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Riding bikes is more popular than ever in America — but entitled, enraged drivers keep targeting cyclists, and some are fighting back in the deadliest way possible | |
Submitted at 11-10-2021, 03:25 PM by nocash | |
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India Walton won the Democratic primary fair and square. Then the man she beat teamed up with the party establishment—and Republican donors—to take her down. | |
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Ivy Love Getty, the great granddaughter of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, tied the knot in style this weekend.
The 26-year-old artist and model married photographer Tobias Alexander Engel in a star-studded ceremony in San Francisco's City Hall over the weekend.
The extravagant fête was attended by actress Anya Taylor-Joy — the bride's maid of honor — as well as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who officiated the ceremony, according to Vogue.
"It's just like everything I could have dreamed of and more," Getty — the daughter of musician John Gilbert Getty, who died last November — told the outlet. "So it's wild when something so magical comes true because you've thought about it but didn't actually think it would. Miracles happen." | |
Submitted at 11-09-2021, 09:30 PM by Forensic | |
In a recent Twitter thread, the famed audio engineer owned the ugly parts of his past — years of offensive music, statements and posts — and said his generation needs to talk about how culture has changed | |
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Pentagon says enabling kingdom to buy US-made, air-to-air missiles would ‘improve the security of a friendly country’.
The sale comes months after President Joe Biden said he would end US support for Saudi Arabia’s “offensive operations” in Yemen, including “relevant arms sales”.
The sale does not require congressional approval, but lawmakers can block the deal by passing a disapproval bill in the Senate and the House of Representatives.
The missile sale follows the US approval of a $500m helicopter maintenance deal for the kingdom in September. | |
Submitted at 11-09-2021, 08:01 PM by sleeppoor | |
A man was caught on camera setting fire to the temporary memorial outside of Orlando’s Pulse nightclub, a site meant to remember the lives lost in the 2016 massacre.
OnePULSE foundation posted video of the Oct. 12 incident on Facebook this weekend hoping that someone would recognize him.
Surveillance cameras recorded a man in a wheelchair stopping in front of the memorial outside of the LGBTQ+ nightclub, 19212 S Orange Ave., around 8:30 p.m. He starts a fire in the memorial’s offering wall, and once the flames begin to spread, he leaves and crosses the street. | |
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Law enforcement has taken little action over threats to election officials. Reuters tracked down 9 of the harassers. All admitted sending threats. Most were unrepentant. | |
Submitted at 11-09-2021, 07:25 PM by sleeppoor | |
Women are inciting straight men toward displays of jealousy, aggression, and the "tragedy of heterosexuality," for lols. | |
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Group used Telegram to plot violent acts at demonstrations against the green pass. | |
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In an attempt to exclude real estate investors from parts of the Amsterdam housing market, the municipality wants to make it mandatory for homeowners to live in the home they own if it is worth 512,000 euros or less. The municipality intends to introduce this purchase protection for the entire city as soon as possible, NOS reports. | |
Submitted at 11-09-2021, 04:40 PM by sleeppoor | |
Just after the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School, NRA leaders agonized over what to do. NPR obtained recordings of the calls, which lay out how the NRA has handled mass shootings ever since. | |
Submitted at 11-09-2021, 03:33 PM by OldBoringGuy | |
Former Quantum Leap star Dean Stockwell, an Oscar- and Emmy-nominated actor whose career on stage, in film and TV spanned more than 70 years, passed away in the early morning of November 7. | |
Submitted at 11-09-2021, 08:27 AM by sleeppoor | |
Just days before workers at three Starbucks stores in the Buffalo area were scheduled to begin voting on unionization, both labor and management took steps that reflect the high stakes involved, including an attempt by Starbucks on Monday to delay the election.
No corporate-owned Starbucks stores in the United States are unionized. Since workers at the three locations filed petitions in August seeking to affiliate with a union, the company has brought in officials from out of state — including managers and its president of retail for North America — to address problems at stores in the area.
The union filed a charge with the National Labor Relations Board last week accusing the company of unlawfully “engaging in a campaign of threats, intimidation, surveillance, solicitation of grievances and the closing of facilities” during the election campaign.
On Saturday afternoon, Starbucks closed stores in the area so workers could attend a talk by Howard Schultz, the company’s largest individual shareholder and its former chief executive, at a local hotel...
Some workers who attended Mr. Schultz’s talk were confused by a story he told about the Holocaust, in which he noted that only a small portion of prisoners in German concentration camps received blankets but often shared them with fellow prisoners.
“So much of that story is threaded into what we have tried to do at Starbucks is share our blanket,” Mr. Schultz said, according to the transcript. | |
Submitted at 11-09-2021, 03:03 AM by sleeppoor | |
A metallurgist in Washington state pleaded guilty to fraud Monday after she spent decades faking the results of strength tests on steel that was being used to make U.S. Navy submarines.
Elaine Marie Thomas, 67, of Auburn, Washington, was the director of metallurgy at a foundry in Tacoma that supplied steel castings used by Navy contractors Electric Boat and Newport News Shipbuilding to make submarine hulls.
From 1985 through 2017, Thomas falsified the results of strength and toughness tests for at least 240 productions of steel — about half the steel the foundry produced for the Navy, according to her plea agreement, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma. The tests were intended to show that the steel would not fail in a collision or in certain “wartime scenarios," the Justice Department said.
There was no allegation that any submarine hulls failed, but authorities said the Navy had incurred increased costs and maintenance to ensure they remain seaworthy. The government did not disclose which subs were affected. | |
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So far, the University of Austin's accreditations consist solely of gathering a group of the nation's loudest contrarians. | |
Submitted at 11-09-2021, 12:29 AM by Xiphias | |
The transition to daylight saving time (DST) is beneficial for energy conservation but at the same time it has been reported to increase the risk of cerebrovascular and cardiovascular problems. Here, we evaluate the effect of the DST shift on a whole spectrum of diseases—an analysis we hope will be helpful in weighing the risks and benefits of DST shifts. Our study relied on a population-based, cross-sectional analysis of the IBM Watson Health MarketScan insurance claim dataset, which incorporates over 150 million unique patients in the US, and the Swedish national inpatient register, which incorporates more than nine million unique Swedes. For hundreds of sex- and age-specific diseases, we assessed effects of the DST shifts forward and backward by one hour in spring and autumn by comparing the observed and expected diagnosis rates after DST shift exposure. We found four prominent, elevated risk clusters, including cardiovascular diseases (such as heart attacks), injuries, mental and behavioral disorders, and immune-related diseases such as noninfective enteritis and colitis to be significantly associated with DST shifts in the United States and Sweden. While the majority of disease risk elevations are modest (a few percent), a considerable number of diseases exhibit an approximately ten percent relative risk increase. We estimate that each spring DST shift is associated with negative health effects–with 150,000 incidences in the US, and 880,000 globally. We also identify for the first time a collection of diseases with relative risks that appear to decrease immediately after the spring DST shift, enriched with infections and immune system-related maladies. These diseases’ decreasing relative risks might be driven by the documented boosting effect of a short-term stress (such as that experienced around the spring DST shift) on the immune system. | |
Submitted at 11-08-2021, 10:50 PM by Forensic | |
The 2021 anti-vax crossover nobody asked for | |
Submitted at 11-08-2021, 10:45 PM by Forensic | |

Riding bikes is more popular than ever in America — but entitled, enraged drivers keep targeting cyclists, and some are fighting back in the deadliest way possible
India Walton won the Democratic primary fair and square. Then the man she beat teamed up with the party establishment—and Republican donors—to take her down.
Ivy Love Getty, the great granddaughter of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, tied the knot in style this weekend.
The 26-year-old artist and model married photographer Tobias Alexander Engel in a star-studded ceremony in San Francisco's City Hall over the weekend.
The extravagant fête was attended by actress Anya Taylor-Joy — the bride's maid of honor — as well as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who officiated the ceremony, according to Vogue.
"It's just like everything I could have dreamed of and more," Getty — the daughter of musician John Gilbert Getty, who died last November — told the outlet. "So it's wild when something so magical comes true because you've thought about it but didn't actually think it would. Miracles happen."
In a recent Twitter thread, the famed audio engineer owned the ugly parts of his past — years of offensive music, statements and posts — and said his generation needs to talk about how culture has changed
Pentagon says enabling kingdom to buy US-made, air-to-air missiles would ‘improve the security of a friendly country’.
The sale comes months after President Joe Biden said he would end US support for Saudi Arabia’s “offensive operations” in Yemen, including “relevant arms sales”.
The sale does not require congressional approval, but lawmakers can block the deal by passing a disapproval bill in the Senate and the House of Representatives.
The missile sale follows the US approval of a $500m helicopter maintenance deal for the kingdom in September.
A man was caught on camera setting fire to the temporary memorial outside of Orlando’s Pulse nightclub, a site meant to remember the lives lost in the 2016 massacre.
OnePULSE foundation posted video of the Oct. 12 incident on Facebook this weekend hoping that someone would recognize him.
Surveillance cameras recorded a man in a wheelchair stopping in front of the memorial outside of the LGBTQ+ nightclub, 19212 S Orange Ave., around 8:30 p.m. He starts a fire in the memorial’s offering wall, and once the flames begin to spread, he leaves and crosses the street.
Law enforcement has taken little action over threats to election officials. Reuters tracked down 9 of the harassers. All admitted sending threats. Most were unrepentant.
Women are inciting straight men toward displays of jealousy, aggression, and the "tragedy of heterosexuality," for lols.
Group used Telegram to plot violent acts at demonstrations against the green pass.
In an attempt to exclude real estate investors from parts of the Amsterdam housing market, the municipality wants to make it mandatory for homeowners to live in the home they own if it is worth 512,000 euros or less. The municipality intends to introduce this purchase protection for the entire city as soon as possible, NOS reports.
Just after the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School, NRA leaders agonized over what to do. NPR obtained recordings of the calls, which lay out how the NRA has handled mass shootings ever since.
Former Quantum Leap star Dean Stockwell, an Oscar- and Emmy-nominated actor whose career on stage, in film and TV spanned more than 70 years, passed away in the early morning of November 7.
Just days before workers at three Starbucks stores in the Buffalo area were scheduled to begin voting on unionization, both labor and management took steps that reflect the high stakes involved, including an attempt by Starbucks on Monday to delay the election.
No corporate-owned Starbucks stores in the United States are unionized. Since workers at the three locations filed petitions in August seeking to affiliate with a union, the company has brought in officials from out of state — including managers and its president of retail for North America — to address problems at stores in the area.
The union filed a charge with the National Labor Relations Board last week accusing the company of unlawfully “engaging in a campaign of threats, intimidation, surveillance, solicitation of grievances and the closing of facilities” during the election campaign.
On Saturday afternoon, Starbucks closed stores in the area so workers could attend a talk by Howard Schultz, the company’s largest individual shareholder and its former chief executive, at a local hotel...
Some workers who attended Mr. Schultz’s talk were confused by a story he told about the Holocaust, in which he noted that only a small portion of prisoners in German concentration camps received blankets but often shared them with fellow prisoners.
“So much of that story is threaded into what we have tried to do at Starbucks is share our blanket,” Mr. Schultz said, according to the transcript.
A metallurgist in Washington state pleaded guilty to fraud Monday after she spent decades faking the results of strength tests on steel that was being used to make U.S. Navy submarines.
Elaine Marie Thomas, 67, of Auburn, Washington, was the director of metallurgy at a foundry in Tacoma that supplied steel castings used by Navy contractors Electric Boat and Newport News Shipbuilding to make submarine hulls.
From 1985 through 2017, Thomas falsified the results of strength and toughness tests for at least 240 productions of steel — about half the steel the foundry produced for the Navy, according to her plea agreement, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma. The tests were intended to show that the steel would not fail in a collision or in certain “wartime scenarios," the Justice Department said.
There was no allegation that any submarine hulls failed, but authorities said the Navy had incurred increased costs and maintenance to ensure they remain seaworthy. The government did not disclose which subs were affected.
So far, the University of Austin's accreditations consist solely of gathering a group of the nation's loudest contrarians.
The transition to daylight saving time (DST) is beneficial for energy conservation but at the same time it has been reported to increase the risk of cerebrovascular and cardiovascular problems. Here, we evaluate the effect of the DST shift on a whole spectrum of diseases—an analysis we hope will be helpful in weighing the risks and benefits of DST shifts. Our study relied on a population-based, cross-sectional analysis of the IBM Watson Health MarketScan insurance claim dataset, which incorporates over 150 million unique patients in the US, and the Swedish national inpatient register, which incorporates more than nine million unique Swedes. For hundreds of sex- and age-specific diseases, we assessed effects of the DST shifts forward and backward by one hour in spring and autumn by comparing the observed and expected diagnosis rates after DST shift exposure. We found four prominent, elevated risk clusters, including cardiovascular diseases (such as heart attacks), injuries, mental and behavioral disorders, and immune-related diseases such as noninfective enteritis and colitis to be significantly associated with DST shifts in the United States and Sweden. While the majority of disease risk elevations are modest (a few percent), a considerable number of diseases exhibit an approximately ten percent relative risk increase. We estimate that each spring DST shift is associated with negative health effects–with 150,000 incidences in the US, and 880,000 globally. We also identify for the first time a collection of diseases with relative risks that appear to decrease immediately after the spring DST shift, enriched with infections and immune system-related maladies. These diseases’ decreasing relative risks might be driven by the documented boosting effect of a short-term stress (such as that experienced around the spring DST shift) on the immune system.
The 2021 anti-vax crossover nobody asked for