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Rocket powered skatboarder gets fined

17 Jun

This is pretty amazing. Nice work Eddie.

Eddie McDonald with his rocket-powered skateboard and fine. Image www.themorningbulletin.com.au

 

‘Fast Eddie’ rockets into history on skateboard at 60kmh

Chris Schwarten  |  www.themorningbulletin.com.au  |  11th Jun 2013

WHILE the Nitro Circus thrillseekers enthralled crowds at Browne Park, Barcaldine got their own show when Eddie McDonald took off on his rocket-powered skateboard.

Skating past the Tree of Knowledge along Barcaldine’s Oak St on Saturday night, Eddie fired up his rockets to reach about 60kmh in front of a cheering crowd outside one of the town’s pubs.

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8-Foot Shark Jumps Into Fishermen’s Boat

14 Jun

Fishermen are known for telling great stories, and this is a doozey. According to some news reports the mako did $5,000 worth of damage to their boat during the two hours it was alive on the boat while the fishermen hid.

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Philadelphia News, Weather and Sports from WTXF FOX 29

Shark Jumps Into Boat In Manasquan, New Jersey

Jun 11, 2013  |  WUSA 9

MANASQUAN (APP.com) – Two anglers shark fishing east of Manasquan Inlet got a surprise when a 303-pound, 8-foot, 4-inch mako shark leapt into the bow of their 31-foot boat. Then proceeded to eat the boat.

“It was epic. He back flipped right in,” said Clint Simek, of Brielle, who still sounded stunned by the shark’s theatrics as he retold the story Wednesday, a day after the wild encounter.

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Ancient sculpture found in Tibet by Nazis is made from meteorite

29 Mar

When Hollywood cranks out dismal and dumb plots it is such as shame. All they have to do is read some history to find out that magical and wondrous things truly do exist. Analysis reveals it is from the Chinga meteorite, as “it is the rarest type of meteorites you can find.”

The statue itself measures about 24 centimetres (9.4 in) and weighs 10 kilograms (22 lb).
The undated photo provided by University of Stuttgart shows an ancient Buddhist statue that a Nazi expedition brought back from Tibet shortly before World War II. The statue was carved from a meteorite which crashed on Earth thousands of years ago. What sounds like an Indiana Jones movie plot appears to have actually taken place, according to European researchers publishing in the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science this month. Elmar Buchner of the University of Stuttgart, said Thursday Sept 27 2012 that the statue was brought to Germany by the Schaefer expedition. The Nazi-backed venture set out for Tibet in 1938 in part to trace the origins of the Aryan race _ a cornerstone of the Nazis' racist ideology. The existence of the statue _ known as "iron man" _ was only revealed in 2007 when its owner died and it came up for auction, Buchner told The Associated Press. Image AP Photo/University of Stuttgart, Elmar Buchner

The undated photo provided by University of Stuttgart shows an ancient Buddhist statue that a Nazi expedition brought back from Tibet shortly before World War II. The statue was carved from a meteorite which crashed on Earth thousands of years ago. What sounds like an Indiana Jones movie plot appears to have actually taken place, according to European researchers publishing in the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science this month. Elmar Buchner of the University of Stuttgart, said Thursday Sept 27 2012 that the statue was brought to Germany by the Schaefer expedition. The Nazi-backed venture set out for Tibet in 1938 in part to trace the origins of the Aryan race _ a cornerstone of the Nazis’ racist ideology. The existence of the statue _ known as “iron man” _ was only revealed in 2007 when its owner died and it came up for auction, Buchner told The Associated Press. Image AP Photo/University of Stuttgart, Elmar Buchner

Ancient statue discovered by Nazis is made from meteorite

By Matt McGrath Science reporter, BBC World Service  |  27 September 2012

An ancient statue that was recovered by a Nazi expedition in the 1930s was originally carved from a highly valuable meteorite.

Researchers say the 1,000-year-old object with a swastika on its stomach is made from a rare form of iron with a high content of nickel.

They believe it is part of the Chinga meteorite, which crashed about 15,000 years ago.

The findings appear in the Journal, Meteoritics and Planetary Science.

The 24cm (9-inch) tall statue is 10kg (22lb) and is called the Iron Man.

Origins unknown

The story of this priceless object owes more perhaps to an Indiana Jones film script than sober scientific research.

It was discovered in Tibet in 1938 by German scientist Ernst Schafer. His expedition was supported by the Nazis, in particular by Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS. Himmler was said to believe the Aryan race originated in Tibet and was keen to recover objects from the area.

Release of source code – time to reflect on Photoshop

26 Mar

Rarely do company names become parts of speech. That is only the start of how Photoshop has transformed our culture. Personally I remember the introductions of layers in version 3.3 I think. Prior to that “calculations” had to be applied which would often take eons to process.

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John Knoll

John Knoll

Thomas Knoll

Thomas Knoll

 

Adobe Photoshop Source Code

Len Shustek  |  Computer History Museum  |  www.computerhistory.org  |  February, 16, 2012

pho·to·shop, transitive verb, often capitalized \?f?-(?)t?-?shäp\

  1. to alter (a digital image) with Photoshop software or other image-editing software especially in a way that distorts reality (as for deliberately deceptive purposes)

– Merriam-Webster online dictionary, 2012

 

When brothers Thomas and John Knoll began designing and writing an image editing program in the late 1980s, they could not have imagined that they would be adding a word to the dictionary.

Thomas Knoll, a PhD student in computer vision at the University of Michigan, had written a program in 1987 to display and modify digital images. His brother John, working at the movie visual effects company Industrial Light & Magic, found it useful for editing photos, but it wasn’t intended to be a product. Thomas said, “We developed it originally for our own personal use…it was a lot a fun to do.”

Gradually the program, called “Display”, became more sophisticated. In the summer of 1988 they realized that it indeed could be a credible commercial product. They renamed it “Photoshop” and began to search for a company to distribute it. About 200 copies of version 0.87 were bundled by slide scanner manufacturer Barneyscan as “Barneyscan XP”.

The fate of Photoshop was sealed when Adobe, encouraged by its art director Russell Brown, decided to buy a license to distribute an enhanced version of Photoshop. The deal was finalized in April 1989, and version 1.0 started shipping early in 1990.

Over the next ten years, more than 3 million copies of Photoshop were sold.

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Chinese delivery guy dresses as Batman and busts criminal

6 Mar

Is this a statement about how tight budgets for basic services are or a statement on the ubiquity of super hero culture?

A still made available by the British West Yorkshire Police shows a man wearing a batman costume bringing a wanted man to a Bradford police station. Image WEST YORKSHIRE POLICE

A still made available by the British West Yorkshire Police shows a man wearing a batman costume bringing a wanted man to a Bradford police station. Image WEST YORKSHIRE POLICE

A still made available by the British West Yorkshire Police shows a man wearing a batman costume bringing a wanted man to a Bradford police station. Image WEST YORKSHIRE POLICE

A still made available by the British West Yorkshire Police shows a man wearing a batman costume bringing a wanted man to a Bradford police station. Image WEST YORKSHIRE POLICE

Video grab taken from ITV's Daybreak of Stan Warby, who walked into a police station dressed as Batman to hand over an alleged criminal. Image ITV/PA

Video grab taken from ITV’s Daybreak of Stan Warby, who walked into a police station dressed as Batman to hand over an alleged criminal. Image ITV/PA

Stan Worby, who delivered a wanted criminal to a city centre police station. Image Ross Parry Agency

Stan Worby, who delivered a wanted criminal to a city centre police station. Image Ross Parry Agency

Revealed – identity of man dressed as Batman who handed in wanted man at Bradford police station

Tuesday 5 March 2013  |  www.halifaxcourier.co.uk

A mystery man who walked into a police station dressed as Batman to hand over an alleged criminal has revealed himself as a Chinese takeaway delivery man.

Stan Warby, 39, reportedly said he had been at a football match dressed as the superhero when his friend called him asking for help in handing himself in to officers.

He accompanied Danny Frayne to Bradford police station as a favour, after returning from Bradford City’s cup final clash against Swansea at London’s Wembley Stadium on February 25.

Mr Warby was dressed head to toe as the comic book hero when he anonymously took his 27-year-old friend at Trafalgar House police station in the early hours of the morning.

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Big guy angry over cold onion rings arrested for angry ruckus

3 Mar

Bad day at Burger King.

302-Pound South Carolina Man Busted For Clobbering Burger King Worker With Food Tray In Dispute Over Cold Onion Rings

February 19, 2013  |  www.thesmokinggun.com

A South Carolina man has been arrested and charged with disorderly conduct for allegedly striking a Burger King employee in the head with a food tray during a dispute over cold onion rings.

Kristopher Wiggins, 32, was collared last week in connection with the January 29 confrontation at the fast food restaurant in the town of Santee (pop. 955). Free on a $5000 personal recognizance bond, Wiggins is set for a March 20 trial on the misdemeanor charge.

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ex Priest deals meth, tries to buy sex shop, gets busted

28 Feb

There are plenty of misleading headlines about this story. As far as I can the order of events is as follows. Priest appears to be a sexually active cross dressing homosexual who uses sex toys and cavorts in the rectory with adults. Priest is asked to step down. Ex-priest begins doing and perhaps selling meth. Ex-priest begins dealing meth and tries to buy sex and smoke shop called LAND OF OZ AND DOROTHY’s  PLACE perhaps to launder funds. Ex-priest gets busted.

Let me look into a crystal ball. Ex-priest goes to jail, writes a book, is subject of movie starring Kevin Spacey and falls off and on the wagon.

Priest Charged In Meth Sting Tried To Open Sex Shop, Feds Say

January 18, 2013 | By EDMUND H. MAHONY, emahony@courant.com  | The Hartford Courant
(Courtesy of Only In Bridgeport )
A Catholic priest indicted earlier this week for his role in a bicoastal, crystal methamphetamine distribution ring may have been trying to launder thousands of dollars in weekly drug profits through an X-rated video and sexual novelty store, according to authorities.

The indictment on narcotics charges Tuesday of Monsignor Kevin Wallin, 61, has stunned the Diocese of Bridgeport, where he formerly served in positions that included personal secretary to successive bishops, including Edward Egan, later appointed a cardinal.

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‘Super drunk’ woman flees officers to take Chihuahua home before going to jail

25 Feb

PETA must love this broad. I wonder if she was going to jail for drunk driving? Drunk people are so classy.

Random image from interweb

Random image from interweb

‘Super drunk’ Paw Paw woman flees officers to take Chihuahua home before going to jail, police say

By Nicholas Grenke | ngrenke@mlive.com  on February 16, 2013  |  http://www.mlive.com

A Paw Paw woman was arrested after she tried to flee from police on Red Arrow Highway while driving super drunk, a news release from the Van Buren County Sheriff’s office said.

During the arrest, the woman told officers she was trying to get her Chihuahua home before she went to jail.

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Defense contractor slaps baby on plane

18 Feb

Baby slapper and mean drunk Joe Rickey may be one of those people to rich too prosecute. As the president, oops, former president, of defense contractor UNITECH Composites and Structures he was probably very well compensated. He may even have lots of rich white well connected friends able to put in a good word with the right people on his behalf so that he can avoid jail time.

This is a nice time to remember that 60% of our federal budget goes for defense spending and supporting fine, old, white, racist, mean-drunk, intolerant, useless tools like Joe Rickey as well as a few other people that their wealth trickles down to.

Jay Rickey as president of a defense contractor.

Joe Rickey as president of a defense contractor.

Joe Rickey Hundley in a photo from a previous arrest. Most likely his 2007 arrest for threatening his gal with a cork screw when he was loaded.

Joe Rickey Hundley in a photo from a previous arrest. Most likely his 2007 arrest for threatening his gal with a cork screw when he was loaded. Image Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office

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FBI: Man Slapped Crying Toddler On Delta Flight

Suspect used racial slur before striking fellow passenger’s son

The Smoking Gun  |  Feb. 15, 2013

FEBRUARY 15–After demanding that the mother of a crying toddler “shut that nigger baby up,” a male passenger allegedly slapped the 19-month-old across the face as a flight prepared to land in Atlanta last Friday evening, The Smoking Gun has learned.

The shocking February 8 incident aboard Delta Air Lines Flight 721 resulted in Joe Rickey Hundley, 60, being charged with simple assault, according to a U.S. District Court affidavit. Hundley, is president of an aircraft parts manufacturer headquartered in Hayden, Idaho.

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Amish sect leader Mullet jailed for hair and beard cutting

16 Feb

Mr Mullet sounds like a scary guy. Hopefully jail time will result in his terrorizing fewer people.

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Supporters of Samuel Mullet Sr. leaving court in Cleveland on Friday after he was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Fifteen followers received lesser terms. Image Michael F. McElroy for The New York Times

 

Amish Sect Leader Sentenced to 15 Years in Hair-Cutting Attacks

By TRIP GABRIEL  |  February 8, 2013  |  NYT

The leader of a dissident Amish sect was sentenced on Friday to 15 years in prison for a series of bizarre beard- and hair-cutting attacks on other Ohio Amish that drew national attention.

Samuel Mullet Sr., 67, the leader, was sentenced in Federal District Court in Cleveland for coordinating assaults that prosecutors argued were motivated by religious intolerance. Fifteen of his followers, including six women, were given lesser sentences, ranging from one year and one day to seven years.

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Fleeing shoplifter struck, killed by car

10 Feb

This story makes me very sad.  Every holiday shopping season Americans are urged to spend spend spend, and spend even more if we REALLY love someone. These pressures squeeze working people, the under employed, and the poor the hardest.  I somehow think Mr. Shepler’s shoplifting was related to the holidays and those pressures. Dumb luck can also be horribly unfair and tragic luck. The punishment did not fit the crime.

Tyler Shepler. Image form his online obituary.

Tyler Shepler. Image form his online obituary.

Accident scene in Reading PA. Image 6abc.com

Accident scene in Reading PA. Image 6abc.com

Police: Fleeing shoplifter struck, killed by car in Reading, Pa.

6abc.com  | Story posted 2012.12.14

Police say a 22-year-old eastern Pennsylvania man was struck by two cars and killed after police say he shoplifted pants from Walmart and was fleeing from security.

The man was identified as Tyler Shepler of Muhlenberg Township in Berks County.

Investigators say Shepler was trying to steal a few pairs of jeans Thursday afternoon when security officers stopped him in the lobby of the store.

Police say he ran across the parking lot and through a grassy area onto the highway, where one car hit him and knocked him down and another car ran him over.

After he was hit, police said they found Shepler lying on the ground gasping.

He was taken to Reading Hospital, where he was pronounced dead a short time later.

Really really drunk guy busted

31 Jan

This is one of the happiest mugshots I’ve ever seen. Wish I could find a larger version. Pretty sure the smile faded once he realized the hot water he was in.

Mr. Paquette

Mr. Paquette

Police: East Pennsboro man’s blood alcohol content was nearly 4 times over legal limit

Valerie Waltz  |  www.fox43.com  |  1/27/13

An 36-year-old  man was arrested for driving with a blood-alcohol level of about four times the legal limit in Cumberland County. Stephen Paul Paquette, of East Pennsboro Township, is charged with DUI after he crashed his vehicle in Camp Hill during the early morning hours on January 2oth.

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