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Violencefoxnews.com/ ... 09:19:42Darshana Patel told authorities she was suspicious as she watched her boyfriend stir a smoothie at an ice cream store. When he offered it to her, she noticed powder on the cup's rim, and the pregnant woman feigned illness and didn't drink it. According to a criminal complaint, the woman says she sent the powder to a laboratory and it turned out to be mifepristone, the abortion pill also known as RU-486. The test results came too late: She had already suffered two miscarriages in less than a year. On Thursday, Manishkumar M. Patel, 34, of Appleton, was accused of slipping the drug to the woman without her knowledge. He was charged with seven felonies and two misdemeanors...
Missingkansas.com/ ... 09:18:36El Dorado, KS... police announced Thursday they had found a body matching the description of Emily Sander... along U.S. 54 near the Woodson County town of Toronto, 50 miles east of El Dorado...
Civilization vs Gangsterismhosted.ap.org/ ... 09:15:06Kurdish separatists who have found haven in northern Iraq in their fight for autonomy from Turkey have returned to their homeland in the past two weeks and Iran-based rebels have taken their place, the rebel leader's brother said. A spokesman for the Kurdish government in the self-ruled region could not confirm Osman Ocalan's claim that the members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, known by its Kurdish acronym PKK, had withdrawn, but said Thursday the government would not accept "any armed struggle to be launched from our territories against any neighboring country..."
Supernatural Tyrannydailymail.co.uk/ ... 09:05:38Thousands of Islamic fanatics wielding clubs and knives are marching through the streets of Khartoum demanding the execution of teddy bear teacher Gillian Gibbons. As the mother-of-two started a 15-day prison term, protestors left mosques across the Sudanese capital to denounce the "lenient verdict" and call for the death penalty... [When might these people enter, oh, say, the 15th Century?]
Under Sexist Tyrannybreitbart.com/ ... 09:04:26Chinese police are to stop arresting women who carry condoms, traditionally seen as evidence of prostitution, in an effort to help curb the spread of AIDS... Despite efforts to stop the practice, women in China are still being sent to labour camps for prostitution offences merely because they were carrying condoms when detained by police...
Nature can be Deadlybreitbart.com/ ... 09:03:39A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake shook several Caribbean holiday islands, destroying buildings and killing at least one person and causing widespread panic...
Thefthosted.ap.org/ ... 08:57:23Irish police were hunting for a beer bandit who stole 450 full kegs from the Guinness brewery - the largest heist ever at Ireland's largest brewer...
Alcohol Was Involvedknbc.com/ ... 09:07:35Southern California police said 1991 police beating victim Rodney King has been shot, but the wounds are not life-threatening... hit in the face and arm by shotgun pellets on a San Bernardino street corner... bicycled to his home in Rialto to call police and was taken to a hospital... Police said when they arrived at the home, King and others there appeared drunk and few were cooperative in providing information... reuters.com/ ... 08:40:31Two out of three Australian women binge drink, with some knocking back more than 11 alcoholic beverages in a single sitting...
Cold War - still with usreuters.com/ ... 08:20:13President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Friday suspending Russia's participation in a key post-Cold War arms treaty, a move which could allow it to deploy more forces close to western Europe...
Transport Troublenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 08:13:21All 56 people on board a passenger plane that crashed in south-western Turkey have died... 49 passengers and seven crew... on a domestic flight from Istanbul to the town of Isparta when it disappeared from radar screens shortly before it was due to land... "There was no rain, snowfall or storm at the plane's destination. There were no technical problems with the plane. The pilot was in communication with the tower until the plane disappeared..."
Opposing Tyrannynews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 08:11:27Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans have protested against changes to the constitution proposed by the president... correspondents say the "no" campaign is gaining force. No official crowd estimates were available but an opposition politician put the figure at about 160,000...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 09:30:31us-flagArmy Sgt. 1st Class John J. Tobiason, 42, of Bloomington, Minn., died Nov. 28 in Baghdad, Iraq, of injuries suffered from an incident that is currently under investigation. He was assigned to the 847th Adjutant General Battalion, 89th Regional Readiness Command, Wichita, Kan. defenselink.mil/ ... 09:30:07us-flagMarine Cpl. Allen C. Roberts, 21, of Arcola, Ill., died Nov. 28 from a vehicle accident near Al Asad, Iraq. He was assigned to Marine Attack Squadron 214, Marine Aircraft Group 13, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Ariz.
Cryptozoologyreuters.com/ ... 09:16:18KATHMANDU... A U.S.-based television channel investigating the existence of the legendary Yeti in Nepal has found footprints similar to those said to be that of the abominable snowman... on the bank of Manju river at a height of 2,850 meters (9,350 feet)...
Digital Future is Nowreuters.com/ ... 08:39:02Suited executives, grungy teens and even some savvy grannies are already using Wi-Fi to wirelessly link their laptops to the Internet. It may not be long before the short-range high-speed technology is just as popular for those looking to connect music players, phones, cameras, game consoles and more. Wi-Fi's expansion beyond its role linking computers to the Internet should be good news for consumers -- making a host of electronics devices easier to use and more useful...
Evolution Isn't Easyreuters.com/ ... 08:30:27One of our closest ancestors had more in common with gorillas than previously thought, with males of the species taking far longer to reach maturity than females... Males of Paranthropus robustus -- an extinct relative of humans that lived almost 2 million years ago -- continued to grow well into adulthood, before a lucky few finally established "harems" of females for breeding. The result was a big difference in size between males and females... "This is exactly what you see in gorillas and a variety of other primates, but not so much in humans or chimpanzees..."
Healing Ourselvesreuters.com/ ... 08:29:23MouseA sticky molecule previously linked to inflammation also helps seal vital insulation around peripheral nerves, making it a potential target for new drugs against nerve disorders... the molecule, known as JAM-C, could be a key player in regulating the way nerves work. In genetically modified mice without the adhesion molecule, the myelin insulation sheath protecting nerves deteriorates and the animals experience faulty nerve firing, muscle weakness and a shortened stride, researchers reported in the journal Science. The team also found that nerves of patients with certain peripheral nerve disorders had defective JAM-C... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 08:28:24MouseScientists have reversed the effects of ageing on the skin of mice by blocking the action of a specific protein... they could rejuvenate skin to look more youthful... the skin had the same genetic profile as the skin of newborn mice... They stressed it was unlikely to be a potential "fountain of youth" but could help older people heal as quickly from injury as they did when they were younger. The protein in question - NF-kappa-B - is thought to play a role in numerous aspects of ageing... It acts as a regulator, causing a wide range of other genes to be more or less active...
Antiquity - still with ushosted.ap.org/ ... 08:25:07A wall mentioned in the Bible's Book of Nehemiah and long sought by archaeologists apparently has been found, an Israeli archaeologist says. A team of archaeologists discovered the wall in Jerusalem's ancient City of David during a rescue attempt on a tower that was in danger of collapse... findings suggest that the structure was actually part of the same city wall the Bible says Nehemiah rebuilt, Mazar said. The Book of Nehemiah gives a detailed description of construction of the walls, destroyed earlier by the Babylonians...
Dinosaurs -- still with ushosted.ap.org/ ... 08:23:28RhamphorhynchusTracks from half a dozen species of dinosaurs turned up in a southern Utah area popular with ATV riders. An area the size of a football field was closed to protect thousands of three-toed and other tracks...
World Zookeepingnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 08:14:42ChimpFour rare gorillas are being flown from South Africa to Cameroon, five years after they were illegally smuggled to Taiping Zoo in Malaysia... will now be taken to a wildlife sanctuary. The male and three females were sedated before being put into giant crates...
Epidemic Without Bordersnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 08:12:09A haemorrhagic fever that has killed 16 people and infected more than 50 others in Uganda has been confirmed as the deadly Ebola virus. The casualties are all in the region of Bundibugyo, on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo... DR Congo has been battling for five months to contain an Ebola outbreak close to its border with Angola. Symptoms of the epidemic include high temperature, bloody diarrhoea and visible haemorrhaging. There is no known cure for Ebola, which is fatal in around 80% of cases...
Headline of the Dayefluxmedia.com/ ... 09:24:16HempPolice Ordered to Return Legally Possessed Marijuana...Hemp
Unclear on le Conceptapnews.myway.com/ ... 09:02:28Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden called on Europeans to stop helping the United States in the war in Afghanistan, according to excerpts of a new audiotape broadcast Thursday on Al-Jazeera television... Bin Laden said it was unjust for the United States to have invaded Afghanistan for sheltering him after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, saying he was the "only one responsible" for the deadly assaults on New York and Washington... The message appeared to be another attempt by bin Laden to influence public opinion in the West...
Lost & Foundhosted.ap.org/ ... 08:56:40ChickenFAIRMONT, Minn... More than two decades after Aaron Giles lost his identity bracelet... A meat cutter at Olson Locker in Fairmont came across the shiny object in a chicken gizzard and saw a name, address and phone number engraved on it... Giles had lived in Fairmont as a child and played hide-and-seek and other games with his brothers in their grandfather's barn near Sherburn... 31-year-old said he thinks the bracelet was lost when he was 4 or 5... The barn was dismantled a few years ago, and Giles thinks his bracelet was imbedded in materials used to construct another barn in Elmore, about 45 miles away. The bracelet was found in a chicken that came from an Elmore farm...
Christmas 2007ksdk.com/ ... 09:06:37Christmas TreeA Christmas tree that had been removed from the atrium of Strong Hall at Missouri State University will return, along with other religious holiday symbols in that building, school president Michael T. Nietzel said in a news release Thursday morning... Courts have ruled that Christmas trees are secular symbols, along with the Jewish menorah... hosted.ap.org/ ... 08:50:39Christmas Treeawoke Wednesday to find that a long-needled pine the family had decorated for years was cut down and stolen during the night. The family planted the pine 10 years ago, and it had grown to 15 to 20 feet high. "The neighbors and grandkids really looked forward to the tree being lit up..." And the thief had fastidiously taken the lights from the tree, draping them on rocks around the tree's raised bed. "I'm probably going to string the lights around the base of it and just light the base of it..."
Broadcast is Deadreuters.com/ ... 08:34:28The Hollywood screenwriters' strike is an opportunity for alternative media companies, from DVD renters to cable television and the Web, to reach new audiences, according to entertainment industry executives. "To the extent that people aren't watching the (television) networks, that's an interesting opportunity..."
Transport Safetyhosted.ap.org/ ... 08:26:51The government, the International Maritime Organization and the shipping industry are exploring how to bring some order to the jumble of electronic navigation aids proliferating on the seas - a movement that has been given greater impetus by an accident in San Francisco Bay earlier this month... the pilot in that episode told authorities there was confusion between him and the ship's captain over symbols on an electronic charting system... "An international standardization of bridge equipment like radars and electronic navigation equipment - to me, that would be the legislation I would like to see come out of this..."
Digital Culturenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 08:19:25A South Korean man initially thought to have been killed by an exploding mobile phone battery was in fact crushed by a quarry vehicle... a colleague later confessed that he had backed into the victim while reversing a construction vehicle... tried to cover up the accident... Police are investigating whether the battery exploded during the accident or the colleague set it on fire...
Free Expressionnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 08:16:53Controversial Bangladeshi feminist writer Taslima Nasreen has said she will withdraw some "controversial" lines from one of her books. The lines are from Dwikhondito (Split into two) which, some Muslim groups say, are derogatory to Islam. The book was banned by the government in India's West Bengal state where a quarter of the population is Muslim. There have been violent protests against Ms Nasreen by Muslims in West Bengal's capital, Calcutta, recently... Critics have accused the writer of calling for the Koran to be changed to give women greater rights, something she denies...
THU 2007-NOV-29
Missingabcnews.go.com/ ... 11:14:57Her Web site may have been taken down, but pictures of an upstart porn star named Zoey Zane can still be found on the Internet. Now investigators in Kansas who have been searching for 18-year-old Emily Sander, a college student missing since Friday, must consider a startling discovery: Sander and Zane are the same person... Suddenly the girl described by her grandfather as a "sweet," good kid appears to have been leading a secret double life as an aspiring adult movie starlet...
Supernatural Tyrannythisislondon.co.uk/ ... 11:06:14A major security operation was under way today as a British teacher charged with inciting hatred and insulting religion was brought before a court in Sudan... Security was also tight at the city's court building as fears that extremists might stage a kidnap attempt ran high. Mrs Gibbons, looking tired and distressed and wearing a dark blue jacket and blue dress, was not handcuffed. Reports have suggested she could learn her fate by 5pm today... The prosecutor-general said Mrs Gibbons, whose case has drawn international condemnation, can expect a swift and fair trial under Sudanese law... [There's an oxymoron gem..!] Extreme Islamic groups said Mrs Gibbons "must die" and urged Muslims to hold street protests after prayers tomorrow. The Muslim Council of Britain said it was "appalled" at the decision by Sudan...
Infrastructure Failurebiz.yahoo.com/ ... 11:02:52NORTH PERRY, Ohio... A water system problem caused an automatic shutdown of a nuclear power plant Wednesday... Water level inside the reactor was adequately maintained, but the plant remained off-line Wednesday evening...
Under Tyrannyap.google.com/ ... 11:12:36China's last-minute cancellation of a U.S. Navy visit to Hong Kong was not the result of a misunderstanding, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Thursday, adding that ties had been "disturbed and harmed" by Congress' honoring of the Dalai Lama and U.S. arms sales to Taiwan... Spokesman Liu Jianchao denounced an earlier report from Washington that said Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told President Bush the incident was a misunderstanding... breitbart.com/ ... 11:08:35Iran said it plans to launch a crackdown on rap music, complaining that the words used by rap artists were "obscene"... [This may be the first good thing about rap music ever...] reuters.com/ ... 10:57:30When does a legitimate Russian political protest become an illegal gathering? Answer: When a second person joins in to spoil it...
Fatal Whoops Cascadereuters.com/ ... 10:53:59A 200-year-old cannon wheeled out by Indian villagers to greet a visiting minister exploded after being overstuffed with gunpowder, killing two men...
Transport Incidentreuters.com/ ... 10:52:43AlligatorA passenger was forced off a Ryanair flight from Rome to Milan because she refused to move her metre-long plush crocodile which was blocking an emergency exit...
Rage -- not a good ideahosted.ap.org/ ... 10:44:30BENSALEM, Pa.... Lights flashing and siren blaring, a man with a badge allegedly jumped from his Ford Explorer and unholstered his gun, shouting orders at the motorist he had just pulled over. And then the real police showed up... an employee of a private security firm was arrested... not immediately clear why he stopped the driver...
Digital Sex can be Dangeroushosted.ap.org/ ... 10:32:22Online pornography hunters' Internet adventures are already fraught with danger from malicious code many porn sites use to commandeer visitors' machines or steal personal data. Now comes a scheme some researchers say amounts to extortion: One site's threat to disable visitors' computers with relentless pop-up ads if they don't pay for a subscription they were automatically signed up for after a free trial...
Sex can be... disturbingreuters.com/ ... 10:22:46German police have arrested a 60-year-old landlord after discovering he used cameras and microphones to spy on his tenants for a decade while they bathed and slept... one of his tenants discovered the bugging last week while she was cleaning the flat... Police suspect he had sexual motives... [Gee, y's'pose?]
Scary Timesreuters.com/ ... 10:20:39A scanner using T-rays, a harmless form of electromagnetic radiation could make... [it] possible to examine travelers' shoes without the need to disrobe... researchers at Argonne have found a simple way to generate T-rays -- terahertz radiation -- using special, high-temperature superconducting crystals in a compact device... T-rays are part of the electromagnetic spectrum that lies between microwaves on the low end and infrared radiation on the high end. Unlike conventional X-rays, which can cause cell damage, T-rays do not have enough energy to alter cell ionization, which can lead to radiation sickness or cancer...
Data Thefthosted.ap.org/ ... 10:05:16Austin-based Convio Inc... A marketing software company serving nonprofits across the country including The American Red Cross said Tuesday that a hacker stole e-mail addresses and password information from its clients' databases... The hacker used an employee's password to get at the data...
Civilization vs Gangsterismnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:57:15Four members of the Palestinian militant movement, Hamas, have been killed in Israeli air strikes near Khan Younis in the southern Gaza strip. The Israeli army said two militants were seen planting explosives near the Israeli border. The other two were said to have been among a group wearing military-style clothing, in an area from which rockets had been fired towards Israel...
Disturbing Family Patternshosted.ap.org/ ... 09:42:35OCALA, Fla... [53yo] woman wrapped her dead mother's body in garbage bags and dumped it at the side of a road in order to cash her mother's retirement checks... charged with failure to report a death, a misdemeanor... Detectives have filed paperwork with the state attorney's office seeking to charge Loreth with improper disposal of a body and uttering a false instrument...
Fun can be Dangeroushosted.ap.org/ ... 09:41:04claims a ball injured her eye... detached retina... during an office game has hit back with a lawsuit against the city and her co-worker... a game in which employees threw a small ball at each other's backs while they were working. Some "players" would try to throw the ball hard enough to cause the target "to verbally express pain," according to the lawsuit...
Nicotine is a Draghosted.ap.org/ ... 09:39:38BANGOR, Maine... The owner of Spanky's Pizza fears being driven out of business by the stench of cigar smoke... last month's opening of a smokers' lounge at the Cigar & Smoke Shoppe next door coincided with the arrival of the new scent. A thin wall separates the two businesses... [Yuck!]
Transport Troublehosted.ap.org/ ... 09:38:11ACCOMAC, Va... A waste truck leaked poultry fat along 20 miles of roadway Tuesday, causing at least four crashes and making a stinky mess... [Yuck!]
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 11:35:53us-flagArmy Pvt. Isaac T. Cortes, 26, of Bronx, N.Y.
us-flagArmy Spc. Benjamin J. Garrison, 25, of Houston, Texas
died Nov. 27 in Amerli, Iraq, of wounds suffered when their vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. They were assigned to the 1st Squadron, 71st Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Drum, N.Y.
US Militarydefenselink.mil/ ... 11:35:07National Guard... November 28, 2007... This week the Marine Corps and Coast Guard announced an increase, while the Army and Navy announced a decrease. The Air Force number remained the same. The net collective result is 311 fewer reservists mobilized than last week... This brings the total National Guard and Reserve personnel who have been mobilized to 91,240, including both units and individual augmentees.... nydailynews.com/ ... 11:15:50A decorated Bronx soldier who joined the Army this year and began his first tour in Iraq just a month ago was killed by a roadside bomb outside a tinderbox village north of Baghdad... Pvt. Isaac Cortes, 26...
World Zookeepingreuters.com/ ... 10:56:25BatA protected colony of rare fruit bats in Cyprus has almost been wiped out by unidentified gunmen using them for target practice... From a colony of about 60, only 10 to 15 survived... Bats are associated with superstition in other cultures but in Cyprus, they are considered more as pests that eat fruit. "That perception is actually wrong," said Nicolaou. "It will only eat over-ripe fruit..." reuters.com/ ... 10:54:59AlligatorOfficials in Ukraine recaptured a crocodile on Wednesday which had escaped from a travelling circus six months previously and repeatedly eluded search teams... found basking in a pool at a thermal power station... hosted.ap.org/ ... 10:46:02Turtle LandA fire at the Indianapolis Zoo is being blamed on an armadillo that apparently pushed combustible material or bedding too close to a heat lamp... The lamp had been double-chained more than two feet above the floor in the armadillo area... The armadillo, three turtles, two birds, a snake and other small animals died in the November 10 fire...
Staying Healthyhosted.ap.org/ ... 10:38:30In a rare public health success story on the world's most beleaguered continent, Africa has slashed deaths from measles by 91 percent since 2000 thanks to an immunization drive... reuters.com/ ... 10:27:37Physical barriers, such as regular handwashing and wearing masks, gloves and gowns, may be more effective than drugs to prevent the spread of respiratory viruses such as influenza and SARS, a study has found... hosted.ap.org/ ... 10:21:23the graveyard shift might increase your cancer risk... Next month, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the cancer arm of the World Health Organization, will classify shift work as a "probable" carcinogen...
It's All in Your Mindreuters.com/ ... 10:18:45Autistic children have more gray matter in areas of the brain that control social processing and sight-based learning than children without the developmental disability... enlarged gray matter in the parietal lobes of the brain linked to the mirror neuron system of cells associated with empathy, emotional experience and learning through sight. Those children also showed a decrease in gray matter volume in the right amygdala region of the brain that correlated with degrees of impairment in social interaction... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:18:07Scans have shown that paedophilia may be the result of faulty connections in the brain... Paedophiles had significantly less of a substance called "white matter", responsible for wiring the different parts of the brain together... found activity in parts of paedophiles' brains were lower than in other volunteers when shown adult, erotic material... the condition has also been linked to low IQ, suggesting a possible link to brain development. Paedophiles are also three times more likely to be left-handed... Dr Cantor stressed the latest study did not suggest that paedophiles could not be held criminally responsible for their actions. He said: "Not being able to choose your sexual interests doesn't mean you can't choose what you do..."
Cosmologyhosted.ap.org/ ... 10:12:07Young galaxies, so faint that scientists struggled to prove they were there at all, have been discovered by aiming two of the world's most powerful telescopes at a single patch of sky for nearly 100 hours... 27 pre-galactic fragments, dubbed "teenager galaxies," which they hope will help astronomers understand how our own Milky Way reached adulthood... Whether babies or teens, the clusters make a compelling case for the theory that galaxies formed bit by bit instead of all at once...
Solar Systemnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:36:08The US space agency envisages despatching a "minimal" crew on a 30-month round trip to the Red Planet in a 400,000kg (880,000lb) spacecraft. Details of the concept were outlined at a meeting in Houston, Texas... hosted.ap.org/ ... 10:10:03Lightning...For nearly three decades, astronomers have said Venus probably had lightning - ever since a 1978 NASA probe showed signs of electrical activity in its atmosphere. But experts weren't sure because of signal interference. Now a magnetic antenna on the European Space Agency's Venus Express probe proved that the lightning was real. "We consider this to be the first definitive evidence of abundant lighting on Venus..."
Antiquity - still with ushosted.ap.org/ ... 10:08:56LONDON... Digs on the Olympic Park site have discovered evidence of Iron Age settlement, including fourth century pottery and a Roman coin from the time of Emperor Constantine II...
Digital Future is Nowreuters.com/ ... 10:27:01Specialty retailer Brookstone Inc. opened the virtual doors to its 3-dimensional store, which combines a Second Life-like visual experience with real merchandise customers can buy... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:48:58Almost a fifth of European households use a mobile as their only phone... Lithuania heads the nations who have turned against landlines with 48% of households replacing a fixed phone with a mobile. Finland was second with 47%...
Reasons for Repealmlive.com/ ... 11:19:31About 1,400 pounds of Hempmarijuana has been seized by police after two separate traffic stops along Interstate 94... 500 pounds of marijuana in a van Wednesday morning near Ann Arbor... 900 pounds of marijuana in the back of the pickup truck...
US Congresscnn.com/ ... 11:13:59Former Congressman Henry Hyde, a Republican from Illinois, died early Thursday morning. He was 83... Born in 1924, Hyde served in the House from 1975 to 2006 and retired at end of the last session. Hyde served as the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2001. Hyde, a Catholic, was a vocal opponent of abortion. In 1976 Hyde attached an amendment to a spending bill that banned federal funding for abortions. The amendment later become known as the "Hyde Amendment" and has been at the center of the political fight over abortion since its passage. He chaired the committee during the impeachment of President Clinton in 1998. The committee and the full House approved articles of impeachment stemming from the Lewinsky scandal, in which Clinton was accused of lying under oath about his sexual relationship with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky. The Senate later voted against the charges...
Christmas 2007ky3.com/ ... 11:07:12Christmas TreeSPRINGFIELD -- A Missouri State University department head took down a 20-foot Christmas tree... after a diversity official reported a complaint that it was insensitive to other religions... [Druids?]
US Election 2008politico.com/ ... 11:01:57The retired general who asked about gays and lesbians serving in the military at the CNN/YouTube Republican debate on Wednesday is a co-chairman of Hillary Rodham Clinton's National Military Veterans group... After the debate, former Education Secretary Bill Bennett said on a CNN panel that he was being told Kerr was involved with the Democratic presidential campaign of Clinton, a New York senator. CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, who moderated the debate and the panel, said that if that was the case, CNN should have identified Kerr as such. David Bohrman, a CNN senior vice president and executive producer of the debate, later said: "We regret this and apologize to the Republican candidates. We never would have used the general's question had we known that he was connected to any presidential candidate..."
World of Sexual Culturesreuters.com/ ... 10:53:11A Chilean prostitute has auctioned 27 hours of sex to raise money for the country's largest charity during an annual fund-raising campaign...
Defending Ourselveshosted.ap.org/ ... 10:51:41Christmas TreeWESTBURY, N.Y... A 72-year-old man fought off a would-be robber who brandished a gun, wrecked his Christmas decorations, and allegedly had been sent by his nephew in search of jewelry and cash... "I don't know how I got the power..."
It's Only Moneyhosted.ap.org/ ... 10:50:47Christmas TreeCash fluttering in the breeze might have seemed like a gift from heaven, but anyone in this western Massachusetts town who grabbed some of it is being asked to please give it back. The money - a total of $1,100 - belonged to 83-year-old Mary Olive Corbiere, who was banking on it to buy Christmas presents and lost it after a freak accident...
Just Random Chancehosted.ap.org/ ... 10:49:47BOSTON... The winner of a $1 million lottery scratch ticket may not be so lucky after all: He's a convicted bank robber who isn't supposed to gamble... violated his probation when he bought the $10 ticket...
Mysteryhosted.ap.org/ ... 10:48:16BANGOR, Maine.. Workers on a courthouse renovation project have made an eerie discovery in the basement, the headstone of a man who died in 1874... may have been evidence in a case. The front bears the name Isaac Cobb, who was 72 when he died. Adding to the mystery is the poem scrawled on the back of the 3-foot high grave marker. The ditty on the flip side appears to have been painted in black paint, by jail inmates. It's titled "Pretty Boy Floyd Redmond" and tells the story of someone who came to town to "do or die..."
World Climatehosted.ap.org/ ... 10:08:10An outbreak in Europe of an obscure disease from Africa is raising concerns that globalization and climate change are combining to pose a health threat to the West. Nearly 300 cases of chikungunya fever, a virus that previously has been common only in Africa and Asia, were reported in Italy - where only isolated cases of the disease had been seen in the past... [We need a new bumper sticker: Climate changes. Live with it.]
Digital Culturehosted.ap.org/ ... 10:33:52The proposal, unveiled by a consortium of publishers at the global headquarters of The Associated Press, seeks to have those extra commands - and more - apply across the board. Sites, for instance, could try to limit how long search engines may retain copies in their indexes, or tell the crawler not to follow any of the links that appear within a Web page. The current system doesn't give sites "enough flexibility to express our terms and conditions on access and use of content," said Angela Mills Wade, executive director of the European Publishers Council, one of the organizations behind the proposal. "That is not surprising. It was invented in the 1990s and things move on..." [(singing) uncleeeeeear on the concep'...] hosted.ap.org/ ... 10:31:33Web site administrators increasingly are barring some search engines from all or part of their sites, while granting others more access, according to a recent study by Penn State University researchers... Robot.txt files are not mandatory, though they are becoming more popular. More than one-third of the 7,600 sites Giles and his team studied between December 2005 and October 2006 had such files. The vast majority of robots.txt files - nearly 94 percent - managed overall access to a given site, the study found. Other files named spiders from specific places. They welcomed crawlers from Google most often, followed by the engines at Microsoft Corp.'s MSN and Yahoo Inc... reuters.com/ ... 10:28:09MTV Networks plans to make every clip from every episode of the hit animated comedy "South Park" available for free online next year... reuters.com/ ... 10:27:52U.S. online shoppers spent a record $733 million in a single day on "Cyber Monday..." hosted.ap.org/ ... 10:13:33The South Korean man whose death was initially blamed on an exploding cell phone battery appears to have died from another cause, according to a news report Thursday... The National Institute of Scientific Investigation said the injuries were too substantial to have been caused by a battery explosion... LG Electronics Inc., which made the handset, said a battery explosion was almost impossible... hosted.ap.org/ ... 10:07:15Cast in the good-guy role of stopping Internet cigarette sales to children, Maine's deputy attorney general got roughed up Wednesday by several Supreme Court justices who suggested the law is not on his side. Paul Stern argued that his state, like many others, is trying to keep tobacco from underage smokers and that cannot be done without the help of companies that deliver cigarettes bought over the Internet... Shipping industry associations that are challenging the law object to delivery requirements that they say only the federal government can impose. Federal law bars states from regulating prices, routes or services of shipping companies and Maine's law "certainly relates to the service" of the shipping companies, Chief Justice John Roberts said. "It talks about what carriers have to do," Roberts added...
Now That's Funny!reuters.com/ ... 10:00:58enezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Wednesday CNN may have been instigating his murder when the U.S. TV network showed a photograph of him with a label underneath that read "Who killed him?.." The caption appeared to be a production mistake -- confusing a Chavez news item with one on the death of a football star. The anchor said "take the image down" when he realized...
World Energynews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:58:18Oil prices have jumped after a fire shut down the main pipeline delivering Canadian crude oil to refineries in the US Midwest. The blaze near Enbridge's Clearbrook oil terminal in Minnesota killed two employees, with local officials saying it could burn for three days. Pipelines from Canada carry about 1.9 million barrels of oil per day and the closure has hit 20% of US oil imports...
Digital Threatnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:34:44A huge campaign to poison web searches and trick people into visiting malicious websites has been thwarted. The booby-trapped websites came up in search results for search terms such as "Christmas gifts" and "hospice". Windows users falling for the trick risked having their machine hijacked and personal information plundered. The criminals poisoned search results using thousands of domains set up to convince search index software they were serious sources of information... reuters.com/ ... 10:01:57A "cyber cold war" waged over the world's computers threatens to become one of the biggest threats to security in the next decade.... About 120 countries are developing ways to use the Internet as a weapon to target financial markets, government computer systems and utilities, Internet security company McAfee said in an annual report... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:55:41Yahoo has reached a deal to start running advertisements in Adobe's popular PDF document-reading format. The service will allow publishers to make money by including adverts linked to the content of a PDF document in a panel at the side of the page...
Headline of the Daynews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:51:20Somalia offensive after attacks...
[and the peasants are revolting...]
Theory of Justicenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:45:28American oil tycoon Oscar Wyatt has been sentenced to one year and a day in prison for conspiracy in the UN oil-for-food programme scandal... admitted he agreed to pay $200,000 (£97,000) into an Iraqi bank account... [a most unflattering photo of him]
Rebuildinghosted.ap.org/ ... 09:44:18...Late Wednesday, about 20 buses carrying hundreds of Iraqi refugees rolled into a Baghdad depot - the first from the Iraqi-funded effort to speed the return of families. National Security Minister Sherwan al-Waili, who met the convoy, said each returning family would receive $750 to get started rebuilding their lives...
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Transport Tragedytulsaworld.com/ ... 14:50:53Tulsa... Two people were killed and one was critically injured when a small airplane crashed just north of Jones Riverside Airport on Tuesday evening... had just purchased the plane from Dan Howard Aircraft Sales, based at Jones Riverside Airport, on Tuesday... had just taken off to head back to Little Rock when they turned back to the airport, possibly because of an electrical problem... hit a power line and crashed, coming to rest upside down about 100 yards north of the airport...
On Oct. 17, a single-engine plane carrying five people crashed in Glenpool, killing all of the people aboard. The Rev. Bill Wiseman Jr., Dr. Rhonda Lunn and her three children, Kathryn Lunn, 16, and twins Michael Lunn and Adrienne Lunn, both 14, were all killed. That plane also had just taken off from Jones Riverside Airport...
Nuclear is Nastyabcnews.go.com/ ... 14:24:14The Slovakian police today arrested three people for trying to sell more than 2 pounds of radioactive material... near the border of Ukraine, between Slovakia and Hungary...
Missingabcnews.go.com/ ... 14:23:38El Dorado, Kansas... Kansas authorities released an image Tuesday night of a bedspread they say may help in the search for Emily Sander, an 18-year-old last seen Friday night leaving a bar with a man now wanted by police for questioning in the teen's disappearance... Tuesday night, authorities in Vernon, Texas, about 350 miles south of El Dorado, discovered a rental car used by Israel Mireles, 24. According to eyewitnesses, Mireles and Sander left the Retreat Bar in El Dorado together Friday night... along with his 16-year-old pregnant girlfriend... might be making a run for the border...
Civilization vs Gangsterismvoanews.com/ ... 14:21:27Saudi Arabia has arrested 208 people from several terrorist cells for allegedly planning to attack oil installations in the world's largest oil exporting nation... military.com/ ... 14:20:04US-led coalition war planes trying to target insurgents killed 12 Afghan road workers in an air strike in northwestern Afghanistan, a provincial governor said Nov. 28. Another official said up to 25 of the men were killed in the bombing... "The road workers were in a tent which was hit by one bomb. All died..." voanews.com/ ... 14:18:55A bomb blast on the outskirts of Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, has killed at least 17 people and wounded nearly 40 others - just hours after a suicide bomber targeted the office of a government minister...
Peace 3000washingtonpost.com/ ... 14:18:39Recapping the Annapolis Mideast Conference... the key is to strengthen Abbas so he can negotiate with Hamas from a position of strength and reach an agreement with the more pragmatic elements in the organization (if there are any). I don't know if this will work, but it's worth testing...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 15:02:20The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
us-flagAir Force Capt. Stephen A. Rusch, U.S. Air Force, of Lambertville, N.J. He will be buried on Nov. 30 at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C. On March 7, 1972, Rusch was the weapons systems officer in an F-4E Phantom II aircraft attacking enemy targets in Salavan Province, Laos. The plane was the number two aircraft in a flight of two. When Rusch's aircraft was cleared to begin its second run over enemy targets, the flight leader of the number one aircraft lost sight of Rusch's plane and observed enemy ground fire followed by a large explosion. An immediate search was begun, but all attempts to establish radio contact and later search efforts were unsuccessful. In 1995, a joint U.S./Lao People's Democratic Republic (L.P.D.R.) team, led by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), investigated the incident and interviewed several Laotian citizens. The team surveyed the crash site identified by one of the citizens and found aircraft wreckage. In 2001, a U.S. citizen, acting as an intermediary for a Laotian citizen, turned over to U.S. officials a bone fragment and a photocopy of Rusch's military identification tag. The bone fragment proved not to be from Capt. Rusch. In 2002-2003, joint teams conducted two excavations of the crash site. The teams recovered human remains and non-biological evidence including U.S. coins and life support equipment....
Lasting Contributionsbreitbart.com/ ... 14:45:05Dr. Robert Cade, who invented the sports drink Gatorade and launched a multibillion-dollar industry that the beverage continues to dominate, died Tuesday of kidney failure. He was 80... Gatorade was born thanks to a question from former Gator Coach Dwayne Douglas... "Doctor, why don't football players wee-wee after a game?" "That question changed our lives..." Cade's researchers determined a football player could lose up to 18 pounds—90 to 95 percent of it water—during the three hours it takes to play a game. Players sweated away sodium and chloride and lost plasma volume and blood volume. Using their research, and about $43 in supplies, they concocted a brew for players to drink while playing football. The first batch was not exactly a hit. "It sort of tasted like toilet bowl cleaner..."
Animal Companionsnews.com.au/ ... 14:38:16MADONNA has horrified animal activists after dyeing her sheep blue, pink, yellow and green for a Vogue spread at their English country estate, in Wiltshire...
Staying Healthydailymail.co.uk/ ... 14:37:16Mice resistant to cancer have been created in a breakthrough that could lead to a human treatment free of side-effects. A protein produced by the creatures may hold the key to a future therapy... abcnews.go.com/ ... 14:36:19Scientists have found intriguing evidence that one major reason so many people are overweight these days may be... most of us sit too much...
Geologynews.nationalgeographic.com/ ... 14:26:52The frozen features of the coldest place on Earth have come into their sharpest focus ever, thanks to recent satellite technology. A thousand images from NASA's Landsat satellite data, taken mostly between 1999 and 2001, were pieced together to create a first true-color map with ten times greater resolution than previous images of Antarctica. The map is so detailed it includes features that are as small as half the size of a basketball court...
Christmas 2007foxnews.com/ ... 14:43:15Christmas TreeA feud involving the man who sang "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" could wind up in court, just in time for Christmas...
Theory of Educationazcentral.com/ ... 14:35:44A Glendale elementary school principal has admitted to telling a 9-year old boy that it is OK to have racist feelings as long as you keep them to yourself... The boy was suspended for three days this month for allegedly committing a "hate crime" by using the expression "brown people..."
Reasons for Repealtulsaworld.com/ ... 14:51:25TAHLEQUAH -- A woman who is on probation in connection with a fatal alcohol-related traffic accident in 2003 faces life in prison after being arrested for Hempmarijuana possession... billingsgazette.net/ ... 14:33:25A Montana man is jailed in Oregon's Klamath County after a state trooper found nearly two pounds of Hempmarijuana wrapped as a Christmas present in the man's car... and four firearms... [one] loaded and concealed in a box next to the driver's seat... stopped for driving 75 mph in a 55 mph speed zone... a marijuana pipe... his 17-year-old son, who also was arrested... boston.com/ ... 14:31:48Psychedelic mushrooms have been a stubborn part of the nation's drug problem for decades, offering their users a potentially dangerous, and decidedly illegal, way to warp their consciousness. Now government-funded scientists have found that the active ingredient in the mushrooms could be a powerful tool for scientific research, and they say it should be explored as a potential treatment for depression, anxiety, and other disorders. blogs.usatoday.com/ ... 14:30:32If you're Jewish, Israel's Green Leaf Party would like to remind you that Hempmarijuana is not kosher and should not be smoked or eaten during Passover... "Logic dictates that if the rabbis say cannabis is non-kosher for Passover, it is apparently kosher during the rest of the year," Michelle Levin, a spokeswoman for the party, told the YNet news website... freep.com/ ... 14:29:39Emmett Township police officers made a huge discovery while examining a pickup truck seized last week -- about 900 pounds of Hempmarijuana in the back of the truck... 50-year-old resident from Rio Rancho, N.M., whose name is not being released, was stopped for a speeding violation...
Digital Culturecomputerworld.com/ ... 14:26:18Police in Cheongwon, South Korea, said a worker died Wednesday possibly because a cell phone battery exploded in his pocket... found dead at his workplace in a quarry Wednesday morning with a melted cell phone battery in his shirt pocket... suffered a burn in the left chest area and had a broken spine and ribs. "It is presumed that pressure caused by the explosion damaged his heart and lungs, leading to his death..." pcmag.com/ ... 14:25:22Google added to its arsenal of mapping functions Wednesday with a beta mobile app that utilizes cell phone tower signals to pinpoint a mobile phone user's location and provide them with information about their surroundings. "My Location..."
Big Nannymarketwatch.com/ ... 14:28:47Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin wanted to use a new study on the size of the cable industry as a springboard to tighten regulations. Yet fellow commissioners refused to go along and accused the chairman of manipulating the data. The upshot: the cable industry has escaped tougher regulations, for now. As a compromise, FCC commissioners agreed to seek more information about the size of the cable market before taking any action... foxnews.com/ ... 14:24:57It'll be tougher to have sex or smoke on sidewalks or in parks in Berkeley, Calif., after the City Council passed a controversial new measure Tuesday... Initiative cracks down on yelling, littering, camping, drunkenness, smoking, urinating and sex on sidewalks and in parks...
Theory of Justicebuffalonews.com/ ... 14:20:50A state commission has ordered City Judge Robert M. Restaino removed from the bench because he sent 46 people to jail one day when no one would admit owning what the judge thought was a cell phone ringing in his courtroom...
Big Whoops Cascadeuk.reuters.com/ ... 14:19:30Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told President George W. Bush on Wednesday that Beijing's refusal to let a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier enter Hong Kong was a "misunderstanding," the White House said...
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Violencereuters.com/ ... 14:31:50...Passengers were evacuated and negotiations with the police had started before Mikhail Ershov, 43, triggered the explosion, blasting out windows in the train carriage. "Ershov had taken the pin out, he then tried to put the pin back in the grenade, but instead it exploded," the prosecutor said. The explosion did not kill or injure anyone else...
Supernatural Tyrannyabcnews.go.com/ ... 10:15:32Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Justice is defending a sentence of 200 lashes for the victim of a gang rape, punished because she was in the car of a male who wasn't a relative when the two were attacked. In exclusive testimony obtained by ABC News, the young woman told her story of what happened and how she was treated in the months that followed... thesun.co.uk/ ... 10:15:11Sudan... Gillian Gibbons, a 54-year-old described as "timid and polite," has been arrested and accused of blasphemy against Islam’s prophet... British teacher facing 40 lashes... for letting her pupils name a teddy bear Mohammed... told friends how she was loving her life in the country.
Threatsapnews.myway.com/ ... 10:10:32Iran said Tuesday it has manufactured a new missile with a range of 1,200 miles capable of reaching Israel and U.S. bases in the Mideast...
Transport Threatcbs13.com/ ... 10:06:17Phoenix Police have detained a 13-year-old boy after he allegedly pointed a laser at a police helicopter Monday evening... suspected of pointing a laser at other police and media helicopters...
Hang Those Who Betray Public Trustreuters.com/ ... 09:31:58Rome's mayor sacked the city's traffic and parking chief on Sunday after a newspaper reported he parked his car in a no parking zone and displayed a handicapped permit that belonged to an 86-year old woman...
Hospitals can be Dangeroushosted.ap.org/ ... 09:21:20ScreamRhode Island Hospital has been fined $50,000 and reprimanded by the state Department of Health after its third instance this year of a doctor performing brain surgery in the wrong side of a patient's head...
Opposing Tyrannyreuters.com/ ... 09:09:38China has again prodded the United States to oppose a controversial referendum on U.N. membership by Taiwan and warned Washington to stop arms sales to the island China claims as its own, state media said on Tuesday. The island's independence-leaning president, Chen Shui-bian, plans a referendum next March on whether to seek to join the United Nations under the name of "Taiwan" despite repeated warnings from the United States and China...
Untied Nationsnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:08:47The first study of arms embargoes imposed by the UN Security Council has found they worked in only 25% of cases... [I'm impressed it's event that effective!]
Industrial Troublenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:07:40At least 75 firefighters battled flames to save 250 elderly people after a fire broke out at a retirement complex in the US city of Houston, Texas...
WW2 - still with usnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:06:26A "final effort" is under way in South America to track down and prosecute ex-Nazi war criminals before they die. Operation Last Chance - a scheme devised by the Simon Wiesenthal Center - attempts to locate Nazis in hiding. It takes the form of a media campaign and offers financial rewards for any information that results in conviction. The four countries involved are Chile, Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil - where large numbers of Nazis are thought to have fled following World War II...
Industrial Tragedyhosted.ap.org/ ... 09:04:53Rescuers struggled Tuesday to find survivors from a gold mine explosion that killed at least one miner and injured about 40 more in southern Ecuador...
Civilization vs Gangsterismreuters.com/ ... 14:29:50Nine people were killed when a suicide bomber posing as a shepherd attacked police north of Baghdad on Tuesday... Three women were killed when random gunfire broke out in the chaos after the explosion... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:28:58Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka say more than 20 civilians, most of them children, have been killed in two attacks by the military in the north. At least 11 of those killed were schoolchildren whose bus hit a mine laid by the military, the rebels said. The military denied responsibility. Nine others died when the Tigers' radio station was bombed, the rebels said... hosted.ap.org/ ... 09:04:37A suicide car bomber triggered a huge blast Tuesday near two armored vehicles used by U.S.-led coalition troops in Kabul, killing at least two civilians and destroying the wall of a nearby house... damaged the armored vehicles and wounded four people... including two Pakistani road construction workers... none of the troops was injured...
A day earlier, a blast ripped through a car south of the capital, killing four civilians... in the Musayi district of Kabul province, where a bomb had been freshly planted in the muddy, unpaved road...
Also Monday, a remote-controlled roadside bomb struck an Afghan army vehicle in the eastern province of Paktia, killing four soldiers and wounding two... hosted.ap.org/ ... 09:03:15American troops fired on vehicles trying to drive through roadblocks, killing at least five people, including one child, in two separate incidents... "We regret that civilians are hurt or killed while Coalition forces work diligently to rid this country of the terrorist networks that threaten the security of Iraq and our forces..."
The Shaab neighborhood in northern Baghdad where Tuesday's shooting took place is the same district where masked gunmen on Sunday killed 11 relatives of a journalist critical of the Iraqi government, according to colleagues and the media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders...
Healing Ourselvesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:30:49Scientists have managed to restore a sense of touch to two patients with prosthetic arms, in what is seen as a step towards creating sensitive limbs. By rerouting the remaining nerves from their lost limbs to their chests, the patients said they could feel their missing arms and hands in their chests. When heat or pressure was applied to the chest, the patients said they felt as if their hand was being touched...
Digital Future is Nowafrica.reuters.com/ ... 10:03:15A pearly white robot that looks a little like E.T. boosted a man out of bed, chatted and helped prepare his breakfast with its deft hands in Tokyo on Tuesday, in a further sign robots are becoming more like their human inventors. Twendy-One, named as a 21st century edition of a previous robot, Wendy, has soft hands and fingers that gently grip, enough strength to support humans as they sit up and stand, and supple movements that respond to human touch. It can pick up a loaf of bread without crushing it, serve toast and help lift people out of bed...
Epidemic Without Bordersreuters.com/ ... 09:26:21Washington, D.C., has the highest rate of AIDS in the United States, and more babies are born with the AIDS virus in Washington than in other U.S. cities... People living in Washington also are not getting tested for HIV and show up with advanced infections that progress quickly to AIDS... Washington, with a population of around 600,000 people, has a rate of 128 AIDS cases per 100,000 people in 2006, compared with a national rate of 14 cases per 100,000. The city accounted for 9 percent of all pediatric AIDS cases in the United States during 2005... "Heterosexual contact in the District is the leading mode of HIV transmission at 37 percent of newly reported infections, while nationally men who have sex with men lead new transmissions... "
Staying Healthymedicalnewstoday.com/ ... 14:38:42A new study by UK researchers suggests that women who live in cities and urban areas are at greater risk from breast cancer because they tend to have denser breasts... telegraph.co.uk/ ... 10:05:40An Indonesian fisherman who feared that he would be killed by tree-like growths covering his body has been given hope of recovery by an American doctor - and Vitamin A... baffled medical experts when warty "roots" began growing out of his arms and feet after he cut his knee in a teenage accident... welts spread across his body unchecked... After testing samples of the lesions and Dede's blood, Dr Anthony Gaspari of the University of Maryland concluded that his affliction is caused by the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), a fairly common infection that usually causes small warts to develop on sufferers... Dede's problem is that he has a rare genetic fault that impedes his immune system, meaning his body is unable to contain the warts. The virus was therefore able to "hijack the cellular machinery of his skin cells", ordering them to produce massive amounts of the substance that caused the tree-like growths known as "cutaneous horns" on his hands and feet... believes that Dede's condition can be largely cleared up by a daily doses of a synthetic form of Vitamin A, which has been shown to arrest the growth of warts in severe cases of HPV... reuters.com/ ... 09:22:14Starchy foods such as white rice and bread raise the likelihood of diabetes for both black and Chinese women, but adding some whole-grain foods may reverse the risk... reuters.com/ ... 09:22:00Higher naturally occurring levels of the male hormone testosterone appear to protect men from fatal heart attacks or strokes and death from all manner of causes... reuters.com/ ... 09:21:47Low levels of vitamin B12 could speed mental decline in older people...
Transport Futurenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:19:01...Research suggests that up to 4,500 people a day are fined for not paying the congestion charge when they drive through central London. After being caught out himself, inventor Matthew McCluskey, has created a gadget that keeps an eye on a vehicle's location. When it spots that a driver is about to enter the congestion zone it automatically triggers a payment...
Dinosaurs -- still with usreuters.com/ ... 09:13:37A hoard of dinosaur bones has been discovered at the site of a planned desalination plant meant to deliver Australia's second biggest city from drought, forcing a re-think of the A$3 billion ($2.7 billion) project... "It's like boring through the tombs of Egypt's ancient emperors or drilling through the terracotta warriors in China after they were discovered," local opposition lawmaker Ken Smith told Reuters, demanding a study before the project proceeds. "Those ancient sites were important to the world and so is this here," he said... Much of Australia has been in drought for more than a decade, with international climate scientists warning the dry could be the harbinger of global warming...
Under Digital Tyrannyinformationweek.com/ ... 14:37:55new tests show that the older XP runs common productivity tasks significantly faster than Microsoft's newest operating system... Windows XP trounced Windows Vista in all tests -- regardless of the versions used or the amount of memory running on the computer. In fact, XP proved to be roughly twice as fast as Vista in most of the tests...
Don't drink the waternytimes.com/ ... 10:11:24...Friday, the Orange County Water District will turn on what industry experts say is the world’s largest plant devoted to purifying sewer water to increase drinking water supplies. They and others hope it serves as a model for authorities worldwide facing persistent drought, predicted water shortages and projected growth...
Sportsmanshipedmontonsun.com/ ... 10:10:16...Three players each from the Duffield Devils and Niagara Falls Thunder novice triple-A [hockey] teams, and their respective coaches, were ejected from the Guelph Power Play Tournament on Friday after a brawl during a game. "These are eight-year-olds," said Staff Sgt. Neal Young of Guelph Police. "How ridiculous is that?.." breitbart.com/ ... 10:07:40Rushing to begin the nationally televised matchup following a 25- minute weather delay, the NFL chose to skip the Us Flaganthem Monday night before Miami played Pittsburgh. The game started without any of the traditional pregame ceremonies, except the coin toss, and neither team was introduced on the public address system...
Digital Theory of Educationwcbstv.com/ ... 10:06:51College students at Montclair State University are all talking about a new requirement that will require students to have a cell phone...
People are Bornhosted.ap.org/ ... 09:30:43LA CROSSE, Wis... Dr. Kenneth Merkitch... on Friday and Saturday... delivered four sets of twins... "It was hard to believe that everything was coming in twos, but after a while you're up all night, you might as well keep delivering babies...." hosted.ap.org/ ... 09:29:16TurkeyNATCHEZ, Miss... An impatient baby ruined Thanksgiving dinner for a family which then welcomed its newest member on the road to the hospital... her contractions started Thursday as she bent down to put the turkey in the oven...
Good is Innatehosted.ap.org/ ... 09:28:27Expecting a $15 refund from the Utah Department of Commerce, the Draper man opened his mail recently to find a $2,245,342 check... "I kept trying to find a way to make it legitimate so I could cash it," he said. "I did think about all the things I could do with the money ... who wouldn't?" Mika returned the check - a mistake that occurred when an employee entered a serial number, not an amount - to state finance offices Wednesday. "Clearly we have an honest, honest citizen. I wish I could do something more than say thanks..."
What's In a Name?hosted.ap.org/ ... 09:27:31WHITEWOOD, S.D... Hooker Street doesn't quite lend itself to a family atmosphere and is offensive to some residents in the town of about 800 people... It's actually named after a Union general from the Civil War, but... Rev. David Baer... [who obviously has too much sex on his mind] said that even renaming it to General Hooker Street might not be much better... [Wonder what my high school biology teacher, Mr Hooker, would have to say about this....]
Digital Businessnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:18:15...Of course nobody should assume that user names offer any real anonymity or protection against legal action against a site's host, whether here or in China, so if the three people involved didn't go to the trouble of registering non-UK addresses just to use on Owlstalk their real names will soon be known to the lawyers acting for the directors. The consequences could be severe, as we now have a reasonable body of case law establishing that something you say online is just as likely to get you sued as something you print. And while service providers and hosting companies may be able to claim immunity from prosecution under the EU directive on e-commerce those who write and publish the material are increasingly likely to find themselves hearing from the lawyers... [Whattaya know, online is not a separate reality after all...] hosted.ap.org/ ... 09:16:16Microsoft Corp. must pay more than $140 million for infringing on software patents owned by a Michigan-based technology company, a federal appeals court has ruled. Z4 Technologies Inc. sued Microsoft and Autodesk Inc., maker of drafting software, in 2004, claiming the technology they used to activate newly installed software and deter piracy infringed on patents created and owned by David Colvin, the owner of privately held z4... Microsoft, which had argued that the patents were invalid, appealed the decision...
Christmas 2007reuters.com/ ... 09:15:12The Sunnyvale, California-based company reported some of the merchants who rely on Yahoo's e-commerce checkout system were reporting error messages among consumers completing the checkout process while shopping online... Yahoo spokeswoman Diana Wong said the company's merchant services appeared to be straining to keep up with heavy holiday shopping traffic... reuters.com/ ... 09:14:24Christmas TreeWeb site Stupid.com, which claims finding a truly stupid gift is an art form, on Monday unveiled its list of the top 10 "stupidest" holiday gifts for 2007... "These gifts are so ridiculously stupid that everyone will want them..."
Oh! The Irony!news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:08:18BNP leader Nick Griffin and controversial historian David Irving were invited to talk about free speech. Thirty protesters pushed their way into the debating chamber to stage a protest about the inclusion of the two men...
Woman's Rightnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:05:50Police in Spain have arrested four people suspected of carrying out illegal abortions in Barcelona... one suspected of performing abortions on women more than 32 weeks pregnant. The upper limit for abortions in Spain is 22 weeks... raids on several clinics as part of an investigation following a complaint from a pro-choice group called e-Cristians...
Reasons for Repealcoloradoan.com/ ... 14:52:52A Fort Collins couple arrested last summer after police found Hempmarijuana in their home... 39 plants... will get their property back, a judge ruled Monday afternoon. "I'm very satisfied," said James Masters, who looked a bit dazed following the decision. "I don't even know where to begin..." The couple told police the marijuana was medicinal and was grown for their use, as well as the use of other patients for whom they acted as caregivers. The criminal charges were dropped in June after Chief District Court Judge James Hiatt concluded the affidavit for a search warrant was drafted based on an illegal search... nwanews.com/ ... 14:51:56Sensible Fayetteville wants to give voters a chance to declare Hempmarijuana the lowest priority for police. "We believe law enforcement should be focusing on higher priorities and more serious issues," said Ryan Denham, an organizer of Sensible Fayetteville. Members of the group are circulating a petition to get an amendment added to the ballot during next year's general election. The group argues that drug policy should be a local decision, not something handed down by the federal government, according to the group's Web site, www.sensiblefayetteville.com... tcpalm.com/ ... 14:51:11PORT ST. LUCIE — Law enforcement officials shut down 10 alleged Hempmarijuana grow houses, seized hundreds of pounds of pot and took 10 people into custody beginning early Tuesday... news10now.com/ ... 14:50:10TUPPER LAKE, N.Y. -- A Canadian woman is behind bars after police say she had 150 pounds of Hempmarijuana in her car... londontopic.ca/ ... 14:49:36A traffic violation combined with the stench of "fresh, vegetative Hempmarijuana," emanating from a Oxford Street home, led police to a marijuana grow operation and a quantity of other narcotics... oxycodone, crack cocaine and cocaine. The estimated value of the narcotics seized is $152,440... tampabays10.com/ ... 14:44:25Plant City, Florida - The Florida Highway Patrol found approximately 60 pounds of Hempmarijuana on I-4 in the area of McIntosh Road. The two large garbage bags full of marijuana plants -- valued at over $54,000 -- apparently fell out or were thrown out of a passing vehicle. The FHP asks if anyone is missing their bags of marijuana... ap.google.com/ ... 14:39:34The fields of Balkh province in northern Afghanistan were completely free of opium poppies this year, a success touted often by Afghan and international officials. However, Hempcannabis cultivation rose 40 percent in Afghanistan this year... dailysentinel.com/ ... 00:17:19During a cell search of the inmate dorms, officers observed an inmate smoking Hempmarijuana. After a short struggle with the inmate, jailers were able to detain the inmate and gain possession of the evidence. This case is currently under investigation... stopthedrugwar.org/ ... 00:16:42...Of course, like so many other aspects of the war on drugs, the war on steroids suddenly morphs into a war on Hempmarijuana: He was especially critical of the NBA's relatively liberal policy on marijuana use, which calls for a maximum five-game suspension for the third and subsequent offenses. "If Americans knew that you can be a professional high-level athlete and smoke dope and those are the penalties, they would be offended," he said. "For professional athletes that smoke dope, there should be a message that says you don't get to play your sport." Why not? I don't understand, Mr. Burns. What does this have to do with cheating? Oh boy, does marijuana really make you better at basketball? I have never heard that before. I've heard that it cures cancer, increases fertility, and prevents Alzheimer's, but I did not know that it made you better at sports. That's so awesome... antiguasun.com/ ... 00:15:27Antigua... [29yo] Cooks Hill man... admitted to having 15 trees of cannabis in his possession... Hemp"Officer…a lil weed me a grow fuh meh own personal use..."Hemp self employed single parent of four children. He plies his trade on High Street selling a number of items including DVDs, CDs, perfumes and body lotion. "Your Worship, my client expresses remorse for his act, if you recognise, he is a Rastafarian who uses the cannabis plants as his holy sacrament..." iht.com/ ... 00:13:39GW Pharmaceuticals and its Japanese partner, Otsuka Pharmaceutical, began the final phase of U.S. testing of the Hempcannabis-based Sativex pain-relief medicineHemp for some cancer patients. The five-week trial of 336 patients will test whether the drug helps advanced cancer sufferers who no longer respond to opium-based pain relievers... stopthedrugwar.org/ ... 00:12:57Republicans try Hempmarijuana at a higher rate than Democrats... 33% of Republicans have tried America’s favorite (and safest) illicit drug while a slightly lower 31% of Democrats have inhaled the celebrated herb... msnbc.msn.com/ ... 00:12:20HempHemp: The little plant that could
From beauty products to clothes, Marisa Belger finds many uses for the crop... the multi-faceted Hemphemp plant can be transformed into numerous items — like paper, food, fuel, beauty products, clothing and accessories — that make our everyday lives better. And Hemphemp does it all with minimal damage to the planet. Yes, this is one eco-conscious crop... news.bostonherald.com/ ... 00:11:13BOSTON - Activists pushing a ballot question to decriminalize possession of an ounce or less of Hempmarijuana say it will save the state millions of dollars in law enforcement costs and spare thousands of state residents from arrest...
MON 2007-NOV-26
Fun can be Dangerouscnn.com/ ... 17:11:20A campfire set by people "partying" in the woods may have started a huge wildfire that destroyed dozens of homes near Malibu, California, on Saturday...
Violencebreitbart.com/ ... 17:10:50NEWPORT, Wash... A 45-year-old man persuaded a 17-year-old to drive off in a pickup truck with the teen unaware he was dragging another man, who later died...
Transport Tragedywsfa.com/ ... 09:58:41Three people died, and more than 40 people were injured, in a three vehicle crash involving a bus Sunday night approximately 10 miles east of Forrest City, Arkansas on Interstate 40... passenger bus... traveling westbound on I-40, crossed the median and collided with a pick-up truck traveling eastbound. A third vehicle, a tractor trailer also traveling eastbound, then collided with the bus... the driver of the pick-up truck... was pronounced dead at the scene. Two passengers in the bus were also killed... [Bus driver] sustained minor injuries...
Pakistantime.com/ ... 09:53:42The return of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif adds a new twist to the political chess game that has dragged on for the past few months in Pakistan. Sharif, who was ousted by current President General Pervez Musharraf in a bloodless 1999 coup and who left Pakistan for exile after being found guilty of corruption, arrived in Lahore Sunday and was greeted by hundreds of chanting supporters. Government officials said he had been allowed back into the country after reaching an "understanding" with Musharraf. But Sharif said there was no such understanding. He was back, he told the crowd, "to save Pakistan and save democracy..."
Infrastructure Failurehosted.ap.org/ ... 09:48:47The Kickapoo River bridge is a big structure with a small price tag: one buck... hasn't hosted traffic in 31 years... want to get rid of it quickly... "With the steel prices what they are right now, we thought this was an opportune time to sell it..."
Supernatural Violencebreitbart.com/ ... 09:36:17A 14-year-old New Zealand girl nearly lost her eyesight when her eyes were gouged by relatives in a Maori exorcism ceremony in which her cousin died...
Sex can be Dangerousnews.yahoo.com/ ... 09:35:02MOMBASA, Kenya... Hard figures are difficult to come by, but local people on the coast estimate that as many as one in five single women visiting from rich countries are in search of sex... "It's not evil," said Jake Grieves-Cook, chairman of the Kenya Tourist Board, when asked about the practice of older rich women traveling for sex with young Kenyan men. "But it's certainly something we frown upon." Also, the health risks are stark in a country with an AIDS prevalence of 6.9 percent...
Digital Threatnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:21:40Content carve up of net begins
Internet law professor Michael Geist looks at the way that cable firms are starting to shackle the net access they offer... Cable television has its virtues - some consumer choice, the ability to time shift programs by recording them with a VCR or PVR, and video on-demand - but it is largely built around limiting consumer control... Until recently, the internet was precisely the opposite, offering unlimited user choice, continuous interactivity, and technological capabilities to copy and remix content. That is gradually changing as broadcasters seek to re-assert greater geographic control over their content and service providers experiment with cable-like models for prioritised content delivery...
Nature can be Deadlyreuters.com/ ... 09:11:14Weather-related disasters have quadrupled over the last two decades, a leading British charity said in a report published on Sunday. From an average of 120 disasters a year in the early 1980s, there are now as many as 500, with Oxfam attributing the rise to unpredictable weather conditions cause by global warming... ["caused" I'm sure they meant. Amazing how this charity organization has expertise in climatology!] news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:08:37Three people have been killed and 45 hurt after two powerful earthquakes shook the island of Sumbawa in eastern Indonesia... magnitude 6.4 and 5.0, hit within hours of each other... Hundreds of buildings on the island were damaged or destroyed. Witnesses said many residents had fled their homes and were unwilling to return. The island of Sumatra, on the other end of the archipelago, was also hit by a powerful earthquake...
Under Tyrannynews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:07:26Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he has frozen his country's bilateral ties with neighbouring Colombia. The move follows the decision by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe to end Mr Chavez's role as a hostage negotiator with Colombia's Farc rebels. Mr Chavez said that the decision to end his mediation role was "a spit in the face" and denounced Mr Uribe as a liar...
Opposing Tyrannynews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:42:23Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the United States of pushing Western observers into boycotting Russian elections. Mr Putin said the goal was to discredit the parliamentary election to be held on 2 December. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has categorically rejected the allegations. Meanwhile, the European Commission has expressed concern at the treatment of the opposition in Russia... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:06:53Russian police have broken up an opposition rally, arresting activists for the second day running... detained about 150 people in St Petersburg, including opposition leader Boris Nemtsov - who was later freed. Another opposition figure, former chess champion Garry Kasparov, was arrested at a rally in Moscow on Saturday... Both protests were organised by opposition group The Other Russia... The Other Russia brings together a broad coalition of mainstream politicians, leftists and nationalists, all of whom are opposed to the Kremlin. It accuses the government of crushing dissent ahead of elections...
Civilization vs Gangsterismhosted.ap.org/ ... 09:41:25An Israeli aircraft pounded a squad of militants Monday and Israeli border guards shot two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip... hosted.ap.org/ ... 09:41:04Youths assaulted a police station, torched cars and vandalized stores in a weekend rampage that injured 21 police officers in this rundown Paris suburb. The violence Sunday night, prompted when two teens were killed in a motorbike crash with a police patrol car, was a reminder that tensions that drove nationwide riots in 2005 in immigrant-heavy housing projects remain unresolved... washingtontimes.com/ ... 09:33:35Fort Huachuca, the nation's largest intelligence-training center... changed security measures after sources warned that possibly 60 Afghan and Iraqi terrorists were to be smuggled into the U.S. through underground tunnels with high-powered weapons to attack the Arizona Army base, according to multiple confidential law enforcement documents obtained by The Washington Times... According to the FBI advisory, each Middle Easterner paid Mexican drug lords $20,000 "or the equivalent in weapons" for the cartel's assistance in smuggling them and their weapons through tunnels along the border into the U.S. The weapons would be sent through tunnels that supposedly ended in Arizona and New Mexico, but the Islamist terrorists would be smuggled through Laredo, Texas, and reclaim the weapons later. A number of the Afghans and Iraqis are already in a safe house in Texas, the FBI advisory said... reuters.com/ ... 09:12:21Al Qaeda militants killed at least eight members of a neighborhood police patrol in southern Baghdad on Thursday after shooting two Iraqi soldiers and stealing their vehicle... three Iraqi soldiers were also killed and another three were wounded... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:06:02A human-rights organisation has claimed that Kenyan police killed as many as 8,040 people by execution or torture during a crackdown on a banned sect. The group said a further 4,070 people had gone missing as security forces tried to wipe out the Mungiki sect. The deaths and disappearances occurred over five years up to August 2007... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:05:19Pakistani troops have begun a major ground offensive against pro-Taleban militants in a former tourist resort in the North West Frontier province. Military officials say more than 200 militants have been killed in the past week, but there is no independent confirmation of those figures... Thousands of civilians are reported to have fled from the fighting... This is the first time that Pakistani ground troops have been in action against militants in the Swat Valley...
Fun can be Fatalhosted.ap.org/ ... 09:02:33A section of stands at a soccer stadium in northeastern Brazil gave way Sunday as fans cheered at the end of a game, killing eight people... [REWRITE! This reads like the fans killed the eight people....]
Under Sexist Tyrannyhosted.ap.org/ ... 08:48:29Saudi Arabia's Justice Ministry said a girl who it sentenced to jail time and flogging after being gang raped by seven men was an adulteress who invited the attack because at the time she was partially dressed in a parked car with her lover... [Talk about abysmally unclear on the concept of real justice!!! Do such folks avoid pork because it would be cannibalism?]
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 17:21:21us-flagArmy Staff Sgt. Jonathon L. Martin, 33, of Bellevue, Ohio, died Nov. 22 in Regensburg, Germany, of wounds suffered on Nov. 9 in Jisr Naft, Iraq, when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 1st Squadron, 32nd Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assaul