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Friday, November 13, 2015

New gas and grass means customers can now simultaneously fill their tanks and buy marijuana

Medical marijuana users can now buy pot while filling up their gas tanks in Colorado Springs, Colorado. "Gas & Grass" is the first gas station to open in Colorado Springs that's adjacent to a Native Roots medical marijuana dispensary.
Colorado does not allow pot shops to sell non-marijuana products. So, the gas station and pot shop have distinct entrances. However, medical marijuana patients that shop at Native Roots will get discounts on the gasoline, similar to a grocery store loyalty program.
Patients who register their medical card with Native Roots will receive a free tank of gas, as well as a discount card with gas discounts of .15 per gallon for each subsequent visit, regardless of purchase.
Medical patients not registered with Native Roots will receive a discount gas card at the time of marijuana purchase. The gas discount is .05 for patients not registered with Native Roots. In addition, a purchase is required. For those not purchasing marijuana products, gas will be available at standard prices.

Man seen eating grass arrested after high-speed police chase

Shortly after 4.30pm on Sunday, police were called to investigate a man eating grass in the Otumoetai suburb of Tauranga, New Zealand. On arrival a man ran into water and disappeared into nearby bush. He then entered a house, taking alcohol and a family vehicle. Senior Sergeant Shannon Clifford, on hearing a female screaming, arrived to find the man taking the family's car.
The man drove the car at the Senior Sergeant, hitting him with an open door, and drove over a letterbox, narrowly avoiding a collision with a parked police vehicle. Shortly afterwards, another police patrol spotted the man driving and tried to stop him. He then fled at high speed and a tyre deflation device was deployed. The driver allegedly drove directly at the police officer on foot, who had to run to safety. The car continued over a roundabout, directly at a parked police patrol.
Fortunately the police driver managed to move the car to avoid being rammed. He continued, losing a tire while driving on the wrong side of the road into oncoming traffic. Police abandoned the pursuit due to extremely dangerous driving. Following information from the public, police arrived near Tauranga Golf Course, and found the vehicle abandoned. Cordons were then set up to contain the man. At 6.50pm, police caught the male trying to run through their cordon.
Senior Sergeant Clifford said: “It was excellent work by all of my staff to contain the male within cordons and keep the public safe. I am relieved that no members of the public or my staff were injured during the incident.” A 28-year-old Tauranga man is due to appear in the Tauranga District Court facing charges of disqualified driving, possession of an offensive weapon, aggravated assault on police, reckless driving, failing to stop for police, 2 x assault with a weapon, burglary and unlawfully taking a motor vehicle. The owner of the stolen car apparently snapped his Achilles during the incident.

Mystery boat appeared in middle of busy road before mysteriously disappearing again

A mystery boat was landlocked on Chief Peguis Trail in Winnipeg, Canada, for about an hour on Sunday afternoon.
The fiberglass boat, with motor attached, appeared in an eastbound turning lane at around 12:30pm.

“It was a pretty odd place to park a boat,” witness Russ Young said. “I thought it was weird that it was sitting perfectly straight. It was dead center in the middle of the lane.”
A police spokesman said they received complaints about the boat portaging on the prairie at around 12:30pm. A unit was dispatched but the boat had somehow motored away by 1:30pm. It’s presumed the boat slipped off a trailer but that and its removal remain a mystery.

Shoe

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Florida Lady Hides Xanax Up Butt ...

Pity it was Florida, not Texas. A Narcocorrido titled 'La SeƱora Con Xanax En Su Culo' would be so awesome.
Pro tip to potential criminal masterminds: If you're planning to go on a shoplifting spree, take the hidden Xanax tablets out of your butt first. Ginger Cooper, 28, was arrested Friday at a Walmart in Bradenton,...

Intoxicated gentleman arrested after using real gun to shoot at Civil War reenactors

A man from McIntosh County, Oklahoma, was arrested on Friday after he drunkenly fired a shotgun into a tent at a Civil War reenactment near Checotah.
Deputies arrested Gary Alen Lane after responding to a report of shots being fired reenactors at Battle of Honey Springs. Officers found Lane at his home near the battlefield.
Lane was intoxicated and holding a sawn-off shotgun when he refused to listen to deputies' commands. Lane ran, but deputies caught him and took him into custody after a short struggle. Deputies discovered that nine actors were inside the tent that Lane shot into. One of the actors was hit in the arm with a pellet, but he did not sustain any injuries.
Lane was arrested on complaints of reckless conduct with a firearm, assault and battery with a deadly weapon while under the influence of alcohol, malicious injury to property and resisting arrest. He is being held at the McIntosh County Criminal Justice Center without bond. The Battle of Honey Springs reenactment continued without further incident.

Federal agents bust up plot by Virginia white supremacists to shoot up black cults to start a race war

Charles Halderman, suspect in Virginia bombing plot -- (WTVR-screenshot)Federal agents bust up plot by Virginia white supremacists to shoot up black cults to start a race war

Eight-year-old Alabama boy charged with murder after 1-year-old girl is beaten to death

Mother of one-year-old Kelci charged with manslaughter for allegedly leaving the baby in the care of a group of children all younger than nine years old.

Funny Viral Facebook Posts

Humor can arise when something violates our ideas of identity and normalcy, while simultaneously seeming safe and playful.

Hot or Cold

Is there an evolutionary reason why we seem to prefer a nice hot meal to something cold? Why, yes, there is! And it has to do with the birth of fire, and the energy boost we got from cooking our food.

Scientists use supercomputer to model plasma turbulence, and solve a 50-year-old mystery

Scientists use supercomputer to model plasma turbulence, and solve a 50-year-old mystery
Scientists use supercomputer to model plasma turbulence, and solve a 50-year-old mystery
For more than 60 years, fusion scientists have tried to use “magnetic bottles” of various shapes and sizes to confine extremely hot plasmas, with the goal of producing practical fusion energy. But turbulence in the plasma has, so far, confounded...

Cape Town Clouds Are Not Flying Saucers

Much to the surprise of many, a host of alien spaceship-shaped clouds took center stage over Cape Town, South Africa earlier this week.

Tennessee to post photos of animal abusers online — just like sex offenders

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Beginning Jan. 1 animal abusers in Tennessee can expect to become Internet famous when the state posts their photos online as part of an animal abuser registry.

No treatment available for new SARS-like virus that can jump directly from bats to humans

No treatment available for new SARS-like virus that can jump directly from bats to humansNo treatment available for new SARS-like virus that can jump directly from bats to humans
Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered a new bat SARS-like virus that can jump directly from its bat hosts to humans without mutation. However, researchers point out that if the SARS-like virus did jump, it is still unclear...

'Killer Algae' and Jellyfish

As human activity pollutes the oceans, invasive species are on the rise.

Early maternal loss has lifelong effects on chimpanzees

Early maternal loss has lifelong effects on chimpanzees
Early maternal loss has lifelong effects on chimpanzees
Wild-caught chimpanzees, who were orphaned and imported from Africa in their early infancy, exhibit an impaired social behavior also as adults. So far long-term effects of early traumatic experiences on social behavior were known only for humans and socially...

Animal News

Many fish look misshapen, but there's a method behind the size madness: avoiding fitting into a predator’s mouth.
Rampant wildfires in Indonesia are destroying many of the world's few remaining natural habitats for endangered orangutans.
Scientists say they've figured out at least 13 different vocalizations used by the animals to express various emotions.

Animal Pictures


Thursday, November 12, 2015

The Daily Drift

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Today in History

1035 King Canute of Norway dies.
1276 Suspicious of the intentions of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the Prince of Wales, English King Edward I resolves to invade Wales.
1859 The first flying-trapeze circus act is performed by Jules Leotard at the Circus Napoleon.
1863 Confederate General James Longstreet arrives at Loudon, Tennessee, to assist the attack on Union General Ambrose Burnside’s troops at Knoxville.
1867 Mount Vesuvius erupts.
1903 The Lebaudy brothers of France set an air-travel distance record of 34 miles in a dirigible.
1923 Adolf Hitler is arrested for his attempted German coup.
1927 Canada is admitted to the League of Nations.
1928 The ocean liner Vestris sinks off the Virginia cape with 328 aboard, killing 111.
1938 Mexico agrees to compensate the United States for land seizures.
1941 Madame Lillian Evanti and Mary Cardwell Dawson establish the National Negro Opera Company.
1944 U.S. fighters wipe out a Japanese convoy near Leyte, consisting of six destroyers, four transports and 8,000 troops.
1944 The German battleship Tirpitz is sunk in a Norwegian fjord.
1948 Hikedi Tojo, Japanese prime minister, and seven others are sentenced to hang by an international tribunal.
1951 The U.S. Eighth Army in Korea is ordered to cease offensive operations and begin an active defense.
1960 The satellite Discoverer XVII is launched into orbit from California’s Vandenberg AFB.
1968 The U.S. Supreme Court voids an Arkansas law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools.
1971 President Richard Nixon announces the withdrawal of about 45,000 U.S. troops from Vietnam by February.
1987 Boris Yeltsin is fired as head of Moscow’s Communist Party for criticizing the slow pace of reform.
1990 Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan.
1990 Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, publishes a formal proposal for the creation of the World Wide Web.
1996 A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 collides with a Kazakh Illyushin II-76 cargo plane near New Delhi, killing 349. It is the deadliest mid-air collision to date (2013) and third-deadliest aircraft accident.
1997 Ramzi Yousef convicted of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
2003 The first Italians to die in the Iraq War are among 23 fatalities from a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base in Nasiriya, iraq.
2003 Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world speed record (311 mph or 501 kph) for commercial railway systems.

Non Sequitur

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Cargo Ship Cruises

When your cruise involves sharing space with iron ore and shipping containers, it's going to be memorable.

Kids' Games Played by Adults

Grown-up versions of classic games can be a lot more fun than when we were little.

The power of magical thinking

The power of magical thinking: Why superstitions are hard to shake
The power of magical thinking: Why superstitions are hard to shake
When sports fans wear their lucky shirts on game day, they know it is irrational to think clothing can influence a team’s performance. But they do it anyway. Even smart, educated, emotionally stable adults believe in superstitions that they recognize are...

It's All An Hallucination

Hallucinations are more common than you might imagine, and you don't even have to be on drugs or be in a psych ward to have them.

Cruel McDonald’s Employee Lures Homeless Guy With Hamburger, Throws Water On Him

Cruel McDonald’s Employee Lures Homeless Guy With Hamburger, Throws Water On Him (VIDEO)
Many are calling for the employee’s termination.
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Federal judge orders NSA to stop collecting and searching plaintiffs' phone records

leon United States District Judge Richard Leon has affirmed his 2013 ruling and has ordered the NSA to stop collecting phone records belonging to J.J. Little and his firm J.J. Little & Associates, P.C., and to segregate all the records collected to date so that they aren't searched.
The NSA's legal authorization to continues the program is set to expire in 20 days anyway, and the ruling only applies to two plaintiffs but the judge's wording in his decision can be easily applied to future plaintiffs, suggesting that if Congress were to re-authorize bulk phone collection, Americans would be able to get court orders banning the practice.
United States District Judge Richard Leon issued the order in Klayman v. Obama, a case in which EFF appeared as amicus curiae. Judge Leon ruled in December 2013 that the program was unconstitutional because it violated the 4th Amendment’s prohibition on unreasonable searches. But the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit sent the case back to him when it held that the plaintiffs in the case did not have standing to sue because they were Verizon Wireless customers, not Verizon Business Network Services (VBNS) customers, and the latter is the only provider the US government has acknowledged participated in the program. The plaintiff then amended the complaint and added two more plaintiffs, J.J. Little and his firm J.J. Little & Associates, P.C., both of which are long-standing VBNS customers.
Judge Leon found that these two new plaintiffs had standing to sue the NSA both over the past phone records collection as well as the ongoing collection. He then issued a preliminary injunction barring the NSA from further collection and querying of their records that had already been collected.

Peru's New National Park

The park has an estimated 3,000 species of plants and animals, many of them found nowhere else in the world

Pyramid Anomaly

A peculiar temperature difference is detected within the Great Pyramid, suggesting a cavity may lie inside.

Climate Shifts

The past shows how abrupt climate shifts affect Earth
The past shows how abrupt climate shifts affect Earth
New research shows how past abrupt climatic changes in the North Atlantic propagated globally. The study, led by researchers from Center for Ice and Climate at the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute, shows how interaction between heat transport in...

Earth News

It's a feedback loop in which mountains simultaneously alter the climate. 
Recent studies suggest that global warming will alter how Autumn will look.

Powerful Bang

The explosion in a distant galaxy cluster is ongoing and has been continuing for the last 100 million years.

Shoe

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Link Dump

600 ft. Rope Jump –  Oh, Hell No!

Paleontology News

The find contains 'unparalleled' fossilized feathers and skin, anatomical features that aren't usually preserved in dinosaur remains.
Fossils reveal a rat that was 10 times the size of today's variety.

Animal News

Thanks to a natural genetic mutation, a new breed of felines straddles the line between house cat and werewolf.
The giant whale species is a rare sight in Oregon's waters.

Animal Pictures

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

The Daily Drift

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Burma - Hong Kong - India - Indonesia - Japan - Kuwait - Mauritius - Saudi Arabia 
Sri Lanka - Thailand
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Algeria - Djibouti - Morocco - South Africa - Tunisia - Zambia
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Today in History

1499 Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is executed.
1778 Indians, led by William Butler, massacre the inhabitants of Cherry Valley, N.Y.
1831 Nat Turner, a slave who led a revolt against slave owners, is hanged in Jerusalem, Virginia.
1889 Washington becomes the 42nd state of the Union.
1909 Construction begins on the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
1918 The German leaders sign the armistice ending World War I.
1919 The first two-minutes’ silence is observed in Britain to commemorate those who died in the Great War.
1921 The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery is dedicated.
1922 Canada’s Vernon McKenzie urges to fight U.S. propaganda with taxes on U.S. magazines.
1933 The first of the great dust storms of the 1930s hits North Dakota.
1935 Albert Anderson and Orvil Anderson set a new altitude record in South Dakota, when they float to 74,000 feet in a balloon.
1938 Irving Berlin’s "God Bless America" is performed for the first time by singer Kate Smith.
1940 Britain’s Royal Navy attacks the Italian fleet at Taranto.
1944 Private Eddie Slovik is convicted of desertion and sentenced to death for refusing to join his unit in the European Theater of Operations.
1953 The polio virus is identified and photographed for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1966 The United States launches Gemini 12, a two-man orbiter, into orbit.
1970 U.S. Army Special Forces raid the Son Tay prison camp in North Vietnam but find no prisoners.
1973 Israel and Egypt sign a cease-fire.
1973 The Soviet Union is kicked out of World Cup soccer for refusing to play Chile.
1987 An unidentified buyer buys Vincent Van Gogh’s painting "Irises" from the estate of Joan Whitney Payson for $53.9 million at Sotheby’s in New York.
1993 Sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC.
1999 House of Lords Act reforming Britain’s House of Lords, given Royal Assent; the act removed the right to hereditary seats (sitting members were permitted to remain).
2001 Journalists Pierre Billaud (France), Johanne Sutton (France) and Voker Handloik (Germany) killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy in which they were traveling.
2004 New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior dedicated at the National War Museum, Wellington.
2004 Palestine Liberation organization confirms the death of its longtime chairman Yasser Arafat; cause of death has never been conclusively determined.
2006 Queen Elizabeth II unveils New Zealand War Memorial in London.
2008 RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2)sets sail on her final voyage, bound for Dubai.

Young Girl Has No Idea How to Hang up a Phone

Layla appears to be about 10 years old. Her father hands her a phone--and landline phone with a cord--and asks her to hang it up.
She asks, "How do you do that?"
That's a good question if cell phones have been dominant since the day you were born. This phone has no touchscreen or a red hang-up button. It's a relic of our distant past, when we had to make do with stone knives and bear skins.
Be thankful, Layla, that you were born when you were.

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Gone with the Wind

Author Margaret Mitchell was born on November 8, 1900. To mark the occasion of what would have been her 115th birthday, there are trivia and tributes all over the internet. Flavorwire brings you one focused on the movie based on Mitchell’s novel Gone With The Wind. It premiered in Atlanta on December 15th in 1939.
But the premiere was not without its controversy. Racial tensions in the city abounded, and black actors were banned from appearing at the gala, as well as all promotional material, due to segregation laws. This upset producer David O. Selznick who tried to include star Hattie McDaniel in the celebrations, but MGM advised against it. Clark Gable came to the defense of McDaniel and threatened to boycott the premiere, but the actress convinced him it would be better to attend.
You’ll also learn about the big stars who were rejected for roles, the egregious pay differential, and the real reason Clark Gable wouldn’t work with director George Cuckor, in a Gone With The Wind retrospective at Flavorwire.

This Woman Had a Rare Disease That Made Her Believe She Was Dead

This Woman Had a Rare Disease That Made Her Believe She Was Dead
“I kind of described it once as feeling like I was on fire inside.”