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Woman attacks police with cat and concrete rake
TO Orlando, Florida, where Lisa Frink, 46, (pictured) is accused of stabbing her boyfriend in the face and neck.
The report is worth repeating:
Frink ran out of the house and hid in a shed, according to police. Officers responded to the area but she refused to exit or show her hands, police said. When a police K-9 was ordered to apprehend Frink, police said she picked up a cat inside the shed and shoved it in the K-9’s face, police said.
Police said Frink then pushed an officer into the wall and began swinging a concrete rake at officers.
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The London Underground at 150 – The Tube’s history in photos
THE London Underground turns 150 today. The first stretch of the world-famous network opened on January 9 1863, with the first passenger journeys taking place the following day. The Tube is place where you can be kind, funny and utterly miserable:
In this photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, a commemorative sign detailing when the station was opened and refurbished, displayed at Baker Street underground station in London. The world’s first subway system marked its 150th anniversary Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013, with reports showing conditions way back when were much as they are today: Busy, congested and stressful for passengers.
The original artwork for the London Underground map which goes on display at the London Transport Museum, Covent Garden
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Posted: 9th, January 2013 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | Comment
Correction of 2013: West Wales is still not in England
CORRECTION of 2013. The Huffington Post:
Correction: An earlier version of this story mistakenly said that West Wales is located in England. In fact, it is located in Wales.
Ends.
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Face of the day: Saint John Bosco
FACE of the day: Saint John Bosco relics on display in Liverpool:
The relics of a 19th Century Italian Catholic priest, St John Bosco, noted for his work with the poor on the streets of Turin, on display inside Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathederal. They have been brought to the city as part of a world tour, which began in 2009 and culminates in 2015, the 200th anniversary of his birth. The UK tour began in Scotland and takes in Birmingham, London and Cardiff. Hundreds of pilgrims are expected to attend a Mass in Liverpool, which begins at 15:00 GMT. Peter Byrne/PA Wire
St. John Bosco is the Patron of Stage Magicians. His effigy is made of wax. Or is it..?
Tasmania bushfires: it’s not humanity and climate change – it’s just one careless man
FIRES are raging in Tasmania.Tony Young, who lives in Dunalley, tells media:
“The trees just went off. They were like firecrackers — flames 20ft or 30ft high. All I could do was drive to the other side of the road and look at the whole place being engulfed, just like in a movie.”
Andrew Jenkins told the Hobart Mercury:
“(Fire) came over the hill. The smoke was tremendous. There were a few spot fires and all of a sudden it was here.”
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Posted: 9th, January 2013 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
Jyoti Singh Pandey: Awindra Pandey’s testimony and the Gulabi gang
AFTER they had raped, stripped and tossed Jyoti Singh Pandey from a moving bus, her boyfriend, Awindra Pandey, stood naked in the road. His leg was broken. He’d been badly beaten. Awindra Pandey tried to flag down vehicles for help. For 20 minutes, he was ignored.
“I waved my hand to take help, but people were watching but didn’t stop. I tried so many cars, autos, bikes but no one helped me.”
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Curing amblyopia in old age: never stop trying
CAN you learn to be an expert at something in later life? Can you improve if you don’t start young? Gary Marcus notes:
Amblyopia is a visual disorder in which the two eyes don’t properly align; sometimes it’s called “lazy eye.” The standard medical advice is to treat your child early, by getting them to wear an eye patch over the good eye (in order to strengthen the weak one). If you don’t treat the problem early, you can just forget about ever fixing it. Just after my book went to press, however, Dennis Levi, the dean of the School of Optometry at Berkeley, conducted a brilliantly simple study that was easy to conduct, yet would have seemed like a waste of time to anybody steeped in critical-period dogma. Levi and his collaborator stuck eye patches on the good eye of adult amblyopics, aged fifteen to sixty-one, whom everyone else had written off on the presumption that they could not learn anything new. He then set his subjects down at a video game—a first person shooter called Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault, to be exact—and told them to have fun. Levi found that his subjects got better at virtually every aspect of visual perception he could measure. It wasn’t that it was too late for adults to overcome amblyopia, it was that the myth of critical periods had kept people from trying.
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1976: Action Comic makes Suicide Cool
1976: Action Comics makes suicide for kids. Read more of how Action Comics were the scourge of Fleet Street:
What are the most irritating words on the planet?
THERE are scores of people out there who just say anything that comes out of their mouths without thinking about it. This leads to people repeating annoying words and phrases over and over. YOLO? You wouldn’t live long if I were king. Tweeps? You should be flogged in a public square for that.
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Posted: 8th, January 2013 | In: Reviews | Comments (4)
Archbishop Sentamu spouts nonsense about being fair
PERHAPS I should take the pronouncements of an Archbishop of the Church of England all that seriously. I’ve never belonged to the denomination anyway and tend to view those who claim a special connection with the Sky Fairy with a jaundiced eye whatever denomination they come from.
But this really is a bit of a shocker:
Dr John Sentamu said that problems such as homelessness showed that it was time to reassess the basic values on which our society is based. He argued that it is clear that the British is “not happy” and that “fairer” countries such as China, Japan and Netherlands also have more contented populations.
Posted: 8th, January 2013 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
The bizarre case of online rapist Benjamin Ritchie
DERBY Crown Court. calls one Benjamin Ritchie, 35. He filmed himself having sex with a woman he met on Badoo dating site and used the tape to blackmail her.
He has pleaded guilty to rape and two counts of sexual assault.
Ritchie pretended to be a Russian woman called Marina.
Marina said her husband was a cheat who needed exposing. Marina asked the victim to go to her home and sleep with the cheat. She should also film the meeting. The victim, an engaged woman in her 20s, agreed. She went to Ritchie’s two-bedroomed home in Borrowash, Derbyshire. She met Richie. She liked him. The two began to hang out together. A short while later, Marina, now armed with the sex tape proof, told the the victim that she’d left her wayward husband.
Marina wanted to reward her online pal. She’d give her some cash. The victim agreed.
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Lead in petrol caused a crime wave in the West and makes her enemies kill each other
CRIME. It’s not about wealth, greed, capitalism, statism, Facebook, games or video nasties. It’s about lead. Geroge Mobbiot has read a Mother Jones article on lead poisning. He writes in the Guardian:
At first it seemed preposterous. The hypothesis was so exotic that I laughed. The rise and fall of violent crime during the second half of the 20th century and first years of the 21st were caused, it proposed, not by changes in policing or imprisonment, single parenthood, recession, crack cocaine or the legalisation of abortion, but mainly by … lead.
I don’t mean bullets. The crime waves that afflicted many parts of the world and then, against all predictions, collapsed, were ascribed, in an article published by Mother Jones last week, to the rise and fall in the use of lead-based paint and leaded petrol.
It’s ridiculous – until you see the evidence.
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Why Adam Lanza murdered only women: no male teacher brave enough for primary school
NOT many women at the US gun shows. Why? Waren Farrell writes below the headline: “Mass Shootings The Result of Abandoning, Abusing Boys“. Adam Lanza murdered women:
“For boys, the road to successful manhood has crumbled. In many boys’ journey from a fatherless family to an almost all-female staff elementary school such as Sandy Hook, there is no constructive male role model…There are few things a culture does as important as raising children. We can’t continue to fail half of them.”
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The Rocky Mountain Gun Show and Second Amendment fan clubs (photos)
AT the Rocky Mountain Gun Show:
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Why did Sara Ege beat ‘always smiling’ son for months before killing him?
SARA Ege, 33, beat her son, Yaseen, to death in 2010. She then burnt his body. Yaseen was 7. At Cardiff Crown Court, she’s been sentenced to life behind bars. Sara Ege was born in India. She wanted her son to be a hafiz. For that, he needed to learn the Koran off by heart.For three months, Sara Ege beat her son with a wooden pestle at the family home in Pontcanna, Cardiff.
The words of Peter Murphy, defending, are odd:
“It’s very easy to be critical of the amount of things Yaseen was doing, but that was the norm in the ethnic community she was from. You can see this from the number of other children who were doing Arabic and Koran classes. Yaseen grew up with it and he thoroughly enjoyed it.”
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Posted: 7th, January 2013 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
First Atheist church in UK opens
SINCE everyone decided religion was a really stupid idea, mainly because a bunch of left-leaning comedians said-so, and of course, various religions abused children, blew people up and cut off a load of foreskins, there’s been a lot of volume concerning the veracity of worship.
On one hand, we’ve got hooting zealots, the other, sneering know-it-alls… and the creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig…
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A teenager recalls the Moon Landing (in analogue)
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Posted: 6th, January 2013 | In: Flashback | Comment (1)
Is anyone still debating gun control?
IS anyone still debating gun control?
This is the num ber of times “gun control” has featured the news, according to Nexis.
One Twitter:
Nothing changes:
The rate of people killed by guns in the US is 19.5 times higher than similar high-income countries in the world. In the last 30 years since 1982, America has mourned at least 61 mass murders.
Meanwhile…in Loganville, Ga. — A woman hiding in her attic with children shot an intruder multiple times before fleeing to safety Friday.
The incident happened at a home on Henderson Ridge Lane in Loganville around 1 p.m. The woman was working in an upstairs office when she spotted a strange man outside a window, according to Walton County Sheriff Joe Chapman. He said she took her 9-year-old twins to a crawlspace before the man broke in using a crowbar.
But the man eventually found the family.
“The perpetrator opens that door. Of course, at that time he’s staring at her, her two children and a .38 revolver,” Chapman told Channel 2’s Kerry Kavanaugh.
The woman then shot him five times, but he survived, Chapman said. He said the woman ran out of bullets but threatened to shoot the intruder if he moved…
“My wife is a hero. She protected her kids. She did what she was supposed to do as responsible, prepared gun owner,” Donnie Herman said.
He said he’s thankful for his family’s safety.
Such are the facts…
Alabama’s Department of Homeland Security active shooter event training video
THERE are three things you can do if you find yourself in an Active Shooter Event in Alabams. You can:
Run
Hide
Fight
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School pastor stuck in handcuffs and mouth gag
WITH police to St. Aloysius church, Springfield, Illinois, affiliated with St. Aloysius School.
The cops have received a call from the rectory. Father Tom Donovan has told them:
“I’m going to need help getting out before this becomes a medical emergency.”
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Falklands Fake? Who were the Sun’s ‘furious Argies’ seen burning Union flags in Buenos Aires?
“ANGRY Argies burn a British flag in Buenos Aires yesterday after The Sun warned: ‘Hands off the Falklands’,” reports the Sun beneath the front-page headline: “Burn us Aires.”
A seething mob took to the streets to set fire to the Union Jacks — and copies of our full-page advert in a local paper.
The noble Sun had taken the out an advert in the English language Buenos Aires Herald. The stunt was in response to Argentine president Cristina Kirchner’s advert in the Guardian and Independent newspapers accusing Britain of “stripping” the Falklands from her country in an aggressive act of colonialism 180 years ago.
The Falklands Conflict in photos.
Said the Sun:
“Until the people of the Falkland Islands choose to become Argentinian, they remain resolutely British.”
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Posted: 5th, January 2013 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)
Face of the day: the London Zoo Annual Stocktake Barn Owl
FACE of the day: London Zoo Annual Stocktake – A Barn Owl pictured during London Zoo’s annual stock take, a requirement of their zoo license, which takes pace every January.
