Dead bus driver goes unnoticed for 5 hours

A NJ Transit bus from the Meadowlands that was found idling at the Port Authority terminal Thursday for nearly five hours with its driver dead inside has exposed a need for better coordination between the two agencies, transportation officials said Sunday.

Thomas Truex, a bus operator for 26 years, was discovered slumped in a passenger seat at about 3 p.m., hours after he dropped off his last passengers at 10:30 a.m. and was to return the bus to the Meadowlands garage, officials said.

NJ Transit Spokeswoman Penny Bassett Hackett stopped short of faulting the garage supervisors for not alerting authorities when Truex didn’t return that morning, but said, “We’ll certainly take a look at procedures going forward.”

The incident may have shown cracks in the communication channels between New York and New Jersey bus operations, Port Authority Spokesman Steve Coleman said.

“If anything, we probably need to take a look at coordination we have with operation staff in terms of making sure if anything looks out of place or a driver didn’t report back that there are employees who can notify us ASAP so we can check it out,” he said.

Flags were raised when Truex did not report back to duty at 3 p.m. at the Meadowlands garage Thursday, prompting NJ Transit officials to call his wife, who had not seen him, Hackett said. About the same time, Port Authority called to alert NJ Transit of a bus that was “not in a good location,” she said. A NJ Transit supervisor then went to Port Authority and found Truex. His death is not suspicious, though the cause is undetermined.

Five hours! Most people can't take a prolonged bathroom break without their supervisor breathing down their necks and this guy was literally dead on the job for five hours and no one noticed. When I get back to my office from doing my business I can expect to find a search party being organized to look for me.

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Dead bus driver goes unnoticed for 5 hours

A NJ Transit bus from the Meadowlands that was found idling at the Port Authority terminal Thursday for nearly five hours with its driver dead inside has exposed a need for better coordination between the two agencies, transportation officials said Sunday.

Thomas Truex, a bus operator for 26 years, was discovered slumped in a passenger seat at about 3 p.m., hours after he dropped off his last passengers at 10:30 a.m. and was to return the bus to the Meadowlands garage, officials said.

NJ Transit Spokeswoman Penny Bassett Hackett stopped short of faulting the garage supervisors for not alerting authorities when Truex didn’t return that morning, but said, “We’ll certainly take a look at procedures going forward.”

The incident may have shown cracks in the communication channels between New York and New Jersey bus operations, Port Authority Spokesman Steve Coleman said.

“If anything, we probably need to take a look at coordination we have with operation staff in terms of making sure if anything looks out of place or a driver didn’t report back that there are employees who can notify us ASAP so we can check it out,” he said.

Flags were raised when Truex did not report back to duty at 3 p.m. at the Meadowlands garage Thursday, prompting NJ Transit officials to call his wife, who had not seen him, Hackett said. About the same time, Port Authority called to alert NJ Transit of a bus that was “not in a good location,” she said. A NJ Transit supervisor then went to Port Authority and found Truex. His death is not suspicious, though the cause is undetermined.

Five hours! Most people can't take a prolonged bathroom break without their supervisor breathing down their necks and this guy was literally dead on the job for five hours and no one noticed. When I get back to my office from doing my business I can expect to find a search party being organized to look for me.

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Britney Jean Spears
  (born December 2, 1981) is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album ...Baby One More Time in 1999. During her first decade within the music industry, she became a prominent figure in mainstream popular music and popular culture, followed by a much-publicized personal life. Her first two albums established her as a pop icon and broke sales records, while title tracks "...Baby One More Time" and "Oops!... I Did It Again" became international number-one hits. Spears was credited with influencing the revival of teen pop during the late 1990s.

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In 2001, she released her third studio album Britney and expanded her brand, playing the starring role in the film Crossroads. She assumed creative control of her fourth studio album, In the Zone released in 2003, which yielded chart-topping singles "Me Against the Music", "Toxic" and "Everytime". After the release of two compilation albums, Spears experienced personal struggles and her career went under hiatus. Her fifth studio album, Blackout, was released in 2007 and despite receiving little promotion, it spawned hits "Gimme More" and "Piece of Me". In 2008, her erratic behaviour and hospitalizations caused her to be placed in a conservatorship.

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The same year, her sixth studio album Circus was released, with the global chart-topping lead single "Womanizer". After embarking on The Circus Starring Britney Spears, she released greatest hits The Singles Collection, which featured U.S. and Canadian number-one single "3". In 2011, Spears returned with her seventh studio album, titled Femme Fatale, which was released on March 29, 2011, including the lead single "Hold It Against Me" which has become Spears' fourth U.S. number-one single.The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart.This made Spears the only female artist ever to have six number one debut albums, and have seven albums debut in the top two spots.

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Spears has sold over 100 million records worldwide. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), she is the eighth top-selling female artist in the United States, with 33 million certified albums.Spears is also recognized as the best-selling female artist of the first decade of the 21st century, as well as the fifth overall.She was ranked the 8th Artist of the 2000s by Billboard.In June 2010, Spears was ranked sixth on Forbes list of the 100 Most Powerful and Influential celebrities in the world; she is also the third most mentioned musician on the internet, according to Forbes.

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Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1970) is an American R&B/pop singer-songwriter, record producer and actress. She made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and became the first recording artist to have her first five singles top the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. Following her marriage to Mottola in 1993, a series of hit records including "Dreamlover," "Hero," "Without You," "Fantasy," "One Sweet Day" and "Always Be My Baby" from the diamond albums Music Box and Daydream and released the holiday standard "All I Want For Christmas Is You" from the best selling Christmas album of all time Merry Christmas, established her position as Columbia Records' top-selling act.

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Following her separation from Mottola in 1997, she introduced elements of hip hop into her album work, to much initial success, but when she left Columbia in 2001 her popularity was in decline. She signed an unprecedented $100 million deal with Virgin Records, only to be dropped from the label and bought out of her contract in the following year.

This radical turn of events was due to the highly publicized physical and emotional breakdown, as well as the poor reception that was given to Glitter, her film and soundtrack project. In 2002 Carey signed a $24 million deal with Island Records, and after a relatively unsuccessful period, she returned to the top of pop music in 2005 with her album The Emancipation of Mimi.The album became her best-selling album in the 2000s and its single, "We Belong Together," became her most successful solo single of her music career and was also awarded Song of the Decade by Billboard.

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In a career spanning over two decades, Carey has sold more than 200 million albums, singles, and videos worldwide, making her one of the world's best-selling music artists.Carey was cited as the world’s best-selling recording artist of the 1990s at the World Music Awards in 1998, and was named the best-selling female artist of the millennium by the same awards show in 2000.According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), she is the third-best-selling female artist, with shipments of 63 million albums in the U.S. In 2006 Carey was listed in 6th place on the Forbes Richest 20 Woman In Entertainment list. In April 2008, "Touch My Body" became Carey's eighteenth number one single on the Hot 100, the most by any solo artist. Carey was included in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the world in 2008. Carey starred in the film Precious (2009), which earned her a Breakthrough Performance Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival and an NAACP Image Award nomination.

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Aside from her commercial accomplishments, she composes all her own material, has earned five Grammy Awards,seventeen World Music Awards,and is known for her five-octave vocal range, power, melismatic style and signature use of the whistle register.

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Amr Abdol-Basset Abdol-Azeez Diab (Arabic: عمرو عبد الباسط عبد العزيز دياب‎; born October 11, 1961)is an Egyptian singer and composer of geel music; the contemporary face of Egyptian el-geel pop music, according to World Music. Diab is the best-selling Arab recording artist of all time, according to Let's Go Egypt. He was awarded the World Music Award for Best Selling Middle Eastern Artist four times: 1998, 2002, 2007 and 2009. He has also sold over 50 million albums worldwide. He is currently the top singer in the Arab world, and considered a living legend by many of his fans in the Arab world.

"Habibi" from Diab's 1996 album, Nour El Ain became a hit worldwide, and was remixed by many of the world's top DJs at the time.[citation needed] A special CD named Habibi: The Remix Album was released later with all of these remixes. Since then, Diab has remained at the top of the Arabic music scene, expanding reach to all parts of the Mediterranean with his 1999 release, Amarain, that featured duets with Algeria's king of rai Khaled in a song called "Qalbi" and Greece's Angela Dimitriou in "Ana Bahibak Aktar" and "Eleos".

"Tamally Maak" from Diab's 2000 album became a huge success. Leily Nahari, Diab's first album with Rotana Records, was released in 2004. Diab's album El Leila De was released in the summer of 2007 and topped the Arabic music charts for 22 weeks.

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Diab revolutionized Egyptian show business in several respects,[citation needed] and some of his biographers have referred to him as rebellious, because he challenged everything in Middle Eastern show business, from hairstyle and appearance to music style, presentation, and the financial scale of his projects.