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Thanks in advance for any help. I used the counter on a video editor to measure the time from the spike to when Payton was struck. The counter says .06 seconds. That seems to short to me. Anyway...at .06 travel time, if my math is right, figures to 142mph. Way too fast. I think I'm off by 50%. 70mph seems more likely. Any help is appreciated.

MASCOTTE, Fla. - A woman seen walking around naked, with only a towel wrapped around her, was arrested for exposing herself to children, according to Mascotte police. Giselle Robinson, 36, was arrested Monday and booked into the Lake County jail on two counts of lewd or lascivious exhibition. According to an arrest affidavit, officers were called to a Dollar General on East Myers Boulevard around 9:30 p.m. after two children saw a woman naked in the parking lot. Officers said the children were under the age of 16. The children said Robinson walked over to the car they were in...

— Is placebo a viable treatment option? by YouTuber and physician Rohin Francis, MBBS, does a deep-dive on the power of placebo.The following is a partial transcript of this video; note that errors are possible. Francis: The placebo effect. Well, you know what that is, right? Ted Kaptchuk: The placebo effect is the effect of an inert substance, the effect of something that has no effect. Alia Crum, PhD: The things that shape our mindsets, which in turn activate our bodies' natural healing abilities. Francis: Except, I promise you it is way more fascinating and weird than you think. In...

This is a Roxy Music song that combines another Roxy Music song (Song For Europe) for an introduction. The dance floor scene is amazing to have so many beautiful young people dancing. There must have been a model convention in town. If you like the music please subscribe.

Corrupt Clinton-appointed Judge Lewis Kaplan has set an early 2024 trial date for lunatic E. Jean Carroll’s original 2019 defamation case against former President Donald Trump. Judge Lewis Kaplan set a trial date of Jan. 15, 2024, around the time of the first presidential primaries. This is the latest move by the Democrats to interfere in the 2024 election. The worthless Republican Party continues to ignore this tyranny. Nutbag E. Jean Carroll claims then-President Trump “defamed her” in 2019 when he said she was “not my type” while denying that he raped her in a department store dressing room. The...

Mandy Cohen has "proven track record protecting Americans' health and safety," the president saysOn Friday, President Biden announced his intentopens in a new tab or window to choose former top North Carolina health official Mandy Cohen, MD, MPH, to lead the CDC. "Dr. Cohen is one of the nation's top physicians and health leaders with experience leading large and complex organizations, and a proven track record protecting Americans' health and safety," Biden said in a statement. "As Secretary of North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services [DHHS], Dr. Cohen developed innovative and nationally recognized programs that improved the health...

cardillo/unofficial team desantis media person published a link to a washpo desantis campaign article.

FLAGLER COUNTY, FL (LOOTPRESS) – One Florida man has been arrested after he pointed a gun at a woman’s head because her friend used his driveway to back up. According to the two victims involved, Terry Vetsch, 60, approached them from his home yelling armed with a gun after one of the victims had briefly used Vetsch’s driveway to back up their vehicle. Vetsch used the gun to strike the victim’s backseat window before the other victim approached him and an argument ensued. Vetsch then pointed his gun at the victim’s head and continued to argue with them. Deputy Munoz...

Agency likely to recommend vaccine manufacturers target XBB.1.5 with updated shotsAn FDA advisory panel unanimously recommended that COVID-19 vaccines for the fall be updated to only include Omicron XBB lineages. On Thursday, all 21 members of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC)opens in a new tab or window agreed that excluding the ancestral strain is the best path going forward, though some stressed that could change in future years. "We no longer need the Wuhan strain," said Amanda Cohn, MD, of the CDC in Atlanta. "I do want to be careful that we're clear that for this...

Some people have vowed to boycott Bud Light in recent months over the beer brand’s partnership with social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney, who is transgender and has publicly documented her experience transitioning online. Both Mulvaney and Bud Light have faced intense anti-trans backlash online since the partnership was announced in April. The controversy has also led to multiple false claims, including that Anheuser-Busch’s CEO resigned and the entire marketing team was fired. Now, after more than two decades as America’s best-selling beer, Bud Light has fallen to second place. Modelo Especial overtook Bud Light in U.S. retail dollar sales in...

The solar industry in California has experienced several high-profile bankruptcies including one of its largest producers, Petersen Dean. Now, another local solar company has shuttered, leaving homeowners with unfinished systems on roofs that aren't producing any power, not saving money on utility bills, and often there's still the financing of the equipment and installation that the customer is responsible for.

Sotheby’s will auction the last portrait by Gustav Klimt, the 1917 painting Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan), with the expectation that it will sell for over £65 million ($80 million), a record estimate for a painting in the United Kingdom and Europe. The auction house is promoting the painting, which previously sold at Sotheby’s in New York in 1994 for $11.6 million with fees, as “the star of the summer auction season in London” as well as “one of the finest and most valuable works of art ever to be offered in Europe.” It will head to sale...

A new study has revealed a concerning link between men who watch porn and a serious health condition. New reports suggest a significant link between men who watch “problematic” pornography and the likelihood of them developing an eating disorder, according to research published in Body Image. Researchers from the University of Haifa and the Max Stern Yezreel Valley College in Israel conducted the study, which was released earlier this month.

Huang Yongyu, a Chinese artist known for his playful ink paintings of animals and flowers, has died at the age of 98. His family announced he had passed on June 13 due to an unspecified illness, and that no farewell or mourning ceremonies were scheduled in accordance with his last wishes. The self-taught artist also produced woodblock prints, ink-wash paintings, sculpture, poetry, autobiographical novels, and three zodiac stamp designs. Born in Hunan province in 1924, Huang never attended art school or formally studied literature. He developed became the youngest professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, China’s leading art...

The showrunner puts ChatGPT to work as he would any other newbie writer, but finds it lacks that all-important, all-too-human quality: voice.This is part of a series of accounts of the strike from Hollywood writers at different levels in their careers. The diarists have been granted anonymity to encourage candor. You can read previous entries by ‘Well-Known Creator’ and others here. My daughter had her tonsils removed yesterday. (Thank you, WGA health insurance!) We were very worried, as while the surgery is relatively low risk, it is still surgery and anesthesia is involved. Everything turned out fine and aside...

babbling President Joe Biden gave a speech Friday where he joked about being 110, told the crowd 'God save the queen' and deployed some of his greatest hits - such as the verbiage: 'don't make me a dog-faced lying pony soldier.'

Target, Anheuser-Busch and Kohls have lost a huge $28.7 billion in market value in the wake of a major backlash over their Pride campaigns and products. Since the beginning of April all three have seen their market value plummet – with only Kohl's now starting to recover. Brewing giant Anheuser-Busch has seen their sales also drop after teaming up with controversial transgender TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney – losing 24.4 percent in the last week of sales. Separately both Kohl's and Target have been caught up in an ongoing backlash after unveiling their Pride collections at the start of May. Kohl's...

Journalists from CNN, NYT, The Atlantic, CBS, NBC were among the panelists at the eventAs the 2024 presidential campaign begins to ramp up, several high-profile media figures gathered last week for the 2024 Campaign Journalism Conference at the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics. The conference, which was co-hosted by Harvard University's Nieman Foundation for Journalism, was essentially a retreat for journalists hoping to prepare themselves for how to best cover the grueling election cycle and the candidates running in the coming year. Sprinkled within the couple hundred attendees were students from the University of Chicago but the majority were...

Ukraine’s faltering offensive is completely lost on General Milley and Secretary of Defense Austin. Milley and Austin, put that face on full display Thursday as they briefed reporters on the results of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Brussels.The problem with the NATO plan for Ukraine’s faltering offensive is encapsulated in the following quote (it starts at the 8:51 mark in the video at link):More than six thousand Ukrainians are being trained right now at 40 different locations (sic) training locations in 65 courses in 33 Nations on three continents. That is all happening right now todayLet me give you...

Obama says he's been target of 'deepfakes,' predicts next election cycle will be rife with false infoFormer President Barack Obama suggested in a new interview the development of "digital fingerprints" to combat misinformation and distinguish between true and misleading news for consumers.Obama sat down with his former White House senior adviser David Axelrod for a conversation on the latter's podcast, "The Axe Files," on CNN Audio. During the interview, Axelrod noted he's seen "misinformation, disinformation, [and] deepfakes" targeting Obama."As I've told people, because I was the first digital president when I left office, I was probably the most recorded, filmed,...