Neal — who has cerebral palsy — is unable to
use in-flight restroom facilities and after the long flight, he needed
access to a toilet.
Friday, October 30, 2015
Wood instead of oil ...
Bikini Refuge
About 1,000 displaced residents of the Bikinia Atoll want to
relocate to the United States due to rising sea level.
Warming Cold Riches
Something is on a collision course with Earth
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‘WTF’ Is About To Crash Into Earth
Unidentified Space Junk Labelled ‘WTF’ Is About To Crash Into Earth
All anyone is sure off is that it is about two meters wide and could be hollow inside - meaning it might be man-made.
But how would a man-made object be hurtling in space and on a collision course with the planet where it originated?
Astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell explained: “[It could be] a lost piece of space history that’s come back to haunt us.”
If it doesn’t burn up when entering the planet’s atmosphere, it is on course to land in the Indian Ocean, just off the coast of Sri Lanka, on November 13.
However, astronomy software developer Bill Gray added: “I would not necessarily want to be going fishing directly underneath it.”
Don’t worry, we have no intention of doing that.
Mammalian Regeneration
Fossils from 300-million years ago shed new light on the regenerative abilities of four-legged vertebrates.
Ancient Caribbean Wildlife
Paleontology News
The animals are at least 10,000 years old and are the best-preserved examples of the species ever.
Nearly a million years ago, a cave hyena could have taken down a 5-year-old mastodon weighing more than a ton.
Snakes and Blood
Distant Relatives
Animal News
Chickens selectively bred to be bigger over a 50-year period
show that evolution can happen dramatically during our lifetimes.
As many as 25 of the critically endangered animal were observed in the Gulf of California.
The latest deaths came less than two weeks after 26 elephants
died from poisoning in two separate incidents outside Hwange National
Park.
A long, dangerous eel migration from Canada to waters off of Bermuda has just been tracked for the first time.
Thursday, October 29, 2015
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Today in History
| 1618 | Sir Walter Raleigh is executed. After the death of Queen Elizabeth, Raleigh’s enemies spread rumors that he was opposed the accession of King James. | |
| 1787 | Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni opens in Prague. | |
| 1814 | The Demologos, the first steam-powered warship, launched in New York City. | |
| 1901 | Leon Czolgosz is electrocuted for the assassination of US President William McKinley. Czolgosz, an anarchist, shot McKinley on September 6 during a public reception at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, N.Y. Despite early hopes of recovery, McKinley died September 14, in Buffalo, NY. | |
| 1927 | Russian archaeologist Peter Kozloff apparently uncovers the tomb of Genghis Khan in the Gobi Desert, a claim still in dispute. | |
| 1929 | Black Tuesday–the most catastrophic day in stock market history, the herald of the Great Depression. 16 million shares were sold at declining prices. By mid-November $30 billion of the $80 billion worth of stocks listed in September will have been wiped out. | |
| 1945 | The first ball-point pen goes is sold by Gimbell’s department store in New York for a price of $12. | |
| 1949 | Alonzo G. Moron of the Virgin Islands becomes the first African-American president of Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia. | |
| 1952 | French forces launch Operation Lorraine against Viet Minh supply bases in Indochina. | |
| 1964 | Thieves steal a jewel collection–including the world’s largest sapphire, the 565-carat "Star of India," and the 100-carat DeLong ruby–from the Museum of Natural History in New York. The thieves were caught and most of the jewels recovered. | |
| 1969 | The U.S. Supreme Court orders immediate desegregation, superseding the previous "with all deliberate speed" ruling. | |
| 1969 | First computer-to-computer link; the link is accomplished through ARPANET, forerunner of the Internet. | |
| 1972 | Palestinian guerrillas kill an airport employee and hijack a plane, carrying 27 passengers, to Cuba. They force West Germany to release 3 terrorists who were involved in the Munich Massacre. | |
| 1983 | More than 500,000 people protest in The Hague, The Netherlands, against cruise missiles. | |
| 1986 | The last stretch of Britain’s M25 motorway opens. | |
| 1998 | South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission reports condemns both sides on the Apartheid issue for committing atrocities. | |
| 1998 | John Glenn, at age 77, becomes the oldest person to go into outer space. He is part of the crew of Space Shuttle Discovery, STS-95. | |
| 1998 | The deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record up to that time, Hurricane Mitch, makes landfall in Honduras (in 2005 Hurricane Wilma surpassed it); nearly 11,000 people died and approximately the same number were missing. | |
| 2004 | For the first time, Osama bin Laden admits direct responsibility for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the US; his comments are part of a video broadcast by the Al Jazeera network. | |
| 2008 | Delta and Northwest airlines merge, forming the world’s largest airline. | |
| 2012 | Hurricane Sandy devastates much of the East Coast of the US; nearly 300 die directly or indirectly from the storm. |
NRA pushing new bill to legalize silencers ...
Burglar who forced victim to make him some toast caught when police called stolen phone
Burglar Adrian Thorley forced his terrified victim to make him toast while he stole his belongings.
The 35-year-old raised his fist and ordered the man to prepare some breakfast as he helped himself to DVDs and a mobile phone.
Thorley had earlier got into the home for vulnerable adults and made himself a snack.
But as he was looking for items to steal, he woke up one of the residents who he started to boss around.
Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard he also threatened to attack another resident.
He was caught later that day
after the stolen mobile rang in his pocket when a police officer dialed the number and his DNA was found on a can of drink.
Now the defendant, of Stoke, is starting a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to burglary.
Jailing him, Recorder Martin Hurst said: "You spent a lot of time with the victim, including causing him to make a drink and toast. It may have started off as opportunistic but it would have become clear they were no match which is why you took as long as you did. I accept you did not target these premises but they were occupied by vulnerable people." Prosecutor Peter McCartney said Thorley entered the house in Hanley, at 6am on July 1.
He said: "A resident woke to find the defendant in his doorway with some of his belongings. The defendant had eaten from the kitchen already but asked for further food. The resident was intimidated. Thorley raised his fist to him and threatened to attack another resident." The victim then called a taxi to fetch Thorley. But the defendant was aggressive towards the driver so he was asked to get out. Hamish Noble, mitigating, said: "He understands it was a distressing and unpleasant experience for the resident."
Thief used custom-made fishing rod to steal vast array of bras and panties over three-year period
Police in the eastern Chinese city of Liyang have caught an underwear thief after he was found to have stashed more than 285 worn bras and 185 worn panties in his van.
The 32-year-old lingerie thief was caught in September with the haul of
underwear as well as 102 other items of clothing in a routine check on a
suspicious van.
According to local police, the thief reportedly used a custom-made tool similar to a fishing rod to steal the undergarments. The haul of unmentionables takes up the space of half a basketball court when laid out together. Police said the amount of stolen items was sufficient for a criminal case to be launched.
The man confessed that his crime spree had not been brief, but had been stealing the items of clothing over a three-year period. He told police that he started stealing only a few items at first but soon became unable to control himself, stealing the clothes more frequently. Police said they will seek psychological help for the man.
According to local police, the thief reportedly used a custom-made tool similar to a fishing rod to steal the undergarments. The haul of unmentionables takes up the space of half a basketball court when laid out together. Police said the amount of stolen items was sufficient for a criminal case to be launched.
The man confessed that his crime spree had not been brief, but had been stealing the items of clothing over a three-year period. He told police that he started stealing only a few items at first but soon became unable to control himself, stealing the clothes more frequently. Police said they will seek psychological help for the man.
Criticism over Chinese professor's wife-sharing proposal for poorer men
Prof Xie noted there were reports that China could possibly have 30 to 40 million bachelors by 2020.
The huge demand for women and the lack of supply would result in the "value of women going up", he wrote.
"Men with high incomes will have an advantage in finding women, because they can afford the high price.
And what about the low income men? One way is for several men to band together to find a wife. This isn't some pie-in-the-sky idea of mine. In
some remote and poor areas there are cases where brothers jointly marry
one wife, and they can live happily and harmoniously."
He also advocated for greater economic growth so that poorer bachelors
could earn more income and could thus attract women from other regions
such as South East Asia or Africa.
The shortage of wives in some rural parts of China has led to more men marrying women from neighboring countries such as Vietnam and Myanmar, but has also fueled human trafficking and wedding scams. Prof Xie's essay, which was published last week, attracted mostly appalled derision from readers, who criticized his idea as immoral and illegal. "If you can't find a mate then don't bother, if women are just only meant for producing heirs and have to mate with many men just to solve the population growth issue, how does this make us any different from animals?" said one woman. Jing Xiong, a project manager with Chinese women's rights group Media Monitor for Women Network, said that the gender imbalance problem 'is basically a problem stemming from teachings that prioritize men over women'. "And now the solutions are still very much male-centered. This is extremely ridiculous.
"Prof Xie's suggestion ignores the wishes and rights of women, and casts
women as tools used to satisfy men's needs for sex, marriage and
reproduction... this suggestion is basically sexual discrimination."
In a subsequent essay, Prof Xie said he had been bombarded with angry
phone calls.
But he stuck to his guns, arguing that laws and morals were mutable.
"If we wave the big stick of morality, keep to the one-husband-one-wife
social contract, and let 30 million bachelors have no women and no hope,
they hate society, then we would have a serious social problem.
So please don't talk to me about morals. If we don't let the 30 million
bachelors have women, their lives would have no hope and then they may
go around raping, killing, setting off bombs... (let me emphasize that
this is a possibility, I'm not saying they would definitely do that).
Don't tell me that is your morality?" he said.
The shortage of wives in some rural parts of China has led to more men marrying women from neighboring countries such as Vietnam and Myanmar, but has also fueled human trafficking and wedding scams. Prof Xie's essay, which was published last week, attracted mostly appalled derision from readers, who criticized his idea as immoral and illegal. "If you can't find a mate then don't bother, if women are just only meant for producing heirs and have to mate with many men just to solve the population growth issue, how does this make us any different from animals?" said one woman. Jing Xiong, a project manager with Chinese women's rights group Media Monitor for Women Network, said that the gender imbalance problem 'is basically a problem stemming from teachings that prioritize men over women'. "And now the solutions are still very much male-centered. This is extremely ridiculous.
"Prof Xie's suggestion ignores the wishes and rights of women, and casts
women as tools used to satisfy men's needs for sex, marriage and
reproduction... this suggestion is basically sexual discrimination."
In a subsequent essay, Prof Xie said he had been bombarded with angry
phone calls.
But he stuck to his guns, arguing that laws and morals were mutable.
"If we wave the big stick of morality, keep to the one-husband-one-wife
social contract, and let 30 million bachelors have no women and no hope,
they hate society, then we would have a serious social problem.
So please don't talk to me about morals. If we don't let the 30 million
bachelors have women, their lives would have no hope and then they may
go around raping, killing, setting off bombs... (let me emphasize that
this is a possibility, I'm not saying they would definitely do that).
Don't tell me that is your morality?" he said.
Don’t Look At Her Face And Raping Your Wife Is Just Awesome, Says 'Christian' Website
This 'christian' sex guru explains that it’s OK to rape your wife, but
seeing the despair and hatred in her eyes is just a mood-killer (for
you).Creationist moron Ray Comfort mocks ‘dumb’ Hindus injured or killed by falling Ganesh statue
One man was killed and three people were
injured when a statue of the elephant god Ganesh collapsed during a
worship service last month in India, and a video of the tragedy was
circulated and widely reported last week.
Burning Hell Coming for Mideast Deserts
Desert regions of the Mideast could become uninhabitable by the end of the century as the climate warms.
Our Ancestors and Red Meat
Red meat may cause cancer, a study reported this week. But didn’t we evolve to eat it?
Oldest ABCs
Ancient Egyptians reviewed their ABCs with the help of this 15-century B.C. inscription.
Ancient warrior's tomb and huge treasure hoard found in Greece
US archaeologists in Greece have uncovered the skeleton of an ancient warrior that has lain undisturbed for more than 3,500 years along with a huge hoard of treasure, the Greek culture ministry announced Monday.The treasure is "the most important to have been discovered in 65 years" in continental Greece, the ministry said.
The wooden coffin of the unknown soldier -- evidently a person of some importance -- was found on the site of the Mycenaean-era Palace of Nestor on Greece's Peloponnese peninsula.
He
had been laid to rest with an array of fine gold jewellery, including
an ornate string of pearls, signet rings, a bronze sword with a gold and
ivory handle, silver vases and ivory combs.
The
jewellery is decorated in the style of the Minoans, the civilization
that flourished on the island of Crete from around 2000 BC, with the
figures of deities, animals and floral motifs.
The
archaeologists, Jack L. Davis and Sharon R. Stocker from the University
of Cincinnati, have identified more than 1,400 pieces "whose quality
testifies to the influence of the Minoans" on the later Mycenaeans.
The Mycenean civilization spread from the Peloponnese across the whole of the eastern Mediterranean in the 2nd century BC.
The
tomb, which stands at 2.4 metres (7 feet 10 inches) long and 1.5 metres
wide, was unearthed during excavations begun in May near Pylos, on the
site of the palace of Nestor.
Built between 1300 and 1200 BC, the palace's ruins were discovered in 1939.
‘Quantum spookiness’ and chasing Schrödinger’s cat
Miniature horse captured after hours-long chase by police, animal welfare officers and cowboys
A miniature horse ran wild in downtown Oklahoma City early on Friday morning.
Police, animal welfare officers and cowboys from the Oklahoma National Stockyards chased after the horse for hours.
Eventually, the horse was captured, but no one seems to know who owns him.
A miniature horse with no name and no owner to be seen was trotting along the street, reported a resident in a 911 call.
The call came in at 1:15 in the morning and the horse wasn't captured until 5:30 a.m.
Officers said it felt like a wild goose chase. "It felt that way. We don't have a lot of training catching loose horses," said Lt. David Wegner, with the Oklahoma City Police Department. So officers called in some cowboys from the Oklahoma National Stockyards to help.
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
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Today in History
| 312 | Constantine the Great defeats Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius at the Mulvian Bridge. | |
| 969 | After a prolonged siege, the Byzantines end 300 years of Arab rule in Antioch. | |
| 1216 | Henry III of England is crowned. | |
| 1628 | After a fifteen-month siege, the Huguenot town of La Rochelle surrenders to royal forces. | |
| 1636 | Harvard College, the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, is founded in Cambridge, Mass. | |
| 1768 | Germans and Acadians join French Creoles in their armed revolt against the Spanish governor of New Orleans. | |
| 1793 | Eli Whitney applies for a patent on the cotton gin, a machine which cleans the tight-clinging seeds from short-staple cotton easily and effectively–a job which was previously done by hand. | |
| 1863 | In a rare night attack, Confederates under Gen. James Longstreet attack a Federal force near Chattanooga, Tennessee, hoping to cut their supply line, the "cracker line." They fail. | |
| 1886 | The Statue of Liberty, originally named Liberty Enlightening the World, is dedicated at Liberty Island, N. Y., formerly Bedloe’s Island, by President Grover Cleveland | |
| 1901 | Race riots sparked by Booker T. Washington’s visit to the White House kill 34. | |
| 1904 | The St. Louis police try a new investigation method: fingerprints. | |
| 1914 | The German cruiser Emden, disguised as a British ship, steams into Penang Harbor near Malaya and sinks the Russian light cruiser Zhemchug. | |
| 1914 | George Eastman announces the invention of the color photographic process. | |
| 1919 | Over President Wilson’s veto, Congress passes the National Prohibition Act, or Volstead Act, named after its promoter, Congressman Andrew J. Volstead. It provides enforcement guidelines for the Prohibition Amendment. | |
| 1927 | Pan American Airways launches the first scheduled international flight. | |
| 1940 | Italy invades Greece, launching six divisions on four fronts from occupied Albania. | |
| 1944 | The first B-29 Superfortress bomber mission flies from the airfields in the Mariana Islands in a strike against the Japanese base at Truk. | |
| 1960 | In a note to the OAS (Organization of American States), the United States charges that Cuba has been receiving substantial quantities of arms and numbers of military technicians" from the Soviet bloc. | |
| 1962 | Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders Soviet missiles removed from Cuba, ending the Cuban Missile Crisis. | |
| 1965 | Construction completed on St. Louis Arch; at 630 feet (192m), it is the world’s tallest arch. | |
| 1971 | Britain launches the satellite Prospero into orbit, using a Black Arrow carrier rocket; this is the first and so far (2013) only British satellite launched by a British rocket. | |
| 1982 | The Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party wins election, giving Spain its first Socialist government since the death of right-wing President Francisco Franco. | |
| 2005 | Libby "Scooter" Lewis, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, resigns after being indicted for "outing" CIA agent Valerie Plame. | |
| 2007 | Argentina elects its first woman president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. |
Canadian Town Creates Christmas in October for Boy with Brain Cancer
Seven-year-old Evan Leversage of St. George, Ontario has been courageously fighting brain cancer for the majority of his life. After five years of living with the disease, Evan's brain tumor has been recently determined to have increased in size. Medical professionals have told his parents that he could be gone by the year's end.
Once they received that heartbreaking prognosis, Evan's parents decided to gather their family and celebrate Christmas on October 24th. But the extended family did not stop there. They circulated flyers, created a Facebook event page and started a crowdfunding campaign to allow the entire town to celebrate Christmas early with Evan and his family. Thus far they've raised $21,000. Evan's mother told the CBC,
"You look out our front window, the entire street is lit up. Everywhere you look it's Christmas. It's more than I could have imagined. When Evan looks out his window, the backyard is decorated and there's a sign saying 'Merry Christmas.'"
A Sumo Wrestler Footrace
Sumo
wrestlers must be strong enough to push another wrestler their size
across the ring, sturdy enough to take some physical abuse when they
bump bellies, and heavy enough to hold their ground.
But
the art of Sumo has little to nothing to do with distance running, so
watching sumo wrestlers take to the track in a footrace is truly a sight
to behold.
The
sumo wrestlers are surprisingly light on their feet, but this video
feels incomplete without the Benny Hill song playing in the background.
Turns Out Starbucks Is A ‘Grande’ Tax Avoider!
Good day, fiends, junkies, and catalog models. It's officially Fall,
which means it's time for some Coffee Talk! What have our caffeinated
Corporate Persons have been doing with themselves when they're not
competing to create...
South Carolina man arrested with almost 10,000 stolen guns
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