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[Redondo]

 

  BREAKING NEWS

'Idiot' hijacker arrested; EgyptAir passengers, crew safe in Cyprus

[Tank]

 

LUCK RUNS OUT

Seven charged in killing

of $400G lottery winner

 

Authorities in Georgia announced Monday that they had charged seven people in connection with the killing of a lottery winner this past January. 

 

Ben Hill County Sheriff's officials identified six of the seven charged in the death of Craigory Burch Jr. as 22-year-old Rosalyn Swain, 24-year-old Keyana Dyous, 21-year-old Anjavell Johnson, 27-year-old Earnest Holcombe, 19-year-old Dabrentise Overstreet, 28-year-old Nathaniel Baker. The seventh suspect, a 17-year-old, was not identified because he is a juvenile.

 

All seven face charges of malice murder, aggravated assault, armed robbery and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime. 

 

Investigators say three masked men kicked down Burch's door on the evening of Jan. 20 and demanded money. Burch, who had won $434,272 the previous November in the Georgia Lottery's Fantasy 5 game, was holding his 2-year-old child when the men burst in.

 

Burch's girlfriend, Jasmine Hendricks, told WALB that he pleaded with the robbers, telling them "Don't do it, bro. Don't do it in front of my kids. Please don't do it in front of my kids and old lady. Please don't do that, bro. Please don't."

 

Hendricks told the station Burch threw his pants at the robbers, who shot and killed him after they failed to find his wallet. 

 

after they failed find his wallet?? morons. like someone is going to carry around $400k in their wallet.

[Homebrewer]

'Most Interesting Man in the World' helps Make-a-Wish

http://news.yahoo.com/most-interesting-man-world-helps-wish-161317332.html

[Redondo]

 

FOOD STAMP CRACKDOWN
States push to require able-bodied adults to work for welfare benefits

[Blarg]

"Food stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis, Wall Street did," said Obama at this past January’s State of the Union address.

And who signed away a trillion dollars to keep Wall Street off of food stamps?

[gotbeer]

A New Scam Sends Fake Traffic Tickets to Speeding Drivers

 

wonder which app it is?  As I see a new feature in Waze that will tell you when you are speeding.

[Redondo]

Gas-to-electricity plant debuts at Irvine's Bowerman Landfill

The Bowerman Power Project went into operation this week, converting methane gas, a byproduct of landfill trash, into enough electricity to power 26,000 homes.

With Bowerman joining the Olinda Landfill in Brea and the Prima Deshecha Landfill in San Juan Capistrano as a renewable-energy site, all of Orange County's major waste-disposal facilities now have gas-to-electricity plants.

Bowerman's facility adds 160,000 megawatt-hours annually to the grid. It brings the total annual electricity production at Orange County's landfills to 380,000 megawatt-hours, enough for 56,000 homes.

 

"It's taking landfill gas that we'd otherwise have to burn and putting it to a beneficial use for the good of the community," said Dylan Wright, director of OC Waste & Recycling. "We're trying to stay ahead of the game, stay on the cutting edge."

[Redondo]

 

 

 

BREAKING NEWS: At least 10 killed, 150 believed trapped after bridge collapse at India construction site

[Redondo]

Gold miner to keep digging despite striking it rich at casino

[Blarg]

A dream home in Elko? I guess it isn't sucking up much of his $12.5 million.

[Redondo]

  Study: 1 in 8 adults worldwide now obese

The ratio has more than doubled since 1975 and will swell to one in five by 2025, a major survey finds.

 

 

 

[Redondo]

Amazon plans fifth fulfillment center in the Inland Empire

 

As Amazon Inc. moves to shrink delivery times from days to hours, it's spreading its enormous inventory across a growing network of fulfillment centers on the outskirts of the nation's biggest cities.

 

Within this strategy, San Bernardino has emerged as a key player thanks to its abundance of affordable land, proximity to ports and access to one of the nation's biggest consumer markets.

 

Amazon this week doubled down on the city 60 miles east of Los Angeles by announcing plans for its second fulfillment center there, a cavernous 1.1-million-square-foot facility that will briefly warehouse items such as books, electronics and toys while adding 1,000 new full-time jobs.

 

"San Bernardino has proven to be an important part of Amazon's growth in California, and we are proud to continue creating jobs and helping support the economy here in the Inland Empire," Akash Chauhan, Amazon's vice president of North American operations, said in a prepared statement.

 

The new facility will be Amazon's fifth fulfillment center in the Inland Empire and seventh in California. It maintains similar facilities in Moreno Valley, Redlands, Rialto, Patterson and Tracy. Its first in the Golden State opened in 2012 in San Bernardino, a facility that now has 1,500 employees.

[Blarg]

  Study: 1 in 8 adults worldwide now obese

The ratio has more than doubled since 1975 and will swell to one in five by 2025, a major survey finds.

 

 

 

[Redondo]

KILLED FOR BEING GAY?
Los Angeles dad allegedly shot and killed son, 29

Los Angeles County prosecutors have charged a man who shot and killed his son with premeditated murder, alleging that he committed the crime because his son was gay.

Shehada Issa, 69, said he shot his son in self-defense after he discovered his wife's dead body in their house.

 

The district attorney's office said Friday that Issa had allegedly threatened to kill his 29-year-old son, Amir, in the past because he was gay.

 

"The murder was committed because of the victim's sexual orientation and because of the defendant's perception of that status and the victims' association with a person and a group of that status," prosecutors said in a statement.

 

Issa was arrested Tuesday after Los Angeles police officers found the younger man's body outside a house in the city's North Hills area. Issa's wife was found stabbed to death inside the house.

Detectives said Issa told officers he found his wife's body in a bathroom.

 

"He claimed (the son) was armed with a knife, and there was no knife to be found (there). It was a horrible family tragedy," Detective John Doerbecker told the Daily News.

Authorities allege the father used a shotgun in the attack on his son, the Los Angeles Times reported.

 

Doerbecker told the Daily News that there had been problems between the father and son, including the son reportedly vandalizing the home. He said the couple was in the process of evicting the son.

An investigation into who killed Issa's wife is ongoing.

 

Issa is being held without bail pending his arraignment on April 11.

 

He faces life in prison if convicted of the charge.

[Redondo]

2 arrested after fight over crab legs turns violent, police say

[Stradling]

They spelled Winston wrong in that article (just kidding I didn't read the article)

[gotbeer]

Recycled shower water so that you can shower as long as you like.

 

http://showerloop.org/

Edited April 4, 2016 by gotbeer

[Tank]

 

2 arrested after fight over crab legs turns violent, police say

 

 

wow, winston jameis has really packed on some pounds.

[Blarg]

He should lay off the butter with the All you can eat crab legs.

[Redondo]

Windows could one day be made of 'transparent wood'

 

One of these days, your windows may be made out of wood. Swedish researchers have developed a transparent, wood-based material that could be used to let light into buildings, as well as for making solar cells, Science Daily reports.

 

The transparent wood—the "coolest building material ever," per Gizmodo—is a "low-cost, readily available, and renewable resource," researcher Lars Berglund says. Used in construction, the material (which can be both transparent for windows and semitransparent for walls) could reduce the need for artificial lighting by allowing more natural light into a space, per a press release.

 

Now that they have successfully engineered the transparent wood, the researchers are working on scaling up the manufacturing process, as well as trying out different types of wood, according to Science Alert.

 

To create the transparent wood, researchers stripped lignin (a part of the cell wall that blocks light) from commercial balsa wood, making it "beautifully white." Then the wood is impregnated with a transparent polymer, maintaining the wood structure while allowing up to 85 percent light transmittance.

 

"We can create veneer from this material," Berglund tells Gizmodo, "and then laminate it into larger structures, such as load-bearing panels and beams." The resulting panels, per Science Alert, are more durable than glass.

 

[Redondo]

Cheese thieves steal $7 million worth of parmesan in two years

 

Forget jewels and watches, the real money is apparently in cheese, because thieves in Italy have managed to make off with $7 million worth of Parmesan in just two years.

 

According to The Local, over the past two years thieves have stolen roughly six million euros, or $6.85 million, worth of high-end Italian Parmesan cheese.

 

 Parmigiano-Reggiano is a favorite target of thieves because it’s portable, expensive, and surprisingly easy to steal from small, artisanal producers who do not have heavily-guarded warehouses or high-tech security systems. One 40-kilogram wheel of two-year-old aged Parmesan is worth about $570, according to Riccardo Deserti, the director of Italy’s Parmesan Cheese Consortium, and in a single heist thieves can generally make off with thousands of euros worth of cheese.

 

“The problem is, we're talking about rural, artisanal producers, small businesses that are often not equipped with advanced anti-theft systems,” Deserti said.

 

Cheese is also relatively easy to sell. The wheels are marked by their producers, but thieves can just cut up the wheels into smaller pieces and sell them to unsuspecting cheese-lovers in Italy and the rest of Europe.

[gotbeer]

So that's who cut the cheese.

[Angel Dog and Beer]

So that's who cut the cheese.

 

[Redondo]

 

 

 

 A Hooker Got Caught in the Act With Her 76-Year-Old Client in a…

 

A camera-equipped drone has apparently caught a prostitute and her john having sex in the front seat of his truck. It all began in March 2015, when self-proclaimed "video vigilante" Brian Bates saw Douglas Blansett, 76, appear to pick up 27-year-old prostitute Amanda Zolicoffer in Oklahoma City, the Smoking Gun reports. Bates set loose a camera-equipped drone that seemed to capture Blansett and Zolicoffer having sex in the vehicle. After a veteran investigator with the Oklahoma City PD reviewed the footage, he noted in a probable cause affidavit that "Zolicoffer's pants were off and the driver appeared to be having sexual intercourse with Zolicoffer."

[Tank]

you know what? if you can still pound nails at 76, everyone should just shut up and leave you alone.