[NYPOST] Members of the Stanford University women’s swim team wanted to write to the judge overseeing the Brock Allen Turner sex-attack case about his creepy behavior -- but were reportedly "pressured" by school officials not to speak out.
Not sure the judge could have used a letter from the swimmers, but if the school did 'pressure' the young women, that's clearly bad.
The team members say they weren’t shocked by the arrest of Turner, 20 -- a men’s-team swimming star -- and had steered clear of him due to sleazy comments he would make about their bodies, according to InTouch magazine.
"Brock’s arrest wasn’t surprising to anyone on the team," one woman told the magazine. "From the beginning, the women swimmers had found him to be very, very odd. Brock would make comments to the women such as ’I can see your tits in that swimsuit.’ "
One top competitor said she would never let herself be alone with Turner after observing his drunken antics at parties, the magazine reported.
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The A-10 Thunderbolt II, known as the "Warthog," recently seemingly destined for the scrapyard, is engaging Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Taliban forces in Afghanistan using a new weapon with a badass name: the Advanced Precision Black-Turban Seeking Kill Weapon System.
Manufactured by BAE Systems, the APKWS is equipped with laser-guided rockets, giving A-10 aircraft in Afghanistan a "deep magazine of high-precision weapons," according to Popular Mechanics.
One of the biggest advantages to using this system is the minimal collateral damage left when fired, which is a result of its tiny warhead.
It is also lighter, which allows the A-10 to carry 38 of these instead of the two 500-pound bombs it carried before.
According to a statement from BAE, the new kit transforms a standard unguided munition into a precision laser-guided rocket.
Though this is the first time the system has been employed on one of the Air Force's fixed-wing craft, BAE said it had proved "highly successful for the Navy and Marine Corps since 2012 and has also been used by US Army Apache helicopters in combat."
The Marine Corps started fielding the APKWS on AV-8B Harriers, while the Army outfitted AH-64 Apaches with it.
The upgrade also fits the Pentagon's desire for more plug-and-play systems, which can be retrofitted to existing craft and technology. To install the APKWS on a Warthog, all you have to do is remove the rocket's nose cone, attach the new guidance section, and screw the nose cone back on.
[Huffpoo] The world’s population is moving into urban centers at a dizzying pace.
An estimated 66 percent of people will live in cities by 2050. And as the number of residents swell, urban boundaries will expand into the territory of other densely populated areas until entire regions coalesce into super-metropolises, author Parag Khanna posits in his new book Connectography. D.C. is already sucking the life out of the rest of the country. I'll be long gone by 2050, enjoy !
Khanna calls these areas "megacities." While that term is usually used to describe individual cities with populations over 10 million -- of which there are dozens around the world, including New York, Mexico City, Beijing and Mumbai -- Khanna writes that megacities shouldn’t just be defined by how many people they hold.
He sees future megacities not as individual entities but as clusters linked by advanced infrastructure systems. These clusters, he says, would be major drivers of economic growth.
"We should spend time building cities that are viable, connected and stable," Khanna told The Huffington Post. "It’s about improving livelihoods and infrastructure, and building a path to stability."
In Connectography, which was published in April, Khanna says 40 of these interconnected megacities will form in the next decade, with many concentrated in fast-growing regions in Asia.
In the map below, some of these potential megacities are marked by dotted lines. For instance, there’s "Abu-Dubai," a merging of the cities Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. In Japan, there’s "Tokyo-Osaka."
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Mega cities suck the resources out of everywhere else. They are not sustainable. They are vulnerable to the loss of water, electricity, and sanitation. Lose water for 3 days and the city will have to be evacuated. Think about it.
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Khanna paints a nice picture but, unless there are jobs for all the people who live in these cities they, the reality will be more like megaslums. There has to be more to attract people to these urban areas than subsidized housing, readily available heroin and EBT cards.
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Deaths now exceed births in Japan. The outer villages are emptying. What population will move into a Tokyo-Osaka megacity?
New York City's growth fell last year to 0.6%, while the population of the rest of the state fell. And like Japan, the state's population is aging. I don't think New York City will be contributing much longer to this future Boston-Baltimore megacity corridor. But it's a pretty projection, one that dates back to the 1970s.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A Swedish woman has allegedly forced two Afghan boys to have sex with her on camera in a refugee home where the two were kept, it has been reported.
The boys also claim that the woman threatened them with deportation if they refused to have sex with her, according to the local newspaper, Eskilstuna Kuriren.
The source further added that the woman was encouraging the boys to film the sexual scene to watch it and call her with they missed her.
The woman has rejected the allegations against her but the newspaper which has achieved the films has reported that the acts and the perpetrator can be clearly identified.
The two boys have been identified as Omid and Tariq but the identity of the woman who is currently investigated for the offence has not been disclosed.
"The boss at the home forced us into it and exploited us for sex. She knew we had to, and that nobody would help us," one of the boys quoted in a report by MailOnline said.
The boys claim they had sex with the woman on four or five occasions, at a hotel and in her own home in the Sörmland region.
On one occasion all three were in bed together, they say, but mostly one of the boys had sex with the woman while the other filmed.
This is the first time reports have emerged regarding the alleged sexual abuse of the Afghan boys by a Swedish woman although numerous incidents involving sexual abuse of women and girls by the migrants colonists have emerged from parts of the Europe providing asylum protection to the refugees.
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A woman in Pakistan was arrested for allegedly throwing acid on a man who refused to marry her, police said Friday, marking an unusual case in a country where rates of violence against women are high.
Local police official Bashir Ahmed said the 32-year-old woman, Monil Mai, was arrested Thursday, hours after she attacked her boyfriend Sadaqat Ali when he went to her home in the Mukhdoom Rashid neighborhood of Multan, a city in central Pakistan.
Ahmed said that Mai had been having an affair with Ali for several years. She wanted him to marry her so that she could divorce her husband, he said.
Ali was being treated at a hospital in Multan, in the eastern Punjab province, Ali said.
Acid attacks and other so-called honor crimes against women are not unusual in Pakistan, but women are rarely the perpetrators of such attacks.
"It is a rare incident in which a woman has been accused of throwing acid on a man," said Zohra Yusuf, who heads the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. She urged the government to take steps to stop the sale of acid to unauthorized persons.
"There is a need to make checks on the availability of acid to common people to prevent such future attacks against men or women," Yusuf said. Acid is easily available at markets in many parts of Pakistan, although the government says it was tightening controls to stop illegal sale of chemicals. When women are attacked by men: Meh.
When men are attacked by women: Shit just got real. Would I be a bad person if I shipped five gallon jugs of acid to the local wimmins rights groups in Pakiwakiland?
[DAWN] MULTAN: Police on Thursday incarcerated Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! a 36-year-old woman in Multan for throwing acid on a man allegedly for refusing her marriage proposal.
According to police, the woman reportedly threw acid on a 24-year-old youth after calling him at her house on Wednesday night.
Investigations reveal that the woman was angry at the victim for allegedly refusing her marriage proposal and expeditiously departed at a goodly pace after committing the crime. She was, however, arrested on Thursday, police said.
The acid attack victim received 50 per cent burns and was shifted to Nishter Hopsital where police recorded his statement.
The victim's father claims that the woman is already married and has four children but still wanted to marry his son.
Between 150 and 400 cases of acid attacks are reported in Pakistain every year.
As many as 80 per cent of the victims are women, and almost 70 per cent are below 18. Such attacks are not aimed at killing the victim but to cause disfigurement, and often cause blindness, hearing loss and physical and mental pain.
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[DAWN] UPPER DIR: Two women were rubbed out over a petty issue in Kalkot area here on Wednesday, police and local people said.
They said Rahmat Ali group and Gul Bahadar group clashed over a minor feud in Kalkot locality, in which the wife and mother of Gul Bahadar, resident of Reman Kas, were killed.
The Kalkot police said they had registered an FIR against Rahmat Ali and his brothers, but no one was jugged You have the right to remain silent... as yet. Meanwhile, ...back at the buffalo wallow, Standing Buffalo drew a bead on his old enemy and squeezed the trigger... the Upper Dir police claimed to have arrested 16 suspected persons, including three proclaimed offenders, and recovered arms from their possession during a search and strike operation in various areas of Kohistan ...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns.... Talking to Dawn, DPO Syed Israruddin Bacha said Kohistan circle DSP Murad Khan led the action, adding three pistols, six magazines and 75 cartridges were recovered from the suspects.
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[DAWN] Drinking very hot coffee and other drinks "probably" causes cancer of the oesophagus, a UN agency said on Wednesday, but lifted suspicion from a cup at "normal serving temperatures".
For some types of cancer, there were hints that coffee might even be beneficial, said the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) -- but not if consumed hotter than 65 degrees Celsius.
A review of over 1,000 studies concluded that drinking "very hot" beverages was "probably carcinogenic to humans", said the agency.
"It doesn’t matter what the liquid is. What matters is the temperature," said epidemiologist Dana Loomis, who took part in the review of the world’s most popular hot drinks.
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Studies show drinking beverages hotter than 373 degrees Kelvin may cause blistering and inability speak.
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65C = 150F. How hot was the Mickey D's coffee that caused such a stir a few years back? Is McDonald's trying to kill people? Are they targeting the Tea Party? Is Soros funding it?
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120F will scald the skin off of your bones. Anyone drinking anything at 150F has more to worry about than cancer.
Memory loss in Alzheimer's patients has been reversed with a tailor-made combination of diet, medication and and lifestyle changes, scientists claim.
A small study of 10 patients found they all showed improvements in their memories within the first few months - and increasingly so over a two-year period, for some.
Some patients taking part had stopped working, or been struggling with their jobs at the time they joined the study.
All have since been able to return to their jobs or continue working, with improved performance.
The findings, published in the journal Aging, claim to be the first to suggest memory loss in patients can be reversed, and improvement sustained.
The treatment involved a complex, 36-point therapeutic programme, combining comprehensive diet changes, brain stimulation, exercise, sleep optimisation, specific drugs and vitamins, and other steps affecting brain chemistry.
No single drug has been found to stop or even slow the progression of Alzheimer's, while drugs have only had modest effects on symptoms.
The new research was a collaboration between the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and the UCLA Easton Laboratories for Neurodegenerative Disease Research.
Study leader Dr Dale Bredesen hopes it could pave the way for the first effective treatment for the disease since it was first described more than 100 years ago.
He said his approach is personalised, tailored to each individual patient - and is based on extensive testing to help determine the best therapies for each patient's brain.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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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
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The A-10 Thunderbolt II, known as the "Warthog," recently seemingly destined for the scrapyard, is engaging Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Taliban forces in Afghanistan using a new weapon with a badass name: the Advanced Precision 
[Huffpoo] The world’s population is moving into urban centers at a dizzying pace.
