Guess he loved his music so much that he wanted everybody to hear it. Unfortunately, not everyone loves his kind of jam.
Police in Manchester, New Hampshire, state that this 47-year-old man named Benjamin Layland allegedly chased a man down a hall with a two-and-a-half-foot-long sword (76 centimeters) after the aforementioned man knocked on his door and told him to turn down his music. Fortunately, the man was able to get away uninjured. Layland, on the other hand, is charged with criminal threatening.
He was scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday. It wasn’t immediately known if he had a lawyer who could speak on his behalf.
I guess headphones will do him better next time.
What are your thoughts about this one?
(Image Credit: Manchester Police Deparment via AP)
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The coronavirus indeed has caused massive fear and panic across the world. Places are locked down, and people hoard sanitizing materials like toilet tissue and alcohol just to keep themselves safe from the deadly virus. But it’s not just sanitizing materials that are hoarded; there also have been increased demands on paper money.
Banks are seeing more cash withdrawals as nervous customers try to protect themselves from the uncertainty of the coronavirus clampdown.
There are reports — especially from wealthy neighborhoods — of people pulling tens of thousands of dollars out of their bank accounts. Demand was so high that one bank branch in Midtown Manhattan temporarily ran out of $100 bills, The New York Times reported. The bank was quickly resupplied the following day.
An official from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), however, states that this is a risky thing to do.
“You don’t want to be walking around with large wads of cash, and you certainly don’t want to be hoarding cash in your mattress,” FDIC Chairman Jelena McWiliams states in the video above.
"Just as it is not necessarily rational to hoard toilet paper, it is also not rational to hoard cash," McWilliams said.
We know that Roald Amundsen led the first expedition to reach the South Pole. We also know Robert Falcon Scott because he led the crew that all died trying to be the first. But there were other polar explorers who made significant discoveries and aren't as well-known. Charles Wilkes was commander of the United States Exploring Expedition in 1840, sailing on the ship Vincennes, which was the first to establish that Antarctica was a vast continent instead of a few frozen islands only seen from a distance before that. Wilkes mapped 1500 miles of Antarctica's coast, but gets little credit for his accomplishment, as his discovery led to an international mess. It was a case of serious exploration running up against claiming lands for one's country.
In a remarkable coincidence, a French expedition led by the legendary Jules Dumont D’Urville reached the same stretch of coastline on the same day. But D’Urville stayed just long enough to plant the French flag on a tiny offshore island before sailing back north. Wilkes, meanwhile, against the advice of his medical staff and officers, braved the cold, ice, and howling katabatic winds to claim glory for the Vincennes.
Charles Wilkes barely had time to announce his Antarctic triumph before British rival James Clark Ross (celebrated discoverer of the North Magnetic Pole) began to steal his thunder. Wilkes’s mistake was to send the lagging Ross his historic first chart of the east Antarctic coast. A year later, when Ross retraced Wilkes’s route, he found the American had been deceived in places by glacial reflections and had mistaken ice shelves for actual coastline, marking it several degrees too far north. These errors did nothing to undermine the substance of Wilkes’s discoveries, yet Ross and the British Admiralty built a public case against the American claim—with great success. Most 19th-century maps of Antarctica do not recognize Wilkes’s remarkable 1840 feat. Even his obituaries in American newspapers made only passing mention of Wilkes’ polar discoveries.
Wilkes' findings are getting more notice today, when the melting ice of the Antarctic is making resource mining possible. Read about Wilkes' feat and what it means for the continent at Smithsonian.
Hero’s Armory manufactures sword-shaped keys inspired by fiction that can make unlocking doors more interesting. The keys were produced thanks to a Kickstarter campaign with the support of 1,365 people. Some keys were based on swords featured in video games, such as a key inspired by Link’s Master Sword (from the Legend of Zelda)! The keys sell for $12.99 and come in 21 different designs!
In a new video from Tasty, pastry chef Rie is challenged to recreate a recipe from Cooking Mama, a famous cooking game. Rie first tries to play the game to get a grasp of the recipe. Do you think she’ll be successful in recreating the recipe from Cooking Mama?
Twenty-three-year-old Luella Mabbitt disappeared suddenly in 1886, never to be seen again. The people of Delphi, Indiana, suspected her former beau Amer Green, who came from a crime-ridden family and flew the coop during the investigation. Green, however, insisted that Luella was alive and well and living in Texas. With no body and no evidence, the townspeople took it upon themselves to lynch Green.
On the night of October 21, 1887, some two hundred men quietly marched through the streets, surrounding the county jail. They broke their way in and confronted the sheriff, demanding the keys to the prison. When he refused, some of the mob overpowered him, and the others used sledgehammers to break the locks leading to the cells. They went straight to the cell containing Amer Green. At gunpoint, he was seized and tied up. He was led outside and forced into a covered wagon. It drove off, with the bulk of the crowd following.
The wagon drove to the woods of Walnut Grove, about eight miles away. It was soon joined by a large caravan of carriages, wagons, and men on horseback. Green was taken out of the wagon and ordered to confess his guilt.
Green maintained the stolid calm of a man who knows he’s doomed. He quietly maintained that Luella was in Fort Worth. When asked why, if this was the case, she didn’t come home and resolve the mystery, he replied, “She would if I had the time to send for her.” He claimed that Luella had been desperate to leave her home for some time, and on the night she vanished, he had merely assisted in her desire to run away.
After Green was killed by the lynch mob, the investigation moved to Texas, where some intriguing clues emerged. Read the rest of the story of Luella Mabbitt, and also that of her sister and brothers who ran into legal troubles, at Strange Company.
A woman can be seen wearing a yellow suit. She is assisted by two of her colleagues, who fix her suit for her. One of her colleagues asks, “is the air flowing through okay?” as she puts the tube on the back of her head. The woman nods to say “yes.”
The woman then, equipped with the yellow suit, which is “almost like a respiratory system that allows [her] to breathe,” crosses the red line of the intensive care unit, which divides the infected area from the uninfected.
There, inside the ICU room, she will tend to “patients who need a constant supply of sedation, medication, and fluids.”
The dog uses his best friends rabbits as pillows! See how the golden retriever Bailey and his best friends, rabbits Sam and Charlotte, are resting together in bed. Rabbits turned out to be the best pillow for a dog! We hope you enjoyed this video. Be sure to hit that subscribe button for new videos.
Perhaps seeking revenge on behalf of the entire avian class, this crow spends a whole five minutes ruining a cat's day. But who knows? Maybe there's a history between these two. Maybe they were siblings in a past life. More likely, the crow just thinks this is fun. -via Boing Boing
Amidst the ongoing global pandemic which is the novel coronavirus, it is not surprising to see supermarkets empty after all the hoarding and the panic-buying that’s happened. 23-year-old actor Tom Holland, for example, went to a supermarket to buy eggs. Unfortunately, he wasn’t able to buy any of those, and so he bought chickens instead.
The actor, 23, showed off his new fowl friends, Predator, Ranger and Chestnut, on Instagram and explained he'd decided to raise them in his garden after being unable to buy what he needed from his local shops.
He said: 'With everything that's going on, the supermarkets are all empty. There's no eggs; we have no eggs.
So we thought to solve that problem, we would become the source of eggs. Now, we're the owner of chickens.'
Who says there is no such thing as a free lunch? Those cynical people haven't been paying attention to all the kind acts taking place around the country.
An anonymous neighborhood mom in Maryland has been setting up a table and leaving sack lunches for people,
A sign on the table reads, “For anyone who needs it...I will be leaving some healthy sack lunches on this table for you if you are hungry and need to eat. Made with love by a neighborhood mom in a clean and sanitized kitchen.”
This little act of goodwill is helping local families and neighbors struggle a little less. Thank you anonymous neighborhood mom in Maryland! You rock!
Think you know your comic book superheroes? In a different country, in another language, you might not even recognize your favorites. Over the last few decades, there have been some major changes depending on future, copyright, and various other reasons. For example, in the 1990s, the Argentinian version of the Flash was named Flushman. Really. And it wasn't a matter of being lost in translation.
Flushman sounds like someone you'd call when your toilet tank is overflowing, not the fastest man alive. And yet, that's how Latin American readers knew the character in the '90s, after a publisher called Perfil scored the license to print DC comics in Argentina and neighboring countries. Among those comics was The Flash, but unfortunately, there was already an Argentinian gossip magazine called Flash. To avoid being sued (or simply having hurtful rumors printed about their persons), Perfil's editors decided to come up with a new name. After considering options like El Rayo ("The Ray") or El Relampago ("The Lightning"), they settled for Flashman, only to decide at the last moment that it was still too close to Flash. Hence: Flushman. The most logical solution.
Note that toilets make the same sound all over the world, so even in Argentina, "Flushman" still sounded like a poo-related superhero. Everyone hated it, including many of the people working on the comic. The translator claims he refused to type that stupid name in the scripts, to the editor's annoyance, which explains why the character was accidentally called "Flash" about once per issue.
The most Reagan Era movie of the Reagan Era was, I think, Red Dawn. This Cold War film depicted a sudden invasion of the United States by communist nations led by the Soviet Union. The are ultimately defeated by American courage and pluck as exemplified by a band of freedom fighters led by Patrick Swayze.
Or a character that he played. I forget which. It's been about twenty years since I've watched it.
David Hookstead, a writer for the Daily Caller, has enjoyed the movie for many years. He recalls a time in college when he once persuaded a young lady of his acquaintance that Red Dawn was based on the real, historically true Soviet invasion of the United States in 1980. It was a brutal war that killed 80 million Americans.
You know, that war. The once that was a mere forty years ago. Hookstead reminisces:
That’s when I paused the movie and just took a deep dive into this great war America won in 1980. I explained to her how the Soviet nukes had knocked out key tactical strongholds of America in the Dakotas, and how “crack” paratroopers took the Rocky Mountains.
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I mean, she didn’t just buy it. She was asking genuine questions about why this was never taught in high schools or colleges. I had to explain with a quivering lip that after America lost 80 million men in the great war of 1980 that we couldn’t discuss it in schools because the pain was too great.
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At one point, I explained to her how D.C. took a direct nuclear strike, but we were able to hold off the Soviets at the Mississippi River (again, a direct reference to the plot of the film).
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Then, later at night, she was literally talking to people how she had just learned the USA lost 80 million men in the great war of 1980. Eventually, somebody told her she was being pranked and she was far from pleased.
Still, to this day, I consider it my greatest accomplishment. If you aren’t smart enough to know Washington D.C. didn’t get nuked in 1980, then you deserve to get made fun of.
Monroe Strause was more than just a pastry chef. He was the Pie King. Strause joined his family's pie business in 1919, and began a journey to fix some of the problems of the pie industry at the time: competition from cake, and the blandness of cornstarch-laden cream pie recipes.
Strause considered pie to be the “Great American Dessert,” and deemed it superior to just about every other food. A natural perfectionist, his driving motivation was to create better versions of the dish. But unlike housewives and grandmothers, the patron saints of pie, Strause approached pie-making in a way that reflected the growing emphasis on scientific thought that took root in the 1920s. He treated new pies as individual inventions, and methods of preparation as equations to solve. He even referred to his recipes as “formulas.”
In his 1939 book Pie Marches On, Strause’s publishers summed up his approach: “He has reduced pie baking to an exact science and measures each ingredient with the care of a pharmacist.” This style meant no volume measurements (Strause wrote that “the tea cup and teaspoon are the greatest enemies of a good pie”) and endless experimentation. Once, he made 150 different versions of cherry pie. His pie fixation also meant he had the tendency to get a little high-and-mighty. Strause once sniffed that housewives “tend to be too slipshod for scientific pie-making.”
It is accepted by popular culture that having a small brain equates to being stupid, and that’s why we say that someone’s a bird brain when they’re really stupid, because birds are known to have tiny brains. And we know for a fact that we have to be smart so that we can survive in this dog-eat-dog world.
But the statement that having small brains equates to being stupid is not true all the time; at least when it comes to pigeons.
Some small-brained birds, like the ubiquitous pigeons, keep their lineage going by breeding more, European researchers have discovered.
The finding, published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, solves the mystery of conflicting evidence for the popular theory that birds need big brains to give them greater behavioural flexibility in coping with cities.
“We thought that maybe there was no single way to be an urban dweller,” says lead author Ferran Sayol, from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, “and that’s what we found.”
