[NYPOST] An Arizona State University student is in the hospital after being stabbed by a female classmate — who was looking for someone to knife and attacked the victim for being an "easier target."
Mara Daffron,19, was stabbed last Thursday after Kaci Sloan,19, jumped from her seat and plunged a knife into her twice as she entered a classroom in Glendale, Arizona, 12 News, AZ Central and FOX 10 Phoenix reported.
Sloan was allegedly deciding between two different people to attack in class, but decided to go after Daffron because Sloan "believed the victim was an easier target," court documents obtained 12 News said.
Daffron was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after the stabbing and underwent surgery after the attack, police said.
Sloan was arrested soon after in connection with the stabbing, the ASU Police Department said.
Sloan came to class planning to hurt someone, according to court documents obtained by 12 News, although her exact motive remains unclear.
"The defendant admitted she came to class to hurt somebody and was planning the attack since the night prior," the documents said according to the outlet.
"This planning included placing the knife used in the attack in her backpack to bring to school. The defendant told detectives she knew the victim’s first name but did not know anything else about her. "
"She knew the victim from a prior class and shared a class with her this semester," the documents said.
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...to take student loans to keep higher education funded at astronomical levels. They just want the money and the corporate DEI Human Resources Departments filled with prior graduates need more fills to displace qualified candidate.
[GatewayPundit] A pilot and a passenger were arrested after their single-engine plane that was carrying a large quantity of narcotics made an emergency landing on a California highway on Thursday.
According to police, the Piper PA-28 plane landed around 2:00 a.m. on Highway 76 near Oceanside, California.
The pilot told authorities that the plane’s engine failed, causing him to make an emergency landing on Highway 76.
When authorities arrived on the scene, they searched the plane and discovered 2.2 pounds of cocaine.
Uh-Oh, Tony Montana is pi$$ed and the owner of N1711T has some "'splainin'" to do!
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[Regnum] Actress Maggie Smith, known for her role as Professor McGonagall in the Harry Potter film saga, has died at the age of 89, The Times reports.
The actress's sons reported her death. Smith died in hospital, her death was peaceful, the actress's relatives noted.
"We thank you for all your kind messages and support and ask that you please respect our privacy at this time," Smith's family said in a statement.
They also thanked the doctors at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, where the actress spent the last days of her life and died.
Smith was born in 1934 in Ilford, England. The actress made her stage debut at Oxford University. In the late 1950s, she also began acting in films. Among the films and TV series in which Smith took part are Death on the Nile, David Copperfield, Downton Abbey and many others.
She has received numerous awards throughout her career, including two Oscars, three Golden Globes, and four Emmy Awards. In 1990, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
I saw her live in one of the Shakespeare comedies at Stratford, Ontario when I was a schoolgirl. I had no idea at the time who she was, but one of my girlfriends was very impressed. The performance was rollicking fun, as Shakespeare comedies ought to be.
A video of the September 21st performance of the short piece can be watched here. The scorcan be viewed here. A sweet little bit of juvenilia.
by Kirill Velesov
[REGNUM] The main news of September in the world of culture and art was a discovery by the Leipzig Library. In the middle of the month, a serenade by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, unknown for 260 years, was discovered in its archives.
On September 21, excited queues of people formed outside the elegant building of the Leipzig Opera House, eager to be the first to hear Mozart's string trio, the serenade "Serenate ex C" - "Ganz kleine Nachtmusik" ("Little Night Music") performed by students of the Leipzig J. S. Bach School of Music. Two violins and a cello were heard.
There were too many guests, not all of them could even get into the theater foyer, so the musicians played three times. The last time - on the porch of the Opera. At the same time, a more intimate, but actually world premiere took place in the composer's homeland, in Salzburg, Austria, two days earlier.
The phenomenon of Mozart is explained by many factors: the cliche of "child genius" that has become firmly entrenched in him, his incredible creative fertility, the fact that he became one of the three icons of musical classicism... But above all, Mozart was and remains a pop star. The same idol, adored by the European mass public in the era of romanticism, was Franz Liszt, and in the 20th century Freddie Mercury.
Mozart was also lucky with his producer, who was his own father, who was busy with European tours for the young talent. Thanks to this, his name was known to almost all of Europe.
In the modern world, anyone, even the most distant from academic music, has certainly heard Mozart's music - in movies, advertisements and various kinds of videos. Scientists, in turn, are finding out whether the composer's works, as the "healed" claim, really cure allergies and mental illnesses.
Whether this is true is unknown. But one thing is clear: Mozart's music is light and airy, even the late symphonies and the mysterious opera "The Magic Flute", shrouded in Masonic secrets, do not seem to ordinary people to be "complex music for professionals". The only exception is the controversial and enigmatic requiem, to which Alexander Pushkin added mystery with his little drama.
"A LITTLE CHARMING SERENADE"
The trio score discovered in Leipzig has, of course, raised questions among musicologists: it is not so rare in the world to find notes of unknown pieces and try to attribute them to geniuses, insists the leading Mozart scholar, specialist of the Salzburg House of Mozart Ulrich Leisinger. But at the moment there is no doubt - this is a work by Mozart.
"Absolutely charming!" Leisinger added in comments to the media.
More reserved in her emotions on camera, Leipzig library director Susanne Metz agrees: experts really do not doubt that it is Mozart. But it is always worth being careful.
The discovered work is a seven-part piece, a minuet with multiple repetitions. The trio was found in a collection by musician and musicologist Karl Ferdinand Becker, to whom German music owes much of its painstaking systematization. Becker not only wrote canonical articles for German musicology on various academic composers, but also diligently collected collections and reference books that are still actively used by German music schools.
According to researchers, the discovered serenade was written by the composer in the 1760s, when he was 10–13 years old. Mozart had not yet become a student at the Bologna Academy or a Knight of the Golden Spur, but had already begun to write his first sonatas.
The discovered notes are a copy made from a manuscript presumably in 1780, and are now included in a new edition of the Köchel catalogue, a chronological complete list of the composer's works, which was developed and maintained by the staff of the Mozarteum in Salzburg.
DEDICATION TO A FRIEND AND NOTES SAVED FROM FIRE
Musical works are most often discovered completely by accident - during fires, fund moves and, of course, in private collections of the heirs of the lucky ones who received the work as a gift, but did not appreciate the scale of the personality of their contemporary and comrade in time.
In 2005, Saxony was shocked by the discovery of a previously unknown vocal work by Bach, which he dedicated to the Duke of Saxony, George I Ludwig, in 1713. The Weimar library of Duchess Anna Amalia, housed in a 16th-century castle, was on fire, but the score was among the papers removed from it shortly before the fire.
Bach's organ composition Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns haelt ("Where the Lord God is not with us") was discovered by scientists from the Martin Luther University in Halle in 2008 at an auction, where it was put up for auction under the authorship of the 19th century organist Wilhelm Rust. The score turned out to be a whole century older.
In 2017, literally on the eve of the anniversary of the Soviet composer Dmitry Shostakovich, the play "Impromptu" was found in the personal collection of the People's Artist of the RSFSR, violist Vadim Borisovsky, a friend of Shostakovich. It was immediately studied by specialists from the Main Archival Administration of Moscow and the authorship was confirmed.
It turned out that the composer had simply given a small piece to a friend, signing it: "To dear Alexander Mikhailovich, in memory of our acquaintance. D. Shostakovich 2/V 1931, Leningrad." The piece was in his personal documents. The only mystery is why the notes ended up with Borisovsky, and not with the addressee - another viola player, Honored Artist of the RSFSR Alexander Ryvkin.
UNKNOWN HOLMES AND CEZANNE BEHIND THE WALLPAPER
Such unexpected successes also happen with great literary finds. In 2015, the British historian Walter Elliott found in his attic a manuscript of a previously unknown story by Conan Doyle about Sherlock Holmes, which a friend had once given him as a gift.
In 2014, an unknown poem by American poet Walt Whitman was found by Wendy Katz, an art history professor at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. She was working in the archives of the Library of Congress and came across a newspaper printed in the 19th century. One of the pages contained a poem titled “To Brian, Nature’s Poet,” published when Whitman was not yet a recognized classic.
At the same time, discoveries can also be the result of painstaking work: while sorting through the archive of one of the main English-language science fiction writers, Herbert Wells, in 2016, the editor of The Strand magazine, Andrew Jully, found a previously unpublished story, “The Haunted Ceiling.”
As for painting, finds happen even more often. Sometimes works by masters of the past are found in the possession of collectors who, either unknowingly or intentionally, do not report that they own a masterpiece. Last year, this happened with two miniature portraits by Rembrandt, a caricature by Claude Monet and a portrait of Chiara Fancelli by Raphael. An even more amazing story happened with a work by Paul Cezanne, which was found under the wallpaper in an old house.
[FoxNews] The remnants of Helene continued its onslaught across the Southeast Friday, with nearly 4 dozen dead across multiple states and hundreds rescued from floodwaters.
The Category 4 hurricane made landfall along Florida’s Big Bend region late Thursday with estimated sustained winds of 140 mph.
Post-landfall, the hurricane quickly weakened, but its torrential rains and gusty winds continued hundreds of miles inland, with feet of rain being reported over the Appalachians.
At least 45 deaths have been reported so far, including 19 in South Carolina, 15 in Georgia, eight in Florida, two in North Carolina and one in Virginia.
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Southern Middle TN - we got off easy so far - storm did a right hook from the east of us to the north, other than steady rain not much impact. Worst damage I could find is a building collapsed in the county to the west of us.
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I had high winds and torrential rain. Since I live on the side of a mountain I didn't get flooded but did lose power and shingles with leaks in the house. I have many friends near Erwin and other areas that were flooded. The hospital is totaled. Newport is also totaled. Ashville is pretty much cut off.
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InLaws in Asheville NC, offline 2 days.
No landlines, no WIFI, no cell towers, no roofs, no power, many trees down.
Things are ever interesting in unexpected ways in the Third World.
[NYPOST] Stomach-churning video shows the moment human sewage erupted on a busy Chinese motorway, drenching cars, pedestrians, and bikers in what has been dubbed a "poo-cano."
The explosion of waste came around 11 a.m. Wednesday as newly installed sewage pipes in Nanning, in the southern Guangxi region of China, suddenly ruptured, according to the Sun.
Shocking video shows a huge brown cloud of waste shooting up nearly 33 feet in the air and splattering cars and pedestrians across the motorway.
"I’m drenched in poo, my car is splattered yellow. It’s ruined," one driver reportedly claimed.
Dashcam footage shows the orange-brown geyser of poo billow out of the pipe before splatting on the window shields of cars and unsuspecting bikers.
No one was injured in the earth-shattering kaboom, but the powerful blast flipped over one digger at the construction site, authorities said.
The explosion likely occurred when construction workers attempted a pressure test on the newly laid pipes, authorities said.
They learnt the thing they wanted to know, so that counts as a win.
The "poo-cano" aftermath was quickly attended to and different ways to prevent a future sewage explosion are being investigated, local authorities said.
Good for them. That’s how we moved up from the Third World, too.
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Interesting that they were using the new pipes for their intended purpose prior to pressure testing.
But this is China.....
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From the pic, that is one serious earth-shattering kaPOOm! Exactly how much pressure do you need to get a 30 ft poo geyser?
But this is China..... where the mountains are high, and the Emperor is far away.
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The trees will love it. The people, not so much….
Great story
Needs a few synonyms for poo though.
Feces, dung, excrement, manure, ordure, crap, Number Two, stool, droppings, plops, turd
[FoxNews] Among the most common reasons for removal was a change of address without notification or moving out of the state entirely
North Carolina has removed over 700,000 individuals from its registered voter list, officials say. The State Board of Elections announced Thursday that 747,000 people have been removed from voter rolls in the last 20 months due to ineligibility.
"The county boards follow careful policies to ensure that only ineligible records are removed, not those of eligible voters," the Board of Elections said in a press release.
"Meanwhile, newly eligible voters are constantly being added to the registration rolls in our growing state," the board added. "Currently, North Carolina has nearly 7.7 million registered voters."
A common reason for removal from voter rolls was moving residences — either within the state without notifying election officials or to another state altogether. Other removed individuals failed to vote in the last two federal elections and did not respond to follow-up notifications from the government seeking to confirm their registration. Death, felony conviction, requests to be removed, and lack of U.S. citizenship were also listed as reasons for dropping individuals from voter rolls.
It’s a start. Next look at imaginary residences and multiple registrations of the same individuals.
The Marist Poll released Thursday finds that Harris and Trump are tied at 49% among likely voters in North Carolina who were asked which candidate they were leaning toward. Of those polled who have made up their minds, 91% said they strongly support their choice.
North Carolina last voted for a Democratic president in 2008, when then-Sen. Barack Obama won the state by 0.3 points, or 14,177 votes.
Trump pulled out a convincing 3.7 point win in 2016, but that margin shrank to 1.3 points against President Biden in 2020.
North Carolina began absentee voting for registered voters on Tuesday, having begun sending absentee ballots to military and overseas voters on Friday. Applicants do not need to provide an excuse to receive a ballot.
The state must receive a ballot application by Oct. 29, and that ballot must be delivered to county officials by Nov. 5.
Appeasement
A structured 'NoGo' zone
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Albania plans to establish the sovereign Sufi Bektashi Muslim microstate within the borders of the capital, Tirana, the country's Prime Minister Edi Rama has announced.
It will have its own passport, borders, and administration governing religious issues, without Tirana's involvement.
The tiny enclave will serve as the political home for Bektashi Muslims - the fourth largest religious community in Albania after Sunni Muslims, Orthodox Christians and Catholics.
The order was founded in the 13th century in the Ottoman Empire and is regarded as a tolerant, mystic branch of Islam open to other religions and philosophies.
And historically, sometimes it has been. Other times, not so much.
Some of its most important leaders relocated to Albania after being banned in Turkey in the early 20th century by modern Turkey's founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
'Our inspiration is to support the transformation of the Bektashi World Centre in Tirana into a sovereign state, a new centre of moderation, tolerance and peaceful coexistence,' Rama said on Sunday at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
The Bektashi make up an estimated 10 per cent of the country's Muslim population, according to Albania's 2023 census.
The Bektashi Order in Tirana praised the decision in a statement which read: 'The sovereignty of the Bektashi Order is an important step in strengthening the values of inclusion, religious harmony and dialogue in an increasingly divided world'.
'Such a historic step aims at recognizing the Beltashi Order as a sovereign, self-governing state, committed to supporting its century-old culture of moderation and spiritual involvement,' it added.
Citizenship of the new state of roughly 10 hectares (25 acres) will be limited to members of the clergy and individuals dealing with state administration.
Its government would be headed by the Bektashi's leader, Baba Mondi, while a council will monitor its religious and administrative operation.
It will see the order receive sovereignty identical to that of the Vatican, governing religious and administrative issues independently of Albania.
Mr Rama added: 'Albanians are also proud of giving to the world Mother Teresa who 'embodied love for humanity'.
The Bektashi Order originated in the Ottoman Empire in the 13th century and acquired political importance in the 15th century.
This came after the order dominated the Janissary Corps, the elite infantry units that formed the Ottoman sultan's household troops.
Imperial household troops tend not to be peaceful and tolerant, no matter how picturesque the whirling dervishes might be in front of tourists.
After the foundation of the Turkish Republic, its leader Kemal Ataturk banned religious institutions that were not part of the Directorate of Religious Affairs and the Bektashi community's headquarters relocated to Albania, where it became involved in politics.
One of its members, Ismail Qemali declared Albania's independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1912.
[KhaamaPress] Pakistani media have reported that at least 25 people were killed and dozens more injured in the latest deadly clash between Shia and Sunni groups in the country’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Not Chicago
According to reports, the multi-day conflict between Shia and Sunni groups in northwestern Pakistan has raised concerns about the potential spread of religious tensions across the country.
On Wednesday, Pakistani officials confirmed the death toll at 25, with dozens more reported injured in the clashes.
This sectarian conflict took place in one of the most troubled regions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, known as Kurram, which has previously witnessed similar tensions.
Pakistani media have noted that the Sunni and Shia groups in this area have a long history of conflict, primarily rooted in land disputes.
The report highlights the deep-rooted sectarian issues in Pakistan, which continue to pose a threat to the country’s internal stability.
The recurring nature of these conflicts in areas like Kurram underscores the need for comprehensive peacebuilding efforts to address religious and socio-economic factors. Addressing these longstanding issues is crucial for Pakistan’s security and promoting peaceful coexistence among its diverse communities.
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[Regnum] Microscopic tardigrades
…known in the vernacular as water bears or moss piglets, they’re eyeless, microscopic critters that live in the water and can survive extreme environments…
have been discovered for the first time on the Franz Josef Land archipelago. This was reported by the director of the Russian Arctic National Park, Alexander Kirilov. According to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management:
Franz Josef Land is a multiisland archipelago that occupies an area of about 25,000 km² and, together with northern Svalbard, is an Arctic outpost of the European continent formed by the uplifted and highly broken northern margin of the Barents Shelf.
According to him, this year microbiologists from the Russian Technical University took part in a comprehensive expedition to the archipelago, studying the bacteriological population of the territory.
“In the samples they took, microscopic animals were found, up to about one millimeter in size, they are called ‘water bears’ or tardigrades,” TASS reports Kirilov as saying.
Always a good sign when things that ought to be in a place are found there. Well done!
Tardigrades are invertebrates that live in fresh water, wet mosses, and lichens. They can survive in a vacuum, boiling water, and temperatures below -250 degrees. They can also come back to life after almost complete dehydration. Next, we go to Greece:
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on September 24, during excavations in the ancient city of Labrys, located 30 km from Anapa, archaeologists discovered two large altars dedicated to the ancient Greek god Apollo. According to the group of archaeologists, this ancient city was an important center of the ancient state of Sindica, which existed in this territory before our era. The Labrys: Exploring the Evolution of the Sacred Double Axe from Neolithic Anatolia to the Minoan Labyrinth
Earlier, Russian scientists discovered bacteria that could be used to develop an innovative preparation for cleaning soils from oil products.
Sure, they are cute when they are tiny and microscope, but you don't want to be around when the big ones the size of a zeppelin show up. Remember that planet that used to be between Mars and Jupiter? The one that is now an asteroid belt? Tardigrades, man!
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.
[NYPOST] An Arizona State University student is in the hospital after being stabbed by a female classmate — who was looking for someone to knife and attacked the victim for being an "easier target."
