[NYPOST] A former middle school teacher has pleaded guilty to biting a 14-year-old girl’s butt as the teen played water volleyball during a Fourth of July celebration in Georgia.
Jonathan William Herbert, 30, will serve 30 days in jail and four years probation under the plea deal reached on Friday, according to The Daily Mail.
Herbert allegedly did nothing to hide his actions: Multiple witnesses saw the drunken educator swim underwater and bite the girl while in a lake north of Atlanta, authorities said. The perv then tried to bribe a cop with $200 after he was nabbed.
He didn’t have any connection to the girl or her family. Herbert resigned from his teaching job on Aug. 1.
His battery, public drunkenness and bribery charges will be wiped from his record if he completes his sentence without any problems. Herbert is also barred from teaching and can’t be seen in areas "where children congregate," according to court records.
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...Well, that's a new one...
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[Garden & Gun] As part of the Women in the Field series, G&G hosts the Ladies’ Shoot at Brays Island Plantation in March 2019. The event features a morning of 100 rounds of sporting clays shooting, following by drinks and lunch at the Inn at Brays Island. All skill levels are welcome for this experience.
At the risk of being the pedantic nerd, Cheney shot a lawyer.
And from what I understand of Texas dove hunting, people shoot each other all the time, what with all the excitement and the dove being an erratic flyer. All part of the fun! It's only bird shot, walk it off.
[Dhaka Tribune] The willowy beauty Looks like a guy dressed up as a girl.
That’s their best shot? Oh dear.
is making history since the pageant reversed a longstanding policy in 2012 that participants must be "naturally born" women
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Hey, 'guys' competing in girls wrestling, track and field too. Consider it payback for all the 'in your face' faux equality and non-gender identities they keep screaming about. Silence has been acquiescence on the radical anti-Western pop culture by too many of the 'naturals'. Make them long for the 'good old days'. Ought to kick in seriously when when they're told to sign up for the draft.
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True equality will occur when they simply have weight classes for every competition (except perhaps Chess). Then it won't matter how you were born or how you identify.
[AlAhram] Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi ordered on Saturday the establishment of a church in the new city of "Ahalina 2" in El-Salam city on the outskirts of Cairo.
On Saturday, El-Sisi inspected the sites of a number of national projects including a wastewater treatment plant in Qalioubiya and several housing projects aimed at combating informal settlements.
El-Sisi's comments were directed to Major General Emad Ahmed El-Ghazali, the Commander of the Central Military Region who was giving a presentation on the landscape of the newly constructed city.
During the presentation, El-Sisi asked El-Ghazali whether there were any further plans to build another church in Ahalina 1, to which he answered: "No".
"This is an order, it's a matter that we should not forget once more ... everyone shall worship," El-Sisi then replied.
The commander said that a plan for a church in Ahalina 2 will be implemented though.
El-Sisi said on several occasions that Egypt was determined to go ahead with plans to build churches in new neighbourhoods.
Article 64 of the Egyptian constitution stipulates the freedom of religious practice and the right to build places of worship for the followers of the Abrahamic faiths: Islam, Christianity and Judaism.
In 2016, El-Sisi ratified a law that speeds up the licensing process for building churches.
Prior to the 2016 law, the Egyptian Coptic Christians, who make up an estimated 10 percent of the country's 100 million population, had long struggled to obtain building permits for churches, with the process often taking years.
The Battle of Blood River is the name given for the battle fought between 470 Voortrekkers ("Pioneers"), led by Andries Pretorius, and an estimated "10 000 to 15 000" Zulu on the bank of the Ncome River on 16 December 1838, in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Casualties amounted to over 3,000 of king Dingane's soldiers dead, including two Zulu princes competing with Prince Mpande for the Zulu throne. Three Pioneer commando members were lightly wounded, including Pretorius himself.
[Al Jazeera] A council of Orthodox bishops has created a new Ukrainian church, marking an historic split from Russia which its leaders see as vital to the country's security and independence.
The announcement on Saturday came after Ukrainian priests held a synod in capital Kiev's 11th-century Saint Sophia Cathedral to establish an Orthodox church independent from Moscow.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced that 39-year-old Metropolitan Epifaniy of the Kiev Patriarchate church is the head of the new church. His secular name is Sergiy Dumenko.
"This day will go down in history as a sacred day ... the day of the final independence from Russia," Poroshenko told thousands of supporters, who shouted "Glory! Glory! Glory!"
"I would like to call on all our brothers, bishops and all believers to the newly created united Ukrainian Orthodox Church," Yepifaniy told the crowd outside the cathedral.
"The doors of our church are open to all."
'MATTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY' The newly formed community is now expected to receive independence from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the Istanbul-based institution considered the so-called "first among equals" of leaders of the world's Orthodox Churches.
Poroshenko said he would travel with Epifaniy to Istanbul in January to receive an official Tomos from the head of global Orthodoxy granting the new church independence.
Poroshenko, who has made the creation of a new church a key campaign issue before elections next year, told the bishops that the state "did everything it could" towards the creation of the church.
"Ukraine was not, is not, and will not be the canonical territory of the Russian church," Poroshenko said, adding that an independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church was now a "matter of national security".
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So, what does some [former] klingon have to do with this?
[AlAhram] Researchers are also looking into using cockroach extract in beauty masks, diet pills and even hair-loss treatments.
In the near pitch-dark, you can hear them before you see them - millions of cockroaches scuttling and fluttering across stacks of wooden boards as they devour food scraps by the tonne in a novel form of urban waste disposal.
The air is warm and humid - just as cockroaches like it - to ensure the colonies keep their health and voracious appetites.
Expanding Chinese cities are generating more food waste than they can accommodate in landfills, and cockroaches could be a way to get rid of hills of food scraps, providing nutritious food for livestock when the bugs eventually die and, some say, cures for stomach illness and beauty treatments.
On the outskirts of Jinan, capital of eastern Shandong province, a billion cockroaches are being fed with 50 tonnes of kitchen waste a day - the equivalent in weight to seven adult elephants.
The waste arrives before daybreak at the plant run by Shandong Qiaobin Agricultural Technology Co, where it is fed through pipes to cockroaches in their cells.
Shandong Qiaobin plans to set up three more such plants next year, aiming to process a third of the kitchen waste produced by Jinan, home to about seven million people.
A nationwide ban on using food waste as pig feed due to African swine fever outbreaks is also spurring the growth of the cockroach industry.
"Cockroaches are a bio-technological pathway for the converting and processing of kitchen waste," said Liu Yusheng, president of Shandong Insect Industry Association.
Cockroaches are also a good source of protein for pigs and other livestock. "It’s like turning trash into resources," said Shandong Qiaobin chairwoman Li Hongyi.
"ESSENCE OF COCKROACH"
In a remote village in Sichuan, Li Bingcai, 47, has similar ideas.
Li, formerly a mobile phone vendor, has invested a million yuan ($146,300) in cockroaches, which he sells to pig farms and fisheries as feed and to drug companies as medicinal ingredients.
His farm now has 3.4 million cockroaches.
"People think it’s strange that I do this kind of business," Li said. "It has great economic value, and my goal is to lead other villagers to prosperity if they follow my lead."
His village has two farms. Li’s goal is to create 20.
Elsewhere in Sichuan, a company called Gooddoctor is rearing six billion cockroaches.
"The essence of cockroach is good for curing oral and peptic ulcers, skin wounds and even stomach cancer," said Wen Jianguo, manager of Gooddoctor’s cockroach facility.
Researchers are also looking into using cockroach extract in beauty masks, diet pills and even hair-loss treatments.
At Gooddoctor, when cockroaches reach the end of their lifespan of about six months, they are blasted by steam, washed and dried, before being sent to a huge nutrient extraction tank.
Asked about the chance of the cockroaches escaping, Wen said that would be worthy of a disaster movie but that he has taken precautions.
"We have a moat filled with water and fish," he said. "If the cockroaches escape, they will fall into the moat and the fish will eat them all."
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Only thing missing is making the cockroaches run an electricity generating treadmill to get to the food.
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"Young Ben, as the future approaches,
One word..." "I know, plastics." "No. Roaches!"
"The Roches? Like Suzzy?"
"A little more buzzy.
Say hi to my wife. Buenas noches."
[Mail] The terrible wintry conditions soldiers were forced to fight in during the last major German offensive of World War Two have been brought to light thanks to a series of colorised images to mark the 74th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge.
Striking pictures show three gunners prepare to fire a shell on New Year's Eve in 1944 with the inscription 'For Adolph, unhappy new year', American GIs are pictured resting on railway tracks after combat in Duren and two soldiers can be seen inspecting a deserted Panther tank formerly of the Panzer Division Das Reich near Grandmenil, Belgium.
Other vivid colour photographs show a US half track cross a temporary bridge over the Ourthe River, members of the US 101st Airborne Division move out of Bastogne and Panzergrenadier-SS Kampfgruppe Hansen in action during clashes in Poteau against Task Force Myers.
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...My ex-wife had an uncle there. It was late January before they knew for sure he was okay.
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The Bulge - surprise attack by an enemy declared all but defeated. Casualties - 89,500 (includes killed, wounded, missing, captured), Loses - 733 tanks and tank destroyers. Destroyed the 106th Infantry Division. By the end of January, the Allies controlled the area lost in the German offensive. Reported as an American victory in the (Old) Media.
Tet Offensive - surprise attack by an enemy declared all but defeated. South Vietnamese Casualties - 4,954 killed, 15,917 wounded, 926 missing. US and allied Casualties - 4,124 killed,
19,295 wounded, 604 missing. The Viet Cong basically destroyed with the NVA doing the fighting for the rest of the war. All territory lost during the fight regained by the South Vietnamese and allied forces. Reported as an American defeat by the (New) Media.
And they wonder why so many people today consider the Media to be the enemy.
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My godfather fought in the Battle of the Bulge. He was 18 years old. Kids today need "safe spaces" if somebody might say something they don't like.
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Good analysis, P2K -- I had never thought to compare the two like that.
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My uncle was in the 106th Division and was captured the second day. Spent the rest of the war in a POW camp slowly starving. When liberated weighed just over 100 lbs because virtually the only thing they got to eat were the few Red Cross parcels that got past the guards. I saw his little army bible from his captivity, filled every blank space with food descriptions. The ship that brought them home kept the gally open 24 hours a day and the picture of him home at Walter Reed was still skeletal. Ever missed a meal the rest of his life.
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Uncle fought in that battle. Had 3 halftracks shot out under him before he said "The hell with roads" and took to forests. He was in Bastogne area until the siege was broke. He said it was still hell for 30 more days.
Started at D-Day + 3 ... ended deep in the Ruhr.
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Uncle died during the battle while flying recc missions. Cloud cover was so low, he ended up flying into large slag heap.
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My Father-in-law was in an ordnance company. They realized that something was wrong when the artillery started firing behind his unit. They skeedadled just ahead of the German advance.
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Met a CO for a tank unit at the Bulge. He shook every time he heard thunder here. Metal treads no rubber. The lighting was fierce as he recalled. My Uncle left his tank and it was destroyed and his crew shortly thereafter. He was lucky that day.
[The Hill] A U.S. bankruptcy court on Friday reportedly approved Sears’ request to pay as much as $25.3 million in bonuses to the company’s top executives and high-ranking employees, just months after the company filed for bankruptcy.
The company behind Sears, Hoffman Estates-based Sears Holdings Corp, argued it needed to give employees such a financial incentive to encourage them to remain with the company as it works to rebuild, despite it reporting nearly $1.9 billion in losses in the first three quarters of this year, CBS News reported.
"Under these circumstances, it would be understandable if many key employees are asking themselves whether they should be seeking other opportunities," the company said in a court filing in November, according to the publication.
But the company "cannot afford this uncertainty ‐ however understandable it may be," the filing also reportedly states.
The company’s proposal will reportedly offer bonuses to 19 executives amounting to up to $8.4 million over the next six months if the company is successful in hitting certain financial goals.
The employees would also be eligible for more money in bonuses if the retailer is in a position to hit those financial targets when sold, an attorney for the company reportedly said at the hearing.
Sears announced in October that it was forced to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which allows it to restructure its finances, after it failed to pay a $134 million debt payment that was due at the time.
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The company’s proposal will reportedly offer bonuses to 19 executives amounting to up to $8.4 million over the next six months if the company is successful in hitting certain financial goals.
...or not. Did they list the goals in the filing so the administrator can determine whether or not it was 1) rigorous enough to justify and 2) actually met?
[Al Jazeera] Thousands of "yellow vest" protesters erupted into the streets of French cities on Saturday in the fifth weekend of demonstrations against Emmanuel Macron's government, ignoring calls to stay home.
Some scuffles broke out on Saturday in central Gay Paree between protesters and police after nearly 4,000 people came out in the capital, raising anti-government slogans and blocking traffic.
Riot police fired tear gas and sprayed the protesters to disperse them. Police said they tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud! more than 100 people, Rooters news agency reported, citing a Gay Paree police official.
About 8,000 police and 14 armoured vehicles were deployed in Gay Paree after similar protests in recent weekends turned violent.
The Interior Minister said around 69,000 police were active on Saturday with a reinforced presence in Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... , Bordeaux and Saint-Etienne.
Official figures said 66,000 protesters had been counted in La Belle France by 17:00 GMT, compared to 126,000 at the same time a week before.
President Macron, facing the biggest crisis of his presidency, announced a series of concessions on Monday to defuse the "yellow vest" movement, which sprang up in rural and small-town La Belle France last month.
Insh’allah. The question the pious ought to ask is why Allah should will such a thing.
[DAWN] RAW ... India's Research and Analysis Wing, Pakistain's equivalent of the Boogie Man... ALPINDI: After the customs cargo (airfreight unit) building at the Islamabad International Airport (IIA) started caving in, the authorities have decided to shift all staff and workers to an alternative place.
Initially, small cracks appeared on the walls along with a leakage from the drain in the office of a senior officer and other rooms but the cracks started increasing day by day. A portion of the building is now caving in.
Senior officers of the customs department brought the issue to the notice of the airport manager and the project director of the IIA intimating them that the building was no longer safe for those working there.
Additional Collector Customs Nisar Ahmed told Dawn that the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) would start shifting the office of the airfreight unit to another place, comprising two rooms, on Monday.
He confirmed that cracks in the building had widened and the building was caving in from one side making it no longer safe to work in.
The official said the airfreight unit office was shifted to the newly-constructed building on May 1, two days before the new airport was formally opened.
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She's "dead" now.
[DAWN] TAXILA: Two brothers were on Friday taken into custody by the police for burying their mentally-disabled sister alive in a well in their house
...making the water unsafe to drink for the foreseeable future. Which of them looks mentally challenged now?
on the directives of the local spiritual healer to rid the family of evil forces.
Shabana, 38, and a resident of Banni Mohallah near Christian Hospital, had not been seen since Dec 4.
Shabana’s elder brother, Mohammad Imran, who lives separately, lodged a complaint with the police about his sister’s unexplained disappearance.
On Friday, the victim’s mother called her brother, Abdul Lateef, saying she had been locked in a room by her two sons, Mohammad Farhan and Mohammad Kamran, and that she had managed to break out of the room.
Abdul Lateef came to his sister’s aid and also informed his nephew, Mohammad Imran. The victim’s mother told her brother and son that her daughter had been buried alive in the well in the house.
Imran then informed the local police about the crime.
Rescue 1122 was called to retrieve the body but the operation was abandoned when the oxygen supply was exhausted and it got dark.
Rescue 1122 officer Adeel Ahmed said the operation will resume on Saturday after more oxygen cylinders are brought in.
Investigation Officer Assistant Sub-Inspector Mohammad Shahzad told mediapersons that both the suspects were taken into custody. He said the two brothers had confessed to killing their sister on the directives of the local spiritual healer, who had told them that evil forces have descended on her which also affected their family. The spiritual healer had advised they kill her in order to rid the family of evil forces.
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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
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] A former middle school teacher has pleaded guilty to biting a 14-year-old girl’s butt as the teen played water volleyball during a Fourth of July celebration in Georgia.
[Garden & Gun] As part of the Women in the Field series, G&G hosts the Ladies’ Shoot at Brays Island Plantation in March 2019. The event features a morning of 100 rounds of sporting clays shooting, following by drinks and lunch at the Inn at Brays Island. All skill levels are welcome for this experience.
[AlAhram] Researchers are also looking into using cockroach extract in beauty masks, diet pills and even hair-loss treatments.
[Al Jazeera] Thousands of "yellow vest" protesters 
