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Friday, September 30, 2016

Avenge Her Family's Murder: Iraqi Grandmother 'Beheaded and Cooked' Isis Soldiers Heads

Liberated Iraqis are identifying defected Islamic State fighters

A gun-toting Iraqi housewife has boasted of beheading Islamic State (Isis) militants before boiling their heads in cooking pots.

Grandmother Wahida Mohamed Al-Jumaily says her brutal treatment of the extremists is to avenge the deaths of her two husbands, three brothers and her father who were killed by Isis.

It had all the trappings of a typical beauty contest: Contestants in evening gowns strutting before the judges, a talent portion, and of course, a sparkly tiara for the winning lady.

But the third annual Y+ Beauty pageant held in Kampala, Uganda, this past weekend also had some unusual features. All of the more than 150 competitors were HIV positive — the Y+ stands for "young person living with HIV/AIDS." Also, many of the participants were men — along with a Miss Y+ they crowned a Mr. Y+. Most important, says the organizer, Jacquelyne Alesi, however dashing the two winners happen to be, they were actually picked based on their "inner beauty."

At 9 years old, William Maillis is like a lot of other boys his age, enjoying video games, knock-knock jokes, sports and hanging out with friends. But William is no ordinary kid when it comes to academics.

In May, he graduated from high school and is now a college student already working on his own theories of how the universe was created.
Most other 9-year-olds are in fourth grade.

14,000-year-old Campsite In Argentina Adds To An Archaeological Mystery

Humans living in Argentina 14,000 years ago were hunting giant armadillos. This one looks especially grumpy.

For more than a decade, evidence has been piling up that humans colonized the Americas thousands of years before the Clovis people. The Clovis, who are the early ancestors of today's Native Americans, left abundant evidence of their lives behind in the form of tools and graves. But the mysterious pre-Clovis humans, who likely arrived 17,000 to 15,000 years ago, have left only a few dozen sources of evidence for their existence across the Americas, mostly at campsites where they processed animals during hunting trips. Now a fresh examination of one such campsite, a 14,000-year-old hunter's rest stop outside the city of Tres Arroyos in Argentina, has given us a new understanding of how the pre-Clovis people might have lived.

Father-of-Two Fatally Shot After Wine Tasting

A suburban father-of-two was fatally shot while leaving a wine tasting in Chicago’s Millennium Park Saturday following an alleged argument with another man, police confirm to PEOPLE.

While Peter Fabbri, 54, of Berwyn, Illinois, lay bleeding on the ground, his sister, Shelly Fabbri, chased down the suspect, who had jumped on a bike, helping police to bring him into custody, Peter and Shelly’s brother, Bruno Fabbri, tells PEOPLE, relaying Shelly’s account.

Israel Mourns Peres

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel on Wednesday mourned the death of Shimon Peres, a former president and prime minister whose life story mirrored that of the Jewish state, as the government began preparations for a funeral that is expected to bring together an array of world leaders and international dignitaries.

Peres, celebrated around the world as a Nobel Prize-winning visionary who pushed his country toward peace during a remarkable seven-decade career, died early Wednesday from complications from a stroke. He was 93.

Tulsa police officer Betty Shelby, identified as the officer who shot 40-year-old Terence Crutcher on Friday night, has offered her side of the story in the fatal encounter.

In dashcam and helicopter video released by police, Crutcher appears to have his hands up moments before he is shot by Shelby. Shelby's attorney, Scott Wood, maintains that Crutcher refused to follow more than two dozen commands and that he reached into the open window of the car before Shelby perceived a threat and shot him.

Tulsa Police Officer Arrested on Manslaughter Charges

Tulsa Police Officer Betty Shelby turned herself in early Friday after being charged with first-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of Terence Crutcher.

Shelby was booked this morning at the Tulsa County Jail at around 1 a.m. local time and was released on a $50,000.00 bond about 20 minutes later.

Shelby reacted "unreasonably by escalating the situation from a confrontation" with Crutcher, according to an affidavit by an investigator with the Tulsa County District Attorney's Office. Shelby became "emotionally involved" to the point that she overreacted, the affidavit states, adding that she was "not able to see any weapons or bulges indicating a weapon was present."

A man has been jailed for 100 years after he was caught on CCTV repeatedly throwing his three-year-old stepdaughter in a swimming pool, eventually causing her to drown. The incident on 12 August 2015, occurred at a hotel in the city of Morelia, in the south-western Mexican state of Michoacan.

In shocking surveillance footage, Jose David N. is seen on several occasions throwing the child who was unable to swim, into the water, leaving her scared and frantic.

Crack Apple iPhone 5c Passcode For Less Than $100

(Tech Xplore)—University of Cambridge computer scientist Sergei Skorobogatov has figured out a way to gain access to an Apple iPhone 5c without having its password. He has written a paper outlining the technique, which he uploaded to the arXiv preprint server and has posted a video demonstrating how it works on YouTube.

Earlier this year, it was widely reported that the FBI paid an unknown company $1 million to crack the password of an iPhone used by terrorists known as the San Bernardino shooters. Now it appears they could have saved a lot of money if they had contacted Skorobogatov instead—he has found a way to crack the password of an iPhone using off-the-shelf parts that cost under $100.

Cigarette butts.

Credit: Copyright American Heart Association

Smoking leaves its "footprint" on the human genome in the form of DNA methylation, a process by which cells control gene activity, according to new research in Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics, an American Heart Association journal.

The new findings suggest that DNA methylation could be an important sign that reveals an individual's smoking history, and could provide researchers with potential targets for new therapies.

Microsoft researchers in test achieve impressively low error rate for conversational speech recognition system — Credit: Microsoft

(Tech Xplore)—The languages that we speak: how pervasive will they be in the computing of tomorrow? We are often being told that we are getting closer and closer to computers understanding our words as easily as a human beside us.

Now Microsoft researchers have every reason to feel especially proud. According to reports, Microsoft has stepped in front in the race for supremacy in speech recognition.

Lima billboard captures attention of Ford engineer who has idea for cars as water sources — Ford’s prototype On-the-Go H2O system collects, filters and pumps water directly to a faucet hanging over the cupholders.

(Tech Xplore)—On-the-Go H20. It's a catchy rhyme but also a catchy idea hatched by an engineer at Ford. He has thought up an idea for an in-car water dispenser. No store-bought plastic bottles of water needed.

Condensation from vehicle air conditioners usually just drips to the pavement below. What if we did not let that go to waste?

(Tech Xplore)—A team of Japanese researchers with Keen Security Lab (part of Tencent Security) has demonstrated an ability to hack into the computer that controls some functions of a Tesla Model S and then to take over control of some of those functions. They have published a report of their findings on their company website and have posted a video on YouTube showing their efforts in action.

The researchers report that over the course of several months, they found a way to access at least one of the onboard computers used in Tesla vehicles and then to take control of some functions while the car was parked and while it was moving.

43 Goals In One Game?

Sometimes, a performance on the field is so bad that it’s criminal. That may quite literally be the case for a goalkeeper in the lower leagues of Germany.

No goalkeeper wants to see this happen 43 times

In a recent league game, SV Vonderort broke an undesirable record when it lost 43-0 to rival PSV Oberhausen.

According to German newspaper Express, SV Vonderort was down 35-0 at halftime – that must have been a fun team talk in the interval! – and at one point it was only able to field eight players. PSV Oberhausen was so embarrassed by its lead that it made the sporting gesture of removing three of its own players to even up the numbers.

Falun Dafa practitioners simulate organ harvesting in a mock Chinese labor camp to protest China's suspected abuse and killing of Falun Gong members, on April 23, 2006, in front of the Presidential Office in Taipei, Taiwan.

Imagine being abducted and whisked away to a cell where you spend the next several months or years without charge or conviction.

There, authorities torture you and force you to watch films designed to brainwash you in a bid to align your views with those of China’s ruling Communist Party.

Every now and then you are dragged from your filthy, overcrowded cell into a room where, without warning, needles are jabbed into your arm and blood is drawn into as many vials as it can fill.

Russia’s Su-35 fighter certainly has western defense outlets buzzing--and for good reason.

Moscow, despite heavy sanctions and an economy that has certainly seen better days, keeps pumping out new combat systems one after another--items like new tanks, submarines, nuclear weapons platforms and more.

While many were indeed designed and planned for ahead of the imposition of sanctions, Russia is clearly making a big effort to modernize its armed forces, especially its air force, and moving past older Soviet platforms. The Su-35 is a good example of such efforts.

No, Thanks. Enough Of Your Used Clothing

Noor Khamis / Reuters

A vendor sells secondhand cloths at a stall in the busy Gikomba market in Nairobi, Kenya, Sept. 18, 2014. Shaded by ragged squares of canvas, amid choking dust and the noise of hawkers, shoppers can turn up Tommy Hilfiger jeans or a Burberry jacket for a fraction of the price in London’s Regent Street or New York’s Fifth Avenue.

This article is part of HuffPost’s “Reclaim” campaign, an ongoing project spotlighting the world’s waste crisis and how we can begin to solve it.

Clearing your closet of last season’s gently worn clothes and donating them to an aid group probably makes you feel pretty good. After all, you may be helping someone in need and breathing life into items that might otherwise decompose in a landfill.
But a number of countries in East Africa are fed up with the onslaught of secondhand items they receive from Western nonprofits and wholesalers, and want to ban such imports altogether.

Suspect In New York, New Jersey Bombings Caught After Shootout

Bombing Suspect Rahami Was Found Sleeping in the Hallway of a Bar (ABC News)

Ahmad Khan Rahami, earlier named as a "person of interest" in the New York City and New Jersey bombings, was taken into custody and hospitalized this morning after a shootout with police in Linden, New Jersey, said Grace Park, acting prosecutor of Union County.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said there is "every reason to believe this was an act of terror."

Juniper (left) with her dad Tom and mom Kelley

Five years on, she has just started class as a healthy kindergartner.

“To call her a miracle is too simplistic,” says her proud mother, Kelley French, 42. “It was a miracle with a lot of moving pieces.”

Now, inspired by her daughter’s story, the journalism professor at Indiana University in Bloomington has co-written a memoir, “Juniper,” out now, with her Pulitzer Prize-winning husband, Tom French, 58. It chronicles the incredible fight of their micro-preemie, who arrived in the world one day shy of the viability threshold of 24 weeks.

FILE - In this June 5, 2015 file photo, a view of the Homeland Security Department headquarters in Washington.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government has mistakenly granted citizenship to at least 858 immigrants from countries of concern to national security or with high rates of immigration fraud who had pending deportation orders, according to an internal Homeland Security audit released Monday.

The Homeland Security Department's Inspector General found that the immigrants used different names or birthdates to apply for citizenship with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and such discrepancies weren't caught because their fingerprints were missing from government databases.

Picture of Maddox Lawrence taken from her GoFundMe Page

Not 2 years old, Maddox Lawrence knew heartache.

The toddler had struggled with a rare form of eye cancer — and survived. In fact, prosecutors told CBS affiliate WSTM that the attention she had been getting may have made her father jealous.

One weekend in February, Maddox went missing from her home in Upstate New York — she was last seen in a white shirt with brown puppies on it, pink pants, a teeny tiny coat and a knit hat decorated with pom-poms, authorities said at the time.

MUST READ: Stop Bathing! Medical Science

It is common believe that the more we shower, the cleaner

we get. That may be the case, but little did we know that frequent bathing, does way beyond “just cleaning”, but it strips the body of natural oils, and weakens the immune system. We vigorously lather up our bodies with soap, to kill any germs lingering on our skin, but rinsing off everyday, could lead to more bacteria than we started with.

President Muhammadu Buhari, ‎has on Thursday, September 15, maintained that his Ministers are not doing enough to manage Nigeria’s economy, advising all Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, to sit up and think outside the box in fixing the current economic challenges.

The President made this known, ‎while speaking at a Ministerial Retreat on the Economy and the Budget, at the State House Banquet Hall in Abuja.

Cape Breton is a small island at the eastern end of Nova Scotia. It features all four seasons, the population (as at 2001) is just under 150,000 and the community is true to its small town roots.

The Farmer's Daughter Country Market, a bakery and general store, is a staple of this hidden paradise and it is looking to expand. They have everything they need, except people.

After hiring all the qualified locals in need of a job, the business put out a nearly too-good-to-be-true call for help on Facebook.