[Breitbart] Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens warned demonstrators in St. Louis, Missouri, that looting and violence would not be tolerated as violent protesters continue to wreak havoc in the city.
"We had leaders who wanted to give people a safe space to loot and to burn," Greitens told Fox News. "Now in Missouri if you loot the only safe space you’re going to have is in a jail cell."
"If you’re going to riot we’re going to cuff you," he continued. "Violence and vandalism is not protest. It is a crime."
Violent protesters stormed St. Louis following a judge’s decision Friday to acquit former police officer Jason Stockley, a white male, of murder charges in connection the 2011 shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith, a black male.
[THESUN.CO.UK] THIS is the terrifying moment a man who claimed to be able to control crocodiles appears to be dragged under the water by one of the beasts.
The man, Suprianto, was seen paddling in the water before appearing to be pulled down into the water with a splash.
He had been swimming in the river as part of the search for a teen who had disappeared in the body of water the day before, Jakarta local news reported.
He had been chanting mantras as he swam in the water in Kutai Kartanegara, East Kalimantan, an Indonesian province on Saturday.
The body of the Shaman, and that of the missing teen, were found the next day.
Kutai Kartanegara Police Chief Fadillah Zulkarnaen told Detik: "We have recovered the two (bodies) on Sunday.
"The shaman (Suprianto) was found floating in Muara Jawa at 9:40pm. His body is still whole."
He added: "I think he was dragged by a croc under the water and then ran out of oxygen. From the pictures I’ve seen, his body is still intact, his arms and legs are still there."
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The world has warmed more slowly than had been forecast by computer models, which were “on the hot side” and overstated the impact of emissions, a new study has found. Its projections suggest that the world has a better chance than previously claimed of meeting the goal set by the Paris agreement on climate change to limit warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
The study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, makes clear that rapid reductions in emissions will still be required but suggests that the world has more time to make the changes.
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The value of a scientific theory or model lies in it's ability to make predictions, not in it's explanations. If your predictions suck, so does your theory. It's as simple as that.
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That was true when scientists were odd-balls on the fringes of society, SteveS. Nowadays, people who get into tenure track science positions are well socially adjusted, group dynamics alpha, wheeler dealers.
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They are still wrong and always will be. When they die I'll bet the devil gets tired of their shrill screaming that brimstone will lead to manDevil-made Global Warming and He'll will become....hell?
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Overpopulation. Disease. Starvation. Resource Depletion. Global CoolingWarming Climate Change.
The same people always have the same solution: World Socialism...As if it would every be anything but an Oligarchy.
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Tourist boats are tossed around as 7.1 magnitude earthquake hits Mexico leaving at least 248 people dead including 20 children after school collapsed
I stopped thinking of Mexico as a tourist destination many years ago.
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Used to love Ensenada, San Felipe, Rosarita, (Tijuana as a teenager). They have nothing I need now at the risk/benefit comparison level. I understand the guided bus tours of Baja vinyards are great. Can do the same in Temecula without the risk
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[ACCUWEATHER] Major Hurricane Maria will continue to rip a path of destruction over the islands of the northeastern Caribbean Sea into midweek.
Maria will threaten lives and cause devastation in areas hit and missed by Irma's worst less than two weeks earlier.
According to Dr. Joel N. Myers, founder, president and chairman of AccuWeather, "There is no comparison between what Puerto Rico got before with Irma and what it will get this time with Maria. This is a disaster in the making. All parties in Puerto Rico and the nearby islands need to know how serious this threat is. The damage done by wind gusts from the last storm (Irma) of 50 to 60 mph will pale in comparison to winds that may reach 140 from Hurricane Maria."
"It is possible that parts of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands may become uninhabitable for weeks or longer due to the destruction that Maria will cause," Myers said.
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Perhaps Disaster Relief can provide some Budget Relief.
[The Hill] President Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort is demanding an investigation into a report that he was wiretapped during and after the 2016 election.
Manafort said in a statement Tuesday that the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Office of Inspector General must "immediately conduct an investigation into these leaks and to examine the motivations behind a previous Administration’s effort to surveil a political opponent."
"Mr. Manafort requests that the Department of Justice release any intercepts involving him and any non-Americans so interested parties can come to the same conclusion as the DOJ ‐ there is nothing there."
Manafort also blasted the reports that he was wiretapped during and the 2016 campaign, saying that it is illegal to disclose FISA warrants under the law.
Manafort was responding to reports that the government obtained a secret court order under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in 2014 allegedly to focus on his work consulting for the government of Ukraine.
A second warrant obtained by the government was allegedly part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian election interference.
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I'm running out of popcorn on this one. First there were no wire taps, then there was. Trump was right? Who leaked it to Trump? To CNN? Who signed the FISA? Rice? Is she in contempt for denying it to congress? Oh how this will make a great movie, it can run with days of our lives...
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12. "Why did Attorney General Jeff Sessions say there was no basis for Trump’s tweet when it seems clear that in fact someone as senior as Manafort, working and operating within Trump Tower, was indeed wiretapped? It is possible he was being literal and specific. But if this wiretap did indeed pick up conversations with Trump, how did Sessions not know about it? Was his recusal part of that? Did it end prior to his confirmation?"
Perhaps 'U.S. Intelligence didn't conduct the alleged electronic surveillance? Would it be too big a leap to assume Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak was also being monitored by other intelligence services ?
Would shared production (and incidental collection) from a fellow 'Five Eyes' member be a method in which cumbersome U.S. privacy laws could be circumvented ?
[Dhaka Tribune] Bangladesh Chhatra League ... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ... has suspended their Barisal unit’s Secretary General Asim Dewan for breaching the party’s code of conduct after his arrest.
Asim was placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... by the police on Monday, when he was fleeing in a car with a girl he and his associates had kidnapped from Bashundhara Residential Area on Monday night.
The victim of the abduction is the daughter of a BNP leader from Barisal.
When the police pulled him over in the Rupganj-Murapara Ferryghat area, they found an unlicensed foreign revolver and five bullets on him and recovered the victim.
Rupganj cop shoppe Officer-in-Charge Ismail Hossain told the Dhaka Tribune: "Asim Dewan and his goons kidnapped the girl from Bashundhara Residential Area on Monday afternoon."
"The abduction was immediately reported to the police, RAB and other law enforcement agencies. Police tracked the vehicle down, along with the culprits and the victim, in Rupganj-Murapara ferryghat around 10:30pm," added Ismail Hossain.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, a little lightbulb figuratively appeared over Bossy's head... BCL President Saifur Rahman Sohag and General Secretary SM Zakir Hossain issued a signed blurb, stating that Asim Dewan (general secretary, BCL, Barisal) has been suspended from the party by decision of the Bangladesh Chhatra League Central Executive Committee on Tuesday.
Sources claim that Asim Dewan had distanced himself from representing the BCL unit of Barisal, despite his post as its general secretary.
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[Stars & Stripes] TOKYO ‐ Japan is moving a mobile missile-defense system on the northern island of Hokkaido to a base near recent North Korean missile flyover routes.
Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said Tuesday that a Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptor unit is being deployed at the Hakodate base on southern Hokkaido.
The relocation comes days after a North Korean missile was test-fired last week that flew over southern Hokkaido and landing in the Pacific off the island's east coast ‐ a second flyover in less than a month. The PAC-3 was brought from another base on Hokkaido.
[Al Jazeera] UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned world leaders against war with North Korea, calling on them to take the threat of "nuclear peril" seriously.
"We must not sleepwalk our way into war," said Guterres on Tuesday at the annual summit of the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.
"When tensions rise, so does the chance of miscalculation. Fiery talk can lead to fatal misunderstandings," he said in his first state-of-the-world report since taking the top job at the UN on January 1.
"The solution must be political. This is a time for statesmanship."
His message on "fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... " rhetoric was implicitly directed at North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... , but also at the United States and President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... , who later warned of "totally destroying North Korea" if it does not back down.
"The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea," Trump told the UNGA, shortly after Guterres' speech.
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if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea
"and Mexico might be next!"
Thanks Halliburton, EQD.
[Al Jazeera] US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's highly-combative remarks against North Korea and its leader at the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... will only harden Pyongyang's resolve to continue developing its nuclear programme, analysts have warned.
Using what was described as "unprecedented" language, Trump made his debut address at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday.
In a wide-ranging, 45-minute speech, his most anticipated foreign policy address of his tenure, Trump vowed that the US would "totally destroy" North Korea if it is forced to defend itself or its allies.
He also mocked Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... , North Korea's leader, saying: "'Rocket Man' is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime. The United States is ready, willing and able, but hopefully this will not be necessary."
The sharp escalation in rhetoric came weeks after Trump warned that North Korea will be met with "fire and fury like the world had never seen" if it continues expanding its nuclear programme.
"I expected him to talk tough and strong - but I did not expect him to talk quite that tough and quite that strongly," said Donald Kirk, a journalist and author of several books on Korea.
He said Trump's remarks made the prospect of negotiations extremely unlikely.
North Koreans are not going to back down - if anything they are going to increase the tempo of their programme," Kirk told Al Jazeera from South Korea's capital, Seoul. "I think we can forget about North Korea saying, 'let's go to negotiations.'"
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Excerpt: It was July 1993, and Hillary’s husband, a mere half year into his presidency, was dealing with little Kim’s little grand-pappy, another Marxist madman, the progenitor of this communist-totalitarian hereditary dictatorship. On July 9, 1993, as the Washington Post reported at the time, Bill Clinton, amid a major swing through Asia, told the media the following of U.S. policy toward North Korea under his administration: “We would overwhelmingly retaliate if [the North Koreans] were to ever use, to develop and use nuclear weapons. It would mean the end of their country as they know it.”
For the record, he also added, “North Korea is just one of many renegade nations that would like to have nuclear weapons and be unaccountable for them, and we can’t let it happen.”
Well, it did happen. And presidents like Donald Trump are today left to deal with the failures of presidents like Bill Clinton (and his bipartisan successors) who couldn’t stop it from happening.
Clinton’s comments were widely covered at the time, including by the New York Times, which reported: “On his weekend visit to South Korea, President Clinton warned that if North Korea developed and used an atomic weapon, ‘we would quickly and overwhelmingly retaliate.’” He said, “It would mean the end of their country as they know it.”
To repeat: the end of their country as they know it.
The Free Beacon updates us on the right to work movement in Wisconsin, where the state court of appeals has just delivered a major ruling which comes as a serious blow to the state's unions. The Badger State passed a right to work law back in 2015 which forbid companies from making union membership compulsory as a condition of employment, but the unions have been throwing their full weight into challenging the law and tying it up in court.
That may have finally come to an end this week as the justices tossed out one of their final claims. The unions argued that the law was somehow in violation of the state constitution, but the court found the argument unpersuasive.
Here is the best part of their communist/collectivist/statist argument
What made the unions' claim in this case so remarkably outrageous was the way they framed their objection. The plaintiffs claimed that the law deprived them of property without compensation. In essence, what they were saying was that a portion of every worker's paycheck was theirs by right and passing a law denying them their cut of the money was therefore unconstitutional.
That's right. Your labor and your compensation don't belong to you. It belongs to the special interest groups or the government.
So glad this was smacked down. Goddamn parasites.
[Free Beacon] Senate Republicans announced Tuesday that they have struck a tentative deal for sweeping tax reform, with tax cuts totaling $1.5 trillion over 10 years.
Sen. Bob Corker (R., Tenn.) informed reporters with the Wall Street Journal about the deal, but declined to provide specific numbers. The deal was reached after a Tuesday Senate Republican working lunch. Vice President Mike Pence was reportedly also in attendance.
The plan itself has not yet been written. House, Senate, and White House tax leaders are scheduled to release more information next week.
Part of passing such a tax cut would require Republicans negotiating and passing a budget with offsets for the reduction in incomes. If Republicans can create a revenue-neutral bill, they will be able to, under Senate rules, pass their budget and tax cut through on a simple majority vote, i.e. without needing to pick up any Democratic votes.
Reducing the size of the budget will also allow Republicans to avoid making tough calls on removing tax deductions from the current code. Though large, the cuts may not be permanent, with some allowed to sunset after 10 years.
Democrats were critical of the plan out of the gate, noting the nation's $20 trillion debt and projected $10 trillion deficit over the next decade. Continued deficit spending at this scale could endanger the U.S.'s credit-worthiness, as when Standard & Poor's downgraded it in 2011.
"If this was starting with a clean balance sheet, it would be problematic," Sen. Mark Warner (D., Va.) said. "But it is exponentially more problematic."
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On the flip side the USA has had several tax increases over the last 8 years and a doubling of national debt occurred. If done correctly some tax cuts increase economic activity and can pay for themselves. I am of the belief that a dollar sent to Washington is the most underutilized use of capital.
[BLOOMBERG] You know you've got a problem when even the best don't have the solution.
Finland, a first-rate place in which to be a mother, has registered the lowest number of newborns in nearly 150 years. The birth rate has been falling steadily since the start of the decade, and there's little to suggest a reversal in the trend.
Demographics are a concern across the developed world, of course. But they are particularly problematic for countries with a generous welfare state, since they endanger its long-term survival.
For Heidi Schauman, the statistics are "frightening."
"They show how fast our society is changing, and we don't have solutions ready to stop the development," the Aktia Bank chief economist said in a telephone interview in Helsinki. "We have a large public sector and the system needs taxpayers in the future."
To do that, the fertility rate should equal two per woman, Schauman says. It was projected at 1.57 in 2016, according to Statistics Finland.
That's a surprisingly low level, given the efforts made by the state to support parenthood.
Perhaps nothing illustrates those better than Finland's famous baby-boxes. Introduced in 1937, containers full of baby clothes and care products are delivered to expectant mothers, with the cardboard boxes doubling up as a makeshift cot. The idea behind the maternity packages was prompted by concerns over high infant mortality rates in low-income families. The starter kits were eventually extended to all families.
Offering generous parental leave and one of the best education system in the world doesn't seem to be working either. According to the OECD, Finland already has the lowest ratio of youths to the working-age population in the Nordics.
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So how's that Nordic Socialism looking now? Great for a couple generations, then flat lining making room for new people to move in. It's mother nature's feature, not a bug.
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"Finland, a first-rate place in which to be a mother, has registered the lowest number of newborns in nearly 150 years. The birth rate has been falling steadily since the start of the decade, and there's little to suggest a reversal in the trend.
Demographics are a concern across the developed world, of course. But they are particularly problematic for countries with a generous welfare state, since they endanger its long-term survival."
There's a simple, time-proven solution to that problem: import large numbers of Muslims from failed third-world shitholes. They breed like rats and will generate lots of tax revenue to support the continuance of the welfare state.
There are some downsides (random explosions and whatnot), but no matter.
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How are migrants from cultures with near zero GDP going to make a country with a high GDP richer?
[Yahoo.com/finance] Good news: NASA's administrator nominee is fine with studying climate change! Just not Earth's climate change. In answers to a Senate questionnaire, Rep. Jim Bridenstine says it's important to understand why Mars changed so dramatically, losing its magnetic field and oceans to become the barren world it is today. If we know more about the Red Planet, he argues, we could "inform our understanding of Earth." There's a degree of truth to this, but history and Bridenstine's actions suggest it could be about diverting attention away from climate change issues on our homeworld.
As Scientific American
...when I was a child, SA was a reputable general science journal, suitable for scientists wanting to keep track of major developments in fields other than their own. But it's been a long time since I was a child...
explains, climate science deniers have regularly tried to use Mars' changes as an explanation for patterns here on Earth. Mars saw a dramatic shift through strictly natural causes, so humanity can't be responsible for what's happening back home, can it? The problem, of course, is that Mars' changes likely occurred over billions of years. The increase in carbon emissions on Earth (and the resulting increase in temperature) on Earth has taken mere decades, aligning roughly with the rise of industry and fossil fuels. Bridenstine's willingness to study Mars' climate, but reluctance to study Earth's, suggests that he might be looking to other planets as justification for inaction on climate issues.
That's not helped by Bridenstine's own history. When he was a new politician, he asked President Obama to apologize for allegedly wasting money on climate research. He blamed the Sun for climate shifts and falsely claimed that temperatures had stopped rising. As recently as the start of 2017, Bridenstine had floated the idea of removing Earth science from NASA's scope and assigning it to another agency -- as if Earth science isn't inherently connected to NASA's studies.
There are signs that he may be changing his mind, if slightly. He writes in the questionnaire that NASA should still "advance both Earth science and planetary science," and that it's not right when these camps have to battle each other to get funding. The question is whether or not Bridenstine will let NASA study the full range of Earth science if he's approved in the coming weeks. Given his past and a White House that bristles at the mere mention of climate change, it won't be surprising if he's hesitant to support any science that contradicts the administration's agenda.
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Hey! Don't get me started on white dwarfs, brown dwarfs, red giants, yellow giants, etc.
I noted a shift in the quality of writing in the SA back in the 80s and haven't bought any issues since then. Except for the collection of "Amateur Scientist" on CD.
[DAWN] Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... police on Tuesday started the paperwork but haven't done much else against PPP MPA Tariq Masood Arain and more than 12 armed guards over charges of attempted murder as the politician's guards allegedly assaulted a security squad protecting the family of Corps Commander Karachi Lt-Gen Shahid Baig Mirza.
A first information report (FIR), registered on complaint of army Havaldaar Fahimullah Jan with Darakhshan Police, claimed the complainant and his colleagues were on duty when four men in a car tried to obstruct the VIP protocol of the corps commander's family, upon which they were instructed to stop and check the vehicle.
The obstructing vehicle was intercepted near Saba Avenue, and the four men inside were asked to produce their CNICs, which they failed to produce, the FIR claimed.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow... two boys later identified as Moon and Asad made telephonic contact with a person named Tariq, who immediately sent two vehicles with 15 to 18 gunnies carrying sub-machine guns (SMGs), the complainant alleged.
One person, later identified as Manzoor, who arrived with the gunnies in a Land Cruiser threatened and beat up members of the VIP security squad. Their accomplice, later identified as Jehangir, and others assaulted sepoys Arif, Ali Jan and the complainant, according to the FIR.
Moon and Asad also beat them up and snatched two official SMGs and two magazines, the complainant alleged, adding that he and two other members of the security squad were maimed and treated at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Complex where a medico-legal examination was carried out.
The complainant claimed they were beaten at the behest of Tariq Masood Arain, an elected MPA from Shaheed Benazirabad currently serving his third term as a member of the provincial assembly.
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[DAWN] An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Haripur on Tuesday indicted 57 people in the Mashal Khan lynching case, DawnNews reported.
Strict security measures were in place in the vicinity of Haripur jail where the trial was conducted and where the incarcerated Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! men named in the case were presented before the ATC. The accused had been held in Haripur Central Prison.
A second hearing will take place tomorrow (Wednesday) in which the prosecution and defence will present their arguments. Mashal's father, Iqbal Khan, will appear before the court on Wednesday.
All those indicted in the case have pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." In April, a vigilante mob, incited by rumours, had attacked Khan for allegedly "publishing blasphemous content online". The mass communication student, enrolled in Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan (AWKUM), was beaten and shot by the mob. He later departed this vale of tears.
A report compiled by the 13-member joint investigation team probing the lynching stated that a group in AWKUM had incited a mob against the student on the pretext of blasphemy. It added that no proof was found that Mashal Khan had ever committed the offence.
In July, Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. High Court (PHC) Chief Justice Yahya Afridi had ordered the transfer of the murder case from Mardan to an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Haripur jail after Khan's father requested the move fearing his "influential adversaries".
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[DAWN] DADU: Aggrieved parents of Tania Khaskheli, who was killed by an influential landlord in Jhangara-Bajara town near Sehwan nine days ago, have demanded arrest of all suspects involved in the murder.
They appealed to the Sindh government to provide protection to their other three daughters as the family was receiving threats from the main suspect, Khan Nohani, and his henchmen.
Khurshid Begum, late Tania’s mother, told Dawn on Monday that though the main suspect had reportedly been tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! , still she had a constant fear that he would kill her three other daughters as well after being released from jail.
Eighteen-year-old Tania Khaskheli, a student of class-X, was allegedly killed by Khan Nohani and his henchmen after the girl’s parents turned down his marriage proposal. The culprits barged into the girl’s house on Sept 10 at around 3.30pm and proposed to her but when she and her family refused they attempted to kidnap her but then killed her over stiff resistance from the family and bravely ran away.
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[Nasdaq GlobeNewswire] ATLANTA, Sept. 20, 2017 - Airbus Aerial, the commercial aerial services business recently launched by Airbus, partnered with major utility, Southern Company, to field a first-of-its-kind demonstration of power line inspections using a blend of aerial technologies. The demonstration used Airbus satellite systems to inspect Southern Company’s electrical lines across a region of Georgia and a drone to collect finer detail along a 30-mile (48.2 km) span outside Atlanta. This marks the first time drone and satellite imaging technologies have been used in unison and the first beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) drone flight in Georgia.
Authorities and executives from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Southern Company, Airbus Unmanned Aerial Systems division in Europe, as well as several Airbus Aerial business partners attended the trial.
"Our goal here was to demonstrate how our technology can support Southern Company in monitoring their energy infrastructure - particularly in remote locations, help them improve maintenance efficiency, ensure service continuity, support personnel safety and save costs," said Jesse Kallman, President of Airbus Aerial.
Airbus Aerial brings together aerospace technologies such as drones and satellites, combines them in a common software infrastructure, and applies industry-specific analytics to deliver tailored solutions to customers in utilities, agriculture, insurance and other markets. "In this case, we were able to image an entire portion of the State of Georgia by satellite, identify the need areas along the lines where maintenance issues could occur, then used BVLOS drone inspections to determine how to remedy the issue," said Kallman.
"We put this demo together in concert with Airbus Aerial to demonstrate to our internal customers the relative benefits of Beyond Line of Sight inspections," explained Harry Nuttall, Director of System Air, Southern Company.
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I used to fly "Powerline Patrols." 50-feet above the wires unless cows, houses, peeples, etc required a climb to a more appropriate altitude. Some days....
See those crossbars between the poles? That's what they're (usually) evaluating.
1. Drones make more sense than the expense of an aircraft, pilot and utility rep.
2. Some days, the turbulence at low altitudes required cancelling. Can't have the utility guy throwing up all over the a/c!
3. Lastly, the " unique identifier" numbers required on drones are very tiny. Harder to get "busted."
[TheBlackSphere] Months after his show was cancelled, it seems the credibility of at least one O’Reilly accuser is now being questioned.
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Burgess was quick to jump on the O’Reilly bandwagon. She claims Bill called her "hot chocolate." Furthermore, we’re supposed to believe she was offended by his statement.
Burgess only worked for Fox News for a few weeks in 2008 as a secretarial temp. She even lied about that, claiming it was 6 months. Burgess didn’t have any other claim to fame. Oddly enough, Burgess never bothered to make a sexual harassment claim until the New York Times reported that five other women managed to reach 7 figure settlements. Of course, those settlements were more than a decade old. They were handled in a time when maybe it was just easier to pay out than it was to deal with publicity.
Yet, once Burgess heard about these old lawsuits, she decided to add to the claims. Her allegations played a significant role in Fox News’ decision to terminate O’Reilly. So you can bet the farm, O’Reilly is fired up to find out this woman is about as honest as a tele-evangelist.
From day 1, O’Reilly has denied ever having a conversation with Burgess. In fact, he said he didn’t even know who she was. "So when it came out, it was stunning." O’Reilly said.
As Newsmax learned:
A Detroit Police report dated Feb. 11, 2015, documents Burgess’s arrest on charges of making a false report and obstructing a court order.
According to the police document, Burgess called authorities and alleged her boyfriend had struck her in the face with a gun. Police said when they arrived at the scene Burgess "appeared intoxicated."
The arresting officer stated: "I asked Ms. Burgess where the gun was that she was struck with in the face, she replied there is no gun. I again asked her where the gun was, and if she had been assaulted. Ms. Burgess stated there was no gun, and he didn’t assault me!"
The boyfriend told police she had threatened him, saying she would call "the cops saying you hit me with a gun!"
According to the police document, Burgess was arrested for filing a false felony report and for violating a personal protection order.
In a statement provided to Newsmax, Lisa Bloom, Burgess’s attorney, acknowledges the police report involving her client, but states that Burgess and her former boyfriend "both believe the charges were based on a misunderstanding and were not pursued by the police or prosecutors."
In another document, a social media user thought to be Burgess tweeted on Nov. 24, 2012: "... up until 10 years ago Laurence Fishburne could get every oz. of my hot chocolate."
Addressing that tweet, Bloom stated: "Ms. Burgess has used many terms to refer to herself, including on occasion ’bitch’ and the N word. That does not give others ‐ especially her superiors in her workplace ‐ permission to use offensive language about her."
[FOX] BELLEVILLE, Ill. ‐ Every player on the Cahokia Quarterback Club football team (8 and under) took a knee during the national anthem ahead of Sunday’s game at Little Devil’s Field in Belleville.
"One of the kids asked me if I saw (people) protesting and rioting in St. Louis. I said yes; I said, ’Do you know why they are doing it?'" said Coach Orlando Gooden.
Coach Gooden said his player responded, "Because black people are getting killed and nobody's going to jail."
Gooden, who played football at Mizzou, said the kids knew about the Jason Stockley decision.
"I felt like it was a good teaching moment for me to circle the team and have a meeting," he said.
The coach said he spoke to them about that and other situations that have happened in our country. He then explained why former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick started kneeling during the anthem.
"One of the kids asked, ’Can we do that?’ I said, ’As long as we know why we're doing it, I don’t have a problem with any of it.’"
When the anthem started, the Cahokia third graders immediately took a knee where they were standing. Their backs were away from the flag‐but not on purpose‐according to Gooden.
"What I teach my kids is love, integrity, honesty, fairness, respect and boundaries," he said.
All the parents on the team supported the coach’s decision to take a knee. However, a Facebook post by Gooden’s wife was met with some backlash.
"As long as I have support of my parents and team, I’m perfectly fine, and I'm covered under the First Amendment to peacefully protest and assemble," Gooden said.
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After the game, Coach Gooden took the team to an abandoned industrial site where they all chilled whilst engaging in brick throwing and window breaking.
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The Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site /kəˈhoʊkiə/ (11 MS 2)[2] is the site of a pre-Columbian Native American city (c. 600–1400 CE) directly across the Mississippi River from modern St. Louis, Missouri.
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The Free Beacon updates us on the right to work movement in Wisconsin, where the state court of appeals has just delivered a major ruling which comes as a serious blow to the state's unions. The Badger State passed a right to work law back in 2015 which forbid companies from making union membership compulsory as a condition of employment, but the unions have been throwing their full weight into challenging the law and tying it up in court.
[Yahoo.com/finance] Good news: NASA's administrator nominee is fine with studying climate change! Just not Earth's climate change. In answers to a Senate questionnaire, Rep. Jim Bridenstine says it's important to understand why Mars changed so dramatically, losing its magnetic field and oceans to become the barren world it is today. If we know more about the Red Planet, he argues, we could "inform our understanding of Earth." There's a degree of truth to this, but history and Bridenstine's actions suggest it could be about diverting attention away from climate change issues on our homeworld.
There are signs that he may be changing his mind, if slightly. He writes in the questionnaire that NASA should still "advance both Earth science and planetary science," and that it's not right when these camps have to battle each other to get funding. The question is whether or not Bridenstine will let NASA study the full range of Earth science if he's approved in the coming weeks. Given his past and a White House that bristles at the mere mention of climate change, it won't be surprising if he's hesitant to support any science that contradicts the administration's agenda.
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[FOX] BELLEVILLE, Ill. ‐ Every player on the Cahokia Quarterback Club football team (8 and under) took a knee during the national anthem ahead of Sunday’s game at Little Devil’s Field in Belleville.
