The 2012 Black Hole Killer

The 2012 Black Hole Killer is a cross-genre murder-mystery/cosmological Bonfire of the Vanities novel about the predicted universe's end on December 21, 2012. The book begins with a seeming murder that occurs on July 28, 1977. The victim is floating in mid-air and frozen to the coldest temperature of the universe, absolute zero, when it's 95 degrees outside. The book then takes you to what happened the day before and next to the day after the body is discovered. The plot centers around the travails of the Hindu Goddess Kali. Fourteen billion years old, She possesses all the powers of the black hole which birthed Her in the Big Bang. We then learn that a team consisting of a psychiatrist avatar of the Hindu God Shiva, two members of Kenyan Kikuyu royalty, two New York City detectives, and an astrophysicist Hopi Chief join forces to hunt Her down. They confront Her at the summit of the devil volcano Shaitani in Kenya one month later. There they learn that Kali and the universe's fate are inextricably linked to the Black Stone of Mecca, Jomo Kenyatta's Burning Spear, a sacred Mayan throat-slitting black sacrificial knife, and Himmler's Wewlesberg Castle's occult Black Sun mosaic. After the confrontation, Kali kills two of the six and escapes. Then, after escaping, Kali between the years 1997 and 2010 links up with a group of corrupt politicians and Wall Streeters with whom She in 1977 had founded the Weather Derivatives Hedge Fund. With its help, She uses Her black hole powers to raise one trillion dollars cash from the natural disasters She creates. She needs this money to build an atom smasher under the Himalayan Mountain K2 which She plans to use on December 21,2012. The tale concludes by tying cosmological and financial "black holes" and "bubbles" ever more tightly together until Her final confrontation with our psychiatrist avatar at the very moment the universe is scheduled to end.

The "Report of the Commonwealth Observer Group for the Kenya elections, held 4 March 2013." The Group was led by HE Mr Festus Mogae, former Prime Minister of Botswana.The Group found that despite some shortcomings the 2013 General Elections in Kenya were credible. The Report offers a series of recommendations to help improve aspects of the process, including the need to ensure that electoral timelines are established in a manner that facilitates the timely and effective administration of the election, and the need to implement the provision in the Constitution for a gender quota to provide for gender balance in the parliament.

This stunning new book delves into the world of modern science to reveal a darker side. It begins in the year 2014 and predicts the future of the Large Hadron Collider, a story of dark research, bloodshed, and criminal intrigue. A mysterious coincidence is the fact the LHC was only running on half power up to 2012, a year destined to be eventful, history making, or possibly a huge disappointment in terms of our knowledge of black holes. When the Maya discovered the black hole resting at the centre of our galaxy, they bestowed the name "HUNAB KU," which was the Mayan central sun and creator of all. Black holes were once the stuff of science fantasy but not any longer. In recent years, modern science has confirmed the existence of a super-massive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy, leading many to wonder how Mayans were able to discover this centuries ago. One startling prediction is that, in December 2012, an event will take place that sees the alignment of our Sun with the Galactic equator, which is the location of the mammoth black hole. This has sparked a lot of controversy, but Stephen Hawking and modern science only recently accepted the concept of black holes, so will it be a case of science catching up with the Mayans yet again? The greatest controversy surrounds an alleged prediction that the world will come to an end in 2012. Critics of this statement offer the opinion that 2012 is simply the Mayan calendar coming to an end; therefore, nothing more could have been predicted. Others say that ancient Maya prophets foretold an earth-shattering event would occur on or around this time, which is often described in cataclysmic fashion. They had a glyph that represented the black hole in our galaxy, and Mayans truly believed that it caused our world to go through cycles of birth, death, and rebirth. This book examines a seldom considered possibility, that the black hole threatening Earth's existence may have been created by scientists. In 2012, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, which smashes atoms together to recreate conditions existing at the time of the Big Bang, will finally have its power turned up to full force. A number of court cases had tried to stop the LHC before it created a deadly black hole here on Earth, but CERN brushed them aside as utter nonsense and the court cases have all been dismissed. But when they turn the power up in 2012 and thereafter, who knows what will happen? This book explores one possible outcome of that fateful decision, which leads down a mysterious trail littered with the bodies of fifteen murdered scientists. A crack investigation team is brought in to solve the murders, headed by the brilliant Detective Chief Superintendent Lionel Navarro, who is later joined by US special agent Jenifer Nixon, a female James Bond character. A small team of experts is assembled including one of the world's top scientists, Professor Antoine Taskani and a beautiful female physicist named Sophie Moreau. Taskani is considered a genius and needs to recreate the dangerous Hadron experiments without destroying the world, as this may shed light on the murky investigation. But will he succeed? Very quickly, the team is forced to become the guardians of the new technology and the Hadron experiment is considered the ultimate prize, but dark forces soon try to grasp its secrets in a terrifying journey for the unlikely team. Amid the terror, a love story unfolds but can the combined will of this small team triumph over deadly adversity, and will the world survive?

This book is specially focused on the latest developments and findings on hybrid algorithms and benchmarks in optimization and their applications in sciences, engineering, and industries. The book also provides some comprehensive reviews and surveys on implementations and coding aspects of benchmarks. The book is useful for Ph.D. students and researchers with a wide experience in the subject areas and also good reference for practitioners from academia and industrial applications.

Nature-Inspired Optimization Algorithms, Second Edition provides an introduction to all major nature-inspired algorithms for optimization. The book's unified approach, balancing algorithm introduction, theoretical background and practical implementation, complements extensive literature with case studies to illustrate how these algorithms work. Topics include particle swarm optimization, ant and bee algorithms, simulated annealing, cuckoo search, firefly algorithm, bat algorithm, flower algorithm, harmony search, algorithm analysis, constraint handling, hybrid methods, parameter tuning and control, and multi-objective optimization. This book can serve as an introductory book for graduates, for lecturers in computer science, engineering and natural sciences, and as a source of inspiration for new applications. Discusses and summarizes the latest developments in nature-inspired algorithms with comprehensive, timely literature Provides a theoretical understanding and practical implementation hints Presents a step-by-step introduction to each algorithm Includes four new chapters covering mathematical foundations, techniques for solving discrete and combination optimization problems, data mining techniques and their links to optimization algorithms, and the latest deep learning techniques, background and various applications

AS FAR AS FITTING THE STEREOTYPES bestowed to infamous chain-link murderers that exist outside African American culture, there was a time when black serial killers were recognized, to some extent, implausible by purported experts who probably cared not to explore the primary nature of the slayers transgressions. Nevertheless, the obscured story of handyman Morris Solomon Jr. has to be one of the most interesting tales untold as it is one of the most horrific yarns in the annals of American crime. The handymans misdeeds, when briefly brought to the publics attention, virtually reminded society that killers continuously come in all colors, shapes, and sizes. Solomon was convicted of killing six young women, ages 16 to 29, in the Sacramento, California, neighborhood of Oak Park between 1986 and 1987. The handymans grisly method of murder left detectives and medical examiners mystified. The identification process of his victims remains was distinctly a laborious assignment, too. The victims drug addicts, prostitutes, and devout mothers were stuffed in closets, hidden under debris, and arguably, one court judge strongly considers, buried alive. In retrospect, the handyman was first accused of murder in the mid-1970s; and authorities suspect him to be linked to four more homicides in Sacramento. Solomon once declared as a Mentally Disordered Sex Offender is now on death row in Northern Californias San Quentin State Prison awaiting execution. The unassuming handymans 18-year reign of terror includes a record of sexual assaults, attempted kidnappings, and separate despicable sex acts performed strictly for humiliation. In The Homicidal Handyman of Oak Park: Morris Solomon Jr., author and journalist Tony Ray Harvey recounts the black serial killers dysfunctional upbringing, atrocious crimes, and hardly noticeable court trial. Harveys book also provides explicit crime scene photos, the history of the death penalty system in the state of California, the city of Sacramentos drug culture in the mid-1980s, and exclusive prison interviews of the mild-mannered handyman.

“a worthy, if not definitive, addition to the body of Zodiac knowledge.” — Kirkus "It is no exaggeration to call the identity of the Zodiac Killer the most maddening unsolved crime in American history...But it is also no exaggeration to say that Mike Rodelli's case stands above them all" — Tom Zoellner, Author and Former Reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle In June 1999, Mike Rodelli had an idea that had never occurred to a generation of detectives in the San Francisco Bay Area. This led him to a new suspect in the Zodiac case and began a twenty-year odyssey to prove that this man was the Zodiac Killer. In the Shadow of Mt. Diablo: The Shocking True Identity of the Zodiac Killer is filled with original information about the mystery, including DNA and behavioral profiling that resulted directly from his twenty years of intensive research. Rodelli provides the reader with an objectively researched, fully documented book that is meticulously footnoted, and which shows that, against all odds, he has solved a case many said would never yield its dark secrets.