By Mike Krumboltz
Yahoo News, May 22, 3014

Ash Patel was watching London’s vicious storm on Thursday when he was treated to a spectacular — if frightening — weather phenomenon: several lightning strikes to the tallest building in the European Union.

Patel told Yahoo News that he saw lightning strike the 1,000-foot-tall Shard building twice in less than a minute. After the first hit, Patel thought it wise to start recording.

The first strike “happened about 30 seconds before this one,” he told Yahoo News. “People were shocked (that a bolt of lightning) hit the same spot twice.”

Several other storm watchers captured similar shots and posted them to Twitter. Stay dry, folks.

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Monkey sees his reflection in the mirror
for the first time…

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Caption: Apple’s iMessage problem is worse than we thought

By Brad Reed, BGR, May 22, 2013

Apple has a lot of very unhappy former iPhone users on its hands and it doesn’t look like the problem is getting fixed anytime soon. For those of you who haven’t heard, there’s a major bug in Apple’s iMessage software
that will prevent you from receiving text messages from other iPhone
users if you’ve switched to a phone that runs on a rival operating
system. The problem arises when people switch from the iPhone to Android or Windows Phone without changing their phone number — apparently, Apple
keeps that number in its data base and still has it marked as belonging
to an iPhone user. This means that any text messages sent through
iPhones to that number get stuck in Apple’s cloud and aren’t pushed out
to smartphones that run on a different OS.

From the start of the sunrise until the time when it sets,
you are on my mind and this you should not forget.
Your problems I will press away, sadness I will shove away…

~Unknown

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Mercedes SLS AMG
As it readies a new AMG GT, Mercedes has brought the curtain down on the gullwing-doored SLS and its many hot-rod variants, including the $550,000 electric version.

The class of cars going out of production in 2014 ranges from decades-old stalwarts to models that probably shouldn’t have existed to begin with. Yet within that spread lies several that garnered an intense fan base — even as sales never measured up to expectations.

Reuters, May 21, 2014

DENVER (Reuters) – Three tornadoes touched down on Wednesday in the Denver suburb of Aurora, but no damage was immediately reported, a National Weather Service meteorologist said.

Another tornado touched down east of Denver in Watkins, Colorado, also without causing damage, said meteorologist Jim Kalina of the Weather Service’s Boulder office.

The three tornadoes in different parts of Aurora, which is nearly 10 miles east of downtown Denver, occurred within less than 30 minutes of each other on Wednesday afternoon, he said.

A tornado watch for Denver was scheduled to remain in effect until 8 p.m. local time, the Weather Service said.

“Denver’s kind of in the clear right now unless something else develops,” Kalina added.

The threat of a tornado led officials at Denver International Airport to briefly place flights on hold and warn visitors outside the facility to seek shelter, the airport said on its Twitter page.

This is the peak time of year for tornadoes in the Denver area, according to Kalina.

(Reporting by Keith Coffman, Writing by Alex Dobuzinskis; editing by G Crosse and Cynthia Johnston)

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