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Plane emergency evacuation slide lands in Chicago neighborhood

18/07/2023dansa

An emergency evacuation slide from a plane that landed Monday at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago apparently fell off and was found in a nearby neighborhood, officials said.

No injuries were reported. Pictures from NBC Chicago showed officials removing what looked like a large section of plastic-like material. It landed in a backyard, the station reported.

Maintenance workers at the airport noticed the slide was missing from a United Airlines Boeing 767 that had just arrived from Switzerland, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

“We immediately contacted the FAA and are working with our team to better understand the circumstances around this matter,” the airline said in a statement.

The flight from Zurich landed safely with 155 passengers and 10 crew members aboard, the airline said.

The slide is in a compartment near the wing and exit door, and the door wouldn’t have to open for it to fall off, a source with knowledge of the situation said. The compartment door was open when it landed, the source said.

The FAA said it is investigating.

India’s historic Moon mission lifts off successfully

14/07/2023dansa

India has launched its third Moon mission, aiming to be the first to land near its little-explored south pole.

The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft with an orbiter, lander and a rover lifted off at 14:35 on Friday (09:05 GMT) from Sriharikota space centre.

The lander is due to reach the Moon on August 23-24.

If successful, India will be only the fourth country to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, following the US, the former Soviet Union and China.

Thousands of people watched the launch from the viewer’s gallery and commentators described the sight of the rocket “soaring in the sky” as “majestic”. The lift off was greeted with cheers and loud applause from the crowds and scientists.

“Chandrayaan-3 has started its journey towards the Moon,” Indian Space Research Organization (Isro) chief Sreedhara Panicker Somanath said.

The third in India’s program of lunar exploration, Chandrayaan-3 is expected to build on the success of its earlier Moon missions.

It comes 13 years after the country’s first Moon mission in 2008, which carried out “the first and most detailed search for water on the lunar surface and established the Moon has an atmosphere during daytime”, said Mylswamy Annadurai, project director of Chandrayaan-1 .

Land ownership questions draw a big crowd in Kings County

13/07/2023dansa

A grassroots land-protection group is calling on the Island Regulatory and Appeals Commission to investigate the ownership of land in the Kings County area of Prince Edward Island.

More than 200 people attended a public forum in Montague on Saturday, organized by the Coalition for the Protection of PEI Lands.

“This is a big issue within Three Rivers,” said Shane MacDonald, one of the speakers at the meeting. “A lot of people have been waking up to the actual mass of purchases of large corporations in the Three Rivers area or even just Eastern PEI”

The meeting focused mainly on land owned by two Buddhist monasteries in Kings County, as well as land owned by corporations or individuals that coalition organizers believe to be affiliated with the Buddhist movement on PEI

The coalition has concerns over what it sees as a concentration of land ownership, and the impact of rising land prices on the local community.

“Multiple properties being sold and resold to non-residents is giving us massive inflation,” MacDonald told CBC News on Monday. “There’s evidence to see that a lot was sold a year ago for $20,000 and then sold for $100,000 a year after that. That’s a

Biden’s proposal would let conservationists lease public land much as drillers and ranchers do

15/05/2023dansa

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration wants to put conserving vast government-owned lands on equal footing with oil drilling, livestock grazing and other interests, according to a top administration official who defended the idea against criticism that it would interfere with industry.

The proposal would allow conservationists and others to lease federally owned land to restore it, much the same way oil companies buy leases to drill and ranchers pay to graze cattle. Companies could also buy conservation leases, such as oil drillers who want to offset damage to public lands by restoring acreage elsewhere.

Tracy Stone-Manning, director of the Bureau of Land Management, said in an interview with The Associated Press that the proposed changes would address rising pressure from climate change and development. While the bureau previously issued leases for conservation in limited cases, it has never had a dedicated program for it, he said.

FILE - Tracy Stone-Manning listens during a confirmation hearing for her to be the director of... — FILE – Tracy Stone-Manning listens during a confirmation hearing for her to be the director of the Bureau of Land Management, during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 8, 2021. Stone-Manning says a pending Biden administration rule to sell conservation leases on federal lands would not exclude other uses

LETTER: Saanich ignores the encroaching properties of municipal land

15/05/2023dansa

Across Saanich, dozens, if not hundreds, of properties encroach upon municipal property and, despite current CAO Brent Reems’ assurances (report to council, April 2018), little is being done to prevent it. Thousands of square feet of public property, worth millions of dollars, upon which no taxes are being paid, have been illegally appropriated by homeowners for their sole use and enjoyment. People who know how to manipulate the system are obtaining permits for fences and hedges at the expense of the majority.

In 2020, the Saanich Engineering Department issued a boulevard permit, contrary to policy and for which there is no charge, for a fence. Granting the homeowners a strip of property worth roughly $16,000 and with the consent of the Bylaw Department. In just the last year I have appealed to the Bylaw Department to enforce infractions in clear violation of bylaws dealing with encroachments on roughly 2,000 square feet of municipal property, yet Brent Reems maintains the municipality’s policy of discretionary enforcement and nothing has happened.

While many of these encroachments endanger public health and safety by forcing pedestrians to walk on roadways [an illegal act in itself, MVA part 3, section 182(2)] the municipality regularly turns a

NFL Mock Draft: Making all six of the Panthers’ 2023 picks

17/04/2023dansa

(LR) Carolina Panthers general manager Scott Fitterer, Linda Reich, new Carolina Panthers head coach Frank Reich, team owners David and Nicole Tepper and team president Kristi Coleman pose for photographs following Frank Reich's introductory press conference at Bank of America Stadium on Tuesday, January 31, 2023. — (LR) Carolina Panthers general manager Scott Fitterer, Linda Reich, new Carolina Panthers head coach Frank Reich, team owners David and Nicole Tepper and team president Kristi Coleman pose for photographs following Frank Reich’s introductory press conference at Bank of America Stadium on Tuesday, January 31, 2023.

JEFF SINER

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The wait is almost over.

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In less than two weeks, the Panthers will be on the clock with the first overall pick. And since it’s Monday, The Observer is taking another swing at predicting how the draft weekend will go for Carolina.

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Previous Mike Kaye mock drafts: March 8 | March 20 | April 3

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Previous Ellis Williams mock drafts: March 13 | March 27 | April 10

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Below is our latest Panthers-only mock draft:

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First round, No. 1 (via CHI): Bryce Young, QB, Alabama

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The Panthers have used the first overall pick on Ohio State’s C.J. Stroud in my previous two mock drafts.

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However, like many other reporters over the past couple of weeks (shout out to our own Ellis Williams), I’ve had some recent conversations that make me believe that Alabama’s Bryce Young has a ton of momentum with the Panthers entering

China and Taiwan ‘involved in stand off’ on the second day of military drills

09/04/2023dansa

A Taiwanese Coast Guard vessel patrols around a coastal area in Hsinchu, Taiwan on April 9 (EPA)

Military drills by China around Taiwan entered their second day on Sunday in what the latter described as “simulated joint precision strikes”.

China began the three-day military exercises a day earlier in a bid to send a message to Taiwan after its president Tsai Ing-wen returned from a US visit. China, which considers Taiwan to be its own territory, has consistently frowned upon the island nation’s ties with the West.

Taiwan’s defense ministry said that as of Sunday midday, 58 Chinese aircraft, including Su-30 fighters and H-6 bombers, as well as nine ships, were spotted around the island.

The drills also reportedly resulted in a stand off between 20 military ships, according to a source.

About 10 Chinese and as many Taiwanese ships were involved in the stand off near Taiwan Strait’s median line, which serves as a buffer zone between the countries, said the Reuters report.

China also conducted simulated attacks aimed at “foreign military targets” off Taiwan’s southwest coast, the source said while maintaining their anonymity.

One of China’s aircraft carriers being monitored by Taiwan, the Shandong, is more than 400

This Lego Defender 90 Is the Cheapest Way to Get a Vintage Land Rover

24/03/2023dansa

The current Land Rover Defender is nicely designed, comfortable, incredibly capable off-road and can be ordered with a 518-hp V8. And yet, it just doesn’t have the same charm as the Defender it replaced. There’s just something special about the classic design. But if you can’t justify buying a bare-bones off-roader with questionable-at-best reliability, maybe this Lego Land Rover Defender 90 set will be more your speed.

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To be clear, though, this set isn’t going to be cheap. It costs $239.99, which isn’t exactly Lego Millennium Falcon money, but it’s also not something you’ll probably pick up for your kid’s classmate’s birthday party. Unless you just happen to be that kind of generous. In that case, hell yeah, and thank you for spreading the Lego love.

Queens Assemblyman Clyde Vanel crash lands plane on Long Island beach

18/03/2023dansa

Queens Assemblyman Clyde Vanel crashes and lands a small airplane he was piloting on a Long Island beach Friday afternoon in a scary scene that was captured on video.

Vanel told CBS 2 that he and a friend took off in his single-engine Beechcraft from Brookhaven Airport around 2 pm “to practice some maneuvers” in the nice weather.

Suddenly, however, a pleasant day in the skies turned to terror when the plane’s engine lost power.

“Of course I was panicked. I didn’t understand what was going on with the engine,” Vanel said.

But Vanel regained his composure and said that his emergency training kicked in.

“Airspeed, find the best place to land, communicate and then exit,” he said. “The best place for me to land was a small area that had a beach that wasn’t around people, that wasn’t around stuff.”

The single-engine Beechcraft landed on a beach in Shoreham.

Only one woman was on the Shoreham beach at the time — Caelyn Canace, who captured the heart-stopping landing on video, obtained by CBS 2.

The dramatic footage shows the plane descending fast before landing on its belly on the sand.

It slides several feet before

Detroit council OKs land transfer with owners of Ambassador Bridge

22/02/2023dansa

Amid intense public scrutiny, the Detroit City Council voted to approve a land transfer deal with the Detroit International Bridge Co., despite fears from residents that it would lead to the decision of the surrounding community.

The land in question, 3085 W. Jefferson Ave., is the final piece of a 2015 agreement with the bridge company that included funds for improvements and upgrades to Riverside Park, among other conditions. Residents of the neighborhood surrounding the embed ground, called Hubbard Richard, urged city leaders to hold off on finalizing the agreement until a Community Benefits plan has been established and to prioritize the livelihood of the neighborhood over corporate greed.

In 2015, the city entered a land exchange agreement with the bridge company that was predicated on a number of requirements from each party, including a transfer of approximately 4.8 acres of waterfront property west of Riverside Park from the company to the city and a $5 million donation from the bridge company for enhancements to the park, $3 million of which has been given. The remaining $2 million for the park is conditioned upon the transfer of the final parcel of approximately 3.8 acres of land on Jefferson Avenue, this