Jewelry store robbed in broad daylight in Sunnyvale, California.
Here's the surveillance footage this week from when 20 people robbed a jewelry store in Sunnyvale, California
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Caterpillar Mining Truck Lineup 775, 777, 785, 789, 793, MT4400, MT5300, 797
Caterpillar Mining Truck Lineup 775, 777, 785, 789, 793, MT4400, MT5300, 797
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Cat D11 Dozer in Action - Caterpillar D11
Cat D11 Dozer in Action
Caterpillar Dozer
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Cast iron pan manufacturing process
Cast iron pan manufacturing process. Metal foundry in South Korea
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A Chameleon changes color out in the wild of Madagascar
A Chameleon changes color out in the wild of Madagascar
Chameleons change color by dispersing or concentrating pigment granules (melanophore cells) in the cells that contain them. In general, the animal appears lighter-coloured when pigment is concentrated and dark when pigment is dispersed throughout the cells. The chameleon's colour state at any given time is controlled by a complex interaction of hormones, temperature, and the animal’s autonomic nervous system.
https://www.britannica.com/story/how-do-chameleons-change-colour
Chameleons or chamaeleons (family Chamaeleonidae) are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of Old World lizards with 200 species described as of June 2015. The members of this family are best known for their distinct range of colours, being capable of colour-shifting camouflage. The large number of species in the family exhibit considerable variability in their capacity to change colour. For some, it is more of a shift of brightness (shades of brown); for others, a plethora of colour-combinations (reds, yellows, greens, blues) can be seen.
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The Steel Making Process From Start to Finish - Material Science
The Steel Making Process From Start to Finish
Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon with improved strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron. Because of its high tensile strength and low cost, steel is one of the most commonly manufactured materials in the world. Steel is used in buildings, as concrete reinforcing rods, in bridges, infrastructure, tools, ships, trains, cars, bicycles, machines, electrical appliances, furniture, and weapons.
Iron is always the main element in steel, but many other elements may be present or added. Stainless steels, which are resistant to corrosion and oxidation, typically need an additional 11% chromium.
Steel is primarily produced using one of two methods: Blast Furnace or Electric Arc Furnace.
The blast furnace is the first step in producing steel from iron oxides. The first blast furnaces appeared in the 14th century and produced one ton per day. Even though equipment is improved and higher production rates can be achieved, the processes inside the blast furnace remain the same. The blast furnace uses coke, iron ore and limestone to produce pig iron.
Coal traditionally has been a key part of the coke-making process. The coal is crushed and ground into a powder and then charged into an oven where it is heated to approximately 1800°F in the absence of oxygen. As the oven is heated, the coal begins to melt so most of the volatile matter such as oil, tar, hydrogen, nitrogen and sulfur are removed. The cooked coal, called coke, is removed from the oven after 18 to 24 hours of reaction time. The coke is cooled and screened into pieces ranging from one inch to four inches. The coke is a porous, hard black rock of concentrated carbon (contains 90 to 93 percent carbon), which has some ash and sulfur but compared to raw coal is very strong. The strong pieces of coke with a high energy value provide permeability, heat and gases which are required to reduce and melt the iron ore, pellets and sinter. Today, natural gas is increasingly being added in place of coke to the same degree in the blast furnace to reduce carbon emissions
https://www.steel.org/steel-technology/steel-production/
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Scanning electron microscope images of microbes
Scanning electron microscope images of microbes
What Are Microbes? Microbes are organisms that are too small to be seen without using a microscope, so they include things like bacteria, archaea, and single cell eukaryotes — cells that have a nucleus, like an amoeba or a paramecium. Sometimes we call viruses microbes too.
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Petroleum - oil - refining processes explained
Petroleum refining processes explained
How crude oil is refined into petroleum products
Petroleum refineries convert (refine) crude oil into petroleum products for use as fuels for transportation, heating, paving roads, and generating electricity and as feedstocks for making chemicals.
Refining breaks crude oil down into its various components, which are then selectively reconfigured into new products. Petroleum refineries are complex and expensive industrial facilities. All refineries have three basic steps:
Separation
Conversion
Treatment
Separation
Modern separation involves piping crude oil through hot furnaces. The resulting liquids and vapors are discharged into distillation units. All refineries have atmospheric distillation units, but more complex refineries may have vacuum distillation units.
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-products/refining-crude-oil-the-refining-process.php
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Footage of the tallest man to ever live, Robert Wadlow
Footage of the tallest man to ever live, Robert Wadlow
Robert Wadlow (February 22, 1918 – July 15, 1940), also known as the Alton Giant and the Giant of Illinois, was an American man who was the tallest person in recorded history for whom there is irrefutable evidence. He was born and raised in Alton, Illinois, a small city near St. Louis, Missouri
Wadlow's height was 8 ft 11.1 in (2.72 m) while his weight reached 439 lb (199 kg) at his death at age 22. His great size and his continued growth in adulthood were due to hypertrophy of his pituitary gland, which results in an abnormally high level of human growth hormone (HGH).
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Anthony Fauci’s throws first pitch
Anthony Fauci’s first pitch is still one of the funniest sports moment of all time
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Andrew Weissmann says he has a “Man crush” on Judge Merchan
Weissmann: "With respect to Judge Merchan, I have like a man crush on him. He is such a great judge. If you looked in a dictionary for judicial temperament, that's what you would get."
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Drone footage of the crashed F-35 in Albuquerque.
Drone footage of the crashed F-35 in Albuquerque.
5-28-2024
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is an American family of single-seat, single-engine, stealth multirole combat aircraft designed for air superiority and strike missions; it also has electronic warfare and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities. Lockheed Martin is the prime F-35 contractor with principal partners Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems. The aircraft has three main variants: the conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL) F-35A, the short take-off and vertical-landing (STOVL) F-35B, and the carrier-based (CV/CATOBAR) F-35C.
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Robert De Niro Has TDS meltdown at Biden campaign news conference in NYC
Robert De Niro and former Capitol police officers Harry Dunn and Michael Fanone speak outside of Trump’s criminal trial on behalf of the Biden-Harris campaign.
While being heckled, Robert De Niro calls Trump a clown outside of the Manhattan courthouse.
Robert De Niro is an American actor and film producer. Known for his collaborations with Martin Scorsese, he is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential actors of his generation. De Niro is the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. In 2009, De Niro received the Kennedy Center Honors, and earned a Presidential Medal of Freedom from U.S. President Barack Obama in 2016
Robert De Niro calls Donald Trump a ‘monster’ outside New York hush money trial
Robert De Niro branded Donald Trump a “monster” and claimed he “should not be allowed” to be US president again.
The actor arrived outside the New York courthouse on behalf of Joe Biden’s re-election campaign on Tuesday (28 May) as Mr Trump’s hush money trail nears conclusion.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/robert-de-niro-calls-donald-trump-a-monster-outside-new-york-hush-money-trial/ar-BB1nfIQG
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President Biden instructs audience to clap after no one reacted to his West Point speech
President Biden instructs audience to clap after no one reacted to his West Point commencement speech
The United States Military Academy (USMA) (West Point or Army)[8] is a United States service academy in West Point, New York. It was originally established as a fort during the American Revolutionary War, as it sits on strategic high ground overlooking the Hudson River 50 miles (80 km) north of New York City. It is the oldest of the five American service academies and educates cadets for commissioning into the United States Army.
West Point is the world's preeminent leader development institution. Members of the Long Gray Line live by the motto "Duty, Honor, Country" and serve as leaders both in and out of uniform.
https://www.westpoint.edu/
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How To Find Bed Bugs - How To Know If You Have Bed Bugs
How To Find Bed Bugs - How To Know If You Have Bed Bugs
Bed Bugs Appearance and Life Cycle
Knowing what to look for is the first step in identifying and controlling bed bugs. There are many bugs that look like bed bugs, so an accurate identification is a critical first step to avoid costly treatment for the wrong bug. The types of bugs that look like bed bugs will vary somewhat depending on your region of the country, but photos and descriptions of common look-alikes have been compiled by researchers:
Adult bed bugs, in general, are:
about the size of an apple seed (5-7 mm or 3/16 - 1/4 inch long);
long and brown, with a flat, oval-shaped body (if not fed recently);
balloon-like, reddish-brown, and more elongated (if fed recently);
a “true bug” (characteristics of true bugs include a beak with three segments; antenna that have four parts; wings that are not used for flying; and short, golden-colored hairs); and
smelly, with a “musty-sweetish” odor produced through glands on the lower side of the body.
Young bed bugs (also called nymphs), in general, are:
smaller, translucent or whitish-yellow in color; and
if not recently fed, can be nearly invisible to the naked eye because of coloring and size.
Bed bug eggs, in general, are:
tiny, the size of a pinhead;
pearl-white in color; and
marked by an eye spot if more than five days old.
https://www.epa.gov/bedbugs/bed-bugs-appearance-and-life-cycle
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How a bee stinger works
How a bee stinger works
A bee sting is the wound and pain caused by the stinger of a female bee puncturing skin. Bee stings differ from insect bites, with the venom of stinging insects having considerable chemical variation. The reaction of a person to a bee sting may vary according to the bee species. While bee stinger venom is slightly acidic and causes only mild pain in most people, allergic reactions may occur in people with allergies to venom components.
Stinging insects use stingers for two main purposes: defense and predation. Honey bees and bumble bees use their stingers strictly for defense. Bees that are away from the hive foraging will rarely sting unless they are stepped on or unnecessarily aggravated. They are usually too busy searching for pollen and nectar to be bothered by a curious observer or passerby
https://beespotter.org/topics/stings/
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All time Wheel of Fortune moment
All time Wheel of Fortune moment
Wheel of Fortune (often known simply as Wheel[b]) is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin. The show has aired continuously since January 1975. It features a competition in which contestants solve word puzzles, similar to those in hangman, to win cash and prizes determined by spinning a giant carnival wheel. The current version of the series, which airs in nightly syndication, premiered on September 19, 1983. It stars Pat Sajak and Vanna White as hosts, who have hosted the nighttime version since its inception. The original version of Wheel was a network daytime series that ran on NBC from January 6, 1975, to June 30, 1989, and subsequently aired on CBS from July 17, 1989, to January 11, 1991; it returned to NBC on January 14, 1991, and was cancelled that year, ending on September 20, 1991.
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Eastern Rafah before and after the IDF 5-22-2024
Eastern Rafah before and after the IDF 5-22-2024
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One dead, 30 injured from severe turbulence on aircraft
One dead, 30 others injured due to severe turbulence on board a Boeing aircraft from London to Singapore
What Is Turbulence?
In so many words, it’s the drink spiller, the luggage shaker, the nerve jerker. Turbulence occurs when an airplane hits a strong wind current that can push or pull the plane. Most commercial jets fly high enough to avoid these wind patterns, but gusts can happen at any altitude. There are different types of turbulence an aircraft may experience.
What Causes Airplane Turbulence?
Many environmental factors contribute to airplane turbulence, but the number one factor that causes turbulence is a change in the atmosphere. The following are also common causes of turbulence in an aircraft:
https://www.sheffield.com/airplane-turbulence
One person has died and 30 more people are injured as a Boeing 777-300ER flying from London to Singapore plunged some 7,000 feet in six minutes while encountering severe turbulence.
turbulence or turbulent flow is fluid motion characterized by chaotic changes in pressure and flow velocity. It is in contrast to a laminar flow, which occurs when a fluid flows in parallel layers, with no disruption between those layers.
Turbulence is commonly observed in everyday phenomena such as surf, fast flowing rivers, billowing storm clouds, or smoke from a chimney, and most fluid flows occurring in nature or created in engineering applications are turbulent. Turbulence is caused by excessive kinetic energy in parts of a fluid flow, which overcomes the damping effect of the fluid's viscosity. For this reason turbulence is commonly realized in low viscosity fluids. In general terms, in turbulent flow, unsteady vortices appear of many sizes which interact with each other, consequently drag due to friction effects increases. This increases the energy needed to pump fluid through a pipe.
The onset of turbulence can be predicted by the dimensionless Reynolds number, the ratio of kinetic energy to viscous damping in a fluid flow. However, turbulence has long resisted detailed physical analysis, and the interactions within turbulence create a very complex phenomenon. Richard Feynman described turbulence as the most important unsolved problem in classical physics
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Coal Blasting Gone Wrong
Coal Blasting Gone Wrong
Blasting
Blasting is an integral part of surface mining operations. To uncover coal reserves, the rocks overlying the coal are broken with explosives and excavated with various types of large earth-moving equipment. Without blasting, a vital part of the nation's energy reserve would be inaccessible
The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA) requires that coal mining be conducted in a manner that prevents injury to people and damage to public or private property during blasting. The side effects of blasting include:
Flyrock - a rock or rocks moving through the air or along the ground after a blast and travel beyond the blast area (security zone).
Ground vibrations - a seismic wave that moves through the ground following a blast.
Airblast - a concussion (or pressure) wave that moves through air following a blast.
Fumes - the gaseous byproducts that are the result of an explosives detonation.
Dust - small particles of earthen material that may be temporarily suspended in air.
The most dangerous and apparent of these is flyrock. Injury or death to people and property damage may happen when a piece of rock is thrown beyond the permit boundary. The blaster is responsible for preventing flyrock and controlling ground vibration, airblast and fumes. OSMRE oversees the only national program to certify blasters. Training provided for blaster certification addresses the control of flyrock, vibrations, airblast and fumes by the appropriate use of explosives and hazard recognition in the field.
Ground vibrations and airblast may cause people's homes to shake. When people feel their homes shake, they may associate damage to their homes as being a direct result of blasting at a surface coal mine.
https://www.osmre.gov/programs/regulating-active-coal-mines/blasting
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock with a high amount of carbon and hydrocarbons. Coal is classified as a nonrenewable energy source because it takes millions of years to form. Coal contains the energy stored by plants that lived hundreds of millions of years ago in swampy forests
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Woman crashes into lamppost, flips car during driving test
Woman crashes into lamppost, flips car during driving test
A driving test (also known as a driving exam or driver's test in some places) is a procedure designed to test a person's ability to drive a motor vehicle. It exists in various forms worldwide, and is often a requirement to obtain a license to drive a vehicle independently. A driving test generally consists of one or two parts: the practical test (sometimes called a road test in the United States), used to assess a person's driving ability under normal operating conditions,[1] and a theory test (written, oral or computerized) to confirm a person's knowledge of driving and relevant rules and laws.
lamppost - a post supporting a usually outdoor lamp or lantern
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International Criminal Court - ICC - seeks arrest warrants including PM Netanyahu, for war crimes
International Criminal Court seeks arrest warrants for Hamas and Israeli leaders, including PM Netanyahu, for war crimes
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has requested arrest warrants for Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Gallant
In addition, the ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants against the Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Al-Masri, and Ismail Haniyeh
The International Criminal Court (ICC or ICCt)[2] is an intergovernmental organization and international tribunal seated in The Hague, Netherlands. It is the first and only permanent international court with jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for the international crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression. The ICC is distinct from the International Court of Justice, an organ of the United Nations that hears disputes between states
Established in 2002 pursuant to the multilateral Rome Statute, the ICC is considered by its proponents to be a major step toward justice, and an innovation in international law and human rights. However, it has faced a number of criticisms from governments and civil society groups, including objections to its jurisdiction, accusations of bias, Eurocentrism and racism, questioning of the fairness of its case selection and trial procedures, and doubts about its effectiveness
The International Criminal Court (ICC) investigates and, where warranted, tries individuals charged with the gravest crimes of concern to the international community: genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of aggression. As a court of last resort, it seeks to complement, not replace, national Courts. Governed by an international treaty called the Rome Statute
https://www.icc-cpi.int/
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