Today I Learned #2: Gone for a Wiki Walk
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That is not the messed up thing:A ponzi-scheme suspect, pursued by the FBI, attempted to flee in a Yamaha submersible in Lake Shasta. Didn't work.
There's a movie plot in there somewhere.
Piercey was wanted by the FBI for soliciting $35 million from investors for an "upvesting fund" ... Only $8.8 million was allegedly paid back to investors, while the rest of those funds were used to purchase and renovate two properties, buy a houseboat, pay off credit cards, among other things.
If convicted, Piercey and Winton could face hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines up to 20 years in prison.
If convicted, Piercey and Winton could face hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines up to 20 years in prison.
How is it when he has robbed $26 million are they talking about "hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines"?
Zkribbler
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I am going to GUESS that the complaint also seeks restitution and that the reporter is so uneducated in the law, s/he doesn't know what this means and so omitted it.
Dylan papers, including unpublished lyrics, sell for $495,000 at auction
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOSTON — A long-lost trove of Bob Dylan documents including the singer-songwriter’s musings about anti-Semitism and unpublished song lyrics has sold at auction for a total of $495,000.
Boston-based R.R. Auction said Friday the collection privately held by the late American blues artist Tony Glover, a longtime Dylan friend and confidante, was sold as individual lots Thursday, with a majority of the key pieces going to a bidder whose identity was not made public. The collection included transcripts of Glover’s 1971 interviews with Dylan and letters the pair exchanged. The interviews reveal that Dylan had anti-Semitism on his mind when he changed his name from Robert Zimmerman, and that he wrote “Lay Lady Lay” for Barbra Streisand.
Dylan, 79, was close to Glover, who died last year. The two men broke into music in the same Minneapolis coffeehouse scene. Glover’s widow, Cynthia Nadler, put the documents up for auction online. The reclusive Dylan won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2016 after giving the world “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “Like a Rolling Stone,” “The Times They Are a-Changin’” and other anthems of the turbulent 1960s. Included in the auctioned items were lyrics Dylan penned after visiting folk legend Woody Guthrie in May 1962. Two of the lines, never made public until last month, read: “My eyes are cracked I think I been framed / I can’t seem to remember the sound of my name ...”
Transcripts of lost 1971 Dylan interviews reveal that he changed his name because he worried about anti-Semitism. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bob Dylan performs in 2012.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOSTON — A long-lost trove of Bob Dylan documents including the singer-songwriter’s musings about anti-Semitism and unpublished song lyrics has sold at auction for a total of $495,000.
Boston-based R.R. Auction said Friday the collection privately held by the late American blues artist Tony Glover, a longtime Dylan friend and confidante, was sold as individual lots Thursday, with a majority of the key pieces going to a bidder whose identity was not made public. The collection included transcripts of Glover’s 1971 interviews with Dylan and letters the pair exchanged. The interviews reveal that Dylan had anti-Semitism on his mind when he changed his name from Robert Zimmerman, and that he wrote “Lay Lady Lay” for Barbra Streisand.
Dylan, 79, was close to Glover, who died last year. The two men broke into music in the same Minneapolis coffeehouse scene. Glover’s widow, Cynthia Nadler, put the documents up for auction online. The reclusive Dylan won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2016 after giving the world “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “Like a Rolling Stone,” “The Times They Are a-Changin’” and other anthems of the turbulent 1960s. Included in the auctioned items were lyrics Dylan penned after visiting folk legend Woody Guthrie in May 1962. Two of the lines, never made public until last month, read: “My eyes are cracked I think I been framed / I can’t seem to remember the sound of my name ...”
Transcripts of lost 1971 Dylan interviews reveal that he changed his name because he worried about anti-Semitism. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bob Dylan performs in 2012.
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That and our birthing canals cannot keep up. The human female anatomy is maxed out as far as childbirthing goes and is the reason why our babies are born so underdeveloped compared to most mammals - there is no more room for them to continue growing inside the mom.
Knock on wood! I just listened to an interview with a woman with an implanted defibrillator that was installed with misconfigured software by her doctors and it randomly shocked her.
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The now-defunct Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico was built because of a math error. A physicist wanted to study the upper atmosphere and calculated how big of a radio telescope he would need to do so. His proposal was accepted for funding by the government and the telescope (Arecibo) was built. It was only afterwards that they discovered his calculations were wrong and the telescope was about 10x bigger than it needed to be but it proved so useful at other tasks that it was kept for 60 years.
TIL that the Arecibo telescope is to be decommissioned due to a couple of snapped cables. It seems that it is too costly to repair for the return scientists would get out of it.
Well, yes. The Middletons are not hoi polloi either.
Also too dangerous.
They think the rest of the cables could snap at any point, and the platform which they're holding is apparently 900 tons, so if that goes wrong, it'll be... baaaad.
Traitorfish
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If the landed aristocracy was considered marrying down, then the gentry is practically slumming.
If he'd married an actual commoner, it would probably have been considered a form of bestiality.
Zkribbler
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I saw a reference to Queen Mary I of England. I inferred there must be a Queen Mary II. 
I did some research and TIL of the Glorious Revolution, wherein William and Mary came over from Holland to replace Mary's Catholic father James II.
I had known little of this before.
I'd heard of James II in the movie Captain Blood, which ends with Errol Flynn announcing to his men that King James had been replaced by "Good King William"! And I knew that the Glorious Revolution was so popular
that when the America colonies rebelled, they didn't call their uprising "the American Rebellion," but rather the "American Revolution." I also learned that William and Mary ruled England as a co-sovereignty. 
I did some research and TIL of the Glorious Revolution, wherein William and Mary came over from Holland to replace Mary's Catholic father James II.I had known little of this before.
I'd heard of James II in the movie Captain Blood, which ends with Errol Flynn announcing to his men that King James had been replaced by "Good King William"! And I knew that the Glorious Revolution was so popular that when the America colonies rebelled, they didn't call their uprising "the American Rebellion," but rather the "American Revolution." I also learned that William and Mary ruled England as a co-sovereignty. OK,
a) those slum gentry are freaking loaded and they aren't from the Navy;
and
b) that's the wrong brother you're talking about.
BenitoChavez
What business is it of yours?
TIL what QAnon is. I wish I hadn’t.
TI also L how to make pie crusts. Whether or not I can apply what I’ve learned is another matter. But so far I’ve managed to make a reasonable facsimile of a dough which is currently sitting in the fridge. The baking happens tomorrow.
TI also L how to make pie crusts. Whether or not I can apply what I’ve learned is another matter. But so far I’ve managed to make a reasonable facsimile of a dough which is currently sitting in the fridge. The baking happens tomorrow.
Berzerker
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“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
with painful labor you will give birth to children. Gen 3-16
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
Coincidence!? Wake up sheeple!!!!!!
Can we leave Genesis out of real science, please?
BenitoChavez
What business is it of yours?
TIL that there was once a (american) football team called the New York Yankees which is also the name of the more famous baseball team which still exists today. The team played in the AAFC, a competitor to the NFL back in the 1940s. The same franchise was also once known as the Brooklyn Dodgers which again was also the name of a baseball team that moved to Los Angeles and is now known as the LA Dodgers.
With Berzerker? Oh, you've been ignoring the US election and coronavirus threads, it seems.
I get enough of those in my news feed (my province isn't quite in lockdown, though some of the doctors want one; seems they have no clue that people actually need to work and access critical services that aren't hospital-related; OTOH, at least somebody got smart and closed the junior/senior high schools).
As for the US election... for weeks it's been nothing but "how will Biden's election benefit Canada, or will it?" kinds of articles.
Well, better him than Trump, but it's going to be a diplomatic tap dance all the same, with border closures and trade, not to mention the whole pipeline fiasco. The COVID vaccine issue got political a long time ago. There are times when I would love to slap Trudeau for his "No, after you" attitude toward international relations. It's politely Canadian, but there are times when that's actually not something that is beneficial to the country.
But now I suppose you've piqued my curiosity. Please tell me we're not supposed to pray the pandemic away, because history has shown that it's not a strategy that works.
Previously I had thought I had a healthy scepticism about places like the US and UK being great countries, but I thought we did do somethings better than most places, particularly when it comes to children and sex. TIL that I was wrong:
Child marriage: Why does it persist in the US?
Controversial 'virginity tests' sold by UK clinics
Child marriage: Why does it persist in the US?
Some 12 million girls are married in childhood every year, according to the UN children’s agency, with the practice still prevalent in scores of nations, including the United States.
Between 2000 and 2015 more than 200,000 such unions took place in the US, as per data compiled by the documentary series Frontline and 80 per cent of those marriages involved young girls marrying adults. A report released by the International Center for Research on Women found that children who marry face increased rates of poverty, domestic violence, early pregnancy and negative impacts on health and education. The UN calls child marriage a “fundamental human rights violation”.
Between 2000 and 2015 more than 200,000 such unions took place in the US, as per data compiled by the documentary series Frontline and 80 per cent of those marriages involved young girls marrying adults. A report released by the International Center for Research on Women found that children who marry face increased rates of poverty, domestic violence, early pregnancy and negative impacts on health and education. The UN calls child marriage a “fundamental human rights violation”.
Controversial 'virginity tests' sold by UK clinics
Women are being offered controversial "virginity tests" at British medical clinics, an investigation by BBC Newsbeat and 100 Women has found.
The intrusive tests are considered a violation of human rights by the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations, which want to see them banned.
Critics say they are unscientific, cannot prove whether someone is a virgin and can be a form of abuse.
The tests involve a vaginal examination to check if the hymen is intact.
The BBC identified 21 clinics and managed to make inquiries with 16 of them, seven confirmed they offer "virginity testing" and several others would not clarify their position.
All said they would carry out hymen-repair surgery, which costs in the region of £1,500 to £3,000. Data from NHS England shows 69 hymen-repair procedures have been carried out in the past five years.
Meanwhile, the BBC has also found hymen-repair kits being sold online for £50, which claim to restore virginity.
One kit purchased for £104 arrived from Germany. It contained 60ml of vagina tightening gel, plastic tweezers, a blood capsule and three sachets that appear to contain fake blood. There were no instructions on how to use the kit.
The intrusive tests are considered a violation of human rights by the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations, which want to see them banned.
Critics say they are unscientific, cannot prove whether someone is a virgin and can be a form of abuse.
The tests involve a vaginal examination to check if the hymen is intact.
The BBC identified 21 clinics and managed to make inquiries with 16 of them, seven confirmed they offer "virginity testing" and several others would not clarify their position.
All said they would carry out hymen-repair surgery, which costs in the region of £1,500 to £3,000. Data from NHS England shows 69 hymen-repair procedures have been carried out in the past five years.
Meanwhile, the BBC has also found hymen-repair kits being sold online for £50, which claim to restore virginity.
One kit purchased for £104 arrived from Germany. It contained 60ml of vagina tightening gel, plastic tweezers, a blood capsule and three sachets that appear to contain fake blood. There were no instructions on how to use the kit.
Ferocitus
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Leaf-cutter ants have rocky crystal armor, never before seen in insects
A new study shows that one Central American leaf-cutter ant species has natural armor that covers its exoskeleton.
This shield-like coating is made of calcite with high levels of magnesium, a type found only in one other biological structure: sea urchin teeth, which can grind limestone.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/11/leaf-cutter-ants-have-strong-mineral-armor/
A new study shows that one Central American leaf-cutter ant species has natural armor that covers its exoskeleton.
This shield-like coating is made of calcite with high levels of magnesium, a type found only in one other biological structure: sea urchin teeth, which can grind limestone.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/11/leaf-cutter-ants-have-strong-mineral-armor/
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