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"Chaos is the score upon which reality is written."

 - Henry Miller -

The USA's highest temperature, 134 degrees on July 10, 1913, in Death Valley, California, is also the official highest temperature in the Western Hemisphere. The world's highest official temperature is 136 degrees recorded at El Azizia, Libya, on September 13, 1922.  

- From The World Almanac 2009 -

Midday 8-3-09 Evening

** until 8-6-09 **

900, 910, 920, 930, 940, 950, 960, 970, 980, 990

450, 451, 452, 453, 454, 455, 456, 457, 458, 459

104, 114, 124, 134, 144, 154, 164, 174, 184, 194

000, 111, 222, 444, 555, 666, 777, 999

6.9 quake rattles Mexican state, San Diego

SAN DIEGO - A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck off Baja California in Mexico on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The quake was 49 miles from Santa Isabel on the Baja California peninsula and 9.3 miles deep, the USGS said.

City Hall in San Diego, just north of the Mexico border, was evacuated soon after the rattling started, KNSD-TV reported.

There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

Four quakes in the Gulf of California area, all measuring more than 5.0, were reported by the U.S. Geological Survey on its Web site Monday.

Midday 8-3-09 Evening

** until 8-6-09 **

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As of August 3, 2009

Monday 8-3-09

123, 467, 686, 664, 573, 280, 490, 032, 506, 657

367, 306, 362, 104, 034, 421, 194, 899, 110, 148

324, 932, 436, 768, 184, 000, 555, 777, 999

Midday 8-3-09 Evening

** until 8-5-09 **

537, 082, 198, 915, 768, 968, 158, 758, 958

141, 172, 624, 362, 110, 899, 190, 280, 735

490, 370, 506, 780, 790, 777, 999, 222, 666

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."

- Albert Einstein -

Midday 8-2-09 Evening

** until 8-4-09 **

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Friday, July 31, 2009
Police: Gatti hung himself from stairs

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Associated Press

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Boxer Arturo Gatti's body was exhumed Friday to allow the Quebec coroner's office to perform a new autopsy at his family's request.

 

The development comes a day after Brazilian police classified Gatti's death as a suicide.

 

Until Thursday, police in the northeastern Brazil city of Recife considered it a homicide, with his wife as the prime suspect. Now, police say Gatti hanged himself with a handbag strap from a staircase column more than seven feet off the ground.

 

Gilles Ethier, deputy chief coroner of the western part of the Province of Quebec, said Gatti's family had retained an American pathologist, who will assist with the autopsy Saturday morning at the Montreal morgue.

 

"Clearly, it's necessary for us to pursue the investigation," Ethier said. "Of course, it's a little more complex for the pathologist because the body has been embalmed."

 

Gatti's Montreal funeral was July 20.

 

Many of his friends and family have expressed disbelief at the suicide ruling, and Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon said in a statement Friday that government officials will seek more information from Brazilian authorities on the Gatti investigation and its findings.

 

Ellen Haley, a spokeswoman for Main Events, the longtime promoter of Gatti's bouts, said in a statement "we do not believe that he took his own life."

 

She said members of the Gatti family, along with his boxing manager Pat Lynch, will carry out their own investigation. "We believe that once the results of that investigation are revealed, the truth will come to light and justice will be done," Haley said.

 

Gatti's wife, 23-year-old Amanda Rodrigues, was released Thursday after being held since July 12 in Recife. She and Gatti arrived with their 10-month-old son a few days before in the resort town of Porto de Galinhas, where they rented a two-level apartment.

 

"The exhumation does not surprise me at all. It makes perfect sense," Rodrigues' attorney, Celio Avelino said by telephone. "Gatti's family was first told by police that Amanda had killed him, and now they are saying he committed suicide. Of course, family and friends have doubts and are demanding another autopsy -- as they should."

 

"I am absolutely sure, that the second autopsy will reconfirm that he committed suicide," he said.

 

Repeated calls to Rodrigues went unanswered.

 

Milena Saraiva, a Recife police spokeswoman, provided more information Friday about Gatti's death.

 

Police ultimately concluded he hanged himself in the apartment early on July 11 from a wooden staircase column that was 7.3 feet off the ground. He stood on a stool and kicked it out from underneath him, police said. The autopsy report said Gatti was suspended for about three hours before his body fell to the floor.

 

Rodrigues said she was sleeping with the couple's son in an upstairs bedroom. She told police she went downstairs about 6 a.m. to get milk for the boy, saw Gatti's body on the floor and assumed he was drunkenly sleeping. It was not until she went back downstairs at 9 a.m. that she discovered Gatti was dead and called police. Saraiva said no suicide note was found.

 

"The first investigators to arrive at the scene only saw his body on the floor and the bloodied strap near his body," Saraiva said. "They assumed his wife strangled him."

 

Saraiva said 17 witnesses told police the couple got into a loud fight on a street near the beach in Porto de Galinhas the night before Gatti died. Saraiva said Gatti had seven cans of beer, along with two bottles of wine, over the course of dinner and partying at a bar.

 

Witnesses told police Gatti at one point picked up Rodrigues, who weighs about 100 pounds, by her chin with his right hand and tossed her to the ground.

 

Saraiva said at that point a security guard for a local hotel intervened, only to be punched in the face by Gatti. A small crowd that had gathered around the scene grew angry, with some throwing stones and even a bicycle at the boxer, the police spokeswoman said.

 

One stone hit Gatti in the back of the head, causing a wound that police originally said was caused by a small steak knife that was found near his body -- and which police showed off to reporters the day after Gatti's death.

 

The fracas eventually broke up, and Gatti and Rodrigues returned to the apartment in separate taxis.

 

In an telephone interview with The Associated Press as she walked out of jail Thursday, Rodrigues said Gatti may have killed himself because he feared she would leave him after their fight, one of many during a rocky two-year marriage.

 

"I believe that when we got home and he saw that he hurt me, he thought I would leave him, that I would tell him to just let me go, that I would separate from him," she said. "He did that in a moment of weakness. He was drunk, maybe he didn't know what he was doing, maybe he thought I would leave him the next day."

 

According to records at the Court of Quebec's criminal and penal division, Gatti was charged on April 16 for violating a restraining order that had been filed against him. Records didn't indicate who filed the restraining order, but Gatti's mother, Ida, confirmed it was Rodrigues who had taken one out against him.

 

Gatti, a Canadian who captured two world titles in his 16-year pro career, retired in 2007 with a record of 40-9.

 

"This case has been resolved," Saraiva said. "While the evidence at the scene first led us to think Gatti was murdered, the autopsy results and a detailed crime scene analysis simply pointed to a different outcome."

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51 Headless Vikings Found in English Execution Pit?

James Owen in London for National Geographic News

July 28, 2009

Naked, beheaded, and tangled, the bodies of 51 young men—their heads stacked neatly to the side—have been found in a thousand-year-old pit in southern England, according to carbon-dating results released earlier this month. The mass burial took place at a time when the English were battling Viking invaders, say archaeologists who are now trying to verify the identity of the slain. (Related: " Vikings' Barbaric Bad Rap Beginning to Fade.") The dead are thought to have been war captives, possibly Vikings, whose heads were hacked off with swords or axes, according to excavation leader David Score of Oxford Archaeology, an archaeological-services company. Announced in June, the pit discovery took place during an archaeological survey prior to road construction near the seaside town of Weymouth (map). A Mere Flesh Wound Many of the skeletons have deep cut marks to the skull and jaw as well as the neck. "The majority seem to have taken multiple blows," Score said. The bodies show few signs of other trauma, suggesting the men were alive when beheaded. One victim appears to have raised an arm in self-defense: "The hand appears to have had its fingers sliced through," Score noted. The heads were neatly piled to one side of the pit, perhaps as a victory display, the team suggests. Beheaded ... but Otherwise Healthy Unusually, no trace of clothing has been found, indicating the men were buried naked. Even if their weapons and valuables had been taken "we should have found bone buttons and things like that, but to date we've got absolutely nothing," Score said. "They look like a healthy, robust, very strong, very masculine group of young males," he added. "It's your classic sort of warrior." The burial has been radiocarbon-dated to between A.D. 890 and 1034. During this time England was split between Anglo-Saxons, in the south and west, and Danish settlers, in the north and east. The Anglo-Saxons were Germanic peoples who colonized England beginning in the 400s; founded the country on the island of Great Britain; and gave rise to the English language. Around the time of the mass burial, the Celts were still largely in control of the non-English regions of Great Britain: Scotland and Wales. "You've got Danish and Saxon armies fighting backwards and forwards across England," Score said. The early English also faced the threat of longship-sailing Vikings, Scandinavian seafarers who pillaged coastal regions (northern Europe map). "It's not just the odd ship" attacking, Score said. For example, "there's a documented account of 94 longships attacking London at one point, and then they work their way down the coast." CSI: Weymouth The team hopes chemical analysis of the buried men's teeth will show whether they grew up in Britain or Scandinavia. (Related: "Vikings Filed Their Teeth, Skeleton Study Shows.") Signs of muscle attachment on the bones could also help reveal whether the executed were Viking oarsmen, since "strong physical exertion in a particular direction does affect the bones," Score said. "It might be possible to say they are overdeveloped in their upper body and arm strength ... people who are doing a lot of heavy rowing." Anglo-Saxon Slayers, Viking Victims The burial's prominent location on a hilltop by the ancient main road to Weymouth, which was already in existence, hints that a local group carried out the killings, Score said. "Locations like this are classic sites for executions in late Saxon and medieval times," he added. Vikings, he said, had a different M.O. "If you're a Viking raider, you're much more likely to leave people where you killed them in the town or on the beach," he said. Kim Siddorn, author of Viking Weapons and Warfare, suspects the executed men were indeed Vikings. "I would say this was a Viking raiding party which had been trapped," he said. "They had left their ship, walked inland, ran into an unusually well-organized body of Saxons, and were probably forced to surrender." There was little to differentiate Vikings and early English warriors on the battlefield, said Siddorn, founder of Regia Anglorum, a historical-reenactment society. "You would find it very difficult to tell the difference between a Viking and a Saxon if they stood in front of you in war gear," he said Both used spears as their primary weapons, with swords and axes as backups, Siddorn added. But Vikings had surprise and, in some cases, numbers on their side. "Whilst the Vikings were no better than the Saxons at fighting, they did come by the shipload," he said. "During the height of the Viking raids, it's reasonable to say it was unsafe to live anywhere within 20 miles [32 kilometers] of the coast."

At approx. 8:15pm EDT, me and the kids saw two rainbows. I know this means what I think it does. Everytime this has happened, I have gotten a huge win. I am grateful now that I act on my intuition for a great financial windfall!!!

   

Good luck, peace and abundant blessings to all!!!!

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