[NJ] A Newark woman enraged by "fancy white people" is being sought for allegedly attacking a man with a hammer and smashing his Porsche and boat at a gas station in what Virginia police described as a racially-motivated attack Saturday.
Angela M. Jones, 26, faces potential hate crime charges after allegedly beating the man at an Exxon Station off Interstate 95 in Caroline County, Va., according to WTVR.com.
Jones has not been located or locked away Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! as of 10:45 a.m. Tuesday, according to a front man for the New Jersey State Police.
The incident began when Jones approached the Massachusetts man as he fueled his Porsche and began yelling at him, authorities told the television station.
When the man tried to ignore her, she began bashing his boat and Porsche with a hammer, the report said. He was then struck in the face with the hammer several times when he approached her, authorities told the television station.
Some of her comments referred to him being rich and white, the report said. Jones, who is black, also said she was "sick of fancy white people," the man told the television station in an interview.
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AC, a conservative would never, ever, in a million years use a Porsche to drag a bout. This is like, like mixing humus with soy sauce, or mixing Chianti with beer.
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potential hate crime? Please do away with this concept. There are sufficient laws on the books to punish this woman. Besides, the added category of "hate crimes" is only used to punish boneheaded white people.
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Skid, mine has the smooth face but I'll go with either, I got it cheap when I was banging nails for a living.
Deacon, If you can swing a 28 oz all day over head hanging strapping your a better man than I am (or was).
The contest was how many strikes to sink a 16d nail while building frames on the deck......one to tap to start and one to sink it. ;^)
[RT] A rambunctious rhino was filmed charging at conservationists riding on elephants, moments after they had released it back into the wild.
The rare one-horned rhinoceros, also known as the Indian rhino, was one of five being released into Nepal’s Chitwan National Park to help boost the population of the dying breed.
Forest workers climbed onto the roof of the van that transported the rhino as the huge mammal rammed into the vehicle and charged at conservationists.
This particular rhino is the only male being relocated to the area, while four females will be released later this week, in an attempt to continue the conservation push that increased the number of one-horned rhinos from 100 in the later part of last century to the 645 believed to be living in Chitwan National Park now.
Although rhinos once freely roamed across Eurasia and Africa, very few now survive outside of national parks and reserves. Two species in Asia – Javan and Sumatran rhinos – are considered critically endangered.
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[HOSTED.AP.ORG] An incoming high school principal has resigned in Kansas after student news hounds investigated and raised questions about her credentials.
The Pittsburg School Board accepted Amy Robertson's resignation on Tuesday, saying she felt the decision was "in the best interest of the district ... in light of the issues that arose."
The main concern stemmed from her receiving her master's and doctoral degrees from Corllins University, an unaccredited, online school. Robertson said she received her degrees before the university lost accreditation.
"She was going to be the head of our school, and we wanted (to) be assured that she was qualified and had the proper credentials," Trina Paul, a student editor at Pittsburg High School's newspaper, The Booster Redux, told The Kansas City Star. "We stumbled on some things that most might not consider legitimate credentials."
Superintendent Destry Brown praised the student news hounds, saying: "I appreciate that our kids ask questions and don't just accept something because somebody told them." He told the Pittsburg Morning Sun they "did a great job with the research they did."
They did the job you should have done...
Robertson, who currently works with an education consulting firm in Dubai, said in an email to The Kansas City Star there was "no issue" when she received the degrees from Corllins in 1994 and 2010. She declined to comment on questions posed by the students about her credentials because, she said, "their concerns are not based on facts."
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A former buddy of mine did something like this. he claimed a bachelor's degree from Boston State College before it went under and was replaced by UMass-Boston (late 70's / early '80's). Somehow the BSC records got lost / disappeared during the transition, so there's no way to verify anything that went on at the old BSC.
[THEGUARDIAN] Lenín Moreno has agreed to honour WikiLeaks founder’s asylum but Assange’s ‘cordial invitation’ for election loser to leave the country tests relationship
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[CNBC] A dispute over islands in the East China Sea could be a trigger point for something bigger A dispute over islands in the East China Sea could be a trigger point for something bigger
OKINAWA-While the world watches mounting military tensions in the South China Sea, another, more ominous situation is brewing in the East China Sea that could be the trigger point for a major war between the superpowers. At the heart of tensions are eight uninhabited islands controlled by Japan that are close to important shipping lanes, rich fishing grounds and potential oil and gas reserves. China contests Japan's claims and is escalating its military activity in Japan airspace. In response, Japan has been doubling its F-15 jet intercepts.
The situation increases the risk of an accidental confrontation -- and could draw other countries, like the United States, into a conflict. It's a topic President Trump will likely bring up with Chinese President Xi Jinping at his Mar-a-Lago estate this week.
From the departure lounge at Naha International Airport on the Japanese island of Okinawa, passengers can easily see what's going on. Between the regular comings and goings of commercial airliners, first one, then two, then two more F-15 fighter jets streak down the runway that Japanese Air Self Defense Forces (JASDF) share with Naha's regular airline traffic. Rising rapidly from the tarmac, the quartet of combat aircraft heads out to sea to intercept yet another Chinese military aircraft -- usually other fighter jets, sometimes a bomber or reconnaissance plane -- flying into or close to Japanese airspace.
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If I understand correctly the value of the South China sea is the oil that lies beneath it (that China, Vietnam, and the Philippines all lay claim to). What I don't understand is how anyone could drill that oil at this point and make a profit.
The oil economy is faltering because of fracking prices and if it comes to conflict between China and anybody any oilfields in the South China Seas are going to be big juicy targets.
We should get them into a meeting and arrange to give Vietnam and Philippines a cut to make everyone happy and then let themselves handicap themselves. I must be missing something but it seems a no brainer.
[RT] Germany’s government has moved to stamp out child marriages by drafting a law that will raise the age of consent to 18 and give authorities the ability to break up unions involving minors. The law is an effort to tackle underage marriages prevalent in some immigrant communities, according to local reports, after the Federal Ministry of the Interior released statistics showing 1,475 foreign children had been documented as married last year.
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some immigrant communities
Let me guess that they are defining communities by nationality not religion.
[BLOOMBERG] Emmanuel Macron slipped in the first poll taken exclusively after the second television debate in La Belle France’s presidential election, leaving him tied with the National Front’s Marine Le Pen in first-round voting intention.
Both Macron and Le Pen now have the support of 23.5 percent of voters, with Macron down two points in a week and Le Pen down 0.5 points, according to an Elabe poll of 995 voters conducted April 5.
With less than three weeks to go until the first round of voting, the two leading candidates are maintaining their position ahead of the rest of the pack. Even so, public opinion remains fluid and third-placed Francois Fillon had his best showing in a month with 19 percent support. That leaves him a smaller gap with the two front-runners than at any time since February.
Le Pen would lose to both Macron and Fillon in the runoff vote scheduled for the two finalists on May 7, the Elabe poll showed.
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[DAWN] The rape victim in Muzaffarabad, who had attempted to commit suicide after being physically abused by an influential person late last week, threatened to commit self-immolation along with her spouse and son if her tormentors are not brought to justice.
"We need nothing but justice... They [the main and co-accused] should be given exemplary punishment," said S* while talking to media persons on Wednesday.
The 25-year old victim, who is four months pregnant with her second child, was accompanied by her husband, H*, and mother.
"If we do not get justice, we will douse ourselves with [kerosene] oil and set ourselves on fire in front of the prime minister’s office," she added, as her spouses nodded in agreement.
S* was reportedly subjected to the crime by a man named Raja on the outskirts of Chikar, a famous hill resort in the constituency of AJK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider last Friday.
The provisional medical report confirmed that she had been sexually assaulted.
The victim was on her way home from a nearby village, where she had gone to see her sister, when the alleged accused, accompanied by two other persons, forced her to sit in his jeep.
After the co-conspirators got out of the jeep, the primary accused took the victim to a deserted shelter in the jungle and subjected her to sexual assault.
Later, the suspect dropped the victim near her home and threatened her with a terrible outcome if she approached the police.
The victim initially refrained from sharing the harrowing incident with her husband, H*, until the next morning. However, a woman is only as old as she admits... after being informed of the incident he advised her to forget about it, since they could do nothing to the tormentor due to his financial strength and tribal clout.
S* subsequently ingested poison in a bid to commit suicide and was eventually brought to Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan (SKZN) Hospital in Muzaffarabad for further treatment.
The Chikar cop shoppe received information about the incident from hospital staffers on Monday, following which an assistant sub-inspector reached medical facility and recorded her statement regarding her ravishment.
Following her statement, the police registered an FIR and have since apprehended the main accused Raja.
On Wednesday, the suspect was produced before a judicial magistrate in Hattian Bala, and was remanded to police custody for one week for further investigation.
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Jhelum Valley Riaz Haider Bukhari told Dawn that the Deputy Superintendent Police and the concerned Station House Officer would conduct the interrogations jointly.
It should be noted that Raja Nayyar Naeem belongs to the clan of AJK Prime Minister Haider.
However, a woman is only as old as she admits... Raja Wasim, front man for the AJK premier, said in a brief statement that the accused "would be brought to justice."
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threatened to commit self-immolation along with her spouse and son if her tormentors are not brought to justice
Don't be such a drone. If you're going to die anyway go after the bad guys.
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Kids' Saturday! "Dudley Abdullah,"
Endorsed by your neighborhood mullah,
Now televised widely!
See Chaudhury Snidely
Kill infidel Nell and her fella!
[IsraelTimes] Rasha Atamny, 31, from Baqa al-Gharbiya, will be heading to Turkey.
A photo of this perfect symbol of Israeli apartheid can be seen at the link. Note her hair, dear Reader, and ponder the probability that some of her ancestors were brought north across the Sahara in chains.
The Foreign Ministry on Wednesday appointed Rasha Atamny, 31, to represent the Jewish state in Ankara, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , making her Israel’s first female Moslem diplomat.
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"A photo of this perfect symbol of Israeli apartheid can be seen at the link. Note her hair, dear Reader, and ponder the probability that some of her ancestors were brought north across the Sahara in chains."
...almost certainly by Muslim slave traders.
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[RT] Girls as young as nine are "physically and spiritually" ready for marriage, a Malaysian MP says, also claiming there’s "nothing wrong" with females marrying their rapists. It comes after Malaysia failed to criminalize child marriage in a recent law.
"They reach puberty at the age of nine or 12. And at that time, their body is already akin to them being 18 years old. So physically and spiritually, it is not a barrier for the girl to marry," Shabudin Yahaya, a member of the Barisan Nasional Coalition, told Parliament on Tuesday, as quoted by Rooters.
He went on to say there is "nothing wrong" with a rape victim marrying the man who raped her, as doing so would allow her to avoid a "bleak future."
"Perhaps through marriage they can lead a healthier, better life. And the person who was raped does not necessarily have a bleak future. She will have a husband, at least, and this could serve as a remedy to growing social problems," he said, as quoted by Malaysian newspaper the Star.
Shabudin's comments have prompted outrage online, including from fellow government minister Abdul Rahman Dahlan, who said he received the comments with "utter shock and disappointment."
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Malaysian paedophile MPs Physically and spiritually deserve to die in prison.
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"O girl-child, tell why you were buried."
"The reasons are many and varied..."
A beat. "Only kidding.
It's just Allah's bidding.
Go ask that fat bastard I 'married!'"
[ARSTECHNICA] Six years after making Unity the default user interface on Ubuntu desktops, Canonical is giving up on the project and will switch the default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME next year. Canonical is also ending development of Ubuntu software for phones and tablets, spelling doom for the goal of creating a converged experience with phones acting as desktops when docked with the right equipment. After producing what was probably the most comfortable desktop interface ever to date in Ubuntu 10.04 with Gnome 2.x, Canonical invented Unity, which made the desktop more like using a phone in anticipation of edging into the phone business. This was about the same time Android was shoving Blackberry out of its preeminent position. Opinion was unanimous: Unity sucked. It'll be eight years -- during which other Ubuntu developed operating systems have grown specifically because Unity was so bad. I still use Ubuntu on all my personal machines, but with xfce desktop. Since Gnome 3.x slurps just about as bad as Unity, if Canonical was paying me large dollars I'd suggest they go with that as the default desktop.
Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth explained the move in a blog post today. "I’m writing to let you know that we will end our investment in Unity8, the phone and convergence shell," he wrote. "We will shift our default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS," which will ship in April 2018.
This is a return to the early years of Ubuntu, when the desktop shipped with GNOME instead of a Canonical-developed user interface. Shuttleworth's blog post didn't specifically say that phone and tablet development is ending. But Canonical Community Manager Michael Hall confirmed to Ars that the Ubuntu phone and tablet project is over.
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Debian myself. Ubuntu is based off of it.
One machine uses gnome the rest KDE.
My main desktop is KDE.
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Performing task sub-contracting for the Army really doesn't expand the organization or funding lines. If you're not the 'Prime' you never really control the budget.
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"it can't escape the atmosphere so we will have to kill it."
I dunno. I can see them being tossed into low earth orbit from a gigantuous, big-ass trebuchet. One advantage is this would get the Society for Creative Anachronism on board, a constituency which has been previously under-served by the USAF.
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NASA should do the math on how big a trebuchet would have to be to launch a Mercury Capsule into low Earth orbit. Release the data on April 1st and see if any journalists figure it out.
Founders Day or Van Riebeeck's Day was a formal public holiday of the Union of South Africa and the Republic of South Africa until 1994. The holiday was established on 6 April 1952 during the Van Riebeeck Festival in honour of the 300th anniversary of the arrival of the Dutch in South Africa. Jan van Riebeeck arrived at Table Bay on 6 April 1652 as a result Cape Town was founded. From 1980, the day became known as Founders Day (Stigtingsdag).
The holiday was abolished after the first universal franchise election in 1994 and the subsequent new constitution.
Yes, abolished by the communist African National Congress (ANC). Take note when your holidays and national monuments are taken away or replaced.
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What would have happened if South Africa didn't encourage the Bantu's to come into South Africa and work for cheap. What if they encouraged Immigration from Europe the way the US and Argentina did. Africa would be a way different place.
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T-45 uses the OBOGs (On Board Oxygen Generating System), as does the Super Hornet and Growler; as opposed to the old style 10 litre green LOX bottles, so any contamination is likely from within the system itself. OBOGs separates oxygen molecules from the atmosphere for use, the system is completely on-board the a/c; no external servicing needed.
The waste product of this separation is high in nitrogen. the opposite of this OBOGs is OBIGGS ( On board Inert Gas Generating System) and his product is used to full the void in fuel cells with non flammable gas.
The fittings for both ports are supposed to be different size to prevent cross pollution, but perhaps there has been some maintenance issues or deliberate acts to introduce the N2 into the O2.
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An article dated March 29 in the Aviationist blog indicates the Super Hornet and Growler are also experiencing this same issue. THe USAF also had episodes with the F-22; common thread is OBOGS.
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OBOGS eliminates the ground-based servicing of the breathing oxygen. old style 10 liter bottles had about a 3 hour life (one person) plus there needed to be a LOX generation plant (or 2) on all the CVs. huge explosion hazard. With OBOGS the oxygen molecules are screened from the air and sent to the crew; remainder is dumped overboard.no longer is the sortie limited by LOX (for Dr. Steve: please note 3, count 'em, 3 submissions and not once did I refer to my favorite airplane by the street slang)
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Ditto #1. This was a factor in my early retirement. The situation at some of the clients at which I worked was pretty gruesome with the H1-Bs getting trained in the new stuff when the regular employees weren't.
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"The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency issued a memorandum that makes it harder for companies to bring foreign technology workers to the U.S. using the H-1B visa process."
Once "harder" is changed to "almost impossible," I'll call it progress. Baby steps first, though, I suppose...
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in theory programming jobs should be easy to export/outsource.
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BP I watched part of the early outsourcing efforts in the early '80s when DEC set up an Indian subsidiary and tried to use them for programming over the new network. It failed for many reasons but the technology has improved a bit in the last 35 years. /sarc
Anyone else ever carry a TI Silent 700 with the acoustic coupler and therm printer?
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Thermal printers attached to keyboards served as consoles where I worked. Computers with 32K memory and 16 bit chips...Hell, I remember card punchers. Good times.
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Me, too, Alan C. Me, Too. I vividly recall when hand-held calculators came out.
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If all you have is a hammer, every white guy looks like a nail
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#12 - wrong thread, my bad
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Deacon, ain't that the truth. My, then girlfriend now wife, got a TI something split with her roommate for about $120 for their statistics course, I'd already graduated and my first "calculator" was aluminum and had a leather case that hung on my belt.....the center section slid back and forth.
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high school writing out BASIC, Fortran, and PL/C programs (derivitive of PL/1) on coding forms for someone to punch into cards and send to the University to run on their 360/40 Later using a tty hardcopy terminal where when carrage returned it would SLAM into the side of the printer. Also used those sorters.
Now its all IDE's,and GUIs, and debuggers (what's wrong with 1000 page core-dumps for a SOC7 abend code?)
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And don't forget to put a line on your box of cards so you can sort of get them back in order when the cart gets tipped over. Only happened to me once.....that was enough.
Oh, don't forget the burster and decollator they were fun too.
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i worked on dumb terminals in the 70s. mini computer room, DEC Eclipse and Nova. two part wide in the printers, taking the batch tapes to the mainframe. just don't hit cntrl b!
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.
[RT] A rambunctious rhino was filmed charging at conservationists riding on elephants, moments after they had released it back into the wild.
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] An incoming high school principal has resigned in Kansas after student 
[RT] Girls as young as nine are "physically and spiritually" ready for marriage, a Malaysian MP says, also claiming there’s "nothing wrong" with females marrying their rapists. It comes after Malaysia failed to criminalize child marriage in a recent law.
[ARSTECHNICA] Six years after making Unity the default user interface on Ubuntu desktops, Canonical is giving up on the project and will switch the default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME next year. Canonical is also ending development of Ubuntu software for phones and tablets, spelling doom for the goal of creating a converged experience with phones acting as desktops when docked with the right equipment.
Founders Day or Van Riebeeck's Day was a formal public holiday of the Union of South Africa and the Republic of South Africa until 1994. The holiday was established on 6 April 1952 during the Van Riebeeck Festival in honour of the 300th anniversary of the arrival of the Dutch in South Africa. Jan van Riebeeck arrived at Table Bay on 6 April 1652 as a result Cape Town was founded. From 1980, the day became known as Founders Day (Stigtingsdag).
