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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/06/23/arctic-snow-is-turning-strawberry-pink-pretty-maybe-but-alarming/

>Pink snow was a high-latitude curiosity described by Arctic explorers such as Britain’s John Ross. Upon receiving word of the reddish snow, the London Times speculated in 1818 that the color came from meteoric iron deposits. Biologists know now that the red hue is the result of a chemical reaction within the algae Chlamydomonas nivalis and other cold-loving species. These algae are normally green, but as they start to suck up ultraviolet rays, they turn red.

>What may look like an Arctic accident involving gallons of pink lemonade is, in fact, reddish algae blooming in the snow. The unusual phenomenon is also found in high altitudes, and sometimes called watermelon snow or blood snow.

>Despite the Willy Wonka tinge, the snow hides a sobering reality: According to a new study, the algae cause Arctic melts, which are already happening at an unprecedented pace because of climate change,to worsen.
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Angered over his recent eviction from a mobile home park, a Florida man carrying a five gallon bucket allegedly snuck back into the property and contaminated the community swimming pool with a vile slurry that “had the appearance of liquid feces/diarrhea,” cops allege.

According to investigators, Thomas Lee Mason, 54, targeted the Embassy Mobile Home Park late Thursday night. Witnesses told cops that they saw Mason, bucket in hand, entering the Clearwater park, though he had “no legitimate business” there.

Mason, police charge, was spotted “entering the pool area with the bucket and then leaving the area with the same bucket.” Investigators have charged Mason with “pouring an unknown dark colored substance that had the appearance of liquid feces/diarrhea” into the pool.

As alleged in a criminal complaint, Mason “is angry over his eviction from the park” and is a suspect in “several criminal mischief events in the last week there.”

Cops estimated that it would cost $300 in chemicals and cleaning supplies to “disinfect the pool by health code standards for the community to use again.” The pool is seen below in an earlier pristine state.

Charged with criminal mischief, Mason is being held in the county jail in lieu of $150 bond. Mason’s lengthy rap sheet includes prior arrests for drunk driving; domestic battery; disorderly intoxication; trespass; robbery; aggravated assault; battery on a law enforcement officer; and violating probation.

http://thesmokinggun.com/documents/florida/vile-slurry-dumped-in-pool-765890

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>The US Supreme Court rejected a challenge brought by gun rights advocates on Monday, letting stand laws in New York and Connecticut that restrict access to assault rifles like the one used in last week's mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando.

>The justices declined to hear an appeal of an October ruling by the New York-based 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals that upheld laws prohibiting semiautomatic weapons and large capacity magazines in the two northeastern states. The decision not to hear the case does not set a Supreme Court precedent, but gives tacit approval for states and local governments to enact broad gun-control laws.

>The laws in New York and Connecticut, among the strictest in the nation, were enacted after a gunman with a semiautomatic rifle killed 20 young children and six educators in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

>The challengers had asserted that the laws violated the Constitution's protection of the right to bear arms. In total, seven states and the District of Columbia ban semi-automatic rifles. A national law barring assault weapons expired in 2004, and congressional Republicans and some Democrats, backed by the influential National Rifle Association gun rights lobby, beat back efforts to restore it.

>The Supreme Court issued important rulings in gun cases in 2008 and 2010 but has not taken up a major firearms case since. The expired federal assault gun ban had barred the manufacture and sale of semi-automatic guns with military-style features as well as magazines holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition.

>The New York and Connecticut laws were challenged by pro-gun groups including the Coalition of Connecticut Sportsmen and the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association as well as individual gun owners. The appeals court consolidated the two cases and upheld the law.

https://archive.is/aYmPy

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>Josh MacDowell, combined a Stirling engine – first created by a clergyman in Scotland 200 years ago – with thermopile technology that converts heat energy into electricity.

>Internal combustion engines currently used in cars only use 14 per cent of the energy they produce, but Stirling's engine design can use almost 50 per cent

>MacDowell is using a Stirling engine, coupled with thermopile technology to make it possible to drive a Hybrid electric car and never have to stop to charge it

>MacDowell obtained a Stirling engine from NASA.

>His next plan, is to use his current engine in an SUV, starting on the east coast of the US, and driving to California - a journey around 2000 miles long.

>However, with his engine, he believes he can make the trip on less than 40 gallons of fuel.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3644556/Could-cars-soon-100-miles-gallon-Inventor-builds-efficient-engine-using-200-year-old-technology.html

http://www.khou.com/features/san-antonino-man-has-engine-that-gets-100-mpg/242673922

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_engine

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What do you guys think about the most recent "attack" I say it like this because they don't know

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36658187

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3651359/US-man-charged-attempting-kill-Trump.html

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Radiohead listening event is attacked at Istanbul/TURKEY. Here's the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jR4eZ9iVkc

Also, ask a Turkish guy anything.

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>Rob Rowen from St. Petersburg, Florida, has been banned from Starbucks for life because he told people illegally parked in handicapped spaces to move.

>Starbucks sent Roba letter stating he has been disrupting business and threatening customers and is not welcome back, reports WTSP.

>“I regret to inform you you’ve been expelled from Starbucks,” the letter states.

>Rowan expected the letter to be an apology from the chain because the South Dale Mabry, Tampa, location’s manager had kicked him out. Instead, Rowen is banned from any and all Starbucks.

http://quirlycues.com/starbucks-rob-rowen/

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3661842/What-military-trucks-doing-Virginia-Bemused-motorists-spot-white-combat-vehicles-interstate.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link

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Is this fulfillment of Revelations 13:3?!

> One of the heads of the beast appeared to be fatally wounded. But the mortal wound was healed, and the whole world was astonished and followed the beast.

http://biblehub.com/revelation/13-3.htm

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-idUSKCN0Z80SN

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36648279

>India has joined an exclusive club of countries controlling exports in missile technology.

>Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar signed the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), aimed at preventing unchecked proliferation of missiles.

>As an MTCR member, India will now have access to crucial missile technologies.

>Correspondents say it will boost Prime Minister Narendra Modi's foreign policy initiatives, especially after Beijing reportedly stalled Delhi's entry into the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) last week.

Wow, great job India!

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https://www.wired.com/2016/06/meet-ourmine-security-group-hacking-ceos-celebs/

>Black hats hack for espionage, crime, and disruption. White hats hack to defend, digging up security vulnerabilities so that they can be fixed. And then there are the confusing ones: hackers whose black hats are covered in the thinnest coat of white paint, or so patchwork that even they don’t seem to remember which color they’re wearing.

>Over the last couple of weeks a group calling itself OurMine has established itself as prominent members of that third category. Late Sunday night, the OurMine team claimed credit for compromising the Twitter and Quora accounts of Google CEO Sundar Pichai, posting messages reading “hacked” and “we are just testing your security” to his half-million followers. Pichai is just the latest target of the group, which on Monday also hacked VC Mark Suster, and has already hit the Twitter accounts of Mark Zuckerberg, his sister Randi Zuckerberg, Spotify founder Daniel Ek, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, and actor Channing Tatum

>OurMine even goes so far as to brag about each of those hacks on its website OurMine.org. And yet on that same site, it styles itself as a “Security Group,” offering personal and enterprise security checks, with a $1,000 Paypal price tag for a website scan, and $5,000 for a full company audit.

>In a conversation with WIRED, one anonymous member of the group insisted that OurMine’s string of tech exec embarrassments is only its way of teaching us all a helpful lesson. “We don’t need money, but we are selling security services because there is a lot [of] people [who] want to check their security,” he wrote in less-than-perfect English, declining to offer his name or the location of what he described as OurMine’s three-person team. “We are not blackhat hackers, we are just a security group…we are just trying to tell people that nobody is safe.”
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Kanye West premiered his highly anticipated "Famous" music video last night on TIDAL and it definitely has people buzzing.
The rapper used the likenesses of several celebrities including Taylor Swift, Donald Trump, Rihanna and Chris Brown, showing them laying naked in bed beside him.
The video starts with a shot of West sleeping next to his wife, Kim Kardashian. The camera then pans to show a topless Swift look-alike. In the song West raps, "I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex/Why? I made that b**** famous," a possible reference to his interruption of the Grammy winner on stage at the 2009 MTV VMAs. West has been adamant Swift agreed to the lyric in advance, but she disputes that.
The video also shows the likenesses of Caitlyn Jenner, Ray J, George W. Bush, Bill Cosby and "Vogue" editor, Anna Wintour.
It's unclear how many of West's famous "friends" agreed to their depictions in the video. The strange bed scene ends with West thanking each of them by name.
CNN has contacted representatives for West and Swift. They were not immediately available for comment.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/24/entertainment/kanye-west-famous-music-video-livestream/

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Just because there is no law specifically mentioning it, that doesn’t mean it is legal to masturbate while driving.

But one man seems to have thought, ‘Hey, why not?’

The unidentified driver from Southampton, in his fifties, was caught pleasuring himself while driving his BMW along the M40 near High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, where there is a 70mph speed limit.

Unluckily for him, police in an unmarked car were on patrol on a week-long crack down on ‘distracted drivers’.

A spokesman for Thames Valley Police confirmed the man was fined after he admitted ‘carrying out an indecent act’ at the wheel when he was stopped by patrolling officers last week.

LONDON - FEBRUARY 22: A Police pulls a car over as part of a drive to inform motorists of the risk of using a phone whilst driving on February 22, 2007 in London, England. New research has proved driving while on the telephone is stastically more dangerous than drink driving. The new law, which comes in effect at 00: 01 February 27, 2007, will result in a GBP60 fine and three points being added to the offenders' licence. (Photo by Bruno Vincent/Getty Images)


http://metro.co.uk/2016/06/20/driver-fined-for-masturbating-while-he-drove-his-bmw-down-the-m40-5954849/#ixzz4CQRaKMUC

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A French national who tried to abandon his 2-year-old toddler son was arrested on Monday on charges of violation of the children’s welfare law, according to the Incheon Seobu Police.

The 39-year-old is being accused of leaving the boy at a bench in a park in Seo-gu, Incheon-si on June 2 at 4:30 p.m.

According to the police, the man had met the Korean mother of his son in France through an online chatting platform. They had maintained a three year de facto marriage during which time the woman gave birth to the boy.

The couple ended their relationship in 2015, after which the woman returned to Korea.

The man told the police that he had brought the boy to Korea on June 1 to hand him to the woman. As the mother had refused to take the boy, the French national left him at the park the next day.

The boy had his maternal grandfather’s contact details in his pockets, based on which the police were able to discern his identity.

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20160620000706