In a similar vein:
[QUOTE]Venice city authorities plan to introduce new restrictions on the use of wheeled luggage in a bid to reduce noise pollution in the lagoon city, local media reported Thursday. Under the plans, from May 2015 tourists will be allowed to use only trolley bags sporting pneumatic casters, while the more common and noisier plastic or solid rubber wheels will be banned. Infringement fines will range from 100 to 500 euros[/QUOTE]Article: [URL]http://www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/117314/Venice-to-ban-trolley-bags-with-noisy-wheels.html[/URL]

Longest roller coaster?
 

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[QUOTE]A group of 5 people travel at speed down an abandoned railway line from Cisneros to Anolaima in Colombia. Transportation is just a platform with wheels and a brake - no engine, just gravity. A drop of over 2500 feet in 14 miles through a tunnel.[/QUOTE]

A bit inconscient and/or irresponsible. They should at least wear helmets. A small stone or unseen obstacle on the tracks (with all that vegetation) and they should all lay on their bellies on the traverses... :smile:
Saying "Hauch!"...

OTOH, they are lucky, if that should be in Romania, all the iron an wood should be long time gone, made into pots and buckets by the local gipsies... :wink:

[URL="http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/11/25/misspelled-710-freeway-sign-taken-down/"]Misspelled 710 Freeway Sign Taken Down[/URL] CBS Los Angeles
[QUOTE]Olimpic Blvd[/QUOTE]

When I was working for the US Government in the 1980s as a Computer Systems Programmer, next door to our building was DODCI, the Department of Defense Computer Institute. They had placed an order for a large number of binders (three-ring notebooks) for their students. Emblazoned on the front of the binders was
[SIZE=7]D[/SIZE][SIZE=5]epartment[/SIZE]
[SIZE=7]O[/SIZE][SIZE=5]f[/SIZE]
[SIZE=7]D[/SIZE][SIZE=5]efense[/SIZE]
[SIZE=7]C[/SIZE][SIZE=5]ompter[/SIZE]
[SIZE=7]I[/SIZE][SIZE=5]nstitute[/SIZE]

We found them in the dumpster with the front covers cut off the binders, probably in hopes that no one would notice the misspelling of computer.

Huh? It hurts my eyes long before reading your post! Maybe because I am not a native speaker, and I am still inputting the words into the central processing diode, letter by letter, haha... But I swear I wanted to post to tell you about spelling mistake before reading your "fine pitch" (by comparison) line that concludes the message. :wink:

This page:
[url]http://www.nasa.gov/content/new-display-counts-down-for-new-generation/index.html[/url]
refers to the old familiar countdown clock at Kennedy as "analog" twice.
In [URL="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/STS-121_Launch.jpg"]this view[/URL] of the old one it is clearly a digital clock.

[URL="http://www.laweekly.com/informer/2014/12/02/fbi-seizes-documents-in-la-school-district-ipad-scandal"]FBI Seizes Documents in L.A. School District iPad Scandal[/URL]
[QUOTE]The FBI seized "20 boxes" of documents from the L.A. Unified School District in an apparent investigation of the system's procurement of iPads that was part of a $1 billion program to get every kid connected to the internet in class and on-the-go, district Superintendent Ramon Cortines said this afternoon.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=only_human;389100][URL="http://www.laweekly.com/informer/2014/12/02/fbi-seizes-documents-in-la-school-district-ipad-scandal"]FBI Seizes Documents in L.A. School District iPad Scandal[/URL][/QUOTE]
From one of the related articles (emphasis mine):
[QUOTE]His initiative to spend a billion dollars in [U]school construction bond[/U] money on iPads for every student and teacher [/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=only_human;388448][URL="http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/11/25/misspelled-710-freeway-sign-taken-down/"]Misspelled 710 Freeway Sign Taken Down[/URL] CBS Los Angeles[/QUOTE]

As a [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadgeek]roadgeek[/URL] aware of the many questionable practices behind Caltrans signage (not the least of which being their curmudgeonly attitude toward mile markers and exit numbers (which appear in each of the other 49 states)), I am quite frankly surprised that they simply didn't take a sticky letter "Y" and place it over the offending letter "I".

[QUOTE]The FBI seized "20 boxes" of documents from the L.A. Unified School District in an apparent investigation of the system's procurement of iPads that was part of a $1 billion program to get every kid connected to the internet in class [B]and on-the-go[/B], district Superintendent Ramon Cortines said this afternoon.
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The bolded part is always what bothers me with these programs. If the school system is paying the full cost of the iPad, it should remain property of the school system and on school grounds. If they want to *subsidize* the purchase of an iPad for the percentage of time that it would be used for educational purposes, then fine. But to grant free-of-charge these delicate, expensive devices to students (I assume all the way down to elementary level) where they can be lost, broken, stolen, (God forbid) sold for drugs, or be used (in poorer families) by the parents more than the students, is IMHO an inappropriate use of funds, never mind any misappropriation of the funds in question. Ever see the condition of textbooks at the end of the year? Imagine how an iPad might look at the end of the year! Who picks up the repair/refurbishment/replacement bill?