[An Nahar] Police in Southern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, have tossed in the clink Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! a suspected calf rustler after the animal was found in the back seat of his car.
Riverside Animal Services front man John Welsh says an officer approached Cesar Zamora Santana early Wednesday when the man was spotted loitering outside an auto shop.
When the officer looked inside Santana's vehicle, he saw the calf lying in the back seat. Santana told police that he bought the animal for $200 at a gas station.
Animal control officers found that the bovine's ear identification tag had been forcibly removed.
Welsh says the 150-pound female calf was turned over to a farmer to be fostered while authorities try to find its owner.
The 31-year-old Santana was arrested on suspicion of transporting livestock without proof of ownership or identifying information. No phone listing for him could be found.
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Well, at least he wasn't transporting the calf for immoral purposes.
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The Riverside Animal Services
Make sure fleas aren't hurt in flea circuses.
Their stiff staff will not laugh
If a calf or giraffe
Is found filched for nefarious purposes.
I hope you don't mind if I mock you gents
For holding livestock without documents,
While Cesar Santana
Will go free mañana
With the whole goddamn government's compliments.
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The 31-year-old Santana was arrested on suspicion of transporting livestock without proof of ownership or identifying information. No phone listing for him could be found.
[An Nahar] State police say a western Pennsylvania man has been charged with passing counterfeit $20 bills at a yard sale run by the wrong woman -- a bank teller. Oh, dear. We are in trouble.
Trooper Terry Geibel says the teller is trained to know the look and feel of real money.
The (Kittanning) Leader-Times (http://bit.ly/10xMhoe ) reports that 40-year-old Gregory Douglas of Kittanning has been charged with forgery, a felony, and theft by deception, a misdemeanor. He remained jugged I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! Friday on previous counterfeiting and other charges. There's no attorney listed for him in court records.
Amy Miller, the teller at Citizens Bank in Kittanning, tells the newspaper the bills weren't printed on "money paper. Compared to the other twenties in my bag, it was really white."
The trooper says the money was printed on resume paper.
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Word to the wise:
1) use good paper
2) print 'em on both sides
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Shouldn't that be attempted theft by deception, since no one was actually deceived? Unlike the Federal Reserve's electronic counterfeiting, which is perfectly ok.
[An Nahar] Police guards at the Tyre prison on Saturday thwarted an attempt to smuggle a quantity of hashish that was hidden in a number of potatoes. I hadn't realized the genetic modification process had gone that far.
"Paleostinian national M. A., 22, was incarcerated Book 'im, Mahmoud! after he tried to smuggle a quantity of hashish that was stuffed into 16 potatoes in a crafty manner," the Internal Security Forces said in a statement.
The unusual meal was destined for 33-year-old Paleostinian prisoner R. F., the ISF added.
This is not the first time smugglers have resorted to bizarre ideas in their attempts to breach prison security measures.
On October 22, guards foiled a bid to smuggle hundreds of Benzhexol pills and an amount of hashish that were hidden in a pair of shoes into the al-Qobbeh prison in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... .
In July, security forces at the Aley prison seized a quantity of hashish that was hidden in "21 pistachio shells."
Earlier in the year, security guards at the Zahle prison foiled separate attempts to smuggle drugs in a toothpaste tube, meat pastries, meat sandwiches and apricots.
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Seems to me the prison guards would be miles ahead if they let the prisoner's take all the drugs they wanted.
[NEWYORK.CBSLOCAL] Police on Friday night were investigating the shocking desecration of the Statue of the Risen Christ at a church in the Rockaways.
As CBS2âs Matt Kozar reported exclusively, the statue is a familiar sight next to the altar at St. Francis de Sales, at 129-16 Rockaway Beach Blvd. in Queens.
âThe visual effect is what people need to see,â the Rev. Thomas Doyle said.
But they have never seen the statue in the vandalized state it was in this week.
âIt was a little heart-wrenching, going out to see, you know, the damage that was done,â Doyle said.
The Statue of the Risen Christ is missing both hands, and had what appeared to be a stripe of paint running across its arms.
Doyle took CBS2 to the prayer garden where the vandalism happened. It was part of the churchâs memorial to the victims of both the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the World Trade Center, and the American Airlines Flight 587 crash in Belle Harbor a couple of months later.
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MONGOLIA: ARCHAEOLOGISTS UNEARTH TOMB OF GENGHIS KHAN!
Öndörkhaan| Construction workers employed in road building near the Onon River in the Khentii province of Mongolia, have discovered a mass grave containing the remains of many dozens of human corpses lying upon a large rudimentary stone structure. Forensic experts and archaeologists were called on the site, which was revealed to be a Mongolian royal tomb from the 13th century that the scientists believe to be Genghis Khan’s.
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amazing. I am wondering if they blocked or diverted the river, constructed the tomb, killed the workers then unblocked the river letting it flow over the burial site
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Be careful Anon, they're might be Finns out ther. :)
. They're reading this right now. Judging, smirking, analyzing. They care nothing about the actual meaning or fun of writing, but care everything about whether you used that semi-colon correctly. While we -- perhaps inappropriately -- call them Grammar Nazis, the Finns have a much more fitting name: "pilkunnussija."
[NY Times] But the approval comes as some consumers are questioning the safety of genetically engineered crops and demanding that the foods made from them be labeled. Ballot initiatives calling for labeling were rejected by voters in Oregon and Colorado this week, after food and seed companies poured millions of dollars into campaigns to defeat the measures. Not that many consumers, since the initiatives were rejected by the voters. There's probably a judge somewhere who'll ban them though.
The question now is whether the potatoes â which come in the Russet Burbank, Ranger Russet and Atlantic varieties â will be adopted by food companies and restaurant chains. At least one group opposed to such crops has already pressed McDonaldâs to reject them. Who knows what a genetically modified potato might do? They might be carnivorous1
Genetically modified potatoes failed once before. In the late 1990s, Monsanto began selling potatoes genetically engineered to resist the Colorado potato beetle. But the market collapsed after big potato users, fearing consumer resistance, told farmers not to grow them. Simplot itself, after hearing from its fast-food chain customers, instructed its farmers to stop growing the Monsanto potatoes. "What happened to Bob?"
"His french fries ate him!"
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Coming from the hashish-potato thread, I'm not sure what the problem is here.
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(Sigh) Every potato that exists has been modified from the original, which was poisonous. Farmers up in Fort Morgan grow potatoes for Frito-Lay that are specifically modified for french fries. They're not necessarily "genetically modified", but they're still not the same as "ordinary" potatoes. The Peruvian Potato Institute has more than 15,000 different varieties.
All of this crap about "genetically modified foods will kill you" will be moot if we're really sitting on the edge of a mini-ice age (or the real thing!), and we have to modify crops to grow in cooler climates in order to feed ourselves. The fear-mongers among us should have their ankles broken - just below the chin.
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[LAHT] A 15-year-old Chilean remains in critical condition after trying to take a selfie on a high-voltage transmission tower, police officials said Friday. Oh, man. Don'tcha just hate when that happens?
The accident occurred in the village of Tiltil, north of Santiago, where the teenager climbed up the tower, leaned an arm on a power line and was blasted with a strong electric shock. "Hey, y'all! Watch what happens when I do this! Aaaaiiieee!"
The boy was taken with severe injuries to San Jose Hospital in Santiago, where his prognosis is uncertain according to medical authorities, who added that he has burns over 40 percent of his body. Knew a guy once -- a lineman for a power company -- who lost both arms at the shoulders. If he'a been there I'll betcha he'd have suggested El Intellecto not do dat.
At the time of the accident, the teen was with five friends between ages 13-15. Shouldn't have been drinking beer, then.
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[Telegraph] As signs emerge of progress in the battle against Ebola, medics' eyes are on 'R-naught' - the virus's 'Reproductivity Ratio', a vital factor in controlling the epidemic
Is west Africa turning the corner in the fight against Ebola? On Wednesday, the World Health Organisation reduced its estimate of the number of fatalites from the virus, saying that there had been more than 400 fewer deaths than previously thought in Sierra Leone. Last week, meanwhile, the WHO said it was seeing a decline in the virus's spread in Liberia, the worst-affected country so far, with a fall in the numbers admitted to clinics for treatment.
Health experts stress that it's too early yet to be optimistic. The fall in deaths in Sierra Leone, for example, is due to a new method of recording and analysing reported fatalities, which has always involved a degree of guesswork because of the havoc that Ebola has wreaked on health care systems. Such is the strain that many bodies are simply buried first without testing to see whether the cause of death was Ebola or another illness such as malaria.
Likewise, while Ebola clinics in Liberia are no longer having to turn away patients - some are now only half-full - aid workers believe that may be because Ebola sufferers are avoiding them altogether. Another explanation is that the drop may be a simple statistical "blip". This could be due either to the continuing lack of reliable statistics, or the possibility that the virus has encountered temporary - and random - bottlenecks in its spread.
Either way, though, there is one statistic that epidemiologists keep a very close eye on. This is the so-called Reproductive Ratio, the rate at which the virus passes from infected person to the next. Known as R0, or "R-naught", this is a basic measure of its infectivity. Ebola's current R0 value is between 1.7 and 2.0, which means that every ten people who become infected will probably pass the virus onto another 17-20 people before they either die or fight the virus off. The R0 value varies in different areas of west Africa, and is typically highest in places where health education messages have either not reached the community or are being ignored.
Luckily, Ebola's RO measure is actually relatively low compared to some other illnesses. Measles - a far more infectious disease - has an R0 value about 18, while a common cold has an R0 value of between two and three. This reflects the fact that while Ebola is highly lethal when it infects someone - at least 40 per cent of people usually die - the virus is actually quite poor at "host to host" transmission. Rather than being airborne, like the common cold, it is passed on only by bodily fluids, and even then, detergents such as chlorine or hand sanitiser will kill it off.
The aim of the epidemiologists is to reduce the R0 of the current Ebola outbreak to below 1.0 - at which point, the number of new cases for every set of existing ones should start to diminish. To do that, though, medics estimate that they will have to be able to put around 70 per cent of infected patients in clinical isolation. With the British and US militaries now building large number of new treatment clinics in both Sierra Leone and Liberia alike, that now looks like a possibility, provided that they can be staffed adequately. America's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention believes that if 70 per cent of infected people are in such isolation by late December 2014, then the epidemic will be over by January 20 of next year.
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One problem with the Reproductive Ratio: does it include the people who get Ebola, never get sick, and develop productive antibodies so they don't catch it again?
Veteran David Oclander's service didn't end when he left the front lines. The former colonel is a high school English teacher in a city where homicides outnumber U.S. troop killings in Afghanistan. 25 brownie points if you name the city right now. No peeking!! The headline? Oh, yeah...
An Indiana-raised son of an Argentine immigrant, Oclander had spent his adult life defending his nation. After the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, he spent most of the next two decades in the 82nd Airborne Division, rising through the officer ranks. He deployed twice to Iraq and once to Afghanistan. When he returned, he took an assignment planning future military missions on the Pentagon's Joint Staff.
One day in August 2011 a headline from Chicago caught his eye: "Boy, 13, Dead from Gunshot on Basketball Court." A week later, he read a story about another child in Chicago who had also been shot to death.
Oclander began to track homicides in Chicago. He compared the tallies of attacks on U.S. troops in Afghanistan that he received through his classified computer to the violent deaths in America's third-largest city.
"Chicago Homicides Outnumber U.S. Troop Killings in Afghanistan." Seems like we saw that at the 'burg, as well.
He wondered what he, a career soldier, could do. With his leadership skills, his commitment to fitness, and his experience in mentoring young soldiers, he thought he had a special set of skills for working in a classroom.
Oclander sent out his résumé to some of the country's largest charter school networks and public school systems. Your background is great, he was told, but do you have a teaching credential? Do you have classroom experience? When he said no, the universal response was thanks, but no thanks.
Unwilling to give up, Oclander tapped West Point's alumni network and connected with a fellow graduate in Chicago who ran a mentoring program. From him, Oclander learned that Illinois allows charter schools to hire teachers without credentials. The man urged Oclander to contact the Noble Network of Charter Schools. When Oclander got in touch with Noble's chief executive, Michael Milkie, he was invited for an interview.
"I don't have credentials. I don't have classroom experience," Oclander told Milkie at the outset. "If that's a deal killer, let me know and I won't waste your time."
"I hire talent," Milkie said. "I don't hire credentials." Which is, I suppose, a part of what's wrong with American schools.
Three months later, Oclander was teaching a course on leadership at a Noble school on Chicago's crime-ridden West Side. It didn't take long for students to learn that Mr. O wasn't like their other teachers. Junior Dennis Martir decided to show up the old soldier. Junior Dennis Martir challenged Oclander to a push-up contest. The competitor in Oclander couldn't resist.
Students around them counted. Martir pumped out forty. Oclander hit sixty.
A few days later, Oclander pulled Martir aside to ask whether he had ever thought about applying to a service academy. Martir said he was thinking of enlisting in the army to become a rank-and-file soldier, if he couldn't land a college scholarship.
Oclander explained that the academies provide a four-year college education for free, but they do require a five-year commitment to the armed forces upon graduation. "It sounds like the perfect combination for you," he said, urging Martir to apply for a weeklong summer program at West Point. Spoiler - the kid gets nominated to West Point.
Martir had picked up some of that skill on the streets and at home. But it was Oclander, he said, who taught him more than anyone else how to smash through barriers to achieve a goal that he hadn't even known existed 20 months earlier.
"He has made the impossible possible for me," Martir said a few days before his high school graduation.
As the two lunched at a Brazilian restaurant, Martir told Oclander he was inspired by his career in uniform as much as he was by what Oclander had to say. He looked over at Oclander and said, "When I'm done with being a soldier, I want to be like you. I want to find a way to keep serving my country." Not bad, for a kid from a dead-end Chicago neighborhood. Excerpted from For Love of Country: What Our Veterans Can Teach Us About Citizenship, Heroism, and Sacrifice by Howard Schultz and Rajiv Chandrasekaran (Knopf).
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[ARABNEWS] The Shoura Council on Saturday said it has not made any recommendation to lift the ban on female drivers in the Kingdom, contrary to a foreign press report.
An News Agency that Dare Not be Named report carried by international media outlets quoted an unnamed Shoura member as saying the king's advisory council recommended that the government lift the ban, on condition that only women over 30 be allowed to drive
and they would need permission from a male relative -- usually a husband or father, but lacking those, a brother or son.
"They would be allowed to drive from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday through Wednesday and noon to 8 p.m. on Thursday and Friday," said the report.
"The conditions also require that a woman driver wear conservative dress and no make-up, the official said. Within cities, they can drive without a male relative in the car, but outside of cities, a male is required to be present," it said.
It added that a "female traffic department" would have to be created to deal with female drivers if their cars broke down or they encountered other problems, and to issue fines.
It supposedly recommended the female traffic officers be under the supervision of the "religious agencies."
"The council placed heavy restrictions on interactions between female drivers and male traffic officers or other male drivers, and stiff penalties for those who broke them. Merely speaking to a female driver, it said, was punishable by a one-month prison sentence and a fine," the report further said.
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Oncor, which runs Texas' largest power line network, is willing to bet battery technology is ready for wide-scale deployment across the grid.
In a move that stands to radically shift the dynamics of the industry, Oncor is set to announce Monday that it is prepared to invest more than $2 billion to store electricity in thousands of batteries across North and West Texas beginning in 2018.
The Dallas-based transmission company is proposing the installation of 5,000 megawatts of batteries not just in its service area but across Texas' entire grid. That is the equivalent of four nuclear power plants on a grid with a capacity of about 81,000 megawatts.
Ranging from refrigerator- to dumpster-size, the batteries would be installed behind shopping centers and in neighborhoods. NIMBY's gathering now.
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How to they plan to keep from losing them to the scrap metal 'salvagers?'
batteries would be installed behind shopping centers Lots of room for charging panels on the roof.
The upside is a more favorable view for wind and solar alternatives, down to residential sources.
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Commercial roofs aren't built to hold large weights.
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the panels are on the roof - what needs to happen is to orient them to the PM sun so they add to the grid at higher need, rather than AM hours when it's cooler, less AC need
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Read the headlines; thought is was gonna be about up-armoring the border.....
[An Nahar] The Vatican on Saturday removed the former archbishop of St. Louis, Raymond Leo Burke, from a key post following his criticism of the pope.
Burke, who is the seniormost American prelate in the Vatican, said in an interview earlier that many Catholics felt that the "Church was like a ship without a rudder."
Burke was stripped of the headship of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, the highest judicial authority in the church, and instead named as patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, an honorific post.
Burke was replaced as cardinal prefect of the tribunal by Dominique Memberti, a Frenchie, a Vatican statement said.
Britannia's Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher replaced Memberti as Secretary (Relations with States) of the Secretariat of State, equivalent to the Vatican's foreign minister. He was previously Apostolic Nuncio to Australia.
Burke ruffled feathers in December 2013 by questioning Pope Francis' liberalizing attitude towards towards divorce, remarriage and homosexuality.
He was however invited by the pope in October to attend a synod where he fiercely opposed any change in the Church's stance on these and other sensitive social issue.
The spiritual leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics had called for the Church to take a more merciful approach to unmarried mothers, remarried divorcees and gays, famously saying of homosexuals, "Who am I to judge?"
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There may be many things involved in the choices here. I have no idea what's actually going on, but I know the MSM's reporting on religion is generally junk.
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Amateur. Jarrett would have had him "disappeared."
WASHINGTON (AyPee) — Newly released emails show Attorney General Eric Holder said that Justice Department prosecutors who were critical of the department's handling of the fallout of the Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal could "kiss my ass." Keeping it classy.
Operation Fast and Furious was a botched effort by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to track firearms across the Southwest border. Revelations about it created a political firestorm, leading to congressional investigations and turnover within the ATF and Justice Department. "ATF Botched effort" was the damage control story.
The Justice Department selectively provided a batch of emails this week to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The Associated Press obtained the emails on Friday. This man should be wearing prison orange for about the next ten years. I pray they nail him properly, along with everyone else associate with cartel gun running.
Yet for some reason we cannot search government backups of email servers with similar ease.
Law enforcement officials nationwide now have the ability to search multiple sensitive databases, including spy agency intranets and homeland security suspicious activity reporting – with a single login.
The breakthrough in interconnectivity is expected to close information gaps that, among other things, have contributed to the rise in homegrown terrorism and school shootings.
"Let's say you have a lone-wolf incident or an active-shooter incident, where you need to be able to securely share information in a timely way. With a single sign-on capability, there is no wrong door," Kshemendra Paul, program manager for the Information Sharing Environment at the Office of Director of National Intelligence, said during an interview. "If you have an account, you can get to the virtual command center that the fusion center may be using – in a very direct way."
It took about three years to tear down silos without eroding privacy controls.
"In many cases, the data sources have different access requirements – so you can do a federated query that goes across the multiple sources, but with controlled access," Paul said Thursday.
That means some users still will be blocked from seeing certain information.
"For example, to access criminal intelligence information you have to have special training around privacy, civil rights and civil liberties," Paul said. So, for users without that training, some search results will be out of reach, he said.
"It's always a balance between sharing and safeguarding," Paul said. "We are increasing security by introducing more consistent identity proofing and the ability to enforce policies to control access to information."
The databases now accessible through a single sign-on include the Homeland Security Information Network, a key exchange between state-run intelligence fusion centers and the federal government, as well as the Justice Department's Regional Information Sharing Systems, which tracks local crime and gang activity.
Also available are the intelligence community's internal networks, collectively described as "Intelink," and the FBI's Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal, the gateway to background check data, facial recognition tools and other criminal records. The four networks are each labeled sensitive but unclassified.
Many of the systems are not searchable through a single query – yet. But that's the next step.
Right now, querying Intelink will retrieve some results from the law enforcement portal, but it's not possible, for instance, to bring up hits across all four networks with one search entry.
The new arrangement is expected to save taxpayer money over the long run. "What we're doing here isn't building something new," Paul said. "We're interconnecting existing systems. That's a really cost-effective way to go."
That streamlining, however, could expedite the flow of false or protected information that harms innocent people, some privacy advocates said in reaction on Friday.
"These systems often include unreliable information about supposedly suspicious activity that is protected by the First Amendment and entirely innocuous," American Civil Liberties Union attorney Hugh Handeyside. "Law enforcement officials have themselves raised privacy concerns about these systems. Making that information available to more people, with greater ease, erodes our privacy while doing nothing to make us safer."
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.
[LAHT] A 15-year-old Chilean remains in critical condition after trying to take a selfie on a high-voltage transmission tower, police officials said Friday.
As the two lunched at a Brazilian restaurant, Martir told Oclander he was inspired by his career in uniform as much as he was by what Oclander had to say. He looked over at Oclander and said, "When I'm done with being a soldier, I want to be like you. I want to find a way to keep serving my country." 
[An Nahar] The Vatican on Saturday removed the former archbishop of St. Louis, Raymond Leo Burke, from a key post following his criticism of the pope.
