http://www.liveleak.com/browse?channel_token=f79_1302955969 Items in channel 'ccfc' Sat, 25 May 2013 22:08:08 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?channel_token=f79_1302955969 Mon, 27 Aug 2012 08:50:18 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f4d_1346071467 ccfc With the sad news this week of the passing of Neil Armstrong, I thought it appropriate to post this stunning vid of the mighty Apollo 11, close up & in slow motion. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f4d_1346071467 ccfc A MUST SEE slow motion video of Apollo 11 launch. Neil Armstrong, RIP, Apollo 11 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:44:24 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=346_1335713999 ccfc Taken from The Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/how-islamic-inventors-changed-the-world-469452.html From coffee to cheques and the three-course meal, the Muslim world has given us many innovations that we take for granted in daily life. As a new exhibition opens, Paul Vallely nominates 20 of the most influential- and identifies the men of genius behind them 1 The story goes that an Arab named Khalid was tending his goats in the Kaffa region of southern Ethiopia, when he noticed his animals became livelier after eating a certain berry. He boiled the berries to make the first coffee. Certainly the first record of the drink is of beans exported from Ethiopia to Yemen where Sufis drank it to stay awake all night to pray on special occasions. By the late 15th century it had arrived in Mecca and Turkey from where it made its way to Venice in 1645. It was brought to England in 1650 by a Turk named Pasqua Rosee who opened the first coffee house in Lombard Street in the City of London. The Arabic qahwa became the Turkish kahve then the Italian caff'e and then English coffee. 2 The ancient Greeks thought our eyes emitted rays, like a laser, which enabled us to see. The first person to realise that light enters the eye, rather than leaving it, was the 10th-century Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physicist Ibn al-Haitham. He invented the first pin-hole camera after noticing the way light came through a hole in window shutters. The smaller the hole, the better the picture, he worked out, and set up the first Camera Obscura (from the Arab word qamara for a dark or private room). He is also credited with being the first man to shift physics from a philosophical activity to an experimental one. 3 A form of chess was played in ancient India but the game was developed into the form we know it today in Persia. From there it spread westward to Europe - where it was introduced by the Moors in Spain in the 10th century - and eastward as far as Japan. The word rook comes from the Persian rukh, which means chariot. 4 A thousand years before the Wright brothers a Muslim poet, astronomer, musician and engineer named Abbas ibn Firnas made several attempts to construct a flying machine. In 852 he jumped from the minaret of the Grand Mosque in Cordoba using a loose cloak stiffened with wooden struts. He hoped to glide like a bird. He didn't. But the cloak slowed his fall, creating what is thought to be the first parachute, and leaving him with only minor injuries. In 875, aged 70, having perfected a machine of silk and eagles' feathers he tried again, jumping from a mountain. He flew to a significant height and stayed aloft for ten minutes but crashed on landing - concluding, correctly, that it was because he had not given his device a tail so it would stall on landing. Baghdad international airport and a crater on the Moon are named after him. 5 Washing and bathing are religious requirements for Muslims, which is perhaps why they perfected the recipe for soap which we still use today. The ancient Egyptians had soap of a kind, as did the Romans who used it more as a pomade. But it was the Arabs who combined vegetable oils with sodium hydroxide and aromatics such as thyme oil. One of the Crusaders' most striking characteristics, to Arab nostrils, was that they did not wash. Shampoo was introduced to England by a Muslim who opened Mahomed's Indian Vapour Baths on Brighton seafront in 1759 and was appointed Shampooing Surgeon to Kings George IV and William IV. 6 Distillation, the means of separating liquids through differences in their boiling points, was invented around the year 800 by Islam's foremost scientist, Jabir ibn Hayyan, who transformed alchemy into chemistry, inventing many of the basic processes and apparatus still in use today - liquefaction, crystallisation, distillation, purification, oxidisation, evaporation and filtration. As well as discovering sulphuric and nitric acid, he invented the alembic still, giving the world intense rosewater and other perfumes and alcoholic spirits (although drinking them is haram, or forbidden, in Islam). Ibn Hayyan emphasised systematic experimentation and was the founder of modern chemistry. 7 The crank-shaft is a device which translates rotary into linear motion and is central to much of the machinery in the modern world, not least the internal combustion engine. One of the most important mechanical inventions in the history of humankind, it was created by an ingenious Muslim engineer called al-Jazari to raise water for irrigation. His 1206 Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices shows he also invented or refined the use of valves and pistons, devised some of the first mechanical clocks driven by water and weights, and was the father of robotics. Among his 50 other inventions was the combination lock. 8 Quilting is a method of sewing or tying two layers of cloth with a layer of insulating material in between. It is not clear whether it was invented in the Muslim world or whether it was imported there from India or China. But it certainly came to the West via the Crusaders. They saw it used by Saracen warriors, who wore straw-filled quilted canvas shirts instead of armour. As well as a form of protection, it proved an effective guard against the chafing of the Crusaders' metal armour and was an effective form of insulation - so much so that it became a cottage industry back home in colder climates such as Britain and Holland. 9 The pointed arch so characteristic of Europe's Gothic cathedrals was an invention borrowed from Islamic architecture. It was much stronger than the rounded arch used by the Romans and Normans, thus allowing the building of bigger, higher, more complex and grander buildings. Other borrowings from Muslim genius included ribbed vaulting, rose windows and dome-building techniques. Europe's castles were also adapted to copy the Islamic world's - with arrow slits, battlements, a barbican and parapets. Square towers and keeps gave way to more easily defended round ones. Henry V's castle architect was a Muslim. 10 Many modern surgical instruments are of exactly the same design as those devised in the 10th century by a Muslim surgeon called al-Zahrawi. His scalpels, bone saws, forceps, fine scissors for eye surgery and many of the 200 instruments he devised are recognisable to a modern surgeon. It was he who discovered that catgut used for internal stitches dissolves away naturally (a discovery he made when his monkey ate his lute strings) and that it can be also used to make medicine capsules. In the 13th century, another Muslim medic named Ibn Nafis described the circulation of the blood, 300 years before William Harvey discovered it. Muslims doctors also invented anaesthetics of opium and alcohol mixes and developed hollow needles to suck cataracts from eyes in a technique still used today. 11 The windmill was invented in 634 for a Persian caliph and was used to grind corn and draw up water for irrigation. In the vast deserts of Arabia, when the seasonal streams ran dry, the only source of power was the wind which blew steadily from one direction for months. Mills had six or 12 sails covered in fabric or palm leaves. It was 500 years before the first windmill was seen in Europe. 12 The technique of inoculation was not invented by Jenner and Pasteur but was devised in the Muslim world and brought to Europe from Turkey by the wife of the English ambassador to Istanbul in 1724. Children in Turkey were vaccinated with cowpox to fight the deadly smallpox at least 50 years before the West discovered it. 13 The fountain pen was invented for the Sultan of Egypt in 953 after he demanded a pen which would not stain his hands or clothes. It held ink in a reservoir and, as with modern pens, fed ink to the nib by a combination of gravity and capillary action. 14 The system of numbering in use all round the world is probably Indian in origin but the style of the numerals is Arabic and first appears in print in the work of the Muslim mathematicians al-Khwarizmi and al-Kindi around 825. Algebra was named after al-Khwarizmi's book, Al-Jabr wa-al-Muqabilah, much of whose contents are still in use. The work of Muslim maths scholars was imported into Europe 300 years later by the Italian mathematician Fibonacci. Algorithms and much of the theory of trigonometry came from the Muslim world. And Al-Kindi's discovery of frequency analysis rendered all the codes of the ancient world soluble and created the basis of modern cryptology. 15 Ali ibn Nafi, known by his nickname of Ziryab (Blackbird) came from Iraq to Cordoba in the 9th century and brought with him the concept of the three-course meal - soup, followed by fish or meat, then fruit and nuts. He also introduced crystal glasses (which had been invented after experiments with rock crystal by Abbas ibn Firnas - see No 4). 16 Carpets were regarded as part of Paradise by medieval Muslims, thanks to their advanced weaving techniques, new tinctures from Islamic chemistry and highly developed sense of pattern and arabesque which were the basis of Islam's non-representational art. In contrast, Europe's floors were distinctly earthly, not to say earthy, until Arabian and Persian carpets were introduced. In England, as Erasmus recorded, floors were "covered in rushes, occasionally renewed, but so imperfectly that the bottom layer is left undisturbed, sometimes for 20 years, harbouring expectoration, vomiting, the leakage of dogs and men, ale droppings, scraps of fish, and other abominations not fit to be mentioned". Carpets, unsurprisingly, caught on quickly. 17 The modern cheque comes from the Arabic saqq, a written vow to pay for goods when they were delivered, to avoid money having to be transported across dangerous terrain. In the 9th century, a Muslim businessman could cash a cheque in China drawn on his bank in Baghdad. 18 By the 9th century, many Muslim scholars took it for granted that the Earth was a sphere. The proof, said astronomer Ibn Hazm, "is that the Sun is always vertical to a particular spot on Earth". It was 500 years before that realisation dawned on Galileo. The calculations of Muslim astronomers were so accurate that in the 9th century they reckoned the Earth's circumference to be 40,253.4km - less than 200km out. The scholar al-Idrisi took a globe depicting the world to the court of King Roger of Sicily in 1139. 19 Though the Chinese invented saltpetre gunpowder, and used it in their fireworks, it was the Arabs who worked out that it could be purified using potassium nitrate for military use. Muslim incendiary devices terrified the Crusaders. By the 15th century they had invented both a rocket, which they called a "self-moving and combusting egg", and a torpedo - a self-propelled pear-shaped bomb with a spear at the front which impaled itself in enemy ships and then blew up. 20 Medieval Europe had kitchen and herb gardens, but it was the Arabs who developed the idea of the garden as a place of beauty and meditation. The first royal pleasure gardens in Europe were opened in 11th-century Muslim Spain. Flowers which originated in Muslim gardens include the carnation and the tulip. "1001 Inventions: Discover the Muslim Heritage in Our World" is a new exhibition which began a nationwide tour this week. It is currently at the Science Museum in Manchester. For more information, go to http://www.1001inventions.com . http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=346_1335713999 ccfc How Islamic inventors changed the world Islam, Inventions Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:17:52 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=42d_1327655660 ccfc There's no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy. The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults. These findings point to a vicious cycle, according to lead researcher Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario. Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies , the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice, Hodson wrote in an email to LiveScience. "Prejudice is extremely complex and multifaceted, making it critical that any factors contributing to bias are uncovered and understood," he said. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=42d_1327655660 ccfc Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice Conservatives, Racist, Morons Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:54:49 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=998_1324471814 ccfc By age 23, at least a quarter of all youth in the U.S. - and perhaps as many as 41% - are arrested at least once for something more serious than a traffic violation, according to a new study of American teens. The study is the first since the 1960s to try to determine the percentage of youth who are arrested. Previously, the research estimated that 22% of Americans had been arrested at least once for a non-traffic violation by age 23. "We say in the paper that we think the real figure is on the order of 1 in 3," says Robert Brame, lead author of the new study and a professor of criminal justice and criminology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The broad range in the estimate found by Brame and his team - from 25.3% to 41.4% - is due to missing data. The researchers used 1997-2008 data from the National Survey of Youth, which included more than 7,000 teens, but some didn't have data from some of the years. Researchers have not completed an analysis of the data by race, but prior studies suggest that minorities are arrested more frequently than whites. Previous research finds, for example, that black youth are arrested at double the rate of white youth for drug crimes, even though a larger proportion of white youth actually use and sell drugs. Although it may seem shocking that at least one-third of U.S. youth has an arrest record, those who study juvenile crime don't find the figure to be out of line. Since the 1970s, America has become much tougher on crime, lengthening sentences, increasing the police force and quintupling the number of people incarcerated. During that time, the number of Americans in prison has gone from half a million to 2.3 million, with approximately 93,000 incarcerated youth. Given the changes in the criminal justice system, some increase in youth arrests was to be expected. "As a criminologist, I'm not terribly surprised by it," says Brame. The study captured arrests for all offenses other than traffic violations, including underage drinking, shoplifting, truancy, robbery, assault and murder. Most teens who are arrested are cited for minor infractions and don't end up imprisoned. Still, for those who are, the detrimental effect of being detained may outlast the actual sentence. Although the literature is mixed, several previous studies indicate that kids who are incarcerated do significantly worse later on, compared with those who are given alternative sentences that allow them to remain in their communities. One study, for example, compared children who committed the same crimes but wound up with harsh or lenient sentences: those who were sentenced to juvenile detention were three times more likely to be re-incarcerated as adults, compared with those whose judges gave them lighter, alternative sentences. "It's premature to say that we know sanctions for juvenile justice are 'crimogenic,'" says Brame. "It may vary by type of offender, jurisdiction and types of services." But researchers do know that teens who wind up in trouble with the law tend to have early risk factors, such as having a troubled family, childhood behavior problems or difficulty in school. About two-thirds of teens who serve time in a correctional institution have a serious mental illness. Given that these risk factors can arise early, Brame thinks that pediatricians may be able to make a difference. If pediatricians are made aware of how common arrest is, Brame says, they can identify at-risk kids and their parents, and connect families with services that can help troubled youth find better ways to cope, helping to either prevent arrest or mitigate its consequences. The study was published in Pediatrics. Maia Szalavitz is a health writer at TIME.com. Find her on Twitter at @maiasz . You can also continue the discussion on TIME Healthland's Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIMEHealthland . Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2011/12/19/study-1-in-3-american-youth-are-arrested-by-age-23/#ixzz1hAnizyTU http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=998_1324471814 ccfc 1 in 3 Americans arrested by age 23 1 in 3, arrested, USA Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:45:57 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1de_1324042901 ccfc Fabulous Canadian 1970's bands' classic song Little Neutrino. At the time, because of the outstanding quality of their music, and because the band remained anonymous, many thought that they actually were The Beatles re-united. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1de_1324042901 ccfc Klaatu - Little Neutrino Klaatu, Little Neutrino Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:40:18 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b44_1323891320 ccfc Federal imprisonment for unpaid debt has been illegal in the U.S. since 1833. It's a practice people associate more with the age of Dickens than modern-day America. But as more Americans struggle to pay their bills in the wake of the recession, collection agencies are using harsher methods to get their money, ushering in the return of debtor's prisons . NPR reports that it's becoming increasingly common for people to serve jail time as a result of their debt. Because of " sloppy, incomplete or even false documentation ," many borrowers facing jail time don't even know they're being sued by creditors: Take, for example, what happened to Robin Sanders in Illinois. She was driving home when an officer pulled her over for having a loud muffler. But instead of sending her off with a warning, the officer arrested Sanders, and she was taken right to jail. "That's when I found out I had a warrant for failure to appear in Macoupin County. And I didn't know what it was about." Sanders owed $730 on a medical bill. She says she didn't even know a collection agency had filed a lawsuit against her. A company will often sell off its debt to a collection agency, generally called a creditor. That creditor files a lawsuit against the debtor requiring a court appearance. A notice to appear in court is supposed to be given to the debtor. If they fail to show up, a warrant is issued for their arrest. More than a third of all states now allow borrowers who don't pay their bills to be jailed, even when debtor's prisons have been explicitly banned by state constitutions. A report by the American Civil Liberties Union found that people were imprisoned even when the cost of doing so exceeded the amount of debt they owed. Sean Matthews, a homeless New Orleans construction worker, was incarcerated for five months for $498 of legal debt, while his jail time cost the city six times that much. Some debtors are even forced to pay for their jail time themselves, adding to their financial troubles. Stories of surprise arrests for unpaid debt have been reported in states including Indiana, Tennessee and Washington. In Kansas City, one man ended up in jail after missing only a furniture payment . The Federal Trade Commission received more than 140,000 complaints related to debt collection in 2010, and they've taken 10 debt collection agencies to court for their practices in the past three years. Since the start of 2010, judges have signed off on more than 5,000 arrest warrants since in nine counties alone. Beverly Yang, a legal aid attorney, says many debtor's - and judges - don't know debtor's rights , which results in the accused being intimidated into a pay agreement. She's seen judges interrogate debtors about why they can't pay more and whether they are trying hard enough to find a job. Yang says some collection agencies are only too eager to use needlessly harsh tactics. "Whatever the creditors or the creditors' attorneys can do to leverage some kind of payment, it will help their profits enormously because they have, literally, millions of these." Debt collection is a lucrative business - the industry is set to grow 26 percent in the next three years. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b44_1323891320 ccfc The Return Of Debtor's Prisons: Thousands Of Americans Jailed For Not Paying Their Bills USA, Debt, Dickensian Sun, 20 Nov 2011 06:37:54 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5d6_1321788849 ccfc MUSLIMS are more patriotic than the rest of the population, according to a poll into what symbolises the best of British. Asked if they agreed with the statement, "I am proud to be a British citizen", 83% of Muslims said they did. The average across the population was 79%. Muslims were also more optimistic than average, with only 31% believing Britain's best days are in the past, compared with 45% for society as a whole. Experts believe patriotism among Muslims is driven both by a desire to defend themselves against hostility and an appreciation of the comparatively liberal system in Britain measured against more restrictive countries where they or their ancestors were born. The report says: "This optimism in British Muslims is significant as - combined with their high score for pride in being British - it runs counter to a prevailing narrative about Muslim dissatisfaction with and in the UK." Half of the 2,000 people polled agreed that Britain benefited from being multicultural, with sports figures such as the boxer Amir Khan, who is British-Pakistani and has often spoken of his pride at being British, emerging as icons. Tariq Modood, director of the Centre for Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, said: "They can ... say to people, 'We are British and you've got us wrong', or they can say, 'You don't think we're really British? Fine, we're not'. Only a very small minority do this." Kashif Hussein, 21, a student at University College London, said: "I feel British and Muslim but since 9/11 we have to show it more, to interact more, to show that we're not that stereotype." The research, produced by the think tank Demos, also found courteous and generous behaviour inspired patriotism more than traditional symbols such as the Queen and the BBC. Younger members of the royal family fared better than the older generation, with Princes Harry and William commended particularly for their service in the armed forces. Despite that, three people in 10 were ambivalent towards the monarchy or did not see them as a symbol of British pride. Volunteering is the biggest single indicator of national pride and, along with good manners and even the patience to queue, was cited as an attribute that elicited patriotism. Two-thirds of respondents said they had volunteered at least once during the previous year. "The key thing that people were proud of is that British people volunteer more than people from other countries and that we're more socially engaged," said Max Wind-Cowie, the report's author. Sophie Collard helped clean up after the riots (Jeremy Young)Altruistic acts, such as the public street cleaning after this summer's riots, were cited as a source of national pride. Dan Thompson, 37, from Worthing, West Sussex, co-ordinated many of the clean-ups in London, Manchester and Birmingham in August. "It made me feel very proud to be British," he said. "It's like the spirit of the blitz: we dust ourselves down and carry on, that is what the British do." William Shakespeare was the No1 cause for national pride, getting the nod from 75% of those polled. Close behind was the National Trust, seen as a positive symbol of Britain by 72%, more than the proportion who expressed pride in either the Union Jack or the National Health Service. "The National Trust brings British heritage to life and makes it relevant today, but it's also a voluntary and charitable organisation and that's important to people," Wind-Cowie said. Orchestrated national events such as the Olympics did not, however, elicit the same level of pride. Andrew Mycock, a reader in politics at Huddersfield University and an expert in British identity, said: "The way we feel about patriotism is very much a lived experience. Discussing kings and queens and wars is very abstract; we can't feel an emotional tie." Women, the study discovered, are more optimistic about Britain's future than men, and young people, often criticised for a lack of pride in their country, are just 10% less patriotic than those aged 65 or older. The poll also suggests politicians' understanding of what inspires patriotism is flawed. More than half of those questioned were proud of the contribution they made to society but many who took part in focus groups as part of the research were deeply suspicious of the big society initiative championed by David Cameron. Sophie Collard, 24, a copywriter who lives in north London, was one of those who helped to clean up after the riots. She said: "It feels like the government is trying to stick the big society label on volunteering and trying to make it their own. I'm not going to do something because I've been told to by the Tories - that belittles it." The study, published tomorrow, accuses both the political left and right of failing to grasp the reality of modern British patriotism. In September, Cameron launched a drive to "put the Great back into Great Britain" - a promotion aimed at improving the country's image abroad. Posters included images of Henry VIII and Cambridge University. Yet Mycock said: "David Cameron and Gordon Brown were both keen to promote a type of Britishness that is abstract and lacking in emotion. "Values and institutions are things we have no real sense of ownership over. Given the choice of things that make them proud, people will go back to their local communities." Link to Sunday Times story: http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/Society/article826203.ece http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5d6_1321788849 ccfc Muslims prove to be Britain's greatest flag wavers Muslims, Patriotic, Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:48:42 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=32e_1319582414 ccfc The last of America's most powerful Cold War-era nuclear bombs - the B53 - has been dismantled in Texas. Experts have separated around 300lb (136kg) of high explosives from the bomb's uranium "pit". Weighing 10,000lb, the B53 was the size of a minivan and said to be 600 times more destructive than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. It was first put into service at the height of the Cold War in 1962, and remained in the US arsenal until 1997. The bomb was designed to hit targets deep underground, such as bunkers in which military and civilian leaders might be sheltering. Carried by B-52 bombers, the "bunker busters" used five parachutes to land softly on their targets before detonating a nine megaton explosion, in effect simulating an earthquake. They have been superseded by bombs that burrow into the ground and then explode. The first B53s were destroyed in the 1980s but several remained in service until 1997, when they were all retired. 'Significant milestone'A dismantling program had to be specially designed for the B53s, which were made with older technology and by scientists who have since retired or died. Continue reading the main story "Start QuoteThe B53 was a weapon developed in another time for a different world. Today, we're moving beyond the Cold War nuclear weapons complex" Thomas D'AgostinoNational Nuclear Security AdministrationThe US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has said the program, which was completed once this final bomb had been dismantled, is a year ahead of schedule. The head of the NNSA, Thomas D'Agostino, called the decomissioning of the last B53 a "significant milestone". "The world is a safer place with this dismantlement," he said. "The B53 was a weapon developed in another time for a different world. Today, we're moving beyond the Cold War nuclear weapons complex that built it toward a 21st Century nuclear security enterprise." After disassembly, the uranium pits from the bomb will be temporarily stored at the Pantex plant near Amarillo, Texas, where Tuesday's dismantling was carried out. The plant is the only nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility in the US. The plant is likely to be involved with future disassembly projects as older weapons are retired. According to figures released by the US state department in May 2012, the US has 5,113 nuclear warheads in its current stockpile, down from 31,255 in 1967. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=32e_1319582414 ccfc Last Cold War-era B53 nuclear bomb dismantled in Texas Nuclear Bomb, Cold War, USA Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:31:31 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e2b_1318937312 ccfc Suspending a superconducting disc above or below a set of permanent magnets. The magnetic field is locked inside the superconductor ; a phenomenon called 'Quantum Trapping'. For more info visit: http://www.quantumlevitation.com http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e2b_1318937312 ccfc Quantum Levitation Tel Aviv University, Levitation, Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:05:08 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ce3_1309359427 ccfc On Saturday October 30th, 2010, shoppers at Macy's in Philadelphia were treated to an unexpected musical experience they'll never forget. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ce3_1309359427 ccfc Opera Company of Philadelphia "Hallelujah!" Random Act of Culture Random act of culture, music, opera Sat, 04 Jun 2011 10:00:52 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=97f_1307195761 ccfc http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=97f_1307195761 ccfc From Chris Tarrant on TV show Chris Tarrant, Northern Ireland, Troubles Tue, 17 May 2011 08:23:22 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=005_1305634795 ccfc Overweight welfare claimants in the US state of Arizona face paying $50 (lb31) fines if they don't follow a dietary regime laid down by their doctor. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=005_1305634795 ccfc Arizona to fine some people for not dieting Arizona, Health, Obesity