Egypt Military Coup Ousts President Morsi

The ousted leader is under house arrest as huge celebrations and violent clashes follow news of the military coup against him. http://news.sky.com/story/1111276/egypt-military-coup-ousts-president-morsi

                                              General Abdul Fatah Khalil al Sisi announces the overthrow General of Mohamed Morsi

Pot-bellied pig saves owner's life by lying in front of a car

Oinking for help              Jo Ann Altsman attributes her Vietnamese Pot Belly Pig, Lu Lu with saving her life last month. (Annie O'Neill, Post-Gazette) By Michael A. Fuoco, Post-Gazette Staff Writer
Saturday, October 10, 1998 It was just like those "Lassie" episodes where Timmy would injure himself in the wilderness and the ever-loyal, super-intelligent collie would run to town, bark for help and lead rescuers to her master.
Except that Jo Ann Altsman of Beaver Falls didn't twist her ankle but had a heart attack.                                                                                                                                                       .
OK, it was almost like that. And it wasn't in the wilderness but in the bedroom of her vacation trailer on Presque Isle.
And the pet that ran -- er, waddled -- for help was a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig named LuLu.
When you think about it, LuLu's real-life feat the morning of Aug. 4 was much more amazing than any of Lassie's fictional rescues because she can't bark. That didn't matter. Smart pig that she is, LuLu did the next best thing.
She laid down in front of a car on the road outside the trailer and then led a disbelieving motorist to Altsman, whose ordeal lasted 45 minutes.
. Had 15 more minutes elapsed, doctors told her, she likely would have died.
"Pigs are very, very smart," Altsman, 57, said yesterday. She is recuperating from heart surgery she underwent Sept. 15. "They're a lot smarter than dogs."
Take that, Lassie!...Read here...

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Protesters, criminals get around government censors using secret Web network

TorBy Andrew Conte As hundreds of thousands protested for democracy during the 2011 Arab Spring uprising, Egyptian authorities cut access to Twitter to prevent demonstrators from quickly communicating.

Protesters then flocked to Facebook, where — in the two hours before the government blocked that social media site — they could find instructions on how to avoid government scrutiny of their electronic communications by accessing the “hidden Internet.”

In that time, hundreds of people learned how to get on Tor , an online network created by the U.S. government that allows people to surf the Web anonymously, beyond the reach of government censors.

The number of Tor users in Egypt quadrupled over the following days to more than 2,000 — until the authorities shut down Web access.

“They realized the core activists that they wanted to prevent from communicating were communicating anyway,” said Rasha Abdulla, a journalism professor at The American University in Cairo who joined the protests two years ago. “It gives you an idea of how freaked out the regime was. You don't go to that kind of extreme unless you really feel that you're falling apart.”

Now after revelations about widespread U.S. government surveillance of social media and cellphone records, Egyptians are able to lecture Americans about Internet privacy. What once seemed unnecessary to most Americans might make sense, even to people not doing anything illegal or even embarrassing.

More than 80,000 people in the United States log onto the Tor network to access the Web each day, according to its metrics . Edward Snowden, a former employee of a U.S. government contractor who leaked information about U.S. intelligence agency snooping, had a Tor sticker on his laptop...Read here...

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New Tick-Borne Illness Could Be Worse Than Lyme Disease

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Many people are unaware of being bitten by the deer tick (right). At the highly infectious nymphal stage (left), the deer tick is about the size of a period at the end of a sentence.

Doctors May Not Even Know To Look For Borrelia Miyamotoi Infection

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A new disease spread by deer ticks has already infected 100,000 New Yorkers since the state first started keeping track.
As CBS 2’s Dr. Max Gomez reported, the new deer tick-borne illness resembles Lyme disease, but is a different malady altogether – and it could be even worse.
The common deer tick is capable of spreading dangerous germs into the human bloodstream with its bite. However, Lyme disease is one of many diseases that ticks carry.
The latest disease is related to Lyme, and an infected person will suffer similar symptoms.
“Patients with this illness will develop, perhaps, fever, headache, flu-like symptoms, muscle pains — so they’ll have typical Lyme-like flu symptoms in the spring, summer, early fall,” said Dr. Brian Fallon of Columbia University. “But most of them will not develop the typical rash that you see with Lyme disease.”...Read here...

Abba - The Winner Takes It All

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17 million Egyptians want the end of Morsi's despotic regime.

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Canadian Police: 2 Arrested in Plot to Injure Thousands With Pressure Cooker Bombs on ‘Canada Day’

Image released by the RCMP shows the improvised explosive device (IED) created with a pressure cooker and filled with rusted nails. (Photo: RCMP)

by Erica Ritz:

SURREY, British Columbia (TheBlaze/AP) — Police in Canada have arrested and charged a man and woman with terrorism for attempting to leave pressure cooker bombs at British Columbia’s provincial legislature on Canada Day, when thousands of people were expected to be there.

John Stewart Nuttall and Amanda Marie Korody were inspired by al-Qaeda ideology but were self-radicalized, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Assistant Commissioner James Malizia said Tuesday. He called it a domestic threat “without international linkages.”

Malizia told a news conference there was no evidence or indication to suggest a connection to the deadly Boston Marathon bombings in April, which used bombs made from pressure cookers.

RCMP Supt. Wayne Rideout said the public was never at risk, and the threat was detected early.

Nuttall and Korody were arrested Monday, the same day that thousands attended the Canada Day celebrations at the provincial legislature in the provincial capital of Victoria. Police said the pair targeted the celebrations, but the bombs were found outside the legislature before the crowds gathered.

“This self-radicalized behavior was intended to create maximum impact and harm to Canadian citizens at the B.C. legislature on a national holiday,” Rideout said. “They took steps to educate themselves and produce explosive devices designed to cause injury and death.”...Read here...

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Stanford students capture the flight of birds on very high-speed video

Graduate student Eirik Ravnan works with a parrotlet that he is training to fly from perch to perch in order to be filmed by a high-speed camera. (Photo: L.A. Cicero)By Bjorn Carey
"The best way to prevent a small drone from spying on you in your office is to turn on the air-conditioning," said David Lentink, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford. That little blast of air, he explained, creates enough turbulence to knock a hand-size UAV off balance, and possibly send it crashing to the floor.
A pigeon, on the other hand, can swoop down busy city streets, navigate around pedestrians, sign posts and other birds, keep its path in all sorts of windy conditions, and deftly land on the tiniest of hard-to-reach perches.
"Wouldn't it be remarkable if a robot could do that?" Lentink wondered.
If robots are to become a bigger presence in urban environments, they will need to.
In order to build a robot that can fly as nimbly as a bird, Lentink began looking to nature. Using an ultra-high-speed Phantom camera that can shoot upwards of 3,300 frames per second at full resolution, and an amazing 650,000 at a tiny resolution, Lentink can visualize the biomechanical wonders of bird flight on an incredibly fine scale...Read here...             [link]

Scientist Paves Way for Human Head Transplants?

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In what sounds like a science-fiction novel come to life, one scientist says he is close to being able to affix one person's head to another human body.
Italian scientist Sergio Canavero believes he has come up with an outline to successfully complete the first human head transplant in history, which could lead to solutions for those suffering from muscular dystrophy or tetraplegics with widespread organ failure.
Head transplants have been attempted since the 1950s, when Russian scientist Vladimir Demikhov experimented with dogs. Twenty years later, American neurosurgeon Robert White conducted a successful head transplant by moving the head of one monkey to the body of another. The monkey lived for several days, but because White could not connect the two spinal cords, the monkey eventually died.
Canavero describes in a recent paper a step to connect donor and recipient spinal cords – the one component that was missing from previous procedures because the technology to do so was not yet available.
"Tomorrow is today," Canavero said in an interview. "What was impossible can happen now."...Read here...

BBC News Egypt's army set to oust Mursi as clock ticks

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By Yasmine Saleh and Asma AlsharifCAIRO
(Reuters) - Egypt's army has plans to push Mohamed Mursi aside and suspend the constitution after an all but impossible ultimatum it has given the Islamist president expires in less than 24 hours, military sources told Reuters on Tuesday...Read here... Related: Latest Updates on Egypt's Political Crisis

World UFO Day: 9 Most Infamous Sightings

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World UFO Day: 9 Most Infamous Sightings

July 2 marks World UFO Day, and for those of you who grew up with Earth Versus the Flying Saucers, Close Encounters Of the Third Kind, and even The X-Files, it is time to go down memory lane and celebrate those unrealistic special effects and their apropos approach to extra-terrestrial life. You almost believed that that UFO's were real. Whoever didn't shed a tear for a small, harrowing creature who wanted to "phone home" should throw the first stone.
Whether you're a proud proponent or slandering skeptic, please see below nine of the most famous and controversial UFO and alien-related sightings in history...9 Infamous Sightings.

World UFO Day: 20 Songs About Aliens

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City and Colour - Comin' Home

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Windfarm turbines deadly for birds, bats

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"Shockingly high" numbers of bird and bat deaths caused by one of Canada's biggest wind farms should serve as a warning to planners of other projects that may be built in crucial wildlife zones, one of the country's key conservation groups says.
The 86 huge turbines on Wolfe Island, just outside Kingston, Ont., began to produce power about a year ago, and an on-going count of bird and bats that have been killed by the blades has been conducted since then.
A consultant's report covering the period between July and December of 2009 was released recently, indicating that 602 birds and 1,270 bats were killed by the turbines over that stretch. While the report says the numbers of dead birds and bats are similar to other wind farms in North America, Ottawa-based environmental advocacy group Nature Canada says the figures are actually surprisingly large and represent a significant threat to several endangered species...http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/windfarm-turbines-deadly-for-birds-bats/article4392511/

Extraterrestrials: NASA rover spots Martian animal life

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Possible life found in Mars curiosity rover photos, in June, 2013, as reported by UFO Sightings Daily. The report was posted on 28 June, 2013. The website, UFO Sightings Daily, is coordinated by Scott C. Waring. He had been affiliated with the United States Air Force at SAC base (USAF flight line). He currently owns an ESL School in Taiwan. 

In this report, Scott Waring has published images of the alleged Martian animals, along with an email report.

Mr. Waring tells us how they were informed about the discovery through an email sent by a UFO enthusiast.

“We were emailed by D.J. recently and she discovered some very fascinating objects in some Mars photos.”

He also tells us about what we can see in the photos.

“The above photo shows a disc-like structures and also in the lower part is what looks like an alien animal reaching out with one arm in front of it. Strangely enough, the arm ends in finger-like appendages. ”

Mr. Waring provides us with further explanation of what we can see in the photos.

“Photos [above] seems to show a turtle-like creature sticking its head out. Also some alien animal on the right side. On the bottom two photos, there is a face on the left that looks like an elf with its hat and on the right side is a gold coin object.” http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/news/ufo_extraterrestrials/2013/06/29/6315.html

National Music Centre Calgary Flooding Time-Lapse

Our construction camera at the National Music Centre in Calgary captured footage of the flood waters as they swept through the East Village. This time-lapse showcases the rising and receding of the water from June 20-24. To support the National Music Centre and make a donation, visit http://www.nmc.ca/support-the-nmc/