A mysterious mass deep under the ground in Seattle, Washinton, has put a stop to Bertha, the world's largest tunneling machine, and engineers are baffled.
The mostly automated Bertha is 300 feet long and five stories tall, making it the largest tunnel-boring machine on the planet. It was brought to Seattle to help with the construction of a two-mile-long, $3.1 billion highway tunnel along the city's western edge.
Bertha should be able to punch a hole through anything, and yet two weeks after first contact with the Object, engineers are no closer to knowing what stands in the machine's way.
Much like a mole, Bertha is pretty much operating blind, and engineers have been unable to get in front to see what's blocking her. “What we’re focusing on now is creating conditions that will allow us to enter the chamber behind the cutter head and see what the situation is,” said project manager Chris Dixon.
In the meantime, speculation on the Object's nature is running rampant. People have suggested everything ice age boulders to downed alien spacecraft and dragon eggs. One of the more plausible theories is that the obstruction is a piece of old Seattle, swallowed by the mucky waterfront centuries ago. “I’m going to believe it’s a piece of Seattle history until proven otherwise,” Seattle Public Library curator Ann Ferguson told The New York Times.
If the Object cannot be broken up underground, a new excavation would need to begin. Though progress has now been halted for weeks, Dixon says that work is continuing at the ends of the tunnel. The highway is scheduled to open by late 2015.
With any luck the dragons will have hatched by then and moved on.
Kentucky inmate escapes, gets too cold, turns himself back in
It's been freezing almost everywhere this week, but it got so cold in Kentucky that an escaped inmate asked to be taken back to prison. The strange tale began Monday morning, when Maurice King, the 61-year-old manager of the Sunset Motel in Lexington, heard a knock on the door at the motel. Standing outside, in a wind chill of about 18 degrees below zero, was Robert Vick, 42, wearing a pair of ripped-up jeans and a khaki prison jumpsuit. Authorities said he'd escaped the Blackburn Correctional Complex about three miles away just the night before.
"I answered the door, and he said, 'Call the law on me,' and I looked at him kinda silly, and he said, 'Well, I’m the one who escaped from Blackburn,' " King told The Times. "He said, 'I’ve got to turn myself in, I’m froze to death.' He was just shaking and everything.” In a statement provided to The Times, prison officials said Vick had "walked away" from the minimum-security prison where he was serving a six-year sentence for burglary and criminal possession of a forged document. It wasn't immediately clear why he decided to escape; he was eligible for parole in March. Now, standing on King's doorstep, all he wanted was to go back to prison. “He was very polite; he was anxious to get back," said King, who struck up a conversation with Vick while he called the police, at one point offering him a glass of water and inviting him into the motel's office to warm up. King said Vick told him that he had slept in an abandoned house up the road, normally used for migrant farmers, where he found a shirt and the ripped jeans. Unfortunately for Vick, the same night that he escaped, a historic cold front, generated by the so-called polar vortex, began to fall over Kentucky; according to the National Weather Service, the temperature was 44 degrees around the time Vick escaped, and dropped to almost zero by the next morning. "He had no heat at all," King told The Times. "He told me he took his socks off because they were wet, and when he got up that morning, they were froze solid. He went ahead and put them back on and started to head this way." But getting officials to believe Vick was giving himself up was another matter. "The first time I called, I don’t think the dispatcher believed me," King said. When he called a second time and reached a second dispatcher, she also sounded skeptical, King said. "She asked me to put him on the phone. He told her who he was, and gave her his prison number, and that’s when the cops showed up." Sherelle Roberts, spokeswoman for the Lexington Division of Police, told The Times that every police agency in central Kentucky had been on the lookout for Vick after his escape. When Lexington police showed up at the hotel, she said, “it was evident that he was having some medical issues related to cold exposure." Local firefighters treated Vick for exposure, Roberts said, before turning him over to the state police, who are investigating the escape. “He was a real good guy," King, the motel manager, said of Vick. "He was calm and collected. He just froze. He was ready to go back.”
Lawsuit against the DoJ and FBI for labeling juggalos a gang on behalf of ICP and 4 other defendants was filed in federal court by the ACLU. shit just got real and they actually have a solid case
Oklahoma man charged with 'atomic wedgie' murder of stepfather
Heide BrandesReuters 12:29 p.m. CST, January 9, 2014
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A 33-year-old Oklahoma man has been charged with killing his stepfather by giving him an "atomic wedgie," that caused the victim to suffocate on his own underwear.
Brad Lee Davis was charged with murder in the death of 58-year-old Denver St. Clair in a drunken family fight at a residence just east of Oklahoma City, the Pottawatomie County Sheriff's Office said in an arrest affidavit obtained on Wednesday.
Police arrested Davis on Tuesday. The affidavit said he "grabbed St. Clair's underwear and gave him an 'atomic wedgie.' Davis allegedly pulled the elastic waistband of St. Clair's underwear over his head and around his neck."
Oklahoma Medical Examiner spokeswoman Amy Elliott said the cause of death was asphyxiation and blunt force trauma.
Pottawatomie County Sheriff Deputy Travis Palmer said Davis and St. Clair were drinking beer on the night of December 21 at the older man's residence when St. Clair began speaking ill about his wife, who is Davis' mother.
Investigators said St. Clair's elastic waistband was stretched over his head and that it left ligature marks around his neck. Blood splatter was also found in the kitchen, the living room and on the living room ceiling.
Davis was being held in Pottawatomie County without bond. His lawyer was not immediately available for comment.
(Locklip) A new genetic study suggests a lineage of Egyptian pharaohs were subjected to willful genetic manipulation by a technologically advanced civilization. Some would call this definitive proof that the builders of the pyramids had a strong connection with beings that originated elsewhere in the universe.
Stuart Fleischmann, Assistant Professor of Comparative Genomics at the Swiss University in Cairo and his team have recently published the results of a 7-year study that mapped the genomes of 9 ancient Egyptian Pharaohs. If proven correct, their findings could potentially change the world’s history books.
Fleischmann and his team subjected the precious samples of ancient DNA to a process called Polymerse Chain Reaction (PCR). In the field of molecular biology this technique is often used to replicate and amplify a single copy of a piece of DNA, giving researchers a clear picture of someone’s genetic fingerprint.
Eight out of nine samples returned interesting but typical results. The ninth sample belonged to Akhenaten, the enigmatic 14th century BC pharaoh and father of Tutankhamun. A small fragment of desiccated brain tissue had been the source of the DNA sample and the test was repeated using bone tissue but the same results were obtained.
One of the culprits was a gene called CXPAC-5, which is responsible for cortex growth. The anomaly is visible in the image below.
It appears this increased activity in Akhenaten’s genome would suggest he had a higher cranial capacity because of the need to house a larger cortex. But what mutation would have caused a human brain to grow? We have yet to discover such a technique despite years of breakthroughs in genetics. Could this 3,300 year-old evidence point out to ancient genetic manipulation? Was it the work of advanced extraterrestrial beings.
Is the mythology of ancient Egypt more than a collection of allegoric tales? Prof. Fleischmann explains:
Telomerase [a genetic enzyme] is only expended by two processes: extreme aging and extreme mutation. Genetic and archaeological data suggests Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten lived to about 45 years of age. That is not nearly enough to consume all the chromosomal telomerase, leaving behind one inconvenient but possible explanation.
This hypothesis is also backed up by the fact that electron microscope analysis revealed signs of nucleotidic cicatrix, which is a telltale sign of the DNA helix healing after being exposed to strong mutagens.”
Does this suggest that Akhenaten, one of ancient Egypt’s most mysterious pharaohs, was subjected to genetic modification during his life? If anything, this allegation supports the theory that ancient aliens once visited the civilization that lived along the banks of the Nile.
Another interesting piece of evidence provides backing to this hypothesis. The image below shows two microscope photographs of osseous tissue sampled from the skull of Akhenaten and that of a different mummy of the same age.
The bone tissue on the left is far denser and fundamentally different at a nanoscopic scale. Could this increase in strength of the skull bones be an indicator of increased brain development?
This is an exciting finding, to say the least,” Fleischmann told press. “My team and I have submitted the papers for peer review and we’ve done and redone the tests enough times that we’re confident they’re accurate.
I don’t know the full implication of our findings but I certainly believe they should at least point the scientific community in a direction that would have been immediately dismissed just a few decades ago.”
If this study is correct, it will trigger an unprecedented paradigm shift. If aliens were actively involved in the life of the most powerful individuals thousands of years ago, does that mean they’ll return? Perhaps they never left at all.
But the most important aspect would be the existence of individuals, direct descendants of ancient Egypt’s royal lineage, that still posses the alien genes implanted in their ancestors’ genomes.
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They call it…the Object.
A mysterious mass deep under the ground in Seattle, Washinton, has put a stop to Bertha, the world's largest tunneling machine, and engineers are baffled.
The mostly automated Bertha is 300 feet long and five stories tall, making it the largest tunnel-boring machine on the planet. It was brought to Seattle to help with the construction of a two-mile-long, $3.1 billion highway tunnel along the city's western edge.
Bertha should be able to punch a hole through anything, and yet two weeks after first contact with the Object, engineers are no closer to knowing what stands in the machine's way.
Much like a mole, Bertha is pretty much operating blind, and engineers have been unable to get in front to see what's blocking her. “What we’re focusing on now is creating conditions that will allow us to enter the chamber behind the cutter head and see what the situation is,” said project manager Chris Dixon.
In the meantime, speculation on the Object's nature is running rampant. People have suggested everything ice age boulders to downed alien spacecraft and dragon eggs. One of the more plausible theories is that the obstruction is a piece of old Seattle, swallowed by the mucky waterfront centuries ago. “I’m going to believe it’s a piece of Seattle history until proven otherwise,” Seattle Public Library curator Ann Ferguson told The New York Times.
If the Object cannot be broken up underground, a new excavation would need to begin. Though progress has now been halted for weeks, Dixon says that work is continuing at the ends of the tunnel. The highway is scheduled to open by late 2015.
With any luck the dragons will have hatched by then and moved on.
http://www.outsideonline.com/news-from-the-field/Mysterious-Underground-Object-Blocks-Seattle-Highway.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=facebookpost
It's been freezing almost everywhere this week, but it got so cold in Kentucky that an escaped inmate asked to be taken back to prison.
The strange tale began Monday morning, when Maurice King, the 61-year-old manager of the Sunset Motel in Lexington, heard a knock on the door at the motel.
Standing outside, in a wind chill of about 18 degrees below zero, was Robert Vick, 42, wearing a pair of ripped-up jeans and a khaki prison jumpsuit. Authorities said he'd escaped the Blackburn Correctional Complex about three miles away just the night before.
"I answered the door, and he said, 'Call the law on me,' and I looked at him kinda silly, and he said, 'Well, I’m the one who escaped from Blackburn,' " King told The Times. "He said, 'I’ve got to turn myself in, I’m froze to death.' He was just shaking and everything.”
In a statement provided to The Times, prison officials said Vick had "walked away" from the minimum-security prison where he was serving a six-year sentence for burglary and criminal possession of a forged document.
It wasn't immediately clear why he decided to escape; he was eligible for parole in March. Now, standing on King's doorstep, all he wanted was to go back to prison.
“He was very polite; he was anxious to get back," said King, who struck up a conversation with Vick while he called the police, at one point offering him a glass of water and inviting him into the motel's office to warm up.
King said Vick told him that he had slept in an abandoned house up the road, normally used for migrant farmers, where he found a shirt and the ripped jeans.
Unfortunately for Vick, the same night that he escaped, a historic cold front, generated by the so-called polar vortex, began to fall over Kentucky; according to the National Weather Service, the temperature was 44 degrees around the time Vick escaped, and dropped to almost zero by the next morning.
"He had no heat at all," King told The Times. "He told me he took his socks off because they were wet, and when he got up that morning, they were froze solid. He went ahead and put them back on and started to head this way."
But getting officials to believe Vick was giving himself up was another matter.
"The first time I called, I don’t think the dispatcher believed me," King said. When he called a second time and reached a second dispatcher, she also sounded skeptical, King said. "She asked me to put him on the phone. He told her who he was, and gave her his prison number, and that’s when the cops showed up."
Sherelle Roberts, spokeswoman for the Lexington Division of Police, told The Times that every police agency in central Kentucky had been on the lookout for Vick after his escape.
When Lexington police showed up at the hotel, she said, “it was evident that he was having some medical issues related to cold exposure."
Local firefighters treated Vick for exposure, Roberts said, before turning him over to the state police, who are investigating the escape.
“He was a real good guy," King, the motel manager, said of Vick. "He was calm and collected. He just froze. He was ready to go back.”
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-kentucky-inmate-cold-20140107,0,1439596.story#axzz2pqZzZSgQ
I assume the parents are black....
Heide BrandesReuters
12:29 p.m. CST, January 9, 2014
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A 33-year-old Oklahoma man has been charged with killing his stepfather by giving him an "atomic wedgie," that caused the victim to suffocate on his own underwear.
Brad Lee Davis was charged with murder in the death of 58-year-old Denver St. Clair in a drunken family fight at a residence just east of Oklahoma City, the Pottawatomie County Sheriff's Office said in an arrest affidavit obtained on Wednesday.
Police arrested Davis on Tuesday. The affidavit said he "grabbed St. Clair's underwear and gave him an 'atomic wedgie.' Davis allegedly pulled the elastic waistband of St. Clair's underwear over his head and around his neck."
Oklahoma Medical Examiner spokeswoman Amy Elliott said the cause of death was asphyxiation and blunt force trauma.
Pottawatomie County Sheriff Deputy Travis Palmer said Davis and St. Clair were drinking beer on the night of December 21 at the older man's residence when St. Clair began speaking ill about his wife, who is Davis' mother.
Investigators said St. Clair's elastic waistband was stretched over his head and that it left ligature marks around his neck. Blood splatter was also found in the kitchen, the living room and on the living room ceiling.
Davis was being held in Pottawatomie County without bond. His lawyer was not immediately available for comment.
(Editing by Jon Herskovitz and David Gregorio)
Copyright © 2014, Reuters
Silly white people, grape soda was not made for you.. [-X
(Locklip) A new genetic study suggests a lineage of Egyptian pharaohs were subjected to willful genetic manipulation by a technologically advanced civilization. Some would call this definitive proof that the builders of the pyramids had a strong connection with beings that originated elsewhere in the universe.
Stuart Fleischmann, Assistant Professor of Comparative Genomics at the Swiss University in Cairo and his team have recently published the results of a 7-year study that mapped the genomes of 9 ancient Egyptian Pharaohs. If proven correct, their findings could potentially change the world’s history books.
Fleischmann and his team subjected the precious samples of ancient DNA to a process called Polymerse Chain Reaction (PCR). In the field of molecular biology this technique is often used to replicate and amplify a single copy of a piece of DNA, giving researchers a clear picture of someone’s genetic fingerprint.
Eight out of nine samples returned interesting but typical results. The ninth sample belonged to Akhenaten, the enigmatic 14th century BC pharaoh and father of Tutankhamun. A small fragment of desiccated brain tissue had been the source of the DNA sample and the test was repeated using bone tissue but the same results were obtained.
One of the culprits was a gene called CXPAC-5, which is responsible for cortex growth. The anomaly is visible in the image below.
It appears this increased activity in Akhenaten’s genome would suggest he had a higher cranial capacity because of the need to house a larger cortex. But what mutation would have caused a human brain to grow? We have yet to discover such a technique despite years of breakthroughs in genetics. Could this 3,300 year-old evidence point out to ancient genetic manipulation? Was it the work of advanced extraterrestrial beings.
Is the mythology of ancient Egypt more than a collection of allegoric tales? Prof. Fleischmann explains:
Does this suggest that Akhenaten, one of ancient Egypt’s most mysterious pharaohs, was subjected to genetic modification during his life? If anything, this allegation supports the theory that ancient aliens once visited the civilization that lived along the banks of the Nile.
Another interesting piece of evidence provides backing to this hypothesis. The image below shows two microscope photographs of osseous tissue sampled from the skull of Akhenaten and that of a different mummy of the same age.
The bone tissue on the left is far denser and fundamentally different at a nanoscopic scale. Could this increase in strength of the skull bones be an indicator of increased brain development?
If this study is correct, it will trigger an unprecedented paradigm shift. If aliens were actively involved in the life of the most powerful individuals thousands of years ago, does that mean they’ll return? Perhaps they never left at all.
But the most important aspect would be the existence of individuals, direct descendants of ancient Egypt’s royal lineage, that still posses the alien genes implanted in their ancestors’ genomes.
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