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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Pilots typing while flying: do you feel safe in the sky?
The revelation that two Northwest Airlines pilots where typing while flying has to make you wonder what else they are doing in the cockpit while you are snacking on your pretzels in third class.
The pilots - Richard Cole of Salem, Ore., the first officer, and Timothy Cheney of Gig Harbor, Wash., the captain - told federal investigators that they were going over schedules using their laptop computers in violation of company policy while their plane overflew their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles, the Associated Press reported Monday.
Air traffic controllers in Denver and Minneapolis repeatedly tried to reach them and authorities became so alarmed that National Guard jets were readied for takeoff at two locations.
OOOPSIE!
It is almost enough to make one buy a bus ticket. What do you think?
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Beavercreek couple goes big with Halloween display: 30,000 lights, Michael Jackson
Dare Richard Rempes of Beavercreek and he’ll do his best to show you up.
A challenge is part of the reason 30,000 lights and a ton of Halloween decorations - pumpkins, vampires, ghost, a Michael Jackson mannequin in a red jacket - cover Rempes’ yard.
Rempes’ says a coworker dared him and others to duplicate Carson Williams of Mason’s famous musically synchronized home Christmas light display.
Four years after taking on the challenge, Rempes, a musician and computer programmer by trade, said it has turned into a labor of love for he and his wife, Jayne.
“You should see the look on little kids’ faces,” the associate professor at the at the Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management said of his display at 2466 Glenboro Drive.
Rempes syncs Halloween-themed music with lights and decorations using computer programs. This year’s show includes a crowd-stirring rendition of “Thriller” features the new of Michael Jackson mannequin.
The project is addictive, Rempes said.
“I do Christmas too and it is even bigger,” Rempes said. “Basically four months out of the year I am not available for anything else.”
The show is 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. nightly - weather permitted - until Nov. 2.
What do you think?
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