The Window People 06 - Snake Sheds Skin
06 - Snake Sheds Skin (Jeffery David Harris feat. Messina Trefethen and Deflated Monkey). This album is a collection of songs by artists working together in 2003. Most of the songs on the...
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In May, a routine traffic stop turned deadly for a Michigan retiree, but cell phone video seemed to contradict police accounts of the event.
As in other cases involving allegations of excessive force by police, a grand jury called to look into Charles Eimers' death chose not to indict the officers. Now, a new video is raising questions about what that grand jury didn't see, CBS News' Elaine Quijano reports.
On Thanksgiving morning last year, Eimers drove into Key West, Florida, planning a dream retirement, but not long after arriving he was pulled over by police for illegally changing lanes.
For reasons nobody knows, Eimers fled, running red lights as he drove through town. Officers caught up with him on a beach.
Police told emergency medical services that Eimers left his vehicle, ran and collapsed on the beach. He went into a coma and his family took him off life support a week later.
But in May, CBS obtained the cell phone video. In it, Eimers didn't collapse; he surrendered and is surrounded by police. His son, Treavor, believed the family was lied to.
"I believe my father was asphyxiated on the beach in Key West by the officers involved that day," Treavor said.
The medical examiner said the cause of death was lack of oxygen to the brain, but that it was due to Eimers' pre-existing heart condition and the struggle with police. The death was ruled an accident.
In the autopsy, the medical examiner also considered the results of a Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) investigation into the incident, which determined Eimers' face was not forced into the sand and that initial photographs showed only a light dusting of sand on his face.
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The Retreat by George Isaac Sidebottom, a patient at the York Retreat, one of the first institutions where people with mental health problems were treated with dignity. Photograph: Borthwick Institute for Archives
Talk of Victorian asylums conjures up images of manacled and wretched patients suffering callous and ineffective treatments or being gawped at by a morbidly fascinated public like exhibits in a human zoo. However, a new project to digitise historical psychiatric records reveals an enormous range of care in the 18th and 19th centuries, including more genteel treatment for the upper and middle classes, as well as early developments in art therapy.
The Wellcome Library part of the Wellcome Trust is creating an online archive of more than 800,000 pages of documents from private and public asylums featuring doctors notes and patients artwork and writing.
It is working with other archives across the UK to provide fascinating detail of institutions efforts to improve the morals and morale of patients.
Lesley Hall, a senior archivist at the Wellcome Library, explains that there was a market in psychiatric care that mirrored the class system, from institutions that catered for the middle classes, such as the Camberwell House asylum, in south London, to the most exclusive, such as Ticehurst House hospital in Sussex.
Ticehurst really was the lunatic asylum of choice for mad dukes, she says. It positioned itself in the market place to appeal to people who could afford quite high fees to make sure their insane relative is being cared for in very pleasant rural surroundings, in beautifully landscaped grounds and with a very high staff-patient ratio, shesays.
Somewhere like Camberwell House asylum never really appealed to what you might call the carriage trade. They ended up in a kind of public-private arrangement with the local Poor Law authorities to take in pauper lunatics under a contract because there is no large local authority asylum in the area at that time.
The York Retreat, founded by William Tuke and the Society of Friends (Quakers) in 1792, was one of the first institutions where people with mental health problems were treated humanely and with dignity. Katherine Webb, archivist at the Borthwick Institute for Archives in York, which holds the historical records on the retreat says: The great difference between workingclass and middle-class care isthat the families of potential middleclass patients could choose what asylum they could send their relatives to. If you were working class you didnt have that choice.
The flip side of this was that the best private asylums could afford to be picky with the patients they accepted. Ticehurst, for example, avoided taking violent patients. However, the records show there was some unruly behaviour. Hall says: I rather like the case of the Reverend Patterson who was a Church of England clergyman who behaved in a very un-reverend fashion. He threw a chair through a window, he expressed himself in violent and coarse language and he also groped the male servants. But thats quite unusual. You dont often get the sense they were sexually violent at the Ticehurst.
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Houston oil and gas explorer Apache Corp. (APA) , which has been pressured by activist investor Jana Partners LLC to shed its international assets, said Monday, Dec. 15, it agreed to sell its interest in liquefied natural gas projects and their related oil and gas reserves in Australia and Canada to Woodside Petroleum Ltd. for $2.75 billion.
The company will also be reimbursed for net expenditures on the projects between June 30 and closing, which is expected to bring in another $1 billion.
Apache will sell its equity ownership in its Australian unit, Apache Julimar Pty Ltd., which owns 13% of the Wheatstone project and 65% of the WA-49-L block, including the Julimar/Brunello offshore gas fields and the Balnaves oil development. It's also selling its 50% stake in the Kitimat project and related exploration and production acreage in the Horn River and Liard natural gas basins in British Columbia, Canada.
Apache thinks net proceeds will reach $3.7 billion. The sale will trigger an estimated $650 million cash tax liability, $600 million of which is associated with the income tax due on Apache's overall foreign loss account balance. Apache expects that it will have the flexibility to repatriate cash generated from foreign operations and future international strategic transactions with minimal U.S. cash tax impact.
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Channel 9 has obtained a report that sheds light on the evidence that led police in Holly Hill to question whether or not Timothy Englehardt's shooting death was suicide. Police are now saying someone else also had his hands on the gun that fired, killing Englehardt. Holly Hill police announced late Monday that they plan to charge Jacob Eldred with improperly showing a dangerous weapon, a misdemeanor, in connection to Englehardt's death. Eldred was a friend of the victim. Investigators said Englehardt was with Eldred on Sept. 13 when the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University student died from a gunshot wound to the head. Englehardt's parents and police said from the beginning they did not believe the man killed himself. Investigators confirmed at least five people were at the home drinking alcohol just before the shooting. Witnesses told police Englehardt became suicidal after a phone call. They said Eldred then took out his own gun, removed the clip and held it up to dissuade Englehardt. According to a police report, Englehardt grabbed the gun, pointed it toward his head and fired. Eldred has not been charged. Police said they have forwarded their case file to the State Attorney's Office with only a recommendation for charges.
Englehardt's father told Channel 9's Mario Boone that the family is not satisfied with the police investigation and plan to hire a private investigator to look into the incident.
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DENVER A second video showing how some Denver Police officers behaved during and after the arrest of a pair of unarmed drug suspects sheds new light on allegations of misconduct.
The incident in question is the August arrest of Honduran immigrant David Flores and his pregnant girlfriend Myra Lyzos-Guererro by members of District Four Narcotics Team and several uniformed officers.
On a recording shot by witness Levi Frasier, a uniformed officer is seen punching Flores in the face six times in an attempt to get him to open his mouth. That same officer also does a leg sweep on Guererro.
Flores ended up going to the hospital.
Denver police have repeatedly released statements saying the use of force was reasonable, but after Frasiers video surfaced in November, internal affairs reopened the investigation into the case.
FOX31 Denver has learned that one of the additional items police investigators are reviewing is video from a city-operated HALO camera. The camera is mounted on a pole about three blocks from the arrest scene at West 5th Avenue and Federal Boulevard.
Levi Frasier, a citizen who shot the street-level recording on his Samsung tablet and provided it to FOX31 Denver for air three weeks ago, has told the FBI he was threatened with incarceration unless he turned over his tablet to Denver officers.
Frasier also says when he refused police took it anyway without a warrant, scrolled through his electronic device, then when they returned it, he could not find the video clip. He later restored it from the cloud.
Denver police have attacked Frasiers credibility by publicly releasing his criminal record and telling FOX31 Denver he is a liar.
However, the HALO video appears to support most of what Frasier has been saying from day one.
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December 15, 2014
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Mammals that lived during the time of the dinosaurs are often portrayed as innocuous, small-bodied creatures, scurrying under the feet of the huge reptiles. In reality, this wasnt the case, and a new fossil from Madagascar further underscores this point, revealing fascinating perspectives on the growing diversity of Mesozoic mammals.Vintana sertich had previously been described in a preliminary note in November of this year, but a new memoir in theJournal of Vertebrate Paleontology delves far deeper into the morphology and paleoecology of this amazing fossil animal. The memoir brings together multiple experts to conduct a range of descriptive and comparative analyses and consists of multiple papers describing the geological setting of the fossil, its cranial anatomy, its dental morphology and function, its braincase, and its sensory abilities.
David W. Krause of Stony Brook University, the editor of the volume and lead investigator on the project, says, From an organizational perspective, there are two things about this monograph with which I am particularly delighted. First, that I was fortunate enough to be able to assemble such an outstandingly capable mix of specialists, students, and technicians to focus their attention on this amazing specimen. Second, the emphasis on micro-CT imaging, and the thousands of hours spent on digital segmentation of each cranial element, was instrumental in allowing us to describe and understand the detailed internal anatomy of the cranium of this bizarre mammal.
Vintana is a member of an extinct and, until now, very poorly known group of mammals, the gondwanatherians, which are named based on their geographic distribution on the southern continents, also known as Gondwana. Previously known fossils of gondwanatherians had consisted only of isolated teeth and a few fragmentary lower jaw specimens. The new specimen is a nearly complete and only slightly distorted cranium, which was painstakingly removed from a large block of sediment and later micro-CT scanned to provide fine details of both the external and internal anatomy of the animal. These scans also allowed the investigators to digitally separate, or segment, individual cranial bones and allowed them to virtually dissect the specimen without actually destroying it. These hi-res scans also allowed the authors to include with the memoir, as supplementary material, 3D-interactive PDFs and high-resolution images.
Image: Top: Right lateral (side) view of the actual specimen of Vintana sertichi. Middle: Digitally segmented version of the skull, with individual bones highlighted in unique colors. Bottom: Reconstruction of the head of Vintana sertichi. Credit: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Krause says, We hope that the memoir will serve as a useful reference for all future discoveries and analyses of gondwanatherian mammals represented by craniodental material.
The cranium displays some bizarre features, like enlarged flanges for attachment of chewing muscles, a strangely tilted braincase, and large eye sockets. Analysis of these features and others reveals that Vintana was a badger-sized, herbivorous animal that was agile and active, with keen senses of smell, vision, and hearing.
John Wible, of the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh and one of the experts on the investigation who analyzed the skull and ear region of the fossil, says With this monograph, the shroud of mystery over the enigmatic, extinct mammal clade Gondwanatheria is lifted. Through CT scans, the amazingly preserved skull ofVintana sertich is dissected, described, and reconstructed. The authors breathe life into this fossil by reconstructing its brain, inner ear, jaw musculature, orbit, and nasal cavity, and set the bar high for how such studies will be done in the future.
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Mumbai, Dec 16:
The Sensex and the Nifty plunged nearly 1.3 per cent on sustained selling by funds and retail investors owing to weak global cues.
Domestic sentiment was dampened as crude oil prices sank to fresh multi-year lows and the rupee breached the 63-level mark to trade at 63.47 against the dollar on heavy dollar demand and fresh capital outflows.
At 11.45 a.m., the 30-share BSE index Sensex was trading down by 361.98 points at 26,957.58 and the 50-share NSE index Nifty fell 110.95 points to trade at 8,108.65.
Sectoral indices
Barring IT and TECk, all other BSE sectoral indices were trading significantly in the red. Among them, metal index fell the most by 3.00 per cent, followed by realty 2.87 per cent, consumer durables 2.56 per cent and banking 2.15 per cent, while IT index was up 1.46 per cent and TECk 0.94 per cent.
Gainers, losers
TCS (2.34%), BHEL (1.19%), Infosys (0.78%) and Wipro (0.58%) were the only four Sensex gainers, while the top five losers were Hindalco (6.13%), SSLT (5.04%), ICICI Bank (3.52%), Dr Reddy's (3.05%) and ONGC (3.00%).
Early trade
The markets fell soon after the morning bell, dragged down by auto, metal and banking stocks. The Sensex tumbled 273.05 points, or 1 per cent, to 27,046.51. The gauge had lost 511.54 points in the previous three sessions. Similarly, the Nifty declined by 64 points, or 0.78 per cent, to 8,155.60.
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LONDON (MarketWatch) The U.K.s benchmark stock index erased an earlier gain and finished sharply lower Monday, with oil shares pulling back and mining companies falling further.
The FTSE 100 UKX, -1.87% closed down 1.9% at 6,182.72, its sixth consecutive loss and lowest close since June 2013, according to FactSet data.
An earlier rise for the benchmark was supported by gains among oil and gas shares as oil prices had been turning positive. But those moves fell apart, with West Texas Intermediate crude-oil futures CLF5, -0.70% falling below $57 a barrel. Brent crude futures LCOF5, -0.82% returned below $62 a barrel.
There was an element of misplaced optimism in early trade as (Brent Crude) oil found some buyers at $60/bbl this helped to lead indices higher with many falsely caught long on what was essentially some profit taking on last weeks sell off, offered Brenda Kelly, chief market strategist at IG, in emailed comments.
Among oil majors, BP PLC BP., -3.22% fell 3.2% and Royal Dutch Shell PLC RDSB, -2.09% lost 2.1%.
After ranking at the top of the FTSE 100 earlier Monday, Tullow Oil PLC TLW, -2.31% shares fell 2.3% and BG Group PLC BG., -2.92% gave up 2.9%, with the shares suffering in recent sessions as oil prices have tumbled to five-year lows due to oversupply concerns.
The oil and gas group last week dropped more than 3%.
The London benchmark also turned lower along with the broader European market on Monday, with Russian stocks and the ruble sliding further against the U.S. dollar. Russias central bank said Monday it expects a deeper economic contraction if oil prices stay at the $60-a-barrel level.
Miners BHP Billiton PLC BLT, -3.70% BHP, -2.23% BHP, -3.21% and Rio Tinto PLC RIO, -2.46% RIO, -2.58% RIO, -1.59% came under further pressure as the session wore on, down by 3.7% and 2.5%, respectively. BHP was downgraded at RBC Capital Markets to underperform from sector-perform.
Separately, Australia on Monday projected iron-ore prices will trade around $60 a metric ton, much lower than its previous estimate of $92 a metric ton.
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