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The coronavirus is infecting New Yorkers of all stripes.

A 4-year-old Malayan tiger at the Bronx Zoo has tested positive for the COVID-19 bug after developing a dry cough, the in a statement Sunday.

“Nadia, a 4-year-old female Malayan tiger …

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A ‘warm’ and ‘humble’ William and Kate on ‘A Berry Royal Christmas’ brought comparisons to Harry and Meghan’s TV special, in which they aired their grievances about ‘unfair’ media attention.

Prince William and Kate Middleton got playfully competitive as they …

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WBN Vs MAZ Dream11, Team Probable Playing 11 And Match Report: Two lowly placed sides look to come pull off an elusive win come today’s contest.

Regressing and unravelling, for both Werder Bremen and Mainz, today’s imminent encounter comes bearing …

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WARREN, Mich. (CBS DETROIT) – Warren De La Salle is on lockdown due to a social media threat, according to police.

A planned student protest was scheduled for Tuesday morning.

Police believe the threat is not credible.

The school’s administrators …

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WASHINGTON — The Trump White House hit back at U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin on Tuesday after the Michigan congresswoman said she would support impeaching the president in a vote expected this week.

Slotkin, D-Holly, announced in the Free Press on Monday …

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The final two months of Cachin Anderson’s life in New York’s prison system were filled with warnings he was a man in crisis.

He climbed on a sink and dove headfirst at the floor, saying …

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To celebrate the great works of Kyoto Animation and Sound! Euphonium, a Christmas Concert was held in Uji, Kyoto with music from the series being played by live bands. After the horrific attack on Kyoto Animation on July 18, …

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A Japanese ex-soldier who disappeared after World War II and was officially declared dead in 2000 has turned up alive in Ukraine.

Ishinosuke Uwano was serving with the Japanese Imperial Army in Russia’s Sakhalin Island when the war ended. He …

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Being a sloth isn’t all lazing around in trees and munching on leaves. Occasionally, the slow-moving animals have to make their way to the forest floor to do the one task no animal can escape: pooping. It’s a much more …

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KEY POINTS

• Geopolitical tensions between Russia and Ukraine, U.S. gas exports to Europe and controversial pipeline projects – just some issues complicating a new gas deal between Russia and Ukraine.
• Ukraine and Russia are involved in an unresolved conflict over

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Dementia can be a devastating disease, and the illness is often difficult not only on the person living with it, but on their family members as well. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, in the U.S., 16.3 million family members …

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A Princeton University scholar who was freed from Iran this month after three years in captivity said Monday that his release “is a victory of humanity and diplomacy across nations and political differences.”

Xiyue Wang and his …

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Five Italian hotel workers who filmed themselves raping a British mother on the last day of her holiday have been jailed for a total of 36 years.

The 50-year-old woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was attacked while …

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A winter wonderland this ain’t.

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This picture was uploaded anonymously Monday on 4chan, proclaiming, “This is the lettuce you eat at Burger King.”

These Burger King employees might be good at balancing themselves on buckets of vegetation, but they’re not very good at removing Exif data from their photos. The denizens of 4chan were quick to notice, and the lettuce-stepper was fired they very next day.

The original post went live on July 16 at 11:38 p.m.

At 11:47 p.m., another 4chan user noted that the photo’s Exif data pointed to Mayfield Heights, Ohio.

At 11:50 p.m., just 12 minutes later, someone posted the address of the Burger King branch in which the lettuce-stepping occurred, wishing the OP a happy unemployment.

At 11:55 p.m., someone contacted the news.

At 11:58 p.m., someone posted the link to Burger King’s Tell Us About Us form, with the photo attached.

And things happen fast these days on the web. (Just check out this thread.)

The next morning, Cleveland Scene Magazine contacted the Burger King establishment and talked to the breakfast shift manager, who, upon seeing the offending photo, said “Oh, I know who that is. He’s getting fired.”

Shortly after, Fox 8 News received this statement from Burger King’s Manager of Global Communications, Denise Wilson:

Burger King Corp. has recently been made aware of a photo posted on a social networking site that allegedly shows a Burger King restaurant employee violating the company’s stringent food handling procedures. Food safety is a top priority at all Burger King restaurants, and the company maintains a zero-tolerance policy against any violations such as the one in question.

The restaurant where this photo was allegedly taken is independently owned and operated by a Burger King franchisee. The franchisee has taken swift action to investigate this matter and terminated the employee involved in this incident.

And there you go. Swift and sure punishment for standing on the people’s lettuce and posting it on 4chan.

This article originally published at Geekosystem here

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If we want to change the story of the human race in the 21st century, we have to change the stories we tell ourselves.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.

~ Charles Dickens (1859)

Just like you, we watched the news this year. We submitted ourselves to this crazy, collective global experiment: take a nervous system that’s evolved for running away from cheetahs, and give it a big glowing screen showing it all the bad things happening in the world in near real time.

That wasn’t the whole story though. There was other news this year, stories of conservation, health, rising living standards, tolerance, peace, cleaner energy and environmental stewardship. Unfortunately that stuff didn’t make it into our Facebook feeds or onto the evening broadcasts and that means that what we saw on our screens in 2019 was not the world. It was a negative image of the world, in both the photographic and tonal senses.

1.

New surveys revealed that the population of humpback whales in the South Atlantic region now number 24,900 — almost 93% of their population size before they were hunted to the brink of extinction. BBC

2.

Chinese authorities began preparations for the creation of the largest national park in the country’s history, covering an area of 27,134 km², and home to more than 1,200 wild giant pandas. NatGeo

3. The indigenous Waorani community of Ecuador won a landmark case against oil companies this year, protecting 180,000 hectares of their land against exploitation. Al Jazeera

4.

In 2019, the United States passed a new law outlawing animal cruelty, China issued guidelines stating that from 2020 non-animal testing will be the preferred method for cosmetic products, and in Australia, cosmetics companies were banned from using data derived from animal testing.

5.

Dolphins are breeding in the Potomac River in Washington for the first time since the 1880s, whale populations are exploding off the shores of New York, and 100 seal pups have been born on the shores of the Thames, 60 years after the river was declared ‘biologically dead.’ Telegraph

6.

In July, Ethiopia smashed the world record for tree planting. Led by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, millions of Ethiopians planted 353 million trees in 12 hours. BBC

7.

The city of Seoul shut down all its remaining dog butcheries this year, and the Netherlands became the first country in the world to eliminate all stray dogs – not by euthanasia, but through education, free veterinary care and re-homing. Amsterdam Hangout

8.

In Kenya, poaching rates have dropped by 85% for rhinos and 78% for elephants in the last five years, in South Africa, the number of rhinos killed by poachers fell by 25%, the fifth annual decrease in a row, and in Mozambique, one of Africa’s largest wildlife reserves went an entire year without losing a single elephant.

9.

Belize doubled the size of ocean reserves around the world’s second largest barrier reef, South Africa increased its proportion of protected waters from 0.4% to 5.4%, Argentina created two new marine parks in the South Atlantic, bringing total protected areas to 8%.

10.

Canada became the first country in the world to protect more than 10% of its ocean waters, after the government partnered with Inuit custodians to create a vast new conservation zone in the Arctic – the Tuvaijuittuq Marine Protected Area and the Tallurutiup Imanga National Marine Conservation Area. National Observer

11.

India reported that its population of tigers has risen by over a third since 2014, and in Siberia, an unprecedented collaboration between China and Russia has paved the way for a new transnational park for the Amur leopard and the Siberian tiger.

12.

Since 1990, France’s forest areas have increased by 7%, in Nepal, satellite images revealed that forests expanded from 26% in 1992 to 45% in 2016, and Costa Rica announced it has doubled its forest cover in the last 30 years; half its land surface is now covered with trees, a huge carbon sink and a big draw for tourists.

13.

A new study revealed that the status of Great Britain’s carnivores has “improved markedly since the 1960s.” Thanks to conservation efforts, otters, pine martens, badgers and polecats have staged remarkable recoveries. Wiley

14.

Canada banned the trade, possession, capture and breeding of whales, dolphins and porpoises, passed a Fisheries Act containing a legally binding requirement to rebuild fish populations, and unveiled new standards for marine protected areas, banning all oil-and-gas activity as well as mining, dumping and bottom-trawling.

15.

An unprecedented conservation effort returned the Mexican Grey Wolf from the brink of extinction, giving it a new home in a reserve with other species endemic to its former territories, such as prairie dogs, bison, and longhorn sheep. Mexico News Daily

16.

China’s tree stock rose by 4.56 billion m³ between 2005 and 2018, deserts are shrinking by 2,400 km² a year, and forests now account for 22% of land area. SCMP

17.

The US Senate passed its most sweeping conservation legislation in a decade, protecting 1.3 million acres and withdrawing 370,000 acres from land available to mining companies. LA Times

18.

Algeria and Argentina officially eliminated malaria this year, and the WHO said that in the last eight years, malaria infections in Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam dropped by 76%, and deaths fell by 95%. India also reported a huge reduction in malaria, with 2.6 million fewer cases in 2018 than in 2017. Nature

19.

The Global Burden of Disease Report said that between 1990 and 2017, the number of kids and teenagers dying around the world decreased by more than half, from 13.77 million to 6.64 million. CNN

20.

Remember bird flu, the disease that was going to be the next global pandemic? There hasn’t been a single H5N1 human infection since February 2017. STAT

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In the month before and the month after the Aug. 4 Oregon District shootings, 19 more people died of gun-related injuries in Montgomery County. Four died in Warren County, all from suicide. In the four-county region, 24 died.

As the debates on gun legislation have played out in Columbus since Aug. 4, relatives of victims in those other cases say they are looking for ways to curb these other deaths as well while much of the national attention has been directed toward the mass shooting.

Craig Cortner III, a 29-year-old father of three, was shot dead 12 hours before the Oregon District shooting. He was gunned down on South Euclid Street in Dayton’s Edgemont neighborhood and died at an apartment complex. His death is still under investigation.

“They haven’t even caught his killer or killers — we don’t know,” said Tianisha Payne, Cortner’s cousin. “This summer has been so tough.”

The Oregon District shootings killed nine people as well as the shooter, Connor Betts. Gov. Mike DeWine, saying he was responding to demands that he ‘Do Something,’ introduced a slate of proposals this fall. Other bills and initiatives have also been introduced.

The bills under consideration would impact the wider number of gun deaths in different ways.

Some of the other gun victims this summer died by suicide in their homes. Two women died at the hands of their ex-boyfriends. One man died while police tried to subdue him after a traffic stop and foot chase.

In a recent speech, Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley pointed out how the mass shooting garnered enormous interest while the others have become “routine” – though they all “represent a crisis of gun violence in our community.”

Gun violence kills about 1,500 people in Ohio each year, including 213 last year in the Dayton-Springfield area. The majority of these deaths are suicides.

At the Ohio Statehouse, state lawmakers are debating how to best curb gun violence and are currently considering two dozen bills — about half of which call for restricting access to firearms and half call for expanding gun rights. Several measures have the backing of Gov. Mike DeWine. There is also ‘Stand Your Ground’ legislation being considered that would remove the legal duty to retreat from danger in public places before using deadly force in self-defense.

Senate Bill 221, the governor’s STRONG Ohio plan, would expand the use of ‘pink slips’ to involuntarily hospitalize people deemed to be a danger, create a voluntary background system for private party gun sales, and expand penalties for gun crimes.

Survivors of gun violence say they are looking for something to change.

“We hurt so bad because we’re losing our black men, our black babies and it’s not being televised because it’s made out to be the norm. It’s not normal,” said Payne, who runs a non-profit focused on African-American girls.

Cortner’s nephew, 18-year-old Stefoun Deray Hunter, died Oct. 26, three days after being shot in the face on Windsor Avenue in Dayton, she said. Another cousin, Jonte’ Tinsley, 18, a college football player, was shot to death June 9 while at a Sweet 16 party in Harrison Twp.

“We got to get a fire ignited. We got to save our people,” said Payne, who sees opportunities to help struggling families as the answer. The community has “missing loops” because so many people have been jailed, killed or overdosed that generations of children don’t have stable adults in their lives, she said.

Six in 10 gun deaths in Ohio are suicides

About 24 hours before the Oregon District shooting, Gary Dean Huber, a 76-year-old man, shot himself in the chest at his Huber Heights home. A U.S. Air Force veteran, he had served three tours of duty in Vietnam. He left behind four children, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, his obituary said.

Huber’s stepdaughter Angelia Sanders of Colorado said Huber had been widowed and was going through health problems and had been depressed for several years. Even if the law allowed for the removal of his guns, Sanders said she is convinced Huber would have found another way to kill himself.

“It’s not the gun, it’s the person,” she said. “If people don’t get help, they’ll find out another way to do it.”

Across the nation and the state, 60 percent of gun deaths are suicides; in Montgomery County, 51 percent of gun deaths have been suicides since 2007.

Suicide by firearms are increasing. Since 2007, there have been 10,024 suicides by gun in Ohio. Last year, 974 Ohioans used guns to end their lives, up from 654 in 2007 — a 49 percent increase.

“There are a lot more people who are close to the edge than you realize. The old meme ‘check on your strong friends’ is a real thing,” said the Rev. Peter Matthews of McKinley United Methodist Church in Dayton.

Dayton Police Major Brian Johns said, “There is no doubt suicides are tragedies as well, especially when you think about a human being getting to the point where they take their own life like that. We deal with those cases as well.”

If you are in crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (800-273-8255) to reach a trained counselor.

Across the United States, 51 percent of all suicide deaths involved firearms, the most lethal method of completing suicide. Ninety-two percent of firearms suicides are completed, compared with 78 percent for hanging and lower for other methods, according to the American Public Health Association.

States with “red flag laws” — allowing for a court order to seize weapons from people who are deemed to be a danger to themselves or others — have seen an impact on suicide rates.

Researchers at the University of Indianapolis reported that Indiana’s red flag law led to a 7.5 percent decline in firearm suicides, relative to expected rates, and the study estimated that 383 firearm suicides were prevented in the 10 years after enactment of the law.

DeWine is not advocating for a red flag law in Ohio. Instead, he wants to expand the use of “pink slips” — a 72-hour hospitalization hold for mental health evaluations — to cover those suffering from substance use disorder and chronic alcoholism.

Last year Dayton police responded to more than 2,300 mental-health calls, nearly double the number in 2011. Police requested pink slips on about 80 percent of them last year.

“We have said for years that we need to focus on mental health and enforce current law,” said Dean Rieck, Executive Director of Buckeye Firearms Association, in a written statement. “The problem with red flag or protection order laws is that they seek to take away firearms based on an unproven accusation that an individual poses a threat. That is unconstitutional, it invites abuse of power and infringement of rights, and frankly, it just doesn’t work to make anyone safer.”

Guns are used in three-quarters of all domestic violence deaths in Ohio

Guns are also used in 75 percent of domestic violence deaths, according to a survey by the Ohio Domestic Violence Network, and one-third of the time, the perpetrator dies by suicide. Shannon Isom, CEO of YWCA Dayton, said the presence of a gun in an abusive relationship makes it 500 times more likely that the woman will be killed.

A month before the Oregon District shooting, 19-year-old Iuana Sneed died of a gunshot to the head in her boyfriend’s home in Trotwood. Forty-seven-year-old Christopher Daye pleaded guilty on charges in her death and is scheduled for sentencing Dec. 17.

On July 23, 45-year-old Donna Brown headed to the Family Dollar store to buy plates for a family dinner. Her ex-boyfriend, Dennis Haggin, 62, pulled into the parking lot. Brown, who had gotten a protection order just days before, left the store and Haggin shot her in the head. He then turned the gun on himself.

Isom said gun violence is entrenched in abusive relationships.

“The week before and the week after the Oregon District tragedy each saw gun-related domestic violence incidents. So when YWCA joins in the call to ‘Do Something,’ we are committed to ensuring that communities are safe places for women and girls to thrive,” she said. “Gun violence is a major threat to their health and safety. Domestic violence is a pervasive, and not new, problem, yet it does not consistently get the press or the outrage.”

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A Fox News poll released Sunday morning found a majority of Americans, 54 percent, said President Donald Trump should be impeached, a vote the House is likely to pass this coming week.

The latest Fox News poll conducted last week found a majority of U.S. adults of all political affiliations say Trump abused his power in office, with 50 percent of Americans saying he should be impeached and removed as president. An additional 4 percent say he should be impeached but not removed from office. Those surveyed rejected the claim touted by Trump and Republicans that U.S. presidents typically ask foreign governments for help in investigating political rivals, with only 22 percent of respondents saying that defense checks out. A similar majority, 52 percent, said the Trump administration has not cooperated enough with the House impeachment inquiry.

Update:

Trump once again responded to the unfavorable Fox News poll on Twitter Sunday afternoon;

“The @foxnewPolls, always inaccurate, are heavily weighted toward Dems. So ridiculous – the same thing happened in 2016. They got it all wrong. Get a new pollster!”

The slight upward tick in those supporting impeachment comes as a result of a new high in independent voters, 45 percent, who favor impeachment, up from 38 percent in October.

About 16 percent more voters said Republican lawmakers just want to protect Trump politically instead of reviewing the accusations which led to the two articles of impeachment against him — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

Just fewer than half of Americans surveyed, 48 percent, said they believe Trump obstructed Congress, while only 34 percent said they did not. And 45 percent of respondents said they believe Trump committed bribery. But more than half of Americans, 53 percent, said Trump abused the power of the Oval Office.

Trump has previously railed against the Fox News and several of the cable news network’s less enthusiastically pro-Trump anchors and hosts. On Saturday night, Trump blasted Fox News for “interviewing sleazebag & totally discredited” former FBI Director James Comey, which aired Sunday morning.

“Don’t know why @FoxNews wants to be more like them? They’ll all die together as other outlets take their place. Only pro-Trump Fox shows do well. The rest is nothing. How’s Shep doing?”

Trump tweeted Saturday, referencing former Fox News anchor Shepard Smith, who left the network in October.

Given the 3 percentage point margin of error, the share of Americans who want to see Trump impeached or removed from office has not changed since the beginning of the impeachment inquiry earlier this fall. Forty-one percent of those surveyed by Fox News said they do not want to see Trump impeached, which has not changed a single percentage point. While those saying they want to see Trump impeached, but not removed, it also has not changed from 4 percent.

An overwhelming majority of Democrats, 85 percent, said they support removing or impeaching the president. While a nearly identical percentage of Republicans said the exact opposite.

In October, Trump lashed out against Fox News for a similar poll which showed a slight majority of Americans support his impeachment.

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