Think or blink!!!

One evening all the cellphones in the house blared in an Amber Alert about a kidnap of a child.

I was told that more often than not the kidnapper was one of the parents! :doh:





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U.S.
[h=3]Police: Daughters taken 3 decades ago found, mom arrested[/h]SCITUATE, R.I. (AP) - Two sisters who disappeared from Rhode Island with their mother in 1985 have been located in the Houston area, and their mother was charged with snatching them, police announced Tuesday.
Associated Press

Devin is home, now let’s give her family the privacy they need to heal
The Arab Tribune
Mom pleads not guilty to abducting daughters in 1985
WPRI Providence


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The name sounds musical but its effects...???


U.S.
[h=3]What Experts Think Of Speculation That El Niño Will Return In 2017[/h]This week some chatter was getting around Twitter and within climate circles about the possibility of El Niño returning in 2017. Wait, El Niño? Didn’t we just have a major El Niño in 2015? The answer is yes. The 2015-2016 El Nino was a very strong El Nino. It affected weather patterns around the world, the Atlantic hurricane season, and global temperature records in 2015. With the “shares” and “retweets: about another El Niño returning so quickly, it felt prudent to consult with some of my tropical meteorology colleagues for their thoughts about the latest speculation. El Niño is a periodic warming of the eastern Pacific Ocean waters along the equator. The anomalously warm sea surface temperatures
Forbes

These 3 graphics explain 2016’s record warmth
Mashable
World temperatures hit new high in 2016 for third year in a row
Reuters



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So begging comes naturally to all the species!!! :tsk:


U.S.
[h=3]Videos of starving sun bears in a zoo begging for food spark outrage[/h]Warning: This post contains graphic and upsetting videos. Gaunt sun bears in an Indonesia zoo, so hungry they've taken to begging visitors for food and eating their own faeces, have been captured on video by animal rights activists. Footage shot by the Scorpion Wildlife Trade Monitoring Group showed several emaciated bears at a zoo in the Indonesian city of Bandung. SEE ALSO: Circus ties endangered tiger down on a table so people can get selfies While bears in enclosures very rarely beg for food, you can see the bears rushing for pieces of fruit thrown in, and begging visitors for more. Another video also showed a bear eating its own faeces. "The bears are kept in a concrete cage and no grass.
Mashable

Anger at skeletal sun bears in Indonesian zoo
AFP
Indonesian zoo accused of 'starving' sun bears by activists
BBC News



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An unforeseen threat and danger???


Science
[h=3]Something in space is killing off entire galaxies[/h]When we think about the survival of the human race we often focus on making sure our planet stays alive and habitable, but out there in the depths of space there are entire galaxies being killed off in a manner that is utterly perplexing scientists. A new paper ( PDF ) from researchers working at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research addresses the odd and extremely troubling trend and attempts to propose an answer for what exactly is leading literally thousands of galaxies to die premature deaths. After studying a whopping 11,000 galaxies in the general vicinity of our own, scientists now believe that a process called ram-pressure stripping is leading the ailing galaxies to be purged of their gas, preventing new stars from forming and leading them to sputter out far faster than would be expected. Without adequate gas to power new star formation, the galaxies simply get cold and die. “During their lifetimes, galaxies can inhabit halos of different sizes, ranging from masses typical of our own Milky Way to halos thousands of times more massive,” Toby Brown, the PhD candidate who headed the study, explains on the organization's website. “As galaxies fall through these larger halos, the superheated intergalactic plasma between them removes their gas in a fast-acting process called ram-pressure stripping." “You can think of it like a giant cosmic broom that comes through and physically sweeps the gas from the galaxies," Brown says. “If you remove the fuel for star formation then you effectively kill the galaxy and turn it into a dead object.” It's a disturbing notion, but there's good(ish) news; the process can take tens of millions of years to actually occur, so even if you were living in a galaxy where ram-pressure stripping was occurring, you'd be long dead before it could actually affect you in any way. That's reassuring... right?
BGR News

Milky Way Weighs in Light, Using a Well-Worn Technique
SPACE.com
Astronomers more accurately calculate the Milky Way's mass
Engadget



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May be it is still loaded with the 'aatkolli' gold!!! :fear:
Wreck of 16th-Century Spanish Ship Found Off Florida Coast

The third of six sunken Spanish ships that were lost in a hurricane in 1559 has been discovered off the coast of Pensacola, Florida. In the summer of 2016, the wreck of the ship, dubbed the Emanuel Point III, was found resting under the sand 7 feet (2 meters) below the ocean surface in Pensacola Bay. Archaeologists have found the ship's hull, ballast rocks and ceramic artifacts in the wreckage.
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Listen to good advice - even if it were given unasked and unsought!!! :ear:




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Parents leave small children alone at night may meters away, on the changing table, near the swimming pool, inside the bath tub, near decorative ponds...
The list may be endless but they all point out one and the same thing.. the lack of interest and imagination of those silly parents!!! :loco:



Lifestyle
[h=3]The Important Warning About Leaving Babies Unattended Every Parent Needs to Hear[/h]A baby tragically died after being left alone on a changing table, but not because she fell off - Laci Lynn Taylor's 3-month-old baby passed away after suffocating on the table while unattended. According to Des Moines, IA, police, the infant rolled over, compressed her neck on the ledge of the changing table, and could no longer breathe. Authorities have since charged Laci with child endangerment resulting in death. Although court documents show that Laci was aware that the infant could roll over, her husband, Don Taylor, said that the child's compromised airway was a "horrible freak accident" that could happen to any parent. "I have no ounce in my body that blames my wife at all. She was actually
PopSugar

 
Write, rewrite, revise and renew... that is the sign of progress in knowledge!



Science
[h=3]A discovery about the movement of tectonic plates will have scientists rewriting textbooks[/h]Plate tectonics is the widely accepted theory that the Earth's crust is divided into several sections that float around on the mantle - the mostly solid layer between the core and the crust. But how they move around has been a subject of much debate among scientists since the theory was first accepted in the 1950s. The sections, known as plates, move at a rate of about 2 to 5 centimeters per year, which is a similar speed to how fast your fingernails grow. When they grind past each other, it's called a transform plate boundary, which can cause earthquakes. When they move away from each other, it's known as a divergent boundary, where lava spews out, and volcanoes can form. Sometimes, when they
Business Insider

 
So that makes it a Big circle extending to exactly 60 years!



Science
[h=3]NASA Just Released 30 Years Of Before & After Images Around The World[/h]NASA recently released a series called the “Images Of Change” which reveal how our world has changed over the past 30 years. The series provides a comparison of satellite images that depict everything from island building to flooding to urbanization. The series shines light on how rapidly our planet has changed in the recent decades due largely to urbanization and climate change. The series allows for clear and apparent contrast of environmental systems over the past decades. Some processes are unlinked to human influence such as island building but many are affected to some degree by human population growth and pollution. Below you’ll find a sampling of the more spectacular and impactful contrasting
Forbes

 
'களி' தின்ன வைத்தத் தியாகி சின்னம்மா
'களை' போல் முளைத்த சின்னப் பெண்

குடி நீர் இல்லாமல் திணறும் பொது மக்கள்
படிப் படியாக தீர்க்க வேண்டிய பிரச்சினைகளில்

முக்கிமானது எது என்று உமக்குத் தெரியுமா???
மாடு குத்தி வீரமரணம் அடையும் அவசியம் தான்!!! :doh:


 
Nothing as fascinating as aerial images sent from the sky! :love:


Science
[h=3]The first images from the new weather satellite just arrived, and they’re absolutely incredible[/h]The satellite formerly known as GOES-R (so Prince, right?) has transmitted its first images back to Earth, and they are flooring. From the details on the face of the moon to the incredible resolution of cumulus over the Caribbean, these first pixels portend a sunny future for NOAA’s new GOES-16 satellite. Meteorologists are drooling. This release coincides with the first day of the American Meteorological Society’s annual meeting. There are thousands of weather geeks in Seattle this week, and - at least on Monday - they’re all looking at this next-gen satellite imagery. As we’ve written before, GOES-R satellite has six instruments, two of which are weather-related. The Advanced Baseline Imager,
Washington Post

Witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational weather satellite
Ars Technica
America’s newest weather satellite sends glorious pictures of Earth (and the moon)
GeekWire



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A Blue moon...Real ! A blue blood... imaginary!! But a Blue Monday???




  • Lifestyle
    Animals happy on a blue Monday

    It may be a blue Monday, but at least the animals are happy! These hilarious shots show a variety of euphoric animals enjoying a hearty belly laugh. The pictures, captured by a host of photographers around the world, prove that a drop of sunshine can transform the mood of all creatures great and small. A mischievous-looking macaque snapped a selfie of herself posing in Indonesia, while a grinning gorilla is seen creased up as he enjoys life. Another shot shows a raccoon that looks like he's just heard the punch line of a joke, and a chuckling cheetah was caught throwing his head back midlaugh. Even those with arachnophobia won't be able to help themselves from having a smile at the aptly named Hawaiian happy-face spider who was pictured with a grin plastered across his back. (Caters News) See more news-related photo galleries and follow us on Yahoo News Photo Tumblr.
    Yahoo News Photo Staff
  • Blue Monday (date) - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Monday_(date)


Blue Monday is a name given to a day in January reported to be the most depressing day of the year. The concept was first publicised as part of a 2005 press ...‎History · ‎Date · ‎References · ‎External links






 
A man kills his wife imagining that she cheated him in HIS DREAM! :wacko:

Another kills his wife imagining that she was a burglar!!!

Do these random reasons appear / sound to be true???

Reminds me of a weird story of an army camp.

The night guard in the military camp was supposed to ask,"Who goes there?"

He could open fire - ONLY AFTER asking for the password and IF IT WERE WRONG!

The new guard was all tensed up and shot the man as soon he heard him move.

On second thoughts he the threw at him this question "Who went there anyway?" :doh:


 
Immigranta are winning medals for the country they live in

and not for the one their ancestors originally belonged to!


Sports
[h=3]Chen lands five quads to win US men's figure skating title[/h]Nathan Chen landed five quadruple jumps in a near perfect free skate programme Sunday to capture the men's singles title at the US National Figure Skating Championships. The 17-year-old Chen became the youngest US men's champion in more than five decades and the first in the world to land five clean quads during his free skate to the music of "The Polovtsian Dances". Jason Brown took the bronze.
AFP

Nathan Chen, 17, Wins US Figure Skating Title
International Business Times
Figure skating - Chen is first skater to land five clean quad jumps
AFP
 
Sleep (within allowed limits) is NOT a luxury.
It is an absolute necessity to remain in good health !!! :sleep:
Health
[h=3]Not Sleeping Enough? 6 Ways Sleep Deprivation Hurts Your Health[/h]At this point, most of us are aware that sleep helps our brain retain memories. It’s why we were always advised to get a good night’s sleep before a big test in college or an important presentation at work. In fact, the study shows that after subjects received a full night’s sleep, they were able to recall memories that had been forgotten while awake during a twelve-hour period.
The Cheat Sheet
 
93. Is Sleep a Luxury?


Sleep is the most misunderstood thing in our lives. Some people over sleep and waste away their precious lives, while some others think it is a waste of time to sleep and ruin their invaluable health.

Sleep is Nature’s way of putting us back in good health and mental alertness. Many damages are repaired and the whole body gets tuned to good health, while we sleep.

The amount of sleep needed by each individual varies from person to person. The new born baby sleeps most of the day. As we grow, the number of hours of sleep needed is reduced. In old age, people can hardly sleep. Time seems to hang heavily and each day seems to go on and on endlessly!

An average adult needs six to eight hours of sleep per day. If he gets to sleep for less than six hours, he is deprived of enough sleep. If he sleeps for more than eight hours, he is enjoying a luxury, which only a few can afford!

My father, a doctor, used to say,” Sleep is like a drug. The more you have it, the more you want it”. Truly just as a drug is administered in accurate quantities, sleep must by had in adequate quantities, neither more nor less.

Extensive studies have proved that stress, anxiety, anger, aggressive driving and drowsy driving are natural consequences of lack of sleep, known as sleep deprivation. But this can have more serious and far reaching effects on a person.

It affects a person’s physical and mental well being and indirectly affects the person’s emotional well being also. Sleep deprivation causes tension and anxiety. Both these along with sleep deprivation affect the immune system of the body badly. The person becomes susceptible to several diseases and health disorders.

The person is unable to get anything done properly. He is unable to focus, gets confused easily, forgets important things and remains high-strung most of the time!

Persons, who work at night, must learn to make up for the deficit of sleep during the day. Pilots and air hostesses, who are always flying across various time zones, learn to sleep when they become free- be it a day or night. Otherwise they will be unfit for flying the air plane and playing the hostesses.

In order to remain healthy and happy and have an alert and focused mind, we need to get adequate sleep. If necessary we will have to make some changes in our daily schedule to ensure that we will be “bright eyed and bushy tailed like the chirpy squirrel” when we get up!
Remember, Sleep is a necessity and not just a luxury!

Visalakshi Ramani

https://visalakshiramani.wordpress.com/articles/wonderful-body/is-sleep-a-luxury/

 
107. Dreamy Discoveries



More discoveries are done in dreams than the “world could dream of!” Do you know why? Dreams make use of our fullest knowledge and experience. They can make use of the facts, which we are not aware of knowing, when we are awake!

Dreaming allows us to tap the hidden knowledge when we seek a solution to a problem. People want “to sleep on a problem” before they make am important decision, since they are sure to find the answer in their dreams.

The story of the Benzene ring is very popular. Benzene is a clear, colorless, highly refractive and inflammable organic liquid. It is derived from petroleum and is used in the manufacture of a number of chemical products.

It is an organic compound with 6 carbon and 6 hydrogen atoms, in it molecule. Carbon can form four chemical bonds while hydrogen can form only one bond. The structure of benzene eluded the scientist for a very long time–since they could not satisfy all the chemical bonds, when they imagined the structure of benzene along a straight line.

German Chemist Friedrich August Kekule spent sleepless nights over this problem. One night he dreamt of a snake. It was going round and round for a while and suddenly grabbed its own tail in its mouth to form a ring.

The Solution dawned immediately on Kekule that structure of benzene was in the form of a ring and not along a straight line. A Hexagonal diagram with a carbon atom in each vertex (attached to a hydrogen atom) and alternate single and double bonds between the six carbon atoms satisfied all the rules correctly. Thus the puzzle of the benzene ring was solved in a dream.

Russian chemist Dimitri Mandeleev found his famous “Periodic Table of the Elements” in one of his dreams.

The American inventor Elias Howe had worked hard for years to perfect the design of his sewing machine. But success came only after he dreamt that he had been ordered on pain of death –to finish his machine!
Dreams can work wonders—if only we know how to utilize them.

Visalakshi Ramani

https://visalakshiramani.wordpress.com/articles/miraculous-mind/dreams-and-discoveries/





 
innamum santhegap padalaamaa??? :doh:

Anybody can become a hero, a villain, a producer and a broadcaster all at once! :frusty:


World
Gang Rape Of Swedish Woman 'Live-Streamed On Facebook'

Three men have been arrested on suspicion of raping a woman and reportedly live-streaming the footage on Facebook. A woman contacted police in Uppsala, Sweden on Sunday morning to say she had seen a gang rape broadcast live in a closed group on the site, the BBC reported. The attack is thought to have taken place in an apartment in Uppsala while the victim was "close to unconscious", reported The Sun.
Refinery 29 UK

Police probe gang rape reportedly live streamed on Facebook
New York Post
Is Social Media Safe? Facebook Live Gang Rape Video Ends With 3 Arrested In Sweden
International Business Times
 
Shedding 'light' on the 'dark matter'??? :cool:



Science
[h=3]Dwarf galaxies shed light on dark matter[/h]The first sighting of clustered dwarf galaxies bolsters a leading theory about how big galaxies such as our Milky Way are formed, and how dark matter binds them, researchers said Monday. Seven clusters of three-to-five galaxies are each 10 to 1,000 times smaller than the Milky Way. "We suspect these groups are gravitationally bound and thus will eventually merge to form one larger, intermediate-mass galaxy," said lead author Sabrina Stierwalt, an astrophysicist at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlotteville, Virginia.
AFP

 

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