http://www.wfmz.com/news/quriyat-in-oman-breaks-world-temperature-record/760348264

(CNN) - The city of Quriyat in Oman now has a dubious distinction to its name: it's recorded highest "low" temperature in known history.

The Middle Eastern town of about 50,000 residents clocked in at a low temperature of 42.6°C (108.7°F) on June 26, 2018.

That was the lowest point of the temperature over a 24-hour period, as noted by weather expert Maximiliano Herrera. Not only did Quriyat hit that astonishing low temperature, it remained that hot for nearly 51 hours.

The heat even in the open gulf was unbelievable during our short stay off the coast.

The local Masirah Airport in 80.
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/masirah.htm

Masirah was the staging base for the disastrous American attempt to rescue their hostages from the Tehran embassy. The countdown to Desert One began in spring 1979 when a popular uprising in Iran forced longtime Iranian ruler, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, into exile. After months of internal turmoil, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeni, a Shiite Muslim cleric, took power in the country. On Nov. 4, 1979, just a few weeks after President Jimmy Carter allowed the Shah to enter the United States for medical treatment, thousands of Iranian students stormed the American Embassy in Tehran, taking 66 hostages and demanding the return of the Shah to stand trial in Iran. American diplomatic efforts to release the hostages were thwarted by Khomeni supporters. At the same time, Pentagon planners began examining rescue options. MC-130s would fly Army Rangers and combat controllers into Manzariyeh. The Rangers would take the field and hold it for the evacuation. Meanwhile, AC-130H Spectre gunships would be over the embassy and the airfield to "fix" any problems encountered. Masirah was a couple of tents and a blacktop strip. It was the final staging area - the last stop before launching.

During the late 1970s and 1980s, Military Airlift Command C-5s and C-141s brought cargo and people to Diego Garcia, mostly via Clark Air Base in the Philippines, but some via the Atlantic/Mediterrainian route (through Egypt to Nairobi or Mombassa, or via Jordan, Saudi and Bahrain on contract DC-8s). Then it was resequenced and flown to Masirah Island, off the East Coast of the Sultanate of Oman, where a USN supply ship crew would laboriously offload the aircraft, break down the pallets by hand, sling them under a helo and fly them out to the ship.

 

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2018/07/couple_high_on_bath_salts_thou.html

A couple high on suspected bath salts who thought fireflies were green lasers from aliens are accused of breaking into two homes in Clinton County last weekend, state police say.

Katherine McCloskey, 22, and Jesse Shields, 30, both of Mill Hall, told police they spent Friday night driving a pickup truck around the Loganton area of Clinton County, and after dark they started seeing green lights similar to fireflies. McCloskey told police they knew they were not lightning bugs because they were blinking twice.

 

Do "bath salts" have any redeeming medical usage at all? I haven't heard of any. Just a way of making the stupid stupider.

 

Do "bath salts" have any redeeming medical usage at all? I haven't heard of any. Just a way of making the stupid stupider.

Bath salts are one of the unintended consequences of the War on Drugs.

They're proof that you can't use the law to keep those determined from killing themselves.

 

Bath salts are one of the unintended consequences of the War on Drugs.

My friends and family are probably sick of me spouting my Law of Unintended Consequences.

I don't have a formal statement of my law yet, but the essence is that the UCs of government policies are usually (always?) more important than the laws/policies themselves, and are usually (again, always?) negative.

It follows naturally from Wayne's Law of Unintended Consequences that the very notion of passing a new, untested law and thinking you will get away unscathed is an act of hubris. Only the most arrogant among us - politicians - think they can be more clever than the forces of nature.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44729770

The US Postal Service has been ordered to pay $3.5m (£2.6m) for copyright infringement after mistakenly using the wrong Statue of Liberty on a stamp.

The Postal Service used the image of sculptor Robert Davidson's Las Vegas replica on a 2010 stamp design instead of the New York original.

https://ecf.cofc.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2013cv0942-136-0

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44729770


https://ecf.cofc.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2013cv0942-136-0

... How can there be a copyright infringement done on a replica of something?

 

... How can there be a copyright infringement done on a replica of something?

Apparently if you screw it up just enough, it's no longer a replica but an "original" worthy of copyright. I'm not sure I would agree but lawyers say there is precedent.

 

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/a-teenager-got-a-usb-cable-stuck-in-his-penis/

A 13-year-old boy from China was “curious” about his genitalia and, for some reason, decided that the best way to satisfy his curiosity would be to slowly insert a phone charger through his urethral orifice. He managed to insert 20 centimeters (7.8 inches) of it into his urethra.

 

Apparently if you screw it up just enough, it's no longer a replica but an "original" worthy of copyright. I'm not sure I would agree but lawyers say there is precedent.

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Is this nuked image of the Statue of Liberty worthy of copyright?

 

Is this nuked image of the Statue of Liberty worthy of copyright?

Not anymore, but it was when new.

 

Hidden rooms?

 

PUT... THE CANDLE... BACK.

 

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article214576365.html

A North Carolina woman was charged with assault over the weekend after allegedly biting her boyfriend repeatedly for changing the TV channel without permission, reports Fox News WGHP.

 

This is why you can't pump your own gas in Oregon.
https://myfox8.com/2018/07/10/40000...lames-after-minivan-rips-off-gas-pump-nozzle/

$400,000 Lamborghini Huracan goes up in flames after minivan rips off gas pump nozzle

 

Truly tasteless publicity:

http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2...hok-vodka-named-after-deadly-nerve-agent.html

A gin distillery based in Bristol, England, has apologized after naming its new vodka offering after the toxic nerve agent Novichok, which is thought to be responsible for leaving one woman dead and another man in critical condition in Wiltshire county.

 

We will follow you to your grave (and beyond if we have to) to collect what's owed to us!:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44783779

It said that Mrs Durdle owed the company about £3,200 and went on to say: "You are in breach of condition 15.4(c) of your agreement with PayPal Credit as we have received notice that you are deceased... this breach is not capable of remedy."

 

La Raccourcisseuse Patriotique

https://www.expatica.com/fr/news/country-news/France-auction-history-crime-guillotine_1973648.html

 

https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/this-honda-lawn-mower-will-go-150-mph

 

Avozilla

http://abc7news.com/food/sink-your-...-4-pound-avocado-as-big-as-your-face/3763290/