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Liberal_in_LA's JournalAssistant coach admitted to telling high school players to hit referee
Antonio assistant high school football coach has admitted to instructing two of his players to hit a referee during a game earler this month, according to an ESPN report.
John Jay High secondary coach Mack Breed told Principal Robert Harris and Head Coach Gary Gutierrez that he "directed the students to make the referee pay for his racial comments and calls," according to a letter written by Harris and obtained by ESPN's "Outside the Lines."
A video of the incident shows two John Jay players, Michael Moreno and Victor Rojas, running directly at official Robert Watts while a play was taking place during a Sept. 4 football game. One of the players tackles Watts and the other dives on him.
The two players have said they were carrying out instructions from Breed. Moreno, a 17-year-old senior, and Rojas, a 15-year-old sophomore, are scheduled to attend disciplinary hearings Wednesday.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-john-jay-players-hit-referee-20150923-story.html
New York, New Hampshire, Louisiana & Minnesota Residents Will Need Passports To Fly Domestic
Source: inhomeland security
Forget about delays, flying domestic just got more difficult.
Following increased security measures after September 11th, a new act is calling into question the fortitude of some states’ identifications, requiring residents to offer another form of identification when flying domestically.
Residents of New York, New Hampshire, Louisiana, Minnesota and American Samoa are affected by the REAL ID Act, which accounts for over 31 million Americans. In those five states, residents do not have to show proof of citizenship or residency in order to obtain a license, which is what makes their identification noncompliant.
The act, which intends to strengthen security in the country, was enacted by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2005, but the new rules will go in effect “no sooner than 2016.” Which means residents of those states need to start considering their options.
Read more: http://inhomelandsecurity.com/new-york-new-hampshire-louisiana-minnesota-residents-will-need-passports-to-fly-domestic/
best article title today: MARTIN SHKRELI LOWERS DRUG PRICE, IS STILL AN ASSHOLE
Well, that was fast. A matter of days since becoming the most-hated man in America for jacking up the price of the drug Daraprim by over 5000 percent, Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli told NBC news that he would lower the price to a more reasonable level, albeit without specifying the new cost.
But even in lowering the price of Daraprim, which is used to treat the parasitic disease toxoplasmosis, a parasitic disease that can be particularly harmful for pregnant women and immunocompromised patients, Shkreli is still trying to paint himself as guileless.
At this point, his denial is almost superhuman.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/23/martin-shkreli-lowers-drug-price-is-still-an-asshole.html
dog stuck in tree...really
Scared dog 'Petra' who somehow became stuck up a very tall tree is rescued by the fire department – but can you spot her?
The Chihuahua climbed a 75-foot Italian cypress tree in Weldon, California
It's believed she was chasing an animal, perhaps a squirrel
A passerby spotted her and called local animal officers
The Kern County Fire Department was then called in to go up and get her
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3245622/Scared-dog-Petra-stuck-tall-tree-rescued-fire-department-spot-her.html#ixzz3mXUBgkx4
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Texas elementary school is stuck the 50s. Announces Career talk for boys, friendship talk for girls
Last week, parents at Borchardt Elementary School were up in arms after receiving an email explaining that fourth- and fifth-grade students would be separated by gender for their monthly guidance counseling class. Boys would attend a class on going to college and the importance of a career, whereas girls would have “girl talk” about friendship and confidence—and whether they had too much of the latter.
Here is a screenshot from the newsletter via WFAA:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2015/09/22/texas_elementary_school_college_for_boys_confidence_for_girls.html
That Guy Who Is Price-Gouging AIDS Patients Also Did It to Kids with Kidney Disease
When Shkreli was CEO of Retrophin, the company purchased a kidney medication approved by the FDA in 1988 called Thiola and increased the cost from $1.50 per pill to $30 per pill.* That drug treated cystinuria, a lifelong disease for which there is no known cure and which afflicts about 20,000 patients in the United States. Forbes health care contributor Steve Brozak described the disease last year when news of the price increase broke:
Patients are usually diagnosed with the disease at a very young age and have an abnormally high concentration of an amino acid called cystine present in their urine. The excess cystine crystallizes regularly into stones that painfully travel through the kidneys, ureters or bladder. Imagine having a kidney stone form or pass once a month, tearing through your organs as it tracks its way out of your body.
There was no alternative drug for cystinuria sufferers, Brozak reported, and the 20-fold hike raised the price to about between $54,750 to $109,500 per year. At the time, Brozak argued that Retrophin was “turning patients into commodities like barrels of oil,” while University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Associate Professor of Urology Benjamin Davies called it a case of “predatory capitalism on the backs of the sick and silent.” Writing for Science Transnational Medicine, pharmaceutical columnist Derek Lowe said the Thiola increase was the “most unconscionable drug price hike I have yet seen.”
Shkreli is currently going on business news programs arguing for the current price hike on Daraprim by saying that it is necessary for future research and development. Last year, Retrophin made the exact same argument in a since-removed business presentation on its website to justify its price increase on Thiola, saying that it “plans to develop a long-acting version of Thiola® for once daily dosing.” (In a hilarious and perhaps not atypical legal notice about the “anticipated development, timing, data readouts and therapeutic scope of programs in our clinical pipeline,” the proposal warned “[t]hese forward-looking statements may be accompanied by such words as ‘anticipate,’ ‘believe,’ ‘estimate,’ ‘expect,’ ‘forecast,’ ‘intend,’ ‘may,’ ‘plan,’ ‘project,’ ‘target,’ ‘will’ and other words and terms of similar meaning. You should not place undue reliance on these statements.”)
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/09/22/martin_shkreli_price_gouging_the_hedge_fund_bro_pulled_drug_price_hike_scheme.html
This is what $350,000 buys you in San Francisco’s crazy housing market
This two-bedroom, one-bath, 765-square-foot home on the edge of San Francisco's Mission District is listed at $350,000.
http://blog.sfgate.com/ontheblock/2015/09/21/this-is-what-350000-buys-you-in-san-franciscos-crazy-housing-market/#photo-688433
Will this property go for more than the asking price? “It’s still a bit early to judge how high the price will go,” Vanguard realtor Brian Tran said in an interview. “We’ve had a lot of interest on the property but in this business we don’t know until we get contracts in hand.”
The owner hasn’t lived in the home for over seven years. “She is getting to that age where she would like to get the money out and relax,” Tran said.
Tran added that the home is an earthquake shack. These tiny homes were built after the 1906 earthquake to house people who lost their residences. Many still remain around the city and have been restored, updated and remodeled (see gallery above).
ELECTION 2016 Carly Fiorina: Opponents Must ‘Prove To Me’ They Watched My Non-Existent Fetus Videos
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ELECTION 2016
Carly Fiorina: Opponents Must ‘Prove To Me’ They Watched My Non-Existent Fetus Videos
What footage is the GOP candidate referring to?
During last week’s Republican presidential debate, Fiorina had claimed that she saw undercover videos from a Planned Parenthood that showed “a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says we have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.”
However, fact checkers like FactCheck.org and The Washington Post have said that there was no such scene included in the videos that were recently released by an anti-abortion group.
“Do you acknowledge what every fact checker has found?” Fox News host Chris Wallace asked the candidate on Sunday. “As horrific as the scene is, it was only described on the video by someone who claimed to have seen it. There is no actual footage of the incident you just mentioned.”
“No, I don’t accept that at all,” Fiorina shot back. “I’ve seen the footage. And I find it amazing, actually, that all these supposed fact checkers in the mainstream media claim this doesn’t exist, they’re trying to attack the authenticity of the videotape, I haven’t found anyone in the mainstream media who has ever watched these things.”
“I mean, they will claim that somebody watched it for them,” she continued. “I will continue to dare anyone who wants to continue to defund Planned Parenthood, watch the videotapes.”
“And anyone who wants to challenge me first is going to have to prove to me that they watched it.”
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/carly-fiorina-opponents-must-prove-me-they-watched-my-non-existent-fetus-videos
Jack Larson, Jimmy Olsen on first Superman show, dies at 87
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/tv/ct-jack-larson-dead-20150921-story.html
young Gracie protects her new thrift store doll from the horror of the California fires
This is Gracie. She is protecting her doll "Biggie" from seeing the devastation of the Valley Fire in Lake County.
Gracie's mom Diane told me her daughter said, "Don't worry, I'll cover you's eyes so you don't see the fire."
Gracie and her family live in Hidden Valley.
They were among the thousands of people forced to evacuate.
And since then they've been staying at a makeshift campsite in Cloverdale.
Gracie didn't have any toys or books.
But she found "Biggie" at a thrift shop in Cloverdale.
And since then her mom says, "She's been hugging 'Biggie' and taking her everywhere with her."
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Valley-Fire-children-toys-burned-photo-picture-6519316.php
At the campsite she could see smoke in the distance. And that's when she covered "Biggie's" eyes and said, "It's OK if you's scared, but I'm you's mama and if the fire comes here, I'll KICK him!"
#?KeepingBiggieSafe
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