1603 Scotland Yard issues a casualty hotline number for people worried about their relatives after this morning's bombings in London. The number is 0870 1566 344.

1555 US raises its terror alert level for rail and subway systems, but not for airlines, officials say.

1546 London police say there have been no arrests in connection with the blasts so far and that they are "keeping an open mind as to who the perpetrators might be".

1533 London ambulance services report that 45 people were seriously injured in the blasts, sustaining injuries such as severe burns, amputations, chest and blast injuries. A further 300 sustained minor injuries, such as lacerations and smoke inhalation. All injured have been removed from the bombed vehicles they say.

1525 Police confirm that at 33 people have been killed in the London blasts. At least seven were killed in an explosion on a tube train near Aldgate East station. At least another 21 were killed in an explosion on a tube train in the Kings Cross/Russell Square area. Five have been confirmed killed in the Edgware Road station blast and there were fatalities on the bus attacked near Woburn Square, although how many is not yet known.

1510 UK Prime Minister Tony Blair arrives back in Downing Street.

1458 Sir Iqbal Sacranie, the Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain, joins other religious leaders in condemning the attacks, saying "as with all other people in the community, we totally condemn the perpetrators of what appears to be this series of co-ordinated attacks in London which tragically has led to several fatalities and a large number of casualties."

1418 A Transport for London spokeswoman says the bus hit by the explosion was a number 30, travelling from Hackney to Marble Arch.

1353 Russian President Vladimir Putin expresses his condolences over the attacks and calls on all countries to unite in the fight against international terrorism.

1344 The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, describes the attacks as appalling and calls on all religious leaders to stand and work together for the wellbeing of the nation.

1333 US President George W Bush, speaking at the Gleneagles summit in Scotland, condemns the attacks, saying that the blasts show the war on terror must continue.

1325 UK Prime Minister Tony Blair leaves Gleneagles summit in Chinook helicopter.

1313 The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, condemns a "cowardly terrorist attack" and says Londoners responded "calmly and courageously".

1307 G8 leaders issue a statement, read by Tony Blair, saying: "We condemn utterly these barbaric attacks"

1255 Home Secretary Charles Clarke tells the House of Commons that four explosions had been confirmed, three on trains and four on a bus. "We do not know who or what organisations are responsible for these terrible criminal acts," he says. He says the Underground will remain closed all day


Shadow home secretary David Davis said the attacks were "of almost unspeakable depravity and wickedness". Liberal Democrat spokesman Sir Menzies Campbell expressed the house's sympathies to those affected and appreciation to the emergency services

1246 Pope Benedict XVI condemns the "inhuman" attacks

1215 The ambulance service says there are people still trapped at King's Cross station, and efforts are being made to rescue them

1210 The BBC's Security Correspondent Frank Gardner says BBC monitoring services have located a website linked to al-Qaeda with a 200-word statement saying it carried out the bombings

Complete Info at Originally posted by MDC...

London blasts: At a glance
Several people have been injured after a series of explosions across London. The BBC News website is covering events as they unfold:
1205 Prime Minister Tony Blair, at the G8 summit in Gleneagles, says there has been "a series of terrorist attacks in London... people have died and are seriously injured... It is reasonably clear this is designed and timed to coincide with the opening of the G8". He says he will return to London within hours, but that the summit will continue without him

1130 Signs on major roads into London warn: "Avoid London. Area closed. Turn on radio"

1126 The president of the European Parliament, Josep Borrell, blames terrorism for a "coordinated series of attacks" and "confirmed deaths"

1118 London's Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair tells the BBC he knows of "about six explosions", one on a bus and the others related to Underground stations. He says he believes the six affected areas are Edgware Road, King's Cross, Liverpool Street, Russell Square, Aldgate East and Moorgate, but says it is "still a confusing situation". He advises Londoners to "stay where you are - all of London's transport is currently disabled" - he refuses to confirm any fatalities


1055 A doctor tells Reuters there are at least 90 casualties at Aldgate station

1053 Home Secretary Charles Clarke makes a statement outside Downing Street about "dreadful incidents" causing "terrible injuries". He says Prime Minister Tony Blair has been informed and advises the public in London not to make unnecessary journeys

1051 A passenger on a train at Edgware Road says he saw several bodies in the wreckage. A police spokesman says two trains remained stuck in tunnels at Edgware Road

1049 Police say there are serious casualties, but no deaths are confirmed, Associated Press reports

1039 All London hospitals have been put on major incident alert, a hospital spokesman tells PA

1025 Transport union officials say they have reports of explosions on three buses, PA says

1025 PA reports two buses damaged in explosions - one in Russell Square and another in Tavistock Square. Witness, Belinda Seabrook said of the Russell Square blast: "I was on the bus in front and heard an incredible bang, I turned round and half the double decker bus was in the air"

1025 The BBC's Andrew Marr, with the prime minister in Gleneagles, says Number 10 is "still unsure" whether the explosions are a terrorist attack

1023 British Transport Police confirm an explosion on a bus in Tavistock Place

1021 Scotland Yard reports "multiple explosions" in London, the Press Association reports

1014 An eyewitness tells PA that a bus has been ripped apart in an explosion in central London

1009 Witness Christina Lawrence, who was on a train leaving Kings Cross, tells BBC News 24: "There was a loud bang in the tunnel and the train just stopped and all of a sudden it was filled with black, gassy smoke and we couldn't breathe"

1002 Scotland Yard says it is dealing with a "major incident"

0940 British Transport Police say power surge incidents have occurred on the Underground at Aldgate, Edgware Road, King's Cross, Old Street and Russell Square stations

0933 London Underground reports "another incident at Edgware Road" station, PA reports

0933 Passengers are told that all London Underground services are being suspended because of a power fault across the network, PA reports

0924 British Transport Police say the incident was possibly caused by a collision between two trains, a power cut or a power cable exploding. Police report "walking wounded"

0915 Press Association reports emergency services called to London's Liverpool Street Station after reports of an explosion

0849 An incident on the Metropolitan Line between Liverpool Street and Aldgate is reported to British Transport Police

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London blast locations

London has been hit by at least four explosions - three on underground trains and one on a bus. See below for more information on each location.




ALDGATE EAST - LIVERPOOL STREET TUBE STATIONS
Two people are confirmed dead after an explosion rips through a carriage on an Underground train heading from Aldgate East to Liverpool Street station.


Emergency services are first called at 0849BST after reports of an explosion.

A passenger tells of an "enormous bang and a lot of smoke". He adds: "A group of us got fire extinguishers and were able to smash through the carriage door."

Passengers are rushed out of Liverpool Street station by police and Underground staff. Anxiety increases as mobile phones stop working, leaving people unable to contact friends and relatives.

At Liverpool Street Station in the City financial district, the wounded are treated by medics as they lie on the concourse.

A doctor at Aldgate estimates that at least 90 people had been wounded in the explosion.

Liverpool Street is a major underground and overland interchange through which hundreds of thousands of commuters, many of them financial workers, pass each day.


EDGWARE ROAD TUBE STATION
The explosion occurs on a Hammersmith and City line train just outside the Underground station, heading towards Paddington.

After the blast passengers begin emerging from the station, many covered in blood and clearly distraught.

Paramedics go into the station, prompting fears there may still be injured people trapped underground.

A woman passenger tells the BBC there was a huge bang as two trains passed in a tunnel just outside Edgware Road. "All the lights went out and there was a lot of smoke. I believe it's the second carriage that has all the injured people in it."

A senior police official said there had been a number of fatalities but that "things are still relatively confused".

Those able to walk are looked after at a nearby hotel. Emergency services are described as "stretched".

The area around Edgware Road underground station remains sealed off. An official says there are 12 fire appliances and 60 firefighters there.

Edgware Road is a busy station with four underground lines: Hammersmith and City, District, Circle and Bakerloo.


KING's CROSS TUBE - RUSSELL SQUARE
An explosion occurs on the Piccadilly Underground line heading north from Russell Square to King's Cross.

An eye-witness who was on the train says: "I was in the second carriage and I think the explosion was in the carriage in front of me, or maybe was even on the track. The screaming from the front carriage was terrible."

Another passenger says that - after 30 minutes - people smashed windows to get out of their carriage and started walking down the side of the train.

Two hours later, police say a rescue operation is still in place to evacuate some passengers still trapped underground.

King's Cross is a major underground and railway interchange with both commuter and long distance railway lines terminating there.


WOBURN PLACE
The explosion ripped the top deck off a double decker bus in Woburn Place / Tavistock Square.

The location is near to Russell Square - scene of one of the underground train blasts - and also Euston mainline railway station.

Describing the blast, eyewitness Belinda Seabrook said: "I was on the bus in front and heard an incredible bang, I turned round and half the double decker bus was in the air.

"It was a massive explosion and there were papers and half a bus flying through the air."

It is unclear how many casualties have resulted from the blast.

Courtesy of The BBC

More than 30 die in London blasts

A series of bomb attacks on London's transport network have killed more than 30 people and injured scores more.
There were three explosions on the Underground - which police said left 33 dead - and one on a double-decker bus in which an unknown number died.

Courtesy of The BBC

the death tally is up to 33 now :(

London rocked by terror attacks
Last Updated: Thursday, 7 July, 2005, 13:19 GMT 14:19 UK


At least two people have been killed and scores injured after three blasts on the Underground network and another on a double-decker bus in London.



UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said it was "reasonably clear" there had been a series of terrorist attacks.

He said it was "particularly barbaric" that it was timed to coincide with the G8 summit. He is returning to London.

An Islamist website has posted a statement - purportedly from al-Qaeda - claiming it was behind the attacks.

Home Secretary Charles Clarke said blasts occurred between Aldgate East and Liverpool Street tube stations; between Russell Square and King's Cross tube stations; at Edgware Road tube station; and on a bus at Tavistock Square.

The Queen said she was "deeply shocked" and sent her sympathy to those affected.

London blasts: At a glance
Several people have been injured after a series of explosions across London. The BBC News website is covering events as they unfold:
1205 Prime Minister Tony Blair, at the G8 summit in Gleneagles, says there has been "a series of terrorist attacks in London... people have died and are seriously injured... It is reasonably clear this is designed and timed to coincide with the opening of the G8". He says he will return to London within hours, but that the summit will continue without him

1130 Signs on major roads into London warn: "Avoid London. Area closed. Turn on radio"

1126 The president of the European Parliament, Josep Borrell, blames terrorism for a "coordinated series of attacks" and "confirmed deaths"

1118 London's Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair tells the BBC he knows of "about six explosions", one on a bus and the others related to Underground stations. He says he believes the six affected areas are Edgware Road, King's Cross, Liverpool Street, Russell Square, Aldgate East and Moorgate, but says it is "still a confusing situation". He advises Londoners to "stay where you are - all of London's transport is currently disabled" - he refuses to confirm any fatalities


1055 A doctor tells Reuters there are at least 90 casualties at Aldgate station

1053 Home Secretary Charles Clarke makes a statement outside Downing Street about "dreadful incidents" causing "terrible injuries". He says Prime Minister Tony Blair has been informed and advises the public in London not to make unnecessary journeys

1051 A passenger on a train at Edgware Road says he saw several bodies in the wreckage. A police spokesman says two trains remained stuck in tunnels at Edgware Road

1049 Police say there are serious casualties, but no deaths are confirmed, Associated Press reports

1039 All London hospitals have been put on major incident alert, a hospital spokesman tells PA

1025 Transport union officials say they have reports of explosions on three buses, PA says

1025 PA reports two buses damaged in explosions - one in Russell Square and another in Tavistock Square. Witness, Belinda Seabrook said of the Russell Square blast: "I was on the bus in front and heard an incredible bang, I turned round and half the double decker bus was in the air"

1025 The BBC's Andrew Marr, with the prime minister in Gleneagles, says Number 10 is "still unsure" whether the explosions are a terrorist attack

1023 British Transport Police confirm an explosion on a bus in Tavistock Place

1021 Scotland Yard reports "multiple explosions" in London, the Press Association reports

1014 An eyewitness tells PA that a bus has been ripped apart in an explosion in central London

1009 Witness Christina Lawrence, who was on a train leaving Kings Cross, tells BBC News 24: "There was a loud bang in the tunnel and the train just stopped and all of a sudden it was filled with black, gassy smoke and we couldn't breathe"

1002 Scotland Yard says it is dealing with a "major incident"

0940 British Transport Police say power surge incidents have occurred on the Underground at Aldgate, Edgware Road, King's Cross, Old Street and Russell Square stations

0933 London Underground reports "another incident at Edgware Road" station, PA reports

0933 Passengers are told that all London Underground services are being suspended because of a power fault across the network, PA reports

0924 British Transport Police say the incident was possibly caused by a collision between two trains, a power cut or a power cable exploding. Police report "walking wounded"

0915 Press Association reports emergency services called to London's Liverpool Street Station after reports of an explosion

0849 An incident on the Metropolitan Line between Liverpool Street and Aldgate is reported to British Transport Police

Original story at The BBC

Large numbers of casualties have been reported after at least six explosions on the underground network and a double-decker bus in London. Here passengers flood onto the streets from Kings Cross station.


Outside Victoria Station staff try to give help to bemused passengers


At Aldgate, firecrews bring the injured up from the underground network...


...as the remaining passengers are evacuated.


At Edgware Road station injured passengers leave the scene.


Police across London are stretched as the underground network shuts down and people search for news.


Scotland Yard confirmed one of several reports of explosions on buses in the city.


London's Emergency Plan is put into action as medical staff rush to the scene and hospitals are on full alert.


Walking wounded leave the scene at Edgware Road

London Tube closed following explosions
By Lester Haines
Published Thursday 7th July 2005 10:00 GMT
The entire London Underground network has been shut down following a series of explosions at Liverpool Street, King's Cross, Edgware Road, Russell Square, Aldgate East and Moorgate stations.

Police have confirmed that two people were killed at Aldgate, and London's police chief said traces of explosive had been found at one site.

There has also been at least one explosion on a bus.

Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police commissioner, urged people to "stay where you are - the whole London transport network is currently stopped. The safest thing is to stay where you are. Don't call the emergency services unless you have a life-threatening situation."

He urged the media not to speculate on the cause of the explosions. However the timing and disparate locations bore the obvious hallmarks of a coordinated terrorist attack.

The BBC, however, reports that "Arab sources said the blasts were probably the work of al-Qaeda". Prime Minister Tony Blair confirmed in a live TV statement this lunchtime that it is "reasonably clear" that the explosions were terrorist attacks. Blair will leave the G8 summit in Scotland and travel to London.

The first explosion occurred at 8.49am at Liverpool Street. Further explosions occurred at King's Cross, Edgware Road, Russell Square, Aldgate East and Moorgate.

British Transport Police originally blamed power surges for the blasts, but the National Grid said that "there had been no problems with its system which could have contributed to the incidents".

Eyewitness Paul Woloszyn of BBC News - who was on a train at the Victoria Line's Blackhorse Road Station - reported: "We were told there was a bomb at Liverpool Street station. I was on the Tube, and they stopped the train and told everyone to get off and evacuate the station."

A Scotland Yard spokesman told the BBC: "All of the emergency services are on scene. There have been some casualties. This has been declared as a major incident. It's too early to state what has happened at this stage."

Vodafone, meanwhile, confirmed that network priority was being given to the emergency services, and that other users' service may be affected accordingly. ®

Original story at theregister.co.uk

Multiple explosions rock London
Initial reports say at least two deaths


Thursday, July 7, 2005; Posted: 7:03 a.m. EDT (11:03 GMT)




LONDON, England (CNN) -- Near simultaneous explosions rocked the London Underground network and at least one bus at the morning rush hour, police said, causing fatalities and prompting officials to shut down the entire underground transport network


Injured passengers are led away from Edgware Road Tube Station.

In the first report of casualties, City of London police told CNN there had been two fatalities at Aldgate east station. At least 90 people are reported to have been injured.

The explosions came a day after London was awarded the 2012 Olympics and as the G8 summit was getting under way in Scotland. Initial reports blamed a power surge, but officials were not ruling out a terrorist attack.

"There have been a number of dreadful incidents across London today," said Home Secretary Charles Clarke, Britain's top law enforcement officer. He said there were "terrible injuries."

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair said authorities found found indications of explosives at the scene of one of the blasts and that there are concerns it was a coordinated terror attack.

"We are concerned that this is a coordinated attack. We are aware that one of the sites does containly does contain indications of explosives," Sir Ian Blair told Sky News.

He urged Londoners not to panic and said it was too early to say what caused the blasts.

UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said he would make a statement on the London explosions from the G8 summit at 1100GMT, his spokesman said.

A White House spokesman said U.S. President George W. Bush was aware of the explosions and had been in briefings with Blair all morning.

Claire Burroughs, spokeswoman for St Mary's Hospital in central London, told CNN the hospital was on "major incident alert."

Four patients were critically injured, eight were seriously injured and 14 others were being treated for minor injuries, she said.

"The types of injuries we are seeing include limb damage, burns, cuts, breaks, head injuries and chest problems due to smoke inhalation," Burroughs said.

The Tube blasts at the height of the rush hour on Thursday were initially blamed on a power surge.

But amid the chaos eyewitnesses reported that a packed double decker bus in the Russell Square area had been severely damaged in a blast.

There were media reports that a second bus had been damaged in Tavistock Square. Police told CNN they could not confirm that report.

Describing the Russell Square blast, eyewitness Belinda Seabrook told the UK Press Association she saw an explosion rip through the bus as it approached the Square.

"I was on the bus in front and heard an incredible bang, I turned round and half the double decker bus was in the air," she said.

One Tube passenger told CNN passengers had been packed in smoke-filled carriages "just waiting to die."

One passenger, with blood streaming down the left side of his face from a wound on his temple, said he didn't "want to live through it again."

"I was in the front carriage and people were severely injured there," he said, adding that his train had been in the tunnel between Kings Cross and Russell Square.

"I heard, but I don't know, that people were hurt worse further back. Some people were very calm, others very panicky."

"There was a very loud bang, the lights went out, the carriage filled with smoke," he said. "We were all thrown forward."

Travellers emerged from underground tunnels covered in blood and soot. Scotland Yard declared the emergency a "major incident."

Emergency services were called to London's Liverpool Street Station after reports of an explosion shortly before 9 a.m.

A short while later, London Underground said there had been "another incident at Edgware Road" station in north west London.

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Deaths reported as blasts rock London
Broadcast News
Thursday, July 07, 2005

LONDON -- London was thrown into a panic during the morning rush hour after at least six explosions took place -- both in the underground subway system and on buses.


Injured tube passengers are escorted away from Edgware Road Tube Station in London following an explosion on Thursday.


Near simultaneous explosions rocked the London subway and three double-decker buses at the morning rush hour Thursday in London

Police confirm two deaths at one subway station.

The subway system was shut down and bus service was halted.

Sky News is showing a picture of a mangled red bus and police say they suspect a bomb caused the explosion.

Subway passenger, Simon Corvett, was on an eastbound train from Edgware Road station.

He says there was a huge, deafening bang and all the windows shattered.

He says people started screaming and the subway cars filled with smoke, with one car completely gutted.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who is hosting the world's most powerful leaders at Gleneagles, Scotland, is expected to speak shortly.

It's not clear if the G-8 gathering focusing on climate change and aid for Africa, will be postponed.

© Associated Press 2005

Original Story at www.canada.com

exactly

but in RDP..
RDP is all italian... no french speakers... (minus Rusty's bf.. the ONLY one she had to go find... )
they would LOVE duplessis

because if it wasnt for me she wouldnt have won

my aura made her win.. because she saw me a few weeks before

listen... tell your sister to give me my share of the 2Gs she won

NEVER!!
i cuddle with it too much

why is a maurice duplessis blvd in RDP so bad?

oh god.. get over it
from a frenchman's perspective, minus the anti-semitism, he was great
look at a french histroy book and look him up.. there wont be anything about how he hated jews
itll focus on all the stuff he did that was good for the frenchies
the same would have happened with hitler had he won the war... hed be all dolled up in history books

not anymore!!
not after teh barcelona games of 1992 anyway.. well supposedly... thats when the IOC came under HUGE scrutiny for having accepted bribes and what not because the presidet ofthe IOC at the tie was spanish...
funny.. he remained president after that too

it's worked
it just hasn't been self-sufficient (yet)

yeah yeah yeah...
that's what everyone says.. but it's still a step up
"But hydrgoen gas production requires oil!" Yeah yeah yeah... there are other ways of producing hydrogen gas... it's the most abundandt element in the universe.. im sure if we put our minds to it we can manage somehting

Is everyone as disinterested in this as I am?

spurs">www.canada.com ] controversy in France

Why do newspapers feel the need to report on the stupidest things?

Finally someone's actually doing something to END the emmissions problems with vehicles, not just curb it (as with hybrids, though i do appreciate the effort, i'm vying for something more, something permanent)

Cameras put police ears to the ground
Wednesday, July 6, 2005; Posted: 1:11 a.m. EDT (05:11 GMT)


CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Police installed video surveillance cameras around town and saw Chicago's murder rate fall to its lowest level in four decades. Now the cops hope to further cut crime by not only watching, but listening, too.


A Chicago police surveillance camera equipped with a gunshot-detecting system hangs from a pole.

The city is employing new technology that recognizes the sound of a gunshot within a two-block radius, pinpoints the source, turns a surveillance camera toward the shooter and places a 911 call.

Welcome to crime-fighting in the 21st century.

"Instead of just having eyes, you have the advantage of both eyes and ears," said Bryan Baker, chief executive of Safety Dynamics LLC, the company in suburban Oak Brook that makes the systems.

The technology isn't just gaining favor in Chicago, where 30 of the devices have already been installed in high-crime neighborhoods alongside video surveillance cameras. Baker says dozens more installations will follow.

In Los Angeles County, the sheriff's department plans to deploy 20 units in a pilot test, and officials in Tijuana, Mexico, recently bought 353 units, Baker said. Police in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and San Francisco, California, are close to launching test programs of their own, and New Orleans, Louisiana, and Atlanta, Georgia, also have made inquiries.

Military use
Safety Dynamics also works with the U.S. Army and Navy, developing systems that could detect a range of sounds such as glass shattering or diesel trucks slowing in an unexpected location.

Some U.S. troops in Iraq already have a similar system that works differently. Designed quickly in late 2003 and early 2004 by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and BBN Technologies Inc. of Cambridge, Massachusetts, a detector known as "Boomerang" can be mounted on the back of a moving vehicle to locate hostile gunfire.

The Safety Dynamics system deployed in Chicago, known formally as Smart Sensor Enabled Neural Threat Recognition and Identification -- or SENTRI -- uses four microphones to triangulate, or zero in, on the shooter.

By contrast, the Boomerang has sensors mounted atop a pole that detect shock and sound waves from a muzzle blast.

In Chicago, police hope the SENTRI system will add momentum to a technology-fueled crackdown on guns and gang violence.

The city in 2004 reduced its homicide rate to its lowest level since 1965 and police seized 10,000 guns -- successes that were in large part credited to a network of "pods," or remote-controlled cameras that can rotate 360 degrees and feed video directly to squad-car laptops.

The SENTRI systems are an addition to that network.

"They have been extremely successful," said Monique Bond, spokeswoman for the Chicago Office of Emergency Management. "We've been able to see the benefits that cameras and advanced technology bring to the community."

Privacy matters
The American Civil Liberties Union in Illinois is concerned about privacy rights being violated by the city's prevalent camera system. Spokesman Ed Yohnka said officers need to be properly trained in monitoring the cameras and only record activity in public spaces, such as sidewalks and streets.

As long as the cameras and SENTRI system are set up in public spaces, they do not violate the law, said Northwestern University Law School professor Robert W. Bennett.

"You don't have much in the way of privacy issues when you're in a public area," Bennett said.

And local officials say it's hard to argue with the results.

"The crime rates in Chicago are the lowest in 40 years. The price of keeping the community safe far outweighs civil liberty issues," Bond said.

Baker stresses that SENTRI is programmed to recognize only gunshots, not record conversations or "bug" private homes.

"There's no mechanism for other sounds like human voices," he said.

SENTRI is the brainchild of Safety Dynamics and Dr. Theodore Berger, director of the Center for Neural Engineering at the University of Southern California.

Each SENTRI contains a library of acoustical patterns, or "sound signatures," which Berger developed over several years. They're used to differentiate gunshots from other noises, such as traffic and construction, by measuring the unique decibel level of a bullet being fired. That way, a gunshot activates the system but a car backfiring does not.

Adding SENTRI to an existing surveillance camera is not cheap, however. The system costs between $4,000 and $10,000 per unit. In Chicago, money forfeited by criminals is used to pay for both it and the accompanying cameras.

As a result, Police Superintendent Phil Cline told a recent U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting, "the drug dealers are actually paying to surveil themselves."

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Honda leases first fuel cell car in U.S.
Wednesday, July 6, 2005; Posted: 6:01 a.m. EDT (10:01 GMT)


LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- A Los Angeles family has become the first in the United States to lease a hydrogen-powered car from Honda, as the company introduces consumers to the zero-emission technology.


The Spallino family in their new environmentally friendly car.

Honda, which already leases nonpolluting FCX fuel cell cars to several cities, said the initial consumer test was critical toward eventual commercial viability.

Jon and Sandy Spallino will pay $500 a month for the two-year lease.

The family of four will use the FCX for commuting to and from work and school, shopping and other family driving, and give feedback to Honda on the car's performance.

Proponents of hydrogen fuel, which produces electricity and water vapor when it burns with oxygen, believe it eventually will compete with gasoline, but high costs, the need for more research and scarcity of refueling stations are barriers.

Honda's FCX is the only zero-emission fuel cell vehicle certified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and California regulators for regular daily use.

Jon Spallino said he has been driving a natural gas-powered Honda Civic GX, "not because I save 20 cents a gallon on the cost of gas, but because I think dependence on foreign oil is a dangerous thing. I think what comes out of a tailpipe is important, and I think oil at $60 a barrel is not a great thing."

Hydrogen fuel can be made from a variety of sources, including oil.

The 2005 FCX can travel 190 miles (300km) on a tank of hydrogen and its mileage is rated as high as 62 miles (99.77km) per gallon.

Honda acknowledges that large-scale commercialization of the FCX is unlikely for some time.

"This is a critical step for the auto industry ... the need for a hydrogen refueling structure remains a key challenge," said John Mendel, senior vice president, automotive operations, for American Honda.

In April, Honda began limited sales of a device that allows consumers to refuel their natural gas-powered Civics at home.

"The same kind of breakthrough will probably be needed here," Mendel said, referring to fuel cell vehicles.

He said the degree of interest for such cars in the market place is unknown. But, he added, "Hybrids didn't get a lot of interest until oil got to $50 a barrel."

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger last year signed an executive order aimed at establishing hydrogen fueling stations across the state by 2010.

California has a critical need for clean-emission vehicles to meet its stringent air quality targets.

Honda said it plans to lease the FCX to several individual customers over the next year.

Copyright 2005 ">www.cnn.com ] [ cnn.com ]

kill it

can you stop swooning.. youre make me all hot and bothered

dang it.. i didnt notice the word radical there..
and yes i do feel it is less real...
there is no number, that when squared, will give you a negative number..
it is therefore "unreal" or imaginary
and anyways, it's just a naming convention...

but it's not part of our real number system. and you can't argue that

no
i dont
imaginary numbers dont include irrational numbers (like pi or 1/3)
the imaginary number system only relates to i, which is the square root of negative one

theyre retarded

psh... my point exactly :b

thanks there napoleon...
quebec eats shit... but only those in power.. and the really frenchy mcfrenchies...
most people in quebec arent complete morons

wrong again

no shes not.. stop lying

sweet.. my kinda guy

imaginary numbers rock

"Holy mother of jesus! Is that supposed to do that?" (yelling across the shop floor at my boss who quickly ran to shut off the air pressure)

LIES

no way.. her sister has to be there so i can tell what kind of panties shes wearing again

i love everything so much