Monday, November 18, 2013
A hippo and her round, innocent calf got a little too close to a bull elephant that was grazing nearby. The scuffle that took place between the two enormous animals was jaw-dropping.
This fully grown hippopotamus and her offspring got a little TOO close to elephants grazing nearby.
An elephant bull charged the momma hippo and her young.
The mother bravely defended her baby. The bull flipped her with his trunk.
Luckily, although the fight looks bad, the hippo walked away with merely a scratch.
Every mother in the animal kingdom knows what is most important: their young.
Fully grown hippos can weigh over 1.5 tons, but the elephant tossed her with ease.
The baby hippo and her mom were quickly reunited and finished grazing off in the distance by themselves.
It just goes to show that even animals that big would do backflips for their young (even if they didn’t mean to).
The house was built in the early 2000s. There was nothing to suggest there was anything weird about it.
Except when the new owners’ two songs were horsing around and dislodged a bookshelf…
That movable bookshelf revealed a secret staircase.
The tall, spiral staircase seemed to lead downward directly into a wall.
But halfway down, there was a crawlspace.
Inside, the two boys found the most terrifying thing: evidence that someone was squatting. In their own walls.
Whoever was living there had small objects with them, like the elephant seen here.
They also had a key that unlocked only God knows what.
And of course, they also found creepy dolls hidden in the room.
Because every stranger living secretly inside of your walls need dolls with soulless eyes.
The police are still looking for the individual that was living in their walls. Since there was little food, it seemed that he came and went as he or she pleased. There was a small pile of clothes around the bedding. The candy seen strewn about the room was actually one of the boy’s, but whoever was living in the wall crept out at night to steal some for himself.
Good luck falling asleep tonight.
Sunday, November 17, 2013
- Melissa Bachman presents a series called Winchester Deadly Passion about hunting
- The 'hardcore huntress' posted a picture of herself with a lion she killed on Twitter
- The reaction was immediate condemnation
- A petition to prevent her from returning to South Africa, where she shot the lion, has been signed more than 13,000 times
TV presenter Melissa Bachman raised ire when she posted a photo of a mature male lion she allegedly shot and killed on Twitter and Facebook.
Within hours of the post, an online petition by Cape Town resident Elan Burman asking the South African government to ban Bachman from ever returning to the country was launched.
The picture depicts Bachman crouching over the carcass of a male lion with its eyes closed, paws either side of its head, as she holds her gun and smiles toothily.
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| Uproar: Bachman was forced to make her social media accounts private after sparking a furor with this photo of herself with a lion she shot dead |
The post provoked a furious response from many Twitter users, who called her 'disgusting' and 'vile.'
At the time of writing, Burman's petition had 18,891 signatures.
'She is an absolute contradiction to the culture of conservation this country prides itself on,' wrote Burman.
VIDEO Self-styled hunter kills a gator and shows off the kill (video censored)
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| Not welcome: Many in South Africa are seeking to prevent Bachman from returning to their shores, and more than 13,000 have signed this petition |
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| Earning stripes: Bachman poses with her gun over the corpse of a zebra |
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| Outrage: Bachman's hunting exploits have earned her some very vocal critics who were quick to denounce her for killing a lion today |
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| Deadly passion: The 'Trophy Room' section of Bachman's website has 65 photographs of her posing with different dead animals |
Signatory Richard Robinson wrote, 'You didn't kill a lion, you stood behind a machine and pulled a little trigger, you pathetic, sad excuse of a human.'
The African lion is considered a vulnerable species. Numbers are rapidly declining due to loss of habitat and conflict with humans.
However, hunting lions is legal in several countries, including South Africa where Bachman bagged her big male.
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| Spot the typo: Ricky Gervais joined the many Twitter users who condemned Bachman |
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| Hardcore huntress: Bachman says she has been hunting since she was a small child |
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| Thrill kill: Detractors say Bachman is a 'heartless trophy hunter' |
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| Big game: Bachman works as writer, producer and star of the series Winchester Deadly Passion |
Bachman's social media pages and website reveal an array of huge beasts that have died after coming in contact with her. The 'Trophy Room' section of her website features a grinning Bachman with dead deer, antelope, alligators, turkeys and hogs.
This latest furor is not the first time Bachman has run afoul of anti-hunting groups.
Last year, she was slated to appear on the National Geographic Channel's Ultimate Survivor Alaska but was dropped after a Change.org petition that called Bachman a 'contracted trophy killer' was signed more than 13,000 times in less than 24 hours.
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| Twitter tirade: Bachman has disabled her Twitter account since the posting went viral |
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| On the fly: No game is too small for Bachman to take aim at |
Minnesota-based Bachman, whose blog includes posts such as 'Why every girl should try bowhunting' and 'Stupid hunting regulations I just can't stand,' is the host of a television series called Winchester Deadly Passion.
In each episode, she travels to a locale and hunts its native animals with a variety of weapons including her beloved bow and arrow.
Lourens Mostert, a manager at the Maroi conservancy where Bachman shot the lion said the hunt was legal.
'If it isn't right to hunt these lions, why does out government legally give us permission?' he told the Daily Telegraph.
'This is not the only lion that has been hunted in South Africa this year.'
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Among the hundreds of full-time jobs tracked by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, women earn more than men in only two. On average, women working full time make only about 81% of the median earnings of their male counterparts.
To find out which jobs feature the biggest gender wage gaps, we compared the median weekly earnings of men and women working full time in 2012 in the same job titles, as reported by the BLS. We then ranked the jobs with the largest pay discrepancies in percentage terms.
As a broad category, sales appears to be one of the worst areas for women. In sales and related occupations, women make on average 62.2% of what men earn in those same positions, according to data from the BLS. Legal, management, production, and business and financial operations occupations also tend to pay women far less than men.
While the report doesn't speculate on why men significantly out-earn women in particular fields, firm size, geographic location, and industry may all factor into the discrepancies. Women may be more likely to pursue career paths at smaller companies and nonprofits, and may also be less successful at salary negotiations. Discrimination, either by employers or clients, may also contribute, particularly in legal, business, and management careers without clearly defined salary ranges.
To be sure, the wage gap as a whole has improved significantly over the past three decades. In 1979, women earned 62% as much as men in the same job titles. That figure has jumped 20 percentage points to women's current earnings of 81 cents on the dollar.
Most of that progress, however, came between the 1980s and the early 2000s. Improvements in the gender wage gap largely stalled after the onset of the Great Recession, and women's salaries have hovered around 80% of men's for roughly the past decade.
Here are the 15 jobs with the largest gender wage gaps, based on the latest data from the BLS:
1. Insurance sales agents
Women's median weekly earnings: $641
Women's pay as a percentage of men's: 62.5%
2. Retail salespersons
Women's median weekly earnings: $436
Women's pay as a percentage of men's: 64.3%
3. Sales and related workers (all other)
Women's median weekly earnings: $653
Women's pay as a percentage of men's: 65.6%
4. Real estate brokers and sales agents
Women's median weekly earnings: $680
Women's pay as a percentage of men's: 66%
5. Personal financial advisors
Women's median weekly earnings: $1,016
Women's pay as a percentage of men's: 66.3%
6. Marketing and sales managers
Women's median weekly earnings: $1,110
Women's pay as a percentage of men's: 67%
7. Education administrators
Women's median weekly earnings: $1,052
Women's pay as a percentage of men's: 67.2%
8 (tie). General and operations managers
Women's median weekly earnings: $971
Women's pay as a percentage of men's: 67.6%
8 (tie). Physicians and surgeons
Women's median weekly earnings: $1,418
Women's pay as a percentage of men's: 67.6%
10. Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents
Women's median weekly earnings: $862
Women's pay as a percentage of men's: 69.1%
11. Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers
Women's median weekly earnings: $570
Women's pay as a percentage of men's: 69.2%
12. Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators
Women's median weekly earnings: $803
Women's pay as a percentage of men's: 69.3%
13. Financial managers
Women's median weekly earnings: $988
Women's pay as a percentage of men's: 70.3%
14. First-line supervisors of production and operating workers
Women's median weekly earnings: $674
Women's pay as a percentage of men's: 70.6%
15. Sales representatives (wholesale and manufacturing)
Women's median weekly earnings: $822
Women's pay as a percentage of men's: 70.8%
A Reddit user by the name of DrZa1us explored the abandoned Kings Park Psychiatric Center in the state of New York. It has been abandoned for almost a decade. After the patients left, what remained was terrible memories and haunted rooms.
These will give you chills.
These will give you chills.
The Kings Park Psychiatric Center is known by Kings Park locals simply as “The Psych Center.”
It operated from 1885 until 1996.
The state of New York closed the facility.
The state released its few remaining patients or transferred them to the still-operational Pilgrim Psychiatric Center.
As patient populations grew throughout the early part of the 20th century, the hospital itself continued to grow, and by the late 1930s the state began to build upward instead of outward.
Who knows what happened in these halls.
Kudos to those who are brave enough to enter this hellish building. I know I wouldn’t.
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