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Toroid

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Hubble found a smiley.
The Hubble Telescope Has Found a Smile in Space to Warm Your Heart
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nivek

As Above So Below
'Go home!': Residents in an upscale Tijuana neighborhood throw rocks at the migrant caravan and order them out of Mexico

Migrants travelling in a caravan from Central America were abused and had rocks thrown at them in a neighborhood in Tijuana as they reached the Mexican border.

A small group of residents in an upscale Tijuana neighborhood near the Mexican border confronted caravan migrants late on Wednesday, throwing stones and telling them to go back to their home countries.

'Get out of here,' around 20 people shouted at a camp of Hondurans near the border. 'We want you to return to your country. You are not welcome'.

Migrants shouted back and dozens of police officers had to create a blockade between them in a city known for welcoming both American tourists and thousands of immigrants every year.

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nivek

As Above So Below
Tear gas used once a month at border under Obama

The same tear-gas agent that the Trump administration is taking heat for deploying against a border mob this weekend is actually used fairly frequently — including more than once a month during the later years of President Barack Obama’s administration, according to Homeland Security data.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has used 2-chlorobenzylidene malononitrile, or CS, since 2010, and deployed it 26 times in fiscal 2012 and 27 times in 2013. The use dropped after that, but was still deployed three times in 2016, Mr. Obama’s final full year in office.

Use of CS rose again in fiscal 2017, which was split between Mr. Obama and Mr. Trump, and reached 29 deployments in fiscal 2018, which ended two months ago, according to CBP data seen by The Washington Times.

Border authorities also use another agent, pepper spray, frequently — including a decade-high record of 151 instances in 2013, also under Mr. Obama. Pepper spray, officially known as Pava Capsaicin, was used 43 times in fiscal year 2018, according to the CBP numbers.

The data poses a challenge to the current anger over the Border Patrol’s use of tear gas Sunday to prevent a mob from busting through sections of old border fence in California.

Critics, including Latin American leaders, immigrant-rights advocates and congressional Democrats, have said use of tear gas is “un-American.”
 

michael59

Celestial
Video released of botched gender reveal that sparked Sawmill Fire

The fire burned near 50,000 acres in 2017 south of Tucson. The person responsible was sentenced to probation and ordered to pay $8 million in restitution.


 

Toroid

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An ATM machine was found in the woods. They believe it may have been dumped there by a group of people and it was undamaged as if they didn't want to get inside. It could have just been placed there as a prank.
An ATM was found in the Maine woods. No one knows where it came from.
The Hancock County Sheriff’s Office wants to know: Have you lost an ATM recently? Misplaced it, perhaps?

Yes, you read that correctly — an ATM.

A North Deer Isle woman put Detective Steve McFarland onto one of the strangest found-property cases he’s seen in his 30-year career when she reported finding the computer-driven money dispenser at about 7:15 a.m. Tuesday, he said.

“The lady was out for a walk, like she does every day, and saw it standing upright on the edge of the woods right where she walked, and she called us,” McFarland said Wednesday. “She said, ‘This does not look right.’”

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McFarland saw immediately what she meant when he got to the site of the discovery, in woods about six-tenths of a mile off a dirt road, Dexter Farm Road, which runs off Route 15 in North Deer Isle.

Footprints left in the snow — likely those of the several people who placed it there — ringed the Tidel ATM machine. McFarland recognized it immediately as a common brand, the smaller kind typically found in convenience stores, he said, and it was alongside another, smaller dirt road in an area frequented by outdoorsmen.

“It was set up like a hunter might need quick cash for a cup of coffee in the middle of the woods,” McFarland said.

It’s not unheard of for police to discover this kind of machinery cast away in hard-to-reach spots, but that’s usually in cases of burglary, where somebody breaks into a convenience store after closing and carts away the ATM, McFarland said.

Lesser burglars leave them along roads, badly damaged after being pried open, usually tossed out of a moving vehicle, like a pickup truck.

But this machine is intact, and no one has reported one missing or stolen recently, McFarland said. A tip received Wednesday afternoon that it might be an ATM stolen from a diner in Brunswick last fall turned out to be a dead end.
“Usually they are just thrown out into the woods, ripped open and smashed to pieces,” McFarland said. “If you wanted cash out of it, you certainly would have ripped it open.”

One clue that supports this theory: when McFarland plugged in the machine, it didn’t work.

“It is a little bit older machine, when you look at it up close. I am thinking it was discontinued from service and somebody wanted to get rid of it and thought it would be a good joke,” McFarland said.

McFarland hasn’t broken open the machine to see if it has money in it. He is trying to trace the machine to its owner through its serial number and manufacturer.

He says he is prepared to go along with the humor, up to a point, if the owner or whoever left the ATM in the woods would call him at 207-667-7575.

“I could charge them with littering, but I doubt it. I don’t think I would do that,” he said. “I would probably want the owner to come get it and dispose of it more appropriately.”
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