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Love it, so true!
the "Headline That Caught My Attention or the WTF" thread
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Minneapolis police officer's OnlyFans account prompts investigation but mayor has 'no issue' with nude photos
The Minneapolis Police Department has launched an investigation into one of its officers after a citizen reportedly recognized the officer from OnlyFans.
www.foxnews.com
Theses articles keep coming up. Is it against policy for folks to do this in their spare time?
I think courts will need to spell this out, and / or organizations will need to be more specific in their policies. It is in the "public view" but on a subscription basis. I don't know.
The Minnesota Police Officers Standards and Training Policy reads, "Peace officers shall not, whether on or off duty, exhibit any conduct which discredits themselves or their agency or otherwise impairs their ability or that of other officers or the agency to provide law enforcement services to the community."
The investigation could also include seeing if the account violates the Minnesota Law Enforcement Code of Ethics, which states officers must "keep private life unsullied as an example to all."
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As follow up, the attorney read my post and is using my argument.
Donald Trump committed ‘repeated’ fraud by inflating real estate value, New York judge rules
Former president and his businesses are found liable in attorney-general’s civil lawsuitwww.ft.com
Let's not look at the "Trump" word and become unhinged. Please. I read the article and would like to comment.
Hypothetical - - I decide to refinance my personal residence for two reasons, one - to capitalize on a much lower interest rate, two - get some cash out for an investment. I truly believe LOL, that the house is worth $2M. Well, the bank hires an independent appraiser to come out and appraise my house for a value substantially lower. The bank provides a cash out in line with the appraisal.
This is EXACTLY what happened in this situation. The bank will not bring me up on charges. The DA will not be involved. And the courts will NOT seize my assets. Think about that..................the government seizing your assets.
The part about obtaining loans on "favorable terms" is insane! The entities DID NOT make the terms of the loan. The banks after their due diligence process presented a proposal and the entitles then decided whether to shop around for better terms. WE ALL shop around for better terms for everything in our lives.
Insurance fraud was mentioned. Interesting. If all the values were "vastly exaggerated", then he vastly overpaid on insurance premiums. Does that make sense?? NO!
Based on the complaint, and again I have not read the whole thing, there was NO evidence of a breach, default, late payment, etc.
So WHO was harmed? It appears nobody.
Again, stop getting unhinged about a name, in the end he is an American citizen. And the government went way over the line.
Lawyers for President Donald Trump argued that New York Attorney General Letitia James harbors bias against the former president in court on Monday.
Trump attorney Alina Habba highlighted that James began investigating Trump soon after she gained office in 2019, and that she promised voters during her campaign that she would "get Trump" if elected.
She went on to state that the Trump Organization's valuations of its own property were not fraudulent.
“The state of [Trump's] financial condition was undervalued," she stated.
Habba continued by saying that prosecutors would have Judge Arthur Engoron believe that if you listed your house at one price but it sold for a lower one, then you committed fraud.
Trump's defense team argued that Mar-a-Lago, Trump's Florida home, would sell for "at least" $1. billion, orders of magnitude above Judge Engoron's valuation of $18 million.
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Sign me up...............
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Helicopter Hunt: California residents horrified by plan to curb island's deer population: 'Violent and ugly'
Some residents of Santa Catalina Island, California, oppose a plan to use helicopter-mounted sharpshooters to curb the deer population that is devastating ecosystem.
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Awe poor little Bambi, just like in NY. Freaking people would rather them starve to death and not know about it than to do it humanly.Sign me up...............
Helicopter Hunt: California residents horrified by plan to curb island's deer population: 'Violent and ugly'
Some residents of Santa Catalina Island, California, oppose a plan to use helicopter-mounted sharpshooters to curb the deer population that is devastating ecosystem.
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They also become sick and spread diseases.
Interesting article, poor Molly Malone, AKA Dublin's Tart with the Cart!!
In the 1970s, soft-shell clams started mysteriously dying off in Maine and the Chesapeake Bay. Years later, scientists identified the culprit: a bizarre form of cancer that spread like an epidemic.
When people get cancer, it typically arises when some of their own cells gain mutations and multiply out of control. But the clams were being invaded by free-floating cells that came from other clams. The alien cancer cell multiplied inside its new victim, and then some of its descendant cells escaped to attack other clams.
Other species of shellfish turn out to be victims of contagious cancer as well. And now researchers have found that these lineages of cancer cells have been jumping from one shellfish to the next for centuries, perhaps even thousands of years, picking up a surprising number of telltale mutations along the way.
“It doesn’t seem biologically possible that these cancers are doing this,” said Adrian Baez-Ortega, a computational biologist at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in England and an author of one of two studies on the cancer published on Monday. “And yet they are long-lived.”
In 2015, researchers sequenced short pieces of DNA in cancer cells collected from soft-shell clams in Canada, Maine and New York. The genetic analysis showed that the cancer cells did not belong to the animals they came from. Instead, they were all related to each other, descending from a single ancestral cell.
Before then, researchers knew of contagious cancers only in two mammals: the Tasmanian devil and dogs.
The cancer in Tasmanian devils forms tumors on the marsupial’s face. When the animals bite each other during fights or mating, they can pick up the cancer cells. The disease has wiped out 90 percent of the entire species.
Dogs, in contrast, can acquire a fairly benign cancer that spreads during mating. The cells form growths around the genitals, and the dogs’ immune systems typically destroy the invaders in a matter of weeks.
The discovery of contagious cancers in soft-shell clams spurred a search in other shellfish. So far, scientists have published details on contagious cancer in eight more species, including mussels and cockles.
“More will be coming — more that we know of, and probably more that we don’t know,” said Michael Metzger, a biologist at the Pacific Northwest Research Institute in Seattle.
In recent years, Dr. Metzger and his colleagues have tried to catalog all the mutations that have arisen since the cancer cells left the original clam and became transmissible. Dr. Baez-Ortega and his colleagues carried out a similar study on the common cockle, which lives along the Atlantic coast of Europe.
Instead of sequencing tiny snippets of DNA from the cancer cells, the researchers sequenced the entire genomes as well as those of the animals. The scientists could then compare the DNA both from the animals’ healthy cells and from their diseased ones to find the hundreds of thousands of mutations that arose in the contagious cancers.
Certain cancer cells had mutations in common not found in other ones. That pattern revealed how they descended from a common ancestor, branching out in a family tree. In the soft-shell clams, Dr. Metzger’s team found that the tree has two branches, one leading to cancer cells around Prince Edward Island, and the other leading to those found off the Northeastern U.S. coast.
Dr. Metzger and his colleagues looked at the number of mutations that have accumulated in the different branches to estimate how long ago the original ancestral cancer cell broke free. They estimated it became contagious more than 200 years ago or perhaps a few centuries earlier.
Dr. Baez-Ortega and his colleagues concluded that the cockle cancers are similarly ancient, although they were unable to come up with an estimate. “They are probably thousands of years old,” he said.
In both species, the cancer likely started off as an immune cell that mutated and multiplied. Those cells were then shed into the water, taken up by another shellfish and grew like a cancer again. Eventually, the cancer cells gained mutations that allowed them to survive in the water for months before finding a new host.
Studies on Tasmanian devils and dogs have revealed that the DNA of their cancers has changed relatively little. That finding is not too surprising in the case of Tasmanian devils, which probably gained their cancer just 40 years ago. But dogs gained their cancer 11,000 years ago. And in all that time, the cancer cells have gained only modest changes to their genomes.
By contrast, in both clams and cockles, cancer cells have experienced repeated rounds of drastic change. Some cancer cells ended up with extra chromosomes — hundreds of them, in some cases. Some have lost long stretches of DNA. In other cases, the entire genome has been duplicated.
“This level of instability is usually lethal to a cancer cell,” Dr. Baez-Ortega said. Neither he nor Dr. Metzger can explain how the contagious cancers have survived for centuries in this state of genetic chaos.
Beata Ujvari, an evolutionary ecologist at Deakin University in Australia who was not involved in the study, said that the massive mutations might be explained by the way the contagious cancers reproduce. Instead of combining two sets of DNA from a shellfish egg and sperm, the cancers clone themselves.
In that way, they’ve become more like bacteria than animals. And like bacteria, they might try to beat their competition — other cancers — by mutating faster, Dr. Ujvari said. She noted that the new cockle study revealed that two different contagious cancers will sometimes invade a single animal.
Dr. Metzger hopes that by solving this puzzle, he and other scientists may be able to uncover some hidden rules of cancer that might apply not just to shellfish but to people.
It may be possible to zero in on the few parts of the genomes that have changed in the cancer cells to find new targets for drugs. He is also looking at the genomes of shellfish to see if they have evolved new ways to resist the invading cancer.
“Nature has basically run an enormous experiment,” Dr. Metzger said. If there’s a way that an animal has evolved resistance to cancer, I want to know what it is.”
Bizarre Cancer Has Been Spreading Among Shellfish for Centuries, Studies Find
The cancer likely started off as an immune cell that mutated, multiplied and adapted to survive in the water.In the 1970s, soft-shell clams started mysteriously dying off in Maine and the Chesapeake Bay. Years later, scientists identified the culprit: a bizarre form of cancer that spread like an epidemic.
When people get cancer, it typically arises when some of their own cells gain mutations and multiply out of control. But the clams were being invaded by free-floating cells that came from other clams. The alien cancer cell multiplied inside its new victim, and then some of its descendant cells escaped to attack other clams.
Other species of shellfish turn out to be victims of contagious cancer as well. And now researchers have found that these lineages of cancer cells have been jumping from one shellfish to the next for centuries, perhaps even thousands of years, picking up a surprising number of telltale mutations along the way.
“It doesn’t seem biologically possible that these cancers are doing this,” said Adrian Baez-Ortega, a computational biologist at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in England and an author of one of two studies on the cancer published on Monday. “And yet they are long-lived.”
In 2015, researchers sequenced short pieces of DNA in cancer cells collected from soft-shell clams in Canada, Maine and New York. The genetic analysis showed that the cancer cells did not belong to the animals they came from. Instead, they were all related to each other, descending from a single ancestral cell.
Before then, researchers knew of contagious cancers only in two mammals: the Tasmanian devil and dogs.
The cancer in Tasmanian devils forms tumors on the marsupial’s face. When the animals bite each other during fights or mating, they can pick up the cancer cells. The disease has wiped out 90 percent of the entire species.
Dogs, in contrast, can acquire a fairly benign cancer that spreads during mating. The cells form growths around the genitals, and the dogs’ immune systems typically destroy the invaders in a matter of weeks.
The discovery of contagious cancers in soft-shell clams spurred a search in other shellfish. So far, scientists have published details on contagious cancer in eight more species, including mussels and cockles.
“More will be coming — more that we know of, and probably more that we don’t know,” said Michael Metzger, a biologist at the Pacific Northwest Research Institute in Seattle.
In recent years, Dr. Metzger and his colleagues have tried to catalog all the mutations that have arisen since the cancer cells left the original clam and became transmissible. Dr. Baez-Ortega and his colleagues carried out a similar study on the common cockle, which lives along the Atlantic coast of Europe.
Instead of sequencing tiny snippets of DNA from the cancer cells, the researchers sequenced the entire genomes as well as those of the animals. The scientists could then compare the DNA both from the animals’ healthy cells and from their diseased ones to find the hundreds of thousands of mutations that arose in the contagious cancers.
Certain cancer cells had mutations in common not found in other ones. That pattern revealed how they descended from a common ancestor, branching out in a family tree. In the soft-shell clams, Dr. Metzger’s team found that the tree has two branches, one leading to cancer cells around Prince Edward Island, and the other leading to those found off the Northeastern U.S. coast.
Dr. Metzger and his colleagues looked at the number of mutations that have accumulated in the different branches to estimate how long ago the original ancestral cancer cell broke free. They estimated it became contagious more than 200 years ago or perhaps a few centuries earlier.
Dr. Baez-Ortega and his colleagues concluded that the cockle cancers are similarly ancient, although they were unable to come up with an estimate. “They are probably thousands of years old,” he said.
In both species, the cancer likely started off as an immune cell that mutated and multiplied. Those cells were then shed into the water, taken up by another shellfish and grew like a cancer again. Eventually, the cancer cells gained mutations that allowed them to survive in the water for months before finding a new host.
Studies on Tasmanian devils and dogs have revealed that the DNA of their cancers has changed relatively little. That finding is not too surprising in the case of Tasmanian devils, which probably gained their cancer just 40 years ago. But dogs gained their cancer 11,000 years ago. And in all that time, the cancer cells have gained only modest changes to their genomes.
By contrast, in both clams and cockles, cancer cells have experienced repeated rounds of drastic change. Some cancer cells ended up with extra chromosomes — hundreds of them, in some cases. Some have lost long stretches of DNA. In other cases, the entire genome has been duplicated.
“This level of instability is usually lethal to a cancer cell,” Dr. Baez-Ortega said. Neither he nor Dr. Metzger can explain how the contagious cancers have survived for centuries in this state of genetic chaos.
Beata Ujvari, an evolutionary ecologist at Deakin University in Australia who was not involved in the study, said that the massive mutations might be explained by the way the contagious cancers reproduce. Instead of combining two sets of DNA from a shellfish egg and sperm, the cancers clone themselves.
In that way, they’ve become more like bacteria than animals. And like bacteria, they might try to beat their competition — other cancers — by mutating faster, Dr. Ujvari said. She noted that the new cockle study revealed that two different contagious cancers will sometimes invade a single animal.
Dr. Metzger hopes that by solving this puzzle, he and other scientists may be able to uncover some hidden rules of cancer that might apply not just to shellfish but to people.
It may be possible to zero in on the few parts of the genomes that have changed in the cancer cells to find new targets for drugs. He is also looking at the genomes of shellfish to see if they have evolved new ways to resist the invading cancer.
“Nature has basically run an enormous experiment,” Dr. Metzger said. If there’s a way that an animal has evolved resistance to cancer, I want to know what it is.”
Former NFL Star Among 2 Dead in Plane Crash
The two people killed in an airplane crash at the Lake Placid Airport on Sunday have been identified as Russ Francis, a former NFL tight end who recently purchased the Lake Placid Airways scenic to…
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Liberal city mayor proposed increasing police budget — then protesters showed up at his house
Protesters marched to Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell's home after he proposed bolstering the police department's budget by more than $17 million to combat rising crime.
www.foxnews.com
Protesters marched to Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell's home Sunday afternoon, outraged over his proposal to add $17 million to the city's police budget next year.
"What better way to spend our Sunday than marching a bunch of amazing people up to Mayor Bruce Harrell's house and delivering him a birthday present?" one speaker said, according to KING 5. Harrell's birthday is later this month.
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75,000 union health care workers at Kaiser Permanente go on strike
A coalition of unions representing more than 75,000 health care workers at Kaiser Permanente went on strike Wednesday in a work stoppage spanning several states.
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Sam Bankman-Fried's criminal fraud trial set to launch — here's what to know
The criminal fraud trial against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried begins Tuesday, as prosecutors try to make their case against the former crypto king.
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'45 or more' kids in DC routinely steal from CVS, then 'stomp on' food and beverages as shelves remain empty
A group of roughly 45 kids routinely ransack a CVS in Washington, D.C., with many thieves taking the food and beverages and stomping on them outside, according to a Fox 5 report.
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Philly cheesesteak landmark takes drastic measures to protect shop from crime
Jim's West Steaks & Hoagies co-owner Victoria Wylie confirmed her restaurant hired armed security to protect its customers and staff amid a crime wave.
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Poet killed in post-wedding stroll with girlfriend in crazed knife attack: video
A 32-year-old environmental activist was fatally stabbed Monday by a stranger in New York City in front of his girlfriend after the pair attended a wedding.
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The 'Bond King' warns US consumers are headed down 'a death spiral'
Billionaire investor and 'The Bond King' Jeffrey Gundlach says economic indicators are "strongly suggestive" of a recession in the first half of next year.
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Men flood women's job fair after "lying" about being nonbinary
"I deeply apologize to those who did not have the experience they expected," said an official from the event's organizer.
www.newsweek.com
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Biden administration approves $9B in student loan forgiveness for an additional 125K borrowers
President Biden on Wednesday approved another $9 billion in loan forgiveness for 125,000 students who borrowed money to attend college, bringing the total canceled debt to $127 billion.
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Portuguese drivers take matters into their own hands with climate activists: Show ‘how it’s done’
Portuguese drivers stopped a climate change protest blocking the road on a Lisbon highway. The activists said they were protesting genocide from greenhouse gases.
www.foxnews.com
Finally handled properly.
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Homes are now unaffordable in 99% of the US for average Americans
Housing prices in 99% of U.S. counties are now more unaffordable than ever for the typical American, thanks to the astronomical rise in mortgage rates.
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Homes are now unaffordable in 99% of the US for average Americans
Housing prices in 99% of U.S. counties are now more unaffordable than ever for the typical American, thanks to the astronomical rise in mortgage rates.
I saw that, mortgage rates approaching a 27 year high.
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