Oh, but there's more!
Oh, Snap!
"Basically, they were setting up speed traps
on I-75 to fund the municipal workings of that village – which they
then stole."
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
North Carolina waitress fired after telling bosses about manager’s sexual harassment
When is it legal for a cop to kill you?
by Dara Lind
Charging a police officer with a crime after the death of a civilian is
incredibly rare — even when there's video evidence. And a big part of
that is because of the legal standards for when a cop is allowed to use
deadly force: what the public sees as crossing the line may not actually
break the law, and even the most reliable video evidence might not show
an officer actually committing a crime.
There are plenty of guidelines for use of force by police, but it often boils down to what the officer believed when the force was used (something that is notoriously difficult to standardize), regardless of how much of a threat actually existed. Here's how prosecutors draw the line between a justifiable use of force by a police officer, and a crime.
"Hands up, don't shoot" has become the motto of the Ferguson protests.
How do you determine if a police officer was justified in using deadly force?
When a police officer kills someone on the job, there's a two-track investigation. That's because there are actually two different sets of standards that govern when a police officer can use deadly force.
One set of standards is state law, informed by a couple of Supreme Court precedents that lay out the circumstances under which law enforcement officers are justified in using lethal force on suspects.
The other set of standards is the policy of the officer's police department, which tells its employees when it is and isn't appropriate for them to use force.
If a police officer were to murder someone in cold blood while on the job, he wouldn't just be breaking the law — he'd be violating his equivalent of an employee handbook. But something can be against a police department's policy without being against the law. When New York police officer Daniel Pantaleo put Eric Garner in a chokehold (ultimately killing him) in July 2014, for example, he violated the NYPD's policy on use of force — but there isn't a law on the books saying a police officer can't use a chokehold.
So when a cop uses deadly force in an officer-involved death, there's a standard criminal investigation: detectives collect evidence and present it to the local prosecutor. The prosecutor then determines whether the killing fits the standards in state law for permissible homicide. If it doesn't, then a crime has been committed, and the prosecutor's job becomes figuring out which crime it was and whether there's enough evidence to charge the officer with it.
But there's also an internal investigation within the cop's department to evaluate whether the incident violated its use-of-force policy. Many departments' policies are stricter than state law — but an officer can't be charged with a crime just for violating the policy. He or she can, however, be fired for it.
There are plenty of guidelines for use of force by police, but it often boils down to what the officer believed when the force was used (something that is notoriously difficult to standardize), regardless of how much of a threat actually existed. Here's how prosecutors draw the line between a justifiable use of force by a police officer, and a crime.
"Hands up, don't shoot" has become the motto of the Ferguson protests.
How do you determine if a police officer was justified in using deadly force?
When a police officer kills someone on the job, there's a two-track investigation. That's because there are actually two different sets of standards that govern when a police officer can use deadly force.
One set of standards is state law, informed by a couple of Supreme Court precedents that lay out the circumstances under which law enforcement officers are justified in using lethal force on suspects.
The other set of standards is the policy of the officer's police department, which tells its employees when it is and isn't appropriate for them to use force.
If a police officer were to murder someone in cold blood while on the job, he wouldn't just be breaking the law — he'd be violating his equivalent of an employee handbook. But something can be against a police department's policy without being against the law. When New York police officer Daniel Pantaleo put Eric Garner in a chokehold (ultimately killing him) in July 2014, for example, he violated the NYPD's policy on use of force — but there isn't a law on the books saying a police officer can't use a chokehold.
So when a cop uses deadly force in an officer-involved death, there's a standard criminal investigation: detectives collect evidence and present it to the local prosecutor. The prosecutor then determines whether the killing fits the standards in state law for permissible homicide. If it doesn't, then a crime has been committed, and the prosecutor's job becomes figuring out which crime it was and whether there's enough evidence to charge the officer with it.
But there's also an internal investigation within the cop's department to evaluate whether the incident violated its use-of-force policy. Many departments' policies are stricter than state law — but an officer can't be charged with a crime just for violating the policy. He or she can, however, be fired for it.
The Worst Environmental Disaster Since The BP Oil Spill Is Happening And The Media Is IGNORING It
This is a disaster of historical proportions, and the corporate media doesn’t think you should know about it.Floods Leave Castle Precariously on River's Edge
Ötzi the Iceman Had Asian Ulcer Bacteria
Ötzi the Iceman
is the name given to a frozen mummy of a man who was murdered 5300
years ago. Scientists have been studying the relatively well-preserved
remains since he was found in the Italian Alps in 1991. The latest
finding is that Ötzi carried Helicobacter pylori, the bacteria that causes ulcers, in his gut. Many people carry H. pylori without
ever developing ulcers, and scientists have identified different
strains of the bacteria in different parts of the world. And that's
where Ötzi's story makes a left turn. Or right, depending on how you
read maps.
The findings give us a lot to think about how humans -and bacteria- migrated around the globe thousands of years ago. Read more about the discovery at Science magazineWhen they compared Ötzi’s H. pylori genome with other types from around the world, they got a surprise—Ötzi’s type most closely resembled one from Asia, not those found today in Europe or Africa. This provides insights not only into Ötzi’s health, but also the movements of his ancestors. Ötzi’s own DNA most closely resembles that of early European farmers who originally came from the Middle East. But his bacterial strain most closely matches strains in India and South Asia today, which cluster together in the hpAsia2 population. Today’s hpEurope strain has far more DNA from the African type of H. pylori than does Ötzi’s Asian strain, notes lead author Frank Maixner, a microbial ecologist at EURAC.
He says this suggests a new scenario: The ancestors of early European farmers such as Ötzi must have carried H. pylori with DNA from Asian strains perhaps in the Middle East before they migrated to Europe. Then, new immigrants carrying African microbes arrived in Europe much later, after Ötzi lived. The two types of microbes mixed in these migrants, creating today’s European strain much more recently than expected.
Got Allergies? Blame Neanderthals
Mating with Neanderthals may have helped modern humans adapt
to Europe, but may have also made them more prone to allergies.
5 Ancient Structures That Were Mysteriously Advanced For Their Time
The Marib Dam
The Marib Dam is regarded as one of the greatest engineering feats of the ancient world. It was built around 750 BC in Yemen by the Sabaen empire, whose kingdom was based near the modern capital of Sanaa, and took hundreds of years to complete.
Although built long before the existence of concrete, the dam stood for over 1000 years, outlasting the culture who built it by hundreds of years.
When the 2000 foot structure finally failed around 600 AD, it brought down much of the agriculture in the region with it.
Gobekli Tepe
It predates agriculture, writing, the walls of Jericho (previously thought to be the oldest human monument), and was built several thousand years before Stonehenge. Archaeologists are convinced that this was a religious site for ancient pre-civilized humans, as there is no evidence of habitation.
As the National Geographic so succinctly put it, the discovery “was like finding that someone had built a 747 in a basement with an X-Acto knife.”
Underground City Of Derinkuyu
Another fascinating Turkish archaeological site, the 18-story Derinkuyu underground city would have been able to accommodate up to 20,000 people, plus their livestock and stores.It was built around the 8th century BC, but scientists are not sure by whom.
What is obvious is that the feat of engineering is astounding, as the complex may have started as simple caves, but was completed with tools such as hammers and chisels. The site has yet to be fully excavated.
Puma Punku
This is an ancient city in Bolivia built by the Tiwanaku people, and makes this list due to its precise stonework.Despite lacking technology, the construction boasts straight cuts on hundreds of identical building blocks, the largest of which is 25 by 17 feet and weighs 130 tons.
The work was so fine that when the Inca came along, they thought that the builders must have been gods.
The Hypogeum of Hal-Saflieni
This prehistoric underground structure was discovered by accident in
Malta back in 1902. What makes it a feat of engineering, besides being
three stories and made of megalithic stones (feats in themselves), it
was discovered that when standing at a certain spot, a voice speaking in
the 95-120 Hz range would reverberate throughout the entire structure. What’s more is that sounds at a frequency of 110 Hz produce an effect that is consciousness altering in humans. Scientists don’t know who built this or why, but it is known that someone chanting at the right frequency at a certain location would have induced a trance-like religious experience among ancient worshipers.
The required knowledge for this feat of acoustics is perplexing to scientists.
Archaeology News
As ISIL is pushed out of northern Iraq, archaeologists are
returning to the area, including at the Neanderthal site in Shanidar
Cave.
Archaeologists believe the man, who was likely in his 50s, was hung for piracy or other crimes.
The highlight of the 500-year-old arsenal were a pair of spiked helmets almost undamaged by rust.
Animal News
Snakes reveal that recovery from digestion is not complete,
leaving behind damage to cells that can accumulate over time.
The ancient monkeys show they can perceive the sound quality in the same way humans can.
Monday, January 11, 2016
The Daily Drift
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Today in History
| 49 BC | Julius Caesar leads his army across the Rubicon River, plunging Rome into civil war. | |
| 1843 | Francis Scott Key, author of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” dies in Baltimore. | |
| 1861 | Alabama secedes from the Union. | |
| 1862 | Lincoln accepts Simon Cameron’s resignation as Secretary of War. | |
| 1887 | At Fort Smith, Arkansas, hangman George Maledon dispatches four victims in a multiple hanging. | |
| 1904 | British troops massacre 1,000 dervishes in Somaliland. | |
| 1916 | Russian General Yudenich launches a WWI winter offensive and advances west. | |
| 1923 | The French enter the town of Essen in the Ruhr valley, to extract Germany’s resources as war payment. | |
| 1934 | The German police raid the homes of dissident clergy in Berlin. | |
| 1941 | Adolf Hitler orders forces to be prepared to enter North Africa to assist the Italian effort, marking the establishment of the Afrika Korps. | |
| 1940 | Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., becomes the U.S. Army’s first black general, his son would later become a general as well. | |
| 1942 | Japan invades the Dutch East Indies at Borneo. | |
| 1943 | The Soviet Red Army encircles Stalingrad. | |
| 1948 | President Harry S. Truman proposes free, two-year community colleges for all who want an education. | |
| 1949 | Negotiations in China between the Nationalists and Communists open as Tientsin is virtually lost to the Communists. | |
| 1964 | A collection of previously unexhibited paintings by Pablo Picasso are displayed for the first time in Toronto. | |
| 1980 | Honda announces it will build the first Japanese-owned passenger-car assembly plant in the United States–in Ohio. | |
| 1994 | The Irish Government announces an end to a 15-year ban on broadcasting by the IRA and its political branch, Sinn Fein. | |
| 2003 | Illinois Gov. George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on the state’s death row in the wake of allegations that Chicago police detective and commander Jon Burge tortured confessions from some 200 suspects over a 19 year period. |
Word for the day ...
Pandering
The word "pander", meaning to "pimp" is derived from Pandarus, a licentious figure who facilitates the affair between the protagonists in Troilus and Criseyde, a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer. Pandarus appears with a similar role in Shakespeare's interpretation of the story, Troilus and Cressida. The plot function of the aging lech Pandarus in Chaucer's and Shakespeare's famous works has given rise to the English terms a pander (in later usage a panderer), from Chaucer, meaning a person who furthers other people's illicit sexual amours; and to pander, from Shakespeare, as a verb denoting the same activity. A panderer is, specifically, a bawd — a male who arranges access to female sexual favors, the manager of prostitutes. Thus, in law, the charge of pandering is an accusation that an individual has sold the sexual services of another. The verb "to pander" is also used in a more general sense to suggest active or implicit encouragement of someone's weaknesses. The image at the top is Vermeer's portrayal of The Procuress.
The woman in black, the leering coupler, "in a nun's costume", could be the eponymous procuress, while the man to her right, "wearing a black beret and a doublet with slashed sleeves", has been identified as a self portrait of the artist.
Celebrity Gun Nut Threatens To Shoot His Girlfriend, Gets Arrested With His Pants Down – Literally
Karma just owned this gun fetishist. Hard.
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Ethan Couch got hammered in Mexican strip clubs — then made his mom pay the $2,100 tab
Students SHUT DOWN Fox Hack For Mocking ‘Rape Hysteria’ And ‘Repeated Consent’
It’s no secret that wingnuts believe with all of their hearts
that serious, life-threatening issues that plague women every day of
their lives...
Clip-on Cribs Help Moms Bond with Their Babies
The Underground Street Buried Beneath Keighley’s Royal Arcade
When builders found their way into the secret street more than a century later, while working in the cellars of the shops above, they discovered the original wooden shop-fronts and stable pens hauntingly frozen in time.There are now plans to restore the complex and open it up to the public as a glimpse into the past. You can see plenty of pictures of this subterranean time capsule at Urban Ghosts.
Electric lighting was installed to make the space easier to navigate during reconstruction work and it’s understood that various period items were also added for the benefit of future tours. Other items, however, may have been left over from the Victorian era, largely undisturbed since the abandoned underground street was sealed off and forgotten.
Casually Explained ...
Evolution
Climate change starved the Earth’s ‘real King Kong’ into extinction
Gigantopithecus — the closest Nature ever came to producing a real King Kong — weighed five times as much as an adult man and probably stood three meters (nine feet) tall, according to sketchy estimates.
In its heyday a million years ago, it inhabited semi-tropical forests in southern China and mainland Southeast Asia.
Until now, though, almost nothing was known about the giant’s anatomical shape or habits.
The only fossil records are four partial lower jaws, and perhaps a thousand teeth — the first of which turned up in the 1930s in Hong Kong apothecaries where they were sold as “dragon’s teeth.”
These meagre remains “are clearly insufficient to say if the animal was bipedal or quadrupedal, and what would be its body proportions,” Herve Bocherens, a researcher at Tübingen University in Germany, told AFP.
Its closest modern cousin is the orangutan, but whether Gigantopithecus had the same golden-red hue, or was black like a gorilla is unknown.
Another mystery: its diet. Was it a meat-eater or a vegetarian? Did it share a taste for bamboo with its neighbor the prehistoric giant panda?
Answering this riddle might also tell us why a monster that surely had little to fear from other fauna went extinct.
– Adapt or die –
That’s where the teeth had a story to tell.
Examining slight variations in carbon isotopes found in tooth enamel, Bocherens and an international team of scientists showed that the primordial King Kong lived only in the forest, was a strict vegetarian, and probably wasn’t crazy about bamboo.
These narrow preferences did not pose a problem for Gigantopithecus until Earth was struck by a massive ice age during the Pleistocene Epoch, which stretched from about 2.6 million to 12,000 years ago.
That’s when Nature, evolution — and perhaps a refusal to try new foods — conspired to doom the giant ape, Bocherens explained.
“Due to its size, Gigantopithecus presumably depended on a large amount of food,” he said.
“When during the Pleistocene, more and more forested area turned into savanna landscapes, there was simply an insufficient food supply.”
And yet, according to the study, other apes and early humans in Africa that had comparable dental gear were able to survive similar transitions by eating the leaves, grass and roots offered by their new environments.
But for some reason, Asia’s giant ape — which was probably too heavy to climb trees, or swing in their branches — did not make the switch.
“Gigantopithecus probably did not have the same ecological flexibility and possibly lacked the physiological ability to resist stress and food shortage,” notes the study, which is to be published in a specialist journal, Quaternary International.
Whether the mega-ape could have adapted to a changing world but didn’t, or whether it was doomed by climate and its genes, is probably one mystery that will never be solved.
Climate change several hundred thousand years ago was also likely responsible for the disappearance of many other large animals from the Asians continent.
Sunday, January 10, 2016
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