Mario RodrÃguez was a 21-year-old physics
student when he was diagnosed with leukemia, and physicians recommended a
bone marrow transplant and chemotherapy treatment.
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Today in History
| 858 | Benedict III ends his reign as catholic pope. | |
| 1492 | Christopher Columbus signs a contract with Spain to find a western route to the Indies. | |
| 1521 | Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Roman catholic cult. | |
| 1524 | Present-day New York Harbor is discovered by Giovanni da Verrazzano. | |
| 1535 | Antonio Mendoza is appointed first viceroy of New Spain. | |
| 1758 | Frances Williams, the first African-American to graduate for a college in the western hemisphere, publishes a collection of Latin poems. | |
| 1808 | Bayonne Decree by Napoleon Bonaparte of France orders seizure of U.S. ships. | |
| 1824 | Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54′ 40′. | |
| 1861 | Virginia become eighth state to secede from the Union. | |
| 1864 | General Ulysses Grant bans the trading of prisoners. | |
| 1865 | Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in the Lincoln assassination. | |
| 1875 | The game “snooker” is invented by Sir Neville Chamberlain. | |
| 1895 | China and Japan sign peace treaty of Shimonoseki. | |
| 1929 | Baseball player Babe Ruth and Claire Hodgson, a former member of the Ziegfeld Follies, get married. | |
| 1946 | The last French troops leave Syria. | |
| 1947 | Jackie Robinson bunts for his first major league hit. | |
| 1961 | Some 1,400 Cuban exiles attack the Bay of Pigs in an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro. | |
| 1964 | Jerrie Mock becomes first woman to fly solo around the world. | |
| 1969 | Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy. | |
| 1970 | Apollo 13–originally scheduled to land on the moon–lands back safely on Earth after an accident. | |
| 1975 | Khmer Rouge forces capture the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh. | |
| 1983 | In Warsaw, police rout 1,000 Solidarity supporters. |
Why the Internet isn’t making us smarter – and how to fight back
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You should listen to Mark Twain, who,
according to a dozen different websites, warned us, “Be careful about
reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
Journalist shreds wingnut myths about universal income
Mother banned from naming daughter Cyanide by court
A mother has been banned from naming her baby Cyanide after the poison.
The woman, from Powys, Wales, also chose the name Preacher for the
girl's twin brother, saying she had a human right to name her own
children.
She said Cyanide was a "lovely, pretty name" with positive connotations
as it was taken by Hitler before he shot himself.
The Court of Appeal ruled the "unusual" choices might harm the children.
The infant twins, as well as the mother's other children, have been taken from her care.
When Powys council social workers learned of the names the mother had chosen for the twins, they took the case to court.
In June, a judge issued an injunction against the mother, forbidding her from formally registering the twins' forenames.
Lawyers appealed, claiming a violation of the woman's right to respect for family life. But Lady Justice King said naming a little girl after a "notorious poison" was simply unacceptable. Although there was nothing seriously objectionable about the name Preacher, she ruled both twins' names should be chosen by their older half-siblings.
Lady Justice King said "even allowing for changes in taste, fashion and developing individual perception", Cyanide was a very odd name to give to a baby girl. The mother said Cyanide was linked with flowers and plants and was "responsible for killing Hitler and Goebbels and I consider that this was a good thing". Lady Justice King said the courts would intervene to prevent a parent naming a child "in only the most extreme cases".
Man hospitalized after being hit on head by brick he'd thrown at window
A man is in hospital after a brick bounced back and hit him when he
allegedly threw it at the office of a charity in north Belfast, Northern
Ireland.
The front windows of the the Public Initiative for Prevention of Suicide (PIPS) property were smashed in the incident on Wednesday evening.
A number of people were in the premises at the time but were not injured.
The man, who is in his 40s, reportedly threw a brick at the window but it bounced back and hit him on the head.
He was arrested at the scene and is currently being treated in hospital for a head injury. Police said they are investigating criminal damage at the property and inquiries are continuing.
A number of people were in the premises at the time but were not injured.
The man, who is in his 40s, reportedly threw a brick at the window but it bounced back and hit him on the head.He was arrested at the scene and is currently being treated in hospital for a head injury. Police said they are investigating criminal damage at the property and inquiries are continuing.
Homeowners ran for cover after wild cassowary wandered into their living room
A wild cassowary wandered into a family home in far north Queensland,
Australia, sending its occupants running for cover.
Sue and Peter Leach said they were preparing dinner when a male
cassowary wandered into their home at Wongaling Beach, south of Cairns.
"He has been walking past our place, through our yard and into the
rainforest for almost four years now - I think he made a wrong turn,"
Mrs Leach said, adding that they had named the cassowary Peanut.
"He wandered in very casually, he wasn't spooked at all, looked around,
thought this wasn't for him and just walked straight out the front
door."
She said their encounter with one of the world's most dangerous birds sent her running for cover. "My husband was in the dining room and said, 'Oh, we've got a visitor'," she said. "So he crouched down behind the dining room table and I took off into the front yard, out on the driveway, and as I was running out I was saying, 'take some pictures', which he did." Mrs Leach said Peanut was the perfect dinner guest.
"He didn't damage anything or knock anything over, he walked around without spotting the fruit bowl or without doing a poo, which was great," she said. "Because of the berries they eat, their poo is quite purple and could stain your tiles." Southern cassowaries are endangered and found only in small pockets of far north Queensland and Papua New Guinea. They grow up to two meters tall, can run at speeds of up to 50 kilometers per hour and are equipped with three sharp claws on each leg.
She said their encounter with one of the world's most dangerous birds sent her running for cover. "My husband was in the dining room and said, 'Oh, we've got a visitor'," she said. "So he crouched down behind the dining room table and I took off into the front yard, out on the driveway, and as I was running out I was saying, 'take some pictures', which he did." Mrs Leach said Peanut was the perfect dinner guest.
"He didn't damage anything or knock anything over, he walked around without spotting the fruit bowl or without doing a poo, which was great," she said. "Because of the berries they eat, their poo is quite purple and could stain your tiles." Southern cassowaries are endangered and found only in small pockets of far north Queensland and Papua New Guinea. They grow up to two meters tall, can run at speeds of up to 50 kilometers per hour and are equipped with three sharp claws on each leg.
Man in trouble for shooting man he was paying with meth for pooing in his yard
Sheriff's deputies say a man from South Valley, New Mexico, went too far
when he hauled out a pistol and pulled the trigger after catching a man
he was paying with meth using his yard as a toilet.
Intoxicated lady arrested for allegedly pretending to be a bull and charged at passing cars
A woman from Brownwood, Texas, was arrested on Wednesday after police
say she pretended to be a bull and charged at passing cars.
Police received a 911 call at around 8:30pm. The caller said an
intoxicated woman was charging passing cars in the street, like she was a
bull.
By the time police arrived Erika Lenz, 39, had been dragged inside by
her sister and teenage son. The report says her teenage son told police
his mother had “consumed large quantities of tequila.”
The officer warned Lenz to stay inside. According to the report, Lenz
“smugly” replied she would.
But a short time later, she ran into the driveway. After her sister dragged her back inside, Lenz ran out a second time, but was stopped by the officer. Worried that Lenz was a danger to herself or others, police arrested and charged her with public intoxication and assault family violence.
Lenz disputes what police said in their report. She said that she was drinking vodka, not tequila. She also said she was not charging cars like a bull. Lenz said she stepped into traffic without looking. It wasn’t her first alcohol-related run-in with police. Jail records show she was arrested last month for DWI.
But a short time later, she ran into the driveway. After her sister dragged her back inside, Lenz ran out a second time, but was stopped by the officer. Worried that Lenz was a danger to herself or others, police arrested and charged her with public intoxication and assault family violence.
Lenz disputes what police said in their report. She said that she was drinking vodka, not tequila. She also said she was not charging cars like a bull. Lenz said she stepped into traffic without looking. It wasn’t her first alcohol-related run-in with police. Jail records show she was arrested last month for DWI.
81-Year-Old Cuban Run Over By Racist Asshole
They took away his guns in March so he ran over an old man instead.
Cults are discriminating against job seekers for being sex abuse victims — and it’s legal
"If a predator is looking for a way to get
to kids, he would very likely lie and say never abused. So all it would
really do is screen out people, who through no fault of their own, are
victims of horrific crimes."
Trying, and failing, to forget has lasting effects
How the Brain Consolidates Memory During Deep Sleep
The Battle Over the Sea-Monkey Fortune
Remember when you ordered the Amazing Live Sea-Monkeys from an ad in the back of a comic book? When the enclosed brine shrimp were reanimated, you were quite disappointed that they did not resemble the picture in the ad, and they were awfully tiny. But still, there was something compelling about the idea of reanimating dried animals sent through the mail, and you cared for the little shrimp for as long as you could. Harold von Braunhut was the master of marketing who developed Sea-Monkeys, among many other ventures that weren’t quite as successful. When he died, he left the business to his wife, Yolanda Signorelli von Braunhut. For the last few years, Signorelli von Braunhut has been embroiled in a lawsuit against Big Time Toys, the distributor of Sea-Monkeys.
A few years after her husband’s death in 2003, Signorelli von Braunhut licensed out part of the labor of his multimillion dollar Sea-Monkey enterprise, mostly packaging and distribution, to Big Time. If you’ve ever been 8 years old, then you know that Sea-Monkeys arrive in a small plastic aquarium with several small packets that include the tiny brine-shrimp critters, which reanimate once you add water — by way of a secret formula that Signorelli von Braunhut keeps locked in a vault in Manhattan.On top of all that, court documents revealed that Big Time is now purchasing brine shrimp from China instead of using Braunhut’s proprietary breed of shrimp. An article at the New York Times looks deeper into the lawsuit, the lives of Harold and Yolanda von Braunhut, the history of Sea-Monkeys, and how the new knockoffs compare to the original Sea-Monkeys.
The original deal held that Big Time would supply everything except the specially engineered critters — and the accompanying packets, which von Braunhut would manufacture and sell separately to Big Time, which would then bundle the full kits and handle the sales. Also in the contract was a second deal — to buy the company, including the secret formula. It allowed Big Time to pay a straight-up $5 million fee and then $5 million more in installments. Three winters ago, Big Time called up the widow and announced that it considered its previous payments for the packets to be a kind of layaway deal for the company and that, as far as Big Time was concerned, it now owned the Sea-Monkey franchise.
Bundy cattle may be starving after overgrazing
Zoo staff shocked by unexpected joey after wallaby secretly impregnated herself
Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, have welcomed a surprise new wallaby
more than a year after the only male of the species was moved away.
Mica, an endangered brush-tailed rock wallaby, was due for a well-earned
rest after giving birth to a joey in March last year and carrying it
her pouch for more than six months.
However, when staff were caring for Mica, who is almost six, and her
youngster in recent months they noticed there was more movement in her
pouch.
Wallaby keeper Tony-Britt Lewis said the zoo wasn't planning for another
joey, so for Mica to have one was "quite a shock".
Recently, the surprise (but welcome) addition made its first appearance,
poking its head out of Mica's pouch and appearing to smile happily in
the sunlight.
It is in great health and appears to be around six months old, meaning
it will soon venture out of the pouch and allow staff to discover its
gender.
Keepers believe Mica mated with the only male wallaby, Sam, shortly after she gave birth to her first joey in around March last year. She then stored the fertilized embryo away while she raised her existing joey, in a phenomena known as embyronic diapause. Tony Britt-Lewis said the process, which gives marsupials the ability to keep an embryo for several months before it is implanted, is useful in the wild. Keepers aren't yet sure of the joey's gender.
"It's an interesting survival mechanism that allows the mother to delay
the development of the embryo in drought conditions or if she already
has a joey in the pouch," Mr Britt-Lewis said.
The joey adds to five brush-tailed rock wallabies that live at Taronga
Zoo as part of a breeding program.
The species is considered endangered in NSW as a result of hunting in
the 1900s and the destruction of their habitat.
Under the tutelage of Mica, it's expected the joey will begin to explore
its enclosure any day now.
"It shouldn't be long before we start to see it venturing out of the
pouch to take its first wobbly steps," Mr Britt-Lewis said.
"Mica is a confident and attentive mum and her joey looks to be very
strong."
Keepers believe Mica mated with the only male wallaby, Sam, shortly after she gave birth to her first joey in around March last year. She then stored the fertilized embryo away while she raised her existing joey, in a phenomena known as embyronic diapause. Tony Britt-Lewis said the process, which gives marsupials the ability to keep an embryo for several months before it is implanted, is useful in the wild. Keepers aren't yet sure of the joey's gender.
Chimpanzee sparked alert after electrifying escape from zoo
A chimpanzee embarked on a daring escape from Yagiyama zoo in northern
Japan, climbing a tall electricity pole before being hit with a sedative
arrow and plunging from the wires into a blanket held by a dozen
workers.
Chacha, a male chimp, survived the fall with minor bruises and cuts, a
zoo official said. Japanese viewers were glued to their screens on
Thursday afternoon as Chacha evaded capture, swung from power lines and
scampered around in a state of agitation.
The chimpanzee was on the loose for nearly two hours after it
disappeared from the Yagiyama zoological park in Sendai, the city that
is hosting finance ministers from the Group of Seven industrialized
nations in May.
Electricity was lost in 1,848 homes for a brief period during the
incident, according to Tohoku Electric Power Co.
A witness at the zoo said the chimp had managed to climb over the wall
of its enclosure before darting up a telephone pole and making a getaway
on power lines. The primate managed to get 250 meters from the zoo before his great escape was brought to an end. TV footage showed Chacha perched atop a pole, agitated and screaming at zoo workers below. A worker in a cherry picker then shot the chimpanzee in the back with the arrow, sending it scampering along the wires. Chacha pulled out the arrow but, dangling from an electric line, appeared to lose its grip as the sedative took effect, and suddenly fell head down into the blanket.
Saturday, April 16, 2016
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France - Germany - Greece - Hungary - Ireland - Italy - Latvia
Netherlands - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Russia - San Marino
Scotland - Serbia - Slovakia - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - Switzerland
Turkey - Ukraine - Wales
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Sri Lanka - Taiwan - Thailand
Africa
South Africa - Tunisia
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Australia - New Zealand - Philippines
Today in History
| 69 | Defeated by Vitellius’ troops at Bedriacum, Otho commits suicide. | |
| 556 | Pelagius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope. | |
| 1065 | The Norman Robert Guiscard takes Bari, ending five centuries of Byzantine rule in southern Italy. | |
| 1705 | Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton. | |
| 1746 | Prince Charles is defeated at the Battle of Culloden, the last pitched battle fought in Britain. | |
| 1818 | The U.S. Senate ratifies the Rush-Bagot amendment to form an unarmed U.S.-Canada border. | |
| 1854 | San Salvador is destroyed by an earthquake. | |
| 1862 | Confederate President Jefferson Davis approves a conscription act for white males between 18 and 35. | |
| 1862 | Slavery is abolished in the District of Columbia. | |
| 1917 | Vladimir Lenin returns to Russia to start the Bolshevik Revolution. | |
| 1922 | Annie Oakley shoots 100 clay targets in a row, setting a woman’s record. | |
| 1942 | The Island of Malta is awarded the George Cross in recognition for heroism under constant German air attack. It was the first such award given to any part of the British Commonwealth. | |
| 1945 | The destroyer USS Laffey survives horrific damage from attacks by 22 Japanese aircraft off Okinawa, earning the nickname “The Ship That Would Not Die.” | |
| 1945 | American troops enter Nuremberg, Germany. | |
| 1947 | A lens which provides zoom effects is demonstrated in New York City. | |
| 1968 | The Pentagon announces the “Vietnamization” of the war. | |
| 1972 | Two giants pandas arrive in the U.S. from China. |
How Jerry Brown quietly saved California
Brown was 36 the first time he had the top
job in California; he’s 78 now, and still pushing ambitious agendas to
save his state, and maybe even the world.
Coastguard rescue team called into action after report of people floating down river in a fridge
A river search was launched after people were spotted floating inside a fridge.
Flint Coastguard Rescue Team received the strange report at 7.34pm on Tueday and launched a search mission.
A member of the public reported that people were inside a fridge on the River Dee near Connah's Quay in Flintshire, Wales. However when the coastguard team arrived the fridge was found empty.
The fridge was then removed and taken to a safe area. Flint Coastguard Rescue Team posted on Facebook: "Team paged by Holyhead CGOC to reports of persons floating down the River Dee in a fridge in the Connah’s Quay area.
"Once CRT on scene persons had left the area leaving behind the fridge on the rivers edge. CRT removed fridge to a safe area making sure it won’t float again. Many thanks to the first informant and members of the public for helping us with our inquiries. Team stood down and returned to station."
Canoodling couple were totally oblivious to armed robbery at bar
Camera angle one.
Camera angle two.
Ronald McDonald Statue Arrested by Chinese Police
Well, the long arm of the law finally caught up with Happy Ronnie. He's heading off to the big McHouse for a few years. Rocket News 24 reports that police in Guangzhou, China told the owner of a McDonald's restaurant to remove the statue that he kept outside. When he failed to comply, they hauled off the statue.
Now photos from the event are going viral . . .
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