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Man Discovers Explosives Connected To Light Switch In Home
By Emily Smith, Wed, March 25, 2015

A homeowner discovered on Tuesday that his house had been rigged with explosives set to detonate at the flip of a light switch.

Lendel Williams was inspecting his Milton, Massachusetts, home after tenants had moved out in order to sell. However, Williams' electrician discovered a suspicious device in a bedroom closet where a section of wall had recently been plastered over.

Williams immediately called police, who deactivated the contraption a few hours later.

“I am angry,” Williams said. “I just can’t believe people can really do that to be quite frank with you.”


The device included a gallon of a flammable substance with wires snaking out of it and around the house. The end of the explosive was attached to a light switch. The intricate system could have caused death, according to authorities.

“We believe the intention was that if someone flipped the light switch on where it ended, the device would have exploded,” Milton Police Chief Richard Wells said. “It took some work to put it in there.”

Police have not yet named suspects, though they are considering anyone who had access to the home. According to Williams, it’s possible that his former tenants are responsible for the contraption.

Last week, police were called to the home after Williams reported that cement had been poured down the drain. On Sunday, the former tenants moved out after living in the property since June.

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Paris removes 'love locks' from famed bridge
June 02, 2015



PARIS — Lovers in Paris, beware: City authorities are taking down thousands of padlocks affixed to the famed Pont des Arts bridge.

The city says the locks, usually hung by couples to express eternal love, are causing long-term damage to Paris heritage sites. Last summer a chunk of fencing fell off under their weight.

Authorities began dismantling the metal grills along the sides of the bridge Monday and plan to remove 45 tons of padlocks in all.

Some residents had campaigned against the locks, which started appearing about a decade ago and now cover sites across the French capital.

The Pont des Arts bridge will soon have padlock-proof plexiglass panels instead, while the city explores other ways for Paris visitors to express their "amour," including street art on the subject.

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Etymology is fun! It’s especially fun to learn about the quaint old-fashioned practices that gave rise to some of the words we use. Stereotype comes from printing, hard-up comes from sailing, pipe dream comes from opium dens.

Cultural practices change, technology changes, but words stick around—and not just in some long ago, far away place. It’s happening all around us as we speak, a hard truth that mental_floss editor-in-chief Jason recently had to face up to.

That’s right. Kids these days don’t know where hang up comes from, and those of us who remember the pre-cell phone era are already receding into the mysterious, etymological past. Here are 15 etymologies to answer the questions of future English speakers. Because the future is already here.

1. WHY DO WE "HANG UP" A PHONE?

Phones used to have two parts to them, a base and a receiver. In order to end a call, the receiver had to be placed or "hung" on the base.

2. WHY DO WE "DIAL" A PHONE?

To call someone on an old phone, you had to stick your finger in a rotating dial at number positions that would turn the dial for various lengths of time when released. You had to do the entire number every time.

3. WHY DOES A PHONE OR ALARM CLOCK "RING"?

Now phones and alarm clocks can make any kind of sound to catch your attention, but a long time ago, phones and alarm clocks had little bells inside them for this purpose.

4. WHY DO CASHIERS "RING UP" A PURCHASE?

Cash registers also used to have little bells in them. Cashiers would enter the price of each item on a set of mechanical levers, when they pressed the button to get the total, the total price would pop up in a window and the bell would ring.

5. WHY DO WE "ROLL" A WINDOW UP OR DOWN?

Cars used to have hand cranks in the doors that moved the windows up or down when turned. To open or close a window, you had to roll the crank around a few times.

6. WHERE DOES "SOUNDS LIKE A BROKEN RECORD" COME FROM?

Music used to be played on grooved discs, called records. When these discs were scratched or otherwise damaged, it would cause the same sound to be played over and over again. So to sound like a broken record was to repeat the same thing over and over.

7. WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF "LUGGAGE"?

People used to travel with big, heavy bags that had no wheels or collapsible handles. They had to "lug" these bags around from place to place.

8. WHY DO WE DESCRIBE HEALTH FOOD PLACES AS "GRANOLA"?

I know! Granola is full of gluten and sugar! But decades ago, granola was considered a healthy alternative to eggs, pancakes, and bacon, which were then considered unhealthy.

9. WHY DO WE "TURN" A DEVICE ON OR OFF?

Many devices used to require the user to turn a handle or knob in order to release the flow of an energy producing substance like gas, steam, or electricity. To stop the flow the knob would be turned back the other way and the device would cease operating.

10. WHY DO WE CALL IT A MESSAGE "BOARD"?

Before the internet, when people wanted to make an announcement or share information they would put it on a piece of paper and attach it to a board mounted in a public location where many people would see it.

11. WHY DO WE CALL SOME SHOWS "REALITY" TV?

Even though these shows do not actually show reality, at the time they first appeared, they were, in comparison, much less scripted and controlled than other shows, so they seemed somehow closer to the world as the way it was.

12. WHAT IS "CLOCKWISE"?

Clocks used to be a circular array of numbers, with pointers mounted on a controller in the center that moved around the circle over the course of the day. The direction that the pointers moved, beginning towards the right at the top of the circle, was referred to as clockwise.

13. WHY DO WE SAY "ON LINE" FOR COMPUTER THINGS?

In the early days of computing, when one machine needed to communicate with another, they had to be attached with a physical cord or "line." Processes that could be completed without this communication were "off line."

14. WHY DO WE SAY "REWIND" FOR A DO-OVER?

Video and audio used to be on strips of tape that moved across a reader in order to be played. A gear on one side would wind the tape, pulling across it the reader from a wheel on the other side. When you wanted to re-play a section you had just heard or seen, or go back to the beginning, you had to re-wind the tape in the other direction.

15. WHAT DOES "CC" MEAN ON AN EMAIL?

When you cc someone, you send them a copy of your message. It comes from carbon copy, an old method of creating copies of paper documents by transferring lines via carbon paper.

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Rhode Island beach evacuated after possible explosion injures woman

BY Rachelle Blidner / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS /

Published: Saturday, July 11, 2015, 2:20 PM

Rhode Island beach has been evacuated after a 50-year-old woman was injured in a possible explosion Saturday, officials said.

It had been a perfect day for the beach before a boom sent the woman out of her chair and into a rock wall at Salty Brine beach in Narragansett around 11:15 a.m., witnesses said.

Authorities said they're still trying to figure out what happened.

"There is no real evidence of a device so we are still trying to piece this together as far as what could have caused this explosion," Kurt Blanchard of the Rhode Island Environment Police told CNN.

The incident does not appear to be the work of terrorism, Larry Mouradjian, of the Department of Environmental Management, told the Providence Journal.

A bomb squad is investigating the scene, and samples of the beach are being taken after some witnesses reported a chemical smell.

A "loud deep rumbling" preceded the blast, which caused the woman to fly six feet in the air and land on her head, said Dave Dean, a Providence radio host who was at the beach at the time.

The victim was "trapped" under a pile of rocks before she was transported to a hospital, Rayna Maguire, spokeswoman for the department of emergency management, said.

Her condition was not immediately clear, although WPRI reported she was conscious as she was moved.



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Rhode Island beach evacuated after possible explosion injures woman

BY Rachelle Blidner / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS /

Published: Saturday, July 11, 2015, 2:20 PM

Rhode Island beach has been evacuated after a 50-year-old woman was injured in a possible explosion Saturday, officials said.

It had been a perfect day for the beach before a boom sent the woman out of her chair and into a rock wall at Salty Brine beach in Narragansett around 11:15 a.m., witnesses said.

Authorities said they're still trying to figure out what happened.

"There is no real evidence of a device so we are still trying to piece this together as far as what could have caused this explosion," Kurt Blanchard of the Rhode Island Environment Police told CNN.

The incident does not appear to be the work of terrorism, Larry Mouradjian, of the Department of Environmental Management, told the Providence Journal.

A bomb squad is investigating the scene, and samples of the beach are being taken after some witnesses reported a chemical smell.

A "loud deep rumbling" preceded the blast, which caused the woman to fly six feet in the air and land on her head, said Dave Dean, a Providence radio host who was at the beach at the time.

The victim was "trapped" under a pile of rocks before she was transported to a hospital, Rayna Maguire, spokeswoman for the department of emergency management, said.

Her condition was not immediately clear, although WPRI reported she was conscious as she was moved.

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Salty Brine Beach evacuated: Mysterious explosion left odd ground pattern clues

The Rhode Island beach that was the site of an explosion over the weekend is up and running as if nothing happened today. The sand erupted in an explosion on Saturday right underneath a 60-year-old woman reading her book while sitting by the rock jetty at the Salty Brine Beach. She was blown six feet into the air off her beach chair and landed about 10 feet away from where she was originally sitting.

According to “Fox and Friends” live on Monday July 13, the explosion knocked the woman unconscious. The Connecticut woman, Kathleen Danise, was taken to a local hospital, according to News Max today. Besides knocking her unconscious, she has a concussion, fractured ribs, internal bleeding and the blast had impacted her nose and ears with sand.

She said she remembers reading her book and watching a man put his scuba gear on and that was it, this is the last thing she remembers before waking up at South County Hospital in nearby Wakefield. Danise is out of the hospital today and back home in Waterbury recuperating.

Associate director of natural resources at the Department of Environmental Management, Larry Mouradjian, said that the explosion is now being considered as a “possible natural event.” He did say that the pattern on the sand in the aftermath of the explosion could have been caused by something natural. “There was some ground disturbance,” Mouradian said. “There were fissures created from an eruption from the ground.”

Yesterday Mouradjian said that he did examine the blast site and described it as "something you'd see when lightning hits the beach. There's definitely something that happened there," according to KY3 News. So was it a lightning strike on the beach that blew that woman off her chair? No one seems to know today.

According to the Boston Globe, the explosion occurred below the high-water mark on the sand. This is the area that is usually underwater during high tide. "Fox and Friends" said that the ground was checked and there was no gas line or anything else that could cause an explosion.

Local and state authorities spent the weekend investigating the explosion that happened just before lunch time on Saturday. Experts could not find a trace of a man-made explosion. Witnesses said they smelled a sulfur-like odor after the blast. While officials are leaning toward this being a natural explosion, they have not given any explanation as to what might cause this.

The ground rumbled before the sand erupted in the explosion, said Danise’s sister, Laura Demartino, who was at the beach with her at the time this occurred. She said she could see the rocks on the jetty move before the ground blew up, according to CBS News today.

There was no evidence found to suggest the cause, but officials are still looking into some other possibilities today. Daniese, who vacationed at this beach for years told the media she won’t be back until the cause of the explosion is found.

CBS News reports that officials are looking into a shift in the jetty or a buildup of gas as a possible cause for the blast. Officials said there is no doubt about some type of "ground disturbance" occurring at the site. "There was some type of noise and some type of energy transfer," Chief Kurt Blanchard, of the Rhode Island Dept. of Environmental Management.

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Idaho Mile Marker 419.9 to Thwart Pot-Smoking Collectors?



Idaho is now using mile marker 419.9 in place of a 420 mile marker on U.S. Highway 95 in hopes it will discourage marijuana enthusiasts from stealing it. Thefts of 420 mile marker signs have been common in Colorado and Washington, where marijuana is legal for recreational use, noted BuzzFeed News.

The number 420 and its association with marijuana dates back to 1971 when some high school friends in California marked the end of the school day (4:20 p.m.) so they could find a place to smoke pot, said BBC News. The rock band The Grateful Dead and its fans eventually picked up the term and popularized it.

High Times magazine, a publication focusing on marijuana, began using the number as well in the 1990s in reference to marijuana. With the legalization of marijuana, the 420 mile markers have become a sort of trophy for those supporting the marijuana culture.
"So this is our way to test it out. So far it's working," Amy Ford, a spokesperson with the Colorado Department of Transportation, told KUSA-TV last year. "It's a traffic safety thing. It's a helpful thing to have these signs on the road. But people kept ripping them off."

When Idaho started experiencing the same theft problem, it went with same solution with the sign just south of Coeur d'Alene, according to Mashable.

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Pastafarian allowed to wear colander for license photo

Religion uses parody to make point, says lawyer

UPDATED 11:18 AM EST Nov 16, 2015

WCVB —A Massachusetts woman has won a legal battle to wear a colander on her head in her state driver's license photo, according to a WCVB report. Lindsay Miller is a Pastafarian, who are known as members of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Pastafarians believe the Flying Spaghetti Monster to be a powerful force.

The secular religion views the existence of a FSM to be just as probable as the existence of the Christian God, according to an online post by the American Humanist Association, which assisted in Miller's dispute with the Registry of Motor Vehicles.

The religion denies it is either satirical or intended to be humorous, but rather based in science.

It describes heaven as a place with a "beer volcano" and "stripper factory." It attributes the invention of the lawn sprinkler to the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Anyone may become ordained for a $25 fee.

Lawyer Patty DeJuneas calls Pastafarianism a "secular religion that uses parody to make its point."

Pastafarians are encouraged to wear colanders on official identification photos and to assert their constitutional rights if denied.

The registry had denied Miller's request to wear a spaghetti strainer, citing its regulation that "A hat or other head cover is not acceptable, but if worn for medical or religious reasons, it may be allowed if it does not hide any facial features."

The association helped in filing an administrative appeal with the registry citing Miller's First Amendment rights. The registry allowed the photo before the appeal was heard.

Miller was then allowed to have her license photo taken with the colander on her head.

"The RMV processed the customer’s request consistent with its established facial image policy," a spokesman said.

"If people are given the right to wear religious garments in government ID photos, then this must extend to people who follow the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster," said David Niose, legal director of the Appignani Humanist Legal Center.

"Wearing a colander is a gesture to express their beliefs publicly," said Niose.

"As a member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, I feel delighted that my Pastafarianism has been respected by the Massachusetts RMV," Miller said in a statement.

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Owl attacks Louisiana officer, causes car crash
By Jareen Imam, CNN Updated 2:07 PM ET, Sat December 26, 2015



(CNN)—One unsuspecting Louisiana police officer was in for a hoot on Christmas Eve.

Covington Police officer Lance Benjamin was riding alone Thursday with his windows down, patrolling the quiet streets of a Louisiana subdivision, when he felt something hard hit the side of his face. At first Benjamin thought he was struck by a football, he told CNN affiliate WVUE. "And then I felt some scratching on the back of my head and some pecking," he said.

An owl had flown into the driver's side window and started attacking the officer with its wings, talons and beak. During the mayhem, the officer temporarily lost control of his patrol car and drove it into a ditch, according to the Covington Police Department. "I tried to keep control of my car, went into a ditch, avoided some trees. Finally was able to stop the car put it in park get out. And there he was, just chilling out in the car," he said.

Benjamin waited about 45 minutes for the owl to finally fly out of the car and into the darkness.

Chief of Police Tim Lentz, said he woke up to a text message early Christmas morning about an officer crashing a vehicle because of an owl. At first he thought it was a prank. After reviewing Benjamin's body camera footage, it was clear the altercation was real.

Fortunately, it's going to be "owl" right for the officer. Benjamin only suffered minor scratches and was given a tetanus shot and antibiotics after the surreal encounter. His fellow officers wanted to memorialize the event and presented Benjamin with a plush owl to accompany him during his late night rides.

After Benjamin was treated for his scratches, he finished the rest of his shift.

The raptor, which the Audubon Society identified from the video frame as a barred owl, is still at large.

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How to spot a sociopath - 10 red flags that could save you from being swept under the influence of a charismatic nut job


Friday, June 08, 2012
by Mike Adams

One of the more offensive duties of being an investigative journalist is taking out the trash -- exposing liars, fraudsters, con artists and scammers for the people they truly are. Each time we investigate a sociopath, we find that they always have a little cult group following of spellbound worshippers who consider that particular sociopath to be a "guru" or "prophet."

Sociopaths are masters at influence and deception. Very little of what they say actually checks out in terms of facts or reality, but they're extremely skillful at making the things they say sound believable, even if they're just making them up out of thin air. Here, I'm going to present quotes and videos of some legendary sociopaths who convinced everyday people to participate in mass suicides. And then I'm going to demonstrate how and why similar sociopaths are operating right now... today.

Why cover this subject? I've seen a lot of people get hoodwinked, scammed or even harmed by sociopaths, and it bewilders me that people are so easily sucked into their destructive influence. I want to share with Natural News readers the warning signs of sociopaths so that you can spot them, avoid them, and save yourself the trouble of being unduly influenced by them.

Much of this information is derived from the fascinating book, The Sociopath Next Door, which says that 4% of the population are sociopaths. The book is a fascinating read.


10 signs for spotting a sociopath
#1) Sociopaths are charming. Sociopaths have high charisma and tend to attract a following just because people want to be around them. They have a "glow" about them that attracts people who typically seek guidance or direction. They often appear to be sexy or have a strong sexual attraction. Not all sexy people are sociopaths, obviously, but watch out for over-the-top sexual appetites and weird fetishes.

#2) Sociopaths are more spontaneous and intense than other people. They tend to do bizarre, sometimes erratic things that most regular people wouldn't do. They are unbound by normal social contracts. Their behavior often seems irrational or extremely risky.

#3) Sociopaths are incapable of feeling shame, guilt or remorse. Their brains simply lack the circuitry to process such emotions. This allows them to betray people, threaten people or harm people without giving it a second thought. They pursue any action that serves their own self interest even if it seriously harms others. This is why you will find many very "successful" sociopaths in high levels of government, in any nation.

#4) Sociopaths invent outrageous lies about their experiences. They wildly exaggerate things to the point of absurdity, but when they describe it to you in a storytelling format, for some reason it sounds believable at the time.

#5) Sociopaths seek to dominate others and "win" at all costs. They hate to lose any argument or fight and will viciously defend their web of lies, even to the point of logical absurdity.

#6) Sociopaths tend to be highly intelligent, but they use their brainpower to deceive others rather than empower them. Their high IQs often makes them dangerous. This is why many of the best-known serial killers who successfully evaded law enforcement were sociopaths.

#7) Sociopaths are incapable of love and are entirely self-serving. They may feign love or compassion in order to get what they want, but they don't actually FEEL love in the way that you or I do.

#8) Sociopaths speak poetically. They are master wordsmiths, able to deliver a running "stream of consciousness" monologue that is both intriguing and hypnotic. They are expert storytellers and even poets. As a great example of this in action, watch this interview of Charles Manson on YouTube.

#9) Sociopaths never apologize. They are never wrong. They never feel guilt. They can never apologize. Even if shown proof that they were wrong, they will refuse to apologize and instead go on the attack.

#10) Sociopaths are delusional and literally believe that what they say becomes truth merely because they say it! Charles Manson, the sociopathic murderer, is famous for saying, "I've never killed anyone! I don't need to kill anyone! I THINK it! I have it HERE! (Pointing to his temple.) I don't need to live in this physical realm..."

Watch Charles Manson saying this at the 3:05 mark of this YouTube video.


How to dispel illusion and get to the truth
Sociopaths are masters at weaving elaborate fictional explanations to justify their actions. When caught red-handed, they respond with anger and threats, then weave new fabrications to explain away whatever they were caught doing.

A sociopath caught red-handed with a suitcase full of cash he just stole, for example, might declare he had actually rescued the money from being stolen by someone else, and that he was attempting to find its rightful owner. He's the hero, see? And yet, in reality, he will simply pocket the money and keep it. If you question him about the money, he will attack you for questioning his honesty.

Sociopaths are masters are presenting themselves as heroes with high morals and philosophy, yet underneath it they are the true criminal minds in society who steal, undermine, deceive, and often incite emotional chaos among entire communities. They are masters at turning one group of people against another group while proclaiming themselves to be the one true savior. Wherever they go, they create strife, argument and hatred, yet they utterly fail to see their own role in creating it. They are delusional at so many levels that their brains defy logical reasoning.

You cannot reason with a sociopath. Attempting to do so only wastes your time and annoys the sociopath.


Tip for exposing sociopaths: Start fact-checking something they claim
One simple method for dispelling sociopathic delusion is to start fact checking their claims. Do any of their claims actually check out? If you start digging, you will usually find a pattern of frequent inconsistencies. Confront the suspected sociopath with an inconsistency and see what happens: Most sociopaths will become angry or aggressive when their integrity is questioned, whereas a sane person would simply be happy to help clear up any misinformation or misunderstanding.

Beware of fact-checking the sociopath by asking other people under his or her influence. A sociopath will usually have a small group of cult-like followers who not only believe their fictional tales, but who actually internalize those fictions to the point where they rewrite their own memories to be consistent with them. If a guru-style sociopath talks about his "levitation sessions" over and over again, some of his believers will sooner or later start to form false memories in which they imagine seeing him levitate off the floor. So if you ask those people, "Did you actually ever see this person levitate?" They will enthusiastically say, "Yes!" Because in their own minds, that illusion has become something indistinguishable from a vivid memory.

Much the same thing is true with sociopathic politicians. If a particularly charismatic politician claims he has "created millions of jobs" even though his economic policies have actually destroyed jobs and caused widespread unemployment, his cult-like followers will repeat his lie and publicly proclaim how many jobs that person has created.

That's why fact-checking a sociopath requires evidence from outside his circle of influence. Does anything he say actually check out in the real world, outside his sphere of direct control? If not, you've probably spotted a sociopath.

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