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Demovictory9's JournalTrial begun for that cop who left handcuffed woman in police cruiser on railroad tracks..
Vudeo below shows event and trial
Train came along and smashed cruiser with woman in it as cops ran for safety.
Woman lived with injuries..now suing civily
Cop charged with two misdemeanors..she us saying she disnt know she parked on railroad crossing..it was dark, lots happening and relied on other cop that she parked safely
Belief in Five Spiritual Entities Edges Down to New Lows
https://news.gallup.com/poll/508886/belief-five-spiritual-entities-edges-down-new-lows.aspxBelief in Five Spiritual Entities Edges Down to New Lows
BY MEGAN BRENAN
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
74% believe in God, 69% angels, 67% heaven, 59% hell, 58% the devil
Nearly three in 10 do not believe in hell or the devil
Belief greatest among frequent churchgoers, Protestants, Republicans
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The percentages of Americans who believe in each of five religious entities -- God, angels, heaven, hell and the devil -- have edged downward by three to five percentage points since 2016.
Still, majorities believe in each, ranging from a high of 74% believing in God to lows of 59% for hell and 58% for the devil. About two-thirds each believe in angels (69%) and heaven (67%).
Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne resigns after student investigation
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/stanford-president-marc-tessier-lavigne-resigns-18208987.phpStanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced Wednesday that he will resign following allegations he committed scientific research misconduct. An investigative report released by a university special committee concluded that while he “did not personally engage in research misconduct for any of the twelve papers about which allegations have been raised … several of these papers do exhibit manipulation of research data.”
An investigation by Stanford Daily, the university’s student newspaper, last year alleged that a number of papers co-authored over the past few decades by Tessier-Lavigne — a neuroscientist — contained potentially altered images, spurring the university investigation.
“Although the report clearly refutes the allegations of fraud and misconduct that were made against me, for the good of the University, I have made the decision to step down as President effective August 31,” Tessier-Lavigne said in a statement released Wednesday. “The Panel’s report identified some areas where I should have done better, and I accept the report’s conclusions.”
They're Outsmarting Us': Birds Build Nests From Anti-Bird Spikes
They’re Outsmarting Us’: Birds Build Nests From Anti-Bird Spikes
Strips of sharp metal pins are meant to keep birds away from buildings. Some birds are stealing them to build their nests.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/13/science/magpies-birds-nests.html
July 13, 2023
Auke-Florian Hiemstra, a biologist who studies how wild animals repurpose human materials, thought he had seen everything. In his research on the common coot, a water bird often found in Dutch canals, he had discovered nests containing windshield wipers, sunglasses, plastic carnations, condoms and envelopes used to package cocaine.
“So my definition of what is nesting material was already quite a broad one,” said Mr. Hiemstra, a doctoral student at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands. “Almost anything can become part of a bird nest.”
“I couldn’t believe my eyes,” he recalled. “These are birds making a nest with anti-bird spikes.”
Rows of these sharp metal pins have become a common feature of the urban environment, installed on rooftops and ledges to discourage birds from perching or nesting on buildings. But outside the Antwerp hospital — where, as it happened, many of the rooftop spikes had gone missing — the magpies had managed to convert hostile architecture into a home.
“They’re outsmarting us,” Mr. Hiemstra said. “We’re trying to get rid of birds, the birds are collecting our metal spikes and actually making more birds in these nests. I think it’s just a brilliant comeback.”
Record percent of Americans live alone..30% "It's just a stunning social change,"
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/4085828-a-record-share-of-americans-are-living-alone/Nearly 30 percent of American households comprise a single person, a record high.
Scholars say living alone is not a trend so much as a transformation: Across much of the world, large numbers of people are living alone for the first time in recorded history.
“It’s just a stunning social change,”
said Eric Klinenberg, a sociologist at New York University and author of the book “Going Solo.” “I came to see it as the biggest demographic change in the last century that we failed to recognize and take seriously.”
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The U.S. Census shows that “solitaries” made up 8 percent of all households in 1940. The share of solo households doubled to 18 percent in 1970 and more than tripled, to an estimated 29 percent, by 2022.
The solo-living movement intersects with several other societal trends. Americans are marrying later, if at all. The nation is aging. The national birthrate is falling. People are living longer — or they were, until the pandemic arrived.
More than anything, perhaps, the rise of single-person households is about women entering the workforce and achieving economic self-sufficiency. The share of adult women participating in the labor force reached 50 percent around 1980.
Historically speaking, “you don’t really see people living alone until women have control of their own lives and their own bodies,” Klinenberg said.
Report: 38% of Brown University Students Identify as LGBTQ+
https://www.themainewire.com/2023/07/report-38-of-brown-university-students-identify-as-lgbtq/Report: 38% of Brown University Students Identify as LGBTQ+
LGBTQ+ student self-identification at Brown University has reached 38 percent of the student body, according to polling data collected by school’s student newspaper, the Brown Daily Herald.
The Herald first collected data on Brown University students’ sexual orientation in 2010, when it found that around 14 percent of respondents said they were not straight, a proportion which has now more than doubled.
Brown University’s percentage of LGBTQ+ identifying students is more than five times the national rate, according to a 2022 Gallup survey which found 7.1 percent of U.S. adults, and 19.7 percent of those aged 18 to 25, identify as LGBT.
The student paper’s semesterly poll has expanded its identification options since 2010—in the Spring 2022 poll the Herald added “Queer,” “Pansexual,” “Asexual,” and “Questioning/Unsure” as possible responses.
Bisexual was the most common identification among LGTBQ+ responses at 53.7 percent.
Only 22.9 percent of self-identified LGBTQ+ respondents described themselves as gay or lesbian in the 2023 poll, which the Herald notes is down from 46 percent from their Fall 2010 survey.
Strange sad crime..73 yr old woman sleeping in lowes parking lot killed by 20 yr old fork lift thief
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/04/us/forklift-hit-and-run-maryland/index.htmlWoman sleeping in her car chased down by man in stolen Lowe’s forklift and killed in a Home Depot parking lot, police say
A man has been arrested and charged in connection with an incident in which a woman was killed after being hit and run over by a stolen forklift in a Waldorf, Maryland, Home Depot parking lot on Sunday, according to a release from the Charles County Sheriff’s Office.
“Officers responded to a burglary and theft in progress at a Lowe’s Home Improvement store” in Waldorf at 12:40 a.m. on Sunday, July 2, according to the news release.
According to the sheriff’s office, the suspect, identified as Bryce Caleb Timothy Brown, 20, had broken into the Lowe’s, stolen a forklift, and “rammed it through the rear gates.”
The news release alleges Brown then left the Lowe’s on the forklift, driving it into the parking lot of a nearby Home Depot, where he rammed a vehicle in the parking lot.
A woman, who was asleep in the car, got out when the forklift struck her car and started to run away, the release said, adding Brown “followed her, struck her with the forklift and ran over her,” before stealing her car and fleeing the scene, according to the sheriff’s office.
Officers responding to the initial burglary, found Gloristine Pinkney, 73, dead underneath the forklift in the Home Depot parking lot.
Southern baptists know they are in decline
The midterm elections had not produced the sweeping conservative victories Republicans promised. The overturning of Roe v. Wade, the signature accomplishment of the religious right, had become a major liability for the GOP,
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There was the transgender rights movement, which pastor after pastor complained they saw seeping into their pews. A panel conversation one afternoon entitled “Re-Forming Gen Z: Sexuality, Technology and Human Formation” drew such a large crowd that organizers turned away late-comers and a moderator was forced to combine what he called “a lot of questions related to gender and sexuality” into a few. They included how best to respond to a teenager who insists on a preferred pronoun and how to “navigate conversations with a teen who believes in God but also thinks that same-sex attraction is OK.”
And then there was the temerity of some Southern Baptist churches to allow women to serve as pastors, which had been the focus of feuding within the denomination.
“Things have changed in America,” Tim Wilder, the pastor at a church in Osceola County, Fla., near Disney World, told me as we rode alone in a dark shuttle bus back from a day of meetings at the city’s convention center to a nearby hotel one night. “I believe we’re in an anti-Christian nation.”
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The next day, at the meeting site, Angela Mathews, a retired high school history and English teacher from Murphy, Texas, told me, “It’s almost like Christianity’s being attacked.”
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It was lost on no one at the meeting here that the Southern Baptist Convention, still the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, lost nearly half a million members last year.
“The Southern Baptist Convention is officially a denomination in decline,” Chuck Kelley, a former president of the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, told me when we met in the lobby of the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/07/03/the-shrinking-baptist-convention-is-doubling-down-on-the-culture-wars-00104174
Former US marshall sentenced to 10 yrs. Used position to frame girlfriend..she spent 88 days in jail
https://www.ocregister.com/2023/06/30/ex-u-s-marshal-who-framed-ex-girlfriend-over-anaheim-condo-dispute-gets-10-years/A former deputy U.S. marshal was sentenced to more than 10 years in federal prison on Friday, June 30 for posing as his ex-girlfriend and sending messages to himself threatening the sexual assault of his wife, federal authorities said.
Ian Richard Diaz, 45, of Glendora, framed his ex-girlfriend Michelle Suzanne Hadley over six months in 2016 to get her to give up her share of a condo they owned in Anaheim, U.S. Justice Department officials said.
Diaz, formerly of Brea, was convicted in March of conspiracy to commit cyberstalking, cyberstalking, perjury and obstruction of justice after a week-long trial in federal court in Downtown Los Angeles.
From May to October 2016, shortly after Diaz and his now ex-wife, Angela Diaz, were wed, the couple set up online accounts in Hadley’s name, then used those accounts to make it appear as though Hadley was threatening Angela Diaz.
They also posed as Hadley, of Ontario, on Craigslist to solicit men for non-consensual “rape fantasies” targeting Angela Diaz, prosecutors said.
And the couple claimed a masked man who attacked Angela Diaz in their garage was sent by Hadley. The attack was bogus.
Ian Diaz leveraged his position as a U.S. Marshal while reporting the false crimes to Anaheim police, who arrested Hadley and held her in jail for 88 days, prosecutors said in a sentencing memorandum filed two weeks prior to Friday’s sentencing hearing.
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