Death by Volcano

Iranian woman to face death by stoning or hanging (AP)
Meer over: Iranian woman to face death by stoning or hanging (AP)|2011-12-25 18:03:52

AP - Authorities in Iran said Sunday they are again moving ahead with plans to execute a woman sentenced to death by stoning on an adultery conviction in a case that sparked an international outcry, but are considering whether to carry out the punishment by hanging instead.

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'Death By GPS' Increasing In America's Wilderness
Meer over: 'Death By GPS' Increasing In America's Wilderness|2011-02-03 20:48:58
An anonymous reader writes "Every year, more and more Americans are dying in deserts and wildernesses because they rely on their GPS units (and, to some degree, their cellphones) to always be accurate. The Sacramento Bee quotes Death Valley wilderness coordinator Charlie Callagan: 'It's what I'm beginning to call death by GPS ... People are renting vehicles with GPS and they have no idea how it works and they are willing to trust the GPS to lead them into the middle of nowhere.'" Read more of this story at Slashdot.
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/yUOuFMAi6ec/Death-By-GPS-Increasing-In-Americas-Wilderness

Ex-Sun CEO Warns Oracle of Death By Open Source
Meer over: Ex-Sun CEO Warns Oracle of Death By Open Source|2010-12-08 14:25:34
gearystwatcher writes "Former Sun CEO Scott McNealy talks to The Reg on where things went wrong, and acquisition by Oracle: 'We probably got a little too aggressive near the end and probably open sourced too much and tried too hard to appease the community and tried too hard to share,' McNealy said. 'You gotta take care of your shareholders or you end up very vulnerable like we got. We were a wonderful acquisition — we got stolen for a song at the bottom of the Dow.'" Read more of this story at Slashdot.
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/RYLT6KLVFD0/story01.htm

Scientist: Dinos trampled after death by own kind (AP)
Meer over: Scientist: Dinos trampled after death by own kind (AP)|2009-10-14 02:27:50
AP - A vast collection of broken dinosaur bones unearthed in southeast Utah indicates they were smashed underfoot by other dinosaurs shortly after they died, according to paleontologists.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091014/ap_on_sc/us_trampled_dinosaurs

Scientist: Dinos trampled after death by own kind (AP)
Meer over: Scientist: Dinos trampled after death by own kind (AP)|2009-10-14 01:47:50
AP - A vast collection of broken dinosaur bones unearthed in southeast Utah indicates they were smashed underfoot by other dinosaurs shortly after they died, according to paleontologists.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091013/ap_on_sc/us_trampled_dinosaurs

DEATH BY MEDICINE
Meer over: DEATH BY MEDICINE|2009-09-19 07:02:32
enter a description here ... DEATH BY MEDICINE By Gary Null PhD, Carolyn Dean MD ND, Martin Feldman MD, Debora Rasio MD, Dorothy Smith PhD
http://www.wnho.net/deathbymedicine.htm

Iran: Man faces death by stoning for adultery
Meer over: Iran: Man faces death by stoning for adultery|2009-05-30 05:35:46
Amnesty International warned today that a 30-year-old man is at imminent risk of being stoned to death in the city of Rasht, northern Iran after being convicted of "adultery while ...
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=18199

Pregnant U.K. Woman Faces Death by Firing Squad in Heroin Trafficking ...
Meer over: Pregnant U.K. Woman Faces Death by Firing Squad in Heroin Trafficking ...|2009-05-12 23:53:28
BANGKOK -- The Laotian government on Monday insisted the trial of a pregnant British woman who faces possible death by firing squad for allegedly trafficking heroin will be ...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518811,00.html

Pregnant U.K. Woman Faces Death by Firing Squad in Heroin Trafficking ...
Meer over: Pregnant U.K. Woman Faces Death by Firing Squad in Heroin Trafficking ...|2009-05-06 14:56:15
The Laotian government on Monday insisted the trial of a pregnant British woman who faces possible death by firing squad for allegedly trafficking heroin will be conducted fairly ...
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/international/Pregnant_UK_Woman_Faces_Death_by_Firing_Squad_in_Heroin_Trafficking_Case_63102750

I shall love you up to the death, by Valerie Nachef and Jacques Patarin
Meer over: I shall love you up to the death, by Valerie Nachef and Jacques Patarin|2009-04-11 21:02:38
\begin{abstract} In this paper, we explain the encryption algorithm used by the Queen of France Marie-Antoinette to send letters to Axel von Fersen during the French Revolution. We give the complete deciphering of some letters for which we found differences with the text taken from historical books. We also provide the deciphering of one letter that seems to be unkown so far. The results we get bring new proofs on Marie-Antoinette's deep affection for Fersen. Finally, we mention some open questions about Marie-Antoinette 's correspondence with Axel von Fersen. \end{abstract}
http://eprint.iacr.org/2009/166

Baby mauled to death by Jack Russell and bull terrier
Meer over: Baby mauled to death by Jack Russell and bull terrier|2009-02-17 01:07:43
A baby boy died after he was mauled by two dogs in the early hours of yesterday morning while his parents were on a night out. Three-month-old Jayden Joseph Mack was being looked ...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/baby-mauled-to-death-by-jack-russell-and-bull-terrier-1604029.html

Death by Volcano
Meer over: Death by Volcano|2008-08-22 05:06:45
: Photo: Austin Post/USGS Volcanoes inspire awe and terror because they can kill in so many ways -- flowing lava, suffocating ash, flood from a released lake, landslides, mudslides, burning gas, shockwaves, earthquakes and tsunamis. A volcano can kill even when it's not erupting, as happened at Lake Nyos in 1986. We start here with three famous eruptions, modern and ancient, and then show the seven deadliest eruptions of the last 500 years, as listed by the U.S. Geological Survey. St. Helens Blows Its Top, 1980 Mount St. Helens steamed to life in March 1980 and volcanologists knew it was ready to blow; they just didn't know exactly when. Officials closed the surrounding national forest areas to the public, but some people, like resort-owner Harry Truman, said they'd rather stay put. Others, like volcanologist David Johnston, were at observation posts deemed sufficiently far from the peak to be relatively safe. But when the volcano erupted at 8:32 a.m. PDT on May 18, 1980, it didn't just send steam and ash up its existing crater, it blew its top off, 1,300 feet of it. And it didn't blow straight up: A whole side of the mountain that was made of fissured, rotten rock broke loose. That created a massive landslide and released a deadly cloud of pulverized rock that killed Johnston, Truman and 55 others, most of them by asphyxiation. When the ash combined with lake and stream water, the surging volcanic debris, or lahar, stormed down nearby valleys wreaking havoc. : Photo: Richard P. Hoblitt/USGSThe Philippines' Mount Pinatubo ejected about 1.2 cubic miles of magma, sending a giant ash cloud more than 20 miles up into the stratosphere in June 1991. Ten times larger than Mount St. Helens' 1980 eruption, it was second in the 20th century only to Alaska's 1912 Katmai eruption. A million people's lives were at risk, but a good warning system saved thousands. The Philippine government evacuated 60,000 from the most dangerous slopes and valleys, and the U.S. evacuated 18,000 from nearby Clark Air Base. The eruption shortened the volcano by 850 feet and created a new collapse caldera, or crater, 1˝ miles in diameter. Ash deposits 2-inches thick covered 1,500 square miles of land, burying crops and weighing down roofs. Rain from typhoon Yunya made it even heavier, and the accumulated weight, along with the typhoon's wind and seismic shaking from the summit collapse caused roofs to cave in ... the major cause of death from the eruption. Around 350 people died. : Photo: Bettmann/Corbis In one of the most famous eruptions in history, Italy's Mount Vesuvius erupted suddenly in the early afternoon of August 24, A.D. 79. Glassy lava fragments, rocks, crystal and ash fell from the sky for a week, burying the Roman cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae on the Bay of Naples -- killing at least 3,360 people, but perhaps as many as 16,000. Among the dead was the Roman historian Pliny the Elder, who -- so great was his fascination with observing the event -- could not bring himself to flee from the danger. So vast was the layer of volcanic debris left on the three cities that their ruins were not rediscovered until 1748. The "bodies" at left are plaster casts made in 1961 from cavities left in the debris by decomposed bodies that had been sealed in rock and dirt for 19 centuries. : Photo: Juhász Péter Iceland's Laki volcano produced the largest lava flow in historic times when a fissure 16-miles long sent a flow of pahoehoe (fast-moving, smooth or ropy lava) more than 40 miles in 1783. The 2.9 cubic miles of lava covered 218 square miles. The eruption continued intermittently for four months. Fluorine gas fell to the land as hydrofluoric acid in Iceland, dissolving the flesh off livestock. Fully half the horses and cattle, as well as three-quarters of the sheep died. Famine set in, the social order broke down, and looting was rampant. Eventually, a quarter of Iceland's people died of starvation. Sulfur dioxide gas released by the eruption traveled farther. Throughout Europe a heavy haze filtered the sun and a "dry fog" sat on the land. Excess heat caused scores of thousands of deaths. The hot summer was followed by a long, cold winter. Much of the Northern Hemisphere was 4 to 9 degrees (Fahrenheit) below normal. Siberia and Alaska had their coldest summer in half a millennium. Crop failure and famine were reported everywhere. Iceland lost about 9,300 people, but the eventual global death toll may well have been 10 times that ... or more. : Photo: Trisnadi/AP Mount Kelut (or Kelud), in East Java, Indonesia, has erupted more than 30 times in the last thousand years, including a 1586 eruption that killed 10,000 people. The 1919 eruption disgorged a crater lake into nearby valleys, drowning 5,500 people. Starting in 1926, engineers built tunnels to drain the lake to prevent such catastrophes. Steam and hot gasses rise above Mount Kelut in this photo from November 2007. : Photo: Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis Unzen Volcano on the island of Kyushu is about 25 miles east of Nagasaki. A month after a 1792 eruption from its current summit, the slopes of an older part of the volcanic complex, Mount Mayuyama, gave way. The resulting landslide swept through Shimabara City. It entered the sea, causing a tsunami. The landslide and tsunami together killed more than 15,000 people in Japan's worst volcanic disaster. You can still see the landslide scar above Shimabara. Unzen erupted again in 1991, sending ash flows down its slopes at 125 mph. : Photo: R. J. Janda/USGS Colombia's snow-capped Nevada del Ruiz volcano exploded Nov. 13, 1985. The hot volcanic gas and ash melted the glacier and mixed with the meltwater. As the slurry tumbled downstream, it added dirt and rocks, gaining volume and density. Debris flows up to 130-feet thick swept into some inhabited river valleys at 30 mph, destroying everything in their path. The town of Armero (left) was 46 miles from the crater, but the crush of mud and boulders hit it two-and-a-half hours after the eruption began. The river of concrete swept Armero away in a matter of minutes, killing three-quarters of its population. All together, the eruption claimed 25,000 lives. : Photo (left half of stereoscope card) courtesy Library of Congress The 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée in Martinique, West Indies, sent a glowing cloud of burning, poisonous gas laced with ash down the slopes of the volcano. It swept into the town of St. Pierre at 100 mph and burned or suffocated the entire population in a matter of minutes. Of the 30,000 people in town, only two (or perhaps four, depending on the account) survived. Three nearby towns suffered the same fate, as did the crews of 16 ships in the harbor. In the 10 square miles of burned-over land, as many as 36,000 people may have died, and only 30 survived. This group of refugees in Fort de France had the apparent good fortune not to be in the path of the glowing cloud. : Photo: flydime/Flickr Krakatau (aka Krakatoa), in Indonesia's Sunda Strait west of Java and east of Sumatra, exploded in August 1883 with 26 times the power of the biggest H-bomb test. The collapse of the volcano into the sea generated 100-foot tidal waves that wiped out hundreds of villages and more than 36,000 lives. Much reduced, the sea wave swept around the world. Four hours after the massive explosion, it was heard 3,000 miles away as the "roar of heavy guns." The sound was audible over 1/13 the surface of the globe, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. The eruption also threw pumice 34 miles into the sky. Dust fell 3,000 miles away 10 days later. Islands of pumice floated on the oceans for months, and airborne particles caused vivid red sunsets around the world. Half a century after Krakatau's epic explosion, a new volcano broke through the surface of the ocean. Anak Krakatau, for "child of Krakatau," (left) remains active and grows about five inches a week. : Photo courtesy NASA Tambora, which is east of Java, produced the most-powerful eruption in recorded history in April 1815. It lowered the height of the island 4,100 feet. Heavy ash fall on nearby islands killed crops, resulting in the starvation of a probable 92,000 people. The eruption of more than 36 cubic miles of pulverized rock produced a volcanic cloud that lowered global temperatures by as much as 5 degrees Fahrenheit. The effects continued for more than a year, and some Europeans and North Americans called 1816 "the year without a summer." Further famine-related deaths almost certainly occurred.
http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/370487713/gallery_volcanoes

Woman mounted to death by pet camel
Meer over: Woman mounted to death by pet camel|2007-08-20 13:26:32
An Australian woman was killed by a pet camel given to her as a 60th birthday present after the animal apparently tried to have sex, police said Sunday. The woman, whose name was not released, was killed Saturday at her family's sheep and cattle ranch near Mitchell, 600 kilometres west of the Queensland state capital Brisbane, state police Detective Senior Constable Craig Gregory said.
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/070819/K081902AU.html

Life in a Dream and in Reality » Iranian wife faces death by stoning ...
Meer over: Life in a Dream and in Reality » Iranian wife faces death by stoning ...|2007-08-01 20:21:34
All about online dating, Relationship advice and dating tips,love and sex advice, educational ... Iranian wife faces death by stoning for adultery July 23, 2007 on 11:56 am | In adultery , Iranian ...
http://blog.datalk.org/iranian-wife-faces-death-by-stoning-for-adultery/

Death by Powerpoint vs. The Monkeymagnet
Meer over: Death by Powerpoint vs. The Monkeymagnet|2007-06-13 08:18:07
Zet ergens een TV neer, zet hem aan op een willekeurig kanaal en mensen worden er met hun ogen naar toe getrokken alsof het een magneet is. Er gaat een magische werking uit van televisie die mensen onmogelijk kunnen weerstaan. Niet voor niets wordt de TV wel 'The Monkeymagnet' genoemd. Jammer dat datzelfde effect zelden opgaat bij presentaties. Blijkbaar zorgen programma's als Powerpoint er (vaak) voor dat presentaties volledig worden doodgeslagen. Dat elke vorm van creativiteit verdwijnt. Dat spanningsopbouw en dynamiek worden neergesabeld. Dat alle menselijke vermogens om informatie op te nemen worden uitgeschakeld. De term 'Death by Powerpoint' kom je steeds vaker tegen. Hoe dit te voorkomen? Simpel. De oplossing ligt dichterbij dan je denkt: neem de televisie als voorbeeld. Beamers, computerbeeldschermen en televisies hebben immers veel overeenkomsten. Plof op de bank, zet de TV aan en kijk naar een enorme hoeveelheid tips, advies en technieken. Kijk naar het nieuws. En dan vooral om te zien hoe zij hun informatie aanbieden. Let er maar eens op, eigenlijk geven ze daar voortdurend korte presentaties. Wat doen zij goed en kun je gebruiken om je presentaties te verbeteren? Na de break vier tips die je direct kunt toepassen.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MarketingFacts/~3/124415082/

Afghan women seek death by fire
Meer over: Afghan women seek death by fire|2006-11-15 13:24:18
Young Afghan women are increasingly committing suicide by setting themselves on fire, NGOs say.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/south_asia/6149144.stm

Death by Hanging for Saddam
Meer over: Death by Hanging for Saddam|2006-11-05 23:41:29
The Iraqi High Tribunal in Baghdad on Sunday sentenced a combative Saddam Hussein and two other defendants to death by hanging for a brutal crackdown in 1982 in the Shiite town of Dujail. Despite a curfew, Iraqis in Baghdad spilled out into the streets to celebrate the verdict. But protests were held in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit. "The Saddam Hussein era is in the past now, as was the
http://attu.blogspot.com/2006/11/death-by-hanging-for-saddam.html

Death by hanging for Japan cult leader
Meer over: Death by hanging for Japan cult leader|2006-09-17 06:41:28
Death by hanging for Japan cult leader
http://rawstory.com/comments/19710.html

Cell Phones Increase Risk of Death By Lightning
Meer over: Cell Phones Increase Risk of Death By Lightning|2006-06-23 15:45:10
If you're chatting on a cell phone during a lightning storm, dropped calls could be the least of your worries. According to a letter published in this week's issue of the British Medical Journal, people who talk on, or even just carry, mobile phones outdoors during storms are more likely to sustain fatal internal injuries if struck by lightning. One U.S. lightning expert is skeptical, however.
http://attu.blogspot.com/2006/06/cell-phones-increase-risk-of-death-by.html

Eagles Of Death Metal - Death By Sexy
Meer over: Eagles Of Death Metal - Death By Sexy|2006-06-22 21:57:55
Op de één of andere manier belandt Peace Love Death Metal uit 2004 van Eagles Of Death Metal steeds vaker in de la van mijn cd-speler. Wist ik dit album destijds nog niet helemaal te waarderen, langzaam is dit gegroeid...
http://www.fileunder.nl/archives/2006/06/eagles_of_death_1.php