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Saturday, April 30, 2011
Little chimp proves smarter than human baby after 1 year
Back in 1931, Gua the chimpanzee was raised as though she were a human child by scientists Winthrop N. Kellogg and Luella A. Kellogg alongside their son Donald. Gua and Donald were raised as brother and sister. In tests Gua often tested ahead of Donald in reading and understanding.
Slight differences in their placement included people recognition. Gua recognized people from their clothes and their smell while Donald recognized them by their faces.
The parting difference came with language. Donald was about 16 months and Gua was a little over a year old when they had language testing. Gua could not speak, but Donald could form words.
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When Donald began to copy Gua's sounds the experiment ended. On March 28, 1932, nine months into it the Kelloggs officially ended the experiment. Gua was returned to the primate center with Dr. Robert Mearns Yerkes in Florida.
There's a longer video here.
Slight differences in their placement included people recognition. Gua recognized people from their clothes and their smell while Donald recognized them by their faces.
The parting difference came with language. Donald was about 16 months and Gua was a little over a year old when they had language testing. Gua could not speak, but Donald could form words.
YouTube link.
When Donald began to copy Gua's sounds the experiment ended. On March 28, 1932, nine months into it the Kelloggs officially ended the experiment. Gua was returned to the primate center with Dr. Robert Mearns Yerkes in Florida.
There's a longer video here.
Drunk man mowed parent's lawn in middle of night after stealing lawnmower
A man is facing charges for stealing a lawnmower from a school in East Lyme. Police say 22-year old Nikolaus Trombley was caught on tape, stealing the lawnmower from East Lyme High School. Police say he stole it in the middle of the night and then took it for a ride.
Police say Trombley told them he was drunk and looking for a place to sleep when he broke into a trailer behind East Lyme High School. He was looking for the keys to the school when he spotted keys to a Scag Mower and decided to go on a joy ride instead.
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Police say Trombley rode the three miles to his parent's house, mowed their lawn and was on his way to return the mower when he abandoned it near the intersection of Boston Post Road and Spring Rock Road. He's charged with third degree larceny and burglary.
Surveillance video taken at 2:07 early on Wednesday morning shows Trombley riding by the Boston Post Road building. Police say Trombley, formerly of Vermont, is now living in his parent's East Lyme home.
Police say Trombley told them he was drunk and looking for a place to sleep when he broke into a trailer behind East Lyme High School. He was looking for the keys to the school when he spotted keys to a Scag Mower and decided to go on a joy ride instead.
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Police say Trombley rode the three miles to his parent's house, mowed their lawn and was on his way to return the mower when he abandoned it near the intersection of Boston Post Road and Spring Rock Road. He's charged with third degree larceny and burglary.
Surveillance video taken at 2:07 early on Wednesday morning shows Trombley riding by the Boston Post Road building. Police say Trombley, formerly of Vermont, is now living in his parent's East Lyme home.
Teacher with third eye open arrested for naked stroll around school
A teacher who stripped off his clothes and walked naked around a Georgia elementary school gave police a New Age explanation for his behaviour, claiming that he had achieved a “new level of enlightenment” and “wanted everybody to be free now that his third eye was open." For allowing others to see his third eye last Friday afternoon at the B.C. Haynie Elementary School, Harlan Porter was charged with public indecency.
The 31-year-old educator, pictured in the mug shot at right, was booked into the Clayton County Jail on the misdemeanor charge and released after posting $2000 bond. Since Porter’s April 22 stroll, which came at about 3:20 PM, was not witnessed by any students, who had been dismissed, he avoided more serious charges. After Porter told a Morrow Police Department officer about his enlightenment, the cop reported that, “I then explained the obvious problem with his third eye being opened in public.”
While acknowledging that his education career would be damaged by the bust, Porter said that he still desired to teach, except “on a new level, with hands in the earth, gathering the essence and learning how to love one another and fully appreciate the spiritual realm.” Police reported that Porter had “several books in his belongings that appeared to be on topics such as spirituality and transcendental meditation.”
According to officers, fellow teachers reported that Porter “did not drink sodas or other canned beverages and maintained a strict vegan diet” and was not known to take drugs or drink alcohol. “However on the date in question they noticed that he was drinking a coke and had gone to taco bell to get tacos for lunch,” reported Officer Khari Reed. It is unknown what role, if any, the Mexican delicacy may have played in Porter’s ill-advised decision to unveil his third eye, though Reed did note that the teacher “had recently learned that his employment contract would not be renewed.”
The 31-year-old educator, pictured in the mug shot at right, was booked into the Clayton County Jail on the misdemeanor charge and released after posting $2000 bond. Since Porter’s April 22 stroll, which came at about 3:20 PM, was not witnessed by any students, who had been dismissed, he avoided more serious charges. After Porter told a Morrow Police Department officer about his enlightenment, the cop reported that, “I then explained the obvious problem with his third eye being opened in public.”
While acknowledging that his education career would be damaged by the bust, Porter said that he still desired to teach, except “on a new level, with hands in the earth, gathering the essence and learning how to love one another and fully appreciate the spiritual realm.” Police reported that Porter had “several books in his belongings that appeared to be on topics such as spirituality and transcendental meditation.”
According to officers, fellow teachers reported that Porter “did not drink sodas or other canned beverages and maintained a strict vegan diet” and was not known to take drugs or drink alcohol. “However on the date in question they noticed that he was drinking a coke and had gone to taco bell to get tacos for lunch,” reported Officer Khari Reed. It is unknown what role, if any, the Mexican delicacy may have played in Porter’s ill-advised decision to unveil his third eye, though Reed did note that the teacher “had recently learned that his employment contract would not be renewed.”
Man removes angry sign after receiving apology
An apology has been made, and a sign with a vulgar word perched on a rooftop is gone. Alex White said he wasn’t going to take down a large orange sign he affixed to his chimney that read, “To the Nieghbor (sic) who called the police on Easter: F*@K yourself!” until he received an apology from his neighbour for calling police after hearing White and his wife arguing.
White says he has now received a short signed-and-dated apology letter from his neighbour. He said he would like the neighbour to know “there are no hard feelings and hope we can become friends.” White was so angry with his neighbour for ruining his Easter morning with the call to police, he decided to send a clear and colourful message back with the sign. “I only meant it to stay for an hour,” White said earlier. “I just wanted that one rude person to know how rude I could be back for disrupting our religious holiday.”
The sign stood on his roof until 10:50 p.m. on Thursday when he took it down, 10 minutes after receiving the apology letter. During an interview earlier in the day, White said, “It’s what everybody wants to say to that one neighbour who sticks their nose in other people’s business where it doesn’t belong.” White said he and his wife were having a loud discussion about their son’s bad behaviour. White’s wife said she didn’t care for police being called either. “I am a bit irritated, yes. Because, what, nobody argues? Please, nobody gets loud?” she said.
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Police came and went within minutes. No one was charged with anything. “(I just hope) that the person who had the cojones to call the police in the first place would at least have the cojones to come over and say, ‘We’re sorry, you know, nothing was wrong, the police left … our mistake.’ But you know what, it never happened,” White said before the neighbour delivered the apology. Some neighbours said the sign was horrifying but others said they found it amusing.
White says he has now received a short signed-and-dated apology letter from his neighbour. He said he would like the neighbour to know “there are no hard feelings and hope we can become friends.” White was so angry with his neighbour for ruining his Easter morning with the call to police, he decided to send a clear and colourful message back with the sign. “I only meant it to stay for an hour,” White said earlier. “I just wanted that one rude person to know how rude I could be back for disrupting our religious holiday.”
The sign stood on his roof until 10:50 p.m. on Thursday when he took it down, 10 minutes after receiving the apology letter. During an interview earlier in the day, White said, “It’s what everybody wants to say to that one neighbour who sticks their nose in other people’s business where it doesn’t belong.” White said he and his wife were having a loud discussion about their son’s bad behaviour. White’s wife said she didn’t care for police being called either. “I am a bit irritated, yes. Because, what, nobody argues? Please, nobody gets loud?” she said.
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Police came and went within minutes. No one was charged with anything. “(I just hope) that the person who had the cojones to call the police in the first place would at least have the cojones to come over and say, ‘We’re sorry, you know, nothing was wrong, the police left … our mistake.’ But you know what, it never happened,” White said before the neighbour delivered the apology. Some neighbours said the sign was horrifying but others said they found it amusing.
Firefighter punished for revealing his nipples on charity calendar
Fire officials in Philadelphia said a firefighter was reassigned after "showing nipples" in a picture taken for a charity calendar.
Fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers said Jack Slivinski, 31, has been removed from his position with Engine 1 and is being investigated for violating several protocols when he posed for photographer Katherine Kostreva's charity calendar.
"We get letters from children. They look up to us," Ayers said. "We cannot allow them to be showing nipples in photographs of Philadelphia firefighters."
Bill Gault, president of Fire Fighters Local 22, said he wants Slivinski returned to his position. "They've stopped giving him overtime and detailed him out to some other unit. It's foolish ... I just want them to give the kid his spot back," Gault said.
Fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers said Jack Slivinski, 31, has been removed from his position with Engine 1 and is being investigated for violating several protocols when he posed for photographer Katherine Kostreva's charity calendar.
"We get letters from children. They look up to us," Ayers said. "We cannot allow them to be showing nipples in photographs of Philadelphia firefighters."
Bill Gault, president of Fire Fighters Local 22, said he wants Slivinski returned to his position. "They've stopped giving him overtime and detailed him out to some other unit. It's foolish ... I just want them to give the kid his spot back," Gault said.
Undertaker installs defibrillator at funeral home to save lives
An undertaker hopes to keep people alive by hosting a portable defibrillator in his funeral home. Lindsay Ellis installed the £1,200 machine at his premises in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, after witnessing two cardiac arrests in the town centre.
People will be directed to the Park Independent Funeral Home by 999 operators, where trained staff members can be called to attend an emergency. He said it was part of his business's "contribution to the community". The machine, funded by Barry Male Voice Choir and the British Heart Foundation, will be kept at the funeral home on Kings Square.
All eight staff at the home have been trained to use the defibrillation machine and administer basic CPR (cardio-pulmonary resuscitation) by the Welsh Ambulance Service. Mr Ellis said he was confident that they would be ready in the event of an emergency, and that what was important was "being patient and calm and not getting agitated."
He is aware of the irony of funeral directors saving lives. "People are surprised. They say: 'You shouldn't be on the defib, you want the business don't you?' We've been told we're the only funeral home that has a defibrillator on its premises."
People will be directed to the Park Independent Funeral Home by 999 operators, where trained staff members can be called to attend an emergency. He said it was part of his business's "contribution to the community". The machine, funded by Barry Male Voice Choir and the British Heart Foundation, will be kept at the funeral home on Kings Square.
All eight staff at the home have been trained to use the defibrillation machine and administer basic CPR (cardio-pulmonary resuscitation) by the Welsh Ambulance Service. Mr Ellis said he was confident that they would be ready in the event of an emergency, and that what was important was "being patient and calm and not getting agitated."
He is aware of the irony of funeral directors saving lives. "People are surprised. They say: 'You shouldn't be on the defib, you want the business don't you?' We've been told we're the only funeral home that has a defibrillator on its premises."
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