RAINIER, Wash. ? A recent West Point grad, two aviators with extensive experience in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a man with a pregnant wife were killed when two helicopters crashed at a Washington state base, the Army said Wednesday as investigators tried to determine the cause of the collision. Army officials said the airmen were on a routine night training flight in two reconnaissance choppers when they crashed after 8 p.m. Monday in the southwest training area of the sprawling Joint Base Lewis-McChord, killing all four on board. An investigation into the cause of the accident by a team from Fort Rucker, Ala., began Wednesday. Among those killed was Chief Warrant Officer Lucas Daniel Sigfrid, 32, who went to high school and college in Minnesota and graduated from Champlin Park High School, in a suburb of Minneapolis. He attended St. Cloud State University for pilot training before joining the Army, his cousin Mark Duclos told the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Sigfrid’s wife and Duclos’ wife are both pregnant, Duclos told the newspaper. “We were just talking last week … about if we’re going to have boys and they would grow up like us. We were just hellions,” Duclos said. Sigfrid’s former high school wrestling coach, Bill Maresh, said he wrestled all four years of high school and wasn’t a champion but was a good guy who was dedicated to the sport and his team. While other wrestlers might quit after two years if they’re not successful, Maresh said Sigfrid stuck with….
Tuesday morning, near Guadalupe in North County Santa Barbara, one of California?s most controversial and newly approved pesticides was applied to some five acres of land soon to be planted with strawberries. Looking to cure a stubborn case of Macrophomina (a rot-causing pathogen) in their fields, G&S Farms???after securing a special permit from the agricultural commissioner?s office last Wednesday???applied methyl iodide to its farmland. It was only the fifth such commercial application of the potentially cancer-causing pesticide in the state since it was made legal late last?year. [Editor?s Note: The methyl iodide application, contrary to initial reports, did not occur Tuesday morning and has been rescheduled to Monday?morning.] Expressing his dismay about the application of the fumigant, Paul Towers, a spokesperson for watchdog organization Pesticide Action Network (PAN), said simply, ?There is no question in the scientific community that [methyl iodide] is too toxic to use. This is a really unfortunate decision by officials to basically ignore the science on this and put people at risk.? In an ironic twist, PAN filed a lawsuit in Alameda County courts that aims to roll back the state?s policy toward methyl iodide on the same day S.B. County issued G&S its?permit. Of course, despite the view of PAN and various other outfits around the country, the use of methyl iodide as a pesticide???sold under the brand name Midas by the Japan-based Arysta LifeScience company???is perfectly legal in California and considered by many to be a practical and equally effective replacement for methyl bromide,….
DAVOS, Switzerland ? Three topless Ukrainian protesters were detained Saturday while trying to break into an invitation-only gathering of international CEOs and political leaders to call attention to the needs of the world’s poor. After a complicated journey to reach the heavily guarded Swiss resort town of Davos, the women arrived at the entrance to the congress center where the World Economic Forum takes place every year. With temperatures around freezing in the snow-filled town, they took off their tops and climbed a fence before being detained. “Crisis! Made in Davos,” read one message painted across a protester’s torso, while others held banners that said “Poor, because of you” and “Gangsters party in Davos.” Davos police spokesman Thomas Hobi said the three women were taken to the police station and their papers were checked. They were told that they weren’t allowed to demonstrate, and will be released later, he said. The activists are from the group Femen, which has become popular in Ukraine for staging small, half-naked protests to highlight a range of issues including oppression of political opposition. They have also conducted protests in some other countries. “We came here to Switzerland to Davos to explain position of all poor people of the world, to explain that we are poor because of these rich people who now sit in the building,” said protester Inna Schewcenko. Protesters from the Occupy movement that started with protests against practices on Wall Street held a separate demonstration in Davos on Saturday. A small….
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