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A WISCONSIN MAN accused of opening fire at the salon where his wife worked, killing three women and wounding four others, had a history of domestic abuse, with allegations that he had slashed his wife’s tires a few weeks earlier, police said.
Radcliffe Franklin Haughton damaged his wife’s tires on 4 October, Brookfield police said. She sought court protection four days later, and a judge granted a four-year restraining order on Thursday. As part of the order, Haughton was prohibited from owning a firearm.
Weapons
Brookfield Police Chief Dan Tushaus said at a press conference:
I can tell you we’re not seeking additional suspects. The community can feel safe.
The shootings set off a confusing, six-hour search for the gunman that locked down a nearby mall, a country club adjacent to the spa and the hospital where the survivors were taken. The search froze activity in a commercial area in Brookfield, a middle-to-upper class community west of Milwaukee, for much of the day.
Ultimately, Haughton was found dead in the spa after killing himself.
Authorities said it would take time to sort out exactly what happened, and emphasised they were still interviewing witnesses and rescuers and didn’t have a firm timeline of events. At Sunday’s news conference, Brookfield Mayor Steve Ponto called the shootings “a senseless act on the part of one person.”
The chaos started around 11 am at the Azana Day Spa, a two-story, 9,000-square-foot building across from a major shopping mall. The first officers on the scene found the building filled with smoke from a fire authorities believe was set by Haughton, 45, of Brown Deer, Tushaus said.
They also found a 1-pound propane tank they initially thought might be an improvised explosive device, Tushaus said. That slowed the search of the building as law enforcement agents waited for a bomb squad to clear the scene.
Tushaus said later that police didn’t know whether the gunman brought the propane tank to the spa or whether a contractor left it.
The search was also complicated by the layout of the building, with numerous small treatment rooms and several locked areas, Tushaus said. While officers initially thought the gunman had fled the building, they later found his body in one of the locked areas, he said.
Survivors
The bodies of the victims were also found in the spa. Tushaus said investigators were still working to identify them. He said the four survivors were between the ages of 22 and 40. He didn’t know if they were employees at the spa or customers, and it wasn’t clear if the man’s wife was among the victims.
Haughton had recently been arrested after witnesses identified him as the person who slashed his wife’s tires, police said.
A witness, David Gosh of nearby West Allis, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel he was returning from duck hunting with his father and a friend when he saw a woman emerge from the spa, screaming, as she ran into traffic.
“She ran right out into the street and was pounding on cars,” Gosh told the newspaper. Moments later, a man with a handgun ran out. He appeared to be chasing the woman but then went back inside, Gosh said.
At the hospital where the victims were taken, staff members were escorted inside during a temporary lockdown. Officers were stationed at entrances, and critically injured patients were admitted with a police escort.
The hospital released a statement saying two women had undergone surgery, and one was in critical condition. Another was expected to have surgery last night.
Mass shooting
It was the second mass shooting in Wisconsin this year. Wade Michael Page, a 40-year-old Army veteran and white supremacist, killed six people and injured three others before fatally shooting himself 5 August at a Sikh temple south of Milwaukee.
Sunday’s shooting took place less than a mile from where seven people were killed and four wounded on March 12, 2005, when a gunman opened fire at a Living Church of God service held at a hotel.
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Remarkable man True visionary
All physics modelling is based on the clockwork solar system originating with Isaac Newton. The Ptolemaic framework could predict an astronomical event like a solar eclipse as a date; however, the introduction of the equatorial coordinate system (RA/Dec) allowed observers to predict the exact time of the event within a 24-hour day. The concession was that the Ptolemaic system, which Copernicus and Kepler were obligated to use, where the Sun moved directly through the constellations while the planets wandered, was displaced by a wandering Sun as well.
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To celebrate a physicist is to demean the original astronomers and the heritage to which they belonged.
@Gerald Kelleher: Ummmm, what?
: I am explaining what nobody else, including the physicists, could or can.
“The demonstrations throughout the Principia are geometrical, but to readers of ordinary ability are rendered unnecessarily difficult by the absence of illustrations and explanations, and by the fact that no clue is given to the method by which Newton arrived at his results. The reason why it was presented in a geometrical form appears to have been that calculus was then unknown, and, had Newton used it to demonstrate results which were in themselves opposed to the prevalent philosophy of the time, the controversy as to the truth of his results would have been hampered by a dispute concerning the validity of the methods used in proving them. He cast the whole reasoning into a geometrical shape” Rouse Ball
@Gerald Kelleher: “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
@Robin : Learn it
“The proportion existing between the periodic times of any two planets is exactly the sesquiplicate proportion of the mean distances of the orbits
And so if anyone takes the period, say, of the Earth, which is one year, and the period of Saturn, which is thirty years, and extracts the cube roots of this ratio and then square the ensuing ratio by squaring the cube roots, he will have as his numerical products the most just ratio of the distances of the Earth and Saturn from the sun. 1 For the cube root of 1 is 1, and the square of it is 1; and the cube
root of 30 is greater than 3, and therefore the square of it is greater than 9. And Saturn, at its mean distance from the sun, is slightly higher than nine times the mean distance of the Earth from the sun.” Kepler
@Gerald Kelleher: ah ya see what you mean now. So succinct as always Gerard
@Dan It is more important to recover astronomy from the voodoo merchants of the Royal Society’s celestial mechanics than to dismantle contrived nonsense, which I can do easily.
“That the fixed stars being at rest, the periodic times of the 5 primary planets, and (whether of the sun about the earth, or) of the earth about the sun, are in the sesquiplicate proportion of their mean distances from the sun…. for the periodic times are the same, and the dimensions of the orbits are the same, whether the sun revolves about the earth, or the earth about the sun.” Newton
There is no axiom for the Sun around the Earth; the periodic times are based on the motion of the Sun and planets against the background stars.
Watching the vandalism of experimental theorists has been quite an experience.
@Gerald Kelleher: Do fish cry? How would you know?
There is nothing more satisfying than recovering the basic arguments that the first Sun-centered astronomers used, including what was meant by periodic times.
” The 10th argument, taken from the periodic times, is as follows: the apparent movement of the Sun has 365 days, which is the mean measure between Venus’ period of 225 days and Mars’ period of 687 days. Therefore, does not the nature of things shout out loud that the circuits in which those 365 days are taken up have a mean position between the circuits of Mars and Venus around the Sun, and thus this is not the circuit of the Sun around the Earth but the circuit of the Earth around the resting Sun, just as the other planets, namely Mars and Venus, complete their own periods by running around the Sun.” Kepler
@Gerald Kelleher: I can count to potato…
Theorists haven’t the slightest clue about what Newton was doing, much less Kepler’s approach. Maybe one or two readers wonder what all the fuss about absolute/relative time, space and motion.
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“Copernicus, by attributing a single annual motion to the Earth, entirely rids the planets of these extremely intricate coils, leading the individual planets into their respective orbits, quite bare and very nearly circular. In the periodic time shown in the diagram, Mars traverses the same orbit as many times as the ‘garlands’ you see looped towards the centre, with one extra, making nine times, while at the same time the Earth repeats its circle sixteen times ” Kepler
All theorists do is hope curious readers won’t look.
@Gerald Kelleher: You’re some tool in fairness
@Gerald Kelleher: I wonder why you aren’t you posting this hugely important stuff on the Scientific American, Popular Mechanics, National Geographic, or Smithsonian sites rather than this minor news website where your posts are clearly not as appreciated or understood as you’d like. It seems rather odd to me that you don’t. Unless, of course, you’re fearful of being ripped to shreds intellectually speaking if you did…
@William Tallon: I am a Christian, so the gifts are part of me but do not belong to me, while others either spot the gift or they do not.
” Above all the graces and all the gifts of the Holy Spirit which Christ grants to his friends, is the grace of overcoming oneself, and accepting willingly, out of love for Christ, all suffering, injury, discomfort and contempt; for in all other gifts of God we cannot glory, seeing they proceed not from ourselves but from God” St Francis
The genuinely gifted don’t promote themselves but present the narratives and events that require no effort, at least up to a point. I demonstrate what others cannot, so although it is important, the perceptive gifts are just not there in any great measure for historical reasons.
@James Roche: Can you learn me?
@Gerald Kelleher: ChatGPT had entered the comments section!
@Gerald Kelleher: stopped taking your medication again Gerald? Tut tut.
@Gerald Kelleher: You’ve completely failed to answer my question, but I didn’t really expect that you would. I find your response fascinating, nonetheless. It’s not often that I get to communicate with someone that God has blessed with such special gifts that make them so intellectualy superior! Or maybe it’s not God working through you and is just a simple case of your rampant ego causing you to confuse that self-created, self-reinforcing belief system about your abilities for divine inspiration…
@Gerald Kelleher: Are YOU a physicist? I mean really, you think a few random cut and paste jobs from stuff you have read makes you more knowledgeable than educated, trained, highly intelligent people who actually work in this field? Really??
@Gerald Kelleher: And also, what has all your solar system nonsense got to do with the discovery of mass particles that propelled the formation of the universe? the UNIVERSE? you do know the solar system is like a grain of sand in it, right? even the Milky Way is!
@Pauline Gallagher: A physicist, at the level of solar system research, whether they call themselves astronomers, cosmologists, or something else, is someone who forces themselves to believe there are more rotations of the planet than there are days in a year because the clockwork solar system demands it, and that originates with Newton’s absolute/relative time, space and motion junk.
What you see as cut-and-paste is comparing the original proposals of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo with the vandalism of Newton and then explaining how the original Sun-centred astronomers made observations, interpretations, and conclusions.
The time where the mathematical community decide who is gifted or not is over and time to get back to genuine astronomical research.
@Gerald Kelleher: It must be shockingly difficult for you, knowing what you know through divine inspiration only to be ignored by an uncaring and clearly evil scientific community…
@William Tallon: All inspiration/spirit is from God.
“God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” Jesus
A person has a reasoning side and an inspirational side so combined they are spirit and truth, so the hapless follower of the Age of Reason denies themselves the perceptive/inspirational side of their humanity and Eternal nature.
The scientific method community as it applies to solar system research and Earth sciences is basically a self-serving lucrative entity of grants and funding so I have no interest in that other than society is distracted from their connection to nature.
I stick with the technical details where Newton tried to change what a hypothesis meant within solar system research in his attempt to equate it with an experimental hypothesis
@Gerald Kelleher: “How do you know you’re… God? Simple when I pray to Him, I find I’m talking to myself…” The 14th Earl of Gurney from “The Ruling Class” (1972)
@William Tallon: if it is any consolation, only the devil could make you believe there are more rotations of the Earth than there are 24-hour days in the year as clockwork solar system modelling demands.
@Gerald Kelleher: I think most people on here have rumbled you at this stage! The law of diminishing returns springs to mind. Give it up. Spring, you say? Cue some pseudoscientific word salad/diatribe from Gerald about Hooke’s law! There you go, left it open for you…
Can only imagine what Sheldon is going through right now.
Ultimately, Kepler’s diagram is not geocentric as Newton and his followers today imagine, but rather the motions of Mars and Earth gauged against the background stars.
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All the rubbish of absolute/relative space and motion – observations seen from Earth create the spirals (relative space and motion) so by placing the Sun at the centre, the loops disappear (absolute space and motion).
“For to the Earth, planetary motions appear sometimes direct, sometimes stationary, nay, and sometimes retrograde. But from the Sun, they are always seen direct[ly],…” Newton
It is crude and cruel but then again, nothing more cruel than the scientific method that emerged from the vandalism.
@Gerald Kelleher: Know your audience and stop trying to be smart FFS.
@Jack Jack: The true gift is to balance the perceptive and reasoning faculties.
“When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence, one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches but ours. Thus, this benefit renders him pleasing to us, besides that such community of intellect as we have with him necessarily inclines the heart to love.” Pascal
There is a great affection for the great astronomers and innovators stretching back to remote antiquity; however, the scientific method subculture of the 17th century created mathematical icons to revere while nobody knows why apart from assurances from the mathematical community.
@Gerald Kelleher: Oh piss off
@Jack Jack: To be honest, I think at this stage he’s already been taking the proverbial urine! The more of his posts I read, the more suspicious I’ve become…
Ireland is to recognise the terrorist state of Palestine, which Yasser Arafat himself would not accept because it would have meant acknowledgement of the legitimacy of the Jewish state Israel. Treachery against democracy!
@Kieran Mac C: Thank you. Not many of us who think this way, but its important that some of us do.
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