[FoxNews] More species will be vaccinated soon, the National Zoo said.
The Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute vaccinated several of their primates against COVID-19 this week, saying it was just the beginning of animal coronavirus inoculations at its locations.
The zoo announced in a press release Friday that staff administered the first round of two-dose shots to 11 animals on Wednesday: seven orangutans, a western lowland gorilla, one white-eared titi monkey and two emperor tamarins.
The vaccine used was developed specifically for animals by Michigan-based veterinary pharmaceutical company Zoetis after the company saw that a dog in China contracted the virus early in the pandemic.
Zoetis said in a press release in July that its shots were authorized on a "case-by-case basis by the United States Department of Agriculture" for an array of zoo animals, but said the shots are "not needed in pets or livestock at this time."
The National Zoo also provided a status update on the lions and tigers under its care that had tested "presumptive positive" for COVID-19 last month, saying the big cats were "recovering well" and "behaving, eating and drinking normally."
"Vaccines will continue to be administered to select animals identified as susceptible species at the Zoo and at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia, in the coming months," the zoo explained, adding that "the lions and tigers will receive the vaccine no sooner than 90 days post-infection."
Zoos in different parts of the country have increasingly been vaccinating myriad species with the Zoetis vaccine.
The Denver Zoo and Oakland Zoo used the jab on some of their animals over the summer, CBS News reported, and the Denver Zoo is planning to do the same.
FOX 35 reported Thursday that ZooTampa has also begun vaccinating its animals.
"Species such as Florida panthers, skunks, otters and primates are on top of the list to vaccinate," Fox 35 reported. "The zoo has received enough doses to vaccinate roughly 19 species which includes 93 animals."
[Freedom Front] The Private Security Industry Regulation Amendment Bill that was signed into law by President Cyril Ramaphosa yesterday, is not well thought out and could deal the industry a severe blow. The amendments are based on unfounded information about, among other things, shares in the industry that are reportedly held by foreign companies and could result in great job losses.
Regarding the government's argument that foreign shareholding of more than 50% poses a threat to South Africa's state security, July's unrest and riots showed that the biggest threat to the state lies in its own ranks.
Even in the draft phase of the Bill, important information about the extent of foreign shareholding and how many job losses would result could not be provided to the Portfolio Committee on Police. No research had been conducted.
In addition, the fast-growing private security industry is of the ANC government's own making seeing as it failed to combat crime and ensure the public's safety effectively.
In South Africa, there are presently about three security guards for every one police officer due to the fact that the ANC government failed to perform its constitutional duty to protect the public against criminals. As a result, the people pay double for their safety and security.
At a time when the unemployment rate in South Africa is among the highest in the world and crime is flourishing due to a lack of effective police action, there is no logic in the President signing the Bill. It shows that he is ignorant of what the actual crime situation in South Africa is like. It is ordinary citizens, the ones who are not surrounded by bodyguards, whose safety is threatened.
Various companies' vested interests have been jeopardised, so stakeholders will most probably put the amendment to the test in the Constitutional Court. Foreign ownership concerns among people living under communist domination. Imagine that !
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[KavkazUzel] Natives of Chechnya are suspected of trying to arrange lynching a police officer who collided with the car of their compatriot in a private car in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, investigators said.
The accident occurred on October 14 at about 20.00 Moscow time at an intersection in the city of Pyt-Yakh, one of the participants in which was a police officer in a private car.
"After the collision, several citizens surrounded the police car and demanded to go out into the street," the Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Yugra said today on its website. Investigators have opened a criminal case under the article on the use of violence against a government official (318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), the report says.
The video of the incident with the policeman in Pyt-Yakh was published today by the Baza Telegram channel. It shows how a group of people surrounded a traffic police car with a policeman inside.
Many are behaving aggressively, trying to get into the seden, pulling at the doors, and shouts from the crowd are heard: "He will not go anywhere." A security officer in uniform is standing near the car. "This video shows an attempted lynching of a policeman in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.
The support group of a native of Chechnya demands that the police give them an inspector of the Ministry of Internal Affairs so that they can personally understand all the circumstances of the accident," reads the annotation to the video.
The report also indicates that the accident occurred through the fault of a security official, a native of Ukraine, who collided in his car with a Lada Granta, which belongs to a native of Chechnya.
In an accident, a senior police lieutenant received a pearl of his leg, he was hospitalized. "His condition is satisfactory, life is not in danger," the source quoted News.ru. The second participant in the accident was also injured, but hospitalization was not required, the source said.
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that on October 4, three residents of Dagestan were detained on suspicion of brutally beating up a metro passenger Roman Kovalev in Moscow.
The victim was taken to hospital with injuries, the Dagestanis were arrested. Initially, the case was opened under the article on hooliganism; on October 7, the investigation decided to qualify it as an attempted murder.
Also Magamaali (also referred to in the media as Khanmomali - note of the "Caucasian Knot" ) Khanmagomedov, Ibragim Musalaev and Hasan Zalibekov were charged with the threat of violence against government officials. Hasan Zalibekov's defense asked to choose a preventive measure not related to imprisonment . The injured Roman Kovalev said that his eyesight is gradually returning.
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[KavkazUzel] About six hundred inmates riot at a maximum security penal colony in North Ossetia over a conflict with prison officials, sources said.
The incident took place in correctional colony No. 1 in Vladikavkaz.
Almost six hundred convicts staged a riot, they smashed surveillance cameras and internal doors in the colony, the National Guard forces are being pulled to the correctional facility, and neighboring streets are cordoned off, reported today, citing sources from the Telegram channel Baza.
According to preliminary data, the incident began with a conflict involving two prisoners with prison staff, the report says.
The unrest in the colony was suppressed, RIA Novosti reported with reference to the representative of the emergency services.
As a result of the riots, several people were injured, an Interfax source quoted. According to preliminary data, the conflict occurred due to the disagreement of individual prisoners to comply with the regime established in the colony, the report says.
There is no information about the riots in the colony on the website of the US Penitentiary Service in North Ossetia, as of 22.10 Moscow time today.
[KavkazUzel] Complaints from convicts from a colony in Vladikavkaz were sent to the hotline to combat torture in prisons under the Russian Ministry of Justice and the Public Monitoring Commission.
As the "Caucasian Knot " wrote , today sources have reported about riots in a strict regime colony in North Ossetia. According to various sources, between 200 and 600 convicts staged a riot because of a conflict with the correctional staff. The riots were suppressed, there are casualties, sources said.
The prisoners who staged the riot are blocked, the perimeter of the colony is cordoned off, sources said. The situation is under control, Tamerlan Tzgoev, Ombudsman for Human Rights in North Ossetia, assured.
"The hotline for prisoners and their relatives that has started to work today began to receive appeals from Vladikavkaz, where, according to media reports, a riot has begun in one of the colonies," the executive secretary of the Moscow POC Alexei Melnikov quoted TASS today.
The relatives of some of the prisoners came to the colony, the report says.
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[Korrespondent] The head of state believes that "the legislation of Ukraine that is loyal to smugglers must be changed."
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy initiates the introduction of punishment in the form of 20 years in prison for smuggling. This was announced on Friday, October 15, by the chairman of the National Security and Defense Council Alexei Danilov during a break between the broadcasts of the political talk show Svoboda Savik Shuster.
Danilov noted that the president considers Ukrainian legislation too loyal to smugglers and proposes to tighten it.
"After we introduced sanctions against smugglers in April, customs revenues to the state budget increased by UAH 47 billion. We would like it to be more, but for now the figure is this. And we will not stop there," he said. Danilov.
Danilov also announced that "certain individuals will lose their positions" in the fight against smuggling.
"This is such a complex legacy, the system is built. It is such an octopus, which is extremely difficult to fight. They all know each other, they have been there for years. And when we took someone by the tail, it’s like a hydra - it grows a new tail," - said the NSDC secretary.
Let us remind you that flight attendants who tried to import contraband iPhones into Ukraine were detained at the Boryspil airport.
[PJ] If you have a broken brake light or headlight in Philadelphia, you no longer have to worry that you’ll be pulled over by police. The city council just passed a measure that would prevent the police from stopping anyone for a host of "minor" traffic offenses.
The impetus for the change comes from a single study performed by the Defender Association of Philadelphia. The group gives free legal representation to defendants in the city. They found that a disproportionate number of black drivers were stopped compared to white drivers.
WHY:
Black drivers represented 72% of the stops with an arrest rate of 1%, according to Bradford-Grey. Only 15% of the stops were white drivers with a .98% arrest rate.
When it came to tickets issued because of these stops, Black drivers made up 9% of tickets while white drivers made up 14% of fines issued.
"When they stopped white drivers, they were for more legitimate purposes and they actually did things that advance those public safety measures," said former Chief Defender Keir Bradford-Grey testified Wednesday at a hearing convened by the City Council’s Committee on Public Safety. The hearing drew many supporters, including Philadelphia Police Department officials who had questioned the bill in the past.
The police are happy with the law because it makes their jobs safer and frees them up to tackle more serious criminal activity. But viewing a list of infractions that will no longer be enforced raises serious questions.
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In all honesty why waste time stopping any person for a simple tail light violation. When in this day and age a photo of the License tag and burnt out light can be mailed to the violator victim. If they don't pay in 90 days, then issue a stop and detain and impound warrant.
It also cuts down on the #1 or #2 most common police location that results a LEO shooting and BLM riots.
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Philly was the olympics of unlicensed and uninsured driving 30 years ago. I'm sure it's even worse now.
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rudy guiliani started the new york clean up by enforcing minor violations not by ignoring them. We need a new country and new york, Philadelphia, boston, san francisco, LA, portland and seattle not invited.
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Broken tail light etc. have long been a standard legal excuse to pull over someone you want a closer look at (I was pulled for a burnt out license plate light not long ago, the trooper and I were respectful with each other, he took a quick look around my van and determined I wasn't hauling illegal aliens or bales of pot, and gave me a warning ticket.) As such, I suspect the SJWs are right that the inequity of stops is 'unjust'. That said, there is no inequity of violations charged - 1% for both groups. Left unsaid is anything about the number of serious arrests- murder warrant fugitives etc. - made as a result of such stops.
Curious that this automotive 'stop & frisk' is going away just as Biden's $600 account financial 'stop & frisk' is starting up.
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I have a plastic tub in the back of my Jeep with a 5000 lb tow strap, bungees, and at least one of every outside light bulb for the vehicle. And a tool kit. I've never been stopped for a burned-out light, but I bet if I was, and said "Office, I'll fix it right now," and showed him / her I could, I'd be told to get lost and do it at home, not on the side of the road.
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So when there is a car crash the victims can name the city as co-defendant in their lawsuit.
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I was stopped at night by a State Trooper because I had no trailer lights. For some reason my trailer brakes locked up while driving that night (it is an enclosed horse trailer) and the only way I could get them to unlock was to unplug the truck to trailer connection. I was about 8 miles from home. I showed him that when I plugged the trailer in the wheels locked yp. He told me to spend about 15 minutes looking like I was working on it and the to drive carefully. I have plenty of reflectors on the back.
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The Texas House approved legislation, titled HB 25 on Thursday that would restrict transgender student athlete participation in school sports
House Bill 25, backed by Texas Republicans passed with a 76-54 vote after ten hours of emotional debate
It largely focuses on preventing trans girls from participate in female sports
Texas is home to the second-largest LGBTQ population in the country
The new law still needs final approval from the Texas Senate, which has previously approved similar legislation.
Eight states, all backed by Republican legislatures, have brought legislation targeting transgender athletes into effect, while South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem signed an executive order similar to those laws in March this year
[JP] Hundreds of women gathered Friday morning at Atarim Square, the former home of the infamous Pussycat strip club, for Tel Aviv’s annual SlutWalk. Women marched under the title "SlutWalk Tel Aviv: Nothing is an invitation to rape" holding signs that read “it is not your fault” and “end femicide,” and chanting “no means no.”
"Thousands of people have gathered today who believe that it is time to end the culture of blame and start believing victims," said Kulan head Bracha Barad who produced the event. "We are here to yell for those who did not have a voice and for those who still do not. Nothing is an invitation to rape, and no one is at fault for being hurt."
Kulan, which means all of them (feminine), is an Israeli movement that promotes feminist discourse.
[Interesting Engineering] Lethal. Sustainable. Affordable. Three words Bell used to describe its recently-unveiled upgraded 360 Invictus stealth helicopter model.
Showcasing the 360 Invictus at the recent AUSA 2021 Annual Meeting & Exposition in Washington, D.C., Bell disclosed its 360 Invictus program is moving swiftly through manufacturing, assembly, components testing, and system integrations. It looks like the U.S. Army will receive its new helicopter on time in the fall for future stealth attack reconnaissance missions.
"The Bell 360 Invictus is an exciting aircraft that brings sophisticated digital systems together in a high-speed, reliable, maintainable vehicle for austere environments around the world," Jayme Gonzalez, program manager of Bell 360 Invictus, said to Defence Blog.
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As a future-ready helicopter, the fly-by-wire controls will not only deliver high stability and control but also reduce workload for the future crew as more operations will become autonomous.
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.