"According to warrants Kayla Michelle Finely rented Monster-In-Law
from Dalton Video [in Pickens SC] , which is no longer in business, in
2005 and the tape was not returned within 72 hours." Police say they are
justified in arresting Finely because she was sent a warning letter in
2005 and "warrants never expire."
| 1408 | The revolt of Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, against King Henry IV, ends with his defeat and death at Bramham Moor. | |
| 1701 | Philip V of Spain makes his ceremonial entry into Madrid. | |
| 1807 | Vice President Aaron Burr is arrested in Alabama for treason. He is later found innocent. | |
| 1847 | Rescuers finally reach the ill-fated Donnor Party in the Sierras. | |
| 1861 | Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom. | |
| 1902 | Smallpox vaccination becomes obligatory in France. | |
| 1903 | The Austria-Hungary government decrees a mandatory two year military service. | |
| 1915 | British and French warships begin their attacks on the Turkish forts at the mouth of the Dardenelles, in an abortive expedition to force the straits of Gallipoli. | |
| 1917 | American troops are recalled from the Mexican border. | |
| 1919 | The First Pan African Congress meets in Paris, France. | |
| 1925 | President Calvin Coolidge proposes the phasing out of inheritance tax. | |
| 1926 | Dr. Lane of Princeton estimates the earth's age at one billion years. | |
| 1942 | Port Darwin, on the northern coast of Australia, is bombed by the Japanese. | |
| 1944 | The U.S. Eighth Air Force and Royal Air Force begin "Big Week," a series of heavy bomber attacks against German aircraft production facilities. | |
| 1965 | Fourteen Vietnam War protesters are arrested for blocking the United Nations' doors in New York. | |
| 1966 | Robert F. Kennedy suggests the United States offer the Vietcong a role in governing South Vietnam. | |
| 1976 | Britain slashes welfare spending. | |
| 1981 | The U.S. State Department calls El Salvador a "textbook case" of a Communist plot. | |
| 1987 | New York Governor Mario Cuomo declares that he will not run for president in the next election. |
The 28 members of the repugican majority who voted for the bill - a meager 12 percent - was the lowest percentage for a majority on passage since the House began publishing electronic data on votes in 1991.The clear implication, says Carl Hulse of The New York Times, is that the vast majority of House repugicans voted against a measure that they actually wanted to pass: The "vote no, hope yes" phenomenon. This pattern-public opposition coupled with private support-is utterly dysfunctional, says Hulse, and the amazing thing is that at least one House repugican agreed with him:
"The incentives are not aligned," one House repugican acknowledged in conceding that the debt limit vote was not exactly what the framers intended when they drew up the plans for how the House would operate.On issue after issue, what we're seeing is a House of Representatives in which the majority party is utterly incapable of governing, whether it's immigration reform or the government shutdown or turning to Democrats to save the country from default. And it's pretty clear, not just from that quote above, that Republicans-at least the somewhat smart ones-understand the dysfunction.
Once referred to as the ‘Wickedest City on Earth’
(because of its rampant piracy, prostitution and rum consumption), part
of Port Royal sank after an earthquake in 1692. The ruins scattered in
the Kingston Harbor, and currently, the remains of the city encompasses
13 acres at depths of up to 40 feet.
Mothers return every three or four hours for nursing, day and night, staying away in between so as not to reveal the babies' location. The coyotes, of course, are watching, tracking the mothers. Over the weeks, the young ones are getting stronger, but when their mothers go, they curl back down, getting quiet again.Hey, your baby would be quiet, too, if his life depended on it! The pronghorn fawns learn to walk and run quickly, but they live on mothers milk for months. Dunn has quite a few pictures of pronghorns hiding in the grass, which you’ll have to study if you’re ever to see them.
Fawns born in April stay quiet till June.
"The technique works," writes Craig. Researchers can see them across a meadow, when the mothers are nursing, but once the baby goes back down to the ground, it vanishes. "I've almost stepped on them without realizing they were there," Stacey told me.
Time
was you could buy a Burmese python in Florida, but the cute little
snakes sold at carnivals eventually became 20-foot-long eating machines,
so a lot of them were freed into the Everglades. Now they are an
invasive species that has all but wiped out rabbits, raccoons, bobcats,
and other small mammals from the park. It has been estimated that there
are around 100,000 Burmese pythons in Florida -a place where they do not
naturally exist. In 2008, the Nature Conservancy began training
citizens to spot and report pythons, and training wildlife professionals
to capture them. This is the Python Patrol.The Python Patrol program has since trained more than 450 responders and 2,625 detectors, including field scientists, state wildlife commission staff, state park service personnel, utility workers for the city of Miami—anyone likely to encounter non-native snakes in the field—and even a group of war veterans known as the Swamp Apes. One trainee, 70-year-old Eric Raits, has now caught three pythons while working as a tour guide at Shark Valley Tram Tours in Everglades. Once, lacking a bag into which to deposit the snake, he simply held on to the 9-foot python for the remaining half of the two-hour tour. “I was sitting in the backwards-facing seat with the snake coiled up around my arm,” he says. “Unsurprisingly, no one sat in the two rows closest to me. They were all in the back, sitting on each other’s laps.”The aim of the Python Patrol is to limit the spread of the pythons, so scientists are still working on the problem of eradicating them. But the program has had some success, and the volunteers are also being trained in spotting other invasive species that threaten Florida’s ecology. Read about Florida’s invasive species problem and the Python Patrol’s efforts at The Nature Conservancy.
