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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...een-costume-labeled-817515?utm_source=twitter

It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."
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Sorry for double posting again but didn’t feel this was worthy of posting a full page on it

An oral norovirus vaccine tablet was safe and elicited mucosal immunity in older adults in a phase 1b clinical trial

This of course is potentially good news depending on if you trust The Science™️ or not. Think of the norovirus as the worst food poisoning you’ve ever had in your life but multiplied by 10, that hand sanitizer doesn’t even touch.
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Excellent news if true!
I had this as a 3 yo, and while I don't remember it, I was told that I couldn't even stomach a tiny sip of water during it.
 
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In a long-winded bill about a bunch of stuff the Greek government drags the nation kicking and screaming into the First World (with third world wages) by criminalizing the consumption of pirated media and copyrighted material, whereas before it was never enforced and only distribution was persecuted. They are aiming for "fast-track" fines of 750 euros, the average monthly salary, and enforced automatically through ISP-police-"copyright holder association" cooperation, so your dad that watched a cracked football stream on his Dell laptop won't afford his electric bill next month.

The most worrying detail is provisions vague enough that allow the creation of databases linking assigned IP addresses with legal identifying information to be used for sending fines without going through courts and sending a legal request to ISPs, which is a massive GDPR violation. Free static IPs for all!
 
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An Oregon man was arrested by the FBI yesterday in Portland after a federal grand jury in Alaska returned an indictment this week charging him with transporting a minor with the intent to have the child engage in criminal sexual activity.

According to court documents, in 2019, Steven Fox, 59, moved from Pendleton, Oregon, to Anchorage, Alaska. At some point that year, Fox allegedly presented himself as a long-lost “uncle” to a family with two minor daughters and began caring for the minors.

Court documents further allege that in January 2020, Fox transported the minors from Alaska to Oregon. Fox started sexually abusing one of the minors, who was 9 years old, almost immediately after leaving Alaska.

Fox is charged with one count of transportation of minors. The defendant is scheduled to make his initial court appearance today at 1:30 p.m. PDT before a U.S. Magistrate Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. If convicted, he faces between 10 years to life in prison. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

U.S. Attorney Michael J. Heyman of the District of Alaska and Special Agent in Charge Rebecca Day of the FBI Anchorage Field Office made the announcement.

The FBI Anchorage Field Office and Anchorage Police Department investigated this case as part of the FBI’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, with assistance from the Pendleton Police Department and FBI Portland Field Office. If anyone has information concerning Fox’s alleged actions, please contact the FBI Anchorage Field Office (907) 276-4441 or anonymously at tips.fbi.gov.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Ivers and Trial Attorney Rachel L. Rothberg of the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) are prosecuting the case, with assistance from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Oregon.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and CEOS, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit https://www.justice.gov/psc.

An indictment is merely an allegation, and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
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Fae Supremacist said:
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In a long-winded bill about a bunch of stuff the Greek government drags the nation kicking and screaming into the First World (with third world wages) by criminalizing the consumption of pirated media and copyrighted material, whereas before it was never enforced and only distribution was persecuted. They are aiming for "fast-track" fines of 750 euros, the average monthly salary, and enforced automatically through ISP-police-"copyright holder association" cooperation, so your dad that watched a cracked football stream on his Dell laptop won't afford his electric bill next month.

The most worrying detail is provisions vague enough that allow the creation of databases linking assigned IP addresses with legal identifying information to be used for sending fines without going through courts and sending a legal request to ISPs, which is a massive GDPR violation. Free static IPs for all!
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I'm uh, I'm sure that's going to actually fucking matter in Greece.
 
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So wait, some random diddler (who blatantly looks like one too) moves from Oregon to Alaska, claims to be a "long-lost uncle" of two kids, and then just says "Imma take me these kids back to Oregon with me okay?" And the "parents" are okay with some random diddler just showing up, claiming to be a relative, and absconding with their kids who he was already raping?

The fuck is up with this?
 
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A dude was apprehended in Philadelphia recently carrying around a major boom boom in his pants. People sharing this are relating it to possible anti-Muslim violence but without any news coverage or reliable police reports such allegations are spurious to me.
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In East Africa, Rats Have Prevented 400,000 New Cases of Deadliest Infection Using Their Super Sense of Smell

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For most people, a rat is at best an unwelcome guest, and at worst, the target of immediate extermination. But in a field clinic in Tanzania, rats are colleagues—heroes even.

Far from a trash bin-dwelling NYC street rat, the African giant pouched rat is docile, intelligent, easier to train than some dogs, and for East Africans, the performer of lifesaving tuberculosis diagnoses every day.

400,000 new cases of tuberculosis (TB) were estimated to have been prevented by these rats, whose sense of smell would make a bloodhound take notice. As the number-one killer among infectious diseases worldwide, many of those 400,000 can be translated into lives saved.
Not only are we saving people’s lives, but we’re also changing these perspectives and raising awareness and appreciation for something as lowly as a rat,” said Cindy Fast, a behavioral neuroscientist who coaches the rodents for the nonprofit APOPO.

“Because our rats are our colleagues, and we really do see them as heroes.”


APOPO uses giant pouched rats to sniff out traces of TB in the saliva of patients. In parts of Tanzania, a saliva smear test under a microscope by a human may only be 20-40% effective at detecting TB.

By contrast, a giant pouched rat like Ms. Carolina, a now-retired service rat who worked for APOPO for 7 years, raised the rates of detection on TB samples by 40% in the clinic where she worked.

It would take 4 days for scientists to analyze the number of samples that Carolina could screen in 20 minutes. For that reason, when Carolina retired last November, a party was thrown at the clinic in her honor, and she was given a cake.

TB is sometimes thought of as a thing of the past—a disease for which doctors used to prescribe “dry air,” leading a modern sense of humor to muse at the antiquated, pre-antibiotic medical advice.

But it remains the number-one cause of death globally from a single infectious pathogen, and Tefera Agizew, a physician and APOPO’s head of tuberculosis, told National Geographic that once people see what the nonprofit’s rodents can do to slow the spread, they “fall in love with them.”

MORE SNIFFER ANIMALS: Rats With Tiny Backpacks Being Used to Sniff Out Wildlife Smugglers Trafficking in Animal Parts

3,000 times in her career did Carolina detect one of the six volatile compounds that can be used to identify Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and she got a hero’s send-off to a special compound to live out the rest of her days with her closet friend and sniffer colleague Gilbert, in a shaded enclosure dubbed “Rat Florida.”

“We’ve made special little rat-friendly carrot cakes with little peanuts and things on it that the rat would enjoy,” Fast said. “Then we all stand around and we clap, and we give three cheers, hip hip hooray for the hero, and celebrate together. It’s really a touching moment.”
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This isn’t from the article but I’ve read others about these same type of rats being trained to do a little bit of everything, from mine detection, to rescue used to help find survivors, drug-sniffers, and as this article pointed out, detecting TB
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AnOminous said:
So wait, some random diddler (who blatantly looks like one too) moves from Oregon to Alaska, claims to be a "long-lost uncle" of two kids, and then just says "Imma take me these kids back to Oregon with me okay?" And the "parents" are okay with some random diddler just showing up, claiming to be a relative, and absconding with their kids who he was already raping?

The fuck is up with this?
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My best guess is either the parents are neglectful or they gave them to him for crack/meth money. Wouldn't be surprised in this day and age. Either option is sickening.
 
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