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August 9, 2010 at 11:22 pm

It’s been a while! Back in the days flying use to be such great fun. Great meals, relaxed check-in procedures, less frustrations with security and baggage check-ins. These days it has been anything but stress-free.. Long lines, crazy baggage check-in fees, etc, etc. has made flying a nightmare for many of us. Amidst all this, comes the news of a friendly pillow fight in a Lufthansa.. What a welcome relief..

Oh, I like this comment made on a website while discussing this topic: “Just don’t try to be the one to start the pillow fight on an American flight. That could attract undue attention and possible arrest. Flights are highly structured and regimented now due to possible threat of terrorism.”

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August 9, 2010 at 8:51 pm

Indian coast guard vessels and helicopters worked Monday to contain oil spilling from a stricken container ship that collided with another vessel in the Arabian Sea, India’s defense ministry said.

The Panamanian-registered MSC Chitra smashed into the St. Kitts-registered MV-Khalijia-II on Saturday near Mumbai’s Jawahar Lal Nehru port. The accident caused the MSC Chitra to run aground and list heavily, ministry spokesman Capt. Manohar Nambiar told The Associated Press.

At least 250 containers from the damaged vessel fell off and port officials were trying to salvage them to avoid navigational hazards to other ships, officials said.

Pissed Off, Extremely(!!!) – Airline Steward at JFK Pulls Emergency Chute, Flies Coop

August 9, 2010 at 8:10 pm

Talk about having a bad day at work.. What he had was probably a “terrible” day.

Amplify’d from www.nbcnewyork.com

A flight attendant ran out of patience on a plane that just landed at JFK on Monday afternoon, so he allegedly cursed a blue streak over the p.a. system, grabbed some beers,  pulled the emergency chute, slid down and ran from the plane,  sources said.

Jet Blue employee Steven Slater, 38, was working on Flight 1052 from Pittsburgh to Kennedy Airport, which landed at around 12 p.m., when he got into a verbal altercation with a passenger, law-enforcement sources said.

The argument began when one of the 100 passengers on the flight, got up early to get her luggage from an overhead compartment, according to sources. Slater told the passenger to sit back down — but, as he approached, the woman continued to pull her belongings down and struck him in the head with her bag, authorities said.

Slater asked for an apology but the woman cursed him out, saying in effect “go f–k yourself” and calling him a “mo-fo,” according to law enforcement sources who are still sorting out the specifics. Then Slater got on the flight’s announcement system and allegedly cursed out  everyone on the plane — especially the person who mouthed off to him, according to law enforcement sources.

When his tirade was through, he then took a some beers from the galley and pulled the emergency chute and slid off the Embraer 190 plane.  According to police sources, he threw his luggage down first and said something to the effect of “there goes 28 years,” before he took the plunge.

Slater was later arrested at his home in Belle Harbor, Queens by Port Authority officials.  Police sources said that when authorities found Slater he was either having sexual relations — or had just finished.

Read more at www.nbcnewyork.com

 

Bernie’s Transportation Communications Newsletter (TCN) – August 9, 2010

August 9, 2010 at 5:39 pm

Monday, August 9, 2010 – ISSN 1529-1057


AVIATION

1) Zimbabwe Fools Media with Plane Accident Report

Link to AP article:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gPkRvdiRHwfVff9-DFAcjUVD7mcgD9HDEESO0

2) NTSB Offers Training on Aircraft Accident Emergency Communications

Link to article on AvStop.com:

http://avstop.com/news_august_2010/ntsb_offer_training_on_aircraft_accident_emergency_communications.htm

CAMERAS

3) Traffic Camera Debate Heats Up Campaign Trails in US

Link to article in The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/us/08traffic.html

4) Cameras Aim to Boost Safety at Rail Crossings

Link to column in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/article_b54d4771-0592-57f4-9dca-33ae89f5afd6.html

CARTOGRAPHY

5) Making Maps Accessible

Link to blog from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts:

http://technology.blog.state.ma.us/blog/2010/08/making-maps-accessible.html

GPS / NAVIGATION

6) US Appeals Court Nixes GPS Tracking Without Warrant

Link to AFP article:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hmO9Bg0JoO7weLFb4RIKxDdF8G8w

7) TV and Parking Spots: New GPS Navigation Systems

Link to DPA article:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/338477,new-gps-navigation-systems.html

MARITIME

8) Mississippi River Commission Inspecting Arkansas River via Towboat

Tour offers information on river’s navigation system.

Link to article in the Tulsa World:

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20100808_11_A11_TheMVM941973

OTHER

9) Victoria Transport Bureaucrat’s Mind Not on the Job

Senior official under fire for sending passenger tweets to fellow transport heavyweights.

Link to article in the Herald Sun:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/transport-bureaucrat-mond-not-on-the-job/story-e6frf7kx-1225901824572

10) Hot Wheels, Want d8? Text It so with New Online Communications Service for Motorists

Link to article in The Advertiser:

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/breaking-news/hot-wheels-want-d8-text-it-so-with-new-online-communications-service-for-motorists/story-e6frea73-1225900046355

11) US DOT Appeals to Gen Y Online

Link to column on Nextgov:

http://wiredworkplace.nextgov.com/2010/08/dot_appeals_to_gen_y_online.php

PEDESTRIANS

12) New Traffic Signals Make it Safer for Pedestrians

Link to article in USA Today:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-08-09-crosswalk09_ST_N.htm

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION

13) Photos Offer a Challenge: Consider Your Commute

Link to article in The Des Moines Register:

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201008090405/NEWS/8090317

ROADWAYS

14) Camera Testing Continues on North Carolina’s First Toll Road

Link to story and video on WRAL-TV:

http://www.wral.com/traffic/story/8099780/

15) Roadside Memorial Signs May Be Tough Sell in South Carolina

Link to article in The Sun News:

http://www.thesunnews.com/2010/08/09/1627031/roadside-signs-may-be-tough-sell.html

16) Montana’s Cell Phone Pullouts a Sign of the Times

Link to commentary in the Great Falls Tribune:

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20100808/OPINION01/8080304/State+s+cell+phone+pullouts+a+sign+of+the+times

SAFETY / SECURITY

17) Alabama Feels the High Cost of Distracted Driving

Link to article in The Birmingham News:

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2010/08/alabama_feels_the_high_cost_of.html

18) Summer Edition of Safe Highway Matters Online

Link to newsletter:

http://www.safehighways.org/SafeHighwayMatters.Summer2010.pdf

TRANSIT

19) Response to Seattle Light Rail Accidents Examined

Passenger communications cited as a problem.

Link to article in The Seattle Times:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2012557982_traincrash07m.html

20) New York MTA Sued Over Anti-Mosque Bus Ads

Link to story and video on NY1:

http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/123391/mta-sued-over-anti-mosque-bus-ads

21) After Boston Herald Tip, MBTA Turns to Social Media to Help Fight Crime on Trains

Link to article in the Boston Herald:

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20100731after_herald_tip_mbta_turns_to_social_media_to_help_fight_crime_on_trains_tweet_brings_the_heat/

22) The Case for Frequency Mapping

Link to blog on Human Transit:

http://www.humantransit.org/2010/08/basics-the-case-for-frequency-mapping.html

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

23) Traffic Alerts Evolving for George Washington Bridge Commuters

Link to article in the Times Herald-Record:

http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100809/NEWS/8090320/-1/SITEMAP

24) Victorian Traffic System Wins ‘Smart’ Award

Link to article in Supply Chain Review:

http://www.supplychainreview.com.au/news/articleid/69076.aspx

VEHICLES

25) Engineers Turn Robot Arm Into Formula 1 Simulator

Link to article and video in IEEE Spectrum:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/engineers-turn-robot-arm-into-formula-1-simulator

26) Jerry Flint, Dean of Auto Writers, Dead at 79

Link to article in Forbes:

http://www.forbes.com/2010/08/08/jerry-flint-obituary-detroit-business-autos-backseat-driver.html

27) Honk if You Hate: Dashboard Gauges You Can’t Read

Link to column in Inside Jersey:

http://www.nj.com/insidejersey/index.ssf/2010/08/honk_if_you_hate_low_tire_pres.html

News Releases

1) Spatial Roundtable Focuses on DOT Asset Management

2) Georgia Tech Extends Global Reach with Panama Logistics Innovation and Research Center

3) Washington Redskins Show Off a New and Improved FedExFied, Including Pre- and Post-Game Traffic Alerts

Solicitation

– Request for Information – IntelliDrive Performance Measurement and Performance-Based Management Demonstrations – US Department of Transportation

http://www.its.dot.gov/press/2010/nri_intellidrive_performance.htm

Upcoming Events

ITS Evaluation Workshop: Emerging Needs and Opportunities in ITS Evaluation, Supporting New Directions in Research and Deployment – September 20 – Irvine, California

http://www.itscosts.its.dot.gov/its/benecost.nsf/byLink/2010EvalWorkshop?OpenDocument&Cost%5E

Also see the International Benefits, Evaluations and Costs (IBEC) Facebook Group

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=125581960792461&v=wall

Today in Transportation History

1945 **65th anniversary** A Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Bockscar, dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki.

http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=527

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Strictly for #Aviation Research Community – #NASA DASHlink is a virtual lab for scientists and engineers

August 9, 2010 at 4:44 pm

Where do aircraft safety researchers go when they want to compare notes? Dashlink — a special online community for brainiacs that you can actually visit. This online community allows NASA and non-NASA researchers with a special interest in a particular aircraft safety challenge to share their latest ideas real-time.

Amplify’d from www.nasa.gov
Screen capture of the Dashlink website.
NASA researchers have created an online resource that dramatically changed how the agency fosters collaborative research. In this new innovative method capitalizing strengths of the Internet, scientists can share information about systems health and data mining while aiming to help improve aviation safety in ways never before possible.

The web site is called Dashlink. DASH stands for Discovery in Aeronautics Systems Health. The name hints at the identity of the particular group of scientists who created this online gathering place in 2008. The site has more than 410 registered users.

“The primary goal of Dashlink is to disseminate information on the latest data mining and systems health algorithms, data and research,” said Ashok Srivastava, principal investigator for NASA’s Integrated Vehicle Health Management Project at the agency’s Ames Research Center in California.

Dashlink allows researchers, whether inside or outside NASA, who are working on a particular software application to share the applications they have written, test each other’s work, and openly discuss the results.

“It’s totally different from how other projects are run,” Srivastava said, noting that the usual form of communication among scientists is published papers, which can take months to distribute and offer no immediate interaction with the author.

Interaction is important because a staple of scientific research is the ability of one group of scientists to duplicate the work of another group and achieve the same results. In the data mining field, duplicating results can be difficult and infrequent.

Dashlink is available to anyone with an interest in integrated vehicle health management software and sensor applications. Those outside NASA can join if a NASA civil servant sponsors the registration. That is what Suratna Budalakoti did when he joined the site in September 2008.
Read more at www.nasa.gov
 

This is why you should not let your Driving License Expire

August 9, 2010 at 12:50 pm

Grrrrr.. Anything to deal with MVA/DMV drives me crazy.. I get so annoyed for all that wait and delay associated with even a simple process.

Amplify’d from www.nytimes.com


ONLY three times in my life have I been so scared that I trembled — legs quivering, hands jittering, heart out of control. The first was at 12, when I watched “The Exorcist” before I should have. The second was at 41, when, on the kind of dare to which middle-aged men seem peculiarly vulnerable, I got into a canvas harness and prepared to jump some 250 feet into a gorge in Zambia.

The third was a few months ago, on Staten Island, when I was asked by an examiner for the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles to pull out of a parking spot and drive toward a nearby stoplight.

A humdrum task, you say? Undeserving of horror? You’ve never met the examiner. And you don’t yet understand what a crazy-making path I’d traveled to that fraught and climactic point — to the possibility that, at 45, I just might be able to drive legally again.

This is a cautionary tale. Like too many harried New Yorkers without cars or much cause to use them, I let my driver’s license expire — in October 2006. Then, in an unlucky development the next May, I was pick-pocketed. The double whammy of an expired license that I could not physically produce meant I could no longer right the situation with a written exam and a vision check. I was effectively 16 again, on the hook for a five-hour class and the dreaded road test, which I came to fear I’d never reach, given the labyrinth of civil-service incompetence, bureaucratic nonsense and simple misfortune I had tumbled into. Kafka could have had a field day with me.

Read more at www.nytimes.com

 

Rail Creep – Europe’s High-Speed Rail Revolution Poised to Cross the Atlantic

August 9, 2010 at 11:16 am

This article makes an awesome case for high-speed rail.. I like this part:”For decades, the United States ignored technological advances in rail travel, leaving passenger trains in a nostalgic time warp. Devoted to their cars and jetliners, Americans dismissed “bullet trains” as engineering novelties or costly foreign experiments unsuited to the way we live and travel.

But now, 46 years after Japan inaugurated its 130-m.p.h. Shinkansen train service, 29 years after France opened its 160-m.p.h. TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse, or high-speed train), 18 years after Spain launched its high-speed AVE service between Madrid and Seville, the United States finally seems ready to move.”

Amplify’d from www.philly.com

At precisely 10:30 a.m., with quiet jazz wafting from its speakers, AVE Train 3103 glides out of Atocha Station in central Madrid, its sleek nose pointed east toward a rising sun and Barcelona.

Even with a stop in Zaragoza, the 385-mile trip, which takes seven hours by car, is scheduled to last two hours, 52 minutes. Without the stop, it’s two hours, 38 minutes. Cruising speed: 186 m.p.h.

Of course, the train will be on time: If it’s more than five minutes late, the passengers get their money back.

Compare that with the Pennsylvanian, the daily Amtrak train that travels a similar distance – 353 miles – from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh. That laborious journey takes almost three times as long: seven hours, 23 minutes, a half-hour longer than it took in 1941. Twelve station stops. No jazz. No refunds.

Or compare it to Amtrak’s Acela Express between Philadelphia and Boston: When it’s on time, the train makes that 318-mile trip in about five hours. Slightly faster than driving, but slower and more expensive than flying. And it’s late 30 percent of the time.

In Europe, fast trains are transforming the continent, bringing cities and countries within a few hours of one another, erasing centuries-old regional divisions, resuscitating long-dormant towns, cutting air pollution, creating new economies and manufacturing jobs, and, in a reversal of 20th-century fortunes, making some air travel obsolete.

For a country mired in automotive gridlock and air-traffic jams, increasingly dependent on foreign oil and polluted by its own toxins, the stakes could not be higher.

Here’s the price Americans pay for a transport system that has become overcrowded, wasteful, slow, and expensive: $87.2 billion a year lost in automotive gridlock, more than $750 for every U.S. traveler. That’s more than 2.8 billion gallons of gas wasted – three weeks’ worth per traveler. And time wasted in traffic jams totals 4.2 billion hours – nearly one full workweek for every traveler.

The cost of domestic air-traffic delays, according to a 2008 analysis by the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, is as much as $41 billion annually, including $19 billion in increased operational costs for the airlines and $12 billion worth of lost time for passengers.

The environmental price tag has become starkly clear ever since the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in April, killing 11 people and spilling 210 million gallons of oil. More than 57,000 square miles of the gulf, rich in fish, shrimp, oysters, and crabs, remain closed to fishing because of the disaster.

Read more at www.philly.com

 

Dacoits strike express train in Bihar, India – Loot valuables worth $20,000 and hurt 21 passengers

August 7, 2010 at 6:31 pm

Good grief.. This has been going on for a while and still no solutions.. Govt. of India needs to kick some butt and get this issue taken care off before the passengers start taking things into their own hands.. LA Times says: “Armed outlaws take cash and valuables from passengers in more than 100 heists a year. Poorly paid security forces and weak governance don’t offer much protection..”

Amplify’d from www.thehindu.com
A damaged coach of the Sealdah-New Delhi Lal Quila Express at Patna station after the robbery near Bhalui in Bihar's Lakhisarai district on Friday. Photo: Ranjeet Kumar

A large group of armed robbers struck the Sealdah—New Delhi Lal Quila Express today, fired at GRP personnel, assaulted passengers and looted them near Bhalui halt in Bihar’s Lakhisarai district, leaving 21 people, including a jawan, injured.

Enraged over the incident, passengers, mostly kanwarias (devotees of Lord Shiva), shouted slogans and ransacked the office of the station master in Kiul.

Around 35 robbers boarded the train at Jamui station and walked into AC and sleeper coaches of the train and started looting cash and valuables, including jewellery and mobile phones worth Rs 2.50 lakh, from the passengers, official sources said quoting the FIR registered by six passengers.

As the unarmed GRP personnel resisted them, they opened fire critically wounding one of them. The jawan has been hospitalised at a nearby hospital, Deputy Superintendent of Police (Railway) R K Sharma said.

According to the sources, four robbers had earlier boarded the train at Jamui railway station, but passengers and the jawans overpowered them and caught two of them. The other two who managed to escape, alerted their accomplices and the robbery took place at the next halt.

Read more at www.thehindu.com

 

Good news Lance Armstrong Wannabe(s) – Apple Smart Bike Patent Reveals Amazing Features

August 7, 2010 at 3:31 pm

I didn’t see that coming.. I bet Apple has many such experiments brewing in its research labs.

Amplify’d from www.wired.com

If we saw a patent for an iPod Touch with a camcorder, we wouldn’t bat an eyelash. A Mac with a touchscreen? Unremarkable. But we did a double take when we read that Apple filed a patent for a smart bike.

The company, known more for its must-have consumer gadgets than any niche products, has imagined a smart bicycle system that would let users communicate electronically with other cyclists, sharing such data as speed, distance, time, altitude, elevation, incline, decline, heart rate, power, derailleur setting, cadence, wind speed, path completed, expected future path, heart rate, power, and pace.

To bicyclists, this idea might not seem novel; they can buy attachable computers now. But they also have to pretty serious about the sport: high-end models can cost upwards of $200. Even the LiveRider iPhone bike computer kit costs $100.

Read more at www.wired.com

 

Bernie’s Transportation Communications Newsletter (TCN) – August 6, 2010

August 7, 2010 at 1:20 pm

Friday, August 6, 2010 – ISSN 1529-1057


Bernie’s Notes

Sometimes when traveling I’ve made it a point to meet TCN readers. It’s a great opportunity to not only meet face-to-face, but to learn a bit about you and your company. Just last week I had great meetings with several TCN readers in Vermont and New Hampshire. That’s caused me to think that I’m overlooking the chance to meet TCN readers in my own backyard; the New Jersey, New York City area. If you’re either in this area or expect to be visiting and would like to get together, please drop me a note at bernie@bwcommunications.net

AVIATION

1) Air Traffic Technologies Get Boost from US Senate Appropriators

Link to article on Nextgov:

http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100805_2074.php

2) A Year After Fatal Collision, Critics Say Not Enough Being Done to Make Northern New Jersey Skies Safer

Critics say not enough being done to improve communications and better track aircraft.

Link to article in The Record:

http://www.northjersey.com/news/080610_Critics_say_not_enough_being_done_to_make_North_Jersey_skies_safer.html

3) Airservices Australia Unveils Major Air Navigation Upgrade Program

Link to article in LogisticsWeek:

http://logisticsweek.com/air/2010/08/australia-unveils-major-air-navigation-upgrade-programme/

4) iPad, Lower Prices May Increase Wi-Fi Usage on Planes

Link to article from The Online Reporter:

http://www.airportbusiness.com/publication/article.jsp?siteSection=1&id=38622

5) National Institute for Aviation Research Launches Aging Aircraft Maintenance Web Site

Link to article on AVweb:

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/aging_aircraft_maintenance_site_203081-1.html

6) Next Generation Air Transportation System: FAA and NASA Have Improved Human Factors Research Coordination, but Stronger Leadership Needed

Link to GAO report:

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10824.pdf

BICYCLES

7) Apple Introduces Us to the Smart Bike

Link to blog on Patently Apple:

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2010/08/apple-introduces-us-to-the-smart-bike.html

CAMERAS

8) Maryland to Create Statewide Database for License Plate Readers

Link to article in Government Technology:

http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/767477

OTHER

9) Florida to Employees: Keep that Tweet (and Status Update, IM, SMS, etc.)

Link to article in Federal Computer Week:

http://fcw.com/articles/2010/08/05/web-state-of-florida-record-keeping-electronic.aspx

PUBLIC INFORMATION / EDUCATION

10) Iowa Photo Shoot to Accent Transport Options

Pictures will contrast the amount of space needed to transport the same number of people by car, bus or bicycle.

Link to article in The Des Moines Register:

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20100806/NEWS/100805055/-1/SPORTS12/Photo-shoot-to-accent-transport-options

RAILROADS

11) Wisconsin Releases Previously Lost Train Records

Link to AP article:

http://www.620wtmj.com/news/local/100018064.html

12) Eurostar Offers Redesigned Web Site

Link to article in The New York Times:

http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/eurostar-offers-redesigned-web-site/

ROADWAYS

13) Warning Over ‘Steal a Road Cone’ Day in New Zealand

Link to ONE News story:

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/warning-over-steal-road-cone-3687335

TRANSIT

14) Bus Cameras Show Fatal Injury from New Angle

Link to article from the Connecticut Law Tribune:

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202464110184

TRAVELER INFORMATION / TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

15) Georgia DOT Takes Traffic Light Timing Regional

Coordination will attempt to circumvent challenges of multiple jurisdictions.

Link to article in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-politics-elections/dot-takes-traffic-light-585959.html

VEHICLES

16) Street Smarts

Driverless cars may be closer than you think but there are some issues to overcome.

Link to blog in The New York Times:

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/06/street-smarts/

17) IntelliDrive System Engineering User Needs Workshops

Link to further information from the Research and Innovative Technology Administration:

http://www.its.dot.gov/press/2010/intellidrive_engineering.htm

News Releases

1) DC Metro Invites Software Developers to Discuss New Transit Data Feed

2) ‘Smart Intersection’ Introduced for Improved Safety and Mobility of Owosso, Michigan’s Surface Transportation System

3) Heading to Orange Beach or Gulf Shores, Alabama? Drop Off Cell Phones at the Beach Express (BEX) and Help Soldiers Call Home

4) UK Hauliers Sign Up to Improved Free-to-Use Web Site for Abnormal Loads

Job Postings

Economist – Research and Innovative Technology Administration – Cambridge, Massachusetts

http://jobview.usajobs.gov/GetJob.aspx?JobID=89697524&JobTitle=Economist

Upcoming Events

Telematics Japan 2010 – October 13-14 – Tokyo

http://www.telematicsupdate.com/japan

Friday Bonus

How Gulliver’s skateboard might have looked to the Lilliputians.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU1qSSZDPws&feature=player_embedded

Today in Transportation History

1945 **65th anniversary** The Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan during World War II.

http://www.time.com/time/2005/hiroshima/

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