Apple announced OS X 10.9 Mavericks and so we’re offering up the official, giant wallpaper.
After a series of peaceful demonstrations for preserving a recreational area in Istanbul city center which is planned to demolished for the construction of a shopping mall, Turkish police attacked the protesters violently with tear gas and water cannon, directly targeting their faces and bodies. Dozens of protesters are hospitalized and access to the park is blocked without any legal basis. Turkish media, directly controlled by the government or have business and political ties with it, refuse to cover the incidents. Press agencies also blocked the information flow.
On “Mermaids: The New Evidence,” Animal Planet revisited its documentary about the existence of mermaids from last year, “Mermaids: The Body Found.” Biologist Dr. Paul Robertson returned with what appeared to be brand new footage of the alleged mythical creatures, allegedly taken this spring in the Greenland Sea.

I found this ideas for creating all different kinds of watermellons, if you do a search for watermellon designs you will find it. Any how they had all this different kind of hardware listed to make a robot out of a watermellon, but I used what I had on hand like corn cob holders, foil and dowels.

Yawning is more contagious than pink eye, bird flu and “Call Me Maybe” combined. That’s science, people.
YouTuber Roman Atwood proves the yawn’s infectious spreadability with what could be the world’s most contagious prank. Atwood traveled the world, emitting giant yawns at each stop, to pull off his exhausting prank and make the stunt a global affair.
1. ”My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.”
Author: John F. Kennedy
2. ”Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”
Author: Mark Twain
3. ”I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Author: Nathan Hale
4. ”There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.”
Author: William J. Clinton
5. ”I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.”
Author: Bob Riley
6. ”They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.”
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
7. ”Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.”
Author: Wallace Bruce
8. ”A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.”
Author: Joseph Campbell
9. ”The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree.”
Author: Thomas Campbell
10. ”The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.”
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
11. ”For love of country they accepted death.”
Author: James A. Garfield
98 year old Dobri Dobrev, a man who lost his hearing in the second world war, walks 10 kilometers from his village in his homemade clothes to the city of sofia, where he spends the day begging for money.
Though a well known fixture around several of the city’s churches, known for his prostrations of thanks to all donors, it was only recently discovered that he has donated every penny he has collected — over 40,000 euros — towards the restoration of decaying bulgarian monasteries and churches and the utility bills of orphanages, living instead off his monthly state pension of 80 euros.