The not-for-profit Aurora Trust Foundation has partnered with SubSea Explorers, a marine archeology expedition company and U-Boat Worx, a Dutch manufacturer of submersibles. They are offering a first-of-its-kind program for adventurous individuals to take part in an undersea archeological expedition off the coast of Sicily, not as a tourist, but [...]
Reported by Forbes.com 5 hours ago.
Luxury Submarine Adventure To Discover Roman Shipwrecks In Sicily: Deep Sea Thrills
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Aurora Fire Dept. douses blaze after two propane tanks catch fire
A propane-fueled fire that broke out on an Aurora construction site Sunday morning and forced the evacuation of some homes is under control, according to the Aurora Fire Department.
Reported by Denver Post 4 hours ago.
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Propane-fueled fire at Aurora, Colo., construction site forces some to evacuate homes - @denverpost
Reported by Breaking News 4 hours ago.
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Snapshot of a jury: Clairvoyant, Japanese cartoons shape Colorado theater shooting pool
The judge in the Aurora theater shooting trial hopes to have a jury seated by late April.
Reported by FOXNews.com 14 hours ago.
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Clairvoyant, cartoon buff nixed from theater shooting jury
While the 2012 Aurora theater shooting was horrific, killing 12 people and injuring 70, the process of assembling a jury to try defendant James Holmes is far more subdued, with moments ranging from the mundane to the surreal.
Reported by MyNorthwest.com 14 hours ago.
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Aurora Quest K-8 closed due to power outage following crash
Aurora Quest K-8 will be closed Monday after a transformer near the school was damaged in a traffic accident, cutting power to the building.
Reported by Denver Post 7 hours ago.
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Adacel to Provide New ATM System for French Guiana
DSNA France selects Adacel for integrated Oceanic, En Route, Approach and Tower air traffic management system
Montreal, Canada (PRWEB) March 09, 2015
Adacel, an industry leader in air traffic automation announced today it has been awarded a contract by the Directorate of Air Navigation Services of France (DSNA) for the deployment of a new ATM system for Cayenne, French Guiana.
The system will be installed in the Cayenne-Félix Eboué Centre which controls an area of 1.5 million square kilometers in the South Atlantic and is adjacent to the oceanic airspaces controlled by Brazil, Senegal, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago. The system will be used to control traffic in all phases of flight within the Flight Information Region (FIR).
The contract is the first in a series planned by the DSNA to modernize air traffic management systems in the overseas territories of France. Adacel is one of three companies prequalified to bid on the follow-on projects, which, like the contract for Cayenne, will provide modern ATM systems for approach and tower control.
Speaking of the award, Seth Brown, Adacel’s Chief Executive Officer said “We are very pleased to receive this contract from the DSNA. We have worked closely with the DSNA since 2010 when we began implementation of a Data Link system for Cayenne. This new award validates the success of that experience and recognizes our ability to address the DSNA’s requirements in a cost effective fashion.”
Adacel’s Aurora ATM automation system is a global system that manages all types of airspace and domains from the Oceanic, En Route, Terminal and Approach Sectors to the Control Tower Unit. The system is scalable and configurable to meet present and future requirements and incorporates the latest in CNS/ATM technologies. Aurora automation technology is currently in operational use in airspaces controlled by Fiji, France, Iceland, New Zealand, Portugal and the United States.
About Adacel
Adacel is a leading developer of operational air traffic management systems, speech recognition applications and advanced ATC simulation and training solutions. Adacel's Aurora ATM includes capabilities envisaged for FAA NextGen and EUROCONTROL SESAR programs, providing enabling technology for initiatives to promote airspace efficiency and improve air navigation services. Reported by PRWeb 6 hours ago.
Montreal, Canada (PRWEB) March 09, 2015
Adacel, an industry leader in air traffic automation announced today it has been awarded a contract by the Directorate of Air Navigation Services of France (DSNA) for the deployment of a new ATM system for Cayenne, French Guiana.
The system will be installed in the Cayenne-Félix Eboué Centre which controls an area of 1.5 million square kilometers in the South Atlantic and is adjacent to the oceanic airspaces controlled by Brazil, Senegal, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago. The system will be used to control traffic in all phases of flight within the Flight Information Region (FIR).
The contract is the first in a series planned by the DSNA to modernize air traffic management systems in the overseas territories of France. Adacel is one of three companies prequalified to bid on the follow-on projects, which, like the contract for Cayenne, will provide modern ATM systems for approach and tower control.
Speaking of the award, Seth Brown, Adacel’s Chief Executive Officer said “We are very pleased to receive this contract from the DSNA. We have worked closely with the DSNA since 2010 when we began implementation of a Data Link system for Cayenne. This new award validates the success of that experience and recognizes our ability to address the DSNA’s requirements in a cost effective fashion.”
Adacel’s Aurora ATM automation system is a global system that manages all types of airspace and domains from the Oceanic, En Route, Terminal and Approach Sectors to the Control Tower Unit. The system is scalable and configurable to meet present and future requirements and incorporates the latest in CNS/ATM technologies. Aurora automation technology is currently in operational use in airspaces controlled by Fiji, France, Iceland, New Zealand, Portugal and the United States.
About Adacel
Adacel is a leading developer of operational air traffic management systems, speech recognition applications and advanced ATC simulation and training solutions. Adacel's Aurora ATM includes capabilities envisaged for FAA NextGen and EUROCONTROL SESAR programs, providing enabling technology for initiatives to promote airspace efficiency and improve air navigation services. Reported by PRWeb 6 hours ago.
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Montview Blvd. stretch in Aurora to see lane reductions for 6 months starting Wednesday
Starting on Wednesday, a stretch on Montview Boulevard in Aurora will be reduced to one lane in each direction for six months during a storm water project.
Reported by Denver Post 5 hours ago.
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Aurora police: Boy hit by pickup truck, seriously injured
A young boy was seriously injured after colliding with a pickup truck in Aurora on Monday morning, police said.
Reported by Denver Post 5 hours ago.
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Aurora police still mum on fatal officer-involved shooting
Three days after police in Aurora fatally shot a suspect, officials have yet to release his identity, say if he was armed or discuss the circumstances that led to shots being fired.
Reported by Denver Post 4 hours ago.
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Froedtert Hospital, two Aurora hospitals named to top 100 'high value' hospitals
Froedtert Hospital of Wauwatosa was named to the 100 Top Hospitals list from Truven Health Analytics, which bases its ratings on measuring objectively that the hospitals provide high value to their communities. Froedtert was the only Wisconsin hospital in the Major Teaching Hospitals category. Four other Wisconsin hospitals, including two affiliated with Milwaukee-based Aurora Health Care, made the list. The Aurora hospitals are: Aurora BayCare Medical Center in Green Bay in the medium community…
Reported by bizjournals 4 hours ago.
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Music in New Orleans for Monday, March 9, 2015: Clarinetist Aurora Nealand at Maison
Other choices include Glen David Andrews, Luke Winslow-King and David Doucet
Reported by nola.com 4 hours ago.
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Aurora leaders push back on latest efforts to question Gaylord subsidies
As the Legislative Audit Committee prepares to consider launching an investigation into the state subsidies approved for the Gaylord Rockies project, Aurora leaders are fighting back, criticizing the proposal to audit the funding and telling city employees that the municipality's economic well-being is "under attack." Wendy Mitchell, president and CEO of the Aurora Economic Development Council, said in an interview that she hopes audit committee members who are meeting Tuesday will vote against…
Reported by bizjournals 2 hours ago.
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Authorities ID man killed in suspected Aurora drunk driving crash
Authorities in Arapahoe County have identified a 39-year-old motorist killed when police say a suspected drunk driver slammed into his vehicle on Friday night.
Reported by Denver Post 1 hour ago.
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Major Aurora restriction postponed
Officials say the best-case scenario for Bertha is to resume digging in August; a major Aurora lane restriction is postponed to an undetermined date.
Reported by SeattlePI.com 10 minutes ago.
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WSDOT delaying lane closures on Aurora Avenue
A 12-week sign-installation project on Aurora Avenue North is postponed, WSDOT says.
Reported by Seattle Times 16 hours ago.
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Where There Is No There... There
*The Perfect Political Storm Rolls In and Out of Washington*
The dubious but utterly entertaining Washington news this week centered on a speech Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered to the United States Congress. Sold as some kind of diplomatic mission of great import between unwavering allies with undertones of disrespect for normal international and domestic protocol, the event was entirely political in every way, shape and form. It is anything but rare to have pure political theater transpire in D.C. - that's pretty much the point of it - but for those of us enamored with such shameless showboating this one had a singular quality. It was the Hope Diamond of political theater, an aurora borealis moment, a political junkie's Woodstock, if you'll allow.
In a nutshell this baby was Shakespeare's yummy "tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." In this case we had three idiots; heads of state butting over diplomatic policies starring a lame-duck president reconfiguring a foreign policy legacy, a lesser party of power using the legislative branch of the U.S. government as a backdrop for another country's national election, and a prime minister desperately trying to use this unabashedly staged affair as a campaign cudgel.
Classic shit.
But remember, this is all political melodrama that means less than nothing beyond the massive egos involved. Like most playacting, whether by children on a sugar jag or dogs rolling on their backs soliciting belly rubs, this is pure grandstanding for grandstanding sake.
Let's dissect:
What Netanyahu claimed to be accomplishing with this maneuver was to stress his county's concerns over an ongoing diplomatic deal being hammered out by the Obama Administration and Iran to halt its alleged nuclear weapons development. On the shiny surface, considering the madness that is Iran, this seems like a reasonable gesture if one ignores the history of Netanyahu as a fervent veteran of the Israel Defense Force during Israel's most triumphant military moment, 1968's Six Day War, and serving fanatically in the special forces unit, Sayeret Matkal during its most aggressive period of raids in the late 60s, early 70s.
Simply put, Netanyahu, the first ever state-born secularist Israeli to become prime minster, is, has been, and will always be embarrassingly unaware of anything approaching the concept of diplomacy. He is a military man and has made no bones about it since he emerged on Israel's political scene in the 1990s. I was in Jerusalem in the spring of 1996 the day he was handed the gig, standing within a stone's throw of the Western Wall amongst a weirdly agitated and euphoric crowd bellowing erratically in both Arabic and Hebrew. His election was immediately divisive and he served his first term with unapologetic intransigence rarely seen in his position, which is the power arm of America's interest in the Middle East.
Granted, the argument for Netanyahu's heralded trip here among those who are not the Israeli prime minster is that Iran has spent decades shouting this and that about obliterating the Satan that is Israel. Yes, and the sun comes up tomorrow. Netanyahu, whose only plan is military force, was already laughed out of the United Nations for telling the world Iran was weeks from having a nuclear weapon in 2012. Nothing new here, except that it includes one key factor; the prime minster is up for a heavily challenged re-election two weeks to the day he delivers said speech. His country is mired in economic and housing crises due to his apparently abysmal domestic policies and he's being investigated for some kind of tax fraud.
Shit, it was never hard to figure Netanyahu out, which is an enviable trait. He is as transparent as they come, unwaveringly patriotic and fervently paranoid, a dangerous combination in the region in which he plies his trade. But he is also a pathetic megalomaniac with no compunction about using any method available to him in order to increase his bloated sense of personal destiny; in other words, excellent D.C. material.
I remember lying in bed in my hotel room at the Galei Kinneret on the banks of the Sea of Galilee watching Netanyahu during the first prime minister debate ever to be internationally broadcast and conducted entirely in English, and this is what I wrote in Trailing Jesus, the book I was researching in May of '96: "I am enamored by the slick movements and sharp quips of a tanned and silver-maned Bibi (his nickname), tossing aside notions that he will ignore all but Jewish Israelis if elected. He is articulate and funny, and does not hesitate to confront any issue with aplomb. The more calculated and efficient (Shimon) Peres is insightful and poignant, thinking out his answers before replying, but he barely talks above a whisper and does not possess a single dramatic hand movement to accentuate his points. Peres, I decide before drifting off to sleep, is doomed."
So you have a bold, Teddy Roosevelt character working out a deal with the U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives when he was denied access to the Capital by the White House due, according to the Obama Administration, to an unwritten bullshit rule that heads of state not interact when one is embroiled in an election season. The rule is bullshit because it happens all the time, too many to note here. Simply, both the president and the prime minster were engaging in competing political grandstands. The former teetering on the final stages of either a triumphant, groundbreaking deal with one of the great enemies of the Middle East to cease its supposed march to nuclear capabilities or a disastrous appeasement of a rogue nation, and the latter strategically using its most powerful and influential ally to appear vaingloriously imperial.
For his part, House Speaker John Boehner used this opportunity to stick it to the president. Once again, on the shiny surface, Boehner, and his place as the national face of the Republican Party, appears to side with the tough-talking Netanyahu and his dire-speak of siding with terrorists being the bane of the free world. The move, proffering this unprecedented invitation to a prime minister during an election campaign against the will of a sitting president, gains him much needed political points with the core of his party, who has recently made him once again look like a feckless tool of obstruction. After spending days condescendingly assuring the national press that he had a deal in place to fund Homeland Security, his constituency jobbed him by voting it down. He is weak and ineffectual and needs this bad.
Of course, for his part in this passion play, the president could have avoided all this by ignoring the unwritten bullshit rule to quickly and quietly meet with Netanyahu and send him on his way. However, in another calculated maneuver, Obama's snubbing of a prime minister had less to do with avoiding the influencing of an election and more to do with Netanyahu screwing around with his precious Iranian deal by yammering jingoistic nonsense in his nation's capital building.
For all intents and purposes, a foreign primes minister suckered the United States Congress into hosting his campaign shenanigans, a U.S. president looks completely inconsequential on the world stage, and Benjamin Netanyahu continues his unchecked public buffoonery. This was the political equivalent of a perfect storm, something you might find once or twice in a lifetime outside an outlandish Hollywood script. But none of it, none, was news. Showbiz rarely is. Reported by Huffington Post 23 hours ago.
The dubious but utterly entertaining Washington news this week centered on a speech Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered to the United States Congress. Sold as some kind of diplomatic mission of great import between unwavering allies with undertones of disrespect for normal international and domestic protocol, the event was entirely political in every way, shape and form. It is anything but rare to have pure political theater transpire in D.C. - that's pretty much the point of it - but for those of us enamored with such shameless showboating this one had a singular quality. It was the Hope Diamond of political theater, an aurora borealis moment, a political junkie's Woodstock, if you'll allow.
In a nutshell this baby was Shakespeare's yummy "tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." In this case we had three idiots; heads of state butting over diplomatic policies starring a lame-duck president reconfiguring a foreign policy legacy, a lesser party of power using the legislative branch of the U.S. government as a backdrop for another country's national election, and a prime minister desperately trying to use this unabashedly staged affair as a campaign cudgel.
Classic shit.
But remember, this is all political melodrama that means less than nothing beyond the massive egos involved. Like most playacting, whether by children on a sugar jag or dogs rolling on their backs soliciting belly rubs, this is pure grandstanding for grandstanding sake.
Let's dissect:
What Netanyahu claimed to be accomplishing with this maneuver was to stress his county's concerns over an ongoing diplomatic deal being hammered out by the Obama Administration and Iran to halt its alleged nuclear weapons development. On the shiny surface, considering the madness that is Iran, this seems like a reasonable gesture if one ignores the history of Netanyahu as a fervent veteran of the Israel Defense Force during Israel's most triumphant military moment, 1968's Six Day War, and serving fanatically in the special forces unit, Sayeret Matkal during its most aggressive period of raids in the late 60s, early 70s.
Simply put, Netanyahu, the first ever state-born secularist Israeli to become prime minster, is, has been, and will always be embarrassingly unaware of anything approaching the concept of diplomacy. He is a military man and has made no bones about it since he emerged on Israel's political scene in the 1990s. I was in Jerusalem in the spring of 1996 the day he was handed the gig, standing within a stone's throw of the Western Wall amongst a weirdly agitated and euphoric crowd bellowing erratically in both Arabic and Hebrew. His election was immediately divisive and he served his first term with unapologetic intransigence rarely seen in his position, which is the power arm of America's interest in the Middle East.
Granted, the argument for Netanyahu's heralded trip here among those who are not the Israeli prime minster is that Iran has spent decades shouting this and that about obliterating the Satan that is Israel. Yes, and the sun comes up tomorrow. Netanyahu, whose only plan is military force, was already laughed out of the United Nations for telling the world Iran was weeks from having a nuclear weapon in 2012. Nothing new here, except that it includes one key factor; the prime minster is up for a heavily challenged re-election two weeks to the day he delivers said speech. His country is mired in economic and housing crises due to his apparently abysmal domestic policies and he's being investigated for some kind of tax fraud.
Shit, it was never hard to figure Netanyahu out, which is an enviable trait. He is as transparent as they come, unwaveringly patriotic and fervently paranoid, a dangerous combination in the region in which he plies his trade. But he is also a pathetic megalomaniac with no compunction about using any method available to him in order to increase his bloated sense of personal destiny; in other words, excellent D.C. material.
I remember lying in bed in my hotel room at the Galei Kinneret on the banks of the Sea of Galilee watching Netanyahu during the first prime minister debate ever to be internationally broadcast and conducted entirely in English, and this is what I wrote in Trailing Jesus, the book I was researching in May of '96: "I am enamored by the slick movements and sharp quips of a tanned and silver-maned Bibi (his nickname), tossing aside notions that he will ignore all but Jewish Israelis if elected. He is articulate and funny, and does not hesitate to confront any issue with aplomb. The more calculated and efficient (Shimon) Peres is insightful and poignant, thinking out his answers before replying, but he barely talks above a whisper and does not possess a single dramatic hand movement to accentuate his points. Peres, I decide before drifting off to sleep, is doomed."
So you have a bold, Teddy Roosevelt character working out a deal with the U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives when he was denied access to the Capital by the White House due, according to the Obama Administration, to an unwritten bullshit rule that heads of state not interact when one is embroiled in an election season. The rule is bullshit because it happens all the time, too many to note here. Simply, both the president and the prime minster were engaging in competing political grandstands. The former teetering on the final stages of either a triumphant, groundbreaking deal with one of the great enemies of the Middle East to cease its supposed march to nuclear capabilities or a disastrous appeasement of a rogue nation, and the latter strategically using its most powerful and influential ally to appear vaingloriously imperial.
For his part, House Speaker John Boehner used this opportunity to stick it to the president. Once again, on the shiny surface, Boehner, and his place as the national face of the Republican Party, appears to side with the tough-talking Netanyahu and his dire-speak of siding with terrorists being the bane of the free world. The move, proffering this unprecedented invitation to a prime minister during an election campaign against the will of a sitting president, gains him much needed political points with the core of his party, who has recently made him once again look like a feckless tool of obstruction. After spending days condescendingly assuring the national press that he had a deal in place to fund Homeland Security, his constituency jobbed him by voting it down. He is weak and ineffectual and needs this bad.
Of course, for his part in this passion play, the president could have avoided all this by ignoring the unwritten bullshit rule to quickly and quietly meet with Netanyahu and send him on his way. However, in another calculated maneuver, Obama's snubbing of a prime minister had less to do with avoiding the influencing of an election and more to do with Netanyahu screwing around with his precious Iranian deal by yammering jingoistic nonsense in his nation's capital building.
For all intents and purposes, a foreign primes minister suckered the United States Congress into hosting his campaign shenanigans, a U.S. president looks completely inconsequential on the world stage, and Benjamin Netanyahu continues his unchecked public buffoonery. This was the political equivalent of a perfect storm, something you might find once or twice in a lifetime outside an outlandish Hollywood script. But none of it, none, was news. Showbiz rarely is. Reported by Huffington Post 23 hours ago.
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Colorado police say black man fatally shot last week was unarmed: report
DENVER (Reuters) - Police in the Denver suburb of Aurora said on Monday that an individual who was fatally shot by an officer during an incident on Friday was an unarmed 37-year-old black man, the Denver Post newspaper reported.
Reported by Reuters 22 hours ago.
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Man shot by Aurora, Colo., officer was unarmed black male
Police said they are not releasing the identity of the suspect just yet.
Reported by USATODAY.com 22 hours ago.
Reported by USATODAY.com 22 hours ago.
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Seattle commuters rejoice: SR 99 lane closured delayed
Previously announced plans to close sections of State Route 99 between South Lake Union and the Aurora Bridge have been cancelled. The Washington state Department of Transportation had previously announced plans to close one lane in each direction so workers could install signs. The closures were expected to snarl traffic for weeks while they were under construction. "There were some work items we became aware of this weekend that included closing more than one lane," said WSDOT spokeswoman Laura…
Reported by bizjournals 20 hours ago.
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