A man who fell asleep face down in his food Friday night at a Putnam County restaurant got a rude awakening when police tapped on his shoulder, according to a the Cookeville Herald Citizen. "You ain't Garfield, beauzeau."
Restaurant staff at the Hardee's on Hickory Avenue in Cookeville, TN, called police after Bratten Hale Cook III, 32, fell asleep with his face planted in a plate of frites, as the French say, and ketchup. Must have been a mess.
Workers said Cook been dormant for about an hour. "Zzzzzz..."
Police said when they woke up Cook, he was so smashed he started eating his fries and didn't acknowledge the officers. And must have wondered why they were cold.
Officers took Cook outside the restaurant and charged him with public intoxication. "Book 'im!"
Cook received even more charges after police searched him and found poison hemp and prescription pills in his pocketses. Oops...
Cook was taken to Putnam County Jail. His court date is set for April 5.
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I once fell into the meat section of a WinnDixie attempting to retrieve the last of the decent Country Styles (not) Ribs. It was a shark jumping moment.
[An Nahar] An Italian hip hop artist has released a song entitled "Letter to the Pope" urging the Catholic world's new leader to reform the Church, allow people to divorce, accept gays and put an end to abuses.
Dino Dispenza or "Dydo" for short said just-elected Pope Francis seemed "nice" but the singer said he still wanted to "try and understand what he is going to do", speaking to the Italian news agency ANSA on Thursday.
Dydo starts out his song with a confession: "I admit I've never been a good Christian, I believe in God and not in the Church and the Vatican."
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[EXPRESS.CO.UK] Bojana Danilovic, 28, views everything the wrong way up because of a problem in the way her brain processes images.
The council worker has to read papers from the bottom up, uses an upside down computer screen and needs to work with topsy turvy forms in her job.
She said: "It may look incredible to other people but to me it's completely normal. I was born that way. It's just the way I see the world."
The economics graduate from Serbia, who has suffered from the condition since birth, relaxes at home by watching one TV balanced on its top while the rest of the family watch another.
Experts from Harvard University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say she is suffering from 'spatial orientation phenomenon.'
Ms Danilovic, who works in the Serbian town of Uzice, said "They say my eyes see the images the right way up but my brain changes them. But they don't really seem to know exactly how it happens, just that it does and where it happens in my brain. They told me they've seen the case histories of some people who write the way I see, but never someone quite like me."
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Experts from Harvard University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say she is suffering from 'spatial orientation phenomenon.'
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My computer can switch from one orientation to another using software, no need to rotate the physical device. Papers can be read in any orientation one chooses. Big deal.
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When I was in highschool (mid 70's) I saw a film about an experiment where the subject wore a special set of goggles which turned what he saw upside down.
After a few days (week?) of wearing them his brain changed it's processing so that the image would be right-side up again. And then when he stopped wearing the googles he again saw everything upside down until his brain, again, corrected it's processing.
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When I was in highschool (mid 70's) I saw a film about an experiment where the subject wore a special set of goggles which turned what he saw upside down.
They did the same experiment with baby chicks. Could tell exactly how the chicks' brains were interpreting the data by where they pecked for good and water. I had no interest in becoming a psychologist, but the intro psych textbook was chock full of interesting things like that.
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alright I'm confused.
If she goes out the door of her house each morning ... isn't she seeing the entire world upside down? If that's true, she must be used to it by now. So why does she need to invert her television???
[MAGHAREBIA] A Béchar court on Wednesday (March 13th) sentenced a former Algerian police commissioner to death for the 2010 premeditated murder of a female colleague, El Watan reported on Wednesday (March 13th).
Abdelkrim Boutrik, the ex-police chief in Adrar, cut the throat of 35-year-old police officer Cherifa Hadj Brahim.
The victim had "irrefutable evidence" of Boutrik's involvement in an alcohol trafficking network, prosecutors said.
"This killer deserves to be put to death at once. He killed an adorable girl who was loved by everyone in Adrar," one woman said outside the courthouse.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Even with a significant uptick in Tunisia's unemployment rate since the revolution, many sectors are complaining about a lack of manpower.
The employment ministry in December reported 653,000 jobless people. Parallel statistics confirm about 120,000 jobs remain unfilled, especially in the sectors of public works, agriculture, carpentry and services.
Yet despite rising wages and the influx of Tunisian workers returning from Libya, the country is seeing an unprecedented labour shortage, the Tunisian Centre for Monitoring and Business Intelligence (CTVIE) confirmed.
The CTVIE study released 5 months ago estimated a need for 55,000 workers in the textile sector, 13,000 in construction and public works, and 7,000 in mechanical and electronic industries.
Financing problems among some companies only exacerbate peoples' reluctance to enter the fields, said Taib Zekri, a member of the Executive Bureau of the National Federation of Building and Public Works (BTP) of the Tunisian Industry, Trade and Handicrafts Union (UTICA).
Employers also note the unwillingness of people to work in the construction and agriculture sectors.
According to farmer Habib Kilani, people feel the jobs he offers are too hard and the wages too low.
"I would have found it difficult this season to harvest olives if it were not for some housewives, despite hiking the pay up by about 25 dinars with working hours not exceeding eight per day," Kilani said.
Building contractor Ahmed Bouali suffers from the same problem. He said that young people today, even those who do not have advanced degrees, prefer administrative work over manual labour.
"Labour shortages are also due to many workers going to Libya, where construction workers can earn up to twice the wage in Tunisia," he told Magharebia.
Unemployed graduates refuse to engage in manual labour, he said, because they find such work unworthy.
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These sorts of problems all tend to wind up as due to insufficient compensation. If you pay them enough, they will come. If you pay peanuts, all you can get to work are monkeys, and even they have their standards.
[An Nahar] At least six people, including two soldiers, were killed when an armed gang attacked a village in strife-prone western Ivory Coast, an officer of the Republican Army (FRCI) said Thursday.
"An attack against the village of Zilebly overnight on Tuesday led to the death of six people, including two members of the FRCI," the officer said, asking not to be be named.
A local journalist said two soldiers and six civilians died. Both he and the army officer blamed assailants from Liberia, which lies just three kilometers (two miles) from the village.
"Calm is restored, but thousands of people have fled the area to take refuge in the nearby towns of Blolequin and Toulepleu," said the journalist, who went to the scene.
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A court in northern Kazakhstan has ordered Christian literature including Bibles to be destroyed, according to Oslo-based religious freedom watchdog Forum 18. One official has said the Bibles are likely to be burned.
The order to destroy religious books may be a first for Kazakhstan, said Forum 18. Last April, a legal order to destroy religious works, including a Bible, was annulled.
The latest order concerns 121 Bibles and other religious books and leaflets belonging to Vyacheslav Cherkasov, a Baptist from the town of Shchuchinsk. He recieved a fine of around $575 after being arrested for distributing religious literature.
In his defense, Cherkasov cited his rights under the constitution, but the court ruled that only two bookshops in Shchuchinsk are licensed to distribute religious literature. Last year local officials throughout Kazakhstan issued decrees authorizing only named, licensed bookshops to sell religious literature, Forum 18 said.
Cherkasov has filed an appeal, but if it fails the Bibles are likely to be burnt, Justice Ministry official Kulzhiyan Nurbayeva said.
Human rights campaigner Yevgeniy Zhovtis said, [T]his is terrible, terrible. We know that religious literature has frequently been confiscated since the new Religion Law came into force in 2011. But I've never heard that religious literature is being destroyed, unless it is extremist.
In October 2012 a deadline for religious groups to re-register under stringent new requirements expired. Approximately one-third of 4,551 religious organizations did not receive re-registration, leaving 3,088 operating. In the process, the number of faiths that Kazakhstan recognizes was slashed from 46 to 17. While a majority of Kazakhs are Muslims, there are large Christian populations.
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It's paper. So long as there's a single instance left, and paper and ink to recreate it, the Bible will live on. It's not like their pagan worship of the Koran, where they won't let it "see" naughty things and demand it be treated as if it were more than just poor quality, stained toilet paper.
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We Christians should start worldwide rioting, burning of buildings, and other mayhem.
Actually. I agree with Rob Crawford. The Bible is just paper and ink. It's the words that are important.
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WE should start burning Korans, it's fair.
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The answer is simple and as usual the answer is provided by the religion of pieces.
Just as Terry Jones was tried and sentenced in absentia do likewise to anyone connected with this case. Give them 20 years each and to spice things up give a reward of $1million to anyone who captures them dead or alive. Problem solved.
Maybe make an exemption for Borat.
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And then there comeths WORLD MILITARY FORUM > KIM JONG-UN SAID DURING A 2009 INTERVIEW THAT WHILE CHINA EFFECTIVELY PROTECTS HIM + REGIME, AT THE SAME TIME IT ALSO SPIES ON HIM.
* ION SAME > "NEW AMERICAN SECURITY CENTER" THINK-TABNK REPORT CLAIMS THAT CHINA CAN BUILD UP TO 1,227 OF THE LATEST DF-21D IMPROVED ASBMS FOR THE PRICE OF EVERY ONE NIMITZ-CLASS OR FORD-CLASS NUCLEAR CARRIER THE US BUILDS.
* TOPIX > [Bangkok Post] NORTH KOREA "LIKELY" TO LAUNCH ATTACK ON SOUTH THIS YEAR.
On a separate note, I suspect that China intends for DPRK to keep the JASDF + allied US TacAir preoccupied in a "Falklands II" or "Mig Alley II conventional war scenario. THIS WILL LEAVE THE PLA FREE TO FOCUS ON ATTACKING + OVERWELMING TAIWAN + SOUTH CHINA SEA REGIONS, TO INCLUDE POSSIBLY THE NORTHERN PHILIPPINES.
Guam + CNMI???
IMO the PLA will IDEALLY desire to mil confront any US intervening forces as far out in WESTPAC + CENTPAC as possible, rather than wait for US Milfors/Assets to arrive in-theater???
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I wonder how many of these it would take to destroy an extra high voltage transformer. Or would a simpler muzzle loading .50 cal slug available at Walmart do the job?
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The 6.5 is essentially a hotter version of the old reliable .243 Winchester round I hunted whitetails with back in Texas...
I killed a buck at 475 yards with a 100 grain .243...I suppose you could hop up the .243 and make it a flat shooting beast.
I kinda like this idea...
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There are two problems with the 6.5 mm Grendel. One problem is that it requires major changes on belt fed weapons to get it to feed. It has a real long neck and a quite short base. Army Ordnance doesn't want that expense and while the round works fine in the magazine fed AR, the military wants commonality with the least expense possible for the various belt fed weapons that use the 5.56 round. The other problem is named Alexander and his rather high licensing fees and prickly personality.
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Alexander claims that shooting a 123-grain Lapua Scenar with a ballistic coefficient of .547 and a muzzle velocity of 2,600 fps delivers outstanding accuracy out to 1,200 yards.
But a hotter version of the old reliable .243 Winchester? Not hardly.
I used to pick up free M-14 brass at the range, neck it down to .243 dia. and fire them at about 3900 ft./sec. (with an off the shelf Remington model 700).
Killing a deer at 475 yards, to me, is at least believable.
But Alexander with a custom made target rifle with a 28 inch barrel, and custom everything, cannot even push his muzzle velocity past 2800 ft./sec.
For Alexander to claim that the 6.5mm Grendel is a long range target round, (in AR anything), is to me, nothing more than a good reason for spewed coffee.
Granted the 6PPC is the premiere target round in the world for ranges up to 200 yds. But it falls off dramatically after 250 yds. Alexander has struggled to even match the the ballistics of the 6PPC.
The U.S. military has insisted for years that the 5.56 NATO has more than enough bullet energy for close combat and enough energy, out to 400 meters, to take any combatant off the field of battle.
With less than 1875 ft/lbs. of muzzle energy and reputed problems loading both magizine and belt fed weapons, I find it hard to believe the military could justify adopting the 6.5mm Grendel round.
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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A man who fell asleep face down in his food Friday night at a Putnam County restaurant got a rude awakening when police tapped on his shoulder, according to a the Cookeville Herald Citizen.
[An Nahar] An Italian hip hop artist has released a song entitled "Letter to the Pope" urging the Catholic world's new leader to reform the Church, allow people to divorce, accept gays and put an end to abuses.
[EXPRESS.CO.UK] Bojana Danilovic, 28, views everything the wrong way up because of a problem in the way her brain processes images.
[MAGHAREBIA] A Béchar court on Wednesday (March 13th) sentenced a former Algerian police commissioner to death for the 2010 premeditated murder of a female colleague, El Watan reported on Wednesday (March 13th).
[An Nahar] At least six people, including two soldiers, were killed when an armed gang attacked a village in strife-prone western Ivory Coast, an officer of the Republican Army (FRCI) said Thursday.
A court in northern Kazakhstan has ordered Christian literature including Bibles to be destroyed, according to Oslo-based religious freedom watchdog Forum 18. One official has said the Bibles are likely to be burned. 
