[Guardian] The remains of a man police believe shot and wounded a Utah state park ranger in 2010 and eluded more than 100 officers in a desert manhunt were found on Thursday, authorities said.
Skeletal remains believed to be those of Lance Leeroy Arellano were discovered in a narrow cave near Moab, the Grand county sheriff's office said in a press release. Arellano was 40 when he disappeared.
Five years ago officers spent days searching rugged desert canyons and caves for Arellano after identifying him as the suspect in the shooting of Utah park ranger Brody Young.
Young, who was 34 at the time, survived the shooting with injuries to his arm, leg and abdomen.
The sheriff's office said a college student discovered the remains in the cave. Nearby was a bag containing a handgun, ammunition and binoculars.
[Chicago Tribune] Two men were killed, and six other people, including a prominent reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... rapper known as King Louie, were maimed in shootings Wednesday in Chicago, police said.
In the Austin neighborhood, a man was shot to death in a home in the 1000 block of North Lamon Avenue about 6:15 p.m., said Officer Thomas Sweeney, a police front man. The man, 39, suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead on the scene.
He was identified as Nathan Smith of the same place where he was fatally shot, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Police News Affairs did not immediately have any detailed information on the circumstances of the shooting, but Sweeney said no one was in jug.
Less than half a mile away from the evening killing, a 33-year-old man was shot to death about 1:45 p.m. in the 1100 block of North Leclaire Avenue, said Officer Nicole Trainor, a police spokeswoman.
A man and a 55-year-old woman were both maimed in the shooting. The woman told officers a gunman approached, shot the man and then fled on foot, Trainor said.
The man suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He's dead, Jim! a short time later. He was identified as Christopher Ruffin, of the 3400 block of West Superior Street, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. Earlier, officials said Ruffin was living in Richton Park, but that information was not correct.
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"Black Lives Don't Matter - in Chicago"
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Where's the gain in power and extortion in that? Since even the dead vote (loyally), live or dead doesn't matter.
[BALTIMORE.CBSLOCAL] The city of Baltimore expects to reimburse other local police and fire agencies from across Maryland a total of $1.8 million for responding to the civil unrest that followed the death of Freddie Gray last spring, a city front man said Thursday.
The tally includes both requests that have been paid and those still under review, Howard Libit said in an email. He said he expects all the requests to be paid.
The requests are for overtime, equipment costs and other expenses claimed by about 30 public agencies and volunteer fire companies in 16 of Maryland's 23 counties.
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[ABCNEWS.GO] A long-standing dispute sparked a shooting at a crowded North Carolina shopping mall on Christmas Eve, police said, and an off-duty officer fatally shot a man who pointed a gun in his direction.
Police said no one else was shot and there were no other reports of injuries. The shooting was not a random act but rather the result of a feud among people who knew each other -- though there was no indication it was gang-related, Chief Kerr Putney of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said.
During the fight, a weapon was brandished and shots were fired about 2 p.m. at Northlake Mall in Charlotte, Putney said. Shoppers who were crowding the mall for last-minute gifts hid in stores and locked themselves inside, officials said. Police could be seen blocking all mall entrances.
Jake Wallace, 24, of Boone, North Carolina, was in Dick's Sporting Goods when shots rang out nearby -- about 30 feet outside the store, near Journey's shoe store on the lower level, according to police.
"I thought someone dropped something. It was extremely loud. Didn't think anything of it," Wallace said. "You don't think gunshots. But then I heard a rapid fire. Once hearing that, there was no mistaking it. It sounded like someone was unloading a clip."
Chaos erupted as shoppers dove for cover or tried to get out the door, Wallace said.
Don Willis, who works as a valet at the mall, said he heard gunshots, then saw a wave of people exiting the mall.
"It was wild. I heard the first shot and I thought, 'Wait. What was that?' And kind of like started turning around and walking and saw this huge line of people -- wave of people coming -- and I thought a bomb was about to go off, and I just took off," he said.
Putney said Officer Thomas Ferguson was working off-duty at the mall when he heard the shots and confronted the man who pointed a gun in his direction.
The officer then "fired his service weapon," Putney said. The suspect was given emergency aid, but medics pronounced him dead He's dead, Jim! shortly afterward, officials said. Police identified him as Daquan Antonio Westbrook, 18.
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BlackLivesMatter asshats set to protest at the mall in 3----2----1..
[Miramar, FL] The unidentified employee was seen getting into the back of a police car Wednesday night as the body of the gunman remained inside the restaurant. Police were waiting for a search warrant to inspect the body for identification, Rues said.
[Guardian] Fellow climbers found Japanese adventurer's gloves after she unhooked from rope and went behind a boulder for a break on Mount Kurodake. The Japanese mountaineer Kei Taniguchi has died in an accident while climbing in the snowy Daisetsuzan range in northern Japan's Hokkaido. She was 43.
Seems to me there ought to be at least some truth here. I can bend a couple of welding rods to make them into L-shapes and hold the short ends in my hand with the long ends pointing forward. As I walk around the wires cross and uncross over each other in consistent locations. My brother can't do this. Maybe it's the sewer line coming out of the old house, maybe it's the electrical wires, maybe it's the iron in the rocks. Maybe it's water. I don't know.
Usually, the boundary between science and science fiction is as distinct as the difference between the 6 o'clock news and "The Simpsons." Wherever the line blurs, you're bound to find contentious debates. One of the longest-running of these disagreements centers on dowsing, a supposed sixth sense that enables people to find underground water using a forked branch, pendulum or pair of bent wires. There is no scientific reason why dowsing should work. Yet, it apparently works well enough and reliably enough to keep the practice alive.
The success of dowsers doesn't surprise the people who know the most about finding underground water, hydrogeologists for the United States Geological Survey (USGS). They point out that the United States is so water-rich you can get wet drilling just about anywhere, if you drill deep enough. Far harsher criticism of dowsing and dowsers comes from outside the mainstream scientific community. Two organizations, the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), http://www.csicop.org/si, and the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF), http://www.randi.org, are actually working to discourage the practice, which they both dismiss as paranormal nonsense. To make their point that dowsing is a sham each has staged demonstrations in which dowsers were asked to find buried pipes. Dowsers did no better than the laws of chance predict. JREF is so confident of its position it promises to pay $1.1 million to anyone who can "prove" dowsing works.
Yet Dowsers Flourish
Like bees unaware they are too aerodynamically challenged to fly, dowsers don't let the skeptics get them down. In fact, the ranks of dowsers have been steadily growing. Forty years ago, about 50 dowsers and curiosity seekers were drawn to Danville, Vt., for a 1-day National Dowsing Convention. That get-together led to the creation of the American Society of Dowsers (ASD), www.newhampshire.com/dowsers.org, which now counts about 4200 members. Lest you dismiss dowsing's popularity as just another New Age fad, take a close look at the 16th century drawing to the left. The men wearing traditional miners' clothing are holding the same type of forked stick in use by many dowsers today.
Now comes a massive set of data that suggests there may be some validity to dowsers' claims. The encouraging words are contained in a study financed by the German government and published in the Journal Of Scientific Exploration, http://www.jse.com/betz_toc.html, which is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published at Stanford University.
The project was conducted by the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit in the hope of finding cheaper and more reliable ways of locating drinking water supplies in Third World countries.
Researchers analyzed the successes and failures of dowsers in attempting to locate water at more than 2000 sites in arid regions of Sri Lanka, Zaire, Kenya, Namibia and Yemen over a 10-year period. To do this, researchers teamed geological experts with experienced dowsers and then set up a scientific study group to evaluate the results. Drill crews guided by dowsers didn't hit water every time, but their success rate was impressive. In Sri Lanka, for example, they drilled 691 holes and had an overall success rate of 96 percent.
"In hundreds of cases the dowsers were able to predict the depth of the water source and the yield of the well to within 10 percent or 20 percent," says Hans-Dieter Betz, a physicist at the University of Munich, who headed the research group.
"We carefully considered the statistics of these correlations, and they far exceeded lucky guesses," he says. What's more, virtually all of the sites in Sri Lanka were in regions where the odds of finding water by random drilling were extremely low. As for a USGS notion that dowsers get subtle clues from the landscape and geology, Betz points out that the underground sources were often more than 100 ft. deep and so narrow that misplacing the drill only a few feet would mean digging a dry hole.
As impressive as this success rate may seem, it doesn't do much to change the minds of skeptics. Their preference is to test dowsing under more controlled conditions. Back To The Lab
Anticipating this criticism, the German researchers matched their field work with laboratory experiments in which they had dowsers attempt to locate water-filled pipes inside a building. The tests were similar to those conducted by CSICOP and JREF, and similarly discouraging. Skeptics see the poor showing as evidence of failure. Betz sees the discrepancy as an important clue. He says that subtle electromagnetic gradients may result when natural fissures and water flows create changes in the electrical properties of rock and soil. Dowsers, he theorizes, somehow sense these gradients and unconsciously respond by wagging their forked sticks, pendulums or bent wires.
Low-Energy Sensor
There is ample evidence that humans can detect small amounts of energy. All creatures with eyes can detect extremely small amounts of electromagnetic energy at visible light wavelengths. Some researchers believe the dark-adapted human eye can detect a single photon, the smallest measurable quantity of energy. Biologists also have found nonvisual electric and magnetic sensing organs in creatures from bacteria to sharks, fish and birds. Physiologists, however, have yet to find comparable structures in humans.
Betz offers no theories of how dowsers come by their skill and prefers to confine his speculation to his data. "There are two things that I am certain of after 10 years of field research," he says. "A combination of dowsing and modern techniques can be both more successful, and far less expensive, than we had thought."
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While at Camp Geiger in 1968, 2d Force Recon had a class on dowsing from a Marine who just returned from Khe Sahn. He used bent coat hangers. It's better with copper, but still works great for me.
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Works.
Works well. Water, powerlines, signal cables, gas lines, tunnels with lighting conduits, all kinds of stuff. Remember 3 finger: force, torque, emf?
One wire in each hand forms a open resistive circuit. The two leads cross and the biocircuit is completed.
When a veteran or member of the armed forces dies, he or she is entitled to a ceremony that includes the presentation of a U.S. flag to a family member and a bugler blowing Taps. Most of the time, there is a three-volley rifle salute if requested by family members. But now, if the deceased served in the Air Force, the three-volley salute is not an option because the Air Force can no longer support riflemen for funeral services for veteran retirees.
Seven member services for retirees included six members to serve as pall-bearers, a six member flag-folding detail, and a three riflemen to fire the salute. Veteran's funerals now only receive the services of two-member teams, who provide a flag-folding ceremony, the playing of taps, and the presentation of the flag to the next of kin.
"To me, without the 21-gun salute, it just does not make it complete a proper military burial," veteran Wayne Wakeman told Honolulu's KHON 2 News. "I think because of sequestration or the lack of funds or whatever excuse they're giving, that they had to hit the veterans."
Wakeman is correct in supposing the cut is due to sequestration, the 2013 automatic federal spending cuts required by the Budget Control Act of 2011.
Rose Richeson, from the Secretary of the Air Force's Public Affairs Press Desk, told We Are The Mighty the policy of restricting the funeral honor is an Air Force-wide requirement.
"The requirement is consistent with DoD policy which require a minimum of two personnel," Richeson said. "Any number of personnel above two that is provided in support of military funeral honors is based on local resources available."
A three-volley salute is the correct term for what is commonly (though mistakenly) referred to as a 21-gun salute. There are often seven riflemen, totaling 21. The origin of the three-volley funeral honor lies elsewhere, according to the Tom Sherlock, an Arlington National Cemetery Historian. A 21-gun salute is reserved for Presidents of the United States or visiting heads of state.
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Many veterans organizations in populated areas offer the honor guard and ceremonial ritual with and without 'official' representation.
...in support of military funeral honors is based on local resources available.
The 'unexpected' consequence of 'downsizing' your military and stationing them NIMBY. They don't have standby teams, manpower is pulled from duty personnel. They can't do it everyday on no notice. They're not going to send a team out that has to stay overnight at a civie motel with weapons.
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Oooh, but were they subject to microaggressions? Did they have safe spaces? Did the Germans affirmatively consent to close-quarters combat?
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It should of been obvious that the poor Germans needed an intervention to help deal with their anger management isues. Clearly it wasn't their fault as their mommies didn't love them enough
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Open Carry is where I personally part company with 2nd Amendment supporters. Open Carry is the equivalent of carrying a sign and asking for trouble. The open display of firearms [gun on the hip] may also be a signal of other more disturbing problems with the person carrying.
Concealed Weapons permits require a background check. Open carry does not. If you're on your own property or walking down the road to rabbit hunt, or if Open Carry is a 'condition of employment'... no problem.
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I agree with part of what you said, but here in Tennessee we do have to go through a background check and pass a thorough firearm safety class that includes marksmanship. This class also includes knowing the laws and situations that are applicable to the situation. People who openly carry scare me.
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OK, here's the background on this this issue: the Concealed Carry Law in the state of Texas requires two working points. (1) That you pass the carry and use tests to get a license (2) That the firearm remains concealed at all times.
There have been occasions here where individuals have been busted because, for instance, a Constable could pick out the shape of a pistol though a tee shirt. And when you are violated on the carry laws, guess what, you lose the right to carry.
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Plenty of psychopaths can pass a background check, including law enforcement.
Paying a fee to exercise a right is not a right, but a privilege, and it runs counter to the concept of what a right is. If you think that paying a fee and passing a background check makes you more qualified to carry concealed or not, you are no better than the statists who want to impose background checks on every gun transaction.
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If you think that paying a fee and passing a background check makes you more qualified to carry concealed or not.....
More qualified? Yes, compliance with THE LAW should be a 'qualifier.'
I think all would concur with the law prohibiting convicted felons from purchasing firearms. A NICS (4473) check helps prevent felons from purchasing and obtaining firearms.
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I guarantee you love the law a lot more than it loves you. Those laws were passed without two critical qualifiers: Consent of the government and Constitutionality.
I frankly don't give a sh*t if every Rantburger agrees with background checks. They're wrong, and they are unconstitutional.
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The open display of firearms [gun on the hip] may also be a signal of other more disturbing problems with the person carrying.
Probably true but making it very simple to identify at a distance those persons who are armed & possessed of certain, possibly, undesirable personality traits isn't altogether a bad thing. If open carry is illegal they'll still be armed, just harder to spot.
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Imagine if you will, a gunshop or sporting goods store WITHOUT Federal background checks [4473], and forced 'by law' to sell a gun to anyone who walks through the door.
Imagine if you will, 'straw purchases' [buying a firearm for someone else who cannot] being legal.
If you believe background checks are discriminatory, unconstitutional, and should be outlawed, then logic would follow that nearly anyone could practice medicine, be a police officer, fly a airliner, or.... become president, without some sort of checking system.
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Without federal law concerning guns, no one would be "forced" to sell to anyone.
And you miss the point. You are talking about a privilege, not a right, something with requirements you must meet in order to satisfy the mandarins appointed to rule over you.
These are matters that should not affect free people.
Many people view the right to keep and bear arms as right that applies only to them and whomever the can target through legislative means to remove those rights.
The FBI NICS "appeals process" is a cynical fraud.
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I just think that public open carry is stupid. Since I live in Houston, a target rich environment if there ever was one, the last thing I want to do is warn the predators that I have the means to defend myself or others. Open carry doesn't mean much when you get shot at from behind.
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Without federal law concerning guns, no one would be "forced" to sell to anyone.
Please show me ANY commodity [not covered by Federal or State Laws] that a seller can legally REFUSE to sell to a buyer without threat of discrimination or lawsuit.
Your logic trail would enable me or anyone else to purchase dynamite or enriched uranium at will.
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Markets for all products are not the same. Laws assume that they are. Not every gun store would sell explosives, and not every customer would be in the market for explosives.
A Houston-based restaurant chain has declared itself “politically incorrect” in the spirit of Christmas.
Two weeks ago, five locations of Berryhill Baja Grill posted signs on its respective restaurant doors, warning individuals that staff may greet them with “Merry Christmas” or say “God bless America.”
The signs read: "Notice. This store is politically incorrect. We say Merry Christmas. God bless America. We salute our flag and give thanks to our troops, police officers and firefighters. If this offends you, you are welcome to leave. In God we trust."
Berryhill CEO Jeff Anon directed staff at the franchise locations to post the signs after becoming fed up with what he believed to be anti-Christmas sentiments around the holiday-- the last straw was Starbucks' decision to put out generic red cups this year, reports KTRK.
"I don't think anybody means anything bad or mean when they say Merry Christmas, and I just thought somebody had to stand up and say enough of this," Anon said.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A fire tore through the intensive care unit and the maternity ward of a Saudi hospital before dawn on Thursday, killing at least 24 people and injuring 123, officials said.
The fire broke out at the general hospital in the southwestern port city of Jazan, the capital of the Jizan region, one of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... 's poorest areas.
The civil defence agency said 25 people died but a later statement by Health Minister Khalid al-Falih put the corpse count at 24. Two of the dead were security guards and one was a child, officials said.
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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
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A Houston-based restaurant chain has declared itself “politically incorrect” in the spirit of Christmas.
