10 of the Largest Golden Parachutes CEOs Ever Received

When the CEOs of the world’s top corporations are fired, often for running the business into ruin, they often land in retirement with a severance package that the rest of us buy lottery tickets for. These severance deals are so big they call them golden parachutes, since you crash to earth and still have extreme wealth given to you. Hey, you’d retire if you had a hundred million dollars in severance pay, wouldn’t you? But some CEOs even then go on to other jobs!

10. Tom Freston – $100,839,772

When Tom Freston couldn’t manage to acquire MySpace in 2006 for his company Sumner Redstone, they fired him in an embarrassingly public display. Still, Freston went laughing to the bank with his huge severance package of over $100 million. After leaving Sumner Redstone, he went on to head investment group and media consulting firm Firefly3 LLC.

Sweet, huh? But that deal only made number ten on the list of the biggest golden parachutes. Read the rest at Money Inc.

Survey finds vast majority of Americans think US is divided over values, politics

Survey finds vast majority of Americans think US is divided over values, politics

Americans see their country as deeply divided over values and politics — a gap they do not expect to diminish any time soon, according to a new survey conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. But the survey also finds that most...

Homeless vet finds family after 32 years from VA social worker’s Facebook message

Homeless vet finds family after 32 years from VA social worker’s Facebook message

A social worker with the Veterans Administration in Atlanta helped reunite Army veteran German Leon with his two sisters...

Pregnancy-related deaths in Texas show that anti-choice zealots "ideals" are fatal

Pregnancy-related deaths in Texas show that anti-choice zealots "ideals" are fatal

If Texas were to keep its latest promise to secede, it would find itself dragging up the rear on the list of industrialized nations who have been successful at reducing the rates of maternal mortality.

U.S. judge seeks criminal contempt charges against wingnut Arizona Sheriff Arpaio

U.S. judge seeks criminal contempt charges against wingnut Arizona Sheriff Arpaio

A federal judge recommended that prosecutors bring criminal contempt charges against Arizona 'lawman' Arpaio, finding that the controversial sheriff had violated court orders stemming from a 2007 racial profiling case.…

Judge sets aside rape charges for probation so ex-athlete can enjoy ‘a college experience’

Judge sets aside rape charges for probation so ex-athlete can enjoy ‘a college experience’

A former Massachusetts high school athlete will avoid serving jail time and registering as a sex offender after he was charged with sexually assaulting two unconscious women at a house party.

Judge's Hateful Back-To-School Injunction Targets Transgender Children

Judge's Hateful Back-To-School Injunction Targets Transgender Children

Wingnuts Freaked Out By Lesbian Farmers

Wingnuts Freaked Out By Lesbian Farmers

Lush Dimbulb insists that Democrats "are trying to bust up one of the last geographic wingnut regions in the country."…

Alleged cake-kicker now accused of assault in ice cream store

A woman accused of drop-kicking a birthday cake has now been charged with the assault of an ice cream shop worker in Royal Oak, Michigan. Tricia Ann Kortes, 46, was charged with one count of misdemeanor assault and battery.

The ice cream shop employee says Kortes was mad because they didn't have the flavor she wanted. Police say surveillance video shows Kortes reaching over the counter at Ray's Ice Cream to hit the employee back in July 2015.
Kortes is also facing disorderly conduct charges for allegedly drop-kicking a "Superman v. Batman" cake in June 2016 at a Kroger in West Bloomfield, Michigan. She pleaded no-contest in that case. In 2015, she was also charged with assault and battery in Troy.

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She later pled to disorderly person and was ordered to pay a $500 fine and attend anger management. Online records show that Kortes was also charged with an assault in 2003 in King County, Washington. The same records indicate she was placed on probation for a year.

Woman suing police and city after her home was destroyed during 10-hour standoff with her dog

A woman from Canyon County, Idaho, is suing the Caldwell Police Department, several officers and the city for damaging her property during a 10-hour standoff at her home in 2014. Police thought an armed suspect was in the house, but the only occupant was her dog. Shaniz West has demanded $350,000 to settle her tort claim against police officers and the city. A tort claim is a precursor required by state law before filing a lawsuit against a county or government agency. West’s claim, made in April, was not approved or denied within 90 days, so she sued early this month.

West said she came back to her Nampa home at 2:20pm on Aug. 11, 2014, after taking her son to register for first grade. She found Caldwell police in her yard during a search for her ex-boyfriend, Fabian Salinas. She said she gave police her house keys. She also gave them permission to enter the house and arrest Salinas, whom she thought might be inside. Salinas had come by to pick up his belongings as she was leaving to take her son to school registration, but she told him to be gone by the time she came back, the lawsuit said. An officer’s incident report obtained through a public records request said that officers were told Salinas might have had a BB gun on him, West denies saying that, and that Salinas was a suspect in a theft of guns, some of which had not been recovered.
During what followed, “police repeatedly exceeded the authority Ms West had given them, breaking windows, crashing through ceilings, and riddling the home with holes from shooting canisters of tear gas, destroying most of Ms. West and her children’s personal belongings,” the lawsuit said. Police officers and the department’s SWAT team surrounded the home for 10 hours “and engaged in a standoff, with the incorrect belief that Salinas was inside,” the lawsuit said. “Ms West’s pet dog, Blue, was the only occupant of the home.” The standoff ended at about midnight after officers searched all parts of the home. They found the dog in a back bedroom and turned it over to animal control, according to a police report. Police caught Salinas a week later in Meridian. “When Ms West was allowed to re-enter the home, she found the house destroyed,” the lawsuit said.
“Her and her children’s personal belongings were saturated with tear gas and littered with debris from the walls and ceilings, and broken glass from the windows.” West did not own the house; she rented it. She had moved in two weeks before. The lawsuit said she was unable to live in the home for two months. She stayed with friends and family, and her first-grader had to change schools. At the time, West had two children, a 6-year-old and an 8-month-old. She was pregnant with a third child. Nobody helped West clean up the mess, according to the settlement offer sent in April. Police paid for a three-week stay in a hotel, the offer said. West’s lawsuit seeks an undetermined amount of compensation for being displaced from her home, the cost of repairing and replacing her damaged personal property, and general damages for pain, suffering and emotional distress. She also wants punitive damages and attorneys’ fees.

Three crocodiles left at school during break in

Three malnourished female saltwater crocodiles were left inside a rural school in Australia's Northern Territory on Sunday morning.

The intruders smashed their way into Taminmin High School's front office, about 30km south of Darwin, leaving the unexpected packages ranging in size from 1.5 to 2m.
Alarms alerted the school caretaker who called police at about 5am. The crocodiles were muzzled with garden ties. Wildlife officers said the crocodiles were in reasonable health but malnourished.
Police Duty Superintendent Rob Burgoyne said forensics were examining evidence including CCTV footage, which showed four males unlawfully entering the school. Anyone with information about the croc dumping is urged to contact police.

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1350		John II, also known as John the Good, succeeds Philip VI as king of France.
1485		Henry Tudor defeats Richard III at Bosworth. This victory establishes the Tudor dynasty in England and ends the War of the Roses.
1642		Civil war in England begins as Charles I declares war on Parliament at Nottingham.
1717		The Austrian army forces the Turkish army out of Belgrade, ending the Turkish revival in the Balkans.
1777		With the approach of General Benedict Arnold‘s army, British Colonel Barry St. Ledger abandons Fort Stanwix and returns to Canada.
1849		The Portuguese governor of Macao, China, is assassinated because of his anti-Chinese policies.
1911		The Mona Lisa, the famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci, is stolen from the Louvre in Paris, where it had hung for more than 100 years. It is recovered in 1913.
1922		Michael Collins, Irish politician, is killed in an ambush.
1942		Brazil declares war on the Axis powers. She is the only South American country to send combat troops into Europe.
1945		Soviet troops land at Port Arthur and Dairen on the Kwantung Peninsula in China.
1945		Conflict in Vietnam begins when a group of Free French parachute into southern Indochina, in response to a successful coup by communist guerilla Ho Chi Minh.
1952		Devil’s Island‘s penal colony is permanently closed.
1956		Eisenhower & Nixon renominated by wingnut coven in San Francisco.
1962		OAS (Secret Army Organization) gunmen unsuccessfully attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle; the incident inspires Frederick Forsyth’s novel, The Day of the Jackal.
1962		The world’s first nuclear-powered passenger-cargo ship, NS Savannah, completes its maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va., to Savannah, Ga.
1968		First papal visit to Latin America; Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota.
1969		Hurricane Camille hits US Gulf Coast, killing 256 and causing $1.421 billion in damages.
1971		Bolivian military coup: Col. Hugo Banzer Suarez ousts leftist president, Gen. Juan Jose Torres and assumes power.
1971		FBI arrests members of The Camden 28, an anti-war group, as the group is raiding a draft office in Camden, NJ.
1972		International Olympic Committee votes 36–31 with 3 abstentions to ban Rhodesia from the games because of the country’s racist policies.
1975		Ford survives second assassination attempt in 17 days, this one by Sarah Jane Moore in San Francisco, Cal.
1983		Benigno Aquino, the only real opposition on Ferdinand Marcos’ reign as president of the Philippines, is gunned down at Manila Airport.
1989		First complete ring around Neptune discovered.
1995		During 11-day siege at at Ruby Ridge, Id., FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi kills Vicki Weaver while shooting at another target.
2003		Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended for refusing to comply with federal court order to remove the Ten Commandments from the Alabama Supreme Court building’s lobby.
2005		Art heist: a version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
2007		Most runs scored by any team in modern MLB history as the Texas Rangers thump the Baltimore Orioles 30-3.

Gorging on Meat

Americans Are Gorging on Meat in Amounts Not Seen in Decades

Facts About The Vikings

Between Thor's presence in the Marvel movies and the hit History channel show there is a renewed interest in those savage Nordic warriors known collectively as the Vikings.
Known for their ingenuity and hardiness as much as their ferocity in combat, the Vikings were a diverse and loosely banded group of clans whose heroes were hardly what you'd call heroic.

Have you heard tales about the great Viking hero Erik the Red? Turns out his fellow Vikings saw Erik as too violent.
Erik found trouble with his fellow Vikings wherever he called home, and having a disagreement with Erik meant you and yours would be killed in cold blood.
His life was a series of deadly brawls and banishment, but he did sire the great explorer Leif Erikson, so his life wasn't all death and destruction.

Speaking of death and bodily dismemberment- it's funny that the Vikings found Erik to be such a brute, considering Vikings were known for bloody duels called Holmgangs, ritual sacrifice, infanticide and a brutal torture technique called the Blood Eagle.

Read 10 Facts About Vikings here

"Portrait of a Young Woman"

Portrait of a Young Woman is a painting which is commonly believed to be by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, executed between 1480 and 1485. Others attribute authorship to Jacopo da Sellaio. The woman is shown in profile but with her bust turned in three-quarter view to reveal a cameo medallion she is wearing round her neck. The medallion is a copy in reverse of "Nero's Seal", a famous antique carnelian representing Apollo and Marsyas, which belonged to Lorenzo de' Medici.

Bumf

Bumf

We encountered this word in Agatha Christie's The Clocks (1963):

"It was just after two o'clock that I walked into the station and asked for Dick.  I found him at his desk leafing over a pile of stuff...

"You've got a lot of bumf there."

We had to look it up:

1. (Britain, obsolete) Toilet paper.
2. Useless papers; now especially official documents, standardized forms, sales and marketing print material etc.

 The word was created as a "shortened form of bumfodder."

Ultracrepidarian

Ultracrepidarian

MEANING:

adjective: Giving opinions beyond one’s area of expertise.
noun: One who gives opinions beyond one’s area of expertise.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin ultra (beyond) + crepidarius (shoemaker), from crepida (sandal). Earliest documented use: 1819.

NOTES:

The story goes that in ancient Greece there was a renowned painter named Apelles who used to display his paintings and hide behind them to listen to the comments. Once a cobbler pointed out that the sole of the shoe was not painted correctly. Apelles fixed it and encouraged by this the cobbler began offering comments about other parts of the painting. At this point the painter cut him off with “Ne sutor ultra crepidam” meaning “Shoemaker, not above the sandal” or one should stick to one’s area of expertise.
Addition: The story was told by the Roman writer Pliny the Elder, hence Latin.

Which is slower - andante or adagio ?

Here's an excerpt of the Wikipedia entry on tempo:

Basic tempo markings

By adding an -issimo ending, the word is amplified. By adding an -ino or -etto ending, the word is diminished. The beats per minute (bpm) values are rough approximations.
From slowest to fastest:

• Larghissimo – very, very slow (24 bpm (beats per minute in a 4
  4 time) and under)
• Grave – very slow (25–45 bpm)
• Largo – broadly (40–60 bpm)
• Lento – slowly (45–60 bpm)
• Larghetto – rather broadly (60–66 bpm)
• Adagio – slow and stately (literally, "at ease") (66–76 bpm)
• Adagietto – slower than andante (72–76 bpm)
• Andante – at a walking pace (76–108 bpm)
• Andantino – slightly faster than Andante (although in some cases it can be taken to mean slightly slower than andante) (80–108 bpm)
• Marcia moderato – moderately, in the manner of a march (83–85 bpm)
• Andante moderato – between andante and moderato (thus the name andante moderato) (92–112 bpm)
• Moderato – moderately (108–120 bpm)
• Allegretto – moderately fast (112–120 bpm)
• Allegro moderato – close to but not quite allegro (116–120 bpm)
• Allegro – fast, quickly, and bright (120–168 bpm) (molto allegro is slightly faster than allegro, but always in its range)
• Vivace – lively and fast (168–176 bpm)
• Vivacissimo – very fast and lively (172–176 bpm)
• Allegrissimo or Allegro vivace – very fast (172–176 bpm)
• Presto – very, very fast (168–200 bpm)
• Prestissimo – even faster than Presto (200 bpm and over)

Much more at Wikipedia.

Retro Wheels

A 1941 Ford Western Flyer motorhome.  Via the Old School Cool subreddit, where there is a link to pictures of the interior.
More photos and information about early motorhomes at Hemmings Daily.

That’s not fair!

That’s not fair! — Managing envy in the workplace

Watching a co-worker get the extra respect and attention from a supervisor that you feel you deserve can leave you feeling envious. The more that envy increases the more you can become what researchers refer to as “ego depleted” — a general lack of...

Slender Man Case

Morgan Geyser pleads not guilty in Slender Man case

Oregonians afraid of Bundy-backing sheriff’s army of 65 appointed ‘special deputies’

Oregonians afraid of Bundy-backing sheriff’s army of 65 appointed ‘special deputies’

Grant County Sheriff Glenn Palmer has an official staff including an undersheriff, two deputies and a small jail staff. And 65 off-the-books "special deputies."

Argument over TV drama sparked mass brawl

An argument about a popular TV drama in Bangladesh erupted into a mass brawl involving hundreds of people, with 15 people badly injured, police say. Villagers in Habiganj district had gathered in a cafe to watch Indian-made Bengali fantasy drama Kiranmala.
But when two men disagreed about the plot, others took sides and soon hundreds of people were fighting with sticks and knives. Police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowd. Kiranmala, a sci-fi drama about a warrior princess who saves mankind from evil, is wildly popular in Bangladesh.
The brawl erupted in the cafe in Dhol village, 109 miles (176km) north-east of Dhaka. Local police chief Yasinul Haque said: "Two men were involved in an argument over the episode, which turned into a group clash. There were hundreds of people attacking each other with sticks and knives.
"Police had to fire nine rubber bullets and five shells of tear gas to control the crowd, and at least 15 people needed hospital treatment." It has been reported that at least 100 people were hurt during the fighting. Mr Haque said the brawl began on Wednesday night and continued into Thursday morning. Despite being made in India, Kiranmala is the most popular TV drama in Bangladesh in recent years, and is widely watched.

Intruder set shoe on fire in cooking pot during home break-in

An intruder caused damage to an apartment by setting a shoe on fire in a cooking pot and triggering the residence’s sprinkler system.

The break-in occurred just before 8pm on Thursday at an apartment in San Francisco, California.
“They put the shoe in the pot and set it on fire,” said Officer Carlos Manfredi, a spokesman for the San Francisco Police Department. The intruder entered the apartment through a back window, Manfredi added.
He said it was unclear why the prowler set the shoe on fire in the cooking pot. Smoke from the fire prompted the sprinkler system to go off, causing water damage to the apartment. It is not known if anything was stolen.

Man face burglary charges over missing potato salad

A 32-year-old man was charged on Thursday for allegedly breaking into a home in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, sleeping on a spare bed and stealing potato salad.

Joshua Ray Defries, from Fergus Falls, reportedly broke off a partially opened basement window and entered a home on Tuesday night. The homeowners report Defries then entered an upstairs bedroom and slept on the bed.
They also reported leftover potato salad missing from their refrigerator. A Fergus Falls police officer responded to the home and arrested Defries after the owners called authorities.
The officer confronted Defries and was unable to discern why he was in the home. Defries reportedly had slurred speech and smelled of alcohol. Otter Tail County District Court Judge Barbara Hanson charged Defries with first-degree and second-degree burglary of an occupied dwelling.

Woman who missed last bus charged with stealing ambulance to drive home

After being discharged from an Ohio hospital and missing the last bus home, a woman stole an ambulance and drove it to her residence, according to police.

Officers say that Lisa Carr, 43, was released from Deaconess Hospital in Cincinnati at around 11pm on Thursday. Following Carr's discharge, an ambulance driver flagged down a police car to report that his vehicle, which he had left running outside the hospital while dropping off a patient, had been stolen.
Police officers were quickly able to track the ambulance via its GPS signal and began following the vehicle on what became a 20-minute trek to Carr’s residence 10 miles from the hospital. The ambulance never topped 30 mph, according to a police report. Carr was subsequently taken into custody and questioned.
She reportedly admitted to taking the Ford E-450 ambulance, telling officers she "took the vehicle because she missed the last bus." Carr was arrested for theft, driving with a suspended license, and failure to comply with police. She was booked into the Hamilton County jail.

Fugitive's 'old man' disguise failed to fool police

Police officers have arrested a fugitive after seeing through his elaborate disguise as an elderly man.

They surrounded a house in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts, and ordered Shaun "Shizz" Miller out. He walked outside in disguise and when they realized the "elderly man" was actually the 31-year-old they were looking for, they arrested him.
He had been on the run since being charged with heroin trafficking offenses in April. When officers searched the house in South Yarmouth, they found two loaded weapons hidden in a laundry basket, and nearly $30,000 (£23,000) in cash.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms tweeted that the charges against Mr Miller were part of a larger complaint into the Nauti street gang, and that 12 other people had also been charged.

Yellowstone river closed ...

Yellowstone river closed over parasite threat

How Natural Are Nature Documentaries?

Nature documentaries are fascinating glimpses at life we don’t get to see, because it’s far away, dangerous, or otherwise hidden from our daily lives. Most wild animals avoid humans anyway, so part of the fascination in such shows is wondering how they got those shots, or got so close to the animals. The BBC’s latest documentary, The Hunt, is about predators and the way they stalk their prey, but it leaves out the parts that may gross out the audience. Is that an error of omission, or just an appropriate way to tell a story? Making a wildlife documentary is a lot more complicated than just following animals around with a camera. For example, earlier nature films used tricks to get the footage they wanted, such as when Disney producers chased lemmings off a cliff and presented it as a mass suicide in the 1958 Disney film White Wilderness. 

Most nature documentaries don’t engage in such outright hoaxing, but staging shots or adding sound effects is common. For instance, stories about animal "families" often splice together footage of unrelated animals to create narratives that would otherwise be impossible or impractical to film. In those cases, documentaries are often telling a composite story of what typically occurs in an animal’s upbringing, rather than the story of one specific set of parents raising their young. It’s also common practice to use footage of tame or zoo animals for close-up shots, in order to avoid disturbing wild animals. In fact, Attenborough has been dinged for this particular approach before, on a previous series called Frozen Planet, when shots of polar bear cubs being born in a zoo were cut together with scenes of polar bears in the wild. Crucially, at no point does Attenborough tell the audience that the cubs are born in the wilderness — but neither does he say where they were born. The provenance of the cubs was revealed in behind-the-scenes footage. Hardly secret, but some members of the audience felt deceived nonetheless.

Even more interesting is the footage the BBC left out of The Hunt, like the time a polar bear wanted to hunt the cameraman! Read more about how nature documentaries are constructed at The Verge.

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1129		The warrior Yoritomo is made Shogun without equal in Japan.
1525		Estevao Gomes returns to Portugal after failing to find a clear waterway to Asia.
1794		France surrenders the island of Corsica to the British.
1808		Napoleon Bonaparte‘s General Junot is defeated by Wellington at the first Battle of the Peninsular War at Vimeiro, Portugal.
1831		Nat Turner leads a slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia that kills close to 60 whites.
1858		The first of a series of debates begins between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. Douglas goes on to win the Senate seat in November, but Lincoln gains national visibility for the first time.
1863		Confederate raiders under William Quantrill strike Lawrence, Kansas, leaving 150 civilians dead.
1864		Confederate General A.P. Hill attacks Union troops south of Petersburg, Va., at the Weldon railroad. His attack is repulsed, resulting in heavy Confederate casualties.
1915		Italy declares war on Turkey.
1942		U.S. Marines turn back the first major Japanese ground attack on Guadalcanal in the Battle of Tenaru.
1944		The Dumbarton Oaks conference, which lays the foundation for the establishment of the United Nations, is held in Washington, D.C.
1945		President Harry S. Truman cancels all contracts under the Lend-Lease Act.
1959		Hawaii is admitted into the Union.
1963		The South Vietnamese Army arrests over 100 Buddhist monks in Saigon.
1968		Soviet forces invade Czechoslovakia because of the country’s experiments with a more liberal government.
1972		US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus launched.
1976		Mary Langdon in Battle, East Sussex, becomes Britain’s first firewoman.
1976		Operation Paul Bunyan: after North Korean guards killed two American officers sent to trim a poplar tree along the DMZ on Aug. 18, US and ROK soldiers with heavy support chopped down the tree.
1986		In Cameroon 2,000 die from poison gas from a volcanic eruption.
1988		Ceasefire in the 8-year war between Iran and Iraq.
1989		Voyager 2 begins a flyby of planet Neptune.
1991		Communist hardliners’ coup is crushed in USSR after just 2 days; Latvia declares independence from USSR.
1994		Ernesto Zedillo wins Mexico’s presidential election.
1996		The new Globe theater opens in England.
2000		Tiger Woods wins golf’s PGA Championship, the first golfer to win 3 majors in a calendar year since Ben Hogan in 1953.
2001		NATO decides to send a peacekeeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

Was 'Iceman Otzi' a Copper Age fashionista?

Was 5,300-year-old 'Iceman Otzi' a Copper Age fashionista?

Only Half of Your Friends Like You As Much As You Think They Do, Says Science

Only Half of Your Friends Like You As Much As You Think They Do, Says Science

The Kaiser CEO LOVES Obamacare

The Kaiser CEO LOVES Obamacare – Thinks Aetna Did It Wrong

You’ve probably seen the headlines that Aetna, one of the largest providers in the Affordable Care Act exchanges, has pulled out. Critics of Obamacare...

This Is Your Brain on Bad Media Coverage

This Is Your Brain on Bad Media Coverage—Five Dire Drug Headlines, Just From Today

Workplace Suicides Are Sharply on the Rise in the Globalized Economy

Workplace Suicides Are Sharply on the Rise in the Globalized Economy

Teen-raping Texas pastor gets life in prison after using the bible to justify abusing women

Teen-raping Texas pastor gets life in prison after using the bible to justify abusing women

Dell Ivan Godkin, 48, was found guilty of sexually abusing one victim beginning when she was 13-years-old, and continuing until she was 17, by telling her Dog approved of what they were doing.