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Jalen Rose and Skip Bayless discuss Jeremy Tyler leaving school as a high school junior to play pro basketball in Europe.

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This episode deals with the short combat career of the pocket battleship the “Graf Spee” before she was engaged by the Royal Navy and eventually scuttled by her crew off the coast of Montevideo. I’m not really sure what the Graf Spee has to do with the war in Europe, but who am I to argue with Mr. Cronkite?

The video’s a little sketchy for this first part, but that’s what you get for watching a documentary stored on 25 year old video cassettes.

My collection of this series is all on Beta tapes apparently once purchased by my parents.

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But the development came amid warnings of a fresh cloud of debris heading towards the continent, as Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull began spewing lava and heavy ash.

Earlier, Britain’s National Air Traffic Service (Nats) said a new ash cloud was spreading south and east towards the UK, while the European Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre (VAAC) said it may also hit Denmark and Scandinavia.

British officials said London airports were likely to remain closed for another day due to the plume, although airports in the north of the country were beginning to resume, with its first flight leaving Scotland early Tuesday morning.

Britain has dispatched three naval ships to rescue stranded Britons, including troops returning from Afghanistan.

The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal and amphibious assault ship HMS Ocean were made available for those stranded in France, while the assault ship HMS Albion was en route to northern Spain to pick up British troops.

The new wave of ash has forced aviation officials to close airports on Norway’s southwestern coast, from Stavanger to Kristiansand, after authorities had
lifted air travel restrictions in most parts of Norway.

Icelandic police said there was still “considerable volcanic activity at the site and
three seemingly separate craters are still erupting”.

But a statement noted that the plume was “smaller and lighter” than it had been previously, “indicating that there is not much ash in it”.

The Eurocontrol air traffic agency in Brussels said it expects some 55 to 60 per cent of flights over Europe to go ahead on Tuesday, a significant improvement over the last few days.

By midmorning, 10,000 of Europe’s 27,500 daily flights were scheduled to go.

In China, the first flight to Northern Europe since late last week set off at 12 noon local time (04:00 GMT), and the first commercial flight bound for NEw York’s JFK airport left from Paris.

Schiphol airport in Amsterdam has seen a number of flights depart since Monday evening, with the Dutch government approving flights under certain conditions.

Airspace has also reopened or begun to partially reopen in Sweden, Austria, Italy, France, Latvia and Lithuania.

In Germany, airspace remains officially closed until 1200G and in Denmark airspace above 16,600 feet has been opened, but flights are unable to land.

The move to ease flight restrictions had come after criticism from carriers, who said test flights in recent days by airlines including KLM, Lufthansa and British Airways suggested planes could fly safely despite the ash and that the danger was exaggerated.

None of the test flights reported problems or damage.
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Britain Closes Airspace as Volcanic Ash Spreads

LONDON An ash cloud from Iceland’s spewing volcano halted air traffic across a wide swathe of Europe on Thursday, grounding planes on a scale unseen since the 2001 terror attacks as authorities stopped all flights over Britain, Ireland and the Nordic countries.
Thousand of flights were canceled, stranding tens of thousands of passengers, and officials said it was not clear when it would be safe enough to fly again.
In a sobering comment, one scientist in Iceland said the ejection of volcanic ash — and therefore possible disruptions in air travel — could continue for days or even weeks.
With the cloud drifting south and east across Britain, the country’s air traffic service banned all non-emergency flights until at least 7 a.m. (0600GMT, 2 a.m. EDT) Friday. Irish authorities closed their air space for at least eight hours, and aviation authorities in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland took similar precautions.
The move shut down London’s five major airports including Heathrow, a major trans-Atlantic hub that handles over 1,200 flights and 180,000 passengers per day. Airport shutdowns and flight cancellations spread across Europe — to France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Ireland, Sweden, Finland and Switzerland — and the effects reverberated worldwide.

Ash may hover for days over uncertain Europe

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