Tuesday, June 13, 2017
As Pride Celebrations Ensue, LGBTQ Communities Still Lack Access to Healthcare
Two toddlers die after Texas mom leaves them in hot car for 15 hours
Pakistani man sentenced to death for anti-Islam content on social media
The prosecutor explained that the court found Taimoor Raza guilty of using Facebook and WhatsApp to “disseminate" or "upload" hate material, including "offensive pictures and comments” against Prophet Mohammad and his companions. Raza has the right to appeal the verdict.
Qureshi said the Facebook account Raza was running had more than 3,500 friends, or followers.
The defense counsel was not immediately available for comments on the allegations against his client.
Counterterrorism forces arrested Raza about a year ago and police records showed the man had confessed he was working for outlawed Sipah-e-Muhammad, which is a Shi’ite militant group.
The organization has been locked in a deadly rivalry with militants from Pakistan’s majority Sunni Muslim population. The years of sectarian conflict has killed thousands of people around the country.
Pakistani authorities have been cracking down on social media activists suspected of disseminating blasphemous content through their accounts.
Dozens of activists have been detained or questioned in recent weeks in Pakistan, prompting harsh criticism from rights defenders.
Opposition parties have alleged the crackdown in the name of religion is mainly aimed at silencing political dissent and deterring critics who are calling for accountability of the country’s powerful military institution, along with its alleged intervention in political matters.
Pakistani officials deny the charges.
Insulting Prophet Mohammad can carry a death penalty in Pakistan.
Earlier this week, the country's Supreme Court exonerated a man sentenced to life imprisonment by a lower court on allegations of desecrating the Holy book of Quran.
The ruling noted that the lower courts "appeared to have not conducted a fair trial of the case" before awarding the punishment.
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This does not help the dispelling of stereotypes about islam.Whether or not he is guilty of terrorist activities the condemnation for 'blasphemy' is a joke and tactic used to repress and control the population.
It was used extensively before in western society during a period we call the Dark Ages by another 'religion' as it has been used by 'religions' from time immemorial and obviously it's use is still being attempted today in lesser societies.
Also this method will have the opposite effect as it has every time throughout the ages - it breeds terrorists not prevent them, so if he was a terrorist or not there will be one (or more) that are because of this.
Monday, June 12, 2017
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Today in History
| 1442 | Alfonso V of Aragon is crowned King of Naples. | |
| 1812 | Napoleon Bonaparte and his army invade Russia. | |
| 1849 | The gas mask is patented by Lewis P. Haslett. | |
| 1862 | Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart begins his ride around the Union Army outside of Richmond, Virginia. | |
| 1901 | Cuba agrees to become an American protectorate by accepting the Platt Amendment. | |
| 1918 | The first airplane bombing raid by an American unit occurs in France. | |
| 1920 | Republicans nominate Warren G. Harding for president and Calvin Coolidge for vice president. | |
| 1921 | President Warren Harding urges every young man to attend military training camp. | |
| 1926 | Brazil quits the League of Nations in protest over plans to admit Germany. | |
| 1931 | Gangster Al Capone and 68 of his henchmen are indicted for violating Prohibition laws. | |
| 1937 | Eight of Stalin’s generals are sentenced to death during purges in the Soviet Union. | |
| 1942 | American bombers strike the oil refineries of Ploesti, Romania for the first time. | |
| 1963 | Black civil rights leader Medgar Evers is assassinated by a gunman outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi. | |
| 1967 | The Supreme Court rules that states cannot ban interracial marriages. | |
| 1972 | At a hearing in front the of a U.S. House of Representatives committee, Air Force General John Lavalle defends his orders on engagement in Vietnam. | |
| 1977 | David Berkowitz gets 25 years to life for the Son of Sam murders in New York. | |
| 1985 | The U.S. House of Representatives approves $27 million in aid to the Nicaraguan Contras. | |
| 1991 | Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines begins erupting for the first time in 600 years. |
China Girls
The Jersey Sponsorship Revolution Will Begin With Porn
RedTube's sponsorship deal has us thinking about other opportunities for the adult entertainment company
Awake during surgery
On purpose.
More doctors are letting patients remain alert during certain surgeries, for logistical, financial and medical reasons. It's a national trend playing out in Madison...
Many patients getting hand or arm surgeries, knee or hip procedures and even some breast and urological operations have started receiving regional or local numbing shots instead of general anesthesia. That can mean a quicker recovery, less cost and fewer side effects...
A small, but growing, fraction of patients is choosing to stay completely awake, with no sedation. They're joining two groups that have long remained conscious during surgery: many women delivering babies through Cesarean sections; and certain brain patients, such as those receiving deep brain stimulation, who must be able to communicate with doctors during their procedures...
Another obstacle the study identified: Surgeons said it's more difficult to teach residents — doctors in training after medical school — if patients are awake. Plus, some patients don't like knowing that residents are participating in their procedures.
Smiling lowers odds of future success in competition
Smile
and the whole world smiles with you? Well, not necessarily. In a
winning scenario, smiling can decrease your odds of success against the
same opponent in subsequent matches, according to new research presented
by … Read more
Olympic medals have problems
Now nearly nine months after the Games ended, it looks like organizers in Rio de Janeiro are still experiencing some hiccups. The latest issue has to do with medals handed out to more than 130 winners — they’re rusting, chipping or as Agence France-Presse put it, “falling to pieces.”...Also:
Andrada didn’t go into exact details about what exactly he thought was happening, but he called it “completely normal.”.. Olympic gold medals, for example, are actually just 1.34 percent gold. The rest is made of sterling silver, ABC News reports. And about 30 percent of the silver in those thousands of medals awarded in Rio came from recycled silver...
“The most common issue is that they were dropped or mishandled and the varnish has come off and they’ve rusted or gone black in the spot where they were damaged,” Andrada told Reuters, adding that silver medalists have seen the most problems.
The medals for the 2020 Games will be even more unique, with the promise of being the most environmentally friendly of all time. Per The Post’s Cindy Boren, the medals are slated to be composed of recycled cellphones and small appliances donated by Japanese citizens.
Marijuana Pizza Is Now a Thing in Massachusetts
It was only a matter of time until someone came up with this.
Some medical pot users are getting high off pizza
Ermont Inc., located in Quincy, introduced marijuana-infused pizza three weeks ago, and it has quickly earned rave reviews from customers, CBS News in Boston reported Tuesday. The dispensary, which sells a variety of pot products to medical marijuana cardholders, offers 6-inch cheese pizzas for $38 and infuses tomato sauce with 125 milligrams of tetrahydrocannabinol, cannabis’ psychoactive ingredient commonly referred to as THC.
Missouri parole board played ‘word games’ for their own amusement while deciding inmates’ fates
Led by wingnut Ruzicka, a member of
the seven-member board, board members picked off-beat words they hoped
to get inmates to repeat and then kept score during parole hearings,
‘No threat to persons or community’
What has that judge been smoking?
Not a threat to persons or community?!
All Nazis are a threat to persons and the community!
Laying the Groundwork for Committing Atrocities
A Tour of Saturn’s Moons
Saturn’s
moon Phoebe can seem unremarkable from Earth — just another
run-of-the-mill space rock slowly tumbling along in its orbit, so
distant and small that it’s invisible to most ground-based telescopes.
That changed in June 2004. … Read more
NASA Finds Evidence of Diverse Environments in Curiosity Samples
A Couple of Deer
2. "On January 5, 2015, the camera caught a glimpse of a young white-tailed deer standing near the skeleton with a human rib bone in its mouth..." This was on a forensic science "body farm," but still... a deer?
Sunday, June 11, 2017
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Peppers!
Today in History
| 1346 | Charles IV of Luxembourg is elected Holy Roman Emperor. | |
| 1509 | Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon. | |
| 1770 | Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef. | |
| 1798 | Napoleon Bonaparte takes the island of Malta. | |
| 1861 | Union forces under General George B. McClellan repulse a Confederate force at Rich Mountain in western Virginia. | |
| 1865 | Major General Henry W. Halleck finds documents and archives of the Confederate government in Richmond, Virginia. This discovery will lead to the publication of the official war records. | |
| 1895 | Charles E. Duryea receives the first U.S. patent granted to an American inventor for a gasoline-driven automobile. | |
| 1903 | King Alexander and Queen Draga of Belgrade are assassinated by members of the Serbia army. | |
| 1915 | British troops take Cameroon in Africa. | |
| 1927 | Charles Lindbergh, a captain in the US Army Air Corps Reserve, receives the first Distinguished Flying Cross ever awarded, for his solo trans-Atlantic flight. | |
| 1930 | William Beebe, of the New York Zoological Society, dives to a record-setting depth of 1,426 feet off the coast of Bermuda, in a diving chamber called a bathysphere. | |
| 1934 | The Disarmament Conference in Geneva ends in failure. | |
| 1940 | The Italian Air Force bombs the British fortress at Malta in the Mediterranean. | |
| 1943 | The Italian island of Pantelleria surrenders after a heavy air bombardment. | |
| 1944 | U.S. carrier-based planes attack Japanese airfields on Guam , Rota, Saipan and Tinian islands, preparing for the invasion of Saipan. | |
| 1963 | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is arrested in Florida for trying to integrate restaurants. | |
| 1967 | Israel and Syria accept a U. N. cease-fire. | |
| 1987 | Margaret Thatcher wins her third consecutive term as Prime Minister. |
The House of David Baseball Team
Famous professional players occasionally donned fake beards and joined the team for games, including Grover Cleveland Alexander, Satchel Paige, and even Babe Ruth.(They considered signing the Sultan of Swat in 1934, but decided his hedonistic lifestyle would be a poor fit for the ascetic team.)You can see plenty of pictures of the House of David baseball team and their junior league trainees at Retronaut.
The hirsute athletes also popularized the art of the “pepper game,” a collection of Harlem Globetrotters-esque antics where they juggled and tossed balls, made them vanish only to pull them out of their beards, and even played innings while mounted on donkeys.
Playing as far afield as Hawaii and Mexico, the House of David continued to draw crowds until the 1950s, when the splintering of the scandal-wracked commune and rise of Major League Baseball led to a decline in popularity.
Becoming a Stripper
The single most common reason why any woman starts dancing (and continues) is for the money. Dancers in most locations in the United States make on average two hundred dollars a shift, and, on some days, and in certain clubs, they may make much more.
This means that for women with little formal education and few professional skills dancing is one of the best-paying occupations available.
Earn Minimum Wage?
A person working a full-time minimum-wage job will find it virtually impossible to rent an affordable home anywhere in the US.
Hate crimes on the rise in America
Christian was charged with two counts of aggravated murder, one count of attempt to aggravated murder, two counts of second-degree intimidation and one count of first-degree assault, and three counts of unlawful use of a weapon in the recent Portland stabbings.
The 35 year-old man was hurling hate comments at two young women, one of them wearing a hijab when some men defended them and were stabbed by Christian.
Hate crimes in the country have seen a sharp surge in the past few years.
It’s not just your color printer that could betray you
Hours after The Intercept dropped a leaked report detailing
Russian efforts to hack the 2016 election, federal government
investigators announced the arrest of the suspected leaker, 25-year-old
NSA employee Reality Leigh Winner. According to a Department of Justice affidavit, Winner left a trail of physical and digital evidence identifying her as the leaker.
After reading the affidavit, Ted Han, director of technology at DocumentCloud,
became curious about what incriminating information could have been
hidden in the document. Zooming in on the PDF, he found what he was
looking for — tiny yellow dots on the pages.
“Microdots basically provide a smoking gun,” Han said. “It sure
makes it really easy to look up specifically what print job that
document came from.” The pattern of dots, when looked up through a guide posted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, reveal the exact date, time, and printer of the documentThe solar energy revolution has arrived
Solar technology will destroy coal and oil as energy sources even if Dumbass Trump stamps his feet, holds his breath and refuses to play with the rest of the world.
Solar is on the same kind of Moore’s law–like path that has made computing power so cheap.
Solar tech isn’t improving at computing’s breakneck pace, but it’s on a predictable, sustainable and impressive trajectory toward cheaper and better.
By about 2030—13 years from now—solar will be able to produce electricity at half the cost of coal and lower than the cost of any carbon source.
Germany, California to tackle climate change together
Europe’s largest economy and the biggest U.S. state in economic terms will back the work of the “Under 2 Coalition,” which includes cities, regional governments and states, German Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks said on Saturday.
US no longer the ‘global center of science'
The cult classic is constantly on in the background as Arkani-Hamed works on physics problems at the Institute for Advanced Study in New Jersey.
“I find watching it inspiring because, there, they’re trying to figure out some crazy stuff, and we’re trying to figure out some crazy stuff,” says Arkani-Hamed. “So, it’s actually really nice to have it playing in the background.”
A solar eclipse once rallied Americans around science
"Thomas Edison, age 31, right after he invented the phonograph and immediately before he invented the incandescent lamp, went to Wyoming to see a total eclipse," says Baron.
And so did thousands of others.
Baron's new book, "American Eclipse," makes the case that, like the landing of Apollo 11 on the moon, the eclipse of July 29, 1878, dominated newspaper headlines and inspired people in the United States to look at science differently.
Roman Libyan Treasure
The team discovered the haul of 553 silver and bronze coins known as sterercii in the remarkably well-preserved 3rd century building in the ancient city of Ptolemais, Haaretz reported.
Modern humans actually started much earlier than previously believed
Now a large scientific team has discovered new fossil bones and stone tools that challenge this view. The new studies, published in Nature, push back the origins of our species by 100,000 years and suggest that early humans likely spanned across most of the African continent at the time.
Most ocean pollution comes from Asian rivers
According to a study released Wednesday, most of the plastic currently in the ocean came from Asian rivers.
Of the world’s 40,760 ocean-bound rivers, a mere 20 are responsible for two-thirds of the ocean’s pollution, according to the study by The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch foundation that develops technology to decontaminate waterways.
Most of those rivers are located in Asia. In the foundation’s study published Wednesday, they found that overwhelming majority of pollution in the ocean came from the Yangtze River in China.
Bird Found Preserved in Amber
Unlike modern birds, this newborn hatchling is from a now-extinct branch of the family tree called Enantiornithines. Researchers say they would have looked a lot like modern-day avians, with the exception of some added features such as claws on their wing tips and small teeth tucked away in their beaks.Read the article about this find at BGR and the scientific paper here.
Tigers' First Swim
There
aren't many cat species who swim by their own choice. Tigers are one of
them. Sydney's Australia Zoo has a pair of tiger cubs named Spot and
Stripe. In this video, tiger expert Giles Clark introduces them to the
tiger pool for their first swim. They aren't all that sure about the new
concept, but once they are in the water, they are quite at home.This is a clip from the BBC series Tigers About The House, which follows Clark's effort at hand-raising the rare Sumatran tiger clubs. He has to watch Spot and Stripe constantly, lest they stalk the family dog or get into other tiger business.
Diver Approached By Wild Seal Who Wants Belly Rub
But when diver Gary Grayson was approached by a curious seal while diving in the Scilly Isles he wasn't afraid or worried about being attacked- because he was just as curious about the little critter as the critter was about him.
Next thing you know the seal did something totally unexpected- he flipped over and asked Gary to rub his belly!
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