In an out-of-this-world discovery, NASA has released fascinating new images of Mars which reveal bizarre natural sand patterns on the Red Planet that unbelievably resemble Morse code, Huffington Post Tech reported Tuesday.NASA explained in a post the Morse-code figures are sand dunes which have been “influenced by local topography.”....
A 16-year veteran of a South Carolina fire department is unemployed after taking to Facebook and threatening to run over Black Lives Matter activists who were protesting raising the Confederate flag at the state house by a secessionist group, the Charlotte Observer reported Tuesday.CaptainJimmy Morris was fired from his job in Columbia after his superiors were alerted about two Facebook posts he wrote Sunday night....
Given the imperial architecture of many government entities and institutions are becoming more corrupt and less powerful, including an enormous disconnect between how people on the street perceive, experiment with and shape the various realities of power, power is coming under attack and quickly eroding ... Morals, too, will drastically be changed, as is already happening ... Despite Barriers No One Will Be ImmuneDon’t be mistaken, however....
Juno will eventually get closer to Jupiter than any satellite in history — but it's already sending back exciting images. The probe's visible-light camera, known as JunoCam, was switched on six days after it arrived at Jupiter. The first image from orbit was obtained from JunoCam on July 10 at 1.30 p.m ... SEE ALSO ... Io, Europe and Ganymede ... Image ... ....
A terrified child was nearly abducted by a wedge-tailed eagle at a popular wildlife show in central Australia, media reports said.On July 6, a crowd of stunned onlookers watched the enormous bird latch its talons onto the screaming boy's head during a show at Alice Springs Desert Park, BBCNews reported. The boy – believed to be between six and eight years old – escaped with a "superficial" gash to his face....
BENGALURU. Tuesday's blockbuster listing of business services provider Quess Corp places Ajit Isaac, the 49-year old chairman, in the pantheon of Bengaluru's business stars. His 26.4% post-IPO stake in the firm translates to a value of nearly Rs 1,700 crore ... "My father never carried a loan in life ... Prashant Ruia, director at Essar Group, said they saw an early entrepreneurial spark in Issac when he worked for the Group in the 1990s....
Thiruvananthapuram. The city corporation has welcomed the state budget presented by the finance minister ThomasIssac on Friday ... The budget aims at providing housing for all through EMS housing scheme and Laksham veedu project ... RELATED. From around the web....
Bengaluru. Shares of Quess Corp Ltd, controlled by Canadian investor Prem Watsa, rose as much as 60.5% in debut, valuing the business service provider at about $953 million (Rs 6,357 crore) ... About 19.5 million shares changed hands ... Investors saw we are not dependant on a single revenue stream, there is sustainable revenue flow which set the right tone," chief executive Ajit Issac told TOI ... Issac's stake dropped to about 26% from 29%....
(Source. New Zealand Warriors). Manu Vatuvei and Ken Maumalo will be teamed up on the wings for the first time since last August when the VodafoneWarriors face Manly in Saturday's 19th-round NRL encounter at nib Stadium in Perth (3.30pm kick-off local time; 7.30pm NZT) ... Vatuvei resumes his 2016 campaign needing just one more try to become only the 11th player in the competition's history to score 150 tries ... 2 KEN MAUMALO ... 9 ISSAC LUKE....
Developers plan to file a zone change application soon for the vacant parcel of land at EastThird and NelsonAvenue... The building will be completed in the fall of 2017, developers said this week ... “And the coffee shop will be directly across Nelson Avenue from IssacMurphy (park), which is a great place for people to congregate and relax before they go on the LegacyTrail or the soon-to-be built TownBranchCommons,” Holoubek said....
Visitor spending in the UAE is set to increase by 3.3 per cent in 2016 as the country is on track to attract more than 15 million foreign visitors, while tourism investments are poised to rise by 2.8 per cent to reach Dh28.2 billion in 2016, according credit insurance leader Coface ... This is putting pressure on corporate performance in the hospitality sector," Iyigun said ... - issacjohn@khaleejtimes.com. IssacJohn ... ....
Private sector business activity in Dubai continued to regain growth momentum in June led by improving business conditions in the travel, tourism, wholesale and retail sectors, a new survey reveals. New business volumes increased for the fourth month running in June. The latest rise was the fastest since March 2015, which survey respondents partly linked to greater consumer spending ... A reading of 50.0 signals no change ... IssacJohn ... ....