Rick67
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The lottery is racist now. 'Stacked against you': Critics say the lottery system is preying on poor communities
the "Headline That Caught My Attention or the WTF" thread
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They've been saying that for years now...
Lovely
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Exclusive | I lived with my dead neighbor’s blood dripping into my apartment for 2 weeks
A Central Harlem woman’s living situation turned into a scene out of “The Shining,” with blood running down from her ceiling after her upstairs neighbor died and was left to rot f…
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wader
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Parker called the police, who found her 56-year-old neighbor’s lifeless body upstairs. The chief medical examiner’s office ruled the man died from natural causes, although police told Parker’s former gal pal they estimated he had been dead for “about three, four days” and his dog “had started to eat” the corpse.
An hour after workers finally came to remove the bloodied light fixture and clean up the stained wall on Thursday, Parker’s apartment inexplicably began flooding from the ceiling in the living room, bathroom and foyer, requiring a second visit for repairs.
WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!Lovely
Exclusive | I lived with my dead neighbor’s blood dripping into my apartment for 2 weeks
A Central Harlem woman’s living situation turned into a scene out of “The Shining,” with blood running down from her ceiling after her upstairs neighbor died and was left to rot f…
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Parker called the police, who found her 56-year-old neighbor’s lifeless body upstairs. The chief medical examiner’s office ruled the man died from natural causes, although police told Parker’s former gal pal they estimated he had been dead for “about three, four days” and his dog “had started to eat” the corpse.
An hour after workers finally came to remove the bloodied light fixture and clean up the stained wall on Thursday, Parker’s apartment inexplicably began flooding from the ceiling in the living room, bathroom and foyer, requiring a second visit for repairs.
I thought the same thing - he might have pulled too many G's in his dive and lost spatial orientation.
There are no black boxes on those old birds. tragic on many levels.
Can't keep losing the B-17's that still fly.
wader
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6 killed after vintage aircraft collide at Dallas air show
The in-air collision during the Wings over Dallas air show claimed six lives, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins tweeted Sunday, citing the county medical examiner. Authorities are continuing to work to identify the victims, he said. It was not clear if there were any injuries or fatalities on the ground. Dallas Fire-Rescue told The Dallas Morning News there were no reports of injuries there.
Victoria Yeager, the widow of famed Air Force test pilot Chuck Yeager and herself a pilot, was also at the show. She didn’t see the collision, but did see the burning wreckage.
“It was pulverized,” said Yeager, 64, who lives in Fort Worth.
“We were just hoping they had all gotten out, but we knew they didn’t,” she said of those on board.
The B-17, a cornerstone of U.S. air power during World War II, is an immense four-engine bomber used in daylight raids against Germany. The Kingcobra, a U.S. fighter plane, was used mostly by Soviet forces during the war. Most B-17s were scrapped at the end of World War II and only a handful remain today, largely featured at museums and air shows, according to Boeing.
Arthur Alan Wolk is a Philadelphia aviation attorney who flew in air shows for 12 years. After watching the air show video and hearing the maneuvers described as “bombers on parade,” Wolk told The Associated Press on Sunday that the P-63 pilot violated the basic rule of formation flying.
“He went belly up to the leader,” Wolk said. “That prevents him from gauging distance and position. The risk of collision is very high when you cannot see who you are supposed to be in formation with and that kind of joinup is not permitted.”
He added, “I am not blaming anyone and to the greatest extent possible, air shows, the pilots and the aircraft that fly in them are safe. Air shows are one of the largest spectator events in America and it is rare that a tragedy like this occurs.”
Wolk said it takes extensive training and discipline to fly in an air show setting. The air show qualifications of the P-63 pilot are not known.
6 killed after vintage aircraft collide at Dallas air show
Two historic military planes collided and crashed to the ground in a ball of flames during a Dallas air show, leaving six people dead, officials said. National transportation officials were investigating the cause of Saturday's collision, which came three years after the crash of a World War...
longcast
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Home heating oil prices top $6 a gallon; PSEG power charge also up
The average price for a gallon of heating oil on Long Island hit $6.07 a gallon for the week ending Nov. 7, a 61% jump from a year ago.
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wader
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Darwin strikes again................
What an idiot!
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Kaitlyn Alanis
Tue, November 15, 2022 at 7:27 AM
A 25-year-old man either jumped or climbed onto a moving 18-wheeler before starting to dance, authorities in Texas said.
But when the semitrailer traveling south on the Eastex Freeway passed underneath a bridge, the dancing man slammed into the overpass and was knocked off the vehicle, according to a Nov. 14 news release from the Houston Police Department. He landed on the freeway below.
First responders were called to the scene near the Tuam Street bridge at about 11:35 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 10.
The man was rushed to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, according to the news release.
Authorities said they believe the man might have been recording himself as he danced atop the truck. A video shared on Facebook shows the man dancing on the semitrailer before the fatal incident.
Police questioned and released the driver of the 18-wheeler. He was unaware someone had gotten on top of his truck, authorities said.
An investigation is ongoing.
What an idiot!
Dancing man on top of 18-wheeler slams into bridge and later dies, Texas police say
The man was knocked onto the freeway below, police said.
Dancing man on top of 18-wheeler slams into bridge and later dies, Texas police say
Kaitlyn Alanis
Tue, November 15, 2022 at 7:27 AM
A 25-year-old man either jumped or climbed onto a moving 18-wheeler before starting to dance, authorities in Texas said.
But when the semitrailer traveling south on the Eastex Freeway passed underneath a bridge, the dancing man slammed into the overpass and was knocked off the vehicle, according to a Nov. 14 news release from the Houston Police Department. He landed on the freeway below.
First responders were called to the scene near the Tuam Street bridge at about 11:35 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 10.
The man was rushed to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, according to the news release.
Authorities said they believe the man might have been recording himself as he danced atop the truck. A video shared on Facebook shows the man dancing on the semitrailer before the fatal incident.
Police questioned and released the driver of the 18-wheeler. He was unaware someone had gotten on top of his truck, authorities said.
An investigation is ongoing.
wader
Well-Known Angler
I don't get it. He looks like "a Walker" - how does he get these fabulous qoiman?
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Pete Davidson and Emily Ratajkowski are reportedly dating and the model has called him 'charming' and 'attractive' in the past
The "Saturday Night Live" star has been previously linked to other famous women, including Kim Kardashian and Kate Beckinsale.
If the wife want's a mink coat, here's a DIY opportunity!!
Officials in northwest Ohio have cleared dead mink from a highway and are warning residents that the hungry animals could seek out their pets and livestock for meals, after some 10,000 of the sleek creatures escaped from a farm on Tuesday.
The owner of the Lion Farms USA mink farm in Hoaglin Township, which is about 150 miles north of Cincinnati and near Ohio’s border with Indiana, told the Van Wert County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday morning that someone had broken into the farm and opened cages that held somewhere between 25,000 to 40,000 mink.
Sheriff Thomas Riggenbach of Van Wert County said that by Tuesday afternoon, farm employees had corralled most of the mink, but he advised residents that there were still about 10,000 mink unaccounted for.
“I don’t know that there is a significant threat to people, per se,” Sheriff Riggenbach said in an interview on Wednesday, but he added that they could attack other small animals and livestock. “I don’t want to encourage people to approach them and try to capture them on their own.”
Van Wert County is a flat, rural area with many farms. The mink farm can be seen from highway U.S. 127, which was littered with dead mink on Wednesday morning, the sheriff said.
“We had to have our department of transportation come out this morning to assess the highway road condition because of the number of animals that had been killed by traffic, and get the roadway cleaned off to avoid having any safety issues that way,” Sheriff Riggenbach said.
His office has advised residents who are concerned about mink on their property to contact a nuisance trapper, who has the equipment and experience to safely recapture the creatures. Residents can also hunt the mink if they are on their own property.
Sheriff Riggenbach said that the loose mink might attack livestock and pets, including chickens, ducks and fish. “Typically these animals would be fed on a routine with in the facility, and now they are going to be trying to figure out feeding themselves,” the sheriff said.
The sheriff said that it was not realistic that all the mink would ever be accounted for and that on Wednesday morning there were likely less than 10,000 on the loose, because some had been trapped, killed or corralled.
The sheriff said officials were investigating who had released the mink.
Mark Flint, the head of the Zoo and Wildlife Conservation Medicine, Ecosystem Health and One Welfare program at Ohio State University, said mink would only attack humans “out of fear” and did not pose a disease risk.
Mink are carnivores and Dr. Flint said in an email that introducing a large number of them to the environment as winter approaches, when resources are dwindling, could “be of detriment to the local environment.”
“These are domesticated animals that have been fed daily, housed and cared for,” Dr. Flint said. “Now they have been made to fend for themselves as our temperatures drop to the 20s, at a time when food availability is low. It will likely, sadly, result in high death rates of these animals.”
Mink farms have been targeted by animal rights activists for decades. In the United States, mink farms sell most of their product abroad because the domestic market for the fur is so small. Luxury brands including Burberry, Chanel and Ralph Lauren have banned fur.
During the coronavirus pandemic, these farms have been under new scrutiny from scientists concerned that coronavirus infections in mink could harbor the virus long term or be a potential source for new variants. Congress is considering a ban on mink farming.
In late 2020, Denmark ordered the culling of its entire mink population because of concerns that a mutated version of the coronavirus that had infected mink could make vaccines less effective in people. In July, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark apologized to the country’s mink farmers after a report blamed top officials for mishandling the cull.
In the United States, at least four people in Michigan were infected with a version of the coronavirus observed mostly in mink, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in April.
The manager of the mink farm in Van Wert County, Eddie Meyer, could not be reached for comment on Wednesday.
Mr. Meyer told WPTA21, a local news station, that the farm would have to shoot and kill any recaptured minks because they were susceptible to disease once outside of their cages. He said he believed the Animal Liberation Front, an animal-rights activist group, was responsible for the release, because the words “ALF We’ll be back” were spray-painted on the farm, he said.
The North American Animal Liberation Press Office, which relays messages from the Animal Liberation Front about its actions, said in a news release on Tuesday that it had not received a claim for the Ohio mink release, but noted two similar actions in Ohio and Michigan this month.
About 10,000 Mink Are Running Loose in Northwest Ohio
The Van Wert County sheriff said a local highway had to be cleared of dead mink and warned residents not to try to capture the animals on their own.Officials in northwest Ohio have cleared dead mink from a highway and are warning residents that the hungry animals could seek out their pets and livestock for meals, after some 10,000 of the sleek creatures escaped from a farm on Tuesday.
The owner of the Lion Farms USA mink farm in Hoaglin Township, which is about 150 miles north of Cincinnati and near Ohio’s border with Indiana, told the Van Wert County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday morning that someone had broken into the farm and opened cages that held somewhere between 25,000 to 40,000 mink.
Sheriff Thomas Riggenbach of Van Wert County said that by Tuesday afternoon, farm employees had corralled most of the mink, but he advised residents that there were still about 10,000 mink unaccounted for.
“I don’t know that there is a significant threat to people, per se,” Sheriff Riggenbach said in an interview on Wednesday, but he added that they could attack other small animals and livestock. “I don’t want to encourage people to approach them and try to capture them on their own.”
Van Wert County is a flat, rural area with many farms. The mink farm can be seen from highway U.S. 127, which was littered with dead mink on Wednesday morning, the sheriff said.
“We had to have our department of transportation come out this morning to assess the highway road condition because of the number of animals that had been killed by traffic, and get the roadway cleaned off to avoid having any safety issues that way,” Sheriff Riggenbach said.
His office has advised residents who are concerned about mink on their property to contact a nuisance trapper, who has the equipment and experience to safely recapture the creatures. Residents can also hunt the mink if they are on their own property.
Sheriff Riggenbach said that the loose mink might attack livestock and pets, including chickens, ducks and fish. “Typically these animals would be fed on a routine with in the facility, and now they are going to be trying to figure out feeding themselves,” the sheriff said.
The sheriff said that it was not realistic that all the mink would ever be accounted for and that on Wednesday morning there were likely less than 10,000 on the loose, because some had been trapped, killed or corralled.
The sheriff said officials were investigating who had released the mink.
Mark Flint, the head of the Zoo and Wildlife Conservation Medicine, Ecosystem Health and One Welfare program at Ohio State University, said mink would only attack humans “out of fear” and did not pose a disease risk.
Mink are carnivores and Dr. Flint said in an email that introducing a large number of them to the environment as winter approaches, when resources are dwindling, could “be of detriment to the local environment.”
“These are domesticated animals that have been fed daily, housed and cared for,” Dr. Flint said. “Now they have been made to fend for themselves as our temperatures drop to the 20s, at a time when food availability is low. It will likely, sadly, result in high death rates of these animals.”
Mink farms have been targeted by animal rights activists for decades. In the United States, mink farms sell most of their product abroad because the domestic market for the fur is so small. Luxury brands including Burberry, Chanel and Ralph Lauren have banned fur.
During the coronavirus pandemic, these farms have been under new scrutiny from scientists concerned that coronavirus infections in mink could harbor the virus long term or be a potential source for new variants. Congress is considering a ban on mink farming.
In late 2020, Denmark ordered the culling of its entire mink population because of concerns that a mutated version of the coronavirus that had infected mink could make vaccines less effective in people. In July, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark apologized to the country’s mink farmers after a report blamed top officials for mishandling the cull.
In the United States, at least four people in Michigan were infected with a version of the coronavirus observed mostly in mink, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in April.
The manager of the mink farm in Van Wert County, Eddie Meyer, could not be reached for comment on Wednesday.
Mr. Meyer told WPTA21, a local news station, that the farm would have to shoot and kill any recaptured minks because they were susceptible to disease once outside of their cages. He said he believed the Animal Liberation Front, an animal-rights activist group, was responsible for the release, because the words “ALF We’ll be back” were spray-painted on the farm, he said.
The North American Animal Liberation Press Office, which relays messages from the Animal Liberation Front about its actions, said in a news release on Tuesday that it had not received a claim for the Ohio mink release, but noted two similar actions in Ohio and Michigan this month.
wader
Well-Known Angler
I don't like the sound or the idea of this.
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For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration has cleared lab-grown meat, created from cultured animal cells, for human consumption, the agency announced on Wednesday.
The FDA green light applies only to chicken products made by Upside Foods, a California-based company founded in 2015, though in its announcement the FDA said it is ready to work with other firms that are developing cultured animal cell food.
The company can begin selling its product after inspection and label approval by the Department of Agriculture. Upside makes cell-cultivated meat using biopsies from living animals as well as “recently slaughtered animals who were already a part of the food system.” It expects these cells to be capable of indefinitely self-renewing, with the goal of eventually phasing out all animal components.
An Upside spokesperson said in an emailed statement to Yahoo News that the company is “thrilled” by the FDA’s “historic announcement.”
“Cultivated meat has never been closer to the U.S. market than it is today,” the spokesperson said.
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more at the link
FDA clears lab-grown meat for human consumption
Chicken created using cultured animal cells was given the green light by the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday, bringing lab-grown meat one step closer to consumers.
FDA clears lab-grown meat for human consumption
For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration has cleared lab-grown meat, created from cultured animal cells, for human consumption, the agency announced on Wednesday.
The FDA green light applies only to chicken products made by Upside Foods, a California-based company founded in 2015, though in its announcement the FDA said it is ready to work with other firms that are developing cultured animal cell food.
The company can begin selling its product after inspection and label approval by the Department of Agriculture. Upside makes cell-cultivated meat using biopsies from living animals as well as “recently slaughtered animals who were already a part of the food system.” It expects these cells to be capable of indefinitely self-renewing, with the goal of eventually phasing out all animal components.
An Upside spokesperson said in an emailed statement to Yahoo News that the company is “thrilled” by the FDA’s “historic announcement.”
“Cultivated meat has never been closer to the U.S. market than it is today,” the spokesperson said.
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more at the link
I’m not eating that ? crapI don't like the sound or the idea of this.
FDA clears lab-grown meat for human consumption
Chicken created using cultured animal cells was given the green light by the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday, bringing lab-grown meat one step closer to consumers.
FDA clears lab-grown meat for human consumption
For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration has cleared lab-grown meat, created from cultured animal cells, for human consumption, the agency announced on Wednesday.
The FDA green light applies only to chicken products made by Upside Foods, a California-based company founded in 2015, though in its announcement the FDA said it is ready to work with other firms that are developing cultured animal cell food.
The company can begin selling its product after inspection and label approval by the Department of Agriculture. Upside makes cell-cultivated meat using biopsies from living animals as well as “recently slaughtered animals who were already a part of the food system.” It expects these cells to be capable of indefinitely self-renewing, with the goal of eventually phasing out all animal components.
An Upside spokesperson said in an emailed statement to Yahoo News that the company is “thrilled” by the FDA’s “historic announcement.”
“Cultivated meat has never been closer to the U.S. market than it is today,” the spokesperson said.
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more at the link
Wouldn't be holding my breath waiting. Tissue culture is extraordinarily expensive and technical. We're decades away, if not centuries, for the price to be anywhere close to even the latest, highly inflated ones...
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