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 Survivors and relatives of those who died in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing had varied reactions to a suggestion by the convicted bomber that his execution be televised nationally.Timothy McVeigh, convicted in th stanley flasche e bombing that killed 168 people, wants his scheduled May 16 execution to be broadcast on television, he wrote in a letter published in the Sunday edition of The Oklahoman newspaper. It has  133; been said that all of Oklahoma was a victim of the bombing. Can all of Oklahoma watch   McVeigh wrote.McVeigh awaits execution on federal death row in Terre Haute for detonating a truck bomb on April 19, 1995, that destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City.In December, McVeigh indicated to a federal judge that he wished to waive all further appeals and set an execution date.  The May 16 date was set last month.        McVeigh wrote the letter in response to a lawsuit filed by eight survivors and members of victim s families asking for a closed-circuit telecast of McVeigh s execution.Although saying he did not object to a possible closed-circuit telecast of his execution by lethal injection, set for a federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., he questioned in the letter how such a telecast could be done fairly. Because the cl stanley flask osed-circuit telecast of my execution raises these fundamental equal access concerns, stanley cup  and because I am otherwise not opposed to such a telecast, a reasonable solution seems obvious: hold a true  public  execution  151; al Huwe What Is Your Favorite Super Soaker
 We design buildings to make human lives be stanley mugs tter鈥攂ut should we also design them to make bacteria healthier  A new study posits just that, suggesting that the microbial communities that live amongst us are deeply influenced by the design of our buildings. Wait鈥攂ut aren ;t microbes bad  Not exactly.     Do function, form and organization predict variation in the built environment microbiome  ask the authors of the paper, which was published on PLOS One this week. To find out, the team at University of Oregon did a fine-grained study of the school   business complex, a 13-year-0ld LEED-certified building with stanley bottles  155 rooms: The idea was to compare design details鈥攍ike ventilation, light, location, and all kinds of other parameters鈥攖o the makeup of bacterial communities within the building. To do that, they first made a model of the building itself鈥攖hen, fa stanley thermoskannen scinatingly, they took air samples using a common vacuum held up into the room. Using that data, they compared how the architecture of the complex had influenced the type and health of the microbes floating around in the air, finding that the design of the building itself did invariably shape how bacteria had flourished  or not . It turns out that there are incredible complex, sensitive ecologies floating around in our buildings鈥攁nd they ;re tightly knit, based on where they occur in space. So, that   all well and good, but isn ;t modernity鈥攁nd modern architecture, in particular鈥攆ounded on the

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 CINCINNATI, Arkansas - Tornadoes fueled by unusually warm air pummeled the South and Midwest on Friday, killing at least six people and injuring dozens more across Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois. Forecasters said storms could hit along a stretch from near Chicago to New Orleans later in the evening as New Year s Eve celebrations begin.Three people died in the northwestern Arkansas hamlet of Cincinnati when a tornado touched down just before sunrise, and three others died when a storm spawned by the same weather system ripped up the Missouri countryside near Rolla. A number of storms were also reported in the St. Louis area.The people of Cincinnati woke up to warning sirens at 6 a.m., reports CBS News correspondent Don  stanley cup Teague. Just nine minutes later the tornado hit, demolishing the volunteer fire station and trapping emerg stanley cup usa ency equipment.The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., said storms later Friday could do more damage from northern Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico as communities prepare to mark the start of the new year. Forecasters posted tornado watches for the region that were set to run until 8 p.m. It sucked me out of my house and carried me across the road and dropped me,  Chris Sisemore of Cincinnati told The Associated Press on Friday.  I was Superman for a while. ... You re just free-floating through the air. Trees are knocking you and smacking you down.         Sisemore said he tried to crawl under his bed and clin stanley cups uk g to the carpet, fearful a nearby pecan tree Skht Anti-Missile Tech Is Being Used to Find Malaria Before it Strikes
 This photograph of a large school of mobula rays  stanley cup by Eduardo Lopez Negrete is one of the entries for the 2014 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest. Keep in mind that these majestic creatures can reach a 17-foot  5.2 meter  wingspan and weigh over a ton. It may look like a nightmare but they are harmless.     A large school of mobula rays fades into the waters of Baja, Mex stanley kubek ico. The rays were moving quite fast and it was hard enough keeping up with them from the surface, let alone diving down to take a closer look, writes photographer Eduardo Lopez Negrete. Mobula rays are often referred to as flying rays due to their fondness for breaching. This is how it looks when they breach, sometimes as high as 6.5  stanley cup feet  2 meters  up in the air. Winners of the contest will be announced July 31.  SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook                                                        beautiful

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 A U.S. government commission says the effort to protect Americans from terrorism  appears to have waned  more than two years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.In a report Monday, the advisory panel led by James Gilmore, a former Virginia governor and Republican nation stanley canada al chairman, said federal, state and local officials and the private sector need to look at innovative ways to protect the United States from terrorism rather than simply just reacting to Sept. 11.The panel said state and local officials should play a fuller role in drafting a U.S. defense strategy. The momentum appears to have waned as people, businesses, and governments react to the uncertainties in combating terrorism and to the challenge of creating a unified enterprise,  the report said.And the panel said government should balance the threat of terrorism with protections for civil liberties.         There will never be a 100 percent guarantee of security for our people, the economy and our society,  Gilmore said in a cover letter accompanying the report.  We must resist the urge to seek total securi stanley uk ty. It is not achievable and drains our attention stanley cup  from those things that can be accomplished. An independent, bipartisan board should be created to oversee homeland security efforts that could impede civil liberties, the report said. New technology that is being used to monitor activities in an attempt to prevent any terrorist attacks could also harm Americans  First Amendment rights, the report said.The commissio Xlam Bonds Passes Mays On Homer List
 Netflix announced at CES that it would begin shooting original series in ultra high-def 4K, and now British site HDTVtest has caught the first glimpse of the streaming giant   4K content in the wild. How much more evil does Kevin Spacey look      Here   what HDTVtest had to say: The opening shot of Frank Underwood  Kevin Spacey  and his wife  Robin Wright  running in a park at night is a testing sequence with lots of gradients and camera noise, and we saw minor posterization during the fade in, and around the street stanley vaso  lamps. To our eyes, the [2160 HD] layer did not look visibly more detailed than the [1080 HD] one in this fairly dark scene. Where the 4K version did shine was with bright, colourful scenes. On-scr stanley quencher een images were rendered with greater sharpness and smoother gradients, r stanley flask eceiving a very slight boost in intra-scene gamma and contrast in the process too. Every time the video stream switched from [1080p HD] to [2160 HD], it   as if a veil had been lifted from the front of the screen, bringing objects 鈥?even faraway ones in long shots 鈥?into breathtaking clarity. HDTVtest notes that Netflix   quality is ultimately hampered by compression, so while the ultra HD stream sometimes looks crisper, it   still not a Blu-Ray killer. It   also helpful to bear in mind that 4K streaming content can only be viewed on a brand-new 2014 4K TV with the necessary H.265/HEVC decoder built in. There aren ;t a whole lot of those out there, and the on

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 A group of 75 Taliban militants tried to overrun a U.S.-led coalition base in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, a rare frontal attack in which more than 20 militants died, the coalition said.A joint Afghan-U.S. force used mortars and machine guns to repel the attack on Camp Anaconda in Uruzgan province, the statement said. Almost two dozen insurgents were confirmed killed in the attack,  the statement said. Two girls and two Afghan soldiers were also wounded during the attack, it said.Meanwhile, South Korean officials and Taliban leaders were expected to agree Tuesday on a meeting place to negotiate the release of 21 South Korean hostages, an Afghan politician said.The South Koreans and Taliban representatives have been talking by phone for several days and planned to determine a location for their first face-to-face talks by the end of the day, said Gov. Marajudin Pathan, the leader in Ghazni province, where the Koreans were kidnapped.         There will be one of our government officials in the talks as well,  Patha stanley quencher n told The Associated Press.Pathan said that the meeting is likely to take place in Ghazni province, but could  stanley cup not provide any further details. South Koreans embassy officials were not immediately available for comment.In South Korea, relatives of the hostages expressed disappointment Tuesday that meetings Sunday and Monday at Camp Davi stanley italia d between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and President Bush failed to produce concrete measures to bring the captives home.The Afgh Ajtj Science Has Almost Beaten Testicular Cancer
 Think you know your geography  Well, check this out: A history teacher in China can freehand draw a map of the world stanley mug  on a chalkboard from memory 鈥?and holy smokes is it ever accurate.     Accord stanley cup ing to a comment a Sina Weibo, it only takes him about a minute or so to draw it, probably because he   been drawing this for half his life. H/t ChinaSmack!                  stanley termosy                                        ChinaScience

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 A major snow storm that slammed the Midwest has begun to taper off, but not before causing multi-car pileups in three states on a snowy Monday that injured more than 20 people and temporarily shut major highways.Still, while the snow has tapered off, Arctic air is settling over much of the Eastern United States, bringing some of the coldest temperatures so far this winter.Parts of Michigan are digging out after a winter storm brought as much as 17 inches of snow, strong winds and hazardous driving conditions.Some schools in Allegan, Cass and Van Buren counties in the southwestern Lower Peninsula were closed Tuesday following the snow, which began Sunday.The National Weather Service says Allegan County received up to 15 inches of snow from Sunday through Monday evening. In the Upper Peninsula, more than 17 inches was reported in Houghton County.        The weather service says a winter storm warning was lifted Tuesday in stanley cup  the northwestern Lower Peninsula. It was in effect for areas including Gaylord, where at least 8 inches was reported, and Traverse City, where several inches fell.Snow has tapered off in Ohio, where a storm left up to 10 inches on the ground and contributed to a highway pileup involving as many as 20 vehicles.A lake effect snow warning was extended until 7 p.m. Tuesday in seven northeast Ohio counties. Forecasters say areas could get up stanley borraccia  to 3 more inches of snow.The National Weather Service says Ashtabula County was left with up to 10 inches o stanley cup n Monday. Areas ne Fbmu Stimulus Program Fraught With Waste, Report Says
 Superheroes aren ;t just one genre. They ;re tons of genres, smushed together. Aliens rub elbows with supernatural beings. Gods walk side by side with monsters. Over the decades, superheroes have borrowed from other genres, sometimes swallowing them whole. Here are stanley cup quencher  10 genres that got absorbed into superheroes, partly or completely.     Some of these genres no lo stanley cup nger exist as separate entities, while others still carry on, even though they ;ve been partly absorbed into the superhero machine. 1  The Pulp Crime-Fighter Back in day, pulp characte stanley cup nz rs like the Shadow, the Whisperer, the Spider and the Masked Detective fought crime anonymously in the big, dirty city. Those characters are gone, but they live on in Batman, the Arrow TV show, the Spirit, and tons of other masked or secret crime-fighters. 2  Weird Supernatural Horror Sometimes dreadful supernatural forces invade our reality, and push their way into our dimension so they can wreak unspeakable damage upon us. Mad gods and ancient monstrosities, they ;re a staple of Lovecraft-era Weird Tales, and in the pulps they ;re encountered by heroes such as Silver John. And nowadays, they ;re the sort of thing encountered fairly often by Dr. Strange, John Constantine and the members of Justice League Dark, among many others. 3  The Gothic Monster In the tradition of Frankenstein and Jekyll and Hyde, there have been tons of novels and movies about people who become monsters, or monsters who are almost peo

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 Two cars on a roller coaster at the Six Flags New England park collided Monday afternoon, sending 22 people to hospitals with minor injuries.One train of cars was leaving the platform when a second slammed it from behind. Park officials and emergency workers said the injuries did not appear to be serious. It was like the car that slammed into us never even slowed down,  said Mattie Nichols, one of the injured.  My neck hurts, but it could have been worse. The park remained open Monday afternoon, but the ride was closed. Superman Ride of Steel, one of the park s seven roller coasters, had opened in May 2000. The cause of the crash was under investigation.Ariel Rosenthal, who was in line for the ride when the accident happened, said the crash  sounded like a big balloon popping.          There was some smoke and I saw blood on someone s face,  he said.Dean O Keefe, a spokesman for the amusement park, said emergency personnel were at the scene within five minutes. O  Stanley cup website Keefe said ride engineers from Six Flags and the company that made the roller coaster were on the scene Monday investigating the accident.The 5,400-foot coaster reaches a maximum height of 208 feet and top speed of 80 mph, according to the Six Flags Web site.co stanley thermos py;MMI The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed                                                      stanley website                  ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5  {        display: no Gfbj Bodies Of Missing Family Found
 Since 1956, European nations have been participating in EuroVision, a live, televis stanley cup ed competition for the best musical performance. Yesterday   competition in Copenhagen was a surprisingly science-heavy lineup of music, for a sufficiently arm-waving definition of science.     If you ;re willing to indulge in some exuberant hand-waving along to the music, read on for the most science-reliant entries for this year   competition. Cake to Bake by Aarzemnieki  Baking is science for hungry people. It sounds trite, but ask any chemist about their day-to-day labwork and you ;ll quickly realize they ;re following recipes of how to combine ingredients with careful measurements, exact temperatures, precise methods of mixing. Looking at it from the other direction, every baker is an experimentalist, testing recipes to test out a vegan alternative or to use on-hand ingredients to substitute for something exotic on the formal recipe. Moving on from that, this upbeat entry from Latvia tackles changing climates from melting ice caps to bringing rain to a desert, a bit of astronomy, and playing with antigravity. If that   not enough, t stanley cup he opening verse also includes a reference to the most logical of pop-culture heroes, Sherlock Holmes. Cake to Bake came in 13th in the first semi-finals, and in the words of my brother, is a Cascadia hipster anthem waiting to be di stanley water jug scovered. To The Sky by Tijana  This entry from F.Y.R. Macedonia is impatient for more crewed deep

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 In October 2004, a freighter bound from China pulled into a port in Newark, N.J. A 40-foot container was pulled off and cracked open by federal agents. Beneath false-bottom boxes filled with plastic toys, the feds found hundreds of thousands of dollars in $100 bills. It was nearly-flawless counterfeit cash known as  Supernotes,  traced to the government of North Korea, CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports. The people working on the notes were very shocked - at the quality of the counterfeit notes,  said FBI Former Assistant Director Lewis D. Schiliro.The seizure was part of an operation code-named  Royal Charm.   Playing a key role was the rather odd couple: Louie and Z. They d been working undercover in Atlantic City for six years - FBI agents posing as high-rolling Italian mobsters could get anything through customs.           If you ha botella stanley ve the money, if you have the credibility, you - it doesn t matter. You could buy virtually anything,  Louie said.Today As stanley cup ian organized crime deals in everything from human cargo to Ecstasy to fake Viagra to weapons. It feeds America s insatiable appetite for knock-off designer goods you find in flea markets and back-alley shops across the country.    Counterfeit Ralph Lauren. Counterfeit Nike. Rolex watches,  Louie said.And brand-name cigarettes - the biggest money maker. Manufacture stanley cup d for as little as $6 a carton in China...routinely smuggled in by the container-load and sold on the street for up to $70 a carton. Bmvf Alleged Rocker Attackers Released
 Actress Jaimie Alexander, best known for her role as the warrior goddess Sif in Marv stanley cup el   Thor movies  the second of which opens this weekend , has confirmed she   in talks with DC and Warner Bros. about a possible role in Batman/Superman鈥?but which one      Alexander mentioned these  stanley mugs talks during the AMC Movie Talk panel at Stan Lees Comikaze Expo in Los Angeles this past weekend, as well as confirming that she knows the plot of Batman/Superman. Perhaps most interesting is her thoughts on Wonder Woman, as revealed in an interview with Forbes: Im a huge fan of Wonder Woman. I really think if this is the closest that were ever going to get to Wonder Woman, then Im proud to play Sif. I hope that other c stanley cup omic book entities can learn a lesson from Marvel in how to execute a female character the way it should be done.  8230; I really would like to one day see a Wonder Woman film or Wonder Woman character, but until its done with class, Id rather it not be done. Clearly, Alexander   performance as Sif would make her one of the most experienced potential actresses to play Wonder Woman; add to that the recent rumor that WB might be looking to introduce Wonder Woman in Superman/Batman, and it seems DC has finally chosen someone to play the world   most iconic superheroine. But! There are other rumors  from Latino Review  that Batman will have a love interest in Batman/Superman, and Jaimie Alexander also matches the description for that role. I ;m not sure wh

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 A federal judge in North Carolina has struck down a federal law that allows the government to keep some sex offenders in custody beyond the end of their prison sentences.The process of holding such offenders at mental hospitals, known as civil commitment, was approved under a federal law signed in 2006.But the judge ruled the commitment is unconstitutional because the federal government can t hold a person indefinitely out of fear the individual will commit a crime in the future. He says to do so, the government would have to prove beyond a reasonable stanley cup  doubt that the person is  sexually dangerous  to commit them indefinitely.The  stanley cup canada ruling comes in th stanley becher e case of five men set to be released from a federal prison in North Carolina. Prison officials say the men the category of  sexually dangerous. The prisoners won t be released immediately. The judge suspended the decision until the government has a chance to present its side.        Some states - including Virginia - allow civil commitment under state laws.                                                                      ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5          display: none;             inline-recirc-item--id-94018b9a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d,  right-rail-recirc-item--id-94018b9a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d         display: none;             inline-recirc-item--id-94018b9a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5          display: block;       Vyaq Dark Skies Over a Natural Bridge
 It   a tale as old as time itself. The love between a man and his artificially-intelligent car. One is KITT  Knight Industries Two Thousand , a badass, snarky, rear-wheel drive, modified Pontiac Trans Am; the other   a heavily chest-haired, 80s sex bomb. Together, they ;re Lego Knight Rider.     KITT get me out of here! This 7-wide minifig scaled model of KITT uses on stanley cup ly original Lego bricks. Builder Stanley-Efu states: sing SNOT-technique  Studs Not On Top  I placed the lower midsection upside down to create the smooth curved shapes. Personally, my life would be complete with a well-coiffed, bronze, Adonis-like Michael Knight minifig. Wanna support this project and see it possibly become an official Lego set  Then stanley mugg  head over to Lego Cuu stanley website soo and vote! Knight Rider, a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist. Michael Knight, a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless, in a world of criminals who operate above the law.   You ;re reading Leg Godt, the blog with the latest Lego news and the most awesome Lego models in the web. Follow us on Twitter or Facebook.                                                        Lego

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 The average gasoline price nationwide for all grades dropped less than 2 cents in three weeks, continuing a slide in pump prices that began in April, an industry analyst said Su stanley flasche nday.The average retail price for all three grades dropped 1.65 cents to $2.16 per gallon between May 20 to Friday, said Trilby Lundberg, who publishes the semimonthly Lundberg Survey of 7,000  stanley polska gas stations around the country.The most popular grade, self-serve regular, was priced at $2.13 a gallon, while customers paid $2.23 for midgrade. Premium averaged $2.33 a gallon for the period.The average price for all grades nationwide has dropped 16 cents since April 8, although it is still 12 cents higher than the same time last year.Lundberg said she expects prices to continue to drop, although the pace has slowed because of rising demand for diesel fuel as the economy recovers. Demand for diesel has propped up crude oil prices, which recently gained strength, but has moderated in the past few days.         That, combined with the fact that  stanley website there is plenty of gasoline, will allow for some further declines at the pump, I believe,  Lundberg said Sunday.The highest price for unleaded regular in the nation among the stations surveyed was in Honolulu at $2.44. The lowest was in Charleston, S.C., at $1.99                                                                      ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5          display: none;             inline-recirc-item--id-93577416-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, Jkfl U.K. Leader Wants IT Help Against Terror
 Even before the polar vortex put large swathes of the US i stanley mugs nto a deep freeze, subzero temperatures in Canada were  vaso stanley causing frost quakes. A few nights ago, residents around Ontario woke up to mysterious booms鈥攍ike an explosion or falling tree. Turns it was just the cold.     https://gizmodo/why-the-entire-country-is-frozen-solid-1494663508 Like a glass jar of water in the freezer, the ground can crack as liquid water expands while freezing into ice. Frost quakes, or cryoseisms, require a sharp temperature drop: It must be warm enough for water to first saturate the ground and then suddenly cold enough for a quick freeze. T stanley cup he explosions are so loud because frost quakes happen so close to the surface. And as disruptive as they sound, they ;re unlikely to be dangerous. Frost quakes have also been reported in the midwest and New England, but they are generally quite rare. Environment Canada meteorologist Geoff Coulson told the Toronto Star it was the first he experienced in 30 years. [Toronto Star via Outside] Photo via Stephanie Barbary/Shutterstock

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 A pilot, co-pilot and two people on the ground were killed when a small plane crashed into a park in this Los Angeles suburb where hundreds of people were barbecuing and celebrating the Fourth of July.Authorities say the crash is believed to be accidental.Twelve people were injured, including five children.  Three of the injured  are listed in critical condition. The wings clipped on the trees. It went nose first. Bodies flying all over the place,  said witness Javier Franco. He said two girls were trapped under the plane.  Other peo stanley cup website ple took the bodies out of the plane. I can t forget seeing the bodies on the ground. The twin-engine Cessna 310 crashed near the shore of Puddingstone Reservoir at Frank G. Bonelli Regional Park, about 30 miles east of Los Angeles.        Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown said the crash  sounds completely like an accident. Gov. Gray Davis said the pilot stanley tumbler  issued two distress calls shortly after takeoff from Brackett Field, a small airport near the park on a lake.According to the FAA, the plane never gained the amount of altitude that would be appropriate following takeoff. As best as I can tell, there were two maydays radioed from the small plane to the airport, so clearly this was a mechanical problem,  said Davis.   It s very unlikely to be having anything to do with any plot against anyone.  We regret the loss of life and the injuries that have occur stanley website red there.             Witnesses say the plane hit a tree and broke in two  Cvxf Newly released pics show retired FBI agent captive
 Good news! Mathematics has confirmed what we already suspected: You should most definitely be ordering a larger pizza.     But I ;m not hungry for that much pizza, you say  Allow me to refute your argument with two simple words: Cold. Pizza. But if you ;re still not convinced, check out this graph that Quoctrung Bui over at NPR made by crunching the pizza price data from over 74,000 pizzas from 3,678 different pizza joints: There   also a handy interactive  stanley flask feature  which you can check out here  where you can see how many extra pizzas you would have to order to make up the total square inches that you would get at a larger size, and how much extra it would cost you. For instance, here  stanley water bottle 8217  what happens when you look at a 16-inch pizza, and how the smaller sizes stack up: Less pizza for more money  NOT ON stanley mugs  MY WATCH, AMERICA. I ;ll take the 16-inch pizza, please. Images: Graphs and charts / NPR, photograph of pizza / u谋蓯删 蕿 蕠蓯莎蓯s.                                                        datavizFood