A drunk, off-duty cop left a 21-year-old woman in critical condition
on Saturday, after running her down with his vehicle. According to
Illinois law, the officer should be facing felony charges, but he’s not.
Friday, July 24, 2015
Drunk Off-Duty Cop Mows Down 21-Year-Old Woman, Gets Charged With Misdemeanor
A drunk, off-duty cop left a 21-year-old woman in critical condition
on Saturday, after running her down with his vehicle. According to
Illinois law, the officer should be facing felony charges, but he’s not.
Police Chief Beats Wife So Brutally She Ends Up In Emergency Room, Gets Paid Leave
A police chief from New York state who has turned himself in on
allegations of beating his wife so brutally that she ended up in the
emergency room missing...Arizona cops illegally barge into home of showering woman and handcuff her while she’s naked
A woman is suing
after an Arizona police officer barged into her home in March,
handcuffed her and lectured her while she was naked.Elmerelda
Rossi was showering when two Chandler police officers arrived at her
home to investigate a domestic disturbance call because Rossi had an
argument with her estranged husband.
Rossi said she was in the shower when her daughter told her the officers were at the door. She grabbed a towel and slung it around herself before answering. She told the officers to wait at the door so she could get a cell phone to record the encounter, and closed it behind her.
“I start to walk into my living room, I probably get maybe five steps in, and all of the sudden I just hear boots running in after me, telling me, ‘stop or I’ll arrest you,'” she said.
Rossi’s daughter started recording.
Chandler police Officer Doug Rose threatens to arrest her. When she asks what for, he grabs her arms and cuffs her, and the towel falls off, exposing her.
“I don’t want to touch you, don’t touch me. I didn’t want to touch him,” she sobs, and her daughter can be heard breaking down as things become chaotic. Rose’s partner, Officer David Selvidge, stands silently and watches with his arms folded.
“You have absolutely no clothes on?” Rose asks Rossi.
“She was in the fucking shower, what is wrong with you?” the daughter screams.
Selvidge tells the daughter to get her mother some clothes as Rose handcuffs her.
After the incident, Selvidge complained to his superiors about Rose’s conduct, prompting an internal investigation. The investigation found Rose entered Rossi’s home illegally. He also failed to document key aspects of the call, including arresting then un-arresting Rossi and the fact she was naked, according to the New York Daily News. Footage from his body camera was missing.
He hasn’t been disciplined or charged with a crime, ABC 15 reports.
Rose retired in the midst of the investigation, but Rossi, who was never charged with a crime, has filed a lawsuit.
Rossi told ABC 15 she was molested as a small child and her encounter with Rose, caused her to have a flashback.
Rossi said she was in the shower when her daughter told her the officers were at the door. She grabbed a towel and slung it around herself before answering. She told the officers to wait at the door so she could get a cell phone to record the encounter, and closed it behind her.
“I start to walk into my living room, I probably get maybe five steps in, and all of the sudden I just hear boots running in after me, telling me, ‘stop or I’ll arrest you,'” she said.
Rossi’s daughter started recording.
Chandler police Officer Doug Rose threatens to arrest her. When she asks what for, he grabs her arms and cuffs her, and the towel falls off, exposing her.
“I don’t want to touch you, don’t touch me. I didn’t want to touch him,” she sobs, and her daughter can be heard breaking down as things become chaotic. Rose’s partner, Officer David Selvidge, stands silently and watches with his arms folded.
“You have absolutely no clothes on?” Rose asks Rossi.
“She was in the fucking shower, what is wrong with you?” the daughter screams.
Selvidge tells the daughter to get her mother some clothes as Rose handcuffs her.
After the incident, Selvidge complained to his superiors about Rose’s conduct, prompting an internal investigation. The investigation found Rose entered Rossi’s home illegally. He also failed to document key aspects of the call, including arresting then un-arresting Rossi and the fact she was naked, according to the New York Daily News. Footage from his body camera was missing.
He hasn’t been disciplined or charged with a crime, ABC 15 reports.
Rose retired in the midst of the investigation, but Rossi, who was never charged with a crime, has filed a lawsuit.
Rossi told ABC 15 she was molested as a small child and her encounter with Rose, caused her to have a flashback.
Man leapt from wheelchair and tore off shirt in street confrontation
An onlooker caught a video of a disabled man in a heated altercation on Inverness High Street on Tuesday.
The unnamed man leapt from his wheelchair, tore off his shirt, and squared up to a seated trio.
There are few clues to the grounds for the argument, as the video seems to begin in the midst of the incident. It starts with the man appearing to speak to the three men before wheeling around agitatedly for a few seconds.
He then stands from his wheelchair, removing his shirt, before shouting and appearing to challenge the men, who do not appear to react. He continues to act in an agitated manner until two police officers arrive on scene.
Man accidentally shot roommate after teasing cat with laser
An man from Onalaska in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, is accused of
shooting his roommate in the leg after using the handgun’s laser sight
to tease his cat.
Vaughn Rothering, 22, told police his cat was chasing the laser on the
porch of his house in Onalaska before he spun the gun in his hand,
according to the complaint filed in La Crosse County Circuit Court.
The Glock 9mm handgun fired while Rothering was “messing around with it,” and lodged a bullet in his roommates’ ankle, the complaint stated. The victim was treated at Gundersen Health System.
The shooting was reported on May 11, although Rothering made his first court appearance on Friday on a felony charge of injury by negligent handling of a dangerous weapon. He returns to court at a later date.
The Glock 9mm handgun fired while Rothering was “messing around with it,” and lodged a bullet in his roommates’ ankle, the complaint stated. The victim was treated at Gundersen Health System.
The shooting was reported on May 11, although Rothering made his first court appearance on Friday on a felony charge of injury by negligent handling of a dangerous weapon. He returns to court at a later date.
Hotel 'celebrates' 61 years without guests
Located on top of a rocky outcrop on Monte Kronio, and within walking
distance of the thermal springs and the Basilica of San Calogero, the
hotel was supposed to be able to offer guests the chance to experience
the best of Sicily.
Construction of the 300-bed, five-story hotel began in 1954 and took nearly 30 years. By the beginning of the 1980s, the hotel was finally nearing completion, but there was a hitch.
No agreement had been reached over which company would manage the hotel for the coming ten years.
During that time, the hotel began to fall into ruin and so Sicily's
regional authorities decided to revamp it.
By 1993, the hotel was once again ready to be opened: it was even
inaugurated. Finally visitors from far and wide would be able to come
and admire the wonderful views from the hotel's balcony. But there was a
minor hiccup.
It emerged that a grave oversight had been made during the hotel's
construction: after 40 years of building work, the hotel was still
without a properly connected drainage system.
The unfortunate oversight cost the region dearly.
In 2010 it paid €800,000 in compensation to the co-operative that had
won the right to manage the hotel in 1993.
The problems of 1993 set plans back a few more years. It was finally
inaugurated - again - in 1998, but closed immediately.
In 2000, another company was found to manage the Grand Hotel San
Calogero, and plans were drawn up to finally connect the hotel's
drainage system to the town.
But the work was never started. Sciacca council had "forgotten" to ask
for the funds needed to redevelop the hotel's drains and plans were
shelved once again.
After 60 years of work and billions of Lira invested, the true cost of
the project in today's money is difficult to quantify.
Perhaps, one day it will open.
During that time, the hotel began to fall into ruin and so Sicily's
regional authorities decided to revamp it.
By 1993, the hotel was once again ready to be opened: it was even
inaugurated. Finally visitors from far and wide would be able to come
and admire the wonderful views from the hotel's balcony. But there was a
minor hiccup.
It emerged that a grave oversight had been made during the hotel's
construction: after 40 years of building work, the hotel was still
without a properly connected drainage system.
The unfortunate oversight cost the region dearly. 
Mystery surrounds McDonald's 'opening soon' sign in middle of desert
Covering more than 170,000 square kilometers, it is the world's largest
sand dune desert and attracts thousands of tourists each year.
Now a mysterious sign has appeared in the Simpson Desert Conservation
Park in Northern Territory, South Australia and Queensland in central
Australia.
Midway along the most popular 'road' that crosses the Simpson, more than
200 kilometers into the desert, a large sign has been erected on top of
a 15-metre-high dune.
Easily seen for kilometers in every direction it leaves visitors to
believe that some time soon they will be able to order a double
cheeseburger.
Rosaline Poohey, from Bunbury, Western Australia was making the crossing along The French Line track with a group of friends recently and described the sign as an eyesore. "It's not in keeping with the value of what you think you'd find in a national park ... I think it's completely inappropriate or not the right sort of sign for a landmark," she said. And it seems, McDonald's agrees.
McDonald's spokesman Chris Grant said the sign was a mystery to the
company.
"This one has us all intrigued," he said.
"I can assure you it is nothing to with us. The font and the style used
on the sign is not consistent with our branding and it serves us no
purpose.
It's beyond us why anyone would go the time and effort to install a sign
like this," Mr Grant said.
SA Environment Minister Ian Hunter said he would have Department of
Environment, Water and Natural Resources staff investigate the sign and
arrange its removal.
Rosaline Poohey, from Bunbury, Western Australia was making the crossing along The French Line track with a group of friends recently and described the sign as an eyesore. "It's not in keeping with the value of what you think you'd find in a national park ... I think it's completely inappropriate or not the right sort of sign for a landmark," she said. And it seems, McDonald's agrees.
Stormy weather caused hot air balloon mishap
This is the moment a hot air balloon got caught in a freak windstorm at a
festival in Wisconsin, dragging the vehicle it was tethered to into
nearby tents.
Onlookers at the Waterford Balloonfest grabbed guide ropes as fierce winds swept through on Saturday.
Video shows one balloon break free, swirling into the sky before dragging a vehicle into a nearby camping area.
Those trying to control the balloons suffered minor injuries, with one person taken to hospital but not admitted.
Video shows one balloon break free, swirling into the sky before dragging a vehicle into a nearby camping area.
The Sea Sapphire Can Turn Invisible in the Blink of an Eye
In blue sea sapphires, the distance between the crystals is about the same as the wavelength of blue light, so the animals appear blue.Only male sea sapphires have such coloration, which they probably use to attract mates, just like how human males use fedoras.
The angle of light hitting the sea sapphire also affects the color and lets it perform its disappearing act. For the species in the video, for example, the animal’s tilt of 45 degrees causes the reflected light to slip into the ultraviolet spectrum, and the animal becomes invisible to our eyes.
Thursday, July 23, 2015
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Today in History
| 1627 | Sir George Calvert arrives in Newfoundland to develop his land grant. | |
| 1637 | King Charles of England hands over the American colony of Massachusetts to Sir Fernando Gorges, one of the founders of the Council of New England. | |
| 1664 | Wealthy, non-cult members in Massachusetts are given the right to vote. | |
| 1793 | The French garrison at Mainz, Germany, falls to the Prussians. | |
| 1803 | Irish patriots throughout the country rebel against Union with Great Britain. | |
| 1829 | William A. Burt patents his "typographer," an early typewriter. | |
| 1849 | German rebels in Baden capitulate to the Prussians. | |
| 1863 | Bill Andeson and his Confederate Bushwackers gut the railway station at Renick, Missouri. | |
| 1865 | William Booth founds the Salvation Army. | |
| 1868 | The 14th Amendment is ratified, granting citizenship to African Americans. | |
| 1885 | Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer at the age of 63. | |
| 1894 | Japanese troops take over the Korean imperial palace. | |
| 1903 | The Ford Motor Company sells its first automobile, the Model A. | |
| 1944 | Soviet troops take Lublin, Poland as the German army retreats. | |
| 1962 | The Geneva Conference on Laos forbids the United States to invade eastern Laos. | |
| 1995 | Two astronomers, Alan Hale in New Mexico and Thomas Bopp in Arizona, almost simultaneouly discover a comet. |
Tracing Back To The World's Oldest Known Cello
Andrea Amati constructed the instrument in Cremona, Italy. He influenced all of the violin makers up to this day. He is credited with being the father of the modern violin. Before him there were all sorts of shapes and sizes. He standardized things and also made templates so he could produce the instruments a bit faster.
Haphazard and Uninspired
Why Berlin Is World's Most Boring Museum City
by Ulrike Knöfel
As far as major cities go, few other places are in possession of so
many treasures that are so poorly exhibited as Berlin. It's as though
cultural institutions here go out of their way to keep people from
visiting. More...
The New Mass Extinction: Solar Energy Is In Trouble Unless Progressives Act Now
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Republicans do not want to let this economic growth continue. Normandy Secrets
Forgotten Nazi Arms Caches a Bonanza for Historians
by Frank Thadeusz
For decades, a vast network of Nazi arms caches and supply depots in
the forest of Normandy lay forgotten. Now, research shows the extent to
which the Wehrmacht sought to defend itself against the impending Allied
invasion. More...
Web of Surveillance
East German Snitching Went Far Beyond the Stasi
by Peter Wensierski
Everyone knows about the Stasi and the extent to which it spied on
the East German populace. But that was only a small part of the
informing that went on. New research shows that snitching was vastly
more common than previously thought. More...
There’s a cancer epidemic in Central Appalachia
Widespread Panic fan dead after Mississippi cops hogtie him and place him face-down on stretcher
A Mississippi man died Saturday evening
after police hogtied him and placed him face-down after he became unruly
on his way home from a concert.
Man Previously Convicted Of Racist Hate Crime Attacks Again, Leaving Victim In Serious Condition
An Illinois man is facing multiple charges following an attack on a South American immigrant inside a Chicago bar on July 17.
According to the Chicago...
A Chicago man with a history of hate crimes
was arrested once again after going on a racist rant at a local bar and
shooting a man he believed was an illegal immigrant in the face with a
pellet gun while claiming to be a police officer.
Human News
Did your parents ever tell you that listening to angry and
aggressive music is bad for you? This study proves them wrong.
Obama
wants to cut the number of people in jails, curb
solitary confinement and end mandatory minimum sentences, all this
year.(Got to make room for all the wingnuts that will be heading to
prison shortly)
Following the financial crisis in Greece, some wonder if digital currency might be a better option than euros.
The "flower men" of Saudi Arabia are members of a tribe known
for wearing wreaths of dried flowers and fiercely defending their land.
Car alarms, wailing babies and other screams share traits that lead us to pay attention and often trigger fear.
Archaeology News
The 3-Billion-Year-Old Klerksdorp Spheres Of Ottosdal
The most striking examples have the uncanny appearance of being something manufactured but these metallic objects have been dated to 3 billion years old, a time when the Earth was too young to host intelligent life capable of creating these spheres. Klerksdorp Spheres, however, aren't out-of-place. Neither they are mysterious.
Earth News
The annual State of the Climate report confirms 2014 was the
warmest year on record, along with warming oceans and sea ice decline.
Only about a quarter of precipitation ends up in the oceans. Where does the rest go?
Weak solar activity could slowly fire up the ocean
circulation mechanism, increasing the amount of warm water and air
flowing to Greenland.
Mysterious ancient star chart shows foreign skies
The astronomical chart on the ceiling of the Kitora Tomb.
The Kitora Tomb,
located near the village of Asuka in Japan's Nara Prefecture, is known
for gorgeous, colourful paintings at the four cardinal points of the
compass. A black tortoise guards the north of the ancient tumulus, which
has been standing since the seventh or eighth century. A red phoenix
stands at the south, a white tiger at the west and a blue dragon at the
east.
The
ceiling of the tomb is decorated differently, with a map of the night
sky, charting 68 constellations, with the stars picked out in gold leaf.
Three concentric circles are drawn with vermilion, showing the movement
of celestial objects, one of which is the sun.
According
to Kazuhiko Miyajima, a professor at Doshisha University who studied
the chart after the tomb was discovered in 1998, this makes it possibly the oldest astronomical chart of its kind in the world. It has designations for the horizon, equator and ecliptic circles, as well as recognisable patterns of stars.
While older depictions of the skies have been found in the west (the 17,300-year-old Lascaux cave painting, for example, shows Pleiades, Taurus, Orion and Aldebaran), most do not contain recognisable star patterns, or diagrams of astronomical phenomena.
One thing that has baffled researchers, however, is the area of sky the chart depicts.
The chart as annotated by University of Iowa research fellow Steve Renshaw
Researchers
Mitsuru Soma, an assistant professor of astronomy at the National
Astronomical Observatory of Japan, and Tsuko Nakamura, a researcher of
modern astronomy with Daito Bunka University's Institute of Oriental
Studies, teamed up with Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs and Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties to calculate the location, reports The Asahi Shimbun.
The
two researchers worked separately, and determined that the sky as
depicted in the Kitora Tomb chart was seen from China, from locations
such as modern-day Xi'an and Luoyang.
They
also determined that the chart showed the sky as it would have appeared
several hundred years before the construction of the Kitora Tomb --
although they didn't agree on the number of years. Soma said that it
shows the sky as it would have appeared between 240 and 520, while
Nakamura said it would have appeared so between 120BC and 40BC.
Miyajima
believes differently, extrapolating that the chart shows the sky as it
would have appeared in 65BC, either from Pyongyang or Seoul, the
capitals of North and South Korea respectively. In his 1999 lecture, he had said that the chart had probably come from Korea, but showed the sky in China.
Scientists Discover The Universe Grows Like A Brain
The Study
According to a study published in Nature’s Scientific Reports, the
universe may be growing in the same way as a giant brain - with the
electrical firing between brain cells ‘mirrored’ by the shape of
expanding galaxies. The results of a computer simulation suggest that
“natural growth dynamics” – the way that systems evolve – are the same
for different kinds of networks – whether its the internet, the human
brain or the universe as a whole.When the team compared the universe’s history with growth of social networks and brain circuits, they found all the networks expanded in similar ways: They balanced links between similar nodes with ones that already had many connections. For instance, a cat lover surfing the Internet may visit mega-sites such as Google or Yahoo, but will also browse cat fancier websites or YouTube kitten videos. In the same way, neighboring brain cells like to connect, but neurons also link to such “Google brain cells” that are hooked up to loads of other brain cells.
“The new study suggests a single fundamental law of nature may govern these networks”, said physicist Kevin Bassler of the University of Houston. “”For a physicist it’s an immediate signal that there is some missing understanding of how nature works,” says Dmitri Krioukov from the University of California San Diego.
“Here we show that the causal network representing the large-scale structure of spacetime in our accelerating universe is a power-law graph with strong clustering, similar to many complex networks such as the Internet, social, or biological networks. We prove that this structural similarity is a consequence of the asymptotic equivalence between the large-scale growth dynamics of complex networks and causal networks.”
What does this mean?
The universe has a built-in mechanism that is designed to expand and
evolve in a way that encourages novelty and an increase in coherence.
Our minds are microcosms of what is happening within the expansion of
galaxies and celestial bodies, since our minds themselves are activities
of the universe and the laws that govern it.We are more interconnected to the universe and its evolutionary process than we have realized. When you look up to the stars and their formations, you are looking at the same intelligent process that is responsible for creating the eyes you are looking through and the neural networks that are interpreting the data. We literally are the universe.
Astronomical News
Scientists with NASA’s New Horizons mission are puzzling over
how a world that never gets more sun than Earth at twilight is
reshaping its surface, filling in craters, cracking its crust and
building towering mountains and smooth hills.
In a new portrait, imaged shortly before NASA New Horizons
punched through the dwarf planet's neighborhood on Tuesday, Pluto and
largest moon Charon hang serenely in the dark.
Animal News
A 75,000-acre reserve will protect rare lemurs, aye-ayes,
frogs, flying foxes, the 'Tarzan chameleon' and other strange but
endangered animals from logging and mining pressure.
Super shark Megalodon has a new claim to fame: its teeth were largely comprised of ultra-strong fluoride.
Nessie is a giant catfish, says a man who has hunted it for 24 years, though he hopes it's something more exciting.
Hong Kong is the third-largest ivory smuggling hub, after Kenya and Tanzania, according to a new report.
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