An off-duty Las Vegas police officer and her
husband shot a relative who returned home unexpectedly on Xmas
night.
Friday, January 1, 2016
Police determine flat-earther’s tinfoil-wrapped boat isn’t a bomb
Throwing Hot Tea Into The Air In The Arctic Circle
It's hard to understand how cold it is in the Arctic Circle unless you've been there, but photographer Michael Davies came up with an interesting way to illustrate the chill- his friend flung hot tea into the air while Michael snapped a pic.
When
the hot tea hits the subzero temperature air it instantly turns into a
spray of ice crystals that look especially beautiful when paired with a
sunset glow.
The
hot tea experiment is just one of the many interesting aspects to
Michael's photographic trip to the Arctic Circle, which you can see in his Flickr gallery here.
Now underwater, this ancient Egyptian trading city was once the “Hong Kong of its era”
by Deena Shanker
If you were an ancient Egyptian looking for a
gift for a loved one, you wouldn’t go to Target. But you might have
stopped in Naukratis.
Once thought to have been a small town on the
Nile Delta in Egypt, an excavation by the British Museum has revealed
that the ancient city of Naukratis was actually a major Greek trading
hub. Indeed, Naukratis could potentially be considered the “Hong Kong of
its era,” according to Dr. Ross Thomas, the museum’s curator and the
project leader, as reported by the Guardian.
First located in 1884 by British archaeologist Sir Flinders Petrie, the
site “occupied a special place in the minds of scholars and a general
public alike, speaking particularly to romantic minds,” according to the British Museum. Situated on the Canopic (western) branch of the Nile, Naukratis has been excavated multiple times since its 19th century reveal.
This latest excavation discovered evidence of a
1,000-year trading network, beginning in the seventh century BC,
according to the Guardian. More than 10,000 artifacts were found at the
site—previously thought to have been fully harvested of its
archaeological prizes—including the wood from Greek ships and relics of
the “festival of drunkenness.” (The name of the city means “mistress of
ships.”)
The findings are significant because until now,
experts believed Naukratis to be about 30 hectares (or about 0.12 square
miles). But, the British Museum’s Thomas explains, he now believes the
city was at least twice that size. In addition to being a trading
center, Thomas says there is also evidence of “tower houses,”
apartment-like structures ranging from three to six stories tall. “We
should imagine a mud-brick Manhattan, populated with tall houses and
large sanctuaries, befitting a large cosmopolitan city.”
The British Museum plans to feature pieces unearthed at Naukratis
in its Sunken Cities exhibition next year. Opening in May of 2016, the
exhibit will include approximately 200 artifacts retrieved from the
Nile, including some on loan from Egyptian museums—the first such loans
since the Arab Spring revolution, according to the BBC.
The Year in Weird Science
Scientific studies can yield results that are often
unexpected, occasionally shocking and every now and again just downright
weird.
River ecosystems show ‘incredible’ initial recovery after dam removal
Giant Squid Visits Harbor in Japan
The rarely seen creature of the deep spends a few hours amid the boats moored in Toyama Bay.
Thursday, December 31, 2015
The Daily Drift
Happy New Year to all!
May the coming year be filled with love, happiness, good health and an end to the ignorance and hate!
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Today in History
| 1775 | George Washington orders recruiting officers to accept free blacks into the army. | |
| 1852 | The richest year of the gold rush ends with $81.3 million in gold produced. | |
| 1862 | Union General William Rosecrans‘ army repels two Confederate attacks at the Battle of Murfreesboro (Stone’s River). | |
| 1910 | John B. Moisant and Arch Hoxsey, two of America’s foremost aviators, die in separate plane crashes. | |
| 1911 | Helene Dutrieu wins the Femina aviation cup in Etampes. She sets a distance record for women at 158 miles. | |
| 1915 | The Germans torpedo the British liner Persia without any warning killing 335 passengers. | |
| 1923 | The Sahara is crossed by an automobile for the first time. | |
| 1930 | Brewery heir Adolphus Busch is kidnapped. | |
| 1941 | General MacArthur reports that U.S. lines in Manila have been pushed back by the Japanese. | |
| 1942 | After five months of battle, Emperor Hirohito allows the Japanese commanders at Guadalcanal to retreat. | |
| 1944 | Hungary declares war on Germany. | |
| 1965 | California becomes the largest state in population. | |
| 1977 | Cambodia breaks relations with Vietnam. |
15 Things You Should Do at Least Once a Year
5. DRAIN YOUR HOT WATER HEATER.I must admit that there are quite a few on the list that I haven’t ever done. I’m afraid to see what’s on the bottom of my water heaters, since I don’t know how old they were when I got them! But in my previous house, I had one completely fall apart, so it’s worth a try. Read the rest of the list at mental_floss.
The next few annual check ups are related to the home. If your household has one or two people in it, your hot water heater needs to be checked every six months and drained at least every 12 months. Draining it will help it last longer by eliminating any minerals or debris that have built up and could cause the unit to break down. It’s a job you can do yourself with a little time and a hose, so pick a Saturday, read the instructions, and hop to it.
12. TRASH YOUR BEAUTY STASH.
Not all of it, but it’s a good idea to keep an eye on beauty products and stay diligent when it comes to refreshing the supply—this stuff is going on your body, after all, often in highly sensitive areas. In particular, nail polish, sunscreen, hair products, lipsticks and liners, eyeliner, brow pencils, face creams, foundation, cream eyeshadows and blushes, cleansers, and other like items should not sit on your shelf for more than a year. Many of these you’ll be using with enough frequency that they won’t last long anyway, but pay attention to those items that might accidentally stick around longer than they should.
A year of extremes: Severe snow storms, drought and floods ravaged the US in 2015
Men Actually Improve Their Mental Health by Getting Married
Compelling evidence for why he should put a ring on it.
The Weird Symptoms That Signal You’re Just Days Away from Cardiac Arrest
Find out the red flags that point to this quick and deadly condition
8 Surprising Reasons You Have No Energy
by Amanda Shupack
We're in the midst of an energy crisis. No, not that one. This one: We're tired. So. Completely. Tired.To paraphrase Aerosmith, it can often feel like your get up and go musta got up and went. It's not just a matter of working too much and sleeping too little, though of course those are both big parts of it. It's sometimes easy to pinpoint why you're flagging by the afternoon -- that weekend of partying, for instance -- but sometimes the causes are more complicated.
Here are some common contributors to that two o'clock feeling:
1. You're not sleeping enough.
OK. So this one is kind of a gimme, but not for the reason you think. Sleep isn't just about resting; there's a lot going on inside while you're conked out for the night. Case in point: human growth hormone. Growth hormone, a protein made by the pituitary gland, plays a role in making muscles healthy and bones strong. It affects how our bodies collect fat (especially around the stomach area) and it helps balance the ratio of good to bad cholesterol. It's also essential for normal brain function. Not enough it of leads to fatigue, decreased strength and stamina, and depression symptoms. Since growth hormone is secreted primarily when we sleep, seven and a half or eight hours of high-quality shut-eye each night will help keep weight and pain down and boost up your energy.
2. You're eating too much junk.
We think of sugar as a quick way to boost energy, but in the long run it does just the opposite. All those that end in -ose, like glucose, dextrose, maltose and sucrose, are just going to leave you sluggish. Research shows that fast food also puts you in biological slo-mo. Try this all-day energy meal plan, instead.
3. You're not drinking enough water.
Many people can't identify when their fatigue is due to dehydration. A glass of water may be the jolt you need, rather than sugar (see above). Drink as much H2O as it takes to keep your mouth moist throughout the day. And remember this rule of thumb: Your pee should be light yellow to clear. If it's brighter and darker yellow, you need to drink more water.
4. You're low in vitamin B.
You need B vitamins for your mitochondria to turn glucose into energy. We can absorb B vitamins well in liquid or pill form, but 99 percent of us don't get enough from our diets. Try taking a vitamin in the morning and evening. This will keep levels stable and get you energized, and there's no harm in it since you'll excrete any excess water-soluble vitamins.
If you're having symptoms of low energy, check your vitamin B12 and D levels, and, in any case, have them checked annually. If you find you have the rare case of not absorbing them well into your intestine and stomach, you can get a B12 injection yearly.
5. You've got an infection.
Infection and inflammation can be two dominos in the low-energy cascade of symptoms. One of your goals could be to monitor your body so infections don't linger. So what can you do? Floss regularly to lower your gum inflammation risk. Reduce sinusitis with a neti pot. Use probiotics to treat prostatitis, vaginitis and bowel infections. With viral infections, frequent hand washing, sleeping and avoiding saturated fats and simple sugars can help.
6. You need to move more.
You can jump-start your energy with an activity as simple as walking. When you get moving, nitric oxide is released from the artery linings to allow blood to move freely through your vessels. This helps get more nutrients to your cells. Your body responds to your actions. If you tell your body you're watching re-runs all night, it will downshift energy production. If you tell your body that you need to have a brisk morning walk, it responds by giving you the energy you need to do just that.
7. Your hormones are out of whack.
There are numerous hormones that factor in to how energized or blah you're feeling. Hormones are like dimmers on headlights. When you need bright lights, you turn on certain hormones to increase the energy to that area, and decrease usage elsewhere. The fine-tuning starts in your hypothalamus and pituitary. The two primary sources of trouble are slow-functioning thyroid and adrenal glands. As for adrenal hormones, take this little test: When you're hungry, do you quickly switch to feeling so irritable and ravenous that if you don't eat, you'll commit a felony? This is a sign that your adrenal glands may not be working properly.
8. You're insulin resistant.
Insulin resistance -- a precursor to diabetes -- makes it hard to get sugar (our body's fuel) to our energy production plants. We then distribute the sugar into fat storage rather than storing it in cells, which need it to produce energy.
The Revolt of the Anxious Class
From Robert Reich:
The great American middle class has become an anxious class – and it’s in revolt.
Before I explain how that revolt is playing out, you need to understand the sources of the anxiety.
Start with the fact that the middle class is shrinking, according to a new Pew survey.
The odds of falling into poverty are frighteningly high, especially for the majority without college degrees.
Two-thirds of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. Most could lose their jobs at any time.
Many are part of a burgeoning “on-demand” workforce – employed as needed, paid whatever they can get whenever they can get it.
Yet if they don’t keep up with rent or mortgage payments, or can’t pay for groceries or utilities, they’ll lose their footing.
The stress is taking a toll. For the first time in history, the lifespans of middle-class whites are dropping.
According to research by the recent Nobel-prize winning economist, Angus Deaton, and his co-researcher Anne Case, middle-aged white men and women in the United States have been dying earlier.
They’re poisoning themselves with drugs and alcohol, or committing suicide.
The odds of being gunned down in America by a jihadist are far smaller than the odds of such self-inflicted deaths, but the recent tragedy in San Bernadino only heightens an overwhelming sense of arbitrariness and fragility.
The anxious class feels vulnerable to forces over which they have no control. Terrible things happen for no reason.
Yet government can’t be counted on to protect them.
Safety nets are full of holes. Most people who lose their jobs don’t even qualify for unemployment insurance.
Government won’t protect their jobs from being outsourced to Asia or being taken by a worker here illegally.
Government can’t even protect them from evil people with guns or bombs. Which is why the anxious class is arming itself, buying guns at a record rate.
They view government as not so much incompetent as not giving a damn. It’s working for the big guys and fat cats – the crony capitalists who bankroll candidates and get special favors in return.
When I visited so-called “red” states this fall, I kept hearing angry complaints that government is run by Wall Street bankers who get bailed out after wreaking havoc on the economy, corporate titans who get cheap labor, and billionaires who get tax loopholes.
Last year two highly-respected political scientists, Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page, took a close look at 1,799 policy decisions Congress made over the course of over twenty years, and who influenced those decisions.
Their conclusion: “The preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.”
It was only a matter of time before the anxious class would revolt.
They’d support a strongman who’d promise to protect them from all the chaos.
Who’d save jobs from being shipped abroad, slam Wall Street, stick it to China, get rid of people here illegally, and block terrorists from getting into America.
A strongman who’d make America great again – which really means make average working people safe again.
It was a pipe dream, of course – a conjurer’s trick. No single person can do this. The world is far too complex. You can’t build a wall along the Mexican border. You can’t keep out all Muslims. You can’t stop corporations from outsourcing abroad.
Nor should you even try.
Besides, we live in a messy democracy, not a dictatorship.
Still, they think maybe he’s smart enough and tough enough to pull it off. He’s rich. He tells it like it is.
He makes every issue a test of personal strength. He calls himself strong and his adversaries weak.
So what if he’s crude and rude? Maybe that’s what it takes to protect average people in this cruelly precarious world.
For years I’ve heard the rumbles of the anxious class. I’ve listened to their growing anger – in union halls and bars, in coal mines and beauty parlors, on the Main Streets and byways of the washed-out backwaters of America.
I’ve heard their complaints and cynicism, their conspiracy theories and their outrage.
Most are good people, not bigots or racists. They work hard and they have a strong sense of fairness.
But their world has been slowly coming apart. And they’re scared and fed up.
Now someone comes along who’s even more of a bully than those who for years have bullied them economically, politically, and even violently.
The attraction is understandable, even though misguided.
If not Dumbass Trump, then it will be someone else posing as a strongman. If not this election cycle, it will be the next one.
The revolt of the anxious class has just begun.
Before I explain how that revolt is playing out, you need to understand the sources of the anxiety.
Start with the fact that the middle class is shrinking, according to a new Pew survey.
The odds of falling into poverty are frighteningly high, especially for the majority without college degrees.
Two-thirds of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. Most could lose their jobs at any time.
Many are part of a burgeoning “on-demand” workforce – employed as needed, paid whatever they can get whenever they can get it.
Yet if they don’t keep up with rent or mortgage payments, or can’t pay for groceries or utilities, they’ll lose their footing.
The stress is taking a toll. For the first time in history, the lifespans of middle-class whites are dropping.
According to research by the recent Nobel-prize winning economist, Angus Deaton, and his co-researcher Anne Case, middle-aged white men and women in the United States have been dying earlier.
They’re poisoning themselves with drugs and alcohol, or committing suicide.
The odds of being gunned down in America by a jihadist are far smaller than the odds of such self-inflicted deaths, but the recent tragedy in San Bernadino only heightens an overwhelming sense of arbitrariness and fragility.
The anxious class feels vulnerable to forces over which they have no control. Terrible things happen for no reason.
Yet government can’t be counted on to protect them.
Safety nets are full of holes. Most people who lose their jobs don’t even qualify for unemployment insurance.
Government won’t protect their jobs from being outsourced to Asia or being taken by a worker here illegally.
Government can’t even protect them from evil people with guns or bombs. Which is why the anxious class is arming itself, buying guns at a record rate.
They view government as not so much incompetent as not giving a damn. It’s working for the big guys and fat cats – the crony capitalists who bankroll candidates and get special favors in return.
When I visited so-called “red” states this fall, I kept hearing angry complaints that government is run by Wall Street bankers who get bailed out after wreaking havoc on the economy, corporate titans who get cheap labor, and billionaires who get tax loopholes.
Last year two highly-respected political scientists, Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page, took a close look at 1,799 policy decisions Congress made over the course of over twenty years, and who influenced those decisions.
Their conclusion: “The preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.”
It was only a matter of time before the anxious class would revolt.
They’d support a strongman who’d promise to protect them from all the chaos.
Who’d save jobs from being shipped abroad, slam Wall Street, stick it to China, get rid of people here illegally, and block terrorists from getting into America.
A strongman who’d make America great again – which really means make average working people safe again.
It was a pipe dream, of course – a conjurer’s trick. No single person can do this. The world is far too complex. You can’t build a wall along the Mexican border. You can’t keep out all Muslims. You can’t stop corporations from outsourcing abroad.
Nor should you even try.
Besides, we live in a messy democracy, not a dictatorship.
Still, they think maybe he’s smart enough and tough enough to pull it off. He’s rich. He tells it like it is.
He makes every issue a test of personal strength. He calls himself strong and his adversaries weak.
So what if he’s crude and rude? Maybe that’s what it takes to protect average people in this cruelly precarious world.
For years I’ve heard the rumbles of the anxious class. I’ve listened to their growing anger – in union halls and bars, in coal mines and beauty parlors, on the Main Streets and byways of the washed-out backwaters of America.
I’ve heard their complaints and cynicism, their conspiracy theories and their outrage.
Most are good people, not bigots or racists. They work hard and they have a strong sense of fairness.
But their world has been slowly coming apart. And they’re scared and fed up.
Now someone comes along who’s even more of a bully than those who for years have bullied them economically, politically, and even violently.
The attraction is understandable, even though misguided.
If not Dumbass Trump, then it will be someone else posing as a strongman. If not this election cycle, it will be the next one.
The revolt of the anxious class has just begun.
When the American debate about abortion was sane ...
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Florida kicks 9,000 chronically ill, disabled kids out of healthcare system
by Joan McCarter
Sorry, Rick Scott. Nothing you can do now is going to save your soul.Florida moron Rick Scott (R-of course) has once again demonstrated just how much he doesn't care if people—children, even—suffer and die in ways that are totally preventable on his watch. An investigation by the Miami Herald has uncovered how the state gutted its Children's Medical Services, a program designed to help chronically ill and disabled poor children. So kids are getting dropped.
The Miami Herald obtained thousands of pages of health department documents under the state's public records law, including nearly 800 emails and hundreds of memos and reports that detailed the state's plan to "restructure" CMS. They show that the elimination of children from CMS was the result of a plan to slash spending on sick kids at a time when Florida had a $635.4 million surplus. For the legislative session that begins next month, Gov. Rick Scott has proposed $1 billion in new tax cuts. The spending plan would eliminate an additional 718 health department positions. […]
The parents of one Palm Beach County infant learned on the eve of a critical craniofacial surgery that their 6-month-old son had been "screened out" of CMS. The little boy is profoundly disabled, records show, having been born deaf, without eyes, and with a disfiguring cleft palate. The child's mother called CMS in preparation for the surgery, only to be told "the screening is showing 'NO,' so they would not do anything."
"URGENT" read the subject line of a Feb. 2 internal email. "There is nothing that we can do?"
There was something they could do. Within a few days, the infant was re-enrolled. Thousands of other youngsters, though, did not fare as well.
Nine thousand kids have been dropped since May, even though the state was running a surplus, and possibly to help fund the tax cuts Scott wants. This program—for Medicaid-qualified children and for those whose parents make too much for Medicaid coverage but not enough for private insurance—provides more intervention with specialists and care devised for kids with special medical needs. Some of the activities of the CMS, like "providing care coordinators to help parents access therapy and medication, and organizing one-stop clinics for kids with sickle cell disease, HIV or cleft palates," just doesn't happen with Medicaid.
But there was too much need in the state for the program. It was getting too many enrollees and it became too expensive to treat these kids, so the state had some options. Not having $1 billion in new tax cuts was not among the options. Dropping 9,000 kids was what they settled on.
The way the state reduced the number of eligible children has caused a big stir, among academics as well as parents. Critics blamed the "screening tool," which consists of five questions asked of the parents of children with disabling illnesses. One of those questions, No. 3, is a trap, they say—one that exploits the yearning of every parent of a sick or disabled child to believe that their son or daughter can live a normal life.
The question: "Is your child limited or prevented in any way in his or her ability to do the things most children of the same age can do?"
Give the wrong answer—no—and your child is eliminated.
The designers of that screening tool, by the way, say it was created "for use in surveys, not for eligibility determination … to estimate the number of children with special health care needs in a population." The state found it a handy tool to start weeding out patients. Children.
Yes, we still need universal healthcare.
DoJ shuts down asset forfeiture program after Congress slashes its budget
In America, your belongings can be confiscated by the police without
warrant or evidence as proceeds of a crime, and then the government sues
your possessions (not you), in lawsuits like "Township of East
Bumblefuck vs $50,000 in $100 bills."
If your goods lose the lawsuit, the police get to keep them, and use them (or sell them for operating capital). Police departments waxed fat on this, even making up "shopping lists" of desirable cars, etc, to target.
States have been trying to curb this practice, changing state law so that law enforcement agencies wouldn't get to keep the stuff their seized. But the DoJ wouldn't play along, meaning that cops could still keep stuff by confiscating it under federal, not state law.
Attempts to get the DoJ to play along have proved fruitless. After all, the DoJ got to split the take with local law-enforcement.. So in last week's budget bill, Congress took $1.2 billion away from the DoJ, money that they used to administer the program. Without that subsidy, the program became a money-loser. It is dead.
It's unclear how much of the total national forfeiture haul will be affected by the DOJ's change, since many states don't make their forfeiture data public. But as the case of California shows, it is potentially significant: In that state in 2013, nearly eight out of every 10 dollars of forfeited property went through federal law. Under this change, that flow of cash would be shut off.
Some law enforcement groups are less than happy with the change. The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) said in a statement that "this decision is detrimental to state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies and the communities they serve."
In a letter sent to President Obama, the leaders of Congress, and Attorney General Loretta Lynch, the heads of six law enforcement groups -- including the IACP and the National District Attorney's Association -- wrote to express "profound concern" over the changes: "This shortsighted decision by Congress will have a significant and immediate impact on the ability of law enforcement agencies throughout the nation to protect their communities and provide their citizens with the services they expect and deserve."
Police shot and killed nearly three Americans every day in 2015
While the killing of unarmed black men makes
up only 4 percent of the police shootings, 40 percent of the shootings
involved black male victims — a grossly disproportionate number with
African-American males making up only 6 percent of the population.
Seabed-Mining Robots Will Dig for Gold on Ocean Floor
Floating Waste Bin Captures Ocean Pollution
A water filtering system designed for marinas and ports will
help clear the water of floating plastic, paper, oil, fuel, detergent
and other garbage.
Animal Winners and Losers of 2015
2015 was a year of both breathtaking highs and devastating lows for the animal kingdom.
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
The Daily Drift
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The Americas
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Honduras - Mexico - Nicaragua - Paraguay - Puerto Rico - United States - Venezuela
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Estonia - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Hungary - Ireland - Italy - Latvia
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Asia
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Mauritius - Pakistan - Saudi Arabia - Sri Lanka - Taiwan - United Arab Emirates
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Today in History
| 1460 | The Duke of York is defeated and killed by Lancastrians at the Battle of Wakefield. | |
| 1803 | The United States takes possession of the Louisiana area from France at New Orleans with a simple ceremony, the simultaneous lowering and raising of the national flags. | |
| 1861 | Banks in the United States suspend the practice of redeeming paper money for metal currency, a practice that would continue until 1879. | |
| 1862 | The draft of the Emancipation Proclamation is finished and circulated among Abraham Lincoln‘s cabinet for comment. | |
| 1905 | Governor Frank Steunenberg of Idaho is killed by an assassin’s bomb. | |
| 1922 | Soviet Russia is renamed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. | |
| 1932 | The Soviet Union bars food handouts for housewives under 36 years of age. They must now work to eat. | |
| 1947 | Romania’s King Michael is forced to abdicate by Soviet-backed Communists. Communists now control all of Eastern Europe. | |
| 1965 | Ferdinand E. Marcos is sworn in as the Philippine Republic’s sixth president. | |
| 1972 | After two weeks of heavy bombing raids on North Vietnam, Nixon halts the air offensive and agrees to resume peace negotiations with Hanoi representative Le Duc Tho. | |
| 1976 | Governor Carey of New York pardons seven inmates, closing the book on the Attica uprising. | |
| 2006 | Saddam Hussein, former Iraq dictator, is executed by hanging for crimes committed against his own people during his rule. |
Gun-makers And The NRA Have Been Lying To Us About Women And Guns For Decades
Gun-makers have been trying to convince Americans that women love guns as much as men for years. It’s all a lie.‘I’ll kill you right now’
A Muslim Group Did Something To Teach ‘Christians’ That Hate Them A Thing Or Two (
‘I don’t want Jihadis in my neighborhood’
Nudist swimmers rushed to the rescue after boat ran aground during yacht race
Hundreds of people watched a cheeky rescue unfold in the east of Sydney,
Australia, on Saturday afternoon after a small boat got into trouble
and started sinking during the Sydney to Hobart yacht race.
At about 1.30pm, masses of spectators began to walk from South Head back
towards Watsons Bay after watching the fleet of more than 100 yachts
depart Sydney Harbor for the annual race.
As the crowds passed Lady Bay Beach, which caters to nudists, some began
to giggle.
Then, a small boat close to shore got into trouble.
Getty photographer Christopher Pearce,
who was walking back with the crowd after taking photos of the racing
yachts, said nothing seemed amiss at first as the wooden boat came
around Sydney Heads and started to pull close to the beach.
"The boat came angling into the shore, which was a bit weird. I thought
maybe they were dropping someone off," Mr Pearce said.
"But then a guy with a kid started screaming at the people on the shore,
saying expletives, 'come help, come help'.
"You could see a fair bit of water on the boat."
A handful of nudists responded to the man's cry for help, as did other beachgoers who were more appropriately dressed for the beach.
The rescuers ran into the water and helped to pluck a woman and a child
from the boat, as several men wearing life jackets stayed on board.
Others waded into the water, which was around one and a half metres
deep, to tie a rope to the front of the boat and begin to pull it onto
the sand.
The spectacle, which lasted for around five minutes, was watched by hundreds. "Everyone basically just stopped and watched and looked as this happened," Mr Pearce said. "When they were walking past everyone thought it was funny, because it was a nudist beach, and then this happened." After the woman and child were rescued from the boat, those left on board started to see the funny side of the situation. Workers from the NSW Parks and Wildlife Service were soon informed a boat had come aground and were dispatched to the beach to help.
"You could see a fair bit of water on the boat."
A handful of nudists responded to the man's cry for help, as did other beachgoers who were more appropriately dressed for the beach.
The rescuers ran into the water and helped to pluck a woman and a child
from the boat, as several men wearing life jackets stayed on board.
Others waded into the water, which was around one and a half metres
deep, to tie a rope to the front of the boat and begin to pull it onto
the sand.
The spectacle, which lasted for around five minutes, was watched by hundreds. "Everyone basically just stopped and watched and looked as this happened," Mr Pearce said. "When they were walking past everyone thought it was funny, because it was a nudist beach, and then this happened." After the woman and child were rescued from the boat, those left on board started to see the funny side of the situation. Workers from the NSW Parks and Wildlife Service were soon informed a boat had come aground and were dispatched to the beach to help.
Compensation order after woman ejected from party during row about size of guest’s manhood
A Scottish party host has been ordered to pay £1,500 compensation to a
woman he hurled down a flight of stairs after a heated row about a
guest’s manhood.
Julie Jamieson was left severely injured after being thrown out of the
party when an argument about the size of one of the reveler's package got out of hand.
Jonathan Wales, 28, grabbed Miss Jamieson and struggled with her until
she toppled down a full flight of stairs and broke her wrist on landing.
Perth Sheriff Court was told that it was bawdy banter between rival groups of women which sparked the confrontation and led to a physical brawl.
Wales was ordered to pay his victim and told to carry out 240 hours unpaid work as part of a community payback order on Tuesday. Sheriff Lindsay Foulis told Wales: “I really question whether there was any need for you to get involved, or certainly not to the extent which you did. But I do accept the injury sustained by the complainer was probably not anticipated and was a consequence of a struggle which took place outside.”
Depute fiscal Gavin Letford told the court Wales ended up grabbing hold of Miss Jamieson and shoving her out of the flat and on to the landing in the close. “As she fell down the stairs she fell on to her wrist and felt it buckle under her body,” he said The court heard Miss Jamieson was taken to hospital and required surgery on her broken wrist. Wales admitted assaulting and severely injuring Julie Jamieson during the fight at the party in Dundee.
Woman paid to leave job after walking in on married male boss kissing man at work's party
A woman in New Zealand has been paid to leave her job after walking in
on her married male boss kissing a male employee at a pre-Xmas work
party.
A source said the woman asked for help from an employment expert because
she felt she was being pressured out of her job following the incident
about two weeks ago.
Her boss, the business owner, agreed during a disciplinary meeting to a
confidential financial settlement, believed to be a few thousand
dollars, in return for the woman leaving the job, the source said.
"Everyone has agreed to part ways."
The source would not identify the business but confirmed the boss' wife
worked with him in the business.
The wife insisted on taking part in the exit negotiations, after hearing chatter around the office about the incident, the source said. "Once she heard about it there was no way she was going to let it happen without her ... [but] through the disciplinary process, she did not look happy at all. [Her husband] looked very sheepish the whole time.
"He wasn't very happy either. No one wins in this situation." Despite the cash settlement, it was not a pleasant outcome for the woman, the source said. "She was just annoyed that she was dragged into it. She was annoyed because basically she could see that the writing was on the wall. The trust between her and her employer was gone."
The wife insisted on taking part in the exit negotiations, after hearing chatter around the office about the incident, the source said. "Once she heard about it there was no way she was going to let it happen without her ... [but] through the disciplinary process, she did not look happy at all. [Her husband] looked very sheepish the whole time.
"He wasn't very happy either. No one wins in this situation." Despite the cash settlement, it was not a pleasant outcome for the woman, the source said. "She was just annoyed that she was dragged into it. She was annoyed because basically she could see that the writing was on the wall. The trust between her and her employer was gone."
Woman who cruised store on motorized cart consuming sushi, chicken and wine arrested
A Florida woman ate sushi, cinnamon rolls and the majority of a
rotisserie chicken, drinking wine while driving a motorized shopping
cart at a Walmart, according to the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office. She
was arrested for shoplifting and other charges.
It happened at the Lecanto Walmart on Tuesday. Citrus deputies responded
after the store loss prevention employee contacted them about an
alleged shoplifter he had in custody. The employee told deputies that he
had noticed the woman acting suspiciously driving the motorized
shopping card.
He could see a half-empty bottle of wine in her cart.
He also said he watched her grab a box of sushi from the shelf, eat a piece and put the box back. She did the same with cinnamon rolls and mini muffins. He also saw her eat the majority of a rotisserie chicken while on the shopping floor. The woman, Josseleen Elida Lopez, 20, consumed $32.36 worth of food and wine while at the store, including cinnamon rolls, mini muffins, two bottles of S. Home wine and a rotisserie chicken with sauce.
When the deputies arrested her, they found two empty syringes, one in her purse and one in her backpack. She told detectives she had used the syringes to shoot up meth earlier. When they asked her why she took the food she said she was hungry and didn’t want to take it outside of the store. She told them she knew that what she was doing was wrong. She was arrested on shoplifting and drug paraphernalia charges.
He also said he watched her grab a box of sushi from the shelf, eat a piece and put the box back. She did the same with cinnamon rolls and mini muffins. He also saw her eat the majority of a rotisserie chicken while on the shopping floor. The woman, Josseleen Elida Lopez, 20, consumed $32.36 worth of food and wine while at the store, including cinnamon rolls, mini muffins, two bottles of S. Home wine and a rotisserie chicken with sauce.
When the deputies arrested her, they found two empty syringes, one in her purse and one in her backpack. She told detectives she had used the syringes to shoot up meth earlier. When they asked her why she took the food she said she was hungry and didn’t want to take it outside of the store. She told them she knew that what she was doing was wrong. She was arrested on shoplifting and drug paraphernalia charges.
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