10 criminally overlooked years—its pair of Emmy nods have come for “Outstanding Stunt Coordination”—Rob McElhenney’s series has cemented its status as the white-trash Seinfeld, a no-holds-barred and city-centric assault on social mores and the bounds of political correctness.

And if you basked in the glow of Kristen Wiig’s woozy, mile high I’m read-ay to par-tayyy! class warfare gambit in Bridesmaids, you’ll love Always Sunny’s season premiere.

The show’s season opener is set aboard a cross-country airplane flight to Los Angeles. The gang has sprung for these airline tickets with a goal in mind: to break former Red Sox slugger Wade Boggs’s drinking record.

“The man’s a legend,” says Charlie. “He drank 50 beers on a cross-country flight and then absolutely destroyed the Seattle Mariners the next day, OK? That’s why we’re doing this—to honor his memory. Rest in peace, Wade.”

Well, Boggs isn’t dead, and Charlie’s math is about as shoddy as his grammar. Legend has it the Hall of Fame third baseman was such a prolific guzzler of Miller Lites that he’d regularly crush six-packs in the clubhouse in a matter of minutes. But when you got him on a plane, he’d really let loose. Rumor has it that as a New York Yankee late in his career, during his team’s cross-country flights from New York to
Article source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/14/it-s-always-sunny-in-philadelphia-premiere-the-gang-takes-on-wade-boggs-s-drinking-record.html

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US Spies Expected Airline Bombs?And Got The Paris Attacks Instead

Posted on January 18, 2015 by Writer

For more than five years, U.S. intelligence agencies, counterterrorism operators, and the military have been intensely focused on trying to stop al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the Yemen branch of the global terrorist network, from sneaking hard-to-detect bombs onto airplanes and slaughtering hundreds of people.

What they got last week was Paris—a completely different kind of attack.

In claiming credit for last week’s decidedly lower-tech shooting spree at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, AQAP seems to have flipped its playbook, leading to inevitable questions about whether U.S. officials misjudged the terror group’s capabilities or were too focused on the wrong threat: bombs instead of bullets.

All this, despite a slick AQAP magazine that called specifically for shooters—and for Charlie Hebdo to be put in the crosshairs.

“In some quarters there’s skepticism that [the Paris attack] was AQAP because analysts expected that AQAP would launch an attack against aviation, rather than this kind of tactic,” said Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, an experienced terrorism analyst and a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “We get into trouble when we think we know a clandestine foe better than we actually do.”

In interviews with half a dozen current and former U.S. officials with frontline experience fighting al Qaeda, a clearer picture is emerging about the years leading up to the rampage in Paris. While intelligence and security agencies never ruled out the possibility that the terror group could employ mass shootings as a way to “create havoc in the West,” as one former

Article source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/17/u-s-spies-expected-airline-bombs-and-got-the-paris-attacks-instead.html

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No One Man Can Save Cleveland, Ohio. Not Even LeBron James.

Posted on January 18, 2015 by Writer

The truth is, the fact that the Cavs kind of suck right now isn’t really LeBron James’ fault. No one man, not even an all-time great, can carry an entire franchise on his admittedly massive, broad shoulders, no matter how many grandiose Wieden+Kennedy ad campaigns suggest exactly that: that James is not just a basketball savior, but some kind-of-creepy Manson/David Koresh-style cult leader.

Well, that’s not entirely true. A younger, more nigh-invulnerable iteration of James might be able to drag a flawed, mismatched roster and a clueless figurehead of a coach to contention, as was the case in his first go-round in Ohio.

As his Cleveland Cavaliers were in the midst of dropping their sixth straight game and seventh in the last eight, this time at the hands of the Phoenix Suns, LeBron James shoved his coach.

That shove—let’s call it “The Shove,” just to give it the proper place in the James-ian pantheon—was more than enough kinetic energy to once again spur waves of speculation and fretting about the state of the Cavs—and James’ ongoing, near-Biblical quest to save an entire rust belt city.

Does said bit of horseplay mean LeBron does not fancy David Blatt, the heralded European coach that was hired prior to his arrival? Will Blatt be fired, despite myself included—makes each and every misstep or impediment to greatness a dire calamity that only James’ godlike abilities can overcome. And relying on superhuman abilities to fix any problem is part

Article source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/15/no-one-man-can-save-cleveland-ohio-not-even-lebron-james.html

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Hobby Expo brings families together

Posted on January 17, 2015 by Writer

People of all ages got to put their creative minds to the test in the third annual Black Hills Hobby Expo Saturday.

It’s not every day that children get to learn how to fly model airplanes like the one behind me, but they do get a chance once a year to learn many more hobbies than that.

Organizer of the event Jim Tiller says, “We have three goals. One is to share our hobbies with other people, one is to engage children and the third one is to increase our skills by talking to one another, we have some forum speakers that are good at what they do and we sit down and try to learn things.”

Along with tables laid out with different hobbies for everyone to try… the Black Hills Hobby Expo held information sessions with expert hobbyists.

Attendee Madison Culberson says, “I’ve gone to a few of the seminars and I’ve just been driving around these when I have time.”

Other activities included racing radio controlled cars, flying radio controlled airplanes, wood carvers, building plastic models and much more.

Attendee Anthony Torres says, “I have to have all these little pieces that I have to put it together, and it really hurts my

Article source: http://www.blackhillsfox.com/home/headlines/Hobby-Expo-brings-families-together-288936411.html

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