pPitchfork is looking for a variety of awesome people to come spend their winter months being interns in our Brooklyn, NY office. Our ideal candidates will be available 10-15 hours a week (minimum) and be based in the New York area. To be more specific, here are the types of people we're looking for:/p p(Please forgive how all these entries start the same way-- we're too busy to re-word everything for the sake of continuity. Why do you think we need your help?)/p p1: ASSISTANT EDITORSbr /br / Pitchfork.tv seeks fast, efficient video editors for an internship in our Brooklyn, NY office. Our ideal candidate will be a film major with experience in Final Cut, with After Effects experience a plus. Must be available to work two days a week during business hours, for credit if possible. To apply, please send your resume and a link to your demo reel (no attachments please!) to stronga href="mailto:jobs@pitchforkmedia.com"jobs@pitchforkmedia.com/a/strong. Your subject header should read "Assistant Editor." Submission deadline is Thursday, December 11 at 11:59 p.m. eastern./p p2: CAMERA/PRODUCTION ASSISTANTSbr /br /Pitchfork.tv is seeking New York-based interns with experience in shooting and cinematography. The ideal candidate will be well-versed in various SD and HD cameras, with lighting, mic placement, and live shooting experience a plus. Duties include (but are not limited to): prepping gear for shoots, white balancing, syncing, coordinating mic/line inputs, and monitoring audio recordings, as well as some actual shooting. This position exists predominantly in the field and will largely occur on evenings and weekends. Because many of our shoots take place at music venues, candidates under 21 cannot be considered. To apply, please send your cover letter, resume, and samples of your work (links only, no attachments please!) to stronga href="mailto:jobs@pitchforkmedia.com"jobs@pitchforkmedia.com/a/strong with "Production Assistant" in the subject header. Submission deadline is Thursday, December 11 at 11:59 p.m. eastern./p p3: GRAPHICS ASSISTANTbr /br / span class="news-body-text"spanPitchfork is seeking a graphics assistant in our Brooklyn, NY office. The ideal candidate must be available 10-15 hours a week, a pro at Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash, and have work samples that kick our ass. Motion Graphics, After Effects, and/or Final Cut experience is a major plus, but not mandatory. Qualified applicants must submit links to samples of their work (no attachments please!), along with a resume and cover letter, to a href="mailto:jobs@pitchforkmedia.com"strongjobs@pitchforkmedia.com/strong/a by Friday, February 15 at 6:00 p.m. EST. Please include "Graphics Assistant" in your subject header/span/span. Submission deadline is Thursday, December 11 at 11:59 p.m. eastern./p p4: ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTSbr /br / Pitchfork is seeking administrative assistants in our Brooklyn, NY office. The ideal candidate will have prior office experience and familiarity with business applications (you know, like Microsoft Office). A good presence on the phone and strong writing skills are mandatory. Tasks include, but are not limited to, coordinating schedules and assisting all departments with daily operations as needed. To apply, please submit a resume and cover letter to stronga href="mailto:jobs@pitchforkmedia.com"jobs@pitchforkmedia.com/a/strong, with "Administrative Assistant" in the subject header. Submission deadline is Thursday, December 11 at 11:59 p.m. eastern./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/HRLYdXY_ehP5gWKQ_sPI9QE2Jvk/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/HRLYdXY_ehP5gWKQ_sPI9QE2Jvk/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pitchfork/today/~4/CmvXLsOs8Mw" height="1" width="1"/

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/headphones_8.jpg" width="800" height="490" style="display:block;float:none;" /strongThe Gadget:/strong Not to be confused with the a href="http://www.amazon.com/Apple-In%252dEar-Headphones-%252d-M9394G%252fC/dp/B000VRU4JE/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8s=electronicsqid=1228421805sr=8-1"original In-Ear Headphones/a, Apple's a href="http://gizmodo.com/5047355/new-apple-premium-in+ear-headphones-with-dual-drivers-only-79"new In-Ear Headphones/a have been redesigned from the ground up with balanced audio powered by two drivers in each ear. It also comes with a remote and microphone that's compatible with the iPod Nano 4G, iPod touch 2G, iPod Classic and iPhone 3G (kinda).br script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" galleryPost('inearapple', 3, ''); /script/p pstrongPrice:/strong $80/p pstrongThe Verdict:/strong After a history of offering lackluster earbuds, Apple has come through with a product that sounds really good and is reasonably priced, all things considered. The balanced sound and dual drivers makes all the difference in the quality factor. While not necessarily thumpy, the bass has a nice resonance without drowning out many of the high end intricacies found in jazz or electronic music. The midrange audio is relatively flat and doesn't overpower your ears, which is nice because it allows the high end noises to really stand out, letting you hear things you don't get from your car or computer speakers./p pTo see how they stacked up in the headphone scheme of things, I tested them against a pair of standard iPod headphones, the premium Zune headphones, and the a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/shure-nuf/shure-busts-out-99-se110-earphones-secretly-makes-them-iphone-friendly-295572.php"Shure SE110s/a, the winner of our a href="http://gizmodo.com/5033455/ultimate-cut+the+crap-in+ear-headphone-battlemodo"earphone battlemodo/a./p pbull; Unsurprisingly, the Apple In-Ears outclassed the normal iPod earphones in every category, providing superior sound and comfort./p pbull; The Zune Premium Headphones v2, which are very good for only costing $30-$40, had bass that was a bit punchier, but could not compete against the mids and highs of the Apple In-Ears. If you really like bass or a lower price, you might favor the Zune headphones, which more than get the job done. But on sound quality alone, the Apple In-Ear headphones are superior./p pbull; Compared to the Shure SE110s, the Apple In-Ear headphones don't quite match up. It's not a stark difference between the two, but the SE110s are superior in almost every category, from bass, to high end clarity. Part of that is because the Apple In-Ears don't have the noise isolation capability, and partly because they're just not quite as good. And though theyre $40 cheaper than the SE110s MSRP, you can find the SE110s at some online outlets as low as $75./p pAs far as remote capabilities go, I tested the Apple In-ear headphones with an iPhone 3G and a first gen iPod touch (neither of which are officially supported. As Apple claims, the audio works fine with both devices. Neither the remote or the mic work with the iPod touch 1G at all, merely reducing it to a pair of headphones. On the iPhone 3G, you can't use the volume, or track changing controls. The remote can only play/pause a song, answer/end a call and make use of the microphone. But all of those work perfectly fine on the iPhone./p pOverall, the Apple In-Ear Headphones are a quality product at a fairly reasonable price. They sound great, and work as expected. That said, unless you really need a remote on your headphones (or just want to show the world you're a card-carrying member of the Cult of Apple), there are still a couple of better values out there. Still, Apple's latest headphone offering is not a bad choice. [a href="http://www.apple.com/ipod/inearheadphones/"Apple/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=03e4041ce7fd038a1a850df04010aec3p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=03e4041ce7fd038a1a850df04010aec3p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=03e4041ce7fd038a1a850df04010aec3" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=LXoqe0YF"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=3TqoY2Gw"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=PIfKXUkk"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=PIfKXUkk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=fkm6gjMb"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=fkm6gjMb" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/hjJ4D2TXwZo" height="1" width="1"/

pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/government-legal/" rel="tag"Government/Legal/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/chrysler/" rel="tag"Chrysler, LLC./a/pimg vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/83914407_opt.jpg" alt="" /br /br /During today's Senate hearings of the Detroit 3 automakers, U.S. Senator Robert Bennett (R-Utah) spent much of his time on the mic talking about the cost savings that would be realized if General Motors and Chrysler LLC merged. He argued that prior talks held between the two companies has already laid the groundwork for a merger and that estimates peg annual cost savings at $8-10 billion for the combined company. Bennett then remarked that one reason a GM/Chrysler merger didn't happen the first time around was because many people in upper management, possibly including one of the two CEOs sitting before him, would basically lose their jobs. When asked if he would still want government assistance if Congress made the merger of GM and Chrysler a condition, Nardelli responded, "The first job that would go would be mine, but if in fact that's the criteria that means we would get money to save Chrysler and the people who have worked there for 80 some years, I would do it." Wow. br /br /Of course, we're fairly certain Mr. Nardelli has a decently sized nest egg to fall back on, and we'd jump at the offer to make a graceful exit if we were the CEO of Chrysler, too. Nevertheless, Nardelli's comment came off as sincere and was commended by Senator Chris Dodd (D-Connecticut) who is chairing the hearings.br /br /[Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/04/nardelli-i-would-sacrifice-my-job-to-save-chrysler/"Nardelli: I would sacrifice my job to save Chrysler/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:30:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/04/nardelli-i-would-sacrifice-my-job-to-save-chrysler/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1391649/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/04/nardelli-i-would-sacrifice-my-job-to-save-chrysler/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/xUL4_xLM2nMhB_lFpZYA4XSc6Jo/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/xUL4_xLM2nMhB_lFpZYA4XSc6Jo/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=uEApW41L"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=uEApW41L" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=7tCMNY77"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=7tCMNY77" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/GKjROE9yMzY" height="1" width="1"/

I just picked up the Griffin Tuneflex Aux for my truck. I found that it is not necessarily made for the iPhone but it works just the same. I did choos this one over the Kensington Liquid Aux Deluxe. What I am looking for is something that will hold my iPhone like these two products but will let me use the phone feature also (as a hands free option). It would seem that there should be a product that could route audio from the calls through the speakers as with the itunes audio and use the built in mic to converse through. I do not necessarily want to use blue tooth for the phone. The bluetooth issue brings up another point. If I stay with the above poducts and get a buetooth hardwire kit, can I still use the phone feature while still in the dock of these products.

Some people have a hard time taking Apple's earphones seriously. Consider the company's past forays into listening accessories: several generations of low-end iPod Earphones and Lanyard Headphones, a pair of $39 In-Ear Headphones that were derided for lousy fit, and the infamous iPod Hi-Fi, an overpriced all-in-one speaker. Could this company really make a pair of premium earphones worth owning?...

We've been wanting to get some extended face time with Apple's In-Ear Headphones (yes, that's the product name) ever since we spied them at the company's Fall "Let's Rock" event. Of course, they didn't exactly hit the scene on time, and we were starting to get suspicious. Tack on the rumor they wouldn't be compatible with iPhones, and we felt downright indignant. Imagine our surprise, then, at the discovery that they not only sound really, really good (warm lows and crisp highs, a distinct lack of that modern, pushy mid-range), but they do work with the iPhone (the 3G we've got here, at least). Regular playback is a charm, and we had no problem making and receiving calls with the buds and attached mic -- though strangely the remote doesn't seem operable on the phone, thus deflating our excitement ever-so-slightly. Regardless, the sound quality is pretty boss for the price (besting other, more expensive models we've checked out), and they're a huge step up from Apple's previous offerings. Check out some looks at the beauties in the gallery below.

Gallery: Apple In-Ear Headphones hands-on, ears-on, and impressions

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div align="center"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/apple_buds.jpg" /br //div We've been wanting to get some extended face time with Apple's In-Ear Headphones (yes, that's the product name) ever since we spied them at the company's Fall "a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/LetsRock/"Let's Rock/a" event. Of course, they didn't exactly hit the scene a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/02/apples-in-ear-headphones-finally-really-available-now/"on time/a, and we were starting to get suspicious. Tack on the rumor they wouldn't be compatible with iPhones, and we felt downright indignant. Imagine our surprise, then, at the discovery that they not only sound really, emreally/em good (warm lows and crisp highs, a distinct lack of that modern, pushy mid-range), but they emdo/em work with the iPhone (the 3G we've got here, at least). Regular playback is a charm, and we had no problem making and receiving calls with the buds and attached mic -- though strangely the remote doesn't seem operable on the phone, thus deflating our excitement ever-so-slightly. Regardless, the sound quality is pretty boss for the price (besting other, more expensive models we've checked out), and they're a huge step up from Apple's previous offerings. Check out some looks at the beauties in the gallery below.br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/apple-in-ear-headphones-hands-on-ears-on-and-impressions/"Apple In-Ear Headphones hands-on, ears-on, and impressions/a/strong/pa href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/apple-in-ear-headphones-hands-on-ears-on-and-impressions/1202875/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/ap_bud08_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/apple-in-ear-headphones-hands-on-ears-on-and-impressions/1202885/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/ap_bud12_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/apple-in-ear-headphones-hands-on-ears-on-and-impressions/1202878/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/ap_bud03_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/apple-in-ear-headphones-hands-on-ears-on-and-impressions/1202887/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/ap_bud14_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/apple-in-ear-headphones-hands-on-ears-on-and-impressions/1202883/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/ap_bud10_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divpFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/portableaudio/" rel="tag"Portable Audio/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/apple-in-ear-headphones-hands-on-ears-on-and-impressions/"Apple In-Ear Headphones hands-on, ears-on, and impressions/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:48:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/apple-in-ear-headphones-hands-on-ears-on-and-impressions/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1391350/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/apple-in-ear-headphones-hands-on-ears-on-and-impressions/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/9WDI34tKqtZyM_VmQa3BU2btwMo/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/9WDI34tKqtZyM_VmQa3BU2btwMo/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=qZaQqSqn"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=qZaQqSqn" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=B5udhALN"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=B5udhALN" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/A7dZpbsLCRA" height="1" width="1"/

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/40522?ns=guardianpageName=Politics%3A+Tories+sack+10%25+of+party+HQ+staff+as+credit+crunch+bitesch=Politicsc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Conservatives%2CCredit+crunch+%28Business%29%2CBusiness%2CPolitics%2CUK+newsc5=Credit+Crunch%2CBusiness+Markets%2CNot+commercially+usefulc6=David+Henckec7=2008_12_04c8=1128982c9=articlec10=GUc11=Politicsc12=Conservativesc13=c14=h2=GU%2FPolitics%2FConservatives" width="1" height="1" //divpThe Conservative party is making more than 10% of its staff at party headquarters redundant as a direct result of the economic downturn, guardian.co.uk can reveal./ppThe casualties include members of the party's policy section, which provides research and ideas for the next general election manifesto./ppThe decision follows a slackening off in donations as the global financial crisis bites. Some 24 staff at the party's Millbank headquarters were told on Monday that they could be made redundant. /ppIn a separate move the party is also closing the arm's-length Constituency Campaigning Services – based in Coleshill Manor, in the West Midlands – which provides campaigning material and acts as a call centre for constituency parties. Some 40 people there have been declared redundant./ppThe two divisions bearing the brunt of the redundancies in London are the party's external affairs and policy units, which are in effect being run down. A third division, the party's business relations department, was also facing closure, but sources say the department has been saved by a big Tory donor, Alan Lewis, chair of the Hartley Investment Trust and a former treasurer of the party, who agreed to bankroll all the staff. /ppThis department has links with two key Tory organisations, Conservative City Circle and Conservative City Future, and has strong links with the City of London. /ppIt is chaired by the MP Richard Spring, the vice chair of the party with special responsibility for business and entrepreneurship, and advises George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, on small business issues./ppThe decision to slim down the policy section some 17 months before the last date of an election is a surprise. The section writes and researches draft policy for the party – and works closely with Oliver Letwin, the former shadow chancellor appointed by David Cameron to head the party's policy review. /ppThe West Dorset MP is also, alongside Cameron, a former member of the party's policy unit, after working closely with Margaret Thatcher. /ppThe external affairs department is run by George Eustace, David Cameron's former press secretary, and liaised with Christian and Muslim groups and local party associations. Sources said yesterday that Eustace was not one of the people to be sacked./ppMost of the staff facing the sack are footsoldiers, brought in to strengthen the party's work to win the next general election. /ppNone of the highly paid big hitters, including former News of the World editor Andy Coulson, the party's director of communications and planning, and marketing guru Steve Hilton, the director of strategy who is still helping the leader while working from California, are affected. /ppNor is the party's communications directorate or any of the departments bankrolled by Lord Ashcroft, the deputy chairman of the party, including the campaigning section./ppThe changes have been initiated by Andrew Feldman, the new chief executive of the Tory party, with the backing of Giles Inglis-Jones, the party's head of human resources. /ppThe closure of CCS, funded by millionaire Tory donors, comes after the political funding watchdog the Electoral Commission cleared the organisation of being controlled by the Conservative party. Registered as a body independent of the Tories, it has received nearly £2m in donations since 2004, mainly from the Midlands Industrial Council, a Tory funding body, whose members include Robert Edmiston, a car importer and property developer. /ppIt had been under investigation for two years by the Electoral Commission after the Labour party complained that it was really part of the Conservative party and was subsidising campaigning in marginal seats by millions of pounds. /ppThe Electoral Commission did a U-turn in the middle of the investigation. Its initial findings, sent to David Wall, chair of both the CCS board and of its main donor, the MIC, said the commission believed the centre was "heavily subsidised"./ppLisa Klein, the director of party and election finance at the Electoral Commission, says in the letter (seen by the Guardian): "There may have been under-reporting of donations and election expenses by candidates, agents and the Conservative party accounting units who have benefited from the subsidised rates. These potential breaches are of concern to the commission, as the rules on donation reporting are fundamental to the transparency of party and election finance in the UK."/ppA Conservative party spokesman said: "The Conservative party was in discussion with the Electoral Commission in early 2008. These were clearly initial views prior to full information being provided and before a full investigation had been completed. The Electoral Commission has since concluded that CCS's charged rates were comparable to commercial rates. On this basis there is no evidence that donations should have been declared by the party and the commission decided to take no further action."/ppHe said: "Ahead of elections next year the Conservative party will be setting up an in-house campaign centre, which will coordinate the party's campaigning work across the West Midlands."/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/conservatives"Conservatives/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/creditcrunch"Credit crunch/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/apyr8aPAaXZmzqIjGuEDCMQfNQo/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/apyr8aPAaXZmzqIjGuEDCMQfNQo/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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And before you ask, Sega has yet to confirm a US release for Yakuza 3. We'll let you know when they do. (See? "When." We're optimistic over here.)

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pstrong1984:/strong Poison gas leaks from a Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India. It spreads throughout the city, killing thousands of people outright and thousands more subsequently in a disaster often described as the worst industrial accident in history./p pUnion Carbide chose Bhopal, a city of 900,000 people in the state of Madhya Pradesh, because of its central location and its proximity to a lake and to the country's vast rail system./p pThe plant opened in 1969 and produced the pesticide carbaryl, which was marketed as Sevin. Ten years later the plant began manufacturing a href="http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/hlthef/methylis.html"methyl isocyanate/a, or MIC, a cheaper but more toxic substance used in the making of pesticides./p pIt was MIC gas that was released when water leaked into one of the storage tanks late on the night of Dec. 2, a href="http://www.bhopal.org/whathappened.html"setting off the disaster/a. Gas began escaping from Tank 610 around 10:30 p.m. although the main warning siren didn't go off for another two hours./p pThe first effects were felt almost immediately in the vicinity of the plant. As the gas cloud spread into Bhopal proper, residents were awakened to a blinding, vomiting, lung-searing hell. Panic ensued and hundreds of people died in the chaotic stampede that followed./p pAn exact death toll has never been established. Union Carbide, not surprisingly, set the toll on the low end at 3,800, while municipal workers claimed to have cleared at least 15,000 bodies in the immediate aftermath of the accident. Thousands have died since and an estimated 50,000 people became invalids or developed chronic respiratory conditions as a result of being poisoned./p pRegardless of the numbers, all a href="http://www.american.edu/ted/bhopal.htm"evidence pointed to Union Carbide/a and its Indian subsidiary, as well as the Indian government, its partner in the factory, being responsible, mainly through negligence, for what occurred. Despite the extreme volatility and toxicity of the chemicals in use at the factory, safeguards known to be substandard were ignored rather than fixed./p pIn the subsequent investigations and legal proceedings, it was determined, among other things, that:/p ul class="list1" lipStaffing at the plant had been cut to save money. Workers who complained about codified safety violations were reprimanded, and occasionally fired./p/li lipNo plan existed for coping with a disaster of this magnitude./li/p lipTank alarms that would have alerted personnel to the leak hadn't functioned for at least four years./li/p lipOther backup systems were either not functioning or nonexistent./li/p lipThe plant was equipped with a single back-up system, unlike the four-stage system typically found in American plants./li/p lipTank 610 held 42 tons of MIC, well above the prescribed capacity. (It is believed that 27 tons escaped in the leak.)/li/p lipWater sprays designed to dilute escaping gas were poorly installed and proved ineffective./li/p lipDamage known to exist, such as to piping and valves, had not been repaired or replaced because the cost was considered too high. Warnings from U.S. and Indian experts about other shortcomings at the plant were similarly ignored./li/p /ul pThe aftermath of the disaster was almost as chaotic. Union Carbide was a href="http://www.bhopal.com/ucs.htm"initially responsive/a, rushing aid and money to Bhopal. Nevertheless, faced with a $3 billion lawsuit, the company dug in, eventually agreeing to a $470 million settlement, a mere 15 percent of the original claim. In any case, very little money ever reached the victims of the disaster./p pa href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Anderson_(chairman)"Warren Anderson/a, Union Carbide's CEO, went before Congress in December 1984, pledging his company's renewed commitment to safety, a promise that rang hollow in India (and probably to Congress as well)./p pAnderson was subsequently charged with manslaughter by Indian prosecutors but managed to evade an international arrest warrant and disappeared. Investigators from Greenpeace, which has kept up an active interest in the case, found Anderson in 2002, alive and well and living comfortably in the Hamptons. The United States has shown no inclination to hand him over to Indian justice, and most of the serious charges against him have been dropped./p pUnion Carbide, meanwhile, was acquired by the Dow Corporation in 2001, which refused to assume any additional liability for Bhopal, arguing that the debt had already been paid through various court settlements. It did go on to settle another outstanding claim against Union Carbide, this one for $2.2 billion made by asbestos workers in Texas./p pA few outstanding legal claims from Bhopal remain to be settled, both in India and the United States, but most of the court wrangling is over./p pThe victims of the disaster, those who live on, continue dealing with various health problems — including chronic respiratory problems, vision problems and an increased incidence of cancer and birth defects — and an environment that remains contaminated to this day./p pemSource: Various/em/pbr style="clear: both;"/ a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:48cc9eb4b8a8482354ecc6b56f151739:kxhhkz4DUffnSCf8jv%2B7v44x8l4BKie%2FYRo4WeJY732GnQ4nDiD9BSvaR%2FQPx6QqXmVG%2FC4uDPtx5g%3D%3D'img border='0' title='Add to Facebook' alt='Add to Facebook' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/facebook.gif'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:82d4523a8b02e3ad5a3995ca5fc1b80a:EqId8d3OpbVpu5JWckWNEKCSVVRnt0hq%2BaWV4fey0vi21Cfh7%2BMXf3MEEmEyIGm9e3q%2BakzFEHYE'img border='0' title='Add to Reddit' alt='Add to Reddit' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/reddit.png'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:3e70225b1b8097a8e45bf4a0f1ec3f03:yaaCBCPr4Rb0oyJuBEhz5kWJYlyLLEYFk6mELMdBJdK9RvClF8CQSsBwFbqLfl%2FmsvR0IYczZDjw'img border='0' title='Add to digg' alt='Add to digg' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/digg.gif'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:36a75e658ce232fbdd9cef6c864d7290:a7hJ2TLNUU1aJrJ1PeiO23adVkCz6dOjIxMmjfiP8xK%2B3QyQ%2FI6OAovRTJzMHk9aSvuehIeaQg5W'img border='0' title='Add to Google' alt='Add to Google' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/google.png'//a br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=d01f67d641f166da738dda1f9d2c8941p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=d01f67d641f166da738dda1f9d2c8941p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=d01f67d641f166da738dda1f9d2c8941" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/ pa href="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/index?a=8GVQjD"img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/index?i=8GVQjD" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~4/473261698" height="1" width="1"/