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370 000 New Yorkers Urged To Evacuate Hurricane Irene Sow Destruction On The East Coast 115 Mph Winds And Flooding

New York is preparing for the brutal power of Hurricane Irene after a night of pieces from the destruction of view of the east coast with fierce winds hit 115 mph and the damage that resulted in an unprecedented blockade, while storm rumbles its way the north.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg warned residents this morning, the clock is ticking in time to evacuate as a storm slow assault on the North Carolina coast early Saturday, claiming at least two life-threatening, and 20 percent of the U.S. population.

System of the nation's largest subway and arriving flights on five major New York City area airports have been arrested by Saturday afternoon as Hurricane Irene spun up the East Coast, have forced more than 370,000 evacuations and lights dimming at Citi Field and Broadway.

Although Irene weakened the last night and was downgraded to Category 1 hurricane, experts warn it could wreak havoc when it hits New York because of storms pushed water from the sea and heavy rains that caused flooding. The storm was expected to reach New York on Sunday morning, according to the National Hurricane Center.

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Heeling: One of two people rescued from a sailboat, right, uses a line to make their way onto the beach on Willoughby Spit in Norfolk today

 

Evacuating: New York Police Department officers and NYU Langone Medical Center employee Danny Hernandez help an 83-year-old patient after finding her a cab during rush hour after the hosptial was ordered to to discharge or move about 400 patients

  

Barriers: Pedestrians walk past sandbags laid down at downtown Manhattan, which will be used to control possible floods

  

Out of control: NASA today released a satellite image which shows Hurricane Irene churning along the east coast of the U.S.

 

Landfall: Shortly after the Category 1 storm made landfall near Cape Lookout, NC, forecasters said Irene's winds had dropped to 85mph

 

Closing down: Ticket agents remove the stanchions which form the ticketing lines at JFK International Airport today as the city prepare for Hurricane Irene to hit

 

On duty: New York Police Department officers prepare to patrol the city for Hurricane Irene's arrival

 

'Leave now': Residents of the Wavecrest Home for Adults wait to board buses to be evacuated from the Far Rockaway section of New York City today in anticipation of Hurricane Irene

 

Last chance: People evacuate apartment buildings in Manhattan's Battery Park this morning as Mayor Bloomberg ordered those in low-lying areas to leave before it's too late

 

Last train out: A man waits for a New York City subway before it is scheduled to close in Brooklyn, New York today

The decision to close the transit system, millions of New Yorkers more distant Carless Bronx through Manhattan and on the beaches of Brooklyn and Queens are facing the question of where to go and how.

Bridges and tunnels were closed as the storm approaches, potentially clogging the already congested city traffic. Taxis in New York was to move the prices measured by the prices in the area, that is, the drivers would pay a part of town they drive, rather than what had been taken.

But Saturday morning, many New Yorkers seemed to heed the warnings about the approaching storm. Bridges and roads were almost empty, with few people walking and driving. With the closure deadline looming, most of the subway cars on the train number 1 bus, which runs the length of the West Side of Manhattan was empty early in the morning.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg called those who needed to leave to do so as soon as Saturday morning. The city does not have enough resources for everyone to evacuate after the weather deteriorates, he said, about two and a half hours before the transit system shut down.

"Falling behind is dangerous to be left behind is stupid, and it is against the law, and urge all people in evacuation zones do not wait for the winds, said at a news conference at Coney Island as the rain began to fall. "Free time is now."

Fares and tolls are not required in the evacuated areas. Officials expect most residents would stay with his family and friends for the rest of the city has opened over 100 shelters with a capacity of 71,000 people.

Wall Street, sandbags were placed around the gates of the nearest Metro East River, which should speed the hurricane approached the city of New York.

The five major New York area airports were scheduled to close at Saturday lunchtime to reach domestic and international flights. Three of them, Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark Liberty are among the busiest.

At Kennedy Airport on Friday evening, urged travelers to make some of the last flights to leave before the hurricane should strike. Some input terminal were already closed before shutting down on Saturday. Passengers wait in line for security checks were conducted between the terminals on the ramps closed to vehicles as security guards tried to get through passengers per hour.

US only airlines canceled flights at least 6100 until Monday, blocking hundreds of thousands of passengers that the storm could hit major airports from Washington to Boston.

Irene went ashore as a Category 1 storm near Cape Lookout, North Carolina on Friday night, and started rolling the Interstate 95 corridor, reaching New York on Sunday. A hurricane warning was issued for the afternoon the city Friday, the first time what happened Gloria in 1985.

At least one storm-related deaths were reported. Onslow County, an unknown man who was in the process of plywood on the windows of his house suffered a heart attack and died, said Ernie Seneca, a spokeswoman for the NC Division of Emergency Management.

If the storm stays on its current path, a block of flats can break windows, branches and debris would fall to be thrown around. Streets of the southern tip of the city could be a few feet below the water, and the police prepared the lifeboats, but found that they had to go out if the conditions were poor.

Bloomberg said he was sure the people kind of storm.

"We do not have the manpower to go door to door and get people out of their homes," he said. "No one will be fined. No one will go to jail. But if you do not follow it, people die."

But he said that those who ignore the warnings, the police have the use of loudspeakers in patrol vehicles to spread the word about the evacuation.

Many of New York history was during the evacuation, including Battery Park City area, where tourists catching ferries to the Statue of Liberty. Construction was stopped in the city, and workers on the site of the World Trade Center was the dismantling of a crane and securing equipment. Bloomberg said there would be no effect on the day of September 11 after opening the memorial of the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.

Lenovo Debuts Its New Windows 7 Tablet

Lenovo’s new IdeaPad Tablet P1 is a productivity machine and entertainment device rolled into one. After all, it’s the first tablet we’ve seen that has Microsoft Office 2010 and Angry Birds for PC preinstalled. The P1 has a 1.5GHz Intel processor, integrated Intel HD graphics, and up to 2GB of DDR2 memory. You can choose between a 32GB and 64GB SSD, and the microSD slot provides additional storage capabilities. The tablet features a 10.1-inch HD multitouch display, USB port, 2MP Web cam, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connections, and up to six hours of battery life.

The P1’s impressive software suite also includes OneKey Rescue System, Lenovo Energy Management, eBook reader, App Manager, and Arcsoft TotalMedia Center. Pricing for the P1 was not available at press time, but Lenovo reports the tablet is due out later this year.

AsRock Vision 3D 137B Home-Theater PC

Home-theater PCs don’t generate much interest among mainstream consumers. That’s a bit mind-boggling, considering how many features these machines off er and the fact that most people are already familiar with the Windows interface. But luckily for us enthusiasts, companies like AsRock keep working diligently to improve HTPC design. The Vision 3D delivers nearly every digital entertainment feature you could want, including Blu-ray 3D, Internet TV, video on demand, online music services, and access to all the digital media stored on your own network.

The machine’s $850 street price renders it very expensive compared to, say, a mediastreamer like the Boxee Box, especially since it doesn’t come with everything you’ll need to get started (more on that in a moment). On the plus side, however, TV networks and service providers such as Hulu can’t block an HTPC from accessing their content online.

You’ll fi nd no operating system, keyboard, or mouse bundled with the Vision 3D—and this isn’t necessarily bad, because you won’t be paying for items you don’t need or want. The machine does come with an infrared Windows Media Center–style remote control, however, as well as the OEM version of Cyberlink’s PowerDVD 10. When pricing the machine, don’t forget to factor in the cost of whatever OS and controllers you decide to use. And if you want to watch Bluray 3D movies, you’ll want Nvidia’s 3D Vision kit ($200, with extra glasses costing $150 each). The review unit we received had Windows 7 Ultimate installed. We used a generic wired keyboard and mouse to run benchmarks, and Nvidia’s shutter glasses for 3D movies.

AsRock opted to use components more typically found in notebook PCs. This helped it build an HTPC that will fi t just about anywhere. More importantly, the Vision 3D doesn’t require a lot of noisy fans for cooling. There’s an Intel 2.4GHz Core i3-370M mobile CPU, and a 500GB Western Digital Scorpio Black hard drive. If that’s not enough storage for you, you can add external drives using the machine’s eSATA, USB 2.0, or USB 3.0 ports.

Nvidia’s GeForce GT 425M graphics processor, coupled with 1GB of DDR3 memory, enables the machine to decode Blu-ray 3D movies and stream both video and high-defi nition soundtracks (Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio) over a single HDMI 1.4a cable to your A/V receiver. That feature alone makes the Vision 3D unique among prefab home-theater PCs. With its Core i3 and discrete GeForce card, the Vision 3D is easily the most powerful mini HTPC we’ve tested and far outstrips those based on Atom processors.

The only feature missing from this machine is a TV tuner. You could add a USB device to grab over-the-air programming, but this HTPC will never replace your cable company’s set-top box or DVR. That’s about the only criticism we can level at this rig. It delivered excellent image quality in Blu-ray movies, it’s capable of streaming HD audio over HDMI, and it supports HDMI 1.4a for Blu-ray 3D. It’s better than any Blu-ray player or media streamer on the market. Heck, it’s the best home-theater PC we’ve tested 

Our zero-point is a Dell Inspiron Zino HD equipped with a dual-core 1.5GHz Athlon X2 3250e, 2GB of DDR2/667, an AMD 780G with integrated Radeon HD 3200, a 250GB 7,200rpm Western Digital hard drive, and 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium.

The Rebel Force Libyan State Television To Air After The Storm HQ Loyalist Forces Stage Provocative Last Stand

Libyan state television looks today, the insurgents stormed AK47 armed country's television and Colonel Gaddafi slipped into hiding.

The rebels said they ambushed the concrete building in Tripoli, killing soldiers guarding him.

It was one of the biggest gains on a joyful but ultimately frustrating day for the rebels, although heavy fighting continued in the evening as Al-Jazeera television reported a warplane shot down NATO a Scud missile from Sirte, Colonel Qaddafi hometown, just east of Tripoli.

Gaddafi's forces had fired Scud missiles earlier in the month of August that landed in the desert and hurts no one.

The Libyan state television station was used to spread propaganda messages Qaddafi since the unrest began on 17 February and the loss of the season is a blow to the leader.

"The revolutionaries stormed the television building ... after killing the soldiers around him. Is now under their control," the spokesman said. He was speaking after the station Jamahiriyah TV screens went blank.

BBC Monitoring Service has confirmed that television screens across the country went empty early this afternoon.

Heavy gunfire still echo across the city as a medium die-hard loyalists of the Libyan leader began a final against attack.

Government tanks emerged from the complex, known as Bab al-Aziziya and began shooting shortly after dawn after a rebel attack.

Residents said the fighters had tried to scale the walls of the compound of Qaddafi, but was greeted by a wall of fire. Libyan leader still controls Rixos area in the south west of Tripoli and mercenaries continue to fight for him. His youngest son, Khamis al-Gaddafi, is understood to head against an attack.

Within 24 hours the most crucial since the conflict began, the rebels now looks almost take control of the country in North Africa.

The rebels say they now control about 95 percent of Tripoli, in spite of the fight-back by the troops of Gaddafi, after four hours of calm. They said that about 1,300 people were killed in Tripoli.

Echtiwi Nouri, a rebel spokesman said: "Four hours of calm followed by a street party Then the containers and pick-ups mounted with heavy machine guns on the back came out of the Bab al-Aziziya, the last bastion of Gaddafi, and began firing projectiles and Al-Khalifa Street and Assarin area. They fired randomly in all directions, when they heard shots. "

Sources said that the shells belonged to the return of al-Bab Azizy made and that the rebels were "vulnerable" because of heavy weapons used by the forces of pro-Gaddafi.

NATO planes have been consulted in Tripoli, but yet they have not launched an air and perform surveillance work.

Shootings raged in Gargaresh district of Tripoli, where the government snipers could be seen on the streets. Snipers were also located on the main road through Madinat Seyahiyah. The rebels began firing back with AK47s and RPGs.

They began to prepare for an attack on Green Square, using jeeps mounted with rocket launchers. It also emerged today that the rebels has restored connections Libya internet and telephone, while the closure of state-owned Radio and TV.

The rebels have been securing key government buildings of the city telling residents to stay home while providing them immunity if they surrender their weapons. Residents of support have been returned to the hot milk and the rebels.

The convoys of the families on the roads are reported to travel around the country to Tripoli to attend the celebrations. The atmosphere in the capital remains the most depreciation, and residents waved flags and honking their car horns today.

Speaking this evening, Obama said that Libya was "escaping from the clutches of a tyrant," the battle between rebels and Gaddafi has reached a "tipping point".

Obama, who is on vacation in Martha's Vineyard, said that the surest way to stop the bloodshed is the Libyan leader to relinquish power.

He said: "The future of Libya is now in the hands of the Libyan people.

"Gaddafi has to recognize the reality that he lost control of Libya. He should resign once and for all."

The President promised to work in close coordination with the rebels and said the U.S. "continue to insist that the fundamental rights of the Libyan people is respected".

Statement by the President of the second 24 hours, was issued after Mr. Obama held a conference call for his national security team.

Elsewhere in Libya, there have been clashes between rebels and pro-Gaddafi mercenaries near Al-Hani region, while most of the artillery were captured at an air base.

The Libyan leader was believed to cower in a bunker outside of Tripoli, as fighting erupted around his room and burst into wild celebrations across the country between supporters of the opposition encouraged the rebels.

As the regime of the dictator appears to be on the verge of collapse after 46 NATO air strikes yesterday called independent television Libyan tyrant had "stung like a coward."

Gaddafi, the former right hand Jallud Abdel-Salam said the head was "not brave enough to make Hitler committed suicide.

"I think it's impossible that he admits," Jalloud told Italian television. "It's not like Hitler, who had the courage to kill himself."

Jalloud became the latest defector, when he fled to Tunisia to Tripoli on Friday, and shot in Rome.

He said that his former colleague is up to '10 days remaining in power.

"I do not think the situation in Tripoli will allow it to survive. I think the regime has left a week, 10 days. And maybe even less.

"He has no opportunity to leave Tripoli. All roads are blocked. He can not leave with an international agreement, and I think the door is closed. "

Mustafa Abdel Jalil Director of the Council of the Libyan rebels, said today: "We are the dawn of a new era ... a new phase that lays down the principles that this revolution is based What are the following: .. Equality freedom, democracy , justice and transparency within the moderate Islamic framework.

"Over the past few days in Tripoli revolutunaries have really shown that they are the revolutionaries of the capital. And call our capital Tripoli, calling it deserves.

"Muammar Gaddafi, will be remembered, and its period of domination through the acts he committed against the rebels and the world. In political assassinations, arrests and mind games. And eliminate all the efforts of the Libyan people to oust him from the first year of its revolution. There were many, many attempts to oust Qaddafi. The Libyan people never sent to Gaddafi, since the first years of the revolution .. or rather, since the first year of the coup.

"But God chose to end Gaddafi must be in the hands of these youth to join the Arab Spring, which is going on around the Arab nation.

"And now I say with all the transparency that Gaddafi was over.

The dictator may be offered exile by the African Union in Angola and Zimbabwe that his officials were in talks with South African officials, according to news channel Al Jazeera.

Meanwhile, three of the son of Colonel Gaddafi was reported to be in the hands of the rebels in Libya.

The head of the Council of Libya National Transitional Government, the ruling body of the rebels, said they had arrested Saif al-Islam and Al-Saadi, son of the tyrant two. A third, Muhammad was reported to have handed in.

Mustafa Abdel Jalil told Al-Jazeera: "He (Saif) is kept in a safe place, under close supervision until they handed over the judiciary."

Saif and insisted they would not be harmed, said the French newspaper Le Monde: "We have given instructions that he was treated well, to be judged."

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, has had a close relationship with the West and was considered by many to represent a more democratic future for Libya.

But from the beginning of the uprising, which was closely associated with his father. The International Criminal Court arrest warrant on charges of war crimes.

ICC said it also aims to transfer Saif al-Islam Gaddafi in The Hague indicted for crimes against humanity.

"The Court as a whole is involved," Fadi El-Abdallah said. He added that discussions were underway with Libya rebel National Transitional Council NTC on a shipment of Saif.

Gaddafi's eldest son, Mohammed, head of the company that manages all mobile phones and satellites in the country, while the head of the Libyan Olympic Committee.

Al-Saadi, has taken a lot of practical significance of the system of his father, as the commander of Special Forces in Libya. He was accused ordered the army fire on unarmed demonstrators in Benghazi at the beginning of the uprising.

As wild celebrations erupted between Libya's Gaddafi sign of the apparent departure of the foreign embassies were attacked.

In Greece, the Libyan embassy was ransacked, with portraits of Muammar Gaddafi, defaced and destroyed everything in Kuwait Libyan flag was burned.

It was reported that the dictator was in power for 42 years killing, actually moved a number of bunker-buster bombs and tunnels in the capital.

And even though it was supposed to have taken refuge in the complex - which is reputed to be able to withstand a nuclear attack - the dictator issued a message that their troops ready to mount a last stand.

Gaddafi's official spokesman and slammed against Britain, France and the United States - the three countries leading the campaign to topple the dictator - as it warned of a "terrible catastrophe" if the rebels took up forces in Tripoli.

Earlier in the day, sources inside the city's embattled pro-Gaddafi said the force had placed snipers on the roofs of buildings around the Bab al-Aziziyah, Gaddafi made secret, and the water tower in the vicinity .

Libyan folklore stuff his bunker complex. Tunnel is said to connect a wide, deep rooms to housing tanks, planes and weapons.

He added that "there is no room for complacency" and said there was "much work remains to be done" in the country.

"Gaddafi has to stop fighting without cause and to show that he gave up and control of Libya.

"We must do everything possible to support the will of a Libyan. This is, and will lead to Libya and the Libyan-owned process."

Asked if he thought he had the right to commit troops in Libya, Mr Cameron said: ".. There is no room for complacency, it is still much to do about them is, it's not us. "

The spokesman added: "Gaddafi has committed terrible crimes against the people of Libya, and he must go now to avoid unnecessary suffering to his people."

French President Nicolas Sarkozy for the first time invited a Libyan rebel leader to visit Paris on Wednesday and called on forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi to visit and support the transition in Libya.

Sarkozy spoke with Mahmoud Jibril, the Libyan rebels led National Transitional Government Committee and invited Gabriel to visit France Wednesday, according to a statement from the Elysee.

"As the development of the military situation on the ground and left to multiply in his camp confirmed that the end of the Gaddafi regime and his son is now inevitable and near, President of the Republic condemn in the strongest terms irresponsible and desperate call on Colonel Gaddafi to continue the fight at all costs, "the statement said.

The YouTube video below shows Libyans celebrating in front of the White House in Washington D.C.




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Firefox 6: Four Reasons Not to Upgrade

Thunderbird 6 is here. So far I have not received notification of the latest release of the Mozilla browser, but my wife is, so I think It 'only a matter of time. When I come to knock on the Mozilla gentlemen, although I'm not sure you want Firefox to get number 6.

The dust has barely settled on the last "major update" - but it is the product roadmap strategy Mozilla respect. In that spirit, here are four reasons why I would just as soon not download and install Firefox sixth

Firefox 4.2

There is something new or shocking about Thunderbird 6? Not really. There was really a major change in Firefox 4 version 5, either. In fact, that Mozilla has decided to identify as a completely new version numbers and release of fuss and fanfare a few weeks time is about the same thing the other browser vendors to do at least as often called "Automatic Updates".

To release patches to fix security flaws, or to correct defects can not be considered a new version of the browser. Even adjusting or adding a small feature or two does not justify calling it a new version. These are the things that tend to make gradually the amount - so that 5 is greater than Firefox 4.1 to Firefox and Thunderbird 6 is really just Firefox 4.2. Mozilla also knows why it wants to abandon the version numbering altogether so that it is not so obvious.

This is not a reason to avoid Firefox, but it is annoying separatist established standards for version numbering. And IT administrators trying to manage and maintain browser updates for hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of machines, for Firefox to launch a "new version" every six weeks is a nightmare.

Shooting star

Firefox has been declining for some time. And 'even after the property, and is still a market share of about 40 percent more of Chrome - Google's browser, but gained 5.5 percentage points since last September, while Firefox has fallen by 1.5 percent . Two of the browser has many of the same features and at the same time the general public, and Chrome is the undisputed leader of the street.

Of course we can not Internet Explorer. IE has been sliding as well, but still has a market share of 50 percent in Firefox and Chrome combination. IE has fallen by almost seven percentage points since September 2010, but Microsoft, I'd say the decline is semi-intentional.

Microsoft is an active campaign, asking businesses and consumers to abandon the old versions of browsers - especially IE6. At the same time, Microsoft's flagship browser later - Internet Explorer 9 - is limited to Windows Vista and 7-systems, which limits its potential audience of only about one third of all PCs. Because Windows 7 continues to gain ground and eventually affects Windows 8 IE9 the street (and ultimately IE10) will continue to gain ground.

Add-On

Google Chrome browser add-ons break - again. 5 If Firefox was launched, many users complained that broke-ons, which had worked well for Firefox 4 Firefox, which left five non-functional for users who rely on these add-on broken or mixed with the developer unless that are not updated.

A commentator's article PCWorld my peers Jon Mello, who praised the 6 Firefox reasons why you should download, it does not completely satisfied. MBGolferb5r4 said: "Of course, when you connect to the level it says it does not work with Norton A fairly big problem since I had to jump through hoops with the latest update to do work.. "

The good news, this reader is that Norton is likely to jump right in and aggressively developing the updated add-on that is compatible with Firefox 6 The bad news is that the new compatible version can only work a few weeks before 7 Firefox comes to break again.

Obsolete

This brand-new copy of Firefox you're 5? It is not updated. It 'full of serious security flaws that have never been patched since the browser is no longer supported by Mozilla. "Update", it is necessary to solve security problems is the "update" Firefox 6

Once you have installed Firefox 6, you have only a matter of weeks away from his planned obsolescence, when Firefox 7 - which is already in beta testing - is launched. Of course, if you rely on Firefox, and you can not switch to an alternative browser like Chrome you really have no choice but to "upgrade" or just leave your browser open to security exploits.

Of course, I'll download and install Firefox 6 when I finally get the message from Mozilla. But it's not because I have chosen, or because I think it's a precious thing to do. Only under duress, because it is the only way to make my version of Firefox is full of security holes.

I could only uninstall Firefox, but often all major browsers use different tests, as I write. I'll switch to Firefox with a gun to his head, although, like many others - that Mozilla should not be too excited about the millions of downloads or the rapid adoption of its browser better and when the fact is that users do not have much option.

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Space Pictures This Week: Shuttle Swap, Hubble's Jewels

Sharp Dumbbell

Image courtesy Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CFA/NASA

The remains of a Sun-like star wings butterfly painting through the cosmos in a recently published infrared image of Messier 27, also known as the Dumbbell Nebula, taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope.

The object is what is known as a planetary nebula, so called because astronomers had thought that the first interstellar clouds of light as the Jovian planets. In fact, what is clear is when the stars die and medium shed their outer layers of gas.

M27 was discovered by Charles Messier in 1764, which included the now famous list of vague objects. While Messier did not realize at the time, handlebars was the first planetary nebula, he said.

Shuttle Swap
Photograph by Roberto Gonzalez, Getty Images

A space shuttle Endeavour for workers on August 11 as it is in the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Endeavour is moved to the orbiter processing facility to make way for Kennedy to the discovery, he was transferred to the CPO for the technicians to prepare the profession to retire from the museum display.

Endeavour to head near California Science Center in Los Angeles, when Discovery moves to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia.

European Night Lights
Diagram courtesy NOAA

A picture recently published by NOAA satellite shows the changes in night lights in Europe between 1992 and 2009. Areas where yellow lights indicate that they have increased, where the lights show purple have decreased, and the white areas show no change.

The image reveals dramatic changes in Eastern Europe, probably related to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1992, when more people moved west and the urbanization of former Soviet states has declined.

Greeting Crete
Photograph courtesy NASA

The light is reflected into the ocean creates a silver halo around western Crete in an image taken July 22 by an astronaut aboard the international space station.

Crete is the largest Greek island and the largest population that extends 161 miles (260 kilometers) from east to west. From 2700 to 1420 BC The island was the cultural center of the Minoan civilization, and is said to have been the home of the legendary Minotaur.

Spacey Jewelry
Image courtesy ESA/NASA

Bright, dense knots of gas light like jewels in a table published recently by the Hubble telescope the nebula collar, a planetary nebula about 15,000 light-years. Discovered in 2005, the dress is actually a cosmic cloud of gas and dust created by the death of a sun-like star

Around 10,000 years ago a dying star swells into a red giant, enveloping a nearby companion star. This is because the core of the dead star and the companion star is seen along the top as a central point to spin around each other so rapidly that they now carry an orbit in less than a day.

Because of centrifugal force, most of the gas escaped from the star along the equator of the star to produce a ring full of unusual.

Siberian Thaw
Image courtesy Landsat-5/NASA

As the veins of jade, which runs through the cave walls, green-tinted waters of the bays and Omulyakhskaya Khromskaya (see map) cut on the north coast of Siberia, in a satellite image released by NASA August 11 . The land around the bay is dotted with lakes icing call, which are created by water released as the thawing of permafrost.

Thawing permafrost and thermokarst lakes both release carbon dioxide and methane gases in the atmosphere, scientists monitor these landscapes to unravel the implications of climate change in the future.

Mercury's Depths
Image courtesy NASA/Johns Hopkins/Carnegie Institution of Washington

A small crater on the crater rim Oskison more mercury is cast in high relief on a satellite image taken by NASA's MESSENGER and released August 15 Sunlight casts shadows that help show deep corner terraced walls of the crater and smooth floors.

The image is part of a series being compiled by email to create a base map with high resolution. The map of time will cover 90 percent of the planet's surface, helping scientists better understand the topography of the battered world.

Dismal Fire
Image courtesy MODIS/NASA

Cascades of smoke south of Outer Banks in North Carolina in an image of southern West Virginia is lateral wildfire, as a NASA satellite on August 10 Lightning started the fire on August 4 in the dry grass and brush of pines of the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge.

Since August 9 the fire had burned 3,200 acres (1295 hectares), and fire managers say it will take at least six inches (15 cm) of rain in a short period to settle naturally.

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NASA Spacecraft Tracks Storm Until The Sun Envelopes The Earth First

NASA spacecraft away from the sun has seen a storm destroys the planet for the first time.

STEREO-A was more than 65 million miles of our planet, gives it a "big picture" view of other spacecraft in orbit around the earth is missing.

Recordings of the event has intrigued scientists, who say it could lead to significant advances in space weather forecasting.

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Best seat in the house: STEREO-A was more than 65million miles from our planet, giving it a 'big picture' view other spacecraft orbiting Earth lack, when it tracked the solar storm from the sun to our planet

Craig DeForest, Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, said: "The film has sent shivers down my spine.

"It shows a coronal mass ejection (CME) will be a huge swelling of the wall of the plasma and washing over the blue speck of land in which we live. I felt very small."

CMEs are billion tons of solar plasma clouds of explosions began at the same time that the spark of solar flares. When you sweep the planet, can cause the aurora, the radiation storms, and, in extreme cases of power outages.

Following these clouds and to predict their arrival is an important part of the weather in space.

Lika Guhathakurta, STEREO program scientist role, said: "We have seen CME, but never quite like this CD has given us a new vision of solar storms .."

The images show that when the CME first left the Sun, which was hollow, with walls of magnetism surrounding a cloud of low-density gas.

Long journey: STEREO-A tracks a coronal mass election from the sun to Earth

Across the ditch Sun and Earth, however, as amended. The snow plow MEC "through the solar wind, waste material to form a huge wall of plasma.

At the time the CME reaches Earth, its facade was collapsing under the weight into the accumulated gas.

STEREO-A is one of the two satellites launched in 2006 to observe solar activity from different points in space.

When CME first leave the sun, they are lightweight and easy to do. Visibility is reduced quickly, but as the clouds expand in a vacuum.

Goes far beyond the orbit of Venus typical CME, it is a billion times fainter than the surface of the moon, and more than a thousand times fainter than the Milky Way.

CME reaches the Earth are so tenuous as the vacuum itself, and therefore transparent.

Mr. DeForest said: "By taking these small clouds of confusion of stars and interplanetary dust was a great challenge."

In fact, it took nearly three years of your team to learn how.

Solar storm: Footage of the event has amazed scientists who say it could led to important advances in space weather forecasting

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Red Arrows Pilot Killed In Crash Near Bournemouth Airport After The Posting Of The Festival

An RAF Red Arrows pilot was killed in a plane crash moments after finishing a presentation in flight air show in Bournemouth.

Police confirmed that an invention Flight Lieutenant Jon, 33, was killed after his plane crashed on the floor Red 4 on the bank of a river that runs through the town of Throop.

Chief Inspector Steve White, of Dorset Police, said: "Getting to the airport, a plane crashed in a field near Mill Throop, Bournemouth.

"The aircraft stopped on the river Stour, and helped the emergency services like police, fire, ambulance, coastguard search and rescue and ambulance Dorset and Somerset air.

"Unfortunately, the pilot, who had been ejected from the plane, was pronounced dead at the scene."

He said emergency services responded when told of the accident, adding that he did not know whether the pilot ejected from the aircraft.

It is understood that a mayday call was issued just before the plane went out of control. A film crew from the BBC was ordered to stop filming the screen when the call was received.

However, officials refused to speculate on what might be called the incident, confirming only that the investigation be conducted.

In a statement, said the Ministry of Defence: "It is with sadness that the MOD must confirm the deaths of Flight Lieutenant Jon pushed by the team of Royal Air Force aerobatic Red Arrows.

"Flight Lieutenant pitting was killed when his plane Hawk T1 - Red 4 - crashed about 1 km south from Bournemouth Airport 1350 Saturday, August 20, 2011.

"A complete service details of the disaster committee of inquiry has begun. It would be appropriate to consider the reasons for the case this time."

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Red Arrows Bournemouth Air Festival were doing when the accident occurred.

Witnesses described a dramatic rescue attempt of dog walkers, who jumped into the water and shot the driver. It is unclear whether he was able to drive or not.

Radio enthusiast Malcolm MacIntyre, 37, told the Bournemouth Echo that he had listened to the radio communication between the crew and air traffic control tower, just before the crash.

He said that just after the red arrows to the land called the tower, one of the pilots said, 'Are you aware of Mayday "

The answer was "Yes, we are, someone is taking care of that."

Mr MacIntyre added: "I am completely surprised."

One witness, Laura Goodwin, told Sky News that the accident occurred shortly after the team had completed its deployment.

She said: "A plane has a sense it was the other and never returned."

He added: "Many people are in disbelief about what happened."

Another witness said that the movement of the dogs pulled the pilot from the river, near the village of Throop.

The accident site was confirmed by Shaun Spencer-Perkins, who witnessed the accident in Mill Throop.

He told the BBC: "I heard a hissing sound and saw a plane about 50 feet above the ground, running across the fields.

"He hit and ran across the field, he crossed the stream.

"Members of the public jumped in the water looking for the cockpit.

"We waved down the helicopter, I took my son's orange jacket and the red knight of my wife to draw the attention of the helicopter."

He added that the sign of the pilot, and has not seen a parachute.

Wayne Kent, 30, assistant manager of the Broadway Pub, said some customers had seen the incident.

He said: "I heard that the plane crashed in fields near Throop and recovered three or four times.

"The pilot went to the river."

Mr. Kent said the pilot guided the plane away from the houses in the village and people walking near the shore.

Bournemouth Airport issued a statement on the incident on its website.

It read: "A spokesman for Bournemouth Airport confirmed that the incident with a Red Arrows flight took place about one kilometer from the airport this afternoon.

"The emergency services are present.

"The airport was closed for some time, but now is back to normal operation.

"Passengers due to leave the airport in the afternoon and evening are invited to check as usual."

The Festival of the air, waiting, attracting crowds of over 200,000, continuing to run.

Since 1979, the red arrows were used in a dual control aircraft BAE Systems Hawk T1.

Site of the aerobatic team, produce aircraft Rolls "Royce, 5,200 pounds of thrust and allows a maximum speed of Mach 1.2.

They were based at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire since 2001.

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