Firearm is drawn over school notebook at Michigan Walmart. "Police are now working with prosecutors to try to
determine whether the woman’s actions could be classified as
self-defense." Let that sink in for a minute.
Friday, September 8, 2017
Utah cop who assaulted nurse over blood draw fired
Hurricane Irma leaves scientists at a 'loss for words'
The size of the storm left hurricane and weather scientists speechless. “I am at a complete and utter loss for words looking at Irma's appearance on satellite imagery,” wrote Taylor Trogdon, a scientist at the U.S. National Hurricane Center on Twitter.
Boron findings on Mars might end celestial saga
Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in a paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters said the finding of boron by the rover has thrown open the possibility of whether life could have ever existed on the planet.
When not to eat your kids
Even
though it is known to be a cannibal, the mangrove rivulus or killifish
of the Americas will never eat one of its own embryos, … Read moreDogs have self-awareness
The sniff test of self-recognition confirmed
A
new research carried out by the Department of Psychology of the Barnard
College in the USA, in publication on the journal Behavioural Processes
(Horowitz, … Read more
Research dog helps scientists save endangered carnivores
Scat-sniffing
research dogs are helping scientists map out a plan to save reclusive
jaguars, pumas, bush dogs and other endangered carnivores in the
increasingly fragmented … Read more
Thursday, September 7, 2017
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Today in History
| 1571 | At the Battle of Lepanto in the Mediterranean Sea, the Christian galley fleet destroys the Turkish galley fleet. | |
| 1630 | The town of Trimountaine in Massachusetts is renamed Boston. It became the state capital. | |
| 1701 | England, Austria, and the Netherlands form an Alliance against France. | |
| 1778 | Shawnee Indians attack and lay siege to Boonesborough, Kentucky. | |
| 1812 | On the road to Moscow, Napoleon wins a costly victory over the Russians at Borodino. | |
| 1813 | The earliest known printed reference to the United States by the nickname “Uncle Sam” occurs in the Troy Post. | |
| 1864 | Union General Phil Sheridan’s troops skirmish with the Confederates under Jubal Early outside Winchester, Virginia. | |
| 1876 | The James-Younger gang botches an attempt to rob the First National Bank of Northfield, Minnesota. | |
| 1888 | An incubator is used for the first time on a premature infant. | |
| 1892 | The first heavyweight-title boxing match fought with gloves under Marquis of Queensbury rules ends when James J. Corbett knocks out John L. Sullivan in the 21st round. | |
| 1912 | French aviator Roland Garros sets an altitude record of 13,200 feet. | |
| 1916 | The U.S. Congress passes the Workman’s Compensation Act. | |
| 1940 | Germany’s blitz against London begins during the Battle of Britain. | |
| 1942 | The Red Army pushes back the German line northwest of Stalingrad. | |
| 1953 | Nikita Krushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. | |
| 1954 | Integration of public schools begins in Washington D.C. and Maryland. | |
| 1965 | The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio. | |
| 1970 | Jockey Bill Shoemaker earns his 6,033rd win, breaking Johnny Longden’s record for most lifetime wins; Shoemaker’s record would stand for 29 years. | |
| 1977 | Panama and the US sign the Torrijos-Carter Treaties to transfer control of the Panama Canal from the US to Panama at the end of the 20th century. | |
| 1978 | Secret police agent Francesco Gullino assassinates Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov in London by firing a ricin pellet from a specially designed umbrella. | |
| 1979 | ESPN, the Entertainment and Sports Programing Network, debuts. | |
| 1986 | Desmond Tutu becomes the first black leader of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of South Africa). | |
| 1988 | Pilot and cosmonaut Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan to travel to outer space, returns to earth after 9 days aboard the Soviet space station Mir. | |
| 2004 | Hurricane Ivan damages 90% of buildings on the island of Grenada; 39 die in the Category 5 storm. | |
| 2008 | The US Government assumes conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the country’s two largest mortgage financing companies, during the subprime mortgage crisis. | |
Irma heading directly at Dumbass Trump’s $28 million Caribbean mansion
Dumbass Trump’s 5-acre estate with 8-foot walls is located directly on the
beach. It is known as “Le Chateau des Palmiers” or “Castle of the
Palms.”
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Ma Nature hates Dumbass Trump just like every sane person on the planet!
Hurricane Irma can reach tornado wind speeds causing massive destruction
Historic Hurricane Irma measures like an earthquake
Hurricane Irma is the most powerful storm ever observed in the Atlantic
basin, excluding the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, according to the
National Hurricane Center. It's become so strong that it's even showing
up on scales reserved for measuring earthquakes.
Utah hospital bars police ...
NY cop avoids prison despite admitting he raped teen
Adam Mesiti pleaded guilty to third-degree rape of a 16-year-old, but the letters showed his friends and family still believed he was innocent and had already suffered enough, reported The Daily News.
Michigan pastor escapes charges for molesting woman during bizarre oil ritual
A Brief History of Book Burning
The unifying factor between all types of purposeful book-burners in the 20th century, Knuth says, is that the perpetrators feel like victims, even if they’re the ones in power. Perhaps the most infamous book burnings were those staged by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, who regularly employed language framing themselves as the victims of Jews. Similarly, when Mao Zedong took power in China and implemented the Cultural Revolution, any book that didn’t conform to party propaganda, like those promoting capitalism or other dangerous ideas, were destroyed. More recently, the Jaffna Public Library of Sri Lanka—home to nearly 100,000 rare books of Tamil history and literature—was burned by Sinhalese Buddhists. The Sinhalese felt their Buddhist beliefs were under threat by the Hinduism of Tamils, even though they outnumbered the Tamils.Even when the knowledge itself isn’t prevented from reaching the public, the symbolic weight of burning books is heavy. “Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them as to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are,” wrote John Milton, author of Paradise Lost, in his 1644 book Areopagitica. “Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature… but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself—” an idea that continues to be espoused in modern culture, like in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.Read accounts of book burning and its evolving purpose at Smithsonian.
'What is wrong with you?'
In an op-ed published by The Salt Lake Tribune last week, someone who described herself as a “67-year-old American white woman” takes on what appears to be a growing strain of racism in the U.S.
“What is wrong with you?” she asks. “People of European heritage are doing just fine in the world. They run most of the world’s institutions, hold much of the world’s wealth, replicate as frequently as other humans. You’re not in any danger here.”
The writer acknowledges that “the world is changing,” but she asserts that it is not an excuse for racist behavior.
“Going forward, tackling corporate control and climate change will need all of our attention, ideas and energy,” the woman notes. “Put down your Tiki torches and trite flags and get involved in some real work.”
Jewish Dumbass Trump sycophant admits spray-painting swastikas on his own house
Prior to police revelations that King faked the incident, it was
revealed that King is both Jewish and a sycophant of Dumbass
Trump.
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The lengths wingnuts go to perpetuate their delusions ...
The most terrifying consequence of Dumbass Trump’s DACA order
Construction firms hoping to hire immigrants to rebuild Houston
There are more than 200,000 homes that were damaged by Harvey. It includes 13,500 that were completely destroyed. According to a Washington Post report, the need to rebuild quickly might come down to labor provided by undocumented immigrants.
ICE accused of torturing detainees at private prisons
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
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Today in History
| 394 | Theodosius becomes the sole ruler of Italy after defeating Eugenius at the Battle of the Frigidus. | |
| 1422 | Sultan Murat II ends a vain siege of Constantinople. | |
| 1522 | One of the five ships that set out in Ferdinand Magellan’s trip around the world makes it back to Spain. Only 15 of the original 265 men that set out survived. Magellan was killed by natives in the Philippines. | |
| 1688 | Imperial troops defeat the Turks and take Belgrade, Serbia. | |
| 1793 | French General Jean Houchard and his 40,000 men begin a three-day battle against an Anglo-Hanoveraian army at Hondschoote, southwest Belgium, in the wars of the French Revolution. | |
| 1847 | Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves back into town, to Concord, Massachusetts. | |
| 1861 | Union General Ulysses S. Grant‘s forces capture Paducah, Kentucky from Confederate forces. | |
| 1870 | The last British troops to serve in Austria are withdrawn. | |
| 1901 | President William McKinley is shot while attending a reception at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, by 28-year-old anarchist Leon Czolgosz. McKinley dies eight days later, the third American president assassinated. | |
| 1907 | The luxury liner Lusitania leaves London for New York on her maiden voyage. | |
| 1918 | The German Army begins a general retreat across the Aisne, with British troops in pursuit. | |
| 1936 | Aviator Beryl Markham flies the first east-to-west solo flight by a woman across the Atlantic Ocean. | |
| 1937 | The Soviet Union accuses Italy of torpedoing two Russian ships in the Mediterranean. | |
| 1941 | Germany announces that all Jews living in the country will have to begin wearing a Star of David. | |
| 1943 | The United States asks the Chinese Nationals to join with the Communists to present a common front to the Japanese. | |
| 1953 | The last American and Korean prisoners are exchanged in Operation Big Switch, the last official act of the Korean War. | |
| 1965 | Indian troops invade Lahore; Pakistan paratroopers raid Punjab. | |
| 1972 | The world learns an earlier announcement that all Israeli athletes taken hostage at the Munich Olympics had been rescued was erroneous; all had been killed by their captors from the Black September terrorist group; all but 3 terrorists also died in the shootout around midnight. | |
| 1976 | Lieutenant Viktor Belenko, a Soviet air force pilot defects, flying a MiG-25 jet fighter to Tokyo, Japan, requesting political asylum in the US. | |
| 1988 | Lee Roy Young becomes the first African-American Texas Ranger in the force’s 165-year history. | |
| 1991 | The USSR officially recognizes independence for the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. | |
| 1991 | Leningrad, the second-largest city in the USSR, is renamed Saint Petersburg, which had been the city’s name prior to 1924. | |
| 1995 | The Baltimore Orioles’ Cal Ripken Jr. plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a 56-year MLB record held by Lou Gehrig; in 2007 fans voted this achievement the most memorable moment in MLB history. | |
| 1997 | The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place: over 1 million people line London’s streets to honor her and 2.5 billion watch the event on TV. | |
Cardiac Arrest During Sex Is Deadlier Than Any Other Activity
Survival rates are much lower if this heart issue happens when you're getting busy
New York village mayor resigns after child pornography bust
‘You brought race in here’
“I’m a black judge. I can take this black robe off, but I can’t take off
this black skin. I live in west Montgomery. I live in the ’hood. Should
I recuse myself from every criminal case that has happened on the west
side?”
EPA public affairs official given right to veto federal grants if they mention climate change
Konkus has already canceled close to $2 million awarded to universities and nonprofit organizations.
Things You Can Do To Fight Climate Change Right Now
Solving such a big problem starts on a small scale.
The Biggest Things Ever to be Transported by Sea
In 1819, Mohammad Ali, leader of Egypt and Sudan, presented the UK with a gift. In honour of Britan's success in the Battle of the Nile and the Battle of Alexandria, Ali kindly gave away a huge, carved Egyptian Obelisk. The UK was grateful, but couldn't cover the cost of shipping the ancient, 21 metre high, 224 tonne structure. In 1877, pioneering doctor Sir William James Erasmus Wilson agreed to pay for the obelisk to be brought to the UK. It was encased in iron, which was fitted with a rudder, a stern and masts. Cleopatra, as the vessel was dubbed, was essentially a bespoke ship made especially for the needle. On her way to the UK, Cleopatra, her crew and precious cargo almost perished in a storm in the Bay of Biscay. Thankfully, everyone made it home in one piece and Cleopatra's Needle remains a true London landmark.Read more oversized shipping stories in the list here
7 Other Great Fires of London
1. BOUDICEA GETS HER REVENGE // CIRCA 60 CEThe city was rebuilt, only to be leveled again and again by fire. Read about the destruction of six more London fires at Mental Floss. The last conflagration listed was in 1794, so we can assume that building codes and firefighting techniques are protecting the city from such widespread fire now. Knock wood.
After the death of her husband Prasutagus in the mid-1st century CE, lands that should rightfully have passed to the ancient British queen Boudicea and her daughters were instead claimed by the invading Roman Empire. Before then, Boadicea’s tribe, the Iceni, had been allied with the Romans, but the entire affair soured that relationship.
Enraged, Boudicea sacked the Roman city at modern Colchester and marched her army on towards London—or rather, to the newly founded Roman settlement of Londinium—and burned it to the ground. So total was Boadicea’s destruction of the city that archaeologists working the capital today can still identify a noticeable thin layer of red-brown oxidized ash on the site occupying the original settlement, and Roman coins melted together by the extreme heat have even been found along the muddy banks of the Thames.
Harvest Moon 2017
However, in most respects, the September 2017 and October 2017 full moons can be regarded as Harvest Moon co-stars. By that we mean that both have the characteristics of a Harvest Moon. The primary Harvest Moon characteristic has to do with the moonrise. On the average, the moon rises some 50 minutes later with each passing day. Around the time of the full Harvest Moon, the lag time between successive moonrises is reduced to a yearly low.There's a detailed explanation of why there's a difference in the lag in moonrise times, and how it makes the Harvest Moon seem bigger and brighter. I read it and thought, "But that's only in the Northern Hemisphere!" Well, duh. In the Southern Hemisphere, autumn, and the Harvest Moon, comes in March or April. Read more about what makes a Harvest Moon special, and why you should enjoy it in both September and October this year.
In 2017, there’s no appreciable difference between the lag in moonrise times associated with September and October full moons. In both of these months, the moon rises a shorter-than-usual time after sunset for several evenings in a row, following the date of full moon.
Ancient footprints in Crete challenge theory of human evolution
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