A man was arrested on Thursday after a bizarre series of events that included him crashing his car, getting shot by a homeowner, breaking a restaurant window and stripping to his underwear.
Police said it all started when the man crashed his car into a pole and started banging on the door of a nearby house. After he kicked in a window, homeowner Leroy Bruce shot him.
Bruce said the man ran off and left his pants and other clothing behind. The bleeding suspect fled to a McDonald's and threw a rock through the front window.
Witness Lisa Fuqua told WMC-TV that the man was easy for police to identify and that he 'had to be on some high-powered something."
The suspect, who wasn't identified, was taken to the Regional Medical Center. Police said they'll charge him when he's released.
Officers said when they found the man at the restaurant, he had stripped to his shirt and undershorts.
Barley and wheat price hikes may boost brew's price
A worldwide shortage of one of the key ingredients in beer and rising prices for some others are tapping into small brewers' profits and, in some cases, could eventually lead to higher prices.
The price of hops has risen sharply in recent months, while malting companies are telling brewers to expect higher prices for malted barley in the coming year as well.
"It is absolutely amazing, the way this happened," said Dave Miller, brewmaster at Nashville's Blackstone Restaurant & Brewery on West End Avenue.
"I'm sure an economist who's studied the business could have predicted this was going to happen, but most of us aren't nearly that savvy about this stuff," he said.
Barley and wheat prices have skyrocketed as more farmers plant corn to meet increasing demand for ethanol, while others plant feed crops to replace acres lost to corn.
A decade-long oversupply of hops that had forced farmers to abandon the crop is finally gone and harvests were down this year. In the United States, where one-fourth of the world's hops are grown, acreage fell 30 percent between 1995 and 2006.
Brewers say barley prices have risen, too, in the past year.
Blackstone paid 23 cents a pound for barley a year ago, Miller said. "It's now up to about 33 cents on this order I got in July," he said.
"We're being told by the malting companies to anticipate perhaps as much as a 20 percent increase in the price" in the coming year.
So far, Blackstone hasn't increased its beer prices to customers. Some other beer outlets have passed along modest increases.
So far, retail price increases have been modest, less than a dollar a 12-pack, said Harry Schuhmacher, editor of the online trade publication Beer Business Daily.
Someone else can back track this. The war with islam causing our beer prices to go out.
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A decade-long oversupply of hops that had forced farmers to abandon the crop is finally gone and harvests were down this year.
Uh, hops are, as far as I know, not particularly storable. I'm guessing the over-supply was caused by unusually good growing conditions.
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I've semi-designed in my head a home brewery that would look something like a washer-dryer combo. The process would begin by adding 15-20 gallons of bottled water to the "washer" side, along with clarified wort syrup, yeast, and maybe some additional sugar. The lid is then sealed.
The extra heat and CO2 are vented through the dryer vent while gentle agitation speeds up the fermentation process. The resulting green beer, ale or lager, is then conditioned, then filtered into the "dryer" side tank, which is mounted on wheels and also serves as a portable refrigerator, with a tap on the top.
After the beer has been produced, then the system is flushed with tap water and a flavorless, mild detergent, rinsed with bottled water, and ready for the next batch.
Beginning the process with clarified wort avoids the really hard parts of the beer making process. And with the machine monitoring the fermentation and conditioning, it should be fairly trouble free.
Best of all, it fits right in to the water, drain and vent set up for a washer/dryer combo, so such a large system has a place to fit in typical residences that don't have a washer/dryer.
If two or more people live in a residence, federal law allows up to 200 gallons of beer to be brewed annually. But who's counting? Such a machine might even have an attachment so that the beer can be home bottled.
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We were in the Midwest this past summer, and Niles was reading in the local paper that barns are disappearing. Farmers don't need them as much anymore because raising livestock is much less profitable than growing corn.
They're taking away your beer and steaks, men! To the barricades!
It's 2 a.m. Do you know whom you're voting for? Not for someone so incompetent as to hire someone to awaken me in the middle of the night.
That question confronted 3,000 voters across Peekskill, Cortlandt and Yorktown (NY) who were jarred awake by a campaign call for Democrat Domenic Volpe. Volpe is seeking to unseat county Legislator George Oros, R-Cortlandt, in Tuesday's election.
"First of all, I hate those recorded messages," said registered Democrat Eileen Curinga of Montrose. "But secondly, I didn't know whether this was sabotage or just stupidity. Either way, its not right that somebody calls at 2 o'clock in the morning."
The 30-second call attacking Oros over legislative pay raises targeted Democrats, Independence Party members and unaffiliated voters. Oros said he has heard from 40 people, many who thought the call was from him because they hung up before it finished.
"I'm calling on him to contact all these people at a reasonable hour to apologize for waking them up and to assure them that the call came from his campaign and not mine," Oros said.
Volpe said Next Big Thing, the Leesburg, Va.-based robocalling firm that issued the call, mistakenly programmed it to go out at 2 a.m. instead of 2 p.m. He said he'll apologize personally to each of the 150-plus people who called him to complain. "That was not the purpose of the call, to smear him (Oros) in any way," Volpe said, noting he, too, got the call at home. "It was just an issue-oriented robocall. The fact that it started at 2 a.m. is really the tragedy in this situation. My name ends the call, so it's not like it was only his name on the message."
James Seirmarco, a registered Democrat from Buchanan, thought at first that he might have been singled out for the call. "My wife said it was because I had a George Oros sign out front," he said.
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Well, at least, they didn't send that message by wrapping it around a brick and throwing it through the window. So, really, there is no reason to complain!
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Really smart: 150 people awakened at some ungodly hour to an inane robo-call, and then after getting all pissed off at the idiot behind it, gets ANOTHER inane call from, if not the hired gun, the real inane idiot that sponsored the initial SNAFU. Sure way to win votoers over....
How can we get this Democratic train wreck extrapolated to happen on a NATIONAL scale?
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I actually enjoy Icke's worldview, though I never have read any of his book (found online in digital copies); this is so pervasive and holistic, really paranoia refined. The man is obviously not very balanced (he once claimed to be the Messiah, before seeing ultradimensional reptilian psychic vampires shapeshift in front of him). Far out.
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May explain why NOSTRADAMUS's "hideous beast seen near Orgon", etc. appeared DINOSAURIAN/REPTILIAN under the dark skies. *GLOBAL BODY AND SOUL MUNCHING - KIRK DOUGLAS as ODYSEUS versus the [cannabalistic/man-eating]CYCLOPS - "You Greeks make for STRINGY MEAT", or words to that effect.
D *** NG IT, THE CYCLOPS SON OF POSEIDON NEEDS AN AFTERMEAL TOOTHPICK!
Belgium on Wednesday demanded the extradition of the convict known as the "jailbreak king" following his arrest for armed robbery in the Netherlands a day earlier. "The request for the extradition (of 27-year-old Nordin Benallal) has already been sent to the Dutch authorities," Jean-Claude Elslander, the public prosecutor of the Belgian district of Nivelles, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. The timing of the extradition will depend on whether the Dutch authorities decide to send Benallal back to Belgium immediately, or jail him for the hold-up first, he added. In the former case, the extradition could take from 10 days to two months.
Benallal, who has a history of violent crime, hit the headlines after he broke out of the high-security Ittre jail on Sunday. The spectacular escape, in which his accomplices crashed a hijacked helicopter into the prison yard, was the fourth in his career.
But on Tuesday afternoon he and one accomplice were arrested after carrying out an armed robbery at a motorbike store in the Dutch capital, The Hague.
Benallal is provisionally expected to appear before a Dutch judge on Friday in connection with Tuesday's raid, officials said. The date is as yet unconfirmed, however. Once he is returned to Belgium, the Belgian authorities will decide on the best way to reduce the risk of further jailbreaks, a spokesman for the Belgian prison service added. Media sources have suggested that Benallal would be moved from prison to prison to reduce the chances of his escaping. Officials would not comment on the suggestion, saying that it was too early to decide on security measures.
Benallal has achieved notoriety in Belgium for breaking out of jail four times since he was first imprisoned for robbery with violence in 1998. His first escape was from a prison van, while in his second he walked out of jail disguised in a wig and sunglasses. In 2004 he scaled a prison wall with a rope ladder. Days later policemen spotted him and tried to stop him. Benallal shot them both, leaving them critically injured. The Ittre prison is one of Belgium's highest-security jails. Its most notorious inmate is paedophile murderer Marc Dutroux.
Collect 'em all. Trade with your friends. Put them in the spokes of your Merkava...
Bethlehem Ma'an Israeli soldiers are trading pictures of dead Palestinians on their cell phones, the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv reported Thursday. Smile for the birdie...
Ma'ariv said that soldiers are known to use pictures of Palestinian corpses as screen savers in the place of pictures of friends or relatives. He stood like this...but not for long.
Israeli troops reportedly enjoy swapping the latest photos taken in Gaza. I'll give ya an Islamic Jihad, an Executive Force and an Al Quds Brigade for a Hamas leader the Apaches got while he was banging a goat...
One picture that reached the Israeli media was taken by soldiers from Israel's Golani Brigade, shows Palestinians killed during a recent incursion into northern Gaza. Ma'ariv said the Golani Brigade soldiers were not the only ones partaking in the strange practice. Other infantry units and paratroopers were among those found to be keeping collections of such gruesome photos. Oh, that one? That's called "Hellfire aftermath"...
One soldier interviewed by the newspaper said taking these photos gives soldiers a sense of finality in victory. No more boom boom for Mahmoud...
An army spokesperson said that the Israeli armed forces considers it a top priority to preserve the moral values that soldiers and commanders were brought up with, and that the army would look into the issue. Whatssa matter? Are the car swarmers pissed off?
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Result of new tools meeting a given milieu, just like the soldiers (or jihadis) vids at Liveleak of Youtube. Probably more in relation to the age of the soldiers and their familairity with cellphones tech than anything else. In the USA, they would be filming bike stunts and swapping saucy pics, in the french 'hoods they would be filming happy slapping.
Case Western Reserve University researchers have bred a line of "mighty mice" (PEPCK-Cmus mice) that have the capability of running five to six kilometers at a speed of 20 meters per minute on a treadmill for up to six hours before stopping.
"They are metabolically similar to Lance Armstrong biking up the Pyrenees; they utilize mainly fatty acids for energy and produce very little lactic acid," said Richard W. Hanson, the Leonard and Jean Skeggs Professor of Biochemistry at Case Western Reserve and the senior author of the cover article that appeared in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, entitled "Over Expression of the Cytosolic Form of Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase (GTP) in Skeletal Muscle Repatterns Energy Metabolism in the Mouse."
These genetically engineered mice also eat 60 percent more than controls, but remain fitter, trimmer and live and breed longer than wild mice in a control group. Some female PEPCK-Cmus mice have had offspring at 2.5 years of age, an amazing feat considering most mice do not reproduce after they are one year old. According to Hanson, the key to this remarkable alteration in energy metabolism is the over-expression of the gene for the enzyme phosphoenolypyruvate carboxykinases (PEPCK-C).
Parvin Hakimi, the article's lead author and a researcher in the Hanson lab, developed this new line of PEKCK-C mice over the past five years as part of on-going research aimed at understanding the metabolic and physiological function of PEPCK-C in skeletal muscle and adipose tissue.
The transgenic mice, which now number nearly 500, were derived from six founder lines that contain a chimeric gene in which a copy of the cDNA for PEPCK-C was linked to the skeletal actin gene promoter, containing the 3'-end of the bovine growth hormone gene. The skeletal actin gene promoter directs expression of PEPCK-C exclusively to skeletal muscle. Various lines of PEPCK-Cmus mice expressed PEPCK-C at different levels, but one very active line of PEPCK-Cmus mice had levels of PEPCK-C activity of 9 units/gram skeletal muscle, compared to only 0.08 units/gram in the muscles of control animals.
It was evident from the beginning that these mice were very different from average mice. Hakimi commented, "From a very early age, the PEPCK-Cmus mice ran continuously in their cages." She said she could identify which mice were from this new line by simply watching their level of activity in their home cage. Animal behavior studies later demonstrated that the PEPCK-Cmus mice are seven times more active in their home cages than controls; in addition, the mice were also markedly more aggressive. "The enhanced level of activity noted in the PEPCK-Cmus mice extends well beyond two years of age; this is considered old-age for mice," the researchers said.
As part of this study, the researchers determined oxygen consumption, the production of carbon dioxide and changes in the lactate concentrations in the blood of the PEPCK-Cmus mice and controls during strenuous exercises on a treadmill, which was set at a 25-degree incline. The treadmill speed was increased by 2m/min every minute until the mice stopped running. The PEPCK-Cmus mice ran an average of 31.9 minutes, compared to 19 minutes for the control animals.
"What is particularly dramatic is the difference in the concentrations of lactate in the blood," the researchers said. "At the beginning of exercise, the concentration of lactate was similar in two groups of mice, but by the end of the exercise period, the control group had elevated levels of blood lactate with little change in the levels in the PEPCK-Cmus mice."
They added that this indicates that the PEPCK-Cmus mice relied heavily on fatty acids as a source of energy during exercise, while the control animals rapidly switched from fatty acid metabolism to using muscle glycogen (carbohydrates) as a fuel; this dramatically raised the blood lactate levels.
This new mouse line also has an increased content of mitochondria and high concentrations of triglycerides in their skeletal muscles, which also contributed to the increased metabolic rate and longevity of the animals.
"It is remarkable that the over-expression of a single enzyme involved in a metabolic pathway should result in such a profound alteration in the phenotype of the mouse," Hakimi and Hanson said. "Understanding the biochemical mechanisms responsible for this repatterning of energy metabolism will keep us busy for some time to come."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A man was arrested on Thursday after a bizarre series of events that included him crashing his car, getting shot by a homeowner, breaking a restaurant window and stripping to his underwear.
