7 year old Carlos calmly called 911 while he hid in the locked bathroom protecting his 6 year old sister. The 2nd grader explained at a news conference that he called 911 after unidentified gunmen entered their Norwalk, CA home and threatened his parents with guns. In his call, he can be heard saying “..there’s some guys. They’re going to kill my mom and dad, can you come please? Bring some cops…a lot of them. Can you come really fast. Hurry up. and bring soldiers too.”

Everything worked out for the best. The assailants left when they realized the police had been called.

Read more and listen to the call here.

Most people who use Google search know they have a suggestion feature that shows common search phrases as you type. That makes for some pretty funny suggestions depending on your search phrases. It speaks volumes about what people are searching for. Here’s 16 of the more notable examples.

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Depending on the content of your site, a certain percentage of your content is going to be copied. There are many reasons why readers may copy your content. It might be a fan copying content for reference or sharing it with a friend or it might be someone stealing your content for republishing. Regardless of the reason, it is helpful to know how your content is being used.

Tynt Insight tracks when users copy content from your web site and automatically adds a link back to the original page when your content is pasted. Tynt Insight’s unique capabilities turn copying into a valuable asset for your site that lets you:

• Generate more visits and page views
• Improve your search engine ranking
• Get credit when your content is copied
• Promote your brand and website
• Measure and understand user engagement
• Lengthen visit sessions by promoting your most engaging content
• Understand what keywords prompt users to leave your site
• Automatically feed your Twitter stream with your most engaging content
• See what sites are promoting your content
• Find out how many visits you receive from your URLs being copied and shared

I first learned about Tynt when I was sharing some news from Nydailynews.com with a friend via Yahoo Messenger. When I pasted the paragraph, I noticed it automatically included a attribution link back to the article. Being very curious about web technology, I took a look at the html source code and saw a reference to Tynt. Further research lead me to Tynt’s website and I was happy to see the service is free. It’s easy to setup and it only took me a few minutes to implement it across several sites I operate. They include detail instructions for most blogging software like Wordpress. Tynt does its magic with javascript so it will only work on sites you control like Wordpress blogging software from Wordpres.org. It will not work on hosted blogging sites like Wordpress.com or Blogger.com.

Credit NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Image by Reto Stöckli (land surface, shallow water, clouds). Enhancements by Robert Simmon (ocean color, compositing, 3D globes, animation). Data and technical support: MODIS Land Group; MODIS Science Data Support Team; MODIS Atmosphere Group; MODIS Ocean Group Additional data: USGS EROS Data Center (topography); USGS Terrestrial Remote Sensing Flagstaff Field Center (Antarctica); Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (city lights).

This spectacular “blue marble” image is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date. Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer (.386 square mile) of our planet. These images are freely available to educators, scientists, museums, and the public. This record includes preview images and links to full resolution versions up to 21,600 pixels across.
Much of the information contained in this image came from a single remote-sensing device-NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS. Flying over 700 km above the Earth onboard the Terra satellite, MODIS provides an integrated tool for observing a variety of terrestrial, oceanic, and atmospheric features of the Earth. The land and coastal ocean portions of these images are based on surface observations collected from June through September 2001 and combined, or composited, every eight days to compensate for clouds that might block the sensor’s view of the surface on any single day. Two different types of ocean data were used in these images: shallow water true color data, and global ocean color (or chlorophyll) data. Topographic shading is based on the GTOPO 30 elevation dataset compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey’s EROS Data Center. MODIS observations of polar sea ice were combined with observations of Antarctica made by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s AVHRR sensor—the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer. The cloud image is a composite of two days of imagery collected in visible light wavelengths and a third day of thermal infra-red imagery over the poles. Global city lights, derived from 9 months of observations from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, are superimposed on a darkened land surface map.

MetadataSensor Terra/MODISVisualization Date 2002-02-08.All Sensors MODIS.All Satellites Terra MODIS.All Categories Collections Blue Marble Blue Marble 2002

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So it has come to my attention a company calling themselves Elite Fashion Academy has hit the internet with a website offering classes for modeling , photography, makeup, hair, fashion, and acting. Well first of all, that’s damn talented of them to be able to offer an academy for such a diverse range of subjects. The academy is run by Renee Esebag and the main domain was  created on Oct 1, 2009. It is well known for those with experience that virtually all modeling schools are pretty much worthless. Legitimate modeling agencies don’t make money by offering classes. They make money by booking real jobs from clients. Modeling schools are usually offered by agencies in small markets to supplement their client bookings and some schools like John Robert Powers and Barbizon are not agencies at all. They will pretty much take anyone with a valid credit card. This Elite Modeling Academy managed to make themselves look pretty legitimate by licensing the Elite logo. But the key is in the details. Elite Model Management Corp, based in NY is the Elite most aspiring models know about and they are simply not going to offer modeling classes. Here is a statement from Elite NY.

Elite Los Angeles is the legitimate LA office of the real Elite Model Management Corp which is based in NY City as it has been for the past 32 years and has represents some of the World’s Top Models and has no association or affiliation with this or any other modeling school or any retail outlet selling merchandise bearing the Elite name, logo or Trademarks.  Elite Model Management is not a part of or a party to the company you have called to inquire about.
If you have an interest in modeling please go to elitemodel.com where you’ll find information on how to submit yourself for consideration for professional representation.

Chrysa Nakis
Chrysa@elitemodel.com
ELITE MODEL MANAGEMENT CORPORATION
404 Park Avenue South, Floor 9, New York, NY  10016 Tel  212-529-9594 ext 313 or 212-995-7313 direct, Fax 212-995-7323

So while this appears to be an authorized licensee of Elite World, they have no affiliation with Elite Model Management.  All I’m going to say is buyer beware. A fancy website, a Myspace page, and a Facebook page does not make their connection to Elite Model Management any closer. They have also mirrored the site in Germany. Upon further searching, there is also a franchise in Hong Kong, Italy, and the Philippines. If you want to be considered for an agency, you do not need to take a course. Just submit your basic snapshots on the agencies website or go to open call. Either you have it or you don’t. If you’re 5′ 1″, spending thousands on a modeling academy is not going to make you taller.

Thirty-year old Jose Luis Medrano is being hailed as a hero in Argentina, and all over the world, today after a surveillance video was spread on the internet featuring him pushing an occupied van off some train tracks moments before he got himself out of the way of a speeding train. The incident occurred in Tigre which is in the state of Buenos Aires, on the northern side of the city of Buenos Aires. Medrano later told the press that he was returning from visiting the sanctuary of local folk saint Gauchito Gil in Mercedes, riding on the back of his friend’s motorbike, when he saw that a van’s engine had stalled on the tracks in Tigre and that a train was approaching. Not even knowing who was in the van, he jumped off the bike and ran forth to push the vehicle to safety, narrowly escaping being hit by the train himself.

via: Guanabee

More here:

• http://guanabee.com/2010/02/jose-luis-medrano-hero/
• Facebook fan page

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