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Baby goat rescued after at least four days stranded on Hawaii cliff
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So-called nurse was a serial impersonator hired by at least two SoCal hospitals, officials say
Los Angeles Times (ghostarchive.ph)
By Clara Harter
2024-11-15 02:49:39GMT
Los Angeles Times (ghostarchive.ph)
By Clara Harter
2024-11-15 02:49:39GMT
A woman has been arrested on suspicion of impersonating a registered nurse and overseeing the care of some 60 patients at a Burbank hospital, authorities said.
Burbank police detectives say it wasn’t the first time that Amanda Leeann Porter, 44, of Virginia, pretended to be a nurse.
Prior to the incident at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center, Porter posted bail and was released from the custody of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department on suspicion of committing a similar offense at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Santa Clarita, according to the Burbank Police Department.
Burbank police detectives said they learned during their investigation that Porter had obtained employment with various local hospitals using a variety of false identities.
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office filed felony charges of identity theft, false impersonation and grand theft against Porter, according to Burbank police.
She was arraigned Wednesday and is being held at L.A. County Central Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood — this time without bail, detectives said.
Porter worked at Providence Saint Joseph from April 8 to May 8, during which time she received two paychecks, detectives said. Hospital staff contacted the Police Department in May after discovering Porter was impersonating a real registered nurse who lived out of state, detectives said.
Porter is also on federal probation for a fraud violation in Virginia, detectives said.
In 2017, a woman named Amanda Porter-Eley pleaded guilty to impersonating a nurse and committing bank fraud in Virginia, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
The Burbank Police Department would not confirm whether Amanda Leeann Porter and Amanda Porter-Eley are the same person, citing the ongoing investigation. However, their ages match, and in prior court filings Amanda Porter-Eley’s name is also listed as Amanda L. Porter.
Porter-Eley was found guilty of impersonating a registered nurse in Virginia and working for six months as a nursing supervisor without the required licenses, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. At the time, the nurse she was impersonating was living out of state in New York, prosecutors said.
Beginning in September 2015, Porter-Eley used the nurse’s stolen identity to open multiple bank accounts and obtain more than $450,000 in cash, loans, goods and services, including at least three vehicles and one property, according to the Justice Department. She continued to use the false identity until her arrest in 2016 and caused more than $120,000 in losses to banks and retailers.
Porter-Eley also pleaded guilty to opening bank accounts using other people’s Social Security numbers, thereby obtaining nearly $50,000 in worthless checks, according to the Justice Department.
Burbank police detectives say it wasn’t the first time that Amanda Leeann Porter, 44, of Virginia, pretended to be a nurse.
Prior to the incident at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center, Porter posted bail and was released from the custody of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department on suspicion of committing a similar offense at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Santa Clarita, according to the Burbank Police Department.
Burbank police detectives said they learned during their investigation that Porter had obtained employment with various local hospitals using a variety of false identities.
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office filed felony charges of identity theft, false impersonation and grand theft against Porter, according to Burbank police.
She was arraigned Wednesday and is being held at L.A. County Central Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood — this time without bail, detectives said.
Porter worked at Providence Saint Joseph from April 8 to May 8, during which time she received two paychecks, detectives said. Hospital staff contacted the Police Department in May after discovering Porter was impersonating a real registered nurse who lived out of state, detectives said.
Porter is also on federal probation for a fraud violation in Virginia, detectives said.
In 2017, a woman named Amanda Porter-Eley pleaded guilty to impersonating a nurse and committing bank fraud in Virginia, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
The Burbank Police Department would not confirm whether Amanda Leeann Porter and Amanda Porter-Eley are the same person, citing the ongoing investigation. However, their ages match, and in prior court filings Amanda Porter-Eley’s name is also listed as Amanda L. Porter.
Porter-Eley was found guilty of impersonating a registered nurse in Virginia and working for six months as a nursing supervisor without the required licenses, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. At the time, the nurse she was impersonating was living out of state in New York, prosecutors said.
Beginning in September 2015, Porter-Eley used the nurse’s stolen identity to open multiple bank accounts and obtain more than $450,000 in cash, loans, goods and services, including at least three vehicles and one property, according to the Justice Department. She continued to use the false identity until her arrest in 2016 and caused more than $120,000 in losses to banks and retailers.
Porter-Eley also pleaded guilty to opening bank accounts using other people’s Social Security numbers, thereby obtaining nearly $50,000 in worthless checks, according to the Justice Department.
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Hitting the thread with another translation. Original source [A]
A reader claims that he learned from an adult education center - not a source I can doublecheck - that it's looking bad for language classes for immigrants.
Actually, the language classes were not, or not primarily, done for the sake of conveying language skills, but for the purpose of keeping immigrants, who have got nothing to do all day, from doing stupid crap, getting them off the streets, and making sure that they're sitting at a table in a room. Occupational therapy.
The issue is that the adult education centers have been offering these classes - but they were paid for by some federal agency, not the AEC itself.
And now we have the case that the payments have stopped without a prior announcement, no discernible reason. Which is why the lessons were cancelled. An AEC teacher said that this is going to lead to civil war.
The reader asks if that's true, whether there's evidence for it, or whether that was a rumor.
I don't know either.
But let's put it that way: If the rumor is true and the AEC teacher is also right - then we're going to know about it soon.
But I've been wondering for quite some time now what those people actually do all day.
From language classes to civil war
Readers ask - Danisch doesn't know either.A reader claims that he learned from an adult education center - not a source I can doublecheck - that it's looking bad for language classes for immigrants.
Actually, the language classes were not, or not primarily, done for the sake of conveying language skills, but for the purpose of keeping immigrants, who have got nothing to do all day, from doing stupid crap, getting them off the streets, and making sure that they're sitting at a table in a room. Occupational therapy.
The issue is that the adult education centers have been offering these classes - but they were paid for by some federal agency, not the AEC itself.
And now we have the case that the payments have stopped without a prior announcement, no discernible reason. Which is why the lessons were cancelled. An AEC teacher said that this is going to lead to civil war.
The reader asks if that's true, whether there's evidence for it, or whether that was a rumor.
I don't know either.
But let's put it that way: If the rumor is true and the AEC teacher is also right - then we're going to know about it soon.
But I've been wondering for quite some time now what those people actually do all day.
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A couple months after the small town of Springfield, OH went viral for the Haitians reportedly “eating the cats and eating the dogs” there, it appears they’ve decided to pack their bags (of dog/squirrel/duck/cat meat) and gtfo after Trump won the presidency.
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Chinaman nearly gets himself mauled by a Siberian tiger
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Quick translation by yours truly. Original source [A]
Yes, I know. I have known for over 40 years already.
Wanna know where this is described quite exactly like that?
George Orwell. Animal Farm. He has described it in there just like that. We've read that in school. English class. I've even still got the book.
But it doesn't change the fact that most left-wingers are part of the useful idiots and convinced that somehow a natural paradise will come once everything is kaput.
I don't remember where, but somewhere in the past few days I've read from some leftist that he believes, when all state structure is destroyed, people will independently get together and organize as working groups to live and work together. The same people boast that you have to grant asylum to refugees who have fled from precisely those situations. They don't even notice that something isn't quite right there when it's biting them in the nose.
How Communism Works
A GDR [German Democratic Republic] citizen writes to me.Yes, I know. I have known for over 40 years already.
Wanna know where this is described quite exactly like that?
George Orwell. Animal Farm. He has described it in there just like that. We've read that in school. English class. I've even still got the book.
But it doesn't change the fact that most left-wingers are part of the useful idiots and convinced that somehow a natural paradise will come once everything is kaput.
I don't remember where, but somewhere in the past few days I've read from some leftist that he believes, when all state structure is destroyed, people will independently get together and organize as working groups to live and work together. The same people boast that you have to grant asylum to refugees who have fled from precisely those situations. They don't even notice that something isn't quite right there when it's biting them in the nose.
LateNightMuffin
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reason numbe 439,104,604 Trump won. Officials like these are fools, and they're out of control.
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I wanted the tiger to win. Poor hungry tiger.
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Megan Fox Leaves Little to the Imagination in Racy Completely Sheer Dress (archive)
Sitting on the front page of Google News:
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Notre Dame Cathedral is about to open again — thanks in part to this New Yorker
Jackson DuBois, a 49-year-old from Cooperstown, NY, spent three months in France last year working to rebuild the 850-year-old Notre Dame Cathedral.
Jackson DuBois, a 49-year-old from Cooperstown, NY, spent three months in France last year working to rebuild the 850-year-old Notre Dame Cathedral.
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Paris's Muslim population are itching to visit.
I like this photo:
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They'd probably turn it into a mosque if they could like with the Hagia Sophia.
Secularism is simply too tempting for too many young men and women here in the West. Christian majorities are no longer a thing in many European nations. Doubt Muslims will have better luck against the forces of modernity.
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Westpac unfairly targeting Kiwi farmers
Federated Farmers of New Zealand (Archive)
Federated Farmers of New Zealand (Archive)
Federated Farmers are slamming Westpac Bank for setting tougher emissions reduction targets for farmers in New Zealand than for their Australian farming customers.
“If I was one of Westpac’s rural banking customers, I’d be putting some serious questions to my bank manager this week,” says Federated Farmers banking spokesperson Richard McIntyre.
“It’s incredibly disappointing to see a big Aussie bank unfairly targeting Kiwi farmers and creating an unlevel playing field with our competitors across the ditch.”
[There's an image here of a New Zealand farmer with his arms crossed, but I won't take up server space for this meme article. Sorry for the text Null!]
“Farmers simply don’t trust foreign-owned banks to be setting emissions reduction targets. We don’t want or need them,” Richard McIntyre says.
Westpac’s new climate targets will require Kiwi farmers to reduce their emissions to 0.75 tonnes of CO2-equivalent per tonne of milk.
At the same time, they’re asking their Australian farming customers to reduce their footprint to only 0.85 tonnes.
In 2023 Westpac estimated the emissions intensity of their New Zealand dairy farming portfolio to be 0.77 tonnes of CO2-equivalent per tonne of milk.
“What that means is New Zealand farmers are already well ahead of where Westpac are asking Australian farmers to get to by 2030. Where’s the fairness in that?” McIntyre says.
“By setting a more ambitious target for New Zealand, Westpac are making it clear they expect our local farmers to go further and faster than Australian farmers – and unfairly carry that cost.”
Federated Farmers’ latest banking survey showed that only one in 11 farmers supported banks setting climate change targets.
“Farmers simply don’t trust foreign-owned banks to be setting emissions reduction targets. We don’t want or need them,” McIntyre says.
“We already have emission reduction targets that have been set by the Government, and further targets set by our milk and meat processing companies. Banks should stay out of it.”
Federated Farmers wrote to Westpac New Zealand CEO Catherine McGrath in May raising these concerns on behalf of our members. Disappointingly, she never even replied.
“If we had more banking competition in New Zealand, banks like Westpac wouldn’t be able to get away with setting these kinds of unfair targets,” McIntyre says.
“In a more competitive banking environment farmers would simply be able to leave them and seek a better service elsewhere, but that’s just not an option for most at the moment.
“Farmers tell us that the lack of banking competition means they have to accept banks’ policies, no matter how unreasonable, as if it were another layer of government regulation.”
McIntyre says Westpac should be ashamed of the unfair way they’re treating their New Zealand farming customers.
“This is something Parliament’s banking inquiry, which is currently underway, should be taking a much closer look at.”
“If I was one of Westpac’s rural banking customers, I’d be putting some serious questions to my bank manager this week,” says Federated Farmers banking spokesperson Richard McIntyre.
“It’s incredibly disappointing to see a big Aussie bank unfairly targeting Kiwi farmers and creating an unlevel playing field with our competitors across the ditch.”
[There's an image here of a New Zealand farmer with his arms crossed, but I won't take up server space for this meme article. Sorry for the text Null!]
“Farmers simply don’t trust foreign-owned banks to be setting emissions reduction targets. We don’t want or need them,” Richard McIntyre says.
Westpac’s new climate targets will require Kiwi farmers to reduce their emissions to 0.75 tonnes of CO2-equivalent per tonne of milk.
At the same time, they’re asking their Australian farming customers to reduce their footprint to only 0.85 tonnes.
In 2023 Westpac estimated the emissions intensity of their New Zealand dairy farming portfolio to be 0.77 tonnes of CO2-equivalent per tonne of milk.
“What that means is New Zealand farmers are already well ahead of where Westpac are asking Australian farmers to get to by 2030. Where’s the fairness in that?” McIntyre says.
“By setting a more ambitious target for New Zealand, Westpac are making it clear they expect our local farmers to go further and faster than Australian farmers – and unfairly carry that cost.”
Federated Farmers’ latest banking survey showed that only one in 11 farmers supported banks setting climate change targets.
“Farmers simply don’t trust foreign-owned banks to be setting emissions reduction targets. We don’t want or need them,” McIntyre says.
“We already have emission reduction targets that have been set by the Government, and further targets set by our milk and meat processing companies. Banks should stay out of it.”
Federated Farmers wrote to Westpac New Zealand CEO Catherine McGrath in May raising these concerns on behalf of our members. Disappointingly, she never even replied.
“If we had more banking competition in New Zealand, banks like Westpac wouldn’t be able to get away with setting these kinds of unfair targets,” McIntyre says.
“In a more competitive banking environment farmers would simply be able to leave them and seek a better service elsewhere, but that’s just not an option for most at the moment.
“Farmers tell us that the lack of banking competition means they have to accept banks’ policies, no matter how unreasonable, as if it were another layer of government regulation.”
McIntyre says Westpac should be ashamed of the unfair way they’re treating their New Zealand farming customers.
“This is something Parliament’s banking inquiry, which is currently underway, should be taking a much closer look at.”
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Acclaimed rock band robbed at gunpoint outside Bay Area coffeehouse
The Mercury News (archive.ph)
By Jim Harrington
2024-12-04 00:26:25GMT
“Just been robbed at gun point 10 minutes into the US tour”
British alt-rock band Sports Team (Photo Credit: Bartek Szmigulski, courtesy Big Feat PR)
Sports Team, an acclaimed British alt-rock outfit, was reportedly robbed at gunpoint at 8 a.m. this morning in Vallejo, just as it was kicking off its West Coast tour.
The Mercury Prize-nominated troupe was inside a Starbucks on Dec. 3 “when someone alerted them that their tour van was being ransacked and robbed,” according to a press statement.
“Just been robbed at gun point 10 minutes into the US tour,” reads a post on the band’s Instagram account. “Stopped for coffee. Man runs in saying some guys are smashing into a van. Ran out to try to stop it and find masked guys ransacking the van. Start yelling, and they pull out a gun.”
The thieves made off with “a lot of personal gear, but they didn’t get the instruments, so driving on to Sacramento to play tonight,” according to the Instagram post. “They can take our Nintendo Switches, but they can never take our ability to play rock songs about motorways.
Sports Team called the police and “were shocked to hear they would not attend the scene of the crime. Instead, they were told by police to file a report online, which they have done,” according to the news release.
Items that were taken from Sports Team include laptops and passports.
“In all seriousness, pretty shocking how resigned everyone seemed to be to it — ‘It happens’ — 9 a.m. at some petrol station Starbucks,” the band posted on Instagram. “Wild.”
Despite being shaken, the band is continuing on with its tour. Sports Team Trading Post in Sacramento tonight (Dec. 3) and The Chapel in San Francisco on Dec. 7.
For those like me, who haven't heard of this band, here's an example. Catchy tune:
https://preservetube.com/watch?v=vU6cOF65lU0
The Mercury News (archive.ph)
By Jim Harrington
2024-12-04 00:26:25GMT
“Just been robbed at gun point 10 minutes into the US tour”
British alt-rock band Sports Team (Photo Credit: Bartek Szmigulski, courtesy Big Feat PR)
Sports Team, an acclaimed British alt-rock outfit, was reportedly robbed at gunpoint at 8 a.m. this morning in Vallejo, just as it was kicking off its West Coast tour.
The Mercury Prize-nominated troupe was inside a Starbucks on Dec. 3 “when someone alerted them that their tour van was being ransacked and robbed,” according to a press statement.
“Just been robbed at gun point 10 minutes into the US tour,” reads a post on the band’s Instagram account. “Stopped for coffee. Man runs in saying some guys are smashing into a van. Ran out to try to stop it and find masked guys ransacking the van. Start yelling, and they pull out a gun.”
The thieves made off with “a lot of personal gear, but they didn’t get the instruments, so driving on to Sacramento to play tonight,” according to the Instagram post. “They can take our Nintendo Switches, but they can never take our ability to play rock songs about motorways.
Sports Team called the police and “were shocked to hear they would not attend the scene of the crime. Instead, they were told by police to file a report online, which they have done,” according to the news release.
Items that were taken from Sports Team include laptops and passports.
“In all seriousness, pretty shocking how resigned everyone seemed to be to it — ‘It happens’ — 9 a.m. at some petrol station Starbucks,” the band posted on Instagram. “Wild.”
Despite being shaken, the band is continuing on with its tour. Sports Team Trading Post in Sacramento tonight (Dec. 3) and The Chapel in San Francisco on Dec. 7.
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Another translation by yours truly. Probably not worth a thread because of its small scope, but I found it very interesting. Original article [A] by Danisch
As slippery as a fish.
I submitted a question to the prosecution office of Tübingen:
because I do find it crass that politicians file hundreds of criminal charges, many of them are unfounded or based on easily stretchable laws, home raids are being staged, and then a public prosecution office claims that it's not the politicians who persecute citizens.
The reply from the prosecution office of Tübingen:
I see, I see. "It's the citizens" only refers to that specific case against one person.
I interpreted the article that the statement was made to the press, and not in a trial, but, whatever.
So, let us put on record that the prosecution office of Tübingen has a different understanding of "objective" and "independent" than I do.
The prosecution office of Tübingen [a city in Baden-Wuerttemberg]
As slippery as a fish.
I submitted a question to the prosecution office of Tübingen:
because I do find it crass that politicians file hundreds of criminal charges, many of them are unfounded or based on easily stretchable laws, home raids are being staged, and then a public prosecution office claims that it's not the politicians who persecute citizens.
The reply from the prosecution office of Tübingen:
I see, I see. "It's the citizens" only refers to that specific case against one person.
I interpreted the article that the statement was made to the press, and not in a trial, but, whatever.
So, let us put on record that the prosecution office of Tübingen has a different understanding of "objective" and "independent" than I do.