Daily Archives: February 6, 2013

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It turns out that the judge from my previous post who deemed it proper to deny a teen girl an attorney for her arraignment, deny her an attorney for future proceedings ("sell your jewelry!"), raise her bond because she had an attitude, and then jail her for 30 days after she lost it and gave him the middle finger, became famous for his lack of ability to control his own temper.

NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has caught it's first glimpse of the "comet of the century" flying toward Earth.

The glimpse came as ISON (also known as Comet C/2012 S) passed Jupiter and sped toward the centre of the solar system.

The Deep Impact captured ISON at a distance of 793 million kilometers.

"This is the fourth comet on which we have performed science observations and the farthest point from Earth from which we've tried to transmit data on a comet," Tim Larson, project manager for the Deep Impact spacecraft at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said in a statement.

The United States has been operating a secret drone base in Saudi Arabia for the past two years as a launch pad for attacks on terrorist targets in Yemen, it emerged Wednesday.

The first pilotless CIA mission flown from the base killed Anwar al-Awlaki, the US-born cleric and senior figure in al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and a deputy in September 2011, reports said.

LAPLACE, LA - Delanie Walker, tight end for the 49ers, tweeted Wednesday morning that the couple killed in a drunk driving accident early Monday morning were his aunt and uncle.

https://twitter.com/Dwalk46/status/299203200454643713

According to Louisiana State Police, the couple stopped their Nissan Altima on the side of I-10 in St. Charles Parish. Nechole Thomas, a 26-year-old woman from Houston, was speeding in a 2002 Mercedes C230 and hit the Nissan.

Tulane University says people are taking advantage of new bike lanes in New Orleans.

On South Carrollton Avenue, for example, Tulane researchers say more than three-times as many people bicycled there after one-mile bike lanes were added.

The study focusses on the amount of bicycle traffic during a ten-day period in September 2009 versus the same time period a year later, after the lanes were added.