'Carnage' As Wingsuit BASE Jumping Death Spree Reaches 20

Wingsuit BASE jumping is in crisis after a deadly summer saw 15 jumpers die in the space of a single month.

The latest death in Canada - a man wearing a Vampire-themed wingsuit - brings the total for the year to an unprecedented 20.

At least one person died while posting footage of his flight live on Facebook.

Police have confirmed that the body of a jumper who went missing on a mountain in Canmore, Canada, on Sunday, had now been recovered.

All victims wore wingsuits; special jumpsuits fitted with fabric under the arms and between the legs which turn jumpers into 'human wings'.

They effectively allow the wearer to 'fly'.

But the dangers of wingsuit BASE jumping are some 50 times higher than conventional skydiving.

Analysts suggest that jumpers face around a-one-in 2,000 chance of death each time they jump.

It is understood the sport is attracting more people because devotees are attracting them with live posts on YouTube and Facebook. 

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"It's been a horrific last couple of months," Richard Webb, a wingsuit BASE jumper from Utah, told National Geographic magazine.

"This is easily the worst season I can remember … I'm tired of the carnage."

Last week, German jumper Alexander Polli, who was considered one of the sports most experienced jumpers, died.

He hit a tree while attempting a complicated "corkscrew" manoeuvre after leaping from a mountain in Chamonix, France.

Polli became a YouTube sensation after a video of him flying his suit through a hole in the side of a mountain racked up 14 million hits.

He said during an interview in 2013 that he was "extremely scared" of dying.

Speaking after Polli's death, Colonel Stephane Bozon, head of mountain rescue services in Chamonix, said: "It is a practice that frightens us … we must return to people behaving a little more rationally."

A few days later 28-year-old Italian father Armin Schmieder broadcast his death live on Facebook.

He leapt from a precipice near Kandersteg in Switzerland before crashing into a ridge.

The latest case saw a Brazilian man killed jumping from Grotto mountain in Canada, a 3600ft peak.

According to the website Bling, which catalogues all deaths , the jumper was with two others when he hit a ledge 150m below the take-off point.

"He started flying too low, and impacted the ledge with his chest," a statement on the website read.

"He then tumbled down the mountain, coming to a stop on a ledge another 500ft lower.

"The severity of the impact shows death was instantaneous."  

US jumper and wingsuit manufacturer Matt Gerdes has warned that jumpers' lack of knowledge needs to be addressed.

In a Facebook post he wrote: "There are a lot of people saying a lot of things about wingsuit BASE deaths.

"But if we were to work on just one thing, it would be education.

"The simple truth is that wingsuit BASE jumpers don't know what they are getting into, don't know how to practice the sport safely, and don't even know enough to know how little they know."

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Littersweet Symphony: Album For Cats Released

A musician has created an album of music for feline listeners, even though he is allergic to them.

David Teie, a scientist and cellist in the US National Symphony Orchestra, raised hundreds of thousands of dollars through crowdfunding and sold 10,000 copies of his record independently.

He was then offered a deal with Universal Music and his album Music For Cats is set for release on 28 October.

Mr Teie said that the music was created based on his scientific theory that cats appreciate music through the sounds they hear as kittens, such as their mother's purr or birds chirping.

He told the Press Association: "Not all cats respond - one will go right over to the speaker and one will just walk out of the room.

"I like the idea that critical taste applies to cats too.

"But I've seen videos where cats nuzzle up to the speaker or even curl completely around it.

"Very excitable cats are completely calmed and formerly abused or feral cats tend to respond best."

The music is played at shelters, where Mr Teie says it can cut down the time it takes for a feral cat to interact with humans.

"It is communication in the cat's language, of acceptance and understanding and the comfort that goes along with that."

He added that, while reptiles "don't have the brain structures for it, all mammals are ripe for music".

A spokesman for Universal Music said they were "thrilled to be part of this world-first project and break into the massive untapped market of non-human music fans".

"The possibilities are endless for more species-specific 'Music For' albums - dogs and horses could all be on the cards."

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Mums Of Young Children 'Locked Out Of Work'

Mums Of Young Children 'Locked Out Of Work'

Ladies with youthful youngsters are a third more averse to be in work than men, as per exchange union exploration. 

The report by the TUC found that by and large 64% of moms with kids matured up to four were in paid livelihood, contrasted with 93% of fathers of pre-school age kids. 

The vocation rate for moms were expanded as their kids became more established. 

TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: "It's stressing that such a large number of ladies with youthful kids are bolted out of work since they have children. 

"We have to share child rearing all the more similarly, or else the sexual orientation pay hole will take decades to close." 

She (Munich: SOQ.MU - news) said more backing was required including reasonable childcare from the period between the end of maternity leave and the begin of school. 

Bosses were additionally encouraged to be more adaptable. 

Adam Marshall, acting executive general of the British Chambers of Commerce, said: "Excessively numerous guardians, specifically ladies, are missing out on circumstances at work, an excessive number of firms are losing capable representatives, and the UK economy overall is paying the cost. 

"Great, reasonable childcare is crucial business base, and we have to take a gander at better approaches to drive costs down and drive arrangement up all over the UK." 

The report comes after a late study indicated ladies with kids confront an enlarging sexual orientation pay crevice - abandoning them 33% more regrettable off than men when their first kid is 12.

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Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Sales After Battery Explosions

Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Sales After Battery Explosions

Samsung is suspending offers of its Galaxy Note 7 cell phones after a portion of the batteries detonated. 

A few purchasers reported their telephones burst into flames or detonated while they were charging, and Samsung said it had affirmed 35 such cases, brought about by flawed batteries. 

Since toward the end of last month, a few clients have posted photographs and recordings on online networking demonstrating the scorched Note (Stockholm: NOTE.ST - news) 7 with some portion of its 5.7-inch touchscreen smoldered and dissolved, saying it all of a sudden burst into flames. 

The president of the company's portable business, Koh Dong-jin, said an examination by the organization found a battery cell made by one of its two battery suppliers created the telephone to burst into flames. 

He declined to name the battery supplier. 

He said: "We have gotten a few reports of battery blast on the Note 7 that was formally propelled on 19 August, and it has been affirmed that it was a battery cell issue. 

"It will cost us so much it makes my heart hurt. All things considered, the reason we settled on this choice is on the grounds that what is most imperative is client wellbeing." 

He included he was "profoundly sad" over the episode and clients who as of now purchased Note 7 would have the capacity to swap them for new cell phones, paying little respect to the buy date. 

The South Korean organization said in an announcement it would take around two weeks to plan substitution gadgets. 

An announcement from Samsung UK said: "We are right now leading an exhaustive investigation with our suppliers to recognize conceivable influenced batteries in the business sector. 

"Be that as it may, in light of the fact that our clients' security is a flat out need, we have halted offers of the Galaxy Note 7. 

"For UK clients who as of now have Galaxy Note 7 gadgets, we will willfully supplant their present gadget with another one over the coming weeks." 

The declaration comes only two weeks after Samsung propelled its most recent lead cell phone. 

The firm said it had sold more than one million Note 7 cell phones in 10 nations so far including South Korea and the US. 

It has fabricated around 2.5 million Note 7 telephones in this way, some of them still in stock. 

The arranged arrival of the Note 7 in a few European nations has now been suspended over developing security concerns. 

Samsung has said China is not influenced by the business suspension, since it utilized a battery made by another supplier for the Note 7 sold there.

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Moon Express approved for private lunar landing in 2017, a space first

Moon Express approved for private lunar landing in 2017, a space first

Interestingly, a privately owned business has consent to arrive on the moon.

The U.S. government has authoritatively affirmed the arranged 2017 mechanical lunar arriving of Florida-based Moon Express, which plans to fly business missions to Earth's closest neighbor and endeavor its assets, organization delegates declared Wednesday.

"This is a point of reference, as well as truly a limit for the whole business space industry," Moon Express fellow benefactor and CEO Bob Richards told Space.com

Beforehand, organizations had possessed the capacity to work just close by Earth. The new endorsement, while selective to Moon Express, could along these lines serve as a critical administrative aide for profound space business movement as a rule, Richards said.

"No one's had a remote ocean voyage yet. Despite everything we're graphing those waters," he said. "Some person must be first."

Moon Express presented an application to the U.S. Government Aviation Administration (FAA) on April 8. The archive then advanced through the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Division of Defense, NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Federal Communications Commission, Richards said.

The interagency endorsement process "took some time, not on account of anyone was against or loath to this," he said. "It's simply that we made inquiries that had never been asked, and that must be tended to and worked out."

Moon Express can now concentrate only on the budgetary and specialized difficulties of the 2017 moon mission, which will start with the dispatch of the organization's MX-1 lander on a Rocket Lab Electron promoter. (Moon Express marked a multilaunch manage Rocket Lab a year ago.)

The principle objective of the lady jump start is to try out the MX-1's execution and capacity on the lunar surface. Moon Express delegates additionally would like to win the Google Lunar X-Prize, a $30 million rivalry to arrive a secretly supported automated vehicle on the moon before the end of 2017.

The principal group to pull off this arrival — and get the vehicle to move no less than 1,640 feet (500 meters) on the lunar surface, and shaft top notch video and photographs back to Earth — will win the $20 million thousand prize. (The second group to accomplish every one of this gets $5 million, and another $5 million is accessible for meeting different points of reference. Right now, 16 groups stay in the running.)

"Regardless we're shooting for the end of 2017," Richards said of the lady MX-1 moon mission. "A considerable measure needs to go right, yet in any event we have a shot at our moon shot, given this administrative endorsement."

On the off chance that all works out as expected, future Moon Express missions will survey, concentrate and endeavor lunar assets, for example, water ice, propelling another period in space investigation, organization agents have said.

"Space travel is our lone way ahead to guarantee our survival and make a boundless future for our youngsters," Moon Express fellow benefactor and Chairman Naveen Jain said in an announcement today. "In the prompt future, we imagine bringing valuable assets, metals and moon rocks back to Earth. In 15 years, the moon will be an imperative piece of Earth's economy, and possibly our second home."

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