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Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Mini-monsters of the forest floor
[unable to retrieve full-text content]A biologist has identified 33 new species of predatory ants in Central America and the Caribbean, and named about a third of the tiny but monstrous-looking insects after ancient Mayan lords and demons.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Philadelphia row house collapses, injuring eight
PHILADELPHIA (AP) ? A row house collapse Monday severely damaged neighboring houses and hurt eight people, including a baby and a critically injured contractor.
The collapse happened shortly after 11 a.m. at an unoccupied home being remodeled in the middle of a south Philadelphia street lined with connected two-story brick homes.
The contractor was working in the basement of the destroyed home, police said. Investigators were trying to figure out what happened, but neighbors reported hearing an explosion.
Bricks showered onto the small street and nearly covered a car parked out front. The houses on either side of the destroyed home were standing but badly damaged, with large sections of their masonry walls gone.
Rescue crews combed through the rubble for victims. They said early Monday afternoon that the search was complete and no one was unaccounted for.
Nearby gas service was turned off and the area evacuated. Residents with nowhere to go were taken to a nearby school, which was being used as a temporary shelter.
"I was in the shower and I thought my house was about to fall down," said Christie Scibblo, a 26-year-old mother of four who lives four houses down from the collapsed home. "I ran outside and I saw a firefighter rescuing an infant."
Scibblo said she also saw firefighters hosing down a man who had been burned.
Daniel Killian, 19, who lives across the narrow street from the house that collapsed, said he smelled gas shortly before the collapse.
Joseph Szymborski, 33, was jolted from his bed when he heard what sounded like an explosion and ran outside to find "the house was in the street."
He ran down the street and said he helped neighbors and rescuers look through the rubble, though he was worried about the remains of the damaged buildings falling on him.
"It's situations like this, you just come together as a neighborhood," he said.
Gas and electrical utility crews were on the scene. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission spokeswoman Jennifer Kocher said the agency also had two inspectors there but that it was still unclear what happened.
The state regulatory agency would have jurisdiction if the explosion occurred outside the home but not if it occurred inside, Kocher said.
Last month, a collapse at a downtown Philadelphia demolition site killed six people and injured 12 when a large wall fell on an adjacent thrift store. A machinery operator is charged with involuntary manslaughter and a grand jury is weighing whether anyone else should be charged.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/philadelphia-row-house-collapses-injuring-8-163517344.html
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Sunday, July 28, 2013
High Priest Kieran Suckling delivered Big Oil's last rites.
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Saturday, July 27, 2013
Bush 41 shaves head in support of 2-year-old cancer patient
By Jeff Black, Staff Writer, NBC News
(NBC) - When George H.W. Bush ? aka "Bush 41" ? was president he famously gave out awards for his "thousand points of light" as a way to recognize people doing noble volunteer work.
And now that the ex-president has shaved his head in solidarity with a 2-year-old leukemia patient, Patrick, maybe he should give himself one of those points of light.
Patrick is the son of a Secret Service agent, Jon, who is assigned to Bush's security detail in Kennebunkport, Maine.? (Their last names were withheld at the family's request.)
Recently, other members of the security unit started to bare their domes in support of Patrick, and they started to raise money for his treatment.
The 89-year-old Bush and his wife, Barbara, took notice. They had lost their second child, Robin, to leukemia 60 years ago in October at the age of 4.
Members of the Secret Service unit known as Bush Protective Division even launched a website to help raise money to pay Patrick's medical bills: PatricksPals.org. They have also organized a benefit motorcycle run in Kennebunkport, where the Bushes maintain a seaside home.
So, the former president and first lady made a donation, and he even went as far as shaving his head? earlier this week.
A news release sent out of Bush's office raised attention to the effort to help Patrick.
Source: http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/22929229/bush-41-shaves-head-in-support-of-2-year-old-cancer-patient
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Friday, July 26, 2013
Egg-munching parasite wasp hitch-hikes on a damselfly
Why make your own way when you can score a free ride? A newly discovered species of parasitoid wasp is the first of its kind seen catching a lift on much larger damselflies.
Andrew Polaszek at London's Natural History Museum and colleagues captured this photo of three of the cheeky wasps in action. The female wasps are clustered around the base of a damselfly's abdomen, waiting for her to descend on water to lay eggs (also shown in the video, top).
The wasps then spring into action: laying their own eggs inside the damselfly's eggs. The wasp larvae later eat the damselfly's unhatched offspring for breakfast. Not the most gracious of thank yous for a free flight.
The species has been appropriately named Hydrophylita emporos ? emporos is Latin for "passenger". It is the fifth member of the genus to be identified, and the first in its genus to be found in the Old World, having been identified in northern Taiwan.
Inevitably, other parasitoid wasps also display anti-social behaviour: one species is known to create zombified insects, for example. However, another variety is useful, to us at least, as it helps to control common human pests. In 2011, a housefly infestation at Edinburgh Zoo was cleared by introducing a parasitoid wasp species native to the UK.
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Happy, Healthy, & Domestic: I Love My Family Photo Blocks
No, a tornado didn't blow through my house, I finally finished unpacking all my craft supplies! I had been putting it off, waiting for the walls to be painted so I could arrange things better. Well the walls aren?t done yet and I had enough digging through boxes when I needed something for a project. So I went through all my supplies, got rid of stuff I won?t use, threw away several bags worth of trash, and gave everything a home so I know where to find it.
In the process of doing all that, I came across several unfinished projects that have been on my to do list for a looooong time.
Like this one. We made these photo blocks, oh I don?t know, about a year ago for a ladies craft night. I didn?t have pictures of my boys at the time so they?ve sat unfinished until now.
It was super simple, the printouts and original idea are found HERE. You just cut 2x4s into squares (approx. 3 1/4?), paint them whatever color you want, then ModPodge the printouts and pictures on. Simple enough. Well, don?t make the mistake I did. When you put the ModPodge under the paper, let that dry first before going over the top with ModPodge. That?s why mine bubbled. I might eventually get around to redoing it, but for now I?m just happy it?s done.It took me so long though, my pictures are outdated. haha. So little and so cute!
Even Andrew looks so young!
Technically I have one more block that I was going to put a picture of me and my husband on, but I printed it too big and wouldn?t fit. So I guess it?s really not completely finished, but close enough for now. haha
Source: http://www.alexharalson.com/2013/07/i-love-my-family-photo-blocks.html
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Thursday, July 25, 2013
Chipotle Faked Its Own Twitter Hack
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The Internet was all aflutter this weekend when it appeared the official Twitter account for Chipotle had been hacked by some funsters out for a web-based joyride. In the span of about an hour the account sent out confusing updates ranging from ?Mittens13 password leave? to ?end twitter? to the succinct, yet extremely accurate ?twitter,? making many people think Chipotle had suffered the same fate Burger King did back in February. In reality, however, they just took a page out of MTV?s playbook.
That?s right. Say it with me. FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE.
Chipotle appeared to be the latest brand to have its Twitter account hacked on Sunday when its main account, @ChipotleTweets, posted a series of confusing and seemingly random tweets over the course of an hour. Now, the company has come forward and admitted that it faked having its account hacked as part of a publicity stunt tied to its 20th anniversary promotional campaign.
?We thought that people would pay attention, that it would cut through people?s attention and make them talk, and it did that,? Chris Arnold, a Chipotle representative, told Mashable in an interview. ?It was definitely thought out: We didn?t want it to be harmful or hateful or controversial.? [Mashable]
God this is so dumb. So super dumb. Huge corporations are now pretending that they?ve been ?hacked? as some sort of guerrilla marketing campaign. That is actually a thing that is happening now. Think long and hard about that. Some dude in a $1,000 suit instructed his underling to instruct one of his underlings to come up with tweets ? non-harmful, non-hateful, uncontroversial tweets ? to make it look like someone had committed a felony and hijacked their social media presence. That?s like one step short of having an employee throw a trashcan through your front window to see if it gets your store on the news.
I bet the tweets even went through a focus group. Really, I bet they did. ?Would a tweet from a corporate account that read only ?end twitter? make you think the account had been hacked? Press 1 for yes and 2 for no.? I bet someone actually said that. Then I bet the person looked at the results, nodded silently, and made a notation on his or her clipboard like it wasn?t the single corniest thing a person has ever done.
Ugh.
(via Mashable)
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