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On Friday morning,massive power outages hit San Francisco, New York City, and Los Angeles, as well as other American cities, causing chaos during the morning commutes for, it’s probably safe to say, millions of people.

A blackout left 95,000 without power in downtown San Francisco, trapping more than 20 people in elevators and causing traffic chaos on the same day New York's subway was crippled by a power outage.

The outages on either coast both occurred on Friday morning, throwing America's first and fifth largest rapid transit systems into disarray at the peak of the two cities' morning rush hours.

The power outage in San Francisco stalled work in the technology and finance center as a vast swath of the financial district lost electricity around 9am local time.

Office workers spilled onto city streets in the heart of the business district, milling about as traffic snarled, since stoplights were not working.

An insulation fire at a PG&E substation at Larkin and Eddy streets is the reported cause of the outages.

The fire has been contained and local media reports that PG&E hopes to restore power by 1pm for most customers.

The San Francisco Fire Department says it has responded to more than 100 calls for service since the blackout struck, including 20 calls for people stuck in elevators.




http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/04/21/photos-major-power-outages-in-san-francisco-new-york/

https://www.inverse.com/article/30634-power-outages-nyc-sf-la-in-photos?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C3268576680

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4433794/NYC-San-Francisco-dual-blackouts-mystery.html

Lalasticlala Mynd44

Emmyk:
Where are the other cars they went with?

Check 14th&15th picture very.

Check the source too.

Slavery began in the 14th century in rich nations of Spain and Portugal, who began to capture Africans for enslavement in Europe.

About 388,000 slaves were brought to the U.S., five million went to Brazil and one million went to Jamaica.

In 1526, the first slave voyage was sailed from Africa to the Americas.

The sexes were separated, kept naked, packed close together, and the men were chained for long periods.

From 1526 to 1867 known as the era of Atlantic slave trade, nearly 12.5 million slaves were shipped from Africa to the Americas, and only 10.7 million survived the journey.

It was the largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history.

VW CEO Matthias Mueller, seen here in March, apologized to Obama last year for the scandal.

The sentence was ordered Friday, six weeks after the German automaker pleaded guilty to conspiracy and obstruction of justice.

VW admits that nearly 600,000 diesel cars in the US were fitted with defeat device software to switch engines to a cleaner mode when they were being tested for emissions.

VW attorney Jason Weinstein says the criminal fine is an 'appropriate and serious sanction'.

Separately, VW is paying $1.5billion in a civil case brought by the government and spending $11 billion to buy back cars and offer other compensation.

Seven employees have also been charged.

Volkswagen has been ordered to pay a $2.8billion criminal penalty in the United States for cheating on diesel emissions tests, the largest fine ever imposed by the government on an automaker.

Nearly 600,000 diesel cars in the US were fitted with defeat device software to switch engines to a cleaner mode when they were being tested for emissions.

Federal Judge Sean Cox in Detroit followed the deal negotiated by VW and the US Justice Department.

'This is a case of deliberate, massive fraud perpetrated by VW management,'said Cox.

'This case also involves a failure of the VW supervisory board, which is government, labor and shareholders.'



http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/volkswagen-to-pay-2-8-billion-in-u-s-diesel-emission-scandal-1.3378767

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4432908/Volkswagen-ordered-pay-2-8billion-cheating.html

Dogs' sense of smell is about 100,000 times stronger than humans', but they have just one-sixth our number of taste buds.

Sharks kill fewer than 10 people per year. Humans kill about 100 million sharks per year.

Hardheolar:
Permit me to ask this question. What are the rhino horns, elephant tusk used for??

Elephant tusks are used for obtaining ivory, a hard, white substance that can be found only in the tusks and teeth of certain mammals.

The ivory itself is used to make a variety of items that are typically used to show affluence, wealth or importance.

Rhino horn also on high demand in asian countries, particularly Vietnam.

It is used in Traditional Chinese Medicine but more and as a status symbol to display someone’s success and wealth.

Rhino horn has been used in Chinese medicine for more than 2000 and is used to treat fever, rheumatism, gout, and other disorders.

It also states that the horn could also cure snakebites, hallucinations, typhoid, headaches, carbuncles, vomiting, food poisoning, and “devil possession.”



https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-uses-of-elephant-tusks
https://www.savetherhino.org/rhino_info/threats_to_rhino/poaching_for_rhino_horn
cc: Lalasticlala

MrBONE2:
Pls Explorer is Antarctica colder than North Artic part of GreenLand and Saberia forest of Russia.

Antarctica's eastern highland is the the coldest point on the planet at -136°F (-93°C) followed by -128.6°F (-89.2°C), measured at the Vostok weather station in a nearby location.


http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/12/131210-coldest-place-on-earth-antarctica-science/

enoqueen:
Explorers, now I know were u got ur name from.

Lols....Long time sis.

MoltenMagma:
These animals are sensible. It went to perch where no fuckin thief can snatch his meal

Imagine, climbing a tree with the whole dead antelope.

These cats are strong.

Ernest Shackleton, the son of a doctor, joined the merchant navy at the age of 16.

His first visit to the Antarctic came in 1901, when he joined an expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott.

He got closer to the Pole than anyone had before, but was forced to return home after becoming seriously ill.

Seven years later he headed back to the Antarctic as leader of an expedition on the ship Nimrod.

His team got closer still to the Pole, and made a number of key scientific discoveries.

He was knighted on his return to Britain.

In 1911 he lost the race to be first to reach the South Pole, as Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen achieved the astonishing feat.

Bergel described reaching the South Pole as a 'special moment' after the historic expedition.


He said: 'I'm not a polar explorer.

I'm an indoor guy.

This was a proper expedition with a challenge to accomplish that nobody else had done before.

'The driving experience is quite incredible.

There are degrees of whiteout where you can't see three feet, or you can't see ten feet in front of you, but that's not necessarily a problem depending on what your terrain is.

'That was the point at which nobody in a wheeledvehicle had been beyond.

Getting to the South Pole was a special moment.

The fact that this was a place my great-grandfather tried to get to more than once and I was there, it felt like a genuine connection.

Team members drove for more than 20 hours each day in the gruelling endurance test on the Antarctic in December.

Travelled more than 3,500 miles through the snow to commemorate Shackleton's heroic Transatlantic expedition of 1914 to 1917.

Group members said no one expected them to achieve the impressive feat before they set off in December.

The car he used for the expedition was a 'pretty standard' Hyundai Santa Fe, which used the factory-spec 2.2-litre diesel engine, gearbox, front differential and driveshaft.

Engineers had to fit the car with special tyres which run on one-tenth of the normal road tyre pressure so they could get on top of the snow rather than plough through it.

Patrick Bergel was among the team which became the first to travel Antarctica in a wheeled passenger vehicle.

They followed in the footsteps of Sir Ernest Shackleton, one of Britain's most famous ever explorers and Bergel's great-grandfather.

The vehicle moved at an average of 16mph during the mission, but at times reached speeds as high as 60mph.


'On relatively flat ground you just go down to 5-10km/h and try to follow the path in front of you.

'But generally, because there's no visual stimulusand your body's connected to the vehicle, your brain's not being fed enough information so it goes a bit haywire.

You also start to make up things.

'It's normal to start hallucinating, seeing trees and forests around you, but it's just dirt on the windscreen.

In one area, we had to rope up the vehicles to make sure if one fell in it could be recovered by the others.

We had one scary moment there but we managed to get through okay.

The London-based tech entrepreneur drove a near-standard Hyundai Santa Fe for 30 days in a challenging endeavour which saw him hallucinating in the snow.

Sir Ernest Shackleton’s great-grandson becomes the first person to cross Antarctica in a family car after recreating the legendary British explorer's 3,500-mile trek 100 years later.




His great-grandfather was one of Britain's most famous explorers, and now Patrick Bergel has now entered the history books himself with a daring expedition.

The great-grandson of Sir Ernest Shackleton has become the first person to travel across Antarctica in a family car, battling snowstorms, merciless terrain and temperatures which plunged as low as minus 28C.

Bergel, 46, travelled more than 3,500 miles through the snow to commemorate Shackleton's heroic Transatlantic expedition of 1914 to 1917.

Bergel was part of a small team which spent December driving for 20 hours a day.

Details of the adventure have only been revealed today.







http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/793905/Sir-Ernest-Shackleton-grandson-Antarctica-family-car

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4426094/Ernest-Shackleton-descendant-completes-Antarctica-mission.html
Lalasticlala, Mynd44

tk4rd:
In Nigeria,, this is meat.

Lol...

frostland:
explorer is it true that king cobra feed only on other snake becus I have nt watch any documentary DAT show show them feeding on other animals

Not only snakes, they rats, lizards, birds, and eggs also.

But major snake eaters are refers to as Kingsnakes, colubrid snakes, members of the genus Lampropeltis, which include milk snakes and four other species.

King snakes use constriction to kill their prey and tend to be opportunistic when it comes to their diet; they will eat other snakes (ophiophagy), including venomous snakes.

Kingsnakes will also eat lizards, rodents, birds, and eggs.

The common kingsnake is known to be immune to the venom of other snakes and do eat rattlesnakes.

Wiki.

Wild animal that had terrified locals by searching for food in their Indonesian village is caught in a trap and relocated to a zoo.

It was shot with a tranquilizer dart and made unconscious so rangers and villagers could get close to the predator.

Some feral animals can also end up as the meal as this rabbit found out when it was caught by a goanna lizard.

Killing a hippo.

Pickings up a meal.

A snake and a fish.

Eating on a tree.

Johan Kloppers from South Africa saw this little wildebeest shortly after it was born in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.

Little did he know that he would witness its death at the hands of a lion later that same day.