Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Judge orders suspect to cover his tattoos with makeup so jurors don’t know he is a neo-Nazi
Bayzle Morgan’s head, neck and face are
marked by racist tattoos, one is also a teardrop tattoo under his eye,
which typically signifies that the person has killed someone.
Intoxicated woman drove to police station to let officers know she was too drunk to drive
A woman from Blenheim, New Zealand, who drove to the police station to
let officers know she was too drunk to drive thought she was doing the
right thing.
Amanda Jane Boyd, 50, of Witherlea, was heavily intoxicated when she
arrived at the Blenheim Police Station at about 2pm on June 14.
She told police officers at the front desk she needed to get to Christchurch but was too drunk to drive there, and asked if they could arrange to get her there. They asked how she got to the station, and Boyd pointed to her car and said she drove, but could not drive any further because she was too drunk.
Police breath tested Boyd who gave a reading of 1395 micrograms of alcohol per liter of breath. The legal limit is 250mcg. In explanation, Boyd said she thought she was doing the right thing by not driving to Christchurch, and instead just driving a short distance to the police station to get help. She had been caught drink-driving twice before, once in 2008 and once in 2010.
"Guardians of the Galaxy" Characters Will Appear on NASA Mission Patch
"A major mission for us here at CASIS is to find unique and innovative ways to bring notoriety to the International Space Station National Laboratory and the research that is being conducted," stated Ken Shields, CASIS's operations and educational opportunities director. "There are very few brands in the world who have as large an impact as Marvel and we are thrilled to partner with them on this project."
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
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Today in History
| 657 | Mu’awiya defeats Caliph Ali in the Battle of Siffin in Mesopotamia. | |
| 1526 | Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon and colonists leave Santo Domingo for Florida. | |
| 1529 | Francisco Pizarro receives a royal warrant to “discover and conquer” Peru. | |
| 1758 | British forces capture France’s Fortress of Louisbourg after a seven-week siege. | |
| 1759 | The French relinquish Fort Ticonderoga in New York to the British under General Jeffrey Amherst. | |
| 1775 | The Continental Congress establishes a postal system for the colonies with Benjamin Franklin as the first postmaster general. | |
| 1790 | An attempt at a counter-revolution in France is put down by the National Guard at Lyons. | |
| 1794 | The French defeat an Austrian army at the Battle of Fleurus, France. | |
| 1830 | King Charles X of France issues five ordinances limiting the political and civil rights of citizens. | |
| 1847 | Liberia becomes the first African colony to become an independent state. | |
| 1848 | The French army suppresses the Paris uprising. | |
| 1886 | William Gladstone is replaced by Lord Salisbury as Prime Minister of England. | |
| 1918 | Britain’s top war ace, Edward Mannock, is shot down by ground fire on the Western Front. | |
| 1920 | The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified. | |
| 1948 | In an Executive Order, President Harry Truman calls for the end of discrimination and segregation in the U.S. armed forces. | |
| 2005 | The shuttle Discovery launches on mission STS-114, marking a return to space after the shuttle Columbia crash of 2003. |
Your Part-Time Job May Be Hurting Your Chances Of Landing an Interview
Employers think it’s just as bad as being unemployed for a year
Kissing, touching, oral sex: Fox 'News' employees say harassment problem goes way beyond Roger Ailes
Widow took husband's body on 'rolling wake'
Alan Bengaard, chief of police in Ketchikan, Alaska, has seen a lot in
his decades-long law enforcement career. But he’s never seen anything
like this.
Ketchikan police received a third-party call from the area of the
Potlatch Bar at around 3:15am on Wednesday.
When they arrived on scene, officers discovered an aluminum transport
casket with the body of a 78-year-old man inside, according to Bengaard.
The man had died from natural causes over the weekend on Prince of Wales
Island, and his wife took the body to Ketchikan, Bengaard said.
“The body was in that and supposed to be destined for the mortuary, but for some reason she decided to not go directly to the mortuary and had been driving around with him for a couple days,” Bengaard said. “My understanding is kind of - leading up to the events of the last couple days - there’s been a rolling wake or viewing.
“It was pointed out to me that, evidently, she had stopped at a couple of the canneries and got ice and filled the bed of the truck with ice to keep the body chilled.
You can’t make this stuff up,” the chief added.
The wife did not break any laws that Bengaard was aware of.
The mortuary took custody of the body after police responded to the
scene. The family can make arrangements for how it wants to take care of
the body.
“Hopefully it won’t go back on the road again,” he said.
“The body was in that and supposed to be destined for the mortuary, but for some reason she decided to not go directly to the mortuary and had been driving around with him for a couple days,” Bengaard said. “My understanding is kind of - leading up to the events of the last couple days - there’s been a rolling wake or viewing.
Man tells of unusual attack while stuck in traffic jam
A man says he is left stunned after a terrifying ordeal on an expressway in Michigan on Saturday.
Michael Mengis, of Oak Park, said he was driving with his son along I-94 near the I-96 interchange when they came to a complete halt due to heavy traffic.
He said a man jumped out of his Jaguar car and onto the hood of his Dodge Dart.
Then, the attacker pulled out a knife and started using it to hit the driver’s side window. He was unable to break to break the glass. “Thank God Dodge builds a good window,” said Mengis. He said the man struck his car eight or nine times.
It is not clear if then stranger intended to carjack the victims.
Once traffic picked up, Mengis says he sped away and called Michigan State Police.
Mengis wants to warn other drivers about his attack.
Then, the attacker pulled out a knife and started using it to hit the driver’s side window. He was unable to break to break the glass. “Thank God Dodge builds a good window,” said Mengis. He said the man struck his car eight or nine times.
While the story is serious, Mr Mengis' account of the incident has some comedy elements.
Tall man pulled over for standing while driving arrested on another charge
A tall man from Hingham, Massachusetts, wasn't arrested for driving
while standing out of his car’s sun roof on Thursday afternoon, but that’s what got the attention of police.
Sgt. Steven Dearth said that Ryan Delaney, 20, who's 6 feet 7 inches
tall, was charged for driving with a suspended license, after police got
a call from a motorist who reported Delaney’s behavior. Dearth said the arrest began when a motorist called shortly before
3:30pm to report “a man standing up in the sun roof” of a Mercury Sable.
The caller first noticed the driver and the Mercury less than a mile
away, near Rockland, as the car headed north towards Hingham. The caller
followed the Mercury into Hingham and stayed on the phone with police
until a patrol officer pulled Delaney over into a school parking lot.
Dearth said Delaney denied standing up while driving. But a license check showed that his license had been suspended for seven “surchargeable offenses,” which include traffic accidents and speeding. The state Registry of Motor Vehicles suspends a license if a driver accumulates seven such offenses within three years. Dearth said Delaney’s female passenger had a valid license, so she drove the 2005 Mercury from the scene.
He said it’s not clear how Delaney would have steered the car if he had been standing up. Dearth said police couldn’t charge Delaney with driving to endanger since he was reported standing while driving in Rockland, not Hingham. Delaney was released on bail on Thursday but didn’t show up for a Friday arraignment at Hingham District Court - so he now also faces a bench warrant for failure to appear.
Motorist led police on hour-long high-speed chase because he was bored
A man from Thurston County, Washington, led multiple police agencies in a
sometimes dangerous pursuit that spanned two counties and 49 miles on
Saturday evening because he was bored, the county sheriff’s office said.
Sgt. Dave Odegaard with the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office said David
B. McNalley, 30, had no warrants, no prior convictions, and a valid
driver’s license when he tore off through an intersection in Tumwater at
4:38pm.
Burning rubber, he attracted the attention of a sheriff’s deputy, who
tried to pull him over.
“He took off,” Odegaard said of McNalley, who was driving a 1994 Mercury
Sable. “The deputy felt like he basically instigated this pursuit. It
went from the Tumwater area into the Olympia city limits and then went
onto I-5.”
The pursuit went on for more than an hour, crossing into Pierce County
and circling back around into Olympia. A handful of patrol agencies were
involved.
McNalley “was passing cars on the shoulder of the road down near
Nisqually,” Odegaard said.
Sometimes reaching 85 miles per hour, the pursuit was “was discontinued three times due to speed and public safety.” McNalley circled back into Olympia. The Thurston County Sheriff’s Department set up spike strips. In trying to avoid them, McNalley lost control and drove onto a farm, hitting a fence at about 5:45pm. There was minor damage to the fence, Odegaard said, but no one was hurt. McNalley didn’t appear to be impaired by drugs or alcohol, Odegaard said. “He said he was just bored,” Odegaard said. “It looks like to us right now ... he instigated this pursuit because he was bored and just wanted to do it.”
McNalley has been charged with three counts of attempting to elude a police vehicle, but other charges could be pending, Odegaard said. He is being held without bail in the Thurston County jail until his arraignment on Monday. Odegaard said it was an unusual chase. Usually, people being pursued don’t come back to the same jurisdiction where the chase started. “It’s frustrating, because in my mind he endangered not only his life but a number of officers that were involved,” he said. “We had jurisdiction from state patrol, Lacey, Thurston County Sheriff’s, Nisqually Tribal as well as all the citizens ... he could have very easily injured or killed some innocent people just for the joy of, ‘I was bored.’”
Sometimes reaching 85 miles per hour, the pursuit was “was discontinued three times due to speed and public safety.” McNalley circled back into Olympia. The Thurston County Sheriff’s Department set up spike strips. In trying to avoid them, McNalley lost control and drove onto a farm, hitting a fence at about 5:45pm. There was minor damage to the fence, Odegaard said, but no one was hurt. McNalley didn’t appear to be impaired by drugs or alcohol, Odegaard said. “He said he was just bored,” Odegaard said. “It looks like to us right now ... he instigated this pursuit because he was bored and just wanted to do it.”
McNalley has been charged with three counts of attempting to elude a police vehicle, but other charges could be pending, Odegaard said. He is being held without bail in the Thurston County jail until his arraignment on Monday. Odegaard said it was an unusual chase. Usually, people being pursued don’t come back to the same jurisdiction where the chase started. “It’s frustrating, because in my mind he endangered not only his life but a number of officers that were involved,” he said. “We had jurisdiction from state patrol, Lacey, Thurston County Sheriff’s, Nisqually Tribal as well as all the citizens ... he could have very easily injured or killed some innocent people just for the joy of, ‘I was bored.’”
Man head-butted his mother because she brought home Chick-fil-A for dinner
Derek Foreman, 30, of Largo, Florida, is currently nursing an injured nose.
This follows an incident on Thursday when he allegedly head-butted his
55-year-old mother in the face during a confrontation about dinner
arrangements at their home.
“Def. and Victim had a verbal disagreement because the victim brought home Chick-fil-A and the Def. did not want to eat Chick-fil-A,” a criminal complaint notes. Faced with the fast food, Foreman “became upset” and head-butted his mother, causing her bottom lip to split, investigators allege.
Foreman was arrested for domestic battery, a misdemeanor, and booked into the county jail. After a court hearing on Friday, Foreman was released from custody and directed to have no contact with his mother. A judge also ordered Foreman to be outfitted with a device that monitors his alcohol intake.
“Def. and Victim had a verbal disagreement because the victim brought home Chick-fil-A and the Def. did not want to eat Chick-fil-A,” a criminal complaint notes. Faced with the fast food, Foreman “became upset” and head-butted his mother, causing her bottom lip to split, investigators allege.
Foreman was arrested for domestic battery, a misdemeanor, and booked into the county jail. After a court hearing on Friday, Foreman was released from custody and directed to have no contact with his mother. A judge also ordered Foreman to be outfitted with a device that monitors his alcohol intake.
Man arrested after calling police to report theft of a pound of marijuana and large amount of cash
A man from Jamestown, North Dakota, is facing a Class A felony after he
called 911 to report a large sum of money and marijuana were stolen from
his residence.
Tyler Dallmann, 31, was charged on Wednesday with possession of a
controlled substance with intent to deliver, a Class A felony, in
Southeast District Court. He was also charged with criminal attempt to tamper with physical
evidence and possession of drug paraphernalia marijuana, Class A
misdemeanors, and possession of drug paraphernalia marijuana, a Class B
misdemeanor. Dallman is free on bond.
According to court documents, at 2:12am on Tuesday, Dallmann called
Stutsman County Communications to report his residence had been burgled.
When police officers arrived on the scene, Dallmann allegedly said someone broke the window in the back door of his residence and stole $30,000 in cash and about a pound of marijuana. While officers spoke with Dallmann, other officers returned to the Stutsman County Law Enforcement Center to obtain a search warrant for Dallman’s residence, car and any outbuildings on the property.
After the search warrant was obtained, a search was conducted of the property. Marijuana was allegedly found in the house and a backpack containing $12,000 was found in a car belonging to Dallmann. The maximum penalty for a Class A felony is 20 years in prison and a $20,000 fine. The maximum penalty for a Class A misdemeanor is one year in prison and a $3,000 fine. The maximum penalty for a Class B misdemeanor is 30 days in jail and a $1,500 fine.
Christina's World (Andrew Wyeth, 1948)
The 31-year-old Wyeth modeled the painting's frail-looking brunette after his neighbor in South Cushing, Maine. Anna Christina Olson suffered from a degenerative muscular disorder [Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease] that prevented her from walking. Rather than using a wheelchair, Olson crawled around her home and the surrounding grounds... The sight of Olson picking blueberries while crawling through her fields “like a crab on a New England shore” inspired Wyeth to paint Christina’s World.
Art historians have often snubbed Wyeth's works in their surveys, and some naysayers have attacked the painting's widespread popularity, deriding it as "a mandatory dorm room poster." Meanwhile, critics have chastised Wyeth's attention on Olson's infirmity and characterized it as exploitation. Still others claim there was no art in rendering realistic imagery in paint...
Christina's World remained her favorite to the end. Once when I asked her why, she simply smiled and said, 'You know pink is my favorite color.' 'But you're wearing a flowered pink dress in Miss Olson and holding a kitten. I thought you loved kittens.' 'Course I do, but in the other one Andy put me where he knew I wanted to be. Now that I can't be there anymore, all I do is think of that picture and I'm there.'
"Ancient bottom wipers"
After writing posts about politics, it seems appropriate to consider the topic of "bottom wipers."
I'm not sure why the cloth was attached to sticks for use. I know the Romans used (and reused!) sponges on sticks, and similar contraptions are marketed nowadays for the severely obese or physically handicapped.Some bamboo sticks with scraps of grimy cloth wound around them have been identified as bottom wipers from a latrine pit in a 2,000-year-old Chinese relay station on the Silk Road. They have also preserved the first solid evidence of disease spread from east to west by travelers. Samples of ancient feces scraped off the fabric and brought back to a laboratory in Cambridge have revealed eggs from four species of parasites, including Chinese liver fluke. The fluke needs marshy conditions to complete its life cycle, so could not have come from the desert area around the ancient Xuanquanzhi relay station.
How to blow a cow
Found out about this subject matter from a recent podcast of No Such Thing as a Fish:
Cow blowing, Kuhblasen, phooka, or doom dev, is a process used in many countries according to ethnographers, in which forceful blowing of air into a cow's vagina (or sometimes anus) is applied to induce her to produce more milk.A brief search yielded a video of the process. Frankly, I don't find the maneuver any more disgusting than American presidential politics, but in recognition of the more refined sensibilities of some of this blog's readers, I'll place the a link to the video, go to it if you wish:
Cow blowing was the reason why Gandhi abjured cow milk, saying that "since I had come to know that the cow and the buffalo were subjected to the process of phooka, I had conceived a strong disgust for milk."
Dog Saves Owner's Life
This
is Guy, a dog who lives in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania. On Thursday,
he was hiking in the woods with 79-year old human, who fell and hit his
head. The human lay there for 12 hours while Guy frantically tried to
get the help of other nearby two-legs. WJLA reports:The dog reportedly ran up the bank where the rescuers were, and would stop every 20-30 feet, barking until he led them to where the elder man was lying. […]Good boy.
"It was like watching an episode of 'Lassie,'" says emergency responder, Matthew Mariscano.
Monday, July 25, 2016
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Czech Republic - England - France - Germany - Italy - Latvia
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Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - Switzerland - Ukraine - Wales
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China - Hong Kong - India - Korea - Mauritius - Sri Lanka
United Arab Emirates - Vietnam
Africa
South Africa
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Australia - Philippines
Some of our readers today have been in:
The Americas
Brazil - Canada - Colombia - Honduras - Nicaragua - Puerto Rico
Sint Eustatius and Saba - United States - Venezuela
Europe
Aland Islands - Belgium - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Bulgaria
Czech Republic - England - France - Germany - Italy - Latvia
Netherlands - Poland - Portugal - Russia - Scotland - Serbia
Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - Switzerland - Ukraine - Wales
Asia
China - Hong Kong - India - Korea - Mauritius - Sri Lanka
United Arab Emirates - Vietnam
Africa
South Africa
The Pacific
Australia - Philippines
Today in History
| 326 | Emperor Constantine refuses to carry out traditional pagan sacrifices. | |
| 1394 | Charles VI of France issues a decree for the general expulsion of jews from France. | |
| 1564 | Maximilian II becomes emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. | |
| 1587 | Hideyoshi bans christianity in Japan and orders all christians to leave. | |
| 1759 | British forces defeat a French army at Fort Niagara in Canada. | |
| 1799 | On his way back from Syria, Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Ottomans at Aboukir, Egypt. | |
| 1814 | British and American forces fight each other to a standoff at Lundy’s Lane, Canada. | |
| 1845 | China grants Belgium equal trading rights with Britain, France and the United States. | |
| 1867 | President Andrew Johnson signs an act creating the territory of Wyoming. | |
| 1850 | Gold is discovered in the Rogue River in Oregon, extending the quest for gold up the Pacific coast. | |
| 1861 | The Crittenden Resolution, calling for the American Civil War to be fought to preserve the Union and not for slavery, is passed by Congress. | |
| 1894 | Japanese forces sink the British steamer Kowshing which was bringing Chinese reinforcements to Korea. | |
| 1909 | French aviator Louis Bleriot becomes the first man to fly across the English Channel in an airplane. | |
| 1914 | Russia declares that it will act to protect Serbian sovereignty. | |
| 1924 | Greece announces the deportation of 50,000 Armenians. | |
| 1934 | Austrian chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss is shot and killed by Nazis. | |
| 1941 | The U.S. government freezes Japanese and Chinese assets. | |
| 1943 | Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini is overthrown in a coup. | |
| 1944 | Allied forces begin the breakthrough of German lines in Normandy. | |
| 1978 | The first test-tube baby, Louis Brown, is born in Oldham, England. | |
| 1984 | Svetlana Savitskaya becomes first woman to perform a space walk. |
Judge throws attorney in jail for five days when she refused to take off her Black Lives Matter pin
***
This judge needs to be removed from the bench!
Richmond cop killed an unarmed man — and now will get tax-free compensation for the rest of his life
Richard “Pedie” Perez was shot and killed by
Officer Wallace Jensen of Richmond, California during a 2014 scuffle.
Now Jensen is retiring with benefits.
Jailers Left Paralyzed Man On Cell Floor For Five Days Before He Died
Over the course of five days, Tulsa deputies watched 37-year-old Elliot Williams slowly die on the floor of his cell.
Part-time stripper barricaded himself in elderly couple’s porch fearing abduction by aliens
“He was scared, shouting for help and it was noted he had blood on his hand. In interview, he said he had put his hand through the glass and barricaded himself inside because ‘they were coming for him’. He said he was seeking help because he was frightened.” In a statement read out in court, the victim said it had been a shock to find Moroney on his property and expressed his relief that the intruder had been unable to get into the house. Moroney pleaded guilty to criminal damage and told magistrates he drank alcohol every day or he got the shakes.
When the issue of compensation was mentioned, Mr Moroney spoke out again to say he would be unable to pay for the £150-worth of damage caused. He claimed his only source of income came from occasional work as a mobile stripper. Callum Terry, mitigating, highlighted how his client had entered a guilty plea at the first opportunity. He said: “It is clear he was fearing for his safety that night and whatever it was that caused him to be scared contributed to him breaking the window.” Moroney received a 12-month conditional discharge and was ordered to pay £150 compensation to the victim. After passing sentence, the chairwoman of the bench, Marian Hogarth urged Moroney to go to see his GP for help.
NASA: On the Edge of Forever
NASA has always loved Star Trek. The fictional universe inspired generations of young people to pursue science and technology careers, and among those who didn’t, it engendered a respect for space exploration that enables NASA to continue funding projects like the ISS and Mars exploration.
17 Species Named After 'Star Wars' Characters
However, some choose another direction - especially if they're naming a lot of species at once. That's when the real nerdiness comes out. Here are 17 species whose names were inspired by Star Wars.
Hungry and dehydrated stork wandered into pharmacy
A ravenous and dehydrated stork wandered into a pharmacy in the town of
Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany. on Monday. It is now being nursed back
to health in a zoo in Nuremberg.
Pharmacists at the Beyschlagsche Apotheke were surprised when the
unusual customer walked through the door at about midday.
After leaving its nest on the roof of the pharmacy, the hungry young bird had been traipsing up and down the high street for a few hours. Bypassing all the other shops, it finally entered the pharmacy, to the astonishment of owner Gabriele Sehring-Castelli and colleague Heike Wenisch. The famished and dehydrated stork was probably seeking “refuge”, as well as food and drink, Gabriele Sehring-Castelli said.
After giving it a watering can full of water, the pharmacists “left it in peace”, the owner went on to say. However, it subsequently became apparent that the stork “couldn’t fly and needed help”, Sehring-Castelli added. A stork expert was then notified about the wandering bird, which was missing several feathers. The most likely reason for the stunted growth of the stork’s feathers is that a few weeks after the bird had hatched, the weather was too cold and wet.
In these conditions, the feathers wouldn't have been able to form properly, ornithologist Michael Zimmermann said. “We have already had this problem a dozen times this year.” It appears the unfortunate bird had not been fed by its parents because it was incapable of flying. But things are now looking up for the meandering stork. The specialist took it to the Nuremberg Zoo on Tuesday, where it is currently being looked after. Its missing feathers should grow naturally within the next year or so.
Sizing Up Sharks
The Lords Of The Sea
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