http://www.liveleak.com/browse?channel_token=ce5_1302951333 Items in channel 'Highspeed7777' Thu, 20 Jun 2013 08:43:22 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?channel_token=ce5_1302951333 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:18:57 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ac9_1366146911 Highspeed7777 This might be one of the sweetest resignation letters yet. A British man told his bosses at Stansted Airport that he was quitting his job by baking a huge 10 x 12 inch white cake with lettering spelling out the reason behind his decision. Chris Holmes, 31, addressed his letter "To The Management" in impeccably piped lettering, saying: "Today is my 31st birthday, and having recently become a father I now realise how precious life is and how important it is to spend my time doing something that makes me, and other people, happy. For that reason I hereby give notice of my resignation, in order that I may devote my time and energy to my family, and to my cake business which has grown steadily over the past few years," he wrote on the cake which was a spiced carrot cake with pecans and sultanas and coconut. Holmes, who once worked under celebrity chefs Gordon Ramsey and Marcus Wareing before becoming an immigration official at the Border Force, U.K.'s version of U.S. Border Patrol, told FoxNews.com that he was resigning to focus on his cake business. "Food is my passion. It's always been my dream to set myself up making cakes." Known as Mr. Cake, Holmes has been building up his side business over the past three years, making handmade cakes out of his home. His specialty is elaborate, cartoon-like cake toppers. He said after years of taking small orders for special occasions like wedding cakes, he felt it was time he could do cakes full time. Holmes said he cooked up his resignation cake idea six months ago, when his wife was still pregnant. "I had to keep it to myself, which was pretty difficult," he said. What Holmes didn't plan on was his story getting so much media attention. On Monday, the day Holmes quit, his brother-in-law sent a picture of the cake via Twitter, which went viral and was posted on Reddit. Holmes said he left his employer on good terms, and even put a special plug for his business on his cake for his former colleagues. "I wish the organisation and my colleagues the best for the future and I remind you that, if you enjoy this cake, you can order more at http://www.mrcake.co.uk." Holmes getting inundated with telephone calls, and although some orders have started coming in, none have been for resignation letter cakes. "This has exceeded all my expectations," he said. http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/04/16/man-quits-job-with-resignation-cake/?intcmp=features http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ac9_1366146911 Highspeed7777 Man quits job by making a spectacular resignation cake Cake, quit, resignation Sat, 29 Sep 2012 04:20:17 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=03c_1348906617 Highspeed7777 The planet Uranus reaches opposition on Saturday (Sept. 29). This means that Uranus is directly opposite the sun in the sky. Uranus rises will rise as the sun sets, and set as the sun rises. It will be highest in the sky at local midnight, roughly 1 a.m. if you are on Daylight Saving Time. Uranus was discovered accidentally by William Herschel on the night of March 13, 1781. All the other planets had been known since prehistoric times, so this was a major discovery in its time, and made Herschel famous. The reason Uranus had remained undiscovered for so long is that, although it is quite large, the third largest planet after Jupiter and Saturn, it is very far away from the sun, so is very dimly lit. If you know exactly where to look, it is just possible to see Uranus with the naked eye, but most of us need binoculars and a good chart to spot it among the thousands of stars of similar brightness. When Herschel first observed it, he was unsure what he had seen: a nebula, a comet, or a planet. After a night or two, he saw that it had moved, so it couldn't be a nebula. It didn't change size or shape, so he knew it wasn't a comet. Once the object's orbit was determined, Herschel knew he had found the sun's seventh planet: 31,763 miles (51,118 km.) in diameter, four times larger than the Earth. It orbits at 19 times the distance from Earth to the sun, twice as far from the sun as Saturn. How to see Uranus In binoculars, Uranus is indistinguishable from a star. Look for it currently in the constellation Pisces. Opposition night is not the best night to look for it, because the full moon will be nearby flooding the sky with light. Look for it instead tonight, or in a week's time when the moon has moved on. Don't try to use Pisces to find it, because this is a dim constellation. Instead, start with the Great Square of Pegasus, a conspicuous large square of stars. This will be in the southern sky (of the Northern Hemisphere) about two thirds of the way from the horizon to directly overhead at local midnight, or in the eastern sky earlier in the evening. Use the two stars on the left side of the Great Square, Alpheratz and Algenib, and project a line joining them down towards the horizon. At almost exactly the same distance below the bottom star you will see (in binoculars) what looks like a double star. These will be the two brightest "stars" in this part of the sky. The star on the left (in the Northern Hemisphere) is 44 Piscium. The "star" on the right is not a star at all, but the planet Uranus. Pay close attention to the distance between these two objects, and check it again in a night or two. Uranus will have moved away to the right, the distance between star and planet increasing. In binoculars, Uranus will look just like a star. In a small telescope with about 200x magnification, you will see a tiny blue-green disk. Uranus has 27 known moons, but these are all too tiny to be seen in a small telescope. Strange Uranus facts One of the most interesting things about Uranus is the tilt of its axis of rotation. Most planets rotate around a pole which points roughly at right angles to the plane of their orbit. Uranus' pole is tipped over so that its axis is almost in the same plane as its orbit. As a result, the sun shines almost continuously on the northern half the planet for part of its year, and continuously on the southern half for another part of its year. The result is the most extreme seasonal variation found on any planet in the solar system. When Herschel discovered Uranus, he needed to find a name for it. This was as big a deal in the 18th century as naming a stadium is today. Knowing who his chief patron was, he decided to name it after his king, George III: Georgium Sidus (George's Star). Now George III was not very popular outside England, so there was a lot of resistance to this name. Finally Johann Bode suggested that it be named Uranus after the Greek God of the sky, Ouranos, and this was agreed to by all astronomers. Unfortunately, this name causes pronunciation difficulties for most speakers of the English language. If it's pronounced "ew-RAY-nus" it provokes laughter from sixth-graders. The alternate pronunciation, "EWR-a-nus" is not much better. Perhaps we should go back to the original Greek pronunciation, "OOR-a-nus." Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/09/28/how-to-see-uranus-in-telescopes-this-weekend/?intcmp=features#ixzz27qRBLBCl http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=03c_1348906617 Highspeed7777 See your anus this weekend Anus, planet, Uranus, funny Wed, 19 Sep 2012 05:53:57 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fb9_1348048097 Highspeed7777 Burning an American flag proved fatal for a Pakistani protester, who reportedly died from inhaling fumes from the ignited icon of independence. Some 10,000 people rallied this week in Lahore, the capital of the Punjab province, to protest the movie trailer that Muslims say insults Islam, according to the International Herald-Tribune. One participant, identified as Abdullah Ismail, died after being taken to an area hospital. Witnesses said he had complained of feeling sick from the smoke from American flags burnt at the rally. The rally was organized on the city's landmark mall by the Tehreek Hurmat-i-Rasool. Despite a ban on rallies on The Mall, local officials blocked off the road leading to it from noon to 6 p.m., apparently to facilitate the event. The film trailer that has spurred angry protests throughout the Middle East, "Innocence of Muslims," was produced by a California man. The trailer ridicules Islam and depicts the Prophet Muhammad as a fraud, a womanizer and a pedophile. But protesters asserted it was created with the backing of the U.S. government. "The U.S. must make a law against blasphemy - or we will not let the US consulates in Pakistan function," a rally organizer told the paper. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/09/18/protester-dies-after-inhaling-fumes-from-burning-american-flag/?intcmp=obinsite#ixzz26uL89zMh http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fb9_1348048097 Highspeed7777 Protester dies after inhaling fumes from burning American flag Terrorists, American flag burning, burning, fumes, dead, protests