According to WKMG, the Orange County
Sheriff’s Office said that 49-year-old Angel Rivera became impatient
because the child was slow to put on shoes.
Sunday, December 27, 2015
‘Greedy’ doctor blames Obamacare after performing unnecessary surgeries on patients
10 Best Dinosaur Discoveries of 2015
This year was one of the best ever for paleontology, marking the discovery of a diverse group of new dino all-stars.
Blind dog rescued after being trapped in well for months
After months of living alone in a well, a blind, elderly dog has been
rescued.
"Surprisingly, the dog is in fairly good, physical condition," said
Laura Simpson, founder of The Harmony Fund in Holden, Massachusetts.
"The blindness of course is from a pre-existing condition, but he's now
in foster care and we’re hoping he can find a home there he’s loved and
respected in the way he should be."
Simpson said that it was last week when international animal rescuer
Fahrudin Caki Bravo and his friend Ratko Koblar received word of a dog
trapped in a well in Bosnia. 
"The dog had been there for months and they don’t know if he was thrown
in, or if he fell in," Simpson said. "We’re certainly hoping that he
fell, but with the dog being completely blind, he was only kept alive because the local children were kind enough to feed him."
"He [Bravo] and his friend thought it was perfectly feasible getting
the dog out and they did a great job," she added. "They made it look
easy." Animal News
Many winter animal sleepers are rubbing their eyes and waking up to the summer-like temperatures.
Scientists get an unprecedented look at how New Caledonian crows fashion hooked stick tools to hunt insects.
Saturday, December 26, 2015
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Today in History
| 1776 | After crossing the Delaware River into New Jersey, George Washington leads an attack on Hessian mercenaries at Trenton, and takes 900 men prisoner. | |
| 1786 | Daniel Shay leads a rebellion in Massachusetts to protest the seizure of property for the non-payment of debt. | |
| 1806 | Napoleon’s army is checked by the Russians at the Battle of Pultusk. | |
| 1862 | 38 Santee Sioux are hanged in Mankato, Minnesota for their part in the Sioux Uprising in Minnesota. Little Crow has fled the state. | |
| 1866 | Brig. Gen. Philip St. George Cooke, head of the Department of the Platte, receives word of the Fetterman Fight in Powder River County in the Dakota territory. | |
| 1917 | As a wartime measure, President Woodrow Wilson places railroads under government control, with Secretary of War William McAdoo as director general. | |
| 1925 | Six U.S. destroyers are ordered from Manila to China to protect interests in the civil war that is being waged there. | |
| 1932 | Over 70,000 people are killed in a massive earthquake in China. | |
| 1941 | General Douglas MacArthur declares Manila an open city in the face of the onrushing Japanese Army. | |
| 1943 | The German battleship Scharnhorst is sunk by British ships in an Arctic fight. | |
| 1944 | Advancing Soviet troops complete their encirclement of Budapest in Hungary. | |
| 1945 | The United States, Soviet Union and Great Britain, end a 10-day meeting, seeking an atomic rule by the UN Council. | |
| 1953 | The United States announces the withdrawal of two divisions from Korea. | |
| 1962 | Eight East Berliners escape to West Berlin, crashing through gates in an armor-plated bus. | |
| 1966 | Dr. Maulana Karenga celebrates the first Kwanza, a seven-day African-American celebration of family and heritage. | |
| 1979 | The Soviet Union flies 5,000 troops to intervene in the Afghanistan conflict. | |
| 1982 | Time magazine chooses a personal computer as it “Man of the Year,” the first non-human ever to receive the honor. | |
| 1991 | The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union formally dissolves the Soviet Union. | |
| 1996 | JonBenet Ramsey, a six-year-old beauty queen, is found beaten and strangled to death in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado, one of the most high-profile crimes of the late 20th century in the US. | |
| 1996 | Workers in South Korea’s automotive and shipbuilding industries begin the largest labor strike in that country’s history, protesting a new law that made firing employees easier and would curtail the rights of labor groups to organize. | |
| 1999 | Lothar, a violent, 36-hour windstorm begins; it kills 137 and causes $1.3 billion (US dollars) damage in Central Europe. | |
| 2004 | A tsunami caused by a 9.3-magnitude earthquake kills more than 230,000 along the rim of the Indian Ocean. | |
| 2006 | Former U.S. Pretender Gerald R. Ford dies at age 93. Ford was the only unelected pretender in America’s history. |
Why Does a Third of the World's Food Go Uneaten?
The massive waste not only causes hunger, but helps drives climate change too.
China Invented The Perfect Tool To Kill Democracy And Corporate America Is Bringing It Here
Jews and Muslims celebrate Hanukkah together as a perfect antidote to wingnut fear-mongering
Muslims Shield Christians From Islamist Gunmen During Bus Attack
Would the wingnut “christians” have done the same if the tables were turned?Elderly Wisconsin woman calls cops to report she heard neighbors chanting ‘ISIL is good, ISIL is great’ during sex
Woman caught behind wheel of car while almost 10 times over the legal limit may be new record
Authorities in Australia have described a drink-driving blood alcohol
reading of 0.48 per cent as “crazy” after a Gold Coast woman was caught
nearly ten times the legal limit.
The figure could set a new national record, leaving police and ambulance
workers wondering how the 42-year-old mother could even walk, let alone
operate a vehicle.
The legal limit is 0.05, with health experts saying most people pass out by 0.3 and are unconscious or dead before reaching 0.4. Paramedics found the woman passed out in her car outside a Runaway Bay cafe and transported her to Gold Coast University Hospital where the toxication tests were done.
Authorities have suspended the woman’s license while she waits to face Southport Magistrates Court in January charged with high-range drink driving. The Coast’s top traffic officer Brayden Murphy said it was the highest reading he had ever seen.
The legal limit is 0.05, with health experts saying most people pass out by 0.3 and are unconscious or dead before reaching 0.4. Paramedics found the woman passed out in her car outside a Runaway Bay cafe and transported her to Gold Coast University Hospital where the toxication tests were done.
Authorities have suspended the woman’s license while she waits to face Southport Magistrates Court in January charged with high-range drink driving. The Coast’s top traffic officer Brayden Murphy said it was the highest reading he had ever seen.
Firefighters sue siren maker over hearing loss
Approximately 4,400 current and former firefighters across the US say
they are losing their hearing, and have filed suit against a siren
manufacturer.
The firefighters claim the pitch and decibel level of the sirens is
“unreasonably dangerous.”
Attorney, Marc Bern, said the sirens are defective. “It’s a product that
is so loud, it causes noise induced hearing loss,” Bern said. “It is
not something that the fire department or municipalities have a
responsibility for.”
The lawsuit also claims that Illinois-based Federal Signal could have
designed the sirens to be safer while still functional, but chose not
to.
“They could have directed the sound by using what we call a shroud,”
Bern said.
However, Federal Signal disagrees. The company said: “The claims by
these plaintiff lawyers that sirens are too loud and should be more
directive don’t make sense,” and that any changes “would make the sirens less effective
and subject the firefighters and general public to increased risk of
serious accidents. Federal Signal is the world’s largest manufacturer of
audible and visual signalling.
Assassin shoots witness, others in danger after agreeing to testify against Detroit cops
NYC police crush man’s testicle
New York couple reveals injuries from Border Patrol agent’s attack
Man arrested for possession of marijuana after calling 911 for rolling papers
A man from Virginia "was apparently under the influence of marijuana
when he called 911 and asked the telecommunicator for rolling papers,"
according to a statement from Waynesboro Police Department Sgt. Brian
Edwards.
Kyle Dustin Head, 24, according to Sgt. Edwards, placed a 911 call "in a
disoriented state requesting drug paraphernalia."
The call reached the Waynesboro Emergency Operations Center. While the
911 center did dispatch personnel to Head's location, it was not for the
purpose Head had in mind.
Two Waynesboro Police Department officers arrived and found Head "sitting in a parked 2005 Chevrolet pick-up truck which had the strong odor of marijuana emanating from it," Edwards said. Officers found loose particles of leafy plant matter on the dashboard, passenger seat, and on Head's clothing.
According to Edwards' statement, it was also found "in his right ear."
It was not explained how the plant matter came to be in his ear.
Head said to officers that he had been smoking marijuana recently. He
apparently misdialed and thought he had phoned a friend when he asked
for rolling papers. He was cited for misdemeanor marijuana possession
and released.
Two Waynesboro Police Department officers arrived and found Head "sitting in a parked 2005 Chevrolet pick-up truck which had the strong odor of marijuana emanating from it," Edwards said. Officers found loose particles of leafy plant matter on the dashboard, passenger seat, and on Head's clothing.
According to Edwards' statement, it was also found "in his right ear."
It was not explained how the plant matter came to be in his ear.
Head said to officers that he had been smoking marijuana recently. He
apparently misdialed and thought he had phoned a friend when he asked
for rolling papers. He was cited for misdemeanor marijuana possession
and released.
Career criminal arrested after fleeing from police who weren't pursuing him
Proving that experience can sometimes work against you, the 37-year-old
driver saw police lights flashing behind him last Thursday night, and
instead of pulling over to allow the officers to attend the domestic
incident they were rushing to, took off, thinking they were after him, prompting police to give chase.
While another unit headed to the domestic callout, the man was chased by officers for about 4km before being cornered in a dead-end street in Kamo, at about 10.45pm. When stopped he allegedly had methamphetamine and cannabis in his car.
The man was charged with dangerous driving, driving while unlicensed and possession of methamphetamine and cannabis. Whangarei/Kaipara area prevention manager Senior Sergeant John Fagan described the man as a 'career criminal and frequent flyer'. "So he has lost his liberty, his vehicle and his drugs which were in the vehicle. I wonder how paranoid he must have been?" Mr Fagan said.
While another unit headed to the domestic callout, the man was chased by officers for about 4km before being cornered in a dead-end street in Kamo, at about 10.45pm. When stopped he allegedly had methamphetamine and cannabis in his car.
The man was charged with dangerous driving, driving while unlicensed and possession of methamphetamine and cannabis. Whangarei/Kaipara area prevention manager Senior Sergeant John Fagan described the man as a 'career criminal and frequent flyer'. "So he has lost his liberty, his vehicle and his drugs which were in the vehicle. I wonder how paranoid he must have been?" Mr Fagan said.
Man stole $10 from restaurant tip jar but left without eating $14.90 meal he'd already paid for
Crime did not pay for a tip jar thief in New Zealand who left a restaurant hungry and out of pocket.
He paid for a $14.90 a meal, then took off with up to $10 from the tip jar – without eating.
The ironic tale, caught on CCTV footage, unfolded at the Nandos Riccarton in Christchurch on Friday afternoon.
Restaurant owner Yateen Lallu said the man, who had been in the day before, sat and waited for his meal before spying his opportunity. "He then quietly got up, looked around and saw nobody was watching and put the tip jar in his bag." The man went to the bathroom before Lallu's wife discovered the tip jar, containing $5 to $10, was gone. Lallu confronted the man when he returned and he denied any wrongdoing.
Lallu checked the bathroom and discovered the empty tip jar on the floor. "I said to him 'there's our tip jar', and he said 'it wasn't me, it must have been someone else'. I said 'are you sure? Are you telling the truth?' And he told me to check his bag and check the security cameras and I started to doubt myself." As Lallu replayed security camera footage to confirm his wife's suspicions the man left. "He hadn't actually got his food, so in total he would have probably got $5 to $10 and he paid $14.90 for something he didn't get.
LiveLeak link. Original Facebook video.
"So it wasn't worth it, he had a bad day. It was not good karma for the poor bloke." Police are investigating whether the suspect was the same man who was filmed stealing security cameras, (video), from the Casa Dei Bambini preschool in Richmond on Sunday November 29. A police spokeswoman said both thefts were under investigation. Officers in charge of the separate cases were looking at CCTV images to see if it was the same man involved.
Discovered: The Oldest European Settlement in the U.S.
We know that St. Augustine (established in 1565) is the oldest existing European community in the U.S. We know Jamestown (1607) is the oldest English community, and although the Roanoke colony was settled earlier, it did not survive. Such was the case of the Luna settlement, a Spanish colony in Florida that was the first multi-year European settlement in what would became the United States. Spanish conquistador Tristán de Luna y Arellano settled his expedition in what is now Pensacola, Florida, in 1559. Stranded by a hurricane that wrecked their ships, the colony lasted until 1561. It’s exact location was lost to history -until now.
Discoveries by local historian Tom Garner in October and research afterward by University of West Florida archaeologists confirmed where Don Tristan de Luna established his Spanish colony in August 1559 – six years before the St. Augustine settlement and nearly 48 years before the English settled in Jamestown, Va.It’s not just a few artifacts, either. Excavations by the University of West Florida have yielded a lot of evidence of the Luna settlement, which you can read about at the Pensacola News Journal.
The historical site is in an urban downtown neighborhood within view of the two shipwrecks linked to the Luna expedition in Pensacola Bay. UWF declined to reveal the exact location to protect the neighborhood and integrity of the site.
“This is one of those almost once-in-a-lifetime type things,” said John Worth, associate professor of historical archaeology in the UWF Department of Anthropology and a 16th Century Spanish historian. “I figured if the Luna colony would be found it would probably be found accidentally. I did not expect it would occur during my tenure here necessarily. I just figured eventually we might find it, somebody would. I guess this is the culmination. I didn’t even hope to find it as much as just wish.”
King Tut's Wet Nurse May Have Been His Sister
The news revives speculation about the identity of the mother of the boy king.
How Hitler tried to redesign Xmas
Where Is the World's Deepest Cave?
Some undiscovered ones may extend far deeper into the Earth than the record of 1.36 miles.
Oetzi's Tattoos
The Iceman, who died between 3370 and 3100 B.C., has 61 marks
on his body made by fine incisions into which charcoal was rubbed.
Giant Comets May Threaten Earth
by Mariëtte Le Roux
A comet strike is believed to have ended the reign of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago
Planet
Earth could be at higher risk of a space rock impact than widely
thought, according to astronomers who suggested Tuesday keeping a closer
eye on distant giant comets.
Most studies of
potential Earth-smashers focus on objects in the asteroid belt roughly
between Mars, Earth's outside neighbor, and Jupiter on its other flank,
said the researchers.
But they noted that the discovery in the
last two decades of hundreds of giant comets dubbed centaurs, albeit
with much larger orbits, requires expanding the list of potential
hazards.These balls of ice and dust, typically 50-100 kilometers (31-62 miles) wide, have unstable, elliptical orbits that start way beyond Neptune, the most distant planet from the Sun.
Their paths cross those of the giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, whose gravity fields occasionally deflect a comet towards Earth -- once about every 40,000-100,000 years.
As they draw closer to the Sun, the comets would gradually break up, which is what causes the trademark cometary debris tail -- "making impacts on our planet inevitable".
"The disintegration of such giant comets would produce intermittent but prolonged periods of bombardment lasting up to 100,000 years," the research team wrote in the Royal Astronomical Society journal, Astronomy and Geophysics.
And they argued that "assessment of the extraterrestrial impact risk based solely on near-Earth asteroid counts, underestimates its nature and magnitude."
They noted that a single centaur contains more mass than the entire population of Earth-crossing asteroids discovered to date.
"In
the last three decades, we have invested a lot of effort in tracking
and analyzing the risk of a collision between the Earth and an
asteroid," said co-author Bill Napier of the University of Buckingham.
"Our
work suggests we need to look beyond our immediate neighborhood too,
and look out beyond the orbit of Jupiter to find centaurs.
"If we are right, then these distant comets could be a serious hazard, and it's time to understand them better."
Scientists believe a comet bombardment may have kickstarted life on Earth by bringing water and organic molecules.
A comet strike is also a leading contender for having ended the reign of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
The team said no risk was "known to be imminent", although cometary encounters were largely unpredictable.
"A
centaur arrival carries the risk of injecting, into the atmosphere... a
mass of dust and smoke comparable to that assumed in nuclear winter
studies," wrote the researchers, referring to the hypothesized climate
effects from the soot that would be released by firestorms caused in an
atomic war.
"Thus, in terms of magnitude, its ranking among natural existential risks appears to be high," they said.
No Water Required
More than a decade ago, NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor returned
stunning images of gullies shaped like water-carved streams on Earth,
raising the prospect that Mars may be a friendly haven for life. But
appearances can be deceiving.
World's Oldest Gorilla Turns 59
Colo, a western gorilla in residence at the Columbus Zoo, has added yet another candle to her birthday cake.
Dogs 'Catch' Emotions From People
Like catching the flu, dogs adopt the expressions and emotions of their owners.
Man who jumped from chairlift while over tiger enclosure at zoo was 'overcome with excitement'
A man jumped from a chairlift passing above the tiger enclosure at a zoo in central China's Henan Province on Saturday.
The thrill-seeker fell onto a protective net and moments later, the wild animals beneath him began to circle.
A zoo employee was able to isolate the tigers in another area before climbing onto the net and helping him get down safely.
According to Wang Jianluo, who is responsible for the chairlift safety at the zoo, the 40-year-old visitor admitted that he "didn't do a good somersault" when he made the leap.
"After hearing that, I don't know what to say to him," Mr Wang said.
The tourist, who was later questioned by police for disturbing public
order, told officers that a thrill of excitement ran through him as he
was passing over the enclosure - inspiring him to jump down.
According to Wang Jianluo, who is responsible for the chairlift safety at the zoo, the 40-year-old visitor admitted that he "didn't do a good somersault" when he made the leap.
Friday, December 25, 2015
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Today in Hstory
| 376 | In Milan, Ambrose, the Bishop of Milan, forces the emperor Theodosius to perform public penance for his massacre. | |
| 800 | The pope crowns Charlemagne emperor in Rome. | |
| 1066 | William I is crowned king of England. | |
| 1621 | The governor of New Plymouth prevents newcomers from playing cards. | |
| 1651 | The General Court of Boston levies a five shilling fine on anyone caught “observing any such day as Xmas.” | |
| 1776 | Patriot General George Washington crosses the Delaware River with 5,400 troops during the American Revolution. Washington hoped to surprise a Hessian force celebrating Xmas at their winter quarters in Trenton, New Jersey. | |
| 1861 | Stonewall Jackson spends Xmas with his wife; their last together. | |
| 1862 | John Hunt Morgan and his raiders clash with Union forces near Bear Wallow, Kentucky. | |
| 1862 | President and Mrs. Lincoln visit hospitals in the Washington D.C. area on this Xmas Day. | |
| 1912 | Italy lands troops in Albania to protect its interests during a revolt there. | |
| 1914 | German and British troops on the Western Front declare an unofficial truce to celebrate Xmas during World War I. | |
| 1918 | A revolt erupts in Berlin. | |
| 1925 | U.S. troops in Nicaragua disarm insurgents in support of the Diaz regime. | |
| 1927 | The Mexican congress opens land to foreign investors, reversing the 1917 ban enacted to preserve the domestic economy. | |
| 1939 | Finnish troops enter Soviet territory. | |
| 1941 | Free French troops occupy the French Islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon off the Canadian coast. | |
| 1944 | Prime Minister Winston Churchill goes to Athens to seek an end to the Greek civil war. | |
| 1946 | Chiang Kai-shek offers a new Chinese constitution in Nanking pledging universal suffrage. | |
| 1950 | Scottish nationalists steal the Stone of Scone from the British coronation throne in Westminster Abbey. The 485 pound stone was recovered in April 1951. | |
| 1962 | The Bay of Pigs captives, upon their return to the United States, vow to return to Cuba and topple Fidel Castro. | |
| 1965 | Entertainer Chris Noel gives her first performance for the USO at two hospitals in California; became a star on Armed Forces Radio and Television, entertaining troops in Vietnam; in 1984 Veterans Network honored her with a Distinguished Vietnam Veteran award. | |
| 1973 | U.S. astronauts onboard the Skylab space station take a seven-hour walk in space and photograph the comet Kohoutek. | |
| 1976 | Over 100 Muslims, returning from a pilgrimage to Mecca, die when their boat sinks. | |
| 1979 | Egypt begins major restoration of the Sphinx. | |
| 1991 | Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union’s first and last executive president, resigns. The Soviet Union no longer exsists. | |
| 2006 | James Brown, the “Godfather of Soul”, dies at age 73. |
Do you have anything like this in your attic?
Greenwich Time explains what it is:
Brendan Ryan... recently visited the home of a Greenwich woman who was looking to sell some belongings, when his eyes lit on a yellowing sheet of music behind glass, stippled with notes. More than just a musical composition, the sheet was ferociously dotted with German words, directions and symbols that practically flew off the page with manic intensity...
The sheet music went from being a curio in a Greenwich home to a $100,000 windfall when it sold at auction last month. For music scholars, it’s become an exciting addition to the Beethoven canon...
Another detail that confirmed the sheet work’s authenticity were three small holes on the side of the paper. The holes match up exactly with known samples from the sketchbook in Bonn, Germany. Beethoven threaded pages of the sketchbook together himself with a needle and some twine.
The sketchbook had some 30 pages of lined paper in it, and it was with this pad that Beethoven, age 40, began work on “King Stephen.” It was a rush job — done in two weeks — to write incidental music for a ceremonial theater piece honoring the founder of Hungary, tied to the opening of a new concert hall in that nation’s capital city. Beethoven was at a spa in 1810 when he wrote the work.
It’s unclear what happened to the sketchbook after Beethoven’s death in 1827. At some point, it was broken up and cut into pieces and sold in portions to admirers. A few snippets have turned up in fragmentary form.
Where the Wild Books Are
Finding and collecting rare books takes specialized knowledge. We all have an attic full of old books, because books are hard to let go of. But the ones that are worth big bucks are the rare ones, and they are quite hard to keep up with, much less spot in a private library. Rebecca Rego Barry has a master’s degree in book history, which gives her an edge in the hunt for rare treasures. Her new book Rare Books Uncovered is filled stories of how people discover and collect really rare and valuable books. Some tell of great luck, like the time Christie’s missed the value of a rare copy of Gone With The Wind and let it go in an odd lot of other books.
This raises an interesting question: When one person finds a rare book, is their gain always at the expense of somebody else?Read some of those stories, and take a look into the field of rare book discovery, at Collectors Weekly.
“That can be true,” Barry says, “but among the booksellers I work with, especially those that belong to organizations like the ABAA or the ILAB, there’s an ethical obligation not to swindle each other or people who don’t know any better, like little old ladies selling their husband’s things. Personally, if I were to go to a garage sale and thought I had found a $5,000 book on sale for a dollar, I would feel conflicted. In most cases, though, the more common example is that you see a book you feel like you’ve seen before and decide to take a chance on it. It’s only after you get it home and do your research that you know if you’ve hit the jackpot—or overpaid.”
Businesses benefit from ‘overqualified’ employees
Overqualification — the condition of employees who believe that their
qualifications exceed the requirements of their jobs — has been widely
considered harmful for organizations, which is why most companies tend
to screen out such job applicants. But...
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