kirksville mo

Violent storms tore through four Midwestern states, killing three people in northern Missouri, damaging dozens of homes and leaving thousands without power.
Kirksville apparently took the hardest hit Wednesday night. Police Detective Sgt. Ron Celian said the storm damaged 30 to 40 homes and flipped cars and shattered windows at a car dealership. One home was destroyed.
"It just tore everything up," said Don Williams, who rode out the storm in his basement with his wife and four children. "It was just a blur. Insulation and trees blowing everywhere. I could see stuff just flying through my house."
Sullivan County Emergency Management director Rick Gardner said a woman was killed Wednesday night when what appeared to be a tornado struck a mobile home east of Milan in Sullivan County.

Two other people died in a neighborhood near the car dealership, said Adair County coroner Brian Noe. Authorities did not release the victims' names pending notification of family members.

Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Brent Bernhardt said the Adair County sheriff flew over the area to inspect the damage and said in some places the tornado was only 500 feet wide.
"It was not wide," Bernhardt said. "It would be on the ground and then come back up and be on the ground again."

afpc

In the latest news, U.S. Air Force Personnel Center (AFPC) is moving its on premise RightNow solution to a new highly secure, Department of Defense (DoD) SaaS solution. Released in April, RightNow's new defense-ready SaaS offering meets intense levels of compliance and security to help AFPC reap the benefits of RightNow's On Demand CRM, such as rapid time to deploy, more frequent access to ongoing solution innovation, increased reliability and lower cost of ownership, as it shares in a press release. In the new platform, more than 100 AFPC agents would be able to provide accurate, up-to-date information across multiple touchpoints to military and civilian employees of the U.S. Air Force. In addition, would be AFPC website with a self-learning knowledge foundation, ability to monitor constituent feedback, disseminate consistent information, and easily update content to ensure relevancy.

There will also be, as claimed, reduced inbound email by guiding constituents to submit questions via the web, where it is converted into an incident that AFPC can track and respond to. RightNow adds that it has pioneered the SaaS delivery model for government agencies and has successfully served the U.S. government for more than ten years.

Over 155 public sector clients, including nearly every U.S cabinet level agency, Army, Marines, Air Force, members of the Intelligence Community and DoD, is what it cites in its roster.

plum island

An odd creature has apparently washed up on New York's coast, sparking claims that it may be another so-called "Montauk Monster."

A similar carcass sparked an online and media frenzy last July after appearing at a popular surfing spot near Montauk, N.Y.

Nicky Papers, who runs a Web site dedicated to the mystery, says he was contacted by a couple on May 5 who "think they’ve found what appears to be the Montauk Monster" on the North Fork of Long Island.

Papers wrote that he traveled to Southold, N.Y., to view the remains.
"The beast smelled like a mix of low-tide and rotten garbage," Papers wrote. "It really smelled horrific. I couldn’t help but take numerous pictures of it and video clips."
He said the carcass was being kept in a "cooler full of ice."