New Orleans is responding to the affects of a massive oil spill on the Mississippi River. A collision between a fuel barge and a tanker dumped more than 400000 gallons of heavy fuel oil into the water. The Coast Guard closed nearly 30-miles of the River from central New Orleans southward.
Ten members of the Coast Guard National Strike Force are dealing with the fuel oil spill. The 600-foot ship, Tintomara, and an oil-laden barge collided breaking the barge in half. Tugboats hold up pieces of a barge. It might be several days of clean up before the Mississippi River at New Orleans can reopen.
Gaia Online is a virtual space where you can meet people from around the world. Gaia Online, a popular interactive online hangout for teens and young adults, boasts more than 5 million unique visitors. Gaia Online is the best place to be if you’re a teen. You can create your own avatar and buy stuff for your avatar.
The 2009 Harley-Davidson line has been released. The complete line of Harley Davidson touring bikes is based on an all-new frame for 2009. The new frame, swingarm, wheels and tires plus non linked ABS allows you control front and rear braking, plus electronic throttle control. Harley Davidson is introducing a trike from the factory, the new Tri Glide Ultra Classic. The new 2009 Harley-Davidson Tri Glide Ultra Classic is basically a trike version of the two-wheeled Ultra Classic tourer. Since so many companies already modify the HD touring bikes to 3 wheel configuration, Harley Davidson decided to make them in-house.
The SEAS trial will reveal outcomes from a test of the drug Vytorin. Sales have been badly hurt this year due to failure of the drug to cut plaque in neck arteries in a separate trial, called Enhance, whose results were presented in January. SEAS trial will confirm or rebut the earlier tests. Merck and Schering are holding back company earnings financial statements until the SEAS trial is completed.
CherryPal offers a new low power cloud computing that has no moving parts. The PC draws two watts of power and uses hardware encryption. The device features a 400MHz Freescale MPC5121e mobileGT processor and 256 MB DRAM, and 4GB NAND Flash solid state storage, with wifi b/g, 2 USB ports, and RJ45 10/100Mbps Ethernet,VGA out, and audio outlets. It weighs in at 10.5oz.
Will CherryPal be the first mass-market cloud computer?
TomTom One is the 3.5-inch square LCD touch screen with 65k colors and QVGA quality. As with other models in the TomTom range there is just one on/off button on the TomTom One. Everything is controlled via the on-screen menu interface. Power and PC connectivity is supplied by a USB socket at the bottom of the device.
Chicago Yacht Club Mackinac Race will have all boats outfitted with position transponders for the first time in the 100th race history of the event. Spectators around the world will be able to follow the Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac Island.
Two United States Coast Guard cutters
Affliction Banned Weigh-In for Affliction Banned takes place this Friday, July 18th, at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, where the event is to be held.
Heavyweight Aleksander Emelianenko, the younger brother of Fedor Emelianenko, was supposed to fight UFC and Strikeforce veteran Paul Buentello
Riccardo Ricco was detained by police and booed by spectators before today’s 12th stage of the Tour de France cycling grand tour. Ricco makes the third bust of riders involved with the performance enhancer EPO, cycling’s drug of choice. Ricco tested positive for CERA, an EPO alternative.
His Saunier-Duval team withdrew from the Tour and suspended all activities. The team bus was detained by gendarmes.
Billy Joel Shea Stadium concert had a full orchestra playing everyone’s favorites. First announced as the Last Play At Shea but then he added a second show to became a double header. Billy sang the National Anthem to a packed audience with diehard local fans. I was really expecting Billy Joel to wrangle up much better special guests than Don Henly, John Mellencamp, John Mayer and Tony Bennett for the first of two final shows at Shea Stadium. Night two is Friday.
