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Robert (doll) Robert, otherwise known as Robert the Doll, Robert the haunted doll, or Robert the Enchanted Doll, is a doll exhibited at the East Martello Museum that was once owned by Key West, Florida painter and author Robert Eugene Otto. According to legend, the doll is haunted. The doll originally belonged to Robert Eugene Otto, an artist described as "eccentric" who belonged to a prominent Key West family. The doll was reportedly manufactured by the Steiff Company of Germany, purchased by Otto's grandfather while on a trip to Germany in 1904, and given to young Otto as a birthday gift. The doll's sailor suit was likely an outfit that Otto wore as a child. The doll remained stored in the Otto family home at 534 Eaton Street in Key West while Otto studied art in New York and Paris. Otto married Annette Parker in Paris on May 3, 1930. The couple returned to the Otto family home in Key West to live there until Otto died in 1974. His wife died two years later. After their deaths, the Eaton Street home containing the doll was sold to Myrtle Reuter, who owned it for 20 years until the property was sold to the current owners, who operate it as a guest house. In 1994, the doll was donated to the East Martello Museum in Key West, Florida, where it eventually became a po[CENSORED]r tourist attraction. It is annually rotated to the Old Post Office and Customhouse in October. Legend: According to legend, the doll has supernatural abilities that allow it to move, change its facial expressions, and make giggling sounds. Some versions of the legend claim that a young girl of "Bahamian descent" gave Otto the doll as a gift or "retaliation for a wrongdoing". Other stories claim that the doll moved voodoo figurines around the room, and was "aware of what went on around him". Still other legends claim that the doll "vanished" after Otto's house changed ownership a number of times after his death, or that young Otto triggered the doll's supernatural powers by blaming his childhood mishaps on the doll. According to local folklore, the doll has caused "car accidents, broken bones, job loss, divorce and a cornucopia of other misfortunes", and museum visitors supposedly experience "post-visit misfortunes" for "failing to respect Robert".

Annabelle the Doll: Annabelle the Doll, at the Warren’s Occult Museum According to claims originating from Ed and Lorraine Warren, a student nurse was given the Raggedy Annable doll in 1970, but after the doll behaved strangely, a psychic medium told the student the doll was inhabited by the spirit of a dead girl named “Annabelle Higgins”. Supposedly, the student nurse and her roommate first tried to accept and nurture the spirit-possessed doll, but eventually became frightened by the doll’s malicious behavior and contacted the Warrens, who removed the doll to their museum after pronouncing it “demonically possessed”. Texas State University assistant professor of religious studies Joseph Laycock says most skeptics have dismissed the Warrens’ museum as “full of off-the-shelf Halloween junk, dolls and toys, books you could buy at any bookstore”. Laycock calls the Annabelle legend an “interesting case study in the relationship between pop culture and paranormal folklore” and speculates that the demonic doll trope po[CENSORED]rized by films such as Child’s Play and The Conjuring likely emerged from early legends surrounding Robert the Doll as well as a Twilight Zone episode entitled Living Doll. Laycock suggests that “the idea of demonically-possessed dolls allows modern demonologists to find supernatural evil in the most banal and domestic of places”. Commenting on publicity for the Warrens’ Occult museum coinciding with the film release of The Conjuring, science writer Sharon A. Hill said that much of the myths and legends surrounding the Warrens have “seemingly been of their own doing” and that many people may have difficulty “separating the Warrens from their Hollywood portrayal.” Hill criticized sensational press coverage of the Warrens’ Occult museum and its Annabelle doll, commenting that “like real-life Ed Warren, real-life Annabelle is actually far less impressive.” Of the supernatural claims made about Annabelle by Ed Warren, Hill observed, “we have nothing but Ed’s word for this, and also for the history and origins of the objects in the museum”

A British man who hacked into computers at the Pentagon will face trial in the US after the law lords ruled that he should be extradited. At the House of Lords this morning, Gary McKinnon, 42, was told that his appeal against extradition would not be granted. McKinnon, an unemployed computer systems administrator from north London, invaded computer systems belonging to the US military in 2001 – shortly after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. He said he was merely searching for evidence of extraterrestrial life, but American officials labelled him the world's most dangerous hacker and accused him of deleting important files and causing hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of damage. According to prosecutors, McKinnon scanned more than 73,000 US government computers and hacked into 97 machines belonging to the US army, navy, air force and Nasa. His lawyers have fought vigorously against the extradition, arguing that McKinnon could face up to 60 years in prison as a result of his actions, and could even be classed as an "enemy combatant" and interned at Guantánamo Bay. Instead they argued that he should face prosecution under Britain's more lenient computer crime laws because he carried out the hacking from his bedroom in London. But the law lords today rejected that argument. "The difference between the American system and our own is not perhaps so stark as the appellant's argument suggests," said Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood in his ruling. "It is difficult to think of anything other than the threat of unlawful action which could fairly be said so to imperil the integrity of the extradition process as to require the accused to be discharged irrespective of the strength of the case against him." In a statement, McKinnon's legal team said it would be taking the appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. "Gary McKinnon is neither a terrorist nor a terrorist sympathiser," the statement said. "His case could have been properly dealt with by our own prosecuting authorities. Instead, we believe that the British government declined to prosecute him to enable the US government to make an example of him. "American officials involved in this case have stated that they want to see him 'fry'. The consequences he faces if extradited are both disproportionate and intolerable and we will be making an immediate application to the European Court to prevent his removal."

Ebola, previously known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, is a rare and deadly disease caused by infection with one of the Ebola virus species. Ebola can cause disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees). Ebola is caused by infection with a virus of the family Filoviridae, genus Ebolavirus. There are five identified Ebola virus species, four of which are known to cause disease in humans: Ebola virus (Zaire ebolavirus); Sudan virus (Sudan ebolavirus); Taï Forest virus (Taï Forest ebolavirus, formerly Côte d’Ivoire ebolavirus); and Bundibugyo virus (Bundibugyo ebolavirus). The fifth, Reston virus (Reston ebolavirus), has caused disease in nonhuman primates, but not in humans. Ebola viruses are found in several African countries. Ebola was first discovered in 1976 near the Ebola River in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since then, outbreaks have appeared sporadically in Africa. The natural reservoir host of Ebola virus remains unknown. However, on the basis of evidence and the nature of similar viruses, researchers believe that the virus is animal-borne and that bats are the most likely reservoir. Four of the five virus strains occur in an animal host native to Africa. People get Ebola through direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes in, for example, the eyes, nose, or mouth) with blood or body fluids (including but not limited to urine, saliva, sweat, feces, vomit, breast milk, and semen) of a person who is sick with or has died from Ebola, objects (like needles and syringes) that have been contaminated with body fluids from a person who is sick with Ebola or the body of a person who has died from Ebola, infected fruit bats or primates (apes and monkeys), and possibly from contact with semen from a man who has recovered from Ebola (for example, by having oral, vaginal)

The carbon dioxide that accumulates in the atmosphere insulates the surface of the Earth. It’s like a warming blanket that holds in heat. This energy increases the average temperature of the Earth’s surface, heats the oceans and melts polar ice. As consequences, sea level rises and weather changes. Global average temperature has increased. Anomalies are relative to the mean temperature of 1961-1990. Based on IPCC Assessment Report 5, Working Group 1. Finish Meteorological Institute, the Finish Ministry of the Environment, and Climateguide.fi, CC BY-ND Since 1880, after carbon dioxide emissions took off with the Industrial Revolution, the average global temperature has increased. With the help of internal variations associated with the El Niño weather pattern, we’ve already experienced months more than 1.5℃ above the average. Sustained temperatures beyond the 1℃ threshold are imminent. Each of the last three decades has been warmer than the preceding decade, as well as warmer than the entire previous century. The North and South poles are warming much faster than the average global temperature. Ice sheets in both the Arctic and Antarctic are melting. Ice in the Arctic Ocean is melting and the permafrost is thawing. In 2017, there’s been a stunning decrease in Antarctic sea ice, reminiscent of the 2007 decrease in the Arctic. Ecosystems on both land and in the sea are changing. The observed changes are coherent and consistent with our theoretical understanding of the Earth’s energy balance and simulations from models that are used to understand past variability and to help us think about the future. A massive iceberg – estimated to be 21 miles by 12 miles in size – breaks off from Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier. NASA, CC BY Slam on the climate brakes What would happen to the climate if we were to stop emitting carbon dioxide today, right now? Would we return to the climate of our elders? The simple answer is no. Once we release the carbon dioxide stored in the fossil fuels we burn, it accumulates in and moves among the atmosphere, the oceans, the land and the plants and animals of the biosphere. The released carbon dioxide will remain in the atmosphere for thousands of years. Only after many millennia will it return to rocks, for example, through the formation of calcium carbonate – limestone – as marine organisms’ shells settle to the bottom of the ocean. But on time spans relevant to humans, once released the carbon dioxide is in our environment essentially forever. It does not go away, unless we, ourselves, remove it.

Rabies is a viral disease that causes inflammation of the brain in humans and other mammals. Early symptoms can include fever and tingling at the site of exposure. These symptoms are followed by one or more of the following symptoms: violent movements, uncontrolled excitement, fear of water, an inability to move parts of the body, confusion, and loss of consciousness. Once symptoms appear, the result is nearly always death. The time period between contracting the disease and the start of symptoms is usually one to three months; however, this time period can vary from less than one week to more than one year. The time is dependent on the distance the virus must travel to reach the central nervous system. Rabies is spread when an infected animal scratches or bites another animal or human. Saliva from an infected animal can also transmit rabies if the saliva comes into contact with the eyes, mouth, or nose. Globally, dogs are the most common animal involved. More than 99% of rabies cases in countries where dogs commonly have the disease are caused by dog bites. In the Americas, bat bites are the most common source of rabies infections in humans, and less than 5% of cases are from dogs. Rodents are very rarely infected with rabies.The rabies virus travels to the brain by following the peripheral nerves. The disease can only be diagnosed after the start of symsons. The period between infection and the first symptoms (incubation period) is typically 1–3 months in humans. Incubation periods as short as four days and longer than six years have been documented, depending on the location and severity of the contaminated wound and the amount of virus introduced. Initial signs and symptoms of rabies are often nonspecific such as fever and headache. As rabies progresses and causes inflammation of the brain and/or meninges, signs and symptoms can include slight or partial paralysis, anxiety, insomnia, confusion, agitation, abnormal behavior, paranoia, terror, and hallucinations, progressing to delirium, and coma. The person may also have hydrophobia. Death usually occurs 2 to 10 days after first symptoms. Survival is rare once symptoms have presented, even with the administration of proper and intensive care. Jeanna Giese, who in 2004 was the first patient treated with the Milwaukee protocol, became the first person ever recorded to have survived rabies without receiving successful post-exposure prophylaxis. An intention-to-treat analysis has since found this protocol has a survival rate of about 8%.

Sleep paralysis is when, during awakening or falling asleep, one is aware but unable to move. During an episode, one may hear, feel, or see things that are not there. It often results in fear. Episodes generally last less than a couple of minutes. It may occur as a single episode or be recurrent. The condition may occur in those who are otherwise healthy, those with narcolepsy, or may run in families as a result of specific genetic changes. The condition can be triggered by sleep deprivation, psychological stress, or abnormal sleep cycles. The underlying mechanism is believed to involve a dysfunction in REM sleep. Diagnosis is based on a person's description. Other conditions that can present similarly include narcolepsy, atonic seizure, and hypokalemic periodic paralysis. Treatment options for sleep paralysis have been poorly studied. People should generally be reassured that the condition is common and not serious. Other efforts that may be tried include sleep hygiene, cognitive behavioral therapy, and antidepressants. Between 8% and 50% of people experience sleep paralysis at some time. About 5% of people have regular episodes. Males and females are affected equally. Sleep paralysis has been described throughout history. It is believed to have played a role in the creation of stories about alien abduction and other paranormal events. Signs and symptoms: The central symptom of sleep paralysis is being aware but being unable to move during awakening. Sleep paralysis may include hallucinations, such as a supernatural creature suffocating or terrifying the individual, accompanied by a feeling of pressure on one's chest and difficulty breathing. Another example of a hallucination involves a menacing shadowy figure entering one's room or lurking outside one's window, while the subject is paralyzed. The body image distortion (affecting parietal regions and the temporoparietal junction) may result in the sleeper having bodily hallucinations, such as illusory limbs and out-of-body experiences. The content and interpretation of these hallucinations are driven by fear, somatic sensations, and REM mentation which are embedded in the sleeper's cultural narrative.

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THE MILKY WAY ISN’T THE ONLY GALAXY 30 DECEMBER 1924 The Milky Way Isn’t the Only Galaxy “On this day in 1924, American astronomer Edwin Hubble announced the existence of galaxies outside of the Milky Way, profoundly changing our understanding of the universe. Born in 1889 to John Powell Hubble, an insurance executive, and Virginia Lee James, in Marshfield, Missouri, and raised near Chicago, Hubble was more athletically than intellectually inclined in his youth. He often placed in high school track and field and in 1906, set a state record for the high jump in Illinois. He was also an amateur boxer and went on to play basketball for the University of Chicago. There, he studied math, astronomy, and philosophy, then won a Rhodes scholarship and studied law at Oxford. He earned a Ph.D. in astronomy, practiced law, served in World War I, and finally returned to astronomy. At the time, the scientific community believed the Milky Way galaxy comprised our entire universe. Around 1919 in Mount Wilson, California, Hubble began using the newly completed Hooker Telescope, then the world’s largest, to study spiral nebulae, fuzzy patches of light in the sky presumed to be clouds of gas or dust within our galaxy. With the Hooker Telescope, he identified Cepheid variable stars, a new kind of star, in several spiral nebulae, including Andromeda Nebula and Triangulum. Using a formula discovered by Harvard astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, he calculated the distance of these new stars. Andromeda, he found, was approximately 860,000 light years away, more than eight times the distance to the farthest stars in the Milky Way. That astonishing computation proved the stars were much too far to be a part of the Milky Way and were, in fact, entire galaxies outside of our own. Hubble presented his findings in a paper at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society to considerable awe. His discovery had fundamentally changed our view of the universe. Hubble went on to discover dozens more galaxies. He died in 1953. NASA honoured his contribution to astronomy by naming its space telescope after him.”

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1st reason: !!!100 million to die by 2030 if world fails to act on climate!!! Nina Chestney 4 MIN READ LONDON (Reuters) - More than 100 million people will die and global economic growth will be cut by 3.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2030 if the world fails to tackle climate change, a report commissioned by 20 governments said on Wednesday. As global average temperatures rise due to greenhouse gas emissions, the effects on the planet, such as melting ice caps, extreme weather, drought and rising sea levels, will threaten po[CENSORED]tions and livelihoods, said the report conducted by humanitarian organization DARA. It calculated that five million deaths occur each year from air pollution, hunger and disease as a result of climate change and carbon-intensive economies, and that toll would likely rise to six million a year by 2030 if current patterns of fossil fuel use continue. More than 90 percent of those deaths will occur in developing countries, said the report that calculated the human and economic impact of climate change on 184 countries in 2010 and 2030. It was commissioned by the Climate Vulnerable Forum, a partnership of 20 developing countries threatened by climate change. “A combined climate-carbon crisis is estimated to claim 100 million lives between now and the end of the next decade,” the report said. It said the effects of climate change had lowered global output by 1.6 percent of world GDP, or by about $1.2 trillion a year, and losses could double to 3.2 percent of global GDP by 2030 if global temperatures are allowed to rise, surpassing 10 percent before 2100. 2nd reason: Just so you know: an asteroid could hit Earth on 21 September 2030 For the first time ever, scientists are pinpointing the time of an impact that could unleash a force 100 times greater than Hiroshima, writes Robin McKie Sunday 5 November 2000 01.11 GMT View more sharing options Shares 205 Scientists have put a date to Armageddon. It will occur on 21 September 2030, when earth is in danger of being hit by an asteroid. The newly discovered threat to global civilisation is called 2000 SG344, and it could strike our planet with a force 100 times greater than that released by the atom bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, astronomers have calculated. Their announcement, posted yesterday on the internet by the International Astronomical Union, is the first formal public prediction of a potential collision with a piece of cosmic debris and it arises from a scientific review process designed to eliminate premature predictions of celestial calamities. Two years ago, asteroid watchers triggered worldwide alarm by announcing that a mile-wide asteroid called XF-11 might hit earth in 2028. A few days later they had to withdraw the forecast, after calculations showed the object posed no danger to our planet. The new prediction is unlikely to be withdrawn, however - for it has been carefully duplicated by scientists at several research centres. The object was recently discovered trailing in Earth's orbit around the sun by astronomers using the 3.6-metre Canada-France-Hawaii telescope on the island of Hawaii. However, the probability that it might hit Earth in 2030 was not realised until last week when Paul Chodas, at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, began studying its orbit. There was a small but definite risk, about one in 500, that its orbit, and Earth's, might coincide on 21 September 2030 - a danger that has been verified over the past 72 hours by a group of International Astronomical Union experts in Italy, Finland and the US. 'This is a first for us,' said space scientist David Morrison at Nasa's Ames Research Center, chairman of the Astronomical Union committee. 'We have never before had a prediction at this high level of probability. In the past we have talked about 1 in 10,000 or 1 in a million.' Advertisement On a newly devised 10-point scale for grading potential impact hazards, known as the Torino scale, the object gets a rating of only 1 - mainly because of its relatively small size and uncertain chances of striking Earth. Any rating on the Torino scale means an object merits careful monitoring. This is the first astronomical object to be given full, formal designation on the Torino scale. In revealing their concerns, astronomers are walking a delicate tightrope between prudent secrecy and disclosure, balancing possible ridicule against the demands of public responsibility. The danger of having to make an embarrassing withdrawal about their claim is low, however, thanks to the quick action of the the technical review panel which has confirmed Chodas's calculations, and by the careful conservative language used in their announcement. It is quite possible, say the astronomers, that SG344 may prove to be nothing more than a discarded Saturn rocket booster, lost in space since the days of the Apollo moon programme. Nasa records show that nine Saturn V rockets were launched toward the moon in the Apollo programme. In each case, spent rocket boosters ended up in uncharted orbits around the sun. If SG344 was to turn out to be one of these, it would simply burn up on entering our atmosphere. 'It could be an old rocket we sent up to launch a satellite decades ago that has come back to haunt us,' said Brian Marsden, director of the Minor Planets Center at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge. 'At least, we can't exclude the possibility.' However, most experts believe the SG344 is most probably an asteroid - with a diameter of between 100 and 230 feet, the size of an office block. If such an object were to hit Earth, the consequences would be severe, though not globally devastating. If made of stone and iron, as are many asteroids and meteorites, SG344 would explode with an estimated energy of two megatons, But if it was a loose conglomeration of stones and gravel, as several experts believe may the case, it might easily disintegrate as it skims into the atmosphere.

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The ILOVEYOU virus is considered one of the most virulent computer virus ever created and it’s not hard to see why. The virus managed to wreck havoc on computer systems all over the world, causing damages totaling in at an estimateof $10 billion. 10% of the world’s Internet-connected computers were believed to have been infected. It was so bad that governments and large corporations took their mailing system offline to prevent infection. The virus was created by two Filipino programers, Reonel Ramones and Onel de Guzman. What it did was use social engineering to get people to click on the attachment; in this case, a love confession. The attachment was actually a script that poses as a TXT file, due to Windows at the time hiding the actual extension of the file. Once clicked, it will send itself to everyone in the user’s mailing list and proceed to overwrite files with itself, making the computer unbootable. The two were never charged, as there were no laws about malware. This led to the enactment of the E-Commerce Law to address the problem.