The coupling of “Rise up” day and Halloween–making for interesting photos from around the nation
Day: October 15, 2011
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News from Tunisia
Demonstrators, mainly conservative Muslim Salafists, run away as security forces launch tear gas during a demonstration against a private television station in Tunis. Tunisian police fired tear gas Friday at hundreds of people demonstrating in the capital against a private television station accused of blasphemy for airing a film with an image of God. (AFP Photo/Fethi Belaid) Tunisian extremists fire-bombed the home of a TV station chief Friday, hours after militants protesting its broadcast of a film they say violated Islamic values clashed with police in the streets of Tunis..
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An important video to watch: What could happen if an extreme Canary Island volcano would occur: Mega Tsunami along the East Coast
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Friday News of the world
BBC documentary explain the East Coast tsunami threat potential from an eruption in the Canary Islands..
Two new eruptions in the Canaries..
Update..Big Brother.. your passenger? The future of cars may include cameras watching your ever turn..
Could it be: Herman Cain’s 999 plan inspired by SimCity!?
News of the strange: Family lost in a corn maze dials 911 for help..
Obama sending troops to Africa..
Asteroid alert: Amateurs find something the professionals didn’t..
Kansas City Bishop charged for not bringing porn information to police..
Elenin (*or whatever is left of it*) set to pass by Earth this weekend..
Harrisburg council seeks bankruptcy approval..
1 in 6 cellphones have fecal E. coli traces
Volcano Katla could push airline stocks lower..
TALKING TO THE DEAD by George Noory *really*? on sale..
Amazon selling it for 14 bucks..And it’s in stock..Here we go again:ROSAT X-ray observatory, launched in 1990 by NASA and managed for years by the German Aerospace Center will fall back somewhere on earth in the next two weeks..
Vancouver restaurant bans men from standing while urinating..
The city of Harrisburg Pa is bankrupt.. And that is just the start of the city’s problems..
Reviews coming in: THE THING 2011 not as scary as 1982..
A 6.7 magnitude struck off the coast of Eastern Papua New Guinea..
Iceland’s Katla getting restless..
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News of the strange: Family lost in a corn maze dials 911 for help
Panic descended on the Conners Farm Corn Maze in Danvers, Massachusetts. At around 7pm, on Tuesday this week, a 911 call put the maze on the map and caused a nationwide marathon of jokes.The Everett family were on the maze.. a couple with two children, one age 5 and one only three weeks old. They became lost on the corn maze and in a panic called 911 after darkness swept the corn maze due to the time of day.Their calls have been played nationwide on 24-7 news broadcasts and they have become the unfortunate butt of jokes at their expense. The family was 25 feet in the maze when police arrived at the scene. They were escorted out of the maze to safety.According to WCVB ABC in Boston, the farm said no one ever became lost in the maze before. The maze must be good, though, as it takes about an hour to complete for most who attend.No one lost before. But there’s always a first. No better time than Halloween.Perhaps next time the Everett family should start the maze a bit earlier. -
Lady Goo Goo no more: Gaga wins one for the monsters
Chalk it up too creative marketing.. And while Lady Goo Goo may have been an up and coming favorite among kids, Lady Gaga would have none of it: She clamped down before it got too late.Because after all, Lady Gaga’s image matters, right? ..It all began as one of 52 characters on Moshi Monsters–a website that allows children to name and adopt creatures. It just so happened that one of those ficticious creatures was Lady Goo Goo. Real and fictitious creature Lady Gaga got angry, and in a UK court, won an injunction banning the release of the character’s new song called the Moshi Dance.The Moshi Monsters site has 50 million users around the world.. but it’s presumable that Stephanie Germanotta is not one of them..Lady Goo Goo gone from pop culture. 15 minutes up. Lady Gaga, to some, may have overstayed the welcome. -
Friday photo of the week
The lonely vision of autumn as taken from an interstate in Pennsylvania on Earth Informer equipment.. The hazy shade of summer is ending.. the lazy nights of fall have arrived. And soon, after the leaves are gone from the stressed trees, snow will fall on top of ice to make life miserable –but beautiful all at the same time.
