13 Year Old Inventor Cracks Secret Of Trees To Collect Solar Power

What do trees know that we don’t? 13-year-old inventor Aidan realized that trees use a mathematical formula to gather sunlight in crowded forests. Then he wondered why we don’t collect solar energy in the same way. Big oil companies need to watch out as this 13-year-old kid and his army of trees won’t go down without a fight!

Source: http://www.thecollectiveint.com/2013/07/13-year-old-inventor-cracks-secret-of.html

2 men beat woman with glass because she is transgender

Two men were arrested on charges of assault as a hate crime after allegedly beating a woman because she is transgender, prosecutors in New York said.

Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson said that Mashawn Sonds, 25, of Brownsville, has been arraigned on a nine count indictment in which he is charged with first degree assault as a hate crime for allegedly striking the 28 year old transgender woman in the head with a two by four piece of plexiglass, causing severe injuries.


 A second defendant indicted in the attack will be arraigned later this month.

Mashawn of Hegeman Avenue, was arraigned before Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun, on an indictment in which he is charged with first-degree assault as a hate crime, first-degree assault, two counts of second-degree assault as a hate crime, two counts of second-degree assault, fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, third-degree menacing as a hate crime and third-degree menacing.

The defendant was ordered held on $250,000. Another defendant, Tyquan Eversley, 17, of Bradford Street in East New York, was arrested in connection with the attack.

His bail was set at $17,500. Each of the defendants faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted of the top charge.

According to the police investigation, the 28-year-old transgender woman was walking with a gay male friend when she was approached by the defendants, who allegedly yelled “we don’t want f*****s on our block,” among other things.

It is alleged that Eversley then struck the victim, Kimball Hartman, with a filled garbage bag, knocking her to the ground. He then allegedly continued to assault her, as Sonds and two unapprehended others continued to yell homophobic slurs.

Sonds allegedly then picked up a piece of plexiglass and swung it at Hartman. As she tried to get away, he allegedly threw the plexiglass and struck her in the head.

The victim (who) was knocked unconscious, began seizing and suffered profuse bleeding from the back of her head. She sustained a traumatic brain injury, underwent surgery to her skull, and will likely suffer permanent injuries.

Source: http://www.breakingworldnewstoday.com/2015/02/12-b3441.html

Biblical Plague of CRICKETS Terrorize Oklahoma And Smell 'Like Rotten Meat'

They're everywhere: Unusually large swarms of crickets are invading Oklahoma, covering streets, sidewalks, and businesses like this McDonalds

It’s cricket mating season in Oklahoma and unusually massive swarms of the frisky bugs are terrorizing the state’s residents.

Not only does the field cricket have a noxious odor and shrieking chirp, it has a tendency toward cannibalism so killing them only makes things worse.

Residents say the insects tend to congregate and feed on carcasses of their dead brethren, but they’re covering every street, sidewalk, and building so there’s no way to avoid the occasional crunch.

Pile-up: The crickets are difficult to control, noisy, smelly and are pouring into towns across the Sooner State. Instagram user furiousd caught this particularly nasty pile of cricket carcasses

The more they’re stomped, worse infestations around homes and businesses become.

‘I think we are going to see a little more before it gets any better,’ Oklahoma State University’s Brian Jervis told KTUL.

Experts say weather could be the cause of the usually large swarm.

‘These outbreaks seem to occur after periods of prolonged dry weather in spring and early summer followed by rainfall in July and August,’ said Rick Grantham, director of the Plant Disease and Insect Diagnostic Lab in Oklahoma State University. ‘Extensive soil cracking may be an important factor.’

Bad year: The crickets come out every year, but the weather allowed an unusually large number to emerge from their burrows to mate this season. Here, the critters congregate at a gas station.

Cannibals: Experts say the crickets are attracted to the bodies of their dead relatives, so crushing the bugs only makes the problem worse. Here, a pile up can be seen near a shady set of stairs.

'A plague has arrived': According to Rick Grantham of Oklahoma State University's Entymology department. adult crickets can be very difficult to control

The crickets lay their eggs and crawl out en masse once it’s time for mating.

And though the creatures can be tough to get rid of, experts suggest a few tricks that might ease the problem somewhat.

‘Crickets commonly spend the daylight hours hiding in dark, damp areas. Eliminating piles of bricks, stones, wood or other debris around the home will help reduce numbers,’ said Grantham. ‘aerosols applied to baseboards, door thresholds and cracks and crevices where crickets hide will normally control them.’

In addition to incessant chirping that can last deep into the night and early morning, some residents say the crickets even stink.

'After a while they all start dying and it gets to get this rotted meat smell,' one resident told KFOR.

'I will not be sleeping tonight': The crickets stick to walls, crunch underfoot wherever residents walk, and hang from walls and window screens, making just looking outside a little bit creepy

Along with up close and personal photos of their cricket experiences, Instagram users had plenty to say about the '#invasion.'

'When I look out my window, this is what I see. Needless to say I will not be sleeping tonight,' writes c_daaber721 with a photo of her cricket-covered window screen.

'A plague has arrived in OKC,' writes colleendamager.

Gypsyroseb asked, 'Crickets, anyone?'

User xnebulousx may have siad it best: 'Large amounts of crickets are gross!'

Source: http://www.thedailytrends.net/2013/09/biblical-plague-of-crickets-terrorize.html

Extraordinary Snake With Feet Captured In The Philippines

Is there a new breed of animals that is slowly making its existence known by us? Are they a product of genetic mutation or only fabricated by our imagination? 

People in a small town from Isabela, Philippines are in shock and left with awe at the same time as they were able to witness the existence of a snake with feet that resembles a lizard. The snake was discovered in Mallig, Isabela. It was caught by a local family from Baranggay Olango, the Gambol family.

The unexpected discovery of the snake with limbs all started when Noberto Gambol was cleaning their house. He sudenly noticed the snake crawling on their floor. The snake made its way to a cardboard which made it easy for Noberto to kill it. 

Noberto was blown away when he saw that there is something unusual with the snake, it has a pair of limbs. Since then, neighbors spread the news as it aroused imagination and formed different theories about the snake's origin.

Amidst the various theories, a scientist concluded that the snake extraordinary appearance was due to genetic mutation. The snake with limbs is now being preserved by the Gambol family.

Source: http://www.thecontroversialfiles.net/2015/01/extraordinary-snake-with-feet-captured.html

Mother unknowingly shuttles weed in van for 13 years

NM (KRQE/CNN)  Melodie Peil bought the 1990 Chevy at an Alamogordo dealership in the early 2000s.

Since then, she's used it to shuttle her four kids and two grandkids all over the state. But that's not all the eight-seater has been shuttling around.

"Low and behold, we discovered something that didn't belong there,” Peil said.

Tucked away in the passenger side door of the family-friend van was more than 13 pounds of pot.

"It was pretty shocking," Peil said.

Peil said she was having a hard time getting the door to lock, so a friend pried open the panel to fix it. That's when bricks of decade old marijuana fell out. Police say the drugs were likely stashed there by the van's previous owner, more than 13 years ago.

"It was packaged typically how the drug traffickers package marijuana. You know, they wrap it in foil, they wrapped it in saran wrap real tightly,” said Alamogordo Detective Lt. Roger Schoolcraft.

Peil didn't just drive the van to the grocery store and back. It's gone through at least 10 border patrol checkpoints in New Mexico and it passed every time. Police say it's likely because the weed was so old and it was packaged so well.

Peil said she has learned a valuable lesson: To give the next car she buys a good pat down before driving it off the lot.

Police say there's a good chance even more pot is stashed in the van's gas tank and floor panels.

The family is taking the car to get X-rayed by border patrol.

Police have disposed the pot the family found in the van.

As for the previous owner, all the family knows is that he is from Germany.


Source: http://www.kptv.com/story/27957425/mother-unknowingly-shuttles-weed-in-van-for-13-years#ixzz3QJBqucwg

Sean Mahan jailed for killing mother's lover in Balloch

A man who beat a stranger to death after catching him in bed with his married mother has been jailed for four years and eight months.

Sean Mahan launched a prolonged attack on 33-year-old Stewart McKellar after finding him with his mother, Lavina, 50, at the family home in Balloch, while his father was working offshore.

He then phoned a friend and said: "I think I have killed him."

The 21 year old admitted culpable homicide over the August 2014 attack.

Jailing Mahan at the High Court in Edinburgh, judge Lord Turnbull told him that the assault on Mr McKellar was a "gross over reaction" to what he had witnessed.

'Grief and despair'
He added: "You engaged in a sustained violent attack in which you repeatedly punched a man who did nothing but try to protect himself.

"You have left the victim's family in a state of grief and despair and there is nothing that I can do that will alleviate these circumstances.

"This was a sustained and uncalled for act of violence."

An earlier hearing was told that Mr McKellar had been out with friends at the Lomond Park Hotel in Balloch on 23 August when he met Lavina Mahan.

Prosecutor Douglas Fairley QC said Mrs Mahan described being "chatted up" by Mr McKellar before she invited him back to her house on Luss Road for a drink just after 02:00.

The court heard that her son Sean then returned home and barged through the door, shouting: "How could you do this to my dad?"

He punched Mr McKellar repeatedly during a 20-minute attack, and also slapped his mother on the head.

Friend's house
Mahan then phoned a friend and said: "Mate, you will need to come down. This guy was sleeping with my mum and I think I have killed him."

Paramedics found "clear signs of a disturbance" at the house along with a hysterical Mrs Mahan.

Mahan was later found by police at a friend's house, hiding in a cupboard.

He was asked about Mr McKellar, and said: "I only punched him.

"What would you have done? My dad's working offshore and I come home to find my mum in bed with someone else."


Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-31021453