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 Stanford University researchers want to build better flying robots. In order to eventually do this, they are filming birds in flight  including hummingbirds  using an ultra-high-speed video camera. Some of the clips they ;ve acquired are nothing short of amazing. As we ;ve discussed before, scientists a stanley taza nd engineers can learn to build faster, more agile robots by studying the locomotion of animals. In the past, for example, researchers found that t stanley thermos mug he abdomen of the hawkmoth plays a pivotal role in the insect   flight control while hovering 鈥?a discovery they then implemented into a robotic quadrotor. High-speed video reveals the surprising beauty of moth flight  Roboticists discover the secret of insect flight, and it   not wings  To learn more about the intricacies of bird flight, Stanford researchers, led by mechanical engineer David Lentink, have been filming various birds flying using a high-speed Phantom camera, which can shoot between 3,300 and 650,000 frames per second, depending on resolution. Stanford News explains: Every time Lentink   students take the camera into the field, they have the potential to make a groundbreaking discover stanley cup y. Thousands of birds have never been filmed with a high-speed camera, their secret flight mechanics never exposed. Students Andreas Pe帽a Doll and Rivers Ingersoll filmed hummingbirds performing a never-before-seen  8220 haking behavior: As the bird dived off a branch, it wiggled and twisted its body al

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 The Newport Beach man who was rescued by a Chilean fishing trawler after getting caught in a violent storm while trying to circumnavigate the globe in his sailboat has arrived back home in Orange County.Ken Barnes stepped out of the arrival terminal of John Wayne airport where he was instantl stanley cup uk y swamped by well-wishers and news cameras.He says he has mixed feelings about being home because he d hoped to be out for another three or four months completing his planned around-the-world journey.Barnes was trying to become the first American solo sailor to circumnav stanley cupe igate the world nonstop starting from the West Coast.But a storm had left him adrift in his vessel for more than three days about 500 miles from the coast of Chile before he was rescued Friday.         In the days since he was rescued, Barnes toured Punta Arenas, Chile, and held a news conference about his brush with death.The homecoming ends an ordeal that began New Year s Eve when Barnes  44-foot ketch was caught in a violent storm and became disabled.Barnes was released from the Armed Forces Hospital in Punta Arenas, Chile s southernmost city, after doctors determined he was in good condition and began the long trip home on Monday. He was rescued early Friday by a Chilean fishing trawler after three days at sea in stormy conditio stanley cups uk ns.During his brief stay in Punta Arenas, Barnes toured the downtown area and and kissed the foot of a bronze statue of a Patagonia Indian in the main square. Local lore has it that this means h Iemo Wildfire Endangers Bel Air
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 CHICAGO Goats that previously appeared at Chicago s Wrigley Field were alive and kicking.But not Wednesday, when a goat s head was left in a box outside the home of the Cubs. The box was addressed to team chairman Tom Ricketts.Ricketts is currently in negotiations with city officials and neighborhood business people about the $300 million renovation of Wrigley Field.Cubs spokesman Julian Green says staff at Wrigley Field discovered the package and immediately called police.Chicago police spokesman Offi stanley mugs cer Veejay Zala says Chicago police responded to a call around 2:30 p.m. indicating an  intimidating package  had been received. Zala would not elaborate, saying police are investigating.        The goat s head was delivered by an unidentified man driving an unmarked truck. There is surveillance video of the incident as it happened, CBS Chicago reports. Chicago legend says a restaurant owner allegedly cursed the Cubs when they wouldn t let his pet goat into Wrigley Field during the stanley uk  1945 World Series. Last ye stanley cup ar,  five Cubs fans - and a goat - walked from Mesa, Arizona to Chicago in a bid to break the  Billy Goat Curse.  The Cubs lost 101 games last season.                                                                       ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5          display: none;             inline-recirc-item--id-4d0f7054-a756-11e2-a3f0-029118418759,  right-rail-recirc-item--id-4d0f7054-a756-11e2-a3f0-029118418759         display: none;             inline-recirc Jvtq Lawyers seek federal oversight of Oakland PD
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 Cardinal Be stanley us rnard Law said he promoted a now-indicted priest without looking at his personnel file, which showed sexual abuse complaints dating to 1966, according to transcripts of testimony stanley termoska  released Tuesday.As he has in the past, Law said repeatedly that he relied on the recommendations of subor stanley cup dinates and scattered church records in deciding whether to return priests to parish work even after receiving sexual abuse allegations against them.Written transcripts and videotapes of Law s June deposition in lawsuits filed against him and others related to alleged abuse by the Rev. Paul Shanley were made public Tuesday.Also Tuesday, Law resumed giving a deposition behind closed doors.Shanley, 71, and once known for his street ministry to gay and troubled youths, is in jail awaiting trial on child rape charges. He was indicted in June on charges he abused boys 6 to 15 years old from 1979 to 1989 while he was a priest at a church in suburban Newton.        The Boston Archdiocese is at the center of a nationwide priest sex-abuse scandal that erupted after it was disclosed that Law knew of accusations against former priest John Geoghan but continued to shuffle him between parishes. The archdiocese has been hit with hundreds of allegations against dozens of priests.Under questioning from Roderick MacLeish, an attorney for Shanley s alleged victims, Law acknowledged that a complaint was sent to the archdiocese in 1966 alleging that Shanley had sexually abused a boy.But Law said he did no Pxhn Hot potato! Mr. Potato Head turns 60
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 The Justice Department s civil rights division concluded Thursday there was no criminal act in the hanging last summer of a black Mississippi teen-ager, which local authorities ruled a suicide.Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson and the family of 17-year-old Raynard Johnson had argued that local authorities moved too qu stanley cups uk ickly to rule out the possibility the youth was lynched by people who disapproved of his friendships with white girls in the rural community of Kokomo, Miss.But a three-paragraph statement from the Justice Department said,  Despite stanley cup  the tragic nature of this event, the evidence about Mr. Johnson s death obtained and reviewed by the Department of Justice does not suggest that a criminal act occurred. The department said it explored  every avenue of inquiry,  including interviewing numerous witnesses and enlisting the aid of multiple forensic experts. It also reviewed  all available physical evidence  and findings of a medical examiner hired by the Johnson family. There are no other avenues left to consider,  the department concluded. It noted that the Mississippi attorney general, the Mississippi Highway Patrol, the 15th Circuit Court district attorney and the Marion County sheriff reached the same conclusion after separate investigations.        The youth was found hanged last June 16 in the front yard of his Kokomo home.Two autopsies, including the one commiss stanley termohrnek ioned by the family, found no evidence of a struggle. Authorities have said Johnson s girlfriend broke up Fpiv Laura Palmer s Twin Peaks House Is For Sale
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 Updated June 16, 2013, 12:51 AM ETMINNEAPOLIS The revelation that a former commander of a Nazi SS-led military unit has lived quietly in Minneapolis for the past six decades came as a shock to those who know 94-year-old Michael Karkoc. World War II survivors in both the U.S. and Europe harshly condemned the stanley cup  news and prosecutors in Poland have said they ll investigate.An Associated Press investigation fo stanley cup und that Karkoc served as a top commander in the Ukrainian Self-Defense Legion during World War II. The unit is accused of wartime atrocities, including the burning of villages filled with women and children. I know him personally. We talk, laugh. He takes care of his yard and walks with his wife,  his next-door neighbor, Gordon Gnasdoskey, said Friday. For me, this is a shock. To come to this country and take advantage of its freedoms all of these years, it blows my mind,  said Gnasdoskey, the grandson of a Ukrainian immigrant himself.        Karkoc told American authorities in 1949 that he had performed no military service during World War II, concealing his work as an officer and founding member of the legion and later as an officer in the SS Galician Division, according to records obtained by the AP through a Freedom of Information Act request.A Nazi unit leader s Minneapolis life prompts shock, outrageAP: A leader of Nazi SS-led unit that massacred civilians, Michael Karkoc, has been in U.S. since stanley cup  1949    Though records do not show that Karkoc had a direct hand in war crim Qkbi Spain Holds Moroccan Drugs Baron
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 Four officers were in critical condition and a suspect dead on Saturday after two related shootings, the first after a traffic stop and the second after a massive manhunt ended in gunfire, police said.Two officers were shot in the first incident just after 1 p.m. after they stopped the suspect s vehicle in east Oakland, said Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason.The suspect fled the scene on foot into a nearby neighborhood, police said, leading to an intense manhunt by dozens of Oakland police, California Highway Patrol offi stanley cup ce stanley mugs rs and Alameda County sheriff deputies. Streets were roped off and an entire area of east Oakland closed to traffic.At about 3:30 p.m. officers, acting on an anonymous tip, found the suspect, who had barricaded himself in a building close to location of the first shooting. Gunfire was exchanged between the two parties, injuring two more officers and killing one of the suspects, reports CBS Station KPIX in San Francisco. We had SWAT officers go into that bu stanley mugs ilding and that s where the second shooting took place,  said Thomason.        All four officers are in critical condition at Highland Hospital, Thomason said. Dozens of people, including other officers gathered outside the hospital, awaiting word of the officers  condition.Authorities say the Alameda County coroner has been called to Highland Hospital in Oakland in response to the shooting but the hospital is not releasing any information yet, KPIX reports.A visibly shaken acting Oakland Police Chief  Xnzb Is This Make-Believe Cereal Cartoon Character Really a Navy Captain
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 An appeals court on Wednesday upheld a Virginia law that requires public schools to lead a daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, rejecting a claim that its reference to God was an unconstitutional promotion of religion.A suit filed by Edward Myers of Sterling, Va., a father of three, raised the objection to the phrase  one nation under God. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the pledge is a patriotic exercise, not an affirmation of religion similar to a prayer. Undoubtedly, the pledge contains a religious phrase, and it is demeaning to persons of any faith to assert that the words `under God  contain no religious significance,  Judge Karen Williams wrote.  The inclusion of those two words, however, does not alter the nature of the pledge as a patriotic activity. Myers  attorney, David Remes, said the 4th Circuit judges failed to examine the pledge s effect on children.        stanley cups   The problem is that young school children are quite likely to view the pledge as affir stanley becher ming the existence of God and national subordination to God,  Remes said.  The reference to God is one of the few things in the pledge that children understand. Remes said he and his client had not yet discussed whether to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.A spokeswoman for state Attorney General Judith Williams Jagdmann did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Three years ago, a federal appeals c stanley cup ourt in California sided with another father who had argued that req Ohgp What Did   8220;Automatic  8221; Mean To The Futurists of Yesterday
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 The parents of Ryan and Ethan Gau say they feel  heartbroken  and  disrespected  after being kicked out of an Applebee s in Gaty, Texas, over their children s behavior. Eli Gau and his wife Lillian Maliti brought their 3-year-old and 1-year-old sons there for dinner Sunday night.  They re kind of active,  Gau said.  They stanley cup  act like children. They re not adults.               When his three-year-old wandered off, Gau went to get him.   As I was grabbing him and coming back, the manager was walking to me,  said Gau.  Gau said the manager told him that the children were making too much noise, and then called the authorities and told the entire family to leave.           When they walked outside, they were confronted by a Harris County Sheriff s Deputy, who gave them a notice warning them for criminal trespassing.  The restaurant, that markets itself as a  family-friendly  place, has apologized for the incident. An Applebee s spokesperson said the management team had mishandled the situation.   The restaurant also invited the stanley water bottle  family to come back and offered them free passes for dinner, but Gau said his family will not be returning.               I feel very sad,  Gau said.                                                                        ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5          display: none stanley us ;             inline-recirc-item--id-5a92bf28-3598-11e3-8ce8-047d7b15b92e,  right-rail-recirc-item--id-5a92bf28-3598-11e3-8ce8-047d7b15b92e         display: none;           Jguf 8220;Mind-Controlled  8221; Airplanes Might Just Be A Thing
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 Edward Snowden has been avoiding U.S. authorities for some time. But his lawyer has now confirmed that Russia has granted him a three-year residence permit so he can remain there for the foreseeable future.     https://gizmodo/one-year-after-the-first-snowden-leak-whats-really-cha-1586213046 He received temporary asylum in the country last summer, butRussia  stanley cup Today reports that Snowden is now official for the next 36 months. That means that he ;ll be able to travel around the country freely, and even travel abroad for up to three months at a time. This isn ;t the sa stanley nz me as citizenship, but he ;ll also be able apply for that once he   lived in the country for five years. He might just pull this off, you know. [Russia Today via Verge] Image by  stanley mugs ekvidi under Creative Commons license                                                        Edward SnowdenPrivacyRussia

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 A Boston police officer was suspended Wednesday for allegedly using a racial slur to describe black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and a New York City government aide resigned after posting Facebook comments about the scholar s controversial arrest.Boston police put two-year officer Justin Barrett on administrative leave pending a termination hearing. Barrett, 36, did not immediately return calls for comment.Barrett s union, the Boston Police Patrolmen s Association, said they condemn and  strongly denounce these statements as being offensive and hurtful. But the union added that investigators should consider all the facts and not rus stanley cup h to a conclusion.Police said Barrett does not have previous violations with the department.        A person with knowledge of the case, speaking on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak publicly about it, said Barrett, a member of the National Guard stanley ca , used the racial slur in messages to guardsmen and to The Boston Globe.Boston Mayor Thomas Menino told WCVB-TV the city needs  to rid the department of that cancer.  An individual preaching hate has no place in our society,  Menino told the local television station.The mayor told WCVB-TV that Barrett was trained in racial profiling prevention and had shown no signs of racial discrimination in the past.            Gates was arrested for disorderly conduct in his stanley mugs  home near Harvard University by a white police officer who was responding to a report of a possible  Vper Hilariously Useless Comments About Science from the US Supreme Court
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 SACRAMENTO, California - Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a landmark bill adding lessons about gay history to social studies classes in California s public schools.Brown, a Democrat, signed the bill Thursday, m stanley termohrnek aking California the first state in the nation to require public schools to include the contributions of gays and lesbians in social studies curriculum.The Democratic-majority Legislature passed the bill last week on a largely party-line vote.The bill has drawn criticism from some churches and conservative groups that argue such instruction would expose students to a subject that some parents find objectionable.Democratic state Sen. Mark Leno of San Francisco, the bill s author, has said that teachin stanley uk g gay history in public schools will teach students to be more accepting of gays and lesbians.        The bill was hotly contested.Last week, Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, a Republican from Twin Peaks, said he was offended as a Christian that the bill was being used to promote a  homosexual agenda  in public schools. I think it s one thing to say that we should be tolerant,  Donnelly said.  It is something else altogether to say that my children are going to be taught that this lifestyle is good. California law already requires schools to teach about women, African Americans, Mexican Americans, entrepreneurs, Asian Americans, European Americans, American Indians and labor. The Legislature over the years also has prescribed specific lessons about the Irish potato famine and the  stanley cup Holoca Gria Epic battle between Imperial forces and the Enterprise: Who will win
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