Talk About Air Rage....

Feb 26, 1:59 PM EST

Flight canceled after flight attendant argument

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) -- An argument between two female flight attendants forced the cancellation of an Atlanta-bound flight at an airport in upstate New York.

A Pinnacle Airlines spokesman in Memphis, Joe Williams, says the spat erupted just as Delta Connection Flight 887 returned to the gate Thursday morning after a passenger became ill.

Passenger Corey Minton tells cable news station YNN in Rochester he and others aboard were told they had to "get off the plane because stewardesses were fighting."

Williams says there was no physical contact and doesn't know the reason for what he termed a "verbal disagreement."

The women were removed from duty pending an airline investigation.

Williams says Delta found alternate travel plans for passengers.

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For my Friend Cal

Ever wondered all those why's about Superman? Here is a video that answers a few questions about Superman. based upon the Larry Niven essay "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex." Some aspects can be considered for adult audiences only, so be warned:

Snow starting soon

Well, our next round of snow promises to ball all the worst parts of the bible they were promising us last week. Its already starting to the Southwest of us and promises to start in our area around midnight or thereabouts. All is clear now and the roads and parking lots pristine. By this time tomorrow, we are supposed to have 6 inches on the ground or thereabouts. Gonna be a fun couple of days.

What really makes me feel bad is that all this is heading east. The "snowmageddon" that struck the Mid-Atlantic states is going to have this stuff on top. It will create similar conditions to what happened before and they are just getting dug out from the last one. I don't think anything will be moving around in the area there for at least a week. It will take us a day or so to dig out of here before everything is back to normal, but then we are used to it. We got our snow legs now.

The Insanity of what is going on in Haiti

A series of cargo flights containing a portable field hospital was denied landing privileges at Port au Prince. The planes have been forced to land in the Dominican Republic and the hospital equipment trucked overland. What is wrong with people? I know ramp space and such is at a premium at the airport, but surely this organization can be made an exception.

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/press/release.cfm?id=4176&cat=press-release

Wings of Hope in Haiti

The organization Wings of Hope is a non sectarian organization based in the St. Louis metro area which provides pilot volunteers to fly humanitarian missions using small aircraft. They have missions all over the world. Right now, they are flying missions into Haiti and are functioning under an emergency budget and are seeking donations to continue their efforts. Since the begining of the crisis they have flowing over 20,000 pounds of cargo from both the Dominican Republic and Pureto Rico. Their emergency funds are rapidly being used up as high fuel and drug costs are taxing their usual donation base.

You are welcome to visit their website and see if you would wish to donate to their cause.

http://www.wings-of-hope.org/

They are a well established charity with hundreds of volunteers and missions in 43 countries.

Their efforts in Haiti are detailed in this report from the local NBC Affiliate in St. Louis.

http://www.ksdk.com/video/default.aspx?bctid=62065413001

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Global Warming - Ice Boxes to Eskimoes

Inuits need cash for freezers in warming Arctic

Posted Sun Dec 13, 2009 3:48pm AEDT

Inuit communities need funds to adapt to climate change in the Arctic, including measures to build communal deep freezers to store game, an Inuit leader said on Friday.

The Inuit, the indigenous people of Greenland, Canada, Alaska and Russia, have traditionally hunted for Arctic species from seal to polar bear, whale to caribou.

The Inuit Circumpolar Council's (ICC) Violet Ford says she sees climate changes "on a daily basis".

Ms Ford, who was born and raised in the Inuit community of Makkovik, says more funds are needed for adaptation and response to climate change in the Arctic.

"That should also be going to the Inuit communities as a response to climate change," she said.

"We need infrastructure. We want community deep freezers if the hunting patterns change so much that we can only go hunting a few times a year."

'Disappearing' culture

ICC chairman James Stotts says his 78-year-old uncle fell through the ice and froze to death at a time of year when the ice normally would be thick and safe.

"Inuits have to find other ways to store their meat. Some of our villages are literally falling into the seas because of erosion," he said.

Mr Stotts said he hoped governments gathered for the United Nations' climate conference in Copenhagen would come up with a "real deal ... something that really will work".

ICC vice chairman, Aqqaluk Lynge, said that the ice cap is melting much faster than before, which would raise ocean levels, reduce winter ice and threaten the Inuit way of life.

"The hunters' area is very large ... they drive around on dog sledges, but for us the dog sledges are disappearing," he said.

"That part of the culture is disappearing. We are paying for the changes already in many ways."

-Reuters