"The skeleton, thought to be of a man aged between 40 and 50, had a heavy piece of ploughshare – an iron rod, used in a plough – hammered through its chest. The left leg below the knee had also been removed and left beside the skeleton."The BBC has a lengthy and well-written article on the history of lead intoxication in humans.
According to police, the resident, D’Andre Berger, had been staying at a
friend’s house since earlier in the week when the home was broken into.
Berger told police that he assumed the dog, a Rottweiler named Isis ,
either escaped during the break-in or was taken.
What it had actually done, though, was climb through a hole in the roof.
An electrocuted bat set alight the nature strip outside a woman’s home
in Australia's Northern Territory - and it was only the actions of a
quick-thinking neighbor that stopped the fire spreading to her house.
Brenda Johnston arrived at her Alawa home to find her usually green
grass patch burnt to a crisp.
The mystery was revealed when Ms Johnston looked up to see a bat had
fried itself by touching two electricity lines in front of her home.
When one of the wings detached from the line, it appeared to drop a spark.
Ms Johnston said her neighbor had heard a bang and came running out only to find the nature strip in flames.
The quick-thinking neighbor hosed down the area.
| 1035 | King Canute of Norway dies. | |
| 1276 | Suspicious of the intentions of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the Prince of Wales, English King Edward I resolves to invade Wales. | |
| 1859 | The first flying-trapeze circus act is performed by Jules Leotard at the Circus Napoleon. | |
| 1863 | Confederate General James Longstreet arrives at Loudon, Tennessee, to assist the attack on Union General Ambrose Burnside's troops at Knoxville. | |
| 1867 | Mount Vesuvius erupts. | |
| 1903 | The Lebaudy brothers of France set an air-travel distance record of 34 miles in a dirigible. | |
| 1923 | Adolf Hitler is arrested for his attempted German coup. | |
| 1927 | Canada is admitted to the League of Nations. | |
| 1928 | The ocean liner Vestris sinks off the Virginia cape with 328 aboard, killing 111. | |
| 1938 | Mexico agrees to compensate the United States for land seizures. | |
| 1941 | Madame Lillian Evanti and Mary Cardwell Dawson establish the National Negro Opera Company. | |
| 1944 | U.S. fighters wipe out a Japanese convoy near Leyte, consisting of six destroyers, four transports and 8,000 troops. | |
| 1944 | The German battleship Tirpitz is sunk in a Norwegian fjord. | |
| 1948 | Hikedi Tojo, Japanese prime minister, and seven others are sentenced to hang by an international tribunal. | |
| 1951 | The U.S. Eighth Army in Korea is ordered to cease offensive operations and begin an active defense. | |
| 1960 | The satellite Discoverer XVII is launched into orbit from California's Vandenberg AFB. | |
| 1968 | The U.S. Supreme Court voids an Arkansas law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools. | |
| 1971 | President Richard Nixon announces the withdrawal of about 45,000 U.S. troops from Vietnam by February. | |
| 1987 | Boris Yeltsin is fired as head of Moscow's Communist Party for criticizing the slow pace of reform. | |
| 1990 | Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan. | |
| 1990 | Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, publishes a formal proposal for the creation of the World Wide Web. | |
| 1996 | A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 collides with a Kazakh Illyushin II-76 cargo plane near New Delhi, killing 349. It is the deadliest mid-air collision to date (2013) and third-deadliest aircraft accident. | |
| 1997 | Ramzi Yousef convicted of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. | |
| 2003 | The first Italians to die in the Iraq War are among 23 fatalities from a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base in Nasiriya, iraq. | |
| 2003 | Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world speed record (311 mph or 501 kph) for commercial railway systems. |
“'Net neutrality'” has been built into the fabric of the Internet since its creation — but it is also a principle that we cannot take for granted. We cannot allow Internet service providers (ISPs) to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas. That is why today, I am asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to answer the call of almost 4 million public comments, and implement the strongest possible rules to protect net neutrality."
It's a surprise move in the net neutrality debate, coming on the heels of a sellout proposal
from cable-lobbyist-turned-cable-regulator Chairman Tom Wheeler that
would have let the carriers continue to screw Americans out of access to
the services they want to use if those services hadn't paid
large-enough bribes for "premium carriage."
* No blocking. If a consumer requests access to a website or service, and the content is legal, your ISP should not be permitted to block it. That way, every player—not just those commercially affiliated with an ISP—gets a fair shot at your business.
* No throttling. Nor should ISPs be able to intentionally slow down some content or speed up others — through a process often called “throttling” — based on the type of service or your ISP’s preferences.
* Increased transparency. The connection between consumers and ISPs — the so-called “last mile” — is not the only place some sites might get special treatment. So, I am also asking the FCC to make full use of the transparency authorities the court recently upheld, and if necessary to apply net neutrality rules to points of interconnection between the ISP and the rest of the Internet.
* No paid prioritization. Simply put: No service should be stuck in a “slow lane” because it does not pay a fee. That kind of gatekeeping would undermine the level playing field essential to the Internet’s growth. So, as I have before, I am asking for an explicit ban on paid prioritization and any other restriction that has a similar effect.
On Monday morning, President Obama made a public
statement urging the FCC to take strong measures to protect net
neutrality. Obama does not want internet service providers to have the
ability to block content or require additional payment for faster
service for certain content providers. The feeling is that if net
neutrality is not protected, large ISPs (internet service providers)
like Verizon, Comcast and AT&T can decide who will be affected by
slower speeds, based on the content they provide or the ability of
larger companies to pay more for faster service.We explained how the abandonment of net neutrality would impact sites like this one.
Is Cruz arguing that Obama’s proposal, if adopted by the FCC, would slow down the entire Internet? If so, then it seems he is totally missing the point (i.e., speed for all, rather than speed for some).Does he believe that ISPs will simply throw up their hands at the extra regulation, and stop maintaining the current broadband infrastructure? Or is it that ISPs will stop improving their delivery services, meaning that today’s speeds are tomorrow’s speeds ad infinitum? If so, it seems that Cruz has very little faith in America’s capitalist spirit, in which established companies improve for the sake of taking market-share from one another, and in which entrepreneurs try to create something that completely disrupts the status quo. Remember, it’s not as if ISPs are operating on the brink of unprofitability — Comcast and Verizon, for example, are projected to generate combined annual profits in excess of $25 billion.Moreover, regulated utilities do sometimes receive approval to raise rates (just take a look at what’s happening to Massachusetts electricity prices this winter).Again, there is a real debate to be had over net neutrality. But no matter where it winds up, Cruz should rest assured that the Internet won’t be slowed down.
Of course, net neutrality isn’t about slowing down the Internet — it would ban evil cable companies from slowing down content just because content providers hadn’t paid exorbitant sums of money to the cable company to speed up service. But lest we get bogged down with the reality-based community’s facts, let’s focus on the bottom line: Ted Cruz hates net neutrality, and he really hates Obamacare, so net neutrality is basically Obamacare of the Internet. Kind of how a pathway to citizenship reform is the Obamacare of immigration policy, Common Core is the Obamacare of education, and same-sex nuptials are the Obamacare of marriage.
