Why Body Cameras Won't Solve the Problem of Police Violence Against Black People

Why Body Cameras Won't Solve the Problem of Police Violence Against Black People

Teacher charged with assault after writing 'focus' on student's forehead

A teacher who had just started working for the school system in Virginia Beach, Virginia, has resigned after he was charged with misdemeanor assault and battery of a student.
Daniel Board, a 46-year-old maths teacher, got upset with an eighth-grade student at Landstown Middle School “because of questions that he asked and not focusing in class” on Sept. 16, according to a criminal complaint filed on Monday.
Board grabbed the back of the boy’s head and wrote “focus” on his forehead, the criminal complaint stated. The boy was not allowed to wipe the word off his face until he completed his work, the document said. The school system found out about the incident on Sept. 19 and began an investigation, said Eileen Cox, a district spokeswoman.

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Board, who started working for the schools in August, was placed on unpaid administrative leave on Sept. 28, Cox said, and he submitted his resignation Thursday. The school educates students from sixth to eighth grade. Board’s first court appearance is scheduled for Nov. 3 in Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court. The student’s family declined to comment.

Man arrested after couple ordered food at drive-through then passed out before collecting it

A South Carolina man is facing a number charges after police said he and a female companion passed out in their car at the drive-through of a McDonald’s in Marathon, Florida. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office say that Kevin Yonson, 28, was behind the wheel of a white Ford with the woman in the passenger seat. They ordered food about 10:30pm on Tuesday but didn’t drive up to the window to pay to get their meal. So a McDonald’s employee went outside to find out what was going on and saw them asleep in the car, still at the ordering speaker. He called the Monroe Sheriff’s Office. Deputy Christopher Schwartz wrote in his report that when he approached the car, he saw the “female asleep, mouth open, with drool coming down her face.” He tried to wake her but she “continued to sit with her eyes closed.” She finally woke up and “looked at me as if she had no idea where she was.” She then shook Yonson awake. Schwartz told her stand behind the car; by that time, Deputy Garrett Bragg already had Yonson at the back of the car. Both smelled of alcohol, Schwartz wrote.
Bragg asked Yonson to go through a field sobriety test. At first he agreed, then decided not to. He got combative and was yelling, Schwartz wrote. The deputy wrote that Yonson resisted being handcuffed. At one point, Bragg and Sgt. Nick Whiteman “grabbed” Yonson and “secured” him against the car. Schwartz then tried walking him to his cruiser but Yonson “lost his balance and stated I pushed him over.” After a minor scuffle, the police got Yonson into Schwartz’s cruiser. It turns out that Yonson isn’t who he told police he was. He didn’t have a driver’s license and initially gave his last name as Johnson, then admitted to who he really is.
Yonson is a registered sex offender in West Virginia stemming from a Feb. 9, 2015, conviction there. He hadn’t registered in Monroe as a sex offender, as required by law. He also has three drunk-driving convictions in South Carolina, one in 2008 and two last year. The woman was taken back to her hotel. Yonson, however, was booked into the county jail, where he remains on $25,000 bond, charged with felony driving under the influence (fourth or subsequent offense), failing to register as a sex offender, resisting arrest, driving with a suspended license, battery on a law officer and giving false information to a police officer. He is scheduled to appear before Acting Circuit Court Judge Ruth Becker in Marathon on Oct. 27.

Climate change is making forest fires worse

Climate change is making forest fires worse

Jupiter’s spooky sounds

Listen to Jupiter’s spooky sounds

When a NASA spacecraft made its first full orbit around Jupiter, a University of Iowa instrument on board recorded haunting sounds befitting the Halloween season. The UI instrument was listening to Jupiter’s auroras, light shows similar to the northern and southern...

We're OK with Eating Pigs, but Not Dogs

Why We're OK with Eating Pigs, but Not Dogs

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Today in History

1531		The catholics defeat the protestants at Kappel during Switzerland’s second civil war.
1540		Charles V of Milan puts his son Philip in control.
1727		George II of England is crowned.
1795		In gratitude for putting down a rebellion in the streets of Paris, France’s National Convention appoints Napoleon Bonaparte second in command of the Army of the Interior.
1862		The Confederate Congress in Richmond passes a draft law allowing anyone owning 20 or more slaves to be exempt from military service. This law confirms many southerners opinion that they are in a ‘rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight.’
1877		Outlaw Wild Bill Longley, who killed at least a dozen men, is hanged, but it takes two tries; on the first try, the rope slipps and his knees drug the ground.
1899		South African Boers, settler from the Netherlands, declare war on Great Britain.
1906		The San Francisco school board orders the segregation of Oriental schoolchildren, inciting Japanese outrage.
1942		In the Battle of Cape Esperance, near the Solomon Islands, U.S. cruisers and destroyers decisively defeat a Japanese task force in a night surface encounter.
1945		Negotiations between Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek and Communist leader Mao Tse-tung break down. Nationalist and Communist troops are soon engaged in a civil war.
1950		The Federal Communications Commission authorizes the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) to begin commercial color TV broadcasts.
1962		Pope John XXIII opens the 21st Ecumenical Council (Vatican II) with a call for Christian unity. This is the largest gathering of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in history; among delegate-observers are representatives of major Protestant denominations, in itself a sign of sweeping change.
1968		Apollo 7, with three men aboard, is successfully launched from Cape Kennedy.
1972		A French mission in Vietnam is destroyed by a U.S. bombing raid.
1972		Race riot breaks out aboard carrier USS Kitty Hawk off Vietnam during Operation Linebacker.
1975		Saturday Night Live comedy-variety show premiers on NBC, with guest host comedian George Carlin and special guests Janis Ian, Andy Kaufman and Billy Preston; at this writing (2016) the show is still running.
1976		The so-called “Gang of Four,” Chairman Mao Tse-tung’s widow and three associates, are arrested in Peking, setting in motion an extended period of turmoil in the Chinese Communist Party.
1984		Astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan, part of the crew of Space Shuttle Challenger, becomes the first American woman to walk in space.
1987		Operation Pawan by Indian Peace Keeping Force begins in Sri Lanka; thousands of Tamil citizens, along with hundreds of Tamil Tigers militants and Indian Army soldiers will die in the operation.
1991		Confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas begin.
2000		NASA launches its 100th Space Shuttle mission.
2001		The Polaroid Corporation, which had provided shutterbugs with photo prints in minutes with its “instant cameras” since 1947, files for bankruptcy.

How British and American Spelling Parted Ways

When you set up your spellcheck on your computer, you must choose between British and American English, because even in text, they are becoming different languages. Why do Americans spell words differently from the British? While it was the British who altered their accent to end up sounding different from Americans, in the case of spelling, it was the Americans who changed.

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Arika Orent explains how that happened. Simple is the name of the game. Now if we could just get global internet commenters to stop correcting each other’s spelling when those spellings are perfectly fine in their native countries, we’d be ahead of the game. We have enough problems remembering that chips, flat, biscuit, bonnet and boot mean fries, apartment, cookie, hood and trunk

The Boeing Dreamliner

An Apartment That Can Fly

What do you get when you take a jumbo jet that normally seats between 242 and 335 people and convert it into a private plane? You get the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. It’s got 2400 square feet of interior room, so you can understand how it can be outfitted like a regular (and spacious) home. If you like how the “living room” looks, you really should see the bathroom, dining room, and the other luxury areas. But since this “house” can fly around the world, it comes with a pretty price tag. Take the tour of the Dreamliner at Money Inc.

In One German Town, 1,000 People Killed Themselves in 72 Hours

Still, today, we are learning more about the horrors of World War II. We Americans studied it in school from texts written from an American perspective, and were horrified that over a hundred thousand were killed in the D-Day Invasion and the Battle of Normandy. That pales in comparison to the two million killed in the Battle of Stalingrad. The Eastern Front was particularly brutal, and the Germans and the Russians hated each other fiercely. As the war came to a close in 1945, and the Soviet troops pushed into Germany, it was the end of the world for many German citizens. 

Many Soviet soldiers believed there was no such thing as an innocent German. “If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day,” wrote influential Soviet intellectual Ilya Ehrenburg. “If you leave a German alive, the German will hang a Russian and rape a Russian woman. If you kill one German, kill another — there is nothing more amusing for us than a heap of German corpses.” In other words, however bad the retribution, the German citizenry had it coming.
Numerous German cities experienced mass suicides at the end of the war. Over the conflict’s chaotic and desperate final months, Berlin witnessed around 7,000 people take their lives. But in terms of sudden and gruesome panic, it is hard to beat the heights of the conflagration at Demmin, a disaster in which an estimated 1,000 people took their lives, in a span scarcely longer than 72 hours.

Read the story of the fall of Demmin at Timeline, but be warned the lead image is graphic and may be disturbing.

Bragging as a strategy

Bragging as a strategy: what boasting buys, and costs, a candidate

Life is full of auditions in which it might seem advantageous, if not outright required, to describe oneself as above average. Think of job interviews, dating or running for president of the United States. A new study that measured how people judge those who made such...

What’s really going on in PTSD brains?

What’s really going on in PTSD brains? A new theory

For decades, neuroscientists and physicians have tried to get to the bottom of the age-old mystery of post-traumatic stress disorder, to explain why only some people are vulnerable and why they experience so many symptoms and so much disability. All experts in the...

Got eczema?

Got eczema? It may just be bad evolutionary luck

Some genetic diseases persist for generation after generation because the genes that cause them can benefit human health. Sickle cell anemia is one example: This disorder compels red blood cells to take on a crescent moon shape, leading to anemia. But carrying a copy...

Shopkeeper threatened with tree branch fought back with fruit knife

A grandfather brandished a fruit knife to ward off two thieves in the fourth robbery at his convenience store in Cabramatta, Sydney, Australia. Two men, one armed with a tree branch, entered the shop shortly after 7.30pm on Saturday night.
They demanded cash from Allan To, who is originally from Vietnam, waving the branch in his face. “I scared they’d hit me [with] the long stick,” Mr To said. “I came in Australia in 1990. I stay here in the shop twenty years already.”
Mr To grabbed a fruit knife and demanded the men leave, but not before they took $800 and his mobile phone.“I turn around. I take the knife, they see the knife and they ran,” he said. Inspector Rob Adam from NSW Police said the opportunistic robbery was “desperate”.
“I imagine they must have been quite desperate to use a tree branch,” he said. “I’ve reviewed the footage, it’s only a skinny branch but it could cause some serious injury to the victims.” No arrests have yet been made. The men are described as being of Pacific Islander/Maori appearance and are around 183cm tall. Both men had a solid build, and were wearing black hooded jumpers.

Man 'collected discarded receipts then obtained the items from store and returned them for cash'

A man from Chubbuck, Idaho, is facing burglary charges after police say he discovered a unique way to steal from a local store. Police say they found out what had happened through surveillance video.
Police arrested Logan Pack, 24, for Felony Burglary. They say he collected receipts from the parking lot at Home Depot, then used the receipts like a shopping list to obtain the items from the shelves and return the goods for cash.
Police say that Pack visited the home improvement store at least four times. They say he admitted to one of the four reported burglaries, but claims he doesn’t remember the others.
Park was arrested on Monday and charged with three counts of felony burglary. He remains incarcerated at the Bannock County Jail. Bond in his case was set at $7,500 and a preliminary hearing is scheduled for Oct. 20.

Spandex dress-wearing man who saw spiders in restaurant bathroom faces intoxication charge

A man from Tahlequah, Oklahoma, claiming a McDonald's bathroom was infested with spiders was taken to jail early on Friday morning after he was caught "shooting up drugs" in the local restaurant, police said. Officer Thomas Donnell filed a report claiming that Shawn D. Padilla, 45, was standing in the restaurant just after midnight, "wearing a spandex dress and acting very erratic." Padilla allegedly told Donnell the restroom was crawling with spiders and he had been bitten several times.
Donnell followed Padilla into the restroom; Padilla opened the door to a stall and "told me to look at all of the spiders in there," Donnell reported. But Donnell said there were no arachnids in the bathroom, despite Padilla's claims. When questioned by the officer, Padilla denied taking any form of medication.
He was then handcuffed and taken to the Tahlequah Municipal Jail for a public intoxication charge. Booking records show Padilla was in the Cherokee County Detention Center in August for possession of methamphetamine. He has not been formally charged in the district court.

Police on the lookout after profanity was mown into man's lawn

A man from Jonesboro, Arkansas, discovered that someone had vandalized his property with a lawn mower on Thursday morning.The 69-year-old man told police the words "Fuck You" had been mown into the grass in front of his shop building near his house.
The man told the sheriff's office that he did not know when the incident happened. The victim had no idea who would have done this or why.
Craighead County sheriff's office criminal investigator John Varner said that deputies were advised to keep a lookout around the man's property.

Ivanka Trump Just Admitted That She LIKES Her Dad Calling Her A ‘Piece Of Ass’

Just when you thought you didn’t need a barf bag…

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Ivanka Trump Just Admitted That She LIKES Her Dad Calling Her A ‘Piece Of Ass’

Police officer who masturbated in car 'was trying to stay awake on his drive home'

Patrolman Glenn C. Woolard ended his night shift in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and was driving home on Wednesday morning when he pulled down his basketball shorts and exposed himself, according to court records. A woman in a box truck was driving next to Woolard's sedan was shocked at what she saw, telling a state trooper who took her report, he was "waving it around" and fondling himself.
The woman gave the sedan's license plate number to police, who went to Woolard's nearby house. At first, Woolard denied the accusation, but then confessed, authorities said. The 35-year-old patrolman admitted exposing himself on Wednesday morning and also a week earlier in the parking lot of the Target store where a woman said he had his window down "as if he wanted to be seen," the records say.
In his defense, Woolard allegedly told the trooper, he wasn't doing it for sexual gratification. He was just trying to stay awake while driving home. On Friday, authorities announced that Woolard, recently commended by Bethlehem officials for rushing into a burning home to save a life, was being suspended and charged with two counts of indecent exposure and disorderly conduct. After he was arraigned, Woolard was released on his own recognizance.
Woolard was off-duty during the incidents, was not in uniform and was in his personal vehicle. He was suspended after Wednesday's incident and will be facing further disciplinary action, which could include dismissal. The department's office of professional standards is conducting an internal investigation. Woolard, who is married and lives in Lower Macungie Township, has been with the department since February 2013 and had no past disciplinary actions.
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Cop's Own Dash Cam Catches Him Pulling Over and Raping Multiple Women While On Duty

Cop's Own Dash Cam Catches Him Pulling Over and Raping Multiple Women While On Duty

Don’t Panic, But Your Avocado is Radioactive

Don’t Panic, But Your Avocado is Radioactive

Most people assume all radioactive materials are dangerous, if not deadly. But a new study on the radiation emitted by everyday objects highlights the fact that we interact with radioactive materials every day. The goal of the work is to give people a frame of...

Telescopes Find Evidence for Wandering Black Hole

Telescopes Find Evidence for Wandering Black Hole

Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory to discover an extremely luminous, variable X-ray source located outside the center of its parent galaxy. This peculiar object could be a wandering black hole that came from...

Chronic Wasting Disease in White-Tailed Deer

Chronic Wasting Disease in White-Tailed Deer

Chronic wasting disease may have long-term negative effects on white-tailed deer, a highly visible and economically valuable keystone species, according to a new study from the USGS and published in Ecology. CWD is an always-fatal, neurological disease of the deer...

Rarely seen venomous sea snake found in Iranian waters

Rarely seen venomous sea snake found in Iranian waters

Günther's sea snake (Microcephalophis cantoris), a rarely seen venomous sea snake with distribution thought to stretch from the Malay Peninsula to Pakistan, has now been recorded from Iranian coastal waters off the western Gulf of Oman, more than 400 kilometers away...

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Today in History

19		Germanicus, the best loved of Roman princes, dies of poisoning. On his deathbed he accuses Piso, the governor of Syria, of poisoning him.
732		At Tours, France, Charles Martel kills Abd al-Rahman and halts the Muslim invasion of Europe.
1733		France declares war on Austria over the question of Polish succession.
1789		In Versailles France, Joseph Guillotin says the most humane way of carrying out a death sentence is decapitation by a single blow of a blade.
1794		Russian General Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov crushes the rebel Polish army at Maciejowice, Poland.
1845		The U.S. Naval Academy is founded at Annapolis, Md.
1863		The first telegraph line to Denver is completed.
1877		Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer is buried at West Point in New York.
1911		Revolution in China begins with a bomb explosion and the discovery of the revolutionary headquarters in Hankow. The revolutionary movement spreads rapidly through west and southern China, forcing the abdication of the last Ch’ing emperor, six-year-old Henry Pu-Yi. By October 26, the Chinese Republic will be proclaimed, and on December 4, Premier Yuan Shih-K’ai will sign a truce with the rebel general Li Yuan-hung.
1911		The Panama Canal opens.
1933		At Rio de Janeiro, nations of the Western Hemisphere sign a non-aggression and conciliation treaty. President Roosevelt adopts a “good neighbor” policy toward Latin America and announces a policy of nonintervention in Latin American affairs at the December 7th International American Conference at Montevideo, Uruguay.
1941		Soviet troops halt the German advance on Moscow.
1953		The Mutual Defense Treaty between the US and South Korea signed.
1966		U.S. Forces launch Operation Robin, in Hoa Province south of Saigon in South Vietnam, to provide road security between villages.
1970		The Quebec Provincial Minister of Labour, Pierre Laporte, is kidnapped by terrorists.
1971		The London Bridge, built in 1831 and dismantled in 1967, reopens in Lake Havusu City, Arizona, after being sold to Robert P. McCulloch and moved to the United States.
1973		Agnew resigns the vice presidency amid accusations of income tax evasion. President Nixon names Ford as the new vice president. Agnew is later convicted and sentenced to three years probation and fined $10,000.
1985		An Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise ship is intercepted by US Navy F-14s and forced to land at a NATO base in Sicily.
2008		Orakzai bombing takes place in Afghanistan: members of the Taliban drive an explosive-laden truck into a meeting of 600 people discussing ways to rid their area of the Taliban; the bomb kills 110.

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The 13 Best Things to Order at a Mexican Restaurant

The 13 Best Things to Order at a Mexican Restaurant, According to Nutritionists

Spolier: It ain't the mile-high nachos.

The word "nothing" is a palindrome

Because "nothing" spelled backwards is "gnihton" - which means nothing.
Via Reddit, where the thread includes some real palindromes.

Very tough geography quiz?

Do you have a friend/relative/spouse who thinks he/she is the bee's knees of geography knowledge?  I offer you a quiz question that will bring them to their knees.Just one question: What independent country has the "highest lowest point" ?
Not the highest point, mind you.  We're not talking Nepal or Tibet.  We want the country whose lowest point is higher than any other country's lowest point.   Nepal, for example, has "southern lowland plains."
The correct answer is a country which exists "entirely above 1,000m."  To be more precise: "Its lowest point of 1,400 meters (4,593 ft) is thus the highest in the world. Over 80% of the country lies above 1,800 meters (5,906 ft)."
Where is this country?
I knew instantly.
Answer here.

Tetris's Unlikely Beginnings

Tetris's Unlikely Beginnings—From Behind the Iron Curtain to International Acclaim

Res ipsa loquitur

"The theme for her show was “Invisible Clothes.” And in seeming contradiction to that idea, she offered some of the most outsize, extreme and extraordinary notions: kilts that were as enormous as a tent, trousers that could hold a veritable crowd within a single leg and a giant hood that took on the proportions of a sarcophagus. This wasn’t so much a line of clothes destined for your closet as it was a statement for the season — for the times."

Someone else can figure out what that "statement" is. We have no comment.  (Other pix from the show at the link.)

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Why Are So Many Women Still Being Blamed for Their Sexual Assaults?

Why Are So Many Women Still Being Blamed for Their Sexual Assaults?

Two survivors share their experiences to shed light on the issue.

‘Cut his fucking hair!’

‘Cut his fucking hair!’: White men viciously attack Sikh in California roadside attack

Khalsa was left with a swollen black eye, dental damage, and a finger that may need amputation.

Man who attempted to steal two TVs lost pants containing ID then found with crack pipe in anus

A 350-pound Florida man ran from a Walmart with two stolen TVs, but his getaway was compromised when his pants, containing his ID, fell off, according to police. He escaped, but was apprehended a few days later and at the time of his arrest had a crack pipe inside his backside.
According to court complaints, Columbus Henderson, 45, fled from a Walmart Supercenter in Fort Lauderdale on September 26 with a pair of 40-inch Hisense televisions. Henderson bolted with the merchandise after he allowed a cashier to scan the $298 items. As he ran through the parking lot, his pants “fell off as he ran away,” according to Officer Scott Brandow. It appears that after Henderson’s pants fell to his ankles, he proceeded to run right out of the garment.
Police later determined that Henderson’s abandoned pants contained the suspect’s “medical identification.” Investigators added, “The entire incident was captured on video.” It took police about a week to catch up with Henderson, who was arrested early on Tuesday morning for grand theft, a felony. Upon arrival at the Pinellas County jail, Henderson informed officers that he had a crack pipe concealed in his anus.
“When officers removed him from the vehicle, the defendant had removed the crack pipe from his anus and dropped it on the ground,” a patrolman reported. The glass pipe was recovered by officers who reported that it was “stuffed” with steel wool and had burn marks on one end (Henderson was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia). Locked up in lieu of $2,150 bond, Henderson has previously been arrested for aggravated battery, robbery, theft, possession of drug paraphernalia, and driving without a license.

It Takes Local Activists to End a School-to-Prison Pipeline

Why It Takes Local Activists to End a School-to-Prison Pipeline

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Understanding how plants withstand harsh conditions ...

Understanding how plants withstand harsh conditions remains major research challenge

Understanding how plants sense and cope with harsh conditions such as drought, too much salt in the soil or extreme temperatures could help researchers develop tougher crops - an essential step to improving agricultural productivity, environmental sustainability and...

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Better SPF than zinc oxide

Sea lion pups allegedly roll in the sand for sun protection.

Climate change could be a greater threat to tropical frogs than deforestation

Climate change could be a greater threat to tropical frogs than deforestation

Changes in climate and land use are expected to reduce the livable area for tropical frogs because these species will increasingly encounter temperatures hot enough to harm their behavior, reproduction and physiology. Climate change, however, may be the most...

Bizarre new marine worms covered in bristles, wrinkles & bumps

Bizarre new marine worms covered in bristles, wrinkles & bumps

An extraordinary arrangement of bristles, wrinkles and wart-like bumps cover the cold skin of Sphaerephesia amphorata, a new deep-sea worm described and named by researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of...

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