Moreland pleaded guilty to one count of felony theft of property. Police say she hid the mink coat in her underwear for three days while being questioned by police in jail.
The coat was valued at $6,500.
According to police, a sales associate accused Moreland of taking the coat, but she denied it and took off. The sales associate took down MorelandÂ’s license plate number and called police. When police located the car a short time later, they found the coatÂ’s hanger but no coat.
They searched Moreland for weapons and booked her into jail for the weekend on possible theft charges. Three days later, a detective interviewed Moreland who admitted she stole the coat but claimed she had already sold it.
When the investigator informed Moreland he would be sending her to the Hennepin County Jail downtown, he was shocked when she lifted up her dress and pulled out the mink coat from her underwear.
“She had modified her underwear. She actually cut the rear of the underwear out so that from the back it appeared she was not wearing underwear and then stuffed it down the front,” said Bloomington Police Commander Mark Stehlik, at the time of the incident.
An Air Force Space Command chief master sergeant used the occasion of her retirement ceremony here to take care of one last troop -- her father, who was presented with the Bronze Star Medal he earned four decades ago.
Chief Master Sgt. Nancy Geisler, a contracting superintendent and area manager for the command, recognized her father, retired Army Sgt. 1st Class Daniel Porter at her June 13 retirement ceremony. Geisler coordinated with the Army to present Porter with the medal he earned for service in Vietnam from 1969 to 1970 with the 4th Infantry Division, currently located at Fort Carson, Colorado Springs, Colo.
For Geisler it was important to recognize her father's service.
"My father told me while I was young that he had received a Bronze Star," she said. "So I kept that in the back of my mind, and with my upcoming retirement I wanted to present a shadow box to my father of his Bronze Star and his citation, but he told me that the Army never presented him his Bronze Star."
Geisler then decided that at her retirement ceremony, her father should be presented his Bronze Star medal. While they had the orders that showed Porter earned the medal, no records of the citation could be found.
The GAU-8 is a thoroughly awesome weapon, but unfortunately its size, weight, and power requirements make it a tough fit for a DIVADS rig. What would have been a good one - and was passed over for the more costly, more complex, and ultimately useless M247 Sergeant York was the T249 Vigilante:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T249_Vigilante
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Come to think of it, you could just stick a Goalkeeper on a M-1 Tank Chassis in place of the turret. They're both production items, it's guaranteed to be able to keep up with a regular M1...
[An Nahar] Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak, ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... whose trial on charges of ordering the killing of anti-regime protesters is due to start in August, has stomach cancer, his lawyer Farid al-Dib said on Monday.
"He has a stomach cancer and the tumors are growing," the lawyer told Agence La Belle France Presse. Cancers tend to do that...
The former president is currently in jug at a hospital in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh where he has been since suffering heart problems during questioning on April 13.
Mubarak, who turned 83 in May, and his sons Alaa and Gamal are set to face trial on August 3 on charges of ordering the killing of protesters during the uprising in January and February that toppled the veteran leader. The Mubaraks, along with a host of former ministers, also face charges of corruption.
Their trial date coincides with Ramadan, the Mohammedan holy month of fasting.
On May 31, the public prosecutor said Mubarak was too ill to be moved from hospital to prison, after a series of statements by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which took power when Mubarak was ousted on February 11, saying they were preparing for his transfer.
He is said to be suffering from "episodes of unconsciousness due to circulatory problems and low blood pressure," the prosecutor's statement said. He also suffers "an irregular heartbeat which could lead to a sudden heart attack," it added.
Mubarak is described as "generally weak and depressed, and he has trouble getting out of bed without help."
In an interview with CNN two days previously, on May 29, Mubarak's lawyer said the former president was in "very bad health."
"The president has serious heart problems and complications with his stomach from the operation he had in Germany last year," Dib said.
In March 2010, Mubarak went to Germany for surgery. Doctors at the time said he had suffered from chronic calculus cholecystitis -- an inflammation of the gall bladder accompanied by gall stones -- and a duodenal polyp. The gallstones are treatable. The polyp is nothing.
They said he also had a growth removed from his small intestine.
Until the outbreak of anti-government protests on January 25, Mubarak seemed insurmountable as president of the most populous nation in the Arab world, backed by the United States and the military, from whose ranks he had emerged. His health was radiating then, too. Now that he's deposed he's -- all of a sudden -- an unhealthy bugger.
Mubarak had survived 10 attempts on his life, and at 82 his health was a subject of speculation but a taboo subject in Egypt, as he kept his private life a carefully guarded secret.
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MUSLIM women who file complaints with police while wearing full-face veils may be fingerprinted in future to confirm their identity, New South Wales Police Minister Mike Gallacher says.
The suggestion arose after Sydney woman Carnita Matthews, 47, who had been sentenced in 2010 to six months' jail for falsely accusing a police officer of trying forcibly to remove her burqa, won an appeal against her conviction.
The mother of seven had made a criminal complaint to police three days after she was pulled over in her car in Woodbine, southwest Sydney, for a random breath test on June 7, 2010.
Judge Clive Jeffreys yesterday overturned Ms Matthews' conviction at an appeal hearing in the NSW District Court. He said there was no evidence to confirm that it was Ms Matthews who had filed the complaint because the person who made it was wearing a face veil.
Fingerprints are a good idea. Having a female officer see and photograph the woman's face is also a good idea. Doing both is the best idea of all -- when in Rome and all that.
[Iran Press TV] All 10,000 Detroit Public Schools employees are getting layoff notices as the financially troubled district faces continued budget problems. District spokesman Steve Wasko says the move will allow "maximum flexibility for staffing." Starting over from scratch seems to be the way to allow maximum flexibility...
District officials say they're aim is to trim a $327 million budget deficit. ... by firing everybody...
The layoffs are effective July 29, the last day of summer school. In April, the district said 5,500 teachers would get layoff notices. "Have a nice summer vacation! Write if you get work!"
The district has also recently approved eight charter school conversions and plans to close 20 school building through 2012. The district is expected to save up to $13.3 million by the closures and chartering of schools. That way somebody else has to worry about writing the pay checks...
Because of the failing economy, American public school budgets are being cut and teachers are being laid off.
In Allentown, Pennsylvania, a proposed 2011-12 budget, which the school board is scheduled to vote on June 23, calls for a 6.1 percent tax increase and anticipates more than 100 teacher layoffs.
The union says school funding is in crisis, when in reality, spending is unsustainable. Because of collective bargaining agreements, many school districts' hands are tied and layoffs are the only option. They can't save money by changing employee health insurance policies, or obtaining salary freezes or wage concessions, because the unions won't allow it.
President Obama's education stimulus package accomplished two things: it temporarily maintained artificially large school employment levels and created the layoff "crisis" that school boards are now grappling with. Do you know just how much I hate it when PressTV.Iran and I agree on something?
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Getting this kind of news reporting all the way from Iran is ironic. Clear reporting on key US-national issues from an enemy of the US, and from (supposedly friendly) MSM sources, bilge and obfuscation dedicated to the worship of 0.
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Yeah, we can only hope Iran Press TV decides to go after the Gunwalker scandal.
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Firing everyone breaks the union contracts. Going to charter schools means the unions are not involved in the new contracts. That's going to save the district an incredible amount, not just in salaries and benefits for current staff, but also in pensions and other benefits for retirees. I seriously hope they've been better about building up savings than most Americans, because half of them are really going to need it.
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That way somebody else has to worry about writing the pay checks...
It is not just about money. It also lets you get some teachers that can, like you know, actually teach. The Detroit school system is rotten to the core starting at the very top with a school board president who can barely write a legible sentence and has been accused of compulsively fondling himself in meetings. The high school graduation rate is allegedly 1 in four, allegedly because failed schools routinely cook the numbers - little Rashid did not drop out, he 'moved out of district'.
At the moment, Detroit has a mayor who is, for once, not a race-baiting scoundrel or felony in progress. But he is going to need super powers to go up against the unions ( mainly the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and the Detroit Federation of Teachers) who are fighting him tooth and nail.
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This happens every year in the north east. Teachers are laid off for the summer so they can collect unemployment. They are then all hired back in the fall.
How would laying them off in the summer save the school district money?
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80% of Detroit is illiterate so it won't matter anyways. The people who know how to read already read the signs that told them how to leave Detroit.
[Al Jazeera] Euro zone finance ministers have postponed a final decision on extending 12bn euros ($17bn) in emergency loans to Greece, until it introduces further austerity measures.
The ministers said on Monday that they expected to pay the next tranche of a 110bn-euro bailout package, backed by European Union and the International Monetary Fund, by mid-July.
Greece has said it needs the loans by then to avoid defaulting on its debt.
Keeping up their pressure on Athens, where public opposition to austerity has been growing, the ministers insisted that disbursement would depend on the Greek parliament first passing laws on fiscal reforms and selling off state assets.
"To move to the payment of the next tranche, we need to be sure that the Greek parliament will approve the confidence vote and support the programme, so the decision will be taken at the start of the month of July," Didier Reynders, Belgian finance minister, said after the meeting in Luxembourg.
Papandreou's warning
Jonah Hull, Al Jizz's news hound in Luxembourg, said the decision was sending a message to Greece.
"If they want to continue getting money from the Euro zone they have to help themselves and enact these stiffer austerity measures and privatisation to raise money on their own behalf.
"Also there's a message for the financial market, which is extremely jittery at the moment, to say 'look we are not just throwing good money after bad in helping Greeks but we are also trying very hard to keep their message on target in terms of bailout'."
The euro zone move came a day after George Papandreou, the Greek prime minister, urged his people to support deeply unpopular austerity measures in order to avoid a "catastrophic" bankruptcy.
Addressing the Greek parliament, at the beginning of three days of debate leading up to a crucial parliamentary confidence vote on his new cabinet, he appealed for the nation to accept tax hikes, spending cuts and privatisation plans.
Papandreou said the country's problems would not be solved by asking the IMF to leave.
He said the country needed to be united on this issue, and called on the opposition to "stop fighting in these critical times, stop sending the image that the country is being torn apart".
"Showing that we are split is not helping us at all," he said.
Tim Friend, Al Jizz's news hound in Athens, said: "The parliament voting is absolutely crucial because without this the Greek prime minsiter can't even get as far as getting an approval for the austerity package.
"The ruling party believes they can win the vote on Tuesday but they have a slim majority."
Facing public protests and dissent in his Socialist party, Papandreou reshuffled his cabinet last week and called a confidence vote for next Tuesday in an effort to push his reforms through the legislature this month.
Even then, the protests have continued outside the parliament against the proposed austerity measures. More than 10,000 people gathered on Sunday, chanting "We won't pay! We won't pay!"
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Americans must decide if, in the name of homeland security, they are willing to allow TSA operatives to storm public places in their communities with no warning, pat them down, and search their bags. And they better decide quickly.
Bus travelers were shocked when jackbooted TSA officers in black SWAT-style uniforms descended unannounced upon the Tampa Greyhound bus station in April with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies and federal bureaucrats in tow.
A news report by ABC Action News in Tampa showed passengers being given the signature pat downs Americans are used to watching the Transportation Security Administration screeners perform at our airports. Canine teams sniffed their bags and the buses they rode. Immigration officials hunted for large sums of cash as part of an anti-smuggling initiative. I guess the Fourth Admendment doesn't exist anymore... pity.
The TSA clearly intends for these out-of-nowhere swarms by its officers at community transit centers, bus stops and public events to become a routine and accepted part of American life.
The TSA has conducted 8,000 of these security sweeps across the country in the past year alone, TSA chief John Pistole told a Senate committee June 14. They are part of its VIPR (Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response) program, which targets public transit related places.
All of which is enough to make you wonder if we are watching the formation of the "civilian national security force" President Obama called for on the campaign trail "that is just as powerful, just as strong and just as well funded" as the military. In other words a security service to enforce the will of the government at the point of a gun. Much like the Gestapo of Germany and secret police of the Soviet Union.
The VIPR swarm on Wednesday, the TSA's largest so far, was such a shocking display of the agency's power that it set the blogosphere abuzz.
When did the TSA get this powerful? Last year, Pistole told USA Today he wanted to "take the TSA to the next level," building it into a "national-security, counterterrorism organization, fully integrated into U.S. government efforts."
What few people realize is how far Pistole has already come in his quest. This is apparently what that next level looks like. More than 300 law enforcement and military personnel swept through a 100-mile stretch of the Ohio Valley alone, examining the area's industrial infrastructure, the Charleston Gazette reported.
Federal air marshals, the Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Coast Guard, the FBI, the Office of Homeland Security and two dozen other federal, state and local agencies teamed up to scour the state's roads, bridges, water supply and transit centers under the TSA's leadership.
What is remarkable about these security swarms is that they don't just involve federal, state and local law enforcement officials. The TSA brings in squads of bureaucrats from state and federal agencies as well, everything from transportation departments to departments of natural resources. Your papers PLEASE!
The TSA had received no specific threats about the Tampa bus station before the April sweep, reporters were told. No warrant or cause for searching passenger's persons. Isn't there a law against that. The fourth something-or-other....
They were there "to sort of invent the wheel in advance in case we have to if there ever is specific intelligence requiring us to be here," said Gary Milano with the Department of Homeland Security in an ABC News Action television report. "This way us and our partners are ready to move in at a moment's notice." In case someone stages a Tea Party protest...
Federal immigration officials from Customs and Border Patrol swept the station with the TSA, looking for "immigration violations, threats to national security" and "bulk cash smuggling." (How the bulk cash smuggling investigation related to national security was never explained.)
"We'll be back," Milano told reporters. "We won't say when we'll be back. This way the bad guys are on notice we'll be back." No doubt the 'bad guys' are those damn conservatives and americans clinging to their guns and bibles.
The TSA gave the same vague answers when asked about the three-state sweep this week. That sweep wasn't in response to any specific security threat, either.
The purpose was to "have a visible presence and let people know we're out here," Michael Cleveland, federal security director for TSA operations in West Virginia told the Gazette. "It can be a deterrent."
It might be -- if Americans are willing to live this way.
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It looks more and more like the TSA will bring about a shoot-out, somewhere, some time. Or maybe it will be a SWAT team for the Dept. of Education, searching for someone in default on their student loans.
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...it's all about equality. You can't use statistical data for refining these things because it might actually identify a specific group that may be the problem. We're all in one big interment camp now. We're all guilty till proven innocent.
Oh, and they'll say - We were just obeying orders.
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I never thought I would see this come to the United States. We are truly becoming a fascist state. The people of America need to wake the fuck up before it is too late.
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Welcome to life under the leftist utopia that everyone thought the ONE would bring.
Thanks for the change...
People forget that all of the most oppressive and destructive regimes in history were on the left not the right. Stalin, Hitler, Obama...
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Hey, if the Dept of Education can have guns, why not the TSA? Inefficient to drag along the FBI and local police. Next, TSWAT and heavy weapons. Personnel carriers with Gatling guns like Obama's? Progressing nicely....a unionized, militarized national Gestapo security force.
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The Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei: Secret State Police) had as its official mission, according to the basic law of 10 February 1936, "The authority to investigate treason, espionage, sabotage cases and any criminal attacks on the Nazi Party."
Though notorious, the Gestapo was on one of the sub agencies. In 1936, the police were divided into the Ordnungspolizei (Orpo or Order Police) and the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo or Security Police).[4] The Ordnungspolizei consisted mainly of the Schutzpolizei (Municipal police), the Gendarmerie (Rural police) and the Gemeindepolizei (Local police). The Sicherheitspolizei was composed of the Kriminalpolizei (Kripo) and the Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo).
The Orpo was established as a centralized organization uniting the municipal, city, and rural uniformed forces that had been organized on a state-by-state basis. Eventually the Orpo embraced virtually all of the Third Reich's law-enforcement and emergency response organizations, including fire brigades, coast guard, civil defence, and even night watchmen.
Oddly enough, the KRIPO survived the war and still exists. Ironically, those members of the KRIPO I've seen all looked like Gestapo agent Major Hochstetter in Hogan's Heroes.
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Maybe we ought to get Big Sis into one of those snappy black uniforms (with the double lightning SS pin). Somehow I think she'll fit right in.
O crap - sorry for the image - the eye bleach is on the counter.
And thanks moose for the clarification. Simularly I believe the KGB wasn't the only Soviet secret police - I think the GRU(?) was used for internal security.
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That is what I am afraid of Victor. I fear this will only end in blood.
Sometime back, someone else posted there was no way back from where we are, to the America he grew up in (I paraphrase) without bloodshed.
I tend to agree. With those TSA and multi-agency swarms (VIPR) that time may come sooner than we imagined. Things are slipping away. I never thought I would see my beloved nation devolve into a Fascist Police state and Communist hell hole.
The younger folks I talk to just shrug and go on with whatever mindless entertainment they were at.
[Dawn] Five coppers looted around Rs57 million -- Rs40 million and $200,000 -- from a man who was taking the huge amount of the so-called Hawala money to Quetta in a passenger bus on Sunday, police said.
Although the incident took place at about 9am on Sunday, the victim, who was carrying the money, came to the cop shoppe at about 1pm to report the robbery incident.
Mauripur cop shoppe SHO Inspector Bahauddin Babar told Dawn that a case (FIR 221/2011) was registered on a complaint of victim Atta Muhammad against five coppers under Sections 395 (punishment for robbery) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistain Penal Code.
He said the complainant told the police that he lived in a Tariq Road area and was engaged in the Hawala trade as a carrier.
The SHO said the complainant told the police that he along with two other carriers -- Shah Khalid and Shah Fahad -- collected Rs40 million cash and $200,000 in the morning and then he came to Saddar to board a Quetta-bound passenger coach.
The coach left the Saddar terminal at about 8.15am and reached the Northern Bypass to leave Bloody Karachi. At about 9am, the victim stated in the FIR, a police mobile van overtook the coach and blocked its path. Some coppers boarded the bus, saw the complainant and hauled him from the bus. They also took along his luggage that included the bags filled with the huge amount of money and ordered the coach driver to move on.
All the coppers were in uniform, but the police van did not bear any number, the complainant said, adding that two coppers were seated in the front cabin of the mobile van while three coppers held him at gunpoint in the rear portion of the vehicle. Later, the coppers threw the complainant out of the mobile van and sped away with his luggage.
The area SHO told Dawn that the complainant informed the police that he had contacted his employer in Quetta and told him about the incident.
The complainant told the police that he could identify three of the five coppers.
About the money, he said that about Rs4.5 million was in the form of currency notes of Rs5,000 denomination, while the remaining amount was in Rs1,000 denomination. The 200,000 dollars were in the form of notes of $100 denomination.
The area SHO said that it was premature to say whether the men involved in the incident belonged to the police. "We are investigating the matter and have lodged an FIR of the incident. The complainant and the other two carriers were also associated in the process of investigation."
He said that the driver of the coach, who was later in Quetta, was also contacted over the phone and he told the police that he saw two police vehicles at the time of the incident.
"We will also inform the Federal Investigation Agency about the incident to investigate the transfer of such a huge amount of money, as the complainant told us that he was transporting the Pak currency to Quetta while the dollars were to be sent to Kandahar in Afghanistan," said SHO Babar.
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One does wonder just what that money would have ended up being used for in Quetta. Just statistically, a goodly fraction would become Taliban support. Maybe we need more crooked cops looting more cash carriers....
[Dawn] A new case of polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females infertile, bookish, and unsubmissive, it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... has been detected in Torghar, bringing the total number of cases to three in the district, officials said on Sunday.
"Another suspected polio case has been detected in the Mara Madakhel area and blood samples have been dispatched for laboratory test," said Fareed Khan, the district coordination officer, Torghar, while talking to news hounds here on Sunday.
The DCO said that during a visit to the area on Saturday, Nasibzar, father of the ill-fated boy, complained that his three-year-old son, Mohammad Younus, had fallen prey to the deadly disease and was paralsed.
Fareed Khan said that the child had polio symptoms and the case had been reported to Hazara Commissner Khalid Khan Orakzai.
He added that last week another polio case was detected and its results were positive, increasing the number of confirmed cases in the district to two. He said that all the three cases were detected in Mara Madakhel area, which falls at the Malakand side of the Indus River and it has boundaries with the militancy-hit Buner and Shangla districts.
In response to a question, the DCO said that it would be premature to speak about the causes behind the increasing number of polio cases in the newly-established district, but one thing was clear that the area had remained neglected since the creation of the country in 1947.
He said that literacy rate in the area among men was hardly 4 to 10 per cent and among women near to zero. He said that it seemed that people did not bother to pay attention to administering polio drops to their children.
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A U.S.soldier who had most of his leg muscle blown off in Afghanistan has become the first to see it grow back in a pioneering experimental operation.
Marine Isaias Hernandez lost 70 per cent of his right thigh muscles when an enemy mortar exploded as he tried to carry out repairs to a truck in Afghanistan.
With such severe muscle damage Hernandez would ordinarily have had his leg amputated. But a re-think in the way soldiers are treated led to the wounded warrior being injected with a growth promoting substance extracted from pig bladders.
Since the experimental growth hormone was used, Hernandez has regained most of the strength in his right thigh.
The wounded Marine's recovery is particularly exciting for scientists as it involves the regeneration of skeletal muscle which ordinarily does not grow back.
The new treatment could in theory revolutionise how not just how soldiers are treated, but all potential amputees.
In preparation for the operation, corporal Hernandez was made to build up the remaining 30 per cent of muscle left on the damaged thigh. Surgeons then sliced into the thigh, placing a thin slice of a substance called extracellular matrix.
The surgery is the result of a $70 million investment by the U.S. military into regenerative medicine research.
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I just read the much-longer article in Discover Magazine. Earlier, a guy lost the end of his finger and his doctor friend gave him "Pixie Dust" made from this extracellular matrix. The guy grew back his finger tip - flesh, bone, and fingernail.
It's probably bad for global warming...
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his doctor friend gave him "Pixie Dust"
Was this act exploitation of our 'Pixie Americans' or was it exploitation of our 'pre-legal immigrant' Pixies? There are activists waiting to know.
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Actually, MR, and I know your question was not serious -
The researcher started with dogs, transplanting a piece of intestine into the esophagus. The dog thrived. He did more. They all woke up hungry after the operation. He finally opened one up and the intestine tissue was gone - replaced with esophegeal tissue.
Knowing that there was not much of a market in dog parts, he went to a slaughterhouse and got some pig parts, and found they worked just fine.
The article is not yet available at the web site.
Maybe our mooselimb friends can try goat parts.
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By the way, they got this part wrong:
In preparation for the operation, corporal Hernandez was made to build up the remaining 30 per cent of muscle left on the damaged thigh.
Hernandez did it all by himself, trying to get it all back. He got back much more (30% of the original strength) than the doctors expected before the treatment, but plateaued, and was considering amputation again, when he heard about the fingertip re-growth and sought out the Army Doctor.
So the evil Army doctors didn't make him do something before using him as a guinea pig with the un-tested technique. The Discover article made it clear it was his Marine determination that got him through the pain and made him volunteer for the trial.
And his right thigh muscle is at 103% of his left thigh strength, so he got it all back, not most of the strength.
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No doubt NFL coaches will be following this closely...
Seriously, this is good news for everyone. Anyone with a wasting disease could be fixed, nerves might be able to be regrown in a similar way and paralyzed people could walk, whole limbs could be rebuilt to stop hip and knee replacement surgeries, etc.
All good news for our health.... if only we can keep the fucking government out of it.
A federal judge ruled Monday that publishing an entire article without the rights holder's authorization was a fair use of the work, in yet another blow to newspaper copyright troll Righthaven.
It's not often that republishing an entire work without permission is deemed fair use. Fair use is an infringement defense when the defendant reproduced a copyrighted work for purposes such as criticism, commentary, teaching and research. The defense is analyzed on a case-by-case basis.
Monday's ruling dismissed a lawsuit brought by Righthaven, a Las Vegas-based copyright litigation factory jointly owned with newspaper publisher Stephens Media. The venture's litigation tactics and ethics are being questioned by several judges and attorneys, a factor that also weighed in on U.S. District Judge Philip Pro's decision Monday.
Righthaven has sued more than 200 websites, bloggers and commenters for copyright infringement. More than 100 have settled out of court.
The lawsuit decided Monday targeted Wayne Hoehn, a Vietnam veteran who posted all 19 paragraphs of November editorial from the Las Vegas Review-Journal, which is owned by Stephens Media. Hoehn posted the article, and its headline, "Public Employee Pensions: We Can't Afford Them" on medjacksports.com to prompt discussion about the financial affairs of the nation's states. Hoehn was a user of the site, not an employee.
Righthaven sought up to $150,000, the maximum in damages allowed under the Copyright Act. Righthaven argued that the November posting reduced the number of eyeballs that would have visited the Review-Journal site to read the editorial.
"Righthaven did not present any evidence that the market for the work was harmed by Hoehn's noncommercial use for the 40 days it appeared on the website. Accordingly, there is no genuine issue of material fact that Hoehn's use of the work was fair and summary judgment is appropriate," Judge Pro ruled.
Marc Randazza, one of Hoehn's attorneys, said he would petition the judge for legal fees and costs.
The judge also said he took into consideration that only five of the editorial's paragraphs were "purely creative opinions" of the author.
"While the work does have some creative or editorial elements, these elements are not enough to consider the work a purely 'creative work' in the realm of fictional stories, song lyrics, or Barbie dolls," he wrote. "Accordingly, the work is not within 'the core of intended copyright protection.'"
Judge Pro, in his fair-use analysis, also found that the posting was for noncommercial purposes, and was part of an "online discussion."
That said, Pro did not need to decide the fair-use question.
That's because he also found that Righthaven did not have legal standing to bring the lawsuit, a hot-button topic in the Righthaven litigation.
Pro's decision came a week after a different Las Vegas federal judge threatened to sanction Righthaven, calling its litigation efforts "disingenuous, if not outright deceitful" when it came to standing. Standing is a legal concept that has enabled Righthaven to bring lawsuits on behalf of the copyrights owned by Stephens Media.
That blistering decision by U.S. District Judge Roger Hunt, the chief judge in Nevada, places into doubt Righthaven's year-old business model, which is also under a Colorado federal judge's microscope.
Hunt gave Righthaven two weeks to explain why he should not sanction it for trying to "manufacture standing." Judge Hunt suggested Righthaven never had standing in any of its cases because Righthaven and Stephens Media had agreed to share the proceeds of any damages awards or settlements, yet Stephens Media kept ownership of the copyright.
Righthaven must own the copyright to sue on its behalf, Hunt ruled in a decision echoed by Judge Pro on Monday.
What's more, in each of the 200-plus cases Righthaven brought on behalf of Las Vegas Review-Journal articles, Righthaven never disclosed, as required, that Stephens Media had a "pecuniary interest" in the outcome, Hunt wrote.
Many bloggers who settled are mulling their legal options. Maybe Fred can get a refund. I'm all for giving credit and making sure a re-posted story gets the view-through for ad revenue for the original host/writer, but Righthaven and the rest of the goon squad have gone way, way, way over the line. Other news/government agencies have used it as a way to suppress the "new" media so only their views are available as well. For Pete's sake, lets get a fair deal put in place that works well for everyone and call it a day.
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.
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[Iran Press TV] All 10,000 Detroit Public Schools employees are getting layoff notices as the financially troubled district faces continued budget problems. District spokesman Steve Wasko says the move will allow "maximum flexibility for staffing."
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A federal judge ruled Monday that publishing an entire article without the rights holder's authorization was a fair use of the work, in yet another blow to newspaper copyright troll Righthaven.
