Nearly two weeks after he was hauled off by authorities and admitted to a psych ward over his own Facebook postings, retired Marine Brandon Raub is speaking out about his detainment and what Americans should know about their right to free speech.
Friday, August 31, 2012
Street cleaner dies after stabbing
A street cleaner who tried to stop a burglar making a getaway has died after being stabbed in the torso.
The eastern European man, aged 40, died in St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, Scotland Yard said.
Police said they were called to an assault in Rylett Road, west London, just before 2pm on Wednesday and found the man with a stab wound to the torso.
Six people have been arrested in connection with the incident.
The eastern European man, aged 40, died in St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, Scotland Yard said.
Police said they were called to an assault in Rylett Road, west London, just before 2pm on Wednesday and found the man with a stab wound to the torso.
Six people have been arrested in connection with the incident.
Hurricane Isaac (2012)
Hurricane Isaac is currently affecting the northern Gulf Coast of the United States, including the western Florida Panhandle, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. The ninth tropical cyclone and ninth named storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, Isaac developed from a tropical wave located east of the Lesser Antilles on August 21, strengthening into a tropical storm later that day. Isaac passed over Hispaniola and Cuba as a strong tropical storm, killing at least 29 individuals, as it entered the Gulf of Mexico. Isaac reached hurricane strength the morning of August 28. The storm made its first U.S. landfall at 6:45 p.m. CDT that evening (2345 UTC), near the mouth of the Mississippi River. It made a second and final landfall at 2:00 a.m. CDT (0700 UTC) the next morning at Port Fourchon, Louisiana.
Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Isaac
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Sugar Found In Space: A Sign of Life?
Astronomers have made a sweet discovery: simple sugar molecules floating in the gas around a star some 400 light-years away, suggesting the possibility of life on other planets.
The discovery doesn't prove that life has developed elsewhere in the universe—but it implies that there is no reason it could not. It shows that the carbon-rich molecules that are the building blocks of life can be present even before planets have begun forming.
Monday, August 27, 2012
Wiki Loves Monuments 2012
Wiki Loves Monuments is an international photo contest around cultural heritage monuments in September. Starting from the Netherlands in 2010 and organized on a European level in 2011, we go global in 2012!
Eclipse 4 is beautiful – Create your own Eclipse 4 theme
For devs who use Eclipse IDE and want to change color scheme.
Here's: http://www.vogella.com/blog/2012/07/11/eclipse-4-is-beautiful-create-your-own-eclipse-4-theme/
http://eclipsecolorthemes.org/
Here's: http://www.vogella.com/blog/2012/07/11/eclipse-4-is-beautiful-create-your-own-eclipse-4-theme/
http://eclipsecolorthemes.org/
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Astronaut Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on moon, dies at age 82
Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, died Saturday, weeks after heart surgery and days after his 82nd birthday.
His family reported the death at 2:45 p.m. ET. A statement said he died following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures.
Friday, August 24, 2012
Kelly: Disgruntled Employee Kills One Before Being Shot Dead By Cops Near Empire State Building
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A disgruntled employee recently fired from his job shot and killed one of his co-workers then opened fire on the street near the Empire State Building before being shot and killed by police, authorities said Friday.
The suspect has been identified as Jeffrey Johnson, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
At 9:03 a.m. Friday, police said Johnson walked into Hazan Imports at 10 West 33rd Street where he had worked for six years and got into a dispute with his former co-worker before shooting him three times, Kelly said.
Wisconsin Shooting: 7 People Killed At Sikh Temple, Including Shooter (LIVE UPDATES)
OAK CREEK, Wis., Aug 5 (Reuters) - A gunman killed six people and critically wounded three at a Sikh temple during Sunday services before police shot him dead in an attack that authorities are treating as an act of domestic terrorism.
Witnesses said the gunman opened fire when he entered the kitchen at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in suburban Milwaukee at about 10:30 a.m. CDT (1530 GMT) as women prepared a Sunday meal, sending worshippers fleeing to escape the barrage.
The suspect was a bald, white man, approximately 40 years old, said Thomas Ahern, a spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Authorities did not release his identity.
Four people were shot dead inside the sprawling temple. Three, including the gunman, were killed outside.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/05/wisconsin-shooting-sikh-temple_n_1744256.html
Witnesses said the gunman opened fire when he entered the kitchen at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in suburban Milwaukee at about 10:30 a.m. CDT (1530 GMT) as women prepared a Sunday meal, sending worshippers fleeing to escape the barrage.
The suspect was a bald, white man, approximately 40 years old, said Thomas Ahern, a spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Authorities did not release his identity.
Four people were shot dead inside the sprawling temple. Three, including the gunman, were killed outside.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/05/wisconsin-shooting-sikh-temple_n_1744256.html
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Does Sudden Sinkhole Portend a Nuclear-sized Explosion?
Napoleonville, LA
For many weeks, Corne and Grand Bayou residents warily noticed strange bubblings from the watery depths, and they reported smelling burnt diesel fuel and sulfur. Then overnight, a sinkhole the size of three football fields appeared, swallowing scores of 100-foot tall cypress trees.
The beginning of a Grade B monster flick? No: real life in Assumption Parish, Louisiana.
Read more: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Does-Sudden-Sinkhole-Porte-by-Meryl-Ann-Butler-120817-680.html
Monday, August 20, 2012
BREAKING NEWS: Fmr. Marine Arrested by FBI for Patriotic Facebook Posts!! SHARE EVERYWHERE!
The President of the United States: Free Brandon Raub
His arrest based on his patriotic Facebook posts is against the Freedom of Speech. He is in no way a terrorist and only wants to see this country turn around. Petition for his release and for everyone's freedom of speech. The government does not have our permission to monitor our Facebook posts and they do not have persmission to arrest someone for non-violent patriotic posts. Here is the link with all the information we have: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaE5zChbC5w Sign now!!
Read more: http://www.change.org/petitions/the-president-of-the-united-states-free-brandon-raub
Equo rewrite, Sabayon 10 and Google
The following month are expected to be really exciting (and scary, eheh), for many reasons. Explanation below.
My life is going to rapidly change in roughly one month, and when these things happen in your life, you feel scared and excited at the same time. I always tried to cope with these events by just being myself, an error-prone human being (My tech. English teacher doesn’t like me to use “human being”, but where’s the poetry then!) that always tries to enjoy life and computer science with a big smile on his face.
Read more: http://www.sabayon.org/article/equo-rewrite-sabayon-10-and-google
Mars' Vast Fields of Glass
The surface of Mars exhibits numerous lava flows and other signs of effusive volcanism. Although models suggest that explosive volcanism should also have produced extensive deposits, direct evidence for large-scale explosive volcanism has been scarce.
Read more: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/03/-mars-vast-fields-of-volcanic-glass-.html
Magnitude 6.3 - SULAWESI, INDONESIA
Earthquake Details
- This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
| Magnitude | 6.3 |
|---|---|
| Date-Time |
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| Location | 1.343°S, 120.103°E |
| Depth | 19.9 km (12.4 miles) |
| Region | SULAWESI, INDONESIA |
| Distances | 56 km (34 miles) SSE of Palu, Indonesia 72 km (44 miles) W of Poso, Indonesia 180 km (111 miles) N of Rantepao, Indonesia 199 km (123 miles) NE of Mamuju, Indonesia |
| Location Uncertainty | horizontal +/- 11.6 km (7.2 miles); depth +/- 2.6 km (1.6 miles) |
| Parameters | NST=299, Nph=304, Dmin=299.4 km, Rmss=1.21 sec, Gp= 14°, M-type="moment" magnitude from initial P wave (tsuboi method) (Mi/Mwp), Version=C |
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| Event ID | usc000c2hh |
Assange makes 1st public appearance in 2 months
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange urged President Barack Obama to end a so-called "witch hunt" against his secret-spilling website, appearing in public Sunday for the first time since he took refuge two months ago inside Ecuador's Embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden on sex crimes allegations.
Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48685347#.UDEr2JQcGgn
Friday, August 17, 2012
EARTH'S SHRINKING ATMOSPHERE BAFFLES SCIENTISTS
Scientists are mulling over why part of the Earth's atmosphere recently suffered its biggest collapse since records began, and is only now starting to rebound.
The collapse occurred in a region known as the thermosphere, a rarefied layer of the planet's upper atmosphere between 90 and 600 kilometers (56 to 373 miles) above the surface, which shields us from the sun's far and extreme ultra violet (EUV) radiation.
A report in Geophysical Research Letters by a team led by John Emmert from the United States Naval Research Laboratory has found that the thermosphere went through its biggest contraction in 43 years.
CNN shows video of Milton Hall police shooting death, speak with victim's mother
Anderson Cooper 360 aired an amateur video from the scene of the police shooting death of Milton Hall on July 1 in Saginaw.
The news segment, which aired near the end of the hour-long show that began at 8 p.m. tonight, will air again at 10 p.m.
CNN correspondents warned viewers that the video was graphic before broadcasting it. The video shows a shaky view of a group of police officers standing and shooting Milton Hall, who they say was holding a knife.
U.K.: WikiLeaks' Assange won't be allowed to leave
British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Thursday that the U.K. will not allow WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange safe passage out of the country.
The announcement came hours after Ecuador granted Assange political asylum, a decision that thrilled supporters but did not defuse the standoff at the Latin American nation's London embassy, where he has been holed up for almost two months.
Now the standoff between the two nations centers on an inviolable diplomatic principle: British law and the British police cannot reach inside the embassy of a foreign country.
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
WIKILEAKS BOMBSHELL: Surveillance Cameras Around the Country Are Being Used In a Huge Spy Network Called ‘Trapwire’ [Updated 8/13]
“Trapwire is the name of a program revealed in the latest Wikileaks bonanza—it is the mother of all leaks, by the way. Trapwire would make something like disclosure of UFO contact or imminent failure of a major U.S. bank fairly boring news by comparison.”
”In an email, Stratfor president Don Kuykendall wrote: “Their clients include Scotland Yard, #10 Downing, the White House and many [multinational corporations]“.
The U.S. cable networks won’t be covering this one tonight (not accurately, anyway), but Trapwire is making the rounds on social media today—it reportedly became a Trending hashtag on Twitter earlier in the day.
Trapwire is the name of a program revealed in the latest Wikileaks bonanza—it is the mother of all leaks, by the way. Trapwire would make something like disclosure of UFO contact or imminent failure of a major U.S. bank fairly boring news by comparison.
Read more: http://consciouslifenews.com/wikileaks-bombshell-trapwire-surveillance-spy-networ/1134041/
Other Source:
Unravelling TrapWire: The CIA-Connected Global Suspicious Activity Surveillance System
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The Facebook camera that can recognise you every time you walk into a shop
Shoppers could soon be automatically recognised when they walk into a shop using a controversial new camera.
Called Facedeals, the camera uses photos uploaded to Facebook to recognise people as they walk in.
Shoppers who agree to use the system, which has not been developed with Facebook, will be offered special deals.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2187801/Were-watching-The-camera-recognise-Facebook-picture-time-walk-shop.html#ixzz23UC4rZeL
New solar flare system gives advance warning
Researchers may have discovered a new method to predict solar flares more than a day before they occur, providing advance warning to help protect satellites, power grids and astronauts from potentially dangerous radiation.
The system works by measuring differences in gamma radiation emitted when atoms in radioactive elements “decay,” or lose energy. This rate of decay is widely believed to be constant, but recent findings challenge that long-accepted rule.
The new detection technique is based on a hypothesis that radioactive decay rates are influenced by solar activity, possibly streams of subatomic particles called solar neutrinos. This influence can wax and wane due to seasonal changes in the Earth’s distance from the sun and also during solar flares, according to the hypothesis, which is supported with data published in a dozen research papers since it was proposed in 2006, said Ephraim Fischbach, a Purdue University professor of physics.
Monday, August 13, 2012
Power outage leaves beach residents in the dark
SAN DIEGO - An electrical system issue caused thousands to be without power Sunday evening, officials said.
Read more: http://www.fox5sandiego.com/news/kswb-san-diego-power-outage-leaves-beach-residents-in-the-dark-20120812,0,7620146.story
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Sun Storm VIDEO: Magical-Looking Solar Eruption, Sunspots Captured By NASA
The sun fired off a spectacular eruption last weekend, and a NASA spacecraft captured amazing video of the violent solar outburst.
A super-hot solar filament erupted in grand style Saturday (Aug. 4), arcing into space and connecting two huge sunspots. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft had a front-row seat for the action, and its video footage of the sun eruption is both bizarre and beautiful.
NASA's 'green' planetary test lander crashes
Earlier this week NASA safely landed a robotic rover on Mars about 150 million miles away. But on Thursday here on Earth, a test model planetary lander crashed and burned at Kennedy Space Center in Florida just seconds after liftoff.
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Scientists: Crater where Mars rover touched down looks like Earth, feels ‘comfortable’
PASADENA, Calif. — The ancient Martian crater where the Curiosity rover landed looks strikingly similar to the Mojave Desert in California with its looming mountains and hanging haze, scientists say.
“The first impression that you get is how Earth-like this seems looking at that landscape,” chief scientist John Grotzinger of the California Institute of Technology said Wednesday.
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Mysterious black hole type perplexes, bewilders
Black holes have long been cosmic mysteries, even as research in the past decade has shed some light on the largest of these dark objects and how matter pours into them.
Scientists say the many remaining puzzles include how the largest black holes were born at the dawn of the universe and how black holes may help shape the fate of galaxies.
Demonoid becomes next causality in war on online piracy
Following an extended DDoS attack, Demonoid's servers have been seized by the Ukranian government, a move, some say, to appease the US.
After an enormous distributed denial of service attack (DDoS), the web's oldest torrent tracker, Demonoid, has been shut down.
Last week, torrent enthusiasts feared the worst when Demonoid was brought down in a DDoS. They worried that the site had been busted and brought down by governments where the servers were hosted. It turned out they were right. Now, the site has been permanently shut down by the Ukrainian government, according to Kommersant, a Ukrainian news outlet, and file-sharing advocates TorrentFreak
ColoCall, Ukraine’s largest datacenter, housed most of Demonoid’s servers. Last week, government investigators descended upon ColoCall’s server bank to it all down.
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Scientists warn massive solar flare could harm power grid and satellites
A group of scientists have put the world on alert that a massive solar flare could happen within the next two years that could harm power grids, communications, and satellites around the world. The scientists say that the risk of a massive flare that could harm systems on the earth increase as the sun reaches the peak of its 10-year activity cycle. The scientists say “governments are taking it very seriously.”
Read more: http://www.slashgear.com/scientists-warn-massive-solar-flare-could-harm-power-grid-and-satellites-06241821/
Solemn A-bomb anniversary at Hiroshima
TOKYO -- Japan marked the 67th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack with a ceremony Monday that was attended by a grandson of Harry Truman, the U.S. president who ordered the bomb dropped on the city of Hiroshima.
About 50,000 people gathered in Hiroshima's peace park near the epicenter of the 1945 blast that destroyed most of the city and killed as many as 140,000 people. A second atomic bombing Aug. 9 that year in Nagasaki killed tens of thousands more and prompted Japan to surrender to the World War II Allies.
Volcano erupts on New Zealand's North Island
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A volcano has erupted on New Zealand's North Island, spreading a layer of thick ash for several kilometers (miles) and causing some nearby residents to evacuate their homes. Some domestic flights were canceled.
Scientists say they noticed increased seismic activity below Mount Tongariro for weeks but got no specific warning before the volcano blew late Monday night. The eruption of ash and rocks lasted about 30 minutes and didn't cause any injuries or damage in the sparsely populated central North Island region, which is a designated national park.
Sikh temple shooting suspect identified as Wade Michael Page; Motivation unclear
(CBS/AP) OAK CREEK, Wis. - The gunman who killed six people at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin before being shot to death by police was identified Monday as a 40-year-old Army veteran and former leader of a white supremacist heavy metal band.
The mug shot handed out by the FBI of the suspect Wade Michael Page after a press conference on the shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin where a gunman fired upon people at service August, 6, 2012 in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.
(Credit: CBS/FBI via Getty Images)
Wade Michael Page strode into the temple carrying a 9mm handgun and multiple magazines of ammunition and opened fire without saying a word, authorities said.
When the shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in suburban Milwaukee ended, six victims ranging in age from 39 to 84 years old lay dead. Three others were critically wounded.
According to sources in the Army, Page enlisted in April 1992 and was a repairmen for the Hawk missile system before switching jobs to become one of the Army's psychological operations specialists assigned to a battalion at Fort Bragg, N.C.
WASHINGTON -- Federal investigators had “looked at” Sikh temple gunman Wade Michael Page more than once because of his associations with right-wing extremists and the possibility that he was providing funding to a domestic terrorist group, but law enforcement officials at the time determined there was not enough evidence of a crime to open an investigation, a senior U.S. law enforcement official said.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, would not say Monday which law enforcement agency had considered investigating Page, or when.
From Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-investigators-kept-tabs-alleged-sikh-temple-shooter-20120806,0,2390104.story
Mars Rover Landing: Curiosity Lands Early Monday Morning (RECAP)
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has touched down on the surface of the Red Planet, completing a 354-million-mile journey, and marking the beginning of a new era in planetary exploration.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/06/mars-rover-curiosity-landing-live-updates_n_1742499.html
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Google, NASA Bring Kennedy Space Center to Street View
It may be some time before we're able to take virtual trips to the other planets from the comfort of our bedrooms, but in the meantime there are options right here on Earth that offer the next best thing.
Google and NASA have joined forces to provide a first look inside the Kennedy Space Center via Street View. The immersive experience lets you use your browser to tour the inside of NASA's Florida facility, which has served as the launch area for some of humanity's most important missions into space.
Mars in 1995! (1980-1981)
NASA’s Space Shuttle was conceived in the late 1960s as a reusable transport for reducing the cost of Earth-orbiting space station logistics resupply and crew rotation. In 1969, it came to be seen as an element in an expansive Integrated Program Plan that would also have included upgraded expendable Saturn V rockets, reusable Space Tugs and nuclear-powered cislunar Shuttles, Earth-orbital and lunar-orbital space stations, a lunar surface base, and manned Mars expeditions – all by the mid-1980s. This vision of America’s future in space found little favor in the Nixon White House or in Congress, however. By 1973, only the Space Shuttle survived.
Read more: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/mars-in-1995-1980-1981/
Friday, August 3, 2012
Olympics organisers display SKorea flag instead of NKorea
Glasgow, Scotland: London Olympic organisers mistakenly displayed the South Korean flag on a jumbo screen instead of North Korea's before a women's soccer match on Wednesday, prompting the North Koreans to refuse to take the field for nearly an hour.
The flag flap began during player introductions when a North Korean player was introduced along with a shot of the South Korean flag.
Read more: http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/olympics-organisers-display-skorea-flag-instead-of-nkorea-247685
Passenger finds needle in catered sandwich on Air Canada flight Read it on Global News: Passenger finds needle in catered sandwich on Air Canada flight
TORONTO - An investigation is underway at Air Canada after a passenger found what appeared to be a sewing needle in a catered sandwich aboard a flight from Victoria to Toronto.
Airline spokesman Peter Fitzpatrick says Air Canada is taking the matter "very seriously" and is working closely with its caterers to ensure "heightened security measures are in place."
Read it on Global News: Passenger finds needle in catered sandwich on Air Canada flight
Airline spokesman Peter Fitzpatrick says Air Canada is taking the matter "very seriously" and is working closely with its caterers to ensure "heightened security measures are in place."
Read it on Global News: Passenger finds needle in catered sandwich on Air Canada flight
Thursday, August 2, 2012
83 Million Facebook Accounts Are Fake
The number of fake accounts on Facebook is roughly the size of Egypt’s population and larger than most of the world’s countries, the company disclosed this week.
Read More: http://mashable.com/2012/08/02/fake-facebook-accounts/#270412010--A-Visual-Redesign
Read More: http://mashable.com/2012/08/02/fake-facebook-accounts/#270412010--A-Visual-Redesign
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
NASA's Black Hole-Hunting Space Telescope to Begin Science Mission
A NASA space telescope designed to hunt for black holes and other mysteries of the universe passed a key test in orbit last week, setting the stage for the X-ray observatory to begin its prime science-gathering mission, NASA says.
Read more: http://www.livescience.com/21999-black-hole-telescope-nustar-science-phase.html
Read more: http://www.livescience.com/21999-black-hole-telescope-nustar-science-phase.html
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