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"I thought, if he says he's Canadian, I'm sure I can find his family."

She took her search online, and finally made a connection through Twitter.

The news that Anton had been found reached Stefan in late December.

"I was really shocked … I didn't want to get my hopes up," he said.

He immediately made plans to travel to Brazil to retrieve his brother, launching a crowdfunding campaign to raise money to help pay for costs of the trip, which included flights, hospital bills and consular fees.

He also set to work getting his brother an emergency travel document that would allow him to get home.

'We got him just in time'

After he was picked up by the police and his family was notified he was in Brazil, Anton was placed in a hospital.

Shortly after, he ran away and headed into a jungle area in the northern Brazilian state of Amazonas, prompting a new round of worry for the police and his family.

"That is the area where we talk about huge predators like crocodiles and jungle cats. We truly were afraid he could be eaten by one of those animals," said Vidigal.

She said she was "so glad" when Anton was found safe again and placed in a hospital in Manaus.

When Stefan arrived to pick him up in late January, he "looked really rough."

"His health was starting to deteriorate," said Stefan. "We got him just in time."

Now his brother is doing "remarkably well," he said.

Stefan felt his brother was not ready for an interview in his first days back in Toronto, but Anton, speaking to BBC Brasil last week, told a reporter that he was happy to be found.

"I know that I am very lucky to be alive," he said. "I am very happy to be able to return to my family."

5 years spent off the grid

As for where exactly Anton had been in the five years since he was last seen in Toronto, the gaps are still being filled in.

"I haven't wanted to press him too much about it," said Stefan.

Anton is something of an "individualist" who prides himself on being tough, Stefan said, and people who know him won't be surprised that he undertook a journey across two continents on foot.

Picking up the pieces

In the two years leading up to his disappearance, the family had struggled to get Anton the support and treatment he needed.

In January 2011, Anton was involved in an altercation and charged with assault and weapons offences. He went missing before he was due in court.

After he disappeared, the family notified police and tried to spread the word, checking shelters, jails and morgues for any trace of him, but the search turned up no leads.

"When someone disappears you suddenly realize there isn't a lot you can do," said Stefan. "We hit a wall."

After Anton's return to Toronto Monday, Toronto police said he was arrested for his outstanding charges before being released later in the day on bail. He has upcoming court dates to address the charges.

As for what comes next for the family, first up is to simply "hold him close," said Stefan.

Then the family will work to get Anton "a place to live and some treatment and some help," he said. "And help him have the life he deserves."

>white people

YouTube will fix it soon. Also, >>>/pol/.

A story about something that won't amount to anything

Nice try white woman

already fixed

Good post.

Jk.

>>109405
>supporting the musical jew

Serves them right.

>>109405
If the worker bees were smart and talented, they'd be the ones screwing over the others.

So is he a racist or a sexist? Can we pretend he's both?

>>106977
I have a hundred other bigger problems with Trump then Gorusch. I don't agree with his politics, but the guy is qualified enough, and it's not like it would shift the Supreme Court's balance anyways. If the Ds want to protest, they should do it when Trump finds a legit crazy person to stick in the court.

>>106977
Wow, a pick that isn't completely off the fucking wall and backed with credentials.

>>109064
I can't believe. Maybe some robots work in car industry, this is well known thing, but they are stupid and on a conveyer. They can't even replace workers on a ordinal fish conveyer.

>>109101
The largest middle class job in America right now is trucking. Self-driving is replacing them this decade.

>>109103
>The largest middle class job in America right now is one that requires father's to leave for days

Those jobs are safe.

In October, divers completed a more thorough investigation of the vessel, made all the more difficult by its extreme depth, and returned with over 2,000 images. A more extensive study is currently underway and will be released in the coming months.

So far archaeologists have determined the ship is 20 meters in length and originated in the fourth or fifth century BCE. It's believed that the ship was trading the jars of garum between North Africa, Spain, France and Rome.

This discovery is the most recent of 12 ancient ships found within the waters of the Cabrera Archipelago National Park. IBEAM is hoping to create a map of all the marine archaeological assets in the area before they suffer any damage.

Love a good shipwreck story. thanks for posting, OP.

>>107300
Cool, I hope nobody pillages the wreck

Nuke Romania

>When your gf was one of the 500000

>>109056
How'd you get a gypsy gf?

>Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., said the only reason to repeal the disclosure rule was "to help corrupt governments steal money from their people."

>Republicans voted to repeal the Obama-era rules using the Congressional Review Act, an obscure oversight tool that could become more familiar in the coming weeks as Congress uses it to overturn regulations federal agencies issued late in Obama's presidency.

>The law hastens the process for bringing legislation to the floor and removes the hurdle of a 60-vote threshold in the Senate. Regulations imposed since June 13 can be invalidated on a simple majority vote of both GOP-led chambers and the president's signature.

>What's more, the law prevents the executive branch from imposing substantially similar regulations in the future.

>It is that aspect of the law that frightens environmental groups that have fought for years for the coal-mining rule and another rule to restrict energy companies from burning off natural gas during drilling operations on public lands.

>Using the review act to overturn a federal regulation "is like burning down your house because you don't like the paint color," said Jenifer Collins, a clean water advocate for the environmental group Earthjustice.

>Collins calls the review act "an extreme and blunt instrument" that essentially prevents federal rule-makers from addressing a topic once Congress has acted.

>But House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republicans blame Obama, saying the rules Congress is rescinding are poorly crafted and hurt people.

>"The stream protection rule is really just a thinly veiled attempt to wipe out coal mining jobs," Ryan, R-Wis., said.

>"The Department of Interior's own reports show that mines are safe and the surrounding environment is well-protected," Ryan said, adding that the stream-protection rule ignores dozens of federal, state and local regulations already in place.

>The Interior Department said in announcing the rule in December that it would protect 6,000 miles of streams and 52,000 acres of forests, preventing coal mining debris from being dumped into nearby waters. The rule maintains a long-established 100-foot buffer zone that blocks coal mining near streams, but imposes stricter guidelines for exceptions to the 100-foot rule.

>Interior officials said the rule would cause only modest job losses in coal country and could even create jobs as companies hire construction crews to haul and store debris.

>Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva, senior Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, said repealing the stream protection rule would "sicken and kill the very people Donald Trump falsely promised to help," coal miners in West Virginia and other states.

>Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky., displayed a bottle of brownish water he said came from a constituent's well near a surface coal mine. He challenged lawmakers to drink from it and said the stream rule was one of the only safety measures protecting people in coal country.

>Congress has successfully used the 2-decade-old review act only once before — when President George W. Bush signed a law negating a rule on ergonomic standards enacted during President Bill Clinton's final months in office.

>Associated Press

Can't wait for all that smog we outsourced to China to come back to the good ol' US and A.

>Degan Shu, from Northwest University, added: "Our team has notched up some important discoveries in the past, including the earliest fish and a remarkable variety of other early deuterostomes. Saccorhytus now gives us remarkable insights into the very first stages of the evolution of a group that led to the fish, and ultimately, to us."

>Most other early deuterostome groups are from about 510 to 520 million years ago, when they had already begun to diversify into not just the vertebrates, but the sea squirts, echinoderms (animals such as starfish and sea urchins) and hemichordates (a group including things like acorn worms). This level of diversity has made it extremely difficult to work out what an earlier, common ancestor might have looked like.

>The Saccorhytus microfossils were found in Shaanxi Province, in central China, and pre-date all other known deuterostomes. By isolating the fossils from the surrounding rock, and then studying them both under an electron microscope and using a CT scan, the team were able to build up a picture of how Saccorhytus might have looked and lived. This revealed features and characteristics consistent with current assumptions about primitive deuterostomes.

>Dr Jian Han, of Northwest University, said: "We had to process enormous volumes of limestone - about three tonnes - to get to the fossils, but a steady stream of new finds allowed us to tackle some key questions: was this a very early echinoderm, or something even more primitive? The latter now seems to be the correct answer."

>In the early Cambrian period, the region would have been a shallow sea. Saccorhytus was so small that it probably lived in between individual grains of sediment on the sea bed.

>The study suggests that its body was bilaterally symmetrical—a characteristic inherited by many of its descendants, including humans—and was covered with a thin, relatively flexible skin. This in turn suggests that it had some sort of musculature, leading the researchers to conclude that it could have made contractile movements, and got around by wriggling.

>Perhaps its most striking feature, however, was its rather primitive means of eating food and then dispensing with the resulting waste. Saccorhytus had a large mouth, relative to the rest of its body, and probably ate by engulfing food particles, or even other creatures.

>A crucial observation are small conical structures on its body. These may have allowed the water that it swallowed to escape and so were perhaps the evolutionary precursor of the gills we now see in fish. But the researchers were unable to find any evidence that the creature had an anus. "If that was the case, then any waste material would simply have been taken out back through the mouth, which from our perspective sounds rather unappealing," Conway Morris said.

>The findings also provide evidence in support of a theory explaining the long-standing mismatch between fossil evidence of prehistoric life, and the record provided by biomolecular data, known as the "molecular clock".

>Technically, it is possible to estimate roughly when species diverged by looking at differences in their genetic information. In principle, the longer two groups have evolved separately, the greater the biomolecular difference between them should be, and there are reasons to think this process is more or less clock-like.

>>107025
What? I thought the oldest relative was that rock thing.

>>109039

Thanks for quoting their words so we could all read them here....

>>108825
>Hu started Cafe X in 2014 after realizing that a lot of the work baristas currently do is repetitive and could be done by a robot. So he dropped out of college, sold his car, and raised some convertible notes from family and friends before getting backing from a number of venture capitalists, including Khosla Ventures, Social Capital, and Jason Calacanis.

>Besides efficiency, Cafe X prides itself on quality coffee. The shop serves beans from specialty roasters AKA Coffee, Verve, and Peet's. Each roaster programs the coffee machines to their own recipes to ensure the same taste wether the coffee comes from a human or bot.

Cafe X Magdalena Petrova
Cafe X's robotic barista at the Metreon in San Francisco on Jan. 2, 2017.
Cafe X originally debuted in a Kong Kong office building a few months ago. Hu says that location currently serves more than 1,000 drinks a week. Though he would not disclose how much the setup cost, Hu did say that it's about the same price as renovating and opening a traditional cafe.

>"At this point, we don't have too much cost savings. We are more focused on just giving people a good experience."

>b-but that's not very hipster!

So much for the wagecucks getting their $15/hour.

>Prof Caulfield has described Dr Whitefield’s paper as “error-strewn”, and called on him to make the relevant chapter in his PhD thesis publicly available.

>He said Dr Whitefield was relying on pollen dating for the wall construction, and that this technique had been “discredited”. He called on palaeobotanists cited in the new research to “revisit their findings”.

>Prof Caulfield told The Irish Times that he would be analysing the paper in greater detail shortly and would publish this on his website.

>Dr Whitefield contends that the low, straight heaps of stone are “indicative of the land having been cleared for ploughing”, and there is no evidence of boundaries for livestock management as had been previously suggested.

>He says the complex is still incredibly significant in international terms, but that it is more likely to be a “textbook example of the wider European tradition of ‘Celtic’ fields” – ranging in date from the later Bronze Age (about 1,500 BC) to the end of the 4th century AD.

>Dr Whitefield’s dating has also been criticised by associate professor Graeme Warren, head of UCD’s School of Archaeology, who collaborated with Prof Caulfield on Heritage Council-funded work on prehistoric sites.

>Prof Warren said Dr Whitefield’s evidence for Bronze Age origins was insufficient, and said he had omitted several key pieces of research and failed to place the Céide fields in the context of other Neolithic sites in the area.

>Dr Whitefield said on Friday he stood over his research, which was published in a prestigious adacemic journal. He said he had enormous regard for Prof Caulfield’s work which had placed the west of Ireland in the vanguard of Europe’s earliest agricultural practices.

just... re test it? like the thesis should be made public, the samples retested with sound testing methods, and the data reanalyzed to find the actual dates.

>dissapoingment and sadness ... blah blah... closes than colleagues
>boo hoo these scientists found new information that says i might be wrong boo hoo it hurts my feelings
how is this good science? like i get that he might not trust that the findings are true but why on earth would that not make him happy that new information is being discovered? this is bullshit

>>107608
You tell children to not disturb when adults are talking
>normal social behavior
You tell children to not disturb when adults are talking via mobile phone
>You are an anti-social monster, terrible parent and raising your offspring to become "anti-social retards or worse"

Please lefties, if you want to raise awareness to get parents to spend more attention on their children, that is fine, but don't raise double standards for adults using mobile phones.

>>107625
>hurr durr lefties
Big difference between talking on the phone and mindlessly thumbing through Facebook/Twitter/Snapchat/whatever while ignoring your kid.

>>107608
OH yeah, give the child all the attention it wants. Buy the child every present it asks for, do the child's chores, spoon feed the child every meal, wipe the child's butt and turn the child into a spoiled, quivering shell of insecurities. The child becomes hollow and ends up killing them self if anyone cracks their precious bubble because deep down inside they know they are worthless.

My mother tried to do this, my father was an abusive asshole. I think I was partially saved form this fate because he was such a fucking cunt.

Equally Diabolical
The Euderus set isn't the only sinister, mind controlling species there is, as proven by these other example parasites.

Zombie Ant Fungus

In the rainforests of Thailand, Africa, and Brazil, the Zombie Ant Fungus Ophiocordyceps unilateralis resides. The fungus first infects an ant on the forest floor for about three to nine days. When it is ready to complete its life cycle, it manipulates the ant to walk about mindlessly away from its group like a zombie, and eventually leading it to a location that's most appropriate for the fungus to thrive. The ant then dies and within 24 hours and a fungal stalk emerges from the corpse, ready to spread spores onto the forest floor yet again.

Kamikaze Horsehair Worm

The horsehair worm begins its diabolical life from its larva state when it is eaten by an insect larva that will likely to be eaten by a cricket or a grasshopper. Once inside the grasshopper, it continually grows up to a foot long and manipulates the non-swimming host's central nervous system to drown itself in the water where the parasite will then emerge and reproduce.

Sacculina Castrating Barnacles

The Sacculina is one lazy parasite parent. Its oppression begins once it enters a crab's body. Once inside, it doesn't just feed on the crab's nutrients in order for it to reproduce, but it also forces the crab to take care of its millions of babies as if it were her own. Her own. However, if the host happens to be a male crab, the Sacculina feminizes the crab by rendering it infertile and growing a huge abdomen just so it would carry the parasite's young.

fuck

this universe is fucked up what the fuck

>>108543

>sinister
>diabolical

adjectives desu

Terrible article.

If you define left and right like the 4square political compass than fascism is authoritarian center but seriously trying to claim that fascism is not right wing is retarded

>>108747
fuck you & your shitty blog

>waaahhhhhh