Archive for April, 2010
Moments and missives from our world
April
22
2010
A(nother) happy ending
Anamika and Bryan’s wedding was recently profiled in the Florida Times-Union. You can read the piece here.
The couple honeymooned in Oceania, and Anamika shared their experiences.
“We came back 2 days ago! Now getting over jet lag and our crazy travels. Our trip WAS relaxing- until Cyclone Tomas (Category 4 hurricane) hit the island in Fiji we were in….. thus keeping us on the island for about 4 days longer- we made it off completely intact and happy though. Then a tropical depression derailed us from going to the Great Barrier reef. AND- on the flight back home. A passenger had a heart attack 36,000 feet in the air. Bryan and I were administering meds, oxygen, and care to him in a tiny corridor between the bathrooms. It was an adventure!!!! We told the captain to divert and so an emergency landing in Dallas…. it was insanity!”
The passenger survived the surgery in Texas.
April
22
2010
Presidential Road Trip
Yet another story from the Eyjafjallajokull (ay-yah-FYAH-lah-yer-kuhl) Files in the New York Times yesterday.
Neil MacFarquhar of the Times speaks to Estonian President Toomas H. Ilves about his return from Turkey.
“LONDON — When President Toomas H. Ilves of Estonia arrived in Turkey last week, he had prepared for a state visit — one state visit. What he got, courtesy of an erupting volcano in Iceland, was more like a presidential road trip — nine countries in four days — evoking the sedate diplomacy of a bygone era.
Mr. Ilves left Istanbul on Sunday. On Monday he ate an impromptu dinner with President Boris Tadic of Serbia. In Poland, he stopped to lay a wreath on the fresh tomb of President Lech Kaczynski. In between, he and the Estonian first lady got their coffee and gas at convenience stores.”
Read the full piece here.
April
20
2010
Flowers turn to cow food
The Kenyan floral industry, which customarily airlifts 45,000 fresh flowers each day, is in disarray after the recent volcanic activity in Iceland.
“If farmers in Africa’s Great Rift Valley ever doubted that they were intricately tied into the global economy, they know now that they are. Because of a volcanic eruption more than 5,000 miles away, Kenyan horticulture, which as the top foreign exchange earner is a critical piece of the national economy, is losing $3 million a day and shedding jobs.”
Read the full piece from the New York Times here.
April
16
2010
The Power of Computing
“Norway’s prime minister, Jens Stotlenberg is again grounded in New York as volcanic ash from Iceland’s tempermental volcano continues to close European airspace, but that didn’t stop him from doing the daily business of Norwegian govemernment from his iPad in an airport lounge.”
Read more.
April
12
2010
The man in the flying lawn chair
Longtime National Geographic photographer George Steinmetz is profiled in this week’s New Yorker, with a video teaser as well.
Find the full piece here.
April
02
2010
Anamika and Bryan marry at the Inn at Palmetto Bluff, Bluffton, SC.
Find a full slide show from the celebration here.
