The mysterious Paul created a time capsule, then disappeared.
Friday, July 8, 2016
Photographer Discovers 1,200 Rolls of Unprocessed Film from the 1950s
The mysterious Paul created a time capsule, then disappeared.
This Ingenious Car from 1923 Turned into a Boat
There's a risk of damaging the interior of the car if it starts raining. But perhaps that could be solved with a canvas cover over the open roof.
10 Amazing House Cleaning Hacks Everyone Needs to Know
Sooner or later, you’ll need to clean the walls of your oven, but it’s a nasty chore. Oven cleaners are notoriously harsh: most of them smell horrible, and many don’t even work all that well. To get the grime off your oven without the chemical cleaners, pull the vinegar and baking soda out of your pantry and get to work. To do it, mix about half a cup of baking soda with a few tablespoons of water to make a paste. Slather it all over the walls, ceiling, and floor of your oven (wearing rubber gloves is recommended for this), and leave it there overnight. In the morning, take a damp towel and wipe off as much as you can. Then, spray down the walls with vinegar, let it all foam for a few minutes, and use another damp towel to wipe it down again until everything is completely clean.Hmm. I was waiting for the part where you mix the baking soda and vinegar together in a bowl. That’s more fun, and probably still safer than commercial oven cleaner. That’s only one of ten ways to clean things in your home using tools and chemicals you already have, at Housely.
Man forced to close computer repair business to escape wireless technology that's 'making him ill'
A man from Kidderminster, Worcestershire, says he is being forced to
close his computer and phone repair business of 20 years as technology
has made him ill.
Richard Kimberley, 36, is shutting csmicros on July 22 after claiming
radiation signals from wireless technology has given him a rare
condition known as electro-hypersensitivity (EHS).
He says he suffers from black outs, headaches and tiredness as a result
of working with phones, computers and Wi-Fi signals on a regular basis
since launching his business in 1996.
He said: "Due to an over-exposure to the radiation from wireless
technology, my health has declined to the point where I cannot continue
with the business that I have spent my life building.
It is a complete life changer and an absolute blow that was totally
unexpected.
"I’d wake up five or six times in a night, my joints were aching, I’d have headaches during the day and my memory was awful – I felt atrocious and I had no idea why. I’ve had to rely on staff for the past 18 months since becoming EHS. I have persevered, battling with electro-hypersensitivity for as long as I can." Mr Kimberley says his symptoms began in 2013 when he moved into a dual shop and house premises, yet found the problem improved by removing wireless technology at home.
Since October, he has lived in a van fitted with aluminium lining to block out radiation signals. He added: "Becoming sensitive has turned my life upside down. Wireless technology is everywhere and the only way I can avoid it is to camp in the van every night in places I find that are safe. I have satellite broadband and a landline in the van, my computer is wired and people can email me or phone my landline if they want me. I still have technology, but now I use it safely. It’s an extremely solitary life." Mr Kimberley now aims to make his living as a freelance web designer, working from his van.
Eerie Conspiracy Theories Which Are Actually True
Theories state pharmaceutical co.s are making people sick for profit and the U.S. government stole dead babies so they could conduct experiments on them, which sound like plots for episodes of a sci-fi themed TV show.
But, like many urban myths, there's a kernel of truth hidden in these theories, and the facts are sometimes more out there than the fiction.
Instead of destroying the drug after discovering this HIV transmission problem they sold it to Latin American and Asian countries, causing at least 100 people in Hong Kong and Taiwan to contract AIDS.
Dr. Libby decided dead bodies would make the perfect test subjects, since the living don't like it when their bones are removed during testing, so around 1955 he initiated a dead baby collection program dubbed Project Sunshine.
From around 1957 to 1978 tests were conducted in secret on recently deceased babies sent to labs in the UK and US, and yet Dr. Libby won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1960.
Read 5 Eerie Conspiracies Theorists Were Right About All Along here
Ruthless investor preyed on the vulnerable ...
Enraged son called police after his father set fire to his 'prized' cannabis plants
An irate man called police to complain that his father had destroyed his
cannabis plants during a domestic dispute in Australia's Northern
Territory.
Police were called to a property at Humpty Doo,
south-east of Darwin, at about 6:30pm Tuesday.
Duty Superintendent Louise Jorgensen said no charges were laid or
anticipated because any evidence of a drug stash had been destroyed.
"Things came to a head yesterday evening and the father allegedly threw all of his son's cannabis plants onto the bonfire and completely destroyed them," Duty Superintendent Jorgensen said. "This enraged the son, he called us and told us everything basically."
Police said officers arrived at the property and could only shake their heads while the son gathered up his remaining property and left to stay with relatives. "The evidence has been destroyed as has the son's reputation ... people don't usually come forward to say their drug stash has been destroyed or stolen but there you go," the police woman said.
"Things came to a head yesterday evening and the father allegedly threw all of his son's cannabis plants onto the bonfire and completely destroyed them," Duty Superintendent Jorgensen said. "This enraged the son, he called us and told us everything basically."
Police said officers arrived at the property and could only shake their heads while the son gathered up his remaining property and left to stay with relatives. "The evidence has been destroyed as has the son's reputation ... people don't usually come forward to say their drug stash has been destroyed or stolen but there you go," the police woman said.
Man arrested after police found him in bed with stolen one-armed lingerie store mannequin
Police in Tennessee arrested a man on Monday night after officers say
they found him in bed with a mannequin stolen from a Nashville lingerie
store.
According to an arrest warrant, officers responded to a Hollywood
Hustler store for a report of a theft that had just occurred.
At the store, an employee told police that a man who appeared
intoxicated walked into the store just after midnight, grabbed a
mannequin just inside the door adorned with lingerie and took it outside
into the parking lot.
In the process, the affidavit continues, the man knocked the mannequin's
left arm off.
The employee said she walked into the parking lot and argued with the man for several minutes until he put the mannequin into the bed of a white Toyota Tacoma and drove away. The employee, the warrant continues, told police the mannequin was valued at $5,000, not including the merchandise it wore. Using the truck's license plate, police learned the vehicle was registered to a woman who lives at a retirement community in Old Hickory.
When police visited the woman's home, the warrant states, she told officers a man named Christopher Wade was inside her house. Officers found Wade, 55, in bed with the stolen mannequin which was missing its left arm and wearing the merchandise it was last seen in. Wade also matched a suspect description given by the store employee. Wade, who had an active warrant, was arrested on charges including theft. He was booked into the Metro jail where he remains incarcerated on $11,000.
There's a news video here.
The employee said she walked into the parking lot and argued with the man for several minutes until he put the mannequin into the bed of a white Toyota Tacoma and drove away. The employee, the warrant continues, told police the mannequin was valued at $5,000, not including the merchandise it wore. Using the truck's license plate, police learned the vehicle was registered to a woman who lives at a retirement community in Old Hickory.
When police visited the woman's home, the warrant states, she told officers a man named Christopher Wade was inside her house. Officers found Wade, 55, in bed with the stolen mannequin which was missing its left arm and wearing the merchandise it was last seen in. Wade also matched a suspect description given by the store employee. Wade, who had an active warrant, was arrested on charges including theft. He was booked into the Metro jail where he remains incarcerated on $11,000.
There's a news video here.
Controversy over whether black swan should be allowed to swim in lake with his white friends
Authorities and animal protection groups in Switzerland have clashed
over whether a black swan should be allowed to swim with his white
friends on Lake Geneva.
The swan, dubbed Nelson after Nelson Mandela, was seen swimming on Lac
Léman (Lake Geneva) near Vevey in the canton of Vaud over the past few
months, an unusual sight given the bird is a non-native species usually
found in Australia.
Probably bred in captivity, it was unclear how the swan ended up in
Vevey. A tag on its leg did not reveal its owner, and nobody came
forward to claim it.
The situation was a concern for the Vaud cantonal authorities, who took
the decision on May 27th to capture the bird to check it for diseases it
could potentially pass on to native swans.
After a period of quarantine, the swan would be given to a zoo or animal
park rather than released back to the lake, Frédéric Hofmann,
responsible for animal welfare in the canton, said at the time.
The decision caused uproar amongst the public, with many people
expressing their anger on a Facebook group set up to campaign for the bird’s release.
“It’s hurting no one, this swan. I’ve seen it for the past five months
in Vevey – if it wasn’t accepted by the others it would have gone
somewhere else long ago,” said one commenter, before criticizing the
decision to put it in captivity.
The person behind the Facebook group said: “We have been deeply moved by
its brutal and incomprehensible capture. It’s perfectly adapted [to the
lake] and seemed very happy. We don’t understand the need to quarantine
it and then put it in a zoo.”
The emotion surrounding the case caused the authorities to change their
mind, and the bird was finally released back into Lake Geneva last week
by the head of Vaud’s environment department, Jacqueline de Quattro.
But now a Swiss animal protection group has questioned the action, saying the bird’s re-release could be illegal.
Francois Turrian of BirdLife Suisse said since the bird was a non-native
species there was a “risk of competition with indigenous species”.
“That’s why the federal law on the hunting and protection of birds and
wild animals forbids the reintroduction of such an animal into nature.
Its place is in a park,” he said.
In this particular case, black swans are not able to reproduce with
native species, so there is little risk.
However the action by Jacqueline de Quattro was a “bad example” that
could push the owners of other exotic animals, such as tortoises, to
release them into the wild without thinking of the damage they could
cause, Turrian told the paper.
“We don’t understand why, if not for an electoral reason, a cantonal
councillor would decide not to follow federal law.”
On Monday de Quattro defended her actions, saying that since ‘Nelson’
can’t reproduce with native species he therefore will have no impact on
biodiversity.
“I absolutely dispute the suggestion I showed a bad example,” she said,
saying that the swan was very different to other cases involving exotic
animals.
The person behind the Facebook group said: “We have been deeply moved by
its brutal and incomprehensible capture. It’s perfectly adapted [to the
lake] and seemed very happy. We don’t understand the need to quarantine
it and then put it in a zoo.”
The emotion surrounding the case caused the authorities to change their
mind, and the bird was finally released back into Lake Geneva last week
by the head of Vaud’s environment department, Jacqueline de Quattro.
But now a Swiss animal protection group has questioned the action, saying the bird’s re-release could be illegal.
Francois Turrian of BirdLife Suisse said since the bird was a non-native
species there was a “risk of competition with indigenous species”.
“That’s why the federal law on the hunting and protection of birds and
wild animals forbids the reintroduction of such an animal into nature.
Its place is in a park,” he said.
In this particular case, black swans are not able to reproduce with
native species, so there is little risk.
However the action by Jacqueline de Quattro was a “bad example” that
could push the owners of other exotic animals, such as tortoises, to
release them into the wild without thinking of the damage they could
cause, Turrian told the paper.
“We don’t understand why, if not for an electoral reason, a cantonal
councillor would decide not to follow federal law.”
On Monday de Quattro defended her actions, saying that since ‘Nelson’
can’t reproduce with native species he therefore will have no impact on
biodiversity.
“I absolutely dispute the suggestion I showed a bad example,” she said,
saying that the swan was very different to other cases involving exotic
animals.
The Man Who Created Bigfoot
The final 59.5-second film, which the men would airmail back home to be developed, would soon become the world-famous Patterson-Gimlin film—arguably one of the most scrutinized pieces of video footage ever made. It is the cryptozoological equivalent to the Kennedy assassination’s Zapruder film. The film met immediate criticisms accusing Patterson and Gimlin of being master pranksters who simply filmed a man in an ape suit and laid fake footprints in the mud.That left Gimlin as the go-to guy for Bigfoot enthusiasts, and it ruined his life. He was the target of harassment from cynics. If he talked about the experience, people would consider him a lunatic. If he didn’t, they’d think he was a con artist. At the same time, true believers considered him a guru -one that wasn’t helping by keeping silent. He didn’t talk about the experience publicly until 2003. Read the story of Bob Gimlin at Outside Online.
The film tore Patterson’s and Gimlin’s friendship apart. Patterson partnered with his brother-in-law, Al DeAtley, to take the film on a national tour as a way to raise funds for a full-fledged expedition back at Bluff Creek. The three took equal shares in the film, but soon Gimlin felt edged out, and sold his share of the rights for less than $10 to another Bigfoot researcher.
After five years estranged, Patterson and Gimlin made amends in 1972 as Patterson lay on his deathbed, dying of cancer at age 38. Patterson apologized for ousting Gimlin, pleading with him that when he recovered that they would go back to California and catch Bigfoot. He died the next day.
The Floating Dairy Farm
Beladon calls the idea a "closed-loop system." It's a self-sustained ecosystem. Even the cows' urine and manure would be used to nourish the fodder which would grow there, which includes red clover, grass, and alfalfa.
The goal is to make cities like Rotterdam more agriculturally self-sufficient. Unused space on the water would become a contributor to the well-being of the city. The Guardian quotes Johan Bosman, an entrepreneur who works in this industry:
The world will grow, and more and more people will live in delta cities. Expanding cities need unbuilt areas and green space for housing purposes, so there’s less space for traditional food production. The logical consequence is that we will look to the water to produce some of the fresh food.
“In the Netherlands, fresh food is available and we don’t have very large cities, but we have a lot of agricultural and maritime expertise. We are combining these sectors to try to make an innovative circular farm to produce fresh dairy products, and by doing so make the city more resilient.”
Thursday, July 7, 2016
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Today in History
| 1742 | A Spanish force invading Georgia runs headlong into the colony’s British defenders. The battle decides the fate of a colony. | |
| 1777 | American troops give up Fort Ticonderoga, on Lake Champlain, to the British. | |
| 1791 | Benjamin Rush, Richard Allen and Absalom Jones found the Non-denominational African Church. | |
| 1795 | Thomas Paine defends the principal of universal suffrage at the Constitutional Convention in Paris. | |
| 1798 | Napoleon Bonaparte‘s army begins its march towards Cairo from Alexandria. | |
| 1807 | Czar Alexander meets with Napoleon Bonaparte. | |
| 1814 | Sir Walter Scott’s novel Waverly is published anonymously so as not to damage his reputation as a poet. | |
| 1815 | After defeating Napoleon at Waterloo, the victorious Allies march into Paris. | |
| 1853 | Japan opens its ports to trade with the West after 250 years of isolation. | |
| 1863 | Confederate General Robert E. Lee, in Hagerstown, Maryland, reports his defeat at Gettysburg to President Jefferson Davis. | |
| 1925 | Afrikaans is recognized as one of the official languages of South Africa, along with English and Dutch. | |
| 1927 | Christopher Stone becomes the first British ‘disc jockey’ when he plays records for the BBC. | |
| 1941 | Although a neutral country, the United States sends troops to occupy Iceland to keep it out of Germany’s hands. | |
| 1943 | Adolf Hitler makes the V-2 missile program a top priority in armament planning. | |
| 1966 | The U.S. Marine Corps launches Operation Hasting to drive the North Vietnamese Army back across the Demilitarized Zone in Vietnam. | |
| 1969 | The first U.S. units to withdraw from South Vietnam leave Saigon. | |
| 1981 | Sandra Day O’Connor becomes the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court. |
Couple married in ambulance after groom started to feel a bit faint
A couple in Madrid, Spain, married inside an ambulance after the groom
started to feel a bit faint at their weekend wedding.
The happy couple were supposed to get married on Saturday at a city
administrative building, but suddenly the 50-year-old groom, who suffers
from hypertension, started to feel ill outside the building.
It was reported that the man was feeling dizzy and sick.
Family members called for an ambulance and at first paramedics waited to see if his condition would improve. But when it didn’t, they decided to take him to hospital.
But despite his condition, the groom insisted that he marry his bride in the ambulance before going to the hospital.
“The man felt a bit overwhelmed. I told him that they could get married another day, but he insisted.
The truth is that the paramedics told me that it wasn’t a serious case
and the transfer to the hospital could be delayed for a few minutes,”
said Madrid councilwoman Esther Gómez. So Gómez hopped into the ambulance and performed the civil ceremony with the wedding guests looking on through the ambulance door. “Usually I read them a poem, but in this case I was only limited to reading the articles of the civil code,” she said. They even threw rice and shouted “long live the newlyweds” once all the official documents had been signed. The groom was then taken to hospital to recover.
Service workers reveal epic stories of karmic retribution for rude customers
Gardening with Bras
Members of the Maple Village Women's Institute in Surbiton, Surrey, UK converted 20 bras into planters. They hung the bras along railings on a public road in town. The purpose of the project is to promote sustainable gardening everywhere. People can have gardens, even if they don't have a yard. The Surrey Comet quotes Kelly Woods, the president of the organization, about how to make your own bra garden:
She said: “Obviously the bigger the bra the more you can fit in it. We have put flowers in ours but you can actually plant fruit and veg in them too.
"Tomatoes are particularly good.”
The Economist can’t figure out why millennials aren’t buying diamonds
Former Fox News hack Gretchen Carlson says she was fired for refusing to have sex with Roger Ailes
Michigan's Wingnut Moron Snyder Now Trying To Steal $550 Million Dollars From Teachers
Kentucky AG nails Kim Davis and anti-LGBT Liberty Counsel for violating Open Records Act
Kim Davis violated the Open Records Act, according to the state’s attorney general.
America Shocked To Learn That Immigration Opponents Are Actually Racist Jerks
But they said racism was dead in America!
How can this be true?!
Racists Try To Fire Actor For Saying Black Lives Matter, Most Powerful Woman In TV Shuts ‘Em Down
Sleeping trespasser arrested despite leaving note advising homeowner not to be scared
A courtesy note letting a woman know that she had nothing to fear when
she saw a strange man sleeping on her sofa apparently failed to quell
her concerns. Police said a 32-year-old woman who lives in Safe Harbor village in
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, arrived home from work on June 21 to
find a handwritten note on her door. The note read “Don’t be scared when you come in, Bob is here.”
She entered the home and found Robert Sheets, 28, asleep on the sofa. Responding officers were able to wake Sheets after several attempts, police said. Sheets, of Holtwood, Pennsylvania, was found to be under the influence of a controlled substance and in possession of several prescription pills not prescribed to him, Southern Lancaster County Regional police said.
Police found the victim’s boyfriend knows Sheets, but not that well. He had not spoken to him for some time, does not know how Sheets found out where he lives, and never gave him permission to be on the property. Sheets was charged with criminal trespass and possession of a controlled substance. He was placed in Lancaster County Prison on $20,000 bail.
Couple charged with assaulting each other with pizza rolls
A couple from Gastonia, North Carolina, were taken into custody after
authorities say the two assaulted each other using pizza rolls.
Brad Scott Beard, 24, and Samantha Brooke Canipe, 21, were each charged and booked into the Gaston County Jail on Monday morning. Gastonia police said the couple started throwing pizza rolls at each other at their apartment at about 1am.
It is unclear what led to the dispute, how many rolls were thrown or the brand of rolls that were used.
Beard is charged with assault on a female and Canipe is charged with simple assault, both misdemeanors.
The difference in the two charges means that Beard faces a maximum punishment of 60 days in jail, or community service, if found guilty, according to state sentencing rules. Canipe faces up to 30 days in jail.
Jockey kicked in face by horse was then run over by ambulance that had gone to his aid
Jockey Chris Meehan had an unfortunate day on Sunday when the ambulance
going to his aid after he was kicked in the face by a horse ran over his
leg and broke it.Meehan, who was nearing the end of a summer stint in Italy, was riding in a hurdle race at Merano when he was unhorsed by his mount and subsequently kicked in the face. The blow initially knocked Meehan out, broke his nose and left a gash in his jaw requiring 27 stitches. "The starter came over to help me because I was on my back and choking on my blood," Meehan explained.
"He put me in the recovery position, with my right leg out straight.
As if that wasn't bad enough, the racecourse ambulance came up alongside
us and reversed up onto my leg. They stopped it on top of my leg so I
started screaming; it broke it straight away.
Everyone around me had to push it off me. You have to laugh really."
Meehan, who will return to Ireland for surgery on both his leg and face, can see the funny side and added: "What makes it worse is my father, brother, auntie, they're all ambulance people! My father actually teaches most people in Northern Ireland and England how to drive the ambulance! It's bizarre, you couldn't make it up." Meehan now faces at least two months on the sidelines.
Fossil Shows Ostrich Relatives Lived in North America 50 Million Years Ago
Exceedingly well-preserved bird fossil specimens dating back 50 million
years represent a species of a previously unknown relative of the
modern-day ostrich, according to new research from Virginia Tech and The
University of Texas at Austin published June 30 in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.
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