Posted by admin on May 31, 2010 in
Feloniousness I admit these images aren’t really new enough to be news any longer, however, they may still be new to you. Interesting they were obtained using the Freedom of Information Act.
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New aerial NYPD photos of 9/11 attack released
February 10, 2010 | minnesota.publicradio.org
New York (AP) — Newly released aerial photos of the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center attack show the towers coming down from a dramatic new angle.
The photos were obtained by ABC News, which filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the National Institute of Standards and Technology last year. The NIST collected the images as part of its investigation into the terrorist attack.
ABC said it was provided 2,779 pictures on nine CDs. Many of the photos, taken from police helicopters, have never been released before.
One photo shows a close-up of the upper floors of the burning towers. Others show the towers’ dramatic collapse in a thick plume of smoke and debris and sweeping views of billowing smoke clouds.
(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Posted by admin on May 30, 2010 in
Fashion,
fatu·ous·ness,
Feloniousness Mother’s Paradise indeed. I wonder if this park still exists? I have not been able to find any info if it does or not.
Headscarf replaced with tank tops in first female-only park
Iranian women strip down in “Mothers’ Paradise”
AFP | www.alarabiya.net | Wednesday, 18 June 2008
TEHRAN-Nasrin and Kimia cast aside their mandatory headscarves and quickly unbutton their coats as soon as they pass a gate watched by male guards –the entrance to Tehran’s first women-only park called “Mother’s Paradise”.
The mother and daughter lay out their picnic on the lawn and lie in the hot spring sun as a group of other women jog past them in spaghetti-strapped vests and lycra shorts.
An unusual sight indeed in Iran, where all women are obliged to cover their hair and body contours in public to obey the country’s strict Islamic dress code.
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Posted by admin on May 29, 2010 in
Forteana Recently an 9 year old Dutch boy, Ruben van Assouw, was remarkably the sole survivor of an airplane crash in Libya. He joins a small but remarkable group of children who were the sole survivor of airplane crashes.
Best wishes to young Mr Assouw for a speedy recovery and also condolences on the loss of his family.
Out of respect for each of these somber stories I will post their entire stories without a jump. These photos and this content is strong and graphic.
Sole Survivor Children
photo.newsweek.com | May 2010
Brooklyn, 1960
On December 16, 1960, in cloudy conditions, a United Airlines flight and a TWA flight collided over Staten Island. One of the planes landed on the island, while another crashed in Brooklyn. The crash initially killed 83 passengers on the United plane, all 44 on the TWA flight, and six bystanders on the ground. At left, the wreckage of the United DC-8 remains in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood the day after the crash.
Stephen Baltz
Baltz, an 11-year-old from Wilmette, Ill., somehow lived through the crash when he was thrown from the United plane into a snowbank. Baltz was badly burnt and suffered smoke inhalation, but was conscious following the crash and gave an account to officials. Sadly, his injuries were too serious to survive and he died one day later in a Brooklyn hospital.
Romulus Michigan, 1987
As it took off from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport on August 16, 1987, Northwest Airlines Flight 255 hit a light pole, taking off part of a wing and igniting a fire; the plane crashed in the suburb of Romulus. Two people on the ground and 156 on the plane died. At left, emergency vehicles are parked by the crash site.
Cecilia Cichan
Four-year-old Cecilia Cichan, who was traveling with her parents and brothers, survived the crash, although she was badly burnt. She is shown at the University of Michigan Medical Center in nearby Ann Arbor, recovering from her injuries, on October 9.
Vietnam, 1997
A Russian-made Tupolev owned by Vietnam Airlines flying from Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City to the Cambodian capitol Phnom Penh crashed on Sept. 3, 1997, when the pilot mistakenly put the plane down several hundred yards short of the runway, killing 65 people on board.
Toddler, unidentified
Doctors and nurses at a Phnom Penh hospital treat the lone survivor of the crash, a one-year-old boy.
Sudan, 2003
On July 8, 2003, a Sudan Airways Boeing 737 attempted to make an emergency landing at Port Sudan, killing 115. The company has since been banned from flying into European Union countries because of its bad safety record.
Mohammed el-Fateh Osman
The two-year-old, shown here cradled in the arms of a British nurse, survived the crash that killed his mother, although he was badly burnt and lost part of a leg.
Panama, 2007
A small Cessna carrying four Americans crashed in a remote jungle area near Chiriqui, Panama on Christmas Eve 2007 after encountering bad weather.
Francesca Lewis
It took rescuers two days to find the wreckage in a mountainous jungle area, but when they arrived, they found 12-year-old Francesca Lewis still alive, although suffering from hypothermia and a broken arm. At first, they could not evacuate her due to bad weather, but eventually they were able to reunite Lewis with her family. She is shown with her parents and sister in a Panama hospital on December 30.
Comoros Islands (near Mozambique), 2009
On June 30, 2009, a late-night Yemenia flight from Sanaa to Comoros missed on its airport approach, killing 152. At left, a U.S. Navy plane and a boat conduct a search for wreckage and survivors on July 3.
Bahia Bakari
Bahia Bakari, a 13-year-old French girl of Comoran descent, managed to survive the crash. Although she could not swim well and had no life vest, she clung to the plane’s wreckage for nine hours, bobbing in the Indian Ocean, before she was rescued. Her mother was killed. She is shown with the book she co-authored with a journalist about the crash, titled I Bahia, the Miracle.
Libya, 2010
The wreckage of Afriqiyah Flight 771 sits on the ground in Tripoli after crashing on May 12, 2010, killing 104. The cause has not yet been determined.
Ruben van Assouw
A Dutch boy, 9-year-old Ruben van Assouw, was the only survivor of the Tripoli crash. He is shown being treated in a Tripoli hospital.
Tags: tough kid
Posted by admin on May 28, 2010 in
SCIENCE The link to this amazing article came from the immensely talented and generous Judith Schaechter. She’s got a great blog, check it out.
Ramachandran is a leader in neuroaesthetics, a new scientific field that uses the tools of modern neuroscience, like brain imaging, to unravel the mysteries of art.
Unlocking the Mysteries of The Artistic Mind
Published on Psychology Today | by Jonah Lehrer | Jul 10 2009
Consider the flightless fluffs of brown otherwise known as herring gull chicks. Since they’re entirely dependent on their mothers for food, they’re born with a powerful instinct. Whenever they see a bird beak, they frantically peck at it, begging for their favorite food: a regurgitated meal.
But this reflex can be manipulated. Expose the chicks to a fake beak—say, a wooden stick with a red dot that looks like the one on the end of an adult herring gull’s beak—and they peck vigorously at that, too. Should the chicks see a wood stick with three red dots, they peck even faster. Abstracting and exaggerating the salient characteristics of a mother gull’s beak strengthens the response. The phenomenon is known as the “peak-shift effect,” since a peak pecking response comes from a shifted stimulus. In it lies one of the core principles of visual art.
The Truth in the Lie
In 1906, Pablo Picasso was determined to reinvent the portrait and push the boundaries of realism, and one of his early subjects was Gertrude Stein. After months in his Paris studio, carefully reworking the paint on the canvas, Picasso still wasn’t satisfied. He didn’t finish the painting until after a trip to Spain.
What Picasso saw there that affected him so deeply has been debated—the ancient Iberian art, the weathered faces of Spanish peasants—but his style changed forever. When he returned to Paris, he gave Stein the head of a primitive mask. The perspective was flattened and her face became a series of dramatic angles. Picasso had intentionally misrepresented various aspects of her appearance, turning the portrait into an early work of cubist caricature.
Despite the artistic license, the painting is still recognizable as Stein. Picasso took her most distinctive features—those heavy, lidded eyes and long, aquiline nose—and exaggerated them. Through careful distortion, he found a way to intensify reality. As Picasso put it, “Art is the lie that reveals the truth.”
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Posted by admin on May 27, 2010 in
Foolery,
SCIENCE Rare is the website that is both lovely AND educational. Please visit Fake Science for more helpful information like what is posted below.
Image from the wonderful and educational http://fakescience.tumblr.com
Posted by admin on May 26, 2010 in
Feloniousness So many bad things happening here.
Random image of a baby worth a lot of money.
Photo of Alison and Gary Stuckey from ksl.com
Couple accused of trying to sell baby found
By Lindsay Whitehurst | The Salt Lake Tribune | 05/09/2010
An Arizona couple accused of trying to illegally sell their baby in Utah have been found at a Salt Lake City hospital.
Hospital staff reported that Alison and Gary Stuckey were at Salt Lake Regional Medical Center about 7 p.m. Saturday, said Wes Hutchins, an attorney for a foster couple who are adopting three of the couple’s other children. Alison Stuckey is more than eight months pregnant, but as of Saturday night the child had not yet been born, he said.
Salt Lake City police served the couple with a court order to appear at a hearing in front of 3rd District Judge Terry Christiansen at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. If they do not appear, Christiansen could issue a warrant for their arrest.
On Friday, Christiansen signed a protective order giving custody of their child to the Department of Child and Family Services. It was based on information from the foster couple, who found out Alison Stuckey was again pregnant about three months ago. They offered to take the baby in addition to the other children, but Alison Stuckey told them she had found an attorney in Salt Lake City who was willing to give her $6,000 for the baby, according to court documents.
The foster couple also alleged the Stuckeys illegally sold another child in January 2007, the documents say.
Posted by admin on May 25, 2010 in
Forteana Stories like this are nothing new, and it is continually amazing that dogs and cats are able to seemingly “track” their owners over long distances. This story has a wonderful Mardi Gras angle. Book deal?
Owner Stephan Soleas and his dog Charlie are reunited, nearly 1,200 miles away from where they parted ways, but only about 50 blocks from where Soleas was staying in New Orleans. John McCusker / The Times-Picayune
Lost dog tale has happy ending in New Orleans
By Richard Thompson, The Times-Picayune | February 15, 2010
Days after Stephan Soleas packed his bags, and his accordion, and hitched a ride to New Orleans, his 6-year-old Labrador mix went missing near his northern New Mexico home.
in a made-for-TV twist of fate, Soleas, 26, who came to town to make music and visit with friends for a few weeks, got word Feb. 5 that his canine companion, Charlie, had surfaced on Magazine Street — nearly 1,200 miles away from where they parted ways, but only about 50 blocks from where he was now staying.
Not buying it? Neither was Soleas.
Here’s the story behind the mini-drama: A New Orleans couple traveling together in Taos, a small New Mexico town near the noted ski resort, spotted the all-white dog “just kind of running in the street, and they thought it was a stray because it didn’t have a collar,” said Teresa Gernon, who co-owns the Magazine Street Animal Clinic.
When they stopped the car and opened a door, the dog jumped right in, according to Gernon, who described the couple as longtime customers who had “the best of intentions” in helping the dog.
The couple, who, through Gernon, declined to speak with a reporter about finding the dog, spent days combing the Taos neighborhood, searching for the owner or someone who recognized the dog. A nearby veterinary clinic, not equipped with a pet microchip scanner, was no help.
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Tags: Animal
Posted by admin on May 24, 2010 in
Forteana Way to go Josh!
Josh with the bone he caught.
Fishing 12-year-old nets Ice Age bone in Embarras River
www.herald-review.com | TONY REID – H&R Staff Writer | Posted: Monday, July 27, 2009
GREENUP – Josh Brandenburg went angling for a mammoth catfish and came back with a big bit of mammoth instead.
The platter-size circular bone he fished out of the Embarras River is now setting off some elephantine ripples in the scientific community. Experts from the Illinois State Museum in Springfield say the size of the bone means it belonged to one of the biggest mammoths on record from Ice Age Illinois.
The bone also has some “chatter marks” on it, which suggest it was gnawed on by a big meat-eater or maybe even hungry prehistoric humans who had just nailed the mother of all pot roasts.
Either way, Josh’s find is something special. The bone is anywhere from 13,000 to 24,000 years old and came from, most likely, a woolly mammoth or another mammoth type, the mammuthus Jeffersonii, which is named for Thomas Jefferson, a major prehistoric critter fan.
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Posted by admin on May 23, 2010 in
Fashion Shoe vending machines are apparently HOT. In the UK a few years back Onitsuka Tiger toured around with a vending machines selling “trainers.”
Stateside trendy dance clubs are selling Rollasole, Amy Winehouse style ballet flats to stumble in when your high heels are too hurty or complicated for your altered state.
Carnaby Street wheee!
Onistuka Tiger launches vending machine for trainers
Brandish.com | April 15, 2008
Sticking to their Japanese roots Onitsuka Tiger launched the world’s first vending machine for trainers today.
Stocking trainers in UK sizes 5 to 10 the vending machine will be dispensing shoes until Wednesday when it will embark on a tour of the country. If you fancy some ultra quick retail therapy head down to their London store on Newburgh St and if you’re lucky enough to win their competition you might just get you pair of vending machine trainers for free!
Rollasole Makes U.S. Debut – Rollasole’s Emergency Rollable Ballet Flats Unfold on Target.com
PRWEB | February 25, 2010
Rollasoles are the shimmery solution to jaded stiletto-sore feet. After seeing tremendous success in the UK as the world’s first vended rollable flat, Rollasole has announced the launch of their US online store Rollasole.com/USA and a partnership with major retailer Target, where the new Rollasole retail collection of durable slip-on flats are available at Target.com for $9.99. Read more…
Posted by admin on May 21, 2010 in
Foolery Looking for the link to the May 2010 What Where When guide? I can help you with that.
Click here to download a .pdf of the PDF May 2010 WWW Guide
Posted by admin on May 20, 2010 in
Feloniousness,
Forteana Hey Sando, google nudist colony, join one and you’ll be ok.
Police: Lincoln man made up robbery story to explain nudity
Police say a 19-year-old man made up a story about being robbed to explain why he was walking around Wilderness Park au naturel Monday afternoon
The Lincoln Journal Star | Posted: Thursday, July 16, 2009
Police say a 19-year-old man made up a story about being robbed to explain why he was walking around Wilderness Park au naturel Monday afternoon.
Sando Dshaw Hamilton, 2415 S. 9th St., was arrested and jailed Wednesday night on suspicion of making a false statement to police and indecent exposure, said Lincoln Police Officer Katie Flood.
After Hamilton was seen naked in Wilderness Park Monday afternoon, he told police a man with a gun tried to rob him, but he had no money so the robber took his clothes.
Flood said police now believe Hamilton took off his clothes because he was hot. He walked around naked for about an hour and then could not find his clothes, so police say he made up the story about being robbed.
