* In 2007, 66-year-old Al Hill amputated his leg below the knee using his pocketknife after the leg got stuck beneath a fallen tree he was cutting in California.

country code-267 ; international calls are made via satellite, using international direct dialing ; 2 international exchanges ; digital microwave radio relay links to Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa ; satellite earth station-1 Intelsat ( Indian Ocean ) ( 2007 )

* 2007: On September 16, 2007, hunter Rick Jacobs captured an image of a supposed Sasquatch by using an automatically triggered camera attached to a tree, prompting a spokesperson for the Pennsylvania Game Commission to say that it was likely an image of " a bear with a severe case of mange.

In 2008, the graphics were again relaunched, using the style introduced in 2007 and a new colour scheme.

The Chagas Biovigilance Network reports current incidents of Chagas-positive blood products in the United States, as reported by labs using the screening test approved by the FDA in 2007.

* The syntax of natural language: An online introduction using the Trees program -- Beatrice Santorini & Anthony Kroch, University of Pennsylvania, 2007

On September 8, 2007, five members of the Makah tribe shot a gray whale using high powered rifles in spite of the decision.

IKEA launched a UK-wide " Home is the Most Important Place in the World " advertising campaign in September 2007 using estate agent signs with the term " Not For Sale " written on them as part of the wider campaign.

In 2007, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases ( NIDDK ) began using the umbrella term Urologic Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndromes ( UCPPS ) to refer to pain syndromes associated with the bladder ( i. e. interstitial cystitis / bladder pain syndrome, IC / BPS ) and the prostate gland ( i. e. Chronic prostatitis / chronic pelvic pain syndrome ).

In May 2007, a bill entitled the " Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, or STOCK Act " was introduced that would hold congressional and federal employees liable for stock trades they made using information they gained through their jobs and also regulate analysts or " Political Intelligence " firms that research government activities.

Todd Hollenshead announced in May 2007 that Id Software had begun working on an all new series that would be using a new engine that is currently being developed by John Carmack.

* 2007 – A three-man team, using only skis and kites, completes a trek to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1958 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance.

Also on 30 September 2007, Turkey celebrated Rumi ’ s eight-hundredth birthday with a giant Whirling Dervish ritual performance of the samāʿ, which was televised using forty-eight cameras and broadcast live in eight countries.

Most countries have stopped using lead-containing gasoline by 2007.

In the November 2005 TOP500, the number of supercomputers using Myrinet was down to 101 computers, or 20. 2 %, in November 2006, 79 ( 15. 8 %), and by November 2007, 18 ( 3. 6 %), a long way behind Gigabit Ethernet at 54 % and Infiniband at 24. 2 %.

Results on a 2. 4 GHz Core 2 Duo ( 1 CPU 2007 ) vary from 9. 7 MWIPS using BASIC Interpreter, 59 MWIPS via BASIC Compiler, 347 MWIPS using 1987 Fortran, 1, 534 MWIPS through HTML / Java to 2, 403 MWIPS using a modern C / C ++ compiler.

SOSS was introduced in 1994 using OS / 2 3. 0, and was retired in 2007, when NPR switched over to its successor, the ContentDepot.

The 2007 general election was the first to be conducted using LPV.

Evidence suggests that as of 2007, British police investigators are unable to break PGP, so instead have resorted to using RIPA legislation to demand the passwords / keys.

The history of the Philippines is believed to have begun with the arrival of the first humans using rafts or primitive boats, at least 67, 000 years ago as the 2007 discovery of Callao Man showed .< ref >

" ( 2007 ), follows Raymond Federman's lead in now using the past tense when discussing postmodernism.

The first true triple quasar was found in 2007 by observations at the W. M. Keck Observatory Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

A peer-reviewed 2007 study with Schechter, Smith and Stanley Azen, Professor and Co-Director of Biostatistics in the Department of Preventative Medicine at the USC Keck School of Medicine, found a 54 % success rate for treatment of TMS ( P <. 00001 ).

The telescopes at the Keck Observatory are used as the Keck Interferometer, another of NASA's Exoplanet Exploration programs to suffer budget cuts in 2007.

From 2002 to 2007, astronomers at the Keck Observatory used the Keck II telescope, which is fitted with adaptive optics, to photograph Davida.

The exoplanets were originally discovered with the Keck telescopes and the Gemini North telescope between 2007 and 2010.

In support of this, Keck observations in 2007 of eight newly discovered ultra-faint Milky Way dwarf satellites showed that six were around 99. 9 % dark matter ( with a mass to light ratio of about 1000 ) Other solutions may be that dwarf galaxies tend to be gobbled up or tidally stripped apart by larger galaxies due to complex interactions.

Observations in 2007 by the Keck telescope during the ring plane-crossing event confirmed this conclusion, because the λ ring became one of the brightest features in the Uranian ring system.

Many of these bands were detected again in 2003 – 2004 by the Keck Telescope and during the 2007 ring-plane crossing event in backscattered light, but their precise locations and relative brightnesses were different than during the Voyager observations.

The ArtWatch UK Journal 22 ( Autumn 2007 ) quoted Sheldon Keck from his work ' Some Picture Cleaning Controversies: Past and Present ' ( 1984 ):

* According to estimates released in October 2007, the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer ( FUSE ) space telescope, decommissioned that month, will continue orbiting the earth until it burns up in the atmosphere approximately 30 years after its decommissioning.

On December 6, 2007, Gordon Moore and his wife donated $ 200 million to Caltech and the University of California for the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope, the world's largest optical telescope.

Image: 169141main piaa09178. jpg | Infrared image of the Helix Nebula, taken by the Spitzer space telescope, 2007 Credit: NASA, JPL, and K. Su ( University of Arizona )

SOFIA completed its first test flight on April 26, 2007 and its telescope saw first light on May 26, 2010.

In 2007, Mayor was one of 11 European scientists who discovered Gliese 581 c, the first extrasolar planet in a star's habitable zone, from ESO's telescope in La Silla, Chile.

Observations from the VLT-UT4 telescope equipped with an adaptive optics system in 2007 and lightcurve data analysis suggest that one of the components appears to have a 68-km bowl-shaped impact crater that may be the result of a violent collision of proto-Antiope into two equisized bodies.

Since 2007, the Department of Physics takes care of the construction of a space telescope called MuSTAnG ( Muon Spaceweather Telescope for Anisotropies at Greifswald ), which will be part of a worldwide network of telescopes in Japan, Brazil, Australia and Germany.

In 2007, the telescope was used by astronomers from Ege University in Turkey, the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Slovakia, University of Valencia in Spain, Tartu Observatory in Estonia, and the University of Wrocław and Pedagogical University of Cracow in Poland.

2007 marked the 50th anniversary of the telescope.

In 2007 the telescope needed a new wheel, as the old wheel had cracked ; in 2008 another new tyre was needed after a second wheel cracked.

The telescope had its first light test in 2005, and became the largest telescope in Greece when it became fully operational in 2007.

Image: California Neb 2007. jpg | Image of the California Nebula with amateur telescope.